Nineteenth  Year

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE  25,1902.

Number 979

WILLIAM  CONNOR

W HOLESALE 

READYMADE CLOTHING
of every kind and for all ages.

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

direct from factory.

W illiam  Alden  Smith  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Ms 11  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
dally from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m.,  except 
Saturdays  to  l  p.  m.  Customers’  ex­
penses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1967. 
Bell phone.  Main  1282.  Western  Mlchl-  * 
gan agent Vlneberg’s Patent Pants. 
J

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.

ELLIO T  O.  Q RO SV EN OR

Late State  Pood  Commissioner

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1333 riajestic  Building,  Detroit,  nich.

Kent County 

Savings Bank
Cor. Canal and Lyon Sts. 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

JNO.  A.  COVODE,  Pres.

HENRY IDEMA,  Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  VERDIER,  Cashier.

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

Jno. W. Blodgett, 
J. A.  COVODE,
E. Crofton Fox, 
He n r y  Idem a,
Conservative Management

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.

Capital and Surplus $150,000

— G lo v e r ’s   G e m   M a n tle s —

For Gas or Gasoline.  Write for catalogue.

Glover’s  Wholesale  Merchandise  Co. 

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  LW

Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Detroit  Opera  House  Block,  Detroit
Good  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­

letters. 

tion.Tradesmai Goapons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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Page. 
2.  Getting  the  People.
4.  Around  the  State.
6.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Source  of Political  Power.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Clothing.
19.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
15.  Dry  Goods.
16.  Bntter  and  Eggs.
17.  Relation of Fire Insurance to Credit.
18.  Bice  Industry  in  United  States.
SO.  Woman’s  World.
92.  Hardware.
24.  Clerks’  Corner.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
27.  Drug  Price  Current.'
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Credit  Men.
32.  The  New  York  Market.

TH E  VALUE  OF  EXAM PLE.

Particularly  Evident  in  Matters  of  Pub­

Written for the Tradesman.

lic  Improvement.

The  value  of  example is nowhere more 
vident,than  in  the  matter  of  public  im­
provement  by  private  effort  and  expen­
diture. 
If only some one  will set the ball 
rolling  much  good  will  follow  by  sug­
gestion.  Men  are  like  mules—by which 
1 intend  no disparagement  to the  human 
race.  The  mule  has  a  reputation  for 
being  the  most  stubborn  creature 
in 
creation— not  even  excepting  woman. 
But  mules  will  follow  a  leader.  Any 
man  who  has  ever  followed  the  business 
of  driving  mules—and  survived— will 
tell  you  that  an  old  white  mule  with  a 
bell  around  its  neck  can  handle  a  herd 
of  its  long-eared  brethren  better  than 
could  a  regiment  of  Colorado  cow- 
punchers,  be  they  ever  so  expert  with 
the  quirt  and  lariat.  When  the  boys  in 
blue  landed  at  Siboney  they  sent  one 
mule  ahead  with  a  chime  around  his 
neck  and  every  mule  on  deck  leaped 
fearlessly 
into  the  water  and  followed 
the  bell-mule  to  shore.

We  may  not  feel  complimented by  the 
comparison,  but  men  are  a  good  deal 
like  mules  in  this  particular  regard. 
Like  mules,  they  will  stampede  among 
themselves,  but  let  one  man 
lead  the 
way  with  a  bell  or a  theory  or a  little 
practical  action  and  we will follow,  each 
in  our  own  manner,  and  often  pass  or 
surpass  the  man  with  the  bell  and  the 
theory. 
I  make  this  invidious  compar­
ison  not  for  the  purpose  of  ruffling  the 
dispositions  of  men  who  object  to  being 
likened  to  mules,  but  in  the  hope  of  in­
ducing  some  man  to  become  the  bell- 
burro  and  go  ahead  with  the  bell  of 
progress  that  will  move  the  whole  citi­
zen-body  of  his  town  toward  practical 
village  improvement.

In  support  of  my  contention  concern­
ing  the  value  of  example  I  have  some­
thing  more  than  fine-spun  theory  or 
glowing  generalisms 
to  offer— some 
cases  that  have  come  under  my  own  ob­
servation.  1  shall  give names and  places 
and  dates,  not  by  way  of  eulogy,  hut  to 
give  my  statements  the  substance of  fact 
and  the  certainty  of  truth.

Pretty  nearly  everybody  in  Michigan 
and  many  thousands  of  people  through­
out  the  country  and  the  world  have

beard  of  Charles  H.  Hackley,  of  Mus­
kegon,  Michigan’s  premier  philanthro- 
phist.  Many  have  viewed  his  gifts  to 
his  home  city  and  warmly  admired 
them ;  and  his  fellow-citizens  have  re­
ceived  each  new  eminently  practical 
expression  of  bis  public  spirit  with  de­
lighted  amazement.  They  have  been 
quick  to  detect  the  value  of  his  schools 
in  offering  increased  advantages  to  the 
young,  of  his  parks  in  beautifying  the 
city,  of  his  gifts  of  statuary  in  perpetu­
ating  the  memory  and  continuing  the 
glorious 
labor  of  the  nation’s  distin­
guished  dead  and  of  his  public  library 
increasing  the  desire  for  and  com­
in 
literature.  Yet  many 
mand  of  good 
people  in  his  own  much 
favored  city 
have  failed  to  observe  the  direct  results 
of  his  beneficent  example.

Reduced  to  a  psychological  study 

in­
stead  of  simply  looked  at  as  a  sample 
of  philanthropy,  Mr.  Hackley’s  gifts 
to  the  city  of  Muskegon  are  seen  to 
have  had  an  inspiring  effect  on  bis  fel 
low  citizens.  They  have  had  a  greater 
effect  than  that  observable  on  the  sur­
face  or  by  casual  consideration. 
It  was 
in  1888  that  Mr.  Hackley  made  his  first 
gift  to  the  city  of  Muskegon.  On  May 
25  of  that  year  he  gave  $100,000  for  a 
public  library,  following  it  with  about 
$150,000  in  endowments,  books  and 
additions.  Up  to  that  time  the  city  of 
Muskegon,  in  the  two  score  years  of  its 
municipal  life,had  not  received  a single 
gift  of  importance  at  the  hands of one of 
its  citizens.

times 

Before  attempting  to  show  what  has 
been  the  direct  result  of  Mr.  Hackley’s 
gifts  to  the  city  of  Muskegon 
it  should 
be  stated  that  he  has  kept  the  luster  of 
his  example  set  in  1888  bright  for  four­
teen  years  with  other  gifts  which  total 
$1,132,000.  Mr.  Hackley's  means  are 
undoubtedly  many 
larger  than 
those  of  any  other  resident  of  Muske­
gon ;  but  nevertheless,  since  he  set  his 
philanthropic  example  in  1888  other cit­
izens  of  Muskegon  have  given  that  city 
close  to  $100,000  worth  of  gifts  in  addi­
tion  to  Mr.  Hackley’s  numerous  bene­
factions.  These  benefactions  by  other 
citizens  include  four  public  parks,  two 
semi-public  buildings, 
two  beautiful 
fountains  and  other  things  which  will 
be  readily  recognized  as  directly  con­
tributing  to  the  appearance  of  the  city.
It  is  no  disparagement  of  these  gifts 
to  attribute  them 
in  some  measure  to 
the  example  set  by  Mr.  Hackley,  nor 
does  comparison 
lessen  them  because 
they  fall  in  total  amount  below  the  total 
of  Mr.  Hackley’s  gifts  to  the  city  when 
resort  is  had  to  cold  figures.  Gifts, 
however  great  or  small,  should  not  be 
measured  in  money-cost,  but  rather  by 
their  utility  and  the  spirit  which  in­
spired  them.  Even  measuring  them  in 
this  manner and  leaving  Mr.  Hackley’s 
munificence  out of  the  reckoning,  gifts 
oi  $125,000 to  a  city  by  its  citizens  are 
something  that  a  minority,  rather  than 
a  majority,  of cities in  the United  States 
can  boast.

Mr.  Hackley,  it  may  be  said,  has 
made  a  practical study  of  philanthropy. 
His  gifts  show  a  remarkable  degree  of 
foresight.  They  have  been  of  two-fold

benefit  to  his  home  town;  they  have  not 
merely  increased  the  appearance  of  the 
city—they  have  increased  the  opportu­
nities  of  the  people  at  large  and  greatly 
augmented  the  educational  facilities  of 
their  public  schools.  And,  lastly,  but 
by  no  means  least,  they  have  served  as 
a  splendid 
inspiration  to  other  public 
spirited  citizens  whose  impulses  have 
been  quickened  by  Mr.  Hackley’s  mag­
nificent  example.

That  Mr.  Hackley appreciates without 
egotism  the  value  of  this  example  is 
evidenced  by  his  most  recent  gift;  and 
be  seeks  to  encourage  that  spirit  that 
has  been  aroused 
in  his  own  city  that 
it  may  continue  after  he  is  gone  and in­
duce  others  to  add  to  the  numerous gifts 
with  which  his  city  is  already  favored. 
Mr.  Hackley's  latest  gift  was  made 
in 
May  of  the  present  year.  It  was a public 
hospital  to  cost  $75,000,  together  with 
a  site  which  cost  him  $25,000 and  an 
endowment  of  $50,000. 
letter 
announcing  the  gift  Mr.  Hackley stated 
that  he  did  not  intend  that  this  $50,000 
should  afford  the  hospital's only income, 
but  that  he  wished  the  people  of  the 
city  of  Muskegon  to  feel  that  this  was 
their  hospital  and  their  responsibility. 
He  wanted  it  maintained  in  large  part 
by  the  people.  He  asked  that  it  be 
named  Mercy  Hospital,  and  that  it  be­
come 
in  every  sense  a  public  hospital, 
used  by  the  public  and  maintained  by 
the  public.

In  his 

In  other  words,  he  made  the  hospital 
a  possibility  and  then left  its  future  and 
its  existence  in  the  hands  of  the  people 
to  whom  he  gave  it.  That  they  have 
accepted  the  trust  gladly  may  be  well 
imagined  and  the  hospital  will  serve  a 
doubly  glorious  purpose;  it  will  minis­
ter to  the  physically  unfortunate  and  in­
crease  the  spirit  of  giving  in  the  city  to 
which  it  has  been  presented.

Surely  the  value  of  example  has  been 
in  this  much 
splendidly  demonstrated 
favored  Michigan  town;  and 
if  this 
that  is  here  written  falls  into  the  bands 
of  somebody  who  is  on  the  verge  of  do­
ing  something  for  his  home  community 
let  him  not  forget  that  the  benefit  to 
his  town  is  not  merely  measured  by  the 
gift  itself.  The  good  it  will  do  is 
im­
measurable. 

Charles  Frederick.

Michigan  merchants  should  beware  of 
a  smooth  individual  who 
is  evidently 
working  his  way  north.  His  graft  is  to 
pass  counterfeit  checks,  cleverly  drawn, 
and  to  all  appearances  worth  what  they 
are  represented  to  be.  At  Port  Huron, 
on  May  31,  be  passed  these  checks  un­
der  the  name  of  Ed.  Graham.  At  Bay 
City,  on  June  9,  he  repeated  the  trick 
under  the  name  of  Charles  Murray. 
Since  then  a  man  named  Geo.  Brown 
skipped  out  of  Port  Huron  without  pay­
ing  a  board  bill,  and  it  is suspected that 
he  drew  up  the  checks  the  other  fellows 
passed.  Graham,  alias  Murray,  is  de­
scribed  as  being  between  40  and  45 
years  of  age,  weighing  about  170,  light 
complexion  and  sandy  mustache.

Children  are  anxious  to  become grown 
people  while  grown  people  would  give 
all  their  worldly  possessions  to  be  a 
child  again.

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

Petting the  People

W hat  Is  Most  Suitable  in  General  Print­

ing.

I  have  taken  occasion  to  throw  out 
many  hints  as  to  the  best  manner  in 
which  to  do  certain  kinds  of  printing, 
but  I  have  not  treated  of  the  subject  as 
a  whole.

the 

Every  merchant  is  interested  in  hav­
ing  hi  printed  matter  suitable  to  its 
In  many  cases  no better guide 
purpose. 
can  .be  employed  than 
country 
printer. 
In  the  majority  of  the  towns 
and  smaller cities the  offices  are  abun­
dantly  equipped  for  their  work  and  the 
mechanical  execution  is  in  the  hands 
of  workmen  of  intelligence and adequate 
experience. 
is 
nothing  better to  do than  to  entrust  any 
commissions  to  their judgment.  But  it 
is  well  for  the  merchant  also  to  have 
some  idea  of  suitability,  that  he  may  be 
able  to discriminate  as  to  who  are  com­
petent  workmen  and  whether  the  pro­
ductions  offered  are  suitable  for  any 
given  purpose.

In  such  instances  there 

I  shall  not  presume in  this  department 
to  indite  a  manual  of  typography  or  do 
more  than  to give  a  few  of  the  most 
general  hints  as  to  what constitutes good 
printing. 
I  presume,  in  fact,  that  the 
majority  of  such  hints will be negative— 
what  to  avoid 
in  keeping  within  the 
bounds  of  suitability.

The  day  of 

so-called  ornamental 
printing  for ordinary  commercial  pur­
poses  is  past— if,  indeed,  such a one can 
be  said  ever  to  have  existed.  Many 
times  offices  in  earlier days  were  loaded 
down  in  their  equipment  with  typo­
graphic  ornaments,  combination  bord­
ers,  flourishes,  etc.,  with  which  all  sorts 
impossible  undertakings  were  at­
of 
tempted,  producing  crude, 
repellent, 
inartistic  results  which operated to lower 
the  grade  of general printing'materially; 
but  the  day  of  undue  ornmentation 
is 
now  happily  past  in  the  better  offices 
and  most  are  coming  to the better under­
standing.  Yet  there  are  still  some  em­
anations  from  "artistic  printeries"  that 
are  wonderful  to  behold.  It  is  always 
safe  in  most  kinds  of  printing  to  avoid 
ornament.

is  to  print 

Then  as  to  a  multiplicity  of  colors. 
Often  the  anxious  advertiser,  in his wish 
to  gel  something  artistic,  striking  or or­
iginal,  thinks the  result  may be attained 
by  drawing  liberally  on  the  rainbow. 
The  printer  separates  the  lines  of  his 
work  into  two  or  three  carefully  regis­
tered  groups  and  the  result  is  a  curious 
alternation  of color,  nothing  more.  It  is 
soon  a  weariness  to  all  concerned.  A 
safer  way 
in  one  color. 
This  need  not  always  be  black although 
black  is  often  the  best  but  it  should  sel­
dom  or ever be  an  attempt  to produce an 
artistic  result  by  a multiplicity of colors. 
I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  color  printing 
has  no  place  in  the  country  office  it  was 
never  so  much 
in  demand  as  to-day. 
But the  employment  of  color  is  for other 
purposes  than  the  making  of  a  showy 
exhibition.  For  instance  a  line  of  sta­
tionery 
is  frequently  made  attractive 
and  a  single specialty'given prominence 
by  its name being printed in some  bright 
color,  as  red,  while  the  rest  is  kept  in 
a  contrasting  color,  as  black.  Color may 
be  introduced  successfully  for  ornament 
even,  say  in  a  line  of  border or  in  simi­
lar ways,  where  there  is  not  too much  of 
it,  but  its  employment  must  always  be 
with  greatest  care.

The  best  printing,  as  a  general  rule, 
employs only  the  plainest  styles of type, 
and  these  in  a  single  series,  if  possible,

ITS  DOLLARS

IS  RED  APPLES

That  if your grocery bille are larger than you think they ought to be that you are 
buying your groceries  at  the wrong place. 
In buying groceries the first consider- 
aCionfe quality always-  A poor article is dear at any 
e,  and Josh Billings says 
“Any man who will try to cheat his own  stomach is a mean kuss.”  So in making 
our purchases we always endeavor to buy the  best products and at the very lowest 
spot «w»b prices.  We do not wish to  brag,  but  we  do claim to be'good judges of 
groceries and if you will give us  your  trade  for  one  month we will convince you 
that you get more and  better  goods  fo r 1 your  money  at  this  store  than  at  any 
other store in Barry county.

HERE.  ARE  A   FEW  GOOD  THINGS  FOR  THE  MONEY.

Armour’s potted ham, worth  10c, per can ......... ..............s c
Counteas sweet  com,  w rth  10c, per  can................ .
Bon  Am i early Jane peas, worth 15c, per c a n .............. I O C '
B ed Clover Salmon, wortttflOc, per  can ................... . 
I J C
Sterling Bed Salmon, worth 15c, per can.........................1 3 c .
N ew  corned  beef, per pound....................................   8c
Extra heavy Lake Superior whitefish, worth 10c, per lb ..  8c 
New  Michigan fu ll cream  cheese, per lb ......... .............. 1 3 C

L .  F .  S T A U F F E R .

H A S T I N G S .

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OUR  STORE

Is such a busy place from  6 a m to  10 
p m that  we  hardly  have 
time  to 
Write  ads.  “Goods  well  bought are 
half  sold.  Every  dollars  worth  of. 
goods that comes intoThis store is dia», 
counted for spot cash."  ' The customer 
gets the benefit of this way  of  doing 
buaineea  This principled-quick  ser­
vice and courteous treatment accounts 
for. the hustling we have to do to wait 
on  our trade.

G.  M.  Ambrose

Palace Grocer;  & Crockery  Store

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FURNITURE
REFLECTIONS

If you buy a piece of Furniture 
you will probably live  with  it 
for ».dozen yean or more; and 
if you discover you paid  more 
than it is worth, or  more  still, 
if you  find  after  a  mouth  or 
two that the quality is  not  as 
represented and your ftimiture 
goes to pieces, it will give  you 
an  unpleasant  thought  each 
time you look at it.  « 
.
Avoid  running  either  risk  by 
purchasing from a  thoroughly 
reliable  store  that  sell  only 
GOOD  FURNITURE  at  the 
lowest oonsifitent prices,  qual­
ity considered. 
.
Just  received  a  foil  line  of 
Couches-—right  styles,  right 
construction, 
right  prices.
.  . 
Don't flail to-see them. 
Furniture  delivered 
in  the 
co u n try.-..........................

.  . . .   . 

. 

. 

Good & amstutz

Fanttart Dialirs aid Fiasral Oiraetars.

Twenty-five Years’ 
Experience  *  *  *
OUGHT  to  eount 
in  any 
it 
business.  A n yh ow , 
counts  for  a   great  deal 
in 
undertaking.  On  occasions 
of loss by death, you will i

_ _ i give  such care.  I 
have  as  fine  a line of  burial 
goods  as  can  he  found  any- 
where—can  meet  every  wish 
as  to  price,  but  give  equal 
care  in  every case.  . All  this
Hopkins,!

□
Lovall’s  Undertaking Rooms,

right  hem

H o p k in s   S t a t io n ,  flie h..

Our Savinas Dept

enough to  accommodate  all,

Here Are Its Patrons

1—The  Young  fo lia   with  their 
• —The breadwinner. «

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accumulate a f n n d u .^ .w ... 
a home,  or a competency  for 
‘old age.
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Every
Customer
Satisfied.

It  in our intention  to  please every pur* 
chiner  of  any  goods  on  sale  at  our 
store.  Of course there  are many rem­
edies advertised  as  “cures”  which you 
const  buy on your  own  responsibility. 
•But  we  guarantee  satisfaction on any 
goods whose  worth  depends  upon our 
judgment  in  selecting  them.  W§ 
want to  know  whenever  anything  if 
not entirely right.  We  will  make  it 
right, With pleasure.  There  is certain* 
ly considerable  satisfaction  in  tradii^ 
at such a Drug Store.

R in g ,  S n e llin g   & 
Q r u le r , -   Fowler,  Mich.

GOOD  MEAT

good  meat  can  be 
I  
From  a  half  starved  ani­
mal?  Certainly  not.  To 
make wholesome  and  well 
flavored meat  the  animal 
must  be 
fattened. 
That is theonlv kind we buy 
and  the only  kind of meat 
we  sell.

'well 

T i u r a o n  1

If the  job 
for any  given  piece  of  work. 
requires  display  and  body  letter  the dis­
play  should  be  in  a  single series  and the 
body  letter  a  plain  Roman  or  something 
else  that will harmonize with the display.
It  is  impossible  to  err greatly  on  the 
side  of  plainness  in  printing.  There 
should  be  good  pioportion  and  suitable 
strength,  but  do  not  be  afraid  of  too 
much  simplicity.

*  *  *

Although  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the 
common  form  of  the  quotation— It’s 
Dollars  to  Doughnuts— would have  been 
more  appropriate  as  a  caption,  yet  there 
is  an  exhibition  of  sprightliness  in  the 
grocery  advertisement  of  L.  E.  Stauffer 
which  can  hardly  fail  to  gain  attention. 
The  best  feature,  however,  is  the  price 
list. 
I  would  trim  down  the  paragraph 
a 
little  and  thus  get  more  space  inside 
the  border  on  account  of  its  being  so 
heavy  and  black.

The  best  lines  in  the  advertisement  of 
C.  M.  Ambrose  are  the 
last  two,  and 
these  would  have  been  improved  by  the 
addition  of  an  address.  However,  there 
is  a  business  air  about  the  argument 
which 
is  calculated  to  gain  attention. 
The  display  of  "Our  Store”   is  too  in­
definite  to  count  except  to  fill  space. 
The  printer’s  work 
is  consistent  and 
strong.

Good  &  Amstutz  write  a  convincing 
argument  as  to the  advisability  of  buy­
ing  good  furniture  and  do  not  hesitate 
to claim  this  distinction  for  tbeir  goods 
in  terms  to  be  understood.  The  display 
is consistent,  but  rather  heavy  through­
out,  due  to  the  use  of too  large  type 
in 
the  center  paragraphs,  which  tends  to 
lessen  the  harmony  of  the  whole  and,  to 
some  extent,  destroys  the  effect iveneqp 
of  the  display  lines.

Cerena  Lovall  writes  a good advertise­
ment  for  her  undertaking  business, 
which  is  exceptionally  well  bandied  by 
the  printer. 
I  would  omit  the  ornament 
at  the  left  side  of  the  paragraph,  how­
ever.

The  First  State  Bank  of  Petoskey 
writes  a  fairly  good  general  advertise­
ment  for  its  savings  department,  which 
is  put  into  excellent  shape  by  the  com­
positor. 
If  the  latter  could  have had 
twice  or  three  times  as  much  space  at 
his  disposal,  he  could  have  put  the 
matter  into  such  attractive  shape  that  it 
would  have  been  worth  ten  times  as 
much  to  the  advertiser. 
In  no  depart­
ment  of  advertising  is  there  such  econ­
omy—1  am  almost  tempted  to  use  a 
stronger  word—of  space  as  among  coun­
try  banks.  No  business  is  capable  of 
greater expansion;  no  business  can  be 
helped  more  by  judicious  advertising; 
no  other  business  can  be  increased  in 
volume  without  a corresponding increase 
in  expense— yet  the  average  country 
banker  almost  invariably  restricts  bis 
space  to  a  few  beggarly  inches,  which 
places  him  in  the  same  category  as  the 
bakers  and  milliners, 
instead  of  en­
abling him  to take rank with the grocers, 
clothiers,  dry  goods  and  hardware  deal­
ers.

King,  Snelling  &  Gruler  give  a  good 
example  of  a  general  drug  store  adver­
tisement,  which 
in  simple 
style.  It  is  good  for a  change,  to  be  fol­
lowed  by  something  more  specific.

is  printed 

Benton  &  Vanhorn  have  already  had 
in  this  column  for a  similar 
It  is  time  they  made  a 

attention 
advertisement 
;  change.
1  A  railroad  time  table  merely  informs 
the  public of  the  time  trains  should  ar­
rive  and  depart.  The  times at  which 
trains  actually  arrive,  and  depart  is  a 
matter of chance  and circumstances.

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Around the State

Movements  of Hciehuite.

Calumet— MacQueen  &  Sibilsky  have 

opened  the  Bank  pharmacy.

Saginaw— Kaufman  Bros. 

succeed 
W o.  C.  Kaufman  in  the  bakery  busi­
ness.

.Dowagiac—Cooley  &  Moulthrop  con­
tinue  the  bakery  business  of  David  M. 
Cooley.

Detroit—Benj.  Gibbons  has  sold  his 
cigar  and  tobacco  stock  to  the  Owl 
Cigar Co.

Hageman— H.  W.  Bailey  has  pur­
chased the  general  merchandise  stock  of 
W.  B.  Ayers.

Detroit—Walter  M.  Smith  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  at  586  Green­
wood  avenue.

South  Haven—The  Colonial  Pharm­
acy  has  been  organized.  The  capital 
stock  is $5,000.

Clarksville— I.  C.  Post,  of  Saranac, 
has  opened  up  the  Webster  Rounds 
market  at  this  place.

Hillsdale— The  Equitable  Cigar Co. 
incorporation,  with 

has  filed  articles  of 
a  capital  stock  of  $5,coo.

Bellevue— Farlin  &  Davidson  have 
sold  their  meat  market  and  Mr.  David­
son  will  return  to  Olivet.

Isbpeming— The  Consolidated  Fuel  & 
its  capital 

Lumber  Co.  has  increased 
stock  from  $50,000 to $65,000.

Houghton—The  Lake  Superior  Pro­
duce  &  Cold  Storage  Co.  has  increased 
its  capital  stock  from  $100,000  to  $500,- 
0 0 0 .

Clio—Geo.  W.  Hubbard & Co.  succeed 
Harriet  N.  (Mrs.  E.  E .)  Huyck  in  the 
furniture,  undertaking,  drug  and  crock­
ery  business.

Grant— Hudson  &  Smith,  grocers  and 
meat  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business 
is  continued  by 
Wm.  Hudson.

Holland—J.  E.  Lewis  has  sold  his 
branch  store  at  New  Richmond  and  will 
devote  his  entire  time  to  his  grocery 
business  here.

Alpena—William  Woelk,  the  Camp- 
bellville  groceryman,  will add  a full  line 
of  dry  goods  and  clothing  and  operate  a 
department  store.

Cheboygan— N.  B.  Keeney  &  Son 
have  over  3,600 acres  contracted for seed 
peas  and  the  season  promises  to  be  the 
best  in  six  years.

South  Haven—Jacob  Niffenegger,

meat  dealer,  has  formed  a  copartnership 
with  his  brother  under  the  style  of 
Niffenegger  Bros.

Hubbardston—L.  H.  Fahey  lost about 
$1,000  Monday  by  the  premature  ex­
plosion  of  fireworks 
in  bis  drug,  gro­
cery  and  stationery  store.

Bellevue— M.  A.  Mahoney  has  pur­
chased  the  Farlin  &  Davidson  meat 
market  and  the  veteran  cutter,  John 
Madison,  wields  the. cleaver.

Evart—John  York  has  bought  his 
brother  Will’s  interest  in  the  City  bak­
ery,  and  J.  H.  York  &  Co.  will  here 
after  be  the  proprietors  and  conduct  the 
business.

Alpena—Frank  Kotwicki’s  grocery 
store  on  Chisholm  street  was  destroyed 
by  fire  on  the  night of June  17,  Loss 
on  store,  $500;  on  stock,  $1,200.  Origin 
unknown.

Quincy— F.  M.  Turrell  and  J.  C. 
Rogers  have  closed  a  deal  whereby  the 
former  becomes  proprietor 
the 
Pioneer  meat  market  and the latter takes 
the  dray  line.

of 

Detroit—The  Enterprise  Grocery  Co., 
Ltd.,  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
of $2,noo,  of  which  $5eois paid  in.  The

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

stock  is  distributed  among  twenty-five 
holders  at  $5  per  share.

Negaunee— Hugo  Muck  has purchased 
the  interest  of  his  brother  Charles  in 
the  meat  market  of  Muck  Bros.  The 
latter  will  take  a  course  in  electrical 
engineering  at  some  prominent 
institu­
tion.

Cheboygan—John  Fisher,  for  several 
years  employed  as  butcher  for Steiner  & 
Rieger,  has  purchased  the 
interest  of 
Mr.  Mendrske 
in  the  meat  business  of 
Melancon  &  Mendrske,  which  will  be 
continued  under  the  style  of  Melancon 
&  Fisher.

New  Richmond—J.  E.  Lewis,  who  re­
purchased  the  general  stock  here  of 
Ward  Close  May  13,  sold  it  June 7  to 
Chas.  E.  Hodge,  of  Chicago,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  lo­
cation,  adding 
lines  of  shoes  and  fur­
nishing  goods.

Hubbardston—J.  Hoggerman,  butcher 
at  this  place,  has  disappeared.  He  was 
last  seen  going  west  with  a  bundle  un­
der  his  arm,  supposed  to  be  clothing. 
His  family  know  nothing  of  his  where­
abouts  up  to  the  present  time  or  the 
reason  for his  disappearance.

Okemos—John  Grittenburg's  drug 
and  grocery  store  at  this  place  was  re­
cently  entered  by  thieves  and  was looted 
of  about  $6  in  money,  all  of  the  thread 
in  stock,  a  job  lot  of  tooth  brushes,  five 
bottles  of  malt  and  other  stock  aggre­
gating  in  value  about  $100.  The  thieves 
gained  entrance  by  taking  out  a  screen.
Pentwater— F.  S.  Tuxbury,  for  the 
past  year  with  Fred  Brundage, 
the 
Muskegon  druggist,  and  W.  H.  Thorp, 
who  recently  sold  his  drug  stock  at 
Dowagiac,  have  purchased  the  drug 
stock  of  J.  L.  Congdon  &  Co.  and  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion  under  the  style  of  Tuxbury  & 
Thorp.

Escanaba—A  number  of local business 
men,  associated  with  Percy  Catlett,  of 
Fairmount,  111.,  have  completed  ar­
rangements  for  opening  a  bank  at  this 
place.  Mr.  Catlett  will  be  cashier  of 
the 
institution.  The  vacant  lot  at  808 
Ludington  street  has  been  purchased 
and  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a 
suitable  building  wilt  be  let  as soon  as 
possible.

Charlotte— The  Merchants  National 
Bank,  having  secured  the  Greenman  & 
Levy  store  building  in  addition  to  the 
location  recently  occupied  by  Emil 
Dennie  as  a  meat  market,  will  erect  a 
two-story  structure  thereon,  to  be  occu­
It  is  probable  that 
pied  as  a  bank. 
the 
Greenman  &  Levy  will  occupy 
building  in  which  the  bank  is  now 
lo­
cated.

Delray—The  Delray  Hardware  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  association  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $5,000,  divided 
into 
500  shares,  of  the  par  value  of  $10 
each,  of  which  sum  $3,000  has  been 
paid 
in.  The  stockholders  are  as  fol­
lows :  Andrew  Harshaw,  230  shares ;
C.  A.  Harshaw,  230  shares,  and  C. 
Harshaw,  6  shares,  all  of  Delray ;  M. 
E.  Kimball,  Alpena,  34  shares.

Evart— L.  Stark,  general  commission 
merchant  of  Chicago,  who  bought  pota­
toes  here 
last  winter and  who  bad  the 
nerve  to  purchase  10,000  bushels  of  po­
tatoes  of  E.  C.  Thompson  at 90 cents 
per  bushel  on  a  declining  market,  has 
closed  a  deal  with  Mr.  Thompson  by 
which  he  becomes  the  owner  of  the 
Railroad  street  warehouse  and  potato 
cellar,  the  consideration  being  $i,coo 
cash.

Menominee—A.  E.  &  E.  Guens- 
burg,  who  conduct  the  Grand  depart­
ment  store,will  occupy  the  large  store

adjoining  their  present  location  about 
Sept,  i,  thus  giving  them  a  floor  space 
of  26,000  square  feet,  with  120  feet 
frontage  on  Main  street.  The  new  space 
will be  used  for  additional  departments. 
E.  A.  Duvall,  who  occupies 
these 
quarters  with  his  clothing  and  furnish­
ing  goods  stock,  will  remove  to  another 
location  on  Main  street.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— P.  P.  Stoltzman, 
VV.  L.  Beers,  E.  E.  Stoltzman  and  W.
D.  Johnston have formed a copartnership 
to  conduct  the  Cash  department  store  in 
the  new  Beadle  block  on Ashmun  street. 
Mr.  Beers  has  been  engaged  in  busi­
ness  here  since  last  fall.  Two  months 
ago  Messrs.  Stoltzman  and  Mr.  Johns­
ton,  also  from  Rhinelander,  joined  him 
here  and  they  have  been  awaiting the 
completion  of  the  Beadle  block  to  in­
crease 
lines  and  enlarge  their 
stock.

their 

Jackson—David  King,  of  Detroit,  a 
member of  the  firm of King  &  King, was 
arrested  with  his  five  clerks  for  alleged 
violation  of  the  venders’  license  law. 
He  advertised  a  $35,000  sale  without 
getting  a  local  license,  having deposited 
$500  with  the  Secretary  of  State  and  se­
cured  a  State  license.  He  did  not  ap­
ply  for a  local  license  until  shortly  be­
fore  his  arrest,although  the  law  requires 
that  such  license  must  be  secured before 
the  sale  is  even  advertised.  King  was 
convicted  and  sentenced  to  pay the costs 
of  prosecution—about  $28.

Manufacturing  Matters.

in 

Hastings—The  Check  Hook  Co.  has 
its  factory  in  the 

begun  operations 
old  electric  light  building.

Caro—The  Caro  Vinegar  Co.  is  the 
style  of  a  new  enterprise  at  this  place. 
The  capital  stock  is $io,ood.

Detroit—The  Ireland  &  Matthews 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  increased 
its 
capital  stock  from  $50,000  to $200,000.
Plainwell—The  J.  F.  Eesley  Milling 
Co.  has  merged  into  a  corporation  un­
der  the  same  style.  The  capital  stock 
is  $30,coo.

Lansing—A.  F.  Molitor has purchased 
the  interest  of  bis  partners,  Ford  J. 
North  and  H.  D.  Moyers  in  the  manu­
facturing implement business of  Molitor, 
North  &  Moyers  and  has  assumed  the 
entire  control  of  the  business.

Manton—Williams  Bros,  will  remove 
their sawmill  plant  from Mesick  to  Cad­
illac  and  will  also  establish  a  last  block 
factory  at  that  place,  employing  about 
thirty  men.  They  will  continue  their 
plant  at  this  place  at  its  present  capac- 
ity.

Detroit—The  J.  C.  Wilson  Carriage 
Co.  has  outgrown  its  present  quarters at 
First  and  Abbott  streets  and  negotia­
tions  are  nearly  'closed  for a  site  for a 
new  brick  factory  about  200  feet  long, 
the  plans  for  which  are  now  in  prepara­
tion.

Alpena— Chas.  B.  Warren,  the  foun­
dry  and  machine  man,  has  taken  Ed.
E.  Oliver  as  a  partner.  Mr.  Oliver  is 
an  experienced  mechanical  engineer, 
being  a  graduate  of  Perdue  University 
and  a  teacher  of  mechanics  for  several 
years.  The  new  firm  will  manufacture 
gasoline  engines.

Battle  Creek—The  Malt-Too  Flake 
Food  Co.  has  made  arrangements  with 
the  company  that  makes  the  well-known 
Aunt  Jemima  Pancake  flour,  which  has

been  so  widely  advertised  the  past  year 
or  so,  whereby  the  Aunt  Jemima  com­
pany  contracts  for  the  whole  output  of 
the  food  factory.

Allegan— The  . Michigan  Engine  Co. 
has  been  organized  by  T.  S.  Updyke,  J. 
P.  Magney  and  W.  H.  Masterson.  The 
company  has  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000 
and  was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  man­
ufacturing  and  placing  on  the  market 
the  new  engine  recently  invented  by 
Messrs.  Magney  and  Masterson.

the  Alpena 

Alpena— Ed.  C.  Oliver  has  associated 
himself  with  Charles  B.  Warren  in  the 
proprietorship  of 
Iron 
Works,  under  the  firm  name  of  Warren 
&  Oliver.  New  machinery 
is  being 
added  and,  in  addition  to  a  general 
foundry  business,  several  manufactur­
ing  departments  will  be  added.

Dowagiac— Nearly  all  of  the  machin­
ery  and  effects  of  the  Jessup  &  Ball 
furniture  factory  has  been  moved  to  the 
buildings  of  the  former  Dowagiac  Can­
ning  Co.,  now  the  property  of  the  Do­
wagiac  Furniture  Co.  The  canning  fac­
tory  buildings have  been  remodeled  and 
prepared  for  the  reception  of  the  ma­
chinery.  The  buildings  formerly  oc­
cupied  by  Messrs.  Jessup  and  Ball  will 
be  sold.

Detroit—The  Sunrise  Mineral  Paint 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
a  capital  stock  of $250,000,  divided  into 
2,500  shares  of  the  par  value  of  $10 
each,of this  sum  130,000  having  already 
been  paid 
in.  The  stockholders  are: 
Patrick  A.  Duery,  2,750 shares;  George 
H.  Irwin,  2,750  shares;  Samuel  Her­
bert,  2,750  shares;  Herbert  S.  Primer, 
2,750  shares:  Harry  S.  Emmons,  2,000 
shares;  George  H.  Irwin,  trustee,  12,000 
shares.

Yalmer—M.  O.  Hogan  &  Co.,  who 
conduct  a  general  store  at  this  place, 
have  purchased  a  tract  of  land  in  Skan- 
dia  township  near  the  village  of  Har­
vey.  The  consideration  was  $15,000. 
The  firm 
intends  to  cut  the  standing 
timber  on  the  property,  and  will  sell 
both  the  lumber and  the  bark.  The  firm 
also  intends  to  erect  another  store build­
ing  at  this  place,  the growth  of  its  busi­
ness  rendering  the  present  quarters 
in­
adequate.

Dearborn—The  Arna  Mills  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association  for  the  pur­
pose  of  manufacturing  all  kinds of  cot­
ton,  woolen  and  silk  fabrics  as  well  as 
composite  materials  and 
ready-made 
garments.  The  capital  stock  is $20,000, 
divided  into  2,000  shares  of  the  par 
value  of $10 each.  The stockholders  are 
John  H.  Cutting,  Ann Arbor,  500 shares; 
Theodore  A.  Reyer,  Ann  Arbor,  500 
shares;  Herman  Kalmbach,  South 
Lyon,  500  shares;  William  Houseman, 
Dearborn,  500 shares.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  plate  glass 
factory  has  been  forced  to  shut  down 
by  reason  of  the  coal strike.  An  official 
of  the  company,speaking  of  the  matter, 
said:  “ Last  year,  when  the  factory 
was  being  built  we  had  the  machinist 
strike  to  contend  with.  Now,  after  hav­
ing  invested  half  a  million  dollars  in  a 
plant  that  gives  work  to  a  large  number 
of  skilled  men,  we  are  forced  to  shut 
down  owing  to  the  strike  of  the  coal 
mine  workers. 
It  is  discouraging  and 
one  hardly  wonders that  a  disposition  is 
being  manifested  by  many  capitalists 
not  to  invest  money  in  factories  which 
employ  labor."

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Grend  Rapids,  Mich.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The Grain  Market.

Owing  to  clearer  skies  and  more  set­
tled  weather  in  the  Southwest,  wheat 
has  remained  steady  during  the  week. 
While  fluctuations  were  small,  there  was 
considerable  trading.  Conditions  seem 
long  side,  as  we  note  an­
to  favor  the 
other  large  decrease 
in  the  visible  of 
2,500,000  bushels,  leaving  the  visible 
only  21,000,000  bushels,  against  33,000,- 
000  bushels  at  the  corresponding  time 
last  year.  Owing  to  the  damp  and rather 
cool  weather,  harvesting  has  been  de­
layed  and  will  not  be  as  early  as  antici­
pated.  However,  a  few  cars  of  new 
wheat  have been received  at  Detroit  and 
Chicago,  but  not  up  to  the  usual  num­
ber  received  at  this  time 
in  former 
years.  Texas  complains  bitterly,  as 
regards  the  small  yield  that  threshers 
report,  being 
in  many  instances  only  4 
to  6  bushels  per  acre.  We  may  be  mis­
taken,  but  we  still  think  wheat  around 
present  prices  is  low  enough.

The  coarse  grains  have  been  decided­
ly  stronger.  Corn sold as  high  as  69c  for 
July  delivery.  However,  it  has  receded 
to  67c,  but  the  undertone  appears  to  be 
very  strong  in  the  corn  pit,  on  account 
the  scarcity  and  the  unfavorable 
of 
weather. 
Should  we  get  some  very 
warm  growing  weather,  prices  would 
tend  to  remain  where  they  are,  and 
should  this  cool,  damp  weather  con­
tinue,  they  may  advance.

Oats  seem  to  be  in  a  very  strong posi­
tion  and  prices  have  advanced  fully  3c 
since 
last  writing.  Of  course  the  old 
saying  is  that  supply  and  demand  regu­
late  the  price,  but  we  might  state  that 
there  seem  to  be  plenty  of  oats  offered, 
but  where  they  got  to  is  a  conundrum, 
because  prices  remain  very  high.  The 
new  crop  seems  to  be 
looking  well, 
there  not  being  much  complaint  on  that 
score.

In  rye  there  is  no  change  whatever. 
The  new  crop  will  be  coming  in  and, 
as  thé  demand 
is  not  urgent,  we  cer­
tainly  will  look  for  lower  prices.

Beans  have  not  changed  any.  The 
demand  is  hardly  up  to  what  it  usually 
is  at  this  time.  We  presume  the  high 
price  deters  people  from  buying  the 
usual  amount,  as  they  are  looking  for 
lower  prices.

There 

is  no  change  in  flour  prices. 
The  demand  keeps  up  with  the  output 
of  the  mills ;  in  fact,  the  mills  are  hav­
ing  more  orders  to-day  than  they  can fill 
for  prompt  shipment,  as  the  dealers  all 
want  old  wheat  flour.

Mill  feed  is  very  strong.  The  price 
on  bran  remains  where  k   was—$20— 
and  middlings  are  worth  $23  per  ton. 
The  mills  are  all  behind  on  their orders 
for  middlings.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  as  fol­
lows:  wheat,  51  cars;  corn,  7  cars; 
oats,  2  cars ;  flour;  7  cars ;  beans,  2 
cars ;  malt,  1  car ;  hay,  2  cars ;  straw,  1 
car;  potatoes,  13  cars.

Mills  are  paying  77c  for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Prodace  Market.

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

variety 
$4-5o@5  per  bbl,
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25® 
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size. 
Jumbos,  $2.25  per  bunch.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—25c  per  doz.  for  new.
Beet  Greens— 50c  per  bu.
Butter—The  market  for factory cream­
ery  is  strong  and  steady  at  22c  for  fancy 
and  21c  for choice.  Dairy  grades  are  in 
Strong  demand  at  I7@i8c Jtor  fancy  to

I 5@ i 6 c   for choice  and  14^150  for pack­
ing  stock.  Receipts  are  liberal  and  the 
quality  is good.

Cabbage— Home  grown 

commands 
90c  per doz.  Kentucky  fetches  $2  per 
crate.

Celery— Home  grown 

supply  at  20c  per  doz.

is  in 

limited 

Cherries—$1.25  per crate  of i6qts.  for 
sour  and  $1.16  for  sweet.  The  crop  is 
only  fair  in  size.

Cucumbers— 40c  per  doz. 

for  hot 

house.

Eggs— Receipts  are  not  liberal  and 
the  quality  runs  rather  poor. 
Local 
dealers  pay  I 5 @ i 6 c   for  candled  and  13 
@140  for  case  count.
I4@ i5c.

Figs— Five  crown  Turkey  command 

Gooseberries—90c  per  16 qt.  crate.
Green  Onions— 12c  for  Silver  Skins.
Green  Peas—$1.40  per  bu.  box.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  i 5 @ i 6 c .  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  i o @ i i c .
$5@6.
Leaf  has  declined  to  70c  per  bu.

Lemons— Californias,  $5 ;  Messinas,

Lettuce— Head  commands  75c  per  bu. 

Maple  Sugar— io jic  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Onions— Bermudas,  $1.80  per  crate ; 
California,  $2.25  per  sack  of  100  lbs.  ; 
Kentucky  and  Louisiana,  $1.65  per 
sack  of  65  lbs.
i  Oranges—California  Valencias,  $5.50.

Parsley—35c  per  doz.
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Pineapples— Havanas  command  $3.75 
per crate  for  30  size;  $3.50  for  36  size; 
$3.25  for 42  size.  Fruit  in barrels  fetches 
8@I5C.  Floridas,  $4.5c  per  crate  of  24 
to  36  size,  one  size  or  assorted,
Plants—Cabbage  and  tomato,  75c  per 
box  of  200;  pepper,  90c;  sweet  pota­
toes,  85c.

Potatoes—Old  stock  is  strong  and  in 
active  demand  at  75c.  New  stock  is  in 
strong  demand  at  85c,  with  indications 
of  lower  prices  soon.

Poultry—The  market  is  easy,  receipts 
being  just  about  equal  to  requirements. 
Live  pigeons  are  in  moderate  demand 
at  5o@75c  and  squabs  at  $ i . 2 o @ i . 5 0 .  
Spring  broilers, 
i 6 @ i 8 c ;  chickens,  g@ 
10c;  small  hens,  9@ioc;  large  hens,  7 
@8c;  turkey  hens, 
ioj^@ iij£;  gob­
blers,  9@io.

Radishes— 10c  per  doz.
Spinach—45c  per  bu.
Squash— Summer  fetches  75c  per  bas­

Strawberries—$1.25® 1.50  per  16  qt. 
crate.  The  local  crop  is  nearly all  mar­
keted.

Tomatoes—80c  per 4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—$1.75  per  bu.  box  for 
Illinois.  Home  grown  commands  $2.25 
per  bu.

Crusade  A gainst Trading Stamps. 

From the Lansing  Republican.

Several  Lansing  merchants  have  be­
gun  a 
crusade  against  the  trading 
stamps.  They  say  that  where  the  trad­
ing  stamp 
is  given  little  other  adver­
tising 
is  done,  as  a  rule,  and  that  the 
merchants  giving  the  stamps  spend 
more  for  them  than  they  would  for  ad­
further  argued  that 
vertising. 
It  is 
merchants  using 
the  stamps  charge 
enough  more  for  their  stock  in  trade  to 
insure  them  against  any  loss.

A  petition  is  to  be  circulated  in  a day 
or two among  Lansing  meat  dealers,  all 
of  whom,  it  is  said,  are  willing  to  stop 
using  the  trading  stamps.  It  is expected 
that  the  action  of  the  meat  men  will 
have  an 
influence  on  other  tradesmen.

Buffalo  asks  Congress  to  appropriate 
$600,000  to  make  good  the  deficiency  in 
the  revenues  of  the  Pan-American  E x­
position  on  the theory that the  success  of 
the  affair  was  spoiled  by  the  assassina­
tion  of  President McKinley and  that  the 
country  should  stand  the 
It  is 
hardly  likely  that  the  appropriation  will 
be  granted,  as  there 
is  a  general  dis­
position  to  let  bygones  be  bygones.
3  Midland—The  Dow  Chemical  Works, 
which  consumes  seventy-five  to  100  tons 
of  coal  daily,  has  been  shut  down  on 
account  of  the  shortage  of coal,

loss. 

ket.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
quiet,  with  an  easier  tendency.  Refin­
ers  have  fair supplies  on  hand  and  are 
not  ready  buyers  and  holders  are  not 
urging  sales,  so  but 
little  business  is 
transacted.  The  world’s  visible  supply 
of  raw  sugar  is  2,900,000  tons,  showing 
a  decrease  of  200,000  tons  under June 
12,  1902,  and  an  increase  of  960,000 tons 
over  the  corresponding  time  last  year. 
The  feature  of  the  refined  market  was 
the  unexpected  reduction  in  list  prices 
of  five  points  on  all  grades,  which  was a 
surprise  to  the  trade.  The  demand  for 
sugar  for actual  wants  is  very  good,  but 
there 
little  speculative  buying, 
as  buyers  are  inclined  to  await  further 
developments  before  placing  any  very 
large  orders.

is  but 

in 

that 

Canned  Goods—Trade 

canned 
goods  is  just  about  the  same  as  last 
week.  There  is  a  good  demand  for 
small  lots  of  almost  everything  in  the 
line.  The  general  market,  however,  is 
very  sensitive  and  the  changes  from 
now  on  will  be  brought  about  by  the 
weather  conditions.  Tomatoes  still  oc­
cupy  the  most  attention 
in  the  line. 
Spot  goods  are  meeting  with  a  very 
good  demand  for  everything 
is 
offered.  Offerings,  however,  are  exceed­
ingly 
light,  as  stocks  are  so  closely 
cleaned  up.  Futures  are  very  firm,  but 
only  few sales are^ade,as many  packers 
will  not  take  any  more  orders  at  any 
price,  on  account  of  the  outlook  for a 
short  crop  caused  by  the  ravages  of  the 
potato  bug.  Prospects  now  point  to  a 
short  pack  and  higher  prices.  There  is 
only  a  small  demand  for  spot  corn  at 
unchanged  prices  and  practically  no  in­
terest 
is  taken  in  futures.  The  situa­
tion  on  peas,  so  far  as  prices  are  con­
cerned, 
is  very  strong,  but  trade  is 
light,most  dealers  having supplied  their 
wants.  The 
fancy  grades  of  smaller 
peas  are  very  difficult  to  get  hold of  and 
prices  are,  consequently,  very  firm  for 
those  grades.  There 
is  some  demand 
for  spot  gallon  apples,  but  orders  have 
to  be  turned  down  on  account  of  lack  of 
supplies  to  fill  them with.  Future goods, 
however,  are  selling  well.  The greatest 
activity  of  the  pineapple  market  is  now 
over  and  the  packing  is  almost  com­
pleted.  This  has  been,  on  the  whole,  a 
most  satisfactory  year  in  the  pineapple 
business,  with  the  quality  of  the  pack 
very  fine.  Sardines  are  in  fair  demand 
at  firm  prices.  Salmon  is  in  excellent 
demand,  stocks  moving  out  rapidly  un­
der a heavy  consumptive  demand.  The 
consumption  of  Alaska  salmon 
in­
creasing  wonderfully.  The  total  pack  of 
salmon 
last  year  was  over  5,000,000 
cases,  as  against  3,100,000  cases,  which 
was  the  largest  previous  pack  and  these 
have  all  practically  gone  into  consump­
tion.  The  pack  this  year  will  probably 
be  less  than  last  year  on  account  of  the 
fact  that  there  will  be  no  run  of  hump­
backs,  as  this  fish  runs  only  every  other 
year  and  last  year  was  a  heavy  run,  and 
it  is  not  to  be  expected  that  the  excep­
tionally 
large  run  of  Sockeyes  last  year 
will  be  repeated  this  year.  The  fact 
that  the  consumption  of  salmon 
is  in­
creasing  to  such  an  extent  is  proved  by 
the  complete  absorption  of  over  2,000,- 
000 cases  more  than  were  everjpacked in 
one  year  before.  Buyers  have  placed 
large  orders  for Alaska  salmon  and  are 
now  increasing  them.

Dried  Fruits—Trade  in  dried  fruits 
is  moderate  and  considered  quite  good 
for this  season  of  the  year.  There  is  a 
moderate  demand  for  prunes,  the  large 
sizes  being  scarce  and 
in  some  cases 
commanding a slight premium.  There  is

is 

no  change  in  the  prospects  for  the  new 
goods  and  the  crop  is  in good condition. 
Raisins  continue 
in  good  request  and 
prices  are  gradually  hardening.  Stocks 
are  limited  and should be closely cleaned 
long.  Apricots  are  strong 
up  before 
and  the  demand 
is  good.  Stocks  are 
very  light.  This applies also  to  peaches. 
Dates  continue 
in  good  request  at  full 
prices.  Stocks  of  Fard  dates  are  very 
small.  Figs  are  unchanged.  There  is 
a  fair  enquiry,  but  stocks  are  very  light 
there 
and 
is  practically  no  business 
transacted.

Rice— Trade  in  rice  is  good  for  this 
season  of  the  year.  The  market  is  very 
firm  and  millers  refuse  to  make  the 
slightest  concession 
in  prices.  Stocks 
are  fair,  but are not  considered sufficient 
to  supply  the  demand  until  new  crop 
comes  in  if  the  present  good  trade  con­
tinues;

Molasses—As  usual  at  this  time  of 
the  year,  trade 
in  molasses  was  light 
during  the past  week,sales  being  mostly 
for  small  lots  as  were  needed  to  fill 
im­
mediate  wants.  The  statistical  position 
is  strong  and  prices  are  firmly  main­
tained.

in  fish 

Fish— Trade 

is  rather quiet. 
There  is,  however,  some  trade  on  both 
codfish  and  mackerel  at  unchanged 
prices,  but  orders  are 
lots 
only.

for  small 

Rolled  Oats— Rolled  oats  are  very 
firm,  with  prices  showing  a  decidedly 
upward  tendency,  having  advanced  40c 
per  barrel  and  20c  per  case  during  the 
past  week.

Nuts—Nuts  are  firmly  held  and  meet 
with  good  demand.  Brazils  are  very 
firm  and  are  selling  well.  Almonds 
are  firm,  but  with  no  change  in  price. 
A  short  time  ago  the  highest  estimate 
on  new  crop  California  almonds  was 350 
cars.  To-day,  with  the  crop  almost 
ready  to  harvest,  it  is  a  well-known  fact 
that  first  estimates  were  incorrect  and 
that  at  the  very  outside  we  can  look  for 
only  about  250  cars,  which 
is  a  very 
heavy  cut.  Practically  the  same  is  true 
of  walnuts.  A  large  crop,  estimated  at 
800 cars,  was  expected,  but  now  this  is 
cut  down  to 650 cars.  Peanuts  are  very 
firm  and  in  good  demand.  The  average 
crop  of  peanuts  amounts  to about 1,200,- 
000  bushels,  but  last  year’s  crop,  which 
is  now  being  sold,  is  very  short.  The 
severe  hot  weather  and  drouth  of  last 
year 
rendered  the  crop  exceedingly 
short,  the  total  holdings  of  to-day  being 
estimated  at  about  200,000  bags.

All 

The  Boston  Egg  and  Batter  Market.
Boston,  June  23—Receipts  of  eggs 
have  been  quite  large,  some  4,000  cases 
more  than  the  corresponding  week 
last 
year,  and  there  has  been  quite  a  dis­
in  values  of  stock  from 
crimination 
from 
different 
eggs 
Northerly  sections  have  been 
taken 
readily  at  I7^@i8c,  but  there  has  not 
been  consumptive  demand  enough  to 
use  up  all  the  stock  coming  and  the 
surplus  has  been  readily  taken  for  stor­
age.  The  above quotations  are  price  ob­
tainable  for  good  eggs  at  case  count.

sections. 

Receipts  of  butter  for this  week  have 
large,  some  200,000  pounds 
been  very 
last 
more  than  the  corresponding  week 
in  the  flush  of  the 
year.  We  are  now 
season's  make  and  receipts  are  prob­
ably  as 
large  as  they  will  be  any  time 
this  season  and  the  quality  is  averaging 
very  fine,  as  the  weather has  been  cool 
and  favorable  for  making  a  large  quan­
tity  and  the  best  quality.  We  have  had 
quite  a  firm  market  and  the  demand 
has  been  good for consumption  and  stor­
age.  Best  Northern  stock has sold  read­
ily  at 22>^@23C;  the latter price is easily 
obtained  for  assorted  sized  spruce  tubs; 
oak  tubs,  22 j£c.

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

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

SOURCE  O F  PO LITICAL  POW ER.

Demand  for  Sweeping  Reforms  In  the 

Primaries.

I 

am  not  pessimistic  upon  any  of  the 

grave  questions  confronting  oar  people.
I  believe  that  any  man  without  bile  on 
bis  stomach,  who  takes  a  square  and 
comprehensive  view  of  present  con­
ditions,  social,  industrial  and  political 
in  the  light of  all  the past,  will conclude 
that our  people  are  making  positive 
progress  in  all  these  directions,  some  of 
our  modern  prophets  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding.

1 

am  a  firm,  positive,  aggressive  par­

tisan.  There  is  not  a  trace  of  the  mug­
wump  in  my  composition.

I  am  a  Republican  from principle and 
deep  conviction,  because  I  believe  the 
Republican  party  tb be  the  real  party  of 
the  people,  the  plain  people  whom  Ab­
raham  Lincoln  loved,  and  with  all 
its 
mistakes  and  shortcomings  it  is  still  the 
best  product  of a  century  of  government 
by  parties.

I  am  not  a 

idealist.  1  believe  that 
political  affairs  must  be  conducted  in  a 
practical  way  and  by  practical methods.
1  have  abiding  faith  in  the  intelligence, 
conscience  and experience of the  people, 
and  that  when protected and safeguarded 
in  the  exercise  of  their will  and  respon­
sibility  they  are  able  to  solve  correctly 
all  the  problems  that  arise 
in  the  prog­
ress of  self-government.

We  have  fresh  in  our  memory  a  forci­
ble  example  of  the  exercise  of the quali­
ties  referred  to.  The  memorable  and 
momentous election  of  i8g6  is  still  fresh 
in our  memories.  Then  was  submitted 
to  the  people  one  of the  gravest  issues 
ever  submitted  to electors  in  the  whole 
history  of  self-government.  We  recall 
the  gravity  of that  situation.  The  po­
litical  skies  were  black  with  the  fury  of 
pent  up  storms;  wise  and  thoughtful 
men were facing the future with blanched 
faces;  brave  hearts  were  heavy  with 
fear,  and  loyal  homes  were  filled  with 
apprehension of judgments to come.  The 
great question  of  a  nation's  currency 
and  finance  was  submitted  to  the  com­
mon  citizen,  who,  in  the  quiet  of  bis 
home,  in  the  light  of  his  own  fireside 
and  in  the  presence  of  his  wife  and 
children,  solved the question,  and solved 
it  right. 
In  that  issue,  not  upon  men 
renowned  in  statesmanship  and  finance, 
bui  upon  the  silent folded  ballot  of  the 
American  freeman  hung  the  prosperity 
of  the  nation  and  tb'e  fate  of this Repub­
lic.  Never  before  in  history  has  there 
been 
triumph  of  popular 
government  That  election  turned  an 
electric  searchlight  Upon  thè  strength, 
dignity  and  stability  of  American  citi­
zenship,  as  did  Manila  and  Santiago 
upon  American  patriotism.  Together- 
they  revealed  to the  world  for  the  first 
ime  the American freeman,  the  product 
of a  century  of  self-government,  in  the 
maturity  of  bis  strength,  confident of his 
powers,  proud  of  his  past,  facing the fu- j 
ture.

such 

a 

The  figure'  òf  American  citizenship, 
enthroned  with  the  power of  the  Repub­
lic,takes  its place  among  the  great  pow­
ers of  the  earth,  "standing  in  the glow­
ing  dawn  of the  world’s .-new d ay,"  rep­
resenting  and  symbolizing  the  spirit  of 
freedom  and  Republicanism  and  self- 
government,  to  direct  the  trend  of  the 
world's  progress  and  civilization  for­
ever.

On  behalf  of American  citizenship,  I 
speak  for an  honest  primary  system. 
I 
desire  to say  some  plain  things  upon  a 
homely  subject,  because  I  think  they 
ought to be  said,  and perhaps those  of  us 
not  actively connected  with  party  poli­

tics,  who  are  out  in  the  brush  and  free 
to  thrash  around  without  restraint,  can 
say  more,  consistently  and  appropriate­
ly,  than  those  who are  within  the  clear­
ing.

In  this  respect  it 

The  Republic  from  the  beginning 
has  been  a  government  by  political  par­
ties.  Brice  says,  ‘ ‘ The  spirit  and  force 
of  party  in  America  has  been  as  essen­
tial  to  the  action  of  the  machinery  of 
locomo­
government  as  steam  is  to  the 
tive. "  
is  not  the 
fulfillment  of the  hopes  and  plans  of  the 
fathers.  The  dread  of  parties  was  the 
inspiration  of  Washington’s  farewell 
address.  In  this  respect  it  expressed the 
general  feeling  and  conviction  of  his 
contemporaries  who  framed  the  consti­
tution.  Their  efforts had  been  directed 
to  the  suppression  of  party  spirit.  And 
yet  political  parties  have  been  and  still 
are  the  moving  forces  in  the  govern­
ment  founded  by  them.  To  this  day 
parties  are  not  recognized  in  federal  or

uate  their  power  and  maintain  their 
principles.

This  resulted  in  direct  legislation of a 
negative  character,  effecting  party  or­
ganization  to  hold  the  respective  parties 
in  check.  Then  finally  came  the  posi­
tive  recognition  of parties in  the  laws  of 
the  land,  enactments  regulating  and  di­
recting  their  work  and  methods,  and 
safeguarding  the  rights  and  duties  of 
in  the 
their  members, 
crowning  glory  of  political 
legislative 
reform:  the  Australian  or  legalized  bal­
lot.

culminating 

“ Thus  parties  came  to  be  a  part  of 

the  legal  machinery  of  government."

This  course  has  been  in  direct and 
continuous 
line  of  political  progress. 
Thereby  have  the  benefits  of  self-gov­
ernment  been  secured.  The  tendency 
has  been  “ to  liberate  the  true  function 
and  spirit  of  party”   from  the  subjection 
of  party  organizations, 
the 
principles  of  party,  control  the  organi­

to  exalt 

in  the 

the  control  of  machine  organization  in 
selecting  the  representatives  of  their 
principles  is  the  last  and "final step, after 
ballot  reform.  The  reform  of the  pri­
mary  is the  great question  that confronts 
the  people  to-day;  The  primary  is  the 
source  of  self-government. 
It  has  been 
described  as  the  great  danger  point  in 
our  politics.  Caucus disorder  and  fraud 
have  characterized  American  politics 
from  the  beginning  of  the'Republic  and 
with  all  the  marvelous  progress  of  our 
people,  notwithstanding  all  that  has 
been  accomplished 
last  twenty 
years  for  the  reformation  of American 
politics,  the  fact  remains  that,  in  the 
actual  working  and  practical  results  of 
the  primary  as  conducted  by  the  ma­
chine  organizations of  both  great  parties 
there  are  more  dangerous  methods  and 
practices  than  ever  before 
in  our  na­
tional  experience.  The general debauch­
ery  that  formerly  characterized  election 
day  has  largely  disappeared,  but  the 
fraud,  bribery  and  intimidation  of  elec­
tions  have been concentrated and focused 
upon  the  primary.  There citizenship  is 
dethroned;  party  principles  are  be­
trayed ;  ignorance  and  vice  subsidized. 
The  caucus  is  to-day  the  bucket  shop  of 
our  politics.  It is  a  disgraceful  traffic  in 
sacred  trusts.  It  lines  the  “ king’s  high­
way"  with  political  wrecks.  It  robs  the 
people  of  their  political  rights  and 
gambles  with  their highest  interests.

The  evils  which  now  afflict  our  body 
politic  and  work  against  our  people  un­
der the  present  system  of  party  organi­
zation  can  be  attributed  largely  to the 
degradation  and  debauchery  of  the  pri­
mary.  Under  the  protection  and  safe­
guard  of  our  voting  system  the  people 
do  the  voting,  but  do  not  make  the 
nominations.

The  methods  and  practices  that obtain 
in  the  primary  if  resorted  to  in  any 
other business  would  exhaust  the  execu­
tive  and  judicial  forces  of the  State  in 
their suppression,  and  would  land  those 
who employed  them  not  in public  office, 
not to  place  and  position  in  party  coun­
cils—but,  in  the  penitentiary.

In  respect  to  primary  methods  I  make 
no distinction  between  existing  parties 
or  factions  of  our own. 
I  believe  that 
such  methods  and  practices  come  more 
naturally  to  the  Democratic than theR e- 
publican  party,  with  this  distinction, 
that  the  former  seems  to  thrive  upon 
them;  but  the  supremacy  of  the  latter 
can  never  long  survive  them.  As  to 
factions,  I  make  no  distinction,  either 
pro  or  anti. 
I  have  “ friends  in  both 
places."  The  most  severe  criticism  I 
could  make  of  either  in  this  regard 
would  be  that 
it  is  ]ust  as  bad  as  the 
other.
A 

in 
Grand  Rapids  and  resolved  that  the Re­
publican  factions should  be  harmonized.
1  do  not  support  that resolution.  Neither 
should  be  harmonized.  Both  should  be 
absorbed.

few  statesmen  recently  met 

The  American  people  have  long  since 
lost  interest  in  the  charge  of  the  pot 
against  the.color  of  the  kettle.

The  law  must  yet  afford  adequate pro­
tection  and  regulation  for  the  primary 
as  well  as  elections,  so  that  the  people 
will  more  directly  control  the  nomina­
tions.  This  is  a  practical  question.

The  reform  of  the  primary  has  pro­
gressed  fat enough  in  different  states  to 
enable  a  legislature  elected  by  the  peo­
ple  or that  issue  responsible  for  it,  cap­
able  and  acting  in  good  faith  to frame  a 
successful  primary  law  supplemented by 
corrupt  practice  acts,  which  would 
throw  adequate  safeguards  around  the 
will  and  power of  the  individual  voter

state  constitutions.  There  are  recog­
nized  only  the  citizen,  the  individual 
voter,  the  individual  candidate.

It  is  not  my  purpose  to  emphasize  the 
distinction  between  the  organization  of 
a  party  and  the  principles  for  wbich 
it 
contends.  Party  organization  is  nec­
It  should  receive  fitting  recog­
essary. 
nition  and  support. 
It  requires  time 
and  money  and  effort  to  properly  main-j 
tain 
it.  But  it  should not  be  forgotten 
that  its  primary  purpose  is  to  incorpo-, 
rate  the  principles  of th$  party  into  the 
laws  of  the  land  and  enforce  them.

The  first  substantial  result  of  party 
organization  and  affiliation  in  the  first 
thirty-five years  of  the  Republic  was  the 
origin  and  establishment  of  the  party 
primary  as  providing  representation  of 
and  for the  people.

As  parties  increased  in> power  and or­
ganization  they  finally  seized  upon  the 
machinery  of  the  government,  secured 
its  offices  and  shaped  its  laws  to perpet­

zation  and  give  freer  expression  of prin­
ciple  and  will 
in  the  mass  of  party 
membership.  Thus  have  been  secured 
the  free  exercise  of  the  ballot,  purity 
of  elections,  the  correct  certificate  of  re­
turns.

But  legislation  has  not  yet  gone  far 
enough 
in  that  direction  to  fully  secure 
the  rights  and  protect  the  citizen  in  the 
exercise  of  his  sovereign  power.  The 
work  of  reformation  in  that  direction 
has  been  moving  up stream  and  stopped 
short  of  the  source.  The  work  must  be 
completed  before  the  full  benefits  of 
party  government  will  be  secured.  The 
stream  of  American  politics can  not  re­
main  pure  while  the  source  is  polluted. 
The  State  must  now.  go  farther  in  the 
direction  of  the  enlargement  of  individ­
ual  rights  and  duties  by  increasing  the 
power  and  influence  of  the  voter 
in 
making  nominations  and  selecting  rep­
resentatives  of  his  will.

Emancipation  of  party  members  from

in  selecting  delegates  and  making  nom­
inations  for  public  office.

By  such 

laws  the  illegitimate  use  of 
money  would  be  minimized  and  that 
dangerous  element  removed  from  our 
politics.

The  horde  of  heelers,  boodlers  and 
bosses  would  go  out  of  business  and  be 
They  might  be 
forever  blacklisted. 
into  honest  toilers  in  the 
transformed 
political  vineyard.  Such 
laws  would 
substitute  leaders  for  bosses.

They  would  punish 

the  men  who 

poison  the  springs.

They  would  make  candidates  and 
managers  rely  upon  merit,  popularity 
and  the  fidelity  of  party  and  personal 
friends  rather  than  check  books.

They  would  induce  capable  and  self- 
respecting  men  to  enter  the  political 
lists  in  honorable  contest.

Through  them  might  return  again  the 
conditions  that  existed  in  the  old  days 
when  John  Hancock  and  grand  old  Sam 
Adams,  "the  man  of  the  town  meet­
ing,”   the  real  father  of  his country,  the 
rich  man  and  the  poor sat  together  in 
the  Massachusetts  assembly and directed 
the  sentiment  which  resulted  in  Ameri­
can  independence;  when  John  Marshall 
and  Thomas  Jefferson 
and  Patrick 
Henry  were  proud  to  sit  in  the  Virginia 
Legislature  and  make  that  grand  old 
commonwealth  the  mother of presidents.
the  State 
of  Michigan  has  become  a  hissing 
byword  and  reproach. 
I  deny  that  the 
membership  of  either  party  at  large  are 
responsible  for  it.  The  origin  of  the 
whole  miserable  business 
is  in  a  sub­
sidized  and  debauched  caucus  system. 
The  people  control  the  election,  but  nQt 
the  selection,  of  public  officials.

The  public  service  of 

How  much  did  the  members  of  par­
ties  at  large  have  to  do  with  the  present 
Legislature  as  a  whole?

What  forces  did  select  them?  For 
what purpose?  The free and independent 
service  of  the  State?

The  public  service  is  corrupt  because 
the  selection  of  delegates  and  the  nomi­
nation  of  candidates  are  made  through 
the 
instrumentality  of  a  corrupted  cau­
cus  system.

The  virus of  this  system  poisons  and 
contaminates  the  whole  public  service 
of  the  State.  You  have  heard  the  story 
of  the  delegate  to  a  convention  who  bad 
forgotten  the  name  of  the  candidate  for 
whom  he  was  to  vote,  and  was  told  to 
look  at  his  check.

Good  government  can  be  obtained 
only  through  the  reformation  of  our 
primary  system.  Such  reform  would  so 
elevate  public  service that questions like 
equal  taxation,  the  abuse  of  corporate 
power  and  others  would  take  care  of 
themselves  so  easily  that we  would  won­
der  that  we  ever  became  hysterical  over 
them.

We  must  commence  the  reform  at  the 
beginning  protected  and  safeguarded 
by  law  in  the  primary,  citizenship  will 
be  supreme.

Then, in  the  free  and  independent  ex­
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TH E  VACATION  SEASON.

Up  to  the  present  time  this  year  the 
weather  has  been  such  that  people  in 
the  city  have not been prompted  to think 
much  about  getting  out  of  town  for  va­
cations.  They  have  not  cared  to  get 
very  far  away  from  their  homes,  electric 
cars  and  paved  streets.  For the  same 
obvious  reason  there  has  been  less  than 
the  usual  amount  of  getting  out  into the 
country  for  an  evening  or  a  Sunday, 
since  inclement climatic conditions have 
made  a  good  roof  and  often  a  furnace 
fire  attractive.  Perhaps  now  there  will 
be  better,  warmer  and  drier  weather and 
immediately  thereupon  there  will  be 
increasing  thought  of  the  summer  exo­
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tunate  as  to 
in  this  respect. 
There  are  plenty  of  places  with  great 
range  of  expense  within  easy  reach 
where  visitors  can  enjoy 
themselves 
thoroughly  for  a  day  or  a  month.  The 
electric  car service  is  particularly  help­
ful  for  short  excursions  and  the  railroad 
trains  run  frequently 
in  all  directions 
for  the  accommodation  of  those  who 
wish  to  go  a  greater  distance.  There 
are  places  enough  and,  in  fact,  it  is  an 
embarrassment  of  riches,  the  difficulty 
being  to  choose  among  so  many  and 
such  strong  attractions.

location 

It  is  sound  doctrine  which  declares 
that  everybody  ought  to  take  a  period 
of  rest  and  recreation  at  least  once  in 
every  year  and  that  it  should  be  more 
extended  than  a  day  or  two. 
It  is  not 
alone  for the  pleasure  thus  afforded,  al­
though  that  of  itself  is  usually  ample 
compensation.  Enjoyment  in  its  proper 
place  and  ratio  is  just  as  important  as 
employment  and  the  two  should  go  to­
gether for mutual advantage  and  benefit. 
Where  and  when  to  go and  how  long  to 
stay  are  matters,  of  course,  for  individ­
ual  decision,  governed  entirely  by  in­
dividual  circumstances.  There 
lit­
tle 
likelihood  that  too  much  emphasis 
will  be  put  upon  the  desirability of  go­

is 

for 

take  a 

vacation 

ing  somewhere,  and  the  extent  and  the 
nature  of  the  outing  must of  necessity 
depend  upon  the  pocketbook. 
It  is  not 
always  the  most  costly  outing  which 
affords  the  most  rest,  recreation  and 
pleasure.  Plenty  of  places  within  easy 
reach  of  this  city  are  available  at  fig­
ures  attractive  even  to  those  of  limited 
“ All  work  and  no  play  makes 
means. 
is  the  maxim  the 
Jack  a  dull  boy" 
youngsters  have 
invoked 
time 
out  of  mind  and  it  applies  with  equal 
force  to  their elders  ad  their  ancestors. 
Those.  who 
come 
back  to  their  work  reinvigorated  and 
better  able  to  do  it. 
It  is  not  money 
foolishly  spent,  but,  on  the  other  band, 
it  is  money  well  invested.  By  common 
consent  the  months  of July  and  August 
are  the  most  popular  for  vacation  pur­
poses. 
residents  of  the  'cities 
where  the  pavements  and  the  buildings 
reflect  the  sun's  rays  and  make  them 
hotter find  that  the  time  when  it  is  most 
agreeable  to  seek  the  rural 
regions 
where  the  air  is  cooler and  purer.  Va­
cations, 
recollections, 
should  be  provided  for  beforehand,  so 
it  ought  to  be  everybody’s  business  to 
be  thinking  these  days  in  the  last  of 
June  how  and  where  they  will  arrange 
to  pass  a  week  or  two  at  some  attrac­
tive  place  outside  the  city  where  they 
can  get  the  rest  which  will  fit  them  all 
the  better  for  another  year’s  hard  work.

like  pleasant 

The 

Chicago  has  evolved  another scheme 
for  lining  the  inner  man  or,  tather,  for 
enabling  the  outer  man  to get  his  morn­
ing 
lining  without  patronizing  a  lunch 
counter  when  he  arrives  down  town  for 
business.  The  scheme  consists  in  hav­
ing  trailer  dining  cars  attached  to the 
electric  cars  running  from  the  suburbs 
to^he  business  part  of  the  city.  These 
dining  cars  or,  rather,  breakfast  cars, 
will  enable  a  man  who,  either  through 
laziness  on  his  part  in  getting  from  his 
roost  or  through  lack  cf  energy  on  the 
part  of  the  family  cook,  has  been  com­
pelled  to  start  without  his  breakfast  to 
get  a  good  meal  before  entering  on 
his  day’s  work.  There  have  been  not  a 
few  schemes  bailing  of  late  from  the 
Windy  City,  and  this  of  the  breakfast 
car  is  by  no  manner of  means  the  least 
brilliant.  The Chicago  business  man  is 
to  be  congratulated  on  having  a  genius 
next  him  who  takes  such  a  maternal 
interest  in  bis  alimentary  conveniences. 
An  electric 
is  not  to  be  sneezed 
at,  especially  after  the  family  cook  has 
given  notice  to quit.

lunch 

Spain  possesses  pride  that  rises  far 
above  the  limitations  of  poverty.  In  the 
war  with  the  United  States  Spain  lost 
its  navy.  The  country  is  poor,  but  not 
too  poor  to  be  represented  by  a  fleet 
capable  of  fighting  on  the  sea.  The 
government  called  for  a 
loan  of $70, - 
000,000  for  the  restoration  of  the  navy, 
and  the  amount  has  been  secured  in 
popular  subscriptions  aggregating  eight 
times  what  was  asked.  Ail  the  prov­
inces  contributed  and 
forcibly 
demonstrated  that  the  resources  of  the 
Spanish  people  are  by  no  means  ex­
hausted.

thus 

Undoubtedly  the  next  important  in­
novation  in  connection  with  the  passen­
ger  service  on  the  leading  railroads  of 
the  country  will  be  the 
introduction  of 
a  system  whereby  telephonic  communi­
cation  with  moving  trains will  be  estab­
lished.  That  such  a  system  is  possible 
has  already  been  demonstrated  and  only 
the  details  remain  to  be  worked out. 
It 
is  merely  a  matter of equipment and  ex­
pense,

UKNERAL TR AD E  REVIEW .

The  causes  which  operate  to  adverse­
ly  affect  the  level  of  speculative  prices 
in  the  face  of  such  an  underlying 
strength  as  is the  rule  everywhere  must 
be  more  than  ordinary.  The  regions  di­
rectly  affected  by  the  coal  strikes  may 
suffer,  but  as  far  as  the  country  at  large 
is  concerned,  they  seem  of  no  import­
ance.  Of  course  such  matters  as  affect 
the  world*8  markets,  as  the  situation  in 
the  English  court,  can  but  have  their 
weight  here;  but  even  these  are  felt  in 
much  less  degree  than  would  naturally 
be  expected.  The  general  course  of 
the  markets  has  been  upward  and  with 
increasing  activity  until  within  the  last 
day  or  two.  Exceptions  are  found  in 
the  case  of  the  adverse  effect  of  the 
steel  trust  decision  and  the  continued 
downward  movement  of  copper  appar­
ently  on  account  of  the  unprecedented 
production  of  that  metal.  All  important 
railroads,  except  a  few of  the  coal  roads 
show  continued  gains  and  stock  prices 
are  making  many  new  high  records. 
Even  the  favorable  attitude  of Congress 
to  the  Panama  Canal  does  not  affect  the 
trans-continental  lines,  as  would  have 
been  the  case  a  few  years  ago,  as  the 
assurance  of  such  a  development of  the 
Pacific  slope  as  will more than  offset  the 
competition  is  coming  to  be recognized.
The  iron  and  steel  situation  shows  no 
slackening  of  activity.  The  only  diffi­
culty 
lack  of  sufficient  supplies 
of  pig  iron,  notwithstanding  this  is  be­
ing  produced  at  an  unprecedented  rate. 
Notwithstanding  such  checks  as  are  felt 
in  the  coal  regions  and  the  Patterson 
riots  there  is  still  the  utmost  pressure  of 
demand  for building  supplies,  showing 
that  such  checks  have  no  effect  on  the 
general  confidence  of  investors.  Orders 
are  still  being  taken  far  ahead  and  the 
most  pessimistic  fails  to  point  out  signs 
of  the  termination  of  the  present  activ­
ity.

i^ th e 

There  are  no  unfavorable  indications 
to  report  in  the9 textile  field.  The  easier 
price  of  cotton  is  a  healthier  indication 
for  that 
industry,  and  is  accounted  for 
by  the  favorable  crop  prospects.  Cotton 
spindles  are  increasing  in  number  and 
the  manufacture  of  goods  is  without 
diminution,  although  purchasers  are 
looking  for  lower  prices  after  the  new 
crop 
influences  are  realized.  Woolen 
goods  are'  well  sold  up  for  fall  trade and 
clothing  makers  are  preparing  for  large 
business.  Eastern  shipments  of  boots 
and  shoes  are  less  than  a  year  ago,  but 
this  difference  is  more  than  made  up  by 
the 
in  the  output  of  Western 
factories.

increase 

WASHINGTON  AS  THE  CENTER.

its 

For  years  and  years  Paris  has  been 
regarded  as  the  center  of  diplomacy. 
Ministers  to  foreign  courts  from  all  na­
tions  have  hitherto  prized  that  appoint­
ment  most  highly.  France  has  had  its 
ups  and  downs,  with 
frequent 
changes of  government,  but Paris  all  the 
while  has  remained  much  the  same,  the 
gayest  of  the  European capitals.  While 
the  French  mission  has  been  most 
eagerly  sought  by  the  ambassadors of 
the 
continental 
Europe  and  England  as  well,  it  has 
not  been  looked  upon  as  the  most de­
sirable  appointment  from  the  United 
States. 
It  has  usually  been  considered 
that the  position  now  held  by Joseph  H. 
Choate  is  the  most desirable  and  to  be 
accredited  to  the  court  of  St.  James  is 
reckoned  in  this  country  the  highest 
diplomatic  honor.  That  England  thinks 
otherwise  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that 
it  pays  the  British  ambassador  at  Paris

several  nations 

in 

$45,000 a  year,  whereas  the  British  am­
bassador  at  Washington 
gets  only 
$32,000  a  year.  London  Truth,  dis­
cussing  diplomacy  and  diplomatic  po­
sitions  the  other day,  had  this  to  say :

There 

is  a  new  factor  in  European 
politics;  it  is  America.  More  particu­
larly  is  this  new  factor  important  in  the 
calculations  of  the  British  Empire. 
The  development  of  the  United  States 
has  shifted—for  Great  Britain  certain­
ly—the  diplomatic  center  from  Paris  to 
Washington.  The  United  States  is  now 
a  great  country,  the  most  important  for­
eign  element  that  Great  Britain  has  to 
deal  with.  Washington  must,  therefore, 
be  made  the  principal  post  in  our  dip­
lomatic  service,  and  to  do  that  the  sal­
ary  must  be  considerably  raised,  even if 
at  the  expense  of  the  other  first-class 
appointments.

That  is  a  decided  recognition,  in­
tended  to  be  complimentary.  It  clearly 
expresses  the  fact 
in  the  situation  and 
the  opinion  entertained  in  England  is 
or  will  be  entertained  by  the  nations  of 
continental  Europe.  To  them  all  the 
United  States  is  a  factor  to  be  reckoned 
with  and  they  must  needs  have  theit 
best  and  brightest  men  to  represent 
them  at  Washington.  Surely  there  can 
be  no  pleasanter  appointment  and  if 
the  social  life  at  the  American  capital 
is  not  what  it  is  in  Paris,  perhaps  it  is 
better and  certainly  there  are  other  ad­
vantages  of  environment  constituting 
ample  compensation.  There  is no reason 
to  question  the  assertion  of  London 
Truth  that  the  capital  of  the  United 
States  is  the  coming  center  of  diplom­
acy. 

_____________

The  fresh  air  tabloid 

is  among  the 
latest  inventions.  The  inventor  is  Prof. 
George  Joubert,  of  France,  who  has  as­
certained  that  the  peroxide  of calcium 
or of  potassium  compressed  under  cer­
tain  conditions  and  put  in  the  presence 
of  a  permanganate,  a  hyperchlorite, 
and  some  salts  of  copper  or  nickel,  pos­
sesses  also  the  property  of  being  de­
composed  without  heat  in  contact  with 
watert  emitting  a  gas  exactly  like  the 
carburet  of  calcium.  The  gas,  however 
instead  of  being  acetylene,  is  oxygen 
chemically  pure  (99.9  per  cent. ).  By 
this  means  one  may  have  in  his  posses­
sion  portable  oxygen,  or,  so  to  speak, 
oxygen  tablets,  one  kilogram  of  the  per­
oxide  (aerogen  stone,  as  it 
is  called) 
furnishing  from  150  to  250  liters  of  oxy­
gen.  As  a  result  of  this  discovery  peo­
ple  can  remain,  without  having  their 
lives  endangered,  inside  of  a  submarine 
boat  or  in  a  caisson,  providing  they 
take  along  a  supply  of  oxygen  tablets  to 
be  dissolved  in  water  when  needed.

Captain  Andrew  S.  Rowan,  the  man 
who  is  celebrated  for  carrying  “ a  mes­
sage  to  Garcia,"  has  returned  from  the 
Philippines,  where  be  went  after  peace 
had  been  declared  in  Cuba  and  where 
he  rendered  distinguished  service,  al­
though  he  did  nothing  approaching  his 
Spectacular  performance  in  treading  the 
jungles  of  Cuba  with  a  message  that 
kept  20,000  Spanish  troops  away  from 
Santiago.  Captain  Rowan took  the  tide 
when 
it  led  on  to  fame 
which  will  ever  keep  his  name  from  ob­
scurity  although  be  should  never  have 
another  opportunity 
to  focus  public 
attention  upon  his  personality.

it  served  and 

There 

is  to  be  no  monopoly  in  wire­
less  telegraphy.  Several  systems  have 
been  perfected  for  which  it  is  declared 
the  inventors  have  as  strong  claims  for 
patents  as those put forward by  Marconi. 
The  United  States  Government  is  mak­
ing 
independent  experiments.  There 
is  talk  of  a  trust  to  control  the  entire 
field, but this  is regarded  as  impossible.

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

9

TH E  MODERN  FIGHTING  MAN.

The  methods  of  our  Army  in the Phil­
ippines  have  been  the  subject  of  much 
bitter  discussion  at  Washington  and 
elsewhere, and  the  attacks  will  probably 
continue  until  after  the  Congressional 
elections  next  November. 
It  seems 
pretty  clear  to  everybody,  except  to 
certain  politicians 
seeking  political 
capital,  that  although  there  have  been 
certain  sporadic  cases  of  cruelty  on  the 
part  of  a  few  overwrought  officers  and 
men,  which 
is  certainly  greatly  to  be 
deplored,  the  Administration  has  no 
desire  to  condone  these  offenses,  and,  on 
the  whole,  our Army  has  been  more  hu­
mane  and  scrupulous  than  any  other 
force  of  men,  working under  like  condi­
tions,  have  ever  been  in  the  history  of 
the  world.

The  most 

interesting  fact  about  this 
whole  matter  is  the  remarkable 
interest 
the  whole  American  public  takes  in  the 
discussion  and  the  time  that  it  spends 
in  asserting 
its  resentment.  There  is 
great  popular  sensitiveness  to  cruelty. 
“ Hitherto,”   as  the  World’s  Work  as­
serts,  “ men  have  accepted  war  as  a 
necessary  babarity  and 
inhuman  acts 
have  been  regarded  as  inevitable.  Such 
prison  experiences  as  were 
common 
during  the  Civil  War  would  now  so 
arouse  the  indignation  of  mankind  that 
no  nation  could  withstand  it.”

It  is  extremely  interesting  in this con­
nection  to  observe  that  the  very  fact  of 
our  great  sensitiveness  as  to  the  moral 
tone  of  our  fighting  men  points  to  a 
higher  general  standard  of  morals  than 
obtained  only  a  generation  or  so  ago. 
We  are  condemning  and  punishing  all 
sorts  of  offenses  that  were  not  offenses 
a  few  years  ago.  As  the  world  grows 
better we become more sensitive and crit­
ical,  and  the  number  of  things  regarded 
as  crimes  constantly  increases.  This  is 
why 
it  is  silly  to  try  to  prove  that  the 
world  is  growing  better or  worse  by  sta­
tistics  of  crime.  A  drunken  man  lying 
in  the  gutter  was  left  there  by  our  an­
cestors;  we  pick  him  up,  haul  him  to 
court  and  fine  hi m.

Along  with  the  rest  of  us,  the  fighing 
man  of  our Armies  and  Navies  has  im­
proved  in  moral  tone.  The  Marquis  of 
Dufferin  made  a  little  speech  a  while 
ago,  when  presiding  at  a  meeting  held 
in  the  interest  of  religious  work  in  the 
army.  He  said  that  nothing  had  struck 
him  more  in  the  course  of  his  long 
life 
than  the  enormous  improvement  in  the 
moral  and  general  tone  of  the  army  and 
navy.  The  soldier and  sailor of  to-day 
were  very  different  beings  from  the  men 
who  fought  under  Napoleon  or  Marl­
borough  or  Wellington  and  Nelson. 
They  are  subject  to  humanizing  influ­
ences  unknown  sixty  to  one  hundred 
years  ago.  Amenities  and  refinements 
had  been  introduced  into  the  life  of  the 
army  and  navy  which  would  have  made 
the  historic commanders  tremble  for the 
safety  of  their country.  Yet  in  spite  of 
all  these  civilizing  changes,  Lord  Duff­
erin  declared,  the  soldiers  and  sailors 
of  the  present  are  equal to the  bravest  of 
tbeir  forefathers  in  all  the virile  quali­
ties  which  go  to  make  up  the  success­
ful  fighting  man.

The  great  lesson  written  clear  in  our 
recent  war  with  Spain  is  that  a  long 
period  of  peace  does  not  eat the strength 
out  of  American  manhood.  Our  war 
was  a  brief one,  happily,  but  it  lasted 
long  enough  to  give  the  lie  to the  asser­
tion  that  we  must  be  always  fighting  or 
we  would  not  dare  to  fight  We  saw 
again  in  this  war,  as 
in  the  days  of 
from 
1861,  our  men  suddenly  taken 
peaceful  pursuits  and  bearing 
them*

selves  for  the  first  time  in  their lives 
under fire  with  the  staunchest  courage. 
Their  dash  combined  with  steadiness, 
their  ability  to  pour  in  volleys  as  well 
as  to  stand  up  under  them,  their  im­
petuosity  in  charging,  and  their  tenac­
ity 
in  holding  the  ground  won—these 
have  not  merely  set  military  experts  in 
other  countries  rubbing  their  eyes,  but 
have  dissipated  all  fear  that  thirty years 
of  peace  had  weakened  the  fiber  or the 
potential  fighting  qualities  of  Ameri­
cans.

The  truth  we  want  to  bring  out  is 
this—that  the  old,  crude  theory  of  the 
soldier  as  necessarily  a  raw-head  and 
bloody-bones  creature,  living  on  salt­
peter and  broken  glass  and  whisky,  was 
fallacious  and  has  been  made  ridiculous 
by  the  conditions  of  modern  warfare. 
Moral  qualities  have  always  counted 
far  more  than  physical  in  the  fighting 
man.  The  quiet,  undaunted  man 
is 
proverbially  more  than  a  match  for the 
ruffling bully.  The young Hoosier school­
master  leaves  the  backwoods 
ruffian 
“ considerable  shuck  up.”   The  pale, 
slender  clerks  put  on  the  gloves  with 
the  overgrown  braggart  and  makes  him 
see  stars  to  Dr.  Holmes’  delight.  And 
robustious  physical 
what  part  have 
qualities  to  play 
in  a  battle  fought  as 
battles  are  fought  to-day?  You  can  not 
even  see  your enemy,  much  less  fall  on 
him  with  fists  and  teeth.  You  can  not 
even  see  the  flash  of  his  guns.  An 
in­
visible  hail  from  invisible  rifles  beats 
upon  you.  To  stand  or  lie  down  under 
this  without  flinching,  to  dash  forward 
under  this  when  necessary,  requires 
superb  courage;  but  it  is  the  courage  of 
the  soul,  not  of  the  body;  and  experi­
ence  has  shown  again  in  our  late  war, 
as  it  showed  in  the  Civil  War,  that  this 
kind  of  courage 
is  not  the  exclusive 
possession  of  prize-fighters,  or  men  bred 
to  camp  and  field,  but  may  shine  out 
as  gloriously  in  the  college  student,  the 
stripling  from  the  farm,  or  the  elegant 
from  Fifth  avenue.

Even more  conspicuously  is  this  true 
of  the  Navy.  There  were  some  laugh­
able  disillusionments  on  this  subject 
after  the  Spanish  war.  People  stood 
agape  and  aghast  when  told  what  man­
ner of  man  Dewey  was.  What!  That 
shrinking,  modest  man,  with  the  dis­
ordered  liver,  who  had  to  be  so  careful 
about  what  he  ate  and  so  regular  about 
going  to  bed  early;  that  unobtrusive 
gentleman  in  the  corner  of  the  club,  he 
the  dashing  Commodore  who  set  all  the 
world  wondering?  There  must  be  some 
mistake.  And  the  dapper  little  dude 
ensigns  who  jump  overboard  and  un­
screw  the  war  nose  from  an  automobile 
torpedo or  lie  off  shore  in  a  launch  un­
der  a  storm  of  shot  and  shell  to  wait  for 
Hobson— you  don’t  mean  to  tell  us  that 
those  blushing  youths  are  the  heroes  we 
have  been  shouting  over?  Where  is  the 
strut  and  swagger and  the  horrid  oaths? 
Blank  disappointment  sat  upon  the  face 
of  an  ardent  American  of  the  old  school 
who  recently  had  the  opportunity  to 
look  over  the  crew  of  a  man-of-war. 
Where  were  the  salt  old  tars,  shivering 
their  timbers,  and  staining  their  long 
beards  with  streams  of  tobacco  juice, 
and  reeking  with  rum  and  profanity? 
Alas,  there  were  only  trim  young  fel­
lows,  beardless  and  well-behaved,  look­
ing quite  incapable  of  being  the  presid­
ing  geniuses  of a  hell  of death  and  de- 
strucio.  The  brimstone-wreathed  Jack 
tars  of  old  are  gone  to  return  no  more, 
and 
in  their  place  have  come  the 
skilled  mechanic,  the  rapid  calculator 
of  ranges  and  elevations,  the  expert  in 
ordinance  and  explosives— in  short,  the

man  in  whom  the  mental  and  moral 
quality 
is  of  much  more  importance 
than  the  physical  quality.

The  fighting  man  of  brawn  and  mus­
cle,  the  bully  and  ruffian,  is  no  longer 
in  demand 
in  our  Army  and  Navy  or 
anywhere  else 
in  our  modern  civiliza­
tion.  Nowadays  the  demand is more and 
more  for  men  strong  mentally  and  mor­
ally  in  every  line  of  work.  The  swash­
is  gone  to  return  no 
buckler  warrior 
more;  the  coming  man 
is  the  gentle­
man.  And  this  man,  because  he  is  a 
better  man  all  around,  will  be  the  bet­
ter  soldier  when  bis  country  calls  him.

is  occurring 

THE  M EANING  OF  ALL  PROGRESS.
The  world  is  whirling ahead  at  such  a 
rate  that  heads  grow  dizzy  in  trying  to 
follow  its  mad  rush  onward  and  to  in­
terpret  its  significance.  Through  the 
hubbub  of  the  effort  and  the  dust of con­
test  a  few  main  facts  are  beginning  to 
clear.  A  revolution 
in 
methods  of  locomotion;  the  ends  of  the 
earth  are  being  brought  close  together, 
and  peoples  are  being  knitted  in  closer 
and  closer  bonds,  with  attendant  ad­
vantages  and 
responsibilities.  Me­
chanical  motors  are  fast  displacing  the 
horse,  which  in  the  near  future  will  be 
banished  from  city  streets  to  the  gain  of 
cleanliness,  comfort  and  sanitation.  At 
any  moment  a  successful  airship  may 
control  the  world's  politics.  Wireless 
telegraphy  and telephone  systems  assure 
instantaneous  communication  between 
distant  points  at  a  minimum  of  cost. 
Magical  mechanisms  are  fast  elliminat- 
ing  the  drudgery  of  labor  and  cheapen­
ing  production.  Scientific  experiment 
and  discovery  are  daily  adding  to  the 
world’s  products, 
introducing  to  the 
home  of  the  humblest  citizen  comforts 
and  conveniences  which  a  few  decades 
ago  could  not  have  been  reached  hy  the 
long  arm  of  wealth.  Education,  enter­
tainment,  all  refining 
influences,  are 
steadily  extending  their  sphere  of  oper­
ation.  Social  organization,  in  the  form 
of  co-operation,  for  the  most  part  un­
conscious  on  the  part  of  the  operatives, 
is  gradually  eliminating  wasted  effort, 
and  the  highest  economy  is  becoming 
in  the  utilization  of  all  eco­
possible 
nomic  material.  Agriculture  and 
the 
household  are  lagging  farthest  behind, 
but  invention 
is  coming  to  the  aid  of 
the  latter,  and  the  canny  chemist  stands 
ready  to  substitute  for  the  crude  prod­
ucts  of  field,  garden  and  orchard,  wise 
combinations  which  shall  supply  all 
needed  sustenance  to  the  human system, 
whenever  the  perverse  human  palate 
shall  consent  to  accept  them.  Best  of 
all,  science  is  conquering  disease  bred 
by  open  slight  of  the  body’s  demands.
So  swiftly  has  the  world  moved  for­
ward  that  mankind,  concentrated  upon 
the  effort  to  follow  the  details  of  this 
progress,  has  not  found  time  to  reflect 
upon  the  ultimate  results  to  be  attained 
or  has  preversely  concluded 
that  no 
definite  goal  was  in  sight.  To  the  stu­
dent  and  thinker,  grand  results  are  al­
ready 
in  the  near  future.  As 
the  planets  revolve  in  definite  courses, 
so  the  world’s  path 
is  reaching  the 
same  point  of  its  orbit  touched  in  by­
gone  ages,  but  it  is  bringing  back  with 
it  the  riches  garnered  in  its  journey,  to 
bestow  their  blessings  upon  unconsider­
ing  man. 
In  primitive  days  the  cave 
man  enjoyed  a  leisure,  a  freedom  from 
heavy  care  and  speculation  and,  pre­
sumably,  a  dull  content  denied  to  his 
posterity  during  the  centuries  of  breath­
less  struggle  that  have  succeeded.  The 
sum  of  modern  inventions  and  of  me­
chanical  and  scientific  progress  is  de­

looming 

signed  to  give  back  to  man  the 
leisure 
he  enjoyed  in  primitive  ages,  restore  to 
him  the  health  of  which  artificial  modes 
of  life  have  well  nigh  deprived  him, 
and  supply  him  at light  cost  the  com­
forts  and  elaborations  after  which  he 
has  so  frantically  striven.  With  the 
final  supply  of  his  material  wants,  there 
is  a  rational  hope  that  he may again be­
come  the  possessor  of  that content which 
he  owned  before  civilization  made  him 
conscious  of  his  needs.

The  relief 

from  the  necessity 

for 
heavy  and  unending  toil,  the  elimina­
tion  of  worry  and sordid care,  will  mean 
the  restoration  of  individuality,  which 
has  been  well  nigh  stamped  out of  him 
by  the  pressure  of  the  times  and his own 
wild  race  to  keep  up  with  the  proces­
sion  of  the  ambitious  and 
industrious. 
Self-poise  regained,  sanity  and  health 
restored,  content  smoothing  away  the 
harassing trials  of  existence,  the  man  of 
the  future  may  be  expected  to  find  new 
development  along  noble  lines,  and  ad­
vancement  hereafter  follow  the  tranquil 
course  of  mental  expansion  and  moral 
uplifting.

Gen.  Horace  Porter,  American  Am­
bassador  to  France,  was  the  guest  of 
honor  at  a  dinner  given  by  the  Lotos 
Club  in  New York  Tuesday  evening.  In 
the  course  of  a  witty  speech  he  said: 
“ They  do  not  quite  understand  Ameri­
cans  on  the  other  side;  they  fail  to  un­
derstand  how  we  have  taken  the  negro, 
who  is  a  natural  agriculturist,  and  made 
a  soldier  of  him ;  the  Indian,  who  is  a 
natural  fighter,  and  made  an  agricul­
turist  of  him ;  how  we 
insist  upon  a 
standard  of  yellow  money  for  white 
people  and  wink  at  white money  for  the 
yellow  people.  When  I  went  to  France 
I  had  great  difficulty  in  trying  to  intro­
duce  the  literature  of  Armour  and  Mark 
Twain,  and  other  products  of  the pen.  I 
am  glad  to  get  back  to  see  our  glorious 
its  matchless  prosperity 
country,  with 
and  onward  march  of civilization. 
It  is 
the  only  country  that  knows  its  own 
birthday. ” __________ ^

It  was  an 

interesting  occasion 

for 
Secretary  of  State  John  Hay,  when  be 
presented  Senor  Quesada,  the  Cuban 
minister,  to  President  Roosevelt  at  the 
White  House.  He  recalled the  fact  that 
it  marked  the  culmination  of  his  own 
efforts  covering  a  period  of  thirty-two 
years.  Mr.  Hay  was  first  Secretary  of 
Legation  at  Madrid  when  Gen.  Daniel 
E.  Sickles  was  United  States  Minister 
there,  and  Mr.  Hay  had  to  do then  with 
the  proposition  to  purchase  the  island 
of  Cuba  for $ioo,oco,ooo.  He  did  not 
abate  his  interest  in  the  subject  or  re­
lax  his  efforts  when  opportunity  served 
to  bring  about 
the  results  achieved 
when  Cuba’s  first  Minister  was  recog­
nized  by  the  President  of  the  United 
States. 

________ _____

A  German  scientist  who  has  been 
making  a  study  of  the  subject, -  an­
nounces  that  while  the  coal  supply  of 
England  is  likely  to  be  exhausted  with­
in  the  next  fifty,  and  certainly  within 
the  next 
ioo  years,  Germany's  supply 
will  meet  the  demands  of  that  country 
for  1,000  years  to  come,  and  the  United 
States  has  about  four  times  as  much 
coal  as  Germany.  China  also  has  an 
immense  supply,  and  probably  there  is 
coal  in  the  world  that  the  scientist  has 
not  yet  heard  of.  Therefore  the  day  of 
a  coal  famine  seems  far distant.

The  American  people  can  not  stand 
prosperity.  They  have  had  so  much  of 
it  since  1896  that  they  are  aching  for  a 
dose  of adversity  just  to  see  how  it feels 
to  be  hard  up.

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

Clothing

A   Few  Troths  About  Panama  Hats.
With  Panama  hats  in  such  unprece­
dented  demand  as  they  are  this  season, 
it  is  not  surprising  that  much  has  been 
written 
concerning  them.  However, 
much  of  the  matter  that  has  appeared 
in  print  has  been  vague  or  exaggerated, 
and,  indeed,  oftentimes  quite  incorrect. 
"Particularly  vague  has  been  most  of 
the  matter  written  concerning  the  plant 
from  which  is  obtained  the  material  of 
which  the  hats  are  made.  We  have  seen 
it  variously  referred  to  as 
‘ a  species  of 
cane,”   “ a  weed,”   “ a  grass,”   etc. 
How  very  vague  is  the  last  term  will 
be  appreciated  when  one  considers  that 
botanists  recognize  no  less  than 
five 
thousand  distinct  species  of  grass.

Right  here 

it  may  be  well  to  define 
certain  terms  that  have  been  used  by 
writers  in  connection  with  this  subject, 
and  which  have  appeared  in  advertise­
ments  in  the  daily  papers,  without  their 
meaning  being  clear.

The  word  Jipijapa  is  really  the  name 
of  an  interior  town  in  Ecuador,  and  the 
natives  in  that  part  of  the  country  com­
monly  speak  of  the  Panama  hat  as  the 
Jipijapa  hat.  Another  word  that  has 
been  frequently  used  is  Manabi.  This 
is  the  name  of  a  province  in  Ecuador, 
and  Manabi  hat 
is  also  synonymous 
with  Panama  hat. 
In  Manabi  province 
is  the  city  of  Monte  Cristi,  where  some 
exceedingly  fine  hats  come  from.

The  expression  Paja  Toquilla  has 
been  erroneously  used  by  some  writers 
as  being the  name  of  the  plant,  but  it  is 
the  name  of  the  straw  obtained  from  the 
plant,  as  anyone  who  knows  Spanish 
might  readily  have  understood,  since 
the  word  Paja  means  straw.

Many  of  our  readers  will  be  surprised 
to  know  that  this  straw  is  made  from 
the  flat  leaf,  and  not  from  the  stalk  of 
the  plant,  for a  casual  glance  at  the  ex­
terior  surface  of  a  Panama  bat  would 
give  the 
impression  that  the  hat  was 
woven  from  a  fiber of  cylindrical  form. 
However,  close  scrutiny  of  the  inner 
surface  of  the  hat  will  disclose  the  fact 
that  the  fiber  is  not  a  cylinder.

The  method  of  preparing  the  straw  is 
as  follows.  Young  plants  not  over  four 
or  five  feet  in  height,  are  used  for  this 
purpose.  Only  the 
leaves  that  are 
young,  stiff  and  in  prime  condition  can 
be  used.  These  are  split  into  narrow 
strips  by  the  native,  who,  for  this  pur­
pose,  uses  his  finger  nails.  But  the 
strips  are  not  separated  at the  stalk end. 
These  bunches  are  then  bleached  in  the 
sun.  Up  to  this  point  you  still  have  the 
flat  straw,  but  what  we  shall  call  the 
rounding,  for  want  of  a  better name,  is 
accomplished  by  the  deft-fingered  na­
tive,  aided  by  the  natural  tendency  of 
the  strip  to  curl.  The  strip  is  rolled 
from  each  of 
its  two  edges  toward  its 
middle,  and  thus  is  formed,  ready  for 
plaiting  into  a  hat  body,  that  excellent 
straw  with  no  raw  edges  and  which 
is 
deceptively  like  a  cylinder.

The  French  Panamas are  made  of this 
same  material,  which 
is  exported  to 
Nancy,  Saar  Union  and  other  places  in 
Europe  where  the  French  Panama  hats 
are  made.

If  much  that  is  untrue  and  exagger­
ated  has  been  said  of  the  preparation  of 
the  fiber,  in  much  greater  degree  is  this 
true  with  regard  to the  weaving  of  the 
hat  bodies.  This  is due  largely  to  the 
desire  of  writers catering  to  the  public 
to  furnish  interesting  and  poetical  stor­
ies,  and  also to the  fact  that  many  writ­
ers  have  obtained  their  information  on

the  subject  of  Panama  hats  from  matter 
written  by  others,  and  not  from  direct 
contact  nor conversation  with  those  ac­
tually  engaged  in  the  Panama  hat  trade 
and  qualified  to  talk  intelligently on  the 
subject.

With  no attempt  to  write  fairy  tales, 
but  desiring  to  impart  some  truthful  in­
formation  of  a  kind  that  will  be  of  in­
terest  to  the  trade,  we  give  a  few  points 
concerning  the  manufacture  of  the  hats.
The  statements  that  Panama  hats  are 
woven  under  water or that  the  very  fine 
ones  are  woven  only  by  candle  light  are 
characterized  as  incorrect  by a  man  who 
has  all  his  life  been  engaged  as  a  first 
hand  in  the  Panama  hat  trade,  and  who 
has  not  only  seen  the hats  made,  but  has 
made  Panama  hats  himself.

The  manager  of  one  of  the very finest 
retail  hat  stores  in  New  York,  a  man 
whose  name, by reason  of the position  he 
occupies  and  because  of  his  long  years 
of  experience  in  the  hat  trade,  gives  it 
great  prestige,  has  told  the  writer  that 
when  customers  who  have  read  some  of 
the  stuff  that  has  appeared 
in  print 
ask  if  the  Panama  hats  he  offers  are 
made  under  water he unhesitatingly  tells 
them  that  such  is  not  the  case.

The  former of  these  two  men  gives  an 
account  of  the  making  of  Panama  hats 
about  as  follows:

It 

is  true  that  the  hats  are  woven  in 
the  early  morning  hours  when  the  at­
mosphere  is  damp,as the heat  of  the  sun 
makes  the  fibre  brittle  and  unfit  for 
manipulation.  At  night  the  hat  is  hung 
out  in  the  open  air,  where  it absorbs  the 
dew,  and  is  the  next  day  again  in  con­
dition  to  be  worked.  This  accounts  for 
the  great  length  of  time  required  in  the 
batmaking,  one  of  the  very  fine  grades 
requiring  upward  of  three  and  a  half 
months  to  produce.  The  hat 
is  woven 
on  a  block  which  is  held  between  the 
knees  of  the  operator,  although  some  of 
the  very  coarse  hats  are  woven  on  the 
knee  of  the  native  too  poor to  own a  hat 
block.  Men,  women and  children  among 
the  native  Indians  are  engaged 
in  the 
weaving  of  the  hats.  To  the  children  is 
entrusted  only  the  making  of  the coarser 
grades,  and  the  youngsters  become more 
skillful  from  year  to  year,  and  in  time 
some  of  them  become  experts capable  of 
making 
fine  hats. 
Those  who  have  long  been  engaged  in 
the  handling  of  Panama  hats  know  from 
a  glance  at  the  button  from  what 
local­
ity  the  hat  comes.  The  button  is  the 
little  central  portion  of  the  crown  of  the 
hat,  at  which  point  the  weaving  begins 
and  extends  outward  toward  the  edge.

the  exceedingly 

While  a  great  deal  has  been  written 
about  $100  and  $250 hats,  it  must  be  re­
membered  that  these are  few in  number. 
When  one  takes  into  consideration  that 
a  broken  straw,  or  a  straw  not  match­
ing  in  color  the  rest  of  the  bat,or a  knot 
showing  makes  the  hat  defective,  it  will 
be  realized  that  there  can  not  be  many 
of  these  extremely  fine  hats  produced. 
The  finishing  of the  hat  is  an  operation 
requiring  much  skill,  because  each  of 
the  overlapping  fibers  has  to  be  nicely 
turned  back  into  the  edge  of  the  crown 
and  trimmed  off.

Of course,most people  in  the  trade  are 
by  this  time  aware  that  the Panama hats 
are  not  made 
in  Panama  at  all.  We 
have  a  parallel  case  in  the  term  Mari- 
caibo  coffee.  The  coffee 
is  grown  in 
the  interior  and  derives  its  name simply 
from  the  port  from  which  it  is  shipped. 
The  great  majority  of  the  hats  made  in 
Peru  and  Ecuador  find  their  way  to 
Guayaquil,  whence  they  are  shipped  to 
Panama,  and,  after crossing the isthmus, 
are  shipped  from  Colon.  This  is  not

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1 1

looked  upon  window  trimming— 

ever 
simply  as  a  time  killer.

In  ten  minutes  the  pounding  of  a 
hammer  mingled  with  discordant  whis­
tling  floated  up  from  the  rear.  When 
the  boss  went  back  he  found  the  rear  of 
the  store  looking  like  a  miniature  lum­
ber  yard.

“ What  in  the  world  did  you  tear  all 
those  cases  up  for?”   he  asked  the  boy.
“ You  just  wait  and  see,”   came  the 

answer.

This  was  in  the  morning.
By  2  o’clock  in  the  afternoon  the  boy 
had  the  window  cleared  and  was  nail­
ing  to  the  wall  the  boards  he  had  torn 
from  the  shoe  cases.  A  pile  of  burlap 
and  several  strips  of  gilt  molding  ex­
cited  the  curiosity  of  the  boss  but  he 
bridled  it.

After  a  series  of  measurements  the 
boy  put  a  false  ceiling  in  the  window 
three  feet  below the  original.  In  this  be 
placed  five 
incandescents  with  prism 
reflectors.

During  the  boy’s  absence  at  noon  the 
boss  asked  an  electrician to  examine the 
wiring. 
said  the 
electrician;  “ not  a  hitch.”

“ It’s  all  right,”  

“ Well,  there  comes  the  boy  who  did 

it,’  said  the  boss.

“ No  wonder  it’s  all  right,”   said  the 
other. 
“ That  kid’s  taking  a  corres­
pondent’s  school  course.”   As  the  elec­
trician  turned  the  corner  the  boy  re­
entered  the  window  with  a  bucket  of 
green  paint,  which  he  spread  on  the 
burlap  already  covering  the  walls  and 
false  ceiling  of  the  window.  When  the 
paint  dried  he  covered  the  laps  in  the 
burlap  with  the  strips  of  gilt  molding. 
Around  each 
incandescent  he  made  a 
circumference  of  gilded  rope.

To the  ceiling  he  screwed  many  brass 
rings.  From  these  rings  he  suspended 
shoes on  white  ribbons.  Each  shoe  had 
been  rubbed  to  a  high  polish  and  was 
bung  at  such  an  angle  that  its  good 
points  were  displayed  to  advantage. 
in  the  window  to 
Enough  shoes  were 
give  the 
impression  of  an  enormous 
stock,  still  there  was  no  suggestion  of 
conglomeration.

Pure  white  cheesecloth  was  puffed 
upon  the  floor.  When  the  lights  were 
turned  on  in  the  evening  the  green  bur­
lap  with  gilt border  had  the  effect  of  a 
room  papered  in  exquisite  ingrain  and 
the  lights  reflected  upon  the  white 
cheesecloth  made  a  dazzling  sigh*.

All  who  stopped  before  that  window 
pronounced 
it  the  swellest  they  had 
seen.  The  boss  told  his  wife  the  follow­
ing  evening  that  trade  had  been  better 
that  day  than  for  months  past. 
“ And 
do  you  know  that  I  believe  that  win­
dow  made  it.”   Then  he  added:

“ That  boy  is  certainly  all  right.”

in  Colombia, 
true  of  the  hats  made 
many  of  which  are  shipped  from  Carta­
gena  or  Sabanilla.

Here  it  may  be  remarked that, without 
drawing  on  one’s 
imagination  for  a 
story  calculated  to  enhance  the  value  of 
**  Panama  hat  in  the  mind  of  the  con­
sumer,  one  can,  if desirable,  emphasize 
the  fact  that  many  of the  hats  this  sea­
son  brought  from  the  interior of  Colom­
bia  have  reached  the  coast  only  at  great 
hazard.  This  will  be  readily  understood 
when  one  considers  the  present  condi­
tion  of  affairs  in  Colombia,  where  the 
insurgents  are  strong  and where the  gov­
ernment  seems  unable  to  safeguard  the 
interests  of  travelers.  The  bringing  of 
Colombian  hats  to  the  tide  water  means 
a  trip  on  mule  back,  boat  transportation 
down  the  River  Magdalena at  imminent 
risk  of  detention  by  the  rebels,  and, 
onally,  a  railroad  trip.

The  great  market  and  distributing 
point  for  Panama  hats  is  Havana,  and 
it  is  an  interesting  and  curious  fact  that 
most  of  the  Panama  hats  sold  in  New 
York  go  from  South America to Havana, 
via  the  United  States  in  transit.  This 
is  because  of  the  fact  that  the  steamers 
do  not  deviate  from  their  regular routes. 
Recently,  however,  some  shipments  of 
hats  have  been 
in  the  United 
States  without  going  to  Havana  and 
then  back  again.

landed 

The  Alpine  shape,  so  popular  in  the 
United  States,  is  not  seen  in  Havana 
nor  South  American  countries.

A  few  more  terms  that  have  been 
used  in  talking  of  Panamas  may  appro­
priately  be  defined.  The  Cuenca  hats 
are  made  in  the  province  of  Cuenca,  in 
Ecuador.  From  this  same  province 
come  also  the  fine  Panamas called Li jit- 
imos.  This  word  corresponds  to  our 
English  word  legitimate.  The  Aiuada 
and  Antioquia  Panamas  are  made  in 
Colombia.—Apparel  Gazette.

W herein  the  B oy  Showed  A b ility  as  a 

W indow  Trim m er.

When  the  boy  came  back  from  the 
in  the 

postoffice  the  boss  was  standing 
front  door.

dow. 

The  boy  stopped  in  front  of  the  win­
“ Pretty  bum,  ain’t  it?”   he  said.
It  does  need  trimming,”   answered 

the  boss.

"L e t  me  trim  it,”   said  the  boy.

You 1  Why,  you  never  have  trimmed 

a  window,”   was  the  answer.

“ That’s  no  sign  I  can’t. 

I’ve  got 
some  ideas  that  would  make  your  head 
swim.”

“ Well!”   yawned  the  boss,for  the  day 
was  hot,  “ go  ahead 
if  you  want  to; 
there  isn  t  much  to  do  anyhow.”   That 
was  the  Spirit 
in  which  the  boss  had

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Shoes and  Rubbers

Dont’a  Which  May  Have  a  Bearing  on 

Your  Trade.

Now  that  the  warm  weather  is  upon 
os  and  days  are  most  trying,  make  up 
your  mind  that  nothing  will  upset  you. 
Everything  will  come  out  right  in  the 
end,  and  needless  worry  will  only  make 
life  the  less  endurable  when  the  ther­
mometer  is  in  the  nineties.

Read  over  the  maxims  of  the  “ Don’t 
Worry”   Club  and  keep  a  few  of  them 
for  your own  use.  Here  are  some  of 
the  best  of  them :

Don’t  get  nervous  if  a  woman  brings 
is  buy­
a  baby  into the  store  when  she 
ing  a  pair  of  shoes  for  her  other  little 
girl.  She  is  just  as  anxious  to  have  the 
baby  left at  home  as  you  are  to  have 
it 
there,  but  the 
little  thing  must  have 
shoes,  and  there  is  nothing  left  but  to 
take  the  baby  along.  Don’t  forget  that 
without  the  baby  you  would  never  make 
the  sale,  because 
the  mother  would 
never go to the  store  if  the  baby  had  to 
stay  at  home.

Don’t  sigh  too  often  over  the  trade 
there  is  not,  as  you  will 
in  the  sea­
son  of  the  year  when  customers  are  not 
supposed  to  rush  over  each  other  in  or­
der  to  get  a  pair  of  shoes.

Don’t  grumble  or growl  when  a  clerk 
loses  a  sale,  as  there  was  never  a  shoe- 
man  so  perfect  as  to  be  able  to  sell  to 
everybody  who  enters the establishment.
Don’t  kick,  if  a  clerk  does  his  best, 
as  you  are  getting  ioo  cents  on  the  dol­
lar  on  your  investment  with  him.

Don’t  strain  your  neck  around  the 
corner  of  your  desk 
in  order  to  see 
everything  a  clerk  does,  because  just 
as  soon  as  you  give  a  clerk  the  impres­
sion  that  you  are  doubtful  of  his  verac­
ity,  he  will  drop  off  in  his  work,  and 
the  result  will  be  apparent 
the 
“ book”   he  makes  each  day.

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Don’t  consider  every  clerk 

in  the 
store  a  thief  or  “ trying  to  do  you.”  
There  are  honest  shoe  clerks  as  well  as 
honest  dealers.

Don’t  forget  a  few  moments  spent  in 
conversation  with  the  clerks  will  give 
you  a  very  clear  idea  of  what  the  trade 
is  hunting for.

Don’t  imagine  for  a  moment that  you 
know  it all.  The  shoe  clerk  is  closer  to 
the  trade  than  you  are,  and  his  opin­
ions  on  styles  for  the  next  season  are 
perhaps  more  valuable  than  yours.

Don’t  forget  a  cool  store  makes  pleas­
invites  them  to  re­

ant  customers  and 
turn.

is  a  crowded  shoe  store. 

Don’t  forget  that  on  a  hot  Satuiday 
night  one  of  the  worst  places  in  the 
world 
A 
cooler  of  ice  water  placed  where  a  cus­
tomer  can  see 
it  may  be  of  as  much 
service  to  you  as  a  double-column  ad­
the  next  morning’s 
vertisement 
paper. 
trade  appreciates  any­
thing,  no  matter  how  small,  done  for 
its  comfort.

The 

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Don’t  forget  that  soap-stone  assists 
in  the  hot 
materially  in  fitting  shoes 
weather. 
It  is  almost  impossible  to  try 
to  fit  shoes  on  perspiring  feet.  A  size 
larger  is  necessary,  and  wrinkles  are 
bound  to  show  across  the  vamp  and 
fore  part,  and  a 
little  soap-stone  will 
obviate  all  of this.

Perhaps  it  would  be  wise  to  take  a 
day  off  once  in  a  while  during  the  hot, 
summer  months,  as  a  day’s  rest  is  one 
of  the  greatest  laxatives.

Perhaps  it  would  be  a  good  scheme  to 
give  the  boys  on  the  floor  the  same 
privilege.  Try 
it  on.  See  if the  work

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

you  get  out of  them  is  not  much  better 
than  otherwise.

Perhaps  it  would  be  a  good  idea  to 
give  the  boys  ten  or  fifteen  minutes 
grace  at  lunch.  You  are  not  going  to  be 
killed  with  customers  just  at that  period 
of  the  day.

Perhaps  it  would  be  better  if  people 
did  not  think  that  all  an  employe  had 
to  do  was  to  work  from  the  time  he  gets 
up  until  he  goes  to  bed  again.

Perhaps 

it  would  be  well  to  forget 
some  of  those  unnecessary  established 
ideas  which  you  have  been 
business 
carrying  ever  since  you  have  owned  a 
store.

Perhaps  there  is something more up  to 
date  which  would  fill  in  the  void  and 
give  you  better  results.

Perhaps  it  would  be  a  good  thing  to 
forget  that  business  dictates  that  you 
should  always  be  doing  something. 
Have  intermittent  attacks  of  idleness. 
To  understand  how  to  relax  is  to  under­
stand  bow  to  strengthen  the  nerves.

Perhaps  it  would  be  a  good  scheme  to 
stop  worrying  for  others.  Worrying  is 
called  the  American  national  disease, 
and  “ Americanitis”   is 
its  distinctive
name.

Perhaps  a  couple  of  electric 

fans 
would  make  a  great  difference  in  the 
atmosphere  of  the  shoe  store.  Don’t 
you  think 
it  would  be  a  good  invest­
ment?

Perhaps  it  would  be  wise- to  have  one 
or  two  of  the  clerks  take  a  hassock 
and  start  going  over  the  stock  in  the 
various  parts  of  the  store,  picking  out 
odds  and  ends,  looking  for  mismates, 
etc.

Perhaps  the  rubber stock  needs  atten­
is  coming  when  they 
tion.  The  time 
will  have  to  be  used 
in  quantities. 
Don’t  wait  until  the  last moment,  as you 
will  always  find  something  else  to  do 
just  at  that  time.

Perhaps  out  of  all  these  suggestions 
you  might  be  able  to  find  one  which 
will  fit  in  your  case;  if  so,  our time 
will  not  have  been  wasted.— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

Bad  Blow  to  Cupid.

“ It  was  pretty  hard  to  have 

the 
honeymoon 
clouded  before  we  had 
been  married  two  hours,”   complained 
a  newly  married  man. 
is, 
though,  the  excitement  of  the  wedding 
day  took  away  the  little  sense  I  had  re­
maining.

“ Fact 

“ We  were  married  at  noon  and,  after 
dodging  the  customary  rice  and  old 
shoes,  left  for  the  station.  We  had 
barely  time  to  catch  our  train,  and  I 
rushed  up  to  the  ticket  window  at  once. 
Then  once  more  we  had 
to  run  the 
gauntlet  of  friends,  who  think  it  smart 
to  throw  rice  down  one’s  collar  and 
have  it  sift  down  into  one’s  shoes.

“ We  got 

into  the  train  at  last  and 
when 
it  started  I  heaved  a  sigh  of  re­
lief.  When  the  conductor came  around 
for  the  tickets,  I  banded  mine  over. 
After  looking  at  it  for a  moment,  he 
asked  me  if  the  lady  was  traveling  with 
me.

“ That  was  the 

last  straw,  and  I 
snapped  out  for  him  to  mind  his  own 
business.

‘ That  is  what  I’m  trying  to  do,’ 
‘ One  more ticket, 

he  answered,  coolly. 
please. ’

“ Then  it  flashed  upon  me  that  in  the 
hurry  and  excitement  of  the  moment 
1  had  forgotten  that  I  had  a  wife. 
I 
paid  the  other  fare  and  tried  to  laugh  it 
off,  but  the  look  that  my  wife  gave  me 
will  linger  with  me  as  long  as  1  live.  It 
took  me  two  hours  to argue  her out  of 
the  impression  that  1  didn’t  love  her 
any  more,  and  she  isn't  fully  satisfied 
yet.' ’

Some  wise  men,  don’t  get  so  much 
credit  for  wisdom  as  some  foolish  men 
who are  guessers.

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there  is  nothing  better  made  in  Rubber 
Footwear.  They please the wearer and 
are  trade  winners— and  money  makers 
— for  those  who  sell  them.  W e  are 
headquarters  for  Michigan,  Ohio  and 
Indiana.  W ait 
for  our  salesman  or 
mail  us  your order.

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Battle Creek, Mich.

Our  New  High  Cut 
Box  Calf  Line

Extremely practical, stylish,  well 
built  this  shoe  is  very  popular 
for  fall.
Made  in  Men’s,  Boys’,  Youths’ 
and  little  Gents’.

HEROLD 

BERTSCH 

SHOE  CO.

Makers  of  Shoes

Men’s Work Shoes

Snedicor &  
Hathaway 
Line
No.  743. 

Kangaroo  Calf. 
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Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Grand Rapids

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PRINCIPLES  OF ADVERTISING. 

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How  to  Educate  Tour  Readers  Up  To 

Tour  Goods.
Judging  from  the  way 

in  which  a 
great  many  advertisements  are  written, 
one  would  suppose  that  the  advertiser 
was  trying  to  tell  every  person  about 
everything 
in  the  store  at  one  time. 
Frequently  we  see  advertisements  and 
often 
in  papers  of  pretty  fair circula­
tions,  where  John  [Smith  is  represented 
as  dealer  in  dry  goods,  notions,  grocer­
ies,  hardware,  glassware,  queeensware, 
tinware,  clothing,  underwear,  etc.

If  your  school  teacher  could^take  a 
shovel  and  scoop  the  contents  of all  his 
books  into  the  beads  of  your  children, 
you  would  need  him  only  for  one  day, 
and  a  very  short  one  at  that.  You  send 
your children  to  school,  to  academy,  to 
college, 
seminary,  and  then  they 
feel  as  though  they  should  take  a  post­
graduate  course,  because  they  see  so 
much  more  to  learn.  Day  after day  for 
ten  years, 
for  fifteen  years,  yea,  for 
twenty  and  more  years,  your children 
are  subjecting  their  minds  to  the  one 
great  purpose  of  mastering  the  contents 
of  their  books 
in  order  to  strengthen 
their  mental  powers.  Now,  if  this  could 
be  done 
in  a  day,  a  week,  a  month,  or 
a  year,  why  do  you  send  them  so  long? 
It  takes  time  for them  to  master these 
problems.

to 

You  know  what  you  have  in  your 
if  you  wish  the  public  to 
store,  and 
it,  you  must  teach  them.  You 
know 
must  teach  them 
little  by  little  just  as 
the  school  teacher  does.  You  are  even 
at  a  disadvantage  to  the teacher,because 
pupils  have  no  other  things  to  engross 
their  time  and  attention,  while  the  pub­
lic  generally  are  thinking  about  other 
things.  Your  advertisements  must  not 
only tell them  what  you  have  to  sell,  but 
they  should  create  in  the  public  mind  a 
desire  to  buy  what  you  have  to  sell. 
Give  the  readers  of  your  advertisements 
something  new  to  learn  in  your adver­
tisements. 
If  you  have  nothing  new  to 
say,  then  say  it  in  a  different  way,  and 
make  it  new  at  any  rate.  Describe  your 
goods  in  such  a  way  that  people  will 
want  them,  if  possible;  try  to  secure  an 
impression  on  their  minds,  so  that  they 
will  not  feel  satisfied  until  they  have 
your  goods. 
If  you  accomplish  that, the 
mission  of  your advertisement  is  filled. 
The  nearer  your  advertisement  comes 
to  doing  this,  the  nearer complete  suc­
cess  your  advertisement  has  attained. 
Your  advertisement  must  persuade  and 
convince. 
It  must  do  it  as  completely, 
as  perfectly  and  as  successfully  as  your 
clerk  does  over  the  counter.  Your ad­
vertisements  should  talk  as  a  salesman 
talks.  The  argument  used  face  to  face 
with  a  customer,  if  it  sells goods  in  that 
way,  will,  if  used  in  a  newspaper,  like­
wise  sell  goods.  As  the  newspaper 
reaches  more  people,  more goods  will  be 
sold.

Give  descriptions  of  your  goods  and 
prices.  The  descriptions  should  be  clear 
and  forcible,  and  should  give  to  the 
prospective  customer  an  adequate  idea 
of  what  you  have  to  sell  and  how  much 
money  will  induce  you  to  part  with your 
goods.  If  your  price  is  higher than  your 
competitor's,  you  should  explain  why 
and  how  the  quality  of  your goods  is 
better.  The  very  fact  that  the  price  is 
higher,  if  the  difference 
in  quality  is 
shown,  will  present  the  strongest  argu­
ment  with  many  people  why  they should 
rather  purchase  your  goods  at  the  in­
creased price.  Most  people  have  exper­
imented  with  cheap  goods,  and  have 
discovered  that  in  most  cases they  re­
ceived  no  value  in  addition  to  that  for

which  they  paid.  If  your  price  is  lower, 
you  must  necessarily  appeal  to  a  class 
of  people  who  feel  that  they  should  save 
that  difference 
If  you  can 
show  a  greater  saving  in  price  than  is 
represented  by  the  loss  in  quality,  it  is 
to  your  advantage  to  bring  that  to the 
front.

in  quality. 

Every  careful  commercial  and  busi­
ness transaction,  whether  small  or  large, 
represents, 
in  some  degree,  the  ever­
present  and  all-permeating  law  of  self­
protection.  That 
law  may  not  always 
be  worked  out  because  of  ignorance  or 
inferior  judgment,  but the law  is  present 
and  working  with  all  the  mental  tools 
the  mechanic  possesses.

If  the  mind  possessed  all  the  informa­
tion  necessary  for  the  protection  of  its 
possessor,  that 
law  of  self-protection 
would  be  forced  to  the  front  in  every 
transaction.  The  point  I  wish  to  make 
is,  that  the  law  is  there,  whether  visible 
or  invisible,  and  the  business  man  or 
advertisement  writer  who  proposes to es­
cape  the  action  of  that  mental  law  by 
evading  it  must  suffer  the  penalty.  The 
man  who  can  most  successfully  write 
his  advertisements  so  that  he  carries 
with  him  the  sympathy  and  the  good 
will  of  bis  readers,  has  removed  the 
worst  obstacles  from  his  way.  More 
than  half of  his  success  is  won.

You  may  take  yourself  for an  exam­
ple.  You  were  not  moved  to  buy  the 
first  time  you  saw  my  advertisement 
nor  did  you  give  me  an  order the  first 
time  I  wrote  you  a  letter.  Perhaps  the 
second  did  not  do  the  work,  nor the 
third,  nor  the  eighth  nor  ninth,  but  the 
tenth  or  eleventh  time  it  was  before  you 
you yielded  to my persuasion.  Taking so 
long  to  persuade  you,  is  it  not  reason­
able  to  suppose  that  it  will  take  just  as 
long  to  persuade  the  people to whom you 
want  to  sell?

That  is  why  continuous  advertising 
pays  better  than  the  spasmodic  kind. 
Shape  your  advertisements  and  your 
follow-up  matter  so  that  each  and  every 
one  will  dovetail  with  the  other.  The 
entire  effort  will  then  move  as  a  solid 
phalanx  toward  the  goal  you  wish  to 
reach.  Your  advertisements  will  then 
be  like  a  powerful  army  moving  on  the 
field  of  battle,  the  public,  like  enemies 
of  war,  yielding  by  surrendering  as 
prisoners  to the  allurements  of  your ad­
vertising  campaign.  But  you  say  that 
is  visionary.  So  it  is,  for  you,  as  long 
as  you  do  not  accomplish  it,  but  it  has 
been  done  by  the  greatest  enterprises  of 
this  country. 

Geo.  W.  Wagenseller.

Law  Was  a  Dead  Letter.

“ I  happened  to  be  laid  over  at  a town 
in  the  Southwest,”   said  the  traveler, 
"and  as  I  walked  about the  streets  I 
noticed  dozens  of  hogs  wallowing  in  the 
mud  or  sleeping  on  the 
sidewalks. 
When  I  finally  came  across  the  city 
marshal  I  mentioned  the  fact  and  asked 
him  why  the  animals  were  not  re­
strained.”

”   ‘ Waal,  I  believe  thar  is  a  law  to 

do  it,’  he  slowly  replied.

”   'And  why  isn't  the  law  enforced?’
'*  'I t ’s  left  to  me,  and  I  can’t  skassly 

see  my  way  clear.’

”   ‘ But  there  are  the  hogs,  and  there 

is  the  law.’

“   ‘ Yes,  but  thar’s  something  else.’
‘ ‘ I  was  about  to  ask  him  what  it  was 
when  a  dog  came along  and pitched into 
a  hog  fresh  from  a  roll  in  the  mud,  and 
the  porker uttered  a  loud  squeal  as  the 
sharp  teeth  nipped  his  leg.  The  squeal 
had  not  yet  died  away  when  fifty  'men, 
each  with  a  gun  in  his  hand,  came  run­
ning  out  of  houses,  saloons  and  stores, 
and  looked  for  somebody  to  shoot.

“   ‘ You  see,’  said  the  marshal,  as  the 
crowd  broke  up  and  scattered,  ‘ tbar’s 
the  law  and  thar's  the  bawgs,  but  when 
every  man  in  town  owns  a  hawg  and 
is 
willin’  to fight  for  him,  what  you  goin’ 
to  do  about  it?*  ”

If you  want  the  nearest  thing  to  a  water  proof  shoe  that  is 

made  buy  this  one.

It  is  made  from  the 
best  seal  grain .  that 
can  be  found.  This 
shoe  will  make  you 
friends.
Price $1.60 wholesale.

The  Western 
Shoe  Co.,

Toledo, Ohio

Our OO Grain  Cruiser

is  an  exceedingly  com­
fortably 
l i g h t   weight 
high-cut  shoe  of  great 
durability.

It  is  the  best inexpen­
sive  shoe  of  its  kind  a 
farmer,  hunter  or  any 
one  can  buy  for  walking 
over  rough  country.

Made in two heights—  

12  and  15  inches.

Prices  and  samples on 

CRUISING 

application.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co., Ltd., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp

Is an absolutely safe lamp.  It  burns 
without  odor  or  smoke.  Common 
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“The flour the best cooks use"

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

Dry Poods

W eekly  Market  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Leading  brands  of 
heavy  sheetings  are  steady,  so  far  as 
regular  goods  are  concerned,  but  the 
so-called  outside  lines  are showing  some 
irregularities.  Lightweight  sheetings, 
while quiet,  are  still  steady.  Ducks  and 
printed  osnaburgs  are  held  firmly  at  the 
last  quotations,  and  in  bleached  muslins 
there  are  a  fair  number of  orders at  reg­
ular  prices.  Cambric  muslins  continue 
firm, 
although  orders  are  not  very 
plenty.  Wide  sheetings are dull  and  cot­
ton  flannels  steady  at  last  quotations. 
Coarse  colored  cottons  are  becoming 
slightly  easier  for  the  buyers  as  far as 
future  contracts  are  concerned,  but  spot 
business  remains  firm  on  account  of  the 
scarcity  of  ready  supplies.

Prints and Ginghams—Fancy calicoes, 
while  they  can  not  be  said  to  be  secur­
ing  a 
large  business,  are  in  many  de­
partments  reported  as  doing  exception­
ally  well.  There  are  some  that  have  not 
done  as  much  as  was  expected,  but 
this  has  been  balanced  up  by  big 
business  in  other  tickets.  There  is  little 
doubt,  however,  on  the  satisfactory  out­
come  of  the  season.  Dark  fancy  prints 
also  are  well  conditioned  and  the  sea­
son’s  productions  will  be  generally 
taken  care  of  unless  some  unforeseen 
factor  arises.  Staple  prints  are  firm  for 
spot  goods,  but  for  those  to  arrive  sell­
ers  will  accept  contracts  “ at  value" 
only.  Indigo  blues,  mournings,  Turkey 
reds,  chocolates,  etc.,  have  received 
some  excellent  orders  this  past  week. 
Fine  printed  specialties  are 
in  rather 
light  request  for fall,  but there  is  a  good 
demand  reported  in  all  sections  of  the 
market  for  spring  deliveries.  Dark 
styles  of  printed  flannelettes  and  woven 
patterned  goods  for  fall  are  fairly  well 
conditioned,  and  ginghams  show  no 
change;  the  market  is  clean  and  the 
prices  are  firm.  Fine  grades  of  woven 
patterned  fabrics  for  the  spring  of  1903 
are  selling  well  and  prices are very firm.
Dress  Goods—The  initial  dress  goods 
market  continues  to  be  situated  along 
quiet 
lines.  The  purchases  of  the  job­
ber  and  the  garment  manufacturer  are 
of  a  moderate,  conservative  character as 
a  rule;  instances  are  not  lacking,  how­
ever,  where  substantial  repeat  orders 
have  been  placed  on  staple  cloth  effects 
and  waistings.  The 
jobber  is  not  at 
all  satisfied  with  the  success  that  has at­
tended  bis  efforts  to  sell  fall  goods  in 
certain  sections,  more  particularly  the 
New  England,  Eastern  and  Southern 
States,  and  is  not  inclined  to  anticipate 
his  needs  to  a  substantial  extent.  He 
has  taken  a  very  fair  volume  of  orders 
on  broadcloths,  cheviots,  unfinished 
worsteds, 
for  the  high 
class  trade  some  very  fair  ordeis  have 
been  secured  on  mohair  effects  and  on 
the  better grades  of  sheer  fabrics  of  the 
etamine  order;  some  very  fair  business 
has  also  been  done  on  goods  of  the  can­
vas  cloth  order.

thibets,  etc.  ; 

Underwear— The  underwear  market 
presents  a  very  quiet  and  subdued  ap­
pearance,  but  not  more  than  is  natural 
for  this  season.  Previous  business  for 
fall  has  reached,  on  the  whole,  a  very 
fair  proportion,  as  is  evidenced  by  the 
advanced  prices  that  have  been made on 
all  duplicates.  While  every 
line  of 
underwear  has  not  shared  in  the  same 
generous  proportion  of  orders  this  is 
amply  balanced  by  the  generous  orders 
placed  for  other  goods.  For  instance, 
plain  wool  goods  have  found  a  compar­
atively  small  business.  Ribbed  under­

wear  has  secured  any  amount  of  orders 
and  fleeced 
lines  have  of  course  been 
big  sellers.  The  reordering  has  been 
good  and  distributed  in  about  the  same 
proportions  as  the  initial  business  with 
the  possible  exception  of  fleeced  goods 
and  reports  are  conflicting  in  regard  to 
these.  The  facts,  however,  are  these: 
Buyers are  placing  their  reorders  for  the 
lines  that  sold  most  satisfactorily  when 
the 
initial  deliveries  were  made;  of 
course,  many  of  these  goods  were  far 
below  the  qualities  promised,  still  buy­
ers  were  agreeably  surprised.  They  had 
looked  forward  to  a  good  deal  of  trouble 
in  fleeces  on  account  of  the great cutting 
of  prices  that  took  place.  There  has 
been  trouble,  to  be  sure,  but  much  less 
than  was  expected  and  buyers  distrib­
uted  their  orders so  widely  that  no  one 
seems 
inconvenienced 
very  greatly  by  anything  of  this  kind. 
Furthermore, 
for  duplicate  business, 
buyers  are  able  to  determine  just  where 
it  is  best  to  place  their orders. 
In some 
cases  they  find  already  that  it  is  impos­
sible  to  get  more  goods,  as  the 
initial 
trade  sold  some  of  the  mills  up  com­
pletely,  but  there  are  others  to  whom 
they  can  turn.  Besides,  the  initial  or­
ders  were  placed  so generously that a big 
duplicate  business 
is  unnecessary  and 
really  not  expected  even  although  there 
is  promise  of  a  big  retail  trade  this  fail 
and  winter.

to  have  been 

in 

for 

Yarns,  and 

Carpets—Manufacturers  of 

carpets 
generally  are  very  active  on  their initial 
orders,  which  are  very  heavy,  and which 
will  take  some  weeks  to  fill.  New  York 
jobbers  report  a  very  satisfactory  de­
mand  each  day,  both  for  ingrains  as 
well  as  the 
goods  from  all  sections  of 
the  country,  particularly  so  from  the 
Western  trade, and  they  feel  that  the  fall 
is  to  be  one  of  the  best  that  has 
trade 
been 
experienced 
some  years. 
Everything  relating  to  carpets  to-day 
presents  a  very  healthy 
appearance, 
that  is,  as  far  as  the  demand  is  con­
cerned.  Prices  in  the  estimation  of  the 
manufacturers  themselves  are on  a  very 
low  basis,  but  at  the  present  moment 
they  do  not  see  the  way  clear to  remove 
these  obstacles. 
fact 
every  commodity  used  in  the  different 
stages  of  manufacture,  are  some  3  to  10 
per cent.,  and  even  more,  higher  than 
last 
season.  Besides  these  advances 
wages  have  been  advanced  generally 
about  10  per cent.,  thus  making the  cost 
of  producing  a  carpet  very  much  higher 
than  in  other  seasons.  Notwithstanding 
this  fact  prices  to-day  do  not  show  a 
like  advance  over  last  season’s  prices, 
but  just  the  opposite.  A  slight  decline 
in  most  grades  is  the  general  thing, 
and  there 
is  no  immediate  prospect  of 
better  values.  This,  however,  should  not 
have  any  depressing  influences  on  the 
bright  anticipations  of  many  of  the 
manufacturers  to-day  who  hope  to  see 
better  prices 
it  is  gen­
erally  believed  better  values  are  com­
ing  at  some  time,  higher  values  within 
the  next  month  or  so are not anticipated. 
In  the  fall  months,  or when  cool  weather 
commences,  a  slightly  rising  market 
is 
looked  for.  Advances  would  he  in  or­
der  to-day 
if  weavers  had  confidence 
enough  that  such  a  proposition  would 
not  badly  influence  the  buying,  and  for 
that  reason  they  are  bolding  out  until 
later  before  anything  of  that  nature  is 
done.  In  the  %  goods  circles,  especial­
ly 
in  Philadelphia  and  vicinity,  the 
trouble  between  the  manufacturers  and 
the  employes  continues  to  exist  with  no 
immediate  prospects  of  the  controvers­
ies  being  compromised. 
Three-quar­
ter goods  are  in  large  request  and,  bar-

later.  While 

14 Stitches to  the  Inch

Twelve  Good  Points  about the “Alain”  Petticoat

1.  A ll our seams are strapped and double needle.
2.  The front is  straight,  sides  gored,  bringing 

all fullness in the  back.

3.  The band is cut yoke-fitting and the  darts are 

4.  A ll “ Alain”  petticoats have separate flounces.
5.  The ruffles are all cut on a true bias.
6.  Lock stitching, as  chain  stitching  will  break

Three  yards around the bottom.

S.  Placket facing in center back.
9.  Soft finish elastic thread used exclusively.
10.  Velveteen  binding  on  all  skirts  except  the 
$9 ones and under.
11.  Designs are originated by one of the  best de­
signers in the country.
12.  Fourteen stitches to the inch.

cut out.

and pull out.

Samples  sent  prepaid  by  express.

WM.  H.  ALLEN  &  COMPANY,  Detroit,  Mich.

Summer  Underwear

Men’ s,  Ladies’  and  Children’s  full  line.
Ladies’ 
from  45c  to  $4.50  per  dozen. 
Children’ s  from  45c  to  $4  50  per  dozen.
Men’ s 
from  $2.00  to  $6.00  per  dozen.

Good  time  now  to  fill  in  your  stocks.
Ladies’ and children’s hose,  complete line from the cheapest 
to the  best.  Prices  right.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,  WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

For $4.00

We will send you printed and  complete

5.000  Bills
5.000 Duplicates

100 Sheets of Carbon  Paper 
2  Patent  Leather Covers 

We do this to have you give them a trial.  We know if on< 
you use our Duplicate  system  you  will  always  use  it,  as 
pays for  itself  in  forgotten  charges alone.  For  descripth 
circular and special prices  on  large  quant 
ties address

A.  H.  Morrill,  Agt.

105  Ottawa Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

Manufactured  by 
Cosby-Wirth Printing Co.,

St.  Paul, Minneso

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ring  the  low  rate  of  values,  the  situation 
is  as  healthy  as  one  could  wish  for. 
While  the  demand  is  not  so  prominent 
for  the  exceedingly  fine  class  of  fabrics 
as  last  season,  there 
is  nevertheless  a 
general  all-around  business,  which,  as 
far  as  volume  is  concerned,  greatly  ex­
ceeds  that  just  passed.  Velvets,  Brus­
sels  and  tapestries  seem  to  command  as 
large  an amount  of  attention  as any,  and 
the  buying  of  the  same  is  of  very 
lib­
eral  proportions.  Wiltons,  nevertheless, 
are  in  good  request  and  probably  every 
loom  running  on  the  same  is  in  motion. 
The  ingrain  situation continues healthy, 
with  plenty of business coming  in  for  all 
hands.  Philadelphia  weavers  are  rushed 
on  orders  for  standard  goods  and  report 
the  prospects  good  for  plenty  of  busi­
ness  up  to  cooler  weather.  Not  much 
success  has  come  of the  attempts  to  pro­
cure  better  prices,but  it  is  believed  that 
before  long  this  can  be  brought about.

Rugs— Manufacturers  of  rugs  and  art 
squares  report  plenty  of  business  on 
hand.  Labor  troubles  continue  to  exist 
in  and  about  Philadelphia,  which 
is 
severely  handicapping the  different  pro­
ducers,  and  there  is  no  prospect  of  any 
immediate  settlement.

Tapestry  Curtains—Manufacturers  are 
very  busy  on  the  standard  lines  of  cur­
tains  of  the  cheaper  grades.  Prices  are 
firm  and  unchanged.

Do  Men  Understand  Women?

A  man  can  very  seldom  tell  what  is 
passing  in  a  woman's  mind.  He  talks 
with  another  man  and  he  can  follow  his 
processes;  he  gets  his  point  of  view ; 
he  can  read  between  the  lines;  he  can 
make  a  shrewd  guess  as  to  how  he  came 
to  say  that,  or  why  he  refrained  from 
saying  the  other.

is  geared  differently. 

But  a  woman’s  mental  processes  are 
not  those  of  a  man.  Her  mental  ma­
chinery 
You 
hear  what  she  tells  you.  You  can  make 
inferences  from  it;  they  will  be  wrong, 
because  you  do  not  know  how  she  came 
to  say  what  she  did ;  you  do  not  have 
the  clew.  Try  to  guess  what  she  will 
say  next,  and  you  will  find  that  you  are 
all  at  sea.

The  man  who  says  that  he  under­
stands  woman  is  himself  a  woman.  No 
man  can  understand  a  woman.  He  may 
love  her.  There  may  exist  between  his 
soul  and  hers  that  indefinable and  celes­
tial  sympathy  which 
is  the  sweetest 
thing  on  earth ;  but  he  does  not  under­
stand  her.

Her  mental  operation,  her  ways  of 
thought,  her  point  of  view  will  always 
be  as  inscrutable  to  him  as  the  mental 
processes  of  an  angel.  Whether  women 
understand  each  other  is  not  quite  cer­
tain.  A  greater  part  of  the  delight  that 
men  find 
companionship  of 
women  arises  from  their  inscrutability. 
You  can  not  measure  or  exhaust  them.
inconsequence,  as 
they  seem  to  you,  will  never  cease  to 
puzzle  you,  and  every 
fresh  conversa­
tion  reveals  a  novelty  of  attitude  or 
opinion. 

Their  charming 

in  the 

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Woman’s  Idea  of Economy.

Mrs.  Newwed—Oh,  Frank,  I  saved 

ten  cents  to-day.

Mr.  Newwed—How  was  that,  my

.

dear? 
Mrs.  Newwed— I  was  going  to  tele­
phone  you  about  such  a  love  of  a  bon­
net,  but  I  knew  you  would  let  me  have 
it  anyway,  so  I  just  ordered  it. 
It  will 
be  $20.  ____  

____
No  Surprise  to  Her.

He— It  seems  strange  I  should  be  so 
love  with  you,  when  three 

much  in 
weeks  ago  we  hadn't  met.

She—Oh,  it  often  happens  that  way.

E vil  Practices  of Clerks.

It  is  a  very  bad  practice,  which  is 
persisted  in  by  some  ill-natured  clerks, 
to  make  side  remarks  about  customers 
to  whom  they  have  failed  to  make  a 
sale.  This 
is  one  of  the  evil  practices 
which  will  be  more  disastrous  than  any 
other  form  of  discourtesy  that  could  be 
offered  the  customer.  No  matter  how 
cranky  a  “ looker”   may  be,  or  how 
much  trouble  she  may  have  caused  the 
clerk,  it  is  the  salesmen’s  duty,  in  every 
case,  to  try  to  have  the  customer  leave 
with  a  favorable  impression  rather  than 
with  a  bad  one.

Some  clerks,  very  thoughtlessly,  will 
make  the  remark,  after  a  customer  has 
left  them  “ Well,  I  didn’t  think  she 
was  going  to  buy,  anyhow.”   Such  re­
marks  are,  nine  times  out  of  ten  over­
heard  by  the  customer  or,  if they  are  not 
heard  by  the  person  about  whom  they 
are  made,  they  are  many  times  heard 
by  other  customers,  who  know  that  the 
clerks  would  probably 
say  the  same 
things  about  them.  This  is  a  practice 
which  can  not be  too greatly condemned, 
and  one  which  the  retail  merchant 
should  use  every  means  in  his  power  to 
utterly  root  out  of  his  business. 
It  is 
true  that  shoppers  are  very  often  unrea­
sonable,  and  very  often  cause  an  unrea­
sonable  mount  of  trouble,  but  what  are 
the  clerks  employed  for  if  not  to  go  to 
any  trouble  necessary  to  please  the  pa­
trons  of  the  store?

Attractive  Window  Signs.

Window  signs  furnish  reading 

for 
people  at  a  time  when  people  are  in  the 
jest  mood  for  reading  short  printed 
things.

When  folks  stop  to  look  in  your  win­
dow  they  are  bound  to  read  your  win­
dow  signs.

Isn’t  it the  same  way  with  you?
Folks  on  the  same  street  seem  to  be 
hungry  for  such  things.  They  are  sus­
ceptible  to  new  sights  and 
sounds. 
They  haven’t  anything  particular  on 
their  minds.  They  will  read  your  story 
if  it  is  short  and  worth  reading.

A  window  sign  may  be  made  not  only 
bright  and  attractive,  but  persuasive. 
A  few  words  in  it  may  start  up  a  whole 
train  of  thought  in  the  reader’s  mind. 
It  may  sound  as  if  there  is  lots  back 
of  it.
It  is  a  wise  plan  generally  to  give 
people  a  chance  to  think—to  give  them 
a  hint  on  which  they  may  work.  Start 
a  man  studying  out  your  proposition 
and  he  will  convince  himself.

Another  sphere  that  a  window  sign 
occupies  is  to  appeal  to  people  who  do 
not  read  the 
local  paper.  There  are 
such  souls  even  of  this  day  of  growth  in 
almost  every  country  community.

The  Hasty  Man.

“ The  hasty  man  is  never a  traitor.”  
The  hasty  man  has 

German  proverb. 
never  the  time  to  engage  in  plots.

is 

in  haste  he  runs 
crooked  paths  do  not 

Because  he 
straight,  and 
allure  him.

He  is  original  enough  to  change  his 

mind  every  once  in  a  while.

Consistency 

is  a  jewel,  but  only  sec­

ond-rate  men  are  fond  of  jewelry.

He  is  a  weather  vane,  but  he  has  his 
seat  as  often  on  the  feathers  as  on  the 
point.  He  turns  his  back  on  the  wind 
only  when  he  has  a  mind  to.  The wind 
may  switch  him,  but  can  not  drive 
him.
He  talks  too  much  for  comfort,  but 
never  wittingly  lies.

He  misses  many  of  the  good  things 

of  life— but  never  misses  them.

He  makes  more  errors,  but  covers 

more  bases  than  the  cautious  player.

As  an  enemy  he  plays  fair;  as  a 
friend  he  is  embarrassing.  But  he  has 
more  friends  than  enemies,  in  the which 
he  but  gets  his  due.

And  here  endeth  the  first  lesson.

Would  Accept  Information  Gladly. 
Patronizing  Hotel  Clerk— And  now, 
sir,  if  you  hear  any  one  enquire  for  a 
good  hotel  in  this  town—

Departing  Guest  (eagerly—Yes,  yes! 
Go  on  and  tell  me.  Ever  since  I  have 
been  in  this  house  I  have  been  wonder­
ing  what  I  should  say  if  any  one  asked 
me  about  a  good  hotel  in  your town.

Just  Now

There  is a good demand 
for Taffeta ribbons.  We 
have all  the staple colors 
in  widths 5,  7,  9,  12,  22 
and  60.  Retail  at  5  to 
20  cents per  yard.  All 
orders by mail receive prompt attention.

Grand  Rapids Dry  Goods  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Exclusively Wholesale

Formerly  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

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Distributors  for  Western  Michigan 

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Star  Cream  Separator

is a paying specialty for live dealers to handle. 
It 
is already in  use by 80,000  buttermakers,  who  tes­
tify  that  it  is  the  best  and  cheapest device  ever 
used  for  the  complete  separation  of  cream  iron? 
milk.  Write for prices and  territory.

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

Butter  and  Eggs

that  occurs 

Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg;  Man,
One  of  the  fast  freight  line  agents 
who  had  noticed  what  I  had  to say  in 
this  column  about  eggs  arriving 
in 
broken  condition,  spoke  to  me  the 
other  day  about  the  causes  cf  such 
breakage  which,  be  declared,  were  en­
tirely  apart  from  handling  by  the  trans­
portation  lines.  He  thought  that  much 
of  this  breakage  and  consequent  poor 
condition  was  due  to  the  use  of  poor, 
weak  cases  and  weak,  flimsy  fillers,  and 
from  my  own  observation  of  egg  cases 
and  egg  packing  I  am  inclined  to  be­
lieve  that  many  eggs  are  sent  to  market 
in  cases  and  fillers  that  are  not  fit  to 
withstand  even  a  reasonable  amount  of 
handling  and  transportation. 
It  would 
just  to  claim  that  all  the  break­
not  be 
is  due  to  careless 
age 
handling,  neither  would 
it  be  just  to 
lay  all  blame  upon  the  packing.  The 
matter  must  be  looked  at  in  a  common 
sense  light.  Railroad  trains  get  more 
or  less  shaking  up  and  egg  cases  must 
be  handled  several  times  when  started 
in  pick-up cars.  Doubtless this handling 
is  sometimes  carelessly  done  and  doubt­
less  the  ordinary  shaking  up  process 
is 
often  exaggerated  by  careless  drilling 
of  cars  in  transit.  But  while  it  is  per­
fectly  right  that  the  freight  lines  should 
be  held  responsible  for  all  damage  that 
occurs  in  this  way  when  goods  are prop­
erly  packed  the  egg  shipper  can  not 
be 
relieved  of  the  responsibility  of 
packing  bis  goods  in  such  manner  as  to 
withstand  all  ordinary  careful  handling. 
Eggs  are  a  fragile  commodity and ought 
to  be  packed  with  reference  to  their 
liability  to  breakage. 
Second  hand 
cases  which  have  been  weakened  by 
previous  use  should  be  rejected  and 
many  of  the  new  cases,  especially  those 
made  from  veneered  lumber, are  no  bet­
ter.  But  even  a  good  strong  case  is  not 
sufficient  protection  if  the  inside  pack­
ing  is  inadequate  in  strength.  Many  of 
the  fillers  used  are  so  flimsy  and  weak 
that  they  give  no  adequate  support  to 
the  eggs  contained  and  when  they  are 
too  small  for the  cases  there  is  often  a 
lateral  motion  which  causes 
serious 
breakage  in  the  eggs  at  the  sides  of  the 
case.  With  a  good  strong  case,substan­
tial  fillers  that  fit,  enough  packing  bot­
tom  and  top  to  make  the  whole  tight 
when 
the  cover  is  nailed  on,  there 
should  be  no  breakage  not  due  to gross 
carelessness  in  handling.
*  *  *

The  most  important  development  in 
the  egg  situation  here  during  the  past 
week  has  been  the  very  material  de­
crease  in  our  receipts. 
It  seems  at  first 
sight  singular that  our egg  supply  could 
fall  from  a  range  of 90,000 to  100,000 
cases  per  week  to  60,000  to 65,000  with­
out  a  more  serious  effect  upon  values 
than  has  as  yet been  felt.  But 
it  must 
be  remembered  that  the  liberal  arrivals 
during  May  and  early  June  were  largely 
in  excess  of  consumptive  demand  and 
that  prices  were  sustained  only  by  a 
free  movement  of  surplus  stock 
into 
cold  storage.  This  movement  has  late­
ly  been  smaller  and  although  our  total 
receipts  have  fallen  off  so  greatly  the 
reduction  of  output  has  been  much 
greater  in  storage  channels  than  in  con­
sumptive  outlets,  there  has  been  a  gain 
of  strength  in  prices  for  high  grade  se­
lected  eggs,  but  none  whatever  in  the 
average  qualities  and  the  offerings  still 
seem  to  be  sufficient  for all  current  con­
sumptive  demands. 
is, 
however,  in  a  peculiar  and  somewhat

The  market 

critical  condition.  Should  hot  weather 
further  reduce  the  quality  of  stock  ar­
riving  so  that  dealers could  not  obtain 
enough  fine  eggs  among  current  arrivals 
for  their  current  needs  prices  would 
have  to  advance  to  a  point  high  enough 
to  permit  the  use  of  some  of  the  finer 
grades of  stored  eggs.  Up  to  this  time, 
however,  in  spite  of  the  reduction  in 
arrivals,  dealers  have  been  able  to  ob­
tain  an  ample  supply  from  the  current 
collections,  and  the  hardening  of  values 
has  occurred  only  on  the  finest  quali­
ties.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Virtues  of the  Pineapple.

indications, 

The  partaking  of  a  slice  of  pineapple 
after  a  meal  is  quite  in  accordance  with 
physiological 
since,  al­
though  it  may  not  be  generally  known, 
fresh  pineapple  juice  contains a remark­
ably  active  digestive  principle  similar 
to  pepsin. 
This  principle  has  been 
termed  "bromelin”   and  so  powerful 
is  its  action  upon  proteids  that  it  will 
digest  as  much  as  1,000 times its  weight 
within  a  few hours. 
Its digestive  activ­
ity  varies  in  accordance  with  the  kind 
of  proteid  to  which 
is  subjected. 
Fibrin  disappears  entirely  after  a  time. 
With  the  coagulated  albumin  of  eggs 
the digestive  process  is  slow,  while  with 
the  albumin  of  meat  its  action  seems 
first  to  produce  a  pulpy gelatinous mass, 
which,  however,  completely  dissolves 
after  a  short  time.  When  a  slice  of 
fresh  pineapple 
is  placed  upon  a  raw 
beefsteak  the  surface  of  the  steak  be­
comes  gradually  gelatinous  owing  to  the 
digestive  action  of  the  enzyme  of  the 
juice.

it 

it 

Of  course 

is  well  known  that  d i­
gestive  agents  exist  also  in  other  fruits, 
but  when  it  is  considered  that  an  aver­
age  sized  pineapple  will  yield  nearly 
two  pints  of  juice,  it  will  be  seen  that 
the  digestive  action  of  the  whole  fruit 
must  be  enormous.  The  activity]of this 
peculiar  digestive  agent  is  destroyed  in 
the  cooked  pineapple,  but  unless  the 
pineapple 
is  preserved  by  heat  there  is 
no  reason  why  the  tinned  fruit  should 
not  retain  the  digestive  power.  The 
active  digestive  principle  may  be  ob­
tained  from  the  juice  by  dissolving  a 
large  quantity  of  common  salt in it when 
is  obtained  possessing 
the  remarkable  digestive  powers  just 
described.

precipitate 

Unlike  pepsin,  the  digestive  princi­
ple  of  the  pineapple  will  operate  in  an 
acid,  neutral,  or  even  alkaline medium 
according  to  the  kind  of  proteid  to 
which  it  is presented.  It may,  therefore, 
be  assumed  that  the  pineapple  enzyme 
would  not  only  aid  the  work  of  diges­
tion  in  the  stomach,  but would  continue 
that action  in  the  intestinal  tract.  Pine­
apple,  it  may  be  added,  contains  much 
ndigestible  matter  of  the  nature  of 
woody  fiber,  but  it  is  quite  possible  that 
the  decidedly  digestive  properties  of 
the  juice  compensate  for this  fact.

The  Grocer  and  the  Customer.

The  man  had  not  settled  with  the  gro­

cer  for  nearly  six  months.

The  grocer,  needing  some  money, 

presented  his  bill.

"Surely,”   said  the  man,  looking 

in 
surprise  at the  long  list  of  items,  "there 
must  be  some  mistake  in  this.”   "N o  
mistake  at  all,  sir,”   answered  the  gro­
cer,  belligerently. 
" I   am  prepared  to 
make  affidavit  that  every  item  is  correct 
and  that  the  footing  is  right  to a  cent. 
When  an  account  runs  as  long  as  this 
one  has  run  and  the  customer  hasn't 
kept  track  of  it he nearly always kicks. ”
"Oh,  I’m  not  kicking,”   said  the 
man, proceeding  to  write  a  check  for  the 
"What  surprises  me 
amount. 
is  that 
the  bill 
is  only  about  half  as  big  as  I 
expected.”

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Strawberries,  Raspberries,  Currants,  Gooseberries,  Cherries  and  Grapes 

than if bought on our market.

by the basket, ton or carload.

Mail orders a specialty.
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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

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Established  1864

MAX  MAYEK

HOEHN  &   MAYER 

Produce  Commission  Merchants

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

SPECIALTIES:

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Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicited

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

M ILLET,  HUNGARIAN, 
BUCKW HEAT,  C LO V ER , 

TIMOTHY  S E E D S

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

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We can handle all you send  us.

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106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Citizens Phone 333a.

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to Year-Around  Dealer and get Top  Market and  Prompt  Returns.

G EO .  N.  H U FF  & CO .

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

Commission  iTerchant

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

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

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

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

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The  Relation  of Fire  Insurance  to Credit.
The  question  of  the  relation  of  fire 
insurance  to  credit,  would  seem  to  be  a 
very  important  one  and  should  be  care­
fully  taken 
into  consideration  by  the 
credit  man  when  a  line  of  credit  is 
asked  for;  not  only 
in  regard  to  the 
amount  of  insurance  carried,  but  to  the 
standing  of  the  companies  as  well.

There  are  many  honest,  but  not  very 
able  men  in  business,  men  who  would 
not  think  of  paying  less  than  ioo cents 
on  the  dollar  under  ordinary  circum­
stances,  who  without 
insurance 
would  be  able  to  pay  only  a  small  per­
centage  on  their  indebtedness,  should 
fire  destroy  their stock.

fire 

What 

is  regarded  as  an  exorbitant 
insurance,  but 
rate  sometimes  curtails 
it  has  been  my  observation  that 
in 
such  cases  the  hazard  usually  justifies 
the  rate,  and  thus  renders  the  require­
ments  all  the  more  essential.  To evade 
fire  insurance  evinces  a  lack  of  business 
foresight  and  conservatism,  and  places 
credit  upon  a  speculative  basis,  thereby 
destroying confidence, which is  the  foun­
dation  of  all  credit.  Any  business 
which  can  not  stand  insurance  had  bet­
ter  be  wound  up.

Some  enterprises  are  spread 

over 
much  territory,  hence  carry  their  own 
risks,  but  these  are  very  wealthy  and 
seek  no  credit. 
It  is  often  remarked by 
business  men,  “ If  the  companies  can 
afford  to  carry  my  risk,  for  a  certain 
premium,  why  can  not  I?”   For  the 
reason, 
carrying 
thousands  of  the  same  class  all  over  the 
country  and  thereby  secure  an  average, 
and  “ average”   is  the  foundation  of  the 
fire  insurance  business.

the  companies  are 

If  I  were  considering  the  extension 
of  a  credit  to  a  merchant,  and  there 
was  a  question  as  to  the  feature  of  in­
surance,  1  should  feel  free  to  ask  for  an 
explanation,  and  not  only  would  I  want 
to  know  the  amount  of  his  insurance, 
but  the  character of  it,  the  form  of  pol­
icy  and  the  standing  of  the  companies. 
There  could  not  be  a  serious  objection 
if  the  request  was  made  in  the  proper 
spirit.

It 

is  usually  the  case  that  the  retail 
merchant  has  had  less  experience  than 
the  jobber  or  manufacturer,  and  might 
be  glad  to  receive  advice  concerning 
the  details  of  insurance.  This  matter  is 
certainly  vital  to  the  party  asking  for 
credit,  and  the  seller  can  not  afford  to 
take  any  more  chances  than  if  he  were 
considering  the  insuring  of  his  own 
property.  A  bank  will  not  loan  money 
on  real  estate  unless  it  is  amply  pro­
insurance,  and  I  believe  the 
tected  by 
time  will  come  when 
it  will  be  more 
generally  appreciated,  that  a  business 
man  does  not  materially  differ  in  any 
particular  from  the  “ banker”   in  regard 
to  the  extension  of  credits.

As  a  mere  business  proposition 

it 
would  hardly  seem  possible  that  any 
sound  mind  would  question  for  a  mo­
ment  the 
importance  and  necessity  of 
fire  insurance  especially  in  the  United 
States.  No  prudent,  thoughtful  busi 
ness  man  would  expect  to  receive  the 
sympathy  of  any  one  if  found  without 
full  and  abundant  insurance 
in  good 
sound  companies,  in  event  of  loss  by 
fire.

Hardly  a  day  passes  in  which  the 
public  papers  are  not  filled  with  ac­
counts  of 
losses,  which  it  would  seem 
would  make  a  lasting  impression  upon 
the  mind  of  any  reflecting  individual  in 
the  community.  Without  making  any 
mention  of  small  fires,  the  aggregate 
losses  in  the  United  States  during  the 
month  of  February  was  over  twenty

in 

reached 

It  is  true  that  we  have 
million  dollars. 
in 
better  fire-extinguishing  facilities 
localities  than  were  ever  known 
many 
in  many  respects  fires  are 
before,  and 
more  quickly 
and  better 
handled,  but  on  the  other  hand,  the 
causes  of  fires  have  been  enormously 
increased.  The  very  large  use  which  is 
now made of  electricity  for  lighting  and 
heating,  and  gasoline,  has  been 
it­
self  the  cause  of  an  enormous  increase 
in 
loss  ratio.  Another  hazard  which 
the  companies  have  at  present  is  what 
they  call  prosperity  fires,  caused  by  too 
much  business, 
factories  crowded, 
and  working  over time,  so that  they  do 
not  have  the  time  to  properly  look  after 
the  cleanliness  of  their  factories  and 
stores.  The  energy  and  rapidity,  and 
pellmell  manner  of  doing  business 
in 
the  United  States  is  another  fruitful 
source  of  fire  waste.  The  losses  actually 
paid  by  all  of  the  fire  insurance  com­
panies  doing  business 
in  the  United 
States  during the  year  1875  amounted  in 
round  figures  to  thirty-five  million  dol­
lars,  while  in  1901  they  amounted  to 
one  hundred  million,  or  say  60  per cent, 
of  the  entire  fire  premiums  received.

Even  where  an  active  business  man 
has  good  sound  insurance  to  the  amount 
of  say  80  per  cent,  of  the  actual  cash 
value  of  the  property  insured,  there still 
remains  a  wide  margin  for  loss,  and  all 
that  any  active  and  intelligent  business 
man  ought  to  assume,  for  there 
is  an 
indirect  loss  in  the  interruption  of busi­
ness  undertakings  in  the  delays,  loss  of 
patronage  and time consumed  in  replac­
ing  buildings,  machinery  and  stocks, 
and  getting  back  the  position  occupied 
before  the  fire,  none of  which  is  covered 
by  insurance.

in 

increase 

The  fire  loss  of the  United  States  and 
Canada  for  the  month  of  March  shows 
a  total  of  $12,056,600.  The  year so  far 
shows  an 
losses  of  about 
$2,500,000,  as  against  the  first  quarter of 
1901,  and  of  over  $7,000,000,  as  against 
the  same  period  of  1900.  Altogether  it 
is  very  apparent  that  some  steps  should 
be  taken  to  reduce  this  great  annual 
waste  of  the  nation’s  wealth.  Probably 
the  rigid  enforcement  of  an  efficient 
system  of 
inspection  would  save  mil­
lions  of  dollars  each  year,  and  proper 
prosecution  of  incendiaries  would  make 
a  stiil  further  reduction.

Charles  L.  Grinnell.

PIN EA PPLES

Are how 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.

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Jeweler— What  did  you  say  to  that 
man  when  he  bought  that  cheap  watch?
Clerk— I  told  him  it  would  work 
like 

a  charm.

Jeweler—Why  did  you do that?  Don’t 
you  know  we  can't  guarantee  those 
watches  to  keep  time?

Clerk—Well,  charms  don't  keep  time.

Proof Enough.

“ I  suppose you  set  a  good  table,”   re­
marked  the  man  who  was  looking  for 
board.
“ Well,”   replied  the  landlady,  “ three 
of  my  regular  boarders  are  laid  up  with 
the  gout. ”

Don’t  Kick

IF  YOUR  RETURNS  OF

BUTTER.,  EGGS,  POULTRY

are  not  satisfactory, but  try

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Blackstone St., BOSTON.

DO  YOU  WANT

The services of a prompt, reliable EGG  HOUSE 
during the spring  and  summer  to  handle  your 
large or small shipments for you?

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Egg  Receivers, 

36  Harrison St.,  N. Y.

Est. 1865. 

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

The  Rice  Industry  in  the  United  States.
The  remarkable  development  of the 
rice  cultivating 
industry,  as  practiced 
in  Louisiana  and  Texas,  is  rapidly  at­
tracting 
the  attention  of  the  whole 
country.

The  Louisiana  rice  belt  comprises  an 
irregular  strip of  land  about  thirty  miles 
wide  and  100  miles  long.  It  is  bordered 
on  the  south  by  the  swamps  which  ex­
tend  seaward  to  the  gulf  and  on  the 
north  by  dense  forests  of  yellow  pine 
such  as  would  make  the  heart  of  the 
lumberman  leap  for  joy.

Directly  north  of  Lake  Charles  is  a 
dense  forest of  long  leaf yellow pine  and 
between  250,000,000  and 300,000,000  feet 
of  lumber  is  sawed  there  every  year, 
more  than  the  output  of  all  the  mills  on 
the  Penobscot  River.

This  section  of  Southwestern  Louis­
iana,  commonly  known  as  the  rice  belt, 
is  very  different  from  what  the  average 
Northerner supposes  it  to  be.  Cypress 
swamps  are  conspicuous  by  their  ab­
sence.  The  country  is  one  vast  level 
prairie  which  for  years  was  considered 
valueless  for  agricultural  purposes  and 
was  wholly  given  over  to  stock  raising. 
In  the  early  8o’s,  however,  a  few  farm­
ers  from  Iowa  moved  down  from  the 
North  and  started  to  grow  “ Providence 
levees  about 
rice.’ '  They  built  little 
their  fields  and  depended  upon 
the 
natural  rain  fall  for their water  supply.
Most  of  these  farmers  had  been  en­
gaged  in  raising  wheat  and  corn  in 
their old  homes  and  they  brought  their 
harvesting  machinery  with  them,  find­
ing  that  the  soil  was  hard  enough  and 
firm  enough  to  bear  its  weight. 
It  was 
owing  to  these  Iowa  farmers  that  rice, 
the  great  product  of  the  Orient,  came  to 
be  cultivated  in  a  modern  fashion.  The 
gang  plow  disc  harrow,  drill  seeder, 
McCormick  harvester and  threshing  ma­
chine  all  came  into  use.

For  a  few  years  there  was  plenty  of 
rain  and  the  crops  were  excellent.  After 
that  came  a  series  of  dry  seasons  when 
the  crops  were  failures,  utter and  abso­
lute.  Rice  must  have  water  and  with­
out  it  nothing  can  be  done.  To provide 
a  reliable  supply of this essential article, 
pumping  plants  were  gradually  substi­
tuted  along  the  banks  of  the  streams  for 
the  natural  irrigation  relied  on  to  pro­
duce  crops  of  so-called  “ Providence 
rice.”

At  first  these  pumps  simply  irrigated 
the  farms  along  the  streams  and  lakes. 
large  surface  canals  were  con­
Then 
structed. 
In  1894  a  canal  40  feet  wide 
and  15  miles 
long  was  built.  This 
proved  a  tremendous  success,  demon­
strating  that  a  reliable  water  supply 
meant  a  sure  crop  of  rice.  The  next 
year this  canal  was  followed  by  another 
and  each  succeeding  year  has seen  other 
new  ones.  During  the  past  winter  a 
canal  was  built  over  25  miles  long, 
running  through  ten  miles  of  timber 
lands  before  it  reached  the  rice  fields. 
The  canals  are  built  up  over  the  surface 
of  the  ground  and  the  water  is  above 
the  rice  field.

The  method  of  cultivating  rice  is  ex­
tremely  simple,  and,  barring  the  irriga­
tion,  is  almost  identical  with  that  em­
ployed 
in  the  cultivation  of grain  and 
corn  in  the  Middle  West.  The  ground 
is  first  plowed  with  the  ordinary  gang 
plow  to a  depth  of  2%,  to  3  inches. 
It 
is  then  harrowed  with  the  disc  harrow. 
After  this  the  seed 
is  planted  with  a 
drill  seeder.  The  farmer  then  takes  a 
span  of  mules  and  a  plow  and  goes 
around  the  edge  of the  field,  turning  the 
soil  up  into  a  little  levee  from  a  foot  to 
a  foot  and  a  half  in  height.  There  is

nothing  more  to  do  until  the  rice  has 
appeared  four or five  inches  above  the 
surface.

At  this  time  a  few  inches  of  water  is 
turned  on  from  the  irrigating canal,  per­
haps  three  inches  at  first.  As  the  rice 
increases  in  height  the  water  is  also  in­
creased, until  finally  a  depth  of  about 
eight  inches  over  the  entire  field 
is 
reached.  This  amount  of  water  is  kept 
on  the  fields  from  sixty  to  ninety  days. 
As  the  rice  begins to ripen  the levees are 
cut  and  the  water  is  all  drained off.  For 
ten  days  or  two  weeks  the  rice  is  left  to 
mature  and  the ground to harden.  Then 
a  McCormick  harvester, 
twine  binder, 
threshing  machine  and  all  the  other 
improved  agricultural  machinery  one 
sees  on  the  great  wheat  farms  of  the 
Middle  West  are  put  into  play  and  the 
crop  is  harvested.  After  that  there 
is 
but  little  for  the  farmer  to  do  but  pay 
the  canal  owners 
their  toll,  sell  his 
rough  rice  to the mills  and  sit  down  to 
count  his  profits.  The  planting  is  done 
anywhere  from  March  to  July  and  the 
harvesting  from  August  to  October.

The  application  of  water  to  the  fields 
acts  as  a  fertilizer  and 
it  has  been 
found  that  rice  does  not  exhaust  land 
so  much  as  most  other  crops.  So  far 
the  farmers  have  not  found  it  necessary 
to  employ  rotational  crops.  During  the 
winter  months  other  crops,  hay,  corn, 
potatoes,  etc.,  may  be  grown  on  the 
same  land.  This,  however,  has  not  been 
generally  done,  the  farmers  being  con­
tent  to  let  their  stock  into  the  fields  to 
feed  on  the  rice  stubble  and  the  straw 
which  one  sees  everywhere 
in  huge 
piles.

The  outlook  of  the  rice  industry  is 
very  bright  indeed  for  several  reasons. 
To  begin  with  the  area  of  rice  land  is 
absolutely  limited. 
It  is  a  narrow  strip 
along  the  coastal  plain  of  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico,  traversed  by  the  Southern  Pa­
cific  Railroad.  The  consumption  of  rice 
in  this  country  is  increasing much faster 
than  the  production  and  at  present  we 
do  not  produce  two-thirds  of  what  we 
consume.

it  entirely 

independent  of 

The  methods  of  irrigation  employed 
make 
the 
weather and,as  it  is  one  of  the  sturdiest 
is  prac­
and  surest  crops  grown,  there 
tically  no  danger  of  failure. 
It  can  not 
burn  up  and  it  will not  blow  down.  By 
the 
introduction  of  up-to-date  methods 
and  machinery  it  has  been  enormously 
profitable.  Many  a Louisiana rice farmer 
will  claim  that  he can  grow  rice cheaper 
than  an  Oriental.  For  instance,in  Japan 
it  requires  the  constant  attention  of  one 
man  to  cultivate  one  acre  of  rice. 
In 
Louisiana  one  man  and  four  mules  will 
cultivate  160  acres  of  rice  and  not  work 
more  than  six  months  out  of  the  year.

Rice  land in  Louisiana  can  be  bought 
for  from  $20 to $60 an  acre,  depending 
largely  on  the  quality  of  the  laud  and 
its  proximity  to  an  irrigating  canal. 
Anything  under  ten  sacks  to  the  acre  is 
considered  a  poor  crop  and,  as  rice  is 
worth  about  $3  per  sack  it  is  easy  to  see 
why  these  modern  rice  farmers  are  get­
ting  rich.  Unless  at  least  30  per  cent, 
is  made  on  the  investment  the  project 
is  considered  a  failure.  Many  farmers 
have  been  known  to  pay  for  their  land 
with  the  first  year’s  crop  and  leave  a 
balance  in  the  bank.

There  is  absolutely  no  danger  of  an 
oversupply  of  the  product  as  rice  is  the 
chfef  food  of  over  one-half  of  the  entire 
earth’s  population.  We  are  still  im­
porting  rice  into  this  country. 
In  addi­
tion  to  this,  since  the  Spanish-Americau 
war,  and  the  markets  of  Cuba  and 
Puerto  Rico have  been open  to us,  much

HENRY  J.  RAHE

..Butter, Eggs  and  Poultry..

56  West  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.

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Smith,  McFarland  Co.,

Produce  Commission  Merchants

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

69 and  71  Clinton St.,
Boston,  Mass.

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

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!

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  wte  will  give  you  entire  satisfaction.

HILTON  Su  ALDRICH  CO.

3 9   SOUTH  M ARKET  S T R E E T  

BOSTON

Ç n r » T 

The  opportunity  to  establish  satisfactory  and
*  profitable business connections, by shipping your

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

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LLOYD  I.  SEAMAN  &   CO.

Established  1850. 

148  READE  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY

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rice  baa  been  shipped  there  from  New 
Orleans, which  has  hitherto found its way 
to  New  York,  the  general  distributing 
point.

The  character  of  the  inhabitants of the 
rice  belt  is  cosmopolitan  in the extreme. 
There  is  the  native  of  the  Acadian  de­
scendant  of  the  Pioneers 
from  Grand 
Pre,  and  there  is  the  negro.  Both  of 
these  are  in  the  minority.  The  farmer 
from  the  Middle West is a moving spirit. 
The  industry  was  first  started  by  these 
men  and  seeing  the  success  of  the  pio­
neers,  many  of  their  friends  have  fol­
lowed.  There  are  farmers  in  the  rice 
belt  from  Dakota,  Illinois,  Nebraska, 
Kansas  and  New  England.  Moreover, 
they  are  still continuing to arrive,  bring­
ing  their  families  and  machinery  with 
them,  almost  by  every  train.

The  whole  system  of  cultivation  is  as 
little  like  an  agricultural  pursuit  as  one 
can  imagine. 
It  is  a  combination  of 
machinery  and  water,  pumping  plants 
and  rice  plants  all  based  on  the  produc­
tive  value  of  the  land  which  has  not  yet 
been  forced  up  to  speculative  prices. 
The  growth  of  the  rice industry has been 
It  has  not  been  characterized 
healthy. 
by  a  boom  and  by  speculation. 
It  bids 
fair to  increase  in the  future  as  it  has  in 
the  past  and  to  develop  a  healthy  and 
It  is 
prosperous  section  of  the  country. 
a  permanent  industry. 
It  has  come  to 
stay.

 

The  U.  S.  Flour  Milling  Company  Exit.
It  will  be  a  relief to the public at large 
to  know  that  finally  the  United  States 
Flour  Milling Co.  is  out of  business  and 
that  the  new  company,  the  Standard 
Milling  Co.,  which  is  only  a  security 
holding  company  is  at  last  allowed  to 
proceed  without  injunction  suits,  etc.

The  daily capacity of the various  mills 
now  controlled  through  securities  by  the 
new  Standard  Milling  Co.  is  as  follows: 
Hecker-Jones-Jewell  Milling  Co.. 10,000
Consolidated  Milling  Co............... 18,000
Milwaukee  M ills................... 
  3«8oo
Buffalo  M ills.....................................1,800
Syracuse  M ills...................................i,oco
Duluth  M ills.....................................18,000
The  largest  two  concerns  are  the  Con­
solidated  Milling  Co.,  of  which  A.  C. 
Loring  is  the  President  and  Manager, 
and  the  Duluth-Superior  Mills,  of which 
L.  R.  Hurd  is  the  President  and  Man­
ager.  The  Hecker  Jones-Jewell  Milling 
Co.  comes  next, 
forming  three  very 
powerful  milling concerns,  every  one  of 
whom  manufacture  a  very  high standard 
of  spring  wheat  patent.

The  trade  congratulates  these  mills 
upon  the  final  adjustment  of  their  busi­
ness  affairs,  which  although  they  do  not 
affect  these  mills  individually,  create 
a  false  impression  on  the trade  that  they 
in  some  way  or other  were  in  financial 
embarrassment.  This  is  far  from  the 
truth  as  they  are  among  the  strongest 
financial 
the  milling 
trade.

institutions 

in 

G r a s s h o p p e r s   a s   Admission  Tickets.
Salt  Lake  City,  June  14—The  resi­
dents  of  Ephraim,  Utah,  the  agricul­
tural  center  of  San  Pete  county,  where 
the  crops  last  year  were  completely 
ruined  by  grasshoppers,  have  adopted  a 
novel  method  of  exterminating  the  pest, 
which  is  again  threatening  the  crops.  A 
series  of  entertainments  has  been  ar­
ranged,  the  admission  to  which  is  one- 
half  bushel  of  grasshoppers.  The  first 
entertainment— a  dance—was  held  last 
night,  and  seventy-five  half  bushels  of 
grasshoppers  were  presented  to  the 
ticketman  at  the  door.  After the  dance 
the  “ hoppers”   furnished  fuel  for a  bon­
fire  to  properly  top  off  the  occasion.

The  sympathetic  woman  is  the woman 
who  is  longest and  most widely beloved.

No  More  Track  Prices.

The  practice  some  people  have  of 
mixing  to  excess  water,  salt  and  other 
heavy  and  inexpensive articles with but­
ter  to  make  weight  has  become so exten­
sive  that  for  their  own  protection  the 
Beatrice  Creamery  Co.,  Lincoln,  Neb., 
has  done  away  with  paying 
“ track 
price,  your  stations”   for  packing  stock, 
country  butter.  Hereafter,  Manager 
Friend  says,  prices  quoted  and  paid  by 
them  will  be  according  to  weight  here 
in  their  house.  Butter  will  be  examined 
and  weighed  immediately  on  arrival  at 
their  warehouse  and  they  will  pay  for 
just  what  the  contents  are.  Some  gro­
cers  have  been  in  the  habit of  mixing 
and  working  over  butter  before  ship­
ping,  adding  to  it  excessive  quantities 
of  salt  and  water  and  some  other  par­
ticles  which  add  to  the  weight  but 
which  all  “ come  to  the  surface”   when 
subject  to  the  “ process”   test. 
It  is 
also  suspected  that  quite  a  number  of 
farmers  or  their  wives  have  resorted  to 
this  practice  also  to  catch  the  commis­
sion  man’s  money,  and  the  practice  has 
become  quite  general  in some  sections— 
so  much  so  that  the  Beatrice  Creamery 
Co.  has  been  forced  to  adopt  this  rule 
for 
its  own  protection.  Merchants 
and  shippers  who  are  doing  an  honor­
able  and 
legitimate  business  will  not 
find  fault  or  object  to  this  rule  and  the 
ones  who  will  “ kick”   will  naturally 
be  under  suspicion  as  guilty  of  or  par­
ties  to  the  practice.  Mr.  Friend  assures 
us  that  he  wants  to  pay  for  every  pound 
of  butter  received,  but  he  holds,  and 
justly,  too,  that  shrinkage  is  not  butter 
and  the 
loss  can  not  be  made  up  in 
reputable manufacturing.—Country Mer­
chant.

Merchants  in  a  Company.

A  number of  retail  merchants  at  Col­
lege  Springs,  Iowa,  have  formed  a  com­
pany  for  the  purpose  of  handling  prod­
uce  of all kinds at one central point.  The 
plan 
is  to  secure  a  building  and  hire  a 
competent  man  who  will  handle  all  the 
produce  brought  to the  town.  For  this 
he 
issues  coupons  payable  in  trade  at 
100 cents  on  the  dollar  at  any  time  by 
the  business  firms  of  the  company,or re­
deemable  in  cash  after fifteen days.  The 
idea  is  to  have  all  the  produce  bandied 
at  one  place  by  one  party,  and  then 
dispose  of  the  product  to  the  wholesale 
houses  in  the  territory  or  ship  it  to  the 
East. 
is  thought  that  the  company 
can  pay  better  prices  than  if  little  dabs 
are  handled  by  all  the  merchants,  and, 
besides,  it  will 
lessen  the  labor  of  the 
business  men  whose  clerks  will  not  be 
obliged  to  go  from  counting  dirty  eggs 
and  dealing  out  stale  butter  to  waiting 
on  customers  and  handling  dress  goods. 
In  some  instances  it  is  thought  the  plan 
will  do  away  with  one  clerk.  The  ex­
penses  will  be  borne  by  the  firms  be­
longing  to  the  company  in  proportion to 
the  number  of  coupons  each  receives. 
It  is  thought  that  by  the  new  method 
College  Springs  will  be  able  to  pay 
more  for  produce  than  can  be  paid  by 
neighboring  towns.

It 

“Michigan  in  Summer.”

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  all  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,  Micb,

GUARANTEE

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

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

j. ROBINSON. Manager. 

Benton  Harbor.Michigan.

Largest Stocks 

Best Quality 

Lowest  Prices

All  orders  filled  promptly day received.

Alfred  J. Brown Seed <3o., Grand Rapids, Mich.

O L D

GROW ERS,  MERCHANTS,  IMPORTERS

CIGAR

A   i W A  Y S  

8 e s t .

L UBETSK 

yBROS.DetroizMic

A  Perfectly  Roasted 

Coffee

Is the  only  basis  for  a  perfect  cup 
of  coffee.  W e  have  perfection  in 
roast.  Cup quality the best.

TELFER  COFFEE  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

C h e   J o h n   6 .  D o a n  

C o m p a n y

Manufacturers’ Agent 
for all kinds of

Truit  Packages

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

Warehouse,  corner € . Tulton and Terry Sts., Grand Rapids

C itiz e n s P h o n e 1881.

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W oman’s  World

Face.

Real  Side  of  Life  That  Every  Girl  Must 

“ Other  people,"  she  says, 

A  charming  young  girl,  belonging  to 
a  class that  is  to graduate  this  week,  has 
written to  me  asking  if  I  will  say  some­
thing  to girls  about  the  practical  side  of 
life. 
in 
effect,  “ will  throw  us  the  conventional 
bouquets  about  woman’s  influence  and 
woman's  mission  and  woman’s  angelic 
qualities;  but  what  we  want  to  know  is 
something  about  the  real  life  we  are just 
entering.  We  want  to  know  of  the  dan­
gers  we  must  face,  the  disillusionments 
we  must  suffer,  the  temptations we  must 
resist,  the  triumphs  we  may  hope  to 
win,  from  a woman  who has traveled  the 
road  we  are  just  setting  out  upon.’ *

Hard,  indeed,  and  sadly worldly-worn 
must  be  the  heart  that  is  not  touched 
by  such  a letter or that  does  not  thrill  to 
the  sight  that  no  familiarity  ever  makes 
commonplace  of  a  bevy  of  young  girls 
standing  on  commencement  morning 
“ with  reluctant  feet  where  the  brook 
and  river  m eet."  They  have  come  to 
the  parting  of  the  ways.  Behind  them 
lie  the  flowery  meads  of  childhood,  be­
fore  them  stretches  the  hard  and  weary 
march  of  life  where  fate  scours  on  the 
weak,  and  only  the  strongest  may  hope 
to  reach  the  end  with  flaunting  banners 
and  beating  drums.

I  suppose  to  every  girl  who comes  out 
of the  superheated  air of  the school room 
into  real,  practical 
life  the  first  plunge 
is  like  a  cold  douche.  Nothing  is  like 
she  expected  to  find  it.  She  has  been 
living  in  a  world  of  sentiment.  She  has 
bumped  into  one  of  cold,  hard  facts. 
She  has been  taught  to  believe  that  one 
should  worship  the  true,  the  beautiful 
and  the  good.  She  finds  that the  one 
thing  before  which  every  knee  bows  in 
reverence  is  the  moneybag.  She  has 
been  taught  that  gentleness  and  refine­
ment  are  the  qualities  that  do  most  be­
come  a  lady.  She  sees  that  the  girl  who 
counts  her admirers  by  the  score  is  the 
loud  girl  who can  tell  funny  stories  and 
talk  slang.

Most  surprising  still,  the  little  grad­
uate  finds  that  all  her  hardly-acquired 
and  much-vaunted  knowledge  is,  appar­
ently,of  no  value  in  this  new  world  into 
which  she  has  come.  She  had  expected 
to  be  a  kind  of  oracle,  sweetly  but 
vividly 
illuminating  the  community 
with  her  superior  brand  of  culture.  Her 
laugh  at  her  opin­
family  and  friends 
ions.  Nobody 
listens  to  her  point  of 
view  on  the  ancient  Byzantine  empire 
or the  decadence  of  modern fiction. 
In­
deed,  she ascertains  that  nobody  cares  a 
rap  for ancient  history  or classical  liter­
ature  and  that  the  only  two  topics  that 
are  really  of  burning  interest  in  her  set 
are  ping-pong  and  the  state  of  the  stock 
market.

Now,  the  sensible  thing  for  any  trav­
eler  in  a  new  country  is  to  adjust  him­
self to the conditions he  finds  about  him. 
It  would  be  folly  to  wear  an  ulster 
among  the  Hottentots  or a  linen  duster 
among  the  Eskimos. 
It  is  equally  fool­
ish  to  attempt  to  live  on  a  frigid  ice­
berg  of  romance  and  culture 
the 
midst  of  a  desert  of  commoplace  mate­
rialism.  The  best  thing  to  do  is  to 
climb  down  and  make the  best of the sit­
uation. 
I  have  seen  a  woman  miss  all 
the  glory  and  splendor of  Rome  while 
she  fussed  about  not  being  able  to get 
buckwheat  cakes 
for  breakfast  and  I 
have  seen  other  women  miss  all  the 
sweetness  and  the  beauty  life  might 
have  given 
them  and  become  dis­
gruntled  pessimists  because  existence

in 

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

was  not the  pale  green  aesthetic  dream 
they  had  imagined  it.

But,  as  I  take  it,  you  are  a  level­
headed  set  of  American  girls,  and  you 
want  to  know  bow  to  make  the  best  of 
this  new  world  into  which  you are enter­
ing.  My first  advice  is  to  have  a  settled 
purpose  in 
life.  Up  to now  your  edu­
cation  has  just  been  the  gathering  of the 
material— the  bricks  and  mortar  and 
sand and  cement  out  of  which the edifice 
is  to  be  erected—and  each  of  you  must 
be  the  architect  of  your  own  destiny.

No  matter how  rich  the  building  ma­
terial  is— not  although  you  should  have 
marble  and  porphyry  and  bronze  and 
onyx—can  you  build  a  sightly  and  har­
monious  structure  unless  you  have  some 
definite  plan.  It  is  yours  to  say  whether 
it  will  be  broad  with  noble  purposes  or 
narrow  and  contracted  with  prejudice 
and  passion;  whether  you  will  build 
great  windows  that  will  let  in  the  sun­
shine  of  lo/e  and  humanity  or  make  the 
rooms  dark  with  selfishness  and  greed. 
Sometimes  a  character  is  built,  like  a 
house,  bit  or  miss,  with  here  a  beauty 
and  there  a  hideous  excrescence;  but  it 
can  never  be  symmetrical  and  complete 
unless 
is  some  plan  running 
through  the  whole  design.

there 

Another  thing  I  would  like  to  say  to 
you  is  to 
learn  to  stand  on  your  own 
feet.  The  old  ideal  of  the  clinging  vine 
was  beautiful  as  poetry,  but 
it  was 
tommy-rot  in  practice,  and  at  any  event 
it  does  not  fit  this  age.  Unfortunately, 
there  are  not  enough  trees  for  all  the 
vines to  festoon  around  these  days,  and 
you  may  be  one  of  those  who  find  no 
oak  when  you  get  ready  to  do  the  cling­
ing  act.  Besides,  now,  what a man wants 
in  a  wife  is  not  something  to  pull  him 
down,  but  something  to bolster him  up. 
Read  the  history  of  the  successful  men 
of  to-day,  and  ninety-nine  times  out  of 
a  hundred  the  man  who  stands  at  the 
head  of  his  profession,  the  man  who 
has  gone  from  poverty  to  wealth,  or has 
been  elected  to  Congress,  is  the  man 
who  has  had  a  strong,  capable  woman 
behind  him  pushing  him  onward  and 
upward.  A  vine  wife  is  a  dead  weight 
who  has  to  be  carried,  and  now,  when 
the  race  of  life  is  so  hard  and  the  com­
petition  so  keen,  no  man  so  handi­
capped  is  going  to  win.

Fit  yourself  to do  some  actual  work in 
the  world.  Do  not  be  a  parasite;  by 
this  I  do  not  mean  go  in  for a  career  in 
the  outside  world.  Any  woman  who can 
stay  at  home  and  who  does  not  have  to 
go  out  and  battle  with  fate  for  bread 
ought  to thank  God  for her  blessing  and 
cling  to  it.  But  there  is  no  other  pro­
fession  on  earth  that  needs  such  a  vast 
technical  knowledge  nor  such  broad 
training  as  the  profession  of  wife  and 
mother.

No  girl  has  a  right  to  marry  unless 
she  knows  how  to  keep  house  comfort­
ably  and  economically,  and  if  she  does 
know  this  she  has  a  good,  moneymaking 
profession  to  which  she  can  always  turn 
her  hand.  The  art  of  being  a  good  wife 
is  one  of  the  least  understood  and  the 
most  important arts  in  the. world  and  the 
one  that  will  best  repay  any girl’s study.
If,  however,  the  girl  is  a  poor  girl,  I 
bid  her  welcome  into the  ranks  of  labor, 
with  the  assurance  that  there  she  will 
find  exactly  the  amount  of  emolument 
she  earns. 
is  ashamed  of  her 
work  and  does  it  badly  or  if  she  only 
does  with  one  hand  and  eye  while  the 
other  is  on  a  continual  still  hunt  for  a 
possible  husband,  she  will  get  starva­
tion  wages  as 
long  as  she  works.  On 
the  other  band,  if  she  has  a  fine  enthus­
iasm  for  her  labor  and  puts  heart  and

If  she 

MAJESTIC

Another  good  assortment.  All  large  pieces,  fancy  shapes. 

Assorted  floral  decorations,  heavy  stippled  in  gold.

It’ s  a  25  cent  assortment.

1 dozen Cake Plates 
1 dozen 7 inch Not Bowls 
l dozen 7 Inch Ice Belish 
l dozen Oval Trays 
% dozen 24s Jugs 
% dozen Fancy Nappies 
%  dozen Comports

6 dozen articles at $2.00 per dozen........$12.00

W e  keep  things  moving  by  keeping  things  that  move.
Geo. H.  Wheelock & Co., South Bend, hd.

A  Business  Hint

A  suggested  need  often  repeated  creates  the 

want that sends the purchaser to the  store.

Every  dealer  should  have  his  share  of  the 
profit  that  reverts  from  the  enormous amount 
of  money  expended  by  the  National  Biscuit 
Company in keeping  their  products  constantly 
before  the eyes of the public.

These  goods  become  the  actual  needs that 
send a  steady stream  of  trade to  the  stores that 
sell them.

People  have  become  educated  to  buying 
biscuit and crackers in the In-er-seal Package—  
and  one  success  has  followed  the  other  from 
the famous  Uneeda  Biscuit  to the latest  widely 
advertised  specialty.

Each new product  as  it is  announced  to  the 
public  serves  as  a  stimulant  to  business  and 
acts  as a drawing card  that  brings  more custo­
mers to the store than any plan you could devise.
A  well  stocked  line of National  Biscuit goods 
is a business policy that it is not well to overlook.

Something New

“ White  Swan”  Cream  Chocolates

A   delicious  summer  novelty 
Packed  in  five pound  boxes 

Manufactured only by

THE  PUTNAM CANDY CO.,  Grand  gapids,  Mich.

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soul  and  brain  and  brawn  into  it,  suc­
cess  is  hers. 
It  never  fails,  and  there 
is  no  more  excuse  for  an  able-bodied 
woman being dependent to-day or lacking 
luxuries  money  can  give  than  there 
the 
is  in  a  man's. 
It  means  work  and  sac­
rifice,  but  success  means  work  and  sac­
rifice  for  man,  too.  All  the  prizes  in 
life  are  bought  with  blood  and  tears.

I  would  also  urge  girls  to cultivate 
common  sense.  There  was a  time  when 
it  was  thought  cunning  and  interesting 
for  a  girl  to  be  a  combination  idiot  and 
angel  whose  supposed  virtues  offset  her 
lack  of  sense. 
If  that  time  ever  existed 
it  has  been  relegated  into  the  far  and 
distant  past.  Look  about  you  and  see 
who  are  the  women  who  are  loved  and 
admired  now.  Are  they  the  women  who 
go  into  hysterics  over  every  little  thing 
or  are  they  the  women  who  can  rise 
calm  and  wise  in  any  emergency?  Be­
lieve  me, 
the  doll-baby 
woman  has  had  her  day.  Men  loved  her 
and  admired  her,  and  protested  against 
any  change,  but  when  the  new  woman 
came  with  her  sane,  rational  views— a 
woman who  could  be  trusted  like  a man, 
like  a  woman;  who  could  be 
yet 
be  reasoned  with 
instead  of  cajoled— 
why,  men  saw  that  they  had  gotten  a 
companion 
instead  of  a  plaything,  and 
the  doll  baby’s  reign  was  over.

little  sister, 

loved 

Finally,  beloved,  I  would  urge  on  you 
the  gospel^of  happiness.  What  the  world 
needs  most 
is  happy  women,  and  hap­
lies  for  each  of  us  to  take  or  re­
piness 
ject  as  we  will. 
It  comes  from  within, 
not  from  without.  No  life  is  so  fortun­
ate  as  not  to  have  some  thorns  among 
its  roses,  none  so  miserable  that  it  does 
not  have  glints  of  sunshine  among  its 
storm  and  tears.

luxurious  home. 

Nothing  is  so  sad  a  reflection  as  that 
most  women  are  unhappy  because  of 
their  own  free  will.  They  nurse  griev­
ances.  They  magnify  wrongs.  .  They 
dwell  on  unpleasantness  until  they  spoil 
not  only  their  own  lives,  but  those  of 
all  about  them.  Not  long  ago  1  was 
sent  to  investigate  a  mysterious  case, 
where  a  youth,  almost  grown,  had  run 
away  from  a 
The 
house  was  beautiful  without  and  within, 
evidently  the  abode  of  wealth  and  com­
fort;  the  son  had  deliberately  forsaken 
it—all  to  live  a  hard  and  laborious 
life 
far  away.  As  I  entered  the  house  I 
heard  a  woman's  (the  mother's)  voice 
rising  in  a  shrill  monotone of  querulous
abuse  and  complaint,  and  I  went  away 
without  asking  one  question. 
I  knew 
why  the  boy  had  run  away  from  home, 
and  my  only  wonder  was  that  the 
woman’s husband had  not  had  enterprise 
enough  to  run  away  from  it.

The  woman  makes  the  atmosphere  of 
the  home. 
If  she  is  gay  and  bright—a 
happy  philosopher  who  takes  life  as  she 
it  and  makes  the  best  of  things—• 
finds 
there  is  sunshine 
in  that  home,  and 
everybody  goes  out  of  it  full  of  hope 
and  strength  and  courage;  but  if  she 
is 
querulous  and  complaining,  she  is  the 
wet  blanket that  chills  enthusiasm  and 
kills  effort.

is  a  practical  view  to  take  of  a 
subject  that  is  generally  wreathed  about 
with  glittering  generalities,  but 
it  is 
the  real  side  of  life  that  every  girl  must 
face.  Women,  alas !  are  seldom  called 
upon  for outward  deeds  of  heroism.  We 
would  die  for those  we  love,  but  we  are 
only  called,  upon  to  darn  their  socks. 
According  to the  way  we  do  this— well 
or  ill,  cheerfully  or  grudingly— depend 
the  happiness  and  well-being  of  the 
world. 

Dorothy  Dix.

This 

She  Only  Follows  the  Law. 

r  There  is  always  room  for argument  as 
to  whether  a  naan,  or  particularly  a

woman,  is  justified  in  making  art  cor­
rect  the  mistakes  of  nature.  Despite  the 
fact  declared  that  nature  cannot  make  a 
mistake,  there  are  more  people  ready 
to  lay  themselves  upon. the  altar  of  a 
cruel  sacrifice  to  contend  that  nature 
does  make  grave  mistakes.

Nature  is  kind  to  all  created  things 
except  man.  As  if  to  spite  man  for 
trying  to  attain  superiority  over  ani­
mate  and 
inanimate  construction,  she 
gives  him  a  twist  here  and  a  turn  there, 
and  often 
leaves  him  a  hapless  and  a 
grotesque  semblance  of  a  created  being.
If  nature  chooses  to  play  the  freak 
with  man  or  woman,  then  has  not  man 
or  woman  the  right to  rectify  the  error? 
Who  will  have  the  hardihood  to  say  he 
or  she  has  not? 
for  instance,  a 
woman  is  not  possessed  of  those  grace­
ful  curves  which  shall  make  the  contour 
of  her  body  pleasing  to  the  eyes,  has 
she  not  the  privilege  to  call 
in  advan- 
titious  aids  to  remedy  the  defects  and 
hide  the  ugly  angles?

If, 

go-as-you-please 

Now  this  contention  is  supported  by 
a  fashionable  dressmaker,  who  recently 
in  a  New  York  law  court  gave this testi­
mony :
“ 1  could  show  you  letters  and  tele­
grams  from  many  prominent  people.  In 
many  cases  where  God  did  not  make  a 
perfect  form  of  a  woman  I  have  done 
so,  as  far  as  the  eye  could  see.  Some­
times  husbands  and  families  have  not 
been  able  to  recognize  a  woman  for  a 
moment  or  so  after  1  made  such  a  per­
fect  fitting  costume."
And  then  again,  the  lady  who  made 
the  angular  woman  a  joy  and  a  surprise 
in  the  eyes  of  her  amazed  husband has  a 
further  supporter  in  the  person  of  Miss 
Mary  MacLean.  Miss  Mary  is  a  free- 
and  easy, 
literary 
woman.  She  unbosoms  her  confidence 
in  a  chatty  sort  of  way,  and  tells  maids 
and  matrons  how  they  can  improve  the 
figure. 
"In   the  front  of  my  shirtwaist 
there  are  nine  cambric  handkerchiefs 
cunningly  distributed.  My  figure  is 
very  pretty."  And  then  Miss  Mary 
gives  another  revelation  as  to  what  to do 
with  a  handkerchief  in  the  region  of 
the  waist.
If  we  are  to  accept  Miss  Mary  Mac- 
Lean’s  revelations  as  being  simply  the 
mirror  of  what  other  women  are  doing 
and  thinking,  then  gallantry  must  force 
acceptance  of  the 
idea  that  a  woman 
has  the  right  to  do  what  she  chooses  in 
1 regard  to  the  embellishment  of  her  fig­
ure.  The  law  to  please  is  the  highest  of 
all 
in  her  sweetly 
amiable  way,  not  because  of  personal 
pleasure, 
follows  the  dictates  of  the 
highest  law. 

laws,  and  woman 

Cora  Stowell.

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

Hardware

The  Effect  of Prices  on  Consnmption.
The  United  States  alone  now probably 
uses  every  month  more  aluminum  than 
the  whole  world  a  quarter of  a  century 
ago consumed  in  a  year.  The  valuable 
properties  of  this  metal  were  as  well 
known  in  the  seventies,  when  it  sold for 
$10  a  pound,  as  they  are  now,  when  it 
can  be  bought  for  one-twenty-fifth  of 
that  price.  The  increase 
in  consump­
tion  has  been  due  almost  entirely  to 
the  reduction  in  price.

When  half  a  century  ago  the  average 
charge  of the Pennsylvania R.  R.  Co.  for 
hauling  a  ton  of  freight  a  mile  was  5.4 
cents  the  total  tonnage  was  perhaps  not 
one-two-hundredth  of  what  it  now  is 
when  it  receives  for  each  ton  of  freight 
it  carries  a  mile  about  one-tenth  of what 
was  paid  to  it  fifty  years  ago  for  the 
same  service.  Its  gross  freight  earnings 
at  one-tenth  of  the  price  per  ton  are  at 
least  twenty  times  as  great.

When  prices  are  high  in  proportion 
incomes,  people  get  along 

to  average 
with  very  little.

I  have  heard  that  a  distinguished 
clergyman  still 
living  tells  that  when, 
nearly  sixty  years  ago,  in  what  was 
then  the  wilds  of  Northwestern  Penn­
sylvania,  he  was  taking  his  bride  with 
him  to  the  place  at  which  he  was  sta­
tioned,  he  stopped  for a  night  at  one  of 
the  best  houses  to  be  found  on  the  road. 
In  the  morning  after they  were  up  and 
about  to 
leave  the  room,  the  hostess 
came  to  their  door  and  asked  for the  tin 
basin  in  which  they  had performed their 
ablutions.  When  they  came  to  breakfast 
they  saw  the  same  tin  basin  on  the table 
filled  with  the  potatoes  which  were  to 
constitute  an  important  part  of  their 
meal.

When  tin  basins  cost  five  or  ten  times 
what  they  do  now  people  managed  to 
use  very  few  of  them.

If  a  great  reduction  in  price  of  use­
ful  articles 
increasing 
their  consumption  largely,  so  very  great 
increase  in  price  will  limit  their  use.

is  capable  of 

Early  in  1861  cotton  sold  in  Liverpool 
at  fourteen  cents  a  pound. 
In  eighteen 
months  its  price  had  risen  to  sixty cents 
a  pound.  Of  course,  the  effect  was  to 
reduce  greatly  the  consumption  of  cot­
ton  goods.  People  took  more  care  of 
the  cotton  clothes  they  had  and  they 
kept  on  using  them  when  under  other 
conditions  they  would  have  consigned 
them  to  the  rag  bag.  Other  fabrics 
which  could  not  compete  with  cotton  at 
normal  prices  were  used 
in  its  place 
when  its  cost  was  about  four  and  a  half 
times  as  much  as  it  had  been.

A  decade  or  more  ago  a  great  French 
syndicate  attempted  to  corner  the  cop­
per  production  of  the  world. 
It  suc­
ceeded  in  obtaining  substantial  control 
of  all  the  important  sources  of  supply. 
It  put  up  the  price  to  a  figure  at  which 
it  believed  it  was  certain  to  make  great 
profits. 
In  the  end  its  members  were 
ruined  because  it  could  not  market  the 
product.  Nobody  would  buy  any  copper 
unless  he  absolutely  had to.  When  every 
user  was  set  to  thinking  very  seriously 
as  to  whether  he  could  not  get  along 
without  copper  many  users  found  that 
in  whole  or  part  they  could.

impossible  to  employ  steel 

At  the  prices  which  prevailed  twenty- 
five  or  thirty  years  ago  it  would  have 
been 
for 
many  of  the  purposes  for  which  it  is 
now  used,  and  which  now  consume  a 
large  part  of  the  enormous  annual  pro­
duction.  It  is  because steel  as  compared 
with  other  materials  is  cheap  that  it  is

now  used  in  so  many ways in  which  for­
merly  it  was  not  employed  at  all.  The 
United  States  Steel  Corporation  has,  I 
think,  very  wisely  adopted  the  policy  of 
keeping  prices  on  the  finished  products 
on  a  comparatively  low  basis,  notwith­
standing  the  recent  sharp  advance  in 
the  prices  of  raw  material  and  in  spite 
of  the  fact  that  the  demand  has  been,  at 
least  temporarily,  so  great  that  higher 
prices  could  easily  have  been  obtained.
Sometimes  the  reduction  in  consump­
tion  brought  about  by  a  great  rise  in 
prices  can  not  be  made  good  by  a  cor­
responding  reduction 
in  the  prices  at 
which  the  products  are  offered.  This 
is  not  unlikely  to  happen  when 
result 
the  high 
level  of  prices  has  been  long 
maintained.  Under  such  circumstances 
there  has  been  time  for  experiment  and 
inventive  genius  to  discover substitutes. 
Sometimes  these  substitutes  are  good 
enough  subsequently  to  be  able  to  sup­
plant  or at  least  to  maintain themselves 
in  competition  with  the  original  article 
even  when  that  has  returned  to  its  nor­
mal  price  level.

Indeed 

What  practical  men 

in  business  are 
interested  in  and  about  which  they  can 
not  always  agree  is  whether  fluctuations 
of  price  within  comparatively  moderate 
limits  have  any  important  effect  upon 
consumption.  Consumption  may  be 
greater  under  higher  prices  than  it  was 
under  lower. 
it  frequently  is. 
Consumption  of almost everything which 
liv­
directly  or  indirectly  goes  into  the 
ing  expenses  of  an  ordinary 
is 
very  much  greater  than  it  was  five  years 
ago.  Yet  the  editor  of  Dun’s  Review 
calculates  that  the  present 
cost  of 
such  articles  is  now  about  40  per  cent, 
greater  than  it  was  in  1897.  Prices  were 
low  five  years  ago  because  consumption 
—that  is  to  say,  demand— was  small.

family 

The  principal,  although  doubtless  not 
the  sole,  cause  of  the  present  high  aver­
age  of  prices  is  the  very  great consump­
tive  demand.  Except  where 
labor  is 
voluntarily  idle  in  the  prosecution of in­
dustrial  warfare  through  strikes,  almost 
everybody 
is  employed.  Wages  are 
somewhat  higher  than  they  were  in  1897 
increase  in 
and,  although  the  average 
the  normal  rate  has  been  small,  the 
in­
come  to  a  large  part  of  the population  is 
materially  greater  because  employment 
is  much  more  regular  and  steady. 
Many  families  who  felt  constrained  to 
pinch  themselves 
in  every  direction 
during  the  continuation  of  the  hard 
times  which  began  in  1893  have  for  the 
last  three  years  and  a  half  been  able  to 
purchase  much  more  freely.  Naturally 
prices  have  gone  up. 
It  is,  perhaps,  a 
question  whether  the  rise  has  not  very 
nearly  reached  its  limit. 
In  absence  of 
scarcity  due  to  a  failure  of  production 
the  slackening  in  demand  will  compel  a 
reduction  in  price.

Although  other  factors  may  in  a  par­
ticular  case  or  at  a  particular  time  be 
so  operative  as  to  increase  consumption 
when  prices  are  rising  or  to  increase 
it 
when  they  are  falling,  the  rule  remains 
true  that  other  things  being  equal  the 
higher  the  price  the  smaller  the  con­
sumption.  It  does  not  follow that  it  may 
not  often  be  good  policy  for  the  manu­
facturer to  mark  up  prices.  Sometimes 
it  may  be  even  when  there  is  no  in­
crease  in  the  cost  of  production.  Much 
more  frequently  it  may  be  policy  to  re­
tain  prices  at  the  level  at  which  they 
have  been,  although  there  has  been  an 
appreciable  reduction 
in  the  cost  of 
making  them.  I  mean  that, if  it  costs  50 
cents  to  produce  a  particular  article  and 
you  have  been  selling  it  at 60 cents, 
there  are  less  objections  to  the  policy  of

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

Oil  Clothing and  Flags 
Horse and  Wagon  Covers

Harrison  Bros.  &  Co.’s  Paints  and 

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THE  M.  I.  WILCOX  COMPANY

210  to  216  Water. St.,  Toledo,  Ohio

Local Agents Wanted for Safety Gaslight  Machine

1000  Candle  Power Light  for 

per hour

A well-known and responsible  merchant  wanted  In 
every town to Install our Gas Plant In his  store  and  act 
as agent to sell and Install others  in  his  locality.  Plant 
will save  its  cost  in  few  months  and  the  first  store­
keeper in each town to purchase this  lighting  system is 
sure of big money In commissions—for  his  fellow  busi­
ness men are certain to buy.  Costs about $3.00 for labor 
to install a plant.  Any tinsmith can do it.

Machine is small—occupying a shelf  only  10  inches 

wide and 3 feet long.

Write to-day for foil particulars.

THE PERFECTION  LIGHTING CO.

17  So.  Division St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Up-to-date Lighting Supplies at Wholesale.
State Agents Cosmopolitan Light Co.’s Gas Mantels.
Write for special price list gas and gasoline  mantels, 

chimneys, shades, etc.

Four  Kinds  01 coupon  Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, 
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samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich

continuing  to  sell  it  at 60,  although  the 
cost  of  production  has  fallen  to  45, 
than  there  would  be  to  raise  it  to  65 
cents,  while  the  cost  of  production  re­
mained  at  50 cents.  The  reason  is  that 
few  of  those  who  buy  from  you  know 
whether a  price  is  high  or  not except  by 
comparison  with  what  the  price  has 
been.  In  actual  experience  it often turns 
out  that  they  do  not  know  even  that 
much.  A  concern  who  bought  largely 
from  my  company  on  one  occasion 
bought  a  number of  fire-grade  enameled 
goods,  goods  that  we  call  “ firsts.”  
It 
catalogued  them  as “ firsts" and at  a  low 
price  for  “ firsts,"  but  could  not  sell 
them. 
In  its  next  catalogue  it  changed 
its  description  of  them  to  “ seconds" 
and  raised  the  price. 
Its  customers 
thought  that  because  they  were  classed 
as  “ seconds"  they  must  be  offered  at  a 
low  rate  and  they  were  sold  promptly.
It  is  especially  dangerous  for  any  of 
the  large  corporations  now  called  trusts 
to  make  a  marked  increase  in  the  price 
of  their  products. 
Public  attention 
which  could  not  be  much  concentrated 
upon  the  changes  in  price  made  by  half 
a  dozen  or  a  dozen  or  more  individual 
concerns  can  easily  be  interested  in  an 
increase  made  by  a  single  great  corpo­
ration.  We  all  remember  the  outcry 
which  arose  two  years  ago  when  the 
American  Ice  Company  raised  the  price 
of 
in  New  York  and  its  neighbor­
hood  and  which  has  been  raised  this 
spring  by  the  increase  of  the  price  of 
meats  made  by  the  so-called  meat  trust. 
The  ice  company and the  Chicago  pack­
ers  each  claim  that  the  rise  was  due  to 
natural  conditions. 
I  do  not  know 
whether  it  was  or  not,  but  then  the  peo­
ple  who  raised  the  outcry  do  not  know 
more  than  I  do,  and  the  outcry  would 
have  been 
just  as  great  whether  the 
claim  of  the  sellers  was  or  was  not  true. 
Such  an  outcry  always reduces consump­
tion.  Many  persons  who  would  not 
think  a  second  time  over  a  rise  of  two 
or  four cents  in  the  price  of  a  pound  of 
meat  had  nobody  else  said  anything  on 
the  subject,  will  endeavor  very  hard  to 
cut  down  their  meat  consumption  when 
every  newspaper  they  see 
is  talking 
about  the  extortion  of  the  meat  trust.

ice 

increase 

large  corporations  an 

It  follows,  therefore,  that  in  the  case 
of 
in 
price  may  be  followed  by  a  reduction 
in  consumption  greater  than  would  be 
the  result  of  a  like  rise  in  prices  if  the 
market  was  supplied  by  a number  of  in­
dependent  concerns.

lesson 

corporations, 
for 
therefore,  clearly 
is  that  their  profits 
must  be  made  rather  by  reduction  in 
the  cost  of  production  than  by  an  in­
crease  in  the  selling  price.

such 

The 

W.  H.  Matthai.

Recent  Changes  Among  Indiana  Mer - 

chants.

Boonville—S.  D.  Davis succeeds  Reed 
Bros,  in  the  grocery  and  feed  business.
Cambridge City—Guyten &  Copeland, 
grocers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
Roy  Copeland  succeeding.

Center  Square—O.  P.  Courtney,  gen­
eral  dealer,  has  discontinued  business.
Decatur—The  Metal  Frame  Window 
its  business 

Screen  Co.  has  merged 
into  a  corporation.

East  Chicago—Albert  Lewis  has  dis­
posed  of  his  half  interest  in  the  East 
Chicago  Hardware  Co.

Edinburg—O.  N.  Mutz  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the  hard­
ware  business  of Webb  &  Mutz.

Fort  Wayne—Conrad 

Bayer  has 
merged  his  cigar  manufacturing  busi­
ness  into  a  corporation  under  the  style 
of  the  Cooney-Bayer  Cigar  Co.

Franklin—Walden  &  Byers,  butchers, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  R.  E.  By­
ers  continues  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Fremont—S.  W.  Duguid  has  with­
drawn  his  interest  in  the  mercantile  es­
tablishment  of  S.  W.  Duguid  &  Co.

Hymera— V.  D.  Cummins  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  general merchandise stock 
of  Charles  Vanarsdall  &  Co.

Indianapolis—The  Crown  Chemical 
Co.,  manufacturer  of  a  washing  com­
pound,  has  incorporated 
its  business 
under  the  same  style.

Indianapolis—The  Hacleman  Music 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration  under  the  same  style.
Jeffersonville—Louis  Cohen 

is  suc­
ceeded  by  M.  Cohen  &  Co.  in the  cloth­
ing  and  shoe  business.

Madison—The  Madison  Planing  Mill 
&  Lumber  Co.  succeeds  K.  H.  White  in 
the  lumber  business.

Modoc— Willis  &  Conyers  is  the  style 
of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds  Willis 
&  Johnson  in  general  trade.

New  Albany— L.  Goodbub  succeeds 
Goodbub  Bros,  in  the  grocery  business.
Ridgeville—Addington  Bros,  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  Henry  Rar- 
rick.

Stanford—Weaver  &  Carmichael, 
general  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business  is  continued  by 
Weaver  Bros.

Vevay— Loting & Green  succeed  I.  P. 

Loring  in  the  clothing  business.

Warren—Henry  Wuersten,  cigar  man­

ufacturer,  is  dead.

Woodburn— The  Woodburn  Manufac­
turing  Co.,  patentee  and  blacksmith, 
has  merged  its  business  into  a  corpora­
tion  under  the  same  style.  The  capital 
stock  is  $10,000.

How  Not  to  Sell  Screens.

“ Yes,  we  keep  wire  screens.  Want 

“ Well—yes—that  depends  on  what 

any?"

they  cost.”

“ How  many  do  you  want?”
“ I  don’t  know,  sir;  I  thought  if  I 
could  see  them and  see what  they  cost.”  
“ How  can  I  tell  you  what  they  will 
cost?  How  many  windows  you  got,  and 
what’s  their  size?  Don't  know?  Well,
I  can’t  tell  you  that.  Ought  to  measure 
’em. 
I  can  show  you  what  we’ve  got; 
they’re  on  the  next  floor,  but  if  you 
don’t  know  the  sizes— ”

“ Never  mind,  sir,  never  mind. 

I’ ll 
find  out  and  come  in  again.  Oh,  no,
I  won’t  look  at  them  now,  sir.”

Did  that  scared  little  woman  ever  go 

into  that  hardware  store  again?

Not  in  a  thousand  years.  She  went 
out  feeling  as  though  she  had  murdered 
some  one’s  family  and  been  blamed  for 
it.  She  wanted  the  screens,  and  her 
husband  bought  an  outfit  for  the  whole 
house  a  little  later— but not in that store.
for  the  clerk  who  practically 
snubbed  her  out  of  the  store,  he  still 
goes  rampant  on  his  devastating  way. 
Unfortunately  for  his  trade,  the  pro­
prietor has  not  yet  taken  him  out  and 
knocked  him  down  with  a  club  a  couple 
of  dozen  times.

As 

The  late  Paul  Sorg,  of  Middletown, 
O.,  made  his  first  money  by  peddling 
flowers  and  doing  chores  in  Cincinnati. 
After  working  hours  he  went  to  a  night 
school.  When  he  was  a  little  older he 
worked  in  a  cheese  factory  and  then 
in 
an  iron  mill.  He  saved  $3,000,  went 
into  the  tobacco  business  and  became 
one  of  the  very  rich  men  of  the  State. 
Eight  years  ago  he  went  to  Congress, 
defeating  Estes  G.  Rathbone.  The  Ohio 
papers  think  he  has  left  an  estate  of 
$7,000, coo  to $15,000,000.

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Clerks’  Corner.

The Touch o f Nature That Made Them Kin. 
Written for the Tradesman.

For  some  reason  or other  Stewart,  the 
Mindon  storekeeper,  got  into  the  habit 
of  standing  behind  his  desk  at  the 
window  every  afternoon  about  the  time 
the  children  came  from  school.  He  did 
not  seem  to  be  particularly  interested 
in  anything;  but  the  minute  the  first 
wild  whoop  announced  the  end  of  the 
afternoon  session  straight  to  that  win­
dow  the  man  would  go and  stay  there 
until  the group,  generally  halting  at  the 
comer,  dispersed.  Whether  the  wran­
gling 
invariably  going  on  attracted  or 
whether  pleasing  reminiscences  of  his 
own  boyhood,  not  so  many  years  away, 
then  came  to him  it  was  impossible  to 
say.  He  never called  attention  to  any 
particular occurrence  that  took  place ; 
but  there  he  would  sit or  stand  until  the 
entertainment  was  over  and  then,  satis­
fied,  go on  with  his  work.

The  clerk,  amused,  watched  him  for 
a  while  and,  concluding  that  his  curios­
ity  would  be  satisfied  sooner  without  a 
lot  of  questions,  kept  his  mouth  shut 
and  his  eyes  open.  Soon  he  fancied 
he  saw  something.  Whenever there was 
an  apparent  row,  or  whenever there  was 
any  teasing  going  on,  Stewart  was  on 
the  alert;  and  if  a  certain  boy.  Tip 
Chandler—“ Fire,”   for self-evident  rea­
sons,  the  boys  had  nicknamed  him— 
was  getting  more  than  the  law  allows, 
it  didn’t  take  long  for  Stewart  to  step 
to  the  door to  find  out  what  was  going 
on  and  to  ask  if  it  wasn't  about  time 
to quit  that.

So  much  settled,  affairs  seemed  to 
take  a  rest.  Tip  came  to  the  store  only 
on  an  occasional  errand  and  then  Stew­
art  never  took  any  notice  of him.  No 
human  being,  however—least  of  all 
that  part  of  it  embodied  in  the  Minden 
clerk—could  let  that  sort  of  thing  live 
and  die  a  natural  death.  There  was  a 
something  behind  it and  he  was  deter­
mined  to  find  out  what  it  was.  That 
conclusion  reached  he  proceeded 
at 
once  to  business.  The  following  Satur­
day  furnished  the  opportunity  and  the 
clerk  at  once  seized  it.

‘ * There  goes  that confounded  * Clover- 
top. ’ 
I  wonder  what  mischief  he's 
brewing  now.  Funny  whatever deviltry 
happens  to  be  going  on  that  red-head 
of  his  has  just  been  in  that  neighbor­
hood.  First 
it's  strawberries  and  then 
it’s  apples.  Mrs.  Russell  loses  her cake 
for the  party  and  Deacon  Swazey  has  to 
go  without  his  Sunday  ice  cream  des­
sert;  and  then  all  at once— ”

to  do,  watches 

“ Some  smart  Alec,  that  hasn’t  any­
thing  else 
for  Tip 
Chandler  to  come  around  the  corner to 
charge  him  with  it!  What  business  is 
it of  yours  whether the  boy  bad  a  finger 
clear  up  to  the  third  joint  in  the  whole 
list  from  strawberries  to  ice  cream, 
and  what  right  have  you  to  charge  him 
with  it? 
I'd  rather  by  half be  the  one 
to  have  the  fun  than  be  the sneak that’ll 
stand  off  and  envy  him  because  he 
dares  to.

“ I  tell  you  what  it is,  Joe,  as  a  gen­
eral  thing  I  don’t  care  what  you  do  or 
what  you  say;  but if I  hear  any  more  of 
that  sort  of  rot  about Tip  Chandler,  I 
will  take  it  as  a  notice  that  you’ve  got 
ready  to  quit” — a  remark 
that  was 
made  with  John  Stewart's snaky  eyes 
glaring  straight  at him ;  and  when  the 
storekeeper  did  that he  meant business.
That spiked  Joe  Kittredge's  gun  but 
it  didn’t  interfere  with  his eyesight  and 
it didn’t  put an  end  to  his-  wondering.

it.  Bedlam 

An  incident  the  next  Monday  afternoon 
increased 
let  loose  was  a 
fit  comparison  for the  uproar  that  came 
from  the  school  bouse  the  moment 
school  was  dismissed.  Stewart  left  the 
goods  he  was  putting  up  and  went  to 
the  door  to find the doctor’s,  the lawyer’s 
and  the  minister’s  son  all  “ pegging 
away”   at  Fiery  as  if  this  was  their 
last  chance  at  him  and  they  were  going 
to  finish  him  up  once  for a ll;  while 
Fiery,  his  dander  up,  was  valiantly 
holding  his  own,  in  spite  of  the  odds 
against  him  and  the 
jeers  that  came 
from  the  crowd.

It  was  evident that  the much badgered 
boy  was  getting  desperate  and  it  was 
just  as  evident  that  the  three  sneaks 
engaged  in  the  contemptible  business 
were  forcing  him  into  a  fight  with  them 
when,  three  to  one,  they  hoped  to  “ do 
him  up”  

in  short  order.

Stewart  stuck  a  hand  into  each  of  his 
trousers  pockets and  sauntered  into  the 
street. 
It  was  only  the  storekeeper and 
the  boys  kept  right  on.  He  looked  on  a 
minute  and  then  he  called  out:  “ Tip, 
you've  had  about  enough,  I  guess.  Now 
you  go  in  and  lick  them  fellers  or  Irll 
lick  you!”

It  was  touching  fire  to  powder.  Like 
lightning  there  were three blows straight 
from  the  shoulder  and  every  blow  fell 
on  as  big  a  coward  as  Mindon  ever 
mothered.

“ Good!”   shouted 

the  storekeeper. 
“ Now  if  there  are  any  more  that  you 
want  to  touch  up.  Tip,  go  ahead  and 
I'll  see  that  you  have  fair  play.”

There  weren’t  any  more.  For  some 
reason  the  valiant  three  started  home 
without  making  any  fuss  and  the  rest  of 
the  rabble  went  off  to “ tell,”   and  be­
fore  sundown  not  a  family  in  Mindon 
but  were  talking  and  wondering  what 
the  professional  men  would  do  about  it 
and  what  that  “ brick-top”  would  go  for 
next.  To  the  watchful  clerk,  the  strange 
part  of  it  all  was  Fiery  and  the  store­
keeper.  The  boy  with  shut  teeth  and 
ready  fists  stood  waiting  for what  might 
follow.  Then  when  the  three  crawled 
away  and  the  crowd  began  to go,  the 
boy  without  looking  right  or left  started 
off  home  without  a  glance  at  the  store­
keeper,  who  with  his  hands  still 
in  his 
pockets,  went  back  with  not  a  word  to 
his  unfinished  order.

After  that  Stewart  and  the  conqueror 
began  to  say,  “ Hello!”   to  each  other, 
and 
it  was  remarkable,  Joe  thought, 
how  often  they  said  it  now.  Never  a 
day  went  by  that  the  two  did  not  meet 
and  while  it  was  only  the commonplace, 
“ Hello!”  
it  seemed  to do  them  both  a 
world  of good.  Then  boy  like,  Tip  be­
gan  to  take  comfort  in  putting  his  head 
in  at  the  door  for  his  greeting  and 
Stewart,  manlike,  managed  to  have 
something  handy  and  good  to eat  to toss 
at  him.  He  never  missed  catching; 
and  when  one  day  after an  unusually 
toothsome  goody  bad  been 
tossed, 
caught  and  duly  gone  the  way  of all 
goodies,  the  storekeeper  called  him 
in. 
It  was  the  usual  talk  of maturity  and 
the  fourteen-year-old  with  perhaps  a 
little  more  of  the  confidential  on  the 
boy’s  part, 
readily 
understood  and  when  Fiery  with  his 
pockets  sticking  out  went off  home,  the 
clerk  noticed  that  his  employer  went  to 
the  door and  watched  him  out  of  sight.
What  could  it be!  The Chandlers'we re 
nobodies.  The  boy  was  the  butt  of  the 
village—or  had  been  until  he  straight­
ened  out  the  three.  He  wasn’t  espe­
cially  bright,  but  a  common,  straight- 
fotward, 
red-headed 
boy  who  was  determined  to  get out  of

in  this  instance 

freckled-faced, 

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boyhood  all  there  is  in  it  without  pay­
ing  for.  it  in  bard  work.  Would  the 
wonder never  cease?

On  the  very top of all this when  every­
body  was  on  the  lookout  for what  was 
coming  next,  what  should  storekeeper 
Stewart  do,  but  drive  out  of  his  barn 
one  glorious  June  afternoon  in  his  best 
rubber-tired  buggy  and  his  talk-of-the- 
county  span,  stop  for  a  moment  at  the 
little  Chandler  cottage  and  then,  driv­
ing  on  to the  school  bouse,  call  out Tip 
and  drive  away  with  him—where?

Nobody  knew  until the  next  day  when 
of  his  own  accord  the  storekeeper thus 
set  all  hearts  at rest:

“ Tip  Chandler,  like  every  other  red­
headed  boy  that  1  ever  knew,  has  lived 
a  life  of  misery.  Everything  ‘ off’  that 
is  done,  he  does.  He  has  everything 
that  has  no  fun  in  it.  He  gets  the other 
fellers’  scoldin’s  and 
I’ve 
watched  him  ever  since  I’ve  been  here 
and  I  know.  He  has  little  to  eat  and 
less  to  wear  and  nothing  to  be  thankful

lickin's. 

in 

It  began, 

for.  Now  it’s  going  to  stop.  His  good 
time  has  begun. 
fact, 
when  he  licked  the  three  sneaks;  and 
I’m  going  to  put  into  his  life  what  he 
has  been  missing and  what  I  never  had. 
For  Fiery  say, 
‘ Sorrel-top’ • and  you 
have  what  I  went  through  with  to  a  dot. 
You  watch  out  now  in  the  future  as 
sharply  as  you  have  for  the  last  three 
months  and  you'll  see  if  I’m  not  telling 
the  truth.  Yesterday  we  went  over  to 
Grand  Island  to  the  circus  and  we’re 
going  again,  if  he  wants  to.  Generally 
the  boy  is  no more  like  me  than  a  black 
bean 
like  a  white  one;  but  we’ve 
both  got  red  hair  and  with  that  for  a 
basis  I’m  going  to  see  if  I  can  make  a 
man  out  of  him. 
I  may  not  be  able  to 
it;  but  1  can  tell  you  one 
accomplish 
sure  thing:  There 
is  one  poor  little 
red-headed  boy  going  to  have  a  good 
time  if  a  big,  red-headed  man  can  do 
anything  to  bring  it about,and  bethinks 
he  can.”

is 

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President,  J ohn  A.  W eston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Brow n,  Safilnaw;  Treasurer, 
John W. Schham, Detroit.

OiitW Couerti&l Tmtlm of Iklugu 

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

Orad Ripidi Coutil Co. 131, D. C. T.

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

Treasurer. L. F. Baker.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Traverse  City  Eagle :  Herbert  Somers 
has  taken  a  position  as  traveling  sales­
man  for  the  monument  firm,  A.  Black 
&  Son,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and will  cover 
the  territory  north  of  Grand  Rapids.

Jackson  Patriot:  A.  N.  DeLamater, 
who  has  been  for  several  years  city 
salesman  for  the  National  Biscuit  Com­
pany,  has  resigned  his  position  with 
them  and  assumed  the  management  of 
the  Jackson  Sanitary  Milk  Co.,  Ltd. 
The  milk  company  has  secured  a  good 
man  in  Mr.  DeLamater.

Cadillac  News:  Tuesday  a  salesman 
representing  a  wholesale  grocery  firm 
sold  a  ton  of  tobacco  in  this  city  for  de­
livery  to  Cadillac  retailers.  Not  less 
than  twenty-five  tobacco  salesmen  visit 
Cadillac  regularly  and 
it  is  probable 
that  their  sales  average  25,000  pounds 
monthly.  According  to  these  figures 
twelve  tons  of  tobacco  are  sold  at  retail 
every  thirty  days  in  Cadillac,  exclusive 
of  the  tobacco  utilized  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  cigars  and  cigarettes.

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  T h e “ In- 
vincibles”   and  the  “ Twirlers,”  
two 
picked  teams  of Upper Peninsular sales­
men  from  U.  C.  T.  Council  No.  186, 
met  for  the  second time in  a game  of  in­
door  base  ball  at  Fraternity  ball  Satur­
day  evening.  The  match  resulted  in  a 
score  of  18  to  10  in  favor  of  the  Invin- 
cibles.  The  Twirlers,  having 
lost  the 
first  game  two  weeks  ago,  came  on  the 
field  determined 
that  victory  should 
perch  on  their  banners,  but  they  met  a 
The 
spirit  more  fierce 
Twirlers  were  dressed 
in  natty  white 
uniforms  and  presented  a  fine  appear­
ance,  easily  capturing  the  favor  of  the 
fair  sex.  The  Invincibles  looked  like 
a  delegation  from  Coxey’s  army,  clad 
in  overalls  and  jumpers.  The  features 
of  the  game  were  O’Donell’s  fielding 
and  Burtless’  base  stealing.  After the 
game  dancing  was  indulged  in  until  12 
o’clock.

than  theirs. 

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Ithaca—Daniel  Altenberg,  head  clerk 
and  book-keeper  in  the  drug  store  of 
H.  J.  Crawford,  was  recently  married  to 
Miss  Blanche  Throop,  of  St.  Louis. 
The  Tradesman  extends  congratula­
tions.

Alpena— The  Retail  Clerks’  Associa­
tion  elected  and  installed  the  following 
officers  at  the  last  meeting:  President, 
Israel  Nathan;  First  Vice-President, 
Chas.  R ichel;  Second  Vice-President, 
Fred  Van  Kannel;  Recording  Secre­
tary,  Fred  L.  Olds;  Financial  Secre­
tary,  Julius  Szcznkowski;  Treasurer, 
William Gallagher;  Guide,  Martin Mar­
tinson ;  Guardian,  Ed.  Polzin.

New  Holland—John  Westrate,  of 
Noordeloos.has  taken  the  place  of  Peter 
Kraai  as  clerk in  the  general store  of  K. 
Weener.

Lansing—Marsh L.  Hoffman,  who  has 
been  engaged  as  a  pharmacist  in  De­
troit,  has  returned  to  this  city  and  is 
employed  at  J.  S.  Bennett’s.

Harbor  Springs—W.  J.  Clarke  &  Son 
have  Geo.  Woodrow  and  Will  Cronin 
behind  the  counter  in  their grocery  de*

partment.  Miss  Edith  Clarke,  who  has 
just  returned  from  Kalamazoo seminary, 
is  attending  as  assistant  book-keeper 
and  Willie,  aged  12,  is  beginning  a 
mercantile  life  there.

Kalkaska— Louis  Ferguson  has  taken 
in  the  furniture  store  of  E. 

a  position 
Goodwin.

Henderson—Anna  Epton  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  the  dry  goods  store  of 
Agnew  &  Epton.

Shelby— Leslie  Griffin,  the  clothing 
salesman,  recently  with  Edwards  & 
Girard,  has  engaged  at  the  Big  Store.

Mt.  Pleasant—The  Isbell  Cycle  and 
Hardware  Co.  has  a  new  clerk  in  the 
person  of  Albert  Light,  of  Lawton.

Fetoskey— B.  W.  Stark  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  C. 
Z.  Pote.

Celebration  of the  First  H alf Holiday.
Secretary  Klap  has  prepared  the  fol­
lowing  letter  to  send  out  to the members 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association :

This 

is  to  advise  you  of  the  action 
of  our  Association  regarding  the  half 
holiday  commencing  July  10  and  con­
tinuing  until  the  last  Thursday 
in  Au­
gust.  This  matter,  as  you  know,  has 
been  banging  fire  for  a  great  many 
years,  and  at  last  definite  action  was 
taken.  Our Association  took  this  course 
after  carefully  going  over  the  ground 
and  making  a  canvass of the majority  pf 
grocers.  The  same  course  was  also 
taken  by  the  meat  dealers.

We  feel  confident  the  great  majority 
will  close,  yes,  we  believe  there  will  be 
few  exceptions,  because  those  contem­
plating  doing  business  on  the afternoons 
in  question  will  not  be  in  it.

We  are  pleased  to  announce  to  you 
that  on  the  first  afternoon—July  10—a 
fine  program  will  be  carried  out  at  John 
Ball  Park,  consisting  of  addresses  by 
President  Fuller,  of  the  local  Associa­
tion,  Mayor  Palmer,  Hon.  Wm.  Alden 
Smith,  Hon.  John  Patton,  Jr.,  and  oth­
ers.  The  Furniture  City  and  Mail  Car­
riers’  bands  have  been  engaged  for  the 
occasion ;  arrangements  may  also  be 
made  for  a  balloon  ascension,  and  the 
public  are  hereby  invited  to  celebrate 
our  first  half  holiday  in a fitting manner.
in  windows  an­
nouncing, 
“ This  Store  will  close, 
etc.,’ ’  will  be  delivered  at  an  early 
date,  which  please  hang  in  a  conspicu­
ous  place,  in  order  that  your  customers 
will  know  of  the  holiday  and  obtain  the 
necessary  supplies  in  the  morning.

Cards  for  banging 

You  will  also  find  enclosed  badges 
which  explain  themselves.  Please  wear 
one  of  them  and  ask  your  clerks  to  do 
likewise.
The  next  meeting  of  our Association 
will  be  held  Monday  evening,  July  7, 
at  8  o’clock,  at  the  Board  of  Trade 
rooms,  89  Pearl  street,  Old  Houseman 
block,  and  we  want  you  to come.

In  conclusion,  will  say  our  annual 
picnic  will  be  held  at  Kalamazoo  this 
year on  Thursday,  August  7,  1902.  For 
particulars  address  the  Secretary  or  any 
of  the  committee.  On  that  day the stores 
will  close  entirely. 
Small  handbills 
will  be  distributed  at  the  proper  time. 
Come  one,  come  all !

Congressman  Kern,  of  Illinois,  has 
introduced  a  bill  providing  that  blind 
persons  throughout  the  United  States 
shall  each  receive  a  pension  of  $50 per 
month.  Of  course  it  will  never  be  en­
acted,  but  it  is  interesting  as  an  illus­
tration  of  the  possibilities  for  the  exten­
sion  of  the  pension  system. 
If  the 
blind  should  be  pensioned  why  not  the 
deaf,  the  lame  and  the  halt?

It  is  said  that  in  1816  it  snowed  in 
every  month 
in  the  year  in  New  York 
State.  That  record  has  been  equaled 
thus  far  this  year.  “ The  good  old 
times"  may  be  coming  back.

He  who  loses  bis  temper  is  if)  the 

wrong.

Should  Never  Be  “Nagged”  At.

The  conditions  which  environ  a  man 
on  the  road  are  such  as  to  demand  for 
him  more  consideration  than  is  apt  to 
be  given  to  employes in  the home  office. 
He  is  away  from  home  and  friends  and 
is  deprived  of  that  counsel  and  sympa­
thy  which  comes  from  these,  and  which 
all  men  at  all  times  feel  to  be almost in­
dispensable.  To  harrass  him,  therefore 
with  carping  criticism  and  fault-find­
ing  on  the  slightest  shadow  of  excuse, 
is  calculated  to  take  the  heart  out  of 
him,  make  him  discontented  with  his 
position and  cause  him  to  cast  about  for 
a  connection  with  some  other  house.  To 
err  is  human,  and  as  the  traveler  is  not 
any  nearer  angelic  than  men  are 
in 
general,  it  should  not  be  expected  that 
he  will  not  make  a  mistake. 
It  is  well 
enough  to  appraise  him  of  his  error, 
but  he  should  never  be  “ nagged”   at. 
The  mere  mention  of  an  error in a kind­
ly  way  will  have  a  better  effect  towards 
preventing  its  repetition  than  if  you  in­
timate  he  is  a  stupid  blunderer.  The 
gentle  reminder  will  not  arouse  his 
ill-natured  screed  will 
wrath,  but  the 
beget  resentment. 
The  conscientious 
mah  feels  keenly  enough  his  mistakes, 
and  it  is  not  necessary  for  the  house  to 
either  request  or  warn  him  not to  allow 
it  to  happen  again.

In  the 

There  must,  of  course,  be  a  discrim­
ination  between  excusable  error  and 
careless  blunders,  or  willful  disobedi­
ence  of  orders  and  disregard of instruc­
tions. 
latter  case  there  is  but 
one  alternative,  and  there  can  be  no ad 
vantage 
in  preparing  the  way  for  it 
by  lengthy  correspondence.  The  house 
will  find 
it  to  its  advantage  to  let  the 
traveler  understand  from  time  to  time 
that  it  appreciates  his  services. 
I  re­
member  an  instance  in  which  one  of the 
best  men  a  certain  house  ever  had  in 
its  employ,  and  one  whom  it  was  very 
desirous  of  retaining,  tendered  his  res­
ignation  for  no  other  reason  than  that  it 
had  never  written  him  anything  but  the 
coldest and  most  formal  business  letters. 
In  the  three  years  he  had  been  with 
it, 
he 
informed  the  proprietor,  he  had 
never  received  the  slightest  word  show- 
ing  appreciation  of  his  work.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  shows  a  continued 
firmness  for  good  stock  and  a  weakness 
for  poor  stock.  The  spring  take-off  is 
in  large  accumulation  at  prices  beyond 
what  tanners  are  willing  to  pay.  Each 
week  shows  sales  of  a  few  cars  at  some 
price,  varying as  to  the  run  of  the  hides 
as  to  quality  and  the  anxiety  of  holders 
to  unload  their  poor  grades.

There  are  few  wool  pelts  offering. 
Lambs  and  shearlings  are  in  small  sup­
ply  and 
in  good  demand,  with  ready 
sales.

Tallow  is  in  good  demand  for  edible 
and  all  offerings  are  quickly 
taken. 
Greases  and  soapers’  stock  show  a  de­
cline  and  some  accumulation.

Wools  are  in  good  demand  and  some 
sales  in  the  East  are  large  in volume,al­
though  prices  do  not  respond  to a higher 
value. 
In  the  states  wools  are  bringing 
fully  or more  than  the  Eastern  market 
warrants. 
The  anxiety  to  purchase 
among  buyers  seems  to  have  quieted 
somewhat,  although  there  are  a  few  at 
all  times  who  do  not  know  when  to  stop 
and  donate  their  commissions  in  or­
der  to  buy.  The  bulk  of  the  holdings  in 
Michigan  is  not  on  the  market  at  pres­
ent  prices.  There  is  no  outlook  appar­
ent  for  an  immediate  advance,  notwith­
standing 
indications  point  to  higher 
values  l?rter  pp,  Prices to-day  are  be­

low  importing  point.  Strikes  unsettled 
affect  values  and  manufacturers  are  well 
stocked  for  present  needs.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Window Glass Higher.

The  schedule  on  window  glass  was 
advanced  5  per  cent,  on  June  17  at  a 
meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  National  Window  Glass  Jobbers’ 
Association.

The  window  glass  trade has  been  very 
quiet  for  some  time,  particularly  in  the 
East,  and  the  jobbers  have  complained 
bitterly  of  the  small  margin  of  profit  in 
selling  glass  on  the  schedule  adopted 
several  months  ago,  which  was  89  per 
cent,  discount  off  the  entire 
list  of 
prices  as  fixed  by  the  Association  in 
1900.

The  schedule  adopted  provides  for 
an  unchanged  price 
last,  but  allows  a 
discount  of  only  88  per  cent,  and  5  per 
cent.  While 
this  advance  does  not 
mean  very  much  to  the  small  jobber  it 
figures  largely 
in  thè  profits  of  a  con­
cern  which  carries  a  large  supply.

The  business  of bringing damage suits 
against  railroads,  mill  owners,  etc.,  is 
a  very  busy  branch  of  the  law.  The 
defendants  in  these  cases  make  the  best 
fight  they  can  and  now  and  then  it  hap­
pens  they  fight  a  case  that  ought  to  be 
settled.  On  the  other  hand  it  is  of  fre­
quent  occurrence  that  suits  are  brought 
where  the  plaintiff  is  not  honestly  en­
titled  to recovery.  There is a great temp­
tation  to  perjury  on  the  part  of  those 
seeking  this  sort of  damages.  The  other 
day  in  Boston  Judge  Pierce  set  aside 
what  he  regarded  as  an  exorbitant  ver­
dict  against  the  Massachusetts  Electric 
Company  and  improved  the  opportunity 
to  declare  in  so  many  words  that  in  his 
judgment  some  of  the  witnesses  had 
perjured  themselves.  False  swearing  in 
court  is  a  serious  offense  but  usually 
escapes  without  punishment.  There  are 
laws  against  perjury  and  their  enforce­
ment  would  be  a  great  help  toward  get­
ting  actual  justice.

Perry  Barker,  superintendent  of  the 
manufacturing  department  of  A.  E. 
Brooks  &  Co.,  has  resumed  his  position 
after  an  absence  of  six  weeks  to indulge 
in  the  luxury  of  a  run  of  typhoid  fever.
It  is  difficult  keeping  that  which  is 

admired  by  many.

Livingston

Hotel

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

Grand  Rapids

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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

Drugs—Chemicals

Michigan  State Board o f Pharmacy

Term expire«
Hx n b t  Hu m , Saginaw 
Dee. 81,1902 
-  Dee. si. isor
Wnrr p.  D orr. Detroit- 
- 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dee. SI, 190« 
J o a n  D. Muir, Gran« iubl«s 
Deo. si, lwo 
Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac 
Dec. si, 1906 

- 

PreeMeat,
Secretary, H u n ar  h u m , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  D orr,  b e tr a t

Examination  Session».

Sault Ste* Marie, August 27 and 28. 
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,

President—John  D.  M m s, Grand Sapida. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit. 
Treasurer—D.  A.  Ha gen s, Monroe.

GOT  S T E N   A T   LAST.

How  the  D rag  Clerk  Avenged  Many  In­

sults.

Napoleon  Oikle  is  the  only  son  of  a 
rather well-to-do  farmer  who  resides 
in 
our  part  of the  world.  By  dint  of  in­
dustry  and  economy  Mr.  Oikle,  Sr.,  has 
reached  the  comfortable  stage  in  which 
a  man  owns  his  own  farm  and  owes  no­
body.  Napoleon  was  originally  destined 
for "the  ministry,’ ’but  owing  to  his  in­
ability  to acquire  the  rudiments  of  the 
Latin  langguage  and  a  rooted  dislike  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  to ordain  uned­
ucated  men,  he  gravitated  back  to  his 
paternal  hearth  and 
in  the  course  of 
•time  he  developed  into a  typical  speci­
men  of the  barnyard  dude.

My  wife  **discovered”   him.  Mr. 
Oikle,  Sr.,  had  purchased  the  accumu­
lation  of  manure  at  the  rear  of  my barn. 
One  day  in  June  a  yoke of  oxen  and  a 
yellow dog  appeared  in  my  garden  and 
demolished  sundry  beds  of  sweet  peas 
and  nasturtiums.  My  wife,  moved  by 
a  righteous  wrath,  went  out  to  expel  the 
intruders  and  discovered  Napoleon 
loading  his  father’s  cart  with  manure, 
attired  in  blue  overalls,  a "c a lf’s  break­
fast"  hat  and  wearing  red worsted  mit­
tens.  The  blue  jeans  and  calf’s  break­
fast  hat  are  common  objects  in  our  por­
tion of the country in June,  but  red  wor­
sted  mittens  are  an  unusual  adornment 
at  that  season  of the  year.  After a brief 
discussion,  Mr.  Oikle  caught  up  his ox­
en,  drove  his  yellow  dog  out  of  the  gar­
den  and  resumed  his  task  Before it was 
finished  I  came  home  and  moved  by  the 
sight of the  trampled  flower  beds  and 
broken  trellis  work  I  went to  the barn  to 
interview  him.  Noticing.the jed   wors­
ted  mittens  I  enquired  what  was  the 
matter with  his  hands.  He  replied that 
his  skin  was  "that  tender" 
that  be 
always-had  to  wear gloves  or  mittens  to 
prevent  it  becoming  freckled. 
"Could 
I  give  him a cure  for  warts?"  and  strip­
ping  off one of  his  mittens  he  disclosed 
a  hand  as  big as  a  shoulder  of  mutton 
frith  about  a  dozen  of  those  excrescen­
ces on  it. 
In  addition  to  the  warts  I 
noticed  a  large  ring  on  his  little  finger, 
one  of  the  celebrated  "Patagonian  dia­
mond"  variety.
t  In  reply  to  his  enquiry  about  warts  I 
told  him  to call  at  the  drug  store  and  I 
would  give  him  something 
for  them. 
He  called  that evening but he had under­
gone  a  great metamorphosis in the  inter­
vening  time.  A  light  check  suit  bad 
taken  the  place  of  the  blue  overalls  a 
brown  derby  hat  had 
replaced  the 
"c a lf's  breakfast"  and  the  red  worsted 
mittens  were  represented  by  yellow dog­
skin  gloves.  A  somewhat  passe  collar 
and  a  pair of  badly  blacked  boots  were 
very  much  in  evidence.  Like  David  of 
old  Napoleon  was  "ruddy  and  of  a  full 
countenance"  but  Holy  Writ  does  not 
inform us  if  David  had  freckles  as  large 
as  a  Canadian  five-cent  piece.

Napoleon  had  laid  aside  his  differen­
tial  manner  with  his  blue  jeans  and 
when  I  offered  him  a  “ wart  pencil" 
composed  of  glacial  acetic  acid  in  a 
glass tube  he  gave  me  two  interesting 
pieces  of  information:  First  that  he 
had  been  a  clerk  in  a  drug  store  in Bos­
ton ;  and  second,  that  glacial acetic acid 
was  a  mixture  of nitrate  of  silver and 
ammonia,  the  latter  ingredient  being 
added  * • to take  out  the  color. ’ ' 
let 
the  latter  statement  pass  unchallenged, 
making  a  mental  note  of  it,  however, 
in  case  I  might  want  to  extemporize  a 
little  glacial  acetic  acid  at  sometime  or 
other,  the  process  being  such  a  simple 
and  cheap  one.

I 

I  then sold Napoleon a bottle  of freckle 
lotion,  a  box  of  cold  cream  and  a  tube 
of mustache  wax,  charging  the  different 
items  to "the  old  woman."  This  was 
the  commencement  of  my  acquaintance 
with  Napoleon  and  also  the  commence­
ment  of a  long  and  fairly  profitable  ac­
count.  Unlike  most  rustics,  he  bought 
anything  that  took  his  fancy,  and  (not 
having  to  pay  for  it  himself)  he  seldom 
tried  to  beat  me  down  in  price.  Some­
how nr other  I  had  very  good  luck  with 
the  creature.  My  wart  pencil  removed 
his  warts,  his  freckles  yielded  to  my 
freckle  lotion  and  cold  cream  and  my 
hair  tonic  promoted  the  growth  of  his 
mustache  and  eyebrows  to  his  perfect 
satisfaction.  He  might  still  have  been 
dealing  with  me  hid 
it  not  been  for 
Brandish.

Brandish  is  my  senior  clerk,  a  good 
man  in  every  way,  but  utterly  devoid  of 
the  sense  of  smell,  owing  to  a  chronic 
catarrh.  This  defect  had  caused  him  to 
fail  twice  in  his  attempt  to  pass  the 
State  board..  I  could  only  pay  him  a 
moderate  salary  and  he  had  his  hands 
full  to  support  himself  on  what  I  gave 
him.  Napoleon  was  always  civil  tome, 
but  he  was  the  reverse  to  Brandish.  1 
could  never find, out  the  reason  for  the 
mutual  dislike-  between  the  two  men, 
but  they .hated  each  other like  poison.
Possibly  Napoleon’s  propensity 

to 
tender advice  to  all  and sundry,  on mat­
ters  pharmaceutical,  veterinary, 
and 
medical,  may  have  had  something  to  do 
with  the  matter.  Napoleon  possessed  a 
United  States Dispensatory,  two "doctor 
books,"  and  a  "horse  doctor  book." 
He  had  also  picked  up  a  smattering  of 
pharmacy  during  his  six  months’  clerk­
ship  in a  fifth-rate  Boston  drug  store.  It 
may have  been  that  Brandish  (who was a 
thorough master of his business) objected 
to  being  dictated  to by  a  barnyard  dude 
and  grew  tired  of  explaining  the  differ­
ence  between  Dover’s  powder and  pow­
dered  ipecac  to  Mr.  Oikle's  patients; 
anyway,  the  men  hated  each  other,  and 
it  was  shortly  after  Napoleon  "came 
into his fortune" that the  explosion  took 
place.

One  of  Napoleon’s  uncles  had recently 
died.  The  old  gentleman  had  gone  to 
California  in  the  fifties  and,  when  he 
took  his  departure  to  a  better  world, 
Napoleon’s  share  of  his  estate  came  to 
some  fifteen  thousand  dollars. 
I  ex­
pected  that  he  would dissipate bis newly 
acquired  riches  almost  as quickly  as  he 
bad  obtained  them,  but  I  was  mistaken. 
He  did  replace  the  "Patagonian  dia­
mond"  with  a  genuine  stone  from Kim ­
berly,  and  his  blue  overalls  and  red 
mittens were  discarded  forever;  but  be­
yond  indulging 
imported  perfumes 
and  soap  instead  of  buying  the  home­
made  article,  and  wearing  rather  better 
clothes,  he  did  not  seem  to  increase  his 
expenditures.  One  day  his  father  in­
formed  me  that  he  had gone  to  Chicago 
to "study  for  a  horse  doctor, "and about

in 

six  months . afterwards  he  came  home 
with an  elegant  diploma  attesting  the 
fact  that  he  had  graduated  from 
‘ ' The 
Centaur Veterinary Institute of Illinois. ’ ’ 
I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining  the  de­
gree  of  learning  required  by  that  insti­
tution  before  it  confers  the  degree  of 
D.  V.  S.  on  its  pupils,  but  one  of  two 
things 
the 
course  is  a  very  easy  one  or  Mr.  Oikle 
must  have  been  an  exceptionally  clever 
man.  Before  he  went  there  he  did  not 
know  whether  the  femur  was  located 
in 
the  fore  or hind, leg  of  a  horse,  and  1 
believe  he  regarded  the patella  as a kind 
of  intestinal  parasite.

is  a  certain  fact—either 

The  interest  on  fifteen  thousand  dol­
lars  is  not  a  bad  income  for a  man  who 
lives  on  a  farm  and  Napoleon  picked 
up  a  certain  amount  of  work  to  supple­
ment  his  "interest  money."  If  he  had 
not  got  on  with  Brandish  before  be  be­
came  "Doctor Oikle, "he  got  on  much 
worse  afterwards.  He  alluded to Brand­
ish  as  "that  Unfortunate  Failure,*'  and 
Brandish  spoke  of  him  as  "that  Red- 
Headed  Clodhopper. ”   Now,  while Na­
poleon  resided  in  Chicago,  he  had  not 
exactly walked in the straight and narrow 
way  that 
leads  to  salvation.  Luckily 
for him,  he  escaped  from the place with­
out  material  damage,  but  about  six 
months  after  his  return  he  had  a  slight 
attack  of  gravel.  As  the  first  symptoms 
received  a 
manifested  themselves  be 
four-page  typewritten 
communication 
from  that  eminent  physician  and  spec­
ialist  in  the  diseases  of  men,  Dr.  Her­
mes,  consulting  physician  at  (and  sole 
owner  of)  the  celebrated  Hermes  Medi­
cal  Institute.  Oikle  was  very  badlv 
frightened.  He  came  to  me  with  his 
tale  of  woe  and,  after  perusing  the well- 
known  appeal,  to  suffering  humanity 
and  hearing  the  "doctor’s "   description 
of  Napoleon’s  alarming  symptoms,  1 
succeeded  in  getting  him  to  consult  a 
reputable  physician  before  sending  Dr. 
Hermes  the  ten  dollar  bill  for  his  infal­
lible  course  of  treatment.

The  physician  diagnosed  the  case  as 
a  slight  attack  of gravel  and  prescribed 
lithia  tablets  and  a  bottle  of  liquor 
tritici,  with  a  drachm  of  potassium  bi­
carbonate  to  the  dunce.  My  readers 
doubtless  remember  that  this  mixture 
produces  a  brisk  effervescence  which 
lasts  for  a  considerable  time.  As  it 
is 
used  a  good  deal  in  our  community  1 
usually  keep  a  stock  bottle  of  it  on 
hand.  Oikle  got  his  prescriptions,  and 
benefited  by  them  so  much  that he came 
back  for  a  refill  a  couple  of  weeks  after­
wards.

Brandish  was  alone in the  store.  I  was 
away  at  dinner.  The  stock  bottle  was 
empty;  Dt.  Oikle  was 
in  a  hurry—he 
was out  for a  drive  with  his  best  girl, 
who  was  waiting  for  him 
in  the  car­
riage  outside— and  when  Brandish  told 
him  it  would  be  half  an  hour  before  he 
could  have  his  bottle  refilled  he  called 
Brandish  an  incompetent  ass  or  words 
to  that  effect.

My  assistant  is  a  very  small  man, 
Napoleon  a  very  large  one,  so  Brandish 
swallowed  the  insult  and  told  him  he 
would get  the  stuff ready in five minutes, 
but  that  he  would  not  answer  for  the 
results.  Now  if  you  add  eight  ounces 
of  liquor  tritici  to an  ounce of potassium 
bi-carbonate  (in  coarse  crystals),and  tie 
the  cork  down  with  copper  wire,  the 
chances  are  that  CO2  will be disengaged 
in  sufficient quantity  to  produce  inter­
esting  results.

Dr.  Oikle’s  "best  girl”   furnished  me 
with  the  sequel. 
if  Doctor 
Oikle  is an  awful  fool  he  has  a  lovely 
horse  and  a  beautiful  rig. 
1  was  just

"You  see, 

dying for a. drive  and  he  asked  me  to 
come.  The  snow  was  just  lovely  and  I 
said  I  would.  We  stopped  at  your  store 
and  he  got  a  pound  of  candy  and  gave 
Mr.  Brandish  a  bottle  he  wished  filled. 
Mr.  Brandish  said  it  would  take  some 
time  and  the  doctor  was  quite  rude  to 
him,  so  he  filled  it  at  once.  We  drove 
out  on  the  mill  road  and  the  doctor  was 
telling  me  about  Chicago  and  the  good 
times  he  used  to  have  at  college  there. 
But  when  we  got  in  the  pine  grove  he 
changed  the  subject,  and  before  I  knew 
what  he  was  after,  be  asked  me to marry 
him  and  tried  to  kiss  me. 
I  was  try­
ing  to  push  him  away  when  there  was 
an  awful  crash  as  if  some  one  had  fired 
a  gun,  the  horse  took  fright  and  started 
to  run  away,  and  1 felt  this  horrid dirty 
stuff  all  over  my  face  and  neck.  The 
doctor  bad  put  the  bottle  in  bis  left  coat 
pocket  and  it  had  all  blown  to  pieces. 
His  new  overcoat  was  covered  with  the 
contents  and  so  was  his  face.  I told him 
to  drive  home  as  soon  as  he  could  and 
he  did  so;  Mr.  Brandish  said  he  could 
clean  my  coat,  so  I  left  it  here."

Doctor Oikle  called  on  me  the  next 
day  and  demanded  Mr.  Brandish’s  dis­
missal.  On  my  refusing to  consider  the 
matter,  he  paid  his  bill  and  went  to 
another  store  for  his  supplies. 
I  tried 
in  vain  to explain  that he had demanded 
an 
impossibility  from  Brandish,  but 
elementary  chemistry  does  not enter into 
the  curriculum  of  the  "Centaur  Veteri­
nary  Institute,”   and  the  learned  doctor 
no  longer  honors  me  with his  patronage. 
— Pharmaceutical  Era.

The  Drue  Market.
Opium— Is  dull  and  weak.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Has  declined  3c  per  oz.  on 
all  brands  and  is  tending  lower,  on  ac­
count  of  lower  prices  for  batk  and  small 
demand.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Norwegian  is  still  ad­

vancing.

Eserine— On  account  of  scarcity  of 
raw  material,  has  advanced  about  50 
per  cent.

Oil  Bergamot—Is  scarce  and  tending 

higher.

Canary  and  Hemp  Seed—Have  ad­

vanced  and  are  tending  higher.

Before  marriage  every  man  has  a 
theory about  managing  a  wife;  but  after 
marriage  it  is  a  condition  and  not  a 
theory  that  confronts  him.

FIREWORKS

We 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.

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

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

®   60 
®  60 
©  60

Menthol....................
Morphia, 8., P. ft W.  2 
Morphia, B..N.Y. Q.  2
Morphia, Mai........... 2
Moschus  Canton__
Myrlstlca, No. 1.......
Nux Vomica...po. 16
Os Sepia..................: 
so®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co...................... 
®  1  00
Plds Llq.N.N.M gal.
doz......................... 
© 2 0 0
Plds Llq., quarts__  
©  l  oo
86
© 
Plds Llq.,  pints....... 
©  60
PllHydrarg...po. 80 
18
© 
Piper  N igra...po.22 
Piper  Alba__ po. 36 
©  30
Plix Burgun.............. 
©  
7
Plumbl Acet.............  
10©  12
Pul via Ipecac et Opll  l  30® l  60 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
©  76
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv......... 
28®  30
8© 
Quassl®.................... 
10
27®  37
Qulnla, S. P. &  W ... 
'7©  37
Qulnla, S.  German.. 
QulnULN. Y.............  
27®  87
BublaTInctorum.... 
19©  14
SaccharumLaotis pv  20©  22
Saladn......................  4 60®  4 76
40©  60
Sanguis  Draoonli... 
Sapo, W....................  
12©  14
SapoM...................... 
10© 
12
Sapo  G...................... 
15
©  

Seldlltz Mixture.......
Slnapls......................
Slnapls,  opt..............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
V oes......................
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Soda, Boras..............
Soda,  Boras, po.......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb...............
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........
Soda,  Ash............ .
Soda, Sulphas..........
Spts. Cologne............
Spts. Ether  Co.........
Spts. Myrda Dorn... 
Spts. Vml Beet.  bbl. 
Spts. Vinl Beet. Mbbl 
Spts. Vinl Beet. lOgal 
Spts. Vinl Beet. 6 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl..........
Sulphur, Boll............
6  30
Terehenth  Venice..
>  66
Theobrom®.............
Vanilla.................... .  9 <m116 00
Zlnd Sulph..............
8
Oils

7C6 

BBL. OAL.
70
Whale, winter.......
. 
90
Lard, extra............
66
Lard, No. l .............. . 

70
86
80

3 7

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

6
7
8
60
Faints  BBL.  LB.

Red Venetian..........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American..............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris............
Green, Peninsular...
Lead, red..................
Lead,  white..............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gliders’.... 
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.........................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

IX  2 
IX  3 
IX 3 
2M  2V 
3M  2Í

n o l i

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  li
Extra Turp...............  1
Coach  Body.............2
No. l Turp Furn.......1
Extra Turk Damar.,  l 
Jap. Dryer .No.iTurp

Holiday
Goods

Our  line this  year  will  be  of a 
larger  assortment  than  ever 
before,  we  having added several 
new  lines.  Our  Mr.  Dudley
will  soon  exhibit  at  convenient 
points  almost a  carload  of  sam­
ples. 
It  will  pay  you  to  look 
them over before buying elsewhere.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A dvanced- Canary Seed.
D eclined—Quinine.

A cidum

Acetlcum  ................$
Benzolcum, German.
Borado................. .
Carbollcum..............  2 4®
GUricom...................  43
3
Hydrochlor.................  
Nltrocum.................... 
8
Oxallcum......... 
Phospborlum,  dll...
Sallcyllcum...............   W®
Sulphurlcum.............  1X<
Tannicum..................1  1“
38
Tartarlcum...............  
Am m onia

12

A n ilin e

Aqua, 16 deg............
60
Aqua, 20 deg............. 
Carbonas.................   ww
Chlorldum................ 
iftl
j 
Black......................... *  ¡¡¡¡0
Brow n....................
B e d -......................... „  « 0
Yellow........................*  880
j 

Baccw
Cubebae...........po,25
Junlperus................  
Xanthoxylum......... 1  70f
B alsam  am

6«

Copaiba...................
Peru  ........................  J
Terabln,  Canada.... 
rolutan....................... 

egg
* *

Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassiae......... ............
Cinchona  Klava......
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica  Cerlfera, po.
Prunus  Vlrglnl........
Qulllala, grrd ........ ••
Sassafras........po. 16
Ulmus.. .po.  18, gr’d
Extractnm
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza,  po..... 
Haematox, 16 lb. box 
Haematox, is ........... 
Hsematox, Ms.........
Hsematox, 14s.........  

F e r r o

Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Qulnla.. 
Citrate Soluble ......
Ferrocyanldum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  oom’l . .... 
Sulphate,  oom’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora

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

246
28«
lie
J3|
lb*

Folia

40

36® 

66
46
36
28
66
14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14 
16 
69 
40
1  00 
*6 
36 
76 
60 
40
-.po.  4.2«®4.90 3 20® 3 25

Barosma...^... . . . . . .  
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
CassIai'Icuttfol, Alx.  28© 
Salvia officinalis,  54*
and M s................... 
!2#
Ova Ursl....................  
8®
Gnm m l 
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia, 2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Aloe, Barb. po.l8©20  12®
Aloe, Cape....po. 16.
Aloe,  8ocotrl..po. 40
Ammoniac..............•• 
_
Assai oetlda.. ..po. 40  26®
Benzolnum...............
Catechu, Is...............
Catechu, Ms..............
Catechu, Ms..............
Camphor®...............
Euphorblum...po. 36
Gafbanum.................
Gamboge............. P®
Gualacum....... po. 36
Kino............po. 10.75
Mastic  ....................
Mvrrh............. po. 46
Opll 
Shellac........ ... .. .. .
Shellac, bleached....
Tragacanth...............
H erb«
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........ oz. pkg
Ma jorum — oz, pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr.oz. pkg
Bue..............oz. pkg
Tan ace turn Y  oz. pkg
rhymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesi»
Calcined. Fat............
Carbonate, P a t......
Carbonate, K. ft M..
'arbonate, Jennings 
Olenm

70®  1

Absinthium...........7
Amygdalae,  O ulc....
Amygdalae.  AmarsB.  8 01
Anlsf...........................t  »
Aurantl Cortex.........2  n
Bergamll.....................2  *
Cajlputl..............
JOaryophylH........
Cedar ..................
Chenopadll.........
Cinnamomi.......
Gl trancila...........

802

Conlum Mac.............  
Copaiba....................   l
Cubebae....................   l
Exechthltos.............   l
Erlgeron..................  1
Gaultherla.......... .  2
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma...................  l
Juniper»...................  l
La vend u la ...............
Llmonls....................   1  16
Mentha Piper..........  2  to
Mentha Yerld..........   l  r
Morrhuse, ¡gal..........   2  002
M yrda........................4  I
Olive............................ 
76
PldsLlqulda............ 
10
Plds Llqulda,  gal...
Bldna.......................   l
Bosmarlnl.................
Bos se, ounce............... s  i
Sucoinl...................... 
40®
Sabina...................... 
60®  11
Santal.......................   2  76® 7 i
Sassafras................... 
66® 
i
®  
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
i
Tiglfl.........................  1  60®  1 i
40®
Thyme.......................  
Thyme, opt...............  
®   1
Theobromas............ 
16®
P o t a s s i u m
Bl-Carb...................  
Bichromate............
Bromide...................
Carb.........................
Chlorate., .po. 17®19
Cyanide....................
Iodide.......................   2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bltart, com.
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nltras..........
Prusslate................... 
Sulphate  po.............. 

23®
16®

16®

Radix
Aeon! turn..................
Althse........................
Anchusa...................
Arum  po...................
Calamus....................
Gentlana........ po. 15
Glychrrhlza... pv.  15 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po...................
Ipecac, po.................;
Iris plox.. .po. 35®38
Jalapa, pr.................
Maranta,  14s............
Podophyllum,  po...
Bhei...........................
Bhel,  cut..................
Rhel, pv....................  
Splgella....................  
Sangulnarla.. .po.  15 
Serpentarla.............. 
Senega...................... 
Smllax, officinalis H. 
Smllax, M.................  
Sdllse............. po.  36 
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po................... 
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
Zingiber j................... 

70®
36®
®
60®
60®
®
®
10®
®
®
16®
14®
26®

Semen
A nl8um .......po.  18
Aplum (graveleons).
Bird, is ......................
Carni............... po.  15
Cardamon.................:
Corlandrum..............
Cannabis Sat Iva.......
Cydonium................. 
Chenopodium..........  
Diptenx Odorate....  l
Foenlculum............... -
Foenugreek, po........ >  7i
L ini...........................  4  @ 
Lini, grd.......bbl. 4 
4
Lobelia......................  1
Pharlaris Canarian..  6
Rapa.........................
Slnapls  Alba............
Slnapls  Nigra..........  
Spiritila

li®

75®  1  00
it

6

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 
Frumenti,  0 . F. B ..  2
Frumenti..................  l
Junlperls Co. O. T...  l  66® 2 00
Junlperls  Co............  1 76® 3 60
Saacbarum  N. E —   l 
"
Spt. Vini Galli..........   1
Vini  Oporto......... 
1
Vini Alba..................   1

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 60® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’ 
®   1  80
wool, carriage..... 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
Q   1  26
Grass  sheepsr wool,
carriage.................  
®   1  00
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  B e e f,  for 
slate u s e ........... 
Syrups
A cacia.................... 
Aurantl Cortex......... 
Zingiber....................  
A rri Iod................... 
Bhel Aram...............  
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega......................  
SdllsB...

60
60
60
60
1  l  60
(MM  >  00
60

©  1  40

 

Sdllse  Co...................
Tolutan.....................
Prunus  vlrg..............

Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes .........................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica......................
Assafoetlda...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharldes.............
Capsicum..................
Cardamon.................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechol....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba...................
Cubebae......................
Cassia Acutlfol.........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chlorldum__
Gentian....................
Gentian Co...............
Gulaca.......................
Gulaca ammon.........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ......................
Iodine, colorless.......
Kino  ..
Lobelia 
Myrrh 
Nux Vomica 
Opll
Opll,  comphorated..
Opll, deodorized.......
Quassia..... ..............
Bhatany....................
Bhel...........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentarla..............
Stramonium..............
Tolutan....................
Valerian..................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber....................

M iscellaneous 

©

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F 
Ether, Spts. Nit.4 F
Alum en....................   2M1
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7
Annatto.....................
Antlmonl, po............
Antlmonlet Potass T
Antlpyrln.................
Antlfebrln...............
Argent! Nltras, oz...
Arsenicum...............
Balm Gilead  Buds..
Bismuth 8. N............
Calcium Chlor.,  is...
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
Cantharldes, Bus.po 
Capsid Fructus, af..
Capsid  Fructus, po.
Capsid Fructus B, po 
Caiyophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 40.......
Cera Alba.......... ..
Cera Flava...............
Coccus  ......................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla...................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform..............
Chloroform,  squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....
Chondrus..................
Clnchonldine.P. & W 
Cinchonldlne, Germ.
Cocaine....................   4 30®  4  50
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
Creosotum.................
Creta.............bbl. 76
Creta, prep...............
Creta, preclp............
Creta, Rubra............
Crocus 
Cudbear.....
Cupri Sulph 
Dextrine....
Ether Sulph.............. 
Emery, all numb6.*.
Emery, po.................
Ergota......... po. 90
F lu e   White............ 
Galla..........................
Gambler...................
Gelatin,  Cooper.......
Gelatin, French.......
Glassware,  flint, box
76 ft
Less than box.......
lli
Glue, brown.............. 
Glue,  white.............. 
16
Gly cerina..................  17 M1
Grana Paradlsl.........
Hum ulus................... 
26
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum  a 
Hydrargyrum.......
Icnthyobolla, A m ... 
6i
Indigo........................ 
71
Iodine,  Reaubl.........8 «
Iodoform...................3 6
Lupulln.
lum
a s r 4*
liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph....
sasf% .v*m

11

1!

7i

©  »
<11  10

2 8

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

Rolled  Oats
Corn  Syrup
Some  Condensed  Milks
Canary  Seed
Hemp  Seed

DECLINED

Imported  Lima  Beans
Domestic  Cheese

1 80
1 35
1 40
3 60

Tom atoes

F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Fancy............................... 
Gallons............................  
CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Eocene.............................   @11
Perfection........................  @10
Diamond White..........   @ 9
D. S. Gasoline.............  
012*4
Deodorized Naphtha.. 
010*
Cylinder......................... 29  084
luighie............................19  022
Black, winter................  9  01OX

CATSUP

Colombia,  pints..........................2 00
Columbia, H pints.......................1 26

5
Soda

Oyster

Soda  XXX .......................... 
7
Soda, City............................ 
8
Long Island Wafers..........   13
Zephyrs tte...........................  13
F a u st............................  
7)4
 
7
Farina.................................  
7)4
Extra Farina......................  
Saltlne Oyster..................... 
7
Sw eet  Goods—Boxes
Animals...................*.........  10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose...........................  
8
Bent’s Water...................... 
is
Cinnamon Bar.... ...............  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Coffee Cake. Java..............  10
Cocoanut Macaroons........   18
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Cracknel Is...........................  16
Creams, Iced......................‘  8
Cream Crisp........................  10*
Cubans................................   11)4
Currant  Fruit..................  
  12
Frosted Honey...................  12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems, l’rgeoum ’ll  8 
6)4
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C-. -. 
10)4
Gladiator.................... 
 
Grandma Cakes............. 
  9
Graham Crackers.............. 
8
Graham  Wafers.................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea............  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets.......  10
Imperials............................. 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................  12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................   12
Lemon Wafers...................  16
Marshmallow......................  16
Marshmallow Creams.......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
 
Mary Ann............... 
8
Mixed Picnic......................   11)4
Milk Biscuit........................ 
7)4
Molasses  Cake................... 
8
Molasses Bar...................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar...................  12)4
Newton................................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers.................  12
Orange Crisp......................   9
Orange Gem.......................  
9
Penny Cake........................ 
8
Pilot Bread, XXX.............. 
7)4
8)4 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8)4
Pretzels,hand  m ade...... 
Scotch Cookies.. ............... 
9
Sears’ Lunch.....................  
7)4
Sugar Cake.......................... 
8
Rnnr Crmun. I I X ..........  
»
Sugar Squares............. 
8
Sultanas..........................  
  13
Tuttl Fruttl.........................  16
Vanilla Wafers...................  16
Vienna Crimp..................... 
8
E. J. Kruce A Co.’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CBEAM TARTAR

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

 

D R IE D   PRUITS 

A pples

Citron

C alifornia Prunes

Sundried...........................   0 6 *
Evaporated, 501b. boxes.  010)4 
100-120 26 lb. boxes.........  ® 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes.........  ®  4K
80-90 26 lb. boxes.........  0   5M
70-80 25 lb. boxes.........  0  6M
60 - 70 26 lb. boxes........   0   6M
60- 6026lb.boxes.........  ®
40 - 60 26 lb. boxes.........  0   8*
30 - 40 26 lb. boxes......... 
9
M cent less In 60 lh. cases 
C alifornia Fruits

R aisins

Currants

Apricots.......................  ®il)4
Blackberries................
Nectarines................... 
8)4
Peaches........................ 
0 9 *
Pears.............................9)4
Pitted Cherries............
Prunnelles...................
Raspberries................
Leghorn...................................... 11
Corsican..............................  12)4
California, l lb.  package....
Imported, I lb package........7)4
Imported, bulk.....................  7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10lb. b x.. 18 
Orange American 10lb. b x..13 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
l 76 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1 90
Cluster 4 Crown..............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7K
8M
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.......9V@io
L. M., Seeded, X  lb .... 
8
Sultanas, bulk  ...................... 11
Sultanas, package...............11%
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima.......................... .  6)4
Medium Hand Pleked 
1  70
Brown Holland....................2 25
241 lb. packages............ -...  1  is
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................2 to
Flake, 60 lb. sack................  
90
Pearl, 200lb.bbl.................. 6 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.................2 to
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box..............  00
Imported, 26lb. b ox...........2  50

H om iny

Farina

Beans

P eel

Index to  Markets

By Columns

 

A

B

G

Col.
Akron Stoneware...................  15
Alabastlne................. . ...........  1
Ammonia............................... 
  1
Axle Grease.............................   1
Baking Powder.......................  1
Bath Brick...........l
Bluing.....................................  
l
Brooms.....................................   1
Brushes....................................  1
Batter Color.............................  1
Candles.....................................  M
Candles..................................... 
l
Canned Goods.........................  3
Catsup.......................................  3
Carbon O ils.............................  3
Cheese................................. 
  8
Chewing Gam..........................  3
Chicory.....................................   3
Chocolate..................................  3
Clothes Lines.................. 
  3
Cocoa............................................3
Cocoanut..................................  3
Cocoa Shells............................   3
Coffee.......................................  8
Condensed Milk......................  4
Coupon Books.........................   15
Crackers.................................    4
Cream Tartar.........................   5
Dried  Fruits...........................   5
Farinaceous  Goods...............   5
Fish and Oysters....................   13
Fishing Tackle........................  6
Flavoring Extracts.................  6
Fly Paper................................   6
Fresh Heats............................   6
Fruits.......................................  14
Fruit Can  Wrench....................6
Gelatine...'..............................   6
Grain Bags...............................  7
Grains and Flour...................  7
Herbs.......................................  7
Hides and Pelts......................  is
Indigo.......................................   7
Jelly.........................................   7

1
J

H

D

0

9

L

 

P

M

B
S

N
O

Lamp Burners.........................  15
Lamp Chimneys......................  15
Lanterns...................... 
  15
Lantern  Globes......................  15
Licorice....................................  7
Lye............................................  7
Meat Extracts.........................   7
Molasses...................................  7
Mustard....................................  7
Nuts..........................................   14
Oil Cans....................................  15
Olives.......................................   7
P ick les.............................. 
  7
P ipes.........................................  7
Playing Cards..........................  8
Potash.......................................  8
Provisions................................   8
B ice...........................................  8
Saleratus..................................  9
Sal Soda................ 
9
Salt............................................   »
Salt  Fish..................................  »
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
flftftd g 
Shoe Biacklng..........................  9
Snuff............................  
10
S o a p ........................................  9
Soda.........................................  10
Spices................   
10
Starch.......................................   10
Stove Polish............................  10
Sugar.......................................  u
Syrups.....................................   10
Table Sauce —   .....................  12
Tea............................................   li
Tobacco....................................  11
Twine.......................................  12
Vinegar....................................  12
Washing Powder.....................18
Wleking............................ 
  18
Wooden war«...........................  is
Wrapping Paper.....................  13
18
Feast  C ak e............  

V
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T

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_ 

A X LE GREASE
doz. gross
6 00
Aurora.  .... ... 
...86
7 00
Castor  Oil....................60
4 26
Diamond__ .................60
9 00
Frazer’s ...... ................. 76
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

Mica, tin boxes.......... 75 
Paragon.. . . . . . . . . . .   ..56 

9 00
8 oo

B A K IN G   PO W DER  

E gg
4doz. case........3 75
H lb. cans, 
)4 lb. cans, 
2 doz. case........3 75
l doz. case........ 3 75
l lb. cans, 
5 lb. cans,  % doz. case.........8 00

.  H lb. cans, 4 doz. c a s e . . 45
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  86
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........ 1 60

Royal

lOoslze....  90 
M lb. cans  l 36 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
)4  lb. cans  2 eo 
lb.  cans 3 75 
1 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 grossS 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9  00

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

BROOMS

No. l Carpet...........................2 ?0
No. 2 Carpet...........................2 26
No. 3 Carpet...........................2 15
No. 4 Carpet...........................l  75
Parlor  Gem........................... 2  40
Common Whisk.....................  85
Fancy Whisk.........................1 10
Warehouse.............................8 60

BRUSHES 

M ilw aukee  D ustless

Fiber.............................1 0003 00
Russian Bristle............3 0005 00
Discount, 33* %  in doz. lots. 

v 

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

Solid Back,  8 In....................  46
Solid Back, 11 In ...................  96
Pointed Ends.........................   86
No. 8........................................1 00
No. 7........................................1  30
NO. 4........................................1  70
No. 8........................................1  80
No. 8.............. 
76
No. 2........................................1 10
No. 1........................................1 75
W., R.  A Co.’s, 16c size_  1 26
W., R. A Co.’s, 25c size....  2  00
Electric Light, 8s ...................12
Electric Light, 18s.................12*4
Paraffine, os........................... 10*
Paraffine, 12s..........................11
Wleking..........   ................1 7

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

 

CANNED  GOODS 

Apples
3 lb. Standards.........
Gallons, standards..

Blackberries

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

1  10
3  36

80

Beans

Raked.......................  1  oo@i  »
Red  Kidney.............. 
75®  85
String
Wax................. . — . 
10

Blueberries
Standard...................... 
Brook  Trout

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

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

90

1  00 
1  50

Clam  Bouillon

Burnham’s, )4 pint........... 
l  92
Burnham’s, pints...............   3 60
Burnham’s,q u a rts........  7 20

Cherries
Red  standards............
White............................

Corn
Fair............................
G ood............ ............
Fancy........................

French  Peas

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

Gooseberries

Standard..................  
Hominy

80 
86 
1  00

22
19
16
U

90

86

Peas

Mushrooms

86
2  16 
8 60 
2 40
1  76
2 80
1  76
2 80
1 76
2 80
18®20
22®25

Standard.
Lobster
Star, K lb..................
Star, 1  lb...................
Picnic Tails...............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 21b............
Soused, lib ...............
Soused, 2 lb..............
Tomato, 1 lb..............
Tomato, 2 lb..............
Hotels.........................
Buttons......................
Oysters
Cove, lib ............... 
l  66 
Cove, 2 lb...................
96
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........
Peaches
P ie ............................. 
86®  90
Yellow......................  1  66(01  86
Pears
1 00 
Standard...................
1  26
Fancy.........................
1  00 
Marrowfat...............
1 00 
Early June...............
1  60
Early June  Sifted..
Plums
Plums............... f___ 
Pineapple
Grated......................  
l 
Sliced..........................  1 
Pumpkin
Fair...........................
Good..........................
Fancy........................
Standard....................
i i lb. cans.................................  3 75
14 lb, cans.................................   7 00
1 lb. can...................................  12 00
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska............... 
Pink Alaska............. 
Shrimps
Standard...................
Sardines
Domestic, * s ............
Domestic, K s ..........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, ms..........
California )4s...........
French, *8...............
French, * s ...............
Standard...................
Fancy........................
Succotash
Fair............................
Good..........................
Fancy......................

@1  86
®2 00
30@1 40
90®i  00
1  40
3X
6
6

25®2 75
36®2 66
1 00 
1  10 
1  15
1  16

11014
17024
7014
18028

Strawberries 

Russian  Carter

1  10
96
1  00
1  20

Raspberries

Salmon

86

l 

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

.

® li
®lo*
011
®
8'IJI
010)4
0

®ll
090

14®15
017
13014
60075
19020

CHEWING GUM 

American Flag Spruce....  66
Beeman’s Pepsin.........  
60
Black Jack....................  
66
60
Largest Gum  Blade..........  
66
Sen Sen........................ 
 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf....................  
Yucatan..........................  
56

55
 

CHICOBY

 

Bulk........................ 
6
Red............................................7
Eagle.......................................  *
Franck’s ................................   7
Schener’s .............................     6

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

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

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

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra.........  1  00
72 ft, 3 thread,  extra........   1  40
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra........   1  70
60 ft, 6 tbread,  extra........   1  29
72 ft, 6 thread,  extra...................

Ju te

60 ft....................................... 
75
72 ft....................................... 
90
90 ft.........................................  1 05
120 ft.......................................  1 50

Cotton  V ictor

60ft............................ 
80
6f ft................  
95
70 ft........................................     1 10

 

 

Cotton W indsor

69ft.......................................  1  20
60ft.......................................  1  40
70 ft.......................................  1 65
8 0 ft.....................................   185

Cotton Braided 
40ft.............. 
 
69 ft....................................... 
70 ft....................................... 
G alvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long—  
l  90 
No.  19, each 100 ft long....  2  10

55
70
80

 

 

 

 

COCOA
Cleveland.............. 
  41
Colonial, * s   ..........................  35
Colonial, h s...........................  33
Epps............................ 
42
Huyter....................................  46
Van Houten, % s ...................  12
Van Houten, Ks....................  20
Van Houten, )4s....................  40
Van Houten,  is ....................  70
Webb................. 
30
Wilbur, )4s.............................  41
Wilbur, Ms.............................  42

,  ........... 

 

COCOANUT

Dunham’s * s .....................   26
Dunham’s )4s and Ms.......  26)4
Dunham’s  Ms....................   27
Dunham’s  Ms....................   28
Bulk........................  ..........   13

COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags........................  
  2)4
Less quantity................... 
Pound packages......................  4

3

COPPEE 
Boasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehllng............................30 yt
Purity............................... ....28
No 1  Hotel............................. 28
Monogram............................. 26
Special Hotel......................... 23
Parker house...........................21
Honolulu  ...............................17
Fancy  Maracaibo.................xe
Maracaibo.................. ...........13
Porto Rican............................15
Marexo...................................li*

White House, 1 lb. cans.......
White House, 2 lb. cans.......
Excelsior, M. A J.  1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. A J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, 1 L A 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  A Judson 
Gro. Co..  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott A  Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg A Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. A  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Metsel  A 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Ftelbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9......................................   8)4
No. 10............................ .........9)4
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
J u n o......................................28
Koran..-........... 
14

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

 

 

 

B io

Maracaibo

Common............................    8
Fair.........................................  9
Choice............................ 
  10
Fancy........................ 
....16
Santos
Common.......................... 
  8
 
Fair.........................................  9
Choice...................................... 10
Fancy......................................13
Peaberry..................................11
Fair......................................... 13
Choice..................................  is
Choice......................................13
Fancy.......................................17
Choice......................................13
African....................................12
Fancy African.......................17
O  G..........................................26
P. G...................................  
Mocha
Arabian... 
...................  
Package 
New York Basis.

Guatem ala

M exican

Java

 

Ar buckle............................... 10*
Dllworth............................... 10M
Jersey.................................... iou
Lion........................................10
M c L a u g h lin ’s X X X X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City )4  gross..............  76
Felix )4 gross...............................1 15
Hummers foil M gross.........  86
Hummel’s tin H gross.........1 43

Extract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

.  4 doz In case.

31
21

Gall Borden Eagle................6  40
Crown...........................................5 90
Daisy....................... 
4 70
Champion................................... 4 26
Magnolia.....................................4 00
Challenge.................................... < 10
Dime............................................ 3 3s
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid................................     10
TIP  Top................ 
3 85
Nestles....................................    25
Highland  Cream...................... .’5 00
St. Charles Cream...................... 4 50
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour.............................. 
iu
New York...........................
Family................................
Salted................................. i 
Wolverine................ -  7

CRACKERS

Butter

6)4

6

8

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

2 9

II

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages.................
61b. packages.................
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages....................
s-lb. packages....................
6-lb. packages....................
40 and 50-lb. boxes.............
Barrels................................
20l-lb.  packages...............
40l-lb.  packages...............

Common Corn

7k
8k
6
5H
6H
4
4
6
6X

SYRUPS

Corn

.27
Barrels.................................
.29
Half bbls.............................
1  80
10 lb. cans, % doz. In case.
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. in case... 2 06
.2 05
2H lb. cans. 2 doz. in case.
.  16
Fair.....................................
Good...................................
.  20
Choice  ................................
.  25
STOVE  POLISH

Pure  Cane

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

9

Imported.

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

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3  pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale......................................6
Cost of packing In  cotton  pock­
ets only He more than bulk.

SALAD  CREAM

2 doz. Alpha (Urge  size)...  l  85 
1 doz. Alpha (large  size)...  1 90
3 doz. Alpha (small size)... 
95

IO

SEEDS

Anise.........................................9
Canary, Smyrna....................   3H
Caraway.................................. 7M
Cardamon, Malabar.............1  00
Celery..................................... 10
Hemp,Russian............... ....  4
Mixed Bird.............................  4
Mustard, white......................  7
Poppy........................................6
Rape.........................................4
CiiftieBone............................14

SHOE  BLACKING

Handy Box,  large................  2 50
Handy Box, small.............   1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish........  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish....... 
85

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

100 cakes, large size............. 6 50
50 cakes, large size............. 3 26
100 cates, small size.............3  85
50 cakes, small size............. 1  95
J A X O N

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’sArmand Hammer.3  16
Deland’8.......................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.............................3 15
Emblem........................1........2  10
L.  P ..............................................3 00
Wyandotte. 100 H s.....................8 00

SAL  SODA

Granulated,  bbls...................  95
Granulated, 100 lb. cases___1  00
Lump, bbls...........................  
90
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  95

SALT

D iam ond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  66 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs..............  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   67

Common  Grades

100 3 lb. sacks...............................2 25
60 6 lb. sacks...............................2 15
2810 lb. sacks.............................2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................... 
40
281b. sacks.........................   22

66 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  20

561b. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

W arsaw

A shton

H iggins

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock
Common

561b. sacks............................   26
Granulated  Fine...................  85
Medium Fine.........................   90

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Georges cured.................   @ 5k
Georges  genuine.........  @ 6H
Georges selected.........  @  3k
Grand Bank....................   @ 5k
Strips or  bricks..........   6H@ioh
Pollock............................  @ 3k

H alibnt.

Strips.......................................... 14
Chunks................................  15H

Trout

No. 1100 lbs........................   6 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................   2 50
NO. 1  10 lbs........................  
70
No. 1  8 lbs........................  
59

M ackerel

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

Mess 100 lbs.........................  9 50
Mess  40 lb s.......................  4 10
Mess  10 lbs........................   1 10
Mess 
91
No. 1 100 lbs........................   8 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................   3 70
No. 1  10 lbs........................   1 00
No. 1 
83
No. 2 100 lbs. ......................  7 25
No. 2  40 lbs........................   3 31
No. 2  10 P'S-...................... 
98
Vo  » 
 
*3

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

»!»-• 

 

 
Herring

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10  25 
Holland white hoopsHbbl.  5  25 
Holland white hoop,  keg.  75@ts6 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian........................
Round 100 lbs......................  3 35
Round 40 lbs.......................   1 65
Scaled................................  
11
Bloaters...............................

W hite fish

100  lbs............ 7  60 
40  lbs............ 3 30 
10 lbs............  90 
8  lbs............  75 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 50
1  70
50
43

SUGAR

No. 4,8 doz In ease, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross..  7 20 
Domino...............................   6 80
Cut Loaf.................................5  20
Crushed...............................  520
Cubes..................... .............  4  96
Powdered .............. ............   4 80
Coarse  Powdered..............  4  80
XXXX Powdered..............  4 85
Fine Granulated................   470
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran.........  4 90
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   4  86
Mould A ..............................   5 05
Diamond  A .........................  4 70
Confectioner’s A ...............   4 50
No.  1, Columbia A............  4  40
No.  2, Windsor A .............  4  35
No.  8, Ridgewood A .........  4  35
No.  4, Phoenix  A ..............  4  30
No.  5, Bmplre A ...............   4 25
No.  6....................................  4 20
V*  t...........................  
<  10
NO.  8....................................  4 00
No.  o...................................   3 95
No. 10...................................   3 90
NO. 11.............. 
3  85
No. 12...................................   3  80
No. 13...................................   8  80
No. 14...................................   3  80
NO. 15...................................   8  75
NO. 16...................................   3 70

 

 

 

TEA
Japan

Gunpowder

Sundrled, medium................28
Sundrled, choice................... 30
Sundrled, fancy.....................40
Regular, medium...................28
Regular, choice.....................30
Regular, fancy...................... 40
Basket-fired, medium...........28
Basket-fired, choice.............. 36
Basket-fired, fancy............... 40
Nibs.........................................27
Siftings.............................19@21
Fannings..........................20@22
Moyune, medium..................26
Moyune, choice.....................36
Moyune,  fancy...................... 50
Plngsuey,  medium................25
Plngsuey, choice................... 80
Plngsuey, fancy.....................40
Choice......................................30
Fancy...................................... 88
Formosa, fancy......................42
Amoy, medium......................25
Amoy, choice......................... 32
Medium...................................27
Choice......................................34
Fancy...................................... 42

E nglish B reakfast

Young  Hyson

Oolong

India

Ceylon, choloe........................82
Fancy..  ................... 
42
TOBACCO

 

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Go.’s brands.

Fortune Teller...................  85  00
Our Manager......................  86 00
Quintette.............................  36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Lautz Bros, 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  75
Scotch Family....................2  85
Cuba.....................................2  35
Dusky Diamond.......... ...  3 55
Jap Rose...........................  3 75
Savon  Imperial...............  3  55
White Russian..................3  60
Dome, oval bars................. 3 55
Satinet, oval......................  2  50
White  Cloud...................... 4  10
Big Acme..........................  4  25
Acme 5c.............................  3  65
M arseilles.........................4  00
Master.................... 
3  70
Lenox...............................  3  35
Ivory, 6oz........................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.......................  6 75
Schultz & Co. brand-
star...................................... 8  40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars........  3 85
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer......................  4 00
Old Country.....................   3 40

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz.........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................... 2 40

SODA

SNUFF

Boxes......................................   5H
Kegs, English..........................4k

Scotch, In bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, In jars............. 
  35
French Rappee, in  Jars.......  43

12
12
28
38
56
17
14
56
50
40
35
18
28
20

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................... 
Cassia, China In mats....... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  75-80...«............ 
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
Nutmegs, 115-20.................. 
Pepper, Slngapure, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot........................ 
Pure Ground in Bnlk

Allspice...............................
Cassia, Batavia.................
Cassia, Saigon....................
Cloves, Zanzibar.......... «...
Ginger, African....'..........
Ginger, Cochin..................
Ginger,  Jamaica...............
Mace....................................
Mustard..............................
Pepper, Singapore, blaok. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne...............
S a g e ...................................

STARCH

Fine  Cut

8 .0. W.................................  85 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb....... 
26
Lubetsky Bros, brands
L,  B.............................................35 00
Daily Mall.................................. 35 00
Unde Daniel......................... 54
Ojtbwa.................................... 34
Forest  G iant....................... 34
Sweet Spray...........................38
Cadillac................................... 67
Sweet  Lorna...........................38
Golden Top...................... «...27
Hiawatha................................07

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

7H
7k

PICKLES
M edium

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

Sm all

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

PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat.............. 
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5. 572, Special..................  175
No. 98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2  25 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

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

 

D ry  Salt  Meats

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

@17 78
@19 os
@20 no
@18 50
2200
@17  60
20 00
@18 50

10K
11H
10k

Sm oked  Meats 

Hams, I21b.average.  l?K@  13 
Hams, 14 lb. average.  12K@  13 
Hams, I61b.average.  12K@  13 
Hams, 20 lb. average.  u k @  13
Ham dried  beef.......  i2k@  13
Shoulders {N.Y. cut)  @  9H
Bacon, clear..............  12  @  12H
California hams.......  9H@  9H
@19
Boiled Hams........... 
14@  UH 
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
9@  «H
Mince Hams.......... 
9H@  10
Lard

Compound................. 
Pure........................... 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
60 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
5 lb. Palls.. advance 
•  I V  
Vegetole.................... 
Sausages
Bologna..................... 
Liver.........................  
Frankfort.................  
P ork.........................  
Blood....................... 
Tongue...................... 
Headcheese.............. 

8%@

1

@HH
H
H
H
k
%
1
8%
6
6H
@8
8H
6
J
6H

 

B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless.................... 
14 00
Rump, N ew .............14 o:@t6  00
Pigs’  Feet
H bbls., 40 lbs..........  
H.bbls.,............................. 
1 bbls.,  lbs.......... . 
Tripe

170
7  50

3 25

Kits, 15  lbs...............  
H bbls., 40 lbs..........  
H bbls., 80 lbs..........  
Casings
Pork.......................... 
Beef rounds.............. 
Beef  middles.......... 
Sheep......................... 
B utterine
Solid, dairy...............  
Bolls, dairy...............  
Bolls, creamery..... 
Solid,  oreamery....... 
Corned beef, 2 lb__  
Corned beef, 14lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........  
Potted ham,  Hs....... 
Potted ham,  Hs....... 
Deviled ham, H>__  
Deviled ham,  H s.... 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
Potted tongue.  Hs.. 
RICE 
D om estic

Canned  Meats

70
1  50
300

24
5
12
66
@14H
@15
17
16H
2  60
17 50
2  50
50
90
60
90
50
90

Carolina head..........................6H
Carolina  No. 1 ........................ 6
Carolina No. 2 ........................ 5H
Broken .....................................

Pearl  Barley

Peas

Common......................................3 00
Cheater.........................................2 7fi
Empire......................................... 8 66
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........l  90
Green, Scotch, bu.......................2 00
Split,  lb..................................  
4
Boiled Avena, bbl.......................6 50
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   3  co
Monarch, bbl.............................. 6 so
Monarch, H bbl..........................2 75
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2  C5
Quaker, cases............................. 3 20

Rolled  Oats

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

FRUIT  CAN  WRENCH.

GELATINE

Triumph, per  gross...............9 60
Knox’s  Sparkling.............   1  20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14  00
Knox’s Acidulated............  1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford.................................  
75
Plymouth  Rock................. 
l  20
Nelson’s ..............................  1  50
Cox’s, 2 qt size..................   161
Cox’s, l-qt size...................  1  10
Amoskeag, 100 in b ale__   1514
Amoskeag, less than bale.  I5ji

GRAIN  BAGS

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

W heat

Wheat, white...................... 
Wheat, red........................ 

W inter W heat  Flour 

79
77

Local Brands

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents...............................   4 60
Second Patent....................  4  10
Straight...............................   3 90
Second Straight.................  3 60
Clear...................................   3 30
Graham.................... .........   3 60
Buckwheat.........................   4 30
Rye......................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs.......................   4  00
Diamond 14s .......................  4  00
Diamond Hs.......................   4  00
Quaker Hs...........................  4 00
Quaker Hs..........................   4 00
Quaker Hs..........................   4 00
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs..........  4  50
Pillsbury’s  Best 14s..........   4  40
Pillsbury’s  Best 14s..........  4  30
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 30 
Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4 30 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs..........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial 14s..........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........   4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4  30
Wlngold  Hs...................... 
Wlngold  iia...................... 
4  20
Wlngold  Hs...................... 
4  10
Ceresota Hs........................  4  50
Ceresota Hs........................  4  40
Ceresota Hs........................  4  30
Laurel  Hs...........................  4  40
Laurel  Ha...........................  4  30
Laurel  Hs...........................  4  20
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4 20 
Bolted.................................   2  70
Granulated.........................  2  90
St. Car Feed, screened....  26 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........   25  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal.........  24 50
Winter Wheat Bran..........  19  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  22  00
Screenings..............  
  20 00
Car  lots...............................   50
Car lots, clipped.................  63
Less than oar lots..............
Corn, car  lots....................   67
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__   10 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__ 12 00
Sage................................... 
  15
Hops...........................................16
Laurel Leaves............................15
Henna Leaves............................25

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney 81 Judson’s Brand

Feed  and  Millstuflfc 

Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

Oats

 

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................. 56
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes........60

INDIGO

JELLY

lb. pails.per doz........  175
5 
151b. palls...............................  38
30 lb. palls...............................  72

LICORICE

Pure........................................  30
Calabria..................................  23
Sicily.......................................  14
Boot........................................   10
Condensed, 2 doz........................l 20
Condensed, 4 doz........................2 25
Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz.........  4  45
Liebig’s, 2  oz......................  2  76

MEAT EXTRACTS

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

40
35
26
22

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz..............1  76
Horse Radish, 2 doz..................3 60
Rayle's Oelerv. 1 <loz.............1  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs.................  1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs.................  1  20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs.................  1  15
ManzanTlla. 7 oz................. 
80
Queen, pints.......................   2  35
Queen, 19  oz.......................   4  50
Queen, 28  oz.......................   7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz........................ 
90
Stuffed, 8  oz.......................   1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz......................  2  80
Clay, No. 216................................ 1 70
Clay, T. D., full count..........   66
Cob, No. 8...............................  85

PIPE S

Sago

w h e a t

Tapioca

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages.......2 00
East India..............................  3%
German, sacks......................  3k
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks................4H
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks...............   3%
Pearl, 241 lb-paekages.........6 <4
Cracked, bulk........................  314
24 2 lb. packages...................2  80
FISHING  TACKLE
H to 1 Inch.............................   6
114 to 2 Inches........................ 
7
1H to 2  Inches........................ 
9
l?i to 2 Inches...................... 
11
2 Inches....................................  15
3 Inches....................................  30
No. 1,10 feet...........................  
5
No. 2,15 feet...........................  
7
No. 3,15 feet...........................   9
No. 4,15 feet...........................  10
No. 5,15 feet...........................  11
No. 6,15 fe e t........................  12
No. 7,15 feet......................... 
  15
No. 8,15 feet...........................  18
No. 9,15 feet..........................   2o
Small................................... 
  20
Medium...................................  26
Large...................... 
34
P oles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz........   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........   65
Bamboo.  18 f t , per doz. 
.  80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Cotton  L ines

L inen  L ines

 

 

FOOTE  A  JEKKS’

JAXON

Highest  Grade  Extracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m. 1  20  1 oz full  m.  80 
2o zfu llm .2 l0   2 oz full m l  25 
N o.sfan’y  s  is  No. sfan’y  1  7F

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

1>. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 OZ.......... 
75  2 OZ..........  1  24
3 OZ..........  1 00  30Z..........  1  60
6 oz..........  2 00  4 OZ..........  2  00
NO. 4 T ...1 5 2   No. 3T ...  2 08
oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 
2 
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

FLV  PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Carcass...................... 
6H@  9H
Forequarters..........  
6  @  7H
Hindquarters.......... 
8H@il
Loins..........................  10  @16
Bibs........................... 
8J4@13
Bounds.......... ..........  
8  @  9
ChucKs...................... 
0  @  7
4  @ 5
Plates........................ 
Pork
Dressed....................  
7HO 8
L oins................... 
11  @ nk
Boston  Butts............ 
9M@  914
Shoulders................. 
@  *k
Leaf  Lard.................
M utton
Carcass..................... 
Lambs........................ 
Carcass. .. .. .. .. .. .. .  

7  @  8H
9  @1214
6k@  9

Veal

B eef

Sutton’s Table Bice, 40 to the 

bale, 3H pound pockets....7M

3 0

1 2

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

M ixed Candy

Groom ......................
Competition..............
Special.....................
Conserve...............
Royal........................
Ribbon...................
Broken......................  *
Cut Loaf.....................
English Bock............
Kindergarten...........
Bon Ton  Cream.......
French Cream..........
Dandy Pan................
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed.....................
Crystal Cream m ix..

Fancy—-In P ails 

1. Drops.

Champ. Cry&.Gums.
PonyH earts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Square«.........
Peanut Squares.......
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts.........
Starlight Kisses.......
San B us Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc 
__________
Eclipse Chocolates...
Quintette Choc.........
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Dreg»...............
Moss  Drop*..............
Lemon Sours............
Imperial«-.................
ItaL Cream Opera...
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............  
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................... 
Golden Waffles......... 

a s
© 7
©   7*4 
©8*4 
© 0 
©8 
© m9
© 0
© 9 
©10

git*
8*416
12
129
11
10 
10
©12 
© 9 
©10 
©11 
©13*4 
©12 
©16 
©6*4 
© 0 
© 0t o 
© u
©13
©12

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P lu g

j ......... 

Telegram. 
Pay Car..
Pay
Piilrta Rote.____ __________
Protection............................... 38
Sweet Burley..........................40
Sweet Loma............................38
Tiger........................................88
Flat Iron.................................88
Creme de Men the..................00
Stronghold..............................80
Elmo.........................................88
Sweet Chunk..........................87
Forge............................ 
88
Km cron............................s>
Palo........................................ 86
Kyi©......................................... 86
Hiawatha................................41
Battle A x e............................. 87
American Eagle.................... M
Standard Navy.......................87
Spear Head, 16 oz..................42
Spear Head.  8 oz..................44
Nobby Twl*t..........................48
JoflyTar.................................38
Old Honesty............................44
Toddy.,................: ................84
.......8 8
riper Heldsick...................... 63
Boot Jack................................81
Jelly Cake............ ..................86
Plumb Bob.................. 
82
Honey Dip T w ist...............80
Sm oking
Hand Pressed........................ 40
Ibex......................................... 28
86
Sweet Core..... 
........  
F la tc a r.................................86
Great Navy................ 
87
Warpath.................................27
Bamboo,  8 oz........................ 20
Bamboo, 16 oz........................ 27
I X L ,  61b.................... 
  27
IX L ,16oz. palls...................81
Honey Dew ............................87
Gold  Block....... .....................87
Flagm an.............................. 41
Chips........................................84
Klin Dried............................. 22
Duke’* Mixture.....................38
Duke’s Cameo........................40
Myrtle N ary..........................40
Turn Tom, ix  oz................... 40
Torn Tom, l lb. palls....... ¿..88
Cream......................................87
Com cake, 2% oz...................24
Com Cake, 1 lb.......................22
Flow Boy, IK oz....................40
Plow Boy, 3)4 oz.................... 80
Peerless, 3*4 oz.......................84
Peerless, IK oz......................86
Indicator, 2*4 oz...................28
Indicator, l lb. palls............ 81
CoL Choioe, 2ft oz................. 21
Col. Choioe. 8 oz................... .21
Cotton, 8 ply........................... 16
Cotton, 4 ply........................... 16
Jute, 2 ply...............................12
Hemp, 6 ply............................12
Flax, medium....................... 20
Wool, l lb. balls............. 
7*
VINEGAR  ,
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..li 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand... u
Pore Cider, Bed Star............12
Pore Cider, Boblnson...........12
Pore Cider,  Silver..................it
'  WASHING  POW DER
Diamond  Flake..........................2 76
Gold  Brick.................................3 26
Gold Dost, regular.....................4 60
Cold  Dost, Sc................. 
4 oo
Ktrkollne,  24 4 lb....................... 3 vO
Pearline...............................2  65
Soaplne.................... ..............

a ine....................................4 00

ltt’S 1776............................   3 76
Bosetne........................................ 8 00
Armour’s......................................3 70
Nine O’clock.......................3   36
Wisdom.................................. 3 80
Soourine.......................................s 60
No. 0, per gross.......................26
No. i, per gross......................so
No. 9, per gross......................40
No. 8. per gross....................66

W ICKING

TW INE

WOODEHWARE

Mop  Sticks

P alls

Traps

T oothpicks

Troian spring........................  80
Eclipse patent spring......... 
86
No 1 oommon.........................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 ft. cotton mop heads.......1  26
Ideal No. 7 .............................  oo
2- hoop Standard.....................1
3- hoop Standard..................... 1 70
2-wire,  Cable...........................l 00
8-wire,  Cable...........................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound.l 26
Paper,  Eureka.......................2 26
Fibre........................................2 40
Hardwood...............................2 60
Softwood.................................2 75
Banquet................................... 1 60
Idem.........................................1 60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes...........   22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes...........   46
Mouse, wood, 6  holes...........   70
Mouse, tin, 6  holes...............   66
Bat, wood............... 
80
Bat, spring.............................  76
Tubs
20-lnoh, Standard, No. l ........7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2....... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 8....... 6 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. L............ 7 80
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2.................. 7 00
18-lnch, Cable,  No. S~...........•  00
No. 1 Fibre.................................. 8 46
No. 2 Fibre.................................. 7 86
N o.8 Fibre..............  
Bronze Globe.............................. 2 60
D ew ey................................  l 76
Double Acme.............................. 2 76
Single Acme................ 
  2  26
Double Peerless......................  3 26
Single Peerless........................... 2 60
Northern Queen........................ 2 60
Double Duplex........................... 8 00
Good Luck..............................276
Universal..................................... 2 28

 
W ash  Boards

.7 20

 

 

 

W indow   Cleaners

 

 

1  86

W ood B ow ls

12 In...............................................1 66
14 In.................. 
16 In...............................................2 30
11 In. Butter...........................   76
18 In. Butter.................................l oo
16 In. Butter................................. 1 78
17 In. Butter.................................2 so
10 In. Butter.................................8 00
Assorted 13-16-17.........................l 75
Assorted 16-17-10  ................2 60

W R A PPIN G   PA P E R
Common Straw................... 
1ft
Fiber Manila, white..........  
3*
4*4
Fiber Manila, colored....... 
4
No.  l  Manila...................... 
Cream  Manila.......  ..........  
3
Butcher’s Manila............... 
2%
Wax  Butter, short  oount.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls..............  16
Magic. 8 doz................................ l  oo
Sunlight, sdoz.......................l 00
Sunlight, IK doz...................  60
Yeast Cream, s doz.....................l 00
Yeast Foam, 8  doz..................... 1 SO
Yeast Foam. i*t  doz...........  so
Perlb.
«   814

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

White fish.......................9©
Trout...........................  
Black Bass...............1 0 ®  
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Halibut......................... 
Clsooes or Herring—   <  \  6
Bluefish........................  I  i  12
Live  Lobster...............  I  i  20
Boiled  Lobster............  <  i  a
Cod................................   ©   11
Haddock......................  R   10
No. l Pickerel..............  A   7
Pike..............................  <  i  7
Perch............................  
i  i  6
Smoked  White............ 
10
Bed Snapper.............. 
a
Col River  Salmon... 12)6©  18
Mackerel......................  ©   18

Baskets

 

B utter Plates

B radley  B utter B oxes

Bushels.........................  
86
Bushels.wide  b a n d .........l  16
Market...................................   80
Splint, la n e ................................ 6 oo
Splint, medium..........................6 oo
Splint, small..........................4 00
Willow Clothes, large...........6 60
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 00 
Willow Clothes, «men 
• „4 76
2 lb. size, 24 in case.............  72
31b. size, 16 In case..,.'.......   68
6 lb. size, 12 In case.............  63
tt lb. size,  6 In case.............   60
No. l Oral, 280 In orate........  40
No. 2 Oral, 260 In crate........  46
No. 8 Oval, 280 In orate.........  60
No. 6 Oval, 210 In crate.........  $o
Barrel, 6 gals., each................... 2 40
Barrel, 10 gals., each............ 2 66
Barrel, 16 gals., each............ 2 70
Bound bead, 6 gross box....  80
Bound headieartons...I..
Humpty Dumpty............
No. 1, complete................
No. 2, complete................
Cork lined, 8 In.................
Cork lined, 9 In.................
Cork lined, 10 In................
Cedar. 8 In..........................

..2 26
..  20
..  18
..  56
..  66
..  85
..  66

Clothes Pins

E gg Crates

Faucets

Churns

P elts

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts............  
F. 8. D.  Selects.......
Selects......................
H ides

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Green No. l .............. 
Green  No. 2.............. 
Cored  N o.1.............. 
Cured  No. 2.............. 
Calfskins,green No. l 
Calfskins,greenNo. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfskins,cured No.2 
Old Wool................... 
Lamb.......................... 
Shearlings...............  
Tallow
No. L.................. 
No. 2........................... 
Washed, line............ 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  line.......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
SttekO aady
Standard................... 
Standard H. H ......... 
Standard  Twist....... 
Cot Loaf.................... 
Jumbo, 32 lb.............. 
Extra H. H ............ 
Boston Cream........... 
Beet Bc*> 
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Lemon  Soars..........  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate  D rops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and 
D k .N o.l2...
Gum Drops....
Lloorioe Drops......... 
Lozenges,  plain.......
Lozenge*, printed...
Imperials...................
Mottoes.....................
Cream  Bar...............
Molasses Bar............
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©so 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt...............
String Book..............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels
tlon, 201b.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Carls 81b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bassett........
Florida B right......
Fancy Navels..........
Extra Choioe............
Late Valencias........
Seedlings...................
Medt. Sweets............
Jamal cas..................
Rodl.......................
Lem ons 
VerdeUl, ex fey 300..
Verdelll, Icy 300...  .
VerdeUl, ex chce 800
Verdelll, fey 360.......
Call Lemons, 300.......
Messlnas  300s..........   4 1
Messina*  360s........ 

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Medium bunches.... 

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California*,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. b oxes.......... 
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes......................  
Pulled, 81b. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Dstofl
Fards In 10 Q>. boxes 
Fards in 00 lb. cases.
Hallowl.....................  
lb.  oases, new.......
Salrs, 00 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Iviea.......
Almonaa, California,
soft shelled............
Brazils,......................
Filberts  ...................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnutt, soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  M ed ........
Pecans, Bx. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new..............
Coooanuta, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b n ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P~ Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Rnastml.................
Choioe, H.P., Extras 
Choioe, H. P., Extras 
ftmTTr*..............
Span. Shlld No. ln*w

“  I am prepared for it*  I have a well  equipped 
bargain department and am not afraid of  the  sum­
mer months or the worst kind of competition*

“  My sales  have  increased  rapidly  since  I  put 
in the department, and  the  strange  thing  about  it 
is,  that  sales  are  heaviest  there  when  they  are 
lightest in the rest of the store*

44 The supreme  advantage  of  this  department 
to me is that it  gives me  an  opportunity  to  work 
off my odds and ends and stickers at a profit.

* * During the dull season  I  put  all  my  efforts 
into  this  department,  advertise  it  extensively  and 
consequently my trade is good all the year round* 
"T he bargain department  is  a  winner—noth­

ing like it for dull times.”

So writes one of our customers from the Middle 
West*  He is one of the many thousands who have 
recently opened their  eyes  to  the  fact  that  a  bar­
gain  department  is  an  absolute  necessity  in  a 
modern  store—for  it  is  a  trade  getter,  a  profit 
maker and a business stimulator*

We have recently issued a  booklet  telling how 
a bargain department is installed and giving  many 
ulans  for  booming  business  during  the  summer 
months.  We  shall  he  glad  to  send  this  booklet 
together with our catalogue to  any  merchant  who 
will  send  for  it*  Ask  for  Booklet  T2875  and  for 
Catalogue J427.

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230 to 240 Adams Street 

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shoes they could find.  The  joke  was  car­
ried  out to  a finish  and  it nearly finished 
the  salesman.  Up  to  the  present  time 
be  has  not  recovered  the  pony  shoe.  He 
says  that  his  luck  is  ‘ ‘ all  to  the  bad.”  
It  brought the  poor  fellow  almost  to  dis­
traction  to  have  half  a  dozen  people  a 
day  coming  to  him  with a big horse shoe 
and  asking  whether  that  was  what  he 
had  lust  and  claiming  the  reward.

The  Mon  to  Be  Avoided.

Who  vilifies  his  benefactor.
Who  unjustly  accuses  others  of  bad 

deeds.

body.
virtues.

Who never  has  a  good  word  for  any­
Who  is  always  prating  about  his  own 

Who,  when  be  drinks,  drinks  alone. ^
Who  boasts  of  the  superiority  of  his 

family.
Who  talks  religion  downtown  in  con­
nection  with  his  daily  business  affairs.
Who  talks  recklessly  against  the  vir­

tue  of  respectable  women.

Who  runs  in  debt  with  no  apparent 

intention  of  repaying.

Who  borrows  small  sums  on  his  note 

or  check  dated  ahead.

Who  won't  work  for  an  honest  living.
Who  looks  down  upon  those  who  do.
Who 
imputes  baa  motives  to  those 

trying  to  do good.

Who  betrays  confidence.
Who  lies.
Who  is  honest  only  for  policy’s  sake.
Who  deceives  his  wife  and  boasts  of 

it  to  others.

veyance.

Who1  chews  tobacco  in  a  public  con­
Who  gets  intoxicated in public  places.
Who  partakes  of  hospitality  and  talks 

behind  his  entertainer’s  back.

Who borrows money from a friend,then 

blackguards  the  lender.

Her  System.

He— Mrs.  Wise  seems  to  understand 
how  to  mangageherhusband.pretty well.
She— Yes.  She  lets  him  have  her  own 
._____________

way  in  everything. 

CRED IT  MEN.

Proceedings  of  Their  Seventh  Annual 

Convention.

The  National  Association  of  Credit 
Men  held  its  seventh  annual  convention 
in  Louisville,  Ky.,  from  June  io  to  12, 
inclusive. 
It  has  oeen  said  that  the 
credit  side  of  the  Louisville  ledger sud­
denly  took  on  more  entries  than  at  any 
time  in  recent  years.  The  city  housed 
the  chief  representatives  of  firms  from 
every  section  of  the  country  and  re­
ceived  with  open  arms  the  men  who 
stand  guard  over  the  accounts  of  many 
firms. 
It  was  claimed  that  this  Asso­
ciation  disposed  of  more  business  at 
each  four-hour  session  during  the  three 
days  of  the  convention  than  could  be 
disposed  of  by  a  political  or  religious 
organization  in  four  weeks.

in. 

indulged 

The  first  day  of  the  convention  the 
usual  speeches  of  welcome and responses 
were 
President  Young 
made  the  annual  address,  which  was 
replete  with  facts  in  regard to the Credit 
Men’s  Association  and  its  future.  The 
Treasurer’s  report,  by  Geo.  G.  Ford, 
showed  a  balance  on  the  right  side  of 
the  ledger.  The  most interesting  report 
of  the  day  was  given by  W.  A.  Prender- 
gast,  Secretary,  and  was  full  of  interest 
to  all  the  delegates.  Committees  were 
appointed  on  credentials,  resolutions, 
nomination's,  etc.  The  address  of  the 
day  was delivered by W.  A.  H.  Bogardus 
on  The  Strength  of  the  Credit  Man  Is 
Knowledge.  The  keynote  of  his  paper 
was  sounded  in  the  following  sentence : 
" A   credit  man  should  be  the  mostprac- 
ical,  all-around  man 
in  the  business 
house.”   He  handled his  subject without 
gloves and showed  that  be  was  master  of 
the  situation.

Tuesday  the  address  of  the  day  was 
on  Commercial  Integrity,  by  W.  B. 
Roberts,  of  Portland,  Oregon.-   His 
paper  covered  the  field  in  an  - entertain­
ing  and 
intelligent  way.  He  put  the 
item  of  integrity  at  the  basis  of  credit 
and  made  a  startling 
illustration  by 
stating  that  the  Chinese  merchant  far 
excels  the  American  or  European  mer­
chant  in  this  respect ;  and  that  in all his 
experience  with  the  Chinese  only  one 
had  ever  failed  to  carry  out  his  agree­
ment to  the  letter,  and  he gave utterance 
during  the  course  of  his  remarks  to  the 
following  words: 
fellow 
credit  men,  on  us,  probably  more  than 
on  any  other. calling,  is  it 
incumbent 
that  we  present  an  uncompromising 
front  toward  all  transactions  that  will 
not  bear  the  light  of  the  noop-day  sun. 
We  should  conduct  our  business  affairs 
so  that  all  Americans  may  look  up  to 
us  with  pride,  and  strangers  with  con­
fidence,  as  though  reading  interwoven 
with  the  stars  and  stripes  of  our Ameri­
can  flag 
letters  of  gold  were  the 
words,  ‘ Commercial  Integrity.’  ”   Inci­
dentally,  he  invited  the  convention  to 
Portland,  Oregon,  for  1905.  The  reso­
lutions  in  regard  to commercial agencies 
were  adopted  as  follows :

“ And  now, 

in 

Whereas— The  credit  man  is the  only 
man  who  has  directly  to  do  with  the 
agency  reports ;  and,
Whereas—The  nine  suggestions  as 
made  through  your Committee  would,  if 
inaugurated  by  the  agencies,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  credit  men,  be  exceed­
ingly  helpful  id  passing  upon  and  dis­
pensing  credit ;  therefore,  be  it

Resolved—That  the  National  Associa­
tion  of  Credit  Men,  in  convention  as­
sembled,  respectfully  request  the  mer­
cantile  agencies  to  incorporate  these 
features  into  their  system  as  speedily 
as  possible :
1.  There  is a  universal  demand  that 
R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.  use  a  better grade  of 
paper  in  their  general  reference  book.

2.  That  both  Dun  and  Bradstreet

provide  their  general  reference  books 
with  a  thumb  index,  similar to  that  used 
in  dictionaries  and  encyclopedias.

3.  That  both  agencies  should  add  a 
third  column  to  their  reference  books, 
indicating  by  hieroglyphics  whether  or 
not  the  party  rated  discounts,  pays 
promptly,  or  is  slow  in  making  settle­
ment.
4.  A  closer  scanning  of  postoffices  in 
the  United  States  Postal  Guide  by  the 
Dun  agency,  and  the  noting  of  the same 
in  their  general  reference  book,  so  as  to 
bring  in  many  points  now  omitted,  and 
the  rating  of  men .  doing  business  at 
these  points  thereby  secured.

5.  The  insertion  of  maps  in  the  gen­
eral  reference  book  of  the  Bradstreet 
agency.
6.  The  adoption of  a  system  of  mem­
bership  cards  on the  part  of  both  agen­
cies,  each  subscriber  to  be  entitled  to 
as  many  as  desired,said  cards  to  facili­
tate  direct  correspondence  between  the 
subscriber  and  any  district  manager  of 
the  agencies.

7.  That  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.  place  the 
rating  which  parties  are  entitled  to  at 
their  branch  location,  as  well  as at  their 
main  place  of  business.
8.  That  Bradstreet’s  should  abandon 
the  use  of  tissue  paper  in  making  their 
reports.

9.  That  the  Dun  agency  give  more 
Gazetteer  matter or general  information 
under the  town  heading.  Be  it

Resolved— That  each  local  association 
is  hereby  earnestly  requested  to  furnish 
each  of  its  members  the  prescribed form 
in  which  agency  records  are  to  be  kept, 
and  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of the  local 
Committee on  the  Improvement  of  Mer­
cantile  Agency  Service  of  each  local  as­
sociation  to  explain  to its  members  the 
importance  of  keeping  these  records, 
and'  to  urge  upon  them  to  keep  them ; 
and  that  the  Secretary  of  the  National 
Association 
to  make 
this  a  special 
feature  of  association 
work  in  the  ensuing  year,  by  urging  the 
same  upon  the  local  associations  and 
individual  credit men by correspondence 
and  otherwise.

instructed 

be 

Secretary  and Treasurer—W.  A.  Pren- 

dergast,  New  York.

The  hospitality  dispensed  by  the  peo­
ple  of  Louisville  bore  the  marks  of what 
has  so 
long  been  known  as  Southern 
hospitality  and  was  generous  in  every 
way.  The  convention  was  said  to  be  the 
most  important  and  brought  the  best  re­
sults  of  any  convention  that  has  ever 
been  held  by  this  Association.  The 
next  meeting  will  occur  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.

The  Credit  Men’s  Association  of 
Grand  Rapids  is  a  branch  of  this  Asso­
ciation,  and  held  its  last  meeting  Tues­
day  evening,  June  17,  at  the  Lakeside 
Club,  it  being  the  last  meeting until  the 
heated  season  is  over.  A  luncheon  was 
served  and  reports  given  of  the  preced­
ing  month’s  work. 
It  being  the  anni­
versary  of  Bunker  Hill,  Rev.  J.  Her­
man  Randall  and  Hon.  Chas.  E.  Bel­
knap,  of  this  city,  entertained  the  meet­
ing  with reminiscences,  which  were  also 
accompanied  by  readings,  music  and  a 
general good time.  Lee  M.  Hutchins.

Still  Believes  in  Signs.

An  amusing  story  is  told  of  a  young 
New  York  clothing  salesman.  He  found 
a  pony  shoe.  Believing  in  the  old  su­
perstition  that  horse  shoes  bring  good 
luck,  he  had  it  polished  and  carried 
it 
about  in  his  pocket.  He  is  employed  in 
a  rather  exclusive  establishment  not 
many  miles  from  Trinity  church,  and 
claimed  that  the  horse  shoe brought  him 
a  number  of  customers.  One  day  be 
discovered  that he  had lost  his  talisman. 
He  tuld  his  fellow  clerks  about  his 
loss 
and  adopted  a  suggestion  from  one  to 
advertise  for the  shoe  in  the  New  York 
Herald,  which  he  did.  The  firm  em­
ploys  a  number of  delivery  wagons,  and 
the  word  was  quietly  passed  around  to 
the  many  drivers  that  in  response  to  the 
advertisement  they  must  all  go  to this 
young  : salesman  with  all  the  old  horse

The  discussion  was  particularly  upon 
Resolutions  3  and  4,  representatives  of 
the  agencies  claiming  that  these  were 
not  practicable.

The 

resolution  on  Department  of 
Prosecution  against  parties in fraudulent 
failures  was brought  before  the  conven­
tion  with  the  clause,  ‘ ‘ that  the  expense 
of  such  prosecution  be  prorated  upon 
the  creditors.”

The  discussion  resulted  in  practically 
tabling  the  resolution  and  the  appoint 
ment  of  a  committee  to  work  out  some 
feasible  plan  of  action.

adjourned 

Wednesday  a  paper  was  given  by  Jas. 
L.  McWhorter,  of  Nashville,  on  Co­
operation 
in  Collections,  which  proved 
to  be  the  most  able  paper  of  the  meet­
ing.  Resolutions  were  adopted  in  re­
gard  to  the  Ray  bill,  now  before  Con­
gress,  which  embodies  amendments  to 
the  present  bankruptcy  law,  and  com­
mittees  were  appointed  to telegraph  the 
proper  parties  at  Washington  upon  the 
passing  of  these  amendments.  Shortly 
after  the  convention 
the 
amendments  were  adopted  by  Congress, 
and  the  action  was  almost  unanimous. 
Resolutions  were  also  adopted  by  the 
Association  to  use  its  utmost  endeavors 
to  pass  a  law  governing  the  sale ¿of 
goods  in  bulk  in  all  states  where the law 
is  not  now  in  force.  The  resolution  to 
use  a  credit  clearing  house  was  lost  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  consider 
the  matter  during  the  coming  year as 
to  how  best  to exchange  commercial  in­
formation.  Credit  department  methods, 
credit 
insurance,  etc.,  were  discussed. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for 
the  ensuing  year:

President—J.  Harry  Tregoe,  Balti­

Vice-President—Geo.  W.  Pulfer,  De­

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their wearing qualities.
at the linings and workmanship.
at the fit every time.
at our sizes and  see if they are not full and true to size, 
to the interest of your customer, and see that he  gets  good  values 
so that he will  come to you again.  We make  these  goods  in  our 
factories and will be pleased- to  receive  a  sample  order  and  test 
the truth of our statements.

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

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The New York Market

Special  Features o f th e Grocery and Prod' 

Special Correspondence.

nee Trades.

New  York,  June  21—Aside  from  the 
strike  uncertainty  there  is  nothing  to 
mar  the  usual  serenity  of  business  and 
jobbers  almost  all  report  good  demand 
for  almost  all  sorts  of  goods.  This  is 
especially  true  of  articles  in  vogue  for 
camps 
and  out-of-door  gatherings 
Great quantities  of goods  are  shipped  to 
the  Catskills,  the  Adirondacks  and  all 
through  the  Maine  woods.  These goods 
are  profitable  articles,  and  the  season 
promises  to  be  a  very  satisfactory  one
Coffee  is  steady.  That does  not  mean 
very  much,  but  it  seems  that  no  decline 
has  taken  place  this  week  and  there 
is, 
perhaps,  no  better  word  to  use  than 
steady.  Buyers  are  not  at  all  anxious  to 
purchase  ahead  and  only  an  everyday 
trade  can  be  reported.  The  supplies 
continue  large.  The  crop  receipts  since 
July  1,  1901,  at  Rio and  Santos  now  ag 
gregate  15,183,000 bags,  against  10,676, 
000  bags at  the  same  time  last  year. 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  2,564,263 bags, 
against  1,185,035  bags  at this  time 
last 
year.  At  the  close  Rio  No.  7  is  worth 
5#c.  Mild  coffees  are  slow,  but  as  the 
supplies  are  only  moderate  the  market 
is  fairly  steady.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth 
8 X @ 8 ^ c .

is 

Some  business 

in  sugars  has  been 
transacted 
in  the  way  of  withdrawals, 
but  new  business  is  moderate  and  the 
cut  in  price  seems  to  have  had  little,  if 
any,  stimulating  effect 
It  is  ratbei 
strange  to  have  a  cut  in  price  at  this 
time  of  year,  and  it  may  have  set  buy­
ers  to  wondering  whether  any  further 
reduction 
coming.  Anyway  they 
are  taking  small  quantities  and  seem  to 
be  simply  waiting.

Japans  and  Formosas  are  decidedly 
strong  at  the  recent advance and,  in fact, 
the  undertone  of  the  whole  tea  market 
is  firm,  while  there  seems  no  reason 
whatever  why  the  improvement  should 
not  continue  right  along.

There  is a  fairly  good  demand for rice 
and  the  situation  is  in  favor of  the  sell­
er.  Exporters  as  well  as  home  traders 
are  doing  a  fair  amount  of  buying  and 
prices  are  firmly  maintained,  although 
not  changed  from  last  report.

Pepper  .is  strong  and  shows  a  trifle 
advance.  Aside  from  this  there  is  an 
average  trade  going  forward,  and  the 
“ average”   is not  very  large  at  this  sea­
son  of  the  year.

The  demand  for canned  goods  is  ex­
cellent  in  most  lines  and  it  seems  as 
though no  matter how  large  this  season’s 
pack  might  be  it  would  all  be well taken 
care  of.  Salmon  promises  to  be  hardly 
scarce,  but  there  seems  no  overabund­
ance  and  in  vegetables  there  will  be  a 
shortage  of  peas  unless  the  West  comes 
with  a  huge  pack,  and  high  prices are 
anticipated  right  along.  The  pack  of 
tomatoes  is  not  likely  to  be  big  enough 
to  cause  an  overflow and prices of futures 
are  very  firm  within  the  range  of $i@ 
1.05.  Spot  goods  are  worth  $1.3531.40 
at  factory  and  $1.45  here. 
In Baltimore 
carload  lots  are  worth  $1.35.  There  is 
a  steady  call  for  corn  and  the  market  is 
very  firm  at  67X@70c  for  spot  New 
York  and  fancy  Maine  up  to 85c.

Dried  fruits  are  quiet.  A  trip  through 
the  whole  market  will  elicit  no  news 
beyond  the  stereotyped  “ Nothing  do­
ing.”   Spot  prunes  appear  to  be  work­
ing  out  through  the  various  channels 
and  possibly  the  new  crop  will  come 
upon  the  market  in  pretty  good  shape. 
Quotations  on  almost  all  sorts  of  goods 
are  quite  firmly  maintained  and, in  fact, 
one  might  say  that  no  concession  is  be­
ing  made  in  any  direction.  Amalia cur­
rants  are  worth,  in  barrels,

Oranges  are  firm  and  fancy  California 
navels are  sold from $6.5037.50 per box ; 
budded, 
$ 2 .2 5 3 4 ;  Valencias,  $4.50. 
Lemons  are  steady  and  about  un­
changed.  The  range  is  from  $2.7533. 
Bananas  are  steady  and  meeting  with 
good call  from  many  out-of-town  points.
A  good  share  of the  butter  business 
being  done  is  of a  speculative  nature. 
Best  Western  creamery  is  firm  at  about 
22c;  seconds  to  firsts,  2o@2ij£c;  West­
ern 
creamery,  18319XC;

imitation 

Western  factory,  i6@i8# c ;  renovated 
17320c.

is  toward  a 

The  cheese  market  is  dull  and  the 
tendency 
lower  basis, 
Neither exporters  nor  home  dealers  ap 
pear  to  take  any  interest  and  not  over 
9Xc  can  be  quoted  for  the  best  full 
cream.

Receipts  of  desirable  eggs  are  light 
and  the  market  is  firm.  Best  Western. 
i8j£@iqc;  fancy  candled,  Michigan and 
Ohio,  17X318C;  average  ungraded,  16 
3 i 6 X c .

Philadelphians  are  protesting  against 
the  carting  of  the  old  Liberty  Bell 
around  the  country.  Every  time  an  ex 
position  is  held  there  is  a  demand  for 
the  belli' and  crowds  assemble  along  the 
railroads to see 
it  pass  through.  The 
Philadelphians  object  not  so  much  to 
the  wear  and  tear  on  the  old  bell  as 
upon  their  councilmen.  These  public 
officials  have  to take  their turn  as  mem 
bers  of  committees  having  the  relic 
ii 
charge,  and  the  strain  on  their nerves 
is  beginning  to  tell—to  say  nothing  of 
the  vile  cigars  they  are  compelled  to 
smoke  and  the  large  quantities  of  wines 
and  other  liquors  they  must  consume 
while  out  junketing.

SimW Snti

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  tw o  cents  a  word  th e  firsl 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisem ents 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
paym ents.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Fo r$1,5
SALE — DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
>500; the best layout In the Copper country 
for a young man with  $1.000  cash.  Address  F 
Hibbard, Rockland, Mich. 
550
Fo r  s a l e  o r e x c h a n g e   f o r   a  g r a in  
elevator  or  other  property—A  farm  of  120 
acres land, oak openings, 90 acres  Improved, fair 
buildings to accommodate two families;  located 
on  mam  traveled  road,  7  miles  from  West 
Branch, Mich., 8 miles  from  Prescott.  Will  ex­
change for elevator located In  potato and  bean 
section  of  Michigan.  Address  G.  F.  Gross 
Waterford.  Mich. 
549
Fo r  s a l e  — se l e c t  st o c k   g e n e r a l
hardware  situated In one of the most  thriv­
ing and beautiful towns  in  Northern  Michigan; 
owner wishes  to  go  West;  correspondence  so­
licited.  Address K,  care  Michigan Tradesman 

f K)R  SALE—FLOURING  MILL,  ROLLER 

_________  
process, gasoline engine  and  water  power: 
popular with farmers through a  wide  territory: 
facilities excellent for flour  and  feed;  good  lo 
cation; village of 800;  price, $6,000.  Address  M 
A. France, Olivet, Mich.

514

548

5S7

660

ggg

Fo r   s a l e —a   n e w   $so  n ic k e l   i n   t h e

Slot Regina, oak finished, with 11  time  disc, 
15V4 Inches In diameter.  Will pay for Itself  In  a 
very short time In a public place;  guaranteed o. 
k.  $40 buys It.  Address No. 560, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Fo r  s a l e  -   p l a n i n g   m il l,  w e l l 
equipped and doing a fine business.  Address 
H. D.  Cove, Charlotte, Mich. 
559
pOR  SALE—CHEE8E,  BUTTER  AND ICE 
Cream factory; will exchange.  F. A. Stivers, 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
COR  SALE—PHOTOGRAHIC  8TUDIO  IN 
*  hustling town of 15,000; low rent, best prices; 
(round floor, best location; price  $400  less  than 
Inventory.  Address  No.  557,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.________  
DOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
1  chandtse, invoicing  about  $1,000;  located  in 
one of the best farming  localities  in  the  State; 
'rood  shipping  point;  postoffice,  feed  mill and 
lour exchange In connection; a good  chance for 
’ man with small capital.  Address No. 556, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
TTARDWABE  STOCK  FOR SALE;  ABOUT 
I I   ten  thousand  dollars;  In  best  fruit  and 
Bake Shore city in  Michigan;  reason,  health. 
s   W. Barker, Grand Rapids. Mich. 
554
WILL SELL DRUG  BUSINESS  OR TRADE 
for Grand Rapids property well  located. 
Might add some cash.  Box 734, Belding, Mich
_____________________ *_____________  562
3 0 B   SALE — FIRST-CLASS  STOCK  OF 
china, crockery, granite, tin, housefumish- 
ings  and  baxaar  goods;  established  fifteen 
years, paying $3,000 to $4,000 a year; in a rapid- 
y growing city of 20,000; stock  clean  and  up- 
to-date;  leads the city in  its  line;  bought  at 
import and from factories; will  invoice  $8 000 
to $10.000;  half cash and collateral  for  balance 
will be accepted;  best reason  for  selling;  best 
mercantile opening  in  the  State.  Address  B, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
563
p O B   SALE — FINE  TWO-STORY  STORE 
with barn, on street  car  line;  or  w ill  ex­
change for merchandise.  Address  482  Wash­
ington Ave., Muskegon, Mich. 
START  A  BUSINESS  OF  YOUR  OWN 
with our cigar vending machines and make 
$40 to $60  weekly;  they  work  while you  rest. 
Write  us  to-day  for  particulars.  Michigan 
Novelty Works, Vicksburg, Mich. 

565

55s

554

Fo r  s a l e - a   w e l l   e s t a b l is h e d  

wholesale paper and stationery  business  lo­
cated in a thriving  Indiana  town;  an  excellent 
opportunity for the right  party;  can  give  good 
reasons for selling; will pay to Investigate.  Ad­
dress N, care Michigan Tradesman. 

553

Fo r  s a l e —c l e a n   r a c k e t  st o c k   a n d

shoes  and  some  dry  goods;  stock  $2,500; 
Northern  Iowa;  1,400  population;  rent or sell 
building;  no  trades;  write  at  once.  Joseph 
Bohntng, Belmond, la. 
TT'OB  SALE  CHEAP—FLOUR  AND  FEED 
X 1  store  in city  of  Muskegon;  good  location; 
doing  good  bushless;  reason for  selling,  have 
other business ; a bargain If taken at once.  Ad- 
dress R, 33 Morris S t, Muskegon, Mich. 

Fo r  s a l e - h a r n e s s ,  t r u n k   a n d   v a -

llse business;  owner retiring; stock  and  fix­
tures  Invoice $4,000.  Andrew  W.  Johnston, At­
torney, Houseman bldg..  Grand Rapids, Mich.
543

562

551

539

538

Mich. 

Jonesvllle, Mich. 

chance  to  start  market  here.  Lock  Box  its, 

FOR SALE—COMPUTING  SCALE.  LARGE 
Fo r  s a l e —s t o r e  a n d   st o c k ,  o r 

size,  marble  platform.  W.  F.  Harris,  So. 
Bend, Ind. 
542
separately, of general merchandise,  on  new 
railroad, near Lansing: stock about $2,500, staple 
goods; will assist purchaser  four  months; living 
rooms above: other interests  demand  attention. 
Address No. 541, care Michigan Tradesman.  641
sale cheap; owners  not  market  men;  good 

IiMNE  MEAT  MARKET  FIXTURES  FOR 
IpOR  SA L E —STOCK OF  FURNITURE, 
■  STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 

-  paints, oils, wall paper, etc.  No  real estate 
need apply.  Address  F. O.  Box  227,  Brighton, 

for trade or cash; located  In  country where 
it is thickly settled; a first-class trade; five miles 
from  any  other  point;  stock  consists  of  dry 
goods, groceries, crockery, boots  and  shoes and 
hardware,  Invoicing  $2,500:  rent cheap;  house 
and  store  connected;  bank  barn;  two  acres 
garden and large amount of small fruit;  a snap; 
poor  health  reason  for selling.  Address  B. £>. 
W., care Michigan Tradesman._________ 510
COR  SALE-FLOURING  MILL,  ROLLER 
■  process,  gasoline  engine  and  water  power; 
popular with farmers through a  wide  territory; 
facilities excellent for flour and feed; good locat­
ed village of  800;  price,  $6,000  Address  M. A.
Hance, Olivet, Mien.___________________548
«/»OK  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY 
T   goods  and  groceries  Inventorying  about 
$1,600; business established  seven  years; steady 
and  constantly  Increasing  town  and  country 
trade; must sell  on  account  of  Illness  of junior 
partner.  H. W. Dodge & Son,  Saranac, Mich. 
7H)R SALE—DRUG  STORE,  WELL LOCAT 
I   ed,  doing  a  good  and  growing  business; 
don’t reply unless you mean  business.  Address
No. 546, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 546
y*OR SALE—ONE  STIMPSON  COMPUTING 
T   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.  Above  have  been  in use only 
two years.  H. Drebln, Cadillac. 

___________  

537

529

532

FOR  SALE—DRUG FIXTURES—KI.KG A NT 

wall cases,  counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; Ml  light  oak; wifi  seU  at  half price 
O. A. Fanckboner, Grand Rapids. 
534
NO.  1  OPENING  FOR  A  PHYSICIAN 
■ — who will purchase  my  property;  price and 
terms reasonable.  Address  C.W.  Logan.  Tu 
tin, Mich. 
538

I7IOR8ALE-WE  HAVE  A  FEW  CARS^OF 

maple flooring.  Flooring is  o. k.  and  price 
ISO.  k.  If  in  need  of  any,  let  us  quote  you 
»rices.  F. C. Miller Lumber Co., 23 Widdicomb 
Building, Grand Rapids. 
li'OR  SALE-GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOiC- 
A  ing $2.800, in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
U'OK  SALE -   FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
X   farm  In  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under  cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  aiMi-mb  no. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
FOR  SALE—A  REAL  ESTATE  AND COL- 
lection office;  good money In it for two good 
men.  Address Real Estate, 603 Bearlnger wind­
ing. Saginaw, Mich. 
FOR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods,  groceries,  shoes  and  undertakers’ 
supplies;  stock all In Al order;  good new frame 
store building, with living rooms  above;  «m  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 
to  Northern  Michigan.  Address  R.  D.  Mo- 
Naughtou, Honor, Mich. 

520

522

621

513

Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 

millinery business In  Grand  Rapids;  object 
ror  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 

FOR,,, s a l e —FTRST-CLASS,  e x c l u s iv e  
F >B SAL®- STOCK OF  HARDWARE  AND 
furniture  In  Northern  Michigan.  Address 
No. 503, care Michigan Tradesman. 
103
T ? K£K  V A C A N T   LOTS  IN  GRAND 
x   Rapids,  free  of  Incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No
485, care Michigan Tradesman.
486

507

j'OR  SALE—I  DESIRE  TO  SELL  MY  EN- 
-T  tire  general  stock,  including  fine  line  of 
shoes and  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
botter trade in the State.  Business  been  estab­
lished 25 years.  Reason for selling,  other  busi­
n e s s - P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 
' jH)R  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—TWENTY 
f- „ 
8Jx.ro°m cottage and good barn;
delighttullv  located;  fine  bay  view.  Address 
504 Front S t, Traverse City, Mich. 
472
CAFES—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
OjSffbnriJw.proof safes.  Goa M. SmithWood 
*   Brick  Building Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia 

473

», Grand Rapids. 

m

F OR  SALE-COUNTRY  STORE  AND 
dwelling  combined;  general  merchandise 
stock, 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 Ell Runnels, Corning, Mksh. 
474
IjiOR SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NOT4 
x?  Bar-Lock  typewriter,  In  good  condition. 
Specimen at work done on  machine  on  applica­
tion.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
W A N T E D -T O   PURCHASE  LOCATION 
■suitable for conducting hardware  business 
In  Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  455, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
455
IiX)R  SALE—MOSLEK,  BAHMANN  ft  CO. 
X1  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  $58  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 
368
Fo r   s a l e —st o c k   o f  g e n e r a l   m e r - 
chandlse, consisting of dry  goods,  groceries 
and  men’s  furnishing  goods:  also  fixtures;  in­
voices  about  $4.000;  good  dean  stock,  mostly 
new;  In one of the best sections  of  Michigan;  a 
fine  business  chance.  Address  No.  445,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

445

Fo r   s a l e —a   f i n e   st o c k   o f   g r o- 

ceries 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. 
T7KIR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES. 
P   Invoicing about $2,000.  Situated In center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  Inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 

334

439

Fo r  s a l e - st o c k   o f   b o o t s  a n d

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

218

seat;  stock  Invoices  $2,500;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

157

MISCELLANEOUS

561

561, care Michigan Tradesman. 

can manage  general  store.  Address  No. 

PHARMACIST,  SITUATION  WANTED;
WANTED—A  POSITION  AS  A  CLERK, 

window trimmer, in Northern  Michigan 
during the hay fever season; experienced man. 

Address E. H. 8-, Box 58,  Mulberry. Jnd.  555
AXTANTED—A  YOUNG MAN TO  WORK  IN 
" ” 
lumber  office;  must  be  good  at  figures, 
accurate,  a  hustler  and  strictly  temperate; 
references  required.  Address  Lumber,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

WANTED —  PURCHASER  FOR  MEAT 
market;  only stand  in  town  of  450.  Ad- 
dress No. 515, care Michigan Tradesman.  515
Dr u g g is t ,  m id d l e   a g e d   a n d   E x­
perienced, desires situation: no bad habits; 
references.  Address Box 114,  woodland,  Mich. 
_________  
516
Cheaper  Than  a  Candle
and  many  100 times more  light from

540

Brilliant  and  Halo

Gasoline  Gas  Lamps 

Guaranteed good for any place.  One 
■gent In a town wanted.  Big profits.

Brilliant  Gas  Lamp  Co.

42  State  Street, 

Chicago  111.

Imported

K O BE

J A P A N  

R I C E

BLUE P A P E R  LIN ED  P O C K E T S

IF  you  want  an  Inside  figure  on  a  stock of 
Gasoline  Lamps  which  must  be  turned into 
cash at once, 
Aan Arbor, Mich.
| H.  W.  CLARK, 

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