Nineteenth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY  2,1902.

Number 980

Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids 

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

C.  E.  McCRONE, Manager.

ELLIOT  O.  QROSVENOR

Late State  Pood  Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
113a flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  rilch.

Kent  County 

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

JNO.  A.  COVODE,  Pres.

HENRY IUEMA,  Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  VERDIER.  Cashier.

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

J no. W. Blodgett, 
J. A.  COVODE,
E. Ckofton Fox, 
Henry  I dema,
Conservative Management

F. C.  Mii.i.e r,
T. J. O’Br ie n ,
T. Stewart  Wh it e, 
J. A. S. Verd ier.

Capital and Surplus $150,000

— Glover’s  Gem  Mantles—

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

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Qrand Rapids, Michigan

C o m m e r c i a l  

C r e d i t   C o . ,   LW
Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Detroit  Opera  house  Block,  Detroit
Good  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  recei pt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

letters. 

WILLIAM  CO N N O R   ♦

W HOLESALE 

READYMADE  CLO TH IN G
of every kind and for all ages.

A11 manner of summer goods:  Alpacas, 
Linen, Duck,  Crash  Fancy  Vests,  etc., 

direct from factory.

W illiam   Alden  Sm ith  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mall  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
daily from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m„  except 
Saturdays  to  1  p.  m.  Customers’  ex­
penses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1967.
Bell phone.  Main  1282.  Western  Michl- 

♦   gan agent Vlneberg’s Patent Pants. 

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Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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2.  G etting the  People.
3.  The  New  York  M arket.
4.  A round  th e  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  On  the  Excursion Train.
7.  Union  Labor Tyranny.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  Men  of M ark.
10.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
15.  D ry  Goods.
16.  B u tter and  Eggs.
20.  W om an’s W orld.
22.  Hardw are.
24.  The U proarious  F ourth.
25.  Comm ercial Travelers.
26.  D rags  and Chemicals.
27.  D rag P rice  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Successful  Salesmen.
32.  The G rain  M arket.

WORK  AGAINST TH E  GRAIN.

It  is  a  sad  commentary on  our  boasted 
advance 
in  social  and  industrial  con­
ditions  that  so  much  of  the world’s work 
nowadays 
is  work  against  the  grain. 
The  number  of  workmen  who  take  real 
pleasure  in their  work  seems to be pretty 
small.  Work,  to  many  workers,  is  some­
thing  always  more  or  less  disagreeable, 
to  be  gotten  through  with  and  done 
with.  These  men  grumble  and  growl, 
shirk  all  they  can,  loaf  all  they  can  and 
have  no  real  heart  in  their  work.  When 
the  whistle  blows  tools  and  unfinished 
pieces  are  dropped  just  where  they  hap­
pen  to  be  and,  with  a  sigh  of  relief,  the 
workman  turns  away.  Probably  it  has 
never  occurred  to  him  that  a  man  can 
be,  and  ought  to be,  happy  in  his  work, 
and  that  if  he  does  not  take  pleasure  in 
it  there 
is  something  the  matter  with 
his  work  or  with  him.  They  do  not  fit. 
It  is  true,  nevertheless,  that  all  man's 
work  should  be  happy  work,  and  there 
are  wise  men  who  have  studied  deeply 
into  social  and 
industrial  problems 
who  assert  that  once  upon  a  time  most 
men  were  happy  in  their  work.  Down 
to  the  nineteenth  century  the  power  by 
which  the  world's  work  was  done  was 
muscular.  A  man  could  go  apart  from 
his fellows,  take  his power  with  him  and 
do  his  work  by  himself.  Each  man 
was  many-sided  and  developed  along 
many 
lines;  he  was  skilled  in  a  great 
variety  of  work.  But  when  the  steam 
engine  came  workmen  could  no  longer 
do their  work  where  they  pleased.  They 
must  gather  around  the source  of  power. 
This  meant  the  factory  system,  the  or­
ganization  of  industry,  the  division  of 
labor,  its  concentration  in  cities,  labor 
Civilization  was 
unions  and  trusts. 
individual  was 
transformed  and  the 
forced  to  specialize 
in  his  work.  So 
that  now  we  have,  instead  of  workmen, 
operatives  who  for  the  most  part  can 
not  even  make  a  nail,  a  boat  or a  chair, 
but  one  part  only.  And  this  specializa­
tion  has  extended  to  all  kinds  of  work 
and  into  the  professions,  so  that  physi­
cians  are  no  longer  physicians  only, 
but  oculists,  aurists,  specialists  in  vari­
ous  forms  of  disease.  Clergymen,  even, 
are  exhorters,  exegetes,  and  some, 
it 
has  been  wittily  observed,show  leanings 
toward  Christianity.

Nobody  doubts  that  this  specializa­

tion 
is,  on  the  whole,  a  good  thing, 
but  is  it  not  possible  that  even  this 
good  thing  may  be  carried  too  far? 
Grant  the  advantage  gained  when  a 
man  puts  all  his  energies  to  one  kind  of 
work,  when  he  makes  only  knives  or 
pottery  or  binds  books.  But  the  process 
has  gone  so  far  that  nowadays  most 
operatives  make  only  one  part  of  a 
knife  or  one  part  of  a  vase  or  a  book, 
one  part  of  a  nail  or  a  pin,  even.  A 
man  stands  at  a  machine  all  day,  and 
day  after  day,  until  he  has  no  heart  in 
bis  work  and  becomes  a  mere  machine 
himself.  He  suffers  dreadful  weariness, 
he  is  not  interested,  bis  work  is  monot­
onous.  Now  in  the  old  days,  before  we 
had  steam  engines  William  Morris  tells 
us  that  when  a  man  turned  a  wheel  or 
threw  the  shuttle  or  hammered  the 
iron 
he  was  expected  to  make  something 
more  than  a  water  pot,  a  cloth  or  a 
knife.  He was  expected  to  make  a work 
of  art,  also,  which  means  that  he  put 
his  own  individual  intelligence  and  en­
thusiasm 
into  the  goods  he  fashioned. 
He  was  forever  striving  to  make  the 
piece  he  was  at  work  upon  better  than 
the 
last  and  so  be  developed  his  body 
and  his  mind.  To-day  the  greater  part 
of  the  workmen  are  engaged  in  work 
which  can  not  greatly  interest them  and 
which  can  only  be  wrung out of  them  by 
compulsion.  All  man’s  work  should  be 
happy  work;  it  should  not  go,  as  so 
much  of  it  now  does,  against  the  grain. 
Work  into  which  a  man  can  put  some­
thing  of  his  own  individuality  is  happy 
work;  mechanical,  machine  toil  is  un­
happy  work,  and  only  done  to  be  gotten 
through  with.  This  is  the  price  we  are 
paying  for cheap,  machine-made  goods 
and  the  minute  subdivision  of  labor. 
It  will  hear thinking  about.

The  English  people  are  not  much 
given 
to  superstition,  but  there  has 
existed  among  them  a  curious  belief 
that  Edward  VII.  would  never  be 
crowned  although  he  might  live  to be 
King. 
It  is  even  said  that  the  King 
himself  was  affected  by  this  supersti­
tion,  which  was  founded  on  what  astrol­
ogers  and  palmists  had  said  when  in 
early  life  they  had  looked  into  his  fate. 
The  Queen,  too,  is  declared  to  have  an­
ticipated  the  illness  of  the  King  which 
has  prevented  the  coronation.  Supersti­
tion  is  a  strange  survival  of  times  when 
it  was  common  to consult  soothsayers, 
and  signs  and  symbols  were  universally 
supposed  to  possess  significance  as  to 
human  fate.

It  has  been  officially  decided  that  the 
thousand  young  women  in  the  Chicago 
University 
shall  hereafter  be  segre­
gated.  They  are  not  to  receive  instruc­
tion  or  to  recite  in  association  with  the 
young  men.  The  professors  declare  that 
the  girls  acquire  mannish  manners  by 
contact  with  the  other sex,and  that  both 
the  boys  and  the  girls  will  make  better 
in  their  studies  if  they  are 
progress 
separated.  Not  all  the  professors  enter­
tain  this  view.  Some  think  it  is  a  great 
mistake  and  that  the  departure, will  be 
a  great  blow  to  the  cause  of  education. 
The  girls  feel  insulted,but  the  boys  dis­
play  no  regret on  account  of  the change.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

in  the 

The  only  exceptions  to  an  unruffled 
tide  of  prosperous  activity  throughout 
the  country  are  found  in  the  slight  in­
labor 
terference  and  disquiet  of  the 
strikes  and 
continued 
cool 
weather  which  has  bad  an  adverse  in­
fluence  on  summer  clothing  distribution 
in  some  localities.  These  impediments 
are  scarcely 
to 
make  a  perceptible  ripple  on the smooth 
flood.

sufficient,  however, 

As  compared  with  the  same  season 
last  year,  the  stock  market  activity  is 
much  less;  but  it  must  be  remembered, 
in  making  the  comparison,  that  at  that 
time  the  country  was  in  the height of the 
greatest  activity  known.  The  present 
season 
is  only  accounted  dull  in  com­
parison  with  that  era,  but,  considering 
other  standards,  the  market  is  far  from 
dull.  The  course  of  prices  is  upward 
and  the  buying  is  more  for  investment 
than  is  usually  the  case.  The  long 
in­
terruption  of  the  coal  strikes  is  scarcely 
affecting  any  of  the  roads  concerned, 
as  the  public  well  know  that  they  must 
have  the  hauling  of  the  coal  eventually, 
and  the  longer  the  strikes  the higher  the 
prices  of  that  commodity  and,  conse­
quently,  the  greater  the  profits  for  the 
roads.  The  transportation  outlook  as  a 
favorable—crop 
whole  was  never  so 
indica­
prospects  promising  and  every 
tion  of  continued  activity 
in  every 
quarter.  The  close  of  the  fiscal  year 
brings  a  comparison  of  reports  which 
will  show  that  the  last  is  far  in  excess 
of  the  preceding,  although  that  was  a 
record  breaker.

the 

With 

semi-annual  settlements 
there 
is  a  slight  flurry  in  money  rates, 
but  not  more  than  should  be  expected. 
Payments  are  being gradually  made  and 
it  will  not  be 
long  before  the  invest­
ment  of  dividends  will  be  felt  in  the 
market.  The  ending  of  the  long  season 
of  paying  revenue  taxes  to  the  Govern­
ment  will  also  have  an  effect  in  lessen­
ing  the  flow 
into  the  Treasury,  which 
has 
long  had  an  accumulation  in  ex­
cess  of  any  before  known  in  its  history.
Iron  and  steel  contracts  continue  to 
advance  farther  and  farther  into  the 
future,  locomotives,  for  instance,  being 
engaged 
in  1894.  Some 
wheels  are 
idle  on  account  of  scarcity 
of  fuel,  but  as  a  whole  the  activity  is 
unabated.  The  textile  fields  are  also  in 
unusual  activity  and  the  reduction  in 
prices  on  cotton  goods  puts  that  trade 
on  a  better  parity  with  the  raw  staple. 
Wool  and  woolen  products  are  well  sus­
tained.

for  delivery 

It  is  said  that  nothing  is  too good  for 
Americans  in  France  now.  The  action 
of  the  American  Government  and  the 
American  people  in  providing  relief  for 
the  sufferers  in  Martinique  has  quite 
captivated  the  French. 
It  is  actually 
stated  that  innkeepers  and  shopkeepers 
and  all  those  who  cater  to  travelers 
make  it  a  point  of  honor  to  refrain from 
robbing  the  American  tourists.  This 
friendly  discrimination  can  not  fail  to 
be  appreciated  and  it  will  be  a  relief  to 
Americans  in  France  not  to  find 
it  ad­
visable  to  conceal  their  nationality.

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Petting the  People

Personality  and Innuendo in Advertising.
In  no  field  of  work  is  singleness  of 
purpose  of  greater  value  than  in  that  of 
publicity.  The  object of  advertising  is 
to  get  the  people  and  any  attempt  to 
serve  another  purpose  is  sure  to  result 
in  failure  for  both. 
If  the  attempt  is 
made  to  kill  two  birds  with  one  stone  it 
must  be  the  one  kind  of  bird,  getting 
the  people;  any  attempt  to kill  another 
kind,  such  as  getting  even  with  some 
one  who  has  crossed  our  path,  must  al­
ways  be  too  clumsy  to  be  effective 
against  the  more  desirable  game.

Personalities  are  never  desirable  in 
It  is  all  right  to  say  that 
business. 
one’s  goods  are  the  best  as  long  as  the 
comparison  is  a  general  one,  but  when 
we  say  that  our  goods  are  better than 
those  sold  by  John  Smith  &  Co.  we 
make  a  mistake.  Ten  to  one  if  we  are 
not  giving  the  rival  firm  more  value  by 
bringing  them 
competition 
into  the 
than  we  gain  for  ourselves.

Advertising  which  mentions  competi­
tors  in  any  designating  way  is  undig­
nified ;  undignified  advertising  is  never 
successful. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  name 
“ John  Smith  &  Co.”   to come under this 
designation;  pointing  out by location  or 
in  any  way  to  show  who  is  meant is  just 
as  bad.  As  far  as  advertising  or  selling 
goods  is  concerned  we  may  have  the 
best  and  the  cheapest,  but  we  should 
accord  the  same  privilege  to  others. 
Our  concern  is  our  own  wares.  We 
have  nothing  to  do  with  those  sold  by 
our competitors.

Advertising  competition  may  be  a 
good  thing 
in  spurring  to  effort—and 
certainly  is  good for  publishers—as  long 
as  personal  or  direct  reference  to brands 
is  avoided.  But  when  the 
of  goods 
competition 
is  carried  to  indulging  in 
invective  or  innuendo  or  in  detraction 
it  is  no  longer  legitimate 
of  any  kind 
advertising  and 
is  the  least  profitable 
to  the  one  who  pays  the  bills.  The 
others  may  usually  afford  it.

The  advertisement  is  no  place 

in 
which  to  "g e t  back”   at  any  one.  Es­
pecially  reprehensible 
is  the  practice 
of  condemning  competing  brands  of 
those  which  a  row  with some jobber may 
have  brought  into  disfavor.  An  amus­
ing 
instance  of  this  kind  recently  came 
to  notice  in  this  department.  One  of 
our  local 
jobbers  had  incurred  the  re­
sentment  of  a  country  dealer  and  the 
latter,  to get even,  came out in  his  paper 
with  an  advertisement  making  a scurril­
ous  attack  on  the  dealer by  name  and 
on  the  brands  of  goods  which  he 
handled.  Then  to  secure  circulation  the 
dealer  conceived  the  brilliant  scheme  of 
sending  the  advertisement  for criticism. 
Fortunately  there  is  no  obligation  com­
pelling 
carrying  out  of  adroit 
schemes  of this  kind  by  the Tradesman.
It  is  not  for  me  to  say  whether  this 
wotld  is  large  enough  for dealers  to  get 
along  without  competition  and  other 
rows,  but  I  will  say  that such  rows  may 
never  properly  extend  to the  advertis­
ing  field.  When  they  do  they  will  al­
ways  be  at  the  cost  of  effectivness  to 
the  aggressor  in  advertising  work.

the 

*  *  *

There  are  many  points  of  merit in  the 
shoe  advertisement  of  Wolf  &  Clark, 
both 
in  the  writing  and  printing,  yet 
there  are  several  ways  in  which  it  could 
be 
improved.  The  writer  has  propor­
tioned  his  work  to the  space  nicely  and 
the  description  brings  out each specialty 
with  strength  and  definiteness,  but  he 
stops  just  short  of  that  which  would

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

ISHOE SENSE!

S  W e carry a  Complete Line of Shoes in ail Shapes and Sizes.
a  
. . v a tjv h t SHOES on the m arket and
•   Onr 8tock is composed o f the B E S T  
!   ^  pne w ith  common SH O E SE N S E  can find w h at they w ant 
£   from our new  line

on

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LADIES*. GENT'S. MISSES ANDOHILDREN.

IN  G E N T ’S   S H O E S

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W e have the “ Snow”   line o fF in e  Shoes,  in  Patent Leather 

and guaranteed.  The B E ST ,  f o r  the price w e  ask.________

IN  L A D IE S ’  S H O E S

We have t h e  Brook’s Bros.. Hand Turned,  patented  Flexi­
__ _

ble W elt in Patents and Vim 

In W ork Shoes w e handle the w ell known 

"HARD  PAN LINE**

T hey w ear like iron.  E very inoh of leather used in  thm shoe is
f r o m  first quality stock.  T o  produce a   better  W ork  Shoe  for 
the money, is impossible.  A ll w e ask is a  trial.

EVERY DAY A BARGAIN DAY.

W O L F   &  CLARK .

•CASH  STORE.” 

TEKONSHA. MICH

SA V E
YOUR
EY ES

Spectacles  are  intended  to rest and save the eyes as 

well as to improve the sight.  The  time to begin 

using them is the moment any sign of weak­
If the eyes smart, blur .or 

ness appears. 

ache, or if vision becomes at all im­
perfect. you should  be  fitted at 

once with suitable glasses.
EXAMINATION  FREE 

We will be glad at any time 
to carefully examine your eyes.

We will  tell  you  candidly whether 

or not you  need  glasses. 
If you do we 
will supply them at a reasonable price 
and guarantee them to be a perfect fit.

r---------------- JJL"

■  

W  F. HESSLER.

!

DRUGGIST.

ROCKFORD, MICH.

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Oka

bring  most  results— the  price. 

It  seems 
pity  to  stop  just  short  of  wbat  would 
give  it  most  value.  Tbe  printer  has 
done  well 
in  tbe  proportion  in  display 
and  in  adhering  to  uniform  style  in 
type,  so far as  possible.  His  work  would 
have  been  much 
improved,  however, 
by  the  omission  of  tbe  two  ornamental 
flourishes  and  by  giving  more  space  on 
tbe  inside  of  the  border.  The  white 
space  given  to  the  flourishes  is  needed 
for the  type.

little  carelessness 

W.  F.  Hessler  succeeds  in  writing  an 
attractive  and  complete  optical  adver­
tisement  in  a  proportion  which  displays 
happily  in  the  shape  of  a  mortar.  The 
idea  is  well  carried  out  and  in  a  way 
lose  no  strength  in  tbe  result.  Tbe 
proportion  of  white  space  is  very  good.
One  hardly  knows  what  accusation  is 
to  be  encountered  in  the  beginning  of 
W.  Stubbs  &  Sons’  advertisement  and 
so  tbe  eye  is  apt  to be attracted.  1 notice 
in  arranging  the 
wording,  which  makes  tbe  selling  at  tbe 
highest  terms,  when  the  writer  doubt­
less  means  the  praise.  Selling  at  the 
highest  terms  is  not  always  an  attract­
ive  feature,  although 
it  is  better than 
the  other  extreme.  The  printer’s  work 
s  simple  and  in  good  taste.
A.  L  Gleason  presents about  as  badly 
mixed  a  production 
in  all  regards  as 
one  is  apt  to  meet  in  tbe  space.  The 
border  is  patchy  and  tbe  cuts  are  se­
lected  and  arranged  at  random  and  tbe 
treatment  is  as  badly  mixed. 
1  would 
make  about  four  advertisements  out  of 
the  copy  furnished.  There 
is,  to  my 
mind,  an  incongruity  between  a  razor 
and  a  lumber  wagon— between a  butcher 
knife  and  a  hay  rake.  One  advertise­
ment  devoted  to  cutlery,  another  to 
hardware,  another  to  groceries  and  an­
other  to  farm  implements  and  vehicles 
would,  in  my  opinion,  have  increased 
the  resuits  more  than  fourfold.

H er  Mistake.

Two  elderly  women  and  an  old  man, 
evidently  strangers  in  the  city,  and  who 
were  carefully  guarding  a huge telescope 
between 
them,  stood  at  the  Morton 
House  corner  for an  hour the  other  day 
waiting  for  some  kind  soul  to  direct 
them  to  the  residence  of  a  friend  they 
had  come  to  visit.  The  noise  and  bus­
tle  of  the  city  evidently  confused  them, 
and  they  stood  bewildered,  not  knowing 
which  way  to  turn.  Finally  one  of  the 
women  plucked  up  courage  to  address  a 
man  who  was  passing,  saying,  “ Could 
you  tell  me  where  Will  Blank  lives?”  

“ Who?”   enquired  the  man.
“ Why,  Will  Biank.  He  used  to  live 
next  door  to  us  at  Linton,  and  we  have 
come  in  to  see  him .”
The  man  bad  to  acknowledge  he  bad 
never even  beard  of  Will  Blank,  and the 
old 
lady  turned  away  with  a  scornful 
smile,  saying,  “ Ob,  1  thought  perhaps 
you  lived  here.”

Good

Advertising

is  a  science  which  few  mer­
chants  have time  to  acquire. 
They  can,  however,  obtain 
a  knowledge  of  slow-pay  and 
poor-pay  and  don’ t-pay  cus­
tomers  by 
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has  set  in  in  the  price  per  box  at  auc­
tion.  Oranges  are  slightly  lower.  Ba­
nanas  are  steady.

Arrivals  of  butter  within  a  day  or  so 
have  been  rather  larger  an^lhe  tone  of 
the  market  is  slightly  easier^  The  de­
mand  keeps  about  steady.  Best  Western 
creamery,  22@22%c;  seconds  to  firsts, 
20@2i&c;  imitation  creamery,  18 ^ 3  
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The New York Market
Special  Features  o f th e Grocery and P rod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  June  28— Half  the  year 
gone.  Business  has  settled 
into  the 
usual  midsummer  channel  of  dulness 
and  for the  ensuing  eight  weeks  the gro­
cery  trade  will  have its  annual period  of 
comparative  non-activity.  Never  were 
there  so  many  people  leaving  the  city 
for  a  summering  in  the  country  and  the 
effect  must  be  felt  in  certain  ways  very 
distinctly.

The  coffee  year comes  to  an  end  be­
fore  another  letter  will  be  sent  and,  so 
far  as  profits  are  concerned,  the  retailer 
seems  to  have  been  the  man  who  has 
gathered  the  best  harvest.  Coffee  at  re­
tail 
is  too  high  for  popular  consump­
tion,  said  one  the  other day.  And  yet  it 
can  be  bought,  such  as  it  is,  for  12c. 
The  demand  during  the  week  has  been 
of  an  average  character.  Speculators 
got  in  a  little  fine  work  Thursday  and 
sent  the  price  up,  on  paper,  about  10 
points.  The  actual  coffee,  however,  is 
practically  without  change  and  Rio  No. 
7  closes  at  5#c  in  an  invoice  way.  Re­
ceipts  at  primary  points  continue  fairly 
large.  Since  July  1,  1901,  the  crop  re­
ceipts  at  Rio  and  Santos  have  aggre­
gated  15,315,000 bags,against  10,808,000 
bags  in  1900-1901  and  8,853,000  bags  in 
1899-1900. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
2,536,941  bags,  against  1,198,414  bags at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Mild sorts have 
remained 
steady  and  quotations  are 
without  change.

In  sugar  there 

is  the  same  story  of 
continued  inactivity,so  far  as  new  busi­
ness  is  concerned.  Something  is  doing 
in  the  way  of  withdrawals  under old 
contracts,  but  the general  policy  of  buy­
ers  seems to  be  a  waiting  one.  Refin­
eries  are  slightly  behind  in  filling  or­
ders  on  certain  grades,  but,  upon  the 
whole,  there  is no  complaint.  Stocks  of 
raws  are 
large  and  there  seems  to  be  a 
feeling  that  a  decline  may  come  at  any 
time 
in  refined,  so  buyers  are  loth  to 
take  more  than  enough  for  present  re­
quirements.

The  market  for  Japan  teas  is  strong 
and  about  ic  has  been  added to previous 
valuations.  Sales  have  been  freer  than 
for  some  time  and  orders  have  come 
from  every  part  of  the  country.  Dealers 
are  more  hopeful  than  for  a  long  time.
The  rice  market  is  in  good  condition. 
The  demand  during  the  week  has  been 
very satisfactory to  the  seller  and  a  good 
trade  from  now  on is anticipated.  Prime 
to  choice  Southern, 
Japan,
4^@Sc.
The  jobbing  trade  report  a  fair  sum­
mer  trade  in  spices,  but,  of  course  the 
volume  of  business  is  limited  to  every­
day  needs  and  the  situation  calls  for  no 
further  remark.

Most  of  the  molasses  business  done 
this  week  has  been  in  the  withdrawal  of 
supplies  under  old  contracts, the  volume 
of  new  business  being  limited.  Quota­
tions  are  unchanged.  Good  to  prime, 17 
@270.  Syrups  are  moderately  active  at 
recently  prevailing  figures.

In  canned  goods  the  week  has  been 
fairly  active  and  especially  have salmon 
and  spot  tomatoes  been  in  good  request. 
Some  Canadian  tomatoes,  3s,  were  sold 
to  Philadelphia  parties  at  $1.50  f.  o.  b. 
here,  which  is  the  record  price  to  date. 
There  is  a  big  acreage  of  tomatoes  re­
ported  set  out  in  Maryland,  Delaware 
and  New  Jersey  and  a  good  big  pack 
may  be  looked  for;  but no matter,  it will 
be  almost  certainly  absorbed.  The  pea 
pack  has  been  rather  disappointing  on 
the  Peninsula  and  we  shall  now  have  to 
fall  back  on  New  York  State  and  the 
Prices  are  well  sustained  on 
West. 
everything  and 
if  it  were  not  for  im­
pending  strikes  there  would  not  be  a 
cloud  to  shake  one’s  belief  in  the  future 
of  all  sorts  of  canned  goods.

There  has been  some  business  done  in 
spot prunes  at  2&c  for old  crop,  f.  o.  b. 
fruit  and  2%c  for 
coast,  Santa  Clara 
Sonoma  and  Visalia.  General  trade  is 
rather  quiet  and  buyers  take  only  small 
lot8.
Lemons,  Sicily,  $2.5034.50,  as  to size 
and  condition.  Trade  is  hardly  as  ac­
tive  as  last  week  and  a  slight decline

The  supply  of  cheese  is  not  so  large 
as  last  week  and,  while  there  has  been 
no  advance 
is  a 
better  undertone  to  the  market,  both 
home  and  domestic.  Best  full  cream 
New  York  State  g%c  for  either  white 
or  colored.

in  quotations,  there 

The  supply  of  really  desirable  eggs  is 
light  and  arrivals  are  quickly  taken 
care  of.  Best  Western  will  fetch 
; 
fair to  good,  18319c;  fancy  candled,  18 
@i8%c;  uncandled,  graded,  i 7 3 I7^ c; 
ungraded,  i6@i6%c.

Abolishing th e  M ailing of Receipts.
The  Western  Association  of  Shoe 
Wholesalers  has  taken  up  the  matter of 
discontinuing  the  sending  of receipts for 
remittances,  having  recently  issued  the 
following 
letter  to  its  members  under 
date  of  June  24 :

Why  burden  yourselves  with  the  ex­
pense  of  postage,  labor  and  stationery 
necessary  for  sending  receipts for remit­
tances,  unless  certain  customers  require 
it?

satisfactory. 

Many jobbers  and  manufacturers  have 
discontinued  the  practice  and  find  it 
entirely 
Probably  you 
have  done  so ;  if  not,  why  not  begin 
now  and 
let  it  be  a  uniform  practice 
among  our  members?  It  will  save  you 
a  very  considerable  expense.

It  can  be  put  into  operation  easily 
and  with  no  extra  expense  over  and 
above  the  postage  and  labor of  sending 
the  last  receipt,by  enclosing  a  slip  sim­
ilar to the  one  enclosed  herein  with  that 
last  receipt  and  make  a  notation  on  the 
ledger  account  of  that  customer  showing 
he  has  been  notified.  If  he  requires  that 
in  his  case  you  must  send  receipts,  so 
note  on  the 
ledger  and  your  record  is 
complete.

If  we  do  not  hear  from  you  we  will 
conclude  you  have  already  adopted  the 
plan  or  will  do  so. 
If  you  have  tried  it 
give us the  benefit  of  your  experience.

Sample  Notice.

We  have  discontinued  sending 

re­
ceipts  for  remittances.  It  has  been  thor­
oughly  demonstrated that  the  recognized 
forms  of  iemittances  are  in  themselves 
their  own  best  receipt—and  that  other 
receipts  are  unnecessary.

Remittances  should  be  made  either 
in  bank  draft,  express  or  postoffice 
money  order.  Very  few  remittances  go 
astray;  and  in  rare  instances,  where one 
does  fail  to  reach  its  destination,  the 
proof  that  it  was  sent  lies  with  you  in 
your own  town,  as  the  draft,  express  or 
postoffice  order  you  mail  us  is  endotsed 
by  us  and  then  deposited  in  our  bank. 
The  draft  or  order then  bears on  its  face 
or  back  the  entire  history  of  the  trans­
action. 
If  necessary  either  your  bank, 
the  local  express  agent  or  the  postmas­
ter,  as  the  case  may  be,  will  trace  the 
matter  through  for  you  and  show  pay­
ment.

This  plan  is  being  adopted  generally 
throughout  the  mercantile  world  and 
will,  we  trust,  meet  with the  approval  of 
our customers.

F.  M.  C.  COFFEE  MILLS

Roasters  of

HIGH  GRADE  COFFEES

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

You ought to sell

LILY  W H ITE

"The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY  C IT Y   M ILLING   C O ..

GRA N D   R A P ID S ,  MIOH.

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All  sizes  to  suit  the 
needs  of  any  grocer.
Do  your  own  baking 
and  make the  double 
profit.

Hubbard Portable 

Oven  Co.

182  B E L D E N   A V E N U E ,   C H I C A G O

“Sure Catch”  Minnow Trap

Length,  19% inches.  D iam eter,  9% inches.

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

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

113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MILES  HARDWARE  CO.

The  “ Imperial”

100  CANDLE  POWER 
GRAVITY  GASOLINE 

LIGHT

CLEAR,  POWERFUL,  WHITE, 

SMOKELESS

At a cost of 

Two-tenths of a cent 

per hour.

We also Manufacture 

a full  line of 

Pressure System Lamps.

From  Lowest Grade of Gasoline

Send  for Catalogue.

The Imperial Gas Lamp Co.

132-134 East  Lake St., Chicago,  111.

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M g C H I Q A I f   T R A D E S M A N ______

Around  the  State

Movements o f Merchant».

Lester— E.  Forney  succeeds  E.  N. 

Ratbburn  in  general  trade.

Peilston— Mrs.  Bertha  Berry  succeeds 

John  Wacbtel  in  general  trade.

Hartford—E.  S.  Young  has bought  the 

T.  J.  Johns  flour and  feed  stock.

Quincy—F.  M.  Turrell  has  purchased 

the  meat  market  of  J.  C.  Rogers.

Saginaw—J.  W.  Aldrich has purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Tedford  &  Lamont.
Durand— Elmer  C.  Barlow  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Hopkins  &  Mills.
Cascade—W.  D.  Kennedy  has  pur- 
chased the  general  stock  of  G.  P.  Stark.
Fowlerville— Roy  Wickman,  meat 
dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Archer O.  Gro­
ver.

Ironwood—A.  J.  Schneider,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  has  removed  to  Hurley, 
Wis.

Niles— Snyder  &  Burlingame  have 
sold  their  jewelry  stock  to  Edwin  A. 
Smith.

Galesburg— L.  L.  Bowen  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  F.  J.  Aus­
tin  &  Co.

Milford—Silas  B.  Rice  has  removed 
to 

his  general  merchandise 
Brighton.

stock 

Marlette— Frank  G.  Smith  has  pur­
chased  the  harness  stock  of  A.  Winter- 
stein  &  Son.

Cadillac— Arthur  H.  Webber  will  en­
in  the  retail  furniture  business 

gage 
about  Sept.  i.

Brighton— Silas B.  Rice has  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  G.  S. 
Burgess  &  Co.

Farwell— Lester  F.  Leonard  continues 
the  grocery  business  formerly  conducted 
by  Asa  Leonard.

Muskegon—Lyman  &  Gillespie,  drug­
gists,  have  dissolved  partnership,  W. 
D.  Lyman  succeeding.

Ann  Arbor— The  Herrick  Grocery  Co. 
has  purchased  the  Johnson  stock  of  gro­
ceries  from  W.  N.  Salisbury.

Peilston— Wm.  Roberts  has  engaged 
in  the  meat  business,  having  purchased 
the  market  of  E.  W.  Peister.

Saginaw— August  Novy  has  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business.  He  purchased 
the  stock  of  Wm.  1.  Amsbury.

Charlotte— Dan Hickey  has  opened up 
a  new  drug  store.  Harry  Sparks,  of 
Jackson,  is  the pharmacist  in  charge.

Cass  City—McArthur  & Ale  have  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  and  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods  stock  of  George  Matzen.
Flushing—W.  H.  J.  Martin  &  Son, 
undertakers  and  dealers  in  furniture and 
crockery,  are  closing  out  their  business.
Shelby—J.  H.  Chapman  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Hoffman  Bros.,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

St.  Ignace—The  Alexander Fair  meat 
market  has  passed  into  the  hands  of  the 
sons  of  the  deceased, Martin  and Charles 
Fair.

McClure— Lewis  S.  David,  general 
merchandise  dealer,  has 
taken  his 
brother  into  partnership  under  the  style 
of  David  Bros.

Port  Huron—Walter  Sanderson,  who 
in 
in  the 

recently 
Meisel's  store,  has  embarked 
coffee  business.

resigned  his  position 

Clinton— Richter  &  Hittle,  druggists 
and  grocers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business 
is  continued  by 
Hittle  &  Pardee.

Allegan—John  C.  Stein  has  purchased 
formerly 
die  bazaar  stock  of  goods 
owned  by  O.  W.  Bliss  and  will  add  it 
to bis dry  goods  stock.

Port  Huron— I.  L.  Marshall,  of  Lans­
ing,  has  opened  a  confectionery  store 
and  ice  cream  fountain  in  the  store  re­
cently  occupied  by  A.  J.  Cummings.

Traverse  City—Chas.  Rosenthal,  pro­
prietor  of  the  Boston  store,  is  erecting 
an  addition  to  his  store  building  and, 
when  completed,  will  put  in  a  line  of 
furniture.

Traverse  City—  A.  E.  Wilson,  the 
contractor and  builder,  has  embarked  in 
the  grocery  business  at  511  South  Union 
street  under  the  style  of  the  Union 
Grocery  Co.

Marquette—The 

stock  of  groceries 
and  crockery  of  the  store  conducted  at 
Munising  by  the 
late  Wm.  A.  Brown 
has  been  shipped  to  Marquette  and 
placed  in  charge  of  J.  T.  Jones.

Lansing—August  Roller,  who  has 
lately  been  with  the  Hammond  Beef 
Co.,  has  purchased  Gottleib  Reutter’s 
meat  market  at  322  Washington  avenue 
South  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Constantine— W.  M.  Spencer  has  pur­
chased  J.  F.  Eesley’s  interest  and R.  J. 
Fenner  has  bought  the  interest  of  S.  J. 
Sawyer 
in  the  Eesley  Milling  Co.  at 
Constantine.  Messrs.  Spencer  and  Fen­
ner are  now  sole  proprietors  of  the  mill­
ing  property.

Lansing—The drug business conducted 
under  the  firm  name  of  A.  C.  Bauer  & 
Co.  has  been  incorporated  with  $5,000 
capital  and  will  be  known  as  the  A.  C. 
Bauer  Co.  Associated  with  Mr.  Bauer 
as  stockholders  are  E.  J.  Bauman,  of 
this  city,  and  Frank  W.  Curtis,  of South 
Haven.

Grant—Jorgensen  &  Hemingsen,  who 
have  been  engaged  in  general  trade  for 
over  eighteen  years,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  A.  Jorgensen, 
in  com­
pany  with  his  son,  Albert,  continuing 
the  business  under  the  style  of  Jorgen­
sen  &  Son.  J.  Hemingsen,  together 
with  bis  son,  Henry  C.,  has  purchased 
the  grain  elevator  at  this  place  and  will 
handle  grain,  flour and  millstuffs  under 
the  style  of the  Hemingsen  Co.

Lansing— Dealers 

in  trading  stamps 
who  supply  Lansing  merchants  are  put­
ting  up  a  stiff  fight  to  knock  out  trad­
ing  stamp  opposition  among  Lansing 
meat  dealers.  One  of  the  stamp  men 
says  he  has  already  induced  three  of 
the  meat  dealers  to  renounce  their  al­
legiance  to  the  anti-trading  stamp  ele­
ment.  Some  of  the meat  men  say,  how­
ever,  that  they  will  not  take  trading 
stamps  again,  no  matter  what  stand 
their competitors  may  take  on  the  ques­
tion.

Detroit—The stockholders  of  the  State 
Savings  Bank  have  agreed  almost  unan­
imously  to  increase  the  capital  stock 
of  the  Bank  from  $500,000 to $1,000,000. 
The  increase  is  already  subscribed,  and 
the  money  will  be  p’ id  on  or  before 
July  5.  This  increase  is  resolved  upon 
because  of  the  great  business being done 
by  the  Bank. 
Its  deposits  are  over 
$13,000,000.  and  it  seems  at  the  present 
rate  of 
increase  as  though  they  would 
total  $15,000,000  by  the  end  of  the  cur­
rent  year. 

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M anufacturing M atters.

Brown  City—The  Brown  City  Grain 
Co.  has  filed  articles  with a capital stock 
of  $30,000.

St.  Joseph—The  S t  Joe  Paper  Box 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $6,000.

Port  Huron—The  Hebner  Harness 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $10,000.

Monroe—The  Floral  City  Preserving 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$15,000 to $18,400.

Chelsea—The  West  German  Cement 
Company,  capital  $i,ooo,coo,  has  filed 
articles  of  incorporation.

Battle  Creek—The  style  of  the  Malted 
Food  Co.,  Limited,  has been  changed  to 
the  Norka  Food  Co.,  Limited.

Jackson—E.  S.  Stevens  has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  Eli  Wise  in  the  Stock- 
bridge  Elevator Co.,  and  will hereafter 
conduct  the  business.

Deerfield—W.  F.  Weisinger  and  Dale 
Munsen  are  building  an  elevator,  40x50 
feet  in  dimensions  and  86  feet  high.  Its 
capacity  is  40,000  bushels  of  grain.

Tustin—Breen  &  Halliday,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  have  purchased  of  the  Union 
Lumber  &  Salt  Co.  all  of  its  wood 
stumpage  and will  begin  at  once  cutting 
the  wood.

Ishpeming— H.  C.  Cain,  who  is  en­
gaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  ice  cream 
here,  is  considering  the  advisability  of 
opening  a  general  merchandise  store  at 
Humboldt.

Frankfort—The  White  Star  Portland 
Cement  Co.,  composed  of  Detroit  men, 
has  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State  a 
notice  of  an 
increase  of  capital  from 
$10,000 to $1,500,000.

Pontiac— The  Pontiac  Sheet  Metal 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  purchased  the 
Van  Kleek  property  and  is  preparing  to 
begin  the  manufacture  of  the  household 
specialties  covered  by  patents  of  F.  C. 
Sherman.

Belding—Wilson,  Dimmick  &  Sin­
clair,  planing  mill  operators  and  lum­
ber  manufacturers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership,  Alvin  S.  Dimmick  retiring. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  M.
L.  Wilson  and  Willis  D.  Sinclair  under 
the  style  of  Wilson  &  Sinclair.

Schoolcraft—Wm.  L.  Porter  will  move 
grist  mill  from  Lacota  to  this 
bis 
place,  where 
it  will  be  erected  on  the 
site  of  one  burned  twenty-five years ago. 
He  expects to  commence  the  erection  of 
the  mill  July  10 and  have  it  completed 
and  in  running  order  September  1.

Constantine—G.  A.  Brown,  of  St. 
Johns,  has  agreed  to  engage  in  the man­
ufacture  of  dining  tables  here,  furnish­
ing  $10,000 capital,  giving  employment 
to  fifty  men,  and  guarantees  to  disburse 
$25,000  in  wages  annually,  conditional 
on  the  village  furnishing  him  a  factory 
building,  with  dry  kiln  and  engine 
room,  estimated  to cost S5»000- 

Leslie—The  People's  Bank  has  taken 
possession  of  the  Leslie  Elevator  Co., 
which  has  recently  been  operated  by  L.
M.  Russell  and  R.  A.  Ludwick.  The 
Bank  alleges  irregularities  on  the  part 
of  Mr.  Ludwick,  which  that  gentleman 
denies.  The  report  that  the  Bank  would 
lose  heavily  caused  a  run  on  the  Bank, 
but  only  about  $5,000  in  funds  were 
withdrawn.

West  Bay  City—The  Hecia  Cement 
Co.  expects  to  have  its  plant  completed 
within  the  next  thirty  days,  and  will 
commence  the  manufacture  of  cement  at 
once,  provided  there 
is  any  change  in 
the  coal  strike  here.  The  plant  will 
manufacture  1,000  barrels  of  cement 
per day,  but  machinery  to  double  that 
capacity  will  be  installed.  The  com­
pany  has  a  franchise  for  furnishing  gas 
in  West  Bay  City,  and  work  on  the  gas 
plant  will  be  started  as  soon  as the pres­
ent  rush  of  operations  is  over.

FALSE  TO  TH E  CORE.

U nw arranted  R em arks  Recently  Uttered 

by  A lderm an  R enihan.

Our  factory  is  one  of  the 

The  remarks  made  by  Alderman 
Renihan  before  the  Common  Council 
Monday  evening,  and  published  in  yes­
terday’s  issue  of  The  Post,  were  so 
much  in  error and so misleading  that  we 
feel  it our  duty  to  place  the  facts as they 
really  exist  properly  before  the  public: 
largest  and 
most  modernly  equipped 
in  the  coun­
try.  Thiougbout  our  entire  factory  elec­
tricity  is  used  for  lighting purposes dur­
ing  the  summer  months,  while  gas  is 
used 
in  the  winter.  We  also  have  a 
large  number of  electric  fans,  which  are 
kept  in  constant  use,  and  the  floors of 
our  factory  are  thoroughly  mopped  and 
cleaned  when  occasion  requires.  The 
walls  are  all  whitewashed  a snowy  white 
and  a 
large  water  filter  is  kept  in  con­
stant  service  supplying  the  purest  water 
possible.

largest  union  cigar  shops 

Five  H undred  H ollars  to  C harity.
We  will  pay  $500  to  any  charitable 
institution  on  the  following  conditions: 
First,  $100  if  Mr.  Renihan  will  produce 
the  name  of  another  cigar  factory  in  the 
city,  union  or  non-union,  which  affords 
any  greater  advantage;  $100 
if  Mr. 
Renihan  can  prove  that  we  have  know­
ingly  and  willingly  violated  any  labor 
law  of  this  State;  $100  if  we  can  not 
show  Mr.  Renihan  that  our  giris  go  to 
union  shops  and  girls  come  from  union 
shops  to  our  factory.  We  simply  desire 
to  call  this  third  clause  to  Mr.  Reni- 
han’s  attention  to  show  that  it  is  not  a 
matter  of  girls,  but  the  Cigarmakers’ 
union,  who  desire  to  dictate  how  many 
girls  each  factory  may  employ  and  what 
each  girl  shall  do;  $100  if  any  factory 
or  work-shop  of  any  description  can  be 
found 
in  this  city  employing  as  large  a 
number  of  girls  whose  average  wage 
scale  exceeds  ours.  We  refer  to the State 
Labor  Bureau  as  evidence  on  this  sub­
ject.
The  other  $100  will  be  paid  if  we  do 
not  make  more  cigars  than  any  five  of 
the 
in  this 
citv.
We  feel  rather  inclined  to  excuse  Mr. 
Renihan  from  the  remarks  he  made,  as 
they  were  so  greatly  in  error  and  so  far 
from  the  actual  existing  conditions  that 
they  apply  to  us  in  no  particular.  We 
also  beg  to  thank  all  the  aldermen  who 
were  fair  to  us  in  this  matter  and  ex­
tend  a  cordial 
invitation  to  any  com­
mittee  the  Common  Council  may  choose 
to  appoint  to  make  a  thorough  inspec­
tion  of  our  factory  at  any  time  they may 
desire.
In  conclusion,  we  would  say  regard­
ing  the  poorly  paid  and  poorly fed help, 
so  pathetically  referred  to  by  the  aider- 
man  in  his address,  that  the  State  Fac­
tory Inspector  holds  a  detailed  report re­
cently furnished him by us on this subject 
and  that  our factory  is inspected  regular­
ly  and  approvedby  him.  He  holds  a 
list  of  the  girls  employed  by  us  and  the 
average  wage  scale  paid,  and  as  his 
office  is  located  in  this  city these details 
are  not  hard  to  obtain.  The  sanitary 
condition  of  our  factory  is  also  duly  in­
spected  by  the  proper  officers,  and  we 
do  not  think  there  is  another  factory  in 
the  United  States  that  gives  this  any 
greater  attention  than  we  do.

Yours  respectfully,

G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.

Corunna—Austin  Phillips  is  the  in­
ventor  of  a  system  for  making  ginger 
ale  by  the  aid  of  gas,  after  simply  put­
ting  ginger  extract,  sugar  and  water  in 
a  barrel  and  drawing 
it  out  by  a  tap 
like  a  beer  pump.  The  American  Gin­
ger  Ale  Co.  with  a  capital  of $100,000 
has  been  organized  by  Mr.  Phillips  and 
several  Detroit  men  to  manufacture  the 
machinery for making the popular drink.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

S. 

A.  Sears,  who  is  now  Acting  Man­

ager  of  the  great  Kennedy  factory  at 
Cambridgeport,  as  well  as  Manager  of 
the  local  branch  of  the  National  Bis­
cuit  Co.,  is  spending  a  few  days  with 
friends  and  relatives  here.

bouse.

Alfred  J.  Brown  has  returned  from 
Minneapolis,  where  he  attended  the  an­
nual  convention  of  the  American  Seed 
Trade  Association  and  the  American 
Seed  League,  with  both  of  which  organ­
izations  be 
is  affiliated.  Mr.  Brown 
says  that  vegetation  and  crops  in  Min­
nesota  are  fully  two  weeks  ahead  of 
Michigan,  although  this  condition 
is 
usually  reversed.

Henry  Idema,  who  has  financed  some 
of  the 
largest  corporations  in  the  city, 
is  at  work  on  a  $500,000  lumber corpora­
tion,  which  will  probably  be  known  as 
the  Boyne  City  Lumber  Co.  The  tim­
ber  on  which  the  enterprise  is  based 
comprises  about  20,000  acres  of  hard­
wood,which  will  be  cut  and  hauled  over 
the  Boyne  City  and  Southeastern  Rail­
way  to  Boyne  City,  where  it  will  be  cut 
in  a  mill  which  will  be  erected  for  that 
purpose.  Wm.  H.  White,  the  Boyne 
City 
for 
$100,000 of  the  stock,  L.  H.  Withey  has 
put  his  name  down  for $32,000  and  H. 
B.  Lewis,  Amos  S.  Musselman  and 
Henry  Idema  have  each  taken  $25,000. 
The  remainder 
smaller 
amounts  by  Grand  Rapids,  Kalamazoo 
and  Manistee  capitalists.  As  soon  as 
the  reports  of  the  estimators  now  on  the 
timber  are  received,  the  organization 
will  be  perfected.

lumberman,  has  subscribed 

is  taken 

in 

The 

loss  of  business  sustained  by  the 
Michigan  (Bell)  Telephone  Co.  in  this 
city 
is  plainly  shown  by  the  shrinkage 
in  the  size  of  the  May directory  as  com­
pared  with  its  immediate  predecessors. 
The  directory 
issued  last  August  con­
tained  1,924  names  which  do  not appear 
in  the  last  directory,  published  in  May, 
and  the  May  directory  contains  the 
names  of  hundreds  of  people  who  had 
their  Bell  phones  taken  out  months  be­
fore  the  directory  was  issued. 
The 
Tradesman  is  informed  by  an  official  of 
the  Bell  company  that  its  paid  connec­
tions 
in  this  city  do  not  vary  a  dozen 
from  1,800  and  that  every  day  the  num­
ber  is  growing  less. 
'It  is  a  matter  of 
common  knowledge  that  some  of  the 
employes  of  the  company  predict  that 
the  number  of  Bell  phones  in  use  in 
Grand  Rapids  Jan.  1  of  next  year will 
be  considerably  below  1,000.  The  Citi­
zens  Telephone  Co.  has  4,523  patrons  in 
this  city  and  several  hundred  applica­
tions  for service  on  file.

The Prodace M arket.

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

variety 
$4.50® 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  rules  promulgated  by  the 
Treasury  Department  practically  place 
a  ban  on  process  butter,  which  tends  to 
low  grades  and 
take  the  value  out  of 
packing  stock. 
is 
steady  at  22c  for  fancy  and  21c  for 
choice.  Dairy  grades  are  sluggish  at 
i6@i7c  foi  fancy  and I5@i6c for choice.
commands 
90c  per doz.  Kentucky  fetches  $2  per 
crate.

Cabbage— Home  grown 

Factory  creamery 

is  in 

limited 

Celery— Home  grown 

supply  at  18c  per  doz.

Cherries— Sour,  $3.50  per bu.  Sweet,

$4  per  bu.  The  crop 
is  not  large  and 
the  canners  are  paying  up  to  $3.25 
per  bu.

Cucumbers—40c  per  doz. 

for  hot 

Currants—Cherry,  $1.35  per  16  qts. 

Small,  $1.20  per  16 qts.

Eggs—The  price  has  advanced  fully 
ic  during  the  past  week.  Local  dealers 
pay  i6@I7c  for  candled  and  I4^@i5>^c 
for  case  count.

Figs— Five  crown  Turkey  command

Gooseberries—$1.10  per  16  qt.  crate.
Green  Onions— 12c  for  Silver  Skins.
Green  Peas—$1.40  per  bu.
Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@i6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  i o @ i i c .
$5@6.

Lemons—Californias,  $5;  Messinas, 

Leaf  has  declined  to  60c  per  bu.

Lettuce— Head  commands  75c  per  bu. 
Maple  Sugar— io%c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Onions— California,  $2.25  per  sack  of 
100  lbs.  ;  Kentucky  and  Louisana,  $1.50 
per  sack  of  70  lbs.

Oranges—California  Valencias,  $5.50.
Parsley—35c  per  doz.
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Pineapples— Floridas  command  $4.50 
per  crate  of  24  to  36  size,  one  kind  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— Receipts  are 

liberal,  espe­
cially  of  young  poultry.  Live  pigeons 
are 
in  moderate  demand  at  5o@6oc 
and  squabs  at $1.20^1.50.  Spring broil­
ers,  I3@i5c;  chickens,  8@9c;  small 
hens,  7@8c;  large  hens,  6@7c;  turkey 
hens,  i o ^ @ i i ^ c ;  gobblers,  9@ioc.

Radishes— 10c  per  doz.
Raspberries—Red,  $1.60  per  12  qts. 

Black  the  same.

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

Hides, Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  remains  quiet,  with 
little  change.  Old  stock  is  pltnty  and 
is  being  mixed  with  the  new  take-off  to 
sell.  Prices  are  firm,  but  are  no  higher.
None  but  lambs  and  short  wool  skins 
are  being  offered.  Prices  are  fair and 
fully  high.

Tallow  shows  a  firmness  in  place  of  a 
decline.  Stocks  are  accumulating.  The 
demand  is  good.

Wools  do  not  materially  change  in 
values  in  the  East,  although  an  anxiety 
among  the  buyers  in  the  states  crowds 
it  up  slightly  above  the  market  value 
East.  Some  are  inclined  to  speculate, 
claiming  short  clip,  etc.,  and  manipu­
late  lots  in  order to  buy.  The  outlook 
is  good  for  future  of  wool  to  be  higher, 
as  it  should  be. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Flavor of Eggs.

Dr.  J.  H.  Kellogg,  writing  in  Modern 
Medicine,  says  the  eggs  of  a  scavenger 
hen  are  not  fit  to  be  eaten.  His  atten­
to  this  a  number  of 
tion  was  called 
years  ago.  A 
lady  said  she  could  not 
eat  their  eggs.  She  wanted  “ sunflower 
eggs.”   He  asked  her  what  she  meant 
by  that,  and  she  said  that  an  old  Ger­
man  at  home  fed  his  chickens  on  sun­
flower  seeds,  and  that  the  eggs  were  re­
markably  sweet.  Some  of  the  eggs  were 
sent  for,  and  this  was  found  to  be  true. 
Eggs  do  partake  of  the  nature  of  the 
food  which  has  been  eaten.

This  is  a  chance  for  chicken raisers to 
build  up  a  trade 
in  fancy  eggs  a  at 
higher  price,  recommending  them  spe­
cially  for  invalids.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

ket.

crate.

Strawberries—$1.25© 1.50  per  16  qt. 

Tomatoes—80c. per  4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—$i@2  per bu.

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugars— The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
weaker,  the  price  of  96  deg.  test  cen­
trifugals  having  declined  %c.  Refiners 
are  buyers  at  this  price,  but  holders  are 
not  offering  very  freely  and  but  little 
business  is  transacted.  The  weak  and 
lower  market  for  raw  sugar,  the  contin­
ued  cool  weather  and  the  fact  that  the 
trade  are  fairly  well  stocked  for  present 
needs  tend  to  make  the  refined  market 
rather  dull  and  featureless.  Buyers  lack 
confidence  in  the  market  and  prefer  to 
bold  back,  awaiting  further  develop­
ments.  Owing  to  the  cool  weather,  the 
consumption  of  sugar  is  not  as  large  as 
was  expected,  and  dealers  are  looking 
for  a  decline  of  five  to  ten  points  on  all 
grades.

in 

Canned  Goods—Trade 

canned 
goods  continues  good,  with  the  volume 
of  business  very  satisfactory  for  this 
time  of  the  year.  The  high  prices  of 
some  goods  and  the  scarcity  of  others 
have  curtailed  buying  of  some  lines, 
but,  on  the  whole,  trade  has  kept  up 
well. 
The  situation  generally  shows 
very  few  changes.  Tomatoes  show  un­
diminished  strength,  both  on  spot  and 
future goods.  Spot  stocks  are  exceeding­
ly 
light  and  are  held  a  trifle  firmer. 
Present  prospects  favor  a  somewhat 
smaller  yield  than  was  at  first  expected, 
and  this  fact,  coupled  with  a  practically 
entire  clean-up  of  the  1901  pack,  will 
undoubtedly  be  a  source  of  strength  to 
the  market.  Corn 
is  in  very  good  de­
mand,  both  for  spot  and  future  goods, 
particularly  for  the  medium  grades,  of 
which 
large  sales,  have  been  made  re­
cently.  Unfavorable  advices  still  arrive 
telling  of  almost  total  failure  of  a  con­
siderable 
in  some  sections. 
Only  a  small  demand 
is  reported  for 
peas.  Buyers  have  apparently  supplied 
their  wants 
for  the  present.  There  is 
some  business  in  peaches.  Stocks,  how­
ever,  are^pretty  well  cleaned  up  and  the 
new  crop  will  come  on  a  practically 
bare  market.  Canned  apples,  both  spot 
and 
selling  well. 
There  is  considerable  demand  for  spot 
gallons,  but  they  are  practically  ex­
hausted  and 
in  some  cases  buyers  are 
forced  to  take  3  lbs.  instead.  Sardines 
are  firm  and  a  good  steady  demand  is 
reported.  Prospects  now  are  for  a  sat­
isfactory  pack  this  season.  Salmon  is 
moving  out  well  under  a  good  consump­
tive  demand.  This  good  demand  is  ex­
pected  to continue  for  some  weeks  yet, 
as  this  is  a  time  of  the  year  when  the 
sale  of  salmon  is  usually  heavy.

future  goods,  are 

acreage 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  fairly  active  for  this  season  of  the 
year.  Prunes  continue  in  quite  good  de­
mand,  orders  being  for  small 
lots  of 
most  all  sizes,  but  with  the  market  on 
large  sizes  very  firmly  held.  Crop  pros­
pects  favor  an  abundance  of  small  fruit 
is  asked  for  the  large 
and  a  premium 
sizes.  Raisins  are 
in  strong  position 
still.  Demand 
is  especially  good  for 
seeded.  Stocks  of  both  loose  and  seeded 
are 
light  and  holders  show  some  dispo­
sition  to  ask  higher  prices.  Apricots 
and  peaches  are  both  firm  and  in  good 
demand.  Stocks  of  both  are  small,  but 
this 
is  particularly  so  of  apricots. 
Dates  are  strong  and  in  fair  demand  for 
this  season  of  the  year.  Prices  show  no 
change.  Figs  are  about  exhausted  in 
first  hands  and  should  be  entirely 
cleaned  up  before  the  new  crop  arrives 
if  the  present  good  demand  continues 
for  a  few  weeks.

Rice—Trade  in  rice  is  very  good 

in­
deed,  sales  during  the  past week  having 
been  of  a  very  satisfactory  volume,  bet­
ter,  in  fact,  than  is  usual  at  this  time

of  the  year.  Prices  are  very  firm,  some 
grades  showing  an  advance  of j^c.  Mil­
lers’  stocks  are  light  and  most  of  the 
mills  are  closed  for  the  season.  Hold­
ers  appear  to  have full  confidence in  the 
maintenance  of  prices  in  the  future  and 
concessions  were absolutely  refused.  As 
the  country  is  lightly  stocked,  it  is  only 
a  matteo«of  time  when  the  question  of 
re-supply  will  become  more  active,  fol­
lowed  by  an  upward  trend  in  prices. 
News  regarding  the  growing  crop 
is 
rather  unfavorable.  General  indications 
at  the  moment  point  to  a  delayed  and 
diminished  yield.

Molasses—The  molasses  market  shows 
no  change,  prices  remaining  steady  un­
der a moderate  demand.  Trade  is mostly 
on  medium  grades  and  of  only  small 
quantities  such  as  are  needed  to  fill  the 
usual  light  demand  at  this  season  of  the 
year.  Trade  on  molasses  in  cans,  how­
ever,  continues  to  be  quite  satisfactory. 
On  account  of  the  strong  corn  market, 
corn  syrup 
is  very  strong  and  higher 
prices  are  looked  for  very  soon.

Fish—Trade  in  fish  is  moderate,  cod­
fish  being  in  quite  good  demand  at  pre­
vious  prices,  but  mackerel  is  quiet  just 
now,  with  very  little  demand.

Nuts—The  most  interesting  article  in 
this 
line  at  present  is  peanuts,  which 
show  a  slight  advance,  with  the  pros­
pects  of  a  further  advance  very  soon. 
Demand 
is  very  good,  some  large  sales 
during  the  past  week  being  reported. 
Almonds 
shosr  considerable  strength 
with  stocks  very  light.  Brazils,  how­
ever,  are  slightly  easier  with  demand 
very  light.

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
is  in exceedingly strong position.  Prices 
have  advanced  50c  per  barrel  and  20c 
per  case,  with  most  millers  withdrawn 
from  the  market,  and  what  few  are 
offering  sell  for  greatly  delayed  ship­
ment  only.  Demand  is  very  good,  deal­
ers  buying  heavy  stocks  in  anticipation 
of  still  further advances.
B ankruptcy  of  the  M ichigan  Telephone 

Co.

The  Michigan  Telephone  Co.  has 
reached  the  end  of  its  rope,  six  months' 
interest  on  the  $5,000,000  of  5  per  cent, 
bonds  having  been  defaulted  July  1.

The  interest  paid  on  these  bonds  last 
January  was  not  earned,  but  was  ad­
vanced  by  the  Erie  Telephone  Co.

Frantic  appeals  were  made  by  the 
directors  of  the  Michigan  Telephone 
Co.  to  the  Erie  Telephone  Co.  to  tide 
over  the  crisis  again  this month,  but  the 
Erie  Co.  evidently acted  on  the  assump­
tion  that 
it  did  not  pay  to  put  good 
money  after  bad  and  declined.

It  is  considered  likely,  therefore,  that 
proceedings  will  be  begun  to  foreclose 
the  mortgages which  secure  these bonds, 
after  the  ninety  days  have  expired 
which  is  necessary  to  permit  the  default 
to  become  operative.

such 

It  is  possible  that  some  plan  of  reor­
ganization  may  be  decided  upon  by 
which  about  75  per  cent,  of  the  $5,000,- 
000  in  stock  and  25  per  cent,  of  the 
in  bonds  would  be  cut  out. 
$5,000,000 
Should 
a  squeeze  be  carried 
through  the  company  would  be  able  to 
resume  business  for  a  time,  bu t  it  is 
only  a  question  of  months  when  a  sec­
ond  liquidation  would  be  necessary,  be­
cause  the  earnings  of  the  company  are 
$220,000  less  than the operating expenses 
and  interest  on  the  bonds.

ft  is  not  surprising  that  the  union 
cigarmakers  should  make  an  effort  to 
bar  S.  C.  W.  cigars  from  John  Ball 
Park,  because,  if  they  did  not  succeed 
in  doing  so,  S.  C.  W.  would  be  about 
the  only  brand  which  would  be  called 
for.

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OM  THK  EXCURSION TRAIN.

Incidents  Seen  T hrough  the  Eyes  of  a 

D rum m er.

Perhaps  one  of  the  most  important 
factors  in  the  training  of  the  successful 
traveling  man  is  bis  experiences  on  the 
various  railroads  of  our  country.  Here 
he  often  meets  cranky  conductors, super- 
cillious  baggagemen  and  a  call*  full  of 
people  who  always  give  ample  room 
for character study.

I  myself am  a  drummer and  I  always 
like  to  relate one short  trip  I  took  across 
M ichigan:

It  was  on  an  excursion  train  in  early 
autumn.  The  carriages  were  filled  to 
overflowing. 
I  had  fully  made  up  my 
mind  before  starting  that,  if  I  could 
only  get  a  seat,  even  a  squawling  baby 
being  joggled up  and down in the aisle— 
babies  have  no  business  on  excursions 
anyway— wouldn’t  move  my 
legs,  no 
matter  how  much  it  touched  my heart.  1 
secured  the  seat,  but,  alas!  the  baby 
was  likewise  provided  for  the  occasion, 
and  1 pensively  viewed the  landscape  in 
order  to  escape  the  expectant  and  re­
proachful  glances  cast  in  my  direction. 
My  ears,  however,  refused  to  listen  to 
murmuring  brooks  and  seemed  to  prefer 
babbling  tongues  instead:

“ Yes,  there’s  that  brute  of  a  man  a 
little 
settin’  there  while  that  poor  tired 
kid 
is  a  squawlin’  its  very  lights  out, 
an’  he  never  even  a  seemin’  to  notice 
it.  Minnie  won’t  have  such  a  good  time 
as she  planned,  with  the  two  twins  both 
a  walkin’ an’  a  keepin'  of her on the trot 
the  hull  time— and  the  baby,  too.’ ’

Poor  M innie! 

I  wondered  how  she 
managed  to  have  a  good  time  at  home, 
much  less  abroad.  A  piercing  wail  from 
the  youngest  baby  of  the  trio,  with  a 
fierce  yell  from  the  twins,  gave  me 
faith  in  the  old  saying,  “ The  hand  that 
rocks  the  cradle  rules  the  world,"  when 
above  the  uproar  I again beard Minnie’s 
zealous  advocate:

“ You’re  the  only  man  on  this  car that 
hasn’t  had  decency  enough  to get  up 
an’  give  bis  seat  to  the  ladies.  Don’ 
you  hear  that  poor  dear  little  baby  a 
crying?”   indignantly.

“ I  do,  madame,  I  do. 

I  can  hea: 
eight  babies  crying,  but  this  particula 
one  seems to  have an extra pair of lungs 
as  a  reserve,  I  suppose.”

“ Tell  ye  what,  we  had  a  pretty  tough 
time  afore  we  got  hitched,  though.  Her 
dad's  rich  an'  natcbally’s  looked  some 
higher than  me  for  his  gall,  but  Jennie, 
she  says,  says  she, 
‘ I  hain't  never 
goin’  to  marry  no  man  for  his  money 
unless  I love  him ;’  so  we  kep’  company 
six  months  an’  the  old  man  see 
it  was 
use  an’  gin  in— an’  we  was  spliced 
this  mornin’.  I  borrowed  money  enough 
I  ain’t the  kind 
that  has  folks  say  I'm  too  darn  stingy to 
go  for  a  weddin'  trip."

little  trip. 

take  a 

For  fifteen  minutes  longer  Brown  jol­
lied  them  up  for  the  edification  of  the 
crowd,  when  he  was  suddenly 
inter­
rupted :

Lake  Town?  Lake  Town!  This 
can’t  be  Lake  Town!  Why,  I  left  Lake 
Town  this morning— it can’t  possibly  be 
Lake  Town!"

The  conductor  was  standing  beside  a 
woman  whose  voice  rose  almost  to  a 
scream  in  her excitement.
“ I  am  sorry,  ma’am, 

if  you  have 
made  any  mistake,  but  this  is  certainly 
Lake  Town. ’ ’

“ Then 

it  is  your  fault!  You  should 
have  noticed  my  ticket  wasn’t  for  here, 
t  was  for  Beanville.  You'll  have  to 
give  me  a  pass  back  to-day  or  I’ll  re­
port  you.  Such  a  careless  thing  to  do!  1 
don’t  believe  yet  it’s  Lake  Town- why, 
when  I  changed  cars  I  asked  a  man 
which  was  the  south  train  and  he  said 
it  was  this  one. 
He  must  have 
known— ’ ’

“ Are  you  going  to  get  off  here  or not? 
We  can't  hold  the  train  all  day.”   He 
had  fished  out  her ticket  from his pocket 
and  was 
impatiently  waiting  for  her 
answer.

hotel  bill  for all  that. 

“ Have  you  any  people  living  here?’ 
“ Yes,  but  I  insist  on  your  paying  my 
I  never  had  such 
thing  as  this  happen  before  in  all  my 
ife,  and  I've  crossed  the  ocean,  too 
but  then,  steamboat  officials  are  not  so 
careless— ”

“ I'll  give  you  a  pass  back,  for  to 
morrow,  but  nothing  else.  You  should 
have  asked  a  guard  what  train  to  get 
on. ”

lady  took  the  pass  and  moved 
toward  the  door,  relating  as  she  went 
how  she  “ had crossed  the  Atlantic  with 
out  ever  getting  mixed  when 
she 
changed  cars.”

The 

I  rose  as  I  spoke,  and  was  somewhat 
disgusted  to  find  that  I  was  the  only 
man  in  the  car.  As  I  vacated,  two 
into  the  seat,  each  with 
women  filed 
two-year-old 
in  her  arms,  followed  by 
Minnie  with  a  yearling.  A  brother  of 
the  grip,  grinning  at  the  door,  winked 
and  whispered  “ R ice!’ ’  as  I  came  up 

young 

in  a  very 

“ Where?”
“ In  here— look  down  the  aisle.”
All  on  hoard  appeared  undisguisedly 
interested 
couple 
standing  in  the  aisle,  who  were  so  ab 
sorbed 
in  each  other  that  they  failed  to 
notice  the  interest  they  were  exciting  in 
the  others.  Both  were  apparently  very 
happy,  holding  hands,  exchanging  fond 
smiles  and  not  a  few  smacking  kisses 
that  must  have  reached  the  ears  of  the 
engineer.  My  brother  drummer,  who 
very,  very  sociable,  decided  to  get  ac 
quainted  with  the  young  couple.  He 
leaned  over  the  youth  and  asked  in 
stage  whisper:

“ Say,  is  that  your  sister?  All  the 

fellows  on  the  car  are  trying  to  make 
mash  on  her. 
Introduce  me,  won 
you?”

A  pleased  smile  crossed  the  rather 
vacant countenance  as  he  gave  an  extra 
squeeze  to  her  hand,  nudged  her  and 
said :

“ Naw!  she’s  my  wife.

The  next 

incident  of 

interest  was 

Brown 

caused  by  a  pug  dog,  his  mistress 
whose  age  might  have  been  anywhere 
between  30  and  40—and  my  volatile 
friend  Brown—flirt,  25,  married— who 
has  since  gone  way  back  and  sat  down 
commenced  operations  by 
carressing  “ Beauty,”   as  the  fair  one 
little  pup,  asking  his 
called  her  ugly 
if  his 
name,  age,  accomplishments, 
health  was  good,  etc.,  etc., 
lady 
answering  with  a  lisp  and  an  ingratiat 
ing  smile. 
Then  the  subject—quite 
from  Beauty  to 
naturally—changed 
Beauty's  mistress. 
She  mentioned 
sweetly  how  dear  all  living  things  were 
to  her,  but  Beauty  most  of  a ll;  how 
in 
the  past  she  had  never trusted  men—but 
tenderly  added  she  would  always  feel 
differently  in  the  future.  Her  health was 
very  delicate,  hysteria usually succeeded 
a  fainting  spell.  Brown  grew  sympa 
thetic.

the 

“ Won’t  carrying  Beauty  so far,  stand 
ing,  make  you  feel 
faint  and  weary 
little  girl?  Pardon  me,  you  must  not 
think  me  familiar,  I  feel  as  though  you 
were  my  younger  sister.”

“ Oh,  thank  you,  but  won't  your  arms 
get  tired,  too,  Mr.  Brown?”   passing  the 
surprised  cur  over  to  Brown. 
“ Now 
here  comes the  conductor— I  am  so  glad

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I  have  a  protector,  a  man  is  so  much 
more  effective  than  a  woman,”   sweetly.
“ What’s  this  dog  doing  here?  Can’t 
you  read  plain  English?  He  must  go 
into the  baggage car.”

“ Beauty shall  not  go  into  the  baggage 
car!  He  has  never  been  away  from  me, 
his  mistress,  in  all  his  dear  little  life. 
I'd  cry  myself  ill  if  he  bad  to  go  into 
the  baggage  car!”

“ The  baggage  car  . will  be  the  best 

place— ”

“ Ob,  you  brute!  No,  no,  I  didn’t 
mean  you,”   and,  throwing  her  arms 
around  Brown’s  neck  and  dropping  her 
head  tenderly  on  his  shoulder,  she  be­
gan  to  cry.

Brown,  for  the  first  time  in  his  life, 
The  conductor  now 

looked 
harshly  joined  in :

floored. 

“ If  you  and  your  wife  can’t  occupy  a 
little  less  room  in  the  aisle  you  had  bet­
ter  go  into  the  other  car  with  the  dog. 
If  you  have  so  much  room  for  an  extra 
one  in  your  family  you’d  better  adopt  a 
baby  and  not  make  such  a  row  over  a 
dog!”

When  the  train  soon after  pulled  up  at 
our  station  the  woman  was  frantically 
hugging  Brown  and the  dog and begging 
Brown  “ not  to forsake her,”   Beauty was 
yelping  and  kicking,  the  conductor  was 
vainly  trying  to  get  hold  of  the dog,  and 
Brown— well,  Brown  was  sweating  and 
praying  earnestly  for  death!  Only  one 
thing  remained  for  him  to  do  and  he 
it:  Slowly  he  wrenched  the  yelp­
did 
ing  canine 
into  a  position  where  the 
conductor  could  reach  it,  told  the  lady 
the  truth, that  “ it  was  all  he  could  do,”  
and,  as  she  wildly  chased  the  conductor 
and  dog  in  one  direction,  Brown  fled  in 
the  other,  staggering  blindly  off  the 
steps and murmuring,”  Thank  Heaven !”  

J.  L.  Noremac.

A  Scheme W hich  Didn’t   W ork.

The  following  correspondence  is  self- 
explanatory  and  goes  to  show  that  often 
the  worm  turns  just  in  time  to  be  trod­
den  upon:

Dear Madam— I take pleasure  in  ship­
ping  to  your  address  a  rug  valued  at 
$50,  for  which  I  shall  be  glad  to  receive 
your  check. 
If  you  do  not  desire  the 
rug,  please  return  it.

“ The 

idea!”   she  exclaimed. 

“ I 

never  knew  such  impertinence.”

Then  she  sat  down  and  wrote  the  fol­

lowing :

Dear  Sir— I  have  ordered  no  rug  from 
your  establishment,  and  see  no  reason 
why  1  should  go  to  the  expense  of  re­
turning  that  which  I  do  not  want,  and 
which  was  sent  to  me  unsolicited.

To  this  she  received  the  following 

answer  in  due  time:

Dear  Madam— I  will  send  for  the  un­
solicited  rug,  and  1  trust  you  wilj  do 
me  the  favor  to  send  for  the  unsolicited 
charity  entertainment  tickets  which now 
lie,  with  about  twenty-eight  others,  on 
my  desk.

“ The  discourteous  boor!”   she  ex­

claimed.

“ Evidently,”   he  soliquised,  “ there 
are  methods  of  procedure  that  can  not 
be  successfully  applied  to business.”

W hy  He  K ept Quiet.

The new clergyman  had  been  asked  to 
Sunday  dinner  by  one  of  the  families  of 
his  congregation,  and  had  accepted.

commendation 

to  the  small  son  of  his  host  at  table.

“ You  are  a  real  good  boy!”   he  said 
“ Me?”   said  the  boy,  surprised  at  un­
any
...

solicited 
source. 
I 
watched  you  all  through  the  sermon  this 
morning,  and  you  hardly  moved.  ’
"O h !”   exclaimed  the  lad,  as  a  light 
broke  upon  him.  “ Well,  you  see,  1  was 
afraid  of  waking  pop  up.”

" Y e s ,”   went  on  the  minister, 

from 
. 

UNION LABOR TYRANNY.

In d ian s Business  Men  F orm   a  Union  of 

T heir Own.

Labor  troubles  have  brought  about  a 
curious  condition  of  affairs  in  Vermil­
ion,  Parke,  Clinton,  Vigo,  Clay  and 
Sullivan  counties,  Ind.  Friends  of  long 
standing  have  been  estranged,  business 
relations  broken  up  and  many  quarrels 
started 
in  a  dozen  different  communi­
ties.

One  man  has  been  murdered,  another 
dangerously  wounded, 
eight  others 
beaten,  fcrty  or  more  business  firms 
placed  under  boycott  and  the  life  of  a 
minister  who  criticised  the  acts  of  or­
ganized  labor  has  been  threatened  and 
a  boycott  declared  against  his  church.

The  cause  of  all  this  was  a  strike  re­
sulting  from  a  trivial  dispute  between 
the  Terre  Haute  Street  Railway  and  its 
employes.  The  Central  Labor  Union  of 
Terre  Haute  took  a  hand  in  the  trouble 
and  declared  a  boycott  against  the street 
car  company.

Next  the  boycott  was  extended  to 
every  person  who  rode  on  the  cars. 
It 
was  soon  extended  to any  man’s  busi­
ness,  and  groceries,  dry  goods  houses, 
mills  and  factories  were  one  after  an­
other  placed  on  the  list.

Notices  were  sent  out  from  time  to 
time  to  all  the  mining  towns  in  Clay, 
Vermilion,  Parke,  Sullivan  and  other 
counties  giving  the  names  of  the  firms 
on  the  list  and  asking  the  organized 
miners  and  others  not to  purchase  goods 
from  local  merchants  who  bought  at  the 
Terre  Haute  jobbing  houses.  Some  of 
the  merchants  ignored  the  threats,  and 
the  boycott  was  thus  extended  to a dozen 
or  more  towns,  which  were  thus  brought 
into  the  controversy.

If  a  dealer  went  to Terre  Haute  from 
another  town  and  rode  on  a  street  car 
his  name  was  secured  and  placed  on the 
list  and  his  customers  at  home  were 
asked  not  to  deal  with him.  A  merchant 
who  lived  at  Brazil  missed  his  train  at 
Terre  Haute  one  afternoon  and  went 
home  on  the interurban.  His  customers 
were  mainly  miners  and  they  at  once 
ceased  to trade  with  him.  The  milk­
man  who  delivered  milk 
in  his  store 
was  notified  by  a  local  union  to  cease 
doing  so,  and  when  he  refused  the  min­
ers’  families  in  the  town  refused  to  buy 
of  him.

The  matter  even  extended  to  his  chil­
dren  in  the  public  school,and  one miner 
took  his  children  out  of  school  because 
one  of  them  was  seated  next  to  the  mer­
chant’s  little  daughter.  The teacher  re­
fused  to  make  any  change  in  the  seat­
ing  of  the  children,  and  a  boycott  was 
proposed  against  the  school,  but  the 
plan  was  not  approved  when  submitted 
to  the  union.

A  New  York  drummer,  who  knew 
nothing  of  the  state  of  affairs  in  Terre 
Haute,  rode  from  the  railway  station  to 
Main  street  on  an  electric  car.  Two 
union  men  followed  him into  every stoie 
he  entered  and  told  the  proprietors  that 
they  would  suffer  if  they  bought  any 
goods  of  him.  He  left  the  place  without 
making  a  sale.

The  Rev.  Dr.  Waterman  declared 

in 
a  sermon  that  the  conditions  existing  in 
Terre  Haute  were  a  disgrace  to the  city 
and  that  the 
law  should  be  enforced, 
and  he  was  threatened with  bodily  barm 
and  a  boycott  was  established  against 
him  and  his  church.

The  Commercial  Club  took  some  500 
people  out  to  see  a  new  manufacturing 
concern,  using  the  electric  cars  for  the 
trip,  and  the  Central  Labor  Union  de­
clared  that  this  was  done  to  weaken  the 
effect  of  the  boycott  against  the  com­

pany  and  the  club  was  placed  on  the 
list  also.  This  bad  the  effect  of  putting 
many  persons  on  the  boycotted  list  who 
had  not  ridden  on  the  cars,  and  nearly 
every  business  man  in  the  city  was  now 
under  the  ban.

that 

thought 

This  state  of  affairs  brought  about  a 
very  natural  result  in  the  organization 
of  the  business  men  of  the  city  for  self­
protection.  They 
the 
unions  were  carrying  the  matter  too  far, 
especially  as  all  the  men  who  had  en­
gaged  in  the  strike  bad  either  returned 
to  work  or  bad  found  other employment.
But  when  they  went  to  the  Central 
Labor  Union  and  asked that the boycotts 
be  lifted  they  received  the  reply  that 
they  could  not  be  lifted,even  if  the  cen­
tral  body  was  willing,  for  the  street  car 
company  was  on  the  unfair  list,  and 
every  one  who  patronized 
it  must  be 
placed  on  the  same  list  with  it.

The  business  men  then  formed  an  or­
ganization,  which  is  known  as  the  Citi­
zens’  Protective  League.  It  object  is  to 
protect  the  members  against  the  unrea­
sonable  aggressions  of  the  labor  organ­
izations.

No  sooner  was  this 

league  formed 
than  the  Central  Labor  Union placed  all 
of  its  members  on  the  unfair  list  and 
sent  agents 
into  all  the  surrounding 
towns  with  notices  to  the  local  mer­
chants  not  to  patronize  any  of  the  busi­
ness  men  who  had  joined  it.  The  mem­
bership  of  the 
is  now  about 
1,200,  and  includes  nearly  every  promi­
nent  business  man  in  the  city.

league 

In  the  meantime,  the  original  cause 
of  the  trouble  has  been  lost  sight  of  and 
the  street  car  company  is  running  its 
cars  regularly  and  without  hindrance.

Speaking  of 

the  condition  which 
brought  about  its  organization,  Presi­
dent  Rankin  of  the  league  declared :

The  American  idea  that  is  referred  to 
so  much  these  days  means,  among  other 
things,  equality  of  all  men.  It  means  in 
such  cases  as  the  street  railway  affair 
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unions.  And  we  have  organized  to 
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and 
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in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
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Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Mich.

parishes,  cities  and  towns  will  be  con­
trolled  from  the  state  capitals,  as  that, 
for  instance,  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids 
and  all  the  other  towns  and  cities of this 
State  will  be  governed  from  Lansing. 
The  State  administration  and  the  Leg­
islature  will  tax  us,  spend  our  money, 
appoint  or  dictate  the  appointment  of 
all  local  officials  and  fasten  their  salar­
ies  and  all  other charges  on  the  taxpay­
ers  without  consulting  them.

Fortunately,  we  have  not  reached  this 
point  just  yet,  but  it  is  not  far  off,  and 
must  be  soon  arrived  at  in  order  to 
enable  Mr.  Morgan  to  consummate  his 
last  great  scheme  of  merging  govern­
ments  into  one  grand  administrative 
syndicate.  As  soon  as  all  things  shall 
be  ready,  and  the  time  has  been  set  for 
a  date  as  early  as  next  year,  an  assem­
bling  of  the  rulers  of  the  great  nations 
of  the  earth,  either  in  heir own  persons 
or  their chief  councillors,  will  be  called 
for  and  then  the  grand  syndicate  will 
be  organized.

A  writer  in  the  May  Atlantic  Monthly 
has  not  thought  it  necessary  to  wait  for 
the  mighty  consummation,  but  has  set 
it  all  forth  in  advance.  The  way  it was 
done  was  this,  in  brief:  Mr.  Morgan 
gathers  on  board  of  one  of  his  magnifi­
cent  steamers  the  rulers  of  the  chief  na­
tions,  or  in  their  places  their  head  sec­
retaries.  The  ship  was  provided  with 
all  that  could  be  required  for  human 
gratification,  the  great  ladies  of  imper­
ial,  royal  and  republican  courts  not  be­
ing  forgotten,  although  they  were  strict­
ly  excluded  from  all  political  and  busi­
ness  meetings.  The  ship  went  cruising 
in  the  Sargasso  Sea,  in  mid  Atlantic,
where  no  vessels  ever  pass.  The  voy­
age  having  been  most  prosperously 
commenced,  Mr.  Morgan,  as  the  chair­
man  of  the  meeting,  opened  business 
thus:

“ Now,  in  order  to  get  right  down  to 
business,  majesties  and  excellencies 
and  Jionorables,”   he  said,  “ I  will  ask 
yon  to  state  briefly  the  objections  to  my 
plan  which  may  have  occurred  to  you 
as  we  have  been  discussing 
it  on  the 
way  hither. 
1  have  always  found  it 
wisest,  in  arranging  gentlemen’s  agree­
ments  of  this  kind,  to  invite  the  frank­
est  criticism. 
I  then  refute  it,  either 
by  more  arguments  or  more  stock.  So 
speak  your  minds  without  embarrass­
ment. “

“ The  financial  difficulty  most  deters 
me,”   said  M.  De  Witte,  “ such  vast 
sums  are  involved. 
I  fairly  told  my 
royal  master  before  leaving  St.  Peters­
burg  that  if  it  involved  another of  my 
miraculous  budgets,  in  which  borrowed 
money  was  to  appear  again  as  ordinary 
revenue,  I  really  could  not  undertake it. 
There  are  limits  even  to  my  skill  in 
financial  legerdemain.”
in  the  German 
“ Ja  wobl,”   broke 
Emperor.  “ 1  was  saying  the  same thing 
to  von  Bulow. 
In  the  absence  of  Herr 
Bieichroder,  with  bis  expert  advice,  I 
would 
like  to  know  who  is  going  to 
finance  this  enterprise.”

“ I  think  I  may  say without majestats- 
beleidigung,"   observed  Mr.  Morgan 
gracefully,  “ that  the  various  govern­
ments  may  safely  leave  all  these  mere 
details  about  money  to  me.

“ Then  we  may  consider  the  financial 
surmounted!”   cried 
is  the 

obstacle  already 
Mr.  Morgan,  gayly. 
next?”

“ What 

is,  M. 

“ There 

le  President,"  said 
M.  Delcasse,  solemnly,  “ the  French 
passion  for gloire  to  be  reckoned  with. 
How  shall  we  satisfy  that  if our  army 
is  disbanded?"

“ Precisely,”   added  General  Andre, 
scowling  horribly  at  the  Germans  across 
the  table;  “ and  our  national  thirst  for 
revanche— what  of that?”

“ Gloire?”   said  Mr.  Morgan,  mus­
ingly. 
” 1  suppose  it  would  be  vain  to 
quote  to  a  Frenchman  the  noble  words 
of  onr  English  poet:

“   ‘ Oh,  take  the  cash,and  let  the  glory

go!’  As  for  revanche, 
I  only  know 
that,  like  sons-in-law,  it  is  very  costly. 
But  I  ptesume  that  what  you  want  is 
not  simply  to  kill  somebody,  but  to 
get  vour lost  provinces  back?”  
“ France,”   asserted  M.  Delcasse^ 
“ will  never  be  satisfied  short  of  that.”  
“ Then,”   broke  in  the  Kaiser,  “ we 
may  as  well  stop  talking.  That  can  be 
under  no  circumstances.  Rather  than 
give  up  the  Reichsland,  1  will  smash 
everything  to  pieces  (Ich  will  alles  kurz 
nnd  klein  machen).”

“ It  is  evident,”   observed  Mr.  Mor­
gan,  judicially,  “ that  we  have  simply 
a  case  of  two  railroads  competing  for 
the  same  territory.  We  must  adjust  the 
controversy  by  a pooling  arrangement.”  
Mr.  Morgan  then  explained  that  there 
is  no  question  of  public  or  private  in­
terest  that  can  not  be  settled  by  money. 
It  stands  for every  necessity  of  life,  for 
every  luxury,  for  all  human  power. 
If 
you  have  money  enough  you  can  have 
everything,  because  money  will  secure 
everything  that  man  can  need,  and  as 
it 
is  with  men  so  it  is  with  govern­
ments. 
If  any  government  gives  up 
territory,  that  government  will  be  fully 
paid  for  it,  for,  after  all,  what  is  pride 
compared  with  a  plethoric  treasury?

The  first  thing  agreed  upon  was  uni­
versal  disarmament.  This  set  the  war 
fund  of  each  nation  free  for  other  uses. 
The  warships  of  all  nations  were  taken 
for  coal  barges,  after  they  had  been 
stripped  of  their  useless  cannon.  As 
Morgan  controlled  all  the  industries 
in 
the  world,  and  as  some  of  these  were 
suffering  from  strikes,  he  declared  that 
he  needed  all  the  soldiers,  except  those 
wanted  for  police  purposes,  to  work 
in 
his  factories,  and  bis  list  of laborers  was 
increased  by  2,500,000  who  bad  been 
under  arms.  An  international  syndicate 
was  formed,  composed  of  all  the  great 
powers  and  capitalized  to  the  amount  of 
two  thousand  million  dollars,  on  the  fol­
lowing  basis:  For  every  $100  of  its 
military  budget  each  of  the 
several 
countries  will  be  entitled  to $125,  pre­
ferred  stock,  and  $107.50,  common  stock 
of  the  Trust.  On  this  basis  may  be  ex­
changed  the  annual  military  expendi­
tures  of  Great  Britain,  placed  by  our 
expert  accountants  at  $460,000,000, 
France  at $213,000,000,  Germany  $126,- 
000,000,  Russia  $213,000,000,  Spain 
$35,000,000,  Italy  $76,000,000  and  the 
United  States $204,000,000.  This  would 
leave  the  Trust  a  balance  of  working 
capital  of  nearly  $700,000,000.  The most 
important  feature  of  the entire  business, 
and  it  is  the  chief  feature  in  all  the 
great  trusts  and  mergers, 
is.  that  no 
cash  had  actually  to  be  put  up,  except 
what  was  required  to  patch up territorial 
differences  between  France  and  Ger­
many.  As  all  commerce  and  manufac­
turing  were  syndicated  and  under  the 
control  of  the  Only  Morgan,  each  nation 
had  only  to  await 
its  share  of  the 
profits.  There  was  no  competition  any­
where.  International questions  ceased  to 
exist  and  government  became  a  simple 
machine  or  agency  to  maintain  social 
order and  carry  on  internal  administra­
tion,  Nobody  save  Morgan  had  any 
money.  The  banks  never  saw  any,  for 
they  were  mere  clearing  houses,  handl­
ing  checks  or  bills  of  exchange.  The 
people  worked  and  rested  and  ate  and 
drank 
like  parts  of  a  vast  machine. 
They  saw  no  money  from  one year’s end 
to  another;  their  living  expenses  went 
through  the  local  clearing  houses  in  the 
form  of  memoranda.  Nobody  could 
have  any  ambition,  because  each  indi­
vidual  was  a  part  of  a  vast  system  and 
remained  where  he  was  placed,  learn­
ing  to  perform  only  a  certain  function 
and  nothing  more.  He  was,  therefore, 
Incapacitated  for  any  other  place  or

purpose.  Theorists  who  wasted  time 
in  thinking  when  they  should  have been 
at  work  were  kept  in  prison  on  starva­
tion  fare,  and  their  complaints  and 
criticisms  never  by  any  chance  got  into 
the  papers.

Of  course,  nobody  dared  express  an 
opinion  about  the  grand  Morgan  system 
by  which  the  world  was  ruled,  but  it 
was  generally  agreed  that  it  bad  ac­
complished  one  good  result: 
It  killed 
off  all  the  local  politicians.  Morgan 
was  at  the  head  of  everything.  He  con­
trolled  everything.  His  mighty  money 
power  put  him  above  every  other  ir.flu- 
ence.  He  was  not  dependent  on  votes 
and  was  under  obligations  to  nobody 
and  his  first  act  when  the  politicians 
began  to  pester  him  for  places  was  to 
put  them  in  the  penitentiaries  at  hard 
labor.

All  this  has  not  actually  eventuated 
yet,  but  it  will  come  to  pass  sooner  or 
later  under  the  great  Morgan  system, 
the  merger._____________

The  legislator  or  public  official  who 
poses  as  the  friend  and  exponent  of 
union 
labor  not  only  lowers  himself  in 
the estimation of  decent  people  and  law- 
abiding  citizens  generally,  but  actually 
makes  himself  the 
laughing  stock  of 
union  men  as  well.  The  latest  attempt 
to  play  the  role  of  demagogue  is  the 
il­
legal  and  high-handed  action  of  Aider- 
man  Renihan,  of  this  city,  in  embody­
ing  a  clause  in  the  contract  executed  by 
the  city  to  the  vendor  of  peanuts  and 
cigars 
in  John  Ball  Park,  prohibiting 
the  sale  of  non-union  cigars.  Of  course, 
Alderman  Renihan  knew  he was exceed­
ing  all 
legal  bounds  and  stultifying 
himself 
in  the  eyes  of  every  lover  of 
fair  play  by  undertaking  to  carry  out 
such  an  un-American  arrangement,  but 
he  evidently  acted  on  the  assumption 
that  some  one  would  be  prevailed  upon 
to  sink  his  manhood  and  disgrace  bis 
birth  and  citizenship  by  such  an  action 
and  by  being  the  servile  tool of a venal 
and  unscrupulous  organization he would, 
possibly,  win  the  approval  and,  inci­
dentally,  capture  the  votes  of  the 
labor 
unionists  in  his  ward.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  trades  unionists  detest  a  politician 
who truckles  to  them  in  this  manner  be­
cause  they  realize  that  he  is  simply  act­
ing  the  part  of  a  crafty  demagogue  who 
is  too  penurious  to  buy  votes  and  too 
insignificant  to  win  them  on  a  record 
for  fairness  and  broad-mindedness.  A l­
derman  Renihan  has  voluntarily  placed 
himself  in  a  position  where  the  finger 
of  scorn  will  follow  him  as  long  as  he 
lives. 

_____________

A  merchant,  about  to  fail,  invited  his 
creditors  to  a  dinner,  and,  after  stating 
his  condition,  secured  a  year’s  exten­
sion  from  all  present.  One  of  the  num­
ber,  a  relative,  waited  until  after  the 
others  had  retired  and  then  accosted the 
debtor:  “ Of  course  I  promised  with 
the  rest  to  extend  the  time,  but  you  are 
going  to  make  me  a  preferred  creditor, 
are  you  not?”  
the 
debtor,  “ I’ll  make  you  a  preferred 
creditor. 
I’ll  tell  you  now  that  you  are 
not  going  to get anything;  the rest won’t 
find  it  out  for a  year.’ ’

“ Yes,”   replied 

There  were  400,000 telephones  in  the 
United  States 
in  1897  and  of  these  the 
Bell  companies  had  about  300,000.  To­
day  there  are about 3,400,000 telephones, 
of  which  more  than  2,000,000  are  con­
trolled  by  the  independent companies.

The  London  merchants  who  insured 
against  possible  loss  of  business  in  case 
of  the  King’s  inability  to  be  crowned, 
wilj  now  congratulate  themselves  on 
their  shrewdness.

CtJLMINATI O N  OF TH E  MERGER.
Mergers  are  the  rule. 

It  makes  no 
difference  what  is  merged  01  whether  or 
not  anything  is  merged. 
“ Merger"  is 
the  name  of  any  combination  to  make 
money  or,  rather,  to  get  hold  of  money 
that  somebody  else  has  worked  for  and 
thinks  be  has  so  secured  that none of the 
plunder  seekers  can  ravish  it.

No  matter  how  securely  any  money, 
either  public  or  private, 
fenced 
around  or  hidden  away,  a  merger  will 
always  defeat  snch  precautions,  and 
place  it  in  reach  of  the  combination  en­
gaged  in  the  merger.

is 

Of  course, 

the  great  Napoleon  of 
merging 
is  J.  Pierpont  Morgan.  He 
began  his  wonderful  career as  a  clerk 
in  a  bank,  in  1857,  and  now,  in  1902, 
he  owns  the  United  States  and  a  large 
part  of  Europe,  and  in  the  course  of  a 
few  years  he  will  become  practically 
the  proprietor of the  whole  world. 
It  is 
not  known  when  the  merger  was  in­
vented,  or  if  Mr.  Morgan  invented  it, 
but  he,  at  any  rate,  is  the  greatest  mas­
ter  of  its  use.  He  merges  all  the  steel 
works,  all  the  railroads,  all  the  steam­
ships  and  organizes  them  into  gigantic 
trusts. 
It will  not  be long before  he  will 
have  merged  everything  in  the  domain 
of  business,  and  then  there  will  be  no 
field  for  his  mighty  genius  save  that  of 
merging  the  governments  of  the  world.
Before  that  vast  enterprise  can  be 
properly  commenced 
it  will  be  neces­
sary  to  merge  everything  in  the  way  of 
government 
in  this  great  Republic. 
The  merging  of  governments  means 
It  gets  rid  of  all  that  com­
simplicity. 
plication  which 
is  involved  in  what  is 
called 
There 
will  no  longer  be  any  sovereign  states 
in  the  Union,  but  all  National  and  state 
government  in  the  Union  will be carried 
on  from  Washington,

local  self-government. 

What  are  now  state governments  will 
be  relegated  to  the  care  of  municipal 
administration,  so  that  all  counties,

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MEN  OF  MASK.

Joseph  Houseman,  P resident  H ousem an 

A Jones  C lothing Co.

A   sketch  of  the  prominent  citizens  of 
Grand  Rapids,  of  the  men  who,  by  their 
energy  and  business  enterprise,  have 
made  the  .city  what  it  is,  would  not  be 
complete  without a  review  of  the  life  of 
Joseph  Houseman.

Although  not  a  native  of  this  country, 
Mr.  Houseman  has  been  so  long  identi­
fied  with  the  business  of  the  city,  and 
his  love  for America  and  American 
in­
stitutions  is  so  intense,  that  the  fact  of 
his  foreign  birth  is  lost  sight  of.  A l­
ready  past  70,  Mr.  Houseman 
is  as 
keenly  alive  as  ever to all  that  affects 
the  welfare  of  our city,  and  points  with 
pride  to the  share  he  has  had  in  its  de­
velopment  and  growth.

Mr.  Houseman  was  born  February  13, 
1832,  at  Zeckendorf,  Franconia,  King­
dom  of  „Bavaria.  He  was  an  only  son, 
with  two  elder  sisters.  His  father  was 
in  comfortable  circumstances,  being  a 
master  linen  weaver,  employing  many 
men.

While  Joseph  was  yet  a  boy,his  father 
died  and  much  of  the  responsibility  of 
conducting  the  business  fell  upon  the 
shoulders  of  the  young  man.  The  train­
ing  proved  a  valuable  one,  developing 
in  him  those  traits  which  have  helped 
to  make  him  a  successful  man  almost 
from  the  beginning  of  his  career  in  this 
country.

The 

failure  of 

the  revolutionary 
movements  of  ’48 checked  the ambitions 
of  the  progressive  young  men  of  Ger­
many ; and  besides,  the  Jews  were  not 
in  full  possession  of their civi  and  re­
ligious  liberty.  Therefore,  Mr.  House­
man  and  several  other  young  men of  his 
district  decided  to  come  to  America, 
where  liberty  and  equality  would  be  se­
cured  to  them.

cousin, 

Mr.  Houseman  arrived  in  this  coun­
try  in  July,  1853.  He  visited  this  city 
in  1854,  but  did  not  take  up  his  resi­
dence  here  until  1857.  He  was  at  first 
connected  with  bis 
Julius 
Houseman,  of  the  firm  of  Ahlsberg, 
Houseman  &  Co.,  having  branch  houses 
in  Savannah  and  Baltimore. 
These 
branch  houses  were  mainly  under  the 
supervision  of  Mr.  Houseman  until 
1869,  when  he  settled  down  here  as  a 
in  the  firm  of  Houseman  & 
partner 
May. 
In  1876,  Julius  sold  out,  but  the 
firm  name  remained  unchanged.  Later 
the 
to  partnership 
Messrs.  Donnelly  and  Jones  and  then 
became  known  as  Houseman,  Donnelly 
&  Jones.  On  the  withdrawal  of  Mr. 
Donnelly,  a  stock  company  was  formed, 
known  as  The  Houseman  &  Jones 
Clothing  Co.,  with  Mr.  Houseman  as 
President.  Mr.  Houseman  takes  a  par­
donable  pride 
in  his  great  store,  at 
whose  head  he  has  been  for  more  than 
twenty-five  years.

admitted 

firm 

For  years  he  has  been  prominent 

in 
politics,  but  although  often  urged  by 
members  of  his  party  to  accept  office 
he  has  steadily  refused.  His  advice  and 
assistance  have  always  been  eagerly 
sought  by  his  party  and  readily  given. 
In  non-political,  educational,  mercan­
tile  and  social  affairs  he  has  evinced 
the  warmest  interest,  and  has  filled 
many  positions  of honor  and  trust,  his 
business 
insight,  conservatism  and  in­
tegrity  making  him  a  valuable  member.
Mr.  Houseman  helped  to organize  the 
loan  Association  in 
first  building  and 
this  city. 
It  was  known  as  the  Grand 
Rapids  Building,  Loan  and  Homestead 
Association,  and  was  organized  in  1886, 
with  Mr.  Houseman  as  the  first  Presi­
dent.  The  organization  of this Associa­

tion  was  due  in  a  large  degree  to  the 
strong  interest  Mr.  Houseman  has  ever 
in  working  men.  Anything  that 
taken 
aids 
in 
improving  their  condition  has 
always  received  his  heartiest  sympathy 
and  support.

Mr.  Houseman’s  business 

sagacity 
interest  in  the  growth  of  the 
and  bis 
city  were  shown  in  his desire to improve 
the  public  roads  leading  into  the  city, 
so  that  they  might  be  used  as  feeders 
from  the  surrounding  country.  The  first 
company  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
constructing  gravel  roads  leading  from 
the  city  was  created  in  1873,  and  known 
as  the  Reed’s  Lake  Avenue  Co.,  with 
Mr.  Houseman  as  one  of  the  incorpora­
tors  and  also  Treasurer.  The  Division 
Street  Gravel  Road  Co.  was  organized 
later,  with  Mr.  Houseman  also  director 
and  Treasurer.

As  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Educa­
tion  Mr.  Houseman  served  most  ac­
ceptably  from  1890 to  1896,  a  period  of

Those  who  know  Mr.  Houseman’s 
generosity  and  tender  heart  can  well 
believe  that  he  gives  much  time  and 
money  to  this  cause.

His  home  life  is  unusually  congenial. 
He  was  married  September  21,  1858,  to 
Miss  Henrietta  Rose,  of this city.  Their 
living  children  are  Maurice  M.,  an  at­
torney,  for the  last  five  years  practicing 
in  Chicago,  but  now 
located  here; 
Henry,  in  business  with  his  father,  and 
Helen,  now  Mrs.  Julius  Gutman,  of  New 
York  City.  The  grandparents,  children, 
and  grandchildren  form  one  big  fam­
ily,  united  by  bonds  of  confidence,  sym­
pathy  and  love.

Mr.  Houseman’s  public  and  private 
life  have  been  above 
criticism.  A 
man  with  a  strong  sense  of  justice,  he 
has  a  very  gentle  nature.  Of  sound  and 
unshakable  business  principles,  a  calm 
and 
judicial  mind,  be  combines  with 
these  qualities  tender  thought  and  sym­
pathy  and  charity  for  all.

three  continuous  terms.  He  refused  the 
nomination  for the  fourth  term  and  was 
then  appointed  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Works,  serving  from  1896 to 
1899.  He 
is  a  director  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  National  Bank,  and  a  member 
of  many  other  corporations  and business 
institutions.

Mr.  Houseman 

is  President  of  the 
Jewish  congregation,  and  has  done  more 
for  its  support  than  any  other  six  mem­
bers.  He  is  most faithful  and  conscien­
tious  in  the  support  of  his  church,  and 
every  Friday  evening  finds  him  in  at­
tendance  at  the  religious  meeting.

He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Lodge  238,  I.  O.  B.  B.,  or  Independent 
Order  of  B ’nai  B ’Ritb,  meaning  Sons 
of  the  Covenant.  The  purpose  of  this 
order  is  to  look  after the  sick  and needy 
of  their  own  race,  to  watch  with  and 
bury  their  dead,  and  to  protect  and care 
for  the  widows and  orphans.

“Damned  W ith  F aint Praise.”

Dr.  William  Mason  Grosvenor  tells  a 
story  which 
illustrates  the  way  which 
country  folks  have  of  expressing  them­
selves  stronglf'by  understating  rather 
than  exaggerating  the  idea.  He made  a 
long  trip  through  the  woods  of  Northern 
Michigan  with  a  guide  named  Gallup, 
who had  a  peculiar  habit—one  of  many, 
in  fact—of  wearing  five  woolen  shirts, 
In  spite  of  his  ec­
one  over the  other. 
centricities,  they  became 
fast  friends. 
When  they  returned  to  civilization  and 
were  about  to  part,  Mr.  Grosvenor  told 
the  guide  how  much  he  had  enjoyed  the 
trip.
“ Do  you  know,”   said  the  man  of 
many  shirts,  with  a  scrape  that  was 
in­
tended  for  a  profound  bow,  “ there’s  a 
lot  of  folks  I’d 
just  as  soon  not  have 
gone  with  as  you.’ ’

It  was  some  time  before  the doctor got 
it  through  his  head  just  what  the  guide 
meant.

If  we 

love  our  neighbors  and  mind 
our  own  business  we  will  not wander  far 
from  the  right  path..

PAYING INVESTMENT FOR MERCHANTS
The  Kirkwood  Short  System  of 

Accounts

A system (placed as near  the  cash  register or 
drawer as possible)  large  enough  to  accommo­
date  each  customer  with  one  of  the  system 
books.  The first leaf Is printed in the form  of a 
bill (printing  as  submitted  by  the  purchaser), 
and perforated near the top  so  It  can  easily  be 
torn off.  The second sheet, known as duplicate, 
remains permanently bound  In  the  book, wblch 
Is the merchant’s record.  Draw off a list of  the 
balances of all your unsettled accounts and open 
a book for  each  customer,  by  entering  on  the 
“Amount  Brought  Forward”  line  the  balance 
now due on the account.
Re sure that the carbon  sheet is  between  the 
bill leaf and the yellow duplicate, so  that  every­
thing written on the  bill  will  be  copied  on  the 
duplicate.  Write the customer’s name  and  ad­
dress on the back of the books, on the pink strip 
near the top and file them  In  the  system  in  al­
phabetical order.
Suppose a customer buys a bill of  goods,  take 
his book from the  system  and with  the  carbon 
paper still between the bill and the yellow dupli­
cate  sheet  write  his  order  with  an  ordinary 
lead pencil, extend the  price  of  the  goods  or­
dered, foot the bll' and deliver It to the customer 
with the goods.  Place the carbon sheet between 
the next two sheets of bill and copy paper, carry 
the amount due as shown by  the  footing  of the 
last bill forward to  the  “Amount  Brought  For­
ward” line of the next bill  and  place  tne  book 
back in the system.  It will be  clearly  seen, by 
this method of keeping  accounts,  that  the  cus­
tomer receives a bill of each lot of goods bought, 
the charge Is made and  the  bill  and  the  exact 
duplicate are made at one writing:  It Is  evident, 
by the Kirkwood System, there will be no forgot­
ten charges or lost slips, as by this method there 
is but one slip and that Is the last one, which Is a 
complete statement issued to the  customer  and 
constitutes an acceptance of account.  The mer­
chant can tell at any time just how much  a  cus­
tomer owes by looking at the book;  there  Is  no 
posting to be done or writing  up  of  pass  books 
after  hours.
The customers  will  soon  get  to  expect a bill 
with each  purchase which will show  the  entire 
amount  of  their  indebtedness,  and  having  it, 
will  naturally  have  greater  confidence  in  the 
dealer and will be more  frequent  in  payments, 
instead of allowing it to run until  it  is  so  large 
that It  cannot be paid and they changing  to an­
other store, causing the dealer the loss of a  cus­
tomer and leaving him with a large and doubtful 
account to collect.

Cabinet patented Mar. 8,1898.
Book patented June 14,1898.
Book patented Mar. 19,1901.
For further particulars write or call on
A.  H.  MORRILL,  Manfrs.’  Agent 

105  Ottawa Street 

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

Harness

We  call  special  attention 
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is  the  time  of  year  they 
sell.  We  are  showing 
some  new  styles.  Extra 
good  values.  Send  us  a 
trial order.

We still have some good 
values in dusters and nets.

I  

Brown  &  Sehler
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Retailer of Fine Rugs and  Carpets. 

Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well 
as  our  endeavor  to  make  rugs  better, 
closer woven, more durable  than  others. 
We cater to first class  trade  and  If  you 
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it will make  you  better  acquainted with 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

THE  P A N -A M E R IC A N  
GUARANTEED  CLOTHING

Clothing

Sundry  Fads  and  Fashions  P eculiar  to 

Gay Gotham .

It 

Perhaps  the  subject  of  Panamas  will 
be  a 
little  nauseous  after  so  much 
being  said  and  written  on  the  subject, 
but  I  can  not  refrain  saying  just  a  word 
about  them. 
certainly  seems  as 
though  everybody could wear “ genuine" 
Panama  hats  this  summer,  because  they 
are  advertising  them  as  low  as $3,  and 
as  a  genuine  Panama  hat  will  wear  a 
number  of  years  it  would seem as though 
it  was  a  most  economical  purchase. 
In 
fact  1 should  suppose  that  if the  claims 
made  on  these  hats  were  true 
it  would 
be  the  real  “ poor  man's  hat,’ ’ but  let 
me  give  a  word  of  warning,  “ All  is  not 
gold  that' glitters,"   and  all  advertised 
Panamas  are  not  genuine  Panamas.  Of 
course  it  is  possible  to get  a  very  good 
hat,  a  so-called  Panama,  at  a  smail 
price  and  one  that  will  give  excellent 
service  and  look  well,  in  fact  the  mate­
rial  from  which 
it  is  made  may  come 
from  Panama.  The  fabric  may  even  be 
woven  in  Panama,  but  the  bat  that  has 
been  known  heretofore  as  a  Panama  hat 
can  not  be  sold  in  this  country  at  a ny 
such  price  as  that.  The  trouble  is  that 
the  word  Panama  does  not  mean  what 
it  did  to  the  trade  a  few  years  ago;  the 
name  has  become,  so  to  speak,  generic, 
and 
indiscriminately  to  all 
hats  of  a  certain  class  and  style  and  I 
can  see  no  reason  under  the  cond itions 
to-day  why  the  above-mentioned  hat s 
may  not  be  called  Panamas;  certainly 
a  hat  made  from  materials  grown  in 
Panama  may  just  as  properly  be  called 
a  Panama  as  a  hat  made  in  Puerto Rico 
or  made  from  materials grown  in  Puerto 
Rico  may  be  called  a Puerto Rican Pan­
ama,  and  it  now  lies  with  the  consumer 
to  decide  what  kind  of  a  Panama  he 
will  wear.  For  myself  1  shall  wear this 
season  a  genuine  Panama  of  the  class 
that  was  originally  called  Panama  for  a 
part  of  the  tim e;  for the  rest I shall wear 
a  rather smooth  braid  straw  with  a  brim 
slightly  wider than  medium  and  a  plain 
black  band.  Fancy  bands  have  become 
outlawed  for ordinary  wear, since  every­
body,  whether  they  had  the  slightest | 
right  to  it  or  not,  began  a  few  seasons 
ago  to  wear college  colors.  For  outing 
purposes 
light  bands  and  even  bands 
made  from  twisted  India  silk  will  be  in 
good  form,  but  brilliant  colors—never.

is  applied 

I  have  just  had  my  attention  called  to 
letter  which  appeared  recently  in  a 

a 
New  York  paper,  as  follows.

in  store  for  us? 

May  I  enter  a  plea  for the  comfort  of 
those  who  are  compelled  to  be  contin­
ually  out  of  doors  during  the hot  months 
that  are 
It  is  difficult 
to  believe  that  when  one  is togged  up  in 
a  proper and  stylish  manner and  has  en­
cased  bis  neck  in  a  high collar,hindered 
the  motion  of his  wrists by stiff  cuffs and 
generally  tied  himself  up  in  clothes  for 
the  sole  reason  of  looking  decent— it  is 
difficult,  1  say,  to  believe  him  comfort­
able.

In  the  early  morning  before  old  Sol 
has  got  in his  fine  work,  the stylish  man 
looks  well,  and  no  doubt  feels  promi­
nent.  But  just  take  a  peep  at  him  about 
3  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon;  he  is  not 
then 
in  a  state  of  pre-eminence,  for as 
a  rule,  you  will note  that  his  once  nicely 
starched  collar  and  cuffs  have  a  decid­
edly  crestfallen  appearance—and  I  may 
add  that  sometimes  they  show  traces  of 
dirt  which  of  all  things  is  to  be  de­
tested ;  the  man  himself  has  become 
changed,  and  he  no  longer walks  in  a 
stately  and  dignified  manner;  his 
shoulders  sag  (so  do  his  pants),  his  step 
is  uncertain,  he  does  not  flourish  his 
newspaper  nor  stroke  his  mustache  as 
he  is  wont  to  do.

I  would  suggest  as  a  partial  remedy 
for the  trouble,  that  some  dress  for  the

man  of  business  who  has  to  be  out  in 
the  sun  be  adopted. 
It  need  not  neces­
sarily  be  of  freakish  design,  but 
it 
ought  to  be  simple,  well-looking  and 
common  sense. 
I  can  not  suggest  such 
a  dress,  as  that  is  not  in  my  line,  but  I 
should  think  that  the  stiff  collar  and 
cuffs,  the  tight  clothing  and  so  forth 
might  be  done  away  with,  and  give 
place  to a  costume  more  becoming  the 
weather.  Stocks  are  not  to  be  thought 
of,  leave  the  neck  free.  The  women 
do  not  mind  going  about  in  low  neck. 
Why  should  the  men?

Let  us  hear  what  some  of  your  many 
readers  have  to  suggest  upon  this  sub­
ject,  for  that  it  is  one  that  will  interest 
many  I  have  no  doubt.

The  suggestions  made 

in  the  above 
letter  are  very  excellent,  but the  writer 
seems  to  forget  that  men’s  apparel  for 
hot  weather  is  constantly  growing  to­
wards  comfort,and  fashion  countenances 
i t ;  comfort  must  be  the  first  considera­
tion. 
In  witness  of  this,  note  the  many 
so-called  outing  suits  that  are  worn  dur­
ing  business  hours.  As  a  matter of  fact 
two-thirds  of  the  well-dressed  business 
men  adopt  tropical  weight  suits  con­
sisting  of  coat  and  trousers  only  and 
negligee  shirts;  nothing  could  be  more 
sensible  and  nothing  could  be  neater. 
The  very  popularity  of  the  soft  shapes 
of  straw  hats  gives  emphasis to this,  for 
it  marks  a  decided  step  in  the  direction 
of  hot  weather  comfort,  and  I  do  not 
think 
is  a  rash  prophecy  to  say  that 
the  end  of  the  stiff  straw  bat  for  sum­
mer  is  drawing  near.  Of  course  there 
is  as  much  difference  in  quality  and 
price  of  the  soft  straws  as  there  is  be­
tween  a  fine  and  a  cheap  stiff  straw  and 
they  can  be  told  apart  almost  at  a 
glance.  As  a  matter  of  fact  to-day  a 
man 
is  not  known  as  much  by  his 
clothes  as  by  his  manner.  What  he 
wears,  as 
long  as  it  does  not  outrage 
good  taste,  is  quite  secondary,  but  this

it 

Ellsworth & Thayer  M’n’f g  Co.

Mitwaskee, Wis.

Do  Y ou  Sell
Vineberg’s
Patent  Pocket  Pants?

If  not  you are behind the times; 
they  are  sold  by  all  first  class 
clothiers.
If  our  representative  did  not 
call on  you,  write  for  samples.

Vineberg’s Patent Pocket Pants Co.

Detroit,,  Mich.

Fall Line o f Ready Made Clothing

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

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WILLIAM  CONNOR.  28  and 30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Som m er G oods-I still have a good line to select from.

Manufacturers of

Orest Western  Far and  Far Lined  Cloth Coats 

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Bip Kind.

We want  agent  In  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

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

applies  more  strongly  to  summer wear 
than 
it  does  to  winter  wear  as  yet,  al­
though  in  the  latter the  growing  use  of 
negligee  shirts  for business  has  become 
very  noticeable.

idea  that  it 

The  “ Coronation”   has  had  a  very 
marked  effect  on  many  features  of  our 
apparel.  Perhaps  with  some 
it  is  as 
yet  an  unconscious  effect,  but  neverthe­
less  it  is  there.  We  advertised  “ Coro­
nation”   neckwear,  “ Coionation”   col­
lars,  “ Coronation”   cloth  and  “ Corona­
tion41  this  and  that.  Some  of  which 
is 
worthy  of  consideration  and  much  that 
is  not.  Of  course,  the  name  “ Corona­
tion”   attached  to  an  article  intends  to 
convey  the 
is  either the 
style  or color adopted  by  the  leaders  of 
fashion  for the  “ Coronation”   exercises, 
or  in  honor  of  King  Edward,  but  as  a 
matter  of  fact  most  of  what  we  see  so 
labeled has little  to  do  with  it except  in­
directly,  “ Coronation”   cloth,  for 
in- 
sance,  certain  cloths  that  have  appeared 
under  that  name  are  very  handsome 
and  worthy  of  careful  consideration  and 
get  this  name  from  the  color;  that  is, 
there 
is  considerable  of  the  red,  the 
shade  that  was  originally  called  royal 
purple.  Why  or  for  what  reason  the 
name  purple  is  now  given  to  a  different 
shade  I  do  not  know,  but  certain  it  is 
royal  purple 
in  its  true  sense  is  a  pe­
culiar  shade  of  crimson,  and  “ Corona­
tion”   cloth 
is  a  combination  of  black 
and  crimson  similar  to  the  black  and 
white  effects  that  have  been  popular  for 
this  spring  and  last  winter.

The 

low  turn-over  collar 

is  now  an 
everyday  sight  and  is  the  collar  for  hot 
weather.  The  height  in  front 
is  fre­
quently  not  over an  inch  and  a  quarter 
and  of  course  is  the  most  sensible  and 
most  comfortable  yet  introduced  for  the 
heated  term.  Of  course  there  are  many 
young  men  who  will  not  look  well  in  it 
and  who  will  be very unwise to adopt  it, 
and  they  can  be  cool  with  a  collar  much 
higher  than  a  man  with  a  short  neck. 
The  new  collar  is  the  same  style  as  the 
old  high-hander  and  is  made with either 
square  or  round  corners;  the  ends  lock 
close 
in  front  and  look  best  with  a  nar­
row  four-in-hand  or a  very  diminutive 
tie.

It  is  a  question  that  is  hard  to  ans­
wer:  Why  will  men  persist  in  covering 
their  throats  in  hot  weather,  when  on 
that  part  of  their  body more  than on  any 
other  depends  their comfort.  Two of  the 
largest  arteries  in  the  body  come  very 
near  the  surface  of  the  neck,  the  ones 
that  supply  the  brain,  and 
if  the  air 
that  is  stirring  can  play  upon  that,  the 
whole  body  feels  the  effect;  but  if  that 
is  cramped  or  covered  with  a  high  stiff 
band,  how  can  the  body  itself  be  com­
fortable?

I  have  noticed  a  peculiarity  of  the 
small  ties  t  hat  are  in  the  market  this 
season.  That  is,  that  the  majority  of 
them  are  too  long  to  be  worn  properly 
with  a  collar of  aveiage  size.  Take  a 
No.  15,  for  instance.  Very few  of  these 
ties  can  be  properly  adjusted  unless 
they  are  taken  up  in  the  back;  some­
thing  that  few  men bother  to  have  done. 
Of  course,  to  make  these  ties  in  many 
lengths  would  involve  an  immense stock 
in the  retailers',  on  account  of the  vari­
ous  colors  and  patterns. 
It  can  be  done 
-and  is  done  with  black  and  white  dress 
ties.  But  even  so  it  seems  to  me  that 
perhaps  two 
lengths  might  be  easily 
adopted  and  perhaps  three,  and  the 
manufacturer  who  adopts  something  of 
this  kind  will,  I  think,  reap  a  good  re­
ward.

Up  to the  present  writing  I  fail  to  see 
among  the  clubmen  or any  of  those  who

are  considered  smart  dressers  about 
town  any  who  are  wearing  the  shirts 
which  have  been  so  liberally  displayed 
in  the  windows  of  our  up-town  toggery 
shops;  those  having  bosoms  different 
from  the  body  of  the  shirt. 
It  has  the 
body  of  the  shirt  made of  Madras  of  one 
solid  color,  but-  the  bosoms  and  cuffs 
were  of  the  same  materials,  but 
in 
stripes,  the  color  of  stripes  being  iden­
tical  with  the  body  of  the  shirt. 
I  did 
not  fancy  them  at  all  when  they  were 
first  shown  me  and  while I said  very  lit­
tle,  I  remarked  to  myself that they  were 
too  much 
like  freaks  and  suggested 
separate  cuffs  and  a  false  bosom  such  as 
we  occasionally  see  worn  by  foreigners 
here. 
1  do  not  think  that  features  of 
this  kind  can  be  made  to  pay  with  the 
present  generation.

I  see  many  young  men  in town during 
business  hours  wearing  regular  stocks 
and  if  they  will  pause  a  moment  to con­
sider  what  they  are  doing  they  would 
see  how  utterly  out  of  place  they  are 
with  a  business  suit or  even  with  a  so- 
called  outing  suit  when  on  business 
bent.  The  stock  belongs  solely  to  out- 
of-door  recreations  and  for  business  is 
as  much  out  of  place  as  a  full  dress  suit 
would  be.  Of  course  those  who  wear 
them  will  say  that  they  do  not  care  for 
conventionalities  and  when  the  weather 
is  hot  they  want  comfort  at  any  price. 
But  don’t  do  it. 

Radix.

Shall  Men  Choose W om en’s Clothes?
It  is  often  said  that  women  dress  to 
please  each  other,  but  men  dress  to 
please  themselves.  On  this  point  a 
writer  in  the  Lady's  Pictorial  says:

indeed,  would 

Now  and  then  one  sees  a  woman 
whose  clothes  are  absolutely  character­
istic  of  her,  and  bear  the 
impress  of 
having  been  carefully  thought  out  by 
their  wearer.  These  are those  who  never 
wear  garments  fashioned 
like  others, 
but  the  majority  of  women  do  not  de­
sire,  nor, 
it  become 
them,  to  be  individualistic  in  their  at­
tire.  They  like  to  be  “ in  the  fashion.”  
And  the  question 
is  are  they,  or  are 
men,  best  suited  to  making  what  is  un­
derstood  by  la  mode.  On  the  whole,  one 
inclines  to  the  opiuion  that  men  are 
really  the  better  judges  of  what  best 
suits  the  female  form  divine;  and,  on 
the  other  hand,  it  would  seem  as  if 
woman’s  taste 
in  men’s  clothing  is  far 
more  reliable  than  man's.  She  is  quick 
to  detect  a  mistake 
in  the  choice  of 
a  tie,  to  note  the  angle  of  a  bat,  the 
set  of  a  coat,  the  pattern  of  a  tweed, 
the  shape  of  a  collar,  and  she  never 
falls  into  the  error of  urging  her  men 
folk  to  adopt  any  atrocious  things  mere­
ly  because  they  are  described  as  “ very 
fashionable.”   The  man  whom  a  woman 
considers  well  dressed  is  well  fitted,  ab­
solutely  well  groomed  and  quite  unob­
trusive  alike 
in  the  matter  of  hats, 
waistcoats,  ties  or  patterns,  and  this 
looks  as 
if  each  sex  were  meant  to  se­
lect  the  other’s  clothes.  Women  are 
ready  enough  to  admit  men’s  good  taste 
and  cleverness  in  this  direction,  but  the 
other sex  disclaim  with  horror  the  abil­
ity  of  their  women  kind  to  exercise  any 
judgment  with  regard  to  their  ward­
robes,  despite  the  fact  that  an  unfavor­
able  feminine  opinion  of  anything  they 
are  wearing  means  its  instant  disuse. 
Perhaps  if  men  and  women  alike  more 
freely  expressed  themselves  in  fashion 
journals  from  time  to  time  about  each 
other's  clothes,  it  would  be  betterfor 
both.

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me  did  mah  wife  lots  ob  good.

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horse!

lini­
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Mose  Johnson—Ah  did,  sub;  but  dar 
ain’t  nuffin 
fo*  mah  old 
woman,  needer— jess  yo’  understan’ 
dat 1

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

How  Shoe  W earers  and  Sellers  Meet

Changes.

There  is  more  or  less  rattling  of  dry 
bones  in  the  bidden  sepulchres  of the 
retail  shoe  store  as  each  season  draws  to 
a  close,  with  a  view  to  rehabilitating 
the  resurrected  things  and  making  them 
as  attractive  as  their age  and  the  date 
of  issue 
in  style  will  permit.  This 
solicitude,  often  tardily  aroused,  is  par­
ticularly  observable as  winter  wanes  and 
spring  seems  determined  to displace  it. 
Heavy  soles  perhaps  have 
lagged  for 
want  of  pushing,  and  except  in  rare  in­
stances  will  have  to  wait  over  until  cold 
weather  comes  around  again  with  an­
other  year  oft  old  style  stamped  upon 
them;  and,  yet  there  are  many  men  who 
go  thickly  shod  until  summer  is  here  to 
stay.  Better  late  than  never  to  thin 
them  out,  and  each  pair sold  now  less­
ens  the  risk  of  their  becoming  chronic 
back  numbers.  Trot  them  out  and  talk 
them  up 
in  a  hygienic  way,  as  health 
promoters and  the  like.

Even  the  staid  old  retailer,  long  in 
the  harness,  is  apt  to  get  a  slight  touch 
of  spring  fever,  and  become  restless  as 
the  rush  sets  in  for  changing  footwear. 
He  notes  carefully  the  trend  of  tastes  on 
the  part  of  shoe  wearers,  and  feels,  pro­
fessionally,  the  public  pulse,  at the  foot, 
in  order to  be  always  as  nearly prepared 
as  possible  for  the  demand.

He  talks  cheerfully,  hopefully,  and 
often  pleasantly  about  the  probabilities 
to  be 
faced.  He  prognosticates  tastes 
and  the  probable  choice  of  various 
types  of  humanity.  He  says:  “ The 
finical  youth 
is  now  on  the  fence,  as 
warm  weather  draws  closer,  between 
gorgeous  colors  in  striped  socks,  and 
the  lovely  creations 
in  spats  or  over­
gaiters.  He  knows  that  in  the  present 
style  of  trousers  he  may  not  be  able  to 
display  his  faultless  athletic  leg,  so  be 
devotes  his  aesthetic  energies  upon  his 
foot  coverings.  He  is  weighing  the  re­
spective  merits  of  the  low  shoe  with  the 
displayed  work  of  art  in  hosiery,  and 
the  sock  covered  with 
light;  tasteful 
overgaiters.  When  he  dons  his  summer 
oxford  ties  he  will,  perhaps,  compro­
mise  between  these  two  enticements. 
He,  long  since,  acquired  the  knack  of 
displaying  his  elegant  hose  to  the  best 
advantage,  from his own view point;  but 
now  that  dealers  tempt  him  with  such 
stunning  works  of  textile  art  in  over­
gaiters,  in such profusion of tints,  he will 
be  called  upon  to  decide  whether these 
will  not  bring  out  the  beauties  of  his 
feet  more  effectually  than  the 
fancy 
socks.  With  small,  shapely  masculine 
feet,  these  combinations  of  two-piece 
coverings  are  quite  becoming  when 
glaringly 
are 
avoided."

conspicuous 

colors 

*  *  *

Most  shoe  wearers  would  have  an  un­
mistakable  proof  of  the  arrival  of  hot 
weather even  if  physical  sensation  were 
restricted  to  the  feet  alone.  Feet  suffer 
more or  less  at the  soles  during the  sum­
mer  months  by  coming into contact  with 
the  hot  pavements.  There  is,  therefore, 
a 
limit  to  thin  soles,  grateful  as  they 
are,  beyond  which  we  can  not  go  with­
out  discomfort.  Of course  this  applies 
more  particularly  to  the  city,  in  which 
the  heated  flagstones  are  almost  intoler­
able  at  times.  Many  shoe  wearers  are 
apt  to  lose  sight  of  this  fact  in  buying 
footwear,  reasoning  that  the  thinner  the 
shoe  throughout the  cooler  it  will  be.  In 
the  country  and  upon  dirt  paths,  this 
rule  will  apply,  but  not  on  fiery  pave­
Perhaps  no  better  artificial
ments. 

medium  presents 
itself  for  preventing 
this  uncomfortable  feeling  at  the  bottom 
of  the  foot  than  a  thin  layer of cork  be­
tween  the  soles,  or  slipped  inside  the 
shoe.  Of  course,  this  will  add  slightly 
to  the  thickness  of  the  shoe  and  it  is 
this  fact  which  deprives  many  women 
of  its  benefits.  The  next  best  thing  for 
obtaining  relief  from  the  effects  of  this 
burning  sensation  at  the  sole  of  the foot, 
is  a  frequent  change  of  both  shoes  and 
stockings,  accompanied  by  a  foot  bath 
of  tepid  water at  each  change,  tinctured 
with  a  teaspoonful  of  ammonia,  or  a 
tablespooniul  of  salt.

*  *  *

Too  much  can  not  be  urged  in  favor 
of  a  low,  broad  heel  in  any  season,  but 
during  hot  weather  it  is an absolute nec­
essity  for any  kind  of  comfort.  No  mat­
ter  how  persistently  the  shoe  builder 
tacks  on  the  narrow,  stilted  thing;  have 
about  one-third  of  the  silly,  torturing 
thing  removed,  and  you  will  be  the 
gainer  by 
it  in  comfort  and  in  ease  of 
progression. 
It  will  then  bring  the  foot 
into  a  more  natural ‘ and  easy  pose. 
The  toes  grow  tender and  the  sole  gets 
tired  as  the  heat  increases,  and  a  high, 
narrow  heel  tends  to  increase  the  tor­
ture  at  the  bottom  and  end  of the  foot. 
Besides  this,  the  way 
in  which  most 
women’s  shoe  heels  are  constructed calls 
for  considerable  muscular  effort  on  the 
part  of  the  wearer  in  order to  maintain 
her equilibrium  while  walking  and  tires 
the  foot  and  body  accordingly.  Favor­
able  conditions  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
shoe  and  adequate  room  for  the  foot 
will  not  compensate  for  the  evils  oc­
casioned  by, 
constructed 
heels  and  too  thin  soles  in  hot  weather. 

improperly 

*  *  *

There 

long  confined 

is  more  than  a  grain  of  truth 
in  the  statement  that  “ the  summer  foot 
finds  the  fall  shoe  a  little  irksome  for 
it ."   Almost  everyone  on  pleasure  bent, 
during  the  vacation  season,  generously 
offers  the 
foot  a  trifle 
more  of  room  to  enjoy  its  vacation,  too. 
Now  this 
is  a  real,  enjoyable  holiday 
for  such  a  liberated  foot;  and  when  it 
returns  again  to  the  labor  of  stretching 
new  city  footwear,  it  is  no  wonder  that 
little  rebellious at  the  task  im­
it  is  a 
posed  upon  it. 
It  is  a  somewhat  simi­
lar  case  to  that  of  the  man  who  wears 
his  shoes  for  too  long  a time.  These  be­
come  baggy  and  almost  shapeless  in 
time,  and  are  almost  non-supporting  to 
the  feet  they  cover.  The  latter,  having 
bad  such  unlimited  license  during  the 
last  days  of  these  shapeless  coverings 
are  apt  to  prove  refractory  under  their 
new  and  trying  conditions  of confine-1 
ment  and  the  irksome  restraint  of  shoes 
that  are  the  proper size  for them.

*  *  *

.

Speaking  of  changes  at  the  foot  and 
other  matters  pertaining  to  the  feet  and 
their  coverings,  the  old  shoe  dealer has 
this  to  say:  “ One-third of an  inch  gives 
us  a  full  size  in  the  length  of  the  shoe; 
one-sixth  of  an 
inch  furnishes  the  in­
termediate  point  between  two  full  sizes, 
or  the  half-size  shoe,  the  saving  of 
which  is  desirable  to  most  women  buy­
ers  if  practicable. 
A  small  fraction 

in  the  width  of  the 
shoe  goes  a  good  ways,  from  the  view 
point  of  the  relieved  foot,  in  securing 
comfortable  quarters;  and,  in  girth  of 
ball  or  instep,  an  infinitesimal  part of 
an  inch  in  space  is  sometimes  an  ell  of 
freedom  for  the  foot.  A  quarter of an 
inch  is  a  good  deal  of  elevating  or  let­
ting  down  at  the  heel;  and  even  the 
difference  of  a  sixteenth  of  an  inch  is 
readily  perceptible  at  the  sole  of the 
foot.  For  these  reasons,  any  sudden  or

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 W estern 
Shoe Co.,

Toledo, Ohio

School
Shoes:

The merchant who  can 
please his  trade on school 
shoes  usually  does  the 
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Every  time  you  sell  a  pair  of 
these shoes you

1.  Make a permanent customer. 

They’ll  wear  so  well  he  can’t 
forget you.
Every  time  you  sell  a  pair  of 
these shoes you

2 .  Make a nice profit.

Very essential to  every  business.

Every time you sell a pair of these  shoes you 

3 .  Advertise your business.

No merchant can  do without advertising.

MADE  BY

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

H  Makers o f Shoes

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Men’s Work Shoes

‘ paper 

Even  the 

extreme changes  in  the  conditions of the 
shoe,  in  size  or  weight,  are  usnaily 
in* 
judicious. 
sole,’ 
which  never  ought  to  be  worn  in  any 
place,  should  be  replaced  by  one  only  a 
little  thicker at  first.  After the  summer 
shoe,  the  proper thing  is  one  of medium 
weight,  before  the  winter  article  is  in 
order,  and  even  that  should  not  be  a 
thick,  cumbersome shoe  for the  foot  that 
ha£  graduated  from  the  ‘ paper sole’  and 
is  learning  to  use  common  sense.

*  *  *

“ Even  tillers  of  the  soil,’ ’  continued 
the  old  shoe  fitter,  “ are  gradually  cut­
ting  loose  from  their  former  thraldom 
to  the  heavy  cowhide  boot  except  for 
snow  and  slush  weather. 
I  sell  more 
brogans  and  thick  lace  shoes  to  these 
agricultural  toilers  than  I  did  formerly. 
Here  is  an  excellent  farm  shoe  made  of 
heavy  oil  grain  leather,  a  strong 
lacer, 
with  a  good  sulid tapsole  and fairly flex­
ible  shank,  which  is  in  good  demand  as 
a  substitute  for the  heavy  boot  and  sells 
at $i. 50,  and  it  is  a  good,  strong,  cheap 
shoe  too.  Of  course  the  old  time  cow­
hide  boot  will  always  be  in  more  or  less 
demand  for  special  purposes,  such  as 
wading  brooks,  or  through  snow  or 
stepping 
too  snaky  places. 
Nevertheless, many farmers are replacing 
them  with  the  high  lace  shoe  and  they 
say  that  they  avoid  sore  heels  by  the 
change.  A  boot  can  never  be  made  to 
retain  its  place  at this  point  as  the  lace 
shoe  does,and  the thousands  of steps  the 
farmer  takes  in  a  day  over  rough  and 
uneven  ground  produce  friction  enough 
at  the  heel  of  the  foot  to  leave  its  mark 
in'blisters  and  tender  places.”

around 

But 

if  it  is  sometimes  thought  ex­
pedient  by  the  retailer  to  advise  the  use 
of  lighter  footwear  in  the  case  of  men, 
who  are  injuring  their  feet  by  adhering 
to  undue  weight  at  the  bottom,  there  is 
little  or no  need  to  urge  women  to  wear 
light  soled  shoes.  The  manufacturers 
are  not  burdening  the  gentler  sex  with 
anything 
in  the  way  of  heavy  soles  or 
uppers.  But,  after  all,  the  thinner  the 
sole  for  smooth  pavements  in  the  city, 
the  better  it  is  for the  foot  that  wears 
it.because  in  this  the  maximum  of  flex­
ibility 
is  found,  and  the  minimum  of 
physical  exertion  for  the  foot.  Now,  if 
some  substance  could  be  discovered  or 
invented  for  innersoles  that  should  be 
light  and  perfectly  flexible,  and  yet  al­
together  impervious  to  heat  by  contact 
with  the  hot  flagstones  of  our  sidewalks 
in  summer,  the  shoe  soies,  waiving  the 
question  of  economy,  could  not  be  made 
too  light  for  the  well-being  of  our  feet, 
for  the  nearer  we  can  get  to  nature  in 
the  freedom  of  the  soles,  the  better they 
will  be  physically.

*  *  *

frequently 

“ It  is  a  strange  thing,  when  one 
comes  to  look  into  the  matter  (into  the 
shoe,  literally,  1  mean)  that  with  all  of 
our 
lavatory  exercises,  on  hygienic 
grounds,  and  all  of  our  ablutions  oft 
repeated,  and  with  the  punctilious  in­
sistence  upon 
laundered 
clothing,  we  give  so  little  attention  to 
our  shoes,"  says  the  thoughtful  shoe 
dealer. 
“ There  is  no  article  of  cloth­
ing  we  wear  which  holds  so  tenaciously 
the  exhalations  from  the  body  as  our al­
most  air-tight 
The 
cleansing  and  deodorizing  properties 
of  ammonia  make  it  not  only  an  excel­
lent  application,  when  diluted,  for  the 
feet,  but  it  may  be  used  with  hygienic 
benefit 
inside  of  our  shoes. 
The  cleansing  of  foot  coverings  which 
we  wear  daily,  and  which  is  the  most 
poorly  ventilated  of  all  our apparel,  is 
an  important  and  neglected  matter.  A

foot  coverings. 

for  the 

solution  of  ammonia,  a 
little  stronger 
than  that  used  for  bathing  purposes, 
may  be  applied  to  the  inner  surface  of 
shoes  by  means  of  a  small  sponge  at­
tached  to  a  flexible  steel  wire.  When 
dried  they  are  a  treat  to  the  wearer. 
This  cleansing  is  particularly  necessary 
to  the  insole  upon  which  the  foot  rests 
during  so  many  hours  each  day. 
It  is 
but 
little  trouble  to  apply  the  simple 
and  effective  renovator,  and  the  volatile 
nature  of  the  application  permits  the 
shoes  to  dry  quickly. 
It  is  well  worth 
a  trial  at  home,  as  there  are  no  shoe 
laundries  established  yet  to  relieve  us 
of  the  task.  We  are  very  particular 
about  ‘ cleansing  the  outside  of  the  plat­
ter,  as  told 
in  the  Scriptures,  but  the 
inside  gets little  or  none.” — E.  A.  Boy- 
den  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.
C lara’s  Num erous  Brothers.

He  had  been  to  the  boarding  school to 
pay  a  surprise  visit to  his  daughter,  his 
only  child.  He  had  parted  from  her 
proud  to  be  the  parent  of  such  a  hand­
some  maiden,  pleased  with  her  inno­
cence  of  budding  womanhood.  The 
principal  accompanied  him  to  the  door.
“ Madam,”   he  said,  with  deep  feel­
ing,  “ I  owe  you  much  for  the  manner 
in  which  you  have  reared  my  child 
since  she  has  been  under  your  care. 
When  I  notice  the  contrast  between  that 
innocent  maiden  and  some  of  the  girls 
of her  age,  who  have  not  had  the  advan­
tage  of  such  strict  supervision,  I  feel 
that  I  have  indeed  done  wisely  in  plac­
ing  her  in  your  charge.”

“ And  bow  proud  you  must  be,”   said 
the  principal,  glowing  with  satisfac­
tion,  “ to  be  the  father  of  so  large  and 
devoted  a  family.”

“ Large!  devoted!”   gasped  the  proud 

parent.  “ What  do  you  mean?”

“ Devoted  to  each  other,”   said  the 
principal. 
“ No  fewer  than  seven  of 
Clara’s  brothers  have  been  here  during 
the  last  three  weeks  to take  her  out  and 
she  is  expecting  another  to-morrow.”

He  Got  Off Easy.

Hix— I  played 

in  great  luck  yester­

day.

D ix— How’s  that?
Hix—Found  a  pocketbook  containing 
a 
lot  of  valuable  papers  and  $1,000  in 
cash.  It  belonged  to  eld  Groucherly  and 
I  returned  it  to  him  this  morning.
Dix— Got  a  liberal  reward,  eh?
Hix— Not  a  cent.
Dix—Then  where  did 
ome  in?
Hix—Why,  he  didn’t  charge  me  any 
interest  on  the  money  while  it  was  in 
my  possession.

your 

luck 

W ith F in est T h ro u gh  
P ullm an   S le ep in g   C a r  and 
D inin g  C a r  S e r v ic e .
LV.  Grand Rapids,  12.00  noon.

York, 10.00 a. m.

Commencing June  16,  1903.

For  reservations and further information 
address

W.  C. Blake, Tkt. Agt. Union Station, 
O. W. Ruggles, Gen’l Pass’r and Tkt.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

s s s

Snedicor & 
Hathaway 
Line

No.  743. 

Kangaroo  Calf. 
Bal.  Bellow’s Tongue.  K   D. 
S.  Standard Screw.  $1.75. 

Carried in sizes 6 to  12.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Grand Rapids

Best?s s s s

1 If  You  Want  the 
S 
Buy  Hoods

No  better  rubbers  made.  No  better  fitting  rubbers  sold. 
No  better  money  makers  to  be  had.  Mail  us  your  orders  or 
drop  us  a  card  and  our  salesman  will  call.  W e  have  a  big 
stock  and  are  headquarters  for  Michigan,  Ohio  and  Indiana-

The  L.  A.  Dudley  Rubber  Co.

Battle Creek,  Mich.

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Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  o f  th e  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Heavy  brown  sheet­
ings  and  drills  show  no  change  in  the 
general  tone,  although  some  goods  on 
hand  are  reported  “ easy  to  buy.”   As 
a  rule,  however,  sellers  can  not  show 
any stocks and,  consequently,  hold prices 
steady.  There 
is  a  better  demand  (or 
lightweight  sheetings  at prices previous­
ly  quoted.  Bleached  cottons  show  no 
change  from  our  last  quotations,  al­
though  buyers  are  still  operating  for 
immediate  wants 
from  day  to  day. 
There  is  talk  among  the  buyers  of  com­
ing  changes  in  prices  in  their  favor,  al­
though  the  sellers  show  no  sign  of  this 
up  to  present  writing.  Coarse  colored 
cottons  have  quieted  down,  but 
the 
previous  good  business  sold  the  mills 
up  so  well  that  there  is  little  chance  of 
any  price  changes  in  the  immediate  fu­
ture.

large. 

lines,  mediums  and 

Prints  and  Ginghams— Dark, 

fancy 
prints  for  fall  are  sold very  firmly  at  the 
quoted  prices  and  the  demand  is  re­
ported  as  good,  although  not  as  espe­
cially 
It  is  good  enough,  how­
ever,  to  insure  the  season's  supply  be­
ing  well  taken  care  of,  provided  no  un­
foreseen  factor  presents  itself  for  stand­
ard 
lower  grades 
alike.  Several  lines  are  reported  as  sold 
well  ahead;  far enough  for  printers  to 
refuse  to  take  further  orders  on  the 
present  basis.  Staple  lines  are  also  well 
conditioned.  There  is  no 
immediate 
prospect  of  higher  prices  being  quoted 
for  future  delivery,  although  a  number 
of  lines  are  held  on  an  “ at  value”  
basis.  This,  of  course,  kills  the  idea 
of  any  price  concessions,  and  there  is 
little  thought  now  in  the  buyers*  minds 
of  being  able  to  purchase  goods  at  any 
lower 
the  present  quotations, 
while,  as  a  matter of  fact,  the  chances 
seem  more  than  ever that  higher  prices 
will  prevail.  Reorders  for  fine  printed 
fabrics  are  rather  light,  but  the  demand 
for  next  season  is  quite  good.  Percales 
and  printed  flannel  effects  are  steady, 
in  spite  of  a  rather  quiet  business. 
Ginghams  show  no  change.  Prices  are 
firm  for  both  staples  and  dress  styles  for 
immediate  use.  Fine  woven  patterned 
fabrics  are  well  sold  ahead  for  next 
year,  in  both  plain  and  fancy  styles.

than 

Linings—Cotton  linings  are  generally 
dull  throughout  the  market.  The  dry 
goods  trade  has  bought  lightly,  and  the 
manufacturing  trades  have  shown  no 
great  anxiety  to  place  orders.  Kid- 
finished  cambrics  show  no  change,  but 
are  still  being  quoted  on  basis  of  3%c

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

for  64s,  although,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
concessions  are  made  as  reported  last 
week  where  good-sized  contracts  can 
be  secured.  By  this  method  medium 
and 
lower  grades  of  silesias  and  per- 
calines  are  somewhat  easier for  buyers, 
although  no  open  changes  have  been  re­
ported.  Fine  grades  are  well  condi­
tioned  and  steady.  Low-grade  stiff cot­
ton  linings  are quiet,  although  previous 
prices  prevail.  Fully  mercerized  goods 
are 
in  fair  demand  and  prices  strong; 
but  some  of  the  imitation  finishes  are 
irregular.  The  clothing 
trade  have 
bought  cotton  twills,  Alberts  and  Ital­
ians  in  good  quantities;  better than  last 
week.

Dress  Goods— The  business  coming 
forward  to  the  initial  dress  goods  mar­
ket  is  of  a  modest  character and  is  con­
fined  principally  to  staples.  The  lead­
ing  staple 
lines  are  well  situated,  par­
ticularly  such  goods  as  broadcloths, 
cheviots,  thibets ;  the cashmere situation 
inclines  toward  irregularity.  The  job­
ber  is  operating  in  a  very  careful  way, 
filling  in  here  and  there.  The  garment- 
maker  is  placing  some business,  but  can 
hardly  be  called  an  active  factor.  Cloak 
houses  are  placing  some  fair  orders  for 
light  and  dark  kerseys  and  some  mel­
tons.  The  kersey 
is  far  and  away  in 
the  lead  as  a  cloak  fabric  and  promises 
to  figure  all  along  the 
line,  from  the 
automobile  to  the  short  jacket;  in  fact, 
the  extent  of  the cloakmaker’s purchases 
of  kerseys  is  probably  scarcely  realized 
by  the  average  person;  these  purchases 
have  been  an 
important  factor  in  the 
indicated  shortage  of  overcoating  ker­
seys  and  the  advances  made  thereon. 
There 
is  a  continued  fair demand  for 
rough 
jacketings  and  sellers  believe  a 
substantial  business  will  be  done  there­
on. 
The  demand  for  skirtings  and 
suitings  is  small,  garmentmakers  being 
in  somewhat  of  a  haze  as  to  their  re­
quirements,  the 
retailer  not  having 
shown  bis  hand  in  a  decided  way.

Underwear— Only  a  very  small  busi­
ness  can  be  reported  for heavyweights 
at  present.  Many  buyers  have  been  un­
able  to  place  duplicate  orders  on  fleeces 
and  probably  this  part  of  the  trade  will 
be  stretched  out  over  a  considerable 
period.  They  are  taking  up  small  lots 
here  and  there  that  are  more  or  less  sat­
isfactory ;  nevertheless,  the  majority  of 
the  buyers  have  secured  nearly  if not  all 
of the  stock  they  will  need.

Hosiery—There  is  little  to  be  said  in 
regard  to  the  hosiery end of the business, 
for 
it  has  reached  the  quiet  season  of 
the  year.  There  is  a  fair  request  current 
for  lace  effects  and  it  now 
looks  as 
though  there  might  be  a  scarcity  in 
these 
in  the  imported  and

lines,  both 

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  I2.00  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

Would  You  Know  What  Others  Say  About  the

Safety  Gas  Light  Machine?

Maple Baplds, Mich., June 27, 1902. 

Gentlemen:  The Safety Gaslight Machine lg  aU  that 
has been  claimed.  The  lights  are  all  that  one  could 
possibly ask for. 

Tours very truly,

C. M. Bed fern ft Co.
Manistee, Mich., June 27,1902.

Gentlemen:  The Safety  Gaslight  Machine  which  I 
Installed some three months ago is giving  perfect  satis­
faction In every respect.  I consider  it  the  finest  light 
I have ever seen.  I was  at  a  neighboring  village  this 
week and saw one there that has been In use for  a year 
and a half and the merchant says it  has  never  given  a 
bit of trouble, and that he could not get along without It.

Respectfully yours, 

T. W. Field.

Positively saves 75 per cent, former  lighting  expense. 
Makes  and  burns  Its  own  gas.  Just  the  thing  for 
stores, hotels, churches, summer resorts, etc.

THE PERFECTION  LIGHTING CO.

17 So.  Division St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Citizens Phone 2090

WORLD’S  BEST

FIVE  CENT  CIGAR

ALL  JOBBERS  AND

G.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

GRAND  RAPIDS

DRY  GOODS CO.
. EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE 

FORMERLY  VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  &  CO. 

Your  orders  will  be  promptly  filled  at  BOTTOM   P R IC E S   and  will  be  appreciated 

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complaint.  The  Philadelphia  weavers 
are  fully  employed  on  all  standard  lines 
from  the  cotton  and  granites  up  to  the 
very  best  all-wool  ingrains,  and  present 
prospects  are  that  a  good  business  will 
continue  throughout the  entire  season.
Recent  Changes  Among  Indiana  Mer­

chants.

Angola—The  style  of  the  Monarch 
Packing  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Pilliod  Co.

Avilla—Crawford & Co.  have  removed 
their  furnishing  goods,  clothing  and 
shoe  stock  to  Quincy,  Mich.

Columbia City—Grund &  Ulrich,  deal­
ers  in  vehicles,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  business  is  continued  by 
Grund  &  Lamb.

Danville—E.  D.  Crawley  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner  in 
the  bakery  business  of  Stewart  &  Craw­
ley.

Edwardsport—'Mrs.  Geo.  Boyer  has 
purchased  the  millinery  stock  of  Miss 
Cora  Neal.

Hartford  City—Covault  &  Thomas, 

jewelers,  have  discontinued  business.

W hat  He  Said.

A  well-known 

lawyer tells  a  story  of 
a  trial  wherein  a  well-known  politician 
was  charged  with  having  tried  to  bribe 
a  negro  voter.  The  negro  was  taken  in 
hand  for  cross-examination  by  the  de­
fendant's  lawyer,  who  began:
"Now,  repeat  what  the  defendant 

said,  using  bis  exact  words.”

"H e  dun  said he’d gib me fifty dol— ”  
"Now,  he  didn’t  speak  in  the  third 
person?  Repeat  his  exact  words. 
If 
he  said  anything,  he spoke  to  you  in  the 
first  person,”   interrupted  the  lawyer.

" I   doan’  think  I  understands,  sah,”  

said  the  puzzled  witness.

yer,  impatiently. 
this: 
lars?— ’  ”

" 1   see  you  don't!"  snapped  the  law­
"Now,  did  he  say 
‘ Sam,  1  will  give  you  fifty  dol­
"N o,  sah!  He  dun  said  nothin’  ’bout 
you,  'cept  to  tell  me  dat  if  I  eber  got 
into  any  trouble,  yo’  was  the  slickest 
rascal  he  knew  to  fool  de  jedge  an’  jury 
and  get  me  outen  de  scrape,  sah.  De 
was  all  he  said  ’bout  yo’ !’  ”

Bicycle Dealers

It  would  seem, 

the  raw  commodity  warrant  it  or not. 
With  higher  yarn  values  in  evidence,  it 
will  be  quite  natural  for  the  carpet 
manufacturer to  look for  better  prices on 
his  own  production.  One thing  is  quite 
certain  to-day 
in  weaving  circles,  and 
that  is,  in  relation  to  the  low  level  car­
pets  are  being  sold  at. 
It  seems  that 
in  New  York  last 
since  the  opening 
month,  everything  has  happened 
to 
advance the  cost  of  manufacturing.  The 
demands  of  labor  for an  increase  of  io 
per cent,  in  wages,  the  high  prices  paid 
for  coal  on  account  of  the  coal  miners’ 
strike  and  the  recent  advance  in  the 
price  of  yarns  are  among  the  events 
which  have  affected  the  cost  of  manu­
facture. 
in  view  of 
these,  that  some  movement  would  nat­
urally  have  been  made 
looking  to  an 
advance  in  the  price  of  carpets,  but  as 
yet  nothing  of  any  consequence has been 
done 
It  is  believed, 
however,  that  the  time  is  not  far  distant 
when  something  will  have  to  be  done  to 
protect  the  weaver’s 
The 
large  New  England  mills  find  all  the 
business  they  can  attend  to  on  their 
books  at  the  present  time  and  are  fully 
occupied  in  all  departments.  A  major­
ity  spin  their  own  yarns  and,  unlike 
their  smaller  competitors  throughout  the 
Middle  States,do  not  feel  the  little  fam­
ine  of  worsted  yarns  that  is  in  evidence 
at  the  present  moment. 
In  jobbing  cir­
cles  #   lines  are  in  heavy  demand,  par­
ticularly  the  Brussels,  Axminsters  and 
tapestries. 
The  designs  this  season 
show  a  tendency  toward  much  lighter 
colors,  such  as  the  old  golds  and  the 
greens.

in  that  direction. 

interests. 

domestic  goods.  It  is  also  very  possible 
that  advanced  prices  may  be  asked  for 
these  lines  before  long. 
Importers  are 
finding  trouble  in  getting  the  goods  that 
they  have  ordered  and  the  stocks  in  this 
country  are  almost,  if  not quite,  gone.

jobbers’  hands 

Carpets—The  situation,  on  the  whole, 
continues  very  active,  the  manufactur­
ers  having  all  they  can  swing  to  to  turn 
out  their  initial  orders  at  the  time  des­
ignated  when  the  orders  were  placed. 
In  fact,  the  general  conditions  of  the 
carpet  trade  could  hardly  be  better  than 
they  are  at  the  present  time,  that  is,  as 
far  as  the  volume  of  business  is  con­
cerned.  New  business  is  being  placed 
in  the  New  York 
in 
large  amounts  each  week  at  the 
very 
opening  prices,  and  manufacturers  have 
displayed 
little  hesitancy  in  accepting 
it.  Within  the  last  two  weeks  spinners 
of  carpet  yarns  have  taken  advantage  of 
the  conditions  prevailing  in  their  end 
of  the  business  and  have  advanced  yarn 
prices  from 
i@3C  per  pound,  although 
it  can  assuredly  be  said  that  the  differ­
in  the  cost  of  manufacture  has 
ence 
shown  but  little 
if  any  change.  For 
some reason or  another,  spinners  are  in a 
position  where  they  are  behind  on  de­
liveries,  and  the  weaver, 
in  order  to 
protect  his  rights,  has  had  to  prod  the 
spinner  very  severely.  This  is  quite 
general  throughout  the  yarn  market,  and 
as  soon  as  the  spinners  became  aware 
of 
immediate'y  ad­
vanced.  This 
largely  to  the 
worsted  yarns  and  at  the  present  mo­
ment  it  appears  that  there  will  be a very 
small  surplus  of  stock  in  the  hands  of 
spinners  throughout  the  entire  season. 
Owing  to  these  conditions  the  prices  of 
carpet  yarns  are bound to be  quoted  on  a 
fairly  high  basis,  whether the  prices  on

it,  prices  were 

refers 

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ADAMS  &  HART

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

Who  have 
not already 
received  our
1902 Catalogue 

its 

No. 6

sell  to 

free  on 

Bicycles 

dealers only.

request.  We 

pertaining to 

Hartford  City—W.  A.  Lipkey  has 

discontinued  the meat  business.

and  Bicycle 
Supplies 
should ask 
for it. Mailed 

Shelbyville—Flaitz  &  Warble,  butch­
ers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Chas. 
W.  Flaitz  succeeding.

Indianapolis—The  Indianapolis  Ab­
attoir  Co.  has  increased its  capital stock 
from  $200,000 to  $500,000.

Ingrains  are  in  heavy  demand,  and 
the  situation,  except 
in  the  matter of 
prices,  is  such  as  to  give  no  cause  for

A  new  postal  card  will  appear  during 
is  described  as  a 
this  month  which 
great  improvement  on  previous 
issues, 
as  it  leaves  a  broad  blank  space  along 
the  top  of  the  face  of  it  wide  enough  to 
carry  the  postmarking  and  thus  pre­
serve 
legibility.  The  stamp  on  it 
will  be  a  portrait  of  the  late  President 
McKinley.

S H P0 LI©

Stock  It  Promptly!
HAND

¡You will  have enquiries fon

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

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  CO.

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

Butter  and  Eggs

. In te rn a l  Revenue  Regulations  R elating 

to  Process  B a tter.

The  oleomargarine  bill  passed  during 
the  present  session  of  Congress  and 
amended  so  as  to  impose  restrictions 
upon  the  manufacture  and  sale  of cer­
tain  forms  of  butter,  was  in  the  form  of 
an  amendment  to  the  original  act  im­
posing  taxes  upon  and  regulating  the 
manufacture  of oleomargarine as enacted 
in  1886.

formulating 

For  some  weeks  past  the  officials  of 
the  Treasury  and  Agricultural  Depart­
is 
ments  at  Washington,  upon  whom 
the 
thrown  the  duty  of  enforcing 
amended  law,  have  been 
in  consulta­
tion, 
regulations  under 
which  the  objects  of  the  amended  law 
should  be  made  effective.  These  regu­
lations  have  now  been  decided  upon 
and  published  in  pamphlet  form  under 
the  title,  "R evised  Regulations  Con­
cerning  Oleomargarine,  also  Adulter­
ated  Butter  and  Process  or  Renovated 
Butter  Under  Internal  Revenue  Laws: 
act  approved  August  2,  1886,  act  ap­
proved  Oct.  1,  1890,  act  approved  May 
9,  1902."

The  Law.

Be 

it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America 
in  Congress  as­
sembled,  That  for  the  purpose  of this 
act  the  word  “ butter"  shall  be  under­
stood  to  mean  the  food  product  usually 
known  as  butter,  and which  is  made  ex­
clusively  from  milk  or cream,  or  both, 
with  or  without  common  salt,  and  with 
or  without  additional  coloring  matter.

Act  of  May  9,  1902:
Sec.  4.  That  for  the  purpose  of  this 
Act  “  butter’ *  is  hereby  defined  to  mean 
an  article  of  food  as  defined  in  "A n  
Act  defining  butter,  also  imposing  a  tax 
upon  and  regulating  the  manufacture, 
sale, 
importation,  and  exportation  of 
oleomargarine,”   approved  August  2, 
1886;  that  "adulterated  butter”   is  here­
by defined to  mean  a  grade of butter pro­
duced  by  mixing,  re-working,  re-churn- 
ing  in  milk  or  cream,  refining,or  in  any 
way producing  a uniform, purified,or im­
proved  product  from  different 
lots  or 
parcels  of  melted  or  unmelted  butter or 
butterfat, 
in  which  any  acid,  alkali, 
chemical,  or  any  substance  whatever  is 
introduced  or  used  for  the  purpose  or 
with  the  effect  of  deodorizing  or  remov­
ing  therefrom  rancidity,  or  any  butter 
or  butterfat  with  which  there  is  mixed 
any  substance  foreign  to  butter as  here­
in  defined,  with 
intent  or  effect  of 
cheapening 
in  cost  the  product,  or any 
butter  in  the  manufacture  or  manipula­
tion  of  which  any  process  or  material  is 
used  with  intent  or  effect  of  causing  the 
absorption  of  abnormal  quantities  of 
water,  milk,  or  cream;  that  "  process 
butter”   or  "renovated  butter”   is  here­
by  defined  to  mean  butter  which  has 
been  subjected  to  any  process  by  which 
it  is  melted,  clarified  or  refined  and 
made  to  resemble  genuine  butter,  al­
ways  excepting  "adulterated  butter”   as 
defined  by  this  Act.

The  evident 

intent  of  this  section  is 
to  define  all  products  properly  known  or 
designated  as  butter,  and  to  separate 
them  into  three  classes  for the  purposes 
of  the  act.  The  first  paragraph  of  the 
section  adopts  the definition of "butter”  
used 
in  the  act  of  August  2,  1886,  as 
being  "T h e  food  product  usually known 
as  butter,  which" is  made  exclusively 
from  milk  or  cream,  or  both,  with  or 
without 
common  salt,  and  with  or 
without  additional  coloring  matter.”

All  butter  which  does  not  come  under 
the  terms  of  this  definition,  therefore, 
necessarily  falls  into  one  of  the  other 
two  classes,  upon  which  a  tax  is  laid.

The  next  paragraph  of  the  section 
defines  "Adulterated  Butter,"  the  prod­
uct  which  bears  the  higher  rate  of  tax,  I 
in  a  long  clause,  which  is  evidently  in- J

tended  to  describe  with  some  particu­
larity  well-defined  forms  of  adulteration 
as  examples or guides.

Such  are,  first,  " A   grade  of  butter 
produced  by  mixing,  re-working,  re­
churning  in  milk  or  cream,  refining,  or 
in  any  way  producing  a  uniform,  puri­
fied,  or  improved  product  from  differ­
ent  lots  or  parcels  of melted  or unmelted 
butter  or  butterfat,  in  which  any  acid, 
alkali,  chemical,  or any  substance  what­
ever  is  introduced  or  used  for  the  pur­
pose,  or  with  the  effect  of  deodorizing 
or  removing  therefrom  r a n c id it y o r , 
second,  "A n y  butter  or  butterfat  with 
which  there  is  mixed  any substance  for­
eign  to  butter  as  herein  defined,  with 
intent  or  effect  of  cheapening  in  cost 
the  product,  or any  butter  in  the  manu­
facture  or  manipulation  of  which  any 
process  or  material  is  used  with  intent 
or  effect  of  causing  the  absorption  of 
abnormal  quantities  of  water,  milk,  or 
cream. ”

Briefly  stated,  the  first 

instance  de­
scribes  re-worked  or  renovated  butter 
to  which  a  foreign  substance  has  been 
added  to  "deodorize  or  remove  rancid­
ity;”   the 
instance  describes 
butter cheapened  in  cost  by  admixture, 
or  made  to  "contain  abnormal  quanti­
ties  of  water,  etc.”

second 

(So-called  emulsified  or  milk-blended 

butter.)

The  third  paragraph  defines  "Process 
Butter”   or  "Renovated  Butter,"  es­
sentially  as  butter  which  has  been  sub­
jected  to  the  processes  generally  used 
for the  renovation  of  butter,  but  without 
the  introduction  or  use  of "any  acid, 
alkali,  chemical  or any  substance  what­
ever, ”   and  without  being  made  to  con­
tain  "abnormal  quantities  of  water, 
milk,  or cream. ”

It  follows,  therefore,  that  "renovated 
butter" 
is  butter as  defined  in  the  law 
of  August  2,  1886,  containing  nothing 
foreign  to  that  product,  but  which  hav­
ing  become 
in  quality,  has 
been  subjected  to  melting  and  other 
processes.

impaired 

The  provisions  made  in  the  foregoing 
regulations  for  the  issuing,  affixing  and 
canceling  tax-paid  stamps  for  oleomar­
garine, and  for  the  inspection,sampling, 
exportation,  or  importation  of  that  arti­
cle,  are  hereby  extended  and  made  to 
apply  to  adulterated  butter,  taxable  un­
der  said  act  of  May 9,  1902.

Appropriate  tax-paid  stamps  to  be 
affixed  to  packages  containing  adulter­
ated  butter  (subject  to  a  tax  of  10  cents 
per  pound)  and  for  packages  containing 
process  or  renovated  butter  (subject  to 
tax  at  the  rate  of  one-fourth  of  1  cent 
per  pound)  will  be  furnished  to  col­
lectors  on  requisition.  While  the  act 
does  not  prescribe  the  size  of  packages 
in  which  process  or  renovated  butter 
shall  be  packed,  it  provides  that any 
fractional  part  of a  pound  shall  be taxed 
as  a  pound.  Coupon  stamps  for such 
packages  will  be  provided  in  denomi­
nations  of  10,  20,  40,  50»  60 and  100 
pounds,  each  stamp  having  nine  cou­
pons  attached.

Process  or  Renovated  Butter. 

Section  5  of said  act  of  May  9,  1902, 

provides:

Sec.  5-  All parts  of  an  Act  providing 
for an  inspection  of  meats  for  exporta­
tion,  approved  August  thirtieth,  eigh­
teen  hundred  and  ninety,  and  of  an  Act 
to  provide  for  the  inspection  of  live 
cattle,  hogs,  and  the  carcasses  and  pro­
ducts  thereof  which  are  the  subjects  of 
interstate  commerce,  approved  March 
third,  eighteen  hundred  and ninety-one, 
and  of  amendment  thereto  approved 
March  second,_  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-five,  which  are  applicable  to the 
subjects  and  purposes described  in  this 
section  shall  apply  to  process  or  reno-

Boston is the best market  for

Butter,  Eggs and  Beans

and  Fowle,  Hibbard  &  Co.

is the house that can  get 
the  highest market price.

A A A A A A A A  A A A A A A  A A   *   A  A  A  A  A   A   -■   .

Smith,  McFarland  Co.,

Produce  Commission  Merchants

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

69 and 71  Clinton S t.y 
Boston,  Mass.

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

E G G S !

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

H IL T O N   &  A LD R IC H   CO.

3 9   SO UTH  M ARKET  S T R E E T  

BOSTON

C  

¥  J  n  L J   The opportunity  to  establish  satisfactory  and
profitable business connections, by shipping your

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LLOYD  t.  SEAMAN  &  CO.

148  READE  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY

Established  1850.

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.

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JACOB  HOEHN,  Ja . 

Established  1864 

m a n  MAYER

HOEHN  &  MAYER 

Produce Commission  Merchants

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

SPECIALTIES:

DRESSED  POULTRY,  GAME  AND  EGOS

Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicited

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

Largest Stocks 

Best Quality 

Lowest  Prices

All  orders  filled  promptly day received.

Alfred  J. Brown Seed 60., Grand Rapids, Mich.

GROW ERS,  MERCHANTS,  IM PORTERS

SEND  YOUR

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

TO

GRAND  RAPIDS

And receive highest prices and quick returns.

C.  D.  CRITTENDEN,  98  South  Division  Street

Successor  to  C.  H.  Libby 

Both  Phones  1300

EGGS  WANTED

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

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

Butter

We can handle all you send us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  S T R E E T ,  GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH .

Citizens Phone 323a.

P O U L T R Y ,  B U T T E R   AND  EG G S

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

5 5   CADILLAC  S Q U A R E

D E T R O IT .  M ICHIGAN

GEO.  N.  HUFF  &   CO.

vated  butter.  And  the  Secretary  of  A g­
riculture 
is  hereby  authorized  and  re­
quired  to  cause  a  rigid  sanitary  inspec­
tion  to  be  made,  at  such  times  as  he 
may  deem  proper  or necessary,  of all 
factories  and store  houses  where  process 
or  renovated  butter 
is  manufactured, 
packed,  or  prepared  for  market,  and  of 
the  products  thereof  and  materials  go­
ing 
into  the  manufacture  of  the  same. 
AIT process  or  renovated  butter and  the 
packages  containing  the  same  shall  be 
marked  with  the  words  “ Renovated 
Butter,’ ’  or  “ Process  Butter’ ’  and  by 
such  other  marks,  labels,  or  brands  and 
in  such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  and  no 
process  or  renovated  butter  shall  be 
shipped  or  transported  from  its  place 
of  manufacture 
into  any  other  state  or 
territory  or the  District  of  Columbia,  or 
to  any  foreign  country,  until  it  has  been 
marked  as  provided  in this section.  The 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall  make  all 
needful 
regulations  for  carrying  this 
section  into  effect,  and  shall  cause  to  be 
ascertained  and  reported  from  time  to 
time  the  quantity  and  quality  of process 
or  renovated  butter  manufactured,  and 
the  character  and  the  condition  of  the 
material  from  which  it  is  made.  And 
he  shall  also  have  power  to  ascertain 
whether  or  hot  materials  used 
in  the 
manufacture  of  said  process  or  reno­
vated  butter  are  deleterious to  health  or 
unwholesome 
in  the  finished  product, 
and  in  case  such  deleterious or unwhole­
some  materials  are  found  to  be  used 
in 
intended  for  exportation  or 
product 
shipment 
into  other  states  or  in  course 
of  exportation or shipment  he  shall  have 
power to  confiscate  the  same.  Any  per­
son,  firm,  or corporation  violating  any 
of the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor and on 
conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  nor 
more  than  five  hundred  dollars or by im­
prisonment  not  less  than  one  month  nor 
more  than  six  months,  or  by  both  said 
punishments,  in  the  discretion  of  the 
court.

Rules  and  Regulations.

1.  As  the  terms  “ Process  Butter”  
and “  Renovated  Butter”   occur through­
out  the  act  as  synonymous,  the  article 
will  be  designated  as  “ Renovated  But­
ter”   in  these  regulations  and 
in  all 
correspondence  relating  thereto.

2.  The  following  explanation  of  the 
definition  of  renovated  butter as  it  oc­
curs 
in  the  law  has  been  prepared  by 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  and  is 
adopted  for  guidance  in connection with 
these  regulations:

(a)  This  grade  or  kind  of  butter 
may  be  made  from  one  or  more 
lots  or 
parcels  of  butter,  which  has  been  or 
have  been  “ subjected  to  any  process  by 
which 
is  melted,  clarified  or  refined 
and  made  to  resemble  genuine  butter, 
always  excepting  Adulterated  Butter  as 
defined  by  this  act.”

it 

(b)  The  butter,  to  be  subject  to  this 
definition,  must  have  been  melted—that 
is,  so  affected  by  heat  as  to  become  of 
sufficient  fluidity  to  move  in  a  continu­
ous  stream  of  even  consistency from  one 
vessel  to  another,  by  pouring  or  pump­
ing, because  butter  can  not  be  “ clarified 
or  refined”   unless  it  be  melted  to  that 
degree.

(c)  The  butter  must,  besides  melt­
ing, have been subjected  to  some  process 
by  which 
it  is  “ clarified  or  refined. ”  
Butter,  or  melted  butter,  may  be  clari­
fied  or  refined  by  skimming,  settling, 
aerating,  washing,  and  other  processes, 
through  the  action  of  heat,  cold,  agita­
tion  or  motion,  or  rest.

(d)  Butter  thus  melted  and  clarified 
or  refined  becomes  an  oil  or  fat  almost 
free  from  taste  and  odor.  To  be  again 
“ made  to  resemble  genuine  butter”   it 
must  have  restored  to  it  the  butter  char­
acteristics  of  texture,  granulation  and 
flavor.  For  this  purpose  the  processed 
or  renovated  butter  is usually granulated

by  cooling,  and  churned  or otherwise 
mixed  with  milk  or  skim  milk,or  butter 
milk,  or  cream,  sweet  or  sour. 
It  may 
or  may  not  have  common  salt  or artifi­
cial  coloring  added.  To  “ resemble 
genuine  butter”   the  article  must  have 
passed  through  these  or  other  processes, 
subsequent  to  melting,  so  that  it  looks, 
smells,  and  tastes  like  “ butter, ”  have  a 
similar  appearance,  consistency,  tex­
ture  and  flavor.

(e) 

It  may  be  assumed  that  the  ob­
ject  of  subjecting  a  lot  or  lots  of  butter 
to  such  a  process  is  to  remove  rancid­
ity,  sourness,  mold  or  other  fault  or 
feature  which  has  impaired 
its  mer­
chantable  quality,  or  to  otherwise  re­
new  or  improve  the  product,  so  that  the 
is  truly  “ renovated,”   al­
substance 
though  such  object  is  not  expressed 
in 
the  act.

(f)  But  if,  in  such  process,  “ or  in 
any  (other)  way,”   “ any  acid,  alkali, 
chemical,  or  any  substance  whatever  is 
introduced”   or  used,  or  if  “ there  is 
mixed  (therewith)  any  substance  for­
eign  to  butter”   (including  any  fat  or 
oil  other  than  butterfat),  or  if  in  any 
way  the  substance  is  made  to  hold  “ ab­
normal  quantities  of  water,  milk,  or 
cream,”   the  substance  or commodity  is 
to  be  recognized  and  treated  as  “ adul­
terated  butter”   under  this  act.

(g)  Renovated  butter  having  16  per 
cent,  or  more  of  moisture  will  be held to 
contain  “ abnormal  quantities  of  water, 
milk,  or  cream”   and,  therefore,  be 
classed  as  “ adulterated  butter.”

3. 

Section  4  of  the  act  of  May  g, 

1902:  “ Manufacturers  of  process  or 
renovated  butter  shall  pay  fifty  dollars 
per  year.  *  *  *  Every  person  who 
engages 
in  the  production  of  process  or 
renovated  butter  *  *  *  as  a  business 
shall  be  considered  a  manufacturer 
thereof.”   The  special-tax  year  begins 
July  i.  The  special  tax  of  manufactur­
ers  who  commence  business  in  the 
month  of  July  will  be  reckoned  for one 
year,  and  the  tax  of  manufacturers  who 
commence  business  after  the  month  of 
July  will  be  reckoned  proportionately 
from  the  first  day  of  the  month  from 
which  the  liability  to  special  tax  com­
menced  to  the  first  day  of July  follow­
ing.

4. 

Every  manufacturer of  renovated 

butter,  before  commencing  business  (or 
at  least  within  the  month  in  which  lia­
bility  to  special  tax  commenced),  must 
register  with  the  collector  of  the  district 
in  which  the  business  is  carried  on,  his 
name,  or style,  place  of  residence,  busi­
ness,  and  the  place  where  such  business 
is  to .be  carried  on,  and  procure  a  spe­
cial  tax  stamp  at  the  rate  of  $50  per an­
num,  which  stamp  be 
is  to  place  and 
keep  conspicuously  posted  in  his  estab­
lishment  or  place  of  business ;  and  on 
the  first  day  of  July  in each  year  he  will 
again  so  register  and  procure  a  new 
special-tax  stamp  and  post  it  as  above 
stated.

5.  Under  the  provisions  of  section  4 
of  said  act,  the  tax  of  one-fourth  of  1 
cent  per  pound  imposed  thereby on  ren­
ovated  butter  is  to  be  represented  by 
coupon  stamps,  to  be  provided  by  the 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  as 
authorized  by  existing 
laws.  A  frac­
tional  part  of  a  pound  shall  be  taxed  as 
a  pound.

6.  For this  purpose  tax-paid  stamps 
will  be  furnished  in  denominations  of 
10,  20,  30,  40,  50,  60 and  100  pounds, 
each  stamp  bearing  nine  coupons.  Such 
stamps  must  contain  the  name  of  the 
collector,  his district and state,  and  show 
theteon  the  date  of  payment  of the  tax,

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

Commission  Merchant

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

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

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

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

Produce Review and American Creamery.

VINECR.OFT

Order  fruit  direct  from  grower  and  get  it  twenty-four  hours  fresher 

Strawberries,  Raspberries,  Currants,  Gooseberries,  Cherries  and  Grapes 

than if bought on our market.

by the basket, ton or carload.

Mail orders a specialty.

Wm. K.  MUNSON,

-CITIZENS PHONE 2599 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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the  number of  pounds,  and  the  number 
of the  factory.

7.  On  the  withdrawal  of a  package 
of  renovated  butter,  the  proper  tax- 
paid  stamp  must  be  affixed  thereto  by 
the  manufacturer,by  the  use  qf  adhesive 
material,  and  not  less  than  five  tacks 
must  be  driven  through  each  stamp, one 
in  each  corner,  and  one  in  the  middle 
of  the  stamp. 
The  stamp  when  so 
affixed  must  be  immediately  cancelled. 
For  the  purpose  of  cancellation  the 
manufacturer  will  use  a  stencil  plate  of 
brass  or  copper,  in  which  will  be  cut 
five 
long 
enough  to  extend  beyond  each  side  of 
the  stamp  onto the  wood  of the  package. 
The  imprinting  from  this  plate  must  be 
with  blacking  or other  durable  coloring 
material,  over  and  across  the  stamp, 
and 
in  such  manner  as  not  to  deface 
the  reading  matter  on  the  stamp—that 
is,  so  as  not  to  daub  and  make  it  illeg­
ible.

fine  parallel  waved 

lines 

in 

8.  The  stamp  must  be  affixed  to  the 
side  of  the  package,  to  a  smooth  sur­
face,  in  such  a  manner as  to  be  readily 
cancelled 
the  mannet  above  de­
scribed.  When  a  package  contains a 
number  of  pounds  between  10  and  20, 
a  ten  pound  stamp  with  the  necessary 
number  of coupons  attached  will  be 
is­
sued  to cover  the  net weight.  Packages 
containing  more  than  20  pounds  and 
less  than  30  pounds  will  have  attached 
a  twenty  pound  stamp  with  a  suitable 
number of  coupons  to  represent  the  con­
tents.  Large  sized  packages  will  be 
similarly  stamped.

9.  Every  manufacturer of  renovated 
butter  will  be  required  to  file  with  the 
collector a  notice  on  Form  No.  507,  to­
gether  with  an 
inventory,  Form  No. 
509,  when  making  application  for  spe­
cial-tax  stamp  as  manufacturer.  At  the 
same  time  he  will  find  a  bond,  Form 
No.  509  in  a  penal  sum  to  be  fixed  by 
the  collector of  internal  revenue  for  his 
district,  but 
in  no  case  less  than  $500. 
Collectors  of  internal  revenue  will  de­
cline  to  approve  the  bond  of  a manufac­
turer  of  renovated  butter  until  he  is  sat­
isfied  that  the  premises  to  be  used  for 
the  manufacture  of  that  article  are  en­
tirely  separate  from  those  used  for  the 
manufacture  of  adulterated  butter  or 
oleomargarine,  or  for  the  handling  or 
manipulation of butter not taxable  under 
the  act  of  May  9,  iqo2.

10.  Each  manufacturer of  renovated 
butter  is  required  to  keep  books  and 
make  returns  showing  the  quantity  of 
materials  received  on  the  factory  prem­
ises,  and  the  quantity  of  finished  mate­
rials  removed  therefrom.  Sample  pages 
of  book  (Form  No.  511)  to  be  kept  Dy 
manufacturers  will  be  furnished  to  col­
lectors,  but  the  book  must  be  provided 
by  the  manufacturer,  as  the  same  is  not 
supplied  by  the  Government.

11.  Form  No.  499  has  been  pre­
scribed  for  monthly  returns  of  manufac­
turers  of  renovated  butter,  and  such 
forms  will  be  furnished  through  the  col­
lectors  of  internal  revenue.

12.  Collectors  will  give  each  manu­
facturer  of  renovated  butter  in  their  re­
spective  districts  a  factory  number,  the 
numbers  to  be  consecutive,  and  not 
thereafter  changed.  The  factory  num­
ber applies  to the  manufacturer and  his 
establishment  rather  than  to the  build­
ing.

13.  Every  manufacturer  of  renovated 
butter  shall  place  and  keep  on  the  side 
or  end  of the  building  wherein  his busi­
ness  is carried  on,  so  that  it  can  be  dis­
tinctly  seen,  a  sign,  with  letters  thereon 
not  less  than  three 
inches  in  length 
in  oil  colors  or gilded,  giving
printed 

his  full  name  and  business  and  the 
number of  bis  factory,  as  follows:

A----------B -----------

Manufacturer of  Renovated  Butter.

Factory  No.-----

14.  Whenever  any  manufacturer's 
package  of  renovated  butter  is  empty  it 
will  be  the  duty  of  the  person  who  re­
moves  the  contents  thereof  to  utterly 
destroy  the  tax-paid  stamp  on  such 
empty  package.  Any  person  having  in 
his  possession  empty  renovated  butter 
packages 
from  which  the  tax-paid 
stamps  have  not  been  removed  will  be 
liable  to a  heavy  penalty.

15.  Section  5  of  said  act  of  May  9, 
1902,  requires  that  all  renovated  butter 
and  the  packages  containing  the  same 
shall  be  marked with  the words,  “ Reno­
vated  Butter”   or “ Process  Butter,’ ’ and 
by  such  other  marks,  labels,  or  brands, 
and 
in  such  manner  as  may  be  pre­
scribed  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 
To  carry  this  provision  into  effect  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  prescribes the 
following  rules  for  marking.

16.  Each'manufacturer’s  package  of 
renovated  butter 
shall  have  affixed 
thereto  a  label  on  which  shall be printed 
the  number of  the  manufactory  and  the 
district  and  state  in which  it  is situated, 
together  with  the  following  notice:

FOR  RENOVATED  BUTTER. 

Factory  No.— ,  —district,  State  of---- .

Notice.

The  manufacturer  of  the  Renovated 
Butter  (or  Process  Butter)  herein  con­
tained  has  complied  with  all  the  re­
quirements  of  the  law.  Every  person  is 
cautioned  not  to  use  either this  package 
again,  or  the  stamp  thereon  again,  nor 
to  remove  the  contents  of  this  package 
without  destroying  said  stamp,  under 
the  penalty  provided  by 
law  in  such 
cases.
The 

label  on  which  the  above  notice 
is  to  be  printed 
is  required  to be  not 
less  than  4  nor  more  than  6  inches  long, 
and  not 
inches  in  width. 
The 
label  must  be  securely  affixed  by 
paste  to  the  top  or  cover  of  the  package 
in  such  a  way  as  to  he  exposed  to  pub­
lic  view  and  easily  read.  The  words 
“ Renovated  Butter”   in  this notice must 
be  printed 
letters  at 
least  three-eighths  inch  square.  There 
must also  be  plainly  marked  or stenciled 
on  the  outside  of  each  package  the 
gross,  tare,and  net  weight in pounds.

in  plain  gothic 

less  than  2

17.  All 

renovated  butter  may  be 
packed  by  the  manufacturer  thereof  in 
firkins,  tubs,  or  packages  of  wood  or 
other  suitable  material,  not  before  used 
for that  purpose ;  but  each package must 
contain  not  less  than  10  pounds;  and, 
in  a  solid  body  or  mass, 
when  packed 
there  shall  be  stamped  or  branded 
into 
the  upper  surface  of  the  butter  the 
words  “ Renovated  Butter”  
in  one  or 
two  lines,  the  letters  to  be  gothic  style, 
not  less  than  one-half  inch  square  and 
depressed  not  less  than  one-eighth  inch.
18.  Manufacturers  will  be  permitted 
to  pack  prints,  bricks,  or  rolls  of  reno­
vated  butter;  but  each  print,  brick,  or 
the 
roll  must  have  stamped  thereon 
words  “ Renovated  Butter,”  
in 
two 
lines,  the  letters  to  be  depressed,  of 
gothic  style,  not  less  than  three-eighths 
inch  square  and  sunken  not  less  than 
one-eighth  inch.

19.  The  use  of  inner  packages  of 
wood,  paper  or other  materials  contain­
ing not  less than  one  pound  each  will  be 
permitted, but  such  inner  packages  must 
have  the  words  “  Renovated  Butter, ”  
in  one  or  two 
lines,  conspicuously 
marked,  branded, or  stamped  on  the  top 
or  side  of  each  inner  package  in  full- 
faced  gothic  letters  not  less  than  three- 
eighths  inch  square. 
inner 
packages  are  wrapped  with  paper  or

If  such 

SH IP   Y O U R

BUTTER  AND  ECCS

------- TO-------

R.  HIRT,  JR.,  DETROIT.  MICH..

and  be  sure  of  getting  the  Highest  Market  Price.

EGGS

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

G.  M.  Lamb  &  Bro.

301  Exchange  Place, 
corner South Street,

BALTIMORE,  Md.

Butter

I  always 
want  it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

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We will have fresh cars of these goods this week.  Order  from 
first hands and get the best stock and  prices.

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cloth  covering,  such  wrapper  must  be 
marked  in  the  same  manner.

20. 

If  such  manufacturers  desire  to 
place  upon  the  outside  of  their  original 
packages,  as  above  described, 
their 
names,  or  some  word  or mark  descrip­
tive  of  the  quality  of  the  product,  they 
may  do  so,  provided  such  brand  does 
not  obscure  or  cover  up  any  of  the 
stamps,  marks,  or  brands  otherwise  re­
quired  for  such  packages.

For example:

John  Doe,

Manufacturer  of 
Renovated  Butter,

20  i-lb.  Plain  Bricks.

Richard  Roe,

Manufacturer  of  Elgin, 

Renovated  Butter,

Solid.

21.  When 

so  marked 

the  (brand  or  stenciled 

the  words 
“ Renovated  Butter”   must  be  included 
in  plain 
in 
Roman  letters  not  less  in  size  than 
let­
in  the  manufacturer’s  name, 
ters  used 
etc.  The  figures  and  words  describing 
the  form 
in  which  contents  are  packed 
must  not  be  greater  than  one-half  the 
size  of  the  letters  prescribed  for  the 
words  “ Renovated  Butter."

22.  Renovated  butter  should  always 
bear,  or  be  accompanied  by,  the  evi­
dence  that  the  manufacturer’s  tax  there­
on  has  been  paid.  Therefore  it  should 
not  be  removed  or  separated  from  the 
original  package  bearing  the  tax  stamp 
and  other  prescribed  marks,  when  it  is 
in  transportation,  and  the  subject  of 
interstate  commerce,  exported,  or  when­
ever  and  wherever  offered  for  sale,  un­
til  delivered  to  the  consumer or  pur­
chaser  in  retail  trade.

23.  Attention  is  called  to  the  fact  that 
the  act  named  makes  no  provision  for 
the  exportation,  free of  tax,  of  renovated 
butter;  nor  for  drawback  of  tax  on  such 
articles  when  exported.  Consequently 
all  renovated  butter  for export  must  be 
stamped  and  marked  the  same  as  for 
the  domestic  market.

24.  All 

factories  where  renovated 
butter  is  manufactured,  packed  or  pre­
pared  for  matket,  as  well  as  the  mate­
rials  used  and  to  be  used,  the  processes 
and  the  products  will  be  inspected  from 
time  to  time  by  officers  or  agents  spe­
cially designated for that  purpose  by  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 
Inspectors 
will  be  required  to  report  upon  “ the 
character  and  condition  of  the  mate­
rial”   and  “ the  quantity  and  quality”  
of  the  product,  in  such  manner  as  may 
be  prescribed.

25.  Correspondence  and  all  adminis­
trative  details  under  the  rules  num­
bered  3  and  14,  inclusive,  above,  are 
assigned  to  the  Commissioner  of  In­
ternal  Revenue,  Treasury  Department. 
And  similarly,  all  matter  under  the 
rules  15  to  24,  inclusive,  are  assigned 
to  the  Dairy  Division,  Bureau  of  Ani­
mal  Industry,  Department  of  Agricul­
ture.

Signed:  J.  W.  Yerkes, 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue.

Approved:

Signed :  L.  M.  Shaw,
Secretary  of  the  Treasury.
Signed:  James  Wilson,

Secretary  of  Agriculture.

Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  Man.
As  the  season  advances  the  egg  situa­
tion is  developing  features  which  give  a 
decidedly  stronger  outlook  for the  stor­
age  accumulations 
in  spite  of  the  un­
precedentedly  high  prices  at  which  they 
have  been  put  away. 
In  all  Eastern 
distributing  markets  the  month  of  June 
has  been 
free  from  the  sluggish  trade 
and  burdensome  accumulation  of  under

incident  to  the  first 

grade  current  packings  which  are  com­
monly 
summer 
month  and  which,  usually  at  this  season 
serve  to add  a  large  quantity  of very  in 
different  eggs  to  the  earlier accumula­
tions.

Here 

in  New  York,  although  our  re­
ceipts  have  been  fairly  liberal,  as  com­
pared  with  previous  seasons  in  June 
the  current  needs  of  the  market  have 
absorbed  most  of  the  goods  arriving  ex­
cept  such  as  were  specially  packed  and 
designed  for  storage.  During  the  first 
week  of  the  month  there  was  consider­
able  accumulation,  but  it  was  chiefly 
of  the  better  grades  and  a  later  heavy 
decrease 
comparatively  close  clearance.

in  receipts  has  permitted 

Undoubtedly  the  average  quality  of 
the  eggs  stored  in  this  vicinity  is  bet­
ter  than  usual  at this season;  the propor­
tion  of  dirties  and  the  defective  hot 
weather  eggs  so  often  stored  during 
June  from  force  of  necessity,  is  very 
much  smaller  than  usual.

Advices  from  the  Southwest  indicate 
a  continuance  of  very  light  collections; 
in  that  section  harvesting  is  reducing 
the  marketing  of  eggs,  but  the  quantity 
coming 
in  at  collecting  points  is  much 
smaller  than  usual  at  this  season  while 
outlets  for  these  are,  apparently,  wider, 
including  demands  from  the  Far  South 
which  ordinarily  do  not  come  until  later 
in  the  season.  Other  sections  also  are 
now  reporting  a  considerable  decrease 
in  collections  and  it  begins  to 
look  as 
later  summer  production  would 
if  the 
show 
if  any  surplus  beyond  the 
current  consumptive  requirements  of the 
country  as  a  whole.

little 

From  the  Northerly  sections  a  good 
deal  of  stock  has  continued  to  move  di­
rectly  to  storage  at  various  points,  but 
there 
is  no  evidence  that  the  total 
amount  of  June  storage  has  been  more 
than  usual  and  such  reports  of  storage 
holdings  as  are  available  still  indicate 
a  very  material  shortage  in  total  accum­
ulations  as  compared  with  last  year.

Contrary  to  earlier expectations  there 
has  been  no  decrease  in  the  cost  of  stor­
age  packed  eggs  since  the  pace  was 
set  in  April;  on  the  contrary  prices 
have  gradually  hardened  and  it  is  evi­
dent  that  we  shall  go  into  the  heated 
portion  of  the  summer  with  no  cheaper 
reserve  stocks  of  good  quality than those 
which  were  put  away  early  in  the  sea­
son.

There 

is  of  course  a  possibility  that 
when  storage  movement  from  the  in­
terior  shall  cease  entirely  the  quantity 
of goods  forwarded  may  with  continued 
favorable  weather,  prove  sufficient  to 
supply  all  summer  demands  at  prices 
below  the  high  cost  of  reserve  stocks; 
and  if  unloading  should  be  deferred  un­
til  the  fall  the  dangers  of  the  future 
would  be  greatly  increased.  But  the  re­
cent  heavy  decrease  in  Eastward  move­
ment  indicates  a  decreasing  production 
which  is  likely,  with  the  first'protracted 
spell  of  hot  weather,  to  shorten  the  sup­
ply  of  fine  eggs  below  requirements  and 
force  prices  to  a  point  at  which  some  of 
the  earlier  pack  will  become  avail­
able.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

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during the spring  and  summer  to  handle  your 
large or small shipments for you?

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Egg Receivers, 

Est. 1866. 

36 Harrison St., N. Y.

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are not  satisfactory,  but  try

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Manufacturers’ Agent 
for all kinds of

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

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

J . ROBINSON. Manager.

Benton Harbor.Michigan-

A  Perfectly  Roasted 

Coffee

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

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P O T A T O E S

New Southern stock arriving daily.

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H usbands.

The  complaint  is  often  made  by  the 
outer  barbarian  that  the  women's  club 
movement  lacked  some  tangible  object 
upon  which  to  bestow  its  energies.  A l­
truistically,  this  is  a  mistake;  practic­
ally, it  is  true.  It  is  certain  that  if  some 
-‘one  should  suddenly  arise  in  meeting 
and  demand,  like  the politician,  “ What 
are  we  here  for?"  the  question  would 
be  a  bombshell  that  would  annihilate 
things.

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Woman’s World

P ractical  M ethods o f D ealing  W ith  Bad 

If,  however,  heretofore  the  woman's 
club  has  seemed  to  the  Philistine  to 
lack reason  for  its  being  because  it  con­
cerned 
itself  with  the  things  of  sweet­
ness  and  light  instead of  grappling  with 
the 
live  questions  of  the  day,  that  re­
proach  need  be  brought  against  it  no 
longer.  An  object  has  been  given  it, 
for  one  of  the  great  problems  of  the 
world  has  been  submitted  to  it  to  solve. 
A  clergyman  has  addressed  a  letter  to 
the  clubwomen  of a  certain  city  earnest­
ly  begging  them  to  use  their  united 
in­
telligence  in  devising  some  effective 
and  practical  way  for  punishing  bad 
husbands.  Now  this  is  something  like. 
Here  is  a  subject  that  makes  the  mys­
tery  of  what  Browning 
thought  he 
thought  or  the  morality  of  immorality 
or  the  anthropology  of  the  ape  or  any 
of  the  other  topics  beloved  of  club­
women  sink  into  innocuous  desuetude, 
and  if  the  women’s  clubs  of  the  coun­
try  can  solve  the  mystery— if  they  can 
find  a  punishment  to  fit  the  crime—of 
the  man  who  marries  a  girl  merely  to 
make  her  miserable,  the  whole  world 
will  be  their  debtor.

Of course,  the  first  difficulty  is  deter­
mining  just  what  constitutes  a  bad  hus­
band  and  on  this  point  opinions  differ. 
The  law  specifies  certain  shortcomings 
as  attributes  of  a  bad  husband,  but 
women,  in  their  hearts,  make  a  very 
different 
Faithlessness, 
drunkenness  and  failure  to  support  a 
family  are  grievous  sins,  but  they  do 
not  make  a  man  a  whit  worse  husband 
than  niggardliness,  lack  of  sympathy, 
grumness  and  nagging.

definition. 

One  of  the  things  that  is  always  cited 
as  proof  of  woman’s  lack  of  reason  is 
that  so often  we  see  a  woman  who  will 
stick  to  an  outwardly  unworthy  hus­
band,  who  will  follow  him  through  pov­
erty  and  love  him  through  disgrace  and 
break  her  heart  over him  when  dead. 
“ He  was  a bad husband to her, “   we say, 
and  yet  every  woman  who  makes  the 
comment  knows  that  somewhere  in  that 
man  was  a  saving  grace—a  tenderness 
and  a  gentleness  and  a  sympathy  that 
kept  him  from  being  a  totally  bad  hus­
band,  and  that  repaid  his  wife  for all 
she  had  to  suffer.

On  the  other  band,  we  see  a  man  who 
is  respected 
in  the  community,  who  is 
prosperous  and  well  placed  and  who 
gives  his  wife  a  fine  house,  with  serv­
ants  and  carriages  and  rich  clothes, 
and  we  say  what  a  good  husband  he  is. 
We  wonder  that  his  wife  looks  discon­
tented  and  sad  and  we  do  not  know  that 
this  good  husband  is  breaking  her  heart 
by  a  system  of  petty  tyranny  that makes 
him  the  worst  husband  in  the  world.

Personally,  I  would  far  rather  take  a 
good  beating  once  a  month  and  have  a 
husband  who  was  amiable  and  cheery 
and  agreeable  the  balance  of  the  time, 
than  to  be  married  to  a  chivalrous  saint 
who  would  sit  up  glum  and  sour and 
talk  in  monosyllables  when  I  screwed 
up  enough  courage  to attempt  conversa­
tion  with  him. 
1  could  starve,  if  nec­

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

essary,  with  my  husband,  and  still  love 
him  if he  divided  his  crust  freely  with 
me,  but  I  should  hate  the  husband  who 
loaded  me  with  diamonds  and  haggled 
with  me  over my  car  fare.

Probably  men  and  women  never  will 
hold  the  same  creed  of  matrimonial 
ethics.  Men  are  very  elemental  in  their 
opinions  as  to  what  constitutes  a  good 
husband,  and  so 
long  as  one  supports 
his  wife  and  refrains  from  physically 
beating  her  and  is  outwardly  moral,  he 
feels  that  he  has  done  his  whole  duty.  I 
know  men  who  honestly  and  sincerely 
believe  themselves  to  be  model  hus­
bands  who  never  say  one  word  of  ten­
derness  to  their  wives  from  one  year's 
end  to another. 
I  know  others,  equally 
virtuous,  whose  sulky  silence  falls  upon 
their  homes  like  a  wet  blanket  that  ex­
tinguishes  light  and  mirth. 
I  know 
others  who  consider  themselves  models 
of  marital  conduct,  yet  who  dole  out 
money  to  their  wives  as  if they  were 
giving  alms  to  a  beggar. 
These  are 
the  crimes  that  in a  woman's  mind  con­
stitute  a  bad  husband,  because  they  are 
so  common  and  for  which  women  ar­
raign  men  far  more than for the few mis­
demeanors  that  are  punishable  by  law.
I  was  once  talking  to  a  girl,  who  was 
bent  upon  marrying  a  charming,  but 
dissipated  young  fellow. 
“ How  can 
you  be  so  foolish,“   I  said,  as  I  painted 
the  horrors  of  a  drunkard’s  wife  to  her, 
“ when  you  have  always  had  the  advan­
tage  of  your  father's  exemplary  conduct 
as a husband before you?" “ My father!" 
she  flashed  out  at  me  passionately. 
“ Yes,  he  is  one  of  those  good  husbands 
who  are  never  guilty  of  a  weakness  or  a 
tenderness. 
If  I  marry  Jack  I  will  at 
least  have  the  pleasure  of  some  human 
companionship  and  affection  when  he 
frozen  to 
is  sober 
death 
If  my  father  is 
a  good  husband,  God  deliver  me  from 
one !'*

instead  of  being 

like  my  mother. 

But  how  are  these  conditions  to  be 
met?  How  is  the  bad  husband  to  be 
turned  from  the  error of  his  way?  This 
is  the  difficult  problem  that  the  club­
women  are  asked  to  tackle.  The  drunk - 
ard  can  occasionally  be  reformed,  but 
where 
is  the  Keeley  cure  for  the  man 
who  nags?  Three  women  have  I  known 
who  reformed  bad  husbands  into  being 
good  husbands,  and  the  story  of  their 
experiments  I  give,  not  as  an  example, 
for  I  have  an  idea  that  in  matrimony 
every  husband 
is  different  and  every 
woman  has  to  work  out  her  own  salva­
tion,  but  simply  as  an  evidence  that 
no  case 
is  quite  hopeless  if  met  with 
tact  and  ingenuity.

The  first  was  the  case  of  Mrs.  A., 
who  had  bad  the  ill  luck  to  marry  one 
of  those  men  who think  that  the  chief 
duty  of  a  husband 
is  to  remind  his 
wife  of  her  faults  and  shortcomings. 
Mr.  A.  was  a  perpetual  objector. 
Whatever  was  was  wrong  in  his  house. 
If  his  wife  got  a  blue  dress,  he  wanted 
to  know  why  it  was  not  green. 
If  they 
bad  chops,  he  raged  because  they  were 
not  steak,  and  life  with  him  was  about 
as  soothing  as  a  mustard  plaster. 
In 
particular,  he  was  critical  of  the  food 
and  had  a  playful  way  of  taking  a 
mouthful  of  a  dish  and  then  demanding 
scornfully:  “ Do  you  call  this 
soup 
or  pudding?"  or  whatever  it was.  Mrs. 
A.  stood  this  as  long  as  she  could  and 
finally  one  day  she  determined  on  stop­
ping  it.  She  printed  neat  placards  and 
as  each  dish  was  brought  onto the  table, 
it  bore  upon  it  the  legend:  “ This  is 
bread." 
is  roast.”   “ This  is 
potatoes."  Mr.  A.  gave  one  look  at  it 
and  the  significance  of the  thing,  and

“ This 

A Summer  Light

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Having sold over 100,000 of these lamps  during the 
last four years that are giving such perfect  satisfac­
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BOO Candle Power

15 to 30 cents a  month
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George  Bohner 

42 State St,  Chicago

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.

W ater  Sets

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or ask our travelers.

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also  of  his  daily 
insults  to  his  wife, 
dawned  upon  him  and  never  again  was 
he  guilty  of  such  rudeness.

Another  case  I  knew,  in  which  the 
wife  used  her  wit  to  compel  justice 
from  her  husband,  was  that  of  an  ex­
tremely  beautiful  woman,  with  a  superb 
figure,  who  was  married  to  a  man  who 
was  very  penurious  to her.  Fine clothes 
she  had 
in  plenty,  for  it  gratified  her 
husband’s  vanity to  hear bis  wife spoken 
of  as  handsomely  dressed,  but  never  a 
penny  did  the  wife  have  that  she  could 
spend  as  she  pleased.  This  fell  all  the 
harder  on  her,  because  she  had  an  old 
mother,  who  was  very  poor,  and 
it 
broke  the  daughter's  heart  that  she 
could  do  nothing  to help  her and  soften 
the  old  woman’s'  last  days.  Finally, 
after  many  conversations  that had ended 
in  bitterness  and  rancor,  on  the  subject 
of  an  allowance,  the  wife  calmly  an­
nounced  to  her  husband  that  she  had 
secured  a  place  in  a  shop  as  a  cloak 
model.

about  keeping 

“ I  am  tired  of  being  a  beggar  and  a 
dependant,’ ’  she  said,  simply,  “ and  I 
am  not  going  to  do  it  another  day. 
I 
can  get  so  much  money  as  a  clerk  in 
a  store  and  not  work  as  baid  as  I  do 
seeing 
your  house. 
Moreover,  the  money  will  be  mine,  to 
do  what  I  please  with,  and  I  shall  know 
the  joy  of  receiving  it  without  being in­
sulted.  If  you  consider that  my  services 
are  worth  that  much  I  will  gladly  stay 
at  home,  but  I  tell  you  right  now  that 
this  is  a  business  strike  and  I  mean 
what  I  say.  These  are  my  terms  and 
you  can  take  the  offer or  leave it.”   And 
the  man,  whose  pride  would  have  been 
touched to  the  quick  and  whose  business 
imperiled  by  the 
standing  would  be 
standing  as  a 
sight  of  his  wife 
model  paid 
the  money  and  never 
thereafter  questioned  her  right  to  an  in­
dependent  pocketbook.

Another  woman,  married to the  never- 
speak-at-bome  sort  of  a  husband,  claims 
to  have  cuied  him  by  an  overdose of  bis 
own  medicine.  She  was  a  cheery 
little 
body  who  believed  in  always  meeting 
her  husband  with  a  smile  and  regaling 
him  on  tid-bits  of  news  she  bad  picked 
up  during  the  day.  For  a  long  time 
she  used  at  his  coming  to  rush  to  the 
door  and  embrace  a  man  who  turned  a 
cheek  to  her  kiss  that  was  as  responsive 
as  a  graven  image,  and  to  keep  up  the 
conversation  she  would  do  a  monologue 
at  dinner,  to  which  he  only  responded 
by  an  occasional  grunt.  At 
last,  how­
ever,  she  decided  that  it  was  a  little 
too  much  to  expect  one  person  to do  all 
the  work  of  making home happy,  and  so 
turned  upon  her  husband  with  bis  own 
She  dropped  the  evening 
weapon. 
kiss.  She 
lapsed  into  silence  as  pro­
found  as  the  sphinx.  She grunted  in  her 
turn,  when  he  asked  questions.  Final­
ly,  the  man  asked,  “ What  is  the  mat­
ter?  What  has  happened?”   “ Oh,”   re­
plied  his  wife,  “ I  am  only  treating  you 
as  you  do  me.  You do nothing  to  make 
the  house  bright  and  pleasant,  why 
should  I?”  
ft  was  a  brand  new  idea  to 
the  man,  and  he  had  the  sense  and  jus­
tice  to  see  where  he  had  failed  and  to 
make  good  on  his  mistakes.

These  were,  of  course,  crude  and 
childish  ways  of  dealing  with  a  great 
subject,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  when 
the  trained 
intelligence  of  the  club­
women  of  the  country  is  brought  to  bear 
upon 
it  they  will  find  some  method 
more  comprehensive  and  more  widely 
effective.  When  they  are  studying  this 
subject,  though,  there  is  one  very  close 
to  it  that  we  trust  they  will  not  lose 
sight  of,  and  that  is how  to effectually

deal  with  bad  wives.  Perhaps,  if  there 
were  no  bad  wives  there  would  be  fewer 
bad  husbands. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Taking 

The A ttractive  A.ge  of W oman.
into  consideration  the 

fact 
that  more  women  are  married  between 
the  ages  of  18  and  25  than  at  any  other 
period,  it  would  certainly  appear that  it 
is  at  such  a  time  that  woman  reaches 
the  zenith  of  her charms.

Such  an  assumption,  however,  is  not 
by  any  means  correct.  Early  marriages 
are  easily  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that 
the  mind  of  the  average  young  man  at 
the  age  of  22  or  23  lightly  turns  to 
thoughts  of  love,  and  he 
invariably 
chooses  a  girl  of  the  same  age  as  him­
self,  or  perhaps  younger,  but  rarely 
older,  as  one  likely  to  make  him  a  suit­
able  wife.

At  the  age  of  22  or 23  the  majority  of 
women  are  undoubtedly  more  attractive 
as  regards  personal  beauty  than  at  any 
other  time  of  their lives;  but  while they 
have  that  buoyancy  and  youth  which 
captivate  and  make  men  susceptible  to 
their  charms  for  the  time  being,  yet  a 
deeper study  of  their  powers  of  fascina­
tion  will  quickly  show  that  their  attrac­
tiveness 
is  very  shallow,  as  compared 
with  that  of  an  older  woman.

A  pretty  face  only  constitutes  one  of 
the  characteristics  which  go 
towards 
making  a  woman  attractive,  and  it  is 
absurd  to  suppose  that  her  charms  de­
crease  as  time  adds  a  wrinkle  to  her 
face.  As a  matter of  fact,  many  women 
are  far  more  attractive  between  the  ages 
of  30  and  35 
those  who  are 
some  ten  years  younger.  The  latter, 
perhaps,appear  more  charming  and  fas­
cinating to the  average young man on ac­
count of  their  personal  beauty,  vivacity 
or youth.

than 

But  although  the  attractiveness  of  a 
woman  between  30 and  35  years  of  age 
may  not  be  so apparent  at  first  sight,  it 
is  really 
far  greater  than  that  of  a 
younger  woman.  Her  character  has been 
formed,  and,  well  knowing  that  she  can 
no  longer be regarded as a young woman, 
she  makes  the  most  of  the  good  quali­
ties  she  possesses  and  tries  to  please 
the  man  whose  favor  she  seeks,  as  well 
as  other  people  with  whom  she  comes 
in  contact.

A  pair  of  large,  sympathetic  eyes,  a 
low  sweet  voice,  and  an  equanimity  of 
temperament  more  than  counterbalance 
any  lack  of  youthful  beauty and vivacity 
and  it  is  when a woman strives  to  please 
man  that  her  powers  of  fascination 
in­
crease.  She  learns  to  take  an  interest  in 
bis  daily  pursuits,  be  they  business  or 
pleasure,  and  nothing  appeals  to  the 
masculine  heart  more  than  the  thought 
that  one  of  the  opposite  sex  is  ready  to 
praise  when  he triumphs and sympathize 
with  him  in  his  trials.

looks 

lacking 

Many  young women,  of course,  possess 
these  characteristics,  and,  besides  being 
pretty,  have  a  truly  lovable  and  sympa­
thetic  nature,  which  makes  them  doubly 
attractive  in  the  eyes  of  a  man.  But,  as 
a  rule,  it  will  be  found  that  a  young 
woman  who  possesses  good 
is 
somewhat 
in  those  endearing 
qualities  which  are  to  be  found  in  a 
woman  of  30 or  thereabouts.  The former 
has  to  depend  mostly  upon  her good 
looks  in  order  to  win  favor  with  the  op­
posite  sex,  and  as  the  average  young 
man—-and  older ones,  too,  for the  matter 
of  that— is  very  susceptible  to  personal 
in 
beauty,  she 
appearing  more  attractive 
in  his  eyes 
than  an  older woman.

is.  perhaps,  successful 

But  only  for  a  short  while.  Most 
men  have  a  habit  of  comparing  one

woman  with  another,  and  it  is  not  long 
before 
they  begin  to  perceive  that 
beauty  is  only  skin  deep,  as  the  saying 
goes,  and  that  although  a  woman  of 
from  30 to  35  is  not  so  pretty  as  those 
with  whom  they  are  acquainted  who  are 
some  years  younger,  yet  the  former  is 
brighter in disposition and more interest­
ing  and  sympathetic  in  character  than 
the 
latter.  This  is  because  the  older 
woman  has  had  more  experience  of  the 
world.  Her  character  has  developed, 
and  she  realizes  that  a  woman  needs 
more  than  personal  beauty  to  win  and 
retain  a  man’s  love. 

Cora  Stowell.

Never Gets a Silent P artner.

Mrs.  Stubb—The  partnership  of  mar­
is  just  like  any  other  business 

riage 
partnership.

Mr.  Stubb—Yes,  excepting  that  man 

never  gets  a  silent  partner.

Get  our  prices  and  try 
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Seals,  etc.

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99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit, Mich.

MICA 

AXLE

has Decome known on account of its  good  qualities.  Merchants  handle 
Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction,  and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes. 
It is becoming a  common  saying  that  “Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease," so  that 
Mica is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco­
nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
and blue tin packages.

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Hardware

Most Im p o rtan t T hing!  in  Conducting:  a 

H ardw are Business.

AH  things  pertaining  to  the  hardware 
business  are  to  be  taken  collectively 
in 
order  to  make  it  a  success.  Location, 
capital  and  ability  are  the  essential 
points  and  are  the  foundation  of  all 
mercantile  pursuits.  More  especially 
is  this  the  case  with  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Location 

is  the  first;  for,  without  a 
good 
location,  it  is  impossible  to  have 
a  demand.  Capital  is to  be  considered 
and,  of  course,  is  important,  but  is  not 
so  important  as  the  first  or  last  men­
tioned.  A  good 
location  and  ability,  j 
taken collectively,  will  induce  capital  to 
assist  you.

Ability  is  the  most  essential  of  all,  as 
there  can  be  no  hope  of  success  without 
it.  And  so  upon  this  1  mean  to  dwell, 
as  I  regard 
it  paramount  to  all  other 
points 
in  conducting  a  hardware  busi­
ness.  To  know  when  to  buy  and  how 
much  to  buy  is  a  hard  problem,  but  my 
experience  has  taught  me  that  the  most 
successful  way 
is  to  buy  according  to 
the  demand.  But  many  times  you  can 
increase  the  demand  by an earnest push. 
Increase  your  demand  by 
increasing 
your  variety.  That  is  more  necessary 
than  to  increase  your  stock  of  goods  al­
ready  introduced.  And  as  you  increase 
in  capital  so  you  should 
increase  in 
knowledge. 
Staples  will  sell  them­
selves,  but  it  takes  a  good  merchant  to 
introduce  new  goods  successfully. 
If  a 
man  can  take  sewing  machines  alone 
and  make  money  out  of  them  1  can  cer­
tainly  make  money  on  them  as  a  side 
line. 
is  not  a  pump  in  my 
town  I  will  undertake  to  make  a  de­
mand  by  getting  a  few  and  pushing 
them  vigorously.

If  there 

Three  years  ago  there  was  not  a  self- 
binder  machine  in  my  county,  very  few 
mowers  and  but  a  few  reapers. 
I  ac­
cepted  an  agency  (my  competitor al­
ready  bad  one)  and  we  began  to  push 
them.  Everybody  said  that  we  could 
not  run  harvesting  machines 
in  this 
country—too  rough  and  too  rocky.  But 
we  kept  pushing,  and  now  there  are 
four  machines  sold  in  our  town  and  al­
together  we  will  sell  two  hundred  ma­
chines  this  year.  We  have  done  the 
same  thing  in  cultivators.  We  made  a 
demand.  We  helped  ourselves  and  we 
have  benefited  our  people  and  our coun­
try.  We  have  made  it  possible  for our 
customers  to  make  more  and  they  are 
therefore  able  to  spend  more.  We  have 
better  farms  and  better  farmers  and  we 
are  better  merchants.  Three  years  ago 
not  a  buggy  in  our  town  for  sale.  Now 
there  are  four  firms  handling  buggies 
and  doing  a  nice  business.  We  made  a 
demand  by  keeping  them  in  stock  and 
we  secured  a  trade  that  otherwise  would 
have  gone  to  distant  cities.  And  the 
same  will  apply  to  many  other  lines  of 
business.  By  creating  the  demand  and 
pushing  the  goods  we  have  benefited 
ourselves  as  merchants  and  helped  our 
town  and  county.

Add  to  location  capital  and  to  your 
is  a  cer­
capital  ability  and  success 
tainty. 
It  takes  ability  to know  how  to 
sell  goods,  partly  cultivated  and  partly 
inherited,  but mostly it  is  done  by  culti­
vation.  You  must  meet  people  well  or 
you  can  not  win  them.  Never  meet 
them  with  a  deceitful  air,  but  always 
with  a  glad  hand  and  an  open heart.  Be 
frank  and  courteous  always  and  under 
all  circumstances. 
If  you  want  to be 
successful  see  your  customer  first.  Re­

ceive  him  kindly,  place  him  in  good 
hands  and  assure  him  that  he  will  be 
treated  right.  See  him  last  and  get  an 
expression  from  him  as  to  how  he  has 
been  treated,  invite  him  back  again 
and  be  particularly  careful  that  he  goes 
away  satisfied.  And  be  careful  again 
that  you  hold  all  your old  customers,  for 
there  is  the  foundation  of  your  business 
and  upon  that  you  can  build. 
If  you 
can  not  hold  your  old  customers  how 
qan  you  expect  to  hold  your new  ones? 
You  must  remember,  also,  that  your  old 
customers  will  grow  weak  in  the  faith. 
If  you  never  give  them  anything  except 
the  glad  hand  and  the  open  heart  they 
will  consider  it  not quite enough.  They 
sometimes  expect  something  more  and 
a  small  gift  occasionally  is  money  well 
spent, while  ever afterwards appreciated.
But  don’t  stop  at  the  foregoing.  Ed- 
i ucate  your  trade  to  buy  good  goods.  Do 
not  handle  goods  to  compete  in  price 
with  catalogue  houses.  It  is  well enough 
to  have  a  small  assortment  of  cheap 
goods  on  hand  to  show  your  trade  the 
difference  between  a  first-class  article 
and  a  cheap  one.  Push  good  goods  and 
stand  by  them.  Educate  your  trade  to 
know  that  when  you  recommend  an arti­
cle  it  means  something. 
It  is  not  nec­
essary  to  guarantee  your  goods  but  han­
dle  a 
line  that  you  know  will  be  satis­
factory  in  every  way.

Four  years  ago  I  was  selling  a  great 
quantity  of  cheap  tinware.  A  salesman 
induced  me  to  put  in  a  small  stock  of 
good  quality  enameled  ware.  I protested 
at  first,  telling  him  there  was  too  much 
difference  in  price.  For  instance,  a tin 
wash  basin  that  I  sold  for five  cents  and 
made  one  cent  profit,  the  same  size  in 
granite  sold  for  twenty-five  cents,  a 
profit  of  nine  cents. 
I  ordered  a  very 
small  assortment.  Thirty  days  later the 
traveling  man  returned  and  while  he 
was  in  my  store  I  had  a  call  for a  wash 
basin. 
I  showed  my  customer  the gran­
ite,  but  at  the  same  time  apologized  to 
him  for  showing  it  and  told  him  it  was 
high.  Of  course,  he  agreed  with  me 
and  took  the  tin  basin.  When  he  went 
away  the  salesman  said:  “ Do  you  ex­
pect  your  trade  to  buy  an  article  from 
you  when  you  condemn 
it  yourself? 
Why  didn’t  you  tell  him  the  truth?  it 
was  not  high.  The  enameled  pan  was 
better  worth  twenty-five  cents  than  the 
tin  one  at  five,  and  a  difference  in  eight 
cents  profit  to  you. ”   That  opened  my 
eyes  and  from  that  day  I  began  to  sell 
the  best  grade  enameled  ware  and  since 
that  time  I  have  sold  quantities  of  that 
ware  so  that  to-day  I  can  hardly  sell 
cheap  tin  at  any  price.

On  a  number  of  other  lines  I  have 
had  the  same  experience,  increased  my 
sales,  benefited  my  customers  and  have 
made  a  better  percentage  of  profit.

I  am  a  strong  believer  in  special 
brands,  and 
it  matters  not  whether 
your  own  or  your  jobbers’. 
If  you  con­
trol  the  brand  it  is  yours  and  a  compar­
ison 
impossible,  which 
enables  you  to  get  a  fair  profit.

in  quality 

is 

It  requires  ability  to  sell  goods  on 
credit  successfully.  To  say  “ yes”   when 
you  should  say  “ n o,"  or  vice  versa,  is 
the  secret  to  success  in  the  credit  sys­
little  experience  will 
tem,  as  a  very 
soon  teach  you. 
If  you  find  that  you 
have  not  the  ability  to  sell  on  credit, 
then  try  the  cash  system,  which  in  my 
opinion  requires  .more  ability  than  the 
It  is  easier to  sell  goods 
credit  system. 
on  a  credit  and 
if  you  will  exercise 
proper  precaution  you  can  make  a  suc­
cess.  But  locality  and  custom  have  a 
great  deal  to do  with  it and  in  that  you 
If  you  sell  goods
must  be  the  judge. 

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

BEMENT
PALACE

STEEL
RANGE

W e   w o u ld   like  to  exp lain  

to  yo u   our 

plan 

for  h elp in g 

the  d ealer 

sell 

P a la ce  

R a n g e s.  W r ite   us  ab o u t  it.  A s k   for  la rg e 

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on  credit  always  have  a  set  time for col- 
lections  and  give  your  trade  to  under* 
stand  that  you  will  expect  payment  to 
be  made  when  due. 
1  sell  builders' 
hardware,  shelf  goods,  etc.,  on  thirty 
days  in  the  city,  hut  I  do  not  sell  any 
class  of  goods  on  six  or twelve  months’ 
time,  except  wagons,  buggies,  sewing 
machines,  cultivators  and  such  other 
items  as  I  can  hold  a  lien  upon  to  se­
cure  me  for  the  purchase price.  For  in­
stance,  if  you  sell  thirty  or sixty  day 
goods  on  open  account  to  a  farmer  on 
such  terms  you  must  have  a  large  sur­
plus  of  money  or  you  can  not  discount 
your  bills.  And  if  the  party  proves  to 
be  “ no  good”   you  have  but  little  show 
to  collect.  But  if  he  owes  you  for a 
wagon,  a  machine  or a  cultivator,  you 
can  take  that  from  him  and  that exposes 
him 
in  the  neighborhood  in  which  he 
lives,  which  thing  he  will  not allow  if 
possible  to  prevent.  But  if  it  is  on  an 
open  account  and  he  does  not  pay  it 
very  few,  if  any,  will  know  about  his 
delinquency.

It  requires  ability  to  select  good,  hon­
est  clerks,  and  it  requires  more  judg­
ment  to  keep  them  good  and  honest 
after  you  employ  them.  No  doubt  in 
my  mind  many  merchants  are  the  cause 
of  their  men  being 
dishonest  and 
trifling—some  by  teaching  them  that 
they  have  no  confidence  in  them.  And 
it 
is  certainly  very  discouraging  to  a 
clerk  to  know  that  his  employer  has  no 
in  him. 
confidence 
If  you  have  no 
confidence 
in  your  clerks  how  can  you 
expect  others  to  have,  and  unless  your 
trade  has  confidence  in  you  and  in  your 
clerks,  which  means  one  and  the  same 
thing,  how  do  you  expect  to  build  up 
your  business?  Your clerks  are  a  part 
of  your  business  and  your  success  is 
largely  dependent  upon  them.  As  you 
increase  your  stock  of  knowledge  you 
must  help  to  increase  theirs,  and  as  you 
increase  your  stock  of  merchandise  you 
should  help  increase  their  finances. 
If 
you  take 
little  or  no  interest  in  your 
business  why  do  you  expect  your clerks 
to  do  so?

There  are  a  great  many  other  things 
that  are  necessary  in  successfully  con­
ducting  a  hardware  business.  For  in­
stance,  a  well-kept  stock,  clean  and 
complete.  And 
last  but  not  least,  you 
must  treat  the  people  you  buy  from 
right.  Pay  your  bills  promptly  and 
never  make  a  claim  for shortage  or  hold 
goods  subject  to  order  unless  you  abso­
lutely  know  you  are  right.  One  claim 
of  a  shortage  when  proved  that  you  are 
wrong  will 
injure  you  more  with  your 
jobber  than  twice  the  worth  of  the  ar­
ticle  or articles.

The  drummers  are  representatives  of 
their  houses,  and  unless  the  jobber  or 
the  factory  had  confidence  in  their  hon­
esty  and  ability  they  would  not  send 
them  out.  Therefore,  it  is  very  neces­
sary  that  you  treat  the  drummer  right 
and  respectfully,  for  upon him  your  suc­
cess  largely  depends.  He  and  his  co- 
workers  encircle  the  globe  and  they  are 
continually  on  the  “ go ."  They  are 
writing  and  talking,  and it is their  busi­
ness  and  their  right  to  be  heard.  They 
are  your  mouth-piece  and  when  they 
hear  you  they  communicate  it  to  their 
If  you  are  nqt  courteous  to 
employers. 
them  their  houses  hear  of  it. 
If  you 
nold  them  unnecessarily  waiting 
for 
your order  that  is  an  injury  to the  house 
represented  and  the  blame  will  come 
back  on  you. 
I  owe  a  great  deal  of  my 
success  to  the  traveling  men.  They 
come 
into  my  store,  they  talk  with  my 
clerks,  they  enthuse  them  and  put  new 
life 
It  is  just  as  necessary

into  them. 

to  have  friends  to  buy  of  as it  is  to  have 
friends  to  sell  to.

in  here. 

A  cheerful  disposition has a great  deal 
to  do  with  your  business,  both  in  buy­
ing  and  in  selling.  On  one  occasion  I 
had  a  customer  call. 
1  met  him  at  the 
door,  shook  hands  with  him,  called  him 
by  name,  invited  him 
in  and  asked 
about  his  home  and  the  country  in  gen­
eral.  I  could  see  that  he  was  blue.  He 
asked  me  how  my  business  was. 
I  said 
very  good,that  everything  looked  bright 
to  me,  one  more  rain  now  and  another 
in  two  weeks  and  still  another three 
weeks  later  and  our  crops  will  be  a  cer­
tainty  and  then  what  a  great  harvest  we 
will  have.  He  began  to  brighten  up  a 
I  told  a  joke  and  be  laughed. 
little. 
Then  I  asked 
if  I  could  sell  him  a 
wagon.  He  said,  “ No,  but  I  thought 
when  I  left  home  that  I  would  buy  my 
wife  a  new  stove.  She  certainly  does 
need  one, but  I  was  just  about  out  of  the 
notion  when  1  came 
I  had 
been 
in  another  store  and  they  were 
talking  about  times  being  so  hard  and 
that  they  did  not  see  what  was  going  to 
become  of  the  people  if  it  did  not  rain 
right  away,  and 
if  it  did  rain  there 
wouldn’t  be  much  made,  as  the  crops 
were  already  half  cut,  and  they 
looked 
for  a  war,  anyhow.  And  they  told  me 
about  the  big  strike  in  Chicago,  about 
Armour  cornering  the  meat  market  and 
several  other  things,  and  so  I  just  about 
made  up  my  mind  to  keep  the  money 
and  not  buy  the  stove.”  
I  said,  “ Yes, 
that  fellow  over  there  is  soured  and  sore 
on  the  world.  He  is  not  doing  any 
business  much  and  he  thinks  that every­
body  is  going  wrong.”  
I  told  him  that 
“ Uncle  Sam"  had  seen  Armour,  that 
the  strike  would  amount  to  nothing  and 
that  everything  was  all  O.  K.  He 
bought  the  stove  from  me,  went  away 
happy,  made  bis  wife  happy  and  she 
told  all  her  neighbors  about  her  fine 
new  stove. 
It  rained,  as  it  always  has, 
and  1  sold  ten  new  stoves  in  that  one 
neighborhood.  That  one  sale  was  the 
cause.

No  patience,  no  self-denial,  no  char­
acter  and  no  brain  is  required  to  set  up 
in  the  grumbling  business,  but  those 
who  are  moved  by  a  genuine  desire  to 
do  good  have  little  time  for  murmuring 
or complaint. 

Hamp  Williams.

A djustable  Stove Top.

A  Chicago  woman  has  patented  an 
adjustable  stove  top  to  put  a  sad  iron  in 
and  heat  it  at  a  moment's  notice.  The 
new  top  guarantees  against  draughts, 
the  bane  of  the 
laundress  who  has  to 
melt  behind  closed  windows  to  keep  her 
irons  at  the  proper  temperature.  The 
top  is  of  sheet  iron. 
It  fits  over an  or­
dinary  gas  stove  burner,  and  it  has  a 
sliding  cover  to  fit  around  the  flat  iron 
handles,leaving  them  out  in  the  cool  air 
while  the  body  of  the  iron  is  sizzling 
underneath.  The  top  not  only  heats 
irons,  but it bakes potatoes,  cooks  squash 
to  a  turn,  and  browns  biscuit. 
In  fact, 
it  does  all  the  cooking  that  any  one 
indulging  in  light  housekeeping  could 
desire.  All  this 
is  accomplished  by 
means  of  asbestos  plates  over  the  blaze, 
the  number  of  plates  employed  being 
according  to  the  amount  of  heat  re­
quired  for  the  different  materials.

^Hardware  Store  Stove Religion.

A  small  hardware  store  and  tinshop 
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in  Central  Ohio displays  this  sign : 

We  set  up

STOVES  AND  STOVEPIPES 

with  Expedtion,  Neatness,  Dispatch, 

and  the  proper  tools,  and 
WITHOUT  PROFANITY.

Patronize  your  tinner
And  don't  be  a  sinner.

AN  AM ATEUR  who  sets  up  a  stove 
will  swear  even  if  he  has  been  a  deacon 
for fifteen  years.

“ Thou  Shalt  Not  Swear.”

S p o rtin g   G ood s,  A m m u n itio n ,  Stoves, 
W in d o w   G lass,  B a r  Iron,  S h e lf  H a rd -  <9 
w are,  etc.,  etc. 

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Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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This Is the finest Cigar Case that we have ever made.  It Is an elegant piece of store  furniture  and 

would add greatly to the appearance of any store.

No.  36  Cigar  Case.

Gorner Bartlett  and  South  Ionia  Streets.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Standard and Sisal Binder Twine

For  Prompt  Shipment.

Pat. Silver  Binder Twine

¿4 ,  1  inch 
Insect and mildew proof.  Can  ship  immediately. 
and  all  other  sizes  of  Manila  and  Sisal  Ropes,  Binder and Stack 
Covers,  Endless  Thresher  Belts,  Suction  Hose,  Tank  Pumps.

THE  M.  I.  WILCOX  COMPANY

210  to  216  Water  St.,  Toledo,  Ohio

Buckeye  Paint  &  Varnish  Co.

PAINT,  COLOR  AND  VARNISH  MAKERS 

Mixed  Paint,  W hite  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers 

Sole  Manufacturers  CRYSTAL  ROCK  FINISH  for Interior and Exterior Use. 

Corner  15th  and Lucas Streets, Toledo,  Ohio.

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TH E  UPBOABIOU8  FOCETH.

Some Thoughts  on  th e  Nation*«  A nnual 

Blowout.
Written for the Tradesman.

While  we  are  engaged  in  the  pursuit 
of the  bashful  dollar,  Independence  Day 
stands  just  now  beckoning  to  us  with 
open  hands  to  lay  aside  the  implements 
of  toil  to  join  with  her in  celebrating 
the  nation’s  birthday.  She  beckons  to 
us  with  open  hands  because  she  is  not 
absolutely  certain  whether  she  will  have 
any  hands  to  beckon  with  after July  4 
or  not.  That  is  one great  thing  about 
the  glorious  Fourth.  When  a  man  be­
gins  dodging  skyrockets  and  cannon 
crackers  he  does  not  know  whether he 
is  going  to  fight  fire  only  a  few  hours 
or  if that  kind  of  exercise is  to continue 
through  eternity  or even  longer.

It  is  meet,  however,  that  annually  we 
should  take  cannon  firecrackers  and  our 
lives 
in  our  hands  and  help  in  doing 
more  or  less  thunderous  honor  to  the 
brave  mortals  who  have  died  for their 
country.  There  are  many  such  martyrs 
on  the  altar  of  liberty.  One  will  find 
lists  of  them  in  the  newspapers 
long 
July  5  of  each  year. 
It  is  grand  to 
think  of  a  man  spilling  a  few  handfuls 
of  gunpowder  around  and  then  laying 
down  a  cigar  stub  and  his 
life  to­
gether. 
It  is  magnificent  to  imagine 
the  sensations  of  a  man  sitting  down  on 
a  cannon  firecracker  when  he  does  not 
know  it  is  loaded. 
It  is  sublime  to 
picture  the  valor  of  the  brave  citizens 
of  the  country  who  hold  explosives  in 
their  teeth  and  blast out  their molars. 
How  inspiring  to  remember  the  thous­
ands  who  play  with  dynamite  and  tor- 
pedoes  and  perish  gloriously  for the  re­
public.

she 

China 

invented 

is  not  looked  upon  as  a  great 
world  power. 
In  fact,  the  nations  look 
upon  her  as  sort  of  an  easy  cinch,  and 
when  they  get  short of  funds  they  grab 
a  piece  of  China—a  plate  or a  vegetable 
dish,  or  anything  near  by  they  can  get 
their  hands  on—and,  if  China  sasses 
back,  they  knock  her down  a  few  times 
and  then  yank  her  up  on  her  feet  again.
And  yet  China,  despised  as  a  fighter 
and  prized  as  a  good  thing,  has  slain 
her  thousands—yea,  her  tens  of  thous­
ands—for 
the  cannon 
cracker.  She  wrapped  it  up  in  red  and 
white  tissue  paper  and  sprinkled  gold 
dust over  it  until  it  looked harmless  and 
innocent  and  sent  it  out  seeking  whom 
it  could  devour and  disintegrate.  It  was 
shipped 
in  trainloads  to  this  United 
States  and  on  each  July  Fourth,  while 
the  orators  are  telling  how  these  great 
commonwealths  are  being  knit  closer 
and  closer  together  until  they are  almost 
as  perfectly  organized  as  a  trust,  the 
cannon  cracker  is  engaged 
in  tearing 
this  United  States  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof  asunder.  This  method  is  more 
sure  and  cheaper  than  killing  people  on 
the_  banks  of  the  Yang-tse-Kiang  far 
away.

There  are  other  days  which  learned 
men  tell  us  are  each  the  longest  day  in 
the  year,  including  the  day  before  the 
circus,  but  for a  really  long  day  July  4 
is  entitled  to consideration  as  a  possi­
bility.  July  4  starts  in  at  12  p.  m.  and 
keeps  up  pretty  steadily  until  12  p.  m. 
again.  At  about  12  p.  m.  July  3  some 
patriotic  young  man  in  the  neighbor­
hood  will  put  a  cannon  fire  cracker  un­
der  your  window or playfully toss a small 
volcano called  a  torpedo  into your room, 
and  after  that sleep  is  as  bard  to get  as 
a 
job  spending  money  for  somebody. 
You  may  put  pillows  in  your  ears  and 
burrow  under the  covers,  but  the glori­
ous  Fourth  has  arrived  and  the  air  is

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

full  of  patriotism  and  gunpowder.  The 
best  thing  you  can  do  is  to get  up  and 
make 
it  interesting  for any  somnolent 
neighbor  you  may  have  who  has  not 
beard  July  4  coming  in.

It  may  be  you  are  going  to  have  a 
“ celebration"  in  your  town  this  year 
and,  if  you  are  a  merchant  on  the  main 
street,  here  is  my  hand  in  sympathy. 
You  may  clean  up $50 on  the day— I  say 
you  may— but  it  will  be  as  hard  work 
cleaning  up  as  it  would  be  to clean 
up  a  Weary  Willie  who had  been  riding 
on  the  bumpers.  You  will  come  out  of 
the  celebration  with  a  dark  brown  taste 
in  your  mouth  and  a  smell  of  burnt! 
powder  in  your hair.  For a  week  your 
stomach  will  be  out  of  order  and  your 
disposition  on  the  skewgee. 
In  conse­
quence,  you  will  build  up  a  reputation 
in  the  neighborhood  for  being  a  crank 
and 
lay  the  foundation  of  a  case  of 
dyspepsia  that  will  shoiten  your  final 
days  and  make  them  considerably  mis­
erable.

friends, 

When  you  consider  this  wear and  tear 
on  your  stomach  and  your  disposition 
and  the  misery  you  cause  your  family 
and 
if  you  are  a  sensible 
man—which  I  take  it  you  are,  seeing 
that  you  read  the  Tradesman— you  may 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Fourth 
of  July  as  a  moneymaker  for the  mer­
chant 
it  is cracked  up  to 
be.  Running  a  store  on  July  4  is  about 
as  pleasant  as  being sheriff in Brimstone 
Gulch— and  about  as  dangerous.

is  not  what 

We  will  suppose  that  you  carry  a  line 
of  fireworks.  For some  days  before  the 
Fourth  the  small  boys  in  your  imme­
diate  neighborhood  will  be  constantly 
investing  in  fireworks  at  from  one  cent 
to  five  cents  a  throw  and  shooting  them 
off  in  your  presence  or  your  woodshed 
or  some  other  place  equally  pleasant. 
These  premature  celebrations  of  the  na­
tion’s  holiday  will  keep  you  exercised 
for two or  three  weeks  beforehand.

But  it  is  on  the  morning  of  July  4 
that  your  troubles  will  commence 
in 
real  earnest.  There  are  several  kinds 
of  celebrators  who  keep  you 
interested 
during  the  day.  They  are  a  feature  of 
every  celebration,  whether  the  balloon 
goes  up  or not.  First  and  foremost  is 
the  man  who  examines  your  fireworks 
with  the  first  and  second  fingers  while 
he  has  a  burning  cigar  clasped  between 
them.  You  are  wondering  so  intently 
whether the  grand public  display  of  fire­
works  is  going  to  occur  right  then  or  be 
reserved  for  the  evening  that  you  are 
apt  to  give  the  man  the  wrong  change 
without  noticing 
if  you  give 
him  too  much  change  he  is  not  apt  to 
notice  it  himself.

i t ;  and 

One  never  knows  how  great  a  blaze  a 
little  fire  kindleth  until  someone  drops 
some  burning  cigar  ashes  among  his 
fireworks;  and,  for  starting  such  a  fire, 
a  piece  of  punk  is  not  so  punk. 
I  have 
known  a  merchant  to  blow  in  $189  for 
a  window  display  of  fireworks  and  one 
small  boy  with  a  penny  piece  of  punk 
to  come  along  and  blow  it  out.

The  strange  woman  who wants to know 
when  the  parade  will  start  and  asks  you 
in  a  tone  of voice that  indicates  that  she 
thinks  you  ought  to  start  i t ;  the  girl 
who  wants  to  get  behind  your counter 
to  fix  up  a  tear  in  her  dress;  the  boy 
who  wants  to know  how  the  floral  foun­
tains  work—these  and  many  others  will 
you  have  with  you.

When  night  comes  you  will  have  on 
hand  $4*67  w°rth  of  unsold  fireworks, 
an  ache 
in  your  back,  a  pain  in  your 
bead  and  a  fair sized  profit—as  such are 
called—for  your  day’s  labor.  You  and  1 
will  be  compelled  to  admit  that  you

have  made  more  money  than  you  would 
on  ordinary  days.  We  will  also  be 
agreed  that  you  would  not  go through 
the  experience  every  day  if  your  profits 
were  increased  twice  as  much.  The 
reader  may  have  observed  that  I  have  a 
bad  habit  of  giving  sympathy  afterward 
rather  than  advice  beforehand;  but  I 
have  observed  that sympathy  is more  apt 
to  be  accepted  than  advice.  I  can  only 
say:  “ Be  sure  and  keep  cool"  and  ex­
press  the  opinion  that  you  will  not  be 
able  to  do  so. 

Douglas  Mallocb.

The  people  who  look  for  trouble  are 

the  ones  who find  fault.

Aluminum Money

Wilt Iscr— « Y«ut Bwhwi».

Cheap and Bffactlva.

Send lot samples and prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  5 .  Clark  St..  Clrfcago,  III.

One  copy  for  R.  R.  Co.,  one  for  your  customer,  one 
for  yourself,  all  written  at  one  time— 50  c e n t s  p e r   bo ok 
of  100 full  triplicate leaves.

BARLOW  BROS., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Does  your store  suffer by comparison

with some other store in your town?  Is there an  enterprising,  up-to-date  atmos­
phere about the other store that is lacking in yours?  You may not  have  thought 
much  about  it,  but—isn't  the other store  better  lighted than yours?  People 
will  buy where buying is most pleasant.

ACETYLENE

lights any store to the best possible advantage.  It has been adopted by thousands 
ofleading merchants everywhere.  Used in the city as a matter of economy.  Used 
in the country because It is the best, the cheapest  and  most  convenient  lighting 
system on the market.  Costs you nothing to Investigate—write for catalogue and 
estimates for equipping your  store.

A cetylene A pparatus Manufacturing* Co.

157  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago.

Branch Offices and Salesrooms:  Louisville,  310 W. Jefferson  S t:  Buffalo,  145-147 

Elllcott St.;  Dayton, 226 S. Ludlow S t;  Sioux City, 417 Jackson S t; 

Minneapolis,  7  Washington Av. N.

L.L. C L IN E

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Commercial Travelers

lickim Kiirkti of tho Grip

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

Diitod Coluema! Tranlen tf HiehigM 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba r tl e tt,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M.  Edelm an, Saginaw.

Graad Rapids Cotseil No. 131,  D. 0. T.

Senior  Counselor,  W.  S.  Bu rns;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

G ripsack  Brigade.

The  members  of  Post  A  (Lansing) 
will  celebrate  the  Fourth  by  holding  a 
basket  picnic  at  Pine  Lake.

Olivet  Optic:  Frank  Buchanan  has 
secured  a  position  with  the  D.  M.  Ferry 
Seed  Co.,  of  Detroit,  as  traveling  sales­
man  and 
leaves  early  in  July  to  begin 
work.  He  has  not  yet  been  assigned 
his  territory.  His  family  will  remain 
here.

F.  H.  Cobb  succeeds  Chas.  P.  Irish 
as  Northern  Michigan  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  the  Worden  Grocer  Co. 
Mr.  Cobb  has  been  identified  with  the 
railroad  business  for  several  years,  hav­
ing  recently  been  employed  in the ticket 
office  in  the  Union  depot.

Ninety-eight  per  cent,  of  the  boys  at 
the  reform  school  are  from  cities  and 
towns  where  organized  labor  will  allow 
only  here  and  there  one  to  learn a trade.
In  most  cruel  mockery  in  each  insti­
tution  they  are  taught  trades,  but  when 
they  get  out  not  one  of  them  can  find 
employment  in  his  trade  except  as  a 
“ scab,”   which 
is  so  odious  a  classifi­
cation  that  many  are  driven  to  crime 
that  they  may  escape  it.

Organized 

labor  controls  all  legisla­
tion. 
It  holds  the  rod  of  terror over 
every  court  whose  officers  are  elective, 
and  threatens  the  executive  if  he  does 
not  obey 
its  behests.  We  hear  the 
rumblings  of  a  coming  social  volcano 
that  can  not  be  misunderstood. 
Is  it 
nothing  to  the  poor  man  that  the  cost  of 
is  to  be  increased  probably  50 
his  fuel 
per  cent,  by  the coal  strike? 
Is  it  noth­
ing  to  the citizen  that  such  an  organized 
political  force  has  practically  the  con­
trol  of  the  affairs  of  state?

As  preachers  we  can  not  be  indiffer­
ent  to  its  attitude  toward  the  church.  It 
is  the  most  conspicuous  organized  hater 
of  the  church  in  the  world.  The  saloon 
interest  is  a  pigmy  compared  with  it, 
for  that  is  for the  most  part in the hands 
of  men  of  little 
influence,  and  it  has 
cause  lor  its  antagonism,  for the  church 
is  its  avowed  enemy,whereas  the  church 
has  nothing  to  do  with  organized  labor. 
Its  enemy 
is  the  inexorable,  unrepeat­
able  law  of  supply  and  demand,  and  the 
equal  right  of  every  man  to  the  profit­
able  industries  of  life. 
It  is  the  hungry 
man  demanding  the  chance  to  earn 
bread.  We  are  here  as  Methodist 
preachers  enquiring  what  our  respective 
churches  can  do  to  come  into  relations 
of  conference  and  sympathy  with a  body 
of  men  who  will  not  let  our  children 
learn  trades  by  which  they  may  make  a 
living.

It  is  related  that  the  President  of  the 
Goodrich  Transportation  Co.  recently 
came  to  Grand  Rapids  from  Grand 
Haven 
in  one  of  the  ancient  coaches 
which  are still  run  on  the  streaks  of  rust 
which  are  designated  as  the  Grand 
Trunk  Railway.  On  alighting  at  the 
ramshackle  shanty  which  does  duty  as  a 
depot  he  was  met  by  the  local represent­
Tlte  Essentials  of Good  Advertising;.
ative  of  his  line,  to  whom  he  addressed 
the  enquiry,  “ What  is  the  name  of  this 
The  prime  object  of  advertising  is  to 
road?”   The  local  representative thought 
create  a  demand  for an  article.  How 
to  rebuke  his  superior  by  pointing  to 
many  can  pick  the  belter  of  two  pianos 
the  name  of  the  road  on  the  coaches, but 
from  which  the  brand  has  been  re­
he  refrained  from  doing  so.  One  glance
moved?»  Yet  men  will  pay  more  for an
showed  him  that  the  coaches  were  so aiticle  whose  name  has become  a  house-
covered  with  dirt  that  the  name  was  en­
hold  word  by 
judicious  advertising. 
tirely  obliterated.
Men  sometimes  say  that  if  they  had 
something  new  or exclusive  they  could 
succeed;  but  this  is  a  mistake.

A  Galesburg  correspondent  writes  as 
follows:  A  traveling  man  and an  omelet 
were  the  principal  factors  in  a  little  in­
cident  at  Galesburg  Monday  morning 
that  seems  worth  telling.  A  day  or  two 
ago  a 
lady  who  “ keeps  hens"  in  this 
village,and  who  also  supplies  the  hotels 
with  fresh  eggs,  discovered  that  some  of 
her  fowls  were  developing  egg  eating 
proclivities  and,  in  order  to  break  up 
the  habit,  the  shell  was  carefully  re­
moved  from  a  sample  of  the  product 
and  about  a  teaspoonful  of  cayenne pep­
per  inserted,  after  which  the  opening 
was  sealed  up  and  the  egg  placed  in  an 
exposed 
location  for  the  benefit  of  the 
poultry.  On  Saturday  the  usual  semi- 
weekly  delivery  of  eggs was made  at  the 
hotel  and  on  Monday  morning  a  com­
mercial  man  who  had  been  a  guest  over 
Sunday  ordered  an  omelet,  which  was 
duly  served.  One  mouthful  proved 
enough,  and  there  was  a  rush  for  the 
back  door  and  the  pump.  After a  con­
siderable  interval  the  guest  returned  to 
the  table,  where  he  very  carefully  set 
the omelet  aside  with  the remark  that  he 
had 
‘ been  in a  good  many  warm  towns, 
but  that  Galesburg  was  the  first  in  his 
experience  to  serve  fire  for  breakfast.”
Union  Labor the  W orst Enem y  of  C hris­

tianity.

Rev.  Thomas  A.  Goodwin,  one  of  the 
best  known  Methodist  ministers  in  In­
dianapolis,  recently  denounced  organ­
ized 
labor  at  the  weekly  Methodist 
meeting.  He  read  a  paper  on  the  rela- j 
tions  of  the  church  and  organized  labor 
and  said:

Of the  414  convicts  in  the  reformatory 
at  Jeffersonville,  268  are  from  the  ranks 
of  those  who  can  not  learn  a  trade.

The  cash  register  wouldn’t  go  for 
years;  the  same  way  with  the  typewrit­
ers.  There  is  nothing  harder  to  adver­
tise  than  new  commodities.  But  judi­
cious  advertising  can  create  wants  and 
tastes.  The  consumption  of  oatmeai  in 
Kansas  City  has  increased  six  fold 
in 
ten  years.

H.  J.  Heinz  once  told  me  that  a  mer­
chant  was  a  man  who  sold  goods  at  his 
own  price.  The  test  of  a  real  merchant 
is  to  create  a  distinctive  demand  for 
bis  goods,  and  to  compel  the  people  to 
buy  them  regardless  of  price.

All  there  is  in  advertising  is  in carry­
ing  a  message  to  the  dealer  and  con­
sumer.  No  medium  should  be  used 
blindly.  A  great  many  use  newspapers 
just  as  the  Indian  slept  on  one  feather 
because  the  white  man  slept  on a feather 
bed,  and  he  wondered  why  the  feather 
didn’t  help  him.

The  ultimate  object  of  all  advertising 
is  the  creation  of  prestige.  People  ac­
cept  what  a  successful  man  says.  Pres­
tige  doesn't  come  to  everybody  over 
night. 
It  is  acquired  by  persistent  ad­
herence  to  fundamental  principles. 
It 
creates  a  peculiar  constituency  and  as 
near  a  monopoly  as  is  possible  in  these 
days. 

John  Lee  Mahin.

Traverse  City—Frank  H.  Smith  and 
W.  C.  Hull,  of  this  city,  and  Fred 
Longnecker,  of  Delta,  Ohio,  have  pur­
chased  a  tract  of  land 
in  Mackinaw 
county 
consisting  of  7,360  acres  of 
hardwood  and  cedar  timber.  The  con­
sideration  was  $73,000.  The  tract  is 
what  has  been  known  as  the  Martel

Furnace  Co.  lands.  The  purchase  was 
amde  from  the heirs  of Isaac  Cappon,  of 
Holland.  The  property  is situated  about 
four  miles  north'of  St.  Martins  bay.

Worry 

is  the  soliciting  agent 

for 
Trouble,  Pain  &  Co.,  and  who  will  be 
brave  enough  to  say  that  it  does  not  do 
a  flourishing  business?  When  it  calls 
on  you  say,  “ Not  in,  thank  you!”

A  genius 

is  always  appalled  by  the 
success  of  his  pot  boilers,  since  it  may 
mean  that  he  has  struck  his  gait.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

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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

M ichigan State Board o f Pharm acy

Term expire«
H u n tr  H am , Saginaw 
Dm . m, 1902
Deo. si. u n
W n r  P.  Doty. Detroit - 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Deo. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu ir, Grand Rapid■ 
d m . si. i m
Arth u r H. Webber, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

FTOoMent,
Secretary, Henry  Heim , 8aglnaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  D o rr,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

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

M ich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association.

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

How  Ho Makes th e   Soda  F ountain  Pay.
I  wish  first  to  say  a  word  as  to  the 
quality  of  my  goods. 
I  pride  myself on 
them,  and  am  convinced  that  no  one 
has  any  better  and  few  as  good. 
I  pro­
cure  the  best  that  money  will  buy,  and 
spare  no  pains  to  have  things  the  very 
best. 
In  this  I  owe  tbe  credit  to  my 
dispenser,  a  young  man  with  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  tbe  details,  to  whom  I 
give  full  charge  of  that  section  of  my 
business.  Like  most  druggists  1  have  to 
make  my  soda  profits  during  the  sum­
mer months;  still,  I  keep  this  man  the 
year around  and find  that  it  pays  me  for 
tbe  reason  that  when  each  season  opens 
up  the  people  like  to  see  the  same  face 
again, at  the  counter.  It  hurts  to  change 
help,  and  I  never  do  it  if  I  can  avoid 
it. 
I  keep  mine  by  giving  them  good 
pay  and  good  hours,  and  in  trying  to 
make  their  lives  something  more  than 
work.

By  having  tbe  right  kind  of  help  to 
wait  upon  the  trade  and  by  having  the 
proper  goods  to  sell  I  have  gradually 
obtained  control  of the  best  trade  of  the 
city,  and  am  keeping  it  year  after  year. 
Nothing  pays  so  well  at the  fountain  as 
good  service. 
I  believe  that the  per­
sonal  reputation of my dispenser  is  more 
to  me  than  even  the  high  quality  of  my 
soda.

I  have  reduced  the  cost  of  my  soda  to 
the  lowest  figure  I  can  and  give  the 
quality.  I  have  an  automatic  carbonator 
which  makes  soda  at  a  figure  so  low 
that the  expense  hardly  counts  on  a  sin­
gle  glass  of  soda.  This  is  another  ad­
vantage  of  modern  improvement;  it  re­
duces  the  cost  of  the  drink.

At  fitst  I  was  compelled  to  do  a  good­
ly  amount  of advertising but  of  late  very 
little  has  to  be  done  in that line,  and  the 
truth 
is  my  fountain  is  the  best  adver­
tisement  that the  store  has,  bringing  me 
more  trade  than  any  amount  of  other 
advertising.  This  I  can  say—that  if  1 
made  not  one  cent  of  profit  upon  my 
fountain  I  should  still  think  it  money 
well  invested  just  to  keep  people  talk­
ing  of  m e;  and  my  fountain  is  tbe  talk 
of  the  town  and  although  not  a  large 
place,  and  with  competitors numerous,  1 
manage  to  keep  two  men  busy  during 
the  pleasant  summer  evenings  when  the 
young  folks  are  out  for a  stroll.

If  you  do  not  thoroughly  understand 
the  soda  business  I  advise  you  to  hire, 
as  I  do,  a  man  whom  you  can  trust to do 
his  best  to  make  your fountain pay,  then 
give  him  a  chance  and  within  reason 
anything  he  wants  to work  with.  That 
is  the  only  way  to  make  a  success.  Let 
no  man  deceive  himself  by  thinking  a 
fountain  can  be  run  on  the  same  prin­
It  is 
ciple  as  a  store;  it  can't  be  done. 
an  art to  run  a  fountain. 
It  takes  an 
artist  to  run  one  right.

I  am  fortunate  in  still  being  able  to 
sell  ice  cream  soda  for ten  cents,  while 
many  druggists  have  to  sell  at  five 
cents,  but  were  I  compelled  to sell at

that  price  I  would  still  continue  to  sell 
the  best,  for  my  fountain,  as  I  say, 
brings  me  more  trade  than  any other ad­
vertising  medium,  and  once  thoroughly 
established  needs  very little advertising.
One  thing  may interest some readers— 
that  is,  to  know  how  I  secured  my  rep­
utation  among  the  young  folks  of  tbe 
city. 
I  had  some  tickets  made— some­
thing  like  this:

5c. 

This  ticket 

good  for one  soda  at 
Zimmerman  Pharmacy.
5c.  High  School  Ticket. 

5c.

5c.

in  a  book. 

These  1  bad  made  in  book  form,  with 
twenty-five 
I  went  to  the 
principal  of  the  high  school  and  had  a 
talk  with  him,  asking  him  to give  out 
one  ticket  to  each  scholar,  which  he 
agreed  to  do.  Every  time  one  of  the 
tickets  was  given  in  I  gave  out  a  little 
circular  explaining  my  offer  of  giving 
books  of  twenty-five  tickets  each  for  a 
dollar  with  a  form  of  application  on  the 
bottom.  This  method  I  repeated  in  the 
higher  rooms  of  the  grammar  schools 
and  a  university  located  in  this  place.
In  each  and  every  case  I  had the  tick­
ets  printed  with  tbe  name  of  the  school.
I  also  have  tickets  marked  “ special 
clerks'  tickets"  “ bank  tickets"  etc. 
All  tickets  are  sold  only  upon  written 
application.  To clubs,  etc.,  1  offer  fifty 
books  at $45,  or  100  books at $85.  I have 
now  a  trade  in  tickets  which  are  sold  to 
nearly  every  dub 
in  town,  to  all  the 
schools,  and  yet  my  ticket  business  rep­
resents  only  about  one-third  of  my  en­
tire  receipts  on  soda.

H.  A.  Zimmerman.
The  D rum m er Sizes Up  the  Situation.
“ Well,  boys,’ ’  said  the  drummer as he 
put  a  couple  of  dirty  graduates  in  the 
sink,  wiped  off  the  dispensing  counter 
and  swung  himself  upon  i t ,“ it  does  me 
good  to  get  back  to  the  old 
joint 
again.’ ’

“ Homesick?"  asked  the  drug  clerk.
the  drummer; 
“ No,  my  boy,"  said 
“ it's  drug  store  mania  and  1  can’t  get 
my jag  of  it  on  the  road  as well  as  I  can 
here.  Do  you  know  ever since  I  stopped 
putting  up  Seidiitz  powders  and  horse 
balls,  1  hanker  after that  early  morning 
smell  of  a  drug  store  so  bad  that  when  I 
am  in  some  small  jerk-water  town  1  get 
up  at  5  o'clock  and  lay  around  tbe  door 
of  the  drug  store  until  the  drug  clerk 
appears,  and  then  get  him  to  let  me  in 
first  so  I  can  inhale  it  all.  Shades  of 
Lubin!  Talk  about  new-mown  bay  and 
wild  flowers— it  isn’t  in  it  for  one  con­
secutive  minute  with  that  aloey,  car­
bolic,  aniseed  odor  of  a  freshly  opened 
drug  store!  This  store  has  it  all  day— 
that's  wbv  I  like  it!"

“ Anything  new  on  the  road?"  asked 

the  insurance  agent.

“ Nothing  as  new  as  you  have  in  the 
city,  especially  in  the  pill  business. 
1 
see  one  of  your  city  druggists  has 
opened  up  a  Midway  Palm  Garden  an­
nex  to  bis  store.  Now  that’s  what  1 
like  to  see.  When  a  man  goes  in  for 
anything  let  him  go  in  up  to  his  neck. 
If  a  druggist  can  make  more  money 
out  of  soda  water  than  out  of  patents  at 
63  cents  for  dollar  articles,  why  doesn’t 
he  put  bis  patents  in  the  cellar  and  get 
a  bigger  fountain,  six  more  soda  water 
clerks,  and  devise  some  startlers  in  the 
way  of  new  drinks?”

“ Soda  water doesn’t  elevate  the  pro 

fession, ”   said  the  druggist.

“ Yes,  that's  just  the  way you six-cent 
people  talk.  Elevate  the  profession I  I 
suppose  selling  fly  paper  and  female 
pills  elevates  it! 
I  can  see  an  electric 
elevator  in  every  present-day  drug  store 
made  of catarrh  cures  for cocaine  fiends

and  malt  extract  for  women  dipsoma­
niacs.  Elevate  the  profession I  No,  per­
haps  soda  water  does  not,  but  1  notice 
most  of  you  at  the  same  time  have  a 
little  fountain  with  six  syrups  or  a  few 
fly-marked  bottles  with a gooseneck  tap, 
and  when  a  customer,  having  only  a 
choice  of  lemon,  vanilla,  strawberry,  or 
sarsaparilla,  gets  one  of  these  and  never 
asks  for  it  again,  you  wonder  why.  No, 
sir,  if a  thing  is  worth  doing  at  all 
it's 
worth  doing  well,  and  if  you  sell  soda 
water  have  the  best  fountain 
in  six 
blocks  or  have  none !

“ Elevate  the  profession!”   again  re­
peated  the  drummer  with  a  disgusted 
look  on  his  face  as  he  walked  behind 
tbe  counter,  shook  up  a  bottle  of can­
dies  and  put  six  in  his  mouth. 
“ Why, 
you  talk  like  an  egg!  Come  out  of  your 
shell,  get 
in  the game  with  some  busi­
ness  ideas,  and  elevate  your  business. 
Take  up  any  side 
line  that  shows a 
profit,  and  go  in  for  it  into  deep  water. 
Don’t  stand  and  paddle  in  it.

is  a 

“ 1  ran  across  an  instance  last  week,”  
said  the  drummer  as  be  again  took  bis 
usual  seat. 
“ You  know  1  am  interested 
in  photography,  carry  a  camera  with 
me,  and  once  in  a  while  in  small  towns 
have  to  spend  a  few  dollars  in  supplies. 
Some  druggists  have  at  last  grasped  the 
little  money  in 
idea  that  there 
photographic  supplies,  and 
in  a  small 
town  to  the  north  I  struck  one  who  bad 
a  card  in  bis  window  to the  effect  that 
he  sold  these  commodities. 
1  went  in 
and 
looked  over  bis  stock,  didn’t  get 
what  I  wanted  and  so  opened  up  a  gen­
eral  talk  on  the  subject  and  was  in­
formed  there  was  no  money  in  it,  but 
there  might  be  if  one  made  up  his  own 
solutions,  etc.  Why  the  druggist  did 
not  do  so  he  did  not  say,  but  when  1 
looked  over the  stock  again  1  kney  why 
he  made  no  money  out  of  it,  as  it  con­
sisted  of  a  few  articles  stuck  in  a  dark 
corner  of  the  store.  The  next  day,  in 
the  next  town,  I  struck  a  drug  store 
with  a  window  full  of  cameras,  etc., 
went  in,  got  what  1  wanted,  and  opened 
up  tbe  same  spiel,  but  what  a  differ­
ence! 
’Twas  the  best  line  he had ;  beat 
cigars,  soda  water  and  toys  all  hollow. 
Had  a  bad  fire  in  town  some time before 
and  cleared  expenses  for  six  months 
selling  views  of  it.  His  stock  was  as 
good  as  you  could  get  at  a  regular  sup­
ply  house,  and  was  displayed 
in  the 
best  part  of  tbe  store.

“ Who  elevates  tbe  profession  most, 
tbe man  who goes  into  a  thing  in  a  half­
hearted  way  or  the  one  who  goes  into 
it  to  win?  Does  selling  photographic 
supplies  degrade  the  profession?  Nay, 
nay,  Pauline;  this  is  a  business  that 
should  never  have 
left  the  hands  of 
pharmacists,  for  its  whole  backbone  is 
chemistry.  But  if  you  go  in  for  photo­
graphic  supplies,  go  in  for it right.  Buy 
a  silent  salesman  case;  fill  it with  goods 
and  set  it  in  tbe  center  of  the  store;  get 
out  some  advertising matter  and  try  and 
get  customers.
! 

“ Don’t  act  as  though  you  kept  a  cor­

ner  grocery!”

vanced.

vancing.

price  firm.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  firm.
Oil  Wintergreen— Is  scarce  and  ad­

Buchu  Leaves—Stocks  are  light  and 

The  D rag M arket.

Opium— Is  weak,  but  price 

is  un­
Favorable  weather  for  the 
is  reported  and  a  large 

changed. 
growing  crop 
yield  is  expected.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  very weak  at  the  decline.
Cocaine—Competition  is  strong  and  a 

further  decline  is  expected.

Norwegian  Cod  Liver  Oil—Continues 
to  advance  and  tbe  market  is  very  firm.
Nitrate  Silver— Has  advanced,  on  ac­

count  of  the  higher  cost  of  metal.

Rochelle  Salts  and  Seidiitz—Has been 

advanced  ic  per  lb.

Cream  Tartar— Has  advanced  2}£c 
per  lb.,  on  account  of  higher  price  of 
crude  material.

Juniper  Berries—Are 

in  very  small 
stock  and  have  again  advanced  abroad.
Oil  Bergamot— Is  firm  and  has  ad­

Canary  Seed—On account of  poor crop 

and  reduced  supply,  has  advanced.

Russian  Hemp  Seed— Is  also  very 

firm.

German  Rape Seed— Has  advanced.

W hat  He  W anted  to  Say.

A  few  days  ago  Mr.  Taylor  was  ab­
sent  from  his  drug  store  for a  few  min­
utes  and  left  his wife  in  charge.  A large 
Norwegian  who  spoke  English  with 
difficulty  entered  and  said :

“ Hi  owe  de  firm  10 cents.”
“ Very  well,”   replied  Mrs.  Taylor, 
it  to  me  and  it  will  be  all 

“ just  pay 
right.”

The  Norwegian  made  no  attempt  to 
produce  the  coin,  hut  gazed  steadily  at 
Mrs.  Taylor  and  repeated :

“ Hi  owe  de  firm  10 cents.”
“ Yes,  I  heard  you  say  that  before. 
Now,  if  you  are  afraid  I will  give  you  a 
receipt  for  it. ”

In  astonishment  the  man  from  Nor­
way  looked  at  her  and  walked  out  with­
out  a  word.  Pretty  soon  he  returned 
with  a  fellow  countryman  whose  com­
mand  of  English  was  a  little  better  and 
who  interpreted  tbe remark  to Mrs.  Tay­
lor  by  explaining :  “ He  wants  10 cents’ 
worth  of  iodoform.”

Stagnation  in  the Ginseng Trade.

Cincinnati,  June  2—Cincinnati  is  a 
great  center  for  ginseng  and  does  an 
enormous  export  business.  The  market 
for  ginseng  and  other  roots 
is  jn  a^_ 
chaotic  state,  the  result  of extraordinary 
conditions.  A  member  of  a 
leading 
concern  engaged  in  exporting  the  root 
said  to  day  that  the  interference  of  the 
Christian  powers 
in  China  had  [cost 
America  the  ginseng  trade.

For  years  the  Chinese  have  taken 
practically  the  entire  crop  of ginseng, 
but 
last  season  their  purchases  were 
fully  two-thirds  under  the  normal  in 
consequence  of  the  high  prices  de­
manded,  and  dealers  found  it  necessary 
to  carry  over  large  stocks  to  this  season. 
This  year’s  crop  is  now  ready  to  be sold 
but  no  market  can  be  found  as exporters 
are  unwilling  to  purchase  until  their 
holdings  from  last  year  have  been  dis­
posed  of.

Largest  Pharm acy  in  the  W orld.

The  pharmacy  of  K.  J.  Ferreiu  at 
Moscow,  Russia,  is  thought  to  be  the 
largest  in  the  world.  As  many  as  twelve 
hundred  prescriptions  are  put  up 
in 
is  done  in 
one  day.  Tbe  dispensing 
a  glass  domed 
room,  where  about 
twenty-four assistants  are  employed  and 
a  large  clerical  force  is  required  to take 
tbe  orders  and  deliver  the  goods. 
If 
poisonous  drugs  are  used  in  putting  up 
a  prescription,  the  checking  of  weights 
is  done  by  a  weigher specially employed 
for  that  purpose.  The  annual  number 
of  prescriptions  is  not  far  from  300.000. 
Two  hundred  and  ninety-three  men  and 
boys are  employed  in  the  wholesale  and 
retail  department;  of  the  establishment.

H is Indefinite  Facial  Boundary*

.A   well-known 
judge  on  a  Virginia 
circuit  was  recently  reminded  very  for­
cibly  of  bis  approaching  baldness  by 
one  of  his  rural  acquaintances.

"J e<Ige,”   drawled  the 

farmer,  “ it 
won’t  be  so  very  long  ’fo’  you’ll  hev  to 
tie  a  string  around  yer bead  to  tell  how 
fer  up  to  wash  yer  face.”

F R E D   B R U N D A G E

wholesale

•  Drugs  and  Stationery a
3a  &  34  Western  Ave.,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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

2 7

-E  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT
11 Bergamont, Lemon Tartar, Bochell Salts, Rapa Seed.

9, V

Conlum Mac............   802
Copaiba...................  l  164
Cubebae.................... l  306
Exechthltos............   l oof
Erlgeron.................  1  004
Gaultheria................2 004
Geranium, ounce.... 
i  
GosslppU, Sem. gal..  60%
Hedeoma.................  1 '0i
Junlpera.................  l 60%
Lavendula  ..............  90S
Limonls..................  1  164
Mentha Piper.........   2  104
Mentha Verld.........   l  904
Morrhuae, |gal.........   2 002
Myrcla...............
O live........................   76
PldsLlqulda........... 
10
Plcls Liqulda,  gal...
Rlclna.....................   1
Rosmarinl...............
Rosse, ounce.............. 6
Suednl..............
Sabina  ..............
Santal....................... 2 1
Sassafras.................
Slnapls,  ess., ounce.
•rigui......................... i
Thyme.....................
Thyme, opt..............
Theobromas...........
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................
Bichromate.............
Bromide.................
C arb.......................
Chlorate., .po. 17®19
Cyanide...................
Iodide....................... 2
Potassa. Bltart, pure 
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nltras.........
Prusslate.................
Sulphate  po............
Radix
Aconltum.................
Althse......................
Anchusa.................
Arum  po.................
Calamus..................
Gentiana........po. 16
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po.................
Ipecac, po...............   3
Iris plox.. .po. 36®38
Jalapa, pr......... .
Maranta,  14s...........
Podophyllum,  po...
Rhel.........................
Rhel, cut.................
Rhel, pv..................
Splgeua..................
Sanguinarta... po.  15
Serpentarla............
Senega ....................
Smllax, officinalis H.
Smilax, M ..-............
SclUae............po.  36
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ...............
Zingiber ].................
Semen
Ant sum.........po.  18
Aplum (graveleons).
Bird, is....................
Carul............. po.  16
Cardamon...............   i
Corlandrum.............
Cannabis Satlva......
Cydonlum...............
Dpodlum.........
Diptenx Odorate....  l
Foenlculum. 
Foenugreek, po. 
Lini
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4
Lobella....................
Pharlarls Canarian..
Rapa.......................
Slnapls  Alba...........
Slnapls  Nigra.........
Spirita* 
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 
Frumenti,  1). F. R..
Frumenti................
Junlperls Co. O. T...
Junlperls  Co...........
Saacharum  N. E —  
Spt. Vini Galli.
Vini Opoi 
Vini Alba

porto.

50®
60®

26®  27

4  ®
V 0! 1 
6  ® 
9® 
11®

2 60® 2 75
2 60® 2 75
.  ®  1  60
®  1  26
®  1  00 
®  76
® 1  40

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage................
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e ef,  for
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
irrl Iod............ .
Rhel Arom..............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
8oill».., .......... -

8
78
17
29
45
6
10
14
16
53
5
20
40

6
8
15
14

25
00
60
00

24
8
76

56
70
65
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
20

26
30
12
14
16
17

16
26
76
40
16
2
80
7

18
26
36

40
26
30
20

IO66

46
36
28
6614
12
30
60
40
6613
14
16
69
40
00
86
35
75
60
40
20
46
46
00

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
20
20
20
60
I 26
66
! 20
! 76
85
80
86
! 76
IO
4*

Scillae Co................. 
Tolutan...................  
Prunus  vlrg............  
Tinctures
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
Assafoetlda.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharldes............  
Capsicum ................ 
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co........... 
Castor...................... 
Catechu)................... 
Cinchona................. 
Cinchona Co............ 
Columba.................  
Cubebae....................  
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis................... 
E rgot.....................  
Ferrl  Chlorldum__  
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Guinea...................... 
Gulaoaammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............ 
Iodine  ................... 
Iodine, colorless......  
K ino.......................  
Lobelia.................... 
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............  
Opil.......................... 
Opil, comphorated.. 
Opil, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Rhatany................... 
Rhel......................... 
Sangulnarla...........  
Serpentarla............  
Stromonlum............  
Tolutan................... 
Valerian................. 
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber..................  

®  60
®  60
® 
eo

60
60
60
60
50
60
60
60
60
60
50
75
50
75
75
too
60
6o
60
6o
Bo
Bo
Bo
so
Bo
36
Bo
6o
Bo
6o
Bo
75
7s
Bo
Bo
Bo
Bo
7s
So
l  So
So
So
Bo
Bo
Bo
6o
6o
So
So
2j>

_

12®  14
® 3 00
“

M i scellaneo us 
dither, Spts. Nit. ? F  30
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34»
Alumen..................   2J4<
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3
Annatto...................   40
Antlmonl, po........... 
4i
Antlmonl et Potass T  40
i
Antipyrln................ 
Antliebrln.............. 
i
1
Argent! Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
to
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45,
Bismuth S. N...........  l  66®  l  70
Caldum Chlor.,  is...
Calcium Chlor., Ms..
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
Cantharldes, Bus .do 
Capsid Fructus, af..
Capsid  Fructus, po.
Capsid Fructus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40......  
Cera Alba..............  
Cera Flava..............
Coccus  ....................
Cassia  Fructus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum.................
Chloroform............
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  l
Chondrus................
Cinchonldlne.P. & W 
Clnchonldlne, Germ. 
Cocaine..................   4  30®  4  50
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct.
Creosotum...............  
®
Creta............bbl. 75 
®
Creta, prep.............. 
®
Creta, predp........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus....................  
26®
Cudbear..................  
®
Cuprl  Sulph.............  6tt®
7®
Dextrine................. 
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbe.s. 
®
Emery, po................ 
®
E rgota.........po. 90  86®
Flake  White........... 
120
®
Galla.......................  
Gambler.................  
80
®
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......   360
75
Glassware,  dint, box 
Less than box......
Glue, brown............  
114
Glue,  white.
Glycerlna................   17}
Grana Paradlsl........
Hum ulus.................
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
IchthyoDolla, Am...
Indigo.....................   76
Iodine,  Resubl........3  "
Iodoform.................3 i
Lupulin.
'

Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............
LlquorPotassArslnlt
Magnesia,  8ulph__
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl
Manola. 8. ! . . ------

Menthol..................
Morphia, 8., P. & W.  2 
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q. 2
Morphia, Mai.......... 2
Moschus  Canton__
Myristlca, No. l ......
Nux Vomica...po. 16
Os Sepia..................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz.......................
Plcls Llq.,quarts....
Plcls Llq.,  pints......
Pll Hydrarg. ..po. 80
Piper  Nigra...po. 22
Piper  Alba__
.po. 36
Pllx Burgun.
Plumbl Acet............
Pulvls Ipecac et Opti  l 
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
&P. D.Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassias..................
Quinta, 8. P. &  W... 
Quinta, 8.  German..
uinla, N. Y............
,ubla Tlnctorum.... 
Saccharum Lactls pv
Saladn....................4
Sanguis  Draoonls...
Sapo, W...................
Sapo M....................
Sapo G....................

®  4 80 
16® 2 40 
16® 2 40 
16® 2  40 
®  40
66®  80 
®  10 
35®  37
®  1  00
®  2 00 
® 1 00 
&  86 
®  60 
®  18 
®  30
7 
12
1  60
®  76
26®  30
8®  
10 
27®  37
7®  37
27®  37
12®  14
50® 4 76 
40®  60
12®  14
12 
16
10a

Seldlitz Mixture......   20®  22
Slnapls ....................  
®  18
Slnapls,  opt............  
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................   @ 4 1
®  41
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s 
Soda, Boras............   '9 ®   11
9®  11
Soda,  Boras, po......  
24®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M® 
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash................  3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
2
® 
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
60®  56
Spts. Myrda Dom... 
® 2 00
® 
Spts. Vlni Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. Mbbl  @ 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. logal 
® 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. 5 gal  @ 
80®  1  06
Strychnia, Crystal... 
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M® 
4
Sulphur, RoU...........  2M®  3M
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromas.............   SO®  56
Vanilla.................... 9 oo@i6 oo
Zlnd Sulph............. 
8

7® 

O ils

Whale, winter.........   7o 
Lard, extra.................  86 
Lard, No. l ................  
80 

BBL.  GAL.
70
90
65

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

68
79
80
60
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red Venetian.........  
lti  2  ®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  Hi  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  Hi  2  ®3 
Putty,  commercial..  214  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V4  2ti®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13®  16
Vermilion, English..  70®  76
Green,  Paris...........  14M®  18M
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red............ . 
S  @  6%
Lead,  white.............  6  @  6M
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’.... 
®  96
White, Paris, Amer. 
®  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared,  l  10®  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  l  10®  l  20
Extra Turp..............  1  60®  17 0
Coach  Body............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fura...... 1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  66® 1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  79

Holiday
Goods

O u r   line  this  y e a r  w ill  b e  o f  a 
larger  assortment  than  ever 
before,  w e  h a v in g   ad d ed   several 
O u r   Mr.  Dudley
new lines. 
w ill 
soon  ex h ib it  at  con ven ien t 
points  alm ost  a  carload  o f  sa m ­
lo ok 
ples. 

It  w ill  p a y   y o u  

to 

them  o ver before b u y in g  elsew h ere.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

38

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED
R olled  Oats 
Je lly
F am ily W hitefish

DECLINED

Chewing Tobacco 
Smoking  Tobacco 
Navy  Beans

Tomatoes
F air.........................
G o o d ...................
Fancy......................
Gallons...................

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

Eocene .......................
Perfection..................
Diamond W hite,........
D. 8. Gasoline............
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder.............  
29
Engine......................... 19
Black, winter..............  9

1
1  35 
1  40 
8 60

@11 
@10 @ 9 
@12* 
@10* 
@34 
@22 
@10*

CATSUP

Columbia,  pints..................2 00
Columbia, *  pints...............1  25

CHEESE
Acme.......................  
Amboy.................... 
Carson City.............  
Elsie.........................
Emblem................... 
Gem.........................  
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal...................... 
Jersey...................... 
Riverside................. 
Brick .7.................... 
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago.................  

@H
@10*
@10*
9
@d *
@10*
9
&<o*
j u
14916
938
917
13914
50975
19920

CHEWING  GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack.......................  
56
Largest Gum  Made................... 60
Sen Sen............................. 
55
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
30
35
Yucatan............................ 

CHICORY

Bulk..................................... 8
Red........................................7
Eagle..................................... 4
Franck’s .............................   •
Schener’s .............................  6

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

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

Runkel Bros.

Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

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

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

 

 

 

 

Cotton  Victor

50 f t ..................................  
80
6f f t.................................... 
95
70 ft....................................  1  10

Cotton W indsor

59 ft....................................  1  20
60ft....................................  1  40
70 ft............................... —  165
80 f t ..................................  1  85
55
40 ft.................................... 
51ft...................................  
70
70 ft...................... 
 
80
Galvanized  W ire 

Cotton Braided

No. 20, each 100 ft long —   1 90 
No. 19, each 100 ft long....  2  10

COCOA

Cleveland..........................
Colonial, * s  ....................
Colonial, * s ......................
Epps.............. 
..............
Huyler..............................
Van Houten, * s ...............
Van Houten, Ms.........
Van Houten, * s ...............
Van Houten,  is ...............
Webb................................
Wilbur, * s .......................
Wilbur. * s .......................
Dunham’s * s....................
Dunham’s *s and * s ......
Dunham’s  *8...................
Dunham's  * s ..................
Bulk..................................
COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COCOANUT

.  41 
.  35 
.  33 
.  42 
.  45 
.  12 
.  20 
.  40 
.  70 
30 
.  41 
.  42
26
26*
27
28 
13

COFFEE 
Roasted 
F. M. C. brands
Mandehling................
...... 80*
Purity.........................
...... 28
No 1  Hotel.................
......28
Monogram................. ........26
Special Hotel..............
...... 23
Parkerhouse...............
...... 21
Honolulu  ..................
...... 17
Pancy  Maracaibo......
......16
Maracaibo.................. ........13
Porto Rican...............
...... 15
ttarexo....................... ........H *

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M. & J.  1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. ¿6 J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
Royal Java..........................
Royal Java and Mocha.......
Java and Mocha Blend.......
Boston Combination...........
Ja-Vo Blend.........................
Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend.................
Distributed by Olney & Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott & Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. &  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Melsel  & 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Fielbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9...................................8*
No. 10...................................9*
No. 12....................................12
No. 14....................................14
No. 16.........................  
16
No. 18....................................18
No. 20..............  
20
No. 22....................................22
NO. 24....................................24
No. 26....................................26
No. 28. .................................28
Belle Isle..........................   20
Red  Cross............................ 24
Colonial............................... 26
Juno......................................28
Koran...................................14

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

Rio

Santos

Maracaibo
 

Common..............................   8
F air.......................................9
Choice...................................10
Fancy................................... 15
Common..............................   8
F air.....................................   9
Choice...................................10
Fancy...................................13
Peaberry...............................11
F air................ 
13
Choice.................................  16
Choice...................................13
Fancy....................................17
Choice...................................13
African................................. 12
Fancy African.....................17
O  G...................................... 25
P. G ..................................... 31
Arabian................... ... 
21
New York Basis.

Mocha
Package 

G uatem ala

Mexican

Ja v a

Arbuckle............................ io*
Dll worth.............................10*
Jersey................................. 10*
Lion.................................... 10
M cLaughlin’s X X X X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *   gross.............  75
Felix* gross..................,...1   15
Hummers foil *  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin *  gross........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  MTT.ir 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle............. 6 40
Crown..................................5 go
"WW-.................................4 70
Champion...........................4 25
Magnolia............................ 4 00
Challenge........................... 4  10
Dime...................................... so
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid............................. ..  10
Top...............................3 85
Nestles................................4 25
Highland Cream.................5  00
St. Charles Cream............... 4 50
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour.........................  314
New York......................... 
6*
Family.............................   3*
o*
Salted................................ 
Wolverine......................... 
7

CRACKERS

B u tter

5
Soda

Oyster

Soda  XXX.......................  
7
Soda, City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette.......... ............    13
F a u st............................... 
7*
Farina............................... 
7
Extra Farina.................... 
7%
Saltlne Oyster................... 
7
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
to
Animals............................ 
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
is
Bent’s Water.................... 
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............  
to
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells......................... 
16
Creams, Iced....................   8
Cream Crisp...................... 
to*
Cubans..............................  11*
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C__  
6*
Gladiator..........................  
to*
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................. 
ie
Marshmallow.................... 
is
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic............... 
11*
 
Milk Biscuit...................... 
7*
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar....................   9
Moss Jelly Bar.................   12*
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp....................   9
Orange Gem......................  9
Penny Cake......................  8
7*
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8*
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8*
Scotch Cookies.................   9
7*
Sears’ Lunch....................  
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
Sugar Crnam. XXX.........  
•
Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tuttl Fruttl..............  
  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. J.  Kruce & Co. ’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR 

 

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

D R IED   FRUITS 

Apples

California Prunes

Sundrled.........................  @3*4
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @10*  
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  9  4*
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  9  5*
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  9  5*
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  9  6*
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  9   iy.
40 - 50 26 lb. boxes........  9  8*
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
9
California F ru its

*  cent less In SO lh. oases 

Peel

Citron

Raisins 

C urrants 

Apricots....................  © ii*
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  
8*
Peaches...................... 
©9*
Pears.......................... 9*
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
Leghorn...................................11
Corsican...........................   12*
California, l lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......  7*
Imported, bulk....................  7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..is 
Orange American 10lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1  75 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  90
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7* 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
8*
L. M., Seeded, l  lb...... 9*@to
L. M., Seeded, *   lb.... 
8
Sultanas, b u lk .................... 11
Sultanas, package............. .11*
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  5*
Medium Hand Picked 
1 70
Brown Holland.....................2 25
241 lb. packages.................1  13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs.................. 2 to
Flake, 50 lb. sack................   90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl..................5 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.................2 50
M accaroni and Vermioelli j
Domestic, 10 lb. box............  60
Imported, 9  lb. box......... % 00

H om iny

F arina

Beans

Index to  Markets

By Columns

F

G

c

D

B

H

A

I
J

Col.
Akron Stoneware.................   15
Alabastlne............................  
l
Ammonia...............................  1
Axle Grease...........................  1
Baking Powder...... ............... 
l
Bath Brick............................  
l
Bluing.................................... 
l
Brooms..................................   1
l
Brashes................................. 
Batter Color..........................  
l
Candles..................................  14
Candles.................................. 
l
Canned Goods.........................  a
Catsup.....................................   3
Carbon Oils............................   8
Cheese.....................................  8
Chewing Gum.........................   8
Chicory....................................   8
Chocolate.................................  8
Clothes Lines...........................  8
Cocoa.......................................  8
Cocoanut.................................   8
Cocoa Shells............................  3
Coflee......................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   15
Crackers.................................  4
Cream T artar.........................   5
Dried  Fruits...........................  5
Farinaceous  Goods................  5
Fish and Oysters....................  13
Fishing Tackle........................  6
Flavoring Extracts.................   6
Fly  Paper...............................   6
Fresh Meats............................  6
Fruits.....................................  u
Fruit Can  Wrench.................   6
Gelatine..................................   6
Grain Bags............................  7
Grains and Flour............ 
7
Herbs.....................................   7
Hides and Pelts.....................   13
Indigo.....................................   7
Jelly........................................  7
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  15
Lantern  Globes....................   15
  7
Licorice................................ 
Lye..........................................   7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses...’.............................  7
Mustard................................   7
Nuts.......................................  14
Oil Cans................................   15
Olives......................................  7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes.....................................   7
Playing Cards.......................   8
Potash...................................  8
Provisions..............................  8
Bice.......................................  8
S&leratus...............................  9
Sal Soda.................................  9
Salt........................................   9
Salt  Fish...............................   9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snufl.....................................   to
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  10
Spices............... 
10
Starch..................... 
10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  li
Syrups...................................  10
Table Sauce..........................   12
Tea.....................................    11
Tobacco................................  11
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.....................13
Wlcklng.................................  is
Woodenwar*....:.................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast  Cake.
13

V
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A X L E  GREASE
doz. gros 8
Aurora...........
...56
6 00
Castor OU......
......... 60
7 00
Diamond........
4 25
......... 50
Frazer’s .........
9 00
..........75
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

B A K IN G   POW DER 

Egg

*  lb. cans,  4 doz. case.....3 75
*  lb. cans,  2 doz. case.....3 75
lib. cans, 
ldoz. case.....3 75
5 lb. cans, *  doz. case........8 00

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

Royal

lOcstze....  90 
X lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
%  lb. cans 2 so 
% lb. cans 3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
^   3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH   BR ICK

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

BLUING

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

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

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet........................2  *0
No. 2 Carpet........................2  25
No. 3 Carpet........................2  15
No. 4 Carpet........................1  76
Parlor  Gem........................2  40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk...................... 1  10
Warehouse..........................8  GO

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dustless

Fiber.......................... 1 oo@3 00
Russian Bristle...........3 oo@5 00
Discount, 33* % in doz. lots. 

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8..................................... 1 00
No. 7..................................... 1  3o
No. 4....................... ............1  70
No. 8............... .................... 1  go
No. 8.....................................  75
No. 2..................................... 1  10
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W„ R. & Co.’s, 15c size__  1  25
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size__  200
Electric Light, 8s................12
Electric Light, 16s............... 12*
Paraffine, 6s.........................10*
Paraffine, 12s ....................... 11
Wlcklng...............................17

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

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

B lackberries
, 

Standards........... . 
Beans

l  10
3 85

80

Baked......................  1  oo@i  so
75®  85
Bed  Kidney............. 
String......................  
70
Wax......................... 
75
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout

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

90

2 

Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
Little Neck. 2 lb......  

Clam B ouillon

1  00
l 50

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

Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
White.........................
Fair.......................... 
Good.......................  
Fancy......................  

Corn

French  Peas

80
86
l  0°

Sur Extra Fine................. 
22
Extra  Fine.......................  
19
Fine....................................    15
Moyen...............................  U

Gooseberries

1 60

90

86

Peas

85
2  15
3 60
2 40
175
2 80
l 75
2 80
l 76
2 80
18@20
22@25

Standard................. 
H om iny
Standard.................. 
Lobster
Star, *  lb................. 
Star, l  lb.................  
Picnic Tails.............  
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 2 lb........... 
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, 1 lb............  
Tomato, 2 lb............  
M ushrooms
Hotels....................... 
Buttons....................  
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................  
Cove, 21b................. 
1 55
95
Cove, 1 lb  Oval...... 
Peaches
P ie..........................  
8E@  90
Yellow....................   1  S6©1  85
100
Standard ....P^ r".. 
l  25
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
l  00
Early June.............. 
1  00
Early June  Sifted.. 
Plum s
Plums...................... 
85
Pineapple
Grated....................   1 25©2 75
Sliced.......................   1  35@2  55
Pum pkin
F a ir......................... 
l 00
Good.......................  
1  10
Fancy...................... 
1  16
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
l  15
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..............................   3 75
*  lb, cans.........................  7 00
1 lb. can..................................12 00
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska.............. 
Pink Alaska............ 
Shrim ps
Standard................. 
Sardines
Domestic, >4s........... 
Domestic, * s .........  
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, ids.........  
California * s ........... 
French, Ms.............. 
French, * s.............. 
Standard.................
Fancy................—  
Succotash
F air............... 
 
Good........ ............... 
Fancy...................... 

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

U@14
17924
7914
18@28

Straw berries

1  10
96
1  eo
1  20

Salmon

 

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

PICKLES
M edium

Small

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

Barrels, 2,400 count............ 9  60
Half bbls, 1.200 count......... 5 26

PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__  
l  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 oo
Penna Salt Co.’s...................3 oo

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Mess........................  
Back...................... 
Clear back...............  
Short out................. 
Pig...................  
Bean......................... 
Family Mess Loin... 
Clear....................... 

 

D ry  Salt Meats
Bellies............................  
S PBellies................ 
Extra shorts............  

Smoked  Meats 

©18  76
©19 oo
©to  so
©19  oo
22  00
©18 Si
21  oo
@18  50

UK
ll

Hams, 12lb.average.  13K©  iSK 
Hams, 14 lb. average.  12K©  13 
Hams, I61b.average.  12K©  13 
Hams, 20 lb. average.  14K©  13
Ham dried beef......   12K©  13
Shoulders (N.Y.cut) 
©  9K
Bacon, clear............   is  ©  u
California hams......   9K©  io
©  19
Boiled Hams.......... 
14©  ltK 
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
9©  «K
Mince Hams.........  
9K©  10
Lard

?K ©

©UK
K
K
K
K
%

Compound...............  
Pure.........................  
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
io lb. Palls.. advance 
51b. Palls., advance 
•  it*  p«!i| #  ad vanrtp 
Vegetole.................  
Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver.......................  
Frankfort.....................  
P o rk .......................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue.................... 
Headcheese.............  

Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless........................ 
Rump, New............ 14 or©  5  00

14 00

Uncolored  B utterine

Pigs’  Feet
K bbls., 40 lbs.........  
K bbls.,.................... 
l bbls.,  lbs............  

Tripe

Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
K bbls., 40 lbs.........  
K bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk .......................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
Solid, dairy.............. 
Rolls, dairy................... 
Bolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Ks....... 
Potted ham,  Ks......  
Deviled ham, K s.... 
Deviled ham, K s.... 
Potted tongue,  Ks.. 
Potted tongue.  Ks.. 
BICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

l  70
3 25
7 60

70
150
3 oo

26
5
12
66
©13K
©14
18K
16

2 60
18 25
2 60
50
90
60
90
50
90

Carolina head....................... 6K
Carolina No. l ...................... 6
Carolina No. 2 ......................6K
Broken.................................

P earl  Barley

Peas

Common.............................. 3 00
Cheater..................................2 78
Empire..................................a 66
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........l 90
Green, Scotch, bu.................2 oo
Spilt,  lb...............................  4
Boiled Avena, bbl.................6 30
Steel Cut, too lb. sacks. . .   3 30
Monarch, bbl........................« 10
Monarch, K bbl....................3 20
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2 96
Quaker, cases.......................3 20

Boiled  Oats

G rits

Walsh-DeBoo Co.’s Brand.

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

FISHING  TACKLE

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages...... 2 00
East India...........................   3K
German, sacks.................... 3K
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks.............. 4K
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   6K
Cracked, bulk......................  31s
24 2 lb. packages.................2 60
H to 1 inch...........................  6
IK to 2 Inches......................  7
IK to 2 Inches......................  9
IK 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, t5 fe e t.......................   10
No. 6,16 feet.........................  11
No. 6.16 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 fe e t.......................   16
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  20
Small....................................  20
Medium............. 
26
L arge..................................   34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz....  .  50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo.  18 f t , per doz. 
.  80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Linen  Lines
 

Cotton  Lines

Poles

 

FOOTE ft JE N E S’

JA X O N

Vanilla 

H W J e s ^ ra d ^ x tm t^  
1 ozfull m.120  l ozfull  m.  80 
2ozfullm .2l0  2 oz full m  l  25 
No. a fan'V   »  is   N o. s f a n ’v   1  75

Lemon

Vanilla 

Lemon

2ozpanel..l  20  2 oz panel.  75 
3 oz taper. .2  00  4 oz taper.. l  50

i>. C. Lemon 
1). C. Vanilla
2 oz......... 
75H2 oz.........   l  24
3 oz.........   1 00  3 OZ.........  1 60
6 oz.........  2  00  :4 0Z.........  2 00
No. 4 T ...  1  52  N0.3T...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

O nr Tropical.

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

FLY PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

Pork

8 
5 
5 

Carcass....................   6K® 9
Forequarters.........  
6  @7
Hindquarters......... 
8  @iok
Loins.......................   10
Ribs.........................  8  ©12V4
Bounds......................  
Chucks......................  
Plates.....................  
Dressed...................  7K© 8
Loins.......................  
©13
9K© 9K
Boston Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
© 9K
Leaf  Lard................ 
©UK
M utton
Carcass...................   6  ©  8
Lambs......................  8K©10K
Carcass...................  7  © 8K

Veal

 

FRUIT  CAN  WRENCH.

GELATINE

Triumph, per  gross...........  9 60
Knox’s Sparkling............   1 20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14 00
Knox’s Acidulated........... 
l  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford............... 
75
Plymouth Rock...............  1  20
Nelson’s............................  1  50
Cox’s, 2 qt size.................  1  61
Cox’s, l-qt st/.e..................  1  io
Amoskeag, 100 in b ale__  15K
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15K

GRAIN  BAGS

 

GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

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

W inter W heat F lour 

79
77

W heat

Local Brands

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 60
Second Patent..................   4 io
Straight.............................  3 90
Second Straight...............   3 60
Clear................................   3 30
Graham............................  3 60
Buckwheat.......................  4 30
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
BaU-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ks.....................   4 oo
Diamond Ks.....................  4 oo
Diamond Ks.....................   4 oo
Quaker Ks........................   4 oo
Quaker Ks........................  4 oo
Quaker Ks........................  4 00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Kb.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Ks.........   4  40
Plllsbury’s  Best Ks.........   4  so
Plllsbury’s Best Ks paper. 
4 30
Plllsbury’s Best Ks paper. 
4 30
Ball-Barahart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ks.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Ks.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Ks.........  4  10
Lemon St Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Ks.................... 
4  30
Wlngold  Ks.................... 
4 20
Wlngold  Ks.................... 
4  10
Ceresota Ks.....................  4 60
Oeresota Ks......................  4 40
Ceresota Ks......................  4  30
Laurel  Ks.........................  4  40
Laurel  Ks.........................  4  30
Laurel  Ks.........................  4  20
Laurel Ks and Ks paper..  4 20 
Bolted...............................  2  80
Granulated.......................  2  90
St. Car Feed, screened__   26  75
No. l Corn and  Oats........  26 50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  25 50
Winter Wheat Bran.........  19 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  22 00
Screenings.......................  20 00
Car  lots............................   65
Car lots, clipped...............   68
Less than car lots.............
Corn, oar  lots..................   68
No. l Timothy car lots....  10 oo
No. 1 Timothy ton lots__ 12 00
Sage.........................................15
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves..........................15
4enna Leave«.. 
.  ...............26

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney St Judson’s Brand

Feed and  Millstuffb

Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

Oats

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F„ 2, 8 and 6 lb. boxes....... 60

INDIGO

JELLY

5 lb. pails.per doz...........  175
16 lb. palls............................  45
30 lb. palls............................  85

LICORICE

Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily....................................  14
Boot.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz......................l 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25
Armour St Co.’s, 2 oz.......  4  46
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2  75

MEAT  EXTRACTS 

LYE

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle.........
Choice.............................
F air................................ . 
Good...............................

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

©  9
© 6
©

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz....... ...1  75
Horae Radish, 2 doz....... ...3 50
...1  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs............
.  135
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs.............. .  120
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs.............. .  1  15
Manzanllla, 7 oz..............
80
Queen, pints.................... .  2 36
Queen, 19  oz.................... .  4  50
Queen, 28  oz....................
.  7 00 
Stuffed, 5 oz....................
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.................... .  1  45
Stuffed. 10 oz..................
2 30
Clay, No. 216.................... ...1  70
Clay, T. D., full count__ ...  65
Cob, No. 8....................... ...  86

PIPES

9

Im ported.

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

IO
SEEDS

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

SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small............  
l  26
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

29

II

K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............   7K
6 lb. packages...............  
8 K
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages...................  6
3-lb. packages...................  6K
6-lb. packages...................  6K
40 and 60-lb. boxes............   4
Barrels.............................  
4
6
20l-lb.  packages.............. 
40l-lb.  packages.............. 
6K

Common Corn

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels..................................27
Half bbls..............................29
10 lb. cans, K doz. In case..  1  80
5 lb. cans, l doz. in case__ 2 05
2K lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.. .2 05 
F air.....................................   16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  25

P u re Cane

STOVE  POLISH

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

11

SALAD  CREAM

SALERATUS 

2 doz. Alpha (large size)...  1  85 
1 doz. Alpha (large  size)...  1 90
3 doz. Alpha (small size)...  95
* 
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  16
Deland’s....................................3 oo
Dwight’s  Cow.......................... 3 15
Emblem......................  
L.  P .......................................... 3 00
Wyandotte, loo Ks...................8 OO

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

2  10

SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls.................  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__1  00
Lump, bbls...'....................  90
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   95

SALT

l
j
S%
6
6K
©8
8K
6
n
6K

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, loo 3 lb. bags.3 oo 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Butter, barrels,20 uib.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67

Common  Grades

100 3 lb. sacks............................2 25
60 61b. sacks............................2 15
2810 lb. sacks.......................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................  
40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22

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

661b. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

W arsaw

Ashton

Higgins

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock
Common

661b.  sacks..........................   26
Granulated  F i n e . . ...........  85
Medium Fine.......................   90

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Georges cured............   © 5K
Georges genuine........  © 6K
Georges selected........  ©  3K
Grand Bank...................  © 6K
Strips or  bricks.........   6K©iOK
Pollock..........................   © 8K

H alibut.

Strips.......................................14
Chunks.............................   15K

T rout

No. 1 100 lbs......................   6 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 60
No. 1 
70
No. 1 
59

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

M ackerel

Mess 100 lbs........ ..............  9 50
Mess  40 lbs......................   4  10
Mess  10 lbs......................  
l  10
Mess 
8 lbs..................... 
91
No. 1100 lbs......................   8 50
No. l  40lbs......................   3  <o
No. l  io lbs......................  
l  oo
No. l 
8 lbs..................... 
83
No. 2 100 lbs......................   7 25
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   3 31
No. 2  10 lbs.  ................... 
98
No  0 
"3

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

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

JfOUOfiL

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

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Jas. S. Kirk St Co. brands—

Single box.................................a 35
5 box lots, delivered........... 3 30
10 box lots, delivered........... d 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3  65
Calumet Family.............   2  76
Scotch Family................   2  86
Cuba................................. 2  35
Dusky Diamond..............  3 66
Jap Rose.................. 
  3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3 55
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars............3 55
Satinet, oval....................  2 50
White  Cloud.................... 4  10
Big Acme........................  4  25
Acme 5c..........................   3  65
Marseilles.........................4  00
Master.............................. 3 70
Lenox.............................  3 35
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Schultz ft Co. brand-
star...................................3  40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 85
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4 CO
Old Country....................  3 40

Proctor St Gamble brands—

Scouring

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

SODA

SNUFF

Boxes.....................................5K
Kegs, English......................  4K

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

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amooyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar............... 
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10...............  
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot.....................  
P u re Ground in B ulk
Allspice............................  
Cassia, Batavia................. 
Cassia, Saigon.............  
 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African................ 
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............  
Sage..............................  

 

STARCH

12
12
28
38
55
17
14
66
50
40
36
18
28
20

16
28
48
17
16
18
25
66
18
17
25
20
jr

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross..  7  20 
Domino.............................  680
Cut Loaf.............................. 5  20
Crushed............ ..............   5 20
Cubes................................  4 95
Powdered.........................  4 80
Coarse  Powdered.  .........   4 80
XXXX Powdered.............  4 85
Fine Granulated................  4 70
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  4 90
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4 85
Mould A............................  6 05
Diamond  A.......................  4 70
Confectioner’s A..............  4 60
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, Empire A..............  4 25
NO.  6.................................  4 20
No.  1................................   4 10
No.  8................................   4 00
No.  a................................   3 95
No. 10.................................  3 90
NO. 11................................   3 85
No. 12................................   8 80
NO. 18................................   3 80
NO. 14................................   3 80
No. 15................................   3 76
no. io.. ..........................

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...... ....35
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......... ......30
Plngsuey,fancy............---- 40
Choice........................... ......30
Fancy..................................36
Formosa, fancy...................42
Amoy, medium............. ......25
Amoy, choice................ ---- 32
Medium......................... ....27
Choice.......................... .......34
Fancy............................ ....42

English B reakfast

Young  Hyson

Oolong

In dia

Ceylon, choice............... ....32
Fancy............................ ....42

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. ft P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

Herring:

Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoopsKbbl.  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg..75©85 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 35
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  65
Scaled... 
Bloaters..

11

W hite fish

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

No. 1  No. 2 Fam
3 85
1  85
53
45

Sutton’s Table Bice, 40 to the 

bale, 2K pound pockets....7K

Fine  Cut

8.0. W..............................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
20
Lubetsky Bros, brands
L,  B.....................................35 00
Daily Mail........................... 35 00
Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojlbwa................................. 34
Forest  Giant......... ..............34
Sweet Spray..,.....................38
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha............................. 67

Kingsford’s Corn

40 l-lb. packages..............  7K
20 l-lb. packages...............  7K

3 0

12

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

13

14

Hardware  Price Current

Fancy—In  Pails 

Mixed Candy

Grocers.................... 
Competition............. 
Special..,................. 
Conserve.................. 
Royal...................... 
Ribbon....................  
Broken.................... 
Cut Loaf................... 
English Book..........  
Kindergarten.........  
Bon Ton Cream......  
French Cream.........  
Dandy Pan.............. 
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix.. 
Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares......
I Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses......
San Buts Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chooolates...
Quintette Choc........
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials.................
Ital. Cream Opera.., 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls...........  
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls................. 
Golden Waffles........ 

æ ed Peanuts....

© 6
© 7
© 7K
© 7*
© 8K
© 9
© 8
© 8K
© 9
© 9
© 8K
© 9
©10
©14K
@13

A m m unition

Caps

Cartridges

G. D., full count, per m......................
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m..................
Musket, per m.....................................
Ely’s Waterproof, per m....................
No. 22 short, per m.............................
No. 22 long, per m..............................
No. 32 short, per m.;..........................
No. 32 long, per m..............................
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per m ...
Black edge, Nos. ll and 12 U. M. c...

Gun Wads

Primers

Drs. of
Powder

New Rival—For Shotguns

8K Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, per m.
15 - Black edge. No. 7, per m
12
Loaded Shells
12
9
oz. of
11
10 No.
Shot
120
1%
10
129
1%
©12
128
1%
© 9
126
1%
©10
136
1%
©11
©13% 164
1%
200
1
@12
208
1
@15
© 6% 236
1%
265
© 9
1%
264
@ 9
1%
Discount 40 per cent.
© 9
©12
©11
©13
©12

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

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg.........  
....
K kegs, 12% lbs., per  %  keg..............
H kegs, 6* lbs., per *   keg.
Shot

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

P ing

Smoking

Telegram.............................. 26
Fay C ar................................32
P«lrl» Horn............. 
  W
Protection.............................88
Sweet Burley........................to
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... se
Flat Iron..............................38
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold—........................so
Sim a....................................33
Sweet Chunk........................87
Forge....................................38
)M  ('roan............................. 89
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................37
American Bagla..................m
Standard Navy.....................37
Spear Head, 16 oz................ 42
w ear Head,  8 oz................ 44
Nobbv Twtat........................48
JoUyTar..............................38
Old Honesty...................... ..44
Toddy................................... 34
J .T .......................................38
Piper Hetdslck.....................63
Boot Jack............................. si
jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car............................... 36
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8 oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 27
1 XL,  6 lb...........................27
IX  L,16oz. palls..................31
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips...........................  
  34
Kiln Dried...........................22
Duke’s Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, IK oz..................40
Yum Yum, l lb. palls...........38
Cream...................................37
Cora Cake, 2%oz.................24
Cora Cake, lib .....................22
Plow Boy, IK oz.................. 40
Plow Boy, 3K oz...................39
Peerless, 3K oz.....................34
Peerless, IK oz.......... : .......36
Indicator, 2K oz...................28
Indicator, l lb. palls........... 31
Col. Choice, 2Koz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz.................. 21
Cotton, 3 ply......................... 16
Cotton, 4 ply.........................16
Jute, 2 ply............................ 12
Hemp, 6 ply......................... 12
Flax, medium...................... 20
Wool, l lb. balls...................  7K
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. 6  B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson........12
Pure Cider, Silver..............12
WASHING  POW DER
Diamond  Flake................. 2 76
Gold  Brick.........................3 25
Gold Dust, regular.............4 SO
Gold Dust, 5a.................... 4 00
Klrkollne,  24 4 lb...............3 90
Pearline...... „..................... 2 65
Soapine................................
Soaplne...............................4 00
Babbitt’s 1776.......... ..........   3 76
Boseiue...............................3 00
Armour’s............................3 70
Nine O’clock.......................3 36
Wisdom............................. 3 80
Scourlne............................. 3 60
No.0, per gross...................26
No. 1, per gross...................80
No.?, per gross...................40
No. 8. ner gross...................66

W ICKING

VINEGAR

TW INS

WOODSNWARB

Baskets

B a tter Plates

B radley  B u tter Boxes

Bushels................................  86
Bushels, wide  band........... 1  15
M arket................................   30
Splint, large....................... 6 00
Splint, medium..................5 00
Splint, small.......................4 00
Willow Clothes, large........ 5 60
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 00
Willow Clothes, small........ 4 76
2 lb. size, 24 In case............  72
8 lb. size, 16 In case.............  68
5 lb. size, 12 In case............   63
10 lb. size,  6 in case............   60
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate.... ..  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 in crate.... ..  46
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate.... ..  60
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate.... ..  O'»
Barrel, 5 gals., each......... ..2 40
Barrel. 10 gals., each........ ..2 65
Barrel, 15 gals., each........ ..2 70
Bound head, 5 gross box.. ..  60
Bound head, cartons........ ..  76
Humpty Dumpty.............
..2 26
N q l, complete................
..  29
No. 2, complete................ ..  18
Cork lined, 8 in................. ..  56
Cork lined, 9 In................. ..  65
Cork lined, 10 In................ ..  85
Cedar. 8 In......................... ..  66

Clothes Pins

Egg Chatos

Faucets

Churns

Mop  Sticks

Palls

Tubs

Traps

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........   86
N oi common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 1». cotton mop heads...... l 25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
2- hoop Standard................... 1 50
3- hoop Standard................... l 70
2- wire,  Cable........................ 1 60
3- wire,  Cable........................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1 26
Paper,  Eureka..............
...2 26
Fibre.............................
...2 40
Toothpicks
Hardwood...................... ...2 60
Softwood........................ ...2 75
...1  60
Banquet.........................
Ideal............................... ...1  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes....
...  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes...... ...  45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..... ...  70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes......... ...  66
Rat, wood........................ ...  80
Bat, spring....................... ...  76
...7 00
20-lnch, Standard, No. l.
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.. ...6 00
16-Inch, Standard, No. 8.. ...5 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. I....... ...7 60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2....... ...7 00
16 Inch, Cable,  No. 3....... ...6 00
No. I Fibre...................... ...9 46
.7 96
No. 2 Fibre......................
No. 3 Fibre......................
.7 20
W ash  Boards
..2 60
Bronze Globe...................
Dewey............................... .1 76
Doable Acme......................2 76
Single Acme....................   2 26
Doable Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless...................2 60
Northern Queen................2 60
Double Duplex................... 8 00
Good Luck......................... 276
Universal............................ 2 26
12 In. 
.................................1 66
14 In.................................... 1  85
16 In.....................................2 30
u  In. Butter.........................  76
13 In. Butter........................ 1 00
16 In. Butter........................ l  76
17 In. Butter........................ 2 GO
19 In. Butter..............:.........3 00
Assorted 13-16-17.................1  76
Assorted 16-17-19  ................2 GO
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
1%
Fiber Manila, wblte.........   3K
Fiber Manila, colored......   414
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count—   20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   16
Magic, 3 doz........................I 00
Sunlight, 3doz.................... l 00
Sunlight, 1%  doz.................   60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.............I 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam. IK  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish...................  99
Trout.........................   A
8K
Black Bass.............. 10® 
it
Hidlbut........................  (¡3  18
Ciscoes or Herring__   ©  6
Bluefish.......................  ©  13
Live Lobster...............  Q  20
Boiled  Lobster............  a   22
Cod..............................   ©  11
Haddock.....................  a   io
No. 1 Pickerel..............  ©  7
Pike.............................  a   7
Perch...........................  ©  5
Smoked  White............  &  10
Bed  Snapper.............  a
Col River  Salmon. ..12%©  13
Mackerel.....................   ©  18

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls 

60

HIDES AND  PELTS 
©  7 © 6 
©   8K 
©  7K 
© 9K 
© 9 
©10 
© 9

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts...........
F. 8. D.  Selects......
Selects....................
Hides
Green  No. l .............
Green  No. 2.............
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,green No. 2 
Calf skins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
Old Wool..
Lamb........
Shearlings
No. 1.......................
No. 2.......................
Wool
Washed, line........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy

Pelts

60® 1  60 
20©  40 
20©  49
© 6 
©  6
©18
Q2t
13©15
14©17

Standard.................
Standard H. H ........
Standard  Twist......
Cot Loaf..................
Jumbo. 32 lb............  
Extra H. H .............. 
Boston Cream.........  
Beet Beys’ 

. . . . . . .  

Dbls. palls
© 7 
©7 
© 8 © 9 
cases
© 7K
©10K
©10
© 8

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

Levels

M attocks

Adze Bye.................................$17 oo..d1s

Metals—Zinc

000 pound casks...................................
Per pound............................................

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages..........................................  
Pumps, Cistern........................ 
76ftl0
Screws, New List.................... 
8E&20
Casters, Bed and  Plate...f.....   eoftioftio
Dampers, American............................ 

Molasses  Gates

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

7K8
40

so

608(10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................   eoftioftio
Common,  polished..................  

708(6

P aten t  Planished  Iron 

“A" Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 80 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 80 

Broken packages Kc per pound extra.

Planes

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

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

... 
.. 

... 

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

Roofing  Pintos

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

Ropes

Sisal, K Inch and larger......................
Manilla................................................

List acct.  19, ’88.................................. dls

Sand  Paper 

Solid  Byes, per ton.............................

Sash  W eights 

40
so
40
45

2 60
2 36
Base
6 
10 
20 
80 
46 
70 
60
16
26 
36 
26 
36 
46 
86

60 
45

7  60 
9 00 
16 00 
7 60 
9 (0 
16 00 
18 00

UK
16%

40
60
76
00
2  60 
3  00 
5  75

6  00 

1  40 
1  40

Per 
100 
$2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 96 
8  00 
2 50 
2 60 
2  66 
2 70 
2 70

.72
04

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

60
26
GO
6 50 
9 00 
0  00 
10  60

12  00 
29 00

70
60

%  In. 
5  0. 
6* 
6*

Kin.
...  4*0. 
...  6 
...  6K

76 
1  26 
408110

40
26
708110
70
70

85&20
868(20
86&20
83K408(10
70
608(10
608(10
608(10
60&10

Sheet  Iron

com. smooth.

com. 
$3 60
3 7C 
8 90 
8 90
4 00 
4  10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

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

Shovels  and  Spade»
First Grade,  Doz................................
Second Grade, Doz.............................

8 60 
8  00

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

Squares

go—10—6

Tin—Melyn  Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal............................... 
20x14 IX, Charcoal............................... 

Each additional X on this giade, $1.26.

 

Tin—A llaw ay Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade. $1.60

 

B oiler Size Tin  Plato 

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i ___
14x86 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, j P®r P0““«1- 
Steel. Game.........................................
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  ft  Nor­
ton’s..................................................
Mouse,  choker  per doz.................... ’
Mouse, delusion, per doz....................

Traps

W ire

Bright Market.....................................
Annealed  Market...........
Coppered Market........................."....
Tinned  Market.............
Coppered Spring Steel................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Painted.......................
W ire Goods
Bright.........................................
Screw B yes..............................
Hooks...  ...............*.. .. .. .... ..
Gate Hooks and Byes................

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine......................................
Coo’s Patent Agricultural! W rought!.«

$10 go
10 60
12 00

 

9  00
9  00
10  60
10  60

13

76
408(10
66 15 
1  26
60 
60 
fiOftlO 
soft 10 
40 
8 26 
2 96
80
80
86
80

©1  00 
©36 
©76 
©56 
©60 
©60 
@60 
©66 
©66 
©90

©66©66
©12%

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
©60
©00

Lemon  Sours.........
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice Drops........
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar.............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Rock.............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels 
—„ -ir. 201b. palls..
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3for lc pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Car’Is 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida BussetL......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamaica«................
Bodi......................
Lemons 
Verdelll, ex fey 300..
Verdelll, fey 300......
©
Verdelll, ex chce 300
©
Verdelll, fey 360......
©
Call Lemons, 300......  
_
@4  00
Messlnas  300s.........   4 ou@B  00
Messinas  360s.........   3 75©4 2s

@8K
@15
©66
©■ 6
@60
©00©60

©
o
©
© 6  60

6

@

Figs

Bananas 
Medium bunches....  1  60@2 00
Large  bunches........

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@

California!,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards In IS lb. boxes 
© 6K M
Fards In 00 lb. caoeo.
Hallo wi.................... 
@ 5%
lb.  oases, new......  
„
Sain, 80 lb. oases....  4K  © 6 
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Ivlea......
Almonas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils,....................
Kiiberts  .................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnut»., soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Bx. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b n ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras
Boosted................ 
Span. Bblli Nq 1 n*w  5 * 0  6K

5*@ 0*
Boasted................  6X© 7K
a  714 
a

L5@16
@10
@13©12K
12% ©13% 
@ 13* 
@10 
©13 
©14

310

Axes

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 26 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
Knell’s .................................................
Jennings  genuine............................
Jennings’ imitation.............................
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..............
First Quality, 8. B. 8.  Steel..............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...................
Railroad...............................................
Garden.........................................I".!net
Bolts
Stove...................................................
.......................
Carriage, new II*» 
Plow ................................................

Barrows

Backets

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

Butts,  Cast

Chain

Com.
BB...
BBB.

K In. 
6-lfi in.
7  c.  ...  0  0.  .
8* 
.
8* 
.

...  7* 
...  7* 
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per lb.......................
Chisels
Socket Firm er...........................
Socket Framing.........................
Socket Corner............................
Socket Slicks............................

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz................net
Corrugated, per doz...........................
Adjustable..................................... .".’."dls
Expansive  Bits
Clark's small, $18;  large, $26........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  8, $30................
Files—New  List
New American..................................
Nicholson’s..................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................

Galvanized  Iron 

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

13 

16 

14 

Discount.  R6

Ganges

Glass

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

H am m ers

Single Strength, by box.................... dig
Double Strength, by box............  
dls
By the Light...........................". . .dls
Maydole ft Co.’s, new list.............  
dls
‘ ‘dig
Yerkes ft Plumb’s ......................... 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. ¿¿c' list
Gate. Clark’s l, 2 ,3 ...,....................... dls
HoUow  W are
Pots  ......................................... •
Kettles.....................................
Spiders..................................... . .1 ”  V

Hinges

Horse  Nalls

Iron

40&10
70
20&10

House  F urnishing Goods

Au Sable............................................. dls
Stamped Tinware, new list.........
Japanned Tinware..........................
Bar Iron........................ .........2  26  orates
Light Band.........................................   8 orates
Door, mineral, jap, trimmings.........  
«
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
gg
5 M
Regular o Tabular, Doz,...................... 
Warren, Galvanized Fount......... . 
qq

Knobs—New  List

Lanterns

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

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SENT  ON  APPROVAL!
T H E   S T j ì R  PEAN U T 
VEND ING   M-A CH IN E
For  automatically  s el li ng 
salted shelled peanuts.  Op­
erates with a cent and is per­
fectly  legitimate. 
It  is  at­
tractive  and  lucrative—not 
an  experiment,  but  act ual  
f a c t s  from  actual  results. 
Handsomely  finished,  an d  
will  increase  your  sales  at 
large profit.  Try It;  that’s 
1 the test I  M y circular gives
full  description  and  brings

price and terms.  Shall I send it to you?

___  

M a n u fa c tu re d   b y

W.  G.  HENSHAW,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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  from 
milk.  Write for prices and  territory.

SATISFACTION  GUARANTEED.

Lawrence Mfg.  Co.,  Toledo,  Ohio

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

George  B.  Monroe,  City  Representative 

Worden  Grocer  Co.

lived 

George  B.  Monroe  was  born  in  De­
troit,  July  2q,  1864.  His  father  was  a 
descendant  of  the  early  French  settlers 
of  Montreal  and  his  mother  came  from 
an  Ontario  family  whose  antecedents 
were  English,  Mr.  Monroe 
in 
Detroit  until  he  was  15  years  of  age, 
when  he 
left  school  to  learn  the  trade 
of  telegraph  operator.  His  first  position 
was  with  the  Credit Valley  Railroad,  in 
Ontario,  with  which  corporation  he  re­
mained  four  years.  His  next  employ­
in  the  freight  department  of 
ment  was 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railway 
at  Port 
Huron,  where  he  remained  two  years. 
He  then  engaged 
in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  at  195  Chene  street,  Detroit,  which 
be  continued  in four  years,selling out  at 
the  end  of  that  time  to  go  to  Johnson- 
ville,  Ga.,  to  take  charge  of  the  com­
missary  of  the  Bewick  Lumber  Co.  He

\

remained  in  this  position  three and one 
half  years,  when  he  came  to  Grand 
Rapids,  and  became  identified  with  the 
retail  grocery  trade  here  for three  years 
when  he  engaged  to  take  charge  of  the 
grocery  department  of  the  Donsereaux 
Clothing  &  Grocery  Co.,  taking  the  po­
sition  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  A 
year  and  a  half 
later  he  engaged  to 
cover  the  city  trade  of  the  Worden  Gro­
cer  Co.,  which  position  he  has  since 
filled  with  credit  to  himself,  with  profit 
to  his  house  and  to  the  satisfaction  of 
his  customers.

Mr.  Monroe  was  married  June  29, 
1887,  to  Miss  Ina  Lamont,  of  Millport, 
Ont.  They  reside  in  a  new  home  they 
just  purchased  at  37  Parkwood 
have 
avenue,  a  boy  of  11  years  completing 
the  family  circle.

Mr.  Monroe 

is  an  attendant  at  the 
Fountain  Street  Baptist  church  and  a 
member  of  the  Valley  City  Lodge,  No. 
1080,  Modern  Woodmen,  and  Lily 
Lodge,  K .  P.

Mr.  Monroe  attributes  his  success  as 
a  salesman  to  his  knowledge  of the busi­
ness  and  to  the  fact  that  he  is  able  to 
bold  his  customers 
indefinitely.  His 
long  and  varied  experience  in  the  gro­
cery  business  renders  him  an  expert  in 
the  arrangement  of  stock  and  the  dis­
play  of  goods  and  it  is  by  no  means  un­
common  for  him  to  spend  half  the  night 
with  a  new  merchant,  advising  him  on 
these  points  and  assisting  him  to  ar­
range  his  store  in  the  most  artistic  and 
economical  manner.
is  a  natural  athlete  and 
enjoys'the  reputation  of  being  the  most 
expert  bowler  in  the  city.  He  has 
more  than  a  local  reputation  in  this  re­
spect,  having  captured  the  champion­
ship  of  Muskegon  and  won  equally  en­
viable 
laurels  in  several  other  cities  in 
this  and  other states.

Mr.  Monroe 

npHIS  BOOKLET—which  gives  one  hundred  and 
one  plans  for  booming  business  during  the 
dull  summer  months—will  be  sent  free—together 
with  our  new  July  catalogue—which lists the larg­
est  line  of  general  merchandise  in  the  world—to 
any  merchant  who  will  ask  for  them.  Send  for 
Catalogue  J427  and  for  Booklet  J2875.

BUTLER  BROTHERS

230  to  240  Adams  Street,  Chicago

WE  SELL  AT  WHOLESALE  ONLY

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

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The G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  had  a  strong  upward  tend­
ency  during  the  past week,  owing  to  the 
cool,  damp  weather,  and  it  seems  it  has 
not  ended  yet.  The  moisture  has  de­
layed  harvesting  in  localities  where  the 
wheat  has  been  ripe.  Export  shipments 
have  been  very 
large,  while  receipts 
have  been  rather  restricted,  owing  to 
weather  conditions.  Parties  who  had 
wheat  were  inclined  to  hold.  The  bear 
element  are  bringing  every  possible 
arugment  to  bear to  crowd  wheat  down, 
indifferent  success'  as  July 
but  with 
wheat 
is  2c  higher,  as  well  as  futures. 
It 
looks  at  present  writing  as  though 
wheat  had  seen  bottom  for this  year,  as 
weather conditions  will  have  to  change 
at  once  and  very  materially  in  order  to 
insure  the  gathering  of  wheat  in  good 
condition.

Corn  seems  to  be  in  worse  condition 
than  wheat,  as  there  is  a  universal  com­
plaint  of  too much  wet and cold weather. 
The  crop  has  not  made  any  headway 
whatever,  and  in  many  localities  in  the 
corn  belt  it  seems  to  be  drowned  out. 
However,  dry  and  hot  weather  would 
make  a  great  difference  in  the  condi­
tion  of corn.  Prices  have  been  soaring 
the last  few  days.  July  corn  to-day  sold 
in  Chicago  at  73c,  against  66c 
last 
week.

Oats  are  also affected  by  the  weather, 
as  the  new  oats  seem  to  lodge, and  some 
say  they  are  rotting.  However,  we  can 
not  vouch  for  the  truth  of this  state­
ment.  We  do  know  that  oats  have  ad­
vanced  7c  per  bushel  since  last  week, 
something  unheard  of,  and  this  ad­
vance  could  not  have  been  predicted  as 
no  one  thought  that  the  weather  condi­
tions  would  be  as  they  have  been.
Rye  has  not  done  very  much. 

It  is 
held  about  ic  higher,  but  not  much  do­
ing  in  that  cereal.  We  can  got  see  any 
higher  prices  for rye.

Beans  have  advanced 

fully  5c  on 
cash  and  10c  on  September.  Weather 
conditions  always  favor  the  price  of 
beans.

Demand  for  flour 

is  excellent  and 
prices  remain  very strong. 
It would  not 
be  strange  to  see  an  advance,  especially 
if  wheat  keeps  going  up.

Mill  feed,  owing  to  the  strong  ad­
vance  in  corn  and  oats,  is  very  firm. 
The  mills  are  sold  ahead  at  present. 
Bran,  $20;  middlings,  $23  per  ton.

All  that  can  be  said  is  that  this  is  a 
weather  market.  All  cereals  seem  to 
be 
low  enough;  of  course  we  expect  to
see  corn  and  oats  lower.

Receipts  of  wheat  have  been  more 
than  the  usual  amount,  being as follows : 
wheat,  72  cars;  corn,  7  cars;  oats,  3 
cars;  flour,  3  cars;  potatoes,  8  cars.

Mills  are  paying  76c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Ionia—Wm.  Kinney  succeeds Geo.  F. 
Lauster  as  clerk  in  J.  C.  Beattie’s  shoe 
store.

Hart—Dr.  H.  P.  Nicholson  has  en­
gaged  Frank  Gillespie  as  prescription 
clerk.

Vicksburg— Burton  Bates  has  taken 
the  position 
in  R.  Baker’s  drug  store 
made  vacant  by  the  resignation  of 
Thomas  Boughton.

A ll  Aboard  For  Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo,  July  1 —I  gladly  avail 
myself  of  this  opportunity  to  extend  a 
cordial 
invitation  to  the  retail  grocers 
and  butchers  of  Western  and  Southwest­
ern  Michigan  to  join  with  us  on  August 
7  in  celebrating  our annual  picnic  and 
jubilee.  No  one  who  comes  to  Kala­
mazoo  on  that  day  will  go away  feeling 
that  he  has  not  received  his  money’s

worth.  Happy  Hadigan  will  be  there 
and  all  kinas of athletic  sports  and  con­
tests  will  be  on  the  programme.  A 
band  concert  will  be  participated  in  by 
at  least  a  dozen  hands.  The 
industrial 
parade  will  be  ahead  of  anything  here­
tofore  attempted 
in  Michigan.  There 
will  be  a  greased  pig  and  a  greased 
pole.  The Battle Creek grocers  and  meat 
dealers  have  decided  to  close  up  and 
join  with  us  and  our  earnest  wish is that 
every  retail  merchant  within  a  hundred 
miles  of  Kalamazoo  join  us  on  that day.

Come  one,  come  a ll!

H.  A.  Schaberg,  Sec'y.

The  Boston  Egg  and  Butter  Market.
Boston,  June  30—Receipts  of  eggs 
continue  heavy,  being  about  5,000 cases 
in  excess  of  last  year,  but  the  weather 
has  been  cool  and  the  quality  of  the 
stock  fine,  so  that  they  have  been  read­
ily  taken,  both  for  consumption  and 
storage,  the  demand  for storage  taking 
all  the  surplus  stock  from  the  market, 
and  prices  have  advanced  fully  ic  dur­
ing  the  week.  Fine  Northern  stock, 
i8@i8^ c,  case  count.
Receipts  of  butter  are  about  the  same 
as  the  previous  week  and  not  in  excess 
of  the  same  week  last  year,  but,  as  usual 
at  this  time  of  the  year,  we  are  getting 
very  much  more  than  the  consumptive 
demand  will  take  care  of  and  the  ex­
tremely 
from  all 
producing 
sections,  with  the  heavy 
supply,  have  caused  speculators  to  be 
quite  cautious  and  prices  have  declined 
fully  }ic.  We  quote  best  Northern  stock 
22@22%c,  latter  price for  assorted  sized 
spruce  tubs. 

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

favorable 

reports 

Kalamazoo—The  Meat Substitute  Co., 
Ltd.,  has  been  organized  with  a  nom­
inal  capital  of  $500,000.  The  company 
will  manufacture  a  cereal  substitute  for 
meat.  For  the  right  to  manufacture  bis 
preparation,  Eugene  B.  Barney,  the  in­
ventor,  gets  $100,000  worth  of  stock 
in 
the  new  company.  The  officers  are: 
Frank  H.  Milham,  Chairman;  John  L. 
Hollander,  Secretary;  E.  W.  Bowman, 
Treasurer.  These  three  and  Ford  F. 
Rowe  and  Ashley  Clapp  constitute  the 
board  of  managers.

The  man  who  thinks  he  can  tell  the 
quality  of  a  cigar  by 
its  shape  is  as 
badly fooled  as  the  fellow  who  thinks  be 
can  tell  a  fashionable  lady’s  disposition 
by  the  paint upon her face.

No  merchant  or dealer  should  be  sen­
timental 
in  trade.  He  should  buy  in 
the  best  markets  and  sell  at  a fair profit.

Advertisement«  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for  each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisement« 
taken  for  less  than  Iff  cents.  Advance 
payments.

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

IpOK SALE OB TRADE—TWO HOUSES AN] 

three lots In  Mattoon,  111., for  merchandls 
stock or  good  farm.  F.  M.  Hamilton,  P.  M 
Cherryvale, lnd. 
sst
CO R  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER 
■  chandlse  Invoicing  about  $6,000  to  $7,000 
8c 11 on account of poor health.  No Incumbrance 
on stock:  will sell or rent store building and fix 
tures.  J. M. Wheeler. White Pigeon, Mich.  —
Be s t  l o c a tio n in  m ic&ig a n  f o r  d r i 
goods business at Freeport.  W.  H. Pardee
678
Fo b  sa l e—e it h e r   h a l f   o r  w h oli
„ Interest In planing mill  making  sash,  door 
and blinds,  with  retail lumber  yard  In  connec 
tion; only mill  In  town  now  running.  IReasoi 
for selling, 111 health.  Address  Cowin  & Marsh 
Greenville, Mich. 
577

f K)R  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL GOODS 

Ï ^OB SALE—AN OLD-ESTABLISHED  BO< 

containing books,  wall paper,  china,  fancj 
goods, pictures,  window  shades,  school  books 
news, picture framing, etc.;  located  in  the  best 
modern manufacturing town In Southern  Mlchi 
~an; stock  and  fixtures  about  $3,600.  Address 
fo. 676, care Michigan Tradesman. 
676
and shoe business; no old  goods,  but  up­
date stock and good paying trade.  For lnforn 
tion write Robert L. Staples, Albion, Mich.  6
pKJB SALE—DRUG STOCK WORTH ABOUr 
$2,000; good  patronage;  only  drug  store  h 
town of 800,  with  two  railroads  and  lake  port 
Will  sell  for  $1,000  down,  balance  on' time 
Address No. 674, care Michigan Tradesman. 674

668

■  PRODUCTIVE 80 ACRE FARM IN  CEN 

tral Michigan, soil first class, for  sale or ex 
change  for  stock  merchandise.  Address  670, 
670
care Michigan Tradesman. 
PO B   SALE—STORE  ROOM.  26x46  FEET, 
1 
living rooms upstairs and a nice  clean  up to^ 
date  stock  of  dry  goods,  clothing  and  shoes; 
will Inventory $4,000;  can  be reduced to suit pur­
chaser;  doing a fine business,  but  must  sell  on 
account of health.  Address No. 669,  care  Mlchi 
gan Tradesman.______________________ ¡¡569
Dr u g   st o r e  f o r   sa l e—in   l iv e   m a n
ufacturlng city of 4,000;  nice clean  stock  of 
about $2,000, and up to date good  location;  good 
reason for selling;  will bear investigation.  Good 
bargain offered for quick sale.  Address  No. 668, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
PO R   SALE- 6  ACRE  FARMS  IN  THE 
1  heart of Missouri, zinc,  lead,  fruit,  nut  and 
timber  lands,  $6  down and  $3  per  month  for 
fifteen months buys a 5 acre farm.  My  circular, 
sent free, explains why these farms will  rapidly 
Increase in value and how non-resident investors 
obtain a regular Income from  them.  Marvelous 
Is the only word that expresses the movement in 
mines  orchards,  nut  plantations  and  timber 
rights  in  the  district  where  these  farms  are 
located.  Address W. B.  Sayler,  Carthage,  Mo.
667
X \T ANTED—LOCATION  FOR  SHOES  AND 
vv  men’s  furnishings  In  Northern  Ohio  or 
Southern Michigan; wfllpurchase stock not over 
$2,000.  Address  Bee  Hive,  910  Grand  River 
Ave., Detroit, Mich. 
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. 
663
|X>B  SALE  CHEAP—FLOUR  AND  FEED 
A   store  In city  of  Muskegon;  good  location, 
doing  good  business;  reason for  selling,  have 
other business; a bargain if taken at once.  Ad- 
dress R, 33 Morris S t, Muskegon, Mich. 

InOR SALE-HARNESS,  TRUNK  AND VA 

Use business;  owner retiring; stock  and  fix­
tures Invoice $4,000.  Andrew  w.  Johnston, At­
torney, Houseman bldg..  Grand Rapids, Mich.
643

651

666

642

Bend, lnd. 

size,  marble  platform.  W.  F.  Harris,  So. 

i jMJR SALE-COMPUTING  SCALE,  LARGE 
IiMJR  SALE—STORE  AND  STOCK,  OR 

■   STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 

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. 641, care Michigan Tradesman.  641
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  $2,600;  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. D. 
W.. care Michigan Tradesman. 
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  main  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. 
Ij'OR  SALE —SELECT  STOCK  GENERAL 
-T  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.
614
(POR  SALE—A  NEW  $80  NICKEL IN  THE 
-F  Slot Regina, oak finished, with 11  time  disc, 
16M Inches in diameter.  Wili pay for Itself  In  a 
very short time In a public place;  guaranteed o. 
k.  $40 buys It.  Address No. 660, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 

660

510

549

559

667

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

H. D  Cove, Charlotte, Mich. 

equipped and doing a tine business.  Address 

IpOR  SALE —  PLANING  MILL,  WELL 
IPOR  SALE—CHEESE,  BUTTER  AND  ICE 

Cream factory; will exchange.  F. A. Stivers, 
55s
COR  SALE—PHOTOGRAHIC  STUDIO  IN 
1  hustling town of 16.000; low rent, best prices; 
(round floor, best location; price  $400  less  than 
nventory-  Address  No.  657,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
PO R   SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
1  chandlse, invoicing  about  $1,000;  located  In 
one of the best farming  localities  In  the  State; 
good  shipping  point;  postoflice,  feed  mill and 
flour exchange in connection; a good  chance for 
a man with small capital.  Address No. 666, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
656
H a r d w a r e  sto ck  f o r   s a l e ;  a b o u t
ten  thousand  dollars;  In  best  fruit  and 
‘.ake Shore city In  Michigan;  reason,  health. 
554
*. W. Barker, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
WILL SELL DRUG BUSINESS  OR TRADE 
for Grand Rapids property well  located. 
Might add some cash.  Box 734, Belding, Mich. 
662
PO R   SALE — FIB8T-0LASS  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
ly 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. 
663
PO R   SALE —FINE  TWO-STORY  STORE 
*  with barn,  on street  car  line;  or  will  ex­
change for merchandise.  Address  482  Wash- 
ington Ave., Muskegon, Mich,__________ 654
Fo r  s a l e- d r u g   s t o r e,  w e l l locat-
ed,  doing  a  good  and  growing  business; 
don’t reply unless you mean  business.  Address
No. 646, care Michigan Tradesman.

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646

529

637

mods  and  groceries 

FOR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY 
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. 
___________ ________   _  
START  A  BUSINESS  OF  YOUR  OWN 
with our cigar vending machines and make 
$40 to $eo  weekly;  they  work  while you rest. 
Write  us  to-day  for  particulars.  Michigan 
Novelty Works.  Vicksburg, Mich. 
665
jX)R SALE-ONE  STIMPSON  COMPUTING 
jl  Scale, capacity 126  pounds:  first  price  $66, 
now $45.  One Falrbank scale, No. 16; first price 
$5, now $2.60.  One  cheese  case:  first  price $3, 
now $2.  One Falrbank coffee mill,  size  16;  first 
price $26, now $15.  One broom stand; first price 
$2 60,  now  $1.60.  Above  have  been  In use only 
two years.  H. Drebin, Cadillac. 
FOR  SALE-DRUG FIXTURES-lLEGÄNf 
wall cases,  counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; all  light  oak; will  sell  at  half price. 
634
O. A. Fanckboner, Grand Rapids. 
f f<OR SALE—WE  HAVE  A  FEW  CARS  OF 

maple flooring.  Flooring is  o. k.  and  price 
is  o.  k.  If  in  need  of  any,  let  us  quote  you 
prices.  F. C. Miller Lumber Co., 23 Widdicomb 
Building, Grand Rapids. 
632
Fo b s a l e- g o o d  d r u g  st o c k , in v o ic -
lng $2,800, In one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
-  621
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
i iH)R  SALK — FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
IpOB SALE—A GENERAL STOCK  OF  DRY 

farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  *11 
under cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  Address  No. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 

goods,  groceries,  shoes  and  undertakers’ 
supplies;  stock all In Al order;  good new frame 
store building, with living rooms  above;  can  be 
bought or rented reasonably;  stock and  fixtures 
about $3,600;  stock can be reduced  to  suit  pur­
chaser;  situated In one of the  best  little  towns 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  R.  D.  Mc- 
Naughton, Honor, Mich. 

1jV)B  SALE—FIRST-CLASS,  EXCLUSIVE 
millinery business In  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
607
FOR SALE—STOCK  OF  HARDWARE AND 
furniture  In  Northern  Michigan.  Address 
No. 603, care Michigan Tradesman. 
(03
T ' H E E K   v a c a n t   lo t s 
in   g r a n d  
A  Rapids,  free  of  Incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
485, care Michigan Tradesman. 

486

520

522

474

473

17K)R SALE—I  DESIRE  TO  SELL  MY  EN- 

tire  general  stock,  including  fine  line  of 
shoes ana  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
better trade in the state.  Business  been  estab­
lished 26 years.  Reason for  selling,  other  busi- 
ness.  P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 
SAFE8—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia 
8t., Grand  Rapids. 
321
f i'OB  SA LE—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. Mich. 
■jIOR  SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
J-  Bar-Lock  typewriter,  In  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  appllca- 
tlon.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
W A NT ED- TO  PURCHASE  LOCATION 
■suitable for conducting hardware  business 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  466, care 
466
Michigan Tradesman. 
TjM>R  SALE—MOSLER,  BAHMANN  &  (XL 
A  fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
Inches high, 27 Inches  wide  and  24  Inches deep. 
Inside measurement—16K Inches high, 14 Inches 
wide and 10 Inches deep.  Will sell Tot $60  cash. 
Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids. 
1TOR  SALE—A  FINE  STOCK  OF  GBO- 
A   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. 
TT'OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES, 
A.  invoicing about $2,000.  Situated In center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  T-»*« 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  Inside  building.  Rent,  $12.60 
; jer month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
xo. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Fo r  s a l e—a  n e w  a n d  t h e   o n l y  b a -
zaar stock in the city or county;  population, 
7,000;  population  of  county,  23,000:  the  county 
seat;  stock  Invoices  $2,600;  sales,  $40  per  day; 
expenses low.  Address J. Clark, care  Michigan 
jj7
Tradesman. 

368

439

334

MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-SALESMAN  TO  CARRY  OUR 
harness  enamel,  show  enamel  and  stove 
polish  as  a  side  line.  Commissions  large and 
sales easy.  Ann  Arbor  Paint  &  Enamel  Co., 
672
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
W ANTED—FIVE  GOOD  HIGH-GRADE 
salesmen to  sell an article which  pays  for 
itself  every  three  months.  Every  machine 
equipped with signals preventing  down  weight. 
Address, Money weight Scale Co., 47 State Street. 
Chicago, Illinois.________  
673
W ANTED-SALESMAN  TO  SELL  OUR 
carbon paints to corporations and our other 
lines  to  the  trade.  A  hustler  that will  invest 
$3,000 can draw a good  salary.  Company  incor­
porated.  Ann  Arbor  Paint & Enamel  Co., Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 
W ANTED—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. 
W ANTED — PURCHASER  FOR  MEAT 
market;  only stand  In  town  of  460.  Ad­
dress No. 516, care Michigan Tradesman.  616

640

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