Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  14,1902.

♦  WILLIAM  CONNOR  *

W H O LES A LE 

R EA D YM A D E  C LO T H IN G
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,  M ich.

Mall  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
dally from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m„  except 
Saturdays  to  1  p.  m.  Customers’  ex-

Ssmses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1957. 

ell phone, Main 1282.

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Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids

Collection delinquent accounts;  cheap,  efficient, 
responsible;  direct demand system.  Collections 
made everywhere—for every trader.

C.  E.  McCRONE,  Manager.

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
13 3a riajestic  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.
3^  per  cent,  interest  paid 
on  savings  certificates  of 
deposit.

Kent  County  Savings  Bank

Corner Canal and Lyon Streets, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

— Glover’s  Gem  Mantles—

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

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

L. J. Stevenson, Manager 

Wlddlcomb Building, Grand Rapids.

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

Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit.

R. H. Lane, Attorneys.

B. J. Cleland,  A.  H.  Covert,  J.  D.  Harger  and 
Our Direct Demand Letters bring In the “good 
but  slow”  accounts  100%  net.  We  protect  our 
members against worthless accounts  and  collect 
all others.

Tradesman Coupons

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

G etting  th e  People.
Around  th e  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
V illage  Im provem ent. 
Co-operative  Stores.
E ditorial.
C lothing.
In   Danger.
Shoes  and  Rubbers.
D ry  Goods.
B utter  and  Eggs.
W om an’s  W orld.
The New   York  M arket.
B utter Men  Made  a M istake. 
Poor A dvertising.
Com m ercial Travelers.
D rugs  and  C hem icals.
D rng P rice  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Oleo  M anufacture  N ot  K illed. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Hardware  Price  Current. 
M usselm an  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie.

POLITICAL  UNREST  IN   RUSSIA. 
Strange  as  it  may  seem,  Russia  is  at 
the  present  moment  the  most  disturbed 
country 
in  Europe.  The  peasantry  in 
many  provinces  are  in  open  rebellion, 
necessitating  the  extensive  use  of  troops 
to  restore  order,  while  in  the large cities 
the  students  have  created  serious  dis­
orders,  which  have  led  to  wholesale  ar­
rests  and  the  banishment  of not  a  few  of 
the  agitators.

Although  the  Russian  government can 
not  be  accused  of  any  show  of  weakness 
n  suppressing  the  disorders,  the  trouble 
appears  rather  to  spread  than  to  come 
readily  under  control.  Although  the 
great  masses  of  the  rioters  and 
insurg­
ents  are  animated  by  no  higher  motive 
than  general  dissatisfaction  with  their 
material  condition and a spirit  of unrest, 
there  can  be  no  doubt  that  back of  these 
popular  ebullitions  there 
is  an  organ 
zed  political  propaganda,  whose  lead 
ers  are  kindling  dissension  and  disor 
der.so  that  in  the  general  upheaval  they 
will  have  a  greater  opportunity  to  strike 
in  behalf  of  thei 

telling  blow 

schemes.

In  the  provinces  where  masses  of  the 
serfs  and  peasantry  have  risen  against 
their  landlords  and  masters  no  very 
well  defined  idea  seems  to  prevail  as  to 
the  cause  of  the  trouble.  There  is  this 
socialistic  leaven 
in  the  lump,  how 
ever,  that  the  people  seem  disposed  to 
drive  out  the 
landed  proprietors  and 
divide  their  estates.  Where  these  ex 
actions  have  been  resisted  estates  have 
been  pillaged  and  destroyed,  and  the 
employment  of  troops  has  become  nec 
essary  to  preserve,  or,  rather,  to  restore 
order.

Just  here  a  further  complication  has 
arisen :  The  troops,  being 
largely  ter 
ritorial  regiments  and corps,  have shown 
unwillingness  to  fire  on  their  friends 
and  neighbors,  and 
in  some  instances 
have  openly  mutinied or  refused  to  obey 
orders.  It  is  not claimed that the soldiers 
are  disloyal,  merely  that  they  are  sym 
pathetic  and  refuse  to  kill  their  friends
In  a  country  like  Russia  it  is  a  fore 
gone  conclusion  that  the  outbreak  of  the 
peasants  and  serfs  will  be  put  down 
and  terrible  examples  will  be  made 
The  troops  that  have  been  recalcitrant 
will  be  punished  without  fail,  and  order

will  be  restored  completely  and  fully; 
but  the  seeds  of  discontent  will  remain 
and  the  political  agitators  who  are  be- 
ind  the  present  trouble  will  see  their 
schemes  advanced  a  step  towards  ulti­
mate  success.  The  agitators  aim  at 
securing  a  constitution,  a  vaguely  un­
derstood  term  from  the  Russian  stand­
point,  but  nevertheless  meant  to  be  a 
substitute  for  the  existing  star  chamber 
form  of  government.  There  is  no  dis­
loyalty  to  the  imperial  house 
involved, 
s 
is  not  probable  that  the  people 
would  countenance  the  slightest  limita­
tion  of  the  Czar’s  authority. 
It  is  de­
sired,  however,  that  be  should  rule  di­
rectly  through  ministers  responsible  to 
im  as  well  as  to  a  parliament  in  some 
form,  and  not  relegate  the  governing 
power  to  a  small  clique  of  men,  often­
times  utterly  unscrupulous  and generally 
out  of  touch  with  the  sentiment  of  the 
great  mass  of  the  people.

it 

The  most  important  international  re­
sult  of  conditions  prevailing  in  Russia 
will  be  the  weakening  of  that  power’s 
nfluence  in  external  affairs  in  propor­
tion  as  her  internal  condition  becomes 
more  threatening.

THE  CONQUEST  OF  ENGLAND.

With  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  practically 
assuming  the  British  national  debt.seiz- 
ng  London’s 
internal  locomotion  and 
capturing  her  carrying  trade,  Great 
Britain  does  really  present  a.spectacle 
which  demands  the  sympathy  of  the  na­
tions.

When  Macaulay,  with  exuberant  im­
agination,  spoke  of  the  New  Zealander 
standing  on  the  broken  arch  of  London 
bridge  and  asking  if  this  is  the  site  of 
London,  the  historian  did  not  take 
into 
calculation  the  wonderful  possibilities 
of  America.

There  will  now  be  no  future  New 
Zealander  making  such  enquiries.  He 
might,  though,  pass  by  Buckingham 
Palace  and  say:

This  is  where  the  Kings  of  England 
_ived  when 
in  the  city ;  now  it  is  oc 
cupied  by  Pierpont  Morgan,  descendant 
of  Pierpont  I.,  who  made  the  second 
conquest  of  England,  the  first  being  by 
William  of  Normandy.

Socially,  England,  too,  is  in  a  fai 
way  of  American  control.  The  highest 
office  in  the  British  crown  is  the  Vice 
royalty  of India.  The Viceroy’s  wife  ii 
an  American.  The  next  great  satrapy 
of  that  enormous  empire  is  the  Lieuten 
ant  Governorship  of the Northwest  prov 
inces.  Lady  La  Touche  is  an  Ameri­
can.

Thus  two  of  Great  Britain’s  depend­
encies  are  socially  controlled  by  Ameri­
cans,  and  at  home  London  society  has 
practically  passed  under  the  sway  of 
our  countrymen.  The selection  of  Queen 
Alexandra  of  the  Duchess  of  Marl­
borough  to  attend  her  at  the  coronation 
gives  many  a  daughter of  one  hundred 
Earls  more  than  a  passing  heartache.

The  most  contented  man  at  the  hotel 
is  the  one  who  knows  what  he is entitled 
to,  asks  for  it,  receives  it  and  does  not 
ask  for  anything  more.

Ungratefulness  is  the  very  poison  of 

manhood.— Sir  Philip  Sidney.

Number  973

GENERAL TR AD E  REVIEW .

Following 

the  reaction 

in  several 
over-boomed  and 
inflated  stocks,  the 
probability  of  a  wage  struggle  in  the 
coal  regions  is  sufficient  to  keep  stocks 
rregular and  to  restrict  trading. 
It  is 
not  apprehended  that  there  will  be  any 
serious  consequences  from a  labor  strug­
gle  that  should  affect  values  of 
the 
stocks  concerned,  for  the  occurrence  of 
such  strikes  at  this  season  will  only 
serve  to  work  off  the  accumulations  of 
stock  and  will  save  the  wage  account 
while  the  market  is  cleared  up.  Even­
tually  higher  prices  of  coal  will  result, 
but  this  will  only  affect  the  consumer. 
Thus  the  sufferers  from  such  a  contest 
will  only  be  the  strikers  and  the  rest  of 
the  public—the  companies  will 
reap 
both  an  immediate  and  a  future  benefit. 
But,  of  course,  the  timidity  of  specula­
tion  makes  the  event  a  cause  for  dis­
quiet.

There  is  yet  no  abatement  of  activity 
n any  of  the  leading  industries.  Spring 
trade  in  all  sections  is  meeting  expecta­
tions.  Railway  distribution  is  still  on 
the 
increase,  earnings  showing  16  per 
cent,  gain  in  comparison with  last  year. 
Notwithstanding  the  money  stringency 
Eastern  centers  on  account  of  the 
Wall  Street  scare  and  the  demands  for 
financing  great  undertakings,the  records 
are  broken  by  the  Treasury  holdings, 
which  amount  to $55°,000,000.

The  placing  of  contracts  for  delivery 
of  50,000  tons  of  structural  material  in 
1903  indicates  the  iron  and  steel  situa­
tion.  Not  only  are  mills  hopelessly  be­
hind  their  orders,  but  it  is  certain  that 
much  business  already  booked  can  not 
be  delivered  this  year.  This  is  only one 
branch  of  the  industry,  and  the  others 
are  scarcely  less  congested.  Rails  and 
all  forms  of  railway  equipment  can  not 
be  had  for  nearby  delivery except where 
a  road  sells  secondhand  rails  to  be 
used  for trolley  lines  which  do  not  need 
the  heavy  sections.  Plate  mills  are  un­
able  to  secure  steel,  and both  billets  and 
bars  are  more  freely  imported,  although 
many  of  the  foreign  purchases  are  for 
re-export  where  the  drawback  may  be 
secured. 
instances  where 
spot  sales  are  recorded  heavy  premiums 
are  paid,  but  practically  all  the  new 
business 
least  six 
months  distant.

for  delivery  at 

In  the  few 

is 

In the past eighty years 19,000,000 peo­
ple  from  the  Old  World  have  come  to 
the United States.  They are coming  now 
in  greater  numbers  than  at  any  previous 
period.  Our  power  of  absorption  has 
been  severely  taxed,  but  although  it  has 
not  yet  been  exhausted,  many  who  have 
studied  the  subject  believe  the  time  has 
arrived  when  additional  restrictions 
should  be  applied  to  immigration.  Con­
gress  is  about  to  consider  the  Shattuck 
bill,  which  provides  an  educational 
test.  The 
law  now  excludes  paupers. 
It  is  now  proposed  to  exclude  the  igno­
rant. 
Ignorance  is  not  a  crime,  but  ig­
norant  people  are  a  dangerous  element 
in  a  free  country,  because  they  so  often 
mistake  liberty  for  license.

Humility 

is 
all  the  virtues. -

the  solid  foundation  of 
-Confucius.

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

P e ttin g   the  People

The  Com ing  o f Sum m er and th e Vacation

Season.

The  perplexing  question  is  of  annual 
recurrence  as  to  whether the  advertising 
shall  be  carried  through  the  dull  season. 
The  natural  inclination  of  the  dealer 
leads  him  to  make  his  hay  while the sun 
shines,  to  fish  when  fish  will  bite.  When 
trade  is  booming  and  there  are  manifest 
results  from  each  day's  publicity  there 
is  an  exhilaration  which  makes the work 
of  the  advertising  solicitor  easy.  When 
trade  becomes  dull  it  is  the  natural  way 
to  stop  advertising  in  proportion.

In  the  nature  of  things  the  work  of 
advertising,  as  well  as  the  course  of 
trade,  must  be  in  seasons.  Thus  there 
will  be many  specialists whose  publicity 
must  be  confined  to  a  small  part  of  the 
year;  but  the  mistake  is  too  frequently 
made  of 
limiting  the  season  too  posi­
tively  even  for  specialties.  And  the 
mistake  is  still  more  frequent  of  letting 
the  gauge  of  general  advertising  be  the 
degree  of  current  activity.

Among  the  points  to  be  considered  in 
deciding  this question  is  the  advantage 
of  continued advertising contracts.  Most 
publications  find 
it  desirable  to  con­
tinue  their  regular  issue  through  the  va­
cation  months.  Where  the. advertiser  is 
warranted  in  using  the  space  most of the 
year,  he  can  generally  make  a  more 
favorable  contract  by  making  it  contin­
uous.  Many  publishers  make  their con­
tracts  for a  minimum  space  with  privi­
lege  of  expansion  at  the  option  of  the 
advertiser.  Thus  the  more  favorable 
rate  given  takes  into  consideration  the 
lack  of  effectiveness 
in  dull  seasons 
through  which  the  issue  must  be  regu­
lar.

There  is  not  the  real  difference  in  ad­
vertising  effectiveness,  however,  which 
the  dull  months  would  seem  to indicate. 
Vocation  absence  does  not  usually 
mean  an  entire  separation  from  home 
interests.  The 
local  paper  reaches  its 
readers  as  a  rule  the  year  around; 
furthermore,  it  gains  a  degree  of  atten­
tion  from  the  absent  ones  which 
it 
would 
lack  at  home,  and  this  for  two 
reasons:  The  naturally  greater  interest 
as  to  home  news  and  the  greater  lei­
sure  for  giving  attention  to  such  mat­
ters.  Both  these  factors,  especially  the 
latter,  are  of  more 
importance  than  is 
generally  considered. 
In  the  rush  of 
our  busy  life  it  is  most  difficult  to  gain 
the  attention.  But,  while  in  the  leisure 
of  recreation  many  strive—a  few  suc­
cessfully—to  separate  themselves  from 
their  usual 
interests,  the  proportion  of 
such is  small.  More  are  thinking  and 
planning  for  the  future,  and  many  a 
hint  in  that  direction  is  found  in  the 
regular  advertisements.  Thus  the  mer­
chant  who  is  working  for  the  upbuild­
ing  of  permanent  trade 
can  hardly 
afford  to  let  bis  appeals  to  public  atten­
tion  be  wholly  governed  by  their  im­
mediate  effects. 
The  character  and 
quantity  of  the  advertising  may  be 
affected  by  summer  dulness,  but  the 
prudent  advertiser  will  not  cease  his 
work  on  account  of  absence  of  custom­
ers.

*  *  *

F.  Braastad  &  Co.  write  an  adver­
tisement  well  adapted  as  to  wording  for 
the  space.  I  suppose the use  of  “ snaps”  
has  become  so  common  that  it  must  be 
admitted 
in  this  sense,  but  it  is  diffi­
cult  to  become  used  to  it.  There  is  a 
repetition  of  the  expressions,  “ Big  line 
just  in,”   which  strikes  one disagreeably 
on  account  of  occurring  so  near  each 
The  printer  has  evidently
other. 

SNAPS  IN  SAILOR  HATS!

21  OZEN AT 21 CENTS.

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CHILDREN’S'DRESSES,

—^   A  BIO UNE JUST  IN.

A L S O

WRAPPERS  and  SHIRT 

WAISTS.
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Bis New. Line of Millinery Just In.

F . B p a a s t a d & C o .

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For 60 Days Only. 

A  GRAND  OFFER. 

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With every pair of shoes, costing $2.00 or'  more,  sold  2 
during the next 60 days, we give  a  guarantee, that  we  2 
will put on a 
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ity.  Our shoes are always of the hest  quality  and  we.  J 
can save you "money, on all km Is of  footwear^  Remem-  * 
her this offer is good only for shoes sold during the  next  * 
60 days, but the shoes w ill be  soled  anytime  you  wish  2. 
them repaired. 
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A   W U R T Z L E R ,   MONTAGUE. 

MtBeDnei

When you bay yoar  fencing.  Some dealers, without  any  regard  for 
the  troth,  will tall  you they are  selling the  American fence, or one 
that Is  *jost as  good."  This  la not  so.  We are the  sole agents  for 
American fenoe in Marshall and vicinity; and  there ia no other fence 
in the  world that  has the  hinged  stay (like  the American  fenoe)  or 
that it “just aa  good.”  The  stays are placed  in the Amerioan  fenoe 
in snob a manner that they form a  hinged joint at every intersection 
of  wires, and this one feature  Is  worth the prioe of  the fenoe alone. 
Come in and see it.

Our Guarantee.

After etretohing  the Amerioan  fenoe according  to  directions, If 
yon don’t say it is one of the beet fences yon ever had about yon, yon 
may roll  it op and bring it beck, and  we will  pay  yon 12.00 par  day 
for your  time.  We  famish the  streteher.  One  man oan pat up 100 
rods per day.

We sell HARDWARE,  PAINTS, and soma LINSEED  OIL, too. 

Wall  Paper  j

Are you going to  paper  your 
f  «relit this spring?  If to  we  in* 
rite  your 
inspection  of  our 
stock*  of  well  paper,  which 
la positively

The  Swellest  Line 
Ever  Shown 

in

Our spring stock, just in, con­
tains ell the newest  end  richest 
designs, end it is e geooine treat 
to  look  through  it.  Mey  we 
hsVe the pleasure of  showing  it 
to you?

J. C.  Furniss.

g it  Beautiful 
§  

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g   In  H a vila n d &  Co.  French 
im   china is now  on  display  *
M   pur window.  Call  and  see 
(fe  if we haven’t just what you  ( •  
B )  have been wishing for. 
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tat  found  anywhere,  and  are  m  
endeavoring  to  make  our  M  
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your  patronage 
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W.  A   T A L L ,   g
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Hotel  Block— Center  S t   fta

If you Wish Jl 

Spring Conic

O f  genuine  value  and  merit, 
buy  one of the following  staa* 
dard  preparations  of  well 
known  forma's*:

Beef,  Iron and  Wine.
Syrup of Hypobosphites.
E lixir of  Iron,  Quinine and 

Strychnine,

Emulsion of Cod  Liver Oil,
Peptodate of Iron.
Syrup  of  Trifolium  Com­

pound.

They  are made by  the  best 
Manufacturing  Pharmacigte 
and  we  can  tell  you of  just 
what they W e composed.

“Our Prices are being talked about."

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W. E. BOSLEY £ SON.

*

Summer
Vandal.

Moths  play  ha woo  with 
unprotected furs and wool­
ens during warn  weather >  
- Don’t forget this when «he 
time  comes  to  put  away 
winter apparel.  Effective 
protection  can  be  bad  by 
Utiioir

Camphor Gum

'....OIL...

Moth  Balls.

It  will  cost  little  to  me 
them;  there’s  no  telling 
wbat  it  will  cost  not  te 
use them.
sdtuwmr mammy,

i l l  U I T M S

ic

planned  his  work  carefully,  but  is  a  lit­
tle  careless 
in  letting  the  first  letter  be 
“ pulled”   from  the  word  “ dozen.”   The 
lettering 
should  have  been  spaced 
farther  from  both  borders  and  that  on 
the  inside  panel  should  have  been 
smaller.  The  end  rules  of  this  panel 
should  have  been  as  light  as the rest  of 
this  border  to  make  a  contrast  with  the 
outside  rules.

A.  Wurtzler  has  a  novel  scheme  for 
inducing  purchases  of  shoes,  but  I  am 
not  sanguine  as  to  material 
results. 
There 
is  an  element  of  remoteness  in 
the  advantage  offered  which  will  fail  to 
appeal  to the  average  shoe  buyer  sus­
ceptible  to  this  class  of  inducements.  A 
few  descriptions  and  definite  prices 
would  be  more  prolific  in  results.  The 
printer  has  made  an  excellent  display, 
considering  that  the  wording  is  so  large 
and  there  is  so  much  of  it for  the  space.
is  an  indefiniteness  about  the 
fence  advertisement  of  W.  E.  Bosley  & 
Son  which  might  have  been  avoided  to 
advantage  and  the  wording  might  be 
less.  There 
is  also  the  mistake  of  dis­
playing  a  general  expression  instead  of 
something  to  indicate  the  subject  under 
consideration,  which,  in this case,  should 
be  fencing.  There  is  material  here  for 
a  strong  representation,  but 
it  needs 
much  pruning  and  rearranging.  The 
subject  of  hardware  and  paints  should 
be  separated  from  the  fence  matter.

There 

J.  Sellwood  &  Company make a strong 
butter  advertisement  which  is  good  for 
a  single  issue.  The  printer's  work 
is 
in  good  taste.

J.  C.  Furniss  shows a well-worded and 
judiciously-displayed  wall  paper  adver­
tisement.  The  printer's  work  is  good.
W.  A.  Tall  writes  a  fair china  adver­
tisement.  The  printer’s  work  could  be 
improved  by  using  a  narrower  border 
and  putting  it  farther  from  the  type.

Van  Ostrand’s  Pharmacy  makes  a 
good  seasonable  announcement  of spring 
medicines  which  is  simply  and  consist 
ently  bandied  by  the  printer.

Desjardin’s  Pharmacy  has  a  well- 
worded  caution  as  to  the  care  of  cloth­
ing.  The  border  is  too  large  a  figure  for 
the  space  and  the  signature is  too  small.

B ankruptcy  Proceedings  in  th e  Case  o f 

Gonid  & Co.

comprises 

Schedule  B 

Detroit,  May  14— Preparations  are 
under  way  to  institute  bankruptcy  pro­
ceedings  in  the  case  of  W.  J.  Gould  & 
Co.,  who  uttered  chattel  mortgages  Feb. 
28  to  the  amount  of $84,470.15.  The 
creditors  are  divided  into  three  classes, 
A,  B  and  C.  Schedule A  comprises  the 
claim  of  the  Central  Savings  Bank  for 
$32,000. 
the 
claims  of  W.  H.  Gay  (Grand  Rapids) 
for  $5,000  and  Mary  B.  Holman  (De­
troit) 
for  $12,000.  Schedule  C  com­
prises  223  merchandise  creditors,  whose 
claims  aggregate  $35,470.15. 
It  is  not 
expected  that  more  than  $50,000  will  be 
realized  from  the  assets  in  which  event 
the  creditor  in  Schedule  A  will  receive 
its  claim in full,the creditors in Schedule 
B  will  receive  nearly  100 cents  on  the 
dollar,  while  the  merchandise  creditors 
will  receive  nothing.  By  throwing  the 
estate 
into  bankruptcy  all  the  creditors 
will  receive  about  50  per  cent,  of  their 
claims.

Ground  For Suspicion.

“ Mary,”   said  the  young  matron’s 
mother,  "itseem ed  to  me  you  were  very 
cold  to  John  this morning?. ”

“ Yes,”   she  replied.  “ I’m  beginning 

to  suspect  him. ”

“ The 

idea!  You  have  no  reason  to, 

I'm  sure. ”
“ Indeed 

last 
night  that  I  saw  him  kissing  another 
woman. ”

I  dreamed 

I  have! 

The  man  who  is  in  the  middle  of  a 
is  said  to  be  on  the  ragged 

bad  fix 
edge.

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3

THE

Triton  Brand

Some  of the  reasons  why  you  should  secure  the  agency  for  the  celebrated 

Triton  Brand  of  Union=Made  Wrappers,  Skirts  and  Waists

All  our  employes  are  members  of  the  Garment  Workers’  Union  and  every  garment  leaving  our  factory 
must  bear  the  Union  Label;  this  in  itself guarantees  perfect  workmanship.  Our  factory  was  built  for  our 
use,  designed  so  as  to obtain  the best  of light,  making  it  possible  for  our  products  to  be  produced  under  the 
most  favorable  conditions.

Mr.  Finck  gives  his  attention  to  the  entire  factory  management,  personally  supervising  the  men s  gar­
ment  department.  The  ladies’  garment  department  is  under  the  supervision  of one  of  the  most  successful 
designers  in the  country,  a  man  who  ranks  first  in  his  profession.  Our  new  creations  shall  possess  all  those 
fine  points  that  give  the style  and  finish  that  have  made  the  Tr-it-on  Brand  superior  to  all  others. 
It  is 
hardly  necessary  to  inform  you  that  we  will  continue  to  use  only  the  highest  grade  of  materials.  We  will  be 
pleased  to  hear  that  it  is  your  intention  to  be  the  first in your locality  to  carry  Union  Made  Goods.  Remem­
ber,  ours  is  the  only  line  bearing  the  Union  Label  in  the  world  to-day. 
It  is  a line  with  strong  taking  points, 
and  will  prove  a  valued  addition  to  your  stock.  Why  not order  sample  dozens  now,  thus  securing  the  agency 
in  your  town  of  the  only  Union  Made  Wrapper in  the  world?

We  illustrate two  of  our  garments that  have  proven  to  be  very

successful  sellers

Gibson  Waist

Made  in  standard  sizes, 
from 
white  lawn,  with  tucked  front; 
also  in  solid  colors  and  striped 
madras;  perfect  garments.

We  have  a  waist  of  white 
lawn  with  tucked  yoke  and  six 
rows  of  embroidery  from  waist 
line  to  yoke,  a very pretty effect.

Our  price  on  this  line  is  nine  dol­

lars  a  dozen.

Of  course,  we  have  others,  a  complete  line,  at  various 
prices.  Let  us  send  you  sample  dozens  on  approval.  Order 
now,  because  orders  are  filled  as  received  in  rotation.  First 
come,  first  served. 

“ Take  time  by  the  forelock.”

Our  Line  of

Percale
Wrappers

in  black  and  white,  silver  gray, 
blue  and reds,  and  lighter shades 
of  pink  and  blue,  are  made  with 
full  ruffle  and  trimmed  with  im ­
ported  wash  embroideries.  A 
line  of  neat,  durable  garments 
that  are  custom  winners.

W e  originated  the  Shepherd 
Plaid  Wrappers, 
in  black  and 
white,  and  continue  their  manu­
facture,  as  they  prove  very  pop­
ular  with  the  trade.
Our  price  on  these  is  nine  dollars  a 

dozen.

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Around  the State

Movements of Merchants.

Albion— H.  C.  Blair  has 

installed  a 

new  soda  fountain.

Saginaw—John  Haas,  grocer 

and 

meat  dealer,  is  dead.

Manton— R.  C.  Ballard  has  purchased 

the  general  stock  of  C.  B.  Bailey.

Bronson— Imogene 

(Mrs.  W.  D .) 
Bailey  has  closed  out  her grocery  stock.
Ithaca— Oliver Jordan  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  David  Reichard.
Gustin— Rufus  Smith  succeeds  the 
general  merchandise  firm  of  A.  Smith  & 
Co.

Belding—Cobb  Bros,  have  sold  their 
grocery  stock  to  H.  T.  &  A.  D.  DeCos- 
ter.

Detroit— Keeperd  &  Son  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Baumgarth 
Bros.

Fenton—Wm.  E.  Lanning  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Barbour  &  Pred- 
more.

Cedar— Sarasohn  &  Buchhalter  suc­
in  general 

ceed  S.  Sarasohn  &  Co. 
trade.

Owendale— W.  J.  Maguire  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  D.  E.  Mc­
Donald.

South  Lyon—Chas.  E.  Dietrich,  har­
ness  dealer,  has  sold  his  stock  to  Henry 
A.  Potts.

Millbrook—T.  O.  Pattison  has  sold 
bis  drug,  grocery  and  produce  stock  to 
S.  S.  Evans.

Albion—Hadley  H.  Sheldon  has  pur­
chased  the  drug and book stock  of Barret 
D.  Vaughan.

Detroit—J.  Berkovitz  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  and  meat  market  of 
Gowans  Bros.

Kalamazoo—W.  G.  Duffield  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  and  grocery  stock 
of  Minnie  Ebens.

Detroit—Joseph  J.  Treppa,  dry  goods 
dealer,  has  taken  a  partner  under  the 
style  of  Treppa  &  Co.

Big  Rapids—John  H.  Ryan  will  en­
gage  in the  grocery  business  in  the Geo. 
W.  Crawford  building.

Ludington—Charles  Genia has  opened 
a  feed  store  at  the  corner of  Washington 
avenue  and  Dowland  street.

Britton—Harry  Perkins  has  opened  a 
clothing  store  at  this  place  under  the 
firm  name  of  G.  J.  Perkins  Co.

Charlevoix—M.  A.  Levinson  &  Co.  is 
the  style  of  the  new  clothing  house 
which  succeeds  Mrs.  L.  Levinson.

Lansing— Rogers,  Giddings  &  Co. 
succeed  Bracket,  Rogers  &  Co.  in  the 
men’s  clothing  and  grocery  business.

West  Olive—J.  R.  Pixley  has  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business,  having  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  Edward  Maynard.

Lowell—W.  S.  Godfrey,  clothier,  has 
leased  the  store  adjoining  his  location 
and  will  convert  the  two  into  a  double 
store.

Traverse  City—W.  H.  Brownell,  of 
Kalamazoo,  has  opened  a  dry  goods, 
clothing  and  furnishing  goods  store 
in 
the  Munson  block.

Decatur—S.  N.  Thomas  &  Son,  hard­
ware  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business  is  continued  by 
Frank  W.  Thomas.

Whitehall— August  Edlund  has  en­
gaged 
in  the  shoe  business  here  in  the 
building  formerly  occupied  by  the  shoe 
stock  of  J.  C.  Haseltine.

Bay  City—The  Harry  N.  Hammond 
Seed  Co.,  Limited,  will  shortly  erect  a 
building  90x150,  four  stories  and  base­
ment,  on  Jefferson  street,  which  it  ex­
pects  to complete  by  Oct.  1.  The  new 
structure  is  estimated  to  cost $30,000.

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

Holland-----Trappen  &  DeKruyter,
implements  and 
dealers  in  harnesses, 
vehicles,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Henry  Trappen  succeeding.

Empire—John  Dailey  has  leased  the 
store  building 
recently  vacated  by 
George  Taylor,  which  he  will  occupy 
with  his  confectionery  stock.

Boon—J.  M.  Hayden,  of  Manistee, 
and  E.  A.  Losie,  of  this  place,  have 
formed  a  copartnership  to  engage  in  the 
general  merchandise  business.

Lum—The  Conley-Nolte  Co.,  general 
merchandise  dealer, 
has  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business  is  continued 
under  the  style  of Conley  &  Fox.

Lowell— G.  V.  McConnell,  who  for 
several  years  has  been  in  the  furniture 
business  here,  has  taken  a  position 
with  Young  &  Chaffee,  at  Grand  Rap­
ids.

Sparta—A.  Murray,  of  Lake  City,  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  Geo.  E. 
Rowe,  at  this  place,  instead  of  E.  W. 
Murray,  of  Lake  Ann,  as  stated 
last 
week.

Mancelona—A.  A.  Dietz  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  and  meat  mar­
ket  of  his  partner,  E.  E.  Speicher,  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Petoskey—C.  E.  Sullivan has disposed 
of  bis  meat  market  and  building  to  C. 
W.  Doherty,  of  Doherty  Bros.,  grocers 
at  Cheboygan.  The  consideration  was 
$3,000.

Evart— H.  Immerman  has  engaged  in 
the  dry  goods,  clothing, 
ladies’  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  and  boot  and 
shoe  business  under  the  style  of  the 
Leader.

Reed  City—Geo.  L.  Parker,  of  Mt. 
Clemens,  and  Chas.  F.  Johnson,  of  this 
city,  have  formed  a  copartnership  to 
engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  cement 
fence  posts.

Boyne  City—Geo.  Taylor, 

formerly 
engaged 
in  the  bazaar  and  confection­
ery  business  at  Empire,  has  removed  to 
Boyne  City,  where  he  will  engage  in 
the  same  line  of  business.

Charlotte—C.  E.  Morgan  has removed 
to  this  city  from  Lee,  Mass.,  to  take 
an  active  part 
in  the  management  of 
the  new  dry  goods  house  of  Fred  H. 
Gove land  &  Co.,  in  which  he  is  a  part­
ner.

Nashville—Fred  G.  Baker  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  and  crockery  stock 
of  D.  Wells  and  opened  a  store  in  the 
Smith  building.  Mr.  Baker  will  retain 
his  former  place  of  business and operate 
it  as  a  fruit  stand.

Manton— R.  C.  Ballard,  formerly  en­
in  the  hardware  business,  has 
gaged 
the  general  merchandise 
purchased 
stock  of  C.  B.  Bailey.  He  will  be  as­
sisted 
in  the  business  by  his  son  Wil­
liam  and  his  daughter  Edna.

South  Lake  Linden—David  Toplon 
will  occupy  the  new  Gillette  building 
with  his  dry  goods  stock  as  soon  as 
same 
is  completed.  The  building  is  a 
two  story  structure,  46x54 feet  in  dimen­
sions,  with  steel  ceiling  and  hardwood 
floor.

Thompsonville—The general merchan­
dise  stock  and  store  fixtures  of  C.  O. 
Smith  &  Co.  were  sold  at  auction 
last 
week  by  virtue  of  a  chattel  mortgage 
held  by  Cornwell  &  Co.,  of  Cadillac. 
The  outfit  was  bid  in  by A.  B.  McIn­
tyre,  of  Cadillac,  for $450.

South  Haven—E.  O.  Goldsmith,  trav­
eling  representative  for  the  Putnam 
Candy  Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids,  has  pur­
chased  the  cigar  and 
confectionery 
stock  of  Alexander  Rudow.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  under the  style 
of  E.  O.  Goldsmith  &  Co,

Mackinaw— Clyde  Martin  and  Louis 
R.  Hughes,  of  Petoskey,  have  pur­
chased the grocery stock of Louis Laniain 
and  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Hughes  &  Martin.  Mr. 
Hughes, formerly  with the house  furnish­
ing  goods  establishment  of  the  J.  H. 
Milor  Co.,  of  Petoskey,  will  manage 
the  business.

Jackson— The  W.  M.  Bennett  block, 
now  occupied  by  the  Parker  &  Fleming 
Co.,  is  being  divided  into two  stores,  a 
new  front  put  in  and  other  improve­
ments  made.  M.  Norris  &  Co.,  grocers, 
will  occupy  one  store  and  it  is  expected 
that  Henderson  &  Co.,  druggists,  will 
lease  the  other  half.  Geo.  H.  Olmsted 
will  open  a  grocery store in  the  building 
vacated  by  M.  Norris  &  Co.

Detroit—At  the  time  the  buildings  at 
the 
corner  of  Jefferson  avenue  and 
Shelby  street  collapsed  some  months 
ago,  Crusoe  Bros.  Co.,  Ltd.,  carried 
about $70,000  insurance,  divided  among 
eleven  companies.  An  adjustment  of 
the  loss  has  not  been  made  and  to  pre­
vent  suits  at  law  to  recover  on  the  pol­
icies,  Dickinson,  Stevenson,  Cullen, 
Warren  &  Butzel  have  filed  eleven  bills 
in  chancery  against  Crusoe  Bros.  Co., 
Ltd.,  asking  a  decree  directing  that  the 
policies  be  returned  to  the  several  com­
plainants  issuing  them.  Temporary  in­
junctions  were  granted  restraining  suits 
at  law  being  brought  on  the  policies.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Moline—The  Moline  Canning  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5.3°o-

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  Cornwell  Beef 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$5,000 to $25,000.

Tecumseh—The  Tecumseh  Telephone 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$10,000 to $20,000.

Detroit— The  style  of  the  Bright  Star 
Polish  Co. has  been  changed  to the West­
ern  Foundry  Supply  Co.

Oshtemo— The  capital  stock  of  the 
Highland  Creamery  Co.  has  been  in­
creased  from  $4,100 to  $4,500.

Hopkins  Station—The  Hopkins  Can­
ning  Co.  has  recently  been  established 
at  this  place. 
is 
$10,000.

The  capital  stock 

interest  of  H.  L.  Gleason 

Hartford— S.  M.  Carpp  has  purchased 
the 
in  the 
Hartford  Cheese  Co.  The  business  will 
be  continued  under  the  style  of  the 
Hartford  Cheese  Co.

Sanilac— The  Sanilac  Sugar  Refining 
Co.,  which  filed  notice  of  increase  of 
capital  stock  from  $350,000  to $750,000 
on  May  9,  filed  notice  of  reduction  of 
capital  to $600,000 on  May  10.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Hoe  Co.,  capi­
talized  at  $50,000,  has  filed  articles  of 
incorporation.  George  Niebergall  is  the 
principal  stockholder 
in  the  corpora­
tion,  which  will  engage  in  the manufac­
ture  of hoes.

Detroit— The  Ideal  Toy  Co.  has  filed 
articles  of  association  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $35,000,  divided 
into  3,500 
shares  of  the  par  value  of  $10 each; 
$25,000  of  the  capital  stock  has  been 
paid  in.  The  stockholders  are :  James 
N.  Wright,  John  B.  Padberg,  Jeremiah 
Dwyer,  Geo.  L.  Fleitz  and  Francis  T. 
Dwyer,  each  500  shares;  A.  J.  Detloff, 
100  shares;  John.  B.  Padberg  and Fran­
cis  T.  Dwyer,  trustees,  900 shares.

Scotts—The  Scotts  Cement  Post  & 
Tank  Manufacturing  Co.,  Limited,  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$20,000  and  will  have  branch  establish­
ments  at  Kalamazoo  and  Lawton.  The 
officers  are  Albert  J.  Harding,  Climax, 
chairman;  Wells  N.  Adams,  Secretary, 
and  Charles  Nobles,  Treasurer.  The 
company  owns  valuable  patents and  will 
manufacture  cement  posts  and  water 
tanks  and  stock  tanks  for  farmers.

Bay City—The Michigan Salt-Machin­
ery  Co.  is  the  style  of  a  new  concern 
which  will  have 
its  headquarters  at 
this  place.  The  members  of  the  com­
pany  are  W.  J.  Wicks  and  Arthur  D. 
Eddy,  of  Saginaw,  and  G.  B.  Wilcox, 
of  this  city.  They  will  handle  a  general 
line  of  saltmaking  machinery  and  in­
stall  salt  plants.  A  specialty  will  be 
made  of  the  Johnson  salt  raker  for  re­
moving  the  salt  from  vats  automatically 
as  fast  as  made.

large 

it,  the 

into  a 

Lansing—A  new  concern,  which  may 
develop 
institution,  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$25,000  to  be  known  as  the  Lansing 
Manufacturing  Co.  The  company  will 
manufacture  an  improved  lantern,  with 
a  patent  device  for  lighting 
in­
vention  of  Howard  L.  Hills,  of  this 
Instead  of  the  chimney  having  to 
city. 
be  raised  in  order  to  light  the 
lantern, 
is  inserted  through  a  small 
a  match 
aperture.  By  the  time 
it  reaches  the 
wick,  the  match  is  ablaze  and  the  trick 
is  done.  The  directors  are  R.  J.  Shank, 
A.  M.  Darling,  Jonas  Beck,  Howard  L. 
Hills,  James  Graham,  O.  A.  Jenison 
and  Eugene  Williams.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow   and  W ool.

The  hide  market  remains  firm,  with 
small  sales.  Tanners  do  not  respond  to 
the  declined  prices  of  last  week,  and 
are  in  a  good  position  to  hold  off.  The 
light  kill  does  not  favor  much  relief. 
Many  tanners  claim  to  have  all  the 
hides 
they  want  until  grass  feeders 
come,when  hides  will  be  better quality. 
Evidently,  the  high  pcint  has  been 
reached  and  passed,  leaving many packs 
scattered  in  various  towns.

Wool  skins  are  closely  sold  up,  on  a 
weak  demand.  Sheerlings  are  wanted 
and  sell  readily  on  account  of  the  small 
supply.

The  weakness  in  the  tallow  market  of 
last  week  is  still  apparent  on  fair  offer­
ings  and  good  demand.  Prices  are  still 
too  high  for  an  active  trade.  Edible 
is  desirable  stock  and  is  wanted.  The 
market  is  well  cleaned  up.

Wool 

is  in  poor  demand  East,  but 
there  is  a  good  demand  at  higher values 
West.  New  clips  are  readily  sold  at  2c 
above 
last  year’s  prices,  while  in  the 
East  dealers  are  crowding  wool  onto 
the  mills  and  concede  the  price  from 
last  winter’s  asking  to  effect sales.  Re­
ports  are  not  satisfactory,  as  with  the 
dull  trade  among  the  mills,  these  same 
dealers  are  crowding  prices  up  for  new 
wools.  Someone  believes  in  the  future. 
There  is  little  moving  in  Michigan  and 
but  few  cars  have  been  sold  to  go  out. 
Holders  of  small  bunches  are  not  free 
sellers.  Some  towns  are  paying  to  the 
top  of  the  market,  while  others  are 
quiet. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

If  a  man  empties  his  purse  into  his 
head  no  one  can  take  it  from  him.— 
Franklin.

R E M E M B E R

We job  Iron  Pipe,  Fittings, Valves,  Points  and  Tubular  Well  Supplies  at  lowest 

Chicago prices and  give you prompt  service and low freight rates.

so  Ptmrl  Street 

GRAND  RAPIDS  SUPPLY  COMPANY

Qrand Rapid«,  Micfa.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  M arket.

is  very 

Sugars— The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
practically  the  same  as  last  week,  with 
prices  steady  but  unchanged  and  with 
moderate  demand.  The  world’s  visible 
supply  of  raw  sugar  is  3,410,000  tons, 
showing  a  decrease  of  30,000 tons  under 
May  1,  1902,  and  an  increase  of  890,000 
over  last  year.  Trade  in  refined  is  of 
small  volume.  Stocks  are  light,  but  de­
mand 
light,  every  one  buying 
from  hand  to  mouth.  The  general  feel­
ing  in  the  trade  appears  to  be  good,  but 
notwithstanding  this  fact,  buyers  do  not 
seem  to  be  anxious  to  accumulate  sup­
plies  at  the  present  moment.  With  the 
continuance  of  favorable  weather,  which 
will  stimulate  consumption,  a  renewed 
demand  may  be  looked  for  in  the  near 
future.  No  lower  prices  have  been  ex­
pected,  but  on  Monday  all  refiners 
lowered  prices  five  points  on  all  grades 
with  no  apparent  reason  and  this caused 
something  of  a  surprise  among  the 
trade.

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market 
is  about  the  same  as  at  last  re­
ports.  There  is,  perhaps,  a  little  firmer 
in  some  lines,  but  no  material 
feeling 
change 
in  prices.  Spot  tomatoes  are 
meeting  with  excellent  demand— so 
good,  in  fact,  that 
it  is  almost  impos­
sible  to  supply  the  demand,  as  stocks 
are  so  light.  Enquiry  at  outside  points 
reveals  the  fact  that  jobbers’  stocks  are 
very  light  indeed.  The  sales  of  futures 
have  dropped  off  somewhat,  but  there  is 
sufficient  buying  to  sustain  the  market. 
Corn 
is  steady,  but  only  a  very  moder­
ate  trading  is reported  on  either  spots or 
futures.  In  peas  a  good  interest  is  man­
ifested 
in  spot  goods,  particularly  the 
lower  grades.  Prices  are  unchanged. 
Futures  are  firm  but  little  trade  is  re­
ported.  All 
the  Baltimore  packers 
have  their  house? 
in  shape  to  start  in 
the  new  packing  season,  which  will 
commence  with  pineapples  about  the 
20'h  of  this  month.  Reports  are  to  the 
effect  that  the  present  crop will be a very 
fine  one  and  the  fruit  brought  to  this 
country  for  packing  will  be  some  of  the 
finest  ever  brought  from  the  islands. 
Peaches  are  meeting  with  fair  demand 
at  firmer  prices.  Gallon  apples also  are 
in  good  demand.  Sardines  are  firm  but 
quiet  and  only  a  small  demand 
is 
noted,  but  with  the  advent  of  warmer 
weather a  better  demand  for all varieties 
of  canned  fish  is  expected.  Ninety  days 
ago  salmon  was  exceedingly  quiet,  with 
very  little  doing  in  this  line,  but  during 
the  past  sixty  days  there  has  been  a 
very  heavy  consumption  and  upon  in­
vestigation  it  is  found  that  stocks  are 
reduced 
far  below  expectations  and, 
with  the  heavy  demand  for June,  July 
and  August  still  before  us,  there 
is 
every  reason  to  expect  that  stocks  will 
be  entirely  cleaned  up  before  the  new 
pack  is  ready.  The  demand  for  salmon 
this  year  has  been  and  probably  will 
continue  to  be  for  some  time  greatly  in­
creased  by  the  high  price  of  meat  of  all 
kinds,  which 
increased  demand  has 
caused  a  much  firmer  feeling  in  spot 
goods,  with  the  probability  of  an  ad­
vance  very  soon.

Dried  Fruits— There 

is  a  continued 
good  demand  for  prunes  and  the  market 
is  somewhat  firmer.  Prompt  shipment 
is  insisted  on,  which  indicates  a  light 
stock  in  buyers’  hands.  The  consump­
tion  of  prunes  during  the  winter  and 
spring  has  been  unusually  good  and 
Eastern  stocks  are  now  extremely  light. 
Stocks  in  California  are  way  below  nor­

mal  and  there 
is  no question  but  that 
every  pound  will  be  wanted  long  before 
new  come  on  the  scene.  Forty*5os  are 
practically  out  of  the  market;  50-60S are 
rapidly  nearing  that  stage,  and  there  is 
considerable  more  firmness displayed  on 
all  sides.  A  short  time  ago  the  pros­
pects  for  the  growing  crop  were  most 
flattering;  to-day,  owing  to  blight  dam­
age,  the  best  posted  experts  concede  it 
will  be  far  below  the  crop  of  1900,  and 
many  think it will  not  be  above  the  crop 
of  1901,  which  was  the  smallest  crop 
raised  in  California  for  many  years,  but 
the  shortage  was  not  felt,  owing  to  the 
enormous  carry  over,  but  another  short 
crop 
in  California  would  be  felt  very 
quickly,  as  there  will  be  no  carry  over 
this  season,  and  as  time  goes  on,  if 
these  predictions  of  damage  are  fully 
borne  out,  the  trade  can  look  for  a  much 
higher  market  on  the  present  stock  of 
prunes.  Loose  muscatel  raisins  are 
in 
fairly  good  demand  and  seeded  are  also 
doing  better  and  this  improvement  is 
expected  to  increase  as  there  is  usually 
exceptionally  good  demand  for 
an 
seeded  raisins  during  the  summer. 
It 
is  interesting  to  note  that  last  year  at 
this  time  there  were  1,500 to  1,600  cars 
of  old  raisins  on  the  coast  and now there 
are  not  over  100 cars  available  for  seed­
ing  and  they  must  last  until  next  Octo­
ber.  We  have  never  seen  the  market  on 
apricots  so  closely  cleaned  up.  There 
is  no  possible  chance  of  the  market  de­
clining.  There  is  not  enough  stock  and, 
on  the  contrary,  there  must  be  a  grad­
ual  advance,  as  the  stock 
is  getting 
scarcer  and  scarcer.  Peaches  are  in 
practically  the  same  condition  as  apri­
cots.  Stocks  are  exceedingly  light  and 
prices  have  an  upward  tendency.  Cur­
rants'  are  moving  out  well  at  slightly 
higher  prices.  Dates  are  steady  and  in 
good  demand.  Stocks  are  light  and  but 
few  goods  will  be  put  in  cold  storage 
this  season.  Figs  are  firm,  but  the  de­
mand 
is  small.  There  is  considerable 
enquiry  for  evaporated  apples,  but  all 
in  vain  as  there  are  absolutely  none  to 
be  had.

Rice—Trading  in  rice  is  of  fair  pro­
portions,  with  prices  steady.  The  de­
mand  is  not  up  to  general  expectations, 
but  dealers  remain  confident  and  will 
make  no  concessions  in  price.  Reports 
from  most  sections  in  reference  to  the 
new  crop 
indicate  that  general  condi­
tions  are  favorable.

Teas— There 

is  no  improvement  in 
the  demand  for  teas  and  business  is  of 
a  hand-to-mouth  character.  All  grades 
of  green  teas,  but  particularly  the  low 
grades,  were  firmly  held  because  of  the 
light  available  supply  of  the  latter,  and 
buyers  have  found  it  necessary  to  pay 
full  prices  to  obtain  supplies.

Molasses  and  Syrups— No  changes 

in 
particular  occurred  in  the  molasses mar­
ket  and  dealers,  as  a  rule,  expressed 
themselves  as  being  well  satisfied  with 
business,  considering  the  exceptional 
quiet  which  usually  prevails at  this time 
of  the  year.  The  supply  of  molasses  is 
moderate  and  indications  point to prices 
remaining  stationary  for  the  remainder 
of  the  season.  The  corn  syrup  market 
is  very  firm,  with  the  probability  of  an 
advance  shortly  on  account  of  the strong 
grain  market.

in  this 

Fish—Only  a  very  limited  trading 

is 
reported 
line.  Mackerel  sells 
better  than  any  other  description,  but 
only  small 
lots  are  going  out.  Prices 
are  steady,  owing  to  small  supplies.

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
has  been  rather  unsettled  during  the 
past  week,  early  in  the  week  showing  a 
decline  of  15c  per  barrel,  5c  per  case  on

competitive  cases  and  15c  on  Banner 
Oats,  but  later  advancing  20c  per  bar­
rel  and 
ioc  per  case  on  competitive 
cases  and  Banner.  The  demand  is  of 
moderate  proportions.

in  very 

Pickles— Pickles  are 

light 
supply  and  prices  show  considerable 
advance  during  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks  and 
indications  point  to  still 
higher  prices  soon.

The  Prodace  M arket.

Apples— Ben  Davis  is  about  the  only 
left.  Choice  stock  commands 

variety 
$4.50  per  bbl.

Asparagus— 50c  per  doz.
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25© 

1.75  per bunch,  according  to  size.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—50c  per  doz.  for  new.
Butter— The  market for factory  cream­
ery  is  steady  at  23c  for  fancy and 22c for 
choice.  Dairy  grades  are  weaker  and 
i 6@ I 7c   for  fancy 
lower,  ranging  from 
I 5 @ i 6 c   for  choice  and  I4@ i5c  for 
to 
packing  stock.  Receipts  are  heavy.
Cabbage— Florida,  $3.25  per crate.
Carrots—$1.50 per  bbl.
Celery—California  Jumbo  commands 

80c  per  doz.

Cod.

Cranberries—$2.50  per  crate  for  Cape 

Cucumbers—75c  per  doz. 

for  hot­

for 

are 

large. 

I 4 ^ @ i 5 J £ c  

Eggs—Receipts 

house.
Local 
dealers  are  paying  I3^@ i4^c  for  case 
count  and 
candled. 
After  this  week  all  receipts  will  be 
candled.
I4@ i5c.
15c  for Silver  Skins.

Green  Onions— 10c  for Evergreens and 

Figs— Five  crown  Turkey  command 

Green  Peas—$1.25  per bu.  box.
Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I 5 @ i 6 c .  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  i o @ i i c .
Lemons—Californias  $3.50,  Messinas 
$3. 6o @ 3. 75.
Lettuce— 10c  per  lb.  for hothouse.
Maple  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—Bermudas,  $2.75  per  crate; 
Egyptian,  $3.75  per  sack;  Louisiana, 
$4  per  bbl.  of  3  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
$3-5°@3-75-

Parsley—35c  per doz.
Parsnips—$2  per  bbl.
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Pineapples— Havanas  command  15c 
for  No.  1  and  13c  for  No.  2.  Floridas 
bring  $3.75  per  crate.

Potatoes—The  market  is _ weak  and 
constantly growing  lower.  Stock is worth 
6 5 @ 7 0 c   at  loading  stations.

Poultry— The  market  is  strong  and 
steady.  Dressed  hens  fetch 
io@ nc, 
chickens  command  I2@i3c,  turkey  bens 
fetch  I3@i4c;  gobblers  command  I2@ 
13c;  ducks  fetch  I3@i4c.  Live  pigeons 
are  in  moderate  demand  at  5o@75c  and 
squabs  at  $i.2o@2.  Live  poultry  meets 
with  active  demand  at  the  following 
prices:  Spring  broilers,  2o@22c;  chick­
ens,  9@ioc;  hens,  8@9c;  turkey  hens, 
toj£@iij£c;  gobblers,  9@ioc.

Radishes—25c  per  doz.
Spinach—60c  per  bu.
Strawberries— Tennessee  and  South­
ern  Illinois  command  $2.75  for  24  qts.
Tomatoes—$2.50  for 6  basket  crate.
Vegetable  Oysters— 20c  per doz.
Wax  Beans—$2  per  bu.  box.

R.  W.  Cochrane,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  Watervliet,  but  for 
the  past  year  prescription  clerk  for  P. 
H.  Loffler,  of  Kalamazoo,  has  engaged 
in  the  drug  business  at  the  Celery  City. 
The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Frank  Van  Deven  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  at  642  Wealthy  avenue  to 
Geo.  Gane,  who  will  continue  the  busi* 
ness  at  the  same  location.

5

The Grain  Market.

per 

Wheat  has  not  changed  since  one 
week  ago.  Cash  remains  the  same, 
while  futures  are  a  trifle  higher.  The 
visihle  again  showed  a  decrease  of
3.000.  000  bushels,  leaving  the  amount 
in  sight.according  to  the  Chicago  Daily 
Trade  Bulletin,  at  35,000,000  bushels, 
against  45,761,000  bushels— or  about 
10,500,000  bushels  less— in  sight  than  a 
year  ago. 
Prices  are  tending  to  a 
stronger  position,  notwithstanding  the 
bears  are  using  every  effort  to  depress 
the  markets.  Newspaper  statements, 
such  as  the  Grand  Rapids  Herald  had 
in  Monday  morning’s  issue,  that  Kan­
sas  needed  20,000 hands  and 5,000 teams 
to  gather  its  100,000,000  bushel  crop, 
are  erroneous.  No  responsible  paper 
should  print  such  reports.  The  highest 
estimate  put  on  the  Kansas  crop  since 
the  rains,  and 
is  claimed  they 
will  have  only  half  a  crop,  means
45.000.  000 bushels.  Under  the  most  fa­
vorable  weather  conditions  the  United 
States  will  fall  below  last  year’s  crop. 
Spring  wheat,  on  account  of  the  wet  and 
cold  weather,  is  behind  in  seeding,  and 
the  acreage  is  fully  20  per cent,  less 
than 
last  year.  Our  exports  were  over
5.000.  000  bushels,  or  about  62 
cent,  of  the  wheat  on  passage.  How 
the  English  tariff  on  flour  and  wheat 
will  affect  the  export  business  remains 
to  be  seen.  The  United  States  is  look­
ing  on  unconcerned,  as  things  are  look­
ing  prosperous  for  our  country,  but  we 
should  not  be  too  sanguine.  This  may 
change 
in  a  very  short  time,  when  it 
will  be  too  late  to  mend  matters.  The 
future  will  bring  forth  conditions  that 
are  not  thought  of  now.

it 

Corn  is  up  2c  and  strong.  There 

is 
an  urgent  demand  from  the  East,  while 
deliveries  are  very  moderate,  so  prices 
are  bid  up.  While  corn  is  high,  it  may 
climb  higher  on  account  of  the  scarcity.
Oats  are  neglected  and  prices  are  be­
ing  shaded.  The  coming  crop  in  oat 
districts  is  reported  in  splendid  condi­
tion.

it 

Rye  is  rather  dumpish.  Prices  are  off 
2c  and 
looks  as  though  they  would 
sell  off  still  more,  as  the demand  is  very 
slack.

Beans  are  strong  and  up  about  7c. 
While  the  trade  has  been  looking  for 
lower  prices,  the  contrary  has 
taken 
place.

Flour  is  strong.  While  the  demand 
can  not  be  said  to  be  urgent,  millers  are 
getting  rid  of  what  they  make,  as  they 
are  not grinding  to  full  capacity  on  ac­
count  of  the  scarcity  of  wheat.

Mill  feed 

is  strong  and  the  mills  are 
behind  on  their orders.  The  scarcity  is 
on  account of  so  many mills being closed 
and  others  running  only  part  of  the 
time.

Receipts  of  grain  were  fair this  week, 
being  as 
follows:  wheat,  56  cars; 
corn,  4  cars;  oats,  9 cars;  flour,  3  cars; 
beans,  1  car;  hay,  re a r;  straw,  1  car; 
potatoes,  8  cars.

Millers  are  paying  82c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

A.  D.  Otis,  Jr.,  (Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather  Co.),  is  rejoicing  over  the  ad­
vent  of  a  brand  new  boy  at  his  house. 
The  men  at  the  store 
it 
would 
take  an  expert  to  determine 
which  is  the  happier  over  the  event, 
the  father or the  grandfather.

insist  that 

Tarenga  Bros, 

succeed  Klune  & 
Sprick  in  the  meat  business  at  the  cor­
ner  of  Bridge  and  St.  Clair  streets.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones,

6

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

Village  Improvement

T elling  Influence  o f  the  Im p rovem en t 

Society’s  M onetary  Prizes.

Written for the Tradesman.

it  will  do. 

The  best  maturity  never  outgrows  its 
childhood.  Wisdom may  talk  until  it  is 
gray  about  putting  away  childish  things 
when  manhood  comes  and  that  is  all  the 
good 
It  is  a  human  and  a 
laudable  trait  to  want  to  get  ahead  of 
the  other  fellow  and  with  it goes another 
equally  as  strong—to  have  something  to 
show  for  it.  The  “ reward  of  merit”  
that  the  school  boy  brings  home  is  valu- 
able  only  as  it  clinches  the  fact  behind 
it,  and  that  delight  which  the  possessor 
has,  and  ought  to  have,  in  its  owner­
ship 
is  no  less  keen  at  60 than  it  is  at 
16.  It  is  the  signed  and  sealed  acknowl­
edgment  of  merit  and  the joy  in  its  pos­
session  is  a  worthy  one.

This,  and  a  great  deal  more  to  the 
same  effect,  was  said  the  other  evening 
at  the  Society  meeting  and  the  result 
was  a  unanimous  vote  that  prize-giving 
is  and  always  has  been  an  honorable 
means  of 
inciting  mankind  to  do  its 
best.  The  rest  was  easy  and  the  records 
show  the  following,  or  words  to  this 
effect:

Four  prizes  will  be  given  to  boys  for 
the  best  kept  lawn,  particular  attention 
being  paid  to  keeping  the  street  line 
straight  and  the  premises  and  alley  in 
perfect  order.  The  prizes  will  be  $10 
for  the  first  and  three  $5  prizes,  the 
three  being  especially  for  neatness  and 
open  only  to  boys  not  more  than  16 
years  of  age.

Two  prizes,  one  of $25  and  the  other 
of  $15,will  be  given  for the most attract­
ive  premises.  Both  are  for  neatness, 
flowers,  well-kept 
lawn  and  everything 
which  affects  the  appearance  of  the 
place.  They  are  open  only  to  those 
whose  property  valuation  does not  ex­
ceed  $3,000. 
is  cheering  to  state 
that  a  prosperous  and  influential  firm  in 
the  city  gives  its  name  to  the  first prize. 
Two  prizes  of  the  same  value  as  the 
above  are  to  be  awarded  for  the  most 
attractive  premises,  all  things  consid­
ered.  The  higher  prize  is  to  come  from 
a  well-known  citizen,  who  will  not  less­
en  the  good  opinion  the  city  has for him 
already.

It 

There 

First  and  second  prizes  of $15  and $10 
will  be  given  for  the  best  arrangement 
of  window  or  porch  boxes.  Prizes  of 
the  same  number  and  value  will  be 
given  for  the  best  arrangement  in vines.
The  Society  is  ready  to  offer  first  and 
second  prizes  to  janitors  for  the  best 
kept  school  grounds.  The  first  prize  of 
$50,  is  given  by  a  city  club  and  the 
second,  of  $25,  by  a  leading  merchant.
these 
It  hardly  need  be  said  that 
money  prizes  are  making  things 
lively 
in  the  town.  They  are  intended  to  reach 
every  class  and  condition;  and  they  are 
reaching  them. 
is  something 
definite  about  them.  The  money  idea 
appeals  strongly  to  the  thrifty  American 
mind.  The  boys  who  get  the  $10  and 
the  $5  will  exult  over  the  value  in  dol­
lars  and  cents  first,  and  by  and  by  at 
the  real  and  the  better  fact  they  stand 
for,while  the  higher  prizes  that  the  men 
receive  will  hardly  mean  more  to  them.
The  janitor  will  be  the  man  the  pub­
lic  will  feel  in  duty  bound  to  look after. 
He 
is  not  always  a  man  of  strenuous 
life.  Like  the  rest  of  bis  human  broth­
ers  he  is  not  over-anxious  to  do  too 
much  for  his  money.  He  will  not  take 
much 
in  the  Society’s  prize 
and  will  not  hesitate  to  declare  that 
is  not  what  be  was  hired
“ gardening 

interest 

for.”   To  offset  this  is  the  public  sen­
timent  centered  in  the  boys  and  girls 
that  belong  to  that  school.  As  long  as 
the  talk 
is  general  and  no  prize  has 
been  awarded  nothing  will  be  said, 
nothing  will  be  thought  of,  but  the  min­
ute  that  a  $50  prize  goes  to  the  Emerson 
school,  the  Longfellow  school  or  the 
Whittier  school  will  each  resolve  itself 
into  a  committee  of  one  to  go  over  and 
see  about  it  and  thence go straight to the 
janitor  of  its  own  territory.  The  ex­
pected  rebuff  has  no  effect.  The  $50 
becomes the  leading  subject  of  the  table 
three  times  a  day  and  continues  until 
the  office  and  home  and  privacy  of  the 
School  Board  are  invaded  and  the  jani­
tors  of  the  city  are  compelled  to  work 
for  that  prize. 
If  one  fails  his  life  is 
hardly  worth  the 
living  and  unless  he 
can  show  himself  a  prize-winner  he  has 
reached  the  end  of  his  usefulness.  Ob, 
yes,  a  wide-awake  school  boy  can  be 
made  a  very  efficient  member of the Im­
provement  Society!

It  may  be  well  enough  to  remark  here 
that  without  considerable  oversight  the 
janitor  can  hardly  be  depended  on  for 
good  results  even 
if  he  should  take 
kindly  to  his  new  duties.  He  may  be 
willing  to  plant  trees,  but  his  choice  of 
locality  is  not  always  to  be  commended. 
He  knows  how  to  mow  the  grass,  but j 
does  not  know  where  to  make  flower 
beds.  He  has  no  idea  of  arrangement. 
He  can  weed,  but  everything  is  a  weed | 
that  comes  in  contact  with  his  hoe  and 
fails  before  it.  The  traditional  bull 
in 
the  china  shop  is  often  the  fittest  figure 
to  apply  to  him,  so,  left  to  himself, 
there  will  be  no  prize-taker  in  the  Em­
erson 
is  as 
much  a  requisite  in  him  as  it  is  in  the 
teachers.  Without  carrying the  idea  too 
far,  both  are  engaged  in  the  same  kind 
of  work  and  inability, or  the  result  of  it, 
soon  shows  itself.  Both  are  engaged  in 
caring 
for  “ green  things  growing!”  
Trees  and  boys  need  trimming  and they 
suffer  alike  if  the  work  be  overdone  and 
society 
in­
stances  where  it  has  not  been  done  at 
all.

is  suffering  to-day  from 

school.  Good 

judgment 

To  come  back  to  the  idea  with  which 
we  started,  let  me  say  that  experience 
has  already  shown  that  the  prize  as  a 
promoter  in  this  field  of public endeavor 
can  not  be  overestimated.  Having  a 
money  value  in  itself,  it  is  worth  work­
ing  for. 
Its  real  worth,  however,  is  far 
more  than  fhe  dollars  and  cents  idea.  It 
brightens  the  surroundings  and,  best  of 
ail,  the  resultant  beauty,  entering  into 
the  individual  life,  widens  it,  ennobles 
it  and  goes  far  to  fit  it  for  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven. 

R.  M.  Streeter.

In j auction  A gainst  th e  Packers.
With  the  filing  of  the  bill  for  an 

in­
junction  against  the  beef  packers  the 
United  States  Government  has  at  last 
fairly  grappled  with  one  of  the  great 
trade  combinations,  and the  result  of the 
struggle  promises  to  determine  not  only 
the  efficacy  of  the  anti-trust  law  but  the 
future  trend  of  trust  agitation.  The  bill 
prepared  by  Attorney-General  Knox, 
with  the  assistance  of  District  Attorney 
Bethea, 
It  covers 
the  whole  field  of  the  packers’  opera­
tions,  from  the  ranch  or  stock  farm  to 
the  shop  of  the  retail  butcher.  Elim i­
nating  those  paragraphs  which  recite 
the  names  of  the  six  great  packing  con­
cerns  and  define  the  nature  of  their 
business,  the  bill  presents  the  follow­
ing  declarations:

is  comprehensive. 

That  the  packers  together 

control 
about  60  per  cent,  of  the  trade  and 
commerce  in  meat  and  that  but  for  the

in 

fact  of  a  combination  they  would  be 
free  competition  with  one  another.

That  they  have  entered  into an unlaw­
ful  combination  to  manipulate  the  pur­
chase  of  live  stock  by  refraining  from 
bidding  against  one  another  except  per­
functorily,  thus 
lowering  the  price  at 
which  the  stock  raiser  is  able  to  sell.

That  they  also  manipulate  the  pur­
chase  price  of  live  stock  by  bidding 
it 
up  for  a  few  days  and  thus  inducing 
stock  owners  to  make  large  shipments, 
whereupon  the  price  is  quickly  dropped 
and  the  owners  fail  to  secure  a  fair 
profit.
That  they  conspire  to  manipulate  the 
selling  price  of  fresh  meats,  combining 
it,  restricting  the 
to  raise  or  lower 
amount  of  shipment,  maintaining  uni­
form  systems  of  credits,  imposing  un­
just  charges  of  cartage  on  dealers  and 
consumers  and 
jointly  agreeing  not  to 
sell  meats  to  “ delinquent”   dealers.

That  by  means  of  rebates  and  other 
devices they receive unlawful advantages 
in  railway  freight  rates  and  because  of 
this  discrimination  they  are  enabled  to 
escape  competition.

These  practices  which  the 

federal 
court  is  now  asked  to  enjoin  are  plainly 
contrary  to  the  anti-trust 
law,  and  in 
proceeding against the packers Attorney- 
General  Knox  is  simply  doing  his  duty 
under  the 
law.  The  questions  before 
the  court  therefore  seem  to  be  chiefly 
questions  of  fact.  Either  the  packers 
have  not  been  resorting  to  such  meth­
ods,  in  which  case  the  investigation can 
do  them  no  barm,  or  they  have  been 
doing  so,  in  which  case  they  are  offend 
ers  against  the  law  and  subject  to  both 
civil  and  criminal  prosecution.  The 
public  desires  a  thorough  disclosure  of 
the  facts. 
If  the  packers  are  able  to 
show  that  they  have not offended against 
the  law,  well  and  good. 
If  not,  the  law 
must  be  enforced  against  them  for the 
protection  of  the  people.

Kindness 

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is  the  honey 
that  blunts  the  sting  of  unkindness  in 
another.— Landor.

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Co-operative  Stores  at  H om e and Abroad.
N.  0 .  Nelson  is  the  “ father”   of  the 
co-operative  model  town  of  Le  Claire  in 
the  suburbs  of  St.  Louis,  which  is  said 
to  be  very  successful.  Speaking  of  the 
co-operative  work  of  the  world,  Mr. 
Nelson  says:

“ The  English  Co-operative Wholesale 
Company  does the largest merchandising 
in  the  world  by  nearly  two  to 
business 
one. 
Its  annual  business  amounts  to 
$80,000,000.  It  has  the  largest  factories, 
making 
its  own  goods,  owns  seven 
steamships  to  carry  its  own  goods,keeps 
thirty  foreign  resident  buyers  to  do  its 
buying  for  it.

land 

“ The  Scottish  Wholesale  Company 
does  a  similar  business,  amounting to 
$30,000,000  per  year.  Each  company 
manufactures  its  own  boots  and  shoes, 
grinds 
its  own  flour,  makes  its  own 
clothes,  cloth,  furniture,  soap,  crackers, 
preserves,  candies,  et  cetera.  The  Eng­
lish  company  has  recently  decided  to 
purchase 
in  India  on  which  to 
raise 
its  own  tea.  These  wholesalers 
are  owned  and  managed  by  the  retail 
stores  and  factories  organized  on  the 
purely  co-operative  plan.  Of 
these 
societies  there  are  1,700  in England  and 
Scotland,  with  a  membership  of  1,800,- 
000,  and  they  sustain  a  population  of 
nearly  ten  million  people.  Some  stores 
have  as  many  as  5>°°°  members,  and 
many  of  them  do  a  business  of  from 
$4,000,000 to $7,000,000  a  year.  They 
are  all  started  by  the  plain working peo­
ple,  although  no  one  is  excluded.  They 
started  with  small  capital  and  a  small 
membership.  By  economy  in  expendi­
tures  and  saving  the  profits  they  have 
grown  to  such  dimensions.

“ In  continental  Europe  the  system  is 
not  as  old  as  in  Great  Britain,  but  it 
is  developing  rapidly.  Denmark  has  a 
larger  co-operative  business  than  any 
other  country.  There  are  about  1,000 
stores  and  nearly  as  many  farmers’  as­
sociations,  such  as  creameries,  pork  and 
egg  packeries,  etc. 
the 
creamery  and  bacon  business  has  de­
veloped  so  largely  in  the  last  few  years 
as  to  promise  a  revolution  in Irish farm­
ing. 
Italy,  Germany 
and  Austria  the  system  has  taken  a  firm 
foothold. 
In  Germany  and  Austria 
there  are  many  small  co-operative banks 
that  have  been  uniformly  successful, 
much  to  the  surprise  of  financiers.

In  Switzerland, 

Ireland 

In 

“ I  have  been  recently  investigating 
the  number of  co-operative  associations 
in  the  United  States,  and  have  found 
that  there  are  about  1,000,  two-thirds  of 
which  are  creameries,  grain  and  fruit 
associations.  Notable  among  the  latter 
is  the  Southern  California  Citrus  Fruit 
Exchange.  This  handled  last  year  some 
$9,000,000  worth  of  fruit,  at  an  actual 
saving  of  several  million  in  safe-guard­
ing  the  brands,  in  avoiding  shipments 
to  the  glutted  markets  and 
in  economy 
in  profits.  Utah  has  nearly  100  well- 
established  co-operative  stores. 
In Cal­
ifornia  there  are  forty,  most  of  them  of 
recent  origin. 
In  Massachusetts  and 
Kansas  there  are  many  well-established 
stores,  some  doing  a  half-million  busi­
ness  annually.  One  grain  association  in 
Iowa  did  a  business  of  $660,000 
last 
year.

“ The  salient  points  about  co-opera­
tion  are  unlimited  membership,  unlim­
ited  capital,  cash  buying,  cash  selling, 
one-man-one-vote,  unadulterated  goods, 
uniform  prices,  simple 
interest  and 
profits  returned 
in  proportion  to  pur­
chase. 
Its  strength  lies  in  its  being  on 
a  cash  basis,  incurring  no  other  expense 
than  that  necessary  to  handling :  noth­
in
ing  is  wasted,  The  average  returns 

this  country  are  about  7  per  cent.  This 
is  after  paying 
interest  on  tbe  invest­
ment  and  laying  by  a  surplus.  In  Great 
Britain  the  retail  profits  are  usually 
higher and  the  expenses  lighter,so  divi­
dends  are  greater.

“ In  this  country  the  capital  owned 
by each  member is  from  $100  to $1.  The 
dividends  accruing  to  those  who  have 
not  paid for  a  full  share  may  be  applied 
to  the  payment  of  such  share.  There 
are  well-established  stores  in  Pomona, 
Santa  Barbara  and  some  other  places  in 
Southern  California.  Los  Angeles  now 
has  two  societies  organized.  Both  the 
local  institutions  are  on  the  right  basis 
and  bid  fair  to  succeed.  The  principle 
is  a  right  one,  and  persons  who  become 
members  of  co-operative  institutions 
have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  it 
is  not  only  a  good  investment  financial­
ly,  but  that 
it  is  also  helping  along  a 
principle  that  is  right  and  bound  to 
prevail.”

Made  th e  Court  Understand.

Not  all 

lawyers  get  the  best  of  the 
witnesses  when  they  attempt  to  confuse 
them  and  weaken  the  force  of  their  tes­
timony  in  the  estimation  of  judge  and 
juries. 
In  one  of  the  Northern  counties 
of  this  State  not  long  ago  an  attorney 
was  cross-examining a  young  woman,  a 
witness  in  an  assault  case,  who  had  tes­
tified  that  she  had  seen  the  defendant 
“ shy"  a  book  at  tbe  plaintiff.

The  lawyer seized  on  the  word.
“   ‘ Shy?’ 

‘ Shy’  a  book?  What  do 
you  mean  by  that?  Will  you  explain  to 
the  court  what  the  word  ‘ shy’  means?”
The  girl  leaned  over  the  desk  beneath 
the  witness  box,  picked  up  a  law  book 
and  threw  it  so accurately  and  so  forc­
ibly  at  tbe  lawyer  that  he  had hard  work 
to  dodge  it.
“ I  think  the  court  now  understands 
tbe  meaning  of  the  word  ‘ shy,’  ”   said 
the  judge,  gravely.  The girl was allowed 
to  finish  her  testimony.

W anted  to  Obey  th e  Law.

President  Eliot,  of  Harvard,  is  one  of 
those  men  who  go  at  their  work  as  if 
the  entire  responsibility  of  its  accom­
plishment  rested  upon  their  individual 
shoulders.

Some  time  ago  Governor  Crane,  of 
Massachusetts,  was  approached  by  a 
delegation  of  business  men,  who  asked 
that  President  Eliot  should be appointed 
as  one  of  a  commission  to  report  on  the 
proposed  construction  of  a  dam  over the 
Charles  River.  The  Governor demurred 
to  the  proposition.  The  committee  was 
urgent.

“ Would  you  mind  stating  your ob­
jections  to  President  Eliot?"  said  the 
spokesman  to  the  Governor.

“ Well,”   replied  the  latter,  “ the 

law 
says  that  the  commission  shall  consist 
of  three  men. 
If  I  appointed  President 
Eliot  there  would  only  be  one.”

“ Take, 

that  man 

“ We  certainly  do  have  some  peculiar 
customers,"  remarked  an  underwear 
salesman  the  other  day. 
for 
instance, 
just  going  out. 
Why,  he's  tried  everything  as  often  as 
it  came  out  with  sufficient  advertising 
to  suggest  itself.  Linen,  cotton  and 
every  other  material  he  has  gone  into 
with  equal  enthusiasm,  only  to  be  on 
the 
lookout  for  something  new  the  next 
season.  Why,  I  verily  believe  he’d  try 
chain  armor  if  the  case  were  attractive­
ly  put  before  him !  To-day  he  was  real 
wicked.  He  said  he  had  a  scheme 
whereby  he 
intended  to  rob  us.  His 
idea 
is  to  buy  four  suits  of  wool  gauze 
underwear  many  sizes  too  large  for him. 
He  reasons  it  will  be  all  the  cooler  and 
more  airy,  so  he  will  be  comfortable  all 
summer.  Then  by  winter  the  things 
will  have  shrunk  until  they’re  as  thick 
as  boards,  so  he’ll  be  right  in 
it  sum­
mer  and  winter  with  the  same  under­
wear.  He’s  one  of  our  prize  cranks. ”

Any  man  who  feeds  upon  his  own 
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I 

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ation  have  not  failed  to  denounce  them.
Commerce  is  the  great  civilizer.  The 
men  of  all  nations  are  brought  together 
on  a  basis  of  mutual  interest  in  trade, 
while  all  philanthropy,  all  statesman­
ship  and  all  human  wisdom  concern 
themselves  with  how  the  people  shall  be 
made 
self-respecting 
and  therefore  free  from  poverty  and 
crime.  To  accomplish  this  is  the  high­
est  charity,as well  as  the  truest  political 
philosophy.

self-supporting, 

Prof.  Stevenson,  of  New  York  Uni­
versity,  writing 
in  the  Popular  Science 
Monthly,  declares  that  the  exigencies 
of  commerce  have  aroused  -a  public 
opinion  which  curbs  rapacity  and  de­
mands  arbitration  of  international  dis­
putes.  War  between  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States 
is  well-nigh  impos­
sible— it  would  lead  to  financial  ruin  in 
both  countries.  The  terrible 
conflict 
between  Slav  and  Teuton,  for  which  so 
many  wait  in  dread,  is  likely  to  remain 
a  nightmare.  Great  Britain  needs  Rus­
sia’s  grain;  Russia  needs  the  manu­
factures  of  Britain  and  Germany.  Ger­
mans  control  Russia’s  trade  even in  far- 
off  Siberia,  and  Germans  are  teaching 
Russians  how  to  develop their resources. 
The  rabble  in  each  country  may  rave  as 
they  please— a  power  mightier than  they 
makes  for  peace.

influence 

is  exerted 

The  same 

commercial  nations 

for 
maintenance  of  friendly relations  within 
the 
themselves. 
Compulsory  arbitration  of labor disputes 
has  been  established  in  some  portions 
of  the  British  empire,and  several  of  our 
own  states  have  taken  the 
initial  step 
by  appointing  arbitration  commissions 
to  serve  when  called  upon.  The  trend 
of  public  opinion  among  us  was  shown 
during  the  recent  steel  strike,  when  ar­
bitration  was  urged  not  only  by journals 
defending  the strikers,  but  also  by  those 
which  denounced  the  strike  as  wholly 
unjustifiable. 
Individual  differences, 
settled 
in  olden  time  by  combat,  are 
settled  now  by  arbitration  before  judge 
or  jury 
in  open  court;  the  day  is  not 
far  distant  when  differences  between  or­
ganizations, 
large  and  small,  will  be 
in  the  same  way.  Here,  too, 
settled 
our  vast  commercial  organizations  make 
for  peace,  since  their  gigantic  interests 
are 
interwoven  with  the  equally 
gigantic  interests  of  labor  that  serious 
interruption  of  friendly  relations  threat­
ens  destruction  to  both.

so 

Do  not  these  facts  show  that  there  is 
a  large  and  visible  improvement  in  hu­
man  affairs?  When  compared  with con­
ditions  portrayed  in  the  history  of  every 
past  age,  it  is  easy  to  see  that  the  lot 
of  the  vast  body  of  human  beings  has 
grown  greatly  better,  and  so  far  from 
there  being  anything  to  complain  of, 
the  prospect  of continuous improvement 
spreads  out  before  us.  Of  course,  there 
are  drawbacks,  and  human  nature  is  far 
from  being  fitted  for  millennial  bless­
ings;  nevertheless, 
is  progress, 
and  that 
is  the  main  feature  of  the 
promise  of  the  future.

there 

Congressman  Littlefield,  of  Maine, 
tells  this  story  about  a  call  he  once 
made  on  a  friend  in  that  State:  “ The 
preacher  was  calling  at  the  same  time. 
In  the  midst  of  our  conversation  the 
small  son  of  the  family,  named  Regi­
nald,  came  running 
in.  His  clothes 
were  torn  and  one  of  his  eyes was black­
‘ Reginald,’  said  the  preacher, 
ened. 
‘ you’ve  been 
Your 
clothes  are  torn  and  you  have  a  black 
is  very,  very  wicked. 
eye.  Fighting 
Come  here  and 
let  me  pray  for  you. ’ 
‘ Aw,  g ’wan’,  said  Reginald;  ‘ go  home 
and  pray  for  your  own  kid.  He’s  got 
two  black  eyes.'  ”

fighting  again. 

ENGLAND’S  DECADENCE.

Henry  Laboucbere,  the  editor  of  Lon­
don  Truth,  has  an  unpleasant  knack  of 
telling  the  truth,  and  the  still  more  un­
pleasant  knack  of  hitting 
the  nail 
squarely  upon  the bead.  Mr.  Laboucbere 
has  taken  upon  himself  the  disagreeable 
task  of  telling  the  British  people  a  few 
home  truths.  He  has  not  handled  the 
subject  with  gloves  and  he  has  drawn  a 
brilliant picture of  British  complacency, 
snug  self-satisfaction  and  general  stu­
pidity.  He  has  told  his  countrymen 
that  for  the  past  fifty  years  they  have 
been  chasing  phantoms  and  while  en­
gaged 
in  this  pleasurable  occupation 
have  not  only  lost  their  commercial  su­
premacy,  but  also  much  of  that  energy 
which  made  them  so  important  a  factor 
in  the  affairs  of  the  world.

Nothing  could  be  more  unpalatable  to 
the  English  nation  than  this  downright 
plain  speaking.  For years  England  has 
hugged  to  her  heart  the  belief  that  she 
is  carrying  the  white  man's  burden. 
There  never  was  in  all  the  world’s  his­
tory  so  foolish  a  notion  and  one  so 
fraught  with  internal  and  external  dan­
ger.  During  the  war of  American  in­
dependence  there  were  not  wanting men 
with  political  foresight  who  warned  the 
nation  against  the  theory  of  expansion. 
This  theory  was  then  assuming  concrete 
form.  The  country  was  seized  with  the 
lust  of  conquest.  Earth-hunger  made 
itself  manifest.  Defeated  and  driven 
from  this  country,  England  solaced  her­
self  by  acquiring  India  through  means 
which  can  hardly  be  called  honorable. 
The  absorption  of  Hindustan  went  on 
at  a  rapid  pace.  Rapacious  officials 
who  had  served 
in  Indian  provinces 
made  their  appearance  at  home  laden 
with  wealth.  Cupidity  was  aroused  to 
an  almost  insane  degree. 
is 
ours!”   was  the  cry.  General  Showers 
submitted  to  the  honorable  East  India 
Company  a  plan  to  seize  all  Southern 
China.  The  project  was  listened  to  with 
eagerness,  but  was  nipped  in  the  bud. 
Burmah  was  seized  years  after  on  the 
flimsy  pretense  that the  King was  a wife 
murderer.  The  approach  to  Southern 
China  was  being  silently  made,  but  the 
French  intervened  in  Tonkin.

“ Asia 

Toward  Afghanistan  disastrous  wars 
were  waged.  Three  wars  have  be en 
fought  since  the  forties  and  not  one  has 
brought  either  glory  or  profit  to  the 
British  arms.

Then  England  turned  her  attention  to 
Africa.  War  with  Abyssinia,  war  with 
the  Zulas,  fights  with  half  one  hundred 
naked  savages!  And  for  what?  The 
chasing—as  Mr.  Laboucbere  so  adroitly 
says—of  phantoms,  to  open  a  market 
for  naked  savages,  to  foist  upon  them 
cheap  Brummagen  wares.  Then  came 
the  war  with  the  Boer  republics,  and 
when  victory  almost  perched  upon  Eng­
land’s 
soiled  banner  Mr.  Gladstone 
yielded  to  the  demands  of the  Trans­
vaal  and  thus  prepared  the  way  for  the 
present  disastrous  heirloom.

While  England  has  been  hunting 
shadows,  killing  off  the  youth  of  her 
land,  pouring  out  her  money 
in  silly 
unbusiness 
like  enterprises,  she  has 
been  neglecting  herself.  What  has  been 
the  result?  Public  improvements  which 
the  people  demanded  were  absolutely 
neglected.  The  viper  of  trades  union­
ism  ruined  her  manufactures  and  de­
stroyed  her  foreign  trade.  The  govern­
ment  was  too  preoccupied  in  trying  to 
clothe  savages  with  cheap  cotton  goods 
its  mind  about  home  mat­
to  worry 
ters.  Every 
little  official  wanted  to  be 
a  'Disraeli,  who,  with  his  Oriental  im­
agination,  declared  no  man  could  be  a

statesman  unless  he  had  added  a  war  to 
the  nation’s  credit  or a  piece  of 
land. 
While  thus  occupied  Germany  was  the 
first  to  step  into  the  field  neglected  by 
the  British.  The  sign,“ Made  in  Ger­
many,”   alarmed  the  solid  Englishman. 
Even  Sheffield,  which  for centuries  en­
joyed 
the  reputation  of  making  un­
rivaled  cutlery,  saw  her  supremacy pass 
away  from  her.

The  United  States  was  not  backward 
in following  the  lead.  J.  Pierpont  Mor­
gan  has  a  residence 
in  London.  No 
man 
is  in  better  position  to  learn  the 
needs  of  that  capital.  He  went  before 
Parliament  and  secured  a  franchise  to 
provide  London  with  superior  railways. 
No  wonder  Mr.  Laboucbere  exclaims:

While  we  sink  millions  on  the  con­
struction  of  railways  through  the  Afri­
can  continent,  which  can  not  yield  a 
life  of  the  present 
return  within  the 
generation,  or  perhaps  the  next, 
the 
American  capitalist  discovers  a  remun­
erative 
investment  for  his  millions  in 
improving  the  means  of  locomotion  in 
London.

This  is  a  bitter pill  to  swallow,  and 
has  to  be  swallowed  with  as  little  grim­
acing  as  is  possible.  The  truth  is  that 
where  the  British  once 
led  they  must 
now  follow.  The  American,  with  his 
practical  sense,  has  seized  upon  the  sit­
uation  and  has  the  money to control.  No 
false  ambition  of  creating  enterprises 
where  they  can  not  exist  will  lead  him 
astray.  He  finds  that  England  neglects 
her  own  fertile  fields  to  make  a  blade 
of grass  grow  upon  huge  sterile  plains. 
Mr.  Morgan  sees  where  to  place  his 
money  which  shall  bring  him  a  tenfold 
return  and  proceeds  to  invest.  At  the 
same  time he  forms  a  gigantic  shipping 
merger  scheme  which  shall  bring  into 
one  control  the  sea  traffic  of  the  world. 
Then  Mr.  Morgan  practically  assumes 
the  national  debt.

To-day  England,  with 

its  increased 
taxes,  a  war  by  no  means  over,  troubles 
threatening 
in  Asia,  is  like  a  child  ex­
cited  over  an  approaching  pantomime. 
Grave  and  reverend  seigniors  are  rack­
ing  their  brains  as  to the  proper  width 
of  ermine  and  the  color  of  their  hose. 
Quarrels  dajly  arise  as  to  the  question 
of  precedence,  and  all  this  goes  merrily 
on  while  the  decorations  for the  streets, 
flags,  bunting,  medals  and  coronation 
buttons  are  being  made  by  Americans 
for sale  to  the  Londoner.

folly,  sinking 

This  coronation,  with  its  frippery  and 
its 
into  insignificance 
matters  which  affect  the  well-being  of 
the  nation,  proves  more  conclusively 
than  even  Mr.  Morgan’s  seizure  of  the 
trade  and  the  nation  that  Great  Britain 
is  dwindling  into  innocuous  desuetude.

lecture  trip 

Bret  Harte  was  a  good  deal  of  a 
humorist  in  his  every-day  life.  During 
a 
in  Pennsylvania,  Harte 
found  himself  one  evening  in  a  small 
town  the  very  atmosphere  of  which  was 
depressing.  Turning  to the  committee­
man  who  waited  on  him  at  his  room 
in 
the  hotel,  Harte  said:  “ Is  this  a health­
ful  climate?”   “ Passably,”   responded 
“ What’s  the  mor­
the  committeeman. 
tality  of  this  city?”  
“ About  one  a 
day.”  
“ About  one,  eh,”   said  Harte. 
“ Come  this  way  a  minute,”   and  he 
drew  the  committeeman 
into  a  recess 
of  the  bay  window  and  then  said  to  him 
solemnly :  “ Is  the  man  dead  for  to-day? 
I  am going  to  lecture  here  to  night,  and 
it  would  be a  great  relief  to  me  to  know 
that  I  could  get  through  alive.”

There  are  many  people  who  are  con­
tinually  borrowing  trouble  and  are  al­
ways  able  to  find  other  people  with 
plenty  of  it on  hand.

IS  HITMAN  SOCIETT DEGENERATING?
The  statement  is  frequently  made that 
the  present  age  is  one  of degeneracy, be­
cause  it  is  an  age  of  commercialism,  of 
the  science  of  physical  nature  and  of 
material  things. 
It  is  an  age  of money­
getting  and  of  money-loving  and  the 
demand  for  wealth  is  so  urgent that men 
will  not  hesitate  at  any  means  of  get­
ting  it.

is  becoming 

From  this  it  is  argued  that  human  so­
ciety 
less  spiritual  and 
more  demoralized  and  that  people  gen­
erally  are  growing  downward  to  a  lower 
plane of  ife.  We  are  in  the  midst  of  an 
extraordinary  evolution  in  the  methods 
of  business  and 
in  the  industries  that 
engage  the  greatest  part  of  human  labor 
and  it  is not  surprising that conservative 
thinkers  regard  with  some  anxiety,  if 
not  alarm,  the  wonderful  changes  in  the 
economies  of  life.

It  is  difficult  to  see  anything demoral­
izing  in  the  steamship,  in  the  railway, 
in  the  telegraph,  in  the  telephone,  in 
the  electric 
light,  in  the  phonograph, 
and,  above  all,  in  wireless  telegraphy. 
It  is  not  easy  to  conceive  of  any  special 
wickedness  in  steam,  in  electricity  and 
in  chemistry. 
It  is  no  easier  to  acquire 
wealth  than  ever  it  was,  but  the  masses 
of  the  people  live  better and  have  more 
comforts  than  in  any  other  age  of  the 
world,' and  they  do  not  have  to  work  so 
hard,  for  they  have  machines  that  work 
for them  and  do  all  but  think,  while  the 
labor  is  vastly  decreased.

It  is  true,  also,  that  the 

inordinate 
desire  to  get  riches  is  no  new  thing,  nor 
was  it  brought  about  by  the  commercial 
spirit  of  the  present  age. 
It  is  as  old 
as  the  world.  A  wise  man  in  the  time 
of  King  Solomon  inveighed  against  it 
and  denounced  it.  All  the  ancient wars 
were  waged  for the  purpose  of  plunder­
ing  weaker  nations.  History  in  every 
age  tells  of  the  colossal  crimes  that 
were  committed  for  gold,  and  the  re­
ligion  and  philosophy  pf  every  gener­

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Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can  get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction,  and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes. 
It is becoming a  common  saying  that  “Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease,” so  that 
Mica is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco­
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young  men,  ambitious  to  shine  in  so­
ciety,  would  style  “ dressy.”   On  the 
golf 
links  or  the  croquet  grounds  it 
should  be  effective.
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Clothing

Stocks and  Hats—Sum m ery  Toggery  and 

Rash  H osiery.

There  are  confections  in  men’s  at­
tire,  and,  yea,  so  many  of  them  that  the 
very  soul  grows  dizzy  in  the accounting. 
To  begin  with,  may  be,  the  subject  of 
stocks.  The  stock 
is  a  beautiful  and 
wonderful  contrivance,  designed,  first, 
for comfort,  and,  secondly,  for  style.

A  stock  tied  artistically,  with  a  nice 
pin  in  the  middle,  is  a  contrivance  of 
neckwear  of  which  no  mortal  man  need 
be  ashamed.  Some  of  those  1  have  seen 
are  of  the  most  exquisite  patterns  imag­
inable.  They  are  made  of  linen  or  duck 
or  pique,  narrow,  of  course,  in  the  back 
band,  and  broadening  out  at  the  ends, 
or  flaps.  A  mixture  of  silk  and  linen 
also  enters  into  the  controversy.  The 
patterns  are 
in  tartans,  plaids  and  fig­
ures ;  sometimes,  indeed,  the  figures  are 
almost  poetic,  embracing,  as  they  do, 
quaint  designs 
in  figures  and  crosses 
and  squares,  with  white  for  the  ground­
work  and  the  colors  for the  finish. 
I 
wish  you  could  see  some  of  them.  A 
mere  man  with  bis  neck  so  adorned 
might  insist  that  he  could  beat  Solomon 
in  all  his  glory  to  a  finish.  At  any  rate, 
he  can  at  least  hold  his  own  with  that 
distracting  personage  known  sometimes 
as  the  summer girl.  And  that,  after all, 
is  something.

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Come  now  for  a  minute  to  hats.  The 
crack 
lightweight  hat  for  the  summer 
is,  of  course,  going  to  be  the  much- 
vaunted  Panama  straw.  This  very  de­
sirable  article  of  headgear  is  now  down 
to  a  nearly  reasonable  figure,  thank  the 
Lord !— from  $8 to $12,  f  believe,  is  the 
price,  or  as  much  more  as  Mr.  Good- 
thing  thinks  he  can  afford  to  pay.  The 
brim 
is  very  broad,  and  has  a  lurching 
or  rakish  effect,  while  the  crown  has  a 
wide  and  even  dent  in  it,  as  though  the 
material  were  gray  felt  and  had  been 
made  by  the  mere  impress  of  the side  of 
the  wearer’s  hand.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  the  Panama  straw  in  fedora  shape 
will  be  the  popular hat  this  summer  for 
those  who can  afford  it.  For those  that 
can  not  there  is  the  base  and  whining 
counterfeit  of  milk  white  straw,  that 
sells  for  $2.50  or 
The 
shape  is  all  right,  but  the  complexion 
is  peculiar.  There  is  also  a perceptible 
suspicion  of  gluey  polish  in  the  weave. 
I  should  hate  to  think  of  the  conse­
quences  to  such  a  hat  after  a  rainstorm 
in  the  mountains,  or  even  a  severe  fog 
at  sea.  The  mere  sight  of  it  is  a  dis­
couragement  to  the  economical.

thereabouts. 

Nevertheless,  there  is  a  very  becom­
ing  hat,  designed  chiefly,  I  believe,  for 
golf  players,  that  is  built  of Madagascar 
in  three  colors 
grass  and  has  a  band 
woven  out  of  the  same  material. 
It  is 
a 
featherweight  hat,  too,  and  very 
comfortable  for  that  reason. 
It  is  low 
in  the  crown  and  flaring  in  the  brim—
be| sort  of  article,^suppose,  that  very

Enough  of  hats.  Approach  we  now, 
if  you  please,  the  very  much graver sub­
ject  of  summer  toggery.  The  flannels, 
of  course,  will  be  very  popular,  because 
they  are  being  made  in  delicate  shades 
of  steel  gray  and  pale  yellow,  with  the 
narrowest  possible  stripes,  and  pretty 
enough  for any  man  of  taste  and  tact  to 
adorn  bis  chest  and  legs  with.  There 
are  other  shades  mauves  and  purples, 
although  these  are  designed for extreme­
ly  young  men,  with  spectacular  tend­
encies.  An  effort  is  to  be  made,  how­
ever,  to  introduce  a  new  material,  an 
exceedingly  fine  homespun,  quite  as 
light as  flannel,  and  perhaps  more  dur­
able.  As  everybody  know,  flannel 
is 
impressionable  under  stress  of  weather; 
an  unexpected  shower,  or  a  ducking  in 
the  lake,  will  make  it  look  exceedingly 
weary.  For  the  homespun  better  qual­
It  will  dry  out  very 
ities  are  claimed. 
well  and  fast,  and  will 
look  better  at 
the  finish. 
In  both  the  flannels  and  the 
homespuns  the  coats  are  made  quite  un­
lined,  and  in  the  interior  surfaces  of 
the  coats  there  are  narrow  silk  straps, 
stretched  across  the  chest  on either side, 
and  designed  to  prevent  strain  upon  the. 
pockets  and  a  consequent  disparage­
ment  of  symmetry.  The  homespun  coats 
are  of  skeleton  design,and  have  stitched 
collars  and  rounded  lapels.  They  are 
In  this  same  ma­
very  natty  garments. 
terial  there  are  some  Norfolk 
jackets, 
also  skeleton 
in  design  and  adorned, 
furthermore,  with  a  yolk  over  the  chest. 
They  are 
in  extremely  light  goods  and 
have  the  usual  vertical  seams  and  the 
belt. 
I  should  say  they  would  look  ex­
tremely  well  when  worn  with  knicker­
bockers  over  a  tasty  outing  shirt.  The 
lapels  in  some  cases  are  faced  with silk, 
although  this,  1  fancy,  is  an  extreme  of 
taste 
in  the  case  of  a  coat  that  is,  after 
all,  an  outing  garment 
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land. 

The  rage  for  rash  hosiery  still  contin­
inspection  of  all 
ues.  After  a  careful 
the  delicacies  observable  in  this 
line,
I  am  free  to  say  that  I  do  not quite  see 
where  we  are  going  to 
Such 
shades,  such  tints,  such  stripes  and 
checks,  such 
impossible  nightmares  in 
wilderness  of  spots.  The  material  does 
not  count.  Thread  or silk,  it  is  just  the 
same.  Oceans  of  color  and  intricacies 
of design.  All one  can  say  is  that if the 
average  man  sports  the  socks  designed 
for  him  by  his  haberdasher  this  year 
he  will  have  more  than  the  courage  of 
his  convictions. 
If  he  does  he  will  de­
serve  to  be  convicted  on  sight.

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little 

It  is  a 

late  in  the  season  for 
walking  sticks,  but  I  have  to-day  seen 
some  very  nice  ones  in  light  woods  and 
Malacca  cane.  The  former  are  squared 
off  at  the  handles  and  finished  in  silver 
or horn,  or  in  practically  any  way  you 
choose.  Nobody  who  respects  appear­
ances  carries  a  stick 
in  summer,  but 
these  almost  make  a  fellow  wish  it  were 
winter  again.— Percy  Shafton 
in  Ap­
parel  Gazette.

Proof  Against  Pickpockets

Our new line of pants for fall and winter of 1902 Is now 

ready for your Inspection.

Our representative will call on you In due  tince with a 
very complete line of staples  and  fancies  at  attractive 
prices.  We hope to be favored with your order.

W e  confidently believe that our  selection,  which  has 
been made with painstaking care to  procure  only  high 
standard fabrics in new designs, combinations of beautt- 
ful colorings and first-class  workmanship,  will  receive 
your hearty endorsement.

Our pants are all custom tailor made  and  every  pair 
guaranteed.  The only pants  In  the  world  fitted  with 
Vlneberg’s patent safety pocket.  Manufactured by
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DETROIT,  MICH.

W n. CONNOR,  Western nichigan Agent,

Qrand Rapids, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.

Summer Clothing

of  every  kind  for  a_few  days  longer,  then  every  sample  must 

be  returned  to  make  way  for

Fall  Goods

Some  great  bargains  in  small  lots.  Kindly  pay  me  a  visit. 

Customers’  expenses  allowed.

Wholesale  Ready  Made Clothier,  28 and  30 5 .  Ionia  St. 

W illiam   Connor

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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no jobbers' prices.

The

Peerless Manufacturing 

Company.

W e are now closing out our entire line of Spring  and  Summer  Men’s  Fur­
nishings at reduced prices, and  will show  you  at  the  same  time  the  most 
complete line for FALL and  W IN TER consisting  in part of

Pants, Shirts, Covert and Mackinaw Coats, Sweaters, 
Underwear, Jersey Shirts, Hosiery, Gloves and Mitts.

Samples displayed at  28  So.  lonis  St., Graad  Rapids  and 
31 and  33 Lamed  street  East,  Detroit,  Michigan.

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manufactured.  Ocean  lines  frequently 
make  a  discrimination 
favor  of 
wheat,  but  not  always.  A  steamer  must 
have  ballast  of  some  kind. 
is 
no  freight  on  the  wharf  suitable  for 
ballast,  wheat  is  purchased. 
If  there  is 
no  wheat  or  anything  else  handy,  then 
common  stone  or  dirt is  used.  But  usu­
ally  wheat  can  be  found  in  some  of  the 
elevators  at  the  seaboard  and  it  is  taken 
across  the  ocean  at  a  very  low  rate.  The 
Millers'  Federation  proposes to  establish 
flour  depots  at  various  ports  along  the 
seaboard  and  keep  a  supply  of  flour on 
hand  to  be  used  as  ballast.  Agents  will 
be  appointed  to  keep  close  tab  on  load­
ing  steamers  and  when  they  lack  ballast 
they are to offer them  flour. 
In  this  way 
the  ocean  rate  on  flour  will  be  kept 
down  as  low  as  that  on  wheat.

B.  J.  Rothwell,  one  of  the  largest 
millers  in  the  United States,  has  written 
letter  to  the  Presidents  of  the  thirty 
leading  railroads  of  the  country  setting 
forth  the  millers’  position.

is 

likely  to  prove  the 

“ The  export  flour  business  has  for  a 
long  time  either  been  profitless  or has 
involved  a 
loss.  The  carrying  by  the 
railroads  of  wheat  cheaper  than flour has 
well-nigh  destroyed  the  flour  export 
trade.  The  action  of  the  British  gov 
ernment 
last 
straw.  The  American  miller  can  not 
possibly  compete 
if  he  is  subjected  to 
the  discrimination  of  recent  years.  The 
railroads  now  have  an  opportunity  to 
step  in  and  save  the  milling 
industry, 
earn  the  permanent  gratitude  of  the 
American  millers  and, 
incidentally 
promote  their  own  ultimate  welfare 
Make  a  flat  rate  for  both  wheat  and 
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The  flour  milling  industry of the coun­
try  is  facing  a  crisis,  so  Kansas  millers 
say,  and  something  must  be  done,  and 
done  quickly,  to  avert  disaster.  Three 
avenues  remain  open:  A  wiping  out  of 
the  differential  between  wheat  and  flour 
by  the  railroads,  the  establishment  of 
reciprocal  trade  relations  with  foreign 
countries  and  the  formation  of  a  mil­
lers'  trust.  Either  of  the  first  two  rem­
edies  would  enable  the  millers  to get 
rid  of  their  surplus  product  in European 
markets  at  a  small  profit.  The  other— 
the  formation  of  a  trust— would  possibly 
mean  an  advancement 
in  the  price  of 
flour  at  home.  This  is  something,  the 
millers  say,  that  they  do  not  want  to 
do,  but, 
if  the  other  concessions  are 
not  granted,  then,  for  self-preservation, 
they  will  be  forced  to  combine.  As.they 
put  it,  they  must  hang  together  or  they 
will  hang  separately.  With  them  it  is 
either  to  form  a  trust  or  to  bust.  If  they 
combine  they  may  reap  profits,  but  it 
will  be  at  the  expense  of  the  American 
consumers.

The  straw  to  break  the  camel’s  back 
was  the  recent  imposition  of  a  duty  on 
flour  by  the  English  government.  That 
duty  represents  more  than  the  profits 
which  the  millers  have  been  making  on 
their  flour  products  sent  to  England. 
It 
is  for  this  reason  that  some  way must  be 
found  by  the  millers  of  this  country  to 
get  rid  of  their  surplus  flour.  While 
trusts  have  been  formed  in  almost  every 
manufacturing 
in  recent  years,  no 
effort  has  been  made to get the millers  of 
the  entire  country  into one combination, 
for  the  reason  that  there  are  so  many 
mills  and  so  many  people  to  deal  with 
that  it  has  been  regarded  in  the  past  as 
an  almost  impossible  undertaking.  But 
with  the  danger  that  now  confronts  the 
millers  the  stupendous  scheme  of  form 
ing  a  trust  is  about  to  be  attempted.

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“ The  conditions,  as  set  forth  by  the 
Kansas  Millers’Association  in  its  letter 
to  Senator  W.  A.  Harris,  as  printed 
in 
to-day’s  Journal,  are  a  fair  exposition 
of  the  facts  concerning  the  flour  indus 
try,’ ’  said  a  Topeka  miller  lately. 
“ It 
is  somewhat  remarkable  that  the  public 
press  has  not devoted  more space  to call 
ing  attention  to  the present  dark  outlook 
of  the  flour  business. 
It  is  one  of  the 
most  gigantic  businesses  of the  country. 
More  money  is  invested  in  it  by  twenty 
invested  in  the  steel  or 
times  than 
is 
iron  business. 
Its  life  is  in  peril.  Yet 
nothing 
is  said  about  it.  The  North 
western  Miller  voices  the  sentiment  of 
the  millers  when  it  says of  the  milling 
‘ This  is  one  of 
industry: 
the  few 
American 
industries  which  has  not 
adopted  trust  methods,  but  unless  some 
thing  is  done  to  relieve  the  situation, 
milling  trust  is  inevitable,  and  the  fine 
independence  of  individual  effort  char 
acteristic  of  the  trade  will  be  forever 
lost.  This  would  be  a  calamity  not 
alone  to  the millers,  but  to the  American 
people.  With  their  bread  supply 
in 
control  of  a  trust  able  to  advance  the 
price  of  flour, the consumers  of  the  coun 
try  would 
lose  the  advantage  they  now 
possess  of  cheap  food  and  the  Amer 
ican  milling  industry  would  cease  to  be 
competitive. ’

“ England  did  not  put  as  heavy  ; 
duty  on  wheat  as  on  flour.  The  differ 
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The  millers  have  organized  a  federa 
It 
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Shoes  and  Rubbers

Practical  H ints  o f W aiting on Customers.
First,  we  will  take  for  an  example  a 
lady  customer.  We  should  ask  a  ques­
tion  as  to  what  is  wanted,  a  shoe  for 
dress  or  street  wear.  Then,  after  she 
has  expressed  for  which  purpose  the 
shoes  are  intended,  the  salesman  should 
have  at  his  wits'  end  all  the  lines  that 
would  border  on  that  particular  style, 
and  strive  to  show  in  the  quickest  pos­
sible  manner  the  shoes  required.

Shoes  should  all  be  numbered  in  the 
so-called  French  sizes,  not  merely  to 
deceive,  for  this  would  be  all  wrong; 
but  from  this  system  of  numbering great 
good  arises,  for  then  the  salesman  can 
fit  the  foot  and  not  the  bead.

It  is  well  to ask  what  size  is  wanted 
so  that  the  salesman  may  have  an 
idea 
of  the  size  to  look  for.  The  customer 
should  be  seated;  then  remove  her  shoe 
that  the  foot  may  be  properly  fitted; 
otherwise  you  will  be  asked  to  send  up 
to  the  house  a  half  dozen  pairs  of  shoes, 
only  to  have  them  returned  all  mixed 
up  and  unlaced,  bottoms  scuffed,  boxes 
broken,  becoming  really  second  hand, 
besides  losing  a  sale.

Be  sure  the  shoes  are  not  too  short.
The  fit  of  a  shoe  is  not,  as  many  sup­
pose,  in  the  length  of  a  shoe,  but  is  in 
the  width  across  the  ball  of  the  foot  and 
over  the  instep.  Women  are  almost  in­
variably  vain 
creatures,  and  would 
rather crowd  a 
foot  in  a  No.  4  shoe 
than  give  the  member  the  proper  size. 
Don’t  give  the  shoes  too  narrow,  as  a 
size  in  length  makes  the  shoe  one  width 
wider;  so  where  a  wide  width  is wanted 
give  a  size  larger.

Be  very  careful  in  selling  hand turned 
shoes.  The  strain  on  these  being  very 
great,  care  should  be  taken  in  giving 
them  plenty  large,  for  if  you  do  not  you 
will  have  many  wrongs  to  right.

Now  that  you  have  fitted  the  lady  cus­
tomer  in  size  your  next  important  duty 
is  to  please  her 
in  quality  and  style. 
You  make  a  mistake  if  you  ask  a  cus­
tomer  before  you  have  showed  her  your 
goods  as  to  what  style  toe  or quality, 
etc.,  is  wanted,  for after  she  has  once 
taken  a  stand  or,  in  other  words,  has 
committed  herself, 
it  would  be  very 
hard  to  dissuade  her  from  the  opinion 
which  she  has  formed  or  expressed  in 
case  you  have  not  the  style  or kind  she 
so  desired.

As  there  are  no  two  customers  alike, 
a  salesman  must  use  his  own  judgment, 
and  should  make  human  nature  a  study, 
because  different  customers  must  be 
treated  in  an  entirely  different  manner. 
For  instance,  some  you  may  have  to  de­
cide  for,  hasten  'them  in  making  a  se­
lection.  Others  you  will  have  to  give 
them  their  time.  Some  want  to  be 
humored  a 
little  or  perhaps  flattered. 
Suffice  to  say:  Treat  all  in  a  gentle­
manly  manner;  don’t  be  grouty  if  your 
customer  is  bard  to  suit  and  fit.  Un­
limited  patience  is  required 
in  selling 
shoes.  You  can  easily  make  or  ruin  a 
prospective  customer  in  slighting  some 
little  detail..

Always  assist  the 

lady  customer  in 
trying  on  and  lacing  up  her  shoes.  A l­
ways  pass  the  time  of  day,  not  trying  to 
put  it  on  too  much,  for  such  is  disgust­
ing. 
It  would  be  well  for  you  to  ask  if 
there  are  any  other members  of  the  fam­
ily  that  are  or  soon  will  be  in  need  of 
shoes. 
If  you  are  not  to  busy  ask  per­
mission  to  show  your  customer  some 
other  styles  in  stock  for  her  future  ben­
efit.  Then  three  out  of  five  times  you 
will  make  a  sale,  if  you  go  at  it  right,

for no  ladjr will  be  offended  at  showing 
her  goods.  Should  you  not  sell  her  them 
on  the  spot  your  chances  are  good  to 
sell  her  when  she 
is  in  need  of  such 
lines.  You  have  not  only  pleased  her 
that  time  but  forever  and  ever.  Next 
time  she  needs  shoes  for  herself  she  not 
only comes  to  your store  but  stands aside 
and  waits  for  you  to  serve  her,  for  she 
appreciates  the  pains  and  effort  exerted 
by  you  before.  This  gives  this  kind  of 
salesman  a  prestige.  If  you are  in  a  de­
partment  store  kindly  suggest  hosiery, 
call  especial  attention  to  the  complete 
line,  etc.,  thus  benefiting  this  depart­
ment  laigely.
‘Now,  about  the  men  customers.  Of 
course  they  are  less  proud.  A man  usu­
ally  wants  a  shoe  that  fits  his  foot,  re­
gardless  of  size  or  number.  Still  there 
are  a  few  feminine-like  men.  For  all 
concerned  number  your  shoes  in  French 
method  and  you  will  invariably  get  bet­
ter  results.  Better  give  a  man  one-half 
size 
larger  if  be  has  a  tolerably  wide 
foot.  Take  into  consideration  the  wear 
for  which  the  shoe  is  intended. 
If  your 
customer  is  a  railroad  man  do  not  give 
him  a  soft,  light  upper,  as  a  vici  kid, 
for  he  is  sure  to  expect  heavy wear  from 
a  light  dress  shoe. 
In  no  case  can  a 
salesman  use  reckless  judgment  in  this 
respect  and  expect  to  build  up  an  envi­
able  reputation  and  trade.

Mark  your  goods  in  plain  figures  and 
have  one  price.  When  once  established 
business 
is  much  more  satisfactory  in 
every  respect,  for  both  buyer  and  seller.
Never  cross  a  customer;  let  him  have 
his  way  and  opinion.  You  can  tell 
him  the  merits  of  your  shoe,  advise  him 
as  to  what  kind  of  a  shoe  would  be  bet­
ter  adapted  to  his  purpose.

You  had  better get  the  confidence  of 
your  customers  (then  when  you  have  it, 
take  care  of  it).  No  man  can  misrep­
resent  his  wares  and  deceive  them  and 
expect  his  customers  to  return. 
“ You 
may  fool  part of  the  people  part  of  the 
time,  but  you  can’t  fool  all  the  people 
all  the  time’ ’  is  a  very  true  and  forcible 
expression.  Usually  a  man  has  to  de­
pend  on  his  customers'  continuous  pa­
tronage  for  bis  support,  and  if  he  does 
not  get  it  he  will  soon  run  out  of  fuel 
with  which to  kindle  his  “ fire"  of  busi­
ness.

In showing shoes to whomsoever it may 
be,  do  not  show  too  many  shoes.  Many 
a  time  a  salesman  makes  a  sale  hard  or 
loses  it  by  this  mistake.  As  soon  as 
you  find  a  shoe  does  not  please  your 
customer  quietly  put  it  away.  Do  not 
leave  too  many  shoes  around  for  it  only 
makes  a  chaos  and  much  bother 
in 
putting  them  up.

In  fitting  shoes  for  children  be  ex­
tremely  careful.  Remember  their  feet 
are  continually  growing.  Make  a  repu­
tation  for  fitting  children  as  well  with­
out  their  parents  as  with  them. 
In  no 
case  allow  the  children  to  wear  the 
shoes  home  until  the  parents  have  first 
seen  them.—James  C.  Penney  in  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.

N ot  T om m y’s  Fault.

Mother— There  were  two  apples in  the 
cupboard,  Tommy,  and  now there is only 
one.  How’s  that?

Tommy  (who  sees  noway of escape)— 
in  there  1 

Well,  ma,  it  was  so  dark 
didn’t  see  the  other.

Tory  Suitable.

“ Say,”   exclaimed  the  man  who  was 
being  shaved,  “ you  should  reserve  that 
razor  for  your  political  customers.”  

“ Why  so?”   asked  the  barber. 
“ Because  it  has  such  a  pull,”

I   This  is  the season  of Oxfords

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Vici  Kid,  Heavy,  Light  and  Medium  Weights—Prices  to 
suit all.  Either come and  see us or send  us your order by 
mail, and we will see that you are pioperly shod.

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L.  A.  Dudley

Battle  Creek, Mich.

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Snedicor &  
Hathaway 
Line
No.  743. 

Kangaroo  Calf. 
Bal.  Bellow’s Tongue.  %  D. 
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1 

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Don’t  let  your business drift  any old way.  Take 
a  firm  hold— pull.  Get  business  pullers  to  pull 
business  your  way.  Our  own  Factory-Made 
Shoes  will  do  it.  Give  them  a  chance.

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Makers  of Shoes

m a im m m m
Your  Ambition

of  building  up  a  paying  shoe  trade  can 
only be realized by selling  shoes that give 
the wearer satisfaction.
In  making  shoes  we  look  carefully  after 
the wearer’s interest.  We see that he gets his money’s worth. 
The consequence is when you sell a  pair  of  our  shoes  you 
are either holding the trade and  friendship  of  an  old  cus­
tomer or making a permanent  patron  of  a  new  customer. 
We are glad to call anytime with samples.

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M inor  Notes  R elating to th e Sale o f Shoes.
Among  the  retailers  there  seems  to  be 
more  complaint  than  usual  this  season 
of  spring  shipments. 
In  the  first  place 
they  say  the  better  grades  and  higher 
priced  lines  are  away  behind,  especially 
Eastern  makes.  Goods  that  were  or­
dered  for  March  first  and  fifteenth deliv­
ery  are  not  yet 
in  and  in  the  second 
place  the  shoes  that  fail  to compare  fa­
vorably  with  samples  have 
increased 
over  last  season’s  shipments.

As  to  the  first,  the story  is  an  old  one, 
and  cause  for  complaint  will  continue 
as  long  as  manufacturers  of  well  adver­
tised  and  favorably  known  lines  go  out 
and  sell  a  larger  quantity of  goods  to  be 
delivered  at  a  certain  time  than  it  is 
possible  for  them  to  make. 
If  the  deal­
er  would  place  these  tardy  shippers  on 
his  black 
list  and  after  the  second  or 
third  offense  pass  them  up  for  a  season 
or  two  it  would  help  matters  along  con­
siderably.

The  writer  was  talking  to  a  retailer 
the  other  day  on  this  subject.  He  com­
plained  that  a  certain  house  of  whom 
he  bought  his  ladies’  shoes  were  always 
behind;  no  matter  bow  early  he  ordered 
his  goods  shipped  the  result  was  always 
the  same.  Goods  came along  in  install­
ments  and  invariably  the  part  of  them 
he  needed  most  came  dragging in  at  the 
tail  end  of  the  season,  causing  him  an­
noyance  and  loss  of  trade  and  profit.

When  the  suggestion  was  made  to him 
that  there  were  many  other  lines  made 
just  as  good  and  why  not  let  the  tardy 
fellow  rest  awhile  and  give  some  one 
else  a  chance,  he  said  be  had  made  up 
his  mind  to  do  so  several  times  but they 
always  promised  to  do  better  and  he 
continued  to  give  them  another  chance 
but  he  had  about  reached  the  limit.

There  are  too  many  good 

lines  of 
shoes  made  nowadays  for a  dealer  to  be 
compelled  to  put  up  with  such  (to  put 
it  mildly)  inconveniences.  There  is  no 
one 
line  so  all  powerful  that  a  dealer's 
success  depends  upon  his  having  the 
agency  for  it.

These  tardy  houses  generally  expect 
their  bills  to  be  met  promptly  and  it  is 
no  more  than  fair  that  they  should  be 
compelled  to  ship  promptly. 
If  you 
can  not  get  satisfactory  accommodations 
at  one  house  try  another.

As  to  the  second  complaint.  Admit­
ting  such 
is  the  case,  it  is  the  logical 
outcome  of  the  increased  demand  by the 
retailer  for  closer  prices. 
If  the  dealer 
will 
look  over  the  leather  markets  for 
the  past  eighteen months he will  see  that 
the  price  of  leather  has  climbed  stead­
ily  up  and  anything  that  enters  into  the 
cost  of  a  shoe,  with  possibly  the  excep­
tion  of  labor,is  higher to-day  than  ever. 
Yet 
shoes  apparently  never  were  so 
cheap.

Manufacturers  are  all  anxious  for  or­
ders  and  dealers  are  looking  for the  best 
shoe  for  the 
least  money  and  a  great 
many  of  them  are  prone  to  pass  up  a 
line  they  have  handled  with  satisfaction 
for  years  to  buy  from  an  unknown house 
whose  samples  are  as  good  looking  at  a 
little 
less  money  and  often  this  is  the 
beginning  of  his  troubles.

The  merchant  is  vitally  interested  in 
the  price  paid 
labor and  it  should  not 
be  through  him  that  wages  are  reduced. 
Find  a  community 
in  which  labor  is 
paid  good  wages  and  you  find  a  pros­
perous  one  from  the  retailer’s  stand­
point.  But  you  cannot have  cheap  goods 
without  lessening  the  cost  somewhere. 
It  must  either  come  out  of  the  article 
itself or  labor.

One  contention  of  the  trusts  is  that 
they  lessen  the  cost  of  production  but

if  they  do  this  at  the  expense  of  labor, 
instead  of  conferring  a  benefit they work 
a  hardship  on  us  all.

In  the 

last  census  report  on  the  shoe 
business  in  the  United  States  the  statis­
tics  show  very  plainly  where  the  lessen­
ing  in  the  cost  of  production  comes  in. 
The  number of  wage  earners  increased 
.69  per  cent.,  but  the  wages  paid  de­
creased  2.5  per  cent.,  and  the  value  of 
the  product  increased  18.3  per  cent.

These  statistics  also  show  men’s  and 
boys’  shoes  to  have  increased  in  value 
32.8  per  cent,  and  women’s  and  chil­
dren’s  only  2.4  per  cent.  An  attempt  is 
made  to  explain  this  by  stating  that 
low 
women  and  children  wear  more 
shoes  than  formerly. 
If  this  were  a 
fact,  however,  it  would  not  make  the 
difference  for  there  is  very  little  differ­
ence  between  the  cost  of  the  oxford  and 
high  shoe.  Dealers  have  a  better  ex­
planation,  however.  They  say  there 
is 
a  disposition  among  women  to  slight 
their own  and  the  children’s  shoes  in 
favor  of  some  other  more  conspicuous 
part  of  their  wearing  apparel.  Women 
who  used  to  wear  turns  or  welts  at  from 
$4  to $4.50 now  take  a  McKay  at  $2.50 
or $3,  providing it  is  made  up  as  stylish 
as  the  better  grades.

Three  Paragraphs  in  L ighter Vein.
The  man  who  wrote  “ Home,  Sweet 
Home. ”   never  had  a  home.  The  man 
who  composed  “ On  the  Banks  of  the 
Wabash"  never  had  a  bank. 
The 
man  who  composed 
“ Baby  Mine" 
never  bad  a— mine.  The  man  who 
wrote  “ My  Bark  is  on  the  Sea’ ’  never 
had  a  dog. 
The  man  who  wrotie 
“ Tramp!  Tramp!  Tramp!’ ’  never 
owned  a  tomato  can.  The  man  who 
composed  “ Just  One  G irl"  is  married 
and  has  a  breach  of  promise  suit  on  his 
hands.  The  man  who  wrote  “ Goo-Goo 
Eyes”   ought  to  be  shot.
*  *  *

One  day  when  a  merchant  bad  asked 
for  a  market  report  he  was  referred  to 
the  office  boy  who  said:  “ Young  men, 
unsteady;  girls,  lively  and  in  demand; 
firm  but  declining;  mammas, 
papas, 
unsettled,  waiting 
for  higher  bids; 
coffee,  considerably  mixed;  fresh  fish, 
active  and  slippery;  eggs,  quiet but  ex­
pect  to open  soon;  yeast,  rising;  bread- 
stuffs,  heavy;  boots  and  shoes,  those  on 
the  market  soled  and  constantly  going 
up  and  down;  bats  and  caps,  not  so 
high  as  last,  but  foolscap,  which  is  sta­
tionary ;  tobacco  very 
low  and  has  a 
downward  tendency;  silver,  close,  but 
not  close  enough  to  get  hold  of.’ ’

*  *  *

Limburger  cheese 

laid  away  in  cup­
boards  and  refrigerators  will  drive  away 
ants,  says  an  exchange. 
It  will  drive 
the  dogs  out  of  a  barnyard ;  it will drive 
a  mule  through  a  barbed  wire  fence;  it 
will  drive  a  herd  of  cattle  over  a  prec­
ipice;  it  will  drive  a  tramp  from  a 
good  meal;  it  will  drive  a  negro  from  a 
ben  roost,  or  a  man  into  insanity  who 
stays  ten  minutes  within  five  feet  of 
its 
unsavory  presence;  yes,  it  will  drive 
away  aunts  and  uncles,  and  if  we  had 
any  cousins  that 
it  would  not  drive 
away,  we  would  be  tempted  to  disown 
them.

M inor  Chords.

Do  not  “ blow’ ’  about  your  business 
to  customers ;  they  might  conclude  that 
you  are  doing  too  much.

Do  not  ask  two  prices.  Your customer 
might  think  that  the  other  fellow  gets 
the  lowest.

Do  not  keep  a  clerk  down.  Your com­

petitor  might  lift  him  up.

Do  not  fail  to  keep  your engagement 
with  the  traveling  salesman.  His  time 
is  money.

Do  not  expect  returns  from  your first 
It  takes 

advertisement  the  same  day. 
time  for  seeds  to  take  root.

Do  not  say  a  word  in  your  advertise­
In- 

ment  that  you  will  have  to  “ eat.”  
digestion  is  troublesome.

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If  you  want  a  Good  Honest  line  of

SHOES

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

Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket  R eview   o f  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—The  staple  end  of 
the  market  has  shown  more  improve­
ment  than  any  other  and  principally  on 
home  account. 
Individual  sales  have 
not  been 
large,  but  the  aggregate  has 
been  considerably  better  than  for  any 
recent  similar  period.  A  fair  numbet 
of  orders  in  brown  sheetings  in  four 
yard  and  lighter  weights  are  coming  to 
hand  and  prices  are  very  firm.  The 
tendency  on  heavy  goods  is against  buy­
ers  in  spite  of  the  moderate  business  in 
them  which  is  being  transacted  at  pres­
ent  and  has  been  for  some  time  past. 
There  is  no  special  change  in  the  situa­
tion  of  ducks  and  osnaburgs  beyond  the 
advance  of  a  week  ago  in  the  United 
States  Duck  Corporation,  the  sales  re­
ported  remaining  about the same.  There 
has  been  a  good  increase  in  the  number 
of enquiries coming forward for  bleached 
although  up  to  the  present 
cottons, 
writing  there 
is  no  change  to  report  in 
the  actual  tone  of  the  market  and  the 
actual  sales  transacted. 
It  is  evident, 
however,  that  the  time  is  drawing  near 
when  the  buyers  must  take  hold  with 
more  freedom.  Wide  sheetings  are quiet 
and  cotton  flannels  and  blankets  show 
no  special  change.  There  is a  continued 
moderate  demand 
for  denims,  ticks 
and  cheviots  which 
is  met  readily  at 
current  prices.  Other  coarse  colored 
cottons  show  no  itnportant  change.

Printed  Cottons— In  fine  grades  of 
printed  cottons  the  conditions  show  no 
change,  the  reorder  demand  being  of 
moderate  dimensions  only,  but  prices 
are  firm  and  there  are  but  few  odds  and 
ends 
to  be  found.  Percales  remain 
quiet  and  firm.  Printed  flannels  are 
steady  at  previous  prices.  Domets  have 
secured  better  business  during 
this 
week,  but  prices  are  unchanged.  Ging­
hams  are  quiet  at  our  last  quotations. 
The  fine  grades  are  in  very  short  sup­
ply.  The  market  is  bare  and  the  deliv­
eries  on  early  orders  take  care  of  the 
entire  production.
Linings—There 

is  a  moderate  im­
provement  in  the  market  on  linings 
and  the  total  of  transactions  is  consid­
erably  ahead  of  those  of  any  week  for 
some  time  past;  at  the  same  time  the 
general  tone  of  the  lin ings  market  has 
shown  a  decided 
improvement.  There 
are  spots,  however,  in  which  buyers  re­
port  they  have  found  it  easier  to  make 
purchases  than 
last  week.  Percalines 
are  among  the  lines  in  better  demand 
and  the  higher  qualities  and  finer  fin­
ishes  in  both  fast  blacks  and  colors  are 
firm.  Mercerized 
linings  are  securing 
a  fair  business,  but  imitation  lines  are 
irregular  in  demand.  The clothing trade 
is  still  buying  on  a  conservative  basis, 
but  the  business  has  improved  during 
the  past  ten  days.  There 
is  a  quiet 
trade  in  cotton  Italians,  twills,  Alberts 
and  similar  goods  and 
in  warp  satin 
sleeve  linings.

Dress  Goods— Jobbers  are  generally 
in  a  hopeful  mood  as  regards  the  out­
look  for  fall,  claiming  that  all  that  is 
needed  to  stimulate  the  retailers’  inter­
est  in  fall  goods  is  a  healthy  movement 
of 
spring  goods.  According  to  the 
statements  made  by  dress  goods  sales­
men  a  larger  percentage  of  the  business 
being  secured runs to  high-grade  fabrics 
than  for  some  time  past,  which  in  itself 
is  a  feature  of  no  small  moment.  Job­
bers  report  that the bulk of the fall orders 
secured  have  been  on  plain  staples, 
sheer  fabrics  and  fancy  waistings.  The 
garment  maker,  as  well  as  the  retailer,

broadcloths, 

has  kept  pretty  close  to  plain  effects, 
aside  from  waistings.  Viewed  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  mills,  the  fall  dress 
goods  season  has  not  been  a  particular­
ly  successful  one.  The  mills as  a  whole 
are  not  in  a  strongly sold position.  The 
continued  popularity  of  the  sheer  fabric 
has  been  a  menace  to  medium-weight 
dress  goods  fabrics  and  the  effect  of 
this  has  been  felt  by  many  mills.  A 
good  accumulation  of  business  has  been 
secured  on 
cheviots, 
thibets,  meltons;  Venetians  have  not 
been  an  unqualified  success;  some  lines 
have  done  well,  others  poorly.  A  big 
business  has  been  done  on waistings and 
sheer  dress  goods  in  which  both  foreign 
and  domestic  manufacturers 
have 
is  a  distinct  feeling  in 
shared.  There 
some  quarters  that 
in 
etamines,  veilings,  mistore cloths,  gren­
adines,  silk  warps  sublimes,  etc.,  has 
been  overdone,  and  may,  therefore, 
cause  trouble  later  on.  Being  unsuited 
to  general  wear  and  altogether  out  of 
line  with  the  requirements  of  the  poorer 
people— that  is,  the  toiling  masses  and 
the  wives  of  working  men— who  go to 
make  up  the  great  army  of  consumers, 
it  is  claimed  buyers  have  not  used  their 
best  judgment  in  connection  with  such 
purchases.  The  waisting  business  oc­
cupies  a  prominent  place 
in  the  mar­
ket.  Embroidered effects in plain  shades 
imported 
are  good  sellers.  Certain 
fancy  waistings  are  shown 
in  wide 
striped  effects.  Jobbers’  lines  of  waist- 
ings  are  very  comprehensive,  including 
an  almost  endless  array  of  fabrics  at  a 
very  wide  range  of  prices.

the  business 

it 

Underwear— Lightweight ribbed  goods 
for  men  have  now  assumed  an  excellent 
position,  and  prices  on  many  lines have 
risen  to  a  higher  basis.  Balbriggans 
are 
in  a  class  all  by  themselves  this 
season,  far  ahead  of  every  competitor 
in  point  of  sales  and  a  sold-up  condi­
tion ;  and 
is  in  these  goods  that  the 
greatest  difficulty 
is  expected  when 
trouble  comes.  Leading  makers  have 
been  refusing  business  for  two  or  three 
weeks  and  buyers  can  not  find  stocks 
of  these  goods  with  which  to  fill  up  on, 
and  they hardly know which way  to  turn. 
There  is  but  a  small  demand  at  the 
present  time  for  fleeces  for  next  fail, 
and  this  is  due  in  part to the  fact that 
retailers  have  shown  an  unexpected  lack 
of 
interest  for  the  past  week  or  two, 
which  is  due  undoubtedly  to  the  greater 
attention  being  given  to  the  present 
season’s  business  than  to  the  fall.  Thib, 
of  course,  effectually  prevents  buyers  for 
the  jobbing  houses  buying  in  turn.  Ad­
vanced  prices  also  may  have  had  some 
effect,  but  if the  goods are  wanted,  they 
will  be  bought  anyway.  The  mills  are 
now  making  deliveries  of  wool  goods  on 
early  orders.  Most  of  the  mills  making 
these  goods  have  secured  a  good  com­
plement  of  orders  and  will  run  fairly 
steady,  for  the  most  part,  through  the 
season.  There  is some  talk  about  show­
ing  and  selling  goods  for  spring,  1903, 
but  as  yet  there  is  nothing  more  than 
the  preliminary  exhibiting.

Hosiery—The  hosiery  section  of  the 
market  appears  to  be  quieter  than  is 
natural,  but  this  only  by  way  of  con­
trast  with  the  recent  very  busy  period 
which  was 
considerably  prolonged. 
This  trading  was  more  in  the  way  of  a 
good  steady  diet  than  a  rush.  Nearly 
all  the  buyers  are  through  now,  although 
a  few  still  linger  in  the  market,  pick­
ing  up  odds  and  ends.  Buying  has 
been  quite  liberal  on  all  lines.

Carpets— The  carpet  situation  is  still 
a  waiting  one,  with  no  material  changes 
in  the  conditions  as  compared  with  a

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Summer  Underwear

Don’t  wait  too  long  in filling  in your 
stock of summer underwear.  The good 
numbers  are  going  fast.  Our  stock 
this  year  is  the  finest  we ever carried.
Gents’ underwear in plain  and  fancy 

colors.

Ladies’  underwear  in  long  sleeves, 

short sleeves and  sleeveless.

Children’s underwear in long sleeves 

and  short sleeves.

Prices  Range from 45c to $4-5°  Per  dozen.

P.  Steketee  &   Sons

Wholesale Dry Goods,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich 

n m M M n M M i a M n n n M H l » M

The “Empire” Overall

Is  appreciated  by  the  laborer  because  he  gets  a 
good  fitting  article  and  one  that  stands  the  wear 
required  by  such  work  at  a  price  within  the  reach 
of  his  purse— fact is  Empire  Overalls  at  50c  are  as 
good  as  other  makes  at  75c. 
If  you  want  to  in­
crease  your overall  sales  try  the  Empire,  made 
with  and  without  bibs  and coats  to  match.

Grand  Rapids  Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively  Wholesale 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Formerly Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co.

T H E   C O R R E C T   S H A P E

T H E   N O V E L T Y   L E A T H E R   W O RKS,

Perfect and snug fit.  Curves over 
the  hips.  Gives  the  drop  effect. 
Prevents sagging of skirts. 
Specially  adapted  for  the  new 
style of waists  now  in  vogue.  In 
all  the  popular  leathers  and  fa­
brics.  Popular prices.  Send  for 
samples.

Manufactured by

J A C K S O N ,  M ICHIGAN

A  Portable Gas  Plant

You  can  pack  it  in  your  trunk. 
Just  what  all  summer  re­
sorters  want.  W hy,  you  cafl  cook  with  it,  light  your  lawn 
as  well  as  house,  store,  hall  or  park. 
The  half  has  never 
Just  write  us  for  the  rest.
been  told  nor  can  it  be  here. 

M.  B.  Allen  Gas  Light  Company

5 4 $ £   West  Main Street 

Battle Creek,  Michigan

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longer 

few  weeks 

in  hand  that  they  find 

week  ago.  The  market 
is  really  in  a 
between  seasons  position  and  but  little 
business  can  be  expected  until  the  time 
arrives  for  the  new  orders  to  be  taken. 
Manufacturers 
just  now  are  not  given 
over  to  the  seeking  of  new  business  but 
more  to  the  cleaning  up  of  what  few 
scattering  orders  they  have  in  hand  that 
are  unfinished,  in  order  that  the  new 
fall  season  can  commence  with  the  least 
number  of  hindrances  possible.  The 
new  samples  have  been  ready  as  a  rule 
for  some  weeks,  and  mills  in  general 
are  ready  to  start  off  on  a  new  season  as 
soon  as  the  word  is  given.  Machinery 
has  been  given  a  thorough  overhauling 
as  soon  as  it  has  been  stopped and,  gen­
erally  speaking,  there  will  be  no  need 
of  any  delay 
in  that  respect  when  the 
new  business  commences  to  show  itself. 
This  refers  largely  to  the  yi  mills.  The 
ingrain  manufacturers  have  so  much 
business 
it  a 
hard  proposition  to  give  all the  required 
attention  to  the  preparations  for  the 
coming  season  and  many  of  the  Phila­
delphia  weavers  will  not  be  able  to start 
off  when  the  first  gun 
is  fired.  The 
duplicate  orders  received  by  some  of 
the  manufacturers  were  of  unusual  size, 
which  will  no  doubt necessitate prolong­
ing  the  making  of  this  season’s  goods 
some 
than  was 
first  believed  would  be  a  sufficient  time 
to  run.  While,  as  yet,  no  exact  date 
has  been  set  for  the  opening  of  the 
goods  by  the  big  New  York manufactur­
ers,  it  is  thought  that  some  time  during 
the  week  beginning  May 12  will find  the 
buying  movement  in  order.  Much  se­
crecy,  as  in  past  years,  is  shown  just  at 
this  time,  and  even  the  best 
informed 
man  in  the  trade 
is  not  in  a  position 
to  say  positively  whether  the  new  prices 
are  to  show a  general advance or whether 
more  or  less  weakness  is  likely to  be ex 
perienced.  Surely, if general  conditions 
have  anything  to  do  with  the schedule of 
prices,  higher  prices  would  be  guaran­
teed.  One  very  favorable  feature  for 
those  making  %  goods  which  did  not 
exist a year  ago,  is that  the  surplus  stock 
of  carpets  is  very  small  compared  with 
that  of  other  years.  .  Even  in  NewYork 
jobbing  circles  this  is  quite  noticeable, 
although  the  Smiths  claim  to  be  pretty 
well  stocked  up  with  velvets  and  tapes­
tries.  While  we  do  not  hear  the  trade 
coming  out  openly  and  giving  their 
opinions  as  to  what  the  new  prices  are 
to  be,  some  are  authority  for  the  state­
ment  that  they  will  be  vastly  disap­
pointed 
if  velvets  do  not  show  at  least 
an  advance  of  five  cents.  Other  lines, 
they  say,  should  advance  proportionate­
ly.  Raw  material 
is  as  high,  if  not 
higher,  this  year  than  last.  Jute,  which 
is  a  big  factor  in  the  %  goods  trade,  on 
account  of  its  extensive  use for backing, 
has  advanced  some  two  or  three  cents 
over  last  year's  prices.  Another  item, 
which 
it  would 
increase  over  last  year,  is 
show  a  big 
the  cost  of  labor. 
In  Philadelphia  all 
the 
goods  weavers  and  other  workers 
at  the  present  writing  are  on  the  verge 
of  a  strike,  which  promises  to  tie  up 
every  ^   mill  in  that  city  if  the  15  cent 
increase  in  wages  is  not  granted  by  the 
manufacturers.  The  trouble  coming,  as 
it  does,  just  previous  to  the  beginning 
of  a  new  season  is  likely  to  make it very 
embarrassing  for  the  manufacturers  un­
less  the  demands  of  the  workers  are 
agreed  to.  The  Philadelphia 
ingrain 
weavers,  while  experiencing  a  season 
between  hay  and  grass,  as  far  as  new 
orders  are  concerned,  are  exceedingly 
busy,  as  a  general  thing,  on  old  busi­
ness, which  they  are  anxious  to  clean  up

looks  now  as  though 

before  further  demands  are  put  upon 
them 
in  the  shape  of  the  next  season’s 
initial  orders.  Manufacturers  are  giv­
ing  much  of  their  time  now  to  the  study 
of  the  future  wants  of  their  trade  as well 
as  to  what  is  likely  to  be  done  regard­
ing  the  new  prices.  Philadelphia  weav­
ers,  while  not  expressing  their  views  on 
loudly  as  they  might, 
the  situation  as 
feel  that  better  prices  should  be 
in  or­
der,  whether  in  all  wool  ingrains  or  in 
the  cotton  and  granite  carpets.  Wool 
has  net  been  the  only  commodity  that 
has  held  out  so  remarkably  firm.  Cotton 
has  been  very  high  for  some  months, 
and  to-day  is  quoted  around  its  highest 
mark.  Jute  has  advanced  some 
few 
cents.  Manufacturers  of  the  cotton  in­
grains,  as  well  as  those  of  jute,  are  as 
enthusiastic  in  arguing  for  high  prices 
as  their  fellow  manufacturers  of  wool 
ingrains.  They  are  very  busy  on  old 
business  and  they  anticipate  a  goodly 
number  of  orders  when  the  new  season 
commences.

The  K ind  o f Young  Men  Needed.

A  merchant  who  sought  a  clerk,  with 
a  view  to  teaching  him  the  business 
and  ultimately  making  him  a  partner 
in  the  establishment,  thus  described  the 
specifications  required:

He  must  be  under  thirty  years  of  age, 
preferably  from  twenty  to  twenty-five. 
He  must  have  been  taught  by  good  par­
ents  habits  of 
courtesy,  self-control, 
diligence  and  economy.

He  must  have  a  good  public  school 

education.

He  must  have  good  sense;  a  smart 
fellow  without  gumption  will  not  fill  the 
bill.  He  must  have  a  level  head.
ally,  mentally  and  morally.

He  must  be  a  genuine  man,  physic­

His  health  must  be  robust  that  he 
may  be  able  to  work  bard  and  to hold 
j out.

He  must  have  an  alert  mind,  rare 
judgment,  a  quick  understanding  and  a 
good  memory.

He  must  be  able  to  express  his  ideas 
in  few  words  and  so  plainly  that  none 
can  fail  to  understand  him.

should  have  a  high  sense  of 
humor,  easily  seeing  the  funny  side  of 
things  and  appreciating  it.

He  must  be  patient,  resolute,  ener­

He 

getic  and  ambitious.

He  must  have  a  reverent  mind,a  gen­

tle  heart  and  a  manly  spirit.

He  must  have  high  aims  and  it  must 
be  with  him  not  how  much  money  he 
can  make  but  how  much  good he can do.
He  must  be  an  intense  hater of  wrong 
lover  of  truth 

injustice ;  a  hearty 

and 
and  righteousness.

He  must  be  honest  to  the  core.
He  must  have  a  pure  heart  in  a  clean 

body.

He  must  have  the  instincts  of  a  gen­
in  the 

tleman  and  hold  womanhood 
highest  esteem  and  honor.

He  must  be  cheerful,  hopeful  and  not 
easily  cast  down. 
If  knocked  down  he 
must  be  able  to  jump  up  and move right 
on.

He  must  be  of  strictly 
habits,  not  touching  alcohol 
form,  and  not  using  tobacco.

temperate 
in  any 
A  young  man  that  will  size  up to these 
requirements,  or  know  of  one  any­
where,  or  know  any  one  who  knows  of 
any  one,  or  know  of  any  one  who  knows 
any  one  who  knows  of  any  one,  kindly 
inform  at  my  expense.

True  to  H is  Your.

The  two  men  met at  the  door of a meat 

market.

One  was  coming  out  and  the other was 
going  in,  and  each  had  a  basket  on  his 
arm.

“ I  thought  you  said,”   remarked  the 
one  who  was  about  to  enter,  “ you  were 
going  to  do  what  one  man  could  do to 
knock  out  the  Beef  Trust  by  not  eating 
any  more  beef.’ ’

"T h at’s  what  I  said,and  I ’m  sticking 
to  it,”   replied  the  other,  showing  him 
the  contents  of his  basket.  “ There  isn’t 
any  liver  trust  that  you  know  of,  is 
there?”

A W N I N G S

f o r   s t o r e s   a n d   h o u s e s

Rugs from Old Carpets

Retailer of  Fine  Rngs and  Carpets.

Absolute cleanliness is our hobby  as well 
as  our  endeavor  to  make  rugs  better, 
closer woven, more durable  than others. 
We cater to first class  trade  and  it  you 
write for our 16  page  illustrated  booklet 
it will make  you  better  acquainted with 
our methods and new process.  We  have 
no agents.  We pay the freight.  Largest 
looms In United States.
Petoskey  Rag  Mfg.  &  Carpet  Co.,

L im ited

455-457 Mitchell  St„ 

Petoskey, Mich.

Things We Sell

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

T EN TS,  FLAGS  AND  COVERS.

We can save you  money  on  your  awnings  as 
we  carry  a  large  stock  of  Cotton  Ducks  and 
Awning Stripes.

Directions  for  Measuring.

II  and  9  Pearl  St., 

Measure 7% feet from  sidewalk—this is  where 
frame  fastens  to  building—then  send  distance 
1 to 2,2  to 3.3  to 4  (see  cut.)  Upon  receipt  of 
same we.will send samples and bottom prices.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

C H A S .  A .  C O Y E ,

Weatherly &  Pulte

r Nature  gave  Minnesota  and  Dakota  the  proper  soil  and 

climate  to  grow  wheat  and  we  have  learned  by  long  ex­
perience  the  best  way  to  grind  it.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

CERESOTA

is  the  result  of  good  wheat  and  good  milling.

OLNEY  &  JUDSON  GROCER  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Distributors for Western  Michigan

THE  FRANK  B. TAYLOR COMPANY

IMPORTERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS 

135  JEFFERSON  AVENUE

DETROIT, Mich.,

May 7,  1902.

MR. MERCHANT,
Dear Sir:

"Decoration Day" will  soon be 

here.  How about a few FLAGS?  Get 
your order in early.

U N IT E D   S T A T E S   FL A G S

PRINTED  MUSLIN.  MOUNTED  ON  STICKS 

Full number of stars.  Best quality, fast and bright oil colors, will stand  rain.

gross
No.
in__ . ...$  13
2  x  3 
l,
2Hx 4 
in__
2,
17
3V4x  6 
in —
30
3,
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6  x  9ÎJ  in__
5.
72
94
5%, 7  xl0% in__
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6,
in..,.. ....  2  15
ll  xis 
7,

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03
04
05
08
10
15
25

gross
No.
in..........
x22 
.  2 75
7)4, 12
in.......... .  3  13
8a,  14 x24 
8,  18 X27K in.......... .  4 40
in.......... .  7 60
9,  20 x36 
in.......... .  11  OO
10,  27 x43 
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doz.
30
35
50
75
1  25
1  50
2  00

SEWED  WOOL  STANDARD  BUNTING  UNITED  STATES  FLAGS

These flags are made from the best quality of bunting,  and  finished  in  the 
very best manner.  Stripes and seams double sewed.  Muslin stars sewed on both 
sides.  Strong canvas headings, double corners and with nickel plated  grommets, 
In sizes up to 10x15 feet, and the larger sizes with Manila rope.
3 feet by 5 feet, each....................................................................................................  $1  60
4 feet by 6 feet, each..............................................:....................................................  2 25
5 feet by 8 feet, each....................................................................................................  3  10
6 feet by 10 feet, each..................................................................................................  4 25

THE FRANK*B. TAYLOR COMPANY.

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

Musselman  Grocer  Company

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Established  1880

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Musselman  Grocer  Company

Traverse  City,  Mich.

If you  do  not  have  a  connection  with 
either  of  these  houses,  we  suggest  that 
you  correspond  with  one  of  them,  or  at 
least  investigate  their  ability  to  serve  the 
retail grocers of Michigan.

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

EGOS §

W e are the largest receivers  of  eggs  i  
in this section.  We have a large and  M 
growing demand  for  Michigan  eggs  i  
and  can  handle  all  you  can  send.  |j 
W e  guarantee  prompt  returns  and  gj 
full  market  value  on  all  consign- m 
ments.  W e  have  been  established  1 
35  years  and  have  a  reputation  for  i  
honesty and  fair  dealing.  We  refer  j| 
you to  the  Third  National  Bank  of 
Baltimore or the Mercantile Agencies.  ||

I 

have  before  called  attention  to  the 

Butter  and  Eggs  "

Observations  by  a G otham   E gg  Man.
The  question  of  the  use  of  second 
hand  egg  cases,  briefly  referred  to  in 
this  column 
last  week,  is  of  sufficient 
importance  to  warrant  further  discus­
sion.  Second  hand  cases  are  always 
objectionable,  but  the  disadvantages  of 
their  use  increase  materially  as  the  sea­
son  advances 
and  we  get  warmer 
weather,  and  a  closer  discrimination  in 
buying  goods.  Besides  being  of  unat­
tractive  appearance,  the  second  hand 
egg  case  is  generally  weak  and  unfit to 
carry  its  fragile  contents  safely;  break­
age  is  materially  increased,  and  it  will 
readily  be  seen  that  this  is  a  most  seri­
ous  fault,  especially 
in  warm  weather, 
when  a  few  broken  eggs  soon  create  a 
flavor  about  the  package  which  con­
demns  it  in  the  estimation  of  any  good 
buyer.  A  little  money  saved  by  the  use 
of  cheap  egg  cases  or cheap,  weak  fill­
ers,  is  truly  the  most  false  economy: 
what  is  gained  in  cost  is  often  lost  over 
and  over  again 
in  a  lessened  selling 
value,  and  we  can  not  urge  shippers  too 
strongly  to  use  only  strong,  substantial 
packages  and  fillers  for  all  grades  of 
eggs;  even  the 
lower grades  are  worth 
packing  well. 
I  have  heard  receivers 
complaining  a  good deal lately about  the 
difficulty 
in  moving  poorly  packed 
eggs— old  cases  or  bad  fillers—and  it 
has  become 
impossible,  as  a  rule,  to 
find  buyers  for  such  except  at  a  consid­
erable  concession  in  price.

*  *  *

fact  that  according  to  the  present  Egg 
Rules  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  E x­
change  no  provision  is  now  made  for  a 
“ loss  off“   season.  Egg  shippers  have, 
for  a 
long  time  railed  against  the  old 
method  of  selling  eggs  “ buyer’s  loss 
off”   in  this  market  and for  several  years 
past  there  has  been  a  rapid  growth  in 
the  custom  of  selling  all  grades  of  eggs 
“ at  the  m ark."  In  discussing  this  sub­
ject heretofore  we  have  taken the ground 
that  while  some  grades  of  eggs  might, 
under  some  conditions,  realize  a  little 
more  when  sold  loss  off  than  when  sold 
at  mark  it  would  be  a  benefit  to  the  egg 
trade  as  a  whole  if  all  sales  were  made 
at  mark  because  such  a  custom  would 
make  a  wider  range  of  values,  permit  a 
proper  recompense  for  proper grading 
before  shipment,  and 
lessen  the  enor­
mous  waste  that  occurs  every  summer 
through  the  shipment  of  eggs  which  are 
either  worthless  when shipped or become 
so  before  they  reach  the  final  distribu­
tor.  This  view  has  been  accepted  by 
the  present  Egg  Committee  of  the  New 
York  Mercantile  Exchange  and  in  the 
revision  of  Egg  Rules  made  last  winter 
the  “ loss  off”   provisions  were  elimi­
nated  and  there  is  now  no  official  loss 
off  season  as  there  has  been  heretofore. 

*  *  *

This  brings  up,  in  some  stores,  an  in­
teresting  question  as  to  the  rate  of  com­
mission  for  egg  sales.  The  great  vol­
ume  of  egg  movement  during  the  late 
winter  and  spring,  and  the  ease  of  sell­
ing  during  the  time  when  the  rules  used 
to  provide  for  “ at  mark”   sales—when 
all  eggs  were  comparatively  fresh  and 
sound  and  when  a  critical  examination 
of quality  could  be  made  by  simply  in­
specting  for size and cleanness—induced 
many  commission  men  to  reduce  their 
charge  for commission  on  the  large  ac­
counts  during  that  season  to  15c  per 
case;  but  it  has  always  been  customary 
to  put  the  commission  back  to  a  full  5 
per  cent,  basis  at  the  beginning  of  the 
“ loss  off”   season.  The  question  now

rises,  when  shall  receivers  restore  their 
commission  charge  to  the  full  5  per 
cent.,  the  usual  dividing 
line  of  an 
official  “ loss  off”   season  being  elimi­
nated ?

*  *  *

It  is  perfectly  obvious  that  egg  sales 
satisfactory  prices—obtaining  full 
at 
value  for  quality—are  much  more  diffi­
cult,  and  require  far  more  labor  and 
skill,  when  the  quality  of  the  receipts  is 
very  irregular,  as  in  warm  weather,  than 
when  all  are  practically 
sound  and 
fresh.  When  warm  weather  causes  bad 
effects  in  egg'qualities  and  when our  re­
ceipts  begin  to  show  a  varying  propor­
tion  of  bad  or  weak  eggs,  a  receiver  is 
compelled  to  make  a  very  careful  in­
spection  of  every  lot  before  he  can  form 
a  proper  judgment  of 
its  quality  and 
true  value;  this  labor  is  especially  nec­
essary  when  sales  are  made  at  mark  and 
no  commission  man  can  afford  to  sell 
eggs  at  mark 
in  warm  weather  for as 
small  a  rate  of  compensation  as  he  can 
in  the  spring. 
labor  in­
volved 
in  selling  irregular qualities  of 
eggs  at  mark  is  far greater  than  in  sell­
ing  them  “ buyer’s 
loss  off”   and  now 
that  this  old  system  has  been  practically 
eliminated,  largely  upon  the 
insistance 
of  egg  shippers,  the  latter should  under-, 
stand  fully  that  the  services  of  a  com­
mission  man  are  really  more  valuable 
than  before  because  it  takes  more  work, 
more  skill  and  a  more  thorough  knowl­
edge  of  the  business  to  be  able  to  judge 
net  values  and  get  all  the  goods  are 
worth,  whatever  grade  they  may  be  in. 

In  fact,  the 

*  *  *

It  is  obvious  that  when  agreements 
have  been  made  to  sell  eggs  at  a  lower 
rate  of  commission  than  5  per  cent, 
during  the  “ mark”   season,  based  upon 
the  old  rules,  the  rate  will  have  to  be 
restored  as  soon  as  egg  qualities  begin 
to  be  very  irregular;  as  it  was  formerly 
customary  to  restore  these  cut  rate  com­
missions  at  the  beginning  of  the  “ loss 
off’ ’  season,  and  as  there is  now no  such 
guide  for  uniformity,  and  as  uniform­
ity  is  desirable,  and  as  the  “ loss  off" 
season  has  heretofore  begun  about  the 
middle  of  May,  we  would  respectfuly 
suggest  that  May  15  be  universally  rec­
ognized  by  the  commission  trade  as  the 
time  to  restore  all  egg  commissions  to 
the  full  5  per  cent,  basis.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

No Introduction.

A  young  married  couple— from  the 
country,  of  course—attended  an  exhibi­
tion  of  “ dissolving  view s."  The  bride, 
being  very  pretty,  attracted  the  atten­
tion  of  a  stylish-looking  city  gentleman 
who  happened  to occupy  the  same  seat 
with  the  happy  pair.  During  the  ex­
hibition  the  part  of  the  hall  occupied 
by  the  audience  was  obscured.  By  some 
accident  the  lights  went  out also  on  the 
stage.  During  the  darkness  the  young 
man  from  the  city  pressed  the  band  of 
the  bride.  She  was  much  alarmed,  but 
offered  no  resistance.  Then  he  actually 
leaned  over  and  kissed  her.  This  was 
too  much,  and  the  wife  resolved  to  tell 
her  husband.

“ John.”
“ What?"
“ This  feller’s  kissing  me.”
"W ell,  tell  him  to  quit.”
“ No,  John,  you  tell  him .”
“ Tell  him  yourself.”
“ No,  John,  I  don’t  like  to  tell  him. 
You  tell  him.  The  gentleman  is  a  per­
fect  stranger  to  me.”

Fisherm an’s  Luck.

“ I understand that Miss  Specie caught 

a  Duke  while  fishing  in  Europe.”

“ Yes, but  she declares  that  she  booked 
two  princes  and  they  got  away  just  as 
she  was  about  to  land  them.”

A  disciple  is  a  man  who  does  not  un­
derstand.  He  thinks  that  he  is  on,  but 
he  isn’t.

G.  M.  Lamb  &   Bro.

301  Exchange  Place, 
corner South  Street,

BALTIMORE,  Md.

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Our  stocks  are  complete,  quality  the  best,  prices  the  lowest.

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P O T A T O E S

Wanted in carlots only.  We pay highest  market  price. 

In  writing  state  variety

and  quality.

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G R A N D   R A PID S.  MICH.

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Butter

I  always 
want  it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

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W ater In  B atter.

The  British  authorities  have  estab­
lished  a  rule  that  butter containing more 
than  16  per  cent,  of  water shall  be  con­
impure  unless  proved  to  the 
sidered 
contrary;  and 
it  is  also  announced  that 
Germany  has  adopted  a  rule  declaring 
that  butter  containing  less  than  80  per 
cent,  fat  shall  be considered adulterated. 
These  facts  should  be  noted  by  export­
ers  and  they  serve  to  indicate  the  tend­
ency  toward 
legal  restriction  of  the 
amount  of  water  that  may  be  incorpo­
rated  in  butter. 
It  will  be  noted  that  in 
the 
law  recently  passed  by  our  own 
Congress,  butter  containing an  “ abnor­
mal  quantity of  water1'  comes  under  the 
head  of  “ adulterated,"  but  no  legal 
standard  is  fixed ;  presumably the carry­
ing  into  effect  of  this  law  will  compel 
the  Treasury  Department,  under  whose 
survellance  the  manufacture  of  adulter­
ated  butter  will  come,  to  establish  a 
legal  standard  of  water  content,  beyond 
which  the  quantity  would  be  considered 
“ abnormal.”

Where  any  attempt  has  been  made  by 
states  of  this  country  to  prescribe  the 
maximum  water  content  for  legal  butter 
various  limits  have  been  set  and  some­
times  with 
insufficient  consideration. 
Ohio  has  a  standard  requiring  at  least 
80  per  cent,  fat—allowing  fo‘r  about  17 
per  cent,  water  as  a  maximum— while 
Oregon  makes  a  water  content  of  more 
than  14  per  cent,  and  the  District  of 
Columbia  of  more  than  12  per  cent,  il­
legal.  These  latter  requirements  appear 
absurd  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  great 
majority  of  the  butter  of  commerce 
shows  a  water  content  between  12  and 
16  per  cent.

In  the  event  of  a  standard  being  es­
tablished  by  the  Treasury  Department 
it  would  seem  that  the  Ohio  standard  of 
80  per  cent,  fat,  now  adopted  by  Ger­
many,  would  fairly  represent  the  com­
mercial  requirements  and  be  sufficiently 
exacting 
fraudulent 
practices.____  

from 
_____

to  protect 

R estricting  th e  Sale o f  Bob  Teals.

The  new  law  affecting  the  sale  of  bob 
veals 
is  being  rigidly  enforced  of  late 
and  butchers  and  retail  dealers  who 
have  been 
in  the  habit  of  using  these 
veals  have in  many  cases  suffered a seri­
ous  loss  by  having  the  stock  seized from 
their  hands.  Previously  the  inspectors 
were  vigilant  regarding 
the  sale  of 
dressed  veals  when  too  young  to  be  fit 
for  food,  but  of  late  they  have  given 
much  attention  to  live  veals,  and  while 
the 
inspectors  do  not  feel  justified  in 
seizing  them  alive  they  have  followed 
persons  purchasing  them  and  as  soon  as 
killed  have  seized  them.  One  case 
lot  of  70  bobs  which  a 
recently  was  a 
butcher  bought  alive  and 
in  order to 
elude  the 
inspectors  he  carted  them  to 
Jersey  City  to  a  slaughter  house  and 
after  killing  they  were  brought  back  to 
New  York.  The  inspectors  kept  the 
calves 
in  sight  and  as  soon  as  they 
reached  New  York  City  after  leaving 
Jersey  they  were  seized  and  the 
lot 
proved  a  total  loss  to  the  butcher.  An­
other  butcher  bought  thirty  odd  veals, 
inspectors  were  watching 
and  as  the 
in  the  pens  at  the 
them  he 
stockyard.  The 
inspectors  seeing  that 
they  had  no  food  or  water  notified  the 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Animals  who  killed  the 
lot, 
whereupon  the  carcasses  were  seized  by 
the  Board  of  Health  inspectors.  In  most 
cases  so  far the  shippers  have  received 
returns  for these  calves,  as  the  loss  has 
fallen  upon  the  dealers  buying  them, 
but  the  latter are  now  becoming  afraid

left  them 

entire 

to operate  in  calves  below  the  legal  age 
and  it  is  probable  that  shippers  will  not 
receive  much  for  further shipments. 
In 
fact  the  arrivals  have  fallen  off  50  to 
75  per  cent,  during  the  past  few  weeks. 
— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

The  Shrinkage o f Cheese.

In  my  experience  of  fourteen  years, 
and  with  three  different  systems,  I  do 
not  find  that  the  shrinkage  of  cheese  is 
greater  in  a  comparatively  dry  store 
than  in  one  where  the  air passes directly 
from  the  ice  to the  room  containing  the 
boxes  of  cheese.

With  the  system  of  ice over and valves 
down  to  storage  room,  temperature  40 
deg.,  air  at times  saturated,  cheese  av­
eraged  two  pounds  shrinkage 
in  five 
months.

the 

cheese 

With  the  Cooper  system,  since 

in­
stalled, we  hold  temperature  35  deg.  and 
dry  the  air  to  75  per cent,  of  moisture, 
and 
shrinks  but  about 
one  pound  same  time.  We  tested  weight 
every  month  of  a  few  boxes,  weighing 
to  ounces.  The  air  is  in  constant  cir­
culation from  large  fans.  Why  is  not  the 
shrinkage  more?  We  test  for  moisture 
often  and  hold  temperatures  and  moist­
ure  as  desired. 

A.  D.  DeLand.

A  curious  check  was  presented  to  the 
cashier  of  one  of  the  Kalamazoo  banks 
recently.  This  check,  which  was  for 
$10,  was  made  payable  to  “ the  sweetest 
of  the  sweet,”   and  was  presented  to  the 
cashier  in  the  ordinary  way.  The 
cashier,  naturally  startled  by  the  un­
in  the  body  of  the 
usual  expression 
innocence:  “ Who  is 
check,  asked 
in 
the 
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am,”   replied  the 
in­
dorse 
it  that  w ay,"  said  the  cashier. 
She  did.  And,  as  her  husband’s  ac­
count  warranted  it,  for,  like  a  prudent 
man,  be  had  not  overdrawn  it,  “ the 
sweetest  of  the  sweet"  received  her 
money.

the  sweet?’  ”  
lady. 
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that 

The  good  women  who  founded  the 
Consumers’  League  of  the  City  of  New 
York  never  intended  that  the  organiza­
tion  should  be  regarded  as a nuisance by 
anybody.  On  the  contrary,  the  league 
was  organized  “ to  ameliorate  the  con­
dition  of  working  women,  shop  girls 
apd  other  employes  in  and  about  shops, 
stores  and  workrooms  in  the  City  of 
New  York  and  to  secure 
conditions 
which  shall  conduce  to  the  physical  and 
moral  well-being  of  all  such employes. ”
Those  most  actively  interested  in  the 
work  of  the  League,  and  particularly its 
President,  Mrs.  Frederic  Nathan,  be­
lieve 
the  organization  has  not 
fallen  from  the  higher estate  wherein  it 
was  created.  There  are  others,  how­
ever, who  believe  that  if the  League  has 
not  outlived 
its  usefulness  it  ought  at 
least  to  change its  name.  It is  suggested 
that  the  organization  might be apposite­
ly  rechristened  the  League  for  the  Pro­
motion  of  Interference in  Other People’s 
Business.  The  exigencies  of  perfect 
frankness  require  that  it  should  be  here 
stated  that  those  who  make  this  sugges­
tion  are  mere  men,  and  it  can  not  be 
expected  that  they  can  have  a  proper 
appreciation  of  the  motives  of  gentler 
natures  which  take  to 
ameliorating 
things  as  they  take  to afternoon  teas.

Of  course,  the  women  of  the  League 
insist  that  men  who  hold  such  notions 
about  the  organization  really  do  not 
know  what  they  are  talking  about,  and 
that  they  are,  besides,  extremely imper­
tinent  But  these  particular  men  are 
held  in  rather  high  esteem  in  the  com­
munity. 
In  fact  they  are  commonly  re- 
fered  to as  the  men  who  are  very  large­
ly  responsible  for  the  city’s  commercial 
greatness.  They  have  had  experience 
with  Mrs.  Nathan  and  the  Consumers’ 
League  and  they  assert,  rather  in  sorrow 
than  in  anger,  that  the  organization  has 
become  a  decided  nuisance.

Mrs.  Nathan,  they  insist,  is  a  high- 
minded  woman  particularly  qualified  to 
adorn  the  home.and  if  she  did  not  have 
a  charming  one  of  her own  they  would 
chip 
in  and  buy  one,  even  two,  for  her 
to  adorn,  if  she  would  only  permit  the 
Consumers’  League  to  cease  to  consume 
her  energies.  But  Mrs.  Nathan  is  to be 
neither flattered  nor  frightened  nor  ca­
joled.  She  does  not  intend  to  sell  what 
she  considers  her  birthright  for a  mess 
of pottage.  No,  siree !

It  happens  that  the  League,  in  work­
ing  out  its  destiny,  must  take a  particu­
lar  and  special 
interest  in  the  women 
employed  in  the great department stores. 
In  the  League,  as  in  other organiza­
tions,  what  is  everybody’s  business  is 
nobody’s  business.  So,  as  President 
of  the  League,  Mrs.  Nathan  makes  it 
her  business  to  visit  the  department 
stores  frequently  to  look  after  the  wel­
fare  of  the  girls  and  women  employed 
in  them.  On  these  visits  she  asks  ques­
tions,  sometimes  of  the  employes  and 
sometimes  of  the  employers. 
It  is  be­
cause  of  the  character of  her  questions 
that  the  rechristening  of  the  League  has 
been  suggested.

Among  the  League’s  reasons  for be­
ing  is to  secure  for the women employed 
in  department  stores  fair  wages,  reason­
able  hours  and  good  physical  condi­
tions.  The  merchants  and  the  laws  of 
the  State  seek  to  accomplish  the  same 
things  and  the  Department  of  Health, 
which 
is  responsible  for  the  enforce­
ment  of  such  laws, 
is  rather  of  the 
opinion  that  the  department  store  em-

ployes  would  be  fairly  well  looked  after 
if there  were  no  Consumers'  League. 
The  owners  of  these  stores  and  the  em­
ployes  themselves  are  sure  of  it.  And 
it  happens,  strange  as  it  may  seem  to 
Mrs.  Nathan,  that  the  employes  of  the 
department  stores  do  not  like  Nathan 
methods  any better than do their employ­
ers.

A  good  instance  of  the  estimate  in 
which  the  Consumers’  League  is  held 
by  employes  of  department  stores  was 
furnished  only  a  few  days  ago.  Mrs. 
Nathan  went  to  a  certain  store  and 
asked  to  see  a  member  of  the  firm.  He 
had  long  ago  found  out  that  there  was 
no  use 
in  his  talking  to  Mrs.  Nathan, 
so  he  sent  one  of  the  young  women 
clerks  to  talk  to  her.  When  he  told  the 
girl  what  he  wanted  her  to  do  be 
added:

consideration. 

“ Now,  you  show  Mrs.  Nathan  every 
possible 
Let  her  see 
everything  she  wants  to  see,  and  answer 
all  her  questions  to  the  best  of  your 
ability.  She  may  try  your  patience,  but 
don’t  show  that  she  does.  Get  along 
the  best  way  you  can  with  her  and  re­
port  to  me  afterward."

In  about  half  an  hour  the  young 
woman  came  back  to  report.  To  her 
employer  she  said:

“ Mr.  Blank,  there’s  absolutely  no  use 
in  trying  to  explain  things  to  Mrs.  Na­
than.  She  simply  comes  around  to  find 
fault and  will  utterly  ignore  all the good 
things  done  by  the  firm  for  the  em­
ployes.  All  the  girls  guy  her  and  I  can 
hardly  be  civil  to  her.  When  she  comes 
again  I  wish  you  would  get  somebody 
else  to  talk  to  her. ’ ’

“ All 

right,”   said  her  employer. 
“ You  have  had  your  turn,  and  if  she 
comes  around  again  I’ ll  ask  some  of  the 
other  girls  to  see  her.”

The  fact  that  the  women  and  girls  in 
the  big  stores  are  not  particularly  de­
sirous  of  Mrs.  Nathan’s  official  atten­
tion makes  no difference to Mrs.  Nathan. 
The  employes  are  indifferent  only  be­
cause  they do  not  know any better— Mrs. 
Nathan  will  teach  them.

There  are  Consumers’  Leagues 

in 
other  cities— notably  one 
in  Boston, 
where  the  merchants  and  the League are 
in  such  perfect  harmony  that  Mrs.  Na­
than  quotes  their  success  in  her  reports 
as  showing  what  might  be  done.  But 
the  results  only  impress  her and  she  re­
mains  unaffected  by  the  difference  be­
tween  her  methods  and  those  pursued 
in  Boston.  Mrs.  Nathan’s  society  prints 
a  list  of  stores  which  are  recommended 
to  purchasers  as  being  worthy  of sup­
port.  This  she  calls  a  “ white  list”  and 
by  inference,  those  not  on  the 
list  are 
unworthy  of  support.  The  merchants, 
even  most  of those  on  the  “ white  list,”  
do  not agree  with  her  and  object  to  the 
whole  procedure. 
In  Boston  the  league 
has  no  “ white  list.”

The 

latest  move  of  Mrs.  Nathan  to 
facilitate  her  efforts  for  the  League  was 
to  get  herself  made  a  sanitary  inspector 
of  the  Health  Department  to  serve with­
out  pay.  She  told  Commissioner  Led- 
erle  that  she  could  be  of  so much service 
to  the  Department,  you  know,  if she 
were  only  made  an 
She 
could  then  wear  an  inspector’s  badge, 
you  know,  and  could  be  a  real  official 
and  have  authority  and  go  right into  the 
stores  and  do  things.  By  displaying 
that  badge  she  could  ameliorate  with  a 
vengeance.

inspector. 

The  Commissioner  talked  it over with 
some  of  his  associates  and  Mrs.  Nathan 
got  her  appointment  and  badge,  to  hold 
both  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Commission­
er. 
It  may  be  expected  that  now  there

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that’s  all  wool  and  a  yard  wide  and 
properly  labeled.

that 

inspector’s  badge. 

Commissioner  Lederle  thinks  he acted 
within  his  powers  under  the  law  when 
he  appointed  Mrs.  Nathan  an 
inspector 
without  pay  and  permitted  her  to  wear 
It  was  pointed 
an 
out  yesterday,  however, 
it  was 
never  contemplated,  when  the  law  was 
passed,  to  have  inspectors  going  around 
town  and  inserting  themselves  in  stores 
and  factories  and  other  places  without 
pay.  The  intent  of  the  law,  it  was  said, 
is  to  have  the  department  stores  and 
factories  and  other places where children 
and  women  are employed  inspected  by 
regularly  appointed  and  regularly  paid 
inspectors  of  the  Health  Department.

Of  course,  no  one  would  ever think  of 
suggesting  that  Mrs.  Nathan  would  im­
properly  use  the  power conferred  upon 
her  but  such  a  practice  offers  magnifi­
cent possibilities to persons appointed  as 
Mrs.  Nathar.  was  appointed  to  employ 
annoying  and  blackmailing  tactics  upon 
the  proprietors  of  stores  and  factories. 
Maybe  Commissioner  Lederle  did  not 
think  of  the  bad  precedent  he  was  es­
tablishing  when  he  appointed  Mrs. 
Nathan  a  sanitary 
inspector  without 
pay.

Some  of  the  merchants  are thinking  of 
forming  a  League  for  the  Improvement 
of  the  Condition  of House Servants.  As 
soon  as  the details  are  perfected  and  the 
organization,  is 
in  working  trim,  the 
President  will  make  a  house-to-house 
canvass  for  the  purpose  of  finding  out 
the  true  condition  of  house  servants  in 
New  York. 
In  the  course  of  his  visita­
tions  he  will  call  on  Mrs.  Nathan  and 
ask,  among  others,  the  following  ques­
tions :

“ Madam,what  salary  do  you  pay  your 

cook?’ ’

off?’ ’

“ Do  you  give  her  every  other  night 

“ If  your  breakfast  hour 

o’clock,  do  you  pay  her  extra 
meal  is  served  at  7?”

is  at  9 
if  the 

“ On  occasions  when  you  entertain, 
do  you  pay  her  for  working  overtime?”
“ Do  you  send  her  to the  country  in 
the  summer  for  a  vacation  and  pay  her 
wages  while  she  is  gone?”

“ Do  you  pay  your  butler  as  much  as 

a  waitress,  and  if  not,  why  not?”

“ Do  you  provide  a  gymnasium  for 
your  servants,  where  they  may  swing 
dumb  bells  and  cavort  on  the  flying 
trapeze?”

“ Do  you  provide  easy  chairs  in  your 
kitchen  so  that  your  cook  may  sit  while 
she  chops  hash?”

“ Do  you  provide  a  box  at  the  opera

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for all  of  your  servants  and  have  you  a 
telephone  and  a  wireless  telegraph  ap­
paratus  in  the  kitchen?”

“ Do  you  send  your  butler  to  the 
Keeley  cure  after  he  has been on a bat?”
If  Mrs.  Nathan  answers  these  ques­
tions  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  President 
of  the  House  Servants’  League, 
that 
officer  will  promptly  stick  the  League’s 
label  on  Mrs.  Nathan’s  doorpost  to  give 
her  a  certificate  of  character  to  any 
bouse  servants  out  of  a  job  who  may 
happen  to  pass  that  way.

Dorothy  Dix.

W arning  to  Children  to  B e More Cleanly.
Commissioner  of  Health  Reynolds,  of 
Chicago,  believes  that  school  children 
should  be  taught  better  manners  with 
reference  to  the  care  of  their  mouths 
and  noses. 
If  they  are  in  the  habit  of 
wetting  their  fingers,  spitting  on  their 
slates,  making  a  general  depository  of 
their  mouths  or  swapping  apple  cores, 
candy,  chewing  gum,  half-eaten  food 
whistles,  bean  blowers  or  anything  of 
that  nature,  they  should  be  punished  as 
severely  as  for  any  other  offense;  ac­
cording  to  his  edict.  He  has  sent  a 
copy  of  the  rules  to  the  Board  of  Edu­
cation,  with  the  hope  of  having  them 
introduced  in  the  public  schools.  Here 
are  some  of  his  suggestions :

Teach  the  children—Not  to  spit;  it  is 
rarely  necessary.  To  spit  on  a  slate, 
floor  or  sidewalk  is  an  abomniation.  .

Not  to  put  the  fingers  into  the  mouth.
Not  to  pick  the  nose.
Not  to  wet  the  fingers  with  saliva 

in 

turning  the  leaves  of  books.

Not  to  put  pencils  into  the  mouth  or 

moisten  them  with  the  lips.

Not  to  put  money  into  the  mouth.
Not  to  put  pins  into  the  mouth.
Not  to  put  anything  into  the  mouth 
except  food  and  drink  (and  the  tooth­
brush).

Teach  the  children  to  wash  the  hands 
and  face  often.  See  that  they  keep  them 
clean. 
If  a  child  is  coming  down  with 
a  communicable  disease  it  is  reason  to 
believe  that  there  is  less  chance  of 
in­
fecting  persons  and  things  if  the  hands 
and 
face  are  washed  clean  and  not 
daubed  with  the  secretions  of  the  nose 
and  mouth.

Teach  the  children  'to  turn'the  face 
aside  when  coughing  and  sneezing  if 
they  are  facing  another  person.

Children  should  be  taught  that  their 
bodies  are  their  own  possessions;  that 
personal  cleanliness  is  a  duty;  that  the 
mouth 
is  for  eating  and  speaking  and 
should  not  be  used  as  a  pocket,  and  the 
lips  should  not  take  the  place  of fingers.

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“  You  seem  pleased  when  these  rac­
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rogated  the  new  boarder  at  the  farm 
house.

“ Certainly!”  

old 
boarder. 
“ If  it  wasn’t  for  them  run­
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never  have  chicken  on  the  table.”

responded 

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It  has  been  adopted  by 
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of economy.  Used  in the country because  it  is the  best,  the  cheapest  and 
most convenient lighting system on  the market.  Costs you nothing to inves­
tigate—write for catalogue and estimates for equipping  your store.

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157  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago

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145.147 Ellicott  St.; Dayton, » 6  S. Ludlow St.;  Sioux  City, 417  Jackson St.; 

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The New York Market

Special  Feature«  of the Grocery and Prod­

uce  Trades.

Special Correspondence.
New  York,  May 

io—Coffee  contin­
ues  to  accumulate  all  over  the  world. 
The  year’s  receipts  at  the  primary 
points  of  Rio  and  Santos  from  July  I, 
1901,  to  a  similar  date  in  1902  promise 
to  be  over  15,000,000  bags.  So  far  they 
have  amounted  to  14,179,000,  against 
9,901,000  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year. 
In  store  here  and  afloat  there  are 
2,383,924  bags,  against  1,240,870  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Prices  are  so 
low  that  sellers  are  not  making  any  spe­
cial  effort  to  dispose  of  stocks  and  mat­
ters  are 
simply  drifting.  Demand 
during  the  week  has  been  of  an  average 
character and  at  the  close  No. 7  is  worth 
5. 44@6c.  A s  to  the  milder  sorts  the 
week  has  seen  a  better  demand  than 
is  still  very 
existed  before,  but  there 
little  actual  business.  Good  Cucuta 
is 
quotable  at 8X@8j£c.  East  Indias  show 
improvement  and  prices  are  well 
some 
sustained.
In  tea  there  is  a  very  light  volume  of 
trade.  The  small  demand  which  exists 
is,  as  has  been  the  case  for  some  time, 
chiefly  for  Country  Greens  and  Ping- 
sueys.  Black  teas  are,  for the  present, 
“ relegated  to  the  rear.”

There 

is  a  growing  confidence  in  the 
sugar  situation  as  the  season  advances 
and  if  we  do  not  have  winter  weather  it 
is  likely  we  shall  see  an  advance  in 
rates.  Orders  have  been  fairly  satisfac­
tory  during  the  week,  but  no  delay  is 
experienced 
in  filling  the  same  very 
quickly.

The  week  has  not  been  as  active  in 
rice  as  were  the  few  previous  ones,  and 
yet  sellers  have  little  to complain  of  and 
a  good  deal  to  be  thankful  for.  Prices 
are  well  sustained  and  the  general  out­
look 
is  favorable  for  a  good  summer 
trade.  Prime  to  choice,  S@SHC~
In  spices  pepper  is  steady,  but  this  is 
about  all  that  can  be  said.  No  changes 
jof  importance  are  to  be  noted  in  quota­
tions  and  the  volume  of  trade  is  just 
what  may  be  looked  for  at  this  season 
of  the  year.

For  May  the  molasses  market  this 
week  has  been  exceptionally  active,  es­
pecially  for  the  better  grades, and  prices 
are  very  well  sustained  although  no 
higher.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal,  17 
@2yc.  Foreign 
is  quiet.  Syrups  are 
steady  and  in  moderate  request.

While  there  is  a  steady  sort  of  trade 
in  canned  goods  there  is  no  special  ac­
tivity.  Spot  tomatoes  continue  to  be  at 
the  top  and  some  Jersey  brands  are 
quotable  as  high  as  $i.37^@ i.40.  Fu­
tures,  90@95c,  with  no special  activity. 
Tomatoes,  according  to  some  packers, 
are  things  of  the  past, 
that  is,  very 
cheap  tomatoes.  They  insist  that  the 
crop  is  harder  to  raise  and  that  five 
acres  of  land  are  now  required,  under 
exactly  the  same  conditions  to  produce 
as  large  a  crop  as  two  and one-half acres 
formerly  bore.  Changing  seasons  is  the 
reason  given  for  this.

lemons  Sicilys  have  shown  some 
advance,  ranging  from  $2.5003.10,  the 
latter  for very  fancy;  Californias,  $2.50 
@2.90.  Oranges  also  show  some  ad­
vance. 
California  navels,  $2>90@5; 
blood,  $3@4.  Bananas  are  firm,  with 
the  demand  quite  active.  Aspinwalls, 
$1. i5@i.2o  per  bunch  for  firsts.

In  dried  fruits  there  has  been  a  con­
tinued  good  demand  for  raisins  at  well- 
sustained  prices.  There 
is  nothing  in 
the  dried  fruit  situation  to  call  for  re­
mark.  Loose  raisins  are  perhaps 
in 
rather  better  condition,  but  the  general 
market  is quiet,  owing  probably  to  free 
arrivals  of  strawberries  and  other  fresh 
fruits.

AH the lately gathered  strength  in  but­
ter  is  retained,  but  it  would  hardly  be 
safe  to  quote  over  25c  for best  Western 
creamery.  The  market  is  pretty  well 
cleaned  up.  With  oleo  out  of  the  way 
it  is 
likely  that  butter  will  “ come  to 
its  own”   again.  Seconds  to  firsts,  22@ 
24^c;  Western imitation creamery,  2i@ 
22c;  Western  factory,  21 @220;  reno­
vated,  2I@22C.

No  change  to  speak  of  has  taken 
is

place  in  cheese  and,  while  old  stock 

In 

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

growing  less,  there  is  no  advance  in 
rate.  Full  cream,  old,  I3@ i3#c;  new, 
i i %c.

In  eggs  the  really  desirable  sorts  are 
not  overabundant  and  the  market 
is 
firm,  with  selected  Western  worth  16& 
@ i7#c.  Regular  pack,  i6 %@ i6 %c.  Of 
the  latter  there  is  a  good  supply and  the 
tendency  seems  to  be  toward  a  lower 
basis.

In  beans  the  market  is quiet.  Choice 
marrows,$2.I7J^@2.20;  medium, $1.72^ 
@1.75; 
red  kidney,
$2.I7^@2.20.

$1.80; 

pea, 

M aking Eggs  T ell  T heir Age«.

From the London Grocery.

it 

immersing 

According  to  a  German  bakers’  and 
confectioners’  organ,  the  age  of  an  egg 
is  now  discovered  by 
in 
a  solution  of  salt  containing,  as  far  as  I 
can  gather,  about  eight  ounces  to  the 
pint.  When  the  salt  has  thoroughly dis­
solved,  the  egg  to  be  tested  is  dropped 
gently 
into  the  glass  containing  the 
solution.  If  the  egg  is  only  one  day  old 
it  sinks  immediately  to  the  bottom ;  if 
three  days  old 
it  sinks  just  below  the 
surface  only,  and  from  five  days  and 
upward  it  floats.

Another  process  has  just been awarded 
a  medal  in  Saxony  by  the  National  So­
is  de­
ciety  of  Poultry  Breeders  and 
scribed  in  a  German  contemporary. 
It 
is  well  known  that  the  air cavity  at  the 
blunt  end  of  the  egg  enlarges  as  the  age 
of  the  egg  increases.  Consequently,  if 
the  egg  be  placed  in  a  solution  similar 
to  the  one  described  above  it  will  have 
an  increasing  tendency  to  float  with  the 
long  axis  vertical.  A  scale  of  angles  is 
placed  at  the  back  of  the  vessel,  and 
from  the  inclination  of  the  egg  to  the 
horizontal  the  age  can  be  gauged  al­
most  to  a  day.  A  new-laid  egg  lies 
horizontal  at  the  bottom  of  the  vessel. 
When  three  to  five  days’  old  the  egg 
raises  itself  from  the  horizontal,  so  that 
its  long  axis  makes  an  angle  of  about  20 
degrees  with  the  horizontal.  At  eight 
days  tbis  angle 
increases  to  about  45 
degrees;  at  fourteen  days 
it  is 60 de­
grees ;  at  about  three  weeks  it  is  about 
75  degrees,  while  after  four  weeks  it 
stands  upright  on  the  pointed  end.

Confused on  th e  Place  o f D estination.
At  a  recent  dinner,  one  of  the  speak­
ers  related  the  story  of  a  visitor  to  a 
Sunday  school  who,  in  addressing  the 
children,  said:

“ I  come  from  Massachusetts;  la m  
on  my  way  to  Maryland;  and  I  have 
stopped  over  here  to  talk  to you children 
and  to  save  you  from  going  to  hell. ”  
After  repeating  this  introduction  to  his 
remarks,  the  visitor  said :

“ Now,  my  children,  where did  I  come 

from?”

chorus.

“ Massachusetts,”   was  the  reply 

in 

“ Where  am  I  going?”   be  then  asked.
There  was  a  pause :  his  geographical 
route  had  evidently  not  been  deeply 
impressed  on  the  gathering.  Then  the 
silence  was  broken—

“ To  hell!”   came  the  prompt  and 
startling  reply  from  an  earnest  but  con­
fused  pupil.

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Now is the  time 

to  buy

Dusters and 

Nets

We  have  the  correct  styles 
and  our prices are very low.

Sherwood  Hall 

Grand  Rapids, Michigan 

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Established  1850.  ______________ 148  READE  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY

C.  N.  RAPP  &   CO.

..Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry..

56  W est  M arket  and  135  Michigan  S ts.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Immediate sales and prompt returns.  Highest 
market price guaranteed.

Boston is the best market for

Butter,  Eggs  and  Beans

and  Fowle,  Hibbard  &  Co.

is the house that can get 
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E G G S !

W e want  Fancy  Fresh  Eggs.
We need them.  We have an outlet for them—and a big outlet, too.
We want large or small lots, but  the better the eggs the better the price. 
We think from the fact that we  retain all our  old shippers  and are con­
stantly adding new ones, we  m ust handle consignm ents  in   a  satisfactory  m anner. 
Why not give us a trial?

HILTON  Su  ALDRICH  CO.

3 9   S O U T H   M A R K E T   S T R E E T  

B O S T O N

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33

T hinks  th e  B utter  Men  Made  a  M istake.
I  am  a  butter  manufacturer and  a but­
ter  jobber. 
I  am  thoroughly  against the 
fraudulent  practice  of  selling  oleo  for 
butter,  and  yet  I  believe the  butter  men 
of  the  country  have  made  a  serious  mis­
take  in  pushing  the  Grout  bill  through. 
I  have  never  known  a  single  law  of  that 
character  that  did  not  react  upon  its 
backers,  and  the  Grout  bill  is  certain, 
before 
it  is  done,  in  my  opinion,  to 
make  the  butter  people  wish  they  had 
not  passed  it.

I  will  make  one  qualification  to  this 
prophecy,  and  that  is  with  regard  to  the 
manufacturer  of  fancy  butter. 
1  believe 
that  he  will  derive  some  benefit from the 
Grout  bill,  but  the  manufacturer  of  me­
dium  and  low  grades  of  butter  will  find 
his  trade  seriously 
interfered  with,  un­
less  I  am  very  greatly  mistaken.

The  butter  market  at  the  present  time 
is,  and  will  be  for  many  months  to 
come,  the  highest  in  recent  years.  The 
cause  of  this  is  to  a  great  extent  aside 
from  the  oleo  bill,  although  that  un­
doubtedly  contributed  to  a  certain  ex­
tent.  The  scarcity  of  cows,  and  the 
heavy  use  of  milk  in  other  directions 
beside  butter,  has  pushed  the  price  of 
milk  up  to  a  very  high  point,  and  must 
of  necessity  carry  butter  up  with  it.

In  the  country  where  most  of  my com­
pany  s  creameries  are  located,  we  are 
paying  to-day  2,]4  to  3  cents  for  milk. 
Last  year  at  this  time  we  were  paying 
is 
equivalent  to  30  cents  per  pound  for 
butter.

cents.  Three  cents 

for  milk 

Butter  is  also  going  to  be  high  all 
summer  and  fall. 
In  Chicago  at  the 
present  time  buyers  are  bidding  22 
cents  per  pound  for  June  tub  butter. 
On  the  Philadelphia  Exchange  a  seller 
offered  June  butter  at  25  cents per pound 
only 
last  week.  These  prices  are  fully 
3  cents  above  normal,  and they  are  very 
likely  to  stay  above  normal.  I  predict 
that  fancy  creamery  butter  will  be  sell­
ing  at  retail  next  November  at  40  cents 
per  pound.

The  high  price  of  butter  is  bound  to 
increase  the  demand  for  oleo,  because 
oleo  is  a  good  deal  better than  bad  but­
ter  and  much  cheaper. 
If  the  butter 
market  stays  where  it  is  now,  an  oleo 
manufacturer could  almost  pay  the  ad­
ditional  8  cents  tax  and  sell  colored 
oleo.  Even 
if  this  can  not  be  done, 
however,  the  conditions  are  bound  to 
increase  the  demand  for  white  oleo,  and 
the  more  white  oleo  is  used  the  less 
medium  and 
low  grade  butter  will  be 
used.

The  idea  that  oleo  is  an 

impure,  un­
wholesome  product  has  almost  passed 
out  of  the  people’s  minds.  Most  every­
body  would  rather  eat  oleo  to-day— even 
white  oleo—than  bad  butter,  for  by  do­
ing  so  they  get  a  better article  for  a 
great  deal 
less  money.  White  oleo, 
which  under  the  new  law  only  pays 
cent  tax,  can  easily  be  sold  at  12  to  14 
cents  per  pound. 
in 
other  cities,  it  is  selling  to-day  at  that 
figure,  on  its  merits,  and  hundreds  of 
families  use  it,  knowing  perfectly  well 
what  it  is.

In  Cleveland  and 

As  an  illustration  of  the  truth  of  my 
statement  that  almost  everybody  will 
now  take  good  oleo 
in  preference  to 
poor  butter,  I  will  cite  an  experience  of 
my  own  when  on  a  recent  visit  to  a 
creamery  town  in  Pennsylvania.  This 
was  a  buttermaking  town,  where  one 
would  naturally  expect  to  find  the  peo­
ple  strong  partisans  of  butter  as  against 
oleo;  yet on  the  station  platform,  on  the 
day  when  I  was  there,  were  six  pack­
ages  of  oleomargarine  which  had  been

shipped  in  from  New  York  State.  The 
Government  stamps  were  affixed  and 
there  had  been  no  attempt  to  defraud 
anybody,  apparently.

The  station  master  stated  that  oleo 
had  come  in  this  way  to  private  fami­
lies  of  the  town  all  winter.  They  had 
preferred  to  eat  it  rather  than  the  poor 
grade  of  butter  which  was then available 
at  a  reasonable  price.

One  of  the  packages  was  broken,  and 
I  tasted  the  contents. 
It  was  made  by 
a  big  Chicago  house  and  was  not  even 
good  oleo.

In  my  opinion,  it  will  pay  any  retail 
grocer  in  Pennsylvania  to  pay  his  State 
license  and  sell  white  oleo  under  the 
Grout  bill. 
I  believe  he  will  find  a 
strong  demand  waiting  for  him ;  so 
large  a  demand,  in  fact,  as  to 
largely 
displace  his  sales  of  low  and  medium 
butter.— K.  in  Grocery  World.

R ecent  Changes  A m ong  Indiana  Mer­

chants.

Big  Spring—Richarsdon  &  Richard­
son  continue  the  general  merchandise 
business  of  Richardson  &  Beatty.

Bluffton— W.  L.  Winning  has  closed 

out  his  notion  stock.

Galveston— Keller  Bros,  succeed  Ver­
non  C.  Keller  in  the  grocery  business.
Garrett— H.  A.  Kingsbury  has  pur­
chased  the  plant  of  the  Garrett  Milling
Co.

Garrett— Read  &  Hunt,  dealers  in  dry 
goods  and  shoes,have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business 
is  continued  by 
Hunt  &  Gettel.

Hammond— Catherine  Scherer  has 
sold  her  grocery  stock  and  retired  from 
trade.

Indianapolis—The  Diamond  Wall 
Plaster  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  U.  S. 
Gypsum  Co.

Indianapolis—John  H.  Dilks,  Presi­
dent  of  the  Indianapolis  Hardware  Co., 
is  dead.

Indianapolis— I.  Grohs  has 

from  the  Indianapolis  Jewelry  Co.

retired 

to 

Indianapolis-----Lilly  &  Stalnaker,
wholesale  and  retail  hardware  dealers, 
have 
the 
amount  of $50,000.

issued  preferred  stock 

Indianapolis—The  style  of  the  L.  C. 
Thompson  Co.,  manufacturer  of  special 
furniture,  has  been  changed  to  the  L. 
C.  Thompson  Manufacturing  Co.

Kirkliu— Hardin  Bros,  succeed  Per­
kins  &  Hardin  in  the  sawmill  business.
Knox—Alex.  H.  Henderson,  drug­

gist,  is  dead.

Monroe  City—Shugert  &  Blaum,  deal­
ers 
in  furniture  and  hardware,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  Shugert  &  Wil­
liams  succeeding.

Muncie— J.  W.  Snodgrass  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  M.  K.  Snod­
grass.

O don—McCarter  &  Hasler  have  pur­

chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Asa Haig.

Saltillo— D.  R.  Hostetler  & Sons,saw­
mill  operators,  have  sold  out  to  Shultz 
&  Freed.

Co Cigar manufacturers

Gen tlem en—We  manufacture  flrst  class 
Cigar Boxes complete.  We are  supplying  some 
of the best Cigar Factories In this  and adjoining 
states.

We want your  trade.  Send  us  by  mail  or 
express, at our  expense,  samples  of  the  Cigar 
Boxes you are using and let us  name  you prices 
on goods to match.

We can  not  do  you  any  harm  In  this  and 

promise to do you some good.

Yours truly,

traomc City Cigar Box Co.

traverse City, ntfcbioaa

Ship  your

Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry

to

Fred  Unger,

I75=i77  Perry  Street, 
BUFFALO,  N.  Y.
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.

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

Commission  rierchant

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

Specialties:  EGGS  AND  BUTTER.

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

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

Produce Review and American Creamery.

JACOB  HOEHN,  Jr. 

Established  1864

MAX  MAYER

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.

PO U LTRY,  B U T T ER   AND  EG G S

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Flat.
Written for the Tradesman.

I 

have  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  and 

considerable  gray  matter  in studying the 
advertising  efforts  of  others  and  have 
acquired  some  ideas  on  the  subject  that 
may  be  good  or  bad,  but  which  at  least 
possess  the  merit  of  some  individuality. 
We hear a great deal said  about  the  value 
of experience  in  teaching  us  how to  live 
and  do  business  and  prosper,  but  if  the 
truth  was  known  we  learn  more  from 
the  experiences of others than we do from 
our  own.  This  may  appear  at  first  sight 
a  contradiction  of  all  the  rules  of  life 
laid  down  to  us  by  our  fathers  and  to 
them  by  their  fathers;  but  it  is  not. 
1 
would  not  underestimate  the  corrective 
value  of  our  own  mistakes—when  we 
recognize  them.

There  lies  the  key  to  the  whole  ques­
tion  of  the  value  of  personal  experience 
as  a  teacher.  When  we  do  recognize 
our  mistakes  they  certainly  serve  to 
keep  us  from  falling  into  the  same  er­
rors  again,  but  man  is  naturally  egotis­
tical  and  often  we  err and  fail  thereby, 
without  the  error or  the  sermon it  might 
preach  becoming  known  to  us.  Thus 
the  whole  value  of  our  experience is  lost 
to  us.

But  we  never  fail to  note  the  mistakes 
of  others.  We  are  too  supercritical  and 
self-sufficient  to  miss  them ;  and,  if  we 
get  some  good  out  of  our  close  atten­
tion  to  the  mistakes  of  others,  it  is  a 
good  thing  that  we  are  so  ready  to  note 
the  mote  in  another’s  eye.  Did  we  not 
detect  the  errors  of  others  there  would 
be  no  rocks  at  all  for  some  of  us  to 
avoid.

All  this  is  by  way  of  a  preachment  to 
exhort  you  to  profit  by  other  people's 
mistakes  in  advertising.  Many men  had 
experimented  with  wireless  telegraphy; 
Marconi  perfected 
it.  He  saw  where 
others  bad  slipped  and  fallen  and  then 
he  avoided  the  slippery  places.  As  a 
result,  England  and  America  can  now 
sass  each  other  through  the  air.  Do 
what  Marconi  did,  read  other  people’s 
advertising, 
into  other  people's 
windows  and  then  don’t  follow  their 
example.

look 

In  advertising,  I  would  not  follow  any 
man’s  example,  good  or  bad,  to  any 
great  extent. 
If  it  is  bad,  you  surely 
will  want  to  avoid  it.  If  it  is  good,  you 
do  not  want  to  be  an 
imitator.  Three- 
fourths  of  the  merit  of  advertising  lies 
in  its  originality.  You  want  to  attract 
the  attention  of  the  customer to  a partic­
ular  store  and  often  to  a  particular  arti­
cle.  Of  course,  a  suggestion  is  not  to 
be  despised.  Another  man's  effort  may

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

suggest  a  better way  to  utilize  the  same 
effect.  There  originality  enters  in  and 
the  idea  becomes  not  his  but  yours.  An 
old  Michigan  preacher once  told  me  he 
did  not  believe  he  had  ever  said  an 
absolutely  new  thing  from  bis  pulpit  in 
his  life.  He  felt  that  someone  must 
have  discovered  the  same  truths  he had 
enunciated,  somewhere  and  sometime 
before.  He may  have  been  right in  this 
modest  estimate  of  his  own  preaching, 
but  he  clothed  his  thoughts  in  words  of 
beauty  and  power  that  were  all  his  own 
and  they  became  his  property  as  much 
as 
if  he  bad  been  the  first  man  to  open 
the  Scripture.

1  am  a  firm  believer  in  the theory  that 
an  advertisement  that  fools  somebody  is 
not  a  good  advertisement,  no  matter 
how  much  attention  it  attracts.  The  day 
of  the  “ catch”   liner  advertisement  that 
started  off  by  telling  you  bow  a man was 
saved  from  being  drowned,  bruised  and 
otherwise  disturbed  by  being  borne over 
the  brink  of  Niagara  Falls,  and  wound 
up  by  telling  you  how  some  other  man 
was  snatched  from  the  brink  of  the 
grave  by  Hogg’s  Hair  Hustler or Tutch- 
um’s  Ten-cent  Toothache  Terminator 
has  gone  by.  That may  have  done  very 
well  when  the  great  American  people 
were  newspaper  readers  and  had  news­
papers  to  read.  Now  they  are  news­
paper skimmers  and  experienced  skim­
mers  at  that,  and  they  will  detect  your 
dime  novel 
introduction  and  patent 
medicine  finale  as  soon  as  they  open the 
paper  and  will  skip  it  with  celerity  and 
regularity.  As  a  consequence  you  are 
paying  considerable  per  line  for  Laura 
Jean  Libbey  literature  that  is  not  doing 
you  any  good.

I  have  spoken  of  the  little known rem­
edies  Hogg’s  Hair  Hustler  and  Tutch- 
um’s  Toothache  Terminator  especially 
in  this  connection  because  they  present 
striking  example  of  what  I  am  trying 
to  point  out  as  poor advertising.  Hogg 
and  Tutchum  have  been  advertising  on 
the  same  principles  that  apparently reg­
ulated  the  business  conduct  of  a  young 
in  an 
legal  firm  that  bung  out  its  sign 
English  town,  according 
to  the  old 
story. 
a  sign 
painter— a  gentleman  for  whom  I  take 
off  my  hat  and  occasionally  my  coat—to 
paint  a  sign  for  them.  Not  until  that 
sign  was  hung  out  did  their  friends 
realize  what  a  combination  their  names 
produced  and  many  alleged  the  firm 
name  was  most  appropriate  to  their 
profession.  When  the  sign,  radiant  in 
gold-leaf,  was  hung  out 
it  produced  a 
sensation. 

commissioned 

It  read:

They 

“ Ketcham  &  Skinnum."’
Their  friends  told  them  this  would 
never  do,  that  the  whole  street  was

laughing  at  them  and  that they  had  bet 
ter  add  their  initials  so  as  to  rob  the 
firm  name  of  its  ludicrious  effect.  The 
sign  painter— I  doff  my  millinery— was 
again  called  into  service  and  Uriah  and 
Isaiah  had  their  initials  added,  with 
this  much  better  effect:

“ U.  Ketcham  &  I.  Skinnum.“
Hogg  &  Tutchum  have  been  adver­
tising  their  remedies  on  the  Ketcham 
&  Skinnum  principal.  They  figure  on 
catching  the  public  eye  under  false  pre­
tenses  and  then  keeping  it  by  switching 
off  onto  the  truth. 
I  have  no  doubt  that 
Hogg’s  Hair  Exterminator  and  Tutch­
um’s  Toothache  Hustler—1  beg  pardon, 
Hogg’s  Hair  Hustler  and  Tutchum's 
Toothache  Terminator— are  very  excel­
lent  remedies,  but  you  never  heard  of 
them  until  now,  did  you?  The  fact  may 
be  attributed  to  poor  advertising.  Mr. 
Hogg  and  Mr.  Tutchum  have  been  ad­
vertising  on  the  Ketcham  &  Skinnum 
principle.  No  doubt  you  have  seen 
their  thrilling  tales  of  love  and  war  in 
the  newspapers  and,  confident  they  had 
a  patent  medicine  advertisement  con­
cealed  about  them,  have  skipped  them 
with  the  newspaper  reader’s  customary 
perspicacity.

If  the  advertiser  of  the  Hogg  and 
Tutchum  pattern  would  spend  the  time 
be  wastes  and  the  money  be  expends, in 
inventing  and  paying  for  the  publica­
tion  of  several  lines  of  liner  advertising 
intended  to  be  an 
introduction  and  a 
trap,  in  the  invention  of  bright,  snappy, 
to-the-point  advertising  that  says  we- 
have-something-to-sell-tbat- you - ought- 
to-bave  and  in  paying  for  a  preferred 
position  or  space  in  a  larger  number  of 
mediums  adapted  to  his  advertising,  he 
would  get  a  greater  return  for his money 
and  his  time  and  a  greater  patronage 
for  his  medicine.  Had  Hogg and Tutch­
um  adopted  these  methods  there  is  no 
reason  for  believing  that 
the  Hair 
Hustler 
and  Toothache  Terminator 
would  not  now  be  known  from  one  end 
of  this  great  country  to  the  end  of  the 
war  in  the  Philippines,  from  New  York 
to  Shelby  and  from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico 
to  Central  Lake.  Charles  Frederick.

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•THE  STJlR  PEAj\ UT 
VENDING  MACHINE
For  automatically  s e llin g  
salted shelled peanuts.  Op­
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It  is  at­
tractive  and  lucrative—not 
an  experiment,  but a c tu a l 
fa c ts   from  actual  results. 
Handsomely  finished,  and 
will  increase  your  sales  at 
large profit.  Try It;  th at’s 
ithe test!  My circular gives 
full  description  and  brings 

pnceand terms.  Shall I send it to you?

—  

Bicycle Dealers

OWho  have 
not already 
received  our
1902 Catalogue 

No. 6

pertaining to 

Bicycles 

and  Bicycle 

Supplies 
should  ask 
for it. Mailed 

free  on 

request.  We 

sell  to 

dealers only.

ADAMS & HART

12  W.  Bridge S t,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Wall  Papers 
of Newest 
Designs

Make  up  our  complete 
stock.

Our  Paints  Arc 
Pure  and  Fresh

the 

finest 
W e  carry 
line of P ic t u r e   M o u l d ­
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the  city  and 
our  Frame-makers  are 
experts.

A  
complete  Artists’ 
Material  Catalogue  for 
the  asking.

C.  L.  Harvey  &  Co.

5 9   Monroe Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Manufactured  by

Exclusively  Retail.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip

President,  J ohn  A.  Weston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Brown,  Saflinaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan 

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

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

Senior  Counselor,  W.  S.  Bu r n s;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

W in.  B.  W ilcox,  R epresenting  th e  Good­

year  Rubber Co.

Wm.  B.  Wilcox  was  born  in  Cleve­
land,  Ohio,  Oct.  24,  1851,  being  of 
English  descent.  When  he  was  5  years 
of  age,  his  parents  removed  to  Buffalo, 
where  they  resided until  1861,  when  they 
removed  to  Ypsilanti.  Mr.  Wilcox  at­
tended  school  and  remained  there  until 
he  was  20  years  old,  when  he  went  to 
Detroit  and  accepted  a  clerkship  with 
the  house  of  H.  D.  Edwards  &  Co. 
In 
1879  he  went  to  Chicago  and  obtained  a 
position  as  city  salesman for the  Hamil­
ton  Rubber Co.,  which  he  filled  for  one 
year,  when  he  accepted  an  offer  from 
Cbas.  Munson,  leather  belt  manufactur­
er,  as  city  salesman.  After  serving 
in 
this  position  three  months,  he  engaged 
with  the  Goodyear  Rubber  Co.  as  gen­
eral  salesman,  where  he  remained  two 
years.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  went

to  work  for  E.  B.  Preston  &  Co.  as  city 
salesman  and  outside 
financial  man. 
He  remained  with  this  house  four years, 
when  he  accepted  a  similar  position 
with  the  American  Fire  Hose  Co.,  with 
whom  he  stayed  one  year.  The  Lycom­
ing  Rubber  Co.  then  tendered  him  the 
position  of  traveling  salesman  in  Indi­
ana,  Michigan,  Ohio,  Nebraska,  Iowa 
and  Missouri,  which  territory  he  cov­
ered  for  seven  years.  He  returned  to 
Chicago  and  traveled  for  E.  G.  Stearns 
&  Co.  three  years,  covering  Illinois  and 
Iowa.  A.  D.  Wentz,  who  was  then 
Western  representative  for  the  Wales- 
Goodyear  Rubber  Co.,  offered  him  a 
position  as  Michigan  salesman,  which 
he  accepted.  After  one  year he  repre­
sented 
the  Marion  Rubber  Co.,  of 
Marion,  Ind.,  another  year,  covering  Il­
linois  and  Ohio.  For  the  next  seven 
months  he  had  charge  of  the  Want  Col­
umn  department  of  the  Chicago Record- 
Herald. 
In  August,  1901,  the Goodyear 
Rubber  Co.  offered  him  a  position  as 
traveling  representative 
in  Michigan, 
Northern  Illinois,  Northern  Indiana  and 
Southern  Iowa.  He  accepted  the  po­
sition  and  sees  his  trade  twice  a  year.

Mr.  Wilcox  was  married 

in  1882  to 
Miss  Mary  A.  Miller,  of  Beloit,  Wis. 
They  have  one  chi Id, a boy  14  years  old.

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The  family  reside  at  4244  Langley  ave­
nue,  Chicago.

Mr.  Wilcox  is  not  affiliated  with  any 
fraternal  organization,  finding  his great­
est  pleasure  in  the  cultivation  of  home 
ties.  He 
is  something  of  an  inventor, 
lately  applied  for a  patent  on  a 
having 
device  to  be  attached  to  a  rubber  shoe 
to  prevent  slipping.

Mr.  Wicox  attributes  his  success  as  a 
salesman  to  the  “ gift  of  gab;”   to  the 
fact  that  he  has  always  endeavored  to 
do  the  right  thing;  that  he  keeps  bis 
wits  about  him  and  is  temperate  in  his 
habits.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Mrs.  P.  H.  Carroll,  who  returned 
from  Seattle,  Wash.,  the  fore  part  of  the 
week,  sails  for  Paris  on  Saturday.

Belding  Banner:  A.  L.  Pond  is  now 
traveling  salesman  for  the  Michigan 
Electrical Supply Co.,  with headquarters 
at  Detroit.

left 

Flint  B.  Aniba  (G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar 
Co.) 
last  Thursday  for  a  four 
months’  trip  through  Illinois,  Missouri, 
Arkansas  and  Kansas.

Ed.  C.  Goulding,  Michigan  represen­
tative  for  the  Bradley  &  Metcalf  Co.,  of 
Milwaukee,  has  resigned  to  take  a  sim­
ilar  position  with  the  Western Shoe  Co., 
of  Toledo.

Geo.  R.  Babcock,  formerly  with  John 
A.  Tolman  Co.,  of  Chicago,  succeeds 
Manley  Jones  as  Central  Michigan  trav­
eling  representative  for  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company.  Mr.  Jones  is  selling 
Grape  Sugar  Flakes  and  is  at  present 
working  with  the  Chicago  city  trade.

Otsego  Union :  George  W.  Campbell 
has  secured  a  position as traveling sales­
man  for  the  Eastman  Kodak  Co.,  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  will  report  for 
duty 
in  that  city  next  Monday.  Mr. 
Campbell  will  be  in  the  house  for  four 
weeks.  He  does  not  know  where  bis 
territory  will  be  as  yet.

W’m.  P.  Granger  has  engaged  to  rep­
resent  the  Schwarzschild  &  Sulzberger 
Co.  at  this  market.,  His  office  will  be 
in  one  end  of  a  refrigerator  car  which 
will  be  permanently  located  on  a  G.  R. 
&  1.  sidetrack  at  Campau  street.  As 
stock  is  sold  from  this  car  it  will  be  re­
placed  by  rush  arrivals  from  the  Chi­
cago  branch  of  the  house.

Big  Rapids  Herald :  N.  Christopher- 
sen,  traveling  salesman 
for  the  Speich 
Stove  Repair  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
was  in  the  city  last  night  shaking  hands 
with  comrades  of  the  Spanish-American 
war.  Mr.  Christopherson  was  a  mem­
ber  of  Co.  B,  Manistee,  in  the  late  34th 
infantry.  The  members  of  that  company 
and  the  boys  of  the  late  Co.  A,  of  this 
city,  were  great friends  during  the  cam­
paign.

CAREER  FOR  YOUNG  MEN.

J.  Russell  Smith  has  a  sensible  paper 
in  the  May  Forum  entitled,  “ American 
Forestry:  a  Career.”   The object  of  his 
article 
is  to  encourage  young  men  to 
adopt  forestry  as  a  profession.  He  goes 
on  to  say  that,  as  railroad  and  paper 
companies  own  entire  forests  and  have 
need  of  scientific  men,  there 
is  every 
possibility  that  employment  after  a  few 
years’  experience  could  be  easily  se­
cured  in  these  corporations.

This  is  a  matter-of-fact  way  of  look­
ing  at  the  proposition,  and  has  to  be  so 
considered,  because  the  American  youth 
is  averse  to  following  a  calling  which 
has  little  or  no  chance  of promotion.  A 
good  forest  man  has  to  be  something  of 
a  scientist  and  a  great  deal  of  an  enthu­
siast.  The  work  of  forest  preserve  is 
fascinating,  and  to  young  men  alluring; 
but,  as anybody  can see,  there is afforded 
little  opportunity  for  personal  profit.

Only  within  the  past  thirty  years  has 
the  British  government  recognized  the 
value  of  a forestry  department,  and  the 
impulse toward placing  that service upon 
a  high  plane  was  through  the  example 
set  by  France.  For  years  France  sup­
plied  to  the  Indian  government  the  best 
text  books  on  forestry  and  was  the  ac­
knowledged  authority  until  Germany 
established  her  forest  department.

The  importance  of  preserving  our  for­
ests  has  been  dwelt  upon 
time  and 
again.  There  are  about  fifty  millions 
of  acres  held  by  the  Government  as  for­
est  reserves.  A 
large  number of  men 
are  employed  in  the  care  of  these  enor­
mous  tracts.  Mr.  Smith  says:  “ One 
of  the  greatest  difficulties  with  which 
the  Bureau  of  Forestry  has  to  contend  is 
the  scarcity  of  men  suitably  trained  to 
fill  the  positions.”   The  Government  is 
so  short-handed  that 
inducements  are 
made  to  college  students  for summer 
work.

If  the  Government  were  more 

liberal 
in  the  matter  of  salary  to  men  who 
adopted 
forestry  as  a  profession  there 
would  be  no  necessity  of  holding  out  a 
bait  such  as  Mr.  Smith  offers.  The 
work  of  forest  preserve 
in 
importance,  and  there  can  be  no  career 
for  a  young  man  which  promises  so 
much  freedom  and  enjoyment.

is  growing 

The  Boys  B ehind  th e  Counter.

Albion—George  Bacon,  of  Homer, 
formerly  of  this  city,  has  been  engaged 
as  clerk 
in  the  grocery  store  of  N. 
Davis.

Grand  Ledge—Charles  Parish,  who 
has  been  in  the  employ of Wm.  Munson, 
the  hardware  man  for  some  time,  has 
returned  to  his  former  home  at  Char­
lotte.  He  will  enter  the  employ  of  Bar­
ber  &  Spencer.

Bellaire— L.  E.  Bockes,  of  Central 
Lake,  is  to  take  charge  of  the  Geo.  J. 
Noteware  drug  store.  Mr.  Bockes  has 
been  employed  for  the  past  three  yeats 
in  the  Vaughan  Bros,  drug  store,  at 
Central  Lake,  and  formerly  owned  the 
first  drug  stock  installed  at  that  place, 
selling  it  about  eight  years  ago.

Velzey—Alex.  M.  Barnum 

is  again 
behind  the  counter  at  the  general  mer­
chandise  store  of  W.  J.  Barnum,  having 
been  for the  past  two  months  in  the  em­
ploy  of  the  Citizens  Telephone  Co.  as 
operator.

Wm.  Judson  and  Heman  G.  Barlow 
have  returned  from  New  York,  where 
they  spent  nearly  a  week together.  Mr. 
Barlow  improved  the  opportunity  to  run 
up  into  New  England  for  a  few  days.

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From now on up to December 20,1902, 

Inclusive, as  follows:

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A  Hotel

is really a home to the trav­
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comfortable, 
convenient 
and  homelike  it  can  be 
made the  more  it  will  be 
patronized.

The

Livingston

Hotel  is the Best  in  these 
respects of any in the State.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

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should.  We save you enough in  six months to pay the entire cost of your 
plant.  Read what others say.
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Gentlemen:—In reply to your question of “How do you like your light” I will say that  hav­
ing one in my place of business since March 17,1901,1 am able to testify that no  other  lights  are 
as safe or give such satisfaction at so small a  cost.  With  a  2  gallon  tank  I  run  three  double 
lights and one single one from fi  to  12  o’clock  every  night  with  20c  worth  of  gasoline.  With 
proper care the plant will last a lifetime.  All repairs  consist  of  replacing  mantles  and  in  ten 
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Yours respectfully, 

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w nrr P.  Doty. Detroit • 
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Claren ce B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn  1).  Mutr. u ru d   Rapid» 
Dims. Si. 1906 
Ar t h u r  H. We b b e r , Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

- 

President,
Secretary, Henry  Heim , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Sessions.

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

M ich.  State  Pharm aceutical  A ssociation.

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

This 

H ow   to  D etect  A dulterated  Paris  Green.
is  one  of  the  most  important 
insecticides  on  the  market.  If  perfectly 
pure  chemically  it  is  a  compound  made 
up  of  three  substances—arsenious  acid, 
acetic  acid  and  oxide  of  copper— joined 
to  each  other  in  a  chemical combination 
called 
These 
should  be  present  in  the  following  pro­
portions :

copper-arseto  arsenite. 

Arsenious  acid,  58.65  per  cent.
Copper  oxide,  31.29  per  cent.
Acetic  acid,  10.06  per  cent.
Because  of  faulty  methods  of  manu­
facture,  however,  and also  because  arse­
nious  acid  is  cheaper than the other con­
stituents  of  Paris  green,  large  amounts 
of  this  substance  are  sometimes  present 
in  the  Paris  green  on  the  market  not 
combined  as  it  should  be  with  the  other 
two  constituents,  but  present  in  the  free 
state.  A  sample  of  this  kind  will  cause 
great  damage  to  the  foliage  by  scorch­
ing.  The  maximum  amount  of 
free 
arsenious  acid  that  should  be  allowed 
in  Paris  green  has  been  found 
in  Cali­
fornia  to  be  4  per  cent,  and  in  Idaho 
between  4  and  5  per  cent.

Another  method  of  adulterating  Paris 
green 
is  by  the  addition  of  calcium 
sulphate.  To  test  for  this  form  of  adul­
teration,  take about  as  much  Paris  green 
as can  be  held  on  a 5  cent piece,  transfer 
to  a  drinking  glass  and  add  about  six 
tablespoonfuls  of  household  ammonia ; 
stir  all  the  time  and  continue  stirring 
for about  five  minutes. 
is 
pure  a  dark  blue  solution  will be formed 
and  no  residue  will  remain undissolved. 
If  calcium  sulphate  is  present,  however, 
a  white  residue  will  remain  suspended 
in  the  blue  liquid,  which  will  soon  sink 
to the  bottom  of  the  glass  in  a  compact 
mass.

If  the  green 

Commercial  samples  of  Paris  green 
always  contain  sodium  sulphate  because 
of  their  method  of  manufacture. 
It 
should  not  exceed  1  to  1.5  per  cent.

Preserving  B ottled  F ruit  Juices.

The 

The  vessels 

fundamental  principle  of  the 
preservation  of  any  organic  substance 
liable  to  decomposition  is  based  upon 
the  absolute  exclusion  of  micro-organ­
isms  (fungi,  bacteria,  etc.).  The  old 
method  of  Appert,  or  rather  Pasteur’s 
process,  will  he  found,  in  practice,  the 
most  serviceable,  when  the  addition  of 
special  preservative  agents  is  not  de­
sired  or  permitted. 
in 
which  the 
liquids  are  to  be  preserved 
must,  of  course,  be  thoroughly  cleaned 
before  being 
They  are  then 
placed 
into  a  tank  containing  water 
which  must  be  gradually  heated  to  a 
temperature  varying  according  to  the 
nature  of  the  contents,  but  which  should 
reach  the  boiling  point  of  the  water  if 
the  contents  of  the  vessels  are  not  in­
jured  thereby.  The  necks  of  the  latter 
should  be  closed  during  the  heating  by 
a  wad  of  cotton.  The  requisite  corks 
should  be  prepared  by  boiling  them  in

filled. 

water  containing  about  6  per cent,  of 
salicylic  acid.

The  boiling  extracts  from  the  cork  a 
certain  bitter  substance,  while  the  sal­
icylic  acid  helps  to  destroy  the  vital­
ity  of  germs.  When  the  heat  has  been 
kept  up  for  some  time,  care  being  taken 
to  see  that  the  vessels  are filled to within 
a  short  distance  of  the  cork,  sometime 
before  the  latter  is  inserted  the  bottles 
or  vessels  are  removed  and  the  corks 
carefully  inserted  the  moment  the  wad 
is  withdrawn. 
In  place  of  salicylic 
acid,  a  solution  of  bisulphite  of  sodium 
may  be  used  for  soaking  the  corks.  Im­
mediately  before,  use,  each  cork 
is 
washed  in  fresh  cold  water.

F iltered W ater  D angerous.

Dr.  A.  L.  Wood  says  that  the  domes­
tic  filter  is  a  dangerous  article  of  the 
worst  description.  People  rely  upon 
it 
in  fancied  security,while  in  ninety-nine 
cases  out  of  every  one  hundred the water 
is  more  dangerous  to  health  and  life 
after  passing  through 
it  than  before. 
All  soluble  mineral salts  and  all  impuri­
ties  of  every  description,  including  the 
deadly  poisons 
from  disease  germs, 
which  are  held  in solution,  pass  through 
the  very  best  filter at  all  times,  as  freely 
as  the  water  itself,  and,  unless  the  filter 
is  cleaned  and  sterilized  several  times 
a  day,  which  is  rarely  if  ever  done,  the 
germs  of  typhoid  fever  and  other  dis­
eases  multiply  with  great  rapidity  with­
in  the  filter  itself  and  pass  through  with 
the  water.  Many  eminent  chemists  and 
scientists  have  testified  to the  truth  of 
these  statements.

Eggs  in  Therapeutics.

A  mustard  plaster  made  with  the 
white  of  an  egg  will  not  leave  a  blister.
White  of  an  egg  beaten with loaf sugar 
lemon  relieves  hoarseness—a  tea­

and 
spoonful  taken  once  every  hour.

An  egg  added  to  the  morning  cup  of 

coffee  makes  a  good  tonic.

A  raw  egg  with  the  yolk  unbroken 
taken  in  a  glass  of wine  is  beneficial  for 
convalescents.

It  is  said  that  a  raw  egg  swallowed  at 
once  when  a  fish  bone  is  caught  in  the 
throat  beyond  the  reach  of  the  finger 
will  dislodge  the  bone  and  carry  it 
down.

The  white  of  a  raw  egg  turned  over  a 

burn  or  scald  is  most  soothing.

In  bowel  trouble  a  partly  beaten  raw 

egg  relieves  the  feeling  of  distress.
The  K lopfen  T reatm ent  o f  Tuberculosis.
The  method  of  treatment  of  pulmo­
nary  tuberculosis,  known  as  the  “ Klop­
fen”   plan,  consists  in  slapping  with  a 
silver  paper-cutter  the  surface  of  the 
chest  in  front,  behind  and  at  the  sides. 
A  scientific  examination  of  the  advan­
tages  said  to  result  from  this  process 
appears  to  justify  the  conclusion  that 
it  is  really  a  powerful  means of mechan­
ically  stimulating  the  pulmonary  ap­
paratus  and  of  dissipating  the  tendency 
to  congestion,  and  in  this  manner  pro­
motes  spontaneous healing of tuberculous 
lesions.

The  D rug M arket.
Opium—Continues  dull 

and 

un­

changed.

port.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— There 

is  no  change  to  re­

Menthol— Is 

firmer  and  stocks  are 
light.  Higher  prices  are  now  looked 
for.

Buchu  Leaves—Are  very  firm  at  the 

advance  and  tending  higher.

At  the  glorious  feast  of  knowledge 
some  people  never  get  any  farther  than 
the  soup.

Custom  A m ong  D ruggists?

A  law  suit  of  considerable  interest  to 
druggists  and  drug  clerks  in  general 
was  recently  tried 
in  Montreal.  One 
of  the  leading  druggists  had  a  night 
clerk  arrested  for  the  theft  of  some 
small  articles  from  his store,  such as  one 
dozen  antikamnia tablets,  one-half dozen 
10-grain  phenalgin  powders,  two  ounces 
of  liniment,  a  small  baby  sponge  and 
other  minor  things.

The  defense  in  admitting  the  taking 
of  the  goods  denied , that  this  could  be 
called  stealing  and  produced  the  promi­
nent  druggists  in  Montreal  to  prove  that 
the  prisoner  in  his  position  of  head 
clerk  was  entitled  to  take  articles, of  a 
trifling  nature  for  his  own  use.

The  complainant  denied  this  custom 
among  druggists,  but  Mr.  Lewis  and 
Mr.  Chapman  both  established  beyond 
doubt  that  throughout  the  retail  drug 
trade  generally  a  clerk  was  entitled  to 
take  small  quantities  of  drugs  for  his 
own  use  and  not  be  considered  a  thief if 
he  did  not  pay  for  them.  Mr.  Chap­
man  went  the 
length  of  saying  that  a 
clerk  in  bis  employ  was  entitled  to  take 
for  his  own  use  any  of  his  preparations 
being  of  a  medicinal  nature.  Several 
others  also  gave  evidence  of  the  same 
nature.
The 

in  summing  up  accepted 
this  testimony  as  reasonable  and  just 
and  honorably  discharged  the  prisoner.

judge 

Law  A gainst  Sam ples.

The  free  sample  in  medicine  is  likely 
to  soon  receive  a  rude  check  in  the  Dis­
trict  of  Columbia.  The  commissioners 
have  decided  to  put  a  stop  to  the  dis­
tribution  of  such  samples  to the  public 
in  that  region.  A  fine  of  not  less  than 
$5  is  the  penalty.  No  medicinal or toxic 
substances  must  be  left  in  or  upon  any 
premises  without  the  consent  of 
the 
owner  or  occupant.  This  seems  to  be 
a  wise  provision,  and  one  that  should 
be  adopted  by  other communities.  The 
habit  of  leaving  advertising  samples  of 
medicinally  active  agents  promiscuous­
ly  around  is  a  dangerous  one.  Children 
are  apt  to  get  hold  of  them  and  acci­
dents  occur  by  their  use  in  too  large 
doses.  Many  of  the  samples  contain 
agents,  such  as  acetanilid,  capable  of 
great  mischief.

To  Clean  Chamois.

In  a  suitable  vessel  place  a  weak  so­
lution  of  sodium  hydrate  and  add to this 
some  rasped  soap,  or  soap  solution. 
Throw  the  chamois 
into  this,  let  soak 
for  two  or  three  hours,  and  then  rub  it 
clean.  Rinse 
in  clean,  tepid  suds, 
in  a  cloth  and  dry 
wring  out,  wrap 
quickly.  When  dry, 
rub  together  or 
brush  with  a  stiff  brush,  to  restore  soft­
ness.  A  chamois  skin  thus  treated  will 
for  all  practical  purposes  be  as  good  as 
new.

Keep  your  secret  from  your  friends 
and  your  enemies  will  never get  next 
to  it.

S E E   OUR 

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before  you  buy.  We  show  the 
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is not equaled.  Prices lower  than 
ever.  A card will  bring  salesman 
or samples.

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Grand Rapids, Mich. 

The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

We carry a complete assortment 

of  each  of the  following  lines 

Kindly 

send  trial  order  and 

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Stationery Co

29 N. Ionia  Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Base balls  and  bats,  bank  pins, 
bill  heads,  blackboard  erasers, 
blank books, blotting  paper, board 
clips,  book  covers,  brushes,  “ all 
kinds,”  cardboards,  card  cases, 
crayons, chatelaine purses, counter 
books,  crepe  tissue,  croquet, curl­
ing irons, dice and dice cups,  dom­
inoes,  dumb  bells,  dusters,  enve­
lopes, all kinds and  sizes, files and 
cases, goggles,  guitar strings, gum 
labels,  hammocks,  harmonicas, 
inks,  inkstands,  invoice books, Jap­
anese  napkins,  Jew’s  harps,  key 
rings  and  chains,  lead  pencils,  li­
quid glue,  marbles,  marriage  cer­
tificates, memorandum  books,  mir­
rors,  mucilage, order  books, paper 
bags,  paper  fasteners,  paper,  all 
kinds, papeteries, passepartout  pa­
per, paste,  pencil  compasses,  pen­
cil  boxes,  pencil  holders,  pencil 
sharpeners, pencils, lead, pen hold­
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pipes, 
postoffice 
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zor strops,  reading  glasses,  reward 
cards,  rubber balls,  rubber  bands, 
rulers, scale books, log, scale books, 
hay,  school  bags,  sealing  wax, 
Shannon’s files, shelf  paper, slates, 
sponges,  steel  erasers,  syringes, 
tablets,  tape  measures, 
teething 
rings, thermometers,  tissue  paper, 
twine,  tweezers,  violin  strings, vis­
iting cards, wire baskets, wrapping 
paper.

pocketbooks, 

It’s  Like

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

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Will do the  business  just  as  well.  Over 
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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

The  Largest  in  Michigan

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, Mich.

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

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

A dvanced—Buchu  Leaves. 
D eclined—Menthol.

27

Linseed, pure raw... 
65 
Linseed,  Dolled.........  66 
Neatsfoot, winter str  43 
50 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 

88
69
70
63
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian..........   1%  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  1M  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  1M  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M  2M®8 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2M®3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American.............. 
15
13® 
70©  76
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris............ 
14® 
18
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 
16
Lead, red..................   S  @  6M
Lead,  white..............  6  @  6M
®  90
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gilders’.... 
96
® 
White, Paris, Amer. 
®  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.........................  
©  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®   1  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60®  l 70
Coach  Body.............  2  75®  3  00
No. lT urpFum .......1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56®  I  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  70® 
79

®  50
©  60
@  60

Seldlltz Mixture.......  20®  22
©  
Sinapls...................... 
18
Sinapls,  opt.............. 
@  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
V oes...................... 
®  41
©  41
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
9® 
Soda, Boras.............. 
11
Soda,  Boras, po....... 
9®  11
23®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb...............   1M® 
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........  
3® 
5
Soda,  Ash.................  3M® 
4
Soda, Sulphas..........  
© 
2
® 2 60
Spts. Cologne............ 
Spts. Ether  Co......... 
50®  56
Spts. Myrda Dom... 
@  2  00 
Spts. Vlni Rect.  bbl.  @ 
Spts. Vlni Rect. Mbbl  @ 
Spts. Vlni Rect. lOgal  @ 
Spts. Vlni Rect. 5 gal  @ 
Strychnia, Crystal...  80®  1  05
Sulphur,  Subl..........   2M® 
4
Sulphur, Roll............  2M®  3M
8® 10
Tamarinds................... 
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
50®  56
Theobromae............... 
Vanilla......................  9 00®16 00
Zlnci Sulph................... 
7®  8

Oils

Whale, winter.......... 
Lard, extra.................. 
Lard, No. 1.................. 

BBI,.  GAL.
70
90
55

7o 
86 
50 

Menthol....................  
©  4  60
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2  15®   2  40 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.  2  10® 2  36
Morphia, Mai............2  10®  2  35
©   40
Moschus  Canton.... 
66®  80
Myrlstlca, No. 1....... 
Nux Vomica...po. 15 
© 
10
Os Sepia....................  
36®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
@  1  00
D  Co...................... 
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz.........................  
@ 2  00
Plcls Llq., quarts__  
®  1  00
©   85
Plcls Llq.,  pints....... 
60
®  60
PllHydrarg. ..po.  80 
® 
Piper  Nigra...po. 22 
18
eo
®   30
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 36 
50
Plix Burgun.............. 
@ 7
Plumbi Acet.............  
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opli  l  30®  l  60 
60
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
50
& P. D. Co., doz... 
76
® 
50
Pyrethrum,  pv.........  26®  30
Quassias....................  
8® 
10
so
Qulnla, S. P. &  W ... 
40
30® 
75
3 ®   40
Qulnla, S.  German.. 
Qulnla, N. Y.............   30®   40
Rubla Tlnctorum.... 
12®   14
Saccharum Lactls pv  20®  22
so
Salacln......................  4 50® 4 75
Sanguis  Draconls... 
40®  50
So
Sapo, W....................  
12®  
14
So
SapoM...................... 
10®  
12
Sapo  G...................... 
® 
15
5o

10®  

So
60
So

7b
5o
So
So
7b

5o
So
So

60
60
20

60
60
60

60
50

75

75
1  00
'so
60

60
60
60
36

60
5o
75

So
So
1  60

 
60
So
60

5o

Scillae  Co................... 
Tolutan.....................  
Prunus  vlrg.............. 
Tinctures
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F 
A loes.................................. 
Aloes and Myrrh__  
Arnica............................... 
Assaf oetlda........................ 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex........  
Benzoin.............................  
Benzoin Co........................ 
Barosma............................. 
Cantharldes.............  
Capsicum........................... 
Cardamon.........................  
Cardamon Co...........  
Castor........................ 
Catechu|....................  
Cinchona........................... 
Cinchona Co.............  
Columba............................ 
Cubebae............................... 
Cassia Acutlfol......... 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis............................. 
Ergot.......................... 
Ferrl  Chloridum.... 
Gentian.............................  
Gentian Co........................ 
Gulaca................................  
Gulaca ammon......... 
Hyoscyamus.............. 
Iodine  ............................... 
Iodine, colorless....... 
K in o.................................. 
Lobelia.............................. 
Myrrh................................  
Nux Vomica.............. 
Opli..................................... 
Opil,  comphorated.. 
Opli, deodorized....... 
Quassia.............................  
Rhatany.............................  
R h e l....,.........................  
Sangulnarla.............  
Serpentarla.............. 
Stramonium.............. 
Tolutan.............................  
Valerian...........................  
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber............................ 
M iscellaneous 

$  6®$

A cldnm
8
Acetlcum  .................$
70® 76
Benzolcum, German.
® 17
Boractc..........
24® 29
Carbolicum............... 
24®
43® 45
Cltricum....................  
43®
6
3®
Hvdrochlor...
8® 10
Nltrocum...... .
12® 14
Oxallcum................... 
12®
® 15
Phosphorlum,  dll
60® 53
Salleyllcum.........
5
Sulphurlcum............  1M®
1M®
1  10®  1  20
Tannlcum....
38®
40
Tartarlcum  ...

a
A m m onia
Aqua, 18 deg.............. 
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas.....................  
Chloridum.................... 

A niline
Black........................
Brown........................
Red............................
Yellow.......................
Baccte
Cubebae............po,25
Junlperus.......
Xantnoxylum

4®
6
4®
6®
8
6®
13® 15
13®
12® 14
12®

2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
46® 50
2  60® 3 00

22® 24
6@ 8
1  70@  1 76

B alsam nm
Copaiba..................... 
66
Peru  .........................  
8 2 0 0
Terabln,  Canada....  608  66
Tolutan......................... 
« 8

608 

Bxtractnm  

Cortex
Abies, Canadian.......
Casslae........................
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prunus  Virgin!........
Qulllala, gr’d............
Sassafras........ po. 15
Ulmus.. .po.  18, gr’d

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza,  po......
Haematox, 16 lb. box
Haematox,  is ............ 
Haematox,  Ms..........  
Haematox, 14s..........  

Ferro
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Qulnla..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l.......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure.........
Flora

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

F olia

24fi
28g
n e
138
14®
168

168
228
308

40

8

«8

20

358
20®
268 
128

Barosma.................... 
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
nevelly................... 
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and M s..........   •••• 
OvaUrsl........................ 
Gnm ml 
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia, 2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po.......... ...
12®
Aloe, Barb, po.18820 
Aloe, Cape.... po. 16. 
&
30
8
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40 
60
Ammoniac................. 
65®
40
Assaf oetlda.... po. 40  25®
66
Benzoinum...............  
60®
13
6
Catechu, is ...............  
14 
6
Catechu, Ms.............. 
16 
Catechu, Ms.............. 
8
69 
Camphorae...............  
64®
401 00 
®
Eupnorblum... po. 35 
Galbanum.................  
■
«6 
80®
Gamboge...........po
35 
Gualacum.......po. 36
75 
Kino............po. $0.76
60
Mastic  ......................  
_
M yrrh...........po. 46 
®   40
Opll....pO.  4.20®4.80  3  20®  3 25
Shellac......................  
35®  46
Shellac, bleached.... 
40®  46
Tragacanth............... 
70®  l  00
Herba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........ oz. pkg
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg
Rue................oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
rhymus, Y .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, Fat............ 
Carbonate, Fat........  
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
'arbonate, Jennings 

66®  60
18®   20
18®  20
18®  20

a>

Olenm

Absinthium..............  7  00®  7  20
Amygdalae,  D ulc.... 
60®  60
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8  26
Antal.........................   l 60®  1  66
Aurantl Cortex.........2  10®  2  20
Bergamll...................  2 40®  2  50
Cajlputl..................... 
80®  86
CaryophylU............... 
80
75® 
80®  85
C ed a r..................... 
Chenopadll...............  
©  2 75
Clnnamonll................1  00©  l  10
40
Cltronella................. 

88® 

ConlumMac............ 
80©  90
Copaiba....................   1  is®   1 26
Cubebae....................   1  30®  1 35
Exechthitos.............   1  00®  1 10
Erlgeron...................  1  00®   1 10
Gaultherla............... 2 00®   2 10
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  75
Gosslppll, Sem. gal..  60®  60
Hedeoma...................  1 65®  1  70
Junlpera..................  1  eo® 2  00
Lavendula............... 
90® 2 00
Llmonis....................   1  16®  1 25
Mentha Piper..........  2  10®   2 20
Mentha Verld..........   1  80®  2 00
Morrhuae, &al..........   1  20®   1 30
M yrda........................4 00®  4 60
Olive.........................  
76® 3 00
PlctaLlqulda............ 
10® 
12
®  36
Plcls Llqulda,  gal... 
Rldna.......................   1  00©  1 06
©  1  00
Rosmarinl................. 
Rosae, ounce.............   6 00® 6  60
Succlnl...................... 
40®  46
Sabina...................... 
90©  l  00
Santal..........................2 76®  7 00
Sassafras................... 
66©  60
®  66
Sinapls,  ess., ounce. 
Tlglil.........................   1  60®  1 60
40®  60
Thyme.......................  
Thyme, opt............... 
©   1  60
Theobromas  ............ 
16®  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb......................  
16®  
18
13® 
16
Bichromate.............. 
62®  67
Bromide................... 
Carb.........................  
12® 
16
Chlorate... po. 17@19  16® 
18
Cyanide....................  
34®  38
Iodide........................  2 30®  2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
®  
15 
7® 
Potass Nltras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nltras..........  
8
6® 
Prussiate................... 
23®  26
Sulphate  po.............. 
16® 
18

Radix

25
Aconltum...................  20® 
Althae........................  30® 
33
Anchusa.................. 
10® 
12
Arum  po................... 
@  26
Calamus....................   20®  40
Gentiana........ po. 16
12®
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
16®
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.
@  80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  16
22
18® 
Inula,  po................... 
Ipecac, po.................  3 60®  3 75
Iris  plOX...po. 35@38 
36®  40
Jalapa, pr................. 
25®  30
Maranta,  Ms............ 
®   36
22®  26
Podophyllum,  po... 
76® 1  00
Rhel__ ;......... :........ 
@ 1  26
Rhel,  cut................... 
Rhel, pv....................  
78®  1  36
Splgefla....................  
36®  38
Sangulnarla.. .po.  16 
@  18
Serpentarla..............  60®   65
60®  65
Senega...................... 
Smllax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax, M.................  
26
Scillae............. po.  36 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
®   25
dus,  po................... 
®  26
Yaleriana,Eng.po.30 
16®  20
Yalerlana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
16
14® 
Zingiber j................... 
26®  27
Semen
Anlsum.......... po.  18
® 15
Apium (graveleons).
13® 16
Bird,Is......................
4®
6
Carul............... po.  15
10® 11
Cardamon................. 1  26®  1 75
Coriandrum..............
8® 10
Cannabis Satlva.......
4M®  15
Cydonium.................
75®  1  00
Chenopodlum..........
16® 16
Dlpterlx Odorate__ 1  00®  1 10
Foeniculum...............
@ 10
Fcenugreek, po........
7®
9
L ini...........................
3M@ 6
Llni, grd.......bbl. 4
5
3M®
Lobelia..................... 1  60®  1  56
Pharlaris Canarian.. 4M®
6
Rapa.........................
5
4M®
Sinapls  Alba............
9® 10
Sinapls  Nigra..........
11® 12
Spiritns

@ 
10® 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00®   2  26
Frumenti..................  1  25®  1  60
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Junlperls  Co............  1  76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __   1  90® 2  10
Spt. Yinl Galli..........  1  75® 6 60
Vini  Oporto..............  1  26® 2  00
Vini Alba.................  1  25® 2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2  60® 2  75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 60®  2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
®  1  60
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
@  1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
® 1 00 
carriage............ .
Hard, for slate use..
®  76
Yellow  R e e f,  for
@  1  40
slate use.................
Syrnps
A cacia......................
Aurantl Cortex.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac........................
Ferri Iod...................
Rhel Arom...............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ......................
8o!lI».........................

@  50
©   50
50 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 60

50®
®A

.Ether, Spts.Nit.? F  30®  35
Atther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alum en....................   2M@ 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto.....................   40®   50
Antlmonl, po............ 
4® 
5
Antlmonlet Potass T  40®  60
Antipyrln................. 
@  25
Antiiebrin............... 
@  20
®  45
Argent! Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum...............  
10®  12
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
45®  50
Bismuth S. N............  1  66®  1  70
Calcium Chlor.,  is... 
9
®  
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
10
®  
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
12 
®  80
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
® 
Capslcl Fructus, af.. 
16
®  15
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
®  15
Capslcl Fructus B,po 
Caryophyllus. .po.  15  12® 
14
Carmine, No. 40....... 
@ 3 00
Cera Alba................ 
56®  60
Cera Flava...............  
40®  42
@  40
Coccus...................... 
@  36
Cassia  Fructus......... 
Centraria................... 
® 
10
Cetaceum................... 
@  45
Chloroform.............. 
55®  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd erst....  1  35®  1  60
Chondrus.................. 
20®  25
Clnchonldlne.P. & W  38®  48
38®  48
Clnchonldlne, Germ. 
Cocaine....................   4  55® 4 75
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
75
Creosotum................. 
®  45
®   2
Creta............. bbl. 75 
Creta, prep...............  
5
@ 
Creta, preclp............ 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra............ 
@ 
8
25®  30
Crocus...................... 
®   24
Cudbear....................  
Cuprl  Sulph..............  6M@ 
8
10
7® 
Dextrine................... 
78®  92
Ether Sulph.............  
Emery, all numb6.a. 
@ 
8
Emery, po.................  
6
© 
Ergota.......... po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White............ 
12® 
15
Galla.......................... 
®   23
Gambler................... 
8® 
9
©  60
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
35®  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box....... 
70
Glue, brown.............. 
11®  
13
Glue,  white.............. 
15®  25
Glycerlna...................  17M® 
95
Grana Paradis!........  
®  25
25®  55
Humulus................... 
©   1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
©  90
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
©   1  10 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
®  1  20 
Hydrarg Ammoniatl 
60®  60
HydrargUnguentum 
Hydrargyrum.......... 
®  86
IchthyoDolla,  A m ... 
66®  70
Indigo.......................  
75®  1  00
Iodine,  R esubl......  3 40®  3 60
Iodoform...................  3 60®  3  85
Lupulin...................... 
©  60
Lycopodium.............. 
66®  70
66®  76
M acls........................ 
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
©  26
drarg Iod...............  
10® 
LlquorFotassArslnlt 
12 
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
®  1M 
Mannla. S.  P ............ 
60®  09

38

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  hoars  of  mailing, 
and are intended to  be correct at time of going to  press.  Prices,  however,  are  lia­
ble to change at any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of purchase.

ADVANCED

Hand  Picked  Beans

DECLINED

Sugars
Monarch  Rolled  Oats

Index to  Markets

By Columns

 

 

C

G

B

A

H

D
r

I
J
X.

CoL
Akron  Stoneware...................  15
Alabastlne............................... 
l
Ammonia.................................   1
Axle Grease.............................  1
l
Baking Powder........................ 
Bath  Brick..............................  
l
Bluing..................... 
1
Brooms......................................  1
Brushes.................................... 
l
Butter Color............................. 
l
Candles.....................................  14
Candles.....................................  
l
Canned Goods.........................  2
Catsup.......................................  3
Carbon O ils.............................  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 Tartar.........................   5
Dried  Fruits...........................   5
Farinaceous  Goods...............   5
Fish and Oysters....................   13
Fishing Tackle........................  6
Flavoring Extracts.................  6
Fly  Paper................................   6
Fresh Meats............................   6
Fruits.......................................  14
Fruit Can  Wrench.................  16
Gelatine....................................  6
Grain Bags...............................  7
Grains and Flour...................  7
Herbs.......................................   7
Hides and Pelts......................  13
Indigo.......................................   7
J elly .........................................   7
Lamp Burners.........................  15
Lamp Chimneys......................  15
Lanterns..................................   15
Lantern  Globes......................  15
Licorice....................................  7
Lye............................................  7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses...................................  7
Mustard....................................  7
Nuts..........................................   14
Oil Cans....................................  15
Olives.......................................   7
Pickles.......................................  7
P ipes.........................................  7
Playing Cards..........................  8
Potash......................................   8
Provisions................................   8
B ice...........................................  8
Saleratus..................................  9
Sal Soda....................................  d
Salt............................................   9
Salt  Fish.................................. 
fl
Seeds.........................................  9
Shoe Blacking.........................   9
Snuff.........................................  10
Soap...........................................  9
Soda...........................................  to
Spices................ 
10
Starch.......................................   10
Stove Polish............................   10
Sugar.......................................   11
Syrups......................................   10
Table  Sauce............................  12
Tea............................................   11
Tobacco...................................... 11
Twine.......................................  12
Vinegar....................................  12
Washing Powder...................... 18
Wlcking...................................   18
Woodenwar»...........................  is
Wrapping Paper.....................  13
  13
Yeast  Cake.................... 

v
w

K
S

N
o

M

F

v

T

 

 

 

•

A XLE GREASE
.. ..55
Anrora............
.......... 60
Castor  OH.......
Diamond.........
..........50
Frazer’s ..........
...........75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

doz. gross
6 00
7  00
4 25
9 00
9 00

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

BA K IN G   POW DER

9 00
8 00

Egg

H lb. cans,  4 doz. case......3 75
M lb. cans,  2 doz. case......3 75
1 lb. cans, 
1 doz. case......3 75
5 lb. cans,  M doz. case...... 8 00

JAXON

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  45
M lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   85
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case.........l 60

Royal

lOcslze__   90
M lb. cans  1  35 
6oz. cans.  1 90 
14 lb. cans 2 50 
14 lb.  cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH   BR ICK

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

BLUING

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

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

BROOMS

No. 1 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........................ 1  10
Warehouse............................3  60

BRUSHES 

M ilw aukee  D ustless

Fiber............................l 00@3 00
Russian Bristle...........3 00®5 00
Discount. 3314 % In doz. lots. 

Solid Back,  8 In....................   45
Solid Back, 11 In ...................  96
Pointed Ends.........................   85

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

No. 8........................................ 1  00
No. 7........................................ 1  3o
No. 4........................................ 1  70
No. 3........................................ 1 90
No. 3.........................................  75
No. 2.........................................1  10
No. 1........................................ 1  75
W., R. & Co.’8 ,15c size....  125 
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 8s..................12
Electric Light, 16s................ 12 M
Paraffine, 6s...........................iom
Paraffine, 12s.........................11
WloMng..........   .....................20

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

A pples
3 lb. Standards......... 
Gallons, standards.. 

B lackberries

Standards.................  

110
3  35

80

Beans

Baked........................ 
Bed  Kidney.............. 
String........................ 
Wax............................ 

B lueberries
Standard...................... 
B rook  Trout

l  oo@i  30
75®  85
70
75

'2 lb. cans, Spiced...............   1 90

Clams.
Little Neck, l lb......  
Little Neck. 2 lb....... 

Clam  B ouillon

Burnham’s, M pint............  1 92
Burnham’s, pints...............   3 60
Burnham’s, quarts............  7 20

Cherries
Bed  Standards............
White..........................

Corn

Fair............................. 
Good.......................... 
Fancy........................ 

French  Peas

Sur Extra Fine................... 
Extra  Fine.......................... 
Fine......................................  
Moyen.................................. 

Gooseberries

90

85

’  96

Peas

Oysters

l  00
1  00
1  60

175
2 80
175
2 80
175
2 80
18@20
22®25

Standard..................  
H om iny
Standard.................... 
Lobster
Star, H lb ......................... 
Star, 1  lb.......................... 
Picnic Tails.....................  
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............ 
Mustard, 21b............ 
Soused, lib ...'..........  
Soused, 2 lb............. 
Tomato, lib .............. 
Tomato, 21b.............. 
M ushrooms
Hotels.........................  
Buttons......................  
Cove, 1 lb...................  
86
Cove, 2 lb.......................... 
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........  
Peaches
P ie .............................  
8m   90
Yellow......................   1  65©l 85
Standard ... 
1 00
Fancy................................ 
Marrowfat...............  
Early June................ 
Early June  Sifted.. 
Plum s
Plums..............  .......  
85
P ineapple
Grated......................  
l  2502 76
Sliced..........................  1  35®2 55
Pum pkin
1  00
Fair...........................  
Good.......................... 
1  10
Fancy........................ 
1  15
Raspberries
Standard........................... 
R ussian  Cavler
14 lb. cans.............................   3 75
M lb, cans.............................  7 00
1 lb. can...............................  12 00
Columbia Biver, tails 
@1  85
Columbia Blver, flats 
@2  00
Bed Alaska............... 
l  30®i 40
Pink Alaska.............  
90®l  00
Shrim ps
1  50
Standard................... 
Sardines
Domestic, Ms............ 
314
Domestic, M s........... 
5
Domestic,  Mustard. 
6
California, M8..........  
California Ms............ 
French, Ms...............  
French, Ms...............  
Standard...................
Fancy........................  
Succotash
Fair............................. 
Good.......................... 
Fanoy........................  

n@i4
17®24
7@i4
18®28

Strawberries

1  25
96
1  00
1  20

Salmon

Fair 
Good... 
Fancy.. 
Gallons.

l  25 
l 30 
1  36 
3 60

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels
Eocene ........................
Perfection...................
Diamond White.........
D. S. Gasoline............
Deodorized Naphtha.
Cylinder...................... 29 034
Engine......................... 19 022
Black, winter.............. 9 ®1M4

OU
O10
O 9
@12M
@10M

CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.........
Columbia, M pints....
CHEESE

Aome...........
Amboy........
Elsie............
Emblem.....
Gem............ .
Gold Medal.
Ideal...........
Jersey..........
Riverside...
Brick............
Edam..........
Leiden........
Limburger............
___  
 
Plneap
Sap  £&go................... 

 

...2  00
...1 25

013 
MB
M l 
d  
9
013
<a
018 
A13 
14015 
090 
017 
13014
50075
19020

90

1 00
l 50

80
85
l 00

22
19
15
U

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

66
60
55
60
66
l  00
55
56

CHICORY

Bulk........................ 
5
B ed............................................7
Eagle.......................................   4
Franck’s ................................   ^
Scbener’s ...................  
6

 

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet......................   23
Premium................................   31
Breakfast Cocoa....................   46

Bunkel Bros.

21
Vienna Sw eet...................... 
Vanilla....................................  28
Premium................................   31

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

2 16
8 60
2 40

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...................

Jute

75
60 ft....................................... 
72 ft....................................... 
90
105
90 ft..................... 
120 ft.....................................   1  50

 
Cotton  Victor

Cotton Windsor

50 ft. 
6f ft.. 
70 ft.

l 66

59 ft.
60 ft. 
70 ft.
80 ft.

1 25

Cotton Braided
40 ft.......................................
59 ft.......................................
70 ft......................................
G alvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long.... 
No.  19, each 100 ft long....

1 15

COCOA

Cleveland..............................
Colonial, Me  ........................
Colonial, Ms.........................
Epps......................................
Huyler..................................
Van Houten, Ms..................
Van Houten, Ms..................
Van Houten, Ms..................
Van Houten,  is ..................
Webb...................................
Wilbur, Ms.-........................
Wilbur. Ms...........................

COCOANUT

Dunham’s Ms.....................
Dunham’s Ms and Ms.......
Dunham’s  Ms....................
Dunham’s  Ms....................
Bulk...................... ..............
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags.........................
Less quantity...................
Pound packages..............

COFFEE
R oasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehling.........................
Purity....................................
No 1  Hotel...........................
Monogram...........................
Special Hotel.......................
Parkerhouse.........................
Honolulu  .............................
Fancy  Maracaibo...............
Maracaibo............................
Porto  Rican.........................
Marexo............. ...................

80 
95 
1  10

1 20 
1  40 
1 65 
1  85

1  90
2 10

26
26M
27
28 
13

•30M
.28
.28
.26
.23
.21
.17
.16
.13
.15
>HM

5

8
Belle Rose...........................  
Bent’s Water........................   16
Cinnamon Bar....................  
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced...............   10
Coffee Cake. Java..............  10
Cocoanut Macaroons........   18
Cocoanut Taffy.....................  10
Cracknells.............................   16
Creams, Iced...................... 
8
Cream Crisp.....................  
  10M
Cubans.................................  UM
Currant  Fruit.......................  12
Frosted Honey.....................  12
9
Frosted Cream................... 
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
6M
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C—  
Gladiator.............................  10 M
Grandma Cakes.................  
9
Graham Crackers.............. 
8
Graham  Wafers...................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea............  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets.......  10
Imperials............................  
8
Jumbles, Honey...................  12
Lady Fingers........................   12
Lemon Snaps........................   12
Lemon Wafers.....................  16
Marshmallow.......................   16
Marshmallow Creams.......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann...........................  
8
Mixed Picnic......................   UM
7M
Milk Biscuit........................ 
Molasses  Cake................... 
8
Molasses  Bar...................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar...................  12M
Newton.............................. 
  12
Oatmeal Crackers.............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...................  12
Orange Crisp......................  
9
9
Orange Gem........................ 
Penny Cake............ .........  
8
Pilot Bread, XXX.............. 
7M
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8M
Pretzels, hand  made........  
8M
Scotch Cookies................... 
9
7M
Sears’ Lunch......................  
8
SugarCake....... .................  
Sugar C,ream. XXX......... 
*
Sugar Squares....................  
8
Sultanas.................................  13
Tuttl Fruttl...........................  16
Vanilla Wafers.....................  16
Vienna Crimp..................... 
8
E. J.  Kruce & Co.’s baked good 

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

 

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM  TARTAR

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

D R IE D   FRUITS 

A pples

P eel

Citron

C alifornia Prunes

Sundried............................  ®6M
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  ®  10 
100-120 25 lb. boxes.........  O  314
90-100 25 lb. boxes.........  O 4M
80-90 25 lb. boxes.........  0  5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes.........  O 5M
60-70 25 lb. boxes.........  0  6
50-60 25 lb. boxes.........  O 7M
40-50 25 lb. boxes.........  o  8M
30-40 25 lb. boxes......... 
814
C alifornia Fruits

14 cent less In 60 lb. oases 

R aisins

Currants

®UM
8M
®9M

Apricots....................... 
Blackberries................
Nectarines................... 
Peaches........................ 
Pears............................. 9M
Pitted Cherries............
Pninnallws ................
Raspberries................
Leghorn...................................... 11
Corsican..............................  12M
California, 1 lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package........  7M
Imported, hulk..................... 7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. bx..l3 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1  75 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  90
Cluster 4 Crown..............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7&
8M
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.......9Ji@to
L. M., Seeded, 14  lb__  
8
Sultanas, b u lk .......................11
Sultanas, package................ 11M
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima............................   6M
Medium Hand Picked 
1 55
Brown Holland....................... 2 25
241 lb. packages.....................1 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs......................2 eo
Flake, 50 lb. sack..................  90
Pearl,  2001b. bbl...................6 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack...................2 50
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box..............  60
Imported. 25 lb. box...............2 so
Common................................,3 00
Cheater.....................................2 75
Empire..................................... 8 66
Green, Wisconsin, bn............1 90
Green, Scotch, bu...................2 00
Spilt,  lb................................... 
4
Rolled Avena, bbl...................0 40
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks..........2 80
Monarch, bbl.......................... 5 00
Monarch, M bbl......................2 62
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks............2 40
Quaker, cases......................... 8 20

Pearl B arley

R olled  Oats

H om iny

Farina

Beans

Peas

White House, 1 lb. cans.......
White House, 2 lb. cans.......
Excelsior, M. & J.  1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. & 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,  Melsel  & 
Goescbel.  Bay  City,  Fielbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9......................................   8M
No. 10......................... .............9M
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.

R io

 

Santos

Maracaibo

Common.................................   8
F air................................  
9
Choice...................................... 10
Fancy.......................................15
Common.................................   8
Fair.........................................  9
Choice...................................... 10
Fancy......................................13
Peaberry..................................11
Fair......................................... 13
Choloe............ ..  -.  ............  16
Choice......................................13
Fancy.......................................17
Choice......................................13
African.................................... 12
Fancy African.......................17
O  G .........................................25
P. G..........................................31

Guatem ala

M exican

Java

M ocha

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

Package 

New York Basts.

Arbuckle..............................10m
Dllworth.............................. 10M
Jersey...................................10M
'
Lion........................... ........... 10 
M cL aughlin’s X X X X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City M  gross..............  75
Felix M gross............................... 1 is
Hummers foil M gross.........  85
Hummel’s tin M gross.........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

 

3 35

B utter

CRACKERS

Gall Borden Eagle.....................6 40
Crown...........................................5 90
Daisy.............................................4 70
Champion....................................4 25
Magnolia..................................... 4 00
Challenge.....................................« 10
Dime..............  
Milkmaid......................................6 10
Tip  Top....................................... 3 85
Nestles.........................................4 25
Highland  Cream........................ 5 00
St. Charles Cream...................... 4 50
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00 
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour..............................  
6M
6M
New York............................ 
Family................................  
6M
Salted................................... 
614
Wolverine............... 
 
654
Soda
Soda  XXX.......................... 
6V
Soda, City.......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers..........   13
Zephyrette...........................  13
F au st..................................  
Farina.................................  
Extra Farina...................... 
Saltlne Oyster..................... 
Sw eet  Goods —Boxes
Animals...............................  10
Assorted  Cake...................  10

7M
6M
6 $
6M

Oyster

 

6

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

8

9

Oiits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

GRAIN  BAGS 

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

29

IO

8 0  A P

Beaver Soap Co. brands

JyONDUt

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 60 
No. 6,8 doz In case, gross..  7  20 
Domino...............................   6  75
Cut Loaf...................................5 15
Crushed...............................  6  15
Cubes...................................  4  90
Powdered...........................   4  75
Coarse  Powdered..............  4  75
XXXX Powdered..............  4  80
Fine Granulated.................  4  66
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran____   4  85
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran.........  4  80
Mould A ...............................  5 00
Diamond  A ........................  4 65
Confectioner’s  A ...............   4  45
No.  1, Columbia A............  4  35
No.  2, Windsor A..............  4 30
No.  3, Ridgewood A .........  4  30
No.  4, Phoenix  A ..............  4  25
No.  5, Empire A ...............   4  20
No.  8...................................  4  15
......................  4  05
No.  8....................................  3  95
No.  o...................................   3  90
No. 10....................................  3  85
No. 11...................................   3  80
No. 12...................................   3  76
NO. 13...................................   3  75
NO. 14..................................     3  75
NO. 15...................................   8  70
no. ..................................
..  a  0

TEA
Japan

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__ ....35
Basket-fired, fancy......
....40
Nibs................................
....27
Siftings........................... 19@21
Fannings........................ 20@22
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium.........
....26
Moyune, choice............
....35
Moyune,  fancy..............
....50
Plngsuey,  medium.......
....25
Plngsuey,  choice..........
....30
Plngsuey, fancy............. ....40
Y onng  Hyson
12
Choice.............................. ....30
Fancy............................... ....36
Formosa, fancy.............
....42
Amoy, medium.............
....25
Amoy, choice.................. ....32
Medium...........................
....27
Choice.............................
....34
Fancy............................... ....42
Ceylon, choice................ ....32
Fancy............................... ....42

E nglish B reakfast

Oolong

India

12

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller..................  35  00
Our Manager......................  35  00
Quintette.........................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co ’s brand.

100 cakes, large size............. 3 25
50 cakes, large size............. 6  50
100 cakes, small size.............1  95
50 cakes, small size.............3  85

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Jas. S.  Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box................................3 35
5 box lots, delivered.............3 30
10 box lots, delivered.............a 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King........................  3 65
Calumet Family.................2  76
Scotch Family..................  2  85
Cuba...................................  2  35
Dusky Diamond...............  3 55
Jap Rose...........................  3  75
Savon  Imperial...............  3  55
White  Russian.................  3  60
Dome, oval bars................. 3  55
Satinet, oval......................  2  50
White  Cloud...................... 4  10
Big Acme..........................   4  25
Acme 5c.............................  3 65
Marseilles.........................   4  00
Master................................. 3 70
Lenox................................  3  35
Ivory, 6oz............................4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.......................  6 75
Schultz & Co. brand—
Star...................................... 3  40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars........  3  75
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer......................  4  CO
Old Country......................  3 40
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz..........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............... 2 40
Boxes......................................   5M
Kegs, English..........................45£
Scotch, in bladders.................  37
Maccaboy, In jars...................  35
French Rappee, in jars.......  43

Scouring

SNUFF

SODA

SPIGES 

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........................
Allspice...............................
Cassia, Batavia...................
Cassia, Saigon....................
Cloves, Zanzibar.................
Ginger, African.................
Ginger, Cochin...................
Ginger,  Jamaica...............
Mace.....................................
M ustard.................................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne............. .
s a g e ............... 
.......

Pure Ground in B nlk

STARCH

Fine  Cut

8. c. w ...................................35  00
Cigar cunnings, ner lb....... 
26
Lubetsky Bros, brands
L,  B ............................................ 35 00
Daily Mail.................................. 35 00
Uncle Daniel..........................54
Ojlbwa.................................... 34
Forest  Giant..........................34
Sweet Spray..,.......................38
Cadillac................................... 67
Sweet  Loma........................... 38
Golden Top.............................27
Hiawatha................................ 57
Telegram.................................26
Pay Car.................................. 32
VnWfl Rose........ ........... ....50
Protection...............................38
Sweet Burley..........................40
Sweet Loma............................38
Tiger....................................... 39
Flat Iron.................................33
Creme de Menthe..................60
Stronghold..............................39
Elmo.........................................33
Sweet Chunk..........................37
Forge....................................... 33
R«d Cross................................89
Palo......................................... 36
Kylo......................................... 36
Hiawatha................................ 41
Battle A x e............................. 37
American Eagle.....................34
Standard Navy.......................37
Spear Head, 16 oz..................42
Spear Head,  8oz..................44
Nobby Twist.......................... 48

P lug

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................. 
20 l-lb. packages................  
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................. 
lb. packages............  
6 
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages....................  
3-lb. packages....................  
6-lb. packages....................  
40 and 60-lb. boxes.............  
Barrels................................  
20 l-lb.  packages............... 
40 l-lb.  packages...............  

Common Corn

7%
7M
7 \
8M
6
6%
6M
4
4
6
5%

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels.....................................26
Half bbls................................ 28
10 lb. cans, K doz. In case..  1  80
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. in case__   2  05
2M lb. cans. 2 doz. in case. .  2  05 
Fair........................................  16
Good.......................................  20
Choice....................................  20

Pure  Cane

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

8ALERATUS 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s.................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.......................3  15
Emblem.................................2  10
L.  P ........................................3  00
Wyandotte. 100 V i...............3 00
Granulated,  bbls...............   96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.... 1  00
Lump, bbls............................ 
80
Lump, 146 lb. kegs.............   85

SAL  SODA

SALT

B uckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags........................300
50  61b. bags........................ 300
2214 lb. bags.......................2 75
In 5 bbl lots  5 per  cent,  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
9
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
6
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2  85
6
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   67
100 31b. sacks........................ 2  25
60 5 lb. sacks........................ 2  15
2810 lb. sacks.......................2  05
561b. sacks.......................... 
40
28 lb. sacks.......................... 
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  20
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. dairy in linen  sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks.............................   25
Granulated  Fine..................  85
Medium Fine.........................   90

Solar  Rock
Common

A shton
H iggins

SALT  FISH  

Cod

Trout

H alibnt.

Georges cured.............   @ 5M
Georges  genuine.........  @ 6M
Georges selected.........  @354
Grand Bank.................   @  6M
Strips or  bricks.......... 6M@10H
Pollock.........................  @  3M
Strips...........................................14
Chunks................................  15M
No. 1100 lbs........................   5 50
No. 1  40 lbs.........................  2 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................... 
70
No. 1 
8 lbs...................... 
59
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs........................   11  00
Mess  40 lbs............... 
  470
Mess  10 lbs........................   1  26
Mess  8 lbs........................   1  03
No. 1 100 lbs........................   9  50
No. 1  40 lbs........................   4  10
No. 1  10 lbs........................   110
No. 1 
91
No. 2100 lbs........................   8  00
No. 2  40 lbs........................   8 50
No. 2  10 lbs  .....................  
95
wp
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10  25 
Holland white hoops Mbbl.  5  25 
Holland white hoop,  keg..76@&o 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs......................  3 36
Round 40 lbs.......................   1  65
Scaled................................  
iom
Bloaters...............................

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

H erring

Q ?■*- - 

9 

 

W hite flsh

100 lbs............6  50 
40 lbs............ 3 00 
10 lb s ........  80 
8 lbs............  67 
SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 40
1  65
49
42

A nise......................................  9
Canary, Smyrna....................   3M
Caraway................................   754
Cardamon, Malabar.............1  00
Celery......................................10
Hemp, Russian.......................4
Mixed Bird............................. 4
Mustard, white.......................7
Poppy.......................................  6
Rape........................................  4
Cuttle Bone............................ 14
Handy Box,  large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small..............  1  25
Blxby’s Royal Polish........  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish....... 
86

SHOE  BLACKING

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

W heat

 

82

W heat......................... 
Local Brands

W inter W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents...............................   4 75
Second Patent....................   4  25
Straight...............................   4  05
Second Straight.................  3 76
Clear...................................   3 45
Graham..............................   3 76
Buckwheat.........................   4 30
Bye.......................................  8 20
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms........................  4  00
Diamond Ms.......................   4  00
Diamond Ms.......................   4  00
Quaker Ms...........................  4  10
Quaker Ms..........................   4  10
Quaker Ms...........................  4  10
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best Ms..........   4 70
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms..........   4 60
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms..........   4 50
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4  50 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 50 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms..........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Ms..........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Ms..........  4  20
Lemon & wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Ms...................... 
4 35
Wlngold  mb...................... 
4 25
Wlngold  Ms...................... 
4  15

Spring W heat F lour 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Ceresota Ms........................  4  60
Ceresota Ms........................  4  60
Ceresota Ms........................  4  40
Laurel  Ms...........................  4  60
Laurel  M>...........................   4  40
Laurel  Ms...........................  4  30
Laurel Ms and Ms paper..  4  30 

M eal

Feed  and  M ills tuffs 

Bolted..................................  2  70
Granulated.........................   2  90
St. Car Feed, screened....  25 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.........24 50
Unbolted Corn  Meal.........  23  60
Winter Wheat Bran..........  20  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  21  00
Screenings..........................  19  00

Oats

Corn
Hay

Car  lots...............................   47
Car lots, clipped.................  60M
Less than oar lots..............
Corn, oar  lots....................   65M
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__   10 00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  12 00 
Sage...........................................15
Hops........................................... 15
Laurel L eaves.......................... 15
senna Leaves 
................... 25

HERBS

INDIGO

JELLY

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................. 56
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb.  boxes........50

6 lb. palls.per doz............  1  75
151b. palls.........:....................  38
301b. palls...............................  72

LICORICE

Pure........................................  30
Calabria..................................  23
Sicily.......................................  14
Boot.........................................  10

LYE

Condensed, 2 doz........................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz........................2 25

MEAT  EXTRACTS

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

MOLASSES 
New   Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle...........  
Choice.................................. 
Fair.....................................  
Good............... 
 

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

 

40
35
26
22

Horse Badlsh, 1 doz..............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz..............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, t doz............ 1  75

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs................    1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs.................  1  20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs.................  1  15
Man «mill«., 7 oz................. 
80
Queen, pints.......................   2  35
Queen, 19  oz.......................   4  50
Queen, 28  oz.......................   7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz........................ 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz........................  1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz......................  2 30

PICKLES 
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count..............8 00
Half bbls, 600 count..............4  50

Barrels, 2,400 count...................9 60
Half bbls, 1,200 count...........5  25

Sm all

PIPES

Clay, No. 216.................................1 70
Clay, T. D., full count..........   66
Cob, No. 8...............................  85

Sago

w h ea t

Tapioca

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages.......2 30
East India..............................  3%
German, sacks......................  3%
German, broken package.. 
Flake,  no lb. sacks..............  m
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks...............   3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages.......6 \
Cracked, bulk........................  3M
24 2 lb. packages...................2 60
FISHING  TACKLE
54 to l inch............................. 
6
7
114 to 2 Inches........................ 
1% to 2 Inches........................ 
9
IK to 2 Inches...................... 
li
2 Inches...................................   15
3 Inches....................................  30
No. 1,10 feet........................... 
5
No. 2,15 feet........................... 
7
No. 3.15 feet........................... 
9
No. 4,15 feet...........................  10
No. 5,15 feet...........................  11
No. 6,15 feet...........................  12
No. 7,15 feet...........................   15
No. 8,15 feet...........................  18
No. 9,15 feet...........................   2o
Small.......................... 
20
Medium...................................  26
L arge.....................................   34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz........   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........   65
Bamboo. 18 f t , per doz. 
.  80 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

L inen  Lines

Poles

 

 

FOOTE  & JE N E S’

JAXON

Hljghes^Glrad^^xtracts 

V amila 

Lemon

l oz full m.  80 
1 oz full m. 1  20 
2 ozfull m  2  10  2ozfu llm .l25 
No. 8 fan *v 8  is  No. sfan’y  1  75

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

ISEESE

D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
75  2 OZ...........   1  24
2 OZ........... 
3 oz..........  1  00  3oz...........   1  60
6 oz...........  2  00  4 OZ...........   2  00
.  152  No. 3 T ...  2 08
No. 4 T. 
2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 
Onr  Tropical.
2 
oz. full measure* Lemon.. 76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  l  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon.............. 
60
Tanglefoot, per box...............  35
Tanglefoot, per case............8  20

FL Y   P A P E R

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

7  @10
6*@  7M
8  @11
12  @17
9  @14
8  @  9
6&@ 7M
4  @  5
7  @  7H
10K@U
9 M®  9*
@  9
@11

B eef
Carcass......................
Forequarters..........
Hindquarters..........
Loins.........................
Ribs...........................
Rounds......................
Chucks......................
Plates........................
Pork
Dressed....................
Loins.........................
Boston Butts............
Shoulders.................
Leaf  Lard.................
M utton
7  @  8M
Carcass.....................
8  @11
Lambs........................
Veal
6  @ 8
Carcass.....................
FRUIT  CAN  WRENCH.
Triumph, per  gross............9  60

GELATINE

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
O xford............................... 
75
Plymouth Bock.................  1 20
Nelson’s . . . . ........................  150
Cox’s, 2-qt size...................  1 61
Cox’s, l-qt size...................   1 10

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 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Mess........................... 
B ack.........................  
Clear back................. 
Short cut................... 
P ig.....................  
Bean........................... 
Family Mess Loin... 
Clear.........................  

 

D ry  Salt M eats

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

@17  75
@19  00
@20  no
@19  00
2200
@17  25
19  50
@18 25

10M
11
10M

Sm oked  Meats 

@ 12 n
Hams, 12 lb. average. 
@ 12M
Hams, 14lb. average. 
@ 12M
Hams, 161b. average. 
@ u%
Hams, 20 lb. average. 
Ham dried  beef....... 
@  12M
@  9y,
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
Bacon, clear..............  UM@  12%
California hams....... 
@  9M
Boiled Hams........... 
@  18
Picnic Boiled Hams  13M@ 14
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
9@  9M
Mince Hams..........  
9@  9M
Lard

Compound................. 
Pure................................. 
60 lb. Tubs. .advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
5 
lb. Palls.. advance 
• 11». 
advance 
Vegetole............................  

Sausages

Bologna............................  
Liver.................................  
Frankfort.................  
P ork .......................... 
Blood.........................  
Tongue...................... 
Headcheese............... 

B eef

Extra Mess.....................  
Boneless..........................  
Rump, N ew .............. 
P igs’  Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs..........  
l bbls.,  lbs.............. 

Tripe

Kits, 15  lbs................ 
M bbls., 40  lbs..........  
M bbls., 80 lbs..........  
Casings
P ork.......................... 
Beef rounds.............. 
Beef middles............ 
Sheep........................ 
B utterine
Solid, dairy............ 
Rolls, dairy...............  
Rolls,  creamery....... 
Solid,  creamery....... 

Corned beef, 21b.... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........  
Potted ham,  Ms....... 
Potted ham,  Ms....... 
Deviled ham,  M s.... 
Deviled ham,  M s.... 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 

RICE

D om estic

Canned Meats 

%%
@11
M
M
M
K
%
1
*

10 00
10 75

@7M

8
6
9
6M

12 00

170
7 50

70
140
2  50

24
5
12
66

@14
@11M
17
16M

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

Carolina head..........................6M
Carolina  No. 1 ........................ 6
Carolina No. 2 ........................ 6M
Broken .....................................

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 2M pound pockets__ 754

Im ported.

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

30

1 2

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

13

14

JollyTar.................................38
OldHonesty...........................44
Toddy.,.................................... 34
J. T ......................................... 38
Piper Heidslck...................... 63
Boot Jack................................81
Jelly Cake...............................36
Plumb  Bob............................. 32
Honey Dip Twist.......... i ....39

Sm oking

Hand Pressed........................ 40
Ibex......................................... 28
Sweet Core............................. 36
Flat Car.................................. 36
Great Navy............................. 37
Warpath.................................27
Bamboo,  8 oz........................ 29
Bamboo, 16 oz........................ 27
I X L ,  51b ...........................27
I X L , 16oz. palls................... 31
Honey D ew ............................37
Gold  Block............................. 37
Flagman.................................41
Chips....................................... 34
Klin Dried............................. 22
Duke’s Mixture....................38
Duke’s Cameo.......................40
Myrtle N avy.........................40
Turn Turn, 1% oz................... 40
Turn Yum, l lb. palls..........38
Cream......................................87
Com Cake, 2« oz...................24
Cora Cake, 1 lb.......................22
Flow Boy, 1« oz.....................40
Plow Boy, 8« oz.....................39
Peerless, 3« oz.......................34
Peerless, 1« oz......................36
Indicator, 2« oz................... 28
Indicator, l lb. palls............ 31
CoL Choice, 2«  oz................. 21
Col. Choice. 8 oz.................... 21

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

TW INE

VINEGAR

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints........   6  00
LeafcPerrin’s,  «  pints...  2 76
Halford, large....................   3 76
Halford, small....................   2 26
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 66
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  76
Cotton, 3 ply..........................16
Cotton, 4 ply......................... 16
Jute, 2 ply............................. 12
Hemp, 6 ply..........................12
Flax, medium.......................20
Wool, l lb. balls...................  7«
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . 11
Pure Cider, Bed Star............12
Pure Cider, Bobinson.......... 12
Pure Cider,  Silver..................12
W ASHING  POW DER
Diamond  Flake...................2 76
Gold  Brick........................... 3 26
Gold Dust, regular..............4 60
Gold  Dust,Sc...................... 4 00
Kirkoline,  24 4 lb.................3 90
Pearline................................2 65
Soaplne................................
Soaplne....................................4  00
Babbitt’s 1776........................  3 76
Roselne....................................3  00
Armour’s.................................3  70
Nine O’clock...........................3  35
Wisdom.................................. 3 80

Mop  Sticks

Tubs

P ails

Traps

T oothpicks

W ash  Boards

Trojan spring........................  90
Eclipse patent spring......... 
88
No l common.........................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 fi>. cotton mop heads.......1  26
ideal No. 7 .............................  no
j-hoop Standard.....................1  60
3-hoop Standard................... l 70
2-wlre,  Cable.......................... l 60
8-wire,  Cable..........................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 26
Paper,  Eureka.......................2 26
Fibre........................................2 40
Hardwood..............................2  60
Softwood................................2  75
Banquet...................................i  *0
Ideal........................................l  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes...........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes...........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes...........  70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes...............   66
Bat, wood...............................  80
Bat, spring..............................  76
20-lnoh, Standard, No. l .......7 00
18-lnoh, Standard, No. 2..,..6  00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 8....... 6 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l............. 7  60
18-inch, Cable,  No. 2...................7 00
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3...................6 00
No. l Fibre...................................9 46
No. 2 Fibre.................................. 7 96
No. 3 Fibre...................................7 20
Bronze Globe..........................280
D ew ey..........................................I 76
Double Acme...............................2 76
Single Acme...........................  
2 28
Double Peerless......................  3 26
Single  Peerless........................... 2 60
Northern Queen........................2 60
Double Duplex............................3 00
Good Luck...................................2 76
Universal..................................... 2 26
12 In...............................................1 65
14  in...............................................1 85
16 In......................................... * -2  30
11 In. B utter.........................   76
13 In. Butter................................. i 00
16In.Butter............................ . .. l  76
17 In. Butter.................................2 60
19 In. Butter.................................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.........................l 76
Assorted 16-17-19  ..................2  60
W RAPPING   PA P E R
Common Straw................... 
1«
Fiber Manila, white..........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored....... 
4«
No.  l  Manila...................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................... 
3
Butcher’s Manila...............   2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  2u
Wax Butter,  rolls................  15
Magic, 3 doz.................................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz.............................l oo
Sunlight, 1«  doz...................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.....................l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.....................l oo
Yeast Foam, ivc  doz............  60
Per lb.
..  9© 8
..  8© 8
..  © 16
..  © 6
-.  © 12
..  © 20
..  © 22
..  © 10
..  © 10
-   © 7
..  © 7
■ ■  © 5
..  © 10
© 10*
12«© 13
..  © 15

White fish.....................  »3
Trout.............................  8®
Black Baas__
Halibut.........................  ®
Ciscoes or Herring..
Blueflsh.....................
Live  Lobster............
Boiled  Lobster............  ©
Cod...................
Haddock........
No. l Pickerel.
Pike................. 
^
Perch.........................   ©
Smoked  White............  ©
Bed  Snapper.
ColBlver  Salmon... 12«©
Mackerel......................  ©

W indow   Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bow ls

H ID ES  A ND  PELTS 

Bub-No-More........................ 3  76
Scourine.................................. 3  60
No. 0, per gross....................26
No. *, per gross....................30
No. 9, per gross....................40
No. 8. per gross....................56

W ICKING

W OODENW ARE

Baskets

B utter  Plates

B radley  B utter Boxes

Bushels...................................  I
Bushels, wide  band.............. 1  16
Market...................................   30
Splint, large........................... 6 00
Splint, medium.....................5  oo
Splint, small..........................4  oo
Willow Clothes, large.......... 5 60
Willow Clothes, medium....5 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. l Oval, 260 In crate.........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........   46
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........   60
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate.........  6n
Barrel, 5 gals., each— .........2 40
Barrel. 10 gals., each............. 2 65
Barrel, 15 gals., each............. 2 70
Bound head, 5 gross box__   60
Bound head, cartons............  76
Humpty Dumpty..................2 26
No. l, complete....................   29
No. 2, complete....................   18
Cork lined, 8in ......................  56
Cork lined, 9 In......................  65
Cork lined, 10 In....................   85
Cedar. 8 In...............................  66

C lothes  Pins

E gg Crates

Faucets

Churns

Bulk Oysters

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts............
F. S. D.  Selects.......
Selects......................
Counts......................
Extra Selects............
Selects........................
..............
Standards 
H ides
Green No. 1..............
Green  No. 2..............
Cured  No. l ..............
Cured  No. 2..............
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calf skins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
Old Wool...................
Lamb..........................
Shearlings 
..............
T allow
No. 1...........................
No. 2...........................
W ool
Washed, fine............
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed,  medium.

P elts

Standard..................  
Standard H.  H......... 
Standard  Twist....... 
Cut Loaf....................  
Jumbo, 321b...
Extra H .H __
Boston Cream. 
Beet Bc^1

eo

©  7 
© 6 
©  8* 
©  7* 
©  9« 
©   8 @10« 
©  9
50 ai 60
16©  30 
10©   21
© 6 
©  5
©18
©21
12©14
14©I6

@ 7
@ 7
© 8
@ 9
cases 
@ 7« 
@10« 
m o
Q 8

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

bbls. palls

Fancy—In Pails

M ixed Candy

Grooers......................
Competition..............
Special.......................
Conserve...................
R oyal......................
Ribbon.....................
Broken.....................
Cut L oaf..................
English Bock...........
Kindergarten..........
Bon Ton  Cream.......
French Cream..........
Dandy Pan................
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed.....................
Crystal Cream m ix..

3hamp. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts............
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares.......
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses......
San Bus 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. palls...................
Golden Waffles........

©14«
©13

8«
15
12
12
9
11
10
10
©12
©  9
©10
©11
©13«
©12
©16
© 5«
©  9
©  9
© 9
©12
©11
©13
©12

Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes
©f0
©60
©CO
©86
©1  00 
©36 
©76 
© 66 
©60 
@60 
©60 
©55 
© 66 
©90
© 66
086
@60

Lemon  Sours..........
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate  Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12..............
Gum Drops...............
Licorice  Drops.........
Lozenges,  plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes.....................
Cream  Bar................
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams. 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt...............
String Bock..............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels 
Clipper, 20 lb. palls.. 
Perfection, 201b.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Car’Is 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett........
Florida Bright.........
Fancy Navels__
Extra Choice............
Late Valencias.........
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamalcas..................
Rodi........................
Lem ons
Verdelli, ex fey 300..
Verdelli, fey 300.......
Verdelli, ex chce 300
Verdelli, fey 360.......
Call Lemons, 300.......
Messina«  300s......... C
Messlnas  360s..........
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 
Large bunches.........

©
©
©
©
©3  75
00
76

3 6033 75

l  50@* oo

©60

©
©

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Figs

Foreign D ried Fruits 
@

Callforaias,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes............
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes......................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
© :e«
Fards In 60 lb. oases.
MB
Hallow!......................
5  @ 5«
@
lb.  cases, new....... 
Salrs, 60 lb. cases__   4«  @  6
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
©16
Almonds,  Ivloa.......
@
Almonas, California,
soft auelled............
Brazils,......................
Filberts 
...................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnut«., soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new..............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P„ Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Boasted.................
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted.................
Span. Shlld No. in ’w

15@16
@10
@13
@12«
ll« ^ 1 2 *
@13*
@10
©13
©14
©
©3  60
@

6  @  5«  
6  @ 6«

6K 9 8K

@

A  dry  goods house 
that  does  not  sell 
domestics

We are often  asked  why  we  do  not  sell 

domestics.

We will tell you why.
It is because the  house  that  sells  domes­
tics gets more than it ought to for its hosiery, 
underwear  and  notions, to  make  up  loss  on 
the first.

It is common knowledge in the trade that 
the  domestics  are  used  as  baits  by  nearly 
every jobber, and are sold  at  cost  or  less  to 
get orders on more profitable goods.

W hat do you do when competition forces 

you to sell one line under cost?

You  do  exactly  what  the  jobber  does, 

make up your loss on other lines.

We cannot afford to sell ginghams, prints, 

and sheeting.

Were we to do so, we would be compelled 

to advance our prices on other lines.

If  you  will  take  the  trouble  to  compare 
our prices  with  those  of  other  houses,  you 
will very  readily  understand  why  we  do  not 
sell  domestics.

Our  catalogue  is  “Our  Drummer.”  We 
shall be glad to send a copy to any  merchant 
who  sends  for  it.  Ask  for  catalogue  No. 
J 4 2 1 .

Butler  Brothers,

230 to  240  Adams  Street,  Chicago

Wholesale  Only

You  can  not  get  good  coffee at ten cents and there would be no  money  in  it if you 
could, but  B.  B.  B.  is an  elegant coffee, good enough for anyone and  retails at  20c.

OLNEY & JUDSON  GROCER CO.,  Grand  Rapids

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

Oleo  Manufacture Not Killed by  the  Tax.
A.  L.  Allingham,  formerly  connected 
with  the  packing  houses  in  Kansas  City 
and  Chicago,  and  now 
in  the  cattle 
business  in Chicago,  was  recently  inter­
viewed  in  regard  to  the  effect  of  the  io 
cent  tax  on  colored  oleo,  as  follows:

“ During  all  the  time  the  oleomarga­
rine  bill has been pending in Congress, ”  
said  he,  “ the  packers  have  been  saying 
that  the  passage  of  the  measure  would 
be  a death blow  to  the  business.  I  know 
something  of  the  cost  of  making  oleo­
margarine,  however,  and  now  that  the 
bill  has  been  signed  by  the  President 
the  talk  of  the  bill  killing  the  business 
will  stop. 
The  big  packing  houses 
which  make  all  the  oleomargarine  are 
not  going  to  retire  from  the  business. 
They  can  pay  the  tax  imposed  by  the 
law  that  has  just  been  passed  and  still 
make  money.

“ There  was  a  time  when  they  could 
not  have  done  so,  but  the  price  of  but­
ter  has  been  going  up  very  steadily 
and  rapidly  for  some  time,  and  with 
butter  at  its  present  price,  the  packing 
houses  can  make  oleomargarine  and sell 
it  at  a  profit  after  paying  io  cents  a 
pound  on  it.  This  will  be  so  even  dur­
ing  the  months  in  which  butter 
is  the 
cheapest. 
1  do  not  blame  the  packing 
houses  for  objecting  to  the  bill,  how­
ever,”   continued  Mr.  Allingham,  “ for 
legislation 
if  there  had  never  been  any 
against  oleomargarine 
it  would  be  to­
day  about  the  biggest  industry  in  the 
country  and the  packing  business  would 
be  making  more  money  out  of  it  than 
they  are  out  of  meat.

“ If  the  oleomargarine  business was  in 
the  hands  of  small  independent  manu­
facturers  the  io cent  tax  would  kill  the 
business,  but  the  big  packing  houses 
handle  it  in  connection  with  their  meat 
business,  their  plants  are  established, 
they  use  in  the  oleomargarine  by-prod­
ucts  of  the  packing  houses  and  they 
know  they  are  free  from  competition.

their  purchasing 

long  ago.  They  are 

“ It  has  only  been  the  oleomargarine 
business  that  kept  the  packers 
from 
going  after  the  control  of  the  butter 
business 
in  the 
chicken,  egg  and  game  business,  the 
apple  and  fruit  business  and  are  con­
stantly  reaching  out  in  new  lines,  and 
with 
facilities  and 
storing  and  shipping  accommodations 
are  in  better  shape  to  go  into  the  butter 
business  on  a  mammoth  scale  than  any­
one. 
I  know  that  the  big  packers  wish 
that  they  had  gone  into  the  butter  busi­
ness  years  ago,  and  the  adoption  of  the 
new  law  may  induce  the  men  who  make 
oleomaigarine  to  go into the  butter  busi­
ness  on  a  scale  that  will  be  a surprise  to 
the  buttermakers  who  now  control  the 
butter business.

“ Of course,”   he  added,  “ if  the  pack­
ers  do  this  it  will  stir  up  more  ‘ food 
trust’  talk,but  I  do  not  believe  they  will 
be  frightened  out  by  that  if  they  decide 
that  it  is  a  good  thing.”

Too  Credulous.

In  a  sleeping  car  a  man  was  snoring 
most  loudly  and  nobody  else  in  the  car 
could  sleep.  Finally  it  was  decided  to 
awaken  him  and  compel  him  to  quit 
snoring  or  stay  awake.  So  after  much 
difficulty  he  was  aroused.

“ What's  the  trouble?”   he  asked.
“ Your  snoring  keeps  everybody 
in 
the  car  awake  and  it has  got  to  stop.”
“ How  do  you  know  I  snored?”   ques­
tioned  the  disturber of  the  peace.

“ We  heard  you,”   was  the  reply.
“ Well,”   said  the  man  who  snored,  as 
he  turned  over  to  go  asleep  again, 
“ Don’t  believe  all  you  hear.”

It  is  easy  to  see  through  the  man  who 
is  fond  of  making  a  spectacle  of  him­
self.

STONEWARE

Butter»

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

Churns

M ilkpans

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

*4 gal  fiat or rd. bot., per doz.............
l gal. nat or rd. bot„ each..................
F lue  Glazed  M ilkpans
*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.............
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each...................

Stewpans

% gal. fireproof, ball, per doz..............
l gal. fireproof, ball, per doz..............

Jugs

*4 gal. per doz.........................................
H gal. per doz.........................................
l to 5 gal., per gal..................................

Sealing W ax

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

LAM P  BURNERS

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

48 
5H 
48 
60 
72 
1  12 
1  60 
2  12 
2  56

85
10

66
42
7

2

35

LAM P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of  6 doz.

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

Anchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

No. 0 Crimp.............................................
No.  l Crimp.............................................
No. 2 Crimp.............................................

First  Quality

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

X X X   Flint

No. l Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled.......
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps............................................

Pearl  Top

I,a  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz............
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz............
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.............................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.............................

Rochester

No. 1 Lime (66c doz).............................
No. 2 Lime (70c doz).............................
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)— ...................  .

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

OIL  CANS

l gal. tin cans with spout, per  doz.... 
1 gill. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans................................... 
5  gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas...................... 

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift........................ 
No.  IB  Tubular.................................... 
No. 16 Tubular, dash............................. 
No.  l Tubular, glass fountain............. 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp....................  
No.  3 Street lamp, each......................  

LANTERN GLOBES

No. o Tub., cases l doz. each, box, ioc 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, I5e 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases l doz. each 

1  38
1  54
2 24

1  50
1 78
2 48

1  86 
2  00 
2  90

2 75
3 75
4  00

4  00
5  00 
5  10

1  00 
1  26 
1  36 
1  60

3 60
4 00 
4 60

4  00 
4  60

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

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

45
45
2 oo
l  25

18
24
31
53

BEST W HITE  COTTON  WICKS 
Boll contains 32 yards in one piece.

No. 0, %-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 1, 54-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 2,1 
No. 3,1% Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 

COUPON  BOOKS

50books, any denomination..*...................  160
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...............  — ...............................  1150
1,000books ................. .............................  ..... 20 oo

Credit  Checks

600, any one  denom ination.....................  2 00
1.000, any one  denomination.........................   3 00
2.000, any one  denomination.........................   5 00
75
Steel punch.......................................................  

4060
76
60
2 60 
3  00 
6  00 
5  75

1  40 
1  40

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

4 00 
2  25 
1  25

60
26
50

6 50 
» 00 
6  00 
10  50

12  00 
29 00

60

70
60

$4  00

70
60

75
1  25 
40&10

40
25
70&10
70
70

28
17

60&10

85&20
85&20
85&20

33*4
40&1070
60&10
60&10
60&10
50&10

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

Levels

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

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

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

31

70

66

7*4
8

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages.............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
76&10
Screws, New L ist.................................. 
86&20
Casters, Bed and Plate........................    50&10&10
Dampers, American.............................. 
60

Molasses  Gates

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

 

60&10
30

Fhns

Fry, Acme...............................................  60&10&10
Common,  polished................................ 
70&5
Patent  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken packages *4C per pound extra.

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

40
50
40
46

 

 

Planes

Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

 

 

 

 

 

......  

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

 

R ivets

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

Roofiug  Plates

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

Ropes
Sisal, *4 inch and larger........
Manilla................................... .

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

Sand  Paper

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

Sash  Weights

2  36
236
Base
5
10
20
30
46
70
50
15
26
35
26
36
46
85

50
46

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

10*4
>5*4

60

30  00

Sheet  Iron

Nos. 10 to 14
Nos. 15 to 17.
Nos. 18 to 21.
NOS. 22 tO 24. ......................   ..........   4  10
Nos. 25 to 26. ....................................4  20
No. 27............ ....................................4  30
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30 

com. smooth.,  com.
$3 60
3 7C
3  90
3  90
4 00
4  10
Inches

Shovels  and  Spades
First Grade, Doz...................................
Second Grade, Doz.................. ............. 

8 60
8  00

Solder

H@H....................................................... 
18
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Squares

Steel and Iron................................ .. 
Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plpte 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i _  _ ntmnd 
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, f per pouna" 

Traps

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

Wire

Bright Market........................................  
Annealed  Market.................................. 
Coppered Market................................... 
Tinned  Market....................................... 
ed Fence, Galvanized................... 
Barbed Fence, Painted......................... 

S ered Spring Steel.........................  

Wire  Goods
Bright.......................................... 
Screw Eyes.............................................. 
Hooks....................................................... 
Gate Hooks and Eyes............................ 

 

Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled...........  
Coe’s Genuine......................................... 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, ¡Wrought..ts

60—10—6

$10 50
10  60
12  00

9  00
9  00
10  60
10 so

ta
18

75
40&10
66
15
126

60
60
50&10
50&10
40
3  26
2 96

80
80
80
80

30
80

Ammunition

Caps

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

Cartridges

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

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells 

New Bival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

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

oz.of
Shot
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1
1
1*4
1*4
1*4
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
*54
4*4
3
3
314
3*4
3*4
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

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

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg...........................
M kegs, 12H Ids., per  %  keg...............
*4 kegs, 6% lbs., per J4  keg 
Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B............

Augur»  and  Bits

Snell’s ...................* ...............................
Jennings  genuine......................
Jennings’ imitation................................

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze__
First Quality, S. B. 8.  Steel................
First Quality,  D. B. Steel....................
Ballroad.........................................
Garden..........................................!!!!!!net
Stove.................................................
Carriage, new 11«»  .................   ‘
P low ...................................................”

Barrows

Bolts

Well, plain..............................................

Buckets

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

Butts,  Cast

Chain

6-16 In.

Min.
Hin.
7  0.  ...  6  C. .. . 6 0 . . ..  4Xc.
8*4 
...  6
8* 
. ..  6H

*4 In.
.. .  6)4 
.. .  6X 

. ..  7*4 
. ..  7* 
Crowbars

Com.
BB...
BBB.

Cast Steel, per lb.

Socket Firmer  .'. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket Slicks__

Elbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz...................net
Corrugated, per doz........................
Adjustable...................................... .’.".Vdls
E xpansive  B its
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30......................"
F iles—New  L ist
New American.......................................
Nicholson’s........................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................
G alvanized  Iron 

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

15 

14 

13 

Discount,  66

Gauges

Glass

• 

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

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

H am m ers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list....................dls
Yerkes & Plumb’s .................................dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................ 30c list
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3 ...............................dls
Pots...............................................•.........
Kettles.....................................................
Spiders.....................................................

H ollow   Ware

H inges

H orse  N ails

Au Sable................................................dls 
40&10
H ouse  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................... 
70
Japanned Tinware.................................. 
20&10
Bar Iron..................................................2 25  o rates
Light Band..............................................  30 rates

Iron

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings............ 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz......................... 
Warren, Galvanized  F o u n t............. 

Lanterns

75
86
■ OS
6 00

38

Musselman  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie.

Some  time  ago  John  V.  Moran,  man­
ager  for  Cobbs  &  Mitchell,  at  Spring 
dale,  secured  an  option  on  the  whole­
sale  grocery  stock  and  business  of  Peter 
C.  Keliher,  of  the  Soo.  Mr.  Moran  has 
been  desirous  of  getting  into  a  broader 
field  for  the  exercise  of  his  unlimited 
energy.  He  freely  declares  that  but  for 
the  assistance  and  counsel  of  Mr.  Mus­
selman  he  would  no.t  be  in  possession  of 
the  modest  competence  which  he  now 
enjoys,and  it  was  but  natural  for him  to 
again  go  to  his  old  friend  and 
lay  be­
fore  him  the  possibilities  of  the  famous 
city  at  the  head  of  St.  Mary’s  River. 
The  result  is  that  on  O ct  i  the  business 
of  Mr.  Keliher  will  be  taken  over  by 
a company organized by Mr.  Musselman, 
with  Mr.  Moran  in  charge  as  manager. 
The  name  of  the  new  company  has  not 
yet  been  decided  upon,  but  it  will  be 
known as a ‘ ‘ Musselman house, ’ ’ and en­
joy  from  the  start  the  benefits  of  a  large 
experience  in  this  line  of  business.

I 

When 

interrogated  as  to  his  reasons 
for  taking  this  step,  Mr.  Musselman  re­
plied :

“ Why  am  I  going  to  take  on  this  new 
store?  Well,  sir, 
like  to  see  the 
wheels  go  ’round.  Trade  in  our  line  is 
becoming  localized  more  and  more  each 
year  and  Grand  Rapids  territory  is  be­
coming  more  circumscribed 
in  conse­
quence. 
I  heard  a  Chicago  grocer  say 
a  short time  ago that  intwo  years  he did 
not  think  they  would  be  selling  staples 
150  miles  from  home.  This  fact  caused 
us  to  establish  the  Traverse  City  house, 
and  the  success  we  are  meeting  there 
caused  me  to  look  with  favor  upon  this 
new  field.  The  Soo  is  a  growing  city. 
The  resources  of  the  region  are  just  be­
ginning  to  be  drawn  upon,  and  a  com­
plete  stock,  well  kept  up,  ought  to 
double  the  present  business.  As  for 
looking  closely  after  the  store,  there 
will'  be  no  trouble. 
I  see  no  reason 
why  a  half  dozen  or  more  stores  should 
not  be  successfully  handled  from  a  cen­
tral  point.  The  larger  the  distributing 
power  the  more 
is  that  power  sought 
after  by 
importers  and  manufacturers. 
If  you  will  look  at  the  map  you  will  see 
these  three  stores  will  make  a  pretty 
chain.”

The  Boston  Egg:  and  Produce  Market.
Boston,  May  12— Receipts  of  eggs  for 
the  past  week  have  been  heavy,  but  not 
quite  as  many  as  for the  same  week  last 
year,  and  we  have  had  a  very  steady 
market. 
Large  quantities  have  gone 
into  storage  and  that  has  been  sufficient 
to  take  the  surplus  and,  with  the  great 
consumptive  demand,  prices  have  not 
varied  more  than  # c  through  the  whole 
week.  We  quote  regular  packing  16 
@ i6&c;  assorted,  storage  packed  stock 
from  Northern  Indiana  and  Michigan 
i7 @ i7 X c .
Receipts  of  butter  continue  to  run 
rather 
light,  below  the  usual  quantity 
at  this  season,  and  markets  are  high  in 
proportion.  Butter  opened  Monday  at 
23>i@24C  4nd  gradually  advanced  up  to 
Thursday,  when  supply  was  not equal  to 
the  demand  and  prices advanced  to  25^ 
@26c,  but Friday  there was  a  very  sharp 
decline  of  2c  per  pound  and  to-day 
prices  are  about  the  same  as  a  wee! 
ago— 23^@24c.  There 
is  still  a  scare 
ity  of 
low  grades  and  we  quote  dairy 
to-day  at  20@22 y2c.

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

week  and  it  looked  as  though  both  mar­
kets  were  taking  a 
little  advantage  of 
Elgin  for  the  first  three  days  of  the 
eek,  then  dropping  the  price  to  about 
the  lowest  level  in  order  to  prevent  E l­
gin  from  making  any  increase  in  price 
the  following  Monday.  Our  market 
is 
rm  at  23c.
The  potato  market  has  been  very  un­
satisfactory  during  the  past  week.  Re­
ceipts  were  very  heavy.  Prices  rang- 
ng  from  $1  down  to  85c,  while  clean- 
cut,  sound  white  stock  sold  readily  at 
90c.

The  egg  market  remains  more  steady 
and  the  price  for  current  receipts  dur- 
ng  the  week  past has  ranged  from  15^ 
@i6c.  For  fancy  storage  stock  sales 
were  made  at  i6@i6j^c  delivered  Pitts­
burg.  This  morning,  however,  the  re­
ceipts  are  larger  by  river  and  the  price 
s  15#  for  No.  1  stock.  Many  buyers, 
the  present  writing,  think  that  stor­
age  stock 
for 
safety— around  i6@i6^ c— but the  writer 
has  offered  residents  of  your  State  for 
strictly  fancy  No. 
1  storage  packed 
stock,  delivered  Pittsburg,  for  imme­
diate  shipment, 
ifijéc,  but  16c  would 
be  a  fair quotable price.  C.  B.  Clark.

is  entirely  too  high 

Advertisements  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for  each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

464

FOB s a l e —st o c k  o f s h o e s a n d  f u r n -
lshlngs In a Michigan  town  of  10,000,  thirty 
miles  from  Detroit;  stock  inventories  about 
$3,000;  twenty-five  years’  established  business; 
good location;  rent, $12.50 per  month;  an  excel- 
ent  chance.  Address  No.  464,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

FOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STORE  IN 
Central Michigan cltyj  would  take  part pay 
In jewelry or  bazaar  goods, 
Address  No.  «62,
care Michigan Tradesman.
STORE  FOR  SALE  AT  McCORDS,  MICH.
Excellent stand  for  grocery  or  drug  store; 
size of building 20x32 ;  complete, ready for goods ; 
six  room  dwelling,  well  finished  and  painted; 
well, cistern, horse barn;  two  lots planted  with 
small  fruits  and  ornamental  trees;  Immediate 
possession  given;  very  desirable  and  cheap; 
terms, $900, $700 down, balance any time desired; 
no trades.  Mrs.  Dora  Haskln,  McCords,  Kent 
Co.,  Mich. 
461
Fo r s a l e —d r u g  st o c k  a n d  f ix t u r e s  
In one of the most  promising  cities  In  Cen­
tral  Michigan;  Invoices  about  $2,000,  Address 
460
No. 460, care Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED—TO BUY A GROCERY OR  GEN 
eral  stock  of  goods  doing  a  business  of 
from $12,000 to $15,000 per  yegr.  Prefer  a  town 
of from  1,000  to  2,000  population.  Have  about 
$2,000 to Invest.  Address No. 467, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
467
Fo r  s a l e —t h e   l e a d in g   d r y   g o o d s
store In a growing Northern  Michigan  town 
of 3,000 people:  stock Invoices about  $9,000;  sold 
$28,000 last year;  a splendid opportunity;  best of 
reasons for selling.  Address No. 468, care Mich- 
lgan Tradesman. 

468

4

Fo r  s a l e   c h e a p —s e c o n d h a n d   n o .
Bar-Lock  typewriter,  in  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  appllca- 
tlon.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
SHIP  YOUR  EGGS  AND  BUTTER  TO 
Lloyd I. Seaman & Co., 148  Reade  St.,  New 
York City. 
Fo r  s a l e —f o u n d r y   a n d   m a c h in e  
shop In a manufacturing district;  a splendid 
opportunity to continue a well-established  busl- 
ness.  Address P. O. Box 255, Detroit, Mich.  456
W A N T E D —TO  PURCHASE  LOCATION 
suitable for conducting hardware  business 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  455,  care 
455
Michigan Tradesman. 
IT'OR  SALE-GOOD  CLEAN  HARDWARE 

'  stock and buildings;  fine  location;  will  sell 
whole at a sacrifice;  this is the chance  of  a  life­
time.  Address  S.  J.  Doty  &  Son,  Harrietta 
Mich. 
451
W ANTED—GOOD  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
» »  pi 
proof safe.  Give size and name of maker.
F. N .Oiornell, Sebewa, Mich.
450
Fo r  s a l e —d r u g   st o r e  i n   g r o w in g
town  of  10,000  In  Northern  Michigan;  In­
voices about $1,900;  stock  new;  only  been  run 
two years;  new soda  fountain.  Will  sell  at  In­
ventory.  Address  No.  449,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
449
Fo r  s a l e —m o s l e r ,  b a h m a n n   &  co.
fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement 
Inches high, 27 Inches  wide  and  24  Inches  dt 
Inside measurement—16*4 inches high, 14  Inches 
wide and 10 inches deep.  Will sell  for  $50  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 

Fo r s a l e —h a r d w a r e  st o c k  i n   g o o d 
A  NO.
Xjl  who will  pure 
terms reasonable.

thriving  town.  Good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 447, care Michigan Tradesman.  447
1  OPENING  FOR  A  PHYSICIAN 
who will  purchase  my  property;  price  and 
Address C.  W.  Logan,  Tus- 

368

448

Status  of the  Pittsburg  Produce  Market.
Pittsburg,  May  12—The butter  market 
of  late has  been  very  unsatisfactory,  ow 
ing  to  the  spasmodic  advance  in  Chi 
last 
cago  during  the  first  three  days  of 
week.  The  Elgin  price 
last  Monday 
was  22c;  before  Wednesday  Chicago 
boomed  the  price  to  23c  and  New  York 
to  25@25)£c.  The last  three  days  of  the 
week  both  New  York  and  Chicago  re
ceded  to  about  the  level  of  the  former | tin, Minti

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

Fo b   s a l e - st o c k   o f   g e n e r a l   m e r -
chandlse, consisting of dry  goods,  groceries 
and  men’s  furnishing  goods:  also  fixtures;  In­
voices  about  $4.000;  good  clean  stock,  mostly 
new;  in one of the best sections  of  Michigan;  a 
fine  business  chance.  Address  No.  448,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.________ 
445
Fo b   s a l e - a   f i n e   st o c k   o f   g r o- 
cerles and fixtures In good location  In  town 
of 1,200 in Southern Michigan;  will Invoice about 
$1,600;  good reason for selling.  Address G., care 
439
Michigan Tradesman. 
Fo b  s a l e —a   g o o d  o p p o r t u n it y   f o b
a stock and dairy farm, situated eight  miles 
from  Marquette,  four  miles  from  Negaunee, 
Marquette county, Michigan, on the D.,  S.  S.  & 
A. Railway.  Good markets;  the best  of  water; 
buildings and railway  station  on  the  property. 

427

B  G E N E R A L   STOCK  IN  THE  BEST 

W. Bead & Co., Marquette, Mich. 
farming community  In  Michigan  for  sale; 
nooldgoods;  the price  right  to  the  right  man 
for cash;  a  moneymaker.  Reason  for  selling, 
oor  health.  Address  No.  430,  care  Michigan 
'radesman. 
430
W 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  &  Deville,  Hud­
432
son, Mich. 
TTIOR  SALE—A CLEAN  STOCK  OF  STAPLE 
-I-  groceries In  a  flourishing  railroad  town  of 
3,500 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
Fo r  s a l e —e s t a b l is h e d ,  c l e a n ,  m e-
dlum-slzed drug stock;  good opportunity for 
unregistered  druggist.  Address  No.  443,  care 
443
Michigan Tradesman. 
F OR  SA L E —c o u n t r y   s t o r e  a n d

dwelling;  general  stock,  doing  good  busi­
ness.  J. B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 
r p o   RENT—FIVE  STOKES  IN  A  NEW 
1   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, Seo’y. 

_____________________ 408

I ¡MIR  SALE-A LIVE  UP-TO-DATE  CROCK- 

1  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; 
right? In  the  heart  of  the  business  district¿a 
splendid business chance for  some  person.  W. 
K. Parsllle, Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.________404

420

FOR SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- 
lng $2,800, in one of the best Southern  Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
389, care Michigan Tradesman.___________ 389
Fo r s a l e - t h e  b e s t  e g g , b u t t e r  a n d
poultry business in  the State;  handled  over 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars’ worth of 
produce In  1901.  Enquire  of  Tradesman  Com­
446
pany, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Fo r  s a l e —f i n e   y ie l d i n g   40  a c r e  
farm  In  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under  cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  Address  No. 
390
390. care Michigan Tradesman. 
IX>K SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES.
1  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
Ser month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
lb. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 
334
Sa f e s —n e w   a n d   s e c o n d -h a n d   f i r e
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376  South  Ionia 
321
St., Grand  Rapids. 
Pr o p o s it io n s  f o r   f a c t o r ie s  f r o m
responsible  parties  at  Ithaca,  Mich.  Best 
agricultural county In the State.  A. McCall,  Sec- 
retary, Ithaca, Mich.____________________ 4Qj
Fo r   s a l e —st o c k   o f  b o o t s  a n d  
Traverse City, Mich. 
248
Fo r  s a l e - a   n e w   a n d   t h e   o n l y   b a -
zaar stock In the city  or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000:  the  county 
seat;  stock Invoices  $2,500;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

shoes;  fine  location;  well  established  busi­
ness.  For  Information  address  Parker  Bros., 

187

MISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION  WANTED  AS  REGISTERED 
pharmacist.  Address No. 466, care Michigan 
466
Tradesman. 
WANTED-A COMPETENT PHARMACIST 
and registered In  Michigan;  give age,  ex­
perience, when and where;  whether  married  or 
single;  salary  expected;  also  references.  Ad­
dress H. D., Kalamazoo, Mich.___________ 463
W ANTED —REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
to work In store at  Paw  Paw  Lake;  sum­
mer resort; will be a  nice  outing;  good  salary. 
Address No. 458, care Michigan Tradesman.  468
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
R e g i s t e r e d   p h a r m a c is t ,  m id d l e
aged  and  experienced,  desires  situation; 
references.  Address  John  Jason,  Woodland, 
Mich.__________________ ._______________452
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

WANTED—SITUATION  AS  CLERK  IN  A 

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. 

382

I  W ant  Large  Quantities  of

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.

C.  B.  CLARK

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

PITTSBU RG,  PENN.

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

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

