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For Gas or Gasoline.  Write for  catalogue.
(Hover's Wholesale Merchandise  Co. 

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Qrand Rapids, Michigan

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Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  LW

Widdicomb  Building, Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Opera  House Block,  Detroit'

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A A A A A A A . A A . A A A A . . . . A A A A A A A
T W  W V V W W W W W W W W W y
♦  WILLIAM  CONNOR  ♦

W H O LESALE  

R EAD YM A D E  C L O T H IN G
of every kind and for all ages.

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

direct from factory.

W illiam   Alden  Sm ith  B uilding, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mall  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
daily from 7:30 a. m.  to  6  p.  m„  except 
Saturdays  to  1  p.  m.  Customers’  ex-
ell phone.  Main  1282.  Western  Michi­
gan agent Vineberg’s Patent Pants.

genses  allowed.  Citizens  phone,  1957.

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  0 .  GR0SVEN0R
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
133a flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.

Kent  County

exceed  $2,300,000

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

3^ %   interest paid  on  Sav­
ings certificates  of  deposit.

The  banking  business  of 
Merchants,  Salesmen  and 
Individuals solicited.

Cor.  Canal  and  Lyon Sts.

Grand  Rapids, Michigan

TradesmaB Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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Page. 
2.  G etting  the  People.
3.  H atchers  in  Paraguay  Are  Women.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  G rand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  F ru itp o rt  Redeemed.
7.  Buyers’  Excursion.
8.  Editorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  D ry Goods.
16.  B utter and  Eggs.
17.  The  New  York  M arket.
18.  Men  of M ark.
20.  W om an’s  W orld.
22.  H ardw are.
24.  Clerks’  Corner.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Bad  Candy  D riven  Out.
32.  Celery  City  Celebration.

IT   IS  ALL  FOR  AMUSEMENT.

One of  the  popular  features  of  comedy 
plays  and  players  is  that  of  represent­
ing  various  nationalities. 
Sometimes 
it 
is  an  Irishman,  sometimes  a  Ger­
man,  a  Frenchman,  an  Italian  or  a 
Scotchman.  The  actor  who  can  cor­
rectly  delineate  one  of  these  characters 
is  sure  to  make  a  hit  and  secure  a 
handsome  salary.  Naturally  there  is  a 
tendency  to  exaggeration  and burlesque, 
for  therein  lies  the  comedy,  the  avowed 
purpose  of  which 
is  to  provoke  mirth 
and  raise  a  laugh.  All  these  national­
ities  have  been  caricatured on the  stage. 
This  one  is  widely  advertised  as  an  es­
pecially skillful Irish  comedian  and  that 
one  as  a  versatile  and  very  funny  Ger­
man  comedian  and  so  on  through  the 
list.  The  governing  board  of  a  prom­
inent  society  recently  declared  that  it  is 
to  the  interest  of  their  race that the Irish 
comedian  shall  be  banished 
from  the 
American  stage  because,  as  these  gen­
tlemen  say,  these  caricatures  are  calcu­
lated  to  bring  the  emigrants  from  the 
Emerald  Isle  and  all  their  descendants 
into  disrepute  and  ridicule.

This  is  a pretty  far  fetched  accusation 
and  it  will  take  something  stronger than 
the  edict  of  this  governing  board  to 
keep  Irish  comedians  off  the  stage  or  to 
keep  amusement 
loving  Irish  people 
from  patronizing  them.  To  deprive  the 
stage  of  the  so-called  Irish  comedian 
would  be  to  take  from  it  one  of  its  most 
interesting  and  entertaining  features.  It 
would  put  a 
lot  of  genuine  Irishmen 
out  of  business  and compel  them  to  look 
for  some  other  means  of  earning  a  live­
lihood.  What  would  become  of  Andrew 
Mack  and  Chauncey  Olcott  and  what 
would  have  happened  to  a  score,  yes,  a 
hundred,  clever  comedians  who  by  bur­
lesquing  and  bringing  out the  laughable 
characteristics  of  the  wise  and  witty 
Irishman  have  gained  fame  and  money 
beside  furnishing  a  world  of  innocent 
amusement? 
If  this  class  of  comedians 
is  to  be  banished,  then  those  who  bur­
lesque  the  Scotch,  the  German, 
the 
French,  the  English  and  the  Italian 
must  all  go,too,and  perhaps  then  Amer­
icans  will  become  so  much  exercised 
about  it  that  the  Yankee  character  and 
the  “ Reuben”   must  be  cut  out  from  all

stage  performances,  and  what  a  dreary 
waste  there  would  be  left.  David  War- 
held  all  last  winter  was  winning  lasting 
fame  and  fortune  by  bis  portrayal  of 
Hebrew 
character,  exaggerated  and 
made  laughable  of  course.  These  stage 
representations  are  not  intended  nor  are 
they 
in  any  way  accepted  as  any  slur 
or  censure  upon  any  nationality.  None 
enjoy  the  oddities  of  the  stage  Yankee 
when  well  done  better  than  the  native 
American  whose  father  and  grandfather 
and  great  grandfather  were  born  in  this 
country.  This  edict 
if  applied  to  the 
German  comedians  would  put  the  Rog­
ers  Brothers  and  those  like  them  out  of 
business.  Rather  let  us  have  all  the  fun 
there 
in  the  world  and  look  upon  it 
not  as  an  insinuation,  but  as  what  it  is, 
mere  amusement.

is 

A  Methodist  minister  in  Northern 
Michigan  is  believed  to  have  preached 
one  of  the  shortest  sermons  on  record. 
It  was  a  hot  Sunday  and  the  minister 
had  decided  not  to  extend  his  discourse 
beyond  half  an  hour.  A  member  of  his 
congregation,  meeting  him  in  the  vesti­
bule  of  the  church,remarked :  “ It’s  hot 
to-night;  make  it  short.”   The  minister 
laughed  and  said  he  would.  The  same 
remark  was  repeated  by  another  mem­
ber a moment  later  and the  minister then 
and  there  determined  to  make  bis  ser­
mon  notable  for  its  brevity.  He  an­
nounced  as  his  text:  Luke  xvi,  24: 
“ And  he  cried  and 
‘ Fathter 
Abraham,  have  mercy  on  me,  and  send 
Lazarus,  that  he  may  dip  the  tip  rf  his 
finger  in  water  and  cool  my  tongue,  for 
I  am  tormented  in  this  flame.’  ”   Then 
he  said:  “ We  have  here  three  per­
sons—Abraham,  Dives  and  Lazarus. 
It 
was  hot  where  Dives  was.  He  did  not 
like  it.  He  wanted  to  get  out.  So  do 
we.  Let  us  pray !”

said: 

Officers  in  the  army  are  distressed  by 
the  orders  that  have 
just  been  issued 
providing  for  the  general  modification 
of  uniforms. 
It  will  cost  most  of  the 
officers  from  $100  to $150 to  make  the 
changes  ordered  and  for  many  of  them 
that 
is  an  amount  of  money  not  easily 
to  be  spared  from  their  salaries,  which 
are not  excessive  at  best.  Among  those 
who  are  worrying  over  the  situation  are 
the  tailors  who  cater  to  the  military 
men.  They  are  doubtful  if  they  will  be 
any  better  off 
in  consequence  of  the 
additional  business  that  will  come  to 
them.  One  tailor  is  said  to  have  $20,000 
due  him  from  lieutenants  who  have  in 
many 
instances  pledged  life  insurance 
policies  as  collateral  security  for  pay­
ment  of  their  accounts.

To  hold  a  position  as  President  of  a 
South  American  republic,  a  man  needs 
to  be  as  much  of  a  warrior  as  a  states­
man.  President  Castro,  of  Venezuela, 
announces  that  he  will  take  the  field  in 
person  to  put  down  the  rebellion against 
his  government.  He  is  like  the  kings 
in  the  old  days  who  had  to  fight  to  keep 
their  thrones.  In  South  America  a  pres­
ident  who  is  not  prepared  to  take  a  per­
sonal  part 
is  not  properly 
equipped  to  play  his  part.

in  war 

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

the 

For  a 

long  time  past  every  succeed­
ing  week  has  made  a  new  record  of 
railway  earnings  and  in*harmony  with 
this  condition  sixty  of 
leading 
stocks  have  recorded  a  new  high  aver­
age  each  week.  There  are  few  who  will 
attempt  to  attribute  this  to  manipula­
tion  of  professional  operators,  although 
there  are  many  advances,  no  doubt  ow­
ing  to  speculative  causes;  but  the 
long 
series  of  new  records  is  to  be  attributed 
to  the  general  strength  of  the  country’s 
business.

The  course  of  the  stock  market  was 
generally  upward  until  within  a  day 
or  so  something  of  a  realizing  reaction 
has  been  developed  by  the  bears.  This 
is  as  yet  by  no  means  general,  many 
properties  which  have  suffered  during 
the  long  advance  now  leading  in  activ­
ity  and  upward  movement.  There  are 
few  that  think  that  the  present  decline 
is  more  than  such  a  speculative  oppor­
tunity  for  realization  as  always  inter­
rupts  any  continued  advance.  The  only 
visible  pretext  for  the  reaction  would 
seem  to  be  the  unexpected  engagement 
large  quantity  of  gold  to  meet 
of  a 
needs 
in  Continental  capitals.  Money 
is  still  plentiful  and  easy  and  in  view 
of  the  generally  favorable  crop  reports 
it  would  seem  probable  that  the  upward 
course  can  not  be  long  interrupted.

There  is  as  little  interruption  to man­
ufacturing  and  trade  by  the  usual  mid­
summer  dullness  as  is  possible  on  ac­
count  of  the  tremendous pressure  for  de­
livery  of  goods. 
Iron  and  steel  con­
tinue  to  draw  heavily  on  the  future  in 
booking  orders.  The  coke  industry 
is 
being  pushed  to  the  utmost  and  meas­
ures  are  being  taken  generally  to  pro­
vide  as  far  as  possible  against  interrup­
tion  of  fuel  supply.  Salesmen  are  send­
ing 
large  orders  for  all  standard 
lines  of  wearing  apparel  and  prices  are 
well  sustained.  There  is  a  better  feel­
ing 
in  the  cotton  goods  situation  al­
though  the  price  of  the  staple  is  still  an 
interesting  topic.  Eastern  shipments 
of 
increasing 
notwithstanding 
interior  supplies 
are  well  maintained.

footwear  are  steadily 

the 

in 

How  much  horses  know  or  how  little 
is  a  question  much  discussed  by  people 
fond  of  these  animals.  Certain 
it  is 
that  they  do  many  remarkable  things 
and  there  seems  to  be  no  end  to  what 
they  can  be  taught.  An  interesting  case 
occurred  a  day  or  two  since  in  Phila­
delphia.  Some  brewery  stables  where 
about  a  hundred  horses  were  quartered 
caught  fire  and  the  animals  were  turned 
loose 
into  the  street.  Thereupon  the 
reports  say  each  horse  found  its  mate 
and  then  the  two  trotted  off  together 
over  their  respective  route,  stopping  the 
usual  time  at  every  place,  and  when 
they  had  made  the  rounds  some  of  the 
teams  actually  returned  to  the  stables 
and  seemed  sorry  to  find  them  in  ruins. 
There  are  plenty  of  stories  about  what 
fire  horses  put  to  other  uses  have  done 
when  they  heard  the  alarm.  Horses, 
like  people,  are  creatures  of  habit  and 
there  is  no  end  to  the  interesting  stories 
that  can  be  truthfully  told  about  them.

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Petting the People

The  M ania  F or  Panning,  A lliterative 'o r 

Euphonic  Names.

What's  in  a  name?  The  manner  in 
which English,  Greek,  Latin,  Choctaw 
and  whatnot  are  ransacked  for  adver­
tising  possibilities  would  seem  to  in­
dicate 
that  the  framers  of  publicity 
think  there  are considerable.  For many 
years  the  fact  has  been  recognized  that 
the  article  which  was  so  fortunate  as  to 
be  designated  by  an  alliterative  or  eu­
phonic  appellation  could  be  much  more 
easily  brought  to  the  minds  of  the  pub­
lic  than  when  some  accidental  designa­
tion  was  employed  that  was wholly com­
monplace  or  that  was  so  uncouth  in 
sound  that  no  one  could  remember  it.
It  is  only  within  recent  years,  however, 
that  the  full  value  of  the  name  has come 
to  universal  recognition  and  since  that 
time  the  tax  on  the  discoverer  or  in­
ventor  of  pleasing  sounds  has  been 
sufficient  to  engage  all  effort.

lent 

In  the  early  days  a  name  was  selected 
usually  with some relation to significance 
or  derivation  to  connect  it  to the subject 
advertised.  Of  course, 
there  was  a 
idea  of  getting  something  to 
general 
sound  well,  but  more  stress  was  laid 
upon  meaning  than  euphony. 
Thus 
the  coiners  of  Castoria  were  desirous  of 
expressing  the 
idea  that  the  stuff  ad­
vertised  was  a  modification  of  castor 
o il;  and  fortunately,  in  doing  this  a  de­
cidedly  plebeian  expression  was  given 
an  aristocratic  quality  which 
it 
dignity  and  at  the  same  time  there 
was  a characteristic which made it easily 
remembered. 
Its  coiners  to  day  would 
have  paid  more  attention  to  sound,  and 
that  at  the  expense  of  effectiveness. 
Kodak  was  a  much 
later  production, 
and  is  an  example  of  the  surrender  of 
everything  to  facility  of  vocalization.  It 
is  the  kind  of  a  word  that  a  Choctaw 
Indian  could  remember  and  speak  most 
easily. 
Its  success  is  a  demonstration 
of  the  value  of  this  quality  when  there 
are  no  other  merits.  As  an 
illustration 
of  the  total  lack  of  advertising  value  in 
words  selected  or  coined  with  reference 
to  meaning,take  a  couple  of  expressions 
that  have  been  tried  with  little  success 
by  cameramakers,  Sunart  and  Ray. 
Neither  of  these  is  euphonic  or  digni­
fied or  has  any  alliterative  merit.  Cam­
eras  may  have  been  sold  by  the  adver­
tising  but  not  through  the  names,  and 
neither  of  them  will  have  any  lasting 
quality.

The  great  departure  in  modern  name­
making  was  by  Ayer  &  Son  in  the coin­
ing  of  the  very  catchy  word  sentence, 
Uneeda.  This 
inaugurated  the  mania 
for  odd  phrase  and  expression  coining, 
which  quickly  nauseated  the  public  and 
in  most  cases  fell  flat,  although  the 
original  production  still  lives  and  flour­
ishes.  Indeed,  it is  one  of  the  anomalies 
of  advertising  science  that  the  near 
approach  to  the  ridiculous  which  char­
acterized  the  first  of  the  Uneeda  school 
has  been  carried  much  farther  in  the 
later  work,  and  that  with  apparent  suc­
cess  in  spite  of  the  failure  of  imitators. 
If 
is  possible  to  get  nearer  the  line 
without  reaching  it  than  in  Zu-zu  which 
is  just  now  having  its  turn  it  is  beyond 
my  powers  of  imagination. 
if 
any  institution  of  less  prestige  than  the 
National  Biscuit  Company  could  carry 
the  use  of  such  a  term  to  success.

1  doubt 

it 

In  recent  months  the  country  is  being 
deluged  with  a  flood  of  food  products, 
the  outgrowth  of  the  Battle  Creek  health 
ideas.  The  task given to the  word  coin­
in  ringing  the  changes  on  cereal
ers 

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

There are 

More KRO EG ER  PIANOS

*9«  all  com petition

»•mg
Sold
tilts 
crate  price,  m ake  It  a

doable  ca pa city 

than  of  an y  other  one  m ake  Th 
yeei.  U\  perfect  action,  pure  ton 
piano  unexcelled  tor  the  money.

roeget  factory  has  ba<]  td  h**  enlarged 
ad   grea t  durability,  together  w ltb  Its  m

T h e  exp ert  who  m ade  S te in v a y   pianos  la  in. ch arge  ot  the  K roeger  lac Lory 
G ive  us  a   can. 

It  w ill  be  a   p lea su re  to show   you  theee  e s  w ell a s  other m akes,  fo r w hich  w e are 

It  you  cannot  call,  p lea se   w rite  for  catalogue.

j  
sta le   agents. 

“Sss p f   DETROIT  MUSIC  CO.  woooi&fmf^vaiOE

In MtoMfM 

i f «  fa ir s

Look Here

With every  Refrigerator  sold  this year 
we will give one  month’s  supply  of  ice 
to  the  purchaser—remember  without 
extra charge—aftd  they are the best  we 
call  buy.  The . Leonard  Cleanablc  Re­
frigerator. 

—

Here’s Another.

Luring  the entire season,  we  will  keep 
sharp every lawn  mower  bought  of  us. 
And  they  are good  ones.

Eastman  &  Co.

Successors  lo  M.  P.  White  &  Son.

H E A T  IS   MONEY
If you give a man a quarter to pay  for  a  20c  article 
and  don’t take up the change you waste money don’t 
you? 
If you heat up the whole house toeook a small 
dinner you waste money don’t you?  That’s just what 
the

Quick Meal Oil Stove

is made to prevent.  You get all  the  heat  you  need 
for any  kiud of  cooking and  no more.  They are  not 
expensive, and  wonderfully economical  in operation.

Otto  Rosenfeld.

WHAT  AILED  HIS 

WATCH ?

A  gentleman calls on a jeweler 
and wants his watch  repaired. 
The jeweler  adjusts  his  eye­
glass,  looking  very  wise,  and 
informs  him  Unit  the 
infra* 
molecular  vibrations  of  the 
isochronal  arc  are  deflected 
from the supplementary curves 
of his horologium, snd it would 
cost  him  $5 00  to  repair  it. 
The gentleman  leu  m disgust, 
and came to me;  upon  exam­
ination  I  found he  had,  in  at­
tempting  to  move  the  regu­
lator,  let  the  hatchet  slip— 
that  was  what  he  used— and 
benfrthe  balance  pivot,  which 
Iatraightened and charged 25c

G.  Austin  Smith,

THE UP TfMWn JEWELER

It  Strikes  Us

that  the  best  tim e  to 
buy  sugar  is  now.

2$  lbs.

granulated  Sugar

$1.25.

T h e price of all other 
goods  is  right.  W e  
keep  the  best  and 
sell  the  most

euiKd goods. Trails. UtgtMMrs

If  you  aeal  w ith  us 
you  w ill  save  money 
and  make .both  ends 
m eet.

We  have  the  largest 

line ofCrockery

in  the  city  and  our 
prices  are  the  lowest. 
Sem i-porcelain,  porce­
lain  and  China  dinner 
seta,  All new  and A l.
Get oar prices.

(U.  ft.  fiams.

m  KLING STORES

it isn't a matter 

keeping  up 
with the procession'  with  us. 
It 
is a matter  o f  going  ahead  and 
keeping ahead of it. 
I f  you  hare 
discovered any fault in  either  oitr 
methods or  merchandise  ire  hope 
you will tell us o f it, it may help to 
keep ahead. 
t?e u ant you  to  feel 
that this store is your  store  trying 
to save you money.

Men’s  Dept.

Sun,  sweat and  strain  of  the 
harvest Held uses  up  the  men’s 
clothes as well as the men.  We 
have an extra  supply  of  men's 
wear now.
Best grade Work Shirts,  well 
made,  strong material,  sold, 
everywhere  at  50c,  except 
here they are..................4 6  C
Another kind, some ask  three 
shillings for, our price... 3 3 c
Light weight work  shirts,  all 
sizes,  Boys’ and  Men’s..  25C
Overalls, the good kind,  stout 
denim, never rip,  and  good
fit.............;.....................47C
PANTS.—We  mentioned  this 
kind last week.  Some whole­
salers ask $9.00 per doz.  Try 

19c and............ 

H  a  pair...............................7 5 C
Suspenders to suit all,  10c, 15, 
25C
Negligee Shirts, made of  per­
cale or  madras,  some  have 
collars and  cuffs  to  match. 
Pretty colors............... 

5 0 C

 

Straw  Hats,  different  kinds,

price start at......................5 C

Men’s Socks,  coarse  or  fine, 
fancy or  plain  colors,  we 
have them.

Also Work Shoes, buckle,  lace 
or congress.  Come and  see 
the»”  price start at.... $1.00

An Offer

We can clothe-  yon’  for  the 
5eld with Shoes, Sox, -Over­
alls, Shirt, Suspenders,  Hat 
and Handkerchief all

Complete at $1.99

A  City Store irrfh  Country  Ex­
penses is a  combination  far  your 
benefit

Positively the Lowest lo Price
G.  I .  KLING

....PA LO ....

Dainty Summer 
Jewelry*.

The warm  season  brings 
demands for  unique  and 
tasty  novelties  in  Jewel­
r y . . . . . .
We have many new things 
to offer  and  you  should 
•9 9  them.
Latest  effects  in  Watch 
Guards,  to  go  with  the 
neatest  gold  watches  for 
Ladies  and  Best  Tim e­
keepers for gentlemen. 
New  things  in  Sterling' 
Silverware.
Bring  us  your watches  to 
repair.  Best  results  by 
reliable workmen.

Barnum  &
€ a rl*

Jewelers - Silversmiths

and  the  other  descriptive  designations 
possible  to  be  used  is  greater  than  can 
be  successfully  performed.  Among  tbe 
early  products  was  the  coffee  substitute 
which  was  designated  by  Latinizing 
the  originator's  name  and  adding  the 
descriptive  term— Postum  Cereal.  The 
multiplicity  of  changes  on  cereal,  or 
the  discovery  that  there  was  more  ad­
vertising  value  in  the  word  coffee,  led 
to  its  substitution  a  year  or  so  ago. 
It 
is  in  tbe  host  of  breakfast  foods  that 
tbe 
confusion  becomes  worse  con­
founded.  Tbe  pioneer 
in  what  are 
termed  the  Bordeau  products  put  out  a 
food  under  tbe  descriptive  and  allitera­
tive  term,  Malta-Vita.  The  space  at 
my  disposal  would  be  too 
limited  to 
chronicle  tbe catalogue  of successors and 
imitators.  Perhaps  tbe  silliest  and  tbe 
most  palpable  attempt  to  ape  the  orig­
inal  Uneeda 
is  the  product  of  one  of 
the  most  recent  Battle  Creek  corpora­
tions,  Tryabita. 
it  should  transpire 
that  this  designation  sells  goods  I  shall 
be  convinced  that  tbe  average  of  Amer­
ican 
intelligence  is  much  below  what  I 
supposed  and  that  tbe  most  tbere  is  in 
a  name  is  its  proportion  of  idiocy.

If 

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A  well-balanced  and  well-displayed 
is  that  of  tbe 
piano  advertisement 
Detroit  Music  Co. 
It  is  to  be  noticed 
that  tbe  main  display  is  of  tbe  article 
which  is  made  the  specialty.  The  ar­
is  reasonable  and  businesslike 
gument 
and 
the  quantity  of  matter  is  well 
adapted  to  the  space.

The  principle  of  “ throwing  in” —of 
offering  something 
for  nothing— is  the 
feature  of  tbe  advertisement  of  Eastman 
&  Co.  Experience  with 
their  trade 
doubtless  seems  to  justify  this  policy. 
The  matter  is  treated  in  a  businesslike 
manner,  bringing  out  tbe  points  clearly 
and  well  and  the  display 
is  notably 
strong  and  artistic.  It  would  have  been 
improved,  however,  to  have  made  tbe 
words 
“ lawn 
mower''  prominent,  so  as  to  gain  tbe 
specific  attention  of  those  interested 
in 
these  articles.

“ refrigerator" 

and 

The  Beach  Milling  Co.  shows  another 
model  of  good  composition  and  this  has 
the  advantage  that  the  main  display 
is 
the  subject  of  interest.  Tbe  argument 
is  brief  and  convincing  and  can  not 
fail  to  aid  in  gaining  recognition.

Otto  Rosenfeld 

in  his  display. 
upper  line  shorter  and  put 
same 
smaller.

as  the  main 

is  also  businesslike 
I  would  have  made  the 
it  in  the 
line,  only 

type 

G.  Austin  Smith  presents  an  exhibi­
tion  of  a  meaningless  jargon  of  scien­
tific  terms  to  illustrate  tbe  possibility 
of  a  jeweler’s  playing  on  tbe  credulity 
of  his  customer.  There  is  a  question  in 
my  mind  as  to  the  advisability  of 
inti­
mating  that  other  artisans  are  rogues. 
Let  us  insist  that  our  work  is  the  best 
and  try  to  make  it  such  and let our com­
petitors  have  credit  for  ordinary  hon­
esty.

W.  A.  Hams  gives  us  an  artistically 
arranged  Bradley  display  calling  atten­
tion  to  three 
lines  nf  his  business. 
Tbere  is  plenty  of  matter  for  the  space, 
but  the  printer  has  handled  it  judi­
ciously.

C.  L.  Kling  gets  right  to  the  point 
for  his 
summer  working  goods  by 
definite,  plain  prices  for  clearly  de­
scribed  articles.  1  would  have  made  the 
first  paragraph  shorter,  so  as  to  give 
more  prominence  to  tbe  remainder  and 
increase  the  probability  of 
its  being 
read.

Barnum  &  Earl  present  an  attractive 
plea,  for  ladies'  trade  especially,  but 
they  have  not  been  seconded  in  tbe  se­
lection  of  their  border.  A 
light  line 
would  have  been  in  much  better taste.

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B atchers  in  Paraguay A re  W omen.
The  butchers  in  all  parts  of  Paraguay 
are  women. 
In  the  public  slaughter 
houses  the  cattle are  dispatched by  men, 
who  sever  the  spinal  column  by  cutting 
it  with  a  sharp  cutlass  just  behind  the 
nape  of  the  neck.  When  the  animal 
falls  to  the  ground  its  throat  is  cut,  and 
it 
is  allowed  to  bleed  to  death.  This 
is  the  only  part  of  the  work  done  by 
men.  The  animal  is  skinned  and  other­
wise  prepared  by  women.  The carcasses 
then  conveyed  to  the  butchers' 
are 
stalls,  where  the  meat 
is  cut  up  and 
sawed  by  women,  who  are  dexterous  in 
the  use  of  the  saw  and  knife.  It  is  then 
served  out 
also  by 
women—not  generally  by  weight,  but 
by  the  piece—and  the  price  is  so  low 
that  a  pound  of  the  best  meat  may  be 
bought  for  about  a  penny.  Women  of 
all  ages  act  the  art  of  butchers;  some 
are  young  and  pretty,  others  old  and 
wrinkled.  The  women  are  great  bar­
gainers,  and  keen  as  mustard  to  pull  a 
new  arrival  almost  to  pieces  in  the hope 
of securing  his  custom.  These  women 
butchers  earn  good  wages,  and  many  of 
those  in  business  on  their  own  account 
acquire  a  modest  fortune.

to  customers, 

In the  larger  towns  the  meat ¡sallowed 
to  be  sold  only 
in  the  public  market 
place,  where  stalls  (owned  by  the  mu­
nicipality)  are 
let  at  auction  to  the 
highest  bidders.  The  public  have  every 
security  that  the  meat  is  fresh,  for  all 
that  is  left  unsold  at  night  is  destroyed 
by the  authorities—a  needful  precaution 
in  a  warm  climate.  Tne  result  is  that 
just  previous  to  closing  time  there  is  a 
great  reduction  in  prices,  and  a  crowd 
of  bargain  hunters appear  on the scene— 
economical  housewives,keepers of  cheap 
restaurants,  and  the 
like—fot,  rather 
than  see  the  meat  thrown  away  or 
destroyed,  the  keepers  of  the  stalls  sell 
the  remnants  at  almost  any  price.
to o k   For a Large  Crop  of  Fine  Apples.
Cincinnati,  July  26—We  have  had 
very  favorable  weather  this  spring  and 
summer  and  an 
immense  amount  of 
rain, therefore  plenty of  vegetables  of all 
kinds,  but  there  will  be  no  peaches  or 
apples  in  this  section.  The  past  season 
has  been  most  successful  to  all  apple 
men  here,  the fruit  in  cold storage  hold­
ing  up  well  and  prices  were  well  sus­
tained.  We  are  glad  to  hear  that  Illi­
nois,  Missouri  and  Kansas  will  have 
good  crops  and  best  of  all  that  the  old 
banner  State  of New  York  will  again  be 
in 
line  with  a  good  crop.  This  means 
that  we  will  again  have  those  luscious 
Tompkins,  Kings,  Northern  Spies, 
Greenings,  Russets,  Baldwins,  Spitzen- 
burgs,  Bellefleur  and  other  varieties 
which  are  always  good  sellers  in  our 
market.

With  the  prospects  of  plenty  of  ap­
ples 
in  sight  it  looks  to  us  that  opera­
tors  can  afford  to  keep  cool  and  not  lose 
their  heads  and  thereby  not  pay  ex­
orbitant  prices. 
It  seems  there  will  be 
plenty  for  everybody  and  the  slow  con­
servative  buyers  will  get  all  they  go 
after.  We  do  not  look  for  high  prices 
and  think  apples  will  sell  at  medium 
prices  and  within  reach  of all.

Funk  Bros.

Secretary  Root  and  the  Farm er.

Secretary  of  War  Root  is  a  man  who 
seeks  counsel  and 
information  every­
where,  but  who  has  little  patience  with 
windbags,  who  think  they  know  it  all. 
On  the  cars  recently,  near  bis  summer 
home  on  Long  Island,  a 
farmer  sat 
down  with  him  and  began  showing  him 
bow 
the  administration  was  going 
wrong  and  how  the  Government  ought 
to  be  run.  After  the  critic  had  run 
dry,  Mr.  Root  asked :

“ What  is  your  occupation?”
“ Poultry  farmer,”   was  the  reply. 
“ Do  you  know  bow  many  eggs  each 

of  your  bens  lays?”

“ No,”   confessed  the  man.
“ Well,  the  man  who  looks  after  my 
chickens  knows  how  much  work  each 
If  he  didn't  I’d  discharge 
hen  does. 
him  for  not  knowing  his  business. 
If  a 
hen  doesn’t  produce  fifteen  eggs  a 
month  it's  a  loss  to  keep 
it.  Now,  my 
friend,  doesn't 
it  strike  you  that  after 
you  have  learned  your  own  business  so 
it,
well  that  I  can't  give  you  points  on 

then  would  be  the  proper  time  for  you 
to  come  and  teach  me  how  the  Govern­
ment  ought to  be  run?”

twenty-six 

(10.56  cents 

Co-operation  a  Success  in  D enm ark.
There  are 

co-operative 
pig  slaughteries  and  bacon curing  facto­
ries  in  Denmark,  and  sixteen  large  pri­
vate ones, besides  a  few  smaller  not  cur­
ing  for  export.  Exact  statistics  can 
only  be  bad  from  the  co-operative  es­
tablishments,  and  at  these  651,261  pigs 
were  killed  in  1901.  The  price averaged 
56.9  kroners  per  hog,  or  44  ore  per 
pound 
per  American 
pound).  The  average  weight  of  the pigs 
was  129.50  Danish  pounds.  The  ag­
gregate  number  of  the  co  operative  ba­
con 
factories’  members  was  about 
65,000.  The  total  killings  of  pigs  in 
Denmark  can  not  be  given  with  cer­
tainty,  as  the  private  establishments  re­
fuse to  publish  their  killings,  which  are 
generally  supposed  to  be  two-fifths  of 
the  total,  the  co-operative  receiving  the 
three-fifths.  Calculating  upon  this  basis 
the  total  killing  of  pigs  in  Denmark 
in 
1901  amounted  to  very  nearly  1,100,000, 
representing  a  value  of  63,000,000  kron­
ers.

One  D ollar P er  B arrel  P or Apple*».
Kansas  City,  July  26—Missouri  valley 
apple  growers  are  not  taking  kindly  to 
the  offers  being  made  by  Eastern  buy­
ers  of $1  per  barrel  delivered  on  hoard 
cars.  So  far  very  few  reports  are  in 
where  sales  have  been  made  at  that  fig­
ure.  Growers  claim  the  buyers  take  no 
risk  on  the  dollar  proposition  and  the 
chances  are  more  than 
three  to  one 
against  the  growers,  who  must  stand  the 
loss  from  hail,  rain,  drouth  and  bugs.

Buyers  from  a  distance  are  sometimes 
venturesome  enough  at  this  season  of 
the  year  to  purchase  the  crops  of  fruits 
of  growers  on  the  tree,  not  by  the  bar­
rel,  but  allowing  a  lump  sum  for  their 
In  case  they  were  now 
entire  product. 
doing  this 
it 
improbable  that 
many  farmers  could  be  found who would 
dollar a  part  of  their  crops  off  at  a  fair 
figure,  permitting  the  buyer  to  take 
some  chances.

is  not 

New  Product  in  the  B u tter Dine.

laws. 

Newcastle,  Pa.,  July  28—Produce 
dealers  here  have  formed  an  organiza­
tion  not  to  sell  colored  oleomargarine. 
The  dealers  have  been 
introducing  a 
product  which  escapes  the  penalty  un­
der  the  Pennsylvania 
It  has  a 
natural  color,  identical  with  full  cream 
butter,  but  it  is  alleged  to  contain  no 
coloring  matter.  The  new  product  has 
not  yet  come  under  the  ban  of  the 
law, 
and  it  is  hurting  the  butter  trade  far 
more  than  colored  butter  or  oleomarga­
rine  ever  did.  Deputy  Revenue  Col­
lector  Stewart  Thompson  of  this  city 
received  but  $6  when  collecting  the  an­
nual  license  fees  from  the  dealers.

Reason  F o r Sickness.

A  California  preacher  recently  gave 
the  following  reason  why  sickness  is 
sent:

It  is  said  that  the  eyes  of the  hog  are 
in  his  head  that  he  can  not  see 
so  set 
upward,  and  that 
if  seized  on  a  starry 
night  and  thrown  back  the  vision  of  the 
stars  will  so  surprise  him  that  he  will 
forget  to  squeal.

So  man  often  can  see  only  the earthly 
and  God  has  to  lay  him  on  bis  back  by 
sickness  that  his  eyes  may  behold  the 
heavenly  things,  and,  beholding  them, 
be  so  surprised  that  be  learns  to  love 
God  through  his  affliction.

Easily  Increased.

$1,000,000,”   said  the  first  promoter.

“ Let  us  make  the  capital  stock 
“ All  right,”   said  the  second,  who 
was  preparing  the  prospectus  on  the 
typewriter.

“ Will 

it  be  hard  to  increase  the  cap­

ital?”   asked  the  first.

“ No,  indeed.  All  I  have  to  do  is  to 

hit  this  o key  a  few  more  times.”

Its  A ppropriateness.

B>ggs— “ Multum  in  Parvo. ”   That’s 

a  queer  motto  for  a  shoemaker.
appropriate, 
His  specialty  is  ladies’  shoes.

Diggs—Quite 

though. 

Cheese  Shipped Too  Green.

in  the 

The  question  of  factorymen  offering 
cheese  for  sale  in  too  green  a  stage  was 
discussed  at  various  dairy  boards 
in 
Wisconsin  last  month and it was claimed 
that  some  factorymen  had  sold  and  de­
livered  cheese  that  was  not  over  three 
or  four  days  old,  while  it  should  have 
factory  until  ten  to 
remained 
fourteen  days  old.  This 
is  a  matter 
factorymen  should  pay  attention  to,  for 
at  this  time  of  the  year  when  dealers 
have 
large  quantities  of  cheese  coming 
in,  the  cheese  only  a  few  days  old  are 
unfit  to  ship  right  out  on  orders,  they 
are  unfit  to  parafine,  the  buyer  does  not 
want  to  place  them  in  cold  storage  and 
he  has  no  place  to  cure  them,  therefore 
his  only  alternative  to  get  even  is  to  re­
ject  the  green  ones  which  means  a  loss 
to  the  factoryman  any  way  you  may  fig­
it.  For  example,  a  factoryman  in 
ure 
this  very  manner  lost  $25  on  one 
lot  of 
cheese  recently,  which  he  would  have 
saved  had  he  not  sent  in  any  cheese 
that  were  under  ten  davs  or  two  weeks 
old.

One  Man’s  Wisdom.

Diggs—What  became  of  your  friend 

Waggs?

Biggs—He  went  out  West  about  a 
year  ago  and  married  a  widow  worth 
half  a  million.
Diggs— Now,  that's  what  I  call  taking 
time  by  the  forelock.

Biggs— How  so?
Diggs—Why,  he  celebrated  his  golden 
wedding  fifty  years  ahead  of  the  sched­
ule.

F.  M. C. 

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COFFEES  2

are  always

Fresh  Roasted

j u u u l o j l o j l )

Lamps 
to Burn

We

have pur­
chased  a 

large 
stock  of 
Gasoline 
Lamps 
which  we 

will

dispose 
of  in  lots 

to suit 
the  pur­
chaser.

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

Ames &  Clark, Detroit,  Mich.

Largest Stocks 

Best Quality 

Lowest  Prices

All  orders  filled  promptly  day  received.

A lfred  J. B ro w n   S eed   6 0 ., G rand  R ap id s, M ich.

GROW ERS,  MERCHANTS,  IMPORTERS

JACOB  HOEHN, J b. 

Established  1864 

MAX  MAYER

HOEHN  &  MAYER 

Produce Commission  Merchants

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

SPECIALTIES:

DRESSED  POULTRY,  GAME  AND  EGGS

Stencils Furnished Upon  Application 

Correspondence Solicited

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

S E E D S

Clover  and  Timothy— all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds. 

MOSELEY  BROS.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

26 -28 -30-32   OTTAWA  S T .

Smit>h,  McFarland Co.

Produce  Commission  Merchants

Boston is the best market  for  Michigan  and  Indiana  eggs  We want 
carlots  or  less.  Liberal  advances,  highest  prices,  prompt  returns.

All eggs sold case count.

69 and  7 1  Clinton St., Boston, Mass. 

References— Fourth  National  Bank  and  Commercial  Agencies. 

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

Around  the State

M ovements  of M erchants.

Detroit—Moses  Alvin  has  retired from 

the  Detroit  Neckwear  Co.

Fremont—C.  E.  Pearson  succeeds 

Pearson  &  Kelley  in  general  trade.

Ovid—Jillson  &  Potter,  dry  goods 
dealers,  have  added  a  line  of  groceries.
Elsie— H.  T.  Blank,  from  Seymour, 
Ind.,  has  opened  a  jewelry  store  here.
St.  Joseph—J.  F.  Wilson  &  Bro., 
bankers,  have  sold  out  to  John  F.  Wil­
son.

Remus—J.  H.  Williamson  has  sold 
his  general  merchandise  stock to  Diehm 
Bros.

Mt.  Pleasant— L.  Wardwell  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  meat  market  to  John  M. 
Neff.

Ovid— L.  A.  Westbrook  has purchased 
the  stock  of  bazaar  goods  of  Willard 
Jolly.

Manchester—Jaeger,  Deatle  &  Co. 
succeed  Blum,  Jaeger  &  Co.  in  general 
trade.

Fife  Lake— E.  D.  Goff  has  sold  his 
grocery  and  dry  goods  stock  to  J.  F. 
Rathbun.

Weston—R.  A.  Smith  has  removed 
his  drug  and  crockery  stock  to  Meta- 
mora,  Ohio.

Rapid  City—Louise  Lacure  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  R.  J.  An­
derson  &  Son.

Cass  City—Wm.  J.  Campbell  has  sold 
his  dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  to 
Harry  B.  Outwater.

Algonac—James  M.  Allen  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  and  meat  mar­
ket  of  Judson  E.  Lyon.

Coleman—Slater  &  Kyes  succeed  F. 
in  the  clothing  and 

A.  Slater  &  Son 
boot  and  shoe  business.

Eaton  Rapids— The  City  drug  store, 
under  the  management  of  J.  D.  Birney, 
has  been  established  here.

Lowell—Geo.  W.  McKee  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grocery  business  of  Price  &  McKee.

Blissfield— B.  W.  Barrows  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grocery  and  meat  business  of  Barrows 
&  Bliven.

Suttons  Bay—The  E.  R.  Dailey  Co., 
dealer  in  lumber  and  general  merchan­
dise,  has  sold  out  to  the  Wyman  & 
Strong  Co.

East  Tawas—J.  G.  Dimmick  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grocery  and  meat  business  of  J.  G. 
Dimmick  &  Co.

Alpena— Mathew  Strauss,  of  Buffalo, 
in 
formerly  occupied  by 

has  opened  a  five  and  ten  cent  store 
the  building 
John  Muellerweiss.

Bellaire— L.  E.  Bockes  has  moved  to 
Pellston,  where  he  has  entered  the  em­
ploy  of  Geo.  W.  Priest  as  pharmacist  in 
the  latter’s  drug  store.

Edgett— Louis  Wenzel, 

formerly  of 
Le Roy,is erecting^a store  building  here, 
26x40  feet  in  dimensions,  which  he  will 
occupy  with  a  general  stock.

Fostoria—An 

independent  telephone 
company  has been organized  here  with  a 
capital  stock  of $5,000  under the  style  of 
the  Chambers  Telephone  Co.

Calumet—The  Workmen's  Mercantile 
Co.  has  opened  a  meat  market  at  Cen­
tennial  Heights  and  will  conduct  the 
same  as  a  branch  establishment.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Produce  & 
Cold Storage  Co.  is now  shipping cheese 
at  the  rate  of  one  carload  a  week,  in 
addition  to  supplying  the  local  trade.

Mancelona—G.  W.  Johnson  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  C.  L.  Boelio  and 
Clyde  Boelio,  who  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Boelio & Co.

Port  Huron—The  Howard  Furniture 
leased  the  building  on  Water 
Co.  has 
street  formerly  occupied  by  the  Thomp­
son  Woodenware  Co.  and  will  utilize  it 
as  a  furniture  warehouse.

Fremont—C.  E.  Pearson  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  Mar­
tin  Kelley,  in  the  general  merchandise 
business  of  Pearson  &  Kelley  and  will 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name.
Vicksburg—The  Vicksburg  Clothing 
Co.  has  begun  operations  under 
the 
management  of  F.  G.  Dodshon,  who 
was  superintendent  of  the  local  branch 
of  the  Kalamazoo  Pant  and  Overall  Co.
Mancelona—Thompson  &  Son  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to Arthur  East­
man  and  R.  H.  Charles,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same 
location 
under  the  style  of  Eastman  &  Charles.
Newaygo—The  early  closing  scheme 
of  Newaygo  merchants  has  been  aban­
doned.  This 
is  not  the  first  time  the 
scheme  has  been  tried  and  abandoned, 
failure  always  being  accompanied  by 
more  or  less  recrimination  and bad  tem­
per.

Newaygo—E.  M.  Shaw  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  L.  E.  Green,  of 
Belding,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.  Mr.  Shaw 
jobbing  shop  and 
retains  the  tin  and 
will  conduct 
it  in  connection  with  the 
store.

Charlotte—Derby  DeFoe  has 

con­
cluded  to  retire  from  the  drug  firm  of 
Kinsman  &  DeFoe  on  account  of  ill 
health.  His  interest'bas  been  purchased 
by  F.  E.  Kinsman,  of  Fenton,  brother 
of  the  remaining  partner.  The  new 
style  is  Kinsman  &  Kinsman.

Port  Huron— R.  J.  Close,  grocer,  has 
filed  a  petition 
in  bankruptcy.  He 
claims  an  indebtedness  of  about  $2,200 
and  assets  of  $1,900.  The  principal 
creditors  here  are  Wm.  Canham,  Silas 
Armstrong, 
Thompson  Woodenware 
Co.,  Swift  &  Co.  and  D.  Robeson.

Lansing—Christopher  &  Loftus  have 
been  awarded the  contract for furnishing 
the  groceries  to  Company  E  during  the 
State  encampment.  Nelson  Morris  & 
Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids,  have  been 
awarded  the  contract  for  furnishing  the 
meat,  which 
for  the 
soldiers.

is  unfortunate 

Manistee—The  Bidelman  &  Lane 
stock  of  clothing  and  furnishing  goods 
has  been  sold  at  public  auction  to  H. 
L.  Nessen  for $2,817.  He  will  move 
it 
the  Monarch 
out  to  make  room  for 
Clothing  Co.,  which  will  embark 
in 
business  at  that  location under  the  man­
agement  of  B.  Russky.

Saginaw—L.  S.  Chase,  watchmaker 
and 
jeweler,  who  has  been  with  C.  F. 
Bauer,  418  Court  street,  for  the  past 
seven  years,  and  who  has  been  a  prac­
tical  jeweler  for  sixteen  years,  has  pur­
chased  the  jewelry  stock  of  E.  G.  Bur­
lingame,  at  Niles,  and  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Fennville—Apple buyers  have  already 
begun  to  put  in an appearance,  the crops 
in  one  or two  orchards  having  already 
been  contracted  for.  The  entire  apple 
crop  throughout  the  country  promises  to 
be  a  fair  one  and  prices  will  not  run  as 
high  as 
last  season,  but  well  cared  for 
orchards  will  be  in  demand  at  fair  fig­
ures.

Saginaw—A.  M.  Bentley,  for  several 
years  engaged 
in  general  trade  at 
Rhodes,  has  arranged  to  remove  to  this 
city.  He  has  purchased  a  home  on 
Bristol  street  and  rented the double  store 
at  308 and  310  Hancock  street,  where he 
will  establish 
in  the  flour,  feed  and 
commission  business.  He  expects  to 
handle  fruit,  dairy  products,  eggs,  etc.

Lake  Linden—At  the  recent  annual 
meeting  of  the  Lake  Linden  Co-opera­
tive  Society  a  report  of  the  business 
done  during  the  past  nine  months  was 
presented  by  the  Treasurer,  showing 
that  a  steady 
increase  is  being  made. 
An  average  of  over  $6,000  worth  of 
merchandise  in  one  month  is  sold  at  the 
store.  The  total  membership  is  316.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Monroe—The  Monroe  Binders’  Board 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $5,000.

Flint—James  P.  Burroughs,  of  J.  P. 
Burroughs  &  Son,  proprietors  of  the 
Flint  City  Flouring  Mills,  is  dead.

Adrian—The  Hilliland  Telephone  & 
Supply  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  associa­
tion  with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.

Detroit—The  Perfection  Cheese  Co. 
succeeds  the  Morin-Matheson  Manu­
facturing  Co.  in  the  cheese  business.

Howell— Baker  Bros.,  of  St.  Johns, 
in  the  broom  and  brush 

have  engaged 
manufacturing  business  at  this  place.

Hastings—The  Wool Boot  Co  is  erect­
its  factory,  60x82 
two  stories  and 

ing  an  addition  to 
feet 
in  dimensions, 
basement.

Saginaw—The  Carbon  Coal  Co. 

is 
the style  of  a  new enterprise  recently  es­
tablished  here. 
It  has  a  capital  stock 
of  $16,000.

West  Bay  City—Crane  &  Co.  are  suc­
lumber 
ceeded  in  the  planing  mill  and 
business  by  the  Wolverine  Lumber 
Co.,  Limited.

Detroit—The  Lloyd  Gas  Construction 
Co.  has  started  to  manufacture  gas  ma­
chines  and  engines  at  its  plant  on  Lin­
coln  avenue.

Roscommon—This  town  needs  a  flour 
mill  and 
if  the  right  kind  of  a  miller 
comes  here  be  can  get  a  bonus  of  $1,000 
to $2,000  from  the  farmers.

Evart—O.  M.  Ayers,  for  the  past  six 
years  head  miller  at  the  Evart  roller 
mills,  has  leased  the  Farwell  grist  mill 
and  will  take  possession  Aug.  1.

Port  Huron—The  Port  Huron  Engine 
&  Thresher  Co.  one  day  last  week  re­
ceived  orders  for $20,000  worth of goods. 
It  was  considered  a  good  day  in  thresh­
ing  machine  circles.

Mt.  Clemens-----The  Mt.  Clemens
Health  Food  Co.  has  begun  operations 
and  from  this  time  will  put  a  thousand 
pounds  a  day  upon  the  market.  The 
company 
its 
factory  and  put 
in  new  machinery  to 
increase  its  facilities.

is  arranging  to  enlarge 

St.  Johns— F.  M.  Decker  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  the  members  of 
the  Clinton  Broom  Co.  and  will  conduct 
the  business  hereafter  under  the  style  of 
the  Clinton  Broom  Works.  Mr.  Decker 
comes  here  from  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  and 
is  an  experienced  broom  manufacturer.
Vicksburg— The  Puritan  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been 
incorporated  with 
$5,000  capital  stock,  one-half  of  which 
is  paid  in,  to  embark  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  mittens  made  from  cloth.  C.  H. 
McKain  is  Piesident  of  the  corporation 
and  G.  A.  Ramsdell  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—A.  T.  Washburn, 
of  the  Petoskey  Rug  Manufacturing  & 
Carpet  Co.,  is  in  the  city  for  the  pur­
pose  of  looking  over  the  ground  with  a 
view  to locating a branch  of  his  industry

here.  He  visited  the  Soo  in  the  spring 
but  made  no  decision  and  now 
is  here 
to  definitely  settle  the  matter.

Kalamazoo---- The  newly-organized
Premo  Flake  Food  Co.  has  purchased 
the  Montgomery  Ward  &  Co.  building 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  city  and  will 
transform  the  same  into  an  up  to-date 
food  factory.  The  company  will  em­
ploy  from  75 to  ico  men  and  will  have  a 
daily  capacity  of  50,000  pounds.

Chelsea—The  Common  Council  has 
agreed  to  furnish  the  Glazier  Stove  Co. 
with  power,  electric  lights,  steam  and 
water  needed  to  operate  the  stove  works 
for  the  next  ten  years. 
In  return  the 
village 
is  to  have  the  use  of  railroad 
tracks,  coal  shed  and  scales  belonging 
to  the  Stove  Co.  and  $50  a  month.
A nnual  Picnic  of  the  H oughton  County 

Butchers.

Calumet,  July  28—The  Butchers’  As­
sociation  of  Calumet  is making arrange­
ments  for  its  annual  picnic.  Wednes­
day,  August  20,  has  been  selected  as 
the  date,  and  Section  16  Park  has  been 
secured  for  the  occasion.  There  will 
be  the  usual  musical  and  dancing  fea­
tures,  while  a  killing  contest  will  take 
place  between  some  of  the  most  experi­
enced  handlers  of  the  knife in  Houghton 
county.  There  will  be  other  contests  in 
which  the  members  of  the  meat  frater­
nity  will  participate,  and  an  attempt 
will  be  made  to  make  the  affair  one  of 
the  most  successful  ever  pulled  off  un­
der  the  auspices  of  the  Association.

This  will  be  the  summer  celebration 
of  the  butchers.  The  Association  was 
organized  some  time  ago  for  the  pur­
pose  of  affording  amusement  from  time 
to  time  for  its  members  and  their  fami­
lies.  During  the  winter  a  dance 
is 
usually  given,  while  a  picnic  takes  its 
place  during  the  warmer  season.  The 
Association  has  been  very  successful  so 
far and  the  parties  and  picnics airanged 
by  it  have  been  enjoyable  affairs.
A nnual  Picnic  of  Muskegon  Business 

M en.'

Muskegon,  July  26—Preparations  for 
the  annual  picnic  of  the  business  men 
of  Muskegon  and  vicinity  were  set  in 
full  swing  last  night  at  an  enthusiastic 
and 
largely  attended  meeting  held  in 
the  offices  of  Moulton  &  Reidel.  The 
following  officers  were  elected,  each  of 
whom  will  be  chairman  of  his  own com­
mittee,  which  he  will  select:

Chairman—J.  J.  Heath.
Secretary—J.  L.  Hisey.
Treasurer—J.  George  Dratz.
Chairmen  for  the  various  sub-com­

mittees  were  named  as  follows :
Advertising— Charles  S.  Koon.
Soliciting—John  Snyder.
Small  Games—W.  J.  Carl.
Invitations— Nels  Nelson.
August  14  was  the  date  finally  set 
upon  for  the  great  event  and  the  place 
of  the  celebration  will  be  chosen  soon. 
Among  those  grounds  already  suggested 
are  Lake  Michigan  Park, 
interlake 
Park  and  Mona  Lake.  Plans  are  being 
made  for  booking a  number  of large  and 
unusual  attractions.

H.  J.  Crawford,  the  Ithaca  druggist, 
accompanied  by  his  wife  and  sister-in- 
law,  are  making  a  tour  of  the  lakes,  in­
cluding  the  Georgian  Bay  region.  They 
wili  return  via  Chicago  and Grand Rap­
ids.

H.  B.  Fairchild,  Manager  of 

the 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  leaves 
to-morrow  for  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  will  spend  a  few  days with friends.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  raw  sugar  market  is  a 
trifle  firmer,  prices  showing  an  advance 
i -i 6c,  with  a  more  active  demand. 
of 
The  refined  market 
is  in  good  condi­
tion,  with  moderate  demand. 
List 
prices  were  unchanged  and  steady,  but 
there  are 
indications  of  a  change  in 
the market  soon,  due  to  the  higher  mar­
ket  for  raws. 
The  continued  warm 
weather  has  somewhat  stimulated  con­
sumption  and  a  generally  improved  de­
mand  is  looked  for,  particularly as  deal­
ers’  stocks  are  very  light.

in 

Canned  Goods— Business 

the 
line  is  of  moderate  pro­
canned  goods 
portions  and  the  general  outlook  for 
business  during  the  remainder  of  the 
summer  and  the  coming  fall  was  never 
better.  All  the  conditions  existing  are 
of  the  most  favorable  character and  be­
speak  a  healthy  and  active trade.  There 
has  been  quite  a  demand 
for  spot 
goods,  principally  tomatoes,  beans  and 
small  fruits. 
The  orders,  however, 
were  all  for  small  lots.  The  character 
of  the  buying,  however,  is  such  as  to 
justify  the  conclusion that,as  soon as the 
market  settles  upon  a  solid  foundation, 
there  will  be  a 
lively  buying  of  spot 
tomatoes.  In  the  meantime,  the  market 
is  gradually  easing  off. 
It  is  unusual 
for  a  market  to  weaken  when  the  condi­
tions  are  of  such  a  character  as  have 
existed 
in  the  tomato  market  for the 
past  three  months,  but  there  is  going  to 
be  a  large  pack  this  year  and  the  pack 
is  already  com­
in  the  East,  which 
menced,  will 
increase  right  along  and, 
as 
immediate  wants  are  supplied,  the 
market  will  become  more  settled.  The 
in  corn 
situation 
is  very  strong  and 
claim  there  will  be  a  still 
packers 
further  shortage  and  that 
it  will  be 
nearly  40  per  cent,  less  than  the  pack 
last  year.  Spot  prices  are  strong  and 
show  an  advancing 
The 
heavy  rains  have  hurt  the  crops  all 
through  the  producing  sections.  Peas 
are  quiet,  with 
The 
peach  market 
is  beginning  to  attract 
more  attention  and  considerable interest 
is  noted  in  this  article.  Spot  goods  of 
almost  all  grades  are  well  cleaned  up. 
The  prospects  are  for  a  good  crop  of 
peaches  this  year.  There  is  consider­
able  demand  for  the  small  fruits,  but 
crops  are  short  and  prices  are  consid­
ered  rather  high  and  sales  are  only  of 
a  moderate  volume.  Some  packers  are 
holding 
their  goods  at  high  prices, 
thinking  they  will  get  their  price  later 
if  not  now.  Salmon  continues  in  very 
good  demand  at  steady  unchanged 
prices.  Reports  from  the  coast  state that 
in  the  Columbia  River  an  especially 
large  run  of  fish  is  now  on,  exceeding 
last  year's  by  100  per  cent,  and  at  some 
points  150  per  cent.  Many  canneries 
are  putting  up  more  than  double  the 
quantity  they  did  during  the  corres­
ponding  period  last  year.  Sardines  are 
in  good  demand  and  prices  show  a 
hardening  tendency,  with  poor  reports 
from  the  East  on  new  pack.

little  demand. 

tendency. 

is  noted  throughout  the 

Dried  Fruit—The  dried  fruit  trade 
in  general  is  rather quiet  and  but  little 
list. 
change 
Prunes  continue  to  be  the  most 
inter­
esting  feature  and  the  demand  is  quite 
active,  especially  for  the  large  sizes. 
Stocks  this  year  are  way  below  those  of 
last  year  at  this  time.  Raisins  are 
firm,  with  a  good  demand,  especially 
for  seeded,  of  which  there 
is  only  a 
moderate 
interest  is 
noted  in  peaches  and  the  increased  de­

supply. 

Some 

mand  has  caused  holders  to  strengthen 
prices.  Stocks  are  very  light.  Apri­
cots  are  quiet,  with 
light  demand. 
Dates  and figs  are  very  firm  and in  good 
demand.  Considerable interest  is  noted 
in  the  outlook  for  the  new  crop  of  ap­
ples,  which  is  reported  to  be  very  good. 
Enquiries  for  new  pack  evaporated  ap­
ples  are  continually  coming  in  and  the 
new  pack  will  come  on  a  practically 
bare  market  and  move  out  very  quickly 
until  immediate  wants  are  satisfied. 
It 
is  expected  that  prices  will  be  rather 
high  at  first,  but  will  gradually  lower  as 
stock  becomes  more  plentiful.

Rice—The  rice  market  is  firm,  with 
trade  of  moderate  proportions.  Ac­
cording  to  advices  received  from  Louis­
iana,  an  unfavorable  outlook  continues 
for  the  growing  crop.

Molasses— The  usual  midsummer  dul- 
ness  has  pervaded  the  molasses  market 
last  week. 
during  the 
Transactions 
were  very 
light  and  business  done  is 
mostly  in  the  way  of  small  lots  for  im­
mediate  use,  buyers  not  caring  to  make 
any  heavy  purchases  during  the  warm 
weather.

Fish—There  is  a  fair demand  for fish. 
In  mackerel  the  market  remains  steady, 
the  catch  being  far  behind  that  of 
last 
year  and  continues  small.  There  is  a 
good  demand  for codfish  at  unchanged 
prices.

Nuts—The  market  for  nuts 

is  in  a 
strong  position  on  all  descriptions. 
is  a  better  enquiry  for  Brazils 
There 
and  an  advance  is  noted  of 
on  both 
medium  and 
large,  with  the  outlook 
very  favorable.  Walnuts  also  show  a 
good  demand,  the  better  grades  being 
sought  for,  and  prices  have  an  advanc­
ing  tendency.  Filberts  are  firmer and 
is  shown.  Tar­
an 
ragona  almonds  are 
in  better  position 
and  stronger.  Peanuts  also  are  very 
firmly  held.

improved 

interest 

Rolled  Oats—There  is  practically  no 
change 
in  the  rolled  oats  situation. 
Millers  still  refuse  to  accept  any  orders 
for  bulk  goods  and  only  a  very  few  of 
the  case  goods  are  offered  for  sale.  Lo­
cal  conditions,  however,  are  somewhat 
relieved  by  the  arrival  of  several  ship­
ments.

Go  Slow  on  th e  Crystal  Cream ery  Co.
The  Tradesman  is  in  receipt  of  nu­
merous  letters  of  enquiry  from  its  coun­
try  patrons  regarding  the  responsibility 
of  the  Crystal  Creamery  Co.,  which  has 
rented  a  store  at  414  South  Division 
street  and  sent  out  a  large  number  of 
postal  cards  offering  to  pay  16  cents  a 
pound 
for  packing  stock  f.  o.  b.  ship­
ping  point.  The  cards  are  dated  July 
26 and,  on  the  same  day,  A.  H.  Barber 
&  Co.,  of  Chicago,  sent  out  advices 
offering  to  pay  14  cents  delivered  in 
Chicago,  which  quotation  was  with­
drawn  three  days  later.  E.  F.  Dudley, 
of  Owosso,  sent  out  cards  on  the  same 
date  offering  to  pay  14  cents  on  track.

With  the  disposition  of  the  Crystal 
Creamery  Co.  to  pay  2@3  cents  above 
the  market  price  for  packing  stock,  the 
Tradesman  has  no  controversy,  provid­
ing  the  company  has  ample  responsibil­
ity  to  assume  an  obligation  of  this char­
acter.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  no  effort  has 
been  made  to  establish  the  responsibil­
ity  of  the  concern  and  every  enquiry 
made 
in  that  direction  meets  with  re­
pulse  and  failure.  The  postal  cards 
give  the  name  of  John  R.  Palmer  as 
manager and  the  young  man  in  charge 
says  that  his  name  is  F.  C.  Brown  and 
that  he  bails  from  Toledo,  where  he  has 
lived  for  a  few  months  back.  He  re­
fuses  to  give  any  further  facts  concern­

ing  his 
life,  antecedents  or  previous 
residence,  which  affords  some  ground 
for  suspicion  that  things  are  not  as  they 
should  be.  He  says  that  Mr.  Palmer  is 
engaged  in  the  butter  and  egg  business 
at  Detroit,  but  refuses  to  state  where  he 
is  located  or  under  what  name  he  does 
business  or  what  bis  responsibility  is. 
Nor  is  be  able  to  state  when Palmer will 
be  in  Grand  Rapids.  The  Detroit  city 
directory  for  1900  and  1901  does  not 
contain  the  name  of  John  R.  Palmer 
and,  so  far  as  can  be  learned,  he  has 
not  opened  a  bank  account  here,  the 
young  man  in charge  of  the  store  insist­
ing  that  a  bank  account  is  not  a  neces­
sary  adjunct  to  the  business.

While  it  may  be  that  the  concern  is  a 
reputable  one  and  that  it  is  in  a  posi­
tion  to  do  just  as  it  agrees  and  carry 
out  its  obligations  to  the  letter,  yet 
the 
Tradesman 
is  compelled  to  admit  that 
the  appearances  are  decidedly  unfavor­
able  and  that,  pending  further  investi­
gation,  it  will  be  well  for its  country 
customers  to  refrain  from  making  ship­
ments  to  the  Crystal  Creamery  Co.  until 
such  time  as  Mr.  Palmer  and  his  asso­
ciates  show  their  hands  and  make  such 
disclosures  regarding  their  ability  to 
meet  their  obligations  as  will  entitle 
them  to  the  confidence  and  co-opera­
tion  of  the  trade.

Tbe  Prodace  M arket.

Apples— Harvest 

varieties,  85@goc 

per  bu.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25® 
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size. 
Jumbos,  $2.25  per  bunch.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—60c  per  bu.
Blackberries—$i@i.25  per  16 qts.
Butter— Fancy  creamery 

is  steady  at 
?ic  for  fancy  and  20c  for  choice.  Dairy 
grades  are  lower,  commanding  I5@i6c 
for  fancy,  I4@i5c  for choice  and  I2@i3c 
for  packing  stock.  There  is  little  out­
let  for  packing  stock  at  present  and  tbe 
quotation  is  not  based  on  actual  sales, 
because  there  are  none  to  speak  of. 
Since  the  last 
issue  of  the  Tradesman 
cards  have  been  sent  out  by  a  new 
house  on  South  Division  street,  offering 
to  pay  16c  f.  o.  b.  shipping  point  for 
packing  stock.  The  Tradesman  advises 
caution  in  shipping,  pending  the  inves­
tigation  now  in  progress.

Cabbage—Home  grown  command  40c 

per  doz.

Carrots— 60c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25  per  doz.
Celery— Home  grown  is  in ample sup­

ply  at  17c  per  doz.

Cucumbers—30c  per  doz. 

for  hot 

house.

Currants—Cherry,  $1.10  per  16  qts. 

Small,  90  per  16 qts.

Egg  Plant—$1.50  per doz.
Eggs— Local  dealers  pay  I5>£@i6K c 
for  candled  and  I4/4@I5HC  f°r  case 
count.

Green  Corn— 12c  per  doz.
Green  Onions— u c   for  Silver  Skins.
Green  Peas—85c  per  bu.  for  Tele­

phones  and  Champions  of  England.

Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  !5@ i 6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at” I3@I4C  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ ii c .

Lemons—Californias,  $3.75@4;Mes- 
sinas,$4.25@4.75.  Maioras  and Verdel- 
las,  $5-25@S-S°-
Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.

Lettuce— Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 

Mapie  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons—Gems,  50c  per  basket. 

Rockyfords,  $3.25  per  crate.

Onions—California,  $2.25  per sack  of 
100  lbs.  ;  Kentucky  and  Louisiana,$1.50 
per  sack  of  70  lbs.  ;  home  grown,  $1 
per  bu.
Oranges— Mediterranean  sweets  com­
mand  $4.75@5 ;  California  Valencias 
fetch  $5.50.

Parsley—25@30C  per  doz.
Peaches— Albertas  from  Texas  com­

mand  $1.50  per  4  basket  crate.

Pieplant—2c  per  lb.

Pineapples— Floridas  command  $4.25 
per  crate  of  24  to  36  size,  one  kind  or 
assorted.

Potatoes— New  stock  is  in  ample  sup­

ply  at  50@55c  per  bu.

Poultry— Prices  are  firm,  owing  to 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
in 
moderate  demand  at  5o@6oc  and  squabs 
at  $1. 2 0 3 1. 50.  Spring  broilers, 
I2@ 
13c;  chickens,  8@9C;  small  hens,  7@ 
8c;  large  hens,  6@7c;  turkey  hens,  ioj£ 
@ nj£c;  gobblers,  9@ioc;  white  spring 
ducks,  9@ioc.

Radishes— 10c  per  doz.
Raspberries— Red,  $1.50  per  16 qts. 

Black,  $1.50  per  16 qts.

Squash—Summer  fetches  40c  per  bas­

Tomatoes—75c  per  4  basket  crate.
Watermelons—Georgia  are 

in  ample 

supply  at  20@25c.

Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu. 

for  home 

ket.

grown.

Whortleberries---- $3@3-5°  per  bu.

Tbe  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  was demoralized,  the  bulls  hav­
ing  met  a  Waterloo  defeat. 
Fine 
weather  during  the  past  few  days  was 
too  much  for  the  holders of wheat.  Long 
wheat  was  sold  out  indiscriminately and 
the  bears  put  out  new lines.  Cash  wheat 
dropped  about  3J^c  and  futures  about 
2j£c,  notwithstanding  the  visible  in­
crease  was  moderate,  being  only  1,176,- 
000  bushels.  Foreign  demand  is  hardly 
up  to  what  it  was  last  year,  which  was 
also  a  cause  for  weakness.  However, 
at  the  present  there  is  not  much  encour­
agement  for  higher  prices  until  we  hear 
from  spring  wheat  sections. 
further 
Threshing 
in  Michigan  shows  up  very 
fine— more  so  than  anticipated.  The 
wiiter  predicted  a  yield  of  18,000,000 
bushels  for  Michigan,  but  I  think  it 
will  be  18,500,000.  Indiana  also  has  a 
good  yield,  as  well  as  Ohio.  The  worst 
damage  to  winter  wheat  is  probably  in 
Kansas.  There  seems  to  be  a  great  deal 
of  wheat  damaged there  and  the  yield  is 
probably  not  over  40,000,000  bushels, 
and  about  25,000,000  bushels  is  good 
wheat.  As  corn  seems  to  be  selling  very 
high,  and  there  is  no  probability  of get­
ting  in  new  corn  for  several  months yet, 
looks  to  us  as  if  the  feeding  process 
it 
to  animals,  of  tbe 
lower  grades  of 
wheat,  will  clean 
it  up  pretty  well. 
Wheat  may  possibly  drop  a  trifle  more, 
but  not  much,  as  prices  are  now  below 
the  other  cereals,  taking  pound 
for 
pound.

Corn  receded  10c 

in  price  since  a 
week  ago  and  September  corn 5c.  While 
many  anticipated  that  the corner  in corn 
had  not  culminated,  they  certainly  were 
mistaken,  as  prices  went  all  to  pieces. 
It  may  be  stated,  however,  that  corn, 
owing  to  tbe  scarcity,  seems  to  be  quite 
low  at  present  and  there  may  be  quite 
an  upturn  later  on.

Oats  also  dropped  about  10c  per 
bushel  since  last  writing.  The  difficulty 
with  oats 
is,  there  will  be  new  oats  on 
the  market  very  soon  and  the  trade  do 
not  want  to  purchase  old  oats  at  present 
prices,  as  they  are 
looking 
for  still 
lower  prices  in  the  near  future.

Old  rye  remains  steady. 

It  does  not 
make  very  much  difference  in  regard  to 
that  cereal as  trade is  very  light.  How­
ever,  we  notice  new  rye  seems  to  be 
quite  low,  starting  in  at  about  48c.

Flour  remains  steady  and  will  be  so 
until  new  wheat  will  be  in  better  condi­
tion  to  grind.  Mill  feed  is  as  scarce  as 
ever.  The  demand  is  fully  equal  to  tbe 
supply.

Receipts  of  grain  during  the  week 
have  been  as  follows :  wheat,  54  cars ; 
corn,  3  cars;  oats,  3  cars;  rye,  2  cars ; 
flour,  7  cars;  malt,  2  cars.

Millers  are  paying  68c for  No.  1  white 

and 66c  for  No.  2  red  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

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

FRUITPORT  REDEEM ED.

Now  One of the  P rettiest  Villages  In  the 

State.
Written for the Tradesman.

A  short  time  ago  the  writer,  through 
the  columns  of  the  Tradesman,  had 
something  to  say  about  the  value  of  ex­
ample  in  matters  of public improvement 
and  sought  to  illustrate  his  point  with 
some  actual  personal observations, which 
are  often  more  convincing  than  excel­
lent  theories.  Since  that  time  there  has 
come to his  notice another  illustration  of 
his  claim  and  this,  like  the  one  pre­
viously  cited,  is  here  in  Michigan.  The 
writer  will  attempt  to  tell  something 
about 
it  without  undue  laudation,  but 
with  a  desire  to  give  the  simple facts.

When 

the  Grand  Rapids,  Grand 
Haven  &  Muskegon  Railway  out  of 
Grand  Rapids  became  a  certainty,  its 
projectors  cast  about  them  for  a  site  for 
the  mammoth  power  plant  that  would 
be necessary  to  operate  the  road.  Their 
choice,  after  much  deliberation, 
fell 
lucky  village  of  Fruitport. 
upon  the 
lay  at  the  head  of  beautiful 
This  town 
It had  been  a  great  sum­
Spring  Lake. 
mer  resort  at  one  time,  hut 
fire  had 
its  great  summer  hotel  and 
destroyed 
checked  its  prosperity.  Its  railroad  was 
torn  up  and  the  town  left  cut  off  from 
its  neighbors.  It  is  little  to  be wondered 
that  the  inhabitants  fell  into  a  slough  of 
despond.  They  had  ample  cause  for 
discouragement.

Yet  Fruitport  all  this  time had natural 
advantages  and  beauties 
that  only 
needed  a  touch  to  bring  them  to  life. 
There  was  needed  the  rod  that  would 
smite  the  rock  and  bring  forth  the  crys­
tal  stream  of  prosperity. 
It  came  when 
the  electric  road  decided  to  locate  its 
headquarters  within  the  village  pre­
cincts.  The  coming  of  the  road  afforded 
Fruitport  better communication with  the 
outside  world  and  a  $175,000  power 
house  gave  Fruitport  another  and  im­
portant  industry.  But  this  was  not  all. 
Some  villages  are  prosperous,  but  still 
lack  those  things  which  would  make 
them  desirable  as  places  of  residence 
and  for  the  rearing  of  children.  But 
Fruitport  obtained 
something  more 
than  mere  prosperity  when  the  great 
electric  workshop  was  reared  within  its 
confines.

All  corporations  are  ordinarily  sup­
posed  to  be  soulless.  Each  of  the  in­

corporators  has  a  soul,  but  it  never  oc­
curs  to  him to  put any of it into the  busi­
ness.  He  has  the  idea  that  that  ought 
to  be  furnished  by  the  company.  The 
G.  R.,  G.  H.  &  M.  Railway  may  be 
an  exception  to  this  rule.  Certain  it  is 
that  its  public  spirit  is  wbat  has  given 
the  quickening  touch  to  the  village  of 
Fruitport  and  awakened  the  beautiful 
resort  to  new  life  and  its  people  to  new 
activity. 
It  was  not  simply  the  new 
power  house  which  increased  the  town’s 
population,  its  valuation  and  its  source 
of  revenue  to  its  people,  nor  the  rail­
road  which  made  the  village  easy  of  ac­
cess.

But,  when  the  great  red  brick  pbwer 
house  was  completed  and  the  orange 
cars  were  plying  forth  and  back,  im­
pelled  by  a  mysterious  power,  the  cor­
poration  did  not  cease  its  labors. 
It 
picked  up 
the  shattered  brick  and 
splintered  wood that  lay  about  the  scene 
of 
its  building  operations;  and  those 
who  saw  this  good  example  went  home 
and  raked  the 
leaves  from  their  lawns 
and  piled  up  the  boards  lying  about  in 
their  back  yards.

There  is  a  beautiful  stretch  of  wood­
land  near  the  power  bouse  that  was  ac­
quired  with  the  power  house  site.  To 
the  “ soulless  corporation”   next 
this 
turned 
its  attention.  A  gang  of  thirty 
men  were  put  at  work  in  the  wood land. 
Leaves  were  raked  up,  limbs  trimmed 
and  hummocks  leveled.  All  of  nature’s 
beauty  was  preserved,  but  the  tangled 
brush  that  made  the  paths  wellnigh 
impassable  was  removed.  From  a  wil­
derness  the  place  became  a  park.  At 
the  foot  of  the  hill  lay  a  swamp.  This 
was  drained  and  prepared 
for  a  rose 
garden.  A  morass,  the  place  became  a 
garden  spot.

the 

But  what  was  most  important  to  the 
village  was  the  fact  that  the  people 
caught  the  spirit  of  the  thing.  They 
went  home  and  cleared  up  their  own 
little  wildernesses.  There  was  a  ter­
rific  slaughter  of  weeds  and  the  air  was 
filled  with 
incense  of  burning 
leaves.  Sidewalks  and fences shone  with 
new  boards.  The  paint  brush,  which 
had 
long  been  idle  in  Fruitport,  made 
its  reappearance.  The  people  saw  by 
contrast  where 
themselves  had 
been 
lacking  and  each  did  his  share 
great  or  little  in  improving  the  appear­
ance  of  the  town.

they 

The  result  of  the  excellent  example 
set  by  the  company  is  that  Fruitport 
may  now  claim  titie  to  being  one  of  the 
prettiest  villages  in  the State.  Possessed 
of  many  natural  beauties,  it  has  im­
proved 
its  opportunity  and  taken  its 
place  among  the  galaxy of  Michigan  re­
sorts.  Surely  the  value  of  example  has 
been  clearly  demonstrated  in  this  Mich­
igan  town.

He  who  talks  about  the  value  of  ex­
ample in village  improvement talks from 
a  good  text  and  points  a  good  moral 
when  he  urges  his  audience  to  follow  a 
good  example  when  it  is  presented;  but 
he  talks  to  a  better  purpose  who  per­
suades  someone  to  go  out  and  set  that 
good  example  for  someone  else  to  fol­
low.  The  example  is  more  often  lack­
ing  than  its  einulation.  So  the  person 
or corporation  that  possesses  the  oppor­
tunity  to  set  the  ball  rolling  in  his or its 
community  for  a  better  village 
life, 
higher  human  aspirations,better  streets, 
better  sidewalks,  safer and  more artistic 
cleaner  morals,  better 
architecture, 
schools,  higher 
and  more 
Christ-like  churches,  and  the  thousand 
and  one  things  which go  to  make  life  in 
a  community  as  a  community  more 
worth  living,  is  urged  to  make  the  most 
of  his  or  its  opportunity.  Such  things 
bring  more  than  the  reward  of  virtue. 
They  pay  a  higher  dividend  than  al­
most  any  other  investment.  Surely  there 
is  some  satisfaction  also  in  bein g  in 
the  van  of  the  procession.

thought 

To  him  who  has  this  opportunity  it 
is  urged  that  he  study  it  and  its  possi­
bilities.  He  must  not  interpret  this  as 
an  appeal  to  go  out  and  organize  a  vil­
lage  improvement  society.  Village  im­
provement  societies  are  good,  but  when 
the  President's  barn  door  bangs  by  one 
binge  there  is  something  the matter with

its  ethics—or the  President.  He  should 
fix  the  barn  door  first  and  organize  the 
society  afterward.  Or  if  the  barn  door 
comes 
loose  after  the  society  has  been 
organized,  he  could  well  afford  to  take  a 
chance  at  there  not  being  a  quorum 
present  and  stay  home  and  hold  a  short 
session  with  the  barn  door.

Fully  as  strongly  as  the  writer  urges 
that  the  man  with  the  opportunity  go 
out  and  furnish  an  example  would  he 
urge  the  man  without  this  opportunity 
in  a 
large  degree  to  go  ahead  and  not 
wait  for  it.  Some  one  said  something 
once  about  “ if  you  can  not  on the  ocean 
sail  amid  the  swiftest  fleet,  etc.,’ ’  do 
all  you  can  in  the  way  of  paddling  your 
own  canoe. 
In  like  manner,  it  may  be 
urged  that  if  you  can  not  found  a  pub­
lic  park  you  can  keep  the  spikes  in 
your sidewalk  nailed  down  and  thereby 
prevent  many  stumbles  on  the  way  to 
market  and  many  cuss  words  that  are 
stumbles  on  the  way  to  heaven.

Do  not  kick  about  your  neighbor’s 
chickens  coming  through  if  your  fence 
is  dilapitated.  Get  out  and  fix  the 
fence  first  and  the  neighbor  afterward. 
If  you  fix  the  fence  you  may  not  have 
to  fix  your  neighbor. 
If  he  sees  you  fix 
your  fence  he  may  fix  his  coop  and  thus 
will  the  value  of  example  again  be 
demonstrated  and  peace 
in  the  com­
munity  preserved.

Charles  Frederick.

When  a  fellow  is  a  bad  egg  don’t  try 

to  beat  him.

FOR  SALE

SINGLE  CIRCULAR  S A W   MILL 
Stearns'circular saw  mill  complete;  3  16-foot 
boilers and stack and I  16-24 slide  valve  engine; 
perfect repair.  Will sell cheap  and  take pay in 
lumber if desired.

Foster-Winchester Lumber Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A Time of Need

YOU  W IL L   FIN D   OUR

Asphalt, 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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L O D G E S  
S A L O O N S  
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“ Back  to  the  Woods”

is comic.  Back to the  factory  is  serious  and  shows  busi­
ness men that we’re on  a  sound  base—for  we  bring  every 
gas  light machine “back to the  factory”  if  it  does not give 
perfect satisfaction.

Our  Confidence

in the Safety Gas  Light  System  ought  to  give  you  confi­
dence in  our  good  intentions.  Each  machine  leaves  our 
store thoroughly  guaranteed.  For  instance,  we  install  the 
celebrated  Safety Gas  Plant on  10 days’ trial and  remove it 
if  not  perfectly  satisfactory,  absolutely  free  of  charge. 
Could anything  be  more  reasonable?  Could  anythin?  be 
more fair?

Actually saves 75 per cent, the cost of any other light

On  receipt of your  address  we  will  at  once  forward  cata­
logue, descriptive  matter and price list.

The  Perfection  Lighting Co.

17 Sooth  Diviskn  Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

1 0 0 0   CANDLE POWER

NO  UNDER  SHADOW.

LONG  DISTANCE - BOTH PHONES 2 0 9 0 .

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7
LILY  WHITE

You ought to sell

“The flour the best cooks use” 

VALLEY  C ITY   M ILLING  C O ..

G R A N D   R A P I D S .  M IC H .

Beautiful

Large Grain Carolina

Sutton’s  Table  Rice

Cotton  Pockets.  Retails 25c.

H eat  From   Incandescent  Eights.

into 

It  is  a  general  opinion  that  incandes­
cent  electric  lamps  give  out  compara­
tively  small  quantities  of  heat.  Meas­
urements 
show  however,  that  of  the 
energy  of  the  current  only  6  per  cent, 
light;  the  other 94  per 
is  turned 
cent,  manifests  itself  as  heat. 
Inflam­
mable 
substances  near  incandescent 
lamps  are  readily  ignited.  If  a  sixteen- 
candle  power  lamp  lighted  by  a  current 
of  100  volts  be 
in  a  vessel 
containing  300  grams  (10%  ounces)  of 
water,  it  will  bring  the  water  to  boiling 
point  in  an  hour.  Celluloid  near  such 
a 
in  five  minutes. 
These  and  other  experiments  of  the  sort 
direct  attention  to  the  necessity  of  care 
even  with  electric  lights.

immersed 

inflamed 

lamp 

is 

BUYERS’  EXCURSION

To  Grand  Rapids  From  A ll P arts of Mich­

igan.

The  Wholesale  Merchants'  Associa- ¡ 
tion  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Board  of 
Trade  has  made  arrahgements  with  the 
Michigan  Passenger  Association  to  con­
duct  a  buyers'  excursion  to  Grand  Rap­
ids  from  August  25  to  September  10, 
1902,  both  days 
inclusive,  at  one  and 
one-third  fare  for  the  round  trip  from 
all  parts  of  Michigan,  except 
from 
points  where  the  regular  tariff  rate  to 
Grand  Rapids  is  less  than  75  cents  one 
way,  on  the  certificate  plan.

invitation 

A  cordial 

is  hereby  ex­
tended  to  our  patrons  and  to  all  retailers 
and  their  families  to  visit  Grand  Rap­
ids.

Tickets  will  be  sold  for this  occasion 
only  on  August  25,  26,  27,  28,  29 and 
30  and  the  certificate  issued  by  ticket 
agent  will  be  good  when  validated  for 
a  return  ticket  any  day  between  August 
28  and  September  10,  1902.

In  order  to  secure  this  reduced  rate 
of  fare,  please  observe  the  following  in­
structions :

1.  Purchase  your ticket  on  the  same 
day  you  expect  to  take  the  train  for 
Grand  Rapids,  any  one  of  the  six  dates 
named  above.

2.  Purchase  a  ticket  to  Grand  Rap­
ids,  one  way,  paying  full 
fare,  and  at 
the  same  time  be  sure  to  ask  for  and 
get  from  your  ticket  agent  a  standard 
form  certificate  showing  purchase  of 
ticket.
3. 
your  arrival  in  Grand  Rapids,  to  any  of 
the  jobbers  whose  names  appear  herein, 
or  at  the  office  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
89  Pearl  street,  where  it  will  be  signed 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
and  validated  by  a  special  agent  of  the 
Michigan  Passenger  Association.

Present  the  certificate,  soon  after 

4. 

Present  the  validated certificate  to 

the  ticket  agent  at  Grand  Rapids,where 
you  will  receive,  on  payment  of  one- 
third  the  fare  you  paid  in  coming,  an­
other  ticket  for  your  return  passage,  but 
not  after  September  10,  1902.

These  reduced rates  apply  to  all mem­
bers  of  your  firm  and  their  families, 
except  children  who  ride  at  half  fare.

Be. sure  and  get  a  certificate  and  be 
sure  to  present  it  at  our  office  for  vali­
dation.  H.  D.  C.  Van  Asmus,  Sec’y.

W hen  a G irl  Is  Popular.

Again  and  again  girls try to  discover 
the  secret  of  popularity,  for  to  be  gen­
erally liked  is  one of the great desiderata 
of  youthful  social  ambition.  Why  such- 
and-such  a  one  should  constantly  be 
singled  out  for  delightful  house  patties, 
and  another,  who  is  apparently  equally 
attractive,  left  out;  why  at  a  dance  one 
girl 
is  a  belle  and  another  a  wall­
flower—why,  in  short,  one  should  be 
taken  and  another  left— is  one  of  the 
problems  that  seem  to  defy  solution. 
Perhaps  one  of  the  best  ways  to  dis­
cover  the  why  and  the  wherefore  of such 
qualifications  is  to  study  the  character­
istics  of  some  exponent  of  social  popu­
instance. 
larity.  Take  Miss  Z., 
for 
Regarding  her  casually,  it 
is  hard  to 
find  adequate  reasons  for  her  being such 
a  general  favorite.  She  is  not more  than 
moderately  pretty;  she 
is  not  particu­
larly  clever;  her  people  are  not  rich. 
There  seems  to  be  nothing  to  warrant 
her  success,  and  yet  whenever  any  party 
is  organized  she 
is  one  of  the  first 
thought  of,  and  she  could  spend  the  en­
tire  year  in  a  round  of  visits  if  she 
wished  to. 
If  one  analyzed  her  person­
ality  one  would  find  that  she  has  the 
gift of  a  perfectly equable  temperament. 
She 
in  good  spirits,  and  is 
never,  so  far  as  one  can  see,  depressed 
or  dull  but,  although  full  of  fun,  she 
is 
never  boisterous  or  loud.  One  can  not 
broach  any  subject  with  her  without

is  always 

is—his  horses, 

finding  her  sympathetic.  If  she  is  visit­
ing  she  seems  genuinely  interested  in 
everything—in  her  hostess'  house,  chil­
dren  and  various  possessions.  She  dis­
covers  her  host’s  particular  hobby, 
whatever  it 
farm  or 
yacht—and  displays  intelligent interest. 
The  boys  of  the  family  pronounce  her 
“ bully”   because  they  feel  her  enthus­
iasm  for  their  sports  and  animals  is 
sincere— “ no girl’s shamming about it.”  
Another  quality 
that  accounts  for  her 
popularity is  that  she  is  always  ready  to 
go  in  for  everything.  Whatever  is  pro­
posed  she  always  seems  perfectlyy  de­
lighted  to  do.  Her  perceptions,  too, 
are  very  keen,  otherwise  she  could  not 
be  so  adaptable,  and  she  is  always  well 
versed 
latest  and  newest  fad. 
These  are  some  of  her  surface  qualities 
that  explain  her  popularity.  She  has 
probably  other  “ little  ways’ *  that  are 
not  so  easily  detected,  but  almost  every 
one  has  some  popular  acquaintance  she 
can  study  as  an  object  lesson  and  draw 
her own  deductions  from.

in  the 

The  Invention  of Soap.

More  than  2,000  years  ago  the  Gauls 
were  combining  the  ashes  of  the  beech 
tree  with  goat’s  fat  and  making  soap. 
When  Marius  Claudius  Marcellus  was 
hastening southward over the Flaminian 
Way,  laden  with  spoils  wrested  from 
the  hands  of  Viridomar,  the Gallic King 
lying  dead  by  the  banks  of  the  Po,  bis 
followers  were  bringing  with  them  a 
knowledge  of  the  method  of  making 
soap.  The  awful  rain  of  burning  ashes 
which  fell  upon  Pompeii  in  ’79  buried 
(with  palaces  and  statues)  the  humble 
shop  of  a  soapmaker,  and 
in  several 
other  cities  of  Italy  the  business  had 
even  then  a  footing.

In  the  eighth  century  there were many 
soap  manufacturers  in  Italy  and  Spain, 
and  fifty  years  later the Phoenicians car­
ried  the  business 
into  Franee  and  es­
tablished  the  first  factory  in  Marseilles. 
Prior  to  the  invention  of  soap,  fuller's 
earth  was  largely  used  for  cleansing 
purposes,  and 
certain 
plants  served  a  similar  purpose.  The 
earth  was  spread  upon  cloth,  stamped 
in  with  the  feet,  and  subsequently  re­
moved  by  scouring. 
It  was  also used in 
baths,and  as  late  even  as  the  eighteenth 
century  was  employed  by  the  Romans 
in  that  way.

juice  of 

the 

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infor­
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It  is  human  nature 
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G reat  Scheme  For  R ural  Candidates.
A  Kansas  candidate 

for  a  county 
office  has 
introduced  a  novel  and  what 
seems  to  be  a  very  useful  plan  of  elec­
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him 
in  his  buggy  a  competent  plough­
man.  When  he  hails  a  farmer  in  the 
field  the  ploughman  takes  the  plough 
or  cultivator  and  the  work  goes  right 
the 
on,  while  the  farmer  stands 
listens  to 
shade  of  the  hedge  row  and 
It  works 
the  tale  the  candidate  tells. 
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I ss.
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I 

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European  nations  that  they  shall  main­
tain  their  trade  with  foreign  countries. 
They  all  produce  more  manufactures 
than  can  be  consumed  at  home, and they 
must  have  foreign  markets. 
If  their 
foreign  trade  should  be  cut  off,  it  would 
mean  turning  of  millions  of  men  out  of 
employment,  and  that  might  result 
in 
revolution.  The  matter  is  so  serious 
that 
it  is  but  natural  that  it  should  be 
a  subject  for  profound  consideration, 
and  conclusions  may  be  reached  which 
may  in  the  course  of  time  result  in  war 
between  the  allied  nations  of  the  conti­
nent  of  Europe  and  the  United States.

One  of  the  items  of  importance  and 
expense  connected with  railroads  is  pro­
viding  the  ties.  Lumber  of  all  sorts 
is  getting  scarcer  and  higher  priced 
because  of  the  prodigious  demands 
made  upon  the  forests  everywhere.  The 
Boston  &  Albany  road  has  inaugurated 
a  novel  enterprise  whereby  in  time  it 
hopes  to  solve  this  problem  to  its  own 
satisfaction.  The  road  has  purchased 
attractive  land  near  Westfield,  Mass., 
and  planted  thereon  10,000 catalpa  trees 
and  it  is  proposed  to  grow  its  own  tim­
is  straight 
ber  for  ties.  The  catalpa 
grained  and  very  durable. 
It  grows 
rapidly  and  to  large  proportions.  Some 
time  must  of  necessity  elapse  before  the 
wood  will  be  available,  but  when  it 
is, 
it  will  be  correspondingly  valuable.

The  p  an  of  raising  melons  by  irriga­
tion  on  the  Colorado  desert  has received 
a  severe  setback.  Nine  hundred  acres 
were  planted  this  year  and  300  carloads 
were  ready  to  be  shipped  at  $1,200  per 
carload,  when  a  sandstorm  occurred.  It 
lasted  three  days,  and  the 
lowest  tem­
perature 
in  all  that  time  in  the  shade 
was  126  degrees.  The  melons are cooked 
on  the  vines,  and  the  growers  will  net 
have  a  single  crate  to  ship.  The  melon 
growers  had  formed  an  association  and 
bad  agreed  to  send  shipments  to  many 
Eastern  cities.  A  packing  house  and 
icing  plant  had  been  built  and  great 
preparations  made  for  shipments,  which 
are  now  made  useless  by  one  storm.

The  gold  mines  of  South  Africa, 
operations 
in  which  were  suspended 
during  the  Boer  war,  are  expected  to 
yield  $50,000,000  this  year.  Before  the 
war they  were  producing  $80,000,000  a 
year,  and 
it  is  expected  that  within 
three  or  four  years  the  annual  output 
will  approximate  $125,000,000. 
The 
closing  of  the  South  African  mines  did 
not  have  the  effect  feared  in  financial 
circles,  for  the  reason  that  there  was 
an  unexpected  increase  in  the  produc­
tion  of  gold 
in  other  regions,  notably 
Alaska.  The  present  prospects  are  that 
for  many  years  to  come  the  gold  supply 
will  be  abundant  for  every  purpose.

Most  anything  is  liable  to  come  down 
in  showers  these  days,  and  so  there  was 
less  surprise  than  would  ordinarily  be 
expected  when  a  bushel  of  pumice stone 
fell  in  a  Baltimore  man’s  yard  the  other 
day. 
It  is  suggested  that  the  substance 
may  be  of  volcanic  origin  and  in  some 
way  connected  with  the  seismic disturb­
ances  at  Martinique.  A  shower  of  pum­
ice  stone  in  sufficient  quantities  and 
in 
proper  places  would  be  very  agreeable 
and  have  a  substantial  money  value, 
but  a  bushel  is  of  no  use.  The  ques­
tion  of  how  the  stone  got  into  the  air 
and  bow  it  was  carried  such  a  distance 
is  a  theme  for  scientific  discussion  and 
speculation.

With  women  making  love  is  an  art; 

with  men  a  trade.

PASSING  THE  PLATE.

of 

In  every  church  in  the  land  there 

is 
an  interval  during the  services  when  the 
ushers  or  the  deacons  or the  wardens 
circulate  among  the  congregation  bear­
ing  plates,  into  which  the  people  are 
expected  to  deposit  contributions  for 
the  cause  of  religion.  Such  offerings 
are, 
course,  entirely  voluntary. 
Church  members  can  not  be  compelled 
to  support  the  church  as  citizens  are 
compelled  to  support  the  government. 
Those  who  do  not  give  according  to 
their  measure  of  ability  may  not possess 
the  true  Christian  spirit,  but  they  pass 
as  Christians  just  the  same,  even if  they 
allow  the  plate  to  pass  them  unnoticed.
While  the  custom  of  passing  the  plate 
has  some  obvious  merits,  mingling 
the 
gifts  of  the  rich  and  the  poor  and 
avoiding  unpleasant  comparisons,  it  is 
conceded  to  be  an  ineffectual  means  of 
raising  church  revenues. 
In  many  con­
gregations  funds  are  provided  by  means 
of  pledges  annually  made  by  the  mem­
bers 
to  contribute  certain  specified 
amounts,  the  total  of  which  is  sufficient 
to  meet  the  current  expenses.  Reliance 
upon  voluntary  offerings  received 
in 
plate  collections  has  been  found  by  ex­
perience  to  be  an  untrustworthy  plan. 
It  is  now  proposed  to  abolish  the  prac­
tice  of  passing  the  plate.  A  writer  in 
the  Christian  Register  has  taken  up  the 
proposition  and  advocates  it  in  strong 
terms,  as  follows:

is  an 

You  can  not  make  your  people  feel 
the  vital  sense  of  their  responsibility 
for  their  church  as  long  as  the  collec­
tion  plate  comes  in  between  and  sug­
gests  to  them  the  evasion  of  that  re­
sponsibility,  and  makes  them  feel  that 
there 
impulsive  generosity  just 
as  good  as  the  humdrum  keeping  of  a 
contract,  and  ever  so  much  more  free 
and  easy. 
I  am  speaking  out  of  sor­
rowful  acquaintance  with  a  well-mean­
ing  adherent  of  the  church  who  says  to 
me,  “ Oh,  well,  I  will  do  my  share 
when 
comes 
around,”   and  so  refuses  a  regular,  re­
liable  contribution  to  its  support,  and 
so 
shiftless,  almost 
worthless  habit  of  spasmodic  giving 
when  he  happens  to  have  change  about 
him.

collection 

into  the 

lapses 

plate 

the 

The  writer  further  says  that  passing 
the  plate  puts  the  church  in  the  posi­
tion  of  a  mendicant  and  prompts  peo­
ple  to  give  contemptuously  and  grudg­
ingly,  when  each  member  should  gladly 
agree  to  pay  what  may  be  considered 
his  honest  share  of  the  cost  of  church 
administration. 
In  these  suggestions 
there 
is  obviously  much  truth  that  de­
serves  attention.

lecturer 

There  are  few  people  who  have  more 
fads 
than  the  theoretical  educators. 
There are  two  classes  in  this  profession, 
the one which  actually  does  the  teaching 
and  the  one  which  delivers  the 
lectures 
and  writes  the  papers  on  how  to  do  it. 
The  former,  as  would  naturally  be  ex­
pected,  as  a  rule  knows  its  business  and 
attends  to  it  intelligently and diligently. 
The  latter  sometimes  promulgates  queer 
notions  which  are  not  wise  nor  safe  to 
follow.  A 
in  a  Chautauqua 
in  a  Western  town  the  other  day 
course 
gave 
it  as  bis  idea  that  every  boy  and 
girl  on  reaching  the  age  of  nine  yeats 
should  be  set  to  work  writing  novels, 
poems  and  plays.  There  would  be  as 
much  sense 
in  sending  them  out  into 
the  field  to  make  surveys  or  to  install 
them  as  book-keepers  in  a  business 
house.  There  is  no  question  but  that 
practice  in  li terary  composition  is  most 
desirable.  A  precocious  child  of  nine 
years  ought  to  be  able  to  write  a  good 
letter  or  at  least  acquire  that  ability  by 
is  more  helpful  or
practice.  Nothing 

more  useful  than  study  along 
these 
lines  and  facility  of  expression  is large­
ly  a  matter  of  experience.  Putting  the 
children  at  writing  poems  and  plays  is 
away  ahead  of  their  capacity  at  that 
life.  Especially  dangerous  is 
time  of 
There 
the  suggestion  about  poetry. 
are  too  many  poor  poets  abroad 
in  the 
land  already  and  it  is  little  short  of  an 
incendiary  suggestion  which  advises 
their  indefinite  multiplication.

It  appears  that  the  late  John  W.  Mac- 
kay  did  what  a great many other wealthy 
men  have  done  to  avoid  the  unceitain- 
ties  of  the  probate  court  and  the  tax 
upon  inheritances.  He  left  deeds  and 
transfers  to  much  of  his  property,  with 
instructions  that  they  be  put  on  record 
at  bis  death.  His  real  estate  holdings 
in  San  Francisco  were  not  large,  but  he 
had 
immense  properties  in  other  parts 
of  California.  Some  of  the  deeds  have 
already  been  recorded  and  others  will 
be.  The  court  which  administers  upon 
his  estate  will therefore  have  a compara­
tively  small  money  value  to  handle. 
If 
some  of  the  other California millionaires 
had  adopted  that  plan  there  would  have 
been 
litigation  and  the 
property  would  have  been  disposed  of 
more  in  accord  with  the  wish of  the  tes­
tator. 
The  courts  of  San  Francisco 
more  than  of  any  other  city  have  had 
sensational  will  cases  where  large  sums 
have  gone  to  lawyers  and 
immense  es­
tates  materially  decreased  by  litigation.

less  costly 

Nicola  Tesla  has  been  heard  from 
after  a  long  silence.  As  on previous  oc­
casions  he  anounnees  that  he  is  just  on 
the  point  of  a  great  achievement  in  the 
field  of  electrical  development.  After 
working  more  than  three  years  Tesla 
declares  that  he  has  solved  the  problem 
of  transmitting  electric  power  without 
wires.  By  his  system  he  says  that  ships 
on  the  ocean  and  trains  on  the  land  can 
be  propelled  by  power  from  the  air. 
The  electrical  currents  will  be  gen­
erated  at  power houses  at  various  points 
in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  The 
idea  is  simply  an  extension  of  the  sys­
tem  of  wireless  telegraphy.  Tesla  is  a 
tireless  investigator and  he  may  be  able 
to  demonstrate 
success  of  this 
scheme,  but  so  many  announcements  by 
Tesla  have  never  been  fulfilled  that  the 
public  will be  skeptical  about  accepting 
this  one  with  anything  like  confidence. 
If  Tesla  achieves  this  project  anything 
he  says  thereafter  will  be 
implicitly 
believed.  ^
________

the 

It 

is  estimated  that  there  are  fully  a 
million  people  in  the  United  States who 
may  be  classed  as  health  hunters.  They 
are  sufferers  from  diseases  which  are 
attributed  to  climatic  causes  and  they 
are  constantly  changing  their  places  of 
residence  in  the  bope  of  obtaining  ben­
efit. 
The  up-to-date  physician  must 
now  be  a  good  geographer  and  well  ac­
quainted  with  all  the  health  resorts  of 
the  world.  Some  of  these  health  hunt­
ers  who  have  abundant  means  are  con­
stantly  on  the  move.  They  are  like  the 
migratory  birds  which  follow  the  sun.

There  is  apprehension 

in  England 
that  Balfour,  the  new  Prime  Minister, 
will  not  be  physically  equal  to  the  de­
mands of  the  great office he has assumed. 
Balfour  started  upon  his  public  career 
as  an 
invalid  and  has  actually  grown 
stronger  in  consequence  of  the  work  he 
It  is  feared,  however, 
has  performed. 
leadership  of  the 
that  combining  the 
commons  with 
the  premiership,  as 
in  his  prime  did,  will  prove 
Gladstone 
too  much  for  his  powers.

E IR O PE   AND  AMERICAN  TRUSTS.
Some  little  time  ago  the  Russian  gov­
ernment  issued  invitations  to  the  chief 
European  nations  to  send  representa­
tives  to  a congress to consider trusts.  No 
invitation  was  sent  to the  United States, 
whereat  the  officials  of  the  State  De­
partment  at  Washington  are  greatly  sur­
prised.

to  account 

In  attempting 

for  this 
strange  omission  to  notify  the  United 
States  of  the  proposed  meeting,  several 
conjectures  have  been  offered,  but  the 
only  reasonable  one  is that the European 
nations  have  become  alarmed  at  the 
power  and  aggressiveness  of  the  Ameri­
can  trusts,  which  appear  not  only  to 
dominate  and  control  all business  in  the 
United  States,  but  are  reaching  out  to 
grasp  commerce  and 
industries  in  all 
other  countries.

commercial 

For  several  years  some  of  the  Euro­
pean  nations  have  been  discussing  the 
propriety  and  practicability  of  making 
a 
coalition  against  the 
United  States, but  no  definite  steps  have 
been  taken  in that  direction.  The recent 
invasions  of  European  countries  by 
American 
trusts  have  been  so  bold  and 
aggressive,  having  apparently  at  their 
command  unlimited  amounts  of  money, 
that  they  very  naturallly  alarmed  the 
financiers  and  statesmen  of  those  coun­
tries,  and 
is  not  surprising  that  the 
talk  of  a  European  coalition  should  be 
brought  into  prominence.

it 

It  does  not  yet  appear  what  such  a 
congress  of  nations  can  do  against  the 
young  commercial  and  industrial  giant 
of  the  Western  World,  and  it  is  much  to 
be  doubted  if  any  decisive  arrangement 
can  be  made  that  will  unite  the  Euro­
pean  countries 
in  a  commercial  com­
bination  against  the  trade  of  the  United 
State.  But  at  least  the  nations  may  get 
together  and  talk  the  matter over  in  an­
ticipation  of  future  development.

It  is  of  the  greatest  importance  to  the

M I  O H I O A N   T R A D E S M A N

THE  IMPENDING  DOOM  OP  VENICE.
The  recent  collapse  of  the  Campanile 
in  the  Piazza  di  San  Marco,  Venice,  re­
moved  one  of  the  most 
interesting 
monuments  in  the  most  beautiful  of  all 
European  cities.  Nor  is  there  a  city 
in  Europe  whose  history  is  more roman­
tic  than  the  Queen  City  of  the  Adriatic 
whose  doom  the  fall  of  this  tower  fore­
shadows,  in  the 
judgment  of  the  city 
architect.  Venice  stands  practically  on 
a  foundation  of  white  poplar  piles  and 
slabs  of  oak  driven  or  laid  in  the  stiff 
bed  of  clay  forming  the  subsoil  of  the 
group  of  islets  which  constitute  its  site. 
The  formation  is  the  same 
in  all  of 
them.  For a  depth  of  1,500  feet,  as  in­
dicated 
in  the  borings  of  an  artesian 
well,  layers  of  clay,  sand,  gravel  and 
peat  are  repeated  again  and  again 
in 
regular  succession.  Despite  the  artifi­
cial  character  of  the  foundations,  the 
construction  of  some  of  the  beautiful 
and  massive  structures  for  which  Ven­
ice  is  famous  the  world  over  dates  back 
to  the  ninth  century,  and  they  have  thus 
survived  for  over  a  thousand  years. 
The  pile  foundations  of  Venice  had, 
therefore,  come  to  be  considered  as 
imperishable  as  rock,  and  the  collapse 
of  the  Campanile 
is  the  first  visible 
evidence  of  their  decay.  Signs  of weak­
in  the  walls  of  this  tall  watch- 
ening 
tower  had  been 
in  evidence  for  some 
years  past;  but  an  examination  of  the 
foundation  in  1885  showed  that  both  the 
oak  and  poplar  on  which  it  stood  were 
then  perfectly  sound. 
It  was suspected, 
therefore,  that  the  evidences  of  decay 
which  betrayed  themselves  in  the  walls 
were  the  result  of  a  deterioration  of  the 
materials  of  which  they  were  composed 
and  a  consequent  yielding  to  the  crush­
ing  weight  of  the  upper  structure.  An 
official  commission,  in  fact,  lately  de­
clared  that  there  was  no  danger  from 
any  shrinkage  or  sinking  of  the  subsoil, 
and  plans  for  the  repair  of  the  Cam­
panile  were  about  to  be  carried  out  at 
the  time  of  its  sudden  and  unexpected 
destruction.  Professor  Wagner,  the  city 
architect,  declares,  however,  that  the 
subsoil  has  deteriorated,  and  that  the 
piles  and  pillars  on  which  the  beautiful 
palaces,  churches  and  monuments  are 
standing  are  rotting  and  can  not  much 
longer  carry  the  weight  which  they  are 
now  bearing. 
If  so,  Venice  the  beau­
is  doomed,  like  all  other  works  of 
tiful 
man,  to  fall 
into  decay  and  pass  into 
history  among  the  ruined  cities  of  an­
cient  civilizations.

Such  a  fate,  if  it  happens,  will  be 
deplored  as  a  world  calamity,  for  Ven­
ice  has  not  only  a  unique  place  in  his­
tory  as  having  been  once  the  greatest  of 
commercial  cities, but the plan  on  which 
it  has  been  built and  the  styles  of  archi­
tecture  which  have  been developed in its 
buildings  have  been adopted  and  copied 
by  all  modern  cities  as  models  of  dura­
bility,  strength  and  beauty.  Even  San 
Francisco  has  been  susceptible  to  the 
influence  of  Venice,  and  a 
large  part 
of  it  is  to-day  standing  on  foundations 
of  the  Venetian  pattern  which,  having 
survived  a  thousand  years,  were  reason­
ably  assumed  to  be  imperishable.

The  doges,  who  made  Venice  famous 
from  the  beginning  of  the  ninth  to  the 
middle  of  the  fifteenth  century,  and 
whose  gorgeous  palaces  are  still  the 
crowning  glory  of  the  city,  were  origin­
ally  fishermen,  who  were  drawn  together 
for  purposes  of  common  defense.  These 
fishermen  abandoned  the  mainland  of 
Italy  in  the  year  810  and  made the Rivo 
Alto,  with 
islets,  the 
permanent  seat  of  their  government. 
latter  was  strictly  democratic  in
The 

its  surrounding 

it. 

form.  The  eariler  doges  were  elected  by 
popular  vote.  The  republic  rapidly  rose 
as  a  maritime  and  commercial  power. 
It  swept  the  Adriatic  free  from  the 
hordes  of  pirates  which  previously  in­
fested 
It  forced  its  enemies  to  re­
spect  its  independence  and  enter  into 
commercial  relations  with  it. 
Its  com­
merce  flourished  to  such  a  degree  that 
it  practically  dominated  the  world  in 
that  respect  for  centuries.  Its  fleets  bad 
to  be  hired  during  the  period  of  the 
Crusades  to  carry  the  armies  of  the Cru­
saders  to  the  Holy  Land. 
It  fostered 
the  arts  and 
literature'  and  became  a 
great  manufacturing  center.  The  com­
merce  of  Venice  brought  wealth  to  its 
citizens  and  aroused  their  ambition  for 
territorial  expansion,  and  at  the  be­
ginning  of  the  thirteenth  century  the 
Byzantine  empire,  through  the  conquest 
of  Constantinople  by  the  Doge,  Enrico 
Dandoio,  fell  into  its  hands.  That  was 
the  zenith  of  the  power  and  glory  of 
Venice.

Venice  sowed,  however,  the  seed  of 
its  own  decay 
in  the  latter  part  of  the 
twelfth  century,  when  the  constitution 
of  the  republic  was  changed  so  that  the 
control  of  the  government  began  to  cen­
tralize 
in  the  aristocracy.  This  paved 
the  way 
later  for  internal  troubles  and 
conspiracies,which  weakened  the  power 
of  the  republic  and  exposed  it  to  the  at­
tacks  of  its  enemies.  With  the  advent 
of  the  Turks  into  Europe  and  the  cap­
ture  of  Constantinople  by  Mohammed 
II.,  in  1453,  Venetian  power  and 
influ­
ence  in  the  Adriatic  waned,  and  a  little 
over  a  century 
later,  in  1573,  Venice 
was  practically  a  vassal  of  the  Ottoman 
empire,  paying  tribute  to  the  Sultan.

in  888. 

The  magnificent  pile  of  churches  and 
palaces  which  make  Venice  to-day  the 
most  attractive  city 
in  Europe,  if  not 
in  the  world,  began  to  rise  in  the  year 
of  the  occupation  of  Rivo  Alto  by  the 
Venetian  fishermen.  In  810  the  erection 
of  the  basilica  of  St.  Mark  was  begun. 
The  foundation  of  the  Campanile  was 
In  1329  it  went  through  a 
laid 
process  of  restoration. 
In  1417  a  mar­
ble  top  was  added  to  it,  which  mate­
rially  increased  the  weight  which  the 
foundation  had  to  carry.  Although  the 
city  architect  attributes  the  destruction 
of  the  ancient  watchtower  to  the shrink­
age  and  deterioration  of  the  subsoil  and 
the  decay  of  the  supporting  wooden  pil­
ing,  there 
is  a  suspicion  abroad  that 
the  deepening  of  the  Grand  canal  by 
dredging  for  the  accommodation  of 
modern  deep-draft  shipping  has  had 
something  to  do  with  it,  and  the  stiff 
clay  in  which  the  foundation  piles  were 
laid  is  supposed  to  have  slipped.  Still, 
the  reconstruction  of  the  watchtower  is 
being  discussed,  for  a  Venice  without 
the  tall  shaft  of  the  Campanile  piercing 
the  sky 
line  and  the  most  conspicuous 
of  its  landmarks  would  scarcely  be  the 
Venice  which  has  been  so  long  the  cen­
ter  of  attraction  to  Old  and  New  World 
tourists  alike.

The  new  constitution  of  Virginia 
makes  the  acceptance  by  a  public  offi­
cial  of  a  free  pass  from  the  transporta­
tion  companies  a  cause  for the forfeiture 
of  his  office,and  the  transportation  com­
panies  are  prohibited  from  granting 
special  favors  of  any  kind  to  public 
officials.  Some  of  the  latter  threaten  to 
resign  rather  than  relinquish  the  free 
pass  privilege;  but  the  threat  is  doubt­
less  nothing  more  than  a  bluff,  as  resig­
nation  would  carry  with  it  the  loss  of 
legitimate  emoluments  of  office  as  well 
as  the  special  favors  hitherto  enjoyed 
through  office-holding.

MUSIC  IN   CHURCHES.

The  other  day  reference  was  made  to 
an 
innovation  at  a  service  in  a  New 
York  Baptist  church, where  at  the  offer­
tory  a  young  woman  whistled  a  difficult 
air  very  artistically.  The  matter  has 
called  out  a  good  deal  of  comment  and 
newspaper  discussion.  The  New  York 
Tribune,  speaking  of  it,  said :

Those  throughout  the  land  who  desire 
to  see  our churches  attract  worshippers 
by  beautiful  and  fitting  means,  musical 
and  other,  not  by  theatrical  novelties  in 
dubious  taste,  will  hardly  welcome  this 
latest 
innovation  and  approach  to  a 
canary  choir.

In  a  recent 

issue  the  Indianapolis 
News  devotes  extended  editorial  space 
to an  article on this subject,  in the course 
of  which  it  says :

The  thought  of  choirs  and  choir  mas­
ters—and  of  ministers  as  far  as  they  are 
responsible— is  not  of  God,  but  of  the 
audience.  Of  course  the  fundamental 
is  that  our  people  have  so 
difficulty 
far 
lost  the  sense  of  worship.  When 
they  choose  their  church  they  choose 
the  one  that  has  the  best  preacher  and 
the  finest  music.  Music  that 
is  not 
fitted  for  the  praise  of  God  and  is  not 
adapted  to  express  the  contrition  and 
penitence  of  the  worshipper  is  not  fitted 
to  be  used  in  church.

It 

These 

ideas  will  meet  with  the  ap­
proval  of  a  great  many  people.  The 
original  purpose  of  music  was  and  is  to 
supplement  the  worship  of  God  and  be 
a  part  of  it.  Nowadays  church  mana­
gers  feel  the  necessity  of  doing  some­
thing  to  attract  people  to  attend  the 
services  and 
look  upon  fine  music  and 
high  salaried choirs  as  a  perfectly  legit­
imate  means  to  that  end.  They  argue 
that if  in  any  way  the  people  can  be  in­
duced  to  come  into  the  church  they  can 
not  go  away  without  getting  some  good 
from  the  Scripture  reading,  the  prayers 
and  sermon.  Every  one 
is  familiar 
with  the  difficulty  of  getting  out  large 
audiences  in  the  evening. 
is  not 
every  pastor  who  can preach well enough 
to  draw  a  crowd.  So 
it  happens  that 
music  is  made  a  feature.  The  Indian­
apolis  News  suggests  as  a  remedy  for 
what  it seems  to  look  upon  as  frivolities 
in  church  service:  “ First,  ministers 
ought  to  be  trained  in  church  music; 
and,  second,  they  ought  to  have  su­
preme  power  over  the  choir. ”   Some 
ministers  might  study  for  years  and 
never  appreciate  or  understand  good 
music,  either  sacred  or  secular.  Theo­
retically, and  in  many  cases  practically, 
the  ministers  have  charge  of,  or  at  least 
are  very  influential  in,  the  music  of  the 
choir  now,  and  the  clergymen  are  glad 
to  have  the  singers  draw  the  crowd 
rather  than  to talk  to  empty  pews.  E vi­
dently  the  whistling  solo  of  the  Lexing­
ton  Avenue  Baptist  church  has  precip­
itated  a  discussion  which  will  divide 
pastors  and  people,  and  about  which 
there  never  will  be  anything  approach­
ing  unanimity.

AMERICAN  SH IP  BUILDING.

Few  people  perhaps  would  guess that, 
during  the  year,  1,657  vessels  of  a  gross 
tonnage  amounting 
to  473.9^t  wete 
built  in  the  United  States.  Such,  how­
ever,  is the  report  of  the  Bureau  of  Nav­
igation  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June 
3c,  1902.  This 
is  a  slight  failing  off, 
both 
in  number  and  tonnage,  as  com­
pared  with  the  previous  year.  The  de­
crease,  however,  is  not  in  large  lake  or 
ocean-going  craft,  but  in  canal  boats, 
barges  and  small  sailing  vessels.  This 
year’s  tonnage  of  steel steamers is ahead 
of  last  year’s.  These  figures,  of  course, 
include  boats  of  all  sorts  and  sizes, 
which  the  law  requires  to  be  reported  to 
In  those  reports  there  are
the  bureau. 

9

94  of  over  1,000  tons  and  one  of  12,700 
tons,  the  largest  ever  built  in  this  coun­
try.

A  great  deal  has  been said and written 
in  recent  years  about  the  advisability 
of promoting  the ship  building industry. 
The  United  States  has not been as prom­
inent  in  this  important line  of  manufac­
ture  as  it  has  been  in  many  others. 
In 
many  branches  it  confessedly  takes  the 
lead  over  all  other  countries  on  the 
globe.  The ships it  has  built  have  been 
good . ones.  The  achievements  of  the 
American  navy  have  heen  sufficient  to 
demonstrate  the  ability  of  our  designers 
and  builders.  Some  fine  vessels  have 
been  constructed  here  for  foreign  cus­
tomers,  and 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
trade  will  continue  to  grow.  Our  own 
demand  for  vessels  is  an  increasing  one 
and 
is  of  itself  sufficient  to  keep  very 
good  sized  yards  employed.  What  has 
been  done  along  these  lines  is  sufficient 
to  show  wbat  can  be  done.  The Ameri­
can-made  steamer  is  the  peer  of  any 
other  that  sails  on  lake  or  ocean.  There 
is  no  reason  why  this  should  not  be  the 
workshop  of  the  world  in  every  branch 
of  industry.  Our  people  have  the  enter­
prise,  the  money,  the  ingenuity  and  the 
workmen.

it 

sympathy 

to  develop 

investigated 

Admiral  Cervera  who  commanded  the 
Spanish  fleet  that  was  smashed  by  the 
men  behind  our  guns  at  Santiago  is 
about  the  only  Spanish  officer  who  ap­
pealed  to  the  sympathies  of  the  Ameri­
can  public.  He  was  dispatched  across 
the  ocean  foredoomed  to  defeat  and  his 
bearing  when  the  inevitable  came  was 
such  as 
into 
friendly  regard.  There  have  been  stor­
ies  that  he  was  living 
in  neglect  in 
Spain,  but  they  are  denied  by  a  corres­
pondent  who  has 
them. 
Cervera  is  living  in  Puerto  Real,  an an­
cient  Roman  town  near  Cadiz. 
“ He 
lives  there,”   says  the  correspondent, 
“ loved  and  respected  of  all,  a  peaceful, 
seemly 
life,  far  from  the  activities  of 
politics,resigned  and satisfied  and  with­
out  ambition 
command. 
While  giving  up  his  morning  hours  to 
his  professional  studies,  he  is  wont  to 
meet  at  the  club  his  old  naval  com­
rades.  He  often  goes  over  to  the  ar­
senal  at  San  Fernando,  near  by,  where 
he  has  many  friends,  and  also  to  Cadiz 
to  spend  the  day  at  the  headquarters  of 
the  Captain  General.  His  relations 
with  those  politicians  still  at  the  helm, 
who  imposed  on  him  the  impossible 
task  to  break  out  of  Santiago,  are  nat­
urally  rather cool.  But  he  receives  reg­
ularly  his  vice  admiral’s  half  pay, 
which,  with  his  own  private  means,  is 
sufficient  for  bis  necessities.”

for 

active 

The  venerable  Senator  Hoar,  of 
Massachusetts,  has  bought  a  bouse  in 
Washington.  During  the  thirty-three 
years  of  his  services 
in  Congress  the 
Senator  and  his  wife have been  boarders 
at  hotels  and  they  think  it  is  time  they 
had  a  home 
there.  The  Senator  ex­
plains  that  it  cost  $18,000 and  that  he 
borrowed  the  money  to  buy  it. 
“ It  is 
a  modest  and  simple  house  in  one  of 
the  more  humble  sections  of  the  city, 
although  large  enough  for  us.  It  is  in  a 
portion  of  the  city  where  real  estate  is 
rising,  and  by  the  end  of  my  term  I 
hope  to  sell  it  at  an  advantage.”   Sena­
tor  Hoar  is  a  man  in  whom  old  age 
is 
beautiful  and  honorable.  He  has  not 
grown  rich 
in  the  service  of  his  coun­
try,  but  he  has  won  universal  esteem 
and  a  degree  of  respect  that  exceeds  all 
differences  as  to  his  views  of  public 
questions.

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

Clothing

Fads  and  Fashions  W hich  Prevail  In  and 

A round  Gotham.

It  is  only  by  the  most strenuous efforts 
one  is  enabled  to  keep  his  bands  off 
some  of  the  callow  youths  who  have 
been  sporting  summer  attire.  June  for 
the  most  part  was  cold,  there  being  but 
two  or three  real  warm,  summery  days, 
yet  from  the  first  of  that  month  these 
young  sprouts  persisted  in  wearing  con* 
tinuously  flannel  outing  suits,  Panama 
hats,  stocks,  low  shoes  and  fancy,  open­
work  hosiery  with  frequently  brilliant 
embroidery  in  addition.  This  was  seen 
on  cold,  wet  days  as  well  as  during  the 
milder  weather.

Now  common  sense  should  be  enough 
to  tell  these  young  men  that  their  ap­
parel  was  entirely  inappropriate.  Out­
ing  suits  of  flannel,  crash  or  other  hot 
weather  fabrics  are  correct  for  business 
wear,  likewise  the  Panama,  low  shoes 
and  fancy  hosiery,  but  stocks— never. 
But  this  is  not  the  worst of their offense. 
Why  should  they  not  consider  the  ap­
propriateness  of  their  dress—wear  a 
cheviot,  cassimere,  serge  or  worsted  at 
such  times?  As  a  matter of  fact  there 
have  been  but  a  very  few  days  when 
flannel  or  any  of  the  other 
tropical 
weight  fabrics  were  appropriate.

is 

There 

just  as  much  to  think  of  in 
regard, to  the  weather  when  a  gentleman 
is  deciding  upon  his  clothing  for  the 
season  as  there  is  in  regard  to  the  fash­
ions  themselves.  No  man  of  good  taste 
who  pretends  to  be in  fashion  will  think 
of  wearing  a  flannel  outing  suit  on  a 
cold  day  or  a  rough  cheviot,  with 
double-breasted  vest  of  same  material, 
and  a  high,  straight,  standing  collar  on 
a  scorcher  when  the  mercury  climbs  to­
wards  the  hundred  mark.

To  commit  either  of  these  offenses  to 
good  taste  argues  that  one  has  but  the 
single  suit  which  he  wears;  or,  if  he 
does  exhibit  other  suits  at  other  times, 
implies  that  there  is  something  decid 
edly 
lacking  in  the  mental  make-up  of 
the  subject.

If  one  stops  to  think,  the  question  of 
is  not  a  hard  one  to 
It  merely  requires  a  fair  share 
reasonable 

correct  apparel 
solve. 
of  common  sense  and  a 
amount  of  good  taste.

The  whole  question  of  being  well 
dressed  resolves  itself  into  being able to 
adapt  the  prevailing  fashions  to  one’s 
individuality. 
It  does  not  seem  as 
though  this  should  be  a  hard  matter, 
but somehow  it  is and  many of our young 
men  buy  and  wear  anything  that  is,  in 
their  eyes,  the  extreme  of  fashion,  but 
by  so  doing  defeat  their  own  ambitions, 
only  getting  the  name  of  being  over­
dressed  and  showing  a  woeful  lack  of 
good  taste.

There 

is  no  doubt  that  much  of  this 
could  be  avoided  if  the  salesmen  in  the 
stores  would  use  a  little  taste in suggest­
ing. 
If  you  have  charge  of  the  neck­
wear  section  you  have  it  in  your  hands 
to  influence  a  customer  very  often.  Of 
course  if  a  man  come  in,  knows  exactly 
what  he  wants  and  asks  for that particu­
lar  style,  there  is  nothing  for  you  to  do 
but  give 
it  to  him ;  but  when,  as  hap­
pens  frequently,  he  relies  on  what  you 
show  him  and  often on what you suggest, 
your  influence  may  do  a  lot  of  good.

Sheepshead  Bay  has  been  attracting 
large  numbers  of  well-dressed  men  re­
cently,  and 
it  is  interesting  to  note  the 
costumes  worn  there  by  “ men  who 
know  how.^  The  regular  sack,  either 
three  or  four  button,  is  by  far  in  great­
est  evidence,  together  with  a  flat  brim 
straw  hat,  the  crown  of  medium  height

Heavenrich  Bros.

Correct Clothes for 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  
garments  and  invite  you  to  in­
spect  our line  when  you  come  to 
Chicago.

Heavenrich Bros.

208, 210, 212, 214 Van Buren St., Chicago

Take Elevator 

Corner o f Franklin St.

Detroit office and salesroom  131  Jefferson Avenue

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and  the  brim,  while  varying  consider­
ably,  much  wider  than  we  saw  dur­
ing  the  past  two  or  three seasons.  Pan­
amas  are  seen,  to  be  sure,  but 
in  a 
far  smaller  proportion  than  the  other 
styles.  Tbere  are  a  great  many  cutaway 
frock 
coats  verging  on  the  English 
style;  that  is,-  made  from  fancy  cheviot 
in  soft  colors  with  an indistinct plaid  or 
striped  pattern ;  with  this  the  derby  is 
almost  universally  worn,  either  a  dark 
brown  or  black,  the  latter  being  the  fa­
vorite.  There  are a  few  frock  coats,  al­
though  so  few  that  they  seem  somewhat 
out  of  place,  and  with  them  always  the 
correct  silk  hat.  The  last  two  costumes 
allow  for  little  variety  in  shirtings,  but 
the  sack  suit  gives  a  wide  range  of 
choice;  blues  and  white,  black  and 
white,  and  a  few  soft  colorings  are  most 
in  evidence.  For  neckwear  we  see  the 
medium  and  narrow  four-in-hand,  also 
bat  wing  and  butterfly  shapes  and  here 
black-and-white  combinations  predom­
inate.  For  hosiery  we  see a  good  many 
whites  with  either  self-embroidered  or 
black  embroidery  and  sometimes  with 
fancy  colored  embroidery.

The  crowd  at  Sheepshead  was  a  re­
markably  well-dressed one.  This  is  said 
advisedly, because  in taking  in  a gather­
ing  of 'this  kind,  it 
is  easy  to  note 
whether  it is  well  or  poorly dressed  after 
a  few  moments  of  observation,  taking 
for  comparison  previous  seasons  at  the 
same  place.

The  advent  of  straw  hats  as  a  part  of 
summer  livery  for  our  coachmen  and 
footmen  seems  to be  attracting  consider­
able  attention.  Why  it  should  is  some­
thing  of  a  question  because  it  is  a  most 
sensible  arrangement  and  no  doubt  will 
be  as  common  as  the  coachmen  them­
selves  by  another summer.

Several  years  ago  Baron  Rothschild 
appeared  on  the London stock exchange, 
wearing  a  straw  hat  of  this  nature.  He 
explained  that  it was  light  and  cool  and 
therefore  he  could  afford  to  stand  as 
much  guying  as  the  other  members 
chose  to  give  him.  A  well-known  hatter 
in  London  duplicated  this  invention  of 
the  Baron’s  and  placed  it  in  his  win­
dows, 
labeled  the  “ Baron  Rothschild 
Hat.”   He  expected  there  would  be  a 
great  demand  for  it,  but  in  this  he  was 
disappointed ;  no  one  wanted  these  hats 
at  any  price.  They  are  popular  now, 
however,  for  livery  and  deserve  it.

Up  to  the  time  of  King  Edward’s  ill­
ness 
it  was  natural  that  every  individ­
ual,  whether  in  private  life  or a  trades­
man,  should  watch  carefully  every  de­
tail  of  the  King’s  dress,  and  among 
other  items 
it  is  said  that  he  recently 
wore  a  scarlet  tie.  This  resulted 
in  a 
general display  of  red  neckwear  all  over 
England  and 
in  the  United  States  as 
well.  The  humorous  part  of  it  is  that 
all  shades  and  forms  of  red  were  used 
without  regard  to  wbat  the  King  really 
wore  and  as  a  matter of  fact  probably 
one  haberdasher  in  ten  had  the  right 
shade.  What  the  King  actually  wore 
was  a  very  rich  deep  scarlet  of  a  pe­
culiar  shade  but  he  wore  it  only  once 
or  twice.  Like  the  majority  of  well- 
dressed  men  he  had  no  desire  to  wear 
the  same  tie  many  times,  particularly 
one  as  conspicuous  as  that;  in  fact,  the 
more  conspicuous  a  tie 
is  the  fewer 
times  can  it  properly  be  worn.

just  below 

Lightweight  underwear 

for  men, 
the  knee,  has 
reaching 
in  excellent  shape  this 
“ caught  on”  
just  below  the 
summer.  The  bottom 
is  finished  with  a  stockinet,  al­
knee 
though 
in  some  cases  they  are  made 
looser  or  rather  without  the  cuffs  and 
end  just  above  the  knee.  These  will  be

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sleeves.  Of  course,  balbriggan  has  not 
the  elasticity  of  ribbed  underwear,  but 
it  really  would  not  be  necessary.  The 
in  the 
garment  could  be  fairly 
body,  which  would  enable 
to  be 
donned  easily,  and  this  would  make  it 
a  cool,  comfortable  garment.  The  sale 
for  this  would  undoubtedly  be  great.

loose 

it 

The  styles  of  shoes  are  more  im­
portant  to  a  fashionable young  man than 
one  would  at  first  suppose,  and  every 
little  feature  has  as  much  significance 
as  the  shape  and  width  of  the  lapels  of 
a coat.  This  summer,  low  shoes  are  the 
correct  form,  but  they  must  be  made  of 
black  calf  only;  no  tans,  no  kids.  The 
sole  must  be  heavy,  but  not  too  broad ; 
the  toe 
is  round,  but  not  as  wide  as 
formerly.  Many  well-dressed  men  wear 
leather  shoes  with  a  semi­
low  patent 
negligee  dress,  or  as 
it  is  sometimes 
termed,  “ dress-up  negligee.”

Making  Detroit  Famous

That’s what  V i n e b e r g ’s   P a t e n t   P o c k e t   P a n t s  
are  doing-.  Nothing  can  drop  out  of  them  and 
they  are proof against  pick-pockets.

If you  are  not  handling  our  pants  fitted  with 
the celebrated  s a f e t y   p o c k e t s   you should  do  so 
at  once,  as they are  money  makers.
S e n d   f o r   S a m p l e s .

Sold  everywhere  by  all  up-to-date clothiers.

Manufactured  only by

Vineberg’s  Patent  Pocket  Pants  Co.

Detroit,  Mich.

The

Peerless Manufacturing 

Company.

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

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

Samples displayed at  28  So.  lonii  St., Grand  Rap'ds  and 
31 and  33 Lamed  street  East,  Detroit, Michigan.

shown 
in  larger quantities  than  ever  in 
another  summer,  but  they  will  never  be 
likely  to  take  the  place  of  the  original 
styles  entirely.

The  haberdashers  are  wondering  now 
if  they  are  going  to  be  able  to  dispose 
of  all  plaited  bosom  negligee  shirts. 
Lots  of  them  have  been sold,  but  not  by 
any  means  the  quantities  that  were 
provided.  We  see  on  every  hand  sales 
of  the  plaited  bosoms,whereas  desirable 
patterns  of  plain negligees  are  frequent­
ly  hard  to  find  and  the  majority  of 
haberdashers  can  show  very  small stocks 
of  these  goods  except  occasionally  in 
very  cheap  lines.

There  is  a  feature  about  the  negligee 
shirt  part  this  season  that  has  not  been 
as  marked 
in  any  previous  years,  and 
that  is  that  you  do  not  see  the same pat­
terns  of  shirting  exhibited  by  as  many 
different  houses.  There  seems  to  be  a 
greater  disposition  to  control  the  desir­
able  styles  and  as  a  result  the  consumer 
may  pass  from  one  store  to  another  and 
in  each  place  see  an  entirely  new  line 
of  styles.  At  the-»same  time  in  each 
store  he  seems  to  find  about  the  usual 
sized  assortment  and  the  only  explana­
tion  of  this  is  that  the  shirtmakers  scat­
ter  the  patterns  over  greater  territory, 
refusing  to  sell  certain  lines  to  two  peo­
ple 
in  the  same  vicinity.  This  is  an 
excellent  idea  from  the  retailers’  point 
of  view.

The  custom  of  men  wearing  a  band 
of  black  on  the  left  arm  now  as  a  sign 
of  mourning  is  growing  in  this  country 
very  rapidly. 
It  has  long  been  the  cor­
rect  form  of  mourning  for  men  in  Eng­
land,  but  in  this  country  its  use  has  not 
been  extensive  until  within  compara­
tively  recent  years.  Until  very  lately 
it  was  never  worn  except  on  the  or­
dinary  covert  coat,  but  now  we  see  it  on 
all  kinds  of  coat  sleeves,  and  undercoat 
as  well  as  overcoat. 
Furthermore, 
women  are  adopting  it,  particularly  the 
kind  known  as  “ bachelor  girls.’ ’ 
It 
does  not  take  the  place  of  real  mourn­
ing  for  a  near  relative,  but  they  dress 
in  black,  and  when  wearing  a  covert  or 
rain  coat  it  has  the  black  band  on  the 
left  sleeve.

Speaking  of  mourning  for  men,  good 
taste  dictates  that  dark,  quiet  patterned 
clothes  be  worn,  although  not  necessar­
ily  black;  black  silk  ties,  and  black 
bands  on  hats,covering  about  two-thirds 
of  the  height.  Shirts  should  be  plain 
white,  or  black  and  white  stripes,  and 
finally  for  a  shorter  period,black gloves.
Panama  hats  have  been  adopted  by 
the  fair  sex,  and  why  not?  Expensive? 
Is  there  any  good  reason  why  a  woman 
should  not  be  entitled  to  as  good  a  hat 
as  her  husband,even  if  he  is  the “ better 
half?"  They  are  not  so  expensive 
either,  when  you  come  to  the  regular 
cost  of  millinery.  These  Panamas  may 
be  slightly  modified  to  suit  the  wearer, 
by  the  addition  of  a  feather,  quill  or 
ribbon  and  chiffon  arrangement.  Cer­
tainly  the  possibilities  of  the  Panama 
for  the  fair  sex  are  unlimited;  they  are 
becoming  to  many  and  very  convenient 
for  part  of  a negligee  dress.  This  mere­
ly  follows  in  the regular  order  of  things, 
the  adaptation  of  men’s  apparel 
to 
women.  Where  will  it  end?

Union  underwear  is  growing  rapidly 
in  popularity  with  all  classes. 
Its  use­
fulness  is  becoming  more  and  more  ap­
preciated,  and  every  season  sees  more 
and  more  lines  on  the  market  and larger 
stocks  in  the  hands  of  the  retailers. 
It 
remains  for  some  enterprising  manufac­
turer  to 
introduce  a  balbriggan  union 
suit  for  summer.  This  to  come  just  be­
low  the  knee,  ending  in  a  cuff,  and  no

Ellsworth & Thayer  M’n’f  g  Co.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Manufacturers of

Great  Western  Fur and  Fur Lined  Cloth Coats 

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rtp Kind.

We want  agent  In  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

B. B.  DOWNARD, General Salesman.

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Many a Suit  I
of  Clothing  I
has  gone  on  the  back 
of  a  dead-beat  when 
the amount could have 
been  saved  if the mer­
chant  had  been  a  sub­
scriber  to  the

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Commercial Credit Co.

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers
Some  Types  of Shoeless People Across the 

W ater.

to 

in  matters  pertaining 

immensely  appreciated  by 

Although  foot-coverings were  a  sort  of 
afterthought  of  the  primitive  man  when 
he  first  began  to  turn  his  attention  to 
the  subject  of  clothes,  something  that 
could  be  deferred  to  a  more  convenient 
season,  nevertheless  these  coverings  foi 
the  feet  came  along  in  due  season,  and 
were 
the 
first  wearers.  They,  like  all  permanent­
ly  successful  things,  began  at  the  bot­
tom,  too.  The  tailor-cynic,  who  always 
professes  to  believe  that  he  is  the  whole 
thing 
the 
adornment  of  the  human  body,  gets  in 
his  fling  here  at  the  shoemaker,  his  old 
enemy,  and  says:  “ Yes,  that  is  right, 
your  products  began  at  the  bottom  and 
they  have  stayed  there,  too.”   Just  so; 
for  that  is  their  proper  place.  But  if 
shoes  are  still  at  the  bottom,  physically, 
they  hold  to-day  a  high  place  aesthetic­
ally,  and  among  good  dressers  they  are, 
mentally,  “ out  of  sight,”   as  compared 
with  some  other  articles  of  apparel. 
The  shoemaker  long  since  ceased  to  de­
fer  to  the  tailor,  for  although  the  tailor 
had  a 
little  the  start  of  us  in  fig  leaf 
apron  triumph,  we  got  our  innings  in 
the  rawhide  sandal  which  walked  com­
fortably  on  the  rougher  ground  just  out­
side  the  Garden  of  Eden ;  and from that 
first  attempt  the  things  grew  into  shoes 
with  as  little  loss  of  time  as  the  fig-leaf 
apron  in  the  course  of  evolution  passed 
into trousers  and  skirts.

Shoes  have  stuck  to  our  feet  ever 
since,  although 
it  is  true  that  mankind 
in  some  isolated  cases,  and  often  in  a 
most  singular  manner,  have  abandoned 
the  use  of  footwear  temporarily.  V is­
ionary  reformers, 
in  fact,  have  even 
gone  so  far  as  to  advocate  their  disuse 
altogether,claiming  that  by  the  absolute 
freedom  from  covering the  feet  would  in 
time  become what  nature  intended  them 
to  be—healthy,  useful  members—and 
that  they  would  harden  and  toughen  by 
such  natural  exposure,  and  become  ca­
pable  of  resisting  cold  and  the  many 
painful snags  which  beset  the wayfarer’s 
path  through  life ;  and  this  same beauti­
ful  theory  has  been  abandoned  in  refer­
ence  to  our noble  friend,  the  horse,  and 
in  the  first  ardor  of  conversion  some 
owner  has  stripped  the 
iron  from  the 
feet  of  his  equine  friend,  and  in  a  short 
time  the  animal  has  gone  lame.

Shoes  are  temporarily  discarded 

in 
the  privacy  of  home  on  the  ground  of 
comfort.  Feet  that  have  been  pinched 
all  day 
long  by  shoes  that  would  have 
been  all  right  for  the  other  fellow,  get 
their  brief  revenge  in  kicking  off  their 
coverings  at  night.  Turkish  ladies,  in 
•the  secrecy  of  the  harem,  revel  in  bare 
toes  and 
in  the  utmost  pedal  freedom 
as  a  matter  of  comfort,  as  a  source  of 
amusement 
in  gazing  at  their  own 
pretty  feet,  or,  perhaps,  to  humor  a 
complaining  corn,  whose  appeal  is  just 
as  irresistible 
in  a  Turkish  harem  as 
elsewhere.

The  Turkish  woman  at  home  is  not 
at  all  the  Turkish  woman  abroad.  She 
takes  off  her  handsomely  decorated slip­
pers,  lets  her  dress 
loose  to  trail,  and 
draws  the  loose,flowing  trousers down  to 
the  ankles;  the  feridje,  or  cloak,  is  cast 
aside,the  yashmak,  or  veil,  is  removed, 
and 
is 
washed  from  her  face,  and  she  luxur­
iates  on  her  cushions  with  her  nargileh, 
or  cigarette,  in  perfect  abandon.

the  disfiguring  street  paint 

The  pretty  tortured  actress  pulls  off 
her  high-heeled  shoes  behind the scenes,

if  only  for  a  few  minutes  to  relieve  the 
agony  of  her cramped  feet.  The  pres­
sure  upon  the  toes  and  forward  part  of 
the  feet  in  these  stage  shoes  is  intoler­
able.  They  are  built  to  delude  the  eye 
of  the  spectator  and  to  produce  the 
effect  of  a  foreshortened  foot  in  a  paint­
ing.  Among  the  terpsichorean  artists 
where  the  feet  are  not  only  the  mechan­
ical  means  for  eliciting  applause,  but 
which  must  appear  perfect  and  petite in 
order to  appeal  to  the  admiration,  little 
deceptive  arts  are  often  practiced  where 
nature  has  not  produced  the  ideal  artis­
tic  foot.  An  unfortunate,  solid,  sub­
stantial  number  six  female  foot  is  made 
lineal  number  three  by 
to  represent  a 
means  of  the  skillful 
foreshortening 
effects,  known  to  the  stage  dresser  and 
the  specialist  shoemaker.  The  shoe  is 
ingeniously  elevated  at  the  back  in  or­
der  to  accomplish  this  special 
illusion.
The  barefooted  actress  and  danseuse 
behind  the  scenes  are  entitled  to  pity 
for  their  enforced  sufferings,  and  they 
in  no  danger of  being  regarded  as 
are 
outre 
in  this  temporary  indulgence  of 
pedal  comfort.  They  should  no  more  be 
condemned  for  wishing  to  escape  from 
their  painful  predicament  than  was  the 
wearer  of  the  high-toned,  high-heeled 
and  quite  unnatural  shaped  woman’s 
shoe  in  the  time  of  William  and  Mary.
We  do  not  know  whether  our  high- 
toned  social  clubs  of  to-day  number 
among  their  members  any  real  shoe­
makers  of  the  cobbler  grade,  or any  tail­
ors  of  the  humble  “ bushel  men's"  de­
gree,  but 
in  olden  times  club  members 
had  a  pleasant  and  loyal  way  of  patron­
izing  fellow  members  who  followed  va­
rious  crafts  among  the  useful  and 
in­
dustrial  arts. 
In  the  days  of  Addison, 
for  instance,  there  were  social  clubs  in 
which  such  artisans  formed  no  incon­
siderable  part;  and  the  rules  of  these 
club?,  among  other things,  required  that 
each  member  should  have  his  clothes 
and  his  shoes  repaired  by  a 
fellow 
member  of  the  club  in  these  callings, 
respectively.  Of  course,  this  presup­
posed 
the  presence  of  cobblers  and 
bushel  men  in  those  convivial  and  mis­
cellaneous  gatherings.  We  see  no  good 
reason  why  the  rule  should  have  been 
restricted  to  tailors  and  shoemakers,and 
why  fellow  members  in  other  trades 
should  nut  have  been  included.

The  chiropodist  and  the  shoemaker 
have  their  professional secretsf ?),  which 
they  find  it  difficult  to  keep  sometimes. 
One  of  these  “ professors”   tells  of  a 
woman 
in  the  Far  West  who,  although 
a  beautiful  creature,  with  a  small  and 
shapely  foot  to  all  outward  appearance, 
will  probably  never  go  barefooted  in 
public  from  choice;  and  yet  she  excels 
in  the  art  of  swimming,  being  web­
footed, 
from  childhood 
taken  as  naturally  as  a  duck  to  the 
water.  Here  was  a  case  in  which  the 
incentive  was  strongly  against  the  bare­
foot  habit  and  to  which  the  Kneipecure 
would  appeal  in  vain.

and  having 

But  perhaps  the  most  singular  incen­
tive  to  bare  feet  of  which  the  world  has 
any  cognizance  is  that  which  moves  the 
Mexican  vaquero  to  remove  his  foot 
coverings  when  humanity  and  common 
sense  would  plead  their  urgent  need. 
This  Mexican  cowboy  is  intensely  su­
perstitious,  and  this  weakness  sadly  in­
terferes  with  his  duty  and  his  comfort. 
A  thunderstorm  fills  him with alarm  and 
he 
it  as  a  penal  visitation 
upon  his  sins.  In  such  an  event  he  per­
mits  bis  cattle  to  stampede,  while  he 
throws himself  from  his  horse  strips  and 
lashes  his  naked  body  with  the  lacerat- 
I ing  cactus  plant  as  a  penance.  He  will

looks  upon 

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When  you see  a tough  old  customer  come  into 
your store  for  a  pair  of  shoes,  one  that  you 
know to  be  particularly  hard  on  shoes,  just  put 
a  pair of

Our  Hard  Pan

shoes  on  him.  He  won’t  come  back  kicking, 
for there are  no  shoes  made  that  will  come  up 
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Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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

made  buy  this one.

It  is  made  from  the 
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Price $1.60 wholesale.

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sometimes  walk  for  miles  barefooted 
over  the  beds  of  prickly  cactus,  with  a 
pursuing  Nemesis,  in  the  person  of  an* 
othet  cowboy  lashing  his bare  back  with 
branches  of  these  torturing  and  blood­
starting  plants.

P

Fortunately  for  our  trade  there are  not 
sufficient  inducements  to  pedal  nudity 
among  humanity  to  cause  any  serious 
alarm  among  shoe  men,  even  adding 
the  weighty  opinions  of  the  shoeless 
philosopher.  Of  course  there  will  be, 
now  and  again,  an  unhappy  mortal  who 
will  discard  a  tight  shoe  in  moments  of 
self-granted  plenary 
indulgence;  but 
even  this  wretch  will  apply  the  penance 
again  ad  libitum,  if  we  say  there  is  any 
pleasure 
self-inflicted  pain.  But 
while  so  many  of  us  favor  a  snug  fit  in 
our  own  case,  we  should  be  quite  chary 
of  censure  toward  others.  We  should, 
in  fact,  adopt  the  text,  slightly  altered: 
“ Let  him  who  is  without  tight  shoes 
cast  the  first  stone.”

in 

Nude 

feet  among  the  Turks  and 
Chinese  may  have  possessed  advan­
tages, 
in  that  this  helped  to  harden 
their  members,  thus rendering  them  cal­
lous  and  partially  insensible  to  the  pain 
inflicted  by  the  bastinado;  but  the  san­
dal  prevailed  generally  and  this  was 
easily  and  quickly  removed  for  the  ad­
ministering  of  this  unique  punishment. 
Modern  humanitarians  would  probably 
have  insisted  upon  the  retention  of  the 
sandal  during  this  cruel  and  barbarous 
penal  infliction  upon  culprits.

Many  other  singular  uses  of  the  feet, 
sans  shoes,  are  recorded  in  ancient  his­
tory.  The  following  shows  a  curious 
and  perilous  custom  in  a  foreign 
land:
In  Scutari,  on  the  Asiatic  shore of  the 
Bosphorus,  some  singular  customs  ex­
isted  which  strikingly  illustrate  the  ec­
centricities  of  pedestrianism. 
It  was 
in  the  land  of  the  “ howling dervishes, ”  
a  fanatical  sect  of  Mohammedans,whose 
muscular  contortions  are  inimitable.  At 
one  of  these  scenes,  twenty  little  boys 
and  girls  were  ushered  into  a  hall  and 
advanced  to  the  middle  of  the  room, 
where  they  were  ranged  in  a  row.  Pres­
ently  a  tall  man  entered,  wearing  a 
green  turban  and  a  blue  gown.  He  was 
a  gray-bearded  man,  in  his  stocking 
feet.  This  was  the  high  priest,  Imam, 
of  the  dervishes.  The  children  placed 
their  hands  on  their  stomachs  and  sa­
luted  him,  and  then  lay  upon  the  floor 
with  their  faces  downward,  in  a  com­
pact  row.  The  Imam  who  must  have 
weighed  200  pounds,  placed  a 
foot 
gently  on  the  thigh  of  the  first  young­
ster,  and,  steadied  by  two  attendants, 
proceeded  to  walk  over  the  row  of  pros­
trate  bodies. 
In  the  case  of  the  larger 
children  he  planted  his  foot  squarely  on 
the  small  of  the  back,and  in  the  smaller 
ones  he  would  step  on  the  thighs  for 
fear  of  breaking 
It  re­
quires 
considerable  practice  to  walk 
over  such  a  track  with  safety  to  the 
walker  and  the  living  track.  But  the 
is  used  to  this  sort  of  thing  and 
Imam 
knows 
just  how  to  step  without  danger 
to  himself  or  the  roadbed.  This  is  con­
sidered  a  great  honor  by  the  children, 
and  after the  ceremony  they would jump 
up  smiling  and  kiss  his  patronizing 
hand.

their  spines. 

But  the  professional  dancing  boys  of 
Persia  get  more  fun  out  of  life  with  far 
less  risk  than  the  former  little  martyrs. 
Their  heel-and-toe  calisthenics  are  em­
ployed  for  the  delectation  of  the  king. 
Only  handsome  boys are selected for  this 
purpose  and  when  dressed  in  costume, 
look  pretty  much  like  girls.  Out  of 
dancing  costume  a  Persian'  governor’s 
boy 
looks  .like  this:  “ A  tall  hat  of 
black,  lambskin,  a  coat  of  green  silk, 
fitting  as  tightly  about  the  body  as  the 
skin  of  a  bologna  sausage,  changing  at 
the  waist  to  a  full  skirt  that  stands  out 
horizontally;  a  pair  of 
loose-legged 
black  trousers  to  the  middle  of  the

calves,  and  white  embroidered  socks 
and  red  slippers,  with  sharp,  turned-up 
toes  covering  his  shapely  feet.”

in  the  mechanical 

Of  course,  we  must  include  among 
shoeless  people  those  who  use  their  feet 
as  hands 
trades. 
Moderns  lay aside  their  gloves  when  be­
ginning  their  work,  while  the  ancients 
put  off  their  sandals 
in  order  to  use 
their  toes.  The  ancient  sandal  was 
conducive  to  the  freedom  and  pliability 
of  the  feet,  and  favorable  to  the  grasp­
ing  propensity  of  the  toes.  The  old 
Egyptian  could  bold  a  strap  of  leather 
with  his  toes,  making  the  feet  assist  the 
hands  in  various  ways.  Women  and 
men  of  rank  paid  great  attention  to 
their  footgear,  and  some  of  the  middle 
classes  who  could  not  obtain  handsome 
ones  prefered  to  go  barefooted  rather 
than  wear  mean  sandals.

Ever  since  Adam  broke  in  his  first 
pair,  shoes  have  been  growing  popular, 
and  few  of  bis  successors  went  barefoot 
from  choice.  Moses  laid  his  aside  on 
the  memorable  occasion  of  the  “ burn­
ing  bush,”   when  he  was  commanded  to 
“ Put  oS  thy  shoes  from oS  thy  feet;  for 
the  place  whereon  thou  standest  is  holy 
ground.”

But 

in  all  the  history  of  shoes  and 
shoemaking we  look  in  vain  for  a  single 
instance 
in  which  a  person  went  half 
shod,  that  is,  with  only  one  shoe  when 
there  were  two  feet  to  cover;  and  for 
this  the  shoemaker  is  grateful. 
In  fact, 
the  old  cobbler  of  a  meditative  turn  of 
mind  says:  “ What  a  blessed  thing 
it 
is  for  our  craft  that  man  should  have 
been  created  with  two  feet  instead  of 
one. ”

No  company  of  shoe  wearers  to-day, 
in  respect  to  their  footwear,  would  pre­
sent  such  a  spectacle  as  did  Falstaff’s 
company  of  scarecrows  in  the  matter  of 
shirts,  and  of  whom  he  exclaimed: 
“ There's  but  a  shirt  and  a  half  in  all 
my  company;  and  the  half  shirt  is  two 
napkins,  tacked  together  and  thrown 
over  the  shoulderes,  like  a  herald’s  coat 
without  sleeves.” —E.  A.  Boyden  in 
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Reversing  the  Usual  Order.

“ You  ought  to  have  a  change  of 
scene,”   said  the  physician.
“ But,  my  dear  sir,”   protested  the 
patient,  “ 1  am  a  traveling  man  by  pro­
fession. "
“ Well,  that’s  the  point.  Stay  home 
awhile  and  see  something  besides  hotel 
rooms  and  depots.”

Guardians

The Michigan Trust Co. fills 
all the requirements of a guard­
ian both of  person  and  estate. 
We 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.

We  would  be  pleased  to  have  every  shoe  merchant  in 

the  State  carefully  inspect  and  compare  our

( t Custom Made Shoes

with  any  they  may  be handling.  The  season  is  fast  ap­
proaching  when  such  a  line  as  ours  will  meet  the  de­
mands  of  those  who  are  looking  for  a

F IR ST   CLASS  W O R KIN G  SH OE

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

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

Your Working Man’s Trade
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is  a  paying  por- 
tion of your busi­
ness  if you  sell  a 
superior  article 
at  a  p o p u l a r  
price.

The widely ad­
vertised  Marconi 
Shoe  exactly  fits 
t h i s   condition.
The  leather used  both  in  sole  and  upper  is  spe­
cially  tanned  to  give  requisite  resistance  to 
hardest  wearing  conditions.  Has  a  bellows 
tongue,  double  sole  and  extra quality 
kangaroo  calf  upper.  Price.............

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  th e  Principal 

. Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Heavy  brown  sheet­
ings  and  drills  are  dull,  and  outside  of 
the  leading  brands  there  is  more  or  less 
irregularity.  Ducks  and  brown  osna- 
burgs  have  shown  no  change  this  week. 
There  is  little  change  to  note  in  coarse 
colored  cottons,  although  the  prices  of 
tickings  which  were  reported  as  irregu­
lar  last  week,  have  steadied to  a  consid­
erable  degree.  Other  coarse  colored 
cottons, 
denims,  plaids, 
cheviots,  checks  and  stripes  are  steady 
and  firm.  Bleached  cottons  in  medium 
and  fine  grades  show  no  change, but  low 
grades  have  stiffened  materially,  owing 
to  the  firmer  attitude  in  the  market  for 
gray  goods.

including 

Prints  and  Ginghams— Printed  cali­
coes  have  shown  a  fair-business  during 
the  last  week  as  far  as  the  total  is  con­
cerned,  but  they  consist  of  a  good  num­
ber of  small  orders.  Buyers  are  not  tak­
ing  any  material  amount  of  any  one 
style,  either  fancies  or  staples. 
The 
tone  of  the  market  has  shown  no  change 
and  previous  prices  prevail  through­
out.  Printed  flannelettes  are  quite  firm 
lines,  but  there  are 
in  ail  desirable 
some 
to  be  had  “ at  a 
price.”   Percales  are  firm  but  steady 
in  the  leading  makes.  All  new  printed 
specialties  are  firm,  and  the  outlook  for 
next  season's  business  is  good.  Woven 
patterned  fabrics  are  well  sold  up  and 
in  excellent  shape  and  the  demand  is 
larger  than  the  mills  can  take  care  of  at 
the  time  deliveries  are  wanted.

lots  of  them 

Linings—Cotton 

linings  are  showing 
irregularity 
in  many  directions.  The 
demand  is  limited  from  both  the  cloth­
ing  and  dry  goods  trade.  There  is  no 
change  to  note 
in  the  market  for  kid- 
finished  cambrics.  The  demand  has 
been  for  small  quantities  at  previously- 
quoted  prices,  although  sellers  would 
be  easy  with  buyers,  placing  contracts 
for  large  quantities.  There  is  a  moder­
ate  demand  coming  forward  for  high- 
grade  finishes  in  mercerized  and  simi­
lar  goods.

It 

Wool  Dress  Goods— Conditions  in  the 
dress  goods  market  are  just  what  they 
might  be  expected  to  be  at  this  time  of 
the  year.  Quiet  conditions  prevail  all 
along  the  line  as  far  as wool and worsted 
goods  are  concerned,  cotton  goods  of 
the  novelty  order  and  the  general  run 
of  wash  fabrics  occupying  the  center  of 
the  stage. 
is  essentially  a  waiting 
period 
in  the  initial  wool  and  worsted 
dress  goods  market  with 
indications 
pointing  to  no  immediate  developments 
that  are  likely  to  give  rise  to  more  ac­
tive  and 
interesting  conditions.  The 
time  is  not  yet  ripe  for  active  develop­
ments  in  connection  with  spring  goods 
or  for  an  active  and  substantial  dupli­
cate  order  business  on  fall  fabrics  from 
jobbers  and  the  cutting-up  trade.  A 
retrospective  view  of  the  developments 
of  the  women’s  wear  fabric  business 
since  the  opening  of  the  fall  lines, while 
bringing  to  light  a number of unpleasant 
factors  perhaps  as  viewed  by  certain 
manufacturing 
interests,  also  discloses 
much  that 
is  of  an  encouraging  and 
pleasing  character;  in  fact,  in  the  main 
the  mills  engaged  on  women's  wear 
goods  have  met  with  substantial  success 
so  far  as  initial  and  early  repeat  order 
business  is  concerned.  Perhaps  nothing 
speaks better  of  the  present  condition  of 
the  market  as  a  whole  than  the  general 
firmness  that  characterized  it.

Underwear— Buyers  are  experiencing

difficulty  now  in  regard  to  heavyweight 
business.  Fleeces  are  very  hard  to  get 
hold  of.  The  demand  has  been  strong 
enough  to  clean  up  the  product  of  prac­
tically  all  the  leading  mills  for the  sea­
son  and  many  other  lines  are  drawing 
near  to  that  same  condition.  To  be 
sure,  there  are  still  a  good  many  makes 
that  may  be  secured  at  regular  prices, 
but  they  are  growing 
less  every  day. 
Men’s  ribbed  goods are also  getting  into 
this  same  condition  and  many  houses 
have  been  compelled  to  refuse  business 
and  have  been  turning  away  orders  this 
week.  Regular  wool  goods  are  not 
quite  as  well  situated,  but  the  trading 
has  improved  recently,  as  we  stated  it 
was  likely  to  do  in  a recent report.  Buy­
ers  are  beginning  to  realize  that  it  will 
be  necessary  to  pay  the  advances  if they 
propose  to  have  the  goods  this  season, 
and  as  a  result  orders  are  coming  to 
hand  in  fairly  good  shape.

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Mackinaw  and  Duck  Coats  |j
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W e  have  some  of the  greatest values 
in  Mackinaw  and  Duck  Coats  ever 
shown  and  they  are  made  to  fit. 
Mackinaw  Coats;  Duck  Coats,  rub- 
ber lined;  Covert Coats,flannel lined; 
Covert  Coats,  sheep  lined.  Prices 
ranging from  $7.50  to  $36  a  dozen. 
Ask  our travelers to  show  their  line. 

Wholesale  Dry Goods 

P.  Steketee  &  Sons

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

© T n m rry rin n m rirB  g mnt tn m n rg Y T n nn rE T n roT T F im m ryy^

Hosiery—Spring  hosiery 

is  being 
shown  now  by  a  number of  houses  and a 
good  many  orders  have  already  been 
booked.  The  market  may  be  said  to  be 
practically  open,  although  there 
are 
still  many  lines  that  will  not  be  shown 
for  a  week  or  two.  The  early  buying, 
while  it 
is  of  fair  proportions,  has  not 
been  of  a  nature  to  encourage  the  belief 
that  it  is  going  to  be  a  lively  one.  On 
the  contrary,  there  are  many  who  pre­
dict  a  slow  season;  not  but  what  plenty 
of  goods  will  be  sold  before  the  end, 
but  it  will  take  a  good  while  to  do  it. 
It  is  rather  early  to  show  these  goods 
and  expect  big  business,  yet  as  there 
are  many  buyers  in  town  and more com­
ing  by  every  train,  it 
is  natural  that 
the  agents  should  wish  to  take  advan­
tage  of  the  situation.  Prices  as  a  mat­
ter  of  fact  are  practically  on  last  year's 
basis.  Advances  have  been  named  on 
many  lines,  but agents  on the  road claim 
that  they  can  not  secure  these advances. 
They  do  not,  however,  say  that  they 
have  not  accepted  orders  at  last  year’s 
quotations,  which 
is  said  on  good 
authority  that  they  have  done.  As  far 
as  the  manufacturer  is  concerned,  the 
yarn  question 
is  going  to  be  a  serious 
one  to  him,  unless  he  can  secure  good 
advances  on  his 
lines,  or  the  cost  of 
yarns 
is  lowered.  Buyers  who  are  se­
curing  goods  at  to-day’s  prices  will  un­
doubtedly  find 
it  impossible  to  dupli­
cate  at  these  prices  and  the  result  will 
be  a 
lot  of  kicking  when  that  time 
comes.

it 

Carpets—The  carpet  trade  continues 
in  a  very  healthy position, both  from  the 
manufacturer’s  as  well  as  the  jobber's 
standpoint.  Mills,  as  a  rule,  have  all 
they  can  attend  to  this  season,  and  even 
at  such  an  early  period  as  the  present 
time  they  are  obliged  in  a  number  of 
instances  to  refuse  more  business  until 
November.  Selling  agents  on  the  road 
have  found  that  it  requires  very  little 
amount  of  effort  to  do  business  this  sea­
son  and  their  trips 
this  time  will  be 
shortened  considerably.  Manufacturers 
of  three-quarter  goods  on  July  15  made 
quite  a  general  advance  in  all 
lines  of 
goods;  velvets  advanced  5@ l%c  per 
increase 
yard  and  tapestries  showed  an 
of  2j^c.  This  had  been  contemplated 
some  little  time  owing  to  the  increase 
in  the  cost  of  labor  and  materials.  Vel­
vets  now,  it  is  believed,  are  on  a  good 
solid  basis  and  should  meet  with  satis­
in  all  quarters.  Wiltons  are  a 
faction 
trifle  higher  in  price  and 
in  good  re­
quest.  Tapestries  thus  far  have  been 
one  of  the  leaders,  quite  unlike  last  sea­
son.  The  Philadelphia 
ingrain  weav­
ers  increased  their  prices  in  accordance 
with  the  advance  made  by  three-quarter

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 
Half Dollars’ worth of  Ready  Made  Clothing.  My  establishment  has  proven  a  great 
benefit, as dozens of respectable  retail  clothing  merchants  can  testify,  who  come  here 
often from all parts of the State  and  adjoining  States,  as  they  can  buy  from  the  very 
cheapest that is made to the highest grade  of  goods.  I  represent  eleven  different  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%7130 a.  m.  to  6  p.  m.  except  Saturday,  then  7:30 
a. m. to  1  p. m.

V IN EB ER G   P A T E N T   PO C K ET  PA N TS,  proof against pickpockets.

P A N TS of every kind and for all  ages.  Sole  Agent  for  Western  Michigan  for  the 
Citizens phone, 1957;  Bell phone,  Main  1282; Residence address, room  ¿07,  Livingston 

Hotel;  Business address
WILLIAM  CONNOR,  28  and  30  S.  Ionia  S t., 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.

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

“Sure Catch”  Minnow Trap

Length,  199$ inches.  D iam eter, 93j inches.

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

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

113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MILES  HARDWARE  CO.

DEMANDS  RECOGNITION

Simple comparison justifies the claim 
of superiority of the “ World’s  Only ”
Sanitary  Dustless  Floor  Brush 
over  other  sweeping  methods.  The 
sanitary feature  demands  the  recog­
nition  of  discriminating  men.  Send 
for a trial brush—keep it at  list price 
If wanted or return at our  expense. 
Mil w a u k e e   Du st l e ss  Brush Co. 
121 Sycamore St., Milwaukee, Wis.

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mills  on  July  5.  Good  extra  supers  are 
quoted  on  a  half-dollar  basis  and  plenty 
of  business  has  been  booked at that rate. 
Ingrains  of  the  cheaper  grades  are  in 
free  demand  and  a  majority  of  the 
looms  of  the  country  are  running  full  on 
the  same.  Granite  and  cotton  ingrains 
are  fairly  active  at  firm  prices.

Rugs—The  fine  Wilton  and  5-frame 
body  Brussel  rugs,  made  up  and  woven, 
continue  in  as  large request as  formerly. 
Many  makers  have  more  than  they  can 
attend  to  even  at  more  advantageous 
rates.  Rugs,  9x12  feet,  selling  from 
$18  to  $25,  are  the  leaders.  In Philadel­
phia  and  vicinity,  owing  to  the  long- 
drawn-out  struggle  with  the  rug  work­
ers, 
the  makers  have  been  seriously 
handicapped  in  getting  out  their orders. 
It  is  said,  however,  that  some  of  the 
mills  are  likely  to  start  up  this  week.

Panaceas  F o r'A ll  Ills.

The  man  who  took  Electric  Bitters 
and  bad electric  lights has been outdone. 
The  prodigy  who  grips  the  bun  says:

“ 1  was  born  bald-headed and couldn't 
spell  hair  until  I  came  across  Dr. 
I  bought  a  bottle, 
Knob’s  restorative. 
and 
into  a  briar 
patch  and  broke  the  bottle  and  the  next 
day  the  thicket  was  full  of  hairs."

in  going  home  fell 

Here's  another  that 

is  simple  and 
beautiful:  "During  five  years  of  my 
life  I  had  only  one  leg. 
I  consulted 
numerous  physicians,  but  they  did  me
no  good.  Finally  I  consulted  D r .----
and  he  pulled  my  one  leg  until  now  it 
is  long  enough  for  three."

This 

is  from  a  man  who  appears  to 
have  been  badly  off:  " I  
lost  all  my 
blood  in  a  sausage  factory,  and  nothing 
did  me  any  good until  I  took  Dr.  Gore’s 
remedy  and  found  such  improvement 
then  my 
in  my  blood 
daughter  has 
the  Colonial 
Dames. ”

that  since 
joined 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Nod  writes:  "F or  a 
number  of  years  I  suffered  from  insom­
nia,  but  after  using  two  bottles  of  your 
famous  remedy  I  put  my  congregation 
to  sleep. ”

is  one  from  a  woman  who  now 
Here 
in  a  fair  state  of  health :  " I  
appears 
was  so  lean  that  I  could  have  traveled 
as  the  living  skeleton,  but  I  took  eight 
bottles  of  your  medicine  and  now  have 
so  much  flesh  that  when  I  go to a theater 
they  think  I  am  a  box  party."

She  W ore  Socks.

From the Philadelphia Record.

A  richly  attired  woman  was  driven  in 
her brougham  up  to  the  curb in front of a 
fashionable  jeweler's  establishment  on 
Chestnut  street  yesterday  morning.  The 
footman  hastened  to  open  the  carriage 
door  for  her,  but  as  she  alighted  her 
skirts  caught  on  the  hinge,  and  there 
was  a  generous  display  of 
lingerie  and 
hosiery.  So  conspicuous  was  the  inci­
dent  that  the  attention  of  the  passers-by 
was  attracted,  and  people  could not help 
but  notice  and  comment  upon  the  fact 
that the woman  instead of  wearing  stock­
ings,  had  on  white  socks,  such  as 
little 
children  wear.  This  accidental  display 
was  startling,  to  say  the  least.  One man 
who  took  in  the  situation  did  not  seem 
surprised.  He 
is  employed  in  a  store 
where  much  hosiery  is  sold.

"Lots  of  women  are wearing half-hose 
now,"  he  said. 
" I   suppose  coolness  is 
the  object  to  be  desired,  but  this woman 
has  demonstrated  that  an  exposure  is 
sometimes  bound  to  occur.  Still  that 
would  not  happen  often.  How  do  they 
keep 
’em  up?  Why,  with  garters,  of 
course—garters  such  as  men  wear,  only 
much  lighter  and  more  delicate.”

A  four-year-old  boy  eating  green  corn 
was  bothered  with  the  silk  which  got 
" I   wish,”   he  said, 
fast 
"whoever  made  this  corn  had pulled out 
the  basting  threads.”

in  his  teeth. 

More  Care  in  the  Purchase  of  Rubbers.
A  great  many  shoe  retailers  are  care­
less  about  their  rubber  stock.  They 
consider  rubbers  a  sort  of  necessary  evil 
and  only  buy  them  because  they  are 
forced  to  it  by  the  demands  of  their 
trade.  A  lot  of  them  say,  " I   would  not 
handle  rubbers  at  all  if  I  did  not  have 
to. 

I  think  they  are  a  nuisance."

When  you  hear  a  man  talking  that 
way  you  can  wager  he  is  not  handling 
rubbers  right  or  handling  the  right  rub­
bers.  He  probably  buys  in  a  haphazard 
way  and  makes  no  special  effort  to keep 
his  stock  clean.  He  waits  for  the  de­
mand  to  come 
instead  of  creating  it. 
He 
loses  a  lot  of  sales  because  his  as­
sortment  is  limited.

Rubber  stock  should  have  as  much 
consideration  as  any  other  department 
in  the  house.  A  stock  list  should  be 
kept  and  checked  up  every  week  during 
the  rubber  season.  Sizes  ought  to  be 
kept  well  assorted. 
It  is  not  good  pol­
icy  to  buy  heavily,  but  the  stock  should 
be  sufficiently large  to meet all demands.
A  jobber  of  St.  Louis  speaking  of  the 
carelessness  with  which  some  retailers 
bought  rubbers,  said :

little 

Lots  of  them  delay  buying,  put  off 
our  salesmen  and  say  they  will  buy 
when  they  come  to  market.  When  they 
do  come  to  market  they  come  in  to  see 
us  and  look  through  our  rubbers  to  buy. 
They  have  very 
idea  what  they 
want  or  need.  They  have  no  memoran­
dum  book  of  goods  needed.  So  the 
salesman  suggests  this,  that  and  the 
other,  and  the  order  is  written  up  at 
random. 
It  is  no  fault  of  the  salesman 
if  the  goods  are  not  assorted  properly. 
He  does  the  best  he  can  with  little  aid 
from  the  merchant  to  get  up  an  order 
that  will  be  satisfactory.  We  have many 
kicks  for  the  reason tbat the stock of rub­
bers  ordered 
is  not  the  assortment 
wanted.  1  would advise  any  retailer who 
is  coming  to  market  to make out a list  of 
rubber  goods  wanted  as  carefully  as  he 
makes  out  his  list  of  shoes  or  dry  goods 
wanted.  He  should 
look  through  his 
stock  on  hand  and  note  sizes  he  has. 
He  should  buy  to  fill 
in  the  missing 
sizes  and  buy  sufficient  new  goods  to 
make  his  stock  complete.

Thete 

is  food  for  reflection  in  this 

talk.  Retailers,  think  it  over.

Em ploy  One  Man  to  Do  T heir  Baying.
Des  Moines,  July  26—The  first  suc­
cessful  combination  of  retail  merchants 
for  buying  purposes  is  now  engaged  in 
doing  business  in  Iowa.  This  is  a  com­
bination  of  firms  of  dry  goods  dealers 
in  Mount  Ayr,  Audubon,  Storm  Lake, 
Ida  Grove,  Hartley,  Spirit  Lake,  Spen­
cer,  Belmond  and  other  cities  of  the 
State  under _  the  name  of  the  North­
western  Buyers’  Association.  The  As­
sociation  sends  a  competent  buyer  to 
Des  Moines  on  a  certain  day,  semi­
annually, and others for succeeding  days, 
and  the representatives of jobbing houses 
and  manufacturers  are  notified  to  be 
present  and  offer  their  wares.  The pur­
chases  for  the  entire  group  of  business 
houses  are  made  at  one  time  and  in 
bulk,  with  shipments  to  be  divided. 
Samples  are  submitted  by  mail  in  ad­
is  possible.  The 
vance  whenever  that 
semi-annual  purchase  time 
is  at  band 
and  the  buying 
is  now  beip'g  done. 
The  Association  is reported to have gone 
beyond  the  experimental  stage,  and  its 
success  means  the  formation  of  other 
similar  combinations  of  purchasers  to 
meet  the  combinations of manufacturers.

H is  Occupation.

"H aven’t  you 

any  occupation?" 
asked  the  woman  at  the  kitchen  door, 
after  listening  to  his  tale  of  woe.

"Yes,  ma’am,”   responded  the  hobo, 

" I ’m  a  hunter.”

" A   hunter?  Of  what?”
"Grub,  ma’am.”

How  did  Jonah  feel  when  the  whale 
swallowed  him?  He  felt  down  in  the 
mouth  and  went  to  blubber.

(A  New One

JIAnd a  good  one  at  that. 

surprises  us.  Let  us  send  a  sample 
dozen.

It’s  a  four 
hook,  white  batiste  corset,  well  boned,

I-   at  $4.50  per  dozen.  The  value  offered 

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Formerly Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co.

Exclusively  W holesale.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

local  dealers  that 

Butter  and  Eggs
Observations  by a  G otham   Egg  Man.
Returning  to  the  New  York  egg  mar­
ket  after  an  absence  of  three  weeks  the 
egg  man  finds  some  developments  in 
the  situation  worthy  of  notice.  Toward 
the  close  of  June  there  was  a  general 
feeling  among 
it 
would  very  soon  be  necessary  to  go  to 
the  refrigerators  for  fine  eggs ;  in  fact, 
at  that  time  some  of  the  trade  were  be­
ginning  to  use  a  few  lots  from cold  stor­
age, the  supply  of  fancy  qualities  among 
the  current  arrivals  being  scarcely equal 
to  requirements. 
But  the  necessity 
of  piecing  out  the supply with held stock 
has  proved 
inconsiderable  up  to  this 
time.  There  has  been  no  increase  in 
receipts  of  fresh  eggs—on  the  contrary 
it  is  evident  that  the  July  arrivals  will 
show  about  the  normal  decrease  as  com­
pared  to  June— and  there  has  been  a 
material  deterioration  in  average  qual­
ity  and  an  increase  of  waste.  But  while 
these  were  the  features  that  were  ex­
pected  to  throw  part  of  the  trade  upon 
the  reserve  stocks,  this  has  not  been  the 
result 
considerable  extent. 
Doubtless  the  natural  decrease  in  con­
sumptive  requirements  incident  to  the 
midsummer  season  has  been  sufficient 
to  keep  the  reduced  supply  of  fine  eggs 
in  current  arrivals  about  equal  to  trade 
needs. 
In  fact,  while  there  has  been  a 
small  quantity  of  held  stock  taken  out 
by  dealers  who  were  disposed  to  take 
present  profits  rather  than  the  chances 
of  the  future,  we  learn  that  there  has 
been  a  small  inward  movement  to  cold 
storage  and  also  that  during  the  past 
three  weeks  rather  more  eggs  have  been 
put  away  than  have  been  taken  out.

to  any 

While  there  has  been  no  reduction  of 
stored  eggs  up  to  this  writing  holders 
continue  generally  very  confident  as  to 
the  outcome.  The  deterioration  in  qual­
ity  of  current  receipts  has  been  most 
noticeable  during  the  past  ten  days  and 
toward  the  close  dealers  are  again  ex­
periencing  some  difficulty  in  getting  a 
supply  of  fancy  goods  from  the  fresh 
arrivals.  This 
leads  to  the  belief  that 
storage  eggs  may  soon  have  to  be  used 
more  freely,  and  some  dealers  who  put 
away 
little  or  no  reserve  stock  of their 
own  owing  to  the  high  prices  that  pre­
vailed  during  April  and  May,  are 
showing  a  disposition  to  buy  now 
against  the  possibility  of  higher  prices 
later.  As  a  rule,  however,  the 
firm 
views  of  holders  of  fancy  April  pack­
ings  are  a  bar  to  important  present 
business  in  refrigerator  eggs.  A  good 
many  buyers  could  be  found  for  fine 
April  stock  at  2o@2oj£c  and  two  or 
three  good  sized  lines  have  been  taken 
as  high  as  21c;  buyers  are  not  generally 
willing  to  pay  the  latter  figure  and  yet 
most  holders  of  superlative  quality  are 
not  at  all  anxious  to  sell  at  that.  The 
goods  offered  at  20c  are  chiefly  May 
packings.

The  main  strength  of  the  situation 
seems  to  be  based  upon  a  general  be­
lief  that  total  storage  holdings  are  con­
siderably 
less  than  last  year,  that  there 
is  a  very  large  reduction  in  the  quan­
tity  of  inferior  qualities  in  storage,  and 
upon  the  evident  fact  that  consumptive 
markets  are  able  to  maintain  a  normal 
absorption  of  stock  in  spite  of  the  rel­
atively  high  prices  prevailing.— N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.
Cheaper M eat  Prices  P revail  in  Boston.
Boston,  July  26—In  the  opinion  of 
local  marketmen  and  packing  house 
representatives 
the  prevailing  high 
prices  on  provisions,  beef  in  particular,

soon  will  begin  to  scale  down.  The 
marketmen  look  for  a  reaction  from  the 
early  swell  in  the  market  of  range  cattle 
and  the  severely  diminished  demand 
for  meat.  The  logical  effect  of  the  un­
usual  activity  on  the  cattle  ranges  is 
already  felt  in  Boston.  Comparatively 
heavy  shipments  of  beef  have  come  this 
week.  Thirty carloads  came  this  morn­
ing,  forty-two  arrived  yesterday,  and 
there  were  nineteen  cars  of  beef  at  the 
railroad  stations 
Last 
week  the  shipments  were  quite  heavy, 
one  day  equaling  and  another day  ex­
ceeding  the  amounts that  arrived  during 
the  corresponding  days  a  year  ago.

last  Monday. 

last  year,  while 

During  the  first  week  of  the  present 
month  the  receipts  amounted  to  174  cars 
as  against  304  for  the  corresponding 
week 
last  week's  fig­
ures  were  more  than  two-thirds  as  large 
as  those  of  a  year  ago.  Some  of  this  is 
intended  for  export,  but  the  bulk  of  it 
has  been  placed  on  the  local  market 
and  exceeds  the  demand  by a wide  mar­
gin.  Summer 
resorts  are  depended 
upon  for a  big  trade  at  this  time  of  the 
year  and  the  beaches  usually  cater  to  a 
lucrative  transient  business;  but  this 
summer  they  have  so  few  people  to  feed 
that  their  orders  for  poultry  and  fine 
cuts  of meat  amount to  very  little. 
It  is 
a  well-known  fact  that  people  as  a  rule 
are  less 
in  their  allowance  for 
meat  when  they  stay  at  home;  hence 
the  demand  on  the  market 
is  not  so  j 
great  as 
if  the  trade  were  transferred 
to  the  beaches.  That  is  what  the  mar­
ketmen  say.

liberal 

Because  of  this  lull  in  the  trade  the 
stock  remains  on  the  market,  and  this 
has  a  tendency  to  weaken  the  prices. 
Some  of  the  wholesale  dealers  have  a 
large  stock  on  hand  and  expect  to  be 
compelled  to  shade  prices  in  order  to 
dispose  of  it,  for  new  beef  is  coming  in 
every  day.  They  usually  hold  on  to  a 
stiff  price  during  the  early  part  of the 
week,  compromising  with  the  retail 
dealers  a  little  at  the  close  if  necessary 
in  order  to  find  an  outlet,  and  if  they 
come  down  as  much  as  a  cent  a  pound 
they  enable  the  retail  dealers  to give 
the  consumers  some  benefit  of the reduc­
tion.

little 

One  of  the  dealers 

in  poultry  says 
that  there 
is  no  demand  whatever  for 
his  goods,  although  this  is  a  season  in 
looked  for  a  good  busi­
which  he  bad 
ness.  Prices  are  even  a 
lower 
than  they  were  a  year  ago,  and  in  the 
absence  of customers  the  fowls will have 
to  be  packed  away  in  cold  storage.
The  trade  in  ham  has  developed 

im­
mensely 
in  the  course  of  a  few  weeks. 
Already  this year  the  Boston  market  has 
taken  a  million  pounds  more  than  dur­
ing  the  corresponding  period  last  year, 
it  is  fair  to  assume  that  the  expor­
and 
tation 
is  no  heavier  now  than  then. 
The 
increase  has  become  particularly 
noticeable  in  the  last  few  weeks.  In  the 
month  of  June  1,130,210  pounds  were 
shipped  to  Boston,  while 
in  the  same 
month  a  year  ago  there  came  only  781,- 
687 pounds.  To-day's  arrivals  amounted 
to  58,460  pounds,  as  against  only  2,200 
pounds  during  the  corresponding  day 
last  year,  but  in  this  particular  instance 
the  disproportion  is  too  large  to  be  rep­
resentative,  as 
it  may  happen  that to­
morrow’s  shipments  are  considerably 
smaller;  but  the  total  for  the  month 
promises  to  be  much 
larger  than  last 
year.

“ Only  that  which 

gain” —the  rest  is  velvet.

is  honestly  got  is 

Don’t  Kick

IF  YOUB  RETURNS  OF

BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY

are not  satisfactory,  but  try

Lamson  &  Co.

Blackstone St.,  BOSTON.

DO  YOU  WANT

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

Ship now to

L  0.  SNEDECOR  &  SON,

Egg Receivers, 
Est. 1866.  Reference N. Y. Nat Ex. Rank

36 Harrison St., N. Y.

Boston  is the best  market  for

Butter,  Eggs and  Beans

and  Fowle,  Hibbard  &  Co.

is the  house that can  get 
the  highest  market price.

SH IP   Y O U R

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

-TO-

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

and  be  sure  of  getting  the  Highest  Market  Price.

Good weather now to sell

Watermelons  and  Lemons

To  get the best stock and  prices send  your orders to

The Vinkemulder Company,

We can handle your huckleberries to your advantage.

14 and  16 Ottawa Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Bushels,  Half  Bushels  and  Covers;  Berry  Crates  and  Boxes;
Climax Grape and  Peach Baskets.
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Citizens Phone 1881.

«I WE  (GUARANTEE

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

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

«1. Robinson,Manager. 

Benton  Harbor.Michigan.

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1 7

The New York Market
Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  July  26—The  speculative 
coffee  market  has  been  a  lively  affair 
for  a  week  or so,  but  the  effort  to  bull 
the  market 
in  the  face  of  the  tremen­
dous  supplies  does  not  seem  to  meet 
with  any great  degree  of  success  and,  as 
matters  stand  at  the  moment,  the 
‘  un­
der  dog  is  on  top.”   The  actual  coffee 
market  has  been  without  excitement 
and  the  demand  is  simply  of  the  usual 
weekly  character.  Rio  No.  7  is  worth 
5  4-ioc  and  how 
it  can  be  forced  any 
higher,  in  view  of  the  statistical  posi 
tion,  is  a  mystery— unless  the  cornerers 
have  a  big 
lot  of  money,  and  un­
doubtedly  they  do  have  a  good  round 
sum.  In store  and  afloat  there are 2,578,- 
345  bags.  Mild  coffees  are 
in  light 
supply  here  and  little  is  on  the  way. 
that  the  market  is  firm  and Good Cucuta 
last  week  or  8%c. 
is  X c  higher  than 
Nothing  is  doing  in  East  Indias.

The  tea  market  remains  very  steady 
and  no  concessions  are  made  to  effect 
sales. 
Eleven  hundred  packages  of 
Formosa  new  crop  to  arrive  were  sold 
day  before  yesterday  on  private  terms. 
Dealers  are  content  with  the  present 
outlook  and  think  there  will  be  a  con­
tinuation  of  present  strength 
in  this 
market.

is 

is 

Jobbers  seem  to  think  they  can  pur­
chase  fair supplies  of  refined  sugar  now 
without  feeling  that  the  price  may  at 
any  moment  take  a  tumble.  As  a  result 
more  sales  have  been  made  than  for 
some  time  and,  upon  the  whole,  the 
market 
fairly  active.  The  wet 
weather  has  hindered  canning  opera­
tions  somewhat  in  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  and  this  has,  perhaps,  curtailed 
the  demand  somewhat,  but  it  is  little.

is  firm  all  around,  with  most 
demand  for  the lower  sorts  o f‘ ‘ domestic 
Japan.”   Exporters  are  doing  some 
trading  and,  upon  the  whole,  the  mar­
ket 
in  favor  of  the  seller,  although 
quotations  are  practically  the  same  as  a 
week  ago.

Rice 

With  the  exception  of  pepper,  which 
is  decidedly  firm  and  growing  more  so 
all  the  time,  there  is  nothing  worthy  of 
note 
in  spices,  although  the  general 
tone  of  the  market  is  on  the  seller’s 
side.  Singapore pepper, i i | ^ @ I 2 c  :  West 
Coast, 
iiX @ u ^ c .  Other  prices  are 
without  change.
For  the  time  of  year  the  demand  for 
molasses  is  fair.  Supplies  of  medium 
grades  are  not  overabundant  and  the 
market  generally 
in  favor  of  the 
seller.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal,  17© 
27c;  open  kettle,  33041c;  fancy  Puerto 
Rico,  30031c.  Syrups  are  steady,  but 
the  volume  of  business  is  not  large. 
Good  to  prime,  i 6 @ 2 0 c .

is 

Canned  tomatoes,  as  expected,  took  a 
great  tumble  and  the  market  is  quiet 
with  3s  Maryland  pack  worth  about 95c. 
Some  as  much  as  $1.  The  yield  of 
tomatoes  in  New  Jersey  is  all  that  could 
be  desired  as  to  quality  and  quantity. 
The  canneries  are  simply rushing things 
and  the  outlook  is  for  a  good  big  pack 
there  and  in  the  Peninsula  as  well.  The 
market,  however,  is  well  able  to  take 
care  of  all  that  will  be  put  up.  The 
floods  up-State  have  upset  calculations 
as  to  the  pea  pack  and  it  is  stated  by 
those  who  have  been  over the  territory 
that  not  over  50  per cent,  or  at  most  75 
per  cent,  of  a  pack  can  be  hoped  for. 
Salmon 
is  selling  in  an  active  manner 
and,  with  supplies  here  light,  the  out­
look  is  for quotations  at  least  as  high  as 
those  prevailing  now  for  some  time  to 
come.
Lemons  and  oranges—in  fact,  the 
whole  line  of  foreign  fruits,  including 
pineapples  and  bananas—are  steady, 
although  the  latter are  somewhat  in  the 
background,  owing  to  the  big  supply  of 
Pacific  coast  fruits  and  peaches  from 
the  South.  Sicily  lemons,  $2.25@3.50; 
Verdelli,  $3.2504.  Oranges,  Valencia 
lates,  $ 4 @5.  Bananas,  $ i . 0 5 @ i . i o   per 
bunch  for firsts.
Dried  fruits  are  rather  quiet  this 
week,  although  for  prunes  the  enquiry 
has  been  fairly  satisfactory.  Prices  are

is 

There 

firmly  sustained^  and  the  same^may  be 
said  of  almost  all  other  lines.  ‘

imitation 

less  demand  forialmost'all 
sorts  of  butter  and  a  decline  in  quota­
tions  will  occasion  no  surprise,  although 
none  has  come  as  yet.  Best  Western 
creamery,  2iJ^c;  seconds  to  firsts,  18% 
@2ic;  Western 
creamery, 
I7 ^@ i8K c ;  factory,  i6 ^ @ i7^ c;  reno­
vated,  17019c.
As  stocks  of  cheese  have  become 
pretty  well  depleted,  the  market  has 
taken  on  rather  more  strength,  although 
quotations  are,  as 
yet,  unchanged. 
Full  cream  New  York  State,  either 
white  or  colored,  is  worth  10c,  if  the 
stock  is  really  fine,  and  some  very  good 
cheese  has  sold  for  iess.

Prices  of  eggs  remain  well  sustained, 
owing  as  much  to  the  comparatively 
moderate  stocks  as  to  the  demand, 
which  is  not  especially  active.  Fresh- 
gathered  Western,  20%c;  fair  to  good, 
tg@i9^c;  fancy  candled  Northern  Ohio 
and  Southern  Michigan, 
I9^c;  un­
candled,  graded,  i6 0 I7 ^ c ;  ungraded, 
14017c.  Beans are  in  moderate  request 
and  quotations  are  practically  without 
change.

Beware  of Wm.  Haggstrom.

The  Tradesman  herewith  presents  a 
portrait  of  O.  William  Haggstrom,  who 
recently  attempted  to  swindle  the  farm­
ers  around  Eastport  by  obtaining  fruit 
and  live  stock  in  exchange  for worthless 
checks  on  the  Antrim  County  Bank  at 
Central  Lake.  He  claimed  to  represent 
the  Charlevoix  Fruit  Co.,which  appears 
to  have  no  existence  in  fact.

Haggstrom  has  not  enjoyed  a  good 
reputation  for  several  years,  having  vic­
timized  several  Grand  Rapids  and  Chi­

cago  houses  and  lived  by  his  wits,  in­
stead  of  by  honest  labor.  He  is  a  slave 
to  the  drink  habit,  having  been  unable 
to  hold  down  any  job  for any  length  of 
time  from  this  cause.

it 

As 

is  not  unusual  for  men  of  this 
character  to  change  names  in  seeking 
fresh  pastures,  the  Tradesman  deems  it 
ts  duty  to  place  unmistakable  evidence 
of  identification  in  the  hands  of  its  pa­
trons  by  presenting  a  recent  portrait  of 
Haggstrom.

‘ ‘ Ha, 
boarder, 
brick !”  
“ Yes,

His  L ittle  Deal.

ha !”  
“ you

exclaimed  the  summer 
actually  bought  a  gold

it  on  the  mantel  shelf. 

answered  Farmer  Corntossel, 
he  took  the  specimen  tenderly  and 
laid 
“ All  the 
city  folks  that  came  here  expected  to 
see  one. 
It  seemed  like  they  wouldn’t 
believe  I  was  a  regular  farmer  unless  I 
could  show  a  gold  brick.  So  when  I 
went  to  town  and  this  was  offered  me  I 
give  the  fellow $99  in confederate money 
and  a  Canada  quarter,  which  is  cheaper 
than  I  could  have  made  one  myself.”   .

Sure  Care.

“ So  you  think  you  need  a  wife?”  
“ Yes.”
“ Well,  nothing  but  marriage will  dis­

pel  that  illusion. ”

SE N D   YOUR

P O U L T R Y ,  B U T T E R   A N D   E G G S

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

55  C A D IL L A C   S Q U A R E

D E T R O IT .  M IC H IG A N

GEO.  N.  HUFF  &  CO.

EGGS  WANTED

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

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

Butter

We can handle all you  send us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Citizens Phone 3333.

EGGS  AND  BUTTER  WANTED

In our half century  business  experience  we  have  made  many customers who must 
have under grades of butter. 
It will pay  you  to  consign  to  our care your eggs and 
butter of all grades.

Lloyd  I.  Seaman  &  Co.

Established 1880 

148  Reade St.,  New York City

Reference:  Irving National Bank, N. Y. City

Butter

I  alw ays 
w ant  it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

#

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

Commission  flerchant

75  Warren  Street, 

New  York  City

Specialties:  EGGS  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.

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

Produce Review and American Creamery.

SEND  YOUR

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

TO

GRAND  RAPIDS

And receive highest prices and quick returns.

c .  D.  CRITTENDEN,  98  South  Division  Street

Successor  to  C.  H.  Libby 

Both Phones  1300

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

MEN  OF  MARK.

Jo h n   6 .  Straub,  the  Traverse  City  Candy 

M anufacturer.

It  is  safe  to  venture  the  assertion  that 
no  one  attains  to  eminence  in  any  busi­
ness  or  profession  without  passing 
through  a  more  or  less  prolonged  period 
of  unremitting  toil,  of  disappointments 
and  struggles.  He  who  has  brought  his 
business  to  a  successful  issue  through 
years  of  work  and  has  established  it 
upon  a  substantial  basis  and  yet  retains 
the  appearance  of  youth;  who  has  an 
unwrinkled  brow;  who  has  in  his  step 
the  elasticity  of  younger days  and shows 
no  trace  of  the  worry  and  care  that  too 
often  dog  the  footsteps  of  the  director 
of 
large  affairs,  must  be  a  man  pos­
sessed  of  enviable  characteristics.

Accomplishments  of  this  kind  are 
surely  attained  by  those  who, 
most 
through 
long  acquaintance  with  a  par­
ticular  industry  or  line  of  trade,  have 
mastered  its  details  from  those  that  are 
apparently  trifling  to  those  most  com­
plex.  He  who  without  this  training 
achieves  an  adventitious  success  is  sel­
it 
dom  able  to  retain  his  grasp  upon 
for  any  considerable  length  of  time. 
It 
is  not  maintained  that  a  perfect  knowl­
edge  of  details,  is  absolutely  essential, 
but  the  merchant  who  began  bis  career 
sorting  eggs  in  the  cellar;  the President 
of a railroad  who  started  as  a brakeman ; 
the  captain  of  a  ship  who  entered  the 
service  as  a  cabin  boy;  the  general  of 
an 
army  who  enlisted  as  a  private 
soldier— all  these  are  undeniably  better 
fitted  with  easy  mastery  to  control  their 
properties  or  discharge  their  duties than 
those  who,  by  no  merit  of  their  own  but 
rather  through 
inherited  wealth  or ac­
quired 
influence,  step  into  positions  in 
the  duties  of  which  they  have  not  been 
trained  and  who  have,  therefore,  to  de­
pend  on  others  for  the  knowledge  in 
which  they  are  lacking.

The  manufacture  of  candy  and  its 
sale  at  wholesale  are  matters  in  which 
the  ordinary  citizen  is  not  well  versed. 
There  are 
few  men,  comparatively 
speaking,  who  have  the  tact,  the  apti­
tude  and  the  peculiar  ability  to  make 
them  profitable.  The  shores  of  the  com­
mercial  sea  are  strewn  with  the  wrecks 
of  those  who  may  have  believed  that 
they  could  just  as  easily  learn  the  con­
fectionery  business  by  studying  it  from 
the  top  as  did  the  man  who  learned  it 
from  beneath.  It  is  a  peculiar business, 
and  it  is  so  because  of  the  infinite  vari­
ety  of detail attending it.  So  diversified 
are  these  details  that  be  who  follows 
it 
is  always  learning;  and  it  may  be  said 
that  the  candy  jobber or  manufacturer 
who  went  to  sleep,  commercially  speak­
ing,  ten  years  ago  is  to-day  not  a  factor 
in  the business.  Those  who  are  engaged 
in  this  industry  must  keep  up  with  the 
times;  must  watch  the  changing  cur­
rents  of  style;  must  cater  to the  chang­
ing public  taste  in  flavors;  must discard 
old  machinery  and  put 
in  the  latest, 
most  rapid  and  most  improved patterns, 
or  be  left  at  the  post  in  the  race  for 
commercial  supremacy.

There 

is  a  man  now  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  and  jobbing  of  confection­
ery  whose  name  has been borne  in  mind 
in  the  preceding  paragraphs,  John  G. 
Straub,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  candy 
factory  of  Straub  Bros.  &  Amiotte,  at 
Traverse  City,  who  has  worked  his  way 
up  from  the  bottom  of  the  ladder  to  a 
position  of  eminence  in  the  industry.

Mr.  Straub  was  born  in  Milwaukee, 
Dec.  14,  i860,  being  the  third  child 
in 
a  family  of  six.  His  father  was  a  na­
tive  of  Germany.  His  mother  was  a 
native  of  Switzerland,  having  been  born

to 

the 

on 
island  of  Lindau,  between 
Bavaria  and  Switzerland.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Milwaukee  until 
14  years  of  age,  when  he  was  appren­
ticed  to  Ferneke  Bros, 
learn  the 
candy  business.  His  first  work  was  to 
receive 
instruction  in  the  manufacture 
of  stick  candy,  but  before  many  months 
had  slipped  by  he  was  working  beside 
men  of 
long  experience  in  the  cream 
and  chocolate  department.  After  com­
pleting  bis  apprenticeship,  he  remained 
with  the  house  three  years  longer,  when 
he  accepted  an  offer  to  take  charge  of 
the  stick  candy  department  of  E.  F. 
Berriford,  of  St.  Paul.  A  year  later  be 
sought  and  obtained  employment  in  the 
gum  and  cream  candy  department  of 
Bunte  Bros.  &  Spohr.of  Chicago.  With­
in three months  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  a  department  and  had  sixteen  men 
under  him,  although  he  was  the  young­
est  man  in  the  factory.  Two years  later, 
he  resigned  to  take  entire  charge  of  the 
candy  factory  of  Charles  Jex,  of  Port

kegon.  They  reside  in  their  own  home 
at  the  corner  of  Eighth  and  Maple 
streets,surrounded  by  a  happy  family  of 
four  children,  two  boys  and  two  girls.

Mr.  Straub 

is  a  member  of  B.  P.  O. 
E.  Lodge,  No.  323.  He  is  also  a  prom­
inent  member  of  Duchess  Camp,  Mod­
em  Woodmen  of America, occupying  the 
exalted  position  of  Venerable  Consul 
for the  second  term.

Mr.  Straub  attributes  his  success  to 
the  fact  that  he  understands  his  busi­
ness  thoroughly,  having  worked 
in 
every  branch  of  the  trade  before  he 
finally  engaged  in  business  for  himself, 
and  since  he  has  embarked  in  business 
on  his  own  account  he  has  been  a  con­
stant  student  of  the  business,  reading 
all  the 
literature  it  is  possible  to  ob­
tain  on  the  subject  and  keeping  fully 
abreast  of  the  improvements  which  are 
constantly  being  made 
in  his  line  of 
business.  Like  most  men  of  German 
antecedents,  he  is  the  type  of  faithful­
ness,  being  seldom  absent from  his  desk

A dvertisem ents  T hat A re  Effective  M ust 

Be  Logical.

Every  advertisement  must  contain  a 
reason  in  order  to  effect  results.  That 
is  a  fundamental  necessity.  The  public 
has  a 
lot  of  good  sense,  and  what  it 
thinks  and  what  it  does  are  actuated  by 
that  good  sense.  Nothing, 
therefore, 
makes  so  strong  an  appeal  as  a  reason 
for  any  certain  thing  which  an  adver­
tiser  promises.

Large  space,  attractive  type,  profuse 
illustrations,  forcible  text,  all  of  them 
will  avail 
little  unless  an  advertise­
ment  contains  such  a  reason  as  will  ap­
peal  to  the  people’s judgment.

There  is no  better  way  to  comprehend 
this  than  to  realize  that  purchasers  now­
adays  know  quite  as  much  about  values 
as  sellers  know.  The  advertiser  finds 
this  out  if  he  ventures  to  put  a  fictitious 
value  upon  his  merchandise.  He  gets 
no  results.  He  deserves  none.  But  it 
frets  him,  and  he 
looks  at  the  wrong 
end  for  an  explanation  if  he  accuses  the 
newspapers  of  being  unable  to  give  him 
results.

There 

is  no  newspaper  published  in 
the  world  that  could  bring  results  if 
values  are  over-stated  or  promises  are 
made  with  no  reason  behind  them  that 
gets  right  down  into  the  marrow  of  the 
people's  good  sense.

the 

The 

contain  them.  And 

logic  and  argument  of  the  thing 
are  very  plain:  People  are  disposed  to 
believe  advertisements,  because  they 
have  respect  for  reputable  newspapers 
that 
sound 
sense  of  the  public  is  very  blunt  and 
frank.  Unless  there  is  a  reason  for  un­
der-selling,  bargain-giving,  value-cut- 
ting  or  whatever  it  may  be,  results  will 
not,  can  not,  be  realized  by  the  adver­
tiser.  And  they  should  not,  because  the 
public  responds  too  promptly  and  be­
lieves  too  implicitly  to  be  misled.
Recent  Changes  Among 

In d ian a  Mer­

chants.

Anderson—A.  Wolff,  clothier,  has dis­

continued  business.

Bluffton— Lane  &  Falk,  meat  dealers, 
have  dissolved  partnership  and  discon­
tinued  business.

Ft.  Wayne—Stephen  Gonzer  has
closed  out  his  dry  goods,  shoe  and  gro 
eery  stock  and  retired  from  trade.

Fritchton—The  J.  T.  Draper  Co. 

is 
the  new  style  under  which  the  grain 
elevator  of  Draper  &  Hogue  continues 
business.

Indianapolis—The  Century  Biscuit 
its 

Co.,  manufacturer,  has  merged 
business  into  a  corporation.

Indianapolis— The  capital  stock of the 
in­

C.  P.  Lesh  Paper  Co.  has  been 
creased  from  $40,000  to  $60,000.

Indianapolis---- Babetta 

(Mrs.  N.  )

Rheinbeimer,  retail  clothier,  is  dead.

Indianapolis—Geo.  B.  Walton  & Co., 
commission  produce  dealers,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  The  business 
is 
continued  by  Geo.  H.  Mueller.

Lafayette—Menno  Torringa  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Geo.  Dyk- 
huizen.

Martinsville— Reames  &  Cure  have 

discontinued  the  grocery  business.

Mishawaka— Graham  &  Ostram,drug­
gists,  have  dissolved  partnership,  A. 
B.  Graham  &  Co.  succeeding.

Mooresville—The  Bolton  Sorghum 
Co.  has  discontinued  its  manufacturing 
business.

Vincennes—T.  H.  Chambers  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock 
of  Jas.  W.  Hobbs.

A  Mere  Nothing. *

Nell— I  saw  you  at  the  remnant  coun­

ter  yesterday.

1  Belle— Y es;  I  was  buying  material

for  a  bathing  suit.

removed 

Huron.  This  factory  was  destroyed  by | 
fire  about  three  years  later,  when  the 
owner  discontinued  business  and  Mr. 
Straub 
to  Muskegon  and 
formed  a  copartnership  with  John  A. 
Snyder  and  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
and  manufacturing  business  of  Snyder 
&  Straub.  This  copartnership continued 
ten  years  and  was  dissolved  Jan.  1, 
1 8 9 9 .  Two  months 
later  he  formed  a 
copartnership  with  Anton  F.  Straub  and 
Geo.  E.  Amiotte  and  engaged 
in  the 
confectionery  manufacturing  business  at 
Traverse  City  under  the  style  of  Straub 
Bros.  &  Amiotte.  The  business  grew 
so  rapidly  that  it  was  necessary  to  erect 
a  building 
large  enough  to  meet  its 
growing  demands  and  the  result  was  a 
brick  structure  £0x85 feet in dimensions, 
two  stories  and basement,fully  equipped 
with  machinery  and  experienced  work­
men  to  turn  out  all  classes of confection­
ery.

Mr.  Straub  was  married  April  10, 
1890,  to Miss Mary  Alice  Irwin,  of  Mus-

during  business  hours.  He  has  but  one 
hobby—base  ball—but  his  loyalty  to  his 
business  precludes  his  giving  even  the 
national  game  very  much  attention  ex­
cept  on  holidays.

Close to  the  L im it.

A  conductor  on  a  G.  R.  &.  1  train 
was  handed  a  ticket  the  other  day  by  a 
lady  who  boarded  his  train  in  the  com­
pany  of  a  bright  looking  little  girl.  He 
looked  at  the  child  and  then  asked  for 
another ticket.

I’ve  never  had  to  pay  for  her  be­

fore,”   was  the  mother’s  reply.
ductor.

‘ ‘ How  old 
‘ ‘ Five  years.”
‘ ‘ Why,  mamma!  I’m  6!”   protested 

is  she?”   asked  the  con­

the  child.

‘ ‘ She’s—she’s  nearly  6,”   hurriedly 
‘ ‘ That  is,  she’s 

explained  the  mother. 
just  going  on  6.”

The  conductor  looked  at  the  mother 
for  a  second,  and  tnen,  as  he  turned 
away,  said:

‘ ‘ Well,  madam,  if  I  were  you,  I’d  buy 
I 
a  ticket  for  her on  the  return trip.  She’s 
| likely  to  be  all  of 6  by  then.”

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A Lime That Slacks
Bay  Shore  Standard

quickly,  all slacks, and carries the greatest  amount 

of sand is what every mason  is looking for

will  do all these.  Barrels above criticism. 

Prompt delivery guaranteed.

BAY  SHORE  LIME  CO.,

B ay  Shore,  Mich.

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Every  Cake

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LABEL  COMPRESSED
y e a s t   you  sell  not only increases 
your  profits,  but  also  gives  com­
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I 

Pleischmann  &  Co.,

*   Detroit  Office,  in   W .  Larned  St.
I  

Grand  Rapids Office,  29 Crescent  Ave.

Two dozen  in  a case,  $i  per dozen

Happy is the  man  who,  returning  from  a  day 
of toil,  finds all  his  dear  ones  happy  and  him­
self not forgotten  as  the  well-laid  table  shows, 
with  its  spotless  cloth  and  shining  dishes,  its 
plates of dainty viands,  and,  as a finishing touch 
to tempt  his  eye  and  appetite,  an  In-er-Seal 
carton of Graham  Crackers.

It is the consumer who makes it possible for  the 
existence  of  the  grocer.  You  must  cater  to 
his wants.

Order  our  red  Graham  now  and  never  be 

without it.

National  Biscuit  Company

Grand  Rapids

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W e  are  making  a  fine line  of

High  Grade  Package  Goods

as  follows:  Elk  Brand,  Viletta,  Marie,  Bermudas, 
Toasting  Marshmallows,  Mignonetta,  10c  package, 
and  the  Famous  5c  package  Favorite  Sweets.

Straub  Bros.  &  Amiotte

Traverse  City,  Michigan

B A K E R S ’
O V E N S

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

Hubbard Portable 

Oven  Co.

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THE  FRANK  B.  TAYLOR  COMPANY

IMPORTERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS 

135  JEFFERSON  AVENUE

DETROIT, Mich.,

July 30,  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.

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W o m a n ’s   W o r ld
Scenes F rom   th e  Sad  Side of Life.

In  my  weekly  talks  in  the  Tradesman 
it  is  my  privilege  to  speak  to  many 
women,  and  they  honor  me  by  writing 
me  many  letters.  Often  and  often  these 
letters  make  me  heart  sick,  because 
they  are 
from  women  who,  having 
everything  in  life  to  make  them  happy 
are  yet  miserable.

Women  who  have  kind  husbands  and 
good  homes  are  foolishly  dissatisfied 
with  the  narrow  round  of  daily  duties; 
girls  who  are  safe  and  sheltered  yearn 
to  get  out  to  follow  the  will-o’ -the-wisp 
of  a  career;  mothers  write  me  they  feel 
that  they  were  cut  out  for something 
more  picturesque  than  washing 
little 
faces  and  hearing  little  prayers;  house­
keepers,  who  say  they  are  sick  and 
weary  of  the  round  of  getting  up  din­
ners  that  are  eaten  as  soon  as  cooked, 
sweeping  rooms  that  are 
littered  up 
again,  and  doing  over  and  over  again, 
day  after  day,  all  the  little  things  that 
never  seem  to  count,  yet  sap  energy 
and  strength  and  patience.

I  am  not  finding  fault  with  any  of 
these.  Each  heart  knows  its  own  bitter­
ness,  but  sometimes  I  think  that  there 
is  nothing  else  on  earth  that  these  dis­
gruntled  women,  with  their  imaginary 
woes,  need  so  much  as  to  be  brought 
face  to  face  with  some  of  the  actual 
misery  and  sorrow  of  the  world.  And 
to-day  I  want  to  show  them  the  story  of 
such  suffering  as  they  have  never  seen, 
as—God  grant—they  may  never  see.

You  have  read,  of  course, 

in  the 
papers  of  the  awful  explosion  in  the 
Cambria  mine  at  Johnstown,  Pa.,  in 
which  115  men  lost  their  lives.  Within 
a  few  hours  after  the  disaster  I  was 
in 
the  midst  of  the  agony  and  distress, and 
it  is  the  story  of  these  poor miners’ 
wives  that  I  wish  to  tell.

About  the  mouth  of  the  mine  was  a 
scene  of  wild  and  fearful  turmoil.  As 
soon  as  the  news  of  the  explosion  be­
came  known  wailing  and  weeping 
women  ran  panting  and  breathless  to 
it,  for  none  knew  whose  husband,  s on 
or  brother  was  among  the  dead.  Wives, 
with  babies  upon  their breasts  and  little 
children  clinging  to  their  skirts,  cried 
out  for  news  of  their  husbands;  mothers 
demanded  their  sons,  women  knelt  on 
the  bare  ground  and  told  their  beads 
and  prayers  aloud.  Men  blasphemed, 
and  some  Slav  women,  mad  and  frantic 
with  anxiety, 
fought  the  police  who 
formed  a  solid  cordon  about  the  mouth 
of  the  mine.

Now  and  then  a  man  whose 

face 
showed  blanched  beneath  the coal  grime 
would  stagger  in  with  a  tale  of  miracu­
lous  escape  and  of  having  climbed  over 
the  dead  bodies  of  his  fellow-workmen, 
but  they  were  pitiably  few.  And  so  the 
awful  afternoon,  whose  brilliant  sun­
shine  seemed  a  mockery  of  human 
grief,  wore  on,  and  still  women  knelt 
with  eyes  fastened  on  the  little,  narrow, 
dark  opening  in  the  hillside  to  which 
their  world  had  narrowed,  watching for 
the  men  to  come  who  would  never come 
to  them  again.

The  main  opening  of  the  Cambria 
mine  is  opposite  the  city  of  Johnstown; 
the  other  opening 
is  at  Mill  Creek, 
seven  miles  across  the  mountain.  By  4 
o’clock  it  was  found  that  the  main  en­
trance  to  the  mine  was  vomiting  a 
steady,  nauseous,  deathly  stream  of 
black  damp.

Two  brave  men  who volunteered  to go 
back  and  see  if they  could  rescue  any 
of  their  comrades  had  gone  only  a  little

way  when  they  were  overcome,  and 
staggered  out  into  the air scarcely alive.
Seeing  that  it  was  impossible  to reach 
the  men  that  way,  the  company  officials 
gave  orders  to  begin  the  rescue  work  at 
the  Mill  Creek  entrance,  and  here  took 
place  a  strange  and  thrilling  fight  with 
death.  The  one  chance  to  save  the  im­
prisoned  men  was  to  give  them  air. 
At  this  point  the  Cambria  Company 
have  the 
largest  and  most  powerful  fan 
in  the  world,  and  it was  this  fan  against 
the  creeping  choke  damp.

Every  other  particle  of  work  was 
stopped;  relays  of  firemen,  stripped  to 
the  waist,  fed  the  furnaces  beneath  the 
boilers,  the  engineer  stood  by  his  en­
gine,  coaxing 
it  to  the  very  last  ounce 
of  steam  it  would  carry,  while  the  huge 
fan  groaned  and  trembled  and  fought 
back  inch  by  inch  the  black  damp.

Night  came  and  still  the  struggle 
went  on.  The 
lonely  spot  became  the 
center  of  a  mob.  Pale-faced  men  stood 
waiting 
for  news  of  son  or  brother. 
Women  who  had  heard  that  men  were 
being  taken  from  the  Mill  Creek  en­
trance  to  the  mines  had  dragged  them­
selves  the  long,  weary  miles  across  the 
mountain,  and  stood  haggard  and  grief- 
stricken,  watching  for  some  tidings  of 
the  men  they  loved.

Doctors  with  tanks  of  oxygen  were 
ready  to  do  all  that  human  skill  and 
science  could  do.  Black-robed  priests 
waited  to  comfort  the  living  and  relieve 
the  dying. 
In  the  outskirts  of  the  lit­
tle  crowd  was  a  row  of  ambulances  and 
back  of  them  loomed  the  dark  shadows 
of  the  undertakers’  wagons.

By  and  by  the  cage  used  for  drawing 
up  the  coal  went  down with  its  first  load 
of  rescuers.  At  first  they  could  stay 
only  a  few  minutes;  then 
longer;  then 
the  cage  came  up  with  its  ghastly  bur­
dens,  some  barely  alive,  who  must  have 
died  but  for  the  prompt  attention  of  the 
physicians,  others  past  all  mortal  help. 
And  still  the  engineer stood  at  his  en­
gine  and  the  fan  sent  the  life-giving 
air  down  the  great  shaft,  and  deter­
mined  men  went  back  again  and  again 
to  drag  their  comrades  out  of  the  jaws 
of  death,  and  the  prayer  of  thanksgiv­
ing  and  the  bitter  cry  of  the  widowed 
and  the  fatherless  marked  the 
journey- 
ings  of  the  car  as  it  went  up  and  down.
Towards  morning,  so  well bad  the  fan 
done  its  work,  the  gas  had  been  driven 
out  of  the  mine  so  that  the  rescue  work 
could  begin  at  the  main  entrance.  All 
night  long  hundreds  of  women  and  men 
bad  sat  watching  the  entrance,  their 
faces  white  and  drawn  with  anxiety. 
Many  of  the  women  had  their  children 
in  their  arms.  They  had  not  been  home 
for  food  since  the  accident.  The  night 
had  been  cold  and  damp,  and  they  were 
chilled  and  drenched  with dew and  faint 
for  food,  but  they  had  not  broken  their 
weary  vigilance,  although  there  was 
nothing  to  do  but  wait  along  the  rail­
road  track  where  the  dead  must  pass.

At  6 o’clock,in  the  gray  dawn,  full  of 
a  mist  that  seemed  unshed  tears,  a  re­
port  ran  like  an  electric  shock  through 
the  crowd  that  the  dead  were  about  to 
be  brought  from  the  mine. 
It  was  true.
line  of  tiny 
In  a  few  moments  the 
black  coal  cars  came  creeping slowly  up 
by  the  waiting  throng.  Hay  and  straw 
had  been  put  on  the  bottom  of  the  cars 
and  on  this  men  had  been  laid,  five  in 
a  car.

There  had  been  no  time  to  compose 
the  corpses  into  the  decency  of  death. 
An  arm  stuck  up  here,  a  leg  there.  One 
man  was  in  a  sitting  posture  just  as  the 
end  had  found  him.  Nearly  all  had 
their  arms  before  their  faces  as  if  they

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had  tried  to  ward  off  death.  Every  face 
was  begrimed  and  black,  as  if  they  had 
thrown  themselves  face  downward on the 
earth  and  burrowed  in  it.

The  little  cars  creaked  on  with  their 
ghastly  burden  of  staring  faces  turned 
up  to  the  pitiless  morning  sun,  and  the 
watchers  standing  on  the  piles  of  rail­
road  ties  peered  down  into  them,  dazed 
with  grief,  so  that  they  did  not  know 
their own.  Now  and  then  a  man’s  deep 
sob  or  a  woman’s  shrill  scream told  that 
some  one  had  recognized  their  dead,but 
for  the  most  part  the  cars  passed  in  a 
shuddering  silence  of  horror that seemed 
too  deep  for  the  ordinary  expressions  of 
sorrow.

At  the  end  of  the  little  run  the  cars 
stopped  and  the  bodies  were 
taken 
charge  of  by  undertakers,  who  merci­
fully  covered  them  with  sheets  and  car­
ried  them to the  armory,  which had  been 
turned 
into  a  morgue  for  the  occasion. 
Here  the  clothes  were  cut  off  and  the 
bodies  washed  and  stretched  on  boards 
propped  up  on  chairs.

It  was  an  awful  and  pathetic  sight. 
Forty-seven  men  had  been  taken  out 
from  the  mines  the  first  shift,  and  all 
day  long  the  number  grew.  Row  on  row 
they 
lay  on  these  boards,  the  sheeted 
dead,  at  each  head  a  little  pile  of  the 
things  found  in  the  pocket  by  which  to 
identify  the  body,  sometimes  merely  a 
tin  tag,  sometimes  a  letter,  and  at  one 
man’s  head  I  noticed  only  a  little  black 
clay  pipe  and  a  worn  tobacco  pouch.

Nobody  was  permitted 

in  the  room 
except  those  who  bad  lost  friends,  and 
in  and  out  between  the  long  rows  of 
bodies  wound  the  sad  procession.  Each 
man  and  woman  turned  down  the  sheet 
covering  the  face  of  the  dead  and,  as 
they  passed  on,  reverently  covered  it 
again.  Every  few  minutes  a  sob  would 
tell  that  a 
loved  one  had  been  found, 
and  the  body  would  be  swiftly  prepared 
for  burial  and  taken  away.

1  saw  one  woman  identify  eight  men, 
her  husband,  son,  brother  and  five  men 
who  boarded  with  her.  All  of  them  had 
gone  from  her  table  Thursday  morning 
strong,  well,  full  of  life  and  hope,  and 
when  she  saw  them  again  they  were 
dead.  She  did  not  make  a  sound ;  she 
neither  wept  nor  moaned,  but  her  face 
looked  as 
it  were  petrified  into  a 
masque  of  sorrow.

if 

Saturday  and  Sunday  were  days  of 
funerals  in  Johnstown.  Most  of  the 
miners  were  Catholics,  and,  except 
among  the  more  prosperous,  the  bodies 
were  taken  from  the  morgue  to 
the 
churches,  and  from  dawn  until  dusk  the 
priests  were  reciting  the  prayers  for 
the  dead.
Down 

is 
made  up  of  long  tenements  and  cottages 
occupied  by  the  men  who  work  in  the 
Cambria  mine  and  iron works,  is  a little 
Slav  church,  where  many  of  the  bodies 
were  taken.

in  Cambria  town,  which 

It  is  a  poor  little  place,  with  rough, 
hard  benches,  and  gray,  bare  walls,  on 
which  are  crude  copies  of  holy pictures. 
At  one  end  is  the  altar,  with  all  its  fur­
nishings  poor  and  cheap,  in  mute  wit­
ness  to  the  poverty  of  the  congregation 
that  worship  in  it.  On  one  side  of  the 
aisle  stood  a  purple  and  gold  banner 
containing  an 
inscription  in  Slavonic. 
On  the  other  was  a  blue  and  silver  ban­
ner,  from  which  looked  out  the  pitying 
face  of  our  Mother of  Sorrows.

Fully  half  of  the  church  was  occupied 
by  the  coffins,  which  were  placed  across 
the  backs  of  the  pews—eight  in  a  row - 
in  six  ghastly  rows.  They  were  cheap, 
black  coffins,  exactly  alike,  only  differ­
entiated  from  each  other  by the tiny slip

of  white  paper bearing  the  name  of  the 
occupant.

Outside,  the  street  on  either  side  was 
lined  with  weeping  women,  for  those 
who  had  not  lost  husband  or  friend,son, 
sweetheart  or  brother,  wept  with  those 
who  had,  in  a  community  of  grief.

learn  the 

Within  the  church  the  sound  was  of 
woe  unutterable. 
These  men  and 
women,  born  to  poverty  and  hardship, 
early 
lesson  of  self-control, 
and  there  was  no  wild  outburst  of  grief, 
but  it  was  the  awful,  heart-rending 
sound  of  many  people  weeping 
to­
gether. 
It  was  an  inarticulate  sound- 
like  the  wail  of  the  wind  on  a  wild 
night— like  the  cry  of  a  wounded  ani­
mal—like  anything  that  pierces  your 
soul  and  tears  you  nerve  from  nerve, 
until you  grip  your  hands  until  the  nails 
cut  into  the  flesh  to  keep  from  scream­
ing  out  with  the  agony  of  it.  Such  a 
sound—so  full  of  despair— must  Dante 
have  heard  in  his  vision  of  hell— such  a 
sound  did  the  watchers  on  Calvary  hear 
when  the  Christ  cried: 
“ Lama  Sa- 
bachthani!’ ’

Presently  the  priest  came  and  began 
the  solemn  mass  for  the  dead.  At  the 
foot  of  each  coffin  a  woman  knelt  clasp­
ing  it  with  her  arms,  resting  her  head 
it.  Underneath  the  chanting  of 
upon 
the  mass, 
the  dull,  hopeless,  heart­
breaking  wail  went  on,  and  once  a 
child's voice  shrilled above  it in a laugh.
A  woman,  soon  to  bring  a  fatherless 
into  the  world,  fell  in  the 
little  babe 
aisle 
in  a  faint.  Here  and  there  a 
woman  had  a  poor  pretense  of  mourn­
ing  garb  and  wore  a  cheap  black  gown 
or  veil,  but  for  the  most  part  they  wore 
their  usual  clothes—gay  reds  and  blues 
and  pinks  and  purples,  with  flaming 
silk  handkerchiefs  over  their  heads. 
There  was  none  of  the  paraphernalia  of 
grief.  There  was  none  needed  in  an 
anguish  like  this.

By  and  by  the  priest’s  voice  ceased. 
He  came  down  from  the  altar  and  stood 
facing  the  long  lines  of  coffins,  calling 
the 
list  of  the  dead.  Strange  Slavic 
names  they  were— unpronounceable  and 
uncouth  to  our  fancy—but  as  he  called 
each  one  some  woman  broke  into  wild 
sobs  and  lamentations  that  she  could 
not  bush.

An  old  woman  threw  her  arms  about 
a  coffin,  crying  they  should  not take  her 
son  from  her.  A  young  girl  swooned  as 
she  knelt  leaning  at  the  feet  of  her dead 
sweetheart.  Weeping  wives,  and  little 
children  frightened  at  they  knew  not 
what,  had  to  be  forcibly  removed.

Then  came  a  number  of  young  men 
the 
bearing  out  the  dead.  Outside 
church  all  the  available  hearses  and  un­
dertakers’  wagons 
in  town  stood,  and 
as  there  were  not  enough,  delivery 
wagons  were  pressed  into  service,  and 
into  these  the  coffins  were  piled  three 
and  four  deep.  On  one  big  wagon 
bearing  a  heavy  black  burden  of  the 
dead,  as  if  in  grotesque  mockery  to  the 
scene,  was 
inscription,  “ Picnic 
Van.”

the 

Load  after  load  was  borne  away,  until 
little  church  was  empty,  and  then 
the 
began  over again  the  same  scene.  More 
dead  were  brought 
in,  more  women 
came  to  weep,and  the  little  priest  again 
intoned  the  solemn  mass  for  the  dead.

And  so  the  day  went,  not  only  in  that 
church,  but  in  many  others,  and 
in 
many  homes.  On  every  street  fluttered 
the  black 
insignia  of  death  and  Cam­
bria  town  was  a  city  of  mourning.

In  one  house,  on  which  hung  a  white 
and  purpie  scarf,  a  young  boy,  barely 
19,  lay  in  his  coffin  with  a  smile  on  his 
face.

“ He  died  saving  others,”   said  his 
mother,  an  Irish  woman.  “ Three  times 
he  went  back 
into  the  afterdamp  and 
brought  men  out.  The  fourth  time  he 
was  overcome  and  fell  down. 
They 
said  he  looked  as  if  he  was  asleep  when 
they  found  him.  Ob,  my  son,  my  son!" 
she  wailed.

“ Woman,  dear,"  said  a  friend  who 
stood  by  her,  “ Thank  God  you  bore  a 
hero!”

And  that  is  the  one  comfort  in  such  a 
It  is  only  in  the  stress 
disaster  as  this. 
of  a  great  crisis  that  humanity  reaches 
the  divine. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Alm ost  Persuaded.

“ You  have  such  a  cozy  home  here,”  

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“ Yes,”   she  replied. 

I  almost  feel 
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Hardware

Trade  M ism anagem ent  and  Its  A ttend­

a n t  Consequences.

No  doubt  there  will  be  many  different 
ideas  put  forth  in  the  treatment  of  this 
subject,  for  the  methods  that  seem  best 
to  one  manager  another  will  deem  al­
together  wrong,  and  the  treatment  that 
will  please  one  customer  will  displease 
another.  But  I  feel  sure  that  no  orders 
will  be 
lost  by  all  jobbers,  and  their 
men,  avoiding  the  mistakes  I  will  men­
tion.  As  the  traveling  man  comes  in 
direct  contact  with  the  buyers,  he  is 
largely  responsible  for  losing  the  orders 
the  other  man  gets,  and  very  largely  for 
the  profits  he  fails  to  make.

He  is  asked  to  meet a quotation which 
a  buyer  claims  he  has,  and  the  poor 
fellow  has  not  the  nerve  to  even  find 
out  if  the  quotation  is  genuine,  or  the 
tact  to  refuse  to  meet  it,and  at the  same 
time  get  the  order.  Buyers  are  some­
times  mistaken  as  to  the  prices  they 
have,  and  the  salesman  who  meets  all 
the  quotations  he  hears  of  will  ruin  Jais 
protits,  and  his  customers  will  “ work”  
him  and  give  their  best  orders  to  a  bet­
ter  salesman.

Some  have  an  idea  (usually  correct) 
that  they  can  not  sell  goods  unless  their 
prices  are  lower  than  all  others.  These 
are  “ petted”   by  the  buyers,  “ cussed”  
by  other  salesmen  and  soon  discharged 
by  their  houses,  but  it  takes  a  long  time 
to  get  over  their  work  in  a  territory. 
The  starting  point  of  this  mistake  is 
when  a  cost  price  is  given  to  an 
in­
competent  man.

Some  salesmen,  usually  those  who  are 
employed  on  a  profit-sharing  basis, 
stoop  so  low  as  to  literally  buy  their  or­
ders,  paying  cash  rebates,  even  on  con­
tract  goods,  charging  money  thus  paid 
out 
in  expense  account.  Buyers  are 
quick  to  find  out  these  acts  of  dishon­
esty,  and  reason  wisely  that  their  time 
will  come  to  be  cheated.  Therefore  they 
give  their  most  profitable  orders  to 
salesmen  whom  they  can  trust.

Salesmen,  very  often,  do  not  use 
proper  care  as  to  time,  place,  and  man­
ner  of  approaching  a  buyer.  A  great 
deal  depends  on  a  favorable impression, 
and  a  very  little  thing  will  turn  the  tide 
of  an  order.  A  safe  thing  to  avoid 
in 
the  presence  of  a  buyer,  or  his  custom­
ers,  is  gossip  or  heated  discussions,  es­
pecially  about  politics,  religion  or  com­
petitors.  Talk  of  the  former  two  is  very 
likely  to  offend,  and  of  the  latter only 
furnishes  free  advertising.

Goods  are  sometimes  misrepresented 
or  too  highly  praised.  A  disappointed 
customer  is 
likely  to  send  his  next  or­
der  elsewhere.

An  overbearing “ know-it-all”   manner 
may  please  a  few  buyers,  but  the  ma­
jority  will  resent  such  treatment  and 
buy  from  the  other  man.  On  the  other 
hand,  orders  are 
too 
timid.  Unless  a  salesman  is  fully  con­
fident,  he  is  not  likely  to  make  a  favor­
able  impression.

lost  by  being 

Wrong  kinds  of  brands  of  goods  are 
sold  to  a  customer  because  the  salesman 
is  not  properly  posted  as  to  the  custom­
er’s  needs.  Many  buyers  are  more  ig­
norant  than  they  wish  to  appear,  and 
they  appreciate  and  patronize  those 
who  can  supply  their  deficiencies  with­
out  calling  attention  to them.

jobbers 

How  much 

lose  by  sending 
out  small  salaried,  incompetent  sales­
men  can  never  be  known,  for  no  record 
can  be  kept  of  the  orders  that  are 
missed  by  such  men.  They  also  cause 
the  loss  of  the  respect  and  patronage  of

their  houses,  and  even  the  best  of  men 
must  take  a  long  time  to  regain  it.

Much  dissatisfaction  is  caused  by  the 
careless  handling  of  mail  orders.  Usu­
ally  a  customer  is  out  of  the  goods  he 
orders  by  mail,  and  even  a  trifling 
omission  or  delay  seems  gross  careless­
ness  to  him.

Items  are  placed  on  back  orders,  or 
“ scratched”   without  notice  to  the  cus­
tomer,  who  daily  expects  the  goods  and 
gets  very  angry  when  they  do  not  come.
Substituted  articles  are sometimes sat­
isfactory,  but 
in  the  great  majority  of 
instances  they  cause  a  lot  of trouble,and 
are  best  left  off  altogether.  Orders  are 
often  held  necessarily  for  a  few  days, 
but  the  customer  is  not  notified  of  the 
cause  of  the  delay,  and  when  be  may 
expect  a  shipment.  As  he  knows  no 
reason  for  delay  he  supplies  one, usually 
wrong  and  always  detrimental  to  the 
jobber 
the 
goods.

from  whom  he  ordered 

The  mistake  is  made  by  some  houses 
of  not  keeping  in  close  touch  with  the 
trade,  by  correspondence,  circulars,  etc. 
The  traveling  man  is  depended  onto  do 
all  the  soliciting.  The  result  is the well- 
advertised,  letter-writing  houses  get  the 
mail  orders.

Parties  are  sold  who  have  no  right  to 
credit,  nor any  idea  of  business  methods 
or  legitimate  profits.  This practice leads 
to  a  wreck  of  prices,  a  clamor 
for 
cheaper  goods,  and 
is  the  making  of 
many  bad  accounts.

Long  datings  are  given  instead  of  the 
usual  sixty  days.  This  often  causes  a 
customer’s  account  to  get  larger  than  it 
should  be,  but  as  there  is  nothing  due, 
he  can  not  be  asked  for  a  payment,  nor 
a check put on his buying without  giving ! 
offense.  Prompt payment  of  accounts  is 
not  insisted  on,  and  they  are  allowed  to 
become  overdue  without  arrangements 
being  made  for  an  extension.  The  ac­
count  usually  grows 
larger  and  gets 
proportionately harder  to  pay.  The  final 
result  is  loss  of  both  the  customer  and 
the  account.

it 

A  weak  customer  gets  behind,  and  in­
stead  of  writing 
in  a  straightforward, 
businesslike  manner  and  telling  him 
that 
is  not  satisfactory  to  ship  him 
more  goods  until  a  payment  is  made, 
his  orders  are  entirely  ignored  or  held 
for  a  few  days,  hoping  for  a  remittance, 
or  the  principal  items  are  scratched,  or 
some  other  excuse  is  made,  and  the  cus­
tomer  has  a  just reason  for  getting  mad, 
and  he  does  so.  Then  the  account  is 
bard  to collect  sure  enough.  Only  one 
more  mistake  I  will  mention:  Trying 
to  improve  business  methods  and  avoid 
these  mistakes  without  the  co-operation 
of  other  houses  and  their  salesmen. 
This  will  never  be  done.  W.  A.  Ray.

She  Forgot  the  L ist

“ Has  either  of  you  ever  been  married 
before?”   asked  the  license  clerk  as  the 
leading  man  and  the  ingenue  appeared 
at  the  window.

“ I’ve  been  married  three 

times,”  
said  the  gentleman.  “ Birdie,  how many 
times  have  you— ”

“ Dear  me!  How  awkward!”   she 
exclaimed.  “ I  counted  them  this  morn­
ing  and had  a list,  but—but  I  must  have 
left  it  at  the  hotel,  I’m  so  forgetful."

As  Represented.

Silas—Crawfoot  was  awfully  disap­
pointed  the  other  day.  He  sent  a  dollar 
away  for  a  spicy  story.  Thought  he  was 
going  to  get  something  about  divorces 
and  scandals.

Cyrus—What  did  he  get?
Silas—Why, 

a  pamphlet  entitled, 
“ How  They  Raise  Cloves  in  Ceylon.”

Do  not  speak  of  hair  to  a  bald  man.

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A nnnal  M eeting  of  M ichigan  H ardw are 

Dealers.

The  programme  for  the  seventh  an­
nual  convention  of  the  Michigan  Retail 
Hardware  Dealers'  Association,  which 
will  be  held  at  Detroit  Aug.  13  and  14, 
is  as  follows:

Wednesday  Morning.

Meeting  called  to  order  by  President 

H.  C.  Minnie.

Roll  call  by  Secretary.
Appointment  of  committees  on  cre­
dentials.  resolutions,  constitution  and 
by-laws.

Reading  of  minutes.
Reception  of  communications.
Paper—Organization,  Local  and  Gen­

eral,  A.  Harshaw,  Delray.

Wednesday  Afternoon.

Report  of  Commitee  on  Credentials.
Meeting  goes  into  executive  session.
Annual  address  of  President.
Annual  report  of  Treasurer.
Annual  report  of  Secretary.
Paper—My  Faults 

in  Business  as 
Others  See  Them,  J.  H.  Whitney,  Mer­
rill.

Discussion  of the  same.
Address—Would  Mutual  Fire  Insur­
ance  Benefit  Our  Organization?  John 
Popp,  Saginaw.

Discussion  to  be 

joined 

in  by  all 

members.

Thursday  Morning.

Paper— Best  Methods  of  Conducting  a 
Retail  Hardware  Store,  R.  G.  Chand­
ler,  Coldwater.

Suggestions  by  members  on  the  above 

speech.

Retailer’s  View  of  a  Jobber  Who  Re­

tails,  B.  F.  Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor.

Remarks  and  anecdotes  on  the  above 

speech  by  delegates.

Address—Advice  to  the  Association 
of  How  to  Treat  an  Offending Manufac­
turer,  H.  W.  Weber,  West  Bay  City. 

Thursday  Afternoon.

Report  of  committees  on  resolutions, 

constitution  and  by-laws.

Consideration  of  the  same.
Address— Each  Viewing  the  Other, 
Consumer  Versus  Retailer,  Hon.  B.  A. 
Nevins,  Otsego.

Unfinished  business.
New  business.
Election  of  officers.
Miscellaneous  business  for  the  good 

of  the  organization.

Adjournment.

D ont’s  for  M erchants  in  Small  Towns.
Don’t 

labor  under  the  opinion  that 
goods  a  few  seasons  old  are  near enough 
to  up  to  date.

Don’t  forget  that  there  are  young  men 
in  every  town—yes,  in  your  town—who 
want  the  latest.

Don’t  fail  to  have  the  latest  for  them 

if  they  want  it.

and 

Don't  buy  big  lots  of  fads,  but  buy  a 
few,  often—you  run  less  risk  of  getting 
stuck.

Don't  think  you  are  the only merchant 
in  town  when  you  are  buying,  hence 
buy  closely  but  not  with  the  feeling 
that  nothing  new  ever  takes.

Don’t  fail  to  keep  windows,  show­
floors  very 

cases,  metal  work 
clean— you  observe— very  clean.

is  doing  that  you  may  do 

Don’t  fail  to  observe  what your neigh­
bor 
just 
enough  different  from  what  he  does  to 
be  distinctive  in  all  things  without  be­
ing  freaky.

Don't  be  afraid  to  do  some  things 
upon  your  own  judgment.  Many  per­
sons  never  try  a  new  thing  in their ways 
of  advertising  or  window  displays,  be­
cause  “ no  one  else  in  town  does  so  or 
so.’ ’ 
In  other  words,  be  “ awake”   all 
the  time  in  methods  of  business.

Don’t  set  an  example  of  Don’t  Care 
for  your  employes.  Work,  and  see  that 
they  do  the  same.  You  are  at  the  store 
for that  purpose— so  are they.  The spirit 
of  hustle  spreads  out  to  the  customers 
where  the  “ store  folks”   hustle.  Try  it !
Don't  run  out  of  staple  articles;  it 
displays  ignorance  in  buying  and  care­
lessness  for the  patronage  you really  can 
not  afford  to  lose.
Don’t  assume  you  “ know  it  all.”  
Make  a  study  of  the  methods  of  mer­
in
chants  in  your  own  territory,  and 

other  sections  of  the  country;  you  can 
pick  up  some  good  ideas.

Don’t  try  to  get  along  without  a  reli­

able  trade  paper.

Don’t  think  you  can  do  without  it  by 

keeping  down  expenses.

Piano  Cases  Made  of Glass.

in  Pittsburg  nearly 

Piano  cases  are  now  made  of  glass, 
for  experimental  purposes.  While  they 
do  not  possess  the  resonant  qualities  of 
wood,  yet  they  are  so  cheap  in  price, 
and  the  effects  are  so  novel,  that  they 
may  win  no  limited  popularity.  The 
cases  of  glass  are  made 
in  one  solid 
piece  and  can  be  turned  out  in  about 
five  minutes.  This  is  owing  to  a  new 
process  of  blowing  glassware  by  means 
of  compressed  air.  The  process  was 
invented 
twenty 
years  ago,  but  was  limited  to  making 
bottles  and  similar  small-sized  articles. 
A  late  improvement,  however,  places  no 
limit,  within  reason,  to  the  size  of  the 
article.  The  molten  glass  is  taken  from 
the  furnace  and  placed  in  a  mold  which 
can  readily  be  swung  into  any  desired 
position.  Compressed  air  is  thus  ad­
mitted  through  a  flexible  tube  which 
connects  with  the  bottom  of  the  mold. 
The  air  pressure  is  regulated  by  valves. 
As  soon  as  the  article  is  finished  it  is 
into  an  annealing  chamber, 
switched 
where 
it 
is  again  heated  and  then  al­
lowed  to  cool.  This  toughens  it,  and 
after  the  process  it  is  ready  for  use.

Violins  Now  Made  of Porcelain.

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invention 

The  latest 

in  the  field  of 
ceramics  is  the  porcelain  violin.  Under 
this  process  the  violins  are  cast.  Every 
violin 
is  guaranteed  a  success  and  to 
be  excellent  for  producing  music.  The 
latter  quality  constitutes  precisely  the 
chief  value  of  this  invention.  The  por­
celain  body,  it  is  claimed,  is  better  able 
to  produce  sound  than  a  wooden  one, 
since  it  co-operates  in  the  production of 
sound,  making  the  notes  soft  and  full. 
The  mandolin,  much  played  in  South­
ern  countries,is  also  made  of  porcelain, 
and  the  musical  sound  of  this  instru­
ment  is  likewise  stated  to  be  improved. 
In  shape  the  porcelain  violin 
is  an 
imitation  of  the  wooden  instru­
exact 
ment,  but,  as  the  porcelain  violin 
is 
very  suitable  for  decoration,  it  is  very 
likely  that  costly  instruments  of 
luxury 
will  be  asked,for  as  is  the  case  with  the 
ocarinas. 
It  is  asserted  that  the  porce­
lain  violins  possess  the  further  advan­
tage  over  the  wooden  ones  that  they  are 
totally  insensible  to  the  influence  of  the 
weather.

Sporting  Goods,  Ammunition,  Stoves, 
Window  Glass,  Bar  Iron,  Shelf  H ard­
ware, etc.,  etc.

31.  33.  35.  37. 39  Louis St. 

10  &  13 Monroe St.

Foster,  Stevens &  Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Standard and Sisal Binder Twine

For  Prompt  Shipment.

Pat.  Silver  Binder Twine

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

THE  M.  I.  WILCOX  COMPANY

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

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A  young  man,  whose  gallantry  was 
largely 
in  excess  of  bis  pecuniary 
means,  sought  to  remedy  this  defect and 
to  save  the  money  required  for  the  pur­
chase  of  expensive  flowers  by  arranging 
with  a  gardener to  let  him  have  a  bou­
quet  from  time  to  time  in  return  for  his 
cast  off  clothes.  So 
it  happened  that 
one  day  he  received  a  bunch  of the most 
beautiful  roses,  which  he  at  once  dis­
patched  to  his 
In  sure  an­
ticipation  of  a  friendly  welcome,  he 
called  at  the  house  of  the  young  woman 
the  same  evening,  and  was  not  a  little 
surprised  at  a  frosty  reception.

ladylove. 

After  a  pause  the  young  woman  re­
marked  in  the  most  frigid  tones:  “ You 
sent  me  a  note  to-day.”

“ A  note— I?”
“ Certainly,  along  with  the  flowers.”  
“ To  be  sure, 
I  sent  you  flowers; 

but— ”

“ And  this  note  was  with  the bouquet. 

Do  you  mean  to  deny  it?”

And  the  young  man  read:  “ Don’t 
forget  the  old  trousers  you  promised  me 
the  other day. ”

No  Conversation.

Barber—You’re  next,  sir.  Hair  cut?
Pepprey—Yes,  and  here,  put  this  in 

your  pocket  for  yourself.

Barber—Thank 

I  don’t 
often  get  my  tip  before  1  begin,  and  I 
appreciate— ”

you,  sir. 

Pepprey— I  don't  want  you to consider 

that  a  tip,  but  “ hush  money.”

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.

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

PAINT,  COLOR  AND  VARNISH  MAKERS 

Mixed  Paint,  White  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers 

Sole  Manufacturers  CRYSTAL ROCK  FINISH  for Interior and Exterior Use.

A  dissatisfied  customer  is  a  poor  ad 

vertisement.

Corner  15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo,  Ohio.

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Clerks’  Corner.

M erchants  Realize 

th e 

Im portance  of 

Show  W indows.

dressers.  The 

To  the  observing  traveler  the  big  im­
provement 
in  window  dressing  among 
the  country  merchants  is  very  notice­
able. 
It  used  to  be  that  twice  a  year— 
spring  and  fall— was  considered  often 
enough  to  change  window  displays  and 
these  displays  generally  consisted 
in 
crowding 
into  the  windows  a  little  of 
everything 
in  the  store.  Now  there  is 
hardly  any  town  so  small  hut  that  it 
its  merchants  some 
numbers  among 
good  window 
trade 
papers  necessarily  deserve  a  great  deal 
of  credit  for  this,  for  while  the  mer­
chant  picks  up  some  good  ideas  on  his 
visits  to  the  city,  these  visits  are  so  far 
apart  and  the  displays  so  much  more 
elaborate  than  it  is  practicable  or  even 
possible  for  him  to  make,  and  his  op­
portunities  for  studying them so limited, 
that  he  derives  very  little  benefit  from 
that  source.  On  the  other  band  the trade 
paper  is  constantly  on  the  alert  for  new 
and  bright 
in  window  dressing 
applicable  to  the  country  store  and  it 
impresses  upon  the  merchant  the  fact 
that  if  he  would  keep  up  with  the  times 
and  make  his  business a success be  must 
not  neglect  the  windows.

ideas 

Sometimes  you  see  a  nice  big  win­
dow  in  a  prominent  place  not  very  at­
tractively  dressed  and  in  the  course  of 
your  conversation  with  the  proprietor 
you  casually  mention  the  fact  and  ask 
him,  outright,  why,  having  such  nice 
windows,  he  does  not  do  a  little  good 
advertising  by  making  a  nice  display; 
he  admits  this  should  be  done,  but  says 
nice  window  fixtures  cost  too  much,  so 
he  has to  get  along  the best  be  can  with­
out  them.  You  might  tell  him  that  in 
some  of  the  most  attractive  window  dis­
plays  you  ever  saw  they  did  not  use 
thirty  cents’  worth  of  fixtures,  but  be  is 
skeptical.

A  traveling  salesman  who  has  in  him 
the  making  of  a  good  window  dresser 
numbers  among  his  customers  a  firm 
having  a  store  with  good  window  pos­
sibilities  that  were  never  taken  advan­
tage  of.  On  one  of  his  visits  he  began 
to  “ jolly”   the  clerks  about  the  condi­
tion  of  the  show  window;  they  replied 
that  the  boss  would  not  buy  fixtures,  so 
what  could  they  do?  He  answered  that 
he  would  just  take  a  few  hours  off  and 
show  them  a  few  things;  he  spent  all 
the  afternoon  on  the  window  and  the 
proprietor  and  clerks  were  delighted 
with  the  results  and  expressed great sur­
prise  that  so  much  could  be  accom­
plished  with  a  few  pine  box  lids,  a  lit­
tle  crepe  tissue  paper  and  white  card 
board.  To  set  off  the  window  trim 
properly  he  bought  a  ten  cent illustrated 
magazine  and  made  some  nice  card­
board  signs  by  cutting  out  and  pasting 
pictures  on  the  cards  with  appropriate 
wording.  The  window  began  immedi­
ately  to  attract  the  attention  of  the 
passerby,  who had  grown  so  accustomed 
to  the  old  window  that  the  change  was 
startling  and  they  stopped  to  have  a 
look.  One  of  the  clerks  saw  the  point 
and  began  to  take  an 
interest.  The 
salesman  keeps  him  posted  on  the  new 
ideas  he  picks up  as  be  goes  along  and 
the  proprietor  of  the  store  is  satisfied 
there 
is  something  in  window  dressing 
after  all.

The  same  salesman  was  telling  us  of 
a  trim  he  saw  the  other  day,  which  at­
tracted  no  little  attention.  The  read­
ers  of  the  Sunday  papers  have  become 
familiar  with  the  characters  on  the

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

funny  sheet,  among  which  is  an  indi­
vidual  called  Happy  Hooligan.  Happy 
is  always  depicted  as  getting  the  worst 
of  it  while  engaged 
in  some  philan­
thropic  act.  The  window  dresser  had 
cut  out  a  number  of  these  pictures  and 
pasted  them  on  cardboard,  which  were 
made  into  sign  and  price  cards. 
In  the 
center  of  the  window  was  a  life-like 
figure  of  Happy,  made  from  a  suit  of 
old  clothes;  the  bead  or  face  was  an 
enlargement  of  the  original  picture  on 
cardboard,  and  with  the  tomato  can  on 
top,  looked  quite  natural.  Nearly every­
one  passing  bad  to  stop  and  take  a  look 
at  Happy.

But  it  is  not  at  all  necessary  for  the 
window  dresser  to  resort  to  anything  of 
this  kind;  he  can,  with  the assistance  of 
price  cards,  always  arrange  an  attrac­
tive  window  with  the  goods  at  his  dis­
posal.

The  possibilities  of  the  window  card 
are  unlimited  when  one  has  used  the 
artistic  kind  for  a  while.  A  change  can 
be  made  to  the  crude  style  affected  by 
the  city  merchants.  An  ordinary  piece 
of  brown  paper  with  a  ragged  edge  is 
used  and  whatever  you  have  to  say  is 
written  with  a  heavy  piece  of  charcoal. 
Current  events  as  chronicled 
the 
newspapers  are  often  used,  for  instance, 
the  beading  of  an  article,  “ Did  Hobson 
push  her?”   cut  out  and  pasted  on  a 
sheet  of  brown  paper  and  written  be­
low  “ We  don’t  know  whether  he  did  or 
not,  but  did  you  notice  the  $3  line  we 
showed  yesterday,  and  what  do  you 
think  of  this  lot  at  $2.45?“   was  used 
one  day 
last  week  by  a  St.  Louis  mer­
chant.  Quite  a  crowd  stopped  to  read 
what  he  had  to  say  about  it.

in 

Anything  of  this  kind  always  attracts 
attention,  but 
it  should  never  be  al­
lowed  to  stand  over  one  or  two  days.  A 
constant  change  and  always  something 
new 
it  a  good 
drawing card.  A  window  trim,  no  mat­
ter  how  nice,  is  never  so  attractive  as 
when  nice  window  cards  are  used.— 
Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

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immediately  a n d   easily 
when you want to use it.
Any person living with­
in  the  reach  of  a  Post 
Office  or  Express  Office 
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their  banking  with  us  by 
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persons  should  know 
who want to keep their 
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For Stores,  Halls, Homes, Schools, Streets,  etc., 
that  w ill  lig h t but  not  heat  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

Halo Pressure Lamp 
500 Candle Power

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

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Brilliant  Gas  Lamp  Company

George  Bohner 

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G rand R apids F ix tu res <Eo.

new

elegant
design

in
a

combination

Cigar
Case

Shipped

knocked

down.

Takes

first

class

freight

rate.

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

would add greatly to the appearance of any store.

C orner B a r tle tt and  S ou th   Ionia  S tr e e ts,  Grand  R ap id s.  M}ch.

No.  36  Cigar Case.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knight:  if the Grip

President,  J ohn  A.  Weston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Bbown,  Safiinaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schkam, Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba r t l e t t ,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A .  K e n d a l l ,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. E d e l m a n , Saginaw.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil  lo.  131,  D.  G.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  W.  S.  B u r n s ;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

R etail  Clerkship  a  P reparatory  School 

F or Traveling  Salesmen.

successful 

First-class, 

clerks  and 
salesmen  are  born,  not  made. 
It  is  one 
of  the  most  important  qualifications  of 
first -class  clerks  and  salesmen  that  they 
should  have  a  natural  inclination  and 
ability  for  these  positions.  Before  a 
young  man  launches  out  into  the  world, 
he  should  endeavor  to  study  himself, 
and  determine  for  what  vocation  in  life 
he 
is  best  fitted  by  nature  and  inclina­
tion,  and  once  having  decided  upon 
this,  he  should  endeavor  to  enter  that 
particular  branch  of  business,  trade  or 
profession  that  he  has  made  sure  will 
be  most  agreeable,  and  for which  by  na­
ture  he  is  best  fitted.

It  is  true  that  a  person  possessed  of  a 
fair  amount  of  intelligence  and  educa­
tion  can  adapt  and  qualify  himself  by 
knowledge  and  experience  to  a  variety 
of  business,  and  perhaps  meet  with 
some  success  in  almost  any  branch  that 
he  may  take  up,  if  he  applies  himself 
assiduously  to  mastering  the  details  of 
the  business  he  enters.  Certainly  it  is 
most  desirable  that  he  should  engage  in 
the  vocation  for which  he  has  a  special 
preference  or  liking  and  ability.  By 
so  doing  he  will  take  more 
in 
the  business,  and  be  more  likely  to  be 
satisfied,  and  meet  with  greater  success. 
“ A  Jack  of  all  trades  usually  is  good 
at  none.”

interest 

A  person  to  become  a  popular  and 
successful  retail  clerk  or  salesman  must 
cultivate  the  virtue  of  patience  and  for­
bearance,  and  at  all  times  be  pleasant, 
agreeable  and  diligent  and  endeavor  to 
master  every  detail  of  his  chosen  field 
of  labor.  A  clerk  or  salesman  has  a  va­
riety  of  people  to  serve,  and  he  should 
at  all  times  be  affable,  obliging  and  po­
to  all  customers,  whether they  be 
lite 
high  or 
low,  rich  or  poor.  Very  soon 
these  desirable  qualities  will  be  recog­
nized,  not  alone  by  their employers,  but 
also  by  the  customers  he  serves,  and  if 
the  position  or  vocation  be  has  chosen 
in  life  be  agreeable  to  him,  he  will  en­
joy  much  pleasure,  satisfaction  and 
profit  from  it.

Probably  there 

is  no  retail  position 
more  exacting  and  trying  to  a  person  s 
patience  than  that  of  clerk  or  salesman 
in  a  retail  shoe  store  or  department,  for 
he  must  satisfy  the  customer  in  several 
different  ways.  First  he  must  have  the 
particular  style,  quality  and  price  shoe 
that  the  customer  wants,  and  then  must 
be  particular  to  fit  the  feet  of  his  cus­
tomer,  and  this  frequently 
is  a  diffi­
cult  thing  to  do.  Many  people  are 
difficult  to  properly  and  correctly  fit, 
especially 
if  the  clerk  does  not  have  a 
variety  of  styles  that  suit  the  customer  s 
fancy,  and  also  his  purse  as  well  as 
his  feet.

Very  often  customers are unreasonable 
and  more  exacting  than  they  should  be, 
for  there  are  “ many  men  of  many 
minds,”   and  the  peculiar  vagaries  of  a 
variety  of people  must  he  catered to  and 
under the  most  trying  and  annoying cir­
cumstances  the  clerk  or  salesman should 
restrain  his  temper  and  not  let  his  cus­
is  annoyed  or
tomer  discover  that  he 

perplexed.  Politeness  and  civility  are 
cheap  commodities,  and  should  at  all 
times  be  practiced  by  clerks  and  sales­
men  as  well  as  other  people,  whether  or 
not  they  are  really  heartfelt.

It  is  perfectly  proper  that  the  sales­
man  should  advise  and endeavor  to  per­
suade,  in  a  delicate  and  cautious  man­
ner,  a  customer  to  buy the  kind,  quality 
and  style  of  shoe  which  he  thinks  is 
best  adapted  to  his  feet,  needs  and 
requirements  for  the  work  or pleasure in 
which  he  is  engaged.  But  the  sales­
man  should  be  cheerful,  and  not  become 
over-insistent  that  the  customer  should 
accept  his  advice  where  he  sees  it is an­
noying  to  the  customer.

Patience 

is  a  great  virtue. 

It  has 
been  said  that  Job  bad  great  patience, 
but  we  have  no  record  that  he  ever  was 
engaged 
in  the  position  of  clerk  or 
salesman.  Perhaps  had  he  lived  in  this 
age  and  been  engaged  in  such  a  posi­
tion  his  patience  would  have  been  more 
exhausted  than 
it  was  when  his  body 
was  covered  with boils.  The  patience  of 
the  wholesale  salesman  also  is  often 
severely  tested,  but  I  think  not  to  the 
extent  of  the  retail  salesman.

Although  the  writer  has  been  travel­
ing  salesman  for  wholesale  bouses  the 
greater  portion  of  his  business  career, 
still  be  speaks  also  from  a  few  years’ 
experience  as  a  retail  salesman,  al­
though  in  a  shoe  store  of  his  own.  The 
wholesale  salesman,  as  a  rule,  deals 
with  a  different  class  of  customers  than 
does  the  retail  salesman;  for  generally 
the  retail  dealer  understands  the  busi­
ness,  is  judge  of  goods,  and  knows  just 
about  what  particular  qualities  and 
styles  are  best  suited  to  the  require­
ments  of  his  trade.  But  there  often  is 
required  greater  diplomacy  by  the 
wholesale  salesman  than 
is  needed  by 
the  retail  salesman,  for  usually  he  has 
something  new  to  introduce,  and  oft- 
times 
it  requires  skill  and  ability  of  a 
different  order  than  is  necessary  for  the 
retail  salesman  to  induce  the retail deal­
er  to  purchase  some  untried  new  styles 
and  qualities.

it 

for 

learn, 

But  I  think  the  position  of  retail 
salesman 
is  a  good  preparatory  school 
for  a  person  who  wishes  to  become  a 
wholesale  or  traveling  salesman,  and 
when  he  has  once  attained  the  latter  po­
sition  he  will  constantly  find  something 
new  to 
is  particularly 
requisite  that  he  should  keep  abreast 
of  the times  and be  up  to  date  on  all  the 
new  styles  and  wrinkles  of  the  trade, 
as  well  as modern  ideas  of  business,  and 
all  the  detail  of  intricate  and  delicate 
methods  to  employ,  according  to  the 
knowledge  and  efficiency  of  his  cus­
tomers.  Also  he  must  study  human  na­
ture  and  be  able  to  judge  the  vagaries 
and  peculiar  characteristics  of  his  cus­
tomers,as  well  as  their  demands  and  re­
quirements  of  their  business  and  goods 
best  adapted  to  their  respective 
locali­
ties  and  class  of  customers  they  have.
All  these  things  the  wide-awake  trav­
eling  salesman  must  learn  from  experi­
ence  and  close  observation.  Number­
less  other  desirable  and  necessary  qual­
ifications  be  may  require  to  make  him 
at  all  times  a  competent  salesman.— 
Harry  T.  Nisbet  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Re­
corder.

C.  S.  Kelsey,  the  eloquent  exponent 
of  Grape  Sugar  Flakes, 
is  taking  a 
course  of  treatment  for  bis  trouble  at 
the  hands  of  Chicago  specialists.

V.  Vallier has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Fremont.  The  Musselman 
Grocer  Co,  furnished  the  stock.

Gripsack  Brigade.

P.  M.  Vandrezer  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.)  is  taking  a  fortnight’s  va­
cation.  His  trade  is  being  covered 
in 
the  meantime  by  Frank  Smitton,  for­
merly  connected  with  the  shipping  de­
partment  of  that house.

Jonesville  Independent:  W.  House- 
knecht  travels  for  the  Port  Huron  En­
gine  Co.,  and  be  does  more  than  travel, 
fot  in  the  ten  days  ending  last  Saturday 
night  he  sold  a  machine  of  some  kind, 
either  separator,  engine  or  shredder, 
eyery  day.

A  Sturgis  correspondent  writes:  John 
Tripp,  one  of  our  successful  clothing 
merchants,  has  as  a  side  issue  a  job  as 
drummer  for  an  Eastern  clothing  house. 
He  has  returned  from  a  fifty-four day 
trip,  during  which  he  sold  $68,000 
worth  of  clothing.

Thomas  P.  Plues,  son  of  Thomas 
Plues,  traveling  representative  for  the 
Continental  Tobacco  Co.,  has  engaged 
to  travel  for  Spaulding  &  Merrick,  cov­
ering  the  retail  trade  of  Livingston,  In­
gram,  Clinton,  Gratiot  and  Shiawassee 
counties.  Mr.  Plues  made  a  somewhat 
remarkable  record  as  city  circulation 
manager  for  the Detroit To-Day  and  en­
ters  upon  his  new  career  with bright  an­
ticipation  and  every  prospect  of achiev­
ing  success.

Charles  Ross  Becomes a  Benedict.
Grand  Haven,  July  26—The  wedding 
of  Miss  Esther  Davis  and  Mr.  John 
Charles  Ross,  of  Detroit,  occurred  at 
the  home  of  the  bride’s  mother,  Mrs. 
John  T.  Davis,  in  Grand  Haven,  last 
Tuesday  evening,  July  22,  in  the  pres­
ence  of  the 
friends  of  the 
bride  and  groom.  A  wedding  supper 
was  served  at  6  o'clock  and  at  7 130  the 
bridal  party  entered  the  parlors  to  the 
sweet  strains  of  Mendelsohn’s  wedding 
march,  where  the  marriage  ceremony 
was  performed  by  Rev.  Mr.  Dodson,  of 
the  Episcopal  church.

intimate 

At  the  close  of 

the  ceremony  the 
bridal  party  received 
from  8  to  10 
o’clock  about  500 guests  from  the  city 
and  abroad.  The  rooms  were  decorated 
with  smilax,  palms,  roses  and  ferns  and 
the  effect  was  beautiful.

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  have  gone  to 
Mackinac,  Sault  Ste.  Marie 
and 
Detroit  for  a  wedding  tour,  after  which 
they  will  be  at  home  at  177  South Union 
street,  Grand  Rapids.

The  bride  comes  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families  of  the  city  and  is  well  known 
in 
local  society  circles.  She  is  a  tal­
ented,  estimable  young  woman  and  has 
a 
large  coterie  of  friends  who,  while 
wishing  her  “ health,  wealth  and  hap­
piness”   with  all  their  hearts,  will  sadly 
regret  the  vacancy  she 
leaves  among 
them.
rich  and  numerous  and  were 
friends  both  here  and  away.

The  wedding  gifts  were  particularly 
from 

Charlie  Ross  is  well  known  in  the 
western  and  southern parts  of this State, 
through  which  section  he  has  carried  a 
grip  for  a  number  of  years  for  Standart 
Bros.,  wholesale  hardware  dealers,  of 
Detroit. 
Death  of W m.  H. Goodspeed,  the  Veteran 

____

_ 

Coffee Salesman.

Wm.  H.  Goodspeed,  who 

traveled 
in  Michigan  twenty  years  for  the  Wool- 
son  Spice  Co.,  died  at  his  home,  128 
West  Fort  street,  Detroit,  Friday,  July 
18,  in  the  58th  year  of  his  age.  The 
particulars  surrounding  the  death  are 
thus  described  by  Mrs.  Goodspeed  in  a 
letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Tradesman :

Mr.  Goodspeed  had  been  home  two 
weeks  on  his  vacation,  was  in  as  good 
health  as  usual,  and  on  the  Wednesday 
before  his  death  was  down  town  with 
some  of  his  friends  here  attending  the 
Elks’ 
carnival  and  possibly  overdid 
himself,  it  being  very  warm.

The  evening  (Wednesday)  he  spent 
with  his  family  and  retired  about  10:30 
o’clock. 
In  the  morning  of  Thursday 
at  breakfast  Mr.  Goodspeed  was  not

present,  but,  owing  to  the  heat,  he  was 
not  disturbed  until  11  o’clock,  when  I 
found  him  unconscious  from  a  stroke  of 
apoplexy.  Medical  aid  was  hastily 
summoned,  but  the  end  was  near  and  he 
remained  so  until  death  relieved  him  at 
2  o’clock  on  Friday  morning. 
It  being 
Mr.  Goodspeed’s  wish  that  he  be 
cremated,  the  services  at  the  house  and 
chapel  were  very  private,  such  being 
his  wish,  as  he  had  lived  simply  and 
quietly.
In  1874 Mr.  Goodspeed married Emma 
L.  Andress,  and  later  moved to  Toledo, 
Ohio. 
In  1882  he  joined  the  Woolson 
Spice  Co.  as  a  traveling  man  and  re­
mained  with  that  house  until  his  death. 
He  left  Toledo  and  lived  two  years 
in 
Grand  Rapids,  and  had  lived  in Detroit 
about  ten  years.  He  leaves  a  large  cir­
cle  of  friends  in  the above named towns, 
besides  his  friends  throughout  the State, 
as  he  traveled  entirely  in Michigan.  He 
leaves  two  brothers,  a  widow  and  a  son 
and  daughter,  Edwin  M.  and  Alice  M., 
to  mourn  his  loss.
in  Elyria, 
Ohio,  September  20,  1844,  making  that 
his  home  for  a  number  of  years.

Mr.  Goodspeed  was  born 

The  deceased  was  for  many  years  a 
warm  personal  friend  of A.  B.  Gardner, 
landlord  at  the  Warwick.  On  the  oc­
casion  of  his  last  trip  here,  about  two 
weeks  before  he  died,  he  showed  Mr. 
Gardner  a 
letter  he  had  just  received 
from  his  employer,  informing  him  that 
be  could  take  a  month's  vacation  and 
that  his  salary  would  be  continued  in 
the  meantime.

Money  is  the  root  but  lack  of  it  is  the 

seed  of  all  evil.

Hotel  Hannah

S eb ew ain g,  M ichigan

FOR  SALE

New  brick  hotel,  with  new  furni­
ture  throughout;  electric  light, ar­
tesian well and livery.  Enquire of

C.  F.  Bach,  Sebewaing,  Mich.

L ivingston

Hotel

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

Grand  Rapids

T he  R oyal  F ro ntenac

Frankfort,  Mich.

Entirely  New  and  Modern 

WU1  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.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central  location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing  men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan State  Board of Pharm acy

Term expires
Hen ry Hu m , Saginaw 
Deo. 81,1902
Deo. 81, ion?
W m  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu ib , Urand uaplda 
Deo. 81, loub 
Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac 
Dee. 31,1906 

• 

President,  Henry  Heim , Saginaw.
Secretary, J ohn D. Mu ib, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, W. P.  doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

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

Mich.  State  Pharm acentlcal  Association.

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

Annual Meeting—Saginaw, Aug. 12 and 13.

How  to  Avoid  Discolored  Syrup  of  F er­

rous  Iodide.

it 

The  many 

theories  advanced  by 
which 
is  endeavored  to  show  how  to 
get  rid of  the  dark  color  of  syrup of  iron 
that  is  produced  by 
long  exposure  to 
light or  by  too  frequent  openings  of  the 
containers,  have  their  good  and  bad 
points,  but  none  of  them  have  ever 
given  the  eminent  satisfaction  that  1 
in  using  sodium  hyposul­
have  found 
phite.  This 
is  the  Squibb  method  of 
the  dispensatory,  and when  tried—as  all 
the  tests  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  dis­
pensatory  should  be  tried— with  care 
and  patience,  will  yield  excellent  re­
sults,and will  not impair  the  therapeutic 
value  of  the  preparation  to  any  great 
extent.

Some  of  the  pharmacists  whom I  have 
talked  with  ocnceming  the  addition  of 
this  and  other  preservatives  have  said 
that  they  do  not  use  them  through  a 
fear  that  they  would  produce  some  un­
toward  results,  but  I  satisfied  myself 
on  that  point,  so  far  as  sodium  hyposul­
phite 
is  concerned,  by  consulting  some 
physicians  who  use  our  syrup  frequent­
ly,  and  who  stated  that  they  do  not  find 
such  results  in  their  daily  practice,  and 
can  not  see  that  the  therapeutic  action 
of  the  syrup  is  impaired  in  any  way.

about 

My  experience  with  the  discolored 
syrup  has  been  amusing. 
I  have  tried 
the  syrups  of  different  manufacturers 
and  of  fellow  workers;  and  some  of 
these  would  turn  lighter  in  color  when 
exposed  to  the  direct  rays  of  the  sun, 
while  others  would  not.  Some  would 
change  their  color  even  when  stored  in 
small,  well-filled,  amber  bottles,  while 
nearly  all  would  change  to  some  extent.
In  following  the  directions  of  the  dis­
pensatory,  I  dissolve 
twenty 
grains  of  sodium  hyposulphite  in  one 
ounce  of  water  and  add  as  much  of  this 
solution  to  the  discolored  syrup  as  is 
needed 
the  natural  color. 
This  may  also  be  done  by  adding  the 
salt  to  the  syrup  direct,  using  a  mortar 
to  facilitate  solution.  When  the  color 
is  very  dark,  by  adding  the  salt  direct 
you  do  not  increase  the  volume  of  the 
syrup,  and  so  do  not  dilute 
it.  Either 
method  will  bring  about  the  result  de­
sired  and  will  not  affect  the  ferruginous 
taste  or  the  color  as  required  by  the 
Pharmacopoeia. 
If  too  much  is  added, 
however,  the  color  will  be  somewhat 
lighter than  when  first  made.

to  restore 

In  restoring  the  color  by  this  method, 
the  U.  S.  P.  tests  have  not  been 
inter­
fered  with  in  the  least,  the  taste  is  the 
same,  as  was  referred  to  above,  and  the 
color  is  correct.  The  syrup  still  re­
mains  neutral.  By  adding  a  few  drops 
of  potassium  ferricyanide  solution  (I  to 
io) to  a  small portion of  the  syrup  (after 
restoring  the  color  by  means  of  the  so­
dium  hyposulphite  solution)  a  blue  pre­
cipitate  will  still  be  produced.  The 
iodine
pharmacopoeial 

free 

test 

for 

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

shows  the  absence  of  the  latter  after  re­
storing  the  color  with  the  hyposulphite 
in  the  proportions  as  stated,  when  free 
iodine  was  present  before  the  addition 
of  the  salt.  With the  facilities  at  hand, 
I  am  not  able  to  make  the  last  test  in 
the  Pharmacopoeia  for  the  percentage 
of  ferrous 
iodide,  but  hope  to  do  so 
sometime  soon  and  will  give  a  report 
of  this later,  trying  to  discover  whether, 
if  a  sample  is  tested  and  allowed to dis­
color,  the  percentage  of  ferrous 
iodide 
will  be  changed  by  standing,  or  after 
being  restored 
in  color  by  the  addi­
tion  of  sodium  hyposulphite.

ferric 

iodate 

that  some 

After  exposing  a  darkened  syrup  to 
instances 
sunlight,  the  color  in  some 
seems  to  become  much 
lighter,  but  1 
have  never  been  able  to  get  it  to  re­
sume  the  same  greenish  color  which  it 
possesses  when  first  made.  The  dis 
pensatory  says  that  the  syrup  can  not 
he  the  same  after  the  color  has  been 
restored  by  the  sunlight method,  as  it  is 
probable 
is 
formed,  thus  rendering  the  syrup  use­
less.  There  is  no  ferric  reaction  to  be 
had  from  the  samples  tested  by  the 
writer,  however.  Ferrous  sulphide 
is 
formed,  which  produces  a  very  easily 
decomposed 
iodide 
liberates  free 
iodine  almost  at  once. 
The  addition  of  tartaric  and  citric acids 
has  never  proved  quite as  satisfactory as 
has  been  credited.  Hypophosphorous 
acid,  if  added,  is 
like  the  other  acids 
just  spoken  of;  it  does  not  prove  very 
satisfactory.  Syrups  to  which  this  acid 
has  been  added  have  turned  dark  brown 
in  color  after  prolonged  standing.  The 
acid  seems  to  prevent  the  liberation  of 
free 
iodine,  but  the  color  will  change, 
due  probably  to  the  ferrous  sulphide 
formed.

iodide,  and  this 

I  am  not  in  a  position  to  sugggest 
changes  in  the  Pharmacopoeia,  but  1 
have  found  by  experience  that the syrup 
made  from  rock  candy  crystals,  and 
made  by  a  cold  process,  will  give  better 
results 
in  the  manufacture  of  Syrupus 
Ferri  Iodidi  than  when  the  syrup  is 
made  from  sugar  and  by  the  use of heat. 
The  dispensatory  says  that  the  prepara­
tion 
is  rendered  more  stable  by  the 
addition  of  sugar  but  more  sugar  would 
make  necessary  a  change  in  the  present 
formula.  Should  the  syrup  made  from 
sugar  be heated too  highly,  there  is  dan­
ger  ot  the  syrup  turning  dark,  due  to 
the  caramel  formed.

I  suppose  that  nearly  every  druggist 
knows  the  value  of  sodium  hyposulphite 
in  restoring  discolored  solutions  of  po­
thus  rendering  them 
tassium 
“ elegant"  and  not  entailing  the 
loss 
that  would  otherwise  be  sustained  by 
having  to  throw  away  the  amount  of 
iodide  represented  in  the  solutions.

iodide, 

Euclid  Snow,  Ph.  C.

The  D rue  M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  at  the  decline,  but 

unchanged  in  price.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine—All  brands  have  declined 
2c  per  oz.  The  demand  is  small  at  this 
season  of  the  year.  Higher  prices  are 
not  looked  for.

Alcohol— Has  again  advanced,  on  ac­

count  of  high  price  for corn.

Cocaine— The  market  is  unsettled,  on 

account  of  competition.

Grains  of  Paradise—On  account  of 

large  stocks,  have declined.

Menthol—Is 

small  supply  and 
prices  have  advanced  and  are  very firm.
Select  Elm  Bark—Continues  scarce 

in 

and  high.

Linseed  Oil—On  account  of  competi­

tion  and  pressure  to  sell  has  declined.

• 

Storing: Crude  Drugs.

W.  A.  Dawson  says  that  in  the  stor­
age  of  crude  drugs  the  ordinary  drug 
drawers  may  be  fitted  with  two  tin 
boxes  with  tight  fitting  covers  and  the 
whole  and  powdered  drug  thus  kept  in 
the  same  drawer.  Where  the  quantities 
stocked  are  small,  four  boxes  may  be 
fitted  to  a  drawer  and  space  thereby 
economized.  “ For  storing  surplus  stock 
of  drugs,"  says  Mr.  Dawson,  “ such 
things  as  are  bought  in  paper  in  larger 
quantities  than  the  containers  will  hold,
I  have  found  convenient  some  storage 
cans  made from  empty  five-gallon  castor 
oil  cans.  These  are  sent  to  the  tin­
smith,  who  fits  a  tin  cover  to them ;  they 
are  then  painted  with  several  coats  of 
white  and 
‘ Extra 
Stock,’  a n d ‘ Sundry  Drugs.’  The  sur­
plus  stock,  wrapped 
its  original 
paper,  over which  is  wrapped  a  sheet  of 
thin  paraffined  paper,  is  then  stored 
therein,  several  packages  in  a  can.  A 
string  tag  tied  to  the  handle  of the cover 
gives  a  list  of  the  contents,  and  is  cor­
rected  whenever  anything 
is  added  or 
taken  from  the  can.  We  have  about  a 
dozen  of  these  storage  cans,  and  have 
no  losses  from  deteriorated  drugs  kept 
in  paper.

in  black: 

lettered 

in 

For 

the  storage  of  pressed  herbs, 
square  tin  cans  that  will  bold  a  pound 
of  herbs,  the  cans  kept  under a  counter,  j 
near  the  store  scale  counter,  is  about 
the  best  and  most  convenient  disposal 
to  make  of  them.  Fifty  or  sixty  boxes 
will  be  the  number  required  for  the 
stock  of  this  line.  Cans  of  this  size  are 
very  convenient  for  other 
things  as 
well;  seeds,  anise,  caraway,  etc.,  and 
many  drugs,  both  whole  and  powdered, 
may  be  stored  in  them,some  of  the  cans 
being  of  a 
larger  size  if  necessary;  a 
bank  of  a  hundred  or  more  under  the 
counter  will  be  found  useful.

Selecting: a Location  F or  a Drug: Store.
In  selecting  a  business  location  one 
is  often  influenced  in  favor of  an  other­
wise  acceptable  place  by  its  having  a 
smaller  number  of  drug  stores  than  the 
average  for  a  town of  that  size ;  or,  con­
versely,  one 
is  apt  to  look  unfavorably 
on  a  good  town  having  rather  more  than 
the  usual  number.  A  little  reflection, 
however,  soon  shows  that  the  number  of 
stores  should  not  be  a  factor  of  so  much 
importance  as  their  kind. 
In  many 
towns  the  trade  is  controlled  by  one  or 
two  concerns  of  large  capital  and  pro­
gressive  methods,  to  such  an  extent  that 
competition  practically  starves  out. 
In 
such  places  there  will  be,  naturally,  but 
few  stores  and  yet  the  opening  is  any­
thing  but  a  promising  one  for  the  rea­
son  that  the  field  is  fully  occupied. 
In 
other  places  the  business  is  scattered 
among  a  number  of  small  stores,  none 
financially  strong,  none  especially  pro­
gressive,  and  none  possessing  sufficient 
advantage  over  the  others  to  enable  it 
to  gain  enough  headway  to  put  it  in 
prosperous  condition. 
In  such  a  town 
as  this  the  progressive  man  of  even 
ordinary  means  may  find  a  first-rate 
opening,  for  the  reason  that  under such 
conditions  some  concerns  are  certain 
to  be  discouraged  and  willing  to  sell  at 
a  sacrifice.  By  getting  them  out  of  the 
way  and  plunging  boldly  into  the  strug­
gle  for  business  he  can  frequently  at­
tract  such  attention  towards  himself  as 
to  draw  the  trade  in  his  direction.

In  opening  up  a  new  store  in  any 
town,  it  is  necessary  to  remember  that 
one’s  customers  must  be  won  away  from 
other  stores.  Unless  one  is  prepared  to 
make 
it  to  their  interest  in  some  way, 
either  in  prices,  prompt  and  skillful

service,  or  convenience,  they  are  not 
going  to  leave  the  other  stores.  The 
dead-beats  will  come,  of  course—they 
are  always  the  first  to  welcome  the  new 
store  in  their  m idst;  but  the  people 
who  pay  their  bills  have  to  be  tempted 
by  some  superiority. 
In  deciding  on  a 
location  it  is  well  to  consider  what  one 
can  offer  the  people  that  is  better  than 
they  are  now  receiving.  It  is  a  question 
that 
is  more  easily  answered  at  first 
than  later.

P aris  Green  and Tobacco.
Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  writing 

in  the 
Eclectic  Medical  Gleaner  calls  atten­
tion  to  a  subject  of  no  little  importance 
and  withal  of  general  interest.  It  is  the 
widely  extended  and  rapidly  growing 
practice  among  tobacco  growers  of  this 
country  to  scatter  paris  green  over  the 
growing  plants  for  exterminating  the 
harmful  grubs.  This 
is  a  timely  note 
of  warning.  The  use  of  this  poisonous 
drug  in  the  manner  indicated  should  be 
prohibited  by 
law,  for,  until  its  harm­
lessness  has  been  demonstrated  it  must 
be  considered  as  dangerous  to  the health 
and 
life  of  tobacco  users  while,  on  the 
other  hand  one  of  our  most  important 
industries  may  be  seriously  crippled 
should  European  countries  decide  to 
legislate  against  arsenic-laden  Ameri­
can  tobacco.

The  world 

tie nee.

is  for  him  who  has  pa 

Drug Store 
For Sale

Live  Drug  business  in  Ann  Arbor. 
Cash  sales  $25  daily.  Fine,  central 
location.  Selling because of too much 
outside business.

W .  N.  SALISBU R Y.

For particulars address Brownell & 
Humphrey.  88-90  Griswold  street, 
Detroit,  Mich.

FR ED   BRUNDAGE

wholesale

»  Drugs  and  Stationery «
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MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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

2 7

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced— Oil Pennyroyal. Alcohol. 
Declined—Prickly Ash Berries, Cocaine.

Scillae  Co.................  @  50
Tolutan...................   @  bo
Prunus  vlrg............  @  50

65
65
65

Menthol..................
68
® 6 03 Seldlltz Mixture......
20® 22 Linseed, pure raw...
Morphia, S., P. & W. 2 16® 2 40 Slnapls....................
77
® 18 Linseed,  Dolled........
Morphia, S., N.Y. Q. 2 15® 2 40 Slnapls,  opt............
80
© 30 Neatsfoot. winter str
Morphia, Mai........... 2 16® 2 40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
60
Spirits  Turpentine..
Moschus  Canton__
© 40
@ 41
Voes....................
Myristlca, No. 1......
Paints BBL. LB.
66® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
@ 41
Nux Vomica...po. 15
© 10 Soda. Boras.............
9® 11
9® 11 Red  Venetian.........
IK  2 ®8
Os Sepia..................
36® 37 Soda,  Boras, po......
21® 25 Ochre, yellow  Mars.
IK  2 ©4
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
2 Ochre, yellow Ber...
IK  2 ©3
D  Co....................
® 1 00 Soda,  Carb..............
ltt®
3® 5 Putty,  commercial.. 2V4 2Vi®3
Plcls Llq. N.N.Vi gal.
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
3V&® 4 Putty, strictly  pure. 2%  2K@3
doz.......................
© 2 00 Soda,  Ash...............
2 Vermilion,  P rim e
© 1 00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Plcls Llq.,quart8__
®
13® 16
® 2  60 American............
Plcls Llq.,  pints......
© 86 Spts. Cologne...........
70® 76
50® 66 Vermilion, English..
© 60 Spts. Ether  Co........
Pll Hydrarg. ..po. 80
® 2 00 Green,  Paris........... 14V4®  levs
Piper  Nigra...po. 22
© 18 Spts. Myrcla Dom...
13® 16
Green, Peninsular...
Piper  Alba__po. 36
© 30 Spts. Vini Beet.  bbl.
®
Lead,red................
s  @ 8V4
Pifx Burgun............
7 Spts. Vini Beet. Vibbl
@
©
Lead,  white............
6  ® 6V4
Plumbl Acet............
10© 12 Spts. Vini Beet, logal
@
Whiting, white Span
@ 90
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll 1 30® 1 60 Spts. Vlnl Beet. 5 gal
@
80® 1  05 Whiting, gilders’__
@ 96
PyretUrum, boxes B.
Strychnia, Crystal...
2V4® 4 White, Paris, Amer.
© 25
© 78 Sulphur,  Subl.........
& P. D. Co., doz...
26© 30 Sulphur, Boll........... 214® 3V4 Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Pyrethrum,  pv........
cliff.......................
©  1  40
8® 10
8© 10 Tamarinds..............
Quassias....................
28® 30 Universal Prepared. 1  10® 20
26© 35 Terebenth  Venice...
Qulnla, S. P. &  W...
f© 3 Theobrom®.............
50® 66
Qulnla, S.  German..
28© 36 Vanilla.................... 9 00®16 00
Qulnla, N. Y............
7® 8
Rubla Tlnctorum....
12© 14 Zinc! Sulph............
20® 22
Saccharum Lactls pv
Saladn.................... 4 60® 4 76
40® 60
Sanguis  Draconis...
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, W..................
10® 12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo M....................
® 16 Lard, No. 1..............
Sapo G....................

No. 1 Turp  Coach... 1  10® 20
Extra Turp.............. 1  60®  17 0
BBL.  OAL. Coach  Body............ 2 76®  3 00
70 No. 1 Turp Fum...... 1  00®  1  10
90 Extra Turk Damar.. 1  66®  1  60
66 Jap. Dryer, No. lTurp
70® 79

varnishes

70
86
60

H oliday
Goods

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

It  will  pay  you 

to 

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Acidum
8
.$  6®$
Acetlcum  ................$
.  70® 76
Benzolcum, German
® 17
Boraclc....................
24® 29
24®
Carbollcum.............. 
43® 46
Cltrlcum..................   43®
3® 6
Hydrochlor..............
8® 10
8®
Mltrocum................. 
12® 14
12©
Oxallcum.................  
® 16
Phosphorlum,  dll...
50® 63
  $°@
Salley ltcum ........... 
.  1 Vi® 5
Sulphurlcum...........  Hi®
.  1  10®  1 20
Tannlcum................  f  *
40
38®
Tartaricum.............
A m m onia
a
Aqua, 16 deg............. 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas.................  
Chloridum................ 
A niline
Black.......................
Brown......................
Bed..........................
Yellow......................
Baccse
Cubebae...........po,25
Junlperus................  
Xanthoxylum.........   l
Balaam am

6
4®
<®
6® 8
6®
13® 15
«J®
12® 14
12®
.  2  00® 2 26
80®  1  00
46® 60
.  2  60® 3 00
1  22® 24
7® 8
_7®
1  50®  1 60

66 
l  70 
65 
60

Copaiba...................  60®
0
Peru  ...  .................  
Terabln,  Canada....  600
Tolutan.................... 
*80
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassia;........................
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlea Cerllera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
QulUala, grrd ...........
Sassafras........po. 15
Ulmus..  po.  18, gr’d 
E xtractnm  
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
240  26
28®  30
Glycyrrhlza,  po 
_____________ box  11®
Hæmatox, 16 lb.
13®
Hsematox, is ........... 
Haematox, V4s.........  
140
Haematox, Ms.........  
16©

F erra

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

16
2  26 
76 
40 
16 
2
80
7

Arnica..................... 
180
Anthemls.................  22©
Matricaria...............  
30®

Folia
Barosma..................   35®
Cassia Acutifol,  Xln-
nevelly................. 
200
26®
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.
Salvia officinalis,  54s
12®  20
and vis.................... 
UvaUrsl................... 
8©  1®
Oumml
0   66
Acacia, 1st picked... 
0   46
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
0   36
0   28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po................  46®  66
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20 
12©  14
Aloe, Cape....po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotri..po. 40 
®
Ammoniac................  86®
Assafcetida___ po. 40  26®
Benzolnum..............  60®
Catechu, is .............. 
©
Catechu, Vis............  
0
§ 16 
Catechu, Vis............. 
0
69
Campnorae..............  64®
®  40
Euphorbium... po. 36 
®
®  1 00 
®
Galbanum................ 
®  «5
Gamboge............ po  80®
Gualacum.........po. 36  ®
®  35
Kino...........po. J0.76
©  76
@  60
M astic....................
10  «1
Myrrh..............po. 46 
Opl!....pO.  1.10@4.30 3 00®  3  10
Shellac.................... 
36®  46
Shellac, bleached....  40®  46
Tragacanth.............   70®  1  00

H erba 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Bue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
thymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P at........... 
66®  60
18®  20
Carbonate, Pat........ 
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings 

Olenm
7  20 
Absinthium...............7
60
Amygdalae,  Dulc....
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00®  8 26
Anlsl.......................   l 60®  1 66
Aurantt Cortex........2 10®  2 20
Bergamll.............     2 60®  2 76
Cajlputl...................  80®  86
Caiyophylll.............  
76®  80
Cedar......................  80®  86
Chenopadll.............. 
© 2 75
Clnnamonll.............1  00©  1 10
Cltronella................  86®  40

Conlum Mac............
Copaiba............... .
Cubebae..................
Exechthltos............
Erigeron.................
Gaultheria..............
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................
Junlpera.................
Lavendula..............
Limonls..................
Mentha Piper.........
Mentha Verid.........
Morrhuae, |gal.........
Myrcla....................
Olive.......................
Plcls Llqulda..........
Plcls Llqulda,  gal...
Blclna.....................
Bosmarini...............
Bosae, ounce............
Succlni....................
Sabina....................
Santal.....................
Sassafras.................
Slnapls,  ess., ounce.
Tlglil.......................
Thyme.....................
Thyme, opt..............
Theobromas  ...........
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................
Bichromate............
Bromide.................
C arb.......................
Chlorate., .po. 17®19
Cyanide..................
Iodide.....................  2
Potassa. Bltart, pure 
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nltras.........
Prusslate.................
Sulphate  po............
Radix
Aconltum.................
Althæ......................
Anchusa.................
Arum  po.................
Calamus..................
Gentiana........po. 16
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po.................
Ipecac, po............... 3
Iris plox.. .po. 36@38
Jalapa. pr...............
Maranta,  14s ...........
Podophyllum,  po...
Bhei.........................
Bhei, cut.................
Bhel, pv..................
Splgella..................
Sangulnarta... po.  15
Serpentaria............
Senega ....................
Smllax, officinalis H.
Smllax, M...............
SdUæ........... po.  36
Symplocarpus, Fcetl-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ............
Zingiber j.................
Semen
Anlsum........ po.  18
Aplum (graveleons).
Bird, is....................
Carul.............po.  15
Cardamon...............
Corlandrum.............
Cannabis Satlva......
Cyd onium...............
Chenopodlum.........
Dlptenx Odorate....
Fœnlculum..............
Fœnugreek, po........
Lini.........................
Llni, grd......bbl. 4
Lobelia...................
Pharlarls Canarian..
Bapa.......................
Slnapls  Alba...........
Slnapls  Nigra.........
Spirt tus 
Frumentl, W. I). Co. 
Frumenti,  D. F. B
Frumentl.............
Juniperts Co. O. T.
Junlperis  Co........
Saacharum  N. E ..
Spt. Vini Galli......
Vini Oporto.........
Vini Alba..............

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............
Nassau sheeps' wool
carriage................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  B eef,  for 
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod.................
Bhei Arom..............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Solllae...  .................

80©  90
1  18® 1  26
1 30®  1  36 
1 00® 1  10 
1 00® 1  10
2  00®   2  10
®  76
60®  60 
1 80®  1  86 
1  60® 2 00 
90® 2 00
1  15®  1  25
2 30® 9 50
1  90® 2 00
2 00® 2  !0 
4 00® 4 50
76® 3 00 
10®  
12 
®  35
1 00®  1  06 
@ 1 00 
6 00® 6  60 
40®  46
90®  1  00 
2 75® 7 00 
66®  60 
@  66 
1  60®  1  60 
40®  60
® 1  60 
16®  20

15®  18
13®  15
52®  67
12®  15
16®  18 
34®  38
30® 2 40 
28®  30
7®  10
6®  8 
23®  26
16®  18

20®  26 
30®  33
10®  
12 
®  25
20®  40
12®  16 
16®  18 
®  75
®  80 
12®  16 
18®  22 
60® 3 75 
36®  40
25®  30
®  36
22®  26 
75®  1  00 
@126 
75®  1  36 
36®  38
@  18 
60®  56
60®  66 
®  40
@  25
10®  12
®  25
@  25
15®   20
14®  16
25®  27

13® 
4® 
10® 
26®  1
6®  6 
76®  1  00 
15®  16
1  00®  1  10 
®  10 
9
7® 
4  @  6
4  @ 
6
1  60®  1  65
6
5  @ 
6  @ 
6
9®  10
11®  12
2 00®  2  60 
2 00®  2 26 
1  26®  1  60 
1 65® 2 00 
1  75® 3 50 
1  90® 2  10 
1  76® 6 50 
1  25®  2 00 
1  26® 2 00

2  50® 2 76
2  50® 2 76
@  1  50
@  1  26
@ 1 00 
@  78
©  1  40

®  60 
®  50
@  50
@  60 
®  60 
@  60 
50®  60
®  60
a   so

Tinctures
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconitum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
Assafcetida.............. 
Atrope Belladonna., 
Auranti Cortex.......  
Benzoin..................  
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Canthartdes............  
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu)..................  
Cinchona................  
Cinchona Co............  
Columba................. 
Cubebte.................... 
Cassia Acutifol........ 
Cassia Acutifol Co... 
Digitalis..................  
Ergot....................... 
Ferri  Chloridum.... 
Gentian..................  
Gentian Co.............. 
Guiaca.....................  
Gulaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............  
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless...... 
K ino....................... 
Lobelia...................  
Myrrh.....................  
Nux Vomica............  
Opll.......................... 
Opll, comphorated.. 
Opll, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Bhatany................... 
Bhei........................  
Sanguinaria...........  
Serpentaria............  
Stramonium............  
Tolutan................... 
Valerian................. 
Veratrum  Veride... 
Zingiber..................  

60
60
60
60
50
50
60
50
60
so
50
75
so
75
75
100
so
so
60
So
So
60
5o
60
60
3s
60
60
60
60
So
75
7s
60
So
60
60
7s
So
1  60
5o
60
60
5¿
5¿
60
60
8q
60
2¿

Miscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  35
Atther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2V4® 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto...................   40®  60
4® 
Antlmonl, po........... 
5
Antimoni et Potass T  40®  60
Antlpyrin...............  
®  26
®  20
Antliebrin.............. 
®  46
Argent! Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45®  50
Bismuth S. N...........  1  66®  1  70
9
® 
Calcium Chlor., is... 
® 
Calcium Chlor., Vis.. 
10
0  
Calcium Chlor.,  146-• 
12
®  80
Cantharldes, Bus.po 
® 
Capsid Fructus, af.. 
16
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
®  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
®  15
Caryophyllus. .po. 15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......  
® 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
56®  60
Cera  Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........ 
®  35
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum.................  @  46
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs  @  l  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  l  35®  l  60
Chondrus................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne.P.SW  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   4  06®  4 ‘.5
75
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............  
®  46
@  2
Creta.............bbl. 76 
Creta, prep.............. 
® 
5
Creta, preclp........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
S
Crocus....................  26®  30
Cudbear..................  
®  24
Cupri  Sulph............   6Vi@ 
8
Dextrine................. 
7®  10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
® 
Emery, all numbers. 
8
Emery, po...............  
6
® 
Ergota...........po. 90 
85®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
®  23
Galla....................... 
Gambler................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
®  60
Gelatin, French......   36®  60
75 &  6
Glassware,  flint, box 
70
Less than box...... 
Glue, brown......... 
11®  13
Glue,  white............  
16®  25
Glycerlna................   17V4©  26
©  26
Grana Paradis!........ 
25®  66
Humulus................. 
© 1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
©  90
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m. 
® 1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl 
® 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum.........   @  86
Icnthyobolla,  Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................  
76®  1 00
Iodine,  Besubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60® 3 85
Lupulin.................... 
®  60
Lycopodium.............  66®  70
M ads......................  66®  76
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
drarg Iod.............. 
®  25
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
iv( 
Q 
Manilla. B,  F --------  MO  60

3 8

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Canned  Tomatoes 
Ju m b o   Peanuts

DECLINED

Canned  Corn 
Roast  Beef 
Llm burger  Cheese

Index to Markets

By Columns

C

B

A

G

H

I
J

D
r

CoL
Akron  Stoneware.................  IS
Alabastine............................  1
Ammonia..............................  
l
l
Axle Grease........................... 
Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath  Brick............................ 
l
-  ..........................   *
Bluing.. 
Breakfast Food....................   1
Brooms...... ...........................  
l
Brushes................................. 
l
Batter Color..........................  
l
Candles..................................  14
Candles..................................  £
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................  3
Carbon Oils..........................   3
Cheese...................................   3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................  3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoanut...............................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................  13
Crackers...............................  4
Cream T artar.......................  5
Dried  Fruits.........................  6
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
Fly  Paper.............................   6
Fresh Meats..........................  6
Fruits....................................  14
Gelatine.................................  6
Grain Bags............................  7
Grains and Flour.................  7
Herbs....................................  7
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo....................................  7
Jelly ......................................  7
Lamp Burners.......................  13
Lamp Chimneys....................  13
Lanterns...............................   13
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
Salt........................................   9
Salt  Fish...............................  »
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   10
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  10
Spices............... 
10
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  l£
Syrups...................................   10
Table Sauce..........................   ll
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco.................................  ll
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.....................13
Wlcklng.................................  13
Woodenwar*.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast  Cake...........................  13

v
w

N
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R
S

M

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AXLE  GREASE
Aurora___ ..............56
..............60
Castor  OU..
..............50
Diamond...
..............75
Frazer’s ....
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

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

Mica, tin boxes.........75 
Paragon..................... 33 

BAKING  POW DER 

9 00
8 00

Vi lb.  cans, 4 doz. case........ 3 75
Vi lb.  cans, 2 doz. case........ 3 75
l lb.  cans, l doz. case........ 3 75
5 lb. cans, Vi doz. case.......... 8 00

Egg

H lb. cans, 4 doz. case....  45
H lb. cans, 4 doz. case....  85
1 

lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  60

Royal

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

BATH  BRICK

American.........................  70
English............................   80
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9  00

BLUING

Small size, per doz— -........  40
large size, per doz..............  75

BREAKFAST  FOOD

CEBU NUT FLAKES

BROOMS

Cases, 36 packages..............4 50
Five ease lots.......................4 40
No. 1 Carpet........................ 2 70
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..........................3 so

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dust less

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

Scrub

Shoe

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................   96
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8.................................... 1  00
No. 7.................................... 1  3o
No. 4.................................... 1  70
No. 8...................................1  »0
No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W., R. & Co.’8 ,15c size__   1 25
W„ B. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00

BUTTER  COLOR

Stove

1  10 
3 35

80

90

1 00 
1  50

CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s...... .........12 Vi
Paraffine, 6s.........................10VÍ
Paraffine, 128.............. ........11
Wtoklnv
17

CANNED  GOODS 

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

B lackberries

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

Beans

Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
Bed  Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
70
Wax......................... 
75

B lueberries
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout

2 

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

Clams.

Little Neck, l lb 
Little Neck. 2 lb.

Clam Bouillon

85

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

80 
85 
1  00
22
19
15
11
90
85
2  15
3 60 
2  40
1  75
2  80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18®20
22®25

Cherries
Red  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy ......................
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine.............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine...............................
Moyen..........................
Gooseberries
Standard................
H om iny
Standard...
Lobster
Star, Vi lb.................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 21b...........
Soused, l lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, lib ............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Mushrooms
....................
Hotels 
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
1  55
Cove, 2 lb  ...............
96
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........
Peaches
85®  90
P ie...........................
1  65® 1  85
Yellow....................
Pears
1  00
Standard.................
1  25
Fancy.......................
1  00
Marrowfat..............
1  00
Early June..............
1  60
Early June  Sifted..
Plum s
85
Plums...................  .
Pineapple
1  25®2  75
Grated....................
Sliced....................... 1  35@2  56
P um pkin
F air.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Raspberries
Standard..................  
1  15
Russian  Cavier
X lb. cans..........................  3 75
Vi lb, cans..........................  7  00
1 ID. Call.»....................
Salmon
Columbia River, tails
Columbia River, flats
Red Alaska.............
Pink Alaska............
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, Vis..........
Domestic, Vis.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
Califomia, Vis.........
California Vis...........
French, Vis..............
French, vis..............
Standard.................
Fancy......................

@1  65
®1  80
®1  30
®  90
1  40
3%
5
6

U@14
17®24
7®14
18®28
1  10
1  40

S traw b erries

Peas

Succotash
Fair.......................... 
Good.......................  
Fancy 
Tomatoes
F air......................... 
Good.......................  
Fancy...................... 
Gallons................... 

?5
1  00
1  20
1  10
l  20
l  30
3 00

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

Eocene.......................   @H
Perfection..................   @10
Diamond White.........   @9
D. S. Gasoline............   @12*
Deodorized Naphtha..  @l0Vi
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine.......................... 19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @10X

CATSUP

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

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

@11
@11*
@l£
@l?„
@}£*
@’2
«11
@11*
@J'*
d ll*
14@15
@90
@17
£jJ@££
60®76
19® 20

CHEWING GUM 
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
B la c k ja c k ............................. 55
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
.  56
Sen Sen............ • •••••.......  
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
«
Yucatan............................ 
56

56
60

CHICORY

Bulk...................... 
5
Red........................................7
Eagle..................................  *
Franck’s .............................   £

 

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet....................   23
Premium..............................  ®£
Breakfast Cocoa...................  46

Runkel Bros.

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

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

Sisal

Ju te

.  ......................................  
75
72 f t .................................. 
90
90 ft....................................  1  05
120 ft..."..............................  150

Cotton  Victor

50 ft.................................... 
80
6f ft.................................... 
,»5
70 ft...................................   11°
Cotton W indsor

59 ft....................................  £  20
60 ft...................................  1  40
70 ft....................................  1 65
80 ft....................................  1  85

Cotton Braided

55
40 ft.................................... 
59 ft.................................... 
70
70 ft...................................  
80
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100ft long....  190 
No. 19, each 100 ft long....  2  10 

COCOA

 

 

Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, v<s  .......................   35
Colonial, Vis.........................  33
Epps.............. 
42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Vis..................  12
Van Houten, Ms..................   20
Van Houten, Vis..................  40
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Vis.  ........................  41
Wilbur. Ms..........................   42
Dunham’s Vis...................   26
Dunham’s Vis and Ms......   26Vi
Dunham’s  Ms..................   27
Dunham’s  Vis..................   28
Bulk..................................   13

COCOANUT

COCOA  SHELLS
20 1b. bags....................... 
Less quantity.................  
Pound packages............  

2 V4
3
4

COFFEE 
Roasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehllng......................... 30 y,
Purity...................................28
No 1  Hotel...........................28
Monogram..........................26
Special Hotel....................... 23
Parkerhouse.........................21
Honolulu  ............................V
Fancy  Maracaibo......  ...... 16
Maracaibo.............................13
Porto Rican......................... 15
Marexo.................................llVi

5
Soda

Oyster

Soda  XXX.......................  
7
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................   13
7 V4
Faust 
.............................. 
7
Farina............................... 
Extra Farina.................... 
7 Vi
Saltlne 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
Cream Crisp...................... 
iovi
Cubans.............................. 
llVi
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  
9
Ginger Gems, 1’rge or sm’U  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C__ 
6Vi
Gladiator..........................   10 Vi
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 Vi
Milk Biscuit......................  7 Vi
8
Molasses  Cake.................  
Molasses Bar....................   9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  
l2Vi
22
Newton.............................   12
8
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp....................  
9
Orange Gem...................... 
9
Penny Cake......................  8
7Vi
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
8Vi
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8*
Scotch Cookies.................  
9
Sears’ Lunch....................   7*
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
Snsar Grunin. X X X ...........  
«
Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna CrlmD................... 
8
E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

Citron

Currants

California Prunes

Sundrled.........................  ®evv
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @l0Vi 
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  ® 4K
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5*
70 - 80 26 lb. boxes........  @ 5%
60 - 70 26 lb. boxes........  @ 6V4
50 - 60 26 lb. boxes........  @
40 - 50 26 lb. boxes........  ® 8H
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
9
X cent less In 50 lb. oases 
California F ru its

Apricots.....................  @ilK
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  
8Vi
Peaches...................... 
®9Vf
Pears.......................... 9*
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
Leghorn...................................11
Corsican...........................   12*
California, l lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......  7
Imported, bulk.....................6&
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1  75 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  90
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7&
8 Vi
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 9K@10
L. M„ Seeded, %  lb__  
8
Sultanas, b u lk ....................11
Sultanas, package..............11 Vi
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima............................5*
Medium Hand Picked 
1  80
Brown Holland................... 2  25
241 lb. packages.................l  is
Bulk, per 100 Tbs..................2  60
Flake, 50 lb. sack...............   90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl.................5  00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack...............2 50
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box..........2 00

H om iny

Raisins

F arin a

Beans

Peel

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

Teller Coffee Co. brands

Delivered in 100 lb. lots.

 

Rio

Santos

Maracaibo

Common...............................  8
F a ir....................................... 9
Choice...................................10
Fancy....................................15
Common..............................   8
F air....................................... 9
Choice...................................10
Fancy...................................13
Peaberry...............................11
F air......................................13
Choice........ 
...  16
Choice...................................13
Fancy....................................17
Choice..............................  
African.................................12
Fancy African.....................17
O  G...................................... 25
P. G...................................... 31
Arabian............................. 

G uatem ala

Mexican

Ja v a

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

Arbnckle.............................U>*
Dilworth.............................iovi
Jersey................................. 10*
Lion................................... 10
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City Vi  gross............   75
Felix Vi gross.................. 
1  15
Hummers foil Vi gross........  85
Hummel’s tin Vi gross........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

13

21

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown.......................................5 90
Daisy........................................ 4 70
Champion................................ 4 25
Magnolia..................................4 00
Challenge................................. * 10
Dime........................................ 3 35
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid.................................. 6 10
Tip  Top....................................3 85
Nestles..................................... 4 25
Highland  Cream......................5 00
St. Charles Cream.................... 4 50
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
6Vi
New York......................... 
evS
Family.............................  
6Vi
Salted................................ 
6 Vi
Wolverine...... . 
7

CRACKERS

B utter

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

6

8

9

Im ported.

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

.8 00 
.4  50

9 60 
5  25

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

4  00 
3  00

10
SEEDS

 

Anise.  ........................... 
Canary, Smyrna..................   314
Caraway.............................   7*
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird...........................   4
Mustard, white......................7
Poppy....................................  6
Rape..................................... 4
Cnitlo Bone..........................14
Handy Box,  large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SH O E   B L A C K I N G

SOAP

PICKLES
H edinm
Barrels, 1,200 count...
Half bbls, 600 count 
Small

Barrels, 2,400 count...........
Half bbls. 1.200 count........
PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............
No. 15, Rival, assorted__
No. 20, Rover, enameled..
N5. 572, Special................
No  98, Golf, satin finish..
No. 808, Bicycle...............
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist. 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s ............................
Penna Salt Co.’s.................

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  Pork

  @18 75
Mess...................  
@19 oa
Back...................... 
Clear back...............  
@20  50
Short out.................  @19  25
22  00
Pig.................... 
Bean........................   @18  09
Family Mess Loin... 
2i  00
Clear.......................  @19  00

 

D ry  Salt Meats

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

1214
13
12

Smoked  Meats 

9*@  10

Hams, 12 lb. average.  @  i3 \
Hams, ulb.average.  @  13V
Hams, I61b.average.  @  1394
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @
Ham dried  beef......   @  13%
Shoulders (N.Y.out)  @  iovt
Bacon, clear............   !3*@  1414
California hams......   @  10%
Boiled Hams....... 
@20
Picnic Boiled Hams 
@  1514
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
9®  014
Mince Hams.........  
Lard
Compound...............
Pure.........................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
60 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
5 lb. Palls., advance
..»3 v«*nftP
Q lb. 
Vegetole..................
Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
noauuutKwt] .............. 
Beef
Extra Mess.............
Boneless..................
14 50
Rump, New............ 14 0r@i5  00

8*
6
6*
@8
9
6
o y*

@ 8* 
@u* 
*  
* 
X 
X %

Uncolored  B utterine

Pigs’  Feet
*  bbls., 40 lbs.........
*  bbls.,....................
1 bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
*  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,  *s..
Potted tongue.  * s..
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats

1  80
3 40
8 (0

89
1  50
3 00
26
5
12
66
@13*
@14
16*
16
2  60
19 no
2  60
50
90
50
90
60
90

Carolina head.......................7
Carolina No. l ......................6*
Carolina No. 2 ......................6
Broken................................. 3%

P earl B arley

Peas

Common....................'... ...3 00
Chester............................ ...2 76
Empire............................ ...3 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1  90
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...2  10
Spilt,  lb...... .................... ... 
4
Rolled Avena, bbl........... ...6 30
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  3 30
Monarch, bbl.................. ...6  10
Monarch, *  bbl.............. ...3 20
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ ...2 95
Quaker, cases................. ...3  20

Rolled  Oats

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

F ISH IN G   TA CK LE

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages......2 00
East India...........................   3X
German, sacks....................   3 \
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............   4*
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 24 1 lb. packages......  6 >4
Cracked, bulk......................  3 \
24 2 ft. packages.................2 BO
54 to 1 inch...........................  6
154 to 2 Inches......................  7
154 to 2 inches......................  9
1% to 2 Inches.................... 
11
2 inches................................   15
3 inches................................   30
5
No. 1,10 feet......................... 
No. 2,15 feet......................... 
7
No. 3,15 feet......................... 
9
No. 4, ’5 feet........................   10
No. 5,15 feet.........................  11
No. 6,15 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 feet.........................  15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  20
Small...................................   20
Medium...............................   26
L arge..................................  34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz.....  50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per  doz.....   65
Bamboo. 18 f t . per  doz.....   80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE A JEN K S’

JA X O N

Hlghes^Brad^fetm t^ 
1 ozfull m .120  1 ozfull  m .  80 
2o zfu llm  .2 l0   2 oz full m  l  25 
N o.sfan’v  8  is  No.3fan'y  l  75

Vanilla 

Lemon

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

O. C. Lemon 
2 oz......... 
3 oz.........  1  00  3 oz.
6 OZ..........  2  00  4 OZ.
No. 4T 

1). C. Vanilla 
75  2 oz.........  1  24
1  60 
2  00
.1 5 2   No. 3 T...  2 08 
O nr Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80 
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
T an g lefo o t, p e r  c a s e ..............3  20

FLY  PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  HEATS 

6 @ 9
6 @  6*
8 @10*
9 @14
8 @12*
8 @  9
5 @ 6
5 @

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins.......................
Ribs........................
Rounds....................
Chucks....................
Plates.....................
P o r k
@ 8*
Dressed...................
Loins....................... 13 @13*
@10*
Boston Butts...........
@10*
Shoulders................
@12 _
Leaf  Lard...............
M utton
6 @  8
Carcass...................
Lambs......................
@11*
veal
7 @  8 *
Carcass....................

GELATINE

Knox’s  Sparkling............   1 20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14 00
Knox’s Acidulated...........  1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d ,pr gross 14 00
Oxford..............................  
75
Plymouth  Rock...............   1  20
Nelson’s............................  1  50
Cox’s, 2qt size.................  1  61
Cox’s, l-qt size..................  1  10
Amoskeag, 100 in b ale__  1554
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15%

GRAIN  BAGS

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

W heat

Wheat, Old....................... 
Wheat, New....................  

W inter W heat  Flour 

68
66

Local Brands

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents............................  4  30
Second Patent..................  3 8’
Straight......  ....................  3 60
Second Straight...............   3 3 *
Clear................................   3  10
Graham............................  3 80
Buckwheat.......................  4  80
Rye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 54s......................  4  00
Diamond 54s.....................  4 00
Diamond 54s.....................   4 00
Quaker 54s.........................  4 co
Quaker 54s........................   4 00
Quaker 54s........................  4 00
Clark-Jewell-Well8 Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best  54s.........   4 60
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 50
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s Best *s paper.  4 40 
Plllsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4  40 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4  30
Duluth  Imjperial 54s.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  54s.................... 
4  45
Wlngold  54s....................  4 35
Wlngold  54s.................... 
4 26
\jCrUBUU» 7&B......... ...........
Ceresota * s ...................... 4 40
4 30
Ceresota * s .....................
Laurel  * s ......................... 4  40
Laurel  * s ......................... 4  30
4  20
Laurel  * s ........................
Laurel *s and *s paper.. 4 20
Bolted..............................
3  00
3  10
Granulated.......................
Feed  and  Millstnffk
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. 24  00
Screenings....................... 20 00
Car  lots............................
Car lots, clipped...............
Less than car lots............
Corn, car  lots..................
No. 1 Timothy car lots__ a9 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots.... 12 00
Sage........................................15
Hops...................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
senna Leaves..........................26

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney A Jud son’s Brand

Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

Oats

60
62

60

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50

INDIGO

JELLY

61b. palls.per doz........... 
l  f>5
151b. palls............................  40
301b. palls............................  80

LICORICE

Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz......................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25
Armour A Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 46
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 75

MEAT  EXTRACTS

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

40
35
26
22

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

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  20
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  15
Manzanllla, 7 oz................ 
80
Queen, pints.....................   2  36
Queen, 19  oz.....................   4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz...... ..............  
90
Stuffed, 8 oz......................  1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Clay, No. 216..........................l 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   66
Cob, No. 8............................  85

PIPES

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale...................................6

Cost of packing In cotton  pock­
ets only *c more than bulk.
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 do/.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...l  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 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P ..........................................3 00
Wyandotte. 100 Xs...................3 00

SAL  SODA

Granulated, bbls.................  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__ 1  00
Lump, bbls.........................   90
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   95

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  65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67

Common  Grades

100 31b. sacks............................2 25
60 5 lb. sacks............................2 15
2810 lb. sacks.......................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................   40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22

56 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   20

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Warsaw

Ashton

Higgins

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock

56 lb. sacks..........................   26

Common

Granulated  Fine.................   85
Medium Fine.......................  90

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Large whole...............  ® 5M
Sinai whole................   @ 4X
amps or  bricks......... 8  @ 9
Pollock.......................   @  3X

H alibut.

Strips......................................
Chunks.............................   13

T ront

No. 1 100 lbs......................   6 50
NO. 1  40 lbs......................   2 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
70
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
59

M ackerel

Mess 100 lbs........   ...........
Mess  40 lbs......................
Mess  10 lbs......................
Mess  8 lbs......................
No. 1100 lbs......................
No. 1  40 lbs......................
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 lbs......................
No. 2100 lbs......................
No. 2  40 lbs......................
No. 2  10 lbs......................
No. »  S !*• 
......
Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoops >4bbl 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Sealed.............................
Bloaters............................

H erring

9 50
4  10 
1  1091 
8 50 
3 70 
1  00 83 
7  26 
3 39 
i 8 
3
10 26
5 25 
75@85
85
3 35 
1  65 
12

W hite fish

100  lbs........... 7  50 
40 lbs...........3 30 
10 lbs...........  90 
8 lbs...........  75 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 85
1  86
53
45

MiB.

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

"JA X O N

 

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor A Gamble brands—

Jas. S. Kirk A Co. brands—

Single box.................................3 35
5 box lots, delivered........... 3 30
10 box lots, delivered...........3 25
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King......................  3  66
Calumet Family.............   2  75
Scotch Family................   2  85
Cuba.................. 
2  35
Dusky Diamond.............   3 55
Jap Rose.........................  3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3  55
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars................3  55
Satinet, oval....................  2  50
White  Cloud.................... 4  10
Big Acme........................  4  25
Acme 5c..........................   3  65
Marseilles.......................  4  00
Master.............................. 3  70
Lenox.............................  3  35
Ivory, 6 oz.......................  4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  76
Schultz A Co. brand—
Star...................................3  40
Search-Light Soap Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light’’  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 85
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4 00
Old Country....................  3 40
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz..................2 40
Boxes...................................  514
Kegs, English........................4X
Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in  jars......   43

Sconring

SNUFF

SODA

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, HR-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot.....................
Allspice............................
Cassia, Batavia.................
Cassia, Saigon..................
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African...............
Ginger, Cochin.................
Ginger,  Jamaica..............
Mace.................................
Mustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............
Ra»«....... 
......

P u re G round in B ulk

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb . p a c k a g e s................ 
8 *
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
f \
6 lb. packages...............  
9)4
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages...................  6
3-lb. packages...................  5*
6-lb. packages...................  6*
40 and 60-lb. boxes............ 
4
Barrels.............................  
*

2 9

II

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages..............  6
9
40 l-lb.  packages..............

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels..................................97
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 ure  Cane

F air.....................................  18
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  25

STOVE  POLISH

J . L. Prescott A 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  95
Powdered.........................  4 t>0
Coarse  Powdered............   4  80
XXXX Powdered.............  4  85
Fine Granulated................  4  70
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran____  4  90
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4  85
Mould A............................  6  os
Diamond  A ......................  4  70
Confectioner’s A..............  4  so
No.  l, Columbia A...........  4 40
No.  2, Windsor A............   4 35
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 35
No.  4, Phoenix  A.............  4 30
No.  5, Empire A..............  4  25
NO.  8................................   4  20
V(1  T  ...... 
4  )0
No.  8................................   4 00
No.  o................................   3  9*
NO. 10................................   3  80
NO. 11................................   3  85
NO. 12................................   3  80
NO. 13................................  3  80
NO. 14................................  3  80
No. 15................................   3  76
NO. 18................................   8  70

 

 

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  orces ter shire.
Lea A Perrin’s, pints........  5 00
Lea A Perrin’s,  *  pints...  2 76
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small...................  2  26

TEA 
Jap an

Sundrled, medium........ ....3 1
Sundrled, choice........... ....S3
Sundrled, fancy............. .... 43
Regular, medium.........
...31
Regular, choice............ ....33
Regular, fancy............
....43
Basket-fired, medium..
...31
Basket-fired, choice__ ....38
Basket-fired, fancy......
....43
Nibs.............................
....30
Siftings......................... 19@21
Fannings...................... 20@S2
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium........
....29
Moyune, choice...........
....38
Moyune, fancy.............. ....63
Plngsuey,  medium....... ....28
Plngsuey, choice.........
....13
Plngsuey, fancy............ ....43
Yonng  Hyson
Choice..........................
....30
Fancy............................ ....36

Oolong

Formosa, fancy............
Amoy, medium............
Amoy, choice...............

English Breakfast

Medium.......................
Choice..........................
Fancy...........................
Ceylon, choice.............
Fancy...........................
TOBACCO

India

Cigars

....42
....26
....32

....27
....34
....42

....32
....42

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  85  00
Quintette..........................   35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 214 pound pockets....7*

8. C. W..............................  85 08
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
28

3 0

1 2

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

15

48
5K
48 
60 
72 
1  12
1  50
2  12 
2 55

6
84

48
5K

60
6

85
1  10

66
42
7
2

36
36
48
85
50
50

1  85
2 00
2 90

2 75
3 75
4 00
4 00
5 00
5  10
80

1  00
1 25
1  36
1  60

3 60
4 00
4 60

4 00
4 60

1 oo
2 95

3 85

1  35

3 50
4  80
6 20
7 00
9 00

4 76
7  25
7 25
7 50
13 00
3 60

45
45
1  75
1  25

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.  Tbe second sheet, known as duplicate, 
remains permanently bound  In  the  book, which 
Is tbe 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  tbe 
“Amount  Brought  Forward”  line  the  balance 
now due on the account.
Re sure that the carbon  sheet Is  between  the 
bill leaf and the yellow duplicate, so  that  every­
thing written on tbe  bill  will  be  copied  on  the 
duplicate.  Write the customer’s name  and  ad­
dress on the back of the books, on the pink strip 
near the top and file them  In  tbe  system  In  al­
phabetical order.
Suppose a customer buys a bill of  goods,  take 
his book from tbe system  and with  the  carbon 
paper still between the bill and the yellow dupli­
cate  sbeet  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 no forgot­
ten charges or lost slips, as by this method there 
is but one slip and that is the last one. which Is a 
complete statement issued to the  customer  and 
constitutes an acceptance of account.  The mer­
chant can tell at any time just how much  a  cus­
tomer owes by looking at the  book;  there  Is  uo 
posting to be done or writing  up  of  pass  books 
after hours.
The customers  will  soon  get  to  expect a bill 
with each  purchase which will  show  the  entire 
amount  of  their  Indebtedness,  and  having  It, 
will  naturally  have  greater  confidence  In  the 
dealer and will be more  frequent  In  payments, 
instead of allowing It to run until  It  Is  so  large 
that It  cannot be paid and they changing  to an­
other store, causing the dealer the loss of a  cus­
tomer and leaving nlm with a large and doubtful 
account to collect.

Cabinet patented Mar. 8,1*98.
Book patented June 14, 1898. 
Book patented  Mar. 19.  !»0l.
For further particulars write or call on
A.  H.  MORRILL,  Manfrs.’  Agent 

-

■ 05  Ottawa Street 

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

Our Catalogue is

“Our Drummer”

It lists the largest  line  of  gen­

eral  merchandise in the world.

It is the  only  representative  of 
one  of  the  six  largest  commercial 
establishments in the United States.
It  sells  more  goods  than  any 
four hundred salesmen on the  road 
—-and at 1-5 the cost.

It has but one price and  that  is 

the lowest.

Its prices are guaranteed and do 
not change until  another  catalogue 
is  issued.  No  discount  sheets  to 
bother you.

It  tells  the  truth,  the  whole 

truth and nothing but the truth.

It  never  wastes  your  time  or 

urges you to overload your stock.

It  enables  you  to  select  your 
goods according  to  your  own  best 
judgment  and  with  freedom  from 
undue influence.

It will be sent to any  merchant 
upon request.  A sk for catalogue J.

Butler Brothers

230 to 24O Adams St.. 
Chicago

We Sell at Wholesale only.

18
24
31
53

BEST W H ITE COTTON  WICKS 
Boll contains 32 yards in one piece.
No. 0,  K-lnch wide, per  gross or roll.. 
No. 1,  K-lnch wide, per  gross or roll.. 
No. 2,1 
inch wide, per  gross or roll.. 
No. 3, IK Inch wide, per  gross or roll.. 

COUPON  BOOKS

50 books, any denomination.................... 
iso
100 books, any denomination....................  2 50
500 books, any denomination....................  11  50
1,000 books, any denomination....................  20 00
Above quotations  are  for  either  Tradesman, 
Superior, Economic or Universal grades.  Where 
1,000 books are ordered at a  time  customers  re­
ceive  specially  printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books

Can be  made  to  represent  any  denomination
from $10 down.
50 books...................................................  1  50
100 books...................................................  2 50
500 books...................................................  Ji  50
l.ooo books.....................................................20 00

Credit Checks

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

STONEWARE

Batters

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

Churns

Milkpans

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

K gat  fiat or rd. hot, per doz............ 
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each................. 
Fine  Glazed  Milkpans
K gal- fiat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
1 gad. flat or rd. bot., each................. 

Stewpans

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

Ju g s

K gal. per doz..................................... 
K gal. per doz.....................................  
1 to 5 gal., per gal............................... 

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

LAMP  BURNERS

No. 0 Sun............................................. 
No. 1 Sun.......................................... ,. 
No. 2 Sun............................................. 
No. 3 Sun............................................. 
Tubular................................................ 
Nutmeg................................................ 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

No. 0 Sun............................................. 
No. 1 Sun............................................. 
No. 2 Sun............................................. 
A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

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

1 60
1 72
2 42

1  62
195
2 66

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P earl Top

La  Bastie

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

Rochester

No. 1 Lime (66c  doz)..........................  
No. 2 Lime (75c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)— ....................  

Electric

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

OIL  CANS

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

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  1 B Tubular................................  
No. 15 Tubular, dash..........................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..................  
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................  

LANTERN GLOBES

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

Lubetsky Bros, brands

L.  B....................................35 00
Daily Mail..........................36 00

Fine  Cnt

 

P in g

Cadillac.................................54
Sweet  Coma.........................33
Hlawath», 6 lb.  pails  ............*6
Hiawatha, 10 lb. pails........  61
Telegram..............................32
Pay C ar................................31
P t»w * Ra h .................  
49
Protection...........................87
Sweet Burley........................38
Tiger.................................... 37
Rwl Crou. 
32 
31
Palo........
.33
.41
Hiawatha............
33
Battle A xe..........
American Eagle...
31
35
Standard Navy__
40 
Spear Head, 16 oz. 
.42 
Spear Head,  8 oz
.47
Nohhv Twist.......
36
Jolly Tar..............
41
Old Honesty.........
32
Toddy...................
36 
J. T .....................
.60 
Piper HeldBlck__
82
Boot Jack.............
37 
Honey Dtp Twist. 
.38 
Black  Standard..
.38 
Cadillac..............
.30 
Forge.................
50
Nickel Twist......
Sweet Core...........................34
Flat Car...............................3'
Great Navy...........................34
W arpath..............................24
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 2t
I XL,  Bib...........................25
I X L, 16 oz. pails..................29
Honey Dew......................... 34
Gold  Block...........................31
Flagman..............................37
Chips....................................31
Kiln Dried...........................21
Duke’s Mixture................... 37
Duke’s Cameo......................41
Myrtle Navy........................39
Turn Turn, IK oz................. 38
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream.................................. 36
Com Cake, 2*4 oz.................22
Com Cake, 1 lb.....................20
Plow Boy, IK oz...................37
Plow Boy, 3K oz...................36
Peerless, 3K oz.....................32
Peerless. IK oz.................... 34
Air Brake............................ 36
Cant  Hook...........................-'0
Country Club................... 32-31
Forex-XXXX...................... 28
Hood Indian........................23
Self  Binder  .....................20-22
Silver Foam. —   ................34

Smoking

TW INE

Cotton, 3 ply.........................16
Cotton, 4 ply......................... 16
Jute, 2 ply.............................12
Hemp, 6 ply..........................12
Flax, medium......................20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................   7K

VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand... 11
Pure Cider, Bed Star........... 11
Pure Cider, Boblnson..........11
Pure Cider, Silver................11
WASHING  POWDER

Diamond  Flake..................2 76
Gold  Brick......................... 3 25
Gold Dust, regular.............4 60
Gold  Dust, 5c..................... 4 00
Kirkoline,  24 4 lb................3 so
Pearline..............................2 75
Soaplne...............................4 10
Babbitt’s 1776......................  3 75
Boseiue...............................3 50
Armour’s............................ 3 70
Nine O’clock.......................3 35
Wisdom...............................3 80
Scourlne..............................3 50
Bub-No-More......................3 75

WECKING

No. 0, per gross................... 25
No. 1, per gross................... 30
No. ?, per gross................... 40
No. 8- Der cross..  ...... 
. „55

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bradley  B utter  Boxes

Bushels................................  85
Bushels, wide  band............l  15
M arket................................   30
Splint, large........................6 oo
Splint, medium..................5 oo
Splint, small.......................4 oo
Willow Clothes, large.........5 50
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 00
Willow Clothes, small........ 4 76
2 lb. size, 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, 250 In crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  46
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........  60
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate........  60
Barrel, 5 gals., each............ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gals., each.......... 2 65
Barrel, 15 gals., each.......... 2 70
Bound head, 6 gross box....  50
Round head, cartons...........  75
Humpty Dumpty............... 2 25
No. 1, complete...................  29
No. 2, complete...................  18

B u tter Plates

Clothes Pins

Egg Crates

Churns

Faucets

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Cork lined, 8 In....................   66
Cork lined, 9 In....................   75
Cork lined, 10 in...................  85
Cedar. 8 In............................  65
Troian spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No l common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 ft>. cotton mop heads...... I  26
Ideal No. 7..........................   90
Pails
2- 
hoop Standard......l so
3- 
hoop Standard.1 65
2- wire,  Cable............................ i 60
3- wire,  Cable............................ 1 80
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  26
Paper,  Eureka......................... 2 26
Fibre.........................................2 40
Hardwood................................2 50
Softwood.................................. 2 75
Banquet.................................... 1 50
Ideal......................................... l 60
Mouse, wood,2  boles.........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes...........  45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........   70
Mouse, tin, 5 boles..............  66
Bat, wood............ 
  80
Bat, spring...........................   75
Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No. l ...... 7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.......6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3.......6 00
20-Inch, Cable,  No. 1.................7 50
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2.................6 5)
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3.................5 60
No. l Fibre...........................8 46 |
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
Bronze Globe............................ 2 50
Dewey......................................1 76
Double Acme............................ 2 75
Single Acme....................   226
Double Peerless.................  3 25
Single Peerless.........................2 60
Northern Queen......................2 60
Double Duplex.........................3 00
Good Luck............................... 2 76
Universal..................................2 26

W ash  Boards

 

 

 

W indow  Cleaners

Wood  Bowls

12 In.  ...................................1  65
14  In...........................................1 85
16 In.......................................... 2 30
u  In. Butter.........................  76
13 In. Butter.............................. l io
16 In. Butter..............................l 76
17 In. Butter..............................2 75
19 In. Batter..............................4 oo
Assorted 13-16-17.......................1 76
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2  60
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
IK
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......  
4
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Batcher’s Manila..............  2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   20
Wax Butter,  rolls..............   15
Magic, 3 doz..............................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz.......................... l oo
Sunlight, IK  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz...................1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz................... l 00
Yeast Foam, IK  doz...........  50
Per lb.

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

White fish...................  9a
Trout..........................   a
Black Bass..................io@
Halibut.......................  O
Ciscoes or Herring....  O
Bluefish...... ...............   A
Live  Lobster..............  ft
Boiled Lobster...........  ft
Cod..............................  ft
Haddock....................   ft
No. l Pickerel.............  ft
Pike............................  ft
Perch..........................  ft
Smoked  White...........  ft
Bed  Snapper............. 
ft
Col River  Salmon..-l2Kft  >3
18
Mackerel....................   ft

HIDES AND  PELTS 

Hides

Pelts

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

Tallow

Standard............
Standard H. H ...
Standard  Twist..
Cut Loaf..............
Jumbo, 32 lb... 
Extra H .H .... 
Boston Cream. 
BeetBcrt

ft 7 
ft 6 
ft 9 
ft  8 
ft 9K 
ft 8 
ftlOK
@  9  ~
50® 1  50
30®  SO
30®  40
@ 6M
@ 5
@20
@23
@16
16@18

bbls.  palls
7
@ 7 
@  8 
@ 9 
cases 
@ 7K 
@10K 
@10 
0 8

Mixed Candy

Grocers....................  
Competition............. 
Special..................... 
Conserve. „ .............. 
Royal...................... 
Ribbon....................  
Broken.................... 
Cut Loaf................... 
English Bock........... 
Kindergarten.........  
Bon Tern  Cream......  
French Cream.........  
Dandy Pan..............  
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix.. 

@6
@ 7
@ 7K
@ 7K
@ 8K
@9
@8
@ 8K
@9
@9
ft 8K
@  9
@io
@14K
@13

Fancy—In  Palls 

@il
@13

8K
15
12
12
9
ll
10
10
@12
@9
@10
@n
@13K
@iz
@16
@ 6K
@  9
@9
@9
@12

201b. palls...  
lb. palls........ 

@12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
@50
@60
@eo
@86

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony H earts........... 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
Peanut Squares......  
Sugared Peanuts__  
Salted Peanuts........ 
Starlight Kisses...... 
San Bias Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain......  
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc. Drops............. 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Quintette Choc........ 
V ic tor la Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
Moss  Drops............  
Lemon Sours........... 
Imperials................. 
Ital. Cream Opera. „ 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
Molasses  Chews,  16
Golden Waffles......  
Lemon  Sours......... 
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.. 
Gum Drops..... 
Licorice  Drops....... 
Lozenges,  plain.....  
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials........  
Mottoes.......... 
Cream  Bar.....  
Molasses Bar........... 
@66
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..... 
String Book.... 
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels
@ 8K
Clipper, 20 lb. palls.. 
Perfection, 201b.  pis  @12K
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@15
Korker 2 for lc pr bx  @66
@65
Big 3,3 for ic pr bx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Carls 31b  @50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett......  
Florida Bright. 
Fancy Navels........  
Extra Choice.......... 
Late Valencias....... 
Seedlings.......... 
Medt. Sweets..........  
Jamalcas.........  
Rodl.............. 

@
@
@
@5 so
@

@75
@66
@60

@1  00
@86

@60
@60
@55

@
ft
@

@66
@66

Lemons
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
@
Verdelli, fey 300......  
@
Verdelll, ex chce 300  @
@
Verdelll, fey 360. 
Call Lemons, 300. 
@4 00
Messlnas  300s.........   4 5Jftt>  00
Messlnas  360s.........   4 53@S 00

Bananas
Medium bunches....  1  50@2 00
Large  bunches........

@60

ft

Figs

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
ft
ft
@
ft
ft
ft
ft 6 k
m
5  ft 5K
ft
@

California!,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........  
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes.................... 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oases. 
Hallowl.................... 
lb.  cases, new......  
Salrs, 00 lb. cases.... 
Almonds, Tarragona  @16
Almonds,  Ivlca......  
Almonds, California,
soft shelled........... 
Brazils...................... 
Filberts  ................. 
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
Walnut'., soft shelled 
California No. 1...  12K ®13K 
fti3K
Table Nuts, fancy... 
Pecans,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@13
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@14
Hickory Nuts per bn.
@
Ohio, new............  
Cocoanuts, fall sacks 
@3 so
Chestnuts, per bu ... 
ft
Peanut«
Fancy, H. P„ Suns..  6K@ 6K
Fancy,  H.  P„  Suns
Boasted................  6K@ 7K
Choice, H.P., Jumbo 
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9K
Choice, H. P„ Jumbo 
Boasted................ 
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Span. BhU4 No. 1 n*w  6  0 7

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

BAD  CANDY DRIVEN OUT.

Enormous  Increase  of  Sales  in  Conse­

quence.

the 

Since 

the  evolution  of  the  candy 
trade  from  the  “ gumdrops”   of  our  fore­
to 
fathers 
‘ ‘ all  day  suckers,’ ’ 
“ frosted 
figlets,’ ’  “ Foxy  Grandpas’ ’ 
and  other  modern  kinds  of  confection­
ery  the  candymakers  of  this  country 
have  increased  their  product from an an­
nual  value  of  $3,000,000  to  one  of  more 
than  $81,000,000. 
In  the  last  fifty  years 
the 
increase  in  the  consumption  of 
candy  has  been  twenty-seven  fold,  al­
though  the  population  of  the  United 
States  has  increased  from  23,191,876 to 
76,303,387,  or  a  little  over  three  fold. 
Thus  it  may  be  seen  that  the  growth  of 
the  candy  trade  has  been  nine  times  as 
fast  as  that  of  the  population.

Much  of  this  growth  of  business  has 
been  due,  it  is  said,  to  the  efforts  of  the 
National  Confectioners’  Association, 
which  held 
its  annual  convention  July 
16  and  17,  at  Saratoga.  The  organiza­
tion  was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  pro­
hibiting  the  manufacture  of  poisonous 
candies,  or,  as  expressed  in  its  consti­
tution,  “ toadvance  the  standard  of  con­
fectionery 
in  all  practicable  ways  and 
to  absolutely  prevent .hurtful  adultera­
tions.’ ’  Prior  to  1884,  when  the  candy 
manufacturers  held  their  first  conven­
tion  in  Chicago,  the  public  had  become 
prejudiced  against  the  eating  of  candy 
because  of  certain  poisonous  kinds, 
which  often  caused  sickness  and  even 
death.

Thus 

it  grew  to  be  the  popular  opin­
ion  that  color  in  candy  was  poisonous 
and  that  the  brighter  the  color  the  more 
potent  the  poison.  As  a  result  of  oc­
casional  investigations,  started  by  local 
health  authorities, 
it  was  discovered 
that  harmful  dyes  and  concoctions  were 
used  by  some  candymakers  for  the  pur­
pose  of  obtaining  a  greater  margin  of 
profit,  and  at  the  same  time  to  dress  up 
their  products  and  make 
them  more 
alluring  to  the  juvenile  appetite.

The  manufacturers  saw  that  in  order 
to  build  up  their  trade  on  an  enduring 
basis  they  must  take  the  people  into 
their  confidence.  Candy  must  be  made 
pure  and  wholesome.  Harmful  drugs 
and  dyes  must  be  eliminated. 
The 
business  must  be  conducted  on  thorough 
economic  principles,  and  fraud  and 
adulteration  must  be  prohibited.  Thus 
in  seeking  to  further  their  own  business 
ends  the  candy  manufacturers  contend 
that  they  have  rendered  a  great  public 
service 
in  guarding  the  millions  of 
children  of  the  land  against  harmful  or 
deleterious  sweetmeats.

To  carry  out  this crusade against pois­
onous  candies  the  confectioners  of  the 
country  held  a  widely  attended  conven­
tion  at  Chicago  in  1884,  and  decided  to 
secure the enactment  of  pure  candy  laws 
in  every  state  in  the  Union,  as  well  as 
a  federal  statute  at  Washington.  Be­
cause  of  the  belief  of  many  constitu­
tional  lawyers  that  a  federal  pure  candy 
law  would  not  be  upheld  by  the  courts, 
the  chief  energy  of  the  Association  has 
been  directed  toward  obtaining  state 
statutes,  and  at  the  convention  it  an­
nounced  that  laws  have  been  passed  in 
thirty-two  states  prohibiting  the  use  of 
deleterious  products  in  the  manufacture 
of  candy.

The  states  where  such  statutes  have 
been  enacted  are  for  the  most  part  in 
the  East  and  West.  The 
last  State  to 
pass  a  pure  candy  law  was  Arkansas. 
Many  of  the  Southern  States  have  not 
yet  enacted  any  such  statutes,  and  in 
Texas,  Kansas,  West Virginia, Washing­
ton,  Colorado  and  Nebraska  pure  candy

bills  are  still  pending  enactment.  A 
federal  pure  food  bill, 
incorporating 
certain  provisions  recommended  by  the 
candymakers 
for  the  manufacture  of 
pure  candy,  was  introduced  at  Washing­
ton  at  the  last  session,  but  it  was  side­
tracked  in  the  Senate.

It  was  not  long  after  the  first  conven­
tion  of  the  Association  that  the  good 
effects  of  the  pure  candy  crusade  began 
to  be  manifest.  All  the 
large  candy 
manufacturing  firms  joined  the  Associa­
tion,  violators of  the  newly  enacted  pure 
candy 
laws  were  punished  and  com­
pelled  to  abide  by  the  rules  of  the  or­
ganization,  which  offered  a  reward  of 
$100  for  every  offense,  and  with  the  re­
newed  confidence  of  the  public  the  con­
sumption  of  candy  was  increased  at  a 
remarkable  rate.  Thus  it  appears  that 
between  the  years  1870  and  1880,  prior 
to  the  organization  of  the  National  Con­
fectioners’  Association,  the  value  of  the 
annual  product  had  increased  only  from 
$15,922,643  to  $25.637,033,  or  about  60 
per  cent.,  whereas  in  the  ten  years  be­
tween  1880  and  1890  the  value  of  the 
annual  product  increased  from  $25,637,- 
033  to  $55,997,201,  or  about  120  per 
cent. 
In  other  words,  the  growth  of  the 
industry  was  doubled  after  the  crusade 
began.

Confectionery  manufacturers  maintain 
that  at  the  present  time  candy  which 
contains  poisonous  or  even  harmful 
in­
gredients  is  practically  unobtainable  in 
states  where  pure  candy  laws  have  been 
passed.  The  Association  employs  chem­
ists  and  inspectors  of  its  own,  who are 
constantly  at  work  analyzing  the  colors 
and  materials  used  in  the  manufacture 
of  candy,  and  who  inspect  any  confec­
tionery  that  may  be  sent  to  the  Associa­
tion  for  examination.

Might  Have Been.

A  young  and  very  pretty  Kalamazoo 
matron has  not  lost  her sense  or  her  love 
of  coquetry  since  becoming  a  wife  and 
has  subjected  herself  to  some  caustic 
criticism  among  her  acquaintances  be­
cause  of  her  ill-concealed  penchant  for 
flirting  with  every  good looking man she 
meets  socially.  Her  ingenue  manner 
and  baby  ways  usually  gain  for  her  a 
monopoly  of  masculine  attention.  She 
attended  a  party  one  evening  last  week 
and  was,  as  usual,  surrounded  during 
the  evening  by  a  bevy  of  handsome 
gallants. 
She  dropped  her  handker­
chief,  and  one  of  the  men,  in  returning 
it,noticed that  it  was  knotted  and  asked 
why.

“ Let— me—see,’ ’ she  said  musingly. 
“ I  knotted  it  to  remind  me  of  some­
thing;  but—what?’ ’

“ I  hardly  suppose,”   remarked  her 
aunt,  who  was  standing  near,  “ that  you 
put  that  knot  there  to  remind  you  that 
you  are  a  married  woman—did  you?’ ’

in 

In  the  Center  of the Jobbing  District.
Merchants  who  visit  Grand  Rapids 
during  the  trade  excursion  from Aug.  25 
to  Sept.  10 are  cordially invited  to make 
their  headquarters  at  the  Hotel  War­
wick,  which  has  always  been  a  favorite 
with  Michigan  merchants  and  appears 
to  be  growing 
favor  every  day. 
Ample  accommodations  will  be reserved 
for  those  arriving  on  late  trains,  includ­
ing  the  week  of  the  races,  Aug.  26  to 
29.  The  Warwick  is  the  most  conven­
iently  located  of  any  hotel  in  Grand 
Rapids,  being  only  three  blocks  from 
the  Union  depot,  while  three  main  car 
lines  pass  the  front  door. 
It  is  in  the 
center  of  the  jobbing  district.  Landlord 
Gardner  has  a  long  record  as  a  success­
ful  hotel  man  and  his  management  of 
the  Warwick  is  augmenting  that  reputa­
tion  daily. 

986

In  Training.

“ Willy,”   she  said  reprovingly,  “ you 

mustn’t  tell  lies.’ ’

“ Why  not?”   he  demanded. 

“ I’m 
going  to  be  a  politician  when  I  grow 
u p .”

Hardware  Price  Current

Ammunition

Caps

6. 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 IT. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........ 
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, 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 Rival—For Shotguns 

Drs. of 
Powder 

No. 
120 
129 
128 
126 
135 
154 
200 
208 
236 
265 
264 

oz. of 
Shot 
134 
134 
134 
134 
134 
134 
1 
1 
1% 
1H 
134 
Discount 40 per cent.

4 
4 
4 
4 
*X 
434 
3 
3 
3% 
334 
334 
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No.lO, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 

Size 
Shot Gauge 
10 
10 
9 
10 
10 
8 
TO 
6 
10 
5 
10 
4 
12 
10 
12 
8 
12 
6 
5 
12 
4 
12 

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg......................... 
34 kegs, 1234 lbs., per  %  keg.............. 
X kegs, 634 lbs., per X   keg...............  

Shot

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

Angara  and  Bits

Axes

Snell’s .................................................  
Jennings  genuine............................... 
Jennings’ Imitation.............................  
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 It«*  ............................  
Plow............. 
Well, plain.......................................... 

Barrows

Backets

Bolts

 

 

 

Batts,  Cast

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

Chain

6-16 In.

X In.
34 In.
7  c.  ...  6  C. .. . 5 0 . .
.. .  63< 
834 
.. .  634 
834 

Com.
BB..
. ..  734 
BBB.
. ..  7* 
Crowbars 
Cast Steel, per lb......................
Socket Firm er.................................... 
Socket Framing.................................. 
Socket Corner..................................... 
Socket Slicks....................................... 

Chisels

Elbows

Expansive  Bits

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz................net 
Corrugated, per doz............................ 
Adjustable......................................... dls 
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30.................... 
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... 

Files—New  List

Galvanized  Iron

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

14 

13 

15 

Discount,  65

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

Ganges

Glass

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

H am m ers

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

Hollow  W are

Hinges

40
60
75
60
250
300
600
575
1  40
1  40

60
70
80

Per
100
*2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 96
3 00
2 50
2 60
2 65
2 70
2 70

72
64

4 00
2 25
l  25

i  bo

60
28
50

650
¿00
6 00
10 50
12 00
29 00

60

70
50
$4 00

70
60

6
66
65
65
65

76
1  25
40&10

40
26
70&10
70
70

28
17

6O&10

85&20
86&20
85&20

3334
40&10
70
6O&10
50&10
50&10
so&io

34 in.
..  434c.
...  6
. ..  634

Horse  Nails

Iron

Au Sable............................................dls  40&10
House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
Bar Iron............................................. 2 25  0 rate«
Light Band..........................................  So rates
75
86

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

Knobs—New  List

Lanterns

■  N 
00

3 1

70

66

734
8

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

Levels

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

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
Screws, New L ist...............................  
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 
Dampers, American...........................  

40
75&10
86&20
  50&10&10
50

 

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

Molasses  Gates
 

60&10
30

Fans

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

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

Broken packages 34c 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........................................... 
Fine 3 advance.................................... 
Casing 10 advance............................... 
Casing 8 advance................................. 
Casing 6 advance................................. 
Finish 10 advance............................... 
Finish 8 advance................................  
Finish 6 advance................................  
Barrel  % advance............... 
Rivets

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

 

Roofing Plates

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

Ropes
Sisal, 34 Inch and larger...... .
Manilla................................ .

 

40
50
40
45

2 60
2 35
Base
6
10
20
30
45
70
50
16
26
36
25
35
46
85

50
45

7 50
9 00
16 00
7 60
9 CO
15 00
18 00

1034
1534

60

30 00

Sand  Paper 
List  acct.  19, ’86.........................
Sash  W eights 
Solid  Eyes, per ton.....................

dls

Sheet Iron

com. smooth,  com.
$3 60
8 7C
3 90

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

3 90
4 00
4 10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Shovels and  Spades

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

8 50
8 00

Solder

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according 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, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 

Boiler Size Tin  Plate 

14x56 IX, for No.8Boilers, i M 
14X 56IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J P®r P°una- 

Traps

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

Wire

Bright Market..................................... 
Annealed  Market............................... 
Coppered Market.................  
 
Tinned  Market...................................  
a ered Spring Steel....................... 
ed Fence, Galvanized................. 
Barbed Fence, Painted....................... 

Wire  Goods

Bright....» .......................................... 
Screw Eyes.......................................... 
Hooks..................................................  
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................... 

Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled....:... 
Coe’s Genuine. ..................................  
Coo’s Patent Agricultural, ¡Wrought.. rs

$10 50
10 so
12 00

9 00
9 oo
10 50
10  50

,a
18

75
40&10
66
15
125

60
60
60&10
50&10
40
825
2 96

80
80
80
8o

30
30

3 2

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

Official  Programme  For  the  Celery  City 

Celebration.

Kalamazoo,  July  29—At  a  very  en­
thusiastic  meeting  of  the  Grocers  and 
Meat  Dealers’  Association,  held 
last 
evening 
in  the  Auditorium,  the  official 
programme  for  the  big  celebration  to 
be  held 
in  this  city  August  7  was 
mapped  out  as  follows:
9:30  a.  m.— Ringing  of  bells  and 
blowing  of  whistles.  All  factories  that 
are  running  are  kindly  requested  to 
blow  their  whistles  at  this  hour.

9:45— Parade  forms  on  East  Main 
street;  the  various  divisions  to  be 
placed 
in  charge  of  Chairman  Steve 
Marsh.  The  line  of  march  will  be  from 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  depot  west  to  Burdick 
street,  north  on Burdick to  the Michigan 
Central  depot,  countermarch  south  to 
Main,  west  on  Main  to  Park,  south  on 
Park  to  South,  east  on  South  to  Bur­
dick,  and  north  on  Burdick  to  Main.

1 ¡30  p.  m.— Music  by  assembled 
bands  at  Rose  and  Main  streets.  Auto­
mobile  race  from  M.  C.  depot  to  Main 
street  on  Rose  street.  Foot  race  from 
Park  street  to  Rose,  on  Main  street.

2 :oo— Music  by  visiting  bands  at 
Main  and  Burdick  streets.  Exhibition 
by  Kalamazoo  fire  department  on  South 
Burdick  street.  Sack  race  on  Burdick 
street.

2 ¡30—Music  by  bands  at  Water  and 
Burdick  streets.  Fat  man’s  relay  race 
from  Kalamazoo  avenue  to  Main  on 
Burdick  street.  Music  at  Main  and 
Burdick  streets.  Tug  of  war,  butchers 
vs.  grocers,  between  Rose  and  Burdick 
on  Main  street.

3 :oo—Music  by bands  in  front  of  Bur­
dick  House,  pie  eating  contest,  banana 
eating  contest,  ladies’  nail  driving  con­
test.

3:30—Music  by  bands  on  East  Main 
street.  Diving for  corn  in  New  Orleans 
molasses;  grocers'  cheese  cutting  con­
test ;  butchers’  ham  cutting  contest;  all 
between  Burdick  and  Portage  on  Main 
street.

4:00—Music  by  bands  at  Portage  and 
Main  streets.  Fly  casting contest;  wood 
sawing  contest;  both  on  Main,  west  of 
Portage.

4 130—Music  by  bands ;  100  yard  dash 
on  Portage  street;  bicycle  race  from 
the  river  to  Edwards  street  on  M ain; 
three-iegged  foot  race,  100  yards,  from 
Edwards  west  on  Main  street.

5 :oo—Band 

contest.  Two  hundred 

in 

dollar  prize  for  winning  band.
7 ¡30—Band  concert  in  park.
8:00—Forming 

line  of  all  mem­
bers  of  the  Association  to  escort  visitors 
to  trains.

All  merchants  who  wish  to participate 
in  the  parade  are  requested  to  report  to 
Stephen  Marsh  as  early  as  possible. 
The  fraternal  organizations  of  the  city 
are  also  cordially  invited  to  take  part. 
Reduced  rates  on  all  railroads  have 
been  secured,  while  from  six  to  ten 
bands  will  be  in  the  city.  Dowagiac, 
Battle  Creek  and  Grand  Rapids  will  all 
be  here  in  force,  while  a  large  delega­
tion 
is 
looked  for.

from  the  surrounding  towns 

is  estimated  that  between  40,000 
and  50,000  people  will  be  in  this  city 
August  7.  A  base  ball  game  between 
the  Battle  Creek  grocers  and meat clerks 
and  members  of  Kalamazoo  is  being 
arranged,  to  be  played  on  the  college 
campus  during  the  afternoon.

It 

H.  J.  Schaberg,  Sec’y.

Programme  Prepared  For  the  Pharma­

ceutical  Convention.

Detroit,  July  28—The  programme  pre­
pared  for the  twentieth  annual  meeting 
of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  which  will  be  held  at  Sag­
inaw  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  Aug.  12 
and  13,  is  as  follows :

Tuesday  Afternoon.

President’s  address.
Secretary's  report.
Treasurer’s  report.
Paper  by  J.  Major  Lemen,  Ph.  G., 
“ The  N.  A.  R.  D.  and  our  relation 
to  it.”

Report  of  Secretary  of  Board  of  Phar­

macy.

Reports  of  delegates.

Tuesday  Evening.

All  are  invited  to  attend  a  “ smoker”

to  be  given  in  Germania  hall,  or  Ger­
mania  garden,  as  weather  conditions 
may  dictate.

Wednesday  Morning.

Report  of  Trade  Interests  Committee.
Paper  by  Harry  B.  Mason.
Report  of  Legislative  Committee.
Report  of  Adulteration  Committee.
Report  of  Executive  Committee.
General  Business.

Wednesday  Afternoon.

Report  of  Pharmacy  and  Queries 

Committee.

Paper  by  L.  W.  Samulener  on  the 
Physiological  Assay  of  Certain  Heart 
Tonics.

Election  of  officers.
Selecting  place  of  next  meeting.
Installation  of  officers.
Unfinished  business.
Adjournment.

Wednesday  Evening.

All  are 

invited  to  attend  the  New 
Jefferson 
theater,  or  Riverside  Park 
casino,  as  maybe  most  agreeable.  The 
Entertainment  Committee  expects 
to 
be  abundantly  prepared  to  entertain 
their  guests  in  an  agreeable  manner, 
but  this  portion  of  the  programme  may 
be  varied  somewhat,  as  circumstances 
will  admit.

The  coming  meeting  will  be  one  of 
great  interest  to  every  druggist in Mich­
igan.  The  questions  of  Local  Organi­
zation,  Shorter  Hours  and  the  proposed 
Revision  of  the  Pharmacy  Law  with 
reference  to  Liquor  Legislation  will  be 
among  the  important  matters  discussed.
We  need  your  judgment  and  advice. 

Come! 

James  W.  Seeley,  Sec’y.

The  little   Englishman  In  the  Land  of 

the  Dakotas.

Fargo,  July  28—Of  the  twenty-two 
years  which  represent  my  career as  a 
commercial  traveler,  some  ten  or  twelve 
have  been  spent  outside  the  State  of 
Michigan,  so  that  I  ought  to  be  able  to 
make  a  pretty  good  geography. 
I  have 
passed  through  the  State  of  Minnesota 
and  am  going  through  Dakota,  Mon­
tana,  Wyoming,  Utah,  Colorado  and 
Kansas.

Minnesota 

is  certainly  the  garden 
I  drive  fre­
spot  of  America  for  wheat. 
quently  for  observation's  sake  and  I  am 
a 
little  surprised  at  the  abundance  of 
everything  out  here.  Having  spent  the 
earlier  months  of  tbe  summer  in  my 
own  State,  there 
is  a  chance  for  com­
parison.  The  country  out  here  is  de­
veloping  wonderfully  and  the  farmers 
all  seem  to  be  very  prosperous.  Tbe 
land  for  miles  and  miles  is  as  level  as 
a  slate  and  the  farmers  gather  the  grain 
with  the  ease  of  a  school  boy  riding  a 
bicycle.

Coming  from  the  East  I  notice  a 
marked  disposition  to independence  out 
here,  particularly  among  the  hotel  peo­
ple.  The  Eastern  people  seem  to  make 
more  of  an  effort  to  please,  while  in  tbe 
West  they  are  very 
indifferent  as  to 
whether  you  are  comfortable  or  not.

I  have  often  thought  that  I  ought to 
be  able  to  write  you  an  article  for  the 
Tradesman  occasionally,  but  I  presume 
you  have  so  many  correspondents  that 
you  do  not  need  them. 
I  frequently 
come  in  contact  with  circumstances  that 
would  make 
in  a 
journal 
like  yours  ana,  if  I  thought  I 
could  be  of  any  service  to  you  in  that 
way,  I  gladly  would.  For  instance, 
there  are  many  laughable  things  trans­
pire  in  business that are  worth  mention­
ing,  where  fictitious  names  could  be 
used  for  the  original,  which  go  to  make 
a  paper  spicy. 

interesting  reading 

Algernon  E.  White.

L.  A.  Moon  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Boyne  Falls,  will  open  a  drug  store  in 
the  building  formerly  occupied  by  H. 
H.  Eaton  &  Co.  The  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the  order  for  the 
stock.

H.  G.  Luce  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  483  South  East  street  to  Geo. 
W.  Hall  and  Henry  Slaughter,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  lo­
cation  under  the  style  of  Geo.  W.  Hall 
&  Co.

Thoughtfulness of a Survivor.

Wm.  Judson,  who  has  at  all  times  a 
fund  of  good  stories  at  command,  has  a 
new  one  relating  to  a  friend  who  oc­
cupies  a  prominent  position  in  one  of 
the  associations  of  wholesale  grocers  in 
tbe  East.  An  excursion  steamer  on 
which  the  friend  was  coming  to  join 
him  was  wrecked  and  most  of  the  pas­
sengers 
it  was  supposed  had  been 
drowned.  About  midnight  Mr.  Judson 
received  this  telegram  from  his  friend :
“ I  am  saved,  but  please  break  the 

news  gently  to  my  wife.”

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

633

Fo b  sa l e  o r  t r a d e  f o r   sto ck  o f
Drugs,  Hardware or  Furniture  In  Smaller 
Town—Clean stock of  groceries  In  good  manu­
facturing town  of  5.000;  trade  established  five 
years;  no  better  trade  in  city.  Address  110 
Front Sh, Dowagiac. Mich. 

■   BARGAIN—MY  STOCK OF  GROCERIES, 

crockery and store furniture  (counters  and 
shelving  not  included)  for  sale;  will  Inventory 
$1,600;  stock  is  new  and well assorted;  store to 
rent;  best  location in town.  This is  a  rare op­
portunity for a business man with small capital; 
come  and  see  the  stock  and  town.  Romeo is 
the finest village in the State.  James  B.  Lucas, 
Romeo, Mich. 
631
He l l o , b r o t h e r   g r o c e r a n d  e v e r y -
body using Liquid Measure.  Write for  cir­
cular on my Patent Lip.  It  will  pour  from  full 
gallon Measure into Teaspoon  and  not  waste  a 
drop.  Chas. Martin, Patentee  and  Grocer,  Tif­
fin, Ohio. 

631

628

1  prescription  and  soda  business;  Invoices 
about  $2,200;  good  reason  for  selling.  C.  G. 

tpOR  SALE—DRUG  STORE,  DOING  GOOD 
ITiOK SALE—THREE OR  FOUR  HUNDRED 

Reynolds, Terre Haute, Ind. 
1  dollar grocery stock, with fixtures, in college 
town; write or call on F. H  Gage, Olivet,  Eaton 
Co., Mtc-h. 
626
y O R   SALE-HARDWARE  STOCK, ABOUT 
F   $2,000, In  good  live  town;  splendid  oppor­
tunity for right party.  Address Hardware, care 
Michigan Trade>man. 
y u R   SALE-STORK,  STOCK  AND  F1X- 
F  
tures;  stock  will  invoice  about  $600.  Will 
take $1,000 if sold soon.  Address 623, Care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
IjiOR  SALE—AN  UP-TO-DATE  DEPART- 

'  ment store, consisting of dry goods, notions, 
mil int ry,  shoes  and  groceries.  Stock  will in­
voice, say from $3,000 to $4,000;  located in a gotd 
live town of 2,500 inhabitants in the  Indiana Gas 
Belt,  twelve  miles  from  county  seat  and  sur­
rounded  by  number  one  farming  community. 
Reason for selling,  wish  to  retire.  M.  V.,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

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623

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F’OK  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES'AND 

meat  business;  new stock, having been  run 
only  three  years;  invoices  about  $4,000;  last 
year’s sales,  $60,100;  would  sell  grocery  alone. 
Reason for selling, other business.  Address  C. 
& Son, Box 822, Mt. Pleasant, Mich._____ 621
WANTED-WILL PAY CASH~FOR STOCK 
of groceries  invoicing $l,2C0  to  $1,500;  lo­
cated in live town on  railroad  In  good  farming 
locality; must be good section for farm  produce, 
such as hay, grain, live stock and  poultry.  Ad- 
dress No  635, care Michigan Tradesman.  636

IpOR  SALE-SEVEN  THOUSAND  DOLLAR 

'  general stock in good town of 1,000 in Central 
Michigan.  Best  trade  in  town.  Large  brick 
food plant being erected.  Rent  low.  Will  sell 
right  to  cash  purchaser  or  exchange  for  im­
proved  and unincumbered real estate  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Address No. 634, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
634
Fo r s a l e—m e a t m a r k e t in   to w n   o f
Quincy;  good  location;  established  trade; 
only one other market in  town;  excellent  stand 
for grocery in  connection.  Reason  for  selling, 
ill health.  Address F. M. Turrlll, Quincy, Mien.
618
W ANTED—PARTNER  TO  INVEST  CAPI- 
tal on the ground floor in the  manufacture 
of a health food that is inferior  to  none  on  the 
market;  something new;  nothing  like  it:  only 
parties of ability need answer.  Address  D.  W. 
Scramlln, Battle Creek, Mich. 

ÏW R SALE-CLEAN *7^0  STOCK  OF  DRY 

1  goods in live Michigan town.  Fine opening 
for a department store;  long lease and  good  lo­
cation.  Address 619, care Michigan Tradesman.
619
IT'OR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
"  chandlf-e  and  store  building,  situated  at 
Walloon Lake; one of the  best  summer  resorts 
of Northern Michigan; a good trade; established 
store runs year around ; other business takes my 
time;  terms,  cash.  Call  on  or  address  A.  E. 
Hass, Walloon Lake, Mich. 
y O R   SALE  CHEAP—HEARSE,  GOOD  AS 
F   new;  description  on  application.  Address 
No. 609, care Michigan Tradesman. 
609
FOR  sa l e—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS', 
inventorying about $1,200;  situated in center 
of good  trading  point:  rent  reasonable;  estab­
lished  trade,  all  cash;  reason  for  selling,  ill 
health of owner.  Address No.  614,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 

614

620

617

WANTED-EVERY  MERCHANT  DESIR- 
ing  to  close  out  write  W.  D.  Hamilton, 
Auctioneer, Galesburg, 111.________  
597
W RITE  TO  GRAND  RAPIDS  MONU- 
ment Co. for prices and designs  on  monu­
ments, markers and cemetery corner posts.  We 
have a large stock;  anxious to sell at small mar­
gins.  818 So. Division St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
596
W ANTED—CLEAN  AND  GOOD-PAYING 
drug stock located in growing  town or city 
in Michigan.  Spot cash.  Address  No. 605, care 
Michigan Tradesman.__________________ 605
I¡VOR  SALE—FINE  CLOTHING  BUSINESS 
IT'OR SALE AT A  BARGAIN  IF  TAKEN  IN 

'  in one of the best  towns  in  Michigan.  The 
best of terms and reason given for sale.  Address 
915, Lake Boulevard, S t Joseph, Mich. 

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  auctioneers  need  apply.  Ad­
dress No.  594, care Michigan Tradesman.  69>

602

. 

615

586

ness  chances 
Grand Rapids._____________ 

farms  to  exchange  for  mercantile  stocks; 
good home for good  market;  all  kinds  of  busi­
Clark’s  Business  Exchange 

'  Shoes  or  General  Merchandise—Three 
dwelling houses  in  Battle  Creek.  Address  E. 
V. Abell Co., Charlotte, Mich. 
1  livery and sale barns  in  the  State,  situated 
in Hastings, Mich.  Enquire of  Geo. Waddle. V. 
S , 226 Portage S t. Kalamazoo, Mich. 

iT'OR  SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 
1r»OR  SALE—ONE  OF  THE  BEST FEED.
Go o d  in c o m e  c it y   p r o p e r t y   a n d  
I  HAVE  FOUR  VACANT  L«»TS  IN  GRAND 
Rapids, free and clear;  will trade  for general 
stock;  will pay balance cash.  Address  No.  583, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
583
BEST  LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR DRY 
goods business at Freeport.  W.  H. Pardee.
578
Fo r  s a l e —1  d e s ir e   t o   s e l l  m y  e n -
tlre  general  stock,  including  fine  line  of 
shoes and  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
better trade In the state.  Business  been  estab­
lished 26 years.  Reason for  selling,  other  busi­
ness.  P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 

__ 616

473

507

621

522

F o r  s a l e—d r u g  f ix t u r e s—e l e g a n t
wall cases,  counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; all  light  oak; will  sell  at  half price. 
534
O. A. Fanckboner, Grand Rapids. 
y O R   SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- 
r   ing $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
y O R   SALE —  FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
F   farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  Address  No. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
y O R   SALE-FIRST-CLASS.  EXCLUSIVE 
F   millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 

SH R E E   VACANT  LOTS  IN  GRAND 
Rapids,  free  of  incumbrance,  to  exchange 
fo<* drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
485. care Michigan Tradesman. 
485
Sa f e s —n e w   a n d   seco n d-h a n d   f i r e
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co,  376  South  Ionia 
321
St.. Grand  Rapids. 
i fiOR  SA LE—COUNTRY  STORE  AND 

dwelling  combined;  general  merchandise 
stock, barn, custom saw mill and  feed  mill, with 
good patronage:  Citizens local and long distance 
telephones in  store:  bargain  for  cash.  Reason 
for selling, must retire.  For particulars  call  on 
or address Eli Runnels, Corning. Mich. 

iJ'OR  SALE — PLANING  MILL,  WELL 

equipped and doing a fine business.  Address 
H. D  Cove, Charlotte, Mich. 
559
y O R   SALE—MOSLER,  BAHMANN  &  CO. 
F   fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
inches high, 27 inches  wide  and  24  inches  deep. 
Inside measurement—16!4 Inches high, 14 Inches 
wide and 10 inches deep.  Will sell  for  $50  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 
y O R   SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
A  Bar-Lock  typewriter,  in  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  appllca- 
tion.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
y O R  SALE-DRUG STOCK 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.  Rent,  $12.60
lo. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 

Ser month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 

334

474

368

HISGELLANlOUg

630

■  ANT ED-EXPERIENCED  SALESMAN 

for general store;  an all-around man; good 
references  required;  one  who  can  speak  Ger­
man preferred.  G. H. Mlddlesworth,  weld man, 
Mich. 
Y*7ANTED,  DEPARTMENT  SALESMEN— 
TV  active  young  men  in  our  notion  depart­
ment for next season.  Applications will be con­
sidered only from those  with  wholesale  experi­
ence and at present employed  In  similar  capac­
ity.  Correspondence  confidential.  Ferguson- 
McKtnney Dry Goods Co., St. Louis. Mo.  629
TO 
ANTED—FIRST CLASS  SALESMAN 
vv  represent  us  In  Grand  Rapids  with
our
transparent  package  LaClarte  Biscuit.  Refer­
ences and bond required.  Address  the  Annen 
Candy & Biscuit Co., Green Bay, Wis. 

■ ANTED—POSITION  AS  CLERK  IN  A 

general  or  hardware  store;  three  years’ 
experience;  no  bad  habits;  can  furnish  good 
references.  Address  Box  35,  Colonville,  Mich.
600

■ ANTED-SALESMAN  TO  CARRY  OUR 
harness  enamel,  show  enamel  and  stove 
polish  as  a  side  line.  Commissions  large and 
sales  easy.  Ann  Arbor  Paint  &  Enamel  Co., 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
572
W ANTED —  PURCHASER  FOR  MEAT 
market;  only stand  in  town  of  460.  Ad- 
1 dress No. 616, care Michigan Tradesman.  616

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