Nineteenth  Year 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  11,1901. 

Number 951

Aluminum Money

Will lacrease Your Beninese.

Cheap and Effective.

Sen d fo r  sam ples an d  p rices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111.

\ Widdicomb Bldg, Grand Rapids. 

u   ces |  Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit.

L. J .  Stevenson,  Manager 

R. J.  Cleland and  Don  B.  Minor, Attorneys

Prompt attention to  all  kinds  of  Collec­
tions, Adjustments and  Litigation.  Our 
credit advices will avoid  making  worth­
less accounts.  We collect all others.

T h e  M e r c a n t il e  A g en c y

Established 1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bid’s,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

B o o k s arra n ged  w ith  tra d e classifica tion   o f  nam es. 
C o lle ctio n s m ade e v e ry w h e re . W r ite  fo r p a rticulars.

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

National  Fire  Ins.  Co.

of  Hartford

Successor to

The Grand  Rapids  Fire  Ins.  Co.

CA PITA L,  $1,000,000

Late State Food Commissioner 

ELLIOT  0 .  QROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1332 flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.
—Glover’s  Gem  Mantles—

For Gas or Gasoline.  Write for catalogue.
Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise  Co. 

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

WILLIAM  CONNOR
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♦

W H O LE S A LE  

R EAD YM A D E  C L O T H IN G

for all ages.

Removed to William  Alden Smith 
block, 28 and 30 South Ionia street. 
Open  daily  from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.

Saturday to  1  p.  m.

Mail orders promptly  attended to. 

Customers’ expenses allowed. 

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Tradesman Coupons

Page. 

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

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2.  Getting  the  People.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Show  Garda.
7.  Bankruptcy  Amendments.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Dry  Goods.
15.  Window  Dressing.
16.  Clerk’s  Corner.
18.  The  New  York  Market.
19.  Batter  and  Eggs.
80.  Woman’s  World.
88.  Poultry.
83..  Holiday  Dinners.
84.  One  Woman’s  Way.
85.  Commercial  Travelers.
86.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
87.  Drag Price  Current.
88.  Grocery  Price  Current.
89.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Business  and  Philanthropy. 

Hardware  Price  Current.

GEN ERAL  TR A D E   REV IEW .

Among  the  most  notable  features  of 
the  general  situation  is  the  paradoxical 
fact  that  records  for  volume  are  being 
broken  while  the  Wall  Street  markets 
are 
in  a  semi-panic.  Last  year  the 
high  records  made  were  aided  by  a 
boom 
in  stock  transactions  and  the 
funding  of  new  corporations. 
It  would 
naturally  be  expected  from  past  experi­
ence  that,  with  decline  in  stock  prices 
and  the  consequent  dullness  in  the  mar­
ket,  the  general  business  of  the  country 
would  suffer  in  sympathy.  Yet  so  great 
has  been  the  improvement  in  industrial 
conditions  that  general  trade  has  not 
only  held  its  own,  but  it  has  more  than 
made  up  the  difference,  so  as  to  surpass 
all  records  in  bank  clearings.

The  stock  market  seems  to  have  set­
tled  to  a  seesaw  with  intervals  of  from 
two  to three  days.  Led  by  Amalgama­
ted  Copper,  which  made  a  new  low 
record  Friday,  the  movement  is  upward 
again.  The  export  of  gold  can  hardly 
be  reckoned  as  a  serious  bear  element, 
for  with  an  outgo  in  recent  weeks  of 
this 
over  $20,000,000  the  amount  in 
country  is  only  decreased  by 
about 
$3,000,000,  while  the  other currency  has 
increased  so  as  to  make  the  entire  cir­
culation 
larger  than  ever.  The  con­
servatism  of  the  President’s  Message 
and  the  attitude  of  Congress  as  far  as  it 
has  been  made  manifest  are  an  assur­
ance  that  care  will  be  taken  to  interfere 
as  little  as  possible  with  any  subjects 
likely  to  affect  industries.

The  holiday  distribution  of  goods 
throughout the  country  is  exceeding  any 
previous  season.  Dealers  are  finding 
that  what  they  considered  generous  or­
ders  are  not  adequate,  and  reorder 
business  is  driving  the  producers  to  the 
utmost.  Holiday  trade  opened  early, 
and,  with  favorable  weather  in  most  lo­
calities,  it  promises  not  only  to  break 
all  records,  but to  make  the  distance  to 
the  new  mark  a  great  one.

The  only  feature  of  interest  in  the 
inten­
iron  and  textile  industries  is  the 
sifying  of  activity 
in  all  directions, 
with  prices  held  down  by  conservative 
operators.  Railway  earnings  are  heavy 
and  the  increase  of  equipment  is  push­

ing  shops  to  their capacity.  The  lead­
ing  boom  in  prices  is  in  the cereals  and 
provisions,  both  grains  making  new 
high  records,  but  with  rather  restricted 
export  movement  on  account  of  the 
high  figures  reached.

TH E  WORDS  H AVE  FADED.

It  is  said that,  the  writing  on  the  orig­
inal  declaration  of 
independence  has 
faded  so  that  it  is  not  only  illegible  but 
that  only  here  and  there  traces  of  pen 
strokes  remain.  The  precious  document 
after  its  removal  from  Independence 
Hall 
in  Philadelphia  was  preserved  in 
a  glass  case  and  exposed  to  the  light  at 
the  State  Department 
in  Washington. 
Under  exposure  to  the  light  the  text  be­
gan  to  fade  away  and  then  it was placed 
in  a  drawer  of  a  cabinet  specially  pre­
pared  for  it  and  still  the  fading  contin­
ued  until  now  where  the  text  and  signa­
is  practically  nothing  but 
tures  were 
blank  parchment. 
It  is  a  curious  fact 
in  this  connection  that  Jefferson’s  orig­
inal  draft  of  the  declaration,  with inser­
tions 
in  the  handwriting  of  Franklin 
and  Adams,  still  exposed  to  public 
view,,  shows  the  writing  as  clearly  as  it 
was  more  than  a  century  and  a  quarter 
ago  when  made.  The  original  draft  of 
the  constitution  preserved  in  the  same 
way  is  as  legible  as  ever,  the  ink  there­
on  showing  no  signs  of  fading.

Thus  the  material  evidence  of  the 
most  important  and  indeed  most  valu­
able  document 
in  the  history  of  the 
United  States 
leaving 
is  obliterated, 
only  blank  parchment  where  once  inde­
pendence  was  declared  and  the  mani­
festo  signed  by  the  brave  men  and  true 
who have  ever  since  been  held  in  grate­
ful  honor and  esteem  by  their  descend­
ants  in a republic  which  has  become  the 
leader  of  the  world.  Although  the  writ­
ing  may  have  faded  from  public  view, 
it  long  ago  ceased  to  be  needed  save  as 
a  memento.  To  recount 
its  glorious 
accomplishments  would  be  to  cite  the 
lit­
history  of  the  United  States.  How 
tle  the  signers  appreciated  or  even 
im­
agined  the  future  of  the  nation they thus 
founded.  The  struggling  colonies  of 
those  times  formed  into  states  became  a 
nation  whose  growth 
in  everything 
which  contributes  to  greatness  has  been 
phenomenal.  No  prophetic  vision  of 
1776  ever  gave  a  glimpse  of  what  in 
these  days  is  an  assured  reality.  That 
document 
its 
noble  purpose  and  what  an  accom­
plishment it  has  been.  The  record  of  its 
words  has  faded,  but  the  principles  it 
declared  have  stood  and  will  stand  for 
ail  time.  _____________

long  ago  accomplished 

As  an 

illustration  of  how  closely 
is  watched  in  Russia,  take 
everything 
their  system  of  registering 
firearms. 
When  a  weapon  of  any  kind  is  pur­
chased  a  permit  must  be  secured  from 
the  local  authorities.  The  name  of  the 
man  who  makes  the  purchase,  with  the 
number of  the  weapon,  is  recorded. 
If 
the  purchaser  ever  wants  to  dispose  of 
the  weapon  he  must  notify  the  authori­
ties  and  cause  the  transfer 
to  be 
recorded  on  the  books  of  the  firm  which 
sold  it.

TH E  CHANGES  TIM E  WORKS.
Compared  with  other  nations 

the 
United  States  is  not  very  old.  A  cen­
tury  brings  great  changes  in  manners 
and  methods  of  any  people  and  more 
than  twice  the  change  is  noted  after  two 
centuries,  because  every  year  is  more 
enterprising  than  its  predecessor.  Some 
such  thoughts  as  these  must  have  been 
in  the  mind  of  the  Austrian  professor 
who  proposes  to  leave  to  the  museum  of 
Prague  the  sum  of  $15,000,  under  de­
cidedly  unique  conditions.  The  money 
is  to  be  used  for  defraying  the  expenses 
of  carrying  out  his  directions,  which 
are  that  at  his  death  all  his personal  be­
longings,  including  his  clothes  and  fur­
niture,  shall  be  packed 
in  air  tight 
cases  and  preserved  without  opening for 
200  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time  they 
are  to  be  taken  out  and  exhibited  in  the 
museum  for  the  purpose  of  showing  the 
people  of  2102  just  how  an Austrian pro­
fessor  lived  in  1902.

Fashions  and  styles  in  this  country 
are  so  constantly  changing  that  the  at­
tire  of  the  people,  their  furniture  and 
their  personal  belongings  of  a  century 
ago  look  very  odd.  The  household 
effects  of  an  American  just  as  they  were 
used  200  years  ago,  if  exhibited  in  any 
museum  to-day, would  draw  a  crowd and 
attract  a  great  deal  of  comment  and  at­
tention.  By  comparison  they  would  at 
least  serve  to  emphasize  the  progress 
in  ten  score 
and  advancement  made 
years.  Very  much  more 
interesting 
would 
it  be  if  any  Austrian  or  Ameri­
can  could  seal  himself  up  hermetically 
for  200  years  and  then  step  out  alive 
and  well,  to  note  the  changes  wrought 
in  that  time.  He  would  be  as  startled 
and  amazed  as  an  American  of  1701 
would  be  to  come  back  now  to  ride  on 
locomotives,  electric  cars,  talk  over  a 
wire  and  do  the  thousand  and  one  won­
derful  things  which  the  present  genera­
tion  thinks  nothing  strange. 
It  is  only 
by  such  comparisons  that  the  change 
can  be  appreciated and unfortunately the 
plan  which  the  Austrian  professor  pro­
poses  to  follow  is  much  more  practical 
than  the  one  suggested,  since 
is 
easier  to  keep  furniture  and wearing ap­
parel  than 
it  is  to  keep  people  for  two 
centuries.  _____________

it 

The  conviction  of  Salsbury was one  of 
the  most  notable  triumphs  of  justice 
ever  recorded  in  this  country.  Some  of 
the  associates  and  attorneys  of  the  de­
fendant apparently did  not hesitate  to re­
sort to exceedingly questionable methods 
in  the  effort  to  block  the  wheels  of  jus­
tice,  fighting  every 
inch  of  the  ground 
with  the  desperation  of  despair.  Every 
species  of  perjury  was  apparently 
brought  into  play  and  attempts  to  tam­
per  with  the  jury  and  corrupt  the  wit­
nesses  were  undoubtedly  made. 
In 
spite  of  such  tactics,  which  would  not 
have  been  resorted  to  by  innocent  men 
or  the  friends  of  innocent  men,  the  jury 
has  recorded  a  verdict  which  foreshad­
ows  the  conviction  of  Salsbury's  asso­
ciates 
in  crime,  as  well  as  those  who 
rushed  to  the  rescue  of  the  conspirators 
by  giving  perjured  testimony  and  at­
tempting  to  corrupt  the  people’s  wit­
nesses.

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Petting the  People

Increasing  Significance  Attacking  to  the 

Advertisers’  Work.

During  the  years  attending  and  fol­
lowing  the  hard  times of  ’93  the  work 
of 
the  advertiser  was  discouraging. 
The  lack  of  employment and  the  tend­
ency  to  boarding  which  always  attend 
such  panics  gave  the  money  of 
the 
country  an  inaccessibility  which  made 
the  work  of publicity most discouraging. 
The  result  was  seen  in  the  cutting  down 
of  space  and  dropping  out  of  advertis­
ers  until  the  magazines  and  newspapers 
came  to  look  very  lean.  During  this 
time,  however,  there  were  many  who 
persisted 
in  spite  of  the  discouraging 
situation  and  were  rewarded  sometimes 
by  an  unexpected  success.  There  was 
the  effect  of  lessened  competition  in  the 
weeding  out  of  the  more  cautious  which 
gave  opportunity  to  the  persistent.

The  increase  in  the  advertisers’  work 
has  fully  kept  pace  with  the  changing 
conditions.  The  once  thin  and  anxious 
looking  magazines  are  concerned  about 
becoming  too  cumbersome  and  volumi­
nous,  and  the  newspapers  that  were  put 
to  straits  to  fill  the  vacant  columns  with 
“ boiler  plate”   are  now  casting  about to 
find  space  for  enough  reading  to  meet 
the  demands  of  their  subscribers.  The 
better  times  bring  the  advertisers’  har­
vest  and  with  it an  intensity of competi­
tion  which  makes  a  corresponding  de­
mand  upon  the  publicists’  resources.

The  necessity  of  advertising 

is  no 
longer a  debatable question.  The  mer­
chant  who  attempts  to  get  along  with­
out  it  soon  succeeds  in  demonstrating 
its  necessity  and  takes  it  up  or,  per­
sisting,  condemns  his  business  to  fail­
ure,  either  absolutely,  or  through 
the 
long,  tedious  struggle  for  a  meager  suc­
is  worse  than  failure.  Ac­
cess  which 
cepting,  then,  the  proposition  that 
in 
all  competitive  trade  advertising  is  a 
necessity,  the  problem  becomes  one  of 
meeting  the  demands  of  competition 
and  of  exploiting  the  field  to  its  capa­
bilities.

The  good  times  of  to-day  are  the  ad­
vertisers’  harvest.  The  abundance  of 
employment  gives  a  buying  capacity 
many  fold  greater  in  most  communities 
than  that  of  half  a  dozen  years  ago, 
when  public  works  were  prosecuted  to 
save  many from starvation.  The plethora 
of  money  is  urging  investment  until  all 
sorts  of  schemes  are 
swing, 
which  would  then  have  been  impossi­
bilities.  The  volume  of  advertising 
has  increased  until  often-  its  effective­
ness  is  greatly 
lessened,  and  methods 
are  varied  as  far  as  ingenuity  makes 
them  available.

in  full 

The  need  of  making  hay while the sun 
is  shining  puts  a  corresponding  pres­
sure  on  the  wide  awake business pusher. 
Many  are  willing  to  accept  the  good  the 
gods  send,  contenting  themselves  with 
the  better  results  of  improved  condi­
tions.  Such  are  missing  the  sunshine, 
which  experience  teaches  is  usually  fol­
lowed  by  clouds  or  darkness.

There 

is  so  general  a  recognition  of 
the  need  of  meeting  such  opportunities 
that  advertising  competition  is  to-day 
greater  than  ever  known  before.  Meth­
ods  are  systematized  and  refined  to  the 
utmost,  until  the  art  has  become  prac­
tically  a  new  one.  The  slipshod  care­
less  methods of  years  ago  are worse  than 
useless,  but  in  the  rush  of  better  times 
they  are  too  often  tolerated.

*  *  *

H.  E.  Young  gives  a  generous  space 
and  a  good  deal  of  wording  to  the  set­
ting  forth  of an  interesting  point  in  car-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Rnller Bearing Is not

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a mean inf less expression  used only ter advertising  pur­
poses.  but  the fact  is  the  dust-proof  Roller  Bearing  is  the 
simplest and  most  durable  bearing used  in  carpet sweepers.
It accomplishes a fact;  does just what we claiaa for it; 

makes  t h e . .. . , ..................

N  a tio n & l ' R o lle r  B e a rin g  
C a rp e t  Sw eepers • • • • • •

fifty  per ceat easier running than  any  other  carpet  sweeper 
manufactured.  Nothing could be more simple, will  not  wear 
out or get out of ohier, and costs uo more than others.

" O u r   B w b y ”   S w a c p a r a   o n l y   I O c .

SE E   OUK  W IN D O W !

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FuRKTTunn  and  Un d u tax in g.

North  Adams.

Where the Chicken

Got  the  A xe!

You'll get it  from  your 
carpenter,  from  your  plas­
terer,  from  your  painter, 
horn  evervbodv  on  jtke 
joo.tr jpiu  ran  10  take  ad­
vantage  of  the chance  we 
no*v  piue you  to  get  lum- 
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material,  every­
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in?  amsdest  cost.  No.  I 
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Hillsdale, 

Michigan.

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Monarch
Range?

MADE OF M ALUABB ISOM A * »  STEEL?

It  »equal  to aoy  range  sold, and  superior  to  many— we 
also  have a  very  complete  line of cook and  heating stoves 
in  coal  and  wood, while

OUR.  PRICES

masc  it-expensive  for you  to  (fade  elsewhere.  Have  a 

complete  line of general  hardware  at  the  same 

LOW   PRICES

Payne & Green

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Thatchers 

in great variety at

book  Store.

Pictures tros 156 Up 
Boots lor aQ Ages 
Bibles all Sizes and fuses 
CroUnie trod 76c Up

Novelties in Toys and 'Games 
Mirrors and  Frames  10c Qp 
Burnt wood  and Leather Goods; 
Toilet  cases  and sets;  Ebony,etci 
Handkerchief and Glove Cases 
Calendars and Booklets 
Oriental  Statuary and  Plaques 
Pocket  Books  and  chatelaines 
Ebony and Silver Novelties 
Elegant  Holiday StafioacXY*.

In short our store is 
Filled to Overflowiijg 
w ith  Pretty  Goods  at 
Popular Prices.
Yon Can  Find  what 

Yon Want. Hare.

THATCHEB'S 
BOOK  STORE,

HILLSDALE, 

MICHIGAN.

We cure
Headquarters foiv
CHRISTMAS  GOODS !
Toys, dolls
Games,
Jewelery.
Books,
Silver’a’e
and ohina
CELLULOID  GOODS !

And  other articles  too 
nuincrougto  mention.

0.  W.  Ferris,

HILLSDALE.

i: Fresh Meats!

You will  always  find  a 
h;  good  assortment of  Fresh 
•  Meats at  the  new  market, 
* I  such as :

¡  BEEF, PORK, 

VEAL,

: | SAUSAGE  AND 

COLD  MEATS.
B A L T I M I E   O Y S T E R S
received  every  Monday 
direct from Baltimore.

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pet  sweepers.  The  wording 
is  not  as 
simple  and  direct  as  it  might  be,  and 
the  display  is  not  arranged  to  bring  out 
strongly  the  point  aimed  at. 
The 
printer has  done  well  in  adhering  to un­
iform  style  and  bis  use  of  white  space 
is  good.  There  is  no  strength 
in  dis­
playing  a  negative  like  “ Roller  Gear­
ing  is  not. ’ ’

R.  J.  Corlett  &  Son  make  the mistake 
of  admitting  a  coarse suggestion in their 
display,  carried  out  by  a  coarser  cut. 
Throw  the  cut  in  the  hell  box,  write  a 
new  advertisement  and 
if  the  printer 
does  bis  part  as  well  as  in  this  case  the 
result  can  hardly  fail  to  be  an  improve­
ment.

A  dignified  and  well  composed under­
taker’s  advertisement  is  that  of  A.  W. 
Sherwood  &  Son.  Advertising 
in  this 
line  is  as  desirable  as  in  any  other,  but 
too  much  care  can  not  be  used  to  pre­
serve  dignity  in  wording  and  display.
Payne  &  Green  write  a  good stove ad­
vertisement  and  their  work  is  well  sec­
onded  by  the  printer.  The  use  of  bor­
der,  display  and  white  space  is  espe­
cially  strong.

A  well  expressed  holiday  announce­
ment  is  that  of  Thatcher's  Book  Store. 
The  printer  would  have  done  better  to 
use  less  faces of type.  He “ falls  down,”  
especially  in  the  signature.  Otherwise 
his  work 
is  well  proportioned  and 
spaced.

O.  W.  Ferris  is  a  little  too  general  in 
his  description  to  make  his  holiday  an­
nouncement  strong. 
“ Too  numerous  to 
mention’ ’  long  ago  became  an  advertis­
ing  by-word.

improved. 

H.  C.  Green  has  the  materials  for  a 
good  advertisement,  but  his  wording 
might  be 
1  would  cut  out 
“ Resp.,” as  it  is  worse  than  useless, 
even  when  it  is  not  separated  from  its 
signature  by  a  postscript. 
I  would  also 
strike  out  the  paragraph above this  word 
as  weakening  the  rest.  General  expres­
sions  of  this  kind  are  absolutely  worth­
less.  The  printer  should  have  put  in 
less  kinds  of  type.  With  the  changes 
suggested  this  would  be  a  good  adver­
tisement.

The  Oleomargarine  Product. 

*
According  to  figures  taken  from  the 
annual  report  of  the  Commissioner  of 
Internal  Revenue,  the  product  of  oleo­
margarine  shows  a  slight  reduction  dur­
ing  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1901, 
as  compared  with  the  preceding  year. 
This  reduction  amounts  to  about  2,100,- 
000  pounds—not  quite  2  per cent. 
It  is 
the  first  break 
in  the  extremely  rapid 
growth  of  oleomargarine  manufacture, 
in  1897,  has  carried 
which,  beginning 
the  annual  production  from 
less  than 
50,000,000  pounds  to  more  than  100,- 
000,000  in  round  numbers.

The  most  important  variation  in  pro­
duction  during  the  past  year  appears  to 
have  been  in  the  first  district of Illinois, 
where  a  decrease  of  some  4,000,000 
pounds  is  indicated.  There 
is  also  a 
decrease  in  the  sixth  Indiana  district 
amounting  to  over  1,600,000  pounds, 
and  of  nearly  500,000  pounds  in the  first 
New  Jersey  district.

large 

But  these  decreases  are  partly  offset 
by  a 
increase  of  over  1,800,000 
pounds  in  the twenty-third Pennsylvania 
district,  one  of  over  400,000  pounds 
in 
Maryland  and  smaller  increases  at  other 
points.

Engy  W ay  to  Classify  Men.

Customer—Why  haven’t  you  called 

upon  me  for  that  little  bill  I  owe you?

Grocer— Oh,  I  make  it  a  rule  never  to 

ask  a  gentleman  for  money.
Customer— Indeed!  But 

suppose  a 
man  is  indebted  to  you  and  doesn’t 
pay?

Grocer—Well,  after  a  certain  length 
of  time  1  conclude  he  is  not  a  gentle­
man ;  then  1  ask  him.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Like an  Open Book

STATE OP MICHIGAN)ss 
COUNTY OF KENT  )

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
I am a resident of Grand Rapids and'am employed as pressman in the 
office of the Tradesman Company.  Since the issue- of October 4,  1899, no 
edition of thé Michigan Tradesman has fallen below SEVEN THOUSAND complete 
copies*  I have personally superintended the printing and folding of every 
edition and have seen the papers mailed in the usual manner*  And further 
deponent saith not.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, a Notary Public in and for said 

county, this thirtieth day of November, A*D.,  1901.

Notary Public in and for 
Kent County, Mich*

Does  any  other  trade journal  of your acquaintance  fortify  its  statements  as

to  circulation  by  the  affidavit of  its  pressman?

Are  you  sure you are  getting  the circulation you are paying for in all cases? 
Is  there  any  reason  why you  should  not insist  on  circulation  claims  being 
verified,  the same  as you insist  on  verifying  the  count  of  your  grocer  and  the
measurement of your dry good  dealer?

Why  should your  advertising  be  treated  like  a  cat  in  a  bag,  instead  of

being  measured like  any  other  commodity?

Detailed  sworn  statement  of  any  issue  or  series  of  issues cheerfully  fur­

nished any  patron  on  application.

4

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

Around  the State

Movements  of Merchants.

Adrian—The  Marvin  Shoe  Co.  has 

removed  to  Hudson.

Jackson—A.  J.  Winches  &  Son  have 

sold  their  grocery  stock  to  D.  Shea.

Adrian—Sartor  &  Dreher 

succeed 
Geo.  Bowerfind  in  the  bakery  business.
Schoolcraft— Henry  Dibble,  of  Law- 
ton,  has  opened  a  meat  market  at  this 
place.

Waldron—E.  J.  Wilson  has  purchased 
stock  of  Boyd  & 

implement 

the 
Wheeler.

Owosso— Hartshorn  &  Son  have  pur­
chased  the  implement  stock  of  Clark  & 
Richards.

Constantine— Knorr  &  Shellenberger 
have  purchased  the grocery stock of Wm. 
Underner.

Cement  City— X.  A.  Jones  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  X.  A. 
Jones  &  Co.

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of  John 
Brenna  &  Co.  has  been  increased  from 
$35,000 to  $200,000.

St.  Johns—Elmo  Frink  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the  shoe 
firm  of  Frink  &  Conkieman.

Gilford— Reid  &  Findley  succeed 
Wm.  L.  Reid  in  the bicycle,  implement 
and  sewing  machine  business.

Benton  Harbor— The  Twin  City  Tele­
its  capital 

phone  Co.  has 
stock  from  $75,000 to $150,000.

increased 

Flushing—Clarence  G.  Stevens  con­
tinues  the  general  mercantile  business 
of  Stevens  &  Niles  in  his  own  name.

Sherwood— Lecker  &  Mead,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  R. 
W.  Mead.

Sbadyside— M.  E.  Crommer  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
general  merchandise  firm  of  Crommer 
&  Denney.

Petoskey—The  firm  of  Price  &  Pies- 
ter,  meat  dealers,  has  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business  will  be  continued 
by  Mr.  Price.

Battle  Creek—The  firm  of  Kernen  & 
Blackett  has  been  organized  to  succeed 
Kernen  Bros,  in  the  coal,  wood and  car­
riage  business.

Steiner— Kohler  &  Fiedler  is  the  style 
of  the  new  firm  organized  to  succeed 
John  Kohler  in  general  trade  and  the 
lumber business.

Detroit—J.  J.-  Youngblood  &  Co.  is 
the  style  of  the  new  firm which  succeeds 
Youngblood  &  Lenzen  in  the  paint  and 
wall  paper  business.

Linden—Leal  &  Hyatt,  general  store 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  will  be  continued  under 
the  style  of  Hyatt  &  Wiltsie.

Olivet— B.  W.  Pinch  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  and  bazaar  stock  to  A.  R.  Henry, 
of  Battle  Creek,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Port  Huron— The  Port  Huron  Co­
operative  Society  has  been  organized  to 
engage 
in  the  general  merchandise 
business  along  co-operative  lines.

Harrietta—J.  H.  Larcom,  meat  dealer 
at  this  place,  has  taken  a  partner  in  the 
person  of  Philip  P.  Tobin.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  Larcom  &  Tobin.
St.  Johns—Francis  Squair  and  Wm. 
E.  Gardner  have  purchased  the  boot 
and  shoe  stock  of  W.  H.  H.  Chapman. 
The  new  firm  will  be  known  as  Squair 
&  Gardner.

Traverse  City—S.  Adsley  &  Co.,  who 
have  carried  on  a  grocery  business  on 
Union  street  for  about  six  years,  have 
closed  out  the  grocery  business  and 
have put  in  a-line  of  bazaar goods.

Croswell— At  the  beginning of the new 
year,  Dr.  B.  E.  Brush  will  enter  into 
partnership  with  A.  B.  Graham  under 
the  style  of  Graham  &  Brush'.  The  new 
firm  will  conduct  a  general  drug  busi­
ness.

Allen—F.  A.  Wagner  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  F.  A.  Roethlisberger  in 
the  general  merchandise  firm  of  Benge 
&  Co.,  with  whom  he  was  formerly  con­
nected,  and  after  Jan.  1  the  firm  will  be 
known  as  Benge  &  Wagner.

Battle  Creek— The  Howes  &  Bush 
Co.,  wholesale  fruit  dealers  and  pro­
prietors  of  cold  storage  warehouse,  and 
Lynn  W.  Macomber,  dealer  in  coal, 
wood  and  ice,  will  be  succeeded  Jan.  1 
by  the  Consumers  Ice  &  Coal  Co.

Holland—James  A.  Brouwer  has  de­
cided  to  discontinue  the  wall  paper 
business  and  to  confine  bis  energies  to 
his  furniture  and  carpet  business.  He 
has  sold  bis  wall  paper  stock  to  Bert 
Slagh,  proprietor of  the  Racket  store.

Croswell— P.  L.  Graham  will  shortly 
have  associated  with  him  as  a  partner 
in  his  general  merchandise  business  W. 
G.  Ackley,  of  Port  Huron,  who  for  a 
number of  years  has  been  visiting  this 
place  in  the  capacity  of  traveling  sales­
man.

Port Huron—The Merchants and Man­
ufacturers’  Association  is  about  to  issue 
its  red  book,  giving  a  list  of  all  delin­
quents  in  Port  Huron.  The  merchants 
are  unanimously  of  the  opinion  that  the 
little  book  has  done  them  much  good 
and  that 
less  people  are  asking  credit 
to-day  than  ever  before.

Belding—The  vacant  store 

Portage  Lake—Graham  Pope  is  clos­
ing  out  his  general  merchandise  stock 
and  will  shortly  retire  from  active  busi­
ness,  having  already  disposed  of  his 
interests.  This  is  the  oldest 
mining 
store 
in  the  copper  country,  if  not  in 
the  Upper  Peninsula,  having  been  es­
tablished  in  1846  by  Ransom  Shelden.
in  the 
Wallace  block 
is  being  equipped  with 
new  shelving  and  counters,  and  when 
completed  will  be  occupied  by  the  dry 
goods  stock  of  F.  D.  Lincoln.  He  has 
also  leased  the  store  adjoining,  which 
he  will  also  occupy  as  soon  as  the  lease 
of  Mr.  Hochradel  expires  on  May  1  of 
next  year.  An  archway  will  be  cut  be­
tween  the  two  stores.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Kalamazoo—Edward  Cumins succeeds 
the  Michigan  White  Lead  &  Color 
Works.

Jackson— The  Pacific  Starch  Co.  has 
increased  its  capital  stock  from  $30,000 
to  $500,000.

Mt.  Pleasant— The  Mt. 

Pleasant 
Creamery  Co.  has  declared  a  10  per 
cent,  dividend.

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Cabinet 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $85,000.

Ironwood—The 

Ironwood  Brewing 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $10,000.

Coldwater— D.  C.  McKenzie  has  sold 
to 

his  cigar  manufacturing  business 
Caton  &  Sillick.

Adrian—The  capital  stock  of the Page 
Woven  Wire  Fence  Co.  has  been  in­
creased  from  $240,000 to $1,000,000.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Valley  Beet 
Sugar  Co.  is  building  an  addition  with 
a  capacity  of  5,000  tons  of  beets  per 
week.

Detroit—The  style  of 

the  Detroit 
River  Gasoline  Engine  Works  has  been 
changed  to  the  Detroit  River 
Iron 
Works.

Royal  Oak—Many  tons  of  sugar  beets 
still  remain  in  the  fields  in  this vicinity 
and  will  be  destroyed.  The  growers 
claim  a  scarcity  of  help  and  the 
in­
ability  to  secure  cars  in  season  as  the 
cause.

Adrian— Fred  Moreland  has  leased  a 
part  of  the  Babcock  building  on  South 
Winter  street,  and  will  engage  in  the 
manufacture  of special  brands  of  smok­
ing  tobacco  under  the  style  of the  Mich­
igan  Tobacco  Works.

Lake  Linden—A  stock  company  will 
shortly  be  organized  at  this  place  for 
the  erection  and  equipment  of  a  flour-* 
ing  mill,  and  it  is  expected  that  opera­
tions  will  begin  early  next  fall.  A  mill 
site  has  been  donated  and  water  from 
Trap  River  wili  probably  be  utilized 
for  motive  power.

for  teaching  primary 

Detroit—The  Herman  Mayer  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  been  succeeded  by 
the  new  firm  of  Herman  Mayer  &  Co., 
with  a  capital  of  $35,000;  paid 
in, 
$10,500.  The  members  of  the  firm  are 
Herman  Mayer,  J.  J.  Marten,  W.  J. 
Burton  and  T.  E.  Gaghan.  The  com­
pany  will  manufacture  an  arithmetical 
device, 
school 
children  the  rules  of  arithmetic.  The 
machine 
is  about  three  feet  square  and 
is  composed  of  wood  and  metals.  The 
method  is  to  teach  by  observation.  The 
device  is  placed  on  a  table  in  front  of 
the  pupils,  showing  figures  and  signs, 
large  enough  to  be  seen  by  the  whole 
room  at  once,  if  necessary.  The  Detroit 
promoters  bought  the  patents  from  a  lo­
cal  teacher,  and  then  spent 
several 
thousand  perfecting  the  device  before 
it  was  put  on  the  market.  Herman 
Mayer  &  Co.  start  business  with  a  con­
tract  to  supply  the  schools  of  this  city.

J.  A.  Ault,  grocer,  Lowell,  Ind.  : 
Four  different  trade  journals  find  their 
way  to  my  store.  The Michigan  Trades­
man  has  more  real  reading  than  all  of 
the  others  put  together.

The  Other  Man  Had  the  Hatchet. 

From the Lansing Republican, Dec. 9.

One  of the  clerks  of  Hull  &  Griffey’s 
grocery  store  served  an  attachment  on 
his  employers  this  morning  and  precip­
itated  excitement  in  the  neighborhood 
of the  intersection  of  Shiawassee  street 
and  Washington  avenue.  The  clerk,  it 
is  understood,  was  appointed  trustee  for 
the  creditors  of  Hull  &  Griffey.  He 
got  his  legal  certificate  early  this  morn­
ing  and  served  it  on  Mr.  Hull,  who,  he 
claims,  took  the  paper  and  drove  him 
from  the  store,  locking  him  out.

The  clerk  tried  to  enlist  the  aid  of 
officers  of  the  law,  but  as  they  had  no 
authority 
in  the  matter,  without  the 
proper  papers,  his  effort  was  wasted.

“ Why  didn't  you  stay  in  the  store?”  
“ You 

one  of  the  officers  asked  him. 
had  the  right.”

“ I  know,”   replied  the  clerk,  “ buthe 

The  hitch 

had  a  hatchet.”
in  the  matter  is  that  the 
clerk  will  have  to  get  new papers  before 
he  can  take  possession  of  the  stock,  bis 
employer  having  retained  the  attach­
ment. 
It  is  probable  that  the  matter 
will  be  placed  next  time  in  the  hands 
of  an  officer of  the  law.

The  firm  of  Hull  &  Griffey  is  having 
trouble  within 
itself  over  its  accounts, 
and  the  proprietors  are  at  loggerheads.
Mr.  Griffey  filed  a  trust  mortgage,  it 
is  learned,  for  the  benefit  of  all  credit­
ors.  Mr.  Hull,  it  is  understood,  filed  a 
like  mortgage  to two preferred creditors.

The 

Cutters  Must  Pay  Cash  For  Goods.
Bay  City,  Dec.  9—The butchers of  the 
Bay  Cities  have  an  organization  which 
has  attempted,  in  a  measure,  to  control 
prices  of  meat  to consumers.  Recently, 
however,  several  outside  concerns  have 
been  advertising  meats  at  cut  rates  and 
worked  up a business which  the butchers 
looked  upon  with  envy. 
latter 
could  not  control  the  trade  of  their  ad­
vertising  competitors  themselves,  but, 
it  is  said,  they  have  enlisted  the  help 
of  the  packers,  and  that  the  Chicago 
packing  houses  having  branches  here 
have  notified  the  trade  that they  will  re­
fuse  to  do  business  with  the  cut-rate 
meat  dealers.  This,  however,  is  denied 
by  the  managers  of  the  beef  bouses. 
They  say  they  are  here  to  sell  all  they 
can,  but  have  exacted  cash  payments 
from  those  who  are  advertising  the  low 
prices.

November  30  Edwin  Fallas  shipped  a 
car  of  mince-meat,  preserves,  apple- 
butter  and  baking  powder  to  Duluth. 
This 
is  the  fifth  car  be  has  shipped 
West  since  October  12.  The  smallest 
car  contains  at  least  30,000 pounds.  Mr. 
Fallas  is  now  shipping  nearly  half  the 
product  of  his  factory  West  in  carlots, 
and  sells  his  whole  output  himself.

W ANTED

BUTTER,  EGGS  A N D   POULTRY 
M.  ©.  BAKER  &   6 0 ,, 

Toledo,  Ohio

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ao Pearl  Street 

GRAND  RAPIDS  SU PPLY  COMPANY

ar*nd  RapkU>  M)ch.

Detroit—The  Briscoe  Manufacturing 
Co.  succeeds  the  Detroit  Galvanizing  & 
Sheet  Metal  Works.

St.  Johns—Richmond  &  Holmes  suc­
ceed  Richmond  Bros,  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  engines  and  boilers.

Adrian—The 

shoe  manufacturing
house  of  Williams  &  Cox  has  changed 
its  style  to  F.  H.  Williams  &  Co.

Detroit—A.  Jacobs  & Co.  is succeeded 
by  Jacobs  &  Co.,  Limited,  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  clothing  and  as  proprietors 
of  the  Adjustable  Clasp  Co.

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

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POST  MUSIC CO.,

Ua*ta|, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  made  a  phenomenal  ad­
vance  during  the  week,  while  receipts 
were  only  fair  in  the Northwest,  and  the 
world’s  shipments  were  9,712,000  bush­
els,  of  which  the  United  States  contrib­
uted  4,500,000  bushels. 
The  visible 
made  another  large  increase  of 2,844,000 
bushels, 
leaving  the  amount  in  sight
55,240,000  bushels,  against  61,494,000 
bushels  at  the  corresponding  time  last 
year,  a  difference  of  6,000,000 bushels 
less  than  last  year,  where  a  few  months 
ago  we  were  about  24,000,000  bushels 
less.  Notwithstanding  these  facts,  the 
market  was  very  broad  and  prices  are 
up  about  7c  on  winter  wheat  and  fully 
5c  on  spring  wheat  futures.  Everybody 
seems  to  be  buying  wheat  and  commis­
sion  houses  are  rushed  with  orders,  both 
for  buying  and  selling.  The  selling 
is 
mostly  to  take  profits.  Such  scrambling 
for  wheat  has  not  been  seen  since  the 
Leiter  deal.  We  think  it  is  time to  call 
a  halt.  Still,  as  the  buying  craze  is 
on,  prices  may  be  forced  still  higher. 
Wheat  is  still  the  lowest  on  the  list, 
lower than  any  of  the  cereals.  Caution 
should  be  used,  as  wheat  is  nearly  15c 
per  bushel  up  from  bottom  price.
.  Corn  is  also  climbing,  but  not  in  pro­
portion  to  wheat,  and  an  advance  of  4c 
can  be  recorded.

Oats,  likewise,  are  up  3c  per  bushel, 
and  the  demand  keeps  up.  Tde  market 
seems  to  absorb  all  of  the  offerings  at 
enhanced  values.

Rye,  not  to  be  behind,  has  advanced 
3c  per  bushel.  The  demand  is  large; 
although  some  time  ago  it 
looked  as 
though  rye  would  sell  lower,  the  con­
trary  has  taken  place.  The  whole 
line 
of  cereals  have  shown  a  strong  advance 
during  the  past  week.

Beans  are  not  affected  by  the  rise  in 
other  products  and  we  see  no  reason 
why  they  should  advance  above  present 
going  prices.

Flour  is  up  fully  30@4oc  per  barrel 
and  may  go  still  higher  if  the  present 
advance  in  wheat  is  sustained.

Mill  feed  made  another  advance  of  $1 

per  ton  and  is  scarce  at  that.

Receipts  of  wheat  have  been  rather 
large  during  the  week,  being as  follows: 
wheat,  81  cars;  corn,  5  cars;  oats,  4 
cars;  rye,  2  cars;  flour,  1  car;  beans,  2 
cars;  malt,  1  car;  hay,  2  cars;  potatoes, 
16 cars.

Mills  are  paying  82c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Good  stock  is  running  from 
$4.50^6  per  bbl.  for  Spys  and  Baldwins 
and  $3  75@4  for  other  varieties.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $i.25@ 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Beans—The  market  is  about  steady.
Beets—$1.25  per  bbl.
Butter— Factory  creamery  commands 
24c  for  fancy,  22c  for choice  and  20c for 
storage.  Dairy  grades  are  firm  and 
in 
good  demand,  fancy  commanding  I7@ 
19c.  Choice  fetches  I5@i7c.  Packing 
stock  goes  at  I2@i3c.  Receipts  of  dairy 
grades  are  more  liberal,  on  account  of 
the  shutting  down  of  many  cheese  fac­
tories  and  creameries.

Cabbage—$2  per crate  of  four  dozen.
Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $8@ 
8.50  per  bbl;  Waltons,  ^@3.25  per 
crate  for  fancy.

Dates—4^@5C  per  lb.
Eggs—The  market  is  strong  and  firm 
at  I9@22c  for  strictly  fresh  and  about 
i6@ i 8c  for  storage.  Receipts  have 
actually  increased  during  the past week, 
a  considerable  portion  of  the  arrivals 
being  pullets’  eggs.

bits.

Figs—Three  crown  Turkey  command 

lie   and  5  crown  fetch  14c.

Game—Dealers  pay  $ i @ i .20  for  rab­

Grapes—$5@6  per  keg  for  Malagas.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  13® 14c.  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,  $3.25@ 
3.50  for  either  size.

Lettuce— I2j£c  per  lb.  for  hothouse.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal  for  fancy.
Onions—The  market  is  strong  and the 
is  maintained  on  the  basis  of 

demand 
$1.10^1.25  per  bu.
Oranges—California navels fetch  $3.50 
per  box.  Jamaicas  command  $3.5o@ 
3.75.  Floridas,  $3.25@3.5o.

Parsley—20c  per doz.
Potatoes—The  market  is  steady  and 
strong,  with  no  accumulation  of  sup­
plies.  Local  dealers  pay  75c  and  hold 
at  80c.

Poultry—The market is strong.  Chick­
ens  are  scarce  and  strong.  Dressed 
hens  fetch  7@8c,  spring  chickens  com­
mand  8@9C,  turkey  hens  fetch 
io@ iic , 
gobblers  command  9@ioc,  ducks  fetch 
io@ nc  and  geese  9@ioc.  Live  pigeons 
are  in  moderate  demand  at  6o@75c  and 
squabs  at  $1.50^2.

Sweet  Potatoes—All  grades  have  ad­
vanced,  Virginias  to  $2.50,  Baltimores 
to $2.50 and  Jerseys  to $4.

Winter  Squash— Hubbard  fetches  2c 

per  lb.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  has  had  a  bout  of 
higher  values. 
The  break  did  not 
come,  as  some  dealers  predicted  and 
worked  for.  Their  sales  for  future  de­
livery  caught  them  on  the  wrong  side 
for  a  margin  of  profit.  Large  sales  have 
been  made  and  at  higher prices,  leaving 
the  market  in  a  strong  position.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand  at  higher 

values,  with  no  accumulations.

Tallow  has  advanced  materially,  with 
strong  demand  for  home  use.  The high 
prices  of  lard  have  advanced  tallow  and 
greases  and  soapers  take  oils  in  place. 
The  foreign  markets  are  short  of  stock 
and  await  Australian  stocks  rather  than 
pay  the  present  prices.

Wools  remain  firm  and  dealers  are 
paying  a  slight  advance  to  obtain  sup­
plies.  Values  West  are  too  high  for  a 
profit  on  the  Eastern  market.  The  out­
look 
is  good  for the  future,  but  no  ad­
vance  is  looked  for  before  February  or 
March,  and  even  then  it  depends  upon 
many  contingencies.  The  foreign  mar­
kets  are  firmer,  with  fair  offerings.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

The  Commercial  Credit  Co.  has  re­
moved  from  the  fourth  floor  of  the  Wid- 
dicomb  building  to  the  second  floor of 
the  same  building,  occupying  the  en­
tire  front  portion  of  the  floor,  including 
the  offices  so  long  occupied  by  R.  G. 
Dun  &  Co.  The  growth  of  this  business 
has  been 
little  short  of  phenomenal, 
clearly  demonstrating  the  need  which 
exists  in  every  community  for  an  ad­
junct  to  the  trade  which  shall  enable 
the  dealer  to  post  himself  on the charac­
ter  of  his  customers  before  according 
them  credit.

Dewey  &  Stalker  have  opened  a  drug 
store  at  Coloma. 
The  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

John  Burdick  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Lamont.  The  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

L.  H.  Porter  succeeds  Calvin  H. 
in  the  grocery  business  at  79 

Catlin 
Plainfield  avenue.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
stronger,  but  prices  show  no  change  as 
yet,  96  deg.  test  centrifugals  being  still 
quoted  at  3%c.  Refiners  appeared 
ready  to  buy  good  sized  lots  at  ruling 
prices,  but  importers  expecting  higher 
prices,  offerings  were  very 
light  and 
few  sales  resulted.  Receipts  of  raw 
sugar  show  no  increase  and  stocks  for 
the  week decreased materially.  In Cuba, 
grinding  of  sugar-cane  has  begun  in  a 
small  way,  and  probably  new crop  Cuba 
sugar  will  be  offered  on  the  market 
soon.  The  refined  market  is  very  firm, 
in  sympathy  with  the  firmer  tendency 
for  the  raw  sugar  market,  and  we  are 
advised  that  unless  present  plans  mis­
carry  refiners  will  advance  prices  10 
points  by  Thursday.  The  demand  is 
good,  and  we  see  no  reason  for  lower 
prices.  The  general  feeling  seems  to 
be  that  prices  have  touched  bottom 
and 
indications  point  to  a  continued 
firm  market.

Canned  Goods—The  panned  goods 
is  practically  unchanged. 
situation 
There  is  still  a  good  feeling 
in  the 
tomato  market  and  this  helps  to  keep 
the  other  lines  firm.  There 
is  always 
something  doing  in  tomatoes,  and  while 
heretofore  the  month  of  December  has 
always  been  a  very  quiet  one  in  the 
canned  goods  line,  it  seems  as  though 
conditions  have  changed  permanently, 
for  during  the  past  two  years  there  has 
been  a  large  business,  not  only  through 
December,  but  January  as  well.  Re­
garding  the  general  outlook  for  the  to­
mato  market,  will  say  that  there  were 
produced  about  7,000,000 cases  of  toma­
toes 
in  1900 and  not  over  250,000  cases 
of  those  tomatoes  were  carried  into  the 
season  of  1901.  The  pack  of  1901  will 
not  be  over  4,000,000 cases,  if  it  is  that 
much,  making  a  shortage  of  at  least
3,000,000  cases,  with  the  consumption 
increasing  every  day. 
The  demand 
during  the  past  week  has  been  very 
good  and  the  tendency  of  prices  is  still 
upward.  Gallons are exceedingly  scarce, 
being  almost  entirely cleaned up.  There 
is  very  little  interest  taken  in  corn  and 
very  few  sales  of  any  quantity  have 
been  made.  Why 
is  difficult  to 
say,  but  the  fact  remains  that  corn  does 
not  sympathize  with  tomatoes,  as  in 
former  years.  Prices  are  fairly  steady, 
but  the  demand 
is  very  light  indeed. 
is  considerable  enquiry  for  the 
There 
better  grades  of  peas  and  the  tendency 
of  the  market  is  toward  higher  prices. 
It  seems  now  perfectly  safe  to  say  that 
the  market  will  be  entirely  cleaned  up 
before  the  buying  for  the  spring  trade 
sets  in.  String  beans  do  not  improve. 
is  absolutely  no  demand  what­
There 
ever  for  them.  There 
is,  however,  a 
good  demand  for  baked  beans  at  prev­
ious  prices.  Succotash 
in  very  ac­
tive  demand  just  at  present,  but  is  very 
scarce  and  difficult  to  obtain.  Gallon 
apples  are  scarce  and  high.  Stocks  of 
these  goods  are  practically  exhausted. 
Peaches  are  dull  and  easy,  with  prac­
tically  no  demand.  Salmon  and  sar­
dines  are  both  firmly  held,  but  the  de­
mand  is  light.

is 

is 

it 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  in  good  shape,  the  demand  being 
very  good  and  prices  firmly  held,  the 
market 
in  general  showing  decided 
strength.  The  feature  of  the  week  was 
the  report  from  the  coast  that  the  bulk 
of  the  California  crop  of  raisins  had 
been  bought  up  by  the  Seeders’  combi­
nation  and  the  withdrawing  from  the 
market  of  all  prices  on  both  loose  mus­
catel  and  seeded  raisins.  When  prices 
are  made  again,  it  is  expected  that  they

will  show  an  advance  of  from  }£@ic 
per  pound.  There  was  quite  heavy 
buying  at  the  first  intimation  of  this 
purchase  by  the  seeders, but  prices  were 
withdrawn  before  the  orders  could  be 
confirmed.  The  present  outlook  for the 
raisin  market 
is  exceedingly  strong. 
There  is  a  very  fair  demand  for prunes, 
supplies  of  which  are  fair,  with  the  ex­
ception  of  80'90s  and  90-ioos,  which  are 
hard  to  obtain,  as  these  sizes  are  very 
scarce.  On  the  coast  the  situation  is 
steadily  becoming  stronger  and  prices 
are  very  firmly  held. 
Peaches  and 
apricots  are  going  out  well  for the  sea­
son  of  the  year  and  there  is  a  some­
what  firmer  feeling 
in  peaches.  Cur­
rants  and  figs  continue  strong  and  con­
sumptive  demand  for  both  articles  is 
excellent.  Layer  figs  are  in  large  de­
mand  and  some  holders  are  asking  J4c 
advance.  Supplies  are  becoming  much 
reduced.  Dates  are 
in  good  demand 
and  the  market  continues  firm,  and  all 
sorts  are  rapidly  going 
into  consump­
tion, influenced largely  by  the  low  prices, 
now  ruling. 
In  fact,  dates  are  the 
cheapest  article  on  the  list  and  this  has 
naturally  made 
them  very  popular. 
Evaporated  apples  are  practically  un­
changed,  with  very  few  offerings.
for  rice 

is  re­
ported  as  fairly  good,  considering  the 
usual 
slow  movement  preceding  the 
holidays.  There  was  no  accumulation 
of  spot  supplies  and,  as  dealers  have 
ample  assortments, there  was  no  inclina­
tion  to  purchase  stocks  at  present 
prices.  Sales  included  a general assort­
ment  of  nearly  all  grades, but  as a  result 
of  the  relative  cheapness  of  domestic 
Japan,  compared  with  other  styles,  they 
were  in  good  request  and  fair  sales  re­
sulted.

Rice— The  demand 

Teas—There  continued  a  strong  up­
ward  tendency to prices  for  all  grades  of 
green  teas,  for  which  the  quotations 
¡have  been  raised  from  i@2c  per  pound. 
The  lower  sorts  of  black  teas  have  stiff­
ened  and  it  is  likely  that  prices will ad­
vance  soon. 
Importers  were  reluctant 
sellers  and  preferred  to  hold  goods  in 
the  expectation  of  higher  prices.  Crop 
reports  place  the  crop  of  green  tea  at 
11,500,000  pounds,  showing  a  shortage 
of  3,500,000  pounds  corn-pared  with  last 
year’s  crop,  which  was  very  small.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  molasses 
market  is  firm,  with  a  steady  demand, 
purchases,  however,  being  mostly  of 
small 
lots  for  immediate  use,  as  owing 
to  the  high  prices  asked  dealers  do  not 
feel  like  making  large  purchases as they 
anticipate  an  enlarged  crop  movement 
and 
lower  prices.  Spot  supplies  are 
light.  Reports  from  New  Orleans  note 
a  strong  market  and  confirmation  of 
damage  to  sugar  cane  in  some  districts 
which  helps  to  maintain  a  firm  tone  to 
the  market.  The  corn  syrup  market  is 
firm  with  good  demand,  but  no  change 
in  price.

Nuts—There  is  an  excellent  demand 
for  all  varieties  of  nuts  for the  coming 
holidays.  Brazil  nuts  have  again  ad­
vanced  %c,  with  small  stocks  on  band. 
Walnuts  are 
in  very  good  supply,  a 
large  shipment  for  this  market  having 
just  been  received  from  the  coast. •  The 
market  on  them  is  very  firm,  however, 
and  the  demand  is good.  Jordan  shelled 
almonds  are  scarce  and  slightly  higher. 
Tarragonas  are  also 
in  good  demand 
and  in  light  supply.  Filberts  are  un­
changed,  with  good  demand.  Peanuts 
are  selling  well  at  previous  prices.

Rolled  Oats— In  sympathy  with  the 
very  strong  grain  markets,  the  rolled 
oats  market  is  exceedingly  strong  and 
prices  have  advanced  as  follows:  Bar­
rels,  30c;  competitive  cases,  10c;  Ban­
ner oats,  15c;  Quaker  oats,  15c.

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SHOW  CARDS.

Some  General  Bales  Which  Should  Be 

Observed.

Discretion  and  judgment  are  required 
in  the  arrangement  and  shading  of  the 
letters  and  parts  of  the  show  card.  This 
matter  of  shading 
is  very  simple  in­
It  is  based  upon  a  well-known 
deed. 
principle 
in  physics,  that  any  article 
placed  in  a  strong  sunlight  will  cast  its 
own  shadow.  This  is  the  theory  of 
shading. 
If  a  letter  were  to  be  cut  out 
from  a  newspaper  or  advertisement  and 
should  be  pasted  on  a  cardboard,  it 
would  throw  a  shadow,  according  to 
the  angle  with  the  sun.  And  this  is  just 
exactly  the  theory  of  shading.  The  let­
ter  is  supposed  to  stand  out  from  the 
board  on  which  it is  painted,  and  in  or­
der to  make  it  do  so to  the  eye,  it  must 
be  given  a  black  background,  heavy 
or  light,  as  it  is  supposed  to  be  a  long 
or  short  distance  in  front  of  the  board.
Ordinarily  you  will  notice  that  the 
left  side  of  the  letter  is  shaded.  This 
is  because  the  light  comes  from  the  up­
per  right  hand  corner,  and 
it  is  much 
simpler to  place  the  shading  on  the  left 
for  the  reason  that  in  the  majority  of 
instances  that  side  of 
letter  is 
straight.  Straight  lines  take  shading 
better  than  curves  or slants,  and  the 
effect  of  making  the  letter stand  out  is 
more  easily  produced.

the 

Another  fact that  should  be  borne 

in 
mind  is to leave  a  small margin between 
the  letter and  the  shading,  i.  e.,  a  white 
space  of  an  eighth  or  a  sixteenth,  and 
in  very 
large  letters  of  a  quarter  of  an 
inch.  This  furnishes  a  contrast  between 
the  letter  itself  and  between  the shading 
and  creates  a  stronger  effect  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  shadow.

As  to  the  color  of  the  shade,  it  should 
be  remembered  always  to  have  it darker 
than  the  background.  There  should  be 
at  least  a  shade  difference 
in  color, 
«id  several  shades  difference,  with  the 
shading  invariably  darker  and  deeper 
in  color  than  the  board,will  bring  much 
better  results.

Another  point  to  be  remembered  is  to 
make  the  shading  under  the  letter heav­
ier than  that  along  the  side.

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  shade 
immediately  at  your  feet or immediately 
in  front  of  an  object  standing 
in  a 
strong 
light  is  heavier  than  a  few  feet 
away,  and  in  adopting  this  rule  you  are 
following  nature,  and  can  not  go  far 
wrong.

The  advantage  of  shading  consists  in 
giving  prominence  to one  or  more  lines 
on  a  card.  There  is  usually  some  catch 
line,  some  point  to  the  card  which 
should  be  brought  out  in  such  a  way 
that  it  can  not  fail  to  be  seen  by  the 
most  casual  passerby,  and  shading  has 
the  effect  of  giving  this  prominence 
in 
a  most  positive  way.

In  the  matter of  shading,the  card  and 
sign  writer  must  be  to  some  extent orig­
inal,  as  he  is  in  all  the rest  of  his  work. 
He  must  permit  bis  individuality  to  as­
sert  itself  and  be  prominent,  and  to  do 
this  it  is  necessary  to  draw  offhand  as 
much  as  possible  and  to  convey  the  im­
pression  through  the  card  that the  writer 
has  in  his  mind's  eye  when  he  starts 
out.  As  stated  previously, it  is  only  ex­
perience  that  counts  in  card  writing, 
and  the  beginner  who  attempts  shading 
and  finds that  it  is not  successful  should 
not  become  discouraged,  but  should 
continue  his  efforts  until  he  obtains 
more  satisfactory  results.

In  this  part  of  the  article  there  is 
only one  other point  that  should  be  em­
phasized.  The  beginner has  made  such 
progress  that  be  ought  to  begin  to  col­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

lect  his  library  of  colored  pictures  for 
poster  work.  Possibly  he  has  not  yet 
become  so  proficient  that  he  can  under­
take  elaborate  posters,  but  he  should 
begin  to  work  along  this  line.

Mr.  Card  Writer,  become  a  collector 
of  all  descriptions  of  colored  posters. 
Highly  colored 
lithographs  coming  as 
advertisements  for  various  descriptions 
of  food  products,  backs  of  color  printed 
calendars,  theatrical  advertising  matter 
and  many  other  fields  will  afford  you  a 
source  of  supply.

Secure  one  or  more  large  drawers  in 
your  workshop  as  a  receptacle  for  these 
pictures,  or,  if  it  is  possible,  a  cabinet 
large  enough  to  be  used  for this  and 
nothing  else.  As  you  collect  these  pic­
tures  from  various  sources,  carefully  cut! 
them  out  from  the  original  matter  in 
which  they  appeared  and  trim  them 
closely  and  carefully  with  a  small  pair 
of  scissors,  and  be  sure  you  do  not  cut 
into  the  picture 
itself,  so  that  it  will 
ravel  out  or curl  up  when  it  is  used  on 
your  show  card.

A  good  supply  of  such  colored  pic­
tures  should  always  be  on  hand,  includ­
ing  a  large  variety  of  subjects  that  are 
fetching  and  likely  to catch  the  eye. 
If 
you  have  room  for  the  purpose  these 
may  be  divided  into different  classifica­
tions,  according  to  the  nature  of  the 
subject,and  so  arranged  that  they are al­
ways  handy.

In  using  colored  pictures  as  a  central 
in  the  show  card,  select  the  one 
idea 
which  you  think  best  adapted  to  the 
reading  matter of  the  card  and  which  is 
most  attractive.  Then  map  out  your 
card  in  such  a  way  as  to  give  plenty  of 
room  for the  wording  and  the  picture, 
taking  the 
latter  and  putting  it  in  the 
place  that 
it  should  appear,  marking 
the  outline  with  a  soft  pencil.

The  greatest  care  should  be  used  in 
pasting 
the  colored  picture  on  the 
board.  Liquid  glue  of  about  medium 
consistency  may  be  used,  and  the  back 
of  the  picture  should  be  thoroughly  cov­
ered  with  this,  a  wide  brush  being  used 
for  the  purpose.  No  glue  should  be  per­
mitted  to  lap  over  the  sides,  nor  should 
it  be  so  thick  that  it  will  be  pushed  out 
when  the  picture 
is  pressed  firmly  in 
place.  Glue  on  the  board  is  very  diffi­
cult  to  remove,  and  it  shows  on  a  light
colored  board  to  such  an  extent  as  to 
spoil  the  effect.

A  board  should  be  used  that  is  in 
contrast  with  the  leading  colors  in  the 
picture.  A  dark  green  board  will  serve 
as  a  background  for  many  of  the 
lead­
ing  colors,  and  is  one  of  the  best boards 
ordinarily  for  a  background.  The  col­
ored  picture  should  be  pressed  firmly 
into  place,  and  should  be  weighted 
down  until  it  thoroughly  dries  in  order 
to  prevent  curling  at  the  edges.

The  picture  may  be  made  to  appear 
as  a  part  of  the  sign  by  giving  it  a  neat 
border  in  a  color  that  harmonizes  with 
its  leading  color,  but  contrasts  with  the 
background.  This  border  may  be  in 
the  nature  of  shading  to  the  edges of the 
picture,or  it  may  be  criss-crossed  lines, 
attached  outside  and  inside  of  the  pic­
ture,  or  it  may  take  any  form  that  will 
give  the  picture  the  appearance  of  hav­
ing  been  originally  part  of  the  card.

If  the  sign  itself  contains  one  promi­
nent  line,  and  one  or  more  lines  of  sec­
ondary 
importance,  the  prominent  line 
should  be  brought  in  as  close  contact 
with  the  picture  as  possible,  and  may 
be  divided  with  one  or  more  words  on 
each  side  of  the  picture,  or  with  all  the 
prominent  words  if  there  are  only  two 
or  three  to  the  left  of  the  picture,  and 
those  of  secondary  importance  to the

right.  The  idea  is  that  the  picture  will 
attract  the  eye  before  the  reading  mat­
ter.  The  prominent  wording  should 
therefore  be  as  close  to the  picture  as 
possible,  so  that  it  will  be  caught  with 
one  sweep  of  the eye.— Commercial Bul­
letin. 

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____  

Beer  is  the  staple  product  of  Milwau­
kee,  and  is  regarded  by  the  majority  of 
its citizens  as  having^  been  the  prime 
factor  in  promoting  its  growth.  There 
is  a  minority,however,and  a  strong  one, 
which  objects to  the  shoving  of  the  bar­
ley 
juice  before  the  outside  public  on 
every  possible  occasion.  The  proposi­
tion  to  give  the  new  bridge,  which  is 
shortly  to  be  opened  with  all  kinds  of 
formal  ceremonies,  a  good  send-off  by 
breaking  a  bottle  of  the  juice  on  the 
is  creating  considerable  op­
structure 
position. 
It  is  contended  that  there  are 
other  sorts  of  business  in  the  city  be­
sides  the  brewing  interests  and  that  the 
smashing  of  the  bottle  could  very  well 
be  dispensed  with.  The  minority  is 
likely  to  succeed,  for the other 
hardly 
side  seems  to  have  disarmed  opposition 
in  the  only  direction  which  would  have 
had  any  weight— the  breweries  them­
selves— for  the  bottle  will  be  made  up 
of  samples  from  all  the  establishments 
in  the  city. 
It  may  be  all  very  well  to 
advertise  the  city  by  the  beer,  but  to 
spread  the  virtues  of  somebody’s  treble 
X  bock  or  lager  is  not  to  be  tolerated. 
For  once,mixing  the  drinks  seems  like­
ly  to  promote  good  feeling.

A  novel  form  of  charity  has  been 

in­
augurated 
in  Budapest—namely,  the 
distribution  of  bread  and  milk  among 
children  up  to  six  years  of age. _  The 
distribution,  which  is  to  be  continued 
daily,  takes  place,  morning  and  even­
ing,  at  a  shop  in  a  by  street.  The  milk 
is  first  boiled 
in  four  large  boilers, 
whence  it  runs  into  a  cooling apparatus. 
Fifty  children  are  allowed  to  enter  at  a 
time,either with  their  mothers  or  alone, 
while  the  others  wait  for their  turn  in  a 
neighboring  Warmestube,  another char­
itable 
large,  well- 
warmed  rooms  are  found  in many places 
in  Austria-Hungary.  The  children  are 
told  to  bring  their  own  mugs  for the 
m ilk;  but  there  are  drinking  vessels  for 
those  who  have  none,  which,  after  use, 
are  cleaned  and  disinfected.  Both  the 
bread  and  milk  must  be  consumed  on 
the  premises,  and  very  sickly  children 
receive  a  second  portion.  On  the  open­
ing  day  a  number of  medical  men,  as 
well  as  men  and  women  from  the  upper 
middle  classes,  assisted  in  the  distribu­
tion.

institution.  These 

Terra  cotta  figures  are  as  popular  as 
ever,  only  more  so,  as  the  humorist  re­
marked.  These  goods  have been brought 
to  a  state  of  perfection  which  is  simply 
marvelous.  Splendid  reproductions  of 
famous  pieces  of  statuary  and highly  ar­
tistic  original  designs  are  to  be  had 
in 
this  ware  at  marvelously 
low  prices. 
As  a  means  of  decorating  studios,  cosy 
corners  and  ends  these  artistic  figures 
are  unsurpassed.

So  t ik e   Her.

Dusnap— I  see  you  call  your  motor 

car  after your  wife.

Bertwhistle 

(working  over  engine, 
perspiringly)—Yes;  because  whenever 
I  want  to  go  anywhere  with  it  it takes 
so  long  before  it  gets  ready  to  start!

Get  your 

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trade in lamps this year  and  we  have  a 
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early.

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for  Itself

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It  assists  in  making  collections. 
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It establishes  con­
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BANKRUPTCY  AMENDMENTS.

Radical  Changes  Needed  in  the  Existing 

Law,

it 

If,  as 

is  confidently  expected,  the 
bankruptcy  law  is  amended  during  the 
present  Congressional  session, 
is 
pretty  safe  to  assume  that  the  amend­
ments  proposed  by  the  friends of  the  act 
will  be  such  as  have  had  the  full  sanc­
tion  and  authority  not  only  of  those 
who  have  been  called  upon  to  adminis­
ter  the  law  in  an  official  capacity,  but 
a  large  proportion  of  those  who  stand 
in  the  relation  of  creditors  to  the  seek­
ers  of  the  benefits  of  its  provisions.

It  will  be  remembered  by  all who take 
an  interest  in  the  agitation  for  the  re­
vision  of  the  bankruptcy  law  that  at  the 
last session  of  Congress  a  bill  was  pre­
sented  by  Chairman  Ray,  of  the  House 
Judiciary  Committee,  which  had  re­
ceived  the  indorsement  of the Executive 
Committee  of  the  National  Association 
of  Referees  and  the  approval  of  E.  C. 
Brandenburg,  the  Government  expert  in 
bankruptcy  matters.  This  bill  was  not 
pressed  for  consideration,  because 
it 
became  evident  that  any  attempt  in  this 
direction  at  the  last  (short)  session 
would  be  unsuccessful.

The  Executive  Committee  of the  Na­
tional  Association  of  Referees,  at  the 
request  of  the  Committee  of  the  Judic­
iary,  has  requested 
leading  merchants 
all  over  the  country  to  express  their 
views  as to the  amendments  necessary  to 
be  made 
in  the  act,  in  order  that  it 
might  meet  all  the  necessities  of  a 
National  bankruptcy  law.  It  is  reported 
that  about  twenty  thousand  replies  have 
been  received,  many  of  them  proposing 
radical  changes;  and,  as  might  have 
been expected, if all the amendments pro­
posed  should  be  adopted,  there  would 
little  or  nothing  left  of  the  original 
be 
act. 
In  addition  to  this  the  National 
Association  of  Credit  Men  has  sent  out 
its  organiza­
letters  to  the  members  of 
tion, 
to 
changes;  and  these  are  to  be  embod­
ied  in  recommendations  to be forwarded 
to  Chairman  Ray.

suggestions  as 

requesting 

There  has  always  been  a  feeling  on 
the  part  of  many  of  the  friends  of  the 
bankruptcy 
law  that  there  would  be 
danger to  its  existence  in  any  very  rad­
ical  action  in  Congress  in  the  direction 
of  amendments. 
It  is  feared  that  the 
enemies  of  the  law  are  so  numerous that 
a  few  accessions  to  their  ranks  would 
result  in  a majority in  favor  of its repeal 
in  the  House  of  Representatives. 
It  is 
probable  that  there  are  a  good  many 
members  of  both  the  House  and  the 
Senate  who  are  neither  very  strongly  in 
favor  of,  or  very  bitterly  opposed to,  the 
National  bankruptcy  act  as  it  stands, 
whose  votes  might  he  influenced  by  the 
arguments  pro  and  con  in  the  consider­
ation  of  important  amendments  thereto; 
and  it  follows  that,  the  more  numerous 
and  radical  the  amendments  proposed, 
the  greater  would  be  the  opportunity  for 
discussion,  and,  consequently,  the  like­
lihood  of  a  change  of  mind  on  the  part 
of  those  who  were  more  or  less  indiffer­
ent.  At  the  same  time  it is  admitted  in 
all  quarters  that  certain  changes,  and 
these  of  a  rather  sweeping  character, 
must  be  made  in  the  law  before  it  finds 
any  considerable  acceptance  by  mer­
chant-creditors.  As  matters  now  stand, 
the  creditors  of 
concerns, 
whether  these  be  manufacturers  or 
wholesale  or  retail  dealers,are  more  and 
more  indisposed  to  invoke  the  aid of the 
bankruptcy  law 
their 
affairs  when  conditions  of  insolvency 
disclose  themselves.  To  put  a  debtor 
into  bankruptcy  only  to  find  that when a 
claim  is  presented  it  must  be  expunged 
unless  all  payments  made  on  account 
within  four  months  are  returned  to  the 
bankrupt’s  trustee 
is  a  condition  of 
affairs  which  affords  very  little  satisfac­
tion  to  the  creditor.  The  consequence 
is  that,  where 
insolvents  have  been 
reasonably 
their 
transactions,  and  are  willing  to  surren­
der  their  assets  without  preference  or 
priority  for the  benefit of  creditors,  to  a 
suitable  trustee  or  assignee, such  assign­
ments  are  favored  by  creditors  in  pref­
erence  to  resorting  to  the  bankruptcy 
law,  with  all  its  sinister  complications

straightforward 

liquidating 

insolvent 

in 

in 

and  possibilities  in  the  way  of  throw­
ing  out  legitimate  claims.

Whatever  may  be  the  outcome  of  the 
attempt  to  improve  the  law and to divest 
it  of  this  and  other  provisions  almost 
equally  obnoxious  to the  creditor  class, 
it 
is  certain  that  there  will  be  no  lack 
of  knowledge  of  what the  merchants and 
credit-givers  of  the  country  desire  and 
expect  and  what  those  who  administer 
the  law  and  stand  in  a  position  between 
the  bankrupt  and  his  creditors  consider 
necessary  for  its  improvement  and  per­
fection.

“Red  Albumen”  Proves  to  Be  Cayenne 

Pepper.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
has  lately  been  deluged  with  orders  for 
“ red  albumen,”   which  purports  to  be  a 
new  hen  food.  The  trade  generally  re­
gards  “ red  albumen”   as  a  fraud,  large­
ly  because  of  the  fact  that  it  has  been 
put  upon  the  market  by  an  Ohio  con­
cern,  which  bears  an  unenviable  reputa­
tion  among  manufacturers  and  dealers 
for exploiting  mysterious  and  worthless 
nostrums.

“ Hyper-samphire,”  

Among  these  may  be  named  “ Per 
Algretta, ”   a  compound  for  preserving 
eggs; 
another 
preparation 
same  purpose; 
“ Richard  Butter  Rennett”   and  “ Black 
Pepsin,”   compounds  for  buttermaking; 
“ Compound  Extract  of  Salyx,”  
for 
preserving  fruit,  and  “ Zulu  Vulier,”   a 
hair  restorer.

for  the 

Of  these,  “ Black  Pepsin”   and  “ Hy­
per samphire”   have  attracted  most  at­
tention 
in  the  past.  Ten  years  ago  a 
demand for  “ Black  Pepsin”  was created 
by  liberal  advertising.  The  use  of  this 
article  was  supposed  to  increase  the 
amount  of  butter  produced  from  a  cer­
tain  quantity  of  cream  and  was  branded 
by  the  Department  of  Agriculture  at 
Washington  as  a  fraud.

An  official  analysis  was  made  with 
these  results:  Salt,  8  per  cent.  ;  an- 
natto,  15  per  cent.  ;  rennet  and  organic 
matter,  2  per  cent.  The  value  of  the 
2-oz.  box,  which  sold  at  retail  for $2.50, 
was  3c.

An  analysis  of  one  pound  of  “ Red 
Albumen”  showed it  to  be  cayenne  pep­
per.  A  teaspoonful  in  soft  food  was  to 
he  distributed  among  twelve  hens. 
This  solution  is  retailing at 60c a pound.

Boston  Firm  Corners  Minnesota’s  Squash 

Crop.

the 

Minneapolis,  Dec.  5— E.  E.  Howe, 
owning  a  large  market  garden  near  this 
city  and  acting  for  a  Boston  commis­
sion  firm,  has  cornered  the  squash  mar­
ket.  Just  before  Thanksgiving  he  sent 
agents  throughout 
country  and 
bought  up  eight  carloads  of  pumpkins 
and  squashes,  which  were  sent  East.

The  home  market  speedily  used  what 
was  left  on  the  market  and  it  was  dis­
covered  to-day  that  there  was  not  a 
squash  to  be  had  in  the  Northwest,  with 
the  possible  exception  of  2,400 owned 
by  one  farmer.  He  realizes  the  situa­
tion  and  is  holding  out  for $2  a  dozen, 
which  is  equivalent  to  a  retail  price  of 
25  cents  each.

However,  this  price  and  higher  must 
be  paid,  as  the  visible  supply  has  been 
shipped  to  Boston.  The  long  period  of 
drought  reduced  the  output  of pumpkins 
and  squashes  to a  mere  handful this sea­
son,  but  no  one  seemed  to  realize  this 
fact  until  Boston  had  secured  almost  the 
entire  crop.

One  Owns  Up.

“ But  how,”   they  asked,  “ did  you 
happen  to  permit  the  man  to  bunco 
you?”

“ Why,  to  tell  the  truth,”   answered 
the  truthful  man,  “ I  went  into  the  game 
because  I  thought  there  was  a  chance  to 
bunco  him. ”

It’s  a  wise  woman  that  knows  bow  to 
avoid  lending  her  copper-bottomed  pre­
serving  kettle  to  her  neighbor.

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No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
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Sample copies sent free to any address.

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E.  A.  STO W E.  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY,  •  -  DECEMBER 11,1901.

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN I  „
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County  of  Kent 

I 

in  the  office  of the 

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

am  pressman 

poses  and  says  as  follows:
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  m 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue,  of 
December 4,  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 seventh  day  of  December,  1901.

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Notary  Public  in  and  tor  Kent  County, 

Mich.

statement 

recommended  by 

AM RRICAN  K EELS  FOR  AMERICANS.
The  President’s  Message  has  brought 
‘ Amen”   than  that 
forth  no  heartier 
pronounced.  after  the 
that 
American  goods  should  be  carried  in 
American  built  ships.  Like  other  meas­
ures  strongly 
the 
paper,  it  gave  expression  to  a  long  con­
sidered  condition, and  one  that  has  been 
carefully  looked  after.  The  matter  has 
been  one  of  purely  commercial  enter­
prise.  Not  until  recent  years  has  there 
been  enough 
in  the  carrying  trade  to 
warrant  the  expenditure  of  the  required 
capital.  That  period  when  the  Ameri­
can  merchant  marine  existed  and  flour­
ished  was  a  time  when  the  carrying 
capacity,  small  as  it  was  was  hardly 
equal  to  the  demand;  and  when  Ameri­
can  exports  increased  the  business 
in­
terests  of  the  country,  there  were  more 
profitable  things  to  attend  to. 
It  was 
simply  a  question  of  dollars  and  cents, 
and  it  was  answered  by  cost  and  con­
venience.  The  English  keel  was  at  the 
wharf  wanting  a  cargo,  the  rates  were 
reasonable  and  the  American  tradesman 
took  advantage  of  them,  was  satisfied 
with  the  service  and  found  it  cheaper 
than  to  build  and  man  and  manage  ves­
sels  of  his  own  for  the  time  being.

The  time  came,  however,  when  the 
conditions  changed.  The  goods  from 
the  American  forge  and  spindle  found 
favor  in  the  foreign  market,  to  the  ex­
clusion  of  the  foreign  manufacture.  As 
the  exports 
increased  the  freight  bill 
became  a  matter of  moment.  The wary 
merchant  was  not  to  be  deceived.  He 
had learned  to  his  cost  the  fickleness  of 
the  fad  in  commerce  and  was  not  again 
to  be  ensnared.  The  foreign goods-car- 
rier  was  still  good  enough  for  him. 
After  a  while  be  found  that  the  fond­
ness  for  the  American  manufacture  was 
no  fad.  The 
increasing  exportation 
was  based  upon  a  real  want,  created  by 
the  unequaled  excellence  of  the  goods,

at  a  price  as  unexpected  as  the  excel­
lence  itself  had  been.  That  fact  settled, 
the  rest  followed  as  a  matter  of  course. 
If  there  was  a  profit  in  the  carrying 
there  was  no  reason  why  it  should  not 
be  looked  after  and,  if  worth  it,  saved. 
It  has  been 
looked  after,  it  has  been 
found  to  be  worth  saving.  The  rest  will 
come  in  time,  and  that  a  short  one.  A l­
ready  the  movement  has  begun.  Even 
while  the  thought  has  been  finding  ex­
pression  the  active, 
forceful  Yankee 
wit  has  been  “ trying  it  on.”   The  trial 
has  resulted  in  “ a  fit”   and  the  trade  on 
its  own  responsibility  has  “ gone in .”

its  flow 

That  is not  the  best  of  i t :  It  has  been 
“ in”   long  enough  already  to  have  ob­
tained  unexpected  results.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  American  enterprise  in  just  this 
line  has  been  long  enough  at  work  to 
change  the  old  condition,  and  the  tide 
has  begun 
in  our  direction. 
John  Bull  is  beginning  to  find  out  that 
it  is  cheaper  to  use  the  American  keel 
than  to  keep  up  his  own.  The  Ameri­
can  “ get  there”   spirit  is  taking  posses­
sion  of  him  and  when  he  wants  any­
thing 
in  a  hurry  his  own  ships  are  too 
slow.  The  regular  English  gait  is  well 
enough  for  the  regular  English  busi­
ness ;  but  when  an  emergency  comes  up 
the  swifter  American  keel  is  depended 
on  to complete  the  business.  The  Eng­
lish  merchant,  for  example,  wants  an 
early  delivery  of  his  Australian  mail. 
The  English  mail  service  is  direct,  but 
slow.  The  way  to  Australia  via  the 
United  States 
is  longer  by  a  thousand 
miles,  but  the  longest  way  around  is  the 
shortest  way  to  Australia,and the round­
about  course  secures  the  delivery  of  the 
important  letter  five  days  earlier.

in 

This  is  a  single  instance,but  in  it  the 
whole  matter  lies,  and 
it,  too,  is 
contained  the  undeveloped  future  of  the 
coming  carrier  of  the  world.  The  Old 
is  slow  and  its  keels  are  ham­
World 
pered  by  the  barnacles  of  the  past. 
It 
can  not  get  rid  of  them  and  it  foolishly 
believes  that  a  little  more  steam  in  the 
modern  boiler,  lately  placed  in  the  old- 
time  hulk,  will  be  found  enough  for 
every  requirement,  barnacle-clogged  al­
though 
it  is  a  mistake, 
the  swifter  thought  and 
the  swifter 
American  method  are  proving.  The  fu­
ture  will  only  more  firmly  establish  the 
already  admitted  fact:  There  are  no 
branacles  on  the  hull  of the  American 
trading  vessel;  and  there  are  no  bar­
nacles  on  the  men  that  man  and  man­
it!  That  is  the  conclusion  of  the 
age 
whole  matter,  and  the  future  of 
the 
American  keel  as  a  carrier  will  con- 
firm  it.

it  be.  That 

Penny-in-the-slot  machines  are  seen 
everywhere.  Some  of  them are gambling 
devices,  while  others  dispense  gum, 
candy  and  music.  In  Cincinnati,  where 
a  fight  is  being  made  to  have  their  use 
prohibited, it  is  estimated  that  there  are 
that  at 
8,440  machines, 
least 
and 
in  them  every 
$3,080,600  are  placed 
year.  This  is  a 
lot  of  money.  The 
owners  of  the  machines  know  that  if 
they  “ take  care  of  the  pennies‘the  dol­
lars  will  take  care  of themselves.”

The  appointment  of  Arthur  H.  Web' 
her  as  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy  will  meet  the  hearty approval 
of  that  portion  of  the  drug  trade  who 
enjoy  the  pleasure  of  his  acquaintance 
and  are  familiar  with his superior quali­
fications  for  the  position.

It  was  an  all  wise  Providence  that 
created  women  after  every  thing  else 
had  been  finished;  otherwise  she  would 
have  wanted  to  boss  the  job.

M EDICAL  BROADMINDEDNESS.
A  statement  has  been  published to  the 
effect  that  Dr.  George  B.  Fowler,  late 
President  of  the  New  York County Med­
ical  Society,  a  practitioner  of  the  allo­
pathic or  “ regular”   school,  on  the  oc­
casion  of  his  retiring  from  office,  deliv­
ered  an  address  in  which  he  declared 
that  the  code  now  permits  consultation 
with  any  legally  qualified  medical  prac­
titioner  and  that  the  high  standards  of 
medical  education  in  New  York  to-day 
are  the  results  of  this.

That  enlightened  physician 

is  re­
ported  to  have  said  further:  “ We  have 
secured  the  co-operation  of  the  societies 
of  the  regulars,  the  eclectics,  and  the 
homeopaths.  We  do  not  respect  our­
selves  and  are  not  respected  when  we 
disagree  among  ourselves. 
I  think  the 
day  is  near  when  there  will be  a general 
handshaking  and  agreement  and  I 
hope  the  day  is  coming  when  the  whole 
medical  profession  will  be  one.”

It 

is  reported,  in  addition,  that  the 
society  which  Dr.  Fowler  was  address­
ing  applauded  him  warmly,  and  com­
mittees  were  appointed  to  confer  with 
other  medical  bodies  with  a  view  of  se­
curing  closer  relations.  This  shows  a 
great  advance 
in  scientific  enlighten­
ment,  as  well  as  in  broad-minded  liber­
ality,  and  presents  a  strong  contrast 
with  what  has  been  the  traditional  be­
havior  of  the  medical  faculty  through 
many years, when all  who  did  not  adhere 
to  the  practice  of  allopathy,  no  matter 
how  fully  they  had  been  educated  in  its 
methods,  were  regarded  as  quacks  and 
charlatans.

Doubtless  the  relaxing  of  the old-time 
professional  jealousy  in  this  country  is 
owing  to  a  spirit  of  liberality  that  has 
already  shown  itself  abroad. 
It  should 
be  remembered  that  Pasteur,the  famous 
French  bacteriologist,  whose  great  work 
in  the  study  of  the  bacilli  of  hydropho­
bia,  and 
in  the  treatment  of  that  most 
terrible  disease,  has  blazed  the  way  and 
created  methods  that  have been followed 
and  adopted  in  the  study  of  many  other 
germ  diseases,  never  was  a  practicing 
physician  according  to  any  school,  nor 
did  he  evei  receive  a  complete  medical 
education,  but  was  a  chemist  and  pro­
fessor  of  biology. 
It  is  much  to  be 
doubted 
if  his  hydrophobia  treatment 
would  have  been accepted  in the  United 
States  if  it  had  not  previously  received 
the  stamp  of  European  medical  scien­
tists.

But  the  simple  fact  is  that  science  is 
as  wide  as  the  universe  and  embraces 
everything  contained  therein.  Any fact 
that throws  light  on  the  causation  of  the 
diseases  to  which  all  living  creatures 
are  subject,  and  which  assists  in  the 
discovery  of  efficient  remedies,  is  to  be 
accepted  as  soon  as  it  shall  be  proved 
of  value,  no  matter  who  may  have  first 
brought  it  to  public  attention.  What  is 
known  as  the  healing  art  is,  to  a  great 
extent, made  up  of  the  results  of  guesses 
and  experiments,  and  one  of  the  evi­
dences  of  this  is  that  supposed remedies 
are  constantly  being  tried  and  in  many 
cases  abandoned. 
In  view  of  the  fact 
that  empiricism  makes  up  so  large  a 
part  of  medical .practice,  because  there 
is  so  large  a  lack  of  accurate  knowledge 
in  regard  to  the  causes  of  disease,  and, 
consequently,  as  to  what  is  required  to 
cure  them,  the  motto  of  the  medical 
profession  should  be  the  scriptural 
in­
junction :  “ Prove  all  things,  and  hold 
fast  to  that  which 
In  the 
process  of  proving  a  vast  deal  of  toler­
ance  and  patience  is  required,  and  any 
dogmatic  assumption  of  knowledge  and 
expression  of  judgment  concerning mat'

is  good.”  

ters  which  have  not  been  properly  in­
vestigated  or  tested  are  entirely  to  be
condemned.

There  is  no  desire  that  physicians  of 
different  schools  should  unite  or  discard 
their  differences. 
Indeed,  such  a  con­
summation  would  bring  only harm.  The 
truth  is  often  brought  out  by discussion, 
and  the  differences  of  opinion  and 
methods  adopted  by  the  leaders  of  the 
various  schools  of  medicine  are  highly 
productive  of  a  most  desirable  discus­
sion.  All that can  be  asked  in  the  prem­
ises  is  that  men  who  have  been  fairly 
educated  and  who  are  plainly  not  char­
latans  and  mountebanks,  but  are  per­
sons  of  character  and  discretion,  shall 
be  treated  with  ordinary  respect,  and 
not  be  denounced,  cast  out  and  hounded 
because  they  hold  opinions  different 
from  those  of  the  self-constituted  “ reg­
ulars”   in  medical  practice.

Let  no  man’s  opinion  in  medicine  be 
set  up  as  absolute  truth  when  it  is  only 
an  opinion;  but  let the  truth  be  earnest­
ly  sought  for,  and,  when  tested  and 
found  to  be  good,  let 
it  be  accepted 
without 
regard  to  the  school  out  of 
which  it  was  evolved.

Some  people  are 

inclined  to  make 
light  of  the  conviction  of  Salsbury  cn 
the  ground  that  he  protests  his  inno­
cence.  Such  protests  should  have  no 
weight  with  thinking  people,  because 
his  word 
is  not  good  and  never  has 
been.  When  be  was  accused  of  unpro­
fessional  practices  in  connection  with 
the  Jockey  Brown  will  contest,  a  dozen 
years  ago,  he  protested  his  innocence 
until  evidence  of  his guilt was presented 
to  the  court,  when he took  refuge  behind 
that  fiendish  skirk  which  is  enough 
in 
itself  to  convict  him  of  any  crime  of 
which  he  may  be  charged  in  any  court 
it  was  announced 
in  the 
last  fall  that  he  was  implicated 
in  an­
other  water  deal  with  Omaha  men,  he 
denied  the  charge  and  protested  that  he 
did  not  know  the  men  who  claimed  to 
have  been  victimized  by  him,yet within 
twenty-four  hours  be  met  them  in  Chi­
cago  and  attempted  to  forestall  an  in­
dictment  by  returning  the  money  he 
had  deliberately stolen from  a  safety  de­
posit  box.  Any  one  who  sympathizes 
with  Salsbury 
in  the  predicament  he 
has  precipitated  by  his  own  action  is 
wasting  his  sympathy  on  one  of  the 
most  hardened  criminals  this  country 
has  ever  produced.

land.  When 

list 

Canada  has  been  quick  to  appreciate 
the  value  of  navigable  canals,  and  an­
other  waterway  will  probably  be  added 
to  the 
if  the  necessary  legislative 
authority  be  granted  by  the  Dominion 
Parliament.  The  projected  waterway 
will  connect  Lakes  Huron and Erie,  and 
will  have  a  depth  of  not  less  than  four­
teen  feet.  The  men  who  are  at  the  head 
of the  project  will  approach  Parliament 
at  its  next  session,  and  from  the  present 
temper  of  the  Canucks,  there  is  little 
doubt  but  that  the  scheme  will  be  rail­
roaded  through  and  without  opposition. 
Power will  also  be  asked  for the  right to 
build  and  operate  harbors,  wharves, 
docks  and  elevators,  to construct  works 
for the  production  of  hydraulic  or  pneu­
matic  power,  to  acquire  and  operate, 
or  otherwise, 
by  cable,  electricity, 
steamers,  barges  and  ferries, 
for  the 
purpose  of  navigation  on  inland  waters 
and  the  river  and  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence, 
to own  and  operate  ocean-going  steam­
ers,  and  to  develop  and  transmit  elec­
trical  energy.

The  best  way  to  make  a man acknowl­

edge  the  corn  is  to  stamp  on  his  toe.

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

d

*  ONE  CHRISTMAS  EVE.

Pleasant  Ending  to  an  Unhappy  Begin­

ning. 
Written for the Tradesman.

.

It  was  in  one  of  those  old  tenement 
buildings  on  one  of  New  York’s  back 
alleys,  up 
in  the  very  attic,  that  two 
small  children  stood  very  close  to  a very 
small  stove  that  had  just  room  enough 
on 
its  top  for  a  tiny  teakettle,  which 
the  little  girl  had  just  filled  and  placed 
there,  “ to  be  ready  for  Mamma’s  tea’ ’ 
when  she  should  come  home.  They 
were  lovely  children,  with  that  dainty 
something  about  them  that  told  of  the 
careful  care  of  a mother,  not  of  the  kind 
usually  found 
in  such  localities.  The 
room  was  small,  yet  neatly  furnished, 
and  everything  bore  an  air  of  refine­
ment,  from  the  artistically  draped  cur­
tains  to  the  pretty  rug  that  covered  the 
center  of  the  floor;  for the  little  Mother 
had  said,  “ I  would  rather  my  babies 
go  hungry  for  bread  sometimes  than  to 
have  them  starve  for  everything  that 
makes  life  worth  the  living.”

one  of  the  most  fashionable  avenues  of 
the  city.  Her  friends  were  of  the  Four 
Hundred.  Her  parents  had  high  hopes 
for  their-  beautiful  daughter,  so  it  was 
small  wonder that  Walter  Manning  was 
refused  with  scorn  when  he  presumed to 
ask  her  for  his  wife.  Mr.  Ray  bade  him 
cease  all  attentions  to her at once.  When 
Gwendolen  accused  her  father  of  injus­
tice  he  said  that  it  was  his  duty  to  pro­
tect  his  daughter  against such  an adven­
turer,  who  had  nothing  to  recommend 
him  but  a  handsome  face  and  fine  man­
ners.  Besides  he  had  been  told  that  he 
was  quite  too  fond  of  wine.

“ Oh,  Papa,  what  a  dear  old  Puritan 
you  are!  No  one  in  our  set  except 
yourself  considers  wine  drinking  a  dis­
sipation ;  and 
if  you  were  not  so  high 
up 
in  the  social  scale  you  would  be  os­
tracized  for  banishing  wine  from  our 
table.  As  for  Walter,  I 
like  to  watch 
him  after  he  has  taken  a  glass  or two  of 
wine.  His  face  lights  up,  his  eyes  flash 
and  he  is  so  brilliant  in  conversation."
the 

“ Beware,  my  child,”   pleaded 

So  these 

little  ones  had  books,  pic­
tures  and  toys  to  amuse  and  instruct 
them, in  place  of  playing  with  the  other 
children  on  the  street.  To  be  sure,  they 
would  sometimes  have  liked better food, 
and  there  was  not  always  enough  coal 
to  keep  them  quite  warm, yet  they  never 
really  suflered  as  their  clothing  was 
warm.

Percy  was  saying,  “ I  wonder  why our 
Papa  does  not  come  home.  Does  you 
fink  the  Pinos  have  eaten him,  Hilda?”  
“ Oh,  no,  our  Papa  was  such  a  big 
’member  him, 
man.  But  you 
can’t 
I  is  most  five 
’cause  you  is  only  free. 
’member  Papa,  Clistmas  and 
and  can 
’Sides  you  didn’t 
lots  of  uver  fings. 
'nounce  that  word 
is  Fill 
right— it 
Pinos.  And  I  don’t  guess  they  are 
very 
large  either.  They  couldn’t  hurt 
our  big  Papa. ’ ’

“ Oh,  dear!”   sighed  Percy,  “ I  do 
wish  he  would  come  home  and  bling 
one  for  our  Clistmas  dinner.”

The  delicate  face  of  the  little  maid 
grew  serious  as  she  said  in  a  hushed 
voice,  “ Percy,  I  doesn’t  know  as  I 
should  tell,but  I  is  ’fraid  there  is  some- 
fing  badder  than  the  Fill  Pinos  out 
where  our  Papa  went. 
I  heard  Mamma 
telling  God  about  it  last  night.  She 
quied  so  hard  and  asked  him  not  to  let 
the  canteen  ’stroy  Papa. 
like 
it  was  ’cause  she  always 
to  ask  what 
looks  white  when  1  ask  her  ’bout  Papa. 
Oh,  how  1  wish  he  lived  at  home  with 
us,  and  not  so  many  peoples  in  this 
house,  and  our  Mamma  agone  so  much, 
and  we  locked  in .’ ’

I  didn't 

And  as  they  looked  at each  other there 
were  tears  in  their  eyes  and  a  look  of 
anxiety  on  their  baby  faces  sad  to  see 
in  children  so  young.

Hilda 

soon  brightened  and  ex­
claimed,  “ Oh,  but  we  are  to  have  a 
Clistmas  dinner,  with  Mrs.  Smiff  and 
Flo  to  help  us  eat  it— Mamma  said  so. 
And  I  am  to  have  a  doll  and  make 
its 
fings,  so  I  will  know  how  to  sew  and 
help  Mamma."

“ Can’t  I  help,  too?”   asked  Percy. 
“ Oh,  no,  you  is  only  a  boy,  and  boys 

can’t  sew. ”

“ Can’t  boys  do  anyfing,  Hilda?”  
“ Well,  yes,  you  might  be  locked  in 
here  and  keep  the  fire  and  put  the  ket­
tle  on  to  make  tea  for  Mamma  and  me 
when  we  come  home."

“ Oh!”   sighed  the  dear  child,  and 

looked  comforted.

And  the  Mother—what  of  her? 
Gwendolen  Ray  was  the  only  child  of 
wealthy  parents,  proud  and  imperious. 
Her  home  was  a  brown  stone  front  on

gentle  Mother.

Mr.  Ray 

interrupted  her  with,  “ Do 
trouble  yourself,  wife.  Walter 

not 
Manning  shall  never  be  our  son."

Then  Gwendolen  arose  and  stood  be­
fore  her  father  and  angrily  said,  “ Wal­
ter  Manning  both  can  and  will  be  my 
husband!’ ’

“ Very  well,”  

replied  the  proud 
father,  “ in  that  case  we  shall  have 
neither  son  nor  daughter—take  your 
choice. ”

The  willful  girl 

left  her  home,  and 
that  evening  saw  her  the  wife  of  Walter 
Manning;  but  not  before  he  had  told 
her  that  he  could  not  support  her  in  the 
style 
in  which  she  had  been  accus­
tomed  to  live.  They  went  to  a  distant 
part  of  the  city,  hired  a 
flat  and 
dropped  as  completely  out  of  the  fash­
ionable  world  as 
if  they  were  buried. 
In  a  few  days  all  of  her personal belong­
ings  were 
left  at  her  door,  without  a 
single  word  from  her  parents.  She  had 
known  that  they  would  be  indignant, 
but  she  had  not  expected  this—to be 
cast  off.  The  petted  only  child,  who 
had  never  before  been  denied  anything 
—the  blow  came  near  crushing  her.  Yet 
she  was  too  much  her  father's  child  to 
supplicate,  so  she  bravely  tried  to  make 
the  best  of  her  lot,  for she  dearly  loVed 
little  Hilda 
her  husband.  And  when 
came  she  felt  almost  happy. 
It  was  not 
so  with  Walter.  He  loved  gaiety  and 
home 
life  became  tame.  As  the  years 
went  by  he  spent  more  and  more  time 
at  his  club.  He  did  not  intend  to  be 
unkind.  He  said  that  Gwenie  enjoyed 
the  children  so  much  she  did  not  miss 
him.  As  time  passed  she  saw  his  face 
flush  and  his  fine  eyes flash much oftener 
than  she  wished,  so  when  he  and  his 
boon  companions  enlisted  in  the  army 
and  they  made  him  their  captain  it  was 
with  almost  a  feeling  of  relief  that  she j 
saw  him  march  away.  Yet  love  was  not 
dead  and  the  lonely  wife  shed  tears  of 
anguish  when  she  thought  of the tempta­
tions  that 
lay  in  the  way  of  her  weak, 
yet  not  unkind  husband.  Perhaps,  in 
her  devotion  to  the  children,  she  had 
not  been  to  him  all  that  a  wife  should 
be,  and  the  thought  was  a  bitter drop  in 
her cup.

He  had  left  her  in  comfortable  cir­
cumstances,  but  almost 
immediately 
after  his  departure  a  fire  left  her  home­
less.  Her  box  of 
jewels  and  a  little 
money  were  nearly  all  that  was  saved to 
her.  Now  the  woman  within  her  as­
serted 
itself  and  she  really  prayed  for 
the  first  time  in  her  life,  humbly  asking 
guidance.  She  knew  that  the right thing

for  her  to  do  was  to  go  home;  but  she 
cried  out,  “ Not  that!  Oh,  not  that!  let 
me  work  for  my  little  ones.”   But  what 
could  she  do?  She  had  been  called  ac­
complished,  yet  knew  nothing  well 
enough  to  teach  it.

She  sought  the  humblest  employment, 
but  no  one  would  trust  her  with  the 
most  common  sewing  because  of  her 
lack  of  skill.  Of  housework  she  knew 
nothing.  She  bravely  persevered  in her 
effort  to  find  work.  Her  money  was 
soon  gone,  and  her  jewels  followed 
piece  by  piece.  At  last  her  sweet  sad 
face  attracted  the  attention  of  the  pro­
prietress  of  a  dressmaking  establish­
ment,  who  gave  her  employment  in  one 
of  the  back  rooms.  She  tried  so  hard 
to  please  that  she  was  kept  on  and  on, 
in  spite  of  her  inefficiency.  Her  want 
of  funds  had  forced  her  to  take poor and 
still  poorer 
she  had 
reached  the  little  attic  where  we  found 
her  babies.

lodgings  until 

And  this  was  the  day  before  Christ­
mas.  Thoughts  of the happy Christmases 
of  the  past  crowded  upon  her.  Oh,  how 
she  longed  for  home— the  home  she  had 
not  seen  for six  long  years!  She  had 
not  heard  from Walter since he left.  Had 
he  forsaken  her?  Her  parents  had  been 
much  in  her  thoughts  of  late.  She  felt 
that  they  still  loved  and  grieved for  her. 
Should  she  go  to them? 
It  was  such  a 
little  way.  And  did  she  not  owe  to  her 
children  this  sacrifice  of  her  pride? 
Yes,she  would  arise  and  go  to her father 
—and  that  very  night,  too—and  would 
humbly  beg  pardon.  She  hastened  home 
with  a 
lighter  heart  than  she  had  had 
for  years,  and  caught  her babies  in  her 
arms  saying,  “ Mamma's  treasures  shall 
eat  with  Grandpapa  and  Grandmamma 
they?”   asked 
to-night!”   “ Who  are 
both  children 
“ You 
shall  see,”   laughed  the  excited  Mother 
as  she  hurried  them 
into  their  wraps. 
Taking  Percy in  her arms  and  Hilda  by 
the  hand,  she  hastened  to  the  nearest 
station,  thankful  that  she  had  money 
enough  to  take  her home. 
“ Home!”  
she  repeated. 
“ How  sweet  the name.”  
But  how  slow  the  car.

in  one  breath. 

At  last  she  stood  before  the  door.  She 
stepped  before  a  window  and  looked  in. 
She  stood  as  one  spellbound.  She  saw 
her  parents, and  a  gentleman  whose  face 
she  could  not  see,  in  the  attitude  of  de­
votion.  A  feeling  of  great  humility 
swept  over  her—'“ No,  I  am  unworthy  to 
enter  here!”   She  went  around  to  the 
servants’  hall  and  asked  to  see  Mr. 
Ray.  He  came  in, 
followed  by  the 
others,  and  before  she  could  speak  three 
pairs  of  arms  were  about  her,  and  the 
cry,  “ My  wife,  my  children!”   almost 
paralyzed  her.

Explanations  followed :  Mr.  Ray  had 
kept  a  secret  watch  over  his  child.  He 
supposed  her  happy,  did  not  know  of 
Walter’s  going  away.  After  the  fire  he 
learned  that  no  lives  were  lost,  so  con­
cluded  they  had  gone  to  some  other part 
of  the  city. 
In  fact,  he  had  felt  quite 
easy  about  her,  after  learning  that  her 
husband  had  steady  employment,  until 
Walter  wildly  rushed  in  one  day  asking 
for  wife  and  children.

Army  life  had  wrought  a  great change 
in  Walter. 
Providence  threw  him  in 
contact  with  an  earnest  Christian  gen­
tleman  whose  exemplary  life  was  a  con­
stant  rebuke  to  him.  He  wrote  to  his 
wife,  but  his  letters  did  not  reach  her. 
When  his  time  of  enlistment  was  up  he 
hastened  to  find  her  if  possible.  Every 
effort  was  vain.  He  appealed  to  her 
father.  As  they  worked  together  day 
after  day,  they  had  learned  to  love  each 
other  as  father and  son.  Now  that  the

lost  was  found,  their  joy  was  complete. 
But  it  was  like  wonderland  to the  chil­
dren,  who  were  put  to  rest  as  soon  as 
their  excitement  would  permit.  Then 
what  an  evening  they  had.  Each  had 
much  to  confess,  much  to  regret;  yet 
all  agreed  that  the  sad  past  had  taught 
them  more  than  one  useful  lesson.

in  courses  but 

“ And,  Walter,  my 

It  was  a  happy  family  that  gathered 
round  that  Christmas  board.  This  time 
it  was  set  in  the  good  old  primitive 
way— not  served 
just 
loaded  down  with  good  things.  The 
children  stood  speechless,  with  clasped 
hands.  When  Percy  was  lifted  into  his 
chair  and  his  eyes  fell  upon  the  great 
turkey  which  graced  the  center  of  the 
table  he  turned  his  wondering  eyes  to 
Hilda,  saying,  “ Is  that  the  canteen? 
Did  Papa  kill  it?”   “ Bless  the  child! 
what  is  he  saying?”   exclaimed  Grand­
ma,  and  all 
laughed;  but  Papa's  and 
Mamma's  eyes  were  moist  as  they 
glanced  at  each  other.  Presently  Hilda 
exclaimed,  “ Oh,  Mamma!  what  will 
Mrs.  Smiff  do  for  her  dinner?”  
“ Sure 
enough!”   said  Mamma;  “ in  my  great 
happiness  I  bad  quite  forgotten  that  I 
had 
invited  guests  to  dine  with  me. ”  
Then  she  explained  that  Mrs.  Smith’s 
room  adjoined  hers,  that  she  kept  the 
key  when  she  was  away,  looking  in  at 
the  children  occasionally,  that  she  and 
her  young  daughter  did  shop  work,  just 
managing  to  live,  and  that  she  had  re­
solved  to  have  a 
little  treat  and  give 
them  a  better  dinner  than they otherwise 
would  have. 
little 
room  was  really  comfortably  furnished 
and  the  rent  paid  for the  coming  quar­
ter,  and  Mrs.  Smith  and  Flo  have  been 
denying  themselves  the  necessities  of 
life  to  save  money  enough  to  pay  for 
their  next  quarter.  Now,  if  I  might  put 
in  my  room,  just  as 
them 
it  is,  how 
happy 
it  would  make  them,  and  the 
money  laid  by  would  make  them  com­
fortable  for  the  winter.”  
“ You  shall 
do  it,  darling,  and  I  will  pay  the  rent 
for  a  year  besides,  as  a  thank  offering 
for  her  kindness  to  my  loved  ones. ”  
Mr.  Ray  turned  to  his  wife,  saying, 
“ Mary,  let  us  carry  out  the  spirit  of  the 
day  in  acts  of  good  will  to men. 
If  you 
say  so  I  will  order  the  sleigh  and  we 
will  all  have  a  ride. 
I  am  glad  that  we 
have  adhered  to  the  old  Puritan  way  of 
having  our  Christmas  dinner  at  high 
noon— it  will  enable  them  to  have  a 
fashionable  one.  And  I  now  will  agree 
to  furnish  a  turkey  to  each  family  in 
that  old  tenement  house,  also  a  sack  of 
flour,  and  Mother  here  will  see  that 
each  gets  a  basket  of  groceries  and 
other good  things. ”   Hilda  stood  hold­
ing  her  Father’s  hand  and  looking  up 
wistfully 
face.  He  asked, 
into  his 
is 
“ What 
it,  pet?”   “ The  children, 
“ Oh,  I  see— you  wish  to  have 
Papa.”  
a  part 
in  this.  Well,  you  and  Percy 
shall  take  a  sack  of  candy  and  a  fine toy 
to  each  child.  Will  that  do?”   A  hug 
and  a  kiss  were  her  answer.

love. 

I  can  not  picture  to  you  the  joy  of 
that  happy  family  as  they  started  out 
on  their  mission  of 
It  was  the 
children’s  first  sleighride  and  they  were 
wild  with  delight.  But  I  do  wish  that 
you  could  have  seen  the  Smiths  when 
told  that  they  were to  have  that comfort­
able,  and  to  them  elegantly  furnished, 
room  for  one  and  one-fourth  year  with­
out  payment!  When  the delivery wagons 
came  up  with  their  bountiful  gifts  for 
all,  the  donors  had  to  beat  a  hasty  re­
treat  to  keep  from  being  overwhelmed 
with  expressions  of  gratitude.  As  they 
drove  home  Mr.  Ray  said  that  he  had 
never  before  known  the  luxury of giving 
(although  he  had  been  called  a  liberal 
man);  and  they  all  agreed  that  in  the 
future  they  would  dispense  their  own 
gifts,putting love  and  good  will  into the 
act. 

Loo.

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Clothing

Fads  and  Fashions  Which  Prevail in New 

Fork.

One  sees 

in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
latest  expressions  of 
the 
exchanges 
metropolitan  preferences 
in  business 
dress.  Among  the  younger  members  of 
the  boards  extremes  sartorial  are  fre­
quently  encountered,  but,  as  a  rule,  the 
general 
impression  an  observer of  the 
fashions  receives  is  that  the  less  notice­
able  a  man's  attire  is  the  more  be  con­
forms  to  high  grade  Wall  Street  taste. 
Now  and  then,  however,  a  chappie  will 
trot  out  something  radically new  and  set 
a  pace  for  his  fellows.  Thus  a  fad  or 
fashion  gets  a  footing  for  men 
in  gen­
eral  about  town  to  follow.

I  have  seen  nothing  striking about  the 
exchanges  or  downtown  dining  clubs 
lately  of  special  value  to  the  trade.

Long  overcoats  are  the  rule.  Suits 
are  mainly  on  the  sack  order.  The  very 
dressy  fellows  who  have  not  lost  their 
figures  are  increasing  the  popularity  of 
whole  suitings  in  the  cutaway  class.

Looking  over  a  group  on  the  floors  of 
either  of  the  exchanges  mentioned,  I 
noticed  that  standing  collars  in  the  va­
rious  poke  and  tab  styles  are  numerous, 
with  a  proportionate  showing  of  big 
larger  designs  in  scarfpins. 
scarfs  and 
color 
In  the  matter  of  designs  and 
schemes 
in  "cravatings”   there 
is  no 
apparent  choice.  Grays  in  the  various 
tones,  large  effects 
in  combinations  of 
black  and  white  are  frequently  seen. 
Then, 
in  deep 
tones  of  brown  set  off  with  self  cords.

too,  are  rich  things 

As  to  shirts,  there  is  no  discounting 
the  fact  that,  among  the  elements  under 
review,the  business  shirt  par  excellence 
is  the  fancy 
in  the  printed  or  woven

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fabrics. 
In  these  goods  I  have  seen 
some  recent  examples  from  an  English 
source,  ordered  by  the  customer  of  the 
best  furnisher  in  the  banking  district. 
They  are  finely  woven  percales  in  two 
sets  of  patterns,  one  a  series  of  hair­
line  blue  stripes  on  a  white  ground,  so 
closely  set  that  the  effect  of  a  silk  gros- 
is  presented.  When  on, 
grain  weave 
the  bosom  will 
like  solid  light 
blue;  but  the  white  peeping  through, 
and  relieving  the  apparent  solidity  of 
the  blue  shade,  gives  a  result  that  is,  to 
say  the 
The 
other  patterns  are  on  the  scattered figure 
order.  These  cloths  are  being  made 
up,  the  blue  in  solid  bosom,  the  figures 
in  inch  pleats.

least,  unconventional. 

look 

They  will  have  attached  bent-point 
collars,  pretty  well  spaced  at  the  top, 
so that  the  wearer  may  not  be  jabbed  in 
the  jaws.

It 

the 

I  notice  a  very  distinct  revival  in 
pearl  and  crystal  pins  for  securing  the 
large  folds  of 
superb  English 
squares  which  have  struck  the  fancy  of 
the  town  so  pleasantly. 
is  some 
years  since  they  went  out,  and  they  are 
here  again  in  new  conceits,  so  new,  in­
deed,  that  their  predecessors  are  scarce­
ly 
recalled.  The  crystals  are  semi- 
globes  framed  with  golden  circles  en­
closing  figures  of  enameled  heads  of 
birds  and  dogs  and  other  things  sugges­
tive  of  the  field  and  fen.  The  pearls 
are  exquisitely  finished  with  tiny  dia­
mond  treatments. 
I  saw  one  of  them  at 
in  the  pearly 
a  Thanksgiving  dinner 
satin  ascot  of  a  young  guest. 
It  was 
very  neat  and  there  was  just  enough  of 
jewelry  about  the  combination  to  be 
pleasing  without  obtrusiveness.  And  by 
the  way,  this  ascot  was  a  new  thing  in 
is  for  the  nonce,  quite  the 
satin,  which 
caper  for  formal  afternoon  wear. 
is

It 

not  of  that  vulgar,  pronounced  luster, 
which  the  man  of  taste  will  turn  down, 
but  of  a  rather  delicate  sheen. 
I  no­
ticed,  at  the  affair 
in  question,  these 
satins  in  solid  tints  of  pearl,  and  pure 
white.

Apropos  of  afternoon 

functions,  1 
have  recently  seen  some  glace  French 
kid  gloves 
in  a  most  tender  shade  of 
gray.  They  are  fastened  by  a  clasp with 
a  pearl  button  top,  so  that  the  buttoned 
effect  is  presented  with  the  convenience 
of  the  clasp. 
I  mention  this  glove  as  a 
possible  compromise  between  the  or­
dinary  tan  or  gray  and  evening  glove 
for  teas  and  matinee  receptions  and 
other  formal  “ doin’s”   in  the  afternoon.
I  understand  that  these  kids  have  ob­
tained  a 
fashionable  following  in  the 
beige  and  canary  shades,  but  of  this  1 
have  seen  no  trustworthy  evidence.

To  jump 

from  the  delicate  to  the 
rough  in  bandwear,  I  may  mention  that 
the  recent  cold  snap  in  New  York  has 
had  the  effect  of  bringing  to  the  front  a 
lot  of  creature  comforts. 
I  noticed  that 
the  stylish  men  among  the  great  crowds 
which  the  big  theaters  pour  out  were 
well  content 
to  draw  on  their  cosy 
Scotch  knit  gloves,  and  the  variety  of 
grayish  shades  these  presented  was  in 
contrast  to  the  few  white  ringwoods  and 
red  or  white  leathers  worn.

Get  into  the  swirl  of  a  theater  crowd, 
pushing  for cabs,  cars  and  restaurants, 
on  a  crisp,  clear  night  in 
late  Novem­
ber,  if  you  want  to  see  the  latest  things 
in  headwear,  handwear  and  outer  gar­
is  a  mighty  dress  parade, 
ments. 
under 
facades 
aflame  with  priceless  electric  lighting. 
And  it  winds,  most  of  it,  into  the  din­
ing  halls  and  drinking  halls,  and  the 
various  resorts  where  the  dressy  men 
and  women  of  the  gay  metropolis  sit

It 
the  great 

fanfare  of 

and  eat  and  chat  and  stare  and  expect 
stares in  return.  Thus  divested  of  outer 
wraps, 
the  groups  of  diners  convey 
much  to  the  snapper-up  of  trifles  and 
serious  things  about  dress.

To  get  back  to  daylight  again,  scarfs 
of  squares  and  squares  for  scarfs  are 
piling  up 
in  the  dressy  chaps'  collec­
tions.  Some  which  have  recently  come 
my  observing  way  are  wonders  of  the 
weaver’s  art.  One  white  scheme 
is  in 
a  taffeta  ground,  set  off  with  an  irregu­
lar  heavy  corded  stripe  of  satin,  broken 
up  at  even  intervals  by  tiny  black  satin 
figures.  Another  is  a  white  matelasse, 
with  a  broken  satin  cord.  To  write  of 
all  the  new  scarfs  would  be  impossible. 
Those  1  mention  are  selected  as  being 
especially  handsome.

To  what  extent  the  fashion  of  low-cut 
shoes  will  survive  the  rigors  of  the  frost 
remains  to  be  seen.  A  young  man whom 
I  saw  recently  crossing  his  feet  in  the 
reading  room  of  a  club  showed  that 
rather  interesting  effect  in  half-hose 
in 
which  an  apparently  solid black changes 
to  a  color.  This  two-tone  knit  is  com­
mon 
is  not  sold  in  cash- 
mere.  The  underlying  colois  may  be 
blue,  green,  white,  etc.

in  silk,  but 

Low  cut  shoes  call  up  spats or gaiters. 
in 

I  see  them  occasionally  about  town 
the  tan  and  drab  shades.

The  best  thing  that  I  have  seen  in  a 
great-coat  came  down  the  speedway  the 
other  afternoon. 
its  owner. 
This  garment  was  of  heavy  Scotch

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cheviot,  the  plaid  just  large  enough  to 
be  handsome.  The  collar  was  fairly 
deep  and  closed  with  a  broad  throat- 
latch.  The  pockets  were  deep  and 
straight.  The  wrists  were  latched.  The 
horn  buttons  were  dyed  to  tone  in  with 
the  cloth.  Another  overcoat,  a  daisy, 
but  in  the  medium  length  class,  had  for 
its  fabric  a  combination  of  vicuna  and 
worsted  and  looked  like  a  blind cheviot. 
But  a  glorious  garment,  fit  only  for  a 
millionaire,  was  a  fifty-inch  unification 
of  the  softest  cheviot  in  a  faint  grayish 
tone,  lined  with  the  purest  satin.  It  was 
made  plain  straight  and  ample,  with 
vertical  pockets. 
It  was  so  easy  that 
one  got  out  of  it  perfect  warmth  with­
out  the  sense  of  weight,  and  when  off  it 
could  be  rolled  into  a  ball  like  a  piece 
of  lamb's  wbol.  Such  a  coat  is elegant, 
but  very  perishable. 
is,  as  I  have 
said,  a  rich  man’s  proposition.—Vin 
cent  Varley  in  Apparel  Gazette.

It 

Hat  B aying  Now  a  Study  of Wants.
The  advancement  made  by  the 

lead 
ing  hatters  within  the  past  three  years 
on  independent  lines  has  made  hat  buy 
ing  a  more  difficult  and  serious  matter 
Formerly  it  was  a  mere  matter  of  quan 
tity  to  supply  the  trade;  the  style  was 
set  by  one  or  two  leading  blocks  and 
little  or  no  brain  energy  or  study  en 
tered 
into  the  buying  of  a  season' 
stock.

The  evolution 

in  hat  buying  began 
several  years  ago  when  hatters,  here 
and  there,  began  ordering  numbers  and 
lines  to  be  made  with  a  changed  detai' 
to  give  the  hat  a  characteristic  tone  and 
make 
it  an  exclusive  affair.  Success 
was  the  result.

Nowadays  hat  stocks  are  more  nearly 
like  shoe  stocks  in  that  they  have  a  va 
riety  of  styles  to  select  from,  all  of 
which  fall  within  the  limits  of  the  pre 
vailing  fashion.  A  shoe  man  may  ad 
vertise  and  show  thirty  or  forty  styles 
of  shoes  each  one  of  which  will preserve 
Fashion’s  dictates,  yet  differ  some 
its  detail.

It  is  so  with  hats  in  a  lesser  degree 
The  hatter  now  pays  less  attention  to 
what  one  or  two  leading  blocks  are  go 
ing  to  be,  but  studies  the  wants  of  h' 
individual  trade  and  plans  his  purchase 
accordingly.

He  is  now  safe  in  placing  his  orders 
early  on  account  of  the marked advance 
ment  made  by  the  hat  manufacturer 
within  the 
last  three  years.  Greater 
energy  and  study  are  brought  to  bea 
by  men  who  follow  the  tendencies 
fashions  as  closely  as  the  designers 
clothing.  The  result  is  that  the  greatest 
possible  accuracy  in  forecasting  styles 
is  assured  and  the  retailer,  with  hi 
greater  independence,  can  make  out  hi 
order  early.  Thus  he  avoids  the  annoy 
ances  and 
loss  of  trade  occasioned  by 
late  deliveries.

impatient  each  day 

‘ ‘ We  formerly  waited,”   said  a  Madi 
‘ ‘ until  the  several 
son  street  hatter, 
standard  blocks  were 
issued  before 
placing  our  entire  season’s  purchase 
Early 
in  the  season  we  used  to  buy 
few  staples,  about  30  to  40  per  cent, 
our  purchase.  Then  began  a  waitii 
game,  in  which we  grew  more  and  more 
anxious  and 
last,  at  the  very  opening  of  the  season 
we 
learned  what  was  to  be  ‘ the  thing. 
Then  came  the  scramble  to  get  our  or 
ders  for  the  remainder  of  our  purchase 
into  the  factory.  Trouble  didn’t  end 
there.  Deliveries  of  a  little  bunch 
hats  now  and  then, when  we  should  have 
had  all  our  stock  on  the  shelves,  only 
served  to  aggravate  us.  Yes,  there  is 
big  difference  now. 

I  myself  know

about  what  I  want  for a  coming  season 
and  1  make  my  selections  from the  sam­
ples  of  reputable  manufacturers  with 
confidence  and  have  my  stocks  in  at  the 
opening  of  a  season. 
I  sell  hats  under 
my  own  name  and  incorporate  into  my 
purchase  just  such  individual  details  as 
know my steady trade wants.  As  a  conr 
sequence  my  stock  has  more  or  less 
character  of  its  own,  1 am doing  propor­
tionately  more  business  and  with  less 
worry  and  annoyance.”

By  these  statements  we  do  not  mean 
speak  disparagingly  of  the  retail  hat­
ter’s  intellect  in  former  seasons.  He  is 
-day  doing  business  on a broader basis 
nd  depends  more  and  more  upon  his 
own 
judgment  and  the  characteristic 
wants  of  his  individual  trade.

It  is  a  matter  of  surprise  to  note  how 
many  leading  hatters  are  to-day  selling 
their own  brands  of  hats.  They  would 
not  do  this,  could  not  safely  do  ft,  if 
they  were  as  dependent  as  they  were  in 
past  seasons  on.  a  few  blocks  which 
never  came  out  until  just  as  the  season 
pened. 

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Wanted—Men.

Napoleon  said,  “ I  have  two  hundred 
millions  in  my  coffers,  but  I  would give 
them  all  for  Marshal  Ney. ”   Napoleon 
wanted  a  man  when  he  said  that.  The 
great  cry,  since  the  world  began  is 
Give  us  a  man.”   The  scarcest  thing 
1  the  world  is  a  man—a  man  who  can 
accomplish  something,  a  man  of  force 
man  with  concentrated  energy,  a  man 
who  has  a  definite  purpose  and  knows 
how  to  fling  his  life  out  to it  with all the 
weight  of  his  being.  Such  a  man  is 
needed  in  every  calling.  This  century 
calls  loudly  for  men  of  broad and liberal 
culture.  This  is  a  very  practical  age 
theories  and  theorists  are  not 
in  de 
mand.  The  cry  is  ever  for  a  man  who 
can  produce  results,  a  man  possessing 
tact,  practical  ability,  and  executive 
force.  The  world  wants  men  who  are 
well  balanced,  and  who  are  not  cursed 
with  some 
inherent  defect  or  moral 
weakness  which  cripples  their  useful 
ness  and  neutralizes  all  their  power 
Wl}ile  specialists  are  in  demand,  there 
s  little  hope  for men  who  are  one-sided 
n  their  development,  and who have  sent 
all  the  energies  of  their  being  into  one 
narrow  twig,  so  that  all 
the  other 
branches  of  their  lives  have  withered 
and  died.  Men  who  do  not  take  half 
views  of  things—men  of  completeness, 
and  of  large  comprehensive  ability—are 
needed  everywhere.  The  world  wants 
men  of  common  sense—those  who  wi 
not  let  a  college  education  spoil  them 
for  a  practical  everyday  life. 
It  wants 
men  who  are  educated  all  over,  whose 
hands  are  deft,  whose  eyes  are  alert  and 
microscopic,  and  whose  brains  are  keen 
and  well  developed.—Success.

In  Line  W ith  Instructions.

A  commercial  traveler  well-known 

the  cycle  trade  on  both  sides  of  the  At 
lantic  adds  this  to  the collection of jokes 
on  newly-made-happy  fathers:

The  hero  Is  the  manufacturer  of  the 
wheel  which  the  narrator  sells.  Being 
compelled  to  go away  on  a  business trip 
about  the  time  an  interesting  domestic 
event  was  expected,  he 
left  orders  for 
the  nurse  to  wire  him  results  according 
to  the  following  formula :

If  a  boy:  “ Gentleman’s  safety  ar­

rived.”

If  a  girl:  “ Lady’s  safety  arrived.”  
The  father’s  state  of  mind  may  be 
imagined  when,  a  few  days 
later,  he 
received  a  telegram  containing  the  one 
word  “ Tamdem. ”

M.  W ile  &  Co

Famous  Makers  of  Clothing

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Samples  on  Request  Prepaid

W illiam  Connor

Wholesale  Ready  flade  Clothing

28-30 South  Ionia  Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich, 

has proven a great convenience to the trade  generally, as  well  as  to  myself,  my 
having opened  up  a  permanent  ready  made  clothing  establishment,  located  as 
above, and  I  respectfully announce that my entire line of spring samples is  now on 
view in one of the largest and best lighted  rooms for  display  in  Michigan. 
I  have 
every stvle, size and  pattern  in  Men’s, Youths’,  Boys’  and  Children’s Clothing, from 
the  very lowest to the highest prices, with the best of finish that is made. 
In  addi­
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of  Messrs.  Miller &  Co., Baltimore,  Md  , including Alpaca Coats,  Mohair Coats and 
Vests,  Ministers’ Coats, Drap  De Ete Coats,  Duck  Suits,  White  and  Fancy  Vests, 
Serge Suits,  Pongee Coats and Vests, Crash and  Flannel  Suits,  etc.,  etc. 
I  have 
more samples for the merchants to select from than any wholesale house in Roches­
ter,  New York, Chicago or  elsewhere.  Call  and  judge  for  yourself.  Customers 
expenses allowed.  Office hours daily 7:3® a> 
to 6  p.  m.,  except  Saturday,  then 
•30 a. m  to  1  p. m.  A great line of  Pants for all  ages  Twenty-two  years  in  the 
business. 

WILLIAM  CONNOR.

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Detroit,  Mich.

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Pants,  Shirts,  Overalls  and  Lumbermen’s 

In  charge  of Otto  Weber,  whose  office hours are from  9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 

Grand  Rapids  Office,  28  South  Ionia  Street 

Peerless

will  receive  prompt  attention.

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your
mail
orders

No.  6001. 

Plush Windsor. 
$4.50 tO  12.00 

per dozen.

Satisfaction
Guaranteed

Fresh
Goods

No.  6244.

Yacht

$2.25  to 9.00 per dozen.

W e  have  some  extra 

good values  in 

Gloves and  Mittens

$2.25,  4-50 and 9.00

per dozen.

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers

Suggestions  on  How  to Handle tbe Christ­

mas  Trade.

The  success  of  the  retailer  during  the 
holiday  season  depends  almost  wholly 
upon  the  manner  in  which  the  trade  is 
handled.  You  will  find  that  there  are 
certain  hours  in  the  day  when  the  trade 
runs  strong,  and  for  that reason  it  would 
be  well  to  arrange  to  keep  as  many 
clerks  on  the  floor  during  the  rush  hours 
of  the  day  as  possible.  Where  the  busi­
ness  is  local,  those  hours  are  generally 
from  10:30 a.  m.  to  12  m.,  from  2:30  to 
5 :oo  p.  m.  and  from  7 30  p.  m.  to 9130 
p.  m.  Where  the  customers  have  to 
make  a 
in  order  to  do  their 
shopping,  as  they  do 
large  cities 
where  most  of  the  business  is  done  by 
the  department  stores,  you  will  find that 
the  rush  hours  are  from  10 130 a.  m.  to 
1  p.  m.,  from  2 130  p.  m.  to  5 130  p.  m. 
and  from  7130  p.  m.  to 9  o’clock  in  the 
evening.

journey 

in 

In  order  to  get  the  best  work  from 
your  clerks 
it  would  be  well  to  allow 
late  mornings  every  other  day  to  each 
clerk 
in  the  shoe  store  or  department, 
and  shorten  the  lunch  hour  by  at  least 
a  half  hour. 
In  doing  this  you  are  not 
robbing  tbe  clerk  in  any  way,  and  you 
are  simply  oSering  him  an 
inducement 
to  work  a  little  harder  during  the  rush 
season.  When  you  find  a  clerk  on  the 
floor  who  is  busily  engaged  with  a  cus­
tomer  and  his  lunch  hour  is  at  hand,  it 
would  be  advisable  to  have  some  other 
clerk  change  hours  with  him,  so  as  not 
to  delay  any  one  from  returning  in  time 
to  catch  the  rush.

Many  of  the  large  department  stores 
in  the  East  furnish  suppers  to  their 
clerks,  so  as  to  keep  them  in  tbe  build­
ing.  If  they  find  there  is  an extra strong 
rush  in  the  department,  they 
immedi­
ately  send  to  the  lunchroom  and  request 
one  or  more clerks  who  have  gone  out  to 
come  down  and  assist.  While  this costs 
a  little  money,  it  is  more  than  paid  for 
by  the  assistance  received  from 
the 
clerks  who  do  not  take  tbe  allotted  time 
to  have  their  noonday  or  evening  meal.
it  would 
perhaps  be  wise  to  hire  extra  help,  or 
"contingents,”   as  they  are  called.  Now 
do not  permit  these  green  bands  to han­
dle  your  boot  trade.  Start  them  selling 
leggings,  rubbers,  rubber boots,  slippers 
and  warm  goods,  but  do  not  allow  them 
to  run  from  one  part  of  the  store  to  tbe 
other.

last  fivfe  days 

During  the 

In  the  first  place,  no  matter  how 
bright  the  assistants  may  be  they  do  not 
know  the  stock,  and 
it  will,  therefore, 
be  necessary  for  one  of  tbe  old  clerks 
to  stop  and  show  them  where  they  can 
find  whatever  they  are  searching  for. 
Again,  you  will  rarely  find  these  "ex - 
!tras”   any  too  bright;  therefore,  they are 
liable  to  lose  many  sales,  while  your 
regular  clerks  are  selling  articles  which 
could  be  disposed  of  as  well  by  the 
in­
experienced.

their  own 

Retail  merchants  and  buyers  should 
importance  during 
forget 
this  holiday  season.  They  should  get 
out  on  the  floor  and  give  tbe  clerks  a 
hand  during  the  rush  hours. 
If  you 
feel  as  though  you  do  not  care  to  sell 
shoes,  superintend  the  salesmen  and  d i­
rect  the  customers  to  where  they  can  be 
waited  on  most  readily.  By  standing 
in  the  front  of  the  store  or  department 
and  enquiring  of  each  customer  as  he 
comes  in  what  is  wanted,  you  can  not 
only  turn  a  boot  customer  over  to the 
regular  salesman  on  the  floor,  but  also 
assist  the  extras  in  their  work,  by  tell-

ing  them  where  they  can  find  certain 
articles  which  might  be  enquired  for 
from  time  to  time.  You  will  also  be 
able  to  keep  an  eye  on  the  "contin­
gents,"  and  see  that  they  do  not  allow 
customers  to  go  out  without  being 
waited  on.  It  would  be  well  to  ask  each 
customer  as  he  is  leaving  the  store  if  he 
has  secured  just  what  he  wanted.  You 
will  be  able  to  pay  the  expenses  of 
your  extra  help  by  this  means,  for,  un­
less  there 
is  a  close  watch  kept  upon 
these  clerks,  they  are  bound  to  let  many 
people  depart  without  procuring 
the 
goods  they  had desired.—Shoe  Retailer.

Word  to  Shoe  Clerks.

Do  not  forget  that  the  Christmas  holi­
days  are  at  band,  and  your  employer 
needs  your  best  assistance from  now  un­
til  the  rush  is  over.

Do  not  forget  that  you  are  paid  to  be 
in  the  store  at  a  certain  hour  each 
morning.

Do  not  make 

it  five  or  ten  minutes 
is 

later,  as  every  moment  of  your  time 
valuable  from  now  until  Christmas.

Turn  the  face  of  the  clock  to  the  wall 
and  forget  you  are  working  on  a  salary.
Do  not  forget  that  there  will  be lots  of 
dull  days  during  February  and  March, 
for  which  your  employer  will  pay  you 
full  salary.

Reciprocate  by  doing  your work faith­

fully  during  this  rush  season.

Help  each  other  and  thus  help  your­

You  can  not  work  alone  on  the  floor 

and  be  in  any  way  successful.

Your  future  in  the  shoe  business  de­
pends  upon  your  own  individual efforts.
You  can  show  yourself  to  advantage 

during  this  rush  season.

self.

two 

Medical  records  contain  many  refer­
ences  to  the  "human  ostrich,"  but  the 
latest  case,  hailing  from  the  New  Jersey 
State  Insane  Hospital, should  be  printed 
in  upper  case  letters.  The  postmortem 
examination  evolved  tbe  fact  that  the 
patient’s  stomach  contained  three  tea­
spoon  handles, 
spoons,  six  dessert 
three  tin  cup  handles, 
trouser 
buckles,  three  suspender  buckles,  two 
pieces  of  tin,  one  brass  back  of  a comb, 
twenty-six  pieces  of  glass,  twenty-eight 
stones,  a piece  of  slate  and  twenty-seven 
pieces  of  wire— in  all,  102  articles.  The 
doctors  ascribe  the  patient's  death  to 
gastritis;  to  the  ordinary 
it 
looks  rather  like  an  abortive  attempt  to 
convert  his  "innards" 
junk 
store.  But  the  scientific  fraternity  never 
seems  to  be  happy  unless  it  is  wallow­
ing  in crack-jaw terms  when  good,  plain 
Anglo-Saxon  would 
fill  tbe  bill  to  a 
nicety.

layman 

into  a 

St.  Ignace  Enterprise:  Congratula­
tions  from  Tbe  Enterprise,  especially, 
were  due  the  Michigan  Tradesman  last 
its  nineteenth  anniversary 
week  upon 
number, 
issued  Nov.  6.  When  this 
paper  was  contemplating  the  adoption 
of  magazine  form,  our  Grand  Rapids 
contemporary  furnished  us  an  admir­
able  pattern.  The  mammoth  number  of 
eighty  pages  took  us  too  long  to  read  in 
time  last  week;  the  numerous  original 
articles  upon  interesting  subjects  from 
competent  authorities  were  all  most  en­
grossing.  Every  enterprising 
retail 
dealer  in  Michigan  appears  upon  the 
Tradesman’s  subscription  list,  and those 
who  do  not  should  get  there  at  once, 
and  learn  to  be  up-to-date  like  the  rest.

shoe making has  per­
fected in the  knowledge 
of 
the  merchants’  re­
quirements.

a Century
SC.  M.  Henderson  &  Co. 

“  Western Shoe  Builders ” 

Cor.  Market  and  Quincy  Sts.,  Chicago  \

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.

Makers  of  Shoes,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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If you  have  to  do  any sizing  up  before 
the  Holidays just send  a  mail  order  to
Bradley  &  Metcalf  Co.,

Milwaukee,  Wis.

Manufacturers and  Jobbers  of Shoes  and  Rubbers

We sell  Goodyear Glove  Rubbers

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

Many and varied  are the uses  of  rubbers.  Occu­
pation  and  environment  determine  the  kind  a per­
son  wears.  And  when  you  consider  Bostons  in 
comparison  with  other makes what  impresses you 
most,  aside  from  their  dependable  appearance,  is 
their adaptability to the varied  conditions  of  out­
door walking in  all  sorts of weather.
Our  assortment of them is complete and  we 

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make  prompt shipments

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie &  Co.,

.Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

How  to  Conduct  a  Shoe  Department.
This  is  a  question  of  very  grave 

im­
portance  to the  investor  of  a  department 
store  or  retail  shoe  establishment,  and 
depends 
surrounding 
community  and  the  class  of  trade  de­
sired.

largely  on  the 

Speaking  generally,  1  think  it  wise  to 
select  the  best  man  you  can  get  as  man­
ager  and  buyer. 
In  my  opinion  the 
man  best  suited  for  the  position  is  one 
brought  up 
in  the  business  from  boy­
hood.  Having  served  in  all  branches  he 
has  gone  through  the  ups  and  downs 
with  his  employer  and,  if  he  has  the 
business  at  heart,  has  profited  from  his 
experience.

If  his  employer  has  been  successful 
he  can  pattern  after  him ;  if a  failure  be 
has  seen  and  learned  the  objectionable 
features  causing  the  loss  or  failure  and 
knows  how  to  avoid  getting  into  the 
same  old  ruts.

Allow  your  manager to  select  his  as­
sistants,  and  be  sure  he  employs  no  one 
with  a  sour  disposition,  as  that  will 
hamper  if  not  drive  away  the  trade, 
while  affable  and  genteel  salespeople 
build  it  up.  Having  a  good  manager 
and  assistants  the  manager  should  be 
sent  out  into  the  market  to  select  goods 
suitable  for  the  class  of  trade  you  de­
sire  to  reach.  He  should  labor  in  the 
store  himself  so  as  to  be  in  touch  with 
what  is  selling  and  better  know  what  to 
buy. 
If  you  desire  to  reach  the  best 
class  of  trade  have  him  purchase  the 
best 
lines  obtainable  and  have  them 
made  up  to  your  own  idea  (if  you  are  a 
thorough  shoe  man  you  ought  to  have  at 
least  a  little  originality  about  you),  so 
as  to  have  something  different  from 
your  competitor.  The  store  having  the 
most  originality  in  designs  will  capture 
this  class  of  trade.  Do  not  be  content 
to  sell  this  class  of  goods  on  a  25  per 
cent,  margin,  or  you  will  rue  the  day 
you  entered  the  shoe  business.  Styles 
are  changing  so  fast  that  there  are  too 
many  losses  on  stock  that  is  not  cleaned 
up  before  the  end  of  the  season,  and 
must  be  sold  at  a  loss.  On  the  staple 
lines,  retailing  from  $2.50  $103.50,  I 
think  35  per  cent,  a  fair  margin  of 
profit,  and  by  carefully  watching  the 
stock  so  as  not  to  be  overloaded  on 
small  sizes  and  narrow  widths,  you  will 
be  able  to  make  a  little  money.

Don’t  touch  job  lots  or  erect  any  bar­
gain  tables  in  a  high  grade department. 
The  way  I  should  use  to  dispose of dead 
stock  would  be  to  have  special  sales  on 
each  line  that  was  a  sticker,  making 
it 
appear that  I  was  overloaded  on  these 
particular  styles  and  had  cut  the  price 
in  order to  unload.  As  soon  as  my  sales 
were  over  I  should  take  the  balance, 
case  them  and  ship  to  some  auction 
bouse.  Just  as  soon  as  you  erect  bar­
in  a  bon  ton  establishment 
gain  tables 
you  give 
it  the  appearance  of  a  Cheap 
John  store  and  spoil  the  aristocratic 
effect.

Now,  if  you  are  desirous  of  reaching 
low  and  medium  priced  class  of 
the 
trade,  put 
in  a  line  of  goods  retailing 
from  $1.25  up  to  $3.50  in  ladies’  goods 
and  a  very  few  $5  goods  in  men’s  wear.

For  my  $1.25  shoe,  I  would pay  $1.
For  my  $1.50 shoe,  $1.10 to $1.15.
For  my  $2  shoe,  $1.40  to $1.50.
For  my  $2.50 shoe,  $1.60  to $1.75.
For  my  $3  shoe,  $2  to  $2.25.
For  my  $3.50 shoe,  $2.50.
My  retail  experience  has  covered  a 
period  of  eighteen  years,  managing  a 
retail  store  for ten  years,  and  while  yet 
a  young  man  (28  years)  I  have 
learned 
that  it  is  impossible  to  do  business  on

any  closer  margins  than  above  stated, 
and  come  out  on  top.

Now,  if  you  are  handling  any  good 
amount  of  low  priced  goods,  buy  up  job 
lots  and  samples  using  them  as  baits. 
If  you  are  using  the  same  lines  you  buy 
samples  of,  put  them  into  stock  and  not 
among  the  baits,  as  the  public  will  sec 
the  baits  and  if  you ask one price for the 
sample  and  another  for  the  same  thing 
out  of  stock,  you  will  not  only  lose  the 
sale  on  this  pair  of  shoes,  but  the  cus­
tomer  will  tell  bis  or  her  friends  about 
iCand  keep  them  away  thereby.

Be  sure  and  always  keep  your  staple 
lines  sized  up,  so  that  when  a  customer 
calls  for  a  certain  size,  you  will  not  be 
forced  to  say:  “ I  am  sorry,  but  we  are 
just  out  of  your  size  on  this  particular 
shoe.  We  have  something  here  fully  as 
good  or  even  better.”   Such  things  will 
give  your  place  the  appearance  of  not 
doing  much  business  or  being  behind 
the  times.

A  customer  disappointed  will go away 
telling  you  they  will  be  back  again,  but 
they  are  saying  to  themselves,  “ Well, 
old  Dull  hasn't  anything;  I  won't  go 
there  any  more  for  my  shoes. 
I  will 
just  go  over  to  Bright’s  where  you  can 
always  get  just  what  you  want.”

Have  your  stock  well  sized  and  above 
all  kept  clean.  Never  allow  any  of  your 
salespeople  to  misrepresent  anything. 
It  is  better  to  lose  a  sale  than  to  sell  a 
woman  anything for something else.  She 
will  not  only  advertise  the  fact  that  you 
misrepresented  things,  but  will 
tear 
your  entire  business  to  pieces.  It  counts 
no  matter  how  rich  or  poor  the customer 
may  be,  they  can  all 
influence  some 
trade  at  one  time  or  another,  and  you 
will  be  the  loser.

Above  all  be  honest  in  your  dealings. 
Don’t  allow  anything  to  get  into  your 
advertisements  that  is  not  the  truth. 
It 
may  appear  to  you  that  you  are  reaping 
good  big  returns  from  an  advertisement 
that  stirred  them  up,  but  you  will  find 
that  the  stir  is  not  as  durable  as  the 
steady  trade  of  the  honest  advertiser.

It  is  hard  to  get  trade  away  from  an 
establishment  that  has  built  up  its repu­
tation  upon  honesty  and  fair dealings.  1 
would  not  allow  any  one  to misrepresent 
a  thing,  because  my  personal  observa­
tion  has  taught  me  that  where  I  built 
up  a  substantial  business  by  honesty  in 
selling  and  advertising,  my  competitors 
who  did  not  see  far  enough  ahead,  mis­
led  the  people  for  a  short  time  only 
and  then  found  themselves  with  bank­
ruptcy  staring  them 
in  the  face  and 
finally  were  submerged  into  the  finan­
cial  abyss  of  failure.

I  would  have  my stock of men’s,  boys’ 
and  youths'  goods  on  one  side  of  store, 
ladies’,  misses’  and  children’s  on  the 
other  side,  with  a  space  in  the  rear  for 
rubbers,  findings,  etc.,  with  two rows  of 
cartons  to  each  shelf.

If  I  have  plenty  of  floor  space  I would 
have  the  shelving  erected 
just  high 
enough  to  reach  the  top  shelf  handily 
from  the  floor,  so  as  to  have  everything 
in  sight  and  ready  to  handle without the 
aid  of  ladders.  You  will  find  that  un­
desirable  stock  will  not  accumulate near 
as  fast  on  shelves  of  this  kind  as  those 
that 
reach  top 
shelves.

require  a 

ladder  to 

My  experience  shows  that  clerks,  as a 
rule  are  not going  to  climb  up and down 
a 
ladder  to  haul  out  something  unsal­
able  when  he  can  reach  the  new  thing 
from  the  floor,especially  on  a  busy  day, 
which  1  think  the  easiest  day  of  all  to 
work  off  something  undesirable.

Have  plenty  of  seating  capacity  and 
don’t  have  it  too  extravagant  if  you  are

after  the  low  and  medium  priced  trade. 
By  this  I  do  not  mean  that  you  are  to 
have  rusty  or  fogy  fixtures,  but  some­
thing  bright  and  snappy  to  conform 
with  the  surroundings.

Have  a  repairing  department,  as  the 
trade  like  to  have  shoes  repaired  where 
they  buy  them,  feeling  that  you  are 
looking  after  their  wants  all  around,and 
also  because  the  percentage  of  profit 
is 
a  good  one.

Avoid  single  pair  orders  as  much  as 
possible,  because  nine  times  out  of  ten 
the  customers  do  not  know  what  they 
want,  and  you  may  have  another  pair 
of  shoes  on  hand  to  sell  at  a  loss. 
If 
they  take  them  they  are  not  just  satis­
fied,  mostly  because  the  shoes  throw  a 
wrinkle  when  they  bend  the  foot  or 
something  of  that  kind. 
The  main 
points  to  observe  in  order  to  make  the 
department  pay are :  Have  a  good  man­
ager  and  buyer.  Have  good  help,  re­
quiring  them  all  to  be  honest  in  their 
transactions.  Keep  stock  clean  and  up 
to  date.

If  you  will  observe  this  and  not  try  to 
do  business  for  fun,  you  will find  a  neat 
profit  on  the  credit  side  at  the  end  of  a 
year's  business,  and  you  will  also  have 
an  established  trade  that  will  be  hard 
to  get  away  from  you,  because  the  pub­
lic  is  like  the  well  posted  shoe  buyer: 
He  has  no  use  for  any  concern  that does 
not  do  as  it  agrees  to  do  and  he  keeps 
on  buying  his  lines  from  the  house  that 
treats  him  with  honesty  and  fair  deal­
ing.—J.  F.  Hammrich in Boot  and  Shoe 
Recorder.

Stomach  Rather  Thao  Head.

Mme.  Sarah  Grand  claims  that  the 
way  to  approach  man  and  subdue  him 
is  by  the  dinner  route.  Well,  this  is 
certainly  a  better  plan  than  lecturing  at 
him  every  night.

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The  Celebrated 

“ lone”  Shoe  for  Men

Velour  and  Vici  Kid  Stock.  Re 

tails  at  $2.50.

The Western Shoe Co., Toledo, Ohio

Distributors

COLD  W E A T H E R   5 H 0 E S

We carry 36  different  kinds  of Wom­
en’s,  Misses’  and  Children’s  Warm 
Shoes and  Slippers.

Women’s  Button  or  Lace,  Warm 
Lined,  Kid  Foxed,  Felt  Top  Shoe, 
Opera Toe,  Machine  Sewed....... $1.00
Same as  above  in  Turned,  Common 
Sense..............................................$1.00

Women’s  Felt,  Fur  Trimmed,  Juliet 
....................80 cents

Write us what you  want and we will send  samples or salesman.

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

S p e c ia lty   Mouse.

Holiday  Gifts  in  Musical  Goods
Pianos,  Pianolas,  Organs,  Sheet 

Music  and  Music  Books,  Guitars, 

Mandolins,  Banjos,  Violins,  Music

I  Boxes,  Gramophones,  Grapho- 

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phones,  Accordeons,  etc.

R 
f  A  fine  line  of  Statuaries  at  moder- 

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ate  prices.

Julius  A.  J.  Friedrich,

30  and  32  Canal  St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Dry Poods

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

in  progress 

improvement  noted 

Staple  Cottons—There  has  been  a 
moderate  business 
in 
bleached  cottons  with  the  jobbing trade, 
with  some 
in  the 
orders  of  the  manufacturers,  and  prices 
show  no  change.  Wide  sheetings  are 
firm  all  along  the 
line,  and  a  quiet 
business  is  progressing.  All coarse  col­
ored  cottons  remain  practically  as 
last 
reported.  The  supply  of  most  lines  is 
very 
limited,  some  not  to  be  found  at 
all  as  is  the  case  with  denims.  Prices 
remain  firm,  and  the  general  condition 
of  these  goods 
is  first  class.  On  the 
whole,the  staple  end  of  the  cotton  goods 
market  may  be  said  to  be  in  a  very 
good  position,  and  at  present  writing 
the  weak  spots  which  have  been  a  men­
ace  for  several  weeks  have  been  prac­
tically  obliterated.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Spot  business 
in  practically  all  departments  of  prints 
and  ginghams  has  shown  rather quiet 
conditions,  but  this  has been  brought  up 
to  a  fair  condition  by  an  increase  of 
business  through  the  mails.  Enough 
has been  received  through  this  medium 
to  make  business 
in  printed  fabrics 
good,  even  if  we  can  not  call  it  actual­
ly  brisk.  "Many  of  these  orders  include 
a  good  proportion  of  both  fancies  and 
staples.  The  fancies  are  selling  on  a 
basis  of  5c  for full  standard  fancies,  as 
we  reported  last  week.  Staples are  sell­
ing  at  their  recently  reduced  prices, 
and  those 
lines  that  were  not  reduced 
are  also  finding  good  business.  This 
makes  a  peculiar situation,  but  it  must 
be  noted  that  these  goods  are  now  well 
sold  ahead,  for  the  orders  placed  dur­
ing  the  past  few  weeks  have  been  far 
ahead  of  the  production.  Percales  show 
no  change  of  importance  since  our  last 
report.  Printed  flannelettes  and 
fine 
printed 
last 
fabrics  are  steady,  as 
noted.  Ginghams  have  ruled  quiet, 
but  with  the  market  for  these  goods  as 
well-conditioned  as  it  is,business  might 
stop  entirely  for  a  little  while  without 
having  any  serious  effect.  Domets  are 
reported  dull  but  steady in  some bouses, 
but  others  say  that  a  fair  business  has 
been  in  progress.

Linings— Linings  as  a  whole  have 
been  quiet  during  the  past  week,  but 
before  the  first  of  the  year  it  is expected 
that  such  goods  as  are  used  by the cloth­
ing  trade  will  be  in  great  demand.  The 
clothiers  have  for the  most  part  started 
on  their trips,  and  the  others  will  start 
the  first  of  the  coming  week.  With  the 
receipt  of  the  first  orders  there  will  be  a 
call  for  linings  which  will  be  continu­
ous  for  some  months,  and 
if  the  new 
season  for the  clothiers  turns  out  to  be 
last,  they 
as  good  in  proportion  as  the 
will  want  immense  quantities  of 
lin­
ings.

Dress  Goods—The  dress  goods  mar­
ket  is  still  in  the  midst  of  quiet  condi­
tions  the  demand  for  heavyweights  hav­
ing  fallen  off  so  far  as  regular  lines  of 
dress  goods  are  concerned,  consequent 
to  the  extent  to  which  the  season  has 
progressed.  The  demand 
for  spring 
goods  is  of  a  modest  character,  the sales 
of the  jobber  apparently  not  having  as­
sumed  sufficient  proportions  to 
lead 
them  to  place  supplementary  orders  of 
consequence.  The  fancy  goods  manu­
facturer does  not  like  bis  present  posi­
tion,  nor does  he  feel  at  all confident re­
garding  the  future.  There  is nothing to 
indicate  any immediate improvement  in 
the  direction  of  fancy goods.  Even  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

during  the  past  fall  and  spring  seasons 
and  they  believe  now  that  business 
should  be  done  on  a  basis  that  will  give 
them  a  fair  profit. 
It  is  very, likely, 
however,  that 
jobbers  and  wholesalers 
will  make  every  effort  to  bring  prices 
down,  and  that  where  orders  can  be 
taken  for  cheap  tapestries  in  place  of 
ingrains,  they  will,  no  doubt,  be  gladly 
received.  The  public,  however,  will 
sooner  or  later  learn that  a  good  ingrain 
is  a  far  much  better  article  for  wearing 
qualities  than  a  cheap  tapestry  and  will 
place  their orders  for  the  carpet  that  is 
cheaper  to  them  in  the  end.

Rugs—There  has  been  little change in 
the  rug  manufacturing  trade  for  some 
months.  There  is  an  exceptionally  good 
demand  for  both  Smyrnas  and  wiltons 
and  the  prospects  are  good  for  a  con­
tinued  large  business.

ART
POTTERY

In  connection  with  our  Cut  Glass 
Department  we  are  showing  an 
artistic  line  of  Colored  Glassware 
and  Pottery,  including  the unique 
and  beautiful  Louwelsa  ware 
Christmas buyers should  not  over­
look this  department  when  in  our 
store.

H e r k n e r ’ s

57  Monroe  St., 
Grand  Rapids

Useful 

Xmas  Gifts

Lace curtains,  chenille  curtains, 
Moquette  rugs,  table  covers,  sus­
penders, purses, neckwear,  fascin­
ators, tarn o'shanters and toques.

Also  a nice  line  of  perfumes  to 
retail at 5c,  10c,  15c,  25c  and  50c.

P.  STEKETEE & SONS,  Wholesale Dry Goods  Grand Rapids, Mich.

PERHAPS

large  as 

Your line  of handkerchiefs is  not 
as 
it  should  be  for 
Christmas business.  Our  assort­
ment  is  unusually  good.  Prices 
range  from  25 cents  to  $4.50  per 
dozen.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

W holesale  Dry  Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

lines  of 
manufacturer  of  the  regular 
is  troubled  to  some 
plain  dress  goods 
extent.  Not  that  he  fears  that  plain 
goods  have  played  out  their  popularity, 
but  he  views  with  little  satisfaction  the 
invasion  of  the  men's  wear  mills  into 
the  women’s  wear  field.  The  extensive 
demand  for such  fabrics  as  are  suited 
to  the  separate  skirt  requirements  have 
opened  up  possibilities  for  the  men’s 
wear  mills  which  they  have  been  quick 
to  take  advantage  of.  The  demand  for 
women’s  wear  fabrics  runs  to  extremes, 
the  medium-weight  fabrics  of the  regu­
lar  dress  goods  class  suffering  in  conse­
quence.  The  popularity  of  the  thin 
fabrics  of  extremely  light  weight,  such 
as  veilings,  albatross,  silk  warps,  etc., 
has  been  accompianed  by  large  sales  of 
the  very  weighty  fabrics—heavy  cloth 
effects.  There  is  evidence  of  some  ac­
cumulation  of  plain  dress  goods  in  cer­
tain  quarters,  which  if  continued  might 
affect  the  market  unfavorably.  Lead­
ing 
lines  of  wool  and  worsted  dress 
goods  are  firmly  held.

Underwear—The  market  is  in  a  good 
healthy  condition,  for  the  present  sea­
son’s  business  is  good  with  the  retailers 
and 
jobbers  and  stocks  will  be  well  re­
duced  before  the  end,  so  that  they  will 
feel  when  the  salesmen appear next time 
that  they  can  place  good  orders.  The 
prices  for  all  cotton  underwear  and  that 
which 
considerable  cotton, 
will  very  likely  be  reduced,  on  account 
of  the  lower 
level  of  prices  for cotton 
yarns.

contains 

Hosiery— The  hosiery  end  of  the  knit 
goods  industry 
is  in  a  most  excellent 
condition.  Stocks  of  all  kinds  for the 
present  season  have  been  reduced  to 
comfortable  proportions,  so  there 
is 
really  nothing 
in  the  way  of  good  or­
ders  being  placed  for the  new  season, 
and  it  seems  very  likely  that  such  will 
be  the  case.  Stocks  of  present  season's 
goods  are  small  indeed  in  the 
jobbers’ 
and  agents’  hands  for the  most  part,  but 
here  and  there  are  to  be  found  some 
lines  that  have  been overlooked.  An  ex­
amination  usually  shows,  however,  that 
they  have  not  been  quite  in  accord,  for 
one  reason  or  another,  with  what  buy­
ers  considered  good  sellers.  For  this 
reason,  prices  have  been  unsteady,  but 
the  generally  strong,  steady  position  of 
the  general  market  has  not  been  in  any 
way  affected.  There  has  been  an  ex­
cellent  trade  in  wool  hosiery  for  the 
best,  although  prices  have  been  a  little 
unsteady.  Women's 
and  children’s 
fleeced  hosiery  has  also  been  good  for 
the  Western  States,  and 
is  steady  at 
market  prices.  Cotton  hosiery  for spring 
has  been  ordered  with considerable free­
dom,  and  the  demand  still  continues. 
Prices  are  a  fraction  below  last  year's 
quotations,  to  meet  the  lower  basis  for 
cotton  yarns.  The  present  week  has 
seen  some  falling  off  in  the  demand  for 
spot  goods,  although  the  demand  is  still 
fair.

Carpets— Philadelphia  ingrain  weav­
ers  have  experienced  a  considerable 
amount  of  trouble  by  reason  of  the  de­
cline  in  three-quarter  goods  as  made  by 
the  big  Eastern  mills,  and  it  is 
likely 
that  until  jobbers  see  the  situation  in 
its  true  light,  buying  will  be  somewhat 
affected.  With  a  decline  in  three-quar­
ter  goods,  jobbers  feel  that  a  decline 
equivalent  to  that  in  three-quarter goods 
should  be  made  in  prices  for  ingrains, 
but  ingrain  manufacturers  do not look at 
the  situation 
in  the  same  light  as  the 
jobbers. 
Ingrain  weavers  feel  that  this 
season  should  bring  them  a  fair  return 
for their  money,  as  they  experienced  a 
very  poor  and  unprofitable  business

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

laid 

thirsty  detective  stories,  in  which  boys 
delight,  is 
in  front  of  the  window 
near  the  bed.  Santa,  bearing  an  old- 
fashioned 
lantern,  enters  this  bedroom 
from  the  chimney  and  cautiously  puts 
suitable  gifts  in  the  trousers,  etc.  He 
should,  of  course,  affect  surprise  at  the 
novelty  and  size  of  the  receptacles,  and 
do  all  the  little  things  likely  to  amuse 
observers.  He  must,  too,  so  arrange 
matters  that  there  is  room  left 
in  each 
receptacle  for  the  articles  deposited  on 
each  visit.  Santa  can  manage  this  by 
slyly  taking  things  out  when  pretending 
to  put.something  in.  Again,  one  of  the 
boys  might  make  a  pretense  of gwaken- 
ing,  when  Santa,  alarmed,  can  hastily 
retreat,  thus  making  excuse  for  a  fresh 
visit.

Many  ways  of  sustaining 

in 
this  display  will  suggest  themselves  to 
the  merchant  and  his  Santa  Claus.

interest 

This  display  should  be  given  at 
night,when  Santa  is  popularly  supposed 
to  make  his  visits,  and  when  the  streets 
are  thronged  with  sightseers.

The  window  with  the  chimney-piece 
background,  can  during  the  day  be  used 
to  display  holiday  merchandise,  and 
when  it  becomes  dark  the  blind  can  be 
drawn  for  a  few  minutes  and  the  bed, 
Santa,  the  boys,  and  other  properties  for 
the  display  hustled into  position.

The  light  in  the  window  must be dim, 
being  just  bright  enough  to  allow  sight­
seers  to  easily  observe  the  proceedings.
Advertise  the  display  by  placing  in 
the  window  during  the  day  a  card  on 
which 
is  printed,  “ To-night,  7  p.  m. 
Santa  at  work.  Come  and  see  him.” — 
Apparel  Gazette.

How  to  Care  For  a  Wet Coat.

“ Let  a  coat  get  soaking  wet,”   said  a 
tailor,  “ and 
it  will  dry  more  or  less 
wrinkled  or  out  of  shape,  unless  proper 
care  is  taken  in  hanging  it  up.  This 
calls  for  a 
little  bit  of  labor,  but,  if  a 
man  has  a  limited  number  of  coats,  he 
couldn’t  spend  the  extra  time  required 
to  better  advantage.

“ The  thing  to  do  is  to  dry the  coat  in 
the  form  in  which  it  is  worn. 
It  wouid 
be  very  easy  to  do  this  if  one had a wire 
form  of  just  the  right  size  over  which he 
could  simply  button  the  wet  coat  when 
he  took  it  off,  but  a  man  may  not  want 
a  wire  skeleton  around  or  he  may  not 
have  room  to  keep  it.  So  what  he  does 
is  simply  this:

“ He  puts  the  wet  coat  on  an  ordinary 
hanger  which  he  suspends  where  there 
will  be  room  all  around  so  that  the  coat 
will  hang  clear of  everything.  Then  he 
buttons  the  coat  up  and  gets  it  into 
proper  shape  and  hang,  and  then  he 
stuffs  it  out  into  form  with  newspapers. 
The  newspaper  is  opened  out  and pages 
or  double  pages  are  crumpled  up loosely 
into  great  open  spongy  masses,  and 
with  these  the  buttoned-up coat is gently 
into  the  form  in  which  it
stuffed  out 

would  be  on  your  own  body.  Then  you 
give  it,  if  necessary,  a  final  smoothing 
to  get  it  true  and  right  everywhere  and 
then  you  leave  it  to  dry.

“ When  it  is  dry  you  will find  the  coat 
in  its  proper  original  shape,  free  from 
drawings  or  wrinklings  and  looking  all 
right  and  you  are  sure  not  to  regret  the 
little  extra  labor  bestowed  in  keeping  it 
so. ”

Saving  His  Feelings.

Edith— Forgive  me,  Bertha,  but  your 

husband  plays  the  flute  atrociously.

Bertha— I  know,  dear,  but  what  can  I 
do?  He  used  to  serenade  me  with  that 
If  1  tell  him  now  that  he  is  no 
flute. 
player  he  will  think  my  love  is  growing 
cold.

Peril  of Prosperity.

■   There  are  indications  throughout the 
country  that  the  holiday  trade  of  this 
year  will  surpass  all  records.  Papa  is 
supposed  to  be  so  prosperous  that  he 
will  have  no  disposition  to  wince  at  the 
Christmas  bills.

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

Seals,  etc.

Send  for  Catalogue  and  see  what 

we  offer.

Detroit  Rubber  Stamp  Co.

99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit, Mich.

MICA

AXLE
GREASE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

PERFECTION  OIL  IS  THE  STANDARD 

THE  WORLD  OVER

H IG H E S T   P R IC E   P A ID   F O R   E M P T Y   C A R B O N   A N D   G A S O L IN E   B A R R E L S

STANDARD  OIL  CO.

Window  Dressing

Easily  Arranged  Display Appropriate For 

Holiday  Week.

immediately 

Thanksgiving  Day,  the  gateway,  as 
it  were,  to  the  Christmas  holidays  is 
past,  and  the  retailer  is 
in  the  thick 
of  the  arduous  but  profitable  business  of 
the  weeks 
preceding 
Christmas.  He  will,  of  course,  before 
this  have  completed  all  his  plans  for 
window  and  interior  displays,  by  means 
of  which  he  may  secure  a  fair  share  of 
the  holiday  patronage.  His  store 
is 
filled  with  beautiful  and  worthy  mer­
chandise,  and  the  hard  work  of  the  bus­
iest  month  of  the  year  will  be  only  a 
pleasure  if he  can  succeed  in  converting 
that  merchandise  into  increased  capital 
to  be  expended  in  the  new  year  for  the 
furtherance  of  the  ambitious  schemes  of 
merchandising  ever  present 
the 
thoughts  of  earnest  and  up-to-date  mer­
chants.

in 

Although  the  Christmas  displays  are, 
or  should  be,  long  since  planned,  and 
are,  in  many  cases,  on  view,  an  easily 
arranged  display  might  be  found  useful 
as  a  change  during  the  last  week  of  the 
Christmas  holidays. 
If  the  merchant 
■ should  desire  to  introduce  a  flavor  of 
novelty  and  life  into  a  chimney  display 
of  this  nature  he  might  do  so  in  this 
w ay:

Arrange  a  false  back  to the  window 
so  that  there  is  room  between  the  false 
and  real  backs  for  the  movements  of  a 
living  Santa  Claus.  In  the'center of this 
false  back 
is  the  open  hearth  through 
which  Santa  makes  his  entrance  to  the 
window.  The  interior  of  the  chimney  is 
furnished  with  ledges,  so  that  he  can 
conveniently  climb  up  and  down,  and  a 
hole  is  cut  in  the  back  of  the  chimney, 
allowing  him  to  retire  to  the  space  be­
tween  the  false  and  real  backs  of  the 
window.

The  real  back  of  the  window,  if  not 
high  enough,  should  be  screened  so  as 
to  conceal  his  movements  from  observa­
tion  by  persons  in  the  store.  Much  of 
the  charm  of  these  displays  is  lost  if 
people  are  permitted  to  be  “ behind  the 
scenes,”   as  it  were.

The  window 

is  arranged  as  a  boy’s 
bedroom,  and  in  a  large  double  bed  are 
three  boys,  supposed 
to  be  asleep. 
There  will  be  no  difficulty  in  finding  a 
number  of  boys  only  too  willing  to  play 
these  exciting  parts  with  the  prospect 
of  a  pair  of  skates,  or  some  other  boy­
ish  treasure,  as  a  reward.  The  bed 
must be  placed  parallel  with  the window 
glass,so  that  the  boys  may  be  easily  ob­
served.

Hang  a  pair of  boy’s  trousers,  by  the 
back  strap,  at  the  head  of  the  bed.  The 
legs  of  the  trousers  should  be  roughly 
tied  at  the  ankles  with  coarse  string, 
buttoned and  so  arranged  as  to  look  like 
an 
invitingly  open  sack.  Fix  to  this 
pair  of  trousers  a  large  white  card  bear­
ing  the  inscription,  roughly  but  plainly 
lettered,  “ Hi,  Santa-put  mine  in  here.”  
At  the  foot  of  the  bed  is  hung  a  large 
and  not  too  immaculate  stocking  show­
ing  a  hole  or  two,  and  on  which  is 
pinned  a  card  saying,  “ Say,  Mr.  Claus, 
this  is  Jimmie’s.”   At  one  side  of  the 
mantelpiece  is  hung  a boy’s sweater tied 
at  the  neck  and  hanging  neck  down­
ward.  On  this  sweater  is  a  card  on 
which 
in  a  scraggy  type, 
“ Santa,  Merry  Christmas— I  need  a
gun.

is  printed 

The  boys’  boots  and  clothing  are 
strewn  about  the  room  in  the  usual care­
less  boyish  manner,  and  a  well  thumbed 
and  dirty  copy  of  one  of  the  blood-

i

Bigger  Box. 

Same  Price. Fftameiiite

W r 

TH E  MODERN  STO VE  POLISH
IMPROVED  QUALITY

Liquid=*= 

Best  Yet! 

Fire  Proof!

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

ENAMELINE  LIQUID >s TH E  modem  stove 
polish—a great  improvement. 
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  year.  You  should  get  in  line  for  a  BOOM 

o n -ENAMELINE.  If  you don’t like it, send  it back, as we guarantee it in  every respect.

J.  L.  PRESCOTT  &  CO.,  NEW  YORK.

16

Clerks’  Corner.

Somehow  or  Other  He  Didn’t Get Around 
to  It.
Written for the Tradesman.

The  first  thing  that  Millicent  Win­
ters  heard  after  she  had  kissed  them  all 
around  and  taken  her  things  off  was  the 
name  of  Charley  Jerrold. 
“ He  is  such 
a  handsome  young  m an,"  exclaimed 
mother  Winters,  “ and  such  a  saving, 
far-seeing  young  fellow,”   interrupted 
father  Winters;  “ and  such  a  good  boy”  
put  in  mater  familias,  determined  not 
to  be 
interrupted;  “ and  the  smartest, 
keenest,  handiest  youngster  that  ever 
clerked  for  me,  and  a  chap  that 
is 
bound  to  make  his  way  in  the  world," 
aggressively  declared  pater  familias,  as 
if  for  once  in  his  life  he  was  going  to 
have  his  say  although  the  heavens  fell.
In  the  meantime  Miss  Millicent  pro­
in  the  surroundings. 
ceeded  to  take 
“ Looks 
just  as  it  did  a  year  ago. 
Mother,  are  you  sure  you  moved  the 
chairs  and  things  when  you  swept  or 
did  you  just  wig-wag  the  broom  under 
them  and  call 
it  square?  A  dime  to 
nothing  there’ll  be  a  little  round  new 
place 
in  the  carpet  when  1  move  this 
chair.  See  that!  Just  as  I  told  you. 
The  furniture  hasn’t  been  moved  once 
or,  if  it  has  been,  you  chalked  the  place 
and  put 
it  exactly  back.  Come  on. 
Let’s  stir  things  up  and  have  a  new 
deal  and  start  in  over  again.  Here 
goes;’ ’  and  suiting  the  action  to  the 
word,  the  sofa  took  a  “ two-step"  into 
the  middle  of  the  sitting  room,  and with 
all  the  maliciousness  of  a  human  being 
bumped 
into  the  sedate  and  dignified 
center  table  with  so  much  downright 
violence  that  the  prismatic  pendants  of 
its  stately  oil  lamp  protestingly  flashed 
back  their  indignation.  The  big,  old 
haircloth  sofa  cut  off  one  corner  of  the 
big  “ spare  room,’ ’ the mahogany  center 
table  was  pushed  up  between  the  two 
front  windows,  the  big  rocker  took  its 
place  over  in  the  corner by  one  of  the 
windows  and  then  the  young  woman 
settled  down  on  it  with  one  foot  under 
her and  gave  long  rocks  of  satisfaction 
over the  immense  changes  the  last  few 
minutes  had  wrought.

“ It  does  brighten  things  up  tremend­
ously,”   admitted  the staid mother,  “ but 
I  don’t  know  just  how  Charley  will  like 
it.  You  see,  he's  got  into  the  notion  of 
coming  over  here  when  he  wants  to  and 
— well,  he  kind  o’  likes  things  fixed  so 
that  he  knows  where  to  find  ’em  and 
land  alive !  we  don’t  care.  You’ll 
like 
Charley,  Milly.  He’s  an  awful  nice 
young  man.  He— ”

“ Bring  it  right  in  here. 

It’s  easier 
for  you,  and 
it’s  easier  for  me  to  un­
pack ;’ ’  and  the  man  with  the  trunk, fol­
lowing  the  orders  of  the 
lively  maiden 
placed  the  trunk  where  the  table  bad 
stood  and  landed  a  considerable amount 
of  dirt on  the  parlor  carpet.

“ My!  My!  But  that  will  never  do.  I 
don’t  know  what  Charley  wouldn’t say. 
He’s  awful  particular. 
I  don't  know 
but  he’d  have  a  fit. ”   To  prevent  that 
catastrophe  the  good  woman  went  for 
the  dust-pan  and  carefully  removed  all 
traces  of the  drayman’s  negligence.

“ Well,  now  do  tell  us  about  yourself. 
Did  you 
leave  one  stone  upon  another 
or  is  college  and  campus  a pile of ruins? 
Hungry,  ain’t  you?”

The  mother and  daughter  were  stand­
ing  by  the  trunk  and  for  an  answer  the 
young  arms  flashed  around  the  maternal 
neck  and  the  young 
imprinted 
something  less  than  a  baker's  dozen  of 
affection-pledges upon  the  happy  mater­
Then  without  bothering
nal  mouth. 

lips 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

about  the  campus  or  such  commonplace 
matters  as  eating,  open  yawned 
the 
trunk,  and  the  wind  on  wash  day  never 
showed  more  tremendous  results  than 
that  old-fashioned  parlor  showed  in  less 
than  five  minutes.  There  were  white 
things  and  vari-colored  things  innumer­
able,  and  they  were  everywhere,  so  that 
when  a  not  unpleasant,  manly  voice 
with  a  hearty 
“ Well!  Well!”   an­
nounced  the  arrival  of  storekeeper  Win­
ter  a  blizzard  got  possession  of  the  at­
mosphere  and  out  of  the  snowiest,fleeci­
est  white  cloud  rushed  the  spirit  of  the 
storm  and  threw 
itself  upon  the  head 
and  face  of  old  Winter  so  that  he  was 
fairly  buried.

When  the  flurry  was  over  Mrs.  Win­
ter’s  “ Land  alive!”   was  heard.  “ What 
in  this  world  has  got  into  ye?  Ye  act 
more  like  fury  than  you  do  like  a  girl 
from  Vassar.  Poke  yer  hair  out  yer 
let  me  introduce  Mr.  Jerrold 
eyes  and 
is  Milly  that  I’m  always 
to  ye.  This 
talking  about 
to  ye,  Charley.  Ye 
wouldn’t  think  so,  but  she’s  quite  a 
sensible  young  woman  when  she’s  in 
her right  mind.  Coming  home  sort  of 
upsets  her!”

Mr.  Jerrold  was  equal  to  the  require­
ments  of  the  occasion  and  bowed  the 
conventional  bow  and  murmured  the 
conventional  “   ’M  delighted  to  know 
you,  Miss  Wizzwizz, ”   and  was  ready 
to  have  the  Vassar girl  that  he  had been 
dreaming  about  for the  last  six  months 
bluster  around  and straighten out things. 
On  the  contrary  she  kept  on  towards  the 
bottom  of  her  trunk— if  it  had  one— 
never  hesitating  to  throw  out  the  queer­
est  things,  without  apology  and  to  his 
astonishment  without  seeming  to  care 
whether  he  was  there  or  not.  Not  until 
Mrs.  Winter implored  them to  come  and 
have  “ suthin’  t’  eat”   was  there  any 
stay  in  the  wild  confusion,  and  not  un­
til  she  was  seated  opposite  him  at  the 
table  did  the  young  woman  give  much 
attention  to  the  young  man  “ who  ought 
to  have  known  better than  to  force  him­
self  in  where  he  wasn’t  wanted.”

She  found  him  agreeable  to  look  at 
with  all  the  presumption  she  had  ex­
pected  and,  “ sounding  him ,”   in  spite 
of  his  heralded  virtues  she  saw  'the 
“ sounding  brass  and  the  tinkling  ‘ sym­
bol’  ”   personified!  Then  the  fun  came. 
How  she 
leaned  forward  and  listened 
to  the  young  man’s  condensed  wisdom, 
“ a  heavenly  smile”   brightening  her 
face,  the  fairest  he  had  ever  hoped  to 
look  upon.

He  was  right:  a  young  woman  ought 
to  darn  stockings  and  do  plain  sewing 
as  well  as  translate  Latin  and  Greek. 
What  was  a  question  of  psychology  to 
that  far  more  important  one  of  making 
bread?  And  conic  sections  were nothing 
when  compared  with  the  ability  of  get­
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morning  before  breakfast— absolutely 
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preciate  good  darning— she  would 
let 
him  see  what  she  could  do.  He  should 
come  over  to  a  meal  sometime  and  he 
should  see  that  the  bread  his  mother 
used  to  make  would  be  a  hack  number, 
and 
if  he  would  only  try  her as  a  wash 
woman  he  never  would  want  another—a 
statement  that  made  him 
look  at  her 
with  “ goo  goo”   eyes  that  were  well 
worth  looking  at.

After  the  desirable  qualities  of  the 
housekeeper  were  taken  good  care  of 
those  of  householder  were  brought  for­
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so  funny;  for  the  young  woman  was  de­
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17

She  “ carved  him  like  a  dish  fit  for  the 
gods,”   and  when  she 
laid  down  the 
knife  he  began  to  wonder  if  he  hadn’t 
gone  too  far  and  expected  too  much.

That  was  when  the  meal  was  over; 
and  when  she  got  him  into the  parlor 
with  her  best  “ togs”   on  and  went  at 
him  from  the  Vassar  entertainment 
point  of  view,  the  conceited  donkey  be­
gan  to  be  aware,  for  the  first  time  in 
his  life,  of  the  enormous  size  of  his 
ears.  She  got  through  with  him  very 
early  in  the  evening,  and when  the  front 
gate  clicked  behind  him,  they  both said 
“ There!”   but  with  a  difference 
to 
Charley.  He  “ didn’t  want  to  go  there 
any  more,”   he  didn’t  want  any  bread; 
he  didn’t  want  his  shirt  washed,  and  he 
began  on  the  spot  to  do  his  own  darn­
ing!  She  asked  him  to  come  again  and 
he  promised  her  he  would,  but  some­
how  or  other  he  never  got  around  to 
it.
Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Increase  Tour  Earning  Capacity  While 

You  Are  Young.

1  see  a  good  many  store  boys,  grocery 
clerks,  and  book-keepers  in  the  course 
of  a  week.  Speaking  from  actual  ob­
servation,  I  have  not  seen  one 
in  a 
month  who  seemed  to  be  living  in  an 
ambition  to  get  beyond  where  he  was. 
Oh,  what  regret  these  boys  will  feel  in 
ten  or  twenty  years!

When  you  get  as  old  as  your  uncle 
and  remember  the  scores of  hours  which 
might  have  been  used  to  advance  you 
in  business,  but  which  were  used  as 
loafing  times,  or  cheap  reading  times, 
you  will  get  pretty  blue,  take  my  word 
for  it.

Every  once 

in  a  while  I  get  into  a 
several 
certain  store  which  employs 
clerks  and  a  boy. 
I  have  observed  the 
boy  a  good  deal.  He  is  a  good  type  of 
those  who  are  going  to  get  blue  in  a 
few  years.

This  fellow  devours  blood  and  thun­
der  literature  like  a  hungry man devours 
food.  Every  minute  of  leisure  he  gets 
be  uses  to  squat  down  and  open  up  his 
tattered  and  bethumbed 
little  novel, 
pouring  over  it  in  rapt  attention.

I  stood 

looking  at  this  boy  one  day 
last  week.  It was a  dull  hour in the  store 
and  he  sat  on  a  half-peck  measure  be­
hind  a  barrel  in  a  corner,his  eyes  glued 
to  the  page  of  one  of  the  cheap and fiery 
stories.  His  weazened 
little  face  was 
aglow  with  an  interest  that  it  never bore 
when  he  was  working,  and  every  limb 
and  feature  told  hew  tensely  the  cheap 
and  thrilling  fake  held  him.

Suddenly  came  the  voice  of  the  gro­

cer  from  across  the  store.

“ Jimmy,  go  down  cellar  and  bring 
up  about  five  buckets  of  granulated 
sugar  for  the  bin,”   he  called.

Jimmy’s  poor  little  face  changed  as 
one  awakens  from  a  delightful  dream  to 
find  himself  falling  out  of  bed. 
I  sup­
pose  the  mean  old  grocer  had  inter­
rupted  him 
just  as  Dare  Devil  Dicky 
was  in  the  act  of  killing  sixty-eight  In­
dians 
single-handed  with  no  other 
weapon  than  a  bent  pin.

He  listlessly  slouched  off  to  the  cel­
lar,  after  carefully  tucking  away  the  be­
loved  novel  in  his  hip  pocket.

If  that  boy  has  any  brains,  he  is  go­
ing  to  have  some  bad  quarters  of  an 
hour  when  he  gets  older  and  realizes 
how  much  he  could  have  learned  about 
the  business  while  he  was reading trash.
I  know  a  book-keeper  for  a  brokerage 
concern.  Possibly  he  gets  $9  a  week. 
He 
is  a  young  fellow,  unmarried,  and 
lives  at  home,  so  that  the  $9  a  week  al­
lows  him  to  dress  well,  go  occasionally 
to  the  theater;  in  short,  to  give  a  mild 
imitation  of  a  man  about  town.

This  fellow  is  another  good  type.  So 
far  as  I  can  discover  he  is  absolutely 
content  with  his  job.  He  knows  noth­
ing  about  the  business-  outside  of  its 
book-keeping,  for  I  have  asked  him 
questions  that  even  an  observing  office 
boy should have known,  but  he  could  not 
answer  them.

I’ll  wager  that  this  man  can  never 
hope  to  get  at  the  very  outside  over  $11 
a  week  as  book-keeper,  because  book­
keepers  at  less  than  $11  are  as  thick  as 
grains  of  sea  sand.  He  could  make 
more  on  the  street  as  a  salesman,  for 
there  is  a  good  field  there,  but  he  does 
not  feel 
like  exerting  himself  to  that 
extent.

How  fervently  will  he  wish  that  he 
had  some  d ay!  His  $9  a  week  is  all 
right  to-day—he 
is  only  a  boy,  with 
no thought  of  marrying  and  establishing 
a  home;  but  wait  a  year  or  two.  His 
friends  will  begin  to  marry around  him. 
He  will  want  to  marry  himself,  but  be 
cannot  afford  to,  for  he  will  only  be  get­
ting  about $10 a  week.  Then  will  this 
foolish  book-keeper,  as  do  hundreds  of 
others  in  the  same  leaky  boat,  begin  to 
take  stock  of  themselves.  They  will  all 
emerge  from  the  stock-taking  with  the 
uncomfortable realization  that  they  have 
wasted  their  youth ;  that  the time easiest 
to  use  for  giving  themselves  a  solid 
knowledge  of  the  business  they  threw 
carelessly  away.

This  may  seem  like  prosy  moralizing 
now,  boys;  but  you  can  gamble  that 
it 
won’t  when  you  are  thirty-five  or  forty 
years  old.  The  time  will  come  when 
your  expenses  will  begin  to  climb  up; 
when  Tommy  will  seem  to  need  a  new 
suit  every  few  minutes,  and  the  heater 
will  seem  to  burn  coal  like  an  ocean 
liner.  Then 
is  the  time  when  you  will

wish  you  had  put  yourself  in  a  position 
where  you  could  earn  more.
It’s  hard  to  increase  your  earning  ca­
pacity  when  you  have  become  settled— 
unless  you  are 
in  the  counterfeiting 
business.  The  time  to  do  it  is  when 
you  are  young,  when  you  have  the  time 
and  the  mental  receptivity.

You’ll  think  of  this  in  a  few  years, 

boys.— Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

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froth  and  foam,  making  the  operation 
necessarily  a  very  slow  and  tedious one.
This  tendency  to  foam  may  be  over­
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introduction  of  a  very 
small  quantity  of  paraffin.  On  melting 
it  forms  a  thin  oily  layer  over the  sur­
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Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­

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uce  Trades.

New  York,  Dec.  7—The 

jobbers  are 
simply  worked  to  death.  Every  order 
is  a  “ rush" one  and from  morning  until 
night— if  not  from  night  until  morning 
—there  is  a  rattle  and  bang,  a  piling  of 
packages,  boxes  and  barrels,  going  to 
almost  every  station  in the country.  And 
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a  favorable  balance.

retail  trade  every  man 

is 
humping.  The  grocery  departments  of 
the  big  stores  are  thronged  and  money 
seems  to  be  no  object.  There never  has 
been  a  holiday  equal  to  this  in  volume 
of  trade.  Let  us  hope  there  will  be  no 
different  story  to  tell  another  year!

the 

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Coffee 

is  rather  more  quiet  than  last 
week.  Advices  from  Europe  show some­
thing  of  a  decline  and  Brazil  has  been 
offering  stock  at  low  figures.  There  was 
some  slight  advance  from  that  country 
later,  but,  upon  the  whole,  the  situation 
is  not  especially  in  sellers’  favor.  Re­
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points  from  July  1  to  Dec.  4  aggregate
9,684,000  bags  against  6,400,000  bags 
during  the  same  time  last  year.  In  store 
and  afloat  the  aggregate  amounts  to 
2,369,061,  against  1,300,738  bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  Business  in  mild 
sorts  is  quiet  and  quotations  are  with­
out  change.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  9c 
and  is  steady.  East  India  sorts  sell  at 
full  quotations  and  the  demand  this 
week  has  been  rather  better than  the  av­
erage.

Refined  sugar  is  dull,  or  at  least  the 
amount  of  business  is  only  an  average 
amount  and  that,  naturally,  is  not  great 
at  this  time  of  year.  Petitions  to  Con­
gress  for  free  raw  sugars  are  being  cir­
culated.  Possibly  every  little  helps.  At 
any  rate  the  question  of  “ free  raws”  
grows  in  interest  daily.

During  the 

last  few  weeks  the  tea 
market  has  begun  to  realize  and  show 
the  effects  of  short  supplies,  of  which 
we  have  been  forewarned  for  some  time 
by  the  statistical  position.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  before  the  new  crop  comes 
in  there  will  be  much  higher  prices  rul­
ing  for teas  of  all  kinds.  There  may  be 
some  decrease 
in  activity  during  the 
holiday  season,  but  it  will  not  last.  The 
agitation  for  the  repeal  of  the  tea  tax  is 
something  of  a  disturbing  element,  for 
whether Congress  repeals  the  law  or  not 
buyers  are  not  now  loading  themselves 
up  to  be  caught  with  duty-paid  teas 
after  the  tax  is  repealed.

The  rice  market  is  steady  and  full 
Prime  to 

rates  are  being  obtained. 
choice  5@5ffic.

Pimento  is  stronger and,  in  fact,  the 
whole  spice  line  is 
looking  up.  Sales 
are  not  large  in  any  one  case,  but  they 
are  numerous. 
It  is  not  likely  there 
will  be  a  better time  to  buy  somewhat 
ahead  of  current  wants  for  some  time.

The  supply  of  molasses  is  quickly 
taken  and  the  market  is  well  sold  up. 
One 
interesting  thing  is  the  amount  of 
molasses  the  retailers  are  selling 
in 
small,  nicely-gotten-up  packages  of  tin 
and  glass. 
It  is  so  tempting  that  one 
cannot  pass  it  and  the  little  package 
must  make  a  gallon  sell  for  at  least  $1, 
thus  showing  a  good  profit.  Syrups  are 
firm  and  exporters,  as  well  as 
local 
dealers,  are  doing  a  good  business. 
Prices  for  prime  to  fancy,  20@30c.

interest 

The  last  few  days  have  shown  greatly 
in  canned  tomatoes 
increased 
and 
if  fancy  brands 
would  continue  to  go  up  indefinitely. 
Corn  is  hardly  keeping  up  with  the pro­

it  looks  now  as 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

cession  and  the  same  may  be  said  of 
salmon  but  other goods  are  all  moving 
freely  and  at  prices  which  must  cer­
tainly  be  satisfactory  to the  seller.

Dried  fruits  have  been  in  good  de­
mand  and  almost  every  article  on  the 
list  has  been  selling  freely  at quotations 
and  concessions  are  seldom  made,  if  at 
all.  Fancy  fruits  in  ornamental  pack­
ages  have  been  in  great  request  and, 
while  this  sort  of  trade 
is  short-lived, 
it  pays  well  while  it  lasts.  Some  quite 
large  transactions  have  been  reported 
from  the  raisin  trade,  a  deal  embracing 
fifteen  or  twenty  cars  being  said to  have 
changed  hands,  including  2 and 3-crown 
loose,  at  a  price  about  3#jc  and  4>£c, 
respectively. 
steady. 
Sales,  however,  are  mostly  of  small  lots. 
Domestic  dried  have  been  in  fair  re­
quest and  the  better grades of evaporated 
apples in  cartons  are  hard to find  at  any 
price.  An  average  grade  of  evaporated 
will  sell  for q%c  and  better  for  io@ iic . 
Sun-dried 
for 
fancy  sliced.

4}£@6}4c, 

Currants 

Oranges  from  California  and  Florida 
are  arriving  with  freedom  and,  while 
desirable  fruit  fetches  full  rates,  there 
is  said  to  be  a  good  share  that  will  not 
come  up  to  requirements.  California 
is  said  to  be  sending  some  that  is  too 
green  and  Floridas  are  deficient  in  this 
and  other  respects.  California  navels 
are  worth  from  $3@4,  and  Floridas, 
brights,  $2.2532.75.  Lemons  are  quiet. 
Californias  range  from $3  all  the  way up 
to $4.50  per  box.  Sicily,  $2.5033.25.

latter 

are 

the 

With 

While  the  demand  continues  good  for 
best  Western,  the  butter  supply  seems 
to  be  large  enough  to  meet  all  immedi­
ate  requirements  and  it  is  not  thought 
there  will  be  further  advance.  Quota­
last  noted,  2$}£c  for  top 
tions  are  as 
grades  and  20324c, 
to 
firsts;  Western 
imitation  creamery,  14 
@i8c  and  possibly  i8j£c for fancy stock ; 
factory,  14315c.

for  seconds 

improved  demand  and  lighter 
arrivals  there  has  been  an  advance  of 
about  yic  and  best  New York  full  cream 
io% @ nc.  Large 
small  size  are  worth 
size,  yic  less.

Eggs  have  advanced  to  a  point  that 
checks  demand  and  arrivals 
coming 
now  are  not  disposed  of  quite  so  read­
ily ;  yet  the  market  seems  to  be  closely 
cleaned  up  and  fresh  gathered  Western 
are  worth  28c;  fresh  gathered,  26c;  reg­
ular  sorts,  27325c.
Marrow  beans  are  meeting  with  ready 
sale  and  quotations  have  touched  $2.35 
for  choice.  Other  grades  are 
firmly 
former  quotations— medium, 
held  at 
choice,  $232-°5;  choice  pea, $2;  choice 
red  kidney,  $2.10.

This  is  a  tough  world  for  women  at 
best.  They  must  either  marry  or  be­
come  old  maids.

W.  C.  TOWNSEND,

Wholesale

Fruit and  Produce Commission  Merchant, 

Eggs,  Poultry,  Veal,  Etc.

References: Columbia National Bank, Dun’s and 

Brad«-treet’s Commercial Agencies.
84-86  W.  Market St., 

Buffalo, N. Y.

Elk Street Market-

Geo.  H.  Reif snider  &   Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale Dealers In

Fancy Creamery  Butter, E ggs,  Cheese

331 Greenwich Street, New York 

References :  Irving National Bank of New York 

and Michigan Tradesman.
I  NEED  YOUR

Small  shipments  of  FRESH  EGGS  for 

L. 0.  SNEDECOR,  36 Harrison St.,  N  Y. 

my retail trade.

EGO  RECEIVER

Reference—New  York  National  Exchange 

Bank, New York.

Christmas  Poultry 

Prospects

Thanksgiving  trade  demonstrated  to  us  very  clearly  that  it  is 
very  safe  to  claim  beyond  any  reasonable  doubt  that  four  kinds  of 
poultry  will  continue  at  very  satisfactory prices,  viz.,  fancy turkeys, 
ducks,  chickens  and  geese.  At  Thanksgiving  time  all  such  did 
well,  so  far  as  we  know.  The  most  unusual  small  per  cent,  of  fancy 
plainly  indicates  the  strong  probability  of  continued  inadequate 
supplies  for  Christmas  and  therefore  small  proportionate  receipts 
for  Christmas.  We  venture the  prediction,  confidently, that  dressed 
scalded  turkeys  will  sell  I2 3 I3C,  quite  possibly  14c;  chickens,  10 
@ iic ,  possibly  12c;  ducks,  12313c,  perhaps  14c;  geese,  9310c, 
possibly  lie. 
It  is  most  thankfully  true  that  Thanksgiving  usually 
cleans  up  and  exhausts  the  bulk  of  poor  poultry,  which  has  evi­
dently  been  the  case  this  season,  so  that  the  receipts  from  now  on 
should  consequently  be  greatly 
improved,  as  well  as  higher  in 
price,  thus  adding  to  the  better  prospects.

Ducks  have  been  very  scarce  and  sell  on  arrival,  mostly  at  11c 
live  and  12313c  dressed,  and  this  price should  keep  up  or  improve. 
Geese,  too,  have  done  well,  best  live  selling  at  9 3 iqc—and  10c 
mostly  dressed. 
Anyone  desiring  to  ship  us  and  not  knowing  us 
financially,  please  wire  Third  National  Bank,  Buffalo,  or  Berlin 
Heights  Bank,  Berlin  Heights,  Ohio,  at  our  expense,  thus:  “ Do 
you  consider  Batterson  &  Co.  safe  to  consign  poultry?"  Send  us 
your  bill.  A  few  shipments  will  also  settle  it.  No  bouse  suits  all 
and  never  will,  but  if  we  do  not,  we  do  not  know  a  bouse  that  will. 
Be  with  us  at  Christmas.  We  want  shippers  for  months,  as  well  as 
at  Christmas.  We  honor  conservative  drafts.  We  sell  as  quickly  as 
best.  We  account  as  soon  as  cleaned  up.  We  weigh  in  every  lot 
and  know  where  it  goes.  We  receive  by  numbers  and  do  not  get 
lots  mixed.  We  have  a  big  store  in  which  to properly display stock. 
We  do  not  pile  various  lots  together.  We  sell  every  package  on  its 
merits.  We  do  not  lump  off  poor  and  good  together,  thus  making 
the  good  sell  the  poor  and  the  good  suffer  thereby.

Wire  us  at  our  expense  if  there  is  business  in  it.  Have 

live 
here  by  Dec.  14  or  16;  dressed,  by  Dec.  19  or  20.  With  right 
flS   weather  and  quantity  of  stock  you  can  just  about  bank  on  Buffalo 
It will  not  barm  you  to  read  this  communi- 

o  Christmas  poultry. 
cation  twice.

iiV 

BATTERSON  &  CO.,

POULTRY COMMISSION MERCHANTS THIRTY-THREE YEARS,

92  Michigan  Street,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

When you are in the  market for

Oranges,  Lemons,  Cranberries,  Almeria Grapes,

Figs,  Dates,  Nuts,  Etc.

Write or wire

E   E.  HEWITT

No.  9 North  Ionia St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Geo.  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

WE  W A N T   M O RE  GOOD  P O U LTR Y   S H IP P E R S

W e  buy live  stock  every  day  in  the  week.  W R IT E   US.

Write for reference or ask Michigan Tradesman.

Eastern Market.

F.  J.  SCHAFFER  <&  CO.,  DETROIT,  MICH.

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19

Butter  and  Eggs

Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
There  is  certainly  room  for  improve­
ment  in  the  existing  methods of market­
ing  eggs  by  farmers.  The  system  of 
paying  a  uniform  price  to egg producers 
for  irregular  qualities tends to encourage 
holding  back  on  the  farms  during  cer­
tain  seasons  and  offers  no  incentive 
either  for  quick  marketing  after  the 
eggs  are  laid  or  for  the  improvement  of 
the  breeds  of  fowls.  Eggs  that  are  ac­
cepted  in  trade  by  country  storekeepers 
are  apt  to  remain  long  unmoved  to  the 
detriment  of  quality. 
It  is  evident  that 
the  creameries,  having  immediate  and 
frequent  communication  with  their  pa­
trons, are  possessed  of  all  the  machinery 
of  collection  necessary  for  a  consider­
able  egg  business.  By  starting  such  a 
business  on  a  proper basis—that  is  by 
paying  various  prices  according  to  the 
quality  of  the  stock  brought  in—there 
should  be 
inducement  for  selling  all 
production  while  fresh  in  the  territory 
covered.

Probably  many  of  our  buttermaker 
friends  will  regard  the  addition  of  an 
egg  collecting  business  to  the  plant  as 
impractical,  and  doubtless  it  would  be 
so  if  the  burden  were  to  be  placed  on 
the  shoulders  of  those  whose  time  is  al­
ready  fully  occupied  or  over-burdened 
with  their  present  duties.  But  where 
enough  could  be  done  to  make  a  separ­
ate  department,  under  competent  man­
agement,  the  scheme  is  worth  consider­
ation.  One  thing,  however,  would  be 
essential—the  establishment  of  separate 
cold  rooms;  it  would  never  do  to  use 
the  same  refrigerator  for  both  eggs  and 
butter.

*  *  *

in 
Some  time  ago  allusion  was  made 
this  column  to  the  growing  business 
in 
frozen  eggs  and  the  probability that  this 
product  would  be  likely  to  still  further 
affect  the  outlets  for  limed eggs was con­
sidered.  During  the  past  month  or more 
there  has  been  increasing  attention  to 
frozen  eggs  by  bakers’  trade,  and  the 
business  seems to  be  assuming consider­
able  proportions.  Bakers  who  have 
learned  to  use  the  goods  in  the best  way 
are  as  a  rule  well  pleased  with  them; 
they  find  it  necessary  to  thaw  them  out 
slowly  at  a  comparatively  low  tempera­
ture,  best  by 
immersing  the  cans  in 
cold  water,  and  to  thaw  out  at  once only 
what  can  be  promptly  used.  VVe  think 
that  egg  timers  will  have  to  reckon with 
this  product  more  and  more  in  the  fu­
ture  when  figuring  on  the  prospective 
outlet  for their goods;  it  is bringing into 
the 
late  fall  and  winter  markets  a  low 
cost  product  that  will  be  preferred  to 
shell  eggs  when  prices  for the  latter  are 
relatively  high.

in 

There 

is  some 

irregularity 

the 
quality  and  value  of  the  frozen  eggs 
now  being  marketed.  Sales  of  the  whole 
is,  the  whites  and  the  yolks 
eggs,  that 
together,  range  from  \o]/i 
to  nJi’c I 
per  lb.  A  large  proportion  of  the  prod­
uct  is  put  up  in  this  manner,  but  some 
lots  have  been  separated  when  cracked 
out  in  the  spring,  the  whites  and  yolks 
being  frozen  separately.  It  appears  that 
this  can  be  successfully  done  when  the 
substance  is  thoroughly  churned  before 
freezing.  Whites  separate  may  be  suc­
cessfully  used  for  icing  and  command 
n^f@ i2^c  per  lb.  in  a  wholesale  way, 
while  we  hear  of  sales  of  yolks  separate 
l l j f c   down 
at  irregular  prices  from 
to 8^@9C.

*  *  *

The  market  for  fresh  gathered  eggs 
has  now  gotten  into  a  very sensitive  po­

is  toward  some 

sition  and  we  are  almost  bound  to  have 
frequent  and  rapid  fluctuations  of value. 
The  high  prices  lately  ruling  have  cut 
down  the  demand  so  much  that  even 
very  light  receipts  will  be  ample  for all 
requirements  so  long  as  serviceable  re­
frigerators  can be  obtained.  And  as  the 
natural  tendency 
in­
crease  of  Southern  production  during 
December the  influence  of  mild  and  fa­
vorable  weather  is  likely  to  create  pres­
sure  to  sell  and weak  markets.  But there 
are  also  possibilities  of  bad  weather 
and  short  supplies  in  the  future,  and 
between  the  two  the  temper  of the  mar­
ket  will  doubtless  be  easily  affected  in 
either  direction  by  momentary 
influ­
ences.  Probably  those  who  keep  their 
goods  moving  every  day  will  make  the 
best  average 
in  the  long  run.— N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.
Great  Tear  For  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
From the New Bedford Standard.

Growers.

The  late  shipments  of  the  Cape  Cod 
cranberry  crop  are  now  going  forward, 
and  the  facts  about  the  extraordinary 
harvest  of  this  year  are  gradually  com­
ing  out. 
Frost  did  slight  damage, 
worms  failed  to  work  their  customary 
harm,  and  it  was  an  exceptionally  fa­
vorable  fall  for harvesting.

Early  fruit  sold  around  $5  to $5.50 a 
barrel,  and  the  late  fruit  that  has  been 
held  for  the  expected  Thanksgiving 
market  price  is  selling  for  $6  to  $6.50, 
but  the 
loss  in  picking  over  the  fruit 
held  for this  rise  in  most  cases  will  off­
set  the  variance  in  price,  unless  there 
should  be  a  sharp 
jump  the  present 
week,  for those  who  are  holding  on  un­
til  the  very  last  call.

There  is  scarcely  a  bog  in  the  cran­
berry  growing  center,  which  comprises 
the  swamps  of  Wareham,  Carver  and 
Rochester,  in  Plymouth  county,  that has 
not  yielded  at  least  10  per  cent,  better 
than  last  year,  while  there  are  some  that 
have  reached  35  and  40  per cent,  better.
The  Makepeace  bogs,  up in  the  Ware- 
ham  and  Carver  swamps,  that  are  the 
mammoth  bogs  of  the  cranberry  belt, 
have  yielded  crops  away  ahead  of  last 
If  a  dividend  of  40  per  cent,  is 
year. 
not  declared  after  the  returns  are  all 
in 
some  of  the  stockholders  will  be  disap­
pointed,  for  as  high  as  50 per  cent,  div­
idends  have  been  reported  probable. 
The  former  estimate  of  the  actual  cost 
of  growing  and  harvesting  the  fruit  was 
$2.50 to $3,  but  it  is  now  quoted  since 
improved  method  of  scooping  the 
the 
fruit  from  the  vines  has  come 
into 
vogue,  as  low  as  $1.75  a  barrel.

Old  swamps  that  years  ago  were 
counted  as  useless,  assessed 
in  most 
towns  at  a  rate  of  about  10 cents  an 
acre,  are  now  equal 
in  value,  for the 
most  part,  to  the  shore  fronts  that  one 
hears  so  much  discussed  now 
in  the 
lower  Plymouth  county  and  Cape  Cod 
towns.

There  will be  a large  increase  in  acre­
age,  and  in  the  Carver  territory  there  is 
one  very 
large  bog  now  in  process  of 
construction  by  Mr.  White  that  will  be 
a  rival  to  the  big  Makepeace  bog  when 
completed,  and  there  are  many  smaller 
bogs  projected.

Wholesale  Price List Pure Mich­

igan  Maple Sugar and  Syrup

Pure  Maple Sugar

1 pound cakes....................................8c a pound
5 ounce cakes, to retail at 6c...............9c a pound

Pure Maple Syrup

1 gallon cans, one-half dozen in case. .75c a gallon
% gallon cans, one dozen in case....... 80c a gallon
1-5 gallon bottles, one dozen in case. ..$2.40 a doz.
Vi pint bottles, two dozen In case......90c a dozen
Barrels............................................... 70c a gallon
These prices are f. o  b.  Grand  Rapids 

to dealers only.

We guarantee our Sugar and  Syrup  to 
be free from  adulteration  and  of  an  ex­
cellent flavor.  Orders  promptly filled.
If you want  to  buy  or  sell  choice ¡dairy 
BUTTER,  if  you  want  to  buy  or  sell 
EGGS get our prices.
STROUP  &  CARMER,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

P O U L T R Y

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?  W e  are  the  most  exclu­
sive  poultry  handlers  on  our  market.  W e  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 Agencies,  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.  W e  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

Poultry,  Eggs,  Game  and  Butter

We want  all  these  products  in  large  or  small  quantities.  We  want 
them  because we  have a demand  for them.  Our  store  is  the  best  lo­
cated  produce  house  in  Baltimore.  We  have every  facility  for  han­
dling shirments and guarantee the best prices.
References:  Merchants  National  Bank,  Baltimore;  all  Commercial 
Agencies. 
Members  National  League of Commission  Merchants.

STEVENS  BROTHERS,  226  So.  Charles  St.,  Baltimore,  Md.

Established  i860.

Jas.  D.  Ferguson  &  Co.

Produce  Commission  Merchants,  14 So Water St.,  Philadelphia

Poultry  and  Eggs

E very facility  for  handling  shipments  in  any  quantity  to  best  advan­

tage.  Prompt  account  sales  at  full  market  prices.

I  P O U L T R Y  !

If you have poultry to ship to Buffalo,  either  live  or 
dressed, let us handle it.  Some  can  do  as well,  but 
none can  do  better.  Prompt  and  honest  returns. 
Reliable  quotations.  Buffalo market  compares  fa­
vorably with all others.

R E A   &   W IT Z IG ,

Commission  Merchants  in

BUTTER,  POULTRY AND  EGGS

i

96  W.  Market St., 

Buffalo,  N. Y.

References:  Buffalo Commercial Bank, all express companies and commercial 

agencies.

20

Woman’s World

The  Hand  That  Holds  the  Pocket  Book 

Buies  the  World.

The  suggestion  of  the  London  County 
Council  to  give  each  of  their  women 
typewriters,  on  their  marriage,  a  dot 
equal  to  one  month’s  pay  for each year’s 
service  in  compensation  of  their  claims 
on  superannuation,  etc.,  has  started  an 
animated  discussion  in  England  on  the 
dowry  question.

indeed, 

the  custom 

In  France  and, 

throughout 
continental  .Europe, 
is  so 
deeply  rooted  that  few  marriages  are 
contracted  in  which  the  bride  has  not  a 
dowry,  even  among  the 
lowest  classes. 
Parents  begin  setting  aside  something 
for  her  dot  from  the  very  hour  of  a  girl 
baby’s  birth,  and  few  women  go  to 
their  husbands  empty  handed.

Anglo-Saxon  people  have  seen  fit  to 
sneer  at  this  practical  arrangement. 
Our  men,  we  say  proudly,  are  not  for­
tune  hunters.  They  marry  for  love  and 
not  for  money.  Our  girls  are  dowry 
enough 
in  themselves  and  we  are  not 
offering  dots  with  them  to  get  them  off, 
like  the  painted  plaque  that  goes  with  a 
pound  of  cheap  baking  powder.

is  a 

This 

lovely  and 

sentimental 
theory  that  does  credit  to  our  hearts,  no 
matter  how  much 
it  may  reflect  upon 
our  heads,  for  the  truth  remains  that 
marriage  has  a  practical  as  well  as  a 
romantic  side,  and  then  comes  an  hour 
when  we  find  that  love's  young  dream 
has  to  be  sustained  on  beefsteak  and 
onions.

It  is  all  very  well  to  say—and  we  all 
do  make  the  idiotic  statement  daily— 
that  nothing  but  love  should  dictate  a 
marriage.  That  is  true,  but  the  young 
couple  whose  only  asset 
is  love  are 
pretty  sure  to  go  into  the  bankrupt court 
of  affection  before  the  first  year  of  mar­
ried  life  is  over.  You  can  not  be  senti­
mental  when  you  are  being  dunned  by 
the  butcher and  baker  and  candlestick 
maker.  The  glamor  of  romance  fades 
before  shabby  clothes  and  dingy  lodg­
ings  and  mean  food,  and  when  a  hus­
band  and  wife  get  to  that  point  where 
life  is  a  perpetual  anxiety  and  self  de­
nial  to  make  the  ends  meet,  they  are 
not 
likely  to  make  pretty  speeches  to 
each  other.  They  are  more  apt  to  in­
dulge  in  home  truths.  Domestic  felicity 
is  a  fragile  vessel  at  best,  and  if  it  is 
not  kept 
in  a  well-padded  home  it  is 
mighty  liable  to  get  shattered.

It  has  been  my  lot  to  see  the  tragedy 
of  the  marriage  based  on  love,and with­
out  financial  backing,  so  often  that  I 
have  grown  skeptical  of 
its  meaning 
anything  but  disaster. 
I  have seen  doz­
ens  of  young  men,  well-born,  well-edu­
cated,  with  refined  and  cultured  tastes, 
but  who  were  making  only  a  small  sal­
ary,  fall  in  love  with  many  charming, 
but  penniless,  girls. 
In  almost  every 
case  the  ending  was  the  same.  The 
small  salary  that  enabled  the  man  to 
live 
like  a  gentleman,  and  go  in  good 
society  was  simply  starvation  for a fam­
ily.  They  had  to  live  in  a  way  that  re­
volted  his  every  taste.  The 
simple 
pleasures—the  plays, 
the  books,  the 
charming  society— had  to  be  foregone. 
The  man  grew  shabby  and  downcast 
and  discouraged. 
Inevitable  sickness 
ran  up  doctor’s  and  druggist's  bills, 
and  debts  began  to  press  upon  him.  He 
saw  the  woman  he  loved  grow  slovenly 
and  querulous,  and  then  he  asked  him­
self  if  love  was  enough,  and  the  answer 
came  back,  ‘ ‘ Not  on  your  life.”

Of  course,  there  is  here  and  there  a 
man  who  loves  a  woman  well  enough  to

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do  without  cigars  and  clubs  for  her sake 
without  repining,and  a  woman  who  can 
wear  mother hubbards  and  home  made 
millinery  and  still  feel  she  has  drawn 
the  matrimonial  prize,  but  such  couples 
are  as  rare  as  white  blackbirds,  and  no­
body  knows  beforehand  they  are  going 
to  be  that  kind  of  a  domestic fool.  Most 
of  us  who  have  been  used  to  the  decen­
cies  and  luxuries  of  life  beat  our  wings 
against  the  cage  and  wonder  what  made 
us  such  fools  as  to  get  caught  in  the 
trap.

It  is  to  prevent  such  catastrophes  that 
I  would  gladly  see  the  dowry  system  in­
troduced 
into  this  country.  Marriage 
for  money  can  bring  no  happiness,  blit 
a  marriage  without  money,except  in  the 
rarest  cases,  brings  only  misery.  Love 
can  not  thrive  on  an  empty  stomach. 
You  have  to  be  comfortable  physically 
before  you  can  be  sentimental. 
It  is 
time  we  recognized  this  palpable  fact 
and  entered  into  the  most important and 
binding  trade  of  our  lives  with  a  little 
common  sense,  instead  of  stultifying 
ourselves  with  an 
illusion  that  we  all 
know  to  be  nothing  but  a  poet's  life 
dream.

I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  riches  are 
necessary,  but  I  do  say,  with  all  the 
emphasis  that  I  can  command,  that  no 
young  couple  have  any right  to  get  mar­
ried  unless  between  them  they  have  a 
competency  to  enable  them  to  live  in 
the  way  in  which  they  have  been  accus­
tomed.  If  they  have  not,  they  will  sure­
ly  regret  the  day  when  they  tied  them­
selves  up  in  double  wretchedness. 
It  is 
all  very  well  to  talk  about  the  pleasure 
of  sacrificing  ourselves 
for  those  we 
love,  but  I  have  yet  to  see  the  person 
who  did  it  cheerfully.  There  are  a  good 
many  things  that  are  more  comfortable 
to  talk  about  than  to  do.

It  may  shatter  another  illusion,  but 
every  married  woman  knows  that  nine- 
tenths  of  the  domestic  spats  are  the  di­
rect  result  of  a  discussion  of  the  money 
It  comes with  a  shock  of  sur­
question. 
prise  to  every  man  to 
learn  that  his 
wife's  clothes  wear  out  and  that  she  has 
to  have  pin  money.  ‘ ‘ What!  $15 
for 
that  dress!  $10 
for  a  bonnet  not  six 
inches  square!  Want  more  car  fare? 
Great  heavens!  do you  think  I  am  made 
of  money?”   That  is  a  phonographic  re­
production  of  the  breakfast  table  con­
versation  in  many  a  home,  and  the  cur­
tain  goes  down  to  the  man  slamming 
the  front  door,  and  the  woman  wailing 
[she  is  ‘ ‘ go-go-going  home  to  mother.”
leaves  be­
hind  it  a  story  of 
injustice 
and  humiliation  with  a  woman,  could 
and  would  be  eliminated  if  a  girl  had 
something,  no  matter  how  small,  settled 
on  her  at  her  marriage,  so  that  she 
would  not  have  to  go  to  her  husband  as 
a  beggar  for  the  very  clothes  on  her 
back.

That  scene,  that  always 

intolerable 

It 

How  deeply  women  feel  this  matter of 
money  only  those  of  us  who  are working 
women  know. 
is  the  real  secret  of 
the  unrest  and  dissatisfaction  in  the 
home. 
I  have  had  women,  women  who 
were  the  wives  of  rich  men,  say  to  me 
times  out  of  number  that  they  envied 
me  because  I  made  my  own  living. 
‘ ‘ But  look  at  what  you  have  and  what  I 
make,”   I  would  say.  “ A h ,”   came  the 
invariable  reply,  ‘ ‘ but  it  is  your  own. 
You  do  not  have  to  ask  for  it  or  ac­
count  to  any  one  for  the  way  you  spend 
it.”

Men  do  not  know  it,  and  they  will 
probably  deny  it,  every  mother’s  son  of 
them,  but  there  is  nothing  they  respect 
so  much  in  a  woman  as  financial 
inde­
pendence.  The  hand  that  holds  the

pocket book rules  the  world,and the  wife 
who  is  the  happy  possessor of  her  own 
purse 
is  going  to  be  treated  with  the 
deference  we  all  feel  towards  the  A l­
mighty  Dollar.  The  rich  are  never 
snubbed.

An  old  story,but  one  worth  repeating, 
is  to  the  effect  that  a  young  million­
airess  once  went  to  that  wise  old  world­
ling,  Sam  Ward,  and  confessed  to  him 
that  she  was  much  in  love  with  a  cer­
tain  young  man,  but  she  feared  he  was 
desirous  of  marrying  her  for  her  for­
tune. 

‘ ‘ What  shall  1  do?”   she asked.

him,”  

“ Marry 

If  he  married  you 

responded  Ward. 
for  some­
“ A  man  always  marries 
for  your 
thing. 
beauty,  in  time  that  would  fade. 
If  he 
married  you  for  your  wit,  he  would  be 
sure  to  grow  weary  of  your  jokes,  but  if 
he  marries  you  for  your  money,  as  long 
as  you  swing  on  to  that,  you  have  got 
your  man. ”

While  not  concurring  in  that  cynical 
view  of  the  subject,  I  am  sure  that  any 
father  desiring  to*assure  his  daughter’s 
domestic  happiness  can  come  pretty 
near  doing 
it  by  settling  a  sufficient 
dowry—tied  up  good  and  fast,  so  her 
husband  can  not  get  at  it— on  her  to  in­
sure  her  financial  independence.

In  my  opinion  the  dowry  becomes  al­
most  a  matter  of  noblesse  oblige 
in 
America  because  of  the  way  in  which 
we  bring  up  our  girls. 
If  a  young 
woman  were  going  to  bring  to  her  hus­
band  simple  tastes,  thrifty  habits  and 
in  household  tasks,  she 
hands  skilled 
might  be  excused 
for  bringing  no 
money.

But  so  far  from  this,  every  American 
girl,  almost  without  exception,  is  raised 
with  the  habits of  a  millionairess  on the 
hopeful  theory  that  a  fairy  prince  will 
come  along  and  marry  her.

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He  does  not,  and  she  espouses  some 
poor  fellow  who  has  to  work  his  fingers 
to  the  bone  in  a  vain  effort  to  support 
her  extravagance.  Certainly  if  a  father 
brings  up  a  girl  with  silk  petticoat  and 
automobile  coat  tastes,  he  is  in  honesty 
bound  to  furnish  the  money  to  provide 
them.  He  has  no  right  to  shift  the 
burden  of  it  on  an  impecunious  and un­
sophisticated  youth,  who  has  no  idea  of 
the  magnitude  of  the  job  he  is  tackling 
when  he  undertakes  to 
love,  cherish 
and  support  the  modern  young  woman.
Nor  need  any  one  fear  that  the  dowry 
system  for  girls  would  turn  men  into 
fortune  hunters.  American men  are  not 
built  that  way,  and  in  this  country  rich 
girls  are  habitually  less  sought after and 
have  fewer  opportunities  to  marry  well 
than  poor  ones.  Besides,  men  think 
well  of  themselves,  and  few  are  willing 
to  sell  themselves  for  any  reasonable 
amount.

let  us 

By  all  means 

introduce  the 
dowry,  which  is  only  common  sense  and 
prudence,  into  our  matrimonial  plat­
form.  The  reason  so  many  people  have 
broken  through  that 
is  because  it  has 
been  built  entirely  on  illusions,  and  it 
needs  a  good,  strong  financial  plank  to 
strengthen  it. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Was  He  a  Liar?

It  is  surprising  sometimes  to  find  out 
how  much  people  think  of  you.  Per­
haps  because  I  am  a  modest  kind  of  a 
man  and  never  look  for nor expect much 
public  approbation  it  comes  to  me  with 
more  force  when  it  does  come.

There  was  a 

fellow  in  the  store  the 
other  day  who  wanted  to  buy  a  bed­
room  suite.  He  had  two  daughters  with 
him,  and  it  was  evident  he  had  plenty 
of  time  and  did  not  intend  to  give  up 
any  more  of  his hard earned dollars  than 
was  absolutely  necessary.

I  am  not  sure  that  it  was  because  his 
money  was  hard  earned— rather  1  think 
just  because  he  was  an  Irishman,  for  an 
out  and  out  Irishman  with  a  profile  like 
the  coast  line  of  Donegal  and  a  brogue 
like  one  of  its  own  breezes  will  work  as 
hard  to  save  a  nickel  as  he  will  to  earn 
a  dollar.

The  first  time  he  came 

in  he  was 
‘ ‘ just  looking  around'  to  see  what  was 
to  be  had.  The  second  time  he  ap­
peared  he  “ just  wanted  to  take  another 
look  at  one  suite.”   He  had  seen some­
thing  elsewhere  that  suited  him  pretty 
well.  What  did  we  say  the  price  was? 
Well,  he  would  see.”   After  repeated 
visits  to  the  two  stores  he  got  down  to 
business  and  asked  what  were  the 
low­
est  figures.  The  price  quoted  was,  of 
course  more  than  he  was  willing  to pay. 
He 
insisted  that  the  suite  he  had  been 
comparing  with  mine  was  the  same 
every  way  only  he  liked  it  a  little better 
and  he  could  buy 
it  for  a  dollar  less 
than  my  price.

The  bluff  failed  to  work  and  event­
ually  he  bought  my  suite  and  paid  my 
price  for  it.  Now,  see  how  much  he 
must  have  thought  of  me  to  buy  of  me 
a  suit  that  he  did  not  like  as  well  and 
that  cost  him  a  dollar  more!  And  he 
nearly  a  stranger  to  me,  too.

It  proves  one  of  two  things,  either  he 
was  willing  to  pay  extra  for  the  priv­
ilege  of  buying  from  a  man  of  such  fine 
personal  appearance  as  your Uncle Reu­
ben,  or  he  was  a  liar  and  I  leave 
it  to 
you  which  is  the  more  reasonable  sup­
position.— Furniture  Journal.

Steel  of  Many  Kinds.

It  is  the  popular  idea  that  steel  is  a 
hard  polished  metal  like  a  dagger or  a 
razor  and  capable  of  carrying  a  cutting 
edge,  but  there  are  steels  of  various

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iron,  and  yet 

Structural  steel, 

kinds  that  do  not  possess  the  qualities 
mentioned. 
for  ex­
ample,  such  as  beams,  girders  and 
rough-rolled  bars,  generally  has  a  much 
higher  tensile  strength,  elasticity  and 
tenacity  than 
in  physi­
cal  constitution and  external appearance 
it  differs  but  slightly  from  it.  Of  two 
bars,  one 
iron  and  the  other  steel,  put 
through  the  same  rolls  at  the  same  heat, 
not  even  an  expert  could  distinguish 
one  from  the  other  if  they  were  laid 
side  by  side.  Moreover,  careful  analysis 
fails  to  discover  the  line  of  actual  de­
parture  between  steel  and 
iron  in  the 
lower  grades  of  each  metal,or  where  the 
metal  commences  to  be  steel,  so  to 
speak,  and  stops  being  iron.

But  as  between  the  two  metals,  iron 
and  steel,  there  is  a  vast  difference 
in 
their  endurance  and  ability  to  stand  se­
vere  work  and  modern  engineers  have 
a  very  good  advantage  over  their  pred­
ecessors  of  a  half  century  ago  in  the 
possession  of  it. 
In  the  modern  open- 
hearth  and  other  process  steels  the 
amount  of  fatigue  or  continuous  resist­
ance  to  crucial  strains  of  long  duration 
which  they  will  endure  is  simply  aston­
laboratory  or  test  machine 
ishing—not 
strains,  but 
the  downright  pounding 
and  flogging  of  daily  work,  which  is  far 
more  serious  than  any  testing  machine 
can deliver.  This  last  sets  up  a  certain 
stress 
in  a  straight  line,  gradually  in­
creasing  up  to  failure  under  i t ;  but  the 
duty  imposed  upon  steel, by  daily  work 
in  a  high-speed  engine,  for  example,  is 
not  only  to  resist  tensile  strains,  but 
torsional  and  traverse  burdens  at  one 
and  the  same  time.

A  Cincinnati  electrician  says  that  he 
can  make  porterhouse  steaks  out  of  sole 
leather.  He  will  have  to  add  the  proper 
bone  if  he  intends  to  impress  anybody 
with  the  fact  that  it  really  is  porter­
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____Poultry

Peculiarities  Pertaining  to  the  Handling 

of Poultry.

“ Ducks  and  geese  are  usually  bought 
by  shippers  by  the  pair,’ ’  remarked  a 
live  poultry  receiver,  “ but  I  have  some 
shippers  who  buy  them  by  the  pound. 
Considering  the  wide  range  in  quality 
1  should  think  all  shippers  would  buy 
them  by  the  pound.  Much  of  the  stock 
arriving 
is  small  and  poor  and  worth 
very  much  less  than  fine  heavy  ducks 
and  geese,  and  I  think  to  get  at  the 
actual  value  they  should  be  bought  by 
the  pound. 
In  fact the  shippers  buying 
that  way  seem  to  get  better  results.’ ’

*  

*  

*

*  

*  

is 

evidently  used  ordinary 

“  I  think  that  shipper  must  be  send­
ing  his  poultry  to  market  for  fun  or  to 
get  rid  of  it ,"   said  a  live  poultry  re­
ceiver,  pointing  to  a  coop  of turkeys. 
“ He 
fowl 
coops  instead  of  the  larger turkey  coops 
and  the.  turkeys  are  so  weak  they  can 
not  stand  up  straight.  Two  or three 
died  during  the  trip  and  1  doubt  if  the 
balance  bring  much.  The  loss  on  them 
will  certainly  be  several  times  what 
new  coops  would  have  cost. 
I  have  no 
larger coops  to  put  them  in  and  the  first 
man  that  comes  along  with  a  decent 
offer gets  them  because  the  Inspector of 
the  Society  of  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
likely  to  show  up  at  any 
Animals 
minute  and  then  I  am  good 
for  a  ten 
dollar  fine— possibly  more—besides a lot 
of  trouble.  So  you  see  I  will  sell  pretty 
cheap  for  I  don’t  think  the  shipper 
should  get  anything  for  them."  Closer 
inspection  showed  the  feathers  off  of the 
backs  of  the  tallest  birds  and  they 
looked  very  uninviting.
*
“ Some  shippers  put 

limits  on  their 
Thanksgiving  poultry, ”  said a  receiver. 
“  I  think  this  is  one  of  the  worst  evils 
we  have,”   he  continued. 
“ Of  course 
where  we  pay  draft  on  the  poultry  we 
use  our  own 
judgment,  as  the  courts 
have  decided  the  poultry  is  ours  as  soon 
as  we  pay  the  draft.  But  shippers  do 
not  always  draw  on  the  poultry,  and  or­
der  us  to  hold  if  we  can  not  get  a  cer­
tain  price.  Now  we  commission  re­
ceivers  get  advices  from  all  over  the 
country  and  being  in  close  touch  with 
buyers  and  receivers  here  we  are  in  a 
much  better  position  to  understand  the 
situation  than  the  shipper.  Consequent­
ly  we  can  do  better  for  him  if  he  allows 
us  to  use  our own  judgment  as  regards 
selling  or  holding. 
It  is  certainly  very 
unsatisfactory  to  hold  stock  when  we 
know  the  market  will  be  lower  in  a  day 
or two,  and  yet  we  can  not  do  otherwise 
as  the  shipper  is  liable  to order it turned 
over  to  somebody  else  and  then  we 
would  be  in  a  hole  if  we had  sold  it  and 
more  than  likely  the  shipper  would  go 
to  law  and  try  and  collect  the  difference 
from  what  we  sold  it  for and the amount 
it  was  ordered  held  for. 
In  some  cases 
the  stock  is  ordered  put  in  freezer where 
we  can  not  get  the  limit,  but  the  cost of 
storage,  insurance,  cartage and  other  ex­
penses  usually  make  a  loss  to  the  ship­
per,  as  the  poultry  is  apt  to  deteriorate 
by  holding  and  it  is  pretty  risky  busi­
ness  to  store,  especially  when  the  stock 
is  not  in  perfect  condition.”

*  

*  
“ I  doubt  if  the 

*
large  retailers  will 
buy  much  poultry  direct  from  the  West 
this  year,”   remarked  a  close  observer 
of  the  poultry  market. 
“ They  have 
been  buying  considerable  stock  direct 
during  the  past  two  or three  years  and 
particularly  for the  Christmas  trade,  but 
it  generally  costs  them  as  much  or  more

than  they  would  have  paid  on  the  mar­
ket  here  and  1  guess  they  realize  that 
there  is  nothing  to  be gained  by  buying 
in  Chicago  or  other  Western  markets. 
The  wholesale  poultry  merchants  would 
all  turn  speculators  if  they  could  make 
money  this  way  and  I  guess  they  know 
as  much  about  the  business  as  the  retail 
dealers. ”

*  

*  

*

“ I  have  some  very  fine  stock”   said  a 
receiver  who  seemed  to  have  a  full 
house  of  poultry. 
“ But  some  of  my 
shippers  paid  too  much  money  for their 
holiday  poultry,  and  while  I  expect  to 
get  enough  to save  them  from  a 
loss, 
the  margin  of  profit  is  too  small  entire­
ly.  Many  of  these  shippers  think  they 
must  pay  high  prices  owing  to  competi­
tion,  and  they  can  not  seem  to  realize 
that  it  is  better to  handle  a  little  poul­
try  and  make  a  profit  than  a large  quan­
tity  and  only  come  out  even  or  make  a 
loss. ’ ’

*  *  *

“ It is  getting  so  cold  and wintry  now, 
especially  in  many  of the  shipping  sec­
tions  that  much  of  the  iced  poultry  is 
not  carrying  well,”   said  a  poultry  re­
ceiver  the  other  day. 
“ You  see  the  ice 
does  not  melt  well  when  it  is  so  cold 
and  when  it  stays  solid  on  the  top of the 
barrel  the  poultry  in  the  lower  part  and 
especially 
in  the  center  of  the  barrel 
gets  heated  and  sometimes  spoil.  When 
poultry  is  shipped  iced,  weather  should 
be  warm  enough  to  gradually  melt  the 
ice  and  allow  the  cold  water  to  drain 
through the  poultry  to  the  bottom,  there­
by  keeping  the  poultry  cold  and  in good 
condition.  On  the  other hand  if  stock 
is  shipped  dry-packed  before  weather  is 
cold 
in  transit,  and  so 
much  dry-packed  stock  has  been  ruined 
early  in  the  season  that  this  year  ship­
pers  are  rather  slow 
in  changing  from 
iced  to  dry-packed.”
*  

it  will  spoil 

*  

*

light 

“ My  receipts  ran  pretty 

for 
Thanksgiving,”   said  a  receiver. 
“ But 
I  see  the  published  arrivals  show  a 
shortage  of  several  thousand  packages 
as  compared  to  last  year,  and  I  presume 
we  all  had  a  little  less  stock.  Taken  al­
together  it  was  a  pretty  good  market, 
but  prices  ruled 
low  considering  the 
moderate  supply.  Most  of  my  stock  was 
too  thin  to try  and  strain  high  prices, 
and  some  stock  did  not  have  the  animal 
beat  out  and  was  not  in  perfect  condi­
tion  in  consequence. 
I  think  this  stock 
was  hurried  too  much  in  the  dressing.”
Other  receivers  expressed  the  same 
views  and  one  said :  “ There  has  been 
a  great  deal  of  stock  in  too  late  for  the 
holiday  trade  this  year,  and  I  have  been 
receiving  stock  ever  since  Thanksgiv­
ing  which  was  intended  to  be  here,  but 
in  transit  and  has 
which  was  delayed 
been  straggling 
in,  not  only  after the 
holiday  trade  was  over  but  after the 
holiday  had  passed.” '— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.

Sure  Cure  For  Dyspepsia.

According  to  William  Bybee,  of 
Jacksonville,  sand  is  an  infallible  rem­
edy  for  dyspepsia.  He  had  been  a 
great  sufferer  from  dyspepsia  for  years, 
and  his  body  was  paralyzed  below  the 
breast,  when  a  friend 
recommended 
sand.  He  began  taking  a  teaspoonful 
every  night  and  kept  it  up  until  quite 
well.  He  uses  common  river  bottom 
sand,  and  washes  it  several  times  to 
remove  all  dirt  and  vegetable  matter, 
then  drys 
it  in  an  oven.  He  says  be 
has  recommended  it  to  hundreds  of  per­
sons,  and  where  the  prescription  was 
faithfully  followed  they  always  recov­
ered.

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M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

H OLID AY  DINNERS.

Baskets  Which  Present  an  Attractive and 

Appetizing  Appearance.

Retail  merchants  frequently  pick  up 
ideas  from  watching  the  methods  of  de­
partment  stores  or  other  large  dealers 
that  they  find  will  readily  adapt  them­
selves  to  their  business.  The  depart­
ment  store  manager  has  in  his  employ 
some  dozen  or  fifteen  heads  of  depart­
ments  whose  business it is  to evolve  new 
ideas 
increasing  and  obtaining 
trade,  and  who  must necessarily be orig­
inal  thinkers  or  they  can  not  hold  their 
positions  for  a  very  long  period.

for 

They  are  paid  for  their  thinking  ca­
pacity  as  well  as  for  the  time  which 
they  put  in  buying  goods  and  selling 
them,  and  the  competition  for  positions 
as  department  managers  is  so great  that 
they  bend  themselves  to  the  task  before 
them  with  great  energy  and  are  able  to 
bring  out  many  new  ideas  in  the  course 
of  a  year's  business.  These  twelve  or 
fifteen  trained  business  men  are special­
ists  in  the  line  of  goods  under  their  di­
rection,  and  it  is  very  evident  that  they 
can  conceive .ideas  which  are  practical 
and  have  considerable  utility.  And 
through  contact  with  system  in  business 
they  are 
in  a  better  position  to give 
deep  thought  to  these  matters  than  the 
average  retailer  who  has  several  hun­
dred  different  things  to  attend  to,  his 
own  book-keeping,  bis  buying,  his  store 
management,  his  credits,  his  advertis­
ing,  his  selling,  his  clerk  hire,  and 
numerous  other  matters  which  demand 
bis  attention.

An  idea  which  has  been  tried  by  one 
leading  Chicago  department  store  for 
two  or  three  holiday  seasons  past,  it  is 
believed,  is  worthy  of  the  consideration 
of  the  retail  grocer  and  butcher or  food 
vendor.  This  department  store  a  week 
before  Thanksgiving,  and  through  the 
fortnight  preceding 
including 
Christmas  and  New  Year’s  Day,  adver­
tises  a  holiday  dinner  ready  for  use, 
without  the  necessity  of  selection  by  the 
purchaser.

and 

This  holiday  dinner  is  packed  in  a 
basket  purchased  for  the  occasion,  with 
a  neat  layer of  white  paper  in  the  bot­
is  so  arranged  that  it  can  be 
tom,  and 
carefully  wrapped  up  and  delivered. 
It 
contains 
for  the  first 
soup 
course,  olives  and  celery.

canned 

For  the  second  course  there  is  a  tur­
key,  8  to  12  pounds,  a  quart  of  cran­
berries,  a  can  of  French  or  other  peas,
3  or  5  pounds  of  sweet  potatoes,  sage, 
pepper  and  a loaf  of  bread for the turkey 
stuffing,  a  relish  of  some  sort,  and  one 
or  more  cans  of  vegetables.

For  the  dessert  there  is  a  package  of 
condensed  mince  meat,  a  can  of  pie 
peaches  or  some  other  pie  material, 
and  a  package  of  gelatine, with nuts  and 
raisins  thrown  in  ad  libitum.

These  baskets  are  so  arranged  that 
they  present  an  attractive  and  appetiz­
ing  appearance,  with  neatly  scalloped 
white  paper  around  the  edge  outside, 
and  the  different  articles  so  displayed 
that  they  attract  attention.  They  are 
put  up  to  sell  for  from  $1.50 to $2  a  bas­
ket,  according  to  the  size  of  the  turkey. 
An  eight-pound  turkey  and enough other 
articles  to  bring  the  price  up  to  this 
amount  constitutes  a  basket  which  sells 
for  $1.50.  A  twelve-pound  turkey  and 
a  somewhat  more  elaborate  assortment 
of  food  articles  will  sell  readily  for $2.
This  idea  is  probably  more  practical 
in  the  larger  cities  than  in  the  smaller 
towns.  There  are  many  young  married 
people,and  many  families  in  the  cities, 
who  are  ignorant  of  the  proper  selection 
of  a  holiday  dinner,  and  if  they  can  go

to  the  retail  store  and  purchase  every­
thing  they  want  for  a  specified  sum, 
without  bothering  with  the  details  of se­
lection  it  is  a  positive  benefit  to  them. 
Retailers  who  are  looking  for  new  ideas 
for  the  Christmas  trade  might  give  this 
one  a  trial.  A  few  sample  Christmas 
dinners  will readily demonstrate whether 
it  is  practicable  or  not  with  their trade, 
and  if  they  find  that  it  is,  they  will  also 
discover  that  they  are  well  paid  for  the 
time  spent  in  putting  up  these  assort­
ments,  for  more  than  the  ordinary  profit 
is  usually  made.  Just  one  point  more. 
None  of  the  articles  included  in the  hol­
iday  dinner  basket  are  cooked.  This, 
of  course,  is  left  for  the  housewife.

The  Chicago  department  store  that 
follows this  plan  sells  several  thousand 
such  baskets  each  day  for  a  week  be­
fore  the  holidays,  and  does  not  neglect 
to  advertise  extensively.— Commercial 
Bulletin.

Hog  Ripened  Whisky.

From the Philadelphia Record.

There  are  but  few  people  who  can  be 
induced  to  believe  that  there  ever  was 
such  a  drink  as  “ hog  ripened  whisky,’ ’ 
hut  among the  older  generation  it  would 
be  no  trouble  at  all  to  secure  affidavits 
that  such  a  beverage  was  well  known  in 
this  immediate  vicinity. 
There  was 
in  the  days  gone  by,  in  a  village  only 
four  miles  from  here  a  man  who  kept  a 
tavern that  soon  became  famous  through 
its  proprietor’s  unique 
inventions  and 
ingenious  contrivances  to  attract  atten­
tion  to  his  hostelry.  Then,  as  now,  to 
succeed  meant  the  necessity  of  being 
well  advertised. 
In  his  effort  to  do 
something  new  “ Uncle  B illy,”   as  he 
was  called,  conceived  an  invention  that 
was  potent  in  making  his  tavern  the 
most  talked  about  one  for  miles  around. 
The  result,  as  known  to  the  patrons  of 
the 
inn,  was  some  good  whisky,  of 
some  age,  that  had  been  continuously 
agitated  while  within  the  oaken  casks 
within  which  the  drinks  were  kept  for 
' * ripening. ”
What  the  curious  ones  discovered 
about  the 
invention  was  this:  When 
they  went  to  see  the  ripening  of  the 
whisky  they found a hogpen with a plank 
floor  so  balanced  as  to  swing  like  a barn 
scale.  There  was  an  open  side  furthest 
from  the  feeding  trough,  and  the  sides 
were  fenced.

The  way  the  thing  operated  was  sim­
ple  enough.  The  hogs  were  out  in  the 
yard  nosing  around  when  they  heard the 
splash  of  the  feed  as  it  was  put  in  the 
trough.  Naturally,  as  the  weight  came 
first  on  the  side  furthest from the trough, 
that  side  of  the  floor  tilted  down  under 
the  swines’  weight.  When  they  all  got 
over  to  the  trough  that  side,  in  turn, 
went  down.  And  so  the  plank  floor  was 
rocked  back  and  forth  every time  a  hog 
went  in  or  out.
Connected  with  this  swinging  plat­
form  was  another  one  which  received 
equivalent  motion,  of  course,  through 
the  medium  of  a  long  lever.  On  this 
second  platform  were  set  the  casks  of 
whisky  which  were  to  undergo  the  rip­
ening  process.  Of  course,  every  time 
the  floor  rocked,  so  did  the  upper 
like­
wise, and  the  whisky  was  shaken  around 
with  every  motion.

Naturally, 

“ Uncle  B illy’s”   hogs 
were  fatter than  anybody’s  else,  because 
they  were  fed  so  much  oftener.  Part  of 
the  ripening  depended  on  feeding  the 
hogs,  so  as  to  make  them  rush 
in 
through  the  open  door and  thus  shake 
the  platforms.

Moses  and  Tuberculosis  Meat.

From the Hospital.

It  has  been  a  fashion  for  some  time 
back  to  regard  Moses  as  the  great  sani­
tarian  of antiquity,and  on  the  discovery 
of  anything  new  in  hygiene  to  pick  out 
from  the  Old  Testament  some  text  or 
other  showing  that  there  is  nothing  new 
under the  sun,  and  that  all  that  we  are 
now  preaching  has  been  put  in  practice 
by  the  Jews  from  the  earliest  ages. 
Lately,  we  have  heard  much  as  to  the 
examination  to  which  all  meat  is  sub­
mitted  by  the  Jews,  and  it  has  been  as­
sumed  by  some  that  their  rejection  of

carcasses  affected  with  tuberculosis is  to 
be  taken  as  showing  that  their  code rec-1 
ognizes  the  infective  nature  of  this  dis­
ease.  Of  course,  it  does  nothing  of  the 
kind.  As  is  well  known,  according  to 
the  Jewish 
law  an  examination  of  the 
viscera  is  made  before  a  carcass  is  pro­
nounced  fit  for  food,  and  there  are  a 
considerable  number  of  conditions,  the 
discovery  of  which  lead  to  its  rejection. 
The  reason  of  all  this  would  appear  to 
be  to  secure  the  rejection  of  the  meat 
from  any  beast  affected  by any such  dis­
ease  as  would  have  ultimately  led  to 
its  death 
if  the  butcher  had  not  inter­
vened,  and  among  these  conditions  are 
some  which  would  of  necessity 
involve 
the  rejection  of  all  advanced  cases  of 
tuberculosis.  That 
is  all.  What  may 
have  been  the  original  object  of  the 
Lawgiver  we  can  not  now  discuss,  any 
more  than  we  can  the  manner of  the 
giving  as  described  in  biblical  history. 
We  may  feel  content,  however, 
that 
there  is  nothing  in  either  the  law  or the 
prophets  to  indicate  any  recognition  of 
the  pathological  questions  which  are 
now  exciting  so  much  interest.

The  Right  W ay  to  Drink  Beer.

“ Very  few  men  know  how  to  drink 
beer  so  as  to  enjoy  it  properly,”   said  a 
prominent  German. 
“ Beer  is  a  deli­
cious  drink,  if  used  in  the  right  way. 
Most  men  guzzle  it  down  like  a  dose  of 
medicine,  and all  they  get  out  of  a  half­
pint  of  the  beverage  is a  sort  of  farewell 
taste  that  amounts  to  nothing.  On  the 
other  hand,  there  are  men  who  sip  it  so 
slowly  that  it  becomes insipid and taste­
less.  To  get  the  full  benefit  of  a  glass 
of  beer,  it  should  be  drunk  in  several 
swallows,  with  an  interval  between  long 
enough  to  allow  the  taste  of  the  first  to 
evaporate  from  the  palate  before  the 
second 
in  this  way, 
beer  is  not  only  refreshing,  but  whole­
some,  and  will  not  produce  intoxica­
tion.”

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ONE  WOMAN’S  W AT.

Wanted  Top  Price  For  Butter  and  Cnt 
Written for the Tradesman.

Price  on  Soda.

She  is  a  lovely-looking,  white-haired 
in^  her  own  home  1  know, 
lady—lovely 
for  I  have  seen  here  there.  She 
is  an 
ideal  farmer’s  wife,an exemplary  Chris­
tian  and  a  model  housekeeper. 
She 
makes  the 
lightest  bread,  the  sweetest 
butter and  the  flakiest  piecrust  that  you 
ever  saw  and  her  floors  are  as  clean  and 
white  as  scrubbing  will  make  and  keep 
them.

But  that  is  another  matter,  for  Mrs. 
Slocum  at  borne  and  Mrs.  Slocum  at 
the  store  are  two  separate  and  distinct 
people.

She  had  brought  along  some  butter 
with  the  intention  of  dickering  it  off for 
groceries.  We  were  glad  to  see  her,  but 
only  moderately  so,  for  the  minute  she 
puts  her  head  inside  the  store  she  is  on 
¿he  defensive  and  her  actions betray  her 
feelings.  She  has  an 
idea  that  mer­
chants  are  a  bad 
lot— a  scheming, 
thieving,  cheating,  lying,  grasping,  un­
principled  set  who  have  combined  in 
an  effort  to  wrest  her  dollars  from  her, 
and  she  makes  it  her  chief  aim 
life 
to  baffle  them 
in  their  unholy  design. 
She  believes  in  fighting  the  devil  with 
fire.

in 

She  came  in  as  if  anything  in the line 
of  business  was  furthest  from  her  mind. 
She  was  a 
little  chilly,  she  said,  and 
would  like  to  get  warm.  So  she  sat  by 
the  stove  and  put  her  feet  on  the  rail. 
There  was  quite  a  flurry  of trade  and 
she  seemed 
in  what  people 
were  doing.  At  last  she  remarked :

interested 

“ I  suppose  you  are  buying  butter?”  
“ O,  yes;  all  we  can  get.  But 
it’s 
rather  scarce  at  present,  so  we  don’t 
take  in  a  great  deal.”

“ How  much  do  you  pay  for  it?”  
“ Twenty  cents.”
She  pursed  her  lips  and  her  eyebrows 

went  up  in  studied  surprise.

“ Is  that  all?”  said  she.
“ Yes,  ma'am.  Don’t  you  think  it  a 

pretty  good  price?”

“ Why, 

I  heard  you  were  paying 

thirty  cents  last  Saturday.’ ’

“ Oh,  that's  a  mistake.  We  haven’t 
paid  as  much  in  years.  Who  said  we 
gave  thirty  cents?”

“ Well,  a  certain  person  told  me  you 
paid  another  lady  thirty  cents  for  her 
butter.  Didn't  you?”

She  asked  this  in  a  cold,  matter-of- 
fact  way,  evidently  expecting  to  be  lied 
to,  and  therefore  quite  indifferent  as  to 
the  reply.

“ No,  ma’am,  we  did  not. 

I  don’t 
see  what  anyone  wants  to tell  that  for. 
Butter  is  worth  no  such  money.  We  are 
glad  to  pay  twenty  for  it,  though.  Have 
you  some  to  sell?”

“ O,  I  don't  know,”   said  she,  ab­
sently,  not  heeding  the  answer.  Then 
she  pulled  her cloth  cape  more  closely j 
about  her  shoulders  and,  apparently  for­
getting  ail  about  the  conversation,  she 
turned  to  watch  a  small  boy  who  was 
trying  on  his  first  pair  of  rubber  boots.
“ Shall  we  weigh  your  butter?”   was 

asked  after  a  suitable  pause.

“ How  much  do  you  charge  for  it 

when  you  sell  it  out?”   she  asked. 

“ Twenty  two  cents.”
Again  the  eyebrows  and  again  the 

pursing  of  the  lips.

“ You  seem  to  make  pretty  good 

profits  on  your  goods,”   said  she.

Had 

it  been  anyone  else  I  might 
have  taken  her observation  for a  joke, 
bnt  this  lady  meant  it.  Two  cents  profit 
struck her as  a  large  margin  on  a  twenty 
investment.  Ye  gods!  No  ex­
cent 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

“ We 

planation  can  satisfy— no  argument  pre­
vail  against  such  a  mind.  Formerly  I 
used  to  debate  furiously  upon  a  lesser 
pretext,  but  it  often  did  harm  and  now 
I  let  those  things  slide.
" Y e s ,”   I  admitted. 

try  to 
make  a  profit.  Shall  I  take  the  butter?”  
“ Not  just  yet,”   said  she,  in  her  cold 
unconcerned  way. 
“ I  think  I’ll  look 
around  a  bit  first.”   She  arose,  stood 
in  front  of  a  convenient  mirror  long 
enough  to  arrange  her  hair,  started  to­
ward  the  door  and  then  asked,  without 
really  turning around,as  much  as  to  im­
ply  that  this  was  our  last  chance  before 
the  other  fellow  grabbed  i t :

“ You  think  you  couldn’t  pay  thirty 
cents  for  the  butter,  then?”   and,  with­
out  seeming  to  hear  or  care  for  the  re­
ply,  she  passed  on.

After  a  time  she  returned,  handed  in 
her  butter  without  comment,  and  said 
she  would  buy few a things for the house.
“ Have  you  any  of  the  Armor  brand 
of  soda?”   she  asked  of  the  polite  youth 
who  attended  to  her  wants.

‘  Yes,  ma’am .”
“ Are  you  sure  it’s  the Armor brand?”  
“ O,  yes,  of  course.  Here  it  is.”
“ Is  that  the  Armor  brand?”
“ Yes,  ma’am.”
“ I  want  to  be  sure  that  it's the Armor 
brand  because  I  once  bought  some  soda 
of  another  kind,  and  I  couldn’t  make  a 
thing  with  it  that  was  fit  to  eat.  You’re 
sure  this  is  the  Armor  brand?”   and  she 
looked  across  the  counter  as  if to  pierce 
the  secrets  of  the  salesman  to  the  very 
core.

“ Why,  sure.  See;  there’s  the  name 

right  on  the  package.”

“ Well,  then  1  suppose  1  might  take 
it,  but  if  it  shouldn’t  prove  to  be  the 
Armor  brand,  1  shall  send  it  every  bit 
back,”   and  she  gave  him  another  look 
that  should  have  frozen  him 
in  his 
tracks. 

“ How  much  is  it?”

“ Seven  cents.”
“ Seven  cents!”   she  repeated,  with  a 
“ Seven  cents?  Why,  I 

face  of  stone. 
thought  you  sold  it  for five. ’ ’

“ No,  ma’am,  seven  cents 
price,”   said  the  clerk  blandly.

is 

the 

“ Didn’t  you  sell  it  last  Saturday  for 

“ No,  ma’am.  Always  get  seven  for 

five?”

it.”

“ Well,  now,  someone  said  you  only 
charged  five  for  it.  Didn’t  you  have  a 
sale  on  it  or  something?”

“ No,  ma’am.  Never  sold 

it  a  cent 

cheaper.  That’s  the  regular  price.”  

evident  determination  to  get  cash  for 
her  product.

“ You wouldn’t  want  the  soda,  then?”  

observed  the  clerk,  sweetly.

“ No.”
“ Nothing  else  in  groceries?”
“ No.”
“ No  tea  nor  sugar  nor  flour?”
“ N o;  not  a  thing.”
“ You  wouldn't  want  to  try  that 
scheme  baking  powder?”   pursued  the 
It  was  his  turn 
salesman 
to  get  even  and  he  knew  it. 
“ You  get 
a  can  of  lovely  baking powder for fifteen 
cents  and  a  chance  on  a  whole  set  of 
dishes. ”

inndcentiy. 

“ No,  I  don’t  want  any  baking  pow­

der. 

I  want  my  money.”

“ Yes,  but  you  see  you  don’t  have  to 
take  any  chances, for the  powder’s  guar­
anteed,  and  you’re  sure  of  a  dish  any­
way.  Better take  one.”
The  lady  was  annoyed.
“ Will  you  settle  with  me  or  shall  I 
have  to  speak  to  Mr.  Jones?”   said  she.
“ That’s  just  what  I  was  going  to 
“ You  see, 
say,”   remarked  the  clerk. 
he’s  the  only  feller  around  here  that 
pays  out  any  money. 
If  you  want  cash 
for  the  butter  you  better  see him ;  but  if 
you  want  any  groceries  or  baking  pow­
der or anything like that I’m your man. ’ ’ 
But  Mrs.  Slocum  did  not  bear.  With 
lips  and  wrinkled  forehead, she 
pursed 
received  the  money  for  her  butter  and, 
gathering  her  cape  more  and  more 
snugly  about  her  retreating  form,  she 
departed  for  those  realms  where  butter 
always  brings  a  fabulous  price  and 
where  groceries  hang  like  blackberries 
on  the  bushes  along  the  roadside.

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

Lobster  Farms  and  the  Law.

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

Reports  from  Rockport  indicate  that 
the  farmers  of Cape  Ann are considering 
the  advisability  of  securing  a  greater 
“ rotation  in  crops.”   A  lobster  farm  is 
one  of  the  possibilities  of  agricultural

it  must  be 

life  in  the  suburbs  of  Gloucester.  If  the 
idea  spreads,  the  entire  shore  of  that 
rocky  portion  of  the  coast  may be dotted 
with  lobster  farms.  The  principal  ob­
lobster  farm  is  the  fact 
jection  to  the 
illegal.  The  law  for­
that 
bids  a  citizen  to  have  short  lobsters 
in 
his  possession. 
If  the  short  lobsters  are 
found  in  his  lobster  farm,  how  may  he 
escape  the  penalties  of  the  law?  Still, 
inasmuch  as  the  Game  Commission 
its  employes  not  to  en­
has  instructed 
law  against  Sunday  fishing, 
force  the 
could 
it  not  also  refuse  to  enforce  the 
law  for  protecting  the  short  lobster?
A   President’s  Interview  W ith  a  Sausage 

Maker.

for  story  telling 

The  late  President  McKinley  bad  not 
the  reputation 
that 
President  Lincoln  had,  but  here  is  one 
story  of  his.  Before  he  served  his  first 
term  as  President— in  his  lawyer  days— 
he  very  often  passed  a  pork  butcher’s 
shop  on  the  way  to  his  office  and  back 
home.  In  the  morning  he  used  to  notice 
that  sausages  were  twenty cents  a  pound 
always.  The  sign  read :

Good  Pork  Sausages,

20  cents.

Sometimes  they  were  20 cents  a pound 
in  the  evening,  but more  often  12.  The 
sign  might  even  read :

Fine  Pork  Sausages, 

io  cents.

“ Ten  cents,”   said 

The  thing,  he  used  to  say,  worried 
him.  Sausages  were  not  of  so  perish­
able  a  nature  that  they  would  not  keep 
until  next  day.  So he  stopped  one  even­
ing  at  the  shop,said  it  looked  like  rain, 
and  enquired  about  the  price  of  saus­
ages. 
the  store­
“ But,”   said  McKinley,  “ they 
keeper. 
were  20 cents  this  morning.”   “ So  they 
were,  Mr.  McKinley,  said  the  un­
abashed  sausage  merchant. 
“ So  they 
were.  Then  1  had  ’em ;  now  1  haven’t. 
Sausages  at  10 cents  is  simply  to  get me 
a  reputation  for  cheapness.  See?”   The 
future  President  saw,  and  was  in  the 
habit  of  saying  a  great  many  reputa­
tions  were  made  that  way.

The  Man  who  to  Grand Rapids comes 

With  aught  to  buy or sell,

W ill find ’ tw ill pay to  always stay 

A t  Livingston  Hotel.

For h e'll find there good things  to spare 

Served up in  measure heaping,

A t proper  rate  these  blessings great: 

Eating,  drinking,  sleeping.

“ I’m  just  sure  someone  said  you  sold 
it  for  five  cents.  Didn’t  you  let  Mrs. 
Jones  have  some  for  that?”

Not  this  kind.  She  uses  the  Pirate 

brand  and  that’s  cheaper.”

Again  the  eyes  congealed  and  the lips 
swerved  from  their  calm,  straight  line. 
“ If  you  sell  one  person  for  five,  why 
can’t  you  another?”   she  asked. 
“ I 
should  think  you  would  try  to  treat  your 
customers  all  a lik e.”

“ We  do  mean  to.  Here’s  the  kind 
Mrs.  Jones  got.  Would  you  like  to  try 
it?”
*  “ That’s  not  the  Armor  brand,”   said 
she,  very  much  as 
she  might  have 
spoken  had  she  just caught him  with  his 
band  in  her  pocket.

“ That’s  what  I  said,”   was  the  reply. 

“ Would  you  care  to  try  it?”

“ No,  I  wouldn’t ,”   said  she.  “ I  said 
I  wanted  the  Armor  brand,  but  I  won’t 
pay  more  than  the  market  price.  You 
may  give  me  the  money  for the butter,”  
and  the  look  of  injured 
innocence  and 
outraged  virtue  that  crossed  her  face 
could  only  have  been  equaled  by  her

Dop’t Be a C ow  ^ail

Always  behind,  be  alive  and  on  the 
lookout  for  “ snaps.”

for  instance.

O L N E Y   &  J U D S O N   G R O C E R   C O .

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip

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

United Commercial Traielen of Michigan 

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

Grand Rapids Conncil No. 131, U. C. T.

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Co m pto n ;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Post  C  Again  Comes  to  the  Front.

Detroit,  Dec.  g—A  very  enthusiastic 
meeting  of  Post  C,  Michigan  Knights of 
the  Grip,  was  held  at  the  Griswold 
House,  Detroit,  Saturday  evening,  Dec. 
7,  which  brought  together  many  of  the 
old  “ war  horses”   of  the  Post  and  bids 
fair  to  bring  Post  C  into  prominence  as 
of  old.

All  dissensions  and  differences  have 
been  amicably  settled  and  but  one  fac­
tion  remains,  and  that  is  the  unity  of 
all  members  for  the  advancement  of 
Post  C  and  the  Association  at  large. 
This  has  taken  much  hard 
labor  and 
persistent  efforts  by  a  few  members,  but 
the  goal 
sought  has  been 
reached,  and  the  many  members  are  as 
anxious  for  the  welfare  of  the  Associa­
tion  as  the  few  have  been  in  the  past.

that  we 

The  disturbing  element  seems  to  be 
entirely  obliterated  and  harmony  and 
good  feeling  prevail,  and  at  present 
the 
indications  seem  favorable  for  a 
large  delegation  to  thé  annual  conven­
tion  at  Lansing,  Dec.  26 and  27.

There  will  be  another  meeting  of Post 
C  held  at  the  Griswold  House  Saturday 
evening.  Dec.  21,  when  a  large  attend­
ance  of  the  members  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  whether  members 
of  Post  C  or  not,  will  be  present  by  re­
quest.
The  Post  unanimously  endorsed  the 
nomination  of  J.  A.  Weston,  of Lansing, 
for  President  for  1902,  J.  W.  Schram, 
of  Detroit,  for  Treasurer  and  M.  How- 
arn,of  Detroit,  for  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors.

The following officers were unanimous­

ly  elected  for  the  year^1902 :
Chairman—W.  H.  Baier.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—J.  W.

Schram.

Sergeant  at  Arms— R.  S.  Longheed.
Executive  Committee— John  McLean, 
J.  L.  McCauley,  Thos.  Plughs  and  M. 
Howarn.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  C.  Bush  has  secured  a  position  as 
traveling  representative  for  the  F.  F. 
Adams  Tobacco  Co.,  of  Detroit,  to take 
effect  Jan.  1.

Hudson  Gazette:  Earl  Alford  has 
secured  a  position  with  Carson,  Pirie, 
Scott  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  and  will  start 
on  the  road  as  salesman  for  that  house 
Jan.  1.

Richard  Jackson,  Jr.,  for several  years 
past  in  the  employ  of  Macauley  Bros., 
of  Detroit,  will  transfer  his  services  to 
the  Frank  B.  Taylor  Co.  Jan.  1,  cover­
ing  substantially  the  same  territory  he 
has  covered  with  the  old  house.

W.  C.  Dudley,  Michigan  representa­
tive  for  the  Cincinnati  Cordage  and 
Paper  Co.,  will  be  married  Dec.  19 to 
Miss  Blanche  Beaudry,  of  Marlboro, 
Mass.  The  happy  couple  will  take  up 
their  residence  at  505  East  Shiawassee 
street,  Lansing,  where  the  groom  has  al­
ready  provided  a  home  with  all  the 
comforts  and  luxuries  peculiar  to  mar­
ried  life.

Wm.  Connor  received  a 

letter  this 
morning  from  Mrs.  Albert  Stegman, 
announcing  the  death  of  her  husband, 
which  occurred  at  San  Diego,  on  Dec. 
6.  Mr.  Stegman  will  be remembered  as 
manager  of  the  grange  store  at  Allegan 
for  several  years,  where  he  acquired  a 
wide  reputation  as  a  close  buyer  and 
wonderful  organizer  and  manager.

The  nomination  of  Manley  Jones  as 
the  Grand  Rapids  candidate  for  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  is  one  which  every 
Grand  Rapids  member  will  cheerfully 
support.  Mr.  Jones  has  carried  a  grip­
sack  upwards  of  twenty  years  and  is 
thoroughly  in  touch  with  the  needs  and 
necessities  of  the  fraternity,  as  they can 
be  served  through  the  medium  of  or­
ganized  effort.

Traverse  City  Record:  W.  H.  Brad­
ley,  employed  in  the  dry  goods  and  car­
pet  department  of  Wilhelm  Bros.,  has 
resigned  his  position  and  will  enter  the 
employ  of  the  L.  A.  Dudley  Rubber 
Co.,  of  Battle  Creek,  as  traveling  repre­
sentative.  His  resignation  takes  effect 
December 24  and  he  will  leave  for  Bat­
tle  Creek  the  day  following.  Mr.  Brad­
ley's  territory  will  be  along  the  line  of 
the  Michigan  Central  railroad.

It  is  now  charged  that  Sig  Folz,  a 
well-known  business  man  of  Kalama­
zoo,  who  disappeared  last  summer,  is  a 
defaulter.  A  Chicago  liquor  house,  of 
which  Folz  was  the  local representative, 
charges  him  with  making  away  with 
$3,000 of  its  funds,  and  has  called  upon 
Folz’s  bondsmen  in  Kalamazoo to settle. 
Before  his  departure  Folz borrowed from 
$2  to  $15  from  scores  of his friends.  The 
bondsmen  will  fight  the  payment  of  the 
bond.

Another  Old-Time  Traveler  Makes  His 

Last  Trip.

sent 

At  the  ripe  age  of  82  years,  10  months 
and  4  days,  B.  G.  Eaton,  a  pioneer 
member  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  died  at  his  residence,  315  Na­
tional  avenue,  Detroit,  Dec.  3.  Death 
was  due  to  the  ailments  of  old  age. 
The  remains  were 
to  Mexico, 
N.  Y.,  for-interment.

Mr.  Eaton  was  born  in  Columbia,  N. 
Y.,  Jan.  29,  1819,  and  in  1846  married 
Miss  Sarah  E.  Lansing,  of  Palerma, 
Oswego  county,  that  State.  For  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business 
in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  the  firm  name  being 
Eaton  &  Golden. 
In  1878  he  took  up 
his  residence  in  Detroit.

For  many  years  Mr.  Eaton  repre­
sented  the  Suffolk  Manufacturing  Co.  of 
Boston,  Mass.,  selling  to  the  trade  the 
“ Argosy”   suspenders  made  by 
the 
above  firm,  he  being  the  first  to  intro­
duce  their  line  in  the  West  and  South. 
He  afterward  was  general  agent  for  and 
handled  Kinney's  patent  tubular  grave 
fence,  demonstrating  and  selling  this 
article  from  ocean  to  ocean.  Of  late 
years  Mr.  Eaton  has  been  confined  to 
the  house  through  ill  health  and  general 
breaking  down  of  a  once  vigorous  con­
stitution.

is  survived  by  the  widow  and 
three  sons,  B.  Fitch,  W.  Frank  and 
Fred  G.,  all  of  Detroit.

He 

A   Few  Good  Business  Buies.

Buy  to  suit  your  customers’ wants  and 
the  wants  of  your  community,  and  not 
the  manufacturer.

Give  your  customers  the  best  value 

you  can  for their  money.

Buy  at  right  prices  so as  to  enable 

you  to  make  all  the  available  profit.

Study  prevailing  tastes—be  first  to 
show  what  you  think  will  increase  busi­
ness.

Keep  posted  on  the  different  qualities 

and  grades  of  what  is  offered.

Be  punctual  in  keeping  business  en­

gagements.

ly  just.

orandum.

Buy  from  those  you  know  to  be  strict­

Do  not  trust to memory— keep  a  mem­

Never accept  favors  from  drummers.
Keep  posted  on  methods  of up-to-date 

business  houses.

Appreciate  good  service,  and  you 
will  never  fail  to get  the  best  there  is 
in  a  man.

A  man  laughs  when  he  is  amused;  a 
woman  laughs  when  she  thinks  Other 
people  think  she  ought to  laugh,

Three  Addition  to  the  Memberships  Roll.
Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  9—A  well- 
attended  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids 
Council,  No.  131,  was  held at  the  Coun­
cil  Chamber,  Saturday  evening,  Dec.  7, 
all  officers  being  present  in  their  chairs 
except  Sentinel  S.  F.  Simmons,  who 
was  not  able  to  be  in  attendance.  The 
following  were  made  members  and  now 
wear  U.  C.  T.  buttons  on  their  coats, 
and  will  be  just  as  earnest 
in  their 
efforts  to  persuade  others  to  join  as 
those  who  were  the  means  of  getting 
them  to  become  members  of one  of  the 
noblest  secret  orders  on  this  bright 
earth:

Frank  D.  Osgood  .  (J.  W.  Butler 

Paper  Co.)

&  Co.)

Co.)

Oscar  L.  Race 

(Geo.  H.  Reeder 

Edwin  M.  Waldren  (Waldren  Stove 

The  membership  now  is  just  140,with 
five  applications  ready  for  the  January 
meeting.  The  meeting  in  January  will 
be  held  in  the  new  ball  on  Pearl  street, 
and 
immediately  after  the  meeting,  a 
house-warming  will  take  place.  Just 
what  it  will  consist  of,  we  are  entirely 
in  the  dark,  but  the  committee 
in 
charge  promises  something  rich,  rare 
and  juicy.  We  will  try  and  tell  some­
thing  more  about  it  later  on.  JaDee.

Personel  of the New Wholesale Dry Goods

Detroit,  Dec.  10—Our  plans  are  form­
ulated  to  organize  our  business  under 
the  name  of  Crowley  Bros.,  composed 
of  Joseph  J.  Crowley,  W.  C.  Crowley 
and  Daniel  T.  Crowley,  the  latter,  how­
ever,  not  taking  an  active  part  in  the 
business,  as  he  will  retain  his  position 
with  the  Peninsular  Stove  Co.,  of  which 
he  is  Auditor.

We  wili  be  ready  for  business  about 
January  1  at 96 Jefferson  avenue,  where 
we  have  temporarily  located  until either 
a  new  building  is  built  for  us  or  until 
we  get  larger  quarters.

We  have  associated  with  us  A.  W. 
Knapp  who  was  formerly  manager  of 
the  hosiery  and  underwear  department

25

of  Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  and  who  will 
handle  a  similar  department  in  our 
house.  F.  A.  Lauder,  formerly  with  the 
same  firm,  will  handle  the  notion  de­
partment  for  us.  John  R.  Costello,  for­
merly  manager  of  the  blanket,  flannel 
and  carpet  department  of  Burnham, 
Stoepel  &  Co.,  will  be  in  charge  of  the 
same  department  with  us.  F.  C.  Feck- 
enscher,  formerly  manager  of  the  do­
mestic  and 
lining  department  of  the 
same  concern,  will identify  himself with 
us  in  like  capacity.  W.  C.  Crowley,  of 
our  firm,  will  handle  the  print,  wash 
goods  and  dress  goods  departments.  We 
have  also  a  number  of salesmen engaged 
who  will  cover  Michigan,  Ohio  and  In­
diana,  whose  names  we  will  announce 
later. 

Crowley  Bros.

Status  of the  Baltimore  Poultry  Market.
Baltimore,  Md.,  Dec.  9—We  consider 
the  present  outlook  for  Christmas  favor­
able  for choice  to  fancy  turkeys,  ducks 
and  geese.  Ordinary  turkeys  are  plen­
tiful  and  not  wanted.  Our  best  market 
days  for  live  turkeys  will  be  Thursday 
and  Friday,  Dec.  19  and  20.  Dressea 
stock  should  reach  us  Saturday,Dec.  21, 
and  not  later  than  Monday morning,  the 
30th.
Shipments  for  the  New  Year  should 
arrive  the  same  days  of  the  following 
week. 

Stevens  Brothers.

Morse  &  Deuel,  clothiers,  Marshall: 
You  will  please  find  enclosed  draft  for 
$1  in  full  payment  for  the  Tradesman 
for  this  last  year. 
You  may  continue 
same,  and  when  our  year  is  up,  send  us 
another  bill.  We  think  more  of  the 
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we  get.

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Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

ing men solicited.

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Fine
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Nothing  can  ever  be  so  popular  with  your 
customers  fo r   the  reason  that  nothing  else 
is  so  useful.  No  housekeeper  ever  had  too 
many.  They  are  the proper  things fo r  New 
Years'  Greetings.
We manufacture positively  everything  in  the 
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class  workmanship.  T ell  us  what  kind you 
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Drugs—Chemicals

• 

Michigan  State  Hoard  of Pharmacy

Term expires
Henry Wwm, Saginaw 
-  Dee. 81,1902
Deo. 81, ioos
Wis t  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. 0. Sohumaohbr, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 81,1904 
J ohn d . Mum. Grand Rapids 
Dee. 81, iw* 
A r t h u r  H. W e b b e r , Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

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

Examination  Sessions.
Detroit, Januaiy 14 and 15.
Grand Rapids, March 4 and 5.
Star Island. June 16 and 17.
Sault Ste- Marie, August 27 and 28. 
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

President—J o h n   D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit. 
Treasurer—D. A.  H a g e n s , Monroe.

No  matter  how 

Question  Customers  Buying  Poisons.
The  frequent  cases  of  suicide  from 
poison  published 
in  the  daily  press 
would  indicate  that  many  druggists  do 
in 
not  take  the  precautions  they  should 
the  sale  of  dangerous  drugs. 
In  some 
instances  it  is  because  the  law  does  not 
require any  register to  be  kept  or  else  it 
is  not  enforced  and some druggists think 
it  is  too  much  trouble  to  do  anything 
they  are  not  compelled  to. 
In  other 
cases they  do  not  question  the  customer 
for  fear  of  giving  offense. 
If  they  ex­
plain  why  they  ask  the  questions  no 
sensible  person  will  take  offense,  and 
those  who  do  ought  not  to  be  trusted, for 
if  they  have  so  little  common  sense  as 
not  to  see  that  you  are  looking  after 
their  welfare  they  should  scarcely  be 
considered  fit  persons  to  handle poisons.
intelligent  or  well 
dressed  a  person  may  appear  to be,  it  is 
always  wise  to  find  out  the  full  particu­
lars. 
In  one  instance  a well dressed and 
intelligent  looking  customer  asked  for 
sulphuric  acid.  On handing  it  to him  1 
asked  for  what  purpose  he  wanted  it. 
He  said  he  was  going  to  take  it,  and 
had  been  in  the  habit  of  taking  thirty 
drops  three  or  four times  daily.  Need­
less  to  say  it  was  the  aromatic sulphuric 
acid  which  he  wanted.  While  the  pure 
acid  might  not  have  done  any  serious 
harm  if  well  diluted,  it  taught  me  to  be 
very  careful  to  find  out ail  about  the  use 
of any  poisons  sold,  no  matter  who  the 
person  might  be  or  how  well  I  knew 
him,  and  have  no  doubt  prevented 
many  accidents. 
If  the  person  was  a 
stranger  to  me  and  could  not  give  a 
good  account  of  what  he  wanted  it  for,
I  would  flatly  refuse  to  sell  any  strong 
poisons,  and  even  to  those  I  knew  al­
ways  used  discretion.  People  soon  learn 
that  you  are  doing  it  for  their own  good 
and  think  more  of  you  for  it,  for the 
reason  that  if  you  are  so  careful  in  that 
regard  you  are  also  careful  in  the  other 
details of  your  business.

Wm.  Mallard.

Protection  Against  Blackmail.

Physicians  have  been  so  frequently 
victimized  by  blackmailing  schemes  of 
one  kind  and  another,  suits  for  alleged 
malpractice  being  the  most  common 
form  of  this  blackmail,  that  a  regularly 
incorporated  company  has  been ' formed 
to  defend  all  who  shall  pay  a  small  fee 
annually  to  it. 
It  is  practically  insur­
ance  against 
in  this  way.  The 
suit,  if  brought,  costs  the  defendant 
nothing  more  than  his  attendance  at 
court  and  the  company  being  powerful 
and  resourceful  can  fight  the  thing  to  a 
finish.

loss 

It  seems  to  be  getting  more  and  more 
common,  particularly 
for 
black-mailing  dodges  to  be  tried  on 
druggists. 
A  stranger  buys  an  ounce 
of some  harmless  drug  or  preparation  or 
has 
some  simple  prescription  com­

in  cities, 

pounded.  Pretty  soon  in  rushes  another 
stranger  wildly  accusing  the  druggist  of 
having  made  a  mistake  and  dispensed 
some  poison.  A  big  hullabaloo 
is 
raised,  an  opportunity  is  offered  to  set­
tle for  a  consideration  of  anywhere  from 
$25  to $250,  depending  on  the  size  and 
general  “ easiness”   of the  druggist  and 
be,  too  often,  pays  rather  than  have  the 
story  get  into  the  newspapers,  even  al­
though  he  may  recognize  it  as  a holdup.
If  druggists’  associations  are  good  for 
anything  they  ought to  be  good  for  pro­
tection  against  raids  of  this  kind.  Let 
the  blackmailing  gang  once  find  that 
they  are  going  up  against  a  determined 
in  the 
bunch  of  druggists  with  money 
treasury  for  the  purpose  of 
landing 
blackmailers  behind  the  bars,  and  cases 
of  alleged  poisoning  will  become  beau­
tifully  less.____  

_____

Free  Dispensary  Abuse.

A  movement  has  been  inaugurated  in 
Pennsylvania  to  limit  the  free  dispen­
sary  and  free  medicine  abuse.  At  the 
recent  annual  meeting  of the  Medical 
Society  of  that  State,  a  joint  committee 
of  physicians  and pharmacists presented 
resolutions  recommending  to  their  re­
spective  associations  that  the  Legisla­
ture  be  asked  to  pass  an  act  requiring 
all  persons  seeking  aid  from  dispen­
saries  and  other  charitable 
institutions 
to  record  their names  and  addresses  in 
a  book  kept  for  this  purpose.  This 
book  is  to  be  kept  open  for  inspection 
by  proper  persons,  and  a  penalty 
is  to 
be  inflicted  upon  those  who fraudulently 
receive 
resolution  was 
adopted  by  the  Medical  Society.

The 

aid. 

Formula  For Tincture  Vanillin.

The  following  formula  has given  good 

satisfaction:

Vanillin,  1  oz.
Cumarin,  20 ozs.
Alcohol,  1  pt.
Glycerin,  8  ozs.
Caramel,  s.  q.
Water,  ad.  10  pts.
Dissolve  the  vanillin  and  cumarin  in 
the  alcohol  and  glycerin  previously 
mixed  and 
let  stand  for  at  least  two 
days.  Add  water  and  caramel  to  de­
sired  color,  filter,  and 
let 
stand  for  several  months to blend.  This, 
like  ess.  vanilla,  improves  with  age. 
For  a  colorless  tinct.  vanillin  leave  out 
the  caramel. 

John  Morley.

if  possible 

Dimmed  Eyeglasses.

Every  wearer  of  eyeglasses  has  no­
ticed  how  they  become  dim  with  moist­
ure  when  subjected  to  a  sudden  change 
of  temperature—as,  for  instance,  when 
the  wearer goes  from  the  cold  outer  air 
into  a  warm  room.  The  reason  is,  of 
course,  that  the  cold  glass  causes  a  con­
densation  of  the  vapor  with  which  the 
warm  air  is  laden,  and  thus  becomes 
coated  with  little  globules  of  water.  A 
German  scientific  paper  says  that  this 
may  be  prevented  by 
the 
glasses  with  soft  potash  soap  every 
morning.  They  may  be  polished  right 
after  the  soap  is  applied,  but  an  invis­
ible  film  is  left  on  them  that  will  pre­
vent the  deposit of  moisture.

rubbing 

Cure  For  Hiccough.

A  young  girl  suffered  for  four  days 
without cessation  from  singultus  about 
thirty  spasms  to  the  minute,  the  attack 
being  due,  apparently,  to  some  gastric 
disorder.  When  she  put  out  her  tongue 
for a  few  seconds  it  was  found  the  hic­
cough  ceased.  She  was  then  ordered  to 
stick  out  this  member  at  regular  inter­
vals  for  a  few  minutes,  at  the  termina­
tion  of  which  only  a  few  slight  spasms 
followed.  She  was  then  ordered  to  re­
peat,  when  the  singultus  ceased  alto­
gether  and  did  not  again  return. 
It 
therefore  would  seem  to  be  proper to 
try  continuous  or  rhythmic  traction  of 
the  tongue  in  these  cases,

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  a  little  firmer,  but  has  not 

changed  in  price.

Codeine—Manufacturers have made an 
agreement  and  advanced  the  price  40c 
per  ounce.  Another  advance  is  looked 
for.

Quinine— Is  firmer  and  holders  are 
awaiting  the  bark  sale  at  Amsterdam  on 
the  12 th.

Alcohol— Is  very  firm,  on  account  of 

the  high  price  for  corn.

Whiskies— Have  also  advanced,  on 
account  of  the  high  price  for spirits  and 
the  cost  of  manufacture  from  corn  at 
the  extreme  price  now  ruling.

Cocaine— Is  in  very  firm  position,  on 
account  of  the  high  price  for  cocoa 
leaves.

Menthol— Is  very  firm  and  shows  an 

advance.

Oil 

Peppermint— Is  very  firm  and 

another advance  is  looked  for.

Oil  Cloves—Is  higher,  on  account  of 

advance  in  spice.

How  Liquid  Peptonized  Beef Is  Made.
The  outlines  of  a  process  for  making 
a  liquid  peptonized  beef  would be some­
what  as  follows:  Chop a  suitable  quan­
tity  of  lean  beef  very  fine  and  macerate 
it  for  six  hours  or  so  in  a  solution  of 
pepsin  in  water  acidulated  with  hydro­
chloric  acid  at  about  100  deg.  Fahren­
heit.  The  mixture  is  then  strained,  and 
neutralized  by  sodium  bicarbonate,  and 
a  small  quantity  of  pancreatic  extract 
added. 
Suitable  corrigents,  such  as 
port  wine,  sherry,  or  elixirs,  may  be 
then  added,  with  perhaps  some  sac­
charin,  in  order to  impart  an  agreeable 
taste  or  flavor  to the  preparation.  The 
exact  quantities  of  the  various  ingred­
ients  should  be  readily  determined  by 
making  a  few  experiments  and  care­
fully  testing  its  keeping  qualities.

Thos.  Willetts.

B at-K illing  Bacillus.

The  rats  at  the  city  hospital  of  Cin­
cinnati  are  now  under  a  plague  which 
promises  to  rid  the  institution  of  their 
presence.  Recently  one  of  the  doctors 
employed  in  the  new  laboratory  discov­
ered  that  a  disease  which  assumed  epi­
demic  tendencies  had  broken  out among 
a  collection  of  rats  which  were  being 
held  for  experimental  purposes.  Further 
investigations  were  made  to  determine 
the  cause  of  the  trouble,  and  from  the 
liver  and  spleen  of  the  affected  animals 
a  bacillus  was  detached  which  proved 
on  inoculation  extremely  fatal  to  both 
rats  and  mice.  Nearly  every  rat  in  the 
establishment  seems to  have  caught  the 
disease,  and  they  are  dying  off  in  large 
numbers.  Those  affected  have  a  pecu­
liar  sniffle  or  cough, which may be heard 
before  the  disease  has  progressed  suffi­
ciently  to  make  them  take  to  the  open 
air. 

____

^ 

Kola  Preparations.

Mr.  Carles  says that  kola  preparations 
should  be  made  only  from  the  fresh 
nuts,  since  experience  has  taught  that 
by  drying  their  pharmacologic  value 
is 
greatly  decreased.  A  vinous  syrup,  ac­
cording  to  the  experience  of  the  author, 
has  proven  quite  efficacious,  but  it  soon 
becomes  turbid  and  of  bad  appearance. 
The  same  is  true  of  a  vinous  extraction 
of  the  fresh  nuts.  The  simplest  and 
best  mode  of  preparing  fresh  kola  nuts, 
the  author  finds,  is  to  prepare  a  paste 
of  the  contused  fresh  nuts  and  an  equal 
weight  of  sugar.  Such  a  preparation  is 
not  affected  by  the  air  or  temperature, 
in  tropical  climates  will  re­
and  even 
main  unchanged 
three 
months  in  its  chemical  and  physiologic 
aspects.  ____  

_____

for  at 

least 

the  collar of  each  one  with  one  of  those 
useful  and  never  found  when  wanted 
articles.  He  gave  some  terriers 
the 
name  of  collar-button  and  fitted  their 
collars  with  collar-buttons.  The  span­
iels  sold  readily  at  $25  apiece  to  the 
women,  and  the  terriers  at  the  same 
price  to  the  men,  who  now  only  have  to 
call  button-hook  or  collar-button,  when 
the  needed  article  comes  to  them  and 
much  time  and  profanity  is  saved.

Formula  For  Gold  Paint.

So-called  gold  paint  is  copper  bronze 
in  its  various  shades,  mixed  as  required 
in  a  saucer,  and  applied  at  once  tc  the 
surface  of  the  article  to be  gilded.  The 
following  is  the  varnish  for mixing with 
the  bronze  powder:

Gum  mastic,  6  ozs.
Gum  sandarach,  4  ozs.
Methylated  spirit,  2  pts.
Mix  and  shake  for  several  days  until 
dissolved. 
If  not  quite  bright  filter 
through  paper,  and  keep  the  bottle  well 
corked  or stoppered.  Wm.  Mixton. •

White  Wood  as  a  Tobacco  Cure.

The 

inner  bark  of  the  liriodendron 
tulipifera,  or  white  popular,  is  said  to 
be  a  very  efficient  cure  for  the  tobacco 
habit.  The  fresh  inner  bark  may  be 
chewed,  or  the  powdered  bark  may  be 
mixed  with  sugar  and  extract of licorice 
and  pressed 
into  a  tablet,  say  of  five 
grains  of  the  bark.  These  tablets  are  to 
be  allowed  to  dissolve 
in  the  mouth 
whenever  the  desire  comes  to  take  a 
chew  or  a  smoke.  The  man  who  made 
the  discovery  cured  himself,  and  also 
gave  it  to  dozens  of  his  friends with fine 
results.

By 

Carbonated  Cod  Liver  Oil.
impregnating  cod  liver oil  with 
the  disagreeable 
carbonic  anhydride 
taste  of  the  oil 
is,  to  a  great  extent, 
masked,  alteration  of  the  oil  is  said  to 
be  prevented,  and 
its  administration 
facilitated  even  in  the  case  of  a  person 
who  has  strong  objection  to  the  oil. 
Similar  advantages  are  said  to  be  se­
cured  in  the  case  of  castor  by saturating 
it  with  carbonic  anhydride.  A  German 
patent  has  been  secured  by  the  Helfen- 
herg  Company  for the  method  of prepar­
ing  effervescent  oils.

How  to  Give  Epsom  Salts.

Dr.  W.  E.  Putnam  advises  the  fol­
lowing  method  of  taking  Epsom  salts 
so  as  to  avoid  the  taste:  Use  just 
enough  water  to  completely  dissolve  the 
salts.  From  a  second  glassful  of  plain 
water drink  two  large  swallows,  take  the 
salts  quickly  and  drink  the  rest  of  the 
water  in  the  second  glass.  He  has  sug­
gested  the  putting  up  of  magnesium 
sulphate  tablets,  five  and  ten  grains, 
without  coating.

Suitable  Boobs.

Customer  (hesitatingly)— I  suppose— 
er— you  have  some—er—suitable  books 
for a  man—er—about  to  be  married.

Bookseller-----Certainly,  sir.  Here,
John,  show  this  gentleman  some  of  our 
account  books— largest  size.

SEE  OUR 

WALL  PAPERS

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.

H F Y S T E K   &   C A N F IE L D   C O .
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

Valentines for 1902

Selling  Dogs  in  D rag  Store.

A  Bar  Harbor druggist  hit  on  an  in­
genious  method  of  making  money out  of 
dogs.  He  called  a 
lot  of  spaniels  by 
the  name  of  button-hook,  and  adorned

Complete new line now ready.  The  Best 
assortment we  have  ever  shown.  Walt 
for Traveler or send for Catalogue.

FRED BRUNDAOE, Muskegon, Filch. 

Wholesale Drugs and  Stationery

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

J S   DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Radix

Conium Mac............  60®  60
Copaiba..................   l  16® l 26
Cubebae...................  l 30®  1  35
Exechthitos............   1  00® 1  10
Erigeron.................  i  oo@  1  10
Gaultheria..............  2 00® 2  10
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  76
Gosslppll, Sem. gal..  60®  60
Hedeoma.................  l 60®  1 75
Junlpera.................  l 60® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Llmonis..................   l  16®  l 25
Mentha Piper.........  2 10® 2  20
Mentha Verld.........   1  60® 1  60
Morrhuae, &al.........   l  10®  l  20
Myrcla....................  4 00® 4 60
Olive.......................  76® 3 00
Piets Liqulda........... 
10®  12
®  35
PicisLiquida,  gal... 
Rlclna.....................   l 00®  1  06
Rosmarlnl...............  
® 100
Rosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 60
Sucdni....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  l  00
Santal............... . 
2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  66®  60
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  66
Tiglfl.......................   1  60®  1  60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
®  1  60
Theobromas  ........... 
16®  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
16®  18
Bichromate...... •__  
13®  16
Bromide.................  52®  67
C arb....................... 
12® 
16
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19 
16®  18
Cyanide..................   34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
®  16
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7® 
10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6® 
8
23®  26
Pros slate................. 
Sulphate po............  
15®  18
Aconitum.................  20®  26
Althae...................... 
30®  33
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
12
Arum  po.................  @  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentiana.......po. 15 
12®  15
16® 
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16 
18
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @  75
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12® 
15
Inula,  po...... .......... 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris  plox.. .po. 36®38  36®  40
Jalapa. p r...............   26®  30
Maranta,  14s ........... 
®  36
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  26
Rhei.........................  76®  1  00
Rhel, cut................. 
®  1  26
Rhei, pv..................   76®  1  35
Spigella..................   36®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15 
®  18
Serpentarla............   60®  65
Senega....................  60®  65
Smllax, officinalis H. 
®  40
Smllax, M................ 
®  26
Scillae............po.  36 
10®  12
Symplocarpus.Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  26
Valeriana,  German. 
16®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  25®  27
Semen
Anlsum.........po.  18 
®  16
Apium (graveleons).  13®  16
Bird, is.................... 
4® 
6
Carat............. po.  15 
10®  11
Cardamon....................   1  26®  1 75
Coriandram.............  
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa......  4H®  5
Cydonium...............   76®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
16®  16
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum.............. 
®  10
9
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
L ini.........................  8X@ 
6
Llni, grd...... bbl. 4 
5
4>4@ 
Lobelia........................   1  60®  1 66
Pharlaris Canarian..  4 ¡4® 
5
R apa.......................  4*4® 
5
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
ll® 
12
Spiritus

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60
Frumentl,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumentl.....................  1  26®  1 60
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1  66® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacnaram  N. E  ...  l  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Gain.........  1  76® 6 60
Vini Oporto.................  1  26® 2 00
Vini Alba.....................  1  28® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.....................  2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.....................  2 60® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’ *
wool, carriage......  
®  1  60
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................ 
®  1  00
®  76
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e ef,  for
slate use...............  
® 140
Syrups
Acacia....................  
®  60
Auranti Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................   @  50
Ipecac......................  @  60
Ferri Iod.................   @  50
Rhei Arom..............   @  50
Smllax  Officinalis...  60®  60
Senega....................   @  60
sotii»...  ................. 
fh  50

Scillae Co.................  @
Tolutan....................  @
Prunus  virg............   @

1

1

Miscellaneous 

Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharldes............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co..........
Castor.....................  
Catechu!...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis...................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chloridum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless.......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opli..........................
Opli, comphorated..
Opli, deodorized...... 
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentarla............
Stramonium............
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber..................
.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2)4®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto......................  40®
Antimonl, po........... 
4®
Antimoni et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin................  @
Antifebrin..............  @
Argent! Nitras, oz...  @
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45®
Bismuth S.N...........  1  6 @  1
Calcium Chlor., is...  @
Calcium Chlor., %a..  @
Calcium Chlor., \a ..  @
Cantharldes, Rus .do  @
Capsicl Fructus, at..  @
Capsicl  Fructus, po.  @ 
Capsicl Fructus B, po  @ 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15  12®
Carmine, No. 40......   @3
Cera Alba.............. 
50®
Cera  Flava..............  40®
Coccus....................  ’  @
Cassia Fructus........  @
Centrarla.................  @
Cetaceum.................  @
Chloroform............   66®
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  65
Chondras................   20®  25
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38@  48
Cocaine...................  5 65®  5 75
76
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............   @  45
@ 
Creta........... bbl. 75 
2
5
Creta, prep..............  @ 
Creta, preelp........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus....................   25®  30
Cudbear..................  
®  24
Cuprl Sulph............   614® 
8
Dextrine................. 
7®  10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numb€us.  @ 
8
6
Emery, po................ 
® 
E rgota........ po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  16
Galla.......................   @  23
Gambler.................  
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @ 6 0
Gelatin, French......   36®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
70
Less than box......  
Glue, brown............  
n@  13
Glue,  white............  
16®  26
Glycerina.................  17V4®  25
Grana Paradlsi........  @  25
Humulus................. 
25®  65
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
® l 00 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  90 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @ 1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl  @ 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum.........   @  86
IcnthyoDolla,  Am...  66®  70
Indigo......................  76® 1 00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40®  3 60
Iodoform..................  3 60® 3 86
Lupulin.
Lycopodium.............
Macis......................
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manida, 8.  F _____

@
10®

MQ

@

8
76
17
42
48
6
1014
16
56
6
2040
6
8
15
14

26
0060
00

24
8
75

8666

66

60

18
1218
30
20
14
1215
15
26
30
1214
16
17

16
26
76
40
15
2
80
7

18
25
36

38
26
30
20

1066

46
36
28
66
14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14
16
69
40
00
70
30
75
60
40
¡  36
46
46
00

26
20
26
28
23
25
39
22
26

60
20
2020

’ 2066

I 26
!  00
!  20! 76
85
80
86
! 76
L 26
40

Menthol..................   @ 5 60
Morphia, S., P.& W.  2 25® 2 60 
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q.  2  16® 2  40
Morphia, MaL......... 2  16® 2 40
Moschus  Canton__   @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................  
36®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  l 00
Pids Liq. N.N.H gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Pids Liq., quarts....  @ 1  00
Picis Liq., pints......   @  86
Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80  @  60
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22  @  18
Piper  Alba__po. 36  @  30
Pltx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumbi Acet............  
10®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et Opli  1  30®  1  60 
Pyrethram, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethram, pv........ 
26®  30
Quasslae..................  
8® 
10
Qulnia, S. P. &  W... 
29®  39
29®  39
Quinta, S.  German.. 
Qulnia, N. Y............   29®  39
Rubla Tlnctorum__ 
12®  14
Saccharam Lactls pv  20®  22
Salactn....................  4 60® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconis...  40®  60
Sapo, W................... 
14
SapoM.................... 
12
Sapo G....................  @  16

12® 
io@ 

Seldlltz Mixture......  20®  22
Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis,  opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................  @  41
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s  @  41
Soda, Boras............. 
9® 
11
9® 
Soda,  Boras, po......  
11
23®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
i%& 
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash................  3*4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  56
Spts. Myrcla Dom...  @ 2 GO 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.  @ 
Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl  @ 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @ 
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal  @ 
80®  1  05
Strychnia, Crystal... 
Sulphur,  Subl.........   214® 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  2 <4®  314
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theohromae.............   60®  66
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 00
Zinci Sulph............. 
8

7® 

Oils

Whale, winter.........  7o 
Lard, extra................   60 
Lard, No. 1................  
45 

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

27

Linseed, pure raw...  53 
Linseed, Dolled.......   64 
Neatsfoot, winter str  64 
Spirits  Turpentine..  43 

66
57
60
48
P aints  BBL.  LB.
Red Venetian.........  
IX  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
IK  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  214  214@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*4  2X®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris........... 
14®  18
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red.................  6!4@  7
Lead,  white............   6*4®  7
Whiting, white Span 
®  90
Whiting, gilders’__  @  96
White, Paris, Amer.  @ 125 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

Varnishes

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

Drugs

W e  are  Importers  and  Jobbers of Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent Medicines.

W e  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

W e  have  a  full  line  of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

W e  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  W eath­

erly’ s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e  always  have  in  stock  a  full  line  of 
W hiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  W ines 
and  Rums 
for  medical  purposes 
only.

W e  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

All  orders  shipped and invoiced the same 
day  received.  Send  a  trial  order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Fam ily  Whitefish
Rolled  Oats
Corn  Syrup
Flour

DECLINED
Scaled  Herring

Tomatoes
F air......................... 
1  15
l  20
Good........................ 
1  25
Fancy...................... 
Gallons....................  
3 20
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints........... . 
..2 00
Columbia, 54 pints................ 1 25
CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Eocene.......................   @1054
Perfection..................   @ 954
Diamond White.........   @ 854
D.  S. Gasoline........   @12'4
Deodorized Naphtha..  @1054
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine.......................... 19  @22
Black, winter...............   9  @1034
CHEESE
Acme.......................  
0H54
01 '
Amboy....................  
012
Carson City.............. 
Elsie......................... 
018
Emblem................... 
@1214
Gem......................... 
0 ’2t4
01154
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal......................
Jersey...................... 
012
@12
Riverside................. 
14015
Brick.......................  
090
Edam.................:... 
Leiden....................  
017
13014
Limburger................ 
Pineapple................ 
50075
Sap  Sago.................  
19020
CHEWING GUM 
66
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
55
Black Jack.......................  
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
55
Sen S e n ,........................  
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan............................ 
56
Bulk...................... 
 
5
Red. ....................................  7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   654
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

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...........l  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz...........l 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz...........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... l  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  96
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 54s  .......................   36
Colonial, 54s.........................  33
Epps................. 
42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, 54s..................  12
Van Houten, 54s..................   20
Van Houten, 54s ..................   38
Van Houten,  is ..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, 54».  ........................  41
Wilbur. 548...........................  42
Dunham’s H s...................  26
Dunham’s 54s and 54s......  ‘26 ¡4
Dunham’s  54s.......... 
  27
Dunham’s  54s......... ’........  28
Bulk..................................   13
COCOA SHELLS
20 1b. bags.......................... 
Less quantity.................  
Pound packages............. 

COCOANUT

3
4

 

 

 

254

COFFEE
Roasted

_   HIGH GRADE.

Coffees

Special Combination___... 15
French Breakfast...............1754
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java A Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.............29
White House, 30-2s.............28
. .2154
Excelsior M. A J„ 60-ls.. 
l 15
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2S........2054
Royal Java..........................2654
Royal Java & Mocha.......... 2654
Arabian  M ocha................ 2854
AdenMoch..........................2254
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo................................H
Porto  Rican........................14
Honolulu  .............................I654
Parker  House  J A M .........25
Monogram JA M ...............28
Mandehling........................ 3154
Common..............................1054
F a ir.................................... ll
Choice................................. 13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common..............................11
F a ir..................................... 14
Choice................................. 15
Fancy................................. 17
Peaberry..............................13
F air.....................................12
l 00
C hoice...,,.,,.....................16
1 20

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

l 50

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.

Mocha

Package 

21

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................H5t
Dllworth............................H54
Jersey................................ 1154
Lion........................ .......... ll
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin A 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City 54  gross............   75
Felix 54 gross...................... 1 15
Hummel’s 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 
60 books, any  denom... 
l 60
100 books, any  denom...  2 60
600books,any  denom...  ll  60 
1,000books,any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

B u tter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1  60
100  books.......................   2  60
600  books.......................  ll  50
1.000  books.......................   20  00
600, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  6 00
Steel  punch...................... 
76
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour..............................  
654
654
New York...........................  
Family................................  654
Salted..................................  6)4
Wolverine...........................   634
Soda  XXX.......................   634
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette....  .................  13
Oyster
754
F a u st.................................. 
Farina... 
65*
.......................... 
Extra Farina.................... 
6%
Sal tine Oyster.....................  654
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
9
Frosted Cream.................  
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’U  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....................   12
Lemon Waters.................  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
754
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
854
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
854
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch.......................  754
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
Sugar Cream, X X X .......  8

8
Sugar Squares................... 
Sultanas............................  13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................   16
Vienna CrlmD................... 
8
E. 

J.  Kruce A Co.’s baked goods 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundrled...................  0654
Evaporated, 60 lb. boxes.  09
Apricots.....................  1001054
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  010
Pears.......................... 754
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  0  334
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  0  434
80 - 90 26lb. boxes........  0  554
70-80 26 lb. boxes........  0  634
60-7026lb. boxes........  0  654
60 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  0  754
40 - 60 25lb. boxes........  @854
30 - 40 26 lb. boxes........ 
834

California Prunes

54 cent less In 60 lb. cases 

Peel

Currants

Leghorn...................................ll
Corsican..................................13
California, 1 lb.  package__
Imported, l lb package.......  8
Imported, bulk......................734
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 8
L.M., Seeded. 34  lb.... 
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

l  75
654
654
6K
7

Raisins

FARINACEOUS GOODS 

Citron

Beans

6
l  80

F arin a

Cereals

Dried Lima.......................... 
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.........................2 50
Cream of Cereal...................  90
Graln-O, small......................... 1 36
Graln-O, large.......................... 2 26
Grape Nuts............................... 1 35
Postum Cereal, small.......... l 36
Postum Cereal, large.........  2 26
241 lb. packages...................... l 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs........................2 26
Flake, 60 lb. sack  ..............  90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl...................... 4 60
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................2 50
Maccaronl and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 26 lb. box................. 2 60
Common.................................. 2 90
Chester......................................3 ou
Empire......................................8 50

P earl  B arley

H om iny

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

r e a s

Rolled  Oats

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages... 
..2 30
Green, Wisconsin, bu.........1 40
Green, Scotch, bu...............l 60
Spilt,  lb...... ....................
3
Rolled Avena, bbl........... ...5 90
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  2 85
Monarch, bbl................... ...6 60
Monarch, 54 bbl........................2 90
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 66
Quaker, cases...........................3 35
East India...........................   334
German, sacks....................   334
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............   454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  354
Pearl, 241 lb. packages...... 654
Cracked, bulk......................  354
24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 60
FLAVO RING  EXTRACTS

Tapioca

Wheat

8 ago

FOOTE  A  JEN K S’

JA X O N

^Highes^Grrö^Extracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m. 1 20  1 oz full m.  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m .l 26 
No,8fan’y.8  16  No.sfan’y.i  76

Index to Markets

By Columns

B

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
Alabastlne............................  1
Ammonia............................... 
l
Axle Grease...........................  1

C

Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath  Brick............................   1
Bluing....................................  1
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes.................................  1
Butter Color..........................   2
Candies..................................  U
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

x>

 

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

F

G

I

J

L

P

H

M

N
O

Grains and Flour.................  6
Herbs....................................  8
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo....................................  6
Jelly......................................  6
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  15
Lantern  Globes....................  15
Licorice.................................  7
Lye..........................................  7
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts........................   7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard........:.......................  7
Nuts.......................................  14
Oil Cans................................  15
Olives.....................................   7
Oyster Pails............................  7
Paper Bags............................  7
P u ls 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
Wlcking.................................  13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper..................   13
 
Yeast Cake........................ 

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A A LB   GBEASE
doz. gross
..66
6 00
Aurora .  ...
Castor  Oil..
..............60
7 00
4 26
..............60
Diamond...
9 00
Frazer’s ....
..............76
9 00
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75

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

9 00
6 00

B A K IN G   POW DER 

®gg

ii 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,  54 doz. case....... 8 00

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

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

_ _ _  

10c size__  90
54 lb. cans  1 35
6 oz. cans,  l  90
[Q  *4  lb. cans  2 60
% lb. cans 3 75
1 lb.  cans.  4 80
31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

B A TH   B R ICK

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

BLUING

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

Small size, per doz..............  40
Luge 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.......................110
Warehouse.......................... 3 26

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 I n .................   96
Pointed Binds.......................  85
No. 8.................................... 1 00
No. 7.................................... 1  30
No. 4.................................... 1 70
No. 8.................................... 1 90
13

Sboe

Stove

BUTTER  COLOR 

No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2......................................1  10
No. 1..................................... 175
W., K. & Co.’», 15c size....  1  25 
W.,R. & Co.’s,25csize....  2 00 
Electric Light, 88...... ..........12
Electric Light, 16s............... 1254
Paraffine, 6s.........................1054
Paraffine  12s....................... 11
Wlcking 
................29

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

 

175

2 15
3 60
2 40

2 80
l 75
2 80
2 80

1 75

Corn

Beans

F rench  Peas

B lackberries

Gooseberries

Clam  Bouillon

«>
86
95
  22
19
15
  H
90
85

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
100
3 26
Gallons, standuds.. 
Standuds................ 
80
Baked......................  1  oo©i 30
Bed  Kidney............. 
760  85
String......................  
70
Wax.........................  
70
B lueberries
Standard.................. 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1 90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
l 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..........................
Fair..........................  
Good........................ 
Fancy................... 
Sur Extra Fine................  
Extra  Fine.......................  
Fine.................................. 
Moyen....................... 
S tan d u d ................. 
H om iny
Standard.................. 
Lobster
Star, 54 lb....................... 
Star, l  lb........................ 
Picnic Tails.................... 
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 21b.................  
Soused, lib ....................  
Soused, 2 lb...................  
Tomato, lib ............. 
Tomato, 2 lb................... 
Mushrooms
Hotels.......................  
Buttons....................  
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................  
85
Cove, 2 lb........................ 
Cove, l lb  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie ...........................
Yellow....................   1  6601  85
Standard.......................  
1 00
l 25
Fancy.............................  
l 00
Marrowfat..................... 
l 00
Early June..................... 
1 60
E ulyJune  Sifted.. 
Plum s
Plums.....................  
85
Pineapple
G rated...................   1  2502  75
Sliced.......................   1  3502  65
P um pkin
F a ir..................  
»5
Good........................ 
1  00
Fancy...................... 
l  10
Raspberries
Standard.......................  
 
Russian  Cavier
ii lb. cans..........................  375
541b, cans.......... ................  7 00
1 lb. can...........................     12 00
Columbia River, tails 
@1 85
Columbia River, flats 
02 00
Red Alaska.............. 
l  3001  40
Pink Alaska............  1  1001  25
Shrim ps
Standard........................ 
Sardines
Domestic, 54s........... 
Domestic, 34s.......... 
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, 54s.........  
California 54s..........  
French, 548.............. 
French, 54s.............. 
Standard........................ 
Fancy............................  
Succotash
Fair.......................... 
Good.............................. 
Fancy............................. 

334
6
554
11014
17024
7014
18028

Straw berries

18020
22025

Salmon

Peas

1 00
1 25

l 56

90

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INDIGO

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50
5 lb. pall8.per doz........... 
l 90
151b. palls............................  38
301b. palls............................  72

JELLY

k oo
3 38

KRAUT
Barrel.....................  
M Barrel.................. 
LICORICE

Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily...................................   14
Boot.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz................ l  20
Condensed, 4 doz................ 2 25

LYE

MATCHES

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

MEAT  EXTRACTS

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

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

40
35
26
22

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, l doz........... l  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz...........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..........l 75

OLIVES

l  25
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs............... 
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs............... 
l  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs............... 
l  00
Manzanllla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2 35
Queen, 19 o z ....................  4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz......... ............ 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................   145
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Continental  Paper Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific 
Bottom 
Square

Ask your Jobber for them.

PA PER  BAGS

H....................  28 
M....................  34 
1 
................  44 
................  54 
2 
3 
...............   66 
...............   76 
4 
5 
...............   90 
...............1 06 
6 
8................... 1  28 
10................... 1  38 
12................... 1  60 
14................... 2  24 
16................... 2  34 
20................... 2  52 
25.................... 
Sugar
Bed................................... 
4M
Gray.................................   43£

50
60
80
1 00
1 25
1 46
1 70
2 00
2 40
2 60
3 15
4 15
4 50
5 00
5 50

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count............7 75
Half bbls, 600 count............4 38

Small

PIPES

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 8 75
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........5  oo

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

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  Pork

Mess.........................  @16 75
Back.......................  @18 00
Clear back...............  
@18 00
Short out.................  @17 50
Pig..........................
Bean.........................  @16 oo
Family Mess............
Wallace Clear.........  @17.50

D ry  Salt Meats

9M
9K
9X

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

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @  11X
Hams, 141b. average.  @  11
Hams, 161b. average.  @  11%
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @  10
Ham dried beef......   @ 12M
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @  83£
Bacon, clear............   10M@  HM
California hams......   @  7&
Boiled Hams.......... 
@16
Picnic Boiled Hams  @  12M
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d.  @  9M
Mince H ams.........  
@  9M
Compound...............  
7%
Pure........................ 
lOM
8M
Vegetole................ 
M
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
M
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
M
501b. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
M
10 lb. Palls. .advance 
%
51b. Pall*, advance 
gib. Falla., advance 

Lards—In Tierces

l
t

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

L>. O  Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz......... 
75  2oz.........   1  24
3 oz.........  1 00  3 oz..........  1  60
6 oz.........   2  00  4 OZ.........   2  00
NO. 4T 
.  1 52  No. 3 T...  2 08
Our  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.

FL Y   P A P E R

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

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

Pork

Carcass....................   6  @  8
Forequarters.........  
6  @6
Hindquarters.........  
6Vi@  8M
Loins.......................   9  @12
8  @10
Bibs......................... 
Rounds.................... 
6V4®  7S4
Chucks.................... 
6V4@ 6
Plates...................... 
3  @5
Dressed...................  6 M@ 8%
Loins....................... 
@  9it
Boston Butts........... 
8M@  8%
@  8 
Shoulders
Leaf  Lard................
M utton
Carcass.................... 
Lambs......................  7
Carcass....................  6  @7
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

@  938

5%@  7

Veal

W heat

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

W inter W heat F lour 

82

Local Brands

Spring W heat  F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 60
Second Patent...................  4  10
Straight.............................  3  90
Second Straight...............   3 70
Clear................................   3  40
Graham............................  3 76
Buckwheat.......................  4 76
Bye..................................  3 30
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per hbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms......................  4 oo
Diamond its.....................   4 oo
Diamond Ms.....................   4 00
Quaker Ms..........................   4 20
Quaker 14s..........................  4 20
Quaker Ms..........................  4 20
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 50
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 40
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4  40 
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 40 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4 60
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  30
■  Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  Ms....................... 
4 45
Wingold  Ms.......................  4 35
Wingold  Ms..............  ••• 
4 25
Ceresota Ms......................  4  60
Ceresota Ms......................  4 so
Ceresota Ms......................  4  40
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 60
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 50
Laurel  Ms.........................  4  40
Laurel Ms and Ms paper..  4 40
Bolted...............................  2 76
Granulated.......................  2  95

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Meal

Feed and MlllstufTS 

St. Car Feed, screened....  26 oo
No. l Corn and  Oats......  25  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal......  24  50
Winter Wheat Bran.........  21  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  22  00
Screenings........................   20 00
Car  lots.............................  50
Car lots, clipped...............   55
Less than car lots.............
Com, car  lots...................  63

Oats

Corn
Hay

10 50 
12  50

No. l Timothy oar lots..
No. I Timothy ton lots.. 
Sage...............................
Hops.............................
Laurel Leaves........................ 15
Senna Leaves....... ..................25

HERBS

8

Beef

Tripe

Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver....................... 
Frankfort...............  
P o rk ....................... 
Blood....................... 
Tongue.................... 
Headcheese............  
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Bump.....................  
Pigs’  Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
M bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
Pork  ...*•.................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utterine
Solid, dairy.............. 
Bolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb__  
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Boast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Potted ham,  Mb......  
Deviled ham,  Ms.... 
Deviled ham, Ms.... 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats

6
6
7M@8
9
6
4
6

10 75
li  oo
li  00
180
3 20
70
125
2  40
21
4
12
65
@13M
@14
17M
17
2  50
17 50
2 60
50
90
50
90
50
90

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

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer .3  15
Deland’s....................................3 00
Dwight’s Cow...........................3 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P ..........................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ks...................3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__1  f 0
Lump, bbls.........................  80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   85

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Diam ond Crystal 

Common  Grades
 

100  3 lb. bags...........................3 00
50  61b. bags...........................3 00
2214 lb. bags...........................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb.bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks............. 
2  25
60 51b. sacks............................ 2 15
2810 lb. sacks.......................... 2 05
561b. sacks.......................   40
281b.sacks.................. 
22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   20
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
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

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6M
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...................  @ 
Strips or  bricks......... 6M@10M
Pollock...........................  @ 35k
S trip s..................................10
Chunks.................................... 12
No. 1100 lbs......................   5 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2  50
NO. 1  10 lbs....................... 
70
No. 1  8 lbs....................... 
59
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  09 
Holland white hoopsMbbl.  5 75
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
75
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 35
Bound 40 lbs......................  1  65
Scaled.............................. 
14
Bloaters.............................  1 60
Mess 100 lbs......................   11  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4  70
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  25
Mess  8 lbs......................   1  03
No. 1100 lbs......................   9  50
NO. 1  40 lbs......................   4  10
No. 1  10 lbs......................   1  10
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
91
No. 2100 lbs......................   8 00
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   3 50
NO. 2  10 lbs......................  
96
79
NO. 9  8 lbs......................  

M ackerel

JVOHDffL
w a s i a

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—

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

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

Coal Oil Johnny............   4 00
King Cole  ......................   4 00
Queen Anne....................  3 35
Big  Bargain..............—   1  90
Umpire...........................   2  35
German Family..............  2  65
Dmgman.........................  3  85
Santa Claus....................  3  40
Brown...........................    2 22
Fairy...............................  4  00
Fels brand—
Naptha....................... 
  4 00
Gowans & Sons brands—
Oak Leaf.........................  3  25
Oak Leaf, bigs...............   4 25

J A X O N

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Single box........................... 3  20
5 box lots, delivered..........3  15
10 box lots, delivered..........3  10
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3 40
Calumet Family............. 2  40
Scotch Family................ 2  55
Cuba........................  ....  2 40
so cakeB....................  1 95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme........................  4 25
Acme5c.......................  3 65
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master.............................3  70
Lenox.............................   3 20
Ivory, 6oz....................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................6  75
Schultz & Co. brand-
sta r— .......................... 3  25
Search-Light Soap Co.  brand. 
Search-Light. 100 twin bars 3 60 
A. B.  Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 25
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz.......2  40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2  40
Boxes...................................  5M
Kegs, English......................4X

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

6

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 116-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P u re G round in B ulk
Allspice............................. 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African......... .. 
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage......... ........... 
Corn

SYRUPS

 

12
12
28
38
66
17
14
55
50
40
35
18
28
20
16
28
48
17
15
18
25
66
18
17
25
20
20

Barrels................................23
Half bbls.................... 
...26
10 lb. cans, % doz. in ease..  1  70 
5 lb. cans, 1 do?, in case—   1  90 
2Mlb. cans, 2 doz. In case... 1 90

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W hite fish

100 lbs........... 8 00 
40 lbs...........8 50 
10 lbs...........  95 
8 lbs.........  79 
SEEDS

9
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 50
1 70
50
43
Anise..................................... 9
Canary, Smyrna.................... 3M
Caraway............................... 754
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp, Russian...................... 4
Mixed Bird...........................   4
Mustard, white.....................  7
Poppy....................................  6
Rape...................................   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 00

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

IO

Pure  Cane

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

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   8M
20 l-lb. packages...............  7
6 lb. packages...............  
7M
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss

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

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  5M
3-lb. packages...................  5
6-lb. packages..................   6
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............   3M
Barrels............................ 
8M

29

_____ JJ______
No.  8................................   4 26
No.  9................................   4 20
No. 10................................   4  15
NO. 11................................   4  10
No. 12................................   4 06
No. 13................................   4  10
No. 14................................   4 06
No. 15................................   4 05
No. 16................................   4 OO

TEA
Jap an

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

G unpowder

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

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
Works:  Venice, I1L 
Genera, 111.

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

Common Corn

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

STOVE  POLISH

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross  4 60 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross  7 20

SUGAR

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the local 
freight from New York to your
M ing point, giving you credit 
e  invoice for  tne  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  so
Cut Loaf............................  5 60
Crushed............................  5 so
Cubes................................  5  25
Powdered.........................  6  10
Coarse  Powdered......... ..  6  10
v x x x   Powdered............   6  15
Fine Granulated...............   4 99
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran.. . . .   5 05
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 06
Mould A............................  5 35
Diamond  A.......................  6 00
Confectioner’s  A..............  4  86
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 45
NO.  7................................  4 86

Young  Hyson

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

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

English Breakfast

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

India

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

TOBACCO

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand.

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

8

3

3

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

Fine  Cut

Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojibwa.................................34
Forest  Giant........................34
Sweet Spray..,.....................38
Cadillac................................ 67
Sweet  Loma......................... 38
Golden Top.......................... 26
Hiawatha............................. 57
Telegram.............  
26
Pay C ar................................32
Prairie Rose......................... 60

 

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

P lug

 

Flat Iron..............................33
Creme de Menthe................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,  8oz................ 44
Nobby Twist........................48
JollyTar..............................38
Old Honesty......................... 44
Toddy.,.................................34
J. T  . . . . ...........  
•••••..38
Piper Heldsick.....................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............................... 35
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 27
I XL,  51b...........................27
IX  L, 16 oz. palls..................31
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips....................................34
Klin Dried...........................22
Duke’s Mixture..................38
Duke’s Cameo.....................40
Myrtle Navy...................... 40
Turn Yum, IX oz..................40
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream...................................37
Com Cake, 2% oz.................24
Com C ake,lib.....................2i
Plow Boy, IX oz...................40
Plow Boy, 3J< oz...................39
Peerless, 3*4 oz.....................34
Peerless, IX oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2H oz..................28
Indicator, l lb. palls........... 31
CoL Choice, 2H oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz................. .21

TABUS SAUCES
LEA &
“   PERRINS* 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 so
Halford, large...................  8 75
Halford, small..................   2 25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 55
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75

TW INE

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

VINEGAR

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

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

ffittfz / fG i/ lb w
Bub-No-More.....................3 50
Peariine.............................. 3 76
Scourine.............................. 3 50

WICKING

No. 0, per gross................... 20
No. 1, per gross................... 25
No. 2, per gross...................35
No. 8. per gross................... 55

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels................................  85
Bushels, wide  band............1  15
M arket................................  30
Splint, large........................6 00
Splint, medium..................5 00
Splint, small.......................4 00
Willow Clothes, large.........5 60
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 00
Willow Clothes, small........ 4 75

B u tter Plates

No. 1 Oval, 250 In crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  so
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  55
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate........  65

Egg Crates

Humpty Dumpty...............2 25
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  26

Clothes Plus

Bound head, 5 gross box....  45 
Bound head,cartons........  62

13

H op  Sticks

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........   85
No 1 common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
17 ft  cotton mop heads___ l 2s
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90

Palls

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

Toothpicks

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

Tubs

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

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

11 In. Butter.........................  76
13 
In. Butter....................1 00
16 In. Butter........................1 76
17 In. Butter........................2 60
19 In. Butter........................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2 50

W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
1*4
Fiber Manila, white.........   3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4tf
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2 yt
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__   20
Wax Butter,  rolls.............  15

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Magic, 3 doz........................1 00
Sunlight, 3doz.....................l 00
Sunlight, 1%  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............l 00
Yeast Foam, H4  doz...........  50
Per lb.
White fish....................   m   10
Trout............................8d   9
Black Bass...................io@  11
Halibut........................  ©  16
Ciscoes or Herring__   ©  5
Bluefish.......................   ©  12
Live  Lobster...............   ©  20
Boiled  Lobster............   ©  20
Cod...............................  &  10
Haddock.....................   ©  7
No. 1 Pickerel..............  ©  9
Pike.............................   ©  8
Perch...........................   a   5
Smoked  White............   ©  l<
Bed  Snapper...............   ©  11
Col River  Salm on....Id©  14
Mackerel......................  ©  15

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

40
33
27
1 75
l  60
1 35
1  10

HIDES AND  PELTS

Hides

Co., 100 Janal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. l ............  
Green  No. 2............. 
Cured  No. l ............  
Cured  No. 2............. 
Calf skins, green No. 1 
Calfskins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calf skins .cured No. 2

© 7%
©6*4
© 85fc
© 7X
© 9
© 7%
©10
@ 814
Pelts
Pelts, each..............
50©  80
Lamb........................... ..30©  65
Tallow
No. 1.........................
© « £
No. 2.........................
© 3%
Wool
Washed, fine...........
©20
Washed,  medium...
©23
Unwashed,  fine......
©16
Unwashed, medium.
©18
CANDIES 
Stick Candy

Standard .........
Standard H. H. 
Standard  Twist 
Cut Loaf...........
Jumbo. 32 lb....
Extra H .H ......
Boston Cream.. 
Beet B*''-1

bbls. palls
© 7*4 

©7*4 © 8 

© 9 
cases 
@ 7*  
@10*4 
©10 
© 8

Mixed Candy

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

© 6*4
© 7
©
© 7%
...................   @ m
© 9
© 8
© 3K
@ 9
© 9
© 9
©10
©10
©14*4
©13

Fancy—In  Pails 

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

8Vi
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
12
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
12
Peanut Squares...... 
9
Sugared Peanuts__ 
11
Salted Peanuts........ 
12
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
Ban Bus Goodies.... 
©12
Lozenges, plain......  
© 914
Lozenges, printed... 
©10
Choc. Drops............. 
©11*4
Eclipse Chocolates... 
©13*4
©14
Choc.  Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..  ©16
Gum Drops.............. 
© 6*4
Moss Drops............  
© 9H
Lemon Sours........... 
© 9%
Impqrlaa. 
........ 
© 9*
ItaL Cream Opera... 
©12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............  
©12
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls.................  
©13
Golden Waffles........ 
©12
Lemon  Sours.........  
©55
* ©60 
Peppermint Drops.. 
©66
Chocolate Drops.... 
©86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............  
©1 00
Gum Drops.............. 
©35
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
©56
Lozenges,  plain....... 
Lozenges, printed...  ©60
Imperials................. 
©60
Mottoes................... 
©60
Cream  Bar............. s 
©55
Molasses Bar..........1 
©55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
©66
String Book............. 
©86
Wlntergreen Berries 
©eo
Caram els
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
© 9
Standard, 20 lb. pails  ©10
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis  @12*4
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
©15
Xorker 2 for lc pr bx 
©55
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
©55
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
©60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
©60
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......  
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.......... 
Extra Choloe...........  
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
Medt. Sweets........... 
Jamaica«................. 
Bodi...................... 
Lemons 
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300......   3  76©4 00
Verdelll, ex chce 300 
Verdelll, fey 360......  
Malori Lemons, 300.. 
Messlnas  300s..........  3 75@4  00
Messtnas  360s..........  3 50®3  76
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 
l  50@2 00
Large  bunches........

©3 25
©3 25
©3 50
©
©
©
©
©
©
©
©
©
©

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign  D ried F ru its 
©
California«,  Fancy.. 
©  93
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........  
@  12
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes....................  
@  14
a
Pulled, 61b. boxes... 
Naturals, in bags.... 
©
Fards In 10 lb. boxes  @
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
©
Hallowl....................  4*4© 5
©
lb.  cases, new......  
Salra,601b.cases....  4*4  © 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  ©16
Almonds, Ivloa......  
@
Almonds, California,
16@16
soft shelled...... . 
Brazils...................... 
@16*4
Filberts  .................  
©13
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
@13
Walnut*., soft shelled 
California No. l . .. 
@13
©1314
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Pecans,  Med........... 
©10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
©13
Pecans, Jumbos......  
©13
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
@2 75
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
©
©
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
P eanuts
Fancy, H .P» Suns.. 
6  @ 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choloe, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Boasted........... 
Span. Shlld No. 1 nSr  6  0 7

Roasted................  6  ©6*4

©
©

16

STONEW ARE 

Butters

*4 gal.
1 to 6 
8 gal.
10 gal.
12 gal. 
is gal.
20 gal.
25 gal 
30 gal.

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

Churns

M ilkpans

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

*4 grn  f.at or rd. hot, per doz............
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ tach..............
Fine Glazed M ilkpans
*4 gal  flat or rd. hot., per doz............
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each.................

Stewpans

Ju g s

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

14 gal. per doz.....................................
M 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 Son.............................................
No. 2 Sun.............................................
No. 3 Sun.............................................
Tubular................................................
Nutmeg................................................

LAMP   CHIMNEYS—Seconds 
Per box of

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

A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

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

F irst Quality

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

XXX  F lin t

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped s  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 Sim, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (66e doz)..........................
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (8O0 doz)*"*....................

Rochester

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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 l doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl..
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases l doz. each
MASON  FRUIT JABS.
Pints...................................................
Quarts..................................................
Half  Gallons.......................................
Caps and  Rubbers..............................
R ubb ers..................................................

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Danger  in  Mixing  Business  and  Philan­

thropy.

in  a 

The  recent  announcement  from  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  that  Alfred  Dolge,  for­
merly  a  resident  of  Dolgeville,  N.  Y., 
has  filed  a  petition  in  bankruptcy,  in 
which  he  asks  to  be  relieved  of  debts 
amounting  to $1,645,043.61,  calls  atten­
tion  to  an  interesting  business  subject. 
In  his  explanatory  statement  Mr.  Dolge 
alleges  that  his  trouble  came  about 
through  business  reverses  and  misfor­
tunes  brought  upon  him  as  the  result  of 
machinations,  frauds  and  conspiracies 
of  other  persons 
in  whom  he  had  im­
plicit  trust  and  confidence.  He  was  a 
manufacturer  of  felt shoes  and felt  piano 
covers.  Besides  this  business  he  was 
interested 
large  number of  other 
enterprises.  He  was  exceedingly  pros­
perous  for  a  series  of  years.  That  was 
when  he  managed  his  own  business. 
Then  he  began  to  mix  business  and 
philanthropy.  Business  and  philan­
thropy  are  both  splendid  things,  but 
there  seems to  be  grave  danger  in  try­
ing  to  mix  the  two.  Not that  a  business 
man  cannot  be  a  philanthropist. 
In­
deed,  many  of  the  most  successful  men 
in  all  lines  of  industry  are  exceedingly 
philanthropic.  Carnegie  gives  so  many 
millions  to charity  that  the  average  man 
gets  tired  counting  them;  Rockefeller 
founded  one  of  the  greatest  echicational 
institutions  in  the  country  and  endows 
it  munificently ;  Helen  Gould  employs 
half  a  dozen  secretaries  looking  after 
her bountiful  charities,  and  we  can  all 
record  from  memory  the  names  of  half 
in  the  various 
a  hundred  members 
branches  of  the  shoe  and 
leather  trade 
who  are  in  the  habit of giving thousands 
of  dollars  to  benevolent  and  charitable 
institutions without  saying  a  word  about 
it.  Alfred  Dolge  might  have  given 
away  a  few  millions  in  the  course  of 
years  without  being  any  the  worse  off 
financially  had  he  done  so  after  busi­
ness  hours.  He  tried  the  experiment, 
however,  that  has  wrecked  so  many 
thousands  of  making  a  sort  of  profit- 
sharing  enterprise  of  his  business. 
In 
other  words  he  was  carried  away  with 
an  Eutopian  scheme,  which  would  not 
work  in  the  long  run,  because  people  he 
thus  sought  to  benefit  had  too  much  of 
the  old  Adam  selfishness  in  them  which 
impelled  them  to  take  advantage  of 
their  benefactor.  As  they  were  part  of 
the  profit  sharers,  they  got  an 
idea,  no 
doubt,  that  their  services  couid  not  be 
dispensed  with,  and  he  soon  bad  an 
army  of  “ soldiers”   around  him.  That 
was  the  beginning  of  the  end.  He 
lost 
control  of  his  own  business  and  things 
went  from  bad  to  worse. 
“ Business  is 
business,”   is  an  old  saying,  but  it  is 
one  of  the  truest  that  has  come  down  to 
us  from  somewhere 
in  the  dim  and 
misty  past.  Some  good  old  Patriarch 
probably  gave  utterance  to  it.  The  suc­
cessful  business  man  who  hopes  to  con­
tinue  successful  will  give  away  a  thous­
and  dollars  to  charities  after  business 
hours  rather than  lose  a  cent  by  allow­
ing  some  one  to  take  advantage  of  him 
during  the  hours  he  devotes  to  his  busi­
ness,  and  he  is  right  in  doing  so.

Numerous  Novelties  in  the  Doll  Dine 

This  Season.

Many  additions  to the  doll  line  have 
been  made  this  year. 
In  fact,  not  for 
many  years  have  so  many  new  dolls 
been  brought  out.  During  the  Spanish 
war and  immediately  afterward  every­
thing  was  military  or  naval.  Now  sen­
timent  has  tended  the  other  way,  and 
military  dolls  are not  so  much  seen. 
It 
is  sporting  dolls,  society  dolls,  and  dolls 
representing various other people.  There

are  many  from  foreign  manufacturers 
which  are  reproductions  of  foreign  per­
sonages,  the  costuming  and  other  fea­
tures  being  as  nearly  perfect  as  it  is 
possible  to  make  them.  These  are  prov­
ing  popular,  and  are  selling  freely  at 
well-sustained  prices. 
The  danger 
seems  to  be  that  there  will  scarcely  be 
enough  to  fill  orders  at  regular  rates. 
Hence  the  necessity  for cutting  doesn’t 
seem  apparent.

Among  the  novelties  may  be  noted  a 
Chinese  Boxer,  which  is  sure  to  please. 
For the  child  who  still cares  for military 
matters  this  doll  has  some  attractions. 
There  are  three  in  a  set,  and  they  can 
be  stood  up  and  knocked  down  with 
toy  cannon  if  desired.  The  expression 
of  the  faces  and  the  costuming  are  cor­
rect.  Possibly  they  might  be  consid­
ered  of  some  educational  value  for  that 
reason.

Another  doll 

The  Pan-American  series  had  some 
vogue  earlier  in  the  season,but  with  the 
passing  of  the  Exposition  they  are  not 
selling  as  readily.  These  were  simply 
dolls  dressed  to  represent  the  nations 
supposed  to  be  a  part  of  the  fair.  Some 
were  nicely  made  up and were  attractive 
for the  reason  that  they  brought  to  the 
child’s  notice  new  ideas  in  costuming.
is  dressed  in  complete 
Scotch  costume  including  plaid kilt  and 
scarf.  There  are  two  little  doll  school 
children,  the  boy  clad 
in  cap  and 
sweater  with  his  books  under  his  arm, 
and 
immaculate 
pinafore  with  miniature  slate  in  hand.
Another  couple  represent  golfers.  The 
boy  is  dressed  in  golf  trousers  and  hose 
with  a  red  sweater.  The  girl  has  a 
plaid  golf  skirt  and  a  golf  cape  as  nice­
ly  made  as  one  ever  worn  by  any  golf 
girl.

the  girl  dressed 

in 

There  are  many  other varieties,  but 
those  following  the  popular  fads  of  the 
day  are  perhaps  most  distinctive,.  and 
will  attract  attention  wherever  shown.

With  the  dolls  go  doll  houses,  which 
are  especially  elaborate  this  season. 
They  are  so  constructed  that  they  open 
and  permit  the  arrangements  tobe made 
within  as  comfortably  as  in  a  regular 
house.  They  range 
in  price  from  25 
cents  to $5,  the  latter  price  purchasing 
a  miniature  house  complete.—American 
Stationer.

Worry  As  a  Success  Killer.

Perhaps  there 

is  nothing  else  so  ut­
terly  foolish  and  unprofitable  as  a  habit 
of  worryi ng.  It  saps  the  nervous  energy 
and  robs  us  of the  strength  and  vitality 
necessary  for  the  real  work  of  life. 
It 
makes  existence  a  burden  and  weari­
ness,  instead  of  a  perpetual 
joy  and 
blessing,  as 
it  should  be.  Poise  and 
serenity  are  necessary  to  the  complete 
development  of  character  and  true  suc­
cess.  The  man  who  worries  is  never 
self-centered,  never  perfectly  balanced, 
never  at  his  best;  for  every  moment  of 
mental  anxiety  takes  away  vitality  and 
push,  and  robs  him  of  manhood  and 
lack  of 
power.  Worrying  indicates  a 
confidence 
in  our  strength; 
it  shows 
that  we  are  unbalanced,  that  we  do  not 
lay  hold  of  the  universal  energy  which 
leaves  no  doubt,  no  uncertainty.  The 
man  who  does  not  worry,  who  believes 
in  himself,  touches  the  wires  of  infinite 
power.  Never  doubting,  never  hesi­
tating,  he  is  constantly  reinforced  from 
the  Omnipotence  that  creates  planets 
and  suns.  The  habit  of  worry  is  large­
ly  a  physical 
infirmity;  it  is  an  evi­
dence  of  lack  of  harmony  in  the  mental 
system.  The  well  poised  soul,  the  self- 
centered  man,  never  wabbles  or hesi­
tates.  The  infinite  balance  wheel  pre­
serves  him  from  all  shocks,  and  all  ac­
cident  or  uncertainty.  Enough  vital 
energy  has  been  wasted  in  useless worry 
to  run  all  the  affairs  of  the  world,

Hardware  Price  Current

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

Ammunition

Caps

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

Cartridges

Primers

Gun Wads

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

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

Drs. of 
Powder 

New Rival—For Shotguns

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

Loaded  Shells
Size
oz. of 
Shot 
Shot
in  
10
154 
9
8
1M 
6
1M 
5
154 
154 
4
10
1 
1
6
154 
154 
5
154 
4
Discount 40 per cent.

4 
4 
4 
4 
4J4 
4M 
3 
3 
3*4 
354 
sa  
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg....................
54 kegs, 1254 Ids., per  %  keg.........
54 kegs, 6ii lbs., per 54  keg...........

Gunpowder

8

Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs.

Axes

Drop, all sizes smaller than B......
A ugurs  and  Bits
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........................................
Stove ..............................................
Carriage, new 1W  .........................
Plow ............. 
..........................
Buckets
Well, plain.....................................

Barrow s

Bolts

B utts,  Cast

40
60
76
60
2 60
3 00
6 00
5 76

1  20
1  20

60
70
80

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 96
8 00
2 60
2 60
2 66
2 70
2 70

72
64
4 00
2 25
1  25

1 75

26
60
6 00
9 00
6 60
10 50
12 00
29 00
70
50
$4 00

60

14 In. 

Chain

6-16 In.

.. .  6
.

54 In.
... 654 
... 6X 

...  714 
...  7X 
Crowbars
Chisels

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

66
60
I
Hin.
Com..............   7  c.  ...  6  0.  ... 6  0 ... .  4Xe.
BB................   814 
BBB..............  854 
.  6M
Cast Steel, per lb..........................
Socket Firm er...............................
Socket Framing..............................
Socket Corner................................
Socket Slicks..................................
Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............ . ..net
Corrugated, per doz......................
Adjustable..................................... ...dls
Expansive  Bits
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..............
Files—New  List
New American-.............................
Nicholson’s...................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
Galvanized  Iron
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26; 27,
List  12 
16.

6
66
66
66
66
75
1  26
40&10

40
26
70&10
70
70
28
17

Elbows

14 

13 

Discount,  66

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........

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

H am m ers

60&10

86&20
86&20
85&20

...dls
...dls
...dls

Hinges

Horse  Nails

3354
40&10
70
60&10
B0&10
B0&10
eo&io

Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............
...dls
Y e r k e s  & Plumb’s.........................
...dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3.......................
...dls
Hollow  W are
Pots...........................................•...
Kettles..........................................
Spiders............................................
Au Sable........................................ . ..dls
40&10
Stamped Tinware, new list...........
70
Japanned Tinware.........................
20&10
Bar Iron.......................................... ...2 26  orates
Light Band..................................... ...  8 orates
Knobs—New  List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings......
76
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....
86
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz..................
i  00
Warren, Galvanized Fount...........
600

House  F urnishing Goods

Lanterns

Iro n

16
Gauges

Glass

40
60
40
46

2 45
2  46
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
16
25
36
26
36
46
86
60
46

7 60
9 00
16 00
7 50
9 00
16 00
18 00 

to
14M
60

26 00

Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s............. dig 

Levels

Adze Bye................................ $17 00..dig 

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

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

31

70

SB

7M
8

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern...................................  
76&10
Screws, New L ist............................... 
86
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  50&10&10
Dampers, American...........................  
60

Molasses  Gates

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

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...............................................   6O&10&10
70&B
Common,  polished................................  
P atent  Planished Iron 

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

Broken packages Mo per pound extra.

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Nails

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base.................................. 
20 to 60 advance.................................. 
10 to 16 advance..................................  
8 advance........................................... 
6 advance........................................... 
4 advance........................................... 
3 advance........................................... 
2 advance....-..................................... 
Fine 3 advance.................................... 
Casing 10 advance............................... 
Casing 8 advance................................  
Casing 6 advance................................  
Finish 10 advance............................... 
Finish 8 advance................................  
Finish 6 advance................................  
Barrel  % advance............................... 
Iron and  Tinned................................  
Copper Blvets and  Burs.................... 

Rivets

Roofing  Plates

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

Ropes

Sisal, M Inch and larger.....................  
Manilla................................................ 
List acct.  19, ’86..................................dls 

Sand  P aper

Solid  Byes, per ton............................. 

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iro n

com. smooth.  00m.
|3 80
8 70
3 90
3  90
4  00
4  10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................. 
Nos. 16 to 17..................................  
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

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Steel and Iron.....................................   60—10—6

Squares

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, \ nB.  n. llnd 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, jP®r P0™“- 

Traps

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s.................................................  
Mouse,  choker  per doz...................... 
Mouse, delusion, per doz.................... 

Wire

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

Wire  Goods

Bright.................................................. 
Screw E yes........................................ 
Hooks..................................................  
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................... 

Wrenches
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........  
Coe's Genuine. v. . . . v .............. 
 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, {Wrought..TO

$10 so
lo 60
12 00

9 00
9 00
10 80
10 60

>3

40&10
66
15
1  26

60
60
60&10
60610
40
8 26
2 96

80
80
80
80

30
80

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

Helen  Gould  in  the  Meat  Shop.

From the New York Times.

The  other afternoon  Helen  Gould  was 
seen  in  the  butcher's  shop  with  about 
twenty  young  women.  Miss  Gould  was 
as  modestly  dressed  as  her companions. 
The  butcher  was  busy  cutting,  sawing 
and  weighing,  while  Miss  Gould  was 
pointing  out  to  her  companions  the 
parts  which  cost  the  least.  She  showed 
how  the  butcher  could  cut  meat in a way 
that  still  kept 
it  tender,  and  then  she 
told  of  the  proper  manner of  cooking 
and  serving.

It  was  a  lesson  of  the  utmost  value  to 
the  young  women.  They  were  work 
girls,  knew  the  pinch  of  poverty,  and 
had  little  time  for  careful  bargaining. 
They  were  learning  how  to  get  the  most 
for  their  money.  To  the  many  who 
knew  Miss  Gould  it  would  be  superflu­
ous  to  add  that  none  of  the  meat  used 
in  the  practical  illustration  was  wasted 
and  that  the  butchers'  delivery  boy  car­
ried  parcels  to  addresses  distant  from 
his  usual  route.

Life  in  the  Museum.

looked 

The  ossified  man  produced  a  razor 
from  his  kit  of  personal  belongings  and 
examined  its  keen  edge.  The  ossified 
man  bad  a  melancholy  cast  of  counte­
nance.  He 
like  one  for  whom 
life  had  but  little  happiness  left.

He  gazed  at  the  razor  long  and  earn­
estly,  and  then  suddenly  stretching  out 
his  arm  ran  the  blade  up  and  down  the 
hardened  surface.

“ Beats  any  hone  I  ever  see,“   he  said 
as  he  added  a  few  quick  strokes.  Then 
he  briskly  shouted,  "Jim ,  look  here!"
A  moment  later  the  bearded  lady  en­

tered  the  room.

“ Here  you  are,Jim,”  said  the  ossified 
man  with  a  playful  smile. 
“ Here's 
your  mower,  an*  it’s  fit  to  give  you  the 
shave  of  your  life ."  And  he  thrust  the 
razor  into  the  beatded  lady’s  hands.

For  the  bearded  lady  had  received  an 
offer  to  go  on  the  gallery  door  of  a  con­
tinuous  vaudeville  house,  and  this  was 
his  farewell  appearance  at  the  museum.

is  prevented. 

Glass  Stopper  Which  Preserves  Syrups.
A  German  pharmacist  has  invented 
and  patented  a  glass  stopper  by  the  use 
of  which  the  spoiling  of  syrups  and 
similar  preparations 
It 
may  be  described  as  a  double  stopper, 
one  being  within  the  other.  The  stop­
per  proper  extends  upward  from  the  lip 
of  the  bottle,  has  a  bulge  just  above  the 
lip,  and  has  a  bore-hole  throughout 
its 
length  except  that  it  has  a  per­
entire 
forated  bottom.  Another  solid  stopper 
into  the  upper  half  of  the  larger 
fits 
stopper.  The 
lower  half  of  the  latter, 
it will  be  seen,  forms  a  chamber,  which 
is  stuffed  full  with  cotton  saturated  with 
alcohol  or  chloroform,  the  vapors  of 
which,  passing  through  the  sievelike 
bottom,  fill  the  space  above  the  syrup 
and  thus  protect  it  from fungus growths.

Tobacco  the  Best  Insecticide.

stems,  place  them 

Most  of  the  insects  common  to  house 
plants  dislike  tobacco  as  much  as  does 
the  cleanly  housewife.  The best  way  to 
use 
it  as  an  insecticide  upon  window 
plants  is  to  secure  a  good  handful  of  to­
bacco 
in  an  old 
basin,  pour  boiling  water  upon  them, 
and 
let  them  stand  for  several  hours. 
Then  drain  off  the  liquid  into  a  basin 
or  tub  deep  enough  for  immersing  the 
tops  of  your  plantf  in,  and  dilute  it 
with  warm  water  until  it  shows  only  a 
faint  tint  of  brown.  Then  take  up  the 
plants  one  at  a  time  and  hold  them,tops 
down  in  the  water,  washing  them clean.

The  Unready  Seeker.

A  Georgia  darky  went  out  to  an  old 

field  to  “ seek  and  pray.”

It  was  dusk  and  he  knelt  down  and 
the  angels 

put  a 
would  come  and  minister  unto  him.

long  petition  that 

Presently  he  heard  a  flapping  as  of 
wings  behind  him,  and  in  a  second  he 
the 
was  making  race-horse  time  on 
home  road,  where  he  jumped 
into  bed 
and  covered  his  head  from  sight.

Suddenly  there  was  a  loud  knocking 
at  the  door and  his  startled  wife  cried : 
fer  de  Lawd’s

“ John,  git  up  dar, 

sake!  De  angels  you  have  been  sekin’ 
is  come  fer  you !”
“ Le’m  stay  dar,”   was  the  trembling 
answer. 
’em  throo  de  keyhole 
dat  I  ain’t  goton  wing  ter  fly  wid,  en 
I  too  heavy  ter  tote!”

“ Tell 

Care  of Kings.

“ If  you  want  your  rings  to  last well, ”  
said  a  jeweler,  “ don’t  wear  them  under 
gloves.  But  if  you  decide  that  gloves 
are  a  necessity,  as  probably  you  will, 
then  send  your  rings  twice  a  year to  a 
jeweler  to  be  overhauled.”   The  reason 
for  this  warning  is  the  constant  friction 
of  the  glove  wears  the  tiny  points  that 
hold  the  stones  in  place,  and  the  result 
is  that  the  stones  drop  out,  unless  they 
are  constantly  looked  after.  You  might 
not  detect  a  loose  stone,  hut  a  jeweler 
would  at  once  and  thus  might  prevent 
your  losing  a  valuable  gem.

There  are  some  who  assume  to  say  or 
claim  to  think  that  the  general  spread 
of  electric  roads  and  the 
increasing 
popularity  of  automobiles  will  put  the 
horse  out  of  business.  The  statistics 
furnished  from  the  office  of  the  Secre­
tary  of  Agriculture  do  not  bear  out  this 
proposition.  The  total  value  of  all  the 
horses  in  the  United  States  in  1868  was 
$432,696,226,  whereas  the  value  of  all 
the  horses  in  this  country  in  1900  was 
$603,969,442.  Anybody  who has  bad  any 
occasion  to  buy  within  the  last  year  or 
two  cannot  have  failed  to  notice  the  ad­
vance 
in  price.  There  was  a  time  two 
or  three  years  ago  when  horses  were 
comparatively  cheap,  but  market values 
have  advanced  and  nowadays  whoever 
wants  a  really  good  horse  must  pay  a 
really  good  price.  It  will  be  a very  long 
time  before  electricity  or  automobiles 
put  the  horse  out  of  business.

to  advantage 

Recent  experiments  have  convinced 
Paris  physicians  that  balloons  may  be 
used 
in  certain  cases. 
They  show  that  high  altitudes  can  be 
turned  to account  in  the  treatment  of 
diseases  where  it  is  necessary  to  accel­
erate  the  consumption  of  oxygen,  and, 
on  the  other  hand,  how  harmful  high 
altitudes  may  be  to  persons  and  to  the 
sick  who  already  consume  oxygen  in  an 
exaggerated  fashion. 
It  can,  therefore, 
be  determined  in  advance  and  with cer­
tainty  whether  a  patient  ought  or  ought 
not  to  be  sent  into  a  climate  of  high  al­
titude.

Senator  Depew’s  marriage  will  not 
take  place  until  about  Christmas  time, 
but  it  is  found  recorded  in  the  new con­
gressional  directory.  The  Senator  fur­
nished  his  autobiography  for the  vol­
issued 
ume  expecting  it  would  not  be 
until  about  the  first  of  next  year,  but 
it 
is  already  in  circulation  and  this  sen­
tence 
in  the  sketch  of  the  Senator’s 
career  reads  strangely:  “ Married,  in 
December,  1901,  to  Miss May  Palmer.”

That  the  American  people  are  flush 
with  prosperity 
is  a  reasonable  deduc­
tion  from  stati-sics  showing  that  during 
the  past  year  there  has  been  an  increase 
of  $14,000,000  in  the  value  of  articles 
classed  as 
luxuries  imported  into  this 
country.  Of  this  amount  over $10,000, - 
000  was  for  jewels  and  precious  stones. 
If  a  panic  comes  Americans  will  have 
something  to  carry  to  the  pawn shops.

Students  will  no  longer  be  given  em­
ployment  as  waiters  in  the  Yale  dining 
hall. 
In  years  past  service  of  this  kind 
has  afforded  opportunity  to  many  young 
men  to  partially  pay  their  way  through 
the  college.  The  present  superintendent 
of  the  dining  hall,  however,  says  that 
the  student  waiters  were  incompetent, 
and  colored  men  have  been  given  their 
places.  About  ninety  are now employed.

The  Vograe  of Crystal.

in 

it.  There 

Crystal  is  coming  more  and  more  into 
vogue  for  many  things,  and  attractive 
pieces  for  the  writing  desk  are  to  be 
found 
is  a  paper  knife, 
for one  thing,  of  the  style  of  a  carving 
knife,  the  blade  of  crystal  and  the  han­
dle  of  gilt.  There  is  a  pen  tray  of  the 
crystal  with  a  pen  rack  in  the  metal  se­
cured  to the  back,  crystal  and  gilt  can­
dlesticks,  a  big  slab  of  crystal  with 
handles  of  the  gilt  forming  a  rolling 
blotter,  the 
inkstand,  of  course,  and  a 
paperweight  with  a  representation  of 
an Egyptian woman  in  metal  at  the  top.

“ You  are 

Rapid  Growth.
in  business  in  Montana?”  
asked  the  passenger  with  the  skull  cap.
in  the 

“ Yes,”   said  the  passenger 

smoking  jacket.

“ Is  business  good  out  there?”
“ Yes. 

In  the 

last  two  years  our 
in  size  more  than 

plant  has  increased 
1,000  per  cent. ”

“ Great  Scott!  What  was  the  size  of 

your  plant  originally?”

“ It  consisted  of  a  pair  of  Belgian 

rabbits.”

A  Yankee  youngster  who  saw  a  Ger­
for  the  first  time  the 
it  a  “ half  a  dog 

man  dachshund 
other  day  described 
high  and  a  dog  and  a  half  long.”

Advertisements  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  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

fpOK  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
'  chandlse;  also  building;  good  location;  no 
competition;  doing good business.  Write  quick 
If you  wish  It.  Address  Lock  Box  146,  Omer, 
176
Mich. 
Ii’OR SALE—FINE  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING 
r   and shoes in best location in  town  of  Char­
lotte,  Michigan;  store  to  rent  at  reasonable 
terms.  Enquire at A. J. Prindle’s store. 
176
W ANTED—A  GOOD LOCATION  TO OPEN 
a dry goods or  general  store;  if  necessary 
will  buy  stock,  but  must  be  a  good  business. 
Address No. 174. care Michigan Tradesman.  174
STORE  TO  RENT—SITUATED  ON  MAIN 
street,  Beldlog,  Mich.,  directly  opposite 
Hotel Beldlug;  considered  the  best  location  in 
the city for a store;  size,  18x80  feet,  with  coun­
ters, shelving, desk, elevator and good dry  base­
ment.  Address  W.  P.  Hetheriugton,  Agent, 
Belding, Mich. 
173
I TOR  SALE-WHOLESALE  BUTTER,  EGG 
1  and poultry business in best  location  in  De­
troit, selling to retail  stores,  hotels  and  restau­
rants;  doing $75,000 to $100,000 business per year.. 
A good bargain if taken right away.  Reason for 
selling, am largely interested in  other  business. 
Address No. 172, care Michigan Tradesman.  172
IpOR SALE—BOOK.  STATIONERY, CHINA, 
1  fancy  goods,  wall  paper,  window  shades, 
icture  mouldings;  business established twenty- 
ve  years;  manufacturing  town;  modern  im­
provements.  Will  sacrifice  on  account  of  ill 
health;  bargain for you.  Address J. T. Muncey, 
Three Rivers, Mich.___________________ 171
Ha v e  im p r o v e d   f a r m   so  a c r e s  f o r
stock general merchandise.  John  W.  Cur- 
tls, Wtiittemore, Mich.________________ 170
FOR  SALE—BEST  GROCERY  IN  NORTH- 
ern Michigan, county seat;  trade established 
seventeen  years;  two-story  brick  building  for 
sale.  Sickness, cause for selling.  Hemstreet & 
Hlnman, Bellaire, Mich._______________ 177
A DMINISTRATOR’S  SALE—THE  ENTIRE 
box and basket factory plant of the  late  P. 
C. Wimer will be sold to the  highest  bidder at 10 
o’clock a. m., Jan. 13,  1902,  at  the  office  of said 
factory In  Coloma,  Michigan.  This  factory  is 
well equipped and has a fine  trade  in  Southern 
Michigan.  For particulars call or address  Fred 
Bishop, Administrator, Coloma,  Mich. 
166
FOR  SALE-GRAIN  ELEVATOR;  m a in  
building 24x62 feet:  office, 8x12  feet;  engine 
room, brick, 22x24  feet;  storage  capacity. 18.000 
bushels:  equipped with  26  horse  power  engine 
and  boiler,  scales,  com  shelter,  etc.  Business 
for past year shows a  profit  of  $2,500.  Address 
L. E. Torry, Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
161
Go in g   o u t  o f  b u s in e s s,  f o r   s a l e,
Cheap—A silver-plated soda fountain (Tuft’s 
Congress)  complete,  with  two  ten-gallon  steel 
fountains, tumbler  holders,  ice  cream  freezers 
and cabinet,  liquid  carbon  acid  apparatus  and 
tile  counter.  Address  J.  H.  C.  VanDeinse, 
Greenville, Mich.______________________ 163

M e a t  m a r k e t  f o r   sa l e—in   so u th-

ern Michigan in town of  6,000  and  growing 
fast;  the best town  in  the  State  to  do  a  good 
business  in  and  make  money;  everything  in 
first-class order;  also  power  to  run  machinery 
very  cheap;  best  stock  country  and  shipping 
point in Michigan.  Will bear the  closest  inves­
tigation.  Come and  look  it  over  and  you  will 
buy.  Reason  for  selling,  wish  to  retire.  Ad­
dress No. 169, care Michigan Tradesman.  169

Fo r  sa l e—r e s t a u r a n t a n d  b a k e r s
cigar  and  confectionery  stock.  Soda  foun-- 
tain and ice cream machinery.  Centrally located. 
Only  restaurant  In  town.  C.  S.  Clark,  Cedar 
Springs, Mich. 
168
LM)R  SALE-GRANDFATHER  CLOCK;  100 
JT  years old;  in fine condition.  Box 309, West­
erville, Ohio. 
167
Fo r  sa l e—g e n e r a l  m e r c h a n d is e
stock in one  of  the  best  towns  in  Western 
Michigan;  well  established  trade;  good  clean 
stock;  good  location.  For  further  particulars 
158
and terms address Box 666, Shelby, Mich. 
If*OR  SALE—A NEW AND THE  ONLY  BA- 
1  zaar stock in the city  or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000;  the  county 
seat;  stock  invoices  $2,600;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
157
Dr u g   sto ck  f o r   sa l e  in   c it y   o f
5,000;  invoices  $1,500.  Other  business  ne­
cessitates sale.  Write at once for  particulars to 
No. 164. care Michigan Tradesman. 
164
VjK)K  SALE—UP TO-DATE  $2,000  SHOE 
x 1  stock, with good trade established in a  good 
live town of 2,000.  Correspond with U &  S,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
'  151
Fo r  s a l e—t h e   b e s t  p a y in g   c a s h  
business on  earth;  has been established  15 
years;will inventory  about $2,600;  will  show up 
yearly profit  of $2,000  or  better; will  stand  the 
fullest investigation;  only  reason  for  selling  is 
my health.  Don’t  answer  this  unless you have 
the  cash and  mean  business.  Lock  box  662, 
Owosso, Mich. 
168
Fo b  s a l e- a   g e n e r a l  s t o r e  w it h  
about $2,000 stock, in good locality.  Address 
144
416 Erie St., Port Huron. Mich. 
t|>OR SALE-CIRCULAR SAW MILL,  WITH 
1  top saw, on Walloon  Lake,  Mich.;  capacity, 
twenty-five thousand feet of hardwood  per  day: 
steam feed  and engine (12x20) fed by two boilers. 
Docks and roads all built  and  everything  ready 
for this  winter’s  cut.  For  full  particulars  ad­
dress H. F. Guerin. Horton Bay. Mich. 
WANTED-TO SELL  STOCK AND  BU1LD- 
ing  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 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
OUR  SYSTEM  REDUCES  YOUR  BOOK- 
keeping  86 per  cent.  Send  for  catalogue. 
Eureka Cash  &  Credit  Register  Co.,  Scranton, 
95
Pa. 
fr»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. 
Torrey, Agt., Grand Rapids. 
102
■POR SALE—STORE. GENERAL MERt HAN- 
r   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
ciation),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  26x 62:  warehouse  for 
surplus stock, wood,  coal  and  ice,  12x70;  barn, 
24x36, with  cement  floor:  cement  walk:  heated

142

room by force pump.  Cost  of  furnace,  bathtub 
and  fixtures,  with  plumbing,  $296.  Five  barrel 
kerosene tank in  cellar  with  measuring  pump. 
Pear and apple  trees  between  store  and  barn. 
For particulars or for  inspection  of  photograph 
of premises address or call on  Tradesman  Com­
pany. 
Ij'INE OPENING  FOR  DRY  GOODS  B usi­
ness.  Now occupied by small  stock, for sale 
cheap.  Address No. 97,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
I?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. 
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 
all  correspondence  to  No.  63,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

____________  

63

93

99

97

MISCELLANEOUS

ANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
to work in country store; state  wagps  and 
references.  Address  X.  Y.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

134

For  Sale  Cheap
Tables, Counters, Shelving, 
Show  Cases,  Wall  Cases, 
Mirrors,  Store,  Window 
and  Office  Fixtures,  and 
Electric  Light  Plant, all  in 
first-class condition.
L.  Higer &  Sons,

Tower Block, Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

