Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  19,1902.

Number  961

Late State Pood Commissioner

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
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For Gas or Gasoline.  Write for catalogue.
Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise  Co. 

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

♦  WILLIAM  C O N N O R   ♦

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W H O LE S A LE  

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A’l manner of summer  goods:  Alpacas, 
Linen, Duck,  Crash  Fancy  Vests,  etc., 

direct from factory.

28  and  30  South  Ionia Street, 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mxll  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
dally from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m.,  except 
Saturdays  to  1  p.  m.  Customers’  ex- 
penses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1957. 

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Send for samples and prices.
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L. 

J. Stevenson, Manager 

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

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

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Established 1841.

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Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification  of names. 
CoUections made everywhere. Write for particulars.

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

Good  Light— the  Pentone  Kind
Simple and practical.  Catalogue If you wish.

Pentone Gas Lamp Co.

Bell Phone 1919 

U>  Canal  Street

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.
3.  G etting  the  People.
4.  A round  th e  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6 .  Rible  and  Science.
8 .  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Clothing.
11.  M aking W indow  Glass.
13.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  D ry  Goods.
16.  H ardw are.
17.  H ank  Spreet’s  Safe.
18.  The  New  Y ork  M arket.
19.  The  Salesman’s  Status.
30.  W om an’s  W orld.
33.  B a tte r and  Eggs.
33.  P oultry.
34.  Clerk’s Corner.
35.  Com m ercial Travelers.
36.  D rugs and Chemicals.
37.  D rag P rice  Current.
38.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
39.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  The  H appy  F arm er and the City Man 
33.  R etail Grocers  Association.

TWO  HONEST  NATIONS.

The  United  States  and  Great  Britain 
are  the  only  powers  that  have  proposed 
to  return  to  China  any  balance  of  their 
share  of  the  indemnity  in  excess  of  the 
adjusted  claims.  This  is  equivalent  to 
saying  that  the  United  States  and  Great 
Britain  are  the  only  honest  nations  now 
dealing  with  China  in  the  matter of  in­
demnity  for  injuries  and  expense  of 
protecting  foreign interests in  that  coun­
try  during  the  Boxer  troubles.

Great  Britain  and  the  United  States 
are  the  only  nations  that  seem  to find  in 
this  transaction  even  the  semblance  of 
a  moral  obligation  such  as  would  influ­
ence  a  private  person  compelled  by  the 
laws  of 
civilization  to  observe  the 
equities  in  seeking  repayment  of  losses 
or  damages  for  injuries  sustained  at  the 
hands  of  another  person.

The  other  nations  have  given  their 
rapacity  full  rein and  would  have  looted 
the  Chinese  Empire  to  the  ultimate 
cash,  if  they  had  not  been  afraid  that 
the  United  States  and  Great  Britain 
would  interpose  to  prevent  further  rob­
bery.

It  is  not  necessary  to  moralize  upon 
the  superior  moial  integrity  of  the  peo­
ple  of  the  two  great  English  speaking 
countries  in  this  transaction;  the  con­
trast  between  the  American  and  the 
British  method of doing  business  with  a 
helpless  nation,  and  the  greed  that  is 
manifested  by  the  Latins,  the  Teutons 
and  the  Slavonians,  is  an  object  les­
son,  teaching  that,  while  the  former 
may  have  faults  that  are  more  than  rep­
rehensible  in  other  directions,  they  are 
not  given  to  the  sort  of  thievery  that 
steals  from  cripples  and  blind  beggars.
Enough  loot  was  carried  away  by  the 
soldiers,  attaches  of  the  legations,  mis­
sionaries  and  their “ converts,”  and for­
eigners  generally,  to  offset  many  mil­
lions  of  the 
indemnity  demanded  of 
China.  Moreover,  if  the  “ claims”   of 
individuals  for  losses  and  damages  pre­
ferred  before  the  courts  of  adjustment of 
the  creditor  nation?  were  as  closely  and 
honestly  adjudicated  as  they  would  be 
in  ordinary  circumstances  of  suits  be­
tween  citizens  of  the  various  countries, 
the  demands  would  be  scaled  many

millions more.  Each of  these  individual 
claimants  has  presented  a  bill  of  costs 
and  damages  at  least  double  the amount 
of  actual  loss  and  damage,  and  many  of 
them  are  without  the  slightest  basis  of 
right or  justice.

is  gratifying,  therefore,  to 

learn 
that  Great  Britain  and  the  United 
States,  who  have  so  many  other  sins  to 
answer,  can,  with  a  free  conscience, 
plead  not  guilty  to  the  charge  of  rob­
bery  in  this  instance.

It 

A  representative  of  the  Tradesman 
visited  the  canners’  convention  at  Mil­
waukee  last  Thursday,  primarily  for the 
purpose  of  determining  the  status  of  the 
Hastings 
industrial  Co.,  which  is  pro­
moting  a  large  number  of  canneries  in 
Michigan  this  season.  The  company 
referred  to  had  no  exhibit  there,  al­
though  nearly  every  manufacturer  of 
canning  machinery  was  represented 
in 
the  exhibition  hall.  Enquiries  among 
the  exhibitors  elicited  the  information 
that  the  Hastings  Industrial  Co.  does 
not,  as  a  rule,  buy  the  newest  and  most 
up-to-date  machinery,  but  is  always  in 
the  market  for  machinery  that  is  out-of- 
date  and  can  be  purchased  at  a bargain. 
As  it  is  not  good  business  policy  to  buy 
poor  machinery,  when  the  best  can  be 
had  on  practically  an  even  basis,  the 
Tradesman  suggests  that  the  officers  of 
the  new  companies  who  are  establish­
ing  canneries  this  season  thoroughly 
post  themselves  on  the  subject  and  dis­
tinctly  specify 
in  their  contracts  what 
make  of  machinery  they  are  to  have  in 
ail  cases.  This  will  necessarily  result 
receiving  modern 
in  the  canneries 
equipment, 
instead  of  being  handi­
capped  by  antiquated  machinery  which 
will  have  to  be  replaced  by  up-to-date 
equipment  before 
the  business  can 
achieve  it?  full  measure  of  success.

The  December  bulletin  of  the  State 
in  Febru­
Food  Commissioner— issued 
ary—contains  an  itemized  statement  of 
the  expense  of  conducting  the  depart­
ment  for  the  six  months  from  July  1, 
1901,  to  Jan. 
i,  1902.  The  sum  total 
is$io, 135.90,of which $6,046.20 went  for 
salaries  and  $4,089.70  for  traveling  and 
other  expenses.  The  Tradesman  prob­
ably  did  more  to  create  sentiment  in 
laws  and  a  food  depart­
favor  of  food 
laws  than  any 
ment  to  enforce  those 
other  interest,  but  when 
it  sees  the 
recklessness  with  which  the  people’s 
money  is  squandered  by  gangs  of  poli­
ticians  who  travel  around  the  State  os­
tensibly 
interest  of  pure  food, 
but  really  to  promote  the  candidacy 
of  a  discredited  officeholder,  it  serious­
ly  questions  whether  the  people  of 
Michigan  would  not  be  better  off  if 
every  law  pertaining  to  the  subject were 
stricken  from  the  statute  books.

in  the 

There  is  no  security  for  perseverance 
except  in  always  advancing.  To  stand 
still  is  impossible.  A  boat  ascending  a 
running  stream  falls  back  as  soon  as  it 
ceases  to  advance.  To  hold  its  place  is 
impossible  unless 
it  gain  upon  the 
stream.

If  men  did  everything  their  political 
enemies  charge  how  busy they would be.

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW .

The  most  notable  feature  of  the  trade 
situation 
is  the  enormous  extent  of  do­
mestic  demand.  Owing  to  the  scarcity 
in  corn,  grain  transportation  bas  been 
largely  curtailed,  a  fact  which  would 
naturally  affect  the  volume  of  railway 
transportation  seriously.  Yet  the  gen­
eral  demand  for  cars  for  supplying  the 
needs  of  the  great  industries  is  far  be­
yond  any  possibility  of  being  met  and 
heavy  premiums  are  offered  for  prompt 
deliveries  in  consequence.  One  would 
think  that  these  circumstances,  together 
with  the 
lessened  foreign  trade  on  ac­
count  of  our need to keep the goods here, 
and  because  of  the  less  favorable  con­
ditions  in  the  countries  usually  taking 
our  export,  would  operate  to  lessen  the 
pressure  of  domestic  activity,  and  yet 
that  pressure  seems  to  increase  from 
day  to  day. 
It  is  simply  that  there  was 
never  a  time  when  producers  were  turn­
ing  to  every  possible  means  to  increase 
output  to  meet  the  possibilities  of  ex­
panding  local  business  as  is the  case  to­
day.

Prices  in  the  Wall  Street  markets  are 
on  the  advance  on  most  standard issues, 
but  trading 
is  not  active.  People  are 
too  busy  for  ordinary  speculation.  Of 
course  the  storm  is  a  quieting  factor,, as 
in  all  business  in  the  Eastern  centers; 
however,  the  markets  were  quiet  al­
ready.  But,  in  spite  of  this,  advancing 
values  carry . the  level  of  leading  rail­
ways  to  a  new  high  record  of  $104.70. 
The  public  still  seems  afraid  of  many 
of  the  leading  industrials  notwithstand­
ing  the  fact  that  they  appear to  be mak­
ing  money  at  an  unprecedented  rate.

The  great  fact 

in  the  iron  and  steel 
is  the  inability  to  meet  the 
industries 
demands 
for  domestic  requirements. 
Increase  of  facilities  has  been  such 
that  the  January  production  broke  all 
records  and  yet  that  month  brought  a 
reduction  in  furnace  stocks  of  pig  iron. 
Of  course  productive  capacity  is  being 
enlarged  under  such  conditions,  but  it 
will  be  some  time  before  the  need  for 
premium  for  prompt  deliveries  will  be 
obviated.  Prices  are  unchanged  when 
consumers  can  wait  for their  supplies 
until  some  time  in  the  last  half  of the 
year.

There  has  come  a  realization  in  the 
cotton  trade  that  the  staple  was  mar­
keted  more  freely  than  was  supposed 
and  that  supplies  are  rapidly  lessen­
ing.  This  brings  an  advance  and  in­
creased  activity  and  strength 
in  the 
manufactured  products,  many  prices 
rising 
also 
strong,  with  a 
large  consumptive  de­
mand  for  the  raw  material.  The  boot 
and  shoe  factories  are  assured  of  ac­
tivity  for  some  time  to  come  and  ship­
ments 
last 
year. 

continue  above  those  of 

sharply.  Woolens  are 

_____________

This  world  is  the  best  place  any  of  us 
will  ever  live 
in  this  side  the  pearly 
gates.  The  man  who  enjoys  it  as  he 
goes  along,  making  the  most  of  the  op­
portunities  which  come  to  him,  is  the 
man  who  does  most  to  make  the  world 
better  and  fit  it  for  greater  things  by- 
I and-by.

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

Petting the  People

The  M istake of  Overdoing:  Cheapness  as 

an  Inducem ent.

There  was  a  time  not  long  in  the  past 
when  a  dollar  was  worth  more  than  it  is 
to-day.  This  was,  theoretically,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  there  was  less  money, 
per  capita,  in  circulation  than  now. 
Practically,  it  was  owing  to the  fact that 
a  dollar was  much  harder to  get  than  it 
is  to-day.  With  the  teeming  millions 
of the  country  all  employed  and  many 
undertakings  deferred  for  .the 
reason 
that  reasonably 
low  prices  of  labor  can 
not  be  commended,  it  is  hard  to  realize 
that  only  a  few  years  ago  municipal  en­
terprises  were  carried  on  to  keep  the 
people  from  starving. 
In  this  city,  half 
a  dozen  years  ago,  the  authorities  re­
quired 
laborers  to  take  their turns  in 
the  work  of  filling  in  the  newly  pur­
chased  market 
that  the  relief 
afforded  by  the  employment  might  be 
distributed  as  widely  as  possible.

site, 

During  this  period  the  value  of  the 
dollar  became  greatly  enhanced.  Then 
the  greatest  inducement  was  the greatest 
extent  to  which 
its  power  of  buying 
could  be  made  to go.  Under  these  con­
ditions  the  most  effective  advertising 
would  naturally  be  that  which  dwelt 
upon  the  cheapness  of  the  commodity. 
But 
it  does  not  follow  that  the  same 
methods  are  the  most  effective  under 
the  changed  conditions  of  to-day.  To 
be  sure,  this  habit  of  thought 
in  the 
community  might 
last  for  a  consider­
able  time,  but  not as  long  as  the  habit 
of  using  the  inducement  on  the  part  of 
dealers  is  likely  to  last.

The  abundance  of  money  to-day  is 
educating  the  people  to  a  greater appre­
ciation  of quality.  Now  this  is  no  theo­
retical  or  imaginary  deduction— every 
observing  dealer  knows  that  his  custom­
ers  are  ready  to  pay  good  prices  for 
good  goods.  But  the  habit  of  crying 
“ cheap”  
is  formed  by  the  advertiser 
and  it  seems  likely  to  last  long  after  it 
has  lost  its  usefulness.

The  buyers  of  the  twentieth  century 
think  more  of  quality  than  of  cheap­
ness.  Now  this  is  not  a theoretical  con­
clusion  based  on  the  fact  of  improved 
conditions,  it  is  a matter  of  observation. 
Every  salesman  knows  that  there  is  less 
of  the  beating-down  tendency  to  meet 
than  has  ever  been  the  case  before. 
In­
deed,  the  change 
is 
greater  than  most  realize— the  bargain­
ing  of  a  few  years  ago  would  not  be  tol­
erated  in  many  of  our  stores  at  the 
present.  Why  should  the  same  spirit 
be  tolerated  in  our advertising?

in  this 

regard 

Buyers  now  want  the  right  quality  at 
the  right  price.  To  put  the  price  too 
low  in  many  cases  spoils  the  sale  for the 
reason  that  it  engenders  a  distrust  as  to 
quality.  The  price  feature  is  as  valu­
able  in  advertising  as  it  ever  was—we 
wish  to  know  what  our  money will buy— 
but  it  by  no means  follows  that  our wish 
is  to  find  the  cheapest  possible  pur­
consumer  is 
chase. 
learning  to  want  good  goods  and  he 
is 
coming  to  appreciate  that  he  can  pay 
the  price.  Doubtless  many  are 
yet 
appealed  to  by  the  bargain  idea,  but  the 
proportion  is  rapidly  growing  less.  The 
dealer  should  be  prompt  to  recognize 
the  change  and  should  lead  in  encoura­
ging  the  more  liberal spirit.

The  American 

*  *  *

A  well  written  and  composed  shoe  ad­
vertisement  is  that  of  Thos.  A.  Welsh. 
In spite  of the  story  being  pretty long  to 
catch  the  casual  reader,  the  matter  is 
such  as 
is  calculated  to  interest those 
in  the  market  for shoes.  The  division

We ra n t to do the leading shoe business of Nashville,  and if oar trade inr ills 
line keeps improving as it has  been  dQtqg.  w  will 
soon have an emphatic lead.  There is a  reason for 
it.  and it is a very plain one.  Weave honestly sail­
ing better shoes,  more up-to date and in  every  way 
just, what they ought to  be,  for  lees  money  than 
any.of our competitors.  Compare  onr  goods  with

SHOES

others,  end yon.will readily see the difference.

LADIES’  SHOES

The  QUEEN  QUALITY  has  already  become  tbe  unquestioned 
It is always sold for $8.00,  never more,  never  less, and  it ia 
leader. 
easilyy the equal of any $4.00 shoe on the market 
It haaa style dis­
tinctively its own.  and its wearer is alwaysconsciousof being properly 
It is perfect in its dainty style,  yet  has  the  wearing  quality 
shod. 
of honest leather,  perfectly niajle.
The RICHARDSON  goods,  at $1.50. fS.OO and $».50,  are well-mad* 
Solid throughout,  and cannot be matched in Nashville at much higher 
prices.  Our personal guarantee behind evfry  i-air of them.

MENS’  SHOES

We swear by the old  reliable  Grand  Rapids  Hand  Made  Boots  and 
Shoes,  and so does every man who  has ever worn them.  The strong­
est agd best made liue of bien’s  goods  sold  in  Michigan,  bar  none. 
We can give you uanies of customers who  have worn  them  for  many 
years,  and who have given up trying to get any other shoe to equal it.

LITTLE  GENTS’  SHOES

For the coming man  we have an elegant line of fine Vici Kid and Box 
Calf' which  will stand the hard usage which growing  boys  are bound 
to give a shoe.

HISSES’  AND  CHILDREN’S   SHOES
•  We are equipped  with a most complete line!  which will be found  en­
tirely satisfactory,  both  in  quali y  and  price.  The,  Grand  Rapids 
Cordovan  is made to stand the strennons life of  school  wear,  and  al- 
ways-looks well.

When yon  want shoes,  inspect onr line.  Yott fail to do your pocket  book Jus­
tice  if yon miss doing it.

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IX

THOS.  A.  W ELSH. 

Pure  Maple  Syrup

Made in Canada and  kept daring thé summer  in cold  storage  so 

that it has that peculiar spring flavor as thu’ it just came 

from  the  “Sugar  Bosh.”

Gallon  Cans  each____...................... .........................$ 1 . 4 0
Half-Gallon  Cans  each..................„..................... .......... 7 5 c
Quart  Cans  each__________________ _____ ______ 4 0 c
Maple  Sugar  per  ft).............................. ............................| 4 c

10 Per Cent. Discount.

As a special inducement  to  quick  purchases  I  will  discount 

(he  above  prices  10  per  cent,  until  .January  20th.

Y O U R   B O Y-

H e  should  skate—You  remember  the 
joys of your  boybodd  when  the ice was 
••glary”—W hat a good  time you used to 
have—what a healthful  sport  it  ia—Ife  
just what your boy  ought  to  be  doing—
W hen Be sake you for skates send him to

O TTO  R O S E N F E L D

SGflRflM.
Wecarry the Schism chairs, 
which bear so many  excell­
ing qualities  in  their  sim­
plicity.  This  chair has  a 1 
convolute  spring tn&Oe  of I 
9-16 inch steel,  which  car- j 
ries the seat of  ilia rocker. 
The seat and radsr of  this I 
chair do  not  come  in  coo-i 
in contact with each  other, j 
thus avoiding  any  squeak- 1 
ing  or  other  objectionable 1 
noise when it is rocked.  It < 
has tbe softest  and  easiest 
rock of any  rocker  on  the 
market.
Yours for chain of any kind, i

J. W. MdUtewson.

Wall

Paper

We  are  agent» for 
the  Pittsburg  Walt 
Paper Co.  This means 
a lot when it comes to 
styles and prices.

AJMiriswold

into  paragraphs,  thus 
reducing  the 
length  of  each  branch  advertised,  serves 
to  obviate  tbe  objection  of too  much- 
matter.  The  printer  has  done  well  to 
adhere  to  one  style  of  letter and  to  give 
the  paragraphs  plenty  of  white— a  good 
advertisement  for a  long  one.

The  maple  sugar  advertisement  of 
Geo.  A.  Robbins  is  another  business­
like  production  which  will  command 
attention  and  probably  bring  trade. 
Whether  the  offer of  discount  will  serve 
as  an  inducement  can  only  be  deter­
mined  by 
the  results.  The  writing 
comes  to  the  point  in  the  simplest  and 
most  direct way  and  is well proportioned 
to  the  space.  Tbe  printer’s  work  is 
good—the  only  suggestion  1  would  make 
is  the  bringing  the  items  and  prices 
nearer  each  other,  so  as  to  have  two  or 
three  picas  of  white  space  at  each  end. 
The  display  is well proportioned and  the 
engraved  signature  effective.

Another  eye  catcher 

is  that  of  Otto 
Rosenfeld,  who  says  just  enough  and 
in  the  right  way.  The  printer’s  work 
leaves  nothing  to  be  desired.  The  use 
of  white  is  especially  judicious.

Another  well  told story is  that  of J.  W. 
Mathewson,  and  in  this  the  printer  has 
also  shown  good 
I  would 
strike  out  the  first  word  or two  of  the 
last  sentence  to  make  a  model  in  that 
line.

judgment. 

A.  B.  Griswold  tells  his  story  in  the 
fewest  possible  words,  but  leaves  noth­
ing  unsaid—another good advertisement.

Some Tactical  W ays  o f  Wise  M erchants.
He  never  looks  bored  across  the  coun­

ter.

He  is  not  fussy  and  demonstrative 

in 

his  politeness.

He  does  not  dispute  with  customers; 
is 

he  knows  that  “ to  win  the  argument 
to  lose  the  sale. ’ ’

He  does  not  pretend  to  know it a ll;  he 
flatters  tbe  customer  by  conveying  tbe 
impression  that  he  is  absorbing  wisdom 
from  him.

He  is  not  ungenerous  in  bis comments 
on  competitors.  He  recognizes  the  value 
of  “ damning  with  faint  praise;’ ’  he 
carries  conviction  to  his  hearer that gen­
erous  mention  of a  rival  is  an  index  of 
his own  prosperous  and  untroubled  suc­
cess.

He  does  not  parade  his  personal  ex­
travagances,  if he  has  any ;  for  he  knows 
there  are  more  men  of economical  habit 
than  spendthrift  fools  in  the  world,  and 
he  wants  to  hold  the  respect  of  the  good 
housekeeper.

He  does  not  call  those  who  disagree 
with  him  “ cranks, ”   for  he  knows  that 
everybody, 
is  a 
“ crank”   in  some  degree.

including  himself, 

B nalneu  Maxims.

Do  not  rest  satisfied  in  the  belief  that 
you  control  the  trade  and  that  it  is  sure 
to  remain  with  you  without  effort.

Buy  within  your  means,  then  you  are 
sure  to  be  able  to pay  in like proportion.
Be  always _ as  good  as  your  word. 
Your  reputation  for  memory  and  con­
scientiousness  depends  upon  it.

Few  men  are  so  constituted  that  im­
pressive  airs  and  haughty demeanor  will 
draw  them  trade.

A  serious,  attentive  demeanor  while 
you  are  waiting  on  customers will insure 
you  their  respect.

Nine  times  out  of  ten  it  is  safer to 
give  credit  to  the  poorly-clad  person 
than  to the  over-dressed  swell.

Never  decry  your  opposition. 

It  is 
tangible  evidence  that  you feel  sore  over 
his  power to  secure  trade  from  you.

Be  popular  if  you  have  the  power to 
be  so,  Dut  always  remember  that  kind­
ness  and  sociability  afford  the  keynote.
Keep  your  credit  good  by  using  it 
sparingly.  It  is  like  your  bank  account, 
the  more  you  use  it  the  weaker  it  be­
comes.

When' a  man  is ashamed  to  look  in  a 
mirror  it  is  a  safe  bet  that his  wife 
bought  bis necktie.

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We Are Advertised by Our

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Loving Friends

CONRAD  H.  SMITH. 
J .  HENRY  SMITH.

ESTABLISHED  1859.

P e t e r   Sm it h   &   So n s ,

Wholesale  and  Commission 

BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, TEAS, 
COFFEES, DELICATESSEN.

IMPORTERS.

Office  and  Salesrooms:

18 to 22 Gratiot  A venue,

DETROIT, MICH.,  Jan.  6,  1902.

Telfer Coffee Co.,

City,

My Dear Mr.  Telfer 

When I wrote you a year ago giving you the number of 

pounds of  coffee sold in 1900  I had no  idea that the year  1901 would 
show so great an increase as  it does.

In 1900 we sold a little over 70000 pounds,  in 1901 however we  sold 
over 100000 pounds of roasted coffee,  every pound of  it  coming from your 
establishment and nearly every pound of  it went over our counters  in from 
1 to 10 pound lots direct to the  consumer.

Taking into  consideration the short  time we have been engaged in the 

coffee business we think this a remarkable showing and it*s one we are  just­
ly proud of.

In reviewing this part  of our business we are reminded of the fact that 
in 1898 our sales were about 30000 pounds,  and in the first half  of  1899 we 
sold about 18000 pounds.

We had a great deal of  trouble with our coffees; the complaint was 

««the  last  coffee was not  like  it was before"•

If you remember it was about July 1st.  1899 we sought your advice; 

you changed our blends and from that time on our coffee trade began to grow.
The  end is not y e t ; in fact  I feel that we have  just  commenced,  and the 

year 1902 will  show a greater increase than 1901 did over 1900.

We have done and are doing some good advertising,  we have the best 

clerks  in the  city of Detroit,  we have the best and most up-to-date store 
in the  city of Detroit; but  if we did not have quality and uniformity in our 
coffee good advertising,  the best clerks or an up-to-date store would not 
sell  the goods.

Our coffee business  is a source of pleasure as well as profit.
I beg to remain,

Yours Respectfully,

W e want one  energetic  merchant  in  every  town  in  the  United  States  to  handle  our  line  of 
If you  have  the  push  we  will  guarantee  to  get  the  coffee  business  for  you.  W e 
Coffees. 
will  be  glad  to  send  samples  and  quotations.  Coffees  from  8^2 
to  36c,  and  nothing  but 
Coffees.

TELFER  COFFEE  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Blissfield— H.  E.  Morrow  has  retired 
from  the  general  merchandise  firm  of 
Ellis  &  Morrow.

Fremont— Ernest  H.  Forbes  succeeds
E.  P.  Hopper  in  the  grocery  and  com­
mission  business.

Alpena— Hawley  &  Fitzgerald’s  dry 
goods  store  is  receiving  extensive  inter-1 
ier improvements.
v Flint—rE.  W.  Howard  has  engaged  in 
the e wall  paper  and  paint  business  at 

Saginaw  street.

H 

Around  the State

Movements of Merchants.

Bella ire— W.  F.  Hobbs  has  sold  his 

bazaar  stock  to A.  B.  Large.
-  Eureka—Geo.  W.  Manning  has  sold 
his grocery  stock  to  Guy  S.  Eagle.

Chesaning—A.  Cameron  &  Cox  suc­
ceed  Henry  H.  Darby  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Xamden—S.  W.  Houtz,  of  the  mer­
cantile  firm  of  S.  W.  Houtz  &  Son,  is 
dead.

sold  out 

-Ithaca— E.  F.  Brewer,  confectioner 
to  Ray 

and  baker,  has 
Maloney.
.  Alpena— Chas.  Gengerke  has  pur­
chased  the  Vienna  bakery  of  Adolph 
Schneider.

Alpena— David  Holmes  has  added  a 
line  of  drugs  to  his  State  street 

full 
grocery  stock.

Woodland— Wolcott  &  McNaughton, 
meat  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship»  Mr.  McNaughton  retiring.

Camden— Rice  Bros.,  furniture  deal­
ers  and  undertakers,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  Kay  Rice  succeeding.
-  Otsego—C.  I.  Clapp  has  been  ap­
pointed  trustee  for  the  dry  goods  and 
groeery  firm  of  A.  W.  Hartman  &  Co.
Benton  Harbor—The  Farmers  and 
Merchants’  Bank  has 
its 
capital  stock  from  $100,000  to  $125,000.
Champion— Jacob  Levine  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner,  A. 
Nord,  in  the  grocery  firm  of  Levine  & 
Nord.

increased 

Three  Rivers— J.  E.  Reitz  &  Son, 
in  vehicles,  have  dissolved. 
is  continued  by  Wm. 

dealers 
The  business 
Reitz.

Ithaca— Parrish  &  Watson  have  in­
stalled  a  new  line  of  showcases,  fitted 
with  a  sliding  top  invented,  by  Mr. 
Parrish.

Alma— Sbarrar  & . Mulholland  are  re­
fitting  their  drug  store  with  new  shelv­
ing  and  showcases  manufactured  by  a 
local house.
¿ ..GoralfryWaitat and  William  Andrews 
have opened  a  general store  four  miles 
east  of  this place.  The  style  of the  new 
firm  is  Andrews  Bros.

Perry—Colby  &  Osborn,  dealers  in 
hardware, 
implements  and  hay,  have 
dissolved  partnership.  The  business  is 
continued  by  Colby  &  Dunning.

Lansing—Arbaugh  &  Cameron  have 
purchased  the  Litche  bazaar  stock  from 
Gottlieb  Ziegler and  have removed same 
to  their  store  on  Washington  avenue.
Conklin—Robert  Bervitz  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Willis  Harvey  in 
the  hardware  firm  of  Harvey  &  Bean. 
The  new  firm  will  add  a  line  of  gro­
ceries. 

'

Fremont—J.  Pikaart  has  sold  an  in­
terest  in  his  general  store  here  to  his 
brother,  Cornelius,  of  Grand  Rapids, 
and  hereafter  the"store  will  be  known as 
Pikaart  Brothers.

Nashville—F.  M.  Quick  has  pur­
chased  the  David  Wells  grocery  stock ; 
also the  store  building  owned  by  E.  H. 
-"Van  Nocket,  to  which  location  he  will 
re cào ve Ili s  stock.5 ' '

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

Alpena— Theodore  Laubengayer,  em­
ployed  for  the  past  six  years  as  mana­
ger of  Bostwick’s  drug  store,  will  move 
to  St.  Charles,  where  he  has  purchased 
the  Central  drug  store.

Fenton—Charles  and  Eugene  Hodge, 
of  Hartland,  have  purchased  the  agri­
cultural 
implement stock  of  the  late  D.
M.  Horton  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Olivet— The  hardware firm  of  Morford 
&  Pickle  has  been  dissolved.  H.  R. 
Miller  has  purchased  the 
interest  of 
Mr.  Pickle  and  the  business  will  be 
resumed  under the  new  partnership.

Lowell—W.  A.  Covert  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  grocery  firm  of  Price  & 
Covert  to  G.  W.  McKee,  who  was  for­
merly  engaged  in  trade  at  Alto.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Price  & 
McKee.

Hillsdale—The  Hillsdale  Mercantile 
Co.  has  been  organized  by Delmer Fast, 
A.  L.  Guernsey  and  M.  W.  Jones,  to 
engage  in  general  trade.  The  corpora­
tion  has  an  authorized  capital  stock 
of  $10,000.

Manistee—A.  Rosenthal,  of  Traverse 
City,  has 
leased  the  building  at  394 
East  River  street,  now  occupied  by  O. 
J.  Wangen,  and  will  open  some  time  in 
March  with  a 
line  of  clothing,  dry 
goods  and  shoes.

Petoskey— B.  W.  Stark,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  for 
the  past  forty  years,  twenty  years  of  the 
time  having  been  spent  at  this  place, 
has  sold  his  dry  goods  and  notion  stock 
to C.  Z.  Pote,  of  Pennsylvania.

Ann  Arbor—E.  F.  Mills  has  formed 
a  partnership  with  Warren  W.  Wad- 
hams  and  will  open  a  ladies’  garment 
store,including  a  millinery  department, 
at  118  South  Main  street  about  March 
20 under the  style  of  E.  F.  Mills  &  Co.
Vernon—Charles  J.  Shaw  writes  the 
Tradesman  that  he  has  not  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  Edward  Easier  and 
expects  to  continue  the  business.  He 
owns  a  branch  implement  establishment 
at  Durand 
in  partnership  with  W.  N. 
Cole.

Rapid  City—Meyer  Bros.,  who  have 
conducted  a  hardware  and 
farming 
implement  business  at  this  place  for 
the  past  three  years,  have  sold  their 
stock  to  John  Wright,  of  Ludington, 
who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Hillsdale—Albert  W.  Dimmers  has 
purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  grocery 
stock  of  J.  W.  Whitney  and  the  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  under  the  style 
of  Whitney  &  Dimmers.  Mr.  Dimmers 
has  been  employed  as  clerk  by  Mr. 
Whitney  for the  past six  years.

stores, 

Ludington— David Clavette and Charles 
clerks  at  the  Forslind 
Bloom,  head 
Bros,  and  Adam  Drach 
re­
spectively,  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  to  engage  in  the  general  merchan­
dise  business  and  are  negotiating  for 
the  purchase  of  the  two  stores  of  Stan­
ley  &  Young  at  Maple  City  and  Cedar 
City.

Port  Huron— J.  W.  Goulding  cele­
brated  his  51st  birthday  last  Sunday. 
Mr.  Goulding  was  bom  in  Watertown,
N.  Y.,  and  grew up  and  attended  school 
there  and  afterwards  entered  a  store  as 
clerk.  He  came  to  Port  Huron  and 
helped  establish  the  99-cent  store 
in 
1875  and  has  been  in  business  continu­
ously  since  that  time.  The  store 
is 
one  of  the  largest  in  Port  Huron.

Alma— The  hardware  firm  of  Thomp­
son  &  Sanderhoff,  composed  of  C.  O. 
Thompson  and  Otto  Sanderhoff,  has 
been  dissolved.  G.  R.  Thompson,  of 
Milford,  has  formed  a  copartnership

with  Mr.  Sanderhoff  and  the  business 
will  be  continued  under 
its  former 
style.  The  new  member  of  the  firm 
has  traveled  for  the  Warder,  Bushnell  & 
Glessner  Co.,  of  Chicago,  for a  number 
of  years.

Lansing— J.  M. 

Cameron,  who 
founded  the  business  now  conducted  by 
Cameron  &  Arbaugh,  has  returned  from 
his  trip  to  the  West.  He  has  decided  to 
locate  in  Greeley,  Col.,  where  he  will 
open  a  store  similar to  the  one  be  con­
ducted  here.  Mr.  Cameron  has  bought 
a  home  in  Greeley,  occupying  two  and 
one-half  acres  of  land,  and  has  taken  a 
store  building  opposite  the  postoflice 
in  Greeley.

Lowell— M.  C.  Griswold  has  sold  his 
in  the  Lowell  State  Bank  to ; 

interest 
James  A.  Marsh,  Cashier of  the  Com­
mercial  State  Bank  of  Constantine, 
and  his  son,  William  E.  Marsh,  who 
has  resigned his  position in  the  Bankers 
National  Bank  of  Chicago,  from  which 
institution  he  comes  highly  recom­
mended,  to  accept  the  cashiership  of 
the  Lowell  State  Bank.  Mr.  Griswold, 
having 
sold  his  stock,  resigned  his 
office  as  President  and  his  seat  on  the 
board.  Charles  McCarty  was  elected 
President  to  fill  the  vacancy  created  by 
the  resignation  of  Mr.  Griswold;  Geo. 
W.  Parker  Vice-President,  to  fill  .the 
vacancy  created  by  the  election  of  Mr. 
McCarty  to  the  presidency,  and  W.  E. 
Marsh  Cashier.

M anufacturing M atters.

Bear  Lake—The  Bear  Lake  Creamery 
Co.  recently  paid  a  dividend  of  20  per 
cent.

Owosso— The  Owosso Carriage Co.  has 
increased  its  capital  stock  from  $50,000 
to $100,000.

Constantine— The  Michigan  Desk 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $10,000.

Pontiac— The  Price  Varnish  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association.  The  capi­
tal  stock  is $20,000.

Battle  Creek— The  Battle  Creek
Breakfast  Food  Co.  is  the  latest,  with 
$1,000,000 authorized  capital  stock.

Jackson—The  Novelty  Leather  Works 
is  the  style  of  a  new  enterprise  at  this 
place.  The  capital  stock  is  $25,000.

Reading—Orris  Gibbons  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  bis  partner  in  the 
flouring  mill  firm  of  Divine  & Gibbons.
Battle  Creek—The  Grocers’  Specialty 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized 
with  a  nominal  capital stock of $750,000.
Battle  Creek—The  Jebb  Medicine 
Co.  has  filed  amended  articles  of  asso­
ciation, increasing its  capital  stock  from 
$50,000 to $300,000.

Pinconning— The  promoter  who  has 
the  sugar  factory  in  hand  has 
informed 
the  people  of  this  village  that  he  will 
begin  work  on  the  building  about  Sep­
tember  1.  He  first  asks  the  village  peo­
ple  to  secure  enough  acreage  and to take 
a  reasonable  amount  of  stock,  all  of 
which  he  wants  done  by  June  of  this 
year.

Alma— Enough 

subscriptions  have 
been  secured  to  a  stock  company  to 
make  practically  certain  the  establish­
ment of  a  knitting  factory  at  this  place. 
The  new  industry  will  start  with  thirty 
persons  employed.

Elk  Rapids—The  American Construc­
tion  Machine  Co.  has  been  organized 
here  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
machines  to  construct  hollow  cement 
walls.  H.  B.  Lewis  of the  Elk  Rapids 
Iron  Co. 
is  the  manager  and  F.  B. 
Moore  is  Treasurer.

Benton  Harbor—A  new 

food  com­
pany  to  be  known  as  the  Sanitary  Food 
Co.,  Ltd.,  has  been  organized  here  by 
S.  H.  Lynn,  of  Marshall,  with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $500,000,  one-half  of  whigh 
is  paid 
is  f)^e 
name  of  the  new  food  to  be  manufac­
tured  and  placed  on  the  market.  Mr. 
Lynn  has  $50,000  of  stock  in  the  new 
company.

“ Avena  Malta”  

in. 

in 

Bay  City—The  affairs  of  the  German- 
American  Sugar  Co.,  a  co-operative 
concern,  are  considerably  involved,  and 
it  now  seems  probable  that  a long  series 
of  suits  will  tie  up  the  concern.  The 
American  Copper,  Brass  &  Iron  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  the  contractor, 
is  expecting 
trouble 
its  attempt  to  collect,  and 
batches  of  liens  are  being  served  on 
the  company  by  those  who  have  ad­
vanced  amounts  of  material  and 
labor.
Detroit— KreutlerBros.,  manufacturers 
of  shoe  lasts,  have  filed  articles  of  asso­
ciation  under  the  corporate  style  of 
Kreutler  Bros.  Co.  The  stock  is  capi­
talized  at $50,000,  of  which  $35,000  has 
been  paid 
in.  The  stock  consists  of
5,000  shares  of  the  par  value  of  $10 
each  and  is  held  b y :  Edwin  O.  Kreut­
ler,  1,400  shares;  George  A.  Kreutler, 
1,400  shares;  George  F.  Kreutler,  650 
shares;  Walter  A.  Kreutler,  50  shares; 
Edwin O.  Kreutler,  trustee,  1,500 shares. 
All  the  stockholders  are  of  Detroit.

soon 

Caro—As 

as  warm  weather 
comes  the  work  of  doubling the capacity 
of  the  beet  sugar  factory  here  will  be 
begun.  The  capacity  of  the  plant  after 
the  improvements  have  been  made  will 
be  1,000  tons  of  beets  per  day,  which 
will  make  it  the  largest  in  the  State. 
The  enlargement  will  necessitate  the 
securing  ofcontracts  for  raising  10,000 
acres  of  beets,  but  no  difficulty  is  an­
ticipated  along  this  line,  as  the  farm­
ers  of  Tuscola  county  are  thoroughly 
well  satisfied  with  their  past  experience 
in  raising  beets.

On what is  stated  to  be  good  authority 
is  reported  that  the  malady  which 
it 
affects  Admiral  Sampson 
is  softening 
of  the  brain  with  degeneration  of  the 
arterial  system.  The  wasting  away  of 
the  brain  tissues 
is  due to  the  lack-of 
blood  nourishment.  This  has  brought 
on  a  condition  of  aphasia  of  the  brain, 
which  has  resulted  in  the  partial  loss  of 
speech.  The  power  to  speak  is restored 
from  time  to time,  but  for  the  most  part 
Admiral  Sampson  appears to  have  en­
tirely  lost  the  ability  to  articulate.  The 
weakened  arteries  are  liable  to  burst  at 
any  time,  causing  a  rush  of  blood  to  the 
bead  and  bringing  on  death  by  apo­
plexy.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The G rain  M arket.

really  only  about 

Wheat,  owing  to  the  better  markets  in 
London  and  Liverpool  and  the  small 
amount  on  passage,  opened  rather 
strong,  and  this  steadied  the  market 
considerably.  However,  later  it  weak­
ened  on  softer  weather,  so  the  market 
is 
ic  per  bushel 
higher than  it  was  last  week.  The  vis­
ible  made  a  fair  decrease  of  1,160,000 
bushels,  which  leaves  the  visible  about
2,000,000  bushels 
less  than  one  year 
ago.  At  present  the  market  lacks snap. 
Speculation  does  not  amount  to  any­
thing,  as  both  the  bulls  and  the  bears 
ate  awaiting  developments  at the  open­
ing  of  spring.  Should  we  have  more 
or  less  freezing  and  thawing,  prices 
would  enhance  considerably.  Receipts 
at  initial  points  have  not  been  as  large 
as  they  were  last  year.  While  our  ex­
ports  from  both  coasts  have  been  a 
trifle  less  than  4,000,000  bushels,  it  still 
shows  that  foreigners  want  our  wheat, 
especially  as  forty-three  loads  were  sold 
yesterday  in  New  York  (a  boat  load  be­
ing  8,000  bushels).

Corn  has  also  been  rather  steady. 
Owing  to  soft  weather,  the  feeding  to 
stock  has  been  less  than  if  we  had  had 
snug  winter  weather. 
I  might  add  that 
the  visible  is  6,000,000 bushels  less  than 
during the  corresponding  week  last  year 
and,  as  has  been  stated  before,  it  is  a 
long  time  until  new  com  will  be  on  the 
market.  Another  factor  is  that  Argen­
tine  had  bountiful  rains,  which  helped 
the  corn  amazingly.  The  United  States, 
of course,  can  not  expect  to  export  corn 
at  these  abnormally  high  prices.  As 
soon  as  navigation  opens,  we  look  for  a 
free  movement  to  the  Eastern  States 
from  Chicago,which  will  leave  the  mar­
ket  bare,  and  prices  may  enhance,  ow­
ing  to  the  scarcity  of  the  article.

Oats  seem  to  hold  an  even  tenor. 
They  can  not  be  moved  down  very 
much,  as  there  are  only  about  4,000,000 
bushels 
in  sight,  while  there  were  over
10,000,000  bushels  at  the  correspond­
ing  time 
last  year,  so that  cereal  will 
remain  steady  until  the  new crop  begins 
to  move.

Rye,  for  some  unaccountable  reason, 
has  kept  very  strong  during  the  week. 
The  offerings  were  accepted  as  fast  as 
made,  as  the  export  demand  is  urgent. 
Of  course,  we  all  know  Germany  had  a 
very  small  crop  of  rye,  and  as  rye  is 
used  there  more  than  wheat,  the  ex­
ports  to  that  country  are 
large.  At 
the  present  outlook,  we  can  see  nothing 
to  reduce  prices.

'Beans  have  dropped  somewhat  during 
the  week,  but  to-day  are  firmer  again, 
so  they  are  at  the  same  price  as  last 
.week.  Of  course,  the  high  price  cur­
tails  the  consumptive  demand  consid­
erably  and  that  may  affect  prices  later 
on.  At  the  moment,  we  see  nothing 
to  depress  prices  very  much  more.

Mill  feed 

is  hardly  as 

Flour  remains  steady.  The  demand 
can  not  be  said  to  be  pressing,  still 
the  mills  seem  to  dispose  of  their  out­
put,  some  of  the  orders  being  taken 
some  time  ago.  Prices  are  not  shaded.
firm  as  a 
week  ago.  However,  we  do  not  hear  of 
shading 
in  price,  which  still  remains 
$22  for bran  and  $23  for  middlings.  We 
might  add  there  will  not  be  much 
change  until  spring  opens,  when  there 
will  be  pasturage,  when  there  will  not 
be  so  much  fed  as  at  the  present  time.
Receipts  of  grain  during  the  week 
have  been  as  follow»;;  wheat,  78  cars ;
*  M 

.-.v- 

-.»i

corn,  2  cars;  oats,  3 cars;  flour,  2  cars; 
bay,  3  cars;  potatoes,  8  cars.

Mills  are  paying  83c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 

C.  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—$1.50  per  bbl.
Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Butter— Factory  creamery  is  stronger 
and  higher,  commanding  26c  for  fancy 
and  24c  for  choice.  Dairy  grades  are 
higher  and  stronger,  due  to  lessened 
receipts. 
Fancy  commands  I7@I9C. 
Choice  fetches  I5@i6c.  Packing  stock 
goes  at  13® 14c.

Cabbage—65@75c  per  doz.
Carrots—$1.25  per bbl.
Celery— 20c  per  doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $7.75 
@8  per  bbl.  ;  Waltons,$2.75 per crate  for 
fancy.

Dates—4^@Sc  per  lb.
Eggs— Receipts  are  coming  in  freely, 
but  the  demand 
is  so  strong'tbat  un­
heard  of  prices  have  ruled  at  occasional 
intervals  at  some  of  the  Eastern  mar­
kets.  The  price  touched  37c  one  day 
last  week  in  New  York  and  75c in Pitts­
burg.  Local  dealers  pay  21 ©25c.

Figs—Three  crown  Turkey  command 

lie   and  5  crown  fetch  14c.

Game— Dealers  pay  8oc@$i  for  rab­

bits.

Grapes—$4.75  per  keg  for Malagas. 
Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I3@i4c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  12® 13c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ iic.

Lemons—Californias,  $3.25@3.35  for 

either  size.

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

strong  at $1.25  per  bu.

Oranges—California  navels fetch $3.2$ 
per  box  for  fancy  and  $2.75  for  choice. 

Parsley— 30c  per  doz.
Potatoes— The  Chicago  market 

is 
weaker  than 
it  has  been  for  a  month, 
but  other  markets  are  in  better  shape 
and  are  beginning  to  ask  for  stock. 
Country  buyers  are  paying  about  58c, 
on  which  basis  there  is  a  close  working 
margin.

io@iic, 

command 

Poultry— All  kinds  are  scarce  and 
firm.  Dressed  hens  fetch  q@ioc,  chick­
ens 
turkey  hens 
fetch  I3@I4C,  gobblers  command  i i @ 
i i @I2c  and  geese 
12c,  ducks 
8@9C.  Live  pigeons  are 
in  moderate 
demand  at  50@6oc  and  squabs  at
$I.20@2.

fetch 

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

have  advanced  to  $5.

An  evening  paper  published  a  sensa­
tional  story  Monday  to  the  effect  that C. 
G.  A.  Voigt  had  acquired  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Valley  City  Milling  Co. 
by  the  purchase  of  the  holdings  of  the 
late  Conrad  G.  Swensberg.  As  the  cap­
ital  stock  of  the  corporation  is  $301,000 
and  Mr.  Swensberg's  holdings  were 
$137>5o°>  a  transfer  of  the  stock  to  one 
purchaser  would  not  affect  the  status  of 
the  present  stockholders.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  the  negotiations  to  purchase  the 
stock— which 
in­
formed  have  been  in  progress  for a year 
and  are  not  yet  concluded—contemplate 
a  division  of  the  interest  among  three 
gentlemen—one-half  to  C.  G.  A.  Voigt, 
one-quarter  to  Frank  Voigt  and  one- 
quarter  to  W.  N.  Rowe.  As  the  latter 
has  already  over  $100,000 stock  in  the 
corporation, 
in 
ownership  will  make  him  the  heaviest 
stockholder.

the  proposed  shift 

the  Tradesman 

is 

The  Grand  Rapids  Fixtures  Co.  has 
purchased  the  showcase  department  of 
the  Heyman  Company,  including  fin­
ished  and  unfinished  goods,  materials,
, hardware  fittings and  good  will.

The Grocery M arket.

Sugars—The 

raw  sugar,  market 

is 
quiet  with  but  few  sales  made.  Refin­
ers  have  moderate  stocks  and  are  not 
ready  buyers  and  prices  have  declined 
i - i 6c.  Holders,  however,  are  expecting 
higher  prices  soon  and  are  offering  but 
very  little  stock,  so  only  a  light  busi­
ness  is  transacted.  The  world’s  visible 
supply  of  raw  sugar  is  3,710,000  tons, 
showing  an  increase  of  710,000 tons over 
last  year.  The  refined  sugar  market 
is 
firmer  and  prices  have  advanced 
five  points  on  all  grades.  The  trade, 
however,  are  fairly  well  supplied  with 
sugar  and  the  demand  is  only moderate. 
The  demand  for  Michigan  beet  granu­
lated  is quite  good,  each  dealer  endeav­
oring  to  keep  some  of  the  Michigan 
sugar  in  stock  as  long  as  there  is  any  to 
be  had.

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  is  in  good  condition.  Stocks  of 
almost  all  lines  are  light,  and  any  very 
heavy  demand  on  the  part  of the retailer 
would  necessitate  the  purchasing  of 
further  supplies.  There  is  still  consid­
erable 
interest  manifested  in  tomatoes, 
both  spot  and  future.  The  majority  of 
the  trade,  however,  have  made  some 
purchases  of  futures,but will  buy  further 
supplies  when  the  goods  are  offered 
more  freely.  Some  packers  have  not 
even  named  prices  yet  and  many  buy­
ers  are  waiting  to  see  what  their  prices 
will  be  before  purchasing  of  any  one. 
Spot  tomatoes  ate  in  good  demand  and 
prices  are  firmly  held.  The  com  mar­
ket  continues  very  quiet.  No  one  seems 
to  be  at  all 
interested  in  it.  Strong 
efforts  have  been  made  to  boost  the 
market,  but  without  success.  Present 
quotations  are  very  low  for this  time  of 
year,  especially  with  tomatoes  selling 
at  the  present  high  price. 
It  is  a  very 
unusual  thing  for corn  to  remain  quiet 
while  tomatoes  are  so  active.  Offerings 
of  future  peas  are  rather  scarce  at  pres­
ent,  some  packers  being  reported  well 
sold  up.  Most  Wisconsin  packers  have 
withdrawn  from  the  market.  Spot  peas 
are  in  slightly  better  demand,  with  both 
the  standard  and  better  grades  enquired 
for.  Stocks  of  3  pound  and  gallon  ap­
ples  are  both  very  light  and  prices  are 
firmly  held.  Peaches are  in  fair  demand 
at  unchanged  prices. 
Lima  beans, 
string  beans  and  baked  beans  are  all 
very  quiet,  with  practically  no  demand 
at  all  at  present.  This  applies  also 
to  the  small  fruits.  There 
is  a  good 
healthy  demand  for  salmon  and  hold­
ers  express  confidence  in  the  immediate 
future  of  the  market.  Stocks  are  only 
moderate,  with  the  probability  that  in 
a  few  weeks  they  will  be  cleaned  up  to 
such  an  extent that  there  will  be  consid­
erable  buying 
for  immediate  wants. 
Sardines  are  quiet  and  unchanged.

is  considerable 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  firm  on  almost  all  lines,  with  stocks 
light.  There 
interest 
in  prunes  and  heavy  pur­
manifested 
chases  have  been  made 
in  expectation 
of  higher  prices  shortly.  The  following 
statistics  regarding  the  prune  situation 
have  just  been  received  from  the  coast: 
“ Prunes  on  hand  in  California  a  year 
ago  this  time,  3,200 cars;  the  1901  crop 
in  California  was  2,500  cars;  total,  old 
and  new,  5,700  cars.  There  were  on 
hand in Oregon  last  year at this  time  300 
cars;  the  1901  crop 
in  Oregon  and 
Washington  was  1,000  cars,  making  a 
total  of  1,300  cars.  Total  prunes,  old 
and  new,  available  for  last  year,  7,000 
cars;  total  amount  on  hand  in  Califor­
nia  to-day,  600 cars  and  in  Oregon  150 
cars;  total  amount  available  on  the 
coast  to-day,  750  cars.  This  would

show  the  total  consumption  of  Califor­
nia,  Oregon  and  Washington  prunes 
from  Feb.  1,  1901,  to  Feb.  1,  1902, 
6,250  cars.  Now,  the  total  amount  on 
hand  to-day  of  750  cars  must  last  for 
the  next  nine  months,  until  the  new 
crop  comes  in.  A  year  ago  at this  time 
there  was  no  demand  from  Europe,  as 
they  had  not  finished  eating  up  their 
big  crop  of  1900.  Their  1901  crop  was 
very  short.  Consequently,  for  the  last 
six  months,  they  have  been  very  heavy 
buyers  of  California  prunes.”   Taking 
the  above  facts  into  consideration,  it 
looks  as  if  higher  prices  for  prunes  in 
the  near  future  were  an  assured  fact. 
Loose  muscatel  raisins  are  quiet  and 
unchanged.  Seeded  are 
in  moderate 
request  at  previous  prices.  The  stocks 
of  peaches  and  apricots  are  very  light 
both  here  and  on  the  coast,  and  it  is 
predicted  that  prices  on  apricots  will 
advance  fully 
ic  per  pound  within  the 
next  thirty  days  and  J£c on  peaches. 
Dates  are  in  good  position  and  prices 
are  very  firmly  held.  Stocks are  smaller 
than  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year  and 
no 
looked  for  in  the 
near  future.  Figs  are  also selling  well 
at  unchanged prices.  Evaporated apples 
are  in moderate  demand  with  no  change 
in  price.

lower  prices  are 

Rice— Trade 

in  rice  is  rather  quiet, 
sales  being  of  small  lots  for  immediate 
requirements.  These  small  orders,  how­
ever,  aggregate  quite  a  fair  business 
and  are  sufficient  to  keep  prices  steady. 
Spot  stocks  of  all  grades  are  fair,  with 
medium  sorts  becoming  rather  scatce 
and  the  tendency  of  prices  gradually 
hardening.

Tea— The  tea  market  is  rather  quiet 
and  buying  is  of  the  hand-to-mouth  or­
der.  Prices  are  very  firm  for  green 
teas  and  black  teas  are  firm  in  sympa­
thy.  Spot  supplies  are  moderate  and 
with  the  statistical  position  strong,  par­
ticularly  for  green  teas,  lower prices  are 
not  expected.

Molasses  and  Syrups—Trade  in  mo­
lasses 
is  quiet,  prices  being  a  trifle 
higher  than  buyers’  views  and,  conse­
quently,  few  sales  are made.  No conces­
sions  in  prices  are  made,  however,  as 
the  supply  of  good  sound  molasse» is 
light,  and  owing  to  reports  that  the 
trade  is lightly  stocked,dealers  were  not 
anxious 
sellers,  anticipating  higher 
prices  in  the  near  future.  There  is  a 
very  good  demand  for  corn  syrup  in 
both  barrels  and  cans.

Fish— Fish  of  all  kinds  is  in  good de­
mand  and  the  market  on  some  varieties 
shows  quite  an  advance  on  account  of 
the  short  supply.  Mackerel  and'codfish 
are  both  firmly 
and  are  In  good
demand.

Nuts—There 

is  a  fair  demand  for 
nuts,  with prices  on  most  varieties  firm­
ly  held.  California  walnuts  are  in  very 
good  demand  at  full  prices.  Almonds 
and 
filberts  both  show  considerable 
firmness  under  good  demand.  Peanuts 
are  unchanged  in  price,  but  the  demand 
is  rather  light  just  at  present.

Rolled  Oats—-The  rolled  oats  market 
is  quiet  and  prices  show  a  reduction  of 
15c  on  barrels  and  5c on  cases.

Lindenschmidt  &  Hudsonhiltz  have 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  the  corner  of 
East  Leonard  street  and  North  College 
avenue.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Colwood—John  L.  Winchester  has 
sold  his  general  merchandise  stock  to 
Claude  D.  and  Florence  I.  Andrews.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

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

6

B IB L E  AND  SCIENCE.

No  Conflict Betw een  Theology  and  Spec­

ulation.

Win.  Connor,  the  veteran  clothing 
salesman,  who  is  an  officer and  member 
of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Good 
Shepherd,  delivered  another of  his  dis­
courses  last  Sunday  evening,  as  follows :
“ Every  Scripture  inspired  of  God  is 
also  profitable  for  teaching,  for  reproof, 
for correction,  for  instruction  which 
is 
in  righteousness :  that the  man  of  God 
may  be  complete,  furnished  completely 
unto  every  good  work. ” — II  Timothy, 
3d  Chapter,  16th  and  17th  verses.

The  Bible  is  “ profitable  for  teaching, 
for  reproof,  for  correction,  for  instruc 
•tioq  which  is  in  righteousness.”   Yes, 
assuredly;  but  I  do  not  find  that  it 
claims 
to  be  profitable  for  scientific 
study.  The  man  of  God  is by  it  “ fur 
nished  completely  unto  every  good 
work.”   Yes,  assuredly;  but  I  do  not 
find  that  be  is  by  it  furnished  even  par 
tially  unto  the  conclusions  of  philo 
sophic  enquiry. 
I  am  quite  sure  that 
many  needless  difficulties  have  arisen 
from  the  prevalence  of  a  narrow  and 
mechanical  view  of 
inspiration,  and 
that  such  difficulties  would  often  be  re­
moved  by  a  frank  recognition  of  the 
truth  that  God  allowed  the  writers of  the 
Bible  to  write  as  men,  each  with  his 
individuality  distinctly  impressed  upon 
bis  work ;  each,  while  delivering  God’s 
message  and  guided  by  God’s  spirit, 
yet  using 
the  ordinary  phenomenal 
language  of  his  day  as  to  matters  of 
science  (and,  indeed,  in  no  other  way 
would  he  have  been  intelligible  to  his 
contemporaries);  each  unerringly  led  to 
the  truth  it  was  God’s  will  he  should 
announce  for the  practical  guidance  of 
His  people,  but  not  made supernaturally 
cognizant  of  the  mysteries  of  the  uni­
verse  nor of  the  annals  of  universal  his­
tory.  Do  not  let  us  go to  the  Bible  for 
what  it  was  never  meant  to  teach—that 
will  save  us  something.

to  be  at  present  more  than  a  highly 
probable  speculation;  but  undoubtedly 
there  are  facts  and  arguments  in  its  fa­
vor  which  it  would  be  foolish  to  despise 
and  which,  to  many  scientific  men,  ap­
pear to  possess all but conclusive weight 
Now  what  has  the  Christian,  who  be­
lieves  in  his  Bible,to  say  to this?  There 
are  some  devout  men  who  will  say, 
“ This  and  all  like  speculations  are  di­
rectly  against  God’s  word  and,  there 
fore,  utterly  untrue  and  absurd. 
I  can 
not even  consent  to  argue  about  them  as 
if  there  were  any  possibility  of  their 
acceptance!  Nay,  this  is  not  the  spirit 
which  is  likely  to  arrive  at  truth.  Have 
we  so  utterly  forgotten  the 
injury  done 
to the  cause  of  religion  by  tbe  stolid  re­
sistance  of the  church  in  former days  to 
the  discoveries  of  astronomy  as  opposed 
to the  Bible? 
Is  it  so  long  ago— since 
we  heard  silly  denunciations  uttered 
against  geology  because  it  taught  that 
the  “ days”   of  creation  signify  vast  pe­
riods  of time  and  cast doubts on tbe pop­
ular  belief  that  the  fossils  of  our  rocks 
were  carried  there  by  the  universal  del­
uge— we  have  read  our  Bibles  wrongly 
before, we  may  be  reading  them  wrongly 
now? 
I  have  called  the  language  of the 
Bible  upon  physical  matters  “ phenom­
enal”   because  that  language 
is  most 
evidently  not  meant  to  teach  scientific 
truth  nor  to  help  scientific  discovery 
but  is  the  language  of  appearances, 
describing  things  (as  all  languages  does 
popularly)  not  as  they  are,  but  as  they 
seem. 
if  the  writers  of 
God's  Word  had  been  inspired  to  speak 
of  things  as  they  are 
in  the  truth  of 
God’s  own  Divine  knowledge,  the  mode 
of  speaking  would  have  been  wholly  un­
intelligible  to  man.  The  speculations 
of  Berkeley,  Hamilton  and  Mill, 
to 
name  only  a  few  of  the  more  familiar of 
our  philosophical  writers,  are  sufficient 
to  show  how  little  we  know  of things  be­
yond  mere  phenomena.

I  presume, 

The  subject  I  have  taken  in  hand, 
namely,  the  Bible  in 
its  relation  to 
science,  is  so  vast  that  I  must  try  and 
narrow  it  by  selecting  some  one  point 
for  illustration : 
I  suppose  some  of  us 
have  been  brought  up  in  the  old-fash­
ioned  belief  which  seemed  to  our  fore 
fathers  to  rest  so  clearly  on  the  author 
Ity  of  the  Bible,  that  God  created  man 
upon  the  earth  as  a  totally  new  and 
hitherto  unknown  being,  essentially 
different  from  all  other  creatures, 
in 
full-grown  stature  and  complete  moral 
and  intellectual development,about  4,000 
years  before  the Christian Era :  but  none 
of  us  can  be  ignorant  of  modern  specu­
lations  as  to  the  origin  of  man  of  a  very 
different  character  from  this  old-fash­
ioned  belief.  Of  all  these  speculations 
the  most  prominent,  as  well  as  the  most 
startling,  is  that  which 
is  propounded 
by  the  advocates  of  evolution,  who  hold 
that  all  living  creatures  have  been  de­
veloped  out  of  earlier and  less  perfect 
forms,  so  that,  if  we  had  the  power to 
trace  the  almost 
links  of the 
chain,  we  should  find  man's  true  origin 
in  the  very  lowest  and  simplest  creature 
in  which  life  existed  at  all,  each 
living 
thing  in  succession  having  the  capacity 
for  improvement  bestowed  upon  it  and, 
by  the  survival  of the  fittest  in the strug­
gle  for  life,  by  the  informing  agencies 
of  external  circumstances,  and  by  other 
constantly  operating 
laws  of  Nature, 
being  able  to develop,  in  long ages,  into 
a  higher and  more  perfect  type  of  exist­
ence  until  at  last  we  arrive  at  the  won­
derful  being—man. 
I  am  not  sure  that 
our  best  scientific  men  would  hold  this 
theory  to  be  as  yet finally  established  or

infinite 

Thus  God’s  Word,  in  abstaining  from 
scientific  revelations, is simply  adapting 
tself  to  our  understanding  in  the  same 
way  that  it  does  when  it  speaks  of  God 
Himself  in  antbromorphic 
language, 
ascribing  to  Him  the  members  of a  hu­
man  body,that  we  may  see,  as  it  were, 
on  the  wall  a  shadow  of  His  actions. 
We  have  made  mistakes  in  the  past  by 
not  discerning  these  things  and  by 
in­
terpreting  the  words  of  Scripture  with 
an  over-rigid  literalism.  Let  us  beware 
lest  we  fall  into  tbe  same mistake again. 
What  I  plead  against  is  a  hasty  denun 
ciation  of  what  may  some  day  be proved 
to  be  founded  on  truth,  a  contemptuous 
rejection  of  theories  which  we  may 
some  day  learn  to  accept  as  freely,  and 
with  as  little  sense  of  inconsistency with 
God's  Word,  as  we  now  accept  the  true 
theory  of  the  earth’s  motion  around  the 
sun  or  the  long  duration  of  the  geologi­
cal  epochs.

They 

say,  “ Religion 

But  there  is  another  attitude  which 
some  take  up  in  regard  to  these  specu­
lations. 
and 
science  occupy  wholly  different  spheres 
in  no  way  intermeddle  with 
and  need 
each  other.  They  revolve,  as 
it  were, 
in  different  planes  and  so  never  meet. 
Thus  we  may  pursue  scientific  studies 
in  the  utmost  freedom  and  at the  same 
time  pay  the  most  reverent  regard  to 
theology,  having  no  fears  of  collision 
because  allowing  no  points  of  contact 
I  have  never  been  able  to  understand 
this  position,  although  I  have  seen  it 
assumed.  It  seems  to  me  that  there  are, 
and  must  be,  various  points  of  contact 
between  theology  and  science,  there­
fore  frequent  danger  of  collision,  and 
that  it  is  foolish  to  ignore  or deny  this.

No  doubt  they  do  revolve  in  different 
orbits,  but  these  orbits  cut one  another 
at  certain  points;  in  other  and  simpler 
language,God speaks  to  us  by  His  Word 
and  by  His  works;  and  while,  for the 
most  part,  He  speaks  of different  mat 
ters,  in  these,  His  two  great  languages 
it  is  not  always  so.  Sometimes  he  tells 
us  about  the  same  things 
in  the  two 
languages,  and  then  we  are  bound  to 
interpret  tbe  one  by  the  other and  to  be 
very  careful  that  we  do  not  misinterpret 
either  language.  Now,  the  origin  of 
man  is  just  one  of those matters of which 
God  seems  to  speak  to  us  in  both  His 
It  is  one  of  the  points  of 
languages. 
contact  and,  as 
it  seems  at  present,  of 
possible  collision;  so  we  are  bound  to 
consider the  matter  very  carefully.
Now,  let  me,  for  argument’s 

sake, 
suppose  the  theory  of  evolution  to  be 
fully  established,  in  the  case  of  man  no 
less  than  in  the  case  of  other  living 
creatures. 
Let  me  suppose  we  are 
taught,  by  the  teachings  of  God's  band 
writing  in  His  works,  to  look  upon  man 
as  the  latest  development  of  a  structure 
and  system  of  which  we  trace  back  the 
rudiments  and  gradual  growth  through 
ten  thousand  earlier  and  progressive 
forms  of  life— what  then?  Why,  then, 
this  was  the  wonderful  way  in  which 
“ the  Lord  God  formed  man  out  of  the 
dust  of  the  ground. ”   We  then  behold 
God  creating  by  evolution  instead  of  by 
isolated  and  unconnected  acts  of  crea­
tive  energy.  But 
surely  our  Bible 
teaches  us  to  believe  that  man  was 
created  as  a  being  wholly  distinct  from 
the  other  living  creatures  of the  earth 
and  by  a  very  special  and  peculiar  ex­
ercise  of. the  Divine  will.  Can  we  doubt 
it.  Well,  probably  some  do  doubt  it. 
But  can  we?  For,  assuming  the  theory 
of  evolution  to  the  full,  it  can  only  deal 
with  the  material  frame  and  its  powers 
and  adaptations.  Let  Science  teach  that 
man 
is  developed  from  earlier types  of 
life,  it  can  only  be  as  an  animal,  as  a 
living  organism,  that  he  is  so  de­
veloped.  But  is  this  all  that  man 
is? 
Does  this  embrace  our  entire  concep­
tion  of  man? 
Is  he  nothing  more  than 
the  most  highly  developed  animal  upon 
earth?  Nay,  my  friends,  whence  came 
this  marvelous  spiritual  endowment  of 
which  you  and  I  are  conscious  and 
which  is  the  essence  of  our true  human­
ity?  What  if  Darwin  can  trace  in  some 
of  tbe  lower animals  dim  hints—distant

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approaches—to  some  of  the  ruder and 
almost  instinctive  peculiarities,  as  they 
were  once  thought to  be,  of  the  human 
race?  Does  this  really  help  us  to  bridge 
over the  tremendous  gulf  between  the 
cleverest  of  the  brutes  and  the  think­
ing,  reasoning,  hoping,  planning,  wor­
shiping  spirit  of  man?  What  if  God 
had  chosen  to  let  His  creatures  ripen  by 
slow  degrees  into  more  and  more  per­
fect  forms  until  one  was  produced which 
in  His  wisdom  He  counted  fit  for  the 
in-breathing  of  an  immortal  spirit— was 
this  no  new  creation?  What  if,  of  all 
His  creatures,  God  selected  one  to  be 
endowed  with  His  own  likeness  and  to 
be  exalted  into the  living  soul?  Would 
this  have  been  unworthy  of  the  high 
place  man's  creation  occupies 
in  the 
primeval 
seems 
it 
quite  possible  to  reconcile  the  theory  of 
physical  evolution  in  the  case  of  man’s 
outward  organism  (with  its  mysterious 
and  complicated  development  of  facul­
ties  and  adaptations)  with  the  dignity 
which  the  fiat  of  the  Creator's  will  has 
bestowed  upon  the  being  whom  He 
made  to  be  a  new  creature  in  the  splen­
did  dowry  of  his  spiritual  and 
intellec­
tual  powers.

record?  To  me 

You  will  see  that  I  do  not  consider 
even the boldest speculations  as  to  man’s 
origin  to  be  at  all  necessarily  inconsist­
ent  with  the  firmest  belief  in  his  en­
dowment  with  a  special  gift  of  God-like 
spiritual  powers  and  with  a  new  nature 
incapable  of death.  1 found this upon  the 
vast  and  profound  distinction  between 
the  material  and  the  spiritual  in  man, 
repudiating  to  the  utmost  those  mate­
rialistic  theories  which  would  confound 
the  two  or  make  the  spiritual  nothing 
else  than  a  phase  or  phenomenon  of 
the  material. 
I  believe  such  views  to 
be  refuted  by  the  very  facts  of  human 
nature  and  to  be  opposed  to  all  that  is 
highest  and  best  and  noblest  in  our  na­
ture. 
I  believe  there  is  a  whole  region 
of  facts  which  can  not  be  rationally  ac­
counted  for  by  one  who  sees  in  man’s 
nature  nothing  but  the  material.  Of 
course,  1  am  well  aware  that  I  have 
barely  touched  one  branch  of  a  very 
large  and  complicated  question— I  have 
desired  simply  to  show  that ground upon 
which  the  Bible  and  science  meet;  and, 
where  they  often  seem  to  speak  diverse 
things,  some  at 
least  of  the  apparent 
diversity  may  be  caused  by  our own 
misreadings  of  either the  one  language 
or the  other. 
I  have  spoken  of  the  mis­
readings  of  the  Bible  because  that  is 
the  side,  mainly,  on  which  I  feel  bound 
to  be  on  my  guard.  The  truest  votaries 
of  science  know  full  well  that  they  have 
to  be  no  less  on  their guard  against  mis­
readings  on  their  side. 
is  so  easy 
to  mistake  our  own crude interpretations 
for  the  very  voice  of  God.  After  all,  we 
are  very  ignorant.  The  wisest  are  but 
feeling  after  real  knowledge  and  he  who 
has  learned  most  and  knows  most  is 
generally  the  one  who  knows  best  how 
little  he  knows.  There  is  a  true  sort  of 
Christian  agnosticism,  which 
is  noth­
ing  else  than  a  bowing  down  in  our 
conscious  ignorance  before  mysteries 
too  vast  and  high  for our  feeble  grasp. 
“ So  foolish  was  I  and  ignorant,  even 
as  it  were  a  beast  before  Thee.”

It 

Well,  I  have  spoken  of  points  in  the 
borderland  where  science  and  religion 
approach  one  another.  But  is  there 
nothing  to  be  said  of  the  vast  regions 
which 
lie  far  as  the  poles  asunder and 
in  which  no  point  of  contact  is  to  be 
found?  We  Christians  believe  we  have  a 
whole  realm  of  precious  truths  and  real­
ities  wholly  removed  from  the  purviews 
of  physical  research  and  scientific  class­

lived 

ification—have  we  nothing  to  say  about 
this?  Shall  the  astronomer  say,  “ Come 
with  me  and  I  will  reveal  to  you  stars 
so  distant  that  the  ray  which  strikes 
upon  your  eye  has traveled  for thousands 
of  years  on  its  way  with  a  swiftness  in­
conceivable  since  it left its distant  birth­
place?”   Shall  the  chemist  say,  “ Come 
with  me  and  I  will  resolve  the  earth  you 
tread  upon,  the  water  you  drink,  the  air 
you  breathe,  into their  component  ele­
ments?”   Shall  the  optician  say,  “ Come 
with  me  and  I  will  show  you  the  very 
gases  and  metals  which  in  their  com­
bustion  produce  the  light  of  Sirius  or 
the  Pleiades?”   Shall  the  geologist  say, 
“ Come  with  me  and  I  will  unveil  to 
your  eyes  the  mystery  of  the  formation 
of  mighty  rocks  and  you  shall  handle 
the  very  creatures  that 
in  the 
boundless  periods  of  primeval  earth?”  
Shall  the  zoologist  say,  “ Come  with  me 
and  I  will  let  you  behold  the  germs  and 
rudiments  of  the  various  parts  of  your 
own  wondrous  frame  in  the  animalcula 
which  your  unassisted  eye  can  scarcely 
detect?”   And  shall  we  Christians  be 
dumb?  Have  we  no  like  invitation  to 
make?  Have  we  no  marvels  to  boast  of 
n  the  region  which  we  profess  to know? 
Or,  shall  we  not  say  this—and  1  think 
there  are  men  of  science  who  will  be 
glad  to  have  this  said  to  them:  “ Come 
with  me  and  I  will  take  you  into  a  fair 
land  and  show  you  things  that will make 
you  glad.”   Perhaps  you  think  the  land 
speak  of  a  dreamy,  unsubstantial 
cloud-land ;  but  come  and  see. 
It  may 
be  you  will  find  some  things  in  it  better 
than  dreams  or  phantoms. 
It  may  be  I 
can  show  you  there  a  stream  that  can 
wash  out  the  stains  that  blot  a  guilty 
conscience. 
It  may  be  I  can  find  you 
there  medicines  to  heal  a  sick  soul. 
It 
may  be  I  can  guide  you  to  a  fountain 
which  will  slake  the  thirst  of  a  fevered 
spirit.  It  may  be  I  can  show  you  a  light 
which  will  guide  you  safely  through  a 
world  of  peril.  But  away  with  allegory! 
Come  with  me  and  you  shall  learn  how 
to  conquer  a  rebellious  will,  to  purify  a 
corrupt  heart.  You  shall  gain  a  strength 
that  shall  give  you  mastery  over  self, 
victory  over  sin.  You  shall  pass  be­
hind  the  veil  of  sense  and  see  the things 
that  are  not  seen,  the  things  which  eye 
hath  not  seen,  nor  ear  heard,  nor  hath 
entered  into  the  heart  of  man,  but  from 
the  sight  and  knowledge  of  which  you 
shall  go  back  to  your  science  rich  with 
new  treasures  of  wisdom,  strong  with 
new  life  and  power,  glad  with  new  hope 
and  worshiping—not  Nature,  but  Na­
ture’s  God!

H is G rateful  F irst Client.

When  Henry  C.  Smith,  of  Adrian, 
started  to  practice 
law  he  bad  as  his 
first  client  a  negro, and  he  won  the  case. 
The  hearing  was  before  a  local  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  the  charge  was  steal­
ing  a  ring.  As  his  client  had  employ­
ment  on  a  farm  outside  the  town  where 
Smith  first  hung  up  his  shingle,  the 
young 
lawyer  is  said  to  have  taken  the 
precaution  of  hiring  a  carriage  and  rid­
ing  out  to  the  farmer,  where  be  secured 
promise  of  the  negro’s  wages  for a  few 
days  as  his  retainer.

“ I  made  an  eloquent  plea,”   said  Mr. 
Smith  yesterday  in  recounting  the  pro­
ceedings of  that  case. 
“ 1  did  not  fail 
to  ring  the  changes  on  the  downtrodden 
race,  and  all  that  sort  of  thing,  with  the 
result  that  my  client  went  free.  Still,  I 
had  a  sort  of  lingering  suspicion  that 
the  verdict  was  certainly  all  my  man 
deserved,  and  when  the  case  was  over  I 
wanted  to  be  rid  of  him.  He  continued 
to haunt  my  office.

“   ‘ Why  don’t  you  go out  and  chase 
around  with  the  boys?’  I  said  finally,  in 
some  impatience.

“   ’ Deed,  boss,  I  thought  yo’  fee  war

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County of  Kent 

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I 

am  pressman  in  the  office  of the 

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

I  printed 

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notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  fifteenth  day  of  February,  1902.

John  DeBoer.

Nota^r  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County,

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

writers  will  bear the  loss,  if  any  should 
occur.

This  is  an  entirely  erroneous  idea. 
All  the  property  destroyed  by  fire repre 
sents  just  that  much  irreparable  loss  to 
the  country.  The  payment  of  the  in 
surance  by  the  underwriters  is  not  a 
compensation.  The losses paid  actually 
represent  a  general  tax  on  all  insurers 
in  the  shape  of  premiums.  As  soon  as 
the  losses  become  greater  than  the  com­
panies  can  pay  and  still  make  a  profit, 
rates  must  of  necessity  be  advanced 
All  fire  losses,  therefore,  are  made'good 
by  the  people,  and  they  thus  represent 
a  permanent  waste  of 
just  so  much 
wealth.

There 

is  a  school  teacher  in  Illinois 
named  Keller  who  is  71  years  old,  who 
insists  on  acting 
like  a  man  half  that 
age.  He 
is  credited  with  dancing  a 
double  shuffle,  clearing  the  back  of  a 
chair  at  a  single 
leap,  and  jumping 
over  other  high  obstacles.  He  accounts 
for  his  agility  by  declaring  that  he  has 
discovered  the  elixir of  life. 
“ See!”  
he  exclaimed  the  other day,  “ My  legs 
are  as  free  and  easy  as  a  child’s. 
I  am 
younger  than  I  was  thirty  years  ago.’ ’ 
His  explantation  is  brief:'  “ Simply  by 
not  believing  that  I  am  growing  old.”  
This 
is  an  excellent  theory  and  it  has 
the  beauty  of  being  inexpensive  in  its 
application.  Of  course  it  has  its 
limi­
tations.  Some  day  Mr.  Keller  will  dis­
cover  that  his  powers  of  belief  are  get­
ting  feeble  and  be  convinced  against 
his  will  that  youth  is  not  eternal.

TH E TREMENDOUS  F IR E   WASTE.
The  recent  serious  conflagration  at 
Waterbury,  in  which  a  good  portion  of 
the  business  district  of the  town  was  de­
stroyed,  followed  closely  by  a  great con­
flagration  at  Paterson,  in  which  the  loss 
is  estimated  to  have  reached  ten million 
dollars,  serve  to  call  renewed  attention 
to  the  immense  fire  waste  in  this  coun­
try*  5o  great  has  been  the  destruction 
of  property  by  fire  that  many  old-time 
insqr?nce  companies,  with  many  years 
of  successful  business  to  their  credit, 
haye  found 
it  more  profitable  to  rein­
sure  outstanding  risks  and  retire  from 
business  than  to  face  the  constant  drain 
on  their  resources  which  has  resulted 
from  the  experience  of  the 
last  few 
years.

While  the  great  conflagrations,  like 
tbafcat  Paterson,.are  difficult  to  avoid, 
thejt  deiiote  an  insufficiency  9!  the  pro 
tection 'ftbm  fire whitsfi  evidently  exists 
in  many  American  cities  and  towns. 
European  communities  suffer  compara­
tively  little  from  fires,  and  large  confla­
grations,  instead  of  being  common  as 
with  us,  are  of  comparatively  rare  oc­
currence.  This  comparative 
immunity 
is  traceable  directly  to  the  more  careful 
construction  of  buildings,  a  stricter  ad­
laws,  and  a  more 
ministration  of  the 
rigid 
investigation 
into  the  causes  of 
fires.

In  this  country  our  buildings  are 
generally  of  the  flimsy  or  temporary 
character,  and  even  where  costly  and 
strong  buildings  are  provided  they  are 
situated  side  by  side  with  veritable fire- 
traps.  This flimsy  construction,  coupled 
with  the  extensive  use  of  electricity, has 
been  responsible  for  a  good  proportion 
of  the  fires.  Moreover;  there  is  a  very 
general  disposition  to  assume  that,  if  a 
place 
is  insured,  there  is  less  cause  for 
vigilance  in  protecting  such  property 
from  fire,  the idea  being  that the  under-

The  time  may  come  when  the  blow­
ing  of  whistles  and  ringing  of  bells  to 
call  people  to  work  and  to  worship  will 
be  prohibited  along  with  other  unneces­
sary  noises  that  disturb  the  dwellers 
in 
cities. 
In  Buffalo  just  now  there  is  an 
agitation  among  the  people  of  the 
neighborhood  to  stop  the  blowing  of  the 
whistle  at  the  water  works  pumping 
station  at  6 a.  m.  A  temporary  injunc 
tion  has  been  secured  and  the  matter 
will  be  settled 
in  court.  Not  all  the 
people  desire  to  have  the  blowing  of 
the  whistle  stopped.  Some  claim  that 
it  is  of  positive  advantage 
in  awaken 
ing  them  in  time  to get  to  work  in  sea­
son.  One  man  said  it  was  a  good  thing 
to  have  the  whistle  sounded  at  6 a.  m. 
so  that  “ the  aristocrats  might  have  a 
chance  to  roll  over and  thank  God  that 
they  had  another hour  to  sleep.”

One  explanation of  the  decline  of  the 
bicycle  business  is  that  it  resulted  from 
the  notion  of  the  officers  of the  bicycle 
trait  that  money  could  be  sayed  by 
curtailing  the  amount  expended  for ad­
vertising.  Fifty  trade  papers  that  were 
devoted  to  the  booming  of bicycle  clubs 
and  bicycle  sports  died  soon  after  this 
policy  was  adopted.  The  clubs  com­
menced  to  die  when  their doings  ceased 
to  be  chronicled.  The  papers  could 
not  live  without  advertising  and  with­
out  attention  bicycling  as  a  pastime 
ceased  to  be  popular.  The  automobile 
business  is  now  being  built  up  by  ad­
vertising  and  lots  of  it,  and  the  bicycle 
manufacturers  are  wondering  how  they 
came  to  be  eclipsed.

William  C.  Whitney  is quoted  as  say­
ing  that  any  man  with  ordinary  luck 
should  be  able  to  lay  up  enough  money 
to quit  work  and  live  in  comfort  when 
he  reaches  the  age  of  60.  Reading 
this  thousands  of  men  who  have reached 
the  age  of  three  score  will  conclude 
that  they  have  not  had  ordinary  luck 
•r  that  they  have  an  erroneous  idea  of 
what  constitutes  comfort.

THE  RACE FOR WEALTH.

Many  persons  have  observed  that 
within  the  past  quarter  of  a  century, 
the  greed  and  eagerness  for great wealth 
have  astoundingly 
Indeed 
it  has  come  to  be  the  case  that  the  at 
tainent  of  large  pecuniary  riches  is  the 
chief  test  of  success  in  life. 
In  a word 
success  means  wealth.

increased. 

It  is  not  strange  that  this  should 
is  the  possession 

so,  for  not  only 
money  a  means  of  commercial  power, 
but 
it  is  getting  to  be  the  most  poten 
tial  agent  of  political  and  social  life 
If  a  man  be  a  multimillionaire,  he 
pretty  sure  to  be  able  to  marry  off  his 
daughters 
foreig 
princes  and  other titled  personages,  and 
if  there  is  one  thing  that  is  considered 
in  many  parts  of  this  Republic  the 
highest  social  goal,  it  is  to  acquire  for 
the  marriageable  young  women  a  real 
title  of  nobility,  and,  if  the  title  be 
genuine,  it  makes  little  difference  what 
sort  of  man  is  attached  to  it.

impecunious 

to 

Wealth  not  only  gains  social  success, 
but  it  is  also  a  powerful  lever to  shape 
the  legislation  of  city,  State  and  nation 
The  possession  of  such  power  is  eagerly 
sought  by  every  ambitious  man,  and 
when 
it  is  realized,  as  is  too  often  the 
case,  that  great  wealth,  no  matter  how 
it  is  acquired,  silences  all  accusations 
and  hushes  up  scandals,  it is  easily  seen 
that  there  is  a  great  temptation  to  cast 
aside  scruples  and  to get  money  in  any 
and  every  way  that  is  possible.

It  is  under  these  conditions  that  the 
successful  man  is  hailed  with  shouts  of 
applause,  and 
it  is  only  when  fortune 
happens  to  turn  against  him  that  his 
questionable  or criminal  acts  are  made 
subjects  of  examination  and  exposure 
is  many  a  man  who  cuts  a  wide 
There 
>wath 
in  business  or  in  society  whose 
acts  might  well  be  the  subject  of  suspi 
cion,  but,  as  long  as  be  is  able  to  play 
his  part,  no questions  are  asked,  and  it 
is  only  when  trouble  comes  upon  him 
that  he  is  made  the  subject  of  investi­
gation.

An  example  of  this  sort  of  thing  ap 
pears  in  the  case  of  Frank  C.  Andrews, 
whose  meteoric  career  is  probably  fa 
miliar  to  every  reader  of  the  Trades 
ipan.  Just  how  be  got  enough  to  make 
his  first  plunge  is  not  known,  but  soon 
he  was  in  the  maelstrom  of  the  market 
Copper, 
leather,  sugar,  steel— all  were 
alike  to  him.  He  bought  and  sold 
rapidly.  His  specialty  seemed  to  be 
the  difficult  art  of “ quick turning,”  and 
fortune  seemed  to  guide  his  every  oper­
ation.

It  is worth  while  to  note  the  philos­
ophy  of  a  young  Napoleon  of  finance  to 
see  how 
it  squares  with  the  old-time 
notions  of  common  honesty: 

I 

Money-making  requires  personal  fit­
ness.  After  nature,  give  thanks  to  your 
mother. 
look  on  it  as  I  do  on  other 
talents.  The  money  faculty  is  an  in­
stinct,  the  same  as  our  other  instincts.
I  do  not  see  how  a  man  can  possibly 
make  a  fortune  unless  he  speculates. 
Don’t  you  ever  believe  that  by  saving 
money  a  man  doubles  his  capital.  He 
does  it  in  strikes  and  big  bunches.

Human  life  is  too  short  for  the  slow 
processes  of  thrift. 
I  concede  that  one 
gets  a  small  start  by  keeping part  of  his 
salary,  but  we  are  not  talking  about 
business  employes  in  this  connection 
but  commercial  success 
in  a  broad 
sense.

All  my  good  fortune,  so  far  as  it  has 
come,  has  resulted 
in  taking  chances.
I  have  preferred  to  take  chances  on  a 
large  piece  of  real  estate  rather  than  a 
bushel  of  beans.  So  I  have  made  more 
money  than  a  comer grocer,  and  yet,  I 
with  all  due  respect,  I  could  not  suc­
cessfully  manage a  grocery  store.  Every 
I
man 

in  his  own  place,  is  my  rule, 

find  success  in  an  indomitable  faith 
your own  proposition.

in 

These  doctrines  had  no  place  for  pru­
dence, 
for  scruples,  or  for  honesty; 
nevertheless  they  were  considered  en­
tirely  proper  and  justifiable  as 
long  as 
they  brought  success;  but  when  it  was 
discovered  that  this  bank  officer bad 
made  away  with  a  million  and  a  half of 
the  bank’s  deposits— and  the  discovery 
was  not  made  until  the  bank’s  vaults 
had  been  utterly  emptied—the  people 
who  had  so  applauded  the  phenomenal 
success  of  their  young  Napoleon  began 
to think  bis  methods  were  not  entirely 
honest  and his  philosophy  not  thorough­
ly  sound,  and  the  result  was  that  he 
now  occupies  a  cell  in the Wayne county 
jail  with  a dozen  criminal  charges  star­
ing  him  in  the  face.

The  stain  of  having  worn  the  con­
vict’s  stripes 
is  easily  effaced  in  the 
case  of  such  a  man.  He  knew  for  years 
that  he  was  a  thief,  and  his  conscience 
had  doubtless  long  ceased  to  trouble 
him.  He  has  suffered  only  tbe  shame  of 
exposure,  and,  if  he  has  money  [bidden 
away  he  will  not  lack  for  sympathy  and 
moral,  or  immoral,  support.  Justice  is 
so  lame  and  halting  that  judicial  con­
demnation 
in  such  cases  is  too  infre­
quently  administered  to  have  the  effect 
it  should  in  deterring  imitations  of such 
financiering.

Fortunately,  the  great  body  of  the 
people  still  believe  in  divine  justice 
and  moral  responsibility,  and  that  has 
more  effect  in  keeping  men  honest  than 
does  the  occasional  bringing  to  justice 
of  wealthy  criminals.

The  old  proverb  that  it  is  an  ill  wind 
that  blows  nobody  any  good  might  well 
be  paraphrased  by  the  New  Yorkers, 
and  the  good  offices  be  credited  to  the 
rain. 
Jupiter  Pluvius  emptied  his 
watering  pot  over  the  city  of  Gotham 
one  day  last  week  and  saved the munici­
pality  something  like  $70,000,  that being 
the  estimated  cost  to  the  city  for  the 
removal  of  the  snow  which  fell  during 
the  previous  days.  The  Gothamites  are 
chronic  grumblers  when 
it  comes  to  a 
question  of  the  weather,  but  on  this  oc­
casion  the  grin  of  contentment  on  each 
taxpayer’s  face  must,  in  the  case  of  a 
stranger,  have  more  than  counteracted 
any  “ tired  feeling”  
the 
gloomy 
look  of  the  contractors,  who 
had  banked  on  getting  a  good  thing  for 
shoveling  away  the  snowflakes.

induced  by 

Germany  does  not  permit  her  national 
emblem  to  be  used 
in  any  way  as  an 
advertisement.  A  Massachusetts  firm 
that  wants  to  advertise  generously in'tbe 
empire  has  prepared  thousands  of  cata­
logues  bearing the  German coat-of-arms, 
but  they  can  not  be  circulated  in  the 
Kaiser  s  domains. 
It  has  discovered 
that  the  penal  code  of  the  empire  con­
tains a  provision  to  the  effect  that  any 
person  who  uses  the  coat-of-arms  or  flag 
for  such  purposes  will  be  fined  not  less 
than  150  marks  or  punished  with  im­
prisonment.

John  Burns,  the  English  labor  leader, 
among  those  who  pay  tribute  to  the 
superiority  of  American  workmen.  He 
has  just  been  suggesting  to  English­
men  that  the  greater  prosperity,  vigor 
and 
intelligence  of  American  working­
men  are  due  not  only  to  their  higher 
wages  but  also  to  their  smaller  expendi­
tures  for  strong  drink.  There  is  a  pop 
ular  impression  that  while  Americans 
not  drink  so  much  as  foreigners 
they  still  use  more  alcoholic  beverages 
than are  good  for them. 

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9

QUESTION  OF  SEX  EQUALITY.

The  changes 

in  the  business  life  of 
the  American  people  in  the  past  quar­
ter  of  a  century,  in which  is  proclaimed 
the  equality  of  the  sexes  and  the  abil­
ity  of  women  to  compete  with  men 
in 
every  department  of  business  and  walk 
of  daily  existence,are  working  upon  the 
organization  of  society  effects  which, 
while  they  are  at  the  present  time  only 
attracting  the  attention  of  thoughtful 
observers,  promise  to  create  astonishing 
social  and  moral  revolutions.

In  i860,  women  were  employed  in  the 
United  States  chiefly in household work ; 
but  there  were  a  few  thousands  occu­
pied  in  cotton  and  woolen  factories,  and 
in  dress  and  bonnetmaking.  Probably 
the  total  number  of  females,  ten  years 
old  and  over,  engaged 
in  any  sort  of 
labor  in  the  United  States  in  i860,  in­
cluding  the  negro  slave  women  in  the 
Southern 
In 
thirty  years,  or  in  1890,  the  number  of 
women  so  employed  had  increased  to
3,900,000,  or  160  per  cent.

States,  was 

1,500,000. 

The  figures  for  1900 have not  yet  been 
given  out;  but,  in  all  probability,  they 
will  show  that 6,000,000  women  in  the 
United  States  are  earning wages in vari­
ous  departments  of  labor,  women  hav­
ing  entered  all,  with  scarcely  a  single 
exception.  The  ability  of  women  to 
compete  with  men  in  almost  every  sort 
of  work  is  conceded,  upon  the condition 
that  women  must  accept  from  one-half 
to  one-third 
less  compensation  than  is 
paid  to  men  for  the  same  services.

It is  not  strange  that,  under these  con­
ditions,  women  are  claiming  equal 
wages  with  men  for  the  same  work, 
and,  as  a  natural  result,  there 
is  grow­
ing  up  a  strong  tendency  among  women 
to  secure  a  due  share  of  influence  in 
politics  and  public  affairs,  so that  they 
may  enforce  their  right  to  equal  com­
pensation.  But  while  they  have  already 
made  a  powerful 
impression  upon  the 
the  number  of 
industrial  situation, 
working  women,  numbering  not 
less 
than  one-fourth  of  the  number  of  the 
male  workers,  have  had  little  effect  to 
modify  political  conditions.  They  have 
not  yet  secured  the 
right  to  vote  in 
political  general elections  or  to  hold  po­
litical  offices  or  to  enlist  as  soldiers. 
These  consummations  will  come  more 
slowly;  nevertheless great social changes 
are  in  progress.

resulting 

Prof.  Albion  W.  Small,  of  the  De­
partment  of  Sociology  in  the  University 
of  Chicago,  in  a  recent  magazine  arti­
cle,  touches  some  phases  of  the  social 
conditions 
from  coworking 
and  coeducation  of  the  sexes.  He  be­
lieves  in  the  mental  equality  of  the 
sexes  and,  to  a  great  extent,  in  their 
physical  equality.  He  finds  some  differ­
ence  of  quality,  perhaps 
like  that  be­
tween  the  same  musical  note  produced, 
for  example,  by  a  cornet  and  a  violin. 
Each  has  the  same  relation  to  other 
notes  higher and  lower  in  the  scale,  but 
neither  is  precisely  like  the  other,  nor 
could 
it  supply  its  place  if  one  were 
absent.

But,  while  this  Professor  finds  only 
subtle  and  almost  indescribable  differ­
ences  between  the  minds  of  men  and 
women,  he  discovers  no  difference  of 
moral  qualities.  He  says:

We  have  put  up  more  barriers  to 
shield  them  from  temptation.  We  have 
put  higher  premiums  on  certain  of  the 
feminine  virtues.  We  have  affixed  fear­
ful  penalties  to 
some  of  women’s 
faults.  We  have  not  succeeded  withal 
in  producing  an  essentially  different 
article  of  human  nature  from  that  in  the 
masculine  type.  There  is  nothing  finer 
than  a  thoroughly  womanly  woman, with 
the  possible  exception  of  a  thoroughly

manly  man.  To  say  that  the  man  is 
better  than  the  woman,  or the  woman 
than  the  man,  is  like  comparing  the 
qualities  of  a  corn  field  and  an  orchard, 
or  of  a  forest  and  a  river. 
In  recent 
centuries  we  have  affected  beliefs  that 
make  feminine  nature  a  sort  of  foreor­
dained  antiseptic to neutralize masculine 
virus.  This  is  merely  an  incident  in 
the  rhythm  of  superstition. 
It  is  no 
more  true  than  the  monkish  and  pagan 
rating  of  woman  as  the  incarnation  of 
evil.  Whenever  men  and  women  are 
most  free  to  be  themselves,  they  rival 
each  other  with  about  equal  success  in 
both  goodness  and  badness.  Never  was 
man  so  bad  that  a  woman  could  not  be 
found  to  match  his  badness.  There  is 
no  special  saving  grace  for  society  in 
woman’s  nature.  Character  is  loyalty 
to  the  tasks  of  life. 
It  has  to  be  an  ac­
quired  habit  with  women  no  less  than 
with  men.

If  the  equality  of  the  sexes  is to  be 
conceded 
in  ever  respect  of  physical, 
mental  and  moral  qualities,  and  in  po­
litical  rights,  it  is  not  difficult  to  see 
the  perilous  abyss  into  which  society 
must  plunge,and  that  at  no  distant  day. 
When  it  was  held  that  the  woman  was 
the  gentler  and  weaker  factor  in  human 
sociology,  she  was,  by  consequence,  en­
titled  to  be  supported,  to be  protected, 
guarded  and  cherished  by  her  stronger 
leveling  process 
companion,  but  every 
always  levels  down.  When 
it  is  held 
that  progress  is  upward  and  that  there 
are  always  ideals  to  be  worked  up  to, 
examples  to  be  emulated,  and  that, 
while  all  can  not  by  any  possibility 
reach  the  highest  elevations  of  honor, 
virtue,  purity and  truth  in  character and 
eminence  in  culture,  still  all  can  make 
some  steps  upward,  and  all  will  be 
thereby 
idea  of 
improved.  But  the 
equality 
in  natural  endowments,  added 
to  that  of  equality  of  natural  and  arti­
ficial  rights,  if  it  is  to  be  worked  out  to 
its  obvious  conclusion,  necessitates  a 
revolt  against  and  a  rejection  of  all  re­
straint,  physical,  intellectual  and  moral.
The  sexes  are  properly  the  comple­
ment,  the  completeness,  each  of  the 
other.  The 
life  of  neither  is  perfect 
without  the  other.'  Human  destiny  can 
no  more  be  wrought  out  save  by  the  co­
operation  of  both  than  can  the  race  be 
perpetuated.  Competition  means  moral 
and  social  destruction,  and  would  mean 
total  extinction  if  it  were  carried  to  ex­
tremes;  but,  while  nature  can  not  be 
overcome  by  any  system  of  educational 
leveling  down,  social  and  moral  solid­
arity  can  be  frightfully  undermined  and 
undone.

in  the  country 

The  fare  on  almost  every  street  car 
line 
is  five  cents,  and 
the  coin  most  in  use  in  that  branch  of 
is  that  commonly  called  the 
business 
nickel. 
It  is  made  of  soft  metal  and  by 
much  using  easily  becomes  worn  and 
smooth  so  that  the  characters  and figures 
thereon  are  affected. 
In  St.  Louis  not 
long  since,a street  car  conductor  refused 
to  accept  one  of  these  smooth  nickels 
for a  fare.  The  passenger  declined  to 
pay  anything  else  and  after some  argu­
ment  found  himself  on  the  street,  and 
so  vigorous  was  his  defense  that  later 
he  found  himself  in  the  police  station, 
where  he  remained  over  night.  Feeling 
aggrieved  he  brought  suit  against the 
street  car  company  for  false  imprison­
ment  and  succeeded  in  getting  a  judg­
ment  for  $2,000  damages.  The  court, 
in  its  decision,  declared  that  there  is 
no  such  thing  as  a  nickel  at  less  than 
full  face  value.  The  decision  is  of 
in­
terest  to  all  those 
into  whose  hands 
smooth  nickels  fall  and  who  attempt  to 
pass  them  and  is  a  notice  to the  agents 
of  common  carriers  that  they  must  take 
such  coins  in  payment  for  a  ride.

that  the  other  day  a  Methodist  preacher 
in  Chicago  resigned  his  place,  saying 
to  his  official  board,  “ I  must  leave  you 
at  once.  My 
little  woman  who  began 
life  with  me  many  years  ago  has always 
stood  by  me  and  I  shall  now  stand  by 
her.”   Rev.  Charles  S.  Dudley  who took 
this  stand  had  conducted  a very success­
ful  ministry 
in  the  church  he  left  and 
all  the  congregation  esteemed  and  re­
spected  him. 
It  was  conceded  by  all 
that  Mrs.  Dudley  was  an  earnest; 
Christian  woman  who  had  worked  faith­
fully  for the  church  and its welfare.  Her 
life  had  been  blameless.  The  trouble 
as  stated  was  that  “ there  had  developed 
between  his  wife  and  certain  members 
of  his  congregation  what  may  conven­
iently  be  called  a  social  incompatibil­
ity.”   Perhaps  the  poor  woman  did  not 
dress  well  enough  to  suit  her  husband’s 
employers,  but  probably  she  dressed  as 
well as  bis  salary  would  allow.  It  is  not 
alleged  that  she  ate  with  her  knife  or 
was  unfamiliar with  the  usages  of  good 
society.  All  there  was  of  it  seems  to 
have  been  that  some  women 
in  the 
church  did  not  approve  of  her.

The  reports  would  indicate  that  Mr. 
Dudley’s  services  were  in  every  way ac­
ceptable. 
It  does  not  appear  that  Mrs. 
Dudley  was  on  the  pay  roll  of  the 
church.  Whatever  view  this  particular 
congregation  may  take  of  it,  most  peo­
ple, on  the  information  at  hand  will,  un­
hesitatingly 
commend  the  clerygman 
who  remembered  his  marriage  vow  “ to 
have  and  to  hold,  to  love  and  cherish 
and  care  for till  death  do  us  part.”  
It 
all  comes  down  to the  question  whether 
or  not,  where  a  church  employs  a  pas­
tor,  it  can  properly  demand  the  services 
of  his  whole  family  under  that  agree­
ment.  There  are  annoying,  meddle» 
some  and  gossiping  women 
in  some 
congregations  and  they  can  worry  the 
heart,  if  not  the  life,  out  of  a  clergy­
man’s  wife  if  they  undertake  it.  There 
is  no  good  reason  why  the  preacher’s 
wife  or  family  should  be  made  the  tar­
get  for  unstinted  criticism  just  because 
the  husband  and  father  happens  to  be  a 
preacher.  Mrs.  Dudley  was  entitled  to 
the  same  courtesy,  no  more  and  no  less, 
as  any  other  lady  in  the  congregation 
bad  the  right  to  expect. 
If  the  church 
paid  her  a  salary,  it  was  an  incident 
privilege  to  command  and  as  well  to 
criticise  her  services,  but  not  otherwise. 
All  honor to  Pastor  Dudley  for  standing 
by  his  wife,  the  good  woman  who  had 
stood  by him.  The  story  of  what  he  did 
and  what  prompted  it  ought  to  be  very 
generally 
and  discussed. 
There 
is  a  lesson  in  it by  which  some 
people—outside  of  Grand  Rapids  of 
course—could  profit.

circulated 

for 

The  British  are  getting  around  to  the 
opinion  that  Germany 
intends  to  pull 
down  the  British  empire  and  erect  upon 
its  ruins  a  world  wide  German  reaJm. 
instance, 
The  London  Spectator, 
asserts that  it  is  clear  that  Germany 
is 
not  satisfied  to  win  in  commercial  com­
petition,  but  aims  to  destroy  its  British 
rival  and  that  it  is  putting  into opera­
tion  every  influence  to  create  the  neces­
sary  moral  condition  of  the  German 
mind.  Strangely  enough,  both  the  Ger­
mans  and  the  British  are  disposed  to  be 
very  friendly  toward  America.  Here 
again  their  rivalry  is seen.  All  three 
nations  ought  in  reality  to  be  on  the 
best  of  terms  with  each  other.  They 
have  many  things  in  common,  besides 
being  blood  relation.  Were  they  to 
have  an  alliance  or  an  understanding 
they  could  mould the  world to their will.

interesting  speech, 

TH E  SELECTION  OF  SUBORDINATES.
In  a  speech  on  the  occasion  of  the 
dedication  of  the  new  Carnegie 
labora­
tory  of  engineering  at  Hoboken,  An­
drew  Carnegie  made  an  informal  and 
decidedly 
in  the 
course  of  which  he  said  that  in  his 
mind 
the  most  appropriate  epitaph 
which  could  be  inscribed  on  his  tomb­
stones  would  be  this:  “ Here  lies  a  man 
who  knew  how  to  get  around  him  men 
much  cleverer  than  himself. ”   The 
great  iron  master,  who  rose  from  the 
ranks  to  be  a  millionaire,  disclaimed 
any  especial  ability  or  skill  either  as  a 
manufacturer  or  financier,  but  said  that 
his  success  was  due  to the  fact  that  he 
and  his  firm  were  early  in  the  iron man­
ufacturing  field ;  that  they  were  first to 
employ  a  skilled  chemist  in  testing  ore, 
and,  in  short,  that  he  had  sense  enough 
to  employ  the  brightest  and  best  men  of 
ability  for  heads  of  the  several  depart­
ments.  To  his  assistants,  his  superin­
tendents,  his 
foremen  and  employes 
generally  he  ascribes  the  credit  of  the 
splendid  success  which  attended  his 
business enterprise.

That  is  all  very  well  and very modest, 
and,  of  course,  whatever  Mr.  Carnegie 
says  of  this  sort  will  be  taken  for  what 
it  is  worth.  He  would  hardly  be  ex­
pected  to  praise  himself.  The  fact  is, 
however,  that  in  the  epitaph  be  states 
lies  the  real  truth  of  many  successful 
business  careers. 
It  is  not  given  to  any 
one  man  to  know  it  all.  Mr.  Carnegie 
could  not  be  a  financier,  a  chemist,  a 
manufacturer,  a  salesman  and  superin­
tendent  all  at  once.  It  is,  however,  pos­
sible,as  in  his  case,  for one  man  to have 
the  good  judgment  to  select  men  for 
these  several  positions  each  of  whom 
in  some  spe­
has  individual  ability 
cial  department. 
It  requires  a  man  of 
common  sense  to  know  enough  to accept 
the  expert  opinions  of  others  and  act 
on  their  advice  as  if  it  were  his  own. 
The  head  of  any  great  enterprise  who 
does  not  rely  more  or  less  upon  his  sub­
ordinates  can  not  succeed. 
It  follows, 
then,  that  the  measure  of  success  will 
very  much  depend  upon  the  wisdom 
with  which  the  subordinates are  chosen.
So  after  all  the  epitaph  which  Mr. 
Carnegie  suggests  for  himself,  indicates 
a  course  of  which  he  may  reasonably  be 
proud. 
idea  of  how 
others  may  put the  right  men  in  places 
of  responsibility  and  profit  thereby, 
reaping  the 
lion’s  share  of  the  reward. 
It  is  gracious  to acknowledge  such  in­
debtedness. 
Some  men  are  not  big 
enough  to  do that.

It  gives  a  good 

THE  MINISTER’S W IFE.

To  what  extent  *a  church  hires  the 
minister’s  wife  when  it  hires  a  minis­
ter  is  a  subject  often  discussed  by  both 
parties  to  these  contracts.  Certain  it  is 
that  a  great  deal  is  expected  of  a  min­
ister’s  wife  and  very  often  much 
is 
received  for  which  the  good woman  gets 
no  salary  save  such  as  is  paid  her  hus­
band.  She is expected  to  do  a  generous 
share  of  calling,  to  be  active  in  all 
church  work,  serving  on  the  refresh­
ment  or  some  other  committee  at  the 
teas  and  to  be  prominent  in  the  mis­
sionary  society.  She  must  have  a  class 
in  Sunday  school,  be  a  member of  the 
choir  if  she  can  sing  and,  in  short,  be 
ever  ready  and  willing  to  do  anything 
and  everything  which  no one else wishes 
to  do  and  all  because  she  is  the  minis­
ter's  wife  and  the  church  hires  her bus- 
band. 
There  are  some  who  do  not 
come  up  to  this  standard,  hut there  are 
thousands  who  do.

This  topic  is  suggested  by  the  fact

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Clothing

Latest Things  in  C lothing  and  F u rn ish ­

ings  a t Chicago.

A  great  many  of the  smart  set  are  go­
ing  in  for the  English  walking  coat  for 
late  winter  wear. 
It  is  the  second 
change  for  the  season  and  is  a  restful 
contrast  to the  sack  suit.

Tweeds  and  fancy  gray  cheviots  are 
most  favored— in  fact,  nothing  else  in 
fabrics  seems  suited  to this  particular 
kind  of  style.

The  kind  now  being  made  by  the 
fashionable  merchant  tailors  have  the 
long  waist  and  short  skirts,  long  hip 
pockets  with  flaps  and  an  outside  breast 
pocket.  The  waistcoat  is  a  high-cut, 
single-breasted  style  with  no  lapels  on 
the  collar.  The  trousers  for  this  suit 
differ 
from  prevailing  styles  in  hip 
amplitude,  which  is  less.

This  is  a  particularly  jaunty,  stolid 
looking  suit  and  becomes  any  but  a 
stout  man.  It  is  a  complete change  from 
the  sack  suit  and  there  is  no  reason  why 
it  will  not  be  very  popular  from  now 
until  the  spring  clothing  is  donned.

Its  use  should  be  confined  strictly  to 
business  wear.  The  same  rules  that 
govern  the  wearing  of  the  sack  coat 
should  apply  to  the  English  walking 
suit.

The  most  appropriate  and  becoming 
neck  dressing  for this  suit  is  the  wing 
collar  and  ascot 
in  the  rich  shades  of 
dark  red  and  bright  browns.  A  derby 
tie 
is  too  stringy  to  look  well,  as  the 
characteristic  of  the  coat is  buntiness.

Gray  suede  gloves  are  again  forging 
to  the  front.  The  mild  weather  during 
January  brought  them  out  like  mush­
rooms  after  a  warm  rain.

Why  a  gray  suede  glove  is  popular 
with  men  for  business  wear  is  a  mystery 
to  me.  One  week’s  wear  transforms 
them  into  the  dirtiest  looking  hand  cov­
ering  a  man  can  wear.  The inability  to 
clean  them,  however,  makes  them  a 
good 
thing  for  the  haberdasher  and 
glover.

extensive 

seams.  The 

Speaking  of  gray  gloves  I  have  just 
seen  the  swellest  thing  yet  brought  out 
in  this  line.  It  is  a  heavy  looking  glove 
with 
sewing 
throughout 
is  known  as  the 
is  what 
"saddler 
stitching"— coarse  but  de­
cidedly  nobby.  The  "point  de  resis­
tance"  is  the  button,  which 
is  a  big, 
brass  English  button. 
It  is  decidedly 
the  thing  for  the  real  swell  dressers.

*  *  *

The  yoke  overcoat  is  not  only  not  be­
ing  ordered  by  well  dressed  men,  but  it 
is  being  discarded  by  liberal  dressers 
who  wore  them  early  in  the  season. 
They  seem  to  be disappearing as rapidly 
and  quietly  as  the  Raglan  did  a  year 
ago.
f|  Freak  tailoring,  and  the  yoke  coat 
certainly  belonged  to  that  class,  seldom 
lives  longer  than  a season—a few months 
for  the  swells  and  the  rest  of the  season 
. for the  masses.

coat 

is  the 

The  prevailing 

large 
model,  full-back,  velvet  collar.  Seams 
are  double  stitched  or  may  be  made 
with  a  small  welt.  Small  cuffs  with 
open  curved  points  are  right.

This  style  of  coat  is a  safe  investment 
as  it  is  here  to  stay  for several  seasons.
There  never  was  a  more  comfortable 
and  satisfactory  style  than  this  large 
model  overcoat.  Never  in  the  history 
of  clothing  has  a  garment  embodied  all 
the  essentials  of  comfort  and  good  style 
that  are  found 
in  this  delightful  large 
Its  permissible  uses  in  the 
model. 
social,  world  outnumber  those  of  any 
other  overgarment  ever  made.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
D rying a W et Coat.

They  are  filling  a  “ longffelt  want”  
and  next  year  there  will  be  more  of 
them  worn  than  this  season.  They  are 
"everybody’s  coat,”   and  are  too  com­
fortable  for  the  exclusive  element  to 
throw  aside  because  the  masses  wear 
them—they  are  here  to  stay.

The 

latest 

thing 

They  are  being 

in  shirts,  which 
promises  to  be  a  rage  before  it  stops, 
is  the  nut-brown  and  sage-green  effects.
liberally  ordered  of 
the  custom  shirtmakers  and  the 
leading 
manufacturers  of  high  class  shirts  are 
simply  flooded  with  orders  from  mer­
chants  who  want  them  " a t  once."

They  are  being  made  up  stiff  bosoms 
and  in  pleated  fronts,  the  former  consti­
tuting  all  but  a  small  percentage  of  the 
orders.  Attached  cuffs.

These 

nut-brown  and 

sage-green 
madras  patterns  are handsomest with  the 
black  stripes  in  fine 
lines  or  double 
lines  with  small  fancy  patterns  between 
them.  The  effect  to  the  eye  is  most 
pleasing  and  refreshing.

It  is  the  intention  of  Chicago  haber­
dashers  to  push  these  shirts  for  all.  they 
are  worth  for  late  winter  wear  and  drop 
them  for  lighter  grounds  for  early spring 
selling.—Apparel  Gazette.

Any 

concerning 

information 

the 
manipulation or  care  of  wearing  apparel 
is  always  acceptable  and  appreciated  by 
men.  This 
is  shown  by  the  way  cus­
tomers  pick  up  printed  directions  show­
ing  the  correct  methods  of  tying  the  va­
rious  kinds  of  neckwear and  put  them 
safely  in  their  pockets.  Any  bit  of  in­
formation  that  will  give  a  man  a  better 
knowledge  of  his  apparel  is  sought  for 
and  the  clothier  benefits  by giving  out 
the  tips.

So  few  men  know  what  to do  with  a 
wet  coat  to  keep  it  from  losing  its shape 
and  contracting  wrinkles  across  the back 
and  down  the  chest  from  the  shoulders. 
Ordinary  drying  will  have  this  effect 
upon  a  coat  and  no  amount  of  after- 
doctoring  will  wholly  restore  its  shape 
and  set.  There 
is  a  simple,  effective 
way  given  by  a  New  York  tailor to  his 
customers  which  enables  one  to  dry  a 
wet  coat  and  avoid  wrinkles  and  loss  of 
shape.  The  directions  are  as  follows 
and  would  be  just  the  thing  to  print 
upon  the  back  of  the  firm's  card :

Fût  the  coat  upon  an  ordinary  hanger 
and  suspend  the  coat  from  something 
that  will  allow 
it  to  hang  free  and  not

touch  anything.  Then  button the coat  up 
and  get  it  into  its  proper  hang.  Now 
take  newspapers,  crumple  up  the  pages 
into  wads  large  and  loose  and  stuff  the 
coat  out  into  the  form  it has  when  being 
worn.  Do this  by  stuffing  the  papers  in 
from  below.  Do  not  stuff 
it  tightly, 
only  enough  to  round  out  its  form.  Now 
give  the  coat  a  final  smoothing  to  know 
that  its  hang 
is  right  and  leave  it  to 
dry.  When  dry  the  coat  will  be  in  its 
original  shape,  free  from  wrinkles  and 
none  the  worse  for the  wetting.

Merchants  who  have  the  foregoing 
printed  on  the  back  of  their  cards  or  on 
special  cards  will  be  surprised  to  see 
how  they  will  be  picked  up  and  kept.

P ap er Stockings.

Paper  lurks 

in  many  disguises  now­
adays  of  celluloid  and  leatherette,  and 
has  been  turned  to  account  by  econom­
ical  persons  as  blankets,  collars,  shirt 
fronts  and  cuffs.  But  surely  the  strang­
est  use  to  which  it  has  lately  been  put 
is  that  of  providing  the  material  for 
socks  and  stockings. 
It  is  said  to  be 
drawn  out  into  strands  like  twine,  in  the 
course  of  which  it  is  roughened  to 
imi­
tate  the  appearance  of  lamb’s  wool  or 
llama,  and  then  woven.  So  far,  how­
ever,  the  hosiery  trade  declines  to  view 
the  promise  of  revolution  seriously.

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

l l

MAKING  WINDOW  GLASS.

The  Various  Steps  in  This  Interesting 

Process.

Marion,  Ind.,  Feb.  15— People  who 
have  glass  windows  in  their  homes  do 
not  know  that  the  glass  contains  enough 
arsenic  to  make 
it  a  deadly  poison. 
Glassmakers  say  that  the  windows  of 
an  ordinary  home  contain  enough  of 
this  poison  to  kill  a  regiment  of  men. 
The  popular  supposition  that  glass 
is 
made  of  sand  is  correct,  but  a  qunatity 
of  other  articles  enters  into  its  composi­
tion.  Window  glass  factories  are  di­
vided 
into  two  departments— a  tank- 
house  and  a  pothouse.  The  process  of 
glassmaking 
in  one  of  these  depart­
ments  is  practically  the  same  as  in  the 
In  the  tankhouse  the  glass  is  all 
other. 
immense  tanks,  which  will 
melted 
in 
hold  thousands  of  tons. 
In  the  pothouse 
is  made 
in  pots.  After  the 
the  glass 
lighted  and  a  tank  is  heated, 
fires  are 
the  glass  mixture 
It 
includes  glass  left  over  from  the  former 
season,  glass  refuse,  sand  and  salt  cake. 
Arsenic  is  not  used  in  the  tankhouse, 
for  the  reason  that  the  beat  is  so  in­
tense  that  the  drug  is  volatilized and  es­
capes  into  the  air  without  entering  the 
mixture.  As  one  mixture  melts  and 
flows  to  one  end of  a tank,  fresh  supplies 
are  shoveled  in  at  the  other  end.

is  shoveled  in. 

it 

is 

The  melted  glass 

The  molten  mass seethes and ‘ ‘ works’ ’ 
in  a  manner similar to  that  of a  mash  in 
a  distillery.  From  the  salt  cakes  comes 
a  salt  water  that  has  to  be  separated 
from  the  mass,  and  the  easiest  way  to 
remove 
is  to  burn  it  out.  This  is 
done  by  throwing  stove  wood  into  the 
tank  on  top  of the  molten  glass.  The 
water  is  converted  into  steam,  which  is 
destroyed  by  the  intense  heat  from  the 
glass. 
then 
skimmed  by  an  automatic  skimmer  and 
is  ready  for  the  gatherer.  A  gatherer 
thrusts  a  long  steel  blowpipe  into  one  of 
the  rings  at  the  lower  end  of  the  tank. 
He  twists  and  turns  it  until  a  small  ball 
of  glass  gathers  on  the  end.  This  ball 
is  partially  cooled,  polished  by  being 
turned 
in  a  box  of  sawdust  and  then 
passed  on  to  the  blower,  who  heats  it 
again  until  it  becomes  like  taffy.  The 
blower  swings  the  ball  over  a  pit  that  is 
twelve  feet  deep  and  rapidly  blows  it 
into  an  elongated  pear-shape.  When  a 
blower  is  through  the  melted  glass  be­
comes  a  perfect  cylinder about  five  feet 
long  and  two  feet  across.  It  then  passes 
to  a  “ snapper,”   who  takes  it  to  a  rack 
and  breaks  the  roller  loose  from  ibe 
blowpipe.
The  snapper  gathers  a  small  lump  of 
melted  glass  on  the  end  of  a  rod  and 
dexterously  runs  a  narrow  ribbon  of  the 
stuff  around  the  ends  of  the  roller,  both 
at  the  blowpipe  end  and  the  closed  end. 
The  little  ribbons  of  melted  glass  cool 
in  a few  seconds, when they are  removed, 
leaving  a  narrow  zone  of  almost  red-hot 
glass  around  the  rollers  at  each  end. 
Then,  taking  a  tool  that  resembles  a 
soldering  iron,  the  snapper  rubs  it  for  a 
moment  on  his  forehead,  and  when  the 
point  of  it  is  moistened  with  perspira­
tion,  he  runs  the  iron  around  the  rollers 
at  the  heated  spot.  The  glass  cracks 
and  separates  as  cleanly  as  if  cut  with  a 
diamond,  the  blowpipe  is  removed  and 
the  closed  cylinder  has  become  a  roller 
— a  sheet  of  glass  rolled  up  the  same  as 
a  sheet  of  music,  only  in  a  continuous 
roll,  without  edges.  The  roller  is  then 
ready  to  go  to  the  flattener.

The  flattener  works  in  another  part  of 
the  building,  where  are  located  the  flat­
tening  ovens.  These  evens  are  heated 
to a  temperature  sufficient  to  soften  the 
glass  so  that  it  may  be  rolled  out  into 
sheets.  A  series  of  fire-clay  tables, 
in  a  circle,  like  the  spokes  of  a 
placed 
wheel,  revolve 
in  the  ovens,  and  on 
these  tables  the  rollers  are  flattened. 
They  are  placed  inside,  allowed  to be­
come  hot  and  then  a  cold  iron  is  run 
along  the  inside  from  end  to  end.  The 
contact  of  the  iron  cuts  the  glass,  which 
is  then  straightened  out  upon  the  table. 
The  flattener  has  a  number  of  billets  of 
green  wood,  attached  to  long  iron  han­
dles,  and  with  these  billets  which  are 
shaped 
in  such  a  manner  as  to  do  the 
work  expected  of  them,  he  “ irons”   the 
softened  sheet  of  glass  until  it  is  per­
fectly  flat  and  smooth.  The  tables 
in­
the  flattened
side 

the  oven  revolve, 

sheet  is  carried  away  and  another  roller 
is  brought  into  position  before  the  flat­
tener.  As  the  flattened  sheets  cool  they 
are  lifted  to  a  place  on  a  long,  traveling 
rack,  on  which  they  are,  by  stages,  re­
moved  from  the  ovens,  being  allowed  to 
cool  as  they  go.  This  is  done  in  order 
that  the  glass  may  not  be  shattered  by 
too  quick  an  exposure  to  the  air.

When  the  sheets  are  taken  from  the 
flattening  ovens  they  are  covered  with  a 
greasy, dirty-looking coat  of  chemicals— 
soda,  potash,  silicates  of  the  different 
salts,  etc.— which  must  be  removed,  and 
for  this  purpose  the  rough  sheets  are 
placed  in  an  acid  bath,  composed  of 
hydrochloric  and  sulphuric  acids,  more 
or  less  diluted.  After  their  immersion 
in  this  bath  the  sheets  are  taken  to  the 
cutting  room,  where  workmen  cut  them 
into  sizes  and  make  them  ready  for  the 
packers.  Hardly  a  .scrap  of  the  glass, 
except  the  rough  edges,  is  wasted— in 
fact,  none  is  wasted,  as  all  refuse  goes 
back  to  be  melted.  After  the  cutters 
have  finished  their  work,  the  glass  is 
packed  in  boxes  and  is  then  ready  for 
the  market.
Each  branch  of  glassmaking  is  a  sep­
arate  trade.  A  blower  more  than  likely 
knows  nothing  about  gathering,  and  a 
snapper  could  not do  the  work  of  either, 
although  working  alongside  of  both.  A 
“ teaser,”   who  mixes  the  batch,  does 
nothing  else,  while  the  flatteners  and 
cutters  all  have  their own  unions  and 
are  a  distinct  branch  of  the  industry. 
Glass  men  live  “ between  fires.”   When 
the  “ fire 
is  in,”   everything  is  lovely, 
and  the  glass  men  and  ther  families 
live 
lords;  but  when  the  “ fire  is 
out”   the  families  generally  troop  back 
East,  while  the  fathers  and  brothers  go 
camping  until  the 
fires  start  again. 
Glassmakers,  as  a  whole,  are  better 
paid  than  workmen  employed 
in  any 
other  branch  of 
labor.  Blowers  make 
from  $50 to $125  a  week,  working  shifts 
of  eight  hours;  snappers  can  make  from 
$15  to  $30  a  week,  while  gatherers’ 
wages  will  vary  between  $20  and  $40 
weekly.  Flatteners  make  all  the  way 
from  $25  to $50 a  week,  and  a  “ master 
teaser”   will  earn 
from  $75  to  $100 
weekly.  This,  of  course,  is  during  the 
fire,  and  the  wages  stop  when  the  fires 
are  out,  in  June,  and  do  not  begin  until 
operations  are  resumed  in  September  or 
October.  And  in  a  great  many  cases 
the  end  of  the  fire  finds  the  glass 
worker  with  only  his  last  pay  on  which 
to  live  until  fall.

like 

D ecorated  Stockings.

“ A  Parisian 

‘ decorator  of  ladies’ 
stockings’  has  so  far  forgotten  profes­
sional  discretion  as  to  tell  tales  out  of 
his  studio,”   says the London Telegraph. 
“ The  artist  designs  hosiery  chiefly  for 
fair,  fastidious,  and  extravagant  beau­
ties  of  the  world  which  amuses  itself. 
These 
ladies  will  only  wear  stockings 
the  patterns  of  which  are  unique,_  and 
they  retain  the  copyright  of  the designs. 
It  is  even  more  indiscreet  of  the  artist 
to  reveal  that  for  one  of  his  customers 
he  has  made  delicate  hose  embroidered 
with  a  serpent  having  two  pearls  for  its 
eyes.  Other 
‘ art’  stockings  are  deco­
rated  with  perfect  imitations  of  flowers 
in  colors,  lilies  of  the  val­
embroiderd 
ley,  violets  and 
favorite 
blooms.  Most  of  the  ladies  select a par­
ticular  flower  which  they  order  to  be 
worked  on  all  their  hosiery.  It  appears, 
however,  that,  generally  speaking,  the 
stocking  embroidered  in  colors  is  con­
sidered  a  trifle  loud.  Ladies  of  severer 
taste  prefer  black  lace,  but  jeweled  or­
naments  on  the 
latter  are  regarded  as 
quite  permissible.  The  artist  in  ques­
tion  charges  any  price  from  ^24  up­
ward  for  a  pair of  hose.”

lilacs  being 

W hat  Each  of Us Is  W orth.

The  human  body  of  average  weight 
contains  three  pounds  thirteen  ounces 
of  calcium.  Calcium,  at  present  mar­
ket  rates,  is  worth  $300  an  ounce,  so 
that  the  amount  of  it contained  in  one 
human  body  has  a  money  value  of 
Few  of  our  fellow  citizens 
$18,300. 
realize  that  they  are  worth  so  much 
in­
trinsically.____ _

A  good  name  at  home  is  a  tower of 

strength  abroad.

How  P at  H eld H is  Job.

The  following  story  was  told  the  other 
evening  by  one  of  Muskegon’s best story 
tellers:

“ An  Irishman,  out  of  work  and  poor 
in  purse  but  strong  in  the  faith  of  his 
forefathers,  was  walking  along  a  coun­
try  road  in  search  of  employment.  He 
had  traveled  for  some distance,  when  he 
met  a  Lutheran  farmer,  to  whom  he  at 
once  applied  for  something  to  do.

“ After asking  him  his  name,  whence 
he  had  come  and  what  he  could  do,  the 
farmer  told  the  man  that  he  could  give 
him  employment,  but,  as  he  judged 
from  his  nationality  that  he  was  a  Cath­
olic,  he  feared  that  his  conscience would 
not  permit  him  to  do  everything  that 
might  be  required  of  him.

“   ‘ Faith,  and  phat  iz  it  that  yez  ’ud 

have  me  do?’  asked  Pat.

“   ‘ W ell,’  replied  the  farmer,  ‘ among 
other  things,  it  would  be  your  duty  to 
drive  my  wife  and  myself  to  church 
every  Sunday  morning. ’

“   ‘ Sure,  O i’d  have  no  objections  to 

doin’  the  loikes  o’  that, ’  said  Pal.
“   ’ Very  well,  then,’  remarked 

the 
farmer,  ‘ you  may  consider  yourself  en­
gaged. ’

“ The  following  Sunday  morning  Pat 
hitched  up  the  horses  and,  the  farmer 
and  his  wife  having  seated  themselves 
in  the  wagon,  started  for  the  house  of 
worship.  The  road 
led  by  a  Catholic 
church,  where  Pat  was  in  the  habit of 
attending  services.  As  the  party  ap­
proached  the  church  Pat  began  to  feel 
uneasy.  He could  not  make  up  his  mind 
whether  to  live  up  to  his  agreement  or 
to get  off  the  wagon,  go  to  mass  and  let 
the  farmer and  his  wife  continue  their 
journey  alone.  Finally,  with  . a  heroic 
effort,  he  set  his  teeth,  put  the  reins  to 
the  horses,  and,  casting  one  lingering 
look  at  his  church,  said :

“   ‘ Goodby,  God,  till  bettertoimes!’  ”

Prince  Henry 

is  apt  to  get  himself 
disliked  by  the  anti-cigarette  league  if 
he  gives  away  all those jeweled cigarette 
cases  be  has  with  him.

M. W ile & Co.

Famous  Makers  of  Clothing

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Samples  on  Request  Prepaid 

Ask to see Samples of

Pan-American 
Guaranteed  Clothing

Makers

Wile Bros.  & Weill,  Buffalo,  N.Y.
We’ll  Give  You  Fits

this  season  and  also  increase 
your  glove trade if you will pur­
chase the celebrated glove line of

MASON,  CAMPBELL  &  CO.,

JOHNSTOWN,  N.  Y.

If our salesmen do not call on  you,  drop 

them a line at Lansing, Mich.

C.  H.  BALL,

Central and  Northern Michigan.

P.  D.  ROGERS,

Northern Ohio and  Indiana  and 
Southern  Michigan.

MR.  D E A L E R :

Our  travelers  are  out 
with a new line of Women’s 
Belts,  both  Fabrics  and 
Leather. 
If they miss  you 
write us  for  samples.

Novelty  Leather  Works,

Jackson, Mich.

Manufacturers  of  the  best 
line  of  Belts  on the  market 
for men  and women.

Over Two  Million  and  a  Quarter Dollars’  Worth

It  is true that my samples  represent the above amount;  of course people  who  have 
not seen them mistrust. 
It is truth,  nevertheless;  but  ask  my  honorable  competi­
tors, such  as John Tripp, who, when he  recently  visited  me,  expressed  his  amaze­
ment  and  once  said:  "Connor,  you  may  well  sell  so  many  goods,  they  are  as 
staple as flour.”  My friend  Rogan, when he called, expressed  intense surprise and 
once  said:  “ Mr.  Connor,  I  wish  I  had  such  a  line.”  Space will  not permit me 
to mention other good names of competitors and many merchants. 
I  have samples 
in everything that  is made and worn in ready made clothing  by  men,  youths,  boys 
and  children  in  Suits,  Overcoats  and  Pants  from  very,  very  lowest  prices  up, 
adapted to  all  classes.  Summer  goods,  such  as  Linen,  Alpaca,  Crash,  Duck, 
Fancy Vests, etc.  Everything direct from the factory.  No two prices  I have trade 
calling upon me from  Indiana,  Ohio and  most  parts  of  Michigan.  Customers  ex­
penses allowed.  Office  open  daily.  Nearly  quarter  century  in  business.  Best 
selection of Clay and fancy worsteds from $5  UP-  Pants  of  every kind.  Call;  you 
won’t regret it.  Mail orders promptly attended to.

WILLIAM  CONNOR,  Wholesale Ready Made Clothing

28  and 30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Citizens  Phone 1957,  Bell Phone Main 1282

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Shoes and  Rubbers

System  In  H andling the R epair and F ind­

ings  D epartm ents.

The  repair  department  is  an 

import­
ant  part  of every  shoe  store. 
If  a  store 
can  not,  for  lack  of  room  or  other  good 
reason,  have 
its  own  repair  shop,  then 
it  should  have  a  contract  with  a  good 
cobbler  in  order that  the  wants  of  cus­
tomers may  be  conserved,to  assure  them 
of  prompt  and  good  work  at  fair  prices.
Important  factors  in  the repair depart­
ment  are  promptness  and  system.  Shoes 
should  he  ready  when  promised,  and  a 
scale  of  prices  should  be  made  and 
maintained,  also  quality  of  work.  The 
store  of  William  Eastwood  &  Son,  in 
Rochester,  has  a  first-class  system  in 
operation  and  one  wifich—on  a  smaller 
scale  if desired— may  be  applied  to  any 
shoe  store.

When  a  customer  brings  in  a  pair of 
shoes  to  be  repaired  the  clerk  who  re­
ceives  the  order  makes  a  memorandum 
of  what  is  wanted  on  the  tag  described. 
Each  tag  is  numbered,  and  on  the  cou­
pon  which 
is  detached  and  handed  to 
the  customer,  to  be  presented  in  calling 
for  the  shoes)  appears  the  correspond­
ing  number.  The  salesman’s  name  or 
initials  appear  on  the  coupon,  so  if 
there 
is  any  question  about  the  order  it 
is  readily  traced  to  the  person  respon­
sible.  On  the  order  tag,  which  is  at­
tached  to  the  shoe  and  stays  right  there 
until  the  shoes  are  ready  for  the  cus­
tomer, is  a  schedule  of  prices  for  men's, 
women's,  misses’  and  youths'  and  chil­
dren's  work.  Also  a  scale  of  charges  for 
patches,  stays,  rips,  rubber  heels,  etc. 
The  name  and  address  of  the  customer, 
the  date  order  was  taken  and  notation 
as  to  whether  the  work  is  paid  for  in 
advance,to  be  charged or  sent  C.  O.  D., 
all  appear  on  the  tag.

With  this  in  operation  mistakes  are 
seldom  made.  The  young  man  at  the 
findings  counter  has  charge  of  the  re­
pair  work,  and  he  enters  all  orders  in  a 
book  kept  for the  purpose,  sees  that  the 
shoes  are  sent  to  the  repair  shop.  When 
the  shoes  are  ready  he  sees  that  the por­
ter  polishes  them  nicely before delivery. 
The  system  is  a  practical  and  most  sat­
isfactory  one.

A  well-conducted  findings  department 
in  a  live  shoe  store  is  a  certain  means 
of revenue  if properly planned and  intel­
ligently  managed. 
It  should  embrace  a 
great  variety  of  footwear  accessories 
and  could  be  made  a  source  of  income 
just  as  much  as  the  rest  of  the  store. 
An  enterprising  dealer  will see that such 
is  the  case  and  by  a  judicious  exercise 
of  care  at  the  outset  can  install  a  de­
partment  which  will  materially  aid  him 
to  increase  his  business.

The  idea  of  free  laces  and, 

in  some 
cases,  free  polish,  must  sooner  or  later 
follow  the  defunct  free-shine  policy.  A 
thing  that  is  good  enough  to  give  away 
for  use  is good  enough  to  be  sold.  Once 
having  broken  away  from  this  policy  a 
live dealer can  soon  make  his  customers 
realize  that  whatever  is  given  free  in 
one  case  is  taken  from  something  else. 
Dealers  can  not  afford  to  give  away 
good  grades  of  laces  or  polish  and  cus­
tomers  do  not  want  cheap  articles. 
Then  why  not  start  right?  Put  in  a  line 
of  good  stuff  and 
inform  your  trade 
that  it  is  such  and  worth  so  much. 
In 
a  short  time  they  will  realize  the  situa­
tion,  and  just  as cheerfully pay for these 
things  as  for  shoes.

With  a  findings  department 

once 
started  it  is  easy  to  add  to the  stock 
carried, and  the  novelties  put out  by  the

jobbers  nowadays  a re ^too numerous'lo 
mention.  After  laces  and  polishes  come 
insoles.  These  are  of various  descrip­
tions,  wood, 
lamb’s-wool,  horse-hair, 
cork  and  electric,  and  all  have  some 
call  among  the  trade  of  an  up-to-date 
shoe  store.  Cork  heels  and  instep  pads 
are  often  used  to  perfect  a  fit  on  a  mal­
formed  foot  and  are  the  means  of  in­
suring  a sale  of findings as well as  shoes. 
Women  priding  themselves  on  a  high 
instep  are  good customers in  these lines. 
Then  come  ankle  supporters,  heel  pro­
tectors,  rubber  heels,  shoe  horns  and 
button  hooks,  with  such  articles  as  con­
duce  to  the  comfort  of  a  shoe  wearer 
following  behind.  These  latter  embrace 
foot-ease  powder,  French  chalk,  corn 
plasters  and  cures.  Some  stores  might 
handle  a  small  line  of  shoe  brushes  to 
advantage,  while  nearly  any  one  can 
push  the  sale  of  the  rubber  heels  now  so 
extensively  advertised  by  the  manufac­
turers.

shoe-hangers 

Stores  having  a 

large  women’s  and 
children’s  custom  can  do  well  with  pol­
ishes  and  dressings.  They  more  often 
clean  their own  shoes  than  a  man,  and 
usually  keep  polish  of  some  kind  at 
home  to  touch  up  their  footwear  when  it 
gets  shabby.  In this  connection  the  very 
convenient 
for  holding 
the  shoe  while  being  cleaned  could  be 
pushed.  These  are  of  value  to  men 
also,  as  well  as  the  various  foot  forms 
now  on  the  market.  The  public  are  be­
ginning  to  realize  the  economy  of  hav­
ing  several  pairs  of  shoes  at  the  same 
time  and  wearing  them  in  rotation,  and 
careful  dressers  are  using  these  foot 
forms  in  their  shoes  when  the  shoes  are 
not 
from 
wrinkling  and  preserve  the  fit and shape 
better.  Adjustable  shoe  trees  can  be 
sold  at  a  good  profit,  and  a  customer 
usually  needs  more  than  one  pair.

in  use.  They  keep  them 

Kid  fittings  for  women’s  and  chil­
dren’s  shoes  are  articles  of  value  in  a 
findings  department,  and  stores  having 
a  large  family  trade  have  many  calls for 
leggins  and  overgaiters 
for  men’s, 
women’s  and  children’s  use.—Shoe  Re­
tailer.

She  H ad  the  Advantage.

“ I’ve  had  a  good  many  rebuffs  in  my 
line  of  business,  but  I  struck  the  limit 
the  other  day  out  on  South  Lafayette 
street,’ ’  said  a  collector. 
“ I  bad  been 
after a  man  for  several  months  to  collect 
a  bill  of  $6,  but  had  always  been  put  off 
with  excuses  and  promises.  This  day 
his  wife  came  to  the  door,  and  I  stated 
my  business  to  her,  although  I  guess  she 
knew  all  about  it.

“   ‘ My  husband 

is  asleep,’  she  said. 
* He  works  at  night,  and  never  gets  up 
until  noon.  He  won’t  be  up  for two 
hours. ’

“   ‘ Very  well,’  I  said,  ‘ I’ll  be  back 

in  two  hours. ‘

**  ‘ It  won't  be  worth  your  while,’  she 
‘ I’m  sure  he  hasn’t  got $6,  and 
said. 
even 
if  he  had,  I  shall  see  him  before 
you  will.  If  he  has  any  money  in  his 
clothes  you  can  just  bet  your  life  I’m 
going  to  get 
it  myself.  I  don’t  think 
you  stand  much  chance  around  here. ’

“ After  that  I  didn't  think  it  worth 

while  to  go  back.“ '

is 

When  the  customer  is 

in  the  act  of 
buying,  price  may  be  especially  in  his 
m ind;  but  after the  purchase,  when  the 
article 
in  his  possession  quality  is 
his particular concern.  The  buying  oc­
cupies  but  a  few  minutes,  or  a 
few 
hours,  and  price  quickly  passes  out  of 
the mind.  But  possession  is  continuous; 
the  virtue,  or  the  shortcomings  of the 
article  are 
in  perpetual  evidence;  and 
the  quality  of  the  article  measures  the 
lasting  praise  or  blame  of  the  man  who 
sold 
it.  Always  urge  the  best  goods 
upon  the  buyer,  ana  argue  quality  be­
fore  price;  and  so  may  your days  be 
happy  and  your  end  peace!

COLD  W EATHER  SH OES

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.

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  41.00 

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

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

85c

80c

70c

85c

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

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

you  promptly.

W hy  Not You

When you hire a man  you expect him to do you some 
good or you don’t keep him.
He must be a helper.
It is the same with a line of shoes; they must be good. 
They must help your business.
Our Grand  Rapids  made  line has  helped  thousands. 
Why not you?
They bear this trade-mark.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

1902

Make  a resolution  that will 

do you  good.

Buy  mor6  of  Bradley  & 
Metcalf  Co.’s  shoes  and 
your business will increase. 
Try  it.

B R A D LE Y   &   M E T C A L F   C O ..

W E  8 E L L   G O O D Y E A R   G L O V E   R U B B E R S .

M ILW A U K E E ,  W IS .

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as  we  had  some  of  the  same  numbers  in 
stock  we  were  not  dead  sure  whether 
the  mistake  was  on  us  or the  other  fel­
low.  We  went  carefully  through  the 
stock  time  and  again  until  we  were  sure 
the  mates  were  not  in  the  store  and,  as 
we  expected  their  salesman  along  in  a 
couple  of  days,  we  decided  to  let  the 
matter  rest  until  his  arrival.

“ Do  I  know  anything  about  the mates 
to those  shoes?”   said  he,  in  response  to 
our query.  “ Well,  I  should  rather  think 
did.  They’ re  on  my  desk  at  home 
now. 
I’ll  bet  a  silk  hat  that,  all  told, 
we’ve  spent  three  days  trying  to  find 
them.”

That  time  we had it on the other fellow 
good  and  hard,  and  you’d  better  be­
lieve  we  forced  him  to  make  it  right.
George  Crandall  Lee.

W here  Jo b   H ad  the  Advantage. 

“ What’s  the  matter,  little  boy?"  en­
quired  the  kind  lady,  stopping  before  a 
sobbing  urchin  on  the  street.

“ I— 1  got  a  boil  on  my  neck,”   whim­

pered  the  boy.

Job  had.”

“ Yes,  but  just  think  how  many  boils 

“ I  know,  but  think  uv  the  pashence 
he  had,  too!"  replied  the  boy._______

Half  a  Century

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

C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.

“ Western Shoe  Builders ”

Cor.  Market  and  Quincy  Sts.,  Chicago

with 
ingrowing  nails  and  abnormal 
joints  put  on  a  pair  of  these  monstrosi­
ties  his  mind  was  always  filled  with 
grave  misgivings;  but after he  had  wig­
gled  his  toes  about  in  them  for  a  few 
minutes  and  stamped  bis  feet  a  couple 
times  without  being  thrown  into  con­
vulsions,  he  heaved  a  heaven-born  sigh 
satisfaction  and  the  chances  were 
good  that  he  took  two  pairs.  Then  he 
told  bis  neighbors  all  about  it,  and  the 
result  was  satisfactory  to  us.

The  other  freak  in  men’s  wear  was  a 
shoe  with  sharp  toes  and  of  prodigious 
length. 
It  was  of  ornate  design  and 
mbellished  with  a  large  steel  buckle  of 
goodly  proportions. 
They  had  been 
marked  to  sell  at $3 and  we  cut the price 
n  two.  A  few  pairs  went  at  this,  and 
then  we  made  a  still  further  reduction 
At 
length  we  got  them  to  where  they 
went  off  very  well,  many  of  the  smaller 
sizes  being  bought 
for  women,  and 
large  boys  and  girls.  The  very  last  of 
the  lot  was  an  odd  number  nine  for  the 
left  foot,  and  as  we  had  one  number  six 
of  the  square  toed  variety  for  the  same 
foot,  we  tied  these  together  and  sold 
them  to a  gentleman  who  said  he  didn’t 
care 
fer  looks  s’long’s  he 
couldn’t  be  jailed  fer  it.”

“ nothin’ 

That  was  another  case  the  factory 
should  have  made  right,  but 
it  never 
did,  and  I  don’t  propose  to  give  it  a 
penny’s  worth  of  patronage  or  a  pleas 
ant  look  until  it  does.

jobbing  concern 

Our  firm  once  bought  a  bill  of  shoes 
from  a 
in  a  nearby 
town  and  hardly  had  we  unpacked  the 
goods  and  placed  them  upon  the  shelves 
before  we  bumped  up  hard  and  fast 
against  a  pair  of  mismates. 
It  was 
bad  case,  too,  a  five  and  a  seven,  one 
button,  the  other  laced  an d  both  for the 
same  foot. 
It  was  a  size  up  order,  and

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Bal.  Jobs  at  $1.50.

Be  sure  and  ask  our 
salesman  to  show  you 
this  shoe.

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Toledo, Ohio

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Uncle  David  would  suffer  financially 
thereby,  and  that 
is  the  reason  why 
Malcolm  wore  them  three  or  four  days 
before  he  discovered  that  both  boots 
were  for  the  right  foot.  So he  went  back 
to  the  store  to  make  a  kick,  but,  as 
luck  would  have 
it,  the  merchant  had 
just  discovered  that  he  had  two  lefts 
number  tens 
in  stock  so  Malcolm  was 
saved  the  trouble  of  finding  fault,  be­
cause  Uncle  David  was  doing  it  a  great 
deal  better  on  his  own  account  than  any 
less  profane  man  could  have  done  it  for 
him. 
It  was  an  error of  the  execrated 
factory,  so  Uncle  David  stated,  and  it 
last  anathematized  bill  of 
was 
goods  he  would  ever  buy  from  the 
im 
precated  house.  The  man  who  packed 
those  boots,  according  to  the 
store­
keeper,  "w a 'n ’t  fit  to  carry  chop  to  a 
cow.”   Malcolm  kept  his  thoughts  to 
himself,  and  soon  closed  a  shrewd  bar­
gain  with  Mr.  Juggins  for  the  mismated 
footwear,  thereby  becoming  the  pos­
sessor  of  two  pairs  at  an  average  low 
price,  and  inwardly  hugged  himself at 
his  sagacity.  At  the  same  time  Uncle 
David  congratulated  himself  upon  hav 
ing  so  soon  found  a  purchaser  for  his 
undesirable  wares  and  vowed  that  he 
would  deduct  the  amount of the lessened 
profit  from  the  money  he  owed  the  shoe 
firm. 
I  tell  you,  brother  merchants,  you 
can’t  be  too  hard  on  the  factories.

There  was  an  instance  the  other  day 
when  Walt.  Evans  carried  home  two 
pairs  of  fine  vici  shoes  for  his  wife 
Walt,  said  she  had  a  good  deal  of 
trouble  with  her  feet  and  he  thought 
he’d  better  take  along  a  three  and 
three  and  a  half  so  that  if  the  small 
ones  were  tight  he  could  fit  her  out  on 
the  spot  without  waiting. 
In  time  he 
brought  back  one  pair,  and  said  his 
wife  had  kept  the  others  and  was  much 
pleased  with  them.  She had  worn  them 
to  a  Christian  Endeavor  meeting  at 
Charlevoix  and  they  never  hurt  her 
bit.  Well,  I 
looked  at  the  shoes,  as 
matter  of  habit,  for  very  often  people 
return  the  wrong  pair  in  the  right  box 
and 
is  always  safe  to  examine  shoe 
stock  before  it  goes  back  on  the  shelf, 
And  I  didn’t  find  a  thing  wrong  with 
them  only  that he  had  returned  one  shoe 
from  each  pair.  Well,  Walt,  said  he 
have  some  fun  with  Mrs.  Evans  when 
he got home  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  he 
did  try  to,  but  she  told  him  he  needn' 
be  so  gay  about  it  unless  he  wanted  to 
She  said  it  was  no  mistake  on  her  part 
She  wanted 
two  pairs  of  shoes  and 
couldn’t  think  of  any  other  good  way 
get  them.  So  she  now  has  a  best  pai 
and  another  best  pair.  She  is  happy 
and  so  are  we,and  Walt,  says  hedoesn 
care  a  Continental  anyway,  because  she 
is  a  good  wife  after  all  and  she  really 
deserved  them.

it 

A nother Case  th e  Factory  Should  Have 
Written (or the Tradesman.

Made  Bight.

The  fact  is,  I  am  rather too  easy  go* 
ing.  My  natural  inclinations  are  of  a 
pacific  character.  I  hate  a  row  and  nine 
times  in  ten  will  settle  amicably  with  a 
man  and  take  the  money  he  owes  us 
without  remonstrance  rather  than  come 
to  blows  or even  have  a  chewing  match 
about 
it.  With  these  preliminary  re­
marks  as  a  basis,  it  may  seem  strange 
that  the  even  current  of  my  dove-like 
disposition  should  ever  become  roiled, 
and  yet  so  marked  are  the  inconsisten­
cies  of  human  nature  that  there  are  oc­
casions  when  I  am  not  only  slightly net­
tled,  but, 
judging  from  criticisms  1 
sometimes  hear  afterwards,  the  air  in 
my  vicinity  at  these  times  partakes  of 
the  hue  attributed  to  the  lower  regions 
on  a  sultry  day.

The  most  common  factor  in  disturb­
ing  the  peace  of  the  modern  household 
is  said  to  be  the  stovepipe  problem, 
and  yet  for  me  this  has  no  terrors. 
It 
is  my  habit  to  let  the  hardware  man 
attend  to  that,  and  I  take  to  the  woods 
until  the  danger  has  gone  by. 
I  can 
lose  a  collar  button  or  break  a  suspen­
der  without giving  the  matter  more  than 
a  passing  thought,  and  have  been  able 
to  weary  a  book  agent  with  gentle  ban­
ter  and  unctuous  verbiage  until  he  was 
glad  to  remember  a  previous  engage­
ment  and  betake  himself  to another and, 
it  is  to  be  hoped,  more  profitable  local­
ity.

To  no  man  since  the  time  of  Job  has 
been  attributed  the  quality  of  holding 
himself  together  in  the  face of continued 
trials,  so  I  may,  perhaps,  be  pardoned 
for  drawing  the  line  at  mismated  shoes. 
And  as  even  the  Scriptural  character 
above  referred  to  was  never  subjected 
to  the  troubles  and  annoyances  of  one 
who  has  run  a  little  store  in  the  back 
woods,  I  doubt  whether,  were  all  the 
facts  fairly  submitted  to  an  impartial 
jury,  he  would  ever again  be  permitted 
to  bear  the  palm.

customer  with 

Some  bright  summer  day,  when  the 
bass  are  blithely  biting,  let  your  self- 
appointed  saint  spend  two  hours  on  a 
pigeon-toed 
inflamed 
corns.  Permit  him  to  fit  one  reluctant 
foot 
in  a  satisfactory  manner  and  then 
find  that  the  remaining  shoe  is  two sizes 
smaller  and  of  a  different  pedigree. 
Then  see  him  deliberately  lay  aside  his 
well-worn  halo  and  watch  his  swift  pur­
suit  of  the  entered  apprentice  who  has 
made  the  mistake.  And 
it  is  steam­
boats  to  stew  pans  that  after  he  has 
caught  and  basted  the  erring  youth  to 
his  heart's  content,  the  nimbus  he  has 
worn  so  easily  in  the  past  will  be  much 
too  tight  for  his  swollen  and  throbbing 
brow.

Show  me  a  shoe  dealer  who  is  never 
troubled  with  mismated  shoes,  and  I 
will  point  you  out  a  man  who  never 
washes  his 
front  windows  and  who 
wouldn’t  know  the  difference  if  he 
happened  to  put  his  shirt  on  wrong 
side  out. 
1  have  given  the  matter  of 
odd  shoes  serious  thought,  and  although 
errors  in  this  line  are  attributed  to  a 
variety  of  causes,  I  incline  to  the  belief 
that  nine  times  in  ten  the  whole  blame 
lies  with  the  manufacturer.

Take,  for  example,  the  case  of  Mai 
colm  McTavish  and  Uncle  David  Jug­
gins,  of  Holt.  David  sold  him  a  pair 
of  boots,  number  ten.  They  were  good 
ones,  and  for  their possession  Malcolm 
with  his  usual  reluctance  gave  up  four 
bones.  He  bought  a  pair of  generous 
size  under  the  impression  that  he  was 
getting  more  for  bis  money  and  that

I  suppose  this,  too,  was  in  some  way 
the  fault  of  the  factory,  but  it  was  the 
fault  of  good  shoemaking,  and  such 
good  one  that  we  have  so  far  filed  no 
claim  for  damages  against  the  makers
Once,  long  years  ago,  we  bought  from 
a  certain  merchant  who  was  going  out 
of  business  the  tail  end  of  a  stock 
shoes  that  must  have  been  designed 
a  madhouse.  They  didn’t  cost  much 
and,  except  as  curiosities,  wouldn 
have  been  worth  it  if  they  had.  The  re 
deeming  feature  of  the  whole  affair  was 
that  the  most  archaic  specimens  in  the 
lot  were  made  of  very good material  and 
were  well  put  together.  There  was  one 
lot  with  square box  toes  and  soles  edged 
with  vermillion,  that  created  quite 
furor  among  those  of  our country  cus 
tomers  who  happened  to  be  afflicted 
infirmities.  Before  a  man
with  pedal 

We  build  Shoes  that 
build  your  business

This is no idle jest or a mere play of words;  but a hard, 
solid,  copper-fastened  fact  attested  by  all  who  have 
given  our  shoes  a  trial.  Remember,  we build bhoes 
that  build  your  business.  When  you handle our shoes 
you get something that is bright in  style 
this sells  the 
goods;  right in price— this makes you  a  good  profit;  ot 
great durability and wear—this pleases your customers. 
These three qualities build  your business.  We  are  go­
ing to impress these  facts  on  your  mind  so  you  won t 
forget them.  Try our shoes.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Makers of Shoes

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Staples.

Staple  Cottons—In  heavy brown sheet­
ings  and  drills  there  has  been  a  fair 
amount  of  business  transacted,  and  no 
pressure  to  sell  to  be  found  in  any  di­
rection.  Bleached  muslins  continue 
very  dull  at  prices  previously  quoted. 
In  bleached  chmbrics there  has  been  an 
advance  of  one-fourth  cent  per  yard  on 
certain 
lines  that  are  well  under  con­
tract  for this  season's  production.  Wide 
sheetings  are  quiet,  but  steady.  Made- 
up  sheets  and  pillow  cases,  however, 
are  in  steady  request  at  previous prices. 
Cotton  flannels  and  blankets  are  very 
quiet  and  show  no  change  in  any  way. 
Denims  bold  the  same position that they 
have  for  some  time;  well  sold  up  and 
firm  at  last quotations.  All other coarse 
colored  cottons  are  firm,  too,  and  most 
of them  are  well  sold  up.

Prints—Continue  to  show  a  steady  de­
mand  on  the  same  average  practically 
as  for the  past  two  or three  weeks. 
In­
dividual  purchases  continue  small,  but 
this  is  made  up  to a  considerable  extent 
by  the  number,  and  the  total  yardage  is 
very  good.  Staple  calicoes  are  receiv- 
ing  good  reorders  now,  and  business  in 
this  direction  is  reported  as  quite  satis­
factory.

Ginghams—Are 

the  feature  of  the 
dress  goods  division  this  week  and buy­
ers  are  finding  it  exceedingly  difficult 
to  place  orders  for  any  quantities  for 
delivery  in  any  reasonable  time.  A 
large  majority  of  the  sellers  have  prac­
tically  withdrawn  their  lines  from  the 
market,  being  to  all 
intents  and  pur­
poses  under orders  for  their  productions 
for some  time  to  come in both staple  and 
fancy 
lines.  Prices  have  shown  no 
changes,at least  none  are  openly quoted, 
but 
the  situation 
in  the 
hands  of  the  sellers.

is  entirely 

Linings—There  has  been  a  good, 
steady  business 
in  linings,  although 
individual  orders  are  small.  A  glance 
over  the  books  for January  shows  that 
the  trading  for  that  month  was  fully  up 
to  what  it  was  the  corresponding  time 
last  year,  and in  several  instances  ahead 
of  it.  Here,  again,  the  strength  in  the 
market  for  gray  goods  has  proven  a 
factor  in  backing  up  effectually  the tone 
of  the  linings  market.

Dress  Goods—The  principal  factor of 
interest  in  connection  with  the  demand 
for  dress  goods  fabrics  is  the  business 
that 
is  coming  forward  on  the  new 
heavyweight  lines  of a  staple  character. 
The  new  fall  dress  goods  season  is  still 
in  the  prospective,  so  far  as  a  general 
opening  of  the  various  lines  is  con­
cerned,  but  this  fact  does  not  prevent 
business  of  very  fair volume, being  done 
in  a  quiet  manner.  Manufacturers  and 
agents  have  gotten  their arrangements 
for the  new  season  well  on  toward  com­
pletion,  and  should  be  ready  in  a  com­
paratively  short  time  now  to  set  the  ball 
in  earnest.  The  interest  shown 
rolling 
by  buyers  at  this stage  of  the  season 
is 
taken  as  a  very  promising indication  by 
the  dress  goods  trade,  which 
leads  to 
the  belief  that  they  are  on  the  eve  of  a 
good  season.  Naturally  agents  are  loth 
to  give  definite  information  regarding 
the  business  developing,  either  in  con­
nection  with  the  exact  character  and 
volume  of  the  trade,  or the  price  basis 
at  which  it  is being  done,  for  future  de­
velopments  might  alter  things  mate­
rially.  The  ideas  of the  trade  are  fixed 
on  a  higher  range  of  prices  than  a  year 
ago  in  many 
instances.  The  cheaper I 
grades,  including  wool goods,  it  is Inti- J

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mated,  are  likely  to  open  practically  on 
the  basis  of  last  year’s  opening  figures, 
while  worsteds  will  range  up  to  5  to  7 ^  
per  cent,  above  a  year ago. 
It  is  not 
unnatural  that  in  advance  of  any  gen­
eral  showing  of  the  new 
lines  there 
should  be  more  or  less  difference  of 
opinion  on  the  value  question.  There 
are  those  who  entertain  ideas  of  slightly 
better  prices  than  a  year  ago  on  wool 
goods,  but,  generally  speaking, 
little 
change  as  compared  with  a  year  ago  is 
expected  on  wool  fabrics.  On  worsteds, 
the  yarn  question  comes  into  play,  and 
the  high  prices  demanded  by  the  spin­
ner  make  necessary  at  least  5  to 
per 
cent,  advance  on  average  grades  of 
piece  goods.  The  duplicate  demand 
for  lightweights  continues  of  modest 
proportions.  The  return  orders  of  the 
jobbing  fraternity  are  expected  to  con­
tinue  small  until  after the Easter period. 
is  buying  staples,  such 
The  cutter-up 
as 
broadcloths, 
tbibets,  etc.,  in  fair quantities.

cheviots,  meltons, 

Underwear— With  the  bulk  of the  fall 
business  already  accomplished  with  the 
manufacturers  of  underwear,  and  dupli­
cate  orders  coming  to  hand  for  spring 
lines,  much 
interest  naturally  centers 
in  the  jobbing  end  of the  trade,  as man­
ufacturers  are  anxious  to  see  what  they 
are  doing  with  these  goods,  and  the 
prospect  for  the  season.  Spring  goods 
are 
in  an  excellent  condition  with  the 
jobbers,  and  more  goods  have  been  dis­
posed  of  up  to  the  present  writing  than 
a  year  ago  during  the  same  period.  An­
other  feature  of the  trading  is  the  sud­
den  demand  for  heavyweights  for  im­
mediate  use.  This is  due  to  the  sudden 
cold  weather that  has  induced  consum­
ers  to  buy  even  although  it  is  late  in the 
season. 
It  is  not  hard  to  draw  con­
clusions  from  this.  The  retailers  are 
out  of  stock,  and  totally  unprepared  for 
any  more  heavyweight  business,  and 
furthermore,  have  nothing  to  begin  with 
next  fall.  They  are  buying  now  only 
just  what  they  feel  is  absolutely  neces­
sary  for  immediate  use.  There  is  no 
good  reason  for expecting  next  fall  and 
winter  to  be  any  poorer than  the  pres­
ent  season,  consequently  it  is  but  fair 
to  suppose  that  when  the 
jobbers  open 
their  fall  and  winter  lines  a  big  busi­
ness  will  be  accomplished, 
for  com­
plete  new  stocks  must  be  purchased  by 
the  retail  buyers.

this  same  time,  and 
among  the  very  best  sellers.

lace  effects  are 

Fabric  Gloves— There  has  been an ex­
cellent  demand  for  fall  goods  and orders 
from  the  large  houses  are  for  better 
quantities  than  a  year ago. 
In fact,  the 
production  of  the  foreign  mills  will  be 
taxed,  and is  already  engaged  until  late 
in  the  season 
in  many  cases.  There 
has  been  a  good  trade  in  cashmere  hose 
for the  fall.

Carpets—Manufacturers  of 

carpets 
continue  to  be  actively employed  on  old 
orders.  They  have  enough  business  in 
hand  to  keep  them  fully  employed  up  to 
March  1  at  least,  and  in  the  meanwhile 
there  is  sufficient  time  for enough dupli­
cates  to  be  received  to  keep  machinery 
going 
through  the  season  without  a 
break.  Deliveries  to  the  jobbers  and 
wholesalers  are  now  commencing  to  be 
made  quite  numerously  on  orders placed 
the  first  of  the  season  for the  spring 
trade,  as  now  it  is  the  beginning  of  the 
season's  business  with  the  jobbers.  The j 
jobbing  trade  are  beginning  the  season 
with  a  fairly  good  send-off.  The  initial 
business  has  been  quite  satisfactory  so 
far,  and  the  prospects  for  future  busi­
ness  are  all  that  can  be  expected.  Trav­
eling  men  report  that  dealers  are  taking 
more  than  the  usual  interest  in  replen­
ishing stocks  this  season,  and  their  an­
ticipations  for  landing  more  than  the 
usual  orders  for goods  are  exceptionally 
strong. 
In  the  West,  there  are  pros­
pects  for  a  large  business,  particularly 
in  the  Middle  West. 
It  is  probable, 
however,  that  the  other  sections  of the 
country  will  come  in  for  their  share  of 
the  trade,  but  the  outlook  at  present  ap­
pears  more  favorable  for the  West.  The 
demand  continues  strong  on  the  fine 
side  of  the  market,and  without  question

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Hosiery—The  hosiery  outlook  is  very 
bright,  and  the  jobbers  are  full  of  busi­
ness  filling orders  on  spring  lines.  Im­
porters  are  also  busy,  but  are  express­
ing  fears 
in  regard  to  the  possibilities 
of  filling  orders  on  account  of  delays  in 
getting  goods.  The  delays  on  account 
of  overdue  steamers  in  the  storms  have 
had  some  effect,  but  foreign  mills  have 
been  unable  to  cope  with  the  demand 
made  on 
them,  not  only  from  the 
United  States,  but  other  countries  as 
well.  The  retail  trade  has  had  a  con­
tinuous  lively  business  for  the  present 
season,  and  has  practically  no  left-over 
summer  goods.  So  far there  have  been 
very  few  cut-price  sales  in  the  retail 
trade,  although  such  things  are  usual 
during  January  and  February,  but the 
continued  good  sales  at 
full  prices 
promise  to  clear  up  stocks  without  re­
sort  to  this  method. 
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Chemnitz  show  that  the  hosiery  mills 
are  full  of  orders,  although  other  indus­
tries  In  that  vicinity  are  much  de­
pressed.  Duplicate  orders  for  spring 
hosiery  are  coming  to  hand 
in  good 
numbers,  and  for  fair  quantities;  in 
fact,  reports  from  several  mills  show 
that  they  have  now  orders  for larger 
quantities  than  they bad  a  year ago  at

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farm  wagon  drawn  by  a  couple  of  lively 
three-year-olds  rattled  past.  Standing 
up  in  the  cart  and  holding  the reins  was 
my  old  hero,  and  behind  him,  sitting 
on  a  couple  of  spring  boards,  and  as 
happy  as they  make  them,  half  a  score 
his  grandchildren.  Do  you  think 
any  millionaire,  with  his  coachload  of 
fashionable  people,  could  feel  prouder 
than  the  old  man  did? 

I  doubt  it!"

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Made  th e  M ost  o f H is  O pportunities. 
There  are  many  more  successful  peo­
ple  than  those  of  whom  the  world  takes 
it  is  by  no  means  to 
cognizance,  and 
the  rich  and  great  only  that  the  term 
is 
pplicable.  Everything  is  comparative 
nd  the  individual  who  makes  the  most 
of  bis  two talents  is  equal  in the light  of 
the  great  Ruler  of  the  Universe  to  the 
apparently  more  fortunate  possessor  of 
the  doubled  five  talents.

To  arrive  at  the  true  success  of  exist­
ence  is  to  make  the  best  of  the  oppor­
tunities  that  come 
in  one’s  way,  to 
creditably  fill  the  niche  in  life  in  which 
one  is  placed  and  to  increase  the  talents 
with  which  one  has  been  endowed.

“ You  will  be  rather  surprised  when  I 
tell  you  who  is  my  ideal  of  a  successful 
man,”   said  a  well-known  lawyer,  upon 
whom  the  world  would  without  any 
question  bestow  the  epithet. 
“ In  a 
certain  locality  I  frequently  visit,  there 
is  a  man  whom  I  thoroughly  respect, 
because  be  has  made the most prominent 
success  of  any  one  I  know.  He  is  a 
hale,  grizzled,  hard-working  negro,  of 
the  most  decided  African  type,  who 
would  be  more  surprised  than  any  one 
else  if  he  knew  how  much  I  respect  and 
admire  him.  He  was  born  a  slave  on 
a  Southern  plantation,  and  came  North 
after  the  proclamation  of  emancipation 
to  earn  a  living  for  himself  and  young 
wife  and  the  numerous  progeny  with 
which  heaven  presented  him  with  an 
nual  regularity  for  a  number  of  years.  ! 
have  forgotten  how  he  came  to  settle 
ii 
this  State.  He  was  found  capable 
hardworking  and  trustworthy  by  the 
railroad  company  which  he  served 
ii 
some  capacity  for  a  number  of  years 
During 
that  time  he  saved  enough 
money  to  buy  a  small  farm,  upon  which 
he  constructed  in  his  leisure  hours  the 
most  extraordinary collection  of shanties 
and  “ leantos. ”   By  degrees  he  collected 
the  necessary 
implements,  to 
gether  with  a  cow  and  a  couple  of 
draught  horses,  and  finally,  when  the 
time  was  ripe,  left  his  situation  on  the 
railroad  and  became  a  farmer.  His  wife 
was  thrifty,  and  took  in  washing,  and 
he  has  steadily  prospered.  His  sixteen 
children  were  all  clothed,  fed,  received 
a  sufficient  amount  of  education,  and 
are  doing  well.

farm 

“ Who  could  deny  that  such  a  one,  al 
though  poor  and  humble  in  station,  i 
not  eminently  a  successful  man? 
should  be  proud,  indeed,  if  I  could  feel 
that  I  had  used  my  opportunities  as 
well  as  he  has  done. 
I  saw  the old  man 
not  long  ago.  As  I  was  driving  along 
a  country  road  I  heard  a  great  shouting 
behind  me,  and  I  had  just  time  to  turn 
to  the  side  of  the  road,  when  a  larg

there  has  probably  never been  a  larger 
amount  of  fine 
goods  made  than there 
has  the  past  season.  Fine  body  Brus­
sels,  wiltons  and  velvets  continue  in  the 
favor  of  the  consuming  public,  particu­
larly 
the  wiltons  and  Brussels.  Ax- 
minsters  and  the  later  varieties  of  the 
staple  carpets  of  course  come 
in  for 
their  portion  of  the  trade.  Tapestries 
have  shown  a  decided  falling  off  in  de­
mand  within  the  past  month  or  so,  and 
it  is  hard  to  find  a  good  and  sufficient 
reason  therefor.  Tapestries  in  most  in­
stances  are  purchased  by  the. middle 
classes, but now  that  the  country  at  large 
is  so  well  fixed  financially  something 
better  than  a  tapestry  is  usually  en­
quired  for.  The  Philadelphia 
ingrain 
weavers  continue  to  experience  an  un­
satisfactory  call  for their  products,  and 
taking  the  trade  as  the  whole,  it 
is 
doubtful 
if  all  are  running  full  time. 
The  all-wool  carpet  weavers  are  doing 
about  all  the  business  that  is  done,  but 
even  with  manufacturers  of  this  grade 
of  ingrains  the  demand  is  not  what  it 
should  be.  If  it  was  not  for  the  fact that 
many  of  the  looms  formerly  run  on  in 
grains  have  been  changed  over  onto 
rugs  and  art  squares,  manufacturers 
and  the  help  in  general  would  be  in  a 
predicament.  As  it  is,  there  is  quite  a 
good  demand  for these rugs and squares, 
which  keeps  the  machinery  fairly  well 
in  motion,  where  otherwise 
it  would 
not  be.

interesting  story  teller  and 

Disadvantage  of Being Too  F am iliar.
A  group  of  traveling  salesmen  had 
evidently  organized  a  school  of  instruc 
tion.  The  amount  of  latent  philosophy 
and  eloquence  there  developed  was  cer 
tainly  remarkable.  A  sash  and  door 
representative  opened  the  session  with 
out  the  formality  of  getting  up  out  of 
his  chair  or even  taking  his  feet  down 
from  the  table. 
' * I  believe  we  are  mak 
ing  a  mistake,  boys,  in  attempting  to 
establish  too  friendly,  social  relations 
with  the  average  customer,”   he  said 
“ Business  and  pleasure  have  never been 
known  to  harmonize. 
I  know  the  value 
of  having  the  reputation  of  being  a good 
fellow,  an 
liberal  entertainer,  but  there 
is  always 
an  opportunity  to  exercise  these  talents 
without  lugging  them  into  strictly  busi 
ness  transactions.  Our  first considera 
tion,of course, is  to  always  look  after  the 
interests  of  our  firm,  but  we  also  know 
that  any  business  we  secure  from  a  cus 
tomer  must  not  be  detrimental  to  his 
interests  if  we  hope  to  merit  any  of  his 
future  patronage.  The  nearer  we  con 
fine  ourselves,  therefore,  to the  immedi 
ate  business  under  consideration 
the 
fewer chances  there  are  for  future disap 
pointments 
and  misunderstandings. 
Friendship  and  personal  magnetism 
will  always 
influence  a  certain  amount 
of  business,  and  where  such  preference 
is  not  contrary  to  business  principles  it 
is  entirely  legitimate  and commendable. 
The  trouble 
is  often  ex­
pected  by  both  buyer  and  seller  on  the 
score  of  intimate  friendship. 
These 
close  relations,  as  we  know,  are  only 
possible  by  special  effort  and  design  on 
the  part  of  a  statesman  who  is  always 
subjected  to  a  suspicion  of  having  mer­
cenary  motives 
in  view.  Too  many  of 
us  do  not  realize  the  importance  of  a 
certain  amount  of  dignity,  either.  With 
the  new  year  I  am  going  to  turn  over  a 
new  leaf  and  endeavor to  merit  more  of 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  trade 
than  I  have  been  entitled  to  in  the  past. 
I  believe  a  reputation  for  integrity  is 
more 
intimate 
friends.—Mississippi  Valley  Lumber­
man.

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extent  in  gaining  on  our  supply  house 
competitors.

May  I  ask  if our customers  are  alto­
gether  to  blame  for  sending  away  for 
goods  when  they  are  in  many  cases  un­
able  to  procure  them  at  their  village 
store  or  if  they  have  cause  to  be  dis­
gusted  with  the  untidy  stock  and  the 
unbusinesslike  methods  of  its  proprie­
tor.  Do  not  some  of  us  exact  too  much 
profit  on  some  articles?  Are  we  always 
worthy  of  our  patrons’  confidence? 
I 
fear  that  too  many  of  us  are  some  at 
fault  along  these  lines. 
If  so,  let  us  all 
strive  to  improve.  Let  us  do our  part 
and  do  it  well. 

O.  A.  Gallup.

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Hardware

T he Best W ay to  Compete W ith  th e  Sup­

ply  Houses.

One  way  to  compete  with 

supply 
houses  is  to  keep  the  goods  and  keep 
them  in  good  order,  always  at  hand,  al­
ways  a  full  stock  and  an  everlasting 
perseverance  in  everything  pertaining 
I  will  not  undertake  to 
to  business. 
make  my  paper  apply  to  the 
larger 
stores,  but  more  particularly  to  the 
Stocks  of  the smaller towns.  A  full  stock 
is  not  necessary,  but  it  should  contain 
such  goods  as  there  is  a  demand  for 
within  the  territory.  A  full  stock  need 
not  mean  a  big  stock. 
If our trade  is 
small  we  had  better make  our  purchases 
in  sm all' lots,  but  at  all  events  always 
have  some  of  each  kind  and  style  on 
hand.  We  can  order often  and,  by  keep­
ing  the  stock  in  good  order,  we  should 
never  be  out  of goods  for  more  than  a 
dayTor two  at  a  time.  When  we  have  a 
call  for some  article  that  we  do  not have 
in  stock  and  we  offer to  send  and  get  it 
for  our  customers,  do  we  not  generally 
get  this  reply,  “ I  can  send  for it  myself 
as  well  as  to  have  you  do  it  for me, ’ ’ 
and  generally  several  other articles  are 
included in  the  order?  Therefore,  would 
it  not  be  more  profitable,  even  if our 
customers  are  few,  to  keep  at  least  one 
article  each  of everything  that  is 
likely 
to  be  called  for  in  the  small  articles, 
although  we  may  think  that  we  are 
likely  to  carry  it  in  stock  for  several 
years  without  finding  a  sale  for  it? 
I 
have  practiced  this  and  find  that  it  is 
profitable  to  do  so. 
I  realize  that  it  is 
hard  to  keep  track  of a  stock  made  up 
of  small  articles  and  but  a  few  of  each 
kind,  but  diligence  will  overcome  this 
trouble,  and,  so  long  as  there  is  profit 
in  our  work,  we  can  afford  to  attend  to 
it  thoroughly.

I  say,  decidedly,  yes. 

When  we  visit one  of  the  city  hard­
ware  stores  we  find  it  neatly  supplied 
with  everything  that  is  convenient  for 
displaying  and  selling  goods. 
It  has 
for the  shelf hardware  drawers  for  each 
separate  kind  and  size  of article.  With 
them  it only  takes  an  instant  to  obtain 
the  article  wanted  and  also  it  only  re­
quires  a  glance  to tell  what  goods  are 
needed  to  replenish  stock.  With  the 
use  of  shelf  boxes  one  can  attend  to 
several  customers  at  one  time,  if  neces­
sary.  Now,  if  these  conveniences  are 
profitable  for the  larger stores,  are  they 
for  the  smaller 
not  also  profitable 
stocks? 
I  would 
like  to  have  every  dealer  provide  him­
self  with  shelf  boxes  and  I  am  sure  be 
will  better  please  his  trade,  he can  carry 
a  more  complete  stock with  less  capital, 
with 
less  space,  less  help  and  at  a 
greater  profit.  The  elaborate  and  ex­
pensive  boxes  are  not  so  useful  as  the 
less  expensive  ones  for  the  small stocks.
I  prefer  such  as  I  use  to any  other  style 
known  to  me,  for  the  reason  that  they 
are  compact,  requiring  much  less  space 
than  the  trade  goods. 
I  made  my  own 
boxes  during  the  dull  winter  months, 
using 
lumber  from  packing  boxes  for 
the  front  and  back  and  sheet  iron  for 
the  sides  and  bottom.  The 
is 
finished  in  natural  color  and  a  picture 
taken  from  a  catalogue  pasted  on  it  and 
varnished  over  illustrates  the  contents 
of  the  box.  This  matter of boxes  and 
other  neat  contrivances  may  not  interest 
it  may  appear  like 
many  of  you  and 
wandering  away 
subject. 
However,  I  believe  it  is  a  great  factor 
in  getting  and  holding  trade  and,  if  we 
can  sell  more  goods  by  using  these  con­
veniences,  we  have  succeeded  to  this

from  my 

front 

Fires  Caused by  Nails.

From tbe New Orleans Times-Democrat.

‘ ‘ Speaking  of 

insurance  matters," 
said'  a  man,  " I   suppose  the  plain,  old- 
fashioned  nail  has  caused  more  fires  in 
the  big  establishments  where  machinery 
is  usea  in  many  and  complicated  ways 
than  any  other little  thing  in  existence. 
The  only  thing  needed  is  for  it  to  come 
in  contact  with  some  other  hard material 
with  sufficient  force  to  cause  a  spark 
and  heat  generation.  Nails  have  really 
’ uced  a  heavy  per  cent,  of  tbe  cotton 
of the  country.  During recent years, 
on  account  of  steps  taken  by  the  owners 
and  conductors  of the  larger  cotton  and 
byproduct  plants  at  tbe  instance  of  in­
surance  men,  the  nail  has  not  beeiTsuch 
a  prolific  producer of fires.

in  these 

lodgement 

‘ ‘ A  way  has  been  found,  for  instance, 
in  cotton  gins,  cotton mills  and  in  plants 
where  cotton  seed  are  put  through  man­
ufacturing  processes  of  extracting  nails 
and  other  weighty  substances  that  may 
find 
inflammable 
products.  _ Gravity 
is  the  natural  force 
used.  '  Nails  and  rocks  and  materials  of 
this  kind  are  heavier  than  cotton  and  its 
byproducts,  and  they  have  a  tendency  to 
force  their  way  to  the  bottom  of  the 
heap.  By  allowing  these  products  to 
pass  over  a  rolling  belt  arrangement 
these  heavier  materials  filter toward  tbe 
bottom  and  are  finally  extracted,  so  that 
when  the  cotton  or  the  cotton seed passes 
through  the  grind  in  the  various  manu­
facturing  processes  there 
is  but  little 
danger  from  fire  so  far  as  these  things 
are  concerned."

E rro rs of Green  Goods Men*

From the Washington Post.

" I f   people  would  take  the  trouble  to 
post  themselves  as  to  the  name  and 
function  of  each  and  every  branch' of the 
Government  service  it  might  in  the  long 
run  prove  the  means  of  saving  them 
considerable  money,”   said  the  Director 
of  the  Bureau  of Engraving and Printing 
the  other  day  while  discussing  the  sub­
ject  of  green  goods.

is, 

"T h e  green  goods  men  are  rather  ac­
tive  just  at  present  and,  as  a  result,  a 
good  many  green  goods  letters  are  find­
ing  their  way  to  my  desk  from  people, 
mostly  farmers,  who are  shrewd  enough 
not  to  invest  until  they  have  found  out 
more  about  the matter.  These  letters  are 
the  same  old  green  goods  circulars,  and 
start  off  by  saving  that  the  writer was 
formerly  and  for  years  an  employe  of 
this  bureau,  and 
therefore,  thor­
oughly  familiar with  all  our  methods.

"Now;  the  funny  part  of  the  whole 
matter  is  that  the  green  goods  operators 
do  not  themselves  know  the correct name 
of  this  institution  and  in  none  of their 
circulars  does  the  correct  name  ever  ap­
pear.  They  call 
it  the  Bureau  of  En­
graving,  the  Department  of  Stamping, 
etc.,  but  never  by  its  right  name,  and 
if  people  were  posted  and  knew  the 
right  name  of every  branch  of  the  Gov­
ernment  service  they  would  be  able  to 
see  at  a  glance  that  the  claims  of  these 
fellows  as  to  having  worked  here  for 
years  were  false. 
If  such  were  the  case 
the  green  goods  men  would  not make the 
mistake  of  calling  this  bureau  by  other 
than  its  name. ”

A n Instance.

Nell— He  evidently  believes  in  kill­

ing  two  birds  with  one  stone.

Belle—Why?
Nell— He  has  used  the  same  engage­

ment  ring  twice.

If you have  to  keep  kicking:  the  furrow  to  make 
(A  Peerless 

it  belongs. 

it lie  down  where 
turns the furrow clear over.)

Or  if  you  have  to  pull  an  old  250-pound  plow 
back  every  few  rods to  scrape off sticky soil. 
(The  Peerless  weighs  140  pounds  and  is 
guaranteed to scour in any soil.)

If you have to use an  ill  proportioned tool  that  is 
bound  and  determined to  run  on  its  nose  or 
(A  Peer­
takes too  much  or  too  little  land. 
less  Plow  will  run  across  a  field  w ithout 
touching the handles.)

W e  give  a  written  guarantee 
with  every  Peerless  Plow.

Can anything be  fairer than this?

These are  facts about

B E M E N T   P L O W S

They turn  the earth

f  Rement's Saras

¡ a ris in g   M ic h ig a n .

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still  held.  Eli  got  up  off the  floor,  on 
which  he  had  fallen  in a  heap,  with  a 
look  of  disgust  while  the  crowd  tittered 
and  Hank  laughed  some  more.

“ Let’s  see  you  open  it,”   he  said  to 

Hank.

When  the  crowd  melted  away  one  and 
a  half  hours  later  Hank  was  still  trying 
bard  to  oblige  E li,  but  without  success. 
After  be  had  locked  up  the  store  at  twi­
light  he  tried  it  again.  He  rattled  the 
tumblers  like  a  soda  fountain  clerk,  he 
pulled,  he  yanked,  but  with  no  success. 
He  used  kerosene,  prayer,  a  crowbar,  a 
hammer,  mathematics,  a  cold  chisel and 
profanity,  but  the  safe  only  settled  back 
and  laughed  at  him.

Hank's  safe  became  a  township  joke 
— particularly  to  Eli  Grasslot  and 
rival  at 
Hank’s  insolvent  business 
Beeneville.  Every  man  who  came 
in 
to  buy  a  quarter of  a  pound  of  cut  plug 
always  enquired  of  Hank  whether  he 
had  the  safe  open  yet  and  then  went 
away  chuckling.  The  women  made  it 
worse  by  saying,  “ For the land’s sake!”  
and  offering suggestions.  Hank received 
no  really  helpful  advice  until  a  travel­
ing  man  for  a  Grand  Rapids  wholesale 
house  drifted  in  one  day.

“ There’s  only  one  thing  you  can  do, 
Hank,”   he  said. 
“ That’s  to  send  the 
thing  down  to  Detroit.  They  can  open 
it  for  you  down  there.”

“ How  will  they  do  it?”   asked  Hank.
“ They’ll  drill 
it.  Of  course,  they 
it  open  for  you,  but  that 

could  blow 
might  not  be  healthy  for the  safe.”

“ How  much  will  it  cost?”
“ Oh,  I  guess  they  can  open  it  for  you 
if  they 

for a  couple  of  hundred  dollars 
have  good  luck.”

“ Well,  then,  I  guess  it’ll  have  to  stay 

shut.”

HANK  SPREET’S  SAFE.

Queer  Com bination  o f  Circum stances— 

and  of a Safe.

Written for tbe Tradesman.

Hank  Spreet  got  the  idea  that  he 
ought  to  have  a  safe.  With  the  grow­
ing  prosperity  of  Kelly  Center  and  its 
increasing  importance  in  the  commer­
cial  world  it  struck  Hank  that  the  lead­
ing  grocery— and,  as  a  matter of  fact, 
the  only  one— in  the  metropolis  ought  to 
possess 
some  place  where  valuables 
could  be  stored  as  a  precaution  against 
fire  and  crime. 
If  Hank  had  stopped 
to  think  he  would  have  been  a  little 
puzzled  to  know  just  what  to  store  away 
in  the  steel  chest.  He  bad  some  ac­
counts  against  certain  citizens  of  Kelly 
Center,  but  these  were  more  to be prized 
as  mementos  than  for  their  value  as 
commercial  paper.  As 
for  the  cash 
used  in  his  daily  business,  Hank was  in 
the  habit  of  putting  that  under  his  pil­
low  and  he  would  not  have  altered  this 
custom  if  he  had  suddenly  become  pos­
sessed of a  safety  vault  as  big  as  the one 
in  the  county  court  house. 
If  he  had, 
he  would  not  have  been  able  to  sleep 
nights. 
If  he  bad  stopped  to  consider, 
he  would  have  found  that  about the  only 
things  he  possessed  that  he  would  have 
trusted  in  a  safe  were  bis  fire  insurance 
policy  and  a  picture  of  Bill  Blivens’ 
daughter  Sarah.  Time  was  when  Hank 
would  not  even  have  put  the  picture 
there,  but  he  was  now  well  on  the  road 
to  recovery.

When  the  grocer  over  at  Beeneville 
failed  in  business  Hank  got  a  chance 
to  obtain  a  safe  cheap,  and  it  was  such 
a  bargain  Hank  did  not stop  to  consider 
what  be  should  put  into  it.  The  only 
thing  that  impressed him at  the  moment 
was  the  fact  that  the  safe  would  give 
his  store  a  metropolitan  aspect  and  also 
be  a  good  thing  to  stand  tbe  cheese 
case  on.  The  safe  was  a  small  affair, 
Hank  discovered  when  he  drove  over  to 
inspect  it.  but  he  figured  it  was  worth 
loaded  it  into the  back  of 
$65  and  he 
his  democrat  wagon  and  brought 
it 
home  with  him.  Not  only  old  man 
Plunkard,  who  had  tended  store 
for 
Hank  while  he  went  over  to  Beeneville 
and  smoked  up  large  quantities  of  his 
$22  a  thousand  cigars  in  his  absence, 
was  out  to  greet  him  upon  his  return, 
but  all  tbe  leading  citizens  of  Kelly 
Center  were  gathered  to  welcome  him 
and,  incidentally,  get  a  peep  at  the 
mysterious  safe.  Hank  and  old  man 
Plunkard  carried  it  into  the  store,  Hank 
in  front  nearly  bursting  with  pride  and 
Hiram  behind  nearly  breaking  in  two 
with  the  weight.

After the  safe  had  been  carefully  de­
posited 
in  tbe  rear  of  the  store,  the 
citizens  gathered  around  while  Hank 
carefully  inspected  its  interior  compart­
ments.  Finally  Eli  Grasslot  broke  the 
silence.

“ How  do  you  lock  the  blamed  thing 

up?"  asked  Eli.

“ That’s  easy,”   replied  Hank.
He  closed  the  doors  with  a  slam,  gave 
the  combination  a  few  turns  and  then 
tried  the  door  again.  It  refused  to  yield 
and  Hank  gazed  upon  the  others  tri­
umphantly.

Eli,  however,  was  still  a  little  skep­
tical. 
“ Don’t  you  think  if  you  put  a 
padlock  on  it  would  be  better?”   he  en­
quired.

Hank  laughed  uproariously. 

“ Try  it 

and  see,”   he  said.

Eli  gave  the  handle  a  few  yanks  with 
no effect.  Then  he  braced  his  feet and, 
taking  both  hands,  gave  a  pull  that  slid 
tbe  safe  across  the  store,  but  the  door

That  night  Hank  read  in  his  county 
paper  that  the  sheriff had  been  notified 
to  be  on  tbe  lookout  for a  gang  of  ex­
pert  safe  blowers  who  had  been  operat­
ing in  Southern  Michigan  and  who  were 
believed  to  be  working  North.  Eli  read 
the  item,  too,  and  he  came  over to  have 
some  fun  with  Hank.  There  was  the 
usual  good  audience  present  around 
Hank’s  stove  to  enjoy  E li's  wit.

“ Better  look  out,  Hank,”   he  said, 
“ them  bank  robbers  may  blow  open 
your  safe. ”

“ They  won’t  have  much  of  a  job,”  
replied  Hank,  “ if  it  opens  as  easy  as 
your  mouth.”  
(Laughter and  applause 
on  the  Republican  side,  as  the  congres­
sional  reporters  say.)

“ Guess  you’d  better  git  that  padlock 
from  E li,”   ventured  Bill  Blivens,  “ an’ 
make  sure.”  
(Ditto  on  the  Democratic 
side.)

“ If  I  git  a  padlock,”   rejoined  Hank, 
“ I’ll  give  it  to  you  to  put  on  your  barn 
to keep  the  thieves  away  from  that  mare 
you  sold  to  Mr.  West.”   Bill  subsided.
Late  that  night  the  kerosene  lamp  in 
Hank’s  store  burned  brightly. 
Two 
days  later  the  evening  daily  at  the 
county  seat  transferred  some  of  its  big­
gest  type  from  its  advertising  columns 
to  put  scare  heads  on  two  sensational 
items  on 
its  news  page.  One  of  these 
was  contributed  by  tbe  sheriff and  an­
nounced  that  tbe  supervisors  of  a South­
ern  county  had  offered  $100  reward  for 
the  capture  of  tbe  bank  robbers.  The 
other  item,  prepared  by  Hank  after 
much  mental 
labor,  announced  that 
$2,800  had  been  found  in  an  old  stump 
near  Kelly  Center  and  had  been  locked 
up 
in  Hank  Spreet’s  safe,  pending  an 
investigation.

“ I  ain’t  much  of  a  newspaper  corres­
pondent,”   chuckled  Hank,  when  he 
in  print,  “ but  I  guess
saw  his  copy 

that’ll  astonish  the  natives  and 
it’s 
about  as  true  as  some  things  I've  seen 
in  the  papers.”

That  night  Hank  made  himself  up  a 
bed  under the  counter,  with  a  bolt  of 
flannel  for  a  pillow  and  a  horse  blanket 
for  a  counterpane,  and  slept  all  night 
in  the  store.  He  slept  there  tbe  follow­
ing  night  and  also  the  next.

It  was  Friday  night  that  Hank  was 
awakened  by  a  subdued  noise  in  the 
rear of  the  store.  A  moment  later there 
was  tbe  sound  of  falling  glass  as  a  win­
dow  pane  was  shivered  into  fragments. 
Hank  raised  himself  on  bis  elbow  and 
listened  intently.  His  heart  was  beat­
ing  like  a  partridge’s  wing.  There  fol­
lowed  a  long  interval  of  silence.  It  was 
perhaps  two  minutes,  but  to  Hank  it 
seemed  an  hour.

Then  came  the  sound  of a man squeez­
ing  his  way  through  the  aperture  made 
by  tbe  breaking  of  the  window.  An­
other  followed  and  then  stealthy  foot­
steps  could  be  heard.  The  shuffling 
steps  came  to  a  halt  in  the  rear  of  the 
store.  A  light  flashed  along  the  shelves 
a  moment  later  as  if the  visitors  would 
make  sure no  one  was  near.  The  sounds 
now  became  unintelligible  as  the  two 
men  moved  about.  Suddenly one  of the 
marauders 
spoke  and  Hank’s  heart 
jumped.

“ This  must  be  the  safe,”   said  the 
it's  mighty  small  to  hold 

voice,  “ but 
so  much  swag.”

Hank  lost  the  succeeding  conversa­
tion  in  an  effort  to  change  his  position 
without  making  a  noise.  When  he 
caught  it  up  again  a  voice  was  saying:
I  can  open 

“ Heat  those  tumblers. 

this  cigar-box  without  the  powder.”

Another  interval  of  silence.  Even 
where  he  stood,  for he  had quietly  raised 
himself  to  his  feet,  Hank  could  hear  the 
click-click  as  the  stranger  fumbled  with 
the  combination.  Perhaps  five  minutes 
passed  and  then  the  safe  door  was 
swung  open  with  a  bang.  The  two 
visitors 
leaped  noisily  to  examine  the 
safe's  contents  and  Hank  advanced  to  a 
point  almost  within  the  circle  of  light. 
He  could  now  see  the  safe  crackers 
plainly.

They  both  straightened  up  with  sur­

prised  oaths.

“ I’m  much  obliged,  gentlemen,”  
said  Hank,  looking  along  the  barrels  of 
his  shot  gun. 
“ Now,  up  with  your 
hands!”  

Douglas  Malloch.

W illing to  Be Surprised Sooner.

“ Were  you  surprised  when  I  pro­

posed?”   he  asked.

“ Well,”   she  replied,  thoughtfully,  “ I 
was  not  so  surprised  that  you  proposed 
when  you  did  as  I  was  that  you  did  not 
propose  on  some  previous  occasions.”

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wood, grind feed, churn  butter, run  a 
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I can work  24  hours  a  day— every 
day.  Weather  does  not  affect  my 
work. 
It’s all the same to me whether 
hot or cold, wet or dry.

I have the  strength  of  15  men. 

It 
costs nothing  to  keep  me  when  not 
working,  and costs about a cent and  a 
half per hour when  I am  working. 
If 
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

The New York M arket

8pccl*l  F eatures o f th e G rocery and P rod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Feb.  15—During  a  day  or 
so the  coffee  market  took  a turn upward, 
owing  to an  advance  in  the  rate  of sterl­
ing  exchange,  higher  quotations 
in 
Europe  ana  Brazil,  smaller  receipts  at 
primary  points,  etc.  ;  but,  after  this, 
came  a  telegram  from  Pinto  &  Co., 
Rio,  estimating  the  receipts  of  coffee  at 
Rio and  Santos  from  Feb.  1  to July  1  at
3.500.000 
to  4,000,000  bags  and  the 
whole  crop  from  last  July  to  July  of  this 
year  at  15,250,000  to  15,500,000  bags, 
and  the  next  crop  at 9,000,000.  This 
was  too  much  for the  bears  and  quota­
tions  took  a  tumble.  Jobbers  report  a 
fair demand  for  coffee  and  the  ship­
ments  have  been  quite  free  from  this 
city  for  a  week,  but  the  supply  con­
tinues  more  than  sufficient,  and  at  the 
close  Rio  No.  7  is the  same  as  last week 
— 5&c. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
2,360,146  bags,  against  1,025,337  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  Receipts  at 
Rio  and  Santos  since  July  1  aggregate
11.879.000  bags,  against  8,045,000 bags 
during  the  same  time  last  year.  For 
mild  coffees  there  has  been  simply  the 
usual  call  and  sales  are  of  small  lots  to 
keep 
complete.  Good 
Cucuta  is  unchanged  at  8#c.  East  In- 
dias  are  very  quiet  and  the  market  is 
actually  lifeless.

assortments 

Some  jobbing  orders  for  sugars  have 
been  received,  but,  as  a  rule,  trade  is 
very  quiet.  Sellers  do  not  seem  espe­
cially  anxious  to  part  with  goods  and 
buyers  are  extremely  conservative 
in 
taking  stock  ahead  of  current  require­
ments.  Matters  are  not  likely  to  mend 
until  the  perplexing  question  of  Cuban 
reciprocity 
is  settled.  Quotations  are 
unchanged.

The  tea  market  is  also  waiting  upon 
Congress  and  meantime  business  is 
about  at  a  standstill.  However,  what 
small 
lots  do change  hands  are  selling 
at  full  figures  and  the  tea  market  upon 
the  whole  is  in  a  fairly  satisfactory  con­
dition.

The  demand  for  rice  has  been  fairly 
active  for 
the  better  grades  and,  in 
fact,  the  whole  market  has  ruled  firm. 
Supplies  are  not  large  and  buyers  are 
paying  full  figures  for  the  goods  they 
take.  Quotations  are  without  change.
There  is nothing  doing in spices.  The 
best  that  can  be  said  is  that  prices  are 
well  sustained  and  that  buyers  who  are 
lots  are  paying  full 
taking  their  little 
figures  and  not 
shopping 
to  find 
"cheap”   goods  or  "bargains,”   realiz­
ing  that  such  are  few  and  far  between. 
Prices  remain  unchanged.

In  molasses  there  is  hardly  as  much 
activity  as  prevailed  last  week.  Quota­
tions  are  firm.  Good  to  prime  centrif­
ugal,  I7@30c.  Stocks  of  really  desir­
able  goods  are  said  to be  light  and  this 
fact  will  keep  prices  solid.  Blended 
goods  have  met  with  some  enquiry  at 
22@30c.  Foreign  sorts  are  steady,  with 
fancy  Ponce  worth  31 @340.  Syrups  are 
in  moderate  demand  and  unchanged.

In  canned  goods  some  Jersey  toma­
toes  have  sold,  spot  goods,  at  $1.35  and 
were  quickly  taken  at  this  figure.  Fu­
tures  show  more  strength  and  have  sold 
at  82^ c.  The  market  generally  con­
tinues  active  and  prices  are  well  sus­
tained.  The  Canada  goods  are  not  sold 
yet and  the  holders  have  confidence  that 
within  thirty  days  they  will  have  " a  
good  thing  in  tins.”   Everything 
is 
selling.  The  quarrel  as  to  the  price  of 
raw  tomatoes  is  not  yet  over,  if  it  can 
be  called  a  quarrel.  The  fact  of  this 
still  being  an  open  question  makes  the 
sale  of  futures  rather  less  active  than 
it 
would  be.
Lemons  and  oranges  are  selling  well 
for this  season  of  the  year  and  boxes  of 
the  latter have  held  top  rates.  Navels, 
$2.25^4.25; budded, $2@2.50; Floridas, 
$2.25@4.50, 
fancy  stock. 
Lemons,  Sicily,  $2.25^2.85.
is  a  good,  steady  demand  for 
almost  everything  in  dried  fruits.  Ap­
ricots  are  especially  strong  and  prunes 
are  selling  well  at  full  rates. 
If any­
thing 
last  week,  it  is 
currants.  Peaches  and  raisins  are  mov­

is  weaker  than 

There 

latter 

for 

A  Well  Lighted  Store  Is  a 

Well  Advertised  Store

ing  freely  and  altogether the  market  is 
in  favor  of the  seller.

While  receipts  of  butter  have  been 
somewhat  larger  there  is  not  accumula­
tion  enough  to  meet  the  demand  for  the 
better  sorts  of  stock  and  quotations have 
advanced  all  around.  Best  Western 
creamery  will  easily  fetch  29c;  seconds 
to  firsts,  27@28c ;  Western 
imitation 
creamery,  19323c;  Western  factory,  18 
@200;  rolls,  153190;  renovated  all  the 
way  from  15  to  23c.
There has  been  a  good  trade  in  cheese 
and  the  market  closes  with  some  ad­
vance  shown 
in  the  better  sorts,  small 
size 
full  cream  being  worth  12c  for 
either  white  or  colored;  large  sizes,  ic 
less.
Arrivals  of  eggs  are  becoming  rather 
larger,  but there  is no  overstock  and  the 
demand  for  the  better  grades  keeps  the 
market  closely  cleaned  up.  Western, 
fresh  gathered,  30c;  fair  to  good,  28 
@290.
Beans  are  firm  and  somewhat  higher. 
The  demand  is  good.  Choice  marrows, 
$2.20;  choice  medium,  $1.75;  choice 
pea,  $i.72K @ i.75-

Jo h n n y 's  Logical Conclusion.

People buy where they can see  the goods as well  as  in 
broad sunlight.  They refuse to  buy  where  dim  flick­
ering lights make the store,  and  everything  in  it,  dull 
and dingy.  The above  illustration  shows  our  system 
for store lighting with  2,000  candle  power  arc  lights. 
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have purchased  the  entire  show case  |  
department  of  the  Heyman  Co.,  of  $ 
this city,  and  are  offering  their  com-  |  
plete  stock  of  SHOW  CASES  at  ex-  |  
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Bartlett and South Ionia Streets, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Little  Johnny  had  been 

gazing 
thoughtfully  at  his  book  of  animal  pic­
tures  when  he  suddenly  called  out:

"Say,  pa,  does  it  cost  much  to  feed  a 

lion?”

" Y e s .”
"H ow   much?”
"O h,  a  lot  of  money.”
" A   wolf  would-make  a  good  meal  for 

a  lion,  wouldn’t  it,  pa?”

"Y es,  I  guess  so. ”
"A nd  a  fox  would  be  enough  for  the 

wolf,  wouldn’t  it?”

"Y es,  yes.”
"A nd  a  fox  could  make  a  meal  off  a 

hawk,  eh,  pa?”

" I   suppose  so.”
"A nd  the  hawk  would  be  satisfied 

with  a  sparrow?”

‘ * Of course. ’ '
"A nd  a  big  spider would  be  a  good 
meal  for  the  sparrow,  wouldn’t  it,  pa?— 
wouldn’t  it,  pa?”

"Y es,  yes.”
"A nd  a  fly  would  be  enough  for  the 

spider?”
* ‘ Sure.
"A nd  a  drop  of  molasses  would  be  all 

the  fly  would  want,  wouldn’t  it?”

"O h,  stop  your  chatter.”
"B ut  wouldn’t  it,  pa?”
"Y es. ”
"W ell,  pa,  couldn’t  a  man keep  a lion 
more’n  a  year  on  a  pint  of  molasses?”  
But  just  at  this point it was discovered 
that  it  was  time  for little  Johnny  to  go 
to  bed.

Science  and  Sausage.

the 

far-reaching 

sanitarians  as 

If  any  evidence  were  required to dem­
onstrate 
range  of 
science  it  might  be  found  in  the  shape 
of  an  annotation  on  the  dangers  of  the 
sausage  "a s  she  is  made”   in  Germany. 
The  utilization  of  tainted  meat,  for  ex­
ample,  and  of  meat  which  has  been  in­
fected  with  the  parasite  known  as  the 
trichina-worm  have  been  duly  exploited 
involving  obvious 
by 
danger.  The  savant  who  has  been 
in­
teresting  himself  in  the  sanitation  of 
the  sausage  refers  to  the  fact  that  the 
sausage-skin  may, 
if  not  properly 
cleansed,  retain  a  quantity  of  the  di­
gestive  debris  of  the  animal  from  which 
it  was  derived.  He  makes  a  calculation 
to  the  effect  that  a  German  workman 
consuming  an  average  amount  of  saus­
age  may 
in  this  way  ingest  from  300 
grains  weight  per  month  of  material 
which  is  decidedly  of  a  dangerous  char­
acter.  A man  eats  a  peck  of  dirt  in  his 
lifetime.  Probably,  spread  over  the 
years  of  an  ordinary  existence,  this 
amount  of  matter  does  not  seriously 
affect  us;  but 
if  all  stories  be  true  re­
garding  the  sausage,  it  is  very  evident 
we  must  cry  out  for  greater  cleanliness 
in  the  preparation  of  the  succulent  mor­
sel.

Seasonable Advice.

" I   sha’n’t  want  one,”   said  Kitty, 
“  Never look  a  Christmas  doll  in  the 

“ unless  it  has  real  teeth.”
mouth,  K itty,”   counseled  her  uncle.

TH E  SALESMAN’S STATUS.

H is  B ight to  Take  Business  From   Store 

to  Store.

I  was  reading  a  paper  the  other  day 
which  made  a  specialty  of  answering 
legal  questions.  One in  particular struck 
me.  A  retail  merchant  had  written  in, 
asking  whether  there  was  any  law  to 
prevent  a  salesman  who  had  worked  up 
trade  for  one  man  from  taking  it  with 
him  when  he  went  into  the  employ  of 
another.

The  answer  was  no,  there  is  no  such 
law, which  may  be  all  right  from  a  legal 
standpoint,  but,  by  gum,  it  isn’t  from 
the  standpoint  of  justice.

I'm  a  salesman  myself,  but  I  know 

when  I  think  a  thing’s  right.

Let  me  tell  you  about  a  friend  of 
mine  who  is  up  against  this  very  thing, 
and  up  against  it  hard.

He  had  only  had  his  present  store 
about  two  years.  Before  that  he  was  a 
stranger  in  the  place,  and,  while  he 
now  knows  a  good  many  people  there, 
he  hasn’t  in  any  sense  become  a  part  of 
the  life  of  the  town.

This  fellow  is  a  strong  believer  in  the 
value  of  personal  soliciting  as  a  means 
of  getting  business;  he  followed  out this 
idea,  and  at  the  same  time  made  up  for 
his  own 
lack  of  acquaintanceship  by 
hiring  two  first-class  clerks  or  sales­
men  as  soon  as  he  opened  up.  Both  of 
lived  all  their  lives 
these  fellows  had 
in  the  place  and  both  had  been 
in  the 
grocery  business  for  several  years.

So  he  took  them  both,  and  gave  each 
a  section  of  the  town  to  cover.  Certain 
hours  every  day  they  were  to  devote  to 
outside  work.

This  plan  worked  well.  Both  of  the 
salesmen  were  good  men  and  their  or­
ders  increased  every  week.  Pretty  soon 
they  doubled  the  business  of  the  new 
store,  then  they  trebled 
it.  Another 
clerk  and  a  book-keeper  had to be hired, 
and  at  the  end  of  about  eighteen  month 
things  were  simply  going  along  in great 
shape.

If  I  remember  rightly,  the  proprietor 
of  this  store  told  me  that  he  was  doing, 
at  the  end  of  that  time,  between  $800 
and  $1,000 a  week.

This  grocer  said  he  had  noticed  that 
for  some  time  the  two  salesmen  did 
considerable  whispering  together,  but 
he  didn't  pay  much  attention  to  it,  un­
til  one  day  they  both  gave  two  weeks’ 
notice.

Said  they  were  going  in  business  for 

themselves.

Then  the  grocer  realized  that  he  was 
like 

up  against  something  that  smelled 
a  conspiracy.

At  the  end  of  the  twQ  weeks  both  men 
left,  and 
it  then  developed  that  they 
had  been  devoting  their  evenings  to 
fitting  up  even  a  better  store  than  the 
one  they 
left.  They  left  on  Saturday 
and  their  own  store  opened  on  the  fol­
lowing  Monday.

That  week  their  former  boss  went  out 
for  orders  himself  and  sent  his  other 
clerk,  too,  as  he  had  not  been  able  in 
the  two  weeks  to  find  anybody  good 
enough  to  replace  the  two  men  who  had 
left.

The  grocer  knew  all  of  his  customers 
slightly,  but  none 
intimately,  because 
the  actual  contact  had  been  entrusted  to 
the  two  salesmen.  When  he  went out 
for  orders  he  found  a  frost  almost every­
where.  He  was  treated  politely,  un­
derstand,  but  he  didn’t get  any  business 
to  speak  of.  The  salesmen  had  judi­
ciously  spread  the  fact  that  they  were 
going 
in  business  for  themselves  and 
everybody  was  saving  the  orders  for 
them.

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N O T   M A D E  BY   A  T R U S T  

This  grocer  told  me  that  the  week 
after  those  two  fellows  left  his  business 
dropped  to  $350  for  the  week,  and  at 
this  writing  it  is  still  just  about  there.
The  two  salesmen  had  lifted  bodily 
about  $500  worth  of  business  a  week 
from  his  store  over  to  their own.  The 
grocer  who  thought  he  bad  a  business 
found  he  hadn’t  any,  or  very  little.

Now  do  you  say  these  men  had  a  per­
fect  right  to  do  what  they  did?  That  it 
was  their  own  business  they  took,  be­
cause  they  worked  it  up?

1  say  no,  and  I  howl  it  out  as  loud  as 

I  can.

It  is  true  that  those  salesmen  worked 
up  that  business,  but  weren’t  they  paid 
to  work 
it  up?  Didn’t  they  take  this 
grocer’s  good  money  to  work  him  up  a 
trade?  And  djd  he  employ  them  to  get 
him  transient  business— orders  only  as 
long  as  they  stayed  in  his  employ?

“ Not  on  your  tintip,”   as  Dave  War- 
field  says.  The  employer  of  these  men 
paid  them  to  get  him  customers— per­
manent  customers.  He  paid  them  to 
build  up  a  lasting  trade— a  trade  that 
should  not  be  confined  to  such every-day 
orders as  they  themselves  got, but  a  firm, 
lasting  connection  that  should  endure 
as  long  as  the  store  and  its  service  was 
satisfactory.

I  know  the  law  says  that  the  business 
a  salesman  works  up  is  his  personal  as­
set  and  that  he  can  take  it  with  him 
wherever  he  goes. 
I  agree  that  that  is 
the  proper  view  of  it  if  the  salesman 
works  on  commission,  but  where  he 
is 
paid  a  salary  and  is  a  regular  employe 
of  the  house,  and  gets  paid  whether  he 
gets  business  or  whether  he  doesn’t— I 
say  then  that  he  has  no  right  to  take  the 
business  that  he  has  worked up on some­
body  else's  time  and  at  somebody  else’s 
expense.

I  believe  firmly  that  a  salaried  sales­
man  who  does  that  is  almost  as  guilty 
as  if  he  bad  taken  goods. 
Indeed,  it  is 
a  question  if  he  isn’t  a  good  deal  more 
guilty,  for  when  he  takes  the  business 
bodily  he  takes  that  which  hurts  his em­
ployer  far  more  than  the  theft  of  goods. 
— Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Settling  an  Interesting  Question.

“ Say,  Jim,”   enquired  an  old  darky 
of  his  son,  who  is  a  much-learned 
school  youth,  “ which  travels  de  fastes’, 
heat  or  col’ness?”
“ I  hadn't  give  de  subjec’  much  ov 
ma  attention,"  was  the  reply,  “ but  I’d 
nacherly  think  thet  col’  'ud  travel  de 
fastest  on  de  count  ov  it  bein’  so  pen’- 
tratin’. ”

“ Yo’  school  Tamin'  didn’  do  you'  no 
good  dere,  Jim,”   said  the  old  man, 
with  a  patronizing  air;  “ Heat  it  travels 
er  heap  faster  den  col’  do.  You  jest 
tak’  dat  fer  a  fac'.”

“ How  yo’  reckon  dat  out?”
“ Jes’  diserway:  Yo’  didn’t  never 
hear  ov  nobody  ketching  heat,  did  yo’ ? 
But  shore’s  yo’  bo’n,  chile,  dey  ken 
ketch  col’  mitey  easy.”

A  crowing  hen  and  a  whistling  maid 
make  worse  music  than  an  asthmatic 
hand  organ.

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Woman’s World

L ittle  T hings  W hich  M ake  o r  M ar  a 

W om an’s  H appiness.

I  know  of  no  more  hopeful  prophecy 
for  the  future  than  that  girls are  coming 
to  look  on  marriage  as  a business propo­
sition  instead  of  a  lottery— that  they  are 
beginning  to  investigate  the  disposition 
and  temperament  and  character of  the 
man  with  whom  they  are  contemplating 
signing  a  life  contract,  instead  of  trust­
ing  to  luck  that  they  will  draw  a  prize 
package  in  a  husband.

It  is  only  within  the  last  few  years 
that  women  have  been  permitted  to  in­
dulge  themselves  in  this  luxury,because 
the  girl  of  to-day is  the  only  representa­
tive  of  her sex  who has  not  had to marry 
for a  home.  No matter  what  other faults 
are  laid  at the  door of  the  so-called  and 
derided  emancipation  of  woman, 
it 
stands  forever justified  because  it  saved 
women  from  the  ignominy  of  having  to 
sell  themselves  for a  support.  Church 
and  book  and  ring  can  not sanctify wed­
lock  if  love  fails  to  pronounce  its  bene­
diction  upon 
it,  and  the  woman  who 
marries  to get  a  home  or  for  money  or 
social  position  has  no  right  to  draw  her 
skirts  away  from  any  creature  of the 
streets.

With  every  door  of  gainful  occupa­
tion  shut  in  their  faces,  our foremothers 
were  compelled  to  marry  for  a  liveli­
hood.  To-day,  with  every  avenue  to  for­
tune  as  free  to  her  as  to  her  brother, 
matrimony  is  no  longer  bread  and  but­
ter to a  woman. 
It  is  the  cakes  and  ale 
of  life.

No  matter  how  little  he  may  have 
come  up  to  her  ideal,  the  woman  of  the 
past  did  not  dare  to  let  any  man  who 
was  good  for  her  board  bill  and  was 
what  was  vulgarly  known  as  a  “ good 
chance"  get  by  her. 
The  modern 
woman,  amply  able  to  take  care  of  her­
self,  is  under no  such  necessity.  She  is 
free  to  consider things  of  the  soul  and 
to  ask  hereelf,  “ How  will  it  fare  with 
me  in  all  the  years  that  I  will  be  this 
man’s  wife?  Has  he  the  comprehension 
to  understand  all  the  needs  of  my  na­
ture?  Has  he  the  tenderness  to  bear 
with  me  and  the  wisdom  to  lead  me  up 
to  something  better and  higher,  or  shall 
we  both  fall  into the  ditch  of daily petty 
squabbles  and  misunderstandings?" 
It 
is  not  enough  for  the  woman  of  to-day 
that  the  man  she  marries  is  able  to  sup­
port  her  and  has  no  big  vices.  She 
is 
coming  to  realize  that  it  is  the  little 
things  that  make  or  mar  a  woman’s 
happiness— that  surliness and  ill-temper 
are  responsible  for  just  as  much  misery 
in  the  home  as  drink  and  that  a  woman 
can  starve  and  freeze  for  lack  of  love  as 
much,  spiritually,  as  she  could  for  lack 
of  food  and  clothes,  physically.

Just  how  much  girls  are  thinking 
along  this  line—how  much  intelligence, 
reason  and  womanliness  they  are  put­
ting  into  the  consideration  of  the  sub­
ject— I  had  forcibly 
impressed  on  me 
the  other  day  when  a  girl,  her  sweet 
eyes  full  of  trouble,  came  to  me  for 
advice.

‘  I  am  engaged,"  she  said,  “ to  a 
young  man  who  is handsome,  attractive, 
well  placed  in  every  way  in  the  world. 
I  love  him  very  dearly  and  I  must  sup­
pose  that  be 
loves  me,  because  I  am 
poor  and  there 
is  no  reason  why  be 
should  wish  to  marry  me  except  for 
affection's  sake.  Outwardly  my  fiance 
is  all  that  I  could  ask,  but  in  all  the 
little  things  that  are  so  much  to  a 
woman  he  fails  me  utterly.  He  never 
wants  to  be  alone  with  me,  he  never 
confides  any  of  his  hopes  and  plans  to

I 

‘ * Perhaps 

should  not 

feel  my 
fiance’s  neglect  so  much  except 
that 
there  is  another  man  who  showers  me 
with 
little  kindnesses  and  protects  me 
at  every  turn  with  his  love,  who  is  al­
ways 
looking  out  for  my  pleasure  and 
happiness  and  who  will  scheme for days 
for  the  sake  of  a  single  word  alone  with 
me  or  half  an  hour  of  what  the  French 
lover  called 
‘ solitude  a  deux.’  Now, 
what  shall  I  do  between  the  two?”

“ My  child,”   1  made  answer,  “ marry 
the  man  who  loves  you,  in  preference  to 
the  man  you  love,  if  it  is  a  choice  be­
tween  the  two.  Men  and  women  never 
differ  so  widely  as  in  the  way  matri­
mony  affects  them.  A  man,  when  he 
marries,  ninety-nine  times  out  of  a 
hundred,  starts  in  with  all  the  capital 
of  love  he  is  ever going  to  have,  but  a 
woman  does business  on  a constantly in­
creasing  fund  of  tenderness  and  affec­
tion.  A  million  outside  interests  dis­
tract him.  Her  world  is  shut  within  the 
walls  of  her  home,  her  interests  center 
there  and  she  will  put  a halo around  the 
head  of  any  man  who  is  good  to  her.

‘ 1 There  is  just  one  sort  of  woman who 
is  justified  in  marrying  the  kind  of man 
you describe  and  that  is  the  woman  who 
is  strong  enough  to  live  her  life  alone. 
There  are  women  who  can  absorb  them­
selves  in  society  or  in  club  and  philan­
thropic  work  and  who,  having  their 
interests  and  diversions,  go  their 
own 
let  their husband  go his,  but 
way  and 
this 
is  no  more  true  marriage  than  a 
painted  picture  of  a  fire  is  a  thing  by 
which  we  can  warm  ourselves.

“ The  woman  who  can do this  must  be 
essentially  cold-natured  herself  or  else 
she  is  one  of  those  rare  domestic  saints 
who  can  put  the  beloved  one  before 
themselves  and  efface  all  of  their own 
personality  in  his.  They  must  be  will­
ing  to  see  their husbands  have  amuse­
ments  in  which  they  have  no  part,  oc­
cupations  of  which  they  know  nothing, 
plans  about  which  they  are  never  con­
sulted.  Sometimes  you  see  a  woman 
who  can  do  this— who  is  apparently 
contented  to  simply  stay  at  home  and 
keep  the  fire  lighted  on  the  hearthstone, 
and  who  makes  no querulous complaints 
about  being  left  behind  and  shut  out  of 
her  husband’s  inner  life,  but  before  a 
wife  reaches  that  plane  of  passionless 
calm,  she  has  been  through  a  purgatory 
of  disappointed 
love  and  frantic  jeal­
ousy.

“ Remember  this,  also,  little  sister, 
that  the  man  who  is  indifferent  to  you 
before  marriage  will  neglect  you  after­
wards. 
If  he  does  not  care  to  be  alone 
with  you  now  prepare  yourself  to  spend 
every  evening  alone,  while  he  seeks 
companionship  at  the  club,  after  you 
are  married.  If  he  is  selfish  to  you  now 
and  does  not  concern  himself  to see  that 
you  have  the  best  of  everything  and 
consult  your  pleasure  and  taste  before 
his  own,  make  up  your  mind  that  you 
will  be  the  one  who  will  have  to  stay  at 
home  and  do  the  economizing  and  wear 
the  shabby  clothes,  while  he  fares  forth 
in  fine  raiment  to  enjoy  himself  and 
bear  it  without  complaint,  because  he 
has  warned  you  what  to  expect. 
If  you 
marry  an 
iceberg,  you  must  be  pre­
pared  yourself  for chilly  weather for the 
balance  of  your  life.

“ Never  forget,  either,  that  there  is  no

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

me,  and  when  I  ask  the  simplest  ques­
tion  about  his  business  or the  people  be 
has seen, he  resents  it  and  says  a  woman 
has  no  right  to  meddle  in  a  man’s  pri­
vate  affairs.  Even  my 
love  seems  to 
bore  him  and  he  excuses  his  apparent 
indifference  by  telling  me  he  is  not  of 
an  affectionate  disposition.

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other quality in  a  man, not even although 
he  were  as  brave  as  Julius Caesar and as 
wise  as  Solomon  and  as  successful  as 
Pierpont  Morgan,  that  can  atone  to  a 
woman  for  the 
lack  of  affection  and 
tenderness.  Many a  husband  who  would 
die  defending  his  wife  makes  her  life 
miserable  by  his  gruffness  and 
lack  of 
consideration  for her.  Many  a  man  who 
is  an  encyclopedia  of  knowledge  and 
whose  far-reaching  judgment  is  world- 
famous  has  not  sense  enough  to read  his 
wife’s  heart.  Many  a  man  who  lavishes 
thousands  of  dollars 
jewels  and 
clothes  on  his  wife  starves  her  for  love.
"There  are  not  many  times,  in  these 
days,  when  a  woman  needs  anybody  to 
fight  for  her,  but  she  needs  somebody  to 
live  for  her  all  the  time.  There  are 
times  of  physical  weakness,  days  of 
bodily  pain,  racked  nerves  that  come 
to  every  woman,  and  unless  she  can,  at 
such  times,  throw  herself  on  a  bound­
less  love  that  is  strong  enough  to  bear 
with  her  and  for  her,  and  a  tenderness 
that  enfolds  her  like  the  tenderness  of 
God,  she  is  poor  indeed.  Love  and  ten­
derness,  sympathy  and  comprehension— 
nothing  else  on  earth  can  take  the  place 
of  these  with  a  woman,  and  unless  a 
man  can  give  these,  far,  far better to  let 
him  go  his  way  alone.

‘ dead  game 

"You  do  well,  little  sister,  to  consider 
long  and earnestly  whether the  man who 
has  captured  your  girlish 
fancy  can 
really  make  you  happy,  when  his  tem­
perament 
is  so  opposite  to  your own, 
but  one  thing  I  bid  you  remember:  If 
you  marry  him— if  you  take  the  chances 
— be  what  in  sporting  parlance  is  called 
a 
loser.*  Do  not  expect 
miracles.  Do  not  expect  your  icicle  to 
turn 
into  a  seething  volcano  or  your 
selfish  man  to  suddenly  become  a  self- 
abnegating  angel. 
It  will  not  happen 
and  you  have  not  any  right  to  tears  and 
complaints  on  the  subject.  He  warned 
you  what  to  expect  in  advance.  You 
knew  what  you  were  getting.  Make the 
best  of  it.'* 

Dorothy  Dix.

M aking a  Beauty.

The Mono, like the  Turk,  has  a  prefer­
ence  for  "moon  faced"  wives,  and  a 
bride  is  more  valued  for  her  weight 
than  her  accomplishments.

When  a  girl 

is  about  twelve  years 
old,  she  is  prepared  for  the  marriage 
market  by  a  treatment  not  unlike  that 
to  which  geese  are  subjected  before 
Michaelmas.  Her  hands  are  tied  be­
hind  her  and  for  so  many  hours  a  day 
she 
is  seated  on  a  carpet,  while  her 
father,  armed  with  a  stick,  stands  by, 
and  her  mother  from  time  to  time  pops 
into  her  mouth  a  ball  of  maize  porridge 
kneaded  up  with  grease  and  just  large 
enough  to  be  swallowed  without  the vic­
tim  choking. 
If  the  poor  child  refuses 
to  be  stuffed,  she  is  compelled;  so  she 
soon  resigns  herself  to  the  inevitable 
and  meekly  swallows  the  boluses  for 
fear of  a  beating.

Certainly  she  has  to  suffer  in  order to 
be  beautiful,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
her  afflictions  are 
lightened  by  rosy 
dreams  of  future  happiness.

She  D idn’t   Give  Xt Up.

“ Robson,  do  you  know  why  you  are 

like  a  donkey?"

"L ik e   a  donkey?"  echoed  Robson, 

opening  his  eyes  wide. 

" I   don’t.”

"Because  your  better  half  is stubborn­

ness  itself.”

The 

jest  pleased  Robson  immensely, 
for  he  at  once  saw  the  opportunity  of  a 
glorious  dig  at  his  wife.  So  when  he 
got  home  he  said:

"M rs.  Robson,  do  you  know  why  I 

am  like  a  donkey?”

He  waited  a  moment,  expecting  his 
wife  to give  it  up.  But  she  didn’t.  She 
looked  at  him  somewhat  pityingly as she 
answered:  " I   suppose  it's  because  you 
were  born  so.”

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

21

B e i n g   a   G o o d J H o s t e s s .

lime 

A  woman  may  possess' wealth  untold, 
she  may  have  the  kindest  of  hearts  and 
the  brightest  of  minds,  but  unless  she 
has  absolute  control  of  her feelings there 
will  be  some 
in  h'er  career  as 
hostess  that  she  will  display  annoyance 
or  flurry,  and  the  contagion,  spreading 
to  her  guests,  will  die  out  in  an  un­
disguised  failure.  A  model  hostess 
must  to  all  appearances  be  made  of 
stone,  so  far  as  disagreeable  happen­
ings  are  concerned.  Even  although  a 
guest  or  careless  waiter  inadvertently 
breaks  a  bit  of  china  which  can  never 
be  replaced,  she  must  smile  as  though 
the  loss  of  the  whole  set  would  but  em­
phasize  the  pleasure  of  the  evening. 
Her  well  bred  calm  inspires  her  guests 
feeling  of  confidence,  and,  al­
with  a 
though 
in  her  heart  she  may  be  very 
dubious  about  certain  important  details 
of  her  dinner  or dance,  if  she  does  not 
show  her  anxiety  everything  will  pass 
off  to  a  happy  conclusion.

A  flurried  hostess  or  nervous  host 
whose  countenance  but  badly  conceals 
the  worry  felt  can  do  more 
toward 
making  the  guests  uncomfortable  than 
if  the  soup  were  served  stone  cold  and 
the  salad  dressing  was  ruined  by  a  too 
bountiful  quantity  of  vinegar.

An 

imperturbable  calm  and  a  ready 
tact  are  the  two  important  factors  in  the 
making  of  a  model  hostess. 
Secure 
these  by  hook  or  crook,  and  you  need 
never  fear  for  the  success  of any  of  youi 
entertainments.

The  Lace  Scarf.

It  is  used 

The  long  lace  scarf  is  entering  upon 
what  promises  to  be  a  tremendous 
vogue. 
in  a  dozen  ways. 
These  scarfs—sometimes  called  "sash 
ends” —depend  from  the  backs  of  hats 
to  shoulders,  waist,  or  even  to  the 
knees,  in  either  black  or white,  making 
an  effective  addition  to  a  gown for some 
ceremonious  afternoon  occasion,  a  mar­
riage,  say.  Two  long  and  broad  scarfs 
lace  have  been  used 
of  black  Spanish 
in  this  way  on  a  gown  of  white 
lace 
richly  jetted, 
the  scarfs  buckled  to­
gether  at  the  center  of  the  bodice  in 
front,  the  buckle  at  the  same  time  fas­
tening  an  Empire  belt  passing 
just 
under  the  arms.  The  lace  is  drawn  in 
high,  flat  folds  over  the  shoulders,  and, 
crossing  at  the  back,  is  passed  under 
the  belt  to  descend  loosely  to  form  the 
train.

The  woman  whose  coat  collar  is  flat, 
instead  of  the  "storm”   variety,  wears 
her  lace  scarf  in  the  form  of  a  veil 
around  her  hat  first,  and  then  brought 
forward  around  her  neck  and  tied  in  a 
full,fluffy bow  under  her  chin.  A  brooch 
of  art  nouveau 
jewel  work  is  used  to 
hold  the  bow  in  place.

With  the  completion  of  the  Trans- 
Siberian  Railroad  Russia  makes  her  en­
try  as  a  competitor  in the  European  but­
ter  trade,  and  is  carrying  everything be­
fore  her.  In  i8gg  the  Russian  product  in 
the  London  markets  was  too  small  for 
separate  classification;  in  two  years  it 
had  jumped  to  the  second  place,  Den­
mark  holding  the  first,  as  she  has 
long 
done.  The  Trans-Siberian  butter  trains, 
one  a  week,  leave  Obi,  stop  at  six  other 
centers  of  the 
industry  and  arrive  at 
the  Baltic  port  of  Riga  after  a  journey 
of  seventeen  days.  A  steamship  line 
with  cold  storage  service  conveys  the 
product  on  to  London,  where 
it  com­
petes  successfully  with  the  best  Euro­
pean  brands,  those  of  Denmark,  Ireland 
and  Normandy.  The  trade  is  only  be­
gun,  but  its  promise  for  the  future  is 
enormous,  and  the  butter  market  of  the 
world,  of  which  London  is  the  center, 
will  henceforth  feel  the  force  of  a  new 
factor and  a  new  source  of  production  of 
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B utter  and  Eggs

Observations by a  G otham  Egg H an.
The  fluctuations  in  egg  prices  have 
continued  to  absorb  a  large  part  of  the 
interest  of  the  produce  trade  during  the 
past  week,  and  speculation  as  to  the 
future  course  of  values  has  been  the 
basis  of all  sorts  of operations  from  the 
buying  and selling  of  carlots to side bets 
of cigars.  With  receipts  running  some­
what  in  excess  of current  consumptive 
needs 
tone  has  been  generally 
strong,  inducing  confident  speculative 
holding  of  most  of  the  surplus under  the 
impression  that the  long  continued  cold 
weather  must,  sooner  or  later,  produce 
a  shortage  in  current  receipts.

the 

late 

It  has  been  generally  supposed  that, 
the  eggs 
lately  coming  forward  were 
mainly  produced  between  the  death  of 
the  December cold  wave  and  the  begin­
ning  of the  one  which  occurred 
in 
January. 
It  has  also  been  considered 
probable  that  the  high  prices  in  distrib­
uting  markets  and  the  generally  good 
margins  of  profit  over  country  cost  had 
caused  as  free  a  forward  movement  as 
the  quantity  in  the  country  would allow, 
and  many  have  firmly  anticipated  a  se­
rious  reduction  in  supplies  between  the 
exhaustion  of  the  early  January  lay  of 
eggs  and  the  time  when  a  renewal  of 
mild  weather  should  again  start a  larger 
production.

This  belief has  been  the basis  of  spec­
ulative  holding  which  has  been 
in­
dulged  in  chiefly  by  Western  shippers 
whose'  immediate  surroundings  have 
been  of  the  most  wintry  character,  but 
also  more  or  less  by 
local  operators, 
some  of  whom  have  been  free  buyers  of 
all  stock  offered  from  primary  points  at 
fair  prices.

That  speculation  has  not  been  even 
is  due  to  the  fact  that 
more  general 
nothing 
is  so  uncertain  as  the  egg 
market  and  to  the  many  possibilities 
that  might  yet  intervene  to  prevent  any 
very  extreme  advance  in  prices.  The 
more  conservative  element  in  the  trade 
has  been  disposed  to  keep  stock  sold  up 
from  day  to  day,  preferring  to  accept 
the  moderate  gains  of  a  steady  business 
rather  than  put  a  chance  of  greater 
profits  against  a  chance  of  loss.  The 
conservative  dealers  have  argued  that 
consumptive  demand  for  eggs  at  the 
high  prices  ruling  is  supplied with com­
paratively  small  quantities,  that  our  re­
ceipts  for two  weeks  were  beyond  actual 
needs,  and  that  considerable  stock  had 
accumulated  in  receivers’  hands;  they 
have 
that  even  although 
Western  and 
Southwestern  supplies 
might  fall  off  materially . there  was a 
chance  that  the  South  would  continue  to 
send  fair  shipments  and  that  when  a 
general  change  of  weather  conditions 
should  induce  a  loosening  up  of  -specu­
lative  holdings  there  might  be  enough 
eggs  to  tide  over  a  reduction  in  total 
receipts  until  the  next  increase  of  pro­
duction.

considered 

To 

the  disinterested  spectator 

it 
would  seem  as  if  the  bull  side  of  the 
market  had  the  best  of  the  probabili­
ties,  but  time  alone  can  prove  it. 
It  is 
observed  that  whenever  limited  eggs 
have  been  ordered  sold  the  demand  has 
been  found  strong  enough  to  absorb 
them  quickly  and  there  is  now reason  to 
believe  that  our weekly  needs,  even  at 
the  high  rates  ruling,  are  a  little  more 
than  has  been  figured  on.  Prices  have 
been  high  all  winter  and  until  a  short 
time  ago consumers  were  getting  a large 
proportion  of  old  eggs.  Thqy  are  now 
getting  new  stock  and  at  any  price

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

which  permits  retailers  to  sell  ten  for a 
quarter  there  seems  to be  a  pretty  good 
business.  Of  late  there  has  been  some 
disposition  to  close  out  limited  eggs 
in  certain  quarters  and  careful  enquiry 
at  the  close  leads  to  the  belief  that  the 
quantity  now  actually  held  here  under 
limit  is  not  over  4,000 cases  as  an  out­
side  estimate. 
If  we  have  not  accumu­
lated  more  eggs  than  that  under  two 
weeks  of  receipts  averaging  over  31,000 
cases,  the  position  looks  pretty  strong.
The  extremely  narrow  range  of  prices 
for  eggs  of  varying  quality  has  lately 
been  generally  remarked.  It  has  seemed 
singular  to  many  that  while  a  short 
time  ago  there  was  a difference of 8@ioc 
per  dozen  between  fresh  eggs  and  re­
frigerators  the  few  stray  lots  of  the 
lat­
ter  recently  obtainable  have  sold  within 
2c  of  top  price  when  of  decent  quality. 
This  however  is  the  inevitable  result  of 
scarcity  in  the  supply  of  under  grade 
eggs.  There  are  buyers  who  will  put 
up  with  almost  any  kind  of  stock  in 
order  to  save  a  cent  or two  when  they 
can  not  save  more,  but  it does  seem  sur­
prising  that  anyone  would  pay  say  26c 
for  old-flavored  shrunken  held  eggs  at  a 
time  when  they  could  get  nice  fresh 
goods  at  about  28c;  figuring  the  differ­
ence  in  actual 
loss  the  saving  would 
seem  to  be  scarcely  ic  per  dozen.  Even 
frozen  eggs  have  lately  been  salable  at 
comparatively  slight  reduction  from  top 
prices  and  most  of  the  time  a  range  of 
2C  per dozen  has  covered  the  difference 
in  selling  value  of  nearly  all  the  eggs 
in  the  market,  although  some  very  hard 
frozen  have  required  a  greater  conces­
sion.  The  discrimination  will  of  course 
become  closer  and  the  range  of  prices 
wider  as  goods  become  more  plenty  and 
buyers  have  a 
larger  assortment  to 
choose  from.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

New  Name  Gained  F o r M innesota.
Minnesota  has  heretofore  been  known 
as  the  Gopher  State.  Now  it  is  begin­
ning  to  be  called  the  Bread  and  Butter 
State.  The  reason  of  the  change  be­
comes  Clear  when  it  is  said  that  last 
year  its  mills  turned  out  26,630,000  bar­
rels  of  flour and  there  were  churned 
in 
the  State  50,000,000  pounds  of  butter.

In  the  product  of  spring  wheat,  Min­
nesota  stands  at  the  head  of  the  states 
of  the  country  and 
its  flour  mills  are 
noted  not  only  throughout  the  North­
west,  but 
in  foreign  countries  as  well. 
The  extensive  development  of  its  dairy 
interests  is  comparatively  recent.

The  combination  of  wheat  and  flour 
with  milk  and  butter  is  more  clearly 
marked  in  Minnesota  than  in  any  other 
state.  New  York  and  Illinois  are  im­
portant  dairy  States,  but  the  value  of 
the  wheat  crop  in  New  York  is  less than 
one-third  the  value  of  its  oat  crop,  and 
less  than  one-eighth  the  value  of  its  hay 
crop,  wheat  being  now  one  of  the  minor 
agricultural  products  of  New  York,  once 
the  chief  wheat  State.

Illinois  raises  a  fair amount  of  wheat, 
but  the  corn  crop,  which 
is  of  very 
much  more  importance,  yields  in  a  year 
$8  to  every  dollar  received  from  the 
product  of  wheat.

H is  B ullog Passion.

With  great  presence  of  mind  the bare­
footed  and  half-clad  young  man  broke 
away  from  the  other  members  of  the 
family  and  rushed  back  into  the  burn­
ing  building  at  the  risk  of  his  life.

Presently  he  emerged,  scorched  but 

triumphant.

He  had  rescued  his  camera.
"Oh,  Harold!”  

they 

"W hy  did  you  do  that?”

exclaimed. 

"D o   you  suppose  I’d  miss  such  a 
chance  as  this!”   he  asked,  planting the 
instrument  in  the  snow,  adjusting  and 
ta king  a  snap-shot  of  the  fire.

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brick  form.

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____Poultry

P eculiarities  P ertaining  to  the  H andling 

o f P oultry.

shipments 

The  supply  of  poultry  last  week  was 
short  as  the  heavy  snow  storm  and  bliz­
zard  first  of 
last  week  interfered  with 
the  deliveries,  and 
came 
straggling 
in  all  the  week,  some  being 
several  days  late.  In  addition  the  ship­
ment  of  poultry  has  been 
somewhat 
hampered- by  severe  wintry  weather  and 
arrivals  are  light  and  prices  quite  satis­
factory  on  desirable  grades.  During 
mid-winter  shipments  are  often  inter­
fered  with  and  in  shipping  to  catch  cer­
tain  days’ 
trade,  shippers  should  allow 
for  longer  delays  in  transit  than  are  apt 
to  occur  at  other  seasons  of  the  year. 
In  speaking  of  the  condition  of  this  de­
layed  poultry  a  receiver  said :  “ Yes! 
We  have  had  a  great  deal  of  stock  de­
layed  since  the  last  storm  and  generally 
it  arrived  in  pretty  good  shape,  having 
been  frozen  hard,  and  the  delay  has 
not  caused  material 
loss  by  deteriora­
in  quality.”   Other  receivers  ex­
tion 
pressed  themselves 
in  about  the  same 
manner.

♦  *  *

One  merchant  spoke  of  the  scarcity  of 
fresh  killed  turkeys  of  choice  quality. 
He  said:  “ Turkeys which have  been  al­
lowed  to  run  until  so  late  in  the  season 
as  now  are  nearly  all  large,  coarse  and 
flabby  and  it  is  just  about  impossible 
to  secure  any  good  enough  to  suit  best 
trade.  Prices  are  high  and  consump­
tive  demand 
light,  but  the  few  buyers 
needing  fancy turkeys  are  buying  frozen 
and  paying  full  prices  for  them, too. ”

*  *  *

law  there  will  be 

Many  of  the  poultry  receivers  handle 
large  quantities  of  calves  and  there  is 
more  ot  less  talk  relative  to the  legisla­
tive  agitation  of  the  law  regarding  their 
sale  and  shipment  in  this  State.  Ac­
cording  to  the  amendment  to  the  pres­
ent  health 
little 
change  as  it  is  practically  the  same  as 
the  old  law,  which  was  not  re-enacted 
when  the  health  law  was  changed  at  the 
last  session  of  the  Legislature.  The  new 
law  prohibits  the  slaughtering  of  calves 
in  this  State  for  purpose  of  food,  unless 
in  good  healthy  condition  and  at 
least 
four  weeks  old. 
It  also  provides  for 
appointment  of  State  Inspectors  by  the 
Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  who  shall 
have  power to  seize  and  destroy any  un­
healthy  calf  or  one  under  four  weeks 
old. 
It  further  compels  all  shippers  to 
attach  a  tag  on  each  calf  shipped,  stat­
ing  name  of  the  person  who  raised  the 
calf,  name  of  shipper,  point  of  ship­
ment  and  destination,  and  also  age  of 
calf. 
It  prohibits  all  common  carriers 
from  receiving  or  carrying  any  carcass 
or  part  thereof  unless  tagged  as  pro­
vided  in  the  act.

The law  applies  to  dressed calves  only 
and  many  of  the  market  men  think  that 
it ~ should  apply  to  live  veals  as  well. 
The  receivers  of  country  dressed  calves 
claim  the  law  should  not  be  such  that 
men  handling  live  calves  can  lawfully 
receive  and  sell  calves  to  be slaughtered 
which  the  law  prevents  them  to  handle 
dressed. 
if 
“ bob”   veal 
is  not  allowed  to  be  sold 
country  dressed  by  commission  receiv­
ers,  it  should  not  be  allowed  to  be  sold 
alive  by  another  class  of  commission 
merchants.  Consequently  the  effort  to 
amend  the  bill  so  as  to  include  live  as 
well  as  country  dressed  calves  may 
meet  with  some  success.
*  *  *

It  certainly  seems  that 

“ I  think  poultry  is  going  to clean  up 
from  producers’  hands  this

closely 

year,”   said  a  poultry  man  recently. 
“ Grain 
is  so  high  that  farmers  have 
been  selling  as  closely  as  possible  all 
the  season  and  1  expect  they  will  carry 
less  stock  over  than  for  several  sea­
sons. ’ ’

*  *  *

“ Receipts  of  live  poultry  are  apt  to 
be  very  light,”   remarked  a  poultry  re­
ceiver  one  day  last  week. 
“ I  have  ad­
vices  from  several  sections  where  they 
usually  ship  quite  freely  at this  time 
of  year,  stating  that  weather  is  so cold 
and  wintry  that  it  is  impossible  to  col­
lect  poultry  enough  to  make  up  a  car, 
and  this 
is  causing  many  winter  ship­
pers  to  send  one  car  every  two  or  three 
weeks  instead  of  weekly. 
In  one  town 
three  shippers  had  to  combine  to  fill  a 
car  last  week,  and  they  advised  me 
that  unless  they  can  get  a  neighboring 
shipper  to  come  in  with  them  they  will 
be  unable  to  make  up  a  car  this  week."

*  *  *

Another  poultry  merchant  drew  my 
attention  to  some  cull  stock  and  said 
that  he  was  getting  unusually  high 
prices  for  it  considering  the  quality. 
“ This  man  ships  very  nice  No. 
I 
stock,”   he  continued,  “ but  he  is  care­
ful  to  sort  out  all  culls  and  ship  them 
separate,  and  in  this  way  he  has  bene­
fited  by  having  his  stock  realize  more. 
I  wish  some  of  my  other  shippers  would 
follow  this  man’s  plan,  as  it  would  cer­
tainly  be  to  their  advantage.  Nothing 
lowers  the  price  of  poultry  as quickly 
as  having  the  buyer  find  one  or two culls 
mixed  in;  they  are  immediately  suspi­
cious  and  prefer  not  to  handle  the  mark 
unless  at  an  attractive  price.” — N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.

Fooled  a t  One  Point,  She  Is  K een  a t 

A nother.

“ Some people," said a poultry fancier, 
“ use  incubators  and  not  brooders,  and 
some  use  brooders  and  not  incubators. 
People  have  their  ideas  and  notions 
about  these  things 
just  as  they  have 
about  everything  else.  But  here’s  some­
thing  curious— wonderful, 
is— when 
you  come  to  think  about  it,  about  hens.
“ Now  suppose,  for  instance,  that  you 
are  interested  in  poultry,  and  you  go  in 
for 
incubators  but  not  for  brooders. 
You'd  rather  have  the  little  incubator- 
live 
hatched  chicks  mothered  by  a  real 
hen  than  to  rear  them 
in  a  brooder. 
There  is  no  trouble  whatever  if  you have 
setting  hens.

it 

“ When  the  hen  wants  to  set,  why  it’s 
bound  to  set,  somewhere. 
It  will  set  on 
the  ground,  or  anywhere,  if  it  has  no 
nest,  and  it  will  set  without  any  eggs  to 
set on, or  on  china  eggs,  just  as  it  would 
on  its  own.  Of  course  everybody  knows 
these  facts  about  the  setting  hen;  but 
here’s  the  curious  thing :

little 

“ Suppose  you  have  a  lot  of 

in­
cubator-hatched  chicks  and  you  want  to 
give  them  to  hens  to  raise. 
It’s  easy; 
the  hens  will  take,  them  gladly  and 
proudly;  but  you  must  go  about  it  the 
right  w ay;  you  must  give  the 
little 
chicks  to  them  by  night,  taking  away 
the  china  eggs, if the  hens  are  setting  on 
such  eggs,  and  putting  the  chicks  in 
their  place.

“ In  the  morning  the  hen  will  come 
out  and  strut  around  with  her  brood  of 
incubator-hatched  chicks,  as  proudly  as 
though  they  were  her  very  own,  and 
she’ll  scratch for them  and  care  for them 
just  as  though  they  were  her own  flesh 
and  blood,  and  to  the  exclusion  of  all 
others.

“ And  with  what  certainty  she can  sin 
gle  out  chicks  that  don’t  belong  to  her 
you  can  see  by  trying  to  force  upon  her 
a  little  later  some  of the incubator chicks

“ Suppose 

other than  those  originally  given  to  her !
that  out  of  that  brood 
originally  given  to  her  all  but  say half  a 
dozen,  or  four or five,  had been destroyed 
by  some  of  the  various  vicissitudes  that 
attend  young  chicken  life,  and  that  you 
should  attempt  then  to  give 
into  the 
motherly  hen's  care  one  or  two  or  three 
more  or  less,  others,  from  the  same 
in­
cubator  lot.  She  simply  wouldn’t take 
them.

“ But  the  wonderful  thing  here  is  that 
she  should  be  able  to  distinguish  them 
after they  have  been  mixed  in  with  her 
own.  They  came,  you  understand,  all 
from  the  same 
lot;  you  couldn’t  tell 
them  apart  to  save  your  life.  But  this 
old  hen  can  tell  them,  every  time,  and 
very  soon  she  will  single  them  out  and 
drive  them  away.  She  won't  have  them. 
She  will  care  only  for  her  own.

Ingalls  on  the  Suprem acy of B utter,
The  oleomargarine  fight,  which 

is 
now  in  progress  in  Congress,  recalls  the 
fact  that  many  years  ago,  when  Senator 
Ingalls  was  in the  Senate,  oleomargarine 
was  a  bone  of  contention.  The  debate 
led  Ingalls  to  utter one of those epigram­
matic  sentences  which  made  him  fa­
mous.

“ I  have  never,  to  my  knowledge, 
Ingalls, 
tasted  oleomargarine,’ ’  said 
“ but  I  have  stood 
in  the  presence  of 
genuine  butter  with  awe  for  its  strength 
and  reverence  for  its  antiquity.”

If  wishes  were  horses  there  wouldn’t 
in  the  world  for  human 

be  any  room 
beings.

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5 :0 0  p. in. Afternoon F lyer—Leaves 
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C lerk s’  C orn er.

H ow  OUT K elly E arned His S alt o f Clothes. 
Written for the Tradesman.

“ I’d  give  more  to git that old critter’s 
trade  than  for anything  I  can  think  of. 
I've  been  here  now  going  on  five  years 
and  she’s  never  been  in  here  after  the 
first  week  nor  looked  this  way.  She 
don't  seem  to  be  put  out  about  any­
thing. 
I  meet  her  on  the  street  and 
she’s  always  ready  enough  to  stop  and 
pass  the  time  o’  day. 
It  begins  there 
and  it  ends  there.  I’ve  done  everything 
but  ask  *er  out  and  out  and  I’ve  tried 
to  do'  that  time  and  agin,  but  she  al­
ways  heads  me  off.  Now  you've  come 
and  you  just  start  in  and  see  what  you 
can  do. 
I  believe  if  she  didn’t  buy 
anything  but  a  shoestring  I’d  put  it 
down  as  a  sort of  event.  Anyway  you 
git that  old  woman’s trade  and  I'll  buy 
you  the  best  suit  of  clothes  that  Fitem 
knows  how  to  put  up,  and  if  you  know 
Fitem  you  needn't  be  told  it's  wuth 
working  for."

Cliff  Kelly  bad  been  in  the  Clenwood 
store about  three  days  when  Elgate,  the 
owner,  made, the above  remark. 
It  was 
a  little after dinner  when  “ there’s  noth­
in  doin’ ”   and  they  were  both  looking 
out  of  the  windows  when  "tough  nut”  
went  by.  She  was  one  of  these  little 
women  that  serve  as  samples of  bottled 
energy,  never  at  rest  at  home  or abroad, 
with  ways  of  her  own  and  thoroughly 
believing  that  whbever has  ways  not  her 
w ayr  has  something  wrong  about  him. 
She  was  spry  as  a  cat  with that animal’s 
gracefulness  and  as  neat.  _  She  had  a 
way  of  wearing  things  that  “ set  hei  off 
somehow”   and  made  the  beholder  be­
lieve  that  she  was  willing  to  pay  and 
did  pay  a  good  price  for  what  she  wore.
Cliff  watched  her  as  long  as  she  was 
in  sight  and  made  up  his  mind  to  have 
that  suit  of  clothes.  He’d  seen  her  kind 
before  and  believed  he  could  “ land 
her."  Elgate’s  remark  about  the  shoe­
string  set  him  thinking  and  he  began 
right  there.

“ You  said  something  about  selling 
‘ the  old  critter’  a  shoestring.  What’s 
her  name,  anyway?”

“ Mary  Malviny  Drinkwater.”
“ Well,  you  don’t  sell  shoestrings,  do 

you?"

“ You  don’t  suppose  we  are  in  busi­

ness  for  the  fun  of  it,  do  you?”

“ AH  I've  got  to  say  about  that  is  that 
it’s d—d  poor  business  if  you  do,  and 
I’m  going  to  say  right  now  that  you'll 
have  that  part  of  the  trade  while  I’m 
here.”

A  shoestring  didn’t  seem  to  be  worth 
quarreling about and the matter dropped, 
but  all  that  day  and  for a  long  time

after  Mary  Malviny  and  her  trade  was 
the  subject  of  the  young  man’s  thought. 
Women  of  that  sort  always  go  some­
where  to church  and  the  following  Sun­
in  his  best  he  went  over  to  the 
day 
Presbyterian 
and  asked  the 
usher  to  put  him  into  the  seat  behind 
her.  He  wanted 
to  study  “ the  old 
quail”   to  see  what  he  could  make  out 
of  her.  He  went  early  and  soon  she 
came  tiptoeing  in.  She  took  her  place 
at  the  end  of  the  pew  and  that  gave 
Cliff a  chance  to  watch  her.

church 

He  came  away  satisfied  that  “ she 
was  all  right.”   She  dressed  like  a  lady 
and  acted  like  one  and  he  put  her down 
as  one,  a  conclusion  he  came  to  all  the 
sooner  from  the  fact  that  when  she 
turned  to  go  out  she  saw  him  and, 
knowing him  to  be  a  stranger,  looked  at 
him  kindly  and  not  satisfied  with  that 
came  to  him,  put  out  her  little  neatly- 
gloved  hand  for him  to take  and  made 
herself  so  agreeable  that  when  he  left 
her  at  the  church  door  he  had  not  only 
made  up  his  mind  to attend  the  Presby­
terian  service  but  told  her  so.

in,  for 

The  following  week  Miss  Drinkwater 
was  the  subject  of  conversation  when­
ever  a  customer  came 
in  a 
country  town  like  that  everybody  knows 
everybody  and  what  everybody  knows 
likes  to  talk  about.  He  found  the 
he 
village  divided,  part  liking  the 
lady 
and  the  other  part  cordially  hating  her, 
the  likers taking  the  lead.  He  found she 
had  a  commendable  income  which  she 
was  willing  enough  to  spend  provided 
she  could  get  her  money’s  worth,  but 
that  she  was  “ the  cantankerestest”   old 
maid  that  ever breathed  if  anybody  un­
dertook  to  palm  off  on  to  her a  thing 
she  didn't  want.

Having  thus  loaded  up,Cliff  Kelly  at­
tended  divine  service  the  next  Sunday 
at  the  same  place,  where  he  occupied 
the  same  seat,  or  would  have,  had  not 
Miss  Drinkwater,after she looked around 
and  saw  him,  pleasantly  motioned  for 
him  to  take  a  seat  with  her,  an  act  of 
kindness,  he  afterwards  learned,  that 
settled  his  social  position in  the village. 
Of course  he  made  himself  useful  with 
the  hymn  book  and  almost  of course  for 
his  courtesy  she 
invited  him  home  to 
dinner  at  the  close  of the  service,  a  fact 
which  was  duly  commented  on  by  the 
curious  beholders  for  the  rest  of  the 
week.  As  for  Cliff  he  made  up  his 
mind  that  he  would  know  before  the 
dinner  was  over  whether  he  was  going 
to  leave  his  measure  with  Fitem.

it  he 

the  young  fellow  conclude  that  he’d  be 
careful  and  not  wear his  welcome  out  if 
there  was  any  way  of  keeping  on  the 
lady.  As  luck 
right  side  of  the  old 
would  have 
found  among  her 
photographs  the  picture  of a  cousin  of 
his  and  was  not  sorry  to  learn  that  Miss 
Drinkwater  considered  her  one  of  the 
prettiest  girls  of  her  acquaintance;  and 
with  that  for  an  entering  wedge  they 
soon  became  fairly  well  acqainted—the 
“ critter”   and  Cliff.

Conversation  readily  drifted  to  the 
young  man’s  work  and  once  there  the 
rest  was  easy.

“ Strange  that  I  haven’t  seen  you  at 

the  store  yet,  Miss  Drinkwater.

“ It  seems  so,  but  it  isn’t.  I ’m  afraid 
I’m  a  fussy  old  maid. 
I  know  what  I 
want  and  am  determined  to  have  noth­
ing  else.  Mr.  Elgate  has  what  I  don’t 
want  and  he  tries to  make  me  believe 
that  I  don’t  know  what  is  good.  Then, 
too,  he  made  me  pay  for  a  pair of shoe­
strings  and  I  have  never traded  there 
since.  Small?  Yes, 
it  is;  but  that’s 
one  of  the  things  that  I  don't  like. 
Since  you  have  been  there  I ’ve  been 
wondering  if  I’m  not  carrying  my  prej­
udices  too  far. 
I  think  I  am  and  I  am 
coming  over  to-morrow. 
I  shall  come 
about  nine  and  I  want  you  to  be  there 
for the  first  few  times  until  1  get  hard­
ened  to  i t !”

It  is  needless  to  say  that  Cliff  Kelly 
was  in  the  best  of  spirits  for  the  re­
mainder  of  that  meal  and  when  he  went 
through  the  white  front  gate  a  little 
later  he  came  very  near  striking  into  a 
two-step.  Nine  o'clock 
found  Miss 
Drinkwater  delivering  her  order,  a good 
long  one,  to  her  friend  the  clerk,  while 
Mr.  Elgate,  with  eyes  and  mouth  wide 
open,  looked  and  stared  until  the  cus­
tomer  got  as  far  as  the  sidewalk.

“ Well,  if  that  isn’t  the  eighth wonder 
of  the  world!  How  did  you  do  it?”  
“ Toughest  job  I  ever  had.  Just  make 
out  that  order  for  Fitem,  will  you;  I ’ll 
take  it  right  over  and  get  measured.”  

He  d id ;  hut  somehow  every  time  he 
sees  Cliff  with  that  suit  on  he  looks  and 
acts  as  if  he  had  been  swindled.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

He  Wasn’t Worrying;.

It  is  not  long  since  that  a  Muskegon 
lady  visiting  Colorado  was  starting  for 
a  drive  along  Boulder  Canon.  Her 
ideas  of  a  canon,  acquired  wholly  from 
illustrations,  was  of  mighty  clefts  in 
giant  rocks,  and  a  drive  along  its  edge 
meant 
road 
where  the  least  swerving  aside  from  the 
beaten  track might result in being dashed 
to  instant  death.

following  a  thread-like 

Thinking  to  insure  safe  horses  and 
careful  driving  on  the  part  of  the livery­
man,  she  tried  to  impress  him  with  the 
fact  that  she  was  prominently  connected 
in  her  native  city,  her  family  one  of 
wealth  and  much  given  to  travel,  so  that 
if  any  disaster  overtook  her  his  reputa­
tion  as  a  liveryman  would  suffer.

“ Oh,that would  be  all  right,  ma’am,”  
responded  the  Jehu,“ l  am  an undertaker 
by  profession,  as  well  as  a  horseman, 
and  if  anything  were  to  happen  to  you, 
I  assure  you  the  remains  would  be  sent 
home  in  the  most  scientific  and  fashion­
able  style.  Why,  only 
last  week  I  sent 
home  two  bodies— a mother and daughter 
— who  were  the  very  bon  ton  of  New 
York  society,  and  no  man  ever  got  up  a 
corpse  in  prettier  style  than  those  two.”

H e  W asn’t  Quite  Sure.

“ What  are  you  doing  with  the  dic­

tionary,  Hany?”   asked  his  sister.

The  Chicago  youth  hesitated  a  mo­

ment  before  replying.

“ Well,”   he  admitted  at  last,  “ I  had 
long  talk 
in  the  conservatory  with 
a 
that  Boston  girl  last  night,  and  now  I’m 
trying  to  find  out  whether  she  paid  me 
some  nice  compliments  or  said  some 
disagreeable  things.”

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Ikhigu Kiicbti of the Grip

President,  J o h n   A.  W e s t o n ,  Lansing:  Sec­
retary,  SI.  S.  B b o w n ,  Safiinaw;  Treasurer, 
J o h n  W. Sc h b a m , Detroit.

Commercial Travelers things  that  have  not  already  an  estab­
lished  demand.  Right  here  comes  in
the  educative  function  of  the  traveling 
salesman.  He 
is  the  one  who  makes  a 
demand for the  thousand  and  one  things 
that  have  come  into  use.  He  presents
the  new  article  to  the  dealer  and  very 
often  he  goes  and  educates  the  con­
sumer  first  and  shows  up  the  points  of 
merit.  If  the  consumer  asks  for  it, there 
is  no  trouble 
in  getting  the  dealer  to 
handle  it.  The  article,  of  course,  must
have  merit.

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

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Co m p t o n ;  Secretary- 

flrud Rapids Coueil No. 131, D.  C. T.

Uutod Commercial Travelers of lichigu 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

R elation  of the  Traveling Salesman to the 

it. 

the  above  narrative  shows,  what 
as 
it  was  to  get  the  people  to 
hard  work 
use 
It  took  years  of  work  to  edu­
cate  them  up  to  it,  and  it  was  the  trav­
eling  salesman  who  did  the  educating. 
Man  does  not  willingly  relinquish  the 
things  that  he  has  been  used  to,  but 
beyond  that  be 
is  just  as  unwilling  to 
accept  anything  new.  Man  is,  in  real­
ity,  not  the  progressive  being  that  is 
claimed  for  him,  and  were  the  incentive 
of  moneymaking 
left  out,  I  doubt  if 
much  progress  were  made or  many  com­
forts  added.  Civilization,  in  fact,  may 
be  summed  up  as  representing  the  cul­
tivation  of  taste  and  of  new  desires  and 
needs,  and  the  more 
complex  and 
varied  these  desires  and  needs  become, 
the  higher  we  proclaim  the  civilization.
I  think  1  have  made  out  my  case  as 
well  as  copld  be  done  in  so short a space 
—namely,  that  the  traveling  salesman  is 
an  educator  and  a  very  important  factor 
in  the  civilizing 
the 
world.— H.  L.  McNamara.

influences  of 

The  Boys  Behind the  Counter.

Ishpeming—Victor  Munson  has  taken 
a  position  in  F.  Braastad  &  Co. 's  gro­
cery  store.

Big  Rapids—J.  J.  Kelley,  who  has 
been  clerking 
in  C.  H.  Milner’s  drug 
store  the  past  eight  months,  has  gone  to 
Ithaca  to  take  a  more  lucrative  posi­
tion  with  H.  J.  Crawford.

Owosso—William  Sullivan,  clerk  at 
Osburn  &  Sons’  store,  and  Miss  Anna 
Grady,  formerly  telephone  operator  at 
Owosso  and  Lansing,  were  married  at 
St.  Paul’s  Catholic  church  last  Tuesday 
morning.

Grand  Rapids— Wm.  Sargeant  has 
moved  here  from  Fremont  to  take  a 
clerkship 
in  the  store  of  the  Winegar 
Furniture  Co.

Ishpeming—Joe  Nault,  who  has  held 
a  position  with  A.  W.  Meyers  &  Co. 
for  some  years  past,  has  retired  to  take 
a  clerkship 
in  the  grocery  store  of  M. 
E.  Lemay.

Lowell— Ernest  Runnels  has  resigned 
his  position 
in  the  dry  goods  store  of 
Marks  Ruben  &  Co.  to  accept  a  more 
lucrative  position 
in  the  store  of  M. 
Friedman  &  Co.,  at  Grand  Rapids.

A  traveling  man  who  drove  across  the 
country to  a  little  town  in  Western Kan­
sas  the  other day  met  a  farmer  hauling 
“ Where  do  you 
a  wagonload  of  water. 
get  water?"  he  asked. 
"U p   the  road 
about  seven  m iles,"  the  farmer  replied. 
"A nd  you  haul  water  seveq  miles  for 
your 
" Y e p .”  
"Why  in  the  name  of  sense  don’t  you 
dig  a  well?"  asked  the  traveler. 
" B e ­
cause 
it’s  just  as  far  one  way  as  the 
other,  stranger.”

family  and 

stock?"-’ 

Jesse  C.  Watson,  who  has  traveled 
continuously  for  the  past  twenty-three 
years,  during  which  time  he  has  not 
lost  a  day  from  illness  or  other cause, 
contemplates  taking  a 
lay-off  during 
1903,  spending  the  first  part  of  the  year 
in  California  and  the  latter  portion  at 
St.  Louis,  taking  in  the  Louisiana  Pur­
chase  Exposition  and  visiting  his  son, 
who  is  now  located  in  that  city.

A.  W.  Meyer, 

formerly  engaged  it) 
the  meat  business  at  Big  Rapids,  is 
now  representing  Armour  &  Co.  on the 
road.

The W arw ick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

• Opportunity  of  a  Lifetime I
I

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  new  article 

is  supposed  to  be  an 
improvement  on  old  ones,  if  it  does 
better  work  for  the  same  money,  or  as 
good  work  for  less  money;  or  it  is  time 
and 
labor  saving ;  or  it  adds  comfort; 
or  it  is  more  artistic  in  design,  or fills 
some  new  niche 
in  household  use. 
Now,  all  these  points,  whatever  they 
may  be,  have  to  be  talked  up  and  ex­
plained.  The  dealer  has  to  be  con­
vinced,  and 
it  takes  a  good  man  to  do 
it.  He  has  got  to  be  onto  his  job. 
Nearly  all  the  goods  we  sell  nowadays 
have  been  added  to  by  slow  stages. 
Take  the  washing  machine.  A  few 
years  ago  they  were  not  part  of  a  hard­
ware  stock.  To-day  they  are  ah  article 
of  staple  commerce.  Years  before,  the 
washing  machine  was  a  county  or  vil­
It  was  not  to  sell 
lage  right  scheme. 
washers, 
that 
meant.  Gradually  the  machine  was  per­
fected,  and  men  were  sent  out  to  the 
trade  and  to  consumers  to  show  their 
workings  and  points  of  merit,  and  by  a 
gradual  process  of  educational  work  the 
washer,  like  thousands  of  other  valu­
able  articles,  has  become  a  staple article 
of  use  and  demand.

rights,  whatever 

but 

The  natural  tendency 

is  to  let  well 
enough  alone  as  to  all  things  that  in­
volve  an  outlay  of money  or  a  change  of 
our  habits.  More  than  half  the  things 
found  on the counters were once so-called 
new-fangled  notions,  and  only  by  a 
gradual  process  were  people  educated 
to  a  point  of  demand  for  them.  As  an 
illustration  of  this,I  will  repeat  what  an 
old  hardware  man  told  me  the  other 
day,  which 
is  right  to the  point.  We 
were  speaking  of  the  wringer  business. 
He  said: 
‘ ‘ I  commenced  business  in 
the  early  sixties.  Traveling  salesmen 
in  those  days  were  not  as  numerous  as 
later  years.  A  young  fellow  came 
in 
along  one  day  with  a  machine 
for 
wringing  clothes.  He  knew  how  to work 
it  and  how  to  talk  it  to  perfection.  He 
spent  the  best  part  of  two  days  trying 
to  educate  me  in  the  mysteries  and  uses 
of  his  machine.  As  a 
last  resort,  he 
wanted  me  to  let  him  come  to the  house 
and  show  the  women 
it 
worked.  But  my  wife,  after  seeing  and 
trying  it,  said  she  didn’t  want  any  such 
new-fangled  notion  in  her  house.  The 
old  way  was  plenty  good  enough,  and  it 
would  be  a 
long  time  before  any  of 
those  chaps  could  convince  her.  Fail­
ing  to  make  me  buy,  he  offered  to  put 
a  dozen 
in  stock  for  me,  ‘ no  sale,  no 
pay,’  but  I  wouldn’t  even  do  that.  My 
wife  said 
it  was  no  good,  and  our 
neighbor’s  wife  said  the  same  thing. 
But  the  fellow  got  my  competitor  to  put 
in  a  few,  and  he  sold  them.  Six months 
later  another  agent  came  along.  He 
sold  my  competitor  more  this  time,  and 
I  put 
in  a  few  in  self-defense.  The 
price  was  $80  a  dozen  then,  or some­
where  along  there,  and  no comparison 
to  the  present  article.  Look  at  the  out­
put  of  wringers  to-day,"  the  old  hard­
ware  man  said. 
"E very  family  in  the 
country,  and  in  other countries  as  well, 
uses  the  wringer."

folks  how 

With  98 good a  thing as the  wringer,

H ardw are  Dealer.

The  traveling  salesman  stands  in  sev­
eral  relations  to  the  retailer,  and  not the 
least  important  of  these  would  seem  to 
be. his  friendship  for him  in  giving  him 
every  point  of  advantage.  As  a  rule, 
there 
is  a  motive  behind  this  too 
obvious  to  need  mention.  He  is  work­
ing  for  his  own  good  while  doing  good 
to  others,  and  certainly  this  is  in  ac­
cordance  with  good  Christian  doctrine. 
The  house  that  employs  the  salesman 
doesn't  think  much  of the  doctrine,how­
ever.  The  bouse  is  apt  to  consider the 
doctrine  quite  un-Christian,  and  some­
times  harbors  and  even  gives expression 
to  ratber  un-Christian  thoughts.

Aside  from  all  pleasantries,  however, 
the  traveling  salesman  has  one  distinc­
tive  function to  perform  in his vocation, 
and  this  function 
is  pre-eminently  of 
an  educational  character.  The  travel­
ing  agent  is  an  educator,  and  bis  most 
important  and  efficient  work  must  lie  in 
that  direction.

To  assume  that  the  sales  agent  is  sent 
out  merely  to  be  on  hand  when  the  re­
tailer  happens  to  be  out  of  something 
would  make  of  him  just  an  errand  boy, 
and  to  go  even  a  step  farther,  and  say 
that  he  is  sent  out  to  keep  competitors 
from  monkeying  with  customers,  would 
still  hardly 
justify  the  expense.  To 
be  sure,  the  expense  is  eventually  borne 
by  the  retailer,  but  he,  in  turn,  gets  it 
out  of  the  consumer.  But  the  point  is, 
couldn’t  the  retailer  send 
in  his  orders 
to  the  house,  or  any  bouse,  by  mail,  if 
it  were  simply  a  matter  of  ordering 
what he  is  out  of  and  thus  save time and 
expense?  Certainly  be  could. 
The 
agent  then  would  have  no  particular 
office  to  perform.

The  fact  is,  however,  that  the  agent’s 
business  is  not  merely  that  of  collector 
of  orders  for  goods  that  the  retailer  is 
out  of  or  that  be  needs  for  a  season’s 
supply.  Left  to himself,  neither  the  re­
tailer  nor  the  consumer  would  ever 
change  styles  or  enlarge  the  variety  of 
purchases.

Ejjd  you  ever  think  how  few  articles 
are 
really  required  to  satisfy  actual 
needs?  How  few  these  are  can  be  seen 
in  pioneer towns,  where,  to  start  with, 
only  staples  are  handled.  Compare  the 
storfe  of  to-day  with  the  store  of  fifty 
years  ago 
in  the  same  line,  and  note 
the  great  variety  of  goods  kept  now  as 
against  then.

Very  few  real  necessaries  have  been 
added)  but  the  hardware  dealer’s  stock, 
like  every  other,  has  been  greatly  en­
larged  by  the  addition  of  new  things— 
things  for  procuring  greater  comfort  or 
saving time.  Did  the dealer or consumer 
demand  them?  No.  Anything  different 
from  what  we  are  accustomed  to  is 
never  demanded. 
If  the  manufacturer 
makes  or the  dealer  buys  something new 
and  waits  for  people  to  want  it,  there 
will  be  a  long  wait,  and  this  applies 
to  the  most  popular  things  in  use  to­
day.  The  consumer  asks  for  nothing 
new,  ever,  and  the  dealer  is  afraid  of 
new  things.  He  does  not  want to  buy

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

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Drugs—Chemicals

State Board of Pharm acy

- 

Term expires
Hbn by Hu m , Saginaw 
Deo. 81,1902 
-  Deo. 81,1908
Wib t P.  D orr, Detroit - 
- 
A. 0 . SOHtTMACHBB, Ann Arbor  -  Deo. 81,190* 
J ohn D. Mu ib , Grand Rapids 
Deo. 81,1906 
A b t e d b  H. W e b b e r , Cadillac 
Dec. 81,1906 

Preaidant, a .  O.  Sc h u m a o h b k ,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hbnby  Hu b , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit

E xam ination  Sessions.
Grand Rapids, March 4 and 5.
Star Island. June 16 and 17.
Sault Ste- Marie, August 27 and 28. 
Lansing, November 6 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

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

Preservation  of Lemon  and  Orange  Oils.
Mr.  Lobman  says  that  one  of  the 
many  great  annoyances  to  the  pharma­
cist  is  in  keeping, in  a  fresh  and  salable 
condition,  the  two  oils  named.  These 
goods  as  usually  purchased from the job­
ber  are  put  up  by  him  in  bottles  from 
the  original  package,  and  when 
re­
ceived  are,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent, 
deteriorated,  and  by  the  time  the  last 
portion  is  sold  we  have  a  rank  oil  or 
pure  turpentine.  This  is  noticeable  in 
the  preparation  of  simple  elixir,  ren­
dering  a  medicine  more  nauseous  in­
stead  of  performing  its  object  as  a  ve­
hicle.  By  the 
following  method,  he 
says,  be  has  been  able  to  keep  these 
goods  for  a  year as  fresh  and  sweet  as 
when  first  received.

The  method  employed  by  some  of 
mixing  alcohol  and  water,  one  ounce 
each,  with  these  oils,  is  perhaps  better 
than  nothing,  yet  is  not as  good  or  con­
venient  as  the  method  I  now  offer. 
First,buy  your  oils  in  the  original  cans, 
from  a  reliable  source.  This  insures 
good  quality.  As  soon  as  you  receive  a 
can  of  oil  empty  it  at  once  into  a  bottle 
twice  the  capacity  and  add  for  every 
pound  of  oil  one-balf  ounce  of  C.  P. 
nitric  acid  and  four  ounces  of  water, 
and  shake  frequently  during  forty-eight 
hoars,  when  at  the  end  of  that  time 
there  will  be  a  copious  precipitate. 
This  I  believe  to  be  a  terpine  separated 
from  the  oil  by  oxidation;  and  while  I 
have  not  examined  the  precipitate  to 
determine 
in  my  own 
judgment  I  am  correct.  After  washing 
the  oil  thoroughly,  add  calcium  chlorid 
and  quicklime,  and  percolate  through 
coarsely  powdered  animal  charcoal.

its  character, 

Oils  treated  in  this  manner are  bright 
and  clear,  with  taste  and  odor  wholly 
unimpaired.  A small  quantity  of  lemon 
oil  treated 
in  this  way  remained  per­
fectly  fresh  after three  weeks’  exposure 
in  an  open  vessel.  While  I  have  not 
attempted  to  give  a  scientific  account  of 
this  process,  yet  it  is  a  practical  and 
easy  method  of  getting  rid  of  one  of 
the  perplexities  in  our  line.

M ineral  Oil  in  G round Flaxseed.

informed  us  that  an 

The  addition  of  mineral  oil  to  linseed 
oil  has  frequently  been  practiced  and  is 
well  known,  but  the  adulteration  of 
ground  flaxseed  with  this  article  is  of 
recent  origin.  Recently  a  British  jour­
ingenious 
nal 
method  of  sophisticating 
linseed  meal 
was  being  practiced.  This  consisted 
in  expressing  the  natural  fixed  oil  from 
the  crushed  seed,  and  triturating  the  re­
sulting  cake  with  petroleum  oil  of  about 
the  same  density  as  linseed  oil.  Such 
a  mixture  was  then  placed  on  the  mar­
ket as  “ pure  crushed  flaxseed.”   Fol­
lowing  closely  upon  this,  the  writer  was 
told  that  considerable  of  this  mineral 
oil  adulterated  flaxseed  meal  was  being 
handled  in  our* markets.

A  sample  of  ground  flaxseed  was  se­
cured  and  the  per  cent,  of  oil  estimated 
by  exhausting  it  with  carbon  disulphide 
in  the  usual  way.  This  indicated  the 
presence  of  55.5  per  cent,  of fixed  oil, 
is  good  for  this  product,  but 
which 
physically 
the  meal  was  abnormally 
oily,  and  possessed  a  foreign  odor  and 
taste.  An  examination  of the  extracted 
oil  showed  that  there  was  an  undue 
amount  of  unsaponifiable  matter  pres­
ent.  A  considerable  quantity  of  the 
above  ground flaxseed  was  then  secured, 
one  portion  exhausted  by  pure  ether; 
from  another  portion the oil was removed 
by  hydraulic  pressure.

The  oil  obtained  by  hydraulic  pres­
sure  is  highly  fluorescent,  dark  in  color, 
and  abnormal  of  odor.  Pure  raw 
lin­
seed  oil  expressed  in  the  cold  (as  the 
above  was)  possesses  a  golden  yellow 
color,  while  that  obtained  at  a  higher 
temperature 
is  of  a  brownish  yellow 
hue,  but  none  has  ever  been  reported  as 
being  fluorescent.

The  oil  extracted  by  means  of  the 
ether  possessed  the  same abnormal phys­
ical  appearance  as  the  expressed  oil.

The  specific gravities  and  the  saponi­
fication  numbers  were  all  abnormal. 
These  point  to  the  presence  of a  min­
eral  oil,  which  was  shown  to  be  present 
to  the  extent  of  40 per  cent.,  or  basing 
the  calculation  on  the  ground  flaxseed 
itself,  each  100  pounds  of  the  ground 
flaxseed  examined  contained  a 
little 
over  14  pounds  of  added  mineral  oil.

A  sample  of ground  flaxseed  was  also 
met  with  which  possibly  indicates  an 
embryonic  attempt  at adulteration. 
It 
contained  the  requisite  amount  of  oil, 
which  possessed  the  same  fluorescent 
appearance  as  those  examined  above, 
but  the  oil  proved  upon  investigation  to 
be  different  from  anything  heretofore 
examined  or  recorded.  The  exact  basis 
of  this  adulteration  the  writer  has thus 
far  been  unable  to  ascertain.

Lyman  F.  Kebler.

The  D rug M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  and  weak,  on  account 
of  favorable  crop  reports  and  small  de­
mand.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  firm.
Wood  Alcohol— Has  advanced  5c  per 

gallon.

unchanged, 

Cocaine— Is 

although
there  are  rumors  of  manufacturers  get­
ting  together  and  advancing  price.  It  is 
stated  that the  present  price  is  below 
cost of  manufacture.

Menthol— Is 

in  better  supply  and  has 

declined.

Balsam  Copaiba— Pure  balsam  has 

advanced  and  is  tending  higher.

Camphor  Gum— It  is  reported  that  the 
Japanese  government  is about to  monop­
olize  the  crude  camphor  business,  in 
consequence  of  which  camphor  is  very 
firm.

Linseed 

'O il— Is  firm  and  tending 

higher. 

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Facts  A bout  Deafness.

A  French  surgeon  has  collected statis­
tics  relative  to deafness.  It  appears  that 
males  are  more  subject  to  aural diseases 
than  females,  and  that  out  of  every 
seven  middie-aged  persons  there  are 
two  who  do  not  hear  so  well  with  one 
ear as  with  the  other.  In every  thousand 
children  under  15  years  of age  four show 
symptoms  of  some  ear  disease,  and  six 
a  marked  deficiency  in  hearing  power. 
The  liability  to  disease  increases  from 
birth  to  the  age  of  40,  and  then  grad­
ually  decreases  as  old  age  advances. 
Out  of  the  total  number  of  cases  sub­
jected  to  surgical  treatment  it  is  esti­
mated  that  about  53  per  cent,  are  cured 
and  30  per  cent,  permanently improved.

P repare  for Spring Trade.

It  is  time  to  prepare  a  campaign  to 
secure  your  share  of  trade 
in  spring 
remedies  and house-cleaning specialties. 
The  demand  for these  will  commence  in 
some  localities  in  another  month.  There 
is  always  a  good  demand  for  blood  rem­
edies,  toilet  preparations  and  cleansing 
fluids  in  the  spring,  and  there  is no  rea­
son  why  you  should  not  push  your  own 
in  place  of  helping  some  one  else  to  ac­
cumulate  a  fortune.

If  you  haven't  a 

line  of  your  own 
preparations,  but  purpose  putting  one 
up,  it  is  time  to commence,  as  it  takes 
time  to  secure  bottles  and  labels  and 
prepare  advertising  matter.  Don't  use 
the  regular  packages  and 
labels,  but 
labels  made 
have  original  designs  of 
and  adopt  a  distinctive  package.  This 
will  become  known  to ail  your  custom­
ers,  and  every  one  seeing  a  package 
It 
will  recognize  it  as  from  your  store. 
will  be  a  constant  advertisement. 
In­
dividuality  is  what  distinguishes  a  man 
from  his  fellows,  and  what  makes  a  cer­
tain  line  of  goods stand out among others 
of  its  class.

You  should  have  a  good  blood  puri­
fier,  tonic  and  liver  pill,  bug  destroyer, 
rat  paste,  disinfectant,  furniture  polish, 
silver  polish,  cleaning  fluid,  moth  de­
stroyer,  insect  powder,  also several toilet 
preparations  to  start  with.  They  do  not 
cost  much  to  prepare,  and  every  pack­
age  sold 
is  an  advertisement  for your 
store.  Good  formulas  may  be  found  by 
consulting  the  files  of  the  Tradesman. 
Everything  should  be  ready  at  least  two 
weeks  before  the  probable  demand,  and 
advertising  commenced  so  as  to  famil­
iarize  the  people  with  your  goods,  and 
when  they  are  ready  to  buy  you  will  get 
a  greater share  of  the  trade.

L iability  of tb e  D ruggist.

results.

The  doctor  looks  to  the  druggist  for 

Pure  fresh  drugs  give  quick  and  cer­

is  essential  to a 

importance  of  ac­

tain  results.

Varied  experience 

good  dispenser.

We  recognize  the 
curacy  in  dispensing.
work  and  prices.

We  invite  comparison  in  prescription 

Any  person  can  mix  drugs.  Only  a 

qualified  pharmacist  can  dispense.

If  the  physician  does  not  get  the  re­
sults  he 
looking  for  it  is  owing  to 
toleration  or  idiosyncrasy  of  the  patient 
and  is  not  the  fault  of  the  drugs  if  pre­
scription  is  dispensed  at  Blank’s  drug 
store. 

is 

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Sunflower-Seed  Oil.

Consul  Ravndal  reports  from  Beirut 
that  olive  oil  has  many  uses,  but  more 
substitutes,  and  few  salads  are  com­
pounded  without  tbe  aid  of  one  of them. 
Cotton  seed  oil  is  a  favorite  substitute, 
but,  according  to  an  Egyptian  news­
paper,  this  is  soon  to  find  a  sturdy  rival 
in  the  form  of  the  seed  of  the  sunflower. 
Experiments  made  by  German  chem­
ists  have  convinced  them,  it seems,  of 
the  availability  of  this  cheap  raw  ma­
terial,  and  it  may  shortly  become  a  val­
uable  article  of  commerce. 
It  is  said 
to be  convertible  to  many  uses  and,  be­
sides  having  possibilities  as  a  lamp  oil, 
may  be  used  for dyeing  purposes  and 
in  soapmaking.

An  U ndesirable Species.

" I   believe,”   said  the  boarder at  the 
head  of  the  table,  ‘ ‘ you  are  something 
of  a  lepidopterist,  Miss  Peller.”

"In   an 

amateur  way  only,  Mr. 
McGinnis.”   replied  the  young  woman 
in  the  next  seat.
“ Well,  here’s  a  butterfly  you  may 
have,"  be  said,  pointing  to  it  as  he 
passed  the  dish  to  her.

Whereupon  she  stuck  a  pin  in  him.

An  interesting  case  defining the liabil­
ity  of  the  druggist  in  the  sale  of danger­
ous  drugs  has  just  been  decided  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Iowa.  It was  based  on 
injuries 
careless 
handling  of  some  phosphorus  which  the 
plaintiff  purchased  for  W.  H.  Tobert, 
at  Dubuque,  Iowa.  The  opinion  of  the 
court,  in  part,  is  as  follows:

received  by 

the 

When  a  person  who  has  reached  the 
age  of  discretion,  and  who  is apparently 
in  the  possession  of his mental faculties, 
applies  to  a  druggist  for a  certain  drug, 
he  represents  to the  dealer by  implica­
tion  at 
least  that  he  knows  its  proper­
ties  and  uses  and  that  he  is  a  fit  person 
to  whom  sale  thereof  may  be  made,  and 
that  unless  there  is  something  connected 
with  the  transaction  or  something  prev­
iously  known  to  the  seller,  indicating 
that  the  would-be  purchaser  can  not 
safely  be 
intrusted  with  the  substance, 
the  sale  of  the  substance  called  for  may 
be  made  without  explaining  its  proper­
ties  or  tbe  manner  in  which 
it  may 
safely  be  used  or  handled,  and  that  un­
der  such  circumstances  tbe  seller  is  not 
liable 
in  damages  for  injuries  to  the 
purchaser  resulting  from  the  improper 
use  or  handling  of  the  article,  no  matter 
how  little  knowledge  the  purchaser  may 
in  fact  have  had  of  its  properties  or of 
the  manner  in  which  it  could  not  be 
safely  used  or handled.  It  appears  clear 
to  us that  the  vendor's  legal duty  to such 
a  purchaser  can  go  no  further than  to 
give  him  the  identical  substance  he 
calls  for.  ____ _ 

____

Catch  Lilies  for Booklets.
Not  bow  cheap,  but  how  good.
Prescriptions  are  our  specialty.
Quality  first,  last  and  always.
We  dispense  what  is  prescribed.
We  have  the  physicians’  confidence.
Don’t  forget  we  put  up  prescriptions.
The  best  is  none  too  good  for the sick.
Our  prescription  facilities are the best.
If  we  haven't  what  you  want  we  will 

get  it.

S E E   O U R 

W ALL  P A P E R S

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

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

The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

DRUNKENNESS AN D ALL DRUG 
ADDICTIONS ABSOLUTELY  CURED.
ENDORSED BY U.5.COVT.  WRITE FOR PARTICULARS.

KEELtV IMSTITUTE , CD. RAPIDS. MICH.

Valentines  for 1902

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

FRBD  BRUNDAGE,  Muskegon, nich. 

Wholesale Drugs and  Stationery

It’s  Like

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

$20  FOUNTAIN
Will do the  business just  as  well.
10,000 In use.  Nqtanks. no
paratus  required.  Makes  finest 
Water for one-half cent a glass.  Send ad­
dress for particulars  and  endorsements.

Grant  Manufacturing Co.,  Inc. 

Pittsburg,  Pa.

LE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Menthol..................  
0   4 80
Morphia, S., P.& W.  2 260 2 50 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.  2  160 2  40
Morphia, Mai.......... 2  15© 2 40
0   40
Moschus Canton.... 
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   660  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15 
0  
10
Os Sepia..................   360  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
©  1 00
D  Co....................  
Plcls Llq. N.N.H gal.
doz.......................  
0 2 0 0
0  1  00
Plcls Llq., quarts__  
0   86
Plcls Llq.,  pints......  
0   50
PH Hydrarg... po. 80 
0   18
Piper  Nigra...po.22 
0   30
Piper  A lba....po.36 
Pltx Burgun............  
0  
7
Plumbl Acet............  
100  12
Pul vis Ipecac et Opii  1  300  l  50 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
0   75
& P. D.Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
260  30
Quasslae..................  
80  10
290  39
Qulnla, S. P. &  W... 
Qulnla, S. German..  290  39
Qulnla.N. Y......... 
290  39
Bubla Tlnctorum__ 
120  14
Saccharum Lactls pv  200  22
Saladn....................  4 500 4 76
Sanguis  Draoonls...  400 
so
Sapo, W................... 
120  14
Sapo M....................   100  12
Sapo G....................  
0   15

Seldlltz Mixture......   200 
22
0   18
Slnapls....................  
0   30
Slnapls,  opt............. 
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................  
0  
41
0  
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
41
Soda, Boras............. 
90 
ll
Soda,  Boras, po......  
ll
90 
Soda et Potass Tart.  230  25
Soda,  Carb..............  1H0 
2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........  
6
30 
Soda, Ash...............   8H0 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
0  
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
0  2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........  BO©  56
0  2 00 
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
0  
Spts. Vlnl Beet.  bbl. 
0  
Spts. Vlnl Beet, ttbbl 
Spts. Vlnl Beet. lOgal 
0  
Spts. Vlnl Beet. 5 gal 
0  
Strychnia, Crystal...  '  800  1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2H0 
4
Sulphur, Boll...........  2H0  3H
Tamarinds.............. 
80 
10
Terebenth  Venice...  280  30
Theobromae.............   600  66
Vanilla....................  9 00016 00
Zinci Sulph.................  
70  8

Oils

Whale, winter.........   7o 
Lard, extra.................  86 
Lard, No. l ................   60 

BBL.  GAL.
70
90
56

2 7

Linseed, pure raw...  66 
Linseed, boiled........  67 
Neatsfoot, winter str  43 
50 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

69
70
70
63
P aints  BBL.  LB.
Bed Venetian.........   Hi  2  08
Ochre, yellow Mars.  Hi  2  04 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  Hi  2  08 
Putty,  commercial..  2H  2H03 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2H  2X03 
Vermilion,  P r i m e
American............  
130  15
Vermilion, English..  700  76
Green,  Parts........... 
140  18
Green, Peninsular... 
180  16
Lead, red.................  3  0   8H
Lead,  white.............  6  0   6»
Whiting, white Span 
0   90
Whiting, gilders’__  
0   96
0   1  26 
White, P u ls, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff....................... 
0   14«
Universal Prepared.  1  100  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  100 l  20
Extra Turp..............  1 600 1 70
Coaoh  Body,...........  2 760 8  00
No. 1 Turp Fum......   1 000  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  l 560  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  700  79

Drugs

W e  are  Importers  and  Jobbers of Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent Medicines.

W e  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

W e  have  a  full line of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

W e  give our personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

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

H azeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

100 

Conlum Mac............ 
650  76
Copaiba.....................1160125
Cubebse....................  1  300  1 36
Exechthltos.............   l  000  l  10
Erlgeron..................   l  000  l  10
Gaultherla..............  2 000 2 10
Geranium, ounce.... 
0   76
Gosslppll, Sem. gal..  500  60
Hedeoma..................  l  660  l 70
Junípera..................   l  600 2 00
Lavendula..............  900 2 00
Limonls...................  l 150  1  25
Mentha Piper.........   2 100 2  20
Mentha Verld.........   l 600 1  70
Morrhuse, )gal......... l  100  l  20
Myrcla....................  4 000 4  50
Ouye.......................  76© 3 00
Picio Liquida........... 
12
0   36
Plcls Liquida,  gal... 
Blclna.....................   l 000  l  06
Rosmarlnl...............  
0  1  00
Bosse, ounce............   6 000 6  50
Succlnl....................  400  46
Sabina................... 
900 l oo
Santal......................  2 760 7  oo
Sassafras.................  660  60
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
0   66
Tiglll.......................  1 600 1 60
Thyme.....................   400  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
0  l  60
Theobromas........... 
150  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
160  18
Bichromate............  
130  15
Bromide.................  520  67
C arb....................... 
120 
16
Chlorate... po. 17019 
160 
18
Cyanide...................  340  38
Iodide.....................   2 300 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  280  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
0   16
Potass Nltras, opt... 
70  10
Potass  Nltras.........  
60 
8
Pros slate.................  230  26
Sulphate po............  
150  18

Radix

100 

Aconitum.................  200  26
AlthSB......................  300  33
Anchusa.................  
12
Arum  po................. 
0   25
Calamus..................   200  40
Gentiana.........po. 16 
120  15
160  18
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
0   75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
0  
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
80 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
120  16
Inula,  po................. 
180 
22
Ipecac, po...............   3 600 3  75
Iris plOX...po. 35038  360  40
Jalapa, p r...............   250  30
Maranta,  Ha........... 
0   35
Podophyllum,  po...  220  25
Bhel.........................  760 l oo
Bhel,  cut................. 
0   1  26
Bhel, pv...................  760  1  35
Splgella...................  350  38
Sanguinaria... po.  15 
0   18
Serpentaria............   500  65
Senega....................  
600  65
0   40
Smllax, officinalis H. 
Smtlax, M................ 
0   26
Scillae..............po. 35 
100  12
Symplocarpus, Fee 11-
dus,  po................. 
0   25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
0   26
Valeriana,  German. 
150  20
Zingiber a ...............  
140  16
Zingiber j.................  250  27
Semen

0   16
Anlsum...........po.  18 
Aplum (graveleons).  130  15
Bird, Is.................... 
40 
6
Carol............... po.  15 
100  11
Cardamon................  x 250  1  75
Coriandrum.............  
80  10
Cannabis Sativa......   4H0  5
Cydonlum................  760  1  00
Cnenopodlum.........  
160  16
Dipterix Odorate....  1  000  1  10
Foenlculum.............. 
to
0  
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
70 
L int.........................  3X0 
6
Lint, grd...... bbl. 4 
3X0 
6
Lobelia....................  1 600  1  66
Pharlarls Canarian..  4H0 
6
B apa.......................  4*4© 
6
Slnapls  Alba........... 
90  10
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
u©  
12
Spiritus 

Frumentl, W. D. Co. 2 000 2 60
Frumenti,  D. F. B..  2 000 2 26
Frumentl................   1 260 1 60
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1 650 2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1 750 3 50
Saacnarum  N. E __   l 900 2  10
Spt. Vini Galll.........   1 750 6 50
Vlnl Oporto.............  1 260 2 00
Vlnl Alba.................  1 260 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 500 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................ 2  500 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
0   l  so
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
0   1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................ 
0   l  00
0   76
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  B e e f,  for
slate use...............  
0   l 40
Syrups
Acacia....................  
Aurantl Cortex........ 
Zingiber..................  
Ipecac...................... 
Ferrl Iod.................  
Bhel Arom.............. 
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega....................  
Sclllse....................... 

0   50
0   50
0   60
0   60
0   60
0   50
500  eo
0   50
«   60

Miscellaneous 

0  
so
Scillae  Co................. 
0   50
Tolutan...................  
Prunus  vlrg............  
0   50
Tinctures
60
Aconitum Napellis B 
so
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes....................... 
60
60
Aloes and Myrrh.... 
60
Arnica....................  
so
A8safoetlda.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
60
Aurantl Cortex.......  
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
so
so
Barosma................... 
75
Cantharides............  
Capsicum................  
50
Cardamon...............  
75
76
Cardamon Co........... 
1 00
Castor.....................  
Catedral................... 
Bo
Cinchona................. 
60
Cinchona Co............  
60
so
Columba.................  
Cubebae....................  
60
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
So
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
60
Digitalis................... 
60
Ergot...................... 
Bo
36
Ferrl  Chlorldum.... 
Bo
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
60
So
Gulaca.....................  
Gulaca ammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus............  
60
Iodine  ....................  
75
75
Iodine, colorless......  
Bo
K ino.......................  
Lobelia.................... 
60
So
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............  
Bo
76
Opii......................... 
Opil, comphorated.. 
60
Opii, deodorized...... 
t 60
Bo
Quassia................... 
B¿
Bhatany................... 
Bhel......................... 
So
B¿
Sanguinaria...........  
Serpentaria............  
s¿
Stramonium............  
60
Tolutan................... 
60
Valerian.................  
6¿
Bo
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber................... 
2o
Jfther, Spts. Nit.? F  300  35
A£ther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  340  38
Alumen...................  2X0 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
30 
Annatto...................   400 
so
40 
Antlmonl, po........... 
5
Antimoni et Potass T  400  SO
0   25
Antipyrln................ 
Antlfebrin.............. 
0  
20
0   50
Argenti Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
100  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
450  50
Bismuth S. N...........  1 660  1 70
9
0  
Calcium Chlor.,  ls... 
0   10
Calcium Chlor., Hs.. 
0  
Calcium Chlor., Hs.. 
12 
0   80
Cantharides, Bus.po 
0  
Capslcl Fructus.af.. 
i5 
Capslcl  Fractus, po. 
0   16
0   15
Capslcl FroctusB.po 
Caryqphyllus. .po. 16  120  14
Carmine, No. 40......  
0  3 00
Cera Alba..............  
500  55
Cera Flava..............  400  42
Coccus.................... 
0   40
Cassia Froctus........ 
0   35
Centrarla.................  
0  
10
Cetaceum................. 
0   45
Chloroform............   550  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
0   1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  350  1  60
Chondros................   200  25
Clnchonldlne.P. & W  380  48
Clnchonldlne, Germ.  380  48
Cocaine...................  4 800 5 00
75
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............  
0   45
Creta.............bbl. 75 
0   2
Creta, prep.............. 
0  
5
Creta, preelp........... 
ll
90 
Creta, Bubra........... 
0  
S
Crocus....................   260  30
Cudbear..................  
0   24
Cuprl Sulph............   6H0 
8
Dextrine.................  
70  10
Ether Sulph............   780  92
0  
Emery, all numbers. 
8
6
Emery, po................ 
0  
E rgota...........po. 90 
850  90
Flake  White........... 
120  15
Galla.......................  
0   23
Gambler.................  
80 
9
0   60
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......   350  60
76  &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......  
70
Glue, brown............  
110  13
Glue,  white............  
150  25
Glycerlna.................  17H0  25
Grana Paradlsl........ 
0   25
Humulus.................   260  56
0  1 00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
0   90
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m. 
0   1  10 
0  1  20 
Hydrarg Ammoniatl 
HydrargU nguentum  500  60
Hydrargyrum.........  
0   85
IchthyoDolla, Am...  660  70
Indigo......................  760  l 00
Iodine,  Besubi........  3 400 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 600 3 86
Lupulin.................... 
0   SO
Lycopodium.............  660  70
Macis......................  650  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod.............. 
0   26
LlquorPotassArslnlt  100  12
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
20 
3
Magnesia. Sulph, bbl 
ltf 
0  
Mannla. H.  F ........  HO  60

8
76
17
3145
6
10
14
16
63
5
20
40
6
8
15
14

! 26
00
60
I 00

24
8
75

66
! 00
65
60

18
12
18
30
20
18
12
12
20
26
30
12
14
16
17
15
26
75
40
15
2
80
7

18
26
35

38
26
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
65
14
12
30
60
40
55
13
14
16
6»
40
00
80
35
76
60
40
36
45
45
00

25
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
20
20

20
6626
66
20
75
86
80
86
76
26
40

2 8

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hoars  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 parchase.

ADVANCED

Sugar
Mason  F ru it  Ja rs

DECLINED
Corn  Syrup
S auerkraut

CATSUP

Columbia,  pints.................. 2 00
Columbia, *  pints.,............ l 25
CHEESE
@12
Acme........................ 
Amboy....................  
a l l
Elsie......................... 
@14
E m b lem ....;........  @12*
Gem....................  
  @13
@12
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal......................
@12*
Jersey...................... 
Riverside................. 
@12*
Brick.......................  
14@15
Edam..............  
 
  @90
Leiden....................  
@17
Llmburger................ 
13@14
Pineapple................ 
50@75
Sap  Sago................  
  19@20
CHEW ING GUM 
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin......... 
Black Jack................... 
Largest Gum  Made.......... 
Sen Sen..................... 
 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume., 
Sugar Loaf............. 
 
Yucatan........................  
CHICORY
Bulk............... 
  5
 
 
Red........................................7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   6*
Schener’s .............................  6

60
66
l 00
55
56

60
65

56

 

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German Sweet....................   23
Premium..............................  31
Breakfast Cocoa...................  46
Vienna Sweet...............  21
Vanilla.................................  28
Premium..............................  31
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz...........l 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz...........l 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz...........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz..............  96
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, * s  ........................  35
Colonial, Ms.........................  33
Epps...................  
42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Ms..................   12
Van Houten, Ms..................   20
Van Houten, Ms..................   40
Van Houten,  is .................     70
Webb...............  
30
Wilbur, Ms...........................  41
Wilbur. Ms..........................   42
Dunham’s Ms....................  26
Dunham’s Ms and Ms......   26M
Dunham’s  Ms...................  77
Dunham’s  Ms...................  28
Bulk........... .......................  13
201b. bags.......................... 
Less quantity...................  
Pound packages................ 

COCOA SHELLS

COCOANUT

 

 

 

COFFEE 
Roasted

I f f ©HIGH GRADE
Coffees

F.  M. C. brands

Special Combination........... 15
French Breakfast................ 17 H
Lenox, Mocha & Java......... 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27
Mandehllng........................ 30M
Purity................................. 28
No l  Hotel..........................28
Monogram................  ........26
Special Hotel...................... 23
Parkerhouse.... — .............21
Honolulu  ......’..................l«M
Fancy  Maracaibo......  
Lie -
Maracaibo................. ......13
Porto Rican................ ......14
Marexo................................. 11
No.  9................ 
No. 10.................. 
No. 12.................................... 12
No. 14.................................... 14
No. 16............ , .................... 16
No. 18.................................. 18
NO  20....................................20
No. 22....................................22
No. 24............ 
24
No. 26....................................26
No. 28....................................28
Belle Isle.........................   20
Red  Cross............................ 24
Colonial.................... ¿a....26
Juno......................................28
Koran....................................14

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

 

 

 

8M
9M

Rio

 

Santos

Common............................. 10M
F a ir......................................ll
Choice.............................. ...13
Fancy............. 
...15
Common............................... ll
F a ir............... 
14
Choice...................................15
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry............................... is
F air......................................12
Choice.,................................16
Choice...................................16
Fancy....................................17

M aracaibo

Mexican

 

2M
3
4

G uatem ala

Ja v a

Choice................................. 16
African................................ I2M
Fancy African.....................17
O  G...................................... 25
P.G .............................. 
 

Mocha

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

Package 

Hew York Basts.

ArbUokle............................ 10m
Dllworth.............................10M
Jersey.................................M*
Lion....................................1°
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 M  gross.............  75
Felix M gross......................115
Hummers foil M g r o s s . . . 85 
Hummel’s tin *  gross........ 1 48

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

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

CRACKERS

Soda

Oyster

B u tter

National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Seymour............................  6M
Hew York.........................  
6M
Family.............................. 
6M
Salted................................  6M
Wolverine.........................  6M
Soda  XXX.......................   6X
Soda, City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette..........................   13
F a u st...............................   7M
Farina............................... 
6*
Extra Farina....................  
6*
Saltlne Oyster...................  6M
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals........................  
 
 
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water......................  16
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced...... . 
10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Cracknells...... ....................   16
Creams, Iced.................... 
8
Cream Crisp......................  10M
Cubans..............................  UM
Currant Fruit.....................  12
Frosted Honey...................   12
Frosted Cream.................  
9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sin'll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C—  
6M
Gladiator...........................  10M
Grandma Cakes................  9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers..................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................   12
Lemon Wafers...................  16
Marshmallow......................  16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................   11M
Milk Biscuit...................... 
7M
Molasses  Cake.................   8
Molasses Bar.................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................   12M
Newton...............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............  8
Oatmeal W afers...........  12
Orange Crisp......... 
9
9
Orange Gem...................... 
Penny Cake......................  8
Pilot Bread, X X X ........... 
7M
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8*
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8M
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch....................  
7M
Sugar Cake................  8
SUwar Ore*wi. XXX......... 
*
Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas..............................  13
T uttlF ratti.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers— .............  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. J. KruceA Co.’s baked goods 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......80
Bulk In sacks...........................29

D R IE D   FRUITS 

Apples

California Prunes

Sundried.........................  @6H
Evaporated, 501b. boxes.  @ 10 
100-120 25 lb. boxes ........  @ 3M
90-100 25 lb. boxes......  @ 4M
80-90 26lb. boxes......  @ 5M
70-80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5M
60-7025lb.boxes........  @ 6*
60-60 25 lb. boxes........  @ 7*
40-50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 8*
30-40 25 lb. boxes........ 
8M

M oen| less in 60 lb. oases

5

California F ru its

 

9M

ll@

8M
@9M

Apricots..................... 
¡lackbi«tries.
Nectarines.
Peaches...........
Pitted Cherries*.
29
Prannelies.................
Raspberries...............
Citron
Leghorn...................................ll
Corsican............... 
12*4
C urrants
California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......  8
Imported, bulk....................  7M
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..l3 
Orange American 10lb.bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1 65 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
8M
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.....  »&®\0 
L. M.. Seeded, K  lb....  ^ 8
Sultanas, b u lk ....................11
SultanaS, package...............lift
FARINACEOUS GOODS 

Raisins

Peel

Beans

6
1  70

F arin a

H om iny

Dried Lima.......................... 
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.........................2 25
241 lb. packages.......................l 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs........................2 25
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............   90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl...................... 5 00
Pearl, 100lb. sack....................2 50
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 25 lb. box................. 2 50
Common.................................. 3 00
Chester......................................8 25
Empire..........8 65
G rits

P earl  B arley

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

10

Rolled  Oats

2 30
Cases, 24 2 lb.
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........l 65
Green, Scotch, bu..................... l 76
Split,  lb ...............................  4
Rolled Avena, bbl.....................6 30
Steel Cut, 100 lb.  sacks....... 2 75
Monarch, bbl............................6 00
Monarch, *  bbl........................2 75
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 45
Quaker, cases.............  
3 20
East India.........................     3*
German, sacks.....................  3
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks...............4*
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   614
Cracked, bulk......................   814
24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W h e a t

Sago

FOOTE A JEN K S’

JAXO N

Vanilla 

1 oz full m . 1  20  1 oz full  m.  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m. 1  25 
N n .afan ’y  s  is  No. afan ’y  1  76

Lemon

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel..1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper..2(00  4 oz taper.'.!  so

D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz.............. 75  2 oz..........  1  24
3 o z ............  1 00  3 OZ.............  1  60
6 OZ..........  2 00  4 OZ.........   2  00
No. 4T 
.  1 52  No. 3T ...  2  08
O ur TropicaL

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  75
4 oz. full measure, Lemon... 1 60 
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.............  85
Tanglefoot, permease.... ....8 20

FLY PA PE R

Standard.

Index to  Markets

B y Columns

A

GoL
Akron  Stoneware........  ......   15
Alabas tin e............................  
l
Ammonia....................................  1
Axle Grease...........................  1

0

i
Baking Powder......... ....... 
Bath B ric k .....!..............  
l
1
Bluing........................... 
 
Brooms..................................   1
Brashes................................. 
l
Butter Color..........................   1
Candles.........................- .......M
Candles..................................   J
Canned Goods.......................  2
  2
Catsup.......................... 
 
Carbon O ils..................... -y  3
  3
C heese........................... 
Chewing Gum.................. 
  3
Chicory............. 
 
3
Chocolate—   ...........................3
Clothes Lines.........................  B
Cocoa....................................    3
Cocoanut..............................   8
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   15
 
Crackers..................  
4
Cream Tartar .................. 
  4
Dried  Fruits.........................  4

 

 

Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters...................  13
Flavoring Extracts...............   5
Fly  Paper............... 
»
Fresh Heats............ 
6
Fruits....................................  14
Grains and Flour .................   6

 

Herbs....................................  *
Hides and Pelts....................   13

D
F

a
H

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

M

N
o

J
E
I.

Indigo..................... 
8
Je lly ......................................  6
K raut........................  
6
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................. 
J5
Lantern  Globes....................   15
Licorice.................................  f
Lye.........................................  6
Meat Extracts.......................  6
Molasses................................  6
Mustard.................................  8
Huts...........................  
14
Oil Cans...................- ..........  15
Olives....................................  6
Pickles..................................   I
Pipes.....................................   J
Potash...................................   I
Provisions............................   ~
Bice.......................................  7
Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda........... . ...................   8
Salt.........................................  8
Salt  Fish...............................  
|
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   10
Soap.......................................  o
Soda......................................   9
Spices..............~...................   9
Starch................:..................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  10
Syrups...................................  10
Table Sauce..........................   12
Tea.....................................  H
Tobacco...............................   ll
Twine...................... ........ .  12
Vinegar..................................   12
Washing Powder...................
Wlcklng.................................  A)
Woodenwar*.......................   Is
Wrapping Paper............ . 
I

V
W

R
8

T

Yeast  Cake...... ....................l

Y

AXLE GREASE
Aurora............. 
....56 
Castor  OU....................60 
Diamond.................... 50 
Frazer’s ...................... 76 
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross

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

BAKING POW DER 

9 00
6 00

M lb. cans,  4 doz. case......3 75
*  lb. cans,  2 doz. case......3 75
l lb. cans, 
l doz. case......3 75
5 lb. cans, *  doz. case........ 8 00

Egg

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

Royal

10c size__  90
M lb. cans  1 35 
6 oz. cans.  1 90 
%  lb. cans 2 60 
X lb. cans 3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
ril'flUs,  31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. Cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
English..............................   80
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 oo

BLUING

BROOMS

Small size, per doz.............   40
Lance size, per doz..............  76
Ho. 1 Carpet.......................... 2 65
Ho. 2 Carpet.........................2  25
Ho. 3 Carpet..........................2 15
Ho. 4 Carpet.......................... l 76
Parlor  Gem.......................... 2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy W hisk.....'.................1 10
Warehouse............................8 SO

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dustless

Fiber...........................l  00@3 00
Busslan Bristle...........3 oo<&5 oo

Discount, 33* %  in doz. lots.

Shoe

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................   95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
HO. 8......................................1 00
NO. 7 .....................................1 30
NO. 4...................................... 1 70
No. 8...................................... 1 90
No. 8........  
75
 
No. 2......................................1 10
Ho. 1.................  
1 75
W., R. & Co.’S, 15c Size__   125
W., R. & Co.’8, 25c size__   2 00

BUTTER  COLOR

Stove

 

 

CANDLES

Wtokbix 

................
CANNED  GOODS 

... 
Apples
31b. Standards........
Gallons, standards..

B lackberries

85

1 55
96

Beans

6 oo
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

Mushrooms

Clam  B ouillon

80
Standards...... .
Baked.................... .  l  oo@i  so
75®  85
Bed Kidney............. 
String......................  
70
Wax.........................  
70
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
90
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb...... 
l  00
Little Heck. 2 lb......  
l  50
Burnham’s, *  pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7  20
Cherries
Bed  Standards..........
White— ....................
Corn
80
Fair..........................
86
Good.......................
1  00
Fancy......................
French  Peas
22
Sur Extra Fine...........
19
Extra  Fine.................
15
Fin©.............................
Moyen......................... .......... 11
Gooseberries
90
Standard................
Hom iny
85
Standard..................
Lobster
2  15
Star, m b .................
3 60
Star, l  lb.................
2 40
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
1 75
2 80
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, lib ..............
1 75
2 80
Soused, 2 lb............
1 75
Tomato, lib ...........
2 80
Tomato, 21b............
18@20
Hotels.......................
22@25
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove, 21b.................
Cove, 1 lb Oval........
Peaches
P ie...........................
1  65@1  85
Yellow....................
Pears
Standard..............1.
1  00
1  25
Fancy.......................
1  00
Marrowfat..............
1  00
Early June..............
1  60
Early June  Sifted..
Plum s
Plums......................
85
Pineapple
1  25@2 75
Grated  ..  ..............
Sliced..................... 1  35@2 56
P um pkin
95
F a ir.........................
Good.......................
1  00
Fancy......................
1  10
Raspberries
Standard..................
1  15
Russian  Cavier
....  375
14 lb. cans...................
* lb,cans................... ....  7 00
1 lb. can....................
....  12 00
Salmon
@1  85
Columbia Blver, tails
@2 00
Columbia River, flats
Red Alaska.............
1 30@1  40
Pink Alaska............
1  00@1  15
Shrim ps
Standard.................
1 50
Sardines
Domestic, 148...........
3*
Domestic, i t s .........
6
Domestic,  Mustard.
6
California, 14s.........
California *~s..........
French, Ms..............
French, Vis............
Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair..........................
Good........................
Fancy.............
Tomatoes
F air.........................
Good........................
Fancy......................
Gallons....................
B arrels
.12* Eocene......................
@11
.10* Perfection.................
@10
.11A Diamond White........
@ 9
.29 _ D. S. Gasoline...........
@1214
Deodorized Naphtha.
@10*
Cylinder.................... .29 @34
.19 @22
9 @10*

1  10 Engine....................
8 25 Black,winter............

1  25
95
1 00
1  20
1  25
1  30
1  36
3  31

CARBON  OILS

11@14
17@24
7@14
18@28

Straw berries

Peas

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

29

8

Im ported.

Japan,  No.  l .................5V4@
Japan, No. 2.................6
Java, fancy head...........
Java, No. 1....................
Table................................

9

SHOE  BLACKING

Handy Box, large............   2 60
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Blxby’s Royal PoUsh........ 
86
Miner’s Crown  Polish___  
85
B. T. Babbit brand—

Babbit’s Best..................  4  00

80 A P

Beaver Soap Co. brands

IQ
SNUFF

SYRUPS

Corn

Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy,In ja rs ...........  36
French Rappee, In jars......   43

Barrels.................................25
Half bbls.............................27
10lb. cans, Vt doz. In case..  1  80
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. In case__ 2  00
2V4 lb. cans, 2 doz. in case...2  00 
F a ir.....................................   16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................. 
26
STARCH

P u re Cane

 

 

II

No. 10.................................  4  10
No. 11.................................  4 06
NO. 12........................... 
  4  00
No. 13................1..............  3 96
No. 14..................... 
8 95
No. 16................................   3  96
..........................................  0 V

 

TEA
Japan

Sundrled, medium..............28
Sundried, choice........... ....30
Sundrled, fancy............ ,....40
Regular, medium.......... .....28
Regular, choice............ ....30
Regular, fancy..............
......40
Basket-fired, medium...
......28
Basket-fired, choice......
....36
Basket-fired, fancy.......
....40
Nibs............................... ....27
Siftings.......................... 19@21
Fannings....................... 20@22
Moyune, medium......... ......26
Moyune, choice............ ......35
Moyune. fancy.............. ....60
Plngsuey,  medium........ ....26
Pingsuey, choioe......... .......30
Plngsuey, fancy............ ....40
Young Hyson
Choice...........................
....30
Fancy............................ ....38

Gunpowder

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............   7
20 l-lb. packages............... 

7 V4

6

Beef

6  @6

FRESH  MEATS 
Carcass.......................  5 
Forequarters.......... 
Hindquarters.........   6y,<& 9H
Loins..........................  9 
Ribs...........................  8 
Rounds.......................  6 
5 
ChUCKS....................... 
Plates......... . 
3Vi@ *
Dressed................... 
@7
Loins....................... 
@  9V4
Boston Butts........... 
8*4@  8Vi
Shoulders................ 
@8
Leaf Lard................ 
@io
M utton
Carcass....................  bm@  7
Lambs..................... 
7 
Carcass......................   6 

P o rk

Veal

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

 

W heat

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

W inter W heat  F lour 

83

Local Brands

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Oo.’s Brand

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents........................ .  4 80
Second Patent.............. .  4  10
Straight.................. ..........  3 90
Second Straight................  3 60
Clear.................................  3 80
Graham............................  3 80
Buckwheat.......................   4 30
Bye....................................  3 20
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barahart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Vis.....................   3 86
Diamond 14s.....................   3 85
Diamond vi*.................. .  3 85
Quaker Vis........................  4  10
Quaker 148.......................   4  10
Quaker Vis.......................   4 10
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4 50
Plllsbury’s  Best 14s.........   4 40
PUlsbury’s  Best 14s.........   4 30
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 30 
Plllsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4 30 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’8 Brand
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4 60
Duluth  Imperial 14s.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4  30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Win gold  Vis.................... 
4 50
Wlngold  14s....................  
4 40
Wlngold  vis....................   4 30
Ceresota Vis......................  4  60
Ceresota Vis......................  4  40
Ceresota Vis......................  4  so
Laurel  Vis.........................  4 40
Laurel  Via.........................  4 30
Laurel  Via.............. ..........  4  20
Laurel Vis and 14s paper..  4 20 
Bolted...............................  2  60
Granulated......................   2  80
St. Car Feed, screened__   23 60
No. 1 Com and  Oats........  23 00
Unbolted Com  Meal........22 00
Winter Wheat Bran......... 20 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.  21  00
Screenings........... .............19  00
Car  lots.............................  47
Car lots, clipped...............   60
Less than car lots.............
Corn, oar  lots...................  58
No. 1 Timothy oar lots....  10 80 
No. l Timothy ton lots....  12 00 
Sage......................2................ 16
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves.........................16
Henna Leave«..........................26
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................66
S. F„ 2,8 and 5 lb. boxes........50
J E I X f
6 lb. palls.per doz.T. ......  1  76
16 lb. palls............. 
  38
80 lb£ palls............................  67
KRAUT
Barrel................. . 
4 76
Vi Barrel................... 
3 26
LICORICE
P u re ..................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily....4. . ..................  14
Root......................  
10
LTK
Condensed, 2 doz................ l 20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 26
Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 46
Liebig’s, 2  o z .................  2 76

Feed and MlUstuflfe

MEAT  EXTRACTS

Corn
Hay

INDIGO

HERBS

Meal

Oats

 

 

 

 

 

MOLASSES 
New Orleans
 

Fancy Open Kettle...........  ,  40
Choioe.................. 
36
 
F air.................. 
 
26
Good.................................  
22

 
Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doe............l 76
Horse Radish, 2 doz............8 60
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz..........1  76
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............  1 35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1 20
Bulk, 5gaL kegs.,.........  1 16
Manzanllla, 7 oz.............  
80
Queen, pints......................  2 36
Queen, 19  oz.....................  4 60
Queen, 28  oz............. . 
7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz......... . 
90
Stuffed, 8  oz...... it.'..........  1 46
Staffed, to oz..........> *..  8 80

' OLIVES

 

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............. 7 76
Half bbls, 600 count.............4 38

Barrels, 2,400 count.............8 76
Half bbls, 1,200 count.......... 6 00

@ 8V4

S14
@12
@  8
@6

Small

PIPES

Clay, No. 216..........................1 70
Clay, T. D., full count.......  66
Cob, No. 3............................  86

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled P ork

@ 8V4
@8

@16 76
@18  26
@18  60
@17  25
20 00
@15 75
  @17  60

Mess......................... 
B a ck ....;................ 
Clear back...............  
Short out................. 
P ig...................  
Bean....................... 
Family Mess............
Clear.................. 
D ry Salt Meats
Bellies......... ................... 
S P  Bellies...............  
Extra shorts............  

10
9Vi

 

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 12 lb. average.  @ uvi 
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @  livi 
Hams, 16 lb. average.  @  uvi 
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @  11 »4
Ham dried beef......   @  i2Vi
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @  8V£
Bacon, clear.............  iovi@  UVi
California hams......   734@  8
Boiled Hams..........  16  @  l6Vi
Picnic Boiled Hams 
@   12 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d.
9@  9 Vi 
Mince Hams.........
9@  9 Vi
Lard
Compound...............
Pure........ ................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
60 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advanoe 
5 lb. Palls.. advance 
« lb. Pall«  «<*"•*>»» 
Cottolene

7%
10
Vi
ViVi
K
X
1

Large tins, 6 in case....
...  6 00
Medium tins, 15 in case ...  6 00
Small tins, 30 in case...
...  6 00

Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver .......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet

Vi bbls., 40 lbs.........
1 bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
Vi bbls., 40 lbs.........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
B utte rine
Solid, dairy..............
Rolls, dairy..............
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Vis......  
Potted ham,  Vi>..... 
Deviled ham, Vis.... 
Deviled ham, Vis.... 
Potted tongue,  Vis.. 
Potted tongue,  Vis.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats

6
6
7V4@8
8V4
6
6

10 00
10 75
10 60

1  66
7  60

70
1  26
2  40

23
6
12
66

@14
@HH
17
18H
2 60
17 60
2 60
60
90
60
90
60
90

Carolina head........................evi
Carolina No. l ...................... 6
Carolina No. i  .i................... 6Vi
Broken..................................  ’

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 2Vi pound pockets....7Vi

M r

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

so cakes, large size..............3 26
100 cakes, large size..............6 50
60 cakes, small size............. 1 96
100 cakes, small size.............3 85
BeU & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny...............4 00
King Cole  ......................   4 00
Queen Anne...................... 3 60
Big Bargain......... .  —   1  90
Umpire............................  2 36
German Family..............   2 66
Dlngman Soap Co. brand—
Dlngman.........................   3 86
N. K. Falrbank Co. brands— 
The N. K. Falrbank Co. issues 
a price list  giving  the  price  at 
which their soap Is  delivered in 
6-box lots and upwards at all the 
railroad stations in the Western 
States.  Orders  for  delivery 
quantities  are  shipped  from 
the  factory  direct  to  the  pur­
chaser, and the price  delivered 
Is  some  less 
than  the  price 
would be after freight was  paid 
on shipments  from  stock.  De­
livery  prices  quoted  on  appli­
cation.
Fairy,  oval............ . 
...  4 00
Fairy,  laundry...............   6 50
Santa  Claus................   .  3 55
T ar..................................3 85
Brown..............................  2 40
Naptha............................  4 00
Oak Leaf.........................  3 50
Oak Leaf, big5...............  4  is
J A X O N
Single box............................. 3 36
6 box lots, deUvered............3 30
10 box lots, deUvered............3 26
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3 66
Calumet Family.............   2  76
Scotch Family...............   2  86
Cuba......................... 
2  36
Dusky Diamond..............  3 55
Jap Rose.........................  3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3  56
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars................3  65
Satinet, oval....................  2  50
White  Cloud.....................4  10
Big Acme.......................  4 26
Acme 5c.........................   3 65
Marseilles.../...................4 00
Master.............................. 3 70
Lenox.............................   3  36
Ivory, 6oz.................. 
  4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Schultz A Co. brand-
sta r...................................3 40
Search-Light Soap Co. brand. 
Search-Light, 100 twin bars  3 65 
Sercomb Mfg. Co. brands—
Magnetic.......................... 4 25
Puritan...........................  2 50
Centennial........................3 45
H arvest......................    2 55
Trumpet..........................  2  70
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...................................  6V4
Kegs, EngUsh......................  4Vi

Jas. 8. Kirk & Co. brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar............. 
Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  76-80....................  
Nutmegs,  106-10................... 
Nutmegs, 115-20................. 
Pepper, Slngapure, 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................. 
gag*............................  
 

12
12
28
38
66
17
14

36
18
28
20

16
18
 
18
17
25

gv
Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale................................... 6V4

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  16
Deland’s...............................3 00
Dwight’s Cow......................3  16
Emblem...............................2  10
Wyandotte, too Ms..............8 00
Granulated, bbls................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__1  00
Lump, bbls.........................   80
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   86

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags......................3 00
60  61b. bags......................3 00
22 14 lb. bags......................2 76
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 76 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bunt.2 76 
Butter, barrels,20141b.bags.2 86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks.......................2 26
60 61b. sacks...................... 2  16
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 06
661b. sacks........................ 
40
281b. sacks........................ 
22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   20
661b. dairy In Unen sacks...  60 
661b. dairy In Unen sacks...  60 
66 lb. sacks...........................  26
Granulated  Fine.................  85
Medium Fine..;...................  90

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

 

H alibut.

..............  
T rout

Georges cured............   @6
Georges 'genuine........  @ 6Vi
Georges selected........  @7
Grand Bank................  @  6
Strips or  bricks......... 6Vi@iovi
Pollock.................... .  @ s Vi
Strips..,. 
14
Chunks./..........................  16 V4
No. 1100 lbs......................   6 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 60
NO. 1  10 lbs......................  
70
69
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs.............. 
  11  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4 70
Mess  10 lbs......................  
l  26
Mess  8 lbs......................   1 03
No. 1 100 lbs......................   9 60
NO. 1  40 lbs......................   4  10
No. 1  10 lbs......................   1 10
No. l  8 lbs......................  
91
No. 2 100 lbs......................   8 00
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   3 60
NO. 2  10 lbs......................  
96
Vo. t   «P'* 
T9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 26 
Holland white hoopsvibbl.  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
67 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................   3 36
Round 40 lbs......................  166
Scaled..............................  
  14
Bloaters............................. 
l  60
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 60
1 70
60
43

100 lbs...........8 00 
40 lbs...........8 60 
10 lbs...........  96 
8 lbs...........  79 
SEEDS

W hite fish

H erring

Anise................................    9
Canary, Smyrna..............     3Vi
Caraway............................... 7V4
Cardamon, Malabar............1 00
Celery................................... 10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy..................................  6
Rape............... 
4
Cuttle Bone....................   ...14

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

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

K ingsford’s SUver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages..............  7V4
6 lb. packages................ 
8
Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  6Ví
3-lb. packages...................  5V4
6-lb. packages................... 
6V4
40 and 60-lb. boxes............   0%
Barrels........ ....................   SVi

Common Corn

f>yi
20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
40 l-lb.  packages..............  &V4
STOVE POLISH

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross. 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross.

66
60
40

Domino.......................... ..  7 00
....5 40
Cut Loaf.......................
..  5 40
Crushed .......................
Cubes............................. ..  5  16
Powdered...................... ..  5 00
Coarse  Powdered......... ..  5 00
XXXX Powdered.......... ..  5 05
Fine Granulated............ ..  4  80
..  5 00
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran...
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran__ ..  4 95
16
Mould A ......................... ..  5 26
28
Diamond  A.................... ..  4 90
48
Confectioner’s A........... ..  4 70
17
No.  l, Columbia A........ ..  4 60
No.  2, Windsor A......... ..  4 65
No.  3, Ridgewood A__ ..  4  66
No.  4, Phoenix  A......... ..  4 50
68
No.  6, Empire A........... ..  4 46
No.  6.............................. ..  4 40
NO.  7.............................. ..  4  30
No.  8.............................. ..  4 20
NO.  9.............................. ..  4 15

20
  20

26

Oolong

Formosa, fancy................... 42
Amoy, medium.................... 26
Amoy, choice...... ................32

English B reakfast

Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 84
Fancy........................... .....42

Ceylon, choice.............. ....82
Fancy...................................42

India

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. 6  P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller.................  35  00
Our Manager....................  86 00
Quintette......................     86 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co,’* brand.

Fine  Cut

8. 0. W..............................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb..... 
26
Uncle Daniel.......................54
Ojlbwa.................................84
Forest  Giant........................34
Sweet Spray..,................ ...38
Cadillac...............................67
Sweet  Loma....................... .38
Golden Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha....,.....................67
Telegram..............................26
Pay Car................................32
Rose............ •...........BO
Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley...................... .40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger....................................39
Flat Iron......................   ....3 3
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold............................39
Elmo......................  
33
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge.................................... 88
Red Cross............................ .82

P lug

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

80

12

P llo .......................... 
88
K ilo......................................88
Hiawatha..............................41
Battle A xe...........................37
American Eagle...................54
Standard Navy.....................87
Spear Head, 18 oz................ 42
Spear Head,  8 oz................44
Nobby Twist........................«8
JoUyTar..............................88
Old Honesty......................... 44
Toddy....................................84
j  
•••••••••• ••••••38
piper Heldslck.....................63
Bootjack..............................81
Jtfly Cake.............................86
Plumb Bob.......................... 82
Honey Dip Twist................. 89

Sm oking

Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core.....................  
 
F la tc a r............................... 85
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz;.....................29
Bamboo, 16 oz...............  .,..27
I X L,  61b...........................27
I X  L, 16 oz. pails..................81
Honey Dew..........................37
Gold Block...........................87
Flagman..............................41
Chips.................................... 84
Klin Dried...........................22
Duke's Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, i% oz................ 40
Turn Yum, l lb. palls...........88
Cream..............................  
Com Cake, 2X oz................. 24
Com Cake, lib .....................22
Plow Boy, IX oz...................40
Plow Boy, 8X oz...................89
Peerless, 3X oz.....................84
Peerless, IX oz.................... 86
Indicator, 2M oz...................28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls........... 81
CoL Choloe, 2X oz................21
CoL Choice. 8 oz...................21

TAHT.1C  SAU CES

87

A  LEA &
J l  PERRINS’
A   SAUCE
The Original and
gjjBa 
Genuine
Egag 
W orcestershire.
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  8 76
Lea ft Perrin’s, small.......  2 60
Halford, large....................   8 76
Halford, small....................  2 25
Salad Dressing, lu g e ......   4 56
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76

TW INE

Cotton,sply........................ is
Cotton, 4 ply........................ 16
Jute, 2ply............................12
Hemp, 6 ply.........................12
F lu , medium......................20
Worn, l lb. balls...................  7X

VINEGAR

White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Melt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.. .11
Pure Cider, Bed 8tar...........12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... 12
Pure CMer, Silver................12

W ASHING POW DER

Gold Dust, regular............. 4 60
Gold Dust, 5C........................4 00
Klrkollne,  2441b...............3
Magnetic, 24 4  lb.................  3 60
Magnetic, 48 2 lb................ 8 80
Pearline...............................8 75

9tuk46i/Hcie

Bub-No-More...................... 3 60
Soourine.............................. 8 60

W ICKING

No. 0, per gross.................... 20
No. i, per gross.....................25
No. 2, per gross.................... 85
No. 8. per gross.................... 55

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels................................  86
Bushels, wide band............. 1  15
M u k e t..............................   80
Splint, lu g e .........................6 00
Splint, medium................... 5 oo
Splint, small........................4 00
Willow Clothes, large..........5 60
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 00
Willow Clothes, small......... 4 76

B u tter P lates

No. 1 Oval, 280 In crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 280 In crate........  60
No. 8 Oval, 260 In crate........  66
No. 6 Oval. 260 In orate........  66
Humpty Damply.....................2 25
No. 1, oomplete........ ..........  80
No. 2, oomplete...................  26

Egg Crates

Clothes P ins

Round head, 6 gross box....  46
Round head, oartons...........  62

Mop Sticks

Trojan spring.......  .............  90
Eclipse patent spring........ .  86
No l oommon.......................  78
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
1» ft. cotton mop heads.......l 26
ldaM N o.7...........................  90

13
P ails

2-hoop Standard................... l 40
8-hoop Standard...................l 60
2- wlre,  Cable........................l  60
3- wire,  Cable........................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound.l 26
Puter,  Eureka.....................2 25
Fibre....................................2 40

Toothpicks

Hardwood............................2 60
Softwood............................. 2 75
Banquet................................1 >0
Ideal.....................................1  60

Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No. l .......6 oo
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.......5 00
16-lnoh, Standard, No. 8.......4 00
20-lneh, Cable,  No. 1.................6 60
18-inoh, Cable,  No. 2.................6 00
16-lnoh, Cable,  No. 3.................5 00
No. l Fibre............................... 9 46
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 8 Fibre............................... 7 20

86

W ash  Boards

Bronze Globe............................ 2 60
Dewey......................................i 76
Double Acme............................2 76
Single Aome....................   2  26
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless.........................2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 60
Double Duplex......................... 8 00
Good Luck................................2 75
Universal.................................. 2 26

W ood Bowls 

11 in. Butter.........................  76
18 In. Butter.............................. l 00
16 In. Butter.............................. 1 76
17 In. Butter..............................2 60
19 In. Butter..............................8 00
Assorted 13-15-17.......................1 76
Assorted 15-17-19..........  ....2 60

YEAST  CAKE

W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
IK
Fiber Manila, white..........  3X
Fiber Manila, colored......   4X
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2X
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   16
S O, 8 dOZ..............................1 00
gnt, 3doz.......................... 1 00
Sunlight, IX  doz.................   60
Yeast Cream, 8 doz...................l  00
Yeast Foam, 8  doz................... 1 00
Yeast Foam, IX  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish.............  
  90  10
Trout.................................  80 8
Black Bass....................... lOO h
Halibut.......................  O
Ciscoes or Herring—   O
Blueflsh......................  O
Live Lobster..............  O
Boiled Lobster...........  ©
Cod..............................  ©
Haddock....................   O
No. 1 Pickerel.............  O
Pike............................  ©
Perch..........................  ©
Smoked White...........  O
Red Snapper..............   O
Col River  Salmon...... 13©
Mackerel....................   O

FRESH  FISH

40
33
27
1 75 
1  60 
1 40 
1 25

H IDES AND  PELTS 

M ixed Candy

14
Grocers....................  
0  6
Competition............. 
© 7
© T%
Special..................... 
© 7X
Conserve.................. 
© 8H
Royal...................... 
© 9
Ribbon..................... 
Broken....................  
© 8
© 8X
Cut Loaf................... 
English Rock....................© 9
Kindergarten.........  
© 9
© 9
Bon Ton  Cream....... 
French Cream.........  
©io
©10
Dandy Pan..............  
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
©14X
Crystal Cream mix.. 
©18

Fancy—In  P ails 

8X
15
12
12
9
ll
12
10
©12
© 9X
©10
©UX
©18X
©14
©16
© 6X
© 9X
© 9X
© 9X
©12
©12
©13
©12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes 
©66
©66
©85
©1 00 
©36 
©76 
©66 ©«

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
Peanut Squares......  
Sugared Peanuts.... 
Salted Peanuts........ 
Starlight Kisses......  
Ban Bus Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc. Drops............. 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Choc. Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
Moss  Drops............. 
Lemon Sours...........  
Imperials.................  
Ital. Cream Opera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............. 
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls.................  
Golden Waffles........ 
Lemon  Soars.........
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.  80 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Book.............
Wlntergreen 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 3,3 for lcprbx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Carls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bassett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels..........  3 oo@3  26
Extra Choloe...........  2 60@8 oo
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings................  
Medt. Sweets........... 
Jamaica!................. 
Rodl...................... 
Lemons
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
VerdelU, fey 300.....  3 &o©4 oo 
Verdelll, ex chce 300 
Verdelll, fey 360....... 
Malori Lemons, 300.. 
Messlnas 300s..........  8 50@4 00
Messinas 360s..........  3 60@3 75
Banana»
Medium bunches.... 
l  50@2 oo
Large hunches........

© 9 
©10 
©12X @16 
© 66 ©86 @60 
@60 
©60

@
©
©
©
©
©
@
©
@

© 66
©66
©90
©66

8 26

Bulk Oysters

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts...........
F. S. D.  Selects......
Selects....................
Counts....................
Extra Selects.......
Selects......................
Standards................
Hides
Green No. 1.............
Green  No. 2.............
Cured  No. l .............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins .green No. l 
Calf skins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
Pelts
Pelts, each...........
F urs
Beaver....................  
Wild  Cat
House Cat................
Red Fox..............
Grey Fox.................
Cross  Fox................
Lynx.......................
Muskrat, fall...........
M in k ............................
Raccoon.............. .
Skunk......................
Tallow
No. 1.........................
No. 2........................
Wool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed, medium.

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

Standard...........
Standard H. H .. 
Standard  Twist. 
Cat Loaf............
Jumbo, 32 lb... 
Extra H .H .... 
Boston Cream. 
Beet Be**

Figs

Dates

© 6X 
© 6X 
© 7X 
©   6X 
© 9 
©7X  
©10 
© 8X
60©1  00
l oo®6 00
10©  60 
10©  25 
26©2 60 
10©  60 
50@4 00 
15©3 °2
25@2 26 
10©  80 
19@1 26
@4X
@3X

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@
©
@
@
as
©
@
@
4X@

California!,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........  
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes....................  
Palled, 61b. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oaaea. 
Hallow!.................... 
lb.  oases, new.......
Salrs, 60 lb. oases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Iviea.......
Almonas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils......................
Filberts  .................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnut«., soft shelled 
California No. l...
Table Nats,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bn.
Ohio, new............
bbls. palls
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
© 7X  Chestnuts, per b n ...
Peanuts
© 7X 
© 8  
Fancy, H. P m Suns..  6 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
© 9 
cases  Roasted................  6
© 7X I Choloe, H.P., Extras 
©10X  Choloe. H. P., Extras
810 
I  Roasted................ 
• 
Span. Bhlld No. 1 n’w  6X© 0*

L5@16
@13
©12X
UX@X2X
@13X
@10
@13
@14

4X  © 6r

@20
©23
@16
@17

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a

48
BX 
48 
60 
72 
1  12 
1  60 
2  12 
2 56

684
48
6X
60
6

85 
1  10

66
42
7

1  60
1 78
2 48

1  86 
2  00 
2 90

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

4 00 
4 60

1 60 
1  80 
8 00
4 30
5 76 
4 60
6  00 
7 00 
9 00

4 75 
7 26 
7 26 
7 60 
13 60 
3 60

45 
45 
2  00 
1 26

16

S T O N E W A R E

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

Churns

M ilkpans

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

X gai  fiat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. hat br rd. bot„ each.................
Fine Glazed  M ilkpans
X gal. fiat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

Stewpans

X gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............
l gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.............

Jo g s

X gal. per doz.....................................
X gal. per doz......................................
to 5 gal., per gal.............., ...............

Sealing W ax

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

LAMP  BURNERS

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

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

A nchor Carton Chim neys 

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

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

F irst Q uality

48

86
60
60

Per box of 6 doz.
1 38
1 54
2 24

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

XXX  F lin t

P earl Top

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

Rochester

L a  Bastie

E lectric

No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)..........................

OIL  CANS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz....
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spont, 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..
6 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. lilting cans................................
6 gal. galv.Iron  Nacefas.............:....

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  1 B Tubular.................................
No. 16 Tubular, dash...........................
No.  1 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, 16c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 6 doz. each, per bbl..
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases l aoz. each

BEST  W H ITE COTTON  W ICKS 
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.

No. 0,  x-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 1,  x-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 2, l 
Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 3, IX inch wide, per gross or roll.. 

18
24
31
63

COUPON  BOOKS

60books, any denomination....;................l 60
100 books, any denomination — .... .... ..  2 60 
600 books, any denomination........., 
.-■■  1160
1.000 books, any denomination.............. 20 00
Above quotations  are  for  either  Tradesman,
Superior, Economic or Universal grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a  time  customers  re­
ceive  specially  printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books

from $10 down.

Can be  made  to  represent  any  denomination 
60 books.................. 
1  50
100 books.................... '................ .............  2 60
600books.................. 
U  50
1,000books................  
20 00

 

 

 

 

 
C redit Checks

 

500, any one denomination.......................   2 00
1.000, any one denomtaosawt.......................   3 00
2.000, any one denomination. . . . * . . .  ■——   5 00
1 Bteelpuaoh...niM i^HiiH---.:..................   ®

Things We Sell
Iron pipe, brass rod, steam  fittings, 
electric  fixtures,  lead  pipe,  brass 
wire,  steam  boilers,  gas  fixtures, 
brass  pipe,  brass  tubing,  water 
heaters,  mantels,  nickeled  pipe, 
brass  in  sheet,  hot  air  furnaces, 
fire place  goods.

W eatherly &  Pulte

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

That’s  the 

One!!

The  Ann  Arbor 
Quick  Lighting 
Gasoline  Lamps

Give  the  best  satis­
faction.  New styles, 
new prices, catalogue 
free.  Send for agency 
proposition  at  once.

The  Superior  Manufacturing  Co.

30 S Main St., Ann  Arbor, Mich.

W e  are  agents  for 
Western  Michigan  for 
the
Neverslip  Shoes 
and  Calks
If your blacksmith does 
not  handle  them  write 
direct to us.

Sherwood  Hall

Grand Rapids, Michigan

A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

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

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

File and  1,000 specially

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

Printed blank bill heads,

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

1  25

1  5o

Grand Rapids.

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

Hardware  Price  Current

A m m unition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m......................  
Hloks’ 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 .................... 

Loaded  Shells

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
136
164
200
206
236
265
264

oz.af
Shot
1M
1H
1H
1M
1M
1M
l
1
1H
1M
1M
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
4M
4M
3
3
3M
3H
3H
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................. ....... 
M kegs, 12H Ids., per %  keg.............. 
M kegs, 6X lbs., per H  keg................ 
In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, ail sizes smaller than B........... 

Shot

A ugurs  and  Bits

Axes

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 

Barrow s

Bolts

Stove........................................................ 
Carriage, new ll«t  .............................  
Plow ...................................................  
Well, plain.......................................... 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................  
Wrought Narrow............................... 

Butts,  Cast

Buckets

Chain

40
60
76
60
260
300
600
676
l  40
1  40

60
70
80

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

72
64

4 00
2  25
1  26

1 66

so
25
60
6 00
9 00
e 60
10 60
12 00
29 00

60

70
60
$4 00

70
60

3 1

70

66

7M
8

Levels

M attocks

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

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

Metals—Zinc

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

 

 

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern...................................  
758(10
868(20
Screws, New L ist............... 
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  60&10&10
Dampers, American............................  
60

 

 

 

 

Molasses  Gates

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

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished.............................  
708(5
P atent  Planished  Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 80 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 80

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy......................... 
Sciota Bench.................................  
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy................ 
Bench, first qnaUty........................ 

 

 

 

40
60
40
46

Planes

Nalls

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

 

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

Rivets

Roofing  Plates

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

Ropes

Sisal, H Inch and larger...................... 
Manilla................................................ 

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

Sand P aper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iro n

2 36
2 36
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
16
26
38
26
36
46
86

60
46

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

10
14H

60

26 00

M In. 

6-16 In. %  In.
... 6M 
... 6K

Hin.
Com..............   7  0.  ...  6  o.  ... 5  0.  . ..  4*0.
BB 
.............   8M 
...  6
BBB..............  8* 
-   6H
Cast Steel, per lb..........................
Socket Firm er.............................
Socket Framing............................
Socket Comer...............................
Socket Slicks................................

...  7M 
...  7M 
Crowbars
Chisels

6
66
66
66
66

com. smooth,  com.
$3 60
8 7C
8 90
3 90
4 00
4  10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  80  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................. 
Nos. 16 to 17............................. . 
NOS. 18 to 21.................... .  ......... 
NOS. 22 to 24..................................   4  10 
NOS. 26 to 26 ..................................   4 20 
NO. 27................................ ....... ;j.  4 30 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels and  Spades

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

8 00
7 60

The  Happy  Parm er  and  the  City  Man.

Oh,  the  happy,  happy  farmer,  who  lives  seven  miles  from  town,
Has  no  furnace  in  the  basement  that  must  now  be  shaken  down;
He  doesn’t  have  to hurry  out  to  catch  the  train,  and  then 
Work  behind  a  desk  and  worry  as  the  slave  of  other  men;
No  superior  berates  him  for  the  small  mistakes  he  makes,
He  is  not  denied  employment  for  some  little  rule  he  breaks,
And  he  needn't,  when  he’s  weary  from  the  duties  of  the  day,
Hurry  to  some  distant  station,  dodging  footpads  on  the  way.

Oh,  the  happy,  happy  farmer,  he  just hustles  out of  bed 
And  goes  shivering  for  the  kindling,  which  he  chops  out  in  the  shed; 
Then,  while  maw  is  getting  breakfast,  he  runs  out  to  milk  the  cows 
And  to  pry  the  frozen  hay  up  from  the  dusty,  musty  mows;
Oh,  he  milks  away  at  Bossy,  and  his  hands  are  cracked  and  sore,
But  he  thinks  with  kindly  pity  of  the  pale  clerk  in  the  store,
And  he  curries  down  the  horses,  and,  at  last,  all  hairy,  goes 
In  to  breakfast  with  the  odor  of  the  stable  in  his  clothes.

Oh,  the  happy,  happy  farmer doesn’t  have  to  pay  a  cent
To  a  landlord  who  is  heartless  when  he  comes  to  claim  his  rent;
The  luckless  clerk  is  worried  when  some  other  man  than  he 
Is  promoted  to a  station  where  he  knows  he  ought  to  be,
And  his  wife—his  poor  wife—nags  him  just  because  she  can  not  fly 
To  a  perch  beside  some  neighbor  who  is  roosting  rather  high;
He  must  walk  an  aisle  from  morning  till  they  close  the  doors  at  night, 
And  goes  home  to  find  the  water  in  the  laundry  frozen  tight.

Oh,  the  happy,  happy  farmer  wades  in  snow  up  to  his  knees 
Out  to  where  the  wintry  demons  have  been  overturning  trees.
And  he  chops  and  nearly  freezes  while  the  mad  winds  howl  away,
And  the  echoes  of  his  mauling  ring  among  the  trees  all  d ay;
The  snow  gets  in  his  boottops  and  the  frost  bites  at  his  ears,
While  the  noises  he  produces  are  the  only  sounds  he  hears,
And  at  night  he  thaws  the  pump  loose  and  goes  out  to  do  the  chores, 
Where  the  snow,  in  long,  thin  ridges,  filters  through  the  stable  doors.

Oh,  the  happy,  happy  farmer,  what  a  careless  life  he  leads!
Instead  of  always  buying,  he  just  raises  what  he  needs;
His  neighbors  don't  ignore  him  if  he’s  not  as  rich  as  they—
All  he  has  to  do  is  work  and  keep  the  old  gray  wolves  away;
The  coal  man  and  the  plumber never  crowd  him  to  the  wall—
He  just  keeps  forever  paying  for  farm  implements,  that’s  a ll;
And  at  night  he  needn’t  dress  and  blow  three  dollars  for the  treat 
Of  beholding  a  performance  that’s  worth  fifty  cents  a  seat.

P ractical  Tests  as  a  Means  of  Getting: 

Evidence.

It  is  with  fear  and  trembling  that 
the  persons  who  deal  in  fraud  and  de- 
ception  will  notice  the  innovation  in­
troduced  by  Justice  Underwood.  The 
justice  put  his  system  into  practice  for 
the  first  time  in  the  case  of  a  merchant 
who  refused  to  pay  for sundry  bushels 
of  beans  on  the  ground  that  the  beans 
would  not  cook. 
Instead  of  wasting  his 
time  over  arguments and legal points, the 
justice  called  for  a  sample  of  the  beans 
and  proceeded  to  cook  them.  The  tes­
timony  of  the  beans  themselves  thus 
took  the  place  of  sworn  statements  and 
legal  argument.  Having  cooked  the 
beans  and  partaken  of  them  the  justice 
is  now  able  to  hand  down  a  decision 
showing  complete  and  exhaustive  infor­
mation  on  the  subject.

A  general  adoption  of  the  new  system 
in 
is  evidently  entirely  practicable 
It  is  a  frequent  com­
scores  of  cases. 
plaint  that  food-stuffs  are  adulterated, 
that  vegetables  are  unripe  or  over-ripe, 
that  breads,  cakes  and  pies  are  under­
weight.  Eggs  with  a  notorious  past 
purport  to  be  fresh.  Clocks  that  will 
not  run,  shoes  that  do  not  fit,  pistols 
that  miss  fire,  fuel  that  will  not  burn— 
any  .or  all  of  these  causes  of  complaint 
may  now  be  studied  scientifically  and 
adjudged  with  certain  knowledge.  The 
victim  of  the  rose  netting  over  the 
peaches  need  but  bring  his  peaches  into 
court  and  let the  court  eat  his  way  to  a 
verdict.  The  purchaser  who asked  for 
coal  and  received  a  fire-proof  mixture 
of  slate,  shale  and  slag  needs  but  to 
bring  forward  a  scuttleful  of  specimens 
and  call  for  a  trial  by  fire. 
It  is  true 
that  in  such  instances  as  the  druggist’s

substitution  of  Paris  green  for  seidlitz 
powders  the 
justice  would  be  in  diffi­
culties.  Possibly  he  would  be  unable 
to  attend  to the  subsequent  proceedings, 
but  he  could  safely  trust to his  successor 
to  secure  light  from  the  experiment.

The  best  evidence  regarding  a  thing 
is  the  thing 
itself.  The  proof  of the 
bean  is  in  the  eating.  A  system of prac­
tical  tests  as  a  means  of  getting  evi­
dence  is  to  be  commended  as  an  enor­
mous  saving  in  time  and talk.— Chicago 
News.

B allast in  Business.

Many  good  qualities  go  to  the 

insur­
ing  of  a  genuine  success:  a  strong, 
hopeful  heart,  industry,  patience,  per­
severance,  a  largeness  of  aim  and  view, 
tenacity  of  purpose,  power  to  control 
the  tongue,  swift  precision  of  mental 
sight,  a  clear  view  into  the  future,  ret­
icence  concerning  plans,  the  submis­
sion  of  the  body  to  the  will,  and,  as  a 
prime  factor,that  peculiar virtue  which, 
tor  want  of  a  specific  name,  may  be 
really 
called  “ ballast.'*  Ballast 
manv  virtues  in  nice  proportion. 
It  is 
to  know  ourselves,  our  position,  and 
the  power  we  possess  for any  task  to  be 
done. 
It  is  the  making  for  a  desired 
point,  with  the  steadiness  of  a  locomo­
tive,  and  as  directly  as  a  crow  flies. 
If 
we  accuse  a  person  of  wanting  “ bal­
last,"  we  think  of  him  blown  about  by 
every  wind  of  circumstance  and  of 
wavering  among  a  variety  of  ends. 
This  the  great  commercial  sin.  No one 
in  the  business  world 
is  held  more 
cheaply  than  the  man  without  ballast. 
He 
leaving  port  with 
colors  flying  and  not  a  pound  of  ballast 
in  her  hold.

like  a  ship 

is 

is 

Whenever  you  meet  a  man  who  thinks 
he  knows  all, it’s  ten  to  one  that  b^'!ihn’j| 
married.

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz...........
. ..net
Corrugated, per doz......................
Adjustable..................................... ...dls
Expansive  Bits
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..............
Files—New  List
New American.............................
Nicholson’s....................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
Galvanized  Iron

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 28; 27,
List  12 
16.

14 

13 

Discount,  66

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........

18
Ganges

Glass

Hinges

Ham m ers

Single Strength, by box............... ....dls
Double Strength, by box.,........... __dls
By the Light......................... ....dls
Maydole & Co.’s, new Ust............. ....dls
Yefkes & Plumb’s......................... ....dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............... 30c Ust
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3....................... ....dls
Hollow  W are
Pots...........................................•..
Kettles..........................................
Spiders..........................................
Au Sable....................................... __ dls
Honse  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new Ust...........
japanned Tinware........................
Bar Iron........................................
Light Band....................................
Knobs—New  List
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings....
Door, porcelain, fap. trimmings...
Regular 0 Tabular, Doz.................
Warren, Galvanized Fount..........

Horse  Nails

Lanterns

Iro n

76
1  26
408(10

40
26
708(10
70
70

28
17

608(10

858(20
868(20
858(20

33M
40&10
70
608(10
508(10
608110
608(10

408(10
70
208(10
orates

78
86
6 08
600

Solder

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Iron...........7....................

Squares

60-10-6

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—A llaw ay Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal...............................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.80

Boiler  Size Tin  P late 
14X56IX, for No. 8 BoUers, \ 
nonn(1 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 BoUers, f P®r pouna" 
Traps

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

ton’s.........  

 

 

W ire

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

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

W ire  Goods
 
 

 
 

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled...... . 
Coe’s Genuine...................................... 
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.
At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers^  Association, 
held  Monday  evening,  Feb.  17,  Presi­
dent  Fuller  presided.

J.  A.  Mohrhard,  at 561  Cherry  street, 
and  Ed.  Wykkell,  at  ¿86  Wealthy  ave­
nue,  were  accepted  to  membership.

The  special  committee  to  which  was 
referred  the  matter  of  bringing  about 
an  agreement  between  the  grocers  and 
butchers  to dispense  with  one  telephone 
— and  every  loyal  citizen  of Grand Rap­
ids  knows  which  one—reported  progress 
and  was  given  further time  to  investi­
gate  the  subject.  This  committee 
is 
acting 
in  conjunction  with  a  similar 
committee  from  the  Grand  Rapids  Re­
tail  Meat  Dealers'  Association  and  the 
joint committee  has  sent out  the  follow­
ing  circular  letter  to  the  grocers  and 
butchers  of  the  c ity :

The  Retail  Grocers'  Association  and 
the  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 
are  endeavoring  to  adopt  measures 
whereby  their  members  can  eventually 
escape  the  burden  of  maintaining  two 
telephones  in  their  respective  places  of 
business,  which  said  pibposed  measure 
is  based  wholly  upon  economic  reasons, 
and  with  this  object  in  view  a  joint 
committee  has  been  appointed  from 
each  of  the  respective  Associations  for 
the  purpose  of  interviewing  the  respec­
tive  dealers  and  collecting  such  infor­
mation  as  to  better  enable  them  to  ac­
complish  the  purpose  to  which  their 
efforts  are  directed,  disclaiming  any 
Intention  whatever  of  asking  any  ques­
tions  for  the  purpose  of  enquiring 
into 
tfie;  private  business  relations  existing 
between  any  of  the  respective  dealers 
and  their customers,  and  acting  solely 
in  what  the  committee  considers  to  be 
the  highest  interest  of  both  the  dealers 
and  their  customers,  they  hereby  take 
the  liberty to  submit  to  you  the  follow­
ing  questions,  which  you  will  kindly 
answer  for  the  purposes  of,  and  with  a 
view  of  obtaining  the  objects  herein 
before  mentioned:
Have  you  both  phones?  If  not  which 

one  are  you  using?

If  you  are  not  using  a  telephone,  do 
you  contemplate  using  one?  if  so,  when 
and  what  system?
Do  you  favor  the  maintenance  of  two 
separate  telephone  systems  in  our  city?
Does  your  business justify the expense 

of  dual  telephone  service?

How  many  of  your  customers  have re­
cently  ordered  out  their telephones,  but 
wtgicb  have  not  as  yet  been  removed  by 
.{be  company  operating  the  line?
1  How  many  of  your customers  are  us­
ing a  telephone  under  a 
lease  exceed­
ing  three  years?
If  you  are  maintaining two  telephones 
in  your  place  of  business,  does  the  vol­
ume  of  business  you  receive,  from  the 
fact of  your maintaining two telephones, 
equal  the  extra  expense  it  involves?
you  would 
placing  of  one  telephone?

How  m any  custom ers  do  you  th ink 
lose  ultim ately  by  the  d is­

Are  you  in  sympathy  with  our  efforts 
to do away  with  the  necessity  of  main­
taining  two telephones?
Will  you  kindly  give  the  committee 
your assistance  to  the  extent  of  answer­
ing  the  above  questions and offering any 
suggestions  you  may  have  which  you 
think  would  assist  in  attaining  this 
object,  believing  as  we  do  that  it  will 
result  finally  to  our  mutual  advantage?
The  Secretary  presented  the  following 
communication  from  D.  Marlatt,  the 
veteran  retail  grocer  at  115  Broadway:
I  received  yours  of  some  time  ago, 
but  was  not  able  to  attend your meeting, 
so  was  obliged  to  stay  at  home. 
I 
should  have  been  glad  to  be  one  of  the 
number,  but  so  goes 
It  is  very 
uncertain.  Perhaps  there  may  come  a 
time  when  I  can  meet  with  the  grocery 
men. 
If  I  can  I  shall  be  very  glad  to 
do so.

On  motion,  Mr.  Marlatt  was  elected 
an  honorary  member  of  the Association.
On  the  opening  of  the  question  box, 

life. 

the  following  enquiry  was  round:

It  is  generally  known  that  the  jobbers 
sell  goods  to  their employes  at  whole­
sale  prices. 
in 
other  words,  is  it  doing  justice  to the 
retailer  or  do  they  owe  it  to said  em­
ployes?

it  consistent,  or, 

Is 

Mr.  Radcliff  claimed  that  it  was  the 
fault  of  the  retailer that  so  many  goods 
are  being  sold  by  wholesalers  to  res­
taurants.

Martin  Schram  stated  that, 

in  his 
opinion,the  wholesale  houses  should  cut 
off  the  sale  of  goods  to  their  employes, 
because  the  latter  not  only  supply them­
selves  but  their  neighbors  and  friends 
as  well.

Fred  Fuller  stated  that  a  certain 
wholesale  grocery  wagon 
recently 
stopped  at  a  house  near  his  store  with 
a  small  package  of  coffee.  When  be 
called  up  the  house  and  remonstrated 
with  the  management,  he  was  informed 
that  the  purchaser  of  the  coffee  was  a 
partner  in  a  lumber  business  up  north 
and  that  the  bouse  was  obliged  to  sell 
him  goods  at  wholesale  prices  in  order 
to  retain  the  trade  of  his  firm.  Mr. 
Fuller  believed  in  selling  his own clerks 
goods  at  5  per  cent,  above  cost.

Homer  Klap  opposed  the  sale  of 
goods  to  clerks  at  any  other  than regular 
prices.  He  preferred  to  pay  his  clerks 
50  cents  to  $1  more  per  week  rather 
than  make  any  concession  of  this  char­
acter.  He  believed  the  retailers  to  be 
to  blame  for  the  broken  package  nui­
sance  and  cited  an  instance  where  a  so- 
called  grocer  buys  two  pounds  of  tea 
and  half  a  cheese  at  a  time.

Frank  J.  Dyk  believed  that  a  re­
spectful 
request  to  the  wholesalers, 
asking  them  to  discontinue  the  practice 
of  selling  goods  at  wholesale  to  their 
employes,  except  in  the  case  of  married 
men,  would  receive  attention.  He 
in­
timated  that  certain  boarding  houses 
were  being  supplied  at  wholesale prices 
from  the 
jobbing  houses  through  the 
medium  of  single  men  in  their  employ.
Martin  Schram  suggested  that  the 
wholesale  bouses  be  requested  to  raise 
the  salaries  of  their  men  $1  per  week 
in  consideration  of  their  cutting  off  this 
concession.

A  member  stated  that  one  of  bis  cus­
tomers  had  saved  5  cents  by  buying  a 
50  pound  sack  of  flour  from  the  Valley 
City  Milling  Co.  direct,  and  suggested 
that  the  company  be  requested  to  main­
tain  the  full  retail  price  on  retail  sales.
Henry  Raymond,  city  salesman  for 
the  Valley  City  Milling  Co.,  insisted 
that  the  price  must  have  been  a mistake 
on  the  part  of  the  clerk  and  urged  the 
grocers  to  take  the  bull  by  the  horns.

It  was  announced  that  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Association  addresses 
would  be  made  by  Ed.  Killean  and  H. 
M.  Liesveld.

Hides, Pelts, Purs Tallow, and  Wool.
The  hide  market  remain» firm  at  the 
decline.  Receipts  are  more 
in  evi­
dence.  The  early  take-off commands  a 
higher  value  than  regular  quotations. 
The  demand 
is  good  and  trading  goes 
on  as  usual  on  a  quiet  market,  with  no 
accumulations.

Pelts  are  in  good  demand,  on  a  short 
supply.  Receipts  are  small.  Prices  are 
strong.  All  good  stock  is  selling  read­
ily  at  full  value.

Furs  are 

in  demand  for  the  coming 
March  sales.  Prices  on  good  skins  are 
well  sustained.  The  home  consumption 
is  large, but  there  is  an  absence  of  spec­
ulation.

Tallow  remains  firm  at  last  week's 
is  no  accumulation  oi 

prices.  There 
stocks.

from 

Wools  are  rather  quiet, 

local 
causes,mainly  the  strike  in  Providence. 
The  mills  generally  are  running twenty- 
four  hours  and  grinding  up  large  quan­
tities  of  wool  to  fill  orders  on  books. 
The  amount  offering  is  much  less  than 
one  year  ago  and  is  firmly  held,  with 
an  advance  asked  over January  sales. 
This  has  tended  to  check  sales.  Hold­
ers  claim  they  can  not  replace  stocks  at 
the  same  price.  At  the  Far  West the 
coming  clip 
is  being  contracted  at 
prices  above  what  it  will  bring  at  sea­
board  towns.  Growers and  dealers  look 
for  higher  values  in  coming  clip  nearer 
the 
importing  point,  and  the  outlook

warrants  same.  Sales  in  the  State  are 
of  considerable  volume  and offerings are 
made  of  all  lots  held.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

1  Milford— F.  H.  Trump  &  Son,  man­
ufacturers  of  knit goods  and  dealers  in 
millinery  and  fancy  goods,  have  sold 
out  to  H.  Groner.

Advertisement»  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.___________________________________

BU SIN ESS  C H A N C E S.

297

Fo r  s a l e—a   g e n e r a l  st o r e  w it h
about $2,000 stock;  situated in country; first- 
class  location.  Address  416  Erie  St.,  Port 
Huron, Mich. 
soO
-g 60  ACRE  FARM,  IMPROVED,  HOWELL 
JL  county,  Missouri,  to  exchange  for  stock  of 
groceries.  Address Lock Box 273, Utica, Ohio.
301
Fo r  sa l e—g o o d  b u s in e s s  b u il d in g
and  good  location,  Traverse  City,  Mich. 
Also 40 acres of  good  land  near  the  city;  good 
orchard.  For particulars address  F.  J.  Stover, 
299
Traverse City, Mich. 
17»OR  SALE—OMEO;  RECORD,  2:30;  CAN 

'  pace  in  2:14.  Stallion  Golden  Boy,  2:23. 
Four Shetland ponies.  Well  bred  colts  Come 
and  see  or  write  F.  O.  Gardner,  Pentwater, 
Mich. 
L 'O R   SA LE—GRANDFATHER  CLOCK; 
A   good one;  photo if desired.  Box  309,  West­
erville, Ohio. 
298
SODA  FOUNTAIN  FOR  SALE.  TUFT’S 
make;  ten cup she.  Address  J. L.  StanseU, 
296
Grand Ledge, Mich. 
Pr o spe c t u s  o f  s c h l e y   a n d   s a n t i-

ago, our Book Catalogue and Ropp’s  60  cent 
edition:  all three postpaid tor 10cents.  Address 
Howard Book House, Windfall, lnd. 
IjHJR SALE  OR EXCHANGE—FIRST-CLAbS 
1 
stock  of  clothing,  men’s  furnishings  and 
shoes;  doing  excellent  business;  net  invoice, 
$4,000;  town of 1,500;  two  railroads;  coal  fields; 
brie*  plants;  excellent  farming  community; 
only  exclusive  men’s  furnishing  goods  store 
within twelve miles;  a snap for some one.  J. B. 
Holiman & Co, Cayuga, lnd. 
PRINTER EDITOR WISHES CORRESPOND- 
ence with business men in town of  about 6U0 
population  with  view  to  establishing  weekly 
newspaper.  Address  No.  293,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
¥7>OR  RENT—PART OF  STORE;  BEST  LO- 
P   cation  in  hustling  manufacturing  city  of 
4.000 population, Southern  Michigan;  store,  20x 
60; good opening for music  store.  Address  No. 
292, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
Jj>OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS RETAIL SHOE 
17  business.  Best location in  the  b ;st  town  in 
Michigan.  Reason  for  selling,  other  business 
requires attention.  Address No. 291, care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 

293

294

296

292

291

262

FOR  SAT.K  OR  TRADE  FOR  FARM—A 
country store and  dwelling  combined,  with 
good bam : I nventory at general merchandise and 
fixtures  about  $2,500;  or  will  rent  reasonably. 
Full particulars on application.  Address box 37, 
New Salem, Mich. 
XCEPTIONAL  OPENING  FOR  A  LIVE 
jeweler in a growing Southern Michigan city, 
surrounded by  a  thrifty  farming  community; 
splendid location on best side of  best  street  In 
city.  Address  No.  235, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
236
ii i O R   K A T .W   OR TRADE FOR FARM-HOUSE 
1  and lot and store building  and  $1,600  stock 
of general merchandise, located  at  West  Olive, 
Mich.  Address Ed. Maynard. 
227
1* 0  R  SA LE—COUNTRY  STORE  AND 
J*  dwelling  combined;  general  merchandise 
stock, barn, custom saw mul and  feed mill, with 
good patronage;  Citizens local and long distance 
telephone ana  postoffice  in  store:  bargain  for 
cash.  Reason for selling, must retire.  For  par­
ticulars call on or address Eli Runnels,  Corning, 
Mich. 

____________________ 

23i

161

217

1*OR  SALE—2,000,000  FEET  HARDWOOD 

'  timber, 160 acres cedar and  pine.  Saw  and 
shingle  mill  ready  for  business.  Catting  of 
2,000,00G shingles to let on  contract.  J .  J.  Rob­
bins, Boyne Falls, Mich. 
l*OR SALE—DRUG STOCK  IN ONE OF THE
P   best towns In Lower Michigan.  Reasons for 
selling,  poor  health.  Address  No.  207, care
Michigan Tradesman. 
207
\* T  ANTED—A REFRIGERATOR SUITABLE 
fV   for meat market.  Skarritt  &  Sack,  Ed- 
more, Mich._________________  
210
FOR  SALE-GRAIN  ELEVATOR:  MAIN 
building 24x62 feet:  office, 8x12  feet:  engine 
room, brick,  22r24  feet;  storage  capacity, 18,000 
bushels:  equipped with  26  horse  power  engine 
and  boiler,  scales,  com  sheller,  etc.  Business 
for oast year shows a  profit  of  $22500.  Address 
L. E. Torry, Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
¡/»OR  SALE—RESTAURANT AND BAKERY, 
r   cigar  and  confectionery  stock.  Soda  foun­
tain and ice cream machinery.  Centrally located. 
Only  restaurant  in  town.  C.  S-  Clark,  Cedar 
Springs. Mich. 

__________________ 168

t j>OR SALE—A NEW AND THE  ONLY  BA- 

1  zaar stock in the city  or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000:  the  county 
seat;  stock invoices  $2,500;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
157
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. 
C.  W.. Box 423, Crystal Falls, Mich. 

OUR-  SYSTEM  REDUCES  YOUR  BOOK- 

keeplng  86 per  cent.  Send  for  catalogue. 
Eureka Cash  &  Credit  Register  Co.,  Scranton, 
Pa. 
l*OR  SALE—GROCERY  STORE  OF  E.  J. 
-T  Herrick, lie Monroe  street,  Grand  Rapids. 
Enjoys  best  trade  in  the  city.  Mr.  Herrick 
wishes to retire from  business.  Address  L.  E. 
Torrey, Agt., Grand Rapids. 

133

102

96

I  WILL  SELL  WHOLE  OR  ONEHALF  IN- 

terest in my  furniture  business.  The  goods 
are all new and up-to-date;  located in  a  town  of 
7,000:  has been a furniture store for thirty years; 
only two furniture stores in  the  town.  Address 
all  correspondence  to  No.  63,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

63

MISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION WANTED AS  MANAGER  OF 

grocery  department  by  young  man  of  26 
years of age.  Eight years’  experience.  Best  of 
references.  Address W., care  Michigan Trades­
man. 
290
Re g is t e r e d   p h a r m a c is t  w a n t s  p o ­
sition  by  April  1.  Small  town  preferred. 
Address No. 289, care Michigan Tradesman.  289
W ANTED-SALESMEN  CALLING  ON 

grocery trade to sell full line  of  fireworks 
as side line.  No  samples;  sell  from  price  list; 
liberal  commission.  A  card  to  I.  N.  Branch, 
Jackson, Mich._______________________ 288
\X7ANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST. 
TV  State age, salary  expected,  whether  mar­
ried or single.  Address No.  286,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
W ANTED—TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  A 
doctor who is a registered  druggist.  Have 
good opening.  Address No.  284,  care  Michigan 
284
Tradesman. 
WANTED—BY  EXPERIENCED MAN AND 
wife position in dry goods or general store. 
Best of references.  Address No. 273, care  Mich­
273
igan Tradesman. 
PHYSICIAN WANTED;  GOOD  PRACTICE;
registered  pharmacist  preferred.  Address 
Drag Doctor, care Michigan Tradesman. 
262
W ANTED —REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
to work in country store; state  wages  and 
references.  Address  X.  Y.,  care  Michigan 
184
Tradesman'. 

285

F.  C.  Miller.

223  Widdicomb  BuHdinj,  Grand-typids

271

286

i jV)R SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES.  WILL 

1  inventory $1,800.  If you  mean  business, an­
swer.  Address No. 286,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
rp H E  BEST CHANCE IN  MICHIGAN  FOR 
X   clothing, shoes or  dry  goods,  with  a  small 
capital.  I am  going  to  a  larger  place. 
J.  E. 
Farnham, Thorn psonvllie, Mich. 
283
IT'OR  SALK—STOCK OF  DRY GOODS, GRO- 
X   ceries, shoes,  rubbers  and  hardware.  Will 
invoice  about  $3,600.  Located  in  best  farming 
country in  Central  Michigan.  Cash  sales  last 
year, $15,000.  Address J. T.  H.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
270
500 ACRE STOCK  FARM,  WITH  OR  WITH- 
out stock and tools, for sale cheap.  For  part 
will take stock merchandise, hotel, smaller farm, 
lumber yard stock,  or  what  have  you?  J.  A. 
Hawley, Leslie, Mich. 
ITiOR  EXCHANGE—FINE  FARM  OF  140 
X   acres in Southern Michigan, excellent  build­
ings,  for  property  in  any  live  town  in  State. 
Would  take  small  drug stock as part  payment. 
Address No. 196, care Michigan Tradesman.  196
F o r   SA LE—b a n k   b u il d in g ,  s a f e , 
vault and  fixtures;  good  location;  no  bank 
within sixteen miles south, twelve  miles east  or 
west.  For  further  information  address  J.  P. 
Gonlee, Sheridan, Mich. 

■   GOOD  CHANCE  FOR  A  PRACTICAL 

shoe  man  with  a  little  money;  a  good 
building all complete with machinery for making 
men’s, buys’ and youths’ shoes; power and  light 
for $60 per month; plenty of money at a low rate 
of  interest.  Address  Shoes,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

i pOR  SALE-GOOD  PAYING  GENERAL 

268
' stock of about $10,000 in one of the best farm­
ing towns  in Central Michigan.  Can be reduced. 
Bargain if taken  before March l.  Address  No. 
266, care Michigan Tradesman. 
266
FOR SALE-GENERAL STOCK AND STORE 
building, with dwelling  attached.  Stock  is 
worth $3,ooo and buildings and  land $2,000.  Will 
sell both for $4,000 cash, if taken before March l.
G.  W. Cook, Bauer, Mich. 
268
ANTED-A  LOCATION  FOR  UP-TO- 
date shoe store.  Would  buy  small  stock. 
Address Shoes, Carrier 2, Big Rapids, Mich.  260 
OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  BOOTS  AND 
shoes;  fine  location;  well established  busi­
ness.  For  information  address  Parker  Bros., 
2*8
Traverse City, Mich. 
Fo r   s a l e—st o c k  o f  g e n e r a l  MER-
chandlae; a snap for a  hustler; must be sold 
before April i; will sell  or  rent  property.  Ad­
dress No. 243, care Michigan Tradesman.  248  '

263

For  Sale  Cheap

I  Engine  16x22.
1  Cornell  &  Dengler Box  Printer,
1  Michels Segment Resaw.
Several small Cut-off  and  Rip Saws. 
ShaftiDg and Pulleys.
1  Saw Filer.

