Nineteenth Year

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE  II,  1902,

Number 977

—Glover’s Gem  Mantles—

For Gas or Gasoline.  W rite for  catalogue.

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Manufacturers,  Im porters  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline  Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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♦  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.

W illiam   A lden  S m ith   B uilding:, 

G ran d   R apids,  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
penses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1957. 
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gan agent Vlneberg’s Patent Pants.

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.  McCKONE,  Manager.

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

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

Conservative  Management

Capital  and  Surplus $150,000

JNO.  A.  COVODE,  Pres.

HENRY  IDEMA,  Vice-Pres

J.  A.  S.  VERDIER.  Cashier.

A.  T.  SLAGHT,  Ass’t  Cashier.
DIRECTORS

Jno. W. Blodgett, 
J. A.  CO VO D E,
E. Crofton F ox, 
He n r y  Idem a,

F. C.  Mil l e r ,
T. J. O’Br ie n , 
T. Ste w a rt  Wh it e, 
J. A. S. V e r d ie r.

.

KENT  COUNTY  SAVINGS  BANK,

Cor.  Canal and  Lyon  Sts., 

Tradeunan Conpens

Grand  Rapids.

IM PO RTA N T  FE A TU R ES.

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Page. 
2.  T he  R u ra l  H om e.
4.  A ro u n d   th e   S tate.
5.  G ran d   R ap id s  G ossip.
6.  G ettin g   th e   P eople.
7.  C ondition  o f C arp et  M ark et.
8.  E d ito ria l.
9.  E d ito ria l.
IO.  C lothing.
12.  Shoes  an d   R u b b ers.
15.  D ry   Goods.
16.  B n tte r  an d   Eggs.
18.  T he  New  Y ork  M ark et.
19.  W oes  o f th e   T en d er  H e arted   G rocer.
20.  W o m an ’s  W o rld .
22.  H ard w are.
24.  T illag e  Im p ro v em en t.
25.  C o m m ercial  T rav elers.
26.  D ru g s  an d   C hem icals.
27.  D ru g   P ric e   C u rre n t.
28.  G rocery  P ric e   C u rren t.
29.  G rocery  P ric e   C u rren t.
30.  G rocery  P ric e   C u rren t.
32.  T he  P ro d u ce   M ark et.

T R A D E   W IT H   T H E   TROPICS.

The  commerce  that  has  created  the 
greatest  riches  has  been  that  between 
the  North  and  the  South,  that  is  to  say, 
between  countries  which,  having  dis­
similar  products,  find 
it  desirable  to 
exchange  commodities.

The  greatest  trade  of  ancient  Rome 
was  carried  on  with  Africa 
in  ships 
across  the  Mediterranean  Sea  by  way  of 
Alexandria,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Nile. 
Not  only  the  products  of  the  rich  Nile 
Valley  were  thus  carried  to  the  world's 
capital,  but  an  extensive  commercial 
intercourse  was  also  had  with  Asia  by 
way  of  the  Red  Sea  and  the  Fersian 
Gulf.  Countries  in  the  same  zone  of 
climate  have 
the  same  agricultural 
products,  and  do  not,  as  a  general  rule, 
need  to  exchange  each  with  the  other 
but  countries 
in  the  temperate  zones 
find  it  of  the  greatest advantage  to  trade 
with  the  tropics,  and  vice  versa,  since 
each  produces  something  that  the  other 
has  not,  but  greatly  needs.

The  great  commercial  wealth  of  Eng­
land  came  through  trading  with  the 
tropical  countries  of  Asia,  America  and 
Africa. 
from  these  Southern 
States  of  ours  has  long  been  the  most 
important  article  of  trade  carried  to 
European  countries,  and  it  continues  to 
be  an  absolute  necessity  to  them.

Cotton 

Hon.  O.  P.  Austin,  Commissioner  of 
Statistics  for  the  United  States Treasury 
Department,  in  the  June  Forum  has  an 
article  on  the  trade  of  the  United  States 
with  tropical  and  subtropical  regions, 
and  he  notes  that  tropical  and  subtrop­
ical  fruits  are  now  in  the  reach  of  all, 
and  are  found  on  every  table.  It  should 
be  remembered  that  the  Southern  States 
of  the  Union  enjoy  to  a  considerable ex­
tent  a  subtropical  climate,  and  besides 
furnishing  a  great  part  of  the  people  of 
the  earth  with  the  cotton  which supplies 
their  clothing,  also  produce 
in  large 
quantities  sugar,  rice,  sweet  potatoes, 
melons  and  other  fruits  appropriate  to 
the  latitude  and  climate.

life  everywhere. 

Sugar  and  coffee  and  tea  and  cocoa, 
which  by  earlier  generations  were  con­
sidered  luxuries,  are  now  necessaries  of 
daily 
The  average 
consumption  of  sugar,  which  in  the  year 
1870  was  thirty-three  pounds  per  capita, 
was  in  1901  sixty-eight  pounds  per  cap­
ita ;  and  the  quantity  of  coffee  con­

sumed  has 
increased  from  six  pounds 
per  capita  per  annum  in  1870 to  nearly 
twelve  pounds  per  capita  in  1901;  that 
of  cocoa  is  six  times  as  great  per  capita 
as 
in  1870,  while  that  of  tea  is  still  as 
great  per  capita  as  in  1870,  despite  the 
great  increase 
in  the  use  of  coffee  and 
cocoa.  Silks  and  satins,  which  were 
luxuries  only  a  generation  or  two  ago, 
are  now  considered  a  necessary  part  of 
the  wardrobe  of  a 
large  share  of  the 
population.  India  rubber,  which  a  gen­
eration  ago  was  almost  unknown,  is  now 
utilized  everywhere  for  clothing, 
for 
household  requirements,  for  machinery, 
and  even  for  the  tires  of  our  carriages. 
Countries  in  the  heart  of  tropical  con­
tinents,  remote  from  the  sea  and  pos­
sessing  no  navigable  rivers,  are  being 
penetrated  by  railroads  so  that  their 
treasures  of  sugar,  coffee,  spices,  cocoa, 
fruits,  nuts,  gums,  furniture  woods,  dye 
stuffs,  silk  and  other  fibers  and  rubber 
are  made  directly  available  for  com­
merce.

Commissioner  Austin  shows  that  in 
the  year  just  ended  the  importation  into 
the  United  States  of  goods  usually  con­
sidered  as  of  tropical  or  subtropical 
production  amounted  to  $400,000,000 or 
considerably  more  than  $1,000,000  for 
every  day  in  the  year,  including  Sun­
days  and  holidays,  while  thirty  years 
ago  they  amounted  to  but  $143,000,000, 
or  less  than  $400,000  per  day.

Even  these  figures  fail  to  show  the 
real  growth  in  the  importation  and  con­
sumption  of  the  products  of  the  tropics, 
because  the  reduction  in  the  value  per 
unit  of  quantity  is  so  great  that  in many 
cases  a  dollar’s  worth  to-day  means  a 
much  greater  quantity  of  the  article  im­
ported  than  it  did  in  earlier  years.  The 
cost  of  sugar  in  the  country  from  which 
it  was  imported  averaged  about  5  cents 
per  pound 
in  1870,  and  2.3  cents  per 
pound  in  1901,  or  less  than  one-half  that 
of  1870.  The  cost  of  the  coffee  imported 
in  the  “ seventies”   averaged  from  12 
cents  to  18  cents per  pound ;  in  1899 and 
1900  it  averaged  6.5  cents,  and  in  1901 
the  average  was  7.3  cents  per  pound. 
The  average  cost  of  tea  imported  from 
1870 to  1880  ranged  from  24  cents  to  37 
cents  per  pound  at  the  port  from  which 
it  was  shipped  to  the  United  States, 
while  in  1901  it  averaged  12.3 cents  per 
pound;  and  raw  silk  which  costover 
$5  per  pound  in  1870,  now  costs  but  lit­
tle  over $3  per  pound.

G EN ERA LoTR A D E  R E V IE W .

On  account  of  the  retarding 

influence 
of  the  coal  strikes  in  Pennsylvania  the 
Wall  Street  markets  are  making  records 
for  dulness  as  compared  with  many 
months  past.  But  in  spite  of  this  influ­
ence  the  course  of  prices  keeps  upward 
owing  to  favorable  conditions  in  every 
other branch  of  trade.  Among  especially 
favorable  features  may  be  mentioned 
the  ending  of  the  African  troubles,  with 
the  opening  of  the  Transvaal  mines  and 
industries  as affecting  the  world’s  trade. 
Then  a  most  favorable  domestic  feature 
is  the  vast  and 
increasing  volume  of 
railway  business,  and  that  at  the  season 
of  least  grain  traffic.  There  is  also  the 
tremendous  pressure  of  demand 
for

American  industries  which  carries  con­
tracts  in  some  lines  well  into  1903.  The 
uncertainties  of  the 
labor  troubles  are 
enough  to  engage  attention,  and  thus 
prevent  business  in  the  speculative mar­
kets, but they have little influence on  gen­
eral 
industrial  trade  outside  of  the  lo­
calities  immediately  concerned.

There  is  no  abating  of  activity  in  the 
iron  and  steel  industries  except  in  cases 
of  labor  disputes.  Of  course  it  is impos­
sible  that  any  great industry should  con­
tinue  under  such pressure without the  la­
bor  factor  making  an  appearance,  and 
especially  in  a  case  where it is to  the  in­
terest  of  the  manufacturers  to  keep  the 
price  of  their  products  down.  High 
premiums  are  still  the  rule  for  early 
deliveries. 
is  still 
being  received  and  it  is  significant  that 
much  of  it  is  manufactured  in  bond  to 
avoid  paying  duty,  the  product  going 
directly  out  of  the  country  again.

Foreign  material 

In  textiles  woolen  mills  are increasing 
production  nith  no  effect  on  prices, 
and  the  cotton  trade  show  a  similar con­
dition.  Eastern  shoe  houses  are  get­
ting  considerable  business  for fall  deliv­
eries,  but  the  interior  factories  are  still 
having  the  lion's  share.

T H E   R E IG N   O F  T H E   MOB.

is  a 

Not  all  the  mine  owners  in  Pennsyl­
vania  are  rich  and  powerful  corpora­
tions.  At  Beaver  Brook,  in  that  State, 
there 
little  coal  mine  producing 
twenty-five  tons  a  day,  owned  by  one 
man.  He  works  it  with  the  assistance 
of  his  six  sons,  a  team  of  mules  and  a 
small  engine.  He  employs  no  labor, 
and  so  hitherto  has  never  had  any  ques­
tion  of  union  or  non-unionism,  and  as 
he  and  his  six  sons  dwell  together  in 
harmony, 
they  never  had  any  labor 
troubles,  strikes  or  disturbances.  One 
would  naturally  suppose  that  this  man 
was  in  a  very  independent position,  and 
that  he  and  his  sons  might  make  a little 
| extra  money  now  that  the  price  of  coal 
has  advanced.

The  striking  miners  take  another 
view  of  it.  They  have  declared  that  no 
coal  shall  be  mined,  and  accordingly 
they  marched  the  other day  on  the  man 
and  his  six  sons  and  ordered  him  to 
stop  work,  threatening  to  compel  him 
to  do  so  by  force  if  he did not capitulate 
without  violence.  As  he 
is  only  one 
man  and  poor,  he  can  not  employ  po­
licemen  nor  guards  of  any  kind  to  pro­
tect  him 
in  bis  work,  and  he  is  not  of 
sufficient  influence  to  call  on  the  county 
or  the  State,  and  so  all  he  can  do  is  to 
obey  the  orders  of  the  strikers  and  de­
sist.  Should  he  and  his  six  sons  con­
tinue  to  work  their  coal  mine  they  are 
told by  the  union  miners  that their prop­
erty  will  be  destroyed  and  their  lives 
placed 
in  jeopardy,  which  is  the  usual 
argument  of  unionism  in  enforcing  its 
demands.

How 

long  will  the  American  people 
continue 
to  tolerate  the  tyranny  of 
unionism  and  the  reign  of  the  mob, 
making  the  Constitution  a  mockery  and 
the  liberty  of  the  individual  a  sham?

The  enterprising  merchant  is  he  who 
sells  goods  that  give  perfect  satisfaction 
and  afford  him  a  fair  profit.

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

T H E   R U RA L  H O M E.

Som e  E ssen tial  Id e a ls  W h ich   S hould  Be 

O bserved.

Michigan  stands  among  the  first  in 
agricultural  and  horticultural 
educa­
tion,  thanks  to  the  progressiveness  of 
her  wideawake, 
farseeing  fanners  in 
their  constant  and  vigorous  support  of 
those 
institutions  which  make  rural 
home  life  possibilities  easier of  attain­
ment.  The  subject  of  possibility  nat­
urally 
impels  me  to  prophesy  to  some 
extent.  But  the  true  prophet  speaks  not 
for  the  future,  but  for the  present,  and 
interpre­
his  knowledge  is  based  on  an 
tation  of  the  past.  Really  there 
is  no 
past,  no  present,  no  future,  that  can  be 
separated  from  each  other.  They are  as 
links  in  a  chain  or  meshes  in  a  net— 
take  hold  of  them  where  you  will,  they 
still  cling  together.

as 

the 

is  impossible? 

In  view  of  what  has  transpired  re­
garding  rural  homes  in  the  past  three 
decades,  one  might  well  ask,  Is  there 
anything  that 
Indeed, 
what  might  we  not  expect  of  the  more 
that 
intelligent  and  enterprising  of 
founders, 
heroic  class,  namely, 
builders  and  proprietors  of 
country 
homes.  The  occupants  of  a  majority  of 
our  pioneer  log  cabins  were  men  and 
women  of  sterling  worth,  with  eyes  ever 
ready  to  feast  on  the  beautiful  and  with 
imaginations  just 
alert  and  as 
sparkling  as  those  of  their  descendants. 
But,  alas,  their  finances  were 
limited, 
their  homes  were  deprived  of  nearly 
everything  except  actual  necessities— 
their  very  outlook  was  circumscribed  by 
the  great  forests  and  their  longings  for 
finer  or  more  convenient  surroundings 
were  dwarfed  by  the  ever-present  heavy 
labor  necessary  in  clearing  a  home  and 
supporting  and  educating—God  bless 
them!—a  good  sized family.  Two  facts 
retarded  the  development  of  the  rural 
home *  First.  Thousands  of  early  set­
tlers  were  too  busy  carving  a  living  out 
of 
Second.  Many 
lacked  the  knowledge  and  skill  or  even 
the  suggestion  that  their  homes  might 
easily  be  made  an 
ideal  permanent 
place  for  joyful living.  These objections 
are  rapidly  disappearing.  Wealth  has 
been  slowly  accumulated  by  the  perse­
vering,  industrious  and  economical  till­
ers  of  the  soil.  The  bard,  desperate  toil 
of  clearing  off  land  and  rooting  out 
stumps  has  been  nearly  accomplished. 
What  was  once  a  vast  forest,  swamp  or 
uncultivated  prairie  is  now  a  fairy  land 
of  fields  and  groves  and  orchards  full  of 
unlimited  resources,  the  forests  having 
receded  until  we  are  demanding that  re­
serves  be  made  for the  enjoyment  of  fu­
ture  generations.

the  wilderness. 

The  well  to  do  farmers— with  broad 
acres  cleared,  fenced  and  drained,  with 
tools  and  implements  greatly  improved, 
with  agricultural  and  horticultural  ma­
chinery  not  even  dreamed  of  by  our  an­
cestors— have  time  to  beautify  the  home 
in  its  immediate  surroundings  by  clear­
ing  away  the  cluttered,  unsightly  yards. 
They  must  recede  and  be  screened  by 
fruiting  trees  and  curving  banks  of  foli­
age.  Remove  the  moist,  disease-breed­
ing  chip  pile  and  replace 
it  with  a 
heavy  sod  and  let  the  sunshine  and  the 
grass  show  what  they  can  do  in  the  way 
of  sanitation  around  the  back  door. 
Free  rural  delivery,  the 
improvement 
of  roads, the wonderful  uses of  electricity 
not  yet  dreamed  of;  acetylene,  gaso­
line  and  electric  lights;  trolley  cars  and 
automobiles  passing  our  doors,  telling 
us  of  rapid  and frequent  ways of  transit; 
the  voice  of  the  nation  over  the  long 
distance  telephone—all  indicate  how  it 
is  possible  to  bring  to  the  rural  home

luxuries 
many  of  the  conveniences  and 
of  town  or  city  without  their  unpleasant 
features.  Those 
living  on  an  electric 
line  may  now  enjoy  the  daily  paper  not 
one  hundred  minutes  from  the  press— 
even  thirty  miles  distant.  With  ail 
these  recent 
innovations;  with  greater 
educational  advantages,  through  the  or­
ganization  of  granges, 
farmers’  clubs, 
and  agricultural  and  horticultural  socie­
ties ;  with publications  bearing  on  every 
possible  phase  of  rural  life,  and  with 
better  social  facilities,  are not  the  pleas­
ures  of  farm  life  greatly  enhanced?

The  meetings  of  the  State  Horticul­
tural  Society  are  proof,  in  themselves, 
that  the  leaven  of  popular  education 
is 
working  and  will  some  day  leaven  the 
whole  State.  The  interesting  topics  on 
the  programmes  are  a  good  omen for the 
future.  Yet  only  a  beginning  has  been 
accomplished— not  one  family  in  twenty 
has  a  bountiful  supply  of  fresh  garden 
vegetables,  appetizing  small  fruits  and 
beautiful  flowers.

Speaking  of  beautiful  flowers,  my 
memory  reverts  to  a  long  walk  with  my 
parents,when  a  child,  through  the  wild- 
woods  to  visit  our  neighbors,  and  such 
a  scene  of  rustic  beauty  delighted  us 
as,  merging  from  the  great  forest,  we 
came  suddenly  upon  their  small  enclos­
ure !  A  log  house  nearly  covered  with 
vines.  Morning  glories,  hops  and  sweet 
peas  vied  with  each  other  to  cover the 
rough  walls  and  the  tiny  garden  was 
filled  with  such  old-fashioned  flowers 
as  the  peony,  larkspur,  hollyhock  and 
Indian  tassel  or  “ Kiss  me  over the  gar­
den  gate.’ ’  The  picture  of  that  humble 
abode  has  often  been 
recalled  and 
proves  to  my  mind  that  wealth  is  not 
always  necessary  to  make  a  home  en­
vironment  beautiful.  Careful  planting 
of  common  seeds,  with  skillful  training, 
may  create  beauty  where  only  a  short 
time  before  were  unsightly  objects.

it 

The 

shrybbery.  Plan 

ideal  farm  house  of  the  future 
should  stand  on  a  slight  elevation  in 
the  midst  of  a  spacious  lawn,  remem­
bering  that  what  is  done  in  the  way  of 
enlarging  and  beautifying  the  home 
grounds  is  sure  to  be  reflected  in  the 
moral  and  social 
life  of  the  home  in­
mates.  Much  of  man’s  energy  and  suc­
cess,  as  well  as  of  happiness,  depends 
on  the  character  of  his  surroundings. 
Round  out  the  corners  of  the  lawn  with 
graceful 
large 
enough  to  include  croquet  and  tennis. 
Have  trees—not  too  much  shade— and 
under 
them  place  a  hanging  swing 
chair,  with  hammocks  for  both  beauty 
and  comfort.  Plant  vines.  Nothing  is 
more  charming  than  a  fragrant  honey­
suckle  or  climbing  rose,  nothing  more 
gorgeous  in  autumn  than  woodbine  or 
bittersweet,  nothing  more  health-giving 
and  invigorating  than  plenty  of  grapes. 
¡For  interior  decoration  the  more  tender 
vines  and  a  few  blooming  plants.  Let 
insert  a  poem  describing  our 
me  here 
own  sunny  sittingroom 
that  we 
have  enjoyed  the  past  two winters,  writ­
ten  by  my  husband:

ivy, 

We  have  a  vine,
A  lovely,  rambling  vine,
And  you  will  fail  to  guess,
As  others  have,
Whence  it  comes  or  how,
Unless  in  these  few  lines 
1  tell  you  now.
Its  starting  place
Is  in  the  basement  warm ;
Outside  the  great  stone  wall,
In  slanting  window 
Large  and  light  and  long,
It  grows  in  native  soil,
With  tendrils  strong.
Here  in  the  floor
Two  tiny  holes were made
And  through  them  it  was  led

With  greatest  care 
To  sittingroom  above,
Where  all  enjoy  it  still 
With  ardent  love.
It  climbed  the  walls 
Close  by  the  window’s  side 
And,  spreading  out  and  ’round 
With  double  branch,
It  loosely  hangs  and  twines 
'Mongst  pictures  peeping 
Through  the  vines.
The  “ Wild-eyed  Stag,"
As  it  from  forest  came,
Looks  through  the  twigs  more  wild 
Than  formerly;
And  quiet,  docile  sheep 
Try  hard  from  browsing  leaves 
Themselves  to  keep.
And  old  “ Farm  Scenes"
That's  told  for  many  a  year,
In  accents  grandly  dear,
Of  rural  life
Now  sings  in  vineclad  lays 
Of  dearest  home  life  then 
In  bygone  days.
My  wife  and  daughter 
Claim  its  better  half 
And  I  from  winter’s  cold 
Its  roots  defend,
While  all  enjoy  its  going 
Round  the  sunny  room 
As  it  keeps  growing.
And  o’er  this  desk 
At  which  I  sit  and  write 
It  casts  a  charming  glance 
Of  friendship  true,
Which  you  may  share  with  mine 
If  in  these  lines  you  see 
Our  lovely  vine.
The  rural  home  is  to  become  the  best 
in  every  way  for  the  future:  a  home  the 
young  people  will  be  loth  to  leave,  the 
old  delight  to  spend  their  declining 
days  in  and  the  like  of  which  will  be 
the  aim  of  the  city  inhabitants,  many 
of  whom  are  already  seeking  the  quiet 
beauty  and  restfulness  of  the  real  coun­
try.  We  are  beginning  to  realize  that 
those  engaged  in  agricultural  and  horti­
cultural  pursuits  may  remain  in  their 
rural  homes,  where  they  meet  their  ed­
ucated  friends  on  equal  terms  and  are 
still  all  they  would  desire  in  any  sphere 
of  influence  or culture  in  society.

It 

Among  the  greatly  needed  possibili­
ties  are  conveniently  arranged  houses, 
simplified  in  both  apartments  and  fur­
nishings,  one 
large  home  room  con­
taining  ample  fireplace  and  a  large  ex­
tension  window,  besides  ordinary  ones. 
Here  should  be  musical  instruments  of 
various  kinds.  Let  light  folding  furni­
ture  replace  much  of  the  cumbersome, 
dust-retaining  pieces  now  in  use.  Have 
comfortable  chairs,  a  library  table  with 
light,  a 
shaded 
small  well-selected 
library 
including  a  modern  dictionary 
and  encyclopedia,  and  a  few  really  fine 
pictures. 
is  possible  now,  even  in 
rural  communities,  to  depend 
largely 
for  book  reading  on  the  public  grange 
or  traveling  libraries,  and  to  some  ex­
tent  on  the  traveling  art  collections. 
Every  rural  home  should  have  a  simply 
furnished  dining  room,  with  kitchen  on 
the  same  level,  with  linoleum  floor cov­
erings,  and  with  cupboards  and  dumb 
waiter  between,  the  waiter  ascending  to 
the  commodious,  well-lighted  attic,  as 
well  as  descending  to  the  small,  neat, 
well-drained  and  well-ventilated  cellar. 
Let  the  kitchen  be  as  small  and  as  con­
venient  a 
laboratory  as  woman,  not 
man,  can  possibly  plan,  with  ever  arti­
cle  as  light  to  handle  as  will  warrant for 
the  work  required  of  it.  Both  fuel  and 
water  should  be  obtainable  without  go­
ing 
a 
woman's  life  has  been  sacrificed  by  be­
ing  obliged  to  run  from  warm  air out 
in  the  cold  or  rain  for  these  necessi­
ties. 
It  is possible  to  arrange  a  tank  to 
catch  fresh  rain  water  from  the  upper 
eaves,  thence  pipe  to  the  kitchen,  bath­

shelter— many 

from.  under 

time 

room  and  woodhouse,  thus  saving  much 
strength  and 
in  pumping  soft 
water.  All  this  would  take  time,  plan­
ning  and  some  expense,  doubtless,  but 
the  comfort  given  and  health 
saved 
would  well  repay  the  outlay.  The  same 
economy  of  steps  and  physical  effort 
should  pervade  every  portion  of 
the 
house.  Needless  bric-a-brac  calls  for 
extra  care.  The  world  and  they  that 
dwell  therein  have  been  longing,  with 
an  insatiable  desire,  for  things;  but 
it 
may  be  possible  to  educate  ourselves 
not  to  want  so  many  things,  only  those 
that  are  worthy,  that  will  give  lasting 
pleasure  without  constant  care.  Oc­
casional  family  excursions  to  the  city 
are  possible,  to  visit  museums,  to  see 
fine  pictures  and  statuary,  when  they 
can  wander  up  and  down  the 
fine 
streets,  feasting  the  eyes  on  the  con­
tents  of  the  various  show  windows  until 
satisfied,  and  on  returning  home  feel 
thankful  that  they  are  not  required  to 
dust,  polish,  oil,  varnish  and  otherwise 
care  for  all  the  beautiful  things  they 
have  enjoyed,  and  are  not  responsible 
for their  breakage  or  wear  and  tear,  and 
may  thus  experience  a 
foretaste  of 
heaven,  where  moth  and  rust  do  not  de­
mand  so  much  of  their  very  soul.

Do  you  divine  the  idea—the  possibil­
for  the  rural 
ity  of  more  simplicity 
home; 
less  worry  and  anxiety,  both 
physical  and  mental;  less  purchasable 
outlay;  more  time  for outdoor  exercise, 
including  frequent  trips  to  the  woods 
and  meadows  for  wild  flowers;  more en­
joyment  of  orchards  and  grand  old 
trees,  of  landscape,  garden  and  lawn; 
more 
leisure  for  carriage  drives,  time 
for  music,  sociability  and  discussion  of 
the  timely  topics  in  the  late  magazines; 
in  a  word,  less  real  work  and  more  en­
joyment  in  homes  more  compact,  more 
convenient,  more  artistic,  with 
less 
Into this  beautiful  new,  or 
elaboration? 
remodeled,  rural  home  confidence  and 
industry  should  be  constant  occupants, 
for  where  these  are 
lacking  pleasure, 
happiness  and  even  love  will  soon  "fly 
out  of  the  window."
There  are  houses  we  know  of  great 

beauty,

There  are  dwellings  of  loftiest  dome 

That  could  not  be  called  by  the  title

Of  that  dearest  of  names,  “ Home, 

sweet  Home!”

For  home  is  a  place  where  love  lingers,
flourishes,  blossoms  and 

Where 

Where its  fruitage  is  known  by  its  ac­

it 
thrives,

tions

In  helping and  blessing  all  lives.

Mrs.  J.  J.  Snook.

A c tn al  E x p erien ce  W ith   H o rse  M eat.
Speaking  of  the  possibility  of  using 
horse  meat  because  of  the  high  price  of 
beef,  the  editor of  the  Milwaukee  Wis­
consin  says:
The  horse 

is  the  cleanest  of  all  ani­
mals,  and  therefore  his  meat  is  not  un- 
healthful.  We  have  had some experience 
in  horse  beef  and  know  what  it  is. 
In 
1870  we  were  shut  up  for  two  months  in 
the  siege  of  Paris,  and  horse  beef  was 
served up by  not  a few  of  the  restaurants 
under  the  title  of  “ fillet  du  mouton.’ ’ 
It  is  S' palatable  diet,  but  inasmuch  as 
there  is  no  fat  in  the  beef  it  is  not  very 
nourishing.  Meredith  M.  Read,  who 
was  our  Consul  General  at  the  time  in 
Paris,  told  us  that  he  lived  during  the 
whole  siege  on  horseflesh. 
It  satisfied 
hunger,  but  was  not  a  nourishing  diet. 
That  is  really  the  only  objection  to 
horse  meat.  The  animal,  before  being 
slaughtered,  was  carefully  inspected  by 
a  veterinarian,  and  if  pronounced  free 
from  disease  it  was  sold  to  the  public. 
It 
is  strange  there  should  be  any  pre­
judice  against  horse  beef.  The  animal, 
in  all  its  habits,  is  nearly  human— it  is 
so  cleanly.

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3

It  is  not  good  policy  to  offer 
substitutes  for  Royal  Baking 
Powder,  nor  to  sell  the  cheap 
alum powders under any circum­
stances.

The  consumer whose  trade  is 
most  valuable  wants  the  best 
and  purest goods,  and  in  baking 
powder  this  is  the  “ Royal.” 
If 
he  does  not  find  the  Royal  at 
your  store  he  will  go  elsewhere 
for  it,  and  in  so  doing  there  is  a 
liability  that  he  will  carry  all  his 
orders  with  him.

ROYAL  BAKING  PO W D ER   CO., 100  WILLIAM  ST.,  N EW   YORK.

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

Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f M erch an ts.

Albion— Robert  L.  Staples  will shortly 

retire  from  the  shoe  business.

Pontiac—Alexander  Taylor  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Wm.  Magee.

Onaway—J.  S.  Snyder  has  bought  out 

the  bakery  of  McKenzie  &  Cassidy.

Cambria—Jos.  Babcock  has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  F.  T.  Hackett  &  Co.
Bay  City— Frank  W.  Wilhelm  has 
purchased the drug  stock  of  Henry  Gag- 
ner.

Mecosta—J.  H.  Loucks,  general  mer­
chandise  dealer,  will  discontinue  busi­
ness.

Mendon—Waugh  &  Co.  have  closed 
out  their  grocery  stock  and  retired  from 
trade.

Farnsworth— L.  G.  Van  Valkenburg, 
general  dealer,  has  sold  out  to  J.  E. 
Cassler.

Imlay  City—J.  I.  Wernette,  of  Cale­
donia,  has  purchased  the  bazaar  stock  of 
John  Lee.

Lapeer—A.  H.  Ainsworth  &  Co.  suc­
in  the 

ceed  Adelbert  H.  Ainsworth 
hardware  business.

Hersey—S.  G. 

(Mrs.  Fred)  Kincaid 
will  succeed  Mrs.  Louisa  M.  Hines  in 
the  drug  business  July  I.

Lansing—Geo.  S.  Armstrong,  dealer 
in  musical  merchandise  and  bicycles, 
has  discontinued  business.

Fremont— Pearson  &  Kelley  is  the 
style  of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds 
Frank  H.  Smith  in  general  trade.

Luther—W.  H.  McQuarrie  has  sold 
out  his  stock  of  dry  goods,  drugs  and 
shoes  to  E.  R.  Spencer,  of  Belding.

Nashville—Marple & Stout  is  the  style 
of  the  new  partnership  which  succeeds 
A.  C.  Marple  in  the  bakery  business.

Calumet— Holman  &  Williams,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership.  The 
business 
is  continued  by  Stephen  Wil­
liams.

Alpena— E.  Des  Jardins,  the Chisholm 
street  'grocer,  was  badly  injured  in  the 
Sunday  excursion  wreck  near  Black 
River.

Dowagiac—The  Dowagiac  Furniture 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration. 
It  has  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000.

Benton  Harbor—Wm.  Haydon,  Jr.,  & 
Co.  is  the  style  of  the  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  Wm.  Haydon,  Jr.,  in  the 
jewelry 
business.

Alpena— Winterhalter  &  Ryan  have 
opened  a  cigar  and  tobacco  store  on  the 
Chisholm  street  side  of  the  Holmes  & 
Reynolds  block.

Charlotte—The  E.  V.  Abell  Co. 
stock  of  general  merchandise  has  been 
sold  to  parties  at  Milford,  Ind.,  and  has 
been  shipped  to  that  place.

Portland— H.  F.  Caswell, 

formerly 
engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  at 
this  place,  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  Derby  &  Robinson.

Grayling—The  Grayling  Mercantile 
Co. 
is  the  style  of  the  new  concern 
which  succeeds  Joseph  Hyman  in  the 
clothing  and  dry  goods  business.

Alpena—J.  E.  Cheney,  who  has  spent 
all  of  his  time  at  his  Kalamazoo  shoe 
store  this  spring,  has  returned  to  spend 
several  weeks  at  his  Alpena  store.

Constantine— H.  G.  Geer  will  occupy 
the  store  room  next  adjoining  bis  pres­
ent  location  by  cutting  an  archway  be- 
tween,  using  both  rooms.  Groceries  and 
crockery  will  occupy  one  room,  while 
the  other  will  be  filled  with  a 
line  of 
dry  goods,  notions  and  boots  and  shoes. 
He  expects  to  open  the  new  store  about 
July  15.

Reed  City—J.  Scheidegger  &  Son 
have  sold  their 
jewelry  stock  to  C.  J. 
Grill,  who  has  been  station  agent  and 
operator  at  Ashton  for  the  past  ten 
years.

Bay  City—McLeod  &  Friebe,  dealers 
in  tinware,  groceries  and  meats,  have 
dissolved  partnership.  Malcolm  W. 
McLeod  continues  the  business  in  his 
own  name.

Charlotte-----Samuel  Robinson 

has
opened  a  drug  store  in  the Newth  block. 
He  has  secured  the  services  of  Aaron 
Losey,  of  Marquette,  who  is a  registered 
pharmacist.

Alpena— W.  H.  Campbell  has  moved 
his  plumbing  [establishment 
into  the 
old  Alpern  property,  recently  purchased 
by  him.  He  has  put  in  a  new front  and 
otherwise  repaired  it.

Allegan—Gustav  Stern  has  retired 
from  the 
firm  of  H.  Stern  &  Co.,  of 
Kalamazoo,  and  will  continue  the  cloth­
ing  business  at  this  place  under  the 
style  of  G.  Stern  &  Co.

Onsted— M.  P.  Wemple  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  lumber  and  grain  firm  of 
Onsted  &  Wemple  to  Charles  Kerr.  The 
business  will  be  continued  under  the 
style  of  Onsted  &  Kerr.

Alpena—J.  D.  McDonald  will  move 
bis  vehicle  and  harness  stock  into  the 
new  McLearn  block  about  June  15.  A. 
McLearn  will  occupy  the  other  half  of 
the  block  with  his  wagon  shop.

East  Jordan—J.  J.  Votruba,  for  the 
past nine  years  engaged  in  the  harness 
and  grocery  business  at  this  place,  has 
sold  out  to John  R.  Vankeppell,  of  Hol­
land,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Edmore—J.  H.  Gibbs  has  let  the  con­
tract  for  building  a  new  brick  block, 
four  stores,  bank  and  hotel.  He recent­
ly  purchased  the  electric 
lighting  sys­
tem  here,  which  has  been  materially 
added  to  and  a  new  brick  building 
erected  therefor.

Fruitport—John  H.  Westover  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  R.  D.  McNaughton, 
who  was  for  many  years  engaged  in 
general  trade  at  Coopersville  and  for 
the  past  three  or  four  years  engaged 
in 
the  same 
line  of  business  at  Honor. 
The  transfer  will  occur  July  1.

Detroit—The  Detroit  National  Bank, 
through  Theodore  D.  Buhl,  Annie  W. 
Wright,  James  Davidson,  Allan  Shelden 
and  Alex  McPherson,  has made  applica­
tion  to  have  the  name  of  the  bank 
changed  to  the  Old  Detroit  National 
Bank,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,500,000 
and  a  surplus  and  undivided  profits  of 
$500,000.

M an u fac tu rin g   M atters.

Holland—O.  R.  Johnson,  of  the  O. 
R.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.,  manufacturers, 
is  dead.

Adrian—The  McNeal  Chemical  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of $5,000.

Rockford—The  Rockford  Canning 
Co.  is  the  style  of  a new enterprise here. 
The  capital  stock  is $7,700.

Shult  Ste.  Marie—The  Soo  Woolen 
Mills has  been  established  at  this  place. 
The  capital  stock  is  $15,000.

Saginaw—Articles  of  association  have 
been  filed  by  the  Sifter  Stove Polish  Co. 
The  capital  stock  is  $100,000.

Crystal  Falls— The  Crystal  Falls 
Woodenware  Co.  has  been  organized 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.

Fremont—The  capital  stock  of  the 
in­

Fremont  Canning  Co.  has  been 
creased  from  $20,000 to $30,000.

Flint— Edwin  A.  Atwood  (Peninsular 
Cabinet  Co.),  manufacturer of revolving 
hat  cases,  has  sold  out  to Alfonso  R. 
Duboise.

Zeeland— The  VanDerMeer  &  Tilu­
men  Lumber  Co.  succeeds  Elenbaas  & 
Co.  in  the  planing  mill  business.

St.  Johns—Ward  &  Baker,  of  Fenton, 
who  are  owners  of  a  broom  factory  at 
that  place,  were  in  town  last  week  look­
ing  for  a  site  suitable  for  their  fac­
tory.

Constantine— Pickhaver  &  Raudman, 
wagon  and  carriagemakers,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  Harry  Raudman 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  old 
stand.

Detroit—The  American  Ginger  Ale 
Machine  Manufacturing  Co.  has  been 
formed  with  a  capital  of  $100,000 to 
manufacture  ginger ale  machines in  De­
troit  by  a  new  patented  process.

Mt.  Clemens—The Chesterfield Cream­
ery  Co.  will  erect  a  $2,000 skimming 
plant  at  this  place. 
It  now  has  similar 
plants  at  Valdenburg,  Meade  and  Ches­
terfield,  each  handling  about  10,000 
pounds  of  milk  per  day.

Muskegon—The Amazon  Knitting  Co. 
has  let  the  contract  for  a  new  addition, 
42x164  feet,  which  will  be  used  as  a 
bleaching  department. 
The  building 
will  be  of  brick  with  concrete  floors  and 
will  be  ready  for  occupancy 
two 
months.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Drug  Specialty 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  paid-up 
capital of $200,000.  Charles G.  Andrews, 
Grant  H.  Hackett  and  Howard  C. 
Marshall  each have a  third  interest.  The 
company  owns  the  stock  located  at  62 
and  64  Griswold  street.

in 

Plymouth—The  Plymouth  Creamery 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $6,000 divided  into 
600 shares  of  the  par  value  of  $10  each, 
of  which  sum  $600  has  been  actually 
paid  in.  There  are fifty-two stockholders 
with  shares  varying  in  number  from  1 
to  229.

Belding—The  Ballou  Basket  Wbrks 
will  shortly  begin  the  manufacture  of 
coal  sacks  from  canvas,  having  recently 
purchased  the  patents  and  right  for  the 
New  Labanon  coal  sacks.  The  company 
will  also  experiment  in  the  manufacture 
of  laundry  and  other  baskets  of  canvas 
over  steel  frames.

Detroit— The  National  Bag  Co.,  Ltd., 
capitalized  at  $50,000,  has  filed  articles 
of  association.  Of  the  $10,000  paid  in 
Robert  M.  Grindley,  Chairman,  holds 
$3,350;  Conrad  H.  Smith,  Vice-Chair­
man,  $3,350;  John  O.  Hibbard,  Secre­
tary,  $1,650,  and  Richard  G.  Lam- 
brecht,  Treasurer,  $1,650."  The  com­
pany  will  manufacture  cloth  and  paper 
sacks  and  packages.

from 

Kenton—The  Sparrow-Kroll  Lumber 
Co.  has  secured  a  contract 
a 
Buffalo concern  for  7,000  pieces  of  Nor­
way  piling.  This 
is  the  largest  single 
contract awarded  to  an Upper Peninsular 
firm  in  several  years.  The  piling  will 
be  from  45  to  75  feet  long,  and  will  fill 
500  cars.  The  timber  will  be  used  in 
Buffalo  in  the  construction  of  the  foun­
dation  for  a  large  steel  plant.

Lansing—The  ClSrk  Carriage  Co.  has 
under  advisement  the erection of  another 
large  addition  to  its  Grand  street  fac­
tory.  If  the  new  structure  is  built,  work 
will  be  begun  early  in  September.  The 
building  will  be  90x100  feet  in  dimen­
sions  and  two  stories  in  height.  When 
the  new  addition  is  completed,  the com­

pany  will  occupy  120,000 square  feet  of 
floor  space  and  will  have  a  manufactur­
ing  capacity  of 6,000  vehicles  a  year.

located 

Caro—The  Lacy  Shoe  Co.  has  begun 
the  erection  of  its  factory  building. 
It 
will  be  one  story  high,  shaped  some­
thing  in  the  form  of  the  letter  T.  The 
office  will  be 
in  the  center  of 
the  building  and  the  general  work  room 
will  extend  150  feet  on  Cemetery  street, 
running  back  4°  feet. 
It  will  then  nar­
row  to  40  feet  wide,  running  68  feet 
farther  back. 
It  is  expected  that  the 
plant  will  be  in  operation  in  about 
ninety  days.

McBride's—B.  E.  Cadwell  and  C.  W. 
French,  of  Stanton,  have  purchased  of
C.  H.  LaFlamboy  his  feed  mill  plant  at 
this  place  and,  in  connection  with  it, 
will  erect  a  grain  elevator.  The  new 
elevator  will  be  32x32  feet  in  size  and 
50  feet  high,  and  will  have  a  capacity 
of  15,000  bushels  of  grain.  Work  on  the 
new  building  is  now  being  rushed  with 
the  expectation  of  having  it  completed 
in  time  to take  care  of  this  year’s  crop. 
The  new  firm  will  be  known  as  B.  E. 
Cadwell  &  Co.

fully  paid 

Union  City—The  Peerless  Yeast  Co., 
Ltd.,  has  been  formed  here  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of  $400,000,  of  which  $115-, 
000  is  declared 
in.  The 
officers  are  as  follows:  Chairman,  D.
D.  Buell;  Secretary,  Holmes  W.  John­
son ;  Treasurer,  A.  J.  Boyer;  Board  of 
Managers,  D.  D.  Buell,  A.  J.  Boyer, 
H.  W.  Johnson,  J.  W.  McCausey  and 
H.  T.  Carpenter.  The stockholders  are 
the  gentlemen  named  above,  together 
with  J.  S.  Nesbitt,  N.  E.  Tower,  L.  S. 
Parsons,  J.  R.  Paterson,  T.  B.  Buell, 
W.  D.  Baker  and  Geo.  Oakes.  The 
company  will  manufacture  a  dry  yeast 
cake  upon  which  it holds  patents.  Fac­
tory  buildings  constructed  of  cement 
will  be  built  at  once.

Detroit—The  Ward  Cigar  Co., of Pon­
tiac,  has  engaged  three  floors  of  the  old 
Biddle  House  property for use  as  a  cigar 
factory. 
It  is  stated  that  the  company 
will  give  employment  from  the  start  to 
at  least  seventy-five  hands,  and  that  this 
force  will  be  increased  as  the  business 
develops.  The  removal  of  the  factory 
is  said  to  be  due  to  the  inability  to  se­
cure  competent  help  in  Pontiac. 
It  is 
thought,  however,  that  the  company  sees 
a  good  opportunity  to  secure  skilled 
la­
bor  owing  to  the  strike  which  is  on  at 
Brown Bros. ’  factory.  The  Wards,  it  is 
also  said,  will  make  a  bid  for  the  trade 
formerly  supplied  by  Brown  Bros,  be­
fore  their  factory  was  absorbed  by  the 
tobacco  trust.

T he  D octor’s  A dvice  Too  D ate.

A  story  of  a  man  who  went  to  see  a 
doctor.  The  doctor examined  him  care­
fully,  and,  with  a  grave  face,  told  him 
that  he  was  very  ill,  and  asked  him  if 
he  had  consulted  any  one  else.

"O h ,”   said  the  man,  " I   went  to  see 
a  druggist  and  asked  his  advice,  and 
he— ”

"D ruggist!”   the  doctor  broke  in  an­
grily.  “  What  was  the  good  of that?  The 
best  thing  to  do  when  a  druggist  gives 
you  advice  is  to  do  exactly  the  oppo­
site. ”
^  "And  he,”   the  patient  continued, 
“ advised  me  to  come  to  you.”

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

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.

ao  Pearl  Street 

GRAND  RAPIDS  SUPPLY  COMPANY

dreed  Rapid«,  Mich.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Hogan  &  Gorton  have  purchased  the 
grocery  and 
stock  of 
Charles  A.  Brink,  at  1187  South  D ivi­
sion  street.

confectionery 

W.  H.  Ferris  has  in  operation  at  his 
store  at  157  Monroe  street  a  new  gas 
coffee  roaster,  which  enables  him  to 
roast  coffee  at  any  time  during  the  day.

Milton  Chubb  has  leased  the  store 
building  at  the  corner  of  Palmer  and 
North  Coit  avenues  of  Lyman Townsend 
and  will  shortly  occupy  it  with a grocery 
stock. 

_____________

Fairfield  &  Kolvoord,  of  Allegan, 
succeed  M.  Joseph  McCarthy 
in  the 
feed  .business  at  706  South  • Division 
street.  The  business  will  be  in  charge 
of  George  Fairfield,  brother  of 
the 
senior  member  of  the  firm,  and  the 
store  will  be  made  a  distributing  point 
for  their  flour  and  other  products  manu­
factured  at  Allegan.

S.  H.  Benham  and  Frederick  Benham 

have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  S.  H.  Benham  &  Co.  to  engage 
in  the  drug  business  at  Trufant.  The 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the 
order  for  the  stock.  The  business  will 
be  managed  by  S.  H.  Benham,  who  was 
prescription  clerk  for  Dr.  John  Black 
when  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug  busi­
ness  at  Trufant.

Texas,  where 
looked  better.

it  is  claimed 

it  never 

Oats  seem  to  be  quite  strong,  espe­
cially  the  undertone,  on  account  of  the 
wet  weather,  which  has  put  a  damper 
on  the  grand  outlook  for  the  crop  a 
couple  of  weeks  ago.

Rye  went  off  ic,  but  is  still  high,  as 
the  outlook  for  a  good  crop  in  Germany 
as  well  as  the  United  States  is  very  en­
couraging, 
lower  prices 
may  be  expected  in  this  cereal.

indeed,  and 

Beans  are  virtually  the  same  as  one 
week  ago,  with  a  leaning  toward  lower 
prices,  as  the  general  anticipation  is  for 
a 
large  crop  throughout  the  bean  dis­
trict.

Flour  remains steady at  present  prices 
and  millers  can  not  afford  to  shade  the 
price,  on  account  of  the  scarcity  of 
wheat.
Mill 

feed,  notwithstanding  pasturage 
is 
in  splendid  condition,  still  remains 
firm  and  seems  to  be  very  scarce,  on  ac­
count  of  many  mills  only  running  half 
time,  and  as  mill  feed  is  necessary  for 
feeding  purposes,  especially  for  dairy 
stock,  prices  are  held  up.

Receipts  of  all  grain  have  been  of  a 
diminutive  character,  being  as  follows: 
wheat,  32  cars;  com,  1  car;  oats,  5 
cars;  flour,  8  cars;  malt,  1  car;  bay,  2 
cars ;  straw,  1  car.

Mi Hers  are  paying  77c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

T he  G rain   M ark et.

Wheat  has  not  changed  in price.  Con­
ditions  seem  to  be  as  strong  as  ever, 
but  they  go  for  naught  when  sentiment 
is  against  wheat.  Our  surplus  is  meltr 
ing  away  at  the  rate  of  over  2,000,000 
bushels  per  week  which  leaves  the  vis­
ible  only  about  27,000,000 bushels,which 
is  as  low  as  it  has  been  in  many  years. 
Besides,  there  have  been  a  few  places 
added,  such  as  Ft.  Williams,  Galveston 
and  Port  Arthur.  These  places  have 
been  added  only  within  the  last  few 
years.  The  amount  omitted  at  these 
places  would  leave  the  visible  consider­
able  lower.  Taking everything  into  con­
sideration,  wheat  should  sell  consider­
ably  above  the  present low level.  How­
ever,  the  contrary 
is  the  case,  and 
wheat  seems  to  be  sagging  little  by  lit­
tle.  The  bears  have  been  looking  for­
ward  to  an  early  new  wheat  movement, 
but  their  expectations  are  not  likely  to 
be  fulfilled  on  account  of  the  large  pre­
cipitation  of  water  all  over  the  winter 
wheat  belt.  Even  in  the  Northwest  re­
port  has 
it  that  the  wheat  is  not  all 
sowed,  while  some  early  sowed  is  stand­
in  water,  but  then  there  is  plenty 
ing 
of  time  yet  to  make  wheat. 
In  our  own 
section  wheat  seems  to  be  growing  too 
rank,  which  means 
lots  of  straw  and 
short  heads,  and 
it  is  liable to  lodge, 
which  may  cause  rust.  The  supply  and 
demand  situation  does  not  seem  to  be 
taken 
consideration  whatever. 
Many  traders  are  watching  for  the  Gov­
ernment  crop  report,  which 
is  due  to­
day  and  which  will  give  the  acreage 
and  conditions  of  spring  wheat,  also 
winter  wheat  up  to  June  1,  which  prob­
ably  will  gain  a  few  points.  However, 
since  June  1  we  have  had  considerable 
rain,  which 
is  not  conducive  to  im­
provement.

into 

Com  has  been  sluggish,  but  no change 
in  price  has  taken  place,  notwithstand­
ing  there  have  been  extra  efforts  made 
to  advance  the  price.  Reports  are  to 
the  effect  that  where  com  is  not  sub­
in  water,  it  has  a  good  stand 
merged 
and 
in

is  growing  well, 

especially 

Safety  o f G asoline  fo r  L ig h tin g  P u rp o ses.
One  of  the most practical  explanations 
of  the  safety  and  danger of gasoline  ever 
given  in  this  city  was  made  at  the  store 
of  the  Perfection  Lighting  Co.  last  Sat­
urday  evening  by  J.  W.  Kitten,  Vice- 
President  of  the  Safety  Gaslight  Co.,  of 
Chicago.  The  audience  was  composed 
of  insurance  adjusters,  insurance agents, 
representatives  of  the  fire  department 
and  local  newspaper  men.  Mr.  Kitten 
proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  his auditors 
that  many  of  the  ideas  commonly preva­
lent  regarding  gasoline  and  gasoline 
lighting  are  erroneous—that,  rightly 
and  properly  handled,  gasoline  is  one  of 
the  safest 
lighting  agents  known.  He 
has  made  repeated  efforts  to  get  the  ex­
perts  who  establish  the  rules  for  the  fire 
insurance  companies  to  acknowledge the 
injustice  and  unfairness  of  their  edict 
that  only  one  gallon  of  gasoline  may  be 
used 
lighting  machine  at  a  time, 
but  without  result.  The  Safety  machine 
invented  by  him  takes  several  gallons 
at  one  filling,  which  precludes  the  ne­
cessity  of  replenishing  the  reservoir  by 
artificial  light  or  when  the  generator  is 
in  operation,  whereas  the  small  genera­
tors  which  take  a  gallon  or  less  oil  fre­
quently  run  out  of  gasoline  during  an 
evening  and  have  to  be  refilled  while 
hot.  The 
insurance  men  present  ad­
mitted  the  truth  of  the  argument  and 
practically  pledged  themselves  to  se­
cure  a  revision  of  the  present  stringent 
rule  regarding  the  use  of  gasoline  for 
lighting  purposes 
larger  quantities 
than  one  gallon.
After  the  demonstrations  the  party 
boarded  a  chartered  street  car  which 
took  them  to  the  Lakeside  Club,  where 
the  evening  was  enjoyably  spent  in  a 
private  dining  room,  partaking  of  a 
bountiful  spread  tendered  by  the Perfec­
tion  Lighting  Co.

in  a 

in 

T h e  B oston  E g g   a n d   B u tte r  M ark et. 
Boston,  June  9— Receipts  of  eggs  de­
creased  during  the  past week about 4,000 
cases  and  the  market  was  steady to weak 
most  of  the  time.  Fine  Northern  stock 
low  as  17)60;  storage  packed 
sold  as 
eggs 
sections,  i6j£@I7C. 
There  is  considerable  buying  for  stor­
age.  About  forty  cars  went  into  the 
house.  The  decline 
in  value  is  prob­
ably  due  to the  cool  weather  in  the  pro­
ducing  sections.

from  other 

Receipts  of  butter  are  slightly  less 
than  last  week  and  the  market  is  barely 
steady  at  23c.  There  are  in  store  here 
about  30,000  packages  of butter  less than 
last  year,  which  probably  accounts  for 
lack  of  change  in  the  market.

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

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

5

T he  G rocery  M ark et.

Sugar—The  raw  sugar  market  is much 
stronger,  prices  showing  an  advance  of 
i - i 6c  on  96  deg.  test  centrifugals,  with 
the  market  very  firm  at  the  advance. 
But  few  sugars  were  placed  on  sale  and 
holders  were  very  firm,  having  full  con­
fidence  in  the  future  market.  The  con­
tinued  active  demand  for  refined  sugar 
maintained  a  strong  tendency  to  prices. 
The  world's  visible  supply  is  3,210,000 
tons,  showing  an 
increase  of  930,000 
tons  over  the  corresponding  time  last 
year.  The  firm  and  higher  market  for 
raw  sugar  caused  a  stronger  feeling  in 
the 
refined  market  and  prices  show 
an  advance  of  five  points  on  all  grades. 
The  demand  for  sugar  the  last  four  or 
five  days  has  been  very  heavy  indeed, 
and  as  this 
is  the  month  for  the  usual 
active  demand,  it  is  expected  that  busi­
ness  will  continue  brisk  from  now  on 
and 
that  prices  will  not  go  any  lower. 
Most  orders  were  for  prompt  delivery, 
which  confirms  previous  reports  of  short 
supplies  throughout  the  country.

Canned  Goods—The  situation  in  gen­
eral  shows  very  little  change.  Tomatoes 
manifest 
considerable  strength,  with 
spot  goods  showing  some  slight  ad­
vance.  There 
is  considerable  enquiry 
for  spot  tomatoes,  but  it  is  very  difficult 
to  secure  any,  as  they  are  so  closely 
cleaned  up  and  what  few  there  are  are 
so  firmly  held.  Futures  are  in  fair  re­
quest  at  unchanged  prices,  although 
some  packers  are  a  little  firmer  in  their 
views  and  show  some  disposition  to  ask 
higher  prices.  There  has  been  a  rather 
active  demand  for  corn  during  the  last 
for  the  cheaper 
few  days,  especially 
grades.  Prices  are  steady. 
In  futures 
only a  moderate  interest  is  noted.  There 
is  a  good  demand  for  1901  pack  of small 
peas,  owing  somewhat  to  the  fact  that 
the  new  pack  of  peas 
in  Baltimore 
shows  a  great  scarcity  of  the  small 
grades.  There  is  a  great  abundance  of 
the  standard  grades  and  trade  in  this 
class  of  goods 
is  light.  The  pack  in 
sections  outside  of Baltimore may show a 
greater  percentage  of  the  small  peas, 
but  this,  of  course,  remains  to  be  seen. 
The  demand  for  new  pack  pineapple  is 
fair,  with  prices  steady.  There  is  con­
siderable  enquiry  for  gallon  apples,  but 
it  is  difficult  to  secure any,  as  stocks  are 
so  closely  cleaned  up.  Salmon  is  in  a 
very  strong  position,  both  for  spot  and 
future  goods.  Stocks are  being  reduced 
constantly  under  a  heavy  consumptive 
demand  and  the  situation  will  be  in 
excellent  shape  when  the  new  pack  is 
ready  for  the  market.  Owing  to  light 
stocks  and  the  heavy  demand  expected 
during  the  next  few  weeks,  the  tendency 
of  the  market  is  toward  higher  prices. 
Reports  from  the  Columbia  River  state 
that  the  salmon  pack  so  far  this  season 
is  about  the  same  as  it  was  at  the  same 
time  last  year—about  20,000 cases.  This 
is  the  estimate  given  by  several cannery 
men. 
is  stated  that  the  fish  average 
smaller  this  yeaf  than  last.  Sardines  are 
steady,  with  fair  demand.  Owing  to  the 
scarcity  of 
mustards,  it  is  expected 
prices  will  be  advanced  shortly.

It 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
shows  no  particular interesting  features, 
but  is  in  good  condition. 
In prunes  the 
market  shows  very  little  change  of  im­
portance  and  there  is  a  good demand for 
nearly  all  grades. 
It  is  estimated  that 
sizes  70-80,  80-90  and  90-ioos  of  the  new 
crop  will  be  scarce  and  that  40-50,  50-60 
and  60-703  will  be  most  freely  offered. 
The  present  demand  for  prunes  is  satis­
factory  and  it  is  believed  that  the  entire 
quantity  of  prunes  now  held  in  Califor­
nia  will  all  pass  into  consumption  be*

fore  the  arrival  of  the  1902  crop.  Rais­
ins  are  in  strong  position  and stocks  are 
light.  The  demand  for 
loose  is  good 
and  seeded  are  meeting  with  a  good  de­
mand  at  unchanged  prices.  Apricots 
are  firm,  with  stocks  very 
light  and 
prices  easily  maintained.  Probabilities 
point  to  a  full  crop  which  will  come  on 
a  practically  bare  market  as  the  1901 
crop  will  be  entirely  exhausted  before 
the  new  crop  is ready  for shipment.  The 
demand  for apricots  is  increasing  every 
year  and  at  reasonable  prices  for the 
new  crop  it  is  evident  tfiat  the  demand 
for  this  year  will  greatly  exceed  that  of 
previous  years.  Peaches  are  in  fair  de­
mand  at  previous  prices,  with 
light 
stocks  on  band.  Dates  are  in  good  re­
quest,  with  prices  on  some  grades  show­
ing  an  advance of #c.  Stocks  are  great­
ly  reduced  and  a  further  advance  in 
price  is 
looked  for  shortly.  Figs  are 
scarce  and  meet  with  good  demand  at 
unchanged  prices,  but  the  tendency  is 
upward.

Rice—The  rice  market 

is  quiet  but 
steady,  with  only  moderate  demand. 
Stocks  of  all  kinds  on  the  spot  are  fair­
ly  large  and  considered  sufficient  for 
immediate  needs.

Molasses—The  continuance  of  warm 
weather,  coupled  with  the  usual  dull 
trade  conditions  at  this  time  of  the  sea­
son,  has  restricted  business  in  molasses 
and  the  movement  is  small  in  all  vari­
eties.  Prices,  however,  are  firmly  main­
tained.

Fish—Trade 

in  fish  is  moderate  and 
about  as  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year. 
is  firmly  held,  but  demand  is 
Mackerel 
only  fair.  There 
is,  however,  a  good 
demand  for codfish  at  unchanged prices.
Rolled  Oats— The  rolled  oats  market 
is  exceedingly 
firm  and  active  with 
prices  showing  an  advance  of  35c  per 
barrel, 15c  per  case  on  competitive  cases 
and  15c  on  Banner.

H ides,  P elts,  T allow   a n d   W ool.

Eastern  tanners  hold  off  from  buying 
hides  with  a  stick-to-itiveness  unprece­
dented.  The  situation 
is  unchanged. 
Poor  stock  is  still  offered  at  a low value, 
with  few  sales.  These  low  prices  help 
to  make  a 
lower  value  to  the  general 
market  on  good  stock.  The  leather  mar­
ket,  being  lower,  tanners  see  no  encour­
agement  to  buy,  even  good  hides,  at  the 
prices  held.  The  quantity  is  not 
large 
and  there  is  no  accumulation.

Both  wool  pelts  and  shearlings  are 

in 
good  demand  and  in  larger  receipts,  at 
fair  prices.

Tallow 

is  weaker,  with  no  accumula­
tions.  Soapers  are  well  supplied  with 
oils  and  fats.  The  export  trade  has  been 
in  edible, 
the  demand  being  good 
abroad  for  this  grade.  Trade  has  not 
been  large  at  best.

Trade 

in  wools  in  the  East  has  been 
small  and  the  market  drags.  An  ad­
vance  can  not  be  obtained.  Territory 
wools  have  been  attractive  and  have 
been  taken  at  higher  values  than  the 
Eastern  market  would  warrant.  A strong 
excitement  among  buyers  has  existed  in 
the  states  and  extreme  prices  have  been 
paid,  and although  they  are  not  weaker, 
have  eased  off,  in  consequence  of  which 
there  is  not  felt  the  anxiety  to  buy  ex­
cept  on  a  firmer  basis.  Much  of  the 
State  wools  have  gone  into  the  hands  of 
the  Eastern buyers and is being  shipped. 
It  is  in  good  condition.  No higher value 
is  looked  for at  present.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Virtue  should  be  as  highly  prized  in 
a  man  as  in  a  woman  and  any deviation 
from 
its  path  should  be  as  severely 
punished  in  one  as  in  the  other.

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Petting  the  People

' ‘la’A rt  N ouveau”  a n d   N ew sp ap er  A d v er­

tisin g .

It  is  a  question  whether the  facile, 
flowing  lines  of  the  new  styles  of  deco­
rative  designing 
classed  as  “ l’art 
nouveau"  have  aided  so  much  in  the 
embellishing  of  the  advertiser’s  work  as 
they  have  detracted  from  it  in  their  in­
trusion  in so  many  ways  into  the  pages 
and  columns  outside  of  this  held.  The 
ease  with  which  so-called  decorative 
effects  can  be  cheaply  produced  and  re­
produced  brings  its  ragged  sketchiness 
into  requisition  for  ornaments,  headings 
and  halftone  borders  to  an  extent  which 
makes  the  average  newspaper,  if  not  a 
thing  of  beauty,  at least an  exhibition  of 
curious  conglomeration.  Not  that  all 
the  stuff  which  defaces  the  columns  of 
the  press  should  be  classed  as  the  new 
art,  yet  its  license  and  freedom  are  re­
sponsible  for  much  more  than  its  own 
appearance.

A  symmetrical  and  well-proportioned 
border  on  an  advertisement  in  many 
cases  is  an  addition  of  value. 
It  seems 
to  set  it  apart  from  its  surroundings, 
to  give 
it  homogeneity,  clearness  and 
strength.  Some  good  designs  for such 
borders  may  possibly  be  classed  as  the 
production  of  the  new  art,  but  its  gen­
eral  effect  is  toward  a  looseness  of  de­
sign  which  defeats  the  main  purposes of 
its  use.

It 

is  through  the 

But  the  greatest  injury  to  advertising 
display 
intrusion  of 
ragged,  sketchy  designs(?)  in  neighbor­
ing  columns. 
is  getting  so  that  the 
enterprising  publisher  must  have  his 
department  headings  sprawled  over  two 
columns  with  a  scrawly  ornamenta­
tion (?)  in  the  new  style.  Then,  if  he 
has  a  continued  story,  he  must  have  a 
two  or  three  column  sketched  heading 
for that. 
If  there  are  illustrations  there 
must  be  a  wealth  of  flourish  in  their 
borders  and  decorations  which  com­
bines  to  make  a  hodgepodge  fearful  to 
behold.  Advertising  display  on  such  a 
page  is  at  a  decided  discount.

illustration 

What  I  particularly  deprecate 

in  the 
interest  of  good  advertising  is  the  use 
of  borders  in  picture  ornamentation. 
There  is  no  question  but  that  halftone 
illustration  in  the  daily  and  weekly 
press  have  come  to  stay  and  is  a  great 
advance  in  journalism.  The  appearance 
of  such  an  illustration  on  a  page  is  no 
detraction  from 
its  value  as  carrying 
advertising,  but  rather the  reverse.  But, 
to  be  artistic  and  suitable,  it  should j 
appear  for  what  it  is,  not  as  a  nucleus 
for  a  scrawl.  The  best  shape  for  such 
an 
is  square,  in  harmony 
with  the  general  plan  of  the  paper  and 
the  most  natural  shape 
for  pictures. 
Other  simple  forms  may.be  used,  but 
they  are  not  an  improvement.  These 
may  be  simple  circles  or  ovals  or  pos­
sibly  portions  of  these  figures.  There 
is  nothing  more  hideous  than the cutting 
into  some  ugly,  erratic 
of  a  halftone 
pattern  and  then  surrounding 
it  with 
borders  and  flourishes  all  out  of  har­
mony  with  everything  else  on  the  page. 
Possibly  there  will  be  several  different 
productions  of  this  kind  on  the  same 
page  as  much  out  of  harmony  with  each 
other  as  with  everything  else.  Poorly 
fares  the  advertiser  who  is  forced  to  ap­
pear  in  such  a  neighborhood.

The  first  newspaper  in  this  country  to 
use  halftones  on  the lightning perfecting 
presses  was  the  New  York  Tribune. 
It 
now  has  a  corps  of  photographers  ob­
taining  copy 
its  illustrations  the 
same  as  it  has its  news  reporters.  These 
illustrations  usually  appear  in  square

for 

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

WHY  WE  ARE  ENTITLED  TO  YOUR 

R EA S O N S
Shoe Trade.

. 

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in exchangeranteed *** ^

-«eeause  we  nave  Shoes  for  Men,  women  anct  Ubiidren 
  satisfaction’ ora new ®air will be given-

, 
town and can give you a perfect fit. 

Because we  have the most complete stock of footwear in
lootwear m

y  

. 
3 rd.  Because we sell at a small  profit and aim 'to give  onr  m e 
tomerstbemostwear.  style  and  cSmfort  possible*^aTan^en'

and4S Â S n ï ^ mPl6te  St° ° k   of K ^ o f t h e   b e * make

Our G-ents  and  Ladies  storm  Rubbers  are  made  with  a new 

and  the  misses  and  childrens  with  extension  heel
nidToi011 
M e o r u ^ Pb b ^ mente£iTe  double wear and cestuome?e

LEWIS’  CASH  STORE,

Lewiston, Mich.

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111

SUMMER  GOODS

a

The cifol  days of the  past  week have  not checked  the en­

thusiastic  buying of Summer  Goods at our store.

It is because our stock of  Shirtwaists,  Skirts,  Muslinwear 

and Waist Fabrics

Is so large,  so well assorted and contains  so  many  inter­

esting features to attract economical buyers.

Today our stock is at its  best.  and. we  are  offering  m any 

exceptional  values in our

Ready-to-Wear Garments

AND

Wash Goods Department

plain  finish  and  so  are  a  help  to the  ad­
vertising.  But  the  disciples  of  yellow 
journalism  fill  their  pages  with  hetero­
geneous  scrawls  and so-called  ornaments 
to  an  extent  which  largely  diminishes 
their  advertising  value.  Decorative  or­
naments on  newspaper  pages  will  not  be 
successful  until  the  entire  page  is  made 
into one harmonious design—an achieve­
ment  not  very  probable.
*  *  *

Lewis’  Cash  Store  shows  a  well  writ­
ten  and  well  printed  general  advertise­
ment,  which  may  be  of  value  as  a 
change.  For  getting  new  trade,  how­
ever,  I  think  a  few  definite  descriptions 
with  leading  prices  would  tend  to 
in­
terest.  There 
is  nothing  like  definite­
ness  in  advertising.

It  is  difficult  to  find  just  the  object  of 
the  architectural  display  in  the  season­
able  advertisement  of  S.  Buckner.  Had 
the  room  occupied  by  the  bird  and 
its 
support  been  proportioned  to  increase 
the  white  space  around  the  matter  it 
would  have  been  much  more  valuable. 
The  border  is  about  as  poor  for  news­
paper  use  as  could  be  devised,  as  it  is 
so  fine  that  enough  of  the  characters  are 
bound  to  print  black  to  make  it  appear 
spotted.  Then  the  cutting  of  the  border 
to  make  room  for the  signature  is  un­
necessary  and  is  not  good.  The  writing 
is  good  for the  general  character of  the 
advertisement  and 
if  the  matter  had 
been  centered,  one dash less used,  with  a 
better  style  of  type  for  the  signature 
and  an  address  added  the  result  would 
not  be  bad.

Vaughan  Bros,  write  an  excellent  no­
tice  of  their  fishing  department  and  in 
the  main  the  printer's  work  is  good. 
I 
would  center the  paragraph  and  put  the 
lower display  to  the  right  so  as  to  bal­
ance  better.

F.  £.  Sissons  &  Co.  write  an  attrac­
tive  advertisement  for  one  of  a  general 
character  and  the  printer  has  treated 
it 
simply  but  with a  unity  of  design  which 
gives  it  character.

M ethod  In  H is  M adness.

Hortense— I  was  talking  with  Mrs. 
Cheffer  about  the  stories  they  tell  of 
women's  cooking.  She  says  she  does 
not  believe  one  word  of  them.  Her 
husband,  she  says,  always  eats  what  she 
cooks,  without  a  word  of  complaint.

Fanchette— But  perhaps  he  thinks 
that_  is  a  convenient  way  to  commit 
suicide  and  so  be  relieved  forever  from 
her cooking.

ÌH I1I8HBMMB B M   Sa  BUCKNER. TnTTìtrmmi riiii
F.  E.  Sissons 

Fishing
Tackle

We  are  fishermen  ourselves  and  under­
stand  the  needs  of  our  local fishermen. 
We  carry  a  full  line  of  the goods that 
are best adapted  to your needs  Call and 
see our outfits.

VAUGHAN  BROS.,

DRU G S,

Wall  Paper.  Fishing  Tackle.

&   C o . »

Career Main and  State Streets.

We  Sell

GROCERIES

Prompt  Delivery 
Low  Prices 
Best  Goods 

A  Combination 
Hard  to Beat 

A t T t f f T t t l tV íñ f T r T f ^ T T V T f T ^

F,  E. SISSONS & CO

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

7
“Sure Catch” Minnow Trap

C ondition  o f th e   C arp et  M ark et.

is  coming 

The  carpet  situation  is  characterized 
by  a  very  healthy  outlook. 
In  the 
manufacturing  end  business  is  exceed­
ingly  active,  the  turning  out  of  the  very 
heavy  initial  business  having  just  com­
menced.  Practically  all  the  mills  in 
the  country,  barring  those  affected  by 
the 
labor  strikes,  are  fully  employed, 
and  they  promise  to  be  so  for  many 
weeks  to  come.  New  business  of  fairly 
good  proportions 
in  every 
week,  and  aside  from  the  low  level  of 
values,  the  present  state  of  affairs  is  as 
favorable  as  one  could  ask for.  Western 
jobbers  feel  confident  of  securing  good 
husiness  for  fall  goods  from  their  trade 
or their  purchases  in  the  Eastern market 
would  not  be as  heavy as they are.  Trav­
eling  men  report  encouragingly  on  the 
prospects  for  a  good  fall  trade,  not  only 
in  the  West,  but  also  in the  South.  Good 
grain  and  cotton  crops  will  substantiate 
these  reports  very  materially,  and  as 
far  as  they  are  concerned  to-day,  noth­
ing  of  an  unfavorable  nature  has  been 
reported.  Financially,  these  sections  of 
the  country  are  very  prosperous,  the 
in  general  being  well  supplied 
public 
with 
cash,  and  good, 
liberal  carpet 
sales  this  fall  should  be  looked  for. 
In 
three-quarter goods the outlook is  all  that 
can  be  wished  for.  Eastern  manufac­
loaded  up  to  the  eyes  with 
turers  are 
business  and  more 
is  coming  in  each 
week.  The  low  values  are  somewhat  of 
a  setback  to  the  manufacturer’s  antici­
pations,  but  nevertheless  they  are  satis­
fied  under  present  conditions.  When  the 
first  favorable  opportunity  presents  it­
self, it  can  be  safely  assumed  that  strong 
efforts  will  be  made  to  put  prices  on  a 
higher  level,  but  until  that  opportunity 
arrives,  no  complaint  should  be  made 
concerning  prices.  Conservative  manu­
facturers  have  contended  right  along 
that  if  prices  were  raised  beyond  a  cer­
tain  point  at  the  opening  this season, the 
trade  would  receive  such  a  blow  that  it 
would  take  some  time  to  recover,  and 
there  is  no  douht  but  what  the  big East­
ern  factors  of  the  trade  realized  this  be­
fore  coming  to  a  final  understanding  in 
regard  to  the  opening  prices.  The  de­
mand  this  season,  according  to  the 
manufacturers  themselves,  does  not  in­
cline  so  strongly  toward  the  better  lines 
of  goods  as  toward  the  medium-priced 
fabrics,  such  as  the  velvets  and  tapes­
tries.  This  does  not  imply  that  the 
Wiltons  and  Brussels  are  not  receiving 
their  usual  call,  because  they  are;  they 
are  receiving  a  demand  that  is  fully  up 
to  the  expectations  of  all.  Last  season 
at  this  time, 
tapestries  and  the  low- 
priced  goods  were  not  as  active  as  they 
might  have  been,  but  this  season  the  re­
quests  of  the  consumers  are  of  a  very 
different  nature.  For  carpet-sized  rugs 
made  in  Wiltons  and  body  Brussels,  the 
request  is  very  large,  and  many  weavers 
are  sold  up  for a  good  part  of  the  sea­
son. 
Ingrain  weavers  are  very  busy  on 
their  initial  business  with  plenty  of  new 
business  coming 
in  every  little  while. 
Prices  are  still  the  strong barrier against 
which  the  manufacturers are contending, 
but  for  the  present 
it  seems  probable 
that  ruling  rates  will  hold.  While  it  is 
generally  acknowledged  that  weavers 
are 
in  asking  better  prices,  it 
i s '  feared  that  with  the  unchanged  and 
lower  prices  U  goods  are  being 
even 
quoted  at,  competition  will  become  so 
keen  that  the  public  will  go  over  to  the 
tapestries  and  the  cheap  jute  and  other 
4-4  carpets. 
ingrain 
manufacturers  are  said  to  be  obtaining 
slightly  better  rates  than  the  large  East­
ern  mills  and  they  seem  to  be  drawing

In  Philadelphia 

justified 

in  a 
large  amount of  business  at  these 
rates.  A  further advance  is  looked  for a 
little  later,  just when  is  not  known.  The 
labor  troubles  seem  to  have  been  settled 
satisfactorily  to  all,  some  concessions 
having  been  granted  to  the  workers  by 
the  manufacturers.
Aluminum Money

Will Increaae Your Bm Id uj.

Cheap and Effective. 

Send for samples and prices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Claris  St.,  Chicago,  111.

Bicycle Dealers

Who  have 
not already 
received  our
1902 Catalogue 

No. 6

pertaining to 

Bicycles 

and  Bicycle 

Supplies 
should ask 
for it. Mailed 
request.  We 

free  on 

sell  to 

dealers only.

ADAMS  &  HART

12 W.  Bridge St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

L en g th ,  1!)‘3  inches.  D iam eter,  91,  inches.

Made from heavy, galvanized wire cloth,  with  all  edges  well  protected.  Can  bfe 
taken apart at the middle in a moment  and  nested  for  convenience  in  carrying. 
Packed one-quarter dozen in a case.

Retails at $1.25  each.  Liberal discount to the trade.
Our line  of Fishing Tackle is complete in every particular.
Mail orders solicited and satisfaction  guaranteed.

MILES  HARDWARE  CO.

113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

5  The  gold  brick  man  must  have  a  new  trick  or 
2  find  a  new victim  for each  sale,  but  the  man  who
•  sells  C eresota  flour  finds  it  easier  to  sell  the 
fi  second  sack  than  the first.
2 
•  

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

Distributors  for  Western  Michigan

Asphalt  Torpedo  Gravel 
Ready  Roofing

Our  goods  and  prices  will  surely  interest  you. 
We  make  the  best  roofings  on  the  market.

H.  M.  Reynolds  Roofing  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich

A  Picture Book

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“ Michigan in Summer ”

A BO U T  T H E   SU M M ER  R ESO R TS  ON TH E

Grand Rapids & 
Indiana Railway
“The Fishing Line”

Omena
Nortbport
Les Cheneaux Islands 

will  be  sent  to  anyone  on  receipt  of 
postage—two  cents. 
It  Is  a  handsome 
booklet  of  forty-eight  pages,  containing 
280  pictures  of  the  famous  Michigan 
Summer Resorts:
Petoskey 
Harbor Point 
Ne-ah-ta-wanta 
Mackinac Island  Traverse City
Walloon Lake  Wequetonslng
Charlevoix
Bay View 
Soaring Brook
Oden 
Gives list of hotels and  boarding  houses, 
rates  by  day  and  week,  railroad  fares, 
maps and G. R. & I. train service. 
Fishermen will want "W here to go  Fish­
ing”—postage two cents.

C. L. Lockwood, G. P. A.

64 So. Ionia Street,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address  of 
their papers changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid.
Sample copies sent free to any address.

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p lease  say  m a t  y o n   saw   th e   ad v ertise­
m e n t in   th e   M ichigan  T rad esm an .
E.  A.  STOW E.  E d i t o r . 

WEDNESDAY,  •  -  JUNE  11,1902.

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN ) „
( 

County  of  Kent 

‘

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I 

am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 

Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
June  4,  1902,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and lor said  county, 
this  seventh  day  of June,  1902.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

T H E   SOUL  OS' T H E   W O RLD .

All  written  records  are  either  litera­
ture,  science  or  history.  Science  and 
history  belong  to the  domain  of  utility; 
they  may  be  classed  among  the  useful 
arts.  Literature  belongs  to  the  fine  arts, 
and is,  therefore,  in the ordinary sense  of 
no  practical  use  in  the  struggle  for  life.
When  people  talk  about  success  in 
life  to-day,  they  mean  money.  Wealth 
is  generally  held  to  be  the  object  most 
to  be  desired,  and  those  who  have  it 
usually  call  for  more  consideration  than 
It  is  not  con­
do those  who  have  it not. 
tended  that  this 
is  the  regular  rule  by 
which  men  in  general  are  judged,  but 
wealth 
is,  nevertheless,  a  thing  of 
weight.

trained 

Coming  back  to  science  and  history, 
it  is  plain  that  the  former 
is  vastly 
more  valuable.  Science  is  made  up  of 
the  body  of  facts  ascertained concerning 
material  things.  Science 
isr  the  key 
which  unlocks  the  secrets  of  nature,  and 
these  secrets  can  be  turned  to  account 
to  enable  us  to  make  money.  Armies 
of 
investigators  and  experi­
menters  are  every  day  engaged  in  ex­
ploring  the  mysteries  of  nature,  so  that 
they  may  transmute  them  into  gold  by 
selling them  to manufacturers  and  others 
who  are  concerned 
in  exploiting  and 
developing  the  material  resources  of  the 
various  countries.  Doubtless  not  a  few 
scientists  are  engaged  in  their  studies 
for  the  sake  of  science 
itself,  but  if 
they  discover  anything  that  has a money 
value,  it  is  eagerly  seized  on  to  be  used 
in  making  money.
As  to  history,  it 

in  the 
fact  that  it  instructs  us  concerning  past 
peoples,  their  works  and  their  acts. 
It 
is  only  from  studying  the  past  that  we 
can  reasonably  forecast  the  future;  but 
historical  knowledge  and  discoveries 
have  not  a  very  high  money  value.

is  valuable 

Literature,  as  an  expression  and  de­
lineation  of  the  human  passions,  emo­
tions  and  sentiments,  ¿99  no  money

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

Those 

value.  People  will  buy  and  read  books 
of  fiction  simply  for  the  amusement, 
entertainment  and  diversion  obtained 
from  them,  but  with  the  masses  of  the 
people  a  book  once  read  ceases  to  have 
any  value,  and  its  place  in  popular 
in­
terest  is  immediately  taken  by  another, 
and  thus  it  is  that  a  modern  novel,  after 
having  been  sold  to  the  number of  hun­
dreds  of  thousands  of  copies,  is  soon 
lost  sight  of,  and  is  thought  of  no  more.
great  amassers  of  wealth 
whom  it  has  become  the  custom  of  their 
flatterers  to  characterize  as  the  “ cap­
tains  of  industry,”   as  a  rule,  have  but 
a  poor  opinion  of  literature  and  would 
look  upon  a  live  poet  as  a  particularly 
useless  creature 
in  this  world  of  worry 
and  work  to  get  money.  Nevertheless, 
that  apparently  worthless  something 
which  we  call literature is  a record  of  all 
that  is  noble,  lofty,  true, 
faithful,  de­
voted  to  duty,  grand,  heroic  and  glori­
ous  in  human  life.  It  is  a  record  of  sen­
timent  and  of  all  that  sentiment  has  in­
spired  men  to  do.

Without  sentiment  there  would  be  no 
is  a  crystallization  of 
religion,  which 
all  the  purest,  loveliest  and  most  up­
lifting  of  all  human  sentiments,  and, 
without  religion,  it  is  doubtful  if  there 
would  be  anything  in  human 
life  save 
what  is  gross,  material  and  sensual,  and 
thus  it  is  that  literature  in  which  are 
embalmed  sentiment  'and  religion 
in 
every  age  of  human  experience,  so  far 
as  we  have  any  knowledge  of  it, is really 
the  repository  of  what  may  be  called 
the  soul  of  the  world.

These  observations  were  suggested  by 
the  dedication  of  a  library  a  few  days 
ago  in  an  Illinois  town.  The  library 
was  one  of  those  which  had  been  do­
nated  by  Mr.  Carnegie.  Probably  there 
was  nothing  in  the  exercises  of  any  spe­
cial  note  beyond  the  locality  in  which 
they  took  place,  except  an  address  de­
livered  on  the  occasion  by  Colonel 
George  R.  Peck,  a  prominent  lawyer  of 
Chicago.  Some  sentences  from  the  ad­
dress  of  the  orator  have  been  printed  in 
a  Chicago  paper  and  they  are  full  of 
suggestion.  Literature  is  all-embracing. 
It  includes  all  those  books  of  the  Sacred 
Scriptures  that  are  not merely historical, 
and  the  poetry  and  romance  of  all  the 
peoples  of  the  earth  in  every  age.  Said 
the  speaker  referred  to :

The  ancient  tomes  which  will  find 
here  a  place,  the  scripts  of  people 
long 
passed  away,  the  warnings  that  come  to 
us  of  our  own  mortality,  only  feed  the 
flame  of  enquiry,  only  reiterate  the 
question—Why?  The  Greek  beauty  of 
thought  and  the  Greek  beauty  of  ex­
pression  will  minister  to  the  minds  of 
other  generations  as  it  has  ministered 
to  ours.  Here  will  be  preserved  the 
immortal  dialogues  that  have  made 
Plato  a  perennial  spring  from  which  the 
thinkers  of  all  the  world  have  drunk. 
Some  eager  minds  will  perhaps  have 
here  their  first  glimpse  of  Homer,  the 
deep-browed,  the  immeasurable.

What  would  be  the  condition  of  man­
kind  without  the  Psalms  of  David  and 
the  Sermon  on  the  Mount?  And  after 
them  come  the  Odyssey,  the  Aeneid, 
the  noble  thoughts  of  Shakespeare, 
Dante,  Cervantes  and  the  hosts  of  lesser 
ones  still  great. 
In  the  Iliad  and  the 
legends  of  Arthur  and  his  Table  Round 
are  crystallized  all  the  romance  and  all 
the  heroism  of  human  life.  The  heroes 
portrayed  in  the  one  were,  according  to 
our  view,  pagans,  and  yet  they  had  a 
religion  full  of  lofty  and  inspiring  sen­
timent. 
In  the  other Christianity  was 
the  star  that  illumined  their way,  and 
yet  their  deeds  were  no  more  splendid 
and  without  reproach,  and  it  is  only  in 
books  of  literature  that  these  inspiring

records  are  to  be  found.  Said the  speak­
er quoted  above:

All 

the  beautiful 

imagery  of  the 
world,  all  the  high  thoughts,  are  not 
gone.  The  human  mind 
is  not  ex­
hausted— it  has  simply  been  turned  into 
another  channel.  Poems  are  yet  to  be 
produced,  epics,  odes,  lyrics,  and  son­
nets,  better,  perhaps—although  I 
fear 
not—than  any  pen  has  yet  written.

Some  one  has  said  that  all  which  has 
actually  happened  in  the  world  is  small 
and  unimportant  compared  with  what 
has  happened  in  the  dreams  and  fancies 
and 
imaginations  of  genius.  That  is 
the  secret  of  Shakespeare’s  unrivaled 
power  in  the 
intellectual  world.  His 
creations  are  real.  A  library  which  has 
Shakespeare 
library 
worthy  the  name  has—where  we  can 
feast  upon  the  inexhaustible  resources 
of  him  whom  Coleridge  called  myriad- 
minded,  is  equal  to every demand of  the 
intellect.  And  this  is  why  I  plead  that 
you  do  not  shut  your  hearts  against  the 
great  imaginative  works  that  constitute 
the  world’s  best  literature.

it—and  every 

in 

an  utterance 

The  dreams  of  the  poet  are  real,  be­
cause  he  is  a  prophet  and  foresees  that 
which 
is  to  come.  A  grave  and  great 
teacher  once  declared  that  when  the 
tricksy  Puck,  ordered  on  an  errand  of 
quick  dispatch,  said,  “ I’ll  put  a  girdle 
’ round  the  earth  in  forty  minutes,”   it 
was 
of  Shakepeare’s 
prophecy  of  the  globe  girdled  by  wire 
and-  cable,  and  when  that  benevolent 
sprite,  Ariel,  said:  “ I  go  drinking  the 
air  before  me,”   it  was  still  another 
prophetic  view  of  swift  transit  that  was 
not  even  dreamed  of  in  Shakespeare’s 
time,  save  in  the  prophetic  brain  of  the 
poet.

inspiration 

It  is  true  that  what  we  would  have 
of  material  progress  would  be  as  noth­
ing  without  the  aid  of  the  mechanician, 
the  engineer,  the  chemist  and  electric­
ian,  but  so  long  as  the  human  race  pos­
term 
sesses  those  records  which  we 
divine 
the 
great 
thoughts  and noble sentiments embalmed 
in  the  written  records which the ancients 
termed 
letters,  we  could  still  lay  claim 
to  a  very  considerable  degree  of  civili­
zation,  and  but  for  the  inspiration  de­
rived  from  those  records  there  would  be 
little  of  what  the  world  to-day  calls 
science.

and 

Albany,  N.  Y.,  is  said  to  he  flooded 
with  spurious  coins  of  almost all denom­
inations,  and  besides 
it  is  said  that 
there  is  an  extraordinary  increase in  the 
number  of  mutilated  coins  in  circula­
tion.  The  counterfeit  dollars  and  half 
dollars  are  said  to  be  good  imitations, 
but  somewhat  light  in  weight,  while,  on 
the  other  hand,  the  nickels,  dimes  and 
quarters  are  of  the  poorest  kind  of  imi­
tations.  The  counterfeit  quarters  are  of 
the  date  of  1896,  and  are  only  thinly 
coated  with  silver,  and  are  said  to 
lose 
their  luster  after a  half  hour’s  handling. 
They  are  moreover  light 
in  weight, 
have  a  dull  pewter sound  and  are crude­
ly  molded.  Yet  with  all  these  defects 
some  hundreds  have  been  accepted 
without  question  by 
local  business 
houses,  while  the  street  car  companies, 
saloonkeepers  and  soda  water  dealers 
have  suffered  considerable  loss  through 
the  flood  of  nickels  and  dimes. 
It  is  a 
well-known  fact  in  police  circles  that  if 
one  city  is  successfully operated by these 
counterfeiters  it  will  not  be  long  before 
other  places  are  heard  from,  and  in  the 
face  of  the  discovery  at  Albany  it is just 
as  well  for  the  merchants  of  Michigan 
to  be  on  the  lookout.

There  is  a  God  in  Israel  and  the  ver­
in  the  McGarrv  case 
is  a  God  in  Allegan 

dict  of  the  jury 
proves  that  there 
county  as  well,

T H E   S H IP P IN G   CO M BIN A TIO N.

There  now  appears  to  be  good  reason 
to  expect  that  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  will 
have  competition  in  his  efforts  to  con­
trol  the  shipping  business  of  the  world. 
Although  his company  has  succeeded  in 
securing  the  control  of  a  number  of  the 
leading  English 
lines,  his  efforts  have 
not  encountered  a  friendly  reception 
from  the  British shipping interests.  The 
combination 
is  recognized  as  a  direct 
menace  to  the  English shipping suprem­
acy,  and  although  the  British  govern­
ment  has  not  openly  assumed  a  hostile 
attitude,  it 
is  known  that  the  feeling 
entertained  is  far  from  friendly.

Despite  Mr.  Morgan’s  great  financial 
successes,  there  are  indications  that  in 
the  shipping  combination  he  has  under­
taken  a  task  which  is  by  no  means  as 
certain  of  success  as  most  of  his  other 
ventures.  He  has  organized  what  ap­
pears  to  be  at  least  nominally  an  Amer­
ican  company  for  the  handling  of  the 
steamship  lines  which  he  now  controls, 
but  even  with  an  American  company  be 
can  not  transfer  the  ships  he  claims  to 
the  American 
flag.  Under  existing 
American  law  no  ships  built  abroad  can 
be  registered  as  American  vessels  with­
out  a  special  act  of  Congress. 
In  the 
present  humor of  Congress  there 
is  not 
the  least  probability  that  American  reg­
istry  will  be  granted  to  the  British-built 
ships  of  the  Morgan combination,  hence 
the  vessels  will  continue  to  be  at  the 
disposal  of  the  British  admiralty.  From 
a  purely  economic  standpoint  the  Mor­
gan  combination  does  not  hold  out  the 
least  inducement  to  American  trade; 
on  the  contrary,  the  whole  purpose  of 
the  combination 
is  to  increase  freight 
and  passenger  rates,  hence 
its  opera­
tions  will  merely  add  to  the  burdens 
imposed  upon  American  products.

The  antagonism  of  the  British  ship­
ping  interests  is  manifested  by  a  move­
ment  to  organize  a  rival  combination 
controlled  in  Great  Britain.  This  pro­
posed  combination  will  include the cele­
brated  Cunard  line,  which  has  achieved 
a  great  reputation 
in  the  passenger 
business,and  will  also  include  the  Allan 
line,  the  Elder-Dempster 
interests,  as 
well  as  other 
This  opposing 
combination  being  distinctively  a  Brit­
ish  organization,  expects  to  have  assist­
ance  from  the  British  government.

lines. 

As 

the  opposing  combination  will 
ha ye  even  greater  tonnage  than the Mor­
gan  organization,  and  as 
it  will  be 
backed  by  ample  capital,  the  most  wel­
come  effect  it  will  exert  will  be  to  com­
pel  a  reasonable  schedule  of  freight  and 
passenger  rates. 
Active  competition 
will  be  secured,  which  is  the  thing  most 
to  be  desired  by  the  business  interests 
of  this  country. 
In  the  political  fea­
tures  of  the  combination  and  counter­
combination,  the  American  public  has 
little  interest.  Great  Britain  may  have 
reason  to  fear that  the  Morgan  arrange­
ment  may  strike  a  blow  at  British  su­
premacy 
in  the  shipping  trade  of  the 
world,  but  this  country  has  nothing  of 
this  sort  to  anticipate.  Our  sole 
inter­
est  in  the  matter  is  to  secure  the  cheap­
est  possible  rates  of  freight 
the 
handling  of  our  produce,  and  the  Mor­
gan  combination  is  antagonistic to  these 
interests,  hence  is  unfavorable  to  Amer­
ican  trade  interests.

in 

Any  arrangement  which  will  secure 
the  desired  competition  and  consequent 
reasonable  freight  and  passenger  rates 
will  be  welcome  whether  the  opposition 
be  under  British,  French  or  German 
auspices.  _______

Beware  of  a  man  that  does  not  talk 

and  a  dog  that  does  not  bark,

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

9

STUDYING  THEOLOGY  SQUARELY.
One  of  the  great  difficulties  in  ad­
vancing  religious  truth  comes  from  the 
education  of  the  clergy  in  theological 
schools  where  everything 
is  narrowed 
down  to the  limits of the denominational 
creed.  The  student  is  turned  out  with 
bis  head  full  of  what  it  is  permissible 
to  teach,  not  with  his  mind 
instructed 
to  understand  the  whole  truth  as  it  is 
seen  from  different  points  of  view.  Men 
trained  under  such  narrow  systems  sel­
dom  or  never  come  to  know  truth  in  its 
wholeness  or  integrity,  and  it is  not  sur­
prising  that  they  differ  with  one another 
under  the  influence  of  such  a  one-sided 
education.

The trustees  of  the  Andover  Theologi­
cal  Seminary,  in  Massachusetts,  voted 
the  other  day  for  a  change  of  site  from 
the 
little  town  of  Andover  to  the  seat 
of  a great  university.  The  decline in the 
number of  students, the  decline  in  finan­
cial  resources  and  income,  the  drift  of 
popular  opinion  away  from  the  isolated 
seminary  toward  those  seminaries which 
are  under  the  eaves  of  universities  and 
can  affiliate  with  them,  have  all  had 
their  sobering  effect  upon  the  trustees 
and  alumni  of  the  institutions,  as  they 
must  have  upon  those  other  seminaries 
of  other  denominations  before  the  cen­
tury  is  much  older.  The general  move­
ment  of  which  this  case  is  but  a  signal 
is  one  that 
is  wider  in  its  range  than 
this  country.  The  Scotch  Presbyterians 
are  facing  the  same  trend,  Glasgow 
and  Edinburgh  universities  and  their 
affiliated  theological  schools  proving 
more  attractive  to  the  Scotch  youth  than 
the  seminaries  farther  North  and  South. 
It  is  a  movement  on  which  President 
Harper,  of  the  University  of  Chicago, 
dwells  in  his  article  on  “ The  Trend  of 
University  Education" 
in  a  recent  is­
sue  of  the  North  American  Review, 
and 
is  not  confined  to  theological 
schools.  It  affects  the  law  and  the  med­
ical  schools  wherever  they  exist  iso­
lated.  President  Harper  does  not  hesi­
tate  to  say  that  “ the  ordinary  theologi­
cal  seminary  can  not  to-day  provide  the 
curriculum  of  study  demanded  by  those 
who  are  to  do  the  work  of  the  ministry 
during  the  next  quarter  of  a  century. 
The  churches  demand  a  ministry  of 
larger  sympathies  and  wider  views.”

it 

lasting,  telling 

When  this  movement  comes  about, 
and  the  student  may  have  an  opportun­
ity  to  broaden  his  outlook  upon  life, 
there  will  be  felt 
in  all  the  sectarian 
schools  an  increasing  and  insistent  de­
mand  that  theology  be  studied  squarely. 
What  is  needed  in  these  schools  of  the 
prophets  is  the  study  into  questions  for 
one’s  self.  The  young  men  who  are  to 
carry  weight  into  the  pulpit,  who  are  to 
exert  a 
influence  upon 
the  intelligent  men  of  the  world  to-day, 
must  be  trained  to  see  things  from  va­
rious  points  of  view,  and  must  be  able 
to  give  a  good  reason  for  the  faith  that 
is 
in  them.  To  study  theology  from 
the  scientific  point  of  view  and  get  a 
reasonable  basis  for  one’s  faith  is  one 
thing;  and  to  study 
it  with  the  mind 
already  biased  to  one  narrow  sectarian 
point  of  view  is  quite  another.  There 
is  one  place 
in  the  country  where  the 
great  question  of  life  and duty  and  faith 
are  studied  squarely.  The Harvard  D i­
vinity  School,  since 
its  reorganization 
in  1879,  has  given  men  training  in  un­
sectarian  theology,  and  has  been  used 
to  a  large  extent  by.the  best  men  among 
those  who  have  studied theology.  Young 
men  studying  in  such  an  institution  see 
truth  from  various  points  of  view,  and 
when  they  graduate  they  turn  for  their 
life  work  to  affiliate  with  whatever  de­

nomination  their  own  personal  convic­
tions 
lead  them  to  choose.  There  is  a 
great  demand  in  these  days  for thorough 
intellectual  training 
in  theology,  and 
the  best  men  everywhere  are  anxious  to 
take  advantage  of  it.

PH O N E T IC   SPEED IN G  AN D  W ELSH .
Some  years  ago  there  was an agitation 
in  this  country  for  phonetic  spelling, 
for  a  time  made  considerable 
which 
headway. 
It  will  be  recalled  that  when 
the  movement  was  at 
its  height,  the 
Board  of  Education  of  Chicago  -and 
other  educational  bodies  adopted  the 
new  system,  also  some  newspapers,  and 
periodicals  were  started  in  advocacy  of 
the  movement.  Either  for  sentimental 
or  utilitarian  reasons  the advances made 
did  not  prove  permanent  and  for  some 
time  past  very  little  has  been  heard  of 
the  matter.  Advocates of  phonetic  spell­
ing,  however,  have  not  been 
inactive 
and  the  agitation  has  been  continued, 
with 
less  demonstration,  but  quite  as 
persistently.  A  writer  in  a  recent  issue 
of  the  New  York  Tribune  advances  a 
new  argument  in  favor  of  the  reform.

it 

It 

He  urges  that  the Welsh language,  one 
of  the  most  ancient  of  modern  tongues, 
at  least,  has  been  able  to  survive  and 
withstand  the  encroachments  of 
the 
is  phonetically 
English  because 
spelled. 
is  said  that  Welsh  children 
learn  to  read  their  language  in  the  Sun­
day  school  alone  and 
in  a  far shorter 
time  than  they  learn  English  by  daily 
attendance  in  public  schools.  Whether 
the  Tribune  writer’s  declaration  be 
correct  or  not,  whatever  expedites  the 
mastery  of  reading  and  writing  de­
serves  the  attention  of  educators  and  if 
phonetic  spelling  aids  in  that  direction 
it  should  not  be  discouraged.  On  the 
other  hand,  it 
is  doubtful  if  a  general 
adoption  of  phonetic  spelling,  assuming 
its  practicability  and  superiority,  would 
promote  the  desired  end  or  add  to  the 
perfection  of  the  language.  The  fact  is 
that  English  is  becoming  more phonetic 
in  its  spelling  daily by a  natural  process 
of  development  and  that  without  the 
confusion  which  would  unavoidably 
follow  a  sudden  and  arbitrary  change. 
It  is  much  the  same  with  a  language  as 
with  morals,  it  can  not  be  radically  re­
formed  by  law,  although  a  standard,  es­
tablished  and  maintained  by  statute  at 
the  proper  time  may  possess  education 
al  value.

The  people  of  nearly  all  European 
countries  sympathized  with  the Boers  in 
their  struggle  against  the  British.  They 
would  have  been  pleased  had  the  Boers 
won,  for  British  prestige  would  have 
been  weakened,  but  now  that  peace  has 
come  with  a  victory  for  the  British 
there 
is  recognition  throughout  Europe 
of  the  fact  that South Africa will develop 
more  rapidly  under  British  rule  and 
that  there  will  be  better  opportunities 
for  trade  there  than  would have been  the 
case  if  the  Boers  were  to  retain  control. 
The  worst  enemies  of  the  British  are 
forced  to  admit  that  wherever  they  are 
in  the  ascendant  equal  advantages  are 
offered  to  all.

Herr  Krupp,  the  great  German  gun- 
maker,  has  perfected  a  new  gun  which 
he  has  promised  the  Emperor  to  reserve 
exclusively  for  the  German  navy.  The 
inference 
is  that  with  this  gun  the 
German  fleet  will  sweep  the  seas  when 
they  get  ready,  but  it  is  to  be  remem­
bered  that  the  German  navy  knows 
nothing  of  war  except  in  theory.  The 
German  army  has  won  its  laurels,  but 
the  German  navy  has  as  yet  no victories 
of  which  it  boasts.

H O W   FA R M IN G   PAYS.

is  no  encouragement 

It  is  customary  for  the  farmers  of  this 
State,  and  for  that  matter  practically 
of  every  other  state,  to  insist  that  while 
manufacturing  and  commercial  busi­
ness  prosper,  theirs  does  not. 
It  is  fre­
and  repeatedly  alleged  that 
quently 
farming  does  not  pay  and  that  in  it 
there 
for  well- 
directed  industry.  Some  figures  recently 
issued  by  the  Census  Bureau  at  Wash­
ington  are  of 
in  this  connec­
tion.  They  apply  only  to  New  York, 
and  show  that  in  June,  1900,  there  were 
in  that  State.  The  total 
226,720  farms 
value  of  farm  property  in  New  York 
is 
calculated  at  $1,069,723,895.  The  total 
value  of  farm  products in  1899,  as shown 
by  the  census  report,  was  $245,270,600. 
Of  this  61  per  cent,  comprised  crops 
and  39  per  cent,  animal  products.  Other 
figures  complete  the  details.

interest 

In  mercantile  or  manufacturing  busi­
ness  that  firm  or  corporation  which  is 
able  to  show  a  profit  and  declare  an 
annual  dividend*  of  6 or 8  per cent,  is 
counted as  being  in  a  flourishing  condi­
tion.  When  these  enterprises  are  able 
to  pay  a  10  per  cent,  dividend  they  are 
counted  as  gilt  edged  investments  and 
sell  far  above  par. 
It  is  interesting, 
then  to  note  what  the  census  figures  say 
to  the  effect  that  the  income,  based  up­
on  the  total  investment  in  faims  in  the 
State  of  New  York  is  17  percent.  This 
is  certainly  a  very  handsome  showing 
and  one  which  ought  to  be  highly  satis­
factory  to  those  engaged  in  that  busi­
ness.  The  so-called  captains  of  indus­
try  who  can  make  any  such  showing, 
count  themselves  very  well  satisfied, 
and  the  stockholders 
the 
management.  The  17  per  cent,  spoken 
of  by  the  census  enumerators  is  the  av­
erage,  and  while  there  are  many  which 
fall  below  that  figure,  of  necessity  there 
must  be  very  many  which  go  far  above 
it.  -This  would  indicate  that  the  farm­
ers  who  use  their  beads  as  well  as  their 
hands,  who  are  both  intelligent  and  at­
tentive,  reap  a  very  satisfactory  reward 
for  their  work.  The  figures,  which  pre­
sumably  are  accurate  and  reliable,ought 
to  add  to  the  popularity  of  farming  as  a 
regular  business  and  make  it  more  gen­
erally  attractive.

commend 

L E T   US  H A V E  ORATORS.

A  notion  has  gone  abroad  that  oratory 
is  of  little  value,  because  its  place  has 
been  taken  by  the  newspaper. 
It  is 
claimed  that  the  public  speaker  ad­
dresses  an  audience  measured 
in  the 
extreme  by  the  compass  and  reach  of 
his  voice,  while  the  press 
is  limited 
neither  by time  nor  distance,  but  speaks 
far  and  near  to  thousands,  while  its  ad­
dresses  are 
in  a  form  which  preserves 
and  perpetuates  them,  so  that  they  may 
speak  even  to  future  generations.

Even  if  this  be  so,  the  press  does  not 
take  the  place  of  oratory.  Written words 
seem  cold  and  formal  compared  with 
those  that  are  spoken,  if  the  speech  be 
athrill  with  life  and  feeling.  How  vast­
ly  different  in  fire  and  force  are  expres­
sions  which  come  white-hot  out  of  the 
heart  of  the  speaker  from  the  self  same 
words  written  or  printed,  and  how  often 
it  is  that  a  statement  when  read  seems 
commonplace  and  prosaic,  but  when  it 
rushes  from  the  lips  of  a  speaker  it  is 
instinct  with  significance  and  meaning 
that  perhaps  were  not  previously  ap­
parent,  or  even  discoverable.

From  this  it  is  easy  to  understand 
the great  power of  oratory.  Ideas are  not 
wholly  expressed  in  words.  The  tone  of 
the  voice,  the  movement  of  the  hands, 
the  writbings  of  the  body,  the  working 
of  the  muscles  of  the  face  all  have  their

part  in  giving  expression  to  thought, 
and  all  these  aids  to  speech  are  pos­
sessed  by  the  orator,  while  the  writer 
has  words  alone  with  which  to  work.

The  expression  of  the  face,  the  ges­
ticulation  of  the  bands,  the  changing 
positions  of  the  body  are  most  potential 
in  giving  expression  to  emotion  and 
passion,  so  that  words  would  weaken 
their  meaning,  and  when 
it  comes  to 
speech,  how  infinitely  expressive  is  the 
tone  of  the  voice.  Words  often  would 
be  superfluous.

All  these  advantages  are  possessed 
over  the  writer  by  the  orator  and  the 
actor,  the  chief  difference  between  the 
two  being  that  the  orator  expresses  his 
own  thoughts  and  acts  his  own  emo­
tions,  while  the  actor  expresses  and 
portrays  the  thoughts  and  passions  of 
others.

It 

Let  not  our  young  men  be  deceived 
by  the  notion  that  the  press  has  super­
seded  oratory.  Human  nature  has  not 
changed. 
is  as  much  under  the  do­
minion  of  passion  and  sentiment  as 
ever 
it  was.  The  magic  eloquence  of 
Peter  the  Hermit  set  all  hearts  on  fire 
with  holy  zeal,  and  he  put  in  motion 
the  crusades  which  held  Christendom  in 
their  spell  for  centuries.  The  fiery  ora­
tory  of  1860-61  did  what  all  the  news­
papers  in  the  Union  could  not  d o -  
called  thirty  millions  of  people  to  arms. 
Not  all  the  printing  presses  in  the world 
turning  out  religious  books  can  accom­
plish  what 
is  done  by  the  electric  ora­
tory  from  many  thousands  of  pulpits. 
The  orator  never  speaks  to  empty 
benches.

Oratory 

is  the  greatest  power  in  the 
world  to  move  the  heart  and  arouse  the 
feelings,  and  oftener  the  heart  is  right 
than  the  head.  Then 
let  our  young 
men  seek  to  continue  and  perpetuate 
that  wonderful  oratory  that  has  been  so 
long  the  glory  and  the  pride  of  the 
American  people.  More  than  ever  we 
need  to  appeal  to  sentiment  and  emo­
tion,  when  the  greed  for  gain  is  coming 
to  be  recognized  as  the  master  motive 
in  this  material  age.

This 

R EC EN T  ROYAL  VISITS.
is  the  season  of  national  love- 
making.  Philanthropy 
is  abroad,  and 
the  nations  are  to  be  benefited.  On 
these  shores  Prince  Henry,  of  Germany, 
was  introduced  to  democracy;  and  let 
us  hope  he  returned  edified  and  had  his 
mind  broadened  by  coming  in  contact 
with  all  varieties  of  people.  But  this 
does  not  prevent  German  merchants 
from  trying  to  shut  out  American  goods 
from  their markets.

Soon  after  Prince  Henry’s  visit  the 
question  was  mooted  in  England  as  to 
the  heir  to  the  throne  coming  over  to 
have  his  intellect,  if possible,  increased.
Then  President  Loubet,  of  France, 
calls  upon  the  Emperor  of  Russia  and 
is  received  with  open  arms.  The  Rus­
sians  call  the  French  valiant  and  the 
French  return  the  compliment.  Loubet 
congratulates 
the  Emperor  upon  the 
magnificence  of  his  domains  and  the 
valor  of  his  subjects.  The  Emperor 
agrees,  but  has  to  excuse  himself  from 
accompanying  his>  guest  to  the  ancient 
capital  of  his  empire,  as  he  might  be 
the  victim  of  a  dynamite  explosion  or 
shot.

President  Loubet  has  given  an  ex­
ample  of  great  courage  by  appearing  in 
St.  Petersburg  with  the  sovereigns.  He 
must, indeed, be  brave  if  he  felt  no  fear. 
The  feeling  that  he  might  be  blown  up 
along  with  the 
imperial  family  could 
not  have  given  him  the  sense  of  being 
at  home.

IO

Clothing

F id a   an d   F ash io n s  P e c u lia r  to   A m erica’s 

G reatest  City.

Blucberette.  This  word 

is  far  more 
terrible  than  the  article  it  describes,  an 
item  in  the  sum  of  fashionable footwear. 
The  name  means  that  the  object  so  des­
ignated  is  a  modification  of  the  Blucher 
shoe.  This  innovation  or  revival  is  an 
oxford  tie.  To  be  a  bit  technical,  I  may 
describe  it  as  having  a  quarter  of  mat 
kid  and  a  vamp  of  patent  kid  made 
plain  without  tip.  The  toe 
is  in  the 
medium  London  school.  The  last  is  the 
long-straight,  that 
is,  without  the  out- 
swing.  The  lace  holes  are  band-worked. 
The  bootmaker  who  showed  me  this 
style  would  not  commit  himself  as  to 
the  future  of  the  bulldog  toe,  but  be 
rather  thought  from  expressions  which 
he  had  heard  among  his  most  fastidious 
customers  and those  who  seemed  to  have 
the  right  of  way  to  proper  dressing, 
with  a  desire  to  lead  rather  than  follow 
long  accepted  and  widely 
indorsed 
styles,  that  the  London  or  moderate  toe 
was  likely  to  be  the  immediate  “ it. ”  
He  also  felt,  for  the  same  reasons,  that 
the  outswing  last  had  reached  the 
limit 
that 
of 
and 
straighter  lasts,  especially  for 
semi­
dress,  would  receive  the  approval  of 
“ the  best  of  them"  among  his  custom­
ers  this  spring  and  summer. 
1  rather 
fancy  that the  Blucberette, with  its  hand­
made 
lace  boles,  will  be  rather  a  swell 
fashion  for  the  seaside  hotel  porch,  in 
combination  with  smart  serge,  flannel 
and  duck  trousers.  Half-hose  are  go­
ing  to  be  very  dainty  this  summer.  E x­
quisite  color  effect  on  white  and  black 
and  white,and  the  new  grays  will  be  set 
off  very  richly  with  this  new  caprice 
in 
shoe  wear.

fashionable 

approval 

♦   *  *

Jumping  from  the  bottom  to  the  top,
I  see  that  some  chronicler  whose  im agi­
nation 
is  running  away  with  his  good 
sense  says,  with  all  the  arrogance  of  a 
space-filler,  that  college  bands  will  ap­
pear  on  Panamas  this  summer.  There 
is  only  one  band  which  a  sane  man  will 
wear,  and that  is  the  absolutely  black  in 
the  narrow  widths.  The  Panama  hat  is 
a  noble,  dignified  article,  becoming  to 
most  men,  and  worthy  of  good  treat­
ment.  To  caricature  its  uses  by  a  flam­
boyant  or  bizarre  addition  of  any  kind 
is  a  travesty  upon  the  most  ordinary 
form  of  common  sense.  To  put  a  silk 
facing  on  a  Norfolk  jacket  is  almost 
in 
as  bad  taste.

♦   * 

♦

for  a 

One  of  the  most  strikingly-dressed 
young  fellows  whom  I  have  met recently 
wore  a  generous  derby,  with  a  French 
brim,  in  a  medium  brown  shade.  1  did 
not  like  bis  big  eyelets,  although  there 
is  a  great  craze  for  them  and  there  is  no 
accounting 
fad.  His  double- 
breasted,  two-button  coat  with  its  long 
sweep  of 
lapel  was  of  soft  goods  in  a 
rather  grayish  shade—the  fabric  was  on 
the  vicuna  order.  The  coat  was  the 
semi-military,that  is,  with  a  fair  degree 
of  breadth . to  the  shoulders  and  shape­
liness  to  the  waist.  And  that  fairish 
degree  of  looseness  that  seems  to  be  so 
general in  trousers  was  also in  evidence. 
His  gray  wash  waistcoat  was  visible 
about  the  opening  of the  buttoned  coat, 
and  this  waistcoat  opening  was  filled 
in with  a  black,  neatly-figured  silk  ascot 
tied  into a  moderate  puff  and  fastened 
with  a  pin.

*  * 

♦

Three-button,  double-breasted  sacks 
are 
in  striped  materials,  say  white  on 
dark  grounds,  with  trousers  in  the  same

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

lapels. 

long,  rolling 

goods.  May  be  advantageously  worn 
with  a  double-breasted  tan  waistcoat 
having 
Such  a 
coat,  if  made  properly,  may  be  worn 
unbuttoned.  The  two-button cutaway  is 
an  exceedingly  popular  garment  and  I 
note  it  in  all  varieties  of  cloths.  The 
single-breasted  coat  in  a  business  suit 
recently  shown  me  is  made  of  the  black 
tweed  and  closed  with  three  buttons. 
I 
understand 
that  this  garment  has  a 
strong  London  following.
*  *  *

Mildness  and  neatness  reign 

in  all 
things  wearable.  Collars are  lower,  ties 
are  extremely  modest,  half-hose  on  the 
quiet  order  and  so  on.  And  these  effects 
are  the  ones  affected  by  the  ordinary  as 
well  as  by  very  swell  men.  Just  when 
the  reaction  should  set  in  it  would  be 
hard  to  say.  But for  the  nonce  the  thing 
is  quietness  strictly,  so  far  as  color  and 
pattern  are  concerned.

*  *  *

As  to  the  Norfolk  jacket,  about  which 
more  or  less  is  heard,  I  am  convinced 
that  the  best  trade  here  will  not  accept 
it  except  for  country  and  outing  wear. 
It  is  worn  with  knee  breeches for knock­
ing  about.

*  *  *

We  are  entering  the  summer  season. 
So  far  I  have  seen  nothing  distinctly 
summerisb,  or  even  springish,  except­
ing  the  shops.  The  weather  has  been too 
cold  to  bring  forth  warm  weather  wear­
ables.

*  *  *

There 

is  a  wild  profusion  of  modest 
effects 
in  the  new  soft  shirts.  Some  of 
them  are  pleated  and  none  of  them  in 
the  best  qualities  show  any  tendency  to­
ward 
things  which 
offended  good  taste  and  common  sense 
so  long.

the  pronounced 

*  *  *

Black  and  white  figure  a  gteat  deal  in 
this  season's  dress;  shirts,  socks  and 
neckwear  are  full  of  it.
*  *  *

Among  the  new  things  that  I  have 
seen 
in  canes  are  the  rather  heavy 
Malaccas.  The  boys  seem  to  have  tired 
of  the  sticks  that  are  merely  switches. 
Silver  beads,  somewhat  old-fashioned 
looking,  are  seen.

*  *  *

*  s|C 

♦

Belts  are  moderately  wide.  One  sees 
less  of  the  extreme  narrow  widths, which 
were  common  enough  last  summer.

livery 

The  growing  concern 

in  household 
uniforms  makes  the 
intelligence  from 
Washington  respecting  the  new  White 
House  liveries  of  interest.  The  Presi­
dent  and  Mrs.  Roosevelt  selected  liver­
ies  for  their  footmen  and  coachmen  a 
short  time  ago.  In  describing  these  new 
garments  and  accessories  our  friends  on 
the  daily  papers  have  made  a  few  mis­
takes  which  may  perplex  the  unac­
quainted.  The  new 
is  rather 
gayer  than  usual. 
“ There  are  white, 
tight-fitting  doeskin  knee  breeches," 
says  one  daily  scribe.  That  hurried 
writer  means 
stockinette  breeches. 
These  breeches  meet patent leather boots 
with  russet  tops,  not  “ plain 
leather 
boots,"  as  has been incorrectly reported. 
The  footman’s  body  coat  is  of  blue cloth 
with  rounded  corners.  They are  not  cut 
away  sharply,  as  one  correspondent  puts 
it.  There  are  two  rows  of  silver  buttons 
on  the  skirt  and  a  row  of  silver  buttons 
in  front.  The  coachman's livery  is prac­
tically  the  same.  The summer  effect  lies 
in  the  waistcoat.  This  is  green  and  yel­
low  valentia,  and  finished  with  silver 
buttons  down  the  front.  A  tall  collar 
and  a  white  tie 
finishing 
touches.  The  hats  are  the  regulation 
coachman's  with  red,  white  and  blue 
cockade.— Vincent  Varley 
in  Apparel 
Gazette.

lend 

the 

Fall Line of Ready Made Clothing

for Men, Boys and Children;  every conceivable kind.  No  wholesale  house  has  such 
a large line on view, samples lining sixty trunks, representing  over  Two  Million  and 
a Half Dollars’ worth of Ready Made Clothing.  My establishment has proven a great 
benefit, as dozens of respectable retail clothing  merchants can testify, who come here 
often from all parts of the State and adjoining states, as they  can  buy  from  the  very 
cheapest that is made to the  highest  grade  of  goods. 
I  represent  Eleven  different 
factories.  I also employ a  competent staff of travelers, and such of the merchants  as 
prefer to buy at home kindly drop me a line and  same  will  receive  prompt  attention^ 
I  have very light and spacious sample rooms  admirably  adapted  to  make  selections 
and I pay customers’ expenses.  Office hours, daily 7:30 a. m. to 6  p.  m.  except Satur* 
day, then 7:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.

PANTS  of every kind and  for all ages.  Sole Agent for W estern  Michigan for the 

VINEBERG  PATENT  POCKET  PANTS,  proof against pick  pockets.

Citizens phone, 1967;  Bell phone,  Main  1282;  Residence  address,  room  207,  Liv­

ingston H otel;  Business address

WILLIAM  CONNOR,  2d  arid 30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

E ST A B L ISH E D   A   Q U A R T E R   O F  A   C E N T U R Y

N.  B.—Remember, everything direct from factory:  no jobbers’  prices.

S u m m er  G oods—I still have a good line to select from.

This  is to Certify

That  these  Trousers  are  guaranteed  custom tailor 
made, perfect fitting, stylish  cut.  joined  In  the  seat 
by double stitching with Beldlng Bros.’ best silk and 
stayed with double linen, which insures  against  rip­
ping no m atter how great a  strain  there  may  be  on 
the seat seam.  The buttons are  sewed  on  by  hand 
with  linen  thread  and  can  not  fall  off.  The  hip 
poikets can not gap as they are stayed  and  stitched 
to the waist band seam.  These are  the  only  Trous­
ers in the world fitted with the celebrated

Vineberg  P atent S afety  Pockets

which  permit  nothing  to  drop  out  and  are  proof 
against pickpockets.

M A N U FA CTU R E D   B Y

The Vineberg’s Patent Pocket Pants Co. 

Detroit,  Mich.

Sold  by  AU First Class Clothiers.

W fl. CONNOR,  W estern Hichigan Agent, 

Qrand Rapids, Mich.

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.  Ionia  St., Qraad  Rapids  and 
31  and  33 Lamed  street  East,  Detroit, Michigan.

WE  HAVE  E V E R Y T H I N G
CATALOGUE  ON APPLICATION

MILWAUKEE, WIS.U.&A.
,N GLOVES & MITTENS

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

R em ark ab le   G row th  o f  th e   M an u factu re 

o f C lothing.

In  the  census  bulletin  on  the  manu­
factures  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
which  has  just  made 
its  appearance, 
Chief  Statistician  North  traces  in  brief 
the  development  of  the  ready-to-wear 
clothing  industries  in  this  country.

In  striking  contrast  to  the  humble 
origin  of  the  business  are  the  figures 
in  the  tables  which  are  in­
presented 
in  the  report  and  which  show 
cluded 
that  in  1900  there  were 
in  New  York 
alone  1,889  establishments  en­
City 
in  the  factory  product  of  men’s 
gaged 
clothing,  representing  a  total 
invested 
capital  of $36,842,799,  employing  30,046 
wage  earners  and producing  in  that  year 
goods  valued  at  $103,220,201. 
In  the 
State  of  New  York  alone,  there  were 
4,204  establishments,  employing  90,017 
wage  earners,  and  their  products  were 
valued  at  $233,370,447  or  10.7  per  cent, 
of  the  total  value  of  the  products  of  the 
State.

The  factory  manufacture  of  clothing 
is  of  comparatively  recent  development, 
says  the  report. 
It  began  probably  in 
the  second  quarter  of  the  nineteenth 
century  and 
is  particularly  associated 
with  two  events  since  1850,  namely,  the 
invention  of  the  sewing  machine and the 
civil  war.  Apart  from  army  clothing, 
probably  the  only  ready-made  clothing 
sold  in  Europe  or  in  this  country  in  the 
earlier  years  of  the  nineteenth  century 
was  so-called  “ slop  clothing,”   which 
was  bought  for  stocking  sailors'  “ slop- 
chests’ ’  prior  to  setting  out  upon  long 
voyages.

As  early  as  1830,  however,  New  York 
merchants  began  to  supply  a  demand 
for  ready-made  clothing 
in  the  South 
and  West.  Many  of  them  maintained 
retail  stores 
in  Southern  cities  for  the 
sale  of  clothing  made  in  New  York  fac­
tories,  the 
largest  of  which  are  said  to 
have  employed  300  to  500  hands  each. 
In  1841  the  value  of  clothing  sold  at 
wholesale 
in  New  York  City  was  esti­
mated  at  $2,500,000.  The  trade  was 
greatly  stimulated  by  the  requirements 
of  Western  emigrants,  especially  after 
the  discovery  of  gold  in  California.

Two  or  three  years  later  the  invention 
of  the  sewing  machine  put the  business 
upon  a  substantial  basis  and  enabled 
it 
to  meet  the  demand  for army  clothing 
during  the  civil  war.  About 1870 cutting 
machines  were  introduced;  first,  a  long 
knife,  operating  perpendicularly  like  a 
saw  and  cutting  through  eighteen  thick­
nesses’  of  cloth,  later  a  circular  disk 
operating  like  a  buzz  saw  and  cutting 
twenty-four thicknesses.  But  while  the 
ready-made  clothing  business  has  now 
attained  so 
large  proportions,  it  is  not 
a  fully  organized  factory  industry.  The

clothing  is  not,  as  a  rule,  made  in  large 
factories  under  the  supervision  of  the 
manufacturer,  but  in  small  workshops  or 
tenement  rooms  through  the intervention 
of  a  contractor.  Various  causes  contrib­
ute  to  this  backward  state,  one  of  which 
is  the  presence  in  cities  of  large  bodies 
of  unskilled  workmen,  whose  ignorance 
of  the  English  language  prevents  them 
from  finding  more remunerative employ­
ment  than  that offered by the ‘ ‘ sweater. ’ ’ 
But  the  principal  cause  is  the  great  va­
riety  of  styles  and  patterns,  which  ne­
cessitates  extreme  specialization.  This 
can  be  more  readily  accomplished  by 
distributing  the  different  designs  among 
contractors  than  by  undertaking  to make 
all  patterns  under  one  roof.  Garments of 
a  standard  design  and  cloth,  such  as 
overalls,are  made  in  large  factories  out­
side  the  great  cities.  But  the  manufac­
turer  of  overcoats  and  suits  finds  it more 
profitable  to  locate  in  a  large  city, where 
he  can  find  an  abundant  supply  of  labor 
and  contractors  who  will  relieve  him  of 
the  necessity  of 
investing  money  in  a 
plant  that  would  lie  idle  half  the  year. 
New  York’s  dominance  of  the  clothing 
trade  is  undisputed.

W h a t  Is  th e   Id e a l  W om an ?

Curious to  know  how  the “ ideal young 
woman’ ’  appears  toother  than  minister­
ial  eyes,  Rev.  M.  E.  Harlan,  pastor  of 
the  First  Church  of  Christ  (Disciples), 
Brooklyn,  was  prompted  not  long  ago  to 
send  a  list  of  ten  questions  to  100  young 
men.  Following  is  the  list  of  questions:
1.  Must  the  ideal  young  woman  be  a 

Christian?

2.  Will  she  use  slang  or  profane 

speech  or  lead  a  poodle?

4.  Does 

3.  Are  dancing  and  card  playing  or 
wine  drinking  accomplishments  which 
you  admire  in  her?

it  mar  or  help  her  as  an 
ideal  to  be  able  to  keep  house  or  make 
her own  clothes?

5.  Shall  she  help  to  make  her  own 
living—i.  e.,  will  she  keep  house  or 
board?

6.  Would  you  educate  her  in  a  fe­

male  school  or  a  mixed  school?

7.  Shall  we 

judge  her  by  the  same 
standard  of  morals  by  which  we  judge 
men?  Shall  she  have  fewer  liberties 
than  have  young  men?  Why?

8.  What  one  thing  do  you  admire 

most  in  young  women?

9.  What  are  some  common 

faults 

among  young  women?

10.  Would  she  cease  to  be  ideal  if 
she  had  the  right  to  vote  in  all  elec­
tions?

B lessed  R elief.

Patron— I  want  to complain,  sir,  about 

one  of  your  waiters.

Restaurant  Proprietor— I'm  glad  to 

hear  it.

Patron— You’ re  glad  to  hear  it!
Restaurant  Proprietor— Yes,  it’ll  be  a 
relief  to  bear  a  complaint  that  isn't 
about  the  food.

1 1

increased  divi­

H a rd   on  T hem .

The  companies  pay 

It  must  be  rather  a  trying  time  for 

dends.

those  who  have  been  predicting :

That  high  water  mark  in  the  tide  of 

prosperity  has  been  reached.

That  the  ebb  had  set  in.
That  the  crop  losses  would  paralyze 

the  West.

earnings.

That  railroads  could  not  keep  up 

That  everything  was  over  capitalized.
That  the  bottom  would  drop  out.
That  money  would  be  tight  enough  to 

strangle  the  business  community.

That  the  “ trusts”   would  eat  up  all 

their  little  neighbors.

That  good  times  were  over.
That  a  slump  was  coming.
When:
The  tide  still  rises.
The  West  was  never  so  prosperous.
The  railroads  show  uniformly 

in­

creased  earnings.

The  bottom  is  wider  and  deeper.
The  money  market  was  never  easier. 
The  independents  ate  making  money. 
The  good  times  stay.
The slump  fails  to  materialize.

M ay  She  L ire   to   R id e  in   a   F ly in g   M a­

From the Baltimore Sun.

chine.

Mrs.  Sylvia  Dunham,  whose  home  is 
in  a  village  near  Boston,  counts  her age 
by  the  successive  types  of  vehicles  she 
has  seen  perfected.  She  was  born  in 
1800.  At  5  years  of  age  she  rode  in  a 
stagecoach,  at  49  she  boarded  a  rail­
way  train  for  the  first  time,  at  99 she 
rode  on  an  electric  car,  and  at  100  she 
enjoyed  an  outing  in  an  automobile.  At 
the  age  of  102  years  she  still  attends  to 
her  household duties,  works  in  her  little 
garden  and  reads  an  hour  every  day.

THE  PAN-AM ERICAN 
GUARANTEED CLOTHING

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SCOTTEN-DILLON  COMPANY

TOBACCO  MANUFACTURERS 

INDEPENDENT  FACTORY 

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

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

F IN E   C U T

SM O K IN G

UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

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

price current.

SO-LO.
The  above  brands  are  manufactured  from  the  finest  selected  Leaf  Tobacco  that  money  can  buy.

SW E E T  SPRAY.

See  quotations  in

P L U G

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG  HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers

H ow   to   W ait  o n   a   C u sto m er  in   a   Shoe 

Store.

In  the  first  place  we  meet  the  custom­
ers  at  the  door,  seat  them,  remove  the 
old  shoe,  ascertain  the  size  and  width, 
also  the  quality  and  fit  of  the  old  shoe. 
Here  is  one  of  the  most  important  fea­
tures  of  fitting  shoes. 
It  has  been  my 
rule  to  endeavor  to  fit  the  new  shoe  bet­
ter than  the  old  shoe  has  been  fitted.  In 
this  way  you  make  friends  for  yourself 
and  good  customers  for  your  store.  To 
have  a  customer  leave  your  store  with  a 
shoe  properly  fitted 
is  the  best  adver- 
tisement  a  store  can  have.

Now,  to  go  back  to  the  quality  of  the 
shoe.  A salesman,  who  is  a  good  judge 
of  stock  can  tell  about  what  price  the 
customer  paid  for  the  old  shoe.  Show 
that  price,  or  less,  never  higher,  unless 
the  customer  states  the  price  he  wishes 
to  pay. 
It  is  much  easier  to  go  higher 
in  price 
if  the  shoe  you  have  shown  is 
not  good  enough,  than  to go  lower.  For 
the  customer  will  not  be  satisfied  with  a 
cheap  shoe  after  having  seen  a  better 
one.

Be  careful  not  to  recommend  your 
goods  beyond  their actual  wearing  qual­
ities,  or  your  customer  will  expect  too 
much  of them.  If  you  are  asked  to  give 
your  opinion  of  the  shoe,  give  it  as  you 
yourself  believe  it.  In  this  way you  will 
gain  the  confidence  of  your  customers.
I  have  seen  many  feet  fitted  with  the 
wrong  shaped  shoe.  A  foot  that  requires 
a  straight  shoe  can  not  be  fitted  with  a 
crooked  one,  and 
if  so  fitted  the  shoe 
will  get  out  of  shape  and  be  uncomfort­
able  to  the  foot.  The  ordinary  custom­
er  will  not  know  what  the  matter  is,  but 
will  lay  the  blame  on  the  salesman  and 
in  consequence  will  go  to  your  competi­
tor to  get  the  next  pair.

The  hardest  trials  of  a  salesman  are 
the  customers  who  come  to  the  store 
without  any 
idea  of  what  they  want  if 
they  want  any  at  all.  Show  your  goods 
cheerfully.  If  you  find  the  goods  you 
have  shown  have  pleased  the  customers 
a 
little  talk  in  the  right  direction  may 
make  a  sale  to  a  person  who  had  no  in­
tention  of  buying.  Even  if  they  do  not 
buy  they  will  remember  the  kind  treat­
ment  you  gave  them  and  come  to  you 
when  they  do  want  to  buy.  Be polite  to 
every  one 
It 
will  make  you  friends  and  friends  be­
come  customers.  While  waiting  on  cus­
tomers  give  them  your  undivided  at­
tention.  Do  not  be  talking  to  the  other 
clerks.

in  or  out  of  the  store. 

One  of  the  hardest  trials  to  the  pa­
tience  of  a  salesman  is  where  two ladies 
enter  the  store,  one  to  buy  the  other  to 
help  select  the  shoes. 
It  is  a  very  diffi­
cult  matter to  fit  one  person's  feet  and 
suit  the  taste  of  another.  Nine  out  of 
ten  times  the  lady will agree with  every­
thing  her  friend  has  to  say  about  the 
shoes  you  are  showing. 
I  have  found 
it  good  policy to  turn my attention to  the 
customer's  friend.  Show  her  as  much 
consideration  as  if  she  were  buying  the 
shoes  and  you  will win  bei  to  your  side. 
Then 
is  no  trouble  to  sell  one  and 
maybe  two  pairs  of  shoes.

it 

Do  not  talk  too  much.  A  salesman 
should  know  when  to  talk  and  when 
not  to.  People  who  think for  themselves 
can  please  themselves  quicker  than  you 
can  talk  them  into  it.  Be  able  to  give 
any  information  a  customer  may  ask  in 
regard  to  stock,  workmanship  and  wear. 
Show  no  partiality  to  any  customer. 
Treat  the  poorer customer  just  as  well 
as  you  would  the  people  who  buy  your

best  goods, for  although  they  do  not  buy 
the  best  they  buy  more  pairs  and  at  the 
end  of  the  year  you  will  find  you  have 
received  as  much  money  from  them  as 
from  their  richer  neighbor.

Do  not  be  afraid  to  show  goods. 

If 
the  goods  you  have  shown  do  not  please 
a  customer,start  over  again,  show  some­
thing  entirely  different. 
If  you  have  a 
good  stock  to  work  on there is something 
in 
it  that  will  please  every  customer 
that  comes  into  your  store.  To  have  a 
customer  leave  your  store  with  the 
im­
pression  that  you  do  not  care  to  show 
goods  is  a  bad  thing  for  your  employer 
and  a  good  advertisement 
for  your 
competitor.  For  the  customer  will  go 
there  and  buy  and  will  never  enter  the 
store  while  you  are  employed  there.

Never  deceive  a  customer;  make 
good  your  word.  If you  gaurantee a  shoe 
and  it  does  not  wear  right,  see  to  it  that 
it  is  made  satisfactory  to  the  customer. 
They  will  place  confidence  in  you  and 
your  goods,  and  when  wanting  another 
pair of shoes  will  come  to  you  for  them. 
When  the  parents  send  their  children  to 
be  fitted  is  the  time  the salesman  should 
exercise  the  greatest  care.  The  shoe 
should  be  fitted  plenty  long,  so  as  not to 
crowd  the  toes  or  press  too  hard  on  the 
ball  of  the  foot.  A  child’s  foot  will 
shape 
itself  to  the  shape  of  the  shoe, 
therefore  great  care  should be  taken  that 
the  shoe  should  be  the  proper  shape.  A  
baby  that  is  brought  to  you  for  its  first 
pair  of  shoes  should  be  fitted  carefully. 
Misfit  baby  shoes  make  hard  feet  to  fit 
as they  grow  older.  A  great  many  sales­
men  make  the  mistake  of  putting  any 
kind  of  a  shoe  on  a  baby. 
If  the  baby 
is  walking,  and  the  foot  is  allowed  to 
run  forward 
in  the  shoe,  the  toes  will 
grow  crooked  and  the  ball  of  the  foot 
become  enlarged.  The  salesman  gets 
the  blame  for  this,  and  the  store  loses 
the  patronage  of  the  whole  family  and 
every  other customer  they  can keep from 
coming  to  your  store.
Another  point  of 

importance  is  the 
rubber  customers.  A  salesman should  be 
careful  in  selling  rubbers.  Sell  the  right 
shaped  rubber  for  the  shoe  they  are 
wearing.  A  rubber  that  fits  will  wear 
twice  as. long  as  one  that  does  not.

If  I  had  been  writing  on  the  fit  of 
shoes  this  essay  would  have  been  more 
appropriate.  But  as  I  believe  that  fit­
ting  is  more  than  half  the  battle,  a 
salesman  who 
can  fit  customers  can 
make  the sales.— Homer  Hubert  in  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.
R ecent  C hanges  A m ong  In d ia n a   M er­

ch an ts.

Decatur—John  H.  Mougey  has  sold 
bis  boot  and shoe stock  and  retired  from 
trade.

Hartford  City—Hance  &  Gehring, 
tailors,  have  discontinued 

merchant 
business.

Indianapolis— Brockport  &  Eppert, 
dealers  in  boots  and  shoes,  have  dis­
solved  partnership. 
The  business 
is 
continued  by  Frederick  W.  Eppert.

Indianapolis—The  Novelty  Neckwear 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration  under  the  same  style.

Rockport— Clara  K.  Davis  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock 
of  Mrs.  E.  Feehrer.

Saline*  City— W.  M.  Grayson,  dealer 

in  lumber,  has  discontinued  business.

Indianapolis— Thompson  &  Converse 
have  uttered  a  chattel  mortgage 
on 
their  drug  stock  to  the  amount  of $650.
Lafayette—A  receiver  has  been  ap­
plied  for  for  the  Samuel  Born  Co.,grain 
dealers.

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Every  once 

D ealers.
in  a  while,  some  daily 
newspaper  or  magazine  takes  it  upon 
itself  to  instruct  the  buying  public  as 
to  what  is  necessary  in  connection  with 
the  purchase  of  a  pair  of  shoes.  We 
print  herewith  a  few  of  the  latest  bints 
to  shoppers  which  we  feel  are  of  much 
interest  to  retailers  throughout  the coun­
try. 
If  you  follow  these  instructions,  I 
am  sure  that  your  trade  will  be  much 
benefited  thereby;  by  following  one  or 
two  of  them  at  least  your  store  will  lose 
all  semblance  of  shoe  parlors  and  be 
converted 
into  a  hospital.  The  article 
starts  in  in  this  manner.

Here  are  some  points  on  the  buying 
of  shoes  that  the  average  girl  may  find 
useful:

Never  wear  a  shoe  that  pinches  the 

Never  wear  a  shoe  or  boot  tight  any­

heel.

where.

Never  come  from  high  heels  to  low 

heels  at  one  jump.

Never wear  a  shoe  that presses  up into 

the  hollow  of  the  foot.

Never  wear  a  shoe  that  will  not  allow 

the  great  toe  to  lie  in  a  straight line.

Never  wear  leather  sole 

linings  to 
stand  upon.  White  cotton  drilling  or 
linen  is  healthier.

Never  wear  a  shoe  with  a  sole narrow­
er  than  the  outline  of  the  foot  traced 
with  a  pencil  close  under  the  rounding 
edge.

Never  wear a  shoe  with  a  sole turning 
up  very  much  at  the  toes,  as  this  causes 
the  cords  on  the  upper  part  of  the  foot 
to  contract.

Never  have  the  top  of  the  boots  tight, 
as  it  interferes  with  the  action  of  the 
calf  muscles,  makes  one  walk  bad  and 
spoils  the  shape  of  the  ankle.

“ Never  wear  a  shoe  that  pinches  the 
heel.”   There  is  one  for  shoemen,  who 
are  continually  crying  that heel seats are 
too  large.  Of  course,  there  is  no  possi­
bility  of  the  shoe  clerk  taking  the  coun­
ter  and  pressing  it  at  the  back  so  as  to 
limber  it  up  a  little  or  drawing  it  at  the 
flanges.  That  would  be  entirely  out  of 
place,  and  by  so  doing  they  would  pre­
vent  a  prospective  customer  from  find­
ing  a  shoe  that  will  pinch  at  the  heel.

“ Never  wear  a  shoe  or  boot tight any­
where. ”   Now,  this  is  a  good  one,  and 
certainly  something  which  the  average 
individual  is  not  aware  of. 
It  might be 
advisable  in  a  case  of  this  kind  to  have 
a  couple  of  cork  soles,  a  heel  cushion 
inserted,  so  as  to  make  the  shoe  propor­
tionate  all  around.

If  the  genius  who  wrote  this  article 
would  assist  us  in  finding  out  the divid­
ing 
line  between  the  two  heels,  we 
would  be  pleased  to  convey the informa­
tion  to  our  subscribers.

' ‘ Never  wear  a  shoe  that  presses  up 
into  the  hollow  of  the  foot.”   Shades  of 
St.  Crispin 1  All  ye  old-time  shoemak­
ers  who  have  sweat  drops  of  blood  try­
ing  to  secure  a  pair  of  shoes  for  a  cus­
tomer,  the  arch  of  which  supported  the 
foot  of  the  fair  one,  will  begin  to  think 
when  you  read  this  hint  that  this  is  the 
date  of  the  millennium.  If the shoe  does 
not  fit 
in  the  arch  you  are  in  trouble, 
and  every  shoeman  from  now  until  the 
end  of  time  will  be  in  the  same  predic­
ament. 
In  order  to  fit  the  arch  of  the 
it  not  necessary  that  it  should 
foot,  is 
press  slightly 
important 
spot.

in  that  very 

“ Never  wear  a  shoe  with  the  sole 
narrower  than  the  outline  of  the  foot 
traced  with  a  pencil  close  under  the 
rounding  edge.”   Some  time  ago  we 
printed  a diagram  of a human  foot  and

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the  diagram  of  the  same  size  of  sole 
pattern.  This  pattern  was  of  a  sole 
with  a  good  wide  tread,  but if the  flabby 
outline  of  the  foot  was  permitted  to 
spread  (which  we  are  told  expands  a 
full  quarter  of  an  inch  with  the  weight 
of  the  body)  it  would  certainly  cover 
more  than  the  sole  of  the  diagram  that 
was  shown,  and  that  sole  was  as  nearly 
perfect  as  it  is  possible  for one  to  be 
made.

to 

“ Never  wear  a  shoe  with  a  sole  turn­
ing  up  very  much  at  the  toes,  as  this 
causes  the  cords  of  the  upper  part  of the 
foot 
contract.”   From  one  view 
point  this  is  a  suggestion  which  has  a 
semblance  of  right  to  it.  But  I  wonder 
if  our  “ wise-acres”   have  ever  studied 
the  human  foot,  and  found  that  it  has  a 
tendency  to  raise  up  at  the  toes.  This 
suggestion  should  be  brought  to  the  no­
tice  of  all  people  who  walk  heel  and 
toe,  and 
language  of  the  shoe- 
man,  “ turn  the  tip  of  the  shoe  so  that 
it  looks  into  their  faces.”

in  the 

“ Never  have  the  top  of  the  boots 
tight,  as 
it  interferes  with  the  action 
of  the  calf  muscles,  makes  one  walk 
bad  and  spoils  the  shape  of  the  an­
kle.”   This  is  a  very  practical  sug­
gestion  and  will  save  the  shoeman  from 
sticking  the  button  needle  into  his  fin­
ger  every  time  he  tries  to  change  the 
three  top— so  that  miladi  might  have  a 
shoe  which  still  has  some  appearance 
of  symmetry.  It  would  be  unwise  to  tell 
this  to  a  prospective  customer  the  first 
time  she  enters  the  store.  You bad  bet­
ter  get  on  visiting  terms  with  her  he- 
fore  you  suggest  to  her  the  advisability 
of  keeping  the  shoe  loose  at  the  top.

We  would  like  to hear the  views of  our 
brother  shoemen  on  this  subject;  ex­
pressions  of  opinion  as  to  what  they 
think  of  each  one  of  these  suggestions. 
Perhaps  we  ourselves  are  at  fault.  If  so, 
we  are  willing  to  acknowledge  it,  but 
from  our  little  experience,  which  covers 
some  years 
in  all  branches  of  the  shoe 
business,  we are  unable  to  grasp  the  full 
meaning  of  these  bints  to  shoe  buyers. 
—Shoe  Retailer.

A lw ays  H ave  H ope.

Never  give  up  hope  as  long  as  one 
broken  plank  of  your  wrecked  vessel 
is 
afloat  for  you  to  cling  to.  That  broken 
plank  may  not  land  you  high  and  dry, 
on  a  coast  where  every  rock 
is  a  pure 
diamond, where pearls are  equally  mixed 
with  the  sand,  where  the  hills  are  reefs 
of  pure  coral  and  the  basest  metal  is 
gold ;  but that  poor  broken  water-soaked 
plank  may  toss  you  against  some  coast 
where  you  can  gain  a 
foothold  and 
crawling from  the  heavy sea,stretch  your 
tired  limbs  for  rest  on  the  hard  ground 
after  their  fierce  struggle  with  the  wild 
waves,  and,  lying  there  in  the  cold  piti­
less  rain,  naked  and  bleeding,  you  may 
even  then  feel  a  thrill  of  joy  that  you 
live;  and  when  the  storm  passes,  and 
the  bright  sunshine  comes  out  how 
thankful  you  should  be  if  you  find  you 
have  reached  a  safe  harbor  where  by 
honest  effort  and  bard  toil  you  may 
wrest  your  food  and  clothing  from  the 
yield  of  the  rich  soil.  How  many  a 
shipwrecked  mariner  on  the  sea  of  life 
gives  up  because  his  plank 
is  not  a 
stately  passenger  vessel  or  a  war  ship! 
How  many a  poor  sinner  lets  go  of  even 
the  poor  soaked  plank  and  drinks  his 
fill  of  the  angry  sea  as  he  sinks  for  the 
last  time,  simply  bcause  the  harbor  in 
sight 
looks  barren  and  rough,  and  be 
sees  no  band  of  help  stretched  towards 
him  and  no  pitying  eye  bent  on  his 
solitary  battle!  Lose  not  hope;  it  is 
the  angel  which  will  lift  you  from  the 
lowest  depth  of  degradation  to  the  high­
est  pinnacle  man  has  ever  trod.

The  man  who  lets his competitor alone 
in  his  advertising,  and  outwits  him 
in  buying  and  store  methods,  need  not 
worry  but  what  the  public  will  find  out.

You Can Only Overcome Competition by Buying 

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fiber  brushes  have  been  offered  for  the 
purpose,  but  they  have  the  same  dis­
advantages  as  the  broom.

With  the  correct  principle  to  work  on, 
ingenious  minds  have  devised  the  nec­
essary  tools.  Doubtless  sweepers  are 
now  offered  which  accomplish  the  de­
sired  result  and  eliminate  all  the  dis­
agreeable  features  attending  the  usual 
methods  of  sweeping.  The  sweepers  are 
supplied  with  a  tank  for  holding  the 
kerosene  oil,  which  feeds  the  brush  at 
the  will  of  the  operator.  Just  enough 
can  be  used  to  kill  all dust  and not leave 
a  streak  of  oil  to  dirty  the  floor.  In fact, 
they  are  being  offered  for  carpet-sweep­
ing,  and are  quite  the  thing  in  this  line. 
No  danger  of  moths  or  germs  where 
these  sweepers  are  used  on  carpets  or 
rugs. 
For  hardwood  polished  floors 
nothing  nicer  could  be  asked  for.

The  size  adapted  to  store-sweeping  is 
large,  and  every  retailer who  is  desirous 
of  keeping  his  store  clean  and  of  doing 
away  with  95  per  cent,  of  the  dust  will 
do  well  to  supply  bis  help  with  these 
dustless  sweepers.

H ow   to   T ie  a   W om an’s  Shoe  S trin g .
It  was  a  Wealthy  avenue  street  car, 
comfortably  filled,  when  a  well-dressed 
young  woman  entered  and  took  a  seat 
next  to  a  man.  Presently  she  leaned 
forward  and  began  to  tie  up  her  shoe­
lacing. 
It  proved  rather difficult  to  do 
with  her  gloves  on,  but  after a  while  the 
passengers  witnessing  the  performance 
saw  the  feat  accomplished  and  the 
lady 
sit  back,  calmly  gazing  out  of  the  win­
dow  as  if  “ she  was  always  tying  her 
shoe”   in  electric  cars.  At the  next  stop, 
the  man  beside  her arose  to  get  off,  but 
lo!  there  came  a  struggle,  and  then  hor­
ror  mutual  and  general.  The  two  were 
fastened,  not  exactly  hand  and  foot,  but 
shoe  and  shoe!  So  diligently  had  the 
lady  tied  the  knots  that  the 
lacing  had 
to  be  cut  by  a  ready  pocketknife  before 
the  couple  could  be  separated.  Blushes 
and  laughter,  embarrassment  and indig­
nation  were  rife, 
for  of  all  comical 
scenes  to  which  street  cars  are  subject 
this  was  one  of  the  drollest.

A ll  th e   Sam e.

During  an  encampment  of  the  Na­
tional  Guard  of  Pennsylvania  at  Mount 
Gretna  several  years  ago  a  party  of 
officers  went  out  for  a  stroll,  and,  hap­
pening  to  pass  a  farm  house  near  the 
encampment  grounds,  one  of  them  sug­
gested  stopping 
in  for a  glass  of milk. 
On  going  inside  the  yard  they  were  met 
by  the  farmer’s  daughter,  who  brought 
forth  a  can  of  buttermilk  and  some 
tumblers,  saying:
have. *’

“ This  is  the  only  kind  of  milk  we 

After  each  of  the  party  had  taken  a 

drink  one  of  them  remarked:

let  us  have  some  more?’ ’

“ By  George!  that’s  fine.  Can’t  you 
The  lass  replied:
“ Oh,  yes;  take  all  you  want.  We 

feed  it  to the  pigs  anyway.”

We  Challenge 

The  World
Hard  Pan  Shoes

To  produce a better shoe 
for  the  money than  our

W ear  Like  Iron

Every  inch  of  leather  in  these  shoes  is 
prime 
first  quality  stock.  The  upper 
leather we  have tanned especially for these 
shoes.  Everything  is  done  to  produce  a 
shoe  without  equal  for  wearing  qualities.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Makers of Shoes 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Now is the time 

to buy

The  methods  usually  employed 

Novel  Method of Sweeping a  Shoe  Store.
in 
sweeping  the  store  are  a  broom  or  brush 
on  a  dry  floor,  or on  floors  dampened  by 
sprinkling,  or  with  wet  sawdust.  An 
eminent  authority  shows  most  conclus­
ively  that  the  broom  is  one  of  the  most 
active  agents  against  the  well-being  of 
humanity.  The  experiments  were  of  a 
most  exhaustive  nature,  starting  out 
with  the  theory  that  bacteria  stay  sus­
pended  in  the  air.  They  or the  particles 
of  dust  to  which they are attached are too 
heavy  to  remain  long  afloat.

Germs  are  foreign  to  the  air,  as  a 
rule,  for  it does  not  furnish  them  enough 
moisture  or  organic  nutriment.  This 
would  brand wet sawdust sweeping  as  an 
element  of  life  to  bacteria.  The 
infer­
ence 
is  that  every  time  dust  is  stirred 
up  by  the  process  of  sweeping  with  the 
dry  broom.it  fills  the  air  with  obnoxious 
bacteria  and  death-dealing  germs.

A  few  of the  figures  arealarming:  In 
a  school  room  before  sweeping  600  bac­
teria  to  the  cubic  meter  of  air,  and after 
the  room  has  been  swept  over  18,000 
were  found  in  the  same  space.  Again, 
in  a  small  fiber  1%  inch  long,  taken 
from  a  cocoa  matting  of  a  railroad  car, 
2,000,000  were  found.  This  being  true 
of school  rooms  and  railroad  coaches,  it 
is  a  fair comparative  test  for  the  store 
room,  and  the  sweeping  is  a  most  im­
portant  matter.

A  few  suggestions 

in  regard  to  the 
deleterious  effects  of  dust,  or  rather  the 
effect  of  bacteria  carried  by  dust,  may 
not  be  inopportune,  and  we  quote  from 
an  eminent  authority  on  the  subject  as 
follows:  “ It  is  apparent  from  observa­
tion  that 
in  a  room  swept  by  the  old 
methods  a 
large  amount  of  dust  was 
raised  as  high  as  the  ceiling  of  the 
room,  and  that  this  dust  in  settling  will 
fall  on  the tops of the desks,  window cov­
erings  and  all  projecting 
ledges,  and 
that  the  removal  of  this  dirt  will  con­
sume  a  large  amount  of  time  on the part 
of  the  janitor,  or  in  event  of  his  failure 
to  do  this,currents  of  air  will  be  contin­
ually  sifting  the  dust  down  to  the  floor.
large  amount  of  dust  on  the 
floor 
is  constantly  stirred  up  by  the 
walking  of  the  people,  and  the  inhala­
tion  of a  large  amount  of  dust,  particu­
larly  when  laden  with  disease  germs,  is 
extremely  dangerous.  It  has  been  found 
that  diphtheria  germs  will become  dried 
on  particles  of  dust  and  will  remain vir­
ulent  in  this  condition  for a  long  time. 
It  is  well  known  that  the  tubercle  bacil­
lus,  when  dried,  retains 
its  infective 
properties  for  very 
long  periods,  and 
this  is  the  usual  way  in  which consump­
tion  is  contracted— i.  e.,  by  the 
inhala­
tion  of  dried  tubercle  bacilli.

“ The 

“ While  the  germs  of  scarlet  fever, 
measles,whooping  cough,  mumps,  small­
pox  and  chickenpox  have  not  been 
iso­
lated  and  their  exact  mode  of  distribu­
tion  studied,  it 
is  unquestionably  true 
that  the  above-mentioned  mode  of  dis­
semination  holds  good  to  a  greater  or 
less  degree  for these  diseases.”

Kerosene  oil  has  been  used  with  more 
or  less  success  in  sweeping  store  floors 
by  many  merchants.  There  is  no  ques­
tion  but  what  the  principle  is  right;  it 
kills  the  dust,  but  the  ordinary  method 
of dipping  the  broom  into  a  jar  or  pail 
partly  filled  with  oil,  or  saturating  an 
ordinary floor brush,  is wrong.  Dipping 
the  broom  always  results  in  more  or  less 
oil being scattered about the floor,  around 
the  pail  or  jar,  which  greatly 
increases 
the  chance  of  a  fire.  Furthermore,  it  is 
always  a  case  of  too  much  or  too  little 
oil;  so,  while  the  principle  is  right,  the  { 
method  ia  wrong.  A  number  pf  ordinary

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and  our prices are very low.

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Staples.

Staple  Cottons—Heavy  printed  sheet­
ings  and  drills  for  home  account  have 
found  a  moderate  business,  while  for 
export  there  is  very  little  attempt at  any 
sort  of  trading.  Prices  stand  practical­
ly  at  the 
last  quotations  and  there  is 
nothing  to  indicate  a  very  immediate 
change. 
Fine  printed  sheetings  are 
steady  and  quiet.  There  has  been  a 
slightly  better  call  for ducks  at  regular 
prices,  but  printed  osnaburgs  are  excep­
tionally  slow. 
In  bleached  cotton  there 
is  a  good  demand  for  cambric  finished 
goods,  but  outside  of  these  lines  there 
is 
little  worth  reporting.  Prices  show 
no  changes.  Wide  sheetings  are  dull 
and  cotton  flannels  also;  cotton  blankets 
however,  have  been  growing  firmer, 
while  in  coarse  colored  cotton  there 
is 
an  excellent  demand  for  denims,  al­
though  the  market  is pretty  well  sold  up 
and  other 
lines  are  quiet,  although 
stocks  are  pretty  generally  well  under 
control.

Prints  and Ginghams—The  conditions 
in  the  market  for  printed  calicoes  are 
practically  the  same  as we have  reported 
for  a  couple  of weeks past.  Indigo blues, 
Turkey  reds  and  mournings  and  other 
staples  have  shown  a  moderate  amount 
of  business  for  quick  delivery.  Light 
fancies  are  very  quiet.  In  regard  to  fall 
business,  buyers  are  showing  an  excep­
tional  amount  of  caution  and  apparently 
do  not  wish  to  commit  themselves  until 
prices  are  more  fully  determined  and 
the  attitude  of  the  seller  is  shown.  Fine 
printed  lines  for  this  season  show  a  fair 
business,  but  for  the  spring  of  1903  we 
receive  reports  of 
increased  trading. 
Dark  percales  and  printed napped goods 
are  in  good  request  for  fall.  Plain  do- 
mets  are  steady  and  fancy  woven  fab­
rics  are  in  good  request.  Staple  ging­
hams  are  pretty  well  sold  up  now  and 
orders  are  being  turned  down.  Dress 
specialties  are  also  reported  as  being  in 
excellent 
Practically  all 
woven  patterned  goods  for  next fall have 
secured  a  satisfactory  amount  of  busi­
ness.

condition. 

Linings— The 

lining  trade  shows  a 
very  moderate  demand  for  present  re­
quirements  to  something  better  for the 
fall.  The  general  market  has  ruled 
quiet  during  the  past  week  and  the  de­
mand  has  been  light  for  all  descriptions 
of  staples,  both  from  the  jobbing  and 
manufacturing  trades, but  for  mercerized 
and  allied  finishes  there  has  been  a  bet­
ter  business  transacted.

Dress  Goods—The  initial  dress  goods 
market  continues  quietly  situated,  the

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trade 

orders  coming  forward  from  jobbers  and 
garment  makers  being  of  a modest  char­
acter both  individually  and  collectively. 
The  jobber  has  apparently  proceeded  as 
far  with  the  provision  for  his  fall  re­
quirements  as  be  feels  justified  in  do­
ing;  in  some  directions  he  is  not  meet­
ing  with  the  success  in  securing  fall  or­
ders  that he  has  hoped for;  in fact,  aside 
from  the  Western  States  the  accomplish­
ments  of  the 
jobbers’  salesmen  in  the 
way  of  fall  orders  have  so  far  been  of  a 
rather  disappointing  character.  Over 
a  considerable  portion  of  the  country, 
including  a  number  of  the  important  re­
tail  centers,  business 
is  of  a  backward 
character;  the  jobber  has  found  the  re­
tail 
in  a  rather  unresponsive 
mood;  not  having  enjoyed  as  brisk  a 
spring  trade  as  he  had  hoped  for,  the 
into  his 
retailer  has  apparently  retired 
shell  and  is,  therefore,  a  difficult 
indi­
vidual  to  do  fall  business  with.  June,  it 
is  hoped,  will  give  an  impetus  to  the 
spring  retail  trade  and  thus  improve  the 
mood  and  add  to  the  confidence  of  the 
retailer.  It is  apparently futile,  however, 
to  expect  the  Eastern  retail trade to give 
much  consideration  to  his  fall  require­
ments  until  he  has  been  able  to  make 
greater  inroads  on  his  lightweight  stock 
than  has  so  far  been  possible. 
In  the 
West  and  Northwestern  States  the  re­
tailer  has  shown  a  willingness  to  place 
some  very  fair orders  for  fall  goods with 
the  jobber,  and  such  duplicate  orders 
on  fall  fabrics  as  have  reached  the 
in­
itial  fabric  market  have  come  from  the 
Western  trade  principally.  They  have 
included  such  goods  as  broadcloths 
in 
medium  and  better  grades,  cheviots, 
cashmeres  and  other  piece  dye  effects. 
There  are  evidences  that  are  favorable 
to  such  medium  weight  goods  as  prun­
ellas,  soleils,  etc.  Mohair  and  zibeline 
effects  have  been  taken  to  a  fair  extent 
by  the  high  class  trade,  and  the  same  is 
true  of  sheer  goods  of  the  character  of 
the  etamine,  etc.  On  a  number of  lines 
of  fine  foreign  dress  goods  an  advance 
in  price  of  about  10  per  cent,  has  been 
announced  by  agents,  the  reason  given 
being  the  increased  cost  of  fine wools  on 
the  other  side  of  the  water.  There  is 
a  steady  demand  of  modest  volume  for 
immediate  uses  for  such  goods  as  eta- 
mines,  mohairs,  grenadines,  mistrals, 
etc.,  so  jobbers  report,  which  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  retailers'  holdings 
of  such  goods  in  certain  directions  are 
apparently  none  too  large.
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Batter  and  Eggs

W aterg lass th e  M ost S atisfactory P rese rv a ­

tiv e.

The  Rhode  Island  Station  has  been 
making  some  experiments  in  the  pres­
ervation  of  eggs.  For  this  purpose  va­
rious  sample  lots  of  fertile  and  infertile 
in  preparations  of 
eggs  were  placed 
waterglass,  dry  table  salt, 
limewater 
and  salt  brine,  vaseline,  ashes, gypsum, 
powdered  sulphur  and  sulphur  fumes, 
permanganate  of  potash,  salicylic  acid 
and  salt  brine.

“ Of  the  different  methods  tested  in 
this  series  of  experiments,“   the  Station 
reports,  “ the  old  way  of  using  slaked 
lime  and  salt  brine  proved  to  be  very 
effectual,  and  has  the  advantage  of  be­
ing  inexpensive. 
It  is  also  not  difficult 
to  practice.  For  a  period  of a few weeks 
only,  smearing  the  eggs  with  vaseline 
may  prove  an  effectual  method  of  pres­
ervation. 
In  the  place  of  vaseline  al­
most  any  clean,  greasy  substance  may 
be  used.  For a  period  of  a  few  months 
only,  packing in  dry  table  salt  is  worthy 
of  recommendation.  Of  all  the  sub­
stances  experimented  with,  the  water- 
glass  solution  proved  most  worthy  of 
commendation.  The experiments showed 
that  the  waterglass  solution  could  be  re­
duced  to  3  per  cent,  and  still  retain  its 
preserving  quality. 
It  can  be  obtained 
at  most  druggists  at  from  40 to  60c  per 
gallon,  easily  manipulated  and  the  so­
lution  may  be  repeatedly  used.  The 
eggs  should  be  completely  immersed  in 
the  solution,  and 
if  any  eggs  float,  an 
inner  cover  which  will  sink  them  below 
the surface  of  the  liquid  should  be  used. 
In  several  tests  where  the  eggs  were 
placed 
jars,  inverted  saucers 
were  used  for  this purpose.  The expense 
for  the  water glass  at  even  60c  per  gal­
lon  would  amount  to  about  two-thirds  of 
a  cent  for  a  dozen  eggs.  Of  course,  this 
does  not  include  the  expense  of  the 
jar 
or  other  receptacles,  which  may  be  of 
stoneware,  glass  or  even  wood— Mass­
achusetts  Ploughman

in  sone 

O bservations  by   a  G o th am   E gg  M an.
I  notice  by  a  newspaper  report  that 
the  Italian  egg  producers  find  them­
selves  in  about  the  same  position  as 
did  our  Canadian  neighbors  when  the 
tariff  was  first  placed  on  foreign  eggs 
in  this  country. 
It  seems  that Germany 
has  increased  import  duties  materially 
and  that  Italy,  whence  a  large  part  of 
the  German  imports  are  drawn,  is likely 
to  suffer a  material  decrease  in  export 
business  unless  other  channels  of  outlet 
can be found.  Probably,  like  the  Cana­
dians,  they  will  turn  to  England,  which 
seems  to  b:  the  mecca of all surplus food 
products.

*  *  *

The  London  Dairy  contains  the  fol­
still  another 

lowing  description  of 
method  of  egg  preservation :

The  method  of  egg  preservation  pat­
ented  by  Mr.  C.  Aufsberg,  of  Wies­
baden,  consists  in  first  killing  all  the 
germs  on  the  shell,  and  then  closing  the 
pores  so  as  to  prevent  any  others  from 
afterwards  finding  their  way  to  the 
in­
side  of  the  shell.  These  objects  are  se­
cured  together  in  this  method  by  im­
mersing  the  egg  in  a  hot  solution'  con­
taining  from  15  to  25  per  cent,  of  sul­
phate  of  magnesia  and 
per  cent,  of 
sulphate  of  lime,  fora  time  not  exceed­
ing  five  seconds,  so  as  not  to  coagulate 
the  white  of  the  egg,  and  then  immedi­
ately  transferring  it  to  a  cold  solution of 
waterglass. 
The  pores  then  become 
hermetically  sealed  by  the  silicates  of 
magnesia  and  lime.  The  eggs  so treated 
may  be  boiled  without  first  pricking 
them,  a  precaution  necessary  wit!)  eggs 
preserved  in  waterglass  only.

“ Never 

lots  come 

carefully  packed 

in  all  my  experience,”   said 
an  egg  receiver,  “ have  I  had  so  much 
trouble  with 
consignments  of  eggs 
reaching  us  in  bad  condition."  When 
asked  as  to  the  apparent  cause  of the 
trouble  he  said:  “ I  am  at  a  loss  to  ex­
plain  it;  we  are  getting  shipments  from 
many  different  sections  and  by  different 
routes  in  which  there  is  serious  break­
age  and 
it  does  not  seem  to  be  due  to 
the  packing  altogether  because  some 
very 
in 
layers  badly  broken  and 
with  the  top 
this  would  indicate  careless  handling  in 
I think  there  is  no  doubt  that 
transit.”  
breakage  often  occurs 
from  careless 
handling 
in  loading  and  unloading  the 
cars,  but  in  most  cases  where  my  atten­
tion  had  been  called  to  definite 
lots  of 
eggs  arriving  broken  there  is some other 
reason  sufficient  to  explain  it.  Poor, 
weak  cases  whether  new  or  old,  weak, 
flimsy  fillers  and  a  failure  to  secure  the 
contents  of  the  case  by  a  sufficient 
amount  of  packing  on  top  and  bottom 
are  the  most  prolific  causes  of  damage. 
A 
little  money  saved  by  buying  cheap 
egg  cases  or  fillers  is  likely  to  be  lost 
over  and  over  again  by  breakage.  And 
the  loss  is  not  only  in  the  broken  eggs; 
at  this  season  of  year  when  the*  weather 
is  warm  a  few  smashed  eggs  in  a  case 
reach  a  vile  state  of  odor quickly  and 
this permeates  the  whole case and  drives 
buyers  away except at cut  prices.  Cheap 
cases  and  fillers,  if  weak  are  no  econ­
omy,  and  the  greatest  care  should  be 
taken  to  put  enough  excelsior  on  top 
and  bottom  so  that  the  cover  when 
nailed  on  will  draw  down  tightly  and 
prevent  the  slightest  shifting of  the  con­
tents.  Very often the  fillers  do  not  fit  the 
case  sideways;  it 
is best  to  buy  fillers 
and  cases  that  fit  perfectly,  but  when  it 
happens  that  the  fillers  are  not  a  close 
fit  a 
little  excelsior  should  be  put  into 
the  open  space.  Packers  should  expect 
their  goods  to  pass  through  some  care­
less  hands  and  take  every  precaution 
to  avoid  consequent  loss.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

On io n -F lav o red   B a tte r.

Much  of  the  butter  in  the  market  this 
week  was  full  grass  and  considerable  of 
it  was  good  enough  to  store.  A  line 
that  was  being  offered  in  one  of  the  cel­
lars  was  objected  to  by  buyers  because 
it  showed  the  flavor  of  “ wild  onion.”  
“ I  guess,”   said  the  salesman,  “ we  will 
have  to  send  this 
line  to  the  coolers.
I  remember  last  year that  we  had  the 
same  trouble  with  this  creamery.  The 
first  of  the  grass  butter  showed 
the 
‘ onion  flavor,’  and  we  put  it  in  storage 
rather than take  a  loss on  it by forcing  it 
on  sale.  When  that  butter  came  out 
of  storage  no  one  could  discover the 
‘ onions.*  The  cold  had  removed  the 
bad  flavor.  We  will  probably  have  to 
do  the  same  thing  this  year.  And  I’m 
sure,  if  we  do,  the  line  will  come  out of 
in  good  shape  and  minus  the 
storage 
onions.” —Chicago  Dairy  Produce.

A n o th e r  New  C ereal  N ovelty.

The  Meat  Trust’s  grasp  on  the  people 
may  be  broken  by  Eugene  Barney,  of 
Kalamazoo,  who  has  perfected  a  substi­
tute  for  meat  which 
is  made  entirely 
from  cereals.  The  new  product  looks 
like  pressed  beef,  tastes  like  chicken  or 
veal  loaf,  and  can  be  fried,  boiled  or 
prepared 
in  any  way  that  meat  can. 
The  product  can  be  manufactured  at  a 
nominal  cost,  and  is  alleged  to  contain 
25  per  cent,  more  nourishment  than 
meat.  Mr.  Barney,  the  inventor,  is  the 
foreman  of  the  steel  rolling  plant  of  the 
Harrow  Spring  Co.  and  has  been  exper­
imenting  for  four  years  to  perfects  food 
to  take  the  place  of  meat.  The  product 
has no  semblance  to  any  of  the  health 
foods on  the  market.

SEND  YOUR

BUTTER  AND  EGOS

TO

GRAND  RAPIDS

And receive highest prices and quick returns.

C.  D.  CRITTENDEN,  98  South  Division  Street

Successor  to  C.  H.  Libby 

Both  Phones  1300

EGGS  WANTED

We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and  when  you  have  any  to  offer 

write for prices or call  us up by phone if we fail to quote you.

Butter

We can handle all you  send us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Citizens Phone 323a.

WE  GUARANTEE

Our Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE JUICE VIN­
EGAR.  To anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find any deleterious 
adds, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit

ONE

We also guarantee  it  to be  of  full  strength  as  required  by law.  V e  will 
prosecute  any person found using  our  packages for cider or  vinegar without  first 
removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

Benton Harbor,A\ichigan.

J . ROBINSON, ManagenS E E D S
S E E D S

CLOVER,  TIMOTHY,  FIELD  PEAS

M O S ELEY   BR O S.,  GRAND  RAPID S.  MICH.

Send us your orders for seeds.  Fill promptly.

26-2 8 -3 0 -3 2   OTTAWA  ST.

Our Cash—Your Eggs

W e  will  buy  EGG S  outright.  Not on 
Commission.  Any  sized  lot.  Name 
your  Lowest  Price,  F.  O.  B.  Boston.

THE  GINTER  GROCERY  CO.

BOSTON,  MASS.

Beferences:  Bradstreet’s and Dun’s. Faneuil  Hall  N at’l Bank,  International  Trust  Co

JACOB  HOEHN,  J» .

Established  1864

MAX  MAYES

HOEHN  &  MAYER 

Produce  Commission  Merchants

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

SPECIALTIES:

DRESSED  POULTRY,  GAME  AND  EGOS

Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicite.

Beferences—Irving National Bank, New York County National

C laim s  T h ere  Is   No  F o u n d atio n   F o r  th e  

C harge.

As  a  buyer  of  live  stock  for  export  at 
the  Chicago  market  during  a  greater 
portion  of  more  than  a  quarter of a  cen­
tury,  I  have  had  no  direct  business  in­
terest  with  the  Chicago  packers  against 
whom  the  Government  investigation  is 
now  pending.  I  do  not  speak  in  the  de­
fense  of  these  packers,  but  as  President 
of  the  Chicago  Live  Stock  Exchange  I 
take  this  opportunity to  explain  the  true 
condition  of  the  case  and to point  to  the 
fact  that  farmers  and  producers  of  cat­
tle  and 
live  stock  the  country  over are 
the  ones  who  must  suffer  most  severely 
from  the  present agitation.  The original 
charges  were  that  the  prices  for  beef 
had  been  forced  far  above  their  legiti­
mate  level  by  a  combination  of  the 
packers. 
It  has  later  been  charged  that 
farmers  and  feeders  have  made  enor­
mous  profits  upon  cattle  that  have  been 
fed  this  winter.  From  my  standpoint 
as  an  observer  of  conditions  and  an  ac­
tive  participant 
in  the  fluctuations  of 
this  market  from  various causes,  includ­
ing  corn  famines  and  burned-up  pas­
tures,  with  attending  high  prices,  and 
over-stocked  conditions  of  farms  and 
ranges  and  burdensome  crops  of  corn 
and  fodder,  with  very  low  prices,  I  de­
clare  with  all  possible  emphasis  that 
there  is no  foundation  for these  charges.
Had  the  farmers  and  feeders  failed  to 
receive  high  prices  for all classes  of  live 
stock  produced  from  fattening  foods  at 
the  highest  cost  ever  known  by  many  of 
them,  it  would  have  meant  disastrous 
losses  to  the  agricultural 
interests  all 
over  the  country.  Present  prices  for 
cattle,  which  are  the  highest  here  in  al­
most  twenty  years,  are  showing  only 
moderate  profits  to  the  farmers who have 
produced  them  on  corn  at  a  cost  of  60 
cents  or  more  a  bushel.  The  light  aver­
age  weight  of  cattle  at  this  market, 
which  for  April  this  year  showed  more 
than  ioo  pounds  a  head  below  the  aver­
age  of  the  same  month  last year,tells  the 
story  of  scarcity  of  feed  and  a  cost  so 
high  that  many  fed  it  too  sparingly  to 
produce  cattle  of  good  weight  and  qual­
ity. 
In  some  sections  of  the  country 
that  ordinarily  produce  large  quantities 
of  fat  cattle,  the  drought  of  last  sum­
mer  was  so  severe  that  not  even  rough 
fodder  enough  was  produced  to  keep 
„attle  at  reasonable  cost.  Thousands  of 
regular  feeders  of  cattle  held  out  of  the 
business  this  year,  and  other  big  feed­
ers  curtailed  their  operations  to  less 
tnan  half  the  volume  of  former  years.

Cattle 

in  great  numbers  have  come 
here  thin  and  light,  and  have  not  pro­
duced  sufficient  beef  to  satisfy  the  most 
enormous  and  urgent  demand  that  the 
history  of  this  country  has  known.  Had 
the  foreign  demand  for  our  cattle  been 
as  great  as  usual,  prices  would  have 
been  forced  to  a  much  higher  range 
than  they  have  yet  reached.  It  has  been 
a  case  of  the  most  imperative  demand 
for  beef 
from  American  consumers 
month  after  month,  with  cattle  coming 
here  to  supply  it  in  condition  that made 
hardly  80  per  cent,  of  beef  that  that 
number  would  have  made  in  a  year  of 
plentiful  supply  of  corn  and  other  fat­
tening  foods. 
It  would  have  been  a 
physical  impossibility  for any  combina­
tion  of  packers  to  have  forced  the prices 
of  meats  to  the  high  level  of  the  last 
few  weeks  had  not  there  been  a  general 
demand  to  consume 
it  readily  at  the 
prices.  History  will  show  that  each 
year  a  shortage  of  corn  has  been  at­
tended  with  high  prices  for  cattle,  as  in 
1882,  when  corn  sold  up  to  81 yi  cents 
and  cattle  as  high  as $9.30 per hundred­

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

17

E G G S !

W e  have  ample  cold  storage  facilities  in  our  building  for 
taking care  of large  quantities  of  eggs. 
Immediately  upon  ar­
rival  the  eggs  are  placed  in  this  cold  storage  where  they  remain 
until  sold,  consequently  do  not  deteriorate  while  awaiting  sale. 
For  this  service  we  make  no  charge  to  shippers.  Ship  us  your 
eggs  and  we  will  give you  entire  satisfaction.

HILTON  Sl  ALDRICH  CO.

39   SOUTH  M ARKET  S T R E E T  

BOSTON

^  r * / " »  ¥  T
v J  

|~ 7   The  opportunity  to  establish  satisfactory  and 

profitable business connections, by shipping your

E G G S   A N D   B U T T E R

----- TO -----

Established  1850. 

LLOYD  I.  SEAMAN  &  CO.

148  READE  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY

HENRY  J.  RAHE

.. Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry..

56  W est  Market  and  135  Michigan  Sts.,  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 
the highest  market  price.

weight.  The  American  farmer  is  en­
titled  to  a  reward  for his  labor  and  in­
vestment  this  year  in  producing  beef 
and  other  meats  to  feed  the  millions  of 
people  that  have  been  clamoring  for  it 
even  at  the  high  price  at  which  it  has 
been  sold  for,  these  prices  show  him  no 
unreasonable  profits.  For the  encourage­
ment  of  the  farmers  and  feeders  of  live 
stock  the 
investigation  of  this  matter 
should  be  handled  with  caution  and 
consideration  to  minimize the damaging 
effect  on  business 
in  general,  and  the 
public  mind  should  not  be  inflamed  by 
wild-eyed  charges  for  which  there  is  no 
more  than  very  doubtful  foundation.

cattle 

Regarding  the  recent  high  prices  of 
American 
in  foreign  markets, 
which  are  about  the  highest  paid  there 
during  the  last  ten  years,  it may  be  said 
that  these  prices,  at  the  relatively  high 
cost  of  cattle  here,  show  very  narrow 
and  uncertain  profits  to  the  exporters. 
The  best  export  cattle  have  been  bought 
here  recently  at  $7  per  hundredweight, 
and 
it  requires  very  close  to  15  cents 
per  pound  dressed  weight  to  show  safe 
returns 
in  the  London  or  Liverpool 
markets.  Some  of  our  experts  on  this 
side  of  the  water  figure  out  about  $20 as 
the  expense  of  sending  across  a  1,400- 
pound  steer  at  this  time  and  converting 
him 
into  dressed  beef,  forming  about 
57  per  cent,  of his  live  weight.  Fifteen 
cents  per  pound  is  as  high  as  any  regu­
lar  sales  have  been made there this year. 
The  cost  of the  prime  i,4ro-poound  ex­
port  steer  here  this  week  has  been  not 
less  than  $7  per hundredweight.  A  drop 
of  %  cent 
in  the  British  market  for 
dressed  beef  means  a  cut  of  almost  $4 
per  head  in  the  price  of  the  1,400-pound 
animal.  Figure  it  out  for  yourself,  and 
find 
if  you  can  the  great  and  mysteri­
ous  profits  the  exporters  are  supposed 
to  be  making.

result 

in  bountiful  crops, 

Some  cheapening  of  cattle  prices  may 
be  expected  when  grass  cattle  begin  to 
move,  but  unless  the  present  agitation 
results 
in  a  permanent  curtailment  in 
the  consumption  of  beef  in  some  such 
proportion  as  that  noted  here  during  the 
last  two  weeks,  the  supply  of  good  beef 
cattle  throughout  the  summer  is  likely 
to  be  relatively  small  enough  to  hold 
prices  above  the  level  of  recent  years. 
But  the  great  hope  of  all  concerned  in 
the  business  is  that  a  favorable  season 
will 
from 
which  cheaper  beef  may  be  produced 
for  the  people  of  this  and  other  coun­
tries.  Mr.  Poels,  one  of  the  great  for­
eign  exporters  of  sheep  and  cattle,  re­
cently  told  me  that  were  the  American 
people  to  adopt  the  plan  of  a  great  por­
tion  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Europe  and 
be  satisfied  with  meat  once  a  day,  or 
even  once  or  twice  a  week,  it  would  not 
take  long  for  the  supply  to  overtake  the 
demand.  With  a  hig,generous  corn  crop 
the  coming  season,  that  will  give  the 
farmers  and  feeders  plenty  of  30-cent 
corn  to  feed  next  winter,  prices  for cat­
tle  may  be  forced  down  considerably 
from  their  present  level,  and  without 
serious  injury  to  the  agricultural  inter­
ests,  which  are  most  vital  to  the  general 
prosperity  of  the  country.

President Chicago Live Stock Exchange.

Levi  B.  Doud,

Australia  has  become  an  important 
exporter of  butter  and  other dairy  prod­
ucts.  The  province  of  Victoria  alone 
exported  to  Great  Britain  in  1889-1900 
17,000  tons  of  butter,  representing  a 
value  of  $8,000,000.  The  butter  export 
of  Victoria  was  369 tons  in  1889  and  759 
tons  in  1890.  For the  last  ten  years  the 
export  has  been  not  less  than  80,000 
tons,

The New York Market

S pecial  F e a tu re s  o f th e  G rocery a n d  P ro d - 

Special Correspondence.

nee  T rades.

New  York,  June  7— Quite  a 

fair 
amount  of  business  bas  been  done  in 
coffee,  but  the general  situation  does  not 
improve  with  a  few  sales.  Supplies 
continue  large  and  the  crop  receipts  at 
Rio  and  Santos  since  July  1  of  last  year 
now  aggregate  14,856,000  bags,  against 
10,433,000  bags  during  the  same  time 
last  year, and  8,651,000  bags  at  the  same 
time  the  previous  season,  so  that  within 
three  years  the  crop  has  grown  almost 
80  per  cent. 
In  store  and  afloat  there 
are  2,522,820  bags,  against  1,208,655 
bags  last  year— an  increase  of  over  100 
per  cent.  At  the  close 
in  an  invoice 
way  Rio  No.  7  is  quotable  at5f£c.  Mild 
sorts  are  selling  in  about  the  customary 
way,  with  supplies  not  especially 
large 
and  quotations  steady.  Good  Cucuta,

Japan  teas  remain  firm  at  22@27c  in 
bona  Old  Japans  are  also  doing  a  little 
better,  but,  aside  from  these,  the outlook 
is  not  especially  encouraging  for  the 
seller.  Indias,  especially,  are  quiet.

The  season  has  so  far  advanced  that 
the  purchase  of  sugar  can  no  longer  be
[>ut  off  and  the  business  that has  been  so 
ong  looked  for seems  to  be  on  the  way. 
Some  purchases  have  been made that  in­
dicate  the  taking  of  supplies  at  least  a 
few  days  ahead  of  current  wants.  Prices 
are  about  unchanged.
There  has  been  a  fair  demand  for 
rice  all  the  week  and  sellers  seem  to  be 
* quite  encouraged.  Quotations  are  prac­
tically  without  change.

There 

is  no  special  change  to  note  in 
spices.  The  demand 
is,  perhaps,  as 
active  as  might  be  expected  at  this  sea­
son  and  pepper,  according  to  its  statis­
tical  position,  ought  to  show  some  ad­
vance.  Cloves  and  nutmegs  are  quiet.
Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are  selling 
slowly  and  quotations  show  no  appreci­
is  not  over 
able  change.  The  supply 
abundant.  There 
is  a  steady  average 
call  for  medium  sorts  of  syrups  at  un­
changed  rates.  Good  to  prime,  i8@22c ; 
fancy  stock  will  bring  28@30c.
The  canned  goods  market  is  active 
and  salmon  and  spot  tomatoes  are  espe­
cially  “ solid.”   The 
latter  are  worth 
$1.3031.35  for Jersey 3s,  and  some  quite 
large  sales  of  Canada  goods  have  been 
made  at  almost  the  same  figures.  The 
chances  are  that  the  remainder  of  the 
Canada  goods  will  go  to $1.40 and,  pos­
sibly,  more.  Reports  of  the  pack  now 
going  on  in  Maryland  are  all  very  fa­
vorable.  The  pack  of  peas  will  be  of 
excellent  quality  and  the  output  will  be 
quite 
indicates  a 
profitable  year  for  the  “ man  behind  the 
can.”
little  change 
Prunes  are  doing  well,  owing  to  some 
trading  in  an  export  way.  Aside  from 
this  the  demand  is  of  thé  usual  sort.

large.  Everything 

Dried 

fruits 

show 

Lemons,  oranges,  bananas,  pineapples 
—the  whole 
line  of  foreign  fruits,  in 
fact— are  selling  well  and  lemons  show 
some  advance,  Sicily  ranging  from $2.75 
@4.25.  California  navel  oranges,  $3.50 
up  to $6.50.  Bananas,  Aspinwalls,  per 
bunch,  $1.2031.25.
Butter  is  firm.  Arrivals  are  easily 
taken  care  of  and  the  market  is  in  sell 
er*s favor.  Best Western creamery, 22 'Ac 
seconds  to  firsts,  20)é@22c;  imitation 
creamery,  I7jé@20j£c;  Western factory 
17319c.
Full  cream  cheese  is  worth  gA@ ioc 
for colored ;  white,  A c  more.  The  mar 
ket  is  steady.  The  demand  and  supply 
are  about  equal.
Eggs  are  rather  quiet,  and  yet  prices 
are  well  sustained.  Western  fresh  gath 
ered,  firsts,  18c;  fair to good,  I7@i7>£c 
regular  pack,  i 6@ i 6>^c.
A n o th e r  C o-operative  S tore  in   New  E n g ­

lan d .

The  movement 

inaugurated  several 
weeks  ago  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  for  the 
establishment  of  a  co-operative  store 
promises  immediate  results.  The  offic 
ers  of  the  Co-operative  Association 
which  is  organized  for the  extension  of 
co-operative  stores  in  Massachusetts  un­
der  the  Bradford  Peck system  which  has

trade 

conditions 

in 
revolutionized 
Lewiston,  Me.,  propose  to  establish  *a 
large  central  depot  in  Boston,  and  from 
that  point  goods  will  be  distributed  at 
manufacturing  prices  to  the  local  stores 
wherever  established.  Already  one  as­
sociation  has  been  organized  in Quincy, 
and  Somerville  has also  been  selected  as 
a  base  of  immediate  operations.  Pre­
liminary  negotiations  are  in  progress 
with  one  of  the  largest  grocery  concerns 
at  Union  Square  for  the  purchase  of  its 
entire  stock  and  business. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  the  terms  will  be  arranged 
this  week,  and  that  an  option for  a short 
time  on  the  business  will  be secured and 
the  work  of  securing  400  subscribers  to 
the 
co-operative  fund  will  be  com­
menced.  Each subscriber will  contribute 
$10 to  the  co-operative fund  and  will  re­
ceive  a  dividend  or  rebate  amounting  to 
proportionate  share  of  the  profits 
every  six  months.  To  become  a  pur­
chasing  member  a  $10  investment  is  re­
quired,  and  an  admission  fee  of  $1.  The 
member  will  receive  5  per  cent,  interest 
on  this  $10  investment  besides  his semi­
annual  rebates  or  dividends on his or her 
purchases  at  the  stores.  This  $10 invest­
ment  may  be  paid  at  once  in  full  or  by 
installments,  according  to  the  agree­
ment  with  the  agent,  but  with  the  un­
derstanding  that  interest  will  not  begin 
until  the  $10  investment  has  been  fully 
paid 
in.  The  $10  investment  may  be 
withdrawn  at  any  time  in  merchandise. 
Members  may 
invest  more  than  $10 at 
5  per  cent,  interest,  with  the  consent  of 
the  association.
C a lifo rn ia   G rocers  B a y in g   S u g ar  D irect.
California  retail  grocers  can  now  buy 
sugar  from  the  refinery.  The  California 
&  Hawaiian  Sugar  Refining  Co.  has 
been  selling  direct  to  the  trade  through 
its  local  agent.  While the  sales  through 
the  agency  have  as  yet  been  compara­
light  by  reason  of  such  heavy 
tively 
stocks  being 
purchased  during  the 
period  of  price  cutting,  many  dealers 
aver  that  they  propose  taking  advan­
tage  of  the  direct  buying,  as  the  local 
agency  carries  stock 
in  Portland,  and 
the  differential  means  much  to  a  re­
tailer.  The  California  &  Hawaiian  Re­
finery 
is  fighting  the  Trust  refineries, 
and 
in  thus  selling  direct  to  the  trade 
at  refinery  prices  hopes  to  offset  the  ad­
vantage  gained  by  the  Trust’s  combina­
tion  with  the  jobbers.  With  the  excep­
tion  of  one  firm, .the  wholesale  houses in 
Portland  buy  exclusively  of  the  Trust, 
and  the  retaliatory  measure  adopted  by 
the  California  &  Hawaiia  people of sell 
ing  direct  is  expected  to  weaken  the 
combination  and  throw  much  of  the 
trade  to  the  local  agent,  as  the  differen 
tial  is  a  strong  inducement  to  retailers, 
especially 
in  the  matter  of  sugar,  on 
which  there  is  so  small  a  margin  of 
profit._____________________
3 8   H I G H E S T   A W A R D S  
in   E u r o p e   a n d   A m e r ic a

Walter Baker & Go.’s
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE

-A N D -

Their preparations are  put  up 
in  conformity  to  the  Pure 
Food Laws of all the States. 
Grocers will  find  them  in  the 
long run the most profitable to 
handle, as  they are  absolutely' 
pure  and  of  uniform  quality. 
In  writing  your 
If 
order  specify  Walter  Baker  &  Co.’s  goods. 
O TH ER  goods are substituted, please let us know.

Trade-mark 

W alter  Baker  &  Co.  Ltd

DORCHESTER,  MASS. 
E s t a b l i s h e d   1 7 8 0

EGGS

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

Q. M. Lamb & Bro.

301  Exchange Place, 
corner South Street, 

BALTIMORE,  Md. 

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Butter

I  alw ays 
w an t  it.

E. F.  Dudley

Owosso, Mich.

PINEAPPLES

Are now In great demand owing to the scarcity of  other  fruits.  The  supply  of  this  de­
licious fruit Is larger and prices lower than in several years.  We are the largest receivers 
In this market.  Send us liberal orders.  We are  headquarters  for  New  Cabbage,  New 
Potatoes, Tomatoes and all home grown and Southern garden truck.

T H E  VIN KEM U LD ER  COM PANY

14  AND  16  O TTAW A  S T *. 

G RA N D   R A P ID 8 .  M ICH.

BUTTER  AND  EGCS

SH IP   Y O U R

-TO-

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT. MICH., 
and  be  sure  of  getting  the  Highest  Market  Price.

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

1 9

W oes  o f th e   G rocer  W ho  W as Too T en d er 

H earted .

Unfortunate,  indeed,  is  the  merchant 

with  a  tender  heart.

Nine  chances  out  of  ten  he  won’t  be 

a  good  business  man.

He’ll  be  buncoed  right  and  left  by 
people  whose  great  specialty  is  pushing 
tender  hearts  along.

He  won’t  be  able  to  steel  himself 
against  tales  of  woe  that  ring  brassy 
and  false  to  men  of  less  tender  hearts.
The  best  illustration  of this  is  a  gro­
cer  whom  I  have  known  well  for  years. 
He 
is  a  genial,  whole-souled  fellow 
with  unlimited  capacities  for  getting 
business,  but very limited  capacities  for 
keeping  bad  debts  down.

This  fellow  was  first  a  railroad  con­
ductor.  He tired  of  the  road  and  wanted 
to  settle  down,  so  he  started a  little  gro­
cery  store  on  a  side  street  in  a  small 
inland  town.

Well,  as  I  say,  the fellow  was  general­
ly 
liked.  His  manners  were  pleasant, 
he  was  obliging  and,  above  all,  was  a 
hustler.  He  began  to  do  business  right 
away.

Things  went  along  all  right  with  him 
until  his  trade  outgrew  his  first  little 
store  and  then  he  moved  uptown  and 
took  a  place  about  three  times  as  large. 
Business  prospered  here,  too,  for  he 
took  the  most  of  his  old  trade  with  him 
and  soon  got  a  lot  of  new.

His  bad  debts  grew  just  as  fast  as  his 
business— if  not  faster.  The man  simply 
couldn’t  refuse  anybody  credit.  The 
worst  old  fakes 
in  the  town— people 
whom  every  boy  knew  were  deadbeats— 
would  go  to  Jim  and  get  a  big  order  of 
goods.  Why,  the  mere  labor  of  putting 
them  down  in  the  daybook  was  wasted, 
for  be  would  never  get  a  cent.

Just  to  show  the  man’s  temperament, 
in 

1  will  recite  a  colloquy  that  1  heard 
his  store  once.

An  old  colored  woman  came  in,  and 

bowed  and  scraped  before  him.

’ ’ Well,  Mandy,  what’s  the  matter  to­

day?”   he  asked.

”   'Deed,  boss, 
shuah!”   she  said.

puff’s  de  matter, 

Then  the  old  mammy  went  on  to  tell 
a  bad-luck  story.  Her  old  man,  who 
worked  around  a  foundry,  had  the  rheu- 
matiz  so  bad  he  had  to  lay  off.  She  her­
self  could  have  gotten  washing  to  do  if 
she  hadn’t  bad  a  bone  felon  on  her 
hand,  and  she  held  up  a  bandaged 
finger  to  prove  it.

She 

To  make  a  long  story  short,  the  old 
lady  wanted  to  buy  some  groceries  on 
credit.  She  would  be  sure  to  pay  for 
them  as  soon  as  her  old  man  went  back 
to  work,  which  she  thought  would  be 
next  Monday. 
“ Gard 
A ’ mighty”   to  witness  that  she  was  tell­
ing  the  truth.

called 

The  grocer listened  as attentively as  if 
some  lawyer  had  been  telling  him  that 
somebody  had  just  left  him  a  thousand 
dollars.  Then  he  ordered  a  clerk  to  get 
her  the  goods.

The  clerk  went  about  it  so  sullenly 
that  when  he  came  back  to  where  I  was 
to  get  a  mackerel  I  said:

“ You  don’t  seem  to  relish  your  job.”
‘ ‘ By  gad!”   he  said,  ‘ ‘ that  man  ought 
to  have  a  guardian!  Why  that  old  nig­
ger 
in  town! 
She’s  beat  everybody,  and  she’ll  beat 
us.  He  knows  it,  too!  Gad!  I  believe 
he’s  the  easiest  mark  on  earth!”

is  the  worst  dead  beat 

That  was  my  friend  Jim,  by  one  of 
his clerks.  He couldn’t  help  it—he  was 
naturally  born  open-hearted.  Go  into 
his  store  with  any  kind  of  an  old  story 
and  Jim  would  swallow  it  without wink­

ing.  You  can  easily  imagine  the  con­
dition  of  his  ledger.

Jim  stayed 

in  bis  uptown  store  for 
about  three  years  and  bis  books  got  so 
clogged  up  with  bad  debts  that  he  had 
to  do  something.  He  stubbornly  refused 
to  sue  anybody,  because  he  said  it  was 
his  own  fault— he  shouldn’t have  trusted 
'em.  All  of  which  was  true,  but  the 
lesson  didn’t  do  him  any  good— he’d  do 
the  same  thing  right  over  again.

Finally  he  heard  of  a  good  opening 
in  another  state,  about  fifty  miles  away, 
and  he  sold  out  and  went  there.

I  understand  he’s  doing  well  there— 
Jim  will  always  sell  goods—but  I’ll  bet 
anything  that  the  crop  of  bad  debts  is 
already  being  sown.

Jim  told  me  himself  when  he left town 
that  he  had  nearly  $5,coo  on  his  books.
‘ ‘ How  much  of  it  is  good?”   I  asked.
He  hesitated.
“ Not  much,”   he  finally  admitted.
So  he  went  away  and  left  the  whole, 
muck  behind—a  rather  costly monument 
to  the  foolishness  of  an  unduly  tender­
hearted  man.

The  man  who  succeeds  in  business  is 
the  one  who  is  fond  of  using the phrase, 
“ Business 
is  business,”   and  who  sees 
nothing  wrong  in, taking  interest  when 
he 
lends  money  to  his  own  mother.— 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

T he  M an  W ho  W orked.

‘ ‘ You  have  been  with  that  firm  a  long 

time,”   said  the  old  school  friend.

“ Yes,”   answered  the  man  with  the 

patient  expression  of  countenance. 

“ What’s  your  position?”
“ I’m  an  employe.”
“ But  what  is  your official  title?”
“ I  haven’t  any  official  title.  It  is  like 
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tells  me.”

“ And  what  then?”
“ Well,  I  haven’t  anybody  to tell,  so  I 

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Woman’s  World

K e ep in g   Up  T actics  W h ich  W ere Success­

fu l  B efore  M arriag e.

The  question  of  whether  a  woman 
should  remain  as  ugly  as  she  was  made 
or  whether  she  has  a  right  to  circum­
vent  nature  by  art  and  be  beautiful  al­
though  ugly  is  a  problem that originated 
with  the  first  plain  daughter  of  Eve  and 
has  been  under  active  discussion  ever 
since.  Most  women  incline  to  the  side 
of  art.holding that  a  woman  is  as  pretty 
as  she  looks  and  that  how  she  does  it  is 
her  own  trade  secret,  which  she 
is  not 
bound  to  tell  to  anybody;  but  a  curious 
complication  has  arisen  in  the  situation 
through  a  legal  decision that  has  recent­
ly  been  handed  down  in  Iowa.

Near  Des  Moines,  in  that  • State,  it 
seems  that  there  was  a  young  man  who 
fell  in  love  with  a  young  woman  whose 
chief  glory  was  her 
lovely  chestnut 
It  was  the  old,  old  story  of 
locks. 
beauty 
leading  by  a  single  hair.  The 
amorous  youth  wrote  sonnets  to  his 
lady’s  tresses.  He  caressed  the  little 
tender  curls  above  her  white  brow  and 
wore  a  glorious  silken  curl,  like  a  talis­
man,  above  his  heart,  until,  alas,  in  an 
evil  hour  he  discovered  that  his  sweet­
heart's  hair  was  only  hers  by  right  of 
purchase.  At  this  he  was  so  infuriated 
that  he  broke  off  the  engagement  and 
cast  the  lady  and  her  false  locks  out  of 
his  life  forevermore. 
forsaken 
damsel  thereupon  brought  a  suit  for 
breach  of  promise,  but  the  case  was  de­
cided  against  her,  as  the  court  held  that 
by  wearing  a  wig  she  had  won  the 
man’s  love  under  false  pretenses.

The 

Fortunately,  there  will  be  few  who 
will  side  with  this  unaesthetic  opinion 
of  the  judge. 
In  a  charming  comedy 
that  was  presented  in  New  York  during 
the  past  winter,  the  hero,  a  disgruntled 
youth,  who  is  all  for unadorned  simplic­
ity  and 
the  naked  truth,  rails  out 
against  society  and  the  fact  that  one 
never  sees  women  except  with  all  their 
paint  on. 
“ And  for  that  you  ought  to 
thank  heaven  for  all  its  mercies,"  re­
turns  bis  mother,  who  knows  her  world.
And  so  say  we  all.  Rational  beings 
who  want  to  get  the  most  pleasure  they 
can  out  of  life  are  thankful  for  every­
body  who  pads  the  angles  of  existence, 
and  I,  for  one,  never  see  a  homely 
woman  who  has  created  an  impression 
of  beauty  where  there  is  none  that  I  do 
not  feel  personally  grateful  to  her. 
If 
all  the  women  who  have  lost  their  teeth 
went  about  with  toothless  gums;  if  all 
the  women  with  scanty  locks  scorned 
the  coiffeur;  if  all  the  thin  women  dis­
dained  padding  and  all  the  fat  ones 
looked  as  big  around  the  waist  as  they 
are;  if  all roses  were  nature's,  and  there 
were  no  powder  or  rouge  or  eyebrow 
pencils,  what  a 
lot  of  scarecrows  we 
should  have.  Let us  be  thankful  we  are 
spared  the  painful  spectacle.

But this  matter  of  winning  love  under 
false  pretenses  has  another  aspect  and  a 
very  serious  one.  There  can  be  no man­
ner of  doubt  that  a  vast  majority  of  the 
domestic  infelicities  in  the  world  are 
brought  about  from  the  fact  that  both 
men  and  women,  consciously  or  uncon­
sciously,  deceive each  other.  During  the 
days  of  courtship  they  put  up  a  bluff  of 
virtues  they  do  not  possess,  of  beauty 
that  is  an  optical  illusion  and  charms 
that  do  not  belong  to them.  They  are 
willing  to  make  any  kind  of  glib  cam­
paign  promises,  but  when  it  comes  to 
delivering  the  goods  in  the  dull,  prosaic 
years  of  matrimony,  they  fall  short  and 
the  trouble  begins.

Now,  so  far  as  the  right  or  wrong  of 
rouging  or  dyeing  her  hair  or  wearing 
is  concerned,  I  bold  that  it 
extenders 
depends  on  the  way  it  is  done. 
It  is 
only  immoral  to  rouge  when  you  do  it 
inaitistically.  If  a  touch  of  color  on  her 
cheeks  or a  dash  of  peroxide  on her hair 
changes  a  plain  woman 
into  a  pretty 
one,  it  is  manifestly  her  duty to  her  fel­
low  creatures  who  have  to  look  at  her 
for  a  woman  to  do 
it,  but  if  she  en­
snares  a  man’s  affections  by  these  arts, 
she  has  no  right,  the  minute  she  is 
married  to  him,  to  drop  the  beautifying 
process.

Many  a  man  who  marries  a  girl 
whose  daintiness  of  appearance  has 
charmed  him  and  finds  that,  after  a  few 
months  of  matrimony,  she  has  de­
veloped 
into  a  dowdy  sloven  in  mother 
bubbards  and  curl  papers,  must  feel 
that  he  was  as  completely  taken  in  by 
false  pretenses  as 
if  be  had  bought  a 
gold  brick.

Nor  is  this  all. 

In  spite  of  the  stress 
we  put  upon  beauty,  not  many  men 
really  marry  a  woman  because  of  her 
rosy  cheeks  or  golden  locks.  Ninety- 
nine  times  out  of  a  hundred  what  wins 
a  man’s  love  is  sympathy  and  what  he 
marries  for  is  to  secure  an  unwearying 
listener  to  his  hopes,  his  plans  and  his 
troubles.  Women  realize  this,  and 
if 
you  will  watch  one  trying  to  please  a 
man,  you  will  see  her  hanging  on  his 
words  as  if  they  were  the  inspired  ut­
terances  of an oracle and  laughing  at  his 
jokes,  although  she  may  have  heard 
them  a  hundred  times  before.

In  sharp  contrast  to  this  is  the  atti­
tude  of  the  average  wife.  She  does 
not  feign  an  interest  she  does  not  feel; 
she  does  not  pretend  to  be  amused when 
she  is  bored.  Not  a  b it!  She  lets  her 
John  or William  have  her  opinion  with 
a  brutal  frankness  that  is  enough  to 
shake  the  last  lingering  bit  of  conceit 
out  of  him.

Now  1  maintain  that  this  is  not  only 
a  mistake  on  the  wife's  part,  but  is j 
dishonest  as  well.  When  a  man  under- j 
takes 
to  pay  a  woman’s  board  and 
clothes  and  keeps  her  in  bargain-coun­
ter  money,  he  expects  to  get  his  reward 
in  admiration  from  her,  and  whenever 
she  stops  burning 
incense  before  him 
she  is  cheating  him  out  of  his  just  due 
and  what  she  led  him  to  anticipate. 
It 
must  be  pretty  rough  on  the  man  who 
loves  flattery  and  who  has  married  some 
woman  because  she  has  so  deftly tickled 
his  vanity,  to  find  out  that  after  mar­
riage  she  is  as  chary  with  compliments 
as  if  they  cost  money.

Never to  have  been  loved  is  a  misfor­
tune.  To  have  been  loved  and  to  have 
lost  the  love  is  a  mortification,  because 
it  is  a  proof  of  incompetence. 
If  more 
women  would  make  good  on  their  ante­
nuptial  platforms  and  keep  up  through 
married 
life  the  tactics  that  won  them 
husbands,  we  should  hear  less  of  domes­
tic  unhappiness  and  straying  husbands. 
Fewer  men  marry  for  money  or  for  po­
sition  or  for  homes  than  women,  and  if 
a  woman  does  not  keep  the  love  she  has 
won,  it  is  generally  her own  fault.

This  thing  of  winning 

love  under 
false  pretenses,  however,  is  not an  ex­
clusively 
feminine  device,  by  any 
means.  Men  do  it  continually.  Every 
man,  when  he  is  in 
love,  pictures  to 
bis  sweetheart  a  kind  of  elysium 
in 
which  they  are  to  dwell  and  in  which 
he  is  going  to  be  continually  kneeling 
at  her  feet,  breathing  vows  of  eternal 
devotion  and  feeding  her  on  chocolate 
creams.  Her  will  is  to  be  his  law,  her 
slightest  desire  his  command  he  picks 
up  her handkerchief  for her  for  fear  she

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will  fatigue  herself  and  then,  as  soon 
as  they  are  married,  he  lets  her get  up 
and  get  breakfast  and  fetch  in  the  coal.
Do  you  suppose  for  a  minute  that  the 
woman  wh'ose  husband  goes  to  his  club 
night  after  night,  leaving  her  to  pass 
lonely  evenings  at  home,  would  have 
married  him  if  she  had  known  she  was 
to  spend  her  life  in  solitary  imprison­
ment?  Not  on  your  life.  He  won  her 
under  false  pretenses.  She  thought  he 
desired  her  society.

Do  you  suppose  the  woman  whose 
husband  growls  over  every  cent  he gives 
her  and  who  makes  her  feel  like  a  beg­
gar  every  time  she  asks  for  a  new 
dress,  would  have  married  him  if  she 
had  known  she  would  be  degraded  to 
the  level  of  a  street  mendicant?  Never 
in  this  world.  She  would  have  gone out 
to  work  and  made  her own  independent 
living.  He  led  her to  believe  he  was the 
very  soul  of  generosity;  he 
lavished 
money  on  her  in  the  days  of  courtship, 
and  she  never  dreamed  that  it  was  all 
a  false  pretense.

Do  you  suppose  the  woman  who  is 
married  to  the  mummy  man  would  have 
married  him 
if  she  had  known  that  all 
the  conversation  she  would  ever  get  out 
of  him  would  be  a  growl?  Not  much. 
She  would  have 
looked  farther.  You 
would  not  believe  it,  but  that  man  was 
in  society—he  is  still 
gay  and  chirpy 
when  he  gets  away 
from  home—and 
what  took  her  fancy  was  his  geniality. 
You  see,  poor  girl,  she  did  not  know 
it  was  not  for  home  consumption  and 
so  she  got  taken  in.

And  so  it  goes.  Probably  there  is  no 
remedy 
for  it  and  men  and  women  will 
go  on  to  the  end  of  the  chapter  trying 
to  appear  more  attractive  to  each  other 
than  they  are;  but  I  repeat  again,  a 
deal  of  misery  would  be  saved  if,  after 
marriage,they would  keep  up  the  tactics 
that  were  so  successful  before.

Dorothy  Dix.

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lived  now 

Sioux  City,  la.,  thinks  it  has  solved 
the  problem  of  co  operative  housekeep­
ing.  Twenty-one  residents  of  the suburb 
of  Morning9ide  have 
for 
twenty  weeks  in  independence  and  de­
fiance  of  the  servant  girl  and  have  dis­
covered  that  by  co-operative housekeep­
ing  the  head  of  the  family  will  save 
one-fourth  of  the  cost  of  satisfying  the 
appetites  of  the  family.
The  Parkside  Co-operative  House­
keeping  Association,  organized 
in  De­
cember,  has  cost  each  of  the  members 
an  average  of  $2.35  a  week,  and  has 
saved  81  cents  a  week  for  each.  The 
Association  has  found  that  its  plan  will 
mean  an  annual  economy  to  a  family  of 
four  members  of  $178.48.  This  union 
kitchen  was  the  first  of  its  kind  in  the 
United  States,  the  members  say,  but  so 
successful  has  it  been  that  another  asso­
ciation  has  been  organized  there  in  the 
Reinhardt  flats,  and  two  more  will  be 
formed  in  Morningside,  to  begin  opera­
tions. next  September.
Following  the  example  of  Sioux  City 
people,  fifteen  families of  Marion,  Ind., 
have  formed  a  co-operative  association 
and  recently  been  taking  their  meals  in 
a  specially  constructed  building.  The 
co  operative  housekeeping  plan  solves 
the  servant  girl  problem,  which  has  be­
come  the  terror  of  housekeeping,  re­
lieves  the  housewife  of  all  the worry and 
labor of  superintending  the preparations 
of  three  meals  a  day  and  saves  the  head 
of  the  family  a  fourth  of  the  cost.
All  the  members  of  this  Association 
live  within  a  block  of  the  home  of 
Charles  Senift,  and  there  they  meet  to 
take  their  meals  at  two  large  tables. 
Three  rooms  are  rented  from  Mrs.  Sen­
ift  for $10 a  month,  including  light  and 
fuel 
the  rooms  except  the 
kitchen.
The  housekeeper and  cook  gets  $7  a 
week  and  her  board,  and  two  assistants

for  all 

There 

get  $1  a  week  and  their  board.  The 
five  women  of  the  club  form  a  com­
mittee  that  makes  out  the  bill  of  fare 
each  week,  and  a  man 
is  chosen  as 
buyer to  serve for  two weeks  as  assistant 
to  hia  wife,  or,  if  single,  some  other 
man’s  wife.

The  congeniality  of  the  members  is 
secured  by  requiring  a  unanimous  vote 
before  a  new  member  is  admitted.

The  Association  buys  its  food  from 
retailers,  but  the  purchases  are  in  large 
quantities and  the  Association  practic­
ally  gets  wholesale  rates,  amounting  to 
a  saving  of  15  per  cent.  The  fuel  costs 
no  more  practically  than  in  one  family, 
meaning  a  weekly  economy  of $1.50.
is  but  one  cook  for  the  Asso­
ciation,  and,  while  she  gets $7  a  week, 
it  may  be  assumed  that  the  five families 
would  spend  at  least  $3  a  week  each  for 
a  servant,  together  paying  $15.  Adding 
the  $1  received  by  each  of  the assistants 
to  the  salary  of  the  cook,  the  families 
save  $6  a  week  by  pooling.

The  Association  gives  the  cook  and 
the  assistants  board,  and  this 
is  two 
persons  fewer  than  would  be  boarded 
if  the  same  families  were  eating  on  the 
old  plan  so  that  $4.60  weekly  is  saved 
in  this  way.

The  15  per  cent,  cut  in  the  prices  of 
food  amounts 
to  24  cents  weekly  for 
each  member  or  $5.04  a  week  for  all 
twenty-one.

The  items  of  economy  for the  twenty-
one  people,  weekly,  then,  are  as  fol­
lows :

Amount  Saved.

F u e l................................................ $  1.50
Servant  wages.................................   6.co
Servant broad.. ...............................  460
Food.................................................   5<04
Total__  $17.14
This  means  a  saving  of  81  cents  a 
week  for  each  member,  or $3.24  a  week 
for  a  family  of  four,  amounting  in  a 
year  to  $178.49  of  actual  economy.

“ The  social  feature  is  a  strong  point 
in  favor  of  he  Association,’ ’  said  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Brown,  who  originated  the  plan. 
“ One 
learns  to  look  forward  to  the  6 
o’clock  dinner  with  pleasurable  antici­
pations.

“ The  plan  has  worked  wonders  in 
bringing  into  the  fresh  air three  times  a 
day  women  who  have  formeily  housed 
themselves  carefully  from  c< Id,wind and 
storm.  Families  in  which  mincing  at 
table  and  delicate  appetites  have  been 
the  rule  have  developed  stirtling  ap­
preciation  for  iheir  meals,  and  the  table 
is  surrounded  daily  by  good  eaters.

there 

are  no 

“ Company  at  meal  time  has  lost  its 
terror.  When  a  visitor  drops  in  before 
dinner 
longer  furtive 
glances  through  icebox  and  store  clos­
ets,and  brain  racking  problems  of  feed­
ing  a  crowd  with  a  dinner  prepared  for 
a  few. 
Instead,  there  is  plenty  of  time 
for  visiting  and  hostess  and  guest  are 
undisturbed  by  culinary  plans  and prep­
arations.
“ The  success  of  the  enterprise  has 
given  rise  to  the  suggestion  that  a  suit­
able  building  be  erected,  with  one  or 
more  well-equipped  dining-rooms,  each 
of  which  will  seat  about  thirty  persons. 
Interest  in  the  plan  has  been  aroused  in 
other cities  and  states,  and  the  officers 
receive  many 
letters  asking  for  infor­
mation  and  details.’ ’

Following  are  samples  of  the  bill  of 

fare  for  a  weekday  and  for  Sunday :

Thursday— Breakfast:  Cereal,  griddle 
cakes,  syrup,  bread  and  butter  and 
coffee.  Luncheon :  Cold  pork, potatoes, 
baking  powder  biscuits  and  butter, 
plum  butter,  tea  and  coffee.  Dinner: 
Liver,  mashed  potatoes,  pickles, 
tea 
cakes,  bread  and  butter,  strawberry 
preserves  and  tea.
Sunday— Breakfast:  Ham,  fried  pota­
toes,  syrup,  crackers,  bread  and  butter 
and  coffee.  Dinner:  Stewed  chicken, 
mashed  potatoes,  celery,  white  and 
brown  bread,  butter,  apple  pie,  oranges, 
nuts  and  coffee.  Supper:  Bread  and 
butter,  cake,  canned  peaches,  suet  pud­
dling  and  chocolate.

If  some  merchants  would  take  the 
money  they  are  spending  for  what  they 
call  advertising  and  put  it 
into  season 
tickets  for  base  ball  games,  they  would 
get  more  genuine  advertising  out  of  it.

G.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

Stock it  Promptly!

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SAPOLIO

Do  not let your neighbors  get  ahead  of 
you. 
It  will  sell  because  we  are  now 
determined  to  push  it.  Perhaps  your 
first customer will  take a  dollar’s worth.
You  will  have  no  trouble  in  disposing 
of a  box.  Same cost  as  Sapolio.

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SUNDRIES  CASE.

Cigar  Cases to  match.

Grand Rapids Fixtures (So.

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Hardware

Im p le m e n t  D ealers  as  T rav e lin g   Sales­

m en.

Two  implement  salesmen  were recent­
ly  discussing  the  folly  of  some  imple­
ment  dealers 
in  giving  up  a  business 
which  paid  reasonably  well  to  seek  po­
sitions  as  traveling  salemen.

"There  are  plenty  of  applicants  for 
positions,"  said  one,  "but  manufac­
turers  and  jobbers  do  not  recognize  the 
applications  of  every  Tom,  Dick  and 
Harry  who  thinks  he  is  capable  of  mak­
ing  big  sales,  and,  as  a  rule,  they  do 
not  allow  these  applications  to  enter  in­
to  consideration  when  making  up  salar­
ies. 
I  know  that  half  a  dozen  inexperi­
enced  men  have  applied  for  my  place, 
at  a  smaller  salary,  but  I  am  still  at  it 
and  get  a  raise  every  year."

The  other  did  not  think  the  market 
was  overstocked  with  good,  capable 
men;  but  his  experience  had  been  that 
the  constant  stream  of  applications  had 
a  tendency  to  keep  wages  down.  Em­
ployers  were  inclined  to give  new  men 
a  trial  rather than  advance  salaries.

" I   think  it  is  a  mistake,"  said  one, 
"fo r  a  dealer  to  quit  a  business  that 
makes  him a  comfortable  living,  to  take 
a  position  that 
lacks  a  great  deal  of 
it  does  bring  more  cash. 
comfort,  if 
There 
is  not  much  joy  to  be  found  on 
the  road.  Talk  about  blue  Monday! 
What  an  ultramarine  hue  our  Monday 
bears !  Starting  out  on  the  early  train, 
to  be  gone  one,  two  or  perhaps  three 
weeks  away  from  our  families  and 
friends,  sleeping  in  strange,  uncomfort­
able  beds  and  eating— well,  what  don’t 
we  eat?”

"What  kind  of  road  men  do  ex-deal­

ers  make?"

It  depends 

"T h e  best  and  the  poorest.  Success­
ful  traveling  men  are  born,  not  made. 
A  man  may  be  ten  years  in  the  retail 
trade  and  make  a  dismal  failure  on  the 
road.  Another  may  be  one  year  a  dealer 
and  score  a  distinct  success  when  he 
takes  to  the  road. 
1  was  thinking  over 
this  matter  the  other  day  and  as  near  as 
I  can  remember,  the  most  successful 
traveling  men  that  I  know  in  our  line 
were  formerly  dealers.  And,  as  I  con­
tinued  to think,  I  recalled  that  some  of 
the  worst  failures  were  formerly  dealers 
also. 
largely  on  the  man. 
Here  is  a  case  in  point:  A  dealer  in  a 
Central  Michigan  town  wound  up  his 
business  and  went  down  to  Jackson  to 
get  a  job  on  the  road.  He  bad  done 
pretty  well  in  business,  but  he  felt  that 
be  was  cut  out  for the  road.  He  went 
to a  jobbing  house  and  offered  to go  out 
for a  month  without  pay ;  he was  so  sure 
of  success.  Confidence  is  a  good  thing, 
but  something  else 
is  required  too. 
Well,  they  were  one  man  shy.  So  they 
sent  him  out.  They  gave  him  a  splen­
did  territory  and  a 
line  of  popular 
goods.  He  traveled  six  weeks  and  the 
total  volume  of  his  sales  was  only  $178. 
He  is  now  back  home  and  I  understand 
he  is  going  to  open  up  a  store  again.

"H ere 

is  another  case  of  the  other 
kin d ,"  he continued.  " A  man  who  used 
to  be  a  farmer,  then  a  dealer,  went out 
for a  wholesale  house.  His  career  as  a 
dealer  lasted  one  year and  ended  in  a 
disastrous  failure.  He  started  out  for 
a  small  salary  five  years  ago  and now  he 
is  at  the  top  notch.  Every  year  he  gets 
a  half  a  dozen  offers  from  as  many 
different  houses  and  his  salary  naturally 
keeps  on  climbing.  He  sells  piles  of 
goods  and  they  say the  losses  on  his ter­
ritory  are  practically  nothing,  because 
be  controls  the  very  best  trade. 
Intel­
lectually,  he  is  inferior to  the other  fel­

low,  and  when  he  commenced  traveling 
he  certainly  knew 
less  about  imple­
ments.  So,  you  see,  it  all  lies  with  the 
man.”
Tli©  F o u n d a tio n   o f A ll  Good A d v ertisin g .
The  saying  of  President  Lincoln  that 
one  could  not  fool  all  the  people  all  the 
time  could  be  amended  to  read  that  one 
could  not  fool  anybody  all  the  time,  es­
pecially  when  applying  to  advertising. 
The  very  nature  of  advertising  tends  to 
cast  a  suspicion  upon  the  statements. 
The  readers  of  advertisements  naturally 
believe  that  a  merchant  is  making  the 
attractions  of  his  goods  just  as  strong  as 
possible  and  probably  overstating  it  a 
little. 
Their  experience  may  have 
shown  that  the  advertiser  was  overstat­
ing 
it  a  good  deal.  There  are  only  a 
few  advertisers  whose  statements  are 
accepted  as  absolute  truth,  yet  truth  in 
advertising  is  the  only  sure  foundation. 
When  a  merchant  has  made  the  people 
believe  that  every  statement  he  makes 
in  his  advertisements  regarding  the 
goods  he  has  for  sale  or  the  conduct  of 
his  store  is  absolutely  truthful,  has  won 
the  battle  for  success.

It  is  no  uncommon  thing— in  fact,  it 
is  a  very  common  thing—to  find  firms 
who  without  any  special  effort,  without 
much  advertising,  with  almost  no  get- 
up-and-hustle  qualities,  make  a  success 
of  their  business  in  face  of  the  most  ac­
tive  opposition.  They  continue  placidly 
along,  apparently  unmoved,  their  exist­
ence  unruffled  by  the  activities  of  their 
competitors.  The  reason  for this  is  that 
they  have  the  confidence  of  the  public 
in  their  vicinity;  their  patrons  know 
they  will  be  treated  right  in  this  store. 
The  very  enthusiasm  of  the  newcomer 
casts  suspicion  upon  him.  He  has  yet 
to  prove  that  his  advertising,  his  effort 
to obtain  trade,  is  based  on  absolute 
truth  and  fair  dealing.

Misleading  advertisements,  backed 
up  by  deceptive  goods,  may  win  trade 
for  one  season,  and  perhaps  if  the  per­
petrator  is  careful  and  does  not  overdo 
his  trickery  too  badly  he  may 
last  for 
two  or  three  seasons,  but  sooner or  later 
the  trading  public  will  find  out  that  the 
promises  conveyed  by  his  advettise- 
ments  are  not  fulfilled  in  the  goods  he 
sells,  and  then  bis  name 
is  anything 
that  has  a  distinctly  buried significance.
In  these  days  of  easy  transportation 
and  widespread  advertising  mediums, 
no  firm  has  the  monopoly  of  business  in 
any  town,  however  small  or  remote,  for 
if  the  people  of  the  town  can  not  get 
what  they  want  at  home—and  this  in­
cludes  fair treatment  and  good  goods— 
and 
if  they  can  not  readily  travel  to 
some  other  town,  the  mail-order  house 
is  ready,  with  its  prompt service  and  its 
absolute  guarantees,  to  come  to  their 
doors  and  supply  their  wants.  A  mer­
chant  may  be  the  main  support  of  his 
local  church  and  belong  to  every  society 
within  the  utmost  radius  qf  his  capacity 
for  joining,  put  his  name  at  the  head  of 
every  contribution 
list  that  is  laid  be­
fore  him,  yet  he  has  no  absolute  hold  on 
the  trade  of  his  vicinity  unless  he  treats 
bis  customers  with  absolute  fairness  and 
backs  up  his  advertisements,  whether 
they  be  printed 
in  the  newspapers, 
painted  on  the  fences  or  spoken  in  the 
highways  and  on  the  cross-roads  by  his 
emissaries,  with  the  exact  quality  of 
goods  that  he  represents.

A  merchant  is  not  fair to  himself  who 
does  not  make  an  honest  profit;  a  mer­
chant  is  not  fair to  his  customers  if  he 
makes  a  dishonest one. 
If  you  should 
ask  any  of  the  very  successful  retail 
merchants  of  our  day  what  it  was  that 
contributed  most  to  the  success  of their 
business,  they  would  say,  in  substance 
if  not  in  words,  that  it  was  honest  goods 
truthfully  advertised  and  sold  at  fair 
prices.

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S A F E T Y   G A S - L I G H T   M A C H I N E

FOR  OUR.

INSIDE ABC  LIGHT 
IOOO CANDLE  POWI 
2 $ * p e r   HOUR

SINGLE INSIDE  LIGHT 
5 0 0  CANDLE POWERJ 
JgtpE R  HOUR

We want a  well-known and responsible mer­
chant In every town to Install one of our  Gas 
Plants In his own  store,  thereby  getting  the 
advantage  of  the advertising benefit of  hav. 
lng the best lighted store In town, and  act as 
agent to  sell  and  install  others.  Will  save 
cost of plant In six or eight months’ time and 
add a tidy sum to his bank  balance  in  com­
missions.  Costs  about  $3.00  to  install  a 
plant.  Your local tinsmith can do it.  W rite 
us for particulars to-day.

THE  PERFECTION  LIGHTING  CO.,

1?  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

“Up-to-Date”  Lighting  Supplies, Wholesale and  Retail.

State Agents Cosmopolitan  Light Co.’s Gas  Mantles.

Sporting  Goods,  Ammunition,  Stoves,  0  
Window  Glass,  Bar  Iron,  Shelf  Hard-  ^ 
ware,  etc.,  etc.

3 >. 33.  35. 37. 39  Louis S t. 

10 &  ia Monroe S t.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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We carry the latest patterns  in  awning 
stripes.  We rent tents of all descriptions.

Oil C lothing and  F lags 
Horse and  W agon Covers

Harrison  Bros.  &  Co.’s  Paints  and 

Varnishes are the best.

Mill  Supplies
THE  M.  L  WILCOX  COMPANY

aio  to  ai6  Water S t.,  Toledo,  Ohio

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Som e  D onts  P e c u lia rly   A p p licab le  to   th e  

H a rd w are   B usiness.

The  time 

is  past  when  a  man  with  a 
few  hundred  dollars,  without  previous 
experience,  can  start  a  hardware  store 
and  become  opulent  before  he  is  bald- 
headed.  The  evolution  of  trade  de­
mands  more  capital  invested  and  a  bet­
ter  business  training  than  were  required 
even  a  few  years  ago.  Competition  is 
much  sharper,  expenses,  as  a  rule,  are 
higher  and  the  percentage  of  profit  is 
much  less.  We have the catalogue  houses 
on  one  side  and  the  jobbers  on  the 
other,  both  bidding  for  our  customers’ 
trade,  and  the  poor  retailer  often  feels 
he  is  “ between  the  devil  and  the  deep 
sea.’ ’  We  might  adopt  some  of  the 
methods  of  the  catalogue  house  and  the 
department 
store  with  profit  to  our­
selves.  We  don’t  want  to  adopt  all  of 
them  if  we  expect  “ honorable  success.”
Last  fall  one  of  our customers,  whom 
we  have  accommodated  with  long  credit 
on  our  books  more 
than  once,  was 
tempted  by  the  alluring  price  quoted  to 
order  a  cook  stove  from  one  of  the  cata­
logue  houses.  The  stove  itself  is  well 
in  the  soliloquy  of  Shakes­
described 
peare's  Richard  III.  : 
“ Cheated  of 
features  by  dissembling  nature,  de­
formed,  unfinished,  sent  before  my  time 
into  this  breathing  world,  scarce  half 
It  never  was  a  real  good 
made  u p ." 
stove  and  was  not  piously  inclined. 
In 
it  fell  among  bad  friends 
its  travels 
and,  when  at  last  it  reached 
its  pur­
chaser,  it  was  “ all  broken  up”   by  its 
treatment.  Don’t  think  “ I  nearly  cried 
my  eyes  out"  with  sympathy  for  the 
fool  and  his  money  that  had  parted.

To  protect  our  interests  and  defeat 
the  piratical  practices  of  unscrupulous 
competition,  we  must  look  to  the  manu­
facturers  and  jobbers  to  assist  us.  Some 
manufacturers  who  are  claiming  not  to 
sell  the catalogue  houses,are  selling  job­
bers  who  supply  them  regularly,  and 
they  know  it. 
“ Oh!  wise  and  upright 
judge,”   tell  us  the  difference.  They 
can,  if  they  will,  dictate  the  price  goods 
shall  be  sold  at,  or  cut  off  the  supply. 
By  and  by,  when  this  hardware  associa­
tion  shall  have  grown 
to  its  desired 
strength,  we  may  demand  some  reforms 
for  our  better  protection,  and 
if  not 
granted,  refuse  to  hold  up  the  hands  of 
manufacturers  and 
jobbers  who  do  not 
assist  us.

Napoleon  has  been  called  a  genius; 
Emerson  says  he  was  a  man  who  under­
stood  his  business.  His  “ business”  
was  successful  until  Wellington  proved 
himself  the  better  manager.  Have  con­
fidence 
in  yourself  and  your  business; 
you  must  have  both  to  succeed,  but 
don’t  think  you  are  the  only  oyster  in 
the  soup.  “  Pride goeth before  a  fall  and 
a  haughty  spirit  before  destruction.”  
Business  conceit  has  injured  more  than 
one  merchant.  A  little  of  Job’s  humility 
tempered  with  some  of  Saul’s  zeal,  is 
better than  having  a  surplus  of either.

It 

Don’t  think  you  can  run your business 
successfully  without  advertising.  Just 
which  kind 
is  the  most  effective  and 
profitable 
is  something  of  a  problem. 
Most  of  us  have  theories  upon  the  sub­
ject  which  we  have  tested  with  more  or 
less  success.

is  surprising  how  few  hardware 
merchants  realize  the  value  of  their 
show  windows  for advertising  purposes. 
When  properly  cared  for,  they  can  be 
made  to  pay  big  dividends  for  the  labor 
and  expense  given  them.  Don’t  waste 
the  valuable  space  they  occupy  by  neg­
lecting  to  wash  the  windows  and change 
the  displays  often.  Don’t  think  be­
cause  many  of  the  goods  you  sell  soil

look 

your  hands  and  clothes,  that  your  store 
must  be  kept  exceptionally  dirty. 
It 
may 
like  business  to  have  your 
goods  in  such  disorder  that  you  must 
paw  them over to  find  what  your  custom­
er  wants,  but  it  is  not good business.and 
there 
is  no  excuse  for  such  slovenly 
methods.  The  old  adage  that  “ goods 
well  bought  are  half  sold"  is  not  more 
true  than  the  modern  one,  “ goods  well 
displayed  will  sell  themselves."  With 
the 
improvements  now  offered  for dis­
playing  goods,  the  added  expense  is  but 
slight  compared  with  benefits  received.
No  one  but  a  “ mossback”   should  be 
contented  with  sampling  goods  upon the 
original  package.  Don’t  accumulate 
old  stock.  A  little  care  and  extra  effort 
will  often  dispose  of  an  article  of  slow 
sale  at  a  profit.  The bargain  table  can 
be  used  to  advantage  with  this  class  of 
goods,  and  when  better  methods  fail, 
use  the  “ old  junk  pile.'*

Have  some  system  of  keeping  your 
catalogues  and  price 
lists  so  you  can 
readily refer to them,  and use the system. 
Except  in  cases  where 
lists  and  dis­
counts  are  used  as  a  convenience,  don’t 
neglect  marking  plainly  the  cost  and 
selling  price  of  every article  for  sale.  If 
there  is  anything  that  will make a fellow 
with  a  short  memory  “ warm  under the 
collar"  when  he  is  in  a  hurry,  it  is  fail­
ing  to  find  the  price  marked  and  com­
pelling  a  customer  to  wait  until  the 
in­
voice  is  hunted  up.

Don’t  “ turn  down”  

the  traveling 
salesman  with  a  rebuff.  He  is  our  best 
price  and  trade  reporter,  and  it  is  an 
exception  when  he  is  not  a  gentleman. 
He  and  bis  mission  were  actually 
predicted  by  King  David  in  the  19th 
Psalm  nearly  three  thousand  years  ago, 
and  his  peculiarities  are  aptly  de­
scribed.  Listen!  “ Day  unto  day  ut- 
tereth  speech,  and  night  unto  night 
showetb  knowledge.  There  is  no  speech 
nor  language  where  their  voice  is  not 
beard;  their  line 
is  gone  out  through 
all  the  earth  and  their  words  to  the  end 
of  the  world. ”   When  the  jobber’s  sales­
man  who  visits  you  denies  that  he  so­
licits  orders  from  your  home  manufac­
turers,  don’t  disbelieve  him,  because 
he 
It  is 
another  representative  from  the  same 
house  that  calls  upon  your trade,  and 
like  the  traditional  bedbug,  the  jobber 
“ gets  there  just  the  same.”

is  probably  telling  the  truth. 

Don’t  “ blow”   against  your  competi­
tor.  He  has  both  a  moral  and  legal right 
to  conduct  his  business  according  to  his 
own  methods,  however  much  they  may 
differ  from  yours.  Your  criticism  will 
but  advertise  him  and  his  business. 
It 
is  much  better  policy  to  be  on  friendly 
terms  and  speak  well  of  him.  Make 
friends, 
for  the  more  you  have  the 
greater  will  be  your influence;  but don’t 
slobber  over  them,  for  “ a  wet  mouth 
accomplishes  nothing.”

Don’t  be  pessimistic.  Notwithstand­
ing  our  trials  and  tribulations,  there 
are  a  good  many  rays  of  sunshine  in 
our business,  and  our  lives  and  the  lives 
of  others  can  be  made  happier and  bet­
looking  upon  the  bright  side  of 
ter  by 
things. 
‘ ' I  have  been  young,  and  now 
am  old ;  yet  have  1  not  seen  the  right­
eous  forsaken,  nor  his  seed  begging 
bread.”  

F.  A.  Powers.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp

Is an absolutely safe lamp.  I t  burns 
without  odor  or  smoke.  Common 
stove gasoline Is  used.  It  Is  an  eco­
nomical light.  Attractive  prices  are 
offered.  W rite  at  once  for  Agency

T he Im p e ria l Gas L am p  Co. 

132 an d  134 L ak e St. XL,  C hicago

¡ a r i s i n g   M i c h i g a n .

Bernent
P e e r le s s
P low

When you sell  a  Peerless  Plow  it  seems  to  be  a 
sale  amounting to  about  fifteen  dollars;  but  consider 
that purchaser  must  come back  to  your  store  several 
times a year for several  years  to  get  new  shares,  land- 
sides,  mouldboards,  clevises,  jointer  points  and  other 
parts that  must sooner or later  wear  out.  During  this 
time  he will  pay you  another  fifteen  dollars,  and  you 
will  sell  him  other  goods.

R e m e n t P lo w s
Turn  TU£ FArth.

We  make it  our  business  to  see  that  our  agents 

have the exclusive  sale  of  Peerless  Plow  Repairs.

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mu genuine bementpeerless

T H IS

Our Legal Rights as Original Manufacturers 

B E .W A .F iE r   O r  t M t T / X T i O N S  /
will be protected by Law.

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

Village  Improvement

A   S tro n g   A lly   o f  th e   T illag e   Im p ro v e ­

W ritten for the Tradesman.

m e n t Society.

There  is  only  an  occasional  meeting 
now  of  the  Society  1  have  in  mind,  but 
a  remark  made  by  a  rural  visitor  at  the 
last  gathering  tended  to  make  the  mem­
bers  present  believe  that  the  leaven 
in 
the  meal 
is  at  work  however  slow  may 
be  its  manifestation.

“ Somehow  you  don’t  have  anything 
to say  about  the  farm  folks.  We  are  not 
all  ‘ havseeds’and  I  go  by  a  dozen  farm­
im­
houses  every  day  that  would  be 
proved 
if  the  people 
in  them 
were  touched  up  a  bit.”

living 

It  did  not  take long  to  answer  that  the 
same  principles  apply  to  town  and 
country  alike  and  that  the  farmer  who 
really  wants  to  improve  his  surround­
ings  will  find  all  that  he  needs  in  the 
reports  of 
the  Improvement  Society 
wherever  located. 
If,  however,  a  paper 
on  “ The  Improvement  of  the  Farm 
Dooryard”   is  called  for  there 
is  noth­
ing  that  the  Societies  will  more  gladly 
present.  There, if  anywhere,  can the best 
results  be  produced  and  there,  if  any­
where,  must  the  greatest  difficulties  be 
overcome.

Admitted  or  not  admitted,  it  is  true 
that  the  Czar  of  all  the  Russias  and  the 
American 
farmer  are  at  the  present 
writing  the  only  instances  of  absolute 
power on the  face  of the earth.  The  in­
fluences  that  control  the  one  are  no 
less 
potent  than  those  which  sway  the  other. 
Precedent  and  prejudice  in  both 
in­
stances  must  be  overcome  to  effect  a 
change.  From  the  New  England  farmer 
of  the  olden  time  among  the  New  Eng­
land  rocks  to  his  descendants  on  the 
Western  plains,  there  is  an  undyingdis- 
like  against  “ fussing 
front 
yard.”   To  the  man  busy with  the  whole 
farm  there 
is  something  belittling  in 
pottering  with  a  flower  bed  and  being 
caught  mowing  the  grass  “ front  the 
house."  The  culprit  so  discovered  is 
profuse  with  apologies  and  so makes the 
first  statement  easy  that  the  farmer’s 
prejudice  must  first  be  overcome  before 
his  premises  will show  signs of improve­
ment.

in  the 

In  one  instance  the  Society  found  the 
farmer’s  wife  its  efficient  ally. 
It  was 
an  unpretending  homestead  but  full  of 
delightful  possibilities. 
It  had  been 
rented  for  a  number  of  years  and,  like 
many  another  so  mismanaged,  was  “ all 
run  down.”  
It  slopes  gently  to  the 
south  and  all  day  long  basks  in the New 
England  sunshine.  The  soil is thin  and 
the  rocks  are  plentiful,  but  the  hillside 
is  full  of springs  and  the  sweetest  grass

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lowland,  showed 

grows  there.  The  same  sun  and  the 
same  soil  made  the  orchards  famous 
and  when  the  needed  care  was  given 
them  the  brimming  barrels  and  heaped- 
up  bins  gave  ample  evidence  that  pros­
perity  had  come  to  stay.  The  fields, 
upland  and 
it  alike 
with  the  well-filled  barns,  but  the  sur­
roundings  of  these  and  the  home  acre 
were  not  a  joy  to  the  eye.  The  chop­
ping  log  and  the  woodpile  were  prom­
inent  in  the  front  or  side  yard.  Chips 
rotted  where 
to  have 
bloomed  and  burdock  grew  green  and 
rank  where  hollyhocks  and  sunflowers 
should  have  stood.  Not  even  a  June 
rose  dared  to 
its  fragrant  chalice 
for  the  summer  wind  to  spill  and  the 
venturesome  chickweed  was  the  only 
blossom-bearer that  insisted  on  finding 
sustenance  among  the  chips  and  other 
rubbish.

ought 

roses 

lift 

Finally,  one  day  came  a  change.  The 
^pieen  of  the  kitchen—she  was  worthy 
of  her  crown—sitting  one  evening  on 
the  kitchen  threshold—the  country  twi­
light  knows  no  worthier  throne—willed 
that  the  approach  to  her  palace  should 
be  a  waste  no  longer.  Her  decree  was 
made  known  at  once  and  the  American 
Czar  laughed  at  it.  The  objections  were 
the  common  ones;  but  the  Czarina,  with 
the  determination  of 
a  Catherine, 
compelled  the  indomitable  Peter  to  re­
move  at  once  the  chop-log  of  his  ances­
tors  to  the  back  yard. 
It  went.  The 
remnants  of  a 
line  of  woodpiles 
followed  and  the  ascending  sun  next 
day  witnessed  the  removal  of  the  moun­
tains  of  chips  that  the  years  bad  ac­
cumulated.  Thus  far the  Czar  went,  but 
would  go  no  farther.  He  would  have 
no  fence  with  white  palings.  There 
should  be  no  bank  wall,  no  white  gate 
and  no  stone  steps.  Not  even  a  lawn 
mower  should  be  allowed  to  do  its  ab­
normal  work  if  the  grass  did  grow.

long 

If  “ Well  begun 

is  half  done,"   the 
prosperity  of  that  front  yard  was  only  a 
question  of  time  and  that  a  short  one. 
Rome  was  not  built  in  a  day  nor  were 
those  chips  removed  in  a  week. 
Both 
wonders were accomplished in  time  and, 
when  the  last  chip  was  removed  and  a 
hint  of  green  gave  hopes  of  a  future 
carpet,  Catherine  with  her  own  fair  fin­
gers 
fashioned  a  pair  of  birch-twig 
brooms  and  forced  the  reluctant  Czar  to 
help her  sweep the front dooryard—a fact 
I  am  the  more  pleased  to record because 
my  own  astonished  eyes  beheld  the  as­
tounding  sight.

Thus  swept  by  royal  hands  the  out­
come  was  just  as  royal:  The long-fallow 
earth  was  quick  to  respond  to the  un­
usual  attention.  Vines  were  planted 
and  they  grew.  There  are  beds of bright

jonquils  and  flaming  tulips  and  pop­
pies.  Honeysuckles  clamber  over  the 
rustic  porch ;  and  with  their  swinging 
censers  perfume  the  farm.  Hollyhocks 
guard  the  white  paling  which  “ wasn’t 
going  to  be  built.*’  A  big  syringa  bush 
stands  sentinel  at  the  gate  that  was 
never  going  to  swing  and  the  lawn, 
green  as  grass can  make  it,  is  cut  regu­
larly  once  a  week  by  a  lawn  mower that 
never  was  going  to  click  in  that  door­

yard ;  and  that  blot  on  that  whole  farm, 
otherwise  a  charming  piece  of  “ Para­
dise Regained, ”   was  removed  once  and 
forever  by  making  that farmer’s wife the 
ally  of  one  of  the  most  far-reaching 
in­
fluences  of  public  good  which  modern 
times  have  found. 

R.  M.  Streeter.

Bad  luck  is  usually  the  first  thing that 
comes  to  the  man  who  waits.  Do  not 
neglect  your  opportunities.

You will  find  scarely  an  imperfect  berry  in  a  package.  That’s  one 

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atmosphere  about  the  other  store  that  is lacking  in yours?  You may not 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Commercial Travelers

Midiiru Ksiehti of the Grip

President,  John  A.  Weston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Brow n,  Safilnaw;  Treasurer, 
John W. Sch ram, Detroit.

Halted Commercial Travelers of liehigu 

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

flrasd Rapids Coaoeil Ho. 131, D. C. T.

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

G ripsack  B rigade.

M.  J.  Rogan,  Michigan  representative 
for  Wile  Bros.  &  Weill,  sails  from  New 
York  July  5  for a  two  months'  visit  to 
the  home  of  his  parents  in  Ireland.

N.  L.  Heeres,  for  the  past seven years 
city  salesman  for  Geo.  Hume  &  Co.  of 
Muskegon,  has  engaged  to  represent  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  His  terri­
tory  will  comprise  Muskegon  and  the 
towns  on  the  Pentwater  branch  of  the 
Pere  Marquette.

The  sympathy  of  the  traveling  frater­
nity 
is  extended  to  F.  E.  Bushman, 
whose  wife  died  at  Detroit,  June  10.  A 
short  service  was  held  at  the  residence 
in  Detroit,  the  funeral  and  interment 
being  at  Burlington,  the  former  home  of 
the  deceased.

Wm.  I.  Law,  who  sells  groceries  for 
the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Hulman 
&  Co.,  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  and  who 
is  claimed  to  be  the  highest  priced  gro­
cery  salesman 
in  the  country— being 
in  receipt  of  a  regular salary  of  $10,000 
a  year—has  locked  horns  with  the trades 
unions.  The  latter  declared  a  strike  on 
the  street  railway  company  at  Terre 
Haute  and  adopted  their  usual  tactics 
of stoning the  cars,  maiming  the  passen­
gers,  intimidating  the  public  and  boy­
cotting  those  who  insist  on  using  the 
street  cars.  Law  has  always  been  re­
garded  as  friendly  to  labor,  but  he  drew 
the 
labor  and  anarchy 
and  utilized  the  street  cars  whenever 
necessary.  The  result  was  an  onslaught 
on  him  and  his  trade  by  the  trades 
unions,  including  the  appointment  of  a 
committee  of  fifteen  strikers  to  wait  on 
the  retail  grocers  of  Terre  Haute  and 
warn  them  not  to  buy  any  goods  of 
Hulman  &  Co.  So  far  as  the  Trades­
man’s  information  goes  it  appears  that 
the  boycott 
is  making  no  appreciable 
difference  with  Hulman  &  Co.'s  trade, 
the  only  grocers  who  are  intimidated  by 
the  anarchists  being  those  who  run  sa­
loons  in  connection  with  their  stores.
M eeting  o f B o ard   D irecto rs  o f th e   M.  K. 

line  between 

o f G.

Detroit,  June  7— Meeting  called  to or­

der  by  President  Weston.

Full  board  present.
Minutes  of  last  meeting  read  and  ap­

proved.

Secretary’s  report  read  and  approved, 
showing  receipts  of  $91  in  general  fund, 
$3,200  in  death  fund  and  $127  in  de­
posit  fund.

The  following  bills  were  allowed;

Treasurer’s  report  was  read  and  ap­
proved,  showing  receipts  of  $435.06  in 
general  fund,  $3,207.79  in  death  fund 
and  $283 
in  deposit  fund.  Disburse­
ment—$246.14  in  general fund,  $1,637.49 
in  death  fund  and  $145  in  deposit  fund. 
Balance  on  band—$188.92 
in  general 
fund,  $1,570.30  in  death  fund  and  $138 
in  deposit  fund.
M.  S.  Brown,  salary.................... $164.55
J.  W.  Schram,  salary..................  68.48
Tradesman Company.................... 
1.03
Champion  &  Perrin,  stationery.. 
16.93
M.  S.  Brown,  stamps.................. 
10.00
Wm.  K.  McIntyre,  printing.......   20.75
7.86
George  H.  Randall.................. 
6.77
J.  A.  Weston..................................  
L.  J.  Roster..................................  
10.06
Manley  Jones................................. 
8.62
5*54
James  Cook....................................  
7-54
C.  W.  Hurd..............................  
 
M.  S.  Brown.......................... 1.. 
6.92

 

Moved  that  the  assessments  for  1902 
of  C.  T.  Ballard  be  paid  out  of  relief 
fund.  Carried.

Communications from Mrs.  Cbitterling 
and  M.  Matson  read  and  ordered  placed 
on  file.

Report  of  Manley  Jones  in  regard  to 
death  claim  of  Mr.  Coon  received.  Or­
dered  accepted  and  placed  on  file.

Moved  that  claim  of  E.  F.  Coon  be 
allowed and a warrant  for $498  be  drawn. 
Carried.

Moved  that  claim  of  Alois  Hoener  be 
allowed.  Moved  as  an  amendment  that 
the  claim  be  rejected.  Amendment  lost. 
Original  motion  carried.

Smith  be  allowed.  Carried.

Moved  that  the  claim  of  James  A. 
Moved  that  the  claim  of  George  A. 

Dibble  be  allowed.  Carried.

Moved  that  the  claim  of  George  K. 

Brown  be  allowed.  Carried.
son  be  allowed.  Carried.

Moved  that  the  claim  of  O.  R.  John­
Moved  that  the  next Board meeting  be 
in  Saginaw  on  the  first  Saturday 

held 
in  September.  Carried.

Moved  that  a  warrant  be  drawn  for 
$50  in  favor  of  Secretary  for  stamps. 
Carried.

Moved  that  the  Board  of  Directors  be 
made  a  committee  to  visit  Battle  Creek 
on  date  set  by  President  Weston  for  the 
purpose  of  encouraging  and  organizing 
a  Post  there ;  that  a  special 
invitation 
be  given  James  Hammell  and  John 
Hoffman  to  accompany  Board  on  said 
trip.  Carried.

Moved  that  brother  Cook  be  made  a 
committee  of  one  to 
interview  brother 
Ex-President  Northrup  and  report  his 
findings  by  letter  to  each member  of  the 
Board.  Carried.

Moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  ex­
tended  to  brothers  Howarn  and  Schram 
for the  very  hospitable  manner  in  which 
they  entertained the Board with  a theater 
party  and  luncheon,  and  especially  the 
kindness shown the visiting ladies.  Car­
ried.

Moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  ex­
tended  to  the  proprietor  of  Hotel  Nor­
mandie  for  the  use  of  his  parlors  and 
general  good  treatment.

Moved  that the Secretary  be  instructed 
to  procure  files  for  membership  blanks. 
Carried.

Moved  that  we  adjourn.  Carried.

M.  S.  Brown,  Sec’y.

V irtu e  H as  Its   Own  R ew ard.

The  traveling  salesman  had  removed 
his  family  to  a  new  boarding  house  and 
was  taking  his  first  meal  with  them  at 
the  new  place.

“ Waiter,”   he  said,  “ bring  me  some 

hash. ”

politely.

hash  is?”

“ Some  what,  sir?”   asked  the  waiter 

“ Some  hash.  Don’t  you  know  what 

“ No,  sir;  we  don’t  have  it  here.”
“ Can’t  I  get 

if  I  want  it?”   he 

it 
asked  dictatorially.

“ No,  sir. 

If  you  want  hash  you’ll 

have  to  go  somewhere  else. ”

“ Well,  bring  me  some  prunes  then,”  

he  said,  changing  the  subject.

“ Haven’t  any  prunes,  sir,”  responded 

the  water.

“ No  prunes?”
“ No,  sir.”
“ Can’t  I  get  prunes  here,  either?”
“ No,  3ir;  not  here.”
The  new  boarder  was  becoming  ex­

“ Tell  the 

landlady  to  come  here,”  

cited.

be  commanded.

The  waiter  brought  in  the  landlady.
“ I  am  informed,  madam,”   he  said, 
“ that  I  can  get  neither  prunes  nor  hash 
in  this  house.”

“ You  have  been  correctly 

infomed,”  
she  admitted  with  some  trepidation,  for 
he  looked  like  a  man  who  could  pay.

“ Am  I 

those 
dishes  will  not  be  served  here  under any 
circumstances?”

to  understand 

“ That’s  the  invariable  rule,  sir.”
“ Very  well,  very  well,”   he  said  " I ’ll 
see  you  after  this  meal  and  pay  yoq  for 
a  year’s  board  in  advance.,r  i

that 

“ M ichigan  in   S um m er.”

The  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Rail­
way,  the  “ Fishing  Line,”   has  pub­
lished  a  48-page  book  about  the  resorts 
on  its  line,  and  will  send  it  to  any  ad­
dress  on  receipt  of  a  two-cent  stamp  for 
postage.  Contains  280  pictures,  rates 
of  ail  hotels  and  boarding  houses,  and 
information  about  Petoskey,  Bay  View, 
Harbor  Point,  Wequetonsing,  Oden, 
Walloon  Lake,  Mackinac  Island,  Trav­
erse  City,  Omena,  Neahtawanta,  North- 
port,  etc.

“ Where  to  go  Fishing,”   two  cents, 

will  interest  fishermen.

Summer  schedule  with  through  sleep­
ing  car  service  goes  into  effect  June 
22.  New  time  folders  sent  on  applica­
tion.

C.  L.Lockwood,  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,

64  S.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel 

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

V A LLEY   C IT Y   MILLING  C O ..

GRAND  R A PID S.  MICH.

Beautiful

Large Grain Carolina

Sutton’s   Table  Rice

Cotton  Pockets.  Retails 25c.

2 5

A  Rare  Chance

Having  taken  a  stock 
of  Gravity and  Pressure 
Gasoline  Lamps  on  an 
account,  I  am  desirous 
of turning them  into cash 
as soon as possible.  Will 
sell  entire  or  in  lots  to 
suit purchaser while they 
last.  Write to-day.

H.  W.  CLARK,

Ann Arbor,  Mich.

Livingston

Hotel

Stands  for  everything  that 
is  first-class,  luxurious  and 
convenient  in  the  eyes  of 
the  traveling  public.

Grand  Rapids

Alpha

,  New  England 
[ I f  Salad  Cream

Contains No Oil

The Cream of All Salad Dressings

This  is  the  cream  of  great  renown, 
That  is  widely  known  in  every  town. 
For  even  the  lobster  under  the  sea 
With  TH IS  a  salad  would  fain  to  be.

20 and 25 cents per bottle

Valuable pillow  tops  given  free  for  5 

trade  marks.

H. J. Blodgett Co., Inc.

12 India St. 

Boston, Mass.

Also  manufacturers  of

W onderland Pudding Tablets

The  perfect  pure  food  dessert.  One 
tablet,  costing  one  penny,  makes  a 
quart  of delicious  pudding.

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

Drugs—Chemicals

M ich ig an   S tate  B o ard   o f P h a rm a c y

Term expires
Hs s r y   H e im , Saginaw 
•  Deo. 31,1902
Deo. 81,1903
W ir t   P.  Doty. Detroit - 
Cla ren ce b . Stoddard, Monroe  Deo. 31,1904 
J o h n d . Mu ir , Grand Rapids 
Deo. 81, in *  
Ar t h u r  H. We b b e r , Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

• 

President,
Secretary, He n r y   H e im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Do t y,  D etroit

E x a m in a tio n   Sessions.

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

M ich.  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ssociation. 

President—John  D.  Mu ir , Grand Baplds. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  D etroit 
Treasurer—D.  A.  Ha g e n s, Monroe.

T H E   DRUGGIST’S  CALLERS.

T h ey   A re  N um erous,  B u t  N ot  A lw ays 

W ritten for the Tradesman.

P ro fitab le.

In  this  drug  store  where  I  go  every 
day  for  a  loaf,  just  as  though  it  were  a 
bakery,  I  have  observed  that  a  great 
many  people  who  honor  the  druggist 
with  their  distinguished  patronage  are 
not  highly  profitable  customers.  They 
are  just  as  particular  as  the  man  who 
has  a  $1.70  prescription  put  up  and  are 
apt  to  do  a  great  deal  more  kicking 
about  things  than  he  does.  There  is, 
for  instance,  the  woman  who  wants  to 
buy  patent  medicines  at  cut  rates.  She 
thinks  a  dollar  bottle  of  sarsaparilla 
ought  to  sell  for about  98  cents,  so  the 
public  could  afford  to  buy  more.  She  is 
one  of  these  bargain-counter  fiends  and 
patrons  of  rummage  and  microbe  sales 
and  she  thinks  that  everything  ought  to 
be  sold  at  a  discount  of  about 
or 2 
per cent,  from  the  list  price. 
I  have  no 
suggestions  to  offer  as  to  how  the  drug­
gist  should  deal  with  this  customer. 
I 
can  only  narrate  bow  this  customer tries 
to  deal  with  the  druggist.

Passing on,as  the  professional  lecturer 
would  say,  to  other  highly profitable  pa­
trons  of  the  drug  store,  we  come  to the 
postage  stamp  buyer.  No druggist  keeps 
stamps  with  the  idea  that  they will yield 
in  so  much  as  the 
him  a  profit,  only 
customer  may  happen  to  invest 
in  a 
soda  these  hot  days  or  buy  some  trifling 
article  she  has  in  mind  to  purchase 
on  her  shopping  tour.  The  druggist 
ought  not  to  bank  too  much  on  the post­
age  stamp  as  a  trade  puller.  Have  you 
ever  noticed  that  your  most regular post­
age  stamp  patrons  seldom  buy  anything 
else?  Adhesive  as  the  postage  stamp 
is,  it  is  not  a  success  as  a  puller  of 
trade.  A  good  many  of  the  druggist's 
female  customers  seem  to  think  that  the 
druggist  should  sell  postage  stamps  a 
little  cheaper  than  the  postmaster  does 
in  order  to  get  the  business.  Tney 
imagine 
it  is  a  case  of  competition  be­
tween  the  druggist  and  the  local  post­
master,  whereas  in  truth  neither  of  them 
may  care  much  whether  he  gets  the 
postage  stamp  trade  of  the  town  or  not. 
I  once  knew  a  man  who  had  it  in  for 
the  postmaster of  his  town.  He  used  to 
send  down  to  the  county  seat  to  buy  his 
stamps,  so  the  local  dispenser  of  stamps 
would  not  get  the  business.  He  was  a 
large  buyer  of  stamps,  but  the  post­
master  did  not  seem  to  feel  very  bad 
about  losing  his  custom,  since  the  man 
in  question  mailed  all  his  letters  at  the 
home  office. 
It  was  a  fourth-class  post- 
office  and  the  postmaster’s  salary  was 
figured  on  the  cancellations.

We  must  not  forget  the  small  boy.  To 
my  mind  he  is  the  most unprofitable and 
the  most  forgivable  of  the  bunch.  He 
comes  in  on  the  druggist  like  bees 
into 
a  buckwheat  field—in  swarms.  Gener­
ally  he  wants  a  free  ruler,  a  calendar,

an  almanac  or  some  empty  cigar  boxes.
often  wonder  what  the  small  boy  does 
with  the  empty  cigar  boxes  he  carries 
away. 
I  have  a  suspicion  the  thrifty 
youngster  is  piling  them  up  and  when 
he  grows  to  manhood  he  will  have  his 
mansion  on  Wealthy  avenue  equipped 
with  hardwood  floors  throughout  made 
from  the  cigar  boxes  he  lugged  away 
from  the  village  drug  store  in  boyhood. 
He  certainly  gets  enough  to  do  some 
such  thing  as  that. 
I  have  heard  that 
some  of the  boys,  not  so  thrifty,  convert 
these  boxes 
into  toy  fiddles  and  bore 
holes  into  the  bottoms  of  others,  invert 
them  and  then  go  about  inviting  little 
lads  in  Lord  Fauntleroy  suits  to  see how 
many  marbles  they  can  drop  through the 
small  aperture—all  that  go  into  the  box 
belonging  to  Fauntleroy  and  all  that fall 
outside  belonging  to  “ the  house.*’ 
If 
the  small  boy 
is  successful  in  finding 
Fauntleroys  be  will  not  need  to  save  up 
his  cigar  boxes— he  can  buy  his  hard­
wood  floors.

I  never  feel  vindictive  toward  the 
small  boy  on  a  still  hunt  for  rulers  and 
calendars  and  cigar  boxes. 
It  is  the 
It  is  the  great 
fault  of  his  training. 
Yankee  desire  to  get  something 
for 
nothing,  even  although  it  may  be  worth 
less.  His  parents  put  him  up  to  the 
almanac  idea.  Occasionally,  his  teach­
er  asks  the  school:  “ What  boy  will 
bring  me  a nice box  to  plant  some  seeds 
in  for  the  school  room  window?”   That 
afternoon  there 
is  a  deluge  of  empty 
boxes  of  all  sizes  and  shapes,  from  the 
small  wooden  box,  1x2x3  inches  with  a 
slide  top  to the  crate  your  last  showcase 
came  in.  The  teacher tells  the  boys they 
are  all  darlings  and  then  goes  and  gets 
a  box  herself  at  the  grocery.  She  does 
not  give  the  druggist  credit  for  a  gen­
erous  heart  and  800  feet  of  box  lumber; 
neither  should  he fail to give  the  teacher 
all  the  credit  for  clearing  his  shed  of 
desirable  boxes.

Then  there  is  the  one  dose  man,  as  1 
shall  call  him.  He  has  a  headache  or a 
pain 
in  the  back  or an  earache  or  an 
ulcerated  tooth,  or  perhaps,  someone  has 
discolored  his  eye  or  caused  a  nasal 
hemorrhage  and  he  wants  the  druggist 
to  do  something  for  it.  He  only  wants 
one  dose.  He  thinks  that  will  about 
fix  it.  He  comes  in  with  the  expecta­
tion  that  the  druggist  won’t  have  the 
nerve  to  charge  him  anything  for  his 
services. 
I  think,  if  I  were  a  druggist,
I  would  disappoint  him  in  this  regard. 
He  might  discover  it  was  more  profit­
in  a  supply  of  headache 
able  to  lay 
powders  and 
liniment  and 
toothache 
gum  against  such  a  contingency—and 
it
go to  some  other  drug  store  and  buy 
This  article  seeks  rather  to  remind 
the  druggist  of  his  troubles  than  to  pre 
scribe  a  remedy. 
It  certainly  ought 
not to  omit  one  man  for whom the  writer 
is  at  a  loss  for  a  name.  He  is  the  man 
who  buys  a  5  cent  cigar,  leans  one  el 
bow  and  the  weight  of  bis  person  on 
your  showcase  until 
it  creaks  at  the 
joints—the  showcase,  not  his  person 
and  blows  blue  rings  of  odorous  smoke 
your  newly-frescoed  ceiling 
toward 
When  he 
is  not  blowing  the  smoke  to 
ward  the  ceiling  he  is  wafting  it  toward 
the  soda 
fountain  until  any  patrons 
thereof  that  may  be  endeavoring  to  eat 
your 
cold  concoctions  in  peace  are 
forced  to  cover  their mouths  with  thei 
handkerchiefs  and  seek  safety 
from 
suffocation  in  the  open  air.  He  makes 
the  front  end  of  the  store  look 
like  the 
Newfoundland  banks  on  a  foggy  day  or 
the  inside  of  a  smokehouse  in  the  busy 
season.  What  will  it  profit  a  man  if  be 
sell  one  5  cent  cigar and  lose  his  soda

fountain  trade? 
If  I  were  a  druggist,  I 
think  I  would  display  a  sign  something 
like  this:

Buy  your  three-fors  here;
Smoke  them  in  the  alley.

Douglas  Malloch.

F ie ld   O ccupied b y   th e   R eg istered   P h a r ­

m acist.
W ritten for the Tradesman.

Is  there  anything  about  the knowledge
registered  pharmacist  must  possess 
which  makes  him  of  any  more  value  to 
the  world  than  any  other  clerk?  Of 
course  a  drug  clerk 
is  no  better  than 
any  other  clerk,  but  his  responsibilities 
are  far  greater than  those  of  the  grocery 
or  hardware  clerk.  He  must  spend  time 
and  money  to  prepare  himself  for  his 
chosen  profession.  Night  after  night 
must  he  dig  into  chemistry  until  he  is 
well  enough  versed 
in  that  science  to 
satisfy  the  State Board.  Many  and many 
long  hours  must  he  spend  over  his 
materia  medica  until  he  knows  as  much 
of  the  science  as  the  average  practicing 
physician.  He  must  cram  his  head  with 
pharmacy  until  he  knows  from  what 
source  every  drug  or  chemical  is  ob­
tained,  through  what  process  it  is  put, 
what  chemical  changes  have  taken place 
and,  besides  the  correct  name,  he  must 
remember  nearly  all  drugs  by  a  half 
dozen  different  names  by  which  they 
are  known.

After  years  of  study  and  toil  he  may 
be  able  to  pass  the  State  Board  exami­
nation  and  secure  his  certificate.  Then 
he  begins  to  look  about  him  for  a  situa­
tion  and  naturally  turns  to  the  want 
columns  of  the  various  publications  to 
which  he  has  access.

registered 

At  the  present  time  he  is  quite 

liable 
to  find  one  which  reads  about  like  this: 
‘ Wanted—A 
pharmacist 
who  understands  how  to run a  soda foun­
tain  and  can  handle  a  paint  and  wail 
paper  trade."  He  has  at  last  found  his 
reward  for  his  years  of  hard  study.  A 
chance  to  run  a  soda  fountain,  wash 
dishes  and  sell  paint  and  wall  paper, 
with  now  and  then  a  prescription  to  rest 
up  on!  This  is,  indeed,  a  pleasant  po­
sition  for  a  man  who  knows  as  much 
about  medicine  as  half  the  practicing 
physicians.  He  thinks  of  the  days  when 
he  was  serving  his apprenticeship,  when 
he  toiled  all  day  and  half  the  night  at 
the  soda  fountain,  or  when,  with  his 
color  card and  step  ladder,  he  * ‘ handled 
a  paint  and  paper  trade"  and  longed 
for  the  time  when  he  could  become 
registered  and  could  watch  the  appren­
tice  do  this  work.  The  time  has  now 
come—that 
is,  he  has  become  regis­
tered—but  the  same  kind  of  work  is  be­
fore  him.  There  is  a  slight  difference, 
is  registered  now,  his 
however:  as  he 
responsibility 
is  increased  and  perhaps 
his  salary  is  a  dollar  or  two  more  than 
it  formerly  was.

This  is  a  pleasant  state  of  affairs. 

It 
is  enough  to  make  a  drug  clerk  quit  his 
position  and  learn  the  blacksmith trade. 
It  seems  that  pharmacy  is  nothing  more 
than  a  trade,  after  all,  and  a  registered 
pharmacist 
is  nothing  more  than  a  la­
borer  and,  instead  of  holding  a  “ posi­
tion, ”   he  has  a  “ job.”  

Tip  Wills.

T h e  D ru g   M ark et.

Opium— Is  dull  and  without  change. 
If  anything,  it  is  a  little  less  firm  than 
last  week.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  steady.
Cod  Liver O il—Has  advanced  $5  per 
barrel  and  very  much  higher  prices  are 
looked  for.

Menthol— Is  very  firm  and  advancing.
Paris  Green— Is  very  scarce  and  ad­
vancing  under an  active  demand  and  a 
large  crop  of  bugs  in  sight.

Oil  Spearmint— Is  scarce  and  has  ad­

vanced.

Oil  Bay— Is  scarce  and  higher.
Oil  Cloves— Is  tending  higher,  on  ac­

count  of  an  advance  in  the  spice.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  and 

is 

tending  higher.

Fourth of July 
Celebration

Buy  your  Flags, Welcome  Banners, 
Torpedo  Canes  and  Ammunition 
from the
Grand Rapids Stationery Co.

29 No. Ionia St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Wrapping Paper and  Twines

It’s  Like

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

$20 FOUNTAIN

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

Grant Manufacturing Co.,  Inc.

Pittsburg,  Pa. 

,

F I R E W O R K S

W e make a
Specialty

of

Public

Exhibitions
and can furnish
Displays

for any  amount  on 

short notice.

Estimates  submit­
ted  to  committees 
for approval.

Advise the amount you wish to  invest  in 

Fireworks and send for one of our
Special  Assortments

with  programme  for  firing,  giving  the 
best possible  effects.  Catalogue  on  ap­
plication.

Fred Brundage,

Wholesale Druggist, 

Muskegon, Mich.

B u ck e ye  P a in t  &  V a rn is h   Co.

PAINT,  COLOR  AND  VARNISH  MAKERS 

M ixed  Paint,  W hite  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  W ood  Fillers 

Sole  Manufacturers  CRYSTAL ROCK  FINISH for Interior and Exterior U se. 

Corner  15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo,  Ohio.

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

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

A dvanced—Oil Spearment, Paris Green. Linseed Oil. 
D eclined—

20® 22
® 18
® 30
® 41
® 41
9® 11
9® 11
23® 25
1M@ 2
3®
5
3M@ 4
@ 2
@ 2  60
50® 56
@ 2  00
@
@
@
®

M enthol....................
® 4 80 Seldlitz Mixture.......
Morphia, S„ F. & W. 2  15® 2 40 Sinapls......................
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q. 2  15® 2 40 Sinapls,  opt..............
Morphia, Mai............ 2  15® 2 40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus  Canton__
@ 40
V o es......................
Myrlstlca, No. 1.......
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch, DeVo’s
Nux Vomica...po. 15
® 10 Soda, Boras..............
Os Sepia....................
35® 37 Soda,  Boras, po.......
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D  Co......................
@ 1 00 Soda,  C u b ...............
Plcls Liq. N.N.M gal.
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........
d o z.........................
® 2 00 Soda,  A sb.................
Plcls Liq.. quarts__
@ 1 00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Plcls Liq.,  pints.......
@ 85 Spts. Cologne............
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80
@ 60 Spts. Ether  Co........
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
@ 18 Spts. M yrda Dorn...
Piper  Alba__ po. 36
© 30 Spts. Vinl Rect.  bbl.
Plfx Burgun.............
@ 7 Spts. Vinl Rect. Mbbl
Plumbl Acet.............
10® 12 Spts. Vinl Rect. lOgal
Pulvls Ipecac et Opil 1  30® 1 50 Spts. Vinl Rect. 5 gal
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal...
80® 1  06
& P. D. Co., doz...
® 75 Sulphur,  Subl..........
2M@ 4
Pyrethrum,  pv........
25® 30 Sulphur, Roll............
214® 3M
Quasslse....................
8® 10 T am u ln d s...............
8® 10
30® 40 Terebenth  Venice...
Quinta, S. P. &  W...
28® 30
3 ® 40 Theobromas..............
Qulnla, S.  German..
50® 55
30® 40 V anilla...................... 9 00®16  00
Qulnia, N. Y.............
Rubla Tlnctorum__
12® 14 Zlncl Sulph...............
7®
8
Saccharum Lactls pv
20® 22
Salacln...................... 4  60® 4 76
50
Sanguis  Draconis...
4 0 ®
Sapo, W ....................
12® 14 Whale, winter..........
Sapo M ......................
12 Lard, extra...............
1 0 ®
® 16 Lard, No. 1...............
Sapo  G ......................

B B L .  O A L .
70
90
66

70
85
60

2 7

66 
Linseed, pure raw ... 
Linseed, boiled.........  67 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
56 

69
70
80
60
F a in ts  b b l .  l b .
Red Venetian..........   13£  2  ®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  134  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
lii  2  ®3 
Putty,  commercial..  214  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  234®3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
13® 
15
Am erican.............. 
70®  75
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  P u ls ............14M®  18M
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 
16
Lead, red..................   S  @  6M
Lead,  white..............  6  ®  6M
Whiting, white Span 
®  90
Whiting, gilders’__  
®  95
®  1  25 
White, P u ls, Amer. 
Whiting, P u ls, Eng.
d lfl.........................  
@ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

V arnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  l  20
Extra Turo...............   1  60®  17 0
Coach  Body,............2 75®  3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum .......1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk D am u..  1  56® 1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  79

A cidum

Acetlcum  .................$ 
6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  75
Boraclc...................... 
®  17
34®  29
Garbollcum............... 
43®  45
Cltrlcum....................  
5
3® 
Hydrochlor...............  
Nltrocum.................. 
8®  10
12® 
Oxallcum................... 
14
®   15
Phosphorlum,  dll... 
SaUcyllcum.............. 
60®  53
Sulphurlcum............  13£@ 
5
Tannlcum.................  1  10® 
l 20
T artarlcum .............. 
38®  40
A m m o n ia
Aqua, 16 deg.............. 
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas................... 
Ghloridum................. 
A n ilin e

4® 
6
8
6® 
13®  15
12®  
14

Black........................... 2  00® 
Brown........................ 
R ed............................  
Yellow..........................2  50® 
Baccse

80® l  00
45®  60

2 25

3 00

6® 

Oubebae...........po, 25  22®  24
Junlperus.................. 
8
Xanthoxylum..........   1  70® 1  75
B alsam u m
Copaiba..................... 
Peru  .......................... 
Terabln,  C anada.... 
Tolutan...................... 
C ortez

» 8  
65
® l   70
60®  65
60
48® 

18
v{

Abies, Canadian....... 
Casslae........................ 
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po. 
Primus Virgin!........  
Qulllala, g r a ............ 
Sassafras........po. 15 
Ulmus...po.  18, gr’d 
E x tra c t« »
24®  26
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
280 
30
Glycyrrhlza,  p o ......  
H»matox, 15 lb. box  11®  12
HaBmatox, i s ............ 
14
13® 
HaBmatox,  Ms..........  
16
14® 
HaBmatox, 54s..........  
16© 
17

20
18
12
12
20

Term

Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Qulma.. 
Citrate Soluble......... 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride......... 
Sulphate,  com’l . .... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt..........  
Sulphate,  pure........  

F lo ra

A rnica....................... 
Anthemls..................  
Matricaria................. 

F o lia

15
2  25
75
40
18
2
80
7

J8® 
22® 
30© 

J*
26
36

Barosma.................... 
40
35® 
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
nevelly................... 
25
20® 
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25®  30
„
Salvia officinalis,  54s 
and 54s..........   .... 
12®  20
Ova Ursl....................  
8© 
10
G nm m i
©  65
Acacia, 1st picked... 
© 
45
Acacia! 2d  picked... 
35
© 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
@  28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po.......... .. 
45® 
66
14
12® 
Aloe, Barb. po.i8@20 
© 
12
Aloe, Cape... .po. 15. 
30
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40 
© 
Ammoniac................• 
66©  60
Assafoetlda.. ..po. 40  26® 
40
Benzolnum............... 
80® 
55
Catechu, Is .......... . 
©
©
Catechu, Ms.............. 
Catechu, 54s.............. 
© 
“
Camphorae............... 
»4® 
to
®  40
Euphorblum... po. 35 
Galbanum................. 
1  00
Gamboge..............po  80®  «6
Gualacum.......po. 36  @ 3 5
Kino............po. $0.75 
®  75
M astic.....................  
  ®  6J
®  40
M yrrh............. po. 46 
OP11....PO.  4.20@4.30  3  20®  3 26
Shellac..........—  
36®  45
Shellac, bleached.... 
40®  45
Tragacanth............... 
70®  1  00

H erb a

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Rupatorlum..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........ oz. pkg 
M ajorum __ oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp.-oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Rue................oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
rhymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t............ 
Carbonate, P a t........  
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
'arbonate, Jennings 

O lenm

25
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

65®  60
18®  20
18®  20
18®  20

Absinthium...............  7 00®  7  20
Amygdalae,  D ulc.... 
50®  60
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8  25
Aurantl Cortex.........2  10®  2 20
Bergam li..................... 2 40®  2  50
80®  85
Cajlputl..................... 
CaryophylU............... 
80
75® 
C ed ar............ ........... 
80®  85
Chenopadll...............  
®  2 75
Glnnamonll..............1  00®  1 10
Cltronella.................  
85®  40

®  50
®   50
®  50

60
60
60
60
50
so
60
'so
60
so
so
75
60
75
76
1 00
30
Bo
80
So
so
Bo
Bo
60
Bo
35
Bo
60
So
60
So
75
75
Bo
Bo
5o
So
75
Bo
1  Bo
Bo
s¿
So
5¿
s¿
60
60
60
60
2¡j

 

Conlum Mac.............  
80®  90
Copaiba....................   115®  l 25
Cubebae...................... 1  30®   1 36
Exechthltos.............   1  00® 1 10
Erigeron...................  1  00®  1 10
G aultherla...............2  00® 2 10
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  76
Go8slppll, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma..................   1  65®  1 70
Juntpera...................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula...............  
90®  2 00
Llmonls..... ..............  1  15®  t 25
Mentha Piper..........   2  10® 2 20
Mentha Verid..........   1  90® 2 00
Morrhuæ, ¡gal..........   1  26®  1 30
M y rd a ........................4  oo@ 4 so
75®   3 00
Olive.........................  
Plcls Liquida............ 
10®  12
®  36
Plcls Liquida,  gal... 
R ld n a.......................   1  00®  1 06
Rosmarinl................. 
@  1 00
Rosæ, ounce.............   6  00® 6 50
Sucolnl...................... 
40®  46
90®  l 00
S abina...................... 
Santal......................... 2  75® 7 00
Sassafras................... 
56®  60
®   65
Sinapls,  ess., ounce. 
Tlglil.........................   1  60®  l 60
40®  50
Thyme.......................  
Thyme, opt............... 
®   1 60
Theobromas  ............ 
15®  20
P o tassiu m
Bl-Carb......................  
18 
Bichrom ate.............. 
15 
B rom ide................... 
67
Carb
15
gg
Chlorate... po. 17®19 
18
Cyanide.............  34®
Iodide.......................   2  30® 2  40
Potassa, Bitart,  pure  28®  30
®  15
Potassa, Bltart,  com. 
7®  10
Potass Nltras, opt... 
8
Potass  N ltras......... 
6® 
Prus slate........... 
26
Sulphate  po...... 
18

is®
13®
62®
_  
- 
16® 

23® 
15® 

R adix

Sc 111 SB  Co................... 
Tolutan.....................  
Prunus  vlrg.............. 
T in ctu res
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F  
Aloes......................... 
Aloes and M yrrh.... 
A rn ica......................  
Assafoetlda...............  
Atrope Belladonna., 
Aurantl Cortex........  
Benzoin..................... 
Benzoin Co...............  
Barosma....................  
Cantharldes.............. 
Capsicum.................. 
Cardamon................. 
Cardamon Co............ 
Castor.......................  
Catechu)..................... 
Cinchona..................  
Clnohona Co.............. 
Colum ba................... 
Cubebae......................  
Cassia Acutlfol......... 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis....................  
Ergot.......................... 
Ferrl  Chlorldum .... 
G entian..................... 
Gentian Co...............  
Gulaca........................ 
Gulaca ammon......... 
Hyoscyamus.............  
Iodine  ......................  
Iodine, colorless....... 
K in o .......................... 
Lobelia.....................  
M yrrh........................ 
Nux Vomica.............. 
Opil.........................  
Opil,  comphorated.. 
Opil, deodorized....... 
Q uassia..................... 
R hatany.................... 
R hel...........................  
Sangulnarla.............. 
Serpentarla.............. 
Stromonlum.............. 
T olutan..................... 
V alerian ................... 
Veratrum  V erlde... 
Zingiber....................  

25
33
12
26

_
12®
16®  

M iscellaneous 

Aconltum...........  20® 
Althae................ 
30® 
A nchusa........... 
10® 
Arum  po........... 
©  
Calamus............   20®
Gentiana.........po. 16 
Glychrrhlza...pv.  15 
18
Hydrastis  Canaden.
75 
Hydrastis Can., p o ..
@  80
.Ether, SptS.Nlt.? F   30®  35
12®
Hellebore, Alba, po.
E th er, Spts. Nit. 4 F   34®  38
iso   22
Inula,  po.................  
A lum en....................   214® 
3
Ipecac, po.................  3  60®  3  75
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Iris  p lO X ...p o . 36@38  36®  40
Annatto.....................  
40®  50
Jalapa. p r.................  25®   30
4®
Antlmoni, po.
Maranta,  14s............ 
®  35
Antlmonlet Potass T  40®  50
Podophyllum,  p o ...  22®  25
®   25
A ntlpyrln.................
Rhel........................... 
75®  1  00
@  20 
A ntlfebrln...............
@  1  26
Rhel,  cu t................... 
®  45
Argent! Nltras, oz...
Rhel, pv....................  
76®  1  35
Arsenicum ...............  
12
10® 
Splgella....................  
35®  38
46®  50
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
® 
Sangulnarla.. .po.  15 
18
1 70 
Bismuth S. N............  1
Serpentarla.............. 
80®
® 
9
Calcium Chlor.,  is...
Senega......................  60®
®  10 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
Smllax, officinalis H.
®
®  12 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms., 
Smllax, M.................
@
®  80 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
10®
Sclllæ............. po.  35
® 
lS 
Capsid Fructus, a t..
Symplocarpus,Fceti-
®  15
Capslci  Fructus, po
®  25
® 15
@ 25 Capslci Fructus B ‘ po
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30
12® 14
15® 20 Caryophyllus. .po. 15
Valeriana,  German.
14® 16 Carmine, No. 40.......
@  3 00
Zingiber a .................
56® 60
25® 27 Cera  Alba...............
Zingiber j ...................
40®
42
Cera  Flava...............
Sem en
40
Coccus  ......................
@
Anlsum..........po.  18
@ 15 Cassia  Fructus........
@ 36
13® 15 Centrarla...................
Apium (graveleons).
@ 10
B ird ,is......................
4®
6 Cetaceum...................
@ 45
Cam!............... po.  15
10® 11 Chloroform..............
56® 60
Cardamon................. 2  25®  1  76 Chloroform,  squlbbs
®  1 10
Corlandrum..............
8® 10 Chloral Hyd C rst.... 1  35®  1  60
Cannabis Satlva.......
4M® 5
20® 25
Chondrus..................
Cydonlum.................
75®  1  00 Cinchonidlne.P. & W 38® 48
Chenopodlum..........
15® 16 Clnchonldlne, Germ.
38® 48
Dlptenx Odorate.... 1  00®  1  10 Cocaine.................... 4  55®  4 75
Fcenlculum...............
@ 10 Corks, llst.dls.pr.ct.
76
Foenugreek, po........
7®
9 Creosotum.................
@ 46
L ln l...........................
4  @ 6 C reta..............bbl. 75
2
©
Llnl, grd.......bbl. 4
4  ®
6 Creta, prep...............
@ 5
Lobelia................... 1  fiö01  1  Mi
5 Creta, R ubra............
Pharlaris Canarian.. 4M®
8
®
R ap a .........................
5 Crocus  ......................
4M®
25® 30
9® 10 Cudbear....................
@ 24
Sinapls  Alba...........
Sinapls  Nigra..........
11® 12 Cuprl  Sulpb.............. 6M®
8
D extrine................... 
7® 
10
S p iritn s
Ether Sulph.............  
78®  92
8
Emery, all numbers. 
®  
Emery, po.................  
6
®  
E rg o ta............po. 90 
85®  90
Flake  W hite............ 
12®  15
®   23
G alla.......................... 
G am bler................... 
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
®  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box....... 
70
Glue, brown..............  *  11® 
13
Glue,  white.............. 
15®  25
Glycerlna...................  17M© 
25
®  25
Grana Paradlsl......... 
Humulus................... 
as®  56
®   1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
®   90
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
©   1  10 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
®   1  20 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum 
60®  60
Hydrargyrum ..........  
®  86
Icnthyobolla,  A m ... 
65®  70
Indigo.......................  
76®  l  00
Iodine,  Resubl.........  3 40® 3  60
Iodoform...................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulln...................... 
®   50
lycopodium.............. 
65®
70
M a d s ........................ 
66®
65®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy
d ru g  Iod...............
®  25
10® 
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
12
8
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
®  1M 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannla. S.  F . . . .. .. .   60® 
sa

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2  so®  2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 50®  2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
l  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
l  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
1 00 
carriage.................
76
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for
1  40
slate use.................
Syrups
A cacia......................  
Aurantl Cortex......... 
Zingiber....................  
Ipecac........................ 
Ferrl Iod................... 
Rhel Arom...............  
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega...................... 
Belli».,,  ................... 

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2  50 
Frumentl,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2  25
Frum entl..................  1  26®  1  50
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1  65®  2 00
Junlperls  Co............  1  75® 3  50
Saacnarum  N. E __ 1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vinl Galll..........  1  75® 6  50
vinl  Oporto..............  1  25® 2 00
Vinl Alba..................   1  25®  2  00

®  60
®  50
@  50
®   60
®  50
®  50
50®  60
®  50
A   N

D r u g s

We  are  Importers  and  Jobbers of Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent Medicines.

We  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

We  have  a  full  line  of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

We  give our  personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

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

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Fels  Naptha  Soap

DECLINED

Domestic  Cheese 
Navy  Beans 
Flake  Tapioca

F a ir----
Good ... 
F ancy.. 
Gallons.

CARBON  OILS 

B arre ls

Eocene..........................
Perfection....................
Diamond W hite..........
D. S. Gasoline.............
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder........................ 29
Engine............................19
Black, w inter...............  9

1  80 
1  35 
1  40 
3 60

@11 
@10 
@  9 @12% 
@ 10% 
@34 
@22 
@10X

CATSUP

Columbia,  pints.................... 2 22
Columbia, % pints.................l   25

C H EESE 
Acme..........................
Elsie........................... 
Em blem....................  
Gem...........................
Gold Medal...............  
Id e a l........................  
Jersey........................
Riverside...............
B rick.......................... 
Edam ......................... 
Llmburger................  
Pineapple.................  
Sap  Sago................... 

@12
®
g u n
@

14@“
©J®
13©14
50©75
19©20

90

l  00
1  50

C H E W IN G   GUM 
American Flag Spruce.... 
65
Beeman’s Pepsin......................60
Black Jac k ........................
Largest Gum  Made..........  
00
Sen Sen Breath  Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Loaf.........................  
88
Y ucatan............................... 
30

CHICORY

Bulk.........................................   8
R ed ...........................................  *
Eagle........................................   ’
Franck’s .................................   1
Schener’s .................................  b

CHOCOLATE 

W alter Baker & Co.’s.

®

1 uo

German  Sweet........................  23
Prem ium ................................
Breakfast Cocoa......................  46

Runkel Bros

11

Vienna S w eet......................... 
V anilla............................... . •
Premium...............................
CLOTHES  LIN E S 

24

Sisal

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra.........
72 ft, 3 thread,  ex tra........
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra........
60 ft. 6 thread,  extra........
72 ft, 6 thread,  extra.........

Jute

60 ft.......................................
72 f t ..................................
.  ...........................
120 ft.....................................
Cotton  Victor
.  ...........................
6f ft.......................................
70 ft.......................................
Cotton Windsor
59 ft.......................................
60 ft.......................................
70 ft.......................................
.  ...........................
Cotton Braided
40 ft.......................................*
J 22
5» ft.......................................
70 ft.......................................
* 26
G alvanized  W ire 
l 00
No. 20, each 100 ft long....
l 00
No. 19, each 100 ft long....

COCOA

Cleveland..............................
Colonial, Ms  ........................
Colonial, %s.........................
Epps...............  
.................
H uyler..................................
Van Houten, %s..................
Van Houten, %s..................
Van Houten, %s..................
Van Houten,  is ..................
W ebb.;................................
Wilbur, %s...........................
Wilbur. Ms...........................

COCOANUT

Dunham’s %s......................
Dunham’s Ms and Ms.......
Dunham’s  Ms....................
Dunham’s  Ms..............*•••
Bulk.....................................
COCOA  SH ELLS
20 lb. bags.........................
Less quantity...................
Pound packages..............

C O FFE E  
Roasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehling........................
P urity...................................
No 1  H otel...........................
M onogram................. ........
Special H otel.;....................
Parker house.......................
Honolulu  ...........................
Fancy  Maracaibo..............
Maracaibo...........................
Porto  Rican........................
Marexo................................

1  00 
1  40 
1 70 
1  29

75 
90 
1  05 
1  50

1  20 
1  40 
1  65 
1  85

1  90
2  10

26
26%
27
28 
13

.30% 
.28 
.28 
.26 
.23 
.21 
.17 
.16 
.13 
.15 
• 11%

6

8
Belle Rose...................
16
Bent’s W ater..............
9
Cinnamon Bar............
Coffee Cake,  Iced......
10
Coffee Cake. Jav a ----
10
Cocoanut Macaroons.
18
Cocoanut Taffy...........
10
Cracknells...................
168
Creams, Ic e d ..;.........
Cream Crisp................
10%
Cubans........................
11%
Currant  F ru it.........
12
Frosted Honey. 
12
9 
Frosted Cream.
Ginger Gems.l’rgeorsm ’ll 
8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C ....
6%
Gladiator.............................
10%
9
Grandma Cakes.................
8
Graham Crackers..............
12
Graham  Wafers.................
16
Grand Rapids  T ea............
12
Honey Fingers...................
10 8
Iced Honey Crumpets.......
Im perials.............................
12
Jumbles, Honey................
12
Lady Fingers................. ...
12
Lemon Snaps, 
16
Lemon W afers.................
Marshmallow.....................
16
Marshmallow Creams.......
16
Marshmallow W alnuts—
16
8
Mary A nn...........................
Mixed Picnic......................
11%
7%8
Milk Biscuit........................
Molasses  Cake...................
9
Molasses Bar.....................
Moss Jelly B ar...................
12%
12
Newton................................
8
Oatmeal Crackers..............
12
Oatmeal W afers.................
9
Orange Crisp......................
9"8
Orange Gem........................
Penny Cake........................
7%8%
Pilot Bread, XXX..............
Pretzelettes, hand made..
Pretzels, hand  made.........
8%
9
Scotch Cookies...................
7%8
Sears’ Lunch......................
Sugar Cake..........................
Sugar Cream. XXX..........
Sugar Squares....................
8
13
Sultanas...............................
16
Tuttl F ruttl..........•.............
16
Vanilla Wafers...................
Vienna Crimp....................
8
E. J. Kruoe A Co. ’s baked good 

are

Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares.
W rite for  complete  price  list 

with Interesting discounts.
CREA M  TA R T A R

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

D R IE D   FR U IT S 

A pples

C alifo rn ia P ru n e s

Sundrled...........................   ©6%
Evaporated, 60 lb. boxes.  ©10% 
100-120 25 lb. boxes.........  © 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes.........  ©  4K
80-90 26 lb. boxes.........  ©  6M
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes.........  ©  5K
60-7025 lb. boxes :.......   © 6%
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes.........  ©  /%
40-5025lb. boxes.........  ©  8-a
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes......... 
9
C alifo rn ia  F ru its

K cent less In 50 lb. oases 

 

P eel

C itron

R aisin s

A pricots.......................   © 11%
Blackberries................
N ectarines................... 
8%
Peaches........................ 
©9%
Pears.............................9%
Pitted Cherries............
Prunnelles...................
R aspberries.................
Leghorn...................................... ll
Corsican.................... 
  12%
C u rra n ts
California, 1 lb.  package__
Imported, l lb package........  7%
Imported, bulk......................  7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. b x .. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
l  75 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
l  90
Cluster 4 Crown..............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7%
8%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.......9% @10
L. M., Seeded, K  lb .... 
8
Sultanas, b u lk .......................11
Sultanas, package...............11%
FA RIN A CEO U S  GOODS 
Dried Lima............................   5%
Medium Hand Picked 
1  75
Brown Holland........................... 2 25
241 lb. packages.........................l is
Bulk, per 100 lbs..........................2 30
Flake, 50 lb. sack................  
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl........................ 6 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.......................2 50
M accaroni  a n d  V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box..............  60
Imported. 25 lb. box...................2 60
Common.......................................3 00
Chester......................................... 2 75
Em pire..........................................8 65
Green, Wisconsin, b u ...........l  90
Green, Scotch, b u ,.....................2 00
Spilt,  lb................................... 
4
Rolled Avena, bbl.......................6 40
Steel Out, 100 lb. sacks......... 2  80
Monarch, bbl...............................6 00
Monarch, % b bl..........................2 62
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2  40
Quaker, cases..............................8 20

P e a rl  B arle y

R o lled   O ats

H om iny

F a rin a

B eans

P eas

90

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans.......
Excelsior, M. & J.  l lb. cans 
Excelsior. M. A 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,  Flelbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9......................................  8%
No. 10.......................................9%
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

M aracaibo

Common.................................   8
F a ir ...........................................9
Choice......................................10
Fancy.......................................15
Common..................................  8
F a ir.........................................  9
Choice...................................... 10
F ancy......................................13
Peaberry..................................11
F a ir......................................... 13
Choice......................................16
Choice......................................13
Fancy.......................................17
Choice............................. .'....13
African.................................... 12
Fancy A frican.......................17
O  G..........................................26
P. G..........................................31

G u atem ala

M exican

J a v a

M ocha

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

P ack ag e 

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................... 10m
Dllworth............................... 10%
Jersey.................................... 10%
Lion........................................10
M cL au g h lin ’s XX X X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City %  gross..............  75
Felix % gross......................... 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross.........  85
Hummel’s tin % gross......... 1  43

E x tra c t

CONDENSED  M IL K  

4 doz In case.

3 85

B u tte r

CRA CK ERS

Gall Borden E agle....... .....6  40
Crown...........................................5 90
Daisy............................................ 4 70
Champion....................................4 25
M agnolia.....................................4 00
Challenge.....................................« 10
D im e............................................ 8 36
Milkmaid......................................6 10
Tip  Top.................. 
Nestles.........................................4 25
Highland  Cream........................5 00
St. Charles Cream...................... 4 50
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00 
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour.............................. 
6%
6%
New York...........................  
6%
Fam ily................................  
Salted................................... 
6%
Wolverine..............................  
7
Soda  XXX.......................... 
7
Soda, City...........................  
8
Long Island Wafers..........   13
Zephy rette..........................  13
F a u s t.................................. 
7%
F arina.................................
Extra Farina......................  
7%
Saltlne Oyster.................... 
7
Sw eet  G oods—Boxes
Animals.................................  10
Assorted  Cake.....................  10

O yster

Soda

Index to  Markets

By Columns

 

 

 

C

A

B

Col.
Akron  Stoneware...................  15
A labastlne...............................  1
Ammonia.................................  
l
Axle Grease.................. 
l
 
Baking Powder........................  1
Bath  Briok............................... 
l
Bluing.......................................  J
Brooms......................................  1
B rushes.................................... 
i
Butter Color............................. 
l
Candles.....................................  14
Candles.....................................   1
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
C rackers..................................  4
Cream T a rta r..................—   5
Dried  Fruits...........................   5
Farinaceous  Goods...............   5
Fish and Oysters....................   13
Fishing Tackle........................  6
Flavoring Extracts.................  6
Fly  P aper................................   6
Fresh M eats............................   6
F ru its.......................................   J4
Fruit Can  W rench....................6
Gelatine....................................  6
Grain Bags...............................  7
Grains and F lo u r...................  7
H erb s.......................................  7
Hides and Pelts......................  13
Indigo.......................................  7
J e lly .........................................   7

D
F

H

G

J

I

I.

 

 

P

M

B
S

N
o

Lamp Burners.........................  15
Lamp Chimneys......................  15
Lanterns...................................  15
Lanterh  Globes......................   15
Licorice....................................  7
Lye............................................  7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses...................................  7
M ustard....................................  7
N uts..........................................   14
Oil Cans....................................  15
Olives.......................................   7
Pickles.......................................  7
P ip es.....................  
7
Playing Cards..........................  8
Potash.......................................  8
Provisions................................   8
B ice...........................................  8
Saleratus..................................  9
Sal Soda....................................  9
S alt............................................   9
Salt  F ish ..................................  »
Seeds.........................................  8
Shoe Blacking..........................  9
Snuff.........................................  10
Soap..........................................   9
Soda.......................  
10
Spices................ 
10
Starch.......................................  io
Stove Polish............................   10
Sugar.........................................  ll
Syrups......................................   io
Table  Sauce.............................  12
T ea............................................   H
Tobacco....................................  ll
T w ine.......................................   12
V inegar....................................  12
Washing Powder.......................13
Wtcklng....................................  13
Woodenwar*...........................  18
W rapping Paper.....................  13
Teas!  Cake.
13

T
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T

 

 

 

 

doz.  gross

A X L E   G R EA SE
a u ro ra .......................... 55 
Castor  OU..................... 60 
Diamond.......................50 
Frazer’s ........................ 75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

8 00
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

M ica, tin boxes......... 75 
Paragon.......................55 

9 00
6 00

B A K IN G   POW DER 

E gg

Id lb. cans,  4 doz. case ......3 75
14 lb. cans,  2 doz. case........3 75
1 lb. cans,  1 doz. case........ 3 75
51b. cans, 14 doz. case.. .*..8 00

JAXON

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

Royal

lOcstze....  90 
14 lb. cans  1  35 
6oz. cans,  l  90 
14  lb. cans 2  50 
44 lb.  cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4  80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH   B R IC K

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

BLUING

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

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

CANNED  GOODS 

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

B lack b erries

S tandards.................  

1  to
3  36

80

B eans

B aked........................  1  oo@i  so
Bed  Kidney.............. 
75©  85
String.......................  
70
 
76
W ax...........................  

B lu e b errie s
S tandard...................... 
B ro o k   T ro u t

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

C lam s.
Little Neck, 1 lb ......  
Little Neck. 2 lb.......

C lam   B o u illo n

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

C h erries
Bed  Standards............
W hite............................

C orn

F a ir............................
G ood.......................... 
F ancy............................... 

F ren c h   Peas
Sur Extra F ine..............
Extra  Fine.....................
Fine.................................
Moyen.................................. 
G ooseberries

*0

88
2  16
3  60 
2  40

Standard..................  
H om iny
Standard.................... 
L obster
Star, % lb..................  
Star, l  lb ...................
Picnic Tails...............
M ackerel
Mustard, l i b ............ 
Mustard, 2 lb ............
Soused, l i b ...............
Soused, 2 lb ..............
Tomato, l lb ..............
Tomato, 2 lb ..............
M ushroom s
Hotels.........................  
Buttons......................  
O ysters
Cove, 1 lb ................... 
1  55 
Cove, 2 lb ...................
95
Cove, l lb  Oval.........
Peaches
Pie 
85©  90
...................... 
YeUOW......................  1  6«0l  86

1  75
2  80
1  75
2 80
1  75
2  80

18@20
22@25

85

P ears

P eas

Standard.......................... 
Fancy................................ 
M arrow fat....................... 
Early Ju n e....................... 
Early June  Sifted..
P l u m s

1  60

BROOMS

No. l Carpet............................ 2 7o
No. 2 Carpet............................ 2 25
No. 3 Carpet............................ 2 16
No. 4 Carpet...........................l  75
Parlor  Gem............................ 2 40
Common W hisk.....................  85
Fancy Whisk...........................1 10
W arehouse..............................3 60

BRUSHES 

M ilw aukee  D ustless

F iber.............................1  00©3 00
Russian Bristle............3  oo<&5  oo
Discount, 33%%  in doz. lots. 

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

Solid Back,  8 In....................   45
Solid Back, ll I n ...................  96
Pointed Ends.........................   85
No. 8..............................................1 00
No. 7......................................... ...1 30
No. 4 :...........................................1 70
No. 8.............................................. 1 90
No. 3........................................   75
No. 2..............................................1 10
No. 1........................ 
1  75
W., R. A Co.’s, 15c size....  125
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size__   2 00
Electric Light, 8s.................. 12
Electric Light, 16s.................12%
Paraffine, 6s...........................10%
Paraffine, 12s......................... ll
Winking..........   .................... 29

BU TTER   COLOR 

CANDLES

86

Russian  Cavier

25©2 76
35©2 56
l  00
l  10
l  18
1  16

Plum s........................  
Pineapple
G rated ......................   1 
Sliced..........................  1 
Pumpkin
F a ir...........................  
Good.......................... 
F ancy........................  
Raspberries
Standard.................... 
% lb. cans.................................  3 75
% lb, cans.................................   7 00
1 lb. can...................................  12 00
Salmon 
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska...............  1 
Pink Alaska.............  
Shrimps
Standard................... 
Sardines
Domestic, %s............ 
Domestic, Kb . . . . . . .  
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, %s..........  
California %s............ 
French, %s...............  
French, %s...............  
Standard...................
F ancy........................ 
Succotash
Fair............................. 
Good.......   ........ 
Fancy.......................  

@1  85 
©2  00
30@i 40
90©i  00
l  50
3%
5
6

11@14
17©24
7©14
18©28

1  25
96
100
}  20

Strawberries

 

 

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

2 9

8

9

PLAYING  CARDS

No. 90, Steamboat..........
No. 15, Rival, assorted..
No. 20, Rover, enameled
N5. 572, Special...............
No  98, Golf, satin  finish
No. 808, Bicycle.............
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist. 

90 
1  20 
1  60
1  75
2  00 
2  00 
2  25

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

10
SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

6

Ori to

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

G R A IN   BAGS

Amoskeag, 100 In b a le __   1554
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15JÍ

GRAIN S  AN D   FLO UR 

W h eat

Wheat, white...................... 
Wheat, re d .:..................... 

W in te r  W h ea t  F lo o r 

79
77

Local Brands

S p rin g  W h ea t  F lo o r 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents...............................   4  60
Second P atent...................  4  10
Straight..............................   3  90
Second Straight.................  3  60
C lear...................................   3  30
G rah am ............................   3  60
Buckwheat.........................   4  30
Bye.......................................  3  00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond  96s........................  4  oo
Diamond 5¿s.......................   4  00
Diamond 96s.......................   4  00
Quaker 96s...........................  4  00
Quaker 54s...........................  4  00
Quaker 54s...........................  4  00
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 56s ..........   4  50
Plllsbury’s  Best 96s..........   4  40
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s ..........   4  30
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4  30
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4  30
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 56s..........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial 54s..........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial 56s..........  4  10
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  56s...................... 
4  40
Wlngold  54s ...................... 
4  30
Wlngold  56s...................... 
4  20
Ceresota 56s........................  4  60
Ceresota 54s ........................  4  40
Ceresota 56s........................  4  30
Laurel  56s...........................  4  40
Laurel  54s ...........................   4  30
Laurel  56s...........................   4  20
Laurel 56s and  Ms pap er..  4  20 
Bolted..................................  2  70
Granulated.........................   2  90
St. Car Feed, screened....  26 60
No. 1 Com and  Oats.........25  00
Unbolted Corn  Meal.........24 00
Winter Wheat Bran..........  19  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  21  00
Screenings.........................   19  00
Car  lots...............................   4656
Car lots, clipped.................  5056
Less than car lots..............
Com, car  lots....................  66
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__   10  00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__   12 00
Sage.............................................15
H ops...........................................15
Laurel Leaves  ........................  15
Senna Leave* 
25

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Olney 81 Judson’s Brand

F eed  and  M illstufib 

H ER B S

M eal

C ora

O ats

H ay

 

Madras, 5 lb. boxes..................56
H. F„ 2, 8 and 5 lb.  boxes.........60

IN D IG O

JE L L Y

5 lb. palls.per doz............  176
151b. palls..........................  38
30 lb. palls.........................   72

LIC O R IC E

P u re...................................  30
Calabria.............................  23
Sicily..................................  14
Boot...................................   10

LY E

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

M EAT  EXTRACTS

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........   4  45
Liebig’s, 2  oz.............. 
  2  75
MOLASSES 
New   O rleans

 

Fancy Open K ettle...........  
Choice.................................. 
F a ir.....................................  
Good....................................  

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

40
35
2~
22

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

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs......................  1 35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs......................  1 20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs......................  1 16
Manzanilla, 7 oz................. 
80
Queen, pints.............................  2 36
Queen, 19  oz......................     4  50
Queen, 28  oz......................     7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz........................ 
90
Stuffed, 8  oz............... 
1  45
 
Stuffed. 10 oz...........................   2 30
PIC K L E S
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 co u n t...................8 00
Half bbls, 600 count...........,.4  50

Barrels, 2,400 c o u n t.................. 9 60
Half bbls, 1,200 count...........5  25

Sm all

P IP E S

Clay, No. 216.................................1 70
Clay, T. D., full eount.....  66
dob, No. 8..........................  85

Sago

W h eat

T apioca

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages.......2 00
East India..............................   331
German, sacks......................   331
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks..............  454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks................  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages.......6 <4
Cracked, bulk........................  3M
24 2 lb. packages...................2  so
F IS H IN G   TA C K LE
6
56 to 1 inch.............................  
7
1M to 2  Inches....................... 
114 to 2  Inches....................... 
9
1% to 2  Inches..................... 
ll
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. 6.16 feet...........................   12
No. 7,15 feet...........................   15
No. 8,15 feet...........................  18
No. 9,15 feet...........................   2o
Small.......................................  20
Medium..................................   26
L a rg e ................  
34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz........   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz.........  65
Bamboo.  18 f t , per doz. 
.  80 
F L A  YOKING  EXTRACTS

C otton  L ines

L in en   L ines

P oles

 

 

FO O TE  St  JE N K S ’

J A X O N

H ig h e st  G rade  E x tra cts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 o zfu llm .120 
lo z fu llm .  80
2 oz full m  2  10  2 oz full m . 1  25 
N o.sfan’v  s  16  V o.sfan’y  1  7f

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

O. c. Lemon
2 oz.......... 
75
3 oz.........   1  00
6OZ.......... 2  00
NO. 4 T .. .  1  52

it. C. Vanilla
2 oz..........  1  24
3 oz..........  1  60
4 OZ............  2  00
No. 3 T ...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

Onr  Tropical.

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

FLY  P A PE R

Standard.

f r e s h   m e a t s

7  ©10
656©  756
856©11
12  ©17
9  ©U
8  ©  9
69i@  756
4  ©  5
754©  8
iom@ii
956©  256
O JH
©11

B eef
Carcass......................
F orequarters..........
H indquarters..........
Loins.........................
R ibs...........................
Rounds......................
Chucks......................
P lates.......................
P o rk
D ressed....................
Loins.........................
Boston  B utts............
Shoulders.................
Leaf  Lard.................
M utton
7  ©856
Carcass.....................
9  ©1256
Lambs........................
Veal
6  ©  856
Carcass.....................
FRUIT  CAN  WRENCH.
Triumph, per  gross............9 60
Knox’s  Sparkling.............   1  20
Knox’s Sparkling.pr gross  14  00
l  20
Knox’s Acidulated............ 
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford.......................... 
 
76
Plymouth  Bock.................  1  20
Nelson’s .............................-  }  60
Cox’s, 2-qt size...................  1  61
Cox’s, l-qt s iz e ................   110

GELATINE

@17 75
©19 00
©20 00
@18 50
22 00
©17 60
20 00
@18 50

10H
1156
1034

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

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

Dry  Salt  Meats

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

Smoked  Meats 

©  1256 
Hams, 12 lb. average. 
©  1256 
Hams, 14 lb. average. 
©  1256 
Hams, 16 lb. average. 
©  1254
Hams, 20 lb. average. 
Ham dried  beef....... 
©  1256
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
©  956
Bacon, clear..............  12  ©  i?56
California hams.......  956©  934
©  19
Boiled Ham s........... 
14©  1156 
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
9©  956
Mince H am s.......... 
956©  10
Lard

896©  856

©11

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
<1 
▼’»«*•1#  <ulvftnoo
Vegetole....................
Sausages
Bologna.....................
L iver.........................
Frankfort.................
P o r k ..........................
Tongue......................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
Rump, N ew ..............
P ig s’  F eet

94 bbls., 40  lbs..........
54 bbls.,......................
1 bbls.,  lbs..............
T rip e
Kits, 15  lbs...............
56 bbls., 40  lbs..........
56 bbls., 80  lbs..........
Casings
P o r k .........................
Beef rounds..............
Beef  middles..........
Sheep.........................
B u tte ri ne
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, dairy...............
Rolls,  creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......
Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  56s.......
Potted ham,  96s.......
Deviled ham,  16s__
Deviled ham,  56s__
Potted tongue,  Ms..
Potted tongue,  56s..
R IC E
D om estic

C anned  M eats

Carolina head.................
Carolina  No. 1. 
Carolina  No. 2 . 
Broken ............

8%

656©8
856

656

14  00
15  50

1  70
3  25
7  50

70
1  50
3  00

24
5
12
65

@1456
©15
17
1656
2  60
17  50
2  50
50
90
60
90
50
90

....656

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 256 pound pockets__ 754

Imported.

Japan,  No.  l ...................556©
Japan,  No.  2.................. 5  ©
Java, fancy head............  ©
Java, No. 1......................  ©
Table..................................   ©

JjO KBfíL
K E È 3 M

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

J A X O N

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............ 3 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King........................  3  65
Calumet Family...............  2  76
Scotch Family..................  2  85
Cuba.....................................2  35
Duslnr Diamond...............  3  55
Jap  Rose...........................  3  75
Savon  Im perial...............  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
M aster...............................  3  70
Lenox................................  3  35
Ivory, 6oz........................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.......................  6  76
Schultz & Co. brand—
Star...................................... 3  40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars........  3  75
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good C heer......................  4  P0
Old Country......................  3  40
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz.........2  40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................... 2 40
Boxes......................................  556
Kegs, English..........................434
Scotch, in bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, In jars.................   35
French Rappee, In  jars.......  43

S couring

SNUFF

8ODA

12

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice...............................  
Cassia, China In m ats.......
Cassia. Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna...............
Cloves, Zanzibar.................
M ace....................................
Nutmegs,  75-80...................
Nutmegs,  106-10.................
Nutmegs, 115-20..................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot........................
Allspice..................... .........
Cassia, Batavia...................
Cassia, Saigon....................
Cloves, Zanzibar.................
Ginger,  African.................
Ginger, Cochin...................
Ginger,  Jam aica...............
Mace.....................................
Mustard..............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper. Cayenne...............
4a*e

P u re  G ro u n d  in  B u lk

STARCH

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
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  65
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran____   4  85
5 lb. bags Fine  G ran.........  4  80
Mould A ..............................   5 00
Diamond  A ........................  465
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.  6............. .....................   4  15
* •  * 
4  05
No.  8...................................  3  96
No.  O ............................... 
3 90
No. 10...................................   3  85
No. 11...................................   3 80
No. 12...................................   8  76
No. 13......................;...........  3  75
No. 14................................ ...  3  75
No. 15...................................   8  70
NO. ID................................

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

TEA
Ja p a n

G unpow der

Sundrled, m edium ........ ---- 28
Sundrled, choice............ ....30
Sundrled, fancy..............---- 40
Regular, medium........... ---- 28
Regular, choice.............
....30
Regular, fancy.....................40
Basket-Bred, medium......... 28
Basket-fired, choice.......-----36
Basket-fired, fancy........___40
Nibs.................................. ....27
Siftings............................ 19©21
Fannings......................... 20@22
Moyune, m edium ................ 26
Moyune, choice............ ....... 35
Moyune,  fancy...............-----60
Plngsuey,  medium........ ....25
Plngsuey,  oholoe.......... ....... 30
Plngsuey, fancy............. ....40
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 n g lish  B reak fast

Y oung  H yson

O olong

In d ia

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune  Teller...................  35  00
Our Manager......................  35  00
Quintette.............................  36  00
G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

F in e   C ut

8. C. W.................................  85  00
Cigar Clippings, per lb....... 
26
Lubetsky Bros, brands
L,  B ............................................ 35 00
Dally Mail.................................. 35 00
Uncle Daniel..........................54
Ojlbwa.................................... 34
Forest  Giant..........................34
Sweet Spray..,.......................38
Cadillac................................... 57
Sweet  Loma............................38
Golden Top.............................27
Hiawatha................................ 57
Telegram.................................26
Pay C ar.................................. 32
Ron**......................BO
Protection............................... 38
Sweet Burley..........................40
Sweet Loma............................38
T iger....................................... 39
Flat  Iron.................................33
Creme de Menthe................. 60
Stronghold..............................39
Elmo.........................................33
Sweet Chunk..........................37
Forge.......................................83
w»a  i’TOB«................................89
Palo................................. .....36
Kylo......................................... 36
Hiawatha................................41
Battle A x e............................. 37
American Eagle.....................54
Standard Navy.......................37
Spear Head, 16 oz..................42
Spear Head,  8oz..................44
Nobby T w ist........................ 48

P lu g

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................. 
20 l-lb. packages................  

734
734

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages.................
6 lb. packages.................
Com m on Gloss
l-lb. packages....................
3-lb. packages....................
6-lb. packages.......
40 and 50-lb. boxes.............
Barrels................................
20 l-lb.  packages...............
401-lb.  packages...............

C om m on Corn

7M
8M
6
556
«M
4
4
6
5 M

SYRUPS

Corn

.26
Barrels.................................
Half bbls.............................
.28
1  80
10 lb. cans, % doz. In case.
5 lb. cans, l doz. In case... 2  05
.2  05
256 lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.
F a ir.....................................
.  16
Good.......................................  20
Choice....................................  25

P u re   Cone

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale...................................... 6
Cost of packing In  cotton  pock­
ets only 96c more than bulk. 
2 doz. Alpha (large  size)...  1  85 
1 doz. Alpha (large  size)...  1  90
3 doz. Alpha (small size)... 
95
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

SALAD  CREAM

SALEKATUS 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s................................. 3  00
Dwight’s  Cow....................... 3  15
Emblem................................. 2  10
L.  P ........................................ 3  00
Wyandotte, inn  V* 
........ 8  on

SAL  SODA

Granulated,  b b ls....'l..........   96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__ 1  00
Lump, bbls...........................  
90
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  96

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

C om m on  G rades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bagB.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  66 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2  85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............   27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs.. . . ____  67
100 3 lb. sacks........................ 2 25
60 51b. sacks........................ 2  15
2810 lb. sacks.......................2 05
561b. sacks.......................... 
40
28 lb. sacks..........................  22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  20
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb.  sacks.............................  25
Granulated  Fine...................  85
Medium Fine.........................   90

S olar  R ock
C om m on

A sh to n
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  F IS H  

Cod

 

T ro u t

H a lib u t.

Georges cured.................   © 596
Georges  genuine......... 
©  634
Georges selected......... 
©334
Grand Bank.....................  © 534
Strips or  bricks.......... 6M©1096
Pollock.............................  
© 834
Strips...........................................14
Chunks................................  1556
No. 1 100 lbs........................   6 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................   2  60
No. 1  101b8. ......................  
70
No. 1 
8 lbs...................... 
59
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs.........   ............   9 50
Mess  40 lbs........................   4 10
Mess  10 lbs........................   1 10
Mess  8 lbs..................  
91
No. 1100 lbs........................   8 50
NO. 1  40 lbs........................   3 70
No. 1  10 lbs........................   1 00
No. 1  8 lbs........................  
8i
No. 2 100 lbS.............................   7 25
No. 2  40 lbs.............................   3 31
98
No. 2  10 lbs........................ 
VO. 3 
73
 
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10  25 
Holland white hoops56bbl.  5  25 
Holland white hoop,  keg..75©85 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs......................  8  35
Round 40 lbs........................  1  65
Scaled.......................... 
 
1056
Bloaters...............................
W h ite fish

H e rrin g

8 ID*  ... 

100  lbs............6  60 
40  lbs............3  00 
10  lbs.........**  80 
8  lbS............-  67 

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

 

SEEDS

  9

Anise.  ............................ 
Canary, Smyrna....................  356
C araw ay.................................. 734
Cardamon, Malabar............ 1  00
Celery.....................................10
Hemp, Russian........................ 4
Mixed Bird.............................  4
Mustard, white......................  7
Poppy......................................  6
R ap e.......................................  4
Cuttle Bone............................14
Handy Box,  large..............  2 60
Handy Box, small..............  1  26
Blxby’s Royal Polish........  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish..... 
85

SHOE  B LA C K IN G

3 0

1 2

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

Hardware Price Current

Jolly T a r.................................38
Old Honesty............................«
Toddy.,....................................84
J   T  •  ...  *••••••••••• •••••.38
Piper Heldsick.......................63
B ootjack................................81
Jelly Cake............................... 36
Plumb  Bob............................. 32
Honey Dip Twist................... 39

S m oking

Hand Pressed.........................40
Ibex......................................... 28
Sweet Core............................. 36
Flat Car...................................36
Great Navy............................. 87
W arp ath .................................27
Bamboo,  8 oz........................ 29
Bamboo, 16 oz........................ 27
I  X L ,  61b............................. 27
I  X L , 16 oz. palls................... 31
Honey D ew ............................37
Gold  Block............................. 37
Flagm an.................................41
Chips....................................... 34
Klin D ried............................. 22
Duke’s M ixture.....................38
Duke’s Cameo........................ 40
Myrtle N avy..........................40
Turn Yum, IX oz................... 40
Yum Yum, l lb. palls............38
C ream ................................... 37
Com Cake, 2X oz...................24
Com Cake, l i b .......................22
Plow Boy, IX oz.....................40
Plow Boy, 3X oz.....................39
Peerless, 3X oz.......................34
Peerless, IX oz......................36
Indicator, 2X oz.....................28
Indicator, 1 lb. p a lls............ 31
Col. Choice, 2X oz................. 21
Col. Choice. 8 oz.................... 21

T A B L E   SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

T W IN E

VINKGAB

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints.........  6 00
Lea ft Perrin’s,  V% pints...  2 76
Halford, large.....................  8 76
Halford, small....................   2  26
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 66
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  76
Cotton, 8 ply...........................16
Cotton, 4 ply..........................16
Jute, 2 ply..............................12
Hemp, 6 ply...........................12
Flax, medium....................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls....................   7X
Malt W hite Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt W hite Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.. .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star........... 12
Pure Cider, Boblnson..........12
Pure Cider,  Sliver................ 12
W A SH IN G   PO W D E R
Diamond  Flake...................2 76
Gold  Brick............................ 3 26
Gold Dust, regular...............4 60
Gold Dust, 5c.........................4 oo
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb.................3  90
Pearline................................. 2 65
Soaplne...................................
Soaplne— ............................ 4 00
Babbitt’s 1776........................  3 75
Boselne....,  ......................... 8 00
Armour’s............................... 3 70
Nine O’clock..........................3 85
W isdom................................. 3 80

W IC K IN G

.25
No. 0, per gross...................
No. i, per gross..................
.30
No. 2, per gross.................... .40
No. 8. per gross.................... .66

B askets

B u tte r P la te s

B rad ley   B u tte r B oxes

W O O D E N W A R E
.  86
Bushels................................
.1  15
Bushels, wide  band...........
.  30
M arket................................
.6 00
Splint, large.........................
.6  00
Splint, m edium ...................
.4  00
Splint, sm all........................
Willow Clothes, large.......
.5 60
Willow Clothes, medium..
6 00
.4 75
Willow Clothes, small.......
2 lb. size, 24 in case..........
.  72
3 lb. size, 16 in case..........
.  68
5 lb. size, 12 in case..........
.  63
.  60
10 lb. size,  6 In case..........
.  40
No. 1 Oval, 260 In crate....
.  46
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate....
.  60
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate....
No. 5 Oval, 280 In crate....
.  60
Barrel, 5 gals., each.......... .2 40
.2 65
Barrel, 10 gals., each.........
.2 70
Barrel, 16 gals., each.........
.  60
Bound head, 5 gross box..
Bound head, cartons.........
.  76
.2  26
Hompty D um pty..............
No. l, com plete.................
.  29
No. 2, com plete.................
.  18
Cork lined, 8 In...................
.  56
Cork lined, 9 in ...................
.  65
Cork lined, 10 In.................
.  85
Cedar. 8 In...........................
.  66

C lothes  P in s

E gg C rates

F au cets

C h u rn s

M op  Sticks

 

T rap s

T o o th p ick s

Troian spring.....................  90
Eclipse patent spring.......  86
No 1 common......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12fi>. cotton mop heads....l  25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................  90
P a lls
hoop Standard..l  60
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard...l 70
2- wire,  Cable..............  
l  60
3- wire,  Cable...........................l  70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound.l  26
Paper,  Eureka........................2 26
F ibre.........................................2 40
Hardwood............................... 2 60
Softwood................................. 2 76
Banquet....................................l 60
Id eal......................................... l  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes...........   22
Mouse, wood,4  holes... .. .. .   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes...........   70-
Mouse, tin, 5  holes...............   65
Bat, wood...............................  80
Bat, spring..............................  76
20-lnch, Standard, No. l ........7 00
18-lneh, Standard, No. 2............ 6 00
16-lnoh, Standard, No. 8............ 5 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1.............. 7 60
18-lnoh, Cable,  No. 2.............. 7 oo
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3.............. 6 oo
No. l F ibre.............................. 9 46
No. 2 Fibre.............................. 7 96
No. 3 Fibre.............................. 7 20
Bronze Globe...........................2 60
D ew ey.................................... .1 76
Double Acme...........................2 76
Single Acme......................  
2  26
Double Peerless.................  3 25
Single  Peerless....................... 2 60
Northern Q ueen....................2 60
Double Duplex....................... 3 00
Good L uck............................. -2 76
Universal................................. 2 26

W ash  B oards

T ubs

W indow   C leaners

 

12 In...........................................1 65
14 in ...........................................1 86
16 In.............................. 
2  30
W ood  B ow ls
11 In. B utter...........................   76
13 In. Butter............................. l oo
16 In. B utter.............................l  75
17 in. B utter.............................2 60
19 In. B utter...........................3  00
Assorted 13-16-17.....................1 75
Assorted 16-17-19  ..................2  60

W R A P P IN G   P A P E R
Common Straw ................... 
l X
8k
Fiber Manila, w hite........... 
Fiber Manila, colored....... 
i%
4
No.  l  Manila...................... 
Cream  Manila.................... 
3
Butcher’s Manila...............  
2X
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls..............  15
Magic, 3 doz.............................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz.........................l 00
Sunlight, IX  doz...................  60
Y easf Cream, 3 doz.................l  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.................l  00
Yeast Foam, IX  doz............   60
Per lb.

YEAST  C A K E

F R E S H   F IS H

White fish....................   90 
8
Trout...............................8® 
8
Black B aas..................10® 
ll
Halibu t .........................  a   16
Ciscoes or H erring....  a   5
Blueflah........................  a   12
Live  Lobster...............   0   20
Boiled  Lobster............  O   22
Cod................................   a   10
Haddock......................  a   10
No. l Pickerel..............  a   7
P ike...............................  0   7
P erch............................   a   3
Smoked  W hite............  0   10
Bed  Snapper.............. 
0
Col River  Salm on...12X0 
'3
Mackerel......................  0   15

H ID E S   A N D   PE L T S 

O ysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts............  
F. S. D.  Selects.......
Selects......................
H ides

P e lts

Green  No. 1.............. 
Green  No. 2.............. 
Cured  No. l .............. 
Cured  No. 2.............. 
Calf skins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,greenNo.2 
Calf skins,cured No. 1 
Calfsklns,curedNo.2 
Old Wool................... 
Lamb.......................... 
Shearlings...............  
No. 1...........................  
No. 2...........................  
Washed, fine............ 
Washed,  m edium ... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 
CA ND IES 
8 tie k  C andy

T allow

W ool

S tandard................... 
Standard H. H ......... 
Standard  Twist....... 
Cut Loaf....................  
Jumbo, 32 lb.............. 
Extra H. H ...............  
Boston Cream..........  
Beet Bc«f 
..........  

60

0  7
0  6
0   8X
0   7X
0  8
01OX
0   9

0  9X

60®1  60
160  30
100  26

0   6
0   5
018
021
13016
14017

bbls.  palls

0   7
0  7
0   8
0   9
cases
0  7X
@10X
010
0   8

F an cy —I n  P a ils 

M ixed C andy

Grocers......................  
Competition.............. 
Special.......................  
Conserve.«................ 
R o y al........................ 
Ribbon......................  
Broken......................  
Cut Loaf..................... 
English Book............ 
K indergarten..........  
Bon Ton  Cream....... 
French Cream..........  
Dandy P a n ............ . 
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed..................... 
Crystal Cream m ix.. 

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  H earts. . . ____ 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares......... 
Peanut Squares....... 
Sugared Peanuts.... 
Salted Peanuts........  
Starlight Kisses....... 
San B us Goodies.... 
Lozenges, p lain ....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc. Drops.............. 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Quintette Choc......... 
Victoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops............... 
Moss  Drops.............. 
Lemon Sours............ 
Imperials................... 
Ital. Cream O pera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls.............. 
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................... 
Golden Waffles......... 

0  6
0  7
0  7X
0  7X
0  8X
0  9
0  8
0  8X
0  9
0  9
0  8X
0  9
010
014X
013

8X
15
12
12
9
11
10
10
012
0   9
0 io
011
013X
012
016
0  6X
0  9
0   9
0   9
012
011
013
012

F an cy —I n  S lb. B oxes
Lemon  Sours..........  
060
060
Peppermint Drops.. 
000
Chocolate  D rops.... 
086
H. M. Choc. D rops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............. 
0 1   00
Gum Drops...............  
086
Licorice  Drops......... 
076
066
Lozenges,  plain....... 
060
Lozenges, printed... 
060
Imperials..................  
060
M ottoes..................... 
Cream  B a r.............. 
066
Molasses B ar............ 
066
Hand Made Creams.  80  090 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt............... 
066
String Book.............. 
066
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
C aram els
Clipper, 201b. palls.. 
Perfection, 201b.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for lc prbx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream C arls 31b 
FR U IT S 
O ranges
Florida Russett........ 
Florida  B right......... 
Fancy  Navels........... 
Extra Choice............ 
Late Valencias......... 
Seedlings...................  
Medt. Sweets............  4 0004  60
Jam alcas..................  
R odl........................ 
L em ons
@
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelli, fey 300....... 
@
@
Verdelll, ex chce  300 
Verdelll, fey 360....... 
0
Call Lemons, 300....... 
0 4  00
Messlnas  300s..........   4 00@4  50
Messlnas  360s..........   3  7604  25

0   8X
012X
015
@66
065
@60
060
060

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

F ig s

B an an as
Medium bunches....  1  60@2 00
Large  bunches.........

lb.  cases, new 

F o reig n  D ried  F r u its  
@

Callfornlas,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
101b. boxes............
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes......................
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
@
Naturals, In bags....
m
D ates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes
@ 6X
Fards In 60 lb. cases.
«5
Hallow!......................
5  @ 5X
Salrs, 60 lb. oases....  4 X 0   6 
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Iv lca.......
Almonas, California,
soft shelled............
Brazils,......................
F ilberts.....................
Walnuts,  Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled 
CallfornUNo. l...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new..............
Coooanuts, full saoks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
P e a n u ts 
Fancy, H. P u  Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
B oasted.................  
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
B oasted.................. 
Span. BUM No. ln*W  5XO 6X

*X@ BX
6 X 0  7
@ 
@

Ammunition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m .........................
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m ....................
Musket, per m.........................................
Ely’s W aterproof, 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 260, per  m ...

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells 

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
186
164
200
208
236
265
264

oz.of
Sbot
IX
1X
IX
IX
IX
IX
l
1
IX
IX
IX
Discount 40 per cent.

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

Size
Sbot
10
9
8
6
6
4
10
8
6
5
4

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg...........................
X kegs, 12X Ids., per  X  keg...............
X kegs, 6X lbs., per x   keg.
Shot

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

Augurs  and  Bits

Snell’s .......... ,........7................................
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.....................
Railroad...................................................
G arden.....................................................net

Barrows

Stove........................................................
Carriage, new  11«*  ................................
P lo w .............. ..  _■..................................

Bolts

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

Buckets

Butts,  Cast

Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................
Wrought N arrow ..................................

Com.
B B...
BBB.

Cast Steel, per lb.

Socket Firm er  .. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket C orner... 
Socket Slicks__

C hisels

E lbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz.................net
Corrugated, per doz...............................
Adjustable.............................................dls

E x p an siv e  B its

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26...............
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30......................
New Am erican.......................................
Nicholson’s ..............................................
Heller’s Horse Basps............................

F iles—New  L ist

G alvanized  Iro n  

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

14 

13 

16 

Discount,  66

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

G anges

G lass

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

H am m ers

Maydole ft Co.’s, new list....................dls
Yerkes ft Plumb’s .................................dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................ 30c list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2 ,3 ..............................dls
Pots  ..............................................•.........
K ettles.....................................................
Spiders.....................................................

H o llo w   W are

H inges

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

1  40 
1  40

Per
too
$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  26 
1  26

6  60 
9  00 
6  00 
10  60

12  00 
29 00

60

$4  00

70
60

6

66
66
6666

75 
1  26 
40&10

40
26
70&10
70
70

60&10

86&20
85&20
85&20

33X
40&10
70
eoftio
50&10
eoftio
60&10

Chain

X In. 
7  c.  . 
8X 
- 
8X 
.

6-16 in.
.  6  c..
-  7X 
•
-  7X 
.

X  In. 
5  0. 
6X 
6X

X In. 
..  4X0. 
..  8 
..  6X

H o rse  N alls

Au S able................................................ dls 
H ouse  F u rn ish in g  Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list....... ........... 
70
Japanned Tinware.................................. 
20&10
Bar Iron.................................................. 2 26  e rates
Light Band..............................................  3  e rates

40&10

Iro n

K nobs—New   L ist

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings............ 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.......... 
Regular 0 Tabular, Doz......................... 
W arren, Galvanized  Fount.................  

L a n te rn s

75
86
686
00

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

Levels

Adze Bye....................................$17 00..dls

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

600 pound oasks......................................
Per pound........................................... .

7X8

Miscellaneous

............................................. 40
Bird C ages..............................................
............................................. 76&10
Pomps, Cistern.......................................
_____________■
86&20
,................... 
Screws, New List
Casters’, Bed and P late.........................   60&10&10
Dampers, American............... 
 
60

Molasses  Gates

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

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...............................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished................................  
70ft6
P a te n t  P la n ish e d   Ir o n  

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

Broken packages Xc per pound extra.

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

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

Roofing  Plates

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

Sisal, X Inch and larger........................
M a n illa .................................................................

Ropes

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

Sand  Paper

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

Sash  Weights

40
60
40
46

2  36 
2  36 
Base 
6 
10 
20 
30 
46 
70 
60 
15 
26 
36 
26 
36 
46 
86

60
46

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

10X
15X

30 00

S heet  Iro n

com. smooth.  00m.
$8  oo
8  7c
8  90
8  90
4  00
4  10
All Sheets No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

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

Shovels  a n d   Spades

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

8  60
8  00

Solder

X 0 X .................................................... 
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the m arket indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

 

Steel and Iron.........................................  

60—10—6

Squares

$10 60
10 60
12 00

9 00
0 00
10 60
10 60

19
18

76
40&1Q
66 
16 
1  26

60
60
60&10 
60&10 
40 
8  26 
2  96

T in —M elyn  G rade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................ 
Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

T in—A llaw ay   G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

B o ile r  Size  T in   P la te  

14x66 IX, for No.8Boilers, l 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, } P®r Pound" 

T rap s

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

W ire

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

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

Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled............
Coe’s Genuine........................................
Ooa’s Patent Agricultural, ¡Wrought,.7«

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

3 1

15

STO NEW ARE

B utten

94 gal., per  doz.......................................
1 to 6 gal., per  gal................................
8 gal. each..............................................
10 gal. each..............................................
12 gal. each..............................................
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
25 gaL meat-tubs, each.........................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each..........................

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

C h u rn s

M ilkpang

94 gai  fiat or rd. bot., per doz.............
l gal. hat or rd. bot„ each..................
F in e   G lased  M ilkpang
94 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.............
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each...................

Stew pans

Jagg

94 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz.............
l gal. fireproof, ball, per doz..............
94 gal. per doz...*...................................
H gal. per doz.........................................
l to 5 gal., per gal..................................
6 lbs. In package,per lb -......................
LA M P  BU RN ERS
No. 0 Sun.................................................
No. l Sun.................................................
No. 2 Sun.................................................
No. 3 Sun.................................................
Tubular....................................................
Nutmeg....................................................

Sealing  W ax

LA M P  CHIM NEYS—Seconds 
Per box of

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

A n ch o r C arton C him neys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

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

F i n t   Q uality

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

X X X   F lin t

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

Pearl  Top

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

L a  B astie

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 (65c  doz).............................
No. 2 Lime (75c  doz).............................
No. 2 Flint (80c  d o z ) " " ......................

Electric

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

OIL  CANS

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

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift........................
No.  l B Tubular....................................
No. 15 Tubular, dash.............................
No.  l Tubular, glass fountain.............
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp....................
No.  3 Street lamp, each......................
LANTERN  GLOBES

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

48 
594 
48 
60 
72 
1  12 
1  60 
2  12 
2  56

6
84

48
594

60
6

85 
1  10

35
86
48
86
50
50

6 doz. 
1  38
1  54
2  24

1  50
1  78
2 48

1  85
2  00 
2  90

2  75
3  75
4  00

4  00 
6  00 
6  10

1  00 
1  25 
1  35 
1  60

8 60 
4 00 
4 60

4 00 
4  60

1  36 
1  60
2  95
3  50
4  80 
3 85 
6  20 
7  00 
9 00

4  76 
7  25 
7  26 
7  50 
13  50 
3 60

45 
45 
2  00 
1  25

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

No. 0,  %-Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 1,  96-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 2, l 
Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No. 3,194 Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 

COUPON  BOOKS

18
24
31
63

60 books, any denomination...................... 
ISO
100 books, any denomination......................  2 50
500 books, any denomination............ 
....  1150
1.000 books, any denomination......................  20 oo
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
100 books..........................................................  2 50
500 books........................................................  “ 60
1.000 books..........................................................    oo

C red it  C heeks 

500, any one  denomination...........................   2 00
1.000, any one  denomination............................  3 oo
  5 00
2.000, any one  denomination....................... 
75
Steel punch............... 

 

 

SE N T   ON  APPROVAL!
T H E   S T j ì R   P E A N U T  
V E N D IN G   M A C H IN E
For  automatically  se llin g  
salted shelled peanuts.  Op­
erates with a cent and is per­
fectly  legitimate. 
It  is  at­
tractive  and  lucrative—not 
an experiment,  but  act ual  
f a c ts  from  actual  results. 
Handsomeiy  finished,  an d  
will  increase  your  sales  at 
large profit.  T ry  it;  th a t’s 
i the test 1  M y circu lar gives
full  description  and  brings

price and terms.  Shall I send it to you?

_ 
M anufactured by

W.  0.  HENSHAW,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Acme  Folding 

Basket  Holder

Brings  high  prices  for 
your  vegetables  because 
they  are  UP  out  of  the 
dirt  and  away  from  the 
dogs.  Folded  and  out  of 
the way when not In  use.
Vegetable and  fruit  dis­
play.  Made by
H irst

M anufacturing Co.

Holly, Mich.

Sold by grocers and wood- 

enware Jobbers.

\ Rugs from Old Carpets (
|
}   Retailer of  Fine  Rngs and  Carpets. 

s Absolute cleanliness Is our hobby  as well 
We cater to first class  trade  and  If  yous

as  our  endeavor  to  make  rugs  better,
closer woven, more durable  than  others.

d   our metnods ana new process, 
u   no agents.  We pay the freight.  Largest  d 
f   looms In United States. 
»  ■
|   Petoskey  Rag Mfg.  &  Carpet  Co.f  |
d  
W
Petoskey, Mich.  |
|   455-457 Mitchell  St- 

Limited 

3 2

The  Produce  Market.

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

variety 
$4.5035  per  bbl.

Asparagus— 50c  per  doz.
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $i.25@ 
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size. 
Jumbos,  $2.25  per  bunch.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets— 40c  per doz.  for new.
Beet  Greens—60c  per  bu.
Butter— The  market  for factory cream­
ery 
is  steady  at  22c  for  fancy  and  21c 
for  choice.  Dairy  grades  are  in  strong 
demand  at  I7 @ i8c  for  fancy  to  I5@ i 6c 
for 
choice  and  I4@i5c  for  packing 
stock.  Receipts  are  heavy.
Carolina,  $2. 2$.
80c  per  doz.

Cabbage— Florida,  $3 per crate.  South 
Celery—California  Jumbo  commands 

Cucumbers— 50c  per  doz.'  for  hot­

house.

Eggs—Local  handlers  pay  I3^@i4c. 
case  count.  Receipts  are  heavy,  but 
none  too  large  to  meet local consumptive 
requirements.
I4@I5C.

Figs— Five  crown  Turkey  command 

Green  Onions— 12c  for  Silver  Skins.
Green  Peas—$1.25  per  bu.  box.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@i6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ i i c .
Lemons— Californias  $3.75,  Messinas 

$4@4.25-

Lettuce—Head  commands  $1  per  bu.
Leaf  has  declined  to  7c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for fancy.
Onions—Bermudas, 

crate ; 
Egyptian,  $3.75  per  sack;  Louisiana, 
$4  per  bbl.  of  3  bu.
Oranges—Mediterranean  Sweets  com­
mand  $4^4.25;  California  Valencias 
fetch  $535.50;  California  navels  have 
advanced  to $535.50.

$2  per 

Parsley—35c  per  doz.
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Pineapples— Havanas  command  $3.50 
per  crate  for  30  size ;  $3.25  for  36  size ; 
$3  for 42  size.  Fruit  in  barrels  fetches 
8315c.  Receipts  are  light.
Plants—Cabbage  and  tomato,  75c  per 
box  of  200 ;  pepper,  90c ;  sweet  pota­
toes,  85c.
Potatoes—The  market  is  stronger  and 
higher  than  a  week  ago,  owing  to  the 
scarcity  and  high  price of  new  potatoes, 
which  command  $1.35  per  bu.  Old 
stock  has  advanced  to  65c  in carlots  and 
75c  in  bushel  lots.

Poultry—The  market  is  strong  and 
ending  higher.  Live  pigeons  are  in 
moderate  demand at  5037.5c  and  squabs 
at $1.2031.5°-  Spring  broilers,  20322c; 
chickens,  9310c;  small  hens,  9310c; 
large  hens,  839c ;  turkey  hens,
11 Mc ;  gobblers,  9310c.
Radishes— 15c  per  doz.
Spinach— 50c  per  bu.
Strawberries—Home  grown 

find  an 
outlet  on  the  basis  of  $1  per  crate  of  16 
qts.  The  fruit 
large  and  fine  look­
ing,  but  the  fine  flavor  and  saccharine 
quality  peculiar  to  Michigan  berries 
are 
largely  lacking,  due  to  the  preva­
lence  o f  rainy  weather  and  the  absence 
of  sunshine.

is 

Tomatoes—$1.50  per  4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—$1.75  per  bu.  box.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Charlotte— Harper  Krebs,  who  has 
clerked  in  J.  Wildern's  store  the  past 
eight  years,  has  resigned  his  position 
and  gone  to  Battle  Creek,  where  he  has 
secured  a  position  in  the Manufacturers’ 
store,  which deals in  crockery  and  house 
furnishings.

Traverse  City—Clarence  V.  Slater, 
stock-keeper  in  the  store  of  his  father, 
J.  W.  Slater,  house 
fu rn ish ing  goods 
dealer,  was  married  June  4  to  M iss 
Mabel  Ingraham,  of  this  place.  The 
marriage  occurred 
the  Catholic 
church,  Rev.  Fr.  Bauer  officiating. 
John  O.  Slater,  brother  of  the  groom, 
acted  as  best^man.  The  happy  couple 
went  from  the  church  to  their newly fur­
nished  heme  on  West  Ninth  street.

at 

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

Alpena—Jos.  LaBucque  has  resigned 
his  position  with  Greenbaum  Bros,  as 
shoe  salesman  and  is  now  manager  of  J. 
Geese’s  shoe  store  at  Onaway.

Alpena— The  clerks  have  had  some 
trouble  lately  keeping  the clothing stores 
closed  after 6  p.  m.,  according  to agree­
ment.  One  merchant, 
in  particular, 
who  had  groceries  and  clothing  com­
bined  and  sold  both  after  6  o’clock, 
caused  most  of  the  trouble.  The  other 
merchants  threatened  to  open  up  if  this 
one  was  not  closed  up.  The  matter  was 
compromised  by  the  clerks  agreeing  to 
work  Monday  nights  until  9  p.  m.

Short  Method  of Computing  Profit.
The  following 

is  a  quick  method  of 
arriving  at  the  price  any  article  must 
be  sold  at  to  make  a  certain  per  cent, 
when  bought  by  the  dozen:

To  make  20  per  cent,  profit,  take  the 
dozen  price  and  remove  the  decimal 
point  one  place  to  left.  For  example, 
an  article  costing  $12  per  dozen,  selling 
at  $1.20  each,  gives  you  20  per  cent, 
profit.

To  make  25  per  cent,  profit,  remove 
decimal  point  one  place  to  left  and  add 
5  cents  if  cost 
is  $12  per  dozen,  10 
cents  if cost  is $24  per  dozen,  etc.

To  make  33^  per  cent,  profit,  divide 
the  dozen  price  by  9.  For  example, 
$12  divided  by  9  equals  $1.33^—the 
selling  price.

To  make  40  per  cent.,  add  1-6  to  the 
cost  per  dozen  and  remove  the  decimal 
point  one  place  to  the  left.  For  exam­
ple,$12 plus  i-6 equals $14—selling price 
$1.40.

To  make  50  per  cent.,  divide  cost  of 
dozen  by  8.  For  example,  $12  divided 
by  8  equals  $1.50—the  selling  price.

Having  the  cost  price  per  gross,  to 
find  selling  price  per  piece  to  make  40 
per  cent.,  remove  the  decimal  point  two 
places  to  the 
left.  For  example,  an 
article  costs  $40  per  gross.  Remove 
the  decimal  point  two  places  to the  left, 
which  gives  40 cents—the  selling  price 
per  piece.  This  will  always  give  a 
fraction  better  than  40  per  cent.,  but  is 
near  enough  for  all  practical  purposes.

Wm.  H.  Rouse.

In  the  settlement  of  the  estate  of  the 
late  James  G.  Fair,  of  San  Francisco, 
fees  amounting 
to  nearly  $2,000,000 
were  distributed  among  a  dozen  law 
firms.  The  larger  the  estate  the  longer 
the  contest  and  the  greater the  cost.

M.  M.  Rickert,  Secretary  of 

the 
Safety  Gaslight  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
is 
spending  a  couple  of  weeks  in  the  city 
with  the  Perfection  Lighting  Co.,  which 
has  taken  the  State  agency for the Safety 
gasoline  lighting  system.

It  is  not  the  man  who  prays  the  loud­
est  whose  prayer  is  first  heard  by  the 
Almighty.  The  Lord  can  bear  the  chat­
ter of  the  chipmunk  as  easily as  he  does 
the  roar of  the  lion.

Advertisements  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
tbls  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for  each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  85  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

FOB SALE—ONE  8TIMPSON  COMPUTING 
Scale, capacity 125  pounds:  first  price  $65, 
now $45.  One Falrbank scale, No. 16; first price 
$5, now $2.50.  One  cheese  case:  first  price  $3, 
now $2.  One Falrbank coffee mill,  size  16;  first 
price $25, now $15.  One broom stand; first price 
$2.50, now $1.50.  H. Drebln, Cadillac. 
529
Fo b   s a l e —d b u g  f i x t u b e s —e l e g a n t  
wall cases,  counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; all  light  oak; will  sell  a t  half  price. 
534
O. A. Fanckboner, Grand Bapids. 

517

631

632

522

521

528

536

519

535

526

527

A  NO.  1  OPENING  FOB  A  PHYSICIAN 
A   who will purchase  my  property;  price  and 
terms reasonable.  Address  C.  W.  Logan,  Tus- 
tin, Mich. 
db650 BUYS A BAKERY  AND  SODA  FOUN- 
qp  tain In a good  town; doing a  good  business; 
good reasons for selling.  Address No. 531,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE  —  *6,000  CLEAN  STOCK  DRY 
X*  goods,  furnishings,  shoes  and  groceries  In 
nicest, healthiest  town  of  700  In  Northern  In­
diana,  In  fine  farming  community.  Other  in­
terests call me  away.  O.  Tippy,  New  Carlisle, 
Ind. 
533 
Yj'OR SALE—WE  HAVE  A  FEW   CABS  OF 
X1  maple flooring.  Flooring is  0. k.  and  price 
is  0.  k.  If  in  need  of  any,  let  us  quote  you 
prices.  F. C. Miller Lumber Co., 23 Widdlcomb 
Building, Grand Rapids. 
YT'OR  SALE—HARDWARE  BUSINESS 
IN 
X  good  Northern  Michigan  town;  stock  In­
voices $4,000;  annual  sales  about  $18,000;  good 
reasons  for  selling:  terms  cash.  Address  No. 
528, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Yj'OR  SALE  AT  A  SACRIFICE  —  DRUG 
X   stock in town of 10,0:0  in  Upper  Michigan; 
invoices about $1,800; a  snap.  Address  No.  527, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
HPHE  NEW  WINNER  SALES  CO.  CAN GET 
X  you money out of your stock quick and do  It 
without loss; our methods are new, and are win 
ners  wherever  we go;  write us for full particu­
lars.  Address  New  Winner  Sales  Co.,  Wone- 
woc,  Wls. 
YT'OR  SALE—GOOD  TWO  CHAIR  BARBER 
X   shop  In the liveliest town in  Michigan.  Ad­
dress No. 524, care Michigan  Tradesman.  524 
YT'OR  SALE — DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
X   $i,000;  fruit  country  and  summer  resort. 
Have been shut up twenty years.  Must get out 
of doors on account of health.  Address No. 535, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
Q H O E  STORE  FOR  RENT;  EXCELLENT 
O   location;  furnished  complete,  with  lease. 
Peter Scott, Port Huron,  Mich. 
YT'OR  SALE—ONE  ELGIN  CREAM  SEPA- 
X   rator,  two  square  churns  and  one  butter 
worker;  suitable tor a large creamery.  Address 
No. 519, care Michigan Tradesmah. 
|PO R   SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- 
X   lng $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE  —  FIN E  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
X   farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under  cultivation;  value,  $l,20o.  Address  No. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
lilOK  SALE—A  REAL  ESTATE  AND  COL- 
X? 
lection office;  good money in It for two good 
men.  Address Real Estate, 603 Bearinger Build­
ing, Saginaw,  Mich. 
513 
lT'OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK  OF  DRY 
X   goods,  groceries,  shoes  and  undertakers’ 
supplies;  stock all In Al order;  good new  frame 
store building, with living rooms  above;  can  be 
bought or rented reasonably;  stock and  fixtures 
about $3,500;  stock can be reduced  to  suit  pur­
chaser;  situated In one of  the  best  little  towns 
In  Northern  Michigan.  Address  R.  D.  Mc- 
Naughton, Honor, Mich. 
YT'OR  SALE  — SELECT  STOCK  GENERAL 
X   hardware, $4,000 stock,  situated  in  thriving 
town, county seat,  M 00 population; terms,  cash 
or approved security; owner wishes to go  West. 
Address K, care Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  S A L E —GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
X   stock, Invoicing $2,500;  last  j ear’s  business, 
$12,000  cash;  also  store  building,  28x62.  with 
eight hardwood finished  rooms  upstairs;  water 
and sewer connections;  will sell cheap  for  cash 
only.  Owner compelled  to  go  to  Europe.  Ad­
dress No. 511, care Michigan Tradesman. 
rp H E   4  PER  CENT.  ANNUITY  BONDS  OF 
X  the National Life Insurance Co , of Vermont, 
can be purchased by a single  payment;  Interest 
begins  immediately  and  the  principal  sum  Is 
paid  at  death.  Founded  1850.  Assets  over 
twenty-two millions.  Wilbour  R.  Dennis,  Gen­
eral  Agent,  Michigan  Trust  Building  Grand 
Rapids, or William S.  Pond,  General  Manager, 
Detroit. 
YT'OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS,  EXCLUSIVE 
X   millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
A  GRAND  OPPORTUNITY.  A  BUSINESS 
xx.  man of ability, experience  and  with  $10,000 
cash can have an active equal Interest  in  an  es­
tablished departm ent  store  In  the  best  city  In 
Michigan, where  opportunity  for  expansion  Is 
practically limitless:  this year’s sales can  easily 
be made to lap $100,000;  but you  must  have  am­
bition and ability; money alone not wanted.  Ad­
dress No. 606, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
506 
YT'OR  SALE-STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  AND 
X   furniture  In  Northern  Michigan.  Address 
No. 503, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IflOR  SALE—GENERAL  STORE  IN   FIR8T- 
-X  class  location;  no  competition:  cash  re­
ceipts,  $10,000  per  year;  expenses  low;  living 
rooms  In  connection  with  store; every conven­
ience  for  doing  business;  price,  $3,500;  terms 
cash.  Traders or sharks need not apply,  as this 
Is a first-class legitimate  business.  Address  W. 
B., 375 Clinton St., Detroit. Mich. 
A  GOOD  STOCK  OF  NEW  AND  FRESH 
xx.  drugs in elegant location  for sale.  Address 
No. 490, care Michigan Tradesman. 
I jTOR SALE—SECOND  HAND  SODA  FOUN- 
X  
tain;  easy terms.  Chas. A. Jackson, Benton 
Harbor, Mich. 
A  GENERAL  STOCK  IN THE BEST FAKM- 
x x .  lng community  In Michigan for sale;  no old 
goods;  the price right to the right  man for cash. 
Address J . W. D., care Michigan Tradesman. 488
r T 'H R E E   V A C A N T   LOTS 
IN  GRAND
X  Rapids,  free  of  incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notton  stock.  Address  No. 
485, care Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE—PLANING  MILL  AND  WOOD-
XI  working machinery, with feed mill attached ; 
plenty of work;  cause for  selling,  eyesight  fall­
ing;  will  sell  cheap.  H.  G.  Branch,  Sunfield, 
Mich. 

489 

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485

469

520

490

495

514

511

507

510

474

477

473

476

455

472

YT'OR  SALE—DBUG  STOCK:  GOOD  LOCA- 
X   tlon;  ten miles from  any  other  drug  store; 
good reasons for selling.  Address  No.  477,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
X   chandlsein  hustling  town  of  700;  In  good 
farming community;  center  of  fruit  belt;  stock 
Invoices from  $6,000  to  $8,000;  rent  reasonable; 
best  of  reasons  for  selling.  Address  No.  476, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE—I  DESIRE  TO  SELL  MY  EN- 
tire  general  stock,  Including  fine  line  of 
X 
shoes and  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
better trade in the state.  Business  been  estab­
lished 25 years.  Reason for  selling,  other  busi­
ness.  P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 
YT'OR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—TWENTY 
X   room hotel, six room cottage and good barn; 
delightfully  located;  fine  bay  view.  Address 
604 Front St.. Traverse City, Mich. 
YT'OR  S A L E —COUNTRY  STORK  AND 
X   dwelling  combined;  general  merchandise 
stoek, barn, custom saw mill and  feed  mill, with 
good patronage:  Citizens local and long distance 
telephones in  store:  bargain  for  cash.  Reason 
for selling, must retire.  For particulars  call  on 
or address Eli Runnels, Corning. Mich. 
tjiOK  SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
X   Bar-Lock  typewriter,  in  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  applica­
tion.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
\AT A N T E D —TO  PURCHASE  LOCATION 
tt  suitable for conducting hardware  business 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  455,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE-GOOD  CLEAN  HARDWARE 
X   stock and buildings;  fine  location;  will  sell 
whole at a sacrifice;  this is the chance  of  a  life­
time.  Address  S.  J.  Doty  &  Son,  H arrietts, 
Mich. 
YT'OR  SALE—MOSLER,  BAHMANN  &  CO. 
X   fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
Inches high, 27 inches  wide  and  24  Inches  deep. 
Inside measurement—16H Inches high, 14  Inches 
wide and 10 Inches deep.  Will sell  for  $50  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 
YT'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
X   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.  445,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE—A  FIN E  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
X   cerles and fixtures In good location  In  town 
of 1,200 In Southern Michigan;  will Invoice about 
$1,500;  good reason for selling.  Address G., care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YT'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  OPPORTUNITY  FOR 
X   a stock and dairy farm, situated eight  miles 
from  M arquette,  four  miles  from  Negaunee, 
Marquette county, Michigan, on the D.,  8.  S.  & 
A. Railway.  Good markets;  the best  of  water; 
buildings and railway  station  on  the  property. 
F. W. Read & Co., Marquette, Mich. 
YT'OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES. 
X   Invoicing about $2,000.  Situated In center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 
C A FE S—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
O   and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  C o,  376  South  Ionia 
St., Grand  Rapids. 
YT'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  BOOTS  AND 
X   shoes;  fine  location;  well  established  busi­
ness.  For  Information  address  Parker  Bros., 
Traverse City, Mich. 
YT'OR  SALE—A  NEW  AND  THE  ONLY  BA- 
X   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. 

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p iA N   YOU  RAISE  $400? 
IF   SO,  I  CAN 
VT help you start a retail store.  No  old  goods, 
but all brand  new.  If  you  don’t  know  a  good 
town, I ’ll  help  you  find  one.  All  about  goods 
and methods free for  the  asking.  G.  S.  Buck. 
185 Quincy St., Chicago, 111. 
XAT ANTED—CLERK  WHO  IS  THOROUGH­
LY 
ly familiar with dry  goods  to  take  charge 
of department and  wait  on  customers  In  other 
departments  of  a  large  general  store.  State 
experience,  names  of  former  employers  and 
salary expected.  Address  No.  530,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
Y17ANTED  —  FIVE  GOOD  HIGH-GRADE 
YY  salesmen to sell an article which  pays  for 
Itself  every  three  months.  Every  machine 
eilulpp8d with signals preventing  down  weight. 
Address  Moneyweight  Scale  Co.,  47  State  St., 
Chicago, HI. 
\X7'ANTED  —  PURCHASER  FOR  MEAT 
YY  m arket;  only stand  In  town  of  450.  Ad­
dress No. 516, care Michigan Tradesman.  515
TXRUGGI8T,  MIDDLE  AGED  AND  EX- 
perienced, desires situation; no bad habits; 
references.  Address Box 114,  Woodland,  Mich.
\A 7  ANTED—A  CLERK  FOR  GENERAL 
YY  stores;  must be steady and'temperate  and 
a   hustler.  Apply  to  Clerk,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
\A T  ANTED—POSITION  BY  COMPETENT 
YY  book-keeper,  sober  and  Industrious;  can 
come well recommended;  competent  to  manage 
grocery store In small town.  Address W. H. V., 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
YITANTED—YOUNG  MAN  FOR  FURNI- 
YY 
tore  and  undertaking  business;  hustlers 
only.  W rite  a t  once  to  W.  M.  Davis,  Evart, 
Mich. 
T \7A N T E D   AT ONCE-SIX GOOD TRAVEL- 
YY 
lng salesmen;  none  but  men  with  good 
recommendations  and  experience  need  apply. 
Angle Steel Sled Co„ Kalamazoo, Mich. 
YET ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMA­
CY  cist to manage a drug store in a  good town. 
Address No. 491, care Michigan Tradesman.  491

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