Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  1,1902.

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.

2.  Random   Reflections.
4.  A round  th e  State.
5.  G rand R apids  Gossip.
6 .  O ettlng.the  People.
7.  The  New  York  M arket.
8 .  E ditorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  D ry Goods.
11.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Village  Im provem ent.
15.  Successful  Salesmen.
16.  H ardw are.
17.  Crooked Schemes.
18.  P oultry.
19.  Do  I t R ight  Now.
20.  W om an’s  W orld.
18.  B u tter and  Eggs.
23.  Clerk’s  Gift to  the  Twins.
24.  Clerk’s  Corner.
25.  Com m ercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug P rice  Current.
28.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
29.  Grocery  P rice  C urrent.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Oleo  Law  Void.
32.  New Year’s Resolutions.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

A  MISTAKEN  IDEA.

There  comes  to  most  of  adult  human­
ity  with  the  yearly  change  of  date  a 
reaching  out  with  both  hands  for  “ the 
joys  of  long  ago.”   The  old  borne,  the 
old  life  lived  there,  the  old  likes  which 
blessed  us 
in  the  old  time,  take  upon 
themselves  then  an  unwonted  glory  and 
with  a  long  drawn  sigh  there  comes  the 
question from quivering lips,  “ Can 1 not 
live  the  old  life  once  again?”   as  if 
there  in  the  dead  past  and  in  the  dying 
memories  of  it  lies  all  that  is  best  and 
dearest  to  us  on  earth.

While  a  past  without  these  memories 
would be  a  dreary  one  indeed,and  while 
these  are  especially  dear  to  us  at  the 
coming  of  the  new  year  it  is  doubtful  if 
a  greater  misfortune  could  come  to  us 
than  the  granting  of  such  a  New  Year’s 
wish.  We  really  do  not  want  it.  Under 
the  spell  that  always  comes  to  us  when 
the  old  year  ends,  we  want  to  stand 
again  in  the  home  firelight  and  warm 
our  extended  palms  at  its  blaze,  forget­
ting  the  old-time  discomfort  of  going 
upstairs  to  bed.  We  want  to  have  one 
more  good  slide  down  bill  on  the  old 
sled;  but  is  the  want  strong  enough  to 
long  for the  old-time  weariness  of  drag­
ging  it  up  again?  The  old  red  school- 
house  still  stands  by  the  roadside,  “ a 
ragged  beggar  sunning,’ ’ and  the  old 
desk  still  bears  the  name  we  cut  upon 
it  back  there  in  schooltime;  but  do  we 
long  for  what  followed  the  cutting  that 
same  day  after  school  when  we  had  a 
practical  sample  of  the  schoolmaster’s 
rendering  of  the  passage,  “ It  is  more 
blessed  to  give  than  to  receive?”  
It 
reads  well,  it  sounds  well,  it  becomes 
us  to  waft  a  tender  memory  to  “ the 
days  that  are  no  more;”   but  let  us  at 
the  same  time  be  true  to  ourselves  and 
candidly  admit  that,  take  them  all  in 
all,  we  are  glad  they  are  no  more.  They 
had  their 
for 
them—they  had,  also,  their  sorrows—we 
are  not  thankful  for  them;  but  joys  and 
sorrows  are  back  there  together,  and 
back  there let  them  rest.  It  is the proper 
place  for  them.  We,  if  we  are  alive,  are 
in  the  present,  “ heart  within
living 

joys—we  are  thankful 

and  God  o’erhead, ”   let  us  hope,  ready 
to  battle  with  the  present  and  with  what 
pertains  to  it.

“ Is  it  exactly  human  to  shut  out  the 
love,  the  tenderness,  the  sanctity  of  the 
holy  past;  to  turn  the  back  upon  it  and 
with  shut  teeth  and  clinched  fists  bid 
the  aggressive  present  to  ‘ come  on’ ?”  
If  this 
is  asked  in  all  sincerity,  in  all 
sincerity  may  not  also  the  answering 
question  come:  “ Is  it  not  inhuman  - to 
do  anything  else?”  
Love,  tenderness, 
sanctity  are  immortal.  Once  ours  they 
are  always  ours  and  we  can  no  more 
turn  the  back  upon  them  than  we  can  to 
the  light  of  day.  What  New  Year  yet 
wrote  for  last  year’s epitaph,  “ Hie jacet 
Love?”   And  what  arm 
is  not  more 
valiant  on  account  of  this  deathless  af­
fection  and  more  eager for  the  fight  that 
makes  the  present  worth  the  living?

The  past  is  good  and  worth  remem­
bering  only  as  it  inspires  the  present. 
Last  year’s  friendly  handclasp 
is  fit 
only  for  last  year  if  it  does  not nerve the 
hand  for  this  year's  battle,  and  this 
year's  hero,  feeling  this,  buckles  on  his 
armor  and  goes  forth  to  win.  Standing 
thus  equipped,  he  wants  no 
there 
requiem  sung  to  him. 
“ Let  the  dead 
past  bury 
its  dead,”   he  has  worthier 
work  to  do.  There  are  goods  to  be  sold, 
there  are  mines  to  be  dug,  there  are 
crops  to  be  planted  and  gathered  in,  as 
well  as  battles  to  fight;  and,  he  the 
warfare  what 
it  may  with  yardstick, 
spade  or  musket,  be,  if  he  be  what  he 
ought  to  be,  stands  there  not  only  ready 
but  eager  for  the  fray.

So  far  as  this  New  Year’s  work  is 
concerned 
little  need  be  said.  Never 
were  there  greater  requirements,  never 
were  terms  or  conditions  more  exact­
ing,  never  were  rewards  so  great.  There 
is  not  only  room  at  the  top  but  every­
where  below.  On  every  round  of  the 
ladder  there 
is  standing  room,  only  he 
who  would  stand  there  must  be  sure  of 
his  footing,  and  equally  sure  that  be 
is  not  out  of  place.  The  world’s  work 
will  be  done  this  year  with  more trained 
hands  and  brains  than  ever  before  and 
quality  not  quantity  will  be  the  stand­
ard  of  the  paymaster.  The  farmer  will 
consult  more  and  oftener  with  the scien­
tist  before  he  plows  his  fields  and  his 
harvests  will  be  garnered  by  steel-im­
prisoned  skill 
instead  of  the  old-time 
thoughtless  brawn.  Business  will  bend 
its  untiring  energies  to  open new ave­
nues  of  trade  and  send  there  the  men 
who  have  been  trained  to  succeed  in 
the  work  their  hands  have  found  to  do. 
There  will  be  small  chance  for  luck. 
Even 
lawless  accident  will  be  taken 
into  account,  and  its  threatened  failure 
turned  towards  success.  There  will  be 
less  talk  of  “ open  doors”   and  far  more 
bustle  made  in  entering  them!  In  fact, 
the  whole  glad  year  will  be  a  round  of 
intense  activity,  to  end  as  last  year has, 
with  never  such  strenuous  efforts  and 
never  such  rich  returns  and  never  such 
strong  convictions  that,  prosperous  as 
the  year  has  been,  it  is  only  in  the  past 
that  real  joys  are  found,  that  there  we 
must  go  for  our  keenest  delights  and 
that  where  we  have  been,  not  where  we 
are,  is  the  culmination  of  all  that  is 
good— an  idea  as  false  as  it  is  senseless 
and  as  senseless  as  it  is  untenable.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

The 

annual 

In  speculative  centers  conditions  de­
pendent  on  the  holiday  dulness  and  the 
approach  of  the 
settlements 
dominate  the  situation.  Preparation  for 
meeting  the  dividend  demands 
con­
tinues  as  a  temporarily  serious  factor  in 
the  financial  situation. 
earlier 
trading  was  freer  and  the  movement  of 
the  leaders  in  the  market  activity,  cop­
per  and  sugar,  was  upward  while  the 
influx  of  money  was  sufficient  to  meet 
requirements,  but  nearing 
the  end  of 
the  year  the  financial  demands  became 
so  great  that  prices  again  declined. 
A  serious  stringency  was  only  avoided 
by  prompt  action  on  the  part  of  the 
leading  banks.  There  is nothing  to  give 
uneasiness  in  this  condition— it  is  sim­
ply  that  any  sudden  demand  for  large 
sums  of  money  must  needs  disturb  mar­
ket  conditions  however  favorable  these 
may  be.  As  the  vast  sums  to  be  dis­
bursed  must  soon  seek  investment  there 
is  every  assurance  of  an  easy  money 
situation  before  the  new  year  has  ad­
vanced  many  days.

The  great 

industries  are  still 

in  a 
state  of  intensest activity.  Conservatism 
in  prices  and  the  disposition  to  econo­
mize 
in  production  are  factors  which 
promise  much  for  a  steady  period of full 
activity  rather  than  the  approach  to  a 
boom  climax  to  be  followed  by reaction.
The  only  hindrance  to  the  full  activ­
ity  of  the 
iron  and  steel  industries  is 
the  lack  of  transportation  for  Connells- 
vilie  coke.  Production  of  this  fuel  is 
going  on  at  a  tremendous  rate,  but  is 
resulting 
increase  of  stocks  on 
hand.  Utmost  efforts  are  being  made  to 
remedy  the  situation,  cars  of  every  de­
scription  wherever  they  can  be  found 
are  being  put  into  use,  but  it  seems  im­
possible  to  meet  the  great  need.  That 
this 
is  not  a  speculative  scare  is  evi­
denced  in  the  fact  that  it  is  not  allowed 
to  affect  prices.

in  an 

The  textile  situation  closes  the  year 
in  an  unusually  satisfactory  condition. 
In  spite  of  the  large  wool  clip  holdings 
are  reported  on  the  decrease,  showing 
the  effects  of  the  unprecedented  de­
mand.  The conservatism  on  the  part  of 
cotton  manufacturers  as  to  increase  of 
production  is  a  healthy  feature 
in  that 
trade.  Footwear  is  moving  more rapid­
ly,  shipments  from  the  East  exceeding 
last  year's  by  34  per  cent.,  in  spite  of 
the  high  prices  of  materials.

Niagara  Falls  has  been  for  some  time 
in  harness,  but  only  a  fraction  of  its 
mighty  power  has  been  utilized.  The 
Niagara  Falls  Power  Company  is  now 
developing  about  50,000  horse  power, 
but  has  plans  under  way  by  which  it 
will  shortly  produce  double that amount. 
This  increase 
is  to  be  mainly  devoted 
to  the  operation  of  magnificent  new  fac­
tories 
likely  to  locate  at  Niagara  Falls 
in  the  near  future.  There  is  no  doubt 
of  this  fact,  because  the  amount  is  far 
in  excess  of  what  Buffalo  is  likely  to 
require.  On  the  Canadian  side  of  the 
falls  a  Canadian  company  is  preparing 
to  construct  a  power  plant,  and  has 
purchased  a  tract  of  300  acres  upon 
which  it  is  expected  to  develop  an 
in­
dustrial  village.

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RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

In  common  with  other  patriotic  citi­
zens  of  Grand  Rapids  I  sincerely  hope 
that  Dr.  Bradley  will  decline  to  accept 
the  Presidency  of  the  Iowa  College  and 
conclude  to  continue  a  resident  of  the 
city,  which needs more just  such  men  as 
he is—and needs them badly.  The virtue 
I  appreciate  and  applaud  in  Dr.  Brad­
ley’s  make-up,  more  than  any  other,  is 
his  courage.  No  matter  which  side  be 
is  on,  there  is  no  mistaking  his  posi­
tion.  He  takes  his  stand  boldly  and 
maintains  his  position  with  a  fearless­
ness  which 
inspires  the  confidence  of 
his  associates  and  compels  the  admira­
tion  of  his  adversaries.  He  is  so  broad 
in  his  views  and  activities  that  he takes 
an  abiding  interest  in  politics  and 
in 
matters  affecting  the  welfare  of  the city, 
and  those  of  us  who  have  watched  his 
career  since  he  came  among  us  can  not 
help  but  feel  that  the  loss  of  such a  man 
would  be a calamity to the town which he 
has  given  so  much  of  his  best  thought 
and  his  best  endeavor.
*  *  *

I  note  with  regret  a  growing  tendency 
on  the  part  of  thoughtless  people  to 
visit  business  offices  during  business 
hours  and  monopolize  the  time  of  prin­
cipals  and  employes  by  the  discussion 
of  matters  foreign  to  the  business,  and 
I  wish  that  every  one  who  is  guilty  of 
this  practice  would  consider  for  a  mo­
ment the  dishonesty  of  such  an  act.  As 
between  the  man  who  takes  your  time 
or  that  of  your  employe  and  the  man 
who  walks  behind  your  counter  and  ab­
stracts  a  dollar  from  your  cash  drawer, 
there  is  no difference.  Both  are  thieves. 
One  takes  your  time.  The  other  takes 
your  money.  Time  is  money—except  to 
the  loafer  and  the  thoughtless  thief  who 
visit  a  business  office  during  business 
hours  for the  purpose  of  committing  the 
larceny  of  another’s  time.

*  *  *

The  same observation will apply to the 
use  of  the telephone  by employes  during 
business  hours  on  matters  not  connected 
with  the  business  of  the  office.  Such 
a  practice  is  just  as  dishonest  as  the 
stealing  of  money  from  a  cash  till  and 
every  employe  who  will  steal  time  will 
steal  money,  because  in  taking  pay  for 
time  consumed  in  the  discussion  of per­
sonal  matters  the  employe  is  just  as dis­
honest  as  the  man  who  stuffs  a  payroll 
or puts in a claim  for  work  not  done  and 
time  not  given  to  the  service  of  the  em­
ployer.

*  *  *

I  had  this  abuse  brought  to  my  atten­
tion  quite  forcibly  the  other  day  while  I 
was  calling  on  a  customer  in  a  distant 
part  of  the  city  and  had  occasion  to 
communicate  with  my  office  on  a matter 
which  had  to  be  decided  before  the  ne­
gotiations  could  be  concluded.  The 
gentleman  I  was  dealing  with  had  re­
ceived  a  call  to  go  to  his  bank  and  had 
volunteered  to  drive  me  around  by  my 
office,  an  invitation  I  was  very  glad  to 
I  went  to  the  telephone  and  he 
accept. 
awaited  me 
in  his  carriage  outside. 
After a  most  exasperating delay, I finally 
succeeded 
in  getting  the  connection— 
after  learning  from  No.  6 that the phone 
was  being  used  on  business  foreign  to 
that  of  the  office—and  when  I  reached 
my  friend  in  the  carriage  he  coolly  in­
formed  me  that  I  had  kept  him  waiting 
in  the  chilly  wind  twelve  minutes  and 
that,  as  a  result  of  the  delay,  he  would 
be  late 
in  keeping  an  appointment  for 
the  first  time  in  his  life.
*  *  *

I  explained  the  circumstances  of  the 
delay  and  enquired  if  he  was  ever  an­
noyed  in  that  matter.  He  smiled  grimly

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

iron-clad  rule,  which 

and  replied:  “ Not  at  our  end,  because 
we  have  an 
is 
never  broken,  that  nothing  but  office 
business  shall  be  transacted  over  the 
office  telephone. 
I  am  all  the  more 
strenuous  on  this  point  because  only  a 
few  years  ago  one  of my oldest employes 
yielded  up  his  life  because  of  the  crim­
inal  thoughtlessness  of  a  young  frizzle­
haired  girl  who  was  employed  to answer 
calls  in  a  certain  doctor's  office.  When 
my  man  was  injured  he insisted  on hav­
ing  this  dqctor,  who  happened  to  be  his 
family  physician,  attend  him  and  we 
undertook  to  communicate  with  him  by 
telephone.  Every  call  was  rewarded  by 
the  response,  “ Busy,”   and  in  spite  of 
our  urgent  appeals  the  girl in the central 
office  declined  to  cut  into  the  conversa­
tion,  because  she  said  it  was  contrary  to 
the  rules  of  the  company. 
In sheer  des­
peration  I 
instructed  my  son  to  saddle 
bis  horse  and  go  to the  doctor’s  office 
by  the  shortest  route  and  in  the  least 
possible  time.  When  be  arrived  there 
he  found  the  doctor  had  just  left  and 
it 
took  some  minutes  to  locate  him  in  a 
nearby  drug  store.  I  may  say,  sub  rosa, 
that  the  office  girl  was  still  using  the 
phone,  discussing  the  last  night’s  party 
and  exchanging  gossip  with some friend 
in  another  part  of  the  city.  When  the 
doctor  reached  the  factory  the  poor  fel­
low  was  too  weak  from  loss  of  blood  to 
be  moved  and  the  doctor  stormed  like  a 
madman  because  we  had  delayed  so 
long  in  calling  him.  The  next  day  he 
went  before  the  coroner’s  jury  and  tes­
tified 
if  he  had  been  called 
promptly  he  could  have  saved  the man’s 
life,and  this  testimony  was published in 
the  daily  papers  and  circulated  broad­
cast.  Smarting,  as  we  did,  under  this 
injustice,  do  you  wonder  that  we 
insist 
that  private  utilities  shall  be  reserved 
for  the  use  of  those  who  pay  the  bills 
and  that  any  violation  of this  rule would 
be  followed  by  instant  dismissal?”

that 

*  *  *

I 

look  up 

About  once  a  week  I  receive  a  call 
from  a  cheeky  individual  who  hardly 
waits  to  introduce  himself  before  he  en­
quires,  “ How  much  life  insurance  have 
you?”  
in  surprise  and  ask 
him  by  what  right  he  assumes  to  put 
such  a  question  to  me,  and  why  he  does 
not  enquire  how  many  tons  of  coal <1 
burn  and  bow  much  I  pay my hired girl. 
By  this  time  he  discovers  that  he  has 
ventured  on  forbidden  ground,  but  be­
fore  he  has  time  to  rally,  I  usually  sail 
into  him  with  this  sort  of  an  argument: 
* * I  presume  you  have  come  to  see  me 
on  personal  matters.  If  so,  I  am  obliged 
to  inform  you  that  I  am  paid  by  the 
Tradesman  Company  to  work  at  my 
desk  from  7  until  6. 
If  you  wish  any 
of  my  time  between  those  hours,  it  will 
be  necessary  for  you  first to  arrange 
with  the  book-keeper  to  recompense  the 
company  for  the  time  you  propose  to 
take.  If  you  do  not  wish  to  do  this,  you 
can  see  me  at  my  home  in  the  evening 
by  appointment.”   It  is  needless  for  me 
to  remark  that  I  seldom  meet  with  diffi­
culty  in  getting  rid  of  bores  of  this 
character;  nor am  I  likely to be troubled 
afterward by men who have received such 
a  rebuke  at  my  hands.
*  *  *

Of course,  no  one  will  infer that  these 
remarks  apply  to the  successful  life 
in­
surance  agent,  because  he  does  not  have 
to  begin  by  prying  into  a  man’s  private 
affairs  and  running  down  some  other 
company  in  order  to  obtain  business. 
He  talks  about  the  merits  and  advan­
tages  of  his  company  only  and  will  vol­
unteer  no  information  concerning  com­
petitors;  in  fact  he  will  say  nothing

about  other  companies  unless  inveigled 
into  doing  so.  This  is  the  kind  of  life 
insurance  agent  who  gets  the  business 
and  rides  in  his  automobile.

*  *  *

list  of 

1  am  deluged  nowadays  by  communi­
cations 
from  publishers’  associations 
and  Washington  attorneys,  urging  me to 
co-operate  with  them 
in  resisting  the 
“ arbitrary  rulings”  and  “ tyrannical  in­
terpretations”   of  the  Third  Assistant 
Postmaster  General 
relative  to  the 
handling  of  second  class  mail  matter  by 
the  Postoffice  Department.  1  am  in  no 
mood  to  respond  to  these  appeals,  be­
cause  I  am  in  hearty  accord  with  every 
movement  of  the  Department  to  place 
that  branch  of  the  public  service  on  a 
business  basis.  For  years  I  have  de­
plored  the  freedom  with  which  the  De­
partment  was  being  plundered  by  fakirs 
and  schemers  under  the  guise  of  news­
paper  publishers  and  I  have  always  un­
dertaken  to  exert  my  influence  toward  a 
more  strict  enforcement  of  the  law. 
I 
happen  to  know  of  several  publications 
— including  one  printed  in  this  city— 
which  have  regularly  mailed  from  2,000 
to  4,000  copies  on  an  actual  subscrip­
tion 
less  than  100  copies,  thus 
violating  the  laws  of  Congress  and  the 
rulings  of  the  Postoffice  Department.  1 
have  seen  papers  retain  the second  class 
privilege  by  resorting  to  false  swearing 
which  involved  others  besides  the  pub­
lisher.  Realizing  that  this  sort  of  de­
ception  would  ultimately  react  on  all 
publishers,  I  took  the  precaution,  six  or 
eight  years  ago,  to  issue  an  order that 
no  one  should  be  entered  on  the  sub­
scription  books  of  the -Tradesman  with­
out  a  signed  order.  This  rule  has  been 
rigidly  observed,  and,  so  far  as  my 
knowledge  goes—and  I  aim  to  keep  in 
touch  with  everything  going  on  around 
the  Tradesman office— I  believe  the  sub­
scription  clerk  has  on  file  a signed order 
for  every  name  which  has  been  entered 
on  ou r  books  for  several  years.  Some 
of  my  friends  may  think  this rule a little 
arbitrary,  but  I  insist  that  I have a right 
to  dictate  the  terms  on  which  a  man 
may  do  business  with  me,  just  as  1  ex­
pect  to  conform  to  the  other  man’s  cus­
toms  and  methods  when  I  do  business 
with  him.

*  *  *

This  reminds  me  that  some  people 
want  to  do  business  their  way  all  the 
is  not  only  unfair  but 
time,  which 
swinish. 
I  claim  the  right  to  establish 
the  prices  at  which  I  shall  sell  goods 
and  the  terms  on  which  the  sales  shall 
be  made.  On  the  other  hand,  when  I 
deal  with  others,  I  recognize  their  right 
to  set  the  price  and  dictate  the  terms, 
and  I  have  no  right  to  deviate  from 
either  price  or terms  after  the  sale  is 
made.  To  attempt  to  do  so  is  both 
unbusinesslike  and  dishonest,  and  no 
man  who  is  actuated  by  right  motives 
will  resort  to  such  an  expedient.

*  *  *

I  understand  that  Wm.  G.  Herpol- 
sbeimer  and  his  associates  who  recently 
purchased  the  Luce  corner  have 
in­
structed  Architect  Robinson  to  prepare 
plans  for  a  seven  story  and  basement 
structure. 
I  trust  that  this  report  is  un­
true,  because  that  corner deserves  a  ten 
or  twelve  story  building,  and  there  is 
no question  as  to the  financial  ability  of 
the  Herpolsheimer  family  to  erect  a 
monument  to  their civic  pride  and  local 
patriotism.  There 
is  not  a  thoroughly 
modern  structure  on  either  Monroe  or 
Canal  streets,  and  it  is  about  time  some 
one  set  the  ball  rolling  by  erecting  a 
building  that  will  serve  as  a  model. 
I 
have  heard  of  men  who  became  very 
rich  by  minding  their own business,  but

I  sincerely  hope  that  the  friends  of  the 
Herpolsheimers  will  present  this  matter 
to  them 
in  such  a  light  that  they  will 
conclude  to  increase  the  height  of  their 
new  building  three  or five  stories  above 
the  size  originally  decided  upon.
Parasitism   Not Connected  W ith  W ealth.
The  fact  can  not  be  too  often  dwelt 
upon  that  parasitism  is  not  necessarily 
connected  with  any  definite  amount  of 
wealth.  Any  sum  supplied  to  individ­
uals  which  will  so  far  satisfy  them  as  to 
enable  them  to 
live  without  exertion 
may  absolutely  parasitize  them,  while 
vast wealth (unhealthy  as  its  effects tend 
to  be)  may  upon  certain  rare  and  noble 
natures  exeit  hardly  any  enervating  or 
deleterious influence.  An  amusing  illus­
tration  of  the  different  points  at  which 
enervation  is  reached  by  different  fe­
males  came  under  our  own  observation. 
The  wife  of  an  American  millionaire 
was  visited  by  a  woman,  the  daughter, 
and  also  the  widow  of  a  small  profes­
sional  man  who  stated  that  she  was 
in 
need  of  food  and  clothing.  The  mil­
lionaire’s  wife  gave  her  a  leg  of  mutton 
and  two  valuable  dresses.  The  woman 
proceeded  to  whine  although 
in  vigor­
ous  health  that  she  had  no  one  to  carry 
them  home  for  her  and  could  not  think 
of  carrying  them  herself.  The  Ameri­
can,  the  descendant  of  generations  of 
able, 
laboring  New  England  Puritan 
women,  tucked  the  leg  of  mutton  under 
one  arm  and  the  bundle  of  clothes under 
the  other,  and  walked  off  down  the 
street,  followed by the  astonished pauper 
parasite.

The  most  hopeless  case  of  female  de­
generation  we  ever  came  into  contact 
with  was  that  of  the  daughter  of  a  poor 
English  officer  on  half  pay  who  had  to 
exist  on  a  few  hundred  a  year.  This 
woman  could  neither  cook  her  own  food 
nor  make  her  own  clothes,  nor  was  she 
engaged 
in  any  social,  political  or  in­
tellectual  labor  of  any  kind  whatsoever. 
Although  able  to  dance  for  a  night  or 
to  play  tennis  for an  afternoon,  she  was 
yet  hardly  able  to  do  her own  hair or at­
tire  herself  in  her  own  elothing,  and 
appeared  absolutely  to  have 
lost  all 
power  of  compelling  herself  to  do  any­
thing  which  was  at  the  moment  fatigu­
ing  or  displeasing—as  all  labor  is  apt 
to  be,  however  great 
its  ultimate  joy 
and  reward. 

Olive  Schreiner.

A  Case  of “Quits.”

Clerical  customer  (arousing  himself 
chair)—All 

in  barber's 

from  nap 
through,  eh?

ago.

Barber—Yes,  sir;  quite  some  time 
Clerical  customer— Indeed !  Then  1 
in  a  quiet 

indulging 

must  have  been 
nap.

Barber—You  surely  have,  sir.
Clerical  customer— It  was  certainly 
very  kind  of  you  not  to  awaken  me ; 
the  rest  has  done  me  good,  and  I’m 
very  thankful  to  you  for  what  was  really 
a  very  refreshing  sleep.

Barber— Don’t  mention 

It’s 
only  a  fair  return ;  I  attended  service 
at  your church  last  Sunday.

it,  sir. 

The  Young  Man’s  Country.

From the Seattle Times.

in  the  professions. 

One  of  the  happiest  characteristics 
of  the  West  is  its  plentifulness  of  young 
men.  Not.  the 
idle  young  man  of  the 
club,  nor the  society  chap  with  a  pater­
nal  allowance  but  the  young  man  in 
business  and 
It  is 
safe  to  say  that  nine  out  of ten  of  the 
leaders  of  any  business  community  west 
of  the  Mississippi  River  made  a  long 
start  on  their  success  before  they  were 
35.  Those  gray-heads  of  the  West  who 
may  be  found  in  the  front  ranks  of com­
mercial  enterprise  are  in  nearly  every 
case  pioneers  who  have  profited  by  the 
building  done  by  the  young  men  who 
followed.

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powder, used by the most careful house­
wives, and  the best and  most  profitable 
baking  powder  to  use or sell.  “ Royal” 
affords  a  good  profit  to  the  dealer,  and 
its  lively  sale  adds  to the  reputation o f 
any  store.

The United States Government when 
advertising  for  baking  powders  rejects 
alum  powders  in  toto  or  at  any  price, 
because  o f  their  unhealthfulness.  Yet 
makers  o f these  powders  will  be  found 
in  almost  every  town  urging  their  sale. 
Alum  powders  are  a  discredit  to  any 
grocer  who  takes  them  in  stock.

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Around  the State

Movement* o f M erchants.

Armada— Green  &  Ridley 

succeed 
Geo.  Goldsworthy  in  the  meat  business.
Holland—William  Swift  has  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  East  Eighth 
street.

Partello— Francis  Hogmire,  dealer  in 
general  merchandise,  has  removed  to 
Springport.

Albion— Owen  B.  Granger  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  A.  L. 
Young  &  Co.

Constantine— H.  G.  Geer  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock  of 
M.  P.  Merritt.

Breckenridge— Chas.  A.  Zubler  has 
sold  his  hardware  and  implement  stock 
to J.  E.  Hodge.
Baraga— The 

capital  stock  of  the 
Baraga  Store  Co.  has  been reduced  from 
$10,000  to $5,000.

Sanford—W.  H.  Feck  has  removed 
from 

his  general  merchandise  stock 
Turner  to this  place.

Kalamazoo— Baker  &  Hisgen  have 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  the  comer  of 
East  and  Lincoln  avenues.

Ann  Arbor—Weissinger  &  Bancroft 
have  purchased  the  wall  paper,  paint 
and  oil  stock  of  Zera  J.  Townsend.

Caro—Lazelle  Bros,  have discontinued 
the  hardware  and  implement  business, 
having  sold  their  stock  to  Purdy  Bros. 
&  Co.

Traverse  City— Nelson  &  Johnson, 
grocers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by 
Johnson  &  Pohl.

Bendon— H.  H.  Olds  has  closed  out 
his  grocery  stock  at  this  place  and  wifi 
take  a  course  of  treatment  at  the  Battle 
Creek  Sanitarium.

Detroit—The  wholesale  millinery
house  of  Mitchell,  Harris  &  Co.  has 
changed 
style 
the  Mitchell, 
Moody,  Garton  Co.

its 

to 

Hart—W.  A.  Sanford  has  sold  his 
shoe  stock  to  Geo.  H.  Burns  &  Co.  Mr. 
Burns  was  formerly  with  the  Case  Mer­
cantile  Co.,  of  Benzonia.

Pontiac— O.  H.  Pike  and  Charles 
Aldrich  have 
leased  the  Woodward 
building,  on  Saginaw  street,  and  will 
engage 
in  the  grocery  business  about 
Jan.  8.

Harlan—James  Boyd  has  sold  his 

in­
terest  in  the  grocery  firm  of  Boyd  & 
Hanna  to  his  partner,  Geo.  A.  Hanna, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
old  stand.

Kalamazoo— Fred  H.  Daley  and  Ai 
Cook  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Daley  &  Cook  to engage 
in  the  meat  business  at  the  corner  of 
Main  street  and  Michigan  avenue.

Middleville— John Schondelmayer,  for 
the  past  ten  years  engaged  in  the  boot 
and  shoe  business  here,  has sold  out  and 
moved  to  his  former  home  in  Canada. 
His  stock  was  closed  out  at  auction.
Pellston— Fred  Meyer,  of  Petoskey, 
has  his  new  store  building  nearly  com­
pleted  and  will  put  in  a line of furniture 
and  hardware.  Mr.  Meyer  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Brackett  Hardware 
Co.,  of  Petoskey.

Hastings— Fred  J.  Youngs, 

for  the 
past  five  years  engaged  in  the  clothing 
business  here,  is  selling  out  and  will 
join  his  father  in  the  hotel  business 
in 
Dowagiac.  The  stock  is  being  sold  at 
auction  by  Captain  Geo.  Davis.

Detroit—The  Rothschild  Millinery 
Co.,  located  at 
ioi  Michigan  avenue, 
has  given  a  chattel  mortgage  to James 
O’Dwyer, trustee  for thirty-one  Creditors 
whose  claims  aggregate  $4,163,  There

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

are  only  five  local  creditors.  Bamberg, 
Sheeline  &  Co.,  of  New  York,  have  the 
largest  claim,  $517.62.

In  this 

Paw  Paw— Some  time  since  Phy  C. 
Bailey  undertook  to  open  a  drug  store 
in  Covert,  and  as  a  necessary  precedent 
presented  to  the  Town  Board  a  bond  for 
their  approval. 
local  option 
country  drug  stores  have become  objects 
of  suspicion,  and  the  Board,  after  in­
vestigating  the  matter,  refuesd  to  ap­
prove  the  official  bond,  on  the  ground 
of  insufficiency  of  the  sureties.  Bailey 
appealed  to  the  Circuit  Court  and  to 
the  Supreme  Court,  in  both  of  which 
the  action  of  the  Town  Board  was  sus­
tained. 
Subsequently  Truman  A. 
Lampson.  Supervisor  of  the township  of 
Covert,  entered  a  complaint  before 
’Squire  Theo.  Randall,  of Covert,  charg­
ing  Bailey  with  keeping  a  place  for  the 
sale  of  intoxicating  liquor,  in  violation 
of  the 
law.  Randall  is­
sued  a  warrant,  Bailey  was  arrested  and 
on  examination  held  for  trial  at  theCir 
cuit  Court,  where  the  matter  is  now 
pending. 
Bailey’s  attorney  recently 
sued  out  a  writ  of  capias  against  Ran­
dall  and  Lampson  charging  them  with 
conspiracy  to  ruin  bis  business,  destroy 
bis  credit  and  drive  him  out  of  the 
town,  and  claiming  damages  in  the sum 
of  $10,000.

local  option 

M anufacturing: M atters.

Detroit—The  Central  Drug  Co.  has 
increased  its  capital  stock  from  $25,000 
to $100,000.

Menominee—The  Roper  Lumber-Ce­
dar  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000.

Battle  Creek—The  Union 

Pump  Co.  has 
stock  from  $250,000  to  $285,000.

increased 

Steam 
its  capital 

Ironwood—The  capital  stock  of  the 
in­

Ironwood  Brewing  Co.  has  been 
creased  from  $10,000 to $75,000.

Detroit—The  Kaighin,  Roberts  Var­
nish  Co.  succeeds  Kaighin,  Price  & 
Co.  in  the  manufacture  of  varnishes.

Jackson—The Deering-Scott Manufac­
turing  Co.,  manufacturer  of 
rubber 
heels,has increased its capital stock  from 
$10,000 to  $20,000.

Chelsea—The  Chelsea  Stove  Co.  has 
declared  a  semi-annual  dividend  of  4 
per  cent.  The company  is  capitalized  at 
$300,000,  and  manufactures  a  wickless 
oil  stove.

Detroit— E.  Schloss,  Son  & Co.,  man­
jobbers  of 
ufacturers  and  wholesale 
clothing,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by 
Moses  I.  Schloss.

Jackson— L.  C.  Lombard,  represent­
ing  the  J.  Weller Co.,  of  Cincinnati,  is 
in  the  vicinity  of Jackson  working  up 
interest  in  a  pickle  factory  to  be  built 
in  Jackson  i-f  400 acres  of cucumbers are 
pledged  by  the  farmers.

Detroit—The  Wray-Austin  Machinery 
Co.  has  purchased  the  stock,  fixtures 
and  business  of  the  Anderson-Wales 
Pulley  Co.,  manufacturer  of  the  ” Peer­
less”   wood  split  pulleys,  and  will  con­
duct  the  business  from their  offices,  171, 
173  and  175  Woodbridge  street  west,  un­
der the  name  of  the  Peerless  Pulley  Co.
Detroit—The  Detroit  Separator  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of association.  The 
purposes  of  the  corporation  are  to  man­
ufacture  and  sell  steam  and  water ap­
pliances.  Capital  stock,  $15,000.  The 
organizers  are  James  C.  McGregor, 
James  E.  Foley,  David  E.  Austin, 
Alexander  M.  Kerr  and  Hugh  Brodie.
Battle  Creek— The  Economy  Manu­
facturing  and  Supply  Co.,  of  Augusta, 
manufacturer  of 
incubators,  brooders 
and  poultry  supplies  of  all  kinds,  has

removed  to  this  city  and  re-organized 
with  a  stock  company  of  $250,000,  com­
posed  of  a  number of  our  business  men. 
The  company  has  been  manufacturing 
these  supplies  in  Augusta  for one  year 
and  decided  to  move  here  to  secure 
better  facilities.

Saginaw—The  United  States  Plantose 
Co.,  Limited,  has  been  organized  here 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $25,000,  all  paid 
in.  The  officers  are :  George  B.  Mor- 
ley,  President;  A.  H.  Morley,  Treas­
urer,  and  Dr.  F.  Gaertner,  Secretary. 
The  stockholders  include  the  officers 
named,  with  Harry  T.  Wickes,  Will  J. 
Wickes  and  T.  E.  Dorr.  The  company 
is  organized  for the  purpose  of  buying, 
manufacturing  and  marketing  plantose 
food.

Detroit—At  their  recent  meeting  the 
directors  of  the  Peninsular  Sugar  Co. 
decided  upon  a  stock  dividend  of 10,000 
shares,  being  the  remainder of  the  cap­
ital  stock  held 
in  the  treasury.  This 
will  be  distributed  among  the  stock­
holders  of  record  Dec.  24,  pro  rata  on 
their  holdings.  The  entire  capital  stock 
of  the  company  is  50,000 shares  of  a  par 
value  of  $10  per  share.  The  affairs  of 
the  company  are  in  excellent  shape,and 
the  success  attending  its  operations  has 
given  it  enough  working  capital  with­
out  necessitating  the  sale  of  the  re­
mainder of  the  treasury  stock.

food 

Battle  Creek—This  city  now  has 
companies. 
twenty-four  health 
Several  mammoth  buildings  are 
in 
process  of  construction  and  all  of  the 
companies  will  be  making 
food  by 
spring.  The  latest  thing 
is  a  health 
candy,manufactured  by  the  Sanitarium. 
Dr.  Kellogg  does  not  believe  in  the  use 
of  sugar  and  recommends  the  discard­
ing  of  it  for  nearly  all  purposes.  To 
take  the  place  of  candy  the  Sanitas  Nut 
Co.  has  concocted  of  various  fruits  and 
it  calls  a  *  health  confec­
nuts  what 
tion,”   and 
is  now  putting 
it  on  the 
market.  The  company  will  spend  a 
large  sum  of  money  the  coming  year  in 
advertising  it.

A  shovel  naturally  belongs  to 

the 
spade  family,but  the  ace  of  spades  does 
not  belong  to  the  shovel  family.  Still, 
a  man  holding  four  aces  would  most 
likely  have  a  scoop.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

The  Boys Behind th e Counter.

Lake  Odessa—Alton  Nye,  for  several 
years  in  the  employ  of  H.  W.  Hart,  has 
gone  to  Big  Rapids  to  take  a  course 
in 
pharmacy at  the  Ferris  Institute.

Owosso—Claud  Taylor  has  resigned 
his  position  in  the  clothing  store  of  Os- 
burn  &  Sons to  take  a  course  in the  De­
troit  Business  College.

Lowell—Bert  Quick,  who  has  secured 
a  position  with  the  Peninsular  Shoe 
Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids,  had  his  goods 
shipped  and  he  expects  soon  to  be  com­
fortably  located  in  his  new  home  in  the 
Valley  City.

Lakeview— Dean  and  Addison,  sons 
of  Dr.  J.  W.  Kirtland,  the  druggist, 
have  entered  upon  the  study  of  phar­
macy  at  the  Ferris  Institute  at Big Rap­
ids.

Owosso—E.  Wade  Cadman  has  re­
signed  his  position  at D.  M.  Christian’s 
dry  goods  store  and  will  attend  the 
Owosso  Business  College  for  some  time, 
reviewing  his  shorthand  and book-keep­
ing.  During  his  six  and  one-half  years 
in  the  store,  Mr.  Cadman  has  served  as 
cashier,  book-keeper,  floorwalker,  sales­
man  and  window  dresser. 
In  the  latter 
department  his  deft  fingers,  good  taste 
and 
ingenuity  have  produced  striking 
results.  The  windows  have  been  much 
admired’in  Owosso  and  favorably  com­
mented  upon  by  dry  goods  magazines 
and  traveling  men.

Justice  Brewer  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court  refutes  the  idea  that this 
country  became  a  world  power as  a  re­
sult  of  the  Spanish  war. 
“ It  may  have 
cleared  the  air,”   he  says,  "and  brought 
us  face  to  face  with  the  consciousness 
of  the  change,  but  silent  forces  of  com­
merce  and  religion  have  been  at  work 
for  years,  bringing  about  that  result. 
The  merchant  and  the  missionary  have 
lifted  the  republic  from  her  isolation. 
While  wars  will  be,  as  wars  have  been, 
and  while  there  is  within  the  resources 
of our  country  an  undisplayed  military 
and  naval  strength  that  make  her  the 
most  dangerous  enemy  on  land  and  sea, 
yet  the  dawn  of  the  20th  century unveils 
a  greater  national  glory  than  can  be 
won  on  any  field  of  strife.  We  stand  in 
the  council  of  nations  strong  enough  to 
fear  no  attempt  to  wrong  us;  so  strong 
that  we  can  not  afford  to  wrong  any, 
even  the  weakest  nation.”

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip
H.  Wilder  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Six  Lakes.  The  stock  was  furnished 
by  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.

The  O.  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  manufactur­
er  of  fly  paper,  has  increased  its  capi­
tal  stock  from  $600,000 to $900,000.

E.  R.  Baker  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Kalamazoo.  The  Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the 
s t o c k . _____________

D.  L.  Ensign  has  engaged 
grocery  business  at  Kingsley. 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co. 
stock. 

_____________

in  the 
The 
furnished  the 

Edwards  Bros.,  hardware  dealers  at 
South  Frankfort,  have  added  a  line  of 
groceries,  which  was  furnished  by  the 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.

The  Western  Beef  and  Provision  Co., 
at  71  Canal  street,  will  close  out  its  gro­
cery  stock  and  confine  its  entire  atten­
tion  to  the  meat  and  provision  trade.

J.  T.  Hughes 

is  moving  from  450 
South  Division  street  to  the  store  at  the 
corner  of  South  Division  street  and 
Third  avenue,  formerly  occupied  by  H. 
J.  Vinkemulder.

From  present  indications a large num­
ber  of  Grand  Rapids  grocers  and  meat 
dealers  will  attend  the  annual  banquet 
of  the  Kalamazoo  Grocers  and  Meat 
Dealers’  Association.

G.  Hirschberg,  formerly  engaged 

in 
general  trade  at  Bailey,  has  leased  the 
new  store  building  at  the  corner  of 
South  Division  street and Burton avenue 
and  will  put  in  lines  of  shoes,  crockery, 
glassware  and  bazaar  goods.

The  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
its  time  of 
Association  has  changed 
meeting  from  the  first  and  third  Tues­
day  evenings  of  each  month  to  the  first 
and  third  Monday  evenings.  Meet­
ings  will  hereafter  be  held  in  the  Board 
of  Trade  rooms.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.  have 
adopted  a  trade  mark  which  represents 
the  exact  shape  of  its  new  factory build­
ing,  bounded  by  North  Ionia,  Louis  and 
East  Fulton  streets.  This  trade  mark 
will  be  used  on  all  the  shoes  manufac­
tured  by  the  house  and  it  will  be 
im­
printed  on  all  of  its  cartons  and station­
ery  and  used  more  or  less  in  its  adver­
tising  announcements.

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  been  fairly  steady  during 
the  week—we  might  say  rather  on  the 
dull  order—on  account  of  the  hoilday, 
which  is  usually  a  dragging  market  be­
cause  of  the  closing  up  of  accounts. 
Traders,  as  a  rule,  prefer  the  holdiay 
season  without  any  business  on  hand 
eithei  way.  The  visible  made  a  small 
decrease  of  157,000  bushels—not  worth 
mentioning.  Still, 
it  shows  that  the 
receipts  are  growing  less.  Winter  wheat 
is  as  scarce  as  ever  and  is  held  at  a 
premium  of  3@4C  over  May,  so  we  see 
the  difference  between spring and winter 
wheat.  Business  in  the  grain  markets, 
we  think,  will  certainly  be  better  after 
New  Years. 
foreign  demand, 
while slack  now,  will  also be  better,  be­
cause  the  stocks  on  the  continent  and  in 
the  United  States  are  small to  what  they 
generally  are,  and  will  have  to  be  re­
plenished  in  the  near  future.

The 

Corn  has  been  rather  weak,  with  a 
declining tendency.  Still  stronger  mar­
kets will  prevail,  as  the  small  crop  will

necessitate  better  prices.  The  price  has 
not  changed  since  last  report.

Oats  seem  to  be  the  steadiest  on  the 
cereal  market.  They  are  firmly  held 
and  more  are  wanted  than  what  are 
offered,  so  prices  will  remain  firm.

There  seems  to  be  a  demand  for  rye 
for  export.  While  not  urgent,  all  offer­
ings  are  accepted  at  the  advance. 
It 
still  looks  as  if  all  cereals  were  cheap, 
for  the  Argentine  wheat  will  not  trouble 
our  exports  this  year,  as  they  have  not 
very  much  to  offer,  their  harvest  being 
very inferior.

Beans  are  at  a  standstill  and  will  re­
main  around  present  prices  for the  time 
being.

Flour  has  advanced  10c per  barrel  and 
is  strong.  The  mills  are  sold  ahead  for 
some  time,  so  there  will  not  be  any 
pressure  to  sell,  especially  as  wheat  is 
very  scarce.  Mill  feed  has  not  changed, 
as  the  demand  keeps  up  as  strong  as 
ever—bran  $23  and  middlings  $24.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  as  fol­
lows :  wheat,  66  cars;  corn,  3  cars; 
oats,  4  cars;  Hour,  7  cars;  beans,  1  car; 
malt,  1  car;  hay,  2  cars;  potateos,  4 
cars

Millers  are  paying  85c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 

G.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Good  stock  is  running  from 
$4.5o@6  per  bbl.  for  Spys  and  Baldwins 
and  $3*75@4  for  other varieties.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25® 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

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 
ij@  
goocl  demand,  fancy  commanding 
19c.  Choice  fetches  I5@i7c.  Packing 
stock  goes  at  I2@i3c.  Receipts  are 
very  liberal.

Poultry—Turkeys  are 

strong  and 
scarce.  Ducks  are 
in  ample  supply. 
Chickens  and  fowls  are  in  large  supply. 
Dressed  hens  fetch  7@8c,  spring  chick­
ens  command  8@9C,  turkey  hens  fetch 
io@ iic ,  gobblers 
command  9@ioc, 
ducks  fetch  9@ioc  and  geese  8@9C. 
Live  pigeons  are  in  moderate  demand 
at  5o@6oc  and  squabs  at $i.2o@2.

Cabbage—$2  per  crate  of  four  dozen.
Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $7.75 
@8  per  bbl.  ;  Waltons,  $3@3.25  per 
crate  for  fancy.

Dates—4K @ 5c  Per  lb.
Eggs—Dealers  meet  with  no  difficulty 
in  obtaining  20@22c  for  strictly  fresh 
and  i6@i8c  for  storage.

Figs—Three  crown  Turkey  command 

lie   and  5  crown  fetch  14c.

Game—Dealers  pay  90c@$i 

for  rab­

bits.

Grapes—$5@5.5o per keg for  Malagas.
Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I3@I4C.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I2@13C,  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ iic .

Lemons— Californias,  $3-25@3.5o  for 

either  size.

Lettuce— 15c  per  lb.  for  hothouse.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—The  market  is  active  and 

strong  at $i . io@ i .25  per  bu.

Oranges— California  navels  fetch  $3 

per  box.

Parsley—20c  per  doz.
Potatoes—"Just  as  dead  as  ever,”   is 
the  universal  report.  Country  buyers 
are  paying  about  60c  and  are  clamoring 
for  cars  to  enable  them  to  fill  orders  on 
hand  before  they  are  cancelled.
Sweet Potatoes— Virginias, $2.50;  Jer­

seys,  $4.

William  C.  Whitney believes  that  rich 
people  should  not  be  criticised  for  the 
extravagant  use  of money  for things they 
really  do  not  need.  He  says:  " I   have 
the  money  and  can  afford  the  expendi­
tures.  They  are  one  of  my  ways  of 
It  is  better  to  give 
helping  people. 
employment  than  alms. 
I  believe  it  to 
be  the  duty  of  every  rich  man  to  spend 
as  much  as  he  can  afford,  and  to  help 
trade  along.  Then  all  will  prosper.”

The Grocery  M arket.

rather 

for  96  deg. 

first  to  3  i i -i6c,  then 

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  during 
the  week  was  considerably  weaker, 
test  centrifugals 
prices 
dropping 
to 
3  21-32C  and  later  to  3^ c,  with  very  few 
sales  reported,  refiners  having practical­
ly  withdrawn  from  the  market.  Refiners 
appear  willing  to  trade  on  slightly lower 
prices,  but  importers  are  bolding  their 
stocks 
than  trade  on  present 
quoted  prices.  The  world’s  visible  sup­
ply  of  raw  sugar  is  3, no, 000 tons,  show­
ing  an 
increase  of  840,000  tons  com­
pared  with  that  of  the  corresponding 
time 
last  year.  Notwithstanding  the 
light  demand  for  refined  sugars,  refiners 
advanced 
list  prices  10  points  on  all 
grades  of  refined  sugar.  There  is  no 
special  reason  given  for  this ’ advance— 
in  fact,  it  was  somewhat  of  a  surprise— 
and  the  trade  were  puzzled.  Sales  are 
small,  as  buyers  remain  conservative, 
awaiting  further  developments.

line 

Canned  Goods—The  Christmas  holi­
days  seem  to  have  had  no  material 
effect  on  the  canned  goods  market,  so 
far as  the  demand  was  concerned.  Usu­
ally  at  this  time  of  the  year  business  in 
this 
is  very  quiet,  but  this  year 
there  has  been  a  good  demand  all  the 
time.  Last  week  brought  another  ad­
in  the  tomato  market  and  still 
vance 
there 
is  no  sign  of  a  let  up  in  the  re­
markable  rise  in  this  article  which  be­
gan  late  in  the  summer.  Supplies  car­
ried  by 
jobbers  are  undoubtedly  light 
and  the  stocks  in  first  hands  are  small, 
while  consumptive  demand  keeps  up 
wonderfully  well,  considering  the  ex­
tremely  high  prices.  Gallons  are  very 
scarce  and  very  few  of  any  quality  are 
offered.  Corn 
is  still  very  quiet,  with 
only  moderate  demand.  Corn  can  be 
bought  at  all  kinds  of  prices  for  all 
kinds  of  qualities  and  probably  no  one 
in  the  business  can  recall  a  time  when 
there  was  such  a  wide  difference  be­
tween  the  value  of  corn  and  tomatoes 
as  at  the  present  time.  Some 
look  for 
a  higher  market,  but  there  are  no  indi­
cations  of  it as  yet.  Peas are moving  out 
rapidly  and  stocks  are  much 
lighter 
than  most  people  realize  and  any  un­
usual  demand  would  clear  them  up 
very  quickly.  There  is  a  good  demand 
for  pumpkin.  There  seems  to  be  an 
unusual  shortage  of  pumpkin  all  over 
the  country  and 
is  believed  stocks 
will  be  entirely  cleaned  up  before  any 
of  the  new  pack  comes  in.  Gallon  ap­
ples are  scarce  and held  at  high  prices. 
The  pineapple  market  continues  very 
quiet.  Salmon  is  quiet,  but  prices  show 
no  change.  The  unprecedented  buying 
of  canned  goods  during  last  September 
and  October  moved  thousands  of  cases 
of  the  different  kinds  from  the  market, 
which  will  most  unquestionably  bring 
about  a  shortage  such  as  has  never  been 
felt  before.

it 

Dried  Fruits— The  dried  fruit  market 
is  rather quiet  and  it  is  expected  it  will 
continue  so  for  a  week  or  more.  The 
general  tone 
is  strong,  however,  and 
with  spot stocks moderate  and  active,  a 
healthy condition is looked for during the 
early  months  of  1902.  Prunes are firmer 
on  the  coast,  some  holders  asking  a 
slight  advance  on  some  sizes.  Sales  at 
present are  small,  but  the  feeling  is  one 
of  Confidence 
in  the  market.  Raisins 
are  strong,  but  sales  are  few.  A  little 
later  business  in  loose  muscatels  is  ex­
pected  to  pick  up  considerably.  A  com­
parison  of  the  conditions  this  season 
with  those  of  a  year  ago  will  show  at  a 
glance  the  strong  position  raisins  oc­
cupy.  Last  year’s  account  of  stock  on 
the  coast,  taken  Jan.  15,  1900,  showed

15.000  tons  of  raisins  on  hand and heavy 
stocks  in  the  hands  of  the  trade,  while 
this  year  the  quantity  of  raisins  held 
on  the  coast  Dec.  1,  1901,  was  only
8.000  tons,  with  stocks  in  the  hands  of
dealers  very  light.  Seeded  raisins  are 
firm  and  are  selling  well  at  full  prices. 
It  is  expected  that  prices  will  show  an 
within  a  few  days.
advance  of 
Peaches  and  apricots  are  firm  with 
fair 
demand.  Figs  and  dates  are  in  good 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.  Currants 
show  a  decline  of ^c, with  fair  demand. 
Evaporated  apples  are  very  firm,  but 
stocks  are  so 
light  that  comparatively 
little  business  is  transacted.

Rice—The  rice  market  is  quiet,  but 
prices  are  steady.  There  was  a  good 
feeling  among  dealers  and  the 
impres­
sion  is  growing  stronger  that  prices  are 
likely  to  advance  after  the  holidays,  re­
flecting  the  strong  advices  from 
the 
South,  predicting  higher  prices.

Tea— The  tea  market is firm but quiet. 
Green  teas  continue  very  strong  and 
black  teas  are  firm  in  sympathy.  The 
statistical  position  continues  strong, 
particularly  for  green  teas,  and  the  im­
pression  is  that  prices  will  advance  in 
the  near  future.  The  usual  holiday  dul- 
ness  has  restricted  business  materially 
and  sales  were  comparatively  light.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  molasses 
market  is  steady,  with  demand  good, 
paticularly  of  the  goods  in  cans.  Good 
grades  of  molasses  are  being 
firmly 
held 
in  anticipation  of  higher  prices, 
owing  to  damage  done  by  frosts to sugar 
cane,  causing  a  further  reduction  in  the 
molasses  output. 
is  stated  that  80 
per  cent,  of  the  sugar  cane  crop  has 
been  made  and  that  grinding  of  cane 
will  end  by  Jan.  5. 
Indications  point 
to  a  steady  market  in  the  future  and 
it 
is  the  general  impression that prices will 
go  higher.  Corn  syrup  is  in  good  de­
mand  at  previous  prices.

It 

Nuts— Nuts  are  in  good  demand,  with 
prices  practically unchanged.  Almonds 
are  scarce  and  the  market  is  firm,  with 
an  upward  tendency.  Filberts  are  in 
good  supply  and  are  slightly  easier. 
Peanuts  are 
in  good  demand  at  higher 
prices,  there  being  an  advance  on  same 
of  %c.  The  California  walnut  crop  is 
large  this  year  and  growers  are  receiv­
ing  good  prices.  The  crop  this  year  is 
estimated  at  625  cars.  The  almond 
crop  of  California  for  this  year  is  about 
n o   cars,  compared  with  274  cars  last 
year.

Rolled  Oats— The  rolled  oats  market 

is  firm,  with  moderate  demand.

Hides, Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  is  weaker, with  light 
stocks  and  few  for  prompt  delivery. 
Prices  are  X@f£c  °®>  with  orders  at 
still 
Indications  are 
that they  will  go  still  lower.

lower  offerings. 

Pelts  are  high 

in  value  and  held 
above  pullers'  views.  The  market  is 
strong  at  holders’  prices,  which  they 
likely  to  obtain  in  the  near  future.
are 
Furs  are  lower,  without  the  enquiry  of 
past  weeks, being  too  late to ship to Lon­
don  January  sales.

Wools  are  quiet 

Tallow  is  firm  and  somewhat  higher, 
with 
light  stocks  to  draw  from.  All 
grades  are  in  good  demand,  with  quick 
sales  of  all  edible  stock  at  higher 
values.
in  the  States  and 
strongly  held  at  higher  values  than 
Eastern  sales  warrant,  although  they 
have  a  strong  market  at 
seaboard. 
Stocks  are  held  at  higher  values,  which 
are  likely  to  be  realized  within  the  next 
sixty  days.  The  consumption  is  large, 
stocks  are  lighter  than  at  the  same  time 
last  year  and  the  present  outlook 
indi­
cates  that  they  will  all  be  wanted.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

6

Getting  the  People

Lessening the  Need  o f Choice  on th e  P a rt 

o f th e   B ayer.

The  constant  demand  upon  human 
energy  in  this  world  is  the  making  of 
choice. 
In  proportion  as  the  avocation 
or  sphere  of 
life  rises  higher  in  the 
scale  does  the  responsibility  of  choice 
become  greater.  But  even  in  the  low­
est  walks  and  humblest  work  the  mak­
ing  of decisions  is  an  ever  present  ne­
cessity.

I  apprehend  that  the  true  difference 
between  a 
lazy  man  and  his  opposite 
is  more  in  the reluctance  or  readiness  to 
make  choice  than  in  aversion  to  work. 
We  have  all  heard  of  men  who  were 
great  workers  simply  because  they  were 
too  lazy  to  stop.  This  proceeding  some­
times  involves  decisions  to  which  the 
lazy  temperament  is  not  equal.

The human  animal,  then,  is constantly 
wearied  from  the  necessity  of  keeping 
the  effort  of  choice  in  continual  activ­
ity.  On  this  account  there  is  an  instinc­
tive  turning  toward  the  plain  way.  For 
this  reason  the 
successful  advertiser 
endeavors  to  eliminate  from  his  work 
the  element  of  quantity,  and  so  the 
need  for  decisions,  as  far  as  possible.

is 

its  use 

The  great  successes  in advertising  are 
those  that  have  been  able  to  make  the 
most  of  this  principle.  When  there  is 
but  the  one  thing  described,  as  in  the 
long  list  of  special  or  proprietary  ar­
ticles  it  disappears  as  a  factor  and  the 
work  is  correspondingly  simplified. 
It 
will  be  noted  that  the  most  of  the  suc­
cessful  specialists  reduce  the  problem 
to  one  article  at  one  price,  finding  that 
effectiveness 
lost  when  a  choice  of 
even  quantity  is  given.  This  is  natur­
ally  accomplished  in  the  case  of  many 
such  articles,  but  in  such  instances  as 
the  Douglas  shoe  advertising  the  one 
price  is  not  a  natural  consequence. 
In­
stead 
is  a  recognition  on  the 
part  of  Mr.  Douglas  that  success  lies  in 
eliminating  choice  to  the  utmost.  He 
only  advertises  a  one  price  shoe  and  so 
the  problem 
is  reduced  to  fitting  the 
toot,  which  is  not  a  question  of  choice.
The  average  buyer  wants  the  right 
article  at the  right  price,  of  course.  But 
it  does  not  follow  that  he wants  a  choice 
of  either  to  get  what  he  wants.  From 
the  nature  of  the case a  choice  may  be  a 
necessity,  but 
if  the  dealer can  elim i­
nate  it,  or  properly  influence  the  deci­
sion,  he 
is  doing  the  customer  a  favor 
which  will  be  instinctively  appreciated 
and  at  the  same  time  building  up  a 
healthy  trade.  The degree  of  good  sense 
and  tact  with  which  this  is  done  has  an 
important  bearing  on  his  success 
in 
business.

indicated. 

There  is  an  erroneous  impression  on 
the  part  of  many  dealers  that  success  is 
to  be  found 
in  presenting  an  appear­
ance  of  extensive  business.  Such  seem 
to  find  it  difficult  to  reconcile  this  idea 
with  the  principle  of  specializing 
have 
I  do  not  believe  in 
hiding  one’s  candle  under  a  bushel;  but 
it  is  not  necessary  to  parade  a  hetero­
geneous  stock,  with  everything  in  sight 
to  indicate  an  extensive  business,  and 
no  more 
is  it  necessary  to  fill  space  in 
advertising  with  a  confusing  mass  for 
the  same  purpose.  There  are  other  ways 
of  indicating  quantity  of  business  than 
sacrificing  the  principle  of  specializing 
either  in  display  of  goods  or  in  adver 
tising.

*  *  *

Barney  Anderson  makes  a  good  argu- 
ment  for a  quick  sale  of  cotton  goods, 
The  advertisement  would  be  improved 
by  taking  out  the  words  “ Come  and  see

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

c

J

Have  just  received a  Large  Carload  of  Cutters  and  Pleasure 
Sleighs.  These cutters were  received  a  month  later  than  ex­
pected, so I have

Out Prloes on Eaoh One to Close» 
Them  Out Qulolc..............
Come and see me for prices before buying.

Barney Anderson,

(S3 Csss Street.

I  wish to call  cite attention  of  the 
fanners  in  the vicinity of  Thonip* 
sonville  that  my  grist  mill  has 
been 
this  w^ek

improved  and 

S T A R T E D   T O   G R IN D

and will grind  every Monday until 
further  notice. Gan grind corn, oats, 
beans, barley, rye, oorncobs and all. 

COLLIER,  THE  HUSTLER

_

Keep  Him  Home

WANTED!

f a r m e r s
TO  RAISE

Su gar  Beets

Fop the Kalamazoo 
Factory

T he  Beets  from  this section 
are showing a  good  per  cent, 
of  sugat, some of them testing 
over  16 per cent.  T he  price 
■ s the same  as  last  year, $4.50 
per  ion  for  beets  testing  12 
per  cent,  and  33  £-3  cents  for 
every  additional  per  cent. 
Freight  rate 60c per  ton.

Kvenlags by Giving Him One of Our Improved

ORRIS 

CHAIRS

Many  handsome  patterns  at  astonishingly  low  prices.  Finest  of 
upholstering.  A visit  to  our  beautiful  furniture  exhibit  is a rare 
treat.  You're welcome.
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Praise-Winners 
in  the  Home..

W e   sold  a  loc  of  goods  for  Christmas  but  w e’ve 

got  some

FURNITURE

in 

the 

country 

L eft  over  that w e want  to  sell,  and  you  can’t 
find  any  better  or  more  up-to-date  assort- 
'ment  anywhere 
than  we 
have  instock.  W e ’ve  got  anything  you  want,
. and  if we haven’t  got  it w e’ll get it for you migh­
ty   quick.  W e  want  money  more  than  w e want 
the goods,  and  if  you’ll just spend time  to  look 
through our store and  get  our  prices, w e know 
what the result w ill be.  Y o u ’ll just  take  some­
thing home  with  you.

Our  Prices Win Trade ana Uur Goods 

Win  Friends Evern Time.

Com e  in  and  see  our

Bedsteads,  Book-Cases,  H all  Trees. 

Couches,  Sideboards, Chairs, 

Dining Tables, Stands,

H. BENNETT,

Furniture  Dealer  and  Undertaker,

HUDSON,  MIOMCAN.

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You cao bay ail kinds of meats at  the 
Jefferson  street  market  at  greatly  re-, 
cluced prices.  We quote a few  leaden:

R ound S teak, p er l b . . . 9c

3 It», for 35.

L oin o r Porterhouse S te ak   10c
Beef R o a s t..:......... ...............6c
B e e f R i b ...........................  4c
P ork,  C h u n k ,................. ..  8c
P o rk  S te a k ...........................  pc
We  have  at  all  timet  choice  Veal, 
Mutton,  Sausages  of  all  kinds,  and 
everything  to  be found  in a first-class 
market.  Call and see us.

btiry Cobias, Prop
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lighting

May  in one sense be a 
luxury, but in  anoth­
er il is almost a neces- 
' sity. 
If your place of 
business  01  residence 
is not already wired up 
call at the office of the 
Electric Light Co.  for 
sates. C. EMERY, 
naaager.

me  for  prices  before  buying, ”   as  the 
expression 
is  too  general  for  strength. 
The  space  occupied  by  this  line  could 
have  been  used  to good advantage above 
and  below  the  first  line.  With  this 
change  the  advertisement  would  be  a 
strong  one.

A  good  display  line  to  catch  the  eye 
of  the  farmers  is  that  in  the  grist  mill 
advertisement  of  Collier,  the  Hustler. 
The  printer  has  done  well  in  the  selec­
tion  of  border  display  and  use  of  white 
space.

furniture 

H.  D.  Bradford  writes  an  unusually 
attractive 
advertisement, 
which  the  printer  has  handled  well  ex­
cept  that  the  ragged  border  crowds  bis 
space  a  little.

H.  Bennett  has  material  in  bis  furni­
ture  advertisement  for  about  two  fairly 
good  ones.  There 
is  a  repetition  of 
the 
invitation  to  come  in  which  is  too 
much  for  one  advertisement,  and  the 
expressions  are  too  general  for  strength. 
The  border  would have been much better 
with  a  plain 
line  spaced  farther  away 
from  the  type.  The  display  throughout 
is  very  weak  and  the  mixture  of  type 
styles  and 
introduction  of  poor  orna­
ments  does  not  add  effectiveness.

H.  Kenyon  writes  a  good businesslike 
advertisement  for  sugar  beet  raising, 
but  the  printer  has  not  done  well  in 
mixing  styles  in  his  display.

There  is  something  of  the  ultra  in 
the  wording  of  the  tea  and  coffee  adver­
tisement  of  Shepard,  Grocer.  There  is 
a  mixture  of  interrogation  and  decla­
ration 
in  the  first  sentences  which  is  a 
little  confusing;  they  should  have  been 
made  distinct.  The  expression  “ get 
the  stuff”   may  be  all  right,  but  to  my 
mind  there  is  a 
little  lack  of  dignity 
with  no  other  compensating  quality 
in 
it.  The  display  is  good.

A  well  written  general  advertisement 
of  a  meat  market  is  that  of  Henry 
Tobias. 
I  am  of  the  opinion  a  plainer 
display  letter  would  be  more  effective.
C.  Emery  gives  a  good  example  of 
advertising  of  electrical  work  in  small 
space,  and  the  printer  has  handled  it 
simply  and  well.

The  man  who  does  not  advertise  sim­
ply  because  his  grandfather  did  not 
ought  to  wear  knee  breeches  and  a 
queue.

Evil  minded  people  are  a  disgrace  to 

mankind.

You take 
no risk

when  you  use  H.
M.  R.  Brand

Torpedo  Gravel 
Asphalt

Ready  Roofing

For  35  years  our 
roofs  have  been 
the  standard  of 
excellence.  Write 
for samples.

H.  M.  Reynolds  Roofing  Co.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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7

The New York Market
8pecial  F eatures  of th e Grocery and P rod­

uce Trades.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Dec  28— Stock taking time 
is  upon  us  and  in  the  stores  you  hear 
the  monotonous  drawling,  “ Twenty-two 
yi  lb.  boxes  at  S.  G. ”   and  so  on.  One 
average  size  hardware  store  told  your 
correspondent  they  had  been  at  it  three 
weeks  and  now  begin  to  feel  as  if  they 
had  a  good  start.

Meantime  business  this  week  is  dull. 
Most  folks  feel  rather  poor  after  Christ­
mas  and  perhaps  the  grocers  notice  the 
falling  off in trade  as  much  as  anybody ; 
but  no  matter.  They  are  simply  resting 
for  next  year,  when they  intend  to  break 
all  records  as  to  the  volume  of  business.
Coffee  has  taken  a  “ turn  for  the  bet­
ter,’ ’  and 
the  market  closes  much 
stronger  than  last  week.  Rio  No.  7  is 
firm  at 6  i5-i6@7^c,  one  buyer  offering 
to  take  all  the  September  stock  offered 
at  7^c.  He  obtained  oniy  about  15,000 
bags.  Receipts  at  Rio  continue  quite 
liberal. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
2,421,166  bags,  against  1,113,412  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.

From  July  1  to  Dec.  23  the  receipts  at 
Rio  and  Santos  aggregated  10,327,000 
bags,  against  6,894,000  bags  during  the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild  grades  have 
been  rather  quiet,  although  prices  are 
firmly  held,  good  Cucuta  being  worth 
9c.  Fast  Indias  are  quiet.

Sugar  has  been  dull  and  practically 
unchanged  for  a  day  or  so.  Buyers  are 
shy  of  takiug  more  than  enough  for 
present  wants  for  two  reasons—stock 
taking  and  the  unsettled  feeling.  They 
do  not  know  how  low  the  stuff  may  go. 
“ Three  cent  sugar”   is  the  slogan  now.
Tea  buyers  are  not  shopping  around 
for  job 
lots.  They  recognize  the  fact 
that  full  rates  must  be  paid  and  sellers 
show  no  anxiety  to  part  with  holdings 
on  present  basis.

is 

Rice  is  steady  as  to  prices.  The  vol­
ume  of  actual  business  being  done  is 
small,  as 
is  natural  at  this  season,  but 
sellers  profess  much  confidence  in  the 
future.  Prime  to  choice  Southern,  5@ 
5^c.  Foreign 
in  good  shape,  with 
Japan  worth

Nothing  is  doing  in  spices.  Nutmegs 
are  slightly  better  and  are  quotable  at 
2i}4c  for  105-nos.  Sales  are  of  very 
small  quantities.

The  molasses  market 

is  firm  and 
choice  grades  of  open  kettle  sell  readily 
from  34@4ic.  The  supply  is  decidedly 
moderate.  Syrups  are  firm.  Prime  to 
fancy,  2o@3oc.

The  canned  goods  business  has  been 
quite  satisfactory  and  no  weakness  is 
observable.  Some  sales  of  futures  are 
being  made  and  1902  promises  to  be  a 
most  interesting  year  for  canned  goods 
men.  A  trust of  the  trade  is  now  talked 
of  an  it  is  said  that  options  have  been 
secured  upon  at  least  75  per  cent,  of  the 
canneries  in  Delaware and Pennsylvania 
and  90  per  cent,  of  those  in  New  Jersey. 
A  good  many  former  oyster  packers,  it 
is  said,  have  found  that  occupation  a 
most  unprofitable  one  and  are  accord­
ingly  making  arrangements  for  packing 
fruits  and  vegetables.

Those will pack who never packed before
And those who packed will pack the more.
In  dried  fruits,  little  of  interest  can 
be  gathered.  Armsby’s  purchase  of  a 
big  lot  of  California  prunes  formed  the 
chief  topic  of  conversation.  Prices  on 
all  lines  show  little  if  any  change.

While  the  supply  of  really  desirable 
stock  of  butter  is  not  overabundant  and 
the  demand 
is  sufficient  to  keep  the 
market  pretty  well  cleaned  up,  there 
is 
plenty  of  stock  that  is  just  “ under  the 
best”   and  for  such  the  situation  rather 
favors  the  buyer.  Best  creamery 
is 
steady  at  25c,  and  possibly  this  has 
been  fractionally  exceeded 
in  a  few 
cases,  but  seldom;  seconds  to  firsts,  19 
i 6 @ I9 c ; 
@230; 
Western  factory,  I4@i5^c.

imitation  creamery, 

The  cheese  situation 

is  unchanged. 
is  worth 
Small  size  full  cream  State 
ic 
i i @i i X c,  with 
more.  Export  trade 
little  more 
active,  one  operator having  made  a  pur­
chase  of  some  400  boxes  pi white  cheese 
at 9#c.

large  size  about 

is  a 

The  demand  for  fresh  eggs  keeps  the 
market  well  cleaned  up,  but  arrivals  of 
refrigerator  goods  are  becoming  more 
plentiful  ana  quotations  are  declining. 
Best  Western  are  still  held  at  about  30c 
and  regular  packs,  22@27c.

is  an  average  amount  of  busi­
ness  being  done  in  beans and quotations 
are  steady  on about  the  basis of last quo­
tations.  Choice  marrows,  $2.40;  me­
dium,  $2@2.05;  pea,  $i.95@2.
M ichigan  T rapper  Gets  Many  Pelts  and 

There 

M ach Bounty.

Baraga,  Dec.  30— For  sevetal  months 
Wendelin  Kriscb,  a  trapper  residing 
near  Nestoria,  has  at  frequent  intervals 
appeared  at  the  County  Clerk’s  office 
with  wolf  pelts  on  which  he  has  been 
paid  a  bounty  of  $17  apiece,  and  in  the 
sggregate  has  drawn  a  large  sum.  The 
success  of  the  trapper  has  caused  much 
speculation  as  to  the  methods  he  fol­
lowed,  the  wolves  being  very  cunning, 
shunning  poison  and  not  often  being 
trapped.
Now  Krisch's  secret  has  leaked  out. 
It  developed  that  some  months  ago  he 
managed  to  catch  a  female  wolf  in  a 
trap.  He  built  a 
large  yard  near  his 
shanty  and  in  it  keeps the wolf,  fastened 
to  a  log  chain.  Her  howls  bring wolv.es 
for  miles  around,  and  the  trapper,  sit­
ting in  his  cabin,  calmly  shoots  them  at 
his  leisure.
In  every  section  of  the  Peninsula 
wolves  are  reported  unusually  numerous 
this  year.  The  deer  in  consequence  are 
suffering,  as  the  many  carcasses  se§n  in 
the  woods  testify,  and  lately  even  men 
have  been  attacked.  Only  a  day  or two 
ago  a  case  of  the  latter  transpired  in 
Dickinson  county.

Claude  Freckelton,  employed  as  a 
cook  at  a  logging  camp'six  miles  from 
Floodwood,  started 
in  the  evening  to 
walk  to  the  village.  When  half  the  dis­
tance  he  heard  something  running  to­
ward  him  and  turning  saw  a  wolf  close 
by.  The  man  not  being  armed  was 
badly  frightened.  The  yelps  of  the  wolf 
were  answered  by  others  and  soon  four 
others  of  the  animals  had  joined  their 
companion.  Freckelton 
luckily  man 
aged  to  find  a  club  and  thus  armed  be­
gan  backing away.  The  hungry  animals 
would  circle  around  him  and  snap at his 
legs  and  whenever  they  came  near 
enough  he  would  strike  at  them.

In  this  manner  the  three  remaining 
Freckelton  ex 
miles  were  traveled. 
pected  every  minute  would  be  his 
last 
until  finally  when  just  at  the  outskirts 
of  the  town  the  wolves  made  a  jump  at 
him.  The  leader  was  laid  low  with  the 
club  and  the  man  turned  and  ran  to 
safety,  the  wolves  frightened  at 
the 
proximity  of  the  houses,  giving  up  the 
chase.

Tim e  to  Begin  Training.

vase 

“ Mamma,  what  would  you  do  if  that 
in  the  parlor  should  get 

big 
broken?”   said  Tommy.

“ I  should  whip  whoever  broke  it,’ 
said  Mrs.  Banks,  gazing  severely  at  her 
little  son.
“ Well,  then,  you’d  better  begin  to 
get  up  your  muscle,”   said  Tommy 
"coz  papa’s  broke  it.”

Attention,

Lumbermen 
and  Others

We  carry  in  stock  a  spe­
cial pattern of

Convex  Sleigh  Shoe  Steel,

in 3,  3^  and 4 inch widths, 
made on our special  order 
exclusively  to  meet  the 
requirements of the  Mich­
Can  ship 
igan 
promptly.  Write 
fo r  
prices.

trade. 

Sherwood  Hall,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Beautiful 
Large 

Grain

S U T T O N ’ S

T A B L E
R IC E

In  2^   lb .  C o tto n   P o c k e ts ,  40  t o   B a le .

Retails for  25  cts.

---- FOR  S A L E   B Y   A L L   JO B B E R S.

Orme & Sutton  Rice Co.

46  River  Street.  Phone  Central  1409.

Chicago.

B ra n ch e s:  S t.  P a u l,  S t.  L ou is,  N ew   O rleans.

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

Entered at the Grand  Builds  Post  Office as 

Second Class mall  matter.

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

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

WEDNESDAY,  •  •  JANUARY  1 ,1902

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN 

County  of  Kent 

John  DeBoer,  being  du 
poses  and  says  as  follows:

I ss.
ly  8worn,  de

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
December 25,  1901,  and  saw the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for said  county, 
this twenty-eighth day of December, 1901.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

TH E  TURNING  POINT.

In  more  than  one  business office where 
the  New  Year  comes  to-day  there  will 
be  an  anxious  turning  of  ledger  leaves 
and  a  profound  pondering  of  the  result. 
Prosperous  as  the  year  just  ended  has 
been,  the  balance  will  not  always  be 
found  on  the  right  side  of  the  account 
and  more  than  one  man  will  go  home 
dejected  and  wondering 
if  it  is  worth 
while  to  fight  any  longer against  the  in­
evitable. 
is  not  only  the  turning 
point  of  the  year  but  the  turning  point 
in  that  man’s  business  life,  and  it  re­
mains  to  be  seen  whether  he  is  to  stand 
the  hero  or  fall  the  craven.

It 

Not  many  blocks  away,  for three  good 
years,  there  is  a  store  whose  owner  has 
been  fighting  a  losing  battle.  Summer 
and  winter  Fortune  has not only frowned 
but  stood  up  and  fought  against  him. 
Right  and 
left  has  she  cuffed  him. 
Nimble  as  he  is  and  earnest  as  he  has 
been,  she  has  proved  his  superior  and 
the  end  of  the  year  has  found  him  a  lit­
tle  more  behind.  Keen as he  is  in  buy­
ing,  he  has  still  been  cheated.  A  fair 
reader  of  men,  his  customers  do  not  fail 
to  outreach  him.  Sickness  has  come 
into  his  household  and  his  own  strong 
arm  has  felt  her  weakening  touch.  Still 
his  head  is  not  lowered  nor  his  courage 
at  all  diminished. 
light  has 
dimmed  a 
little  in  his  eyes  and  with­
out  looking  he  knows  the  year’s  ending 
will  find  him  worse  off  than  when  it  be­
gan.  There  will  be  a  careful  reading 
of  accounts  and  the reading will be long. 
The 
ledger  will  be  closed  with  a  head 
shake  and  a  doubtful  “  I  don't  know, ”  
but  out  of  that  door  ten minutes  after  he 
will  go  whistling  and  Fortune  will  look 
after  him knowing,  not  wondering,  what 
her  outcome  with  him  will  be.

The 

More  than  a  year  ago  Fate  stood  in 
the  path  of  a  citizen  of  Grand  Rapids 
and  struck  him  down.  Villainy  after­
wards  assaulted  his  good  name,  leaving

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

him  poor and  penniless  and  half  dead. 
The  priest  and  the  Levite  came  and 
looked  at  him  and  passed  by  on  the 
other  side  and  no  good  Samaritan  came 
where  he  was  and  had  compassion  on 
him.  Helpless,  he  crawled  away  and 
lived  as  only  humanity  can  live  when 
such  disaster  overtakes  it.  He  finally 
got  upon  his  feet  to  learn  the  bitterest 
lesson  mankind  can  learn,  the  treachery 
of  pretended  friendship,  and  then,  with 
teeth  shut  and  with  a  determination  no 
power  on  earth  could  overcome,  he 
looked  the  world  in  the  face  and  dared 
its  worst  if  he  had  not  yet  received  it. 
“ I  will  not  yield,  I  will  not  be  put 
down.  While  I  have  breath  I’ll  fight 
and  in  my  old  place  I’m  going  to  live 
again  and  live  respected.”   The  battle 
is  still  going  on.  Crushing  his  pride, 
he  took  the  first  place  he  found  after 
months  of  hunting  and  gained  a  foot­
hold— all  he  had  ever  asked  for  or 
wanted.  Charged  with  dishonesty,  he 
has  disproved  the  charge  and,  with  con­
fidence 
in  him  restored,  is  working  his 
way  back  to  his  old  place.  He  will  get 
it  as  surely  as  the  sun  shines.  He  will 
show  the  world  that  he  is  what  he  was 
and  what  he  has  claimed  to  be  and  the 
fight  that  he 
is  fighting  and  going  to 
win  will  declare  him  the  hero  who,  at 
the  turning  point  in  his  career,  took 
Fortune  at  her  best  and  conquered  her.
Within  sound  of  this  scratching  pen 
is  another  instance:  Success  attended 
him  from  studious  youth  to  frost  time. 
Then  came  the  turning  point. 
It  was 
the  old  story  with  the  old  result:  He 
found  himself  “ shelved”   because  his 
hair  was  gray  and  there  he  stood 
look­
ing  down  the  future  with  mind and limb 
never  so  strong  as  then.  He  shelved? 
He  with  a  score  of  years  between  him 
and  sunset  without  a  hint  of  the  long 
twilight  to  follow?  The  answer  was  a 
derisive  laugh.  What  was  experience 
good  for  if  not  to  suggest?  What  was 
his  indomitable  will  good  for  if  not  to 
carry  out?  Both  were  appealed  to  and 
both  came  promptly  to  his  assistance. 
The  three  are  working  bravely  and  suc­
cessfully  to-day  and  not  a  sun  goes 
down  without  blessing  that  trinity  and 
the  day’s  work  they  have  accomplished.
So,  then,  if  the  balance  sheet  of  the 
past  shows  failure  and  disaster  on  the 
last  page  cf  the  old  year,  there  is  but 
one  sensible  thing  to  do:  say  “ Amen”  
and,  thanking  God  that  the  turning  leaf 
of  Tim e’s  daybook  is  blank  and  white, 
with  renewed  will  and  energy  start  in. 
“ Long  is  the  lane  that  has  no turn”  and 
it  stretches  back  into  the 
the  farther 
past  the  nearer  ahead  is  the 
longed-for 
turning  point. 
It  is  ahead  there  some­
where  and  the  firm,  unfaltering  step 
will  reach  it  first.  What  if  the  road  so 
far  is  full  of  wreck?  To-day  it  lies  be­
hind  there,  not  before,  a  fact  full  of 
assuring  comfort,  and  all  that  now  re­
mains  is  to  brace  up and go ahead.  This 
day 
is  the  turning  point  in  countless 
lives.  Let  each  be  equal to  it.  With  the 
lesson  of  failure 
is  no 
need  of  another  and  the  rest  is  now  a 
mere  matter  of  time. 
It  is  this  day’s 
work  that  settles  the  fate  of  to-morrow 
and  he  is  not  deserving  who  forgets  it. 
We  are  at  the  turning  point,  youth, 
middle  life,  graybeard.  Shall  we  meet 
it  like  the  man  or  the  craven?  The 
record  of  the  coming  year  will  tell  the 
story,and  may  that  story  be one of limit­
less  success.

learned,  there 

The  man  who  does  not  advertise  be­
cause  he  does  not  know  how  himself 
ought  to  sto p  eating  because  he  can  not 
cook.

WHY IT  FAILED.

The  failure  of  the  American  Bicycle 
Co.—commonly  known  as  the  bicycle 
trust—to  pay  a  single  dividend  on  its 
ten  million  preferred  stock,  and  the  dis­
integrating  process  through  which it has 
been  passing  since  its  organization 
in 
1899,  will  remind  many  of  the  predic­
tions  made  by  some  of  the  best  in­
formed,  who  contended  from  the  very 
start  that  the  many  conflicting  interests 
which  were  controlled  by  men  who  had 
created  their  business  by  methods  pe­
culiar to  themselves  could  not  be  con­
solidated  and  harmonized.  From  the 
moment  the  concern  began  its  existence 
it  was  a  case  of  “ wire  pulling”   for  the 
Jealousy  reigned  supreme. 
fat  jobs. 
Men  of  sense  and  good  business 
judg- 
men  resigned  the  most responsible  posi­
tions.  The  men  who  “ had  to  be  taken 
care  of”   before  options  on  their  plants 
could  be  obtained  were  almost  invari­
ably  men  of  inferior  executive  ability, 
yet  responsible  positions  were  assigned 
them— positions  for  which  they  were 
totally  unfit.  The  contracts  with  such 
men  were  of  course  as  short  as possible, 
long  to  create  distrust  and 
but  amply 
the  concern’s 
dissatisfaction  among 
customers,  resulting 
in  a  falling  off  of 
business.  Disintegration  was  the 
in­
evitable  result.  First, 
the  tire  com­
panies  had  to  be  disposed  of  and  an 
arrangement  made  by  which  Flint’s 
rubber  trust  could  have  the  business  of 
the  bicycle  combine,  before  it  was  pos­
sible  to  finance  the big corporation;  and 
the  rubber concerns—the  most  valuable 
asset—were  divorced  and  rubber trust 
securities  of questionable  value  taken  as 
payment.  Then  followed  in  rapid  suc­
cession  the  divorcing  of  one  after  an­
other  of  the  auxiliary  concerns,  such 
as  the  tube  mills— now  a  part of  the 
billion  dollar  steel  trust— rim  factories, 
saddle,  chain  and  other  parts,  also  the 
auto-sweeper—an  invention  of  consider­
able  promise—and,  finally,  the  separat­
ing,  as  recently  reported,  of  the  auto­
mobile  and  bicycle  departments,  by  the 
organization  of  two  separate  concerns— 
the  American  Cycle  Mfg.  Co.,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $8,000,000,  and  the  In­
ternational  Auto-Car Co.,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $2,000,000,  leaving  nothing  of 
the  original  American  Bicycle  Co.  as  a 
commercial  organization. 
It  now  has 
but  one  excuse  for  existence—“ the  se­
curity  holding  concern  of  the  subsidiary 
companies” —and  is  dependent upon the 
questionable  dividends  of  those  con­
cerns  for  its  income  from  which  to  pay 
the  5  per  cent,  interest  on  nearly  $10, - 
000,000  bonds  and  dividends  on  about 
$10,000,000  preferred  and  $17,000,000 
common  stock.  Will  it  be  possible?  It 
looks  to  a  man  up  a  tree  as  if  the  stock­
holders  of  the  parent  company  would 
get  mighty  little  out  of  it.  Of  course, 
no  one  would  be  willing  to  accuse  the 
officers  of  playing  a  freeze  out  game.  It 
is  probably  a  mere  coincidence  that the 
capital  stock  of  the  two  recently-organ­
ized  companies  equals  the  amount  of 
outstanding  bonds  against  the  parent 
concern.

What  has  this  trust  done? 

It  consol­
idated  about  sixty  prosperous  concerns, 
trade  was 
immediately  stagnated  and 
dealers  met  with  disagreeable  red  tape 
methods.  They  either  awaited  develop­
ments,  quit  the  business  entirely  or 
bought  from  independent  makers.  Con­
indifferent,  no  one  could 
sumers  were 
give  them  any 
information.  The  ad­
vertising  which  had  made  many  con­
cerns  was  curtailed  or  discontinued. 
The 
individuality,  progressiveness  and 
competition  which  create  trade  were

the 

wiped  out.  Newspapers,  trade  papers 
and  the  press 
in  general  were  antag­
onized  by  unbusinesslike  methods  em­
ployed  in  the  “ department  of  public­
ity .”   There  could  be  but  one  result— 
failure  to  accomplish  the  purposes  for 
which 
organization  had  been 
formed.  There  were,  no  doubt,  many 
ways  of  re-organization.  The  promot­
ers  have  found  one  which  is,  presum­
ably,  legal,  but  where  do  the  once-pros- 
perous  proprietors  of  thriving  factories 
come  in?  The  furniture  trade,  and  all 
other  makers  of  special  products  where 
design,  progressiveness  and  hustle  are 
the  principal  factors  and  business  get­
ters, should  profit by the lesson  taught  by 
the  history  of  an  attempt  to  “ trust”  
the  bicycle 
industrial 
harm  done  has  been  far  reaching,  and 
it  will  take  years  for  this  industry  to 
recover  from  the  blow.

industry.  The 

MOST’S MANIFESTO.

So  as  not  to  be  overlooked  and  lost 
sight  of  Herr  Most,  high  priest  of  an­
archy,  has  issued  a  pamphlet  which  be 
proposes  to  send  to  the  President  and 
members  of  Congress.  It  is  the  style  of 
document  which  would  be 
expected 
from  such  a  style  of  man. 
In  a  pub­
lished  interview  setting  forth  his  inten­
tions  and  elaborating  his  ideas,  Most 
says  that  Roosevelt  does  not  appear  to 
understand  anarchy  and  adds:  “ If  John 
P.  Altgeld  were  President  it  would  be 
different.”   That  much  of  his  statement 
is  absolutely  accurate  and  indisputable. 
If  Altgeld  were  President  it  would  in­
deed  be  different.  He 
is  the  avowed 
friend  of  anarchy  and  anarchists.  He 
showed  them  executive  favor  and  has 
done  not  a  little  to  uphold  their  hands 
and  give  them  strength  and  courage. 
Altgeld 
is  more  dangerous  than  Most 
because  apparently  more  respectable.

The 

statement  which  accompanies 
that  regarding  Altgeld  to  the  effect  that 
President  Roosevelt  does not understand 
anarchy 
is  as  false  as  the  other  is  true. 
His  message  to  Congress  would  indi­
cate  that  he  understands  it  in  its  right 
light  and  very  thoroughly.  He  not only 
is  talking  about,  but 
knows  what  he 
It  is 
talks  about 
it  very  vigorously. 
one  of  the  dangers  with  which 
the 
United  States  is  threatened  and  with 
which  there  must  be  sharp  reckoning. 
It  has  brought  trouble  and  disaster  to 
this  country  already  and  if  in  any  way 
its  spread  can  be  suppressed  it  is  worth 
the  greatest  possible  effort.  The  assas­
sination  of  President  McKinley  was  the 
natural  outcome  and  outgrowth  of  such 
sentiments.  They  have  no  place  in  a 
republic  like 
this.  Herr  Mjst  and 
Emma  Goldman  and  all  their  ilk  ought 
to  be  deported  or  imprisoned  if  in  any 
way  that  can  be 
legally  accomplished. 
Herr Most  s  circular  jars  upon  the  sen­
timents  of  the  holiday  season. 
It is  out 
of  tune  with  American  ideas.

Michigan  merchants  seem  to  agree 
that  this  year’s  holiday  trade  is  the  best 
they  ever  had.  They  made 
special 
preparation  for  it,  but  none  too  much 
to  meet  the  demands  of  a  constantly  in­
creasing  patronage.  The  exceptionally 
large  holiday  business  is  accepted,  of 
course,  as  meaning  that  all  classes  of 
people 
in  Michigan  have  had  a  pros­
is  not  the  so-called 
perous  year. 
rich  people  who  constitute  the 
largest 
and  best  buyers  of  the  holiday  trade, 
because 
they  form  a  proportionately 
small  part  of  every  community.  When 
the  workers  have  both  employment 
and  wages,  then 
is  that  mercantile 
business  is  brisk.

It 

it 

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9

THE  SURVIVAL  OF THE  WOMEN.
Recently,  in Paris,  one Dr.  Maréchale 
sought  from  the  Parliament  of  France 
the  enactment  of  a  law  prohibiting  the 
wearing  of  corsets  by  women,  upon  the 
pretext  that  this  article  of  female  attire 
by  undermining  the  health  of 
the 
French  women  is  the  cause  of  the  small 
annual 
increase  of  population  in  that 
nation.
That 

the  evil  which  this  alleged 
scientist  desires  to  cure 
is  one  of  ex­
treme  seriousness,  and  is  to-day  threat­
ening  the  extinction  of  the  French  na­
tion,  is  held  by  not  a  few statesmen  and 
philanthropists,  but  the  cause  assigned 
It  is 
for  it 
well  known 
in 
France  do  not  live  in  Paris  or  in  cities. 
The  peasant  women  are  strong and able- 
bodied,  and  many  of  them  toil  in  the 
field  like  men  and  probably  spend  but 
a  small  part  of  their  lives  in  wearing 
stays.  The  women  of  fashion  make  up 
a  mere  minority,  and  as  for the  women 
in  every  country  they  are 
generally, 
greatly 
in  health  and  vigor 
over  what  they  were  fifty  years  ago.

is  absurd  in  the  extreme. 

that  all  the  women 

improved 

improved  vastly 

Certain  it  is  that  in  the  United  States 
the  women  have 
in 
health  and  stature over what  they  were  a 
few  generations  ago,  for  they  live  more 
in  the  sun  and  air,  and  are  largely  de­
voted  to  outdoor  and  athletic  sports. 
Certainly  the  same  conditions  obtain  in 
England  and  doubtless  in  France. 
If 
is  any  deficiency  in  nerve  and 
there 
muscle,  it  is  with  the  men,  whose 
in­
dulgence  in  enervating  and  destructive 
drugs  is  carried  to  a degree of intemper­
ance  far  beyond  that  of  the  other  sex.

For  instance,  alcohol,  which  was  first 
distilled  by  the  Arabians  in  the  twelfth 
century,  did  not  come  into  common  use 
in  the  form  of  spirituous  liquors  until 
some  400  years  ago.  Up  to  that  time 
only  fremented  drinks,  such  as  wine 
and  beer,  were  consumed. 
Tobacco, 
which  was  discovered 
in  America  by 
the  Spaniards,  has  in  the  past  three cen­
turies  been  carried  into  common  use  all 
over  the  world.  Coffee  began  to  be 
used 
in  European  countries 
in  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  tea  was 
intro­
duced  from  China  about  the  same  time. 
Several  other substances  which  are  nar­
cotic,  stimulating  or  anaesthetic  have 
come 
into  common  use  in  the  last  few 
decades.

All  these  articles,  which are consumed 
in  immense  quantities,  and  chiefly  by 
men,  are  destructive or damaging,  when 
used  to  excess,  to  the  nervous  system. 
Physical  vigor  depends 
largely  on  a 
healthful  condition  of  the  nerve  system, 
and  this  is  being  steadily  and  constant­
ly  broken  down.  Chemistry  will  add 
more,  but  those 
in  existence  are  bad 
enough,  and  so  rapid  are  their  inroads 
upon  the  health  and  vigor  of  the  civi­
lized  races,  which  are  the  only  ones  that 
use  them  to  excess,that  it  is  much  to  be 
doubted,  if  matters  go  on  as  at  present, 
if  the  white  races,  even  in  the  lapse  of 
the  next  ten  centuries,  will  be  able  to 
hold,  as they  now  do,  the  mastery  of  the 
world,  but  effete  and  degenerate,  they 
will  fall  into  subjection  to  some  more 
vigorous  peoples,  if  there  should  be 
any. 
It  so  happens  that  the  yellow, 
red,  brown  and  black  races  are  rapidly 
coming  under  the  effeminating  and  de­
moralizing  influences  of  civilization and 
they  will  succumb along with the whites.
The  growing  decline  in  the  force  and 
energy  of  the  men  of  the  present  day, in 
comparison  with  the  increasing  health 
and  strength  of  the  women,  is  seen  in 
the 
latter  of  trades, 
callings  and  walks  of  life  that  were  for

invasion  by  the 

there 

To-day 

merly  monopolized  by  the  males  and  in 
the  submission  by  the  men  to the  situa­
tion.  Forty  years  ago  white  women 
were  found 
in  the  United  States  only 
working  in  cotton  factories  and  the  like 
light  employment. 
is 
scarcely  a  mercantile,  professional or in­
dustrial  concern  in  the  Union  in  which 
there  are  no  women  employed.  They 
take  the  places  of  the  men,and  in  many 
cases  support  in  idleness  worthless  hus­
bands,  sons  and  brothers.  It  is  the  fail­
ure  of  the  men  that  has  brought  the 
women 
into  every  department  of  labor 
and  business,  and  has  led  them  to  form 
idea  of  claiming  and  of  securing 
the 
political  power. 
It  will  be  through  the 
decay  of  the  men  that  the  women  will 
secure  final  control.

Thus  it  is  that  all  the facts are against 
the  French  physician  and  his  ridiculous 
fad  of  making  the  wearing  of  corsets  by 
women  unlawful.  When  they  assume 
political  control  they  will  abandon  the 
corsets  to  the  men,  not  a  few  of  whom 
already  wear  them.

n o !

This 

little  word 

is  your  enemy. 

some  unnecessary 
if  no 

If 
you  fail  to  say  it  at  the  proper  time  it 
costs  you  money. 
If  you  say  it  at  the 
wrong  time 
it  costs  you  money  and 
friends.  Too  many  of  us  neglect  to 
speak  it  at  the  proper time.  Merchants 
often  wish  to  say 
it  when  a  customer 
asks  for  credit,  but  for  some  reason  fail 
to  utter  it  and 
lose  money.  Friends 
neglect  to  repeat  it  when  asked  for  fa­
vors  and  often  regret  it.  Temptation  to 
purchase 
article 
comes,  and 
is  not  used  serious 
results  may  follow.  The  failure  to  say 
no  at  the  proper  time  has  caused  much 
social  unhappiness  and  made  many 
homes  miserable.  The  courage  to  say 
no  has  made  many  bachelors. 
The 
neglect  to  say  no  to  the  pleading  child 
has  often  caused  shame  and  sorrow. 
The  lack  of  nerve  to  say  no  to  an  offer 
on  your  merchandise  has  often  robbed 
you  of  profit.  After  making  resolutions 
to  abandon  this  or that  habit,  the  weak­
ness  to  say  no  when  temptation  comes 
causes  failure. 
It  is  not  wise  to  say  no 
all  the  time,  but  you  will  find  it  benefi­
cial  to  repeat  it  often.

Animal  fiber  that  has  been  treated 
with  soda  solution  is  found  by  O.  Frey- 
mann  and  Charles  Tolman  to  have  the 
curious  property  of  elongating  on  ex­
posure  to  smoke.  The  treatment  con­
sists  in  boiling  the  fiber—which  may  be 
silk  or  horse-hair— for  twenty  minutes 
in  a  6  to  10  per  cent,  solution  of  com­
mercial  soda,  and  then  drying  while 
slightly  stretched  in  a  tube  from  which 
the  air  has  been  exhausted.  Just  what 
change 
is  produced  is  not  understood. 
The  presence  of  smoke  is  found  to  have 
invariable  effect,  however,  and  a  smoke 
detector  alarm  has  been  patented  which 
is  made  to  act  through  the  closing  of  an 
electric  circuit  by  the  lengthening  of 
the  fiber.

A  primitive  process  that  is  a  marvel 
of  old-time 
ingenuity  is  claimed  in  the 
Russian  method  of  storing  petroleum. 
No  strong  and  expensive  iron  tank  is 
built,  but  instead  a  bottomless  tank  of 
cheap  sheet  iron  is  suspended  in  water 
on  piles,  the  top  projecting  a  foot  or  so 
above  water-level.  This  tank 
is  filled 
through  a  pipe  passing  to  its  center,  the 
water  sinking  as  the  oil  enters.  The 
plan  has  other  advantages  besides  in­
expensiveness,  for  if  the  oil  should  take 
fire  some  of 
it  may  be  drawn  off  from 
the  bottom,and  as  there  is  only  water at 
the  bottom  sand  and  dirt  do  not  accum­
ulate  in  the  tank.

TH E AMERICAN  PEOPLE.

Secular  histoty  has known no spectacle 
more  impressive  and  significant  than 
that  now  presented  by  the  people  of  the 
great  American  Republic.  Here  are 
some  seventy-five  or  eighty  millions, 
occupying  a  domain  of  continental 
breadth  and  of  an  incalculable  natural 
wealth,  engaged  in  every  form  of  pro­
ductive  labor,  and  in  every  branch  of 
commerce,  pursuing  all  the  trades  and 
professions  that  are  concerned  with  the 
practical  conduct  of  life,  busy  with  all 
the  tasks  of  education  and  profoundly 
interested 
in  all  the  problems  that  bear 
upon  either  the  future  of  society  or  the 
destiny  of  the  individual.  Contemplat­
ing  this  vast  scene  of  unremitting activ­
ity,  a  philosophic  observer  will,  from 
time  to  time,  ask  himself  whether the 
results  so  far achieved  do  really 
justify 
such  a  prodigious  expenditure  of  en­
ergy.  A  question  of  that  sort,  addressed 
to  an  American  of  the  average  mental 
capacity,  would  probably  be  answered 
by  the  assertion  that  there  is  no  ques­
tion  of  choice— no  alternative  to  be  con­
sidered.  One  must  get  into  “ the  swim”  
and  stay  there;  get  a  place  and  hold 
it 
until  a  better  one  can  be secured.  There 
is  a  man 
just  ahead  of  you,  strive  for 
his  place.  He,  for  his  part,  is  actuated 
by  a  precisely  similar  ambition.  On  the 
other  hand,  if  you  lose  a  place,  an  op­
portunity,  it 
is  not  unlikely  that  you 
will  have  to  go  to  the  foot,  and  it  is 
quite  possible  that  you  will  be  dropped 
altogether.

Now,  all  this  may  be  very  true,  and 
even  justifiable ;  but  however  inevitable 
the  high  pressure  of  modern  industrial­
ism  may  be  supposed  to  be,  it  can  not 
be  regarded  as  a  consummation  in itself 
of  the  highest  ideal  of National life.  To 
keep  everybody  hard  at  work  from  the 
cradle  to  the  grave  is  not  the  purpose 
for  which  society  was  organized. 
It  is 
necessary,  therefore,  to  look  for  some 
other  standard  of  excellence  with  which 
to  measure  the  value  of  American  civil­
ization.  Fortunately,  the  required  tests 
are  easily  found,  and  their  application 
is  by  no  means  everywhere  attended 
with  discouragement.  The  people  of 
this  country  have  been  industrious  and 
enterprising  from  the  first,  and  the  mo­
tive  power  of  their  endeavors  has  been 
a  spirit  of  buoyant  hopefulness,  rather 
than  a  sense  of  hard  necessity.  The 
world  came  into  a  fortune  with  the  dis­
covery  of  this  continent.  The  people 
of  Europe  had  only  to  come  over  and 
In  this 
enter  upon 
country  the  outlook  was 
especially 
bright.  All  the  conditions  of  climate, 
of  soil,  of  mineral  wealth,  of  social  en­
vironment,  were  eminently  favorable. 
The  form  of  Government,  its  organic 
and  statutory 
laws,  its  avowed  public 
policy,  exhibited  an  unparalleled  liber­
ality  and  hospitality  to  the  stranger. 
It 
was  the  boast  of  the  Republic  that  it 
was  ready  to  adopt  the  downtrodden 
and  oppressed  of  all  lands  as  its  own 
children.  Above  all,  here  was  an  open 
door  for  talent  and  force  of  character. 
The  brave  heart,  the  clear  head,  the 
strong  arm,  could  not  only  hope  to  live 
in  America,  but  also  to  win  and  hold 
the  highest  places.

its  enjoyment. 

Has  this  state  of  things  continued  un­
changed 
in  all  respects  to  the  present 
day?  Is  there  growing  up  in  this  coun­
try  a  proletariat  which  must  renounce 
ambition  and  learn  to content itself with 
a  full  dinner  pail?

It  would  be  too  soon  as  yet  to  attempt 
to  answer  this  question  definitely.  An 
element  of  hope,  at  least,  is  to  be  found 
in  the  fact  that  the  political  power  is

still  in  the  hands  of  the  people.  There 
are  those  who  are  skeptical  on  this 
it  is  true,  nevertheless,  that 
point;  but 
within  the 
last  twenty-five  or 
thirty 
years,  the  party 
in  office,  with  all  the 
immense  influence  of  governmental  pa­
tronage  under  its  control,  has  been  fre­
quently  subjected  to  overwhelming  de­
feat  at  the  polls.  The 
fact  that  the 
Democrats  elected  their  nominee for  the 
speakership  eight  times  out  of  ten  in 
the  twenty  years  beginning  with  the  or­
ganization  of  the  House  of  Representa­
tives,  in  1875,  is  of 
itself  enough  to 
show  that  during  all  that  time  the  ad­
ministration  of  the  Government  was 
subject  to  the  restraining  power  of  the 
popular  will.  Similar  demonstrations, 
meanwhile,  have  been  furnished  again 
and  again  by  party  changes  in  state and 
city  governments.  The  defeat  of  the 
Tammany  ticket  in  the  recent  election 
in  New  York  City  was  a  great  popular 
triumph.  The  most  hopeful  indication 
of  these  peaceful  revolutions  is  the 
in­
dependence  of  the  people—their  readi­
ness  to  break  away  from  party  ties  and 
their  ability  to  resist  every  form  of 
bribery  when  higher  and  broader  inter­
ests  are  evidently  at  stake.

The  use  of  money  and  the  constrain­
ing 
influence  exercised  by  patrons  and 
employers  may  prove  decisive  when  the 
general  public  recognize  nothing  of  su­
preme  importance  or immediate urgency 
in  the  issues  raised  by  the  contending 
parties;  but  hitherto  the  people  of  the 
United  States  have  always  endeavored 
to  settle  for  themselves  every  question 
which,  in  their  judgment,  might  vitally 
affect  the  honor,  or  the  safety,  of  their 
common  country. 
It  is  true  that  they 
have  nowadays  to  deal  with  some  very 
knotty  problems,  and  that  a  high  aver­
age  of 
intelligence  has  become,  more 
than  ever,  necessary  to  the  success  of 
the  great  experiment  of 
self-govern­
ment;  but  from  this  point  of  view  the 
outlook  is  encouraging. 
It  seems  to  be 
very  generally  admitted  that  the  excep­
tional  prosperity  of  the  industrial  enter­
prise  of  this  country  is  very  largely  due 
to  the  diligence,  aptness  and  skill  of  its 
working  people.  There  is  probably  no 
other  population  in  the world that equals 
the  population  of  the  United  States 
in 
respect  to  “ the  value  of  its  units.”  
Common  school  education 
is  nowhere 
else  so  general,  except  where  it  is  com­
pulsory.  Indeed,  it may be said that  pub­
lic  opinion makes  it,  in  a  certain  meas­
ure,  compulsory  even  here.  The  chil­
dren  of  this  country  know  that,  if  they 
would  respect  themselves  and  secure  the 
respect  of  others,  they  must 
learn  to 
read  and  write  and  keep  themselves 
fairly  well-informed 
in  regard  to  the 
most  important  ocurrences  of  contem­
porary  history. 
It  is  easy  enough,  of 
course,  to  point  to  some  flaws  in  this 
showing.  Yellow  journalism,  a  frivolous 
stage,  and  sensational  or  insane popular 
literature  are  formidable  foes  to  the 
right  education  of  the  masses.  On  the 
other  hand,  there  is  something  helpful 
in  the  way  of  culture  in  the  impulses 
of  the  National  life  itself,  something 
liberalizing  and  elevating 
in  the  ap­
peals  of  patriotism  and  philanthropy. 
There 
is,  moreover,  a  high  degree  of 
educative  power  in  the  severe  exactions 
of  modern  business.  Industry,  sobriety, 
thrift,  have  become  more  than  ever  es­
sential  to  success.  Add  to  all  this  the 
ministry  of  religion,  the  earnest  work 
of  honest  teaching,  and  the  organized 
activity  of  many  thousands  of  good  men 
and  women  in  behalf  of  temperance and 
personal  purity,  and  there  is  reason  to 
look  with  increased  confidence  to the fu­
ture.

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Dry Poods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  th e  P rin cip al 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— There  has  been  only 
a  very  moderate  business  progressing 
in  this  department of  the  cotton  goods 
market 
in  common  with  practically 
every  other  branch.  Trading  has  been 
reduced  to  its  lowest  terms,  both  on  ac­
count  of  Christmas  week,  and  the  fact 
that this  is  naturally  a  quiet  part  of  the 
year  for  cotton  goods.  This  has  been 
furthei  emphasized  by  the  fact  that sell­
ers  are  holding  a  firm  hand  on  their 
goods  and  are  well  enough  situated  to 
withstand  any  pressure  that  has  been  or 
can  be  brought  to  bear  on  them  by  the 
buyers.

Prints—There  has  been  a  very  quiet 
business  recorded  in printed cottons  this 
week,  and  this  is  not  altogether  due  to 
the  holidays,  but  largely  to  the  fact  that 
buyers  have  pretty  well  covered  their 
needs  for the  present  and  the  only  buy­
ing  was  to  fill  certain  spots  that  were 
found  to  be  weak.  This  quietude  has 
not  had  the  slightest  weakening  effect 
on  prices,  but  on  the  contrary,  in  every 
section  they  are  exceptionally  strong, 
for there  are  no  slocks  on  hand  of  any 
consequence  and  nearly  every  mill  re­
ports  its  production  as  well  sold  ahead. 
Fancy  prints  have  been  slower  in  sales 
than  usual,  but  this  has  been  offset  by 
the 
smaller  production,  and  staples 
have  had  considerably  more  business 
than  usual.

Printed  Flannelettes—Are  quiet  and 
prices  show  no  change.  Fine  printed 
specialties  show  no change.

Ginghams—While  showing  no  open 
changes  in  quotations,  are  well  sold  up 
and  very  firm;  in  fact,  few  orders  are 
being  accepted  to-day,  except  at  value.
Dress  Goods— The  dress  goods  mar­
ket  continues  in  an  unchanged  condi­
tion ;  there  is  only  a  modest  volume  of 
business  coming  forward.  Buyers  ap­
pear  to  have  made  about  all  the  provi­
sion  they  care  to  for  their  spring  re­
quirements ;  some  business  of  a  filling 
in  nature  is  on  all  the  time,  but  in  the 
aggregate,  it  is  far  from 
imposing;  it 
is  probable  that  the  market  will  con­
tinue  in  an  uninteresting  position  until 
such  a  time  as  the  new  heavyweight 
lines  make  their appearance,  which  will 
not  be  for  some weeks yet;  such activity 
as  exists  in  dress  goods  circles  is  to  be 
found  at  the  mills—the  work  of  filling 
the  orders  on  hand.  Mills  making  plain 
goods  of  the  cloth  order  are  generally 
busiiy  engaged,  having work  on  hand  in 
many  instances  to  keep  them  going 
steadily  for two  or  three  months,  and  in 
some  cases  as  many  as  five  months. 
Mills  making  broadcloths,  cheviots, 
thibet  cloths,  meltons,  segres  and  Vene­
tians  are  quite  generally  in  good  posi­
tion.  The 
large  sale  for plain,  colored 
and  Oxford  skirting  fabrics  has  given 
many mills  all  the  work  they  can  attend 
to;  the  requirements  of  the  cloaking 
trade  and  the  suit  maker  have  also  been 
extensive  and  have  aided  many  mills  to 
attain  a  comfortable  position  as  regards 
orders. 
The  demand  for  tricots  has 
been  of  a  character  to  clean  up  27-inch 
goods  and  leave  them  in  a  very  firm  po­
sition.  Fancy  goods  are  still unproduc­
tive  of business  of consequence,although 
some  business  has  been  done  in  cheap 
plaid  effects  and  waistings.  A  sugges­
tion  that  the  new  heavyweight  season  is 
approaching 
is  had  in  the  reports  of 
quiet orders  being  placed  for  low-grade 
suitings  of  the  staple order and  flannels.
Underwear— The  knit  goods  market

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

has  been  unchanged 
in  principal  fea­
tures  since  our  last  report.  The  holi­
days  have  interrupted  the  trade  and  in 
only  a  few  lines  has  there  been  any  im­
portant  business.  There  is  one  feature, 
however,  that  came  late  and  rather  un­
expectedly,  and  that  is  a  supplementary 
demand  for  fancy  hosiery  for  Christmas 
trade  reported  from  a number of houses. 
The  retailers  report  that  they  were  sur­
prised  at  their  sale  of  assorted  boxes  of 
fancies that were very evidently intended 
for  presents.  Of  course,  there  is  always 
a  moderate  amount  of this  business,  but 
the  ordinary*stocks  invariably  take  care 
of  it  without  difficulty.  This  change, 
undoubtedly 
is  due  almost  entirely  to 
the  fashion  for  wearing  fancy  hosiery 
this  winter.  Those  agents  who  were  in 
position  to  supply  this  demand  made  a 
good  thing  out  of  it,  and  the  new  year 
will  be  started  with  practically  clean 
shelves.

should  mean  much  to  the  market  in  the 
future. 
In  the  past  when  competition 
compelled  the  manufacturer to  cheapen 
his  product,  so  much  hair  and  waste 
was  put  in  that the  general  public  be­
came  disgusted  and  refused  to  buy. 
Manufacturers  have  seen  where 
they 
have 
lost,  and  to-day  that  trouble  is  no 
more.  A  better  line  of  goods  is  shown 
and  the  public  are  coming  around again 
and  forgetting  the  past.

Rugs— Smyrna  rugs  of  all  sizes  con­
tinue  to  sell  well  and  manufacturers  are 
exceptionally  busy  in  filling  their or­
ders.  Wilton  rugs,  too,  find  ready  sale. 
Art  squares  are  reported  to  be  in  good 
demand.

The 

idea  that  the  Lord  tempers  the 
winds  to  the  shorn 
lamb  is  a  human 
conclusion.  God  never  made  a  promise 
to  look  after  a  shorn  sheep.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized  1881.

Detroit, Michigan.

Cath  Capital,  9*00,000.  Mat S u rp ljt,  9200,000.

Cat* Aueta, 9800,000.

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D.  M . F e r r y , V ice  Pres.

F . H . W h it n e y, Secretary.
M . W .  O 'B r ie n , Treas.

E . J. B ooth, A sst.  Sec’y.

D ir e c to r s.

D.  W hitney, Jr., D.  M. Ferry, F .J . Hecker, 
M . W . O'Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian M ack, 
A llan Sheldon, Simon J.  M urphy,  W m .  L . 
Smith, A . H .  W ilkinson, James  E dgar,  H . 
Kirke  W hite,  H.  P .  Baldwin,  H ugo 
Scherer,  F .  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V .  Brace, 
lames  M cM illan,  F .  E .  D rlggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M .  B.  M ills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palm s, W m . C.  Y aw k ey,  David  C.  W h it­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C . Jenks.

Carpets—The  large  Eastern  mills  are 
as  a  rule  sold  up  beyond  March  and 
consumers  requiring*  goods  before  that 
time  are  obliged  to  rely  on  the  smaller 
manufacturers 
for  the  stock  needed. 
As  a  rule  the  smaller  manufacturers 
have  been  receiving  better figures  for 
their  products  than  have  the  “ b ig" 
ones,  for  the reason  that  consumers  need 
the  goods  before  the  large  manufactur­
ers  are  able  to  turn  them  out.  These 
conditions  in prices,  however,  exist only 
in  the  three-quarter  goods  market. 
In 
ingrains  competition  is  so  keen  that 
prices  are 
in  every  instance  the  same. 
The  three-quarter  goods  manufacturers 
report  a  very  good  demand  with  busi­
ness 
in  band  to  keep  them  well  em­
ployed  for  several  months.  Fine  .body 
Brussels,  wiltons,  and  the  high  grade 
carpets  are  commanding  the  most atten­
tion  and  the  demand  is  the  strongest  in 
these  grades.  In  velvets,  axminsters and 
tapestries,  a  good  business  is  being 
done,  while 
in  the  cheaper grades the 
demand  is  more  or  less  active.  What 
business  is  being  done  at  the  present 
time 
is  between  the  manufacturer and 
the  middleman.  The  retailers  as  a rule 
are  out  of  the  market  and  are 
just 
through  with  their  fall  season,  which 
was,  by  the  way,  a  very  satisfactory 
one. 
In  the  course  of  a  month  or  so, 
buying  will  be  done  for  the  spring  sea­
son.  The 
ingrain  carpet  market  up  to 
within  a  week  or  so,  has  been  one  of 
little  profit  to  the  manufacturer.  At  the 
present time,  however,  a  little  improve­
ment  in  business  has  been  noticed,  but, 
nevertheless,  the  market  continues  to  be 
in  a  very  unsatisfactory 
condition. 
Since  the  cut  in  price  of  three-quarter 
goods,  manufacturers  of  ingrains  have 
found  carpet  dealers  hard  to  tackle from 
a  business  standpoint.  When  the  cut in 
three-quarter  goods  was  made,  dealers 
and  commission  men  were  anxious  that 
ingrains  should  be  reduced  the  same 
amount 
three-quarter 
goods,  notwithstanding  the  fact that  in­
grains  last  season  were  down  to  their 
lowest  point.  Another  cut  in  ingrains 
would  have  been  almost  an  impossibil­
ity  with  the  market  for wool  in  the  con­
dition  it  is  at  the  present  time,  and 
it 
is  believed  now  since  a  little  more  buy­
ing  has  been  noticed  that  those  inter­
ested  outside  the  manufacturers  have 
come to the  conclusion  that  ingrains  are 
as  low  as  they  can  possibly  be.  Since 
the  improvement  in  business  has  shown 
itself,  the  outlook  for  a  better trade  is 
more  apparent  and  better  prices  should 
be  looked  for  when  such  conditions war­
rant  raising  them.  Manufacturers  are 
paying  more  attention  to  making  a  bet­
ter  carpet  than  heretofore.  This  fact

relatively 

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Clothing

Some  Fashions Favored by Good Dresners.
How  shall  one  distinguish  between 
individuality  and  eccentricity  in  mat­
ters  of  dress?  After a  man  has  learned 
that  different  garments  are  required  for 
different  occasions,  that  those  garments 
are  made  according to certain standards, 
and  that  good  form  demands  that  he 
shall  not  violate  the  general  mode  gov­
erning  their  make  or  use,  he  has  still 
to  answer  this  question  before  he  mas­
ters  the  art  of  dressing  well. 
If  he  is 
not  to  look  like  everbody  else,  he  must 
know  how  to  conform  to  the  mode  and 
yet  have  an  individuality  of  his  own. 
How  is  he  to  be  individual  without  be­
ing  eccentric?

A  good  tailor  knows  the  difference 
between  a  garment  of 
individual  cut 
and  a  garment  that  is  freaky.  He  un­
derstands  how  to  make  little  changes  in 
the  stitching,  the  shape  of  the  lapels, 
the  modification  and  the  general  finish 
of  a  garment  that  will  differentiate  it 
from  the  general  type  without  depart­
ing  from  that  type.  This  is  as  much  as 
the  man  of  good  taste  will  ask  of him. 
He  will  not  ask  that  he  make  glaring 
and  obtrusive  changes.  He  will  not  de­
mand  a  sack  coat  with  exaggerated 
vents  with  buttons  at  their  tops,  or  with 
several  lines  of  stitching  about  its edge. 
He  will  not  insist  on  obtrusive  braiding 
insist 
on  his  evening  clothes.  He  will 
on  minor  modifications, 
in 
themselves,  but  which,  altogether,  give 
an  air  of  individuality.  He  will  seek 
out  patterns  in  neckwear,  shirts  and 
hosiery  which,  while  conforming  to  the 
existing  mode,  yet  differ  slightly  from 
it.  His  dress  will  conform  in  general 
but  differ  in  minor  details.  He  will  not 
set  up  as  a  new  type  but  as  a  variation 
of  the  existing  type.  He  will  differ 
without  becoming  unlike.  He  will  ex­
press  himself  without  obtruding  him­
self.  Here 
lies  the  difference  between 
individuality  and  eccentricity  in  dress. 

trifling 

*  *  *

cloth— broadcloth, 

When  we  want  real warmth and luxury 
in  our  outer  garments,  nothing  will  take 
the  place  of  a 
fur-lined  overcoat. 
Ermine,  mink,  Persian and  muskrat  are 
the  proper  furs  for  linings  this  winter. 
One  stylish  overcoat is made of a  smooth 
surfaced  black 
for 
example.  The  lining  is  either  mink  or 
muskrat  and  the  deep  collar  is  of  otter 
skin  or  Persian.  The  coat  is  double- 
breasted,  having  eight  bone  buttons  and 
is  cjosed  along  the  edges  by  the  silk 
tabs  which  have  taken  the  place  of 
frogs. 
long  and  quite 
full  and  has  no  breast  pocket,  but  two 
side  pockets.  The  plain  cuffs  are  fin­
ished  by  six  rows  of  stitching,  set 
moderately  well  apart.  Sealskin, 
for 
some  reason,  seems  to  be  less  stylish  for 
garments  than 
it  was  in  former  years, 
but  if  one  wishes  a  fur  cap  or  gloves the 
seal  cap  and  the  seal  gloves  are  prefer­
able  to  other  furs.  Fur-lined  overcoats 
are  not  necessary  here,  owing  to  our 
mild  winters,  but  they  are  a  badge  of 
wealth  and  luxury  and  on  a  cold  winter 
day  there  is  always  a goodly  showing  of 
them  in  the  park.

It  is  cut  very 

*  *  *

It  is  always  an  interesting  thing  to 
see  new  applications  of  old 
ideas. 
There  is the  stock  idea,  for  instance—a 
band  of  cloth  bound  about  the  neck  and 
fastened.  An  ingenious  individual  con­
ceived  the 
idea  of  applying  the  prin­
ciple  to  ties  and  we  got  the  stock  bat­
wing  and  the  stock  four-in-hand— two

graceful  ties  which  hold  the  collar  in 
place  and  effectively  conceal  the  collar 
button.  The  same 
idea  has  been  ap­
plied  to  mufflers.  The  muffler to which 
I  refer  is  about  sixty  inches  long  and  is 
made of  plain black  silk,  unlined,  which 
terminates  in  two  broad  kite-shaped 
ends,  pleated  at  their  upper  portions. 
It  is  designed  to  twist  once  about  the 
neck,  the  ends  then  falling  across  the 
bosom  of  the  shirt  as  protectors.  The 
only  muffler  in  strictly  good  taste  is 
made  of  black  silk,  with  or  without  a 
self-patlern,  and  lined  with  white  silk 
or  left  unlined,  according  to  the  wear­
er’s  fancy.  The  old  padded  muffler  is 
entirely  out  of  style.  Shapes  in  mufflers 
differ.  Some  are 
cut  with  straight 
edges,  others  with  curved  edges.  Pro­
vided  the  muffler  be  of  soft  black  silk 
the  shape 
is  of  minor  consequence. 
Protectors  in  fancy  silks  of  rainbow 
patterns  are  not  in  good  taste,  as  bright 
effects  do  not  consort  well  with  the 
severity  of a  man’s  evening  dress.

*  *  *

“ Times  change”   and 

in  no  respect 
more  notably  than  in  our  ideas  of  what 
we  must  wear  to  keep  healthy.  Once 
everyone  thought  that  flannel  underwear 
was  as  necessary  and  inevitable  during 
the  winter  months  as  the  snow  itself, 
but  now  we  are  going  to  the  other  ex­
treme.  We  not  only  confess  to  a  liking 
for  heavy  cotton  underwear,but  we  even 
wear  linen—that  coolest  of all materials. 
Linen  has  advantages  of 
its  own,  in 
that  after  it  is  once  heated  it  retains the 
heat  and  is  most  grateful  to the  skin.  A 
heavy  ribbed  shirt  and  drawers  of  fine 
linen  in  pure  white  is  a  good  invest­
ment  and,  if  one  wishes,  linen  under­
garments  can  be  obtained  in  various 
fancy  meshes  and  weaves  that  are  sup­
posed  to have peculiar properties of their
own.

Like  our  underwear,  our  hosiery  for 
in  weight  or of  other 
winter  is  light 
material  than  wool. 
1  have  seen  some 
recently  imported  plain  merino  hose  in 
shades  of  tan  and  slate  which  have  a 
pattern,  in  red  and  blue, of bars  or  large 
dots,  across  the 
instep.  The  result  is 
much  better  than  any  plaid  effect,  of 
which  I  have  seen  a  few.  These  fancy 
merino  hose  are  well  adapted  to  winter 
use,  and  when  worn  with  low shoes  give 
a  very  good  fancy  effect.
*  *  *

It  might  be  expected  that  when  black 
velvet  is  used  so  extensively  for  ladies’ 
garments,  a  demand  should  set  in  for 
children’s  garments  made  from  it  also. 
One  of  the  neatest  and  most  elegant 
suits  I  have  seen  recently  fora  little  lad 
was  made  from  black  velvet  with  extra 
collar  and  shield  of  white  silk.  The 
suit  was  a  regulation  sailor  without  any 
special  trimming  except  a  line  of  red 
soutache  on  the  collar.  Another  suit  of 
the  same  model 
is  made  from  a  light 
gray  velvet,  with  white  collar  and 
shield,  trimmed  a  little  more  elaborate­
ly.  Either  suit  makes  a  handsome  dress 
garment  for  the  small  boy.— Apparel 
Gazette.

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M. Wile &  Co.

Famous  M akers  of  Clothing

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Samples  on  Request  Prepaid

your
mail
orders

No.  6001. 

Plush Windsor. 
$4.50 to  12.00 

per dozen.

No.  6018.

$2.25  to  12.00 

in Beavers and  Kerseys 

all colors.

Satisfaction
Guaranteed

Fresh
Goods

No.  6344.

Yacht

$2.25 to 9.00 per dozen,

W e   have  some  extra 

good  values  in 

G loves  and  M ittens

$2.25,  4.50  and  9.00 

per  dozen.

143  Jefferson  Ave. 

Detroit

The  Peerless  M’f’g  Co.,

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will  receive  prompt  attention.

G ran d   R apids  O ffice,  28  South  Ionia  S treet

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William  Connor

Wholesale  Ready  flade  Clothing
28-30 South  Ionia Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

It 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 style, 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
tion, I have added samples of every kind of summer  wear,  direct  from  the  factory 
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, 
S e r g e   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 7:30 a. m. to 6  p.  m.,  except  Saturday,  then 
7 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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Shoes  and  Rubbers
How to  Successfully  Conduct  a  Shoe  De 

partm ent.

First  and  foremost,  the  shoe  depart 
ment  must  be  a  moneymaking  depart 
ment.  This  is  its  all  important  mission 
and  all  energies 
in  its  behalf  must  be 
bent  in  this  one  direction.  Otherwise 
otherwise.

A  great  many  department  stores  con 
sider  the  shoe  department  one  of  the 
short  profit  ends  of  the  business.  The 
whyfore  of  this  is  found  in  the  fact  that 
the  shoe  department  is  lined  up  for  re 
view  with  other  departments  where 
profits are  decidedly  long.  Take  millin 
ery,  for  instance.  Profits  are  large— ioo 
per  cent,  or  more  is  the  rule.  Cloaks 
and  wraps  are  long  profit  goods,  profits 
often  averaging  up  with  millinery.  The 
notion  department 
the 
longest  profit  department  in  the  house 
and  you  will  often  see  profits  of  i,ooo 
per cent,  marked  on  some  of  the  small 
items.  There  are  other  departments 
where  profits  from  a  percentage  stand 
point,  by  this  I  mean  the  percentage  of 
profit  marked  on  the  goods,  are  large 
than  that  shown  by  the  shoe  department 
and  for  this  cause  the  shoe  department 
is  not  always  credited  with  being  one 
of  the  “ velvet”   ends  of  the  business.

is,  doubtless, 

Such  profits  as  above  referred  to  are 
rarely  possible  in  the  shoe  department 
I,  for  one,  do  not  believe 
in  ioo  per 
cent,  profit  on  regular  lines  of  shoes 
Next  to  conducting  a  department  on  a 
moneymaking  basis  the  important  thing 
is to  give  the  people  values.

There 

is  nothing  worn  by  a  person 
which  comes 
into  the  actual  wear  and 
tear  service  that  shoes  do.  Fail  to  give 
the  people  their  money's  worth  and  you 
it  a  difficult  problem  to  hold 
will  find 
their  trade.  Buying  regular 
lines  of 
$1.50 shoes  and  selling  them  for $3  will 
prove  a  trade  losing  and  money 
losing 
proposition  for any  shoe  dealer.  This 
may  work 
in  other  lines  of  goods,  but 
not  in  the  shoe  business;  Such  profits 
are  permissible  in  the  shoe  department 
only  when  shoes  are  bought under price, 
jobs,  etc.  'I f  you  can  buy  regular  $2.25 
shoes  for $1.50—such  chances  ccme  oc­
That’s 
casionally—sell  them  for  $3. 
should  be 
business, 
that 
pushed  along  with  vigor. 
I  want  to 
approach  this  phase  of the  subject  from 
another  standpoint,  however,  and  drop 
it  here  for the  present.

the  kind 

The  province  of  a  department  store 
with  its  shoe  department  is primarily  to 
cater to  the  masses.  Some may  cater  to 
the  classes,  but  only  as  practically  a 
side 
issue.  Few  could  thrive  upon  it. 
It’s  the  great,  good-natured,  surging 
throng  who  constitute  the  greater  por­
tion  of  the  population  of  our cities— 
that  great  throng  of  medium  price  buy­
ers—who  make  possible that distinctive­
ly  American  institution,  the  department 
store.  I’ve  yet  to  see  one  of  these  insti­
tutions—and  I’ve  seen  many— that  did 
not  put  forth strenuous  efforts  to  capture 
this  class  of  trade. 
It’s  the  class  of 
trade  on  which  volume  of  business  de­
pends  and  we  must  keep  in  mind  the 
fact  that  on  this  volume  of  business 
hangs  the  success  or  failure  of  the  de­
partment  store  and incidentally  the  shoe 
department.

To  successfully  conduct  a shoe depart­
ment,one  of  the  important  matters  to  be 
kept  in  view  is  the  class  of  trade  which 
comes  to  the  store.  A  store  catering  to 
the  medium  and  cheaper  class  of trade 
can  not  successfully  maintain  a shoe de­
partment  attempting  to  cater  to  trade

which  buys  high  priced  footwear.  My 
observation  has  been  that  the  most  suc­
cessful  departments  are  those  which  go 
after,on  a  large  scale,  the  class  of  trade 
which  the  store  in  general  caters  to.

The  average  shoe  department  is  re­
quired  to  carry  more  or  less  of  the 
higher  priced  footwear— shoes  selling 
from  $4  to $6.  There  is  a  certain  class 
of  trade  that  comes  to the  department 
store  which  demands  them  and  they  are 
nice  goods  to  handle— in  a  way.  The 
‘ after 
clap” — the  left  overs— in  my 
opinion  offset  in  no  small  degree  what­
ever  is  gained  in  handling  them.  If  a 
line  proves  a  sticker  it’s  a  big  question 
as  to  how  they  can  be  turned  into  cash 
without  a  loss.

The  other grades  from $3.50 down are, 
in  my  opinion,  where  nearly  all  shoe 
departments  should  do  their  big  busi­
ness.  These  are  the  grades  which  the 
masses  buy  and  on  which  the  volume  of 
business  must  be  done. 
It’s  the  class 
of  trade  most  easily  pleased. 
It’s  the 
class  of  trade  most  easily  reached  with 
advertising  and 
it’s  the  class  of trade 
once  started  your  way  will  keep  coming 
your  way  if  you  give  them honest values 
and  show  them  that  you  are  interested 
in  them  and  their  needs.

Giving  the  people  honest  values  im 
plies  right  buying,  and  this  is  where 
we  get  back  to  the  profit  question 
Right  buying 
is  all  important,  but  ii 
not  possible  with  all  department  stores 
Some  of  them  demand  too  big  profits  to 
make  right  buying possible.  The  ques 
tion  of  right  buying  in  the  shoe  depart 
low  can  you  buy  a 
ment  is  not  how 
shoe  to  sell  for  a  certain  price. 
It  is 
and  should  be  “ bow  much  can  you 
pay?”   “ Wha^  is  the  highest  possible 
price  that  can  be  paid  for  a  shoe  to  sell 
at  a  given  price?”   This,  coupled  with 
good  judgment  in  selecting  lines,  is,  in 
my  opinion,  right  buying.  The  amount 
to  be  paid  for  shoes  to  retail  at  stated 
prices  must  be  governed  by  individual 
circumstances.  As  a rule,exclusive  shoe 
stores  operate  under  a  smaller  percent 
age  of  expense  than  department  stores 
and  should  under  such  circumstances  be 
able  to  give  the  best  value's  for  the 
price.  They  rarely  do,  however,  which 
accounts  for  the  enormous  business  in 
footwear being  done  by  the  big  stores.
For  department  stores  I  believe  that 
$1.50  ought 
in  all  cases  to  be  paid  for 
regular  lines  of  shoes  to  sell  for  $2. 
I 
believe  that  $1.75  to $1.90 ought  to  be 
paid  for  regular  lines  of  shoes  to  sell 
for $2.50.  I  believe  that  $2.25  and  $2.35 
ought  to  be  paid  for  shoes  to  sell  for $3 
and  $2.50 to  $2.60  and,  where  necessary 
to  get  an  extreme  style  or  pattern,  $2.75 
ought  to  be  paid  for  $3.50  retailers. 
Buy  shoes  at  these  prices  with 
the 
usual  discount  of  5  per  cent,  and  good 
profits  remain.  Buying  shoes  at  these 
prices  from  the  right  manufacturers  in­
sures  value  giving  to  the  trade,  and  you 
can  rest  assured  that  once  a  person buys 
in  a  department  con­
ducted  upon  such  principles  you  have 
' ’s  trade  forever  afterwards.

pair  of  shoes 

Next  to  buying  regular  lines  of shoes, 
as  above  outlined,comes  the  importance 
of  buying  good,  clean  floor goods.  It  is 
the  province  of  the  department  store  to 
buy  such  goods  in  large  quantities  and 
move  them  quickly.  This  is  where  long 
profits  are  permissible— 100  per  cent, 
and  more— and  where  the  successful  de­
in  some  very 
partment  manager  gets 
efficient  work. 
I  have  found  it  a  most 
profitable  practice  to  go  into  the  shoe 
manufacturing  centers  and  ransack  fac­
tory  and 
jobbing  house  for clean,  de­
ra te   jobs.  With  a  little  manipulation

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The Stamp of Approval

W h en  good  old  reliable  merchants 
buy  our own  m ake  shoes year  in  and 
year  out,  buy  them  over  and  over 
again  and  keep  right  on buying them, 
that  shows  the  Stam p  of  Approval.

Herold>Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

Makers  of  Shoes,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

I

COLD  WEATHER  SHOES

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 ecia lty   House.

A  Merry  Xmas

A  Happy  and  Prosperous  New  Year

to  all  our  friends and patrons 

is  the  wish  of

BRADLEY  &  METCALF CO,  Milwaukee,  Wis.

M anufacturers and  Jobbers of  Shoes and  Rubbers

COMFORTABLE  SHOES

No  1059—Women’s Red Felt Nullifier
fur trimmed.............................. 
No.  2490— Misses’ Red  Felt  Nullifier
fur trimmed................................ 
No.  2491—Child’s  Red  Felt  Nullifier
fur trimmed................................ 
No.  2475— Women’s  Blue  Felt  lace

Dong,  foxed, op.  and  C.  S.  toe  $1.00 

No.  2487— Women’s Dong., felt  lined,

fur  trimmed  Nullifier................  $1.00

gec

ggr

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8jc

No.  2488—Women’s  Black  Felt,  fur
trimmed  Nullifier....................... 
We  have  the  above warm  shoes  in  stock  and  can  supply 

you promptly.

QEO. H. REEDER & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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The  Celebrated 

“lone”  Shoe  for  Men

of  the  right  sort  these  goods  can  usually 
be  bought  at  figures  considerably  under 
the  regular  prices—figures  that  allow 
good, round  profits  and  at  the  same  time 
permit  the  goods  to  be  sold  at  prices 
that  pull  crowds 
into  the  shoe  depart­
ment. 
It  helps  the  advertising  wonder­
fully. 
It  is  the  right  kind  of  ammuni­
tion  with  which  to meet competition and 
into  the 
puts  vim,  vigor  and  victory 
department. 
shoes 
rightly 
handled  are  profitmakers.  I  have  found 
it  profitable  to  buy  samples  of  good 
lines  of  shoes,  select  some  of  the  most 
desirable  and  put  them  on  the  shelves 
and  get  regular  prices  for  them.  The 
balance  are  used  for  sample sales.  Long 
profits  can  always  be  made  if  the  sam­
ples  are  right.

Sample 

But  this  is  only half.  After the goods 
are  bought  they  must  be  sold,  and  this 
is  where  the  successful department man­
ager’s  hardest  work  comes  in.  This 
should  occupy  the  greater  portion  of  his 
time.  The  responsibility  for  the  sell­
ing,  however,  does  not  rest  wholly  upon 
his  shoulders.  The  first  and  greatest 
responsibility  rests  with  the  manage­
ment  of  the  store. 
It  is  for  them  to 
guide  and  direct  the  policy  of  the  store 
and  say  what  the  attitude  in  a  business 
way  shall  be  toward  the  people.  This 
is  highly 
it  determines 
whether  business  can  or  can  not  be 
done,  not  only  in  the  shoe  department 
but  all  departments.

important,  as 

There  are  two  methods  in  operation 
in  dealing  with  the  people.  The  mod­
ern  and  liberal  method  now  in  force 
in 
most  of  the  larger  department  stores  is 
the  one  that  appeals  to  the  people. 
Stores  operating  under  this  method  do 
the  business.  Such  stores  offer  every 
inducement 
in  the  way  of  right  treat­
ment  to  attract  trade  and  get  it.  They 
are 
liberal  to  a  fault  in  the  matter  of 
exchanges  and  refunds  and  all  those 
little  things  which  really  cost  nothing, 
but  which  are  mighty  forces  in  gaining 
the  confidence  of the people.  The motto, 
“ Satisfaction  or  your  money  back,”   is 
conspicuously  displayed  throughout  the 
store  and  newspaper  advertising,  and 
people  trade  there  because  they  feel 
that 
in  such  a  concern  they  have  a 
“ store  home.”   Selling  in  such  an  es­
tablishment  is  comparatively  easy.  The 
heavy  end  of  the  department  manager's 
work  is  considerably 
lightened.  With 
his  shoes  well  bought  he  faces  a  multi­
tude  of  eager  purchasers  who  have  con­
fidence  in  his  house—the  rest  is  easy.

The  other  method—a  sort  of  close- 
fisted,  illiberal,unaccomodating  way— is 
decidedly  different.  There  is  an  air of 
coldness  about  such  a  store.  You  in­
stinctively  feel  that  you  are  an  intruder 
—that  you  have  no  business  there.  You 
are  struck  with a chill immediately upon 
entering  the  door, and the  next  time  you 
pass  that  way  you  take  the  other  side  of 
the  street.  Such  a  concern  has  but  lit­
tle  regular  trade. 
Their  success— or 
existence— is  attributable  to  a  certain 
class 
trade— 
“ tramp”   trade,  if  you  please—and  not 
that  steady  stream  of  humanity  which 
flows  in  and  out  of  the  other  concern. 
Goods,  however  well  bought,  are  not  so 
easily  sold  in  a  concern  of  this  kind.  A 
department  man  has  hard  work  to  ac­
complish  what  he  would  like  to.

of  transient, 

floating 

The  watchful  department  man  never 
allows  old  goods  to  accumulate.  He  is 
eternally  watching  out  for  laggards— 
shoes  that  move  slowly.  Next  to  not 
allowing  old  goods  to  accumulate  comes 
the  importance  of  dealing  swift  justice 
to  such  accumulations.  If  there  are  old, 
out-of-date  shoes  in  stock—narrow  toes

liberal 

of  the  vintage  of  1895  and  1896—sell 
them.  Any  old  price 
from  98  cents 
down  to  o.  Get  them  out  of  the  way. 
The  best  price  obtainable  for  them  is 
accompanied  with  a  loss,and  the  sooner 
is  filled 
the  space  occupied  by  them 
with  shoes  which  bear  a  profit, 
the 
better.
Be 

in  the  matter  of  repairs, 
occasionally  customers  will  come  back 
with  complaints  which  are  apparently 
unreasonable.  Do  not  get  swelled  up 
and  kick  them  out  of  the  house.  It  may 
take  ten  to  twenty-five  cents  in  repair­
ing  to  send  them  away  feeling  good. 
They  will  come  back  again  before  long 
and'  buy  another  pair  of  shoes  and  you 
will  have  squared  yourself  for  your  re­
cent 
loss,  made  some  money  besides 
and  established  a  most  profitable  sort 
of  advertising—the  man  will  talk  for 
you.

Help  is  an  important  item,  shoe  sell­
ing  demands  especially  good  salesmen. 
A  lot  of  poor  salesmen  can  almost  ren­
der  non-effective  the  best  efforts  of  the 
most  efficient  department  man.  Good 
salesmen  are  his  mainstay.  For  the 
average  shoe  department  I do  not  favor 
the  employment  of  saleswomen  except 
in  the  children's  shoes. 
I  have  never 
found 
it  profitable  to  employ  them  in 
the  men’s  and  women’s  stock.  Ladies 
entering  the  department  to  purchase 
shoes  want  better  attention  than  they 
can  get  from  one  of  their own  sex,  and 
I  have  known  them  to  flatly  refuse  to  be 
waited  on  by  a 
lady  clerk.  For the 
welfare  of  the  men’s  department  1 
would  never  allow  women  to  sell  men’s 
shoes.

In  the  numerous  methods  of  stock 
keeping— complicated  and  otherwise— 
I  have  no  hobby. 
I  have  had  to  deal 
largely  with  extra  help  and  find  the 
simple  method  of  having  as  much  of 
in  sight  as  possible  most 
the  stock 
effective.  Simple  statements 
in  plain 
English  on  the  cartons  to 
indicate  the 
contents  I  consider  superior  to  the  sys­
tem  of  numbers  used  for  this  purpose. 
Extra  help  have  no  trouble  to  find  the 
goods—a  highly 
important  matter  in 
busy  times.

Of  the  thousand  and  one minor details 
of  the  shoe  department  I  have  nothing 
to  say.  They  are  matters  which  must 
be  regulated  to  suit  the individual needs 
of  each  department  and  can best  be  reg­
ulated  by  the  one  familiar  with  local 
conditions.

Shoes  well  bought  are half sold.  Shoes 
well  bought  for  a  progressive  up-to-date 
house  are  all  but  sold—the  rest  is  easy. 
The  department  manager  who  has a live 
hustling  concern  back  of  him  and  is 
himself  a  hustler  is  sure  of  results. 
It 
is  a  strong  combination  and  produces 
competition  that  competes.

jobs—there’s  plenty—and 

Finally.
Push !  Push !!  Push I!!  Keep  eter­
nally  hammering  away.  Keep  some­
thing  always  going  on.  Go  the  full 
limit  of  the  advertising  allotted  you 
and  kick  for  more.  Make  special  sales 
and  keep  them  going  all  the  time.  Buy 
clean 
sell 
them  cheap.  Keep  the  people  coming 
your  way.  If  no  jobs  are  available,  stir 
up  the  trade  with  some  of  your  hot  reg­
ular  lines.  Have  the  best  $1.50  lines 
of  men’s  and  women's  shoes 
in  the 
country  and  make  special  sales  on  them 
for  $1.95.  If  you  have  the  right  kind  of 
$2.25  or  $2.35  lines  you  can  make  spe­
cial  sales  on  them  at  $2.95. 
If  the  de­
partment  man  is  a  resourceful  man— 
and  he  usually  is— he  will  always  keep 
things  bumming.— C.  L.  Jackson 
in 
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder, j

Had  Hone I t  Already.

A 

local  clergyman  was  engaged  in 
conversation  with  a  number  of  friends 
the  other  day,  when  each  started  telling 
stories  of  weddings  he  had  performed. 
One  of  the  party  had  this  to  offer :
Some  time  ago  a  great  big  fellow, 
roughly  dressed,  and  a  wee  mite  of  a 
young  woman  came  to  him.  They  had 
no  witnesses,  and,  in  fact,  did  not  care 
to  have  any.  Nevertheless  a  bridesmaid 
and  groomsman  were  selected  from  the 
household,  and  thè  ceremony  began. 
They  had  promised  to  love  and  obey 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  service,  when  the 
preacher  announced:  “ Kiss  the bride.”
The  groom,on  bended  knee,  hesitated 
a 
little, 
to  say  something  and 
couldn’t.

“ Kiss  the  bride,”   said  the  pastor.
“ Why,  parson,  I  did  afore  I  come 
here  at  all,”   replied  the  groom,  whose 
face  had  taken  the  color  of  a  June  rose.
The  witnesses  burst  forth  in  laughter, 
while  the  minister  had  all  he  could  do 
to  retain  the  serious  expression  which 
he  always  wore  when  wedding people.

tried 

An  American  chiropodist  now  in  Ber­
lin  advertises  that  he  “ has  removed 
corns 
from  all  the  crowned  heads  of 
Europe.”
Kissing 

is  unhealthy— if  her  father 

catches  you  at  it.

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Distributors

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receives by using the

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System  of  Accounts
It  prevents  forgotten  charges. 
It 
makes  disputed  accounts  impossible. 
It 
It  assists  in  making  collections. 
saves  labor  in  bookkeeping. 
It  sys­
tematizes credits. 
It establishes  con­
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Village  Improvement

A  Move  in  the  R ig h t  D irection.

The  reservation  in  the  West  of  pub­
lic  lands  for  domains,  parks,  forest  re­
serves  and  sites  for  reservoirs  has  re­
sulted  in  turning  public  attention  to  the 
importance  of  this  movement 
in  the 
older  parts  of  the  country.  The  wanton 
destruction  of  the  forests  in  our early 
history  has  resulted  in  the  almost  anni­
hilation  of  the  broad-leaved  trees  which 
at  one  time  extended  from  Central  New 
England  to  Georgia;  and  the  idea  is 
now  finding  favor,  that  somewhere  in 
the  East  where  the  climatic conditions 
are  favorable  the  old-time  favorites  of 
the  woods  shall be planted and preserved 
as  relics  of  a  departed  woodland  splen­
dor.  A  tract  has  been  found 
in  the 
higher  parts  of  the  great  upland  of  the 
South 
in  the  State  of  North  Carolina, 
near  the  confines  of  Tennessee,  South 
Carolina  and  Virginia,  of  not  less  than 
a  thousand  square  miles  in  area.

The  special  reason  for  this  selection 
is  that  it  has  been  found  the fittest place 
for a  national  reservation. 
In  this  re­
gion  in  the  very  heart  of  the  original 
broad-leaved  forests  of  Eastern America 
there  is  a  greater  number  of  the  hun­
dred  or  so  important  trees  to  be  pre­
served  already  flourishing.  On  account 
of  a  varying  height  of  the  surface  the 
reservation  will  have  a  range  of  eleva­
tion  of  about  five  thousand  feet  which 
will  furnish  climatic 
in 
which  the  desirable  trees  would  thrive. 
The  intention  is  to  make the reservation 
for  the  East  what  the  Yellowstone  is 
for  the  West,  an 
intention  which  can 
not  be too  much  encouraged.

conditions 

is 

While,  however,  the  General  Govern­
ment 
looking  out  carefully  for the 
general  good,  there  is  a  thought  in  the 
movement  which 
it  would  be  well  for 
each  individual  state  to  consider.  If the 
nation  as  a  whole  finds 
it  desirable  to 
look  after  its  best,  each  state  will  find 
it  equally  advantageous  to  set  apart  its 
reservation  and  see  to  it  that  the  old- 
time  product  is  restored  and  aided  to 
regain  its  old-time  supremacy—the  na­
tive  woods  first  and  after that  such  pro­
ductions  as  have  found  a  name  and  a 
place  for themselves,  the  country  or  the 
world  over. 
In  the  apple  orchards  of 
the  earth,  there  is  no tree  that  has  more 
admirers  than  the  Rhode  Island  green­
ing. 
for  pies,”  
sang  a  New England poet,  but  they were 
too general  favorites  to  be  so  limited  in 
use  and  appreciation.  Other  sections 
admired  them  and  hardly  an  apple- 
grower  could  at  one  time  be  found  who 
was  not  trying  on  his  own  land  to  raise 
the  Rhode  Island  greening.  None  were 
successful.  The  rich  soil  of  the  West 
furnished  apples  from  the Rhode Island- 
bought  scion  that  were  marvelous  for 
size  and  intensity  of  color;  but  the  fla­
vor of  the  fruit  was  wanting.  Only  the 
Rhode  Island  soil  can  give  that,  and  in 
the  Rhode  Island  reservation  that  is to 
be  should  the  old-time  favorite  be  per­
petuated.

“ Excellent  apples 

Is  there anything which the Peninsular 
State  can  do  for  itself  in  this  direction? 
The  readers  of  this  periodical  have 
been  kept  posted  upon  what  has  been 
going  on  within  our  borders  on  the  sub­
ject  of  forestry,  and  Grand  Rapids  is 
the  home  of  one  of the  leaders  and  sup­
Is  there 
porters  of 
no  possibility  of 
in 
Michigan  the  national  idea?  Have  we 
no  forest  trees  that  flourish  nowhere 
quite  so  well  as  in  our  Michigan  soil? 
Have  we  no  leafy  relics  of  a  splendid

localizing  here 

the  movement. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

past  to  be  made  the  nucleus  of  future 
beauty  and  utility? 
In  all  our  stretches 
of  upland  and  level  have  we  no acres  to 
be  set  aside  for  a  State  reservation, 
where  the  timber  has  grown  that  has 
made  Michigan  a  name  as  familiar as 
the  furniture  she  has  delighted 
the 
world  with?  Many  a  reader Of this paper 
— and  he  need  not  be  gray  headed— can 
easily  remember  when  “ the  orchards  of 
Michigan”   was  an  expression  crowded 
Is  there  no  hope  that  it 
with  meaning. 
may  again  become  familiar? 
Is  there 
no  apple,  no  pear,  no  peach,  no  plum, 
no  grape  that  has  done  for  the  State 
what  the  greening  has  done  for  Rhode 
Island,  and  that  is  begging  to-day  for 
a  place  in  the  public  domain  where  it 
can  show  what  “ has  been”   with  an 
equally  delightful  “ is?”

The  “ Appalachian  Park”   while  still 
an  idea  promises  to  be  an  early  reality. 
So  may  it  b e ;  and  the  wish  is  as  hearty 
that  the  state,  copying  the  Nation,  will 
not  be  satisfied  until  it  has  its  own  res­
ervation 
full 
carrying  out 
the  full  national  thought.

the 

to 

D id  Ton  Ever  Meet  H im ?

“ Took  a  trade  paper  once.  Never 
got  time  to  look  at  it.  Got  a  pile  of 
’em  now,  somewhere.”

Don’t 

laugh, 

This  was 
actually  said  by  a  grown  man,  a  Michi­
gan  dealer recently.

reader. 

What  do  you  think  of  it?  Look  at  it, 
front  and  rear,  and  on  all  sides.  What 
do  you  make  of  that  sort  of  a  “ business 
man,”   anyway?
How  about  it?
Well,  if  that  man  were  a  farmer,  he’d 
be  ploughing  with  a  forked stick to-day.
He  doesn’t  believe  in  trade  papers. 

“ Nobody  can’t  teach  him  nothin’. ”

He  scouts  at  the  views  of  others.  He 
“ knows  it  all.”   He  “ gangs  his  ain 
gait, ’ ’  regardless  of the growth of knowl­
edge  and  the  sweep  of  progress.

If  history  ever  taught  anything,  it  is 
interests  are  advanced, 

that  human 
lifted  bodily  onward,  by  literature.

From  the  farmer  who  wants  his  big 
pumpkin  noted  in  the  county  paper,  to 
the  great  manufacturer  who  pays  thous­
ands  to  advertise  his  modern  harvester, 
all  whcr  achieve  results  seek  publicity. 
Then,  as  naturally  as  the  needle  turns 
to  the  pole,  those  who  reach  bigger or 
better results  turn  to  the  press.

Thus 

it  comes  that  the  press  is  the 

agent  of  progress.

It 

tells  of  good  things, 

ingenious 
things,  things  which  raise  the  standard 
of  living.

it  incites  others  to  excel. 
Likewise 
brighter,  newer,  more 
Everything 
usable,  more  helpful,  gravitates  to  the 
press.

But  our  brilliant  friend  “ never  reads 
em.  ’
Consider,  too,  that  editors  and  pub­
lishers  have  spent  years  and  years  care­
fully  creating  a  continent-wide  “ ma­
chinery  of  news.”   Also,  if  a  trade  is 
organized,  and  puts  forward  its  keenest, 
shrewdest  business  men  as  officials,  the 
trade  press knows it,  and is  glad  to  print 
their  views,  which  are  worthy  any  deal­
er’s  attention.

Again  and  again  do  the  trade  papers 
present  store  methods,  business  “ point­
ers”   in  great  variety,  such  as have been 
found  practical.  .

The  good  old  maxim,  “ two  heads  are 
better  than  one,”  
is  applied,  when 
dealers  read  and  profit  by  the  periodi­
cals  carefully  prepared  for  the benefit  of 
their own  trade.

As  for  Rip  Van  Winkle,  quoted  above 
“ other 

the  wide-awake,  well-posted 
fellow”   will  lake  care  o f him.

Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Company,

19, 21  and 23  E.  Fulton  S t , corner Campau,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Established  1866.

Now located  in  their  large  and  commodious  new  Factory  Building—  
the second  largest in the State.  Have  greatly  increased  their  facilities 
in all departments.  Are prepared to quote lowest  prices  for  best  work 
on all kinds of made up boxes, and all kinds of folding boxes; also make 
a specialty of a1! kinds of box labels and die cutting.

THE

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Gasoline 
Lamps

Are  the best  tn  the  market, 
neatest In design  and  best  in 
workmanship.  Approved  by 
insurance underwriters; every 
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The “Ann Arbor”  Lamps  are 
giving the best  of satisfaction 
and the  demand  for  them  is 
growing rapidly.
Dealers write to-day for our 
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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 
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TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Win. B.  Holden, T raveling.R epresentative 

Voigt,  H erpolsheim er & Co.

township, 

to  Keene 

Wm.  B.  Holden  was  born  on  a  farm 
in  Wyoming  township,  Kent  county, 
Jan.  6,  1863.  He 
lived  there  until  he 
was  6  years  old,  when  he  went  with  a 
relative 
Ionia 
county,  where  he  remained  until  15 
years  of  age.  He  then  went  to  Lowell, 
where  he  sought  and  obtained  a  clerk­
ship  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Collar  & 
Weeks.  Nine  months  later  he  came  to 
Grand  Rapids  and  obtained  a  position 
in  the  print  goods  department  of  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  He  was  after­
wards  transferred  to  the  notion  depart­
ment  and,  after  being  with  this  house 
seven  years,  accepted  a  position  with 
Spring  &  Co.  in  the  linen  department. 
Eighteen  months  later,  he  accepted  an 
offer  to  take  charge  of  the  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods  department  of  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,  where  he  re­

mained  seven  years.  Aspiring  to  a 
career  as  a  traveling  salesman,  he  went 
on  the  road  for  the  Grand  Rapids  Cus­
tom  Shirt  Co.,  traveling 
in  Wisconsin 
for  six  months.  He  then  accepted  an 
offer  from  the  Singer  Hook  &  Eye  Co., 
with  whom  he  remained six months,con­
tinuing  with 
its  successor,  the  Rapid 
Hook  &  Eye  Co.,  for  a  year.  During 
this  time  he  covered  twenty-five  differ­
ent  states  and  met  many  amusing  ex­
periences  in  undertaking  to  introduce 
the  new  style  of  hook  and  eye  exploited 
by  these  companies.  He  then  accepted 
a  position  on  the  road  for  Voigt,  Her­
polsheimer  &  Co.,  where  he  has  since 
remained,  covering  the  Pere  Marquette 
to  Charlevoix  and  Saginaw  and  Detroit 
and  seeing  his trade  every  six  weeks.

Mr.  Holden was married Sept.  23,1897, 
to  Miss  Anna  C.  Dettmann,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  and  resides  at  763  South Lafay­
ette  street.  He 
is  a  member  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  the 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  being 
conductor of the  local  lodge  of  the  latter 
organization.

Mr.  Holden  attributes  his  success  to 
good  fortune,  good  health,  willingness 
to  work  and  ordinary 
intelligence.  He 
says  it  never  hurt  his  feelings  if  the 
work 
in  hand  took  him  half  an  hour 
after  the  closing  hour,  and  that  he  has 
never  yet  shrunk  from  taking  hold  of 
any  kind  of  work  that  was  assigned him 
and  has  always  done  his  best  to  carry  it 
forward  to  a  successful  completion.

One  W ay to  Get B id of Bad  Eggs.

week,  and  the  problem  that  confronted 
the  manager  was:  How  am  I  to get  rid 
of  the  eggs?  He  concluded  that  the 
river  would  be  the  best  place  for  them, 
and 
instructed  two  men  to  dump  the 
decayed  hen  fruit  into  the  Hudson when 
darkness  descended  to  hide  the  enact­
ment  of  the  deed.  Fearing  that  the  men 
might  be  mistaken  for  burglars 
if  dis­
covered  by  the  policeman  on  beat,  he 
furnished  one  of  them  with  a  note  say­
ing 
it  was  all  right,  and  signed  his 
name  to  it.  The  note  was  only  to  be 
used  in  case  of  discovery.  At  the  hour 
of  midnight  one  of  the  men  came  from 
the  building  with  a  case  of  eggs.  A 
policeman  sneaked  around  the  corner 
and  grabbed  him.  He  protested that  he 
was  not  a  burglar.  The other  man—the 
one  who  had  the  note—seeing  the  pre­
dicament  of  his  fellow  workman,hurried 
out  to  present  the  note.  The  officer 
grabbed  him,  too.  The  market  watch­
man,  seeing  the  policeman  with  the  two 
men,thought  the  dock  gang  would  make 
mischief,  so  called  up  the  police  sta­
tion,  and 
in  a  few  moments  a  patrol 
wagon 
loaded  with  policemen  dashed 
up.  By  this  time  the  first  policeman 
on  the  scene  had  read  the  manager's 
note,and  when  the  patrol  wagon  arrived 
the  eggs  had  been  thrown  in  the  river 
and  the  two  men  permitted  to  depart. 
The  affair  would  have  closed  there  had 
not  some  of  the  other  managers  on  the 
street  heard  of  the  egg  incident  and  got 
possession  of  the  note  signed  by  the 
manager.  Then  they  got  a  friend  to 
pose  as a detective  on  a  hunt  for the per­
son  responsible  for  dumping  the  eggs. 
The  supposed  detective  visited 
the 
manager  and  asked  him  what  he  knew 
about the  eggs.  “ They  were  bad  eggs,”  
said  the  manager. 
“ In  fact,  I  do  not 
believe  the  hens  that  laid  them had  ever 
been  vaccinated,  and— ”

“ But,”  

interrupted  Mr.  Detective, 
“ what  I  want  to  know  is,  who  is  re­
sponsible?  Who  is  the  man  who  wrote 
this  note?”   “ Oh,  I  wrote  the  note.  It’s 
all  right.”   “ Then  you  are  good  for 
five  years 
in  prison,”   said  the  detec­
tive,  “ and  I  guess  I’ll  have  to  ask  you 
to  come  with  me.  There  have  been nu­
merous  complaints  about  eggs being  put 
in  the  river,  and  I  guess  you’re  the  man 
the  river  and  harbor  police  have  been 
trying  to  run  down  for several  weeks. ”  
The  manager  was  frightened  until  he 
saw  a  group  of  well-known  beef  men 
smiling  on  the  scene  through  the  door­
way.  He  simply  said :  “ Come  across 
the  street. ”   And  they  did.— Butchers’ 
Advocate.
Compare tlie  Home  M erchant  W ith  the 

Catalogue  House.

From the Shelby Herald.

Who  sympathized  with  you  when  your 
little  girl  was  sick?  Was  it  your  home 
merchant  or  was  it  Sears,  Roebuck  & 
Co.?  Who carried  you  last  winter  when 
you  were  out  of  a 
job  and  had  no 
money?  Was 
it  Montgomery,  Ward  & 
Co.,  or  was  it  your  home  merchant? 
When  you  want  to  raise  money  for  the 
churches  or  some  needy  person  in  town, 
do  you  write  to the  Fair store  in  Chi­
cago,  or  do  you  go  to  your  home  mer­
chants?  How  much  do  Siegel,  Cooper 
&  Co.  give towards keeping up  the  side­
walks  of  the  town  or  paying  the  minis­
ter’s  salary?  When  you  were  sick,  how 
many  nights  did  Chas.  A.  Stevens  & 
Co.  sit  up  with  you?  When  your  loved 
one  was  buried  was  it  your  home  mer­
chant  who dropped  the  tear  of  sympathy 
and  uttered  the  cheering  word,  or  was 
it  Marshall  Field  &  Co. ?  Of  course  it 
was  the  home  merchant.  You  can  get 
just  as  good  goods  and 
just  as  low 
prices  with  them  as  in  the  city.  Be­
sides,  they  are  here  to  right  any  wrong.

Five  cases  of  eggs  “ went bad”  in one 
of  the  West  Harlem  beef  houses  last

Some  people  follow  their hearts,  some
their  minds  and  the  rest  their  noses.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Doomed

LIMIT! 

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nights  are 
coming. 
Send  in 
your  order 
for  some 
good
lights. The 
Pentone 
kind will 
please you. 
See  that 
Generator. 
Never fails 
to
generate.
Pentone 
Gas
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Mich.

To  slow but 
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Cbe Old (Zorn Broom
Modem 
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produced  dustless  sweeping— 
sanitary sweeping—better sweep­
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Brush

Does  it.  Mr. Merchant we’ll tell 
you  why  it should  interest  you. 
Secure the agency in your  town.

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and  many  100 times  more  light from

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If in need  of  a  Cash  Register  address

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Hardware

Pen  P icture  of th e  N uisance  P eculiar  To 
Written for the Tradesman.

E very  Locality.

This  is  the  story  of  an  experience  of 

my  friend,  the  hardware  dealer.

Angus  McPherson  lives  in  the  town­
ship  of  Wayback, raises  hens  and  sheep- 
burs  at  home,  and  Cain,  principally, 
when  he  goes  to 
town.  Money  that 
crosses  his  palms  is  at  once  enhanced 
in  value  and  alluring  indeed  must  be 
the  bargain  that  tempts  him  to  w illing­
ly  part  with  it.

He  has  a  way  of  calling  on my friend, 
the  hardware  dealer,  enquiring the price 
of  certain  articles,  and  then  making  a 
tremendous  fuss  over the  figures  quoted. 
More  than  half  the  time,  so  my  friend 
believes,  Angus  has  no  idea  of  buying 
the  articles  asked  for,  and  only  does 
this  to  amuse  himself  while  waiting  for 
special  service  at  the  grist  mill  or  fora 
horse  or two  to  be  shod.

In  time  one  should  so  accustom  him­
self to such  eccentricities as to disregard 
them,  or  better  yet,  to  be  amused  there­
by.  Still,  we  can  not  all  be  philoso­
phers,  and  when  a  fellow  has  taken  up 
our  valuable  time,  quarreled  with  our 
prices,  found  fault  with  our  wares,  cast 
aspersions  upon  our  honesty,  abused 
our calling  and  refused to  buy  our goods 
at  what  we  know  to  be  a  fair  valuation 
many  of  us  are  so  far  human  as  to  want 
to  "get  back  at  him .’ ’

into 

Angus  McPherson  sailed 

the 
hardware  store  like  a  man  worth  a  mil­
lion  of  dollars,  slapped  his  wet  cap 
against  a  display  of  fíne  chopping  axes, 
spat  noisily  upon  the  stove  and  then 
said:

" I f   you’ve  got  a  saw  in  yer  hull stock 
that’s  good  for anything  I  want  you  to 
trot  it  right  out.  Don’t  bring  me  none 
of  yer  last  year’s  left  over  saws,  an’  ye 
needn’t  try  to  pa’m  off  none  o’  yer culls 
on  me  neither. 
jedge  of  saw 
blades,  I  am,  an’  ye  might  as  well  get 
me  the  best  the  first  crack."

I'm  a 

Then  followed  a  period  of  trying 
saws.  Of ringing  the  blades,  testing  the 
points  of  the  teeth  for  keenness,  trying 
for temper,  they  must  not  be  too  soft 
nor  yet  too  hard,  of  bending  the  saw 
nearly  double  to  see  if  any  Haws  should 
develop  on  its  polished  surface,  of quar­
reling  with 
its 
length,  with  the  make,  with  the  cut  of 
the  teeth,  with  the  style  of  the  bandies 
that  were  to  be  fitted  to  it,  and  at 
last, 
after all  these  matters had  been  satisfac­
torily  adjusted,  came  the  momentous 
question  of  the  price.

its  thickness,  with 

"W-h-e-w!  Fifty  cents  a  f-o-o-t!" 
exclaimed  the  customer  in  wéll-feigned 
surprise,  and  with  indignation  ringing 
in  his  voice. 
" I   didn’t  hear  good,  I 
guess.  How  much  did  you  say?  Tell  it 
to  me  agi’n. ’ ’

"T h at’s  right,’ ’  said  my  friend,  the 
hardware  dealer. 
"F ifty   cents  a  foot 
is  the  price.  Haven’t  sold  one  for  any 
less  this  year."

“ Fifty  cents  a  foot,”   repeated  the 
customer  in  a  dazed  way,  much  as  if 
some  great,  overwhelming  calamity  had 
suddenly  overtaken  him ;  some  monster 
in  its 
python,  that  would  enfold  him 
deadly  coils  and  crush  him 
like  a 
hated  and  helpless  thing  and  leave  him 
so.  But  quickly  throwing  off  his  thin 
veil  of  pretense  he  continued  in  a  loud, 
imperious  way:  “ O  come;  fifty  cents  a 
foot  for  that  saw?  What  d’ye  take  me 
for?  Ye  don't  have  no  idee  anybody’d 
give  that  for  it,  I  hope.  Come,  now,  ye 
don’t,  do  ye?"
•  "W hat’s  the  matter  with  that  price?”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

enquired  the  dealer,  slightly  nettled.

"Matter?  Aw,  haw,  haw,  haw.  You 
It’s  too high. 
That’s 

know  what  the  matter  is. 
Jest  about 
what’s  the  matter  with  the  price."

twice  too  high. 

"W ell,  that’s  the  best  price  I  have, 
at  any  rate,"  said  the  hardware  man, 
‘ ‘ and  I  don’t  believe  you  can  better  it 
in  any  store  in  this  part  of  the  country, 
either. 
It’s  just  as  cheap  as  that  saw 
can  be  sold."

"O ,  ho,  bo.  Hear  the  man  talk! 
Can’t  sell  no  cheaper,  ses  he.  Store­
keepers  are  alters selling at a  loss,  that's 
sure.  O,  ho,  ho.  Yes,  they  sell  every­
thing  at  less’n  cost—ses  they.  Come, 
now,  give  us  a  decent  cash  price,  an’ 
quit  yer  blamed  monkeyin’. 
I’ve  got 
to  get  home  some  time  afore  night. 
What’ s  yer  lowest  price,  now?"

all  copper,  mind  you,  of  one  dollar and 
a  quarter. ’ ’

"Oh,  w-h-e-e-e-yoo !’ ’  exclaimed  the 
customer,thinking  my  friend  had  raised 
the  figure. 
"Great  guns,  you  don’t 
fergit  to  ask  enough  fer  ’em.  Why  over 
to  East  Jerdan  they  sell  that  sameb’iler 
fer  eighty-five  cents. 
Y e’ll  have  to 
come  offen  yer  high  perch  if  ye  expect 
to compete  with  that  place."

Then  you  should  have  heard  my 

friend,  the  hardware  dealer,  laugh.

"W hy  you  silly  goose,”   said  he. 
"What  are  you  talking  about?  You 
have  bothered  me  to  death  with  your 
nonsense  about  prices  and  qualities  of 
goods,  and  you  don’t  know  any  more 
about  them  than  some  little  child.  I  set 
a  trap  for  you  and  you  walked  into  it 
like  a  tramp  printer  into  a  saloon. 
Here’s  my  price  on  that  boiler:”   and 
the  dealer took  down  the  article  and  ex­
hibited  a  $3  mark  in plain  figures  on  its 
bottom. 
is  the  price 
and  $2.99  wouldn't  touch  it.  You  go 
about  the  country  swelled  up  like  a  toy 
balloon,  trying  to  make  people  think 
you’re  wise,  and you  don’t  know  enough 
about  hardware  to  take  in  your stove­
pipe  during  a  showei  of  rain.  Now 
suppose  next  time  you  want  to  get  some 
little  thing,  you  come  and  ask  me  the 
price. 
I’ll  tell  you  what  it  is,  and  you

“ Three  dollars 

can  then  buy  it,  or  leave  it.  But  don’t 
chew  the  rag  like  a  kid  with  the  tooth­
ache  and  not  know  what  you’re chewing 
it  for."

"D id   it  make  him  mad?”   I  asked  in­
nocently,  when  my  friend,  the  hardware 
dealer,  stopped  for  breath.

"Why,  I  should  think  it  did,”   said 
he. 
"H e  tried  to  talk  back,  but  I 
roasted  him  so  hard,  and  the  crowd 
guyed  him  so  unmercifully, 
that  he 
couldn’t  find  words  to  express  his  feel­
ings.  At  last  he  pretended  to  see  the 
joke  himself,  but  1  rather  suspect  he 
didn’t.  Yes,  he  has  been  here  since, 
and  he 
is  a  good  deal  tamer than  he 
used  to  be.  Shouldn’t  wonder  if  he 
might  make  a  good  customer  for  some 
one  if  he  lives  long  enough.  Some  peo­
ple .are  born  wise,  some  acquire  wisdom 
intentionally,  while  others  must  needs 
have 
into  them  with  a 
club,”   and  the  hardware  man  left  me 
to  wait  on  a  boy  who  was  about  to  pur­
chase  a  pair of  wonderful  new  skates.
Geo.  L.  Thurston.

it  pounded 

Do  nothing  you  would  be  ashamed  to 
have  told  of  your  doing  and  you  will 
care  but  little  of  what  the  people  say  of 
you,  or about  you.

Speaking 

ill  of  one’s  neighbors  does 

not  whiten  our own  characters.

Mill  Supplies

Oils,  Waste,  Packing,

Belt  and  Hose,

Paints,  Oils  and  Varnishes, 

Cordage

THE  M.  I.  WILCOX  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio

$  

db

<j&  Sporting  Goods,  Ammunition,  Stoves, 
4P  W indow  Glass,  Bar  Iron,  Shelf  Hard- 
j   ware,  etc.,  etc.

?  
jk  3*» 33» 35« 37» 39 Louis St. 
/K 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Foster,  Stevens &  Co.,

10 & ia Monroe St.

‘ ‘ Fifty  cents 

is  rock  bottom,"  said 
the  dealer  firmly.  " I   wouldn’t  cut  it  a 
cent  to  my  grandmother.”

"Y es,  1  know  all  about  that.  You  put 
a  price  on  stuff  accordin’  to  what  you 
think  some  blamed  greenhorn  without 
any  experience  might  come  along  an’ 
pay.  Now  ye  can’t  ketch  me  on  that, 
fer  I  know  what  I’m  doin’. 
I’ve looked 
at  saws  to  Charlevoix  and  to  Bellaire 
and  to  East  Jerdan,  an’  I’m  posted. 
That  saw  right  there,  same  make,  same 
brand,  same  every  way,  only  finished 
up  better,  an’  a  leetle  thinner  gauge’n 
that;  how  much  d’ ye  s’pose  they  as’  fer 
’em?"

"W ell,  I  don’t  try  to  set  a  price  on 
another  man’s  goods, " s a id   the  hard­
ware  man  testily,  "but  if  they  sell 
’em 
any 
less  than  I  do,  they’ve  got  some 
better  place  to  steal  them  than  ever  I 
could  find. 
I  think  a  man  ought  to  buy 
his  goods  as  cheap  as  he  can.  That’s 
what  I  try  to  do  myself,  but  I  have  a 
living  to  make  as  well  as  anyone  else, 
and  just  at  present  I’m  making  it  out of 
the  store.  My  price  is  reasonable  and 
i t ’s  the 
lowest  I’ve  got  for  anyone. 
Will  I  do  up  the  saw?’ ’

" I ’ll  give  ye  thirty-five  cents  a  foot 

for  it,  an’  not  one  cent  more.”

"W ell,  sir,  fifty  cents  is  what  will 

take  it,  and  nothing  less."

"Y ou  won’t  take  thirty-five  cents?’ ’ 
"N o,  sir,  I  won’t.”
"Then  good  bye. 

I’m  through  with 
It’s  getting  deader 
this  town  for good. 
an’  deader  every  day. 
I’d  throw  a 
couple  o’  shovelsful  of  dirt  on  it  an’ 
give 
it  a  decent  burial  if  I  had  a  min­
ute  to  spare,”   with  which  parting  shot 
he  started  for  the  door.  Just  as  his 
hand  touched  the 
latch,  however,  he 
happened  to  get  his  eye  on  some  copper 
wash  boilers  that  were  sitting on  the  top 
shelf,  and  he  paused  to  make  enquiry 
about  them.

‘ ‘ How  much  for  the b’ilrs?’ ’ he asked. 
An  idea  flashed  through  the  brain  of 
my  friend,  the  hardware  dealer,  and, 
with  a  malicious  light 
in  his  eyes  he 
approached  Angus  and  said  calm ly: 

"Those  boilers  up  there?”
"Y es,  them.”
"W hy  man  those  boilers  are  made  of 

copper. ’ ’

"W ell  blame 

it  all  don’t  ye  s’pose  I 
I  hain’t  lived  in  the  woods 

know  that? 
all  my  life  if  I  do  look  green.”

" A ll  right  then,  if  you  know,  but 
have  you  kept  track  of  the  markets? 
Do  you  know  what  copper  is  worth 
now?"

“ Wall,  pretty  nigh.’ ’
“ It’s  high.  That’s  what  it  is— awful­
I ’ll  make  you  a  price  on  a 

ly  high. 
boiler,  if  you  like,  but  I  hate  to.”

"W all,  shoot 

it  out  of  ye!  What 

is  it?”

" I ’ll  make  you  a  price  on^thatboiler,

CROOKED  SCHEMES.

New  York  Swindlers  Devise  Fresh  Traps 

F o r Unwary  Feet.

Some  of  the  latest  schemes  for  fleec­
ing  people 
in  a  pretty  way  crop  up  in 
the  heart  of  the  shopping  section.  The 
ingenuity  of  some  of  these  crooks  is  in­
teresting  when  it  is  original.

The  latest  of  these  adventures to cause 
a  ripple  in  the  busy  life  of  the  city  was 
a  young  man  who,  up  until  a  week  ago, 
presided  over  a  handsome suite of offices 
in  Fifth  avenue.

For  several  months  past  the  offices 
were  a  scene  of  constantly-increasing 
activity.  A  force  of  about  twelve  men 
and  a  half  a  score  of  typewriters,  each 
supplied  with  roll  top  desks,  were  busy 
developing  schemes  which  the  energetic 
proprietor  had  formulated.  He  himself 
sat  in  a  little  inner  glass-encased  office, 
continually  busy  directing  the  energies 
of  his  staff  of  assistants.

The  business  was  primarily a publish­
ing  and  advertising  one,  but  there  had 
been  appended  to  it  some  half a  score 
of  others,  including  a  circular  delivery 
scheme,  a  patent  fish  bait 
idea  and 
others  too  numerous  to  mention.

One  day  the  manager,  or  proprietor, 
did  not  come  down  to  the  office,  and 
it 
was  stated  that  be  was  sick  from  over­
work.  He  continued  to  absent  himself 
from  the  office,  and  when  pay  day  came 
the  typewriters  getting  no  pay,  quit  in 
a  body.  Then  it  was  learned  that  the 
gentleman  had  gone  away  for his health, 
taking  with  him  all  the  funds  of  the 
concern.  Enquiries elicited the  fact  that 
the  ten  or a  dozen  men  around  the  office 
were  all  special  partners  wth  the  ab­
sconder.  With  a  bead  full  of  ideas, 
where  taken  from  no  one  knew,  this  en­
terprising  genius  had  come  to  New 
York  and  advertised  for  partners.  Of 
his  ideas  he  had  made  the  best  possible 
use.  For  each  of  them  he  had  received 
in  return  for  a  deed  of  half  partnership 
sums  varying  from  $100  to  $600.  In  this 
way  he  was  supposed  to  have  accumu­
lated  four  or  five  thousand  dollars.  He 
had  mortgaged  all  the  furniture,  so  that 
when  he  went  away  the  special  partners 
had  nothing  whatever  to  realize  upon. 
One  of  the  men  who  claimed  to  have 
been  swindled  secured  a  warrant  for  the 
promoter’s  arrest  after  he  had  gotten 
safely  away.  Several  persons  who  were 
not  previously  known  to  have  had  any 
dealings  with  the  young  man,  and  who 
are  supposed  to  have  been  taken  in 
as  so  many  silent  partners,  were  look­
ing  for  him  after  he  decamped.  The 
majority  of  his  partners,  however,  were 
so  humiliated  by  the  way  in  which  they 
had 
let  themselves  be  talked  over  that 
they  shouldered  their  losses  without  any

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 7

complaint,  only  too  glad  to  escape  the 
ridicule  of  their  friends  by  keeping 
quiet.

One  of  the  most  distinguished  suc­

cesses  the  promoter  had  was  a  man.

He  was  a  young  man  with  an 

intel­
lectual  countenance  and  a  manner  so 
engaging  that  all  the  dupes  with  whom 
he  came  in  contact  had  the  most  thor­
ough  confidence  in  him.  He  could  have 
even  borrowed  money  of  the  office  boy.
He  talked  of  bis  plans  in a quiet man­
ner,  but  was  not  looking  for  a  partner 
because  he  had  a  very  good  thing  to 
himself.  Some  of  the  telephone  patents 
had  run  out,  and  he  was  taking  advan­
tage  of  that  to  make  new  connections  at 
a  great  cut 
in  prices.  He  had  come 
from  San  Francisco,  where  he  had  fixed 
up  several  of  the  big  hotels,  passing 
thence  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  other 
points,  where  he  had  done  good  busi­
ness.  He  talked  familiarly  of  the hotels 
and  their  proprietors.  Then  he  started 
out  to  take  contracts  in  New  York.  He 
soon  had  imaginary  arrangements  con­
cluded  with some  large  hotels  and  a  few 
of  the  big  dry  goods  houses  (to  fill  in 
time  with).  He  had  only  taken  desk 
room  downtown,  but  upstairs  be  had 
hired  a  whole  floor  for  a  workshop. 
Very  soon  loads  of  goods  from electrical 
supply  houses  commenced  to  come 
in, 
and  the  top  floor  got  very  crowded.

One  night  all  this  material  was  re­
loaded  again,  to  be  taken  downtown  to 
what  the  telephone  man  said  was  a  new 
work  shop  he  had  just  rented.

Then  he  disappeared.
Enquiries  commenced  to  come  in  for 
Mr.  Blank  from  firms  who  had  sold  him 
goods  on  credit  and  others  that  he  bad 
contracted  with  to  put  in  phones,  but  he 
had 
left  no  address  and  could  not  be 
communicated  with.

He  had  gotten  clear  away  with  a 
couple  of  thousand  dollars’  worth  of 
supplies, and  had  probably  gone  back  to 
somewhere  to  fill  some  uncompleted  or­
ders.

It  only  took  the  telephone  man  two 
weeks  to  make  his  haul,  and  his  nice 
manners  are  still  talked  about  around 
town.

But  reams  could  be*  written  of  the 
many  similar operations  which  are  be­
ing  pursued  in  this  neighborhood,  and 
yet  a  new  scheme  can  be  worked  suc­
cessfully any  day  in  the  week,  it  seems, 
without  danger  to  the  operator.  Doubt­
less 
if  the  police  looked  the  matter  up 
they  would  find  the  features  of  at  least 
half  of  these  schemers  in  the  rogues’ 
gallery. 

William  Bell.

How  To  Do It.

Bright ideas  in advertising  or  in  other 
lines  do  not  come  merely  as  “ inspira­
tions.”   They  come  with  hard  work

more  often ;  with  application  and  con­
tinued  application.  The  man  who  keeps 
at  advertising  sends  out  the  best  adver­
tisements  always,  not  the  occasional 
writer  who  picks  up  tablet  and  pencil 
announcing  mentally  to  himself:  “ Now 
I’ll  write  a  regular  stunner. ”   As  you 
look  over  the  field  who  are  the  men 
distinguished  by  brilliant  advertise­
ments?  They  are  the  firms  who  work 
at  it  daily—whose  names  and  goods 
hold  the  public  eye  every  hour of  the 
day.  You  can  name  them  at  once.

Keep  at  it.  That’s  the  motto  for 

steady  as  well  as  brilliant  work.

Save  time  by  having  a  cash  boy,  and 
you  ought  to  do  it  during  the  busy  sea­
sons. 
If  you  do  you  will  make  lots  of 
sales  you  now  miss,  because  you  simply 
can  not  wait  on  every  one  at  once.  The 
above  applies,  of  course,  to  stores  which 
have  a  cashier.  For  those  who  do  not 
employ  one  it  would  be  a  great  help  to 
have  a  boy  to  wrap  packages  while  the 

clerk  makes  change.BOUR'S
COFFEES

MAKE  BUSINESS

Bigger  Box. 

Same  Price. Enameiine

T H E  MODERN  S T O V E   POLISH
IMPROVED  QUALITY

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

Liquid=== 

Best  Yet! 

Fire  Proof!
EN AM ELIN E  LIQUID ¡s TH E  modern  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, Sc and  10c.  TH E  BEST Y E T  and 
a  WINNER.

on  EN A M ELIN E. 

We have appropriated $200,000  FOR  ADVERTISIN G   the  coming  year.  You  should  get  in  line  for  a  BOOM 

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

d.  L.  P R E S C O T T   <&  CO .,  NEW  YO R K.

SCO TTEN-DILLO N  COM PANY

TOBACCO  MANUFACTURERS 

INDEPENDENT  FACTORY 

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

OUR  LEADIN G  BRAN DS.  K E E P  THEM   IN  MIND.

F I N E   C U T

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UNCLE  DANIEL. 

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CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG  HOLD. 
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SO-LO.
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SW E E T  SPRAY.

See  quotations  in

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

price  current.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ly being  corrected,  not only  because  of 
court  decisions  and  evidence  of  experts 
in  this  country,  but  because  of  the  re­
port  of  the  committee  appointed  by  the 
British  government 
in  1899  to  investi­
gate  food  preservatives  and  coloring 
matters.  This  report  was  filed  a  few 
weeks  ago,  and  has  been  printed  in  a 
bulky  book  of  considerable  interest.  A 
total  prohibition  of  preserving  methods, 
says  the  report,  is  likely  to  be  attended 
with  serious  results to  the  public health, 
as  large  quantities  of  food  possessing 
highly  nutritive  value  might  either  be 
withheld  from  the  poorer classes  or  be 
liable  to  be  consumed  in  a  condition  of 
incipient  putrefaction.  The  committee 
finds  that,  of  the  preservative  agents  in 
common  use,  on  one  alone  rests  any 
well-founded  suspicion  that  it  is  likely 
to  inflict  injury,  and  the  committee 
further  says  that  no  direct  evidence  of 
injury  from  the  use  of  preservatives  has 
been  brought  before  it.  The  only  pro­
hibition  recommended  in  regard  to  col­
oring  matters 
in  regard  to  copper 
sulphate  for  coloring  tinned  peas  and 
similar articles.

is 

One  of  the  important  findings  of  the 
committee  is  to  the  effect  that  preserva­
tives  containing  boracic  acid  have  not 
been  proved  to  be  more  hurtful  than 
saltpeter,  which  is  equivalent  to  saying 
they  are  not  hurtful  at  all,  for  saltpeter 
has  been  used  in  curing  since  the  art 
was  known,  and the  absence  of  anything 
in 
it  detrimental  to  health  has  always 
been  accepted  as  fact  by  the  chemists 
everywhere.  “ The  modern  use  of  borax 
and  boracic  acid,”   continues  the  re­
port, “ has enabled producers  to  dispense 
with  a  large  proportion  of  common  salt, 
formerly  necessary,  thereby  rendering 
bacon  far  milder  to  the  palate  and  pro­
tecting  it  from  taint  and fly-blow. ”   The 
committee  found  that  when  sulphurous 
acid  or  salts  were  added  to  meat  some 
at  once  oxidized  to  sulphate,  “ which 
may  be  regarded  in  the  amount  present 
as  indifferent,”   some  attached 
itself 
chemicallyt  o  certain  constituents  of  the 
food,  and  the  compound  formed  was 
also  inoculated,  while  a  third  portion 
remained  as  sulphurous  acid,  and  it  is 
this  portion  which 
is  of  permanent 
efficacy  as  an  antiseptic.

The  committee  arrived  at  the  con­
clusion  that,  as  to the  trade  in  fresh and 
cured  meats,  fish,  butter and  other foods 
in  the  consumption  of  which  but  small 
quantities  of  the  antiseptic  are  taken 
into  the  system,  there  exists  no  suffi­
cient  reason  for  interfering  to  prevent 
the use  of  borax  preservatives.

regarding 

The  findings  of the  committee  are  of 
the  utmost  importance,  as  the  members 
of  it  were  men  who  had  no  pecuniary 
interest  in  the  matter  whatever,  and 
were  appointed  by  the  British  govern­
ment  to  get  at  the  very  bottom  of  the 
truth 
food  preservatives. 
This  is  the  first  time  that  a  government 
has  taken  any  such  action, and  the  com­
mittee’s  conclusion  that  there  exists  no 
reason  for  interfering  with  the  use  of 
borax  preservatives  should,  and  will,  no 
doubt,  be  accepted  by  the  whole  world 
as  authoritative. 
In  this  country  there 
are  spasmodic  outbreaks  against  the  use 
of  preservatives,  and  manufacturers  of 
preservatives  that  are  no  more  harmful 
than  salt,  are  compelled,  in  order  to 
protect  themselves,  to go  into  the  courts 
and  fight  for  their  rights  and  prove 
that  no  ill  effect  is  produced  from  tak­
ing 
into  the  stomach  the  compounds 
they  manufacture.  These  legal  demon­
strations  cost  the  preservative  manufac­
turers  thousands  of  dollars. 
It  is  time 
for our  Government  to  conduct  such  an 
investigation  as  the  one  just  concluded 
by  Great  Britain,  and  stop  for  all  time 
the  unjust  attacks  on  a  necessary  article 
of  use  in  certain  foods.

The  man  who  does  not  advertise  be­
cause  it  costs  money  should  quit  paying 
rent  for  the  same  reason.

W.  C.  TOWNSEND,

Wholesale

Fruit and  Produce Commission  Merchant, 

Eggs,  Poultry, Veal,  Etc.

References : Columbia National Bank, Dun’s and 

Bradstreet’s Commercial Agencies.
84-86 W. Market St.,  Buffalo, N. Y.

Elk Street Market.

I  NEED  YOUR

Small  shipments  of  FRESH  EGGS  for 

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

my retail trade.

EGG  RECEIVER

Reference—New  York  National  Exchange 

Bank, New York.

JACOB  HOEHN, J r. 

Established  1864 

MAX  MAYER

HOEHN  &   MAYER 

Produce  Commission  Merchants

295  Washington  Street  and  15  Bloomfield  Street  (op. W est W ashington  M arket),  New York

SPECIALTIES:

DRESSED  POULTRY,  GAME  AND  EGGS

Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicited

References—Irving National Bank, New York County National Bank.

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

18

Poultry

Peculiarities  Pertaining: to  th e   H andling 

o f P o ultry.

late 

An  unsatisfactory  feature  in  both  the 
live  and  dressed  poultry  market  last 
week  was  the  late  and  irregular arrival 
of  much  of  the  poultry.  The  heavy 
storm  at  the  end  of  the  previous  week 
caused  nearly  all  the  railroads  in  this 
State  to  be 
in  delivering,  owing 
mainly  to  floods  and  washouts  which 
were  prevalent  in  nearly  all  sections, 
and  some  roads  wete  damaged  to  such 
an  extent  that  it  took  two  or three  days 
to  get  in  running  order  again.  This 
caused  stock  to  be  late,  large  quantities 
coming  in  one,  two,  three  or  more  days 
behind  time.  To  make  matters  worse 
in  the  dressed  poultry  market  most  of 
the  delayed  stock  was  shipped  when 
weather  was  mild  and  as  it  turned  cold 
the  stock  opened  up  dull  and  unattrac­
tive 
low 
prices  had  to  be  accepted  as  buyers 
were  all  looking  for  bright,  choice,  hol­
iday  stock.  Speaking  of  the 
irregular 
deliveries  a 
live  poultry  man  said: 
“ The  delayed  poultry  has  come  in  so 
slowly  that  prices  have  held  up  fairly 
through  the  week  after  the  decline  first 
of  last  week,  but  so  much  is  coming 
in 
late  that  a 
large  quantity  will  have  to 
be  carried  over  for  Christmas  week.”

looking  and  comparatively 

4c

*  

like 

A  week 

*  
last  week  shows  live 
poultry  shippers  how  important  it  is  to 
send  plenty  of  feed  along  with  their 
cars.  There 
is  always  danger  of  delay 
in  transit  and  shippers  should  allow  for 
it  when  sending  their  feed.  Even  if 
there  is  considerable  on  hand  when  the 
car  reaches  its  destination  the  commis­
sion  man  will  sell  it  for  a  fair  price and 
the  shipper  will  be  out  very 
little, 
whereas  if  the  feed  runs  out  the  poultry 
will  get  sick  and  feverish  and  deterio­
rate  so  much  in  quality  that  the  shrink­
age  will  be  heavy  and  result  in  a  big 
loss  to the  shipper.

*  *  *

Another  receiver  said:  “ I  am  out  a 
fine  mark  of  poultry  which  has been  de­
layed  somewhere,  and  now  I  presume 
considerably  less  will  have  to  be  ac­
cepted  as  the  Christmas  trade 
is  prac­
tically  over.  This  shipper always  waits 
until  the 
last  minute  before  sending 
his  stock,  and  every  once  in  a  while  it 
gets  here  too  late  and  loses  one  or two 
cents  per  pound  or  more.”

♦  

*  

*

Our  attention  was  drawn  to  a  lot  of 

poultry  in  dirty  boxes.

The  stock  was  pretty  good  and  attrac­
tive  otherwise,  but  no  buyer  would  pay- 
full  price  for  it  when  he  could  get  just 
as  good  in  nice  clean  looking  packages. 
These  little  things  are  the  wedges  buy­
ers  use  to  force  down  prices  and  should 
be  looked  after by  shippers.

*  *  *

“ Sometimes  I  think  the  whole  system 
of  shipping  poultry  to  market  could  be 
improved,”   remarked  another  receiver. 
“ The  weather  is  so  changeable  it  is 
next  to  impossible  to tell  how  it  will  be 
a  day  or two  ahead,  and  the  result  is 
that 
large  quantities  of  poultry  arrive 
discolored  and  out  of  condition  all  the 
time.  Poultry  certainly  is  not  as  pet- 
ishable  as  some  other  articles  shipped 
to  market,  and 
it  seems  as  if  some 
method  could  be  devised  by  which  it 
could  be  forwarded  so  as  to  carry  in 
good  shape  until  it  reached  the  mar­
ket. ’ ’

*  

*   #

“ Yes,  I  know  one  thing  that  could  be 
improved  upon,”   said  another  mer­
chant;  “ and  that  is  the  way  some  ship­
pers  grade  their  poultry.  Many  marks 
of  turkeys  are  large  enough  to  sort  more 
closely  as  regards  size,  and  I  even  re­
ceived  one  lot  which  contained  a  little 
of  everything 
in  the  same  package. 
Fowls,  turkeys  ducks  and  all  different 
grades  of  poultty  should  be  packed  sep­
arately,  and  whenever  the  shipment  is 
large  enough  the  stock  should  be  sorted 
as  much as  possible  in  order to  have 
it 
i realize  best  prices.”

4  4  4

Dressed  poultry  men  complained  of 
having  so  much  poor  stock  on  hand 
during  a  holiday  trade  and  while  it  was 
due  largely  to  weather  conditions  and 
delays 
in  transit  there  was  evidently 
considerable  stock  which  a  little  more 
care  on  the  part  of  the  shipper  would 
have  improved  and  allowed  commission 
men  to  realize  a  better  price  for 
it. 
One  receiver,  speaking  of holiday  stock 
in  general,  said:  “ On  the  whole  I 
think  there  has  been  less  poorly  dressed 
stock  than 
in  former  years,  shippers 
evidently  giving  more  attention  to this 
part  of  the  business,  but  there  is  still 
much  chance  for  improvement,  as  all 
receivers  have  had  more  or  less  stock 
which 
is  poorly  dressed  and  packed, 
and  often  the  poultry  itself  was  so  poor 
that 
it  never  should  have  been  mar­
keted.  The  new  shippers  give  us  the 
most  trouble.  They  do  not  seem  to  un­
derstand  the 
importance  of  dressing  to 
suit  the  market  they  ship  to.  They  per­
haps  think  the  stock  will  bring  just  as 
much  dressed  one  way  as  another.  We 
had  some  poultry  which  showed  very 
little  care  in  dressing,  and  while  it  was 
in  pretty  good  condition, the  poor  dress­
ing  spoiled  its  sale  for top  quotations.”

Another  receiver complained  that  he 
had  many  packages  of  turkeys  which 
had  one  or two culls  in, the  shipper  evi­
dently  thinking  just  one  or two  birds 
would  pass  through  unnoticed. 
The 
truth  is  buyers  are  very  quick  to  notice 
such  methods  of  packing,  and  the  value 
of the  whole  package  is  usually  injured 
by  one  or two  culls.

*  

*  

*

“ You  might suggest  to  shippers  the 
advantage  of  separating  their  various 
grades  of  poultry  as  much  as  possible,”  
said  a  leading  receiver. 
“ Just  now  the 
proportion  of  turkeys  is  liberal  in  the 
receipts  and  shippers  sending  long lines 
should  pack  the  young  toms,  hens,  and 
old 
toms  all  separately,  making  two 
grades  of  each  if  possible,  primes  and 
seconds. 
In  fact,  No.  2  grade  poultry 
should  never be  packed  with  the  primes 
as  it  brings  the  price  down.  As  a  gen­
eral  thing  the  more  closely  poultry  is 
sorted  and  graded  the  more the commis­
sion  man  can  get  for  it.” — N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

The  B ritish   G overnm ent  Endorses  the 

Use  of Preservatives.

The  erroneous  impression  that  pre­
servatives  in  food  are  harmful  is  rapid-

WE  W ANT  M ORE  GOOD  PO U LTRY  SH IPPER 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.  S C H A F F E R   &   C O .,  DETROIT,  MICH.

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

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“Do  I t  R ight  Nows”  F or  th e  Dealer. 
What  short  phrase  can  be  of  more  im­
in  the  saving  of  money  and 
portance 
trouble 
in  the  career  of  the  ordinary 
business  man  than  the  one,  ‘ ‘ Do  It 
Right  Now?”  
Is  there  any  merchant 
who,  as  he  reads  this  phrase,  can  not 
recall  to  his  memory  numerous  inci­
dents  that  occurred  where  money  could 
if  he  had  taken  the 
have  been  saved 
prompt  action 
implied  in  our  subject?
I  think  not.  Therefore,  it  is  not  out  of 
place  for  me  to  give  a  few  suggestions 
where  prompt  action  could  be  used  to 
advantage,  so  that  those  who  read  may 
learn.

If  your  stock  of  a  certain  article  is 
running 
low  and  you  think  it  time  to 
order  more,  do  not  wait  until  the  last 
package  has  been  sold  and  another  cus­
tomer  in  the  store  for the  same  article 
that  must  be  dismissed  with  the  phrase, 
‘ ‘ Just  out.”   Do  not  delay  until  such 
time,  I  say,  but  send  your  order  and 
“ Do  It  Right  Now.”

drift  in,  as  a  rule,  one  at  a  time,  a l­
though  it  is  nothing  unusual  for  us to 
have  a  small  party  of  customers  floating 
in  during  the  wee  hours.

“ As  a  general  thing,they  are  the  boys 
who  have  been  having  a  high  old  time 
of  it,  but  lots  of  men  who  work  at  night 
and  sleep  all  day  come  here  for their 
footwear.  You  see,  we  advertise  this 
all-night  convenience  extensively in  the 
newspapers,  and  many  nocturnal  work­
ers  make  their  purchases  at  night. 
It 
is  seldom  that  a  tipsy  customer enters 
the  shop  but  what  he  makes  a  purchase.
“ Now  and  then  a  party  of  young  fel­
lows  will  come  in,  examine  the  stock, 
pick  out  some  particularly  gaudy pairof 
shoes  and  offer  to  pay  for  them  if  any 
one  in  the  crowd  will wear them.  Usual­
ly  there  is  one  of  them  with  sufficient 
bravery  and  the  sale  is  made.  Some­
times  shoes  for the  entire  party  will  be 
purchased,  the  merrymakers 
leaving 
their  old  boots  with  me  to  be  disposed 
of  as  refuse.” — New  York  Telegram.

Some 

line  of  goods  you  purchased 
may  not  meet  with  the  approval  of  your 
it  remains 
customers,  and  therefore 
upon  your shelves.  You  think 
it  time 
it  should  be  placed  upon  the  bargain 
table  to  be  turned  into  ready  cash.  Do 
not  put  off  this  necessary  action  until 
the  goods  become  unsalable— turn  your 
thoughts 
It 
Right  Now.”

into  action 

“ Do 

and 

When  you  receive  a  telephone  order, 
do  not  proceed  to  wait  on  the  other cus­
tomers  before  entering  the  phone  order, 
but  “ Do  It  Right  Now.”

If  your  window  display  has  been 
greeting  the  eye  of  the  public  for the 
preceding  three  or  four  months or  more, 
and  you  think  a  change  would  do  it 
good,  do  not  delay; 
follow  up  your 
thoughts  and  “ Do  It  Right  Now.”

When  a  customer  in  haste  gives  you 
an  order  at  the  door,  do  not  trust  to 
your  memory  to  remind  you  of  that  or­
der  at  your  leisure,  but  make  a  memo 
of  it,  and  “ Do  It  Right  Now.”

If  a  shipment  of  goods  arrives,  do 
not  leave  the  checking  of  weights  and 
numbers  of  parcels  until  to-morrow,  but 
“ Do  It  Right  Now.”   Short  weights 
and  breakages  must  have  immediate  at­
tention  if  allowances  are  desired.

If  a  draft  from your  wholesaler  is  pre­
sented,  do  not  think 
it  nerve  on  his 
part,  asking  for  your  acceptance;  but 
if  you  can  possibly  fulfill  the  require­
ments  of  the  draft,  accept  it,  and  “ Do 
It  Right  Now.”

If  a  note  soon  falls  due  for  which  you 
have  not  sufficient  funds  on  hand  at 
present  to  meet  its  requirements,  do  not 
delay  making  preparations to fulfill  your 
obligations.  Make  a  start  to  collect 
some  of  the  outstanding  accounts,  and 
“ Do  It  Right  Now.”

To  make  a  success  of  your  business 
do  not  know  too  many  of  your  neigh­
bors’  business  methods;  for 
in  con­
demning  these  to  your  customers,  you 
but  give  your  neighbor  a  free  adver­
tisement.  Make  up  your  mind  to  know 
only  your  own  business,  and  “ Do  It 
Right  Now.”

An All-N ight Shoe  Store. 

Following  the 

lead  of  the  all-night 
restaurant  and  the  all-night  drug  store, 
other  branches  of  retail  trade 
in  the 
vicinity  of  Herald  Square  are  doing  a 
nocturnal  business.  One  of  these  is  a 
shoe  store  that  never  closes  except  on 
Sunday.

“ You  would  be  astonished  to know 
how  many  customers  we  have  between 
twelve  at  night  and  half-past  five  in  the 
morning,”   said  the  night  clerk.  “ They

Rice  Culture  on  the  Coast.

From the Pacific Fruit World.

It  is  reported  at  Stockton  that  R.  P. 
Lane  is  to  make  a  scientific  experiment 
with  rice  culture  on  the  tract  of  the  old 
River  Land  &  Reclamation  Co.  Some 
parties  have  been  stimulated  to  action 
by  reason  of  what 
is  being  done  in 
Louisiana,  where  land  has  advanced  in 
value  from  $5  to  $150  per  acre  since  the 
planting  of  rice  fields,  $30  to $40  per 
acre  being  cleared  on  the  crop.  Many 
experiments  were  made 
in  the  early 
days  of  California,  which  are  reported 
fully  in  the  proceedings  of  the  State 
Agricultural  Society. 
It  may  be  vari­
eties  of  rice  may  be  found  that will  suc­
ceed  in  the  Sacramento and  San Joaquin 
River  bottoms,  and  on  reclaimed  tule 
land,  but  the  conditions  existing 
in 
Louisiana  and 
in  California  are  so 
different  that  success  with  any  special 
crop 
in  one  would  not  mean  success 
with  the  same  in  the  other.
Jo y fu l  Occasion.

“ The  Subbubs  seemed  to  be  having 

some  sort  of  celebration  last  night.”  

“ Yes;  their  silver  jubilee.”
* ‘ Nonsense!  They haven’t  been  mar­

ried  twenty-five  years.”
“ Of  course  not;  only  about  twelve 
years.  But,  you  see,  when  they went  to 
housekeeping  they  bought  their  silver­
ware  on  the  installment  plan,  and(tbey 
made  the  last  payment  on  it  yesterday.

No  girl 

is  too  good  to  be  hugged. 
The  bible  tells  us  to  hold  fast  to  a  good 
thing.

For  Sale  Cheap
Tables, Counters, Shelving, 
Show   Cases,  W all  Cases, 
Mirrors,  Store,  W indow 
and  Office  Fixtures,  and 
E lectric  L igh t  Plant, all  in 
first-class  condition.
L.  Higer & Sons,

Tower  Block,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For Sale Cheap

2 Boilers 44 inches by  17 feet.
1  Engine  16x22.
1  Heavy  c Benjamin  Planer  will  dress 

2 sides 28 inches,

1  Houster 8 inch  Sticker or Moulder.
1  Cornell  &  Dayler Box  Printer.
1  Nichols Segment Resaw.
Several small Cut-off and Rip  Saws.

F.  C.  Miller.

223  Wtfdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids

Shake off the

D r a g g i n g -   C h a i m

of Credit

by abandoning the time-cursed credit system, 
with its losses and annoyances, and substitut­
ing therefor the

Coupon  Book  System

m

which  enables  the  merchant  to  place  his 
credit  transactions  on  a cash  basis.  Among 
the manifest  advantages of  the coupon  book 
plan are the following :

No  Ch a n c e  f o r   M isu n d e r s t a n d in g  
No  F o r g o t te n  C h a r g e s 
No  P o o r  A ccounts 
No  B ook-k e e p in g  
No  D is p u t in g   o f  A ccounts 
No  Ov e r r u n n in g   o f  A ccounts 
No  Loss  o f  T im e

W e are glad at any time to send a full line of 
sample  books to any  one applying  for  them.

Tradesman  Company

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W om an’s World
Resolutions  W hich  W ould  M ake  This 

W orld a  Paradise.

it 

Probably there  is  nobody  in  the  world 
whose  imagination  is  so  dull 
is  not 
thrilled  by  the  coming  and  the  going  of 
a  definite  cycle  of  time.  Of  course,  we 
all  know,  as  I  once  heard  a  certain 
Mrs.  Malaprop  say,  that  “ tempus  figits 
fast,”   but  it  is  never  brought  so vividly 
home  to  us  as  when  we  see  that  the  last 
sands  in  the  hour-glass  are  running  low 
and  that  another  year  has  gone  to  join 
the  unnumbered  centuries  of  the  past. 
In 
it  is  all  the  tragedy  of  birth  and 
death,  of  the  beginning  and  the  ending 
of  things;  the  blackness  of  failure  and 
despair and  the  glory  of  hope  that  rises 
like  a  star above  the  grave  of every  dis­
appointment.

Unfortunately, 

It  is  a  time  when  we  audit  our  ac­
counts  with  life  and  take  account  of  our 
successes and  our  failures,  and  when  we 
are  glad  to believe  that  the  old 
ledger, 
with  all  its  sin-stained  and  tear-blotted 
pages,  is  closed,  and  that  we  may  turn 
over  a  fresh  leaf  and  take  a  new  start. 
The  very  idea  is  so  uplifting  that  we  go 
about  for a  few  days  with  a  superior  air 
of  virtue,  as  if  we  had  just  taken  a  kind 
of spiritual  Turkish  bath,  and  then  we 
slip  back 
into  the  easy  old  grooves 
again,  and  the  recording  angel  begins 
making  the  same  old  entries  against  us.
something 
about  the  New  Year’s  resolution  that 
seems  to  bring  out  all  the  phariseeism 
that 
in  those  of  us  who  are 
fairly  decent  people,  as  a  hot  poultice 
brings  out  the  measles.  We  can  see  why 
the  drunkard  should  swear  off 
from 
liquor,  why  the  gambler  should  resolve 
never  to touch  another  card,  why  all  the 
outbreaking  sinners  should  reform ;  but 
those  of  us  who  stand  well  with  the  law 
and  the  church  thank  God  that  we  are 
not  as  our neighbors  are  and  that  we 
have  no  reason  to  alter  our  habits  or 
worry  with  resolves  to  be  any  better 
than  we  are.

latent 

there 

is 

is 

Yet,  are  we?  What  of  the  little  faults 
of  temper  and  tongue  and  nagging? 
What  of  the  surly  looks  we  reserve  for 
our  family?  What  of  the  nerves  and  ir­
ritability  we  keep  for  home  consump­
tion?  What  of  the  happiness  that  was 
intrusted  to  our  hands,  and  that  we  do 
not  even  try  to  protect?  Not  all  the 
criminals  in  this  world  are  amenable  to 
the  law  and  wear  stripes.  Just  as  many 
homes  have  been  broken  up  and  just  as 
much  affection  has  been, alienated  by 
grumpiness  and  sharp  retorts  and  do­
mestic  tyranny  as  ever  have  been  by 
drunkenness  and  infidelity.

For  my  part, I  should  like'to  see  more 
of  those  husbands  who  are  good  men, 
and  who  are  perfectly  sure  they  are  a 
matrimonial  prize  that any woman ought 
to  be  down  on  her  knees 
thanking 
heaven  for  having  bestowed  upon  her, 
get  off  of  their  pedestals  long  enough  to 
make  a  New  Year’s 
I 
should  like  to  see  a  few  husbands  make 
an  iron-clad  resolution :

resolution. 

instead  of  doling 

To  give  the  wife  a  regular  allow­
ance 
the  market 
money  out  to  her  a  penny  at  a  time. 
This  will  keep  her  from  being  glad 
when  you  are  dead.  Nothing  ever  really 
reconciles  any  human  being  to  being 
financially  dependent  on 
another. 
loathe  being  beggars  just  as 
Women 
much  as  men  do,  and  the 
insurance 
money  consoles  many  a wife  for the  loss 
of a  good  husband.

To  pay  their wives  as  many  compli­
ments  as  they  did  their  sweethearts.

Being  married  does  not  destroy  a  wom­
an’s  appetite  for  bonbons.

To  tell  their  wives that  they  appre­
ciate  their  services  and  their  sacrifices. 
Wives  are the only laborers  on  earth  who 
work  for  their  board  and  clothes,  and 
even  a  servant  deserves  a  tip  now  and 
then.

To  do  their  parts  towards  making 
home  happy.  A  home  is  a  vehicle  de­
signed  for  a  span  to  draw  and  one horse 
can  not  pull  it  out  of  the  mud.

their  noses  and 

To  remember  that  while  home  is  a 
woman’s  sphere,  it  is  not  particularly 
exciting  and  exhilarating  to  be  shut  up 
in  the  house  all  day  with  a  lot  of  little 
tyrants  who  are  crying  and  fretting  and 
bumping 
yelping 
“ mother”   every  minute.  There  is  no 
other  such  martyr  as  a  mother  and  she 
needs  to  have  brightness  and  change 
brought  into  life.  One Sunday  afternoon 
nursing  the  baby  will  reduce  an  able- 
bodied  man  to  the  verge  of  nervous 
prostration.  Think  what  seven  days  a 
week  of  it  means,  and  when  you  go 
home  at  night  do  not  bury  yourself  in 
the  newspaper.  Take  your  wife  out  to 
the  theater  as  often  as  you  can,  and 
when  you  can  not,  talk  to  her.  Enter­
tain  her.  Tell  her  the  bright  things  and 
the  funny  things  you  have  seen  and 
he^rd  downtown.

Remember  that  the  children  are  yours 
just  as  much  as  they  are  hers  and  do 
not  shun all the  responsibility  of  raising 
them  on  her.  Do  not  make  your  own 
hearthstone  the  dumping  ground  for  all 
your  troubles.

Do  not  forget  to tell  your  wife  every 
day  of  your  life  that  you  love  her. 
If 
you  make  no  other  New  Year's  resolu­
tion,  make  this  and  keep 
is 
the  coin  that  ' pays  a  woman  for every 
other  hardship  and  sacrifice 
life.

it.  Love 

in 

Give  her  that  and  she  will  ask  for  little 
else.

I  should 

like  to  see  some  of  the 
women  who  think  their  pictures  ought 
to  be  in  the  papers  as  an  illustration  of 
a  living  model  of  all  the  virtues  make  a 
New  Year’s  resolution  to :

Use  more  tact  in  dealing  with  their 
husbands.  Only  a  fool  dashes herself to 
death  against  a  stone  wall  when  there  is 
an  easy  path  around  it.

To  have  forbearance  and  discretion 
enough  to  refrain  from  introducing  top­
ics  of  conversation  on  which  she  knows 
she  and  her  husband  hold  different 
opinions.  Flaunting  a  red  flag  in  front 
of  a  bull  never  did  anything  yet but  stir 
up  trouble.

To  cut  the  arguing  habit.  Argument 

is  death  to  love.

To  remember  that  the  daily  spat  ends 

in  the  divorce  court.

To  remember  that  matrimony  does 
not  give  one 
license  to  wear  Mother 
Hubbards  and 
eat  onions.  Do  not 
throw  away  your bait  because  you  have 
caught  your  fish.  He  might  wriggle  off 
of the  hook.

To  keep  their  little  worries  and  ag­
themselves.  Husbands 
gravations  to 
have  troubles  of  their  own  and  it  can 
not  be  very  comforting  to  a  man  who 
has  wrestled  all  day  with  his  own  prob­
lems  to  be  met  at  the  front  door  with  a 
jeremiad  of  domestic  woes.

To 

remember 

that  a  prompt  and 
pointed  answer  does  not  turn  away 
wrath.

To  remember  that  “ he”   pays  the 
freight  and 
is  entitled  to  the  very  best 
that  the  house  can  give—the  most  com­
fortable  chair,  the things  he  likes  to  eat, 
the  sweetest  smiles  and  the  tenderest

My  “Pile”

Wben I began  this  business  8  years  ago  consisted  of 
thirty-two  dollars  in  money  and  several  years’  hard 
knocks and an experience in my line which has  enabled 
me to build up a large business  by  giving  to  my  trade 
just what they ought to  have  at  the  price  they  ought 
to pay.  I have the largest factory of the kind  in  Amer­
ica.  I try to treat my trade right.  My business has my 
personal  attention  and  as  a  result  my  customers  are 
pleased.  If I can get one order from  you  I  am  sure  of 
more.  My

Red  Seal  Brand  Saratoga Chips

are put up in 10-pound boxes, 20-pound kegs,  30-pound  barrels,  bulk,  or  in  cartons,  bi- 
pound, l-pound, or assorted 24-pounds to toe case, to be  had  from  me  direct  or  through 
jobbers.  The above show case and 10 pounds of my best chips for $3.00 is a  proposition it 
will pay you to investigate.

J .  W .  M E Y E R

137  East  Indiana  Street,  Chicago,  111.

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love  and  consideration  that  his  wife  has 
in  her  repertoire.

To  remember  that  a  woman’s  part  of 
the  matrimonial  bargain  is  making  a 
comfortable  home. 
If  she  fails  in  that 
she  has  defaulted  on  the  contract  and 
deserves  to  be  sent  to  the  penitentiary.
To  remember that  when  she  married 
she  did 
it  of  her own  free  will  and  ac­
cord.  She  knew  the  risks  and  took  them 
with  her  eyes  open,  and  if  there  have 
been  trials  and  anxieties  have  come 
she  has  no  right  to  regard  herself  as  a 
victim  and  blame  her  husband.  She 
was  just  as  anxious  to  marry  him  as  be 
was  to  marry  her.

Not  to  tell  her  domestic  troubles  to 
anybody,  not  even  her  mother.  Until  a 
woman  gets  ready  to  relate  the  story  of 
a  husband's  misdeeds 
in  the  divorce 
court  she  owes  it  to  her  own  dignity  to 
keep  silence.

To  remember  that  a  laugh  is  a  light­
ning  rod  that  will  carry domestic atmos­
pheric  disturbance  safely  into  the earth.
To  remember  that  men  like  apprecia­
tion 
just  as  much  as  women  do.  The 
average  American  husband  works  like  a 
dray  horse  from  morning  to  night to 
support  his  family,  and  when  he  does 
not  get  even  thanks  for the  sacrifice  he 
makes  he  must  wonder  what  ever  made 
him  fool  enough  to  burden  himself  with 
a  family.

Remember  that  tenderness,  love,  con­
sideration,  gentleness,  patience  and 
brightness  are  the  qualities  that  best 
adorn  a  wife.  They  are  old-fashioned 
virtues,  but  the  world  has  never  im­
proved  upon  them.  Use  them  every 
day  of  your 
life  and  the  coming  year 
we  will  see  a  falling  off  in  the  divorce 
business.

Suppose  young  girls  would  make  a 

few  New  Year’s  resolutions :

To  swear off  on  candy  that  ruins  their 
digestion  and  silly  novels  that  upset 
their  minds.

To  devote  time  and  effort  to  enter­
taining  their  father as  they  do  some  ad- 
dlepated  beau.  Many  a  father  must 
think  the  money  he  spent  on  raising 
and  educating  his  daughter a pretty poor 
investment.

To  try  to 

learn  to  sew  and  cook,  so 
they  will  not  be  a  burden  to the  unfor­
tunate  man  who  marries  them.

To  stop  talking  so  much  nonsense  to 

silly  boys.

restaurants.  Many  a  girl 

Not  to  drink  wine  and  cocktails  in 
public 
is 
falsely  accused  of  drinking  too  much.
it  is  interesting  to  be 
ignorant  and  fetching  to  be  whimsical.

Stop  thinking 

Stop  gushing  over  actors.
Stop  criticising  every  other  girl.  Men 
it  is  envy  and  call  you 

always  think 
cats.

Stop  wearing  their hair  in  an  untidy 
mop  because  certain  actresses  are  pho­
tographed  with  their  heads  in  a  hurri­
cane.

Stop  thinking  the  man  who  sends 
is  the  one  who 

them  the  most  candy 
loves  them  best.

Stop  writing  sentimental 

letters  to 
men  and  giving  their  photographs  to 
Tom,  Dick  and  Harry.

Suppose  we  all  made  New  Year’s  res­
olutions  to  do  the  things  we  think  our 
neighbors  ought  to  do,  wouldn't  this 
world be  a  paradise? 

Dorothy  Dix.

There 

is  many  a  good,  conservative 
man  who  goes  upon  the  witness  stand 
with  a  full  knowledge  of the  facts  to 
which  he  is  expected  to testify  but  who, 
on  account  or  timidity  or  lack  of  self 
confidence,  leaves  the 
impression  with 
the  court  and  jury,  that  he  knows  noth­
ing  of  the  case.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Fem inine  Form   Divine.

According to Rubens,  for  instance,  the 
ideal  female’s  body  should  be  neither 
too  puny  or too  robust.  The  flesh  should 
be  firm,  solid  and  white,  tinted  faintly 
with  red.  The  face  should  be  amiable, 
the  neck  a  little  long,  plump,  rounded, 
white  as snow ; the chest  smooth  and  full 
and  slightly  high.  Between  the  armpits 
the  back  should  be  a  trifle  sunken in the 
middle,  so  that  there  is  a  slight  furrow.
The  woman’s  body,  her contour,  her 
muscles,  her  manner  of  holding  herself, 
of  walking,  of  sitting,  should  be 
in­
tensely  feminine.  Let  her  beware  of 
ever  being  mannish.

In  an  anonymous  book  published 
lately 
in  Paris  the  following  most  ex­
cellent  proportions  are  given  for  the 
perfect  body:

The  head  should  be  a  seventh  part  of 
that  is  to  say,  so  that  the 

the  body, 
height  should  equal  seven  heads.

The  length  of  the  face  should be equal 
to  the  distance  between  the  most  ex­
treme  parts  of  the  temporal  regions.

The  forehead  should  not  be  too  high 
nor too  large.  It  should  harmonize  with 
the  oval  of  the  face.  The  skin  should 
be  white  and  free  of  wrinkles.

The  eyebrows  should  be  well  marked 

and  should  end  in  a  point.

The  lashes,  to  be  beautiful,  should  be 

long  and  silky.

The  eyes  should  be  slit  horizontally ; 
those  shaped  like  almonds  are  the  most 
beautiful.

The  hair  should  be  long,  thick  and 

The  most  admired  colors  are  blond 

wavy.

and  black.

The  nose  should  be  equal  in  length  to 
the  forehead. 
Its  thickness  should  be 
in  proportion  to  the  other  features  of 
the  face.

The  mouth  should  be  shaped  like  a 

bow  unbent.

vety.

The  chin  should  be delicately rounded 

and  free  from  indentation.

The  cheeks  should  be  rosy  and  vel­

The  neck  should  be  twice  as  long  as 
the  nose  and  twice  as  big  as  the  wrist.
The  shoulders  should  be  plump,  of 

the  same  height  and  slightly  rounded.

The  chest  should  be  narrower  at  the 

top  than  at  the  bottom.

The  arms  should  be  rather large above 
and  should  diminish  toward  the  wrist.
The  hand  should  be long,  plump,  with 

tapering  fingers  and  pearly  nails.

The 

legs  should  be  twice  as  large 
around  as  the  arms.  The  height  of  the 
calf  should  equal  the  length  of  the  foot.

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The  ankle  should  be  tapering,  the  foot 
small  and  plump.

H er Intentions  W ere  Good.

She  really  intended  paying  her  fare 
when  she  boarded  the  street  car,  for  she 
had  ten  cents  saved  from  the  bargain 
day  scrimmage,  but  the  conductor  hap­
pened  to  be  a  gentleman,  and,  by  pay­
ing  the  fare  himself,  saved  her  a  weary 
walk  to  the  family  residence.  She  had 
the  ten  cents  with  her  when  she boarded 
the  car,  and  she  still  had  the  money 
when  the  conductor came  through  on  his 
trip  for  fares,  but  she  did  not  pay  the 
conductor. 
It  was  all  the  motorman’s 
fault.  With  her  arms  full  of  bundles  she 
was  compelled  to  hold  the  ten cent piece 
between  her 
The  motorman 
turned  on  the  current,  the  car  gave  a 
jerk  and  she  gave  a  start.

“ Fare,  please,”   said  the  conductor, 

teeth. 

and  she  turned  pale.

“ I  can't  pay  you,”   she  stammered, 
going  from  white  to  red  and  from  red 
back  to  white.

“ But  I  can’t  carry  you  for  nothing,”  

remonstrated  the  conductor.

" I   know 

it,  but  I  can't  help  it. 

I 
had  the  money  when  I  got  on  the  car, 
but— but  I  swallowed  it.”
A  grouch  on  the  other  side  of  the  car 
snorted  a  rude  laugh,  but  the  conductor 
was  a  gentleman,  and  without  another 
word  be  pulled  the  register  rope  for  an- 
other  fare  and  passed  on.__________

fye  Unite*)  states  of  America,

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,   yonr  o l e r k . ^ ,   attorneys,  ageris, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
bedding  through  or  nnder  yon,

tttytreas,

it  has  been  represented  to  ns  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “  SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

Hon), fytytttfovtj we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
unde^J|he^j)ain^^ind^)enaltie^jvhicl^^na^^al^u£or^^m^^n(^each^o^^ou  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word 
false  or  misleading  manner.

SAPOLIO"  in  any

W t i r n s s  f   The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 

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

[seal] 

[signed]

ROWLAND  COX.

Cotuploinattfs  Solicit*.

S.  D.  ©LIPHANT,

Clerk

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Butter  and  Eggs
Observations by  a G otham  Egg Man.
We  confess  to  some  surprise  that  a 
commercial  newspaper  of  the  character 
of  the  New  York  Journal  of  Commerce 
should  print  as  a  serious  item  of  news 
the  statements  recently  bandied  about 
in  the  daily  press  that  the  big  meat­
packing  houses  had  “ cornered  the  egg 
market," buying  and  withdrawing  from 
the  market  some  500,000 cases  of  eggs. 
There 
is  nothing  artificial  in  the  egg 
situation,  the  recent  scarcity  of  fresh 
goods  and  high  prices  ruling  being  the 
result  of  purely  natural  conditions.  Of 
course 
it  would  be  possible  for any  one 
with  money  enough  to  buy  up  all  the 
storage eggs  in  the  country,  but  the  risk 
of  such  an  undertaking  at  a  season 
when  the  scale  of  fresh  production  is 
governed  almost  entirely  by  weather 
conditions,and  when  the  South  is  likely 
to  open  up  with  liberal  fresh  supplies, 
before  the  "corner”   could be  turned  in­
to  money,  is  too  great  for  serious  con­
sideration.  Any  one  wishing  to  work  a 
“ corner”   in  the  egg  market  would  have 
to  go  into  partnership  with  the  Clerk 
of the  Weather.

*  *  *

conditions 

The  possibilities  of  the fresh egg mar­
ket  are  so  widely  various at  this  season 
that  prices  are  quite  liable  to  wide  fluc­
tuations  with  every  radical  change  of 
weather 
in  the  territory 
where  fresh  production 
is  expected  to 
increase.  But  the  recent  extreme  ad­
vance  in  prices,  based  upon  a  scarcity 
of  high  grade  eggs  and  unusually severe 
weather  in  the  South,  has  proved  very 
clearly  that  such  high  rates  can  hardly 
be  sustained,  even under very  light  sup­
plies  of  fresh,  until  the  stock  of  reirig- 
erator  eggs  is  more  nearly  closed  out 
than 
it  is  at  present.  When  these  be­
come  so  scarce  as  to  come  closer  to  the 
price  of  fresh  goods,  and  the  trade  is 
more  dependent  upon  current  produc­
tion,  the  effect  of  bad  weather  on  fresh 
egg  values  will  naturally  be  more  per­
manent;  although  rapid  fluctuations  are 
inevitable  in  any  case.
*  *  *

We  notice  a  disposition  on  the  part  of 
some  shippers  to  place  limits  on  stock 
coming  forward,  and  wish  to  call  atten­
tion  to  an  unfavorable  effect  upon  the 
market  which 
is  likely  to  follow  any 
general  withdrawal  of  current  receipts 
from  current  sale.  When  offerings  are 
shortened  materially  by  these  limits,  so 
that  available  stock  becomes  short  of 
requirements  at  a  time  when  actual  re­
ceipts  would  be  ample 
if  all  offered, 
prices  may  be  advanced  thereby;  but 
such  advance  restricts  the  demand  to 
the  quantity  actually  available  and 
when  general  conditions  change  enough 
to  induce  owners  to  order sales  the  in­
creased  offerings  overstock  the  lessened 
outlets  and  are  likely  to  cause  immedi­
ate  decline.  This  naturally  gives  us  a 
dull  market,  because  the  same  consider­
ations  that  induce  shippers  to  order 
sales  also  cut  off  speculative  feeling 
it  takes  time  to  get  trade 
here  and 
started  again  on  a 
lower  basis.  Thus 
it  is  generally  difficult  to  do  any  im­
portant  business  until  the  price  falls 
back  to  a  speculative  basis. 
It  is  al­
ways  easier  to  sell  on  an  advancing 
market  than  on  a  declining  one,  and 
those  who  keep  goods  going  on  an  up 
turn  generally  make  a  better average 
than  those  who  try  to  keep  everything 
for  the  top  notch.  Furthermore  ship­
pers  who  order  goods  held  on  arrival 
very  commonly  form  their opinions as 
to the  tendency  of values  from  too  nar-

row  a  range  of information and frequent­
ly  miss  it  altogether.  There  were  a 
number  of  lots  here  under  limit  last 
week  which  could  have  been  sold  at  31 
@330  at  mark,  and  which  were  still  on 
hand  Monday  when  the  price  fell  back 
about  5c  a  dozen.

*  *  *

is 

last  week 

The  situation  of  remaining  stocks  of 
refrigerator  and  limed  eggs  has  been 
materially  improved  by  the  late  ex­
tended  period  of  severe  winter  weather 
in  the  South  and  Southwest. 
Such 
weather  is  very  rarely  experienced 
in 
those  sections  during  December,  and  in 
this  instance 
it  occurred  just  at  the 
time  when  production  was  beginning  to 
increase.  Doubtless  the  eight  days  of 
severe  cold 
just  ended  will  delay  the 
time  when  larger  supplies  may  be  ex­
pected  fully  two  weeks,  even  if  the later 
temperatures  should  prove  continuously 
favorable  to  production,  and  compara­
tively 
light  January  supplies  of  fresh 
are  now  to  be  anticipated.  There  is 
every  indication  that  while  more  refrig­
erator  holdings  will  be  carried  over  the 
turn  of  the  year  than  was  the  case  a 
year  ago,  the  quantity 
light  com­
pared  with  two  years  ago,  and  there  is 
now  a  good  prospect  that  dealers  will 
have  to  use  them  for a very considerable 
proportion  of  the  January  requirements. 
The  better qualities of  refrigerator eggs 
are  likely  to come  a  little  closer to  the 
price  of  fresh  as  the  season  advances, 
and  they  are  maintaining  the  advance 
gained 
in  spite  of  the  very 
radical  reaction  in  fresh.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.
Do  Not  Change  Commission  M erchants.
“ Shippers  do  not  stick  to  their  com­
mission houses enough, ”  said a receiver. 
“ I  know  some  shippers  that  have  a 
different  house  handle  their goods  every 
season,  and  I  do  not  think  they  make  as 
much  profit  as  the  fellow  who  sticks  to 
one  house.  When  a  man  is  receiving 
poultry  from  a  concern  that never sticks 
to  one  house,  he  feels  that  he  can  not 
keep  the  shipper  long  at  most,  and  he 
is  not  stimulated  to  do  his  best as  re­
gards  working  up  an  outlet  for  his 
stock. 
If  a  firm  has  been  thoroughly 
tried  and  found  to  give  full  prices,  cor­
rect  weights,  and  general  satisfaction  it 
is  a  pretty  good  rule  for the  shipper  to 
stick  to  this  firm  instead  of  being  al­
ways  open  to  the  promises  of  a  new 
house. 
is  buying  a  certain 
mark  of  poultry  from  a  house  every 
week,  he 
is  inclined  to  stick  to  that 
mark  even  although  other marks  may 
run  better  in  quality  and  when  the  com­
mission  man  loses  the  shipper the buyer 
will  probably  try  some other mark rather 
than  hunt  around  the  market  for his  fa­
vorite.  Possibly  this  man  has  been  pay­
ing  a  slight  premium  to  have  the  stock 
saved  for him  every  week.  Just  as  the 
commission  man  has  the  stock  woiking 
out  nicely  into  a  regular  channel  tor 
the  shipper the  latter  ‘ tries’  some  other 
house,  and  the  same  thing 
is  worked 
over  again  as  the  new  receiver  can  not 
1  realize  as  much  as  the  old  one  did  ex­
cept  under  the  most  favorable  circum­
stances.  Should  the  market  happen  to 
be  weak  or  declining  it  is  very  much 
harder to  sell  stock  on  the  open  market 
than  to telephone  your  regular  buyer  for 
that  mark  tnat  ‘ his’  goods  are  in .”

If  a  man 

D ividing Shipm ents.

Speaking  about  dividing shipments, a 
receiver  said:  “ As  a  rule  shippers  do 
not  have  as  much  confidence  in  their 
commission houses  as  they  should.  This 
is  plainly  evident  by  the  way  shippers 
divide  their  shipments.  Many  of  the 
larger shippers  send  their  poultry  to two 
or  three  commission  houses,  and  some 
of  the  largest  have  eight  or ten  firms 
which  handle  part  of  their  stock  every 
week."

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Clerk’s  Gift to tke Twins  and  Its  Besnit.
The  other  day  we  were  very  busy,  we 
clerks  and  the  boss,  selling  and  putting 
up  orders  for  holiday  preparation,  such 
as  raisins,  currants,  citron,  and  spices. 
We  were  all  in  good  humor and  worked 
cheerfully,  whether  it  was  the  kind  of 
goods  we  were  selling  or  the  way  of 
selling  them,  or  the  reminder  of  the 
good  things  we  were  soon  going  to  eat, 
or  was  it  the  improved  method  of  serv­
ing  these  articles  above  mentioned,  or 
was  it  the  beautiful  day?  The  air  was 
bracing,  six 
inches  of  beautiful  snow 
lay  upon  the  ground,  and  now  and  then 
we  could  hear  the  jingle  of  sleigh  bells, 
as  some  cutter  sped  by,  presumably 
with  a  pretty  girl  wrapped  up  in  warm 
furs  and  horrible  toboggan  cap.

Leastwise,  business  was  good;  the 
boss  for  once  had  a  smile,  and  con­
descended  to  answer  gently  when  we 
asked  a  seemingly  dumb question.  The 
work  was  a  cinch  to  what  it  was  twenty 
years  ago.  All  we  have  to  do  now  is  to 
reach  on  the  shelf  for  the  raisins,  cur­
rants  and  spices  neatly  done  up  in  at­
tractive  cartons,  place  them  on  the 
counter,  to  take 
in  the  cash,  register 
and  say,  “ Thank  you,  madam.”

it 

Twenty  years  ago  it  was  different. 
Then  we  had  to  pick  the  stems  off  the 
raisins  like  the  cook  in  the  kitchen,  go 
down  in  the  cellar  and  dig  currants  out 
of  the  cask,  like  a  Dago  in  the  quarry, 
cut  the  molasses  with  a  knife,  and 
scrape  the  quart  measure  with  a  stick 
to  keep  square  with  the  Lord,  tussle 
with  the  pepper  and  sneeze  until  you 
looked  foolish  with  perhaps  a  pretty 
girl 
laughing  at  your awkwardness  in 
making  change,  with  currants  and  mo­
lasses  sticking  to  your  fingers  with  a 
persistency  of  an  installment  collector.
1  had  just  taken  the  prize  order  of  the 
day,  the 
lady  had  gone,  a  fellow-clerk 
had  overheard  the  order,  and  the  boss’ 
attention  was  attracted  to  the  same. 
Here 
is :  12  packages  raisins,  10 
packages  currants,  3  pounds  citron,  2 
pounds  lemon  peel,  2  pounds  assorted 
spices,  and  several  other  articles.  We 
became  reminiscent.  1  remember  a  cus­
tomer  some  twenty  years  ago,  who  beat 
that order,  and  I  always  considered beat 
me  out  of  two $5  gold  pieces.  Then  we 
were 
interrupted.  A  fashionable  team 
stopped at  the  door  from  which  alighted 
a  vision  of  loveliness  dressed 
in  the 
latest  automobile  coat,  richly  plumed 
hat,  and  dream  of  a  boa,  garnishing  a 
most  bewitching  face  of  about twenty 
summers  and  possibly  as  many  winters. 
Of  course,  we  all  forgot  our  customers 
and  stood  transfixed  by  the  sight,  an 
unusual  one  in  our quiet burg  (a colored 
coachman),  until  called  back  to  earth 
by  a  movement  by  the  boss,  who  usually 
claimed  the  right  to  wait  on  the  best.
After  a  few  words  of  half-whispered 
consultation  the  boss  goes  to  the  sleigh 
little  bundle  all 
and  brings 
in  white  furs,  white  bonnet, 
wrapped 
I felt  strangely  dis­
and  white  mittens. 
I  had  gotten  a  good  glance  of 
turbed. 
lady’s  face  as  she  passed 
the  young 
through  the 
light  of  the  door.  Where 
had  I  seen  that  face  before?  I  was  rat­
tled. 
I  could  not  tell  whether  my  cus­
tomer  was  saying  raisins  or currants, 
and 
could  not  even  make  change. 
“  Does  a  pretty  face  always  rattle  you, 
Mr.  Smith?”   spoken  somewhat  venge- 
fully,  recalled  me  to  my  senses.

in  a 

replacing 

I  had  just  got  to  feeling  normal, busy­
ing  myself 
the  weights, 
scoops,  and  funnels  properly  on  the 
counter,  when  the  boss  called,  “ Mr. 
Smith  (that’s  not  my  real  name),  a  lady 
here  would  like  to  see  you  a  moment.”

Good  heavens!  what had  I  done?  I  took 
the  longest  way  around  the  counter,  all 
the  while  thinking  very  hard  of my  past 
deeds  (and  misdeeds)  as  far back  as  I 
could  under  the  circumstances.

“ Mr.  Smith,  this is Mrs.  Richmond,”  
and  then  making  his  most graceful bow, 
which  he  always  had  in  reserve  for 
youth  and  beauty,  in  good  clothes,  he 
left  us  alone  with  the  baby.

1  felt  and  blushed  like  a  school  boy.
I  could  feel  the  envious  eyes  of  my  fel­
low-clerks  upon  me,  expecting  every 
moment  to  be  dismissed  as  the  wrong 
Mr.  Smith.  A  seductive,  mysterious 
smile  upon  her  lips,  she  said,  “ Don’t 
you  remember  me,  Mr.  Smith?”  
I 
thought  I  would  like  to,  but  said,  “ No,
I  can't  say  that  I  do.”

“ Look  back  at  that  baby  and  think 
back  twenty  years  and  see  if  you  can 
not  remember  Mrs.  Jones’  baby  twins, 
into  the  hand  of  each  you  put  a  $5  gold 
piece.  Well,  I  am  one  of  those  twins, 
but  which  one  I  can  not  tell  you. 
Mother  is  dead  now,  and  always  spoke 
so  well  of  you  that  I  seem  always  to 
have  known  you.  She  exacted  a  prom­
ise  from  me  that  if  I  ever came  East  to 
place  this  package  in  your hands,  in  re­
membrance  of  old  times  and  the  happi­
est  Christmas  she  ever  had  in  her life. ”
That  package  contained  twenty  $5 

gold  pieces.

Twenty  years  ago  I  was  head  clerk  in 
a  general  store  in  Eastern  Pennsylvania 
doing  a  credit  business.  Among  our 
customers  was  a 
lady  I  will  call  Mrs. 
Jones,  one  of  those  customers  of  whom 
few 
remain,  a  heavy  buyer,  always 
cheerful,  always  a  kind  word  for  the 
clerks,  nothing  too  dear,  quality  always 
right,  and  always  willing  to try  any  and 
every  new  brand  you  wanted  to  intro­
duce ;  never 
short 
weights  or  measures,  or accusing  you  of 
carelessness  or  stupidity.  She  always 
paid  her  bills  promptly, 
leaving  no 
balance ;  in  fact,  you  always  felt  better 
when  she  entered  the  store  and  sorry 
when  she  left  it.

complaining  of 

But  things changed ; her husband  took 
to drink;  she  got  back  in  her  account so 
far  that  the  proprietor  wanted  to  stop 
her credit  unless  she  paid  on  pay  day. 
Of  course,  I  was  elected  to  collect  the 
bill,  or  part  of  it,  a  day  or two  after 
pay  day  (she  had  not  turned  up  as 
promised).

I  left  the  store  with  a  heavy  heart  to 
perform  an  unpleasant  duty.  On  the 
way  to  her  home  1  kept  rehearsing  all 
the  kindest  words  1  could  find  in  my 
vocabulary,  her  genial  salutation  and 
excuses  already  ringing  in  my  ears,  for 
I  did  not  expect  any  money,  as  I  sus­
pected  something  was  wrong  with  that 
all-powerful 
I  even 
stopped  in  a  few  places for  a  little  cour­
age  on  the  way.

settler,  Cash. 

I  knocked  at  the  door,  a  little  girl 
with  unkempt  hair  and  sadly  deficient 
clothing  opened  the  door,  invited  me 
into  the  parlor  (that  was),now  the  room 
was  bare  except  a  few  unframed  litho­
graphs  on  the  walls,  that  we  had  given 
the  children  at  the  store  at  different 
times,  a  couple  of  chairs  that  had  seen 
better  days,  and  the 
family  Bible, 
which  tried  to  hide  itself  in  a  corner. 
1  spoke  a  few  words  to the  children  that 
were  beginning  to  come  around  me  like 
flies  on  a  sugar  barrel.

I  had  just  about  made  up  my  mind  to 
sneak  off  and  make  up  the  excuses  to 
the  proprietor  myself,  when  1  heard  my 
name  called  and  an  invitation  to  come 
upstairs,  which  was  as  barren  as  the 
room  below,  with  the  exception  of  the

bed  and  my  friend,  the  mother,  propped 
up  on  the  pillows.

“ Henry,”   she  said,  “ I  guess  you 
came  for  money,  but  I ’m  sorry  I  could 
not  send  any  this  time,  and  I  suppose 
you  will  not  credit  me  with  any  more 
goods,”   and  then  started  a  flood  of 
tears. 
I  got  a  big  lump  in  my  throat, 
which,  after  considerable  effort  I  man­
aged  to  swallow,  and  then  I  told  my 
first  lie,  that  even  a  “ Grocery  World”  
moralist  would  forgive.

I  said,  “ Oh,  no!  Mrs.  Jones;  I  was 
just  passing,  and  thought  I’d  drop  in 
and  get  your  order  for  raisins,  currants, 
etc.,  for  plum  pudding  and  fruit  cake.”  
What  hollow  mockery  that  must  have 
just  then, 
sounded  to  the  poor  woman 
and  yet  she  believed  me. 
“ No,  I won’t 
make  my  store  bill  any  larger. 
1  must 
pay  first.  As  for  Christmas,  my  pres­
ents  are  already  here  at  the  foot  of  the 
bed.”   There  lay  the  plumpest,  sweet­
est,  little  pair  of  twins  I  ever  saw. 
Then  I  heard  from  her  lips  the  most 
awful  tale  of  woe— poverty,  want,  hun­
ger,  and  thirst;  too  horrible  to  recall— 
all  because  a  once  sober,  industrious 
husband  had  taken  to  drink,  the  shame 
of  which  she  was  keeping  from  her 
friends.

By  this  time  I  was  feeling  pretty 
charitable. 
I  had  two $5  gold  pieces  in 
my  pocket  that  were  beginning  to  feel 
pretty  mean  and  uncomfortable.  They 
had  kept  good  company  for a  month, 
waiting  to  be  spent  together  on  a  new 
overcoat  for  Christmas.  Just  then  they 
seemed  to  want  to  part  company  very 
badly,  but  I  was  weighing  what  best  to 
do—give  them  to  my  boss  as  part  pay­
ment  on  her  account,  offer  to  her,  or 
give  one  to  the  babies.  That  decided 
me. 
I  would  give  one  of  the  babies  a 
fiver  and  keep  the  other,  which  I  did.

/  

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Q leighs-1902

I  was  about  to  leave,  when  the  thought 
struck  me,  How  was  I  to  know  to  which 
one  I  had  given  the  gold  piece?  so  out 
came  the  other,  and  I  wore the  same  old 
coat  another  year.

luck 

The  husband  was  a  contract  miner.  It 
seems  he  had  poor 
for  several 
months.  He  got  disgusted,  made  things 
worse  by  spending  over the  bar  the  few 
dollars  he  got.  Like  many  others,  he 
drew  his  few  dollars  p ay;  knew  they 
would  not  pay  any  of  his  bills  with 
either  the  grocer,  the  butcher,  or  the 
baker,  and he  blew  them  in  over  the  bar 
(just  a  step  from  the  pay  office,  and 
perilously  near the  mouth of the  mines), 
ashamed,  he  claimed,to take  them home 
to  his  wife.

Luck  changed,  he  made  big  money, 
fell  out  with  the  barkeeper,  went  West 
to  Colorado,  struck 
it  rich,  and  died  a 
millionaire  mine  owner.— H.  F.  Gran- 
zow  in  Grocery  World.

As  a  paradox  it  might  be  suggested 
that  very  few  hotel  clerks know  as  much 
j as  they  should,  yet  nearly  all  of  them 
know  entirely  too  much,  and  show  it 
and  tell 
it  to  the  great  discomfiture  of 
the  hotel  guests.

It’s  Like

Throwing  money  to  the  birds  paying  * 
fabulous  price  for  a  soda  apparatus 
when our

$20  FOUNTAIN

Will do the  business  just  as  web.  Over 
10,000 in use.  No tanks, no  charging  ap­
paratus  required.  Makes  finest  Soda 
Water for one-half cent a glass.  Send ad­
dress for particulars  and  endorsements.

Grant  Manufacturing  Co.,  Inc.

Pittsburg,  Pa.

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We are still in the lead with  the  largest  variety,  latest  styles,  and  most 

substantial line of sleigh goods In the market.
We desire to thank our  many  patrons  who  have  so  liberally  bought  our 
sleighs in the past and aided us In making an enviable success of more than 22 years 
In the sleigh business, and trust the liberal policy of  dealing  with  our  customers will 
merit a continuance of their favors and orders.

Bespectfully,

Kalamazoo Wagon Co.

Kalamazoo,  Michigan 

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Think  and  Thrive

You  can  think  without  thriving,  but  you can not thrive  without  thinking. 
If  you  think  you can sell goods without a  fair  margin  and  make  money 
your thinking  machine needs winding. 
If you  sell  B.  B.  B.  Coffee such a 
margin is guaranteed.

OIney & Judson Grocer (So.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

ROASTERS  OP

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Clerks’  Corner.

The  Reason  W hy  H e  W ouldn’t  Swear Off. 
Written for the Tradesman.

The  trade  had  been  lively  for  even 
that  lively  corner.  Last  year the  Christ­
mas  trade  had  been  enormous  and  the 
men  in  the  office  had  been  heard  to  say 
it  had  been  a  banner  year  with  them 
and  that  in  all  probability  it  would  be a 
number  of  years  before 
it  would  be 
again  so  good;  and  now  they  were  say­
ing  the  same  thing  and  were  prophesy­
ing  that  they  could  beat  it  next  year. 
One  thing  was  certain: 
if  this  was  go­
ing  to  be  chronic,  there  would  have  to 
be  more  help  during  the  holidays  or  the 
whole  gang  would  be  laid  out  before the 
last customer  left  the  store  on  the  night 
before  Christmas  and  the  door  was 
locked.

That  was  the  sentiment 

the  male 
clerking  force  of  Clark,  Gleason  &  Co. 
were  saying “ That’s so !”  to as they filed 
out  of  the  establishment  along  towards 
midnight.  A  few  of  them  were  just 
tired  enough  to  drag  themselves  home 
to  bed,  but  a 
large  majority  betook 
themselves  in  a  body  to  a  saloon  in  the 
neighborhood  and  were  soon  forgetting 
their  weariness  around 
little 
round  tables,  each  making  the  most  of 
the  cigars  and  beer  which  the  establish­
ment  sets  before  its  guests.

some 

For  the  first  five  or  ten  minutes  they 
were  taken up  in  convincing one another 
how  tired  they  were.  Then  there  was 
a  series  of  long  breaths,  followed  by  a 
restful  silence  and  then  Clint  Harris, 
successfully  sending  up  from  his  mouth 
three  perfect  circles  of  smoke,  watched 
them  until  they  broke  and  melted 
into 
air  and  then,  turning  to  Ford  Greg- 
wood,  the  man  at  the  next  table  nearest 
him,  wanted  to  know  what  particular 
form  of  wickedness  he  was  going  to 
swear  off  the  New  Year.

The  question  was  followed  by  uproar­
ious,  tumultuous laughter,  For five good 
years  in 
succession  Gregwood  had 
vowed  with  uplifted  right  hand  and 
forceful  voice  that  after this  last  week 
in  the  year  not  another cigar  would  he 
smoke,  not  another,  drink  would  he 
drink,  not  another 
swear  would  he 
swear,  not  another  lie  would  he  lie  and 
not  another anything  would  he  do  “ just 
so  long  as  my  good  old  mother 
is 
alive."  Then  that  last  week was  a con­
tinued  debauch,  the  New  Year  finding 
him  utterly unable  to  lift  bis  hand to his 
throbbing  head.  The  first  five  days after 
looked  down  upon  a  repentant  sinner 
and  the  rest  of  the  twelve  month  took 
him  as  it  found  him,  a  man  of  twenty- 
six  or thereabout  who  is  his  own  worst 
enemy.

So  the  crowd  laughed  long  and  loud 
as  they  had  every  reason  for  doing,  and 
while  it  was  going  oh  the  subject  of 
it 
all  nonchalantly  smoked,  and  watched 
the  gracefully  rising  blue.  When  the 
uproar  ceased  he  said,  “ I  do  not  blame 
you  for  laughing,  and  this  year  I ’m  not 
going to swear off on anything.  I’ve been 
thinking  it  all  over  and  I  do not  believe 
that  yearly  headache  five  days 
long 
pays.  That  takes  good  care  of  the 
whisky  question  and  that kind  of  a tear. 
Then  there’s  this  smoking  business— 
cigarette  and  all.  The  last  school  I 
went  to  was  back  East  in  Pennsylvania 
and regularly,  as sure as io o'clock came, 
Nancy  Blodgett,  as  good  an  old  maid  as 
ever  a  lot  of  school  boys  plagued,  used 
to  sit  up  there  behind  the  desk  and  tell 
us  that  ‘ nicotine  is  a  poison  and  should 
be  avoided.’  Just to  see  what  she’d  say 
I  asked  her how  she  knew.  * Because  it

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

killed  my  only  brother!’  and  then  she 
went  right  on  with  the  lesson.  It  stayed 
after school  and  tried  to  apologize,  but 
she  wouldn’t 
let  me.  She  went  on  to 
tell  about  her  brother and  wound  up  by 
saying,  ‘ If  he’d  only  put  off  his  smok­
ing  until  he’d  got  his  growth,  he’d been 
alive  now—and so would  mother!  Some­
how  boys  don’t  know  how  they  kill 
their  friends  by  their  meanness!’  ’ ’

There  was  a  silence  now  when  every­
body  was  busy  watching  his  own  smoke 
curl.

“ I  used  to  think  when  the  New  Year 
came  around  that  1  wouldn’t  swear  any 
more  and  do  you  know,  once  or  twice  it 
really  did  occur  to  me  that  I'd  try  and 
see  how  it  would  seem  to  say  something 
and  not  have  damn  in  it  anywhere. 
1 
got  up  in  my  room  and  tried  it  and  it 
sounded  so  strange  that  I  made  fun  of 
myself  and  haven’t  tried  it  since.  So  I 
sha'n't  swear off  swearing  a  week  from 
to-night.”

“ Going  to  keep  right  on  with  your 

lying,  s’pose?"

“ Looks  like  it. 

It’s  got  to  be  a  sec­
ond  nature. 
I  find  it  doesn’t  make  any 
difference  in  the  end.  Take  you  fellows 
now.  You  never  believe  a  word  I  say. 
Just  let  me  say  now  as  I  did  a  year 
ago,  ‘ Not  another  lie  out  of  my  mouth 
after  January  i,  and  you’d  jar  the  foun­
dations  of  the  building. 
I’m  not  going 
to  do  it. 
I’m  just  going  to  let  the  year 
come  and  go  without  making  even  my­
self  a  promise. 
It  doesn't  amount  to 
anything.  I’ve  tried  every  year  and  you 
see  how  I  come  out.

“ Chris,  fill  these  glasses,  I’m  going 
to  tell  these  fellows  something.  You 
needn’t  hurry  up  with  it  for  you  won’t 
get  any  more.

“ What  1  had 

in  my  mind  was  this: 
The  first  of  February  is  my  birthday.  I 
shall  be  twenty-seven  years  old. 
I’ve 
been  my  own  man for  six  years  and  all 
1  have  to  show  for  it  is  the  duds  I  have 
on—hand-me-downs,  every  d—d  gar­
ment—and  a  pretty  bad reputation.  The 
only  quality  I  really  have  to  brag  of  is 
honesty. 
1  don’t  believe  anything

would  induce  me  to  steal.  Well,  here  I 
am,  a  good  deal  worse  off  than I was six 
years  ago,  and  for the  last  month  or  two 
I ’ve  been  thinking 
I  don’t 
know,  but  I  guess  I've  been  a— well, 
just  a  plain,  simple,  old-fashioned fool. 
F,  double  o,  1.  What  is  bothering  me 
is  how  much 
longer  I  want  to  keep 
it  up.

it  over. 

’f  I  know,’  said  I. 

“ Thanksgiving  day  Dad  made  be­
lieve  he  wanted  a  hundred  dollars  and 
asked  me  to  lend  it  to  him.  You  could 
have  knocked  me  down  with  a  feather. 
You  should  have  seen  him  look  at  me. 
if  he  ought  to  have 
I  feel  now  as 
knocked  me  down  with  his fist. 
‘ I 
haven’t  a  dollar  to  my  name, ’  I  said. 
it  all  gone  to?’  said  he. 
‘ Where’s 
‘ D—darned 
‘ You 
smoke,  I  see;  and  that’s  a  ten-center. 
‘ Don’ta l­
Buy  ’em  by  the  box?’  ‘ No.’ 
ways  drink  water,  do  you?’ 
‘ Not  by  a 
d—  good  deal.’ 
‘ Always  sit  in  the nig­
ger  heaven  when  you  go  t’  the  theater?’ 
‘ No,  I  don’t.  My  seat  costs  me  just  a 
dollar  and  I  go  once  a  week  unless  1  go 
oftener  and  I  don’t  always  go  alone.’ 
By  that  time  I  was  pretty  hot  and  ready 
for the  next question.  He  didn’t  ask  it. 
‘ That’s  all.  1  don’t  think  I  need  to 
wonder  where  your  money’s  gone  to. 
1 
guess  you’ll  get  there  ’f  you  keep  on. ’
father 
guesses  1  know,  and  I  don’t  believe  I 
want  to  ‘ keep on;’  and  so  I’m  not going 
to  do  any  more  swearing  off. 
I’m  get­
ting  so  that  I  can  taste  the  fifteen  cents 
I  can  taste  the  ten-cent 
in  my  liquor. 
straight  in  my  cigars. 
I  don’t  believe 
it  pays  to  wear  paper  collars  and  three- 
for-a-quarter  socks. 
I’ve  got  enough  of 
the  whole  d—d— 1’ 11  let  it  go  for  this 
time— business. 
I’m pretty  certain  that 
I  shall  have  enough  of  it  before  I  get 
through;  but  I’m  going  to  see  how  long 
it  wili  take  me  to  have  my  father  get 
me 
into  the  same  old  corner  and  ask 
me  to  lend  him  a hundred dollars.  He’ll 
do  it  every  chance  he  gets  and  that’s 
what’s  set  me  to  thinking. 
I’m  not  go­
ing  into  the  saint  business,  but  I’m  go­
ing 
into  the  saving  a  hundred  dollars

fellows,  what  my 

“ Now, 

business  and  I’m  going  to  stop being 
the  fool  I  told  you  about,  and  don’t  you 
forget  it. ’  ”

The  fellow’s  fist  came  down  good  and 
solid  on  the  little  round  table  and  the 
party  broke  up ;  and  what  I  want  to  say 
is  that  when  the  next  Thanksgiving 
Gregwood  Senior  asked  his  son  to  lend 
him  a  hundred'dollars  he  got  it

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

To  W hom   I t  H ay  Concern.

Men  have  been  heard  to  complain 
that  their  advertising  did  not  pay  when 
they  had  the  best  written advertisements 
and  placed  in  the  best  mediums.  They 
did,  however, 
fail  to  ask  themselves 
about  the 
impression  that  their  store 
made  on  the  people,  and  as  to  the  effect 
that 
the  appearance  and  attitude  of 
their  salespeople  had  upon possible  cus­
tomers. 
It is  a  fact  that  the  majority  of 
grocery  stores  have  a  slovenly  appear­
ance,  and  those  are  the  places  where 
we  buy  the  things  we  eat.  They  of  all 
places  should  have  the  most  careful  at­
tention  as  to  neatness  and  clean-looking 
salespeople.  Yes,  it  would  cost  money, 
and  we  know  that  the  margin  of  profit 
on  groceries  ms  small,  but  what  of  that 
if  an  increase  of  expense  of 15  per  cent, 
would  double  your  business,  and  that’s 
what  it  would  dc?  Then,  having  at­
tained  that  point,  you  would  find  that 
grocery 
advertising  was  profitable. 
People  who  were  drawn  to  the  froat  of 
your  store  by  your  advertising  would 
not  pass  by without coming in.— White’s 
Sayings.

W atertow n  Geese.

Watertown,  W is.,  is  noted  for  many 
industries  in  the  poultry  and 
unique 
pigeon  line,  but  not  the  least  of  them  is 
its  stuffed  geese  enterprise.  Wherever 
is  a  demand  in  this  country  for 
there 
this 
fowl 
the  name  of  Watertown  is 
linked  to  it.  The  trade  in  this  article 
for  years  past  has  been  a  source  of  con­
siderable  revenue  to  the  many  farmers 
living  within  a  radius  of  twenty  miles 
of  Watertown.  The  demand  for  stuffed 
geese 
is  enormous  and  the  prices  re­
ceived  have  generally  been  good.

A®  it  was,  is, xancO ever  will  t>e.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip

President,  J ohn  A.  W e s t o n ,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Br o w n ,  Saflinaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

United  Conmorcial  Travelers  of Michigan 

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

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

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

W.  Peck,  Traverse  C ity;  H.  E.  Phil­
lips,  Calumet.

The  convention  decided  to  hold  the 
in  Battle  Creek 

next  annual  meeting 
the  last  week  in  December,  1902.

The  knights  remitted  the  dues  of  a 
member  who  wrote  that  he  was  unable 
to  make 
in­
structed  the  Board  of  Directors  to  exer­
cise  their  discretion  in  making  similar 
concessions  to  other  worthy  members.

further  payments,  and 

Not  So  Cool  as  He Thought,

A nnual Convention  of M ichigan  K nights 

of the  Grip.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  which  was  held  at 
Lansing  last  Thursday  and  Friday,  was 
not  so  well  attended  as  was  expected  to 
be  the  case,  but  the  proceedings  were 
interesting  and  the  entertainment  was 
all  that  could  be  desired.

President  Owen  said  the  past  year 
was  a  discouraging  one  to  the  organiza­
tion,  there  being  no  less  than  twenty- 
nine  death  claims  to  meet.  The  Presi­
dent  was  happy  to  say  that  all  had  been 
met  and  that  a  surplus  remains  in  the 
treasury.  He suggested the  advisability 
of  changing  the  time  of  meeting  from 
winter  to  summer,  giving  good  reasons 
therefor.

Secretary  Stitt  reported  that  260  new 
members  were  received  during the year; 
twenty-six  died,  fifteen  resigned and  140 
were  dropped  because  of  failure  to  pay 
dues.  The  present  active  membership 
is  1,610,  as  compared  with  1,426 at  the 
beginning  of  the  year.  Post  A  of  Lan­
sing  secured  the  greatest  number of new 
members  during  the  year, 
initiating 
seventy-one,  while  Post  F  of  Saginaw 
was  second,  with  sixty-six.

The  Treasurer  reported  the  receipts 
of  the  general  fund  at $3,411,  and  the 
disbursements  82,744. 
The  mortuary 
fund  receipts  were  $14,885,  and  the  dis­
bursements  $14,100.

The  banquet  at  the  armory  of  the 
Governor’s  Guards  in  the  evening  was 
a  most  enjoyable  affair.

The  morning  session  Friday  amended 
the  constitution  so  as  to  provide  for  the 
election  of  directors  before  the  election 
of  President,  experience  having  demon­
strated  that  the  members  make  a  dash 
for  trains  after  the  President  is  elected. 
Another  amendment  reduced  the  maxi­
mum  age  limit  for  beneficiary members 
from  55  to  50  years,  this  change  being 
due  to  the  increasing  death  rate  of  re­
cent  years.  A  proposition  to  require  ap­
plicants  to  secure  physicians’  certificate 
as  to  health  was  voted  down.

The  stipend  of  the  Secretary  was  re­
duced  from  a  commission  of  5  per  cent, 
on  mortuary  collections  and  25  percent, 
on  dues  to  a  flat  5  per cent,  on  all  col­
lections.

John  A.  Weston,  of  Lansing,  was  en­
thusiastically  selected  as  President,  and 
Mark  S.  Brown,  of  Saginaw,  was chosen 
Secretary.

J.  W.  Schrain,  of  Detroit,  was  elected 
Treasurer  and  James  Cook,  of  Jackson, 
Manley  Jones,  of  Grand  Rapids  and 
Michael  Howarn,  of  Detroit,  were 
elected  the  new  members  of  the  Board 
of  Directors.

A  Vice-President  from  each  congress­
ional  district 
in  the  State  was  elected, 
as  follows :  Thomas  Plues,  Detroit;  W. 
B.  Burns,  Jackson;  Hugh  H.  Hoffman, 
Kalamazoo;  Calvin  S.  Gray,  Benton 
Harbor;  A.  A.  Weeks,  Grand  Rapids; 
H.  E.  Bradner,  Lansing;  Frank  N. 
Mosher,  Port  Huron;  John  C.  Sonnen- 
burg,  Saginaw;  H.  E.  Cummings,  Mus­
kegon ;  R.  S.  Richards,  Bay  C ity ;  A.

“ I  bad  flattered  myself  for  a  long 
time  that  I  would  be  a  cool  hand  in  the 
face  of  danger,"  said  the  drummer, 
"and  when  a  fire  alarm  was  sounded  in 
a  hotel  one  night  I  did  not  find  myself 
a  failure.  1  turned  out  of  bed  as  quietly 
as  you  please,  got  into  my  clothes  with­
out  undue  haste,  and  looked  out into  the 
hall  with  contempt  for the  guests  who 
were  falling  over  each  other  and  faint­
ing  away.  My  grip  was  open,  and  I 
waited  to  replace  everything  and  lock 
it,  and  then  I  walked  out  to  the  nearest 
fire  escape  and  dropped  my  grip  to  the 
ground.

"T he  fire  escape  was  simply  a  rope 
fastened  to a hook,and  1 was  four  stories 
up.  The  hall  was  dark  with  smoke,  and 
I  could  bear  men  shouting  and  women 
screaming,  but  I  pledge  you  my  word 
that  i  wasn’t  a  bit  rattled  as  I  loosed 
the  coil  of  rope  and  backed  out  of  the 
window.

" I   was  a  bit  chilly,  perhaps,  as  I 
found  myself  swinging  fifty  feet  from 
the  ground,  but  I  got  down  without 
further  damage  than  burning  and  tear­
ing  the  skin  off  my palms.

" I   reached  terra  firma  to  feel  myself 
a  hero,  but  the  feeling  didn’t  last  over 
ten  minutes.  Then  the  firemen  got  the 
best  of  the  flames,  and  as  I  entered  the 
hotel  the  night  clerk  said :
1 
come  down. ’

“   ‘ Ah!  you  here? 

I  didn't  see  you

"   ‘ I  got  out  by  the  hall window,’ I  re­

plied.

Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  30—The 

“   ‘ You  did?  Why,  man,  the  fire  was 
way  back  over  the  kitchen,  and  there  is 
a  stairway  within  ten  feet  of  that  win- 
do!  Why  didn’t  you  take  a  whole  week 
in  which  to  come  down  the  regular 
way?’  ”
Combined  Business  and  Social  Meeting.
first 
meeting  for the  new  year  will  be  held  at 
the  new  hall  over 66  Pearl  street,  Satur­
day  evening,  Jan.  4.  Several candidates 
will  be  ready  for initiation and the busi­
ness  meeting  will  be  called  as  near 7 
o’clock  as  possible  and,  as  soon  as  the 
business  is  through  with,  the  social  and 
entertainment  part  of  the  evening  will 
begin.  The  social  and  entertainment 
programme 
complimentary— don’t 
forget  that—and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
every  member  will  be  present  and  also 
bring  his  friends.  There  wil  be  danc­
ing  and  card  playing  and  a  general 
good  time—just  such  as  Grand  Rapids 
Council  No. 
feels  assured  their 
members  and  friends  will  fully  appre­
ciate.  Don't  forget  the  date,  Saturday 
evening,  Jan.  4. 

JaDee.

131 

is 

larger  town 

If  there  is  any  one  thing  that  makes 
a  retail  merchant  warm  about  the  collar 
it  is  to  have  his  customers  send  away  to 
a 
for  some  article  that 
might  have  been  purchased  at  home. 
The  merchants  of  a  certain  Michigan 
town  have  put  their  heads  together  and 
evolved  a  scheme  that  they  think  will 
discourage  this  disloyal  practice.  They 
have  published  the  following  self-ex­
planatory  card  in  a  local  paper:

We  have  secured  the  name  of  every 
man  sending  to  Chicago  for  goods,  and 
of  those  buying  of  peddlers  when  they 
have  money  and  patronizing  the  home 
merchant  only  when  out  of  funds.  We, 
the  undersigned,  hereby  certify  that  to 
such  no  credit  will  be  extended  in  the 
future  under  any  circumstances  or  upon 
any  security.  Our  prices  are  so  low  that 
nothing  can  be  saved  in  buying  else­
where,  and  for  our  mutual  protection we 
are  forced  to  make  this  iron-clad  rule, 
which  we  will  positively  adhere  to in all 
cases.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G ripsack  Brigade.

John  D.  Martin,  wife  and  son  Jesse 
returned  Monday  from  Clare  and  Mt. 
Pleasant,  where  they  spent  the  Christ­
mas  holidays.

Belding  Banner :  Ben  Angell,  com­
mercial  traveler  for the  Richardson  Silk 
Co.,  west  of  Chicago,  is  home  spending 
the  holidays  with  his  parents.

W.  H.  Canfield  succeeds  Richard W. 
Hurdley.who  has  covered  Central  Mich­
igan  for  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  and 
has  gone  into  the  house  to  take  charge 
of  the  blanket  and  flannel  department.
formerly  with  the 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  has  en­
tered  the  service  of  the  Saginaw  Valley 
Drug  Co.  Whether he  will  travel  or  oc­
cupy  a  desk  in  the  house  has  not  been 
disclosed.

Chas.  W.  Hurd, 

Dr.  D.  S.  Hatfield  has  signed  with 
Hecht  &  Zummach,  of  Milwaukee,  for 
a  fifth  year.  His  territory  will  be  the 
same  as  it  has  been  heretofore—Michi­
gan  and  Northern  Indiana—and  he  will 
undertake  to  see  his  trade  every  six 
weeks.

J.  H.  Lavin  succeeds  Thomas  Griffith 
as  Thumb  salesman 
for  Burnham, 
Stoepel  &  Co.,  Mr.  Griffith  having  gone 
into  the  house  to  take  charge  of  the 
print,  gingham  and  wash  goods  depart­
ment,  which  will  necessitate  his  remov­
ing  from  Port  Huron  to  Detroit.

Bay  City  Tribune:  L.  C.  Dingle, 
who  has  been  with  Hine  &  Chatfield  for 
the  past  eleven  years  as  traveling  sales­
man,  has  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Milwaukee  branch  of  the  National  Bis­
cuit  Co.  and  will 
leave  this  week  for 
Marquette, where he  will  make  his  head­
quarters.

Sault  Ste.  Marie  News-Record :  Ar­
thur  H.  Blanchard, 
for  the  past  four 
years  in  charge  of  Prenzlauer Bros. ’  de­
partment  store,has  resigned  his  position 
with 
lhat  bouse  to  enter  the  service  of 
the  Mishawaka  Woolen  Manufacturing 
Co.,  of Mishawaka,  Ind.  Mr.  Blanchard 
is  to  be  that  company’s  Upper  Penin­
sular  agent  and  will have his  headquart­
ers  in  the  Soo.

Benton  Harbor  Palladium :  Word has 
been  received  here  of  the  death  of  John 
Thompson,  of  the  firm  of  Thompson, 
Ehlers  &  Co.,  Chicago.  His  demise 
occurred  on  Christmas  day  at  his  home 
in  Chicago.  Mr.  Thompson  had  many 
friends  here  having  visited  this  city  an­
nually  for  over  thirty-five  years  in  the 
interest  of  the  firm  of  which  he  was  the 
senior  member.

25

sent  in  his  resignation  as  traveling  rep­
resentative.  His  route  is  being covered 
temporarily  by  W.  K.  Wilson,  pending 
the  re-arrangement  of 
the  traveling 
force  of  the  house.

Walter  M.  Gibbs,  who  has  covered 
Michigan  with  the  regularity  of  clock 
work,  recently  had  an  experience  with 
fire,  which  is  thus  described  by  the 
lo­
cal  paper  at  Fredonia,  N.  Y.  :  " F r i­
day  evening  smoke  was  noticed  in  Wal­
ter  M.  Gibbs’  house  on  Temple  street, 
and  the  fire  was  discovered  in  a  cup­
board  in  the  kitchen.  The  firemen  ar­
rived  promptly  on  the  alarm  being 
given,  and  extinguished  the  flames,  but 
the  powerful  stream  of  water  played 
havoc  with  the  china.  The  smoke  did 
great  damage  through  the  house.  The 
only  explanation  of  the  origin  of  the fire 
is  that  a  box  of  matches  started  it,  after 
a  mouse  or  rat  gnawed  the  matches. 
When  the  fire  was  discovered  Mrs.  Van 
Ness,  an  invalid,  and  her  young  grand­
daughter, were  the  only  occupants  of  the 
house.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gibbs  were  at  a 
party  at  F.  E.  Cooke’s.  Their conster­
nation  when  Tommy  Cooke  shouted into 
the  parlor  that  their  house  was  on  fire 
may  be  imagined.”

Japanese  F ern  Balls.

"T he  fern  ball 

"Something  new  from  Japan,”   said 
is 

a  florist,  "are  the  fern  balls.  This 
their  second  season  here.
is  a 

loosely  woven 
globe  of  twigs,  considerably  flattened  at 
the  poles,  and  filled  with  moss,  inter­
spersed  with  roots  of  ferns.
in 

its  original 
form  may  measure  about eight  inches  in 
its  greatest  diameter,  is  intended  to  be 
hung  anywhere 
It 
may  be  hung  in  a  window,  but  it  will 
thrive  better  still  away  from  a  window, 
with  less  light.

"T h is  ball,  which 

in  winter. 

indoors 

"Before  hanging 

it  up  you  soak  it 
thoroughly  in  water,  and  you  wet  it  oc­
casionally  thereafter  sufficiently  to  keep 
it  moist.  In  due  time  the  ferns  begin  to 
appear  all  over  the  ball,coming  through 
the  network  of  twigs  and  the  ball  be­
comes  finally  a  big  fluffy  globe  of  fern 
sprays  two  or three  feet  in  diameter.

"A n   American  way  of  handling  the 
Japanese  fern  ball  after  it  has  been  first 
wetted  consists  in  not  suspending  it, 
where 
it  has  to  be  occasionally  moist­
ened  thereafter,  but  in  placing  it  upon 
the  top  of  a  suitable  tall,  open  vessel, 
as  a  vase,  of  proper  dimensions  filled 
with  water,  from  which 
it  draws  uni­
formly  the  moisture  required  for  its  de­
velopment."

O.  E.  Jennings,  for  several  years  past 
Lower  Michigan  representative  for  the 
Eclipse  Stove  Co.,  of  Mansfield,  Ohio, 
has  handed 
in  his  resignation  to take 
effect  Jan.  1  in  order to  accept  the  po­
sition  of  Southern  Michigan  salesman 
for  the  Michigan  Stove  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
succeeding  A.  H.  Dame,  who  retires  to 
take  the  secretaryship  of  the  newly- 
organized  Kalamazoo  Stove  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie  News-Record :  H.  J. 
Gregory  who  has been employed  as  trav­
eling 
salesman  for  P.  C.  Keliher’s 
wholesale  grocery,  has  resigned  his  po­
sition  with  that  house  to  enter the  em­
ploy  of  Fred.  Leiblein, wholesale grocer, 
at  Hancock,  for  whom  he  will  be  cop­
per  country  agent.  Mr.  Gregory  is  one 
of  the  oldest  and  most  popular  grocery 
men  on  the  road  and  the  local  trade  re­
grets  bis  departure  from  this  field.

Oak  Olson 

(Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.),  who  was  recently  called  to  New 
Whatcom,  Wash.,  by  the  serious  illness 
of  his  father,  arrived  just  in  time  to 
witness  his  death.  As  his  mother  is 
aione  on  the  coast,  he  has  concluded  to 
i remain  there  for  the  present  and  has

Scientific men  and  certain  savages  are 
aware  that  insects  may  serve  as  palat­
able  food.  M.  Dagin,  a  French  ento­
mologist,  has  tried several  hundred  spe­
cies,  both  raw  and  cooked  in  various 
ways,  and  has  further  made  himself  an 
authority  by  collecting travelers’ experi­
ences.  Spiders,  which  he  has  eaten,  he 
does  not  recommend.  Cockroaches, 
however,  make  most  delicious  soup;
,  caterpillars  are  light  and  easily  di­
gested,  and  are  relished  not  only  by 
African  and  American  natives,  but  by 
Frenchmen;  and  locusts,  fried  or  made 
into flour  and  boiled  in  milk,  are  prized 
by  the  Bedouins.  Cambon,  the  Jesuit 
father,  suggests  that  locust  flour  might 
beome  a  popular  condiment  in  Europe.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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Michigan  State Board  of Pharmacy

Term expires
Henry Heim , Saginaw 
•  Dec. 81,1902
Dec. 81,1903
Wib t P.  D orr, Detroit - 
A. 0. 8CHUMACHRR, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 81,1904 
J ohn d . Mu ir . Grand R apids 
Deo. 81, i»of> 
Arthur H. Web b er, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

President, A.  0.  Schumacher,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hen r y Hh im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Sessions.
Detroit, January 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  P harm aceutical  Association.

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

Chemical Analysis of Bed A lbum en.
Poultry  feeders  and  farmers  through* 
out the  country  have  been  much  excited 
the  last  few  weeks  by  the  exploiting  of 
“ red  albumen.”   Doubtless  many  of 
them  have  been  victimized, 
for  the 
druggists  report  demands  for  this  ma­
terial  almost  unprecedented  even  in  the 
sale  of  patent  medicines,  and  so  far  as 
evidence  collected  by  the  station  goes, 
each  purchaser  has  been  defrauded.

for  the  druggists 

There  are  at  least  two  preparations 
sold  under  the  name  of  red  albumen, 
probably  more, 
in 
many  places  were  evidently  not  sup­
plied  with  the  original  material  but 
realized  that  the  farmers  were  deter­
mined  to  be  “ gold  bricked”   anyway 
and  so  met  the  demand  by  substituting 
compounds  from  their own  stock.  One 
of  the  preparations,  that  reaching  the 
station  under  the 
label  of the  United 
States  Salyx  Co.,  New  Concord,  Ohio, 
has  practically  no  feeding  value,  as  it 
contains  only  one-tenth  of  i  per  cent,  of 
protein  (albumen),  the  remainder  being 
almost  wholly  oxide  of  iron  (red  paint) 
and  sand.  No  phosphorus  was  found, 
nor was  there  any evidence of strychnine 
or  the  newly  discovered  (?)  “ alequet.”  
Unless  fraud  has  been  worked  upon  the 
Salyx  company,this  is  the  original “ red 
albumen.”   If so,  instead  of  being  worth 
50 or 60  cents  a  pound,  it  is  worth  only 
1  to 2  cents  a  pound  as  mineral  red  or 
ground  iron  ore  used  for  paint.

Druggists  or others  who  have  substi­
tuted  some  other  product  for the original 
“ red  albumen,"  have  been 
less  con­
scienceless  toward  the  farmers,  for  they 
have  sold  them  an  albuminous  com­
pound,  probably  a  by-product  which 
contains  11  or  12  per  cent,  of  nitrogen 
or  about  72  per  cent,  protein.  This 
sells  for varying  prices,  depending upon 
the  druggist’s  mood ;  but  usually  at  the 
price  fixed  for the  original  article,  50  or 
.60 cents  a  pound.  Animal  meal,  which 
supplies  the  best  of  albuminoid  matter 
for  poultry,  contains  more  than  half  as 
much  protein  and  sells  from  3  to 5  cents 
a  pound. 

W.  H.  Jordan.

A dvertising Suggestions.

In  reading  a  paper  on  advertising  be­
fore  the  Georgia  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation  at  its  last  meeting,  J.  E.  Kidd 
laid  great  stress  upon  the  value  of  the 
window  as  an  advertising  medium. 
“ Spend  a  few  dollars  occasionally 
in 
getting  up  something  novel,”   he  de­
clared,  “ something  that  will  attract  and 
hold  the  attention of the  passer-by.”   Do 
not  crowd  your  window,  trying  to  dis- 
pay  your  entire  stock  of  goods  at  one 
dressing;  but  show  neatly  and  plainly 
one 
item  at  a  time,  and  do  not  allow 
the  same  old  display  to  remain  in  your 
window  longer than  one  week  at a  time. 
I  have  known  customers  to  call  for 
things  that  have  been  on  display  a 
month  previous,  thus  showing  that  the

in  h is 

display  does  not  always  make  a  prompt 
calling.  Sometimes  it  is  weeks  before 
the  fruit  is  gathered. ”   Passing  on  to 
consider  the  newspaper,  Mr.  Kidd  said 
that  a  plan  which  he  had  used  for  years 
with  very  profitable  results  was  to  run 
catchy  advertisements 
local 
weekly  paper,  changing  them  from  two 
to  four  times  a  month. 
“ Treat  the  ad­
vertisements  as  you  do  your  show  win­
dow, ”  he  said. 
“ Do  not try  and  crowd 
too  much 
into  your  space.  You  will 
find  if  you  will  advertise  only  one  item 
at  a  time,  that  it  will  be  to  your  advan­
tage.  Use  things  of 
interest  as 
head-lines,  or  current  events  that  are  in 
the  public  eye,  and  you  will  not  fail  to 
I  also  get  my  local 
attract  attention. 
newspaper  man 
to  print  me  small 
dodgers  of these different advertisements 
in  his  paper;  you  will  get  this  done 
very  cheap,  as  the  matter  is  already  set 
up.  We  keep  these  slips  at  our  scales, 
whch  are  near  our  wrapping  paper 
stand,  and  they  constantly  remind  us 
that  we  can  advertise  our  business  by 
placing  one  in  each  package.
Us©  of Preservatives in Peroxide of H ydro­

local 

gen,

Carl  G.  Hinrichs  reported  before  the 
last  meeting  of  the  Missouri  Pharma­
ceutical  Association  upon  an  investiga­
tion  he  had  made  into  the  use  of  pre­
servatives 
in  a  well-known  brand  of 
peroxide  of  hydrogen.  He  prefaced  his 
remarks  by  showing  that  the  Pharma­
copoeias  of  Germany,  Great  Britain, 
and  the  United  States  say  nothing  con­
cerning  the  use  of  preservatives  in  the 
article,  which  he  considers  a  tacit 
declaration  that  none 
is  necessary  or 
permissible.  Still,  on  examining  the 
product  in  question  he  found  that  2  per 
cent,  of  alcohol  had  been  used.  No 
reference  to 
its  use  was  made  on  the 
label,  which  declared  that  the  product 
was  in  conformity  with  the  U.  S.  P.  re­
quirements.  Moreover,  while 
the 
amount  of  acidity  was  found  to  be  just 
within  the  maximum  limit of  the  U.  S. 
P.,  it  was  nearly  twice  as  great  as  that 
of  good  products  on  the  market.  These 
results 
led  Mr.  Hinrichs  to  conclude 
that  it  would  be  well 
for  the  druggist 
to  test  the  commercial  brands  of  per­
oxide  of  hydrogen  for the  presence  of 
alcohol  and  for  the  degree  of  acidity. 
Incidentally  the  author’s  investigation 
showed  that  alcohol,  although  used  as 
a  preservative,  does  not  after  all  exer­
cise  any  marked  preservative  action; 
moreover,  the  use  of  alcohol  results  in 
the  formation  of  aldehyde,  which  of 
course  passes  into  acetic  acid  and  thus 
increases  the  acidity  of  the preparation.

An  Im p o rtan t  Specification.

A  lady  whose  manner  indicated  that 
she  believed  she  was  giving  her  Maker 
a  good  deal  of  valuable  assistance  in 
running  the  universe  called  at  the  pub­
lic  library  the  other  day  and  asked  for 
information  concerning  books  bearing 
upon  a  certain  subject.  The  attendant 
named  several  volumes  that  she  thought 
might  contain  such  information  as  she 
wanted,  but when  she  had  mentioned  all 
the  titles  that  occurred  to  her  off-hand 
she  asked:
“ Are  those  the  only  books  you  know 
of  that  have  anything  about  it?  Can’t 
you  think  of  any  others?”

“ W ell,”   she  replied,  “ I  might 

look 
it  up  and  see  if  there  are  any  more.  Do 
you  want  to  learn  all  about  the  subject 
or  are  you  just  going  to  write  a  paper 
on  it?”

No  woman  is  such  a  slouch  at  mathe­
matics  that  she  can  not tell  in  half  a 
minute  how  much  her  husband  would 
save  in  the  course  of a  year  if he shaved 
himself.

An  Epidem ic  o f E rro rs.

There  seems  to  have  been  an  epi­
demic of  druggists’  compounding  errors 
within  the 
last  few  weeks.  About  the 
middle  of  last  month  an  Alleghany drug 
clerk  was  held  to  the  grand  jury  by  the 
coroner’s  jury  on  a  charge  of  contribu­
tory  criminal  negligence  in  connection 
with  the  death  of  a  man  sick  of  two 
abscesses  on  the  liver.  In compounding 
an  external  and  an  internal  mixture  at 
the  same  time  the  clerk  transposed  the 
labels;  and  the  consequence  was  that  a 
dessertspoonful  of  oil  of  wintergreen 
was  given  to  the  patient  and  repeated 
two  hours  later.  The  man  died  soon 
afterwards  despite  medical  treatment. 
The  doctors  who  held  the  autopsy 
agreed  in  deciding  that  the  man  would 
not  have 
lived  many  days  longer any 
way,  but  that  bis  death  was  doubtless 
hastened  by  the  administration  of  the 
oil,  which,  although  not  ordinarily  so 
toxic,  was  rendered  so  by  the  condition 
of  the  patient.  *  *  *  Out  in  Denver 
it  was  charged  by  a  physician  early  last 
month  that  the  death  of  a  baby  had  re­
sulted  from  the  mistake  of a  pharmacist 
in  dispensing  opium  instead  of  Dover’s 
powder 
in  some  powders  which  the 
physician  had  prescribed.  The  physi­
cians’  charge  was  borne  out  by  an 
analysis  of  the  powders;  but  inasmuch 
as  an  autopsy  would  have  been  neces­
sary,  if  the  case  were  prosecuted,  the 
child’s  parents  decided  not to prosecute, 
although  it  was  afterward  reported  that 
the  Board  of  Pharmacy  would  take  the 
case  up  in  view  of  the fact that the phar­
macist  was  unregistered.  *  *  *  A  man 
in  Selena,  California,  says  that  “ his 
health  has  been  permanently  injured”  
by  the  mistake  of  a  druggist  in dispens­
ing  calomel 
instead  of  pyoktanin  in  a 
prescription,  and  he  wants  $5,000  in 
order  to  make  things  square;  while  half 
that  amount  has  been  awarded  a  Phila­
delphian,  whose  throat  was  seriously 
injured  by  a  spray  in  which  a  druggist 
used  an  excessive  amount  and  an  in­
ferior quality  of  carbolic  acid.  Finally, 
learn  from  the  Philadelphia  Press 
we 
that  a  druggist 
in  Williamsport,  Pa., 
dispensed 
laudanum  when  port  wine 
was  called  for,  that  some  of  the  stuff 
was  swallowed,  and  that  life  was  only 
saved  by  the  prompt  attention  of  a 
physician. 
is  to  be  hoped  that  this 
unfortunate  tragedy  of  errors  will  breed 
in  the  minds  of  pharmacists  a  fresh 
conviction  of  the  truth  that  eternal  vig­
ilance  is  the  price  of  safety.

It 

D anger o f Counter-Prescribing.

A  case  now 

in  the  courts  of  Minne­
sota  shows  the  danger  involved 
in  the 
practice  of  counter-prescribing by  drug­
gists,  and  points  to  the  oft-attested  con­
clusion  that  while  people  are  willing 
and  even  anxious  to  have  a  druggist 
prescribe  for them,  they  are  often  quite 
as  willing  and  anxious  to  turn  about 
and  ask  for  damages  when  harm ensues. 
The  Minnesota  suit  was  brought  by  a 
man 
in  St.  Paul  who  declared  that  he 
had  lost  a  portion  of  his  hand  through 
the  treatment  given  him  by  a  druggist, 
and  who  modestly  asked  for $2,500 to 
ease  his  feelings  in  the matter.  It  seems 
that  last  spring  he  injured  his  thumb 
and  went  to  the  pharmacist  for  treat­
ment.  The  pharmacist  applied  a  band­
age  saturated  with  a  solution,  and  gave 
the  patient  a  bottle  of  the  solution  with 
which  the  bandage  could be  kept  moist. 
The  thumb  did  not  yield  to the  treat­
ment,  however;  it  swelled  rapidly,  and 
some  time  later,  no  relief  having  been 
secured,  it  was  found  necessary  to  pro­
ceed  to  amputation.  The  moral  of  all  of

which 
is  that  the  pharmacist  should 
“ have  a  care”   in  this  vexing  question 
of  counter-prescribing.

To P revent Bum ping.

Flask  distillation  of  alcohol  from  so­
lutions  in  analytical  work 
is  rendered 
annoying  by  reason  of the  bumping  of 
the  liquid.  This can  be  relieved  by  the 
passage  of  air  through  the  distilling 
liquid,  employing  slight  modification 
of  the  method  used  in  vacuum  distilla­
tion.  For  ordinary  flask  distillation, 
the  apparatus  consists  of  an  inverted 
flask,  filled  with  water,  and  provided 
with  an  appropriate  air  vent.  This 
flask  is  connected  with  the  ingress  tube 
of  a  bottle  serving  as  air  chamber,  the 
exit  tube  of  which  is  connected  with  a 
glass  tube  passing  through  the  cork  of 
a  distilling  flask.  The  end  of  this  tube, 
drawn  to  a  capillary,  dips  beneath  the 
surface  of  the  distilling  liquid.

As  water  drops  from the inverted  flask 
into  the  bottle  the  air  in  the  latter  is 
expelled  and  passes  into  the  distilling 
flask  a  steady  stream  of  bubbles,  and 
these  stop  bumping  more  effectively 
than  talcum  pumice  or  platinum. 
It  is 
needless  to  say  that  the  air  finally  es­
capes  through  the  condenser.

H.  V.  Arny.

One  Cent’s  W orth  of Carter’s  Liver  Pills.
For the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
drug  business  a  cutter  offers  to sell  frac­
tions  of  a  package  of  patent  medicine 
at  cut  prices.  We  have  before  us  the 
advertisement  of  a  Boston  cutter  in  one 
of  the  Boston  dailies;  and  the  rather 
startling  announcement  is  there  made 
that  in  order “ to enable  you  to  give  any 
popular  patent  medicine  a  trial  at  a 
small  cost,  we  will  sell  you  25  cents’ 
worth  of  Hood’s  Sarsaparilla,  io  cents’ 
worth  of  Listenrine,  25  cents'  worth  of 
Fellows’  Syrup,  or  3  Carter’s  Little 
Liver Pills  for  1  cent.”   In  the  language 
of  the  stieet,  “ wouldn’t  this  jar  you!”

Ivy  Poisoning.

Muriate  of  ammonia,  in  saturated  so­
lution,  freely  applied,  results  in  almost 
immediate  improvement.  A  saturated 
solution  of  sodium  sulphite  is  also  effi­
cient ;  its  free  application quickly allays 
is 
the  itching  and  is  very  soothing. 
unnecessary  to  employ  any 
internal 
medicament,  unless  there  is  a  consider­
able 
increase  in  temperature,  when  oc­
casional  doses  of  aconite  or  veratrum 
may  be  administered.

It 

The  man  who  does  not  advertise  be­
cause  somebody  said 
it  did  not  pay 
ought  not  to  believe  that  the  world’s 
round  because  the  ancients  said  it  was 
flat.

Valentines  for  1902

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

FRED  BRUNDAQE,  Muskegon, filch. 

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Piper  Nigra...po.22
®  18 
©  30
Piper  Alba__po. 36
Pllx Bur gun............
© 
7
12
Plumbl Acet............
Pul vis Ipecac et Opil  l  30®  l  60 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassia1..................
29®
Qulnia, S. P. &  W...
29®
Qulnia, S.  German..
Qulnia, N. Y............   29®  39
12®  14
Rubla Tlnctorum.... 
Saccharum Lactls pv  20®  22
Oils
Salacln....................  4 60® 4 75
40® 60
Sanguis  Draconls...
12® 14 Whale, winter...
10® 12 Lard, extra........
® 16 1 Lard, No. l ........

BBL. QAIj.
70
70
60

... 
70
...  60
... 
46

Sapo  G.

7® 

@

27

, PU

Linseed, boiled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits  Turpentine..

P aints  BBL.  LB.
Red Venetian.........  
iM  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  IX  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M  2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermillon,  P rim e
16 
13®
American............. 
76 
70®
V ermlllon, English.. 
18 
Green,  Paris........... 
14®
16 
Green, Peninsular... 
13®
8M 
Lead, red.................  3  @
6M 90 
Lead,  white.............  6  ©
Whiting, white Span 
"
96 
Whiting, gUders’ —
1  26
White, Paris, Amer.
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
1  40
cllfi....................
Universal Prepared.  1  io@  1  20

V arnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  l  20
Extra Tun>..............  1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body............  2 76® 3  00
No. 1 Turp Fum ...... 1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1 660  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp  70®  76

Acldum

Aceticum 
........... $  6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  76
Boraclc....................   @  17
Garbollcum.............   24® 
si
Cltrlcum...................  43®  46
Hydrochlor.............. 
3® 
6
Nltrocum................  
8®  10
OxaUcum.................  12®  14
®  16
Phosphorlum,  dll... 
Sallcyllcum.............  62®  66
Sulphurtcum...........  IX® 
6
Tannlcum................  l  10® l  20
Tartarlcum ............. 
38®  40
A m m onia
6
Aqua, 16 deg.............- 
4® 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
6® 
8
IB
Carbonas.................   13® 
Chlorldum...............  
12®  14
A niline

Black..............................2 00® 2 25
P o d .........................  45@  50
Yellow!....................   2 60® 3 00

Baccse

6©

Cubeb®...........po,26  220  24
°
Junlperus................  
Junlperus................  
Xanthoxylum.........   1 70®  1  75
Balsam nm
66 
Copaiba...................
2  00 
..g
P e ru ......................  
66 
Terabln,  Canada....  60©
60
Tolutan.................... 
*5©
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Casslæ..............
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Qulllala, g rd ........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus...po.  16, grd 
E xtractnm
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
24© 
Glycyrrhlza,  po.... •  28© 
Hæmatox, 15 lb. box  11®
Hæmatox, is ........... 
J3§*
Hæmatox, 14s.........  
14©
Hæmatox, 14s.........  
lo©

F e rra
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Qulnia..
Citrate Soluble
Ferrocyanldum Sol 
Solut. Chloride
Sulphate,  com 1..... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora

Arnica.....................  
Anthemls................. 
Matricaria...............  

15 
2 26
76
40
16 
2

J®®
¡j2®
3°®

and 14s............ 

Folia
Barosma............. . 
36@
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly............... 
  20H
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25© 
Salvia officinalis,  Vis
i2g
 
CJvaUrsl................... 
8@
Gumrni
66 
©
Acacia, 1st picked... 
46 
©
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
36 
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
©
28 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
©
66 
Acacia, po................  45©
14 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12©
12 
Aloe, C a p e ... po. 16. 
©
30 
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40 
©
60 
Ammoniac.............  
  B8©
40 
AssafoPtlda....po.40  26©
65
Benzolnum..............  .  bo©
13
8
Catechu, is .............. 
14 
Catechu, 14s............  
8
16
Catechu, Ms............. 
©
®  69
Campnorse..............  O'
©  40
Eupnorblum...po. 35
1  00 
w
Gafbanum................ 
70 
Gamboge............ P°  ®B@
30 
Gualacum...... po. 26 
©
75 
Kino...........po. *0.76 
®
60 
Mastic  .................. 
  ®
40
Myrrh............Pp- 46
Od1l “ ’.Po!  4.60(^4.70 3 26®  3  30 
Shellac..............  36®  46
Shellac, bleached....  «@  «
Tragacanth.............   70®  l  00

H erba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum — oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Ylr..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
thymus, V...oz.pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, F at...........  66®  60
Carbonate, P a t...... 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18©  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............  7 00®  7 20
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  38®  66
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 28
Anlsfl.T.T...............  1 86®  2 00
Aurantl Cortex........2  10®  2 20
Bergamll.................  2 60®  2 75
(fcjfpvitl...................  80®  86
Caryophylll.............  
76®  80
Cedar......................  M®  86
Chenopadll.............. 
Clnnamonll.............116® 1 26
Oltronella................  86®  40

8  2

Conlum Mac............  60®  60
Copaiba..................   1 16® l  26
Cubebae..................   l 30®  1  36
Exechthltos............   l 00® 1  10
Erlgeron.................  1 00®  1  10
Gaultherla..............  2 00® 2  10
Geranium, ounce.,.. 
®  75 
Gosslppll, Sem. gal..  60®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 60®  1  76
Junlpera.................  1 60® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 oo
Llmonls..................   1  16®  l  25
Mentha Piper.........   2  10® 2  20
Mentha Verld.........   l  60® l  60
Morrhuae, ;gal.........   1  10® 1  20
M yrda......................4 oo® 4 so
OUve.......................  76® 3 oo
Plcis Liquida...........  10® 
12
®  36
Picls Liquida,  gal... 
Rlclna.....................   1 00®  1  06
Rosmarlnl__ .*........  
® 1 00
Rosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 60
Sucdnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90© 1 00
Santal..........................  2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  66® 
60
Slnapls, ess., ounce. 
©  66
TiglU.......................  1 60® 1  60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
®  l  60
Theobromas...... . 
16®  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  16®  18
Bichromate............   13® 
16
Bromide................. 
62®  67
C arb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate., .po. 17®19  16®  18
Cyanide..................   34®  38
Iodide..........................  2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
®  16
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nltras.........  
6® 
8
Prussiate.................  23®  26
Sulphate po............  
16®  18

Radix

Aconitum.................  20®  26
Althae......................  30®  33
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum  po................. 
®  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentiana.......po. 16  12®  16
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16  16®  18
®  76
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
® 
80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  16
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris plOX...po. 36®38  36®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   26®  30
Marania,  Ms........... 
®  36
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  26
Rhel.........................  76®  1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  26
Rhel, pv..................   76®  1  36
Spigella..................   36®  38
Sangulnaria.. .po.  16  @  18
Serpentarla............   60®  66
Senega....................  60®  66
Smllax, officinalis H. 
®  40
Smllax, M...............  
®  25
Scillae............po.  35  10®  12
Symplocarpus.Foetl-
dus,  po................. 
®  26
®  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German. 
16®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  26®  27
Semen
®  16 
Anisum......... po.  18
13®  15
Apium (graveleons).
Apium i 
Bird, is
Carol..............po.  15  10®  11
Cardamon...............   1 26®  1  76
Corlandrum.............  
8®  10
Cannabis Satlva......   4M®  6
Cydonium...............   76®  l  oo
Cnenopodlum.........  
16®  16
Dipterlx Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
®  10
Foeniculum.............. 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
7® 
L ini.........................  8X© 
5
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
6
4M® 
Lobelia...................   l  60®  l  66
Pharlarls Canarian..  4M® 
5
R apa.......................  4M® 
6
Slnapls  Alba........... 
9®  10
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
ll®   12
Splritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   l 26® 1  60
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Junlperls  Co...........  l 78® 3 60
Saacharum  N. E __  l  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1 76® 6 60
Vml Oporto............   l  28® 2 oo
Vini Alba.................  l  28® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2 78
Velvet extra sheeps’
l  60 
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
1 26
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
1 00 
carriage................
75
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for
1 40
slate use...............
S y r u p s

®  bo
Acacia....................  
Aurantl Cortex........ 
©  60
©  60
Zingiber..................  
©  60
Ipecac...................... 
Ferri Iod................. 
©  60
©  60
Rhel Arom.............. 
Smllax  Officinalis...  B0®  60
Senega....................  
®  60
a  
(0
Salii»....................... 

50
60
60

60
60
60
60
60
60
80
60
60
60
60
76
50
75
75 
1 00
60
60
60
60
60
60
6060
60
35 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60
76
75 
60 
60 

Sclllae  Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus  vlrg.............
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.....................
Catechu)...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis...................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chlorldum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
Kin o .......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opil........................
Gpil, comphorated..
Opil, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhel.........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentarla............
Stramonium............
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................

otass T

Miscellaneous 

60 Bo76 
601 Bo 
5o 
6o 
B0 
®0 
BÒ 
«0 
6o 
®0 
BÒ 2o
36 
dither, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
38
iEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
3
Alumen...................  2M®
4 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
60
Annatto...................   400
6
Antimoni, po. 
60
40®
Antimoni et Pi
26
An tli
20
Antirëbrln..............  @
60
®
Argentl Nltras, oz... 
12
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
50
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
46®
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65®  1 70
9
Calcium Chlor., is... 
® 
®  1°
Calcium Chlor., Ms.. 
®  12
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
®  80
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@ 
Capsid Fructus, af.. 
iB
®  15
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
®  15
Capsid Fructus B,po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 16 
Carmine, No. 40......  
® 3 00
66 
Cera Alba..............  
60®
42 
Cera Flava..............  40®
40 
Coccus....................   @
36 
Cassia Fructus........ 
®
Contraria.................   @
10 46 
Cetaceum.................  @
60 
Chloroform.............  55®
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
1  10 
1  40® 1  65
Chloral Hyd Crst.
Chondrus................  
20®  26
Clnchonldlne.P. & W  38®  48
Clnchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   5 lJ5@ 6 75
76
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............  
®  45
C reta............bbl. 76 
© 
2
6
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
Creta, preclp........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra........... 
© 
8
Crocus....................   26®  30
®  24
Cudbear..................  
Cupri  Sulph.............  6M®
7©  10
Dextrine.................  
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numbers.
®
6 
®
Emery, po................ 
90 
E rgota...........po. 90 
86®
16 
Flake  m i t e ........... 
12©
®  23
Galla.................
Gambler...........
60
Gelatin,  Cooper 
60
_
Gelatin, French 
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
70 
Less than box......
13 
Glue, brown............. 
ll©
26 
Glue,  white............. 
15®
26 
Glycerin a.................  17 M®
26 
Grana Paradlsl........  @
66 
Hum ulus.................  
26®
1 00 
® 
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite 
90 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
© 
® 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
1  10 
1 20 
Hydrarg  Ammonlati 
60 
60®
HydrargUnguentum
86 
Hydrargyrum.........
®66®
70
IchthyoDolla,  Am...
76®  1 00
Indigo...................... 
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................   3 60® 3 86
Lupulln,

Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
Iqu
drargIod..............
LiquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manola, 8» F.

66®
66®

MO

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  honrs  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.

ADVAN CED

Sugars
Soaps

D ECLIN ED

H olland  H erring
Shot:

...2 00
...1  25

1  15
1  20
1  25
3 20

CARBON OILS

F air.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Gallons....................
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints........
Columbia, Vi pints....
B arrels
Eocene ......................
@10Vi
Perfection.................
@ 9 Vi
Diamond  White........
@ 8 Vi
@12V4
D. S. Gasoline...........
Deodorized Naphtha.
@10Vi
Cylinder.................... 29 @34
Engine....................... 19 @22
9 @1054
Black, winter............
CHEESE

012
01?*
014
012Ü
013
012
012 
012 Vi 
14015 
090 
017 
13014 
50075 
19020

Acme..........
Amboy...... .
Elsie...........
Emblem......
Gem........... .
Gold Medal.
Ideal...........
Jersey.........
Riverside...
Brick.........
Edam.........
Leiden........
Llmburger.. 
Pineapple.. 
Sap  Sago...
CHEW ING GUM 
65
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack.......................  
66
Largest Gum  Made.........  
60
Sen Sen  ,........................... 
56
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan............................ 
56
Bulk......................  ............  5
Bed..................................... 7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   6Vi
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...........l 00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz...........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz..........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  95
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, V48  .......................   36
Colonial, Vis.........................  33
Epps................. 
42
Huyler.................................  46
Van Houten, Vis..................   12
Van Houten, 54s..................   20
Van Houten, Vis..................   38
Van Houten,  is ..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Vis...........................  41
Wilbur. 548...........................  42
Dunham’s Vis....................  26
Dunham’s Vis and Ms......   26V6
Dunham’s  V£s................   27
Dunham’s  Vis...................  28
13
Bulk..................................
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags......................
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COCOANUT

 

 

COFFEE 
Roasted

HIGH GRADE.

Coffees

Special Combination.......... 15
French Breakfast...............17V4
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwinell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.............29
White House, 30-2s............. 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.. 
. .21 Vi
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20Vi
Royal Java.............. ...........26 Vi
Royal Java & Mocha..........26J4
Arabian  Mocha..................28 Vi
AdenMoch....................— 22 Vi
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo................................11
Porto Rican........................14
Honolulu  .............................16Vi
Parker  House  J  & M........ 25
Monogram J  & M...............28
Mandehling........................31 Vi
Common..............................10M
F a ir.................................... ll
Choice................................. 13
Fancy..................................15
Common..............................ll
F air.................................... 14
Choice.................................15
Fancy.................................17
Peaberry............................. 13
F air....................................12
,,,-1 6
C h oice......... ............... 

M aracaibo

Santos

Rio

Stove

 

BUTTER  COLOE 

N0. 8.....................................  75
No. 2.....................................1  10
No. 1..............................¿...1 75
W ..B.& Co.’8,15c size....  125 
W.,B. it Co.’8,25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 168........ . — 12V4
Paraffine, 6s.........................lOVi
Paraffine, 12s....................... ll
Wlcklng 
................29

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Corn

Beans

F rench  Peas

B lackberries

Gooseberries

Clam  B ouillon

£®
"*
^
J®
“
11
90

2  15
3 60 
2 40
J 78
2 80
1  j5
J®
J 79
2 80
18@20
22035

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
100
3 25
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards, .............. 
80
Baked......................  i  oo@i  30
Bed Kidney............. 
76®  85
String......................  
JO
70
Wax....................  
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
85
B rook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1 90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
100
Little Neck. 2 lb......  
l 50
Burnham’s, Vi 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............ ••••",•........ 
Standard ............ 
H om iny
Standard.«...... 86
Lobster
Star, Vi lb................. 
S tar,l  lb.................
Picnic Tails............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 2 lb........... 
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, lib ............. 
Tomato, 21b............. 
Mushrooms
Hotels 
................ 
ButtOM.::................ 
Oysters
Cove, lib ................. 
Cove, 2 lb.................
Cove,lib  Oval........
Peaches
pjg 
...................
Y e l l o w ........  1660185
Pears
Standard..-.............. 
J J®
1  25
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
J  00
Early June.............. 
J  j®
160
Early June Sifted.. 
Plum s
Plums...................... 
88
Pineapple
Grated  ...................  1 
Sliced.......................   1 
P um pkin
F a ir.........................  
®5
1 00
Good........................ 
i  *0
Fancy...................... 
Raspberries
Standard................. 
1  15
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans........................  3 75
Vi lb, cans.................*.......  7 00
1 lb. can............................   12 00
@1 85
Columbia Biver, tails 
02 00
Columbia River, flats 
Bed Alaska.............. 
3001 40
Pink Alaska............ 
1001 25
Shrim ps
l  50
Standard.................  
Sardines
Domestic, 148........... 
354
Domestic, Vis.........  
5
Domestic,  Mustard. 
5Vi
u@i4
California, 148.......... 
17024
California Vis........... 
French, 148..............  
7014
18028
French, Vis.............. 
Standard.................  
l  00
Fancy...................... 
l  25
Succotash
Fair..........................  
90
l 00
Good........................ 
Fancy..................... 
120

Straw berries

2502 75
3502 56

Salmon

1  55 
96

Peas

l 
i 

85

 

4

6

Mexican

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

G uatem ala

Ja v a

Choice..............................
African............................ ...1214
Fancy African................ ...17
O. G................................. ...25
p. a ................................ ...29

Mocha

Arabian...........................

Package 

New York Baals.

Arbuckle........................... 11 Vi
Dllworth............................11V4
Jersey................................llVi
Lion........................ .......... 11
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

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

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz in case.

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

COUPON  BOOKS 

50 books, any  denom...  1 50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
soobooks,any  denom...  11 50 
1,000books,any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

Oyster

B u tter

CRACKERS

C redit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................  
l 50
100  books.......................   2 50
600  books.......................   11  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...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
6M
New York.........................  
654
Family.............................. 
6M
Salted................................ 
6M
Wolverine.........................   654
Soda  XXX..'....................  
654
Soda, City............................ 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette..........................   13
F a u st...............................  
7Vi
65»
Farina............................... 
Extra Farina.................... 
6M
Saltine Oyster................... 
6V4
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals..............................  10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose...........................  
3
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...................... 
lOVi
Cubans.............................. 
llVi
Currant Fruit.....................  12
Frosted Honey...................   12
Frosted Cream.................... 
9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.. 
Gladiator
Grandma Cakes................ 
9
Graham Crackers............. 
8
Graham  Wafers.................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials.......................... 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................  12
Lemon Wafers...................  16
Marshmallow......................  16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic......................   11 Vi
Milk Biscuit...................... 
7 Vi
Molasses  Cake.................   8
Molasses Bar.................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  
l2Vi
Newton...............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.............  8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp....................   9
Orange Gem...................... 
9
Penny Cake......................  8
7Vi
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
8Vi
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
Pretzels, hand  made.......  
8Vi
Scotch Cookies.................  
9
Sears’ Lunch....................   7Vi
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
Sugar Cream. XXX.........   8

 

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

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

with interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  06Vi
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  0   10 
Apricots.....................  1O01OM
B la c k b e r rie s.................
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  ©10
Pears.......................... 7Vi
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  0   354
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  © 434
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  ® 5M
70-80 26lb. boxes........  ® 554
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  ®  6 Vi
60 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  ® 7V4
40-50 25 lb. boxes........  @854
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
854

California Prunes

M cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn...................................11
Corsican...; ............................13
California, l lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......  8
Imported, bulk....................  754
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
l  65
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6V4
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7 54
75J
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 8Vi@9
L. M., Seeded, 94  lb__  
7
Sultanas, b u lk .................... 11
Sultanas, package..............livi
FARINACEOUS GOODS 

Raisins

Citron

F arin a

Cereals

Dried Lima.......................... 
6
Medium Hand Picked 
2 00
Brown Holland....................2 50
Cream of Cereal...................  90
Graln-O, small.................... 1 36
Grain-O, large..................... 2 25
Grape Nuts..........................1 35
Postum Cereal, small..........1 36
Postum Cereal, large.........  2 25
241 lb. packages.................1 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs...................2 25
Flake, 50 lb. sack...............  
90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl................. 4 so
Pearl, 100 lb. sack................2 50
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box............ 2 60
Common....... ......................2 90
Chester................................ 3 00
Empire.................................3 50

P earl  B arley

H om iny

Beans

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

eas

Rolled  Oats

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages........ 2 30
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........l 40
Green, Scotch, bu.................1 60
Split,  lb ..:.......................... 
3
Rolled Avena, bbl.................6 00
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks......   3  10
Monarch, bbl.......................6 70
Monarch, Vi bbl................... 3 00
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.......... 2 75
Quaker, cases.......................3 35
East India............................  354
German, sacks.....................  354
German, broken package..  4
Flake,  1101b. sacks.............  454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   654
Cracked,bulk........................354
24 2 lb. packages..................2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

W heat

Sago

FOOTE A JE N E S ’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  E xtracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

1 oz full m. 1 20  1 oz full m.  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m. 1 25 
No.8fan’y.8  15  No.Sfan’y.i  75

D
w

G
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Index to  Markets

B y  C o lu m n s

A

Col.

C

B

Akron  Stoneware......... 15
Alabastlne............................  
l
Ammonia...............................  1
Axle Grease...........................  I
Baking Powder.................. 
  1
Bath Brick............................  
l
Bluing......... .......................... 
I
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes................................. 
l
Butter Color.........................   2
Candles..................................  14
Candles..................................   2
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup....................................  3
Carbon Oils...........................  3
Cheese....................................  3
Chewing Gum.............. ’........  3
Chicory..................................   3
Chocolate...............................   3
Clothes Lines.........................   3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoanut............. 
3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   4
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................   5

 

 

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

 

P

M

N
O

I
J
I.

Grains and Flour.................   6
Herbs....................................  6
Hides and Felts....................   13
Indigo....................................  6
Jelly ......................................  6
Lamp Burners.......................  IS
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  15
Lantern  Globes....................   15
Licorice.................................  7
Lye................  
7
Matches.................................  7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses................................  7
Mustard.................................  7
Nuts.......................................  14
Oil Cans..................................  15
Olives......................................  7
Oyster Palls............................   7
Paper Bags.............................     7
Paris Green............................   7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes.......................................  7
Potash.....................................  7
Provisions...............................   7
Bice.......................................  8
Saleratu s ...............................   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..........................................  ll
Tobacco..................................  ll
Twine.....................................  12
Vinegar............................... :  12
Washing Powder....................  12
Wlcklng..................................  13
Wooden ware..........................  13
Wrapping Paper....................  13
T o u t Cake.............................   u

B
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V

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AXLE GREASE
doz. gross
Aurora...........
...56
6 00
......... 60
Castor  Oil......
7 00
4 25
Diamond........
......... 50
Frazer’s .........
..........75
9 00
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

Id lb. cans,  4 doz. case........3 75
Vi lb. cans,  2 doz. case........3 75
lib. cans, 
ldoz. case........3 75
5 lb. cans,  Vi doz. case........8 00

JAXON

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

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
51b., l doz. case...................9 00

Royal

lOcslze__  90
54 lb. cans  1  36 
6 oz. cans,  l  90 
Vi  lb. cans  2 50 
54 lb. cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

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

Small size, per doz..............  40
Large size, per doz..............  76

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet..............................2 65
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 3 Carpet..............................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..............................1 75
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ l 10
Warehouse............................... 3 26

BRUSHES

Scrub

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

Shoe

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

29

6

7

8

9
No. 1  No. 2 

W hite fish 

100 lbs...........8 00
40 lbs...........3 50
10 lbs...........  96
8 lbs...........  79

6
6
7 Vi ©8
9
6
*
6

Fam 
3 50 
1 70 
50 
43
.  9 
.  3)4 
.  7« 
.1  00 
.10 
.  4 
.  4 
.  7 
.  6 
.  4 
.14

SEEDS

Anise.............................. .
Canary, Smyrna...............
Caraway..........................
Cardamon, Malabar.........
Celery................................
Hemp, Russian.................
Mixed Bird.......................
Mustard, white................
Poppy...............................
Rape................................
Cuttle Bone....................
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

8NUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

10 75
11 00
11 00
180
3 20
70
125
2 40
21
5
12
65
©13
©14
17
1654

IQ

P u re  Cane

F a ir.....................................   16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  25

STARCH

K lngsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages..............   644
20 l-lb. packages...............  7
6 lb. packages...............  
744
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss

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

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  5)4
3-lb. packages...................  5
6
6-lb. packages..................  
40 ana so-lb. boxes............   3)4
Barrels.............................  
3)4

4 76
3 25

J E L L Y

LYE

KRAUT

HATCHES

LICORICE

51b. palls.per doz........... 
l  90
151b. palls............................  38
301b. palls............................  72
Barrel............................ 
K Barrel......................... 
Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sldly...................................   14
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz.................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2  25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur......................1  65
Anchor ra rlo r.................... 1  50
No. 2 Home.........................1  30
Export Parlor..................... 4  00
Wolverine........................... 1  so
Modern Match Co.’s brands.
Modern............................ 1 40@1 35
Uwanta............................ 1 25@i 20
Sunshine..........................4 00@3 75
Defender.........................3 10@2 90
Hiawatha....................... 4 50©4 40
Conqueror........................6 25@‘! 00
Tourist.............................5 00@4 75
First figures are  for one case. 
Second figures are for  ten  case
lots.  One case free and  freight 
allowed on ten case order. 
HEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 45
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 75

HOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

40
36
26
22

Beef

Tripe

Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver.......................  
Frankfort................ 
Pork  .. 4. .................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue.................... 
Headcheese............  
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Rump...................... 
Pigs’  Feet
)4 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
)4 bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Kits, 15  lbs..............  
)4 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk ..............a .... 
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utterine
Solid, dairy................... 
Rolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Deviled ham, )48__  
Deviled ham, )4s__  
Potted tongue,  )4s.. 
Potted tongue,  )4s.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned H eats 

2 50
17 so
2 50
50
90
50
90
50
90

II
TEA
Ja p an

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

G unpow der

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

Young Hyson

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

Oolong

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

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

English B reakfast
 

Medium...................... 
27
Cholce...................................84
Fancy................................... 42

594
4)4

In d la

Ceylon, cholce......................32
Fancy................................... 42

TOBACCO

Clgara

A. Börners’ brand.

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

8
8
8
»

.

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
W orks:  Venice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

Common Corn
201-lb.  packages......... 
401-lb.  packages.............. 
STOVE  POLISH

12
12
28
38
55
17
14
55
50
40
35
18
28
20
16
28
48
17 
15
18 
25 
65 
18 
17 
25 
20 
20

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

SUGAR

Domino.............................
Cut Loaf............................
Crushed ............................
Cubes................................
Powdered.........................
Coarse  Powdered............
XXXX Powdered.............
Fine Granulated................
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........
Mould A............................
Diamond  A ......................
Confectioner’s A..............
No.  1, Columbia A...........
No.  2, Windsor A............
No.  3, Ridgewood A........
No.  4, Phoenix  A............
No.  5, Empire A..............
No.  6................................
Wn  * ...........................
No.  8................................
No.  9................................
NO. 10................................
No. 11................................
No. 12................................
No. 13................................
No. 14................................
NO. 15................................
No. 16................................

5 46 
5 45 
5 45 
5  20 
5 06
5 05
6  104 85
5 00 
5  00 
5 30 
4 95 
4 80 
4 80 
4 55 
4 05 
4 50 
4 45 
4 85 
* 25 
4  15 
4  10 
4 06 
4 00 
3 95 
3 95 
3 90 
3 90 
3 90

8.0. W..............................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

Fine Cut

Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojibwa.................................34
Forest  Giant........................34
Sweet Spray..,.....................38
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma......................... 38
Golden Top.......................... 26
Hiawatha............................. 57
Telegram..............................26
Pay C ar................................32
P r»W (>  R o s e ................................... »
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
Red Cross............................. 32

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

Beef

6 oz.........   2 00  4 oz.........   2  00
.  1  52  No. 3 T...  2 08 
No. 4T 
O ur Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c.

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

FLY  PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  HEATS 

P ork

Carcass....................   6  © 8)4
Forequarters.........  
5  @6
6Vs@  8Vi
Hindquarters.........  
Loins........................  9  © 12
Ribs......................... 
8  ©10
6Vi@  7V4
Rounds....................  
5)4© 0
ChucKS....................  
3  © 4
Plates...................... 
Dressed................... 
© 7
Loins....................... 
@  9V4
Boston Butts........... 
814©  8)4
© 8
Shoulders................ 
Leaf  Lard............... 
©10
M utton
Carcass.................... 
s%© 7
Lambs......................  7  © 8
Carcass....................  8  © 7
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

Veal

W heat

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

W inter  W heat  F lour 

85

Local Brands

.

_ 

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 70
Second Patent..................   4  20
Straight.............................  4  00
Second Straight................  3 ’•O
Clear.................................  3 50
Graham..........................    3 75
Buckwheat.......................  4  60
Rye....................................  3  30
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count. 
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional. 
_
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs......................  4 00
Diamond 14s.....................   4 00
Diamond )4s.................  
  4  oo
Quaker Hs........................   4  10
Quaker J4s...............:........  4  10
Quaker )4s.....................  4  10
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best tts.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best 14s.........   4 50
Plllsbury’s  Best 14s.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s Best )4s paper.  4 40 
Plllsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4 40 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial %s.........  4  so
Duluth  Imperial 14s.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial 14s.........  4  30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  14s.................... 
4  50
Wlngold  14s.................... 
4  40
Wlngold  14s...............  
4  30
Ceresota Ms......................  4 60
Ceresota 14s......................  4  50
Ceresota a s.................. 
  4  40
Laurel  14s.........................  4 50
Laurel  14s.........................  4  40
Laurel  14s.........................  4  30
Laurel 14s and 14s paper..  4 30 
Bolted...............................  2 76
Granulated.......................   2 95
St. Car Feed, screened—   26 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  25 50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  24 50
Winter Wheat Bran.........   22 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  23 00
Screenings......................... 20  00
Car  lots.............................  50
Car lots, clipped...............   62
Less than car lots.............
Com, car  lots...................  07
No. 1 Timothy car lots....  10 60 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  12 50 
Sage........................................}5
Hops....................................... J5
Laurel Leaves......................... “
Senna Leav»« 
................. 25
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................»
8. F., 2,8 and 6 lb. boxes........50

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Feed and M lllstufb 

Corn
Hay

INDIGO

HERBS

H eal

Oats

OLIVES

PA PER  BAGS

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz...........1 75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2  36
Queen, 19 oz.....................  4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................   1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2  30
Continental  Paper  Bag  Co
Ask your Jobber for them.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific 
Square
Bottom 
' 50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2  40
2  60
3  15
4  15
4 50
5 00
5 50

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

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count..............7 75
Half bbls, 600 count..............4 38
Barrels, 2,400 count............. 8 75
Half bbls, 1.200 count...........5 00
Clay, No. 216..........................l 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   66
Cob, No. 3............................  85

PIPES

48 cans In case.

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

POTASH 

PROVISIONS 
B arreled Pork

D ry Salt H eats

Smoked  H eats 

©16 75 
Mess............... .
©18 26 
Back...................
©18 50 
Clear back...........
©17 75
Short o ut...:.......
£1*......................
©16 00
Bean....................
Family Mess........
@13 50
Wallace Clear—
9)4 9K 
Bellies......................
Briskets..................
9X
Extra shorts............
Hams, 121b. average.
©  1D4 
Hams, 141b. average.
©  1U4 © H)4 
Hams, 161b. average.
©  11 ©  12 
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried beef......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
©  8%
Bacon, clear............   10)4©  llM
California hams......   7&©  8
Boiled Hams.......... 
©  16M
© 12
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d. 
9©  9)4
Mince Hams.........  
9©  9)4
8)4
Compound...............
1094
Pure.........................
8)4
Vegetole................
M
60 lb. Tubs. .advance 
M
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls., advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
51b. Palls., advance 
lib . Palls., advanoe

Lards—In Tierces

MsX1

l

Im ported.

Carolina head........................6)4
Carolina No. 1 ...................... 6
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 5)4
Broken .................................
Japan,  No.  1.................5)4©
Japan,  No. 2.................6  ©
Java, fancy head...........  ©
Java, No. 1.......................  ©
Table...............................  ©
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

SALERATUS 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s...............................3 00
Dwight’s Cow..................... 3  15
Emblem...............................2  10
L.  P .....................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms..............3 00
Granulated, bbls.................   90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__ 1  ro
Lump, bbls.........................   80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   85

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Cod

Diam ond Crystal 

100  3ib. bags..................... 300
50  6 lb. 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 65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
Common  Grades
100 3 lb. sacks.................... ..2 25
60 5 lb. sacks...................
..2  15
2810 lb. sacks.................
..2 05
40
56 lb. sacks......................
28 lb. sacks....................
. 
22
..  40
56 lb. dairy In drill bags..
28 lb. dairy In drill bags..
..  20
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. ..  60
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks ..  60
56 lb. sacks......................
..  25
Granulated  Fine.............. ..  85
Medium Fine...................
..  90

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

T rout

H erring

SALT  FISH
Georges cured............
© 6
Georges  genuine........
© 6*
Georges selected........
© 7 
© 6
Grand Bank................
Strips or  bricks.........   6H@i0)4
Pollock.......................
© 3X
H alibut.
....10
Strips...............................
Chunks....................... .
....12
5 50
No. 1100 lbs.....................
No. 1  40 lbs.....................
2 50
70
No. 1  10 lbs.....................
59
No. 1  8 lbs.....................
Holland white hoops, bbl 10 59
5 50
Holland white hoops Mbbl
Holland white hoop, keg.
75
85
Holland white hoop mchs 
Norwegian......................
3 35
Round 100 lbs...................
Round 40 lbs....................
1  65
14
Scaled.............................
1  60
Bloaters...........................
11  00
Mess 100 lbs........   .........
4 70
Mess  40 lbs.....................
1  25
Mess  10 lbs.....................
1 03
Mess  8 lbs.....................
9 50
No. 1 100 lbs.....................
4  10
No. 1  40 lbs..................  .
1  10
No. 1  10 lbs.....................
91
No. l  8 lbs.....................
8 00
No. 2 100 lbs.....................
3 50
No. 2  40 lbs.....................
No. 2  10 lbs.....................
95
No. 2  81ba.....................
79

M ackerel

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size..............3 25
100 cakes, large size..............6 50
50 cakes, small size..............1 95
100 cakes, small size.............3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal  Oil Johnny.............. 4  00
King Cole  ........................ 4  00
Queen Anne......................3  50
Big Bargain..............••••  l  90
Umpire...........................   2  SB
German Family..............  2  65
Dingman.........................  3  85
Santa Claus....................  3  55
Brown................................2 22
Fairy...............................   4 00
Naptha............................   4 00
Oak Leaf.........................   3 50
Oak Leaf, big 5..................4 15

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

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

.

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Single box.................................3 35
5 box lots, delivered........... 3  30
10 box lots, delivered........... 3 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3 65
Calumet Family.............   2  76
Scotch Family.................. 2  85
Cuba........................  ....  2 35
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme........................  4 25
Acme 5c..........................   3 65
Marseilles.........................4 00
Master.............................. 3 70
Lenox................... 
  3 20
Ivory, 6 oz......................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Schultz & Co. brand-
sta r...................................3  40
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...................................5)4
Kegs, English......................444

Scouring

SODA

 

SPICES

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar................ 
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................. 
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................................

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels................................. 23
Half bbls............................. 26
10 lb. cans, M doz. In case..  1  70 
5 lb. cans, l doz. in case....  l  90 
'2HR>.cans,2 doz.Incase...l 90

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5)4 
48 
60 
72 
1  12
1  50
2  12 
2 56

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48
5)4
60
6

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1  10

66
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Almost  every  one  of  the 
blankets 
large 
stock  is  the kind that will 
bring  business  to  your 
store  because  they  look 
so  well,  and  can  be  sold 
for  such  a  reasonable 
price.  Everything  from 
the  cheapest  kind 
to 
fleece  down  plaids,  etc.

Brown  &   Sehler

Grand Rapids,  Mich. -  J

WB ARB HEADQUARTERS FOR

1 60
178
2 48

AUTOMOBILES  AND 

MOTOR CYCLES.

O ldsm oblle, $600.00

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

We also sell  the  famous  “White”  steam  car­
riage and the “Thomas” line  of  Motor  Bicycles 
and Tricycles.  Catalogues on ¡application.  Cor­
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Simple 
Account  File

Simplest  and 
Most  Economical 
Method  0!  Keeping 
Petit  Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank

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

File and  1,000 specially

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

Printed blank bill heads,

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

1  25

1  5o

Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................86
Hiawatha..............................41
Battle A xe........................... 37
American Bagla..'...............34
Standard Navy.....................37
Spear Head, 16 oz.................42
Spear Head,  8 oz................ 44
Nobby Twist........................ 48
JollyTar.............................. 38
Old Honesty..........................44
Toddy.,................................. 84
piper^Heldsick.....................63
Boot Jack..............................81
Jelly Cake.............................36
Plumb Bob........................... 82
Honey Dip Twist..................39

j ............................ 

 

Sm oking

Hand Pressed.......................40
Ibex...................................... 28
Sweet Core........................... 36
Flat Car................................35
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath.............................. 27
Bamboo,  8oz.......................29
Bamboo, 16 oz.......................27
I XL,  61b........................... 27
IX L .ieoz. pails..................31
Honey Dew..........................37
Gold Block...........................87
Flagman.............................. 41
Chips../............................... 34
Klin Dried...........................22
Duke’s Mixture...................38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Turn Turn, IN oz..................40
Yum Turn, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream...................................37
Com Cake, 2)4 oz................. 24
Com Cake, lib .....................22
Plow Boy, IX oz................... 40
Plow Boy, 3)4 oz...................39
Peerless, 3)4 oz:................... 34
Peerless, IX oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2)4 oz.................. 28
Indicator, l lb. palls............31
Col. Choice, 2)4 oz................ 21
Col. Choice. 8 oz..................21

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea ft Perrin’s, small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  8 75
Halford, small...................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 56
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75

TW INE

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

VINEGAR

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

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

Bub-No-More..................... 3 60
Pear line...............................3 75
Scourtne...............................3 50

W ICKING

No. 0, per gross....................20
No. I, per gross....................25
No. ?, per gross....................36
No. 8. per gross....................56

WOODKNWARK

Baskets

Bushels................................  85
Bushels, wide  band............1 15
M arket................................  30
Splint, large........................6 00
Splint, medium.................. 5 oo
Splint, small............................ 4 oo
Willow Clothes, large..........5 bo
Willow Clothes, medium__ 5 oo
Willow Clothes, small.
.4 75
B u tter Plates

No. l Oval, 250 In crate........  46
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  55
No. 5 Oval, 260 In crate........  65

Egg Crates

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

Clothes Plus

Bound head, 5 gross box__   46
Bound head, cartons...........   62

Mop  Sticks

Troian spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring.........  85
No f common............. 
  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 h . cotton mop heads.......I  25
Ideal No. 7 ...........................  90

 

 

Tubs

Toothpicks

P alls
2- hoop Standard........................1 40
3- 
hoop Standard......1 60
2- wire,  Cable.............................I to
3- wire,  Cable............................ l 70
Cedar, ail red, brass  bound.l 25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
Hardwood...........................2 50
Softwood.............................2  75
Banquet...............................l 50
38
Ideal....................................l  50
20-inch, Standard, No. l ...... 6 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2......5 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 8......4 00
20-Inch, Cable,  No. 1............6  50
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2............6  00
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3............5  00
No. 1 Fibre.......................... 9  45
No. 2 Fibre...................  
No. 3 Fibre.......................... 7  20
W ash  Boards
Bronze Globe.......................2 50
Dewey.................................l 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
11 In. Butter.........................   75
13 In. Butter.........................l 00
15 In. Butter.........................l  75
17 In. Butter.........................2  60
19 In. Butter.........................3  00
Assorted 13-15-17................. 1 75
Assorted 15-17-19.................2  50
Common Straw.................   1)4
Fiber Manila, white.........   3%
4)4
Fiber Manila, colored......  
No.  1  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............   2)4
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz.........................l 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, 1)4  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............l 00
Yeast Foam, 1)4  doz...........  50
Per lb.

W RAPPING PA PER

YEAST  CAKE

W ood Bowls

FRESH  FISH
White fish...................
Trout...........................
Black Bass.................i
Halibut.......................
Ciscoes or Herring....
Blueflsh......................
Live  Lobster..............
Boiled Lobster...........
Cod..............................
Haddock....................
No. l Pickerel.............
Pike............................
Perch..........................
Smoked  White...........
Bed Snapper..............
ColBlver  Salmon......i
Mackerel....................
Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts...........
F. S. D.  Selects......
Selects....................
Counts....................
Extra Selects...........
Selects......................
Standards................

Bulk Oysters

H IDES AND  PELTS 

40
33
27
1 75
1  60
1  40
1  25
The Cappon ft Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Hides
Green No. 1.............
Green No. 2.............
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calf skins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
F urs
Beaver.................... 
l  00@6 00
10®  50 
Wild  Cat..............
10@  25 
House Cat..............
25@2 50 
Bed Fox................
10®  50 
Grey Fox..............
5004 00 
Cross Fox.............
15@3 00 
Lynx....................
Muskrat, fall........
2®   12 
M ink....................
25®2 25 
Raccoon................
10®  80 
Skunk...................
19® 1 Í6
Pelts
50®
Pelts, each...........
Lamb..............................30®
Tallow
No. 1.........................
No. 2.........................
W ool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed, medium.

® 4X 
® 3X
@20
®23
@15
@17

CANDIES 
Stick Candy
Standard................. 
Standard H. H ..
Standard  Twist.
Cut Loaf.............
Jumbo, 32 lb...
Extra H .H __
Boston Cream. 
Beet Re**.1

alls 
Dbls.
<
@ 7)4 
(»7)4 
@ 8 
@ 9 
cases 
7)4 10)4

Fancy—In  P ails 

M ixed Candy

Grooers....................
Competition.............
Sp ed i
Consemserve..................
Royal......................
Ribbon.....................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Bock...........
Kindergarten...... .
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix..

Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares.
7 95
Peanut Squares......
Sugared Peanuts__
ted Peanuts__
Starlight Kisses... 
San Bias Goodies.. 
Lozenges, plain... 
Lozenges, printed. 
Choc. Drops.
Eclipse Chocolates...
Choc. Monumentais.
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials...................
ItaL Cream Opera...
ItaL Cream Bonbons
201b. palls............. 
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls.................  
Golden Waffles........ 

@12
@13
@12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
@56
@60
@66
@85
@i o
@35

Lemon  Sours.........  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............. 
Gum Drops.............. 
Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Bock.............
WIntergreen Berries 
Caram els 
Clipper, 20 lb. palls..
Standard, 20 lb. palls 
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3for lcprbx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Carls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.......... 
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings..................
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamal cas.................
Rodl......................
Lemons 
Verdelli, ex fey 300..
Verdelli, fey 300......   3 50@4 00
Verdelli, ex chce 300
Verdelli, fey 360......
Malori Lemons, 300..
Messlnas  300s..........  3
Messlnas  360s..........  3
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 
Large bunches........

l  50@2 00

@3  25

@50

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@
@  90
@  12
@  14
M
@
@
(a
@

Califomlas,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........  
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes....................  
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Farda In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oases. 
Hallow!....................  
4)4® 5
lb.  cases, new....... 
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....  4)4  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona 
@16
Almonds, Ivloa....... 
@
Almonas, California,
soft shelled........... 
Brazils...................... 
Filberts  .................  
Walnuts, Grenobles. 
Walnuts, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
Pecans,  Med........... 
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
Pecans, Jumbos......  
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............. 
Cocoanuts, fall sacks  @
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P„ Suns..  5  @ 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Oholoe.H. P., Extras
Unfit«*................
8pan.ShlldNa ln ’w  6

15@16
«17)4
@13
@13
@13
@13)4
«10
@18
@13
@2 75

Boasted................  6  @6)4

STONEWARE

B utters

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

i

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

Churns

Milkp&ns

H ga.  fiat or rd. hot., per doz............
1 gal. hat or rd. bot„ each.................
Fine Glazed M ilkpans
V% gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each.................
Yt gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.............

Stewpans

Ju g s

)4 gal. per doz.....................................
H gal. per doz......................................
1 to 5 gal., per gal...............................

Sealing W ax

5 lbs. In package, per lb......................

LAMP  BURNERS

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

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

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

F irst Q uality

35
36
48
85
50
50
Per box of 6 doz.
l 38
154
2 24

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

XXX  F lin t

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft lab. 
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped ft lab........ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled...... 
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................ ............... 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.......................... 
No. 1 Lime (65C  doz)........................... 
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)........................... 
No. 2 Flint (80c d o z )-" ....................  

L a  Bastle

Rochester

E lectric

OIL CANS

No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)........................... 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)..........................  
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans................................ 
5 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas....................  

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, sidp 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.OTub.,Buirseye,casesldoz.each 

1  85
2  00
2  90

2  75
3  75
4 00
4 00
5 00
5 10
30
1 00
l 25
1 36
l 60
3 60
400
4 60

4 00
4 60
1  60
1  80
3  00
4  30
5  75
4  50
6  00
7 00
9 00

4 75
7 25
7 25
7 50
13 50
3 60
45
45
2 00
125

BEST W H ITE COTTON  WICKS 
Koll contains 32 yards iu one piece.
No.  0,  %-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 
l,  94-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No.  2,1 
Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No.  3,1)4 inch wide, per gross or roll.. 

18
24
31
53

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could  have  been  raised in the Massachu­
setts  case. 
In  the  case  of  Cook  vs. 
State,  no  Ala.,  40,  a  similar statute  of 
that  State  was  upheld,  but  it  appears 
from  a  careful  reading  of  the  opinion 
that  no  such  question  was  raised  in  the 
case.

The  validity  of  similar  legislation  as 
being  within  the  police  powers  of  the 
State  has  been  upheld  in  the  very  re­
cent  cases  of  Wright  vs.  State,  88  Mary­
land,  436;  Com.  vs.  McCann,  198  Pa. 
St.,  509;  State  vs.  Rogers,  95  Me.,  94,
ported  in  49  Atlantic,  564,  opinion 
filed  February  28,  1901,  but  in  all  these 
cases,as  well  as  the  others  which  1  have 
examined,  no  question  was  raised  as  to 
the  title  of  the  act,  which  was  the  sole 
ground  for  holding  the  validity  of  the 
legislation  void  in  Grosvenor  vs.  Duffy 
above  cited.

For  the  reasons  above  given  I  am  of 
the  opinion  that  the  title  of  Act  No.  22, 
Public  Acts  of  1901,  is  not  sufficiently 
specific  and  inclusive  to  sustain  a com­
plaint  and  warrant  for  the  sale  of  oleo­
margarine  containing  coloring  matter 
that  is  harmless  in  itself  and  in  the  ab­
sence  of  any  actual  fraud  or  deception.

Hardware  Price  Current

Ammunition 

Caps

G. D., full count, per m......................
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m..................
Musket, per m.....................................
Ely’s Waterproof, per m....................
No. 22 short, per m .............................
No. 22 long, per m..............................
No. 32 short, per m.............................
No. 32 long, per m..............................
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per  m ...

Cartridges

Primers

Gun Wads 

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

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
136
164
200
208
236
265
264

New Klval—For Shotguns

Loaded  Shells 
oz. of
Shot
l*
lVi
lVi
l*
l*
lVi
1
1
1VÍ
1*
1*
Discount 40 per cent.

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

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

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg.........................
y2 kegs, 1 2 Ids., per  %  keg..............
H kegs, 6Vi lbs., per V4  keg................
In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than B ..........

Shot

A ugurs  and  Bits

Axes

Barrow s

Snell’s ................................................
Jennings  genuine...............................
Jennings’ Imitation.............................
First Quality, S. B. Bronze................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...............
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel...............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...................
Railroad..............................................
Garden................................................net
Stove...................................................
Carriage, new It**  .............................
Plow ............. 
.................................
Well, plain..........................................
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................
Wrought Narrow...............................

B utts,  Cast

Buckets

Bolts

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

1  20 
1  20

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 96
3 00
2 60
2  60
2 65
2 70
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  26

8  00 
9 00 
6 60 
10 60
12  00 
29 00

60

$4

OLEO  LAW  VOID.

Sttcli  Is  the  Opinion  o f  Prosecuting  At­

torney  Hunt.

Prosecuting  Attorney  Hunt,  of Wayne, 
has  prepared  an  opinion  on  the  new 
oleo  law,  holding  that  the  title  is  not 
sufficiently  specific  and inclusive  to sus­
tain  a  complaint  and  warrant  for the 
sale  of  oleomargarine  containing  color­
ing  matter  that  is  harmless  in  itself. 
The  opinion  was  prepared  for  Police 
Justice  A.  F.  Sellers,  who  was  impor­
tuned  for  warrants  for  the  arrest  of 
divers  persons  for selling  colored  oleo­
margarine  in  Detroit.

The  opinion is  an  exhaustive  one  and 
demonstrates  that  the  prosecutor  burned 
the  midnight  oil  in  going  through  the 
law  in  search  of  some  foundation for the 
issuance  of  the  warrants. 
It  is  as  fol­
lows :

I  have  examined  the  matter  respect­
ing  the  complaints  offered  to  you  for 
selling  oleomargarine  containing  color­
ing  matter and  find  as  follows :

Act  No.  22  of  the  Public Acts  of  1901 
has  the  following  title:  “ An  act  to 
in  the  manufacture 
prevent  deception 
and  sale  of  imitation  butter.”   Section 
1  of  said  act  is  as  follows:  “ The  Peo­
ple  of  the  State  of  Michigan  enact,  that 
no  person,  by  himself  or  his  agents  or 
servants,  shall  render  or  manufacture, 
sell,  offer  for  sale,  expose  for  sale  or 
have 
in  his  possession  with  intent  to 
sell,  any  article,  product  or  compound, 
made  wholly  or  in  part  out  of  any  fat, 
oil  or oleaginous  substance or compound 
thereof,  not  produced  from  unadulter­
ated  milk  or  cream  from  the  same, 
which  shall  be 
in  imitation  of  yellow 
butter  produced  from pure unadulterated 
milk  or  cream from the same ;  provided, 
that  nothing 
in  this  act  shall  be  con­
strued  to  prohibit  the  manufacture  or 
sale  of  oleomargarine  in  a  separate  and 
in  such  manner as 
distinct  form,  and 
will  advise  the  consumer  of 
its  real 
character,  free  from  coloration  or  in 
gredient  that  causes  it  to  look 
like  but 
ter.”   Section  2  provides  merely  for 
the  penalty.”

This  act  is  identical,  both  in  title  and 
in  substance,  with  Act  No.  76  of  the 
Public  Acts  of  1897,  which  act  was  de­
clared  unconstitutional 
in  the  case  of 
the  People  vs.  Dettenthaler,  118  Mich 
595.  The  Court,  however,  decided  that 
act  as  unconstitutional  solely  upon  the 
ground  that,  in  passing  the  act,  Article 
4,  Sec.  48,  of  the  State  constitution  was 
disregarded  in  that  the  enacting  clause 
had  not  been  properly  inserted  at  the 
time  it  passed  the  Legislature.

Act  No.  193,  Public  Acts  of  1895,  has 
the  following  title:  “ An  act  to  prohibit 
and  prevent  adulteration, 
fraud  and 
deception  in  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  articles  of  food  and  drink.”   This 
act  was  amended  by Act  No.  118,  Publi 
Acts  of  1897,  and  provided,among  other 
things,  “ That  no  person  shall  within 
this  State  manufacture  for  sale,  have  in 
his  possession  with  intent  to  sell,  offer 
or  expose  for  sale  or  sell  any  article  of 
food  which  is  adulterated  within  the 
meaning  of  this  act.”

things,  “ an 

Article  3  of  said  act  provides,  among 
other 
article  shall  be 
deemed  to  be  adulterated  within  the 
meaning  of  this  act  *  *  *  *  (Fourth) 
if  it  is  an  imitation  of  or  is  sold  under 
the  name  of  another  article.”

Elliott  O.  Grosvenor,  who  was  then 
Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner,  brought 
complaint  under  this  act  before  John  L 
Duffy,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace of  Washte 
naw  county,  complaining  that  oleomar 
garine  had  been  sold  which  had  been 
so colored  as  to be  an  imitation  of  rich 
June  butter.  The  Justice  of  the  Peace 
refused  to  entertain  the  complaint  and 
issue  a  warrant,  whereupon  Grosvenor 
as  relator applied  to  the  Circuit  Court

Washtenaw  county  for  a  writ  of  man­
damus  to  compel  the  Justice  to issue  the 
warrant  and  proceed  to  hear  the  case. 
The  Circuit  Court  refused  the  writ  and 
the  case  was  appealed  to  the  Supreme 
Court  by  certiorari 
for  review.  The 
case  is  reported  in  121  Mich.,  220.  The 
Court,  Mr.  Justice  Grant,  in  delivering 
the  opinion,  quotes  the  title  of  the  act 
and  so  much  of  the  body  thereof  as  ap­
plies  to  the  facts  in  the  case,  and  then 
continues:

“ Is  the  title  to  the  act  broad  enough 
to 
include  the  sale  complained  of? 
Would  any  person  reading  the  title  to 
the  bill,  in  the 
legislative  journals  or 
lsewhere,  suppose  that  the  bill  would 
make  criminal  an  act which in itself was 
entirely  harmless,  honest,  innocent  and 
contained  no  element  of  wrongdoing? or 
that  it  would  change  the  well-known 
definition  of  a  word  so  as  to  include 
within  it  things  which  were  in  no  sense 
akin  to  it,  and  which  could  only  be 
in­
cluded  in  it  by  the  most  arbitrary  legis­
lative  enactments?  Would  a  manufac­
turer  of  or  dealer  in  butter  or  oleomar­
garine  be  notified  by  the  title  that  the 
harmless  coloring  of  either  was  not  only 
to  be  prohibited,  but  to  be  punished  by 
fine  or  imprisonment  or  both?  There 
can  be  but  one  answer  to  these  ques­
tions.  When  the  Legislature  attempts 
to  change  definitions  and  to  make  acts 
criminal  which,  per  se,  are 
innocent 
and  contain  no  element  of  wrong,  there 
must  be  something  in  the  title  to  show 
such  purpose  or object,  under  Sec.  20, 
Article  4,  of  the  constitution.  The  title 
contains  not  even  an  intimation  that  an 
innocent  act  is  to  be  made  a 
entirely 
crime. 
It  follows  that  this  part  of  the 
act  is  void.

in 

The  facts, as  I  understand,  in the com­
plaints  that  are  laid  before  me,  are  that 
there  was  no  actual  deception  in  the 
sale  of  the  oleomargarine,  but  the  claim 
s  made  that  the  additional  coloring 
matter  is  harmless  in 
itself  but  does 
make  the  compound 
imitation  of 
yellow  butter.  The  question  now  arises 
whether  the  title  of  Act  No.  22,  of  the 
Public  Acts  of  1901,  is  broad  enough 
and  specific  enough  to 
include  the 
charge  complained  of.  The  title  of  Act 
No.  193,  of  the  Public  Acts  of  1895,  in 
eludes  the  words  “ Adulteration,  fraud 
and  deception."  The  title  of  Act  No, 
22,  of  the  Public  Acts  of  1901,  merely 
uses  the  word  “ deception.”  
If  the 
title  of  the  Act of  1895  is  not  sufficiently 
specific  and  inclusive,  I  am  unable  to 
see  how  the  title  of  the  Act  of  1901  can 
be,  because  the  title  of  the  Act  of  1901 
s  certainly  not  as  broad  and  sweeping 
as  that  of  1895  and,  unless  the  Supreme 
Court  shall  reverse 
its  decision  in  the 
case  of  Grosvenor  vs.  Duffy,  I  think  the 
conclusion  is  irresistible  that 
it  must 
hold  the  said  Act  of  1901  as  unconstitu 
tional  and  void.

I  realize  that  no  public  official  should 
endeavor  to  seek  out  reasons  for  hold 
ing  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  void  and 
that  it  is  his  duty,  if  possible,  to con 
strue  acts,  upholding  their  validity,  if 
possible,  and  in  order to  satisfy  myself 
of  the  validity  of  the  judgment  above 
expressed  I  have  carefully  gone  into the 
decisions  in  other  states  and  have found 
that  while  our  statute 
is  evidently 
copied  from  the  Massachusetts  statute, 
which  was  declared  constitutional in  the 
case  of  Com.  vs.  Huntley  and  Plumley 
156 Mass.,  236,  which  was reaffirmed  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States 
in  the  case  of  Plumley  vs.  Massachu 
setts,  155  U.  S,  461,  yet  I  also  find  that 
in  Massachusetts  they  have  no  consti 
tutional  provision  which  corresponds  to 
Sec.  20,  Article  4,  of  the  Consitution  of 
Michigan  which  provides  that  “ no  law 
shall  embrace  more  than  one  subject 
which  shall  be  expressed  in  the  title. 
Therefore,  no  such  question  was

3 1

40
26
70&10
70
70
28
17

60&10

Expansive Bits

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26..............
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................
New A m e r i c a n ............................
Nicholson’s..........................................
Heller’s Horse Hasps..........................
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27,
List  12  13 
16.

Galvanized Iron 

14 

Discount,  66

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

16 
Gauges

Glass

Hammers

Single Strength, by box....................... dls  88&20
Double Strength, by box......................dls  86&20
By the Light................................dls  86&20
33*
40&10
70
60&10
60&10
50&10
50&10

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

Hollow  Ware

Hinges

Horse  Nalls

40&10
Au Sable............................................ .dls
House  Furnishing Goods
70
Stamped Tinware, new list.................
20610
Japanned Tinware...............................
Bar Iron.............................................. 9 SB  o rates
Light Band.......................................... 
a e ra te s

Iron

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........  
Door, porcelain, fap. trimmings......... 
Regular o Tubular, Doz.......................
Warren. Galvanized Fount................

Lanterns

Levels

Mattocks

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

Adze Eye................................ $17 00..dls
Metals—Zinc
________ __  
Miscellaneous

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

76
86
• 00 
6 00

70

66

714
8

Bird Cages..........................................  
f®
76&10
Pumps, Cistern...................................  
.86
Screws, New List...............................  
_ 
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................   60&10&10
Dampers, American............................ 
60

Molasses  Gates

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

60610
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................   60610610
Common,  polished.............................. 
7066
Patent  Planished Ivon 

A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  12  60 
B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  11  60 
Broken packages Vic per pound extra.

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

Planes

Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

40
60
40
46

2 40 
2  40 
Base 
6 
10 20 
30 
46 
70 
60 
16
25 
36
26 
35 
46 
86

50
45

7  60 
9 00 
15 00 
7 50 
9 00 
15 00 
18 00

10
14Vi
60

25 00

Steel nails, base. 
Wire nails, base... 
20 to 60 advance....
10 to 16 advance__
8 advance.............
6 advance......  ...
4 advance.............
3 advance.............
2 advance............
Fine3 advance.... 
Casing 10 advance. 
Casing 8 advance.. 
Casing 6 advance.. 
Finish 10 advance. 
Finish 8 advance.. 
Finish 6 advance.. 
Barrel  % advance.

Rivets

Iron and  Tinned.................................
Copper Rivets and  Burs....................

Roofing  Plates

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

Ropes

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

Sand Paper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

6-16 In.

•..  7M 
. ..  7Vi 

Vi In.
V41n.
7  c.  ...  6  0.  .. . 6 0 . .
Com.
.  6 H ..  6
BB...
8V4 
.  6V£
BBB.
8 Vi 
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  .. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Comer... 
Socket Slicks....

.
.

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz................ net
Corrugated, per doz..............'.............
Adjustable..........................................a«

l

4O&10

com. smooth,  com.
$8 60 
8 70 
8 90 
8 90 
4 00
4  10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

to 1 4 ...............
Vi In. Nos. 10 
to 17.................
Nos. 16
..  4Vio. NOS. 18 to 21.................
NOS. 22 to 24................. ................  4  10
..  6 Vi NOS. 26to 26................. ................4  20
No. 27.............................................  4 30 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz................................  
8 00
7 50
Second Grade, Doz.............................. 
ViQVi...................................................  
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Solder

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

New Tear’s  Resolutions  for the Merchant.
In  keeping  with  the  spirit  of  the  sea­
son  every  merchant  ought to  adopt  some 
New  Year’s  resolutions  and  live  up  to 
them  through  1902.  A  few  suggestions 
along  this  line  may  not  be  out  of  place.
Resolve  to  keep  the  store  clean, bright 
and  attractive  all  the  time  through  the 
coming  year.  Decide  to  act  upon  the 
idea  that  you  want  it  to  become  one  of 
the  pleasantest  places  that  your  custom­
ers,  both  ladies  and  gentlemen,  have  to 
visit.

Resolve  to  study  modern  advertising 
ideas  a 
little  more  closely  and  make 
every  cent  invested  in  this  way  count 
in  building  up  and 
increasing  your 
business. 
It  can  only  be  done  through 
study  and  the adoption of right methods.
Resolve  to  cultivate  a  friendly  spirit 
towards  your  competitor  in  trade— not 
shallow  sentimentality— but  the  spirit 
which  will  permit  you  to  visit  him  dur­
ing  business  hours  and  consider  matters 
of  mutual 
interest,  and  which  will  re­
sult  in  the  same  feeling  on  his  part.

Resolve  that  you  will  not  sell  a  dol­
lar’s  worth  of  goods  at  a  loss  in  order 
to get  even  with  some  other  merchant, 
who  does  not  know  that 
indiscriminate 
price  cutting  results  in  financial  ruin. 
Decide  that  you  will  buy  as  closely  as 
possible,  and 
if  you  can  not  sell  the 
goods  when  bought  on  this  plan  with  a 
return  for  your  capital  and  labor  in­
vested,  you  do  not  care  to  attempt to 
sell  them.  Let  the  cutter  do the  busi­
ness at  a  loss.

Resolve  that  you  will  endeavor  to 
our  keep  yfinancial  affai rs  in  such  good 
shape  that  you  can  take  the  trade  dis­
counts  coming  to  you  from  wholesale 
and  manufacturing  firms  for  the  prompt 
payment  of  accounts.  Decide  that  these 
trade  discounts  are  a  part  of  your 
profit  and  that  you  must  have them,even 
if you  are  obliged  to  borrow money from 
your  local  bank  to  get  them.

Resolve  that  you  will  be  fair  in  your 
treatment  of  the 
jobber  and  manufac­
turer  as  you  want  your  customers  to  be 
towards  you,  and  that  you  will  not  take 
dishonest  advantage  of  those from whom 
you  buy  goods  just  because  you  are 
in 
a  position  to  do  so.

Resolve  that  your  clerks  shall  feel 
that  honest  efforts  on  their  part  are  to 
be  rewarded,  and  that  suggestions  of  a 
practical  nature  from  them  will  be  re­
ceived 
in  the  spirit  in  which  they  are 
made.

Resolve  that  your  customers  shall  al­
ways  receive  courteous  treatment,  and 
feel  that  your  store  service  and  your 
store  policy  are  the  best  in  your  com­
munity.

Resolve  that  the  deadbeat  shall  have 
more  difficulty 
in  getting  goods  from 
you  on  tick  the  coming  year  than he did 
during  the  year  just  closed.  Draw  the 
lines  closer  on  this  class  of  customers 
and  make  all  credit  customers  feel  that 
they  are  under  obligations  to  you,  as 
they  certainly  are.

Resolve  that  every  man  in  your  store 
shall  have  a  breathing  spell  of  at  least 
a  week’s  duration  during  the  year,  even 
if  you  feel  that  you  are  obliged  to  give 
them  a  vacation  without  pay.  This  in­
cludes  the  proprietor  as  well  as  the 
clerks.

Resolve  that  some  new  display  stands 
and  modern  fixtures  shall  be  added  dur­
ing  the  year and  that  at  the  end  of  1902 
your  business  is  in  better shape  than  it 
is  to  day.

Resolve  that  no  dishonest  practices,of 
whatsoever  nature  shall  be  permitted  in 
your  business,  during  the  coming  year. 
Resolve  that clerks and other employes

shall  not  chew  tobacco,  and  otherwise 
disgrace  you  during  business  hours; 
that  they  shall  not  leave  cigar  stubs  and 
cigarette  butts  around  on  the  shelving, 
and  shall  not  puff  smoke  in  the  face  of 
customers  while  waiting  upon  them.

Resolve  that  you  will  read  your  trade 
paper  more  closely  and  that  you  will 
give  a  certain  portion  of  your time  to 
the  study  of  business  problems  which 
have  been  slighted in  the  year  just  clos­
ing.

increase 

But  last  of  all  resolve  that  your  busi­
ness  must  be  increased  in  volume  dur­
ing  the  coming  year,  and  that  any 
in­
in  the  volume  shall  result  in  a 
crease 
proportionate 
in  the  profits  to 
you.  This  is  what  you  are  in  business 
for,  and  the  other  things  are  incidental, 
but  quite  necessary  to  the  conduct  of  a 
successful  business.—Commercial  Bul­
letin.
Winter Melons  at  Their  Best  at  Christ­
mas Time.
From the Denver Republican.

“ And  now,  children,”   said  Dean 

Peck,  “ let  us  cut  a  melon.”

Even  the  youngest  child  snickered. 
For  outside  there  was  snow  and  ice, 
and  with  Christmas  hardly  a  week  away 
—how  could  the  good  dean  be  so  funny 
as  to  suggest  melons?

But  the  wise  merely  only  smiled  and 
introduced  a  quite,  pleasant  man  in 
gold-rimmed  spectacles,  A.  L.  Hitch­
cock,  of  California.  And  Mr.  Hitch­
cock  had  under  his  arm  an  oval  bundle, 
that  might  have  been  the  biggest  egg 
of  the  biggest  ostrich  that  ever  shed a 
feather as  high  as  an  elm  tree.  That’s 
what  it  might  have  been,  but  it  wasn't 
that.  It  was  a  melon,a  muskmelon—and 
in  the  winter  time.

Now,letting  alone  the  fact  that  it  was 
a  big  melon  to  begin  with,  it  certainly 
did  seem  as though  there  was something 
strange  about  that  melon.  All  the  chil­
dren  bad  some,  and  they  ate  and  ate, 
yet  when  they  were  done  there  was  still 
enough  melon  for  the  dean  to  take 
home.  And  he  had  some,  and  his  fam­
ily  had  some,  and  only  the  nurse  asked 
for  more,  so there  was  really  something 
wonderful  about  that  melon  besides  its 
being 
just  ripe,  a  week  before  Christ­
mas.

There  was  another  wonderful  thing 

about the  melon;  it  grew  in  a  desert.

“ The  melons  are  called  Khiva  winter 
melons,”   said  Mr.  Hitchcock,  “ and the 
headquarters  for them  in  this  country  is 
at  Elgin,  Utah,  in  the  great  desert.

“ There  J.  F.  Brown,  who  has  raised 
all  sorts  of  melons  for  years,  has  taken 
up  the  raising  of  these  winter water­
melons  and  muskmelons  for  seed.  They 
have  become  so  well  known  now  that 
he  can  hardly  keep  up  with  the  demand 
for  seed,  even  at  25  cents  an  ounce.  Yet 
five  years  ago  these  melons  were  un­
known  in  the  United  States.

“ The  Government  got  the  first  seed 
from  Khiva,  Russia,  and  sent  a  sample 
to  Mr.  Brown  to  try.  To  everybody’s 
surprise,  the  melons  did  exceedingly 
well  in  the  desert,  although  at  Rocky 
Ford,  famous  for  melons,  they  failed.

“ They  are  picked  in  October  and  re­
quire  almost  two  months  to  ripen  after 
they  are  picked.  Then  they  will  keep 
until  March.
in  Utah  knows  of  the 
“ Everybody 
winter  melons. 
1  have  just  come  from 
there,  and  I  have  been  eating  melon 
every  day.  Green  River  is  the  nearest 
station  to  Elgin,  and  it  is  one  of  the 
sights,  when  the  train  pulls  in,  to  see 
the  people  rush  for  the  piles  that  are 
kept  waiting  for  their  arrival.  .

“ There  is  a  watermelon  and  a  musk­
melon,  and  each  is  equal  to  the  best  of 
the  summer  melons.”

An  American  department  store  is  to 
be  established  in  London  by  one  of  the 
successful  merchants  of  New  York,  who 
believes  there  is  a  great  opportunity  for 
such  a  concern  in  the  English  metrop­
olis.  It  is  to  be  located  in  a  seven-story 
building  occupying  an  entire  square 
in 
the  center  of  the  city.  The  London 
merchants  are  alarmed  at  this  latest 
phase  of  the  American  invasion.

Defence  of the  Flirt.

From Macmillan’s Magazine.

Ruskin  advised  every  girl  to  have  six 
sweethearts  coincidently. 
It  was  ex­
cellent  advice.  That  misguided  person, 
the  fiirt,  is  most  frequently  a  woman 
whose  heart  aches  for  friendship,  but 
who  keeps  the  richest  store  hidden  for 
her  king  when  he  shall  come.  Those 
who  were  never  her  king,  who  never 
could  be  her  king,  call  her  names  by 
way  of  rejoinder.  They  overlook  the 
salient  fact  that  all  she  gave  them  was 
friendly 
interest,  and  that  was  all  she 
pretended  to  give  them;  for  a  conscious 
flirt— that 
is,  a  woman  who  conspicu­
ously  pretends  to  love— is  as  impossible 
as  a  conscious  hypocrite. 
In  fact,  the 
fiirt  is  the  only  remaining  artist  in 
friendship,  and  a  world  which  knows 
not  what  friendship  is  makes  good  the 
deficiency  by  maligning  her.

More  and  more  the  great  corporations 
are  discouraging  the  drinking  habit 
among  their  employes.  A  man  who 
is  known  to  have  the  drink  habit  is 
finding 
it  harder  every  year to  get  em­
ployment  from  the  railroads  or the great 
iron  and  steel  mills. 
Indeed,  the  drink 
habit  is  frowned  upon  and  drinking 
men—even  those  who  drink  only  mod­
erately—are  not  wanted.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

F o r s a l e  c h e a p—e x t r a   l a r g e co al
stove, suitable  for  heating  large  store.  In 
good condition.  Sherwood Hall,  Grand  Rapids.
201
WANTED—A  LOCATION  FOR  UP-TO- 
date shoe store.  Would  buy  small  stock. 
Address Shoes. Carrier 2, Big Rapids, Mich.  200
ÌpOR SALE—50 BARREL ROLLER PROCESS 
1  water power mill;  one of the oldest and best 
locations in Southwestern  Michigan;  everything 
infine  repair;  doing  a  big  business:  wifi  bear 
close  investigation.  Address  B.  J.  Robertson, 
Breedsvllle, Mich. 

■   B U S I N E S S   GENTLEMAN  WISHES 
lady  correspondents  with  means,  widows 
preferred.  All  letters  answered;  references 
furnished-  Box 836, Hancock, Mich. 
198
FOR SALE-DRUG STORE, LARGE TRADE, 
best location, main street,  owner  sick; must 
197
sell.  Druggist, Box 256, Madison, Ind. 
Ii>OR  SALE—A  CORNER  DRUG  STORE  IN 
one of the best locations;  doing a good  busi­
ness, and has an establi-hed  trade.  Address  P. 
196
O. Box 226, Statiou A. Toledo, Ohio. 
IjiOR EXCHANGE—FINE FARM IN SOUTH- 

.  em Michigan, excellent buildings,  for  prop­
erty in any live  town.  Would  take  small  drug 
stock as part  payment.  Address  No.  195,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

195

199

17»OR  SALE-DRUG  STOCK,  WITH  OR 

boiler), perfect  order;  latest improvements. 
C, Kabrlcn, Sturgis, Mich. 
190

.  without  building,  with  grocery  stock  in­
Inventories  about  #2,000.  A  paying 
cluded. 
business. 
Investigate.  Reasons  for  selling, 
other business elsewhere.  Address No. 206, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
206
F o r sa l e—d r u g  sto ck in  o n e o f  t h e  
best towns in Lower Michigan.  Reasons for 
selling,  poor  health.  Address  No.  207,  care 
. 207
Michigan Tradesman. 
SAW  MILL,  PORTABLE  (NO  ENGINE  OR 
Ma k e   m o n e y  c o l l e c t in g   b a d  d eb ts
by  our  unfailing  method.  Convert  your 
poor accounts  into  cash.  Trial  set  25  cents. 
Send to-day.  Davis & Co., Mansfield,  Ohio.  189
FOR RENT—STORE 14x80 FEET,  o n m a in  
business street of a thrifty  Southern  Michi­
gan city;  excellent location  for  drug  or  bazaar 
stock.  Rent  $350  per  year.  Address  No.  188, 
188
care Michigan Tradesman. 
F o r  sa l e—d r u g   st o c k,  f ix t u r e s
and building;  only drug store in  one  of  the 
best locations in Northern  Michigan;  doing fine 
business.  Reason  for  selling,  other  business. 
For particulars address No.  187,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._________  
FOR SALE—$20,000 FURNITURE FACTORY.
fully equipped with machinery, saw mill and 
roller feed mill and village  lighting  contract  for 
five years, in  connection with  plant, will be sold 
or rented cheap.  Present owner has  no experi­
ence in manufacturing furniture.  For particu­
lars and  photograph address  J.  R.  Blackwood, 
South Lyon, Mich._______  

187

192

a  RUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE-BEST  LOCA- 

tion in city of Benton Harbor, Mich.  Money 
maker for some one.  IU health of  owner  cause 
for selling.  J.  C.  Cole,  Y.  S.,  Benton  Harbor, 
Mich.____________ 
Fo r s a l e- d r u g   st o r e  in  b e s t to w n
in  Copper  country.  Stock  invoices  about 
$2,000.  Address No. 183,  care  Michigan  Trades­
183
man- 

193

W ANTED-GROCERY  STOCK.  STATE 
size of stock and  amount  of  business.  A. 
181
F. Morgan, Pinckney, Mich. 
F o r  s a l e—d r u g   sto ck 
in   sm a ll
town.  Has  been  established  fifteen  years, 
iphone  exchange  pays  rent  of  store.  Will 
invoice about $900  or  $i,000.  Ill  health  necessi­
tates sale.  Address  U.  S.  P., Michigan  Trades­
man. 
186
STORE  TO  RENT—SITUATED  ON  MAIN 
street,  Beldlng,  .Mich.,  directly  opposite 
Hotel Beldlng;  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.  Hetherlngton,  Agent, 
Beldlng, Mich.________________________ 173

I7IOR  SALE—WHOLESALE  BUTTER,  EGG 

B DMINISTKATOR’S  8ALE-THE  ENTIRE 

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
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. 
165
FOR  SALE—GRAIN  ELEVATOR:  MAIN 
building 24x52 feet:  office, 8x12  feet:  engine 
room, brick,  22x24  feet;  storage  capacity, 18,000 
bushels:  equipped with  25  horse  power  engine 
and  boiler,  scales,  corn  sheller,  etc.  Business 
for past year shows a  profit  of  $2,600.  Address 
L. E. Torry, Agent. Grand Rapids. Mich. 
161
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
U'OR  SALE—RESTAURANT AND BAKERY, 
r   cigar  and  confectionery  stock.  Soda  foun­
tain and ice cream machinery.  Centrally located. 
Only  restaurant  in  town.  C.  8.  Clark,  Cedar 
Springs, Mich. 
ipOK  SALE-GRANDFATHER  CLOCK:  100 
I?  years old;  in fine condition.  Box 309, West­
erville, Ohio. 
167
F o r s a l e—a  n e w   a n d  t h e   o n l y   b a-
zaar stock in the city  or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000:  the  county 
seat;  stock invoices  *2,500;  sales,  Mo  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 
154
No. 154, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—TO SELL STOCK AND  BUILD- 
lng  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. 
G  W., Box 423, Crystal Fails, Mich. 
Q U R   SYSTEM
REDUCES  YOUR  BOOK-
keeping  85 per  cent.  Send  for  catalogue. 
Eureka Cash  &  Credit  Register  Co.,  Scranton, 
Pa. 

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168

95

102

IT'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. 
Fo r s a l e—s t o r e, g e n e r a l  m e r c h a n -
dise stock and one-half acre of land  in  town 
of 200 population in Allegan county.  Ask for real 
estate  *2,600.  Two  fine  glass  front  wardrobe 
show cases, with drawers;  also  large  dish  cup­
board and three movable wardrobes in flat above 
go  with  building.  Will  invoice  the  stock  and 
fixtures at cost (and less where there is a  depre­
ciation), which will probably not exceed $1,200 or 
$1,500.  Require $2,000 cash, balance on mortgage 
at 5 per cent.  Branch office of the  West  Michi­
gan Telephone  Co.  and  Ml  telephone  property 
reserved.  Store building  26x62:  warehouse  for 
surplus stock, wood,  corn  and  ice,  12x70;  barn, 
24x36, with  cement  floor;  cement  walk;  heated 
by Michigan wood furnace on  store  floor:  large 
filter cistern and water elevated to  tank  la bath­
room by force pump.  Cost  of furnace,  bathtub 
and  fixtures,  with  plumbing,  $295.  Five  barrel 
kerosene tank in  cellar  with  measuring  pump. 
Pear and apple  trees  between  store  and  barn. 
For particulars or for  inspection  of  photograph 
of premises address or cau on  Tradesman  Com- 
pany.___________________________  
99
Fin e   o p e n in g   f o r   d r y   g o o d s  B u si­
ness.  Now occupied by small  stock, for sale 
cheap.  Address No. 97,  care  Michigan  Trades­
97
man. 
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 yi 
rears;
only two furniture stores in  the  town.  Address
all  correspondence  to  No.  63,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
63

MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-GROCERY  SALESMAN  FOR 

the upper portion of the  Lower  Peninsula 
of  Michigan,  practically  from  Reed  City  up. 
Will give  preference  to  experienced  salesman, 
especially If he has an acquaintance in the  terri­
tory.  Address No.  204,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man, 
204
Bo o k k e e p e r   a n d   o f f ic e   m a n ,  o f
seven years’experience, wants position with 
a produce and commission firm;  good references. 
Address  Bookkeeper,  care  Carrier  8,  Grand 
206
Rapids, Mich. 
WANTED—RELIABLE SALESMAN, MICH- 
SI T U A T I O N   WANTED  IN  GENERAL 
store  by  experienced  buyer  and  manager. 
References  promptly  furnished.  Address  No. 
180, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
to work in country store; state  wages  and 
references.  Address  X.  Y.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

igan or Indiana.  Correspondence solicited. 
Enclose  stamp  for  reply.  Address  Osmlcure 
Chemical Co., Cassopolis, Mich. 

194

180

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