Nineteenth  Year 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  16,1902. 

Number 982

Kent County

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

exceed  $2,300,000

3/4%  interest paid  on  Sav­
ings certificates  of  deposit.

The  banking  business  of 
M erchants,  Salesm en  and 
Individuals solicited.

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Grand  Rapids, Michigan

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♦  WILLIAM  CONNOR  *

WHOLESALE 

READYMADE CLOTHING

of every kind and for all ages.

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

direct from factory.

W illiam   Alden  Sm ith  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M»ll  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,  1957. 
Bell phone.  Main  1282.  Western  Michi­
gan agent Vlneberg’s Patent Pants.

Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids 

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

C. E.  McCRONE,  Manager.

Late State Food Commissioner 

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1232 rtajestic  Building, Detroit,  nich.

Tradesman Coupons

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Page. 
2.  Men  of M ark.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  G etting the  People.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  The  Comm ercial  Spirit.
10.  Clothing.
IS.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
15.  D ry Goods.
16.  B utter and  Eggs.
19.  The  New  York  M arket.
90.  W oman’s W orld.
92.  H ardw are.
24.  Trolley  Lines In ju re   Country  Stres.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  D rugs  and Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  N ational  Gideon*.
32.  News Item s.

TEN  IN  ONE.

Consolidation  of Several  W holesale  Gro­

cery  Honses.

About  two  years  ago  Frank  C.  Letts, 
who  had  enjoyed  a  widespread  reputa­
tion  as  a  successful  wholesale  grocer 
and  manager  of  a  chain  of  wholesale 
groceries,  conceived  the  idea  of  merg­
ing  about  a  dozen  wholesale  grocery 
houses  in  Iowa  into  one  corporation  un­
der  the  style  of  the  Western Grocery Co. 
Mr.  Letts  assumed  the  management  of 
the  business,  including  the  direction  of 
the  buying  from  a  central  headquarters 
in  Chicago,  and  the  results  have  been 
so  satisfactory  that  he  has  for  some 
time  been  negotiating  with 
certain 
wholesale  grocery  houses  of  Michigan, 
Indiana  and  Illinois,  with  a  view  to 
forming  a  second  combination  of a  sim­
ilar  character.  These  negotiations  have 
culminated 
in  the  organization  of  the 
National  Grocer  Co.,  which  now 
in­
cludes  about  ten  representative  houses, 
to  which  other  houses  will  be  added 
from  time  to  time.  Harlow  N.  Higin- 
botham  will  be  President  of the corpora­
tion,  Mr.  Letts  First  Vice-President, 
Amos  S.  Musselman  Second  Vice-Pres­
ident,  Wm.  C.  Phipps  Third  Vice-Pres­
ident,  Harry  Higinbotham  Treasurer 
and  H.  S.  Griggs  Secretary.  The  com­
pany  has  been  organized  under  the  laws 
of  New  Jersey,  McGeorge  Bundy,  of 
this  city,  being  now 
in  that  State  for 
that  purpose.  Mr.  Higinbotham  will 
assume  the  financial  supervision  of  the 
company,  Mr.  Letts  will  attend  to  the 
buying  and  Mr.  Musselman  will  super­
vise  such matters of detail as  are  not  un­
dertaken  by  Messrs.  Higinbotham  and 
Letts. 
Included  in  the  combination  are 
the  Grand  Rapids,  Traverse  City  and 
Saull  Ste.  Marie  stores  of  the  Mussel­
man  Grocer  Co.,  the  Jackson  Grocery 
Co.,  Phipps,  Penoyer  &  Co.  and  Gus- 
tin,  Cook  &  Buckley.  Another  Grand 
Rapids  house  will  be  admitted  to  the 
combination,  to  which  will  be  added 
one  store  in  Detroit  in  the  near  future. 
In  speaking  of  the  combination,  a  gen­
tleman  who  has  been  in  close touch with 
the  movement  from  the  start  and  who 
occupies  a  prominent  position  in  the 
organization,  says:

“ The 

idea  of  a  ‘ grocers’  trust’  is  in­
conceivable to  those  who  know  anything 
about  the  business.  For  several  years 
the  margin  between  the  cost  of  doing

The 

large 

business  and  the  gross  profit  has  been 
getting  narrower,  until 
it  is  only  by 
large  volume  of  business  that 
doing  a 
anything  is  left  as  a  compensation 
for 
the  hard  work  and  worry  of  the  busi­
ness. 
large  manufacturers  are 
in  harmony,  as  well  as  the 
working 
large 
importers,  and  for  several  years 
the 
idea  has  been  in  many  minds  that 
something  must  soon  be  done  to  safe­
guard  the 
investment  of  capital 
necessary  to  conduct  a  wholesale  busi­
ness—that  manufacturers  were  looking 
for  large  distributive  power,  and  that 
if  this  could  be  offered  it  would  receive 
the  consideration 
it  deserved.  About 
two  years  ago  Frank  C.  Letts,  of  Iowa, 
decided  to  act  upon  this  theory  and  at 
once  went  to  work  to  form  a  chain  of 
jobbing  houses.  He  soon  got  under  way 
some  eight  or  ten  and  his  experience 
is  so  satisfactory  that  he  de­
was  and 
cided  to  send  the  principle  to  other 
lo­
calities  and  on  a  broad  enough  basis  to 
care  for  future  growth. 
For  several 
months  the  work  has  been  progressing 
until  the  results  have  taken  form  in  the 
organization  of  the  National  Grocer 
Company.  The  houses  joining 
in  the 
movement  do  not  lose  their  identity  or 
individuality.  They  will  he  conducted 
as  before,  as  branches  of  the  parent 
company,  and  the  managers  will  be  as 
independent  as  though  operating  alone, 
deciding  for  themselves  when  to  buy 
heavily  and  when  sparingly,  but  all  the 
purchases  will  be  hunched  and  make  a 
grand  total.  No  concern  that  is  not  on 
a  fair  paying  basis  will  be  admitted  to 
the  ranks,  and 
intention  to 
work  for  a  portion  of  the  business.”

is  the 

it 

It  is  claimed  that  the  greatest  saving 
in  the  new  arrangement  will  be  in  the 
matter  of  buying  goods,  due  to  the 
im­
willingness  of  manufacturers  and 
porters  to  make  concessions  to  a 
large 
distributor  of  merchandise  which  would 
not  be  permitted  in  the  case  of  a  single 
house. 
Instances  are  cited  in  the  his­
tory  of  the  Western  Grocery  Co.  where 
inside  prices  and  exceptional  conces­
sions  have  been  made,  which  in  them­
selves  amount  to  a  handsome  profit  on 
the  preferred  stock.

largest  houses 

The  National  concern  will  gain  con­
in  Illinois 
trol  of  the 
(outside  of  Chicago), 
Indiana,  Ohio, 
Missouri  and  Michigan.  The  National 
and  Western  companies  are  not  to  be 
merged,  but,  retaining  separate  organi­
zations,  will  have  a  close  working  ar­
rangement.

from 

The  National  Grocer  Co.  will  buy 
direct 
importers,  manufacturers 
and  sugar  refiners,  and  also  will  make 
direct  importations  through  the  Chicago 
office.

The  company  will 

lease  or  erect  a 
large  house  and  a  cold  storage  plant  in 
Chicago,  and  the  plans  also  include  the 
building  and  operating  of  a  large  man­
ufacturing  house.

is  understood  that  the  bouse  in­
tended  to  be  taken  in  at  Detroit  is  C. 
Elliott  &  Co.,which  enjoys  an  excellent 
reputation  at  that  market.  Mr.  Elliott 
is  understood  to  be  holding  out  for  a 
better  proposition  than  has  yet  been 
made  him,  but  will  eventually  swing

It 

into  line. 
It  is  claimed  that  no  other 
Detroit  house  will  be  asked  to  join  the 
combine,  which  is  composed  exclusive­
ly  of  houses  which  have  an  established 
reputation  and  record  as money-makers.

Standing  Room  W ill  Be  a t  a  Prem ium . 
From the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Word  has  been  received  here  by  the 
officers  oi  the  Grocers’  and  Meat  Deal­
ers’  Association  that  the  grocers  and 
meat  dealers  of  Northern  Indiana  are  in 
hearty  sympathy  with  the  big  celebra­
tion  which 
is  to  be  held  in  this  city 
August  7  and  that  many  of  them  intend 
to  come  here  on  that  day.  Accordingly 
it  has  been  decided  to  send  official 
in­
vitations  to  the  members  of  the  trade  in 
South  Bend,  Elkhart  and  Fort  Wayne. 
The  invitations  will  be  accepted  with­
out  doubt  and  the  fact  will  serve  to 
make  even  more  certain  the  success  of 
the  celebration.

An  amusing  piece  of news comes  from 
Marion,  Ind.,  to  the  effect  that  a  move­
ment 
is  on  foot  to  establish  a  trades 
union  church  at  that  place.  Such  an  in­
stitution  would  be  about  as  anomalous 
as  a  heavenless  heaven or  a  helless  hell. 
The  basic  theory  of  unionism is  narrow­
ness,  selfishness,  bigotry,  anarchy  and 
public  and  private  disorder.  Not  a 
precept  of  Jesus  or one  of  the  ten  com­
mandments  promulgated  by  Moses  finds 
a  lodgment  in  the  theory  or  practice  of 
unionism,  which  is  anti-Christ  in  every 
form  and  manifestation.  Any  effort  to 
reconcile  true  religion  and  unionism 
is 
as  futile  as  the  attempt  to  make  a  m ix­
ture  of  water  and  oil.  The  promoters  of 
the  Marion  monstrosity  announce  that 
applicants  for  membership 
in  the  or­
ganization  will  not  be  required  to  sub­
scribe  to  any  doctrinal  belief—that  the 
possession  of  a  union  card  will  he  all 
that  is  necessary  to  render an  applicant 
eligible  for  admission ;  in  other  words, 
a  belief  in  the  infallibility  of  the  strike 
manager  and  walking  delegate  and  an 
alliance  with  an  oath-bound  organiza­
tion  which  defies  every  law,  human  and 
Divine,are  all  that  is  necessary  to qual­
ify a  man  for  membership  in  a so-called 
“ church’ ’  which  will  necessarily  have 
to  reverse  the  moral  code  of  the  Bible 
and  the  preaching  and  practice  of  the 
lowly  Carpenter  of  Nazareth  to  conform 
infamous  doctrine  of  selfishness 
to  the 
and  sedition  which  eveiy  union  man 
is 
compelled  to  subscribe  to  and maintain.

As  an 

illustration  of  King  Edward’s 
tactful  and  forceful  way  of  administer­
ing  a  rebuke  the  following  story,  which 
is  now  going  the  rounds  in  London,  is 
pertinent:  The  King  was  present  at 
a  recent  reception  where 
the  guests 
were  not  all  blue-blooded.  One  was  a 
wealthy  costumer of  international  repu­
tation.  Approaching  the  King  he  re­
marked,  somewhat  airily : 
“ The  crowd 
is  rather  mixed  this  evening,  your  M aj­
esty,  is  it  not?’ ’  The  King  replied  with 
an  amiable  smile  which  debarred  all 
resentment  for  the  lesson  and  rebuke: 
“ Well,  my  dear  sir,  we  can  not  all  be 
tailors,  you  know.”

Many  a  man  has  discovered  just  after 
a  good  dinner  that  the  world  is  full  of 
good  fellows.

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

grew. 
It  is  far  wide  from  the  intention 
of  the  writer to  ascribe  to  any man those 
characteristics  which  he  does  not  pos­
sess or to throw  around him any glamour, 
but  there  are  a  thousand  men  who  will 
say  that  the  qualities  enumerated in this 
paragraph  are  those  which  make  up  the 
character  of  Wm.  H.  Anderson, 
the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  By  common 
consent  of  all  who  know  him  they  are 
his.

William  H.  Anderson  was  born 

in 
Plymouth,  Mich.,  on  September 6,  1853, 
and  two  years  later  went  to  Kent  County 
with  his  parents  and  located  on  a  farm 
Sparta  township.  His  early  educa­
tion  was  obtained 
in  the  village  and 
country  schools,  and  be  was  brought  up 
as  a  farmer's  boy.  He  followed  farm­
1883,  liked  the  vocation  and 
ing  until 
was  successful 
in  its  pursuit  and  man­
aged  to  accumulate  considerable  prop­
erty.  But  he  saw  opportunities  in  the 
citv  for  more  rapid  advancement,  sold

for  four  of  the  corporations  which  have 
built  gravel  roads  out  from  the  city  of 
Grand  Rapids,  and  which  have  been  a 
great  factor  in  the  progress  of  the  city. 
His  long  experience  in  the building and 
maintenance  of  gravel  turnpikes  has 
made  him  an  authority  on  all  matters 
of  road  management  in  this  part  of  the 
State.

He  has  been  prominently 

identified 
with  the  Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Trade 
for  a  number  of  years,  and 
for three 
years  was  the  executive  officer  of  that 
body. 
In  the  organization  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Clearing  House  he  was  very 
prominent,  and  his  counsel  in  prelect­
ing  this  organization  so  as  to  bring  all 
of  the  hanks 
into  harmony  with  each 
other  in  their  methods  and  movements 
was  of  great  value.

After  moving  to  Grand  Rapids,  he 
quickly  became 
interested  in  all  civic 
movements  looking  towards  the  better 
ment  of  the  city  government,  and  while

â

MEN  OF  MARK.

W m. H. Anderson, President of th e F ourth 

N ational  Bank.

There  are  many  standards  of  success. 
Such  a  standard  may  be  gauged  from  a 
material,  intellectual  or  moral  stand­
point.  Very  often  it  is  riches  which  are 
sought.  Broad  acres,  a  big  bank  ac­
count,  an  elegant  mansion  in  which  to 
live,  are  regarded  by  many  as  the  high­
est  rung  of  the  ladder  of  life  which  can 
be  reached.  These  acquirements  give 
leisure,  comfort,  social  standing,  influ­
ence,  and  no  wonder  they  are  so  gen­
erally  coveted.

In  the 

There  are  others  whose  natures  thirst 
for  prominence  and  power. 
If  these 
men  can  be  governors,  senators  or  con­
gressmen,  they  grasp  the  position  with 
a  feverish  avidity,  hoping  it  may  be  a 
step  to  something  higher.  Then  we  see 
others  whose  highest  ambition  is to  lead 
companies,  regiments,  armies—to  kill 
men.  War alone  stirs  their natures.  The 
devastation  and  suffering  which  follow 
in  their  wake  are  as  nothing  to  them. 
Never  having  appreciated  the  sacred­
ness  of  life  they  have  no  tegard  for 
it.
intillectual  world  there  are 
scholars  and  thinkers.who  care  little  for 
prominence,  power  and  wealth.  The 
midnight  oil  blanches  their  cheeks. 
It 
may  be  a  poem  that  for  years  they  are 
It  may  be  a  musical 
thinking  out. 
It  may  be  an  argument 
composition. 
in  answer to  some  other  arugment. 
It 
may  be  a  book  that  will  mold  opinion 
or drop  dead  as  it  fads  from  the  press.
Then  there  is  the  inventor,  the  profit 
of  whose 
life  work,  as  a  rule,  goes  to 
others.  His  mind  is  full  of  wbetls  and 
levers.  His  sleep  is  disturbed  by  pos­
sible 
combinations  which  he  hopes 
may  bring  about  unheard  of  results. 
He  excludes  himself  and  dreams  of  the 
unknowable  and  unobtainable ;  often  in 
the  eyes  of  the  world  be  becomes  a 
crank,  doubted  by  friends  and.  shunned 
by  capitalists. 
In  instances  the  alms­
house  or the  insane  asylum  is  kinder  to 
him  than  the  world  has  been,  for  it 
opens  its  doors  to  receive  him.

have  all  aided  in  giving  him  that  fund 
of  information  essential  to  the  expres­
sion  of  intelligent  opinion  and  no  one 
who  knows  him  will  doubt  his conserva­
tism.

In  person  he  has 

an  admirable 
physique  and  enjoys  the  good  health 
which  induces  a  spirit  of  optimism  and 
courage.  These  attributes,  together  with 
his  untiring  energy,  fit  him  for  large 
enterprises  and  an  easy  dispatch  of 
business  so  essential  in  the  career  of  an 
active  and  successful  man.

The  B arn  D idn’t   Dodge.

leaving 

“ The  first  job  I  got  at  my  profession 
after 
the  university  several 
years  ago,”   said  a  graduate  of  Ann  Ar­
in  New  Hampshire,  and 
bor,  “ was  up 
it  was  no  job  at  all. 
In  other  words,  I 
was  fishing  along  a  creek  when  a farmer 
warned  me  off  and  wasn’t a  bit  gentle 
about  it,  either.  He  wanted  stone  for 
the  foundation  of  a  new  barn  and  he 
was  going  to  get 
it  by  blasting  a  big 
rock  on  the  steep  hillside  back  of  the 
spot.  I  took  a  look  at  the  route  it  would 
have  to  travel  and  I  made  up  my  mind 
that  the  old  barn  would  suffer. 
I  de­
cided  to  have  my  revenge  on  him  by 
not  saying  a  word,  but  by  and  by  my 
conscience  got  the  better  of  my  pique 
and  I  said  to  him :
“   'I f  you  set  that  rock  rolling  down 
hill  you'd  better  figure  on  where  it's 
going  to  bring  up.'

I  have, ’  he  replied.

“  
“   ‘ Do  you  want  the  old  barn  made 

kindling  wood  of?'

“   ‘ No,  of  course  not.’
“   ’ Well,  then,  you’d  better go  slow.’ 
“   ‘ Who  are  you?’  asked  the  farmer, 

as  he  turned  on  me.

“   'A   civil  engineer,  sir.’
“   ‘ What’s  them?’
“   ‘ Fellows  who  can  see  an  inch  or 

two  beyond  their  noses.’

“ He  asked  no  more  questions,  but got 
a  blast  under  the  rock  and  let  her  go. 
She  went.  She  took  a  bee  line  for  that 
barn  and  knocked  the  structure  into  the 
middle of  next  week,  and,  as  the  pieces 
ceased  to  rain  down,  the  old  farmer 
spat  on  his  hand  and  held  it  out  to  me 
and  said :
if  you  don’t  know 
as  much  as  a  lightning  rod  man!  Why 
didn’t  you  tell  me  that  the  old  barn 
couldn't  dodge?’  ”

“   ‘ Durn  my  cats 

The writer of  this  once  sat  by  the  side 
of  an  astronomer 
in  his  observatory. 
While  others  slept  this  man  was  record­
ing  what  his  great  glass  revealed.  At 
that  time  he  was  in  search  of  a  star—a 
star that  in  astronomical  circles  would 
be  called  new,  yet  which  had  been  giv­
ing  forth  its  light  for  millions  of  ytars. 
To  tell  the  world  something  about  the 
wonders  of  the  universe  was  this  man’s 
its  artificial 
ambition. 
ways,  politics  with 
intrigues  and 
shattered  hopes,  war  with  its  carnage, 
creeds  with  their  sophistry,  did  not  at­
tract  him.  Cold,  exact  science  was  the 
stimulant  on  which  he  lived.

Society  with 

its 

We  tip  our  hats  to  all  these  phases 
and  conditions  of  men.  They  are  nec­
essary  else  they  would  not  exist, .yet  at 
the  same  time  we must record the protest 
that  none  of  them  is  the  highest  stand­
life  can  be  gauged. 
ard  by  which  a 
is  charitable,  who  is 
That  man  who 
hopeful,  who 
is  patient,  who  is  full  of 
courage  at  all  times  and  a  tower of 
strength 
in  emergencies,  who  never 
swerves from his ideas of duty and respon­
sibility  and  knows  no  such  word  as  de­
feat—he 
is  the  king  among  men,  al­
though  the  world  at  large  may  see  no 
gems  in  his  crown  which  glitter.  He 
may  not  be  known  outside  his  own 
township,  no 
telegraphic  notices  of 
death  may  be  flashed  here  and  there, 
no  monument  may  mark  his  final  rest­
ing  place,  but  the  perfume  of  his  life 
spreads  and  sweetens  other  lives,  fitting 
the  soil  for flowers  where  before  weeds

Jo h n   B.  Gough’s  Quick  Wit.

An  effort  of  one  of  John  B.  Gough’s 
tours  of  the  West  was  to  arouse  his  con­
verts  to  a  political  movement in favor of 
prohibition;  and 
in  several  states  the 
politicians  began  to  give  consideration 
to  the  cry,says  the  Philadelphia  Times. 
The  distillers  and 
liquor  dealers  are 
said  to  have  been  so  frightened  that 
they  employed  men  to  follow  the  lec­
turer,  sit  among  the  audience,  and  en­
deavor  to  confound  him  with  questions. 
He  bad  worked  a  Topeka,  Kan.,  audi­
ence  up  to  a  fine  pitch  of  excitement 
and,  in  his  effective  manner,  cried : 
“ Temperance!  Temperance!!  Tem­
perance!!! 
It  will  mean  money  in your 
pocket,  clothes  on  your  back,  happiness 
in  your  home,  and  God  in  your  heart!”  
interrupt­

Up  leaped  one  of  the  paid 

ers  and  shouted  to  the  audience : 

“ Money 

follow  this  man’s 

in  our  pockets!  Why,  fel­
ideas 
low-citizens, 
and  we'll  all  be 
in  the  poorhouse! 
Think  of  the  fields  of  tasseled  corn  that 
stretch  on  every  side!  Whisky  is  made 
from  corn.  We  sell  millions  of  dollars' 
worth  of  corn  to  the  whiskymakers. 
Stop  the  manufacture  of  whisky,  and 
what'll  we  do?"

Then  turning  to  Gough,  he  went  on: 
“ You,  Mr.  Smarty—what’ll  we  do? 
Tell  us,  if  prohibition  comes,  what’ll 
we  do  with  our corn?”
“ Raise  more  hogs,  my  friend,”   re­
plied  Gough,  without  a  second’s  hesita­
tion—“ raise  more  hogs!”

A  celebrated 

lawyer  said  that 

the 
three  most  troublesome  clients  he  ever 
had  were  a  young  lady  who  wanted  to 
be  married,  a  married  woman  who 
wanted  a  divorce,  and  an  old  maid  who 
didn’t  know  what  she  wanted.

his  farm  property,  moved to Grand Rap­
ids  during  that  year,and  engaged  in  the J 
real  estate  and  loan business.  Since  this 
identified  with 
removal  he  has  been 
some  of  the  city’s  most  substantial 
in­
terests.

interested 

Mr.  Anderson  became 

in 
the  Fourth  National  Bank  in 
1891,  was 
its  cashier  for  six  years  and  since  then 
has  been 
its  President.  Aside  from 
bis  position  with  this  institution,  Mr. 
Anderson  has  many  other  interests.  He 
is  a  director  in  the  Peoples  Savings 
Bank  and  a  director  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Railway  Company. 
He  has  a  considerable 
investment  in 
the  Anti-Kalsomine  Company,  of  which 
he  is  President,  and  is  also  connected 
with  several  other  manufacturing  con­
cerns.

Mr.  Anderson  has  for  nearly  twenty 
years  been 
identified  with  the  good 
roads  movement  and  is  a  practical  and 
successful  road  builder.  He  is  manager

in  no  sense  an  offensive  partisan,  has 
taken  an  active  part  in  politics,  acting 
upon  the  well-grounded  belief  that  it  is 
every  citizen's  duty  to  do  his  part 
in 
making  the  political  history  of  the  city 
and  State.

A  few  years  ago  Mr.  Anderson  again 
invested  in  farm  property,  and  owns  at 
present  a  highly  improved  farm  of  220 
acres  in  Sparta  township.  The  financial 
success  which  has  crowned  his  efforts 
he  attributes  to  his  determination  to 
keep  out  of  debt.  He  never  speaks  ill 
of  his  neighbors  or competitors.  The 
strictness  with  which  he  observes  this 
rule  of  life  accounts  for  his  popularity 
and  ability  to  make  and  bold  friends 
everywhere.  He 
is  pre-eminently  a 
man  of  affairs  and  a  keen  observer of 
men.  To  this may  be attributed  in  large 
measure  the  success  of  his  enterprises. 
His  intimate  connection  with  financial 
undertakings,  the  executive  work  of  his 
bank  and  his  close  attention  to  business

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Royal  Baking Powder

A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E

A  high-class  cream  o f tartar  baking 
powder, used by the most careful house­
wives, and the best and  most  profitable 
baking  powder  to  use or sell.  “ Royal” 
affords  a  good  profit  to  the  dealer,  and 
its  lively  sale  adds  to the  reputation of 
any  store.

The United States Government when 
advertising  for  baking  powders  rejects 
alum  powders  in  toto  or  at  any  price, 
because  o f  their  unhealthfulness.  Yet 
makers  o f these  powders will  be  found 
in  almost  every town  urging  their sale. 
Alum  powders  are  a  discredit  to  any 
grocer  who  takes  them  in  stock.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO.,  100  WILLIAM  ST.,  NEW  YORK.

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

Around  the State

Movements of M erchants.

is 

Port  Huron—Herman  F.  Hebner 
succeeded  by  the  Henber  Harness  Co.

Colon—Miller  Bros,  have  purchased 
the  hardware  stock  of  Clayton  E.  Baird.
Flint—Mrs.  F.  H.  Bali  has  pur­
chased  the  millinery  stock  of  Mrs.  A. 
Hope.

Marlette—The  Marlette  Canning  Co. 
incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 

is 
$10,000.

Woodland—Dell  Garns  has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  formerly  conducted  by
H.  P.  French.

Port  Huron—Charles  Gleason  &  Co. 
have  opened  their  new  dry  goods  store 
on  Huron  avenue.

Harrisville—C.  W.  Conkling,  of Bing- 
hampton,  N.  Y .,  is  erecting  a  seed  ele­
vator at  this  place.

Alaska—John  W.  Noble,  miller,  has 
retired.  The  business  is  continued  by 
Geo.  N.  Doty  &  Son.

Lapeer—Fred  W.  Cary  has  discon­
tinued  the  grocery  business, having  sold 
his  stock  to John  Neely.

Parnell—Joseph  J.  Joyce  has  sold  bis 
drug  stock  to  Dr.  Geo.  E.  McAvoy,  who 
will  continue  the  business.

Lansing—The  Grand  River  Electric 
filed  articles  of  association. 

Co.  has 
The  capital  stock  is $50,000.

Mt.  Pleasant—L.  Stark 

is  erecting  a 
potato  storage  house,  40x48  feet  in  di­
mensions,  adjoining  the  Ann  Arbor 
tracks.

Lyons—I.  A.  Harper  has  sold  bis 
stock 
in  the  Ash-Harper Co.  to  C.  R. 
Herrick,  D.  L.  Straight  and  E .  H. 
Sboup.

Saline—Professor Tooze has purchased 
the drug stock of Charles F.  Unterkircher 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
present  location.

Bay  City—The  C.  &  J.  Gregory  Co., 
Limited,  succeeds  the  C. 
J.  Gregory 
Co.  in  the  book,  stationery  and  print­
ers’  and  binders'  supplies.

Millbrook—Currie  &  Pattison,  deal­
ers  in  hardware  and  notions,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  The  business 
is 
continued  by  Wm.  Currie.

Port  Huron—Walter  & Thomas Davis, 
who  will  shortly  open  a  grocery  store  in 
the Davis  block,  are  making  repairs, in­
cluding  new  floors  and  steel  ceiling.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—F.  B.  Raymond 
and  M.  E.  Sayles  have  engaged  in  the 
furniture  business 
in  the  new  Greeley 
block  under  the  style  of  Raymond  & 
Sayles.

Vicksburg—G.  A.  Ramsdell  will 
shortly  have  two  machines  installed  in 
his  glove  and  mitten  factory  and  will 
manufacture  a  grade  of  goods  not  now 
on  the  market.

Lansing—Our  retail  grocers  have  not 
decided  definitely  when  and  where  they 
will  hold  their  picnic,  but  it  will  prob­
ably  be  held  at  Pine  or  Park  Lake  the 
first  week  in  August.

Durand—A.  E.  Dutcber,  of  Owosso, 
known  here 
in  the  firm  of  Dutcher  & 
Conn,  shoe  dealers,  has  sold  his  interest 
to  L.  L.  Conn,  who  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Flint—The  semi-annual  meeting  of 
the  Michigan  Hay  Dealers'  Association 
will  be  held  in  this  city  July  30.  The 
chief  feature  will  be  a  banquet,  at 
which  hay  will  not  be  served.

Bellaire—A.  B.  Large  has  sold  bis 
bazaar  stock  to  H.  E .  Dickerson  and 
removed  his 
jewelry  stock  back  of  the 
drug  store  of  G.  J.  Noteware,  where  he 
will  take  charge  of  the  business,  on  ac­
count  of  the  ill  health  of  that  gentle­
man.

Cadillac—The  People’s  Savings  Bank 
is  now  open  for  business,  with  the  fol­
lowing  officers  in  charge:  C.  E.  Rus­
sell,  President;  C.  E .  Drury,  Vice- 
President;  Geo.  Chapman,  Cashier.

Hastings—C.  H.  Osborn,  the  clothier, 
and  Fred  L.  Heath,  the  druggist,  whose 
stores  are  adjoining,  are  preparing  to | 
enlarge  their  capacity  by  building  a  50 
foot,  two-story  addition  on  the  south.

Holland—Al.  Vegter  has  purchased 
the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of A.  H.  Brink, 
on  River  street.  Mr.  Vegter  has  sold 
his  cigar  and  tobacco  stock  to  Peter 
Boven,  who  will  continue  the  business.
Manistee-----Benjamin  Russky  and
Philip  Bolland  have  leased  the  building 
now  occupied  by  Bidelman  &  Lane  and 
will  open  up  in  time  for the  fall  trade 
with  a  stock  of  men’s  and  boys'  cloth­
ing.

Brown  City—The  three  business  firms 
known  as  McGeorge  Bros.,  Frutchev  & 
Co.  and  Harnden  &  Reeves  have  been 
dissolved  and  a  new  company  organ­
ized,  known 
the  Brown  City 
Grain  Co.

as 

Ypsilanti—D.  C.  Batcbelder  and  S.  I
C.  Case  have  sold  their  majority  hold­
ing  of  stock  in  the Ypsilanti Spring Bed 
Co.  to  H.  P.  Glover,  M.  S.  Hall,  Ed­
ward  Geer  and  Thomas  Shaw,  who  will 
continue  the  business.

Mason—The  Battle  Creek  Food  Co. 
has  been  organized  here  to  manufacture 
health  foods.  The  first  block  of  shares 
was  easily  sold  at  25  cents  on  the  dollar 
and  the  second block  is  now  going  at  50 
cents.  The  officers  are:  A.  G.  Ball, 
Chairman;  L.  T.  Hemans,  Secretary;
D.  P.  Whitmore,  Treasurer.

Muskegon—Jacob  E .  Heethuis,  who
for  nearly  six  years  has  been  proprietor 
of  the  grocery  at  the  corner  of  Pine  and 
Isabella  streets,  has  temporarily  moved 
bis  stock  of  groceries 
into  the  store 
building  at  235  Pine  street.  He  has 
had  the  corner  store  torn  down  and  will 
have  a  new  brick  veneered  building 
put  up  in  its  place.

Brookfield—R.  Sherman  and  W.  M. 
Milton,  under the  firm  name  of  Sherman 
&  Milton,  will  shortly  re  engage 
in  the 
hardware  business  at  this  place,  their 
store  building  now 
in  process  of  con­
struction  being  nearly completed.  This 
firm  was  one  of  the  houses  which 
suffered  by  the  fire  which  swept  the 
town  several  months  ago.

Jackson—E.  C.  Greene  has  sold  his 
clothing  and  shoe  stock,  at  115  and  117 
East  Main  street,  to  Horace  G.  Marvin, 
J.  Clyde  Burnett  and  Arthur  A.  Mitch­
ell.  The  new  concern  is  incorporated 
and 
is  known  as  the  Greene  Company, 
being  composed  of  old  employes  of  the 
establishment.  Mr.  Greene  will  retain 
some  stock  and  will  act  as  President

Evart—This  is  probably  the  first  town 
in  Michigan  to  try  the  experiment  of 
farmers’  rest  rooms,  where  farmers  and 
their  wives  can  make  their headquarters 
when 
in  town.  The  rooms  are  free  to 
all  who  come  and  are  supplied  with 
comfortable  chairs  and  other  modern 
conveniences.  The 
idea  originated  in 
the  East,  where  farmers'  rest  rooms  are 
provided  in  many  rural  towns.

Lansing—The  meat  dealers  of  this 
city  have  perfected  an  organization  for 
the  purpose  of  mutual  helpfulness  in 
trade  problems.  Fred  W.  Bertch  was 
elected  President  and  Fred  Trager  Sec­
retary.  The  first  stroke  of  business  done 
by  the Association  was  the  formation  of 
a  strong  anti-trading  stamp  alliance. 
All  of the  butcher shops  in  the  city  are 
represented 
in  the  crusade  and  the  de­
cision  to  abolish  the  stamps  is  under­
stood  to  be  unanimous.  Some  Lansing

grocers,  it  is  understood,  stand  ready  to 
abandon  the  stamp  business 
if  their 
competitors  will  do  likewise.  There  are 
others,  however,  who  favor  the  trading 
stamp  strongly.

Saginaw—The  butchers  and  grocers 
of  this  city,  reinforced  by  a  large  num­
ber  of  butchers  of  Flint  and  Bay  City, 
are  enjoying  their  annual  excursion  to 
Port  Huron  to-day.  An 
interesting 
programme  of  sports  was  arranged,  one 
feature  being  a  base  ball  game  between 
Saginaw  and  Port  Huron  butchers.  The 
committee 
is  composed  of 
John  Beierwaltes,  Robert  F.  Edelhoff, 
Andrew  Fink,  William  Miller, 
John 
Kundinger, 
John  Gardei  and  George 
Stingel,  Jr.

in  charge 

Muskegon—Jacob  L.  Heeres,  who  last 
week  sold  his  meat  market  on  Apple 
street  to  Martin  Roos,  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Henry  W.  Korfker, 
at  201  Spring  stieet,  at  the  corner  of 
Ionia  street,  and  will  take  bold  of  the 
new  business  next  week.  There  has 
been  a  grocery  at  that corner  for  many 
years.  In 1893  Henry  Mellema.wbo  then 
was  proprietor  of  the  store,  sold  out to 
Wm.  H.  Korfker.  His  sons  John  and 
Henry,  took  charge  of  the  business  for 
him,  but  a  year 
later  John  moved  to 
Grand  Rapids.  For  three  years  Henry 
continued  in  charge  of  the  store,  when, 
in  1897,  he  bought  out  his  father.  He 
has  continued  the  business  up  to  the 
present  time  and  disposes  of  it  because 
be 
to  enter  the  theological 
school  of  the  Christian  Reformed church 
at  Grand  Rapids  in  the  fall  to  prepare 
for  the  ministry.  Mr.  Korfker  will  re­
main  with  Mr.  Heeres  for  three  weeks 
and  will  then  move  bis  family  to  Grand 
Rapids.

intends 

Detroit—John  Ballantyne,  receiver  of 
W.  J.  Gould  &  Co.,  has  filed  a  report 
in  which  he  shows  that  under  the  deed 
of  trust,  which  allowed  the  firm  of  W. 
J.  Gould  &  Co.  to  carry  on  the  business 
for  four  months  after  execution  of  the 
deed,  he  took  possession of  the  business 
on  July  11.  From  the  time  of  his  ap­
pointment  up  to  July 
11,  he  received 
from  the  business  and  still  has  on  hand 
$38,697.61,  and  be  values  the  stock  in 
trade  now  on  hand,  and  which  is  being 
inventoried,  at  between  $20,000  and 
$30,000,  and  the  book  accounts  and  bills 
receivable  at  the  same  amount.  He 
sets  up  that  the  business  is  valuable  as 
a  going  concern  and  that,  among  the 
assets,  are  certain  trademarks  which  are 
valuable  only  when  used 
in  a  going 
business. 
For  this  reason  he  thinks 
more  can  be  realized  from  the  assets  if 
they  be  sold  with  the  good  will  and 
trademarks  as  a  going  concern  than  if 
the  business  be  stopped.  He  recom­
mends  that  he  be  permitted  to  carry  on 
the  business  for  thirty  days,  and  in  the 
meantime  to  advertise  for  bids  for the 
business  and  Judge  Donovan  made  the 
order asked.

M anufacturing M atters.

Custer—The  Custer  Canning  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000.

Detroit—The  Miami  Stone  Co.  has 
its  capital  stock  from  $120,- 

increased 
000 to $200,000.

Lansing—The  Lansing  Pure  Food Co.
has  begun  operations.  The  name  of the 
output  is  Malt-Ola.

Grand  Haven—The  Walden  Shoe  Co. 
has  merged  its  business  into  a  corpora­
tion,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $22,000. 
^ Y psilanti—William  F.  Carpenter,  of 
Chicago,  has  been  elected  manager  and 
processor of  the  Ypsilanti  Canning  Co.

Detroit—Louis  Blitz 

Marlette—The  Marlette  Canning  Co. 
is  the  style  of  a  new  enterprise  at  this 
place.  It  has  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.
and  A.  H. 
Green,  of  the  Solvay  Process  Co.,  are 
about  to  start  a  glass  factory  in  Delray.
Lansing—E.  Bement's  Sons  broke 
ground 
last  week  for  a  handsome  new 
office  building  in  connection  with  their 
extensive  plant.

North  Lansing—Christian  Breisch  & 
Co.,  proprietors  of  the  Pearl  flouring 
mills,  are  about  to  build  a  substantial 
addition  to  that  structure.

Albion—The  style  of  the  Riverside 
Elgin  Creamery  Co.  has  been  changed 
to  the  Albion  Creamery  Co.  and the cap­
ital  stock  increased  to $5,500.

Jackson—The  Her  Ladyship  Corset 
Co.,  which  has  removed  from  Chicago 
to  this  place,  has  filed  articles  of  asso­
ciation,  the  capital  stock  being  $25,000.
Vicksburg—The  Eclipse  Governor 
Co.  has  begun  the  erection  of  a  build­
ing  in  the  rear  of  its  works,  which  will 
be  designed  especially  for  an  iron  and 
brass  foundry.

Lakeview—Butler,  Cogswell  &  Co. 
have  their  grain  elevator  nearly  com­
pleted. 
is  an  up-to-date  plant, 
equipped  with  all  the  latest  and  most 
modern  machinery.

Manistee—Wm.  Batty,  who  has  con­
ducted  a  saw  factory  at  267  First  street 
for  about  thirty-five  years,  has  sold  out 
to  J.  O.  Batey,  of  this  city,  and  L.  H. 
Cooper,  of  Petoskey.

It 

Battle  Creek—The  McLane  &  Swift 
Co.  is  contemplating  the  erection  of  an 
elevator  to  replace  the  one  destroyed  by 
fire  last  summer. 
It  will  probably  be 
located  on  Porter  street.

Leonidas—The  Leonidas  Elevator 
Co.  has  sold 
its  elevator  to  Smith  & 
Giime,  of  Goshen,  who  have  also  pur­
chased  other  elevators  along  the  Battle 
Creek  division  of  the  M.  C.  Railway.

Vassar—Frank  Miller,  who  is  en­
gaged 
in  the  saw  and  planing  mill, 
lumber,  grain  and  coal  business  here 
and  at  Rose  City,  will  continue  busi­
ness  at  the  latter  place  under  the  style 
of the  Frank  Miller  Lumber  Co.

Detroit—The  Columbian  Brush  & 
Fibre  Co.  has  filed  notice  of  dissolution 
on  the  grounds  that  the  business 
is  not 
paying.  The  main  stockholders  were 
Geo.  C.  Wetherbee,  Mary  E.  Wether- 
bee,  W.  T.  Crooks and Cbas.  P.  Wether­
bee.

Jackson—The  Celery  City  Health 
Food  Co.,  Limited,  has  been 
inau­
gurated  with  a  capital  stock  of  $20,000. 
It  is  composed  of  N.  H.  Branch,  Presi­
dent ;  N.  S.  Potter,  Vice-President; 
Geo.  J.  Genebach,  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer.

Muskegon—F.  E.  Jones,  Secretary  of 
the  Automatic  Wringer  Co.,  has  pur­
chased  an 
interest  in  the  Shaler  Hart- 
grink  Co.,  of  Waupun,  Wis.,  umbrella 
manufacturer,  and  will  dispose  of  his 
interests  here  to  take  a  position  wtth 
that company.

For G illies’  N.  Y.  tea,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner.  both  phone*.

R E M E M B E R

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Chicago prices and give y ou prompt service and low freight rates.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  been  rather  sluggish  dur­
ing  the  week.  As  has  been  previously 
stated,  this  seems  to  be  a  weather  mar­
ket  and  there  is  not  much  change  to  re­
port 
in  wheat  during  the  week.  Cash 
No.  2  red  winter  is  about  ic  higher, 
while  No.  i  white 
is  fully  ic  higher. 
However,  it  would  make  no  difference 
even  if  it  was ioc higher,as there is none 
to  be  had.  Spring  wheat  futures  re­
main  the  same.  There  seems  to  be  con­
siderable  new  wheat  arriving,  but  very 
little  of  it  grades  No.  2.  On  account  of 
the  damp  weather,  wheat 
is  not  in  as 
good  condition,consequently  good wheat 
is  scarce  yet.  Should  the  pleasant,  fine 
weather continue—and  we  hope it will— 
farmers  will  have  a  good  chance  to  do 
their  harvesting 
in  good  shape  in  this 
section,  and  give  us  a  good  quality  of 
wheat,  even  if  the  quantity  is  not large. 
We  have  reports  that  wheat  cutting  has 
commenced 
immediate  vicin­
ity.  Reports  from  the  Southwest,  es­
pecially  Kansas,  are  not  of  the  most 
flowery  kind.  The  millers,  as  well  as 
the  grain  dealers,  complain  of  a  very 
poor  yield  and  of  an  inferior quality. 
Some  sections  report  the  wheat  testing 
only  48  to  54  pounds  to  the  bushel, 
while  last  year  it  tested  61  pounds.  One 
county  where  they  had  6,800,000 bushels 
last  year  reports  that  they  will  hardly 
get  2,000,000  bushels  of  the  inferior 
grade  of  wheat  this  year.  Foreign  crops 
seem  to  be  in  very  fair  condition,  not­
withstanding  the  wet  weather,  so  in  all 
probability  our exports  will  not  amount 
to  as  much  the  coming  year  as  they  did 
last,  which  was  a  banner  year,  exports 
being  a  trifle  over 250,000,000 bushels. 
invisible  supply  at 
The  visible  and 
present 
low  water  mark  and  new 
wheat  comes  along  none too soon.  There 
will  probably  not  be  much  change  in 
present  prices  for some  time.

in  this 

is  at 

Corn  dropped  yesterday  and  to-day 
fully  23  per  bushel,  July  corn  closing  at 
65 j£c,  while  it  has  sold  as  high  as  87  to 
89c  during  the  week.  The  corn  corner 
seems  to  be  getting  demoralized,  owing 
to  the  large  amount  of  contract  corn  ar­
riving.  Report  has  it  that  500,000  bush­
in  Saturday  and  an  equal 
els  came 
in  all  proba­
amount  on  Monday,  and 
bility  about  750,000  bushels 
to-day 
(Tuesday),  which,  of  course,  the  corn 
bulls  have  to  take.  As  cash  corn  is 
worth  about  61c 
in  Chicago  and  July 
corn  is  worth  81c,  it will  readily  be  seen 
that  those  who  are manipulating the July 
corner  will  have  to  take  a  great  deal  of 
high-priced  corn  in  order  to  sustain  the 
price  and  eventually  it  may  be  that  the 
profits  that  have  been 
large  on  paper 
will  not  be  realized  in  their  pockets.  Of 
course,  the  weather,  as  usual,  helped  the 
conditions.

Oats,  to  be  in 

line  with  corn,  also 
slumped  off  about  5c  during  the  week, 
as  new  oats  are  expected  within  a  few 
days  and  of  verv  fine  quality,  so  it  is 
reported  prices  will  go  still 
lower,  and 
the  bulls  who  anticipated  a  very  nice 
margin  on  July  oats will  be  sadly  disap­
pointed.

While  there  is  not  much  doing  in rye, 
it  seems  to  have  climbed  j£c  during  the 
week,  but  as  new  rye  will  be  in  the 
market 
in  about  a  week,  we  do  not  see 
how  the  present  high  price  can  be  sus­
tained,  especially  as  there  will  be  no 
foreign  demand  this  season.

Spot  beans,  for  some  unaccountable 
reason,  have  gone  up 
ioc  during  the 
past  week.  A  certain  demand  has

sprung  up,  presumably  for  army  pur­
pose,  which  probably  caused  the  ad­
vance.

Flour has  remained  quiet  and  steady. 
Dealers  are  laying  in  old  wheat  flour. 
While  some  Western  new  wheat  has 
come  in,  and  in  good  shape  for  grind­
ing,  still  dealers  prefer old  wheat flour 
yet.

Mill 

stuff 

remains  very 

firm—no 
change  in  bran  and  an  advance  of  $2  in 
middlings,  prices  being  $20  for  bran 
and  $25  for  middlings.

Receipts  of  grain  during  the  week 
have  been  as  follows:  wheat,  45  cars; 
corn,  3  cars;  oats,  4  cars;  rye,  3  cars; 
beans,  1  car;  flour,  1  car;  straw,  1  car; 
potatoes,  7  cars.

Millers  are  paying  76c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Produce  M arket.

Bananas—Prices  range  from  $ 1.3 5 ®
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size. 
Jumbos,  $2.25  per  bunch.
yellow  stock.

Beeswax—Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

Beets—20c  per  doz.  for  new.
Beet  Greens—50c  per  bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery  is  steady  at 
22c  for  fancy  and  21c  for  choice.  Dairy 
grades  are  moving  moderately  at  1 7 ®  
18c  for  fancy,  i6@I7C  for  choice  and  13 
@ I4 C   for  packing  stock.

Cabbage—Home  grown  command  6cc 

per  doz.

Carrots—ioc  per doz.
Cauliflower— $1.10   per  doz.
Celery—Home  grown 
is 

supply  at  17c  per  doz.

in 

limited 

house.

$4  per  bu.

Cherries—Sour,  $3.50  per  bu.  Sweet, 
Cucumbers—30c  per  doz. 
for  hot 

Small,  90  per  16 qts.

Currants—Cherry,  $1.10   per  16  qts. 
Eggs—Local  dealers  pay 
i6j<!@i7i£c 
for  candled  and  I 5 @ i 6 c  for  case  count.
Figs—Five  crown  Turkey  command 
I4@ i5c.

Gooseberries—$t  per  16  qt.  crate.
Green  Onions—11c  for  Silver Skins.
Green  Peas—85c  per  bu.  for  Tele­

phones  and  Champions  of  England.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@ i6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  1 3 ®  14c and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io @ i i c .

Lemons—Californias,  $4134.25 ;  Mes- 

sinas,  $5@6.
Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.

Lettuce—Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 
Maple  Sugar—ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—California,  $2.25  per  sack  of 
100  lbs.  ;  Kentucky  and  Louisiana,$1.50 
per  sack  of  70  lbs.
Oranges—California  Valencias,  $5.50.
Parsley—25@30C  per  doz.
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Pineapples—Floridas  command  $4.25 
per  crate  of  24  to  36 size,  one  kind  or 
assorted.
is  weak  at  60c. 
New  stock  is  in  active  demand  at  70c.
liberal,  espe­
cially  of  young  poultry.  Live  pigeons 
in  moderate  demand  at  50@6oc 
are 
and  squabs  at  $1.20 31.50 .  Spring broil­
ers, 
I2@ i3c;  chickens,  8@9c;  small 
hens,  7 @ 8 c ;  large  hens,  6@7C;  turkey 
bens, 
io % @ n y ic;  gobblers,  9@ ioc; 
white  spring  ducks,  9 ®  ioc.

Poultry—Receipts  are 

Potatoes—Old  stock 

Radishes—ioc  per doz.
Raspberries—Red,  $1.50  per  16 qts. 

Black,  $1.25  per  16 qts.
Spinach—45c  per  bu.
Squash—Summer  fetches 60c  per  bas­

ket.

grown.

Tomatoes—75c  per  4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu. 
for  home 
Whortleberries---- $3@3-50  per  bu.
Most  of  the  receipts  thus  far  have  been 
very  wet and  soft,  which  renders  ship­
ping  very  precarious.

A  man  may  run  himself  to  death  and 
in  the  end  that  he  is  on  the 
then  find 
wrong  road. 
It  is  exceedingly  sensible 
to  find  out at  the  beginning  whether  we 
are  on  the  right  track  or  not.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  shows 
no  material  changes.  On  account  of  the 
moderate  supplies  on  hand,  few  sales 
were  made  at  any  price  and  the  market 
has  a  somewhat  lower tendency.  The 
world’s  visible  supply  of  raw  sugar  is
2.850.000  tons,  showing  a  decrease  of
80.000 
tons  under  July  3,  and  an  in­
crease  of  950,000  tons  over  the  corres­
ponding  period  last  year. 
It  is  reported 
that  the  Visible  production  of  sugar  in 
Cuba  to  date 
is  estimated  at  768,000 
tons.  Trade  in  refined  sugar  is  rather 
quiet  just  at  present,  sales  being  mostly 
for  such 
lots  as  are  needed  to  supply 
immediate  wants.  However,  the  warmer 
is  having  a  stimulating  effect 
weather 
on  consumption  and  supplies 
in  bands 
of the trade are rapidly decreasing, which 
will  compel  buyers  to  enter  the  market 
again  in  the  near  future.  Prices  remain 
steady  and  no  change 
for 
in  the  immediate  future.

looked 

is 

Canned  Goods—Trade  in  the  canned 
goods  line 
is  rather  quiet  on  almost 
everything  except  tomatoes,  which  con­
tinue  to  be  the  chief  item  of  interest  in 
this  line.  New  pack  Maryland  goods 
for  prompt  delivery  are  being  offered 
quite  freely  and  buyers  are  taking  hold 
very  well,  being  glad  to  get  these  goods 
to  supply  their  wants  until  they  can  get 
their  goods  which  were  purchased  for 
future  delivery.  As  the  warmer  weather 
continues  and  the  prospects  for  a  good 
crop  of  tomatoes  are  so  bright,  there  is 
a  little  easier  feeling  in  the  market  for 
futures,  but  no  change in  price  has  been 
made.  Neither the jobbers  nor the  pack­
ers  are  carrying  any  stocks  of last year’s 
In  fact,  it  has  been  a  long  time 
pack. 
since  the 
jobbers  were  so  closely  sold 
up  on  their  last  year’s  holdings. 
It  will 
take  an  enormous  quantity  of  canned 
tomatoes  to  fill  up  that  gap,  and,  while 
it  is,  of  course,  very  bard  to  estimate 
the  quantity  required,  it  is  safe  to  say 
that  as  fast  as  the  tomatoes  are  packed 
from  now  until  September,  they  will 
move. 
Indeed,  it  is  a  question  whether 
or  not  any  surplus  stocks  will  be accum­
ulated  until  after  September  1.  This, 
of  course,  means  that  the  prices  will  be 
is  steady  and  in  fair 
sustained.  Corn 
demand  at  full  prices. 
Futures  are 
very strongly  held.  Gallon  and  3  lb.  ap­
ples  for  future  delivery are meeting with 
a  ready  sale.  Spot  goods  are  so  closely 
cleaned  up  that  there  are  absolutely 
none  to  be  obtained.  There  has  been 
an  unusually  good  demand  for  wax  and 
string  beans  during  the  past week.  This 
unusual  demand  was  somewhat  of  a 
surprise  as  these  articles  have  been 
practically  neglected 
for  the  past  few 
months.  Salmon  of  all  grades  is  firm 
and 
in  good  consumptive  demand. 
Stocks  are  becoming  greatly  reduced. 
Sardines  are 
in  good  demand  at  full 
prices.

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  mar­
ket,  as  a  whole,  shows  no  change,  but 
the buying  is  chiefly  of small  lots for im­
mediate  requirements.  Prunes  remain 
steady,  with  good  demand  for all  sizes. 
Stocks  are  being  reduced  to  small  com­
pass.  Raisins  are  slightly  firmer  and 
is  to­
in  good  demand.  The  tendency 
ward  higher  prices,  particularly 
for 
seeded,  which  are  meeting  with  very 
good  sale  and  which  are  in  only  fair 
supply.  Apricots  and  peaches  are 
steady  and  in  fair  request.  Dates  are  in 
an  improved  position  and  show  an  ad­
vancing  tendency.  Stocks  are  consid­
erably 
lighter  than  at  this  time  last 
year  and  holdings  are  said  to  be  mostly 
1900 stock.  Figs  are  firm  and  are  mov­
ing  out  well  at  previous  prices.

R ice—The  rice  market 

is  firm,  but 
with  only  small  demand  at  present. 
Trade  up  to  the  last  two  or  three  weeks 
has  been  unusually  good  for  this  season 
of  the  year,  but  as  the  warmer  weather 
approaches,  shows  a  falling  off.  Ad­
vices  from  New  Orleans  state  that  half 
of  the  Louisiana  rice  crop  has  been 
ruined  and  prices  have  been  advanced 
lX c  per  pound. 
The  Louisiana  rice 
crop 
is  estimated  at  3,500,000  sacks. 
This  imparted  a  stronger  feeling  among 
dealers  here  and  the  tendency  of  prices 
was  firmer,  with  an  upward  movement 
to  set  in  at  any  moment pending further 
reports  as  to  the  damage  to  the  crop.

Molasses—The  continuance  of  warm 
weather  has  materially  checked  the 
movement  and  business  in  molasses  has 
practically  come  to  a  standstill.  Deal­
ers  are  not  anxious  to  market their hold­
light,  preferring  to 
ings,  which  are 
carry  supplies  in  store  until  the  fall 
in 
the  expectation  of  obtaining  higher 
prices.

Fish—Trade 

in  codfish  is  good  and 

prices  are  unchanged.

Nuts—There 

is  no  marked  change, 
but  a  very  strong  situation  is  shown 
in 
peanuts,  which  are  meeting  with  a  good 
demand  at  full  prices.  Walnuts  are 
somewhat  stronger  and  prices  have  a 
hardening  tendency.  Almonds are scarce 
and  prices  asked  are  firm.

Rolled  Oats—There  is  practically  no 
market  on  rolled  oats,  as  almost  none 
are  being  offered.  Buyers  have  made 
heavy  purchases,  but  are  experiencing 
great  difficulty  in  getting  shipment,  as 
the  mills  are  so  heavily  oversold.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  was  without  change 
of  price  until  tied  up  by  strikes.  Now 
there 
little  enquiry  from  parties 
wishing  stocks  to  work  where  they  can 
dodge  Chicago  transit.

is  a 

Pelts  are  without  change,  with  no 

offerings  at  present.

Tallow  was  some  firmer  from  specula­
tion.  No  edible  is  being  offered.  No 
reports  of  late  as  everything  stands 
quiet.  No  delivery  can  be  made  ex­
cept  to outside  points.

Wool  holds  firm  at  late  prices,  but  no 
further  advance  can be obtained  at  pres­
ent.  Many  Eastern  buyers  have  left  the 
State.  Lots  have  been  well  cleaned  up. 
What  remains  is  held  for  higher  values, 
which  are  not  apparent  at  present.  The 
supply  offering 
is  ample  for  present 
needs  and  futures  are  uncertain.

______   _  Wm,  T .  Hess.
Telephone  Topics.

At  a  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of 
the  Swaverly  Telephone  Co.,  held  at 
Kalkaska  July  8,  it  was  decided  to  in­
crease  the  capital  stock  from $50,000  to 
$100,000.

The  Michigan  Telephone  Co.,  which 
has  been  giving  its  residence  patrons  in 
Ishpeming  and  Negaunee  free  service 
since  the  Marquette  County  Telephone 
Co.  began  doing  business,  has  served 
notice  on  its  customers  that  after Aug.  1 
the  price  of  residence  service will  be  $1 
per  month.

H.  A.  Cone,  grocer at  477  South  D i­
vision  street,  will  open  a  grocery  store 
in  the  corner  store  of  the  Loraine  apart­
ment  building,  corner  East  Fulton  and 
Lagrave  streets.  The  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  has  the  order  for  the  stock.

The  capital  stock  of  the  American 
115  Canal  street,  has 

Tailoring  Co., 
been  increased  from  $5,000  to$10,000.

Stock  of  clothing  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  to  be  sold  at  auction.  See 
advertisement  on  page  7.

"s u its ." 
ter omitted.

“ Respectfully  yours"  is  bet­

The  People’s  Drug  Store  makes  a 
strong  appeal  to  the  importance  of  care 
The  border 
in  prescription  work. 
would  be 
the  use  of 
mitered  corners.  The  printer  has  done 
well  to  preserve  unity  in  style  of  dis­
play  type.

improved  by 

A  seasonable  and  sanguinery  adver- 
tisment  is  that  of  Howard  &  Pearl Drug 
Co. 
It  is  noticeable  for  being  entirely 
set  in  display  type.  The  printer  has 
done  well 
in  proportioning  his  white 
space  so as  to  give  each 
item  promi­
nence.

The  clothing  announcement  of  Geo. 
F.  Andrus  has  many  good  point*  and 
the  humorous  turns  are  well  sustained.
I  would  give  prominence,  however,  to 
some  display  of  the 
in  question 
and  would  cut  out  fully  half  of  the 
reading.  There  is  material  for  at  least 
two  such  advertisements.

line 

A.  R.  Van  Allsburg  has  a  well  pro­
portioned  furniture  advertisement  and 
the  display  is  in  the  line  cf  the  subject. 
This  will  sell  goods.

seasonable  specialty  which 

E.  F.  Murray  makes  a  small  display 
of  a 
is 
treated  suitably  by the  printer.  Several 
such  with  different  subjects  could  be 
scattered  through  a  paper  in  lieu  of  one 
big  display  to  advantage.

F.  R.  Pancoast  writes  a  spectacle  ad­
vertisement  which 
is  calculated  to  ap­
peal  to  the  judgment of  those  in  need  of 
such  aids  to  vision.  The  idea  is  a  good 
one  and  is  well  carried  out  except  that 
the  specialty  should  be  indicated  in  the 
display. 
"T h e   days"  has  no  meaning 
and  is  not calculated  to  gain  attention.
I  would  set the paragraphs in lowercase, 
to  be  more  easily  read,  and  would  not 
introduce  so  many  styles  of  display 
type.
A 

judicious  use  of  the  blue  pencil 
would  have 
ieft  a  good  advertisement 
for Willman  &  McLean.  Cut  out  the 
ornaments  (?)  under  "m erchant,”   or 
substitute  a 
line,  also  cut  out  the  stuff 
around  "ta ilo rs,"  space  the  word  out  a 
little  and  put  a  line  under  and  the  re­
sult  would  be  a  good,  strong,  clear  ad­
vertisement.  As 
is,  it  is  a  striking 
example  of  how  a  good  display  may  be 
spoiled  by 
in  "flinging 
in "  ornamentation.

lack  of  care 

it 

A  man’s  old  clothes  are  seldom  bis 

only  bad  habits.

6

Petting the  People

T aking  Advantage  of  Public  O pportuni­

ties*

It 

is  pretty  generally  conceded  that 
the  main  dependence  for  the  seeker 
after  publicity 
is  the  newspaper.  But 
the  merchant  who  thinks  that  he  can 
live  as  though  he  had  no  other  relation 
to  the  community  than  the  selling  of 
goods  and  the  crying  of  his  wares 
through  this  medium  will  only  achieve 
a  partial  success,  and  that  slowly.  The 
live  merchant  is  a  member  of  the  com­
munity  and  nothing  will  serve  more 
effectually  to  supplement  and  aid  the 
direct  appeal  of  the  advertisement  than 
the  assertion  of  one’s  place 
in  civic 
and  social  life.

succeed 

I  have  no  use  for  the  man  who  forces 
a  position,  especially  through  social  or 
religious  affiliations,  as  a  means  sim­
ply  of  achieving  business  success.  As 
a  general  rule  the  pretensions  of  such 
men  are  sufficiently  transparent  and 
they 
in  making  themselves 
thoroughly  despised.  A  man  must  be 
sincere 
in  all  that  he  does—must  be 
actuated  by  correct  motives—or the com­
munity  will  soon  place  his  pretensions 
at  their  real  value. 
It  may  seem  para­
doxical  that  one  must  take  an  active 
part 
in  such  ways  on  account  of  busi­
ness  and  yet,  when  he  does  so  on  that 
failure. 
account  simply,  he  makes  a 
The  explanation 
in  the  fact  that 
there  are  other  reasons  why  every  busi­
ness  man  should  take  bis  proper  place 
in  the  community,  and  the  advice  to 
do  so  is  pertinent  for the  reason  that  too 
many  are  apt  to  plead  devotion  to 
business  as  a  reason  for  neglect  of  other 
It  is  a  coincidence—I  do  not 
duties. 
mean  an  accidental  one—that 
the 
broader  activity  a  man  brings  to  his 
relations  to  those  about  him  the  greater 
will  be  his  business  success.  Business 
must  not  be  neglected  and  every  man 
should  be  able  to  judge  as  to  where  his 
activities  should  be  bestowed.  There 
are  many  business  wrecks  caused  by 
undue  devotion  of  energy  to other things 
than  business.

lies 

An  active  position  in  the  life  of  the 
community  firings  opportunity.  There 
is  no  less  advertising value  in  engaging 
in  public  activities  from  the  fact  that 
one  is  in  the  habit  of  doing  things.  On 
the  other  hand,  when  the  community  is 
startled  by  some  unusual  proceeding  on 
the  part  of  one  who  is  not  in  the  habit 
of  doing  things  it  may  create  a  sensa­
tion,  but 
in  the  resulting  confusion  as 
to  the  motives  governing  the  action  the 
advertising  effect  may  be  dissipated. 
But  the  man  of  recognized  public  spirit 
may  take  his  place  in  local  official  po­
sitions  or  in  moves  for  public  advance­
ment—such  as  highways  and  village 
improvements—or 
philanthropic
work.  For  example,  let  a  case  of  desti­
in  some  tributary  locality  come 
tution 
to  his  notice. 
If  he  can  quietly  and 
unostentatiously  move  to  the  relief  of 
the  sufferer  it  will  be  a  grand  business 
opportunity.  But  it  must  be  something 
to  which  he 
is  accustomed,  a  natural 
thing  for  him  to  do,  to  have  its  proper 
advertising  effect.  This  kind  of  adver­
tising  is  no  more  possible  in  spasmodic 
attempts  than 
is  advertising  through 
the  press  or any  other  kind.  All  adver­
tising  must  be  persistent,  continued.

in 

*  *  *

The  Freeport  Clothing  Co.  writes  a 
businesslike  argument,  the  best  feature 
of  which 
is  the  price  list.  The  words 
"quality  considered"  are  out  of  posi­
tion  and  so  appear to  refer  to  the  kind 
stores—should  have  been  nearer
of 

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

S A V E   Y O U R   M O N E Y !

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Aar!  all others in  DTODOrtion.  We  have  a  complete  hoe of  Hals and Gaps  and
Goods.  Alt of  the Latest  Patterns and  Best  Makes  We ask only a  fair Com
and Prices.  E ggs taken in  exchange tor  goods,  or we  will  pay  you  the highest cash  raarKet
price,

Respectfully  Yours, 

F r e e p o r t   C l o t h i n g   C o .

There Are Six Main Points

To remember in PRESCRIPTION wort 

They are:

Brains, 
Experience, 
Clean Tools,

Accuracy,
Pure Drugs, 
Full  Strength.

If these points appeal to you as e s s e n tia l to the  Best Preacrip- 
tion Werk, we should be pleased to serve yon.  Ask any  physician • 
about this matter when he hands you a  prescription  f o r   medicine.

THE  PEOPLE’S  DREG  STORE,

S.  B.  JONES,  Mjr. 

m.'.riueite. mice

Kill  the  Insects!

•S   P aris  Green,
B
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I   Bine  V itrol,
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F o r  Sprayin g.

KILL THE  LICE!

Insect  Powder,
W hite Hellebore,
Pythrenm,

220  State Street,

Fleck 's L ice  Exterm inator  for  Anim als.

Howard  &  Pearl  Drug Co.,
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IIÁ11 Eyes This Way.

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S t.  Joseph.

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We are going to rub out  the  profit  by putting prices on 
all  our  Summer  Clothing,  Hats  and  Furnishings,  that 2? 
will make the Dollars in your pocket fairly jump. 
We have  had a splendid  business  daring  the season just Sj? 
closed,  and  now all  lightweight  things  ranct  get a move 3 ?  
on themselves  to  give  us  room  for  JFall business.  No- 
body  ought  to  pay  us,  or  anyone  else,  full  price  for 
Clothing,  when he can get  just  about  the same thing for 
half to two-thirds.  All wool,  of course;  sewed with silk, 
of course;  your money, back if you want it,  of course. 

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There'll be  lots  of  it  now.  The  discount  season  is at jf f  
hand,  the season  when  the  windy  announcements of big 
discounts on  Clothing  appear.  These  *‘spasms” always $  
come two or three times a year. 
•£•
Our  Discount  Season  Lasts  the|! 
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If Whole  Year. 

We have built our mammoth  business by selling at lower ¿t 
prices than other stores. 
In the suit line you will always  - 
find by comparison  that our  prices are from SI.00 to 3.00 
*2
less on the same quality^ 
We  know that this is  the  best  method  for building and 3  
holding business. 
A
Yon can save from 50c to  SI.00 on Hats,  and Furnishing W 
Goods are always less  price  here than elsewhere.  Come 3  
in and see about it. 
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 O R D E R E D   O U T .

We have  made  the  rounds  and  ordered  ont  all of our •£ 
Men's,  Women's,  Boys',  Misses'  and  Children's  Summer ¿9 
Shoes,  and now we are going to make them  move. 
«g 
No one with  feet  should  stay awav from this sale.  Be- 3
member the date,  if you stay  away you are the loser.

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G E O .   F .   A N D R U S ,

Dealer in lodern 

Merchandise.

O O O O O b O O O O O b O O O O O

IA   m o d e r n !
1  HOME
0  v 
0   Is more attractive  than  tiie  0 
0  old-time  house,  because  in  0 
0  place  of  the  stiff,  hair-cov-  0 
Y  ered chairs and  lounges,  we  0
2   find all the 
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N E W  

ID E A S  

IN  

F U R N IT U R E .

Some of them  useful,  but 
all  graceful  and  attractive. 
We keep all the  conceits iti 
furniture 
that  delight  a 
tasteful woman and  beauti- 
the parlor and  library.

....W ITH ....

...B U YS  A B ...

Day or Night. 

$  A .  R .  V an   Alls burg,  $
0  COOPERSVILLE, MICH. 
$
X Funeral Calls Promptly Attended to, V 
£
ooooooooooooooooo
5  Cents—
Ice  Cream  Soda
Crushed  Fruit.
1 am prepared to  furnish  the  i»« 
quality  for  the  least  money. 
<
wholesale 90c per  trillion  delivered 
any part of the city.
E, F. Murray.
THE DAYS
NOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL
A SPtCIAL LDUCATION,

AN  OPTICIAN MOST KNOW THE 
REFRACTIVE CONDITION OF AN 
EYE.  KNOW  IF  IT  Is  POSSIBLE 
TO  IMPROVE  PRESENT  VISION 
WITH  GLASSES  OK  NOT.  AND 
KNOW  WHY.  THE  OPTICIAN 
MUST HAVE

OP  FITTING  SPECTACLE*  bV 
TRY IN« ONE -PAIR.  .THEN  AN­
OTHER TILL YOU  GET  A  PAlK
y o u   c a n   s e e   t h b o u g h .  h a s 
passed.

IN  THAT LINE  AND  HAVE  >PE- 
(TAL  INSTRUMENTS  TO  WORK
Wi t h ,  a n d   h e   m u s t  b e  a  .s t u ­
d e n t .

If you are Not Getting  good  re­

sults from your Glasses,  or 

cannot  see  plainly, 

call on me.

F. R.  PANCOAST

CM  3cw«Ur, Bastings.

jWillman& 

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I  T a i l o r s ,  g  j

ONTONAOON, Mieti.

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

7

Stock of Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing 

$9391.90

Goods

I  will offer the above stock  at  Public Auction  on  Thursday, July 24, 
at 3 p.  m .,a sa  whole to the highest  bidder.  This  is a good cle >n stock, 
and is a bargain  for someone.  Stock  open  for  inspection  at  any  time 
previous to sale.  Am ooliged  to  move  or  sell.  Have  determined  to 
sell,  and must do  so on the above date.  Come and look  it over and you 
will be here to bid on  it.

H.  WARD  LEONARD

M a n is te e ,  M ic h ig a n

Grand Rapids Fixtures 60.

A
new

elegant
design

combination

Cigar
Case

No.  64  Cigar Case.  Also  m ade  w ith  Metal  Leg«.

Our  New  Catalogue  shows  ten  other  styles  of  Cigar  Cases  at  prices  to  suit  any

Corner B a r tlett  and  S ou th   Ionia  S tr e e ts,  Grand  R apids.  M ich.

pocketbook.

Second hand Machinery 

For  Sale

Lamps 
to  Burn

tric ilgnt • ili ine. a  ade by Ball Engine Co.
light eng ne, made by Ball Engine Co.
pendent j-tc   ndetis  r.
tric < o.
ward  P. Allis Co.

113x12 inch ’00  horsepower,  high  sp°ed, elec­
1  10x12 in<-h 60 horsepow  r. high speed, electric 
1  300  horsepower  Worthington  duplex  inde­
1 3 1 light arc dynamo, made by  Western  Elec­
1  18x30 inch rolling valve engine, made  by  Ed­
1 22x  4 inch slide valve engine, made by Letteli.
1 8 inch shotgun steam leed.
1  D ake steam  f  ‘ed.
1 (lenningh un twin engine steam feed.
1  Filer &  Stowell  circular  mill  with  top  saw 
1 45 inch smokestack. To feet long, with britchen 
10 narrow  gauge logging cars.
4 42 inch x 20feet 2 due boilers.

and carriage
for three 42 Inch  boilers.

Traverse City  Iron Works,

Traverse City,  Michigan

Harness

We  call  special  attention 
to  our  line  of  single  and 
light double harness  This 
is  the  time  of  year  they 
sell.  We  are  showing 
some  new  styles.  Extra 
good  values.  Send  us  a 
trial order.

We still have seme good 
values in dusters and nets.

Brown  &  Sehler
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We

have pur­
chased  a 

large 

stock  of 
Gasoline 
Lamps 
which  we 

will

dispose 
of  m  lots 
the  pur­

to suit 
chaser.

Our prices will make customers of you. 
Write to-day  as  this  stock  will  be  dis­
posed of at once.

Guardians

Ames & Clark, Detroit, Mich.

The  Michigan  Trust Co. fills 
all the requirements of a guard­
ian both  of  person  and  estate. 
W e are  considered  competent 
to pass  upon  all  questions  of 
education, 
training,  accom­
plishments,  etc.,  of  the  ward. 
We have an extended and suc­
cessful  experience  in  caring 
for the  interests  of  minors,  in­
sane, 
intemperate,  mentally 
incompetent  persons,  spend­
thrifts,  and  all  questions  can 
be met with  greater  skill  and 
economy  than  are  likely to be 
found in the average individual 
guardian  who meets such prob­
lems for the first  time.
The Michigan Trust Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

135  JEFFERSON  AVENUE

IMPORTERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS'  AGENTS

THE  FRANK  B.  TAYLOR  COMPANY  $
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DETROIT, Mich.,

July  16,  1902.

MR. MERCHANT,
Dear Sir:
Our Holiday  line  is now ready  for 

your  inspection.  We have  taken a 
great  deal  of  time  in  getting  together 
what we  consider  one of  the largest 
and best  assorted lines  ever  shown 
by  any house  in Michigan.  Remember 
every  article we show is NEW  this 
season.  Come  in and  see us,  we pay 
your expenses-

THE FRANK B. TAYLOR COMPANY.

An  Experienced

Parker House Coffee  S
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Salesman  Wanted

To  Sell

To the  Retail  Trade Through  Eastern  Michigan. 

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F.  M.  C.  COFFEE  MILLS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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A Time of  Need 

YOU  W I L L   F IN D   OUR 

A sphalt, Torpedo  Gravel,  Ready Roofing 

a  strong  protection  in  time  of  need. 
It  is  a  pretty  good  in- 
surance  policy,  and  when  the  winds  blow  and  the  floods  come 
it  stands  the  test  unflinchingly. 

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

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Devoted  to the Best Interests of Bnsiness Men
Published  a t the  New  Blodgett Building, 

G rand Rapids, by  the

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

One  D ollar a Tear,  Payable  in  Advance.

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Communications invited from practical  business 
men.  Correspondents  must  give  their  full 
names and addresses, not necessarily for pub­
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Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address  of 
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No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. 
Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the Grand  Builds  Post  Office as 

Second Class mall matter.

W hen  w riting to  any  of  ou r  Advertisers, 
please say  th a t  you  saw  the  advertise­
m ent in  th e M ichigan  Tradesm an.

E.  A.  STOW E.  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY,  •  •  JULY  16.1902

ST A T E   OF  MICHIGAN > „
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County  of  Kent 

poses  and  says  as  follows:

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­
I  am  pressman 
in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  m 
that  establishment. 
and 
folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
1902.  and  saw  the  edition
July  9, 
mailed  in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for said  county, 
this  twelfth  day  of July,  1902.

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Mich.

NEEDLES AND  PINS.

The  Census  Bureau  has  issued  an  in­
teresting  bulletin  on  these  apparently 
trivial,  but  necessary  articles.  Anyone 
who  has  seen  a  thorn  used  fur  pinning 
things  can  readily  imagine  that  nature 
furnished  the first pins,and when  Mother 
Eve  found  it  necessary  to 
improve  her 
toilet  she  pinned  her  fig  leaves  together 
with  thorns  from  a  convenient  bush.

in  various 

forms,  and 

Explorations  ol  ancient  ruins  furnish 
abundant  examples  of  pins  made  of 
bone,  ivory,  bronze,  copper  and 
iron. 
The  most  prominent  discoveries  made 
in  this  line  were  in  Egyptian  and Scan­
dinavian  tombs  and  on  sites  of  the  an­
cient  lake  dwellings  of  Central  Europe. 
From  the  lacustrine  stations 
in  Swit­
zerland  alone  more  than 
10,000  pins 
have  been  taken.  These  ancient  pins 
are 
in  cases 
where  the  ornamental  head  is  used  they 
are  very  curious  and  beautiful.  They 
are 
longer  than  those  now  in  use  and 
differ  from  the  modern  pattern  in  that 
they  taper  gradually  from  the  bead  to 
the  point.  Some  were  found  in  Central 
Europe  with  double stems  like  the  mod­
ern  hairpin,  and  a  few  were  found  at 
Peschiera, 
like  the 
modern  safety-pin.  Many  of  the  single­
stemmed  pins  varied  in  thickness,  and 
others  had  beads  formed  of  a 
loose 
ring  in  an  eye  at  the  blunt  end.

fashioned 

Italy, 

in  brass. 

In  ancient  and  mediaeval  times  pins 
were  made  of  bronze,  and  this  was  the 
principal  material  used  until metallurgy 
had  advanced  far  enough  to  give  a  bet­
ter  material 
It  is  said  that 
the  early  Anglo-Saxons  and  Britons 
used  ribbons,  loopholes,  clasps,  hooks 
and  eyes,  and  skewers  of  wood,  bone, 
brass,  silver,  or gold  for  their  fastenings 
instead  of  pins.  The  brass-wire  pin  is 
supposed  to  be  an 
invention  of  the 
French,  although  by  some  authorities  it 
is  credited  to  the  Dutch. 
In  England 
pins  of  iron  wire  were  made  during  the 
fifteenth  century,  but the  brass-wire  pin

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

was  unknown  until 
1543»  when  it  was 
brought  from  France  by Catharine How­
ard,  one  of  the  numerous  wives  of 
Henry  V III.  of  England.

The  pins  of  the  present  day  are  made 
wholly  by  machinery  from  brass  wire, 
which,  by  ingenious  mechanism,  is  cut 
into  required 
lengths,  sharpened  and 
headed.  At  first  pins  were  made  by 
hand,the  heads  being  separate  and  then 
slipped  down  to  a  shoulder,  when  the 
projecting  end  of  the  pin  was  riveted 
down  with  little  hammers  in  the  hands 
of  girls.  Now  the  brass  wire  is  fed  into 
machinery,  from  which  it  comes  in  the 
form  of  perfect  pins.  They  are  after­
wards  silvered,  when  they  are  ready  for 
market.  The  pins  are  stuck  into  papers 
by  machinery.

antedated 

Doubtless  the  pin 

the 
needle,  but  from  the  nature  of  the  case 
fig  leaves  pinned  with  thorns  must have 
been  soon  discarded.  When  it  became 
necessary  to  piece  out  garments  by  fas­
tening  skins  of  animals  together,  the 
needle  became  a  necessity.

Scandinavian 

Remains  of  civilized  and  uncivilized 
nations  bear  evidence  of  the  use  of 
needles  made  of  various  materials. 
Some  excellent  specimens  made  of  fish 
bone,  horse’s  bone,  and  bronze  have 
been  found 
in  caves  near  Brunequel, 
France,  and  on  the  sites  of  the  ancient 
In 
lake  dwellings  of  Central  Europe. 
Eygptian  and 
tombs 
bronze  needles,  varying  in  length  from 
2 ^   to 8  inches,  have  been  found.  This 
material,  which  quite 
likely  suggested 
itself  for  use  in  needle  manufacture  be­
cause  it  was  an  alloy  easily worked,  was 
for  many  centuries  the  material  prin­
cipally  used, especially  among  the  early 
Europeans  and  Western  Asiatic  peo­
ples.  Whether  other  materials  than 
bone,  ivory  and  bronze  were  used  by 
ancient  nations  for  the  construction  of 
the  needle  we  have  no  means  of  know­
ing.  These  early  needles  were  clumsy 
affairs,  and  during  the  dark  ages  were 
superseded  by  steel  needles.

is  cut 

in  the  form 

Needles  are  made  by  machinery  from 
steel  wire,  which 
into  lengths, 
each  of  which  is  ground  to  a  point,  the 
eye 
is  punched,  the  needle  is  grooved 
at  the  eye,  and  then  polished,  coming 
out 
in  which  it  is  used. 
Needles  and  pins  are  made  chiefly  in 
Connecticut,  but  there  are  also  factories 
in  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire, 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  There  is 
in  each  of  the  States  of  Illinois,  Mary­
land,  Michigan,  New  Jersey  and  Ver­
mont  one  factory,  while 
in  Missouri 
there  are 
The  production  of 
in  the  United  States  yearly  is 
needles 
about  one  million  and  a  quarter gross, 
the  gross  being  twelve  dozen,  and  they 
are  valued  at  considerably  more  than 
one  million  dollars.  As  for  pins,  they 
are  made  to  the  extent  of  fifty  million 
gross  a  year,  of  a  value  of  about  one 
million  dollars.

two. 

the  question 

The  consumption  of  pins is enormous; 
and  since  they  are  never  destroyed  in 
is  often  asked, 
use, 
“ What  becomes  of  them?’ ’ 
It  is  easy 
to  see  that  from  their  size  and  shape 
they  get 
into  cracks  in  the  floors  of 
houses,  and  are  so  lost,  while  those  that 
get  swept  out of  doors soon  become  cov­
ered  with  dust  and  dirt,  and  so  disap­
pear  from  view.  Fifty  million  gross  is
600,000,000  pins,  which  are  used  by  the 
American  people  every  year.  When 
in  future  ages  the  ruins  of  our  bouses 
and  cities  shall  be  dug  up,  there  will 
be  pins  in  abundance  to  tell  of  the 
im­
portance  of  that  little  article  to  human 
society  in  the  nineteenth  and  twentieth 
centuries.

THE ENORMOUS FIR E  WASTE.

Although  the  present  year  made  a 
most  unpromising  start  in  the  matter 
of  fire  losses,  there  has  been  some 
lit­
tle  improvement  in  more  recent months, 
which,  while  not  bringing  the  waste 
down  to a  reasonable  figure,still  enables 
the  statistics  to  show  some  betterment 
over  the  two  preceding  seasons,  a  fact 
which  is  at  least  encouraging.

The  New  York  Journal  of  Commerce, 
which  makes  a  specialty  of  collecting 
statistics  showing  the  fire  losses  in  this 
country  and  Canada,  reports  the  loss 
during  June  as  aggregating  $10,245,350, 
which  is  a  trifle  larger  than  during  the 
corresponding  month  in  1901.  The  fig­
ures  for  the  six  months  of  the  year 
which  have  elapsed  are  below  the  cor­
responding  months  of  the  previous 
year,  as  well  as  of  1900.  The  only  rea­
son,  however,  that  we  make  a  better 
showing than  last  year  is  due  to  the  fact 
that  during  May,  1901,  there  occurred 
the  disastrous  Jacksonville  fire,  which 
ran  the 
losses  for  that  month  up  to 
$22,380,000.  Were  it  not  for  that  heavy 
ioss,  the  figures  for  1902  would  show-  a 
gain  over  1901,  as  far  as  the  first  half 
of  the  year  is  concerned.

There 

is  no  good  reason  why  the  fire 
losses  in  this  country  should  assume 
anything 
like  the  proportions  they  do. 
They  represent  too  heavy  a  drain  on 
the  national  resources,  and  have  made 
the  insurance  business  so  unprofitable, 
taking  the  country  as  a  whole,  that  the 
underwriters  have  been  compelled  to 
make  a  radical  increase in  premiums.

The 

idea  that,  because  the  insurance 
losses,  the 
companies  make  good  the 
is  en­
people  are  not the  true  sufferers 
tirely  erroneous. 
Insurance  companies 
are  able  to  pay  losses  because  they  col­
lect  premiums  from  a  great  number of 
people.  If these  premiums  do  not  suffice 
to  meet  the 
losses  over  and  above  a 
reasonable  profit  to  the  shareholders  in 
the  insurance  companies,  rates  will  be 
raised.  As  the  entire  population  prac­
tically  must  have 
insurance,  the  heavy 
fire  waste  is  made  good  by  the  addi­
tional  tax  placed  upon  everybody.  The 
loss  is,  therefore,  a  national  one,  and  it 
is,  moreover,  a 
is  irrepar­
able.

loss  which 

While  a  portion  of  the loss is undoubt­
edly  due  to  criminal  intent,  the great 
proportion 
is  undoubtedly  traceable  to 
careless  building,  imperfect  electrical 
installation  and  badly  protected  steam 
plants  in  factories.  Our system  of  fac­
tory  and  store  construction  is  entirely 
too  flimsy,  and  the  disregard  of  fire 
limits  and  fireproof  construction 
is  a 
It 
prolific  cause  of  undue  fire  waste. 
seems  impossible  to  hope  for  reform  ex­
cept 
in 
premiums  for  insurance.  The  pressure 
of  high  rates  will  eventually  compel  re­
forms,  but  it  does  seem  as  if  American 
business  men  will  stand  a  good  deal  in 
the  matter of  rates  rather than  resort  to 
substantial,  if  costly,  construction  and 
high-class  workmanship 
in  electrical 
installation  and  factory  building.

through  a  gradual 

increase 

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

in  different 

In  spite  of  a  number  of  strong  bear 
industries,  the 
influences 
general  course  of  the  Wall  Street  mar­
kets  is  upward.  Unfavorable  conditions 
in  Copper  and  in  one  or  two  other great 
properties  serve  to  make  irregular  de­
clines,  but these  are  conditions  affecting 
only  the 
immediate  stocks concerned, 
as  a  general  strength  pervades  all  that 
are  dependent  on  the  industrial  condi­
tion  of  the  country.  Transportation 
stocks  continue 
to  mark  new  high

in  spite  of  the  long  labor dis­
records 
in  Pennsylvania  and  the 
turbances 
freight  tie-up  in  Chicago.  These  would 
seem  to  be  enough  to create serious  dis­
turbance  in  the  transportation  interests, 
but as  yet  the  effects  are scarcely notice­
able  in  stocks.

The  gold  accumulation  in  the  Treas­
ury  continues  to  make  new  records,  but 
the  cutting  off  of  revenue  taxes  is  al­
ready  apparent 
in  a  reduction  of  the 
total  cash  balance.  This  is  fortunate  as 
the  activity  all  over  the  country  is  de­
manding  heavy  sums  and  it  would  not 
take  much  to  create  a  stringency  in  the 
European 
usual  market  conditions. 
money  market  conditions  are 
improv­
ing  and  the  probability  of  gold  export 
is  past.  Bankers  are  not  looking  for 
any  material  stringency.

Even  without  making  due  allowance 
for  the  season  and  the  large  number of 
wage  earners  voluntarily  idle,  the  busi­
ness  situation  compares  most  favorably 
with  earlier  dates.  Prices  are  high,  and 
this  is  evidence  of  a  liberal  consump­
tive  demand,  which  alone  could  sustain 
values  at  the  level  occupied  during  the 
last  six  months. 
Food  products  are 
leading 
in  strength,  partially  owing  to 
last  year's  deficiency,  but  even  in  new 
vegetables,  fruits,  dairy  products  and 
eggs,  which  are  being  marketed  freely, 
there  is  no  evidence of weakness.  Wear­
ing  apparel  also commands a ready  mar­
ket,  not  only  in  retail  lines,  where  sum­
mer  fabrics  are 
in  brisk  demand,  but 
jobbers  and  wholesalers  have  a  good 
volume  of  orders  from  traveling  sales­
men.

Lumber  regions  enjoy  exceptional  ac­
tivity,  all  kinds  of  wood  finding  a  ready 
market  at  firm  prices.  Building  opera­
tions  are  very  heavy,  and  would  be 
much  more  so  but  for  the  exorbitant 
demands  of  labor.  Wages  and  material 
are  both  at  an  unusually  high  point, 
making 
structural  work  exceedingly 
expensive,  and  contracts  can  not be  car­
ried  out  on  specifications  made  a  year 
ago.  Higher  prices  for  pig 
iron  have 
not  affected  consumption,  the  latest  re­
turns  of  furnace  stocks  showing  no  ac­
cumulation,  although  production 
is 
steadily  attaining  new  high  records,  in 
the  face  of 
interrupted  deliveries  of 
fuel.  Ovens  are  turning  out  more  coke 
than  ever  before,  yet  shipments  are  not 
sufficient  to  meet  requirements.  A  few 
steel  mills  have  closed  for  the  usual 
summer  overhauling,  but  curtailment  in 
this  industry  will  be  less  than  custom­
ary,  since  orders  have  been  placed  for 
much  of  next  year’s  output,  notably  for 
structural  shapes  and  railway  equip­
ment.

The  scientists  often  have their  trouble 
for  their  pains.  Things  that  look  big 
with  bidden  meaning  have  no  signifi­
cance whatever.  Dr.  Dorsey,of the  Field 
Columbian  Museum 
in  Chicago,  an­
nounces that the supposed inscriptions on 
the  adobe  houses  of  the  Hopi  Indians 
that  the anthropologists have been trying 
to  decipher  and  read  for  years  have 
been  found  to  be  nothing  more  than  the 
scratches  made  by  mischievous  Hopi 
children  in  the  mud  of  the  adobe houses 
after  they  had  been  freshly  built.

An  ounce  of  prevention  is  well  known 
to  be  worth  a  pound  of  cure.  Societies 
whose  mission 
is  to  prevent  are  in  ex­
istence  in  all  the  cities  of  the  country. 
Now  a  cynic  rises  to  suggest  the  for­
mation  of  a  “ Society  for the  Prevention 
of  Things  Not  Already  Prevented.”  
All  he  needs  to  do  is  to  join  the  trades 
unions.  They  want  to  stop  everything 
except  the  breweries.

THE  COMMERCIAL  SPIRIT.

A  Tendency  Not  A ltogether  to  Be  De­

plored.

lodgment 

If  there  be  one  word  which  more  than 
another characterizes  the  time  in  which 
we  live,  it  is  the  word  commercialism. 
The  word  and  the  idea  which  it  repre­
sents  have  taken  full  possession  of  us. 
They  are 
in  the  very  air  we  breathe. 
They  have  permeated  all  the  relation­
ships  of  life.  The  dollar  is  to-day  not 
only  the  standard  by  which  we  measure 
the  value  of  material  things  but  too 
often,  alas, 
it is  the  yardstick  by  which 
we  are  attempting  to  measure  off  the 
value  of  spiritual  things.  This  com­
mercial  sentiment  has  taken  possession 
of  educational  life  and  educational 
in­
stitutions,  of  our  religious  life  and  our 
churches,  and  fortunate  are  we  if  it  has 
not  found  a 
in  our  homes. 
The  success  of  our  colleges  to-day  is 
being  determined  not  by  the  character, 
the  quality,  the  temper  and  spirit  oi 
the  men  which  they  are  producing,  but 
by  the  number  and  size  of  their  build­
ings,  by  the variety  of  their curriculum, 
by  the  extent  of  their  endowment  and 
by  the  number of  their  students.  The 
college  president  is  chosen  not  so  much 
for 
intellectual  and  scholarly  attain­
ments  or  even 
for  pedagogic  ability, 
but  for  financial  ability—the  ability  to 
charm  the  elusive  dollar  and  drop  it 
into  the  coffers  of  the  institution.  The 
sentiment  contained 
in  that  somewhat 
apocryphal  remark  credited  to  the  late 
President  Garfield,  that  Mark  Hopkins 
at  one  end  of  a 
log  and  a  boy  at  the 
other constituted  a  college,  would  meet 
scant 
in  the  educational 
thought  and  life  of  to-day.  Such  senti­
ment  is  obsolete.  Mark  Hopkins  him­
self,  were  he  alive,  would,  1  fear,  be  a 
back  number  in  the  present  educational 
world.

recognition 

life 

This  commercial  spirit  has  also  taken 
possession  of  our  religious  life  and  of 
our  churches.  Their  success 
is  esti­
mated  not  by  the  type  and  quality  of 
spiritual 
there  engendered  and 
nourished,  but  by  the  size  and  archi­
tectural  effect  of  the  buildings,  the  size 
of  the  audiences  and  the  wealth  of  the 
offerings.  The  popular  estimate  of  the 
minister  too  is  not  based  upon  his  com­
munion  with  God  and  the  frequency  of 
his  approach  to  the  throne  of  grace,  by 
means  of  which  communion  he  scatters 
perpetual  benedictions  upon  his  people 
as  be  goes  in  and  out  among  them,  but 
upon  his  ability  to  draw  the  crowd  and 
get  the  money.

Is  it  not  true,  also,  that  this  commer­
is  finding  some  place  in  our 
cialism 
domestic relations  and  home  life?  May 
it  not  taint  that  holiest  of  all  human  re­
lationships,  the  relationship  of  husband 
and  wife?  May  not  the  wife  in  her  es­
timate  of  the  husband  have  injected  in­
to  that  estimate  her  view  of  his  com­
mercial  ability,  his  ability  to  provide 
as  compared  with  his  fellows? 
Is  the 
complete  estimate  of  the  wife  by  the 
husband 
free  from  her  relationship  to 
social  distinction?  Is  not  the  child’s  es­
timate  of  the  home  based  somewhat 
upon  the  number  and  size  of  the  rooms 
and  the 
in 
which  that  home  is  confined?

luxury  of  the  furnishing 

I  need  not  express  the  platitude  that 
the  growth  of  this  spirit  of  commercial­
ism 
and  materialism  presents  grave 
dangers  and  that  these  dangers  are  per­
sonal  as  well  as  national—they 
are 
spiritual  as  well  as  economic.

But  this  spirit  and  tendency  is  not  al­
together  to  be  deplored.  Let  us  remem­
ber  in  connection  with  it  that  our  esti­
mate  of  the  spiritual  can  only  be  ex­

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

pressed  in  material  terms.  We  have  no 
yardstick  by  which  to  measure spiritual 
values.

it 

What  standard  may  we  find  by  which 
to  measure  the  value  of  a  soul  saved? 
What  standard  may  we  find  to  measure 
the  value  of  a  broken  heart  comforted? 
What  standard  may  we  find  to  measure 
the  value  of  a  careless,  indifferent  and 
purposeless  life  inspired?  Our  expres­
sion  of  spiritual  values  so  far  as  they 
may be  expressed  must  be  mainly in  the 
terms  of  commercial  statistics.  Then 
again  the commercial  spirit  need not  be 
altogether  deplored  because 
is  the 
spirit  of  large  things.  There  is  an  in­
spiration 
in  dealing  with  large  things. 
There  is  an  inspiration  in joining hands 
with  a  great  company  to  bring  to  pass 
some  great  thing.  There  is  an  inspira­
tion  in  watching  the  brain  of  man  con­
ceive  some  great  thing  and  in  watching 
brain  and  hand  make  that  conception  a 
reality.
,  Then,  too, 
it  must  be  remembered 
that  while  we  are  seeking  spiritual 
things  we  are  living  in  a  material world 
In 
and  with  a  material  environment. 
the  advancement  of  spiritual 
things 
many  of  the  most  important  and  effec­
tive  tools  put  into  our  hands  are  mate­
rial.  So  I  say  this  commercial and  ma­
terial spirit and  tendency  which  charac­
terize  the  time  in  which  we 
live  more 
than  any  other  time  and  the  land  in 
which  we 
live  more  than  any  other 
land  are  not  altogether  to  be  deplored. 
But  what  of  righteousness?  How  is  it 
faring  in  the  midst  of  this  commercial­
it  being  choked  to  death  as 
ism? 
Is 
the  grass 
in  our  lawns  is  destroyed  by 
the.  dandelions?  Or  is  righteousness  a 
leaven  which  is  diffusing  itself  through­
out  our great commercial  life  and  enter­
prise  and  will  continue  so  to  diffuse  it­
self  until  the  whole  is  leavened?

Our  answer  to  that  enquiry  will  de­
pend  upon  our  point  of  view,  our  tem­
perament  and  our  faith 
It 
would  be  no  difficult  task  for  me  to 
make  an  argument  here to  prove  beyond 
peradventure  of  doubt to any pessimistic 
soul  that  righteousness 
is  being  ban­
ished  from  the  earth.

in  God. 

The  argument  will  not  be  a  weak  and 
specious  one,  but  full  of  logical virility. 
Nor  need  we  go  far  afield  to  find  abun­
dant  evidence  to  support  it. 
1  could 
point  you  to  the  selfishness  and  greed 
which  possess  the  great  commercial 
world. 
I  could  tell  you  of  the  economic 
conditions  which  seem  to  be  in  wrought 
into  the  very  fiber  of  our  material  life, 
which  develop 
and 
greed.

such  selfishness 

I 

is 

could 

tell  of  hypocrisy 

in  our 
churches,  of  dishonesty  in  business,  of 
disregard  for  the  poor,  of  the  pride  of 
the  rich.  Unrighteousness 
in  the 
in  abundant  quantity  and  evi­
world 
dence,  nor  is  it  all  outside  of  ourselves. 
But,  my  friends,  there  is  another  and  1 
believe  a  saner,  a  more  wholesome  and 
a  truer  answer.  Righteousness  has  not 
from  the  earth  nor  has  it  be­
departed 
gun  its  exit. 
It  is  an  active  and  grow­
ing  factor 
in  all  our great  commercial 
life  and  enterprise.  An  acquaintance 
with 
individuals  whom  we  meet  will 
help  us  to this  conclusion.

Does  such  an 

incident  as  this  mean 
nothing?  A  few  weeks  ago  a  young 
man—a  clerk—working  for  $g  a  week, 
was  told  by  his  superior  that  in  the  un­
usual  rush  of  business  he  could  draw 
double  pay  for  some  Sunday  work.  He 
replied,  “ 1  would  be  glad  to  earn  the 
money  and  I ’d  be  glad  to  help  to  get 
the  work  up,  but  there 
isn't  money

enough  in  the  treasury  of  this  establish­
ment  to  get  me  to  work  Sunday.”

important  and 

One  of  the  most  prominent  business 
men  in  Chicago—a  man  of  great  wealth 
and 
influence  whose  name  would  be 
known  to  nearly  everyone—had  been  at­
tending  a  convention  of  men  gathered 
from  all  parts  of  the  country.  He  was 
an 
influential  figure  in 
the  deliberations.  Saturday  night  has 
come.  A  company  of  gentlemen  are 
‘ ‘ What  time  to-morrow  can 
about  him. 
we  see  you?”   they  ask. 
‘ ‘ To-mororw 
morning  I  have  an  engagement  to  at­
tend  church,  the  afternoon  1  spend  with 
my  family.  At  as  early  an  hour  Mon­
day  as  you  desire  I  shall  be  glad  to  be 
with  you,”   is  the  reply.

One  man  whom  I  know  says  to  his 
numerous  employes 
im­
portant  questions,  “ The  first  considera­
tion  is,  what  is  right?”

in  settling 

These  cases  you  may  say  are  excep­
tional.  Not  at  all.  Our  business  world 
is  full  of  men,  employers  and  employes, 
whose  whole  business  conduct  is  gov­
erned  by  such  considerations. 
They 
are 
in  the  shops,  in  the  stores,  in  the 
factories,  in  the  counting  rooms.  They 
are  not  blatant  nor  conspicuous,  but 
quietly  day  by  day  govern  their  lives 
and  conduct  by  the  principles  of  right­
eousness.  They  are  injecting these prin­
into  the  whole  business  world. 
ciples 
But  look  not  alone  at 
individuals  but 
at  the  great  co-operative  enterprises, 
charitable,  benevolent,  philanthropic 
and  religious, whose  combined  cost  runs 
into  the  hundreds  of  millions  yearly 
and  whose  influences  circle  the  globe. 
Such  enterprises  are  carried  on  largely 
if  not  chiefly  by  business  men. 
It  is 
their  money,  their  thought,  their  time, 
given  unstintedly,  which  are  thus  pro­
moting  such  enterprises.  Nor  is  it  pos­
sible  to  account  for  these  great  move­
ments  by  motives  of  selfishness or pride. 
That  these  often  enter  as  motives  we 
can  not  deny.  But  in  the  main  if money 
and 
interest  and  time  and  labor  are  to 
be  sought  for the  on-going  of  such  en­
terprises  they  must  be  sought  success­
fully  chiefly  from  those  whose  lives  are 
governed  by  righteousness.  The  most 
successful  appeal  can  be  made  to  con­
science  and  not  to  pride.

Remember,  too,  the  great  multitude 
who  are  thus  enlisted. 
In  the  eloquent 
words  of  President  Bradley,  “ the twelve 
apostles  have  become  hundreds of thous­
ands  and  the  little  company  of  disciples 
have  become  millions.”

Millions 

throughout  the  world  are 
pledged  to  righteousness.  Millions there 
are  in  that  great  army  who  are  wearing 
that  breastplate.  The  cause 
is  not  a 
weak  one.  The  company  is  not  meager 
and  puny.

I  was  introduced  to  a  man  who  sat  in 
the  seat  in  front  of  me,  who  wore  a  pe­
culiar  button. 
It  bore  the  imprint  of  a 
pitcher.  He  told  me  it  was  the  badge 
of  the  Gideonites  an  organization  of 
which  1  knew  nothing  and  of  which  1 
had  never  even  heard—an  organization 
of  Christian 
travelers. 
Twenty-five  hundred  of  them!  Travel­
ing  apostles  of  righteousness in the busi­
ness  world!

commercial 

My  friends,  if  you  get  blue  sitting 
under  some  juniper  tree,imagining  that 
yours 
is  the  only  knee  which  has  not 
bent  to  Baal,  get  up  and  climb  some 
mountaintop  where  you  can  get  a  broad 
view  of  the  world,  take  into  your  lungs 
some  of  the  ozone  of  which  the  A l­
mighty  has  an  abundant  store,  which 
will  change  your  pessimism  to  an  abun­
dant  and  abounding  optimism.  Above 
all, 
lift  your  eyes  until  you  behold

9

through  the  veil  which  confronts  them, 
that  throne  which  is  from all eternity,on 
is  seated  the  Omnipotent  One. 
which 
His  arm 
is  not  shortened.  His  king­
dom  is  a  kingdom  of  righteousness  and 
He 
is  pledged  to  the  establishment  of 
that  kingdom. 

S.  S.  Rogers.

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.
Ke 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 boons, 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 bil  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  the  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 noforgot- 
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  g*t  to  expect a bill 
with each  purchase whiuh 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. la98.
Book patented June 14, 1898.
Book patented  Mar. 19  1901.
For further particulars write or call on
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clothing

Some  A dvantages  of  High-Class  Store 

M anagement.

The  importance  of  keeping  an  organ­
ization 
intact  in  a  fine  furnishing  shop 
was 
illustrated  recently  in  a  most  in­
teresting  manner  by  some 
incidents 
which  occurred  in  one  of  the  swellest 
stores  in  New  York.  The  proprietor  of 
this  establishment  has  been  for  many 
years  regarded  by  the  club  men  and 
others  about  town  as  "th e  
last  word" 
in  the  matter of  "fix in g s."  When  any­
one  in  the  smart  set  was  asked  where he 
obtained  his  shirts,  ties,  gloves,  etc., 
he  was  more  than  likely  to  reply  " a t  
B lan k's;  they  all  know  me  there  and 
understand  what I want."

In  the  course  of  time  the  proprietor 
of  this  store,  feeling  his  years,  turned 
the  business  over  to  a  younger  member 
of  the  family.  The  latter,  wishing  to 
modernize  the  shop,  although  it  was  by 
no  means  behind  the  times,  engaged 
the  services  of  a  gentleman  whose  ideas 
on  furnishings  were,  without  doubt,  re­
markably  good.  He  knew how  to  create, 
to  order,  to  show  and to  sell.  But  there 
was  one  thing  that be  did  not know,  and 
that  was  how  to  keep  intact  a  corps  of 
efficient  clerks. 
In  a  word,  he  lacked 
the  quality  which  some  men  never  can 
acquire,  by  reason  either  of  tempera­
ment  or  bad  temper, and  that  is  execu­
tive  ability,  the  knowing  how  to  get 
service  and  respect  without  the  under 
man  feeling  that  he  is  being  directed 
contrary  to  bis  own 
ideas  of  the  way 
that  certain  things  should  be  done.

They  had  substantial 

Well,  it  was  not  very  long  before  this 
dissatisfaction  ran  riot  in  the  store  and 
the  resignations  of  several  of  the  stand­
bys  followed.  The  proprietor  of  the 
establishment  noticed  this  dissatisfac­
tion  among  the  employes,  many  of 
whom  bad  been  with  the  house  a  long 
time. 
friends 
among  the  patrons.  He  accordingly  set 
on  foot  some  enquiries  and  learned  that 
his  manager  was  not  getting  along  very 
well  with  bis  force. 
It  was  also  ascer­
tained  that  certain  customers  of  the 
house  had  gone  elsewhere,  because  of 
the  changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  va­
rious  departments.  Shortly  after  this 
discovery  the  manager’ s resignation was 
accepted.  Then  he  applied  to  other 
crack  shops  for  a  position,  one  in  par­
ticular,  a  rival  of  the  shop  which  he 
bad  just  left. 
latter  were  em­
ployed  some  of  the  young  men  who  had 
left  the  other,  and  when  they  learned 
that  there  was  a  possibility  of  their  for­
mer manager  being  engaged  they  threw 
up  their  hands  and  said,  " I f   be  comes 
here  we  lea ve !"  And  bis  application 
for a  position  was  not  even  considered 
seriously,  because 
it  was  feared,  how­
ever  good  a  buyer  or general  man  he 
might  be,  he  would  have  a  demoralizing 
effect  upon  the  staff.

In  the 

This  matter  of  customers  liking  cer­
tain  clerks  in  the  stores  they  frequent  is 
characteristic  of  very  fine  shops  and 
he 
is  a  wise  proprietor who  will  keep 
such  salesmen  when  they  have  proved 
their  efficiency.  They  learn  the  wants 
of  fastidious  customers  and  they  are 
able  to  answer  questions  with  an  ease 
and  affability  which  may  be  lacking 
in 
a  less-at-home  clerk.  There  are  custom­
ers,  as  dealers  in  the  finer grades  know, 
who  rely  upon  a  man  behind  the  coun­
ter or at  the  table,  and  when  he  is  ab­
left  the  house  they  feel  a 
sent  or  has 
sense  of  personal 
The  writer 
knows  of  cases  where  customers  have 
gone  from  one  end  of the  town  to  the 
other  to  see a  salesman,  believing  that

loss. 

whatever  establishment  he  was  con­
nected with  would  be  one  in  which  they 
would  be  disposed  to open  an  account, 
feeling that in  the  hands  of  such  a  sales­
man  their  wants  would  receive  due  at­
tention.

He 

In  one  of  the  best  stores  on  Fifth  av­
enue,  New  York,  there 
is  a  salesman 
who  has  a  very  fine  line  of  customers; 
they  have  been  handed down from father 
to  son,  as 
it  may  be  said,  for  he  has 
been  many  years  in  the  service  of  this 
particular  establishment. 
is  an 
elderly  man 
in  years,  hut,  having  a 
youthful  temperament,  has  kept  up  with 
the  times.  He  has  the  fashions  of  the 
moment  always  at  his  fingers’  ends.  He 
knows  what  to  suggest  and  what  to 
recommend,  when  to  urge  and  when 
merely  to  hint  at.  Such  a  man  is  in­
valuable  to  an  establishment  and  bis 
proprietors  would  he very  unwise to  part 
with  him.  He  could  probably  carry  his 
customers,who  are  mostly  very  rich peo­
ple,  to  whatever  shop  he  went.  The firm 
have  had  the  good  sense  to recognize his 
value  and  besides  a  substantial  salary 
they  give  him  an  interest  in  his  annual 
sales.

The  present  writer  has  seen  no  indi­
cations  of  any  great  popularity  of  the 
buffet  system  of  showing and selling fur­
nishing  goods,  so  far  as  New  York  is 
concerned. 
It  has  been  tried  and  in 
effect  is  very  attractive  to  the  eye,  but 
the  idea  is  not  quite  so  practical as hav­
ing  counters.  To  be  sure,  every  fine 
furnisher  likes  to  give  his  store  an  air 
of  distinction,  making 
it  differ  in  its 
interior  fittings  from  those  of  his  neigh­
bors,  but 
in  catering  to  this  idea  he 
must not  lose  sight  of  the  economic  fea­
tures  of  storekeeping.  The  buffet  sys­
tem  does  business  against  the  wall  and, 
with  wall  cases  and drawers,leaves  room

Ellsworth  & Thayer  M’n’f’g  Co.

Milwaukee, Wig.

Heavenrich  Bros,

Correct Clothes fen* Men

Are  universally  considered  the 
best on the market.
Your  customers  will  surely  ap­
preciate them.  W e spare  no  ex­
pense 
in  getting  up  well-made, 
perfect-fitting,  s h a p e - r e t a i n i n g  
garm ents  and  invite  you  to  in­
spect our line when you  come  to 
Chicago.

208, 210, 212, 214 V an Buren S t., C hicago

Heavenrich Bros.

Take Elevator 

Corner of Franklin St.

Detroit office and salesroom  131  Jefferson Avenue

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lO O K  at the linings and workmanship. 
lO O K  at the fit eVerq  ti me. 
lO O K  at our sizes, and see if  theq 
are  not fu ll  and true  to  size. 
lO O K to the interest of qour custom 
er,  and  see  that  he gets good values 
so that  he w il I  come to  \\o \i  again. 
W e make  these  goods in cur factories and w ill  be pleased 
to receive a sample order and test  the truth of our statements.

Manufacturers of

Oreat Western  Fur and  Fur Lined  Cloth Coats 

THE

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rlp Kind.

We want  agent  In  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman.

61-63  MARKET

RAPIDS,

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in  the  middle  of the  store  for chairs and 
tables  and  bits  of  ornamental  furniture. 
But  customers  are  not  so  easily  waited 
upon  (it  seems  to  us,  and  this  is  the 
opinion  of  those  who  have had  practical 
experience) as  where  there  are  counters, 
or ovais  in  the  center or at  the  sides  of 
the  store.

One  of  the  plans  brought  up  in  a  re­
cent  conversation  among  some  traveling 
men,  who  had  seen  some  pretty  swift 
specimens  of  storekeeping  in  the  finer 
element  of  the  business,  had  for  its cen­
tral  idea  the  absolute  concealment  of 
any 
initial  evidences  of  “ merchandis­
ing.”   The  shop  was  simply  an  apart­
ment  furnished,  as  the  small  reception 
room  of  a  club  might  be  furnished,  with 
easy  chairs,  tables  and  a  few  books  and 
the  current  publications  here  and  there. 
The  clerks  stood  about  without  any  ap­
parent  desire  to sell  goods.  When  a  cus­
tomer  entered  he  was  shown  a  chair. 
The  clerk,  with  great  courtesy,  ad­
vanced,  and  the  customer stated  to  the 
clerk  that  he desired to  see something  in 
neckwear,  for  instance.  The  clerk  re­
tired  to  another  room  and  returned  with 
samples  of  what the  customer  had  asked 
for. 
sold  was  of  the 
very  finest  character,  and  only  the  very 
best  trade  in  the  city  was  sought.  As  to 
whether  this  shop  was  actually  in  exist­
ence  the  traveling  man  replied  that  he 
could  not  say,  as  he  bad  heard  of  it 
from  some  one  else.  There 
is,  how­
ever,  the  shade  of  a  shadow  of  a  sug­
gestion  in  this  ultra  form  of  storekeep­
ing.

Everything 

It  has  frequently  been  asked  whether 
it  would  be  possible  for  the  very  best  of 
furnishing  shops  to  get  along  without 
window  dressing.  Not any of them have, 
as  yet,  reached  this  point,  but,  on  the 
contrary, 
throughout  the  country  the 
smarter  the  shop,  the  smarter  the  win­
dows.  The  only  exception  to  this  is  to 
be  seen 
in  the  stores  of  Arnold,  Con­
stable  &  Co.,  of New York,  and  Brooks 
Bros.,  of  that  city,  who  make  no  es­
pecial  effort,  but  simply  put  goods  in 
the  window,  that 
is,  they  make  no  at­
tempt  at  trimming.  All  others  that  the 
writer  can  recall  are  expertly  dressed 
with  a  view  to  attracting  attention  and 
causing  people  to  visit  the  stores.  The 
windows  are  there  and  the  managers use 
them  to  the  best  advantage. 
It  would 
seem  that  a  store  with  the  fame that cer­
tain  of  cur  metropolitan  shops  have 
would  not  require  windows,  but  that 
their  customers  would  drop 
in  unat­
tracted.  But  this 
idea  is  not  founded 
upon  experience.  One  needs  to  con­
stantly  remind  his  permanent,as well  as 
his  transient  trade  of  his  existence,  and 
that  be  has  new  things  for  their  admir-

ation.  Show  windows  in  the  fine  trade 
are  especially  attractive  to  transient 
custom.  The  gentleman  visiting  the 
city 
is  by  one  of  these  windows  re­
minded  that  there  are  beautiful  things 
in  shirtings  or  underwear  which  are 
new  and  which  ought to  be  in  his  ward­
robe.  Now,  on  the  whole, 
it  would 
seem  that  the  affirmative  side  of  the 
question  must  be  taken  and  that  show 
windows  are  indispensable,  and  this 
is 
said  in  view  of the  fact  that  the  famous 
A.  T.  Stewart,  the  greatest  retail  trade 
goods  merchant  the  world  ever  knew, 
never  used  show  windows,  not  a  single, 
solitary  one, 
in  his  concern.  Aftei his 
death  the  business  fell  into  the  hands  of 
other  firms, 
finally  becoming  Hilton, 
Hughes  &  Co.  They  continued  without 
show  windows,  but  when  John  Wana- 
maker,  another  marvel 
in  the  world  of 
merchandising,  took  the  business  he 
lost  no  time  in  putting 
in  show  win­
dows.—Apparel  Gazette.

in 

To  Increase  the  Sale  of Umbrellas.
For  some  time 

it  has  been  evident 
that  sales  of  umbrellas  to  dealers  in 
men's  wear exclusively  are  not  so  large 
as  in  former  years. 
In  fact,  the  falling 
off  has  been  so  marked  in some  quarters 
that  manufacturers  are  beard  to  say  that 
the  umbrella  business  for  men’s  styles 
has  become  monopolized  by  the  dry 
goods  stores.  Dealers 
furnishing 
goods  who  fail  to  make  something  good 
out  of  their  umbrella  business  and  who 
allow  the  dry  goods  people  to  get  this 
trade  have  only  themselves  to  blame. 
If  they  will  select  the pieces  judiciously 
adhering  to  really good houses  who  have 
some  taste  in  the  matter  of  handles  and 
general  styles,  if  they  do  this  and  then 
keep 
in  good 
shape  and  the  most  attractive  pieces 
displayed  so  that  they  will  attract  atten­
tion,  considerable  business  will  be  se­
cured.

their  umbrella  stock 

Particular attention  should  be  paid  to 
the  young  men's  trade.  Two  or  three 
important  manufacturers  of  umbrellas 
are  making  a specialty of  just  such  mer­
chandise  and  specimens  of  their  handi­
work  are  well  worth  prominent  placing. 
Young  men  are  not  especially  inclined 
to  patronize  dry  goods  stores  nor  to 
leave  the  selection  of  their goods  to  the 
female  members  of  their 
families. 
They 
like  to  do  their own  buying,  and 
if  umbrellas  are  properly  shown  and 
pushed  considerable  business  can  be 
built  up  among  this  very  element. 
In 
the  average  store  no  effort  is  made  to 
show  novelties  in  umbrella  handles  or 
to  keep  up  assortment  of  attractive 
styles. 
is  a  good  thing  to  cultivate 
the  umbrella  buying  man  on  a  $2  to a $5 
retail  basis.

It 

Do  Y o u   Sell
Vmeberg’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.

DETROIT,  MICH.

V ineberg’s Patent Pocket Pants Co.

Detroit, Midi.

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The

Peerless Manufacturing 

Company.

We are now closing out our entire line of Spring and  Summer  Men’s  Fur­
nishings at refluced prices, and will show  you  at  the  same  time  the  most 
complete line for F A L L  and W IN T E R  consisting in part of

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

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

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w w w w w w w w w  w w w w w  W W W W  ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼  ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼  ’

Fall  Line  of  Ready  Made  Clothing

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

P A N T S of every kind and for all  ages.  Sole  Agent  for  Western  Michigan  for  the 

V IN E B E R G   P A T E N T   PO C K ET   P A N T S,  proof against pickpockets.

Citizens phone,  1957;  Bell phone, Main  1282; Residence address, room 207, Livingston 

Hotel;  Business address
WILLIAM  CONNOR,  28  and  30  S.  Ionia  SL , Grand Rapids, Mich.

E S T A B L IS H E D   A   Q U A R T E R   O F   A   C E N T U R Y

N .  B .—Remember, everything direct from the factory;  no jobbers* prices.

SU M M ER  GOODS—I still have a good line to select from.

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers

H ints  on  How  to  W ait on  a Customer.
Begin  waiting  on  a  customer  at  the 
door  of  the  store  or  entrance  to  the  de­
partment  by  courteous  greeting  and 
seating.  Quickly  study  the  prospective 
purchasers—“ size  them  up,”   as it were. 
If  acquainted  with  customers  address 
them  by  name  and  if  time  permits  talk 
on  current  topics  or the  weather  for  a 
moment  or  while  removing  the  shoe  be-1 
ing  worn  from  one  foot.  It  is  sometimes 
advisable  to  ask  which  foot  the  custom­
er  desires  to  try  shoes  on,  as  some  pe­
culiarity  that  one  foot  may  have  over 
the  other  may  make  it  desirable  to  try 
shoes  on  the  foot  that  causes  the  most 
concern  to  the  customer,  whether  it  be 
left  or  right  foot.  As  a  rule,  try 
the 
shoes  on  both 
feet,  as  this  course  fre­
quently  makes  exchanges  unnecessary.
Ascertain  for  what  purpose  customers 
desire  to  use  shoes;  whether  for  busi­
ness,  dress  or  walking  purposes. 
If you 
know  a  customer’s  calling,  adapt  your 
selection  to  that.  Do  not  be  guided  in 
the  selection  of  style,  size  or  width  by 
what a  customer  is  or  has  been  wearing. 
Use  the 
judgment  that  you  are  paid  to 
exercise  in  all  matters.

Show  at  once  several  styles  and  mate­
rials  adapted  to the  purpose  designated. 
Pay  very  little  attention  in  this  first  se­
lection  to  price. 
It  is  advisable  to 
show  better  grades  than  perhaps  your 
judgment  of  a  customer's  circumstances 
seems  to  warrant. 
It  is  easier to  come 
down  the  scale  of  prices  than  to  go  up.
I  contend  that  it  is  foolish  for a  sales­
man  to  attempt  to  pass  judgment  on  a 
customer’s  purse.  A  poorly  dressed, 
but  affluent  customer,  may  be 
insulted 
by  the  offer  of  a  cheap  shoe,  while  on 
the  other  hand  the  cheap  appearing 
in 
customer  may  feel  some  satisfaction 
being  shown  a  good  article. 
It  is,  at 
any  rate,  always  advisable  to  show  good 
goods.

Having  presented  two  or  three  styles 
enlarge  on  the  advantages  of  the  one 
that  your 
judgment  tells  you  would  be 
the  best  for  wear,  appearance  and  com­
fort  along  the  lines  of  the  use  intended. 
Do  not  contest  a  point  with  customers. 
Commence  by  frank,  practical  and  as­
suring  words.  Get  into  the  confidence 
of  your  customer.

Have  your  size  stick  handy  and  de­
pend  on  that  for  the  size  you  are  going 
to  try  on.  The  use  of  a  size  stick  is 
evidence  to  a  customer  that  you  under­
stand  your  business  practically.  Select 
the  size  that  the  stick  shows  you  should 
be  in  accordance  with  the  ratio  that  the 
draught  of  the  foot  bears  to the  style 
chosen. 
in  this  matter  will 
make 
it  necessary  to  try  several  styles 
before  the  correct  one  is  found,  and  fre­
quently  make  the  customer  despair  of  a 
fit  or  make  the  foot  irritable  and  the 
customer  bard  to  please.

Ignorance 

in 

Before  buttoning  or  lacing  a  shoe 
cause  a  customer to  settle  the  foot  well 
into  the  shoe  by  stamping  the  foot or  by 
standing 
it.  Lace  a  shoe  either  in 
accordance  with  the  old  shoe  or ask  the 
customer  which  way  is  preferred,  for 
if  the  customer  should  quickly decide  to 
wear  the  new  pair,  the  way  he  or  she  is 
accustomed  to  lacing  them  would  natur­
ally  be  preferred. 
In  buttoning  a  shoe 
do  not  turn  the  hook  or  attempt  to  but­
is  too  great.  Avoid 
ton 
pinching  the  flesh 
in  buttoning  as  it 
produces  irritability.

if  the  strain 

Satisfy  the  customer  in  every  way  as 
nearly  as  you  possibly  can.  Show  that 
is  your  aim.  Attend  to  the  matter  of

serving  your  customers  and  avoid  all 
other  matters  for  the  time  being.

Run  your  band  along  the  innersole 
of  shoes you  try  on  so  that  you  may  dis­
cover  in  advance  any  roughness or  tacks 
that  would  cause  discomfort  to  your 
customer.

Warm  patent 

leather  before  trying 
them  on,  as  a  sale  may  be  “ queered’ ’ 
if  a  customer  stamps  his  or  her  foot 
down  hard  and  causes  the  japanning  to 
check.

Do  not  deliberately 

lie  about  your 
goods.  Sell  them  on  their  merits strict­
ly.  Nothing 
is  gained  by  deception, 
for  some  one  else  is  liable  to  tell  your 
customer  the  truth  about  the  purchase 
from  you;  quite  frequently  the  cobbltr 
does.

Wait  on  your  customers  as  though  you 
were  a  servant  and  remember that  “ fa­
miliarity  breeds  contempt.’ ’

Do  not  cite  your  own  shoes  as  evi­
dence  that  their  style  is  proper  for  your 
customer.

Do  not  hurry  unless  you  are  obliged 
to,  but  still  show  familiarity  with  your 
stock  by  prompt  service.  There  is  a 
difference  between  promptness  and 
haste.

Do  not  show  any  impatience  either 
with  the  customer  or  over  your  trials  to 
fit  or  find  the  proper  shoe.

Do  not  condemn styles you do  not wish 

to  sell  fur  the  sake  of  selling  others.

Do  not  let  a  customer  go  because  you 

can  not  sell  a  “ P.  M. ”

Do  not  get  your  employer  into  “ hot 
water”   by  attempting  to  make  a  sale 
through 
liberal  guaranteeing.  This  is 
one  of  the  greatest  follies  of  the  day.  In 
fact,  “ anything  to  make  a  sale”  
is 
mighty  poor  business.  Remember  that 
the  tendency  of the  times  is  away 
from 
“ fake”   and  towards  fairness.

Take  no  notice  of  the  odor  of  a  cus­

tomer's  feet  or condition  of  hosiery.

Having  satisfied  your  customer  show 
other goods,  if  time  permits,  for  other 
purposes  than  the  one  selected;  that  is, 
if  you  sell  your  customers  a  heavy walk­
ing  shoe,  show  a 
light  dress  shoe  and 
perhaps  another  sale  may  be  made.  But 
in  this  second  exhibition  show  an  en­
tirely  different  article  from  the  one  al­
ready  sold,  otherwise  you  might  spoil 
your  sale  already  made.

Get  your  customer’s  name and address 
if  possible  by  an  offer  to  deliver  the 
purchase.  Alter  the  custom t   has  gone 
record  the  name  and  address  in  an  ad- 
drtss  book  together  with  the  number, 
size  and  width  of  shoe  sold  and  period­
ically  send  your  card,  some  printed 
matter—catalogue,  sale  notice  or  season 
announcement.
Deal  with  every  customer,  black  or 
white,  rich  or  poor,  ugly  or  handsome 
in  the  same  genial,  cordial,  couiteous 
manner.
Go  with  your customer  to  the  exit  and 
courteously  bid  him  or  her  “ Good-day, 
call  again,"  whether you  have made  the 
sale  or not —Nathan  D.  Dodge  in  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.

The  Leather Industry.

industry. 

The  Census  Bureau  recently  issued  a 
report  on  the  manufacture  of  leather, 
tanned,  curried  and 
finished,  which 
shows  a  capital  of $173,977,421  invested 
in  the 
The  value  of  the 
is  returned  at $204,038,127,  to 
products 
produce  which 
involved  an  outlay  of 
$3,158,842  for  salaries  of officials,clerks, 
etc.  ;  $22,591,091  for  wages,  $7,023,416 
for  miscellaneous  expenses  and  $155,- 
000,004  for  materials  used.  The  total 
production  of  the  leather  manufactures 
named 
increased  from  $109,739,643  in 
1850  to  $615,720,395 
in  1900,  or about 
sixfold,  while  the  population  increased 
about  three  and  one  quarterfold.  With 
less  than  double  the  number of  estab­
lishments  the  capital  increased  nearly 
ninefold,  the  number  of  wage  earners 
employed  nearly  doubled  and  the  wages 
paid  increased  more  than  threefold.

Our  facilities  are  of  the  v e r y   b e s t   to  supply  the  Shoe 
dealers  of  Michigan  with  an  “ up-to-date,”   snappy  and 

reliable  line  ofShoes

Every  department  is  strong! 
line  n o w . 

Yours  for  business,

It  will  pay  you  to  see  the 

A postal card to us will bring the line to you. 

W aldron, A lderton  &   M elze,
Saginaw,  M ichigan

A  Good School Shoe Is a Powerful Lever 

to Move Business Your Way

CHILD’S  CORDOVAN

Here  it  is.  Absolutely  sol d.  Properly  stayed  to 
withstand  every  strain.  Made  from  the  best  grade 
of  cordovan  over  a  stylish,  up-to-date  last.

Write  for  prices.

Rindge, Kalmbach,  L ogie & C o.,  Ltd., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

O E S

Should  be  handled  by  every  shoe  dealer  because  they 
give  satisfactory  service  and  hold  the  trade.  Six 
hundred  skilled  workmen  are  kept  busy  turning  out 
all  grades  of  shoes  from  the  ordinary  everyday  shoe 
to  the  finest  for  dress  wear,  suitable  for  all  classes  of 
trade.  Mayer’s  shoes  give  satisfaction  where  others 
fail.  Write  for  particulars.

F.  MAYER.  BOOT 

SHOE  CO. 

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

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Pros and Cong of Selling A dvertised Priced 

Shoes.

I  own  a  shoe  store  in  a  small  city. 

1 
belong  to  the  class  of  shoemen  manu­
facturers 
like—do  business  year  after 
year  in  the  same  old  way—no  change  in 
buyers,  except  those  which  “ Father 
Tim e”   makes  by  taking  us  home  to 
rest;  catering  to  the  wants  of  the  com­
munity, from  the  workman  who  can  only 
afford  to  buy  an  80  cent  Kelly  shoe,  or 
his  wife  who  buys  an  8  cent  moccasin 
or  a  25  cent  cack  for  the  baby,  up  to 
the  customer  with  whom  it 
is  not  a 
question  of  price,  if  I  have  what  she 
wants. 
I  can  not  afford,  however,  to 
have  special  advertised  or  stamped 
shoes.

I  have  often  thought  that  I  would 
like  to  be  a  specialty  man  and  be  in 
in  a  large  city,  but  1  lacked 
the  swim 
I  guess,  however,  they  have 
the  nerve. 
their  troubles,  too. 
I  have  been  in  and 
about  Chicago  many  years,  and  in  that 
city  have  seen  phenomenal  successes 
and  failures.  Among  others,  I  remem­
ber  one  where  a  youngster,  with  only 
$15,  started  a  store  and  did  not  know 
anything  about  shoes,  he  got  one  of 
my  boys  to  help  buy  and  trim,  and  to­
day  he  owns  many  stores  in  different 
cities;  another  man  with  $60,000  who 
lost 
I  have  seen 
a  common  wire  buttonhook  sold  for  25 
10  cent  box  of  paste  for  50 
cents,  a 
cents  and  an  80  cent  buff  shoe  for $6. 
1 
have  watched  a  policeman  stand  out­
side  the  door  and  warn  prospective 
buyers  not  to  go  inside.

it  all  in  three  years. 

1  have  sat  on  a  wagon  in  an  auction 
house  and  seen  the  boys  get  excited— 
pay  $1.85  for  a  split  shoe,  when  the 
factory  price  was  only  $1.15 . 
I  have 
sat  by  a  buyer's  side  and  seen  him  or­
der  $7,000  on  one  shoe—sizing-up  or­
ders  to  follow—and  he  bought  with  less 
care  and  attention  than  I would buy  a  $1 
buff. 
I  have  kicked  at  paying  $2  for 
women's  glazed-kid  shoes,  and  have 
had  the  maker  turn  back  an  order  book 
and  show  me  where  the  big  department 
store  was  paying  $2.25  for  the  same 
shoe,  buying  in  hundred 
lots,  while  1 
was  buying  in  dozens.

I  am  aware  that  some  dealers  say  we 
should  all  know  leather,how  it  is  made, 
where 
it  comes  from,  grade,  etc.;  but 
ever  since  1  saw  a  tanner  (a  good  one, 
too)  select  a  calfskin  out  of  thousands 
of  skins  and  get  it  made  into  a  pair  of 
boots  which  did  not  wear  a  month,  and 
a  ladies'  shoe  manufacturer  take  the 
kid  samples,  pull,  roll,  twist,  chew, 
cough,  spit,  swear,  cut  a  slit  and  put 
his  fingers  in  and  pull,  I  have  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  there  are  things  un­
known  about  leather.  As  fur  patent  kids 
and  colts,  I 
long  ago  threw  up  my 
hands.  And  when  I  look  at  130  X, 
labeled  Eli  calf  oxford,  costing  $1.15, 
and  another  costing  $2.50,  I  ask  mysell 
which  end 
I  write  these 
things  that  you  may  know  that  1  am 
somewhat  posted  about  the  game.  And 
when  I  ask  myself  can  retailers afford  to 
buy  advertised  priced  shoes? 
1  say  no, 
because  they  are  of  no  value.

is  the  calf. 

Advertised  shoes  are  often  long 

lines 
with  few  shapes  that  are  sellers,  and 
cases  are  known  where  the  retailer  has 
had  to  sign  a  contract  to  buy  a  certain 
amount  to  the  exclusion  of  other  lines, 
and  after  be  has  kept  his  contract  the 
shoes  were  taken  from  him  and given  to 
another.  As  a  body  of  honorable  men 
we  are deserving  of  more  consideration. 
If  you  will  figure  your  gross  expense  at 
10,  15  or  20  per  cent.,  whatever  it  may 
be,  and  deduct  the  amount  from  the 
profit  on  the  shoe,  you  will  be  surprised

1 

at  the  amount  you  will  have  left  to 
bank.

figured  the  other  day  on  a  $3  line 
of  women’s  shoes,  and  had  24  cents  net 
profit,  providing 
1  did  not  have  any 
odds  and  ends  left  over.  You  all  know 
what  they  are  worth.  We  can  not  sell 
shoes  as  the  grocer  sells  sugar.  He  gets 
as  much  for  the  last  pound  as  be  does 
for  the  first.

Now I  come to ‘ * manufacturers’ named 
shues, ”   and  I  will  give  you  one  illus­
tration.  For  many  years  1  had  for  op­
position  an  honorable  firm  that  bought 
a 
famous  manufacturer's  line  of  wom­
en’s  shoes,  whose  name  was  on  each 
carton  and  top facing.  The  firm  adver­
tised  them  in  every  way  until  the  shoes 
became  famous,  not  only 
in  our  city, 
but  also  in  the  surrounding towns.  They 
built  up  a  clientage  that  would  not  have 
anything  else.

One  day  the  manufacturer  changed 
his  lasts,  measurements,  etc.,  with  the 
result  that  the  shoes  did  not  fit  or  wear 
as  they  did  before.  The  firm’s  custom­
ers  would  not  have  any  other  shoes,  and 
for  two  years  they  had  a  circus,  every 
day  explaining  and  making 
conces­
sions.  The  firm  were  clever;  they  kept 
the  line  and  to  this  day  their  name  goes 
If  you  want  a  named 
on  their  shoes. 
shoe,  name 
it  yourself—call  it  “ Floro- 
dora,”   “ Hannah,”   “ Jane” —any  name 
so  long  as  it  is  your  own.

Shall  we  buy  shoes  from  manufactur­
ers  who  have  retail  stores? 
1  will  give 
my  experience:  A  manufacturer  who 
has  retail  stores  in  many  cities  does  a 
mail-order  business—sends his catalogue 
everywhere  and  his  men  to  the  smaller 
cities  to  make  a  house-to-house  can­
vass.  He  thus  called  on  me  through  his 
traveling  representative  to  put  in  his 
line. 
1  agreed  to  do  so,  providing  he 
would  keep  out.  He  accepted  my  prop­
osition,  and  I  bought  almost  $900  worth 
as  a  starter.  Shoes  came  in  (discounted 
bill),  and  three  weeks  after  in  comes 
his  salesman  and  peddles  his  shoes 
about  the  town,  and he  has  been  coming 
ever  since.  I  can  refer  you  to  other  men 
who  have  had  the  same  trick  played 
upon  them.  Manufacturers  are  pro­
testing  about  us  “ as  one  of  the  craft  on 
the  other  side  of  the  fence,”   but  I  will 
keep  on  kicking,  and 
is  not  about 
$1.60  shoes  bought  from  a  $2  sample, 
but  about  kangaroo  calf  shoes  that 
changed  en  route  to  some  kind  of  leath­
er  that  I  never  saw  before.  When  an­
other  salesman  from  the  factory  called 
and  got  turned  down,he  wanted to  know 
what  was  the  matter,  and  walked  down 
the  store  until  he  came  to  bis  shoes, 
pulled  down  a  box,  and,  with  an  ex­
clamation,  said: 
“ This  is  not  the  shoe 
you  bought,  but  this 
is ,”   pulling  one 
out of  his  sample  case,  and  he  conned 
me 
1  built 
the  shoe  up  15  cents  a  pair,  but  when 
the  new  ones  came  in  they  were  differ­
ent  from  the  sample  and  predecessors.
Did  you  ever  get  shoes  made  of 
scraps? 
I  have—a  box-calf  men’s  shoe 
at  $1.85.  Did  you  ever  order  from  a 
jobber  thirty-six  pairs  of  shoes,  5  to  11, 
and  get  sizes  5  to  7?  Did  you  ever  buy 
$400  worth  of  shoes  and  ask  the  sales­
if  they  were  on  the  floor,  and,  be­
man 
ing  answered 
in  the  affirmative,  go 
home,  and  next  day  on  opening  one 
case,  find  a  “ hodge  podge”   of sizes and 
on  the  bill  a  pasted 
reading. 
“ Sizes  not  shipped—back  ordered?”  
Did  you  ever  order  five  women’s  shoes, 
all  widths,  from  factory  and  give  them 
four  months  to  make'them  and  have 
them  shipped  partially  in  six  different 
shipments  and  the  last  shipment  made 
six  months  after  the  order  was  given? 
Did  you  ever  buy  a  shoe  at  $2  and  find 
out  a  larger  buyer  bought  the  same  shoe 
for $1.50 from the  same  house  and  sales­
man?—John  R.  Martin in Shoe  Retailer.

into ■ giving  another  order. 

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Everything  Judged 
by  Appearance

Shoes  no  exception.  You  must  have Shoes  that 
have  the  right  appearance,  shape,  style  and  fin­
ish.  You  must  see  the  outside—the  inside  you 
may  never  see.  Our  own  make  Shoes  have  the 
right  appearance.  That’s  half the selling  battle.

Makers  of  Shoes 

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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 11.60 wholesale.

The  Western 
Shoe  Co.,

Toledo,  Ohio

Men’s Work Shoes

Snedicor & 
Hathaway 
Line

No.  743. 

Kangaroo  Calf. 
D. 

Bal.  Bellow’s Tongue. 
S.  Standard Screw.  $1.75. 

Carried  in sizes 6 to  12.

G eo.  H .  R eed er & C o.

Grand Rapids

If You  Want  the  Best S 
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Buy  Hoods 

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No  better  money  makers  to  be  had.  Mail  us  your  orders  or  J
 
drop  us  a  card  and  our  salesman  will  call.  W e  have  a  big  ^  
stock  and  are  headquarters  for  Michigan,  Ohio  and  Indiana.  A
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The  L.  A.  Dudley  Rubber  Co. 

Battle  Creek,  Mich. 

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

Dry Poods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  P rincipal 

Staples.

in 

strongly  situated,  but 

Staple  Cottons—The  general  charac­
ter of  the  market  for  staple  cottons  has 
shown  little  change  and,  of  all  features, 
perhaps  the  buying  of  bleached  cottons 
has  been  the  most  prominent,  princi­
pally  by  the  manufacturing  trade,  for 
the 
jobbers  seem  to  take  little  interest 
in  it.  They  have  taken  some goods,  to 
be  sure,  but  in  a  most  conservative 
manner.  Fine  and  medium  grades  are 
very 
low- 
priced  lines  there  is  quite  a  little  irreg­
ularity  to  be  noted  here  and  there. 
Wide  sheetings  have  shown  no change 
in  prices  and  the  market  is  about  on  a 
par  with  the  previous  week.  Heavy 
brown  sheetings  and  drills 
for  home 
consumption  have  been  bought  on  a 
lighter  scale,  while  for  export  there  is 
practically  nothing  to  be  reported.  The 
tone  of  the  market  is  dull  with 
leading 
brands  steady, but  outside  of  these  there 
is  much 
irregularity.  Coarse  colored 
cottons  are  quite  dull  now,  but  prices 
are  held  firm  with  no  inclination  toward 
irregularity  because  of  small  stocks.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Printed  cotton j 
goods  have  found  a  good  sale during  the 
past  week,  although  hardly  up  to  the 
recent  average.  A  fair  number  of  or-! 
ders  have  been  received  from  the  sales­
men  on  the  road  and  customers  direct. 
Printed  calicoes  have  shown  no  change 
in  either staple  ot  fancy  lines.  The  sea­
son’s  business  so  far  has  been  fully  up 
to  expectations  and  on  a  fair average 
with  past  seasons.  Prices  are  firm  and 
with 
little  danger  of  their  becoming 
otherwise,  buyers  readily  meeting  to­
day's  quotations. 
Percales  are  quiet 
and  steady  at  previous  prices.  Printed 
napped  fabrics  in  all  the  desirable  pat­
terns  are  well  sold  ahead  and  deliveries 
in 
are  behind  time.  Ginghams  are 
good  demand,  but  trading 
is  handi­
capped  by 
lack  of  supplies  and  sellers 
are  obliged  to  reject  good  orders  fre­
quently. 
In  all  lines  of  fine  ginghams 
and  other  fine  woven  patterned  fabrics 
an  excellent  business  has  been  done  for 
next  year and  prices  are  firm.

Dress  Goods—The  developments 

in 
the  initial  dress  goods  market  are  of  an 
ordinary  character.  Generally  speak­
ing,  quiet  conditions  prevail,  yet  there 
is  a  fair  stream  of  modest-sized  dupli­
cate  orders  coming  forward  on waistings 
and  staple  dress  fabrics  from  the  job­
bing  fraternity.  The  retail  trade  is  not 
buying  very  heavily  of  fall  stuffs  just 
now,  being  pretty  well  engrossed  with 
the  developments  of  their  wash  fabric 
business.  The  retailer  has  evidently 
pretty  nearly  covered  his  initial  fall 
needs  and  his  purchases  from  now  on 
until  the  fall  retail  period  starts  up 
actively  will  be  simply  with  a  view  to 
in  and  rounding  out  his  stock. 
filling 
The 
jobber  has  had  a  fairly  successful 
season  so  far  and  as  a  rule  expects  to 
add  materially  to  the  sales already made 
when  once  the  retailer  finds  an  outlet 
for  the goods  he  has  already  purchased. 
There  has  been  some  little  evidence  of 
a  broadening  interest  in  the  fabric  mar­
ket  by  the  cutter-up. 
It  can  hardly  be 
said,  however,  that  the  skirt  and  suit- 
maker  are  operating  as  though  they  felt 
sure  of  their  ground  and  are  willing 
to  go  ahead  with  their  buying.  The 
cutter-up 
is  not  at all  certain  bow  the 
retailer  will  take  hold  of  the  new  fall 
lines,  nor on  what  class  of  garments  the 
substantial  business  will  be  done,  and 
therefore  be  is  awaiting  developments. 
It  appears  to  be  an  accepted  fact  that

goods  of  the  cheviot  order are  to  play 
a  prominent  part  in  the  ready-to-wear 
women’s  garments, 
for  a  substantial 
yardage  has  gone  forward  for  skirt,  suit 
and 
jacket  purposes.  The  extent  to 
which  the  sheer  fabrics  will  cut  into the 
suit  business  is  a  matter  of  some  uncer­
tainty,  but 
it  is  expected  to  be  a  factor 
of some  moment  in  the  situation.  There 
is  no  doubt  expressed  as  to  the  likeli­
hood  of  the  skirt  business  approaching 
the  volume  of  a  year ago,  but  it  is  felt 
at  the  same  time  that  the  walking  skirt 
of  conservative  pattern,  which  neither 
sweeps  the  ground  nor  is  subject  to 
criticism  on  the  score  of  being  too  ab­
breviated,  but  rather  fills  the  happy  me­
dium  ground,  reaching  about  to  the 
ankles,  will  be  worn  extensively.  The 
tendency  of  the  separate  skirt  business 
seems  to  be  in  favor  of  a  sensible  utili­
tarian  garment,  both  as  to  length  and 
weight.

Underwear—The  knee  length  under­
wear,  which  was  placed  on  the  market 
for  this  season,  has  scored  a  distinct 
victory,  and  the  sales  have  been  so 
heavy  that  many  of  the  retailers  were 
cleaned  out  before  the  first  of  July  and 
could  not  duplicate.  The  mills  were 
not  prepared  for  this  kind  of  a  demand 
and  the  results  have  been  to  open  their 
eyes  for  the  next 
lightweight  season. 
There  will  probably  be  no  dearth  of 
these  goods  in 
1903,  and  also  of  the 
knee  length  union  made  garments.

Sweaters—Have  received  a  full  com­
plement  of  business  for  the  fall  and  are 
among  the  best  situated  lines  in  these 
goods.  There  is,  of  course,  a  comfort­
able  assortment  of  college  and  society 
colors,  but  in  the  regular  lines  for trade 
plain  effects  have  been  by  far  in  best 
demand.

Hosiery—Although  the  present  time 
is  a  quiet  one  in  the  hosiery  end  of  the 
market,  the  season  as  a  whole  has  been 
so  good  that no one complains.  Fancies 
have  been  strong  and  there  is  still  a fair 
duplicate  business  coming  to  hand. 
One  of  the  features  of  this  duplicate  or­
dering  is  the  request  for  greens.  This 
color  is  wanted  for  fall  in  all 
lines,  but 
there  are  very  few  mills  in  position  to 
supply  these  requests.  Some  of  the  fin­
est  goods contain ranges of greens, but  in 
popular-priced lines  it  is  said  that there 
are  none  to  be  found.  This  color  has 
been  popular  through  the  summer  and 
for  fall  promises  to  be  even  more  so, 
but  one  can  never  tell,  the  trend  of 
fashion  may change as  suddenly  to  some 
other  color  or  combination.

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Carpets—The  carpet  trade  continues 
active,  with  little,  if  any,  change 
in 
conditions  over  those  of  a  week  ago. 
Manufacturers  continue  very  busy  on 
old  orders,  so they  are  not  in  a  position 
is  necessary  to  keep 
where  solicitation 
all  bands  running. 
In  fact,  it  is  the 
consumer  who  is  assuming  the  anxious 
role,  and 
is  he  more  than  any  one 
else  that  is  dependent  upon  the  market 
conditions 
in  order  that  his  business 
can  be  booked  and  turned  out at  the  re­
quired  time.  The  weavers  are  becom­
ing  more  independent as the  season  pro­
gresses,  and  they  are  not  in  a  position 
where  they  are  obliged  to  take  business 
at  terms  other  than  their own.  While 
they  have  not  advanced  the  schedule 
prices  made  at  the  beginning  of the 
season,  conditions  that  have  developed 
during  the  past  month  have  given  the 
market  a  strong  tendency.  The  chief 
factor  which  has  affected  the  situation 
is  the  yarn  market.  To-day  spinners 
are  not  making  deliveries  to  their  trade 
at  the  usual  periods,  even  if  they  are 
striving  hard  to  do  so.  There  is  too

Flannelettes  For  Fall

One of  the  strongest  lines  that  we  have  for  fall  is 
Flannelettes  and  Waist  Flannels  in  fancy  stripes 
and  figures,  in  widths  from  28  to  36 
inches. 
Prices: 
7 ^ c ,  9c,  10c,  i2j^c,  15c,  20c,  25c  and 
32j^c  the  yard.  Have  our  traveling  men  show 
you  their line  before placing your order  elsewhere.

P.  Steketee &  Sons

Wholesale  Dry  Goods 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M S iM

a  great  many  Union  Suits  and  each  day  shows  increased 

|| 
M  business  in  this  department—buyers  are  learning  that  we  Em 
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m  made  to  stand  wear,  is  of  the  right  “  cut ”   and  best  of  all  0» 
la 

The  Union  Suit  we  sell  is 

are  headquarters  for  them. 

is  low  priced.

We  Have  the Following  Grades

Children’ s  Suits  to  retail  at  50  cents  and  $1.00. 
Women’ s  Suits  to  retail  at  50  cents,  $1.00,  S i.50, 

$2.25  and  $3  00.

Men’s  Suits  to  retail  at  S i.00,  S i.50,  S2.50  and  ¿4.00.

Grand Rapids Dry  Goods Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Exclusively W holesale

Formerly Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.

A  Lime That Slacks

quickly, all slacks, and carries the greatest amount 

of sand is what every mason  is looking for

Bay  Shore  Standard

will do all these.  Barrels above criticism.

Prompt delivery guaranteed.

BAY  SHORE  LIME  CO.,

Bay Shore, Mich.

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in  yarns. 

much  business 
in  tbeir  bands  at  tbe 
present  to  do  that  successfully.  Good 
orders  are  too  much  of  a  temptation  to 
refuse,  and  more  especially  so  if  very 
satisfactory  terms  are  offered  as  well.  It 
has  been  reported  in  Philadelphia  yarn 
circles  that  one  large  carpet  yarn  order 
aggregating  about  200,000  pounds  was 
long  ago  by  a  local  spinner 
taken  not 
at  very  good  rates. 
If  one  or two  more 
such  orders  were  taken  the  chances  of 
in  getting 
the  smaller  manufacturer 
enough  stock  to  keep  his 
looms  going 
would  be  rather  slim.  As has  been  men­
tioned  before,  the  extensive  speculative 
interest  that  has  developed  in  yarn  cir­
cles,  largely  worsted,  has  greatly  en­
hanced  prices—on  the  average,  say,  of 
from  4  to  5  cents  since  a  month  ago. 
This,  of  course,  if  continued  any  length 
of  time,  will  cause  a  proportionate  in­
fab­
crease  in  the  price  of  the  finished 
ric.  Manufacturers  of 
goods  outside 
of  those  affected  by  labor  strikes  are 
extremely  busy,  some  of  them  working 
night  as  well  as  day.  The 
large  New 
England  mills,  those  who  spin  their 
own  yarns  and  have  a  surplus  as  well, 
of  course  are  not  affected  by  the  little 
famine 
is  evident,  how­
ever,  that  the  surplus  stocks  of  yam 
that  find  their  way  into  the trade are  not 
as  large  as  usual.  In  jobbing  circles  the 
H  goods  are  the  principal  attraction.  A 
heavy  business  is  going  on  in  Brussels, 
Axminsters  and  tapestries.  Wiltons,  of 
course,  are 
in  for  their  share  of  the 
business,  but  it  can  not  be  said  that  the 
demand 
is  as  heavy  as  it  was  during 
the  season  just  past.  This  is  probably 
due  to  the  higher  cost  of  living  and 
other  conditions  that  have  been  some­
what  detrimental  to  an  increase  in  the 
popular  demand.  Tapestries  are  cer­
tainly  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  season, 
which 
six 
months  ago.  Manufacturers  of  ingrains 
are  all favored with  an  exceptionally  ac­
tive  business, with good  prospects  ahead 
for  favorable  conditions  for  some  time 
to  come.  While  prices  are  quoted  at  the 
old  schedule,  there  is  a  tendency  to ask 
slightly  higher  rates  on  new  business. 
The  large  New  England  manufacturers 
are  practically  out of  the market,as  they 
are  well  filled  up  for  the  greater  part  of 
the  season,  so  the  Philadelphia  and 
other  weavers  have  only  themselves  to 
compete  with.  The  yarn  situation  so 
far  has  affected  only  the  manufacturers 
of  the  better grades  of  ingrains in which 
is  used.  The  worsted 
worsted  stock 
yarns, 
instance,  which  are 
more  largely  used,  are  quoted  to-day  at 
43  cents,  where  not  more  than  a  month 
ago  38  cents  was  considered  top  price. 
Common  yarns  are  unchanged  in  price, 
but  hold  very  steady,  with  a  little  tend­
ency  to  become  stronger.  The  granite 
carpet  weavers  are  well  employed,  as 
well  as  those  who  make  cotton  ingrains.
Rugs—Manufacturers  of  rugs,  other 
than  those  not  affected  by labor troubles, 
are  very  busy.  Smyrnas  of  the  smaller 
sizes  find  a  ready  demand,  which  is  not 
the  case  with  the  larger  sizes.  Wiltons 
are  in  big  demand.  Art  squares  are  re­
ceiving  a  good  deal  of  attention.

is  quite  tbe  opposite  of 

14s, 

for 

Burglar-Proof.

“ My  store  was  broken  into  last  night 
and  not  a  thing  taken  away.  Wasn't 
that  surprising?”

Rival  Merchant—Oh,  I  don’t  think 
so.  The  burglars  had  a  lamp,  didn’t 
they?

“ Y e s.”
“ Well,  they  found  your goods  marked 
up  so  high  they  couldn’t  afford  to  take 
them. ’ ’

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

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A  Blessing  in  Disguise.

is 

remarkable. 

The  two  great  freezes  of  the  winter  of 
1894-1895,  which  completely  annihilated 
tbe  orange 
industry  of  Florida  and 
Louisiana,  seem  to  have  been  rather 
in  the  nature  of  a  blessing  for  Florida. 
The  ultimate  effect  of  the  freeze  was  to 
compel  the  fruit  grower  to  search  for 
other  and  less  precarious  crops  than  the 
citrus  fruits,  and  the  result  of  what 
might  be  termed  more  of  a  makeshift 
than  anything  else  in  order  to  tide  over 
the  years  until  a  fresh  growth  of orange­
bearing  trees  could  be  raised  has  been 
something 
Eight  years 
ago  there  was  practically  nothing  in  the 
way  of  fruit  or  vegetable  grown  for ex­
port  beyond  the  limits  of  the  State  ex­
cept  oranges.  Now  the  range  of  prod­
ucts  includes  strawberries,  grapes,  pine­
apples,  tomatoes  and  every  kind  of 
early  vegetable,  and  the market  of  every 
familiar  therewith. 
Northern  city 
The  tomato  industry  alone 
is  stated  by 
the  Florida  Agriculturist  to  have  pro­
duced 
last  year  between  800,000  and 
i,ooo,occ  crates,  or  as  many  crates  as 
there  were  crates  of  oranges,  while 
tbeir  value  was  actually  more,  pound 
for  pound.  One  county  is  said  to  have 
netted  $1,000,000  from this  source  alone, 
while  the  industry  was  only  started  six 
years  ago  and  may  still  be  said  to  be 
in  its  infancy.  What 
it  will  be  when 
it  reaches  maturity 
is  beyond  guessing 
at,  but  that  the  State,  as  a  fruit  and 
vegetable  producer,  is  rapidly  forging 
ahead  and  is  proving  a  serious  compet­
itor  to  California  is  evident.  The  State 
has  one  advantage  over 
its  Western 
rival:  it  is  close  to  all  the  great  centers 
of  population.  This  will  count 
in  the 
race  for  supremacy  and  tbe  very  con­
tiguity  and  the  ease  and  dispatch  with 
which  the  more  delicate  fruits  can  be 
laid  down  in  the  Northern  markets  will 
be  a  strong  factor  in  tbe  development of 
the  Southern  industry.

Close  Quarters.

At  the  time,  now  some  years  ago,  says 
Short  Stories,  when  subscriptions  were 
being  solicited  for  the  erection  of  a 
statue 
in  New  York  City  to  President 
Washington,  a  gentleman  called  to  se­
cure  a contribution  from  an old  resident 
who,  although  wealthy,  was  a 
little 
“ near. ”

learning  the  object  of  the  visit, 

On 

the  rich  man  exclaimed:

“ Washington!  Washington!  Why, 
I 

Washington  does  not  need  a  statue. 
keep  him  enshrined  in  my  heart!"

In  vain  were  the  visitor’s  solicita­
tions,  and  he  was  naturally  indignant 
at  tbe  parsimony  of  tbe  millionaire.
“ Well,Mr.  R .,”  he remarked  quietly, 
as  he  rose  to 
leave,  “ all  I  can  say  is 
that,  if  the  Father  of  his  Country  is  in 
the  position  in  which  you  describe him, 
be  is  in  a  tight  p lace!"

W ill  Try to  Grow  Tea in Texas.

in 

Tea-growing 

Practical  steps  will  soon  be  taken  to 
start  tea  culture  in  the  vicinity  of  Port 
Lavaca,  Tex. 
that 
country  is  no  longer an experiment.  The 
crop  is  now  regularly  cultivated  for  the 
markets  on  the  coast  of  South  Carolina 
and  is  found  to  be  highly  profitable  and 
has  come  to  stay.  Tea  is  a  plant that 
thrives  to  best  advantage  in  coast  coun­
tries, where  there  is  a dense  atmosphere, 
and  as  there  are  many  similar  points, 
in  a  climatic  sense,  between  the  Caro­
lina 
region  and  the  Texas 
coast,  it  has  long  been  thought  that  the 
crop  could  be  made  to  pay  there.  The 
first  experiment  will  be  made  on  lands 
of  the  Placedo  Canal  and  Irrigation 
Co.,  eight  miles  above  Port  Lavaca.

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Raised  to  Com parative  Richness  by  An 

Egg  Corner.

“ The  ice  is  awful  on  the  river,sonny. 
I  was  nearly  three  hours getting  over 
this  morning.  They  ought  to  furnish 
I  guess  it  will  be  as  had  to­
lunches. 
I’ m  glad  I ’m  not  going  back.”
night. 
Little  Joe  Dempsey,  who  earned  a 
precarious  living  by  doing  odd  jobs was 
down  to  his 
last  three  cents.  He  was 
carrying  the  valise  of  a  man  who  had 
just  crossed  the  North  River  and 
if  he 
had  been  some  boys  the  words  he  had 
just  heard  would  have  passed  in  at  one 
ear  and  out  of  the  other,  but  he  was  not 
some  boys,  but  just  his  own  bright  little 
self,  and  he  made  up  his  mind  to  do 
something  that  day  to  set  him  on  his 
feet.  He  walked  to  the  Cortlandt  street 
station  of  the  elevated  road  with  the 
valise  and  the  the  owner of  it  gave  him 
a  quarter.  He  had  noticed  that  Joe  was 
trying  not  to  stagger  under  the  weight 
of  it  and  the  dime  that  he  bad  intended 
giving  had  swelled  to  a  quarter  on  the 
way.

“ T ’anks, ”   said  Joe,  his  eyes  gleam­

ing  with  joy.

He  put  the  coin  in  his  trousers pocket 
and  ran  to  the  nearest  hardware  store 
which  was  not  far  away.  He  walked 
into  it  with  the  air  of  a  millionaire, 
and  said :

“ I  want  one  of  dose  market  baskets 

wid  lids  fer  a  quarter.”

“ Where’s  the  money?”   asked 

the 

cautious  clerk.

See?”

“ Oh,  I  got  der  money,  all  right. 

He  slapped  the  quarter  down  on  the 
counter,  picked  up  the  basket,  looked 
at  it  critically,  and  then  marched  out  of 
the  store  whistling  the  latest  song  of the 
sidewalks.

“ Chee.I  hope  de  ice  don’t  give  out,”  
said  he  to  himself  as  he  ran  down 
Washington 
street  until  he  came  to 
Washington  Market.  Here  he  threaded 
his  way  among  the  aisles  to  the  stall  of 
a  produce  merchant.

“ Hello, 

Joe.  What's  new?”   asked 

the  man  of  eggs.

“ I ’m  go’ n’ 

inter  der  egg  business, 
an’  I  want youse  to g i’  me  a  start.  Fill 
me  basket  wit’  fresh  eggs  an’  I ’ ll  pay 
yer termorrer,  or  else  take  it  out  work- 
in’  fer  yer.”

Joe  bad  an  honest  face  and  he  talked 
as  if  he  meant  business,  and  Jim  Bags- 
ley,  who  had  known  him  for some  time, 
counted  out  seven  dozen  eggs,  packing 
them  carefully  in  the  basket.

“ There  you  are, 

Those  are 
twelve  for  a  quarter.  That  makes  S i.75 
you  owe.  That's  a  week’s  work  if  you 
don’t  pay  me.”

Joe. 

“ We’ ll  get  dis  ti’ng  down  in  writin’. 
Leave  us  have  a  pencil  an’  a  piece  of 
paper,”   said  Joe.
Then  he  wrote:
I,  Joseph  Dempsey,  prommis  to  pay 
Jim   Bagsly  one  doler  an'  sevvcny  fiv 
scents  or  werk  it  out  fer  a  weak.

Joe  Dempsey.

“ Say,  what  are  you  up  to  anyway?”  

asked  Mr.  Bagsley.

“ I ’ll  tell  yer  ter-morrer, 

Jim.  Do 
ice  in  der  river  is  go’ n’ 

you  t’ ink  de 
ter  bust  up?”

“ Not  if  this  cold  weather  holds.  Go­

ing  ice  yachting?”

“ Yes,  ’m  go’n’  ter git  me  iceboat  out 
1 

an'  take  a  sail  down  der  bay  an’ 
t’ought  we  might  git  hungry.”

“ You’ll  do,”   laughed  Mr.  Bagsley, 

and  turned  to  wait  on  a  customer.

“ So  long,”   said  Joe,  and  walked  off, 
but  not  as  quickly  as  he  had  come,  for

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

his  burden  was  not  only  heavier,  but 
more  valuable.  All  his  eggs  were  in  one 
basket  and  he  could  not  afford  to 
drop  it.

He  made  his  way  to  a  court  back  of 
an  alley  where  since  the  death  of  bis 
mother,  he  had  made  bis  home  with  a 
kindly  old  Irish  woman  by  the  name  of 
Clancy. 
“ Mrs.  Clancy,  I ’m  goin’  to 
open  a  rist'-run  an’  will  youse  boil  me 
dese  eggs?”
“ For  the 

love  of  murder,  where  did 
the  bye  git  the  beautiful  eggs?  What 
are  you  go’ n'  to  do  wid  dose?”

“ Go’n’  ter chuck  ’m  at  a  copper,  an’ 
I'll  gi'  yer  10  cents 

I  wants  dem  hard. 
ter-morrer  if  youse'll  boil  dem.”

“ Sure,  I  don’t  want  any  money  fer 
bilin’  eggs  But  who  wants  hard  biled 
eggs  in  winter?  That’ s  picnic  vittles."
“ Well,  maybe  I’m  go’n ’  on  a  winter 
I ’ ll  tell  yer  about  it  ter-mor­

picnic. 
rer.”

Mrs.  Clancy  soon  had  the  eggs  in  a 
big  iron  pot  that  had  come  all  the  way 
from  Ireland  with  her,  but it  was  a  mat­
ter of  nearly  an  hour  before  all  the  eggs 
were hard  boiled.

Meantime  Joe  had  run anxiously down 
to  West  street  to  see  if  by  any  chance 
the  ice  had  begun  to  break  up.  But 
it 
was  still  firmly  packed  and  the  passage 
of  boats  was  slow  and  laborious.

The  tide,  of  homeward  travel  set  in 
early  that  afternoon,  as Jersey  suburban­
ites  did  not  want  to  spend  an  evening 
on  the  ice. 
Joe  waited  until  5  o’clock, 
and  then  he paid  out  his  last  three  cents 
and  stepped  aboard  a  Jersey  Central 
ferryboat.

The  passage  was  very  slow,  but it  was 
not  slow  enough  to  develop  any  hunger 
on  the  part  of  the  passengers,  and  all 
too  soon,  in  Joe's  estimation,  they  made 
the  dock  on  the  New  Jersey  side  and 
hurried  off to  be  met  by  other  passen­
gers  hurrying  on. 
Joe  walked  part  way 
up  the  float  and  then  turned  and  came 
back.  He  was  a 
little  afraid  that  a 
deckhand  might  question  him,  but 
no  one  had  noticed  him  nor  his 
basket  nor  his  bulging  pocket  con­
taining  salt  in  a  paper  bag—a  sug­
gestion  of  Mrs.  Clancy's.

Cru-u-nh  ru-unh  kerthug  hugg  went 
the 
ice  against  the  boat,  but  the  en­
gines  were  strong,  and  she  made  her 
way  despite  the  pressure.  There  were 
very  few  passengers  on  board.

“ Chee!”   said  Joe  to  himself.  “ If  we 
was  to  get  stuck  now  I  couldn’t  sell 
more  dan  ten  eggs.”

He  stood  out  in  the  nipping  air and 
anxiously  watched  the  pilot.  When  they 
reached  the  New  York  side  the  boat 
made  five  trials  before  she  finally  ap­
proached  close  enough  to  be  tied  up.

It  was  now  considerably  after 6,  and 
this  time  Joe  went  to  the  other  end  of 
the  boat and  stood  there  boldly. 
If  a 
deckhand  tried  to  put  him  off  be  in­
tended  offering  him  an  egg,  but  again 
he  escaped  notice.

This  time  the  boat  was  loaded  with 
passengers  and  Joe  was  sorry  that  he 
bad  not  taken  partners  into  his  enter­
prise.  He  would  not  have  eggs  enough 
to  go  around. 
If  his  own  stomach  was 
index,  the  passengers  must  be 
a  good 
getting  hungry. 
The  keen  air  had 
sharpened  his  appetite,  but  he  valued 
bis  stock  in  trade  too  much  to  encroach 
upon  it  himself  just  then.

The  bell  clanged  and  the  great  boat 
pushed  out  into  the  sea  of  ice.  The pas­
sengers,  with  thoughts  of  cosy  dinners 
in  Jersey,  peered  anx­
awaiting  them 
iously  across  the  darkness  to  the 
lights 
on  the  other  shore,  but  the  pack  had 
been  getting  more  and  more 
tightly

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

C om m ission  H e rc h a n t

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

Specialties:  EG G 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.

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wedged,  and  when  they  were  in  mid­
stream  the  boat  answered  a  signal  from 
the  pilot  in  advance  of  his  giving 
it 
and  stopped.  Joe’s  spirits  began  to  leap 
in  the  dark  like  greyhounds.  The  pas­
sengers  would  soon  begin  to  be  hungry.
One  hour  went  by  and  they  were  still 
in  midstream.  And  Joe  had  heard  a 
number  of  men  make  remarks  about  the 
nearness  of  hunger  and  the  distance  of 
dinner.

When  two  hours  had  passed  Joe felt  so 
hungry  himself  that  he  took  an  egg  out 
of  the  basket  and  began  to  eat  it  with­
out  salt.

“ You’ re 

in 

luck, 

Johnny,”   said  a 

broker,  who  stood  next  to  him.

“ It’s  your 

luck  fer  ten  cents,’ ’  said 
Joe,  with  his  heart  in  his mouth—along­
side  of  the egg.  “ I  have  dem  fer  sale."
“ Do  you  mean  to  say  that  you  and 
the  Central  road  have  cooked  up  a 
scheme  to  rob  us  while  we’re out here?"
“ Do  youse  want  an  egg  fer  a  dime?”  

was  Joe's  answer.

“ I  could  eat  a  house.  Sell  me  an  egg 

instead. ”

“ G i’  us  der  dim e.”
A  dime  and  an  egg  exchanged  own­
ers,  and  then  Joe  remembered  his  salt 
and  offered  a  pinch  of  it  to  the  broker.
“ Now  I  think  I ’ ll  live  to  see  home 
and  mother,”   said  the  broker,  who 
seemed a  jovial  sort  of chap.  “ Say,  was 
this  a  flyer  on  your  part?”

“ Yes,  sir;  but  I  guess  I  didn't  bring 

near  enough.”

And  he  certainly  had  not  brought 
enough.  The  broker  went  around  the 
boat  with  him  to  see  fair  play  and  to 
enjoy  the  fun,and he  told  him  to  put  up 
the  price  to  20  cents  an  egg,  as  it  was  a 
golden  opportunity.

Twenty  cents  put  it  beyond  the  pock­
ets  of  some  who  were  hungriest,  but 
there  were  very  few  women  on  board, 
and  the  broker  treated  every  child  on 
the  boat  to  a  twenty-cent  egg.  And  they 
tasted  as  good  as  if  they  had  cost  40 
cents.

It  was,  as  Joe  had  said,  a  winter  pic­
nic,  and  he  could  have  sold  ten  baskets 
of  eggs,  for  when  a  man 
is  hungry 
money  lessens  in  value.

It  was  agreed  by  the  passengers  that 
the  small  boy  bad  a  long  head,  and  no 
one  begrudged  him  the  pocketful  of 
jingling  coins  that  were  bis  when  the 
basket  was  empty.

“ What  are  you  going  to  do  with  that 
money?”   asked  the  broker  when  at  9 
o’clock  the  boat  slowly  approached  the 
slip.

“ Go’n’  ter  spen’  it,”   answered  Joe.
“ Better  put 
it  in  the  Dime  Savings 
Bank. 
It  wont’t  be  yours  if  you  spend 
it,  but  if  you  put  it  in  the  bank  you’ll 
feel  like  putting  more  there  to  keep 
it 
from  getting 
lonesome.  Here’s  my 
card.  Come  and  see  me  some  day  when 
you’ re  down  near  Wall  street.  Well,  so 
long.  Make hay  while  the  ice  lasts.”

I  will. ”

“ So  long. 
Joe  went  ashore  and  treated  himself 
to  a  good  warm  dinner.  Then  he  dared 
the  river  again  and  by  11  o'clock  be 
was  safe  in  Mrs.  Clancy’s  rooms,  where 
he  counted  up  his  returns.  He  had 
eaten  one  egg  himself  and  his  dinner 
had  cost  him  15  cents.  That 
left  him 
$16  45,  which,  as  the  result  of  a  two 
dollar  outlay,  was  not  bad.

Next  morning  he  told  his  story  to 
Mrs.  Clancy  and  insisted  on making her 
share  his  good  fortune  to  the  extent  of  a 
dollar.  Then  he  went  to  West  street  and 
found  that  to  his  sorrow  the  ice  was  on 
the  move.  So  he  went to  Jim  Bagsley’s 
and  paid  him  for  the  eggs  and  gave 
him  a  villainous  cigar,  which  Jim

smoked  with  great  relish  after  dinner 
that  day.

“ That  boy  has  a  good  heart,”  said  he 

to  his  wife.

As  for  Joe,  he  took  the  advice  of  the 
broker  and  opened  an  account  in  the 
Dime  Savings  Bank,  and  it  is  not  be­
yond  the  bounds  of  possibility  that  be 
added  to  it  from  time  to  time.  But  that 
does  not  belong  to  the  account  of  his 
corner  in  eggs.—C.  B.  Lewis 
in  New 
York  Sun.
Recent  Changes  Among  Indiana  Mer­

chants.

Wabash—Blount  &  Carr,  druggists, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  Blount  & 
Renner  have  formed  a  copartnership  to 
continue  the  business.

Avilla—Harvey  Bros,  have  removed 

their  drug  stock  to  Alexandria.

Bedford—Geo.  W.  House,  dealer 

in 
cigars  and  tobaccos,  has  sold  out  to  W. 
A.  Johnston.

Berne—The  Berne  Overall  Manufac­
turing  Co.  has  merged  its  business  into 
a  corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Berne  Manufacturing  Co.

Crawfordsville—Moflfitt  &  Morgan, 

druggists,  have  discontinued  business.

Decatur—Nachtrieb  &  Fuelling,drug­
gists,  have  dissolved  partnership.  W. 
H.  Nachtrieb  continues  the  business  in 
his  own  name.

Fort  Wayne—The  Fort  Wayne Special 
Furniture  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  in­
corporation  under the  style  of  the  Fort 
Wayne  Special  Furniture  Works.

Fort  Wayne—The  Horton  Manufac­
turing  Co.,  manufacturer  of  corn  plant­
ers  etc.,  has  increased  its  capital  stock 
from  $30,000 to  $50,000.

Frankton—J.  White  &  Bro.  is  the new 
style  under  which  the  carriage  business 
of  White  &  Sons  is  continued.

Huntington—E.  Rittgers  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  bis  partner  in  the 
furniture  and  stove  business  of  Can- 
field  & Rittgers.

Indianapolis—Huntington  &  Page, 
increased  their  capital 

seedsmen,  have 
stock  to  $100,000.

Indianapolis—Madden,  Thomas,  Son 
&  Co.,  manufacturers  of  lounges  and 
parlor  furniture,  have  incorporated  un­
der  the  same  style.

Leesburg—Binggesberg  &  Berst  suc­
in  the  hardware 

ceed  Byrer  &  Berst 
business.

Martinsville—Jas.  M.  Cox  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Jas.  M.  Cox  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness.

Rockville—Pierce &  Gilligan,  dealers 
in  buggies,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship,  John  M.  Gilligan  succeeding.
Sullivan—John  A.  Mattix,  dealer 

in 
implements  and  hardware,  has  sold  out 
to  Turman  &  Riggs.

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

Failed  to Evade  th e O leom argarine. la w .
Philadelphia,  July  n —In  an  opinion 
by  Judge  Orlady,  the  Superior  Court 
yesterday  affirmed  the  judgment  of  the 
Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  of  Blair 
county,  in  the  case  of  the  Common­
wealth  against  H.  C.  Leslie,  who  was 
convicted  of  selling  oleomargarine  or 
butterine  unlawfully colored.in imitation 
of  butter,  and  fined  $100 and  costs.

The  man  was  a  retail  dealer in butter, 
eggs,  etc.,  in  Altoona.  At  the  preced­
ing  session  of  the  court  he  pleaded 
guilty  to  three 
indictments  for  selling 
oleomargarine,  containing  colored  mat­
ter.  Subsequently  he  advertised  that 
he  could  “ supply  people  with  the  col­
ored  article, "and provided  printed  slips 
to  facilitate  the  business by transmitting 
orders  for the  goods  to  a  Chicago  deal­
er,  the  orders  having  been  signed  by 
customers  at  his  request.  When  asked 
for  oleomargarine  he  replied: 
“ We 
don't  handle  oleomargarine,  but  there 
is  a  plan  by  which  we  can  get 
it  in  a 
few  days.”

His  printed  slips  read  as  follows:  To 
William  J.  Moxley,  Incorporated,  Chi­
cago,  111.  :  Please  ship  to  my  address, 
in  care  of  H.  C.  Leslie,  io  pounds  of 
butterine  as  follows: 
ro-pound  pack­
age  Daisy  Brand,  two-pound  rolls;  ship 
by  Adams  Express,  C.  O.  D.
In  his  opinion  Judge  Orlady  says: 
This  order  was  given  to him in  bis  store 
in  Altoona  and  by  him  mailed  to  the 
Chicago  dealer.  The  article  ordered  by 
this  particular customer  was  sent  in  the 
same  box  with  a  number of others  and 
shipped  to  H.  C.  Leslie,  agent.  At  the 
time  the  order  was  given  the  customer 
paid  to  Leslie $2,  which  was  set  by  him 
to the  Chicago  dealer.  The  defendant 
admits  that  he  supposed  the  manufac­
turer  was  sending  colored  oleomarga­
rine ;  that  he  advertised 
it  as  colored 
oleomargarine  and  butterine,  and  furth­
er, 
that  the  arrangement  had  been 
adopted  by  him  to  avoid  liability  under 
the  act  of  Assembly.
He  solicited  orders  for  an  article, 
the  sale  of  which  was  prohibied  by  law. 
He  received  the  pay  and  delivered  the 
product.  He  was  principal 
the 
transaction.  While  the bill of lading was 
directed  to  Leslie  as  agent the principal 
being  undisclosed,  yet,  under  the  cir­
cumstances  as  detailed  by  him,  the  use 
of  the  word  “ agent”   must  be  held  to 
be  a  mere  expedient  to  avoid  the  law.

The  sale  was  consummated  at  Altoona 
by  the  defendant’s  delivery  and  on 
Leslie’s  own  showing,  the  scheme  or 
plan  was  an  unmistakable  fraud  de­
signed  and  consummated  by  him.

in 

Color  Used  in  B a tte r  Pronounced  Dan­

Minneapolis, 

gerous.
July  10—Dairy  Com­
missioner  McConnel  has  been  carrying 
on  a  series  of  scientific  tests  of  the 
effect  of  butter  color  on  animals  to  de­
termine  whether  it  is  injurious.  The 
tests  were  conducted  by  Dr.  J.  Frank 
Corbett,  bacteriologist  of the  Minneapo­
lis  Board  of  Health.  He  fed  certain 
well-known  and  much-used  colors  to 
rabbits,  guinea  pigs  and  cats,  and  in 
almost  every  case  death  was  the  result. 
Dr.  Corbett  says:

“ After 

feeding  the  color  in 

large 
quantities  to rabbits,  I almost  concluded 
the  butter  color  was  harmless  and  was 
about  to  take  a 
large  dose  myself  to 
finally  determine  this.  Fortunately  1 
did  not,  but  fed  a  considerable  quan­
tity  to a  pet  cat,  with  the  result  that  the 
cat  died.  *
He  subsequently  fed  varying  doses  to 
numerous  cats  and  all  died.  He  further 
reports:

“ These  experiments  demonstrate  that 
butter  color  is  capable  of  producing  se- 
vete  disturbance  of the  nervous  system, 
ending  even  in  death,  that  it  is  capable 
of  damaging  the  working  part  of  the 
kidneys  and  that  this  damage 
is  of 
such  a  nature  as  to indicate that it would 
remain  permanent.  Aside  from  this 
is 
some  damage  to  digestive  organs  and 
even  to  the  lungs.”

Dr.  Corbett  says  that  while  it  is  true 
that  a  single  dose  is  not  dangerous,  as 
the  manufacturers  assert,  the  danger 
the 
lies  in  the  cumulative  effect  of 
continued  use  of  the  poison. 
It  pro­

duces  diseases  of  kidney,  bladder and 
lungs.
The  department  intends  to  pursue  the 
investigation  at  greater  length  and  then 
begin  a  crusade  to  prevent  the  use  of  it 
in  butter  made  in  this  State.

Mr.  McConnel  says  that the  results  of 
the  experiments  thus  far  prove  conclus­
ively  that  the  use  of  butter  color  should 
be  stopped,  and  if  manufacturers  can 
not  be  induced  to  forego  its  use  the  law 
should  compel  them  to  do  so.

The  Oleo  Outlook  in  Pittsburg.

Pittsburg,  July  14—The  new  oleomar­
garine 
law  compelling  the  sale  of  all 
oleomargarine  made  after  the  first  day 
of  July  to  be  uncolored  has  been  in 
effect  two  weeks.  So  far  the  only  oleo­
margarine  sold  in  the  Pittsburg  market 
has  had  that  bright  carrot-like  yellow 
tinge  that 
is  supposed  to  make  “ bull 
butter”   resemble  the  real  article  made 
from  the  milk  of  the  cow.
There  can  be  but  one  reason  for  th is: 
That 
is  a  large  stock  of  oleomargarine 
on  hand,  kept  in  cold  storage,  that  was 
manufactured  before  the day upon which 
the  law  went  into  effect.
One  dealer  said:  “ The  oleomarga­
rine  makers  put  all  their  factories  to 
work  sometime  ago,  at  their  full  capac­
ity  to  turn  out  tons  upon  tons  of  the 
imitation  butter,  that  they  might  have 
a  chance  to  educate  the  butter-eating 
public  up  to  the  point  of  using  white 
or  uncolored  when  their  stock  of  the 
yellow  is  exhausted.
“ The  tax  of  10  cents  a  pound  im­
posed  on  dealers  by  the  new  law  passed 
by  Congress  would  be  almost  prohibi­
tive,  as 
it  would  cause  the  consumer to 
buy  creamery  or country  butter  at  a  less 
price  than  the  oleomargarine  makers 
could  turn  out  colored  and  pay  the  tax 
it.  By  the  time  the  stock  made 
upon 
prior  to July  1  is  exhausted,  they  argue, 
the  people  will  have 
learned  to  eat 
white  oleomargarine,  or they  will  have 
been  taught  to  color the stuff themselves, 
and  thus  avoid  the  payment  of the  Gov­
ernment  tax.

in 

Washington,  July  1 1 —The 

“ There  will  be  some  way  found  to 
law,  you  may  be  as­
circumvent  the 
sured.  Coloring  matter 
liquid  or 
powder  form  will  be  supplied  with  each 
roll  of  oleomargarine  sold  and  the  pur­
chaser  can  color  the  matter  to  suit  bis 
taste.”
Dodging th e  New Tax  on  Oleom argarine.
ingenuity 
of  the  oleomargarine  manufacturer  is 
something  that  passes  all  expectation. 
Since  the  new  law  against  the  making 
and  sale  of  imitation  butter  went  into 
effect  the  sleuths  of  the  Internal  R ev­
enue  Bureau  have  been  more  alert than 
ever  to  detect  attempts  to  evade  the 
mandate  of  the  Government.  No  arrests 
have  yet  been  made,  but  the  officials  of 
the  Bureau  are  well  enough satisfied that 
they  are  going  to  have  their  hands  full 
to  keep  up  with  the  oleomargarine mak­
ers.  One  manufacturer  has  been  found 
who  proposes  to  send  out with  packages 
of  oleomargarine  of  from 
100 
pounds  a  sufficient  quantity  of  coloring 
matter so that  the  restaurant  keeper  or 
boarding-house  landlady  can  color  his 
or bet  butter  to  suit  any  taste.

10  to 

.The  Armour  Co.  has  notified the Com­
missioner  of  Internal  Revenue  that  it  is 
its  purpose  to  follow  this  plan,  and  it 
claims  that  the  new  law  does  not  forbid 
the  practice.  Another  manufacturer has 
written  the  Commissioner  to  say  that  he 
should 
like  to  use  palm  oil,  which  is 
cheaper  than  cottonseed  oil,  and  gives 
a  beautiful  yellow  color  to  oleo  butter, 
and  be  asks  the  Commissioner  if 
it 
would  be  lawful  for him  to  do  so.  The 
Commissioner  decided  that  oleomarga­
rine,  of  which  the  chief  constituent  is 
palm  oil 
instead  of  the  customary  cot­
tonseed  oil,  is subject to  the  revenue  tax 
of 
10  cents  per  pound  as  colored  oleo­
margarine,  instead  of  the  lower  rate  of 
one-fourth  of a  cent  for  uncolored.

Slight  Protection.

Dolly—There  is  only  one  fault  I  have 
to  find  with  this  season’s  bathing  dress.

Madge—What’s  that,  dear?
Dolly—It  doesn’t  matter  where  a  girl 
is  sure  to 

got  vaccinated,  the  mark 
show.

Boston is the best m arket for

Butter,  Eggs  and  Beans

and  Fowle,  Hibbard  &  Co.

is the house that can get 
the highest m arket price.

Che  John  6.  Doan 

Company

Manufacturers’ Agent 
for all kinds of

Truit Packages

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

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

C itizen s P h o n e 1881.

WE  GUARANTEE

Our Vinegar to be an A B SO L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU IC E  V IN ­
E G A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find any deleterious 
adds, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit

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

J.ROBINSON.Manager. 

Benton  Harbor, Michigan.

Machine, manufactured by the Allen Gas Light Co.  nearly  two  years  and  find  It  satisfactory  in 
every way.  We are using twelve lights at an expense of  twenty-four  dollars  a  year.  Have  had 
no trouble whatever.  There are seven of the Allen plants In town at the  present  time.  Whoever 
wants a nice, bright, cheap light put in the Allen gas light.  Beats them alL 

J. J. MURPHY. 

Responsible agents wanted in every town to install and sell Allen Light.

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19

I Facts  in   a 
i 

Nutshell i

l 

The New York Market

there  is  room  for  improvement.  Hardly 
anything  is  being  done  by  exporters.

Special  Feature# of th e  Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Tuly  11—The  spot  market 
for  invoices  of  Rio  No.  7  coffee  stands 
at  SJ^c.  While  there 
is  a  little  more 
actual  business  being  done  this  week 
than 
last,  and  while  there  may  be  said 
to  be  a  little  firmer  undertone  to  the 
market,  it 
is  certain  that  prices  have 
not  appreciably  advanced  and  it  does 
not  seem  reasonable  to  suppose they will 
do  so. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
2,629,527  bags,  against  1,140,957  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year. 
It  seems 
that  at the  end  of  the  fiscal  year,  July  1, 
there  were  over  4,000,000  bags  of  coffee 
more  than  the  world  needed. 
This 
amounts  to  about  one-third  the  total 
requirements. 
If  we  have  another  run 
of  such  coffee  crops  within  the  coming 
twelve  months,  it  will  be  a  serious  mat­
ter to  know  what  shall  be  done  with 
it. 
Mild  coffees  are  fairly  steady  and  dur­
ing  the  week  some  fair orders have come 
to hand.

In  sugars  simply  an  even  midsummer 
trade  is  going  forward.  Not  a  specially 
active  movement,  although,  of  course, 
every  day  at  this  time  of  year  calls  for 
a  good  deal  of  sugar.  Buyers  are  not 
disposed  to  buy  largely  ahead  and  the 
list  is  practically  without  change.  The 
Federal  Sugar  Refining  Co.  is  quoting 
granulated  at  $4.40.

Teas  are  steady.  The  firmness  pre­
viously  noted  continues  and  sellers  feel 
confident  of  a  good  business  ior the  re­
mainder  of  tne  year.  Quotations  are 
certainly  well  maintained.

While  rice  orders  have  individually 
been  for  rather  small  lots,  there  have 
been  a  good  many  from  all  parts  of  the 
country  and  together  they  have  made  a 
respectable  total.  Dealers  seem  well 
satisfied  wih  the outlook  and  bold  prices 
firm.  Foreign  grades  are  also  well  sus­
tained  at quotations  last  noted.

Spices  are  quiet.  Not an  item  of  in­
terest  can  be  picked  up  in  the  whole 
market.  Pepper  is  possibly  firmer,  but 
there 
room  for  improvement  all 
around.

is 

Molasses  is  dull,  as might be  expected 
at  this  time  of  the  year.  Grocers  and 
bakers  are  both  “ laying  low”   and  are 
careful  not  to  have  stocks  on  band 
greater  than  the  necessities  of  trade  re­
quire.  Prices  are  well  sustained  and 
dealers  generally  seem  to  be  quite  con­
fident  that  we  shall  have  a  good  fall 
trade.  Quotations  are  without  change. 
Syrups  are  fairly  steady.

In  canned  goods  spot  tomatoes  are 
worth  $1.60  or  more  and  are  about  as 
hard  to  find  as  a  needle  in  a  haystack. 
Futures  are  hovering  around  90@92j£c 
for  standard  3s  here.  The  market  for 
other  lines  is  firm  and  a  good  many  or­
ders  are  coming  to hand.  The  floods  up- 
State  have  done  enormous  damage,  but 
with  good  weather  from  now  on  there 
may  yet  be  a 
into 
“ tins. ”
little  activity  has  been  dis­
Some 
played 
in  dried  prunes  and  enquiries 
are  numerous  as  to  futures.  Prices  as 
made  by  dryers  on  the  Coast  are  re­
garded  as  rather  high,  but  will  likely 
prevail.  Other  sorts  of  dried  fruits  are 
meeting  with  the  usual  midsummer  de­
mand,  which  is  not  saying  much.

lot  of  stuff  put 

Lemons  have  shown  some  advance  at 
auction,  the  range  being  from  $2.75  up 
to  about $4.50  for  fancy  stock.  Oranges 
are  firm  and  worth  from  $2.25  for  poor 
California  budded  fruit  up  to  $6 
for 
fancy  navels.  Mediterranean sweets,  $3 
@4.  Bananas  are  steady.

The  egg  market  remains  from  day  to 
day  about  the  same.  Best  Western 
fresh  gathered,  loss  off,  20 # c;  fair  to 
I9@ i9# c;  Northern  Ohio  and 
good, 
Southern  Michigan, 
fancy 
stock,  igj^c;  ungraded,  16@17.JiJc.

candled, 

While  not  over 

io%c  can  be  named 
for  New  York  State  full  cream  cheese, 
the  market  is  firm  at  this  and  may  pos­
sibly  show  some 
little  advance.  The 
demand  has  been  fairly  active,  but

Ohio  Cheesemaking in  1866.

in 

1866; 

It  does  one  good,  now  and  then,  to 
“ get  together”   with  some  old  friend 
and 
live  over  the  days  of  the  “ quiet** 
long  ago;  and  this  has  to do  with  the 
management  of  a  cheese  factory in 1866. 
The  other  day  a  friend  called  to  chat, 
the  first  “ boss’ ’  in  the  factory  erected 
and  of  course 
here  early 
the  talk  was  of  our  early  days  there. 
It 
was  the  fourth  or  fifth  factory  erected  in 
Ohio,  and  the  first  buy-milk  concern, 
and  has  been  run  all  these  thirty-six 
seasons  by  one  man,  and  by  the  one 
plan.  How  changed  it  all  is  now.  This 
boss  went  to  the  Bartlet  cheese  factory 
and  learned  the  trade  in  four  days,  and 
was  ready  to  manage,  which  he  did  for 
years,  and  a  most  skillful  maker he  was 
for  those  days.  Milk  was  contracted 
for a month at a time.  It was weighed  (?) 
by  putting  a  ruled  stick  down  into the 
milk 
in  the  receiving  can,  and  each 
space  stood  for  a  10  lb.  gallon  of  milk. 
Testing  milk,  acid  starters,  ripening, 
or  the  why  or  wherefore  was to  all  a 
sealed  book.

They  were  full  creams that were  made 
then.  The  curd  was  cooked  down  to  a 
sharp  acid,  and  the  dream  of  the  future 
starter  was  commenced  then  by  adding 
a  big  pail  of  sharp,  sour whey  to  the 
vat  of  milk 
in  advance  of  the  rennet.
This  promoted  fast  working  of  the 
curd ;  but  what  great  blankets  of  whey 
cream  there  were  on  the  big  whey  vats. 
Whey  butter  was  a  great  feature,  for  no 
maker  then  believed  that  ail  the  fat 
could  be  held 
in  milk,  much  less  in 
once  a  day  delivery.  Great,  large  90  to 
n o  lb.  cheese  were  made,  and  were 
cured  on  stringer  ranges,  with  cheese 
box  covers  for shelves.  Heat  and  ren­
net  were  the  then  supposed  two  agen­
cies  that  cured  cheese,  and  were  used 
accordingly.  Curd tests  were  unthought 
of,  and  floating  curds,  stinkers  and  pin­
holes,  were  unlocated  enemies,  and  so 
far  as  the  maker  was  concerned,  were 
without  generation.  After  the  flush  of 
feed,  all  the  best  and  finest  cheese  were 
stored  back 
in  the  depths  of the  great 
cavernous  curing  houses,  and  kept  for 
the  late  fall  and  winter  trade.

Cheese  was  then  consigned  to  com­
mission  houses  direct.  The  order  trade 
from  factory  to  the  grocer  and  supply 
houses  was  unknown,  and  cold  storage 
of  any  sort,  would  have  been  ruled  out 
of  court  as  nonsense,  and  sterilization 
and  bacteria  had  no  existence.  Winter 
dairying  was  supposed  to  be against  na­
ture,  and  the  belief  was  genera],  at 
least  so  practiced,  that  cows  in  the  win­
ter  only  did  their  best  on  timothy  hay 
and  ice  water.—John  Gould  in  Hoard’s 
Dairyman.

The  Outlook  For Peaches.

The  prospect 

for  a  good  crop  of 
peaches  in  Michigan  this  year,  while 
not  quite  up  to  the  average,  is good,  ex­
cept  in  Berrien  county,  where  the  buds 
were  badly  damaged  last  December  by 
a  severe  cold  wave  which  swept  the 
lower  end  of  Lake  Michigan.  Estimates 
from  that  county  are  for  only  10  per 
cent,  of  the  usual  crop. 
It  is  almost 
anomalous 
that  Benzie  county,  the 
northernmost  peach  raising  county  in 
the  State,  promises  a  yield  of  112  per 
cent,  of  an  average  crop.  The  estimates 
from  Muskgeon  are  ioo per cent.;  Kent, 
89  per  cent.  ;  Ottawa,  38  per  cent.  ; 
Newaygo,  93  per  cent.,  and  Oceana  91 
per  cent.

“ Labor over^otneth  all  things,”   even 

the  laborer.

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Woman’s World

Disadvantages  Under  W hich  Boys  are 

Reared.

yet 

In  my  opinion  the  real,  downtrodden, 
oppressed  class 
in  this  country—the 
people  with  a  genuine  grievance —are 
boys. 
In  nine  families  out  o!  tan  boys 
are  regarded  as  an  anomaly,  something 
flesh,  nor  foal, 
that  is  neither  fish, 
red  herring — that 
nor 
good 
can  neither  be 
treated  with 
the 
reason  of  grown-ups  nor  dressed  up  and 
shown  off  like  a  girl  and  for  which 
there 
is  no  place.  They  are  little  Ish- 
maelites  whose  bands  are  turned against 
the  bric-a-brac  and  who  are  enemjes  to 
peace  and  order,  and  there  is  a  geberal, 
if unexpressed,  concurrence in  the  opin­
ion  of  the  old  bachelor,  who  said  that 
the  only  proper  way  to  raise  a  boy  was 
to  put  him 
in  a  barrel  and  feed  him 
through  the  bunghole.

Every  now  and  then  a  fond  mother 
makes  a  heroic  effort  to  realize her ideal 
of  a  perfect  boy  by  dressing  her  little 
in  Fauntleroy  clothes  and 
Johnny  up 
having  him 
learn  the  piano  instead  of 
how  to  play  marbles  and  letting his long 
yellow  curls  bang  down  his  back  until 
he  gets  almost  to the  voting  age.  When 
a  woman  does  this  one  of  two things 
happens:  Either  little  Johnny  arises 
and  tears  off  his  lace  ruffles  and  gets 
tough  to prove to other boys that he is not 
as  silly  as  his  clothes or  else he develops 
into  a  sissy  man,  who  all  his  life  is 
afflicted  with  nerves  and  secretly  yearns 
to  sit  in  the  house  and embroider tidies, 
instead  of  getting out  into  the  world and 
hustling  with  other  men  for  a  living. 
Any  child  who  will  wear  long  hair  after 
he 
is  big  enough  to  reach  the  scissors 
on  his  mother’s  work  table  ought  to  be 
taken  off  somewhere  and  gently  chloro­
formed  for  the  benefit  of  the  human 
race.

There 

is  just  one  thing  on  earth  that 
is  worse  than  the  little  Lord  Fauntleroy 
boy,  who  can  not  go  out  and  play  with 
other  boys  for  fear  be  will  soil  his 
ruffles  and  muss  bis  pretty  curls,  and 
that 
is  the  prig  boy,  who  is  made  to 
sign  a  pledge  never  to  touch  liquor  be­
fore  he  has  ever  drunk  anything  but  bis 
mother’s  milk  and  never  to  play  cards 
before  he  has  ever  heard  of  anything 
beyond  his  kindergarten  blocks  and 
who  goes  about  exhaling  moral  precepts 
and  correcting  his  elders.

I  have  the  misfortune  to  number  two 
such 
freaks  among  my  acquaintance. 
One  of  them  is  a  poor little  lad  who  is 
the  unfortunate  victim  of  the misguided 
affection  of  an  adoring  houseful  of 
women,  among  whom  he  sits  day  after 
day,  doing  fancy  work  and  otherwise 
conducting  himself  like  a  perfect 
lady. 
He  is  always  beautifully  dressed and his 
precocity 
is  something  fearful  to  con­
template,  but  be  is  a  pale  and  anaemic 
little  creature  who  has  learned  to gos­
sip,  and 
if  he  was  my  boy  1  would 
rather  hear  him  swear  like  a  trooper 
than  talk  scandal  like  a  woman.

The  other  boy 

is  the  son  of  a  saint, 
and  has  already,  although  he  is  only  9 
years  old,  joined  all  the  anti-societies 
his  mother  knows  about.  He  is  one  of 
the  abnormal  little  creatures  who  think 
of  their  souls  instead  of  their  stomachs, 
and  all the other boys hate him and avoid 
him 
like  a  plague,  because  when  you 
give  him  a  quarter  be  sends  it  to  the 
heathen 
in  for 
sweets.  That  boy's  fate  is  also  fixed. 
He  will  grow  up  into  a  canting  hypo­
crite,  who  will  do  more  harm  than  a 
dozen  honest  sinners,  or  else  some  day

instead  of  blowing 

it 

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

the  revulsion  will  come—the  wild  de­
sire  for  all  the  pleasures  be  has  been 
told  were  so fascinating  and  so  wicked, 
and  he  will  break  over  the  ropes  and  go 
to  the  very  limit  of  excess.

Fortunately,  we  have  little  to  do  with 
these  two  types.  They  are  rare,  but  the 
ordinary,  commonplace  human  boy, 
who  has  an  equal  antipathy  to  fine 
clothes  and high moral sentiments,  is  al­
ways  with  us,  and  I  contend  that  he  is 
the  least  understood  and  the  least  sym­
pathized  with  person  on  earth  and  that 
in  every  family  he  is  the  one  thing  of 
utmost  importance,  the  one  subject  that 
will  best  repay  the  profoundest  study 
and  the  use  of  the  finest  diplomacy.

That  he  is  not  understood  is  because 
his  mother can  not  comprehend  him and 
his  father  will  not.  The  barrier  of  sex 
is  between  a  boy  and  his  mother and 
the  barrier  of  business  is  between  a  boy 
and  his  father.  No  woman  really  ever 
even  understands  a  man  whose  thoughts 
and 
ideals  and  ambitions  and  purposes 
have  settled  down  into  order.  Still  less 
can  she  understand  her  son,all  of  whose 
thoughts  are  chaotic  and  whose  tastes 
and  desires  are  still  formless  and  nebu­
lous.  A  mother  instinctively  under­
stands  her  daughter.  She  sympathizes 
with  Sally’s  love  of  her  dolly,  with  her 
desire  for  fine  clothes  and  with  her 
silly,  sentimental  school  girl 
fancies, 
because  she  has  been  every  step  of  the 
same  way  herself;  but she  does not  sym­
pathize  with  her  son  because  she  has 
never  felt  as  be  does  and  she  never 
wanted  to  do  things  he  wants  to  do. 
She  never  desired  to carry worms around 
in  her pocket  or to  make  hideous noises, 
and  she  can  not  understand  why  her  son 
does.

Johnny’ s  father  knows,  however.  He 
has  been  down the  line.  He  knows  how 
a  boy  feels,  he  knows  his  desires,  his 
temptations,  his  weaknesses,  his  fine­
nesses  and  bis  faults,  and  the  unpar­
donable  sin  for  which  Johnny’s  father 
will  never  be  forgiven  in  this  world  or 
the  next 
is  that  be  does  not  think  it 
worth  while  to  save  his  son  from  the 
mistakes  that  the  boy  is  sure  to  make. 
Johnny's  father 
is  too  busy  a  man  to 
ever  have  time  to  really  get  acquainted 
with  his  boy.  He  toils  hard  all  day  and 
when  he  comes  home  at  night  he  buries 
himself 
in  his  book  or  paper.  He  can 
tell  you  exactly  the  state  of the  stock 
markets  of  the  world  and  what 
the 
French  wits  are  saying  and  the  German 
savants  reading,  but  he  has  not  the 
idea  of  the  state  of  Johnny’s 
faintest 
is  thinking  or 
mind  or  what  Johnny 
reading. 
is  a  sad  and  lamentable 
fact  that  the  average  American  father's 
sole  idea  of  duty  to  his'boy  is chastising 
him  when  bis  mother  complains  of  him 
and  paying  his  bills.

It 

Thus  is  the  boy  left  isolated,  misun­
derstood,  unsympathized  with  at  home. 
is  a  mean,  dark,  comfortless 
If  there 
room 
in  the  house  it  is  the  boy’s  room. 
If  there  are  errands  to  be  done,  he  is 
expected  to  do  them.  His  mother  frets 
about  his  tracking  up  the  house.  His 
sisters  deride  him  for  being  awkward 
and  ungainly.  His  hobbies  are  ex­
ploited  before  strangers  as  choice  fam­
ily 
jests,  and  when  hurt,  humiliated 
and  full  of  dumb  fury,  he  retires  into 
himself  and  thinks  of  running  off  to  be 
a  pirate  or  an  Indian  fighter,  he  is 
called  sulky,  and  the  one  person  in  the 
world  who  might  understand  him—his 
own  father—to  whom  he  has  a  right  to 
look  for  comprehension,  and  sympathy, 
and  help,  is  too  careless  and  indiffer 
ent to  do  it.

Now,  no  woman  is  fitted  by  nature  to

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Packed  in five pound boxes 

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A Business  Hint

A  suggested  need  often  repeated  creates  the 

w ant 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 
Com pany  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.

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No.  4 6   “ Duchess Assortment”

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1 dozen Olives........................................... 

1 dozen Spoon Trays...............................
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1 dozen Mustards and Saucers................
1 dozen Sugars......................
1 dozen  Creams......................
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

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raise  a  boy.  Sometimes  a  woman  makes 
a 
lucky  hit  and  strikes  the  bull’s-eye 
and  turns  out  a  man  who  is  an  honor to 
her  and  a  credit  to  his  country,  but,  as 
a  general  thing,  she  makes  a  woeful 
mess  of  it,  and  the  reason  there  are  so 
many  worthless,  dissipated,  miserable 
men  is  because  the  job  of  raising  them 
was 
their  moth­
ers'  bands.

left  exclusively 

in 

Every  woman  wants  her  sons,  of 
course,  to  be  models  of  all  the  virtues 
and  gentle  and  refined,  and  her  idea  of 
the  way  to  do  this  is  to  keep  a  boy  in 
quarantine.  That  would  be  a  good  idea 
if  you  could  build  a  wall  that  went  all 
the  way  around 
life,  but  you  can  not. 
There  comes  the  time  when  the  boy 
must break away from his mother’s apron 
strings  and  go  out 
into  the  world  and 
face  the  temptations  of  life,  and 
ignor­
ance  is  not  his  best  shield  then.

A  wise  father  teaches  his  sons  from 
the  time  they  can  understand  anything 
that  the  so-called  pleasures  of  life  are 
dangers  against  which  no  paper  pledge 
is  going  to  protect  them;  that  a  man 
stands  or  falls  by  the  strength  that  is  in 
him,  and  whether  he  lets  enjoyment  be 
his  master or  his  slave.  Few  women  are 
broad  enough  to  do  this. 
If  a  foolish 
boy  comes  home  intoxicated,  after  hav­
ing  taken  too  much  wine  for  the  first 
time,  they  nag  him  with  temperance 
lectures  until  they  drive  him  to  drink 
through  mere  contrariness,  but  a  sensi­
ble  father,  instead  of having  a fit over it, 
will  show  the 
lad  what  drink  leads  to 
and  turns  a  searchlight  on  the  derelicts 
life  it  makes,  which  presents  a  tem­
of 
perance 
lecture  that  will  forever  turn 
the  boy  from  the  danger of  a  drunkard’s 
fate. 
I  know  one  wise  and  cynical  old 
club  man  who  has  saved  more  boys  by 
two  words  spoken  at  the  right  moment 
than  a  hundred  hysterical 
reformers 
have  to  their  credit.

Another 

thing—a  most 

important 
thing,  and  one  that  parents  are  strange­
ly  indifferent  to—is  finding  out  their 
boys’  talents.  Success  in  life  is  merely 
a  human  being  getting 
into  the  right 
boat  and  at  the  oar  that  nature  intended 
him  to  pull.  Half  the failures are caused 
by  people  trying  to  do  the  thing  they 
can  never  do.  Every  child in the  world 
by  the  time  it  is  io  years  old  must  have 
evinced  some  bent  that  should  decide 
its  future  education  and  destiny. 
In 
these  days  of  close  and  fierce  competi­
tion,  when  the  rewards  go  to  the  highly 
proficient,  it  is  folly  not  to  train  a  boy 
to  do  something  superlatively  well. 
11 
a  boy  is  not  fond  of  his  hooks  and  has 
to  be  driven  to  school,  it  is  idiocy  t»’ 
try  to  make  a  professional  man  of  him. 
If  he  is  clever  with  his  fingers  and  deft 
with  tools,  it 
is  criminal  not  to  give 
him  the  advantage  of  a  technical educa­
loves  to  play  store  and  is 
tion. 
forever 
trading  with  other  boys,  he 
should  be  given  the  first  impetus  to­
wards  making  a  merchant  prince  by  be­
ing  put -young  into  business  instead  of 
wasting  years  on  schooling.

If  he 

Surely,  this 

is  not  much  to  ask  that 
parents  should  at  least  try  to  give  their 
sons  a  fair  start  in  the  race  of  life  by 
into  the  class  in  which 
entering  them 
they  were 
intended  by  nature  to  run, 
yet  how  seldom  do  they  do  i t !  A  boy 
is  permitted  to  grow  up,  hit  or  miss, 
to  drift 
into  any  kind  of  occupation 
that  he  chances  upon,  with  no  especial 
training,  no  development  of  the  talents 
that  heaven  gave  him,and  half  the  time 
he  makes  a  mistake,  and  spends  years 
drifting about  trying  to  get  his  bearings 
and into  the  thing  that  he  ought  to  have 
done  at  first.

A  boy  is  the  most  interesting  thing  in 
the  world,  for  he  has  in  him  the  possi­
bilities  of  the  world,  and  for  my  part,  I 
little  fellow,  no  matter 
never  see  a 
whether  he 
is  rich  or  poor,  handsome 
or ugly.  without  wondering  if  I  am  not 
looking  at  the hands  that  will  sway  the 
destiny  of  nations,  command  armies, 
drag  the  secrets  of  nature  from  her 
breast  or  write  the  words  that  will  fire 
the  heart  of  the  world.  The  boy  who 
will  do  any  one  of these  things  may  be 
yours.  Be  careful  how  you  use  him.
Dorothy  Dix.

Encroachm ent of A thletics in the Field of 

Culture.

Members  of  the  sedately 

intellectual 
colony  which  for  forty-six years past  has 
supported  and  maintained  the  pioneer 
women’s  institution  of  learning,  the  E l­
mira  College,  New  York,  look  askance 
at  the  glorification  of  athletics  among 
the  students.  The  recent  athletic  field 
day  was  embraced  by the girls  as  an  op­
portunity  to  lavish  quantities  of  femi­
nine  adulation  upon  the  prize  winners 
of  the  day.

Especially  did  the  girls  rave  over 
Miss  Helen  Downes,  who  won  no  less 
than  six  events.  These  were  events  in 
which  girls  find  it  hard  to  excel.  She 
foot 
won  the  fifty  and  seventy-five  yard 
races, 
jump,  the 
forty  and  sixty  yard  hurdle  races,and  to 
show  her  all  around  development  she 
put  the  shot  50  feet—2  feet  and  1  inch 
beyond  the  point  reached  by  the  con­
testant  taking  second  prize.

the  running  broad 

Her  powers  of  endurance  are  admired 
by  all  the  girls  in  the  college,  and  were 
commented  upon  in  spirited  and  good- 
natured  envy  which  confirmed  some  of 
the  old  supporters  of  the  college  in their 
fear  that  there  was  more  athletic  than 
intellectual  ambition  among  the  stud­
ents.

in 

After  winning  the  seventy-five  yard 
10  4-5  seconds,  and  the  forty- 
dash 
yard  hurdle  race  in  q  4-5  seconds,  Miss 
Downes  tackled  the  fifty-yard  dash  with 
but  a  short  rest  intervening.  Then  she 
won  at  putting  the  shot,  and 
in  the 
rather  strenuous  sixty-yard  hurdle  race 
without  taking  time  for  rest,  the  three 
events  following  each  other on  the day’s 
programme.

The  sixty-yard  hurdle  race  is  for  a 
girl  really  a  test  of  endurance  in  itself, 
but  Miss  Downes  did  not  stop  at  that, 
but  tackled  the  running  broad  jump, 
with  but  one  event,  the  discus  throw­
ing,  intervening  on  the  programme  be­
tween  the  hurdle  race  and  the  jump. 
She  covered 
in  the 
jump,  winning  the  prize.  She  ran  the 
fifty-yard  dash  in  6  1-5  seconds  and  the 
sixty-yard  hurdle  in  10  4-5  seconds.

12  feet  5 

inches 

181 

Miss  Downes  has  certainly  been  set 
upon  a  pedestal  by  her  classmates.  Al­
most  beside  her  has  been  placed  Miss 
Bertha  Burgett,  ’02,  who  distinguished 
herself  on  the  field  day  by  breaking  the 
American  record  for girls’  colleges  for 
throwing  the  base  ball,  having  pitched 
the  base  ball 
feet.  Besides,  she 
won 
the  basket  ball  throwing  event. 
The  best  previous  record  for  throwing 
the  base  bail  was  163  feet.

Miss  Burgett's  excellence  has  aroused 
a  tremendous  amount  of feminine pride, 
because  it  has  shown  that  a  girl  can  ex­
cel 
In  the  past 
ever  so  much  fun  has  been  poked  at 
girls  because  they  threw  balls  awkward­
ly  and  without  force.

in  throwing  a  ball. 

The  set  which  fears  that athletics  will 
win  the  girls  away  from  their  studies 
has  been  pointing  to  the  high  ideals  set 
by  the  founders.  Elmira  College  was 
established  before  Vassar  was thought of

and  upon  aristocratic  lines  that  are  pre­
served  to  this  day. 
It  was  the  first  col­
lege  to  rely  chiefly  upon  invested  funds 
for  its  support,  so  that  it  might  be  in­
dependent  of  all  doctrinal,  social  or 
other  dictation.  It  was  determined  early 
that  all  the  girls  who  studied 
there 
should  have  the  degree  of  B.  A.  when 
they  had  achieved  the  same  standard 
which  Hamilton,  the  most  polished  of 
early  American  statesmen,  attained. 
These  are  the  ideals  which  it  is  alleged 
old  Elmira  is  growing  away  from.

In  common  with  the  other  college 
girls  who  go  in  for  athletics,  both  Miss

Burgett  and  Miss  Downes  have  excel­
lent  figures  which  they  are  careful  not 
to injure  by wearing  any binding  or con­
fining  garments  that  may  be dictated  by 
passing  fashion. 
In  the  athletic  field 
and  on  the  track  they  wear  knee-high 
skirts  and  bloomers,  which  allow  the 
desired  freedom  of  movement  without 
giving  the  carping  any  opportunity  to 
criticise. 

Cora  Stowell.

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Hal—I  guess  it’s  because  she  kneads 

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Hardware

Some  of the  Advantage«  of Local  O rgani­

Taking  the 

sation.
local  hardware  associa- 
tion  movement  throughout the  country 
it  has  probably  accomplished  more 
good  up  to  date  along  the  line  of early 
closing  than  on  any  other.

Hardware  dealers throughout the coun­
try  are  commencing  to  argue  that  the 
game 
is  not  worth  the  candle  when  a 
man  works  all  day  up  to  6 o’clock,  goes 
home  to  a  hurried  supper,  and  back  at 
7 to  work  until  g or  io.

The  youngster who complained  to  bis 
mother that  ‘ ‘ the  man  who  stays  around 
here  Sundays  licked  me”   was  probably 
the  son  of  a  hardware  dealer  under the 
old  routine,  for  the  man  who  works 
morning,  afternoon  and  evening  hardly 
has  time  to  see  his  family  at  all.

This  early  closing  movement  varies 
widely  in  different  sections  of  the  coun­
try. 
In  some  cities  hardware  stores 
close  at  6  o'clock  and 
in  some  at  7 ; 
some  close  early  on  stated  days  in  the 
week.  This  early  closing  movement  has 
just  made 
its  appearance  among  the 
hardware  dealers  or  “ Ironmongers,”   as 
they  are  called 
in  conservative  Eng­
land,  and  judging  from  the  tone  of  the 
hardware  press 
in  that  country  the 
movement  is  likely  to become general.

The  advantages  of  a  local  association 
as  regards  a  credit  system  are  obivous. 
It  is  all  too  common  for  some  men  with 
a  perverted  sense  of  honesty  to  run  up 
a  bill  with  one  dealer  and,  after  the 
same  has  assumed  considerable  propor­
tions,  to  transfer  their trade  to  another 
victim.  The  local  association  by  keep­
ing  a  list  of  undesitable  customers  can 
save  many  times  what  it  costs  its  mem­
bers  in  the  course  of  a  year.

The  way  one  local  association  takes 
hold  of  the  credit  system  is  by  having 
the  Secretary  at  the  end  of  each  week 
send  each  member of  the  association  a 
list  of  such  customers  as  are  poor pay 
or  pay  slowly. 
It  is  an  understanding 
between  members of the  association  that 
customers  who  are  dead-beats  shall  not 
receive  credit  from  any  member  of  the 
association  until  they  pay  up  their  bill 
at  the  last  place  where  they  traded. 
If 
they  refuse  to  do  this,  they  should  not 
be  granted  credit.  This 
is  certainly 
common  sense, for  the  dealer  who  grants 
credit to  the  man  who  has  failed  to  pay 
his  previous  bill  is  giving  away  goods 
in  the great  majority  of cases.

issuing 

In  working  this  credit  system,  and 
in 
lists  of  customers  who  are 
dead-beats,  have  it  understood  that  any 
merchant  who  is  skeptical  about  the 
rating  given  a  customer can  ascertain 
how  much  he  owes  the  other  man  by 
calling  upon  the  Secretary.

Suppose  that  Smith 

is  a  member of 
the  association,  and  receives  a  list  on 
which  be  sees  the  name  of 
Jones. 
If  Jones  is  a  man  who  bought  a  few 
goods and  paid  him cash recently,  Smith 
naturally  thinks  he  is  all  right,  but  the 
appearance  of  his  name  on  this  list 
should  place  him  on  the  alert,  and  he 
should  ascertain  from  the  Secretary  of 
just  how  much  Jones 
the  association 
owes  Brown. 
Possibly  when  Smith 
starts  looking  up  the  matter  he  wiil  find 
from  the  Secretary  that  Jones  owes  sev­
eral  hundred  dollars 
in  separate  ac­
counts, and  has  never  paid  any  of  them.
This  should  be  sufficient  evidence  to 
Smith  not  to grant  any  credit  to Jones 
even  if  be  has  paid  cash  to  him,  and  in 
ninety-nine  cases  out  of  too,  if  he  is  a 
level  headed  business  man,  he  will  not 
do  it.

Of  course,  there  are  many  other ad­
vantages  of  association  work,  such  as 
the 
interchange  of  views  on  matters  of 
business  detail  which  one  dealer can 
give  another. 
It  must  be  remembered 
also  that  this  retail  organization  move­
ment  is  yet  in  its  infancy.

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

is  a  new  giant,  but  it  has  not  yet 
recognized  its  power,  and  I  will  outline 
lines  taken  from  other  trades, 
several 
which  possibly 
in  time  may  be  taken 
up  by  local  hardware  associations.

It 

STEEL
RANGE

from  different 

One  of these  is  the  question  of  freight 
service.  The  manufacturers  of  Buffalo, 
N.  Y .,  have  a  very  powerful  association 
and  an  efficient  working  offiical  corps. 
The  various  manufacturers  of  the  as­
sociation  keep  tab  on  the  service  they 
receive 
railroads  to 
different  competing  points  both  as  to 
time  of  service,  amount  of  breakage  of 
material,  price,  promptness  and  cour­
tesy  in  adjusting  complaints,  etc.  Take 
Erie,  Pa.,  for  example.  There  are  five 
railroad  systems  between  Buffalo  and 
Erie. 
The  manufacturers  adopted  a 
system  by  which  they  kept  tab  on  the 
service  of  each  road,  and  at  the  end  of 
three  months’  time  they  reported  as  to 
the  road  giving  the  best  service.  This 
road  thereafter  received  the  entire  pa­
tronage  of  the  association.

Why  is  not this  same  scheme  feasible 
for the  Rockford  Retail  Hardware  Mer­
chants’  Association? 
There  are  two 
roads, 
the  Illinois  Central  and  the 
Northwestern,  between  this  city  and 
If  your  association  were  to 
Chicago. 
notify  the 
local  freight  agents  of  both 
roads  that  you  had  adopted  a  regular 
system,  by  which  you  kept  tab  of  the 
rates  charged  for  freight,  promptness 
of  delivering  shipments,  settling 
for 
losses in  transit,  the  courtesy  in  answer­
ing  complaints,  etc.,  and  that  after  a 
period  of  three  months  the  entire  busi­
ness  that  was  controlled  by  the  member­
ship  of this  association  would  be  given 
exclusively  to  that  road  which  gave  the 
best  service,  is  there  any  doubt  but  that 
you  would  get  a  No.  i  service?

The  retail  grocers  of  Duluth,  Minn., 
have  successfully  adopted  a co-operative 
delivery  system.  There  is  no  question 
but  that  the  hardware  dealers  of  Rock­
ford  could  effect  an  important  saving 
if  they  made  arrangements  to  hire  all 
their deliveries  made  by  a  co-operative 
concern  rather  than  have  each  dealer 
maintain  a  separate  delivery  wagon, 
driver,  etc.  The  advertisement  any  in­
dividual  dealer  gets  from  his  name  on 
a  delivery  wagon 
is  hardly  worth  the 
difference  in  cost  between  having an in­
dividual  driver  and  wagon,  and  using  a 
co-operative  system.

You  will  see  that  this  scheme  is  more 
or  less  visionary,  but  I  am  going  to 
proceed  to those  that  are  more  so.

The  paving  contractors  of  Chicago 
have  an  association  which  they  charge 
an  outsider  $i,coo to  join.  Every  job 
of  paving  in  the  city  is  carefully  fig­
ured  out  at  a  certain  price,  to  which  is 
added  a  decent  margin  of  profit,  and 
then  the  different  contractors  who  want 
the 
in  bids  for  it  and  the  iob 
goes  to  the  highest  bidder,  and  bis  bid 
is  divided  among  the  bidders  who 
placed  a  bid  on  the contract.

job  put 

Why  should  not this  scheme  apply  to 
builders'  hardware?  Suppose,  for exam­
ple,  that  there  was  a  job  for  supplying 
the  builders'  hardware 
in  this  city, 
which  would  be  reasonably  certain  to 
go  to  some  member  of  your  association. 
Suppose  the 
job  was  for  $200.  The 
members  of the  association  would  figure 
a  fair  profit  which  would  not  be  exorbi­
tant  on  this  job,  say  25  per  cent.—that

W e  would  like  to 
for  helping 
the

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would  make  $50  profit.  Then  the  differ­
ent  members  of  the  association  would 
have  a  chance  to  say  how  much  they 
would give  the  association for the privil­
ege  of  getting  this  job. 
If ten  of  the 
members  bid  on  the  job  and  one  man 
was  determined  to  have  it  willy-nilly, 
and  actually  offered  to  do  the  work  at 
cost,  he  would  bid  $50,  and  his  money 
would  be  divided  among  the  ten  mem­
bers  of  the  association  who  bid,  so  each 
would  make  as  much  on  the  job  as  he 
did.

A  few  experiences  of  this  kind  would 
naturally  deter  cut  throat  competition 
and  would  not  be  for  the  detriment  of 
the  consumer,  as  the  association  in  fig­
uring  out  this  original  price  at  which 
the  job  should  be  let  could  not  make  an 
exorbitant  figure,or  it  would  cut  its  own 
throat.

There 

is  still  another  method  that  is 
visionary  that  the  association  might  use 
in  securing  a  fair  profit  on  jobs,  and 
that 
is  the  one  used  by  the  Master 
Plumbers’  Association  of  Boston.

Whenever  there  is  any  plumbing work 
in  Boston  this  Association  has  all  the 
members  desiring  the  work  make  a  bid 
on  the  same.  These  bids  are  all  opened 
in  the  Secretary’s  office—all  the  plumb­
ers  being  present—and  are averaged up ; 
the  bid  nearest  the  average  is  the  one 
that  gets  the  contract,  and  the  other 
bidders  are  bound  by  the  rules  of  the 
Association  to  protect  the  winning  bid­
der  in  their  subsequent  bids.

Manufacturers  are  organized,  jobbers 
are organized,  transportation  companies 
are  organized  and  our  mercantile  class 
can  not  prevent  being  pushed  to  the 
wall  except  by  organizing  for  self-pres­
ervation.

loyal, 

When  the  hardware  trade  reaches  the 
stage  where  every  thriving  city  has  a 
strong, 
local  association;  where 
each  state  is  well  organized  with  these 
aforesaid 
local  organizations  as  a  base, 
and  where  the  National  Retail  Hard­
ware  Dealers'  Association  is  a  powerful 
body  including  in  its  ranks  state  asso­
ciations  in  every  state  in  the  country ; 
then  hardware  dealers  will  generally  ac­
knowledge  that  the  foundation  of  their 
twentieth  century  success  is  due  to  the 
co-operation  of  their  triple  organiza­
tions—local,  state  and  national.

Sidney  P.  Johnston.

The  W ay  of It.

“ Where  are  you  going  this  summer?”  
“ I ’m  going  to  a  stretch  of  barren 
sand,  where  I  can  be  surrounded  by  the 
luxuries of  the  seashore.”

“ By  yoursell?”
“ No.  Whole  family.  Wifeand  chil­

dren,  servants,  nurses,  etc.”  

“ Cottage?”
“ Yes.  Has  eight  rooms  for  sixteen 
people.  Each  room  will  hold  comfort­
ably  about  one-half  of  a  human  being.”  

“ Cottage  alone?”
“ Oh,  no.  We  shall  be  next  to  a  lot 
of  others.  Each'with  an  assortment  of 
children. ”

“ Nice  people?”
“ Well,  they’ re  people 

I  wouldn’t 
think  of  associating  with  on  ordinary
occasions,  but  of  course-----”

“ Oh,  certainly.  Where  do  you  get 

your  vegetables?”

“ From  the  city.”
“ And  your  water?”
“ From  the  nearest  well.”  
“ Typhoid?”
“ Probably.”
“ Flies?”
“ Heaps.”
“ What are  you  going  for?”
“ Two  reasons:  Because  I  can’t  afford 

to  and  my  wife  wants  to.”

Public  office  nowadays  rarely  hunts  a 
man.  The  office  can  not  break  away 
from  the  politicians,  but never  had  the 
offices  more  need  to  find  men.

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

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Passing of the  Company  Store  in  the  Up­

per  Peninsula.

Vulcan,  July  14—On  and  after July 

1 
the  two  general  stores—one  at  Vulcan 
and  one  at  Norway—will  be  operated 
and  managed  by  a  new  company, known 
as  the  Penn  Store  Co.  They  will  be 
conducted  absolutely 
independent  of 
the  Penn  Iron  Mining  Co.,  which  has 
owned  them  for  so  many  years.  We  do 
not  know  the  entire  roster  of  the  in­
corporators,  but  have  been  assured  that 
the  business  of  the  two  stores  will  be 
conducted  hereafter  on  an  entirely  new 
system.  This  move  marks  the  disap­
pearance  of  the 
last  of  the  so-called 
“ company”   stores  in  the  Upper  Penin­
sula,  the  existence  of  which  has  been  a 
source  of  much  adverse  comment  by 
other  merchants.  It  is,  perhaps,  a  good 
thing  for  these  merchants  that the  stores 
have  not  been  closed,  as  such  a  condi­
tion  would  be  the  signal  for the  open­
ing  of  at  least  a  half  dozen  other  busi­
ness  houses  in  an  attempt  to  secure  and 
hold  the  trade  which  the  local  merchant 
is  sure  would  be  his  were  the  stores 
closed;  and  these  new  stores  would  not 
in  all  cases  be  as  honorable  and  fair 
competitors  as  has  been  the  Penn  Iron 
Mining  Co.  Many  an  employe  has dur­
ing  the  past  twenty-five  years  been  car­
ried  through  sickness  and  trouble  when 
other  merchants  could  not  and  would 
not  have  helped  him.  The  writer  was 
here  to  see  the  installation  of  the  first 
“ company”   store 
1880  by  the  Me­
nominee  Mining  Co.  and  had  charge  of 
the  accounts 
’twixt  the  men  and  the 
company  and  is  free  to  say  that,  at  that 
time  when  many  began  to  build  homes 
for  themselves  and  families,  without  a 
dollar  in  hand,  the  company  store  was 
indeed  a  boon;  furnishing  them  with 
food,  raiment  and  building  materials 
(the 
latter  at  cost  price)  and  carrying 
many  of  them  for  years  with  better  re­
sults  to  the  employe  than  any  building 
and 
loan  association  has  ever  shown. 
We  are  aware  that  many  who  read  this 
will  join  issue  with  us  on  the arguments 
advanced,  but we  have  data  and  facts  to 
bear  us  out  in  the  assertion  that  the 
company  store  system  has  been  a  boon 
to  many.

in 

Ishpeming,  July  14—It  is  many  years 
since  a  mercantile  business  has  been 
conducted  by  a  mining  corporation  on 
this  range.  The  Iron  Cliffs  Co.’s  store 
at  Negaunee,  the  last  of  the  kind,  was 
closed  out  some  eight  or nine  years ago. 
The  Cliffs  people  did  not  compel  their 
men  to  do  all  their  trading  at  their 
store.  The  workmen  were  paid  in  cash, 
less  the  amount  held  out  for  merchan­
dise,  and they could  trade  wherever they 
pleased.  The  company  stores  of  this 
range  met  all 
legitimate  competition 
and  not  a  few  regretted  that  the  Iron 
Cliffs  Co.  closed out the Negaunee  store, 
as  patrons had  always  been  treated  fair­
ly  here.

A  Job  For the  “Meenister.”

In  a  certain  parish  in  Scoltand  col­
lectors  were  lately  going  around solicit­
ing  contributions  for  the  kirk.  On 
coming  to  a  wretched  little  hovel  they 
hesitated  whether  or  not  to  enter,  but 
finally  decided  to  “ try  their  luck.”
A  hale  old  man  greeted  them,  and  to 
him  they  explained  their  errand.  But 
he  really  had  nothing  to  give  them,  he 
said.

“ Can’t  ye  g i’e  up  yourwhusky?”   one 

of  the  visitors  asked.

said,  he 

No,  be 
didn’t  drink 
“  whusky.”
Perhaps,  then,  he  could  forego  the 
pleasures  of  snuff?  No,  he  didn't  use 
snuff.

The  collectors  prepared  to  move  on.
“ Stop  a  bit,”   cried  the  old  fellow. 
“ I  pay  Sandy,  the  barber,  twopence 
every  Saturday  night  for  shaving  me. 
Tel)  the  meenister  he  can  have  the  two­
pence  if  he’ll  come  and  shave  me  him­
self. ”

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Window  Glass,  Bar  Iron,  Shelf  Hard-  $  
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For  Prompt  Shipment.

Pat.  Silver  Binder Twine

7/a,  i  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.

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210  to  216  W ater  S t.,  Toledo,  Ohio

A  Summer  Light

For Stores,  Halls, Homes, Schools, Streets,  etc., 
that  w ill  lig h t but not  h eat  or  make  your 
premises like an  oven.

Brilliant  or  Halo  Gasoline  Gas  Lamps
Having sold over 100,000 of these lamps  during the 
last four years that are giving such perfect  satisfac­
tion, we are justified in making this  claim  and  that 
we have the best and  only  always  reliable  lamp  in 
the market.  A 15 foot room  can  be lighted  by  one 
Bril lant, or a 40-foot hall by one Halo Lamp at

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600 Candle Power

15  to  30  cents  a  month
No heat, smoke, smell or greasy wick.

100  Candle Power

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George  Bohner 

4 2   State St.,  Chicago

Buckeye  P ain t  &  V arn ish   Co.

R equest  F or  E xplicit  Inform ation.
“ Are  you  thinking  only  of  the  pres­
ent?”   asked  the  serious  man,  “ or,  are 
you  doing  your  duty  and  trying  to  leave 
something  for those who come after you?’ 
“  Those who come after  me?  ’  repeated 
“ Do  you 

the  man  of  genius  pensively. 
refer  to  posterity  or  my  creditors?”

PAINT,  COLOR  AND  VARNISH  MAKERS 

Mixed  Paint,  White  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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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Class  of  Country  Stores  In ju red   by  the 

Trolley Iiines.

The  trolley 

is  unquestionably  one  of 
the  most  developing  institutions  of  the 
age—there  is  no  doubt  about  that.

But  the  trolley  gong  is  sounding  the 
death  knell  of  many  a  country  store­
keeper—there 
is  no  doubt  about  that, 
either.

The  trolley 

town  together—makes 

links  the  city  and  the 
country 
it  an 
easy,  a  pleasant  and  a  cheap  matter  to 
go  to  town  for  things  wanted;  so  the 
people  are  getting  to  go  to  town  and 
their  trade  goes  with  them.

Take  the  case  of  one  town  I  know  of. 
It 
is  a  typical  country  town  of  about
5,000.  The  grocery  business  is  dead 
there  already  and  has  been  for  several 
years.

This  place 

is  about  eighteen  miles 
from  Philadelphia  and  up  to  now  it 
has  had  no  trolley  connections  with 
Philadelphia.  The only  connecting  link 
has  been  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad, 
which 
is  the  most  aggravating  and  in­
dependent  concern  on  earth  when  it  has 
no  competition,  as  it  has  not  there.

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad 

trains 
have  taken  an  hour  to  go  these  eighteen 
miles,  and  have  charged  70  cents excur­
sion  fare—a  gold-plated  rate  for  a  tin­
plated  service.

Now—
A  trolley  between  Philadelphia  and 
is  almost  ready  for service. 
this  town 
The  scheme 
is  to  carry  passengers  for 
35  cents  there  and  back—just  half  the 
Pennsylvania’s  fare—and  to  make  the 
trip  in  a  little  over  an  hour.

The  result  of  this  will  inevitably  be 
the  opening  of  that  whole  territory  to 
the  Philadelphia  merchants  and  the  loss 
of  more  trade  to  the  country  dealers. 
Already  the  city  grocers  send  goods 
up  there  on  five-package  delivery,  and 
some  of  them  even  solicit  there.

In  the  past  it  has  been  quite  an  event 
for  many  people  to  come  to  Philadel­
phia  from  the town I refer to. 
It  was  an 
hour's  journey  and  it  cost  nearly  a  dol­
lar.

Dollars,  incidentally,  do  not  grow  on 

trees  in  most  country  towns.

Many  people  have  bought  of  the  local 
dealers  because  they  had  to—they  could 
not  get  to  Philadelphia.  The  cutting 
of  the  fare  in  half  wili  make  it  a  small 
and  unimportant  matter  to  get  to  Phila­
delphia—35  cents 
is  only  a  dime  more 
than  a  quarter.

The  trolley  will  introduce  the  country 
people  to  the  city  and  foster  trade  be­
tween  them.  People  will  come  often  to 
Philadelphia,'and  that  they  will  spend 
more  of  their  money there follows as nat­
urally  as  that  the  thirsty  horse  will 
drink  when  you  lead  him  to  water.

In  all  of  which  the  country  merchant 

has  my  sincere  and  honest  sympathy.

to  much 

In  some  cases  the  country  merchant 
is  not  entitled 
sympathy, 
though—he  has  dug  his  own  grave.  He 
has  kept such  an  outrageously  poor  store 
that  the  people  fly  from  it  to  the  city 
stores  with  a  sigh  of  relief.

Mind,  I  say  in  some  cases  this  is  so.
instance:  Touring  the  rural  dis­
An 
tricts  with  a  friend  some  weeks  ago  1 
came  upon  a  small  country  village— 
just  the  sort  whose  commercial  life  is 
being  sucked  away  by  the  trolleys.

loaves  and  fishes.  Personally, 

It  was  lunch  time  and  we  were  hunt­
ing a  grocery store  where  we  could  get- a 
few 
I 
never  get  hungry,  but  my  friend  has  a 
rubber  stomach  and  if  he  does  not  get 
his  bottle  of  milk  on  the  minute  of  12 
he  cries  like a  baby.

The  first  store  we  went  into  was  one

of  the  sort that  consumers  are  glad  to 
escape  from.  The  proprietor  was  a  type 
of  the  back-number country storekeeper. 
He  kept  a  general  store,  but  the  only 
groceries  be  bad  out of  which  you  could 
make  a 
lunch  were  cheese,  dried  beef 
in  cans  and  salmon.

This  old  man  had  about  as  much 
salesmanship  about  him  as  a lamp-post. 
He  did  not  want  to  sell  goods—he 
would  rather  inveigle  the  two  strangers 
into  listening  to  his  conversation.

The  result  was  that  we  had  to  leave 
the  store—without  buying the  goods  that 
we  went  there  to  buy—to  get  rid  of  his 
gab.  Another  store  farther  on  in  the 
village  got  our order,  which  was  not  one 
to  sneeze  at.

Now,  I  feel  as  if  I  know  this  old  man 
as  well  as  if  I  bad  grown  up  with  him. 
It 
is  perfectly  safe  to  say  that  nobody 
would  buy  at  his  store  if  they  could  go 
anywhere  else,  and  that  is  his  fault  ab­
solutely.  He  has  a  little  old,  dusty,  be- 
hind-the-times  stock—Why? 
Because 
be 
is  too  busy  giving  advice  to  the 
President  and  wagging  his  old  jaw  to 
even  think  about 
improving  his  busi­
ness.
So 

the  people  of  the  community, 
whose  trade  he  ought  to  own  almost  in 
fee  simple,  drop  his  store  like  a  hot 
potato  when  the  trolley  to the  city  opens 
up  a  way  of  escape.—Stroller  in  Gro­
cery  World.
The  New  Sugar  Company  a  D isturbing 

Factor.

The  new  Federal  Sugar  Refining  Co., 
which  has  begun  the  actual  business  of 
selling  refined  sugar,  has  proved  a  dis­
turbing  factor  in  grocery  circles,  not­
withstanding  that 
its  output  thus  far 
does  not  exceed  250 barrels  per  day. 
It 
is  expected  that  within  a  week  or  so 
the  new company  will  have  a production 
of  750  barrels  daily,  and  that  within  a 
tefinery  will  have 
month  its  present 
reached 
limit  of  1,003  barrels. 
is  the  company  that  recently  in­
This 
creased 
its  capital  to  $50.000,000 and 
proposes  to  build  refineries  in  various 
sections  of  the  country.

its  full 

The  disturbance  the  new  concern  has 
created  in  the  sugar  trade  is  the  result 
its  method  of  selling  its  output  and 
of 
not  its  volume. 
It  has  cast  completely 
aside  all  the  old  methods  by  which  the 
older  refineries  do  business—discarding 
the  factor  plan  with  the  rest—and  starts 
in  with  a  straight  proposition  to  sell  its 
refined  sugars  at  a  net  price  to  all 
classes  of  buyers, 
retail  as  well  as 
wholesale.  No  discounts of  any  charac­
ter  are  allowed,  and  any  buyer  with 
sufficient  credit  can  purchase  regardless 
of  the  uses  to  which  he  may  put  the 
sugar.  The  net  quotation  for  granulated 
is  4.40c  cash,  seven  days,  while  the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Co.,  the  Na­
tional  Co.  and  the  Arbuckles  are  sell­
ing  at  4.65c,  less  the  usual  discounts, 
which  figures  down  to  about  4.40c net.— 
New  York  Journal  of  Commerce.
M innesota  W ill  Allow  the  Use  of  Borax.
in  the  Minnesota 
law  to  prevent  packers  from  using  pre­
servatives  on  the  meat  offered  for  sale 
in  the  State.  This  point  was  decided 
last  week  by  the  Supreme  Court  in  test 
cases  against  J.  N.  Rumberg  and  C.  S. 
Wagenhals,  begun  at  Minneapolis  and 
appealed  after the  two butchers had been 
convicted  in  the  lower  court.  The  Court 
holds  that  the  amendment  to  the  Pure 
Food  law  passed  in  1901  applies  only  to 
milk  and  cream,  and  that  the  use  of 
borax  in  meats  is  not  illegal.

is  nothing 

There 

There  are  people  so weak  that  all  the 
good  or  evil  they  do  is  done  by  acci­
dent.

A  Perfectly  Roasted 

Coffee

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

TELFER  COFFEE  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

The  delicious new  food

C era  N ut  Flakes

Put up in air tight 
and germ  proof packages.
Order  through  your jobber.

National  Pure  Food  Co.,  Ltd.

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 th-it is lacking In yours? 
\ ou may not  have  thought 
much  anout  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 bv thousands 
of leading 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 anif 
estimates for equipping your  store.

Acetylene Apparatus Manufacturing Co.

157  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago.

Branch Offices and Salesrooms:  Louisville,  310 W. Jefferson  St.;  Buffalo,  145-147 

Elilcott St.;  Dayton, 226 S. Ludlow St.;  Sioux «ity, 417 Jackson St.; 

Minneapolis,  J  Washington Av. N.

‘-L .C L IN E .

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knitrhts of the Grip

President,  J ohn  a .  Weston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Brow n,  Saflinaw;  Treasurer, 
John W. Schbam, Detroit.

OiiM Commercial Trawlers ef Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Bartlett,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edklman, Saginaw.

Grand Rapids Council Bo. 131, D. C. T.

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

Treasurer. L. F. Baker.

TH E  CRAWFORD  PACE.

Lee  H utchins  M aking  the  Race  of  His 

Life.

Zeeland,  July  14—A  man  who  looked 
more  like  a  Sunday  school  teacher  than 
a  traveling  man  went  through  this  town 
early  this  morning,  only  stopping  long 
enough  to  call  on  the  drug  trade  here. 
He  looked  neither to  the  right  nor to the 
left,  and  the  only  words  he  uttered  on 
the  street  were  that  he  was  determined 
to  keep  up  the  Crawford  pace.

Holland,  July  14—A  strange  man  was 
seen  speeding  through  the  streets  here 
this  forenoon.  His  meteoric  appearance 
excited  so  much  comment that the police 
force  was  about  to  intercept  him  when 
he  was 
identified  as  the  President  of 
the  Grand  Rapids Y .  M.  C.  A.  by  one 
of  our local  clergymen.  After  identifica­
tion, it  was  noticed  that  he  was  laboring 
under  great  excitement  and  that  he  con­
stantly  murmured  to  himself,  as  he 
glided  along  the  street,  that  he  was  de­
termined  to  keep  up  the  Crawford  pace. 
He  registered  and  took  dinner  at  the 
City  Hotel,  but 
in  his  haste  forgot  to 
pay  the  bill.

Saugatuck,  July  14—A  gentleman  un­
known  to most  of our  people  visited  this 
town  this  afternoon,  reaching  the  place 
on  the  interurban.  He  acted  as  though 
he  bad  been  shot  out  of  a  cannon,  and 
lost  no  time  in  making  a  couple  of  calls 
and  getting  over  to  the  neighboring  vil­
lage  across  the  river,  murmuring  some­
thing  about  keeping  up  the  Crawford 
pace  as  he  sped  along  the  street.
Douglas,  July  14—Those  who  were  on 
the  street  this  afternoon  witnessed  a 
strange  sight  in  the  person  of  a  gentle­
man  who  appeared  to  be  a  drug  sales­
man,  who  stopped  at  the drug  store only 
long  enough  to  grab  an  order  and  re­
ceipt  such  unpaid  bills  as  our  druggist 
might  wish  to  liquidate.  Through  the 
intercession  of  a  friend,  he  was  able  to 
get  the  captain  of the  South  Haven  boat 
to  hold  the  vessel  ten  minutes  so  that 
he  might  “ keep  up the Crawford pace,”  
which  is  unintelligible  to  all  except  the 
druggist  here,  who  knowinglv  smiles 
and  insinuates  that  anyone  who  tries  to 
emulate  the  Crawford  capacity  to  cover 
territory  will  land  in  the  insane  asylum 
before  the  end  of  the  week.

South  Haven,  July  14—A  stranger  ar­
rived  on  the  boat  here  this  evening  in  a 
somewhat  dazed  condition. 
Luckily, 
he  ran  across  Sam  Van  Ostrand,' who 
took  him  to  the  hotel  and  put  him  in 
bed.  The  gentleman  looked  as  though 
he  had  seen  hard  usage  for  a  day  at 
least  and  was  so  completely  worn  out 
that  he  fell  asleep  the  minute  his  head 
struck  the  pillow,  murmuring  something 
about  keeping  up  the  Crawford  pace.
15—The  fore­
noon  train  from  South  Haven  brought  a 
solitary  passenger  in  the  person  of  a 
new  drug  salesman,  who  did  business 
here  with  the  greatest  dispatch  ever 
witnessed 
in  this  village.  He  was  at 
the  Pere  Marquette  depot  nearly  three 
seconds  before  the  train  pulled  out  for 
Bangor  and,  as  he  mounted  the  steps, 
he  bade  his  customer  farewell,  hurried­
ly  remarking  something 
the 
Crawford  pace.

Grand  Junction,  July 

Bangor,  July  15—This  town  has  been 
the  headquarters  of  a  number of  very 
swift  men,  but  the  fastest  gentleman 
who  ever  came  down  the  pike  jumped 
from  the  southbound  Pere  Marquette 
train  this  forenoon  and  spent  about  half 
an  hour  in  calling  on  the  drug  trade 
here,  incidentally  informing  each  cus­
tomer  that  he  was  endeavoring  to  keep 
up  the  Crawford  pace.
Hartford,  July  15—The  retail  drug­
gists  here  were  electrified  to-day  by  re­

about 

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

2 5

ceiving  a  call  from  a  gentleman  whom 
they  have  personally  known  heretofore 
as  the  credit  man  for  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.  He  stopped  only  a 
moment at  each  store,grabbing  an  order 
and  the  money  which  had  been  pre­
pared  for  the  regular salesman  of  that 
house,  vanishing  out  the  front  door 
without  hardly  so  much  as  saying  good­
bye.  As  he  took  the  train  for  Benton 
Harbor,  he  murmured  that  up  to this 
time  he  had  kept  up the  Crawford  pace.
Benton  Harbor,  July  15—A  local  pho­
tographer  who  happened  to  be  at  the 
depot  on  the  arrival  of  the  southbound 
Pere  Marquette  train  to-day  saw  a 
strange-looking  individual  who  was  ap­
parently  in  very  much  of  a  hurry.  As 
it  happened,  the  gentleman  was  de­
tained  long  enough  to  enable  the  pho­
tographer  to  secure  a  snapshot  of  the 
figure,  which 
it  was  decided  to  send  to 
the  Tradesman,  in  the  belief  that  that 
publication  would  be  able  to  identify 
the  individual.

St.  Joseph,  July  15—A  gentleman  ar­
rived  here  this  afternoon  from  Benton 
Harbor,  and  the  gait  he  struck  toward 
the  hotel  reminded  the  people  here  of  a 
Chicago  bridegroom  on  his  way  to  the

Gripsack  Brigade.

Albion  Recorder:  Harold  Beal  will 
go  to  Buffalo  Friday.  He  has  engaged 
to  travel 
in  Western  New  York  for the 
Bourdeau  Food  Co.,  of  Battle  Creek.

E.  S.  Wiseman  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  was  taken  suddenly 
ill  at 
Mecosta  last  week,  but  under  the  heroic 
treatment  administered  by  Dr.  Snyder 
was  able  to  resume  his  route  at  Big 
Rapids.

Owosso  Press: 

J.  B.  McIntosh,  who 
has  been  State  agent  of  the  Clough  & 
Warren  Co.  for  the  past  four  years,  has 
sold  out  his  retail  business  to  Joseph 
Rose  and  will  be  on  the  road  all  the 
time  for the  firm  named  above.

Owosso  Argus:  George  Haskell, 
who  for  the  past  two  years  has  been 
traveling  for  George  H.  Grahame,  of 
Detroit,  severed  bis  connection  with 
that  house  Saturday  to  take  a  position 
as  traveling  salesman  for  Hall Brothers, 
Nichols  &  Dutcher,  wholesale  grocers.
Albion  Leader:  The  traveling  sales-

ship  by  himself  and  wife,  expects  to  go 
upon  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman 
in  the  near  future.  He  will  remain  with 
Fred  J.  Young,  the  new  proprietor  of 
the  stock,  for  a  few  days.  Eventually 
it  is  thought  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cleveland 
will  adopt  Gobles  or  Otsego  as  their 
home.

A  Nashville  correspondent  writes:  On 
his  last  trip  to  this  town,  L.  M.  Mills, 
the  rotund  traveling  representative  of 
the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  pur­
chased  a  dog  of  J.  C.  Furniss.  As about 
twenty  other  merchants  here  also  had 
dogs  for  sale,  they  all  wrote  Mr.  Mills 
urgent  letters  requesting  him  to 
inves­
tigate  the  merits  of  their  respective 
canines.  It is  understood  that  the  letters 
were  so  bulky  that  the  local  postmaster 
was  compelled  to  utilize  an  extra  pouch 
for  his  Grand  Rapids  mail  on  that  oc­
casion.

The  Boys  Behind  the Counter.

Cadillac—Lawrence  Kramer,  who  has 
been  succeeded  as  cashier  in  the  S.  W. 
Kramer  dry  goods  store  by  Miss  Oda 
Heilbron,  of  Milwaukee,  will  be  trans­
ferred  to  the  dress  goods  department, 
which  is  in  charge  of  E .  A.  Rogers.

Grand  Rapids—Stoel  M.  Frost  has 
engaged  as  head  clerk  in  H.  A.  Cone’s 
new  grocery  store  in  the  Loraine  block.
late  of 
Montreal,  is  employed  as  a  clerk  at  the 
Champion  co-operative  store.

Champion—Louis  Carneau, 

Manistee—R.  J.  Ehrenfield,  of  M il­
waukee,  who  has  been  employed  in  the 
dry  goods  store  of J.  L.  Steinberg,  of 
Traverse  City,  for  some  time,  has  been 
engaged  as  head  salesman  and  manager 
of  the  Globe  department  store  by  S, 
Winkelman.

“ The  potato  patch’ ’  plan  of  relieving 
the  poor,  originated  by  the  late  Mayor 
Pingree,  of  Detroit,  continues  in  vogue 
at  Philadelphia  with  excellent  results. 
There  are  now  700  vacant  lots  under 
cultivation there and  it  is  estimated  that 
the 
crops  from  them  will  be  worth 
$40,000.

T h e  R o y a l  F r o n t e n a c

Frankfort,  Mich.

Entirely  New and  Modern 

Will  open  its  First  Season July 1st.  Coolest 
Spot  in  Michigan.  Music.  Dancing,  Boating, 
Bathing, Fishing. Horseback Riding,  Golf.  Ten­
nis. etc. 
J. R. Hayes and C. A. Brant, Lessees 

Also Lessees Park Hotel,  Hot Springs, Ark.

county  clerk  to  get  a  marriage  license. 
Later  in  the  day  it  was  learned  that  he 
was  neither  a  Chicago  bridegroom  nor 
an  escaped  lunatic,  but that  when  he  is 
at  home  he  is  a  sedate  gentleman  who 
makes  brilliant  speeches  before 
the 
Grand  Rapids  Credit  Men's Association 
and  introduces  the  lecturers  who  appear 
before  Grand  Rapids  audiences  on  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  course. 
It  appears  that he 
is  covering  the  territory  of  Cornelius 
Crawford  and  that,  in  his  anxiety  to 
make  a  record,  be  has  undertaken  to 
“ keep  up  the  Crawford  pace,"  as  he 
expresses  it.  Up  to  this  hour  he  has 
been  able  to  do  this,  but  from  all  ap­
pearances  he  will  either  be  a  raving 
maniac  or  a  victim  of  nervous  prostra­
tion 
if  he  continues  this  way  for  the 
next  four days.
15—A  gentleman  who 
Elkhart,  July 
evidently  hails 
from  Grand  Rapids 
reached  this  city  on  a  late  train  this 
evening,  muttering something  about  the 
Crawford  pace.  Whether  he 
is  en­
deavoring  to  avoid  capture  or  is  hot  on 
the  trail  of  an  escaped  convict  has  not 
yet  been  determined.

Stock  of  clothing  and  m en’s  furnish­
ing  goods  to  be  sold  at  auction.  See 
advertisement  on  page  7.

A  man  makes  his  maiden speech when 

he  asks  a  spinster  to  marry  him.

men  of  the  Gale  Manufacturing  Co.  are 
gathering  in  the  city  this  week  from  all 
points  of  the  compass  to  get  orders  for 
another  season’s  work. 
is  the  cus 
tom  to  have  the  men  come  in  each  year 
at  which  time  the  work  is  planned  and 
thoroughly  talked  over.

It 

John  P.  Forbes,  of  Plainwell,  travel­
ing  salesman 
for  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co., 
of  Detroit,  committed  suicide  in  Hous­
ton,  Texas,  last  Thursday.  His  remains 
were  brought  home.  What  means  he 
took  or  why  he  committed  the  act  is  not 
known.  He  had  written  to  his  wife  a 
few  days  before  that  be  was  not  well.
Cornelius  Horsejockey  Crawford 

is 
attending  the  Blue  Ribbon  meeting  at 
Detroit  this  week  and  his  route  is  being 
covered 
in  the  meantime  by  Lee  M. 
Hutchins,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  corporation.  Mr.  Hutchins 
is  a 
genial  gentleman,  a  good  judge  of  hu­
man  nature  and  a  credit  man  of  rare 
discernment,  but selling  goods 
is  about 
as  congenial  to  him  as  indoor  work 
would  be  for  Mr.  Crawford.

Dowagiac  Republican:  A.  J.  Cleve­
land,  who  has 
just  disposed  of  the 
mortgaged  stock  of  goods  of  the  City 
shoe  store  which  was  owned  in  partner­

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited 

A.  B.  GARDNER.  Manager.

Livingston

Hotel

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

Grand  Rapids

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

Drugs-=Chem icals

M ichigan  State  Board of Pharm acy

Term expires
Hen ry H im , Saginaw 
•  Dee. 31, wov
t m . w .  i°/' r
WrRT  P   h o t y  notm ii  - 
Cl a r e n c e B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn  ii  vii  i k .  <.i  im  nainui 
l*nu. ai  i» ‘  
Ar t h u r  H. We b b e r , Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906

• 

President, 
Secretary  J ohn D. Muir, Grand Kapils.
Treasurer, w. r .  utm ,  iwinil

m»  m, «taglna»

Exam ination  Sessions.

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

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

President—.John  D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids.
Secretary—J.  W.  Seeley,  Detroit
Treasurer— D.  A.  Hagens.  Monroe.

Annual Meeting—S *ginaw, Aug.  12 and 13.

Disposing  of Old  and  Unsalable  Stock.
One  of  the  sources  of  loss  that  a  drug 
store  can  suffer  from  is  the  accumula­
tion  of  old  stock  which  through  age  has 
become  unsalable,  or  has  at  least  de­
preciated 
in  value.  One  of  the  worst 
features  of  this  loss  by  accumulation  of 
old  stock 
is  the  silent  and  unnoticed 
way  in  which  the  stock  collects.  There 
are  some  goods  even 
in  a  drug  store 
which  are  staple  all  the  year around, 
and  will  be  staple  year after  year,  but 
the  most  of  tbe  goods  that  we  carry  in 
stock  will  lose  something  of  their  value 
by  being  in  stock  one  year.  The  great­
est  losses  from  accumulation  in  a  drug 
store  will  occur  in  the  stock  composed 
of  sundries  and  patent  medicines,  es­
pecially  the  latter.

New  goods  generally  command  a  bet­
ter  price,  and  are  certainly  easier  to 
in 
sell  than  goods  which  have  been 
stock  for  any  length  of  time. 
It  is  eas­
ier  and  more  pleasant  to  sell  a  nice 
clean  bottle  of  a  patent  medicine  than 
one  that 
It  is 
easier  and  much  more  pleasant  to  sell 
a  new  syringe  or  alomizer  than  one  that 
has  been  in  stock  for  a length  of time.

is  stained  and  soiled. 

The  difficulty  with  respect  to sundries 
may  be  overcome  in  a  large  degree  by 
always  putting  the  old  goods  to the front 
when  new  goods  are  put  into  stock,  and 
by  the salesman, whether it  is  yourself  or 
a  clerk,  making  it  his  object  to  get  rid 
of  the  old  goods  first. 
It  should  be  the 
object  of  every  druggist  not  to  allow 
goods  to  remain  in  his  store  any  great 
length  of  time.  This  rule  of  keeping 
goods  as  short  a  time  as  possible  will 
work  to  advantage  in  keeping  the  stock 
clean. 
If  you  should  get  in  some  sun­
dries  that  do  not  seem  to  sell  at  the 
prices  asked,  I  would  advise  you  to 
make  an  effort  to  get  the  jobber  or man­
ufacturer,  as  the  case  may  be,  from 
whom  you  obtained  tbe  goods,  to  ex­
change them  for  something  else  that  you 
can  sell.  Failing  this,  reduce  your  price 
and  try  to  sell  at  cost  or a  little  over,  if 
I  am  opposed  to  the  cutting 
possible. 
in  drug  store  goods,  and  do 
of  prices 
not  advise 
i t ;  but  when  you  get  stuck 
with  goods  and  can  not  get  them  ex­
changed,  it 
it  is  good 
business  policy  as  well,to  get  them  con­
verted 
into  money  as  quickly  as  pos­
sible,  even  if  it  is  at  a  loss.  The  goods, 
if  you  keep  them  and  do  not  sell  them, 
you  can  do  nothing  with. 
If  you  have 
some  money  obtained  by  selling  them 
at  a  small  price  you  can  use  it  to  buy 
other goods  that  will  sell,  and  so  make 
more  money,  thus  turning  an  apparent 
loss 
into  a  profit;  and  when  you  make 
up  your  mind  to  do this  with  any article 
or articles  in  stock,  the  quicker  you  do 
it  the  better  it  will  be  for  you  in  a busi­
ness  way,  and  the better  you  will  feel  as 
well.  The  drug  store that  watches  these 
points  carefully  can  very  often  avoid  a 
great  many  small  losses  and  the  accum­

is  better,  and 

ulation  of  old  dead  stock  which  be­
comes  an  eye-sore  to  every  druggist.

In  most  drug  stores  the  old  or  dead 
stock  in  patent  medicines  is  scattered 
along  the  shelves  among  the  good  sal­
able  stock,  and  most  druggists,  if  asked 
if  they  had  much  dead  stock  among 
their  patents  would  answer  in  the  nega­
tive.  A  few  out-of-date  patents distrib­
uted  among  a  fair-sized  stock  of  patent 
medicines  do  not  show  up  to  any  great 
extent  to  the  visitor  to  a  drug  store,  nor 
even  to  the  druggist  himself.  Because 
he  thinks  he  has  little  or  no  dead  stock 
among  his  patents  he  never,  or  very 
seldom,  makes  any  effort  to  sell  a  pack­
that  might  be  considered  dead 
age 
stock.  A  good  thing  to  do 
is  to  go 
through  all  your  patent  medicine  stock 
and  select  all  patents  for  which  no  ad- 
veitising 
is  done,  or  for  which  there  is 
no  demand,  and  put  all  this  stock  in 
one  place 
in  one  of  your  patent  medi­
cine  cases,  and  go  to  it  and  take  a 
mentil  inventory  of  it  every  few  weeks, 
so  that  you  always  know  what  is  there, 
and  then  when  customers  come  in  ask­
ing  fur  something  good  for  a  cold  or 
cough  you  have an opportunity to recom­
mend  one  of  your  old  patent  medicines. 
It  may  be  that  you  can  recommend  it 
just  as  conscientiously,  and  that  it  may 
do  as  much  good,  as  one  of  the  more 
lately  advertised  patents;  and  you  will, 
have  one  less  bottle  of  old  stock  and  so 
much  mure  money  to  tbe  good.

J.  T.  Pepper.

Points  on  Incom patibility.

Aside  from  specific  knowledge  of  in­
compatibilities  there  are  two  or  three 
rules  which  can  be  safely  followed,  says 
Professor  Scoviile. 
If  syrup  of glycerin 
is  an  ingredient  of the  prescription,  add 
it  at  an  early  stage  in  the  m ixing;  not 
necessarily  first,  but  before  all  the  other 
ingredients  are  added.  The  reason  for 
this  is  that  syrup  and  glycerin frequent­
ly  prevent  incompatibilities,  or suspend 
precipitates  where  a  reaction  is 
inevit­
able.  Wden  an  acid  and  a  carbonate 
are  to  be  mixed,  the  addition  of a  syrup 
is  finished  delays 
before  the  reaction 
the  prescription;  but  this  exception 
is 
learned,  and  other  exceptions 
quickly 
are  rare.

When  two  or  more  soluble  salts  are 
directed  together,  disstlve  each  separ­
ately,  mix  one  with  the  syrup  or gly­
cerin  (if  present),  and  then  add  the 
others;  or  dilute  one  as  much  as  pos­
sible,  then  add  the  others.  This  method 
is  not  always  necessary,  but  it  is always 
safe.

If  precipitation  commences  in  a  mix­
ture,  agitate  it  vigorously  and  immedi­
ately  to  obtain  the  insoluble  matter in as 
fine  and  diffusible  a  condition  as  pos­
sible.  Never filter  a  mixture  unless  you 
are  sure  that  the  insoluble  matter  has no 
medicinal  value  in  the  mixture  at hand.
If  an  acid  and  a  carbonate  are  di­
rected  together,  mix  one  with  all  the 
water  allowable,  then  add  the  other, 
and  buttle  as  soon  as  effervescence 
ceases.  Allow  the  effervescence  to  take 
place  in  a  mortar  or  graduate.

S ulphur  For Nothing.

The  pharmacist  had  been  worried that 
morning  and  his  temper  was  none of  the 
sweetest.  A  customer  called  for  and  got 
a  found  of  sulphur.

“ How  much?”
‘ ‘ Ten  cents. ”
“ Ten  cents!  Why,  I  can  get  a  pound 
of  sulphur  at  Cu tthroat’s  store  for  five 
cents  any  day. ”

“ Is  that  so?”   snapped  the  pill-roller; 
‘ ‘ if  vou  go  to  hell  you'll  get  it  for  noth­
ing?”

It 

E xtending the  Olive  Branch  o f Peace.
Grand  Rapids,  July  14—There  was  a 
time  when  1  cherished  the  thought  that 
the  editor  of  the  Tradesman  was  my 
friend,  hut  that  halucination  has  long 
since  faded  away. 
In  the  early  days  of 
the  Tradesman's  history  I  could  get  my 
name  in  the  paper  on  the  slightest prov­
ocation,  but  you  are  now  so chary  of 
your  praise  and  so  jealous  of your  space 
that  it  appears  as  though  I  would  have 
to  commit  some  dreadful  crime  or  res 
cue  a  beautiful  girl  from  a  watery  grave 
in  ordtr  to  win  your  attention  or  se 
cure  an  approving  paragraph  at  your 
hands. 
is  true  that  you  have  been 
charitable in  dealing  with  my  shortcom­
ings  and  that  you  let  me  off  with  a 
poem  when  1  was  so  unfortunate  as  to 
keep  the  guests  of  tbe  American  House 
awake  one  night  hy  my  snoring,  but  I 
am  willing  to  submit  to  the  readers  of 
the  Tradesman  to  decide  that 
it  was 
carrying  the 
juke  too  far  for  you  to 
suggest  that  Fred  Hotop  have  his  un- 
derpimng  examined,  with  a  view  to  de­
termining  whttber  I  had  not  caused  ti e 
superstructure  to  rock  off  the  founda­
tion.  That  suggestion  has  caused  me 
no  end  of  trouble  and  it  is  by  no  means 
unusual  for  me  to  be  refused 
lodging« 
in  the  houses  of  my  friends  for  fear  I 
may  do  damage  to  the  building  in  my 
dreams.
Now,  1  want  you  to  understand  that 
I  have  bought  a  dog  of  John C.  Furniss, 
is  one  of 
the  Nashville  druggist.  He 
the  finest  bred  dogs  in  this  country  and 
I  expect  to  make  much  money  in  win­
ning  prizes  at  the  dog  shows. 
I  have 
had  him  photographed  and  I  wish  you 
would  have  a  cut  made  of  him for use on 
my  cards 
If  you  wish  to  re-establish 
our old  time  friendship  you  can  do  so 
in  tbe  Trades­
by  publishing  the  cut 
man,  so  that  for  once 
in  my  life  my 
friends  may  know  that  I  am  the  sole 
owner  of  a  fine  bred  animal.  You  may 
think  this  is  asking  a  good  deal,  but,as 
you  have  permitted  several  affairs  in 
which  I  took  a  heroic  part  to  pass  by 
unnoticed,  I  now 
insist  that  you  make 
amends  for  your  neglect  and 
indiffer­
ence  by  presenting  the  picture  of  my 
dog  to  your  readers,  among  whom 
1 
number  several  hundred  customers  and 
friends. 

L.  M.  Mills.

An  appeal  of  this  kind,  coming  so 
unexpectedly  from  so  old  and  faithful  a 
friend  as  Mr.  Mills,  naturally  meets  a 
hearty  response.  Here  is  the  picture  of 
the  dog  :

Should  Soda Tum blers  Be  W iped?

This  is  a  question  that  is  often asked, 
and  to  which  the  answer  must  vary  ac­
cording  to  circumstances.  Some  dis­
pensers  prefer  to  wash  their  tumblers 
under tbe  counter  and  then  place  them 
on  an  ornamental  rinser  in  full  view  of 
the  customer,from  which  they  are  taken 
cool  and  clean,  but  dripping  wet,  and 
filled  with  the  sparkling  beverage  in 
this  condition.  The  tumbler-holder,  of 
course,  prevents  the  customer 
from 
soiling  the  hand  or  glove.

This  method 

is,  however,  open  to 
objections,and  it  is  undoubtedly  prefer­
able  to  have  some  means  of  drying  the 
tumbler. 
the  method 
above  given 
is  far  supeiior  to  wiping 
the 
tumbler  with  an  old  towel  that 
leaves  traces  of  lint  on  the  inside  of  the 
glass. 

Nevertheless, 

If,  however,  the  tumblers  are  used 
dry, 
is  most  essential  that  they 
should  have  that  polished,  shining  ap­
pearance  which  renders  them  so  at­
tractive,  and  not  the  dull or streaky  look 
so  often  seen.  Now,  the  soda-fountain 
boy  does  not  usually  recognize  that  it  is 
an 
impossibility  to  give  a  polished  ap­
pearance  to  a  tumbler  without  wiping

it 

»

allowed  to  dry. 

it.  A  tumbler,  no  matter  how  cleanly 
washed,  will  have  a  dull  appearance 
if 
merely 
It  must  be 
rubbed  and  scrubbed'to  make  it  shine.
Again,  a  great  requisite  to  secure  the 
desired  result  is  hot  water  and soap.  No 
amount  of  edd  water  and  no  amount  of 
soap  will  produce  tbe 
lustrous  effect 
desired,  even  although  tbe  fountain  boy 
is  not  sparing  of  the  elbow  grease.  Hot 
water  is  an  essential.

it 

Many  druggists  who  consider  them­
selves  particular  in  regard  to  the  clean­
liness  of  their  tumblers  insist  that  the 
latter  shall  be  washed  once  every  morn­
ing  with  soap  and  hot  water,  but  dur­
ing  the  remainder  of  the  day  they  are 
satisfied  with  a  mere  rinsing  in  cold 
water  without  soap. 
It  is  undeniable 
that  the  tumblers  under  this  system  are 
perfectly  clean,  but.  whenever possible— 
and 
is  always  possible  with  proper 
management—hot water and  soap  should 
be 
insisted  upon  at  each  washing  and 
a  fine  polish  be  put  upon  each  tumbler. 
Nor  should  "an y  old  rag”   be  used  for 
tbe  washing  and  wiping.  Special  wash 
rags  and  a  good  quality of  toweling  that 
will  not 
leave  shreds  or  lint  on  the 
tumbler  must  be  strenuously  insisted 
upon  and  must  be  replaced  whenever 
necessary—and  even  before  necessary.
Nor  is  it  enough  to  properly  chan  the 
tumblers  and  then  place  them  on  the 
counter  where  they  will  become  heated 
and  dusty  and  dirty  again.  Once  clean 
they  should  be  kept  inverted  and  in  a 
cool  place. 

Thomas  Warwick.

The  D rag  M arket.

Opium—Is  very  dull  and  has declined 

5c  per  lb.

lower.

advanced.

Morphine—Is  as  yet  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  very  dull  and  tending 

Menthol—On  account  of  scarcity,  has 

Canada  Balsam  F ir—Is  very  firm  and 

is  advancing.

Codeine—On  account  of  lower  price 

for opium,  has  declined  20c  per  oz.

Atropine—Is  in  better  supply  and  has 

declined  85c  per  oz.

Juniper  Berries—Are 

in  very  small 

supply  and  are  advancing.

Oil  peppermint—Has  advanced 

15c 

per  lb.

To  babble  of  your own  affairs  is folly, 
but  to  rehearse  those  of  an  intimate  is 
dishonor.

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

wholesale

*  Drugs  and  S tatio n ery «
33  &  34  Western  Ave.,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

s

The

Druggist. 
Is  Dead

to  his  best  interest  who 
does  not hold a member­
ship  in  the  Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  which has  on 
file over 200,000 detailed 
reports  on  Michigan 
consumers  and  purchas­
ers  of  merchandise  at 
retail.

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Menthol..................
® 5 26 SetdUtz Mixture......
Morphia, S.. P.& W. 2  16® 2 40 Slnapis....................
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q. 2  16®  2 40 Slnapis,  opt............
Morphia, Mai.......... 2  15® 2  40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................
®  40
Moschus  Canton__
66®  80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Myristlca, No. 1......
®  10 Soda, Boras.............
Nux Vomica...po. 15
35®  37 Soda,  Boras, po......
Os Sepia..................
Soda et Potass Tart.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
@  1  00 Soda,  Carb..............
D  Co....................
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
Plds Llq. N.N.* gal.
® 2 00 Soda, Ash...............
doz.......................
@  1  00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Plds Llq., quarts__
®  86 Spts. Cologne..........
Plcls Llq.,  pints......
PUHydrarg...po.  80 @  50 Spts. Ether  Co........
®  18 Spts. Myrcla Dom...
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
®   30 Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
Piper  Alba__po. 35
7 Spts. Vini Rect. *bbl
Pllx Burgun............
@ 
10®  12 Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
Plumbl Acet............
Pulvts Ipecac et OpU 1  30®  1  50 Spts. Vlnl Rect. 5 gal
80®  1  05
Strychnia, Crystal...
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
2*@ 4
®   75 Sulphur,  Subl.........
& P. D. Co., doz...
25®  30 Sulphur, RoU........... 2!4@ 3*
Pyrethrum,  pv........
8® 10
8®  10 Tamarinds..............
Quassia-..................
28® 30
27®  37 Terebenth  Venice...
Quinta, 8. P. &  W...
50® 55
7®  37 Theobromse.............
Qulnla, S.  German..
27®  37 Vanilla.................... 9 00@I6 00
Culnla, N. Y............
7® 8
Rubla Tlnctorum— 12®  14 Zind Sulph.............
20®  22
Saccharum Lactls pv
Oil®
Saladn.................... 4 50®  4 75
40®  50
Sanguis  Draconls...
12®  14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, W..................
10®  12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo M .......................
®  15 Lard, No. 1..............
Sapo G....................

BBL.  OAL.
70
90
66

70
85
61

®

50
50
50

60
50
60
60
50
50
60
50
6050
50
75
50
75
76 
1 0050
50

3 7

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

68
79
80
60
F aints  b b l .  l b .
Red Venetian.........   Hi  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  Hi  2  @4 
Ochre, yeUow Ber...  13£  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  214 2*@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*  2%®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13®  15
VermUlon, English..  70®  76
Green,  Paris...........  14*@  18*
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red................   S  @  6*
Lead,  white............   6  ®  6*
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’.... 
®  96
White, Paris, Amer. 
®  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cUlf.......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared,  l  10®  l  20

Varnishes

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

Holiday
Goods

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

It  will  pay  you  to 

them over before buying elsewhere.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Acidnm

Acetlcum  ................$  6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  75
Boraelc....................  
®  12
Carbolicum.............   74®  29
Cltrlcum...................  43®  45
Hydrochlor.............. 
3® 
5
Nltrocum................. 
8®  10
Oxalicum.................  12®  14
Phosphorlum,  dll...  @  16
Sallcyllcum.............  6°®  63
Sulpburlcum...........  1*@  _  •
Tannlcum................110®  1  20
Tartarlcum............. 
38®  40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
6
4® 
6® 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
f
Carbonas.................   18®  15
Cblorldum...............  
12®  14
A niline
Black.......................   2 00® 2 26
Brown...................... 
1 X
Bed..........................  45®  60
Yellow............... 
2 60® 3 00
Baccse
Oubebae...........po,28  22®  24
Juníperas................  
»
Xanthoxylum..........  1  700  1  75
Balsam  nm

7® 

Copaiba...................  w®  ,  55
Terabln,  Canada....  60©  65
Tolutan.................... 
45@  50
C o rte z
Abies, Canadian......
Cassias....................
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerífera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Qulllala, g rd ......... .
Sassafras........po. Jo
Ulmus..  po.  18, grd 
Extractnm
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza,  po  .. 
Haematox, 18 lb. box
Haematox, is ........... 
Hsematox,  * s .........  
Haematox, 14s.........  

24®
28®
11®
13®
}4®
16®

' i lb.

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

15
2  26 
76 
40
16 
2
80
7

J®®
Arnica.....................  
Anthemls.................  22®
Matricaria...............  
3°®

Folia

@

Barosma...........  
35®
 
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
20®
nevelly............ 
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis,  *s
and Vis.................  
12§
UvaUrsl................... 
8®
Oummi
Acacia, 1st picked..
Acacia, 2d  picked..
Acacia, 3d  picked..
Acacia, sifted  sorts
Acacia, po......... .
12®
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20 
i
Aloe, Cape— po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40
i
Ammoniac............ • •
Assafoetlda.. ..po. 40  25®
Benzolnum..............
Catechu, is .............. 
g
Catechu, * s ............  
§
Catechu, 14s............  
®
Caropnor*............• •
Eupnorbium...po. 36
@
Gafbanum...............
Gamboge.............P®
Gualacum...... po. 36
Kino...........PO- *°.76
Mastic  ..................••
IVfvrrh............po» 46
Ooli— po.  4.10@4.39 3 00®  3  10 
Shelian........46
Shellac, bleached....  «@
Tragaeanth.............   70®  1

H erbs 
Absinthium  .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium  .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majoram ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp.  oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Rue.......... -oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
rhymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
55®  60
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat......
18®
Carbonate, K. & M..
‘arbonate, Jennings  18® 
Olenm

20

®

Absinthium.......... 7 
7 ^
60
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  60® 
Amygdalae, Amaraj.  8 00® 8 26
Anlaf__............  1 W0 
66
Aurantl Cortex.......... 2  10® 2 20
Bergamll...................*  GO® 2 7®
Cajlputl................... 
jW@  85
CaryophylU............ 
75®  80
Cedar......................  3°®  ®
Chenopadll.............. 
® 2  75
Olnnamonll.............   i  00®  l 10
40
Cttronella................ 

Conlum Mac............  80®  90
Copaiba..................   l  u®  l  26
Cubebse.................... l  so®  l  35
Exechthltos............  1 00® 1  10
Erigeron.................  100®  l  10
Gaultherla.............   2 oo® 2 10
Geranium, ounce....  @  76
Go8slppll, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 70®  1  80
Junlpera.................  l  50® 2  oo
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Limonis................. 
l  15@  1  25
Mentha Piper.........   2 30® 9 50
Mentha Verld.........  1  90®  2  oo
Morrhuae, |gal.........   2 00® 2  <0
Myrcla....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive......................  76® 3 00
Plcls Liqulda........... 
10®  12
PldsLlqulda,  gal... 
®  35
Ridna.....................   l 00®  l  06
Rosmarlnl...............   @  i  oo
Rosae, ounce............  6 00® 6 60
Succlnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90® l oo
Santal.....................   2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  66®  60
Slnapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65
Tiglfl.......................  1  60®  1 60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
®  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
is®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  15
Bromide................. 
62®  57
C arb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19  16®  18
Cyanide..................   34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2 40
Potassa. Bitart, pure  28®  30 
7®  10
Potass Nltras, opt... 
Potass  Nltras.........  
8
6® 
Prassiate.................  23®  26
15®  18
Sulphate  po............  

Radix

Aconltum.................  20®  26
30®  33
Althae.....................  
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Aram  po................. 
®  25
Calamus..................  
20®  40
Gentiana....... po. 15 
12®  15
16®  18
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris  plOX...pO. 35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  14s........... 
®  35
Podophyllum,  po... 
22®  26
Rhel.........................  75®  1  00
Rhel, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhel, pv..................   76®  1  36
Spigella..................  
35®  38
Sangulnarla.. .po.  15 
®  18
Serpentarla............   50®  55
Senega....................  60®  65
Smllax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0  
Smilax, M
Sclllæ............po.  36
Symplocarpus,Poeti­
dus,  po.
®
Valeriana.Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German. 
15®
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
Zingiber j.................  25®

lo®

Semen
15 
Anlsum......... po.  18
15 
13®
.piun 
6
Bird, is.
Caral..............po.  15  10® 
ll
Cardamon...............   i  25®  1  76
Coriandram............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Satlva......  
5®  6
Cydonium...............   75®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
16®  16
Dipterix Odorate.... 1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @  10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
L ini.........................  4  @ 
6
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
4  @  6
Lobelia...................   1  50®  1  O’-
Pharlaris Canarian..  5  ®  6
Rapa.......................  5  ® 
6
Slnapis  Alba........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spiri tns

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................   1  25®  1  60
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1  65® 2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N.  E  ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini GalU.........  1  75® 6  50
VTnl  Oporto............   1  26® 
Vini Alba...............  1  25® 

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50® 
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50® 
Velvet extra sheeps’ 
wool, carriage—  
®  1  60
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage..............¥  @  1  00
Hard, for slate use.:  @ 
76
Yellow  R e ef,  for
slate use..:........... 
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................  
Aurantl Cortex....
Zingiber...............
Ipecac.
Ferri Iod.................
Rhel Arom..............
Smllax  OffidnaUs...
Senega ....................
Snffian..................

®
®
@
®
®
@50®

2 00
2 00

2 75
2 76

ScUlae  Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus  vlrg............

Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aconltum Napellis 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..................
Ergot.......................
Ferrl  Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
OpU.........................
Opll, comphorated.. 
OpU, deodorized.
Quassia
Rhatany...................
Rhel........................
Sangulnarla...........
Serpentarla............
Stramonium............
Tolutan..................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................

Miscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   214®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto...................   40®
Antlmoni, po........... 
4®
Antlmonl el Potass T  40®
®
Antlpyrln................ 
Antlfebrln.............. 
®
®
Argent! Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
45®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........  1  66®  1  70
Calcium Chlor., is... 
®
Calcium Chlor.,  *s.. 
® 
1
®  1
Calcium Chlor.,  14b.. 
Cantharldes, Rus.po  @  8
Capslcl Fructus, af.. 
® 
1
Capslcl  Fructus, po. 
®  1
Capslcl Fructus B, po  @ 1
Caryqphyllus. .po. 15  12®  1
Carmine, No. 40......   @  3 0
Cera Alba.............. 
55®  6
Cera  Flava..............  40®  4
Coccus.................... 
®  4
Cassia  Fructus........  @  S
l
Centrarla.................  @ 
Cetaceum................. 
®  4
Chloroform............   56® 
f
Chloroform, squlbbs 
®  1  1 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  3."®  1  (
Chondras................   20®  S
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  4
Cinchonldine, Germ.  38®  <
Cocaine..................   4 30®  4 1
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
’
Creosotum...............  
® 
4
Greta.............bbl. 75 
®
Greta, prep.............. 
®
Creta, preclp........... 
9® 
Greta, Rubra........... 
®
Crocus....................   26® 
Cudbear..................  
® 
Cuprl  Sulph............   6 * 0
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............   78® 
Emery, all numbers.  @
®
Emery, po................ 
E rgota...........po. 90 
86® 
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla.......................  
_®
Gambler................. 
8®
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @ 
Gelatin, French......  
35®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
Glue, brown............  
11®
Glue,  white............  
16®
Glycerlna.................  17*®
Grana Paradlsl........  @
Humulus................. 
25®
®  1 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
® 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
®  1 
® 1 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum  60®
Hydrargyrum.........  
®
IchthyoDolla,  Am...  65®
Indigo.....................  
76®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulln....................  @
Lycopodium.............  66®
M ads...................... 
65®
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
to® 
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Q 
«0®
Mannls  M  F 

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hoars  of  m a ilin g, 
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

Corn  Syrup  in   Cans 
K ingsford’s  Starch 
Capers
P earl Top  Chim neys 
Je lly  Tum blers

DECLINED

Colum bia  R iver  Salmon 
Soap  Chips

Tomatoes
F air.........................
Good........................
Fancy......................
Gallons....................

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Eocene .......................
Perfection..................
Diamond White..........
D. S. Gasoline............
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder...................... 29
Engine......................... 19
Black, winter— -.......   9

CATSUP

Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.

1
1  36 
1 40 
8 60

@11 
@10 
@ 9 
@12* 
@10* 
@34 
@22 
@1014

Index to  Markets

B y Columns

 

c

B

A

G

H

I
J

D
P

Col.
Akron Stoneware.................  15
Alabasttne............................   1
Ammonia............................... 
l
Axle Grease..........................  
l
l
Baking Powder...................... 
Bath Brick............................ 
l
Bluing...................................  
l
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes.....................  
 
l
Butter Color..........................   1
Candles..................................  M
Candles.................................  
i
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................   3
Carbon Oils..........................   8
Cheese...................................  3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................   3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines........................   3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoanut...............................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   15
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   6
Dried  Fruits.........................  5
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
Fly Paper.............................   6
Fresh Meats..........................  8
Fruits....................................  14
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
Licorice........................  
7
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
Salad Dressing......................  9
Saleratus...............................  9
Sal Soda.................................  9
Balt.........................................  9
Salt  Fish...............................  9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   10
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................   10
Spices............... 
10
8tarch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.............  
ll
Syrups...................................  10
Table Sauce..........................   ll
Tea.........................................  ll
Tobacco.................................  ll
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.................... is
Wlcklng.................................  IS
Woodenwam.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
least  Cake.
13

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AXLE  GREASE
Aurora........................66 
Castor  Oil....................60 
Diamond.....................50 
Frazer’s ...................... 75 
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross

6 oo
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

Mica, tin boxes.........75 
Paragon..................... 65 

BAKING  POW DER

9 00
8 oo

H 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

*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case....  45
*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case....  85
l 

lb. cans. 2 doz. case........l  60

Royal

lOcslze__  90
X lb. cans  l 36
6oz. cans.  1 90
*   lb. cans  2 60
Hi lb. cans  3 75
l lb.  cans.  4 80
3 lb. cans  13 00
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

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

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

BROOMS

No. l Carpet..............................2 vo
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 3 Carpet..............................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..............................1 76
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ l 10
Warehouse............................... 8 60

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dustless

Fiber..........................1  00@3 00
Russian Bristle..........3 00@5 00
Discount, 3314 % in doz. lots. 

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, ll i n .................   95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8..........................................1 00
No. 7.......................................... 1 30
No. 4.......................................... 1 70
No. 8...... -..................................| 90
No. 8.....................................  75
No. 2..........................................1 10
NO. 1.......................................... 1 75
BUTTER  COLOR
W., R. ft Co.’s, 16c size__  
i  26
W.,R. ft Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s............... 12*
Paraffine, 6s.........................10*
Paraffine, 12s....................... 11
Wishing.........   ..........„ ,...1 7

CANDLES

6
Soda

Oyster

Soda  XXX.......................  
7
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette....  .................   13
Faust  ............................... 
7*
Farina«............................  
7
Extra Farina.................... 
7*
Sal tine Oyster................... 
7
Sweet  Goods —Boxes
Animals............................   10
Assorted  Cake................. 
10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............. 
10
Coffee Cake. Java............  
10
Cocoanut Macaroons........ 
18
Cocoanut Taffy................. 
10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced....................  
8
10*
Cream Crisp...................... 
Cubans.............................  
ll*
Currant  Fruit................... 
12
Frosted Honey.................  
12
Frosted Cream.................   9
8
6* 
10*
Grandma Cakes................  9
Graham Crackers............. 
8
Graham  Wafers................ 
12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers................. 
12
Iced Honey Crumpets...... 
10
Imperials..........................   8
Jumbles, Honey................ 
12
Lady Fingers....................  
12
Lemon Snaps....................   12
Lemon Wafers.................   16
Marshmallow....................  16
Marshmallow Creams......  
16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................  
11*
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 froam. XXX.........  
•
Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tutti Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna CrlmD................... 
8
E. J. Kruce ft 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

8undrled.........................  @6*
Evaporated, 601b. boxes.  @10*  
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4*
80-90 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5*
70-80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5*
80 - 70 25 lb.-boxes........  ® 6*
60-6025lb. boxes........  @  ¿X
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 8*
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
9
California F ru its

*  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Peel

Citron

Raisins 

C urrants 

Apricots.....................  @11*
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  
8*
Peaches......................  @9*
Pears.......................... 9*
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
Leghorn...................................11
Corsican........................... 
12*
California, l lb.  package....
Imported, l lb package.......   7*
Imported, bulk....................  7
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. bx..l3 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1  75
1  90
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7*
8*
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 9*@t0
L. M., Seeded, X  lb .... 
8
Sultanas, b u lk ....................11
Sultanas, package..............11*
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  6*
Medium Hand Flaked 
l 75
Brown Holland................... 2 25
241 lb. packages.................l  18
Bulk, per 100 Tbs.................. 2  50
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl.................5 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack...............2 50
M aecaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box........... 2 50

Hom iny

F arin a

Beans

CANNED  GOODS 

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

Blackberries

110
3 35

Beans

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

80
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
76®  85
Bed  Kidney............. 
String......................  
70
Wax.........................  
75
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout

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

90

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

Clam Bouillon

l 00
1 50

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

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

Corn

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

French  Peas

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

Gooseberries

80
86
l 00

22
19
15
ll

86

90

Peas

Pears

86
2  15
3 60

 
1  00
1  00
1  60

166
95
86®  90
1  66®1  85

l  75
2  80
1 76
2 80
l 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

Standard................. 
Hom iny
Standard.«.............. 
Lobster
Star, *  lb................. 
Star, l  lb.................  
Picnic Tails.................... 
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 2lb........... 
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, l lb............. 
Tomato, 2 lb............. 
M ushrooms
Hotels....................... 
Buttons....................  
Oysters
Cove, l lb.................  
Cove, 2 lb.................  
Cove,lib  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie........................... 
Yellow....................  
Standard.......................  
Fancy............................  
Marrowfat.............. 
Early June.............. 
Early June Sifted.. 
Plum s
85
Plums......................  
Pineapple
Grated....................  
l  25®2 75
Sliced.......................   1  36@2  66
P um pkin
l  00
F air......................... 
Good.......................  
l  10
Fancy......   ...........  
l i e
Raspberries
Standard..................  
1  15
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..........................   3 75
*  lb, cans..........................   7 00
1 lb. can...........................   1200
Columbia River, tails 
@1 65
Columbia River, flats 
@1 80
Red Alaska.............. 
@1  30
Pink Alaska............ 
®  90
Shrim ps
Standard................. 
1  40
Sardines
Domestic, 14s........... 
314
Domestic, 14s.........  
6
Domestic,  Mustard. 
6
California, Ms.........  
California * s ........... 
French, Ms.............. 
French, Ms.............. 
Standard.................
Fancy...................... 
Succotash
Fair.......................... 
Good........................ 
Fancy......................  

U@14
17®24
7®14
18@28

Straw berries

1  10
96
100
1  20

Salmon

Columbia,  pints..................2 00
Columbia, *  pints.............. 1 26

CHEESE

Acme...........
Amboy........
Carson City.
Elsie............
Emblem......
Gem.............
Gold Medal-
Ideal ...........
Jersey.........
Riverside....
.. 
Brick...........
Edam..........
.. 
_____________  
Leiden
Limburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago.................  

@11 @10* 
@10* 
@11 
@hm @'2 
@11 
@11 
@1"* 
@11*
14® 15
@90
@17
13®14
50@75
19@20

CHEWING GUM 
66
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
65
Black Jack.......................  
Largest Gum  Made.........  
60
55
Sen Sen.................. 
 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
5j>
Yucatan............................ 
06

 

CHICORY

Bulk...................... 
J
Red........................................1
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   7
Schener’s .............................  6

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

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

Runkel Bros.

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

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

2 40

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

J u te

60 ft...................................
72 ft...................................
90 ft....................................
120 ft..................................

Cotton  Victor
50 ft....................................
6f ft.........................-........
70 ft....................................
Cotton W indsor
59 ft....................................
60 ft....................................
70 f t ..................................
80 f t ..................................
Cotton Braided
1 00
40 ft....................................
59 ft...................................
1 26
70 f t ..................................
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long —  
No. 19, each 100 ft long —

COCOA

Cleveland..........................
Colonial, Ms  .................... .
Colonial, * s ......................

COCOANUT

Van Houten, * s ...............
Van Houten, Ms.........
Van Houten, * s ...............
Van Houten,  is ...............
Webb...............   ..............
Wilbur, * s.-......................
Wilbur. Ms........................
Dunham’s * s...................
Dunham’s * s and Ms......
Dunham’s  Ms...................
Dunham’s  Ms..................
Bulk..................................
COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COFFEE 
Roasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehling.......................
Purity................................
N ol  Hotel.........................
Monogram.........................
Special Hotel.....................
Parkerhouse......................
Honolulu  ..........................
Fancy  Maracaibo..............
Maracaibo..........................
Porto Rican.......................
Marexo............................

1  00 
1  40 
1 70 
1  29

75 
90 
1 05 
1  50

80 
95 
1  10

1 20 
1  40 
1 65 
1  85

1  90
2  10

.  G 
.  36 
.  33 
.  42 
.  45 
.  12 
.  20 
.  40 
.  70 
30 
.  41 
.  42
26
26*
27
28 
13

.30*
.28
.28
.26
.23
.21.17
.16
.13
.15
•HH

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. ft J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. ft 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  ft Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott ft Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg ft Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros, ft  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Melsel  ft 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Flelbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9...................................  8*
No. 10................................... 9*
No. 12....................................12
No. 14....................................14
No. 16....................................16
No. 18.......... 
18
No. 20....................................20
No. 22.................................... 22
No. 24.................................... 24
No. 26.................................... 26
No. 28....................................28
Belle Isle..........................   20
Red  Cross.............................24
Colonial................................26
Juno......................................28
Koran....................................14

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

 

Rio

Santos

M aracaibo

Common...............................  8
F a ir....................................... 9
Choice...................................10
Fancy....................................15
Common...............................  8
F a ir....................................... 9
Choice...................................10
Fancy...................................13
Peaberry...............................11
F air......................................13
Choice...................................is
Choice...................................13
Fancy....................................17
Choice...................................13
African................................. 12
Fancy African.....................17
O  G ..................................... 25
P. G...................................... 31
Arabian.............................  21

G uatem ala

Mexican

Mocha
Package 

Ja v a

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................10*
Dllworth............................ 10*
Jersey.................................10*
Lion....................................10
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin  ft 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *   gross.............  75
Felix *  gross..................  ..115
Hummers foil *  gross........  86
Hummel’s tin *  gross........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle...................e 40
Crown....................................... 6 90
.................................4 70
Champion........................... .. 28
Magnolia..................................4 00
Challenge................................. « 10
Dime.........................................3 36
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid.................................. r in
TIP  Top....................................3 85
Nestles.................. 
4 25
Highland Cream............. ..*5 00
St. Charles Cream............... .. 50
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour...........................  
evt
New York......................... 
«*
Family............................  
e*
Salted.............................;; 
6*
W o l v e r i n e , .............. 
7

CRACKERS

B u tter

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

9

6

7

P earl  B arley

Peas

Common.............................. 3 00
Chester..................................2 70
Empire.................................. 8 66
Green, Wisconsin, bn...........l 90
Green, Scotch, bu.................2 oo
Split,  lb...............................  
4
Boiled A vena, bbl.................6 30
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   8  30
Monarch, bbl........................« 10
Monarch, *  bbl....................3 20
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2 95
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...........................   33k
German, sacks....................   33k
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............   434
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......  634
Cracked, bulk......................  334
24 2 lb. packages.................2 60
34 to 1 inch...........................  6
134 to 2 Inches......................  7
134 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. 4,15 feet.........................  10
No. 6,15 feet......................... 
11
No. 6,16 feet......................... 
12
No. 7,15 feet......... ..............   15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  2o
Small....................................  20
Medium................................  26
L arge..................................   34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.. . . .   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo. 18 f t , per doz.......   80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE  St JE N E S’

J A X O N

V amila 

Lemon

1 ozfull m .120  lozfullm .  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m l  25 
No. 8fan’r   8  is  No.sfan’y  1  7F

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

3 oz.....  1 00 
6 OZ.....   2 00 
No. 4T 

3 0Z............  1  60
4 OZ.............  2 00
.  1  52  No. 3T...  2  08
O nr Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 76c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  60 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon.............  60
Tanglefoot, per box.............   36
Tanglefoot, per  case.......... 3 20

FLY PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins.......................
Bibs.........................
Bounds....................
C h u cK s.........................
Plates......................
Dressed...................
Loins.......................
Boston  Butts...........
Shoulders................
Leaf Lard................
M utton
Carcass...................
Lambs......................
Veal
Carcass....................

P ork

8  ©1034
© 8*  

6  © 9
6  ©  634
9  ©14
8  ©1234 
8  ©  9 
5  © 6
5  ©

13  ©1334 
@10 >4 
@10)4 
@12
6  ©  8 
834@1034
7  @834

W heat

FRUIT  CAN  WRENCH.

GELATINE

Triumph, per  gross.............9 60
Knox’s Sparkling............ 
1 20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14 00
Knox’s Acidulated........... 
1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford..............................  
75
Plymouth  Rock...............  
1  20
Nelson’s...........................  
1  50
Cox’s, 2 qt size.................  1  61
Cox’s, 1-qt size.................   1  10
Amoskeag, 100 in b ale__ 
1534
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15K

GRAIN  BAGS

GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

79
77

Wheat, white.................... 
Wheat, red................  
 
Local Brands

W inter W heat Flour 

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents............................   4  to
Second Patent..................  4 0*
Straight............................   3 80
Second Straight...............   3 5*
Clear................................  3 30
Graham...........................   3 51
Buckwheat.......................  4 30
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 260 per bbl. ad­
ditional.
BaU-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 34s.....................   4  00
Diamond 34s.....................  4  00
Diamond 34s.....................   4  00
Quaker 34s........................   4 00
Quaker 34s........................  4  00
Quaker 34s........................  4  00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4  76
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4  66
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4  65
Plllsbury’s Best 34s paper.  4 55
Plllsbury’s Best 34s paper.  4 56
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 34s.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial 34s.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial 34s.........  4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  34s.................... 
4  40
Wlngold  34s.................... 
4  30
Wlngold  34s....................  4  20
Ceresota 34s......................  4  BO
Ceresota 34s......................  4 40
UtUOBUM 7ta. .............. 
* OU
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel  *8........................
4  40
Laurel  14s......................... 4 30
4  20
Laurel  Ms........................
Laurel Ms and 14s paper.. 4 20
Bolted..............................
3  00
Granulated....................... 3  10
Feed and  MlllstnSS
St. Car Feed, screened__ 28 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........ 27 50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........ 26 50
Winter Wheat Bran......... 19 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 32  OO
Screenings....................... 20 00
63*
Car  lots............................
Car lots, clipped............... 66*
Less than car lots............
Corn, car  lots.................. 68
No. 1 Timothy car lots__ o9 00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00
...15
Sage..................................
Hops................................
...15
...15
Laurel Leaves...................
lenna Leaves...................
...25

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

Oats

INDIGO

...56
Madras, 5 lb. boxes.........
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. ...50
6 lb. palls.per doz........... 1  76
.  45
15 lb. palls.........................
.  85
301b. palls.........................

JELLY

LICORICE

.  30
Pure.................................
.  23
Calabria............................
.  14
Sicily................................
. 
Boot..................................
10
.1  20
Condensed, 2 doz.............
Condensed. 4 doz..............
.2 25
MEAT  EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........ 4 45
2 75
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................

LYE

401
35
26
22

MOLASSES
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle..........
Choice..............................
Fair..................................
Good.................................
Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

OLIVES

Horse Badlsh, 1 doz.........
.1  75
Horse Badlsh, 2 doz.........
.3 50
Bayle’s Celerv. 1  doz........
.1  76
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs............   . 1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............
1  20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............
1  15
80
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............
2  36
Queen, pints.....................
4 50
Queen, 19  oz.....................
Queen, 28  oz.....................
7 00
90
Stufled, 5 oz......................
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................
1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................
2  30
Clay, No. 216......................
.1  70
Clay, T. D., full count........ .  66
Cob, No. 8.......................... .  85

PIPES

8

PICKLES
Medium

Small

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

Barrels, 2,400 oount............9  bo
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 5  26
PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__  1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5.572, Special................   175
No  98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2 25 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS
Barreled  Pork

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

Dry  Salt Meats

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

Smoked  Meats

Hams, 121b. average.
Hams, Mlb.average.
Hams, 161b. average.
Hams. 20lb.average.
Ham dried  beef......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear............
California hams......
Boiled Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d.
Mince Hams.........
Lard

@18 75
@19 00
@20  SO
@19 25
22 00
@18 0D
2l 00
@19 00

12
12*
H*
@  IS*
@  13)4
@  13*
@  13*
@  13*
@  10*
!3*@  14
@  10*
@  19*
@  16
9©  9*
9*@  10

©!a34
@11 %
3s
34
34
3k
X
1
1
s%
6
6*
@8*
9
6
t!
8*

Compound...............  
Pure......................... 
60 lb. Tubs..advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
60 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
5 lb. Palls. .advance 
si*» 
ad vanes
Vegetóle..................
Sausages
Bologna..................
Liver.......................
Frankfort...............
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
14 50
Bump, New............ 14 0?@16  00

Uncolored  B utterine

Pigs’  Feet
*  bbls., 40 lbs.........
*.bbls.,....................
1 bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
!4 bbls., 40 lbs.........
*  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
Solid, dairy.............. 
Rolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb....
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  * s ......
Potted ham,  * s ......
Deviled ham, * s ....
Deviled ham,  * s __
Potted tongue,  Ms..
Potted tongue.  *s..
RICE
Domestic

Canned  Meats

1  70
3 25
7  60

70
1  50
3 00
26
6
12
65
©1334
@14
16*
16
2  60
18  25
2 60
50
90
50
90
60
90

Carolina head................. ....6*
Carolina No. 1 ..................... 6
Carolina No. 2 ..................... 534
Broken ..................................

Sutton’s Table Bice, 40 to the 

bale, 234 pound pockets....734

Im ported.

Japan, No. l .................534©
Japan,  No.  2.................5  ©
Java, fancy head...........  ©
Java, No. 1 ....................  ©
Table...............................  ©

Best  grade  Imported Japan,  ' 

3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale...................................6

Cost of packing In cotton  pock­
ets only 34c more than bulk.
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz. .1  90 
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..  95
Durkee’s, large, I doz.......... 4 15
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz..........4 85

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s................................3 00
Dwight’s Cow.......................3 16
Emblem................................2 10
L.  P ......................................3 00
Wyandotte. 100 Ms...............3 00

SAL  SODA

Granulated, bbls.................  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases___1 00
Lump, bbls.........................  90
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   96

SALT

Diam ond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2  86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 86 lbs............   67

Common  Grades

100 31b. sacks........................ 2 26
60 5 lb. sacks........................2 15
2810 lb. sacks...................... 2 05
86 lb. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks.......................  
22

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

661b. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock
Common

66 lb. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine.................   85
Medium Fine.......................   90

SALT  FISH

Cod

T rout

H alibut.

Mackerel

Georges cured............ @ 5*
Georges  genuine........ @ 6*
Georges selected........ @  3*
Grand Bank...............
a  6*
Strips or  bricks.........   6*@io*
Pollock....................... @ 3*
Strips...... .........................___14
Chunks.............................
16*
No. 1100 lbs......................
5 50
No. 1  40 lbs......................,  2 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................
70
No. 1  8 lbs......................
59
Mess 100 lbs..................... .  9 60
4  10
Mess  40 lbs......................
Mess  10 lbs......................
1  10
Mess  8 lbs......................
91
8 50
No. 1100 lbs......................
No. 1  40 lbs......................
3 70
1  00
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 lbs......................
8*
No. 2 100 lbs......................,  7  25
No. 2  40 lbs......................
3 31
No. 2  10 lbs......................
98
No. 2  8 lb» 
----
73
Holland white hoops,  bbl..  10 25
Holland white hoops *bbl.  5 25
Holland white hoop, keg.. 76@85
Holland white hoop mens
86
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 35
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  65
Scaled.............................   11
Bloaters............................

H erring

W hite fish

100 lbs...........7  50 
40 lbs........... 3 30 
10 lbs...........  90 
8 lb*...........  76 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
8 85
1  86
63
46

W arsaw

Ashton

H iggins

IO
SEEDS

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

SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............
Handy Box, small............
Bixby’s Royal Polish.......
Miller’s Crown  Polish......

2 50
1  25
85
85

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

É A

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

Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box.............................3 35
6 box lots, delivered............3 30
10 box lots, delivered............3 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3 66
Calumet Family.............   2  75
Scotch Family.................. 2  86
Cuba..................................2  35
Dusky Diamond..............  3 65
Jap Rose.........................  3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3 66
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 fit Co. brand-
sta r....................  
3  40
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 £5
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4 00
Old Country....................  3 40

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

 

 

Scouring

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

SODA

Boxes...................................  5*
Kegs, English......................  4M

SNUFF

Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  36
French Bappee, In jars......   43

SPICES

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 116-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P u re G round In B ulk
Allspice............................  
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African................ 
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage................................. 

STARCH

29

II

K ings ford’s Sliver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............   8*
6 lb. packages...............  
914
Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  6
514
3-lb. packages................... 
6-lb. packages...................  6J4
40 and 60-lb. boxes............   4
4
Barrels.............................  
201-lb.  packages.............. 
6
401-lb.  packages..............  6%  .

Common Corn

SYRUPS 
*  Corn

Barrels................................ 27
Half bbls............................ 29
10 lb. cans, *  doz. In case..  1  85
5 lb. cans, 1  doz. In case_  2  10
2* lb. cans, 2 doz. In case...2  10

P u re  Cane

F air.....................................   16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  25

STOVE  POLISH

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

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,8 doz In case, gross..  7  20

8UGAR

Domino.............................  6 80
Cut Loaf....................................5 20
Crushed............................  5 20
Cubes................................  4  96
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 86
Mould A............................  5 OB
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.  6, Empire A..............  4 25
No.  6................................   4  20
Wo.  T................................   «  10
No.  8................................   4 00
No.  a................................   3 95
No. 10................................   3 90
No. 11..............................   3 85
No. 12..............................    3  80
No. 13................................   3  80
NO. 14........  
3  80
No. 15................................   8 75
No. 16................................   3  70

 

 

 

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea fit Perrin’s, pints........  5 00
Lea & Perrin’s, *  pints...  2 76
Halford, large...................  3 75
Halford, small...................  2 26

12
12
28
88
55
17
14
66
60
40
36
18
28
20

16
28
48
17
16
18
. 25
66
is
17
26
20
20

TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium.............. 28
Sundried, choice..................30
Sundried, fancy................... 40
Regular, medium................. 28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.................... 40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-fired, choice.............36
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs..................................... 27
Siftings...........................19@21
Fannings........................20@22

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice.................. 35
Moyune, fancy.................... 60
Plngsuey,  medium.............. 26
Plngsuey, choice................. 30
Plngsuey, fancy...................40

Young  Hyson

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................38

Oolong

Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium....................25
Amoy, choice....................... 32

English Breakfast

Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy...................................42

In dia

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

Klngsford’s Corn 

40 l-lb. packages...............   8*

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. 81P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller.................  36 00
Our Manager....................  36 00
Quintette............................ 86 oo

3 D

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

14

Hardware  Price  Current

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co .’s brand.

P lug

Smoking

Fine  C at

8.0 . W..............................  *  M
Cigar miming». o«r n»...... 
as
Lubetsky Bros, brands
L,  B............."................. ...35 00
Dally Mail...................... ...36 00
Cadillac.......................... ....64
Sweet  Loma.................. .. ..36
Hiawatha, 5 lb. palls  ... ...66
Hiawatha, 10 lb. palls... ...5 3
Telegram........................ ....22
Pay C a r......................... ....30
Pt»H o Rimd.................. ...48
Protection...................... ....36
Sweet Burley................. ....38
Tiger............................. ....36
Forge............................. ....30
Fed C-o««...................... ....P0
Palo...............................
__ 32
Kylo...............................
....40
Hiawatha......................
Battle A xe.................... ...  32
American Eagle............ ....30
Standard Navy.............. ....34
Spear Head, 16 oz......... ....39
....41 
Spear Head,  8 oz.........
__ 46
Nobhv Twist.................
....34
Jolly T ar.......................
....40
Old  Honesty..................
Toddy.,.......................... ....31
J. T ............................... ....34
Piper Hetdslck.............. ....59
Boot Jack...................... ....81
Honey Dip Twist........... ....37
Sweet Core.................... ....34
Flat Car......................... __3 ‘
Great Navy.................... ....34
W arpath....................... ....23
....23
Bamboo, 16 oz...............
....24
IX L ,  51b....................
I X L, 16 oz. palls........... ....28
Honey Dew.................. ....33
Gold Block.................... ....33
Flagman....................... ....33
Chips............................. ....30
Kiln Dried.................... ....21
Duke’s Mixture............ ....33
Duke’s Cameo............... ....40
Myrtle Navy................. .... 33
Turn Turn, i *  oz........... ....37
Yum Yum, l lb. palls__ ....35
Cream............................ ...36
Com Cake, 2*oz........... ....22
Com Cake, lib .............. ....20
Plow Boy, 1* oz............ ....37
Plow Boy, 3* oz............ ....36
Peerless, 3* oz.............. ....32
Peerless, 1*  oz.............. ....34
Cotton, 3 ply.................. ....16
Cotton, 4 ply................. ......16
Jute, 2 ply...................... ....12
....12
Hemp, 6 ply..................
....20
Flax, medium...............
Wool, l lb. balls............ ....  7*
VINEGAR
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..........11
Pure Cider, Bobtnson.........ll
Pure Cider, Silver...............11
WASHING  POW DER
Diamond  Flake................. 2 76
Gold  Brick........................ 3 28
Gold Dust, regular.............4 6-J
Gold  Dust, 5c......................4 00
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb...............   3  to
Pearllne..............................2 75
Soaplne...............................4  in
Babbitt’s 1776.....................   3 75
Boselne...............................3 50
Armour’s............................ 3 70
Nine O’clock.......................3 >5
Wisdom..............................3 80
Scotirine..............................3 GO
Bub-No-More......................8 75
No. 0, per gross..................25
No. i, per gross................... 30
No. ?, per gross................... 40
No. 8. per gross.. 
.............06

W1CKING

TW INE

13
Faucets

 

 

Tubs

Traps

Toothpicks

W ash  Boards

Cork lined, 8 In....................   66
Cork lined, 9 In....................   75
Cork lined, 10 In...................  85
Cedar. 8 In.................... 
  66
Mop  Sticks
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No 1 common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 1>. cotton mop heads.......l 26
ideal No. 7 ......... 
90
Palls
hoop Standard.l eo
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard.1 65
wlre,  Cable......1  60
2- 
3- wlre,  Cable....................... 1 80
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  26
Paper,  Eureka.................... 2 25
Fibre....................................2 40
Hardwood........................... 2 60
Softwood............................. 2 76
Banquet................................l  60
Ideal.................................... 1  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........   22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes...........  45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........   70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes..............  65
Bat, wood............................   80
Bat, spring...........................   76
20-Inch, Standard, No. l. ....7 oo
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2_____ 6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3........... 6 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1.................7 60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2.................6 51
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 8.................5 60
No. l Fibre............................... 9 46
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
Bronze Globe........................260
Dewey......................................1 76
Double Acme............................2 76
Single Acme....................   2  26
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless.........................2 60
Northern Queen......................2 60
Double Duplex.........................3 00
Good Luck...........................2 76
Universal..................................2 26
19 In............................
1 66
14 in............................
1 85
I« In. 
.2 30
.......................
Wood  Bowls
75
il In. Butter...............
1  10
13 in. Butter................
1  76
16 in. Butter...............
.2 75
17 In. Butter...............
4 0U
19 In. Butter...............
1  75
Assorted 13-16-17 —   ..
2  60
Assorted 16-17-19  ......
Common Straw...........
1*
Fiber Manila, white...
3*
Fiber Manila, colored.....
4
4
No.  1  Manila.............
3
Cream  Manila............
2*
Butcher’s Manila........
Wax  Butter, short  count. 13
20
Wax Butter, full count
15
Wax Butter,  rolls......
.1  00
Magic, 3 doz...............
.1  00
Sunlight, 3 doz............
50
Sunlight, l*   doz........
.i  oo
Yeast Cream, 3 doz—
.1  oo
Yeast Foam, 3  doz—
.  60
Yeast Foam, 1*  doz..
FRESH  FISH
Per lb.
White fish................... 9@
Itout.......................... VK 8*
Black Baas................ 10® ll
Halibut...................... @ 16
Ciscoes or Herring.... @ 5
Bluefish...................... @ 12
Live  Lobster.............. @ 20
Boiled  Lobster........... @ a
Cod............................. @ 11
Haddock.................... @ 10
No. l Pickerel............ @ 7
Perch.......................... @ 5
Smoked  White........... @ 10
Bed  Snapper............ @
Col River  Salmon  ..12*@ 13
Mackerel.................... @ 18

Pike............................ to 7

W RAPPING  PA PER

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

HIDES AND  PELTS

WOODENWAKE

Baskets

Bradley  B u tter Boxes

Bushels................................  86
Bushels, wide  band........... l  16
M arket................................  30
Splint, large....................... (LOO
Splint, medium..................6 oo
Splint, small...................... 4 oo
willow Clothes, large........ 5 60
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 00
Willow Clothes, small........4 75
2 lb. sUe, 24 in case..........   72
3 lb. size, 16 In case............   68
5 lb. size, 12 In case............   63
10 lb. size,  6 In case............   60
No. 1 Oval, 260 In crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  46
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........  60
No. 6 Oval, 280 In crate........  6°
Barrel, 6 gals., each................. 2 40
Barrel. 10 gals., each........... 2 65
Barrel, 15 gals., each........... 2 70
Bound head, 5 gross box__   60
BouDd head.cartons----- ...  76
Humpty Dumpty..................¡.2 26
No. 1, complete..................    29
No. 2, complete................... 
18

B u tter Plates

Clothes  Plus

Egg Crates

Churns

P e lts

Hide«
Green  No. 1.............
Green  No. 2.-..........
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No. l 
Calf skins .green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured No. 2
Old Wool..
Lamb........
Shearlings
No. 1.........
No. 2...........
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick  Candy

T a llo w

W o o l

Standard................
Standard H. H ......
Standard  Twist....
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo,321b...
Extra H. H __
Boston Cream. 
BeetBrr*

@ 7 
@  6 
@ ?X 
@ 7k 
@  9 *  
@  8 
@10*  
@  9

50@1  60
¿6©  60
2U@  4J

@  6 *
@  6 *
@20
@28
@16
16@)8

@ 8

bbls.jwlls
7
7
@ 9
cases
@ 7*
@10*
@10
@8

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In  Pails 

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

Grocers....................  
Competition............. 
Special..................... 
Conserve. _..............  
Boyal...................... 
Ribbon..................... 
Broken....................  
Cut Loaf................... 
English Bock..........  
Kindergarten.........  
Bon Ton  Cream......  
French Cream.........  
Dandy Pan.............. 
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix.. 
8*
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
12
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
12
9
Peanut Squares......  
Sugared Peanuts__  
ll
10
Salted Peanuts........ 
10
Starlight Kisses...... 
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
@9
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
@10
Choc. Drops............. 
@n
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13*
@12
Quintette Choc........ 
@15
V lctoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
@ 6*
Moss  Drops............  
@ 9
Lemon Sours........... 
@9
Imperials................. 
@9
@12
Ital. Cream Opera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls............  
@11
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................. 
@13
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

» er, 20 lb. palls.. 

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours.........  
@E0
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate  Drops.... 
@60
@86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1 oo
Gum Drops.............. 
@36
@76
Licorice  Drops........ 
@65
Lozenges,  plain......  
@60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................  
@60
@00
Mottoes................... 
Cream  Bar.............. 
@66
MolassesBar........... 
@66
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
@66
and  Wlnt.............. 
String Bock............. 
@65
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels
@ 8*
@12*
ction, 201b.  pis 
@15
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@66
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
@65
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
@60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
@60
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus8ett....... 
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.......... 
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
Medt. Sweets........... 
Jamal cas................. 
Bodl...................... 
Lemons
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
@
Verdelll, fey 300......  
@
Verdelll, ex chce 300  @
Verdelll, fey 360......  
@
Call Lemons, 300......  
@4 00
Messlnas  300s.........  4 5>@o  00
Messlnas 3608 .........   4  5:@s oo

@
@
@
@
@6 60
@
@
@
@

l  60@2 oo

Bananas
Medium bunches.... 
Large  bunches........

Figs

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
California«,  Fancy.. 
@
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........  
@
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
@
boxes.................... 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
m
Naturals, In bags.... 
@
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
@ 6* 
(«
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
Hallowi....................  5  @ 5*
lb.  cases, new......  
@
Bairs,601b.cases....  4*  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona 
@16
Almonds,  Ivtoa......  
@
Alaionas, California,
soft shelled........... 
16@16
Brazils,........... ........  
@io
Fiiberts  ................. 
@13
Walnuts  Grenobles.  @12*
WalnuU, soft shelled 
California No. l . ..  12* @13* 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
$13*
Pecans,  Med........... 
@io
Pecans, Ex. Large...  @18
Pecans, Jumbos......  
@14
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new............  
@
Cocoanuts, full sacks  @3 60
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
Peanuts
6*@ 6* 
Fancy, H. P« Suns.. 
.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns 
Boasted..............   6*@ 7*
‘Choice, H.P., Extras  @ 7*
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
Sosn. ShU« No. ln*w  5 * 0  6*

<a

Am m unition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m......................  
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m.................. 
Musket, per m..................................... 
Ely’s Waterproof, per m....................  
No. 22 short, per m............................. 
No. 22 long, per m ............................. . 
No. 32 short, per m............................. 
No. 32 long, per m............................... 
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........ 
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per  m... 

Cartridges

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells

New Blval—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
136
164
200
208
‘236
265
264

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

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

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

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg......................... 
*  kegs, 12* lbs., per  *   keg.............. 
*  kegs, 6* lbs., per *   keg................ 

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

A ugurs  and  Bits

Snell’s .................................................. 
Jennings  genuine...............................  
Jennings’ Imitation.............................. 

Shot

Axes

Barrow s

First Quality, S. B. Bronze................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................ 
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................ 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel................... 
Railroad............................................... 
Garden................................................net 
Stove...................................................  
Carriage, new ll«*  .............................  
Plow........... 
Well, plain.......................................... 
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... 
Wrought Narrow............................... 

Butts,  Cast

Buckets

Bolts

 

 

Chain

*  In. 

6-16 In. 
Com..............   7  c.  ...  6  c. 
BB................   8* 
BBB.............  8* 

...  7* 
...  7* 

Crowbars
Chisels

Cast Steel, per lb................................. 
Socket F irm er.................................... 
Socket Framing..................................  
Socket Corner.....................................  
Socket Slicks....................................... 

60

70
GO
$4  00
70
60
*  In.
... 5  c.  ...  4*c.
...  6
... 6* 
...  6*
... 6* 

*  In. 

Elbows

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

Expansive  Bits

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... 
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27, 
List  12 
16. 

Galvanised  Iron

13 

16 

14 

Discount,  65

Ganges

Glass

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............. 

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

H am m ers

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

Hollow  W are

Hinges

Horse  Nails

Iro n

Au Sable............................................ dls 
40&10
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware.............................. 
20610
Bar Iron.............................................. 2 25  0 rates
Light Band.......................................... 
30 rates
76
86
■ ot
00

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

K nobs—New  List

Lanterns

6
66
66
66
66

75
1  26
40&10

40
'a>
70&10
70
70
28
17

6O&10
85&20
85&20
86&20

33*
40&10
70
6O&10
50 El 10
60&10
50&10

70

66

7*
8

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

Levels

M attocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern...................................  
76610
86620
Screws, New List...............................  
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  60610610
Dampers, American...........................  
60

Molasses  Gates

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

60610
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................   60610610
Common,  polished.............................. 
7066
P aten t  Planished  Iro n  

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

Broken packages *c per pound extra.

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

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

Planes

Nalls

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  X advance................  
 
Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.................... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.................... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
14x20IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 

 

40
60
75
60
2 50
3 oo
600
576
1  40
l  40

60
70
80

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

72
64

4 00
2 25
l  25

x  to

60
26
go

6  5»
9  00
6 oo
10  60
12  00
29 00

40
60
40
46

2  fO
2  36
Base
5
10
20
30
46
70
60
15
26
36
25
36
46
86

go
46

7  80
9 00
16 00
7 50
9 to
16 00
18 00

it*
15*

60

30 00

Ropes

Sisal, *  Inch and larger...................... 
Manilla................................................ 

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

Sand  P aper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iron

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

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................. 
Nos. 16 to 17............ ...............   .  . 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................  
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4  10 
Nos. 26 to 26 ..................................   4  20 
No. 27...  ..................................  ...  4 30 
wide, not less than 2-1G extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

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

8 60
8 00

Solder

19
*@ *................................................... 
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
tccordlng to composition. 
Steel and Iron.....................................   60—10—6

Squares

,

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—A llaw ay  Grade
10x141C, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................................

Each additional X on this grade, $i.eo

Boiler  Size Tin  P late

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, I per pound..
Steel,  Game......... ..............................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
...................................
Mouse,  choker  per doz..................
Mouse, delusion, per doz....................

ton’s......... 

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 Eyes.................... ...........
Hooks........................................
Gate Hooks and Byes.................

W renches

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

$10 60 
19 60 
12  00

9 00 
9 00 
10 60 
10 60

13

75
4O&10
66 
15 
1  26

6O&10 

60 
60 
60610 
40 
3  25 
2  96

80
80
80
80

30
30

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

3 1

NATIONAL  GIDEONS.

Newspaper  Sum m ary  of  the  T hird  A n­

nual  Convention.

The  third  annual  convention  of  the 
National  Gideons  of  America,  which 
was  held  at  Cedar  Rapids  July  4,  5  and 
6,  was  largely  attended.  The  proceed­
ings  of  the  convention  were  thus  sum­
marized  by  the  Cedar  Rapids  Republi­
can :

The  meetings  of  the  convention  one 
and  all  were  very  helpful  and  seemed 
filled  with  the  spirit.  The  church  serv­
ices  were  conducted  by  these  business 
men  and  conducted  well.  At  the  after­
noon  meeting  in  the  Methodist  church 
the  men  derived  much  benefit  and  it 
was  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  meet­
ings  a  body  of  Christian  men  ever  held 
in  the  city.  The  rain  interfered  some­
what  with  the  attendance  at  the  young 
people's  meetings in  the  evening  but  on 
both  sides  of  toe.river they  were  well 
attended  and  proved  to  he  good  meet­
ings  despite  the  weather.

It  was  the  mass  meeting  at  the  audi­
torium,  the  last  meeting,that  left  a  pic­
ture  on  the  minds  of  all  piesent  which 
will  never  be  eSaced.  There  was  a 
spontaneousness  about 
the  volley  oi 
“ Amens”   which  greeted  the  remarks  of 
the  speakers,  but  underneath  there  was 
a  note  of  sincerity  and 
earnestness 
which  forebade  any  thought of lightness. 
They  were  traveling  men  so  numerous 
over  the  country  here  taking  part  and 
conducting  religious  meetings. 
T ie  
auditorium  has  held  many  kinds  ot 
meetings  and  assemblages  in 
its  short 
existence,  yet  never  was  there  such  a 
meeting  as  last  night  when  the  congre­
gations  of  the  various  churches  joined 
these  knights  of  the  grip  in  a  religious 
service.
After  a  song  service  by  the  audience, 
W.  H.  Teetzel  read  the 
lesson,  includ­
ing  the  description  of  the  preparaiii n 
of  the  band  of  Gideons  for  their  battle. 
At  the  words,  "and  they  stood  every 
man  in  his  place,"  the  Gideons  present 
arose  and  sang  the  "Sword  of  the  Lord 
and  of  Gideon." 
Jas.  Payne  then 
offered  prayer  fur  God's  guidance  and 
that  the  Gideons  might  be  set  on  fire  to 
gather  the  traveling  men  of  the  United 
Fred 
States 
Woodcock 
"N ever 
Alone,”   and  the  report  of  the  Com- 
m  ttee  on  Resolutions  was  adopted. 
The  resolutions  thanked  the  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  for  their  help  during  the  year 
and  the  retiring  officers  for  their  un­
swerving  loyalty  to  the  cause.  Also the 
mayor and  citizens  of  this  city  for  their 
cordial  reception  and  above  all,  the 
Cedar  Rapids  camp  for  organizing  the 
details  of  the  convention  and  all  that 
had  helped  to  make  the  convention  a 
success.

into  their  organization. 

tenderly 

sang, 

Alter  a  duet,  five 

little  girls  from 
Sunshine  Mission  gave  a  very  pretty 
motion  song,  "Throw  Out  the  L in e ," 
which  was  greatly  appreciated  by  the 
audience,  the  traveling  men  repeatedly 
giving  their  salute  with  the  handker­
chiefs.
Chaplain  Smith,  of  Oshkosh,  then 
delivered  his  annual  address  to  the  con­
vention.  He  expressed  the  pleasure  he 
in  being  able  for  the  third  time  to 
felt 
address 
the  annual  convention  and 
took  his  text  from  the  first  chapter  of 
Second  Timothy,  " I   am  not  ashamed 
for  I  know  whom  I  believe."  This 
was  spoken  by  the  greatest  traveling 
man  that  ever  lived  who  traveled  over 
the  whole  of  the  then  known  world 
in 
his  Master’s  cause  and  suffered  many 
privations—the  apostle Paul.  The  words 
were  spoken 
for  all  the 
apostles  were  marked  men  and  the ring- 
leadersof the new religion of  Christianity 
were  caught  and  imprisoned in the effort 
to  stamp  out  the  new  religion.  He  was 
a  Roman  citizen  and  a  cultured,  edu­
cated  man  who 
left  writings  that  are 
honored  among  the 
literature  of  the 
world.  He  was  a  Roman  citizen  and 
in  prison,  the  greatest  outrage  known, 
yet  he  had  nothing  to  be  ashamed  of, 
for  he  knew  whom  he believed.  A p­
plying  the  subject  to  the  Gideons,  be 
said  the  Gideons  had  no  business  to  be 
ashamed.  The  Gideons  should  attend 
the  Christian  Endeavor  and  Sunday

in  prison, 

school  and  prayer  meetings  when  at 
home  and  they  have  a  right  to  be  at 
home  anywhere.  No  man  sees  the  world 
as  a  commercial  traveler.  The  traveling 
men  are  the  ambassadors  and the  houses 
are  becoming  more  and  more  particular 
in  their  employes.  They  want  honest 
sober  men  and  if  they  are  net  they  can 
find  others.  Piety  and 
intellect  htlp 
make  the  perfect  man.  He  then  gave 
the  traveling  men  some  good  practical 
advice.  He  said,  " I f   you  get  into  an 
uninteresting  prayer  meeting,  make 
it 
interesting.  The towns need  nothing  so 
much  as  a good  stirring  up  in the prayer 
meetings  once  in  a  while. 
‘ I  am  not 
ashamed.’ 
If  either  of  those  two  men 
who  founded  this  organization  bad  been 
ashamed we would not be here to-night. ’ ’ 
He  also  spoke  of  the  influence  of  the 
button  they  all  wore. 
If  the  button  is 
worn  the  wearer  will  not  receive  the  in­
vitation  to  cards  or  drink  and  the  oath 
will  be  checked  on  the  lips.  He  closed 
with  reading  the  hymn,  "Jesusi  shall  it 
ever  be  that  mortal  man  is  ashamed  ol 
thee?"

Mrs.  Smith,  the  wife  of  the  Chaplain, 
then  sang,  "Ju st  for  To-day,”   by  spe­
cial  request.

it  has  been  in  the  past. 

President  Hill  then  read  a  message 
the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  had  sent  to  the 
Gideons,  after  which  the  ladies  arose 
and  sang,  "1 
love  to  tell  the  Story. ’ ’ 
President  Hill  spoke  feelingly  ol  the 
kindness  to  him  shown  by  the  men  dur­
ing  the  convention  and  said  he  could 
never  forget  them  and  the  picture  they 
presented  to  him.  Continuing  be  said, 
" in   my message  to  you  yesterday  I  said 
I  hoped  God  would  raise  up  some  one 
to  take  my  place 
in  the  President’s 
chair.  This  has  been  done  and  a  man 
elected  who  I  believe  will  fill  the  office 
httter  than 
I 
now  present  to  you  your  new  President, 
Frank  A.  Gtrlick,  of  Chicago."  The 
new  President 
introduced  by  the  retir­
ing  chief  officer  then  made  a  brief 
speech  in  acceptance.  He  said  in  part: 
" 1   accept  the  honored  position  in  the 
name  of  the  Master and  at  your  request. 
The  time  is  short,  but  1  want  to  leave 
with  you  a  message.  The  first  word 
is 
that  we  must  stand  on  the  word  of  God 
and  that  alone.  Let  us  cleanse  ourselves 
of  all  filthiness  of  the  flesh  and  spirit  in 
the  fear  of  the  Lord.  Let  this  be  our 
text  for next  year.  We  must  first  clean 
ourselves  of  all  evil  and  then Christ  will 
come  and  help  us.’ ’  Speaking  a  word 
of  caution  to  the  Gideons  be 
said, 
"W e  are  not  members  of  Gideonism. 
We  are  not  outside  the church  of  Christ, 
hut  are  all  members  of  some  church. 
Let  us  never  say  Gideonism.  Neither 
are  we  Gideonites.  We  belong  to  no 
sect  by  that  name.  We  are  Gideon?, 
each  one  of  us  separately  and  individ­
ually.  This 
is  net  a  Gideon  band  but 
a  band  of Gideons.  The  Chicago  camp 
wish  to  see  nothing  so  much  as  the good 
of  the  national  organization.  The Presi­
dent  has  come  to  the  office  unpledged 
and  expects  to  make  mistakes,  but  they 
will  be  mistakes  of  the  bead  and  not  ol 
the  heart.  He  shall  have  the 
interests 
of  the  Gideons  at  heart  all  over  the land 
and  be  partial  to  no  section.  You  have 
elected  new  officers and must expect new 
methods.  They  may  for  a  time  jar  the 
mind  and  conscience  and  distract  from 
the  present  cordial  relations,  but  they 
will  be  changes  made  in  a  thoughtful 
snirit  for  the  good  of  the organization. ”  
He  paid  a  tender  tribute  to  the  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  and  presented  his  wife  to  the 
convention  and  said,  "W e  have  been 
elected 
to  the  presidency  together.”  
The  first  act  of  the  President  was  to 
appoint  D.  W.  Johns,  of  Grand Rapids, 
as  State  Superintendent  of  Michigan. 
He  thanked  the  Executive  Committee 
for their  faithful  work  and  the  Gideon 
circle  was  formed  around  the  room.

All  the  Gideons,  with  the  Auxiliary 
members  present, 
joined  hands  in  a 
circle  around  the  wall  of  the  auditorium 
and  sang,  "B lest  be  the  tie  that  binds 
and  the  "Sword  of  the  Lord  and  of 
Gideon,"  thus  closing  the  convention.

D.  W.  Johns  and  J.  C.  F.  Dillon  at­
tended  the  convention  as  the representa­
tives  from  Michigan.

Easy  Steps  F or L ittle  Feet.

Humor 

is  the  eudemonological  pes­
itself  a 
simism  which  includes  within 
teleological 
optimism, 
which  may cause  a  realistic,  radical  and 
universal  reconciliation  to  appear  as 
possible.—Kindergarten  Magazine.

evolutionary 

Where  hatred 

flourishes  love  may. 
Indifference  grows  upon  only  frozen 
soil.

FOR  SALE

SINGLE  CIRCULAR  SAW  MILL 
Stearns’ circular saw  mill  complete;  3  16-foot 
b< iters and stack and  1  16-24 slide  valve  engine; 
perieet repair.  Will sell cheap  and  take  pay lu 
lumber if desired.

Foster-Winchester Lumber  Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

"

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

1

STORE  FOR  SALE

Retail  Hardware Store at 
Rockland,  Mich., For Sale

HARDWARE

Stock consist  of general hardware, build­
ers’  hardware,  cutlery,  paints,  oils  and 
gia«s.  etc.  Tin  and  plumbing  shop  in 
connection  Stoca will inventory  $» 030; 
c: n 
reduce  same  to  suit  purchaser. 
Store paying but  unable  to  give  It  per­
sonal attention.  Address

ARTHUR T.  EMMONS.

Care I. E. Swift Co. 

Houghton, Mich.

“What 
Everybody 
Says 
Must  be 
True99

it 

An  old  adage  and  a  very 
true  one.  The application 
of 
just  now  lies  this 
way  —   that  the  knowing 
ones  among  the  retail  mer­
chants  say  that

D  CRACKERS

are  the  best.  No  need  to 
seek  beyond  the  superla­
tive. 
Send  to  us  for  in­
formation.

E.  J.  Kruce &  Co.

Detroit,  Mich.

Not in the Trust.

Central

W ith  F in e s t  T h r o u g h  
P u llm a n   S le e p in g   C a r   an d  
D in in g   C a r   S e r v i c e .
LV .  G rand R a p id s,  12.00  noon.

JÎT. JVew  York, 10.00  a .  m .

Commencing June  16,  1902.

For  reservations and further information 
address

W.  C. B l a k e, Tkt. Agt. Union Station, 
rkt^
O.  W. RUGGLES, Gen’l Pass’r and Tkt, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agt., Chicago.

Bicycle Dealers

Who  have 
not already 
received  our
1902 Catalogue 

No. 6

pertaining to 

Bicycles 

and  Bicycle 

Supplies 
should  ask 
for it.  Mailed 

free  on 

request.  We 
dealers only.

sell  to 

ADAMS  &  HART

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

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use” 

Read  H.  Ward  Leonard’s clothing ad- 
vertisment  on  page  7.  It  is  interesting.

VALLEY  CITY   MILLING  C O ..

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

3 2

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

News Item s Too  Late  to  Classify.

Union  City—Geo.  E .  Conrike,  meat 

dealer,  has  sold  out  to Chas.  Tyson.

is 

Essexville—Howell  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Rothermel 
&  Co.

Belding—Earl  Wilson  has  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  City  shoe  store  of  E d ­
win  R.  Spencer.

Tigris—P.  E .  Thomas  has  sold  his 
dry  goods,  hardware  and  grocery  stock 
to Jas.  A.  Damrel.

Calkinsville—J.  T.  Harvie  &  Son 
succeed  Harvie  &  White  in  the  general 
merchandise  business.

Albion—C.  S.  Tucker  &  Co.  continue 
the  dry  goods,  carpet  and  wall  paper 
business  of  C.  S.  Tucker.

Wyandotte—Lewis  Lyman 

Tecumseh—Wm.  Voorheis  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
meat  business  of  Voorheis  &  Seckinger.
suc­
ceeded  by  the  Lehr  Lumber  Co.  in  the 
manufacture  of  lumber,  sash  and  doors.
Detroit—The  style  of  the  Booth  Man­
ufacturing  Co.,  manufacturer  of  porch 
columns,  has  been  changed  to  the  De­
troit  Column  &  Mfg.  Co.

Jackson—Smith  &  Malnigtit,  proprie­
tors  of  the Jackson  Skirt  &  Novelty Co., 
are  succeeded  by  the  Jackson  Skirt  & 
Novelty  Co.,  incorporated.

Standish—Leonard  Nerreter,  who  has 
owned  a  controlling  interest  in  the  Gray 
Milling  Co.,  which  owns  the  large  roller 
mills,  shingle  mill  and  elevators  here, 
has  sold  his 
interest  to  Charles  Edel- 
man,  of  Saginaw,  and  will  remove  to 
Saginaw,  where  he  will  live  in  retire­
ment.

Lansing—The  Lansing  Wheelbarrow 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital from $250,- 
000  to $415,000.  It  is  about  to  material­
ly  increase  its  plant  in  this  city  and  en­
gage  in  the  manufacture  of  road  ma­
chines,  and  also  build  a  new  plant  at 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  having  purchased  a 
vast  tract  of  timber  land  in  that State.

Detroit—The  Lee  Injector  Manufac­
turing  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  associa­
tion  with  the  county  clerk.  The capital 
stock  is  placed  at  $40,000,  divided  into
4,000,  shares  and  $30,000  worth  of  stock 
is  paid 
stockholders  are: 
William  O.  Lee,  Detroit,  1,350;  Mel­
vin  D.  Cole,  Romeo,  800;  Franklin  S. 
North,  Detroit,  50.

The 

in. 

Vicksburg—The  Vicksburg  Clothing 
Co.,  established  to  replace  the  branch 
of  the  Kalamazoo  Pant  &  Overall  Co., 
removed  to  Kalamazoo,  has  received 
machinery  and  will  begin  making  over­
location 
alls  in  a  few  days  at  the  same 
vacated  by  the  Kalamazoo 
concern. 
The  new  company 
is  capitalized  at 
$7,000,  one-half  paid  in.

Bay  City—The  National  Chicory  Co. 
has  been  organized  to  take  over  the 
business  of  the  United  States  Chicory 
Co.,  of  West  Bay  City,  and  the  Michi­
gan  State  Chicory  Co.,  of  this  city. 
The  new  company 
is  capitalized  at 
$75,000,  and W.  H.  Sharpe  is President. 
The  combination  of  the  two  old  com­
panies  will  make  it  possible  to  run  the 
factories  more  economically.  The  west 
side  plant  has  facilities  for  preparing 
the  chicory  root  for  market,  whereas  the 
Michigan  company  has  heretofore  sim­
ply  dried  the  root  and  shipped  it  to 
Eastern  manufacturers  to  be 
roasted 
and  ground.
P enalty  of Doing Business w ith Strangers. 
From the Litchfield Gazette.

G.  E.  Walworth,  F .  C.  Thatcher  and 
L.  C.  Wright,  accompanied  by  their  at­
torney,  O.  J.  Cornell,  drove  up  from 
Hillsdale  yesterday  to  answer  to  the 
summons 
issued  from  Justice  Agard’s 
court  by  the  Homer  Banking  Co.,  in 
which  the  latter  company  sought  to  re­

cover $25  from  business  men  who  had 
given  notes  to  that  amount  to  obtain 
membership  in  a  co-operative collection 
agency.  The  agency  sold  the  notes  to 
the  Homer  Banking  Co.,  which,  as  an 
innocent  purchaser,  sought  to  recover.

The  cases  did  not  come  to  trial,  as 
the  Hillsdale  business  men,  being  fair­
ly  caught,  and  knowing  to  a  dead  moral 
certainty  that  it  was  the  same  gold 
brick  furnished  to  their  rural  friends, 
settled  the  cases  out  of  court.

The  Boston  Egg and  B u tte r M arket.
Boston,  July  14—The  market  on  eggs 
is  practically  unchanged from  the previ­
ous  week. 
light  and 
cleaned  up  closely  every  day.  Best 
Northern  Indiana  and  Michigan stock is 
selling  i8^@I9C,  case  count.

Receipts  are 

Receipts  of  butter  this  week 

still 
continue  very  heavy and a slightly easier 
feeling  has  developed  in  consequence. 
The  total  receipts  this  week  were  over 
46,000  packages,  of  which  between 
25,00c  and  26,000  have  gone  into  stor­
age.  Sales  for consumption  are  com­
paratively  small,  but  the  market 
is 
steady  because  of  large  stock  put  away. 
We  quote  best Northern creamery at  22c, 
packing  stock  at 
i6^ @ I7 c  and  ladles 
at  i8@i8>£c. 

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

Changed  Conditions.

Mr.  Westside—Is  Briggs  still  paying 

attention  to  your  sister?

Eastside—Naw—they’ve been  married 

this  two  months!

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  w ord  th e  flrsl 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  w ord  for each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisem ents 
taken  for  less  th an   85  cents.  Advance 
paym ents.

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

W ANTED-EVERY  MERCHANT  DESIR- 
ing  to  dose  out  write  W.  D.  Hamilton, 
Auctioneer, Galesburg, 111. 
697
YY7R1TE  TO  GRAND  RAPIDS  MONU 
t v  mentCo  for prices and designs  on  monu­
ments, markers and cemetery coruer posts.  We 
nave a large stock;  anxious to sell at small mar­
gins.  818 So. Division St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
______ 696
W ANTED—CLEAN  AND  GOOD-PAYING 
drug stock located in growing  town or city 
in Michigan.  Spot cash.  Address No. t0>, care
Michigan Tradesman. 
603
I MPROVED  80  ACRE  FARM  FOR  MER- 
John  W.  Curtis,  Whittemore,
chandlse. 
Mich._______________________________ 695
L'OK  SALE—FINE  CLOTHING  BUSINESS 
F   in one of the best  towns  in  Michigan.  The 
best of terms and reason given for sale.  Address 
915.  Lake H011I -yard, St. Joseph. Mich. 
602
W AN 1 ED—ENTERPRISING PARTY WITH 
small amount of capital will be  assisted  to 
start in business in own town.  For further  par­
ticulars address Lock Box 98, South Bend, lnd.

>B SALE AT A  BARGAIN  IF  TAKEN  IN 
thirty days—a clean, up-to-date general mer­
chandise stock  in  a  wide-awake  little  town  in 
northeastern Indiana,  a regular money  maker; 
compelled to sell on account of very poor health; 
no  jockeys  or  kuctioneers  need  apply.  Ad­
dress No.  694, care Michigan Tradesman.  69'

IT'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MEk 

chandise. all new and up-to-date goods, well 
established trade;  best farming  town  in  south­
ern Minnesota;  stock amounting to about I5.U0O 
or $6.000;  will take out any part  of  stock  buyer 
don’t wish;  no trade  wanted;  must  be  cash  or 
well secured paper;  write me at once as  I  must 
sell soon.  Address J. C. Sovde, Granada, Minn. 
____________________________  

699
OAJL.E  A 1   A   BARGAIN  IF  TAKE 
this  month—A  clean  stock  of  up-tudal 
groceries and  tobacco;  stock  and  fixtures  wi 
Invoice about $2,500;  one of the best  locations I 
town;  good reason for  selling.  Address  A  1 
Smith, Harbor Springs, Mich. 
582

IT'OR  SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 

Shoes  or  General  Merchandise—Three 
dwelling houses  In  Battle  Creek.  Address  E. 
V. Abell Co., Charlotte, Mich. 
OB SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED HARNESS 
business 
John  Sherman, 310  South  Hamil­

b°6

ton St., Saginaw, Mich 

IT'OR  SALE-DRUG STOCK  AND  FIX
tures;  Invoice  about $1.710;  no  dead  stock- 
cash business.  Situated  in  Northwestern  Indi­
ana. on  a  beautiful  lake.  Address  P.  s.  Will. 
Hamilton. Ind. 
IpOB  SALE—EITHER  HALF  OB  WHO 

559
Interest in planing mill  making  sash,  dot 
and blinds,  with  retail lumber  yard  in  conn 
tion; only mill  in  town  now  running.  Reas 
for selling. 111 health.  Address  Cowin  & Man 
Greenville. Mich. 
67
L'OK  SALE —SELECT  STOCK  GENERAL 
A  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.
514

606

681

651

570

649

in  best  town  in  Copper  country:  invoices 
about $1,800;  a snap for some one.  Address  No. 
691, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 591

FOR SALE AT A SACRIFICE-DRUG STORE 
I  HAVE FuUR  VACANT LOTS  IN  GRAND 
F o r  sa l e—d r u g   b u s in e s s  a n d   m e d -

Rapids, free and clear;  will trade for general 
stock;  will pay balance cash.  Address  No.  583, 
care Michigan Tradesman.  ____________683

Ical practice, centrally located  In a  thriving 
town In Kentucky;  building  25x30.  two  stories, 
wiih four rooms above; also a four-room cottage 
with all  modern  improvements,  barn,  carriage 
house,  etc.;  an  exceptional  opportunity  for  a 
young  doctor;  will  sell  in  a  lump,  including 
practice, good will, etc., at a bargain; bad health 
reasan for selling.  Address  Dr.  C.  H.  Drane, 
corner Poweil and Mill Sts., Henderson, Ky.  592
'  three lots In  Mattoon,  111., for  merchandise 
stock or  good  farm.  F.  M.  Hamilton,  P.  M., 
Cherryvale.  lnd. 

I NOR SALE OB TRADE—TWO HOUSES AND 
I NOR SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 

.  chandise Invoicing  about  $6,000  to  $7,000. 
St 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.  680
B EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR DRY 
goods business at Freeport.  W.  H. Pardee.
678
■   PRODUCTIVE  80 ACRE  FARM  IN  CEN- 

tral Michigan, soil first class, for  sale or ex­
change  for  stock  merchandise.  Address  570, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
IT'OR  SALE  CHEAP—FLOUR  AND  FEED 
F   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. 
IT'OR SALE OR EXCHANGE  FOR  A GRAIN 
F   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  pot tto and  bean 
section  of  Michigan.  Address  G.  F.  Gross, 
Waterford,  Mich. 
t'O K   SALE—DRUG STOCK WORTH ABOUT 
•$-  $2,000; good  patronage;  only  drug  store  in 
town of 800.  with  two  railroads  and  lake  port. 
Will  sell  for  $l,0u0  down,  balance  on  time. 
Address No. 574. care Michigan Tradesman. 574
W A N TED —TO  PURCHASE  LOCATION 
suitable for conducting hardware  business 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  466, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
465
COR  SALE —F I nE  TWO-STORY  8T"KE 
1  with barn,  on street  car  line:  or  will  ex­
change for merchandise.  Address  482  Wash­
ington Ave., Muskegon, Mich. 
564

FTOR SALE—1  DESIRE  TO  SELL  MY  EN- 

tire  general  stock,  including  fine  line  of 
shoes and  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
better trade in the >tate.  Business  been  estab­
lished 26 years.  Reason for  selling,  other  busi­
ness.  P  L. Perkins, Merrill. Mich.  ___ 473

tNOB  SALE—DRUGFIXTURE8=ELEGANT 

’  wall c.ises, counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; all  light  oak; will  sell  at  half  price 
O. A  Fanckboner. Grai d  Katdds. 
534
L'OK SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK. INVOIC- 
F   lng $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms cn application.  Address No 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
L'OK  SALK — FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
F   farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1,209.  Address  No 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
L'OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK  OF  DRY 
F  goods,  groceries,  shoes  and  undertakers’ 
supplies;  stock all In Ai order;  good new  frame 
-tore building, with living rooms  above;  can  be 
bought or rented reasonably;  stock and  fixtures 
a‘-out $3,500;  stoc  can be reduced  to  suit  pur­
chaser;  situated In one of  the  best  little  towns 
in  Northern  Michigan.  Address  R.  D.  Mc- 
Xaughcon. Honor, Ml«-h. 
L'OK  SALE— FIRST-CLASS,  EXCLUSIVE 
F   millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 
T h r e e   v a c a n t   lo ts 
in   g r a n d  
Rapids, free  of  incumbrance,  to  exchange 
fo- drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
486, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Sa f e s—n e w   a n d   se c o n d-h a n d   f ir e
(¡'O R  SALE-COUNTRY  STORE  AND

and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
ft  Brick  Building  Moving  Co,  376  South  Ionia 
St.. Grand  Rapids. 

'  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 sel.ing, must retire.  For particulars  call  on 
or address Eli Runnels, Corning. Mich. 

520

522

486

474

621

507

321

FOR- SALEWA  FINE- 8TOOK  OF  GRO- 

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. 

439

368

559

H. D  Cove, Charlotte, Mich. 

s a l e   —  p l a n i n g   m i l l ,  w e l l
equipped and doing a fine business.  Address 

F o r  
I ¡'OR  SALE—MOSLER,  BAHMANN  ft  CO.

1  fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
inches high, 27 Inches  wide  and  24  inches  deep. 
Inside measurement—16K inches high, 14 inches 
wide and to inches deep.  Will sell  For  $60  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 
■¿'OR  SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
J?  Bar-Lock  typewriter,  in  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  applica­
tion.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 466 
IT'OR SALE—DRUG SI OCK AND FIXTURES, 
F   Invoicing about $2.000.  Situated in center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;,water  inside  building.  Bent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman._______ 334
IT'OR SALE—WE  HAVE  A  FEW  CARS  OF 
1  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 Wlddlcomb 
¡Building, Grand Rapids.____________  
532

MAPLE  FLOORING

MISCELLANEOUS

603

S IRED  OF  WORKING  FOR  SOMEONE 

else?  If so, write me.  I  can help you open 
a new store with a fraction of the  money  you’d 
probably  think  necessary.  Best  business  on 
earth for moderate  investment.  Full  informa­
tion and, if you like, 1 11 fiud  you  a  location  all 
free.  G. 8. Buck, 185 Quincy St., Chicago. III.  601
CIGAR  SALESMAN  WANTED  FOR  THE 
following  counties  In  Michigan:  Allegan, 
Berrien,  Cass,  Kalamazoo.  Ottawa  and  Van 
Buren.  Must have  experience  and  come  with 
the best of reference.  Steele-Wedeles Company, 
Chicago.____________________________ 604

Ij'XFERIENCED  ELECTRICIAN  DESIRES 

'J  posltiou in light or  power  plant  Best  ref­
erences.  Address  603,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
\ \ [ ANTED—POSITION  AS  CLERK  IN  A 
f t   general  or  hardware  store;  three  years’ 
experience;  no  bad  habits;  can  furnish  good 
references.  Address  Box  35,  Colonville,  Mich.
too
WANTED—POSITION IN GRAND RAPIDS 
as bookkeeper or assistant by young woman 
of 2*4  years’  actual experience.  Best  of  refer­
ences.  Address No. 606, care  Michigan  Trades­
607
man. 
W A NT ED —A  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist.  Send  recommendations  and  state 
salary.  Address No. 687, care Michigan Trades­
man________________________________ 5-7
ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK  IN  DRY 
Yv  goods or  general  store;  city  experience; 
best of references.  Address 584,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
584
WANTED—SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman by young man of 33 years of age; 
has had nine years’ experience conducting retail 
gro  ery and six years’ experience  selling  to  the 
trade;  is a good salesman and  an  At  collector; 
is  well  acquainted  with  Grand  Rapids  trade, 
also some outside;  best of references  furnished. 
Address 588, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
588 
1 1 /1 DOW  WOULD  MAKE  PLEASANT 
YY  home for two or three old people.  Address 
Mrs. Lyon. Birmingham, Mich. 
593
WANTED—SALESMAN  TO  CARRY  OUR 
harness  enamel,  show  enamel  and  sto'e 
polish  as  a  side  line  Commissions  large and 
sales  easy.  Ann  Arbor  Paint  &  Enamel  Co., 
572
Ann Arbor, Mich. 

WANTED—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 ft Enamel Co., Ann 
Aibor, Mich. 
671
W ANTED —  PURCHASER FOR  MEAT
market;  only stand  in  town  of  450.  Ad­
dress No. 516. care Michigan Tradesman.  616

r » * * ------------ ---
i  Drug Store
1  For Sale
» Live  Drug  business  in  Ann  Arbor. 
t  location.  Selling because of too much 
I  W.  N.  SALISBURY.
"  
t  Humphrey.  88-90  Griswold  street, 

Cash  sale-<  $25  dally.  Fine,  central
outside business.

For particulars address Brownell ft

Detroit,  Mich.

The  first,  consolidated  m ortgage  bonds  o f  the  D etroit.  & 
Pontiac  Railway  Company,  guaranteed  by  th e   D e tro it  United 
Railway,  afford a safe investment at an  attractive rate of interest 

Price and full information on request.

NOBLE,  M OSS  <Sb  CO.

8 0 8   Union  Trust  Bldg. 

D etroit,  Mich.

