DESMAN

Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23,1902.

Number  970

E L L IO T   O.  G R O SV E N O R

Late  State  Pood  Commissioner

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
133a flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.

Country  Merchants 
City  Merchants 
Traveling  Salesmen

Your personal  bank  account 
is  solicited.
A feature of this bank is that 
the  moderate  deposit  of  the 
merchant  or 
individual  in 
our  commercial  department 
is acceptable.
■ $%  per  cent,  interest  paid 
on  savings  certificates  of 
deposit.

Kent County  Savings  Bank

Corner Canal and Lyon Streets, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

L. J. Stevenson, Manager 

Wlddicomb  Building,  Grand  ßapids,  Michigan. 

Don. E. Minor and  W. J.  Glllett,  Attorneys.

Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit, Mich.

R. J. Cleland,  A.  H.  Covert,  J.  D.  Harger  and 

R. H.  Lane, Attorneys.

A  complete  mortgage  and  judgment  record; 
the Compiled  Ledger Experience  of  1,300 mem­
bers in all  trades  and  professions,  over  200,000 
detailed  reports  of  responsibility,  moral  and 
business history,  paying  ability  and  habits  on 
file  in  our  offices,  enable  us  to  protect  our 
m em bers  against  w orthless  accounts,  and 
assist us In collecting all others.

WILLIAM  CONNOR  ♦

WHOLESALE 

READYMADE CLOTHING

of every kind and for all ages.

All manner of summer  goods:  Alpacas, 
Linen, Duck,  Crash  Fancy  Vests,  etc., 

direct from factory.

28  and  30 South  Ionia Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mall  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
daily from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m„  except 
Saturdays  to  l  p.  m.  Customers’  ex­
penses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1957.

*   Bell phone, Main 1282. 

♦

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

Established 1841.

R.  O.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’ g,  Orsnd  Rapids,  Mich. 

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

Books arranged w ith trade classification  of  names. 
Collections made everywhere. W rite for particulars.

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page. 
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3.  G etting th e  People.
3.  Got the  Clothes.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  G rand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Clerks’  Corner.
8.  E ditorial.
IO.  D ry Goods.
13.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Clothing.
15.  Representative  R etailer.
16.  H ardw are.
18.  B u tter  and  Eggs.
30.  W om an’s  W orld.
33.  The  New  Y ork  M arket.
33.  Pleasures  of Frog  H unting.
33.  Village  Im provem ent.
34.  So  Much  a W eek.
35.  Com m ercial Travelers.
36.  D rugs  and  Chemicals.
37.  D rug P rice  Current.
38.  Grocery  Price  Current.
39.  Grocery  Price  C urrent.
30.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
33.  U nfortunate Suprem e Court Decision.

W indow  Dressing.

TH E  PERSONAL  FACTOR.

Whether  Napoleon  did  or  did  not  say 
that  success  depends  upon  three  things, 
energy,  system  and  perseverance,  it  is 
a  fact  known  and  acknowledged  long 
before  that  famous  general's  time  as  it 
has  been  admitted  since ;  but  always 
with  the  understanding  that  the  three 
are  only  agents  of  the  personal  factor 
behind  them.  Nobody  claims 
for  a 
moment  that  this  trinity  of  success  does 
not  make  a  powerful  combination  and 
that  the  warrior  of  ail  time  shows  what 
can  be  done  with  it, but  it  is  a  truism  to 
say  that  it  needed  Napoleon  to  show 
what  can  be  done  with 
it,  exactly  as 
it  called  for  the  personality  of  Welling­
ton  with  the  same  agent  to  furnish  St. 
Helena  its  distinguished  prisoner.  It  is 
the  personal  factor  that  settles the  ques­
tion  and  it  makes  no  difference  in  what 
field  of  effort  it  shows  itself.

Great  surprise  has  been  frequently 
expressed  at  the  growing  omnipresence 
of  the  American  machine. 
Ibis  every­
where  and  always  winning  the  favor  of 
the  ownership  into  whose  hands  it  falls. 
The  symbol  of  this,  the  machinery  age, 
is  the  engine  and  the  American  produc­
tion  easily  takes  the lead.  As  a  matter 
of  course  the  United  States  has  the 
largest  one— it  is  symbolic  of  the  coun­
try  making  it.  Up  the  steepest  grade 
in  the  world,  the largest  locomotive  ever 
built  is  hauling 
its  tremendous  loads. 
Under  the  burning  sun  of  Bengal  the 
American-made  machine  is  exciting  the 
wonder  of  the  Bengalese,  who,  wonder­
ing  at  it  and  at  the  work 
it  does,  have 
dubbed  it  the  “ bleating  horse.”   Egypt 
hungered  and  thirsted  after  what  she 
supposed  was  the  unattainable  and  to­
day  a  Baldwin  mogul,  an  American  lo­
comotive,  is  the 
largest  machine  dis­
turbing  the  tranquility  of  the Nile.  New 
Zealand  must  have  the  best  engine  in 
the 
the  world  for  her  railroads  and 
American  shop  builds 
is  the 
Yankee-whistling  machine  that  is  wak­
ing  up  Siberian  Russia ;  the  Cape  of 
Good  Hope  has  learned  that  this  coun­
try  can  best  fill  her engine  orders,  and 
the  Midland  Railway  of  England  has 
found  it  to  its  advantage  to  order  from 
our  workshops  the  machinery  and  boil­
ers.  The  energy,  system  and  persever-

it. 

It 

ance  that  disposed  of  Napoleon  hy  the 
national  personal  factor  has  found  its 
master  in  the  field  of  industry  and  ac­
knowledges  its  own  Waterloo.

in  every 

Should  the  far-reaching  why  be  pre­
sented  the  answer  is  found  in  the  work­
manship  itself.  The  American  locomo­
tive  has  its  equal  nowhere.  From  first 
last  the  idea  and  its  realization  are 
to 
peculiarly 
its  own  and  not  a  machine 
but  shows  its  intelligent  adaptability  to 
the  work  required  of  it.  The  “ I  must 
have”  
instance  is  answered, 
and  promptly  answered,  by  the  ready, 
“ Here  it  is.”   The  growing  needs  of  an 
exacting  generation  have 
since 
passed  the  old-time  limit  of  the  black­
Iron  has  given  way  to 
smith’s  brawn. 
steel  in  consequence  until 
intelligence 
itself  seems  to  have  passed  from  the 
workman’s  brain  to  the  work  of  his 
hands,  and  the  whole  shows  not  only the 
old-time  energy,  system  and  persever­
ance,  but 
in  addition  to  that  the  na­
tional  personal  factor  that  has  made 
the  American  locomotive  “ the  best  ma­
chine  on  earth!”

long 

That  same  trinity 

is  the  underlying 
cause  of  our  commercial  prosperity. 
German  energy,  British  system,  Russian 
perseverance— Old  World  everything— 
taken,  as  they  must  be,  at  their  best, 
lack  the  American  spirit  which  is  the 
requisite  personal  factor. 
It  has  the 
gift  of  seeing  and  the  gift  of  supplying 
the  world’s  wants. 
It  feeds,  it  clothes, 
it  satisfies  with  its  best  and  so  uplifts. 
For  this  reason  the  Northwestern  wheat 
field 
is  driving  out  of  the  peasant’s 
kitchen  the  European  black  bread  of the 
ages.  For this  reason  the  Austrian  shoe­
maker  wonders 
if  he  can  much  longer 
stick  to  his 
last.  For  this  reason  the 
gates  of  trade  are  swung  wide  open  to 
American  enterprise. 
It  is  not  the  old, 
much-talked-of  and  over-praised  energy 
and  perseverance  that  the  nations  of  the 
earth  are  alter.  They  want  the  America 
that  is  behind  them  and  without  it  the 
result  is  “ flat,  stale  and  unprofitable."
In  all  that  pertains  to  the  world's 
best,  it  is  the  personal  factor  that  tells. 
It  is  the  Thackeray  in  Vanity  Fair  that 
has  made  Becky  Sharp  a  success. 
It 
is  the  Emerson  of  it  that  has  made  the 
Concord  Sage,  the  philosopher  of  all 
time,  just  as  it  is  the  inborn  something 
that  throbs  behind  everything  that  is 
American  and  makes 
it  the  personal 
factor  which  is  making  itself  felt  to-day 
in  every  department  of  human  life.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

As  nearly  all  elements  of  restriction, 
such  as  the  recent  financial  stringency 
and  possibilities  of  labor troubles,  have 
been  eliminated  during  the  past  few 
days  the  course  of  trading  has  been  up­
ward  as  to  prices  and  onward  as  to  ac­
tivity.  Recent  reports  as  to  crop  situa­
tion  tend  to  conservatism 
in  some  of 
the  granger  railway  securities,  but  as  a 
whole  the  stock  market  is  making  new 
records 
is  an 
evident  desire  to  prevent  corners  and  to 
keep  the  advances  within  bounds, which 
promises  well  for  the  permanence  of  the 
movement.  The  worst  that  can be feared 
is  an  undue  mania  for  speculation  that

lines.  There 

in  many 

may  bring  boom  conditions,  with  the 
inevitable  reaction.

The  conditions  in  Wall  Street  are  an 
indication  of  the  course  of  trade  all over 
the  country.  There  is  so  much 
less  of 
speculative  trading 
in  the  New  York 
markets  that  bank  clearings  are  much 
less  in  that  city  than  last  year,  but  the 
general  activity  elsewhere  is  enough  to 
from  a  year 
overbalance  the  decline 
ago.  General  merchandise 
is  moving 
freely  everywhere  and  reports  are  unan­
imous  as  to  unusual demands of consum­
ers.  Another  favorable  indication  is  the 
fact  that  building  materials,  especially 
lumber,  are  in  great  demand  and  prices 
well  sustained.  Supplies  are  reported 
short  in  many  localities. 

.

Wool  stocks 

in  the  hands  of  Eastern 
dealers  are 
light,  and.Western  growers 
are  stubbornly  holding  for  full  values, 
is  additional  support  in  for­
and  there 
eign  Conditions, 
the  London  auction 
sale  next  month  being  expected to  bring 
good  prices.  Sales  at  the  Eastern  cities 
are  restricted,  however,  manufacturers 
taking  raw  material  with  caution  while 
the  strike 
is  pending.  Cotton  has  de­
veloped  further  strength  amid  much  ex­
citement 
in  speculation,  but  a  wide 
difference  of  opinion  exists  between 
Northern  and  Southern  operators.  The 
cereals  have  attracted  a  large  share  of 
attention,  a  high 
level  of  prices  pre­
vailing  and  no  reaction  being  long  sus­
tained.  Lack  of  rain  in  a  few  winter 
wheat  states,  together  with  a  large  do­
mestic  flour  output  and  well  sustained 
exports,  was  the  element  of 
strength 
in  wheat,  while  reduced  stocks  and  a 
better  foreign  enquiry  held  corn  twenty 
cents  a  bushel  above  the  quotation  a 
year  ago.

New  England  textile  and  shoe  facto­
ries  are  turning  out  large  quantities  of 
interruption  being  experi­
goods,  less 
enced  on  account  of 
labor  disputes. 
Cotton  goods  are  in  especially  brisk  re­
quest,  with  most  encouraging  gains  in 
foreign  shipments.  Although  still  in­
significant  compared  with  exports  of 
the  raw  material,  the  outgo  of  the  fin­
ished  product 
is  gradually  expanding, 
and  there 
is  reason  to  hope  that  some 
day  this  country  will  do  its  share  in 
the  world's  markets  and  retain  the 
profit  of  manufacturing.  Woolens  are 
reasonably  quiet  now  that  the  temporary 
urgency  of  clothing  manufacturers  has 
ended.  Considering  the  growth  of  the 
shoe  manufacture  at  the  South  and  West 
it 
is  not  surprising  that  Boston  ship­
ments  of  footwear  have  decreased ;  in 
fact,  it  is  more  remarkable  that  they  are 
so  well  maintained.  Much  new  busi­
ness  has  recently  been  placed,  and  there 
is  a  better  enquiry  for  leather,  resulting 
in  fairly  firm  prices.  At  iron  and  steel 
mills  activity  continues,  nor  is  there 
prospect  of  any  decrease,  with  the  ca­
pacity  sold  to  the  end  of the  year  in 
many  cases.

It  ¡9  an  old  saying  that  if  you  take 
care  of  the  pennies  the  dollars  will  take 
care  of  themselves.  A  grocer  in  Indi­
fad 
ana  began  saving  pennies  as  a 
twenty  years  ago,  and  has  just  given 
it 
up.  He  had  accumulated  19,700  pen­
nies  in  the  twenty  years,  and  concluded 
that  he  might  have  done  far  better  had 
he  saved  dollars.

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

Petting the  People

The  A dvertising  o f  Passing  Fads  and 

Novelties.

lucky.  And  usually  he 

One  of  the  most  deceptive  things  in 
trade  is  the  permanence, or the  opposite, 
of  fads  and  crazes.  For  instance,a  new 
sport  or  recreation  comes  out  and  takes 
the  world  by  storm  and  the  dealer  who 
can  first  get  in  the  field  considers  him­
self 
is  lucky 
provided  he  gets  out  again  soon enough. 
A  third  of  a  century  ago  there  was  a 
considerable  rush 
into  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  base  ball  bats  and  croquet 
sets.  The  former  had  a  varying  per­
manence,  but  croquet  fell  flat,  leaving 
many  a  stranded  manufacturer and more 
stranded  dealers.  But  no 
lesson  was 
learned  from  this experience—the period 
since  has  been  a  constant  succession  of 
similar  shipwrecks.

Two  or three  years  ago  it  became  my 
duty  to  design  some  advertising  for  an 
extensive  manufacturer  of  crokinole 
boards.  There  was  a 
large  edition  of 
illustrated  booklets,  showing  the  goods 
in  the  natural  colors,  gotten  up  at  con­
siderable  cost. 
It  transpired  shortly 
after  the  advertising  was  delivered  to 
the  manufacturer*  that  the  concern  re­
ceived  a  visit  from  the  buying  repre­
sentative  of a  Chicago  house.  Negotia­
tions  were  opened  for  contracting  the 
output  of  the  plant  for  a  year,  but  a 
condition  was  made  that  the  booklets, 
cuts  and  electrotypes  which  carried  the 
makers’  names  should  be  destroyed; 
and  to  make  sure  that  this  part  of  the 
contract  was  carried  out  the  buyer  ac­
companied  the  stuff  to the  furnace  room 
and  watched  that  the  conflagration  was 
complete.

The  terms  of  the  contract  required  the 
delivery  of  a  carload  per  week.  All 
went  well  for  a  few  months  until  it  be­
came  suddenly  manifest  that  the  crok­
inole  fad  was  over.  The  jobber  made 
an  offer of  $5,000  for the  abrogation  of 
the  balance  of  the  contract,  but  as  the 
goods  were  in  process  of  making 
it 
could  not  be  accepted.  Week after week, 
for the  remainder  of  the  year,  the  regu­
lar  carload  was  started  on  its  way,  and 
the  consignees  have  enough  crokinole 
boards  to 
last  for  the  next  500  years— 
unless  there  comes  another  craze  for 
them.  The  contract  expired and,  learn­
ing  wisdom, the  factory  was  put  at  work 
making  chairs,  as  being  liable  to  more 
permanent  use.

Doubtless  the  manufacture  of  nove 1- 
ties  in  toy  and  game  goods  is  a  stand­
ard  business,  but  it  is  one  requiring  the 
utmost  discretion  on  the  part  of  the 
management  to  discriminate 
in  which 
lines  hay  must  be  made  while  the  sun 
shines.  A  factory  or business established 
for  any  exclusive  novelty 
is  at best  a 
risky  speculation.

The  judicious  dealer  goes  slow  in  the 
quantities  of  such  goods  laid  in  and  is 
not  apt  to  feel  bad  if  stock  needs  fre­
quent  renewing.  But  there  is  a  consid­
erable  advertising  value  while 
such 
crazes 
last.  The  dealer  who  is  talking 
about  that  which  is  in  the  minds  of  the 
people  is  most  apt  to  gain  a  hearing, 
but  it  is  well  to  know  when  to  stop.

*  *  *

Friedman  shows  a  well  planned  de­
partment  advertisement  which 
is  well 
handled  by  the  printer.  My  suggestion 
would  be  a  plainer  letter  for  the  firm 
name,  because  the  eye  does  not catch 
this  readily.  The  best  features  are  the 
prices  and  the  best  of  these,  to  my 
thinking,  are  the  first  and  the 
last. 
However,  I  suppose  experiment  must

Cash.

F R I E C f y l f U y S One Price.

Dry  Gooc
WA
An unsurpassed 
Wash Fabrics, ir 
that baffles desc 
well as yourself, 
such low prices.
*  SPECIAL, 
APR
40  pieces A. P. 
sold for 12  l*2c 
prick of.  per  yai

s  Dept
SH GOODS.
showing  of  the  new  and  Noyel 
the chic aad-correct;'a. gathering 
ription.  To do the  stock justice's 
come and  share  our  wonders at
SATURDAY ONLY 
IL  12.  1902.
G. and Toils  de  Nords  Ginghams 
yd., at the amazingly low 

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Millinery  Sale  r y   0«   w « *

We  place  oa  sale  Saturday,  April  12*  1002, 
26  trimmed  hate,  worth  $5.60  and  O0)   JO  
$4.00. at each..................................

Clothing  Dept

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One Coilisa. Coon A Co  collar  free  with 
every Negligee Shirt  for..................... 
VsJV*
We piece on sale Saturday and <Monday, April 12th 
^ and  14th,  78c  men's end boys*  Negligee  X O «
Shiite fo r..............................................

Collar  Free  With  Every  Shirt

These  shirts  are  made  with  madras  fronts end 
cuffs, and peroale bodies but the pattern in the two 
materials match so clocely in color and design that 
the .difference is scarcely preceptibla.  If the shirts 
wars mads entirely of  madras they would be $1.60 
but made up in  this  manner  they  look  as  though  ,■ 
they  were  madras  throughout  and the 
iCO* 
price is  only.............................. .............  V«/Vs
See the Monarch Shirts.  New Shipment  # f   A A  
just received far.........»..........j . . . . , ....... «piA /V

DRY  GOODS. 

MILLINERY, 

CLOTHING. F i * I E f > M f U y S

Belding,

• Michigan.

$500
REWARD

T h e  above  reward  of 
$500  will  be  paid  to  any­
one  furbishing  me  a  buy­
er  for  two  lots  oh  W ood­
ward  Avenue  at  assessed 
valuation.
E.  W.  ABBOTT

10 Whitney Opera House  Block 

P H O N E   M.  1730. 

D E T R O IT .

New Goods

To m eet the demand of oar increasing  busi­
ness  we  have  added  quite  extensively  to 
each department of our store.  A  full line of 
Shoes  of  all  styles  and  prices  Rubber 
Boots to fit everybody at  right  prices  Our 
Groceries are the  BEST.

C .  M O O R E

sn’t it» wonderful ?

Yes, that  is trtic.  Mr.  Morris  is  making 
a  great  offer  to  ladies.  The  finest  and  latest 
Btyle  SUITS  at  very 
feasonable  pri-.es. 
About fitting apd stales, 1  don’t need  to  men­
tion,  for  nearly  every  lady  in.Detroit  kn^ws 
(hat.  Yps,  this  is  the  same  Mr.  Morris  that 
was  with  the  late  W.  R.  Amory  for the  past 
two  years  until  September  last,  so  don’t  Ipse 
the  opportunity  to  call,  also  to  see  the 'offer 
and prices  of  the  original  French  models.

S. M O R R I S
Bldg., 232 Woodward Ave.  Tel. M. 1490

Fqfguson

Bread  Baking

M ade a   p lea su re  by  th e   use o f F le isc b m a n n   t   Co's

Compressed

Y ello w   L ab el
Y E A S T

F o r  sa le  by  a ll  d ealers.

ALEX  C.  HORNXOHL,  AGENT

Y our  Teeth

' Are an important  part 
of your digestive econ­
omy.  We have*?  fine 
line of

Tooth  Brushes»

Tooth  Powdtr,

Tooth Paste.

Call at  .......
Peckham’s  Drug  Store

Tki  Stors  That  Nadi  Ran 

Furnishing  Easy.
The  Refrigerators

that  We  are  selling  this  season 
are the Gurney,  this m a tt Is one 
of  the  best:  inside  of  hard  wood, 
finely  finished,  fined  with.'min-  - 
eral  wool. ■  W e  nave  all  glass, 
starting  at $7  and  up  to aoge  aa 
btg  as  128  in  prlca  ^

' 

In  Mattings

wa  sell  both  The  Chipaae  and 
Japanese  makes;  b at  not 
tb* 
cheap  ones <• a t  all  We  don’t 
handle  the  kind  a t  Id .cent»-, or 
thereabouts  to  put  which  on  the 
floor  is  a  waste  of  time  But  if 
you  want, a  good  matting  for  20 
to  25 'cents  a  yard,  we  want  you 
to  see  oar  line  We  have  an  ele­
gant  assortment  of  patterns.

60 Carts

Forty  styles,  mostly  with  reclin­
ing  backs  They’l l   all  the  fam­
ous  Whitney  make,  too:  you 
Itnow  Whitney  mads  carriages 
for  babies  for  over  16.years  and 
he  knows  how.  A  first-class 
cart,  srlth  patent  reclining  back 
and  front,  rubber  tire  wheels, 
foot  brake,  pretty  rattan  body. 
aH-tron  gear,  fitted  with  a  vel­
our  covered  cushion,  and  silk  or 
lace  parasol.  212.60.

Iron  Bads.

“Why!  TotTve  got  beds  till  ■ 

you  can't  rest.**  said  a  customer 
one  day  last  week;  he  meant  of' 
course  that  he  was  surprised  a t 
the  number  of  beds  we  had  in 
stock.  Anyone  else  would  be 
too.  fbr  we  show  at  least  70 
styles  a t  this  writing  of  metal 
beds;  we  have  them  In  white, 
light  and  dark  green,  blue  pink, 
terra  cotta.  Ivory,  and  in  combi­
nation  of  colors;  we  are  very- 
strong  on  such  as sell  from  24.00. 
to 212.00., having  a  large range of 
patterns  from  which  one  ctjj 

chooseYoung  Couples

Who  are  about  to  go, to  house­
keeping  are  particularly  Invited 
'to  cadi and look around:  we shah 
be pleased  to show  them  through 
the  store,  furnish  estimates  an<1 
give  such  other  information  ap 
we  possess.

E a s y  to   B u y  
E a s y  to  P a y

A n d

That’s  in  buying  from  us  on 
our  easy  payment  system.  Peo­
ple  who  buy  on  charge  actount 
are  not*  charged  Interest  nor  Is 
there  any  advance  In  price.  We 
make  the  terms  so  easy  and  lib­
eral  that  there  is  no  hardship 
felt In  furnishing  your  home  and 
paying  for  it.

P e o p l e ' s
Outfitting
Com pany,
215-221  N.  Burdick  St.

justify  the  $2.48  idea  or  it  would  not 
be  so  long  pursued.

The  announcement  of  E.  W.  Abbott 
is  reproduced  for three reasons—because 
it  is  an  excellent  example  of  terse,  con­
cise  statement,  because  it  is  so  com­
posed  by  the  printer  that  it  presents  the 
idea  of  the  advertiser  in  the  most  em­
phatic  manner possible  and  also  because 
it  affords  one  of  tbe  best  samples  of  in­
direct  advertising  I have ever  seen.  Mr. 
Abbott  does  not  expect  to sell any lots  as 
tbe  result  of  the  announcement.  He 
makes  tbe  statement  he  does  to convince 
the  taxpayers  of  Detroit  of  the  injustice 
of  tbe  present  system  of  assessing  real 
estate,  with  a  view  to  creating  a  public 
sentiment  against  unfairness  and  injus­
tice  which  will  ultimately  result  in  a 
reform  of  the  present  method  or  in abol­
ishing  the  present  system  altogether. 
Such  an  advertisement  is  calculated  to 
draw  to  Mr.  Abbott  men  who  have  met 
with  a  similar  experience  at  tbe  hands 
of  the  assessors,  and  in  some  cases  these 
acquaintances  will  be  of  value  to  him 
in  bis  future  career.  Some  men  are  con­
tent  to  take  a  broad  view  of  advertising 
of  this  character  and 
insist  that  tbe 
money  is  well  spent,  even  if  an  equiva­
lent  does  not  come  back  to  their  money 
till  tbe  same  day,  the  same week  or  the 
same  month  in  which tbe  expenditure  is 
made.  Mr.  Abbott  evidently  belongs to 
this  class.

C.  Moore  writes  a  pointed  and  busi­
nesslike  announcement which the printer 
adapts  to  the  space  in  tbe  best  manner. 
It  will  be  seen  and  read.

S.  Morris  presents  a  curiosity  of 
phrasing 
in  modern  style  with  saying 
nothing.  Tbe  only  two  things  expressed 
are  that  Mr.  Morris  is  making  a  great 
offer  to  ladies,  and  who  Mr.  Morris  is. 
The  inference  is  that  the  offer  is  “ Suits 
at  very  reasonable  prices.”   Nothing  so 
very  wonderful  about  that! 
It  would  be 
wonderful 
if a  dealer  claimed  less  than 
that.  Tbe  next  sentence  needs  only  to 
be  read  to  be  appreciated. 
It  would 
not  say  anything  even  if  it  were  gram­
matical.  The  grammar  is  no  better  in 
the  next  sentence  and  tbe  inferential 
egotism  he  tries  to  express  is  very 
is  still  more 
funny.  Tbe 
bungling 
The  printer's 
work 
is  about  as  weak  and  eccentric  as 
that  of  tbe  writer.  He  should  strike 
out  all  but  the name and  address,  which 
are  good,  and  put  in  tbe  name  of  the 
business  to  have  a  good  advertisement, 
or better,  employ  one  that  knows  some­
thing  of  advertising  and  of  “ English  as 
she  is  writ.”

if  possible. 

last  phrase 

Alex  C.  Hornkohl 

is  more  happy  in 
saying  that  which  will  reach  the eye and 
attention  of  those  he  wishes  to  interest. 
Tbe  display  and  use  of  space  are  good.
Dr.  Peckham  will  attract  attention 
and  other  trade  than  tooth  brushes  by 
his  display.  The  printer’s  work  is  a 
model.  The  advertisement 
is  a  good 
one.

Aside  from  the  mourning  suggestion 
the  use  of  space  by  tbe  People's  Outfit­
ting  Co.  is  interesting  to  those  who may 
not  think  the  solid  paragraphs  too  hard. 
1  would  cut  out  half  and  use  a  lighter 
border and  so  gain  more  readers.

If  men  could  shed  tears  as  easily  as 
women  can,  the  recording  angel  would 
have  much 
less  profanity  to  charge  up 
against  them.

Men  invariably  overestimate  their ca­
pacity.  They  never  know  when  they 
have  enough  until  after they  acquire  too 
much.

A  dead  sure  way  to get  poor  is  to  try 

to  get  rich  too  fast.

GOT THE  CLOTHES.

W here There’s  a  W ill  There's  Always  a 

Way.
Written for the Tradesman.

Chapter  I.

It  was  late  autumn  time  in  Northern 

Michigan.

A  chill  northeast  wind  swept  fitfully 

down  the  valley.

The 

leaden  sky  bung  low  and  great 
masses  of clouds scudded across the land­
scape,  their  trailing  tentacles  almost 
touching  the  tall  trees upon the hillsides.
The  grass  along  the  highway  was 
heavy  with  moisture  and,  although  the 
rain  no  longer  fell,  the  turf  was  soaked 
and  sodden,  and 
it  squashed  sullenly 
beneath  the  tread  of  the  old  man  who, 
drawing  his  threadbare  coat  closer  and 
still  more  closely  about  his  shrunken 
form,  quickened  his  pace  along  the 
dreary way.

The  name  of  the  man  was  Grosshawk 

and  he  was  headed  for  town.

Chapter  II.

Nellie  Grosshawk  sat  by  the 

dreaming.

fire, 

About  her  were  bare  walls  and  rickety 
furnishings,  but  she  did  not  see  them.
The  fire  had  died  out  in  the  broken 
stove  before  her  and  the  wind  blew  in 
about  the  edges  of  the  outer door,  but 
she  did  not  feel  the  chill  that  was  in the 
morning  air.

A  yellow  story  book  that  she  had  but 
finished  slid  unheeded  from  her  lap 
and  she  dreamed  on.

The  orphan  maiden  in  the  tale  had 
just  married  the  duke  and  the  whole 
thing  finished 
It 
was  again  Cinderella  and  the  shoes  of 
glass.  And  again  came  Prince  Charm­
ing,  the  shabby  gown  was  changed  to  a 
robe  of  gold,  and,  and,  and—

in  a  blaze  of  light. 

“ Mooo-o-o-1"   sounded a  familiar note 

from  the  near  outside.

fergot 

“ Blame  the  cow!”   ejaculated  Nellie. 
“ 1  clean 
’twas  arter  milkin’ 
time.  Wall,  I'll  pail  her  this  once,  but 
if  dad  don’t  git  me  them  things  to-day, 
blamed  ef  1  ever  do  ag’in,  so  now!”  

Chapter  III.

Grosshawk  stumbled  into  the  village 

store.

He  was  spent  and  nervous  from  his 
long  walk,  and  he  hung  shivering  over 
the  fire  for a  long  time  before  he  made 
known  his  needs.

“ I  wanter  git— ”   he  hesitated,  “ ter 

git— ter  git— ”

throat.

The  words  stuck 

in  his  wrinkled 

“ I  was  wantin'  ter  git  a  little  stuff  on 

time,”   be  finally  managed  to  say.

“ Haven't  I  got  an  account  against 
you  now?”   enquired  the  merchant  in 
evident  surprise.  “ Seems  to me that  it's 
a  good  ways  past  due,  too,”   he  con­
tinued,  as  the  old  man  seemed  to  be 
about  to  press  his  case.

“ O,  I’ll  pay.  I’ll  pay,”   said  Gross­
hawk. 
“ Jest  a  few  things,  ye  know, 
jest  a  little  more  stuff—stuff  what  I  got* 
ter  have.  But 
I’ll  pay—sometime— 
sometime  pooty  soon.  Hard  times  fer 
me,  awful  hard  times,  but  I  allers  pay— 
allers. ”

“ How  much  do  you  want?”   asked  the 
dealer,  pitying  the  old  man's  evident 
“ How  much  m-u-s-t  you have?”
need. 
“ Not  much—jest  a  leetle—jest  what 

I’ve  gotter  have.”

“ Two  dollars’  worth?”
“ Mebbe. 

Jest  a  few  things.  Not 

much. ”

“ When  can  you  pay?”
“ Pretty  quick.  Jest  as  soon  as  1  kin. 

It  won’t  be  long.”
“ Two  weeks?”

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

3

“ Mebbe.  Pay  ye  all  right. 

do— allers.'”

I  allers 

“ Well,  if  you  don’t  know  bow  much 
or  when  you  can  pay,  suppose  you  tell 
me  what  it  is  you  want.”

“ Jest  a  little  stuff—stuff  fer  the  g a l,”  
he  added  apologetically  as  he  handed 
up  a  piece  of  soiled  note  paper  and 
eyed  the  merchant  apprehensively  as 
he  narrowly  scanned  the  items  that  had 
been  written  upon  it.

“   ‘ Flour,  three  yards  pink  ribbon, 
ladies’  fine  shoes,  tea,  jockey  club  per­
fume,  five  yards  lace,  quite  wide,  bottle 
hair  oil,  pound  of  soda,  nine  yards  nice 
dress  goods,  pair  kid  gloves,  piece  bar­
rel  pork,  eight  yards  embroidery,  box 
face  powder”   “ Why,  man!”   ejaculated 
the  merchant,  “ most  of  these  are  things 
you  can  get  along  without. 
I  am  too 
good  a  friend  of  yours  to  want  you  to 
go  in  debt  for  goods  that  will  keep  you 
hard  up  all  winter.  No,  I  don’t  see  how 
I  can  do  it. ”

“ That’s  what  I  told  Nell.  But  she’s 
got to  have  ’em,  an’  I’ll  pay—sometime 
I’ll  pay. 

I  allers  do.”

But  the  merchant  was  obdurate.

Chapter  IV.

Nellie  Grosshawk's  brow  was  dark 

and  threatening.

“ Them  things  has  got  to  be  got!”  she 
exclaimed,  with  an  emphatic  movement 
of  her  closed  right  hand  that  jarred  the 
cracked  dishes  upon  the  palsied  table.
“ Seems  to  me  we've  come  to  a  nice 
pass  when  Jones  won’t  let  ye  have  a 
couple  o’  dollars’  worth  without  the 
money.  Did  ye  try  Williams?"

“ No,  I  didn’t,”   answered  the  old 
“ I  reckon  I’m 

man  with  averted  eyes. 
no  good  there  no  more—no  good.”

“ Wall,  now you  jest  hike  back  an’  git 
them  things.  They’ve  got  to  be  got. 
Understand  that?  They  got  to  be  got.”  

Chapter  V.

He  was  a  “ string  butcher.”   He  was 
short  and  thick-set,  with  red  hair  and  a 
face  to  match.

If  any  of  the  finer  instincts  of  man 
were  originally  born 
into  his  soggy 
brain,  he  had  masterfully  extinguished 
them,  every  one,  or thrust  them  bravely 
aside.

His  favorite  pastime  consisted 

in 
tying  a  high-strung  heifer  to  the  rear 
axle  of  his  wagon, 
for  it  amused  him 
greatly  to  watch  her  frantic  efforts  to es­
cape  while  his  rawboned  horses dragged 
her  relentlessly  toward  the  shambles.

As  a  buyer  of  cattle  he  was  a  success, 
because  he  managed  to  get  stock  at con­
siderably  below  the  market  price  and  to 
dispose  of  it  at  a  figure  more  or  less  in 
excess  of  its  real  value.

“ Any  critters  for  sale?”   he  enquired 
at  the  Grosshawk  door,  and  Nellie,  who 
was  alone  at  the  time,  started  into  an­
imation  as  she  grasped  the  unlooked- 
for  opportunity  and  answered:

“ You  jest  bet!”
“ Don’t  want  no  cows,”  said he,  as the 

animal  was  pointed  out  to  him.

Nellie’s  face  betrayed  her  disappoint­

ment.

“ No cows?”   she  asked.
“ No,  nothin’  but  young  stock  to-day. 
Oh,  I  mougbt  gin  ye  a  leetle  suthin’  fer 
her,  but  I’d  druther  not.”

“ How  much?”
“ Twelve  dollars  ’d  be  an  extry  price, 
but  seein’ 
leered 
suggestively,  “ seein’  it's  you,”   he  re­
peated,  “ I  mougbt  make  it  fifteen.”

it’s  you,”   and  he 

Nellie  took him  up  so  quickly  that  be 
gasped  for  breath.  He  had  expected 
to  pay  a  higher  price.  As  for  this  girl 
she  knew  not  the  value  of  the  animal 
and  didn't care.  She  wanted  some  fin­

ery  and  the  means  to  obtain  it  having 
presented 
itself,  she  made  the  most  of 
the  chance.  The  butcher  handed  her 
the  money  and  was  inclined  to  prolong 
the  interview,  but  she  slammed  the  door 
in  his  face,  so  he  abandoned  the  idea 
and,  after  tying  the  cow  safely  to  his 
wagon,  drove  away.

Nellie  donned  her  best  clothes,  care­
fully crimped her  hair  and  started  off  on 
foot  toward  the  village.

Chapter  VI.

When  Mr.  Grosshawk  again  arrived 
in  the 
little  town  he  felt  so  weak  and 
nervous  from  his  double  journey  that  he 
decided  to  take  a 
tonic  at  Hank's 
saloon,  and  while  there  he  met  Zenas 
Doublederry,  who,  as  everyone knows, 
has  made  his  money  by  loaning  small 
sums  to  the  needy  natives  at  so  much 
per.

lure  him 

Grosshawk  had  been  several  times  in 
the  clutches  of  Zene  and  escaped  only 
with  the 
loss  of  considerable  interest 
money,  to  say  nothing  of bonus,  and had 
sworn  that  no  straits,  however  great, 
would  ever  again 
into  the 
Doublederry  net.  But as  it  is  the  unex­
pected 
that  always  happens,  and  as 
Zenas  seemed  unusually  friendly  and 
obliging,  Grosshawk  finally  negotiated 
a  loan  of  fifteen  dollars,  giving  therefor 
his  note  for twenty,  payable  sixty  days 
hence,  and bearing yearly  interest  at  the 
rate  of  7  per  cent.  There  was  also  an­
other  paper,  given  merely  as a matter  of 
form,  of  course,  and  of  no  particular 
consequence,  but  rather  insisted  upon by 
Doublederry. 
It  was  a  chattel mortgage 
on  Grosshawk’s  only  cow.

Grosshawk  went  back  to  Jones’  store, 
paid  up  the  old  score  and  then  bought 
the  things  his  daughter  wanted.

Chapter  VII.

felt 

Nellie 

rather  resentful  toward 
Jones  and  when  she  got  to  town  she 
bought  her  goods  from  Mr.  Williams. 
Her  means  were  rather  inadequate,  but 
Williams  kindly  allowed  her  to get  more 
than  her  money  would  pay  for as  Nellie 
assured  him  that either  she  or  her  father 
would  settle  the  balance  in  a  short time.

Chapter  VIII.

The  tongue  of  every  gossip 

in  the 

country  was  wagging.
Grosshawk?”

“ Hain't 

it  a  terror  about  old  man 

“ Yas,  awful  funny,  take 

“ Yes,  it's  a  fright!”
“ Seems  queer  he’d  go  an’  drowned 
hisself  that  way,  though,  an  ’never  say 
nothin’  about  it. ”
it  up  one 
side  an’  down  t’other.  Still  ye  can’t 
most  allays  tell  what’s  goan’  tub happen 
these  times. ”
“ Waal but what d’ye reely s’pose  made 
I’ve  heered  fust  one  thing 
I  don’t  jestly  un'er- 

him  do  it? 
an’  then  another. 
stan'  it  right. ”

“ Why,  I  wouldn’t  go  fer to  say  it  was 
so,  but  they  be’n  a  tellin'  aroun’  that 
he  g i’n  a  mortgage  to  Doublederry  on  a 
cow  what  had  be’n  sold,  an’  ye  know 
what  Zene  is.  Guess  when  Grosshawk 
got  to  thinkin'  what’d  happen  to  him, 
he  got  scairt.  Say,  d’ye  s’pose  he  lef’ 
any  prope’ty?”

Chapter  IX.

The  sky  still  hung  low  and  dark,  but 
the  wind  bad  shifted  slightly  and  a  few 
desultory  snowflakes  chased  each  other 
across  the  wooded  hills.

The  little  country  school  house  where 
the  funeral  services  were  held  was  filled 
with  folk  from  far  and  near—a  great 
concourse  for  the  time  and  place.

The  minister  talked  for an  hour  and  a 
half  and  the  ladies  wept  copiously  from 
start  to  finish.
looked  very  tearful  and  very 
sweet,  and  was  dressed  rather  better 
than  usual,  and  everyone  said:  “ What 
a  pity!  She  otter  have  a  guardeen.”

And  then,  when  all  was  over  and  the 
coffin  had  been  placed  beneath  the 
moldering  sod,  everyone  went  home 
straightway  and  ate  his  dinner  and  Nel­
lie  was  forgotten.

But  she  had  her  new  clothes,  just  the 

Nellie 

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

same. 

Rice Sales

INCREASE

50  per  cent.

BY

S E L L IN G
T H E S E

2V4 lb. pocket,  40 to bale

K etails  25  cents

RICES

T R Y   AN  ORDER  AND 

W A T C H   R E SU LTS

Orme  &   Sutton 
Rice Co.

Chicago

Branches—St.  Paul,  New  Orleans, 

St.  Louis.

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

Around  the State

Movements of M erchants.

Muskegon—Jacob  Hoekenga  has  sold 

his grocery  stock  to  Peter  Zuidema.

Pinckney—Geo.  W.  Collins  has  pur- 
chased  the  meat  market  of  Floyd  Rea­
son.

Boyne— W.  B.  .  Livingston  has  pur­
chased  the  harness stock  oi  J.  W.  Ran­
dall.

Traverse  City—j.  W.  Morse  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  the  Carroll 
Sisters.

Ruth—Jos.  Schweigert,  dealer  in  har­
nesses  and  hardware,  has  sold  out to  A. 
Sellers.

Coloma—Simon  Hosbein  has 

pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  Frank  S. 
Marvin v

Lansing—Carl  J.  Blanchard  has  sold 
bis  bppt  and  shoe  stock  to  Geo.  W. 
Watrous.

Traverse  City— W ,.  H,  Brownell,  of 
Battle  Creek,  has  engaged  in.the  bazaar 
business.

Kalamazoo—Albert  ,L.  Southwick  has 
purchased  the grocery  stock  of  Miner  S. 
Scoville.

Alpena— C.  F.  Hiser  has  opened  a 
bakery  on  Second avenue  in  the  Opera 
Pause  block.

Alpena— A.  M,  McLearn  is  erecting a 
stone  business  block  on  bis  Chishold 
street  property.

Adrian— Geo.  F.  Ball,  blacksmith, 
has  taken  a  partner  under  the  style  of 
Ball  &  Vedder.

Beulah— Frank  L.  Orcutt, 

general 
merchandise  dealer,  has  sold  his  stock 
to  P.  H.  Reed.

Republic—Van  Dyk  Bros.,  of  Cham­
pion,  have  purchased, the  meat  business 
of  Winter  &  Suess.

Bangor—Whitbeck  &  Grills  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery stock  and  meat  mar­
ket of  M.  R.  Reams.
..Jasper—Billings  &  Wyman,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  A.
D.  Billings  succeeding.

Escanaba—The  Kellogg  Mercantile  & 
incorpo­

Cedar  Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
ration. 

It  is  capitalized  at $5,000.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Medicine  Co. 
i*  the  style  of  a  new  enterprise  at  this 
place.  The  capital  stock  is $5,000.

Jones—Louis  Lurie;  dealer 

in  dry 
goods,  clothing  and  notions,  has  re­
moved  from  Cassopolis  to  this  place.

Clare— Frank  H.  Russell  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
notion  and  tinware  firm  of  Carlson  & 
Russell.’  ' 

,*•••

Harbor Springs— The  hardware  firm 
of  Foster,  Burke  &  Wilson has  been  dis­
solved.  Foster  &  Wtlson  continue  the 
business.

Kinde—Sarah  A. 

(Mrs.  August) 
Kinde  has  purchased  the  general  mer­
chandise  and  implement  stock  of  James
E,  Bond.

Marsbali^-Maurice  A.  Manning  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in 
the  grocery  and  meat  firm  of  Manning 
&  Wilson.

Lansing— Robert  W.  Langenbacber 
has  withdrawn  from  P.  E.  Lacy  &  Co., 
dealers  in  feed,  grain,  produce,  bides 
and  pelts.

Lansing—David  E.  Brackett  has  re­
tired  from  the  clothing  and  men's  fur­
nishing  goods  business  of  Brackett, 
Rogers  &  Co.

Houghton—The  annual meeting  of  the 
directors  of  the  Lake  Superior  Produce 
&  Cold  Storage  Co.  will  be  held  May 
14,when  a  proposition will  be  submitted 
to  increase  the  capital  stock  from  $100, - 
000 40 $500,000.  . 

**SD 

-

Orono— P.  M.  Slaybough  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  and  also 
leased  his  store  building  to  Peter  & 
Charles  Nelson.

Bay  City—Ben  Fox  &  Son,  dealers  in 
oysters  and  fish,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship,  Ben  Fox  continuing  the  business 
in  his  own  name.

Hillman— David  Levyn,  of  Alpena, 
has  been  taken  into  partnership  in‘the 
drug  business  of  W.  M.  Levyn.  The 
new  style  is  the  Wm.  M.  Levyn  Co.

Lewiston—O.  S.  Kneeland,  dealer  in 
meats,  has  purchased  the  general  mer­
chandise  stock  of  T.  H.  Deyarmond and 
will 
in  about  thirty 
days.

take  possession 

Kalamazoo— L.  G.  Clapp  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Ernest  Royce,  of 
Lowell,  and  Arthur  Royce,  of  Lansing, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Royce  Bros.

Middleville— L.  S.  Gale  has  sold  bis 
stock  of  men’s  furnishing  goods  and 
shoes  to  E.  B.  Mowers,  dealer  in  boots 
and  shoes  at  Eaton  Rapids,  who  has  re­
moved  the  stock  to  that  place.

Detroit—The  Geo.  G.  Harris  Co., 
wholesale  dealer  in  candies  and  man­
ufacturéis*  agent  for  grocery  sundries, 
has  merged 
into  a  cor­
poration  under the  same  style.

its  business 

West  Bay  City— W.  H.  Keyes,  drug­
gist  on Center  street,  was  found  dead  in 
bed  in  a  rear  room 
in  his  drug  store. 
He  had  been  grieving  over  the  death  of 
bis  mother  for  the  past  two  months.

Negaunee— The  Negaunee  branch  of 
the  lumber  and  merchandise  firm  of  F. 
W.  Read  &  Co.  has  been  sold  to  the 
Consolidated  Fuel  &  Lumber  Co., 
which  recently  acquired  the 
lumber, 
wood  and  coal  business  of  F.  Braastad 
&  Co.  and  F.  W.  Read  &  Co.,  at  ish- 
peming.

Durand—A  new  establishment  has 
been  located  at  this  place  and  will  do  a 
wholesale  fruit  business,  having  located 
here  on  account  of  shipping  facilities. 
The  new  concern  is  composed  of  P.  C. 
Fires,  N.  J.  Howard  and  W.  T.  Rat- 
tenburg,  the  latter  gentleman  being 
from  Chicago.

M anufacturing M atters.

Lulu— The  Lulu  Cheese  Co.  has  been 
organized  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,000.
American  Precision 
Tool  Co.  has  removed  its  plant  to  Bos­
ton.

Detroit—The 

Hudson— Samuel  Stephenson  &  Co., 
flouring  mill  operators,  are succeeded  by 
the  Avis  Milling  Co.

Houghton— The  Atlantic  Mining  Co. 
its  capital  stock  from 

increased 

has 
$1,000,000 to $2,500,000.

Petoskey—The  capital  stock  of  the W. 
W.  Rice  Leather  Co.  has  been  increased 
from  $60,000 to $2 50,000.

South  Frankfort— The  Crane  Lumber 
its  capital  stock 

Co.  has 
from  $75,000 to  $125,000.

increased 

South  Haven—The  South  Haven  Pre­
its  capital 

serving  Co.  has  increased 
stock  from  $12,000 to  $15,000.

Vermontville— The  capital  stock  of 
the  Vermontville  Creamery  Co.  has been 
increased  from  $4,000 to $5,500.

Alpena— Harry  Gittelson,  partner  in 
the  cigar  factory  of  Gittelson  Bros.,  has 
gone  to  New  York  to  purchase  stock.

Detroit—A.  M.  Belford,  E.  A.  Grosby 
and  Joseph  Delor  have  organized  the 
Michigan  Snell  Vapor  Lamp  Co.,  to 
make  vapor  lamps,  with  $20,000  capital.
Vickeryville— The  Rockafellow  Grain 
Co.,  Ltd.,  which  has  maintained  a 
warehouse  here  for  several  years, 
is 
erecting  an  elevator  with  a  capacity  of
10,000  bushels  of grain.

Lansing—The  Michigan  Condensed 
Milk  Co.  has  notified  the  farmers  that 
during  May  the  price  of  milk  will  be 
increased  20  cents  per  100 and  that  dur­
ing  the  summer  they  will  receive  10 
cents  per  100  more  than  last  year.

Augusta—The  Augusta  Basket  Co.’s 
plant,  which  was  destroyed  by  fire  some 
months  ago,  has  been  rebuilt  and  has 
resumed  operations,  giving  employment 
to  a  large  number of  hands.  Other new 
industries  which  are  to  start  work  soon 
give  an  encouraging  appearance  to  this 
village,  which  has  had  several  severe 
setbacks.

Detroit—The  Adder  Machine  Co.  has 
begun  manufacturing  adding  machines 
in  the  Boydell  building  on  Champlain 
street. 
It  will  employ  about  seventy- 
five  men.  Corwin  H.  Spencer,  of  St. 
Louis,  is  President  of  the  company; 
T.  K.  Simpson,  Vice-President;  J.  R. 
Searigbt,  Treasurer,  and  Charles  Wales, 
Secretary.  -

Frankfort— Building  operations  have 
started  on  the  canning 
factory  by-the 
Benzie  County  Canning  Co.,  which  has 
been  organized  here  with  a  capital  of 
$20,000.  Contracts  have  been  let  for  the 
machinery  with  a  Chicago  firm.  K.  S. 
Rozenbeek  is  President  of the company ; 
William  Upton,  Vice-President;  Leo F. 
Hale,  Secretary,  and  Elwin  Bellows, 
Treasurer.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—McTavish & Cullis, 
proprietors  of  the  Soo  woolen  mill,  at 
the  corner  of  Ridge  and Douglas streets, 
have  nearly  completed 
improvements 
that  -will  about  double  that  establish­
ment’s  former  capacity  of  40,000 pounds 
of  wool  annually.  Among  the  new  ma­
chinery  added  are  a  large set  of  cards,  a 
self-operating  spinner,  a 
loom  and  a 
fulling  mill.

Clio— E.  M.  Everts,  of  Nashville, 
and  Wm.  Boyd,  of  Grand  Rapids,  rep­
resenting  the  Hastings  Industrial  Co., 
of  Chicago,  are  meeting  with  good  suc­
cess  in  soliciting  stock  for  a  butter  fac­
tory  to  be  established  at  this  place. 
Creameries  have  recently  been  estab­
lished  by  this  house  at  Albion,  Marshall 
and  Charlotte  and  one 
is  now  being 
built  at  Flushing.

Detroit— The  salt  business  established 
by  G.  N.  Skinner,  will  be  merged 
into 
a  stock  company  under  the  style  of  the
G.  N.  Skinner  Salt  Co.,  withj  a  capital 
of  $25,000,  of  which  $2,460  is  held  by 
President  G.  N.  Skinner,  $100  by  Sec­
retary  Francis  E.  McCarthy,  $100  by 
Treasurer John  A.  Russell  and  similar 
amounts  by  Thomas E.  Griffin  and  Fred 
S.  Ross,  the  other  stockholders.

The  Boys  Behind  th e  Counter.

Alpena—C.  M.  Douglas,  of  Saginaw, 
is  now  head  confectioner  at  Robert 
Ellsworth’s  ice  cream  parlors. 
John 
Joslyn,  who  formerly  held  the  position, 
has  gone  to  Detroit.

Allegan—J.  B.  Wood  has  returned 
from  Grand  Rapids,  where  he  served 
four  weeks  on  the  grand  jury.  He  has 
parted  company  with  G.  M.  Wirick  to 
become  an  employe  of  Baker  &  Co.  H. 
D.  Franks  has  succeeded  him  as  clerk 
at  Mr.  Wirick’s.

Petoskey— Roy  Bower  is borne,  having 
finished  his  freshman  year  at the Detroit 
College  of  Medicine,  and  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Eckel  Drug  Co.  for 
the  summer.

Alpena—The  next  meeting  of  the  Re­
in­
tail  Clerks’  Association  will  be  an 
teresting  one.  A  debate 
is  to  be  had 
on  the  question,  "Resolved,  that  the 
United  States  Should  Annex  Cuba.”  
Charles  Richel  and  Fred  L.  Olds  will 
take  the  affirmative  side  and  J.  L.  Ber­
trand  and  Fred  Van  Kennel  will  take 
the  negative.

Traverse  City—Miss  Capitola  Vader 
has  resigned  her  position  with  Straub 
Bros.  &  Amiotte,  and  Miss  Bertha  Hol­
comb,  formerly  cashier  for  the  Boston 
Store,  has  taken  the  position.

Allegan— F.  E.  Donoghue,  who  has 
been  in  the  employ  of  Kolloff  &  Marty 
until  recently,  has  taken  a  clerkship 
in 
the  clothing  department  of  the Sherwood 
&  Griswold  Co.

Alpena— Hough  McGregor,  clerk  at'
H.  H.  Wittelshofer’s,  has  removed  to 
Ypsilanti.

The  Boston  Egg and  B u tter  M arket.
Boston,  April  21— Receipts  of  eggs 
for  the  past  week  have  been  liberal, 
nearly  as  many  as  for  the  same time last 
year,  but  there  has  been  a  sharp  de­
mand  both  for  consumption  and  cold 
storage,  which  has  kept  the  market  well 
cleaned  up  and  prices  have  advanced. 
Regular  Western  are  selling  to-day  at 
18c,  fine  assorted  Michigan  and  North­
ern  Indiana  at  i8Kc.

Receipts  of  butter  were  exceedingly 
light  all 
last  week,  nearly  350,000 
pounds  short  of  the  supply  of  the  same 
week  last  year,  and  by the  middle  of  the 
week  prices  had  reached  32@33c,  but 
the  extreme  high  prices  made  buyers 
cautious  and  checked  the  consumption 
to  some  extent,  and 
later  in  the  week 
the  market  was  easier,  and  to-day  the 
price  has  dropped  to  30c  for  the  best 
Northern 
for 
dairies. 
It  is  a  time  of  year  when  we 
must  expect  an  increase  in  the  supply 
and 
lower  prices,  although  we  do  not 
expect  to  see  prices  go  very  low  at  any 
time  this  season.

creamery  and  27@28c 

Smith,  McFarland  Co,

Detroit—The Comstock-Haigb-Walker 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $10,000,  divided 
into
1,000  shares of  the  par  value  of $10 each. 
The 
stockholders  are:  William  B. 
Comstock,  Alpena,  225  shares:  Henry 
A.  Haigh,  225  shares;  William  A. 
Comstock,  225  shares;  Frederick  W. 
Walker,  New  York,  .225  shares;  A. 
Lindsley  Parker,  100  shares.  The  com­
pany  will  construct  and  equip  railways, 
power  plants, 
lighting  plants,  manu­
facturing  plants,  water  works,  canals, 
bridges, 
buildings,  or  other 
structures.

roads, 

Commercial  Credit  Co. ’s  direct  de­

mand  letters  collect  100  per  cent.  net.

Sticking Stoppers.

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Philadel­
phia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Mr.  Fred  T. 
Gordon  brought  up  the  matter  of  pre­
venting  the  stoppers  of  bottles  contain­
ing  syrups,  solutions  of  alkalies,  etc., 
from  sticking,  and  stated  that  be  found 
it  advantageous  to  use  mixtures  of 
petrolatum  with  either  wax,  rosin,  or 
paraffin  on  the  stoppers,  and  that,  so  far 
as  syrup  bottles  were  more  especially 
concerned,  he  had  found  the  rosin  and 
paraffin  mixtures  better.  Mr.  Boring  re­
plied  that  the  late  Dr.  Squibb’s  idea  of 
using  a 
little  petrolatum  was  all  that 
was  necessary  to  keep  stoppers  from 
sticking,  and,  for  syrups,  thought  the 
use  of  loose  stoppers  the  best.

REMEMBER

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

A.  D.  Castle  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Coopersville.  The stòck 
was  purchased  of  the Worden Grocer Co.

Barth  &  Warren,  druggists  at  668 
Wealthy  avenue,  have  dissolved  part­
nership.  The  business  is  continued un­
der  the  style  of  Barth  &  Stonehouse.

C.  £.  Kellogg,  who  conducts  a  drug 
store  at  the  corner  of  Madison  avenue 
and  Hall  street,  has  sold  his  North  End 
drug  stock,  at  the  corner  of  College 
avenue  and  Carrier  street,  to  Adolph 
H.  Eckert,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

The  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  reports 
the  sale  of  new  stocks  to  the  following : 
A.  McDonald  &  Son,  Newaygo;  Brink 
&  Co.,  Tustin;  C.  E.  Cartwright, Yuma ; 
Smith  &  McClure,  Rapid  C ity;  M.  D. 
Crane  &  Co.,  Walton;  Henry  Younker, 
South  Blendon ;  A.  F.  Carlson  &  Co., 
Stephenson ;  J.  K.  Koopman,  Huber; 
J.  F.  Devereaux  &  Co.,  Morrice ;  Hurst 
&  Whitehead,  Cadillac.

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  seems  to  have  been  looked  on 
with  more  favor  during  the  past  week 
and  futures—that 
is,  May  as  well  as 
July  wheat— made  a  gain  of  2>£c  per 
bushel,  while  cash  No.  2  red  winter 
made  a  gain  of  nearly  4c  per  bushel. 
Whether  this  advance  will  hold  is  large­
ly  dependent  on  the  weather  conditions. 
The  drouth  in  the  winter  wheat  belt,  es­
in  the  Southwest,  is  such  as  to 
pecially 
cause  serious  trouble. 
I  might  also  add 
that  the  small  receipts  in  the Northwest, 
where  the  elevators  seem  to  be  empty, 
also  helped  the  good  cause  along.  The 
visible  supply  made  a  large  decrease  of
2,300,000  bushels,  leaving  the  amount  in 
sight  44,211,000 bushels,against  49,868,- 
000  bushels  at  the  corresponding  time 
last  year.  Exports  are 
large,  but,  as 
stated,  a  good  soaking  rain  may  change 
conditions  and  let  wheat  drop  back.

Corn,  owing  to  the  small  receipts,  ad­
vanced  2c  per  bushel  and  will  probably 
show  more  of  an  advance  later  on,  on 
account  of  the  small  amount  in  farmers’ 
hands.

Oats  are  steady  at  former  prices. 

I 
might  state  that  they  go  up  and  down 
about  ic  per  bushel.

In  rye  there  is  nothing doing.  Prices 
remain  where  they  were.  The  demand 
is  slack.  However,  not  much  is  being 
offered.  We 
look  for  receding  prices 
from  the  present,  as rye  is  high  enough.
Beans  have  taken  a  sudden  notion  to 
advance  and  the  advance  has  been  10c 
per  bushel  in  carlots  since  the  last  writ­
ing.

Flour,  owing  to  the  advance  in  wheat, 
has  been  marked  up  fully  20c  per  bar­
rel.

Mill  feed 

is  hardly  as  firm  as 

last 
week.  However,  good  clean  bran 
is 
bringing  a  premium,  especially  the 
Michigan  product

Receipts  during  the  past  week  have 
been  below  normal,  as  follows:  wheat, 
41  cars ;  oats,  5  cars;  flour,  2  cars;  po­
tatoes,  9  cars.

Millers  are  paying  80c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Hides, Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market 

is  in  an  uncertain 
position.  The  asking  price 
is  far  in 
advance  of  all  offers  and  stocks  are 
firmly  held.  Some  few  sales  have  been 
made  at  an  advance  over 
last  week. 
Stocks  are  virtually  held  out  of  the  mar­
ket.  Receipts  are  light.  Some  dealers

are  filled  up  and  only  waiting  for  the 
top  to  be  reached,  but  are  uncertain  as 
to  where  the  top  is  to  be  found.  Both 
buyer  and  seller  are  on  the  anxious 
seat.

Pelts  are  stagnant.  Wool  is  low  and 
the  puller  can  see  no  margin.  Stocks 
are  fair,  but  the  quality  is  not  good.

is 

Tallow 

in  good  demand,  with  a 
firm  market  at  relatively  higher  values. 
is  scarce,  while  edible 
Soapers'  stock 
has  advanced  materially.  No 
lower 
prices  are  looked  for  in  the  near  future.
Wools  are  extremely  quiet.  No  sales 
of  consequence  have been re ported, while 
the  mills  are  running  night  and  day  to 
fill  orders.  There  is  little  old  wool  held 
back,  as  compared  with  last  year,  and 
the  new  clip  comes 
into  empty  lofts. 
Last  year's  prices  are  talked  and offered 
with  an  uncertain  future.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Spys  fetch  $535-25;  Bald­
wins  command  $4.2534.50;  Ben  Davis 
and  Russets  are  taken  readily  at  $43 
4.50.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.253

1.75  per bunch,  according  to  size.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—$2  per  bbl.
Butter—Creamery  took  a  tumble  Mon­
day 
in  consequence  of  a  sharp  decline 
of  the  Elgin  market.  Dealers  hold fancy 
at  28c  and  choice  at  27c.  Dairy  grades 
are  steady  and  strong  at  23324c  for 
fancy  and  21322c  for  common.  Re­
ceipts  are 
increasing  and  the  quality 
runs  good.

Cabbage—65375c  per  doz.
Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.
Celery—California  Jumbo  commands 

80c  per  doz.
Cranberries—$2.50  per  crate  for  Wal­
tons.
Dates—4%@5C  per  lb.
Eggs—The  market is strong and active 
on  the  basis  of  14315c.  Receipts  are 
large,  but  an  outlet  could  be  found  for 
five  times  as  much  stock.  Eastern  buy­
ers 
insist  that  the  market  will  remain 
strong  and  high  for  at  least  twenty  days 
yet.

Figs---- Five 

crown  Turkey  com­

mand  14c.

Green  Onions— 12c  per doz.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  15316c-  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  13314c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  10311c.
$3.6033.75.

Lemons—Californias  $3.50,  Messinas 

Lettuce— 13c  per  lb.  for  hothouse.
Mapie  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb..
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—Stock  is  scarce  and  the  mar­
ket  is  stronger,  quotations  ranging  from 
$1.3531.50  per  bu.

Onion  Sets— Top,  $1.25  per  bu.  ;  yel­

low,  $1.75;  red,  $2;  white,  $3.

Oranges—California  navels  fetch  $4 
per  box  for  fancy.  St.  Michaels  and 
Fancy  Mediterranean Sweets  command 
i 3-5°@3-75-

Parsley—30c  per  doz.
Parsnips—$1.50  per  bbl.
Pieplant—536c  per  lb.
Potatoes—The  price continues to move 
upward  and  is  now  in  the  vicinity  of  75 
380c 
indication 
carlots.  Every 
points  to  still  higher  values.

for 

Radishes—30c  per  doz.
Spinach—75c  per  bu.
Strawberries—$2.50  for  24  pints.
Vegetable  Oysters—20c  per  doz.

Henry  J.  Schaberg,  Secretary  of  the 
Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
was  married  April  12  to  Miss  Anna  M. 
Vander  Maas.  The  happy  couple  will 
be  at  home  to  their  friends  at  727  South 
Burdick  street  after  May  10. 
The 
Tradesman  extends  congratulations.

The  Clare  Courier  has  in  prepara­
tion  the  only  authentic  map  of  Clare 
including  every 
county  ever  issued, 
highway, 
church  and 
school  house.

lake,  stream, 

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
much  firmer  in  tone  and  prices  have 
advanced 
1 -3 2 C   on  9 6   deg.  test  cen­
trifugals,  with  demand  good  at  the  ad­
vance.  Holders  appear  very  confident 
in  the  future  of  the  market  and  posi­
tively  no  concessions 
in  price  are 
granted.  The  world’s  visible  supply  of 
raw  sugar, is  3 ,4 0 0 ,0 0 0   tons,  showing  an 
increase  of  8 1 ,0 0 0   tons  over  last  year. 
The  refined  sugar  market  is  practically 
unchanged  from  last  week.  As  the  trade 
in  general  have  sufficient  supplies  to 
carry  them  along  for  a  short  time,  there 
is  very  little  disposition  shown  to  make 
purchases  and  the  general  inclination  is 
to  hold  aloof  pending  further  develop­
ments.  The  market  is  steady but  quiet, 
with  no  special  indications  of  any 
im­
mediate  change.

look  as 

Canned  Goods—The  demand  for  the 
entire  line  of  canned  goods  is  rather 
quiet.  Some  buying  of  spot  tomatoes is 
reported  at  full  prices.  Stocks  in  first 
hands  are  almost exhausted.  The  situa­
tion  on  futures 
is  unchanged.  Prices 
are  steady  and  only  a  moderate  business 
is  so  quiet  that  it 
is  reported.  Corn 
would  almost 
if  people  had 
stopped  eating  it entirely.  There  is very 
little  demand  for  the  better  grades,  but 
the  medium  and  low  grades  are  exceed­
ingly  dull.  This  is  to  some  extent  the 
result  of  earless  packing.  Some  packers 
put  up  any  old  kind  of  field  corn  and 
put  a  handsome 
label  on  it  and  sell  it 
as  “ Sugar  Corn,”   and  this  has  had  a 
tendency to  cause  a  great  deal  of  dissat­
isfaction  regarding  the 
lower  grades. 
Futures  of  all  grades  are  decidedly  dull 
and  no  interest  is  taken  in  them.  There 
is  a  fair  enquiry 
for spot  peas  at  un­
changed  prices.  Futures  are  dull,  with 
very 
interest  shown,  most  of  the 
trade  having  supplied  their  wants  for 
future  goods.  Fruits  continue 
in  fair 
request  for the  genera!  line.  Prices,  as 
a  rule,  are  steady  and  the  outlook  for  a 
good 
is  promising. 
Peaches  are  meeting  with  a  fair  sale  at 
unchanged  prices.  Pineapples  are  sell­
ing  moderately  well  and  gallon  apples 
are  in  some  request  at  previous  prices. 
Prices  on  new  pack  Columbia  River 
salmon  have  just  been  named.  They  are 
practically  the  same  as  last  year's  open­
ing  prices,  but  very 
interest  is 
manifested  by  buyers,  owing  to  their 
present  liberal  stocks  and  the  fact  that 
the  demand  for  the  Columbia  River  sal­
mon  is  growing  less  every  year  and  the 
trade  on  Alaska  fish  increasing.  There 
is  a  slightly  better demand  for sardines, 
but  prices  remain  unchanged.

in  May 

trade 

little 

little 

lots,  but 

Dried  Fruits— The  dried  fruit  line  is 
moderately  active,  sales  being  chiefly  of 
small 
in  the  aggregate  they 
amount  to  as  good  a  business  as  is  usu­
ally  experienced at this time of  the  year. 
Prunes  continue 
in  fair  request  at  un­
changed  prices.  The  demand  continues 
to  be  mostly  for  the  large  sizes,  which 
remain  firm.  The  smaller  sizes  are  in­
clined  to  be  dull  and  have  an  easier 
tendency,  although  there 
is  no  change 
in  price.  Consumptive  demand  con­
tinues  very  good.  California  loose  and 
seeded  raisins  are  in  good  position  sta­
tistically,  but  there 
is  only  a  light  de­
mand  felt  at  present.  Apricots  continue 
strong  and  in good  request.  Stocks  are 
light  and  are  very  firmly  held.  Peaches 
are  dull  and  easy,  the  demand  being 
very 
light.  Dates  show  a  decided  im­
provement  and  are  strong.  Stocks  are 
exceedingly  light  and  are  very  firmly 
held.  Figs  are  strong  and  in  good  de­
mand  at  previous  prices.  There  is  some 
enquiry  for  evaporated  apples.  Stocks

are  very light,  but  demand  is  also  light.
Rice—The  rich  market  is  very’ firm, 
with  moderate  demand  for  all  grades. 
is  fair  add  is  firmly 
The  spot  supply 
It  is  stated  that  al­
held  at  quotations. 
though  business  at  present 
is  only 
moderate,  the  total  sales  up  to  date  are 
larger  than 
last  year’s  and  at  a  ratio 
sufficient  to  carry  the  crop  out  before 
the  marketing  of  the  new  crop  in  any 
large  quantities. 
Indications  point to a 
steady  market  for  some  time  to come 
and,  with  continued  favorable  weather, 
a  renewed  demand  is  expected.

Teas—The  statistical  position  of  the 
tea  market  continues  strong  and  holders 
instances  refuse  to  make any 
in  most 
concessions 
in  price.  Spot  stocks  are 
moderate.  Sales  were  of  a  general  as­
sortment  of  medium  and  low  grades,  for 
which  steady  quoted  prices  were  ob­
tained.  The  market  is  reported  as  be­
ing  in  a  healthy  condition  and  from  all 
appearances  it  looks  as  if  prices will  re­
main  stationary  for  some  time.

Molasses  and  Syrups— There  is  noth­
ing  of  special  interest  in  the'molasses 
market  and  a  firmer  tone  prevails  with 
prices  for all  grades  unchanged.  Sup­
plies  are  moderate  and,  as  a  result  of 
the  continued  steady  demand,  it  is  ex­
pected  that  supplies  will  not  be  suffi­
cient  to  meet  requirements  before  the 
arrival  of  the  new  crop.  The  corn  syrup 
market  shows  added  strength  and  prices 
have  advanced  yic  per  gallon  and  3c 
per case.

Fish—Trade  in  the  principal varieties 
of  the  fish 
line  remains  quiet.  Sup-' 
plies  of  mackerel  are  being  reduced 
gradually  and,  as  stocks  are  not  heavy, 
some  slight  advances  are  noted.

Nuts—Trade  in  nuts,  as a  rule,  is  very 
quiet.  There 
is,  however,  some  de­
mand  for  peanuts,  which  show  an  ad­
vance  of 

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
is  very  strong  and  prices  have  advanced 
25c  per  barrel  and  10c  per case.

c .:

Pickles—Owing  to  the  short  crop  of 
last  year  and  the  exceedingly  small 
stocks  of  pickles  now  on  hand,  holders 
have  advanced  prices  $1.50  per  bbl.  . ■

D idn’t  Know  H is  Own  Reflection. 

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.

In  a  town  not  far  from  this  city  are 
twin  brothers  engaged 
in  business  to­
gether,  who  so  closely  resemble  each 
other  that  those  who  meet  them  every 
day  are  not  able  to  tell  which  one  they 
have  conversed  with.  Each  has  a  fam­
ily,  and  on  more  than  one occasion their 
own  children  have  addressed  them  as 
“ uncle''  when  they  should  have  said 
“ papa,”   and  “ papa“  when  they  should 
have  said  “ uncle.”   One  night  not  long 
ago  a  customer  went  into  the  store  and 
asked  one  of  the  brothers  for  an  article 
which  unfortunately  could  not  be  found 
on  the  first  floor.  The  second  floor  was 
in  darkness,  so,  taking  a  lamp  in  hand, 
he  wearily  climbed  the  stairs.  H.ardly 
had  he  reached  the  top,  however,  before 
he  saw  what  he  supposed  to  be  his 
brother,  also  walking  around  the  room 
with  a  lighted  lamp  in  his  hand.
-  “ I  didn’t  know  that  you  were  wait­
ing  on  that  customer,  James, "   be  re­
marked,  “ or  I  certainly  would  not  have 
climbed  all  tbe  way  up  those  stairs. "

There  was  ho  reply,  even  although  the 
figure  ahead  glanced  up  and  looked  di­
rectly  at  him.  The  twin  could  not  un­
derstand  the  silence  and  began  to  think 
that  his  brother  was  walking  around 
in 
his  sleep,  and  with  a  lighted  lamp,  too.

“ James!”   he  said  again.
Still  no  reply,  and  as  he  advanced  to 
investigate  the  truth  dawned  upon  him. 
At  one  end  of  the  room  was  an immense 
mirror.  The  twin  had  simply  seen  his 
own  reflection  and  accused  it  of  being 
his  brother.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

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Clerks’  Corner.

The  Secret  of  Always  Looking  W ell 
Dressed.
Written for the Tradesman.

The  clerks at  Barnard  &  Blair's  were 
no  exception  to the  average  young  man 
and  no  sooner  bad  tbe  crocuses  in  fa- 
vored  spots  pushed  the  lingering  snows 
aside  and  given  the  March  winds  a 
chance  to flaunt  their  gay  banners  in tbe 
face  of  the  delaying  winter  than  tbe  hu­
man  crocuses  began  to  have  something 
to  say  about  living  between  “ hay  and 
grass”   and  to  tell  each  other  what  new 
beauties they  had  seen  in  the  shop  win­
dows  of  the  smart  merchant  tailors.

‘ ‘ Sneider  'round  on  Fourteenth  street 
has  just  opened  up  a  splendid 
invoice 
of  summer  suitings  that  are  enough  to 
make  a  fellow’s  eyes  water.  The  prices 
are  not  bad  either—twenty-two  dollars 
for a  sack  suit  is  not  going  to  ruin  any­
body.  Seen  ’em,  Joe?”

"N o,  and  I  don’t  want  to. 

I  never 
can  see  any  use  in  paying  any  twenty- 
two  dollars  when  1  can  step  next  door 
and  get  me  a  suit  of  better goods  than 
you  can  find  at  any  tailor  shop  on 
earth. 
I  know  my  size  and  I  can  get 
what  I  want—splendid  fit  and  splendid 
cloth  and  all  for  fifteen  dollars. 
If  they 
don’t  quite  fit  I don’t care—a little take- 
in  here  or  a  bit  of  a  let-out  there  and 
I ’m  all  right.  When  tbe  season's  over 
they  are  worn  out  and ready to he thrown 
away  and  I’m  ready  with  my  three  fives 
to have  a  new  suit.  The  difference  be­
tween  twenty-two  and  fifteen  is  enough 
to  keep  me  in  the  other  things  a  fellow 
has  to  have,  and  when  1  get  rigged  out 
there  I  am  from  bead  to  shoe  toe,  all 
correct.  No,  sir;  I  don’t  think  enough 
of  Sneider'  or  any  other  tailor  to  work 
to  keep  him  in  business,  and  don’t  you 
look  at  Heminway’s 
forget  it. 
nose!  You’d  better  hang  on 
to  it, 
Bob,  or  it  will  turn upside down and you 
will  be  a  sight to  look  at  then.  Hon­
estly  now,  why  isn't  it  a  great  deal  bet­
ter  to  encourage  the  hand-me-down  and 
save  your  money?”

Just 

"Honest  it  is  then:  Because  I  can't 
afford  it. 
I  know  how  you  fellows  will 
howl,  but  I  won’t  wear  hand-me-downs 
and  I  won’t  wear  Sneider’s  clothes  be­
cause  it  costs  too  much. 
If  I  had 
money  to  burn  and  didn’t  care  how  I 
looked,  I’d  wear  the  fifteen  or the  ten 
dollar  suit,  but  1  simply  can't  afford  it. 
It 
lies  right  there  and  not  as  some  of 
you  think— and  as  some  of you  have told 
me— because  I’m  stuck  up  and  want  to 
pass  off  for  a  fellow with a bank account. 
I’m  not  ashamed  to  say  that  I  have  a 
little  cme  over  here  at  the  First  Na­
tional,  and  I  think  a  good  deal  of  it, 
and  I 
it  grow,  which  1 
couldn't 
if  I  spent  as  much  as  you  fel­
lows  do  for clothes  as often as  the  season 
comes  around.”

like  to  see 

“ Let’s  see,  you  patronize  Blumenthal 
up  here  opposite  the  Brown  Palace, 
don’t  you?  What  do  you  pay  him  for  a 
suit?”

* * Tbe  last  he  made  me  cost  $40.' ’
“ Forty  dollars 1  Great  Scott!  and  I 
pay  fifteen.  Twenty-five  dollars  differ­
ence 
favor,  and  yet  he  can’t 
afford  it!”

in  my 

A   hearty  laugh  was generally indulged 
in,  but  Bob  took 
it  in  good  part,  as 
anybody  would  who  felt as  thoroughly 
as  he  did  that  he  had  the  best  of  the 
argument.

it  short, 

“ To  make 

like  good 
it 
handsome  cloth,  then  I  like  to  have 
well  made 
inside  and  out—no  make- 
believe  about  m e!—and  up-to-date. 
like  to have  everything  I  have
Then  I 

I 

on  correspond  with 
it.  Then  I  take 
good  care  of  my  clothes  and  they  wear 
longer  and 
look  first  class  all  the  time 
and  so  1  find  it  cheaper.  Get  ready  to 
laugh  again— I  like  to  feel  respectable 
and  I  couldn't  do  it  in  that  kind  of 
clothes.  Go  ahead  now  and  enjoy  your­
selves  at  my  expense.”

They  did  not improve tbe opportunity. 
Fred  Brown,  who  began  to  think  he saw 
something 
in  what  Heminway  had 
been  saying,  exclaimed,  “ Never  mind 
the  laugh  but  go  ahead  and  tell  us  how 
you  accomplish  results.”

“ There 

isn’t  any  more  to  tell. 

It’s 
all  summed  up  in  this:  Cheap  things 
are  always  the  dearest.  Last  summer 
Blumenthal  made  me  that  suit  I  told 
It  cost  $40.  When  1  stopped 
about. 
it  last  fall  I  put  it  carefully 
wearing 
away  and  when  it 
is  warm  enough  I 
shall 
let  him  give  it  a  good  going  over 
and  it  will  be  just  as  handsome  a  suit 
this  season.  It  will  cost a  dollar  to  clean 
and  press 
it,  so  with  that $20.50— tbe 
cost  and  repairs  divided  by  two— I  shall 
be  handsomely  dressed.  So  much  for 
the  suit.  Then,  take  footgear, 
I  paid 
$6  for a  first  class  pair of  summer  shoes 
two  years  ago.  They  were  good  shoes 
to  start  with  and  I  wore  them  two  sum­
mers  without  repairing. 
I  took  them 
to  a  good  cobbler^yesterday  and  he  says 
the  uppers  are  equal  to  another  season 
and  he’s  going  to  repair them  for a  dol­
lar  and  a  half.  Now  it  isn’t  much  of  a 
problem  to  add  a  dollar  and  a  half to 
$6  and  divide  by  three  to  find  that  my 
costly!?)  shoes  come  just  to $2.50 a  sea­
son.  The  common  shoe  costs  at  least 
$3,50,  which  gives  me  a  gain  of  a  dollar 
for  my  bank  account—small,  but  ‘ Large 
streams  from  little  fountains  flow.’ 

“ Now,  as  to economy 

in  hats.  One 
good  ‘ dice’  is  worth three make-believes 
every  tim e;  only,  when  you  come  to 
straw  it  doesn't  pay  to  fool  there.  You 
can  have 
it  whitened  and  a  new  rib­
bon  put  on  and  all  that  and  it'll  cost  a 
dollar  and  something ;  but,  to  my mind, 
it  is  better to  put  another  dollar  with 
it 
and  put  your  head  under  something  that

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IMPORTERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS

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April 16,  1902(

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won't  show  you’ve  been 
and  pound  foolish.'

‘ penny  wise 

in 

it. 

“ You  can  see  I’ve  not  been  extrava­
gant  so  far,  but  now  if  you  boys  want 
something  to  make  fun  of  I’m  going  to 
let  you 
into  my  bottom  dollar  extrav­
agance— be  ready  to  yelp— it’s  under­
wear! 
I  wouldn’t  put  on  that  two  for 
a  quarter  stuff  that  some  of  you  do  if  it 
were  given  to  me— it  hasn't  a  single 
virtue 
It’s  what  they  call  out 
West  ’ dog-gone,’  and,  in  my  opinion, 
only  a  degenerate  will  ^wear  the  truck. 
No;  I  say  that  for  me,  I  go  in  for  a  lit­
tle  better  than  I  ought  to  be  willing  to 
pay  for,  but  I  am  willing. 
I  want  it 
soft  and  fine. 
It  comes  next  to  me  and 
I  know  that  a  first-class  garment  makes 
me  feel  first  class.  I  won’t  tell  you  what 
I  pay  for  it,  but  I  will  tell  you  how  I 
even  things  up  with  my  conscience :  1 
know  that  my  wages  don't  warrant  any 
such  outlay  and  this  is  the way I  look  at 
i t :  We  all  of  us  have  some  little  pet 
extravagance.  You  fellows  smoke  and, 
on  occasion,  rather  drink  a  glass  of  beer 
than 
lose  a  leg.  Every  blessed  one  of 
you  smoke  at  least  three  cigars  a  day. 
That’s  fifteen  cents—and  how you smoke 
the  rank  stuff  I can’t  understand.  Well, 
there  goes  four  dollars  and  a  half  a 
month—times  twelve  gives  $54,  if  I 
know  my  multiplication  table.  That 
money  I  give  up  to  my  whim. 
I  like 
the  money  in  that  form  better,soI  allow 
it  to  myself  and  what  is  left  I  turn  over 
to  the  First  National.  When  I  come 
out 
in  one  of  Blumenthal's  bang-ups 
you  howl.  When a gem  from  the  haber­
dasher’s—that’s  Henglish,  you  know— 
appears  on  me  you  howl  and  when  I 
come  out 
in  my  ‘ new’  last  year’s  suit 
you’ ll  howl  again,  and  I'll  howl  with 
you;  but  when  I  put  what  I've  saved  by 
using  a 
little  common  sense  into  the 
bank  I  shall  howl  alone.  See?”

In  due  time  the old-new suit  appeared 
and  the  wearer of  it  was  the best dressed 
young  iellow  in  the  crowd.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Always  P u t th e  Best Side  Out.

“ I  always  make  a  point  of  wearing 
my  best  clothes  whenever  I  go  out  any­
where,"  remarked  a  pretty  and  very 
popular  business  woman.  “ People  are 
so  apt  to  say 
it  is  not  worth  while  to 
put  on  a  smart  gown  for such  and  such 
it  is  al­
a  function,  etc.  Now,  I  find 
ways  worth  while. 
look  dowdy 
there  is>  invariably  somebody 
to  say 
how  dreadfully  you  have  gone  off;  and 
if  you  are  well  turned  out  it  is  much 
more  apt  to  be  commented  upon  than 
at  a  place  where  every  one  is  equally 
well  dressed ;  beside,  the  unexpected  is 
always  the  most  likely  to  happen,  and 
the  feeling  of  reward  on  being  ready 
for an  emergency  is  most gratifying. ”

If  you 

“ The  clever  girl,”   says  a  modern 
writer  on  such  topics,  “ is  never  taken 
at  a  disadvantage. ”   An  obvious  fact, 
but,  oddly  enough,  one  that  is  seldom 
realized  or  practiced. 
“ But  this  in­
labor  and  expense,’ 
volves  so  much 
says  an 
impecunious  maiden,  who 
makes  perforce  many  of  her own  frocks 
and  who  is  obliged  to  be  economical 
about  laundry  work.  Not  necessarily.  A 
brown  Holland  apron  will  always  pro­
tect  a  nice 
looking  gown  from  harm, 
and 
it  has  the  becomingness  of  fitness 
in  itself.  A  certain  young  woman  who 
has  a  taste  for carpentry and handles  her 
tools  with  the  ability  of  an  expert  never 
looks  prettier  than  in  her  workman’s 
apron  of  blue  ticking,  with 
its  deep 
pockets  for  her  nails  and  tools,  while 
her  sleeves  and  cuffs  are  protected  by 
muslin  gathered  info  an  elastic  top  and

bottom.  No  danger of  this  young  per­
son  being  taken  at  a  disadvantage.

“ Talking  of  wearing  one's  best 
clothes,"  continued  the  first  speaker,  “ I 
know  a  mother  and  daughter  who  get 
several  gowns  apiece  from  the  best 
dressmaker  in  New  York  every  year, but 
never  wear  them  regularly  until  the  sea­
son  comes  around  again, 
the  conse­
quence  being,  although  they  spend more 
than  most  of  us  upon  their  clothes,  they 
always  look  old  fashioned. 
‘ No,  my 
dear,'  I  often bear  the  mother  say  to  the 
daughter,  ‘ do  not  put  on  the  new  P.,  it 
is  too  good  for  such  an  occasion;  I 
should  think  your  old  blue  velvet  that 
X.  made  you  last  winter  would  be  quite 
dressy  enough.’  So  it  would,  but  if  the 
girl  had  a  better,  why  not  wear  it  and 
get  the  credit  of  i t !’ ’

Shrewdly  Swindled by  a Mexican Girl. 

From the Mexican Herald.

A  well-known  apothecary  of  the  city 
has  been  the  victim  of  a  curious  deceit. 
The  other day  he  bought  a  lottery  ticket 
from  a  girl 
in  the  street.  Yesterday 
morning  the  same  girl  called  at  the 
apothecary’s  house  before  he  had  arisen 
and  sent  word  to  him  that  he  had  won 
the  Sio,ooo  prize, 
in  confirmation  of 
which  she  also  showed  the  list  of  win­
ning  numbers.  The  apothecary  fully 
believed  the  good  news  and  gave  the 
girl  $20  for  a  present.  On  going  to  the 
offices  of  the  lottery  company,  however, 
he' discovered  that  the  list  was  an  old 
one,doctored  by  the  wily  girl  for the  oc­
casion,  and  that  his  ticket  had  won 
nothing.

A  widow  never  pretends  to  a man  that 
she  is  worried  about  the  way  he  is inter­
ested  in  other  women;  she  pretends  she 
is  worried  about  the  way  other  men  are 
interested  in  her.

The  need  of  an  excuse 

is  the  step' 

mother  of  invention.

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platitudes,  but  do  not  imagine  you  are 
stripping  it  of  moral  effect."  And  Em­
erson  says,  “ Every fact  is related on one 
side  to  sensation  and  on  tbe  other to 
morals."  So  it  would  seem  that,  ac­
cording  to  these  gentlemen,  tbe  author 
can  not  escape  morality 
in  bis  books 
and  his  plays. 
Indeed,  many  of  our 
great  English  novelists  have  been  more 
or  less  conscious moralists.  Richardson 
and  Fielding,  De  Foe  and  Dickens, 
Charlotte  Bronte  and  George  Eliot,  were 
all  moralizers  in  one  way  or  another.
Dickens'  morality  was,  as  Leslie 
Stephen  says,  as  sharply  cut as  that  of 
Aesop’s  Fables.  >But  how  about  Scott 
and  Shakespeare,  the  greatest  of  them 
all?  They  truly  seem  unaware  of  any 
moral  aim  in  speaking.  “ Beyond  draw­
ing  audiences  in  the  Globe  Theater, ”  
says  Carlyle,  “ Shakepeare contemplated 
no  results  in  those  plays  of  his.  Beyond 
earning  fifteen  thousand  a  year  to  buy 
farms  with,  Scott  contemplated  no result 
from  bis  novels.’ ’  Probably  the  great 
majority  of  writers  and  readers of to-day 
have  concluded  that 
in  a  novel  ora 
drama  it  is  best  to  say  nothing  directly 
about  morality;  but  indirectly  a  good 
deal  may  be  said. 
If  the  moral  con­
science 
is  informed  by  knowledge,  we 
can  not  well  have  too  much  of  it.  Wbat 
we  want  is  freedom  and  truth. 
If  the 
novel  is  to  act  upon  life  it  must  be  free 
to  represent 
it.  not  in  one  aspect  only, 
bnt  in  all  aspects.  Some  of our  modern 
novels,  and  more  especially  the  modern 
dramas,  are  saturated  with  a  corroding 
cynicism  that accepts only evil  as  a  mat­
ter  of  course.  Virtue  is  ignored ;  evil 
is  not  defended,  but  it  is  assumed  that 
every  man  has  his  price,  and  at  the 
.core  ail 
is  bad.  Professor  Peck  well 
says:  “ After seeing  one  of these  adroit 
productions  we  wonder  whether 
tbe 
world  has  really  undergone  a  change 
whereby  truth  has  ceased  to  be  insepar­
able  from  manliness  and  modesty  from 
womanhood,  and  whether  we  ought  to 
hold 
is  worth  while.’ * 
Surely  it  is  reasonable  to  ask  those  who 
set  themselves  to  amuse  and  teach  us 
in  books  and  plays  that  they  make  their 
works  at  least  as  moral  as  life,  and  not 
less  so.

that  nothing 

Why  do  we 

like  a  book  or  play  to 
have  a  happy  ending?  Is  it  not  because 
the  human  heart  realizes  that  life  has 
It  craves  a  proper 
a  moral  meaning? 
compensation  for  tbe 
ills  of  life.  We 
like  tbe  hero  to  win  out  and  receive  a 
recompense  somewhere  where  we  can 
it.  And  this  is  the  very  essence  of 
see 
art.  Life 
is  made  up  of  fragments; 
wrong-doing  seems  to  be  victorious:  the 
evil  man  dies  rich  and  in  his  bed;  tbe 
good  man  becomes  poor  and  dies  in  tbe 
street.  But  our days  are  few,  our  view 
is  limited.  We  can  not  watch 
long 
enough  to  see  the  real  end.  But  we  ask 
of  our great  novelist  and  dramatist  that 
they  shall  answer  our craving  for  com­
pensation ;  bring  the  end  into  our  view ; 
show  that  success  may  be  tbe  worst fail­
ure  and  poverty  better  than riches.  That 
is  wbat  art  is  for at  its  highest,  and  he 
is  the  greatest  genius  who  “ touches  the 
divine  chord  in  humanity  which 
is  al­
ways  waiting  to  vibrate  to  tbe  sublime 
hope  of  recompense.’ ’  He  is  the  great­
est  man  who  teaches  men  that  tbe  world 
is  ruled  in  righteousness.

Philip  D.  Armour  was  one  million­
aire  whose  estate  did  not  shrink  when 
he  passed  out  of  life. 
It  is  finally  ap­
praised  at  a  figure  just  under  $15,000,- 
000.  This  is  a  pretty  good  showing  for 
one  who  began  life  as  a  farmer’s  boy. 
Armour  had  absolutely  no  advantages 
except  those  that  be  gained  by  his  own 
energy and  ability.

ELECTRICITY VERSUS  STEAM.

low  potentials  are 

introduce  undesirable 

The  triumph  of  electricity  over  steam 
as  a  motive  power has  only  been  par­
is  particularly  so  in  rail­
tial.  This 
In  street  railroading,  where 
roading. 
comparatively 
re­
quired,  electricity  is  superior  to  any 
form  of  motive  power  yet  applied;  but 
in  the  heavier  work,  which  steam  rail­
roads  perform,  the  higher  potentials  in 
electricity,  when  applied  to  their  oper­
ation, 
factors 
which  electricians  have  not  been  able 
thus  far to  overcome.  About  a  year  ago 
a  section  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
system,  which  was  operated  experi­
mentally  by  electric  power  for  a  time, 
returned  to  the  use  of  steam.  Now  the 
Prussian  Minister  of  Public  Works  re­
ports  to  the  Diet that recent experiments 
with  electricity  as  a  motive  power on  a 
long-distance 
broad-gauge 
road,  near  Berlin,  previously  operated 
by  steam,  have  been  abandoned.  He 
informed  the  Diet  that,  owing  to imper­
fections  in  insulation  which  electricians 
have  not  succeeded,  up  to  date,  in  cor­
recting,  the 
leakage  made  electricity 
twice  as  expensive  as  steam  and  gave 
less  security  against  accidents.

suburban 

This  does  not  mean,  after  all,  that  the 
supremacy  of  electricity  as  a  motive 
power  over  steam  will  never  be  estab­
lished  in  the  performance  of  the  heavy 
long-distance  work  of  the  railroads  now 
operated  by  steam.  As  a  motive  power 
this  element  is  in  its infancy.  Ten years 
ago  its  success  in  street  railroading  had 
not  been  fully  established.  But  to-day 
no  other  kind  of  power  can  compete 
against  it  in  the  short  distance  street 
and  suburban  traffic.  Again,  ten  years 
ago  transmission  of  electric  power  was 
restricted  to  comparatively  short  dis­
tances.  Now  it  can  be  as  profitably and 
effectively  transmitted  for  distances  of 
least  200  miles.  Tbe  experiments 
at 
made  on 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
in  Germany  were  by  trolley,  and 
and 
the  damaging 
leakage  occurred  in  the 
wires  transmitting  the  current  from  the 
source  of  generation  to  the  motor car. 
There  is  no  telling  bow  soon  a 
locomo­
tive  will  be  produced  which  will  carry 
its  stock  of  electric  power in storage just 
as  the  steam 
the 
water  and  fuel  it  consumes  without  pos­
sibility  of  loss  through  leakage.  We  are 
living 
in  an  age  of  invention  and  im­
provement.  The limit  of  improvements 
in  the  insulation  of  transmission  plants 
and  wires  and  in  electrical  storage  is  a 
long  way  off.  Until  an  absolute  limit  is 
reached 
in  these  the  possibilities  of 
electric  power  must  remain  a  matter  of 
speculation  and  theory.

locomotive  carries 

In  countries  where  an  abundance  of 
water  power  is  available  adjacent  to the 
railroads  it  is  probable  that  no  form  of 
power  can  be  employed  in  their  opera­
tion  which  will  equal  electricity 
in 
cheapness,  even  with  existing-defects in 
insulation  and  difficulties  in  transmis­
sion.  This  is  particularly  true  in  coun­
tries  where  water  is  abundant  and  fuel 
scarce  and  dear. 
In  Switzerland  elec­
is  occupying  tbe  industrial  field 
tricity 
almost  exclusively,  crowding  out  steam 
and  all  other  forms  of  motive  power. 
The  railroads  have  begun  to  adopt  it, 
and  there  are  indications  that electricity 
will  soon  crowd  steam  out  of  the  long 
Alpine  tunnels  if  it  does  not  enter  more 
extensively  into railroad operation.  And 
in  Norway  and  Sweden,  and  tbe  moun­
tainous  sections  on  the  Pacific  coast, 
electrical  engineers  expect 
in  time  to 
be  able  to  operate  tbe  railroads  travers­
ing  them  with  electric  power  generated 
by  the  streams  and waterfalls adjacent to

It 

them. 
is  too  soon  to  condemn  this 
new  agent  as  a  substitute  for steam  for 
railroad  purposes,  notwithstanding  the 
failures  on  the  Pennsylvania  Company’s 
lines  and  in  Germany.

insinuation  and 

AN INTERESTING  EXPERIM ENT.
It is  the  general  impression that ladies 
pay  more  attention  to  clothes  and  their 
appearance  than  men. 
It  is  sometimes 
intimated,  however,  that  this  is  merely 
a  male 
is  not  based 
upon  any  real  fact  and  that  fondness  for 
dress  and  excessive  recognition  of  it 
and  admiration  for [it  is  not  entirely  a 
feminine  characteristic.  Along  this  line 
tests  and 
interest  attaches  to  some 
that  have 
sociological 
investigations 
been  carried  on 
in  South  Germany, 
where  the  people  are  fond  of  solving 
problems.  The  presumption  is  that  boys 
and  girls  and  men  and women  are  much 
the  same  in  Germany  as  in  the  United 
States  or  England.  This  test  was  in  a 
school  room,  into  which  was  brought  a 
man  of  ordinary  appearance,  dressed  in 
workingman’s  clothes,  and  the  children 
passed  in  single  file before him and were 
required  to  write  out  a  description  of 
what  they  saw'

The  boys  and  girls  filed  by  and  took 
their  look  and  returning  to  their  desks 
put  down  what  they  could  remember. 
When  the  papers  had  all  been  examined 
it  appeared  that  nearly  80  per  cent,  of 
the  girls  were  fairly  accurate  in  their 
description  of  the  clothes  the  man  wore 
saying  nothing  whatever  of  bis  appear­
ance,  size,  height,  weight  or  features. 
The  other  20  per  cent,  spoke  of  some  of 
the  other  things  along  with  mention  of 
his  attire.  Nearly  70  per  cent,  of  the 
boys  described  the  man’s  face  and  fea­
tures  and  said  not  a  word  about  the 
clothes  he wore.  The  other 30  per  cent, 
were  only  moderately  successful 
in  de­
scribing  both  clothes  and  features.  Not 
a  single  boy  limited  himself  to  a  de­
scription  of  wbat  the  man  wore.  The 
girls  seem  to  have  been  rather  more  ac­
curately  observant  than  the  boys.  Tbe 
point  proved  by  the 
is 
that  even  among  school  children  tbe 
feminine  mind,  through  some  inherited 
characteristic,  is  prone  to  pay  more  at­
tention  to  clothes  and  looks  at  them  as 
of  more  importance.  The  great  percen­
tage  of  the  boys  took  no  account  at  all 
of  what  the  visitor  wore. 
It  would  be 
interesting  if  such  an  experiment  could 
be  made  in  every  school  just  to see wbat 
would  come  of  it.  Aside  from 
the 
problem  feature,  that  is  very  good  prac­
tice  for  school  children  or  anybody  else 
to  look  at  somebody  or  something  for  a 
minute  or  two  and  then  sse  how  accu­
rate  a  description  thereof  can  be  made.

investigation 

One  of  the  speakers  at  a  meeting  of 
the  New  York  Society  for  the  Study  of 
Life  declared  that  the  unfortunate  chil­
dren  of  the  rich  are  disreputably  clean. 
Their homes,  where  “ the  very  pictures 
on  the  walls  are  panting  for  space,’ ’are 
not  the  homes  for light-hearted,  nimble- 
limbed  childhood.  The  little  prisoners 
behind  the  gilded  bars,  as  it  were,  are 
painful  examples  of  a 
lack  of  under­
standing  of  the  child  nature.  They  have 
too  much,  these  pampered  heirs  of  an 
enslaving  wealth.  They  have  too  many 
servants, 
too  many 
toys,  for  too  many  tutors  and  servants 
destroy  the  vitality  and  the  self-reliance 
of  the  child,  while  too  many  toys  rob 
him  of  imagination.

too  many  tutors, 

It  is  cheaper  to get  married  than  to 
stay  engaged  and  have  to go on  buying 
flowers,  theater seats,  suppers  and  pres­
ents.

NOVELS AND  MORALS.

There  are  writers  who  tell  us  that 
such  a 
light  form  of  literature  as  the 
novel  has  no  moral  responsibility  what­
ever.  They  think  of  a  novel  as  Johnson 
defined  it  in  his  dictionary,  “ a  smooth 
tale,  generally  of 
love.*’  A  novel  to 
such  persons  is  merely  a  piece  of  rec­
reative  reading,  and  the  chief  question 
to  ask  about  it  is,  Did  it  amuse?  As 
Sidney  Smith  says:  “ Were  you,  while 
reading  it,  surprised  at  dinner  coming 
so  soon?  Did  you  mistake  11  o'clock 
for  10?  Did  you  sit  up  beyond  the 
If  a  novel  produces  these 
nsnal  hour? 
effects  it  is  good. 
It  is  only  meant  to 
please. ”

in  a  novel 

Now,  no  one  will  deny  that  it  is  a 
good  thing  to  minister to  the  idle  hours 
of  busy  men  and  women,  but  neither 
will  many  persons  deny  that the novelist 
has  an  opportunity  not  only  to  do  that 
well,  but  also  to hold  a  better  place  in 
the  economy  of  life  than  that  of  a  liter­
ary  merry-andrew.  The  question  of  the 
place  of  morals 
is  an  art 
question  perhaps  as  much  as  an  ethical 
one.  People  do  not  object  to  being 
preached  at 
if  they  know  about  it  be­
forehand  and  believe  in  the  preacher’s 
sincerity,  but  they do  hate  to  be  led  into 
it  unsuspectingly,  as  one  often  is  by  a 
patent  medicine  advertisement.  People 
are  in  terror  lest  the  novel  should  prove 
as  dull  as  a  sermon  sometimes  is  and 
the  book  turn  out  a  tract.  Give  us  free­
dom,  says  the  reader  to  tbe  novelist;  in 
a  word,  give  us  nature,  and  we  will  get 
the  preachers  to  give  us  tbe  sermons.

is  no  moral 

Still,  is  it  true  that  conscience  has  no 
Is  it  true  that,  al­
place  in  the  novel? 
idea  in  the 
though  there 
is 
work  as  a  motive,  therefore  the  work 
immoral? 
Is  not  Hall  Caine  right when 
he  says  to  his  brother  novelists,  “ Your 
work  is  what  you  are;  it  will  carry  with 
it  the  moral  atmosphere  in  which  you 
it  of  all  moralizing  and ,
live.  Strip 

305  Grand  Rapids Grocers  Sell

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

:

LILY 
WHITE
FLOUR

“The  flour the  best  cooks  use”

Some  days  ago  we sent  letters  to  all  the  grocers  in  the  city  asking  the  following

questions:

1.  Do you  sell  Lily  White  Flour?
2.  Do you  sell  more  Lily  White  than  any  other flour?
3. 

If so,  how  much  more?

305  grocers  answered  “ Y es”   to  the  first  question.
188  grocers  say  they  sell  more  L ily  W hite  than  any  other 

23  grocers  sell twice as much  L ily W hite as of any other flour. 
14  grocers  sell  one-half  more  L ily  W hite  than  of  any  other 

kind  of  flour.

12  did  not  reply,  but  the  chances  are  they  sell  it.
1  does  not  handle  Hour.
3  do  not  sell  L ily   W hite.
1  grocer  sells  twenty  sacks  of  L ily   W hite  to  one  of  any 

flour.

flour.

flour.

1  grocer  sells  sixteen  sacks  of  L ily  W hite  to  one  of  any

other  flour.

other  flour.

other  flour.

flour.

flour.

flour.

5  grocers  sell  ten  sacks  of  L ily  W hite  to  one  of  any  other 

2  grocers  sell  nine  sacks  of  L ily  W hite  to  one  of  any  other

1  grocer  sells  eight  sacks  of  L ily   W hite  to  one  of  any  other 

13  grocers  sell  one-third  more  L ily   W hite  than  of  any  other 

5  grocers  sell  two-thirds  more  L ily  W hite  than  of any other 

4  grocers  sell  one-quarter  more  L ily  W hite  than  of  any

7  say  that  three-quarters  of  entire  flour  sale  is  L ily  W hite.
2  say  that  seven  eighths  of  entire  flour  sale  is  L ily   W hite.
1  grocer  can’ t  sell  any  other  flour.
5  sell  nothing  but  L ily   W hite.
3  sell  more  L ily  W hite  than  all  other  kinds  of  flour  put  to­

3  sell  as  much  L ily  W hite  as  of  all  other  kinds  of flour  put

gether.

together.

19  grocers  sell  three  times  as  much  L ily  W hite  as  of  any 

other  flour.

4  sell  a  great  deal  more  L ily  W hite  than  of  any  other  flour.
In  addition  to  these  retail  grocers,  all  the  jobbing  houses  and  feed  dealers  sell  L ily  W hite.  The  above  figures  show  conclu­

sively  that  L ily  W hite  is  the  most  popular  flour  in  Grand  Rapids.  No  other  flour  can  show  such  a  record  as  this.

We  make  over  800  barrels  of flour  every  day.  Our  mills  are  provided  with  modern  machinery  through­
out.  W e  grind  only  the  choicest  wheat,  which  is  thoroughly  cleaned  by  machinery  before  entering  the  grind­
ing  rooms.  Our  millers  are  experienced.  Our  flour  is  uniform  and  reliable. 
It  is  put  up  in  neat  attractive 
packages  and  every  one  is  guaranteed  to  contain  the  best  flour  you  can  get  for  the  money  anywhere.

Lily  White,  ‘ *  the  flour  the  best  cooks  use, ”  is  the  kind you  ought  to  sell.

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Dry Poods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  th e  P rincipal 

Staples.

there 

Staple  Cottons—Orders  are  being  re­
ceived  for  small  quantities  of  bleached 
cottons  daily,  and  while  the  tone  of  the 
market  is  firm, 
is  no  quotable 
change;  strength,  however,  is  noted  in 
both leading  tickets  and  outside  brands. 
Wide  sheetings  are  quiet.  There  has 
been  an  improvement 
in  the  business 
in  coarse  colored  cottons, 
transacted 
buyers  being  more  willing  to  meet  the 
prevailing  prices.

Cotton  Dress  Goods—There  is  a  mod­
erate  business  under  way  in  the  cotton 
dress  goods  end  of  the  market  and  the 
demand  for  both  fancy  and  staple  prints 
has  shown  some increase and reorders for 
the  present  season  slightly 
improved. 
Buyers,  however,  do  not  seem  inclined 
to  give  much  thought  to  the  next  sea­
son.  The  tone  of  the  market  is  firm 
throughout  and  the  sellers  are  using  no 
pressure  to  do  business. 
Stocks  on 
hand  are  very  limited  everywhere,  and 
we  can  not'  ñnd  any  sellers  willing  to 
make  the  slightest  concession.  Several 
offers  for  large  quantities  at  a  small 
fraction 
the  asking  price 
have  been  turned  down.  Percales  are 
quiet  in  all  grades  and  printed  flannel 
effects  are  slightly  better.  Fine  printed 
fabrics  are  in  an  excellent condition and 
prices  steady.  The 
leading  grades  of 
staple  ginghams  are  well  sold  up  and 
lower grades  are  well  conditioned.  All 
fíne  ginghams  are  well 
in  hand  and 
prices  very  firm.

less  than 

in  here  and  there. 

Wool  Dress  Goods—There  is little that 
is  new  tobe  said  in  connection  with  the 
dress  goods  trade.  The  volume  of busi­
ness  coming  forward 
is  of  a  modest 
character. 
In  the  primary  market  there 
is  a  continued  movement  in  a  modest 
way  in  such  goods  as  have  shown  up 
best  since  the  season  opened,  but  the 
attitude  of  the  buyer  indicates  that  he 
practically  completed  his 
initial  pur­
chases  and  is  simply  doing  a  little  fill­
ing 
It  is  hardly  to 
be  expected  that  much  further  buying 
will  be  done  by  jobbers  and  cutters-up 
until  there  has  been  some  substantial 
progress  made  in  securing  the  retailer's 
heavyweight  orders. 
The  progress 
made  by  the  jobber  in  marketing  his 
heavyweight  goods  so  far  is  not  of  sat­
isfactory  character.  The  explanation 
of this  fact  is  to  be  found  in  the  disap­
pointing  character  of  the  spring  retail 
trade 
in  many  sections  of  the  country 
during  the  past  two  or  three  weeks,  ow­
ing  to  the  unfavorable  weather condi­
tions  that  have  prevailed.  The  retail 
fraternity  are  naturally  averse  to  mak­
ing  any  extended  provision  for  the  fall 
season  until  they  are  enabled  to  cut 
down  their  stock  of  lightweights;  for 
this  reason,  business  has  been  waiting 
on  the  weather.

is 

Underwear-----Duplicate  orders  on
fleeced  goods  continue  to  come  to  band, 
but  as  agents  frequently  turn  down  such 
orders,  it  is  very  evident that  they  are 
not  necessary  to  them  and  that  the  mar­
ket 
in  a  pretty  well  sold-up  condi­
tion.  Buyers  have  certainly  arrived  at 
the  conclusion  that  their  early  purchases 
were  considerably  below  their  actual 
needs,  hence  their  anxiety  to  increase 
their  orders.  Many 
jobbers  have  sent 
their  traveling  representatives  on  the 
road  and  the  reports  indicate  a  larger 
business  than  usual.  Already  prices 
have  been  stiffening  very  perceptibly, 
and  buyers  will  have  to  pay  more  for 
their  duplicate  goods  than 
for  their 
original  orders;  this,  however,  is  not

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general  throughout the  market,  although 
some  mills  are  not  yet  well sold  up,  and 
are  looking  for  more  business.  Wool 
goods  of  various  styles  are  not  quite  as 
well  situated  as  fleeces,  although  all 
well-known  brands  are  fairly  taken  care 
of  and 
it  has  been  no  trouble  to  secure 
regular  prices.

Hosiery—The  primary  hosiery  market 
is  rather quiet  just  at  present, but prices 
are  firm  all  along  the  line.  A  part  of 
this 
is  naturally  due  to  the  higher  cost 
of  yarns  and  also  to  the  good  business 
transpired  this  season.  Advances,  how­
ever,  are  not  as  important  just  now  as 
they  would  have  been  earlier,  owing  to 
the  fact  that  the  season's  business  is 
pretty  well  completed.  Buyers  are  com­
plaining  about  slow  deliveries  and 
let­
ters  and  telegrams  are  received  daily 
complaining  of  this. 
It  is  probable, 
several  agents  said,  that  there  will  be 
plenty  of  cotton  hosiery  to  supply  the 
market,  and  the  only  trouble  there  will 
be  will  be  found  in  making  the  deliv­
eries  as  quickly  as  buyers  desire.  Lace 
effects  are  most  notably  behind  both  for 
men’s  and  women's  wear.  Nearly  all 
agents  are  obliged  to  refuse  a  part  or all 
of  the  orders  that  are  coming  in  to-day, 
and,  of  course,  it  is  not  difficult  to  se­
cure  full  prices  whenever  stocks  of these 
goods  are  to  be  found.  Advances  are 
expected  right  along  now  and  prices 
may  be  considered  pretty  high  before 
the  season  is  over.  Both  wool  and  cot­
ton  staple  hosiery  are  quiet,  but  even  on 
these  lines,  deliveries  are  frequently  be­
hind.

Carpets—The  carpet  trade  continues 
to  experience  the  same  healthy  condi­
tion  that  has  prevailed  for  so  many 
weeks  past.  Manufacturers  are  giving 
more  of  their  attention,  it  is  true,  to 
preparations  for  the  coming  season  than 
to the  selling  end  of  the  market,  but  the 
work  of  filling  orders  keeps  on  apace  in 
a  more  or  less  pronounced  way  just  at 
present,  as  the  season  draws  near to  the 
end,  in  order  that,  when  the  opening  is 
at  hand,  the  new  season  can  be  com­
menced  with  as  clean  books  as  possible, 
in  view  of  this,  many  of  the  Philadel­
phia  mills  are  not  closing  early  on  Sat­
urdays,  as  was  formerly  their custom. 
All  the  time  that  can  be  found  is  put  to 
the  best  possible  use 
in  efforts  to  in­
crease  the  production  of  each  mill  as 
much  as  possible.  Every  loom 
in  the 
several  mill  districts is in operation and, 
instances,  orders  have  been 
in  many 
placed 
in  the  machine  builders’  hands 
for  some  very  material  increases  which 
are  to  be  made 
in  weaving  capacity. 
The 
situation  continues  exceedingly 
healthy  and  consumers  seem  hungry  for 
carpets  of  all  grades,  cheap  or  fine.  A 
is  well 
review  of  the  present  season 
is 
worth  while,  now  that  a  new  season 
about  to  begin,  and  especially 
interest­
ing,  at  later  dates,  for comparison  of  the 
conditions  which  have  been  in  evidence 
with  those  that  are  likely  to  be  seen  in 
the  near  future.  The  present  season 
opened  with  a  satisfactory  business  in 
the three-quarter goods,  but,  in  ingrains, 
it  was  some  little  time  before  weavers 
felt  the  demand.  When  business  did 
come,  it  came  with  a  rush  and  to  some 
manufacturers  hardly  gave  time  to  sat­
isfy  the  demands  of  their  trade.  To­
day  the  demand 
is  at  its  height,  with 
no  immediate  prospects  of  becoming 
reduced,  even 
If 
the  anticipations  of  the  trade  are  taken 
for granted,  the  new  season  seems  like­
ly  to  begin  with  very  different  condi­
tions  from  those  experienced  at  the  be­
ginning  of  the  one  now  so near  an  end. 
Prices  on  carpets  in  all  grades  were  at

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that  time  exceptionally  cheap.  This 
was  due  to  the  methods  of  certain  New 
Yorkers,  and  perhaps this cheapness  has 
been  of  some  effect  in  stimulating  the 
buying  which  has  grown  into  the  pres­
ent  demands.  These  comparatively  low 
prices  are  not  likely  to  be  in  evidence 
at  the  opening  next  month,  that  is,  if 
what we hear materializes.  On account of 
the  advances  made  in  the  different  ma­
terials  used 
in  the  manufacture  of  the 
goods, manufacturers  are  anxious  that  an 
advance  be  made 
in  all  goods  for  the 
new  season,  but  whether such  a  general 
advance  will  be  made  and  whether  the 
almost  unanimous  wishes  of  the  manu­
facturers  will  materialize  depend  upon 
what  action  certain  large  New  York  and 
New  England  factors  take  in  the  mat­
ter.  As  in  the  past,  their  word  or  action 
has  been  taken  as  the  law.  The  retail 
trade,  although  somewhat  set  back  by 
the  damp  and  cold  weather  of  the  past 
few  weeks,  is  showing  much  promise, 
and  dealers  anticipate  one  of  the  largest 
seasons  the  trade  has  ever  experienced. 
The  regular  spring  trade  is  coming  in 
quite  heavy  for  three-quarter  goods  as 
well  as  the  ingrains.

Rugs— Manufacturers  of  rugs  are  ex­
ceptionally  busy  on  orders  that  will  last 
for  some  weeks.  Art  square  manufac­
turers  are  also  busy,  and  the  amount  of 
orders  on  hand  is  very  large. 
In  rugs, 
the  demand  runs  more  to  the  Wiltons, 
but  other  pile  fabric  rugs  are  in  good 
request.  Smyrnas  are  well  sold  up  in 
the  small  sizes,  but  not  so  well  in  the 
larger  sizes.

Keep  a Good  Stock of B anting and Flags.
Just  at  present,  Mr.  Merchant,  is  a 
good  time  to  think  of  adding  a  line  of 
flags  and  bunting.  Keep  this  in  mind 
and  when  the  traveler  visits  you  for  the 
wholesale  house  next  time  or  when  you 
go  to  the  city  make  arrangements  for  a 
good  assortment  of flags  to  sell  at  Mem­
orial  Day  time  and  prior  to  the  Fourth 
of  July.

Then  add  a  good  line  of  bunting  and 
you  will  be  surprised  next  fall  to  And 
that  you  have  disposed  of  a  large  quan­
tity  of  this  class  of  goods.  Flags  are 
gaining  more  and  more  prominence  for 
decorative  purposes.  Memorial  Day  you 
will  see  them  on  many  houses  in  your 
neighborhood, 
farmers’  teams  coming 
to  town  on  that  occasion  will  be  deco­
rated  with  them  and  the  body  of  demo­
crat wagons and even lumber wagons wi 11 
be  hid  under  a  cloud  of  bunting.  The 
American  people  may  not  always  show 
their  patriotism,but  on national holidays 
they  do  so  and  to  secure  this  trade, 
which  may  be  small  in  extent,  but  ben­
eficial 
it  brings  in  other 
business,  all  you  must  do  is  to  have  a 
stock  of  these  goods  to  select  from.

inasmuch  as 

Be  patriotic  yourself,  Mr.  Merchant, 
if  you  handle  these  goods.  Have  a  large 
flagstaff  erected  over  your  store  or  pro­
jecting  over  the  street  and  display  a 
large  American  flag  there  on  every  pub­
lic  occasion.  You  might,  if you desired, 
secure  the  list  of  flag  days  generally  ob­
served  by  the  schools  of  the  State  and 
exhibit  this  large  flag  on  these occasions 
in  such  a  way  that  people  will  comment 
on  it  and  ask  you  about  it.  All  this  will 
keep  up  the  public  interest  and  among 
a  certain  class  of people,especially those 
who  aré  native  born  or  have  fought 
in 
our  wars  the  sight  of  the  old  flag will  be 
an 
inspiration  and  will  create  a  feeling 
of  fellowship.

In  selecting  a  stock  of  flags  do  not 
confine  your  purchases  entirely  to  the 
small  flags  used  merely  for  decorative 
purposes.  Secure  one  or  more  each  of

the  larger  sizes,  so  that  they  can  be  pro­
cured  from  you  if  wanted.  The  coun­
try  boy  of  an  historical  inclination  may 
have  a  greater  desire  to erect  a large flag 
pole  and  mount  the  stars  and  stripes 
in 
his  front  yard  than  to  invest  in  a  base 
ball  and  other  athletic  goods.  The  old 
soldier  may  also  have  the  same  inclina­
tion  and  you  can  sell  these  flags 
in  the 
course  of  time.

There 

is  required 

is  always  a  demand  for  bunt­
ing.  Churches  use  it  frequently  in  dec­
orating  their  parlors  for  social purposes, 
it 
in  making  special  cos­
tumes  for  masquerade  parties  and  simi­
lar  purposes  and  many  private  citizens 
large  quantities  of  it  to  decorate 
use 
their  homes  on  national  occasions. 
Im­
mense  quantities  of  bunting  were  sold 
at  the  time  of  the  assassination of Presi­
dent  McKinley  last  fall  and were draped 
with  black  to  show  the  great grief  that 
was  felt  by  the  people  of  this  nation.  It 
would  seem,  therefore,  that  bunting 
is 
always 
in  demand  and  to  a  somewhat 
lesser  extent  this  is  true  of  flags.  Keep 
a  good  stock  of  these  goods,  Mr.  Mer­
chant,  even 
if  they  do  not  move  every 
in  the  year.  Generally  when  they 
day 
do  sell  there 
is  a  good  profit  in  them. 
Advertise  them  occasionally 
in  your 
general  advertisements  and  just  before 
the  approach  of  national  holidays  ad­
vertise  them  extensively.—Commercial 
Bulletin.  ____  

_____
B etter Inform ed.

“ Now,  1  rather  pride  myself  on  my 
ability  to  read  character,”  said  the  man 
who  was  given  to  buying detective tales, 
“ and  yet  why  should  1? 
It  is  really  a 
very  simple  thing— requires  nothing  but 
close  observation.  For  instance,  it  is 
very  easy  to  tell  a  man’s  occupation. 
His  facial  expression,  his  actions,  even 
his  dress,  are  stamped  by  his  daily 
work.  You  see  that  man  sitting  op­
posite  us?  Well,  I’m 
just  as  sure  as 
though  he  had  told  me  that  he  is  a  bar­
ber. ”
friend. 

“ You  are  mistaken,”   replied  his 
"Impossible,”   exclaimed  the amateur 
“ You  never  saw  a  butcher 

detective. 
with  slim,  white  hands  like  his.”

“ That  man  is  a  butcher.”

“ Perhaps  not,”   admitted  the  other, 

“ but  he  is  a  butcher  just  the  same.”

“ How  do  you  know  he  is?”
“ How  do  I  know?  Why,  the  scoun­

drel  shaved  me  once.”

Influence of Food.

“ What  do  you  think  of  the  theory that 
food  has  a  potent  influence  in  determin­
ing  character?”   asked  Mr.  Smithfield, 
as  he  put  three  lumps  of  sugar  in  his 
coffee.

“ I  guess  it's  all  right,”   replied  Mr. 
Wood,  as  he  severed  a  portion  of  his 
beefsteak. 
little 
cannibalistic  to  me  when  you  order 
lobster. ’ ’

“ It  always  seems  a 

“ W ell,”  

retorted  Mr.  Smithfield, 
good  humoredly * ‘ I  ought  to  have known 
it  was  dangerous  to  lend  you  money 
after  I  discovered  your  fondness 
for 
if  there  were 
beets.  But,  seriously, 
anything 
it 
make  a  man  sheepisb  to  eat  mutton?”
“ It  would  and  prize  fighters  ought  to 
restrict  themselves  to  a  diet  of  scraps.”

in  the  theory,  wouldn't 

Courtship  Too  Expensive.

Tess—You  don’t  mean  to  say  they 

have  broken  off  their  engagement?

fectly  devoted  to  each  other.

Jess— Yes.
Tess—Why,  1  thought  they  were  per­
Jess— So  they  are.  You  see,  they  have 
broken  off  the  engagement  so  that  he 
may  save  enough  money  to  enable  them 
to  get  married.

Trne  Enough.

“ What  do  you  mean  by  saying  she 

just  celebrated  her wooden wedding?”  

“ She  married  a  blockhead.”

One  who  predicts  thunder  storms isn't 

necessarily  a  lightning  calculator.

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as shown by the footing of the  last  bill,  forward 
to the  “ amount  brought  forward ”  line  of  the 
next bill and place the book hack  in  the  system. 
It will be clearly seen by this  method  of keeping 
customers’  accounts,  the  customer  receives  a 
bill of  each  lot of  goods  bought,  the  charge is 
made, and the hill is written out at  one time, the 
merchant can tell at any  time  just  how  much  a 
customer owes by  looking at  the  hook;  there Is 
no posting to be done and no writing  up  of pass 
books.
The  customers  will  soon  get  to  expect a hill 
with each purchase, which  will  show  the entire 
amount of their indebtedness, and  having  It will 
naturally have greater confidence  in  the  dealer, 
and will  be  more  apt  to  settle  the  account  at 
more frequent intervals Instead of  allowing It to 
run until it  Is  so  large  that  It  can  not  be paid 
and  then  change  to  another  store,  causing  the 
dealer the loss of  a  customer  and  leaving  him 
with  a  large  and  doubtful  account  to  collect 
Cabinet patented March 8,1898.  Book patented 
June 14,1898 and March 19,1901.

For further particulars write or call on
A. H. MORRILL,  Mantra.  Agent 

105 Ottawa Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Manufactured  by

Cosby-Wirth Ptg. Co., St. Paui, Minn.

HOOK 

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Supporters are  among the 
best  sellers  in  the  hose 
supporter line.  We have 
them  in  assorted  colors 
to  the  dozen  at  $2.25 and 
$4.50.

Our  “ Ketchon”  in  the 
common  side  elastic  is  an 
extra  value  for  those  not 
wishing  to  pay  more  than 
a  dime.  Prices  are:

~  Children’s,  75c;  Misses’, 
t  80c;  Young  Ladies’,  85c;
It  has  the

Ladies’,  90c. 
j   rubber  button.

j Grand 
! Rapids 
I Dry  Goods 
I Company,

Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan

Exclusively  Wholesale

J  Formerly Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers

How  to  Mabe  a Shoe  Store  Pay.

After an  experience  of  many  years  in 
the  shoe  business  a  few  suggestions  to 
young  men  about  to  embark  in  the  re­
tail  trade  may  be  of  some  use  to  them 
and  perhaps  prompt  some  other  dealer 
to  make  more  valuable 
suggestions 
that  haay  be  of  help  to  all  of  us.  The 
more  experience  we  have  the  more  will­
ing  we  are  to  listen  to  advice  and  sug­
gestions,  especially 
from  those  who 
have  made  a  greater  success  than  our­
selves.

The  first  things and  a  very  important 
factor,  is  the  location  of  your  store.  Do 
not  let  a  few  dollars  a  month  prevent 
you  from  getting  the  best  in  your  town 
as  to  size  and 
location.  Generally 
speaking,  the  center of  the  business  por­
tion  is  the  best.  Before  you  stock  your 
store  consult  with  some  one  of  experi­
ence  as  to  the  needs  of  your  particular 
town;  or,  better  yet,  if  possible  go  to 
work  in  some  shoe  store  already  estab­
lished  for  a  few  months  and  find  out  for 
yourself  what  the  needs  are,  the  grades 
of  shoes  most  in  demand,  etc.

Be  very  careful  about  getting  stocked 
up  with  small  sizes,  narrow  widths  and 
extreme  styles.  You  will  need  some  of 
them,  but  handle  them  with  extreme 
caution.  Nearly  every 
jobber  has  on 
band  many  slow  sellers,  and  the  dealer 
who  starts  in  business  without  proper 
experience  will  find  that  be  has  been 
persuaded  by  the  smooth  talking  drum­
mer  (or commercial  traveler)  into  mak­
ing  some  selections  that  he  would  not 
have  made  had  be  taken  the  proper 
course  of  instruction  before  he  launched 
out  into  the  business  world.

Have  your  store  tastily but not gaudily 
furnished.  Do  not,  above all  things,  let 
the  idea  be  conveyed  that  you  are  cater­
ing  to  the  “ tony”  trade.  Do  not  forget 
that  the  great  middle  class  is  what  sup­
ports  the  business  of  every  thriving  and 
bustling  business  center.

Mark  your  goods  in  plain  figures  on 
every  carton.  Most  customers  like  to 
know  for  a  certainty  that  there 
is  no 
mistake  about  the  price,  as  many  times 
it  may  happen  that  you  have  to  employ 
extra  help and  the customer  might  think 
sometimes  that  the  price  was  a 
little 
higher or  lower  than his judgment would 
allow  and  he  or  she  could  easily  look  at 
the  carton  and  confirm what the salesman 
had  quoted  as  the  price.  Then,  again, 
if  for  some  reason  you  had  made  selec­
tions  that  proved  slow  sellers,  and  you 
thought  by  cutting  the  price  you  could 
move  them,  you  could  explain  to  your 
customer  that  the  price  of  that  shoe  had 
been  as  marked,  but  to  reduce  stock  or 
close  out  the 
line  you  had  decided  to 
mark  them  down,  they  could  readily  see 
such  was  the  fact,  and  go away  satisfied 
they  had  been  fairly  dealt  with  and  that 
they  had  truly  got  a  bargain.

After  giving  the  price  of  article asked 
for,  do  not  deviate  from 
it,  insist  that 
your  salesmen  sell  every  article  to  every 
customer  for  the  same  price. 
1  have 
known  instances  where  shopmates  have 
bought  shoes  at  the  same store,  the shoes 
and  cartons  being  exactly  alike  so  there 
could  possibly  be  no  reason  for  differ­
ence 
in  price,  and  one  paid  50 cents 
more  than  the  other  and  both  paid  cash. 
Such  cases  make  . customers  angry, 
and  they  generally  go elsewhere  to trade 
when  they  buy  again.

Do  not  dispute  with  your  customers 
when  they  say  that  they  can  buy  the 
same  thing  much  cheaper  elsewhere. 
them  pleasantly  that  there  are
Tell 

many  grades  of  shoes  of  nearly  the same 
price,  and  that  it  is  very  easy  to  be  de­
ceived  as  to  quality  when  the  goods  are 
seen  in  different  stores,  that  your  goods 
are  from  the  best  bouses  in  the  trade, 
and  that  you  sell  them  as  low  as  the 
same  quality  can  be  sold  elsewhere,  and 
that  if  they  buy  at  lower  prices  they 
will  get  cheaper  made  goods. 
If  you 
can  not  persuade  them  to  buy,  let  them 
go  out  after  telling  them  that  perhaps 
some  other time  you may  be  able  to  suit 
them  better,  and  if  they  have  gone  and 
bought  some  cheap  shoddy  goods  they j 
will  soon  find  out  that  you  are right,  and 
will  the  next  time  come  to  your  store 
and  will  often  let you  make  the selection 
for  them.  In such  cases  try  to  give  them 
the  best  wearing  goods  you  have  and 
you  have  a  customer  for  years.  When 
on  the  other  hand,  i f  you  had  got  angry 
and  snubbed  them,  they  would  have 
never  come  back.

Do  not  deal  in  shoddy  goods.  There 
will  always  be  a  call  for  something  that 
is 
too  cheap  to  have  any  service. 
Let  your  competitor  have  all  of  that 
class  of  trade.  After a  while  they  will 
come  to  you  and  buy  honest,  serviceable 
goods.

Avoid  carrying  too  many  lines. 

It  is 
much  better  to  have  always  on  hand  the 
best  selling  sizes  and  widths  of  a  few 
lines that  you  know  to  be reliable than to 
have  a  few  pairs  of  many  lines. 
If  you 
can  get  all  the  goods  you  need  from 
four  or five  houses,  it  is  better  to  do so; 
the  more  business  you  can  give  a  good 
reliable  firm  the  better  care  they  will j 
take  of  your orders,  often  going  outside 
to  get  what  they  may  be  short  of  and 
thus  saving  you  time  and  additional ex­
press  or  freight  charges.

Another 

important  feature 

is  insur­
insured  at  all 
ance.  Keep  your  stock 
times  for  at 
least  75  per  cent,  of  its 
value.  Many  shoe  dealers  neglect  this 
important  feature  of  their business.  The 
laws  governing  adjustment  of  losses  by 
fire  will  leave  the  merchant  who  carries 
but  partial 
insurance  in  poor  shape  to 
resume  business,  unless  he  has  ample 
capital  outside  of  bis  investment  in  his 
stock.  Should  be  be  so  unfortunate  as 
to  have his  stock  ruined  by  fire or  water, 
as  be  could  only  collect  in  proportion  to 
the  amount  of  his  insurance,  a  $5,000 
stock  should  always  be  insured  for at 
least  $4,000.

One  of  the  most  valuable  traits  in  a 
salesman or  proprietor  is to  cultivate  the 
memory  and  be  able  to  call  as  many  by 
name  as  possible  when  they  enter  the 
store.  Especially  is  this  true  when  your 
customer  has  come  from  out  of  town. 
Many  people  are  sensitive  and  bashful, 
and  after  they  have  gone  into  a  store  to 
make  a  purchase  and  are  greeted  by 
name  they  feel  as  if they  were  welcome, 
and  when  they  leave  it  is  with  the  im­
pression  that  they  are  trading  where 
their  trade 
is  appreciated,  and  there 
they  will  direct  their  neighbors  to  go 
when  coming  to  town.  Courtesy  and 
politeness  are  just  as  much  appreciated 
among  the  people 
in  humble  circum­
stances  as  among  those  who  have  been 
more  favored  in  life  and,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  my  experience 
is  that  there  are 
more  true  ladies  and  gentlemen  among 
the  people 
in  modest  circumstances  in 
proportion  to  numbers  than  there  are 
among  the  so-called  upper  ten. 
If  you 
could  get  the  experiences  of  many  of 
the  intelligent clerks in  large  stores I am 
sure  they  would  corroborate  this  state­
ment.

Try  to  do  as  nearly  a  cash  business as 
possible. 
If  you  have  some  customers 
who  wish  to  have  an  account  with  you

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have  it  understood  when  the  account  is 
opened  when  you  are  to  present  your 
bill,  and  when  that  time  comes  present 
it  promptly. 
If  there  is  any  dispute 
about  the  bill  take  each item separately, 
go  back  to  your  day  book  and  see  if  the 
item 
in  dispute  has  not  been  returned 
or  exchanged  for  something  costing  less 
than  the  original  charges.  Sometimes 
goods  are  returned  after  having  been 
charged,  and  the  person  to  whom  they 
were  returned  neglected 'to  credit  it  at 
the  time  and  then  forgot  it  entirely. 
It 
is  therefore  policy  to  make enquiry as  to 
where  and  how  the  mistake  occurred. 
I 
have  found 
in  several  instances  where 
mistakes  were  ferreted  out  and  proved 
in  my  favor. 
If  your customer  Can  not 
be  convinced  when  an  apparent  error  is 
claimed 
is  often  policy  to  let  it  go, 
and  thereby  retain  your  customer,  but 
if  you  do  not  let  your  accounts  run  very 
long  you  can  generally  remember all  the 
circumstances  and  amicably  settle  the 
misunderstanding.

it 

in  your 

especially 

I  would  say 

in  closing  that  if  you 
wish  to  get  the  best  results  from  your 
business,  give  it  as  much  of  your  per­
sonal  attention  as  possible.  Keep  your 
store  neat  and  comfortable.  Advertise 
constantly, 
local 
paper.  Get  good  space  and  keep  the 
same  all  through  the  year,  but  change 
your  advertisement 
week—twice  is  better.  Never  advertise 
what  you  have  not  got.  Do  not  make 
your  advertisement  too  long ;  the  more 
conspicuously  it  is  set  up  and the quick 
er 
it  can  be  read  the  more  people  will 
read  it.  If  you  have  a  special  sale  twice 
a  year,  as  all  shoe  stores  should,  it  is 
advisable  to  get  out  some  dodgers,  as 
they  will  reach  many  who  may  not  read 
the  local  papers.

least  once 

at 

I  am  not  much  in  favor  of  jobs.  As 

in  a 

general  thing  they  do  not  fit  prevailing 
styles  of  shoes.  Usually  they  are  jobs 
because  they  are  slow  sellers,  and  with 
the  utmost  care  you  will  accumulate 
jobs  of  your  own  without  taking  on  any 
other  dealers’  unsalable  goods.  One 
word  about  rubbers:  do  not  be  enticed 
into  buying  cheap  rubbers  unless  yo 
are 
location  where  your  trade  i 
mostly  transient.  We  often  hear  a  cus 
tomer  say  they  only  want  to  wear  them 
once  or  twice,  they  have  plenty  at  home 
that  are  first  class,  that a  cheap  pairwi 
do  for  now.  They  go  away  and  in 
few  days  they  come  into  the  store  when 
you  are  busy  and  make  a  great  fuss 
about  the  poor  rubbers  you  gave  them 
and  demand  a  new  pair,  utterly  ignor 
ing  the  fact  that  they  said  they  only 
wanted  to  wear  them  once  and  wanted 
cheap  ones.  We  have  all  had  this  ex 
perience  many  times  and  it  is  cheaper 
in  the  long  run  to lose that class of trade 
Last  of  all  I  want  to  say,  do  not  be 
afraid  to  spend  time  to  look  at  samples 
when  they  are  offered  by  traveling  men 
Do  not  be  tempted 
into  buying  too 
many lines,but  keep  posted  as  to what 
being  made  and  what  goods  are  worth 
Go  to  the  wholesale  market  at  least 
twice  a  year;  look  around  and  see 
you  are  trading  with  the  best  houses 
Go  into  some  of  the  most  prosperous 
and  successful  retail  stores,  see  what 
kinds  of  goods  they  carry.  Get  any 
ideas  you  can  from proprietors  or  clerks 
as to  best  sellers,  margin  of  profit,  styles 
that  move  quickly,  best  firms  to  deal 
with,  and  any  other  information  that 
may  be  of  use  in  the  transaction  of  your 
business. 
It  costs  nothing  to  be observ­
ant,  and  the  most  successful  of  our mer­
chants  are  those  who  do  not  sit  down 
and  wait  for  [trade  but  who  get^afgait 
on  them  and  keep  up  the  pace.— Harry 
Howe  in  Boot  ana  Shoe  Recorder.

Shoem aker's Idea as to Squeaking Shoes.
it  that  makes  my  shoes 
“ What  is 

creak?”

The  little  shoemaker  looked  up  and 
smiled  for  a  moment  and  then  went  on 
for  a  time  with  his  tapping. 
It  was  an 
old,  old  question  and  it  was  not  easy  to 
answer  it  with  anything  new.

“ Take  them  off, 

first  one,  then  the 
other,”   he  said,  “ and  I’ ll  see  if  I  can 
fix  ’em—while  you  wait.”

Off  came  one  shoe  and  the  owner  of 
sat  down with  his stockinged foot  over 
his  knee  to  watch  the  squeak-curing 
process.  The  shoemaker  simply  pulled 
the  shoe  over  an  iron  last  and drove four 
five  nails  straight  up  the  middle  of 
the 
perhaps,  three 
nches.  Then  he  flanked  this  row  with 
two  on  each  side.

covering, 

sole, 

“ Try  that,”   said  he.
The  man  tried  it  and  found  himself 
walking  around  the  shop  with  one  silent 
shoe  and  the  other  a  mass  of  squeak- 
ngs.  So  the  process  was  repeated  on 
the  noisy  foot  covering  and  the  man 
went  off  down  the  street  in  silence  and 
in  comfort.

The  next day,  when he had  more  time, 
the  man  sought  the  shoemaker  for  more 
nformation.
“ Once,”   said  this  man  of  lasts  and 
waxed  string,  “ people  seemed  to  think 
you  had  not  given  them  their  money's 
worth  if  the  shoes  you  made  or  mended 
for  them  did  not  squeak.  That  was 
about  the  time  that  swells  were  reluc 
tantly  giving  up  hair  oil  and  similar 
things.

It  is  usually  easy  enough  to  make 
shoes  that  will  not  squeak  and  all  but 
the  cheapest  kinds  are  supposed  to  be 
anti-squeakers.  The  noise  comes  from 
the  chafing  of  the  two  pieces  of  leather 
that  compose  the  sole,  not  counting  the 
welts. 
If left  to  themselves  these  pieces 
will  sooner  or  later  part  sufficiently  to 
make  a  place  about  the  point  where  the 
ball  of  the  foot  come,  where  there  is  not 
perfect  contact  and  this  is  where  the 
noise  comes  from.

‘ The  cheapest  shoe  should  be  the 
noisiest,  for  the  leather  their  soles  are 
made  of  is  tanned 
in  hemlock  bark. 
This  makes  what  we  call  red  leather. 
It  is  rough  and  harsh.  The  next  grade 
is  union,  a  combination  of  hemlock  and 
oak  bark  for  tanning  giving it its name. 
The  next  highest  grade  is  white  oak, 
and  with  this  we  have  the  least  trouble, 
so  far  as  squeaking  is  concerned.

“ When  the  public  made  up  its  mind 
that  its  shoes  must  not  squeak,  we  had 
to  stir  about  and  find  something  to  put 
between  the  soles.  For  the  cheaper 
grades  we  use 
leather  chips  and  for 
more  expensive  shoes  we  have cork,  and 
then  there 
is  this  specially  prepared 
paper.  We  put  a  little  of  any  of  these 
materials  between  the two soles and there 
is  an  end  to  the  squeak  usually.  Some 
times,  however,  the  chips  of  the  paper 
get  out  of  place  or  are  ground  into  pow­
der  and  then  the  creaking is heard from.
is  very  strange  how  some  shoes 
will  wear  for  six  months  without  a  mur 
mur  and  their  owners  will  tread  life’s 
pathway  in  peace  and  comfort.  Then 
without  the slightest  apparent  reason  for 
it,  they  will  set  up  such  a  din  that  the 
wearer’s  life  will  be  made  almost  unen 
durable  if  he  be  a  nervous  man.

“ It 

“ It  seems  almost  as  if  they  were  tired 
and  wanted  a  rest  and  I honestly believe 
shoes  do  get  tired.  Sounds  odd,  but 
am  satisfied  it  is  a  fact.  Chuck  a  pai 
of  shoes  into  the  closet  and  let  them 
alone  for  a  couple  of  weeks  and  see  how 
comfortable  they  will  feel  when  you  put 
them  on  again.” — Shoe  Retailer.

The  O ther Fellow ’s  Girl.
She cost me not a cent for flowers,
Nor yet a single cent for sweets;
If to the theater she goes 
I never have to buy the seats.
She does not squelch my evening pipe 
To drag me in the social whirl;
She leaves me to my quiet smoke—
I hymn the other fellow’s girl!

I have to hear no tales of woe,
To wipe no briny tears away;
I do not have to  sympathize 
O’er what her treacherous friends may say;  i
We never quarrel;  hence I’m spared 
The epithets that women hurl,
And, too, the silly making up—
I hymn the other fellow’s girl!

Her moods to me no difference make;
I quite enjoy a change, you see;
And she be cold, I like her so;
She’s handsome on her dignity.
If, otherwise, she’s moved to dote.
And to a manly breast would curl.
There’s no face powder on my coat—
I hymn the other fellow’s girl!

Get  our  prices  and  try 
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Seals,  etc.

Send  for  Catalogue  and  see  what 

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Grand Rapids

THEWONDERFUL

D O R A N  
L I G H T

Are 
Afraid

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Dickson, Tbnn., October 20,1900.

to refer to our customers.  They all have a good word  for  “Doran 
Lights.”
Acorn Brass  Works.  Chicago, Ills.
Gentlemen:—In answer  to your  query  will  say  that  we  have  now used 
your light 18  months and have had  little or no  trouble  with  it,  and  as  to  the 
supply wire, it has never caused us the least trouble, having never been stopped 
up since in use.
We consider It the best light of  all  the  lights  in  our  town,  and  we have 
about all makes represented  here. 
We have hundreds  of  testimonials  like  the  above. 
"Doran 
Lights” are made to give a light equal to any  electric  arc  for  the 
man in the small town where  gas  and  electricity  are  not  obtain­
able.  They’re also made to  save  at  least  three-fourths  on  light 
bills for the man who does  use  gas  or  electricity.  A  safe,  satis­
factory and economical  lighting system  which  it  will  pay  you  to 
investigate.  Write for catalog— sent  free.

Yours  truly,  Dickson  Drug  Co.

ACORN  BRASS  WORKS

Dept. W. 

20 Jefferson St., Chicago., 111.
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to  each  light),  also  for "M.  &  M.”  Portable  Lamps  (600  candle 
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Orders  placed  for  midsummer  neg­
ligee  shirts  are  now so far advanced  that 
the  favorites  are  established  and  the 
styles  to  prevail  are  recognized.

Never  in  the  history  of  negligee shirts 
has  so  much  attention  been  given  the 
subject,  nor  has  there  ever  been  such  a 
handsome  array  of  shirtings  offered  the 
retailer to  select  from.

All  negligee  shirts have been designed 
with  a  view  to  their  sightliness  when 
worn  without  a  coat.  As  much  attention 
has  been  given  to  the  finish  of  the  back 
and  shoulders  as  to  any  other  portion 
of  the  shirt.

The  general  style  of  the  best  grades 
is :  the  long  bosom 
of  white  negligees 
extending  below  the  waist 
line;  six 
plaits,  three  on  either  side  of  the  center 
box  plait;  cuffs  attached,  narrow widths 
with  square  or  slightly  rounded  square 
points;  small  pearl  buttons.

For  the  colored  shirt  the  adopted style 
is  the  long  bosom  with  four  plaits,  two 
on  either  side  of the  center  box  plait; 
attached  or  detached  cuffs  with  slightly 
rounded  points;  small  pearl  buttons.

Plain  bosoms  have  been  ordered  in 
about  equal  proportions  with  the  plaited 
shirts  in  the  colored  patterns.

The  coat  shirt  has  been  more  freely 
ordered  than  ever.  This  style 
is  said 
to  be  especially  comfortable  for  mid­
summer  wear.

In  the  cheaper  grades  of  shirts  plain 
and  plaited  bosoms  have  been  ordered 
in  about  equal  proportions.  Cuffs  de­
tached,  well  rounded  corners.

In  the  high  grade  white  shirts  the 
corded 
linen  are  favored  in 

long-cloth,  batiste, 

French 
linens  and  India 
the  order  named.

The  French 

long-cloth,  which 

is  an 
exceedingly  lightweight,  plain  weave, 
makes  up  to  what  is  claimed  to  be  the 
lightestweight  shirt  shown. 
It  is  called 
the  “ One  Ounce  Shirt.”   The  fabric  is 
new  and  seems to  fill  every  requirement 
in  weight  and  body  to 
for 
lightness 
It  is  a  firmly  woven 
launder  well. 
cloth,  consequently 
is  shape-retaining 
and  comfortable  for  wear  under the most 
uncomfortable  climatic  conditions.

The  cuffs, 

Corded  linens  will  be  very extensively 
worn.  These  fancy  weaves  offer  great 
opportunities  for  shirt  designers  to  dis­
play  their  artistic  skill  in  folding  and 
plaiting  the  bosoms. 
in 
corded 
linens,  do  not  have  the  plain 
linen  appearance  that  would  mar  the 
finish  of  a  shirt  made  up  of  these cloths.
Next  to  the  white  come  the  white 
grounds  with  small  set  figure  in  black, 
navy  blue  and  oxblood.  This  class  of 
shirts  will open  the  season  with  as  much | 
of  a  demand  for  them  as  was  experi-1

enced  near  the  close  of  the  season 
last 
year,  when  they  could  not  be  had  to 
supply  the  want.

Fine  stripes,  widely  set,  in  this  class 
of  shirtings,  are  not  as  good  as  the  fig­
ures,  although  orders  have  been  placed 
for  enough  to  complete  an  assortment.
A  new  cloth  in  the  white  ground  and 
small  figure  is  called  the  “ Piccardy.“  
It 
is  a  novelty  and  one  of  the  most 
sightly  shirtings  brought  out  this  year. 
This  cloth  has  white  mercerized  stripes 
set  about  one  and  one-half  inches  apart. 
The  stripes  are  five-sixteenths  of  an 
inch  wide  and  fancy  woven— in  herring 
bone,  pebble  and  natte  effects.  Over 
this  white  ground  the  small  figures  are 
printed.

This  cloth  was  late  to  come  out  and 
it  is  claimed  that  the  supply  will  be 
much  less  than  the  demand  when  once 
the  shirt  is  displayed.

Biding  H is Time.

“ Johnny,”   said  his  father,  “ the  very 
next  time  you  are  impertinent  I’ll  send 
you  to  bed  at  once.”

The  boy  went  back  and  sat  down.
“ Never  mind,”   he  told  his  sister, 
right 

“ I’ll  get  even  with  him 
enough.”

“ How?”   she  asked,  curiously,  for  she 
had  great  confidence  in  her brother's  re­
sourcefulness.

“ I’ll  wait  until  it’s bedtime,  and then 

all 

I'll  sass  him  good  and  plenty.”

But  for  the  little  men  in  the  world 

great  men  would  never  be  noticed.

M.  Wile & Co.

Famous  Makers  of  Clothing

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Samples  on  Request  Prepaid

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,

P.  D.  ROGERS,

Central and  Northern Michigan. 

Northern Ohio and  Indiana  and 
Southern  Michigan.

Ask to see Samples of

Pan-American 
Guaranteed  Clothing

Makers

Wile Bros.  & Weill.  Buffalo,  N.Y.

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

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We  Say 

We  Mean  Just  W hat 

^   We  have  never  tried  to  mislead  our  customers.  ||| 
H  One  inch  of  facts  goes  farther  than  a  yard  of  false-  j|| 
H  hoods  or  misrepresentations.  When  we  say  to  you  ||| 
M  that  our line  for  the  coming  fall  season  will  surpass  jg|j 
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line  of  Pants,  consisting  of  fine  Cassimeres,  ||| 
H  Worsteds,  Unions  and  Kerseys  in  Men’s,  Youths’  ||1  
and  Boys’  could  positively  be  sold  as  merchant  tailor  ||| 
make.  Sizes,  fit  and  make  perfect. 
|||
The  Peerless  Shirts  are  too  well  and  extensively  ^  
known  to  need  any  comments.  The  same  also  ap-  |J| 
plies  to  our  Mackinaws,  Triplex  and  Duck  Coats;  ||| 
in  fact,  to  all  of  our  own  make  Peerless  brand  of  ||| 
goods.  An  endless  assortment  of  Shirts,  Drawers, 
Sweaters,  Hosiery,  Gloves  and  Mitts. 

HI
If in  Grand  Rapids call  at  our  office,  28  S.  Ionia  | 1| 
St.,  and  inspect  our line.  Otherwise  please  wait  for  W 
our representative,  who  will  call  upon  you  soon. 
|||

The  Peerless  Manufacturing  Co.

Detroit,  Michigan

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  cotnpeti- 
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 
m everything that is made and  worn in ready made clothing  by  men,  youths  bovs 
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 trad4 
calling upon me from  Indiana,  Ohio and most  parts  of  Michigan.  Customers’  ex-
E n n  M '   ° ? f C  ° peD  da,iy'#  Nearly  quarter  century  in  business.  Best 
selection of Clay and fancy worsteds from *5  up.  Pants  of  every kind.  Call-  vou 
won t regret it.  Mail orders promptly attended to. 

’  y

WILLIAM  CONNOR,  Wholesale  Ready  Made Clothing

Citizens  Phone >957,  Bell Phone Main 1282

28 and 30 South  Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan 

SCOTTEN-DILLON  COMPANY

TO BACCO   M AN U FACTU RERS 

IN D EPEN D EN T  FA C TO R Y 

D ETR O IT.  MICHIGAN

OUR  LEADIN G  BRA N D S.  K E E P  THEM   IN  MIND.

.  F IN E   C U T  
UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA. 

FOREST GIANT. 

SW E E T  SPRAY. 

SM O K IN G  

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

P L U G

CREM E  DE MENTHE

STRONG  HOLD
F L A T IR O n  ’
SO-LO.

The  above  brands  are  manufactured  from  the  finest  selected  Leaf  Tobacco  that  money  can  buy.  See  quotations  in

price  current.

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

E.  W.  F alter,  President  Grand  Rapids 

R etail  Grocers’  Association.

Frederick  W.  Fuller,  President  of  the 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  has  been 
identified  with  the  business  interests  of 
this  city  since  a  child.  His  father, 
Betbuel  Fuller,  was  a  Vermont  man  and 
his  mother  was a native of Pennsylvania.
The  family  moved  here  in  the  early 
fifties.  During  the  civil  war  the  father 
was  a  member  of  the  Twenty-first  Vol­
unteers.  After  the  war  he  was  a  con­
tractor,  employing  many  men. 
Fred 
attended  the  city  schools  until  he  was 
in  his  sixteenth  year,  when  he  decided 
to  hustle  for  himself.  The  last five  years 
he  was  in  school  he  was  an  enterprising 
newsboy,  carrying  routes  for the  Eagle 
and  Democrat  enabling  him  to  buy  his 
own  clothing  and  books.

His  first  position  was  with  George 
Lehman,  the  grocer  on  West  Bridge 
street.  He  worked  there  two  years,when 
he  went 
into  a  commission  merchant’s 
office,  where  he  remained  a  year  and  a

that  had 
same  conscientious  dealing 
been  instrumental  in  working  up  a  good 
trade  on  the  hill,  his  business  rapidly 
increased.

Two  years  ago  Mr.  Fuller  bought 
from  M.  C.  Vergiver  the  grocery  at  the 
corner  of  Lyon  and  Union  streets. 
It  is 
no  exaggeration  to  say  that  during  the 
last  two  years  the  business has increased 
125  per  cent. 
It  is  in  part  through  the 
valuable  assistance  of Mr.  Bratt.whohas 
been  with  Mr.  Fuller a  number of years, 
that  Mr.  Fuller  has  been  able  to  run 
both  stores.  He  has  the  greatest  con­
fidence  in  Mr.  Bratt  and  leaves  much  of 
the  buying  to  him.

Mr.  Fuller  is  another  example  of  the 
successful  business  man  who  believes 
that “ Honesty is  the  best  policy.’ ’  He 
believes  that  treating  his customers fair­
ly  and  squarely  is  the  only  way  to  gain 
their patronage  and  support.

When  not  engaged  in  superintending 
the  affairs of his two  stores, Mr.  Fuller  is 
busy 
in  attending  to  the  details  of  the 
Retail  Grocers’  Association.  During 
his  adminstration  the  Association  has 
increased 
in  numbers  and  enthusiasm. 
More  attention  has  been  paid  to  the 
affairs  of  the  Association  than  ever  be­
fore.  Mr.  Fuller  declines  to  take  any 
credit  to  himself  for  this  satisfactory 
condition,  but  his  friends  in  the  Asso­
ciation  say  otherwise.

Mr.  Fuller  was  married  October 28, 
1886,  to  Miss  Della  Wright,  of  this  city. 
They  have  one  child,  a  boy  three  and  a 
half  years  old.  Mr.  Fuller  is  a  member 
of  Kent  Camp,  Modern  Woodmen  of 
America.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  En­
terprise  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  the  Frater­
nal  Mystic  Circle,  and  a  member of  the 
Board  of  Trade.

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When  a  customer  is  in  the  act  of  buying,  price 
may be  especially in  his  mind;  but  after  the  purchase, 
when the  article is in  his possession,  quality  is  his  par­
ticular concern.  The  buying occupies  but  a  few  min­
utes,  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  evi­
dence;  and the  quality of the article  measures  the  last­
ing praise or blame  of  the  man  who  sold  it.  Always 
urge the  best goods upon  the  buyer,  argue  quality  be­
fore price;  and so  may your  days  be  happy  and  your 
end peace!

Spanked  the  W rong  Boy.

A  Detroit  man  was  traveling  with  his 
son,  and  wishing  to  transact  some  busi­
ness  with  the  conductor,  he said,  “ Now, 
Willie,  I’m  going  to  be  away  just  a  few 
minutes.  You  sit  right  here,  and  don’t 
move  a  bit. 
If  you  do,  I'll  spank  you 
good  and  bard.  So  don't  stick  your 
head  out  of  the  window.  You  might 
have  it  taken  off,  if  you  do ;  then  you 
wouldn’t  have  any head,and  you'd  get  a 
spanking  besides.'
The  father  went  away  to  find  the  con­
ductor.  After  a  few  minutes  he  came 
back.

There  was  little  Willie  just  his  feet 
and  the  seat  of  his  trousers  sticking 
in 
through  the  window.  He  appeared  to 
be  more  outside  than  inside,  and when­
ever  a  telegraph  pole  whizzed  by  and 
looked  especially  close,  he  would  make 
a  lunge  for  it,  as  if  trying  to  catch  it.

lull 

The  father  did  not  hesitate.  He  made 
just  as  the  latter 
a  grab  for  the  boy 
lunge  for  a  pole.  He  pulled 
made  a 
him 
in  by  the  heels,  laid  him  over  his 
knees,  and  began  to  fulfill  his  promise. 
The  little  fellow  yelled  and  yelled  until 
he  almost  drowned  out  the  noise  of  the 
train,  but  during  a 
in  the  uproar 
the  father  heard  a  snicker  behind  him. 
He  laid  the  boy  down  and  turned  to  see 
what  it  meant.
There,  two  seats  behind  and  across 
the  aisle,  was  bis  son,  with  two  fineers 
stuffed  in  his  mouth  to  keep  his  merri­
ment  in.  The  man  rubbed  his  eyes, 
and  looked  again,  but  there  was  no  mis­
take.

He  looked  at  the  boy*in  his  lap.  Be­
hind  the  tears  was  a  face  he  had  never 
seen  before.  He  had  spanked  some 
other  man’s  son.

M indful of th e  Risk.

One  of  the  converts  at  a  colored  bap­
tising  said  to  the  preacher as  they  were 
going  down  into  the  millpond :

“ Any  alligators  in  dis  yermillpon’ ?”  
“ My  brudder,”  said the preacher,“ de 

Lawd’ll  take  keer  er  you."

“ Mebbe  He  w ill,”   mumbled  the 
doubtful  candidate  for  baptism,  “ but 
alligators  is  mighty  hungry  in  de  fust 
er  de  springtime !"

half.  During  that  time  he  kept  books 
for  the  late  Alois  Rasch,' who  at  that 
time  kept  a  grocery  on  Canal  street. 
Mr.  Fuller  also  attended  Swensberg’s 
business  college  during  the  evening.

In  February,  1886,  although  not  a 
graduate  of  the  business  college,  Mr. 
Fuller  was  accepted  as  book-keeper  for 
the  Osterhout  &  Fox  Lumber  Co.,  at 
Deer  Lake.  He  remained  there 
two 
years  and  a  half,  during  which  time  he 
occupied  various  political  positions. 
He  was  justice  of  the  peace,  deputy 
postmaster  and  deputy  township  clerk.
In  1889  Mr.  Fuller  resigned  his  po­
sition  with  the  Osterhout  &  Fox  Lum- 
be  Co.  and  went  on  the  road  for  Theo­
dore  Kemink,  who  was  then  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  flavoring  extracts.

In  August,  1890,  Mr.  Fuller  engaged 
in  the  grocery  and  meat  business  with 
O.  A.  Anderson  at  the  corner  of  Fifth 
and  Stocking  streets.  At  the  end  of  two 
years  he sold  out  his  interest  to  Mr.  An­
derson.  Mr.  Fuller next  bought  out  the 
little  store  at  143  Livingston  street.  He 
had  tried  to  rent  the  store  at  152  North 
Division  street,  but  had  been  unsuccess­
ful.  The  store  on  Livingston  street  soon 
became  known  as  “ Fuller’s  Handy 
Grocery.’ ’  He  worked  up  a  fine  trade 
here  and  secured  for  himself  the  repu­
tation  of  being  a  thoroughly  trustworthy 
man  to  deal  with.  Within  two  years 
Mr.  Fuller  succeeded  in  buying  out  the 
grocery  stock  of  Frank  Winsor,  at  152 
North  Division  street.  He  gradually 
removed  his  stock  from  the  Livingston 
street  store  to  his  new  stand  on  North 
Division  street.  Here,  by  reason  of  the

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

Hardware

Illegitim ate  Com petition  in   tjie  D istribu­

tion  of M erchandise.

I  believe  that  my  readers  will  agree 
with  me  when  I  say  that  illegitimate 
competition  is  one  of  the  paramount  is­
sues  of  the  day  among  retailers.

Every  hardware  merchant  must  have 
at  some  time  during  his  mercantile 
career come  in  contact  with  competition 
which  he  feels  and  knows  to  be  illegiti­
mate,  and  it  should  be  the  ambition  of 
every  dealer  to  overcome  this  difficulty 
in  an  honest  fashion.

I  can  not  expect  within  the  course  of 
this  article  to  present  any  new ideas and 
only  hope  to  impress  some  which  have 
already  been  considered  in  the  past.

There  are  natural  trade  rights  which 
the  commercial  world  has  established, 
not  because  of  some  fixed  law,  but  due 
to  an  outgrowth  of  circumstances.  The 
retail  dealer  with  honest  rights  and 
principles 
is  a  natural  production  of 
this  outgrowth.  Why  should  this  growth 
be  torn  down  by  illegitimate  competi­
tion?  Shall  we  as  retail  dealers  stand 
idle  and  talk  of  passing  away? 
I  say 
No.  We  certainly  have  a  right  to  exer­
cise  our  ability  and  privilege in fighting 
such  an  existing  evil. 
It  has  been 
demonstrated 
in  the  past  that  the  retail 
hardware  store  is  an  essential  medium, 
through  which  the  distribution  of  the 
manufactured  product  is  most  econom­
legitimately 
ically  and 
distributed. 
Therefore,  it 
is  very  evident  that,  to 
maintain  this  necessary  channel  of  dis­
tribution  which  rightly  belongs  to  us, 
we  must  necessarily  resort  to  extreme 
measures  and  good  business  sense  to 
overcome  the  disastrous  effect  of  such 
competition.

Are  we  powerless to  exercise  measures 
which  will  replace  the  trade  which  has 
been  taken  from  us  by  the  bazaar  and 
racket  stores?  Does  the  tendency  to 
trespass  on  retail  territory  stop  here? 
No,  we  are  sorry  to  say  it  manifests 
it­
self 
in  many  lines.  For  example,  the 
dealer  is  compelled  to  stand  with  his 
arms  folded  and  see  the  contractor  fur­
nish  the  hardware  for  many  of  the  large 
buildings  and  he  not  so  much as granted 
an  opportunity  to compete  for  the 
job. 
Can  we  expect  anything  different  when 
some  of  the  so-called  jobbers  continue 
to  solicit  their  patronage  and  often 
quote  them  a  lower  price  than  they  give 
the  home  merchants?

Now,  is  this  legitimate  competition? 
Judging  from  my  past  personal  experi­
ence,  I  must  say  No.  Granting  this  to 
be  true,  it  is  not  unjust  to  ask  a  few  of 
the  so-called  jobbers  who  do  not deserve 
our  patronage  to  discontinue  soliciting 
oar  trade,  for  their  course  demoralizes 
our  business  and  encourages  undue  and 
illegitimate competition.They solicit the 
jeweler,  druggist,  grocer,  department 
store,  millman,  blacksmith,  lumberman, 
contractor,  and  even  consumer,  and  then 
expect  the  retail  dealer to  buy  of  them! 
A  more  absurd  proposition  would  be 
hard  to  name,  yet  some  dealers  patron­
ize  them  knowing  this  condition.  This 
branch  of  trade  has  been  spreading  out 
much  more  than  most of  us  realize. 
It 
will  not  do  to  ignore  this  condition  of 
affairs  and  some  step  to  check  it  is  ab­
solutely  necessary.  The  longer  this  ac­
tion 
just  so  much  the 
harder  will  the  problem  be. 
These 
parties  may  say  that  they  are  doing  a 
retail  business  not  because  they  like  it 
but  because  other  jobbers  are  retailing. 
This  plausible  excuse  can  not  be  ac­
cepted.

is  postponed 

While  the  above  mentioned conditions

are  detrimental  to  the  advancement  of 
the  retail  hardware  trade,  it  is  my  per­
sonal  experience 
that  the  catalogue 
bouse  is  by  far  the  most  serious  prob­
lem.  Customers  quite  frequently  quote 
prices  from  their catalogues,  which have 
a  prominent  place in almost every home. 
If  the  customer  does  not  buy  goods  of 
the  house  represented  by such catalogues 
he  certainly  uses  them  as  a  leverage 
when  purchasing  of  the hardware dealer, 
which  frequently  results 
in  the  loss  of 
the  latter’s  profits.  And  just  so  long  as 
catalogue  competition 
is  permitted  to 
quote  lower  prices  than  we  are  able  to 
meet  at  a  margin,  just  so  long  will  such 
houses  obtain  the  preference 
among 
many  of  our  customers.

Often  the  consumer  does  not  stop  to 
think  that  when  buying  of  the  catalogue 
house  the  deal 
is  ended;  but  when  be 
decides  to  make  his  purchase  of  the  re­
tailer  the  deal  does  not  end  until  the 
article  is  worn  out!  Much  more  is  de­
manded  of  the  home  dealer than  is  ex­
pected  of  the  catalogue  house.  How­
ever,  it 
is  “ up  to  us,”   if  possible,  to 
convince  our  customers  that  it  is  their 
duty  to  deal  with  us  on  the  same  basis 
that  they  are  compelled  to  deal  with  the 
the  catalogue  bouse.

I  will  offer  the  following  suggestions 
that  may  be  instrumental  to  retard  the 
progress  of  the  catalogue  house  and  bet­
ter  our  condition  in  regard  to  this  great 
e v il:

legitimate  channels. 

It  seems  to  me absolutely necessary for 
the  dealers,  one  and  all,  to  co-operate 
with  the  Protective  Association,  for  in 
union  there  is  strength.  Then  I  would 
recommend  that  the  Association  prevail 
on  manufacturers  not  to  sell  catalogue 
houses,  confining  the  trade  as  nearly  as 
possible  to  the 
1 
think  it  erroneous  to  insist  on  Congress 
enacting  legislation  against  such  evils, 
inasmuch  as  it  would  be  almost 
impos­
sible  for  it  to  pass  an  act  that  would not 
be  declared  unconstitutional.  Through 
the  co-operation  of  the  Association keep 
yourself  posted  up  to  date.  Put  your 
shoulder  to  the  wheel  of  progress.  Keep 
continually  before  the  people 
in  the 
vicinity  from  which  you  expect  to  draw 
trade  these  important  facts: 
that  you 
are  a  dealer;  that  you  pay  taxes  which 
go  to  assist  in  the  improvement  of  their 
and  your  property;  that  you 
intend  to 
live  and 
live ;  that  you  do  not  ex­
pect  to  sell  all  the  people  all  of  their 
goods  but  do  intend  to  sell  all  the  peo­
ple  part  of  their supplies.

let 

Converse,  Ind.

Will  R.  Powell.

Don’t Stop  Advertising'.

George  Washington  died  and  yet  the 
country  survived.  His  death  was  a  ten 
days’  talk  and  then  people  talked  of 
somebody  else.  Napoleon  went  to  St. 
Helena  and  a  Bourbon  occupied  the 
throne  of  France.  What is  true  of  illus­
trious  men 
is  true  in  greater  degree  of 
those  who  have  not  achieved  eminent 
distinction.  To  succeed  in  advertising 
one  must  keep  himself  constantly  before 
the  public.  When  he  ceases  to  advertise 
people  forget  him.  Who  remembers 
Helmbold  now?  Yet  time  was  when  he 
and  his  buchu  preparation  were  the  talk 
of  the  country.  When  a  man  ceases  to 
work  he  deteriorates  mentally ;  when  a 
business  man  stops  advertising  his 
sales  decrease  visibly.

H er Rivals.

Mrs.  Hoyle— My  husband  says  that  I 

am  one  woman  in  a  thousand.

Mrs.  Doyle— Aren't  you  jealous  of  the 

nine  hundred  and  ninety-nine?

If  every  man 

is  the  architect  of  his 
own  destiny  he  should  pay  particular 
attention  to  the  fire  escapes.

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BEMENT
PEERLESS

CULTIVATOR

Narrow  enough  for  beans  and wide enough 

for corn.

Spring  teeth  may  be  taken  off  and  replaced 

by  shovels.

With  the  center  section  in  place  it  makes 

a  perfect  riding  harrow.

W e  make  a  full  line  of  tilling  tools.  Send 

for price  list.

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Necessity  of Supporting  the  N ational  As­

sociation.

1  have  always  entertained  the  highest 
appreciation  for  the  good  results  pos­
sible  to  be  derived  from  a  proper  asso­
ciation  of  dealers,  and  I  believe  that 
the  objects  so  far  accomplished  will, 
when  properly  analyzed,  fully  substan­
tiate  the  wisdom  of  those  who  struggled 
to  organize  and  thus  far  develop  the  va­
rious  hardware  dealers’  associations. 
From  a  very  small  beginning,  with  but 
a  handful  of  members  in  each  of  the  as­
sociations,  unacquainted  with  the  task 
before 
and  without  definite 
knowledge  as  to  how  their  purpose  was 
to  be  accomplished,  yet  undaunted  with 
the  seeming  hopelessness  of  their  cause, 
they  accomplished  a  great  deal  more 
than  could reasonably  be  hoped  for in  so 
brief  a  time.

them, 

Several  state  associations  have  been 
in  operation  for  eight  or  nine  years.  A 
number  of  others  four  to  six  years,  yet 
outside  of 
local  matters,  state  associa­
tions  accomplished  but  little  until  their 
forces  were  merged  into  a  national  asso­
ciation. 
Three  years  ago  the  retail 
peddling  propensities  of  our  jobbing 
houses  and  manufacturers  were  steadily 
increasing  and  the  rights  of  the  retailer 
were  beginning  to  be  a  totally  unrecog­
nized  quantity  in  spite  of  state  associa­
tions.

The  courteous  attention  to-day  given 
by  nearly  every  manufacturing  and  job­
bing  concern  to  the  complaints  filed 
against them ;  the numbers  of  goods  cat­
alogued  by 
illegitimate  concerns  they 
cannot  supply;  the  number  of  articles 
upon  which  these  illegitimate  concerns 
have  been  obliged  to  maintain  a  proper 
retail  price;  the 
influence  the  associa­
tion  wielded  in shelving the  parcels  post 
b ill;  the  preventing  of  rural  delivery 
men  from  distributing  illegitimate  cata­
logues  as  freight  or  express  matter  in 
opposition  to  the  service  for  which  they 
were  p aid;  stopping  postmasters  from 
acting  as  soliciting  agents  for  catalogue 
houses,  and  the correcting  or  even  entire 
abrogation  of  a  number  of matters of  too 
private  a  nature  to  be  mentioned  here, 
but  whose  effects  for  better  or  for  worse 
to  the  retail  trade  were  of  equal  im­
portance,  should  be  conclusive  evidence 
that  the  association  has  rendered  aserv- 
ice  to  the  dealer  a-  hundredfold  greater 
than  the  price  of  his  dues,  as  well  as  a 
service  beyond  every  possibility  of  ac­
complishment  by  the  single  individual. 
The  results  thus  far  accomplished,  the 
objects  yet  to  be  accomplished  and  the 
new  issues  the  future  will  present  along 
this  line  show  the  great  necessity  of  an 
effective  national  association.

1  know by experience the labor attached 
to  both  state  and  national  associations 
and 
it  has  often  appeared  a  mystery  to 
me  that  so  many  fail  to  appreciate  the 
work  that  is  being  done. 
I  am  not  here 
as  the  representative  of  any  state  or  na­
tional  association,  in  fact,  I  am  entire­
ly  out  of  the  hardware  business,  and 
speaking  from  this entirely disinterested 
standpoint,  I  would  urge  every  hard­
ware  dealer  to  be  a  member  of  some 
state  association  and  through 
it  con­
tribute 
liberally  to  the  support  of  the 
national  association.  Those  who  have 
never  been  called  upon  to  take  part  in 
the  duties  of  the  Naticnal  Association 
have  but  little  idea  of  the  labors  of  its 
officers.

The  thousands  of  letters  that  must  be 
written  by  the  National  Secretary  in  the 
course  of  a  year,  the  time  and  study  re­
quired  by  the  peculiar  nature  of  each 
case,  together  with  the  diplomacy  and 
points  of  law  involved,  the  getting  out

is  de­
of  the  quarterly  report,  which 
veloping  to  where  it  alone  requires  al­
most  the  entire  time  of  one  man,  and 
the  many  other  duties  devolving  upon 
him,  must certainly  leave  but  little  time 
to  devote  to  his  individual interests.  In­
asmuch  as  all  share  alike  in  the  benefits 
of  this  work,  justice  would  naturally 
demand  that  its  burdens  be  equally  di­
vided  and  the  National  Secretary  re­
ceive  a  salary  fully  compensating  him 
for  the  time  and  energy  devoted  to  this 
work. 
If  every  hardware  dealer  would 
join  his  respective  state  association, 
and  subscribe  for  the  Quarterly  Bulle­
tin,  his  dues  and  subscriptions  would 
supply  an  ample  fund  for  such  a  salary 
to  conduct  the  affairs  of  the  association 
as  they  should  be. 
It  really  passes  my 
understanding  how  in  this  day  of  asso­
ciation,  any  hardware  dealer  can  con­
sider  his  business  too  unnoticeable  a 
force  to  be  felt  or  consider  his  personal­
ity  above  the  need  of  association  in­
fluences.

I  know  that  some of the dealers outside 
of  the  association  have  their  minds  full 
of  excuses  for  not  becoming  a  member, 
and,  if  excuses  for  our  errors  would 
open  the  gates  of  heaven,  I  believe  that 
every  hardware  dealer  would  have  a 
master  key  that  would  put  his  future 
abode  beyond  the  question  of  a  doubt.

in  our  jobbing  rating.’ ’  That 

Quite  recently  I  heard  a  prominent 
concern  say: 
“ We  are  really  with  the 
association,  but  we  do  a  little  jobbing 
business,  and  are  afraid  to  identify  our­
selves  with  the  retail  trade,  lest  it  hurt 
us 
is 
quite  an  excuse,  and  as  we  have  both  a 
jobbers’  and  a  retailers’  association,  it 
might  work  both  ways,  save  a  few  dol­
lars,  and  let  others  do  the  work.  That 
this  excuse  is  based  upon  a  false  theory 
is  very  evident  from  the  fact  that  we 
have  a  number  of  just  such  concerns  in 
our  Association,  whose 
long-continued 
membership  proves 
the  proposition 
false.  Take,  for  instance,  I.  A.  Sibley, 
an  extensive  retailer  and  jobber of South 
Bepd,  Indiana,  who  has  been  one  of  the 
foremost  and  hardest  workers 
the 
Indiana  State  and  our  National  Retail 
Association  ever  since  their  organiza­
tion and whose continued enthusiasm and 
effort  should  be  conclusive  proof  that 
membership  in  the  Association  has been 
an aid  and  notan  injury to his  business.

in 

Z.  T.  Millet.

E phrum   Eels.

keep ahead,

Ephrum Eels he had to  scratch  durned  hard  to 

they said,

—But he always kept three dogs.

He couldn’t keep a  dollar, bill  to  save  his  life, 

—But he always kept three dogs.

He said he might have been some one If he’d had 
But getting grub from day to day give Ephrum 
He never got where  he  could  shed  the  patches 

half a chance,
such a dance
oil his pants;

—But he always kept three dogs.

me to say,

poor to pay,

They ’bated Ephrum’s poll-tax ’cause he was too 

—But Ephrum kept his dogs.

How he scraped up cash to license ’em It ain’t in 

—But I know he kept his dogs.

And when a sufE’rin’ neighbor  ambuscaded  ’ em 
Then  in  a  kind  of  homesick  way  he  hustled 
He struck a lucky bargain, and,  by  thunder,  he 

Eph swore—
’round for more;
bought four!

—Jes’ kept on a-keepin’ dogs.

Holman F. Day.

Chinese  Repartee.

An  English  sailor  was  watching  a 
Chinaman  who  was  placing  a  dish  of 
rice  by  a  grave. 
“ When  do  you  expect 
your  friend  to  come  out  and  eat  that?”  
the  sailor  asked.  “ Samee  time  as  your 
frien  come  out  to  smellee  flowers  you 
fellow  put,”   retorted  Li.

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While  the  under  dog  usually  has  the 
sympathy  of  the  crowd,  the  one  on  top 
gets the  gate  receipts.

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

Butter  and  Eggs

Observations by a  G otham   Egg  Man.
The  storage  demand  for  April  eggs 
continues  so  free  as  to  keep  prices  on 
the  upward  turn.  From  country  stations 
reports  of  sales  on  track  have  shown  an 
advance  of  fully  %@ic  per  dozen  over 
the  prices  at  which  the  first  withdrawals 
to  storage  were  made  and  yet  the  de­
mand  continues  as  large  as  the  supply 
of  eggs  selected  and  packed  especially 
for  storage  purposes.  Of  late  I5X C  de­
livered  at  Chicago  has  been  freely  bid, 
some  lines  have  been  taken  as  high  as 
I5j^c,  and  we  hear of  instances  where 
even  a  slightly  higher  rate has been paid 
in  that  city  for  special  brands  of  favor­
ite  reputation.  There  have  been  many 
sales  of  storage  packed  eggs  on  track  at 
shipping  stations  equal  to  16&C  net  at 
seaboard  markets  and  some  equal to 17c.

*  *  *

But  in  spite  of  the  extreme  prices 
'ruling  for  storage  packed  eggs  it  is gen­
erally  estimated  that  the  quantity  ac­
cumulated  up  to  this  time  is  consider­
ably  less  than  at  the  middle  of  April  a 
year  ago.  This  fact  proves  a  lighter 
production,  a  stronger  consumption  or 
both.  The  general  feeling  seems  to  be 
that  the  country  is  using  fully  as  many 
eggs  in  the  current  consumptive  chan­
nels  as 
in  former  seasons  when  prices 
were  lower,  but  that  the  slower  accumu­
lation  of  eggs  in  cold  storage  is  chiefly 
due  to  lessened  total  production.

*  *  4c

But  even  admitting  a 

lessened  egg 
production  this  season  it  is  a  seriously 
doubtful  matter  that  the  fact  is sufficient 
to  justify  a  reasonable  expectation  of 
profit  on  April  eggs  stored  at  the  prices 
now  ruling.  Even  although  consump­
tive  demand  may  now  be  abnormally 
large 
in  relation  to  the  prices  ruling  it 
is  quite  possible  that 
it  may  become 
more  nearly  normal  later  in  the  season 
when  warm  weather  prevails  and  the 
eggs  become  more  irreg  ilar  in  quality. 
It  is  also  to  be  reme  ibered  that  the 
“ suction  power"  of  the  storage  houses 
is  very  great  and  persistent  until  all 
available 
is  occupied.  Every 
downward  step  in  value  after  the  height 
of  April  storage demand  is  past  is a new 
incentive  to  store  and  with  April  prices 
ranging  i6^@ I7c  cost  in  seaboard  stor­
age  there  is  room  for  several  downward 
steps  befote  midsummer.  With  a  mod­
erate  summer  season  and  no  abnormal 
wastage  there  would  seem  good  reason 
to  anticipate  an  unusually  long  period 
of  accumulation  after  so  high  a  begin­
ning.

room 

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lie  V

Looking  back  over  the  past  records 
one  can  not  but  be  impressed  with  the 
close  analogy  existing  between  the  gen­
eral  features  of  the  egg  market  in  the 
early  months  of  1899  and  1902. 
In  both 
years  the  previous  season’s  storage  ac­
cumulations  were  well  in  band  by  Jan. 
1  and  the  goods  carried  over  were  all 
closed  out  during  January;  in both years 
the  weather  was  mild  in  January  and 
severely  cold 
in  February;  in  both  the 
January  and  February  receipts  were  al­
most 
identical  and  the  March  receipts 
only some  20,000 cases different;  in  both 
we  had  the  same  pinch  for eggs  late 
in 
in  March.  And 
February  and  early 
in 
then,  as  now,  storage  operations 
April  were  conducted  on  a  higher 
level 
than 
in  preceding  seasons  under  a  gen­
eral  cry  of  “ short crop.”   Of course  the 
fact that  receipts  here  since January this 
year  have  been  only  about the  same  as 
three  years  ago  proves  a 
relatively 
smaller  supply  because  of  the  natural

increase 
in  consumption  incident  to a 
continuous  growth  of  population,  and  is 
sufficient  to  account  in  part  for  the 
higher  range  of  prices  that  has  been 
maintained.  But  storage  operations  on 
a  basis  of  I4@m K c  for  April  packings 
at  seaboard  points  proved  very  disas­
trous  in  1899  and  as  the  average  value 
of  eggs  in  1901  was  only  about  ic  more 
than  in  1899  it  would  seem  that£a  specu­
lative  basis  2j£c  higher  might  easily 
encourage  a  continuation  of  the  analogy 
between  the  disastrous  year  of  1899  and 
the  present.  Of  course 
it  seems  very 
like  gross  pessimism  to  conjure  up  vi­
sions  of a  bad  wind-up  of  any  kind  of  a 
speculative  deal 
in  these  days  of  high 
prices  and  unusual  conditions  of  pros­
perity;  but 
if  one  watches the  produce 
markets  closely,  he  may  observe  that  a 
little  over-stock  still  has  the  effect  of 
breaking  values  as  of  old,  and  when  all 
are  trying  to  sell  the  real  conditions  of 
supply  and  demand  come  to  the  surface 
much  more  truy  than  when  all  are 
scrambling  for  stock  to  hold  for  the 
future.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

T hought C.  O.  D.  Meant  Cod.

An  amusing  story  is  told  of  an  enter­
prising  although  verdant  young  man 
who  lives  in  a  small  town  up  the  State.
He  wished  to  embark  on  the  sea  of 
matrimony,  but,  finding  his  income  en­
tirely 
insufficient  for  the  purpose,  he 
cast  about  to  see 
if  he  could  not  find 
some  avocation  which  would  yield  him 
enough  to  support  a  wife  on.

He  was  totally 

After  considerable  reflection  he  de­
cided  that,  since  there  was  no  fish  deal­
er  in  the  village,  it  would  be  a  wise 
plan  to  engage  in  that  line  of  business.
ignorant  of  what  the 
demands  of  the  public  required  and,  as 
many  another  young  man  had  done  be­
fore  him,  consulted  his  fiancee  on  the 
subject.  She  told  her  lover  that  once 
when  she  was  on  a  visit  to  the  city  she 
had  eaten  some  haddock  and  that  it  was 
delicious,  and  advised  him  to  lay  in  a 
stock  of  that  kind  of  fish.

The  young  man  went  to  the  local  ex­
press  office  and  told  the  agent  what  he 
wanted  to  do.  The  latter  said  that  he 
would  order the  fish  from  New York,and 
that  the  young  man  could  pay  for  it 
when  it  was  delivered.

The  barrel  of  fish  came  in  due  time, 
and,  of  course,  it  was  marked  “ C.  O. 
D. ”   When  the  goods  were  delivered  to 
the  prospective  fish  dealer  he  looked  at 
the  barrel  for  a  moment  and,  turning  to 
the  expressman,  said  in  a  tone  of  great 
disgust,  “ I  ordered  haddock  and  they 
sent  me  cod.”

The  story  was  too  good  for  the  ex­
pressman  to  keep  himself,  and  the  fish 
dealer,  who  made  a  success  of  his  new 
business,  is  often  greeted  by  the  house­
wives  on  his  morning  calls  with  the  sly 
question,  “ Have  you  got  any  cod?”   To 
this  he  replies,  “ I  pay  for  my  fish when 
I  order  it  now,  so  I  never  get  any  cod." 
— New  York  Tribune.

Travel  Like  Princes.

Those  who  saw  the  special  train  in 
which  H.  R.  H.  Prince  Henry  of Prus­
sia  made  his  tour  of  the  United  States 
are  comparing 
it  with  other trains  in 
regular  service,  and  it  is  admitted  that 
none  of  the  cars  in  the  train  compare 
favorably  with  the  buffet,  compartment 
and  standard  sleeping  cars  of  the  Pio­
neer  Limited  trains  of  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  in  daily 
service  between  Chicago,  St.  Paul  and 
Minneapolis.  The  people  of  this  coun­
try  have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing that 
at  any  time  they  can  not  only  travel like 
princes, but  can  get  much  better service.

What  a  politician  says  is  one  thing 

and  what  he  does  is  another.

We want— and  need  for our trade—

Butter  and  Eggs

In  large  or  small  lots

It’s easy enough to find some one to handle  your  goods— any  house will 
do it—and a good  many of  them  just  handle  them  in  “any  old  way. ” 
But it’s not so easy to pick out a firm  that will give you satisfactory service. 
This we strive to do.  And our large outlets,  long experience and ample 
capital aid us greatly.  Let us show you  We refer you to the  Commer­
cial Agencies,  Bankers anywhere, or to this  paper.

HILTON  &  ALDRICH  CO.,

39 SOUTH MARKET STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

Meation Michigan Tradesman.

Produce  Commission  Merchants 

Smith,  McFarland  Co.,  j
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Boston  is  the  best  market  for  Michigan  and  Indiana  eggs.  W e  ) 
want  carlots  or  less.  Liberal  advances,  highest  prices,  prompt  < 
returns.  All  eggs  sold  case  count. 
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Boston,  Mass. 

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R e f e r e n c e s :  Fourth  National  Bank  and  Commercial  Agencies.  <

Famine on  Butter

W e  want  all  grades  of  butter,  also

Fresh  Eggs  and  Live  Poultry

Our  Motto:  P R O M P T N E S S .

Geo.  R.  Williams,  Produce  Commission  Merchant

Successor  to

Mackey & Williams, 62 W. Market and 125 Mich gan  Sts.

BUFFALO,  NEW  YORK

References—Dun & Co., Bradstreet Agencies,  Columbia  National  Bank,  all  Ex­

press Companies.

Member—National League of C. M. U. S., Buffalo Produce Exchange.

 

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174 and  176 State and 5 and 7 Commerce Sts.

to  secure  the  highest  market  price.
Established  1866.

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Some o f the Advantages of Packing Frozen 

Eggs.

The  past  season  frozen  eggs 

filled 
quite  a  gap.  The  shortage  in  storage 
eggs  and,  consequently,  the  very  high 
price,  brought  these  prominently  before 
the  bakers  of  the  country,  and,  without 
doubt,  there  will  be  an 
increasing  de­
mand  for  this  stock.  More  frozen  eggs 
will  be  put  up  this  season  than  ever  be­
fore,  as  they  have  given  good  satisfac­
tion  to  the  bakers  and  large  users;  so 
much  so  that  we  have  already  heard  of 
large  contracts  being  made  on  the  basis 
of  I3K@I4c  for  next  fall  delivery  at 
Eastern  points.

We  have  kept  closely  in  touch  with 
the  situation,  and  the  information  that 
we  have  given  so  far  about  this business 
has  been  absolutely  correct,  and  the 
people  that  followed  our  advice  last 
year  and  the  year  before  have,  no doubt, 
reason  to  congratulate  themselves.

Large  packing  points  in  Iowa,  Kan­
sas,  Nebraska,  Illinois  and  Minnesota 
have  made  big  savings  in  freezing  their 
checks,  leaky  and,  in  quite  a  measure, 
dirty-shelled  eggs.

We  have  some  improvements  to  sug­
gest,  brought  about  by  experience  the 
past  year.  One  point  is  the  absolute 
necessity  of  keeping  the  eggs  as  much 
as  possible  away  from  the  air  in  the 
coolers.  We  have  been  advised  that  the 
best  possible  package  to  use  is  a  long, 
narrow  round  can  with  simply  an  open­
ing 
large  enough  to  pour  the  eggs  into. 
The  opening  can  either  be  a  screw  top, 
or  what  is  known  as  an  oyster  lap,  and 
after  fzeezing  the  same  can  be  soldered 
on.  There  is  still  another  method  that  a 
numbers  of  packers  are  using,  and  that 
is  sealing up  before  freezing  and  punch­
ing  a  very  small  hole  in  the  top  of  the 
can.  The small hole  punched  in  the  top 
allows  the  gas  that  is  formed by freezing 
to  escape.  The  reason  that  the  round, 
long  can 
is  it  is  very 
is  preferable 
quickly  frozen,  which 
is  essential  to 
properly  preserved  eggs.

It  has  been  suggested  to  us  that  a 
still  better  method  is  that  when  the eggs 
are  partly  frozen  an  opening  in the  mass 
should  be  made  with  a  long,  small  rod 
and  the  eggs  stirred  up,  as  the  gases 
seem  to  gather  in  the  center.  This  will 
admit  of  the  entire  animal  heat  being 
taken  out.  Some  objection  to  last  year's 
stock  arose  from  the  fact  that  the  eggs 
had  been  churned  too  much.  We advise 
that  the  better  way  is  when  the  eggs  are 
frozen  to  force  them  through  a  large, 
coarse  sieve.

One  of  the  serious  dangers  to  be 
avoided 
is  the  souring  of  the  eggs. 
This  comes  from  slow  freezing.  A  low 
temperature  is  absolutely  necessary. 
It 
is  probable  that  some  of  the  complaints 
from  sour  eggs  may  have  come  from 
bakers  thawing  out  cans  containing  too 
large  a  quantity  to  be  used  every  day. 
We  suggest  that  this  trouble  can  be  ob­
viated  by  packers  putting  up  part  of 
their stock  in  small  cans.  We  noted  in 
Chicago  a 
lot  of  these  eggs  put  up  in 
common,  ordinary,  ten-pound lard  pails. 
Enquiry  brought  forth  the  information 
that  a  great  many  small  bakers  would 
buy  a  number  of  these  cans  and  call  for 
them  as  needed,  thus  insuring  good 
stock.

There  has  been  some  complaint about 
the  use  of  preservatives.  They  should 
not  be  used,  as,  in  a  measure,  they  des­
troy  the  flavor  of  the  eggs.

There  is  quite  a  demand  for separated 
eggs, and  in  the  past  year  we  have heard 
of  sales  of  the  whites,  or  albumen,  as 
high  as  26@28c  a  pound. 
In  the  sepa­
rating  of  the  yolk  from  the  white  we

It 

have  not  yet  heard  of  any  machine  that 
will  do  as  good  work  as  can  be  done  by 
hand. 
is  essential  that  not  a  single 
speck  of  yolk  go  in  with the white.  Care 
should  be  taken  to  keep  the  whites  thor­
oughly  mixed  because  the  thin or watery 
part,  being  the  heavier,  will  sink  to  the 
bottom ;  the  top  will  contain  the  lighter 
part,  and  this  will  beat  up  in  splendid 
shape,  while  the  bottom  of  the  can  will 
not  be  satisfactory.

In  regard  to  breaking  of  the  whole 
egg,  we  have  yet  to  hear of  a  satisfac­
tory  machine.  Some  packers  claim  they 
can  get  several  pounds  per  hundred 
dozen  by  using  a  centrifugal  machine, 
but  it  is  done  at  the  expense  of quality, 
especially 
in  breaking  dirty-shelled 
eggs,  as  more  or  less  dirt  gets  into  the 
meat.  The  advice  of  one  of  the  most 
prominent  packers  is  that  all  this  busi­
ness  should  be  done  by  hand,  and  as 
quickly  as  the  eggs  are  broken  they 
should  be  examined  and  put  into  the 
freezers.  They  should  not  be  allowed  to 
stand  in  a  warm  place  at  all,  for  if  they 
do  they  will  surely  sour. 
In  one  large 
packing  house 
Iowa  we  noted 
the  method  of  breaking.  The  woik  was 
done  by  girls,and  each  girl  had  in  front 
of  her  three  small  dishes,  holding  about 
one  pint  each.  The  egg  is  broken,  ex­
amined  and  graded  according  to qual­
ity.  These  dishes  are  frequently  emp­
tied.  On  a  stand 
is  a  pail  of  clean 
water  and  every  few  minutes  the  dishes 
are  washed  in  it.— Egg  Reporter.

in 

Bad  Egg T rust  in  P hiladelphia.

Plans  are  forming  for  the  merging  of 
the  interests  of  all  dealers  in  stale  and 
defective  eggs.  A  process  for  condens­
ing  the  albumen  and  yolk  of  bad eggs is 
soon  to  be  patented.  The  sharpest  kind 
of  competition  now  exists  in  all  large 
cities  for  the  stale  and  defective  eggs 
thrown  out  by  the  commission  men. 
It 
is  estimated  that  in  Philadelphia  alone 
the  farmer  and  shipper  lose  in  a  year 
about  $68,000  in  bad  and  broken  eggs. 
There  is  an  average  loss  of  nine  eggs  in 
each  thirty  dozen  case,  and  out  of  the
450,000  cases  shipped  here  in  a  year, 
there  is  a  loss  of  11.300 cases  or  4,068,- 
000  eggs.  Men  who  deal  in  these  stale 
eggs  contract  with  the  commission  mer­
chants  to  take  all  rejected  eggs  for  the 
year,  at  sums  ranging  from  $25  to  $100, 
according  to  the  extent  of  the  business 
done.  The  eggs  are  then  taken in  closed 
iron  wagons  to  laboratories,  and  the  al­
bumen  seprated  from  the  yolk.  The  al­
is  put  into  casks  and  shipped 
bumen 
to  Europe,  and  the  yolk 
is  burned  to 
an  ash  and  shipped  abroad.  There  the 
albumen 
is  crystallized  and  sent  back, 
and  sold  to  sugar  refiners,  bakers,  chem­
ists  photographers,  tanners  and  others. 
Now  it  is  proposed  to  keep this at home. 
The  promoters  of  the  Bad  Egg  trust 
think  there  is  big  money  in  keeping  the 
rejected  eggs  at  home  and  realizing  on 
them  here.

Should  A ssert  Himself.

“ It’s  no  use,”   said  the  man  with  the 
seedy  coat,  “ I  might  as  well  give  up. 
My  last  dollar  is  gone.”

“ Pshaw,”   exclaimed  the  prosperous 
looking  individual who  makes  bluffing  a 
specialty, 
' ‘ Brace  up,  borrow  some 
money  and  be  somebody.”

A  drop  of  ink  is  black,  but  it  serves 

to  enlighten  many.

AND  POULTRY  WANTED

With an honorable business record of more than 
fifty years we solicit  consignments  on  commis­
sion, or will buy eggs on  track.  Prompt returns 
at right market prices.
LAM SON &  CO 

Black stone St..
w . ,   boston,  m a ss.

M I C H I G A N

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Have a great reputation in the  Boston  market.  We  handle  nothing 
but  Michigan  Extras and  Indiana  Selects.  Finest  eggs  produced.
The demand is great.  We need  more  fine  eggs.  Your  shipments 
will  meet with  ready sale  on  arrival  at  mark;  your  check  mailed 
same day.  We don’t brag— our sales talk!  Write for stencil.

Wiener  Bros.  &  Co.

46  Clinton  St.,  BOSTON,  MASS.

References:  Fanceuil  Hall  National  Bank,  Boston;  White  National 
Bank,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.;  F.  H.  Foust  &  Co., Columbia City, Ind. 

 

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Ship  your

Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry

to

Fred  Unger,

BUFFALO,  N.  Y.
,75=I77  Perry  Street, 
We  can  handle  them  in  any  quantity  and  will  guarantee  prompt  returns  and 

highest market prices.

References:  Buffalo Commercial  Bank,  Fidelity  Trust  Co.,  Erie  County  Savings 

Bank,  Dun and  Bradstreet, and any of our  shippers.

1  Want  Large  Quantities  of

Eggs,

Butter, Potatoes

I  want  Eggs.  No  quantity  too  large  or  too 
small  to  receive  my  prompt  attention. 
I  am  in  the 
market  the  year  around  for  Spot  Cash  or  to  place 
for your  account.

Whenever you have  any  to sell,  consign  or  store 
I  am  at  your  command,  but  kindly  re­
I  want  nothing 
in  the  egg  line  except 

wire  me. 
member 
fancy  goods.

I  am  in  touch  with  buyers  all  over  the  East  and 
can place goods to advantage;  no shipments  too large.

Liberal  Advances
when  requested,  on  consignments. 
Ship  me  your 
butter and eggs.  Write  or  wire  me  and  I  will  give 
you  full  particulars. 
I  handle  more  eggs  than  any 
other  man  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.

Produce  and  Commission  Broker, Second Nat’l  Bank Bldg. 

C.  B.  CLARK

PITTSBURG,  PENN.

Beferences by  permission:  Diamond  Nat’l  Bank,  U.  S.  Nat’l  Bank,  Second 

Nat’l Bank, Bank of Pittsburg, Liberty Nat’l Bank, Pittsburg.

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yet. 
It  has been  like  a  great  tidal  wave 
that  has  swept  the  entire  country,  and 
on  whose  breast  millions  of women  have 
been  lifted  up  to  a  higher  plane.

This  has  crystallized  in  what  we  call 
the  woman's  club  movement,  and  it  is 
simply  awe-inspiring  when  you  stop  to 
think  that  practically  the  women  of  the 
entire  country  are  banded  together  for 
self-improvement.  There  is  not  a  v il­
lage  housewife  who  has  not  her  club 
book  tucked  away  under  her  basket  of 
mending,  there 
is  not  a  busy  mother 
who  does  not  put  in  her  spare  moments 
hunting  up  references  about  some topic

the  club  is  studying,or  a  society  matron 
who  is  not  writing  her  club  paper,  and 
the  pity  of  the  thing  is  that  this  uplift 
should  be  entirely  feminine.

You  never  hear  of  a  man’s  club  de­
voting 
itself  to  anything  more  ethical 
than poker.  You  seldom  hear of  a  group 
of  business  men  meeting  together  to 
read  each  other  papers  on 
literature 
and  art  or  to  discuss  social  economics. 
Men  say  that  this  is  not  their  idea  of 
enjoying  themselves  and  that  when  they 
meet  together  after  a  hard  day’s  work 
they  want  to  be  amused.  The  average 
woman,  the  wife  of  a  man  in  moderate

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Woman’s World

No P artin g  of tlie W ays Between tlie Sexes« 
The  other day  a  woman  in  New  York 
applied  for  a  divorce  on  the  grounds 
that  she  had  so  far  outgrown  her  hus­
band  intellectually  that  he  was no longer 
a  companion  for  her.  The  case  was  a 
peculiar and  a  pathetic  one,  for the  hus­
band,  a  poor  working  man,  had  toiled 
and  scrimped  and  slaved  to  send  his 
bright  and  talented  wife  to  college  and 
thus  give  her  the  very  education  that 
made  a  gulf  between  them.

The  incident  is  worth  mentioning  be­
cause  it  calls  attention  to  an  anomalous 
condition  of  affairs  and  a  very  grave 
danger that confronts  us,  for,  unhappily, 
this  ill-assorted  couple  seem  to gloomily 
foreshadow  a  future  in  which  woman 
will  hold  monopoly  on  culture.  The 
leisure  class  in  this  country  has  always 
been  composed  exclusively  of  women 
and  it  begins  to  look  as  if  the  educated 
class  would  be  feminine,  too.

intellectual 

circumstances  who  must  make  every 
dollar  do  the  work  of  two,  who  cooks 
and  sews  and  nurses  and  wrestles  with 
inefficient  servants,  works  just  as  hard 
as  her  husband,  but  she  still  finds  time 
to  take  up  some  study  that  makes  for 
her 
The 
butcher  and  baker and candlestickmaker 
go  placidly  and  contentedly  along  with­
out  any  thoughts  or  any  aspirations 
beyond  their  business,  but  Mrs.  Butcher 
and  Mrs.  Baker  and  Mrs.  Candlestick- 
maker are  attending parliamentary drills 
and  dipping  into Greek  art  and  study­
ing  the  motifs  of  Wagnerian  music  and

advancement. 

In  the  majority  of  families  the  boys 
stop  school  as  soon  as  they  have  gotten 
the  most  elementary  education,  while 
the  girls  continue  their  studies.  All  of 
the  high  class  girls' schools  and  colleges 
are  crowded  with  students,  while  the 
boys’  colleges  are  half filled,  and  a  howl 
goes  up  from  all  the  co-educational 
in­
stitutions  that  they  are  overrun  by  girl 
students,  who  add 
insult  to  injury  by 
carrying  off  the  prizes  and scholarships.
This  is  starting  at  the  very foundation 
of  things,  but  the  different  attitude  of 
the  American  man  and  the  American 
woman  on  this  subject  begins  at  the 
schoolroom  door, 
for  it  can  not  be 
denied  that  the  average girl has a greater 
desire  for  an  education  than  the  aver 
age  boy.  She  has  yearnings,  however 
crude,  after culture.  He  has  a  contempt 
for  it.  She  has  visions  of 
intellectual 
achievements,  and  that  light  that  never 
was  on  sea  or  land.  He  does  not  see any 
use 
in  loading  himself  down  with  facts 
about  history,  or  transcendental  philos 
ophy  that  you  can  not  use  in  the grocery 
trade  and  he  proudly  points  you  to  the 
achievements  of  old  Croesus,  who  never 
heard  of  Julius  Caesar,  but  who  has 
made  a  million,  and  Tim  Callahan 
who can  not  write  his  name,  but  carries 
his  ward  in  his  pocket.

Publicity  Department  of  VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.

Mailing  Lily  White  Flour  Advertising  Matter.

Heaven  knows  that  the  ordinary  girl 
possesses  a  culture  that  is  the  thinnest 
possible  veneer,  but  at  least  she  reads 
something.  She keeps up  with  the  popu 
lar  novels  of  the  day  and  the magazines; 
but  half  the  young  men  you  meet  do  not 
even  do  that.  The  market  report,  the 
sporting  column  in  the  daily  papers  and 
the  theatrical  gossip  suffice  for  their  in 
tellectual  pabulum,  and  merely  to  begin 
to  talk  about  books  in  their  presence 
will  scatter  a  crowd  of  them  as  abruptly 
as  to  fling  a  dynamite  bomb  in  thei 
midst.

It is  hardly  too much to say that women 
keep  alive  the 
interest  in  intellectual 
matters.  They  buy  the  books.  Go to 
any  lecture  and  nine-tenths  of  the  audi 
ence  will  be  women,  and  the  other tenth 
men  who  have  been  dragged unwillingly 
to  it  by  their  wives  or  sweethearts.  It  is 
men  who go  to  see  the  farce  comedies at 
the  theater,  women  who  support  the 
classical  drama  and  plays  dealing  seri 
ously  with  the  great  eternal  problems 
of  life.

Nor  is  this  all. 

It  will  take  another 
generation  for  us  to  estimate  to the  full 
the  effect  of  the  great  intellectual  awak 
ening  that  has take  place  among  women 
in the  last  ten  years.  We  do  not  begin 
to appreciate  its tremendous significance

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“It’s as good as  Sapolio,” when  they try to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell S  
mil  you  that they are only  trying to get you  to aid  their —g  
new article. 

:
Who  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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Is it not  the ^ 2  

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose  ^ 5  
very presence creates a demand  for  other  articles.

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This  is  especially  noticeable  after the 
gloves  have  been  donned.  However, 
this  is  a  mere  bagatelle  to  what  the  fair 
sex suffer  daily  for fashion’s sake.  What 
though  a  long  lost  friend,  through  sheer 
excess  of  cordiality,  grasp  your  hands 
in  a  grip  that  would  put  a  champion 
pugilist  to  the  blush!  What  though 
the tears  are  made  to  start!  What if  the 
smile  be  strained !  When  that  curtain 
ring 
is  cutting  almost  to  the  bone,  the 
proud  consciousness  of  being thoroughly 
“ smart”   and  up  to  date  fully  offsets 
the  pain  and  proves  a soothing panacea.
The  idea  of  remodeling  the  ring  orig­
inated  with  a  prominent  member of  the 
four  hundred.  Desirous  of  wearing  her 
wedding  ring 
in  connection  with  nu­
merous  other  jeweled  finger  ornaments, 
she  found  the  width  inconvenient.  The 
cost  of  remodeling  varies  according  to 
the  standing  of  the  jeweler  and  the 
amount  of  gold  required  to  be  added  in 
building  out  the  center  of  the  ring.  The 
jeweler  is  also  obliged  to  make  allow­

ances  for  the  waste.  Then,  again,  in 
remodeling,  the 
inscription  which  al­
most  invariably  accompanies  a  wed­
ding  ring, 
is  completely  obliterated. 
An  additional  cost  is  required  to  renew 
it. 

Cora  Stowell

So  Different.

“ Papa,  bow  often  do  you  have  to  get 

the  carriage  horse  shod?”

“ Oh,  I  don't  know,  Tommy.  When­
ever  the  coachman  says  the  horse  needs 
a  new  set  of  shoes  I  tell  him to go  to  the 
blacksmith’s  and  have  them  put  on.”  

“ How  much  does  it  cost  when  he  has 

to  have  a  new  set?”

“ I  don't  know.  I leave  all  that  to  the 

coachman. ”

“ Don’t  you  ever  ask  him  what’s  the 
reason  the  horse  wears  ’em out so  fast?”  

the  expense?”

“ Certainly  not.”
“ Don’t  you  ever  make  any  fuss  about 
“ No.  Why  should  1?”
(Pause.)
“ Papa,  I  wish  I  was  a  horse.”

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2 dozen  Hid  Mugs
2 dozen Whiskeys

Cost $14.40.  Retail $25.20.  Profit $10.80.

Could  you  ask  for  more?  Our 
travelers will  tell you all  about it.

GEO.  H.  WHEELOCK  &  CO.,  South  Bend,  Ind.

gaining  an  insight  into  a  thousand  sub­
jects  of  which  their husbands  remain 
blissfully  and  totall y  ignorant.

This  is  so  subversive  of  all  the  an­
cient  theories  on  the  subject,  in  which 
woman  was  supposed  to  be  the  weaker 
vessel,  intellectually  as  well  as  physic­
ally,  and  to  take  all  her  opinions  and 
ideas  ready-made  from  man,  that  one 
wonders  where  it  will  stop. 
Is  man  go­
ing  to  let  woman  climb  the  heights  of 
culture  while  he  stays  in  the  valley?  Is 
the  husband 
to  know  nothing  but 
Anheuser,  while  the  wife  understands 
Schopenhauer?  Certainly 
if  St.  Paul 
weie  writing his epistles  to-day he would 
modify  his  advice  to  women  about  tak­
ing  counsel  of their  husbands, when  they 
wanted  to  know  of  literary  things.

So  far  the  most  practical  effect  of  this 
state  of  affairs  is  that  it  puts  a  distinct 
ban  on  the  higher 'education  of  girls. 
Young  men  won't  educate  themselves, 
and  they  flee  from  an  educated  girl,  if 
they  know  her,  as  they  would  from  the 
pestilence.  As  a  matrimonial  drawback, 
having  cross  eyes  or  a  red  head  or  a 
snub  nose  is  nothing  to  the  hoodoo  that 
a  college  education  is  to  a  woman.  No 
woman  having  a  young  girl  coming  to 
visit  her  would  be  indiscreet  enough  to 
mention  that  she  was  a  graduate  of Vas- 
sar,  of  Byrn  Mawr  or  of  Smith’s  for  she 
would  know  that  she  could  not  drag 
young  men  to  see  her  with  wild  horses 
if the  rumor  went abroad that the maiden 
was  clever.

It  has  been  repeatedly  pointed  out  by 
the  opponents  of  the  higher  education 
for  women  that  college-bred  women  are 
not  apt  to  marry.  There  are  two  good 
reasons  for  this.  One  of  them  is  that 
no  man  wants  to  marry  a  woman  who 
knows  more  than  he  does,  and no woman 
wants  to  marry  a  man  who  knows  less 
than  she  does.  For  say  what  you  will, 
a  wife  yearns  always  to  look  up  and 
not  down,  and  no  woman  is  so  happy 
as  she  who  sits  at  the  feet  of  some  man 
and  believes  him  to  be  an  inspired  or­
acle—who  thinks  Kipling  a  great  poet, 
because  John  speaks  well  of  him,  and 
does  not  believe  Bacon  wrote  Shakes­
peare  because  John  says  he  did  not.

It  may  be  said,  and  truly,  that,  after 
all,  books  are  a  small  part  of  education. 
Many a  man who  knows nothing of  books 
has  a  profound  philosophy  that  he  has 
gotten  out  of  the  conflict  with  others  in 
the  busy  workaday  world,  a  keen  logic 
that  he  has  derived  from  experiences 
and  a  mental  depth  and  breadth  and 
poise  that few  women  ever achieve.  He 
has  the  wide,  free,  bookless 
lore—the 
wisdom that  the  hills  and  fields  and toil­
ing  men  have  brought  him.  This  is  the 
splendid,  steel-ribbed  structure  of which 
the  mental  edifice  is  reared,  but  for  all 
that  it  is  gaunt  and  bare  and  unbeauti­
ful  unless  it  is  adorned  with the pictures 
and  the  frescoes  and  the  sculpture—the 
poetry  and  the  romance—of  culture.

There  can  be  no  parting  of  the  ways 
between  the  sexes.  To  be  happy  men 
and  women  must 
think  the  same 
thoughts,  have  the  same  ideals,  speak 
the  same  tongue.  The  man  who  can  not 
read  aloud  his  favorite  author  to  his 
wife  and  feel that  she thrills  to  the  same 
passage  as  he  does,  who  does  not  know 
that  she  can  finish  the  quotation  that  he 
begins,  and that the  half-spoken  allusion 
calls  up  to  her  mind  the  same  vision 
that  it  does  to  his,  is  a  half-starved 
creature  who  has  missed  the  best  in 
life.

Once  upon  a  time  a  delicate  and  sen­
sitive  man—artist  and  poet  to  his  finger 
tips— told  me,  with  an  expression  of 
concentrated  bitterness 
that  I  shall

never  forget,  that  his  wife  went  to  sleep 
when  he  tried  to  read  the  Rubaiyat  to 
her,  and  in  that  one  phrase he  gave  me, 
as  he  could  not  in  a  volume  of  com­
plaints,  a  glimpse  into  the  disappoint­
ment,  the  loneliness  and 
lack  of  com­
panionship  between  himself  and  the 
pretty  foolish  little  creature  he  had mar­
ried.

the 

But 

if  this 

is  bard  on  men,  it 

is 
doubly  hard  when  the  case  is  reversed 
and  the  woman  lives  in  a  world of books 
and  thoughts  and  aspirations  that  her 
husband  does  not  understand,  and  is 
ridiculed  for  her fineness.  I  have  known 
a  woman  with  undoubted  literary  power 
who  had 
flower  of  her  genius 
crushed  beneath  her  husband's  brutal 
heel  and  who  was  mocked  and  gibed  at 
because  she  dared  to  publish  a  little 
poem.  Such  a  case  is  unusual,  but  there 
are  thousands  and  thousands  of  women 
married  to  men  who  can  not  follow their 
thoughts,  who  are  starving for  some  real 
companionship,  and 
it  is  these  women 
who  now  and  then  grow desperate,  throw 
duty  and  prudence  and  honor  to  the 
wind  and  go  off  with  some  man  whom 
they  believe  to  be their  affinity.

What  will  the  end  of  this  be? 

1  be­
lieve  that  it  will  be  a  revival  of  letters 
and  culture.  For the  past  few  years  we 
have  worshiped  the  golden  calf  simply 
and  solely.  If  a  man  could  make money 
it  did  not  make  any  difference  about 
his  grammar.  The  only  education  that 
counted  was  the  knowledge  of  how  to 
pile  up  dollars,  and  it  is  the  educated 
woman  who  is  going  to  change  all  that. 
The  bookish  mother  is  going  to  see  that 
her  sons  have  a  good  education,  and 
that  they  are  as  cultured  and  refined  as 
her  daughters.  The  man  of  the  future 
will  be  more  than  a  business  man.  He 
will  be  a  “ gentleman  and  a scholar,”  as 
the  quaint  old  phrase  has  it,  besides.
Dorothy  Dix.

Made-Over W edding Rings.

in 

Have  you  had  your  wedding  ring 
made  over?  No?  Astonishing!  Not  to 
be  cognizant  of  the  new  fad argues one’s 
self—well,  certainly  not  thoroughly  up 
to  date.  And  you,  oh  matron  fair,  fat 
and  forty,with  aspirations  toward  social 
leadership,  are  you  violating  fashion’s 
latest  mandate?  Is  there  displayed  upon 
the  third  finger  of  your  left  hand  the 
broad  golden  memento  of  that  occasion 
which  occurred  ten  or  fifteen  years  ago?
It  was  then  your  best  beloved,  taking 
little  hand  in  his,  placed 
your  plump 
the  ring 
conse­
quence,  “ until  death  does  ye  part”  ac­
quired  the  joyous  right  to liquidate  your 
gas  bills.

thereupon,  and, 

Proud  you  may  be  of  the  evidence  of 
your  matrimonial  fetters,  but  if  that 
same  evidence  still  retains 
its  original 
proportions,  do  not,  I  pray you,  jeopard­
ize  your  reputation  for correctness.  With 
your  precious  circlet,  hie,  oh,  hie  you 
to the  nearest  jeweler,  and, 
in  ,obedi­
ence  of  the  latest  decree,  have  it  meet 
the  fate  of  a  passee gown,  and be ‘ ‘ made 
over.”

The  dictatorial  lady,  to  whom  we  all 
more  or  less  bow  the  knee,  has  decreed 
that  the  broad  solid  band  must  be  rele­
gated  to  the  realms  of  the  past,  and  in 
its  place  be  substituted  a  “ curtain 
ring.”

This  appellation,as  you  doubtless  will 
suppose,  derives  its  cognomen  from  the 
similarity  to  a  curtain  ring.  In  point  of 
fact,  it  is  a  facsimile  in  miniature. 
It 
is of exceedingly slender  proportions and 
excessively  thick 
It  is 
not  a  comfortable  ring  to  wear,  as  the 
sides,  necessarily  projecting,  press  into 
the  soft  flesh  of  the  fingers.

in  the  center. 

22

The New York Market

Special Features o f th e  Grocery and P rod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  April  19—Coffee  remains 
dull.  Sales,  as usual;  have  been  only  of 
small  quantities,  so  far  as  the  grocery 
trade 
is  concerned,  and,  indeed,  there 
is  no  reason  why dealers should do other­
wise  than  purchase  from  hand to  mouth. 
Receipts  of  coffee  at  Rio  and  Santos 
since  July  1  have  aggregated  13,596,000 
bags,  against 9,659,000  bags  at  the same 
time  last  year. 
In  store  and  afloat  there 
are  2,339,574  bags,  against  1,263,167 
bags  last  year.  Mild  grades  are  selling 
in  a  moderate  way.  Good  Cucuta  is 
worth  8}£c.  East  Indias  are  quiet.

Possibly  there  is a  little  better outlook 
in  sugar  than  last  week,  but  nothing  ap­
proaching  activity  prevalis.  Orders are 
tor  small 
lots  and  both  sides  appear  to 
be  waiting.  A turn  must  certainly  come 
soon.  Warmer  weather  will  start things 
in  this  line.

There  is  a  more  cheerful  undertone  to 
the  tea  market,  some  little  strength  be­
ing  shown 
in  Pingsueys  and  country 
greens,  but- the  tea  market  can  stand  a 
good  deal  more  prosperity  without  go­
ing  to  pieces.

Rice 

is  steady.  There 

is  no  undue 
accumulation  and,  with  a  fair,  steady 
demand,  the  situation  favors  the  seller, 
although  quotations  have  shown  no  ad­
vance.  Prime  to  choice,  53$}ic.
Pepper  is  doing  better  right  along. 
Other  articles  in  the  spice  line  are  sell­
ing  as  well  as  might  be  expected  at  this 
season  of  the  year.  Quotations  are  prac­
tically  unchanged.

Prime  to 

in  futures. 

tomatoes,  38, 

Bakers  are  still  taking  more  molasses 
than  grocers  and  the  condition  of  the 
market  is  firm  and steady,  especially  for 
the  better  sorts.  Syrups  are  meeting 
with  fair  request. 
fancy,
2 0 @ 3 0 C .
1  Jersey  standard 
are 
worth  $1.37>¿@1.40 and  are  hard  to  find 
at  any  price.  Quite  an  active  trade has 
been  done 
It  seems  that 
raising  tomatoes  is  not  what  it  used  to 
be.  Land  will  not  produce  such  large 
crops  as  formerly  and  farmers  ate  giv­
ing  up  the  cultivation.  Salmon  prices 
opened  at $1.50,  but  many  are  disposed 
to  regard  this  as  too  high  in  view  of  the 
rather  large  stock  of  old  fish  carried 
over.  A  dollar  thirty-five 
is  deemed 
high  enough,  and  it  is  thought  by  some 
large  dealers  that  no  great  amount  of 
business  can  be  done  at  $1.50.  Corn, 
peas,  beans,  vegetables— in 
the 
whole  line  of  goods  in  cans—are selling 
freely  at  well  held  prices.

In  dried  fruits,  dulness  characterizes 
This  is  disap­
the  whole  situation. 
pointing,  too,  for  usually  a  good  trade 
is  looked  for  at  this  time. 
It  may 
spring  up  in  a  day,  and  anyway  matters 
might  be  worse— have  been,  in 
iact, 
more  than  once.

iact, 

Sicily 

lemons  are  worth $2.3032.70; 

Califotnias,  $2.3033.10.

Oranges,  California,  $2.7534;  Flori- 

das.  $233.5034.50.

f

The  demand  has  been  fairly  active 
<and  quotations  are  generally  firmly 
held.  Bananas,  pineapples  and  the  rest 
are  steady  and  unchanged. 
Butter  is  decidedly  a 

luxury,  even 
“ renovated”   selling  up  to  31c.  Best 
Western  creamery,  33c;  seconds  to  first, 
30332^^-  Prices  have  reached  a  stage 
that  will  check  consumption;  in  fact, 
there 
is  already  a  disposition  to  use 
something  as  a  substitute.  Here_  is 
where  oleo 
Imitation 
creamery,  29331c;  Western 
factory, 
26329c.

comes  handy. 

Old  cheese 

is  becoming  pretty  well 
cleaned  up  in  this  market  and  quotation 
of  13KC 
is  firmly  adhered  to and  pos­
sibly  exceeded  in  some  cases.  There  is 
little  call  for  new  and  arrivals  are  not 
large.
Receipts  of eggs are  going  to  refriger­
ators  at  a  lively  rate  and  somebody 
is 
certainly  gathering  golden  eggs.  West­
ern  storage  are  held  at  17&C  and  regu­
lar  pack  I7)£c.  The  demand  has  been 
active  and  what  stock  has  been  offered 
has  been  quickly  taken  at  full  quota­
tions.  Receipts  Friday  were  10,7  4

Brazil—The  style  of  the  dry  goods 
house  of  D.  Hawkins  &  Co.  has  been 
changed  to  the  D.  Hawkins  Co.

Bryant—L.  King  has  discontinued  the 
from 

hardware  business  and  retired 
trade.

Buffalo—J.  A.  Aubry  has  removed  his 

drug  stock  to  Hammond.

Cornelius—Long  &  Merriman  is  the 
style  of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds 
Lewis  Long  in  general  trade.

Craig—Shaw  &  Crittenden,  general 
merchandise  dealers,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  E.  W.  Shaw 
continues 
the  business  in  his  own  name.

Dunlapsville—A.  A.  Weeks  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  T.  Gard­
ner.

Fort  Wayne—E.  F.  Zelt  succeeds  the 
Dewey  Grocery  Co.  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Indianapolis— Pasquire  &  Johnson, 
grocers,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Edgar  E.  Johnson  succeeding.

Indianapolis—The Puritan Bed Spring 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$10,000  to $25,000.

Lebanon—D.  W.  Harmon  has  closed 
out  his  grocery  stock  and  discontinued 
business.

Martinsville—Wilhite  &  Bon  succeed 
in  the  furniture 

Wilhite  &  Shireman 
business.

Montpelier— Paul  Humrichause  has 
sold  his  grocery  stock  and  retired  from 
trade.

Muncie—Walker Bros.,  who conducted 
a  drug  store  here,  have  discontinued 
business.

Paoli—Osborn  &  Ham  is  the  style  of 
the  new  firm  which  succeeds  Allen  & 
Ham  in  the  flour  and  coal  business.

Richmond—The  department  store  of 

A.  W.  Gregg  has  been  discontinued.

Roacbdale— Asa  Gillen  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  W.  D.  Parker  & 
Son.

Roachdale— Rich  &  Rice  continue 
the  harness  business  formerly  conducted 
by  W.  H.  Rich.

Salem—Wm.  Rudder  &  Co.  succeed 

Wm.  Rudder  in  the  drug  business.

Union  City—The  boot  and  shoe  firm 
of  the  Coddington  &  Lewis  Co.  has 
disposed  of  its  stock  and  discontinued 
business.

Whitestown— S.  R.  Neese  has  sold  his 

general  stock  and  retired  from  trade.

Winchester— Fudge  &  Martin,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved.  A.  S.  Martin 
continues  the  business  in  his own  name.
Windfall— Graham &  Middletown  suc­
in  the  mer­

ceed  Graham  &  Graham 
cantile  business.

Worthington— Edward  W.  Ellings- 
worth,  butcher,  has  sold  out  to  W.  H. 
Osborn.

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in  the  price  of  eggs,  but  the 
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Bloomfield—John  Cornett,  grocer,  has 
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23

Some  of the  Pleasures  of  Frog  H unting.
If  the  law  against  the  taking  of  bass 
has  not  lifted  a  man  may  have  some fun 
in  April  days  with  a  rod,  line,  hook 
and  piece  of  red  flannel  tied  to  it. 
If 
he  prefers  he  may  use  a  22-calibre  rifle 
for  these  are  the  days  when  the  bullfrog 
sits  upon  the 
lily-pad,  or  old  stump, 
with  his  hind-feet  lying  along  his  yel­
lowish  belly,and  chants  basso  madrigals 
to  the  moon.  Frog-fishing  is a  sport  not 
commended  to  the  sentimentalist  be­
cause 
it  is  cruel,  but  there  is  no  more 
to  be  said  against  frog-hunting  than 
against  any  other  form  of  taking  wild 
life.

In  fishing  for  the  frog  red  flannel  is 
used  as  bait  because 
it  is  to  him  the 
prettiest  thing  in  the  world  and  as  soon 
as  he  sees 
it  he  desires  to  possess  it. 
The  rag  at  the  end  of  a  ten-foot  line  at­
tached  to  a  long  pole,  is  skittered  upon 
the  surface  just  as  if  a  man  were  trying 
for  a  sleepy  pickerel.

The  frog  may  be  near  to  the  water’s 
If  the  fluid  be 

top  or  ten  feet  under. 
clear  he  will  see  the  lure.

Rising  within  a  yard  of  it,  only  his 
nose  and  small  black  eyes  out  of  water, 
he  surveys  it  eagerly  and  says,  ‘ ‘ A h !”  
A  couple  of  small  strokes  bring  him 
inches  of  it  and  fie  says, 
within  six 
“ O h!”   Then  he  grabs 
it  frantically, 
the  hook  enters  bis  throat  and  he  utters 
a  short  grunt  of  pain.

He  does  not  understand  the  matter, 
nor  realize  that  he  is  in  deep  trouble, 
until 
lifted  from  the  water.  Then  he 
tears  roughly  at  the  line  with  his  fore­
arms  and 
jerks  his  muscular  thighs  up 
and  down  in  a  vain  effort to break away. 
He  is  soundless  now,  either  because  he 
can  not  croak,  or  is  too  busy,  but  tears 
in  his  eyes  and  run  down  his 
form 
cheeks  as  he 
in  toward  the 
boat.

is  swung 

Really  a  frog  so  suspended bears some 
resemblance  to  a  small  child  and  is  apt 
to  get  upon  the  nerves  of  the 
least 
hardened.  Once  within  hand,  however, 
a  sharp  crack  upon  the  head  allays  his 
woes  for  all  time.  The  hind  legs  are 
severed  from  the  body,  tossed 
into  a 
bucket  of  cold  water  and  fishing  is  re­
sumed.

The  small  rifle 

is  more  humane.  A 
RB  cap  is  sufficient  ammunition  for  it, 
although  the  22-short  gives greater range 
and 
is  more  accurate.  Up  to  thirty 
feet,  however,  on  a  windless  day the  cap 
sends  its  tiny  bullet  correctly  enough 
and  has  the  advantage  of  making  so  lit­
tle  noise  that  other  frogs  are  not  fright­
ened  by  it.

The  hunter  will  wait  until  the  sun  has 
warmed  the  air  thoroughly  and  will  se­
lect  a  cloudless  day  with  little  air  stir­
ring.  A day when  the  face  of  the  lake  or 
pond  is  like  a  mirror  and  the  buds  at 
the  tops  of  tall  trees  do  not  stir  is  best. 
There  is  no  chill  to  bother  the  trigger- 
finger  and  keep  the  frogs  in  the  warmer 
water.

If  the  air  be  right  they  will  come  out 
for  sunning  about  11  o’clock in  the  fore­
noon  and  will  remain  for  hours  with  the 
warm  beams  beating  down  upon  their 
backs  and  not  a  drop  of  moisture  upon 
their  skins.  Much  of  the  time  they  pass 
in  sleeping,  occasionally  half  waking, 
uttering  a  drowsy,  sonorous  call  and 
relapsing  into  unconsciousness.

They  are  wary,  however,  and  he  who 
to  fill  his  bucket  with  their 
wishes 
toothsome 
limbs  must  approach  them 
cautiously  and  keep  his  eyes  skinned. 
It  is  marvelous  how  many  big  frogs  a 
man  will  pass  all  within  ten  yards  of 
him  and  plainly  within  view  and  never 
have  a  suspicion  of  their  presence.

received 

The  first 

intimation 

is  a 
small  grunt,  then  a  splash,  which  means 
that  the  game  has  leaped  three  feet high 
and  two  yards  out  and  is  safe.  A  frog 
log,  or  a  bare  branch,  or a  lily 
on  a 
pad,  is  distinct  enough 
if  the  hunter 
knows  how  to  look  for  it.

The  bull  frog  full  grown  is  a  mark 
nearly as  large  as  a  man's  fist.  It is easy 
enough  to  hit.  The  science  of  frog­
shooting  lies  in  hitting  the  target  in  ex­
actly  the  right  spot. 
If  this  is  not 
achieved  the  shot  is  worse  than  thrown 
away.

If  the  frog  be  shot  squarely  through 
the  head 
it  will  remain  motionless  in 
general  and  may  be  retrieved  easily.  If 
struck  through  the  body 
invar­
iably 
leap  far,  going  under 
and  remaining  there,  since  it  will  not 
rise  although  dead.

leap,  and 

it  will 

The  head 

itself  it  not  so  large  as  a 
silver  quarter  of  a  dollar.  This  is  not 
an  exceedingly  difficult  mark  at  ten 
yards,  but  may  be  missed 
easily 
enough.

ivory 

For  successful  frog-shooting  a  rifle 

is 
required  which  is  not  only  accurate  to  a 
hair,  but  has  sights  as  fine  as  can  be 
made.  For  the  front  sight  a  small  bead 
of 
is  better  than  any  metal,  and 
the  rear  sight  should  be  simply  a  plain 
thin  bar  of  steel  without  any  notch in it. 
With  a  plain  bar  the  front  sight  is 
caught  much  more  readily  than  if  one 
looks 
common 
V-shaped  notch;  and, 
if  the  frog  be 
awake,  quick  shooting  will  be  found 
necessary.

through 

the 

for 

it 

One  may  hunt  frogs  from the bank and 
shoot  many  of  them  if  waders  are  used. 
Waders,  however,  are  exceedingly  hot 
and  laborious,  and  some  men  not  sub­
ject  to  rheumatism  do  not  mind  getting 
wet.  These  men,  if  they  know  enough, 
will  wear  woolen  socks  and  shoes  with 
large  holes  in  them. 
If  one  is  going  to 
get  wet  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to get 
wet  right  away  and  have  holes  in  the 
shoes  so  that  the  water  may  escape 
readily.

In  a  boat,  however,  the  hunter  will 
get  more  shots  and  consequently  more 
frogs.  With  a  light  craft  and  a  paddle 
he  can  slip  quietly  along,  soundlessly, 
except  for  the  boat’s  sides  brushing 
against  lilies  or  water  weeds,  and  if  be 
be  alone  in  the  boat  he  can  stop  in  the 
knowledge  that  it  will  float  steadily  and 
he  will  not  be  jarred  from  his  aim  by  a 
companion  moving.  He  can  also  light 
bis  pipe  and  become  just  as  lazy  as  the 
frogs  which  he  is  seeking  to  slay.

Of  a still April morning, what  with  the 
shining  of  the  sun  on  the  mirror  water, 
the  drowsy  wooing  of  half-awakened 
birds,the  dull  droning  of  faraway  frogs, 
the  sedative 
influence  of  tobacco,  the 
heat,  the  loneliness  and  the  sweet  air, 
almost  any  man  will  be  content  with  a 
legs;  getting  the  other 
half-bucket  of 
half  will  be  entirely  too  much 
like 
work.— N.  Y.  Sun.

The  man  who  goes  all  the  gaits  will 

become  unhinged  after  awhile.

If You  Want

intelligent  activity in  your  be­
half,  ship  your  Butter,  E ggs 
and  Cheese  to

Stephen  Underhill,

Commission  Merchant,
7 and 9 Harrison  Street, 
New York City.

Ship me your Fresh Butter and Eggs.  Old  es­
tablished; thoroughly reliable; strong financially. 
Reference:  Any Bank or Commercial Agency.

Onions  Apples  Honey

Our specialties this week  are Mediterranean  Sweet Oranges and Messina 
Lemons.  Five cars just received.  The  finest  fruit  and  packing  we  have 
seen this season.  The quality is excellent and our prices  are  right.  Send 
us your liberal orders. 

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We want to buy your eggs;  also potatoes.

14  and  16  Ottawa  St.,  Grand  Rapids

JACOB  HOEHN, J b .

Established  1864

MAX  MAYEB

HOEHN  &  MAYER 

Produce  Commission  Merchants

295  Washington  Street  and  15  Bloomfield  Street  (op. West Washington Market), New York

SPECIALTIES:

DRESSED  POULTRY,  GAME  AND  EGGS

Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicited

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

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

Commission  iTerchant

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

Specialties:  EGG S  A N D   B U T T E R .

Special attention given to small shipments of eggs.  Quick sales.  Prompt 
returns.  Consignments  solicited.  Stencils  furnished  on  application.

References:  N. Y. National Ex. Bank, Irving National Bank, N.  Y.,  N.  Y.

Produce Review and American Creamery.

EGGS

W e are the  largest  receivers  of  eggs 
in  this section.  W e  have  a large and 
growing demand  for  Michigan  eggs 
and  can  handle  all  you  can  send. 
W e  guarantee  prompt  returns  and 
full  market  value  on  all  consign­
ments.  W e  have  been  established 
35  years  and  have  a  reputation  for 
honesty and  fair  dealing.  We  refer 
you to  the  Third  National  Bank  of 
Baltimore or the Mercantile Agencies.

G.  M.  Lamb  &  Bro.

301  Exchange  Place, 
corner South  Street,

BALTIMORE,  Md.

C.  N.  RAPP  &  CO.

..Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry..

56  West  Market  and  135  Michigan  Sts.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Immediate sales and prompt returns.  Highest 
market price guaranteed.

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

Village  Improvement

The  C hurch  in  the  City  B eautiful. 

Written for the Tradesman.

If  it  is  a  peculiarity  of  the  American 
republic  to  work  by  commitees  it  is  a 
peculiarly  American  feature  to  make 
that  creature  of  the  masses  do  all  the 
work.  Bother of  any  kind  is  intolerable 
and  the  easiest  way  out  of  it  is  to  ap- 
point  a  committee  and,  throwing  upon 
it  all  the  responsibility,  leave  it  to  work 
out  its  own  salvation. 
If  success  fol­
lows,  the  public  nods  its  wise  head  and 
complacently  takes  to  itself  the  honors. 
If  failure  crowns  the  work the committee 
shoulders  the  blame  and  bears  frown 
and  reproof  as  best  it  may. 
In  this 
respect  the 
improvement  society  can 
take  its  place  beside  the  school  com­
mittee.  Both  are  public  benefactors, 
and  as  such  are  expected  to  give  time 
and  the  best  that  is  in  them  to  the  ad­
vancement  of  the  public  good.  Having 
once  elected  the  committee,  home  and 
society  have  done  their  duty  and  pro­
ceed  at  once  to  throw  upon  that  body 
every  responsibility  that  both  can shirk. 
So  the  wayward  boy,  spoiled  by  a 
vicious  hometraining,  is  pointed  out  as 
the  result  of  a  defective  school  system 
and  the  mudhole  in  the  town’s  busiest 
street  is  nicknamed  “ the  pride  of  the 
improvement  society. ”

The  redeeming  feature  of  both  organ­
izations  is  the  enthusiasm  which  can 
not  be 
lessened  or  put  down.  Once  a 
purpose  has  been  fixed  upon  it  is  never 
lost  sight  of. 
In  season  and  out  of  sea­
son  the  single  aim  is  kept  constantly  in 
view  and  finally  when  jeers  and  contu­
mely  have  done  their  work  there stands 
the  thing  hoped  for a  realized  fact.  A 
certain  city*  on  the  Western  plains  has 
made  up  its  mind  to  be  a  credit  to  the 
great  state  of  which  it  is  the  capital. 
With  that  end  in  view  it  “ got  up”   its 
improvement 
society  and  with  rare 
wisdom  made  the  ladies  of  the  city  its 
members.  The  reasoning is  based  upon 
experience. 
If  once  a  year  we  are 
turned  out  of  house  and  home  and  for 
days  if  not  for  weeks  there  are  turmoil 
and  confusion  from  garret  to  cellar—the 
chaos  to  end  in  order  and  harmony—the 
same  indomitable  energy  applied  to  the 
home  exterior  must  bring  about  corre­
sponding  results.  The 
ladies  assumed 
the  trust  thus  wisely  committed  to  them 
and  the  city  shows  that  they  have  been 
at  work.  They have  had  a  recent  meet­
ing  at  which  the  progress  made  was  re­
ported.

The  first  fact  presented  is  full  of  sug­
gestion  and  recommendation: 
“ The 
trustees  of  several  down  town  churches 
have  been  seen  relative  to  the  improve­
ment  of  church  property.  Upon  sug­
gestion  from  the  committee  the  Ladies' 
Society  of  the  First  Baptist  church  has 
decided  to  beautify  the  unsightly  corner 
at  K  and  Fourteenth  streets,  where  the 
grass  has  been  worn  off  by  passing 
diagonally  to  and  from  from  the  capi- 
tol.  A  bed  of  cannas  will  probably  be 
placed  on  that  corner. ”   The  ladies  of 
that  society  in  that  city  are  to  be  com­
mended  for the  easy— let  us  hope  it  was 
easy—success  that  came  to  them.

Among  the  earlier  papers of  this  de­
it  was  stated  that  improve­
partment 
ment  societies  must  not  be  surprised  if 
they  do  not  find  hearty  co-operation 
among  the  churches  in their community. 
The  reasons  may  be  as  plenty  as  black­
berries,  but  with  them  we  have  nothing 
to  do.  The  fact  is,  it  too often  hap­
pens  that  the  churches  and  their  sur­
roundings  are  not  the  models  they

should  be.  Neglect  is  the  leading  fea­
ture.  The  buildings  are  run  down. 
In 
hard  times  nobody  has  any  money  to 
lay  out  on  the  church  property  and  in 
good  times  everybody  is  too  busy,  and 
the  merciless  sun  and  rain  accomplish 
their  purpose  of destruction unhindered. 
So  the  trees,  uncared  for,  die  and  stand 
begging  for  burial. 
So  the  warped 
shingles  gather  moss  and  rot,  every  one 
of  them  telling 
its  pitiful  story  of  the 
Christianity  which  in  its  decay  it  repre­
sents.  The fence has  got  tired  of  stand­
ing  and,  if  not  already  fallen, 
leans 
and  sways  with  the  wind.  The  leaves 
last  fall  were  not  raked  up.  The  weeds 
last  summer  were  not  cut  and  the  plank 
walk  around  the  lot—the  church  stands 
on  a  corner—and  the  one 
leading  from 
the  street  to  the  door  are  rotten  and  full 
of  started  nails,  the  only  evidence  any­
where  that  heaven  is  remembered  and 
frequently  and  feelingly  called  upon  by 
that  congregation.

My  readers  either  of’town  or  country 
know  that  this  is  no  work  of  the 
imag­
ination.  They  know,  too,  that  the  in­
difference  behind  this  neglect 
is  the 
hardest  feature  to  face  and  to  overcome 
and  if they  do  not  the  members  of  the 
improvement  societies  do,  so  that  when 
the  ladies  of  the  society 
in  question 
called  upon  the  trustees  of  the  several 
churches  and  got  what  they  came  for, 
for the  asking,  there  was  every  reason 
for  the  congratulations  that  followed. 
That  corner to  be taken  care of has  long 
been  an  eyesore,  the  more  so  because  of 
the  utter  needlessness  of  its  existence. 
The 
there  are 
blessed  with  an  abundance  of  this 
world’s  goods,  many  of  them 
live  in 
cultured  homes  and  wonder  at  their 
in­
difference  and,  when  “ the  bare  spot" 
bristles  with  the  canna’s  green  leaves 
and  bright  blossoms,  they  will  go  home 
remembering  with  delight  that  “ Solo­
mon  in  all his  glory  was  not arrayed like 
one  of these. ’ ’

society  worshiping 

The  leading  thought  of  the 

improve­
ment  society  in  appealing  to  the  church 
trustees  needs 
little  explanation.  The 
churches in most  villages are so scattered 
that  each  building  in the center  of a cir­
cle  takes  in  with  its  fellows  the  whole 
community,  and  with  the  beauty  spots 
thus  established,  they  who 
live  within 
the  charmed  circumference  are  inclined 
to  copy  on  their  own  possessions  the 
model  which  the  church  affords.  There 
is  a  town  not  far  from this table that will 
serve  as  an  apt  illustration.  Five  years 
ago  it  was  not  a  waste  or  a  wilderness, 
but  it  was  given  up  to  weeds  and  neg­
lect.  The  denominations  were  well  rep­
resented  and  one  was  almost  as  bad  as 
the  other.  Of  course  the  village  took  its 
cue  from  these  centers  of  modern  civili­
zation  and  a  more  unattractive  place 
could  not  easily  be  found  than  that  vil­
lage  o*f  four  thousand.  When  things 
were  at  their  worst  one  of  the  clergy­
men  died  and  was  appropriately  buried 
among  the  weeds  in  the  graveyard.  His 
successor  in  due  time  came  and  took 
charge  of  the  ugliest  church  and  the 
wholly-in-keeping  parsonage.  The  first 
morning  after  preaching  his  first sermon 
with  a  vigor that  laughed  at “ blue Mon­
days’ 'he  was  out  with  hammer and nails 
and  giving  the  community  a  lively  in­
stance  of  a  charity  that  begins  at  home 
but  does  not  end  there.  The  fence  came 
next.  Then  the  trees  became  aware  of 
the  presence  of  a  father  in  Israel  and 
before  the  second  Sunday  came  around 
he  had  preached  in  the  parsonage  door- 
yard  the  liveliest,  most  practical  sermon 
that  lifeless  village  had  ever  listened to, 
and  he  did  not  take  his  text  from  the

Bible  either.  The  village  heard  it  and 
heeded  it  and  by  the  time  the  summer 
had  come,  the  rake  and  the  pruning 
hook,  with  considerable  resurrected  de­
termination,  gave  an  impulse  to  the  ex­
piring  town  which  has  kept  it  flourish­
ing  to  this  very  day.

In  the  same  way  the  canna  bed  on  the 
street  corner  will  find  more  than  one ad­
mirer  in  the  capital  city  I  have  spoken 
of  and, .copied  as  it  will  be  by  those 
impressed  with  its  beauty,  will  help  to 
carry  out  the  far-reaching  idea  which 
the 
ladies  of  that  improvement  society 
had  in  mind  when  they  called  upon  the 
church  trustees  to  mend  their  ways.

R.  M.  Streeter.

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Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction, and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes. 
It is becoming a  common  saying  that  "Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease,” so  that 
Mica is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  bat  the  most  eco­
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Miehigu Kniehts of tha Grip

President,  J o h n   A.  W e s t o n ,  T ensing;  sec­
retary»  M.  S.  B r o w n ,  Safiinaw;  Treasurer, 
J o h n  W. Sc h r a m , Detroit.

Dsittil Commercial Travelers of lichigu 

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

Qrud K&pidg Council So. 131, D. C.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  W.  S.  B u r n s ;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Gripsack  Brigade.

E.  A.  Sutor,  who  has  represented 
Lautz  Bros.  &  Co.  in  Michigan  for the 
past  four  years,  has  removed  to  Buffalo, 
and  will  cover  the  territory  between 
Buffalo  and  Rochester  for  the  same 
house.

Owosso  Times:  This 

is  L.  D.  Wil­
son's  last  week  as  traveling salesman for 
the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  W.  J. 
Gould  &  Co.,  Detroit.  The  house  is 
going  out  of  business.  Mr.  Wilson  will 
re-enter  D.  M.  Christian's  employ.

James  A.  Morrison,  who  was  city 
salesman  for  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company  and  the  Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer  Co.  for  sixteen  years,  and  for  the 
past  six  years  Vice-President  of  the 
Shields-Morley  Grocer  Co.,  of  Colorado 
Springs,  has  severed  his  connection 
with  that  house  to  take  the  positions  of 
Vice-President  and  General  Manager of 
he  Globe  Copper  Mining  Co.,  of  Lar­
amie  Co.,  Wyoming.  Mr.  Morrison  is 
spending  a  couple  of  weeks  in  the  city, 
visiting  relatives  and  calling  on  old  ac­
quaintances.

Salesmanship  as  a Science.

Since  salesmanship  is  really  a science 
and  a  profession  and  is  fast  becoming 
recognized  as  such,  salesmen  as  a  class, 
should  go  at  their  work  more  scientific­
ally.  Take,  for  example,  the  case  of  a 
man  who  is  selling  some  high  class 
specialty. 
In  most  cases  when  he  calls 
on  a  customer  he  begins  his  story  wher­
ever  he  happens  to  and  goes  through 
it 
in  a  sort  of  haphazard  way.  Not  once 
in  a  hundred  times  does  he  cover  all 
the  strong  points  of  his  goods,  and  he 
is  extremely  likely  to  omit  exactly  the 
point  which  would  have  been  strongest 
with  the  man  he  is  talking  to.  There 
is  only  one  logical  and  convincing  way 
to  tell  any  story  or  make  any  argument, 
and  many  of  the  best  salesmen  I  know 
have  gone  so  far  as  to  write  out  exactly 
what  they  want  to  say  to  a  customer and 
commit  it  to  memory.  To  some  people 
this  may seem like a parrot-like perform­
ance,  but  it  does  not  work  that  way  in 
practice.  At  any  rate  every  salesman 
would  find 
it  a  good  plan  to  write  out 
his  argument  in  the  strongest  way  he 
can  and  then,  if  he  does  not  memorize 
it,  at  least  get  firmly  fixed  in  his  mind 
the  main  points 
in  the  argument  in 
their  proper  order.

Another  thing.  A  first-class  salesman 
does  not  let  a  customer  interrupt  him 
and  throw  him  off  the  track.  When  a 
customer  says,  “ Yes,  but  I  think  I  can 
get  a  larger  discount  somewhere  else,’ ’ 
the  up-to-date  salesman  answers,  “ Pos­
sibly.  We’ll  talk  about  that  in  a  min­
ute.  Just  now  I  want  to  show  you  exact­
ly  how  this  gas  engine  or  typewriter  or 
automobile  works,”   and  goes  ahead 
with  his  argument. 
If  he  stops  to 
loses  his  stride,  and  may 
answer,  he 
make  a  balk. 
If  he  keeps  right  on,  he 
will  finish  and  clinch  bis  argument.

At  any  rate  the  customer  will  have  all 
that  strong  points  of  the  goods  in  bis 
mind  when  the  argument  is  completed, 
and  minor objections  will  not  then  look 
so  large  to him.

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Manufacturers’ Agent 

for all kinds of

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Bushels,  Half  Bushels  and  Covers;  Berry  Crates  and  Boxes; 
Climax Grape and  Peach Baskets. 
Write us for prices on carlots or less. 

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THE  TRIUMPH”  Fruit  Jar  Wrench  f
Fits  any  Mason  Jar.  W orks  both  ways— opens  K 
and  tightens  the  cover. 
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from  steel  and  riveted  | 
together.  Cannot  break  n 
the  jar  or  cover— this  is  the  common  | 
fault  with  other  wrenches.  House-  n 
wives  will  buy  the  Triumph  on  sight.  | 
50  per  cent  profit to dealers.  Sold by  B 
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grocery  Jobbers.  Retails  for  10c. 
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FORBES  CHOCOLATE  CO. 

229*233  SHERIFF  STREET,  CLEVELAND.  OHIO

You  Can  Add

Many  Dollars

to your profits this year by selling the

in 

in  psychology, 

So  thoroughly  do  expert 

salesmen 
realize  that  they  are  engaged  in  one  of 
the 
learned  professions  that  1  have 
known  some  of  the  most  successful  men 
in  New  York  and  elsewhere  to  take  spe­
cial  courses 
logic, 
and  even 
in  elocution  in  order to  pre­
pare  themselves  for  still  greater  suc­
cesses.  Several  great  firms  which  em­
ploy  only  experts  have  regular  training 
schools  for the  men  they  employ  to  sell 
their  goods 
in  which  these  men  spend 
sometimes  months  before  they  are  al­
lowed  to  go  out 
into  the  field  at  all. 
These  schools  have  regular text  books 
prepared  for  their  students,  and  expert 
professors  of  salesmanship  are employed 
to  lecture  to  them  and  to  put  them 
through  practical demonstrations of their 
ability  or  lack  of  it.

l>ast P arty   of the  Season.

Grand  Rapids,  April  21— Saturday 
evening,  April  19,  Grand  Rapids  Coun­
cil  No.  131,  gave  their  last  indoor  party 
for this  season,  which  was  in  the  nature 
of  a  card  party,  twelve  tables  being  re­
quired  to  keep  all  busy  who  wanted  to 
play.  The  first  prize 
for  the  ladies, 
which  was  a  handsome  bon  bon  dish, 
was  awarded  to  Mrs.  Henry  Snitseler. 
Three 
ladies  tied  for highest  honors— 
Mrs.  Snitseler,  Mrs.  Franklin  Pierce 
and  Miss  Cady— but  in  the  draw  Mrs. 
Snitseler  won.  W.  S.  Lawton  scored  the 
largest  number  of  points  among the gen­
tlemen  and  took  “ first  money”   and 
everybody  playing 
consolation 
prizes.  The committee  in  charge,  J.  H. 
Taylor,  J.  G.  Benjamin  and  G.  G.  Wat­
son,  by  their  very  able  management 
brought  to  a  close  what  has  proved  a 
very  enjoyable  series  of  parties  and  just 
as  soon  as  the  weather  is  warm  enough 
outdoor  picnics  and  excursions  will  be 
in  order. 

Ja Dee.

got 

One  of  the  national  anthems  of  the 
United  States  is  the  familiar  hvmn  be­
ginning,  “ My  Country,  'Tis  of  Thee.”  
It  is  sung  on  many  important  occasions 
and  always  to  the  same  tune. 
It  is  said 
that  a  very  distinguished  company  of 
musical  historians  will  soon  provide  the 
familiar  words  with  an  unfamiliar  tune 
especially  built  for  the  purpose.  The 
Rhode  Island  branch  of  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati 
is  interested  in  the  un­
dertaking.  The  old  words  and  the  old 
hymn  go  best  together.  A  new  tune, 
however  full  of  frills  and  melodious 
measures,  will  never  be  as  popular  as 
the  old.  This  is  one  of  the  times  when 
it  would  be  best  to  let  well  enough 
alone.

The  Warwick
Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Strictly first class.

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

THnners

a t  t h e

Livingston  Hotel

G r a n d   R a p id s

Especially  Sunday  dinners, 
best  in Western  Michigan.

the 

Who says so?
E v er y b o d y; business men, trav­
eling  men,  professional  men,  la­
dies, the leading citizens  of  Grand 
Rapids and  vicinity  all  agree that 
the L iv in g sto n has taken the lead 
and is going to keep  it.

Reed  Spring  Tooth  Cultivators
They give satisfaction and stay sold.  Especially adapted for  use  among  roots 
and snags and  in  stony  land.  Our  spring  teeth  are  practically  unbreakable  and 
better pulverizers than any other style made.

When fitted with the center gang, this tool does better work  than  any ordinary 

We want good  agents  and  will  give  ample,  exclusive  territory.  Write  for 

Reed  Manufacturing  Co.

K a la m a z o o ,  M ic h .

spring tooth harrow  on  the market. 

.

price  and  terms,

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

Drugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  Board of Pharm acy

H b n b y   H e i m , Saginaw 
Wis t  P.  D o t y , Detroit - 
J o h n  D. M o t h . Grand Rapids 
A b t h c b  H. W e b b e r , Cadillac 

• 

Prealdent,
Secretary, H e n r y   H e i m , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  D orr,  Detroit.

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1902
Deo. 31,1903
Deo. si, 1903 
Dec. 31,1906 

Exam ination  Sessions.

Star Island, June 16 and 17.
Sault Ste* Marie, August 27 and 28. 
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association.

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

W hy  Is  th e U.  S.  P.  Collodion  Often  Too 

Thick ?

At  the 

last  meeting  of  the  Pennsyl­
vania  Pharmaceutical  Association, Fred­
erick  T.  Gordon  answered  the  query : 
“ The  U.  S.  P.  process  for  collodion 
often  gives  a  product  too  thick  for  prac­
tical  use. 
Is  the  fault  in  the  gun-cotton 
or  in  the  process?"

“ A fair answer to the query,"  said Mr. 
Gordon,  “ would  be  that  fault  lies  with 
the  gun-cotton,  for there  are  wide  varia­
tions  in  quality  in  the  commercial  arti­
cle  offered.  Unless  the  greatest  care  and 
skill  are  used  in  the  manufacture  there 
will  result  a  mixture  of  the  three  ni­
trates  of  cellulose  instead  of  the  dinitro 
cellulose  of  the  Pharmacopoeia, 
the 
soluble  gun-cotton  alone  and  because  of 
this  varying  composition  of  his  ‘ pyr- 
oxylinum’  the  druggist  often  has  great 
trouble  in  pieparing  an  acceptable  col­
lodion.  There 
is  also  the  question  of 
decomposition  to  be  considered,  gun­
cotton  gradually decomposing,especially 
if  not thoroughly  freed  from  acids.  An­
other  point,  and  probably  the  most  im­
portant  one,"  continued  Mr.  Gordon,  is 
the  peculiar  behavior  of  gun-cotton  so­
lutions.  From  a  certain  batch  of  gun­
cotton  a  collodion  may  be  made  that  is 
almost  jelly-like,yet when this is allowed 
to  stand  for  some  time  it  will  gradually 
become  fluid. 
informed  by  a 
prominent  manufacturer  that  all  of  his 
collodion  is  aged  at  least  six months  be­
fore  being  sent  out,  and  that  be  has  no 
complaint  from  its  being  too  thick  un­
less  the  ether  happens  to  evaporate. 
However,  he  uses  a  slightly  greater 
proportion  of  alcohol  than  is  called  for 
by  the  U.  S.  P.  formula,  claiming  that 
this  gives  a  more  limpid  preparation. 
With  this  slight  increase  in  alcoholic 
strength,  the  U.  S.  P. 
formula  yields 
good  results  if a gun-cotton  that  is  prac­
tically  all  dinitro  cellulose  is  used,  with 
the  reservation  that  there  sometimes 
comes  a  batch  that  will  only  get  the 
proper consistency  through  age."

I  am 

Concerning  the  Coloration  of  Carbolic 

Acid.

Recent 

investigations  by  Walther  in­
dicate  that  the  cause  of  the  reddening 
of  carbolic  acid  is  the  ozone or hydrogen 
peroxide  of  the  air  acting  in  the  pres­
ence  of 
iron,  derived  from  the  glass  of 
bottles  or  the  “ tin "  of containers.  Like 
the  coloration  of  resorcin  and  hydro- 
quinone,  this  reddening  is  the  effect  of 
the  two  substances,  iron  and  hydrogen 
peroxide,  acting  together;  the  latter  is 
formed  from  the  slow  oxidation  of  the 
iron  (in  bottles  or  in  the  substance  it­
self)  in the  presence  of  air and moisture. 
Several  experiments  have  been  made  by 
Frederick T.  Gordon (Proceedings Penn­
sylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association)  to 
corroborate  this  theory.  A  carbolic acid 
free  from 
iron  gave  a  marked  reaction 
for  the  metal  after  being  kept  in  green 
glass  bottles  for 'six  months,  and  this 
acid,  once  pure  white,  is  now  a  deep

red  color.  Five  cubic  centimeters (por­
tions)  of  iron-free  and  white  carbolic 
acid  were  placed  in  bottles  and  the  fol­
lowing  tests  made:  No.  1 
in  a  green 
glass  bottle,  coated  inside  with  paraffin 
and  tightly corked,  remained  white  after 
two  months’ 
standing;  another  five 
cubic  centimeters  in  the  same  kind  of 
bottle,  uncoated  and  uncorked,  became 
of  a  light  red  color  in  the  same  time. 
Five  cubic  centimeters  acid  in  an  iron- 
free  bottle,  with  two  drops  of  iron 
sulphate  solution,  became  red 
in  three 
days;  another  sample  with  five  drops  of 
peroxide  of  hydrogen,  became  red  in  a 
few  hours.  An  iion-free  acid  in  a  para­
ffin-coated  bottle  with  five  drops  of  per­
oxide  of  hydrogen,  remained white :  but 
when  a 
iron  wire  was 
dropped 
in 
about  ten  day.  Mr.  Gordon  concluded 
that  to  prevent  the  reddening of carbolic 
acid,  it  must  be  free  from  iron  and  be 
kept 
iron-free  containers  (bottles 
coated  inside  thickly  with  paraffin  are 
very  good),  and  kept  tightly  corked. 
Exposure  to  light  seems  to  bleach  red­
dened  crystals.  If red crystals are melted 
and  the  first  crystallization  separated, 
this  will  often  give  a  white  acid.

tiny  bit  of 
in,  a  red  color  appeared 

in 

The  D rug  M arket.

Opium—Continues  dull  and  another 
decline 
is  noted.  The  growing  crop 
will  be  a  large  one  and  lower prices will 
prohably  rule  for  some  time  to  come.

Morphine—New  York 

and  Mal- 

linckrodt  have  declined  5c  per oz.

Quinine— New  York  costs  2c  above  P. 
&  W.  and  German  brands,  but  is  being 
sold  at  the  same  price.

Acetanilid— Is  firm  at  recent  advance.
Grain  Alcohol— Is  very  firm,  on  ac­
count  of  the  high  price  of  corn.  An 
advance  is  expected.

Cod  Liver  Oil—The 

import  cost  in 
large  quantities  to-day  is  said  to  be  $31 
per  barrel  of  30 gallons.  Higher  prices 
will  rule  during  the  coming  year.

Insect  Powder— Best  brands  have 
been  advanced  2c  per  pound  since  the 
first  of  the  year.  Price  will  probably 
remain  the  same  during  the  balance  of 
the  season.

Oil  Bergamot— Has  declined,  on  ac­

count  of  large  stocks.

Oil  Sassafras— Is  very  firm  and  tend­

ing  higher.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced 

ic  per 
gallon,  on  account  of  higher  price  for 
seed.

Cough  Syrup  Display.

Make  as  elaborate  a  window  display 
of  the  product  as  facilities  will  permit. 
Pile  the  preparation  high  in  the  win­
dow ;  attach  a  placard  with  the  name 
and  price  of  the  article  plainly  and 
neatly  written.  On  the  pavement  close 
to  the  curb  set  a  large  packing  case;  on 
each  of 
its  four  sides  print,  in  large, 
black  letters,  “ Smith’s  Honey  of  Hore- 
hound  and  T ar,"'o r  whatever  may  be 
the  title  of  the  preparation  displayed. 
The  greater  percentage  of  the  people 
who  pass  the  store  will 
look  at  that 
packing  case,  read  the  inscription  and 
instinctively  glance  in  the window.  Far 
more  definite  results  can  be  realized 
from  an  advertisement  of  this  descrip­
tion  than  from  a  commonplace -sign. 
If 
a  red  lantern  be  placed  on  top  of  the 
case  after  dark,  a  curiosity  will  be 
aroused  that  will  result  in  the  sale  of 
some  cough  syrup.  Joseph  Hostelley.

Widows  know  too  much  to  let  on  they 

know  anything.

Oil  True  Cedar  Leaf— Is  very  scarce 

and  has  advanced.

Short  Buchu  Leaves—Are  dull  and 

lower.

A m erican  Ginseng  in  China.

The  demand  for  American  ginseng 
root,  according  to  the  U.  S.  Consul  at 
Hong  Kong,  is  much  greater  than  the 
supply.  The  ginseng  root  is  as  indis­
pensable  to  the  well-to-do  Chinese  as  is 
their  rice.  The  growth, of  the  ginseng 
trade  has  been  marked  in  recent  years, 
and  higher  prices  are  now  being  paid 
by  dealers  than  ever  before.  Hong Kong 
is  the  distributing  center  for  ginseng. 
The  root  is  prepared  there  for the  mar­
ket.  The  skin  is  cleaned  and  smoothed 
by  a  special  process,  sorted out  in  equal 
sizes,  put  up 
in  neat  boxes  of  various 
capacities,  according  to quality,  and  re­
exported  to  all  the  consuming  districts 
in  China.  The  bulk  of  the  shipment 
goes 
to  the  northern  parts,  such  as 
Shanghai,  Hankan,  Tien-tsin  and  Che- 
fu,  although  a  fair  proportion  finds  its 
way  to  Canton  and  the  coast  ports, 
Amoy,  Swatow  and  Fuchu;  also  to  For­
mosa  and  other  markets  where  there are 
Chinese.

The  average  value  of  American  gins­
eng  annually  received  at  Hong  Kong  is 
about  $763,300  to $808,200.  The  value 
of  the  Chinese  ginseng  annually  im­
ported 
is  estimated  at  about  $44,900. 
The  importation  of  Korean  ginseng  root 
is  valued  at  about $$359,200 a year.  The 
price  varies  according  to quality.  The 
wild,  dried  American  root,  as  imported 
at  Hong  Kcng  may  be  classified  into 
three  grades,  generally  known  to  the 
trade  as  ‘ ' fair,”   “ good"  and  “ extra’ 
or  “ selected.”   The  present  values  ol 
these  grades  is  respectively  $4.05,  $5.25 
and  $6.18  per  pound  after  deducting 
charges, 
trade  discount,  selling  and 
guarantee  commissions.

Caffeine  as  a  Carbolic A ntidote.

Reasoning  from  the  fact  that  caffeine 
is  added  to  phenacetin  to  prevent  res­
piratory  and  circulatory  depression,  Dr. 
G.  A.  Ferraby  tried  hypodermic 
injec­
tions  of  caffeine 
in  a  case  of  carbolic 
acid  poisoning.  The  patient,  a  young 
man,was  deeply  comatose  and  marked­
ly  cyanotic,  but  a  hypodermic  injection 
°f  2%  grains  of  caffeine  dissolved  in 
water  with  the  aid  of  sodium  salic>late 
improved  his  condition 
in  about  an 
hour.  After  another 
injection  the  pa­
tient  recovered  consciousness  and  was 
able  to  speak.  The  stomach  had  pre­
viously  been  washed  out,  but  Dr.  Fer­
raby  thinks  the  caffeine  had  a  consider­
able 
in  combating  the  tunic 
effects  of  the  phenol  and  cresols  ab­
sorbed.

influence 

Salt  as  an  A ntidote  to  Strychnine.

An  observant  friend  tells  me  that  he 
has  frequently  seen  the  lives  of  dogs 
saved  from  strychnine  poisoning  by  the 
use  of  large  doses  of  common  salt—this 
after  the  dog  was  in  spasms.  He  first 
saw  some  boys  recovering  a  dog  that 
had  been  treated  to  a  dose  of  strychnine 
by  the  police.  The  method used  was  to 
fill  the  dog's  mouth  with  a  big  handful 
of  salt  and  wash 
it  down  with  water 
from  an  old  tin  can.  The  dog  soon 
straightened  out  and  was  all  right. 
Is 
it a  chemical  antidote  or  does  it  cause 
elimination  of  the  poison  by creating  an 
active  exosmosis?  Who  knows?  Who 
has  made  the  same  observation?  Does 
it  apply  to  the  human  family?

Alkaloid.

To  D estroy  Moss  on  F ru it Trees.

Every  second  year  scrub  the  trunk  of 
the  tree  affected  with  a  stiff  brush 
dipped  in  strong  brine.  This  not  only 
kills  the  mosses  and  lichens,  but  the  in­
sects  that  make  their  habitat  there,  and 
their  eggs  and  larvae  as  well.

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.  Over 
10,000 In use.  No tanks, no  charging  ap­
paratus  required.  Makes  finest  Soda 
Water for one-half cent a glass.  Send ad­
dress for particulars  and  endorsements.

Grant Manufacturing Co.,  Inc. 

Pittsburg,  Pa.

FIREWORKS

Flags and

Celebration  Goods for

July  4th

Public 
Displays 
a  Specialty
Our line will be shown 

by our travelers,

A.  W.  Stevenson 
Wm.  H.  Vaughan 
and, as usual, will be

T he  L a rg e st  in   M ichigan

Many new and popular novelties and  all the sta­
ples.  Place  your  orders  early  and  get  your 
share of the plums.  We  solicit  your  orders  for

Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods, 
Hammocks and School  Supplies

FRED  BRUNDAGE

Wholesale Druggist, 

Muskegon, Mlcb.

S E E   OUR 

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.

HEYSTEK  &  CANFIELD CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

P A R IS

GREEN

LABELS
The  Paris Green  season  is  at 
hand  and  those  dealers  who 
break  bulk  must  label  their 
packages  according  to 
law. 
We  are  prepared  to  furnish 
labels which meet the  require­
ments of the  law,  as  follows:

IOO labels, 25 cents 
200 labels, 40 cents 
500 labels, 75 cents 
1000 labels, $1.00

Labels  with  merchant’s  name 
printed  thereon,  $2  per  1000. 
Orders  can  be  sent  through 
any jobbing house at the Grand 
Rapids market.

TRADESM AN
C O M P A N Y ,

GRAND  R A P I D S ,   MICH.

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

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Oil Cedar.
Declined— N. Y. Morphia, Mai. Morphia, Oil Bergamont.

2O3

Menthol..................
22
©  4 76 SeldUtz Mixture......
Morphia, 8., P. & W. 2  15© 2  40 Slnapls....................
© 18
© 30
Morphia, 8., N.Y. Q. 2  10©  2  35 Slnapls,  opt............
Morphia, Mai........... 2  XC© 2  35
Snun, Macoaboy, De
© 41
© 40
Moschus  Canton__
V oes....................
© 41
66© 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Myrlstlca, No. l ......
9© 11
© 10 Soda, Boras.............
Nux Vomica...po. 15
9© 11
Os Sepia..................
35© 37 Soda,  Boras, po......
23© 25
Soda et Potass Tart.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
1H@ 2
©  1  00 Soda.  Carb..............
D  Co....................
3© 5
Plcls Llq. N.N.H gal.
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
3H@ 4
© 2  00 Soda,  Ash...............
doz.......................
2
©  1  00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Plcls Llq., quarts__
©
© 2 60
© 85 Spts. Cologne..........
Plcls Llq.,  pints......
60© 55
© 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80
© 2 00
© 18 Spts. Myrcla Dorn...
Piper  Nigra...po. 22
© 30 Spts. Vinl Beet.  bbl.
Piper  Alba__po. 35
©
7 Spts. Vinl Beet. V»bbl
Piix Burgun............
©
©
10© 12 Spts. Vinl Beet. lOgal
Plumbl Acet............
©
1  30© 1  50 Spts. Vinl Beet. 5 gal 
Pul vis Ipecac et Opll 
©80© 1  06
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal... 
2M@ 4
© 75
Sulphur,  Subl.........
& P. D. Co., doz...
25© 30 Sulphur, Boll........... 2hi& 3V4
Pyrethrum,  pv........
8© 10
8© 10 Tamarinds..............
Quassias..................
28© 30
30© 40 Terebenth Venice...
Quinla, S.P.&   W...
3 © 40 Theobrom®.............
50© 55
Quinla, S.  German..
30© 40 Vanilla.................... 9 00©16 00
Quinla, N. Y............
7© 8
12© 14 Zinci Sulph.............
Rubla Tlnctorum....
20© 22
Saccharum Lactls pv
Oils
Salactn.................... 4 50© 4 75
40© 60
Sanguis  Draconls...
12© 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, W..................
10© 12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo M....................
© 16 Lard, No. 1..............
Sapo G....................

BBIi.  GAL.
70
90
66

70
85
60

2 7

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

Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...
Lead,red.................
Lead,  white............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gliders’ —  
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff .......................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

65
66
43
60

68
69
70
53
BBL. LB.
134  2 ©8
1%  2 ©4
1%  2 ©3
214  2<4©S 
2V4  234@3
13© 15
70© 75
14© 18
13© 16
S  © 8*
6  © 6V4
© 90
© 95
©   1  25
©  1  40
1  10©  1  20

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  l  io©  l  20
Extra Tura..............  1 60©  l 70
Coach  Body............  2 75© 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum...... 1 00©  1  10
Extra Tura Damar..  1 56©  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp  70©  79

Acetlcum  ................$
Benzol cum, German. 
Boracic....................

Hydrochlor.
Nltrocum...
Phosphorlum,  dll..

Tartaricum

Aqua, 20 deg.

Bed.

Bacca»
Cubeb®...........po,25
Junlperus................

Peru  ...................
Terabln,  Canada.

8
6©$
70© 76
© 17
24© 29
43© 45
3© 5
8© 10
12© 14
© 15
50© 53
114® 5
1  10® 1  20
38© 40

4© 6
6© 8
13© 15
12© 14
2 00© 2 26
80© 1  00
45© 60
2 50© 3 00
22© 24
6© 8
1  70©  1  75
n

66
60«
© 2 00
60© 65
45© 50
18
12
18
30
20
18
12

C ortez
Abies, Canadian......
Cassi®......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
QulUala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 15
Uimus...po.  18, gr’d
E z tr a c tu m
248
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza,  po.....  288
lig
H®matox, 15 lb. box 
J3§
Haematox, is ........... 
Haematox, 14s.........  
}*0
Haematox, 14s.........  
16@
F erru
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bhl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora

25
30
12
14
15 
17
15 
2 25 
76 
40 
15

6

8®

128

258

i458

Arnica..................... 
*5®
Anthemis.................  22®
Matricaria...............  
»*®
308  40

Folia
Barosma.............
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly.................  208
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  258 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and H s.................
UvaUrsl.................. 
Gum ml
Acacia, 1st picked... 
Acacia, 2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po.........  »
Aloe, Barb, po.18820 
Aloe, Cape.... po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotrt-.po. 40
Ammoniac............ • •
Assafoetlda— po. 40
55
Benzolnum..............
13
Catechu, is ..............
14 
Catechu, tts............
16
Catechu, Ms............
4©  69
Camphor*..............
©  40
Eupnorblum...po. 35
© 1 00 
Gafbanum...............
0®  «6 
Gamboge.............po
©  35
Gualacum.......po.35
©  75
Kino...........po. $0.76
©  60 
Mastic  ................. .
©  40
OplT^.po!  4.40^4.30 3  20© 3 26
Sfiellac1. . . .......... 
38©  46
Shellac, bleached.... 
40©  46
Tragacanth.............   70©  1 00
H erba
25 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
20 
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg
25 
Lobelia........oz. pkg
28 
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Rue...... .....oz. pkg 
39
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
22
rhymus, V...oz.pkg 
26
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  86©  60
Carbonate, P at...... 
18©  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18©  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18©  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............. 7 00©  7 20
Amygdalae, Dulc....  60©  60
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00© 8 26
An 111.......................   1  60©  l 66
Aurantl Cortex........2 10©  2 20
Bergamll.................  2  40©  2 50
Cajlputl...................  80©  85
Caryophylll.............  
75©  80
Cedar...................... 
80©  85
Chenopadll.............. 
© 2 75
Olnnamonll  ............l  00©  l  10
Cltronella................  SB©  40

Conlum Mac............ 
80©  90
Copaiba...................  l  15© 1  25
Cubebae...................  l 30©  l  36
Exechthitos............   1 00© 1  10
Erlgeron.................  l 00©  1  10
Gaultherla..............  2 00© 2  10
Geranium, ounce.... 
©  75 
Gosslppll, Sem. gal.. 
50©  60
Hedeoma.................  l 65©  l  70
Junipera.................  l  50© 2 00
Lavendula  ..............  90© 2 oo
Llmonls..................   1  15©  1 25
Mentha Piper.........   2  10®  ? 20
Mentha Verld.........   1  80©  2 00
Morrhu®, &al.........   l  20©  l 30
M yrda....................  4 00©  4 50
Olive.......................  75© 3 00
Pld8 Liquid a ........... 
10©  12
©  35
Plcls Llqulda,  gal... 
Rlcina.....................   1 00©  1 06
Ro8marlnl...............  
© 1  00
Bosae, ounce............   6 00© 6 50
Succlnl....................  40©  46
Sabina....................  90©  i  oo
Santal.....................   2 75© 7 oo
Sassafras.................  56©  60
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
©  65
Tlglu.......................  1  50©  1 60
Thyme.....................   40©  50
Thyme, opt.............. 
©  l  60
Theobromas........... 
16©  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
16©  18
Bichromate............  
13©  16
Bromide................. 
52©  57
C arb.......................  
12©  15
Chlorate., .po. 17®19  16®  18
Cyanide...................  34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30© 2 40
Potassa, Bltart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
©  15
7®  10
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  Nitras.........  
6© 
8
Prusslate................. 
23©  26
Sulphate po............  
15®  18

Radix

Aconltum.................  20©  26
Althae...................... 
30©  33
Anchusa................. 
10©  12
Arum  po................. 
©  25
Calamus..................   20©  40
Gentiana........po. 15 
12©  15
16©  18
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po................. 
18©  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60© 3  75
Iris  p!ox...po.35@38  36©  40
Jalapa, p r...............  
25©  30
Maranta,  14s........... 
©  36
Podophyllum,  po...  22©  25
Rhel.........................  75©  1  00
Bhel, cut................. 
©  1  25
Rhel, pv..................   75©  1  36
Splgella...................  35©  38
Sanguinaria...po.  15 
©  18
Serpentarla............   60©  66
Senega....................  60©  65
Smllax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smllax, M...............  
©  25
10©  12
Sclllae............po.  35 
Symplocarpus.Foetl-
dus,  po.................
©  25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
©  25
15©  20
Valeriana,  German.
14©
Zingiber a ...............  
16 
Zingiber ].................  25©
27
Semen
Anlsum........ po.  18 
©  15
Apium (graveleons).  13©  15
Bird, is.................... 
4© 
6
Carul.............po.  15 
10©  11
Cardamon................  i  25©  l  75
Corlandrum.............  
8©  10
Cannabis Satlva......   4 y,@  5
Cydonium...............   75© l  oo
Chenopodium.........  
is©  16
Dlpterlx Odorate....  1  00©  1  10
Foeniculum.............. 
® 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7© 
9
L ini.........................  834© 
6
Lini, grd....... bbl. 4 
334©  6
Lobelia....................  1  50©  1  55
Pharlaris Canarian..  4M© 
5
B apa.......................  4H@ 
5
Slnapls  Alba........... 
9©  10
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
li©  12
Spiritus

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00© 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00© 2 25
Frumentl................   l  26© l  50
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1  65® 2 00
Junlperis  Co...........  1  75© 3 50
Saacharum  N. E ___ 1  90© 2  10
Spt. Vinl Galli.........   1  75© 6 50
Wni Oporto.............  1  25© 2 00
Vinl Alba.................  1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2  50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50© 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
1  50 
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
1 00
carriage................
76
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  B e e f,  for
1  40
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................  
Aurantl Cortex........ 
Zingiber..................  
Ipecac...................... 
Ferrl Iod................. 
Bhel Arom.............. 
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega....................  
Sell!»....................... 

©  50
©  50
©  50
©  60
©  50
©  50
50©  60
©  50
a   50

Miscellaneous 

©  60
Sclllae  Co.................  
Tolutan...................  
©  50
©  50
Primus  vlrg............  
Tinctures
60
Aconltum Napellls R 
50
Aconltum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
50
Arnica....................  
50
Assafoetlda.............. 
60
Atrope Belladonna.. 
50
Aurantl Cortex.......  
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
50
Barosma................... 
Cantharldes............  
75
50
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
75
75
Cardamon Co........ 
Castor__ ; ............... 
i Oo.
Catechu)................... 
5o
So
Cinchona................. 
6o
Cinchona Co............  
Columba.................  
Bo
Cubebae............ . 
Bo
5o
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Bo
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
6o
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
5o
Ferrl  Chlorldum__  
35
So
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
6o
6o
Guiaca...................... 
Gulaca ammon........ 
6o
Hyoscyamus............  
Bo
Iodine  ....................  
75
75
Iodine, colorless...... 
K ino....................................... Bo
Bo
Lobelia.................... 
Myrrh...................... 
Bo
Nux Vomica............  
Bo
Opil.......................... 
76
5o
Opll, comphorated.. 
Opli, deodorized...... 
l  Bo
6q
Quassia................... 
Rhatany................... 
Bo
Bo
Bhel........................ 
So
Sanguinarla...........  
Serpentarla............. 
5o
Stramonium............  
6o
Tolutan................... 
6o
Valerian................. 
6o
Veratrum  Verlde... 
5o
Zingiber..................  
25
.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30©  35
Jfther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©  38
Alumen...................  2M@ 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3© 
Annatto...................   40©  50
Antlmoni, po........... 
4© 
5
Antlmonl et Potass T  40©  50
©  25
Antlpyrln................ 
Antifebrin.............. 
®  20
©  50
Argentl Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum..............  10©  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45©  50
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65©  1 76
Calcium Chlor., is...
Calcium Chlor., Hs..
Calcium Chlor., Ms.. 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
Capslcl Fructus, af..
Capsid  Fructus, po.
Capslcl Fructus B, po 
12©
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
© 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40......
55©  60
Cera Alba..............
42 
Cera Flava..............  40©
40 
©
Coccus.................... 
35 
©
Cassia Fructus........ 
10 
Centrarla.................  
©
45 
©
Cetaceum................. 
60
Chloroform.............  55©
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
© 1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  35© 1  60
Chondrus................   20©  25
Clnchonldlne.P. & W 
38©  48
Cinchonldlne, Germ. 
38©  48
Cocaine..................   4 55© 4 75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............
Creta............bbl. 75
Creta, prep..............
Creta, preclp...........
Creta, Rubra...........
Crocus....................   25©
©
Cudbear................ 
Cuprl Sulph.............  6H©
7©
Dextrine.................  
Ether Sulph............   78©
Emery, all niunb6iS. 
©
Emery, po................ 
©
90 
E rgota.........po. 90  85©
15 
Flake  White........... 
12©
23
Galla.......................  
©
8©
Gambler.................  
60 
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
©
60
Gelatin, French......  
36©
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
70 
Less than box......
13 
Glue, brown............. 
11©
25 
Glue,  white............. 
15©
25 
Glycerlna.................  17ft©
25 65 
Grana Paradisi........ 
©
Hum ulus.................  
25©
© 1 00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
©  90
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
©  1  10 
Hydrarg  Ox Bub’m.
© 1  20 
Hydrarg Ammonlati 
60©  60 
HydrargU nguen turn
©  85
Hydrargyrum.........
65©  70
IchthyoDolla, Am...
Indigo......................  75©  100
Iodine,  Besubl........  3 40© 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60©  3 85
50 
Lupulin 
70
Lycop  ' 
66©  75
acts
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............
LlquorPotassArslnit 
Magnesia,  Sulph....
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manilla, S.  F

©
10©
2©
©
MO

9©  11

©
©

©

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Standard  Tubs  and  Pails
Cable Tubs and  Pails
Spring  W heat F lo u r
R olled  Oats

D ECLIN ED
Italian   Prunes
Grits

Index to  Markets

B y  C o lum ns

 

 

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B

A

G

H

D
F

I
J
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Col.
........  15
Akron Stoneware.......
.........  1
Alabas tin e..................
.........  1
Axle Grease...........................  I
.........   1
Baking Powder........... .
..........  1
Bath  Brick..................
Bluing.................................  1
Brooms........................ .........   1
Brushes...................... .........   1
.........  1
Butter Color.................
Candles..................................  M
Candles.................................. 
l
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................   3
Carbon OUs...........................  3
Cheese...............................  
  3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................   3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoanut.............  
3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.....................    15
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  B
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
F ly P ap er............. , . ..........  8
 
Fresh Meats.................  
6
Fruits............................ 
  14
Gelatine.................................  6
Grain Bags............................  7
»rains and Flour.................   7
Herbs....................................  7
Hides and Pelts....................  18
Indigo....................................  7
Jelly......................................  7
Lamp Burners.......................  is
Lamp Chimneys....................  is
Lanterns................................  IS
Lantern  Globes....................   15
Licorice................  
7
Lye...........................  
7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses............................ 
  7
Mustard................................   7
Nuts.................-..................  14
OH Cans.....................: ......... is
Olives...................................  7
Pickles............ .......... 
7
Pipes.....................................   7
Playing Cards.......................   8
Potash...................................   8
Provisions..........................  8
Bloe...................................  
  8
Saleratus...............................   9
9
Sal Soda.......................... 
Salt........................................   9
Salt  Fish.................. 
 
9
Seeds...................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff............................... —   10
Soap............................. 
  9
Soda.............A.......................  10
Spices............... 
10
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................   11
Syrups...... .................*v.......  10
Table Sauce................j ........   12
Tea................  
11
Tobacco.......................... ......  tl
Tw ine...................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.................... 13
Wleking............... 
18
Wooden war«......... ..............   13
is
Wrapping Paper........... . 
Yeast  Cake...........................  13

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AXLE  GREASE
doz. gross
6 00
...65
Aurora...........
......... 60
7 00
Castor  OH......
4 25
......... 50
Diamond........
9 00
..........75
Frazer’s .........
9 00
TXT, Golden, tin boxes 75

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

BAKING POW DEB

9 00
6 oo

Id lb. cans,  4doz. case....... 3 75
341b. cans,  2doz. case....... 3 75
lib.cans,  ldoz.case........3 75
5 lb. cans, 34 doz. case........8 00

Egg

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

Royal

lOcslze__  90
Id lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans,  l 90 
34  lb. cans  2 60 
Id lb. cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
«  31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals,per gross6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

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

BROOMS

Scrub

No. l Carpet........................ 2 ’ 0
No. 2 Carpet........................ 2 25
No. 3 Carpet........................ 2 15
No. 4 Carpet........................ 1 76
Parlor  Gem...... ................. 2 40
Common Whisk...... ..........    85
Fancy Whisk.......................l  io
Warehouse..........................3 60

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dustless

Fiber..........................l oo@3 00
Russian Bristle.......... 3 oo@5 oo
Discount, 3334 56  In doz. lots. 

8hoe

Stove

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, ll In .................   96
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8....................................1  00
No. 7....................................1  30
No. 4....................................1  70
No. 8....................................1  90
NO. 3.....................................   75
No. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1.......................  ............1 76
W., B. & Co.’s, 15c size....  125
W., R. & Co.’s,'25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s..................12
Electric Light, 16a................ 1234
Paraffine, 8s..........................Mil
Paraffine, 12s...............  
  U
W ishing.............................29

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

B lackberries

Clam B ouillon

80
85
1  00
22
19
15
11
90
85
2  15
3 60
2 40
1  75
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

Apples
l  10 
3 lb. Standards........
3 25
Gallons, standards..
Standards................ 
80
Baked......................  1 oo@i  30
Bed  Kidney........... 
75®  85
String......................  
to
Wax.........................................70
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
90
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
1 00 
Little Neck, 1 lb. ...
1  50
Little Neck. 2lb....
Burnham’s, % pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Cherries
Bed  Standards........
White..........................
Corn
Fair........  ...............
Good.......................
Fancy......................
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine.............
Extra Fine..................
Moyen...........................
Gooseberries
Standard.................
Hom iny
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, 34 lb.................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails..............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, lib ..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, lib ............
Tomato, 21b.............
M ushrooms
Hotels.......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, l lb.................
Cove, 21b.................
Cove, 1 lb Oval........
Peaches 
P ie...........................
Yellow....................   1 65@1  85
Pears
1 00
Standard.................
1  25
Fancy.......................
Peas-
1  00
Marrowfat..............
1  00
Early June..............
1 60
Early June  Sifted..
Plum s
85
Plums......................
Pineapple
Grated....................   1  25@2 76
Sliced.......................   1  35@2  55
P um pkin
96
F a ir.........................
1  00
Good.......................
1  10
Fancy......................
Raspberries
1  15
Standard................«
Russian  Cavier
34 lb. cans................... —   3 75
% lb, cans.......... ,.............   7 00
1 lb. can................................  12 00
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska.............. 
Pink Alaska............ 
Shrim ps
Standard...... ..........
Sardines
Domestic, 34s..........
Domestic, i t s .........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, 34s .........
California %a...........
French, 34s..............
French. 34s..............
Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair.... 
Good.. 
Fancy.
F a ir....
Good...
Fancy..
Gallons.

@1  86
@2 00
l  30@i 40
l 00®i  16
1 50
334
6
6

1 25
96 
1 00 
I  20
1 25 
1 30 
1 86 
8 60

11® 14 
17®24 
7®14 
18®28

Straw berries

Salmon

1  56
96

85

CARBON OILS 

B arrels

 

Eocene............ 
©it
Perfection.................   @10
Diamond White.........   @9
D. 8. Gasoline............  @12*
Deodorized Naphtha..  @1034
Cylinder..................¿...29  @34
Engine..........................19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @1054

CATSUP

Columbia,  pints............... 2 00
Columbia, % pints............-.1 25

 

 

CHEESE
Acme....................... 
Amboy....................  
Elsie......................... 
Emblem..................  
Gem........................  
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal......................  
Jersey...................... 
Riverside.................  
Brick............... 
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
Umburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago.................  

 

ai334
@1314
@13
S
®
@13
@
@1334
@13
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50075
19@20

CHEW ING GUM 
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
Black Jack.......................  
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
SenSen.............................  
Sen Sen Breath Perfume., 
Sugar  Loaf.......................  
Yucatan............................ 

56
60
55
56
l 00
55
56

CHICORY

Bulk...................... 
5
B e d .......................................7
Eagle......................................4
Franck’s ............................... 634
Schener’s .............................  6

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet....................   23
Premium..............................  31
Breakfast Cocoa...................  46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla.................................  28
Premium..............................  31

Rnnkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

J u te

Cotton  Victor

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  1  00
72 ft, 3 thread, extra........  1  40
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  1 70
60 ft, 6 thread,  extra........  1  29
72 ft, 6 thread,  extra.................
90 ft.................................... 
75
72 ft...................................  
90
99ft....................................  105
120 ft..................................  1  50
50 ft.................................... 
80
6f f t.................................... 
95
70 ft...................................   1  10
Cotton W indsor
59 ft....................................  1  20
60 ft....................................  1  40
70 ft....................................  1  65
8 0 ft................................   185
40 ft.................................... 
55
59 ft................................... 
70
70 ft.................................... 
80
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long....  190 
No. 19, each 100 ft long....  2  10

Cotton Braided

COCOA

 

Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 348  ........................  36
Colonial, 34s.........................  33
Epps.........................  
42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, 34s..................   12
Van Houten, 348..................   20
Van Houten, 34s ..................   40
Van Houten,  is ..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, 34s...........................  41
Wilbur. 34s .......................  42

COCOANUT

Dunham’s 34s....................  26
Dunham’s 34s and 34s......   2634
Dunham’s  348...................  27
Dunham’s  34s...................  28
Bulk.............. ...................  13

COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags..................... 
Less quantity.
Pound packages
-  

!■

“ ”
COFFEE
Roasted

234

T O  GRADE.
COffFEES

F. M. C. brands

Special Combination........... 15
French Breakfast...  .......... 1734
Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java 81 Moc.26 
Supreme. Java and Mocha .27 
Mandehllng............................ 30 34
Purity................... 
28
N01  Hotel........... ............. .28
Monogram...........................26
Special Hotel....................... 23
Parkerhouse.........................21
Honolulu  .............................17
Fancy  Maracaibo......  .......16
Maracaibo..........................is
Porto Rican......................... 15
Marexo...............................1134

5

8
Belle Rose.................
16
Bent’s Water.............
9
Cinnamon Bar...........
10
Coffee Cake,  Iced___
10
Coffee Cake. Java___
18
Cocoanut Macaroons.
10
Cocoanut Taffy.........
16
Crac knells............... .
8
Creams, Iced.............
Cream Crisp.......
1034
Cubans..................... ;
1134
12
Currant Fruit............
12
Frosted H oney.......
9 
Frosted Cream.
Ginger Gems.l’rgeorsm’ll 
8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C....
634
Gladiator...... ...................
10349
Grandma Cakes................
8
Graham Crackers............
12
Graham  Wafers..............
16
Grand Rapids  Tea...........
12
Honey Fingers.................
10 
Iced Honey Crumpets......
8
Imperials..........................
12 
Jumbles, Honey...............
Lady Fingers....................
12 
Lemon Snaps....................
12 
16 
Lemon Wafers----•...*—
Marshmallow...................
16 - 
Marshmallow Creams......
16 
16 
Marshmallow Walnuts__
Mary Ann.........................
8
Mixed Picnic....................
1134
Milk Biscuit......................
7348
Molasses  Cake................
9
Molasses Bar....................
Moss Jelly Bar.................
1234
Newton.............................
12
8
Oatmeal Crackers........... .*
12
Oatmeal Wafers...............
9
Orange Crisp....................
9
Orange Gem......................
8
Penny Cake......................
Pilot Bread, XXX...........
734
Pretzelettes, hand made..
834
Pretzels, hand  made........
834
Scotch Cookies.................
9
Sears’ Lunch....................
73480
Sugar Cake.......................
S n n r  P m am . T X Y
8
Sugar Squares...................
Sultanas............................
13
Tutti Fruttl.......................
16
16
Vanilla Wafers.................
8
Vienna Crimp...................
E. J.  Kruce & Co. ’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... 30
15
Bulkin sacks......................... 29

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California Prunes

Sundrled.........................  @6H
10
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @10 
13
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @334
90-100 25 lb. boxes...... .  @434
80-90 25 lb. boxes........  @634
18
70-80 25 lb. boxes........  @534
60-70 25 lb. boxes........  @634
50-60 25lb. boxes........  @734
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @834
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
834
California  F ru its

34 cent less In 50 lb. oases 

Citron

C urrants

ll@U34
834
@934

Apricots..................... 
Blackberries......__
Nectarines.................  
Peaches...................... 
31
Pears.......................... 934
Pitted Cherries...,....
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
Leghorn...................................11
Corsican...........................   1234
California, 1 lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......  734
Ijnported, bulk....................  7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. bx..l3 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
l  75 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  90
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
834
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 9%®\0
L. M., Seeded, 34  lb.... 
8
Sultanas, b u lk .....................11
Sultanas, package...............1134
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 

Raisins

Peel

Beans

90

F arin a

H om iny

Dried Lima.......................... 
6
1  f 0
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland..............     ..2  25
241 lb. packages...................... 1 18
Bulk, per 100 Tbs........................2 25
Flake, 50 lb. sack...............  
Pearl, 200 lb. bbl...................... 5 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................2 50
M accaroni and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 25 lb. box................. 2 50
Common..................................3 00
Chester......................................8 25
Empire......................................8 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........l  65
Green, Scotch, bu...........  ..1  76
Spilt,  lb................................  4
Rolled Avena, bbl.....................5 30
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks........ 2 75
Monarch, bbl............................5 00
Monarch, 34 bbl........................2 76
i Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2  45
Quaker, cases.........................8 20

P earl  B arley

Rolled  Oats

Peas

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. Si J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
Royal Java................*.........
Royal Java and Mocha.......
Java and Mocha Blend.......
Boston  Combination...........
Ja-Vo Blend.... 
...............
Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend.................
Distributed by Olney & Judson 
Gro. Co..  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott & Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. &  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Mnisel  & 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Flelbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9....................................  834
No. 10................................... 934
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................................26
Juno......................................28
Koran....................................14

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

Rio

M aracaibo

Common...............................  8
F a ir.....................................   9
Choice...................................10
Fancy..........................  
 
Santos
Common...............................  8
F air.....................  
 
9
Choice.........................  
 
Fancy..........................  
 
Peaberry............................... 11
F air.....................................  13
choice........ 
 
Choice...................................13
Fancy...,..............................17
Choice...................................13
African................................. 12
Fancy African.....................17
O  G...................................... 25
P. G..........................  
 

,  G uatem ala

Mexican

Ja v a

 

Mocha

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

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuekle............................i0*t
Dll worth............................ 1034
Jersey.................................1034
Lion....................................10
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 34  gross.............  75
Felix 34 gross..............l  
15
Hummers foil 34 gross........  85
Hummel’s tin 34 gross........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  BULK 

4 doz In case.

B u tter

CRACKERS

^ olla.................. ......... 4  00

Gall Borden Eagle............... 5 95
Crown...................... '........... 5 90
Daisy...................................4  70
Champion.............................4 25
m ge............................. << 65
Dime.....................................3 35
Milkmaid...............................6 10
Tip  Top................................ 3 85
Nestles..................................4 25
Highland  Cream.................. 4 75
S t Charles Cream.................4 30
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................  634
New York.........................   6M
Family.............  
634
 
Salted................................ 
634
Wolverine......................... 
634
Soda  XXX...... ................  
654
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette..........................   13
F a u st..............................  
734
Farina...............:.............  
6'
Extra Farina.................... 
6
Saltine Oyster...................  634
Sweet  Goods —Boxes
Animals..............................  10
Assorted  Cake...................  10

Oyster

Soda

 

6
Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Sago

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages......2 30
East India...........................   3 Si
German, sacks....................  3%
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............ 4)4
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6 >4
Cracked, bulk......................  3J4
24 2 lb. packages.................2 60

Tapioca

W heat

FISHING  TACKLE

54 to 1 Inch...........................  6
154 to 2 inches......................  7
154 to 2 Inches......................  9
\% to 2 inches.................... 
11
2 Inches................................   15
3 Inches................................   30

Cotton  Lines
No. 1,10 feet.........................  5
No. 2,15 feet............... 
 
7
No. 3.15 feet......................... 
9
No. 4, '5 fe e t.......................   10
No. 5,15 feet.........................  11
No. 6,16 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 feet.........................  15
No. 8,15 feet........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  2o
Small...................................   20
Medium................................  26
L arge................. 
34
Poles
Bamboo. 14 ft., per  doz.......   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo. 18 f t , per doz. 
.  80 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Linen  Lines

 

 

 

FOOTE  St JE N E S’

JAXON

H ig h e st  G rade  E x tra c ts
Vanilla 
Lemon

1 oz full m, 1  20  lozfullm .  80
2 oz full m 2  10  2 oz full m  l  25 
No. Sfan’v  1»  IS  Vn  af»n'v  I  7f

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel..1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper..2 00  4 oz taper. .1  60

L>. C. Vanilla
1). C. Lemon 
2 OZ......... 
76  2 OZ.........   1  24
3 OZ.........  1  00  [3 OZ.........  1  60
6 OZ.........   2 00  4 OZ.........  2  00
.1 5 2   No. 3 T...  2 08
No. 4T 
O ar Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
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.............   36
Tanglefoot, per  case...........3 20

FLV  PA PER

Standard.

Beef

FRESH  MEATS 
Carcass.................... 
7
Forequarters......... •  6  @754
Hindquarters......... 
8  @11
Loins.......................   H  @17
Ribs........................   »  @1«
Rounds.................... 
8  0   9
ChucKs.................... 
6540 7
Plates...................... 
4  @5
P ork
0   7H
Dressed................... 
Loins.................. 
13  @1354
Boston Butts........... 
9K01O
Shoulders................  9540 9%
Leaf  Lard................ 
@1054
Mutton
Carcass...................   7  @854
Lambs.....................  8  @  1
Carcass.................... 
6  @754
Knox’s  Sparkling........... 
1 20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14 00
Knox’s Acidulated...........  1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford..............................  
75
Plymouth Bock...............  
l  20
Nelson’s................. ........  1 50
Cox’s, 2-qt size.................  1  61
Cox’s, 1-qt size— . . . . . . . .   110

GELATINE

Veal

GRAIN  BAGS 

Amoskeag, 100 in bale  ....  1554 
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15%

GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

Wheat  .............................  

W inter W heat F lour 

80

W heat

Local Brands

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 f 0
Second Patent..................   4  10
Straight.............................  3 «0
Second Straight................  3 60
Clear..........., ...................   3 30
Graham........... ................   3 60
Buckwheat......... .............  4 30
Rye...................................   s 20
Subjeot  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 54s.....................   3 86
Diamond 54s.....................  3 85
Diamond 54s.....................   3 85
Quaker 54s........................   4 00
Quaker 54s........................  4 00
Quaker 54s........................  4  00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 70
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 60
PUlsbury’s ’Best 54s.........   4 50
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4 60 
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4 60 
BaU-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4  20
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4  10
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  54s.................... 
4 35
Wlngold  548.................... 
4 25
Wingold  54s.................... 
4  16

Spring W heat F lour 

Olney & Jud son’s Brand

Ceresota 54s.................... '.  4 60
Ceresota 54s......................  4 60
Ceresota 54s......................  4  40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel  56s......................... 4 40
Laurel  54s......................... 4  30
Laurel  54s......................... 4  20
Laurel 54s and %s paper.. 4 20
Bolted............................... 2 60
Granulated.......................
2  80
Feed and  Millstuffh
St. Car Feed, screened__ 23 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........ 23 00
Unbolted Corn  Meal........ 22  00
Winter Wheat Bran......... 20 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 21  00
Screenings....................... 19 00

Meal

Oats

Corn
Hay

Car  lots............................. 47
Car lots, clipped...............
60
Less than car lots______
Corn, oar  lots..................
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10 00
No. l Timothy ton lots.... 12 00
Sage........................................16
Hops...................................... 16
Laurel Leaves......................... 16
Aenna Leaves 
26

HERBS

60

 

INDIGO

JELLY

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................66
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 60

5 lb. palls.per doz...........  1  76
151b. palls............................  38
301b. palls............................   67

LICORICE

Pure.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  23
SlcUy....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

Condensed, 2 doz................ 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 26

MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 46
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 76

LYE

40
36
2>i
22

MOLASSES 
New Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz........... 3 50
Rayle’s Celery. 1 doz...........1  76

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  10
ManzanTlla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints............ .........  2 36
Queen, 19  oz.....................   4 50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................   1  45
Stuffed. 10 oz....................  2 80

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count............ 6 76
Half bbls, 600 count............ 3 88

Barrels, 2,400 count............8 26
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 4 62

Small

PIPES

Clay, No. 216........................ l 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   66
Cob, No. 8............................   86

PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............. 
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5. 572, Special................   1  75
No  98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2 25 

48 cans In case.

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

 

PROVISIONS 
B arreled Pork

Mess.........................  @16  60
Back.......................  
@18  E0
Clear back.__ ____  
@19  00
Short cut.................   @17  76
Pig..................... 
2000
Bean........................ 
@16 10
Family Mess Loin... 
18  26
Clear....................... 
@17  60

 

D ry Salt Meats

Bellies...................... 
S P  Bellies................ 
Extra shorts............  

10
1054
10

- Smoked  Meats 

@ 12
Hams, 121b. average. 
@ 12
Hams, 141b. average. 
@ 12
Hams, 161b. average. 
@ i¿54
Hams, 20lb.average. 
Ham dried beef......  
@ 12
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @  9
Bacon, dear............   li%@  12
California hams......   @  9
@  18
Boiled Hams.......... 
@ 1354
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
9@  954
Mince Hams.........  
9@  954
L ard

Compound................ 
Pure.........................  
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs., ad vanee 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
61b. Palls., advance 
o n>  ihu,   advance 
Vegetóle................  
Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver........................ 
Frankfo rt................ 
P o rk .......................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue....................  
Headcheese.............  

Beef

854
@1054
54
54
54
54
%

l
•
8%

@754

6
6
8
6
*
654

Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless........................ 
Rump, New............  
Pigs’  Feet
54 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
lbbls.,  lbs................... 

10 00
11  00

10 75

160

7 60

Tripe

Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
54 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
54 bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk .......................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utte rine
Solid, dairy................... 
Rolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid,  creamery....... 

Canned Meats 

Corned beef, 2lb.... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  54s......  
Potted ham,  54s....... 
Deviled ham, 54s__  
Deviled ham,  54s __  
Potted tongue,  54s.. 
Potted tongue,  54s.. 

RICE

Domestic

70
1  36
2  40

24
5
12
66

@14
@1454
17
1854

2  60
17 60
2  60
60
90
60
90
60
90

Carolina head........................654
Carolina No. l ......................8
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 554
Broken .................................

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 254 pound pockets....754

Im ported.

Japan,  No.  1........... ....6540
Japan,  No. 2.................6  @
Java, fancy head...........  @
Java, No. 1....................   @
Table...........................   @

Best  grade Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale...................................6
Cost of packing in  cotton  pock­
ets only 54c more than bulk. 
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

SALERATU8 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s............ ..................3  00
Dwight’s Cow......................3  15
Emblem...............................2  10
L.  P .................................... 3  00
Wyandotte, ion v « ..............3  00
Granulated, bbls...............  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__ 1  00
Lump, bbls.......................   80
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............  86

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Cod

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags................... 300
60  61b. bags.......................8 00
2214 lb. bags..................... .2 76
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1 40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks........................2 26
60 61b. sacks........................2 15
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
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
66 lb. dairy In mien sacks... 
60
661b. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine.................   85
Medium Fine.......................  90

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W a t s i iw

SALT  FISH 

T rout

M ackerel

10 lbs.................... 
8 lbs.................... 

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 654
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank................  @ 6
Strips or  bricks.........   65401054
Pollock.................. 
  @354
H alibut.
Strips.......................................14
Chunks..............................  1654
No. 1 100 lbs........................  6 60
No. 1  40 lbs........................   2 60
No. I 
70
No. 1 
59
Mess 100 lbs......................11  00
Mess  40 lbs....................  4  70
10 lbs....................  1  26
Mess 
Mess 
8 lbs....................  1  03
NO. 1100 lbs...............  
960
NO. 1  40 lbs........................  4 10
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1 10
No. l 
91
No. 2100 lbs........................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs........................  8 60
No. 2  10 lbs........... 
95
v«*  •> 
-o
H erring
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 26 
Holland white hoops54bbl.  5  25
Holland white hoop, keg..76085 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
86
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs......................  3 36
Round 40 lbs.......................   1 66
Scaled................................ 
11
Bloaters...........................

8 lbs.................... 

a 1*. 

 

 

 

W hite fish

100 lbs... ...... 6 60
40 lb8... ...... 3 00
10 lbs..
.....  80
8 lbs... ......   67

Anise__
Canary, Smyrna..................   354
Caraway............................... 754
Cardamon, Malabar.............1  00
Celery............................... ...10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy...................................  6
Rape....................................  4
C uttle Bonn............. 
.14
Handy Box, large..............  2 60
Handy Box, small..............   1 26
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
86
Miller’s Crown  Polish..... 

SHOE  BLACKING

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

8

9

IO
SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

II

STOVE  POLISH

J.L. Prescott & Co.
Manufacturers 
New York, N. Ÿ.

jyowpffL

100 cakes, large size............. 3 26
60 cakes, large size............. 6 50
100 cakes, small size.............1 95
50 cakes, small size.............3 85

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box.............................3 36
5 box lots, delivered............3 30
10 box lots, delivered............3 26
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3  65
Calumet Family.............   2 76
Scotch Family.................. 2 86
Cuba.............................     2  36
Dusky Diamond..............  3 65
Jap Rose......................     3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3 65
White Russian...............   3  60
Dome, oval bars................3  65
Satinet, oval....................  2 50
White  Cloud.................... 4 10
Big Acme........................  4  25
Acme 6c..........................   3  65
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master.............................. 3  70
Lenox...........' .................  3 35
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Schultz & Co. b rand-
Star............................ 
  3 40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
Search-Light, 100 twin bars 3 75 
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4  00
Old Country....................  3 40
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................. 2 40
Boxes...................................  654
Kegs, English........................4K
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In jars......   43

Scouring

SNUFF

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats...... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P u re G round in B ulk
Allspice............................. 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African................ 
Ginger, Cochin.................  
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace................................. 
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
sage..................... 

 

12
12
28
38
66
17
14
66
60
40
36
18
28
20
16
28
48
17
16
18
26
  66
18
17
26
20
20

STARCH

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 60 
No. 8,8 doz In oase, gross..  7 20 

SUGAR

 

 

Domino.............................  6 86
Cut Loaf................................ 6 26
Crushed...........................  6 26
Cubes................................  6  00
Powdered...... ..........  
4 85
Coarse  Powdered............   4  85
XXXX Powdered.............  4  90
Fine Granulated................  4  76
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4  96
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4  90
Mould A..........................    6  10
Diamond A..............  
4 76
Confectioner’s A..............  4 66
No.  1, Columbia A...........  4 46
No.  2, Windsor A............   4  40
No.  8, Ridgewood A ......  4 40
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   4  3S
No.  5, Empire A ..............  4 30
No.  6.................................  4  28
'   .  ...........................  «  16
NO.  8.................................  4 05
No.  o......................... 
«  OO
NO. 10.................................  3 95
NO. 11.................................  3 90
No. 12................................   3 85
NO. 13................................   8  86
NO. 14................................   3  85
No. 16................................  3  80
No. 16................................   3  75

 

TEA
Japan

Gunpowder

Sundrled, medium..............28
Sundrled, choice........... ....30
Sundrled, fancy............ ......40
Regular, medium................28
Regular, choice............ ---- 30
Regular, fancy..............
......40
Basket-fired, medium..
......28
Basket-fired, choice......---- 36
Basket-fired, fancy.......___40
Nibs............................... ....27
Siftings.......................... 19021
Fannings....................... 20022
Moyune, medium...............26
Moyune, choice..................36
Moyune, fancy..............---- 60
Flngsuey,  medium........ ....26
Plngsuey, choice......... .......30
Plngsuey, fancy............ ....40
Young  Hyson
Choice...........................
....30
Fancy............................ ....36
Formosa, fancy...................42
Amoy, medium............ ......26
Amoy, choice......................32
Medium...............................27
Choice........................... ......34
Fancy..................................42
Ceylon, choice.............. ......82
Fancy........................... ......42

English Breakfast

Oolong

In d ia

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller.................  36 00
Our Manager....................  36 00
Quintette..........................   36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Klngsford’s Corn

40 l-lb. packages..............  7
20 l-lb. packages...............  754
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............   754
61b. packages...............  
8
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
Common Gloss
3 40
1  65 l-lb. packages..................
49 3-lb. packages...................
42 6-lb. packages..................
40 and 50-lb. boxes............
Barrels..................  ........
201-lb.  packages.............. 
401-lb.  packages.............. 

Common Corn

....  9

6%
554

SEEDS

- SYRUPS 

Corn

Barrels................................. 26
Half bbls...........................28
10 lb. cans, % doz. In case..  1  80 
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. In case....  2 05 
254 lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.. .2 05 
F a ir.....................................  16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  26

P u re  Cane

Fine  Cut

S. 0. W..............................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26
Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojlbwa............................... 34
Forest  Giant........................34
Sweet Spray........................38
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma....... ................ 38
Golden Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha............................. 57
Telegram..............................26
Pay C ar................................a?
I’mtrl* Rose......................... K0
Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger....................................39
Flat Iron..............................38
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold........................... 39
Elmo....................................33
Sweet Chunk..................... . 37
Forge....................................33
Rod Gross............................. 89
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe........................   37
American Eagle__ ___  
  54
Standard Navy......... 
....3 7
Spear Head, 16 oz. ....,...,.4 2
Spear Head,  8 oz................ 44
Nobby Twist........................48

P lug

3D

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

1 2

13

14

Smoking

Jolly T ar..............................88
Old Honesty......................... 4«
Toddy..............................«...34
J .T .......................................38
Piper Heldslck.....................63
Boot Jack............................. 81
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car............................... 36
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 27
I X L,  Bib...........................27
I X L, 16oz. palls..................31
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips....................................34
Klin Dried...........................22
Duke’s Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, 1H oz..................40
Turn Turn, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream...................................87
Corn Cake, 2*4 oz................. 24
Com Cake, lib .....................22
Plow Boy, 1*4 oz...................40
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz...................39
Peerless, 3*4 oz.................... 34
Peerless, 1*4 oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2*4 oz...................28
Indicator, l lb. palls........... 81
Col. Choice, 2*4 oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz...................21

TA BL£ SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

TW INE

VINEGAR

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea ft Perrin’s, small......   2 60
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small...................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 86
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75
Cotton, 3 ply....... ................ 16
Cotton, 4 ply........................16
Jute, 2 ply............................12
Hemp, 6 ply........................ 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................7*4
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. ll 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.  . ll
Pure Cider, Bed Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........12
Pure Cider, Sliver...............12
WASHING POW DER
Diamond  Flake.................. 2 76
Gold  Brick.  ....................... 3 25
Gold Dust, regular............. 3 95
Gold  Dust. 5c...................... 3 75
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb................ 3 66
Pearline............................. 2 65
Soaplne................................2 45
Soaptne...  ..........................3 80
Babbitt’s 1776......................   2 76
Roseine................................3 00
Armour’s.............................3 70
Nine o ’clock.......................3  15
Wisdom..............................3 80

Mop  Sticks

Tubs

Traps

Toothpicks

W ash  Boards

Troian spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........   86
No l common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 ft. cotton mop heads...... 1  25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Palls
2- hoop Standard..................l 40
3- 
hoop Standard.1 60
2- wire,  Cable.......................1 60
3- wire,  Cable...................... l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
Hardwood.......................... 2 50
Softwood.............................2 75
Banquet...............................1  50
Ideal....................................l  50
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes..............  65
Bat, wood............................   80
Bat, spring...........................   75
20-lnch, Standard, No. 1......6 00
18-lnoh, Standard, No. 2..... 6 00
16-lnoh, Standard, No. 8......4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l........... 6 50
18-inch, Cable, No. 2........... 6 00
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3........... 5 00
No. 1 fib re..........................9 45
No. 2 Fibre..........................7 96
No. 3 Fibre..........................7 20
Bronze Globe.......................2 60
Dewey............................... l 76
Doable Acme.......................2 75
Single Acme....................   2 25
Doable Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless................... 2 60
Northern Queen................ 2 50
Double Duplex....................3 00
Good Luck......................... 2 75
Universal.............................2 25
12 in.’  ...................................1 65
14 In.....................................1  86
16 In.....................................2 30
ll In. Batter.........................  75
13 In. Butter........................ l 00
15 In. Butter.........................1  76
17 In. Batter.........................2 50
19 In. Butter........................ 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.................1  76
Assorted 16-17-19  ................2 60
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................   1*4
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3*4
Fiber Manila, colored......   4*4
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2*4
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count—   20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz........................1 00
Sunlight, 3doz.................... 1 00
Sunlight, 1*4  doz.................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.............1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  d o z...........l 00
Yeast Foam. 1*4  doz...........  80
Per lb.
White fish. .................   m   8
Trout.......................... 8@  8
Black Bass................. L0@  11
Halibut....................... @  18
Ciscoes or Herring.... @  6
Bluefish ...................... @  12
Live Lobster.............. @  20
Boiled  Lobster........... @  22
Cod............................. @  10
Haddock.................... @  10
No. 1 Pickerel............ @  8
Pike............................ @  7*4
Perch.......................... @  5
Smoked  White........... @  V
Bed  Snapper............ @  10*4
Col River  Salmon. ..12^^  13
Mackerel.................... @  16

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls

HIDES  AND  PELTS

Baskets

......... 3 50
......... 3 50

WOODENWARE 

B radley  B u tter Boxes

Rub-No-More...........
Seourlne....................
W ICKING
No. 0, per gross......... ..........20
No. 1, per gross......... ......... 25
No. ?, per gross......... ......... 35
No. 8. per gross..
......... 56
1 
Bushels................................  86
Bushels, wide  band............ 1  15
M arket................................  30
Splint, large............................. 6 00
Splint, medium........................5 00
Splint, small............................ 4 oo
Willow Clothes, large..........5 50
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 00
Willow Clothes, small..........4 76
2 lb. sLe, 24 in case............  72
3 lb. size, 16 In case............   68
5 lb. size, 12 In case............   63
10 lb. size,  6 In case............   60
No. 1 Oval, 250 In  crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 8 Oval, 250 In crate........  55
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate........  65
Barrel, 5 gals., each---- — 2  40
Barrel. 10 gals., each............2 55
Barrel, 15 gals., each............2 70
Bound head, 6 gross box__   45
Round head, cartons...........  62
Hnmpty Dumpty................ 2 25
No. 1. complete...................  29
No. 2, complete........... .......  18
Cork lined, 8 In....................   38
Cork lined, 9 In....................   65
Cork lined, 10 In...................  85
Cedar. 8 In............................  60

B u tter Plates

Clothes Pins 

Egg Crates

Faucets

Churns

* 

Bulk Oysters

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts...........
F. S. D.  Selects......
Selects....................
Counts....................
Extra Selects...........
Selects......................
Standards  -  .........
Hides
Green  No. I............
Green  No. 2.............
Cured  No. 1............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No. 1
Calf skins,green No. 2
Calfskins,cured No. l
Calf sklns.cured No. 2
Pelts
Old wool.................
Laftb.......................
Shearlings 
............
Tallow
No. 1.........................
No. 2.........................
Wool
Washed,  fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.
CANDIES
Stick Candy

Standard.................
Standard H. H ........
Standard  Twist......
Cut Loaf..................
Jumbo, 32 lb............
Extra H. H ..............
Boston Cream.........
Beet R r-1 
........

40
33
27
1 75
1  60
1  40
1  20

@ 6*4
@ 5*4
@  8*4
@  7!4
@ 9
@ 7*4
@10*4
@ 9

50@1  00
lfi@  30
10@  20

@ 5
@ 6
@20
@23
12@1*
16@I7

>bls. palls 
@ 7*4
@ 7*4
@ 8
@ 9
cases 
@ 7%
@10*4
@10
@ 8

Fancy—In  Palls 

Mixed Candy

Grocers....................  
Competition............. 
Special.................... 
Conserve.................. 
Royal...................... 
Blbbon..................... 
Broken.................... 
Cut Loaf................... 
English Book........... 
Kindergarten.........  
Bon Ton  Cream......  
French Cream.........  
Dandy Pan..............  
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix.. 
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
Peanut Squares...... 
Sugared Peanuts.... 
Salted Peanuts........ 
Starlight Kisses...... 
San Bias Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc. Drops............. 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Quintette Choc........ 
Victoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
Moss  Drops............. 
Lemon Sours........... 
Imperials.................  
Ital. Cream Opera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls...........  
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. pails................. 
Golden Waffles........ 

@6
@ 7
o  7*4
@ 7*4
@ 8*4
@ 9
@8
@8*4
@9
@9
@9
@10.
@10
@14*4
@13

8*4
15
12
12
9
11
12
10
@12
@9
A ll
@11*4
@13*4
@14
@16
@ 5*4
@ 9*4
@9*4
@9*4
@12
@12
@13
@12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

Lemon  Sours.........  
@66
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops__  
066
@86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1 00
Gum Drops.............. 
@36
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
Lozenges,  plain......  
@65
@60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................. 
@60
@60
Mottoes................... 
Cream  Bar.............. 
@56
Molasses Bar........... 
@56
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
@65
String Bock............. 
@66
WIntergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels 
Clipper, 20 lb. palls.. 
@9
Standard, 20 lb. palls 
@10
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis  @12*4
Amazon, Choc Cov’d  @16
Korker2for lcprbx  @65
Big 3,3 for lc prbx.. 
@56
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Carls 31b 
@50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Russett.......  
@
Florida Bright........ 
@
@
Fancy Navels.........  
Extra Choice.........  
@
Late Valencias........ 
@
Seedlings.................  
@3 60
Medt. Sweets..........   3  500 3 75
Jamalcas................. 
@
Rodl...................... 
@
Lemons
@
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300......  
@
Verdelll, ex ebee 300 
@
Verdelll, fey 360......  
@
Call Lemons, 300........... 
Messlnas  300s........ 
3 5o@4 00
Messlnas  360s  ...... 
3 50@3  75
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1  60@2 00
Large  bunches........

Figs

Dates

NUTS

@14*4
@

Foreign D ried F ru its 
Callfomlas,  Fancy.. 
@
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes.......... 
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes.........................  
A
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
@
Naturals, in bags.... 
@ 6*4
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oases. 
w,
Hallow!.................... 
5  @ 5*4
lb.  cases, new......  
m
Salts, oo lb. oases....  4*4  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  @16
Almonds, Ivlea......  
Almonas, California,
soft shelled........... 
15@16
Brazils,— .............. 
@10
Filberts  ............. 
@13
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
@12*4
Walnut«., soft shelled 
California No. l . ..  11*4@12*4 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
@13*4
Pecans,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@13
Pecans, Jumbos......  
@14
Hickory Nuts per bn.
Ohio, new............  
@
Cocoanuts, full sacks  @3  50
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P m Suns.. 
6  @ 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H. P., Extras  @
Choice. H. P m Extras
Bound.............  
@
Span  SUM No. in ’«   6XO  6*4

Boasted................  6  @6*4

§

@3 75

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

F irst Quality

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & 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 ft lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft lab. 
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled...... 
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................  
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)..........................  
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)—*....................  

Rochester

La  Bsstie

Electric

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  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3'gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron With  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
6 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans................................ 
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas.................... 

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................. 
No. 15 Tubular, dash..........................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp................... 
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................  

LANTERN GLOBES

150
178
2 48

1  85
2 00
2  90

2  75
3 75
4 00
4  00
5 00
6  10
80
1  00
1  26
1  35
1  60
3 60
400
4 60

4 00
4  60

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

4 75
7 25
7  26
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45
2 00
1  25

16

STONEWARE

Batters

*4 gal., per  doz..............................
1 to 6 gal., per  gal....................... .
8 gal. each....................................
10 gal. each....................................
12 gal. each....................................
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.................
30 gal. meat-tubs, eacn.................

Churns

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

M ilkpans  '

*4 gJu  hat or  rd. hot, per doz........... 
1 gal. nat or  rd. bot„ each................ 
Fine Glazed  M ilkpans
*4 gal. flat or  rd. hot., per doz........... 
1 gal. flat or  rd. hot., each................ 

Stewpans

*4 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............  
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............. 

Ja g s
*4 gal. per doz.....................................  
X gal. per doz.................... 
1 to 5 gal., per gal.......   ....................  

 

Sealing Wax

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

LAMP  BURNERS
 

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

 

 

 

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

6
84

48
6

60
6

85
l  10

56
42
7

2

35
86
48
85
60
50

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

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

A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

No. 0 Tub., cases l doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 

BEST  W H ITE COTTON  WICKS 
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
No. 0,  94-inch wide, per gross  or roll.. 
No. 1,  %-lnch wide, per gross  or roll.. 
No. 2,1 
Inch wide, per gross  or roll.. 
No. 3.1*4 Inch wide, per gross  or roll.. 

COUPON  BOOKS

18
24
31
53

50 books, any denomination....................   150
100 books, any denomination....................  2 50
600 books, any denomination....................11  50
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
50 books...................................................  1  50
100 books..................... 
2 50
500 books...................................................  ll  50
1,000 books..................................................... 20 00

 

Credit Checks

500, any one denomination.......................  2 00
1.000, any one  denomination.......................   3 00
2.000, any one  denomination.......................   500
Steel punch................................................... 
75

Window  Dressing
P ractical Tips  F or  Progressive  W indow 

Trim m ers.

In  order  to  be  practical  and  progres­
sive  and  to  keep  up  with  the times,  it  is 
almost  imperative  to  keep  a  record  of 
any  useful  hint  you  may  observe.  To 
do  this  it  is  a  very  great  help  to  have 
a  vest  pocket  note  book,  in  which  you 
may  write,  at  the  time,  an  odd  forma­
tion,  a  pleasing  combination  of  color,  a 
new  unit  for  display,  or  anything  which 
lt 
may  become  useful 
only  takes  a  moment  to  do  this. 
It  is 
time  expended  to  save  future  time  and 
worry.  An  earnest,  hard  working  trim­
mer  will  take  thinking  spells  sometimes 
under  the  most  unlikely  conditions;  an 
into  bis  head,  be 
odd 
elaborates 
it  up  into  a  swell 
window  for  future  use,  stows  it  away  in 
his  think  box,  and  forgets  all  about  it, 
if  he  is  not  wise  enough to  make a mem­
orandum  of  it  in  his  note  book.

idea  will  get 
it,  builds 

in  the  future, 

it 

It 

is  the  hardest  thing  imaginable  to 
think  out  something  strictly  original,  be 
it  a  mechanical  display  or otherwise,  so 
that  when  you  do  get  something  new, 
send 
in,  to  be  of  use  to  others,  after 
you  have  shown 
it,  of  course;  do  not 
it  away;  by  the  time  you  want  it 
hide 
again 
it  will  be  out  of  date,  or  some 
other  fellow  may  get  up  the  same  thing 
only  better,  therefore  be  first  with  the 
idea  and  let  others  only  improve  it.

Of  all  the  variously  designed  cards 
exhibited,  none  can  compare  as  a  busi­
ness  card,  it  is  my  experience,  with  the 
old  style  white  card  plainly  and  neatly 
lettered  in  black.  Beyond  all  question, 
in  the  experience  of  the  oldest  card 
writers,  they  are  the  most  effective,  hav­
ing  a  certain  telling  effect  which  can 
not  be  obtained 
in  anyway  by  the  so- 
called  artistic  or  combination  card.

A  really  artistic card  takes  too  long  to 
make  and  requires  an  equipment seldom 
if  ever  carried  by  the  card  writer  for 
business  houses.  The  card  writers,  usu­
ally  very  young,  aspiring  men,  try  to 
show  all  they  know,  and  their  ability  as 
paint  mixers  on  each  card,  generally 
with  a  very  disparaging  result,  detri 
mental  to  the  good  taste  of the  store,  of 
which  the  window 
is  a  strong  indica­
tion.

They  are  also  offensive  to  people  of 
refined  taste  and  to  those  who  are  color 
educated  or  color  sensitive.  Card  writ­
ers  who  are  color educated,  or  who  have 
the  color  instinct  seldom  produce  a  card 
of  this  nature.

Artistic,  elaborate  or  expensively  got­
ten  up  cards  are  not  called  for  in  the 
case  of  a  window  card  and  are  entirely 
out  of  place  as  a  business  proposition, 
nor  is  a  window  card  usually  required 
as  a  decoration  or  to  decorate a window. 
Its  business  is  simply  to  tell  the  story, 
and  to  do  this  in  the  easiest  and  quick­
est  manner  it  should  be  perfectly  plain, 
simple,  neat, 
spaced  and 
brief—qualities  not  easily  put  in  a  card 
by  an  unskilled  writer.

properly 

It 

is  very  seldom 

Pictorial  cards,  in  the  nature  of  cari­
catures  or  having  grotesque 
figures 
thereon,  are  vulgar,  a  cheap  bid  for  at­
tention,  not  compatible  with  a  progres­
sive  house,  the  window  trim  being  a 
reflection  of  the  store  and  its  manage­
ment. 
indeed  that 
anything  but  the  plain  statement  ought 
to  go  on  a  card,  when  it  should  he  of 
the  most  conservative  nature  or  design.
I  find  that  invariably  for  a  neat  and 
effective  business  card,  the  experienced 
writer  will  turn  to  black  and white,  with 
the  best  results. 
It  ia  undisputed  that 
black  letters on  a  white  card  can  be  eas-

iest  read  at  a  distance,  anyone  can  ob­
serve  the  fact.  The  white  card  reflects 
all  the  rays  of  light  that  strike  it,  while 
the  black  (if  perfect  black)  absorbs 
them  all  and  reflects  none.  Here  then  is 
the  very  best contrast  of  color,  just  what 
we  want.  This  perfect  contrast  gives 
the  sharpest  outline  to  the  letters,  which 
makes  them  easily  read,  a  very  great 
advantage  if  at  a  distance,  or  if  read  by 
one  with 
impaired  or  old  sight,  and 
there  are  very  many  such.

The 

lettering  should  be  perfectly 
in  general 
let­

plain,  preferably  something 
use,  or,  in  other  words,  a  standard 
ter.

About  the  best  to  be  found  is  the  up­
per  and  lower case  “ Romans,”   such  as 
newspapers  use 
in  the  body  of  the 
paper.  No  other  letters  are  so  easily 
read,  their  very  general  use  makes  them 
so,and  they  are  so  from  the  fact  of  their 
lower  half  being  most  distinct.  This  is 
the  part  of  the  letter  invariably  seen  by 
the  retina  of  the  eye.  Take  a  line  of 
newspaper  print  and  cover  the  lower 
half  with  a  sheet  of  note  paper  having 
a  straight  edge  and  try  to  read  the  up­
per  half—now  cover  the  upper  half  and 
read  the  lower  half,  noting  the  differ­
ence.

If  it  should  be  necessary  to  introduce 
other  colors  on  the  card,  they  should  be 
kept  subservient  to  the  lettering  and 
in 
harmony  with  the  surrounding  colors. 
For  this  purpose  the  aquarelle  colors  in 
pans  are  admirable,  or  water  simply 
tinted  with  body  colors,  yet  showing  no 
body,  will  give  the  best  effects.  Let 
me  add  also  that  all  shading  or  scroll 
effects,  according  to  their  color  value 
mark  the  general  effectiveness  of  the 
card.  Note  the  distance  of  their  effec­
tive  range  or  the  distance  at  which  they 
can  be  read  and  the  difference  between 
the  photographs  of  a  plain  card  and  the 
same  card  shaded,  etc.  As  it  is  with  the 
camera  so  it  is  with  the  eye.

Just  another  point,  all  colors  which 
show  a  glazed  or  varnished  surface 
ought  to  be  avoided.  The  glaze  reflects 
light  very  strongly,  oftentimes  making 
white  patches,  as  it  were,  on  the  letter 
face.  Opaque  colors  are  the  only  proper 
colors  for  paper  signs.  The observation 
of 
long  experience  teaches  that  these 
colors  are  the  best,  quickest,  cleanest 
and  easiest  to  use;  they  are  also  the 
cheapest  in every way.—Wm.  M.  Conran 
in  Apparel  Gazette.

New  Process of Preserving  B atter.
The  researches  of  Fehling  have  estab­
lished  the  fact  that  gum-arabic  and 
its 
concentrated  solutions  are  not  ferment­
able.  Emile  de  Meulemeester,  of  Brus­
sels,  Belgium,  has  found  by  numerous 
experiments  that,  by  mixing  powdered 
gum-arabic  with  butter  in  tbe  requisite 
proportions  for absorbing  the  water,  the 
butter  can  be  kept  for  a  long  period 
without  becoming  rancid. 
If  a  small 
quantity  of  salt  be  added  the  butter  will 
its  aroma.  This  method  of 
preserve 
procedure 
is  objectionable  because  it 
requires  too  large  a  proportion  of  gum- 
arabic  and  because  the  gum  should  be 
free  from  impurities. 
It  is  difficult  to 
procure  pure  gum  in  large  quantities, 
its  price  would  speedily  become 
and 
prohibitive 
if  the  consumption  were 
large. 
In  order  to  obviate  these  disad­
vantages  M.  de  Meulemeester  proceeds 
in  the  following  manner:  Raw  gum- 
arabic  is  dissolved  in  water  and  the  so­
lution  filtered  to  remove  the  impurities. 
The  filtered  solution  is  then  mixed  with 
the  butter and  the  excess  of  liquid  con­
tained  in  the  mixture 
is  finally  ex­
tracted.

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

31

April  Bargains in GLASSWARE

We  were  the originators of the assortment plan,  and the fact that we have since sold more low priced glassware than any 
other three houses in the country indicates that merchants generally have  become  convinced that there i6 better satisfaction and 
bigger profits in handling these assortments than in selling the straight line.  Send us a trial order from this page and see if you 
are not convinced—as others have been—that our goods are the best and our prices the lowest.

O u r   “ S E N S A T IO N ”   A s s o r t m e n t   o f  5 - C e n t   L e a d e r s .
Y o u   C an   A d v e rtise   Y o u rs e lf and  M ake  a  P ro fit  by  O fferin g  ^ h is  R are  C o lle c ­

tio n   “ Y o u r C h o ice   for 5  C e n t s .”

C 1 0 7 X J—Twenty  of  the  most staple sellers in crystal glass, all in bright attractive patterns 
and well finished.  Although offered as a 5-cent assortment, more than half of them retail regularly 
for 10 cents. 

A sso rtm e n t C o m p rise s  1-2  D oz.  E a c h   of the  F o llo w in g .

_  _  

_ 

. 

.

Pitcher- 
Deep
Bonbon orTftiiibTDish—Large andShapely Goblet—5 ^ x 5 *  Extra Heavy Square Deep Table Dish 
—Large Handled and Footed Mug—8%x4M Large Oval  Utility  Dish—Medium Size Brilliant Wine 
Glass—654-inch  Extra  Deep  Round  Bowl—4%-inch  Extra  Deep  Footed  Bonbon  Dish—4%-inch 
High  Footed  Comport—6Ji-mch  Round  Deep  Table  Dish—5%-inch  Tall  Footed  Flaring  q c p 
Flower Vase, Beautiful Prism Panel Pattern.  {Total 10 dozen in bbl.  Bbl. 35c.)  Per dozen,  « w

“ SPECIAL”

LEMONADE  OR

ICED  TEA TUMBLER. 
A big 5-cent leader and a profit payer.
C 634X J—C a p a c ity  
about  12-oz.,  medium 
heavy  bottom,  long  flat 
flute,  neat  mold  bands. 
Size  most  universally 
used  for  lemonade,  iced 
tea,  etc.  6 doz.  in  case. 
(Case  30c.)
Per dozen,  All»

Our  “ Six  Panel”

CRYSTAL & GOLD VASE.
A  new  and  shapely  10- 
center.
C 143X J — Ht. 6■¿-in., 
rich panel  design  in  new 
cut  pattern  fancy  wide 
foot, 
flaring 
top,  panels  and  edge 
elaborately  decorated  in 
H 
burnt-in  gold.  E a s i l y  
|f  I  worth  15  cents — a  rare 
l  bargain at a dime.  1 doz. 
I 
in  box,  no  package 
IbV 
7 uC
charge. 
SpP 

Per dozen,

scalloped 

Our “ SURE THING”

named.

NEST  EGC. 
An exceptionally low price  is here 
C 186X J—Most nat­
ural  of  all  nest  eggs. 
Heavy  o p a l   gl a ss . 
“Firsts.”  Safely pack­
|  a 
ed.  1  doz. 
Case  of 1  gross  (no  pkg.  charge) 

Per dozen,  *

in 

spaced box. 
$1.60 gross.

“ CUT  DIAMOND”

An exceptional 3c bargain.

SAUCE  DISH. 
C 1 6 O X J  — 
Round  shape,  di­
ameter 4%  inches, 
brilliant  genuine 
cut  glass  pattern, 
extra  deep,  scal­
o o „  
Per dozen,  nCU

loped edge.  1 doz. in l>ox. 

These are but  fair  exam­
ples  of  the  prices  quoted  in 
our April catalogue.  Our three 
houses  are  full  of  bargains, 
which  cannot  be  duplicated 
elsewhere.  Our  catalogue—  
J406— will  tell  you  all  about 
them.  Send for it. 
It is yours 
for the asking.

C 526X J—Not the small ones usually sold at  this  price,  but both  extra large full size sets. 
Assortment comprises 12 sets each of two entirely new and brilliant patterns,  both footed  i c i ,  
and well finished.  Total 24 sets in bbl. 

(Bbl. 35c.) 

Per set,

BUTLER  BROTHERS “".ST”  CHICAGO

W E   S E L L  A T   W H O L E S A L E   O N L Y .

SE N T   ON  A PPR O V A L!
E  S T  SIR  PEANU T 
VEND ING  M A C H IN E
For  automatically  s e llin g  
salted  shelled peanuts.  Op­
erates with a cent and is per­
fectly  legitimate. 
It  is  at­
tractive  and  lucrative— not 
an  experiment,  but  actual  
f a c t s   from  actual  results. 
Handsomely  finished,  and 
will  increase  your  sales  at 
large profit.  Try it;  th a t’s 
the test!  My circular gives 
full  description  and  brings 

price and terms.  Shall I send it.to you?

M a n u fa c tu r e d   b y

W.  G.  H EN S H A W ,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

32

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

Unfortunate  Decision  by  the  Michigan 

Supreme  Court.

language  of  the  court 

The  rights  of  a  person  who  does  not 
travel  on  the  same  train  with  a  trunk 
which  he  has  checked  as  baggage  are 
surprisingly  limited  in  the recent  Mich­
igan  case  of  Marshall  vs.  Pontiac,  Ox­
ford  &  Northern  Railroad  Company. 
The  court  holds  that,  if  he  purchased 
the  ticket  for  the  sole  purpose  of  check­
ing  baggage,  with  the  intention  of  him­
self  going  to  the  place  of  destination  in 
'a  private  conveyance,  the  carrier could 
be  held  liable  for the  baggage  only  as  a 
gratuitous  bailee  and,  therefore,  was  not 
responsible,  in  the  absence  of gross neg­
ligence,  if  the  trunk  was  stolen  from  its 
baggage  room.  In  these  days  when  bag­
gage 
is  very  frequently  sent  on  a  train 
other  than  that on  which  the  passenger 
rides  it  is  somewhat  startling  to  be told, 
in  the 
in  this 
case,  that  “ baggage  implies a passenger 
who  intends  to  go  upon  a  train  with  his 
baggage  and  receive  it  upon  arrival  of 
the  train  at  the  end  of  the  journey.”   If 
that  was  ever  true, 
it  has  certainly 
ceased  to  be  true,  for  it  is  an  everyday 
occurrence 
railroad  companies, 
either  for their own  convenience  or  for 
the  convenience  of  a  passenger  by train, 
carry  his  trunk  on  an  earlier  or  later 
train. 
In  fact,  their  time  tables  ex­
pressly  say  that  certain  trains  which 
carry  passengers  will  not  take  baggage, 
and  that  this  must  go  by  other  trains. 
The  court  says  that  a  baggage  master 
has  no  authority  or  right  to  check  bag­
gage  for  any  other than a passenger and, 
therefore,  if  the  purchaser  of  the  ticket 
had  disclosed  to  the  baggage  master the 
fact  tbat  he  intended  not  to  go  upon  the 
train,  but  to  travel  by  his  private  con­
veyance,  “ he  would  have  been  refused 
the  check.”   It  is,  of  course,  impossible 
to  say  that  no  baggage  master  would 
ever  refuse  to  check  baggage  under such 
circumstances;  but  it  is  not  easy  to  be­
lieve  that  any  baggage  master  or  any 
railroad  official  would  decline to check  a 
trunk  on  a  ticket  regularly  purchased, 
merely  because  he  knew  tbat  the  com­
pany  would  not  have  to carry  its  owner 
also.

that 

common  understanding 

The  reason  of  the  matter  seems  plain 
under  the  modern  customs  of  transpor­
tation.  When  a  person  buys  a  railroad 
ticket,  by 
it 
gives  him  two  privileges:  First,  to  ride 
as  a  passenger  on  the  train;  second,  to 
have  his  baggage  checked  and  trans­
ported.  To  hold  that  he  must  necessar- 
rily  avail  himself  of  both  privileges  in 
order to  have  either  does  not  seem  rea­
sonable.  The  waiver  of  one  privilege  or 
right  under  a  contract  does  not  imply 
■ the  waiver  of  another and  distinct  right 
If  the  transportation  of 
or  privilege. 
the  baggage  were, 
in  the  nature  of 
things,  so  intimately  connected  with  the 
transportation  of  the  passenger  that  the 
railroad  company's  obligation  with  re­
spect  to  the  baggage  would  be  made 
more  onerous  by  the  passenger's  failure 
to  ride  on  the  train,  there  would  be 
good  reason  for  holding  that such failure 
on  his  part  might  reduce  the  company’s 
liability  for  the  baggage;  but  no  one 
can  contend  that  such  is  the  case.

The  present  custom  of  checking  and 
carrying  baggage  is  very  different  from 
the  old  practice  of  allowing  a  passenger 
by  stage  to  take  his  luggage  along  with 
him  under  his  own  eye,  without  having 
obtained  any  check  for  it.  Now  the 
passenger  gets  a  check  for  his  baggage. 
It  is  taken  under the  carrier’s  exclusive 
control  and  severed  from  the  owner  for 
the  purpose  of  transportation  as  utterly 
as  if  it  belonged  to  another  passenger.

It  is  put  in  a  car  beyond  the  owner’s 
reach  and  beyond  his  sight.  He  has  no 
It  is  not  in  his  cus­
authority  over  it. 
tody.  He  could  not  get  to 
it  if  he 
would,  and,  so  far  as  the  company's 
care  of  it  is  concerned,  he  might  as 
well  be  nonexistent  until  the  destina­
tion 
is  reached.  Of  course,  the  carrier 
is  entitled  to  have  the  baggage  called 
for and  taken  away  within  a  reasonable 
time  after  it  reaches  destination,  but 
this  right  is  no  less  because  the  passen­
ger  travels  on  the  same  train,  or  no 
greater  if  he  does  not. 
In  any  event 
the  liability  as  carrier  changes  to  a  lia­
bility  as  warehouseman  after  a  reason­
able  time  to  clajm  the  baggage.  When 
passenger  transportation  was  chiefly  by 
stage  and  the  baggage  constantly  under 
the  passenger’s  eye,  there  might  have 
been  some  reason 
in  holding  that  the 
passenger must  accompany  his  baggage, 
but  for  modern  railroad  transportation 
the  necessity  of  the  passenger’s  travel­
ing  with  his  baggage,  if  it  exists,  must 
be  based,  not  on  reason,  but  upon  prec­
edents  that  have  outlived  the  reasons 
which  created  them.

by  other courts.  Not  even  the  decision 
of  so  eminent  a  court  can  make 
it  ap­
pear  reasonable  to  hold  that  baggage 
regularly  checked  on  a  ticket  bought 
and  paid  for  is  transported  by  the  car­
rier  as  a  gratuitous  bailee  merely  be­
cause  the  owner  does  not  ride  with  it— 
especially when  it  is  a  common  practice 
to  carry  them  on  different  trains.  The 
court,  without  going  into  any  elaborate 
argument  on  the  reason  of  the  matter, 
seems  to  have  felt  bound  by  the  prece­
dents  cited,  but  these  were  certainly 
misinterpreted.— Case  and  Comment.

A  remarkable  fact  about  the  British 
is  that  it  has  practically  all  been 
debt 
contracted  in  connection  with  wars. 
In 
the  twenty  years  preceding  the  outbreak 
of  the  Transvaal  war  there  were  only 
three  years  when  the  exchequer’s  re­
ceipts  fell  below  disbursements.  Great 
Britain 
interest  to  the 
amount  of  more  than  $100,000,000 an­
nually  on  debt  created  during  the  wars 
with  Napoleon.

is  stili  paying 

You  must  catch  your  hare  before  you 

can  cook  for  him.

The  authorities  relied  upon  by  the 
Michigan  court  for  this  decision  do  not 
sustain  it.  The  first  one  is  the  case  of 
The  Elvira  Harbeck,  2  Blatchf.  336. 
This  was  the  case  of  baggage  not 
checked  as  such,  but  which  was  left  be­
hind  by  a  passenger  on  a  vessel  and 
taken  by  a  later  vessel,  which gave a  re­
ceipt  or  bill  of  lading for it.  The United 
States  District  Court  held  that  this  bag­
gage  was  carried  gratuitously,  hut  this 
decision  was  reversed  by  the  Circuit 
Court  on  the  ground  that  the  carrier  was 
entitled  to  reasonable  freight  money and 
to  a  lien  therefor,  and  therefore  the  ves­
sel  was  held 
liable  for the  loss  of  the 
baggage.  So  far  from  supporting  the 
Michigan  decision,  this  case,  to  the  ex­
tent  that 
it  is  pertinent,  is  opposed  to 
it,  and  holds  the  carrier  liable  for  the 
loss.  Another  authority  cited  is  that  of 
Wilson  vs.  Railway  Company,  56  Me. 
60.  But  neither  was  this  a  case  of  bag­
gage  regularly  checked  for  a  person 
who  did  not  go  with  it. 
It  was  a  case 
in  which  the  owner  went  forward  with­
out  his  baggage  and  made  no  arrange­
ment  for  its  transportation.  Two  or 
three  days  afterward  someone  brought 
his  trunk  to  the  station,  and,  on  repre­
senting  that  the  owner  bad  previously 
gone  over  the  road,  the  trunk  was  taken 
and  sent  forward,  but  no  check  was 
given  for  it  and  nothing  was  said  with 
respect  to  its  being  considered  as  bag­
gage.  The  trunk  was  lost.  A  judgment 
against  the  railroad  company  was  re­
versed  on  exceptions  to  instructions  in 
56  Me.  60.  After  another trial  the case 
was  again  passed  upon  in  57  Me.  138, 
where  the  court  held  that  it  made  no 
difference  whether  the  parcel  carried 
was  a  trunk  or  a  barrel  of  flour;  that 
there  was  no  evidence  of  any  agreement 
to  carry 
it  as  baggage.  The  case  was 
disposed  of  as  one  for  the  transportation 
of  freight,  and  the  owner  was  held  to 
be  under  an  implied  obligation  to  pay 
for  carrying 
it,  and  the  railroad  com­
pany  was  held  liable  for  its 
loss.  This 
case  also  is  therefore  an  authority,so  far 
as  it  is  pertinent,  not  in  support  of,  but 
against,  the  Michigan  decision.  These 
are  the  only  cases  which  the  court  cites 
that  involved  any  question  of  liability 
for  carrying  baggage  without  a  passen­
ger.

The  high  respect  paid  to the decisions 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Michigan 
makes  this  decision  unfortunate,  and 
emphasizes  the  need  of  showing  the  er­
ror  therein,  if any,  before  it  is  followed

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.

I ¡'OR SALE CHEAP—MOSLEB SAFE,  NEW;
1  weight,  3,600  pounds;  fire  proof.  Address 
R. 6. Burlingame, Niles, Mich. 
433
WANTED—TO  SELL  OR EXCHANGE FOR 
stock of general  merchandise  two  stores, 
50 feet front, 70 feet  long, at Shelby, Mich., right 
in the center of the business portion  and Oceana 
fruit belt;  will give  any  one  a  bargain.  Write 
me at once.  Box 618. Shelby. Mich. 

428

from  Marquette,  four  miles  from  Negaunee, 

t l»OR  SALE—A  GOOD  OPPORTUNITY  FOR 

a stock and dairy farm, situated eight  miles 
Marquette county, Michigan, on the D.,  S.  S.  & 
A. Railway.  Good markets;  the best  of  water; 
buildings and railway  station  on  the  property. 
F. W. Read & Co., Marquette, Mich. 
427
F OR S A L E —IM P R O V E D   FARM  FOR 
John  W. 
stock  of  general  merchandise. 
434
Curtis, Whlttemore, Mich. 
■ E  HAVE  TO  OFFER  ONE  OF  THE 
best localities for a planing  mill  in  South­
ern Michigan;  no opposition.  This  will  bear In­
vestigating.  Address  Meyers  &  Devllle,  Hud­
son, Mich. 
432
WANTED—A  GOOD  PRACTICAL  HOTEL 
man to build and run a hotel In  a  hustling 
country town.  Assistance  will  be  furnished  in 
the form of a cash  bonus  or  a  stock  company. 
Address No. 431, care Michigan Tradesman.  431 
A  G E N E R A L   STOCK  IN  THE  BEST 
i x  farming community  In  Michigan  for  sale; 
no old goods;  the price  right  to  the  right  man 
for cash;  a  moneymaker.  Reason  for  selling,
^oor  health.  Address  No.  430,  care  Michigan 
radesman. 
430
Fo r  s a l e —40  a c r e  f r u it   f a r m   in
Oceana county, five miles from Shelby; good 
buildings, well, etc.;  will take good  second hand 
sausage  chopper  and  gasoline  engine  as  part 
426
payment.  W. H. Giiffin, Shelby, Mich. 
Fo r sa l e—sm a l l, w e l l-p a y in g  d r u g
store, $1,200;  in a good town in  Eaton  coun­
ty,  Michigan;  excellent  surrounding  country; 
very little competition.  Reason for selling, busi­
ness elsewhere.  Address No. 426, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
426
Fo r  s a l e—a   w e l l-e s t a b l is h e d   b e -
tail  and  wholesale  queensware  business; 
sales $22,000 per year:  will Inventory about $7,000: 
also nice residence  near  electric  car  line;  best 
business point in the  State.  For  further  ipfor- 
mation write F. M. Smith, Pine Bluff, Ark.  422
(photo).  Box 309, Westerville,  Ohio.  419
doing profitable  business;  can  be  paid  for 
from profits by responsible  parties;  owner  una­
ble to give same  personal  attention;  might  sell 
half  interest.  Address  H.  S.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
418
F o r  s a l e—a   c l e a n   sto ck o f  s t a p l e 
groceries in  a  flourishing  railroad  town  of 
3,600 inhabitants;  complete  stock  and  fixtures; 
will go at a great  sacrifice.  Reason  for  selling, 
death of  proprietor.  Address  C.  H.  Hoffman, 
Executor,  715  Michigan  Trust  Building,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
416
F OR  8A L E —COUNTRY  STORE  AND 
dwelling;  general  stock,  doing  good  busi­
420
ness.  J. B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 
Fo r   s a l e  o r  b e n t—g o o d  c o u n try
store  and  dwelling  combined;  also  good 
horse barn;  in the very best  of  fruit  and  farm- 
ing  section;  situated  on  railroad, 
telephone 
office and postoffice.  If you wish  good  place  it 
will pay you  to  investigate.  Reason  for selling 
or renting,  other business.  For particulars  ad­
dress J, care Michigan Tradesman. 

F^OR  SA L E —GRANDFATHER  CLOCK 
IpOR  SALE—LARGE  GRAIN  ELEVATOR;

414

408

Fo r   s a l e  c h e a p- t u f t s’  20  s y r u p
goda fountain, with all appurtenances.  Will 
sell cheap.  Address Bradford & Co., S t Joseph, 
Mich. 
311
r p o   BENT—FIVE  STORES  IN  A  NEW 
Jl  modern block to  be  erected  and  ready  for 
occupancy in September, in the most  central  lo­
cation in the city of Flint.  There is not a vacant 
store in the city at present.  Address F. H.  Ran­
kin, Sec’y. 
OR SALE-214 SHELDON STREET, GRAND 
Rapids,  Michigan,  ten  room  house;  lot  67 
foot front.  Enquire of J. M. Stanley, 200 Sheldon 
street. 
406
F o r  s a l e—sto ck  o f  g e n e r a l  m e b - 
chandlsein  thriving town  of  Lum;  profita­
ble  business;  postoffice  in  connection;  a  good 
chance to make money.  Address  Box  120, Lum, 
Mich. 
405
Fo r s a l e—a  l iv e  u p-to-d a t e  c b o c k-
ery and house furnishing store in  Sault  Ste. 
Marie, the  best  and  busiest  city  in  the  State; 
stock  is  new,  clean,  well-bought  and  well-se­
lected;  the only  store  of  Its  kind  In  the  city; 
rlghtj In  the  heart  of  the  business  district ; a  
splendid business chance for  some  person.  W. 
K. Parsllle, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 
404
Fo r sa l e- m y  stock  o f   d r y   g o o d s,
groceries,  boots  and  shoes,  carpets  and 
crockery.  Stock  and  fixtures  will  Inventory 
$9,500:  cleanest general  stock  in  Michigan  and 
one of the best towns of 1,200 people  in Southern 
Michigan:  last year’s business, $28,000 cash;  will 
sell at a right price for cash;  this is a golden op­
portunity for some good  hustling  merchant; tne 
largest business in  the  town;  brick  store;  rent 
ana  Insurance  low;  reasons  for  selling,  have 
larger Interests north.  For further  information 
write Lock Box 17, Bellevue, Mich. 
393
F o r   sa l e  a t  a   g r e a t  b a r g a in — 
Stock of  general  merchandise  in the city of 
Ionia, one of Michigan’s best  towns:  stock prac­
tically  new,  consisting  of  dry  goods,  clothlhg, 
men’s furnishings,  boots,  shoes  and  notions;  a 
sure winner for right person.  Address  No.  392, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

I ¡'OR SALE—GOOD  DRUG 8TOCK, INVOIC- 
1  lng $2,800, in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
389, care Michigan Tradesman. 
389
Fo r  sa l e—f i n e   y ie l d in g   40  a c r e
farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  Address  No. 
390
390, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Fo r  sa l e—a   f i n e   sto ck  o f  u p-t o -
date groceries,  located  in  one  of  the  best
towns  in  Northern  Indiana;  best  location 
3,000 
in town;  fine brick building  to  do  business  in; 
doing a  paying  business;  excellent  reason  for 
selling  made  known  on  application;  stock  in­
voices $1,500 to $1,700:  no speculators need apply. 
I  am  no professional.  Terms,  cash.  Address 
W.  D. Decker, Llgonler, Ind. 

359

392

368

i ^OR  SALE—MOSLER,  BAHMANN  &  CO.

1  fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
inches high, 27 Inches  wide  and  24  Inches  deep. 
Inside measurement—16)4 Inches high, 14 inches 
wide and 10 inches deep.  Will sell  for $50  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids 
liH)R SALE—DRUG SIOCK AND FIXTURES. 
A1  invoicing about $2,000.  Situated in center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 
334
SAFES—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co,  376  South  Ionia 
St., Grand  Rapids. 
Pr o p o s it io n s  f o r   f a c t o r ie s  fr o m
responsible  parties  at  Ithaca,  Mich.  Best 
agricultural county In the State.  A. McCall,  Sec­
401
retary, Ithaca, Mich. 
1r»OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  BOOTS  AND 
shoes;  fine  location;  well established  busi­
ness.  For  information  address  Parker  Bros., 
Traverse City. Mich. 
Fo r  sa l e—a  n e w  a n d  t h e   o n l y  b a - 
zaar stock in the city or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000;  the  county 
seat;  stock  Invoices  $2,500;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark, care  Michigan 
Tradesman.____________________ 
MISCELLANEOUS

218

321

157

POSITION  WANTED-BY  ENERGETIC 
young man  with  several  years’  experience 
in department  store  management,  advertising, 
accounting and correspondence;  capable of tak­
ing  full  responsibility;  extremely  systematic, 
thorough, accurate;  would take charge of branch 
store.  Address W. L. Haver, 1503 Addison Ave., 
Chicago.  ___________________________437
W A N T E D —POSITION 
IN  GROCERY 
store by young  man  21  years  old;  wages 
moderate;  good references  furnished.  Address 
Box 372, Lakeview, Mich._______________ 436
PHARMACIST,  REGISTERED.  CAPABLE 
and  reliable,  wishes  steady  position.  Ad- 
435
dresg No, 435, care Michigan Tradesman 
W ANTED-A  FIRST  CLASS  SALESMAN 
who can handle high  grade  canned  goods 
both to the best retail and jobbing grocery trade. 
Only a first class experienced  man  need  apply. 
Dunkley Company, Kalamazoo, Mich.____ 433
W A N TED —REGISTERED  OR  REGI8- 
tered assistant  pharmacist.  Address  No. 
429, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 429
■  A N T E D —SALESMAN  FOR  MEN’S 

clothing houses to travel  in  Pennsylvania, 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Kentucky  and  Michigan;  only 
such  having  first-class  trade.  Address  Thal- 
helmer Bros.,  Baltimore. Md.____________417
TXT ANTED—SITUATION  BY  AN  EXPERI- 
T ▼  enced salesman in a general store.  Answer 
quick.  Address  S.  W.,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man.________________________________ 409
TXT ANTED—SITUATION  AS  CLERK  IN  A 
YY  grocery, hardware or general store.  Have 
had experience  in  each  line  of  business.  Can 
furnish good references if desired.  Wish  to  se­
cure a  permanent  position.  Address  No.  382, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

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