Nineteenth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST  13,1902.

Number 986

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WILLIAM  CONNOR  ♦

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W H O L E SA L E  

R E A D Y M 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,

William  Alden  Smith  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mall  orders  promptly  seen  to.  Open 
dally 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.

Senses  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.

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Pood  Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1332 flajestlc  Building,  Detroit,  ilich.

Kent  County

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

exceed  $ 2 ,3 0 0 ,0 0 0

3y2°f0  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

— Glover’s  Gem  Mantles—

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

Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries

Orand Rapids, Michigan

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

P age. 
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2.  Getting  the  People.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Shipping  Apples.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
IO.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Dry  Goods.
16.  Hardware.
19.  American  Shoes  in  Germany.
20.  Woman’s  World.
22.  Fruits  and  Produce.
23.  The  New  York  Market.
24.  Business  Success.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
27.  Drug  Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Hardware  Dealers  Must  Co-operate.
32.  Another  Fraud.

TH E  FRUITS  OF  UNIONISM.

The  other  day  at  Shenandoah  Gen, 
Gobin,  in  command  of  the  troops,  re­
ceived  a pathetic  letter  from  the  wife  of 
a  non-union  worker. 
In  it  she  told  of 
the  treatment  accorded  her  by  the  strik­
ers,  saying  that  rocks  bad  been  hurled 
through  her  window  by  night,  one  of 
them  nearly injuring  her sleeping  child. 
Shots  bad  been  fired  at  her,  crowds 
booted  and 
jeered  her  and  crepe  had 
been  hung  on  the  door.  The  husband 
at  work  in  the  mines  to  earn  money  for 
the  support  of  his  family  was  unable  to 
come  home,  and  so  these  assaults  were 
wantonly  made  upon  a  defenseless 
woman  and her  children.

The 

in  the  mines.  All  this 

The  union  leaders  have  issued  an  ul­
timatum,  threatening  to  cut  off  an  ear 
of  every  man  who  leaves  their  ranks  to 
work 
is  un- 
American  and 
it  is  such  performances 
which  place  trades  unionism  in  its  true 
light  before  the  people. 
real 
American  is  chivalrous,  anxious  to  pro­
tect  the  weak,  never  offering  an 
insult 
or  injury  to  innocent  women  and  chil­
dren.  To  maim  and  mark  a  man  for 
life  simply  as  an  act of  revenge  is resort 
to  disgraceful  procedure.  These  are  the 
ideas  entertained  and  advocated  by 
venal  and  unscrupulous  union  leaders 
and  this  propaganda  is  being  fastened 
on  the  country  by  the  crafty  politicians 
and  cowardly  newspaper  men  who,  for 
the  sake  of  votes  and  patronage,  con­
done  the  crimes  of  unionism  and  thus 
tacitly  encourage  the  adherents  of  the 
walking  delegate  to  greater  crimes  and 
excesses.  _______ i_____   ~

RURAL  M AIL  D ELIV ER Y  PAYS.
One  of  the  objections  raised  some 
years  ago,  when  rural  free  delivery  was 
suggested,  was  that  the  postal  depart­
ment  was  running  behind  already  and 
its  annual  deficit  would  be  very 
that 
much 
larger  if  this  extra  expense  were 
added.  It  was  always  conceded  that  the 
convenience  would  be  materially 
in­
creased  and  that  the  improved  service 
would  be  greatly  appreciated.  The cost 
was  the  bugbear  which  stood 
in  the 
Then  rural  free  delivery  was 
way. 
inaugurated  and  its  growth  has 
finally 
been  very  rapid. 
is  generally  en­
joyed  throughout  this  section,  as  any 
one  can  tell  who  has  noted  the  letter

It 

boxes  at  the  rural  roadsides  throughout 
the  country.  The  sections  of  the  coun­
try  which  have  it  would  not  go  back  to 
the  old  system  under  any circumstances. 
Its  benefits  and  its  advantages  are  too 
manifest  to  need  argument.

The 

in  a 

The  figures  show  that  the  deficit  in 
the  postal  department  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  30,  as  compared  with  that 
of  last  year,is  materially  decreased. 
In 
fact,  the  proportionate  showing  is  better 
than  at  any  previous  time 
in  twenty 
years.  The  authorities  declare  that  this 
is 
large  measure  due  to  the  suc­
cessful  operation  of  rural  free  delivery 
last  year's  deficit  was 
service. 
only  $4,000,000,  which 
is  very  small 
compared  with  some  of its  predecessors. 
The  figures  show  that  the  postal  reve­
nues 
in  districts  where  free  delivery 
did  not  exist 
increased  last  year  only 
zyi  percent.,  whereas  in sections  where 
the  system  was  in  operation  the receipts 
increased  from 
to  10 per cent.  This, 
of  course,  takes  into  the  reckoning  only 
the  increased  number of  letters  sent  out 
in  those  sections  and  does  not  take  in 
account  the  increased  amount  of  mail 
matter  sent 
into  those  sections.  As  to 
this  there  is  no  way  of  particularizing, 
because  the  only  records  kept  are  those 
of  outgoing  mail,  and  the  mail  distrib­
uted  by  rural  free  delivery  comes  from 
all  sections  of  the  country.  Its  increase, 
however,  must  have  been  very consider­
able  to  have  had  so  large  an  effect  upon 
the  postal  revenues. 
It  appears,  there­
fore,  that  rural  free  delivery,  instead  ol 
being  a  burden  on  the  Government,  is 
actually  a  benefit  and  advantage  in  a 
pecuniary  sense,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
far  greater  benefit  and  advantage  en­
joyed  by  the  people  thus  served.

it 

The  United  States 

is  a  big  country 
and  we  may  never  see  here  a  "landed 
gentry,"  such  as  exists 
in  European 
nations,  but 
it  is  noticeable  that  there 
is  a  tendency  among  the  richer  classes 
to  acquire  vast  holdings  of  real  estate, 
not  only  in  the  city  but  in  the  country. 
There  are  many  cases  where individuals 
own  thousands  of  acres  in  favored  local­
ities.  Often 
is  not  the  value  of  the 
land  for  agricultural  purposes  that  actu­
ates  purchases,  but  the  desire  for  ex­
clusiveness, 
to  keep  out  undesirable 
neighbors  and  to  preserve  the  natural 
beauties  of  the  scenery.  While  thus  far 
no  evil results have developed, the  move­
ment 
is  one  that  may  produce  condi­
tions  that  will  give  us  a  taste  of  the 
land  question  that  will  prove  extreme­
ly  bitter. 
if  the 
rule  that  riches 
last  but  three  genera­
tions  in  America  continues  to  operate.

It  may  be  escaped 

An 

invasion  is  to  be  made  upon  for­
eign  countries  that  should,  in  all  sin­
cerity,  cause  them  alarm.  A  combina­
tion  ol  the  leading  stogie  and  cheroot 
manufacturers  of  the  United  States, 
with  a  capital  of  $6,500,000,  is  being 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  luring  for­
eigners  into  using  the  rat-tail  smokes. 
If  Emperor  William  at  one  time  felt 
impelled  to  shut  out  American  pork, 
there  surely  should  be  no  surprise  if 
effort  were  made  to  stop  the  operations 
of  this  combination.

GEN ERAL  TR A D E   REVIEW .

The  tendency  to  dulness  which  char­
last  reports  of  the  Wall 
acterized  the 
Street  markets 
in  this  column,  and 
which  was  accepted  as inevitable for  the 
season,  had  too  much  of  underlying 
strength  to  last.  In spite  of  the influence 
of  the  vacation  season  there  has  been 
considerable  activity  and  prices  are 
again  moving  upward.  Transportation 
stocks  are  especially  strong  and 
the 
high  average  of  the 
leading  ones  has 
again gone  above  $114.  There  has  been 
a  decided  hardening  of  many 
rates 
caused  by  the  demands  of  the  season 
for  moving  crops.  With  national  bank 
resources  over $6,000,000,000,  per capita 
circulation  the  highest  known,  and  gold 
in  the  Treasury  $565,000,000,  there  is 
certainly  no  cause  for  uneasiness  even 
if  a  temporary  hardening of rates occurs, 
it  is  only  an  indication  of  the  intensity 
of  demand,  which  can  not  fail  to  make 
occasional  disturbance.

The unseasonable  coolness has affected 
the  demand  for  summer wear and caused 
an  undue  pressure  of  clearing  sales  to 
work  down  stocks  in  the  hands  of retail­
ers.  Jobbers  have  generally  closed  out 
stocks  well,  so that  goods  are  going  into 
the  hands  of  consumers  even  if  bargain 
prices  are  too  much  of  a  factor.  Easier 
prices  in  many  classes  of 
foodstuffs 
argue  an  abundance  of  supply  and  do 
not  indicate  any  lessening  in  the  ability 
of  the  people  to  buy.  Minneapolis  mills 
will  break  all  records  in  the  output  of 
flour  for  the  year  ending  with 
this 
month.

Pressure  of  demand 

is  becoming  a 
matter  of  concern  to operators  when for­
eign  markets  are  being  drawn  upon  to 
meet  the  deficiency  in  our  own  output. 
German  billets  are  being  offered  freely 
at  Pittsburg  and  many  orders  for  steel 
rails  have  gone  to  that  country  in  cases 
where  buyers  could  not  wait  for  Ameri­
can  delivery.  Traffic  congestion  has 
also  become  a  serious  matter  and  the 
certainty  of  tremendous  demands  for 
the  enormous  crops 
is  stimulating  the 
output  of  traffic material  and for agricul­
tural  tools  and  machinery. 
Textile 
mills  are  still  well  employed.as  also  are 
shoe  factories,  and  these  are  strengthen­
ing  the  prices  of  their  products  on  ac­
count  of  the  phenomenal  advance  in 
hides.

The  inclination  of  country  merchants 
to  ship  produce  to  irresponsible  com­
mission  merchants 
is  a  peculiarity 
which  the  Tradesman  has  never  been 
able  to  account  for. 
It  appears  always 
to  have  existed  and,  from  present  indi­
cations,  it  will  continue  to  exist  as  long 
as  time 
lasts.  The  anxiety  to  obtain 
more  than  the  market  price 
induces 
many  to  take  chances  and,  understand­
ing  this  weakness  of  human  nature,  the 
fraudulent  buyer  meets  little  difficulty 
in  obtaining  all  the  goods  he  can  dis­
pose  of  by  offering  more  than  going 
prices.  The  man  who  buys  a  horse  and 
looks  up  his  antecedents  and  record 
afterward  is  no  more  ridiculous  than the 
merchant  who  ships  goods  to  an  entire 
stranger  on  a  postal  card  quotation  and 
then  sets  about  to  enquire  who  he  is and 
as  to  his  responsibility.

done  his  work  consistently,  but  the 
proof  reader  must  have  been  on  a  va­
cation.

The  printer  has  given due prominence 
to  the  three  items  of  the  Benedict  Ele­
vator advertisement  by  the  aid of panels 
taking  the  main  space.  The  proportion 
is  good and  the  use  of  white  space  judi­
cious.

in  character. 

Brain's  announcement 

is  somewhat 
It  may  do  for  a 
general 
change  for  an 
issue,  but  more  goods 
w illjie  sold  by  specializing  in  the  ad­
vertising.

Geo.  Wyman  &  Co.  present  a  busi­
ness-like  announcement  of  a  wool  blan­
ket  sale,  whicb  has  the  merit  of  definite 
prices.  The  reduction  on  account  of 
soiling  will  be  an  attraction  to  the  eco­
nomically 
inclined  and  the  definite 
prices  will  enable  such  to  decide  upon 
the  amount  of  their  expenditure  before 
coming  to  buy.

An  effectively  arranged  double  adver­
tisement  is that of  the music  bouse  of  L. 
A.  Baker. 
little 
more  white  space  inside  the  border  by 
making  some  of  the  type  smaller  and 
the  panels  shorter.

I  would  have  given  a 

Bugbee  &  Roxburg  present  a  good 
pen  advertisement  for .  the  space,  but 
the  border  is  about  twice  too  heavy  and 
too  black.

A  great  deal  of  pains 

is  taken  to 
spell  the  name  of  W.  H.  Phelps’  Lead­
ing  Grocery  in  the 
initial  letters,  but 
the  result 
is  too  obscure  to  have  much 
advertising  value.  Usually  the  solution 
of  riddles  and  reading  of  acrostics  are 
too  much  of  an  effort  to  have  much 
im­
pression  as  to  what  they  are  all  about.

Mason  &  Beach  write  a  positive  dis­
claimer  as  to  some  of  the faults common 
in  the  prescription  trade  in  terms which 
will  tend  to  carry conviction.

Punished  For  Giving  In.

She  was  elderly  and  gaunt,  but  she 
had  the  anti-tobacco  craze  very  badly, 
and 
lost  no  opportunity  of  airing  her 
views  on  the  public  platform.  One 
evening  she  was  telling  a  deeply  in­
terested  crowd  of 
listeners  how  she 
weaned  her  husband  from  the  dreadful 
weed:

“ And  I  argued  and  argued  with  him 
for  twelve  long  years,  and  at 
in­
duced  him  to  sign  the  pledge,  promis­
ing  to  abstain  from  tobacco  in  any 
sbape  or  form. 
I  was  so  overcome  that 
I  threw  my  arms  around  him  and kissed 
him. ”

Voice from  the  audience  (seriously)—

last 

Served  him  right.

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Petting the  People

The Advertiser Is Known by the Company 

He  Keeps.

One  of  the  slowest  reforms  in  the  de­
velopment  of  the  modern  newspaper  is 
in  the  appreciation  of  the  value  of 
cleanliness. 
In  the  striving  for  sensa­
tionalism  which,  in  the  minds  of  many, 
seems  necessary  to  the  gaining  and 
holding  of  popular  interest,  publishers 
too  frequently  allow  subjects,  and  treat­
ment,  of  questionable  character  to  ap­
pear  in  reading  columns.  Fortunately 
such 
lapses  from  the  correct  standard 
usually  provoke  criticism  and  ridicule 
from  competing  papers  which  tend  to 
hasten  the general reformation in this  re­
gard ;  but  there  are  some  cases  where 
the  tendency  to  salaciousness  is  obliv­
ious  to such correction.  It is  worth  while 
for  an  advertiser  to  watch  the  character 
of  the  news  and  editorial  columns  of 
his  media,  that  he  may  be  assured  of 
cleanliness  in  this  part  of  his  surround­
ings.

But  where  there  is  one  offense against 
decency  and  dignity 
in  news  columns 
there  are  many  in  the  advertising  asso­
ciations.  There 
is,  no  doubt,  a  great 
improvement  in  this  regard,  the  more 
glaring  examples  of  personal  and  medi­
cal  infringements  upon  decency  are  be­
ing  expugned,  but  there  is  yet  far  too 
much  of  the  questionable,  or  worse,  to 
be  encountered.  Too  many  publishers 
do  not  seem  to  realize  that  the  average 
medical  advertising,  even  when  paid 
for  at  highest  rates,  tends  to  lower  the 
tone  of  a  paper  and  to  cheapen  its  ad­
vertising  prestige.

It  is  the  advertiser’s  right  to  select 
If  the  col­
the  company  he  shall  keep. 
umns  admit 
large  quantities  of  quack 
remedy  and  specialty  medical  publicity 
the  publication 
is  not  catering  to  a 
healthy  public  taste.  The  people  who 
are  caught  by  the  sensational  medical 
advertiser  are  not  the  people  of  most 
value  to  reputable  dealers.

There  is  a  large  and  rapidly  growing 
class  of  publishers  who  have  come  to 
realize  the  value  of  dignity  and  cleanli­
ness  in  every  department  of  their  peri­
odicals.  These  are 
learning  that  dig­
nity  is  of  more  value  than  the  gain  that 
may  come  from  catering  to  the  lower 
tastes  of  a  certain  class  of  readers. 
Such  publishers  are  able  to  use  the  in­
ducement  of  exclusiveness to  that  which 
is  best  and  most  business  like,  and  this 
inducement  is  no  slight  one.

There  are  many  among  the  best  mag­
azines  and  periodicals  whose acceptance 
of  advertising  carries  with 
it  an  en­
dorsement  which  means  much  to  the ad­
vertiser.  This 
is  a  condition  which 
should  extend  over  a  much  wider  field. 
Not  only  the  special 
journals  and  the 
highest  class  of  magazines,  but  the  gen­
eral  newspaper,  and  the  local  as  well, 
should  give  a  value  and  prestige  to 
their  advertising  utterances.

It 

is  the  business  of  the  advertiser  to 
take  cognizance  of  his  surroundings. 
It  is  his  right  to  insist  that  undignified 
details  of discreditable  happenings shall 
be  reduced  to  the  minimum  or  ex­
cluded  entirely. 
It  is  also  his  business 
to  see  that  the  advertising  tone  shall  be 
kept  up  to a  pitch  which  will  be  in  har­
mony  with  what  he  has  to  say.

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For  a  change  there  is  an  attractive 
jingle  to  the  simple  rhyme 
introducing 
the  store advertisement of M.  N.  Lehner. 
Generally  speaking,  the  display  of  a 
word  suggesting  the  subject  will  add 
to  the  effectiveness  by gaining the atten­
tion  of  those  interested.  The  printer has

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

A n   Old  Storys

Tho  i^ucen of Heart*
Made some Tarts,

On a suDunmci t) day;

The Knave of Hearts 
Stoic those Tart,

And with then» ran away

The cooking is made  pleasant at any timeot the  ycaj.  and  especially  in 
summer it a gasoline stove is used. 
It  provides a  quick  fire,  a  cool  kitchen, 
and great satisfaction.  Not expensive  to  buy or to operate.  Sic n  in and  set 
our line of these  stoves.

M.  N.  Lehner,

Hardware Hustler.

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saeasa-afs e s— ttae-aes.tin'eiie* w e^mom

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Flour Exchange for  Wheat  at 

the  Elevator.

We  can
fu rn ish  .you
a n y th in g
you
could  obtain
from
any  first
class g rist  mill.

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Wtttrmtx's

Ideal touhMk pen

Is everywhere recognised 
m  the BEST.  Come  in 
and let us show you why.

Bngkrr  A  Hoxburq.

W hen 

Henry the 

Great

B e n e d i c t   E l e v a t o r .

Prussian  Prince  visited  ibis 

country 

BRAIN’S

Is  the  place  to  hay  China,  Glass­
ware,  Stationery,  Fancy Groceries 
and  any  of  a  thousand  and  one 
notions.

SPECIAL SALE OF

IT ’S  A   MONEY  SAVER.

WOOL BED  BLANKETS

FOR  AUGUST.

ple« of white, grey and red bed blanket«. 

mEO.  WYMAN A CO. oBer one entire line of Ma­

1k*f 
have been carried through the large cities and (Hl.ip at 
the best  hotels,  and  they  are  slightly  soiled.  The 
prlcp is very much under their value.

*7.00 Blaaketa g» far.....  H.00
7.60 blankets  to r ................    .6.00
0 00 blankets  f a r......................4 .0 0
6.00 b laakets  f a r . . . .  
...........A M
3.00 blaakets far.................7.00

This will eclipse any Blanket Sale  we  ever  have
We think we have enough to last during  August 

bad.
Take them while they  last

COM E  A N D  S E E   US

Geo. Wyman &  Go,

SOUTH  BEND,  IND.

_______ Closed erenings except Saturday----------

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Evidently
Lingered  too 

York, to visit 

_Phelos;
Spring Crockery  sale 

long 

in  New 

The
Historical
Event of the season  is our

Low  price sale 
Every one 
Attending  it
Describes our  bake-goods  as 
Ideal
None so fresh  and 
Good  in our village.
Genial 
Reputable 
Obliging 
Clerks  .
Endeavor
Respectfully to  wait on 
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A   House  With  a  History

Our  purchases  of  Pattern  Hats  and  Novelties  direct  from  Paris  and 
Berlin  markets  have  this  year  greatly  excelled  all  past  seasons,  and  it  is 
with  the  utmost confidence  that  we  invite  your  attention  to the same,  assur­
ing  you that  nothing  but  the  most  reliable  and  correct  styles  will  be  offered 
to  the  trade.

All  our  purchases  are  strictly  cash  transactions and  made  direct  from 

the  manufacturers,  both  in foreign  and  domestic  goods.

We  carry the  largest  stock  of  any  millinery  house  in  Michigan,  and 

are  among  the  largest  in  the  west.

With  a  record  of  thirteen  years  of  successful  business,  employing 
methods  of  the  highest  commercial  integrity  and  with  an  inflexible  fidelity 
to  the  interests  of  our  customers,  we  hope  for  and  feel  warranted  in  solic­
iting  a  continuance  of  your  patronage.

The  Corl-Knott  styles  have  an  individuality  that  makes them  favorites 
in every  state  in  the  Union,  and  they  are  always  the  readiest  sellers  dis­
played  in  the  retail  millinery  stores.

Our  Annex  Copying  and  Trimming  Rooms  are  now  open.

Opening  Days 

August  25  until  October  3

N O T E —Special  Merchants’  Excursion  to  Grand  Rapids on all Mich­
igan  railroads  at  one  and  one-third  fare  for  round  trip,  good  going  August 
25  to  29.  Returning  on  or  before  September  10.
May  we  have  the  pleasure  of  a  personal  visit?

Cori,  Knott 

Company

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Around  the State

Movements  of Merchants.

Bellevue—Orlo  Morse  has  opened  a 

new  shoe  store.

Ovid— L.  A.  Westbrook has purchased 

the  bazaar  stock  of  W.  G.  Jolly.

Detroit—G.  F.  Wherth  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  John  C.  Price.

Scottville—J.  &  G.  Henke,  meat 
dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Jos.  Robinson.
succeed 
in  the  drug  busi­

Charlotte—Kinsman  Bros, 

Kinsman  &  DeFoe 
ness.

Hersey—John  Dalzell  succeeds  S.  G. 
(Mrs.  Fred)  Kincaid  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Three  Rivers—Wm.  Latimer  &  Co., 
bakers,  have  sold  out  to  Geo.  B.  South- 
worth.

Traverse  City— Carroll  Sisters  have 
their  grocery  stock  to  D.  B. 

sold 
Nichols.

Jackson—Swift  Bros.  &  Harmon  suc­
ceed  Swift  &  Bro.  in  the  flouring  mill 
business.

Jonesville—J.  M.  Williams  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  hardware  stock  to  Spen­
cer  &  Corbett.

Petoskey— Van Alstine & Gilbert  have 
sold  their  agricultural  implement  stock 
to  Loren  Randall.

Boyne  Falls— A.  Dosie  has  removed 
his  dry  goods,  clothing  and  boot  and 
shoe  stock  to  Onaway.

Muskegon—J.  L.  Harris  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  busi­
ness  of  H.  W.  Korfker.

Boyne  Falls—H.  A.  Hamlin  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  grocery  and  boot 
and  shoe  stock  of  C.  H.  Johnson.

Coral—Hill  &  Armitage  will  convert 
their  building  into  an  elevator  and  en­
gage  in  handling  grain  and  produce.

Detroit—Jacobson  &  Susterka,  ladies’ 
tailors,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
Philip  D.  Jacobson  continues  the  busi­
ness.

Port  Huron—Otis  Taylor  will  this 
week  become  the  proprietor  of  the  F. 
M.  Taylor  hardware  store  on  Military 
street.

Ovid—Thomas  Meehan  has  been  en­
gaged  by  the  Smith  Creamery  Co.  to  go 
on  the  road  buying  eggs  from 
local 
dealers.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—George  Watson  has 
sold  his  grocery  business  at  Algonquin 
to  C.  S.  McLachlan,  who  will  continue 
the  business.

Port  Huron—A.  R.  Ballentine  has 
purchased  the  stock  of  dry  goods  from 
the  Ballentine  Co.  and  the  store  has 
been  re-opened.

Alpena—Col.  C.  R.  Hawley,  the  vet­
eran  dry  goods  man  of  Bay  City,  has 
been  at  Long  Lake  on  a  ten  days’  fish­
ing  and  camping  trip.

dissolved  partnership,  Abe  Glazer  hav­
ing  purchased  the  interest  of  Max  Gla­
zer.

Ithaca—The  Oliver  Jordan  grocery 
stock  has  been  purchased  by  Wm.  and 
Frank  Lennox,  who  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Lennox 
Bros.

Wayland— A.  Sessions has commenced 
the  erection  of  a  new  store  building  on 
his  lot  in  the  burned  block. 
It  will  be 
24x40  feet,  one  story  high,  and  covered 
with  steel.

Morley—Wm.  F.  Turner  has  pur­
chased  a  lot  on  Main  street  in  this  vil­
lage  and  will  build  a  handsome  brick 
store  here  this  summer. 
It  will  be 
25x80  feet,  two  stories.

Alpena— Robert  Stevens,  who  has 
been  in  the  meat  business here  for many 
years,  has  closed  up  bis  shop.  Mr. 
Stevens  states  that  too  much  credit  is 
the  reason  of  his  retiring.

Alpena—John  Sinclair,  the  dry  goods 
two 
merchant,  has  returned  from  a 
months’  trip  in  Europe.  Mr.  Rooney, 
his  partner 
in  the  wholesale  millnery 
business,  accompanied  him.

Saranac— Osborn &  Patch  is  the  name 
of  the  new  grocery  firm  which  succeeds 
H.  W.  Dodge  &  Son.  The 
individual 
members  are  J.  C.  Osborn,  of  Pewamo, 
and  F.  A.  Patch,  of  Mecosta.

Alpena— R.  Levyn  and  R.  C.  Grimm, 
who  were  preparing  to  go  into  the  hard­
ware  business  in  the  new  Meyers  block, 
have  decided  not  to  start.  Mr.  Meyers 
has  another  tenant  for  the  store.

Muskegon— Dr.  C.  L.  Fourtier, late  of 
Sullivan,  who kept  a  drug  store  on  Pine 
street  sixteen  years  ago,  has  again 
lo­
cated  in  the  city  and has  opened  a  drug 
store  at  513  W.  Western  avenue.

Wayland— H.  D.  Allgeo  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  drug  stock  of  Allgeo 
Bros,  to  his  brother,  Chas.  E.  Allgeo, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  the  Allgeo  Central  Drug 
store.

Ithaca—O.  L.  Altenberg  &  Co.  have 
interest  of  H.  C.  Crane 
purchased  the 
in  the 
jewelry  stock  of  Altenberg  & 
Crane  and  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  O.  L.  Altenberg 
&  Co.

Alpena—Adam  Ludewig,  the stationer 
and  book  dealer,  received  the  second 
Ladies'  Home  Journal  prize  of  $10  for 
the  second  best  trimmed  window offered 
by  the  Curtis  Publishing  Co.,  of  Phila­
delphia.

Ann  Arbor— E.  G.  Hoag,  of  Chelsea, 
will  open  a furniture  and  house  furnish­
ing  goods  store  in  this city  within  a  few 
weeks.  He  has  until  recently been  Sec­
retary  of  the  Glazier  Stove  Co.,  at 
Chelsea.

of 

firm 

Negaunee—The 

Charles 
Thoren  &  Son,  tailors,  has  been  dis­
solved.  .  The  senior  member  pulls  out 
and  Charles  Thoren,  Jr.,  takes  the  busi­
ness.  The  old  gentleman  will  take  the 
remainder  of  bis  life  easy.

Jackson—Joseph  E.  Collins,  who  for 
the  past  ten  years  has  conducted  a  gro­
cery  business  at  the  corner  of  Francis 
and  High  streets,  has  sold  his  stock  to 
F.  J.  Warner,  of  this  city,  formerly 
ticket  agent  for  the  Cincinnati  Northern 
Railway.

Marquette—Some  time  ago  the  mer­
chants  agreed  to  close  their  stores  at 
certain  hours.  Lately  there  have  been 
some  violations  of  the  agreement,  but 
now  all  differences  have  been  settled 
and  the six o’clock  closing  will  continue 
in  effect.

Calumet— The  hardware 

stock  of 
Frank  B.  Lyon  is  to  be  closed  out  as 
soon  as  possible.  E.  G.  Emmons,  of

Houghton,  is  in  charge  of  the  store. 
Mr.  Lyon  has  retired  permanently  from 
the  hardware  business  because  of  his 
health  and  the  store  will  be  closed  as 
soon  as  the  stock  can  be  gotten  out  of 
the  way.

Traverse  City—Stanley  &  Young,  of 
Maple  City,  have  purchased  of  Chester 
Elliott  his  stock  of  groceries  at  the  cor­
ner  of  Front  and  Oak  streets.  The  new 
owners  will  remove  the  stock  to  their 
new  store  under  process  of  erection  at 
the  corner  of  Front  and  Maple  about 
October  x.  Meanwhile  Mr.  Elliott  will 
remain  in  charge  of  the  business.

Bear  Lake— Mr.  Marshall,  of  Cass 
City,  and  C.  W.  McPhail,  of  Scottville, 
have  decided  to  open  a  bank  at  this 
place.  Mr.  Marshall  has  had  consider­
able  experience  in  the  banking business 
and  Mr.  McPhail  is  the  principal  owner 
of  banks  at  Cass  City,  Scottville  and 
one  or  two  other  places,  so  that  the 
bank  will  be  under competent  manage­
ment  and  with  abundant  financial  back­
ing.

Muskegon—The  Executive Committee 
having  in  charge  the  merchants’  picnic 
at  Lake  Michigan  Park  August  14  have 
engaged  Keyes  Bros.,  of  Ionia,  to  pro­
vide  two  balloon  ascensions  for that  day 
and  also  a  high  wire  act  and  slide  for 
life.  A  Hastings  man  will  do  the  high 
dive.  Keyes  Bros.,  who  have  the  con­
tract  for  this  year’s  ascension,  had  a 
similar  contract  at  last  year’s  picnic. 
The  life-saving  crew  will  give  an  exhi­
bition.  Capt.  Nelson  is  endeavoring  to 
secure  a  special  permit  by  which  he 
may give the exhibit in  front  of  the Lake 
Michigan  park  pavilion. 
In  that  event 
a  schooner  will  be  anchored  cff the shore 
and  a  realistic  exhibition  of  shooting 
lines  to  a  ship  and  bringing  the  crew 
ashore  will  be  given.  Two  bands  will 
be  engaged,  so  there  will  be  no  dearth 
of  music  at  the  affair.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  Sampson  Neckyoke  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $10,coo.

Escanaba—The  Iron  Post Lumber  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $50,000.

Detroit—The  Cabinet  Letter  Press 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $25,000.

Detroit—The  American  Lubricator 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$5,000 to $25,000.

Perry—Johnson  &  Love  have  com­
pleted  their  new  cheese  factory  and 
begun  operations.

Charlevoix—The  Bay  Shore  Lime  Co. 
from 

has  increased  its  capital  stock 
$150,000 to  $250,000.

Benton  Harbor—The  Endion  Grape 
its  capital 

Juice  Co.  has 
stock  from  $10,000 to  $15,boo.

increased 

Three  Rivers—A  creamery  company 
has  been  organized  here  under  the name 
of  the  Riverside  Butter  Co.  The  capital 
stock  is $5,000 and  $4,700  has  been  sub­
scribed.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Sugar  Beet 
Harvester  Co., 
capital  $10,000,  has 
filed  articles  of  association.  The  prin­
cipal  incorporators  are  W.  L.  Ring  and 
P.  L.  Cooper.

Battle  Creek—The  Battle  Creek  Nov­
elty  Co.,  Ltd.,  has  been  organized  to 
manufacture 
calipers,  dividers,  non- 
pickable  locks,  keys,  etc.  The  capital 
stock  is $25,000.

Saginaw— The  Wolcott  Windmill  Co., 
which  has  recently  added  the  manufac­
ture  of  gas  engines  to  its  products,  will 
be  ready  to  put  these  engines  on  the 
market  soon  after  September  1.

Detroit— The  Imperial  Cap  Co.,  Ltd., 
has  brought  suit  against  six  insurance 
companies  to  recover  for  losses  sus­
tained  in  the  collapse  of  the  building  at 
116 Jefferson  avenue,  Jan.  iq  last.

Detroit— The  firm  of  Charles E.  Wain 
&  Co.,  machinists and  engineering  sup­
plies,  has  dissolved  partnership,  Al­
fred  W.  Wain  retiring. 
Charles  E. 
Wain  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  old  stand,  7-9  Jefferson  avenue.

Detroit—The  People’s  Manufacturing 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
the  county  clerk.  The  company  is  to 
conduct  a  general  mercantile  business 
in  silverware  and  novelties  and  has  a 
capital  stock  of  $20,000,  with  $2,100 
paid  in.  The following are stockholders: 
E.  H.  Houghton,  500;  E.  H.  Pudrith, 
500;  Geo.  E.  Comstock,  500;  Geo.  E. 
Comstock,  trustee,  500.

Detroit—John  Walsh  has  begun  suit 
against  the  Standard  Portland  Cement 
Co.  for  $50,000  damages.  He  alleges  he 
had  made  arrangements  to  sell  $300,000 
worth  of  bonds  for  a  commission  of 
$42,500  worth of  stock in the corporation, 
and  the  concern  refused  to  issue  him 
the  stock.  The  proceeds  from  the  sale 
of  the  bonds  were  to  be  used  for  the  de­
velopment  of  property 
in  Livingstone 
county.

Caro—The Peninsular Sugar Co.  whose 
beet  sugar factory  here  is  the  largest  in 
the  State,  will  increase  its  capital  stock 
from  $750,000  to  $1,000,000.  The  in­
crease 
is  said  to  be  for  the  purpose  of 
enlarging  the  plant,  and  the  present 
stockholders  will  take  all  the  new 
issue 
of  stock.  The  sugar  trust,  which  now 
owns  a  large  block  of  the  stock,  but  not 
a  controlling  interest,  will  be  given  an 
opportunity  to  purchase  its  share  of  the 
new  stock.

Detroit—The  Fulton  Iron  &  Engine 
Co.  has  been  reorganized  as  the  Na- 
tional-Fulton  Brass  Manufacturing  Co., 
and 
its  capital  stock  doubled  to  $400,-
000. 
Its  Detroit  plant  will  be  main­
tained,  and  a  large  modern  foundry  will 
be  established  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  The 
stockholders  are  :  William  C.  McMil­
lan,  18,000;  Walter  J.  McBride, 
trus­
tee,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  10,000;  Geo.  H. 
5,000;  John  F.  Harrigan, 
Russel, 
2,000;  Walter 
J.  McBride,  3,000; 
Jos.  H.  Ames,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1,000; 
Millard  Conklin,  Detroit,  1,000.

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SE N T  ON  A P P R O V A L !
THE  STAR  PEANUT
v e n d in g   m a c h in e
F o r  a u to m a tic a lly   s e l l i n g  
s a lte d   sh elled   p e a n u ts.  Op­
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fec tly   leg itim ate . 
I t   is  a t­
tra c tiv e   a n d   lu c ra tiv e — not 
a n   e x p e rim e n t,  b u t  a c t u a l  
f a c t s   from   a c tu a l  results- 
H an d so m ely   finished,  a n d  
w ill 
in cre a se   y o u r  sales  at 
larg e  p ro fit.  Try it;  th a t’s 
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full  d e scrip tio n   a n d   brings 

S h a ll I s e n d  it to  you?

M an u factu red   b y

W.  G,  HENSHAW,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Adrian— R.  J.  Clegg  has  sold  his 
North  Main  street  meat  market  to  W.
H.  Kiff  and  Fred  N.  Knight,  who  will 
continue  the  business.

Lansing—The  North  Lansing  grocers 
who  have  been  giving  trading  stamps 
held  a  meeting  last  week  and  decided 
to  discontinue  the  system.

Alton— Mrs.  Jennie  S.  Keecb,  who 
conducted  a  grocery  store  here  twenty- 
two  years,  died  July  31  and  was  buried 
Aug.  3  in  the  Alton  cemetery.

Trufant—Hansen  &  Son’s  brick  store 
building 
is  completed  and  they  are 
occupying  it with their lines  of  furniture 
and  women's  furnishing  goods.

Ithaca—The  Nelson  Grain  Co, 

is 
erecting  an  addition  to  the  east  end  of 
its  elevator,  which  will  increase  its  ca­
pacity  from  10,000  to  20,000  bushels.
Vanderbilt—Glazer  Bros.,  dealers 

in 
dry  goods,  clothing  and  shoes,  have

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Grand Rapids Gossip

A.  Mulder  &  Co.  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  412  South  Division  street. 
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

D.  I.  Rensenberger  has  engaged 

in 
the  grocery  business  at  Henry.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Worden 
Grocer  Co.

A.  A.  Weaver  has  opened  a  meat 
market 
in  the  Vinkemulder  block  at 
the  corner of  South  Division  street  and 
Third  avenue.

A.  S.  Damsky  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  190  Fourth  street  to  Wisniewski 
&  Nowaczgb,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

The  Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.  has  leased 
the  double  store  at  20  and  22  Ottawa 
street,  which  it  will  use  as  a  warehouse 
and  for  seed  cleaning  purposes.

in 

The  sixteenth  annual  picnic  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  which  was  held  at  Kalamazoo  last 
Thursday, 
conjunction  with  the 
fourth  annual  picnic  of  the  Kalamazoo 
Retail  Grocers  and  Meat  Dealers’  As­
sociation,  was  all  that could  be  desired, 
except 
in  point  of  weather,  which  was 
about  the  worst  the  Weather  Clerk  could 
invent.  Every  feature  which  could  be 
presented 
in  the  face  of  discouraging 
circumstances  was  carried  out  to the let­
ter,  reflecting  great  credit  on  all  who 
took  part  in  the  management  of  the 
affair.

it 

The  Thursday  half  holiday  to-morrow 
will  be  rendered  memorable  by  a  match 
game  of  base  ball  between  the  retail 
grocers  and  the  policemen.  The  game 
will  be  played  on  the East  Bridge  street 
grounds,which  are  conveniently  reached 
by  the  East  Bridge  street  cars.  On 
Aug.  21 
is  expected  that  the  grocers 
will  again  cross  bats  with  the  city sales­
men,  who  naturally  smart  under  their 
recent  defeat  and  crave  an  opportunity 
to  retrieve  their  reputation.  Secretary 
Klap  has  challenged  the  Holland  gro­
cers  to  a  game  of  indoor  ball— played 
out  doors—at  Ottawa  Beach  on  Aug.  28, 
but  up  to  this  writing  no  response  has 
been  received  to  the  challenge. 
In  the 
event  of  the  Holland  grocers  coming  to 
the  front,  it  is  expected  that  the  Furni­
ture  City  Band  will  accompany  the 
grocers to  the Beach on  a special train.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Duchess.  $2@2.75  per  bbl.  ; 
Red  Astrachans,  $2:  other  harvest  va­
rieties,  $1.75;  Sour  Boughs  (cooking), 
$1. 50.
B ananas—Prices  range  from  $1.25®
1.75 
to  size, 
jum bos,  $2.25  per  bunch.

per  bunch,  according 

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 
21c  for  fancy  and  20c  for  choice.  Dairy 
grades  are  about  the  same,  command­
ing  i 6 @ i 7c  for  fancy,  i4@i5c*or  choice 
and 
io @ I2C  for  packing  stock.  The 
Tradesman  warns  its  patrons  this  week 
against  Edward  Fay  &  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
whose  “ business”  
is  managed  by  the 
notorious  Samuel  M.  Tucker.

Cabbage—H om e  grown  com m and  40c 

per  doz.

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

ply  at  16c  per  doz.
Cucumbers— 15c 

h°E egs—Local 
for  candled  and 
count. 

Egg  Plant—$1. 3°  Per  doz-

,

per  doz. 

for  hot

dealers  pay 
I4 ^ @ ^ I5 C  

i6@ i7c 
lor  case 

Green  Onions— 10c  for  Silver  Skins.
Green  Corn— 10c  per  doz.
Green  Peas—85c  per  bu.  for  Tele­

phones  and  Champions  of  England.

Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@i6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ nc.

Lemons—Californias,  $3.75@4!  Mes- 
sinas,$4.25@4.75.  Maioras  and Verdel- 
las,  $5.25.

Lettuce— Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 

Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.

Maple  Sugar— ioj£c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons—Gems,  40c  per  basket; 
California  Rockyfords,  $3.25  per  crate ; 
Illinois  Rockyfords,  $1.25  per  crate; 
Osage,  $1.25  per  crate.

Onions— Home  grown  stock 

in 

is 

ample  supply  at  8 o @ q o c .

Oranges—California  Valencias  fetch 

$5-50.

Parsley—25c  per  doz.
Peaches— White  stock,  5o@6oc :  Yel­

low  Triumphs,  8o@goc.

Pears— Sugar,  $1.25  per  bu.  ;  large, 

$i.25@i.35  per  bu.

Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Plums—Abundance,  90c  per  yi  bu.  ; 
Burbank,  90c  per  yi  bu;  Bradshaws, 
$1.25  per  bu;  Blue  Damsons,  $1.50 
per  bu.

Potatoes— New  stock  is  in  fair  supply 

at  50c  per  bu.
Poultry— Prices  are  firm,  owing  to 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
in 
moderate  demand  at  50@6oc  and  squabs 
at  $i.2o@i.5o.  Spring  broilers,  12® 
13c;  chickens,  8@9C;  small  hens,  7® 
8c;  large  hens,  fi@7c;  turkey  bens,  ioj£ 
@ nj£c;  gobblers,  9@toc;  white  spring 
ducks,  9@ioc.

Radishes— 10c  per  doz.
Squash— Summer  fetches  40c  per  bas­

ket.

Tomatoes—$1.50  per  bu.
Watermelons—Receipts  of 

Sweethearts  are 
fine.  Price  ranges  from  i 8@ 2oc.  *

large  and  quality 

Wax  Beans—65c  per  bu.
Whortleberries—$1.25  per  16 qts.

Indiana 
is 

Programme  Prepared  for  tbe  Muskegon 

Picnic.

Muskegon,  Aug.  12—The  following 
has  been  prepared  for  the  all-day picnic 
of  tbe  Muskegon  business  men  at  Lake 
Michigan  Park  Aug.  14 :

9  a.  m.—The  bands  will  start  for 
Lake  Michigan  Park  via  Muskegon 
Heights,  Pine  and  Ottawa  street  cars.

10:30  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m.— Band  concert.
11:30  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m.— Grand  free 
distribution  of  watermelons,  co&ee  and 
celery.
1  to 8  p.  m.— Free  continuous  con­
cert  by  the  celebrated  Hawaiian Sextette 
Concert  Company.

1:30  p.  m.— High  dive  by  Prof. 

Harry  Wright,  of  Pennsylvania.

2:15  p.  m.—Exhibition  by  U.  S. 
Life  Saving  Crew  under  command  of 
Captain  Nelson.
parachute  drop  by  Professor  Keyes.

3:30  p.  m.— Balloon  ascension  and 

4:15  p.  m.— High  dive  by  Professor 

Wright.

Keyes.

4 :30 p.  m.—Slide  for  life  by Professor 

5:15  p.  m.— Balloon  ascension  and 

parachute  drop.

Supper.
6:30  p.  m.— High  dive.
6:45  P-  m-—Tight  wire  performance.
8  p.  m.—Naval  battle.
9  p.  m.— Unique  unfurling  of  Ameri­
tbe  Star 

can  flag  to  the  music  of 
Spangled Banner.  J.  L.  Hisey,  Sec'y.

Hastening  the  End.

“ I  am  hard  to  discourage,’ * 

said 
the  rejected  suitor,  melodramatically. 
“ Some  day  I’ll  make  you  say  you 
love 
me,  and  then—and  not  until  then—I 
shall  die  happy. ”
“ I’ll  say  it  now,”   said  she  promptly. 
“ I  don't  mind  telling  a  lie  for  a  good 
end. ”

The  Tradesman  advises  its  patrons  to 
confine  their  dealings  with  the  Union 
Dairy  Co.,  of  Toledo,  to  a  cash  basis 
until  such  time  as  the  concern  will  con­
sent  to  make  a  statement  to  the  mer­
cantile  agencies  or  to  the  Tradesman.

The  Grocery  Market.

settlements  show  an 

Tea—Cable  advices  show  that 

Sugar—There  have  been  no  changes 
in  the  sugar  market  during  the  past 
week,  and  the  sugar  situation  has  re­
mained  steady  and  unchanged  now  for 
a  longer  period  than  for several  months.
the 
settlements  of  Japan  tea  until  tbe  end 
of  July  were  27,000,000  pounds,  against
25.500.000  pounds  last  year.  Although 
tbe 
increase  of
1.500.000  pounds  over  tbe  same  period 
last  year,  the  shipments  were  only  14,-
700.000  pounds, 
19,000,000 
pounds  last  year,  leaving  a  stock  of
12.300.000  pounds, compared with 6,500,- 
000  pounds  last  year.  One  of  two  causes 
is 
condition: 
Either  prices  are  held  too  high  to  at­
tract  the  attention  of  the  consuming 
trade  of  tbe  United  States  and  Canada 
or  this  tea  is  being  held  for January  de­
Indications  are  that  the  major­
livery. 
ity  of  tbe  trade  lean  towards  the 
latter 
belief,  as  the  duty  will  then  be  off  and 
tea  can  be  bought  and  sold  without  tak­
ing  that  into  consideration.

responsible 

against 

this 

for 

large  consumption  which 

Coffee—There  has  been  very 

little 
change  in  the  spot  coffee  market  during 
tbe  past  fortnight.  Some  interest  has 
been  shown 
in  speculative  tendencies, 
and  it  is  reported  that  a  convention  will 
be  held  in  New  York  in  the  early  part 
of  October  for  the  purpose  of  seeking 
some  remedy  by  which  production  of 
low  grades  of  coffee  can  be  reduced  and 
kept  within  proper 
limits.  None  of 
these  influences,  however,  have  had  any 
effect  on  tbe  spot  situation  and  the  lat­
ter  is  unchanged.  Demand  continues 
very  fair  for  this  time  of  tbe  year,  due 
to  a 
is  at­
tributed  to  cool  weather.  In mild  grades 
a  steady  and  unchanged  market  is  re­
ported  for  West India  growths.  The  bet­
ter  grades  continue  to  be 
in  very 
limited  supply  and  buyers  are  quietly 
shopping  around  to  secure  all  that  they 
can  obtain  within  a  reasonable  range  of 
prices.  East  India  growths  are  steady.
Rice—Southern  advices  report  only 
limited  offerings,  due  to  small  available 
supplies,  and  with  demand  fairly  active 
prices  hold  very  firm.  Receipts  of  new 
crop  river  rice  are  reported  as  running 
in  excess  of  all  previous  records  for  this 
time  of  the  year,  but  it  will  be  another 
fortnight  before  the  crop  movement is at 
its  height.  Louisiana  and  Texas  report 
that  growing  crops  are  full  of  promise. 
The  local  market  is  fairly  firm.

In  corn  spot  is  showing 

Canned  Goods— In  tomatoes  there  has 
been  no  important  change.  Reports 
have  been  sent  out  from  Baltimore  of 
lower  prices  on  new  packing,  but  upon 
investigation 
it  has  been  fomid  that 
these  goods  will  not  grade  up  to  stand­
ards  and  for that  reason  they  are  not  at­
tracting  special  attention. 
In  most  in­
stances,  it  is  claimed  they  are  little  bet­
ter  than  good  seconds,  and  for  that  rea­
son  they  are  offered  some 
lower  than 
quotations  in  the  hope  of  cleaning  them 
up. 
increased 
strength.  A  bid  showing  an  advance  of 
5c  over  opening  prices  on  standard 
pack  was  recently  made  to  a  packer 
and  was  refused.  Prospects  are  for  a 
considerable  shortage  in  the  pack.  Spot 
peas  are  quiet.  California  fruits  are 
not  attracting  special  attention  at  the 
moment, 
generally  hold 
steady.  Little  interest  is  being  taken 
in  new  pack  Eastern  peaches.  Sardines 
are  quiet,  but  are  firmly  held  owing  to 
a  light  pack  thus far  tbe  present  season. 
Mention  was made  last  week  of the large 
run  of  salmon  on  the  Columbia  River 
and  our  remarks  may  have  given  the 
average  reader  a  false 
idea  as  to  the

but  quite 

present  pack.  While  it  is  true  that there 
is  a  good  run  on  tbe  Columbia  River 
and  that  some  packers  are  packing  in 
excess  of last  year,the  total  pack  on  this 
River  is  so  insignificant  as  to  have  no 
effect  on  the  market  price  of  salmon. 
The  bulk  of  the  salmon  is  packed  in 
Alaska,  and  on  the  Puget  Sound  and 
Fraser  River.  The  run  in  these  loca­
tions  this  year  is 
light,  especially  of 
Sockeves  on  the  Sound.  The  shortage 
of  this  one  grade  in  this  one  locality 
will  probably  be  more  than  the  total 
pack  on  the  Columbia  River.  Salmon 
is  a  good  purchase  at  present  prices 
and  dealers  can  make  no  mistake  in 
buying  liberally  for  both  present and fu­
ture  wants.

is  very  likely. 

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  are fairly  active 
for  tbe  season  at  tbe  advance  told  about 
last  week.  Packers  seem  well  filled  up 
with  orders  for  October  shipment.  The 
future  of  prunes  is  not  easy  to  predict. 
Present  prices  are  very  low,  and  if  any­
thing  happens  to  affect  the  crop  an  ad­
vance 
It  is  practically 
certain,  in  any  event,  that  tbe  market 
can  go  no 
lower.  Peaches  are  slow. 
Stocks  are  low.  New  peaches  will  be 
shipped  this  month.  Currants  are  not 
in  much  demand,  but  are  holding  their 
own  so  far  as  price  is  concerned.  No 
important  packers  have  named  prices 
on  raisins  yet,  but  will  in  a  few  weeks. 
is  small,  but  should  im­
The  demand 
prove 
in  a  few  weeks.  Apricots  are  in 
light  demand.  New  goods  are  on  the 
way.  Prices  are  unchanged.

Syrups  and  Molasses—There  have 
been  no  changes  in  syrup  and  molasses 
during  the  past  week.  Glucose  is  un­
changed,  and  gives  no  prospect  of  any 
change.  Compound syrup  is  unchanged 
and  quiet. 
Tbe  demand  for  sugar 
syrup,  on  the  contrary,  is  very  good, 
the  movement  for  export  representing 
the  small  end  of  the  present  business. 
Molasses  is  very  dull  and  lifeless  and 
prices  are  unchanged.

Fish—There  has  been  no  change  in 
fish  during  the  past  week.  Sardines 
are  as  yet  unchanged,  but  an  advance 
seems  imminent.  All  the  packers  talk 
strong  and  refuse  to  guarantee  present 
prices  even  one  day.  The  demand 
is 
good.  Mackerel 
is  in  fair  demand  at 
unchanged  prices.  The  New  England 
strike 
is  affecting  shipments  somewhat 
and  the  market  might  possibly  have  ad­
vanced  had  that  not  occurred.  The  la­
bor  strike  seems  to  have  completely tied 
up  the  supply  of  cod,  hake  and  had­
dock,  as  under  present  conditions  no 
goods  can  be  shipped  or  even packed.
The  Boston  Egg; and  Batter  Market.
Boston,  Aug.  11—Receipts  of  eggs 
are  extremely  heavy  for  this  time  of 
year,  being  for  the  week  nearly  8,000 
cases  more  than  for  the  same  week 
last 
year,  and  with  very  warm  and  wet 
weather  the  market  is  extremely  dull  on 
everything  but  the  finest  quality.  There 
is  a  very  wide  margin  between  the  best 
and  ordinary  stock,  the  latter  running 
very  poor and  extremely  heavy  shrink­
age.  Finest  candled  Michigansand  In- 
dianas  are  selling  at  20c.  Uncandled 
eggs  are  selling all the way from  I4 ® i 8c.
Receipts  of  butter  in  all  Eastern  mar­
kets  are  excessive  and  the  weather  for 
tbe 
last  week  has  been  very  favorable 
for  a  large  make.  Receipts  for  the  week 
in  Boston  are  some  500,000  pounds 
more  than  last  season,  or  about  8,oco 
6o-pound  tubs,  and  receipts 
in  New 
York  are  about  10,000  packages  in  ex­
cess  of 
last  year  and,  with  conditions 
favorable  for  making  butter all  through 
the  dairy  sections,  we  are  having  an  ex­
tremely  dull  market.  Finest  Northern 
creameries 
selling  at  20@2ic. 
Lower  grades  have  felt  the  decline more 
than  extra  creamery.  Firsts and  seconds 
are  selling  extremely  hard  and  bringing 
from  i7^@2oc;  dairies,  i6®iqc;  pack­
ing  stock,  I4@i5c.

are 

Smith,  McFarland  Co.

6

SHIPPING  APPLES.

Some  Needed  Changes  Which  Mast  Be 

Made.

This  subject  naturally  divides 

itself 
into  two  heads,  viz.,  "How  can  we 
transport  the  fruit?"  and  "In  what kind 
of  a  package  shall  we put  it?”

To  get  an  apple  from  the  tree  to  the 
consumer  at  the  least  cost,  and  in  the 
most  perfect  condition,  is  a  problem  se­
riously  occupying  the  attention  of  all 
fruit  growers  and  shippers,  whose  suc­
cess  or  failure  largely  depends  on  their 
ability  in  this direction.

The 

first  step 

is 
from  the  tree  to  the  basket,  where,  in 
most  cases,  serious  damage  is done.

in  transportation 

Apple  pickers  require  brains  as  well 
as  muscle,  and  to  pick  an  apple proper­
ly  requires  some  study  and  experience. 
The  writer  has  noticed  many  apples 
literally  pulled  from  the  trees  with  the 
fruit  spur  attached,  not  only  damaging 
the  fruit,  but  ruining  the  tree  itself  for 
future  bearing.

If  apples  are  carefully  turned upwards 
they  will  break  from  the  fruit  spur 
clean,  with  the 
least  resistance,  and 
avoid  thumb-marks  so  common  in  ap­
ples,  which  seriously  impair  the  keep­
ing  quality  and  spoil  the  appearance, 
particularly  of green  or  yellow fruit.  All 
shippers  should 
instruct  their  packers 
very  particularly  on  this  point.

The  next  move  in  transportation  is 
from  the  basket  to  the  barrel  or  package 
in  which  the  apples  are  taken  to  mar­
ket.  Again  they  run  a  most  hazardous 
gauntlet.  Most  apples  are  dumped  on 
the  ground 
in  heaps,  whereas,  in  the 
writer’s  opinion,  apples  never  should 
touch  the  ground,  but  be 
carefully 
emptied  on  a  canvas  stretcher  of  sim­
ple  construction,  holding  about  three 
or  four  barrels  at  most,  and  about  3^  to 
4  feet  high,  so  that  the  sorter  may stand 
up  to  his  work  and  use  both  hands  and 
eyes  in  this  most  important  transaction. 
From  the  stretcher  they  should  go  di­
rectly 
into  the  package  for  market  or 
store,  graded  as  the  shipper’s  customers 
may  desire.

Now  that  the  fruit  is  in  the  package 
at  the  tree,  it  should  be  carefully  trans­
ported  to the  fruit  house, railway  or  boat 
landing  at  once,  on  a  conveyance  hav­
ing  springs.  Much fruit is damaged seri­
ously  by  remaining 
in  barrels  on  the 
ground  after  packing,  or  by  being 
moved  in lumber wagons without springs 
over  rough  roads.  These  can  be  easily 
procured 
to  attach  to  any  ordinary 
wagon,  and  no  fruit  grower  should  be 
without  them.

longer  than 

When  we  get  the  apples  to  the  depot 
we  again  confront  a  difficult  problem. 
What  kind  of  a  car should  we  use  or 
what  kind  can  we  secure  from  the  car­
rier?  Arrangements  should  invariably 
be  made  with  the  railway  to  furnish 
the  kind  of  a  car  desired  and  as  re­
quired.  No  apples  should  remain  at  a 
is  necessary  to  load 
depot 
into  a  car  and  get  away 
them  directly 
the  same  evening. 
For  short  hauls 
ventilated  cars  should  be  used,  and  the 
car  not  filled  to  the  roof,  as  frequently 
happens,  but  leave  ample  room  for  cir­
culation  of  air.  For  any  distance  re­
quiring  more  than  twenty-four  hours' 
railway  journey,  refrigerator  cars  should 
be  used,  and  have  them 
sufficiently 
iced.  From  the  cars  the  apples  should 
go  direct  to  destination  without  delay, 
either  to  the  consumer,  fruit  house  or 
steamer,  for  ocean  transportation.  Here 
again  we  confront  a  problem?  What 
kind  of  space  shall  we  use,  or  what  can 
we  secure?

Apples  usually receive little care at the

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

hands  of  vessel  owners  and  stevedores, 
are  generally  handled  roughly,  and 
placed  in  the  hold  as  closely  stowed  as 
in  most  cases,  without 
possible,  and 
ventilation,  and 
if  they  survive  this 
gauntlet  without  being  cooked  and 
ruined  the  shipper  may  consider  him­
self  fortunate.

Can  this  be  remedied?  Combined 
action  can  do  much  to  bring  about  the 
much  needed  reforms.  Let  there  be 
an  active  transportation  committee  and 
let  us  shippers  be  loyal  to  their  recom­
mendations  demanding ventilated  space 
or  cool  storage.

Again,  why  should  a  barrel  of  apples 
pay  more  freight  than  a  barrel  of  flour? 
This  question  has  often  been  asked rail­
way  tariff  committees,  but  has  never 
yet  been  satisfactorily  answered.  So 
far as  I  can  learn,  the  real  reason  is  be­
cause  they  can  collect  more. 
They 
apparently  think  the business  will  stand 
it,  but  in  a  year  like  the  present,  when 
there  is  an  abundant  crop,  cheap  trans­
portation  would  materially  increase  our 
markets,  and  place  before  the 
laboring 
classes  which  form  the  masses  of  Euro­
pean  population  fruit  within  the  reach 
of  their  means.

Can  this  be  accomplished?  I maintain 
it  can.  A  barrel  of  flour  weighs  about 
50  pounds  more  than  a  barrel  of  apples, 
and  usually  is  carried  for  about  half  the 
price.  Does  the  barrel  of  apples  get 
any  more care from  the carriers,  any bet­
ter  protection  from  the  weather,  any 
better space,  or  is  there any  greater  risk 
incurred?  Do  they  pay  any  more  claims 
or  give  any  greater  attention  to  the 
business?  So far  as  I  can  ascertain,  the 
only  thing 
is  better 
despatch  en  route  as  perishable  freight 
is  not  so  often  side-tracked,  but  I  have 
yet  to  learn  of  a  railway  that  paid 
claims  on  apples  for  ordinary  delay  in 
transit,  and  I  consider  the  handicap 
in 
weight  quite  sufficient  to enable  the  car­
riers  to  move  a  barrel  of apples  quite  as 
cheaply  as  a  barrel  of  flour.  Agitation 
would  bring  about  this  much  needed  re­
form.

they  can  claim 

We  next  consider  the  various  kinds  of 
packages  in  use  and  their  respective 
advantages.  The  barrel  is  the  standard 
used  for  perhaps  90  per  cent,  of  the 
fruit,  but  is  it  the  best?  California  has 
adopted  the  box  of  four  or  five  tiers, 
averaging  about  40  pounds  net  of  fruit, 
and  this  package  is  getting  quite  popu­
lar  in  some  localities,  and  has  the  ad­
vantage  of  being  more  suitable  for  a 
grocer  to  handle  as  package  goods. 
Many  people  would  buy  a  box  of  those 
apples  who  could  not  be  induced  to  buy 
a  barrel  at  a  time.  When  apples  are 
retailed  by  the  pound,  much  of  the 
fruit  is  injured  by the customer or dealer 
turning  it  over,  pinching  it  and  exam­
ining  it  in  a  variety  of  ways  that  would 
not  be  done  in  a  package.  The  cost  of 
the  package  is  about  the  same 
in  each 
case.

For  the  home  trade  and  immediate 
use,  the  bushel  crate  is  becoming  quite 
popular  in  Michigan,  and  has  some  ad­
vantages. 
It  is  cheaper  than  the barrel, 
saves  all  expense  of  packing,  can  be 
easier  handled,  all  the  fruit  is  open  to 
view,  any  farmer  can  bring  apples  to 
the  depot  direct  from  the  trees,  and is  a 
convenient  package  for  the  dealer  and 
consumer  when  the  apples  are  required 
for  prompt  use.

is  coming 

For  high  class  trade  a  compartment 
into  use,  and  has  been 
box 
favorably  received 
in  the  markets  of 
Europe.  These  boxes  are  made  to  hold 
various  amounts  and  different  sized  ap­
ples  and are  made  something like an egg

THE  FRANK  B.  TAYLOR  COMPANY  f
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IMPORTERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS 

135  JEFFERSON  AVENUE

DETROIT, Mich.,

August  13,  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 
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case,  each  apple  having  a  compartment 
by 
itself  and  is  thoroughly  ventilated. 
A  firm  in  London,  Ontario,  are  manu­
facturing them.  Fruit growers of Niagara 
district  are  using  them  quite  extensive­
ly.  They  cost  more  than  a  barrel,  but 
for  a  high  class  trade  there 
is  nothing 
better.  Apples  stored  in  these  packages 
for  the  Pan-American  Exhibition  with 
the  Buffalo  Cold  Storage  Co.,  kept  in 
good  condition  for a year.  One  thing  is 
essential  to  the  transportation  of  apples 
in  any  package—air  circulation.

I  feel  convinced  that fully 50  percent, 
of  our  apples  are  ruined  from  improper 
transportation  from  some  of  the  causes 
referred  to,  and 
if  apple  shippers  ever 
expect  to  climb  the  ladder  of  success 
to  its  topmost  step,  it  can  only  be  ac­
complished  by  giving  this  most 
im­
portant  question  earnest  consideration.

R.  J.  Graham.

Incompetent  Help  Who  Are  a  Detriment 

to  Employers.

We  have  received  a  complaint  from  a 
shoe  dealer  to  the  effect  that  the  clerks 
in  jobbing  houses  who  are  especially 
detailed  to  wait  on  the  trade,  know 
nothing  of  the  business  in  which  they 
are  employed.  This  retailer  cites  an 
instance  where  he  went  into  an  Eastern 
jobbing  house,and  enquired  of  the  clerk 
if  they  carried  barefoot  sandals.  The 
clerk,  with  a  vacant  state,  asked  the 
enquirer  to  repeat  his  question.  After 
doing  so  three  times,  the  clerk  politely 
informed  him  that  he  never  had  seen 
any.  He  then  enquired  of  two  other 
clerks  who  were  standing  close  by, 
but  they  also  answered  in  the  negative. 
This  very  house  carried barefoot sandals 
and  had  at  that  moment  some  thirty- 
eight  pairs  on  the  floor.  The  merchant 
was  rather  disgusted,  and  left  without 
making  any  purchase.

Once  on  the  street  he  met  a  member 
of  the  firm,  with  whom  he  was  well  ac­
quainted,  and  told  him  he  had  made 
a  useless  search  for  something  that  his 
trade  was  calling  for day  after  day  for 
summer  wear.

"O h !”   said  the  jobber,  "w e  have  a 
few  pairs  of  those  in  stock,  and  per­
haps  we  have  the  very  sizes  you  are 
looking  for.”

Not  caring  to  get  the  clerk  in  trouble, 
the  merchant  did  not  let  him  know  that 
he  had  been  to  the  house  and  was  re­
fused  the  sandals,  but  returned  with 
him.  The  very  clerk  that  he  had  inter­
viewed  on  bis  first  trip  was  told  to show 
Mr.  "So-and-So”   the  barefoot  sandals 
that  were  in  such a  section.  After  a  dil­
igent  search  the  employe  at  last  dis­
covered  them,  and  said :  "T o   tell  you 
the  honest  truth,  this 
is  something  1 
never  knew  we  had  in  stock ;  the  fact 
is,  I  am  entirely  unfamiliar  with  the 
name,  and  perhaps  fot  that  reason  1 
was  unable  to  answer  you  intelligently 
when  you  asked  me  before.”

There  seems  to  be  a  very  good  moral 
in  the  neglect  of  this clerk  to  learn what 
stock  his  employer  had  on  his  shelves. 
These  very  subjects  are  discussed  week 
after  week by  papers  devoted  to the shoe 
business.  Each 
jobbing  house  in  the 
country  secures  a  copy  of  the  paper 
every  week,  and 
instead  of  allowing 
the  paper to  rest  either on the buyer’s or 
the  advertising  manager’s  desk 
if  it 
were  distributed  among  the  clerks  on 
the  floor  these  occurrences  woud  be  less 
frequent.  New  things  are  cropping  up 
in  the  trade  every  day,  and  the  only 
way  to  keep  abreast  of  the  times  is  to 
seek  a  channel  which  disperses  such  in­
is  nothing  new  to  a 
formation.  There 
practical  man 
in  a  shoe  paper.  He  is 
abreast  of  the  times;  very  often  he  is

ahead  of  them.  He designs  and  origin­
ates.  He  watches  for  new  things  as 
they  come  out;  he  interviews  manufac­
turers  and  retailers,  and  has  an  eye  on 
future  business  before  it  is  possible  for 
any  one  else  to  get 
it.  He  imparts 
this  information  to  the  trade,  and  this 
same  information  should  be  dissemi­
nated  in  every  channel  possible.  Every 
manufacturer and  retail  merchant,  also 
each 
jobbing  bouse,  owe  themselves, 
and  those  in  their employ,  such  an  edu­
cation.  If  one  paper  is  not  sufficient  for 
their  wants,  it  would  be  better  for  them 
to  buy  half  a  dozen  than  to  have 
ignor­
ant  clerks  waiting  on  their trade.— Shoe 
Retailer.

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Folly  of Infidelity.

From the Philadelphia Times.

During  one  of  E.  L.  Hyde’s  evangel­
ical  trips  through  this  State,  he  told  a 
Scranton  gathering  that  all  infidels  were 
fools,  and  that  he  would  undertake  to 
prove  his  argument 
in  ten  minutes  if 
any  professional  infidel  wished  to  give 
the  opportunity.  A  man  in  the audience 
arose  and  was  politely  asked  by  Hyde 
to  speak,  if  he  wished  to  speak.

"M r.  Hyde,”   was  the  reply,  " I   have 
been  listening  to  you  with  interest  this 
last  half  hour;  but  1  think  your  most re­
cent  statement  was  a  challenge  1  can 
let  pass.  1  am  a  infidel,  but  I’m 
not 
not  a  fool.  I'm  a  man  of  education  and 
culture;  I’ve  traveled,  and  I  know more 
than  the  average  person,  believer  or 
non-believer. ”
you 

really  believe,”   asked 
Hyde,  “ that  there is nothing in religion? 
Would  you  go  on  record  as  saying  so 
much?”

“ Do 

this 

"G o   on  record?”   queried  the  man 

in 
surprise.  "W hy,  I’ ve  been  writing  and 
preaching  against  religion 
last 
twenty  years. ”

"And  you  say  there’s  nothing  in  it?”
"Absolutely  nothing!”
"W ell,  1  said  I'd  prove  you  a  fool 
within  ten  minutes,”   said  Hyde,  look­
ing  at  his  watch. 
" I   still  have  seven 
minutes  left.  I  will  leave  it  to  the  gath­
ering  if  that  man  is  not  a  fool  who  de­
votes  twenty  years  to  preaching  against 
omething  which  he  claims  has  nothing 
in  it. ”

Some  Names  Which  Have  Not  Yet  Been 

Adopted.

Jabs,  a  Chicago  paper,  takes  a  jab  at 
the  well-known  leaning  of  Battle  Creek 
toward  the  pure  food industry.  Accord­
ing  to 
it  even  the  car  conductors  are 
high  officials  in  various  cereal  product 
companies  and  all  the  population  is  en­
gaged 
in  manufacturing  breakfast 
foods  that  the  opera  house  has  already 
barred  all  but  pure  food  plays  and  that 
the  postoffice  will  be  turned 
into  a 
"pure  food  foundry.”  
It  also  suggests 
a  few  names  for  food  products  which 
have  not  yet  been  adopted,  as  follows:

Hullo-Beano.
Hello  Billo.
Tally-Ho.
Try-a-chewa.
Korn  Kure.
Korn  Pone.
Cornina.
Oatsina.
Hayina.
Strawina.
Foddereta.

Princess  Charming-.

" I   am  very  sorry,  George,  you  don’t 
admire  my  new  dress,”   said  a  young 
wife. 
is  charm­
ing.”  

"Everybody  says 

"Your  friends,  my  dear,pay  you  com­
pliments;  I  pay  your  bills,”   replied  her 
husband.

it 

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are not  satisfactory,  but  try

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Blackstone St., BOSTON.

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Things  We Sell

Iron pipe,  brass rod,  steam  fittings, 
electric  fixtures,  lead  pipe,  brass 
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heaters,  mantels,  nickeled  pipe, 
brass  in  sheet,  hot  air  furnaces, 
fire  place  goods.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Good weather now to sell

Watermelons  and  Lemons

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14 and  16 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

We can handle your huckleberries to your advantage.

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In our half century  business  experience  we  have  made  many customers who must 
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It will pay  you  to  consign  to  our care your eggs and 
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Lloyd  1.  Seaman  &  Co.

Established 1850 

148 Reade St., New York City

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TiZ TOBACCO.
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NEW SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

SmiLh,  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.

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WEDNESDAY,  -  ■  AUGUST  13.1902

STATE  OF  MICHIGAN ) „
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County  of  Kent 

'

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  m 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
August  6,  1902,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

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

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Mich.

COMMERCIAL  COMPETITION.

Professor Suess,  an  eminent  Austrian, 
who  is  a  scientist,  as  well  as  a  statis­
tician,  and  who  some  years  ago  wrote  a 
notable  treatise  on  the  precious  metals, 
keeps  himself  constantly informed  in  all 
matters  of  public  interest  occurring  in 
the  world,  and  on  the  occasion  of  the 
celebration  of  his  seventieth  birthday 
recently  he  entertained  some  public 
men  and  journalists  with  some  interest­
ing  comments  on  world  politics  and 
policies  generally.

is  among 

He  realizes  that  the  great  questions 
which  are  disturbing  nations  to-day 
are  how  to  keep  their  people  peaceable 
and  satisfied.  Any  financial  panic  or 
depression  in  trade  or  decay  of 
indus­
tries  that  had  previously  afforded  occu­
pation  to  the  people 
the 
greatest  evils  that  can  occur.  Any  long 
period  of  enforced  idleness  which  pre­
vents  the  people  from  earning  a 
living 
in  the  pursuit  of  their  usual  avocations 
is  a  calamity. 
In  order  to  avert  such  a 
misfortune  it  is  necessary  to  meet  every 
demand  of  trade  and  constantly  to  seek 
new  and  more  extensive  markets,  so  as 
to  keep  the  people  employed  at  fair 
wages.

In 

this  day  of  keen  competition, 
every  natural  advantage  counts  and  the 
nations  possessing  them  and  utilizing 
them  to  the  utmost  are  sure  to  outstrip 
the  less  fortunate  in  the  struggle  for 
trade. 
In  view  of  the  known  advan­
tages  possessed  by  the  United  States, 
the  Austrian  statesman  has  adopted  the 
idea  that  has  already  become  current  in 
his  country,  that  the  Continental  States 
of  Europe  will  be  forced  to  engage  in  a 
compact  to  protect  themselves  against 
the  aggressive  commerce  of  the  Ameri­
can  Republic.

He  declared  that  the  American  trust 
system,  organized  on  a  gigantic  scale 
its  movements  the
and  combining 

in 

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

it  is  a  question 

capitalists  of  the  United  States,  has  be­
come  alarming  to  Continental  Europe, 
and 
if  the  States  of 
Central  Europe  are  strong  enough  com­
mercially  and  financially  to maintain  an 
effective  defense  against  it.

This  able  thinker  declared  that  before 
long  there  would  be  a  serious  shifting 
of  the  center  of  gravity  among  the 
“ World  Powers,’ ’  and  that  this  shifting 
would  create  three  great  units  around 
which  the  weaker  powers  would  crys­
tallize  or  be  drawn  by  the  gravitating 
force  of  self-protection. 
These,  he 
said,  would  be  Russia,  America  and 
China.  Such 
interests  as  could  make 
common,  cause  with  any  one  of  these 
leading  powers  would  do  so. 
In  all 
probability  there  would  be  a  co-opera­
tion  of  the  English-speaking  nations, 
leadership  of  the  American 
under  the 
Republic.  Russia  would 
in  ali  prob­
ability  rally  several  of  the  Continental 
nations  under  her  guardianship.  As  to 
China,  its  future  was  not  set  forth,  but 
the  manipulator  of  world  powers  de­
clared  that  when  once  China  should  be 
properly  equipped  she  would  be  one  of 
the  first  of  the  World  Powers.  She  has 
the.most  capable  merchants  an’d  the 
cheapest  labor.

Great  nationalities  must  have  exten­
sive  contiguous  territory  not  separated 
by  seas,  and  must of  necessity  have  vast 
aggregations  of  people  actuated  by  a 
common  purpose.  These  each  of  the 
nations  mentioned  possess.  Of  the  three 
great  units  America  decidedly  had  the 
Its  policy  of  commercial  aggres­
lead. 
sion  was  beyond  doubt. 
It  would  be 
prudent  on  the  part  of  the  Americans  to 
keep  within  the  bounds  of  the  Monroe 
Doctrine  in  the  political  sphere,but  un­
fortunately  prudence  was  not  always  a 
decisive  factor  in  the  conduct  of  state 
affairs.
The 

strenuousness  of  commercial 
competition  and  the  necessity  for  the 
conquest  of  new  markets  and  the  con­
constantly  expanding 
summation  of 
trade  make  up  conditions  that  it 
is 
even  advisable  to  go  to  war  to  obtain. 
The  salvation  of  an 
industrial  popula­
tion  depends  on  the  maintenance  and 
extension  of  the  trade  for  its  products. 
It  must  be  done  at  any  cost.

Statistics  demonstrate  that  about  the 
safest  place,  and  one  where  there  is  the 
least  chance  of  a  person  losing  his  or 
her  life,  is  a  railway  train,  but  for  once 
the  German  government  does  not  seem 
to  place  reliance  on  figures  and  facts. 
The  state  railway  administration  has 
decided  to  maintain  ambulance  cars  at 
seventy-seven  of  the  principal  stations 
throughout  the  country.  These  cars  will 
contain  a  full  hospital  equipment,  in­
cluding  operating  tables  and  beds,  cal­
culated  particularly  to  render  every­
thing  necessary  in  the  direction  of  first 
relief.  Each  car  is  to  be  in  charge  of 
a  medical  officer,  while  all  railway  em­
ployes  will  be  required  to  be  trained  in 
the  performance  of  first-aid  duties.  The 
cars  will  be  so  located  that  none  will 
be  more  than  an  hour  and  a  half  away 
from  a  hospital,  thus  rendering  quick 
transportation  for  victims  who  require 
serious  attention.  The 
idea  of  a  hos­
pital car is  a  good  one in more ways than 
the  above.  Seventy-seven  of  them  dis­
tributed  over  the  country  would  come 
in  rather  handy  if  a  big  European scrap 
should  materialize  and 
in  which  the 
Fatherland  got  mixed  up,  and  it  is  per­
haps as  much  in  view  of  this  possibility 
as  the  rendering  of  relief  in  case  of*a 
railway  accident  that  has  prompted  the 
present  decision.

GROPING  A FTER   THE  V ITAL  SPARK.
When  the  telephone  was  invented  it 
opened  a  field  of  discovery  in  electrical 
science  which  is  going  to  prove,  if  pos­
sible,  the  most  important  in  the  entire 
range  of  that  most  indispensable  and 
remarkable  agent.

second. 

The  telephone  demonstrated  the  cap­
ability  of  electricity  to  take  up  sound 
and  carry 
it  along  at  the  same  speed 
with  which  the  electricity  itself  hurries. 
Sound  travels  through  the  atmosphere 
at  the  comparatively  slow  rate  of  1,100 
feet  a 
Electricity  passes 
through  a  wire  or  other conductor  at  a 
speed  of  thousands  of  miles  a  second. 
When  the  slow-moving  sound  is  coupled 
to  a  current  of  electricity  which  is  sent 
through  a  wire,the sound  is  carried  with 
the  electricity  and  arrives  with  it  at  the 
electricity’s  regular  rate  of  speed,  just 
as  a  tramp  who  would  otherwise  have 
to  walk  from  one  place  to  another,  by 
secreting  himself  on  the  truck  frame 
that  supports  the  wheels,  is  enabled  to 
travel  with  the  train  and  to  arrive 
with  it.

The  accepted  theory  of  the  movement 
or  progression  of  heat,  light  and  sound 
through  the  atmosphere  or  other  sub­
stances 
is  that  they  progress  by  wave 
motion.  There  is,  perhaps,  no  more 
reason  why  their  progress  should  be  the 
result  of  a  vibratory 
impulse  com­
municated  to  them  than that the progress 
should  be  directly  from  one  atom  of  the 
intervening  medium  to  another.  Never­
theless,  the  wave  theory  answers  the 
purpose,  and  as  a  part  of  the  plan  we 
must  hold  that  electricity also progresses 
by  wave  motion.

Thus  it  is  that  the  swift-moving  elec­
tricity,  being able  to  pick  up  slow-mov­
ing  sound  and  carry  it forward, is  equal­
ly  able  to  catch  on  to  any  other  entity 
is  subject  to  wave  motion  and 
which 
carry  it  on.  We  may  assume,  at 
least, 
that  if  electricity  can  so  operate  on  one 
such  entity,  it  can  similarly  affect  any 
other,  light  for  instance.

It  is  interesting  to  know  that,  follow­
ing  the  telephone,  came  the  Roentgen 
or  X  ray.  This is  a  ray  of  light  hitched 
on  to  an  electric  current  and  made  to 
penetrate  with 
it  every  substance  that 
the  electricity  can  pass  through.

Light  travels  at  a  rate  of  velocity 

lit­
inferior  to  that  of  electricity,  and 
tle 
therefore 
the  electric  energy  is  not 
needed  to  hasten  or  hurry  up  the  speed 
of  the  light  ray.  But  light  ordinarily 
can  not  pass  through  what  are  known 
as  opaque  or  dark  bodies.  But electric­
ity  can  penetrate  and  pass  through  any 
dark  and  solid  matter  which  is  known 
as  possessing  conductivity,  and  it  can 
carry  a  ray  of  light  with 
it.  Thus,  by 
means  of  the  apparatus  for  operating 
the  X  ray,  the  human  eye  is  enabled  to 
see  into  the  heart  of  dark,  solid  matter 
and  discover  its  interior  constitution  or 
condition.

infinite.  All  that 

Here  is  opened  to  the  world  a  vast 
and  most 
important  field  of  economic 
electricity.  The  possibilities  are  well- 
nigh 
is  required  is 
the  use  of  some  device  by  means  of 
which  the  vibratory  force  of  electricity 
is  communicated  to  any  other  vibrating 
entity.  The  telephone  makes  the  con­
nection  with  sound,  and  the  Roentgen 
tube  enables  the  visual  ray  to  travel 
with  the  electric  current.

The  way  once  opened  as  it  is,  the 
revelations  of  the  X  ray  will  be  enor­
mously  multiplied;  heat  will  be  con­
veyed  to  a  distant  point  and  concen­
trated  there;  the  force  of  an  explosion 
will  be 
likewise  translated  to  any  re­
in
quired  distance  and  delivered  there 

full  energy,  and  all  human emotions  and 
sensations  which  vibrate  over  the nerves 
of  a  body  here  will  be  transposed  in  all 
their  exactness  and  significance  to  per­
sons  at  distant  points.

Life  is  not  matter,  nor is  it  a  property 
of  matter. 
It  is  a  force  which  operates 
on  matter  and  vitalizes  it.  This  vital 
force  can  be  coupled  with  electricity 
and  made  to  co-operate  with  it  to  ac­
complish  the  most  potential  and  im­
portant  results. 
If  we  are  ever  to  dis­
cover  the  secret  of  vitality,  it  will  not 
be  from  the  study  of  soapsuds  or  any 
other  dead  matter,  but  from  the  study 
of  forces  and  their operation.  The  vital 
force,  like  electricity,  is  everywhere  in 
and  around  us,  but  we  know  not  whence 
it  cometh  or  whither  it  goetb  when  it 
has  thrilled  our  nerves. 
It  is  power, 
It 
and  power  is  from  a  divine  source. 
is 
t‘>at 
forms,  that  fashions  and  shapes  all  to 
its  ends.  It  uses  force,  and  it  is  impos­
sible  to  distinguish  the  electric  force 
from  the  vital  force,  the  operations  of 
life. 
which  we  call 
It  sparkles  and 
coruscates  with 
light  as  does  the  vital 
force. 
It  reveals  with  an  interior  light 
as  if  there  were  in  every  human  crea­
ture  a  spark.  There 
is  such  a  spark. 
It  is  commonly  called  the  soul.

the  only  thing  that  creates, 

A  Kansas  farmer,  with  that 

thrift 
which  characterizes  the  average  Jay- 
hawker,  has  hit  on  a  novel  scheme  for 
increasing  the  sweet-tasting  product  of 
that  model  worker,  the  bee,  and  has 
written  Dr.  Howard,  the  head  of  the 
United  States  division  of  entomology, 
for  such 
offering  the  same  presumably 
consideration  or  honorarium  as 
it  may 
be  worth. 
In  the  course  of  his  com- 
munings  with  nature  he  has  discovered 
that  the  honeybee  lays  up  her  store  only 
during  the  day,  and  that  when  night 
casts  her  pall  over  the  earth,  Kansas  in 
particular,  she  has  to  stop  her  labors, 
whether  tired  or not.  Now  this  genius 
from  the  land  of  the  wheat  blossom  has 
an  idea  that  if  a  suitable  cross  could  be 
had  between  the  bee  and  the 
lightning 
bug  that  the 
succeeding  generation 
would  be  provided  with  a  kind  of 
portable 
lamp,  thus  en­
abling  her  to  continue  her  work  after 
old  Sol  had  turned  his  face  towards  the 
other  side  of  this  planet.  It is a brilliant 
idea,  even  for  Kansas,  but  unfortunatly 
there  are  physiological  reasons  making 
its  consummation  impossible.  Even  if 
this  were  not  so,  the  country  has  seen 
sufficient  of  these  hybridizing  experi­
ments.  The 
introduction  of  the  gypsy 
moth  into  the  New  England  States  was 
due  to  some  experiments  for  improv­
ing  the  breed  of  silk-worms.  The  cost 
to  New  England  up  to  date  has  been 
something  immense,  and  the  cost seems 
fated  to  continue  for  many  years  to 
come.

incandescent 

“ I  am  getting  to  be  an  old  man. 

I 
have  not  many  years  to  live. 
If  I  ac­
complish  all  I  have  set  out  to  do  things 
must  move  with  celerity. ”   Such  were 
the  words  of  James  J.  Hill,  one  of  the 
greatest  railroad  men  America ever  pro­
duced,  during  a  recent  business  trip.  It 
is  a  noticeable  fact  that  the  men  who 
have  done  most  in  the  world usually feel 
that  most  remains  to  be  accomplished. 
They  who  have  seen  and  seized  the  op­
portunities  of  the  past  are  the  ones  who 
see  those  that  lie  before.  Cecil  Rhodes 
breathed  their  spirit  in  his  last  words, 
“ So  much  to  do,  so  little  done.”

Old  ways  and  old  methods  may  have 
worked  fifty  years  ago,  but they  will  not 
do  to-day.

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

9

TH E  MORAL,  SENSE  IN  MAN.

There  are  two  ways  of  accounting  for 
the  origin  of  the  moral  sense  in  man. 
Jefferson  expresses  the  prevailing  view 
when  he  calls  it  “ as  much  a  part  of 
man’s  nature  as  the  sense  of  hearing 
and  feeling  and  may  be  strengthened 
by  exercise.”   But  a  school  of  modern 
thinkers 
following  Herbert  Spencer 
deny  that  the  sense  of  right  and  wrong 
is  inborn  and  regard  it  as  a  product  of 
experience,  strengthened  and  confirmed 
by  heredity.

It 

is  certain  that  among  primitive 
men  morality  could  have existed only  in 
a  very  low  and  rudimentary  form,  like 
their  language,  art  and  government. 
The  human  race  was  not  set  up  at  first 
with  a  full  set  of moral  laws.  Probably 
the  faculty  of  distinguishing  between 
good  and  evil,  truth  and 
falsehood, 
justice  and  injustice,  belongs  to  the  hu­
man  mind,  although 
it  is  awakened  or 
brought  into  activity  only  by  the  ex­
periences  of  man  in  society,  and  there 
may  be  all  degrees  of  this  wakefulness. 
Thus  we  see  that  moral  ideas  and  rules 
of  conduct  grow  out  of  the  constitution 
and  conditions  of  humanity  just  as  na­
turally 
invention, 
science,  agriculture  and  politics.

industry, 

as  do 

Suffering  has  been  one  of  the  great 
teachers  of  moral  law.  Men  gradually 
found  out  that  certain  courses  of  con 
duct  produced  pain  and misery and loss. 
Before  the  laws  of  cause  and  effect  are 
understood,  the  child  that  bruises  itself 
against  a  chair  regards  the  chair  as  an 
active  agent,  and  in  some  vague  way  it 
was  at  once  supposed  that  the  pain  re­
sulting  from unwise conduct was  a  direct 
infliction  from the unseen powers.  There 
was  thus  an  interplay  of  moral  and  re­
ligious  impressions  and  a  belief  in  re 
wards  and  punishments  expanded 
into 
ideal  heavens  and  hells.

But  no  group  of 

intelligent  beings 
live  together  without  discovering 
could 
that 
individual  and  collective 
their 
safety  and  welfare  depended  upon  do­
ing  some  things  and refraining from  do­
ing  others.  Thus  there  would  gradually 
be  produced  a list of things required  and 
forbidden.  This  would  be  the  germ  of 
a  code  of  laws;  and  such  a  code  must 
have  come 
into  operation  ages  before 
the  invention  of  writing.  The  list  of 
things  would 
include  whatever  forms 
and  observances  were  supposed  to  keep 
the  family  or  tribe  in  friendly  relations 
with 
living  rulers  and  unseen  beings. 
Hence  sprang  customs  which were bind­
ing.  Their outward  effect  was  regula­
tive ;  their  inward  effect  was  educative.
The  superior  races  and  the  higher 
civilizations  did  not 
spring  wholly 
from  warlike  qualities  or  the  ability  to 
give  and  take  hard  knocks.  One mighty 
factor  of  progress  was  the  acceptance  of 
law  as  a  rule  of  right— the  submission 
to  discipline,  whether  domestic,  mili­
tary  or  civil.  Moral  discipline  was  par­
ticularly  powerful  because  it  was  an  ex­
ercise  of  each  man’s  personal  will  upon 
himself.  When  a  man  compels  himself 
to  act,  or  to  refrain  from  acting,  he  is 
no 
longer  an  animal  or  a  slave;  he  is 
a  king,  for  he  rules  himself.

Moral  actions  spring  from  a  purpose; 
they  imply  a  choice  and  the  transaction 
is  performed  within  the  mind.  There 
is  no  morality  in  winking  and  breath­
ing  and  sleeping;  we  cannot  help  it. 
So  with  other  actions  which  proceed 
from  unreasoning  impulse.  Suppose  we 
detect  ourselves  tapping  on  the  table. 
Up  to  this  moment  the  action  has  had 
no  moral  quality.  Then  we  discover 
that  the  tapping  causes  annoyance  to 
another  person.  If  we  continue  tapping

immoral. 

because  we 
like  to  annoy,  the  action 
becomes 
If  we  refrain  from 
a  desire  not  to  annoy,  the  action  be­
is  a  miniature 
comes  virtuous.  This 
of  human  history. 
In  “ the  ages  before 
morality,”   to  use  Bagehot's  phrase, 
men  tapped  away on  the  world and,  per­
haps,  tapped  with  clubs  on  each  other’s 
heads,  with  no  moral 
intention  what­
ever.  But  gradually  they  learned  to  dis­
tinguish  between  conduct  that  was  hurt­
ful,  selfish  and  cruel  and  conduct  that 
was  useful,  just  or  kind,  and,  by  the 
practice  of  self-control  and  deliberately 
using  their  power  to  help  or  to  hurt, 
they  became  morally  good  or  bad.

are 

Indian 

After  a  set  of  customs  or  rules  had 
once  become  established,  morality  con­
sisted  in  conformity  in  living in accord­
ance  with  usage. 
If  a  lad  enters  a shop 
to  learn  a  trade,  he  watches  to  see  how 
the  tools  are  used  and  how  the  material 
is  handled  by  those  who  have  already 
learned. 
If  he  goes  to  school,  he  trusts 
to  the  teacher  and  the  text  book. 
If  he 
ventures  into  company,  he  takes  his  cue 
as  to  manners  and  deportment  from  the 
behavior  of  his  seniors.  To  violate  the 
usages  would be rude,  disorderly,  wrong. 
In  a  similar  way  did  custom  give 
law 
In  savage  tribes 
to  ancient  society. 
is  still  the  only  law;  they  treat 
custom 
all  violation  of 
it  as  a  crime.  Major 
Powell  once  spoke  at  a  large  gathering 
“ Who 
on 
ethics. 
the 
wicked?”   he  asked. 
“ The  bad  man  is 
he  who  has  failed  to  sacrifice  to  his 
tutelar  god  the  spleen  of  the  last  elk 
killed;  or  he  who  slept  on  his  back  the 
night  before  the  battle,  when  the  gods 
have  taught  him  to  sleep  on  his  belly.”
The  original  meaning  of  the  words 
“ moral”   and  “ ethical”   was  simply 
conformity  to  the  customs.  But  the 
customs  were  really 
laws;  they  were 
rooted  in  the  life  of  society  and  were  so 
vigorously  enforced  by  the 
common 
conscience  that  no  one  could  violate 
them  without  making  himself an outlaw. 
To  reuse  a  homely  simile,  to  break  the 
customs  was  like  breaking  the  hoops  of 
a  barrel— it  put  in  peril the whole  struc­
ture  of  the  commonwealth.  And  society 
was  true  to  itself  in  cherishing  this 
in­
stinct,  for  its  very  existence  depended 
upon  the  unity  of  the  people  ;  and  their 
bond  of  unity  was  found  in obedience  to 
the  laws,  which 
included  the  observ­
ances  of  religion.

Forty  million  packages  of  seeds  will 
be  sent  out  by  the  Agricultural  Depart­
ment  this  year  to  farmers  all  over  the 
country  on  lists  furnished  by  Senators 
and  Representatives.  The  number  of 
seeds  that  will  be  contained  in  these 
packages  will  run  up  into  the  billions 
and  they  will  weigh  about  1,000  tons. 
This  will  be  the  most  extensive  seed 
distribution 
in  the  history  of  the  De­
partment  of  Agriculture.  Heretofore 
there  has  been  more  or  less  complaint 
about  the  quality  of  the  seeds  sent  out, 
many  of  which  failed  to  grow.  This 
year  all  contractors  have been done away 
with  and  the  Department  has  made 
its 
purchases  in  the  seed  markets  by 
its 
own  experts,  who  have  tested  all  seeds 
is  also  being 
bought.  More  attention 
given  this  year  to  the  selection  of 
im­
proved  varieties  of  farm  and  garden 
seeds.  Each  Senator,  Representative 
and  delegate 
in  Congress  will  have  to 
his credit 12,000 miscellaneous packages, 
each  containing  smaller  packages  of 
five  kinds  of  seeds. 
In  addition  each 
will  have  500  packages  of  novelties— 
that  is,  new  or  little  known  varieties  of 
peculiar  merit—and  each  will  have  500 
packages  of  flower  seeds.

THE  DECADENCE  OF  MUSIC.

The  time  has  come  when  honesty 
compels  the  admission  that  the  divine 
art  of  music  has reached  a  period  of  de­
cadence  among  civilized  peoples.  Sin­
gularly  enough,  while  musical  culture 
has  always  been  supposed  to  be a  criter­
ion  of  national  refinement,  the  present 
degradation  of  the  art  is  coexistent with 
unusual  advancement  in  all  other  direc­
tions.  Literary  accomplishment  is  be­
coming general and is  reaching  to higher 
and  higher  standards.  Science  and  in­
vention  seem  to  be  nearing  a  culminat­
ing  point. 
In  statesmanship  and  social 
organization  there  is  marked  progress. 
Education  is  pervading  the  masses  and 
lifting  the  human  race  to  new  planes 
of  achievement  and  of  action.  In  sculp­
ture  and  painting  genius  is  bursting  the 
bonds  of  convention  and 
leading  the 
way  to  brilliant  conquest.  The  whole 
world 
is  joining  in  a  democracy  of  in­
dustrial  art,  and  West  and  East  are  ex­
changing  their  secrets  of  handicraft. 
Ingenuity  is  lifting  the  drudgery  of  the 
toilers,  setting  hands  free  for  finer  and 
better  uses.  Original 
investigation  is 
searching  the  mysteries  of  the  deep  and 
codifying  the  laws  of  the  heavens.  So­
cial  usages  are  undergoing  a  process  of 
refinement,  and the call is  insistent  for a 
stricter  justice  and  a  higher  morality. 
All  the  world  is  marching  on.

Music  alone  lags  behind to  a  rag-time 
movement.  It  keeps  unseemly  company 
and  makes  of  itself  a  vehicle  of  vulgar­
ity,  pandering  to  the  lowest  tastes. 
In 
its  present  popular  form  it  is  a  distinct 
demoralizing  influence,degrading  where 
it  should  elevate,  corrupting  where 
it 
should  ennoble.

The  backward  movement  in music be­
gan  some  thirty  years  ago,  when  weakly 
sentimental 
instrumental  compositions 
like  “ The  Maiden’s  Prayer,”   by  force 
of  their  emotional  pretensions,  blinded 
the  public  to  their  lack  of  the  essential 
quality  which  makes  true  music,  and 
catchy,  nonsensical  productions 
like 
“ Captain  Jinks”   and  “ Shoo  F ly,”   laid 
hold  upon  popular  fancy.  Once  started 
on  the  downward  path,  with  no  great 
national  crisis  to  repeat  the  influence  of 
the  Civil  War  and stimulate the  demand 
for  grander  themes  and  more  stirring 
notes,  it  was  the  old  story  of  facilis  de­
scensus.  The  steeps  of  Parnassus  are 
hard  to climb,  but  it is  only necessary to 
loose  the  hold  to  glide  easily  down  the 
walls  that  lead  to  Plutonian  dominions. 
To-day  a  classical  concert,  lacking  the 
stamp  of  fashion,  will  command  a 
sparse  audience,  while  the  announce­
ment  of  a  programme  filled  with  coon 
songs  and  cakewalks,  or  musical  “ spe­
cialties” — that  blanket-title 
in­
iquity—always  insures  a  crowded house. 
True  artists  are  making  a  gallant  stand 
against  the  tendency  of  the  times,  but 
the  number  of  those  who  weakly  capit­
ulate,  furnishing  bad music  on  the  same 
principle  that  greedy  pharmacists  serve 
deadly  poison  to  doubtful  customers  or 
dairymen  dilute  the  milk  they  peddle, 
is  greater.

of 

It  is  not  probable  that  this degeneracy 
is  more  than  a  passing  phase  in  the his­
tory  of  an  art  as  old  as  civilization 
it­
self,  and  which  was  regarded  by  the  an­
cients  as  a  means  of  expression  for  the 
loftiest  themes. 
It  may  never be  pos­
sible  to  educate  the  populace  to  an  ap­
preciation  of  severe  classical music,  but 
it  should  be  possible  to  divorce  vulgar­
ity  from  melody  and  to  stimulate  popu­
lar  taste  to  the  enjoyment  of  what  is 
pure  and  wholesome.  Ballads  and  songs 
which  appeal  to  human  sympathy,  to 
patriotism,  to  the  heart’s  finer  senti­

ments,  never  wane 
in  popular  favor, 
and  no  sane  soul  fails  to  respond  to  the 
musical 
lilt  which  expresses  a  healthy 
merriment.  A  resolute  front  on the part 
of  musicians  and  managers,  a little  gen­
erous  forbearance  on  the  part  of  a  mis­
guided  public,  would  rescue  suffering 
Music  from  her  present  unhappy  plight 
and  enable  her  to  take  her  place  in  the 
procession  which  is  moving  forward 
in 
quest  of  a  higher  development.

BEST  MONEY  FOR  THE  TOWN.

Several  New  England  localities  have 
been  celebrating  Old  Home  Week,  and 
among  them  is  the  city  of  Salem,  Mass. 
At  the  formal  exercises  there  the  other 
day  the  address  of  welcome  was  de­
livered  by  John  F.  Hurley,  the  mayor 
of  the  city.  He 
improved  the  oppor­
tunity  to  digress  and  to  deliver  a lecture 
of  admonition.  He  pointed  out  how 
in 
the  good  old  days  Salem  used  to  be  a 
great  place  and  that  the  sea  captains 
who  made  their  home  there  were sturdy, 
wide  awake  and  enterprising,  and  then 
he  had  this  to  say:

lazy  drones  who,  being 

But  unfortunately  for  Salem  their  de­
scendants  do  not  follow  the  footsteps  of 
their  illustrious  ancestors.  The  busy 
bees  of  industrious  life  were followed by 
the 
idle  and 
proud,  scorned  to  continue  the  work  of 
their  fathers.  They  were  satisfied  to 
live  on  money  which  they  never  earned 
and  were  so  unfavorable  to  commercial 
enterprises 
in  their  desire  that  Salem 
should  remain  an  aristocratic  and  ex­
clusive  community  that  a  commercial 
decline  naturally  followed.

It 

That,  at  least,  has  the  merit  of  being 
plain  and  easily  understood.  The sting 
was  taken  out  it  a  little  by  the  sugges­
tion  that  there  was  an  improvement  no­
ticeable  and  that  the  time  was  coming 
when  Salem  would  be  quite  a  place 
again. 
is  true  of  Salem,  as  it  is  of 
every  other  place,  that  the  best  money 
for  the  town  is  that  which is  earned  and 
not  inherited.  The  dollar  that  is  earned 
in  the  life  of  the  possessor  is  an  active, 
energetic,  wide  awake  dollar,  anxious 
to  do  something  to  multiply  itself.  The 
dollar  that  is  inherited  is  usually timid, 
retiring  and  afraid  to  venture. 
It  is 
quite  satisfied  to  earn  3  per  cent.,  espe­
cially  pleased  if  it  can  be  invested  in  a 
Government  bond,  and  never  helps  to 
turn  new  wheels  or  build  up  cities.  For 
all  practical  purposes,  so  far  as  a  town 
is  concerned,  the  dollar  earned  is  worth 
five 
inherited.  The  dollar  earned  has 
courage,  while  the  dollar  inherited  is  a 
coward.  The  dollar  earned  is  diligent 
and 
industrious.  The  dollar  inherited 
is  indolent.  That  city  which  has  the 
most  earned  dollars 
is  the  one 
which  will  be  busiest,  which  will  have 
the  most  mills  and  factories.  The  place 
inherited  dollars 
which  has  the  most 
will  have  the 
the 
broadest  streets,  the  highest  prices  and 
the  poorest  stores.  Nobody  would  object 
to  having  as  many  inherited  dollars  as 
possible,  but  for  the  public  welfare  the 
earned  dollar  is  far  preferable.

finest  residences, 

in 

it 

The  United  States  mint  at  Philadel­
phia  turns  out  pennies  at  the  rate  of 
4,000,000  per  month and the Government 
is  said  to  make  a  handsome  profit  out 
of  the  business.  The  copper  blanks, 
out  of  which  the  pennies  are  made,  are 
purchased  at  the  rate  of  $7,300  per  mil­
lion.  That  is,  the  Government  obtains 
for  7  3-10 cents  the  blanks  which  after 
stamping  are  transformed  into $1  worth 
of  pennies.  What  becomes  of  the  mil­
lions  of  pennies  coined  each  year  is  an 
unsolved  problem.  Probably  they  go  to 
the  same  place  that the  millions  of  pins 
manufactured  annually  go  to.

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

Clothing

Styles  to  Prevail in Ready-Made Clothing.
It  has  only  been  within  the  past  year 
and  a  half  that  styles  for  the  coming 
seasons  could  be  safely  proclaimed  un­
til  within  two  or  three  weeks  of  the 
opening  of  the  season,  when  the  tail­
ors’  fashion  plates arrived.  These  plates 
were  held  back  until  the  last  possible 
minute.

To-day  the  styles  shown  in  samples 
for  ready-made  clothing  three months in 
advance  of  the  incoming  season  are  not 
only  absolutely  dependable,  but  are 
thought  by  some  progressive  minds  to 
somewhat 
influence  the  complexion  of 
the  fashion  plate  which  is  issued  at  the 
opening  of  a  season.  Many  will  un­
thinkingly  scoff  at  the  fact  in  that state­
ment. 
It  is  nevertheless  true  to  a  very 
great  extent.

The  skilled  fashion  designers,  high- 
salaried  men,  employed  to-day  by  the 
manufacturers  of  the highest class ready­
made  clothing,  devote  their  entire  study 
to  the  trend  of  styles  and  exercise  the 
most  cultivated  skill  and  brain  energy 
in  designing  fashions  to  meet  the  wants 
which  their  experience  assures  them 
will  materialize. 
Is  there  any  more 
reason  then  why  this  class  of  artists 
should  not  set  the  styles  instead  of  one 
or  two  whose  judgment  can  scarcely  be 
more  acute  or  positive?

It  must  be  acknowledged  that  the 
ready-made  clothing  of  to-day 
is  not 
only  the  peer of  the  tailor-made,  but  is 
forging  to  the  front.

A 

look  at  the  sample  display  of  the 
high  class  manufacturers  impresses  the 
observer  by  its  genteel  richness,  while  a 
close  scrutiny  emphasizes  the  merit  of 
its  quality.  Never  in  the  history  of 
ready-made  clothing  have  such  high 
qualities 
in  fabrics  been  shown,  nor 
greater  judgment  exercised  in  avoiding 
any  feature  that  would  savor  of  the 
Extremes  have  been 
“ freakish." 
shunned  and  permissible 
innovations 
are  very  few.

The  rather  long,  comfortable  overcoat 
will  prevail,  and  undoubtedly  be  as 
great  a  favorite  as 
last  year.  At  the 
close  of  last  season  the  reign  of  the long 
coat  was  written  up  in  these  columns 
and  the  prediction  made  that  the  de­
mand  for  it  would  continue  unabated 
into  this  coming  season,  but  that  the 
yokes,  pleated  backs,  raglan  shoulders 
and  departures  of  a  similar  nature 
would  be  entirely  eliminated. 
They 
have  been,  and  to  the  betterment  of  the 
long  coat.  This 
is  now  an 
established  fixture,  and  will  not  go  out 
of  style  for  seasons.  Anyone  who  has 
worn  one,  or  even  tried  one  on,  is  in­
stantly converted  into  a  staunch  admirer 
of  this  comfortable,  warm  garment. 
It 
is  strictly  a  winter  coat  and  is  a  great 
protection  in  any  kind  of  weather.  Be­
sides, 
is  dressy  and  appropriate 
for  wear  for  any  occasion  or  social func­
tion,  from  business  to  wear  with  even­
ing  dress.  No  garment  has  ever  held 
greater  sway.

long  coat 

it 

For  fall  the  boxy  topcoat  will  be  the 
favorite  with  men  who  dress  well,  yet 
Its  length  has  been 
not  extravagantly. 
shortened  and 
its  details  broadened, 
making  it  look  to  be  the  warm  garment 
it  really  is.

In  sack  suits  it  seems  that  not a detail 
lacking  to  make  them  as  near the 
is 
it 
is 
ideal  or standard  of  perfection  as 
possible  to  bring  them.  There 
is  no 
stiffness  or  “ set  look,"  which  merchant 
tailors 
say  characterizes  ready-made 
clothing.  This  is  due  to  the  wonderful

advancement  made 
in  the  make-up  of 
the  garments.  The 
leading  clothing 
manufacturers  have  spared  neither  ex­
pense  nor  energy  in  the past two years to 
bring  about  shape-retaining  garments. 
Their  results  have  stood  the  test  of  two 
or  three  seasons  and  are  to-day  satis­
factory  successes.

The  style  and  cut  of  the  sack suits  for 
fall  and  winter  are  particularly  good 
this  season.  The  shoulders  are  well 
built  up,  yet  not  square  or  chesty  look­
ing  on  the  wearer.  They  are  still further 
modifications  from  the  military,  yet  re­
tain  that  desired  athletic,  manly  con­
tour.  The  skirts  are  belled,  or,  rather, 
the  waist  line  is  taken  in  more  than  in 
last  season's  suits.  The  flare  ends  very 
abruptly  and 
intended  to  stand  out 
prominently.

The  trousers  are  very  conservatively 
less  amplitude  over  the 
cut  and  show 
hips.  The  general 
lines  are  straight. 
This  distinct  style  was  brought out early 
this  spring  and  much  favored. 
It  is 
thought  it  may  be  an  advance  step  to­
ward  bringing  back  the 
large,  baggy 
trousers—of  22^-inch  knee.  Whether 
it  is  or  not  is  now  a  question.

is 

The  continued  growth  of  the  demand 
for the  best  ready-made clothing and the 
selection  of  qpiet,  genteel  styles  indi­
cates  that  a  better  class  of  men  are  now 
patrons  of  the  ready-made,  and  that 
heretofore  indifferent  dressers  are  real­
izing  the  real  economy  in  buying  qual­
ity.

In  looking  back  over  the  issues of this 
paper  since  April  and  studying  the 
styles  brought  out  by  the  many  manu­
facturers,  one  finds  a  general  sameness 
in  the  various  classes  of  garments  that 
should  be  convincing  proof  that  these 
results,  from  the  minds  of  skilled  de­
signers,  will  be  the  prevailing  styles.  A

Ellsworth & Thayer  M’nTg  Co.

Milwaukee, Wis.

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 of Franklin St.

Detroit office and salesroom  131  Jefferson Avenue

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their wearing qualities.
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lOQKat the fit eVerq  time. 
lOOKat our sizes, and see if theq 
are  not ful I  and true  to  size. 
lOOKto the  interest of qour custom 
er,  and  see  that  he gets good values 
so that  he will  come to  v|ou  again. 
We make  these  goods  in our factories  and  will  be pleased 
to receive a sample order and test  the truth of our statements.

Manufacturers of

Great Western  For and  Fnr Lined Cloth Coats 

THE

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rip Kind.

We want  agent  In  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

B.B. DOWNARD, General Salesman.

61 0 63  MARKET

38  8r 40 I PUIS  &T.

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The

Peerless Manufacturing 

Company.

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

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

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

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.

pique  and  basket  weave,  each  an  inch 
broad,  and  especially  designed 
for 
pleated  fronts.

The  fetching  character  of  domestic 
shirtings  can  best  be  judged*from  state­
ments  made  to  the  writer  and  verified 
in  bis  presence  by  order  books,  which 
is  that the  agents  representing  the  lines 
specifically  described  are  well  sold  for 
the  spring  of  1903,and  have  begun  work 
on  their  collections  for  the  fall  of  next 
year.

The  Panama  Hat.

W a s a  P an am a hat.

T h e re  w as a  m an w hose chief desire 
H e  said:  “ T h a t’s w h a t I  m ost require;
I t is th e  th in g  I m ost adm ire;
I ’ll have to beg o r buy o r h ire 

M e a  P an am a h a t.”

In  a P anam a hat.

H e  envied every m an he saw  
H e  gazed a t w indow  sh o w s w ith  aw e
A n a  sig h e d :  “ T hey cost a heap, but, p sh a w !
I  pretty n ear w ould b reak the law  

F o r a  P an am a h a t.”

A b o u t a P an am a hat.

H e  talked to every m an and  m aid 
N o  c h at o f m arriage he essayed,
N o r w eath er, crops, o r tru sts o r trad e;
J u s t:  “  H o w  I ’d lik e to be arrayed 

In  a  P an am a h a t!”

O ver a P an am a h at.

H e  soon fell ill;  he w orried so 
A n d  w hen he lay in sickness low
T hey asked him  w here h e ’d like to go.
“  W h erev er,”  he said,  “ they can  show  

M e a  P an am a h a t!”

W ith  no P an am a hat.

A t last his feeble sp irit fled—
T h ey  preached a  serm on o’e r his head,
In  w hich they  hoped, th e speaker said,
T h a t he w ith  w in g s w as  g arn ish ed —

A n d  a  P an am a h at.

O n a  P an am a hat.

T ak e w arn in g  from  th is lesson tru e 
D o n ’t let y o u r lon g in g s  p ester you
U n til yo u ’re sick and sad and blue;
B ut,  if you m ust, g o  dare an d  do 

F o r a  P an am a h at.

in 

In  tlie  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

Is  something more 
than a  label  and  a 
name— it’s a  brand 
of  popular  priced 
clothing with  capi­
tal, a d v e r tis in g , 
brains, push,  repu­
tation  and  success 
behind it—a  brand 
with unlimited pos­
sibilities and profits 
in front of  it.
The  profits  can be 
yours.

Our $5.50, $7.00 and $8.50 lines have  been  “class 
leaders" for years.  Progressive methods and success 
have enabled us to add  QUALITY to our whole  line.
$3-75  to  $1500— Men’s  Suits  and  Overcoats—a 
range  which  includes  everything  in  popular  priced 
clothing.

Boys’ and Children’s  Clothing,  too—just  as  good 

values as the men’s.

Looks well— wears well—pleases  the  customer- 

pays the  dealer—and you want  it.

“A  new suit for every unsatisfactory one. ”

mm

1 § P

Detroit Office 

Doom  19, 
Kan ter 
BuildiDg.
M. J. Kogan 
In charge.

great  variance  of  styles  would 
indicate 
that  the designer  for  each  house  was  ex­
perimenting,  but  the  general  consensus 
of  opinion,  as  expressed  in  their  styles, 
shows  that  all  have  studied  the  fashion 
tendency  and  have  designed  their  prod­
ucts  after  the  most  careful  research  and 
reasoning.  These  men  have  access  to 
the  same  source  of  information  that  the 
several  have  who  for  years  have  dic­
tated  the  fashions  to  the  custom  tailor. 
Who,  then,  are  the  real  authorities  on 
styles,  the  several  or  the  many,  who 
have  equal  opportunities  to  stu dy  the 
wants  of  the  dressy  men?—Apparel 
Gazette.

Shirting  Styles  For  Spring.
Exceptionally  large  business 

is  al- 
leady  booked  in  spring  shirtings.  The 
season’s  collections  of  styles  are  fresh 
and  natty— replete  with  newness.  The 
style  changes  in  colorings,  patterns  and 
fabrics  are  so  very  radical  and  mark  so 
distinctive  a  breakaway  from  the  shirt­
ing  vogues  of  the  present  retail  season 
that  they  are  crowding  out  all  that  is 
passe.

Business 

in  foreign  woven  lines  has 
been  increasing  gratifyingly. 
Imported 
madras  goods  are 
resplendent  with 
originality  and  beauty.  The  variety  of 
ideas  expressed 
in  new  collections  is 
very  great,  and  when  one  is  told  that 
style  tendencies  run  largely  to  stripes, 
the  wonder  is  that  so  much  novelty  can 
be  worked  out  of  so  simple  a  thing  as 
stripes.  However,  styles  are  not  con­
fined  to  stripes  and  the  assortment  of 
fancy  woven  figures  is  even  more attrac­
tive  on  account  of  the  ingenuity  of  the 
designer  and  loom  work.

In  color  schemes  white  grounds  pre­
dominate,  and  patterns  are  wrought  in 
delicate  tints  of  pink,  green  and  blue. 
Black  on  white  is  the  undoubted  leader, 
and 
into  this  combination  a  variety  of 
color  effects  is  introduced,  such as  green 
and  black  on  white  grounds,  red  and 
black,  and  so  forth,  mostly  two  and 
three  tone  patterns.

Plain  shades  for the  body  of  the  shirt 
and  fancy  bosoms  with  collars  to  match 
are  the  coming  shirt  vogue.  For  such 
fancy  bosoms  an 
importer  is  showing 
fancy  Russian  cord  stripes,  also  fancy 
broche  madras  in  fetching color arrange­
ments  on  white  grounds.
idea 

in  fashionable 
spring  shirtings 
is  cellular  madras  in 
mercerized  effects,  color  stripes  on 
is  firmly  bound  in 
while.  The  mesh 
the  weaving,  so  that  there 
is  stability 
to  the  fabric,  the  line  in  question  being 
of  the  best  foreign  make.

The  very  ultra 

Originality  and  chic  are characteristic 
features  of  spring  collections  of  domes­
tic  shirtings 
in  both  the  woven  and 
printed  fabrics.  Styles  run  largely  to 
small  geometrical  figures  sparsely  scat­
tered  over  white  grounds.  These  pat­
terns  are  mostly  in  black  on  white,  but 
there 
is  also  a  generous  assortment  of 
two  and  three  color schemes,  which  are 
brighter  and  more  pleasing  to  the  man 
who  likes  a  dash  of  color  as  distinctive 
from  the  extreme  nattiness  of  black  and 
white  purely. 
In  these  color  combina­
tions  on  fancy  woven  and  corded  per­
cales  there áre blended brown  and green, 
browns  in  two  shades—'light  and  dark— 
black  and  red.  The  reds,  greens  and 
blues  are 
indefinite  tones—far  richer 
than  the  true  colors  themselves.

A  special  line  of  domestic  oxfords  in 
printed  stripes  and  mercerized  stripes 
is  winning  friends  for  itself  and  busi­
ness  for the  agent.  The  same  may  be 
said  of  a  fancy  assortment  of  oxford 
fancies  woven 
in  alternating  stripes  of

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

Shoes  and  Rubbers

Many  Fine  Theories  Which  Are 

'Not 

There  are 

Practicable.
lots  of  beautiful  theories 
about  fitting  and  selling  shoes,  many  of 
which,  if  they  could  be  carried  out  in 
practice,  would  make  shoe  buying  and 
shoe  wearing  a  sort  of picnic,  instead  of 
a  trying  ordeal  to  customers.

Of  course,  some  general  standard  of 
procedure  must  be  fixed  by  the  shoe  re­
tailer  for  his  own  guidance  in  adapting 
the  new  shoe  to  the  old  foot;  and  in 
fixing  bis  standard  he  is  usually  influ­
enced  by  that  eternal  fitness  of  things 
which  shall  conduce  to  the  welfare  of 
the  feet  that  are  to  wear  the  shoes he fits 
upon  them.

“ Always  try  to  sell  your  shoes  large 
enough,"  says  the  old  shoe  man.  This 
is  excellent  advice,  and  so  logical  that 
he  who  fits  shoes  will  readily  assent  to 
i t ;  for  a  shoe  that 
is  too  small  at  the 
start  will  never  bring  down  blessings  on 
the  head  of  the  man  who  sold  it.

But  the  same  authority  says  (what 
every  experienced  retailer  is  saying 
to  himself)  :  “ Some  people  will  com­
plain  that  you  fit  their  shoes  too  large." 
Now,  there  you  are,  and  one  of  our 
cherished  theories  has  “ gone  glimmer­
in g"— has  met  the  enemy,  and  we  are 
theirs;  has  been  shattered  by  the  stub­
born,  practical  owner  of  the  foot  to  be 
fitted.

It  takes  two  to  make  a  bargain,  in 
fitting  as  well  as  in  selling  shoes;  and 
the  foot  that  “ pays  the  freight”   always 
has  the  deciding  vote.  We  could  have 
done  better  by  that  willful  foot  and 
saved 
it  pain,  only  for  the  second  one 
in  the  bargain.  But  it  was  not  to  be ; 
so  the  shoe  wearer  will  get  the  pain 
and  punishment  of  a  tight  shoe,  and  we 
will  reap  the  whirlwind  of  his  wrath 
every  time  it  pinches  him.  His  ill- 
fitting  shoe  will  be  a  Nemesis  to  follow 
his  steps  and  revenge  itself  upon  him.
Just  for  a  half  size  in  length  and  one 
better  in  width  of 
looks,  that  foolish 
woman  has  stepped  between  us  and  our 
pet 
large 
“ Serves  her  right," says  the 
enough." 
indignant  young  clerk. 
In  his  incon­
siderate  resentment  of  her  insistence 
upon  shoes  that  prove  a  curse  to  her, 
he  forgets,  or  rather  does  not  know,  for 
he  is  green  and  inexperienced  yet,  that 
the  tight  shoe  of  the  customer,  even  if 
selected  by  herself,is  the  shoe  retailer’s 
boomerang.

theory,  “ sell  your  shoes 

It  will  fly  back, 

figuratively,  and 
around  the  man  who  sold 
i t ;  so  that 
what  serves  her  right  will serve  the  shoe 
man  wrong.  The innocent  will  be  com­
pelled  to  suffer  with  the  guilty;  for  she 
will,  very  likely,  go  elsewhere  to  have 
her  proud  feet  pinched  the  next  time.

But  the  aforesaid  authority  goes  back 
doggedly  to  bis  original  theory,  and 
declares:  “ It  is  far  better  to  sell  shoes 
a  little  large  than  too  sm all."  So  it 
is 
and 
if  you  get  your  customer  to  say, 
“ just  so,"  then  there  will  be  no  hitch 
in  the  transaction.  But  will  she? 
In 
nine  and  one-half  cases  out  of  ten  each 
mother’s  daughter  of  them  will  declare 
emphatically  against  the  “ little  too 
large”   condition;  and  the  remaining 
one-half  is  only  half  persuaded.

“ Now when  you  fit  them,see  that  they 
do  not  hurt.”   You  can  not  see  that, 
it  either;  and  the  only  person 
nor  feel 
it  pinches  is,  like 
who  knows  where 
Br’er  Remus'  rabbit,  "lay in ’ 
low,  and 
ain’t  sayin’  nothin’. ”   You  wouid  like 
to  have  some  sort  of  an  X-ray  invented 
for  detecting  pain,  so  that  you  could 
locate  the  painful  spot;  and,  in  your

determination  to  prevent  her  from  hav­
ing  such  shoes,  you  could  then  add  so 
much  to  the  shoe  pain  by  dexterous 
pressure  of  the  band  as  to  cause  her  to 
relinquish  them.

“ Some  people,"  says  a  writer  on 
footwear,  “ will  sooner  give  away  a  pair 
of  shoes  than  wear  them  when  they 
pinch."  A  great  many  persons  wili  not. 
Some  of  the 
latter  would  rather  force 
them  back  upon  the  retailer  if  they 
could,  even 
if  they  have  been  partly 
worn.  Others  would  fall  back  upon  the 
deadly shoe stretcher, under whose power­
ful 
influence  something  has  to  yield. 
Few  resort  to  the  donation  dodge.

If  this 

In  order  to  placate  the  little woman on 
whose 
feet  you  have  easily  slipped  and 
laced  up  a  pair  of  the  “ little-too-large" 
brand,  tell  her  that  a  slip  insole  will 
adjust  matters  to  a  nicety. 
in­
formation  does  not  bring  a  derisive 
smile  she  will be  a  woman  a  little  out of 
the  ordinary.  She  will  probably  tell  you 
the  shoe  that  will  contain  an  insole  and 
her  foot  is not  the  sort  she is looking for.
Then,  again,  she  may  demand  with 
prospective  directness  how  this will pro­
vide  for  the  worn  shoe  after  it  becomes 
stretched.  The  sarcastic  young  clerk 
would, 
inconsiderately,  recommend  a 
second  slip  sole  for this  unseen  emerg­
ency ;  but  the  older  head  knows  that 
this  would  be  fatal to  a  sale,  even  if  the 
superfluous  room  in  the  new  shoe  were 
not.

“ surgical 

treatment” —the 

And  with  the  tight  shoe  there 

is  that 
heroic  remedy  which  the  junior  clerk 
calls 
ir­
resistible  stretcher.  But  woe  unto  the 
shoe  that  is  slightly  put  together  under 
this  brutal  strain !  There is,  perhaps,  a 
spot  where  the  stitching  has  run close  to 
the  edge  of  the  upper,  or a  defective 
thread  which  won’t  stand  such  treat­
ment,  and  then  the  retailer  is  a  loser,or 
else  there  are  damages  to  adjust.  But, 
after  all, why  should  any  intelligent  cus­
tomer  want  a  shoe  that  has  to  be  forced 
to  fit  her  foot,  when  there are others  that 
are  just  right?

irresolution, 

Curious,  when  we  come  to think  of  it, 
how  shoes  are  sold  at  all  to  some  peo­
ple.  There  are  so  many  conditions  to 
fit besides the feet.  There are prejudices, 
captiousness, 
the 
“ something  for  nothing”   mania  to  con­
tend  with,  besides  the  physical  labor  of 
getting  the  minimum  size  shoe  on  the 
maximum  size  foot.  Then  the  set  of  the 
thing,  the  looks of the  thing  and  the  feel 
of  the  thing;  and  lastly,  but  not 
least, 
the  paramount  question  of  price.

and 

All  of  which  lead  straight  to  the  sub­
ject  of  “ Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Shoe 
Clerks." 
If  there  is any  class  of  toilers 
who  need  a  half  holiday  each  week  dur­
ing  the  summer  more  than  the  slave  at 
the  footrest,  they  have  not  yet  been  dis­
covered,  or  put  in  their  claim ;  and  the 
sordid  retailer  who  refuses  to  his  clerks 
a  breathing  spell  on  regular  holidays, 
or  who  grudgingly  grants  them  one-half 
of  such  days,  will  not  be  likely  to  yield 
them  a  half  day  each  week.

Things  are  working  this  way,  how­
is  not  far  distant 
ever,  and  the  time 
when  the  overworked  shoe 
salesman 
will  have  this  much  as  bis  right,  and 
not  as  a  favor.  Think  of  it;  a  whole, 
half  day,  besides  Sunday,  when  you 
will  not  have  to  button  or  lace  a  shoe 
except  your  own!

Now,  the  arbiter  of  this 

important 
question 
is  not  the  merchant  or  his 
clerk,  but  the  great  trading  public,  who 
can  quietly  bring  relief  so  desirable  to 
the  shoe  salesman,  by  simply  making 
their  necessary  purchases 
little 
earlier.  This  may  seem  like  a  dream

a 

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your store  for  a  pair  of  shoes,  one  that  you 
know to  be  particularly  hard  on  shoes,  just  put 
a pair of

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proaching  when  such  a  line  as  ours  will  meet  the  de­
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prevent  painful  motions  of  the  foot.  No 
rubbing  or  other  interference  is  neces­
sary,  as  the  repeated  hot,  moist  appli­
cations  will  assist  nature  in  repairing 
the  trouble.  These  are  among  our  un­
avoidable  sufferings.  The  tight  shoe 
pain 
is  avoidable.— E.  A.  Boyden  in 
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Recent  Changes  Among  Indiana  Mer­

chants.

of  Arcadia  in  some  instances;  but  if the 
good  natured  public  will  co-operate,  it 
is  easily  possible.  Curious,  too,  that 
the  same  public which makes  life  a  bur­
den  to  the  clerk,  and  of  whom  a  rich 
man  once  said,  “ The  public  be  d—d !”  
can  bring  balm  of  Gilead  to  this  clerk.
It  is  a  big  change  from  the  Egyptian 
sandal  before  referred  to,  which  was 
clapped  on  by  the wearer herself without 
the  aid  of  foot  mirror  or  a  buttonhook, 
to  the  present  sort  of  foot  toggery in  our 
stores.  The 
latter  requires  the  com­
bined  efforts  of  a  stalwart  clerk,  the 
heroic  fortitude  of  the  victim  fitted,and 
sometimes  a  shoehorn  and  buttonhook. 
The  old  sandal  was  a  snap,  and  no 
trouble  about  fitting.

But  we  have changed  all that primeval 
simplicity  of  form  and  scantinesss  of 
material,  and  the  modern  methods  of 
fitting  shoes  are  a  good  deal  more  com­
plicated  than  those  which  prevailed  a 
thousand  years  ago.

And  then, the  manner  of  buying shoes. 
Why,  the  modern  dealer  would  regard 
the  ancient  shoemaker’s  ease  of  trans­
ference  of  footwear  from  his  shelves  to 
the  feet  of  customers  as  a  delightful 
pastime,  involving  so  little  care  and 
labor  as  to  be  a  safeguard  against  ner­
vous  disorders  and  gray  hairs  and 
wrinkles,  and  the  clerk  would  find  it  so 
agreeable  and  restful  as  to  withdraw  his 
claim  upon  a  half  holiday  each  week 
during  the  summer.

But  those  ‘ ‘ good  old  times”   are  gone 
to  stay.  The  cumbrous  ox-cart  of  the 
Nile  dweller  and  the  sandal  have  been 
replaced  by  the  electric  car  and  the 
wonderfully  beautiful  modern shoe.  The 
latter  does  not  go  on  with  a  thong  and 
a  couple  of  knots,  or  with  the  click  of 
a  snap  hook,  like  the  harness  on  a  fire 
It  gets  onto  the  modern  female 
hoise. 
foot  with 
infinite  pains,  mental  and 
physical,  and  then  the  chances  are  that 
five  or  six  more  must  try  their  luck  be­
fore  the  right  one  is  found  to  meet  all 
the  conditions  ot  fit,  tastes  and  finances 
of  the  woman  who  is  most  deeply  con­
cerned  in  the  transaction.

The  feet,  of course,  have other  troubles 
besides  those  occasioned  by  ill-fitting 
shoes.  Although  our  feet  are  wonder­
fully  tough  and,  on  the  whole,  quite  re­
liable  members,  nevertheless  a  very 
slight  mishap  will  put  them  out  of  com­
mission  and  cause  great pain and incon­
venience.  A  miscalculated  step  will 
throw  the  weight  of  the  body  where  it 
does  not  belong,  and  the  foot,  in  trying 
to  prevent  a  fall,  is  forced  to  receive  a 
strain  never  intended  for  it.

are 

There 

two  ways  of  treating 
sprained  ankles,  both  of  which  have 
their  advocates.  Cold  water  and  cold 
lotions  are  resorted  to  by  some  persons, 
while  others  regard  hot  applications  as 
the  better  way.  Sprains  of  the  feet  and 
ankles  are  sooner  relieved  by  the  latter 
in  nine out of  ten  cases;  and  doctors  are 
abandoning  the  old-fashioned  treatment 
by  cold  applications  as  rather  harmful.
Take  water  as  hot  as  it  can  be  borne 
by  the  skin  and  some  thick 
flannel 
cloths  to  use  for  the  fomentation.  Dip 
your  flannel  and  wring  out,  and  just 
before  applying  it  each  time  pour  on  a 
little  hot  water,  then  clap  it  upon  the 
tender  place  as  hot  as  it  can  be  tome. 
This  is  an  alterative,  and  unlike  a  cold 
application,  it  soothes  and  reduces  the 
swelling  of  the  strained  muscles  and 
cords  of  the  foot.  Repeat  until  the  pain 
is  relieved.

When  the  hot  flannels  can  not  be 
changed,  as  during  sleep,  have  the 
affected  part  wrapped  tightly 
in  band­
ages  of  the  flannel,  as  the  pressure  will

Loogootee—Arvin  &  Klee  continue 

the  grocery  business  of  Arvin  Bros.

Marion—Philip  Lyons  &  Co.  is  the 
new  style under  which  the clothing busi­
ness  of  Philip  Lyons  is  continued.

Newcastle— E.  S.  Murphy  has  pur­
jewelry  stock  of  W.  G. 

the 

chased 
Hillock.

North  Webster— Garber  &  Mock, 
general  merchandise  dealers,  have  dis­
solved  partnership,  the  former  succeed­
ing.

Poseyville— French  &  Boyd  have  sold 
their  furniture  and  hardware  stock  to 
Yarbroug  &  Ball.

Selvin—A.  Wolsey 

in 
the  grocery  business by D.  W.  Whitting- 
hill.

is  succeeded 

Shoals—A.  O.  Hawkins  has  purchased 

the  bakery  of  Peterson  &  Marsey.

Summitville—Jones  &  Tomlinson, 
furniture  dealers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership.  The  business  is  continued  by 
Jones  &  Young.

Tippecanoe—Geo.  Swihart  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  brother  in  the 
grocery  business  of  Philip  &  George 
Swihart.

Lafayette— The  dry  goods  firm  of  the 
Loeb  &  Hene  Co.  has  been incorporated 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.  The  d i­
rectors  are  Solomon  Loeb,  Samuel 
Hene  and  Julius  L.  Loeb.

Amboy—Samuel  W.  Cook  has  retired 
from  the  hardware  business  of  Stan- 
combe  &  Cook.

Clover—Powell  &  Albright,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  is  continued  under  the 
style  of  John  Powell &  Son.

Columbia  City—E.  E.  Ricker  suc­
ceeds  the  Columbia  Co.  in  the  grocery 
business.

Delphi—S.  I.  Wert  has  removed  his 

boot  and  shoe  stock  to  Rochester.

DePauw—C.  L.  Coppa  succeeds  Jos. 

Peters  in  the  confectionery  business.

Elkhart— Robert  H.  Owen  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grocery  business  of  Owen  &  Swain.

Greensburg— Frank  Batterton  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Cbas.  Schuh.

Greensburg— S.  C.  Schoffner  has  dis­

continued  the  drug  business.

Huntington—The  capital  stock  of  the 
in­

Comstock  Novelty  Co.  has  been 
creased  to  $35,000,

Indianapolis—The  capital  stock of the 
Reiffel  Packing  &  Provision  Co.  has 
been  increased  from  $10,000  to  $35,000.
Indian  Springs—Mrs.  Martha  A. 
Wampler  has  sold  her  general  mer­
chandise  stock  to  Pershing  &  Inman.

LaPorte—Mr.  Peterson,  of  Peterson  & 
Swanson,  grocers,  has  purchased  the  in­
terest  of  bis  partner  and  will  continue 
the  business  in  his  own  name.

Lawrenceburg-----H.  Tashman 

has
closed  out  his  clothing  stock  and  retired 
from  trade.

Lebanon—Samuel  Storm,  grocer,  has 
taken  a  partner  under  the  style  of Storm 
&  Henderson.

Ligonnier—Wm.  E.  &  D.  E.  Cald­
well  continue  the  grocery  and  bakery 
business  formerly  conducted  under  the 
style  of  Braden  &  Caldwell.

That’s the  story  from  beginning 
to  end.  A  shoe 
is  either  the 
glory  or  shame  of 
its  maker.
Give  him  the  best  leather  in  the 
world  to  work with;  give  him  his 
honest  wage  and  steady  work, 
and  require  only  that  he  do  his 
best  and  the  results  are  shoes 
upon  which we  stamp  our  trade­
mark  with pride and gratification.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logic  &  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Stores,  Homes, Churches,  Factories,

Streets,  Parks,  Etc.

Average running expense about 

15 to 30 cents a  Month 

A 20 foot room can be  lighted  by  one  Bril­
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wanted everywhere.

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Brilliant  Gas  Lamp  Company

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D ry P o o d s

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

little 

time. 

lever  with  which  to  work. 

Staple  Cottons—The  principal  feature 
of  interest  in  the  market  since  our  last 
report  has  been 
lower  quotations  an­
nounced  on  several  of  the  leading  lines 
of  wide  sheetings.  As  a  rule,  these 
prices  are  merely  a  public  announce­
ment  of  quotations  that  have really  been 
given  for  some 
It  has, 
it  hard  for  sellers  in 
however,  made 
every  line  of  goods  and  given  the  buy­
ers  a 
In 
other  lines  of  staple  cottons  so  far  there 
have  been  no  open  changes,  although 
according  to  the  buyers 
they  expect 
them  daily.  Grown  sheetings  and  drills 
reflect  the  characteristics  of the  past  two 
weeks.  The  home  demand  is  dull  and 
little  doing  for  export.  The 
there 
general  tone 
inclined  to  be  easy. 
Bleached  cottons  are  quiet  and  so  far 
show  no  actual  change  in  either demand 
or  price.  Coarse  colored  cottons  are 
quiet  and  fairly  steady in  tone,  although 
is  evident  that 
in  some  directions  it 
special  contracts  are 
likely  to  receive 
special  concessions.

is 

is 

increase 

Prints and Ginghams— The print  divi­
sion  of  the  market  has  been  quiet  all 
the  week.  There  have  been  few  buyers 
doing  any  business  and  even  they  have 
made  but  small  selections.  There  has, 
however,  been  some 
in  the 
mail  order  business,although  not  of  any 
great  consequence.  Fancy  prints  have 
been  purchased 
in  very  small  quanti­
ties. 
reorders  are  coming  to 
band  for  special  finishes  and  full  stand­
ard  grades,  but  for  other  lines  there  has 
little  business.  Staple  indigos, 
been 
reds,  etc.,  have 
shown  a  moderate 
amount  of  orders  and  the  leading  makes 
of  mourning  prints  are  said  to  be  well 
sold  up  and  steady.  Ginghams  are  firm 
throughout  on  account  of  the  small  sup­
ply,  which  at  present  does  not  meet  the 
demand.

Some 

Linings—The  market  for  cotton  lin­
ings  has  been  quiet  this  week  in  all  di­
rections,  less  business  being  transacted 
it  is  reported  than  the  recent  average. 
Kid-finished  cambrics  have  been  one 
of  the  lines  to  show  open  reductions,  al­
though  these  have  been  quoted 
in  sev­
eral 
instances.  Silesias  and  percalines 
are  quiet  and  somewhat  irregular  and 
offers  on  more favorable terms have been 
made  to  buyers  but  without  bringing 
practical  results. 
The  clothing  trade 
have  bought  sparingly  of  lines  that  in­
terest  them  and  prices  show  no  change.
Wool  Goods— The  past  week  has  not 
served  to  materially  change  conditions 
in  the 
initial  wool  and  worsted  dress 
goods  market.  The  business  that  has 
come  forward  has  consisted  for  the  most 
part  of  modest  reorders  for  cheap  and 
medium-priced 
fair 
sprinkling  of  fancies  for  skirt  and  suit 
uses.  The  initial  market  has  not  served 
to  draw  many  buyers,  either of  the  cut­
ting  up  or  the  jobbing  fraternities,  and 
such  as  have  put  in  an  appearance  have 
operated  along  careful  and  well-beaten 
lines.  The  reorders  that  are  coming 
forward  from 
jobbers  are  simply  of  a 
filling-in  character  and  may  he  taken  to 
indicate  along  which  lines  the  retailer 
has  so  far  pursued  his  purchases  in  a 
fair  manner.  The  jobber  shows  little 
disposition  to  make  any  great  provision 
at  this  time  for the reorder  business  that 
he  hopes  to secure,  but  is  simply  oper­
ating  with  a  view  to  keeping  his  stock 
good.  There 
is  no  special  feature  to 
the 
jobber’s  business  on  wool  and 
worsted  goods  at  this  time.  While  he  is

staples,  with  a 

continually  working  off  goods the outlet, 
he  finds,  is  not  a  large  one  and  seem­
ingly  will  not  assume  larger  proportions 
until  things  begin  to  crystallize 
in  the 
fall  retail  market.

it  cooled  off  again 

Underwear—Business  has  been  excel­
lent  and  has  shown  that  the  public  were 
guided  by  the  calendar  rather  than  the 
thermometer.  The  few  very  warm  days 
early 
in  spring  were  enough  to  make 
this  business  comparatively  lively,  and 
although 
it  was 
thought  that  this  summer  would  be  a 
pretty  warm  one.  The  fact  that  stocks 
are  not  large 
is  well  borne  out  by  the 
few  “ sales"  of  underwear  that  are  an­
in  the  various  parts  of  the 
nounced 
country. 
In  a  like  manner  the  jobbing 
trade  has  shown  much  less  inclination 
than  usual  to  bold  cut  price  sales.  The 
cool  summer,  however,  is  undoubtedly 
the  cause  of  the  slower  movement  of  the 
new  spring  goods.  Some  buyers  have 
undoubtedly  purchased  practically  all 
of  their  spring  1903  lines  and  further 
purchases  on  their  part  will  be  only  for 
small  lots  here  and  there  to  fill  in  styles 
and  sizes  or  because  particularly  attrac­
tive  prices  are  offered ;  still,  the  expec­
tation  is  that  the  season  will  be  a  rather 
long  one  and  the  buying  pretty  evenly 
distributed  over  a  good  period.  Buyers 
who  are 
in  town  have  complained  a 
number  of  times  about  being  disap­
pointed 
in  regard  to  deliveries  last 
spring,  but  many  of  these  complaints 
were  caused  by  the  orders  being  placed 
with 
irresponsible  parties,  those  who 
took  contracts  at  almost  any  price,  and 
when 
it  came  to  delivering  the  goods, 
they  filled  orders  on  which  they  secured 
the  best  terms  first  and  let  the  others 
come 
in  as  they  could,  sometimes  not 
delivering  them  at  all.  The  last  two  or 
three  seasons  have  shown  that  buyers 
have  taken  more  care  in  placing  their 
orders  on  this  account,  and  this  season 
the  result  will  be  even  more  marked 
than  before.  Those  who  have  failed  to 
live  up  to  agreements  in  the  past  sea­
son,  will  undoubtedly  find  that  prices 
alone  will 
induce  a  very  small  com­
plement  of  orders.  They  may  get  some 
orders,  and  they  doubtless  will,  but 
those  who  place  orders  with  them  will 
duplicate  the  orders  with  other  houses 
on  which  they  can  depend.  If  both  con­
tracts  are  filled  they  will  get  a  portion 
of  the  goods  at  very  small price.  If  they 
are  not  filled  they  will  not  suffer  for  it. 
Of course  there  is  always  another  reason 
for  late  deliveries,  and  that  is  naturally 
the  fault  of  the  buyers,  who  wait  and 
wait  to  see  if  they  can  not  make  a  little 
better  deal  until  they  finally  place  their 
orders  so  late  that  it  is  next  to  impos­
sible  to  get  them  at  anywhere  near  the 
time  wanted,  but  this  certainly  should 
be  no  cause  for  complaint.  There  has 
been  a  big  business  on  the  cheap  bal- 
briggans,  which  was  the  case  a  year 
ago,  and  to  some  extent  at  the  expense 
of  ribbed  goods.  Nevertheless  ribbed 
goods  have  received  a  fair  quantity  of 
orders.  There  are  small  assortments  of 
fancies  to  be  seen  almost  everywhere, 
but  they  are  not  considered  as  likely  to 
be  great  factors  in  the  spring  business. 
Medium  and 
lower  grades  are  much 
scarcer  than  the  fine  grades.

Hosiery— Hosiery  buyers 

in  town, 
while  they  have  placed  a  fair number of 
orders  for  next  spring,  are  undoubtedly 
fighting  shy  of  the  market  in  general. 
This  section  of  the  market  will  be  a 
slow  one.  Many  of  the  buyers  who 
come  to  town  to  look  over the  lines  and 
place  small  orders  have  now  returned 
to  their  homes  and  will  do  the  largest 
part  of  the  business  by  mail.  They  ex-

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fall  trade. 

W e  hereby  call  Special  Attention  to  our  stock  of  goods  for  £ 
£
Each  department  of our  house  will  be  found  well  equipped. £ 
with  complete  lines  of  goods  selected  with  the  greatest  care,  £ 
many  of  them  under  our  exclusive  control. 
£
£

Our  facilities  for  serving  the  trade  are  now  unsurpassed. 

P.  St.eket.ee <Sb Sons, 

Wholesale Dry Goods,  Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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It’s  not  a  bluff 
but  a  fact

W e can  show you  as good  an  assortment 
of  Sweaters  as  you  care  to  look  at— all 
“ top  notchers”  for  value.  Prices  as  fol­

lows:  Men’s,  per dozen, 

$4.50 
$15.00 
$24.00 

$9.00
$22.50
$36.00

Boys’,  per dozen,

$4.50 

$7.00

$12.00

Also  a  line  for  the  little  fellows  at  $6.00 
per  dozen,  sizes  16 to 24.

Grand  Rapids  Dry  Goods  Co. 
Exclusively Wholesale

Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

Formerly Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.

Fall  Line  of  Ready  Made  Clothing

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IS

pect  to,  and  certainly  will,  place  more 
orders  because  they  have  not  purchased 
anywhere  near  enough  to  supply  their 
trade.  Two  or  three 
lines  of  hosiery 
claim  to  be  sold  up,  but  several  are sold 
ahead 
in  a  way  that  will  keep  the  fac­
tories  running  for  some little time.  Most 
of  the  prices  quoted  for  next  spring  are 
on  last  year’s  level,but  the  same  irregu­
larity  does  not  exist.  Sellers  are  firm 
in  their  present  quotations  and prefer  to 
wait  further  developments  rather  than 
accept  lower  prices.  Fancies  are  evi­
dently  taking  a  strong  position  again 
for  the  spring,  particularly 
in  open­
work  effects,  both  for  women  and  men. 
Emhroiderd  half  hose  are  expected  to 
be  good  factors,  judging  from  the  orders 
which  they  received.

Carpets—The  carpet  trade  continues 
active,  with  no  immediate  prospects  of 
any  sudden  change.  The  mills  have 
business  on  their  books  now  that  will 
take  many  weeks  to  fill,  and  it  is  no  un­
usual  case  where  the  entire  season’s 
production  has  been  contracted  for. 
In 
Kensington  and  other  Philadelphia  car­
pet  mill  centers  the  looms  are  working 
more  than  the  full  quota  of  time and  the 
same  can  be  said  of  the  large  Eastern 
mills.  The  carpet  trade  has  doubtless 
seldom  seen a  more prosperous condition 
of  things  than  they  are  experiencing  at 
the  present  time.  Help,  especially  fe­
male  help,  in  the  large  cities,  has  be­
come  scarce,  owing  to  the  good  times. 
The  male  members  of  the  family  are  all 
at  work  earning  good  wages,  which does 
not  make  it  necessary  for  the  other  sex 
to  find  employment.  In  the mill sections 
of  Philadelphia  it  is  not  unusual  now  to 
see  notices  posted  at  the doors  of  nearly 
every  mill  asking  for  female  help  for 
nearly  all  departments 
in  which  they 
are  usually  employed.  Mill  owners  are 
making  a  general  complaint  in  relation 
to  this  and  are  quoted  as  saying  that  as 
soon  as  dull  times  make  their  appear­
ance  again,  one  can  find  all  the  help 
In  jobbing  circles  the  demand 
needed. 
for  carpets 
is  beginning  to  increase. 
Retailers  and other  dealers are  laying  in 
their  fall  supply  to  quite  a  large  extent. 
Traveling  men  report  that  “ things  are 
coming  their  wav’ ’  and  that  it  takes  lit­
tle  effort  to  get  their  trade  to  an  inter­
ested  and  even  a  buying  point.  The 
retailers’  stocks  are  in  a  pretty  fair con­
dition  and  the  left-over  pieces,  it  is 
thought, are not  of  a  very  heavy  volume. 
The  advanced  prices  so  far  have  been 
received  with  little  protest  and  the buy­
ing  movement  has  not  been  visibly 
in  market 
affected  by  the 
increase 
values.  Good  orders  for 
the 
three- 
quarter  goods  have  been  obtained,  not 
only 
in  the  East,  but  also  in  the  South 
and  West,  as well.  Tapestries  and  Brus­
sels  seem  to  be  the  leaders  thus  far,  al­
though  the  Axminsters  are  not  far  be­
hind.  Wiltons  and  the  five-frame  body 
Brussels  are  receiving  their  share  of  the 
business,  but  it  is  plainly  seen  that  the 
spring  season  saw  a  larger  demand  for 
these  fine  goods  than  is  the  case  at  the 
present  time.  While  as  a  general  thing 
the  market  is  more active now than then, 
the  tendency  of  the  demand  has  been 
towards  a  slightly  cheaper article.  Some 
of  the  cheaper  lines  contain  some  very 
attractive 
looking  fabrics,  which  nat­
urally  attract  attention,  but  nevertheless 
the  best  policy  in  all  cases  is  to  buy  the 
best  that  one’s  purse  can  afford. 
In  in­
grains  the business thus  far  placed in the 
jobbers’  hands  has  been  of  a  very  satis­
factory  nature.  The  Philadelphia  weav­
ers  are  running  their  mills  at full capac­
ity.  Weavers  are  now  able  to  get  fairly 
satisfactory  rates,  but there  is  no  telling

long 

how 
it  will  be  when  another  ad­
vance  in  values  will  be  necessary.  With 
the  shortage 
in  deliveries  which  the 
yarn  trade 
is  experiencing  to-day  still j 
better  prices  are  likely  to  be  seen  if  the 
present 
for  any 
length  of  time.

continues 

situation 

Rugs—The  rug  weavers  in  and  about 
Philadelphia  continue  to  feel  the  effects 
labor  troubles.  Efforts  were 
of  the 
made  to  settle  the  controversies  and 
in 
fact  some  of  the  mills  were  able  to  run 
for  a  day,  but  now  things  are  in  as  bad 
a  position  as  ever.  The  mill  men  con­
tinue  to  hold  out  and  they  say  that  they 
will  not  grant  any further concessions.

A   Modern  Vacation.

Inclination,
Deliberation,
Consultation,
Investigation,
Hesitation.
Anticipation,
Recreation,
Navigation,
Piscation,
Balneation.
Confabulation,
Communication,
Information,
Calculation,
Computation,
Exclamation,
Expostulation,
Indignation,
Lachrymation,
Explanation,
Capitulation,
Reconciliation,
Osculation.
Preparation,
Elation,
Exhilaration,
Alteration,
Procrastination,
Obfuscation,
Vexation,
Reconsideration,
Disputation,
Arbitration,
Propitiation,
Revocation,
Humiliation,
Exultation  ,
Negotiation,
Resignation.
Embarkation,
Destination,
Realization,
Perambulation,
Exploration,
Disapprobation,
Consternation,
Lamentation,
Mortification,
Tribulation,
Interrogation,
Equivocation,
Denunciation,
Gesticulation,
Placation,
Perspiration,
Deprecation,
Prevarication,
Desperation,
Determination,
Renunciation,
Liquidation,
Vociferation,
Imprecation.
Re-embarkation,
Termination,
Vacation.

Aluminum Money

Will In cru se Your Business.

Cheap and Effective. 

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How
About
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Overcoats?

If  you  do  not  carry 
them  in  stock we think 
it  would  be  a  good  in­
vestment  for  you.

They  are  the  most 
garment 

satisfactory 
for  out-of  door wear.

Brown  &  Semer 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  “ Imperial”

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We also Manufacture 

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From  Lowest Grade of Gasoline

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210 Kinzie St., Chicago, III.

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H ard w are

Possible  and  Probable  Effects  of Mercan­

tile  Consolidation.

A  mercantile  consolidation  is  often­
times  confounded  with  the  so-called  as­
sociations,  combinations 
and  trusts, 
which  have  many  times  been  formed 
and  to  no  great  good.  While  it  may  be 
one  and  all  of these,  it  is not necessarily 
so.  The  latter  exist  oftentimes  because 
of  agreement  only;  the 
interests  and 
units  of  which  they  are  composed,while 
temporarily  adherent,are  not necessarily 
coherent  and  unified,  as  they  should  be.
I  am  dealing  solely  with  mercantile 
consolidations,  which  means 
in  plain 
English  many  concerns  made  into  one ; 
and  in  the  course  of  my  remarks  I  shall 
not  give  the  feature  of  over-capitaliza­
tion  more  than  a  passing  notice. 
I 
fully  realize  the  danger  therefrom  and 
that  we  must  expect  more  or less serious 
results;  still 
if  consolidations  of  this 
nature  are  to  play  an  important  part  in 
the  commercial  history  of  the  future, 
as  I  believe  they  are,  the  fact  that  they 
were  over-capitalized  at  the  outset  will, 
be  merely  an  incident.

For  the  past  ioo  years  or  more  every 
department  of  commerce  and  industry 
has  been  undergoing  an 
evolution; 
within  the  past  decade  the  changes have 
come  so  thick  and  fast  that  it  has  re­
quired  all  the  ingenuity,  brains,  fore­
sight  and  nerve  energy  of  the  present- 
day  American  to  keep  pace  with  them ; 
in  every  mine,  in  every  mill,  in  every 
work-shop  the  processes  are  continually 
changing  and  everywhere,  per  man  and 
per  machine,  our  product  is  far  in  ad­
vance  of  what  it  has  ever  been  before.
While  carrying  out  this  economic pol­
icy 
in  our  departments  of  production, 
which  we  have raised  to  a  higher  stand­
ard  of  efficiency  than  was  ever  dreamed 
of  in  the  past,  we  have  neglected,  so  to 
speak,  to  inaugurate  an  equally  eco­
nomic  and  satisfactory  policy 
in  our 
methods  of  distribution.  We  have  been 
studying  to  produce  wisely  and  well. 
We  have  not  taken  the  precaution  to 
fortify  ourselves  in  the  field. 
I  do  not 
mean  that  our  selling  departments  have 
been  inefficient;  I  do  not  mean  that  we 
have  not  put  forth  every  energy  to  place 
our  product  in  the  markets  of the world ;
I  do  not  mean  that  we  have  left  a  sin­
gle  stone  unturned  whereby  we  might 
have  been  able  to  further  our  interests 
in  this  direction;  but  I  do  mean  that 
the  underlying  principles  are  entirely 
wrong.

We  have  been  in  the  habit  of  adopt­
ing  a  cut-throat  policy,  so to  speak, with 
our  competitors.  We  have  deviated  en­
tirely  too  far  from  the  live  and  let  live 
plan.  We  have  not  been  satisfied  with 
our  share,  but  have  been  determined  to 
to  get  the  other  fellow’s  share  as  w ell; 
and,  with  the  first  weakening  of  the 
market,  with  the  first  signs  of  a  busi­
ness  depression, 
a 
wild  scramble  for  trade;  prices  have 
been  slaughtered,  lines  have  been  un­
warrantably  extended,  previously  un­
productive  territory  has been  ransacked, 
and  the  markets  glutted  regardless  of 
price.

there  has  been 

fear  of 

From  the  effects  of  this  demoraliza­
tion  it  has  taken  years  to  rally,  and  the 
deadly 
its  recurrence  has  con­
tinually  retarded  our  recovery.  These 
periods  of  depression  have  invariably 
been  followed  by  periods  of  prosperity 
and,  while  experience 
should  have 
taught  us  the  lesson  so  thoroughly  that 
our  commercial  and  industrial  equilib­
rium  might  haye  beep  preserved,  it  has

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

so  far  failed  to  do  so.  Now,  to  day,  in 
the  early  dawn  of  the  twentieth century, 
which,  could 
it  have  been  depicted  to 
our  forefathers,  would  have  appeared 
little  short  of  a  miracle  to  them,  and 
while  riding  on  the  crest  of  a  wave  of 
prosperity  the 
like  of  which  has  never 
before  touched  American  shores,  is  it 
to  be  supposed  that  we  should  be  con­
tent  to  let  well  enough  alone  and  not 
endeavor  at  least  to  guard  against  a 
possible  re-currence  of 
the  dangers 
and  disasters  which  have  so  often  fol­
lowed  our  prosperous  eras  in  the  past? 
Most  certainly  not.

We  are  facing  to-day  peculiar  condi­
tions  and  the  aggressive  policy  of.the 
American  producer  is  astonishing  the 
world.  Everywhere  are  old  factories 
being  doubled  and  new  factories  being 
built,  assortments  are  being  broadened, 
lines  brought  out,  and  this  great 
new 
mass  of  energy  has  wrought  itself 
into 
a  mighty  dynamo  of  human  activity, 
the  sparks  from  which  have  penetrated 
every  nook  and  corner  of  the  globe.

The  policy  of  aggression  has  gone  on 
by 
leaps  and  bounds;  our  avenues  of 
distribution  have  been  multiplied,  until 
every  city,  town  and  hamlet  has  been 
canvassed  and  recanvassed,  over  and 
over  again;  we  have  poured  millions 
into  advertising  matter  and  scattered  it 
all over  the  world ;  we  have spent money 
with  a  free  hand in  order  that the Amer­
ican  producer and  his  wares  might  not 
for  one  moment  be  lost  sight  of.  Now, 
while  not  questioning  this  policy  of  ag­
gression  and  dissemination  under  such 
conditions  as  now  exist,  it  is  sometimes 
difficult  to  draw  the  line  between  wis­
dom  and  extravagance.  For the  present 
alone,  perhaps, 
the 
world  is  busy  and  the  ceaseless  hum has 
itself  to  one  of  universal  har­
tuned 
is  only  when  the  discord 
mony. 
It 
comes  and  the 
little  waves  do  beat 
against  themselves  and  throw  the  whole 
world  out  of  tune  that  we  shall  need  to 
stop  and  ponder  well.

it  matters  not; 

to  our 

Do  not  we  often  wonder  why the same 
economic  policies  which  are  carried  out 
in  our  departments  of  production  are 
not  extended 
distributing 
bureaus? 
is  easy  to  imagine  where 
so  many  traveling  salesmen  come  from, 
and,  if  I  have  heard 
it  once,  I  have 
heard  it  a  thousand times in  the  last five 
years,  “ How  do  so  many  retail  dealers 
exist?”

It 

is  everywhere 

It  is  in the  distribution of  our  product 
more  than  anywhere  else  that  there 
is 
room  for  improvement.  The  economic 
evolution  which 
so 
marked  is  hardly  noticeable  here.  We 
are  spending  dollars  where  we  used  to 
spend  cents,  and  even  our  percentages 
Is  it  then  more  than 
have 
increased. 
natural  that,  in 
looking  around  for  an 
anchor  well  to  windward,  the  wisest 
heads  of  our  country  and  of  the  world 
should  have  decided  to  inaugurate  these 
great 
consolidations,  hoping  thereby 
not  only  to  eliminate  evil tendencies but 
to  effect  economies  which  would  not 
otherwise  be  possible?

£

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Jansing Michigan.

Bement
Peerless
Plow

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

Rement Plows
Tu r n   Th e  FArth.

W e  make  it  our  business  to  see that  our agents 

have the  exclusive  sale  of  Peerless  Plow  Repairs.

I  am  told,  gentlemen,  that  in  the  city 
of  Brooklyn,  in  a  single  block  wherein 
live  fifty-two  families,  the  total  con­
sumption  of  milk  per  day  is  fifly-eight 
quarts  and  it  takes  forty-two  milkmen 
to  deliver  it.

it. 

Now  if  twenty  men  are  doing  to-day 
the  work  that  could  be  accomplished  by 
one,  let  us  save 
If  twenty  tons  of 
advertising  matter  are  distributed  and 
accomplish  only 
the  results,  which 
would  be  accomplished  by  one  ton  of 
advertising  matter  properly  distributed, 
let  us save  that also.  Let  us,  while  con-

EBemenfsSons 

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

IT

tinuing  our  policy  of  aggression,  steer 
clear  of  the  shoals  of  extravagance.

installed  during 

The  old  theory  that  the  introduction 
of  labor-saving  methods  and  machinery 
would  necessarily  mean 
labor  unem­
ployed 
is  a  pure  fallacy.  There  is  not 
labor  enough  in  this  country to-day,  and 
what  would  we  do  if  it  was  not  for the 
labor-saving  machinery,  much  of  which 
has  been 
the  past 
twenty-five  years  under  more  or  less 
protest?  Let  us  not  allow  ourselves  to 
be  blinded  by  the  popular  clamor  and 
led to  believe  that  mercantile  consolida­
tions  are  made  entirely  for  evil.  They 
are  not.  They  are  but  the  natural  evo­
lution  of  our old  system  of  distribution, 
and  although  still  in  their  infancy  1  be­
lieve 
in  their  growth  and  development 
they  will  assume  shapes  and proportions 
not  conceived  of  to-day,  and  although 
because  of  the  lack  of  wisdom  on  the 
part  of  those  who  dictate  and  direct 
their  policy  they  may  meet  with  public 
disfavor  on  every  hand,  and  if  the  sur­
plus  water  which  goes  to  make  up  their 
capitalization  may  have  to  evaporate  or 
be  drawn  off,  and  if  in  individual  and 
perhaps  in  common  cases  they  may  rise 
only  to  fall,  it  is  my  sincere  belief  that 
through  them,  by  them,  or  because  of 
them,  we  shall  have  so  mastered  the 
situation  that  a  plan  will  be  evolved 
whereby  our  commercial  equilibrium 
longer 
can  be  preserved 
periods  in  the  future  than 
it  has  been 
in  the  past.

for  much 

Right 

is  might  to-day  as  much  as  it 
was  a  thousand  years  ago.  A  policy 
formulated  and  carried  out  on  any  other 
line  by  an  individual,  firm,  corporation 
or  consolidation  is  bound  to  totter  and 
fall.  An  unfair,  grasping,  dictatorial 
policy  may  temporarily  succeed,  but  its 
success  can  not  continue  indefinitely. 
Whether  it  works  an  injustice  to  an 
in­
dividual,  to  a  community,  to  a  state  or 
to  a  nation,  a  way  will  be  found  by 
which  the  evil  can  be  eliminated.

On  the  other  hand, 

the  economic 
value  of  a  consolidation  properly  man­
aged, and  which  would  be  able  to  attain 
a  degree  of  efficiency  beyond  the  reach 
of  the  rank  and  file  of  destructive  com- 
petiton,  would  work  as  a  vast  power  for 
good  not  only  to  itself  but  to  the  users 
and  the  manufacturers  as  well.

is  of 

The  unit  of  all  wealth  is  labor,  the 
crude  raw  material 
little  value 
until  molded  into  shape.  The  trees  in 
the  forest  and  the  ore  in  the  mine  are 
comparatively  nothing  except  as  labor 
units  necessary  to  make  them  articles of 
commerce;  the  labor  is  always  at  hand. 
There  never  was  a  time 
in  our  most 
depressed  period  when  the 
labor  units 
could  not  be  had.  The  problem  which 
then  confronts  us,  however,  is  the  abil­
ity  to  turn  them  into  cash.  The  distri­
bution  of  our  product  based  on  these 
labor  units 
is  a  serious  problem,  not 
perhaps  at  the  present  moment,  when 
orders  are  plenty  and  goods  are  scarce, 
but  a  problem  nevertheless  which  de­
mands  our  attention,  and  however  effic­
ient  our  present  system  may  be,  it  is 
plain  to  every  one  that  there  is  still 
room  for  improvement.

The  manifest  evils  are  not  hard  to 
find.  Destructive  competition,  unwar­
rantable  production  and  the  excessive 
multiplication  of  the  avenues  of  dis­
tribution  give  grave  cause  for  alarm, 
and  there  is  no  surer  way  to  put  a  stop 
to  these  abuses  than  by  a  plan  in  which 
the  unity  of  interests  makes  the  welfare 
of  the  one  so  closely  connected  and 
allied  to  the  welfare  of  all  that  tempta­
tions,  even  of  an  evil  nature,  shall  b§ 
eliminated.

It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  we  can 
reach 
in  the  present  decade  the  long- 
looked-for  millennium,  or  that  such  a 
state  of  affairs  will  come  to  pass  during 
the 
lifetime  of  the  present  generation ; 
but  the  world  and  everything  in  it  must 
move  on  and improve  or  deteriorate and 
decay.  There  is  no  stopping ;  there 
is 
no  holding  on  to  any  particular  posi­
tion. 
It  is  either  forward  or  backward. 
With  the  conditions  of  the present  times 
so  vastly  different  from  those  which 
existed  even  a  dozen years  ago,  we  must 
not  be  content  to  rest  until  some  policy 
shall  be  inaugurated  whereby  we  may 
eliminate  a  portion,  at 
least,  of  the 
evils  which  have  worked themselves into 
our  distributing  policy  and  plan.

The  old-time  adage  of  the  survival  of 
the  fittest  must  not  be  considered  in  a 
narrow 
light.  Those  who  destroy  what 
they  can  not  obtain  are  not  necessarily 
the  best  fitted  to  survive.  Competition 
should  not  he  wiped  out.  A  strong, 
healthy  competition  is  the  best  possible 
commercial  invigorator.  On  the  rther 
hand,  a  destructive  competition  not 
only  injures  those  who  are  directly  con­
nected  with  it,  but  in  an  indirect  man­
ner  it  does  grievous  injury  to  our  whole 
commercial  fabric,  and our old  commer­
cial  system,  the  system  which  we  have 
been  following  for  the  past  fifty  years, 
needs  protection  from  tbi§  kind  of  a 
thing  to-day  as  much  as  ever  out infant 
industries  needed  the  assistance  of  a 
protective  tariff.

It  is  impossible  to  legislate  against 
evils  of  this  character. 
It  is  equally 
impossible  to  suggest,  formulate  or  dic­
tate  the  policy  of  any  organization  and 
be  able  to  carry  that  policy  into  effect 
unless  that  organization 
is  absolutely 
controlled.  A  combination  without  a 
consolidation  is  not  in  a  position  to  do 
this  work  well. 
In  this  as  in  a  trust 
agreement  there  is  not  a  unity  of  inter­
ests.  Over  and  over  again  have  these 
things  been  tried.  Way  back  in  1855 
they  formed  a  shoe  peg  trust,  one  of  the 
first,  I  believe,  that  was  formed  in  this 
country;  how  long  did  it  last?  Perhaps 
a  year.  Why  did  it  go  to pieces?  Sim­
ply  because  the  interests  were  so  scat­
tered  and  despite  their  agreement,  a 
feeling  of  distrust  overcame  everything 
else,  and  different  interests  were  contin­
ually  knifing  each  other  behind  the 
scenes.

It  is  only  in  absolute  consolidation; 
with a  perfect  unity  of  interests  that can 
formulate,  adopt  and  carry 
into  effect 
an  economic  conciliatory  policy,  com­
bined  with  a  high  degree  of  efficiency, 
that  we  can  fortify  our  mercantile  inter* 
ests  as  they  ought  to  be  fortified;  to  be 
sure  these  consolidations  will  control  a 
vast  power,  but 
it  stands  within  their 
province  to  use  this  power  wisely  and 
well— it  not  only  stands  within  their 
province  to  so  do,  but  it  behooves  them 
to  do  it, otherwise  the  purpose  for  which 
they  were  created  will  not  be  accom­
plished  and  the 
law  of  evolution  will 
wipe  them  out.

It 

It  is  to  be  expected  that  these  great 
consolidations  will  entirely  drive  out 
competition. 
is  not  to  be  desired 
that  such  a  thing  should  come  to  pass, 
but  it  is  hoped  that  they  will  in  a meas­
ure  control  the  situation,  We  do  not 
want  to  see  the  feature  of  competition 
completely  eliminated.  We  do  not  want 
to  have  new  industries  throttled.  We  do 
not  believe  that  our  present  commercial 
interests  should  be  hampered  in  their 
growth.  But  a  wise,  temperate  policy 
will  work  the  greatest  good  in  the 
long 
run,  and  the  good  will  of  the  public  can 
be  secured  by  returning  to  the  people,

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210  to  216  Water  St.,  Toledo,  Ohio

To whom  It  may  concern:  We  have  been  using  the  Little  Giant  Gas 
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 
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Leslie, Mich.,'June 30,1902.

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so  to  speak,  a  portion  of  their  tribute  in 
the  way  of  a  reduced  cost  to  the  con­
sumer,  because  of  the  economy  effected 
in  the  distribution  of  goods.

A  consolidation  of  commercial 

inter­
ests  is  no  monstrosity,  unless  an  unwise 
policy  makes  it  so.  They  have  a  power, 
we  will  admit,  but  that  power  must  be 
for  good  or  it  will  be  taken  away  and 
the  guardians  of  our country,  holding 
forth  in  the  Nation’s  capital,  will  see  to 
it  that  laws  are  inaugurated  which  will 
prevent,  in  a  great  measure,  the  carry­
ing  into  effect  of  any  policy  which  shall 
not  be  fair  to  all  concerned.

In  this  connection 

it  is  well  to  give 
due  credit  to  those  national  and  state 
organizations  which  have  done  so  much 
for  the  hardware  trade  of  the  United 
States  during  the  years  which  they  have 
existed.  They  have  done  more  perhaps 
than  any  other  one  thing  to  eliminate 
bad  feeling  between  competitors  and 
stimulate  good  feeling  between  different 
branches  of  the  trade.

What  this  has  accomplished  not  only 
for  the  dealers  themselves  but  for  the 
manufacturers  and  consumers  also, 
is 
too  plainly  apparent  to  need  mention­
ing. 
I  believe  the  time  has  come  when 
we  can  go  a  step  further,  and  although 
that  consolidation 
in  which  we  have 
taken  a  vital  interest  has  for  the present 
at  least  been  abandoned,  I  believe  it  is 
sure  to  come  and  that  the  great  consoli­
dations  which  have  been  made  and 
which  will  be  made  in  the  future,  just 
as  soon  as  they  get  their  bearings  and 
their  machinery 
into  action,  will  be 
able  to  improve  still  further  our  condi­
tions  as  a  whole.

The  word  “ hardware”   has  a  warm 
place  in  our  hearts.  This  particular 
branch  of  industry  is  perhaps  nearer  to 
us  than  any  other. 
In  its  ranks  will  be 
found  as  grand  a  set  of  men  as  have 
ever  lived ;  men  who  have  been  accus­
tomed  to  fight  the  battle  of  life  from 
their  birth;  men  who  have  for  many 
years  kept  their  shoulders  diligently  to 
the  wheel;  men  who  have risen from  the 
most  menial  positions  to  the  highest; 
men  who  from  knowing  how  to  labor 
themselves  appreciate  to  a  full  degree 
the  cost  and  value  of  labor.

It  is  a  business  which  must  be  thor­
oughly  mastered  and  understood 
if  it 
is  to  be  bandied  successfully,  and  the 
hardware  trade  are  to  be  congratulated 
upon  this  fact.  Following  up  a  mere 
whim,  an  individual  firm  or corporation 
can  not  engage  in  the hardware business 
and  make  a  success  of  it;  they  must 
pay  their  tribute 
in  labor  before  they 
can  hope  for  reward.  Notwithstanding 
all  this  they  have  made  their  mistakes, 
and  without  being  personal  1  believe  it 
is  no  exaggeration,  when  speaking  as  a 
class,  to  say  that  until  perhaps  three 
years  ago  the  hardware  jobbers  of  the 
United States  never  realized  that  the  in­
terests  of  the  hardware  manufacturers 
were  almost  akin  to  their own.

tendency 

There  was  too  much 

in 
many 
localities  to  break  down  the 
manufacturer's  prices  and  ignore  his 
goods.  Some  of  our  good  friends  were 
driven  to  the  retail  trade,  and  some  of 
them  were  driven  out  of  business,  and 
for quite  a  considerable  period  the  mar­
kets  were  flooded  with  no  end  of  cheap 
trash,  for  which  this  mistake  was  di­
rectly  responsible.

The  mercantile  consolidations  of  to­
day  are  mere  fledglings,  although  they 
belong  to  the  large species;  they  have  a 
mission  to  fulfill,  and  I  believe  they 
will  fulfill  it.  Difficulties,  not facilities, 
make  men  and  make  nations.  Certain­
ly,  the  paths  which  our  consolidations

will  have  to  travel  at  the  outset  will 
have  few  roses  and  many  thorns. 
It 
will  be  necessary  to  learn  how  to control 
and  govern  them  and 
then  find  able 
men  who  are  capable  of  doing  it;  but  I 
believe  they  will  play  a  large  and  im­
portant  part  in  our  future  commercial 
history,  and  although 
the  mistakes  of 
those  who  are  responsible  for their  crea­
tion  will,  in  a  measure,  retard  their 
growth  and  development,  their  over- 
capitalization 
is  but  an  incident,  and 
although  of  grave  moment—an  incident 
nevertheless—and  a  setback,for  this  and 
other  causes  are  to  be  expected  and 
looked  for,  still  I  believe  they  will  be 
in  a  better  position  to  cope  with  the 
conditions  which  confront  us  now  and 
which  will  confront  us 
in  the  future 
than  individual  and  scattered  interests.

W.  M.  Pratt.

Taking  No  Chances.

I  was  expecting  a  letter at  a  Dakota 
postoffice,  and  when  I  went  to  enquire 
for  it  I  found 
the  postmaster  to  be 
doubtful  of  my  identity.

“ Sure  you’re  the  man?”   he  asked.
“ Of  course.”
“ Willing  to  make  affidavit  to  it?”
“ I  am.”
“ Not  after  any  one  else's  letters?”
“ No  sir.”
“ Willing 

to  swear  and  sign  your 

“ Boston,  perhaps.”
“ And  written  to  you?”
“ Certainly.  You  seem  to  be  over­

particular  here. ”

“ Yes,  mebbe  I  am,  but  being  as  no­
body  here  has  got  a  letter  for  the  last 
month,  and  being  as  there  is  none  fur 
you,  and  not  likely  to  be,  I  thought  1 
wouldn't  take  any  chances,  vou  know.1’ 

A.  E.  White.

name?”

“ I  told  you  I  was.”
“ Where  would  the 

he  continued.

letter  be  from?”  

Will  get you  prices  on  the 

best store stools  made.

BRYAN  PLOW  CO.,  Bryan,  Ohio

Manufacturers

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Length,  19H  inches.  Diameter,  9h 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.

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113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Tents

Awnings

W agon  and  Stack  Covers, 

Flags,  Hammocks,

Lawn  Swings,

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American  Shoe  Stores  in  Germany.
Not  content  with  shipping  American 
shoes  abroad,  Americans  are  beginning 
to  sell  them  at  retail  as  well.  American 
sales  and  advertising  methods  are  prov­
ing  very  powerful  when  used  in  connec­
tion  with  goods  of  home  manufacture, 
and  the  growth  of  the  tendency  is  to  be 
looked  for  in  the  future.

Early 

last  year  a  typical  American 
It has 
shoe  store  was  opened  in  Berlin. 
proved  so  profitable  that 
same 
the 
management  has  opened  a similar estab­
lishment  in  Frankfort,  and  is  preparing 
tc  open  another  at  Hamburg  in  Sep­
tember.  According  to  Dean  M.  Mason, 
our  vice  and  deputy  consul  at  Berlin, 
this  prompt  and  noteworthy  success  has 
been  due  to  the  fact  that,  in  addition  to 
the  merits  of  the  shoes  offered,  the  man­
ager,  Mr.  Barthmann,  began 
in  the 
right  way  by  opening  an  exclusively 
American  shoe  store,  so  spacious,  hand­
some  and  characteristic  in  its  appoint­
ments  as  to  form  an  attraction on  one  of 
the  most  thronged  streets of  the  German 
capital.

Not  only  the  entire stock  of  shoes,  but 
the  fixtures  and  the  show  windows,  the 
shelving,  and  the  whole  method  of  con­
ducting the business  are  typically Amer­
ican.  The  goods  offered  represent  the 
product  of  two  leading  American  manu­
facturers,  one  of  whom  makes  men’s 
shoes  of  every  kind,  the  other  shoes  in 
large  variety  for  women,  and  every  pair 
of  shoes 
in  the  store  is  retailed  at  the 
uniform  price  of  18  marks  (equal  to 
$4.28  in  United  States  currency.)  Prior 
to  the  opening  of  this  real  American 
store,  shoes  of  American  manufacture 
had  been  sold 
in  Germany  at  prices 
about  equal  to those  of the higher grades 
of  native  custom  made  footwear.  The 
$3  and  $3.50 shoes  from Lynn or Newark 
or  Brockton  were  treated  as  a  luxury  by 
the  German  dealer  and  retailed  at  from 
24  to  28  marks  ($5.11  to $6.66)  per  pair 
prices  which  put  them  beyond  the  reach 
of  all  but  the  well-to-do  class  of  pur­
chasers.  The  effect  of  the  enterprise 
above  cited  has  been  to  reduce  by  from 
$2  to  $2.50  the  cost  of  a  pair of  good 
American  shoes  in  Berlin.  The  number 
of  persons  who  will  pay  extra  prices  for 
the  name  of  a  shop  or  for  something 
slightly  better  than  the  standard  article 
is  relatively  small. 
“ The  German,  as 
a  rule,  is  a  careful  buyer,”   says  Mr. 
Mason,  “ and it  is  the  salesman  who  can 
sell  a  foreign-made  article  superior  in 
value  to  the  home  product,  at  a  slightly 
advanced  or  equal  price,  who  will  cap­
ture  the  valuable  trade  of  the  German 
middle  classes.  Not  only  will  the  sale 
of  American  shoes  be  promoted  in  Ger­
many  by  the  lower  prices  that  are 
like­
ly  to  be  introduced  by the establishment 
of  American  shoe  stores, but  these  stores 
will  be  able  to  handle  the  trade  better 
than  has  been  done  before.”

The  German  has  been  in  the  habit  of 
going  several  times  to  have  his  shoes 
tried  on  by  his  shoemakers.  He  has 
had  to  wait  a  couple  of  weeks  and  then 
the  shoes  were  not  always  what  he 
wanted.  He  now  goes  to  the  American 
stores,  gets  a  pair  of  shoes  fitted  in  a 
couple  of  minutes  or  so,  and  finds  them 
satisfactory  in  every  respect.

The  duty  on  a  pair of  shoes  coming 
is  at  present  from  10  to 
into  Germany 
15  cents,  according 
to  weight,  and, 
after  deducting  charges  for  freight  and 
duty, 
there  remains,  undoubtedly,  a 
generous  profit  over  the  amount  paid  by 
the  retailer  on the  shoes  which he sells at 
18  marks  ($4.28).  Mr.  Davis  believes 
that  there 
is  not  only  a  good  opening 
for  American  shoe  stores  in  Dresden,

Munich  and other  cities  of approximate­
ly  the  same  size,  but  that  there  would 
also  be  room  for  a 
large  wholesale 
house,  which  would  be  in  a  position  to 
supply  German  retailers  with  the  differ­
ent  sizes  and  qualities  of  American 
shoes,  as  the  purchase  of  footwear  in 
America  by  German  retailers 
is  at­
tended  with  many  inevitable  delays  and 
vexations.

One  Hundred  and  Sixty-Three  Dead  in 

Iowa.

A  recent  count  showed  163  separate 
brands  of  baking  powder  (or  mixtures 
called  baking  powder)  unsalable,  dead 
stock  upon  the  shelves  of  the  grocers  in 
Iowa.  Yet  every  one  of  these  was  sold 
to  the  grocer  with  a  plausible  story  as 
to  its  quality  and  ready  sale.

It  would  seem  as  if  the  grocers  would 
tire  of  holding  the  bag  continuously  for 
every  Tom  Dick  of  a  manufacturer  who 
comes  along.  These  163  brands  of  dead 
stock  should  be  an  object 
lesson  to 
them.  There is  probably  not a  grocer  in 
this  State  who  can  not  count  a  good 
part  of  bis  capital  in  fly-blown  stock, 
new  brands  put  in  at  the  solicitation  of 
a  plausible  salesman,  upon  which  he 
will  never  realize  a  cent.  This  State 
is  at  this  time  being  raided  by  an 
outside  baking  powder  at  a  high  price, 
while  grocers  in  the  East  are  advertis­
ing  the  same  brand  at  20  cents  a  pound 
to  close  it  out.

Grocers  should  learn  that  the  profit  of 
their  business  is 
in  the  sale  of  staple 
brands—goods  that  have  had  the  market 
made  for  them  by  advertising  by  their 
makers  and  by  their  high  quality— and 
decline  to  put  their  good  capital  in 
every  new  thing  that  is  offered  them.— 
Commercial  Tribune,  Denver.

Crows  along  the  lake  shore  make  part 
of  their  meals  of  clam  which  they  dig 
out  of  the  sand,  then,  flying  up  in  the 
air,  drop  them  on  a  rock  and  quickly 
descend  and  eat  them  out  of  the  broken 
shell.

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We are  considered  competent 
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We have an  extended and suc­
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Problems  Presented  In  the  Education  of 

Daughters.

This  is  the  tiine  of  year  when  the 
average  woman  begins  to 
lie  awake 
nights  trying  to  decide  the  school  prob­
lem  for  her  daughters,  and  when  she 
thinks  a  trifle  enviously  of  the  good  old 
days  when  a  girl’s  education  consisted 
in  learning  to  write  a  fine,  copperplate 
chirography  and  to  make  hair  flowers.
Those  halcyon  times  are,  indeed,  of 
the  past.  Nobody  denies  a  girl’s  right 
to  an  education  now  or  questions  her 
need  for  one,  and  so  the  matter  resolves 
itself  into  a  problem  of  ways  and means 
and  a  consideration  of  the  relative 
merits  of  public  schools  and  private 
schools,  of  tutors  and  governesses  at 
home  and  colleges  abroad.

A  mother  does  well  to  ponder  this 
subject  long  and  deeply,  for  selecting  a 
husband  for  a  girl  is  not  a  more  deli 
cate  task,  one  requiring  a  finer  dis 
crimination  of  her  needs  or  one  that 
will  affect  her  whole  future  happiness 
and  usefulness  more.  A  girl’s  school 
days  are  the  formative  and  impression 
able  ones  of  her  life.  Her  teachers  form 
her  ideals  and  her  school  makes  her 
traditions  and  sets  its  ineffaceable  seal 
upon  her.

Many  things  should  enter 

into  the 
choice  of  a  school 
for  a  girl.  Her 
wealth  and  social  position,  her  bent  of 
mind,whether  she  is  to  be a professional 
woman  or  not,  whether  her  education  is 
to  be  a  grace  and  an  accomplishment  or 
a  tool  to  work  with,  must  all  be  taken 
into  consideration.  Generally  speak­
ing,  it 
is  a  terrible  mistake  to  try  to 
educate  girls  out  of  the  station  in life  to 
it  has  pleased  heaven  to  call 
which 
them. 
It 
is  an  unintentional  cruelty, 
but  a  cruelty  none  the  less,  to  cultivate 
in  a  girl  tastes  and  habits  and  aspira­
tions  that  she  will  have  no  means  of 
gratifying,  and  no  spectacle  is  sadder 
than  that  of  poor  but  foolishly  ambi­
tious  parents  who  sacrifice  themselves 
in  order  to  send  their  daughters  to 
fashionable  schools.

Here  the  girl  without  money is thrown 
with  the  girl  who,  in  the  slang  of  the 
day,  has  money  to  burn.  Here  the  beg­
gar  maid,  whose  duty 
it  is  to  walk 
through 
life,  learns  that  it  is  better  to 
be  born  dead  than  not  to  be  born  in  an 
automobile;  that  society  is  the  ultimate 
end  of  human  ambition  and  that  the 
chief  object  of 
is  to  wear  Paris 
frocks  and  outdress  your  neighbor. 
is  very  well  for  little  Miss  Mil­
That 
lionaire,  to  whom  society 
is  going  to 
be  a  career  and  a  business. 
It  is  even 
important  that  she  should  spend  much 
time learning  the  fine  art  of  dinner-giv­
ing,  the  knack  of  getting  in  and  out  of 
a  carriage, and  the  latest  fad  in  cotillion 
leading;  but  no  education  could  be 
more  demoralizing  to  a  poor  girl.

life 

It  teaches  the  poor  girl  that  luxury  is 
a  necessity,  to  look  with  contempt  upon 
the  poverty  of  her  home  and  to  despise 
her  hard-worked  parents.  More 
than 
that,she  must  be  either  continually  mor­
tified  by  the  plainness  of  her clothes  or 
else  by  her  extravagance  she  must  add 
fresh  burdens  and  more  hardships  to 
her  mother  and  father.  She  must either 
withdraw 
the  camaraderie  of 
school 
life  and  seem  niggardly  and 
mean  by  not  paying  her  part  in  school 
affairs,or  else,by  participating  in  pleas­
ures  where  some one else settles  the  bill, 
become  a  parasite  and  dead-beat.  The 
inevitable  result  of  such  a  life  must  be 
to  make  her  either  anarchistic,  hating 
the  rich  girl  who  has  more  than  she

from 

has,  or  else  a  sycophant  who  fawns  and 
flatters 
in  the  hopes  of  holding  onto 
the  skirts  of  the  wealthy.

Nor  is  this  the  end  of  the  disaster.
No  matter  how 
intimate  the  poor  girl 
and  rich  girl  have  been  in  school,  the 
poor  girl  finds  that  the relationship ends 
at  the  school  gate. 
If  the  rich  girl  is 
good  natured,  there  may  be  a  few  invi­
tations  extended  the  poor  girl  to  quiet 
affairs,  and  when  they  meet  there  is  a 
suspicious  warmth  of  protestation  on 
the  rich  girl’s  part,  but  their  paths  lie 
in  different  directions  and school friend­
ship  is  not  strong  enough  to bridge  oyer 
the  chasm  that  lies  between  the mansion 
on  the  avenue  and  the  shabby cottage on 
the  back  street.

But  for  the  poor  girl  the  tragedy  is 
complete. 
She  has  been  made  dis­
satisfied  with  her  own  home  and  friends 
and  has  been  given  no  other.  She  has 
learned  to  despise  the  honest  young 
mechanic  or  clerk  who  would  marry  he 
and  there  is  no  fairy  prince  looming  up 
on  the  horizon  on  a  milk-white steed  for 
her.  She  yearns  for  society  and  the 
nearest  she  ever  gets  to  it  is  reading  in 
the  papers  the  accounts  of  balls  and 
parties  to  which  she 
is  never  asked. 
She  has  been  given  a  champagne  taste 
and  she  has  only  cistern  water 
to 
quench  it.

So,  I  say,  send  your  daughter  to  a 
school  where  she  will  be  thrown  with 
girls  of  her  own  class,  where  she  wi 
learn  the  things  that  will  sweeten  and 
not  embitter  her,  where  she  will  acquire 
practical  knowledge  that  will  be  of  use 
to  her  instead  of  frills  that  will  be  in 
her  way.  Do  not  believe  for  one  minute 
that  a  fashionable  education  will  ope 
the  doors  of  society  for  a  girl.  Such  an 
investment  is  a  ticket  that always  draw 
a  blank  in  the  lottery  of  life.

If  a  girl  has  a  taient,  send  her  to 

school  where  she  can  develop  it,  but  for 
pity’s  sake  do  not  force  her  into  trying 
to  be  something  that  God  and  nature 
never  intended  her  to  be.  Chief  among 
the  noble  army  of  martyrs  are  the  mi 
lions  of  little  girls  with no  more  gift  for 
music  than  a  rabbit,  who  have  been 
forced  to  spend  hours  of  torture  drum 
ming  scales 
in  the  vain  effort  of  the' 
conscientious  mammas  to  make  the 
musicians.  They  tell  me  that  tLe  pro 
fession  of  the  music  teacher  is  one  that 
is  passing  almost  out  of  existence  ex 
cept  in  its  very  highest  branches,  and 
know  of no  other  fact  so  comiorting  and 
that  indicates  such  progress  in  civiliza 
tion.  No  teacher  can  make  a  child 
musician  unless  heaven  made 
first,  but 
got  intelligence  enough  to  recogni 
that.

it  one 
it  is  only  of  late  that  we  have 

Time  was  when  every  house  had  i 
piano  and  every  miserable 
little  gi 
had  to  be  sacrificed  upon  it,  a  poor 
little,  helpless  victim  to  her  parents 
mistaken  belief  that  anybody 
could 
learn  to  play  it.

Nothing  on  earth  is  a  greater  waste of 
good  money  than  that  which 
is  fooled 
away  on  the  so-called  accomplishments 
of  girls.  In  every  household  where  there 
are  daughters  enough  money  is  spent  in 
enabling  them  to  murder  the “ Maiden’s 
Prayer”   to  provide  them  with  good 
concert  tickets  for  life,  whiie  the  money 
the  average  girl  spends  in 
learning  to 
do  dauby  china  painting  and  commit 
color  crimes  on  canvas  would  buy  her 
an  old  master.  Amateur  music  and 
amateur  art  are  gratuitous 
inflictions 
that  no  one  has  a  right  to  saddle  on  the 
world,  and  unless  a  girl  has  displayed 
talent  of  the  most  marked  description, 
her  parents  are  simply  throwing  away

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Another  mistake  that  1  think  parents 
frequently  make  is  in  forcing  children 
to  go  to school  to  teachers whom  they  do 
like,  and  to  school  where  they  are 
not 
not 
interested.  This  may  be  valuable 
as  discipline,  but  it  is  disastrous  as  ed­
ucation.  When  school  is  a  bore,  when 
a  child  takes  no  interest  in  the  studies 
and  never  speaks  of  them  at  home,  it  is 
almost 
invariably  the  teacher’s  fault. 
Any  child,  especially  any  girl— for girls 
have  quick  imaginations  and  are  easily 
aroused  to  enthusiasm—can  be 
inter­
ested  if  the  teacher  is  not  too  dull or too 
lazy  to  doit.  Teachers  are  like  poets— 
they  are  born,  not  made;  and  it  is  one 
of  the  misfortunes  of  society  that  the 
calling  which  should  be  as  sacred  a 
mission  as  the  priesthood  is  followed  as 
a  mere  profession. 
If  you  have  a  girl 
whom  you  had  to  force  to  school  last 
year,  send  her  to  another  school  this. 
Change,  and  keep  on  changing,  until 
you  find  somebody  who  has  the  heart 
and  spirit  and  intelligence  to  lire  the 
little  mind  with  the  love  of  learning.

The  question  of  whether  it  is  best  to 
send  girls  off  to  school  or  keep  them  at 
home 
is  another  problem  that  vexes  the 
soul  of  many  fond  mothers.  Personally,
1  am  an  ardent  advocate  of  the  board­
ing  school.  To  my  mind  it  is  not  only 
a  merciful  dispensation  of  Providence 
for  the  correction  and  regeneration  of 
the  spoiled  American  small  girl,  but 
the  greatest  missionary  of  sweetness 
and  light.

There 

For  another 

For  one  thing,  it  supplies  that  atmos­
phere  of  study  that  all  brain  workers 
find  necessary  to  their  best  accomplish­
ments,  and  a  girl  in  a  boarding  school 
will  do  twice  as  much  work  as  she 
would  at  home.  She  is  away  from  the 
distraction  of  parties  and  balls  and 
theaters  that  occupy  her  attention, 
whether  she  is  allowed  to  go  or  merely 
looks  on.  She  bears  nothing 
enviously 
but  books,  her  horizon 
is  bounded  by 
school  achievements  and  the  heroes  of 
her 
little  world  whom  she  is  inspired 
to  emulate  have  been  the  medalists  and 
scholars  of  bygone  days.
reason, 

the  boarding 
school  gives  the  petted  and  indulged 
girl  the  discipline  that  she ought to have 
gotten  at  home. 
is  no  other 
democracy 
like  a  school,  no  critic  so 
merciless  and  unsparing  as  school  girls. 
At  home  Maud’s  temper  was  euphoni­
ously  referred  to  as  "nerves,”   and 
Maud’s  selfishness  and 
ill  manners  as 
Maud's  "w a y s."  At  school  Maud  dees 
not  get  petted  when  she  sulks.  She  is 
ostracized  and  people  do  net  overlook 
her  peculiarities.  They  laugh  at  them.
I  once  heard  a  woman  who  bad  been  a 
petted  daughter  say  that  as  a  child  she 
had  the  disgusting  habit  of  eating  with 
her  knife.  Her  mother  had  tried 
in 
vain  to  break  her,  but  one  meal  at  a 
boarding  school  did  it.  She  overheard 
one  girl  say  to  another,  "What  sort  of  a 
girl  is  the  new  girl?”  
"O h ,”   was  the 
frank  response,  "sh e’s  common;  she 
eats  with  her  knife.”   And  that  settled 
that  girl’s  table  manners  for  time  and 
eternity.

As  a  general  thing 

the  boarding 
school  is  the  foster  mother  of  health. 
I 
have  seen  pale,  thin,  anaemic  girls, 
who  had  been  allowed  to  sit  up  late 
and  live  on  candy  and  olives,  who  were 
transfigured  by  three  or  four  years  of 
life  and  school  gymnastics. 
regular 
invalids;  they 
They  went 
came  away 
robust 
in
women—the  ideal  of  the  sane  mind 

strong,  healthy, 

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the  sound  body—to  bless  the  world  with 
their  presence.

Another  argument  for  the  boarding 
school  not  strictly  scholastic,  but  per­
tinent 
in  most  households,  is  that  the 
boarding  school  safely  carries  mother 
and  daughter  past  the hobbledehoy stage 
of  a  girl’s  life— that  bad  quarter  of  an 
hour  between  girlhood  and  womanhood 
when  a  girl  is  most  impatient  of  all  re­
straint  and  needs  most  a  firm  hand  on 
the  bridle. 
In  the  mother’s  opinion 
the  girl  is  still  a  mere  baby  who  should 
not  be  permitted  the  slightest 
liberty. 
In  her  own  esteem  the  girl  is  a  Solo­
mon  capable  of  deciding  anything,from 
the  Philippine  question  up  and  down. 
Out  of  this  difference  of  point  of  view 
grows  endless  friction  that only too often 
results 
in  a  permanent  estrangement 
between  the  two  that  should  be  nearest 
and  dearest  to  each  other.  A  year or  so 
away  from  home  at  this  time  is  almost 
an  absolute  necessity. 
In  it  the  mother 
learns  to  think  of  the  girl  as  grown, 
with  a  grown  woman’s  rights;  and  the 
girl,  with  a  wider  knowledge  of  life  and 
deeper  experience  of  her own fallibility, 
turns  to  her  mother  for  guide  and  coun­
selor.

Above  all,  however, 

in  selecting  a 
school  for  a  girl,  choose  one  where  the 
teachers  are  refined,  gentle  women. 
No  brilliance  of  intellect,  no  profundity 
of  attainment  can  make  up  in  a  woman 
for  gentleness  of  speech  and  manner 
and  refinement  of  thought  and  expres­
sion. 
that  does  not 
school  a  woman’s  heart  as  well  as  her 
is  a  curse  instead  of  a  blessing, 
mind 
and  no  matter  how  much  book 
learning 
she  may  acquire  the  education  that  does 
not  teach  a  girl  to  be  a  lady  is  a  fail­
ure. 

The  schooling 

Dorothy  Dix.

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Happy  is  the  man  who,  returning  from  a  day 
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plates  of  dainty  viands,  and,  as  a  finishing touch 
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an  epidemic  was.  No  answer. 
"W ell, 
let  me  prompt  you.  An  epidemic  is 
anything  that  spreads.  Now,  what’s 
an  epidemic?”

“ Jam,  sir,”   replied  a  boy  promptly.

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August  25  to  Sept.  10

The  Wholesale  Merchants’  Association  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Board  of  Trade  has  made  arrangements  with  the 
Michigan  Passenger  Association  to  conduct  a  Buyers’  E x ­
cursion  to  Grand  Rapids  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.
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Tickets  will  be  sold  for  this  occasion  on  August  25,
26,  27,  28,  29  and  30  and  the  certificate  issued  by  ticket 
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day  between  August  28  and  September  10,  1902.

For  conditions  which  must  be  observed  correspond 
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Wisconsin  as  a  Dairy  State.

The report  made  by the Census Bureau 
on  the  subject  of  the  cheese,  butter  and 
condensed  milk  factories  in  the  coun­
try,  will  be  of  special % interest  to  the 
people  of  Wisconsin.  No  State  in  the 
Union  has  made  so  marvelous  an  ad­
vance  in  this  agricultural  industry  dur­
ing  the  past  ten  years  as  has  Wiscon­
sin,and  the  census  returns show  that  the 
State  now  leads  in  the  number  of  facto­
ries  in  the  dairy  industry,  her  total  be­
ing  2,018,  and  a  tremendous  increase 
since  1890,  when  there  were  only  906 
such  factories  in  the  State.  New  York 
is  next  in  the  list  with  1,908  factories. 
The  greater  number  of  factories  in  Wis­
consin  shows  the  wide  distribution  of 
the  business  among  the  people  of  the 
State. 
is  more 
capital 
in  these  factories  and 
the  total  annual  production  of  such 
dairy  products 
in  that  State  amounts 
to  only  a  few  million  dollars’  worth 
more  than  that  of  Wisconsin;  but  in 
the  total  value  of  such  factory  dairy 
products  Wisconsin  has  a  rank  second 
only  to  New  York.

In  New  York  there 
invested 

capital 

The  total  value  of  product  in  Wiscon­
sin 
is  quoted  at  $20,120,147  annually, 
or  nearly  double  that  of  Illinois  and 
$5,000,000  worth  more  than  Iowa.  The 
report  gives  Wisconsin’s 
in­
vested  in  these  factories  at  $4,900,000, 
employing  1,700  hands  and  paying  an­
nual  wages  to  the  amount  of  nearly 
$1,000,000.  The  five  States  leading  the 
factory  dairy  business  of  the  country— 
New  York, Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Illinois and 
Pennsylvania—produce $83,000,000 worth 
of  the  total  of  $130,000,000  worth  pro­
duced  in  the  United  States.  The  prog­
ress  in  production  made  by  Wisconsin, 
amounting  to  an 
increase  of  186  per 
cent.,  is  pronounced  by  the  census  offi­
cials  to  be  the  greatest  made  by  any 
State  in  this line.—A.  J.  Dodge  in  M il­
waukee  Sentinel.

The  Helpful  Hen.

The 

The  income  from  the  sale  of  eggs  last 
year  was  $144,285,158. 
income 
from  chickens  was  $136,891,877.  The 
total  income  from  the  sale  of  wheat  for 
1900  was  $323,515,035. 
In  other  words 
the  income  from  wheat,  one  of  the  great 
staple  products  of  the  country,  is  only 
15  per cent,  more  than  the  income  from 
poultry. 
If  wheat  does  not  advance  in 
price,  and  the  price  of  poultry  remains 
as  high  as  at  present,  the  15  per  cent, 
difference  will  probably  be  wiped  out 
this  year,  and  we  will  see  the  income 
from  the  “ helpful  hen”   equal  to  the  in­
come  from wheat.  Still  what  a  row  there 
is  grown  by  the 
is  over  wheat,  which 
men!  But  poultry 
is  mainly  taken 
care  of  by  women  and  children,  and 
you  seldom  hear  the  subject  mentioned 
by  them.  The 
is  on  the  men. 
The  moral  is,  encourage  the  poultry  in­
dustry.—Atchison  Globe.

laugh 

The  Cattle  Industry.

Some  of  the  older  cattlemen feel  a  lit­
tle  dubious  about  the  future  prospects 
of  the  business  when  they  remember  the 
reaction  from  the  boom  times  of  the 
eighties. 
In  all  probability  we  shall 
have  a  slump  from  the  present  high 
prices,  as  this 
is  an  inevitable  law  of 
trade,  but  all  farmers  and  cattlemen 
should  take 
into  consideration  the  im­
portant  fact  that  conditions  at  the .pres­
ent  time  are  very  different.  Twenty 
years  ago  we  had  thousands  of  square 
miles  of  grazing  lands  that  were  unoc­
cupied ;  ranching  at  that  time  was  com­

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paratively  new  and  high  prices  for  beef 
cattle  stimulated  the  business.  Large 
companies  were  formed,  and  capital 
was  drawn  from  all  parts  of  the  United 
States  and  many  places  in  Europe  for 
the  purpose  of  stocking  these 
lands 
with  cattle.  But  conditions  since  that 
time  have  materially  changed:  our 
population  has  increased  from  50,000,- 
000  in  1880 to  75,000,000  in  iqoo,  which 
has  had  the  result  of  encroaching  upon 
these  cattle  ranches  materially,  while 
greatly 
increasing  our  home  consump­
tion.  Conditions  are  in  this  way  burn­
ing  the  candle  at  both  ends. 
In  addi­
tion  to  this,  the 
improved  refrigerator 
car  and  refrigerator  compartments  in 
ocean-going  vessels,  together  with  our 
unprecedented  foreign  commercial  ex­
pansion,  has  opened  up  an  extensive 
trade  with  a  great  many  foreign  coun­
tries  in  different  parts  of  the  world.  We 
may  have  competition  in  foreign  mar­
kets,  from  Argentina  and  other  grazing 
countries,  but  we  will  never  again  see 
cheap  beef  and  mutton 
in  the  United 
States. 

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Curious  Freak  of an  Old  Hen.

From the Kalamazoo Telegraph.

A  hen  as  the  devoted  mother  of  six 
kittens  is  one  of  the  seven  day  wonders 
of  S.  O.  Spier  of  Wheaton  avenue.

Mr.  Spier  has  an  old  speckled  hen 
which  has  been  running  about  his  yard 
for  the  past  ten  years  or  more.  Every 
spring this  hen  gets  the  fever  and  wants 
to  hatch  out  the  customary  batch  of 
chickens.  The  lovesick  hen  got  off  her 
nest  one  day  this  spring  in  search  of 
food  and  when  she  returned  she  was 
surprised  to  find  that the  family  cat  had 
taken  possession  of  the  nest  and,  in­
stead  of  being  filled  with  the  regulation 
thirteen  eggs,  the  place  was  rounded 
out  with  a  litter  of  kittens  of  many  col­
ors.
“ Topsy, ”   the  old  ben,  got on  her nest 
as  usual  and  was  a  mother to  both  cat 
and  kittens.  After  a  time  Tabby  left 
the  cubs in  full  charge  of  the ben,  while 
she  foraged  and  brought  them  meadow 
mice  and  other  delicacies  of  the season. 
The  kittens  followed  the  old  hen  about 
the  fields  near  the  Spier  homestead  and 
learned  to  recognize  the  call  of  the  fos­
ter  mother.  At  night  she  would  roost 
on  the  barn  floor  and  hover  over  the kit­
tens  as  though  they  were  the  real  thing. 
It  is  one  of  the  most  curious  freaks  of 
nature  observed 
for 
years  and  Mr.  Spier  says  he  would  not 
sell  his  old  speckled  hen  for  her  weight 
in  gold.

this  vicinity 

in 

Milk  Powder.

The  process  of  desiccating  milk  is 
now  in  operation  in  Sweden.  The 
in­
ventor  is  not  prepared  to  make his proc­
ess  known  at  present  because  he  has  not 
secured  all  the  patents  he  wishes  to take 
out  for  his  financial  protection.  Accord­
ing  to  reports,  however,  it  appears  to 
be  all  right  and  bids  fair to  become  a 
valuable  commercial  commodity.  The 
cost  of  reducing  milk  to  a  powder  that 
will  keep  any  reasonable  length of time, 
is  said  to  be  about  one  cent  per  gallon, 
which  for  cooking  puiposes  is  as  good 
as  fresh  skimmed  milk.  As  consider­
able  attention  seems  to  be  paid  to  this 
new  production,  both'  in  Sweden  and 
Germany,  there  may  be  good  reason  to 
regard  it  as  a  new  commercial  proposi­
tion  of  more  than  ordinary  value.  The 
inventor  has  signified  his 
intention  of 
exhibiting  bis  machine  in  the  United 
States in the  near  future.  Dried  milk  in 
neat,fancy  pasteboard  packages  for  city 
consumption  may  become  as common  as 
breakfast  foods  if  this  process  proves  as 
valuable  as  it  appears  to  be.

WhyNotTry

L  0 .  SNEDECOR  &  SON,

Egg Receivers, 

Est. 1866. 

36 Harrison St., N. Y.
Reference N. Y. Nat. Ex. Bank.

S E E D S

Clover  and  Timothy— all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds. 

M O S E L E Y   B R O S .,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  ST.

Largest Stocks 

Best Quality 

Lowest  Prices

All  orders  filled  promptly day received.

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

GROWERS,  MERCHANTS,  IM PORTERS

POULTRY,  BUTTER  AND  EGGS

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

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G E O .  N .  H U F F   &   C O .

JOHN  H.  HOLSTEN,

C o m m issio n   IT erchant

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.

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

Produce Review and American Creamery.

Butter

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The New York Market

Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce  Trades.

New  York,  Aug.  9— Everybody 

is 
away  who  can  get  away  and  we  are  at 
the  height  of  midsummer  dulness.  Of 
course,  some  business  has  been  done, 
but  it  seems  to  be  under  protest  and  for 
the  next  four  weeks  we  can  expect  a 
lull.  Meantime,  the  effect  of  numerous 
strikes  is  felt  less  in  August  than  at  al­
most  any  time,  and  may  be  they  will 
all  be  settled  when  fall  trade  sets  in. 
Heaven  knows  we  hope  they  will  b e!

Coffee  closes  weak  and,  despite  the 
effort  to  bolster  up  the  market  during 
the  week,  the  tendency  has  been  the 
other  way.  The  crop  movement  con­
tinues 
large  and  there  is  no  legitimate 
reason  for  any  advance  in  the  staple. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are  2,748,882 
bags,  against  1,405,031  bags  at  the  same 
time 
last  year.  The  actual  demand 
from  roasters  and  jobbers  has  been  con­
fined  to  immediate  wants.  At  the  close 
Rio  No.  7  is  quotable  at  sH@S^c. 
In 
mild  grades  there  is  a  quiet  trade  and 
the close  shows a  steady  range  of  prices. 
Good - Cucuta,  8%c.  East  India  coffees 
are  quiet 
and  practically  without 
change.

For  the  time  of  year  the  volume  of 
trade  in  teas  is  all  that  could  be  hoped. 
Prices  are  firmly  maintained  and  deal­
ers  look  to  the  future  with  a  good  deal 
of  confidence.

A  firmer  tone  to  the  raw  sugar  market 
and 
light  supplies  of  refined  on  band 
lead  to  the  expectation  of  a  larger  vol­
ume  of  trade  than  we  have  yet  bad. 
The  week  past  has  been  fairly  satisfac­
tory, but  the  demand  has  not  been  heavy 
enough  to  put  refineries  behind  in  fill­
ing  orders.  Quotations  are  firmly  main­
tained.

spice 

is  a  good  steady  run  of  busi­
There 
ness-in  rice  and  dealers  are well pleased 
with  the  situation.  Choice  to  head,
5^@7C.
its  recently-acquired 
Pepper  retains 
strength  and  a  fair  volume  of  business 
has  been  transacted.  Other  articles 
in 
the 
line  are  decidedly  quiet, 
neither  buyer  nor  seller  showing  any 
interest  in  the  situation.
Molasses  is  mighty  quiet.  Not  an 
item  of 
interest  can  be  found.  All 
hands  are  away  and  nothing  will  be 
done  for  six  weeks  at  least.

The  canned  goods  market  in  general 
is 
in  good  shape  and  a  fair  average 
trade  is being done every day.  Tomatoes 
continue  to  be  the  chief  object  of  in 
terest  and  the  range  for  standard  3s  is 
from  82%c  for  Maryland  pack  f.  o.  b. 
Baltimore  to  95c  or  more  for  New  Jer­
sey  standards here.  Other  vegetables  are 
moving  with  about  the  usual  midsum­
mer  spirit..  Prices  all  around  are  well 
sustained  and  little  complaint  is  heard. 
Salmon  are  selling  well  and  red  Alaska 
tails  are  worth  here  $1  10  net.  Pacific 
coast  fruits  are  attracting  considerable 
attention  and quotations  seem  to be firm­
ly  held.

Prunes  and  raisins  are  very strong and 
the  former  have  advanced  to  6%c  for 
40  50  in  25  lb.  boxes.  The demand  just 
at  tbe  moment  is  of  a jobbing character, 
but  exporters  are  ‘ ‘ looking  around”  and 
it 
is  believed  that  within  a  short  time 
‘ ‘ prunes  will  be  prunes.”   Raisins  are 
firm  and  the  whole  situation  seems to  be 
just  at  present  in  favor  of  the  seller. 
Currants  are  quiet.  Uncleaned  Amalias 
in  barrels  are  held  at  4f£c.

Lemons  are  rather 

lower,  although 
there 
is  a  fairly  active  trade.  Fancy 
oranges  sell  well and  other foreign  fruits 
are  also  moving  with  a  good  degree  of 
freedom. 
lemons  range  from 
$3.25  for  extra  fancy  300s  down  to  $2 
for  extra  choice  360s.
Receipts  of  really  desirable  grades  of 
butter  seem  to  be  decreasing,  but  quota­
tions  remain  as  yet  without  change. 
Best  Western,  2 o^ c;  seconds  to  firsts, 
i8@2oc;  imitation creamery,  I7@ i7^c; 
factory,  I5@i6>£c.  latter for  fancy  stock.
The  demand  for  cheese  is  light  and 
quotations  are  without  change  in  any 
particular.  Full  cream  New  York  State, 
9^c.

Sicily 

Desirable  grades  of  eggs  are  firm  at 
21c  for  fresh-gathered  Western;  fair  to 
good,  2o@2oJ£c ; 
fancy  candled  and 
graded,  I9K@2oc;  ungraded,  I4@i75^c.

New  Plan  a  Success.

Canton,  N.  Y.,  July  28—The  attempt 
to  have  all  butter  and  cheese  sold  on the 
board  of  trade here  instead  of by private 
sales  in  the  hotel  lobbies  and  on  the 
street  seems  to  be  working well.  Satur­
day  all  sales  of  butter  and  cheese not al­
ready  contracted  were  made  at  auction 
in  this  way  and  the  buyers  and  sales­
men  were  able  to  go  home  at  3.  The 
bidding  was  spirited  and 
the  sell­
ing  of  the  offered  products  took  but  a 
few  minutes.  One  buyer  complained 
that  some  lots  were  listed  on  the  board 
as  for  sale  thet  were  already  contracted 
when  the  sale  commenced.  This  would 
seem  to  be  a  mistake  and  such  lots 
should  be  checked  as 
if 
put  on  the  board.  Tbe  buyer  said  that 
he  had  trouble  in  squaring  himself  with 
his  principals.  He  said  that  he  had 
orders to  buy  a  certain  amount  of  butter 
and  was  here  prepared  to  pay  enough 
to  get 
it,  but  said  from  what  was  al­
ready  contracted  there  was  not  enough 
to  fill  his  orders.  The  report  of  offer­
ings 
included  the  contiacted  butter, 
making  an  amount  largely  in  excess  of 
his  order  and  his  principals  could  not 
understand  why  he  could  not  fill  their 
orders.

contracted 

large 

The  manufacture  of 

to  the  manufacture  of 

cheese 
seems  to  have  been  practically  aban­
in  this  section  and  none  were 
doned 
offered  Saturday.  A  buyer 
told  the 
salesman  of  one  factory  that  if  he  would 
change 
large 
cheese  he  would  take  the  entire  product 
on  contract  at  the  same  prices  at  which 
small  cheese  shall  be  sold.  Consider­
ing  the  saving  in  shrinkage  and  other 
advantages  this 
is  considered  a  very 
good  offer.
Now  that  some  business  is  transacted 
on  the  floor  of  the  board  tbe  meetings 
are well attended.  At  the  hour  of  open­
ing,  tbe  room  was  well  filled  with  buy­
ers,  salesmen  and  spectators.— Water- 
town  (N.  Y .)  Times.

Is  a  Frog  Fish  or  Game?

Quebec,  Aug.  2—The  Canadian  De­
partment  of  Marine  and  Fisheries  is 
wrestling  with  the  problem as to whether 
a  frog  is  fish  or  game.
Owing  to  the  enormous  increase in the 
export  of  frogs'  legs  to  the United States 
some  fear  is  felt  that  unless  restrictions 
are  placed  upon  the  killing  of  Canadian 
frogs  there  will  soon  be  none  left  in  the 
country. 
If  a  frog  is  a  fish  the  depart­
ment  at  Ottawa  has  tbe  power  to  insti­
tute  a  close  season  for  it. 
If,  however, 
it  should  be  decided that  the  frog  comes 
under  the  category  of  game  the  question 
of  a  close  season  must  be  settled  by  the 
provincial  authorities.
If  the  law  officers  of  the different  gov­
ernments  interested  fail  to  come  to  an 
agreement  on  the  subject  the matter  will 
probably  be  submitted  to a committee  of 
experts.  Everybody  agrees  that  some­
thing  must  be  done  to  prevent  the  total 
destruction  of  a  valuable  article  of  both 
food  and  commerce. 
If  it  should  be 
decided  that  the  frog  is  neither  fish  nor 
game 
it  may  be  necessary,  in  order  to 
secure  a  law  for  its  protection,  to  obtain 
from  the  Imperial  Parliament  the  pass­
age  of  an  amendment  to  the  Act  of 
British  North  America.

Large  Apple  Order.

Montreal,  Aug.  8—A  million  barrels 
of  apples  is  the  order  which  one  Belle­
ville  dealer  has  received  from  an  Eng­
lish  house,  and  he  has  started  buyers 
out to get the  goods.  The  significance  of 
this  can  be  seen  when  it  is  remembered 
that  a  million  barrels  of  apples  would 
in  most  seasons  in  the  past  equal  nearly 
the  whole  of  Canada's  export.  This  or­
der  is,  therefore,  far  and  away  in excess 
of  any  order  ever  received  before  by  a 
Canadian  dealer. 
It  indicates  the  high 
value  placed  upon  the  Canadian  apples 
and  the  possibilities  for  increasing  the 
trade  in  this  fruit.
G.  C.  Creelman,  superintendent  of 
Farmers’  Institutes,  who  has  been  trav­
eling  through  the  province  lately reports 
that  there  will  be  a  good  crop  of  apples 
in  all  sections.

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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 3132.

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acids, or  anything that is not produced from the  apple* we  will forfeit

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

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preciation  of the  prompt  and  thorough  manner 
in which  parties  doing  a  fraudulent business are 
exposed  through the  columns  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  and  that  we  recommend  its  con­
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

BUSINESS  SUCCESS.

Character,  Capacity and Capital the Three 

Essentials.

We  merchants  are  engaged  in  busi­
ness  for  profit.  There 
is  little of  the 
sentimental  about  the  average  business 
man.  His  self-preservation  among  his 
mercantile  associates  and  the  protection 
of  those  dependent  upon  him  are  what 
command  his  constant  and  earnest  at­
tention  and  make  bearable  the  routine 
drudgery  incident  to  commercial  life.

The  discouraging  fact  ever  confronts 
the  struggling  business  man that over  go 
per  cent,  of  those  who  engage 
in  mer­
cantile  pursuits  fail,  either  directly  or 
indirectly.  Notwithstanding  this  dis­
turbing 
feature  of  our  business,  we 
should  keep  prominently  before  us  the 
truth  that  there 
is  something  in  life’s 
struggle  besides  dollars  and  cents.  A 
man  who  is  confronted  with  inevitable 
failure  and  who  sacrifices  hohor  and  in­
tegrity  for  any  salvage  in  the  nature  of 
dollars  and  cents  is  dishonest  and  un­
worthy  of  confidence;  while,  on  the 
contrary,  the  man  who  preserves  his 
honor  and  integrity,  even at  great  finan­
cial  cost,  retains 
in  a  higher  degree 
than  before  the  respect  and  admiration 
of  his  fellow  men.  We  should  be  at  all 
times  manly,  honorable, 
faithful  and 
reliable.  These  qualifications  are  in­
dispensable  to  every  successful  business 
man  and,  what  is  more  to  the  point, 
they  are  within  the  reach of  all.

There  are  at 

least  three  important 
requisites  for the  successful management 
of  business.  These  are  character,  ca­
pacity  and  capital.  While  all  these 
requisites  are  fundamental  the  greatest 
is  character.  No  man  can  hope  to  per­
manently  succeed 
struggle 
whose  line  of  action  is  not  based  upon 
the  principles  of  honesty,  uprightness 
and 
integrity.  A  merchant  should  be 
honest  with  himself,  honest with  his  pa­
trons  and  honest  with  his  fellow  busi­
ness  men.

life’s 

in 

To  be  honest  with  himself  implies  a 
full  and  accurate  knowledge  of  the  de­
tails  of  his  business  affairs.  He  should 
keep  his  books  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
enable  him  at  any  time  to show definite­
ly  what  his  assets  and  liabilities  are. 
His  books  should 
indicate  daily  the 
amount  of  stock  on  band  at  cost,  the 
amount  of  his  book  accounts  at  actual 
value,  and  also  the  amount  due  his 
creditors.  He  should  also  have  before 
him  as  a  stimulus  to  greater  effort  a 
comparative  statement  of  daily  sales 
and  expenses,  extending over  a  series  of 
years.  A  successful  enterprise  can  not 
stand  still. 
in 
order  to  be  enduring,  and  every  em­
ploye  should  share  this  commendable 
ambition  of  bis  employer.

It  must  be  progressive 

insurance. 

In  this  connection  I  might  say  that 
it  is  very 
important  that  a  merchant 
should  have  his  stock  fully  protected  by 
fire 
Insurance  companies 
assume this  risk  for  him  at  a  reasonable 
compensation. 
It  is  their  business  to 
take  risks  of  this  kind  and  not  the  mer­
chant’s.

that  he 

A  merchant  should  also  be  honest 
with  himself  to  the  extent  of  appreciat­
ing  fully  what  a  priceless  boon  it  is  to 
have  it  known  in  commercial  centers  of 
the  country 
is  reliable  and 
trustworthy  in  every  transaction,that  his 
word  is  synonymous  with  his  bond,  and 
that  he 
is  ever  keenly  sensitive  to  the 
necessity  of  preserving  his  good  name. 
Without  honor,  integrity  and  manhood, 
a  man  has  nothing  and  can  have  noth­
ing.  These  qualities  are  vital  to  every 
man,  whether 
in  business  or  out  of 
business,  and  their  value  can  not  be  es-

is 

timated  on  a  basis  of  dollars  and  cents.
Second,  a  merchant  should  be  honest 
with  his  patrons.  This 
implies  that 
there  should  be  on  hand  a well-arranged 
stock  of  merchandise,  kept  in  neat  and 
attractive  manner. 
It  means,  also,  that 
it 
incumbent  on  him  to  give  honest 
value,  full  weights  and  correct  measure­
It  means,  too,  that  there  should 
ments. 
be 
absolutely  no  misrepresentation. 
Trading  stamps,  chromos,  prizes  and 
other  subterfuges  should  not  be  em­
ployed  to  secure  patronage.  The  un­
reasonable  plaints  that  arise  in  the 
life 
of  the  merchant  should  be  met  with  tact 
and  diplomacy  and  the  patron  appeased 
if  possible,  but  not  at  the  cost  of  prin­
ciple  or  self-respect.  A  merchant should 
also  be  honest  with  bis  fellow  business 
men.  This 
implies  that,  when  called 
upon  to  give  his  experience  with  regard 
to  the  standing  of  a  certain  customer, 
the 
information  should  be  candid  and 
reliable.  This  brings  us  face  to  face 
with  the  most  deplorable  feature of mer­
cantile 
through 
life— loss 
worthless  accounts.

sustained 

How  are  we  to guard  against  exces­
sive  losses?  This  question  comes  home 
to  every  merchant.  There  is  no  serious 
question  about  the  truth  of  the  common 
expression  that  credit  is  too  cheap,  nor 
about  the  kindred  saying  that  "credit 
is  too  freely  granted.”   Credit  should 
always  be 
judiciously  granted,  and 
never  indiscriminately  or in a haphazard 
manner.  A  man  who  grants  credit 
should  be  a  good  judge  of  human nature 
and  with  tact  and  discretion  should  se­
cure  proper  information  from  the  ap­
plicant  for  credit  as  to  his  financial  and 
moral  responsibilities,  who  his  refer­
ences  are,  and  also  whether  he 
is  dis­
posed  to  comply  in  every  respect  with 
the  terms  of  settlement  submitted  to 
him.  There  should  be  a  distinct  un­
derstanding  as  to  the  amount  of  the 
account,  since  every  account  should 
have  its  limit,  and  also,  that  the  obli­
gations  contracted  shall  be  discharged 
at  least  monthly.

You  must  have  courage  to  say  "n o ”  
to  the  unworthy  applicant,  and  there 
are  many  of  this  class  who  apply  for 
credit  without  having  any  basis  what­
ever  for  such  favors.  You  find  compe­
tition  sharp  and  the  maigin  of  profit 
necessarily  small,  and  therefore  you  are 
not  warranted 
in  taking  unreasonable 
financial  risks.  You  are  not  warranted 
in  taking  all  the  possibilities  of  failure 
to  pay,  such  as  sickness,  loss  of  situa­
tion,  etc.  on  the  part  of  the  debtor.

Financial  responsibility  is  not,  after 
all,  the  only  basis  of  credit.  Moral  re­
sponsibility,  in  my  judgment,  is  quite 
as  important  and  more  desirable. 
I 
have 
infinitely  more  respect  for,  and 
confidence  in,  a person  who  pays  from a 
high sense  of  duty  than  I  have  for a per­
son  who  pays  because  he  can  not  avoid 
payment.

In  our  dealings  with  the  debtor  class, 
we  must  not  forget  that  they  have  some 
rights  that  we  are  bound  to  respect.  We 
must  discriminate  between  the  repre­
hensible  debtor  who  can  pay,  but  will 
not,  and  the  unfortunate  debtor,  who  is 
well  disposed,  but, 
through  circum­
stances,  is  unable  to  pay  his  honest  ob­
ligations.  The  first  are  clearly  without 
the  pale  of  our  sympathy,  while  the  lat­
ter  are  worthy  of  considerate  treatment 
and  should  not  be  numbered  among dis­
reputable  debtors.  We  must  be  ever 
on  our guard  against  the  vicious debtor, 
who,  with  fervid  eloquence  and  brazen 
assurance,  goes  from  merchant  to  mer­
chant  with  the  studied  purpose  of  add­
ing  another  name  to  the 
long  list  of 
those  whom  he  has  already  shamefully 
and  criminally  defrauded.

Daniel  B.  Murphy.

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Different  styles 
Several  sizes.

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because they not only sell well on account of superior  quality,  but they bring a fine 
profit.  Manufactured by

E.  J.  KRUCE  &  CO.,  DETROIT,  MICH.

Grand Rapids Fixtures 60.

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in
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For  Fruit  Time

W e wish  to  call your  attention  to  our  Fruit 
Powdered and  Fine Frosting Sugars.  W e  grind 
them  in  our  own  factory  and  guarantee 
quality in  every  respect.  Price  quoted  on 
application.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knirhti of the tirip

President,  J ohn  A.  Westo n,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Bro w n.  Saflinaw;  Treasurer, 
J o h n W. Schram, Detroit.

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba rtlett,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K en d a ll,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edelm a n, Saginaw.

Dnited Commercial Trntlen of Michigan 

Grand Rapids Cornell Ho. 131,  D.  C.  T.

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

Treasurer. L. F. Baker.

hereafter  be  known  as  A.  J.  Meade  & 
Co.  Mr.  Riley  still  retains  his  position 
as  traveling  salesman  and  will  not  take 
an  active  part  in  the  management  of 
the  business.  He  is  now  spending  his 
summer  vacation  in  Battle  Creek, which 
place  he  considers  home,  and  whicn  his 
many  friends  will  be  pleased  to learn  he 
intends  making  bis  permanent  home 
when  he  retires  from  the  road.

The  Grain  Market.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

A.  W.  Stevenson,  Representing  Hazeltine 

&  Perkins  D rag  Co.

removed 

Augustus  W.  Stevenson  was  born  at 
Red  Creek,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  5,  i860,  his 
antecedents  being  English  on  his  fath­
er’s  side  and  Scotch  on  his  mother’s 
side.  He 
lived  in  Red  Creek  and  Au­
burn  until  he  was 9  years  of  age,  when 
to  Muskegon 
his  parents 
county,  Michigan, 
locating  at  Fruit- 
port.  He  attended  the  public  school 
there  until  15  years  of  age,  when  he  en­
tered  the  State  Normal  School  at  Ypsi- 
lanti,  pursuing  a  general  course  for  four 
years.  He  graduated  from  that  institu­
tion  at  the  age  of  19  and  took  a  clerk­
ship  in  the  drug  store of  Henry  Hail,  at 
Three  Rivers,  where  he  remained  four 
years.  He  then  removed  to  Muskegon 
and  engaged 
in  the  drug  trade  on  his 
own  account  at  558  Western  avenue, 
which  he  continued  seven  years.  He 
then  entered  the  employ  of  Fred  Brund- 
age,  spending  about  half  of  his  time  in 
the  store  and  the  other  half  working  the 
city  trade.  Six  years  later  he  was  as­

signed  a  regular  territory  for  the  bouse, 
which  he  has  covered  with  unusual  reg­
ularity  for the  past  half  dozen  years.  He 
resigned  a  few  days  ago  to  accept  a 
more  lucrative  position  with  the  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug Co  ,  taking  all the 
available  towns  not  now  visited  by  rep­
resentatives  of  that  house  between  Mus­
kegon  and  Petoskey.

Mr.  Stevenson  was  married  July  2, 
1884,  to  Miss  Carlie Gray,  of  Three R iv­
ers.  Four  boys,  aged  respectively  17, 
14,  12  and  6  years,  complete  the  family 
cifcle.  They  reside  in  their  own  home 
at  150  Lake  street,  Muskegon.

Mr.  Stevenson  is  a  member  of  Mus­
kegon  Lodge,  No.  32,  K.  P.,  and  also 
Uniformed  Rank  No.  2.  He  has  been  a 
Maccabee  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  be­
ing  an  honored  member  of  Lodge  No. 
302.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Illi­
nois  Commercial  Men’s  Association.

Mr.  Stevenson  attributes  his  success 
to  hard  work,  properly  directed  along 
correct  business  lines.  He early  won  the 
confidence  of  his  trade,  which  be  has 
retained  and  will  evidently  continue  to 
retain  by  refusing  to  resort  to  claptrap 
methods  or  unfair  dealing.  By  intelli­
gent  effort  and  patient  industry  he  has 
built  up  a  constituency  which  will  be 
the  basis  of  future  success,  because  he 
not  only  considers  the 
interest  of  his 
employer  but  also  takes  into  considera­
tion  the  interest  of  his  customer  as well.

Wayland— Charles  Braden  has  been 
I engaged  as  prescription  clerk  for the 
| AHgeo  Central  drug  store.

St.  Johns—The F.  C.  Mason Co.,  man­
im­
ufacturer of  cultivator  points  and 
plement 
its 
supplies,  has  merged 
business  into  a  stock  company  with  a 
capital 
Thomas 
Bromley, 
is  President;  G.  B. 
Treadwell  is  Vice-President,  and  F.  C. 
Mason  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer.

stock  of  $20,000. 

Jr., 

Doubtless  many  out  of  office  will 
agree  with  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy, 
founder  of  Christian  Science,  in  the 
following  observation: 
“ Rotation  of 
office  promotes  wisdom,  quiets  mad 
ambition,  satisfies 
justice  and  crowns 
honest  endeavors.”

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

Frankfort,  Mich.

Entirely  New and  Modern 

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

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.

H otel  H a n n a h

S e b ew a in g ,  M ich igan

FOR  SALE

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

C.  F.  Bach,  Sebewaing,  Mich.

I B u yers’ 

Excursion
to Grand Rapids, 
Michigan

from August 25 to September  10

On the above  dates  the Wholesale 
Merchants’  Association  o f 
th e  
Board of Trade will  run an  excur­
sion from all  parts  of  Michigan  at 
one  and  one-third  fare  for  the 
round trip.

Many  merchants  will  undoubt­
edly  visit  Grand  Rapids  at  this 
time who  are  not  well  acquainted 
with the hotel accommodations the 
city  affords.  For  the  benefit  of 
those we wish to say that the
Livingston

Hotel

is the best in  the  town  for  several 
reasons: 
It is  in  the  down  town 
district  (corner  Division  and  Ful­
ton streets,  near the head  of  Mon­
roe street);  it is  in the jobbing dis­
trict;  it  is  near  the  Union  depot; 
it is a  fire-proof  hotel;  it  sets  the 
best table of  any  hotel  in  Michi. 
gan;  it has the best rooms.
________________ J

Gripsack  Brigade.
Frank  M.  Tyler  is  very 

low  at  the 
home  of  his  son and  little  hope  is  enter­
tained  of  his  recovery.

A.  E.  Motley  (Worden  Grocer  Co.) 
is  enjoying  a  vacation  for a  few  weeks. 
His  route  is  being  covered  in  the mean­
time  by  Terry  Barker.

J. 

D.  Lawton  (Worden  Grocer Co.)  is 

Wm.  J.  Townsend, 

in  camp  with  the  State  militia  at  Man­
istee.  His  route  is  being  covered  in  the 
meantime  by  William  Frederick  Blake.
formerly  on  the 
road  for  Geo.  W.  Lord,  of  Philadel­
phia,  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  the 
Worden  Grocer  Co.,  covering  Central 
Michigan.

Kalamazoo 

Telegraph: 

Edward 
Locher,  who  has  been  connected  with 
the  Taylor  Clothing  Co.  for  a  number 
of  years,  has  resigned  and  will  take  to 
the  road 
in  the  interest  of  the  Puritan 
Corset  Co.

Dowagiac  Republican:  A.  J.  Cleve­
land,  formerly  proprietor  of  the  City 
shoe  store,  has  taken  a  position  as 
traveling  salesman  with  the  1.  P.  Far- 
num  Shoe  Co.,  of  Chicago.  His  ter­
ritory  will  be  in  Wisconsin.

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  William 
Sampson,  of  Hurontown,  has  secured  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Carpenter-Cook  Co.,  of  Menominee. 
Mr.  Sampson  will  represent  this  whole­
sale  grocery  bouse  in  the  copper  coun­
try.

Geo.  R.  Alexander,  Western  Michi­
gan  representative  for  Merrill  &  Co.,  of 
Toledo,  has  resumed  his  work  on  the 
road  after  being 
laid  up  a  couple  of 
weeks  with  a  sprained  foot,  resulting 
from  turning  over  an  ankle  at  Traverse 
City.

The  August  picnic  of  the  members  of 
Grand  Rapids Council,  No.  131,  will be 
held  at  Fruitport  Saturday,  Aug.  23. 
Round  trip  tickets  can  be  obtained  at 
the 
interurban  company’s  office  at  50 
cents  apiece,  good  at  any  time  during 
the  day.  The tickets  will  include  a  boat 
ride  to  Grand  Haven  and  return.  Ar­
rangements  will  probably  be  made  to 
visit  the  blast  furnace  at  4  o’clock  to 
witness  the  conversion  of  moulten  iron 
into  pigs. 
It  is  expected  that  the  turn­
out  will  be  very  general.  Lunch  baskets 
will  be  in  order.

Byron  S.  Davenport  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.)  is  on  the  warpath  again 
after  a  week’s  fishing  trip.  Before  go­
ing  he  borrowed  the  Tradesman’s  col­
lection  of  fish  stories,  which  have  been 
assembled  from  many  sources  and  kept 
on  fiie  for  the  express  use  of  those  gro­
cery  salesmen  who  are  piscatorially-  in 
dined.  On  returning  the  collection, 
Byron  volunteered  the  statement  that  he 
had  succeeded 
in  memorizing  several 
of  the  tallest  yarns  so  that  he  is  now 
able  to  spin them  off to  his  customers  as 
glibly  as  though  he  were  relating  his 
own  experiences.

Battle  Creek  Moon:  James  N.  Riley, 
formerly  of  the  firm  of  Riley  &  Fischer, 
has  purchased  the  business  interest  of 
Mr.  Durant 
in  the  firm  of  Meade  & 
Durant, 
clothing  dealers  and  haber­
dashers  at  Jackson,  and  the  firm  will

large 

low  price. 

loss  of  nearly 

Wheat  experienced  another  dull  and 
downward  market,  which  terminated  in 
a  decline  of  2j£c  on  cash  winter  and  2c 
on  spring  wheat  options  for  September 
and  December.  Although  the  visible 
showed  a  decrease  of  199,000  bushels, 
where  a 
increase  was  expected, 
still  prices  were  forced  down.  Exports 
also  are  fair  and  receipts  as  shown  by 
the  decrease  are  small,  but  as  usual  on 
a  down  market,  no  one  wants  to  invest 
so  the  price  sagged  of  its  own  weight. 
Why  this  should  be  no  one  can  say,  un­
less  it  is  the  elevator  interests  at  work 
to  fill  up  their  bins  at  a 
It 
is  one  of  those  unaccountable  freaks  in 
the  trade  which  is  hard  to reconcile with 
conditions.  The  Government  crop  re­
port  came  in  and  shows  the condition  of 
spring  wheat  to  be  89  7-10  per cent., 
last  month, 
against  92  3-10  per  cent 
three 
which  shows  a 
points,  but  notwithstanding  all  this 
it 
did  not  help  the  price of  wheat;  it looks 
to  us  as  if  it  was  around  bottom.  Some 
new  influences  will  have  to  make  their 
appearance  in  order  to  elevate the price.
Corn,  as  was  expected,  declined. 
September  sold  at  5oj£c,  against  55^c 
one  week  ago,  while  cash  is  worth  fully 
60c.  No  new  corn  can  be  made  avail­
able  for  September,  besides,  the weather 
is  not  favorable  for  the  growing  crop. 
Michigan,  which 
is  not  considered  a 
corn  State,  had  quite  a  large  crop,  last 
year,  but  this  year  she  will  have  to  im­
port  corn,  as  our  corn  crop  is  very  poor 
owing  to  the  cold  rainy  weather.  Corn 
showed  a  decrease  of  1,125,000  bushels, 
the  amount  available 
which 
rather  small. 
It  looks  as  if  the  price  of 
corn  had  been  crowded  below  its  value.
Oats  are  selling  low  and will be lower, 
owing  to  the  immense  crop,  which,  of 
course,  had  some  effect  on  corn;  but  for 
making  pork  nothing  is  as good as corn. 
Prices  may  react  to  a  higher  level  when 
September  comes.

leaves 

to 

Rye,  also,  is  a  trifle lower,  the  reason 
having  been  given  before.  Export  de­
mand 
is  lacking  and  a  good  harvest  in 
Germany,  as  well  as  one  in  the  home 
market,  makes  an  over-production,  es­
pecially  as  farmers  have  been  sowing 
more  rye  than  wheat  in  Michigan.  Low 
prices  may  turn  the  tide  back  to  wheat 
raising.

the  cold 

Beans,  owing 

rainy 
weather,  are held  very  firm  in  price,  es­
pecially  as  the  Secretary  of  State  in  his 
monthly  report  says  beans  are  badly 
damaged  and  some  are  rotting  on  the 
ground  on  account  of too much moisture. 
It  looks  now  as  if  beans  would  stay  up.
Flour  has  been  reduced  10c  per  cwt., 
in­
or  20c  per  bbl.,  which  made  an 
ducement  for  dealers  to  lay 
in  quite 
freely.  Local  as  well  as  domestic  de­
mand  has  been  good.  Mill  feed  is  still 
held  firm  as  there  is  no  surplus as  yet..

Receipts  during  the  week  have  been 
as  follows:  wheat,  49  cars;  corn,  10 
cars;  oats,  7  cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour,  2 
cars;  bay,  4  cars.
wheat. 

Millers  are  paying  64c  for  No.  2  red 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.
Alpena— Miss  Mabel  Worthington 

is 
the  new  saleslady  in  the  dry  goods  de­
partment  of I. Cohen's department store,

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

D r u g s — C h e m i c a l s

M ichigan  State  Board of Pharm acy

Term expires
Henry  Hu m , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Deo. 81, ions
Wib t p.  Doty. Detroit - 
Cla ren ce B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn  d .  Mu ir , uiaoa Kapias 
Dec. 81, ux» 
Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906

- 

President,  Henry  Heim , Saginaw 
Secretary, J ohn D. Muir, Grand Baplds. 
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Examination  Sessions.

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

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. 

President—J o h n  D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—D. A.  H a g ens, Monroe.

Annual Meeting—Saginaw, Aug. 12 and 13.

“Just  as  Good.”

Drug  and  medical  journals  and  news­
papers  that handle  the  advertising of the 
large  proprietary  concerns,  have 
lately 
been  forced  to  give  these  protection  by 
waging  war  on  the  substitutor  and  their 
strong  denunciations  of  these  so-called 
land  pirates,  has  a  tendency  to  impress 
upon  the  public  that  the  generality  of 
druggists  are  dishonest.

I  believe  where  there  is  one  druggist 
who  degrades  himself  by  becoming  a 
substitutor,  there  are  a  hundred  who  are 
men  of  high  standard  and  an  honor  to 
their  profession. 
several  cases 
where  substitution  was  practiced  we  re­
joice  to  know  that  the  perpetrators  have 
been  made  to  pay  the  penalty.

In 

The  “ just  as good”   druggist  or  the 
one  who  persists  in  defrauding  the  de­
serving  manufacturer  and  the  public  by 
dispensing  some  spurious  preparation, 
instead  of  that  ordered  by  the  physi­
cian,  or  recommending  some  article 
other  than  that  asked  for  by  the  cus­
tomer,  is  now  being  hounded  at  such  a 
furious  rate,that  he  will  soon  be  obliged 
to  retire  from  business,  or  else  undergo 
a  complete  reformation.  The  sooner  he 
makes  his  exit  from  the  pharmaceutical 
field,  the  better  it  will  be  for  those  who 
are  a  credit  to  their  profession.  Why 
a  druggist* will  continue  to  offer to the 
intelligent  public,  something  otherwise 
than  asked  for  is  mystifying.

He  knows,  or  should  know  at  least, 
that  the  people he defrauds  in  this  man­
ner  are  not  all  ignorant,  and  will  soon 
learn  to  regard  him  as  a  man  of  dishon­
est  dealings.  We  are  pleased  to  note 
that  these  skulky  practitioners  of  the 
“ black  art”   are  infinitely  few  as  com­
pared  with  the  host  of fair dealing phar­
macists.

Druggists  should  realize  that  a  pro­
prietary  medicine  business  is  not  built 
up  in  a  day,  and  many  of  them  have re­
quired  years  to  bring  to  perfection  and 
establish  their  reputation.  Suppose  a 
druggist 
is  trying  to  make  a  sale  of 
one  of  his  own  preparations,  he  would 
not  thank  an  outsider  to  step  up  and 
suggest  that  the  prospective  customer 
should  use  something  else.  No,  but 
the  self-same  druggist,  if  he 
is  num­
bered  among  the substitutors,  will,  when 
a  customer  asks  for  a  certain  proprie­
tary medicine,  offer something .else ‘ ‘ just 
as  good,”   and  not  think  anything  of  it.
1  do  not  blame  a  druggist  for  pushing 
his  own  goods,  much  more  I  commend 
him  for  it,  provided  he  does  it  along 
ethical  lines,  but  I  do  disapprove  of  his 
discouraging  the  sale  of  an  article 
where  the  manufacturers  have 
spent 
thousands  of  dollars  in  perfecting  and 
advertising  it. 

E.  F.  Powell.

Percentages  to  Doctors.

There  is  no  more  unethical  feature  of 
the  drug  trade  than  that  indicated  by 
the  above  heading.

The  practice  on  the  part of physicians

and  pharmacists  of  forming  a  partner­
ship  in  prescribing  and dispensing  on  a 
percentage  basis 
is  a  common  and  in­
iquitous  one.  Dishonesty  barely  serves 
to  cover  the  meaning  of  the  habit,  as 
the  physician  who  will  scheme  to  divert 
his  prescriptions  from  their  ordinary 
channel  for  extra  gain  to  which  he  has 
neither  moral  nor  legal  right,  is  not  act­
ing  honestly,  and  the  pharmacist  who 
will  collude  with  him  is  in  no  sense  ac­
tuated  by  lofty,  honorable  and  dignified 
business  principles.

The  patient 

is  always  the  unwilling 
sufferer;  and,  fortunately  for  the  con­
spirators  is  unaware  of  their  connivance 
to  make  the  extra  sum  out  of  him.

The  physician is  entitled  to and ought 
to  be  satisfied  with  the  fee  he  exacts  as 
a  just  recompense  for  his  serivces.  The 
druggist,  in  like  manner,  is  fairly  de­
serving  of  a  reasonable  profit  for  his 
knowledge,  skill  and  career,  and  the 
patient  to  just  and  honorable  treatment 
by  both  the  physician  and  druggist.

The  physician  wild  will  ask  for  and 
receive  a  commission  from  a  druggist 
can  not  well  reason  that he  is  merely  re­
ceiving  a  share  of  the  profit  on  what  he 
turn  in,as  under  no  law  or rule  of  ethics 
has  he  the  right  to  turn  in  to  any  spe­
cial  place  the  prescriptions  he  writes, 
nor  can  he  expect  the  druggist  who  will 
be  dishonorable  enough  to  so  bargain 
with  him,  to  prove  to  be  any  more phil­
anthropic  than  he  is  himself.  The  phy­
sician  who  receives  his  price  can  not 
entertain  true  respect  for  the  giver,  and 
the  giver  can  not  hold  a  very  exalted 
opinion  of  the  receiver’s  interest  in  his 
patients.

Between  the  two  it  would  be  hard  to 
decide  as  to  the  more  culpable;  but 
while  the  act  of  the  physician  may  not 
hurt  his  own  profession,  the  act  of  his 
partner  does  that  of  pharmacy.  In  hon­
orable  competition  every  druggist  has  a 
fair  show,  but  in  dealings  from  which 
both  honor  and  competition  have  been 
abstracted  by  collusion  the  majority  are 
sure  to  suffer,  and  all  the  more  acutely 
because  in  principle  the  practice  is  un­
ethical,  unprofessional,  undignified,  un­
principled,  ungenerous,  unkind  and  un­
just  to  all  concerned.—Canadian  Drug- 
gist.

The  Drug;  Market.

Opium— Is  firm  at  the  primary  mar­

kets,  but  unchanged  here.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— There 

port.

is  no  change  to  re­

Castor  Oil— Is  steady  at  the  decline 

reported  last  week.

Cocoa  Butter—At  the  last  auction  sale 
at  Amsterdam  higher  prices  were  paid. 
This  market  has  advanced  about  2c  per 
pound.

Glycerine—There 

is  a  very  firm  un­
dertone  to  this  article.  Crude  is  higher.
Dynamite  Glycerin— Has  advanced. 
There 
little  doubt  but  that  prices 
will  be  higher  when  the  fall  demand 
starts.

Manna— Is  very  scarce  and  has  ad­

is 

vanced.5c  per  pound.

Balsam  Fir,  Canada—It 

is  reported 
that  the  supply  is  a  large  one  and  that 
the 
lower  prices  will  rule  this  winter, 
although  there  is  no  change  as  yet.

is  very  firm. 

Oil  Peppermint— Has  again  advanced 
and 
is  reported  that 
there  are  thousands  of  pounds  of  Japan­
in  transit.  What  effect  this 
ese  oil 
will  have  on  the  market  on  arrival 
is 
uncertain.

It 

Oil  Tansy— Is  scarce  and  has been ad­

Oil  Spearmint— Is 

in  small  supply 

vanced.

and  higher.

Make  Tour  Fountain Attractive.

If  you  made 

it  attractive  la9t  year, 
make  it  more  so  this  year.  Get  some­
thing  new.  One  of  the  best  attractions 
at  the  fountain 
is  a  decorated  cake  of 
ice.  Take  a 
large  tin  candy  tray  and 
set  it  in a  convenient  place  on the  coun­
ter  near  the  front  door.  With  an  awl 
punch  a  hole  in  one  corner  to  carry  off 
the  water,  which  can  drip  in  the  sink 
or  a  pail  back  of  the  counter.  ■  Place  in 
the  pan  a  large  cake  of  clear  ice,  100 to 
200  pounds.  With  an  ice  shaver or  pick 
chip  out  a  large  round  bole  in  the  top of 
the  cake  and  set  in  a  large  crushed fruit 
or  punch  bowl.  Now  dig  out  little  holes 
around  in  the  ice  and  put  in  pieces  of 
lemons  or  oranges  cut  fancy,  get  one  or 
two  pineapples  to  set  on  top,  or  cut  one 
in  two  and  place half on each  side.  Now 
cover  up  the  pan  around  the  edges  with 
roses  and  leaves  and  chipped  ice  or any 
flowers  in  season.  Make  a  crushed  fruit 
syrup  for  the  bowl,  dipping  it  out  with 
a  ladle.  Take  one  or  two  boxes  of  fresh 
strawberries,  hull  them  and  place  in  a 
flat  bottom  kettle  and  cover  over  with 
sugar.  Mash  them  up  and  add  about 
an  equal  quantity  of  syrup.  Put  this 
syrup  in  the  bowl  and  then  place  on  top 
a  few  pieces  of  orange  or  pineapple 
slices.  This  will  make  a  most  delicious 
flavor  for  an  ice  cream  soda,  tempting 
display  and  a  trade  winner—a  good  ad­
vertisement, one  that  the  ladies  will  talk 
about.  Crushed  pineapple  can  be  made 
the  same  way,  and  the  pieces  of  fruit 
on  top  look delicious.  Richard  Foy.

Cleaning;  Compounds.

The  following  formulas  are  said  to 
yield  very  efficient cleaning compounds:
1.  Dissolve  12  parts  uf  soap  in  20 
parts  of  boiling  water,  and,  after  cool­
ing  somewhat,  add  3  parts  of  stiongest 
ammonia  water.  Stir,  and  add,  little 
by little,sufficient  deodorized  benzine  to 
make  100  parts.

2.  The  best  results  are  had  by  using

an  excess  of  alkali:

Common  soap  (shavings)  2  ozs. 
Potass,  carbonate  (crude)  1  oz.
Powdered  borax..............   1  oz.
Ammonia  water..............   2  ozs.
Water  to  make................   1  pt.

Heat  the  water  to  boiling,  digest  in 
it  the  soap,  then  add  the  borax  and  po­
tassium  carbonate,  agitate  until  dis­
solved,  and  strain ;  when  cool  add  the 
ammonia  water  and  cork  well.

3.  Extract  quillaja.............   1 oz.
Borax.................................  1 oz.
Ox-gall  (fresh)...............   4  ozs.
Tallow  soap....................... 15 ozs.

Triturate  the  borax  with  the  extract 
of  quillaja  and  afterward  with  the  ox­
gall,  which  will  cause  at  least  partial 
solution.  Then  thoroughly  incorporate 
with  it  the  soap  so  as  to  produce  a plas­
tic  mass,  which  may  be  moulded  into 
sticks  or  put  into  boxes.

If  no  extract  of  soap-bark  is  at  band, 
soap-bark 
in  shreds  may  be  exhausted 
with  boiling  water,  and  the  liquor  evap­
orated  on  a  water  bath.  One  hundred 
parts  of  bark  yield  about  20  parts  of  ex­
tract.

E lixir  of  Pepsin.

oz.  talcum,  and  allow  to  stand  a  week 
and  filter.

The  wine  is  detannated  with hydrated 
oxide  of  iron.  If  sherry  is  used  in  place 
of  muscatel,  30  drops  of  oil  of  orange 
should  be  added  to  improve  the  flavor. 
To  test the  finished  product  add  1  dr.  to 
2  pints.of  fresh  milk,previously warmed 
to  100  deg.  Fahrenheit,  and  stir;  in 
fifteen  minutes  a  firm  curd  should  be 
formed.  ____ _

Blackberry  Cordial.

Ripe  blackberries............   1  pt.
Blackberry  root...............   1  oz.
Mace..................................   1  dr.
Cloves.................................  1  dr.
A llspice.............................   1  dr.
Cassia.................................  1  dr.
G inger...............................  1  dr.
Port  Wine.........................   4  ozs.
Alcohol..............................   2  ozs.
Water,  q.  s.
Express  the 

juice  from  the  berries 
and  add  sufficient  water  through  the 
residue  to  make  the  liquid  measure  12 
fluid  ounces;  add  the  wine  and  alcohol, 
mix  the  drugs  and  grind  to  a  moderate­
ly  fine  powder,  moisten  with  the  liquid 
before  mentioned,  pack  lightly  in  a per­
colator,  soak  with  menstruum,  macerate 
for  24  hours,  and  then  percolate,  pass­
ing  the  remainder  of  the  liquid  through 
the  drug.  Make  up  the  required  quan­
tity  with  enough  menstruum  consisting 
of  alcohol and  water  in  the proportion  of 
one  of  the  former  to  four  of  the  latter.

Prescription  Sign.

An  enterprising  Brooklyn druggist has 
a  sign,  which  greets  a  customer  on  en­
tering  bis  store,  showing  a  physician 
handing  a  prescription  to  a  patient  and 
underneath  these  words:

Where  will  1  take  it?

The  question  often  arises  after  you 
have  consulted  the  best  physician  and 
have  received  his  prescription.

Take  it  to---- Pharmacy.

where  they  exercise  the  greatest  care  in 
getting  the  right  drug,  the  right  quan­
tity,  and  make  sure  it  is  right.

We  conduct  our  prescription  depart­
ment  as  the  best  druggist  should.  This 
is  the  answer  to  the  question.

Where  will  I  take  it?

Gum  Arabic  Produced  by  Ants.

Walter  Busse,  who  has  been 

investi­
gating  the  gum  production  of  German 
East  Africa,  states  that  practically  all 
secretion  of  gum  in  that  country  is  pro­
voked  by  ants.  The  ants  perforate  the 
bark  of  the  acacia  to  gain  admittance 
into  the  wood,  where  they  lay  their eggs 
in  the  excavations  which  are  sometimes 
of  considerable  extent. 
The  acacias 
with 
soft  wood  generally  show  few 
wounds  of  this  kind;  the  hard  wood 
acacias  are  riddled  with  them,  each 
perforation  being  marked  with  a  glob­
ule  of  gum.  The  ant  that  produces  the 
gum  makes  no  use  of  it;  it  is  only  an 
obstruction  to  her  work,  since  it  stops 
up  the  galleries  she  hollows  out.  An­
other  species  of  ant,  however,  some­
times  attacks  the  exuded  gum  before 
it 
has  become  completely  hardened,  and 
gives 
it  the  peculiar  appearance  well 
known  to  collectors.

Deception  is  the  worst  kind  of  busi­
ness  policy  to  be  pursued  by  any  man 
in  any  business.

Granular  pepsin,  U.  S.  P..........512  grs.
Granular  rennet  (concent.)........ 512  grs.
Distilled  water....................................  8 ozs.
Glycerin...............................................   4 ozs.
Deodorized  alcohol.............................   8 ozs.
Detannated  muscatel  wine  to 

m ake.................................................  4 pts.
Mix  the  water  and  glycerin,  add  the 
pepsin  and  rennet,  and  allow  them  to 
stand  for  three  or  four  hours,  until  they 
are  apparently  dissolved. 
Then  add 
the  deodorized  alcohol  and  sufficient 
wine  to  make  4  pints.  Mix  with  one

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

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LE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

H.

8
76
17
29
45
6
10
14
15
53
5
20
40

6
8
15
14
25
00
50
00

24
8
60

55
70
65
50

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
20

25
30
12
14
15
17

16
25
75
40
15
2
80
7

18
25
36

40
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
65
14
12
30
60
40
55
13
14
16
6»
40
00
«5
35
75
60
40
10
45
45
00

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25
60
20
20
20

20
60
25
66
2075
85
80
85
75
10
40

15®  i 25

Conlum Mac............   80S  90
Copaiba...................  l 
ib®  l 26
Cubebse...................   i 
30®  l 35
Exechthltos............  l oo® l  10
Erigeron.................  i 
oo®  l io
Gaultheria..............  2 00® 2 10
®  75
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal., 
so®  60
Hedeoma............ 
l  80®  1  85
Junipera.................  i 50® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Limonis..................   l 
Mentba Piper.........   2 50® 2 60
Mentha Verld.........   l  90®  2 00
Morrhiue, ]gal.........   2 00® 2  10
Myrcla......................4 
Olive.......................  76® 3 oo
Plcis Llqulda........... 
io®  12
®  35
Plcls Llqulda,  gal... 
Rlctna.....................   94®  1  00
Rosmarlnl...............  
®  1  00
Rosse, ounce............   6 00® 6 50
Succlnl....................  40®  45
Sabina....................  90®  l oo
Santal.....................   2 
75® 7 oo
Sassafras.................  55®  60
®  66
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
Tiglfl.......................  1 
50®  1 60
Thyme.....................   40® 
so
Thyme, opt..............  @  1  60
Theobromas...........  15®  20

oo® 4 50

Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
15® 
18
13®  16
Bichromate............  
Bromide.................  52®  57
C arb.......................  
12®  15
Chlorate... po. 17@19  16®  18
Cyanide...................  34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 so® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7® 
10
Potass  Nltras.........  
6® 
8
Prus slate.................  23®  26
Sulphate po............  
is®  18

Radix

10® 

Aconltum.................  20®  26
Althse......................  30®  33
Anchusa................. 
12
Arum  po................. 
®  25
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentiana.........po. 15  12®  15
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @  75
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12® 
15
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris plOX...po. 35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Ms........... 
®  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei.........................  76®  1  00
Rhel, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhel, pv..................   75®  1 36
Splgella...................  35®  38
Sangulnarla...po.  15 
18
Serpentaria............   60®  55
Senega.................... 
60®  65
®  40
Smllax, officinalis H. 
Smllax, M...............   @  25
ScllUe..............po. 35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po.................  @  25
®  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  25®  27

® 

Semen

Anlsum.......... po.  18 
®  15
Apium (graveleons).  13® 
15
Bird, is.................... 
4® 
6
Carul...............po.  15 
10®  11
Cardamon...............   1 25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............  
8® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......  
5®  6
Cydonium...............   75®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
15®  16
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @  10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
7® 
L lnl.........................  4  @  6
Llni, grd...... bbl. 4 
6
4  ® 
Lobelia.......... ........   1 50®  1  55
Pharlarls Canarian..  5  @ 
6
R apa.......................  5  ®  R
Slnapls  Alba........... 
9®  10
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spiritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................   1  26® 1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  65® 2 00
Junlperls  Co...........  1 75® 3 50
Saacnarum  N. E  ...  l 90® 2  10
Spt. Vinl Galll.........  1 75® 6 50
vinl Oporto............   1 25® 2 00
Vinl Alba................   1  26® 2  00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2  50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50® 2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  1 50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  1 26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @100
Hard, for slate use..  @  76
Yellow  R e ef,  for
slate use...............   @  1 40
Syrups

Acacia....................  @  6°
Auranti Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................  
®  60
®  60
Ipecac...................... 
Ferrl Iod.................  @  50
Rhel Arom.............. 
®  50
Smllax  Officinalis... 
50®  60
®  go
Senega.................... 
Bottle....................  
  A  50

Settle  Co.................  @  50
Tolutan...................   @  50
Prunus  vlrg............   @  50

Miscellaneous 

Tinctures
Aconltum Napellis R 
60
Aconitum Napellis F 
so
Aloes....................... 
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
50
Arnica....................  
so
Assafcetlda.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
60
Auranti Cortex.......  
so
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
so
Barosma..................  
Cantharldes............  
75
50
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
75
Cardamon Co..........  
75
1  00
Castor.....................  
so
Catechu)................... 
Cinchona................. 
so
Cinchona Co............  
60
5o
Columba................. 
5o
Cubebe.................... 
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
5o
5o
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
So
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
So
Ferrl  Chlorldum__ 
35
So
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Gulaca.....................  
So
Gulaca ammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus............ 
So
Iodine  .................... 
75
Iodine, colorless...... 
7s
K ino.......................  
5o
So
Lobelia.................... 
5¿
Myrrh..................... 
Nux Vomica............  
60
Opil.......................... 
75
So
Opll, comphorated.. 
Opli, deodorized...... 
1  So
So
Quassia................... 
Eg
Rhalany................... 
So
Rhel......................... 
Sanguinaria........... . 
5¿
5®
Serpentaria............. 
Strom onium............  
60
Tolutan................... 
60
Valerian  ................. 
ejj
Veratrum  Verlde... 
60
Zingiber..................  
2¿
.Ether, Spts.Nlt.? F  30®  35
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2M® 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto...................   40®  50
Antlmonl, po........... 
5
4® 
Antlmonlei Potass T  40®  50
Antipyrin...............   @  25
Antlfebrin..............  @  20
Argent! Nltras, oz...  @  46
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45®  50
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65®  1  70
Calcium Chlor.,  is...  ® 
9
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @ 
10
12
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @ 
Cantharldes, Rus. po  @ 
80
Capslci Fructus, af..  @ 
i5
Capsid  Fructus, po.  @ 1 5
Capslci FructusB, po  @  15
Caryqphyllus. .po. 15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
55®  60
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  36
Centrarla.................   @  10
Cetaceum.................  @  45
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  3S@ 1  60
Chondrus................   20®  25
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonldine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   4 05® 4  75
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
75
Creosotum...............   @  45
Creta............bbl. 75  @  2
Creta, prep...... .......  @ 
5
Creta, preelp........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus....................  
25®  30
Cudbear..................   @  24
Cuprl Sulph............   6M@ 
8
Dextrine................. 
7® 
10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numbers.  @ 
8
Emery, po................  @ 
6
E rgota.........po. 90  85®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla.......................   @  23
Gambler................. 
9
8® 
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
11®  13
Glue,  white............   15®  25
Glycerlna................   17 M@  25
Grana Paradlsi........  @  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @  1 00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @  1  10 
Hydrarg Ammonlatl  @ 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  50®  60
Hydrargyrum.........   @  85
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®  70
Indigo.....................   75® 1 00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3  60
Iodoform.................  3 60® 3  85
Lupulin....................  @  50
Lycopodium............   66®  70
M ads...................... 
66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @  25
LlquorPotassArslnlt  10®  12
2® 
3
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
O  ltf 
Magnesia. 8nlph,bbl 
Mannla.8 .  F — ,.lr(  HQ  88

Varnishes

Spirits  Turpentine.. 

20® 22 Linseed, pure raw... 

Menthol....................
@ 6 00 Seidlltz Mixture......
68
65
Morphia, S„ P. & W.  2  15@ 2 40 Slnapls....................
67
® 18 Linseed,  Dolled........  66
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q. 2  15®  2 40 Slnapls,  opt............
80
@ 30 Neatsfoot, winter str  65
Morphia, Mal........... 2  15® 2 40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
60
55
Moschus  Canton__
@ 40 V oes....................
@ 41
Myristlca, No. 1.......
Paints  bb l. LB.
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
@ 41
Nux Vomlca...po. 16
® 10 Soda, Boras..............
9® 11
9® 11 Red  Venetian..........  1M  2 @8
Os Sepia....................
35® 37 Soda,  Boras, po.......
25® 27 Ochre, yellow  Mars.  1M  2 @4
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
ill 2 @3
1M@ 2 Ochre, yellow Ber... 
D  Co......................
@  1 00 Soda,  Carb...............
3® 5 Putty,  commercial..  2*  2V&@3
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash................. 3M@ 4 Putty, strictly  pure.  2J4  2M@3
doz....................... .
@ 2 Vermilion,  P rim e
Plcls Llq., quarts__
@  1 00 Soda, Sulphas..........
13® 16
American.............  
Plcls Llq., plnts.......
@ 85 Spts. Cologne............
@ 2 60
70® 75
50® 55 Vermilion, English.. 
Pil Hydrarg. ,.po. 80
@ 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
@ 2 00 Green,  Paris............  14H@  IS*
Piper  Nigra...po. 22
® 18 Spts. Myrcla Dom...
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 16
Piper  Alba__ po. 36
® 30 Spts. Vinl Rect.  bbl.
@
Lead, red..................  S  @ 6H
Pllx Burgun.............
@ 7 Spts. Vinl Rect. ttbbl
@
Lead,  white..............  6  @ 6*
Plumbl Äcet.............
10® 12 Spts. Vinl Rect. lOgal
@
Whiting, white Span  @ 90
Pulvis Ipecac et Opli 1  30®  1 50 Spts. Vinl Rect. 5 gal
@
80® 1 05 Whiting, gliders’__   @ 95
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal...
2M@ 4 White, Paris, Amer.  @  l  25
& P. D. Co., doz...
@ 75 Sulphur,  Subl..........
25® 30 Sulphur, Roll............ 2M@ 3M Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Clin.........................   @  l  40
Qüasstae....................
8® 10 Tamarinds...............
8® 10
28® 30 Universal Prepared.  1  10®  l  20
25® 35 Terebenth Venice...
Quinta, S. P. &  W...
75® 35 Theobromae..............
Qulnla, S.  German..
50® 55
Quinta, N. Y.............
25® 35 Vanilla...................... 9 00®16 00
Rubla T ln c to ru m __
12® 14 Zlncl Sulph..............
7® 8
Saccharum Lactls pv
20® 22
Saladn...................... 4  50®  4 76
Sanguls  Draconls...
40® 50
Sapö, W....................
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
SapoM....................
10® 12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo G......................
@ 15 Lard, No. 1...............

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  l  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60®  1  70
BBIi.  GAL. Coach  Body..............  2 75® 3  00
70 No. 1 Turp Fura.......i oo®  i  10
90 Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60
65 Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70® 79

Wholesale Merchants’  A 
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Buyers’  Excursion

Association 

Grand  Rapids  Board  of Trade

to  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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85
60

From  August  25  to September 10,  1902, both days inclusive

At  one and  one-third  fare  for the round 
tiip  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.
j 
A   cordial  invitation  is  hereby  extended 
to  our patrons  and to  all  retailers  and  their 
families to visit  Grand  Rapids.

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.

Our  Holiday  Line  will  be  on  exhibi­
tion  on  above  dates  in  charge  of  our  Mr. 
Dudley. 

.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

A D V A N C E D
Boneless  Ham
P lu g  Tobacco

D E C L IN E D

Galvanized  Iron  Fails
Lard  in  Tierces
Navy  Beans

Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.

95
1  00
1  20
1  10
1  15
1  ?5
3 00

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.......
lava and Mocha Blend.......
Boston Combination...........
Ja-Vo Blend.........................
Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend.................
Distributed by Olney & Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott & Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. &  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Melsel  & 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Fielbach 
Co., Toledo.
No.  9..................  
8 Vi
No. 10...................................9Vi
No. 12. ...................................12
No. 14....................................14
No. 16....................................16
No. 18.................................... 18
NO. 20....................................20
No. 22....................................22
NO. 24....................................24
No. 26....................................26
NO. 28.................................... 28
BeUe Isle..........................   20
Bed  Cross...........................24
Colonial.............................. 26
Juvo.................................... 28
Koran.................................. 14

Telfer 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...................................13
African.................................12
Fancy African.....................17
O  G...................................... 25
P. G .....................................31
Arabian............................  

G uatem ala

Mexican

Ja v a

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

21

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

E xtract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

75 
90 
1 05 
1  50

80 
95 
1  10

1  20 
1  40 
1  65 
1  85

2  10

1 90

..

Succotash
Fair........................
Good.......................
Fancy 
Tomatoes
F air....................   ••
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Gallons...................
B arrels

CARBON OILS 

Eocene.......................  
§ n
§16
Perfection...................... 
Diamond White.........   @ 9
D. 8. Gasoline............  
§12Vi
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10V4
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine.........................19
Black,winter.............  9  @10M

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

CATSUP

CHEESE

@11 

aim 
@u 
@12 @uvi
@'i* 
@10* 
@11 Vi 
@12 
.  ,   ,
@11
14@1B
@66
@}7
13@14
60@75
19@20

Acme....................
Amboy.................
Carson City..........
Elsie......................
Emblem...............
Gem......................
Gold Medal...........
Ideal.....................
Jersey...................
Riverside.............. 
Brick.......................  
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago.................  
CHEWING GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Ja c k ...................... 
»
Largest Gum  Made.........  
60
Sen Sen....... ..................... 
,  X
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  OO
Sugar  Loaf.......................   ®
Yucatan............................ 
80

CHICORY

 

Bulk...................... 
6
Bed........................................I
Eagle....................................  *
Franck’s .............................   *
Schener’s .............................  6

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

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

Runkel Bros.

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

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

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

Ju te

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

50 ft. 
6f ft.. 
70 ft.

59 ft.
60 ft. 
70 ft. 
80 ft.

Cotton  Victor

Cotton Windsor

Cotton Braided
40 ft....................................
5» ft...................................
70 f t ..................................
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long....
No. 19, each 100 ft long....

COCOA

Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, Vis  .......................   36
Colonial, Vis.........................  33
Epps.....................................  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Vis..................  12
Van Houten, Vis..................   20
Van Houten, Vis..................  40
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Vis..........................   41
Wilbur. Vis..........................   42
Dunham’s Vis...................  26
Dunham’s Vis and Vis......  26Vi
Dunham’s  Vis...................  27
Dunham’s  Vis..................   28
Bulk..................................  13

COCOANUT

2Vi
3
4

COCOA SHELLS
@1  65 20 lb. bags......................
@1  80 Less quantity.................
@1 30 Pound packages...........
@  90
l  40
3X
5
6

COFFEE
Roasted 

F. M. C. brands

Mandehllng.........................30Vi
Purity............ .....................28
N oi  Hotel.......................... 28
Monogram..........................26
Specl&l Hotel.......................23
Parkerhouse........................21
Honolulu  ............................17
Fancy  Maracaibo............... 16
Maracaibo................. ..........13
Porto Rican........................ 15
Marexo.................... JIVJ

1  10 
1 40

Gall Borden Eagle............... 6 40
Crown................................... 5 90
Daisy.....................................4 70
Champion.............................4 25
Magnolia..............................4 oo
Challenge..............................< 10
Dime.....................................3 36
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 oo
Milkmaid.............................. 6 10
Tip  Top................................3 85
Nestles................................. 4 25
Highland Cream..................5 00
St. Charles Cream................ 4 60
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
evi
New York.........................  6Vi
Family.............................  
evi
Salted................................ 
6 Vi
Wolverine.........................  7

CRACKERS

B utter

Soda

Oyster

Soda  XXX.......................  
7
Soda, City.........................  
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................   13
..............................  7Vi
Faust 
Farina............................... 
7
7Vi
Extra Farina....................  
7
Sal tine Oyster................... 
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......................  10Vi
Cubans..............................  n  Vi
Currant Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  
9
Ginger Gems,l’rgeorsm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C —  
6Vi
lOVi
Gladiator........................... 
Grandma Cakes................ 
9
Graham Crackers............. 
8
Graham  Wafers................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers.................   12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................   8
Jumbles, Honey................  12
Lady Fingers....................   12
Lemon Snaps....................   12
Lemon Wafers.................   16
Marshmallow....................  16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................   HVi
Milk Biscuit......................  7Vi
Molasses  Cake.................  
8
Molasses Bar.................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................   12*
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp....................   9
Orange Gem...................... 
9
Penny Cake......................  8
7Vi
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
Pretzelettes, hand made..  _8Vi
Pretzels, hand  made.......  
8Vi
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch....................   7*
8
Sugar Cake.......................  
Sugar Cream. XXX.........  
8
Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................   16
Vienna Crimp.................. 
8
E. J. Kruce & Co. ’s baked good

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California Prunes

Sundrled.........................  @6*
Evaporated, 60 lb. boxes.  @10*
100-120 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 4
90-100 26 lb. boxes__ ..  ®  4%
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 5*
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 53i
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @6Vi
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @  IX
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @  8%
9
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes__

Vi cent less In 50 lb. cases 

California F ru its

Peel

Citron

Raisins

C urrants

Apricots.....................  @ll Vi
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  
8V4
Peaches......................  @9Vf
Pears.......................... 9Vi
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
Leghorn...................................11
Corsican...........................  12*
California, l lb.  package....
Imported, l lb package....... 7
Imported, bulk....................  6X
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75 
1  90
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
7
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
m
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
8V4
L. M., Seeded, l  lb...... 9K@to
8
L. M., Seeded, & lb .... 
Sultanas, b u lk ....................ll
Sultanas, package..............llVi
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  5*
Medium Hand Picked 
l 80
Brown Holland................... 2  25
241 lb. packages.................l  18
Bulk, per 100 Tbs..................2  50
Flake, 50 lb. sack................    90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl.................5 00
Pearl, loo lb. sack...............2 so
M accaronl and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box...........2 50

H om iny

F arin a

Beans

Index to  Markets

B y   Colum ns

 

C

B

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H

A

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D
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Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastlne............................ 
l
Ammonia..............................  
l
Axle Grease..........................  
l
Baking Powder......................  1
Bath Brick............................ 
l
Bluing.. 
-  ..........................   1
Breakfast Food....................  1
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes.................................  1
Butter Color..........................   1
Candles.................................   if
Candles..................................  J
Canned Goods..................  
3
Catsup...................................  *
Carbon Oils..........................   3
Cheese....................................  8
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory.......................... 
  3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoanut..............................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................  4
Coupon Books.......................  15
Crackers...............................  *
Cream T artar.......................  5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters...................  13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
Fly  Paper..............................  6
Fresh Meats........................   6
Fruits....................................  M
Gelatine.................................  J
Grain Bags............................  7
Grains and Flour.................  7
Herbs....................................  7
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo....................................  7
Jelly......................................  7
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  1»
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........................................   #
Salt  Fish...............................  »
Seeds.....................................   8
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   13
Soap.......................................  »
Soda.......................................  1°
Spices..............- ...................   10
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................   11
Syrups...................................   1°
Table Sauce..........................   u
T e a......................................   ll
Tobacco.................................  u
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.....................13
Wlcklng.................................  18
Woodenwam.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
13
Yeast  Oaks.

V
w

B
S

M

N

P

L

o

doz.  gross

AXLE GREASE
Aurora........................ 56 
Castor  Oil.................... 60 
Diamond......................50 
Frazer’s .......................75 
1XL Golden, tin boxes 75 

CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s...............l2Vi
Paraffine, 6s........................lOVi
Paraffine, 12s.......................u
wtoklng 
17

CANNED  GOODS 

6 oo
7 00
4 25
9 oo
9 00

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

B lackberries

Standards ...............
Beans
Baked.............. 
Bed Kidney............  
String...................... 
Wax......................... 
Blueberries
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout

l  oo@i  30
75®  85
70
75

1  10 
3 35

80

90

l 00
l 50

lb. cans, Spiced..............  190

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

Clam  Bouillon

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

85

French  Peas

Gooseberries

80 
85 
1 00
22
19
J5
“
90
85
2  15
3 60 
2 40
1  75
2  80
1 76
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Sur Extra Fine................. 
Extra  Fine.......................  
Fine................................... 
Moyen............................... 
Standard................
Hom iny
Standard...
Lobster
Star, Vi lb.................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, l lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, lib .............
Tomato, 2 lb............
M ushrooms
H otels......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, lib ..............
Cove, 21b.................
Cove, l lb  Oval........
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................
Pears
Standard.................
Fancy.......................
Marrowfat..............
Early June..............
Early June  Sifted..
Plum s
Plums......................
Pineapple
Grated....................
Sliced.......................
Pum pkin
F a ir.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
1  15
Standard..................
Vi lb. cans..........................  3 75
*  lb, cans..........................  7 00
1 lb. can...........................   12 00
Salmon
Columbia River, tails
Columbia River, flats
Red Alaska..............
Pink Alaska............
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, Vis...........
Domestic, V»s.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, Vis.........
California Vis..........
French, vis..............
French, Vis..............
Standard.................
Fancy.................... .

1  55
96
8E@  90
1  65@1  85
1 00
1  25
1  00
1  00
1  60
85
1  25@2 75
1  35@2  55

Raspberries
Russian  Cavler

Straw berries

U@14
17@24
7@14
18@28

Peas

Mica, tin boxes......... 75 
9 00
Paragon.............. .  ..56  8 00

BAKING POW DER 

H lb. cans,  4 doz. case.......3 75
% lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
l lb. cans, 
l doz. case.......3 75
5 lb. cans,  Vi doz. case.......8 oo

Egg

V4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
Vi lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1 60

Royal

lOcslze....  90 
Vi lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans,  l  90 
Vi  lb. cans 2 50 
if lb. cans 3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
31b. 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

GEBB HUT FLAKES

BROOMS

Cases, 36 packages...................4 50
Five case lots............................ 4 40
No. 1 Carpet..............................2 70
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 3 Carpet..............................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..............................l 75
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk........... . 
Fancy Whisk............................ l 10
Warehouse............................... 3 so

85

BRUSHES 

M ilwaukee  Dustless

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

Scrub

Shoe

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................   95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8 ............. 
1  00
No. 7...................................... 1 30
No. 4...................................... 1 70
No. 8...................................... 1 90
No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.......................................1 10
No. 1.........   
1 75
  1  25
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size 
W., R. & Co.’8,-250 size 
  2 00

BUTTER  COLOR

Stove

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

Im ported.

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

8
PICKLES
Medium

Small

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

Barrels, 2,400 count............9 60
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 5  26

PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5.572, Special................   1  75
No  98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2  00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2 25 

POTASH 

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s .............................400
Penna Salt Co.’s.................. 3 00

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

@17 ’5
Mess........................  
Back...................... 
@19 60
Clear back...............   @20  so
Shortcut.................  @19  26
Pig................... 
2200
Bean........................   @18  01
Family Mess Loin... 
21  00
Clear....................... 
@19 50

 

Dry  Salt Meats

Bellies...................... 
8 P Bellies...............  
Extra shorts............ 

liM
!2M
11s

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @  i s \  
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @  13* 
Hams, ìeib.average.  @  13M 
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @  13%
Ham dried beef......   @  1254
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
@ io \
Bacon, clear............   !3M@  1454
California hams......   @  10M
@  1954
Boiled Hams.......... 
Picnic Boiled Hams 
@  15M 
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d 
9@  «M
Mince Hams......... 
Lard

9M@  10

@ 8M
@UM
M
54
M
M
%

Compound...............  
Pure......................... 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Pails, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
51b. Palls., advance 
»n, 
advance 
Vegetale..................  
Sausages
Bologna..................
Liver
Frankfort.
P o rk........
Blood........
Tongue....
noauuuwHO.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
14 60
Rump, New............14 oc@is  00

l
1
8M
6
6M 
7t 8 
@8M 
6
0 y%

Pigs’  Feet

Uncolored  B utterine

M bbls., 40 lbs.........
M.bbls......................
1 bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe
Kits, 15 lbs..............
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
M 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,  Ms......
Potted ham,  Ms......
Deviled ham, Ms__
Deviled ham, Ms__
Potted tongue,  Ms..
Potted tongue,  Ms..
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats

1  80
3 40
8 CO
81
1  50
3 00

26
5
12
66
@13M
@14
16M
16
2  60
18 69
2  60
50
90
50
90
50
90

Carolina head.......................7
Carolina No. 1 ..................... 6M
Carolina No. 2 ..................... 6
Broken.................................3%

 

Pearl  Barley

6
Common................  
3 00
Chester..................................2 7fi
Empire..................................3 66
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........1 90
Green, Scotch, bu.................2 10
Split,  lb...............................   4
Rolled Avena, bbl.................6 30
Steel Cut, loo lb. sacks__   3 30
Monarch, bbl........................6 10
Monarch, M bbl....................3 20
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.......... 2 95
Quaker, cases.......................3 20

Boiled  Oats

Peas

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Grits

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

FISHING  TACKLE

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages...... 2 00
East India...........................   3%
German, sacks....................   3%
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............ 4M
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks................3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......6M
Cracked, bulk......................  314
24 2 ft. packages................. 2 50
54 to 1 inch...........................  6
154 to 2 Inches......................  7
154 to 2  inches...................... 
9
IK to 2 inches.................... 
11
2 inches.................................  15
3 inches.................................  30
No. 1,10 feet.........................  5
No. 2,15 feet.........................  7
No. 3,15 feet......................... 
9
No. 4,15 feet.........................  10
No. 5,15 feet.........................  11
No. 6,15 feet.........................  12
No. 7,16 feet.........................  15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  2o
Small....................................  20
Medium................................  26
L arge..................................   34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per  doz........  50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo. 18 f t . per doz........  80
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE  & JEN K S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m. 1  20  1 oz full m.  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m. 1  25 
Nn.afan’y  8  15  No. sfan’y  1  76

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

1). C. Lemon 
11. C. Vanilla
2 OZ......... 
75  2 OZ.........   1  24
3 OZ.........   1 00  3 0Z.........  1  60
6 OZ.........   2 00  4 OZ.........   2 00
.1 5 2   No. 3 T...  2 08
No. 4T 
O ur 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
Tanglefoot, per  case...........3 20

FLY  PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

Carcass....................   654© #
Forequarters.........  
6  ©  654
8  @10
Hindquarters.........  
Loins..........................  9 
8 
Bibs...........................  
Rounds....................  754© 9
Chucks....................... 
5 
Plates........................   5 ©
Dressed.....................   8 @ 854
Loins.......................  1254013
@>1
Boston Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
©1014
Leaf  Lard................ 
©12
M utton
Carcass....................  0  @ ?
Lambs............... 
 
Carcass....................  654© 8

754© 954

P ork

Veal

W heat

GELATINE

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

GRAIN  BAGS 

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

66
61

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

W inter  W heat  Flour

Local Brands 

Spring W heat Flour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents........................... .  4 30
Second Patent................. .  3 8i
Straight........................... .  3 60
Second Straight.............. .  3 3)
Clear ............................... .  3  10
Graham.......................... .  3 30
Buckwheat..................... .  4  60
Rye................................. .  3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 54s.....................   3 85
Diamond 54s.....................  3 85
Diamond 54s.....................  3 85
Quaker 54s........................   3 90
Quaker Ms........................  3 so
Quaker 54s........................  3 90
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms___ _  4 50
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s.........   4 40
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4 40 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 40 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 54s.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4 30
Duluth  Imperial 54s........   4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  54s......................  
4 45
Wlngold  Ms.................... 
4 36
Wingold  54s....................  4 26
Ceresota 54s.....................   4 40
Ceresota Ms......................  4 30
Ceresota 54a.....................   4  20
Laurel  Ms........................   4  40
Laurel  Ms.........................  4  30
Laurel  54s.........................  4  20
Laurel Ms and Ms paper..  4 20 
Bolted..............................   3 00
Granulated.......................  3  10
St. Car Feed, screened....  28 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  27 60
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  26 50
Winter Wheat Bran.........  18 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  22 00
Screenings.......................  20 00
Car  lots new....................  33
Car lots, old......................  52
Less than car lots............
Com, oar  lots..................   60
No. 1 Timothy oar lots__  o9 00
No. X Timothy ton lots__ 12 00
Sage........................................ 15
Hops.......................................16
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves— ...................26

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Feed and  MlUstufll)

Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

Oats

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
3. F., 2,3 and 6 lb. boxes....... 60

INDIGO

JELLY

6 lb. palls.per doz...........  1  >6
15 lb. palls............................  40
301b. pails............................  80

LICORICE

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

MEAT EXTRACTS

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle..........  
Choice..............................  
F air.................................. 
Good................................. 

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

40
35
26
22

@14
@1254
@6

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ l  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.................3 60
Bayle’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.......................  
l «
Stuffed. 10 oz......................  2 30
Clay, No. 216..............................l 70
Clay, T. D„ full count.........   66
Cob, No. 8............................  86

PIPES

29

II

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
40 l-lb.  packages.............. 

6
8M

SYRUPS

Corn

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

P u re  Cane

F air.....................................  16
Good...................................   20
Choice.................................  %

STOVE POLISH

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

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

SUGAR

Domino.............................  680
Cut Loaf.............................. 5 20
Crushed............................  5 20
Cubes................ ..............   4 %
Powdered.........................  4 80
Coarse  Powdered............   4 80
XXXX Powdered.............  4 85
Fine Granulated...............   4 70
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran____  4 90
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4 85
Mould A............................  6 os
Diamond A.......................  4 70
Confectioner’s A..............  4 60
No.  1, Columbia A...........  4 40
No.  2, Windsor A............   4 35
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 36
No.  4,Phoenix  A ............   430
No.  5, Empire A..............  4 25
NO.  6................................  4 20
No  1 
«10
NO.  8...............................  4 00
No.  o.  .............................   3 95
NO. 10................................   3 20
No. 11................................   3 85
NO. 12................................   3 80
NO. 13................................   3 80
NO. 14................................   3 80
NO. 16................................  3 75
NO. 16................................   3

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

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W orces t ershlre.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints.......   5 00
Lea & Perrin’s,  M pints... 
Halford, large..................   3 76
Halford, small..................   2 26

2 76

TEA 
Japan

Gunpowder

Sundried, medium..............81
Sundrled, choice........... ....33
Sundried, 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@22
Moyune, medium......... ......29
Moyune, choice............ ......38
Moyune, fancy.............. ....53
Plngsuey,  medium....... ....28
Plngsuey, choice.................{3
Plngsuey,fancy............ ....43
Young  Hyson
Choice...........................
....30
Fancy............................ ....36
Formosa, fancy...................42
Amoy, medium............. ......25
Amoy, choice................ ---- 32
Medium.........................---- 27
Choice.......................... ......34
Fancy............................---- 42
Ceylon, choice...............---- 82
Fancy............................---- 42

English B reakfast

Oolong

India

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P- Drug Co.’s brands.

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

IO

SEEDS

Anise.  .................................. 9
Canary, Smyrna.................... 354
Caraway............................... 7M
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................   10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird...........................   4
Mustard, white......................7
Poppy....................................  6
Rape.....................................  4
Hnitln Bone..........................14
Handy Box, large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  26
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SHOE  BLACKING

SOAP

JSondGL

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

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Jas. S.  Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box.................................3 45
5 box lots, delivered........... 3  40
10 box lots, delivered........... 3 35
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 65
Calumet Family.............   2  76
Scotch Family................   2  85
Cuba...............................   2  36
Dusky Diamond..............  3  55
Jap Rose........................   3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3 55
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars..............  3 66
Satinet, oval....................  2  50
White  Cloud.................... 4  10
Big Acme........................  4 25
Acme 5c..........................  3 65
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master............................   3 70
Lenox.............................  3 35
Ivory, 6oz.........................4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Schultz & Co. brand-
sta r............  
3 40
 
Search-Light Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 85
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4  OO
Old Country....................  3 40
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........ 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz..................2 40
Boxes.....................................554
Kegs, English........................4M
Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee. In ]ars......   43

SNUFF  •

Scouring

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, 116-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
Pure Ground in B ulk
Allspice............................  
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African...............  
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace............ .................... 
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage........ 
 

 

STARCH

12
12
28
38
55
17
14
66
50
40
36
18
28
20
16
28
48
17
15
18
25
66
18
17
25
20
v

8K

K lngsford’s Corn
40 i-lb . p a c k a g e s................ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-Ib. packages...............
6 lb. packages...............  
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages..................   6
3-lb. packages...................  6M
6-lb. packages...................  6M
40 and 60-lb. boxes............   4
4
Barrels.............................  

3M

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

Cost of packing in  cotton  pock­
ets only Me more than bulk.
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz. .1  90 
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..  95
Durkee’s, large, 1 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 Ms...................3 00

SAL  SODA

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

SALT

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Butter, barrels, 20 I4lb.bags.2  86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67

Common  Grades

100 31b. sacks............................2 25
60 6 lb. sacks............................2 15
2810 lb. sacks.......................... 2 05
66 lb. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks...... ................   22

W arsaw

Ashton

H iggins

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

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock

661b.  sacks..........................   26

Common

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

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Large whole...............  @ 5M
Smal whole.................  @4%
amps or  pricks.........   6  <at »
Pollock.......................   @  3M

H alibut.

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

No. 1100 lbs., 
No. 1  40 lbs.. 
No. 1  10 lbs.. 
No. 1  8 lbs..

Mackerel
Mess 100 lbs......................
Mess  40lbs................
Mess  10 lbs......................
Mess  8 lbs......................
No. 1100 lbs......................
No. l  40 lbs......................
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 lbs......................
No. 2 100 lbs......................
No. 2  40 lbs......................
No. 2  10 lbs. ....................
No. 9  *!»-•
Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoops Mbbl. 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs.
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Scaled.. 
Bloaters.

Herring

6 60 
2 50 
70 
59

10 50
4  60 
1  20 
1 00 
9 CO 
3  90 
1  05
87 
7  75 
3  4" 
'3 
7
10  25
5  25 
@80
90

11

W hltefish

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

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

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 254 pound pockets....7M

S. O. W..............................  35 M
Cigar Clippings, per lb......   2S

3 0

1 2

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

16

Lubetsky Bros, brands

L.  B.........................................35 00
Daily Mall............................... 36 00

P ine  Cnt

P ing

Cadillac................................ 54
Sweet  Loma......................... 33
Hiawatha, 5 lb. p ails..........ril
Hiawatha, .10 lb. palls..........51
Telegram..............................22
Pay C ar................................31
Pratrln Rose......................... 49
Protection............................ 37
Sweet Burley........................38
Tiger....................................37
Bed Cross............................. 39
Palo......................................31
Kvlo......................................33
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................33
American Eagle............ — 31
Standard Navy.....................35
Spear Head, 16 oz................40
Spear Head,  8oz................42
Nobby Twist........................47
JoUyTar..............................35
Old Honesty.........................41
Toddy.,.............  
32
J. T ...................................... 36
Piper Heldsick.....................60
Boot Jack............................. 82
Honey Dip Twist................. 37
Black Standard...................38
Cadillac............................... 38
Forge.................................. 30
Nickel Twist........................50
Sweet Core...........................34
Flat Car............................... 3 '
GreatNavy...........................34
W arpath..............................24
BamOoo, 16 oz......................24
I XL,  51b...........................25
I X L, 16 oz. palls................. 29
Honey Dew......................... 34
Gold  Block...........................34
Flagman..............................37
Chips....................................31
Kiln Dried...........................21
Duke’s Mixture...................37
Duke’s Cameo......................41
Myrtle Navy........................39
Yum Yum, 1H oz................. 38
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........33
Cream...................................35
Corn Cake, 2*4 oz.................22
Corn Cake, lib .....................20
Plow Boy, 1% oz...................37
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz...................36
Peerless,,3*4 oz.....................32
Peerless, 1% oz.................... 34
Air jBrake............................ 36
Cant  Hook...........................10
Country Club................... 32-34
Forex-XXXX...................... 28
Good Indian........................23
Self Binder.....................20-22
Sliver 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, l lb. balls..................   7*4

VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand... 11
Pure cider, Bed Star.......... ll
Pure Cider, Koblnson.........ll
Pure Cider,  Silver...............ll
WASHING  POW DER
Diamond  Flake.................2 75
Gold  Brick..........................3 25
Gold Dust, regular............. 4 60
Gold Dust, 5c...................... 4 00
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb...............   3 90
Pearline..............................2 75
Soapine............................... 4  10
Babbitt’s 1776.....................   3 75
Boseine................................3 50
Armour’s.............................3 70
Nine O’clock....................... 3 35
Wisdom.............................. 3 80
Seourine..............................3 50
Rub-No-More......................3 76

WICKING

No. 0, per gross................... 25
No. i, per gross................... 30
No. ?, per gross................... 40
No. 8. per gross................... 55

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bradley  B a tter Boxes

Bushels................................  85
Bushels, wide band............1  15
M arket.................................  30
Splint, large........................6 00
Splint, medium..................5 oo
Splint, small.......................4 oo
Willow Clothes, large.........5 50
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 oo
Willow Clothes. smaU........ 4 75
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........  45
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 6 Oval, 250 In crate........  6Q
Barrel, 5 gals., each..............2 40
Barrel, 10 gals., each............2 55
Barrel, 15 gals., each............2 70
Round head, 5 gross box —   60
Round head, cartons...........  76
Humpty Dumpty.................2 25
No. 1, complete...................  29
No. 2, complete...................  18

B a tte r Plates

Clothes  Pins 

Egg Crates

Churns

Faucets

Tabs

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

W ash  Boards

Cork lined, 8 In....................   65
Cork lined, 9 In....................   75
Cork lined, 10 in...................  85
Cedar. 8 In............................  65
Troian spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  85
No l common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 B>. cotton mop heads...... 1 25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Pails
hoop Standard.1  50
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard.1  65
2- 
wire,  Cable.....1  60
3- wlre,  Cable...................... l 80
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
Hardwood.......................... 2 60
Softwood.............................2 75
Banquet.............................. 1 50
Ideal....................................1  50
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes..............  65
Rat, wood............................  80
Rat, spring...........................   75
20-lnch, Standard, No. 1...... 7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2......6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3...... 6 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. l........... 7 50
18-inch, Cable,  No. 2............6 50
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3........... 5 50
No. l Fibre..........................9 45
No. 2 Fibre..........................7 96
No. 3 Fibre..........................7 20
Bronze Globe.......................2 50
Dewey................................l 76
Double Acme.......................2 75
Single Acme....................   2 25
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless................... 2 50
Northern Queen................ 2 50
Double Duplex................... 3 00
Good Luck.........................2 75
Universal............................ 2 26
12 In.....................................1 65
14 in.....................................1 85
16 In.....................................2 30
11 In. Butter.........................  75
13 In. Butter........................l  10
16 In. Butter........................1 76
17 In. Butter........................2 75
19 In. Butter........................4 oo
Assorted 13-16-17................ 1  76
Assorted 16-17-19................2 60
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................   1*4
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......  
4
No.  1  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  W*
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz....................... l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz....................l 00
Sunlight, 1*4  doz.................   50
YeastCream, 3 doz............ l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.............l oo
Yeast Foam, 1*4  doz...........  60
FRESH  FISH
Per lb.
White fish..................  m
Trout..........................  ®  9
Black Bass................ io@ 
ll
Halibut......................  @  16
Ciscoes or Herring—   @  5
Bluefish.....................   @  12
Live  Lobster.............   @  20
Boiled Lobster..........   @  22
Cod.............................  @  11
Haddock....................  a   10
No. l Pickerel............  a   7
Pike...........................   a   7
Perch.........................   a  
5
Smoked White........  @  10
Red Snapper............. 
a
Col River  Salmon...12*4@  13
18
Mackerel

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

Wood  Bowls

HIDES AND  PELTS

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

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

@ 7
@ 6
@  9
@ 8
@ 9*4
@  8
@10*4
@ 9

50@1  60
30®  60
30@  40

@ 6
@  6
@20
@22
@16
16@18

bbls. palls

a 7 a  7 

a  8 
a  9
cases 
a  7*4 
aio*4 
a io  
a s

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In  Pails 

Grocers....................  
a s
Competition............. 
a  7
Special..................... 
a  7%
Conserve.................  
a  7*4
Royal...................... 
a  8*4
Ribbon....................  
a  9
Broken................. . 
a  8
Cut Loaf................... 
a  8*4
English Rock........... 
a  9
Kindergarten.........  
a  9
Bon Ton  Cream......  
a  8*4
French Cream.........  
a  9
Dandy Pan.............. 
aiO
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed..................  
@14*4
Crystal Cream mix.. 
@13
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
8*4
Pony H earts........... 
15
Fairy Cream Squares 
12
Fudge Squares........ 
12
Peanut Squares......  
9
Sugared Peanuts__ 
ll
Salted Peanuts........ 
10
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
Lozenges, plain....... 
a  9
Lozenges, printed... 
aio
Choc. Drops............  
O il
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13*4
Quintette Choc........ 
@12
@15
Victoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
a  6*4
Moss  Drops............  
a  9
Lemon Sours........... 
a  9
Imperials................. 
0  9
Ital. Cream Opera... 
@12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls............  
a n
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls................. 
@13
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours.........  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops.... 
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops..  @86
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1  00
@35
Gum Drops.............. 
@75
Licorice Drops........ 
@55
Lozenges,  plain......  
@60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................  
@60
Mottoes................... 
@60
Cream  Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses B a r........  @55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt...........  
@66
String Rock............. 
@65
WIntergreen Berries  @60
Caramels

Clipper, 201b. pails..  @ 8*4
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis  @12*4
Amazon, Choc Cov’d  @15
Korker 2 for lc pr bx  @55
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx..  @65
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx  @60
A A Cream Car’ls 3 lb  @50

FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......  
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........  
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........  5 60£6 00
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamalcas................
Rodi......................
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300..
Verdelli, fey 300......
Verdelli, ex chce  300
Verdelli, fey 360......
Call Lemons, 300......
Messlnas 300s.........
Messlnas  360s.........
Bananas 
Medium bunches....  1  50@2 00
Large bunches........

@
Q
@
@
O
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@4 00
4 00(65 00
4 0D@5 00

Figs

lb.  cases, new 

Foreign  Dried Fruits 
Callfornias,  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 
@ 6*4
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
«0
Hallow!.................... 
5  @5*4
@
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....
@
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
@16
@
Almonds, Ivlea.......
Aimonas, California,
soft shelled...........
L5@16
Brazils......................
@10@13
Filberts  .................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
@13
Walnuts soft shelled 
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. Pu Suns..
6X@ 6*4
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Roasted................  63£@  7*4
@ 7*4 
Choice, H. P„ Jumbo 
Choice, H. P.  Jumbo 
9*4
Roasted................ 
@
Span. Bhlld No. ln ’w  6  @7

California No. 1...  12*4 @13*4 
@13*
@10
@13
@14
@@3 50
@

48 
5*4 
48 
60 
72 
1  12 1  60 
2  12 
2 55

48
5*4

60
6

85
1  10

66
42
7

2

STONEWARE

Butters

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

Churns

Milkpang

2 to 6 gal., per gal...............................
'’burn Dashers, per doz.....................
*4 g&L  fiat or rd. hot, per doz............
1 gal. nat or rd. hot,, each.................
Fine  Glazed  M ilkpans
*4 gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz............ 
l gal. flat or rd. hot., each................. 

Stewpans

Jugs

*4 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............  
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............. 

*4 gal. per doz.....................................  
*4 gal. per doz.............. 
1 to 5 gal., per gal............................... 

 

Sealing  Wax

5 lbs. In package, per lb...................... 

LAMP  BURNERS

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

36
36
48
86
50
50
Per box of 6 doz.

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

No. 0 Sun............................................. 
No. 1 Sun............................................. 
NO. 2 Sun............................................. 

A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

l 60
1 72
2 42

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

 
F irst Quality

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

XXX  FU nt

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sim, hinge, wrapped & lab........ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled...... 
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lam ps...................................... 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)..........................  
No. 2 Lime (75c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  d o z )" " ....................  

Rochester

La  Bastie

E lectric

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.. 
5 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. lilting cans.......................... 
5 gal. galv. Iron Nacefas.................... 

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  IB  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 doz. each 

162
195
2 66

1  85
2 00
2 90

2 75
3 75
4 00
4 00
6 00
5  10
80
1  00
1  25
l  35
1 60
3 60
4 00
4 60

400
4 60

1  35
1  60
2 95
3 50
4 80
3 85
5 20
7 00
9 00

4 78
7 25
7 25
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45
1  75
1  25

18
24
31
53

BEST W H ITE  COTTON  WICKS 
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.

No.  0,  %-lnch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No.  1,  %-inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No.  2,1 
Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
No.  3,1*4 Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 

COUPON  BOOKS

50 books, any denomination....................   150
100 books, any denomination....................  2 50
600 books, any denomination........... 
.....  1150
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...................................................  11  50
1,000 books.....................................................20 00
500, any one denomination.......................  2 00
1.000, any one denomination.......................  3 00
2.000, any one denomination.......................   500
Steel punch................................................... 
76

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Pencils,  Crayons,

Pencil Boxes,  Inks, 

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We Sell at Wholesale only.

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Some  Valid Reasons  Why Hardware Heal­

ers  Must  Co-operate.*

Organizations  are  almost  as  old  as 
time  and  can  be  traced  back  to the early 
history  of  man.  The  ancient uncivilized 
and  semi-civilized  peoples  were  organ­
ized  into  tribes  and  had  strict  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  government  of  their 
members  and  later,  for  the  government 
of  the  people  and  the  regulation  and 
protection  of 
governments 
have  been 
instituted  among  men ;  and 
whenever  any  set  of  people  within  these 
governments  desired  to  accomplish  any 
great  reform  or  carry  out  any  purpose 
for  the  betterment  of  mankind,  they 
it  necessary  to  organize  them­
found 
selves 
into  associations,  so  that  they 
could  work  together  for  the  common 
good.

society, 

jobbing  houses  have 

The  hardware  men  throughout  the 
country  have  been  and  are  still  con­
fronted  with  a  condition  of things which 
is  ruinous  to  their  trade—a  condition 
which  greatly  handicaps  them  in  their 
struggle  with  illegitimate  competition. 
Commercial  salesmen  will  call  upon  the 
druggist,  jeweler  and  dry  goods  mer­
chant  and  sell  revolvers and cutlery ;  the 
tinware  trade  has  been  ruined  by  the 
common  practice  of  selling  to  grocers 
and  bazaars;  stoves  are  handled  by  fur­
niture  and  department  stores;  almost 
all  the 
special 
salesmen  who  call  upon  the  factories, 
mill  men,  blacksmiths  and  contractors 
and  are  instructed  to  keep  out  of  sight 
of  the  regular  dealers;  co-operative 
stores  are  being  organized. 
These, 
with  mail  order and  catalogue  houses, 
curtail  and  limit  the  trade  of  hardware 
men  generally.  Hence  the  necessity 
for  the  organization  of  retail  hardware 
dealers 
into  an  association,  having  for 
its  object  the  correction  of  these  evils, 
and  I  firmly  believe  that  through  our 
united efforts  much  good  can  be and  has 
been  accomplished.  Manufacturers  are 
already  beginning  to  see  that  it  is  best 
to  sell  their  output  through  the  regular 
channels  of  trade  and,  through  the  influ­
ence  of  our  National  Association,  cer­
tain 
ice  cream 
freezers,  stoves,  etc.,  are  not  sold  to 
these  demoralizers  of  trade;  in  fact, 
manufacturers  and 
jobbers,  generally, 
are  advertising  that  they  do  not  sell 
these  people.

lines  of  axes,  saws, 

Having  accomplished  this  much  dur­
ing  our  brief  existence,  we  ought  to  feel 
encouraged  to  go  on  and  continue  the 
good  work. 
I  am,  therefore,  convinced 
that  not alone our State,  but our National 
organization  should  receive  the  hearty 
support  of  every  retail  hardware  dealer 
in  the  country.  Not  only should we  have 
state  and  National  associations,  but  the 
dealers  in  every  city  and  hamlet  in  our 
land  should  have  a  local  organization. 
If  there  are  but  two  dealers  in  a  town, 
those  two  should  meet  together  often 
and  talk  over  business  matters,  compare 
views  and  thus  become  friends 
instead 
of  bitter  enemies,  as  many  competitors 
are.

My  experience  has  convinced  me  that 
one  of  the  greatest  evils  we  have  to con­
is  the  ruinous  price 
tend  with  to-day 
cutting  of  competitors 
in  trade.  The 
best  way  to  cure  this  evil  is  to  organize 
locally,  hold  regular  monthly  meetings, 
rub  against  each  other,  get  new  ideas 
and  thus  become  more  friendly and have 
a  better  understanding  as  to  the  best 
way  to  deal  with  the  evils  of  trade  and 
.maintain  prices  at  a  legitimate  profit, 
to  keep  hardware  business within  hard­
ware  channels  and  call  a  halt  to  this
»Paper read at annual convention Michigan  Re­
tail Hardware Dealers’ Association by A. Har-
sh a w , of D elray .

ruinous  cutting  of  prices  ought to  be  the 
chief  object  of  our  organization.  There­
fore,  our State  and National organization 
should  receive  our  individual  efforts  to 
increase  our  membership,  until  at 
least 
75  per  cent,  of  the  retail  hardware  deal­
ers  of  the  United  States  are  enrolled  as 
members  and  thus  become  co-workers 
with  us 
in  the  good  cause.  When  we 
shall  have  reached  that  stage,  we  shall 
then  be 
in  a  position  to  dictate  to  the 
manufacturers  and  jobbers  such terms  of 
protection  as  we  are  justly  entitled  to 
as  retail  dealers.  This  can  and  will 
be  accomplished  by  careful  and  system­
atic  work  of  our  members.

In  conclusion  I  would  say  that  our 
achievements  may  seem  small  to  some, 
yet  enough  has  been  done  to  appeal  to 
every  intelligent  hardware  dealer  in  our 
State  to  convince  him  that  bis  own  per­
sonal  and  business  interests  demand 
that  he  should  put  his  shoulder  to  the 
wheel  and  become  a  working member of 
our  organization. 
I  firmly  believe  that 
the  Michigan  Retail Hardware  Dealers’ 
Association 
is  destined  to  become  one 
of  the  most  energetic  and  progressive  of 
our times.

Plenty  of His  Favorite  Drink.

There  was  a  big  religious  revival  go­
ing  on  in  a  Texas  town,  conducted  by 
Sam  Jones,  and  he  was  stirring  things 
up 
in  that  section  of  the  world.  The 
town  was  wrought  up  over  his  sayings. 
One  day  he  found  himself  in  possession 
of  a  bottle  of  good  old  wine,  which  had 
been  sent  to  him  as  an  evidence of  good 
faith  in  a  profession  made  by  some man 
who  had  decided  to quit the  rum  habit. 
Sam  Jones  had  no  use  for the  wine. 
In 
a  jocular  way  he  presented  the  wine  to 
the  newspaper  crowd,  telling  the  boys 
they  might  manage  to  get  a  little  inspi­
ration  out  of  it.  One  of  the  boys,  in 
writing  a 
little  skit  about  the  thing, 
said  Mr.  Jones  had  given  the  wine  to 
the  boys  of  the  press  and  had  incident­
ally  mentioned  the  fact  that  buttermilk 
was  his  favorite  drink.  The  little  town 
was  the  hub  of  the  buttermilk  belt. 
Enough  milk  was  produced  in  that  part 
of  Texas  to  float  the  American  navy. 
The  newspaper  notice  had  a  marvelous 
effect. 
It  brought  forth  the  buttermilk, 
and  it  came  in  all  sorts  of  quantities  to 
the  hotel  where  the  evangelist  was  stop­
ping.  Buckets,  bottles  and  cans  and 
utensils  of  almost  every  kind  were  left 
at  the  eating  place  for  the  Georgian. 
Milk  bells  were  ringing  and  milk  wag­
ons  were  rolling  up  to  the  place  during 
all  the  day.  I  never  saw  so much butter­
milk  in  my  life.  Sam  Jones,  if  he  had 
lived  to  be  as  old  as  Methuselah,  could 
not  have  consumed  the  quantity  of  milk 
which  had  been  hauled,  carried  and 
“ toted”   to  the  hotel  by  Texans  who 
read  the 
little  squib  in  the  newspaper 
aboutbuttermilk being the favorite drink 
of  the  evangelist.  Sam  Jones  was  some­
what  annoyed  by  the  thing  at  first,  but 
the  funny  part  of  the  situation  dawned 
on  him,  and,  appreciating  the  good 
spirit  of the  offering,  he  got  a  good  deal 
of  fun  out  of  it  all.

Very  Simple.

A  rather  simple 

looking  lad  halted 
before  a  blacksmith’s  shop  on  his  way 
home  from  school,  and  eyed  the  doings 
of  the  proprietor  with  much  interest.

The  brawny  smith,  dissatisfied  with 
the  boy’s  curiosity,  held  a  piece  of  red 
hot  iron  suddenly  under  the  youngster's 
nose,  hoping  to  make  him  beat  a  hasty 
retreat.

“ If  you’ll  give  me  half  a  dollar  I’ll 

lick  it,”   said  the  lad.

The  smith  took  from  his  pocket  half a 

dollar  and  held  it  out.

The simple  looking youngster  took  the 
coin,  licked  it,  and  slowly  walked  away 
whistling.

Certainly  Had.

Wife— How  could  you  give  that  cook 
a  recommend  after she  drank  up all your 
best  whisky?

Husband— I  merely  said  that  she  had 

a  great  deal  that  was  good  in  her.

From the White Pigeon Journal.

The  Old,  Old  Story.

Not  long  ago  a  shrewd traveling sales­
man,  representing  a  wholesale  grocery 
firm 
in  Dayton,  Ohio,  arrived  in  town 
and  at  once  began  soliciting  among 
farmers  orders  for  groceries,  claiming 
he  sold  nothing  but  first-class  goods  at 
wholesale  prices,  and  that  if  the  goods, 
upon  arrival 
in  carload  lots,  were  not 
according to samples,  they  need  not  take 
them.

With  this  understanding  some  of  our 
most  well-to-do  farmers  invested  quite 
freely.  Orders  sufficient  for  a  carload 
of  groceries  solicited,  the  wily  salesman 
set  out  for  new  fields  of  commerce. 
In 
due  time,  July  i6,the  carload  for  White 
Pigeon  arrived.  The  people  for  miles 
around  gathered  about  the  car  waiting 
impatiently  for  their  turn  to  consum­
mate,  it  seemed  for  the  time  being,  the 
greatest  bargain  of  their lives.  But they 
did  not  get  to  the  car  in  time  enough  to 
avoid  the  rush.  Consequently  they  did 
not  have  sufficient  time  to  inspect  the 
goods  as  had  been  agreed  upon  by  the 
advance  agent.  Everything  was  with  a 
hurry  and  scurry;  hurrah  and  hurrah— 
no  time  for anything  except to exchange 
money  for  goods  and  hardly  time  to 
make  the  necessary  change.  And  what 
do you  think  was  the  result  of  this  hasty 
and  imprudent  way  of  doing  business? 
Why, some  of  our  best  financiers  paid  64 
cents  a  pound  for  tea  they  can  buy  in 
White  Pigeon  for 30  cents  a  pound,  and 
paid  38  cents  for  spices  they  can  buy  in 
this  place  at  30  cents  a  pound.

But  this  is  not  a ll:  A  food  inspector 
has  been  here, and  has sent some of these 
goods  of  an  inferior  quality  to  Lansing 
to  have  them  analyzed,  believing  that 
some  of  these  goods  have  been  sent  into 
this  State  in  violation  of  our  pure  food 
laws,  and  that  the  arrest  of  the  perpe­
trators  will  yet  take  place.

Heroic  Measures.

Dr.  Pills— How  did  you  manage  to 
collect  the  bill  that  Closefist  owed  you?
Dr.  Squills—1  told  him  that  if  he 
didn't  pay,  I  would  advise  his  wife  to 
go  to  Europe  for  her  health._________

Not  Worth  While.

The  Agent—1  think  you  will  like  the 
house,  madam,  when  you  see  it.  There 
is  a  clothes  press  or  wardrobe  in  almost 
every  room.

Madam— No,  I  guess 

’tain’t  worth 
while.  Clothes  presses  and  wardrobes 
in  their  way,  1  sup­
are  good  enough 
pose ;  but,  after  all,  what 
is  a  house 
without closets?

Equine  Marvels.

‘ ‘ I  saw  an  account  in  the  paper  the 

other  day  of  a  horse  that  eats  meat.”  
but  I  have  seen  one  running 
stake. ”

“ Well,  I  never  saw  a  horse eat meat, 
for  a 

You ought to sell

L IL Y   W H IT E
VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  C O ..

“The flour the best cooks use”

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M ICH.

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.

Every  Cake

of  F L E IS C H M A N N   &   CO.’S
YELLOW 
LABEL  COMPRESSED
y e a s t   you  sell  not only increases 
your  profits,  but  also  gives  com­
plete  satisfaction to your patrons.

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F leisch m a n n   &  Co.,

Grand Rapids Office,  29 Crescent Ave.

Cbe  Good  Food

Cera nut Flakes

Is not  recommended  to  c u r e   consumption,  rheumatism,  toothache, 
etc., but the people who use it  soon  recover  from  all  their  ailments. 
Made from nuts and wheat— Nature’s true food.

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Grand Rapids,  Iflicb.

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

ANOTH ER  FRAUD.

Edward  Fay  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  in  the 

Swindlers’  Column.

is 

The  Tradesman 

in  receipt  of  the 
following  letter  from  a  valued  subscrip­
tion  patron:

Thanks  for  your  kind  favor  of  Aug.  4. 
Although  I  had  gotten  posted  about  the 
Crystal  Creamery  Co.,  my  thanks  are 
due  you.  There  is,  however,  a  firm,  or 
professed  firm,  in  Detroit  that  may  be 
a  relative  of  the  Crystal Creamery  Co.— 
Edward  Fay  &  Co.,  387  Russell  street. 
They  sent  me  a  circular  dated  July  11, 
wanting  dairy butter— No.  1  at  18c,  No. 
2  at  16c,  off  grades  at  14c. 
I  answered 
their  circular  and  they  phoned  me  and 
bargained  for  some  butter  at I5>^ccasb. 
1  sent  them  8  tubs,  amounting  to $76.06 
and,  although  I  have  written  them  sev­
eral  times  since  I  sent  the  bill,  I  don't 
get  any  reply.  Yesterday  I  made  a 
draft  on  them  for  the  amount.  Their 
circular  came  about  a  week  before  the 
Crystal  Creamery  Co.’s  card. 
Is  there 
some  connection?

The  Tradesman  has  no  means  of as­
certaining  whether there  is  any  connec­
tion  between  the  Crystal  Creamery  Co. 
and  Edward  Fay  &  Co.  The  latter  firm 
is  evidently  quite  as  dangerous  as  the 
former,  judging  by  the  record  of  the 
house  and  the  man  who  is  in  charge  of 
the  business.

The  firm  of  Edward  Fay  &  Co.  is 
reported  to  be  composed  of  Edward 
Fay  and George  White,  neither  of  whom 
have  any  considerable  amount  of  money 
invested  in  the  business.  Fay  appears 
to  be  a  new  man  in  Detroit,  his  name 
appearing  for  the  first  time  in  the  1902 
directory.  Parties  next  door  to his  place 
of  business  do  not  know  of  ever  having 
seen  a  man  by  the  name  of  Fay,  and 
it  is  possible  that  both  Fay  and  White 
are  creatures  of  the 
imagination,  in­
vented 
in  the  fertile  brain  of  Samuel 
M.  Tucker,  who has been  repeatedly  ex­
posed  by  the  Tradesman  as  a  swindler 
and  who  appears  to  bob  up  serenely  at 
frequent  intervals  under  assumed  names 
It  will be  remembered 
and  cognomens. 
by 
readers  of 
the  Tradesman  that 
Tucker  has  done  business  under  the 
style  of  the  Crawford  Produce  Co., 
the  Union  Fruit  &  Grain  Co.,  the  Man­
hattan  Fruit  &  Grain  Co.,  the  German- 
American  Fruit  &  Grain  Co.,  the 
Tucker  Produce  Co.  and  the  A.  B. 
Clark  Co.

There  are  about  a  dozen  unsatisfied 
judgments  recorded  against  him  in  the 
Justice  Court  of  Detroit,  and  his  busi­
ness  methods  have 
long  been  the  sub­
ject  of  criticism.  At  the  present  time 
he  is  said  to  be  under  bond  for  misuse 
of  the  mails.

In  addition  to being exposed repeated­
ly  by  the  Tradesman  as  a  swindler. 
Tucker  has  had  considerable  trouble 
with  the  police  department  of  Detroit 
on  account  of  his  crooked  dealings,  and 
it  is  not  an  unusual  thing  for  him  to  be 
taken  on  a  body  execution  for  debt. 
It 
is  unfortunate  that  the  legitimate  com 
mission  merchants  of  Detroit  do  not 
take  up  the  matter as  a  body and rid  the 
city  of  a  scoundrel  who  has  brought 
disrepute  on  the  market  so  many  years 
and  subjected  the  shippers  of  Michigan 
loss  and  annoyance.  The 
to  so  much 
Tradesman  believes  that 
is  a  duty 
they  owe  their  market  to  do  this.

Since  the  last  issue  of  the Tradesman, 
two  letters  have  been  received  relating 
to  the  exposure  of  the  Crystal  Creamery 
Co.,  as  follows:

Aug.  q—I  will  have  to  plead  guilty  to 
being  one  of  the  suckers  that  bit  on  the 
quotation  from  the  Crystal  Creamery 
Co.  to  the  tune  of  $52.80. 
I  had  been 
informed  by  a  party,  who  claimed  to 
know  them,  that  they  were  all right,  but 
found  that  they  were  not  the  parties  he

it 

took 
trouble.

them 

to  be.  Thanks  for  your 

Aug.  11— I  wish  to  add  my  testimony 
to 
those  who  are  commending  the 
Tradesman  for  its  courage  and  energy 
in  warning  the  country  shippers  of  the 
State  to  beware  of  the  Crystal  Creamery 
Co. 
It  is  one  thing  to  be  in  possession 
of  information  and  disseminate  it  when 
called  upon  to  do  so  and  another  thing 
to  publish  the  information  so  promptly 
that  it  will  be  to the monetary advantage 
of  the  recipient.  That's  why  I  like  the 
Tradesman's  way  of handling fraudulent 
schemes. 
Instead  of  waiting  until  alter 
the 
losses  are  sustained  and  the  swind­
lers  have  evaporated, it  comes out  boldly 
at  the  very 
inception  of  the  scheme, 
warning  its  customers  in  plenty  of  time 
to  profit  by  the  exposure. 
1  confess  1 
have  sometimes  wondered  whether  the 
Tradesman 
little  too  fast  to 
condemn  a  house  on  slight  provocation, 
but  the  fact  that  the  parties  either  skip 
out  or  find  themselves  behind  prison 
bars  on  charges  preferred  by the Trades­
man  convinces  me  that  the Tradesman's 
judgment  is  better  than  my  own in these 
matters  and  that  when  the  Tradesman 
warns  the  trade  against  a  house  1  will 
be  money  ahead  if  I  let  it  alone. 
If  1 
bad  some  one  to  post  me  on  whom  to 
credit  and  whom  to  refuse  credit  who  is 
as  incapable  of  making  a  mistake  as 
the  Tradesman  appears  to  be,  I  would 
feel  that  business  was  a  pleasure  and 
life  one  grand  gala  day.

is  not  a 

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Port  Huron—Albert  Van  Luven 

is 
now  connected  with  Davis  Bros.’  gro­
cery  store.

Quincy—Ed.  Howe  has  taken  a  posi­
tion  as  clerk  in  Branch  &  C o 's   store, 
at  Coldwater.

Manistee—Geo.  Woodrow  and  Wm. 
Tiacy  have  been  engaged  to  clerk  in 
the  new  clothing  store  to  be  opened  un­
der  the  management  of  E.  E.  Bidle- 
man.

Boyne  Falls—E.  L.  Sargent  has  been 
engaged  by  L.  A.  Moon  to  manage  the 
drug  store  he  will  open  here  about 
Sept.  20.

Stockbridge— Elanthan  Skidmore 

is 
clerking  for  the  Fletcher  &  Hall  Co. 
Henry  Heying  has  resigned  his  posi­
tion,to  which Cassie Cain has succeeded.
Poit  Huron— A.  J.  Robinson  has  re­
signed  his  position  in  the  office  of  the 
Boyce  hardware  store.

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  26  cents.  Advance 
payments._________________ ______

BU SIN ESS  C H A N C E S.

610

B a r g a in  — b a k e r y ,  g r o c e r y , 
ic e
cream and soda business in  a  good  town  of 
700;  store building, living  rooms,  well,  cistern, 
ice house, etc.;  pays  well;  write Box  192, Wald­
ron, Mich. 
IT'OR  SALE—ONE  NEW  NATIONAL  CASH 
F  register, latest improved style.  Will  sell  at 
a bargain  now.  Address  Zoa-Phora  Company, 
Kalamazoo, Mich.____________________ 669
IT'OR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK OF JEWELRY, 
F  fixtures  and  tools,  aggregating  $2,500.  in 
growing town  in  rich  farming  district.  Estab­
lished trade,  mostly  cash.  Terms  reasonable. 
If  you  mean  business,  write  for  particulars. 
Address No. 661, care Michigan Tradesman.  661
IT'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  PAYING  DRUG 
F  store in a growing town  of  1,000  population 
in North Central Indiana;  one other drug store: 
cash sales in 1901, $8.335;  stock and  fixtures  will 
Invoice about $2,500;  only soda fountain in town; 
will sell for  invoice;  a  good  chance.  Address 
No. 6’6. care Michigan Tradesman. 

Ir'UK  SALE—MY GENERAL STORK STOCK 

1  and  fixtures  for  $2,000  cash.  Did  $15.000 
worth of business last year.  Best of reasons for 
selling.  This is certainly the best bargain in the 
State.  Call or write at  once. 
J.  E.  C.  Farns­
worth, Wexford county, Mich. 
668
IT'OR  SALE—A  CLEAN  $6.500  STOCK  OF 
"  staple dry goods, ladies’ and  gents’ furnish­
ing goods and children’s clothing;  also  store fix­
tures;  stock only one year old.  Best  location in 
town.  Long lease.  Want cash  or  good  paper. 
Address Max M. Savlan, Petoskey. Mich.  667 
ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR HARD- 
ware.  Address 434 Lockwood  St., Alpena, 

6?6

Mich. 

666

665

659

660

rp o R   SALE-ESTABLISHED  CASH  GBO- 
F ’  eery  business  in  hustling  town  of  1,200. 
Stock inventories about $1,200.  Owner has other 
business and  must  sell  at  once.  Address  No. 
663, care Michigan Tradesman. 
663
IT'OR  SA LE—DRUG  STO RE,  M A IN  
‘  street;  fine location;  large  trade;  owner in 
feeble health.  Druggist, Box 255,  Madison, Ind.
IT'OR  SALE—A $1,600  8TOCK  OF  BAZAAR 

and dry goods;  a great  chance;  live Central 
Michigan town  of  1,500  inhabitants;  best  loca­
tion;  3 year lease;  a cash bargain.  Address No. 
665, care Michigan Tradesman. 
laOR  SALE—MARBLE  AND  GRANITE 
F  business in a growing Michigan City of  4,000 
inhabitants;  only stock in city ;  satisfactory rea­
sons for selling.  Address No. 660, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
IT'OR  SALE—FARM,  300  ACRES,  240  UN- 
F   der cultivation, one-half  cash, one-half  gen­
eral  merchandise,  smooth  valley  land; 
two 
frame  dwellings,  outbuildings,  wells,  cisterns, 
ponds,  apple,  peach  trees—a  farm  home—1V4 
miles from railroad  station;  $65  per  acre.  Ad­
dress I. N. Beckner, Conway, Mo. 
C'OB  SALE—MEAT  MARKET  AND  GRO- 
F  eery;  nice  business;  good  town;  good  rea­
son for selling: invoice $2,000;  also an up-to-date 
restaurant and bakery;  only one in town.  J.  H 
Graham, Fremont, lnd.________________658
YI7'ANTED—STOCKS  OF  GENERAL  MEK- 
Vv  chandlse, for which I  will  pay  spot  cash. 
Must be cheap  enough  to  enable  me  to  move 
657
them.  F. ¿. orcutt. Beulah, Mich. 
[CE  BUSINESS  FOR  SALE:  EXCLUSIVE 
L  trade.  John Jeffrey, Union City, Mich.  655
liiOR  SALK—CHEAP.  ONE  20  H.  P.  GASO- 
U   line engine, used only one year;  good condi­
tion.  Hemlly & Kennicott, Newaygo, Mich.  654
IT'OR  SALE—CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
’  inventorying about  $5.000,  located  in  grow­
ing town in center of rich farming region.  Sales 
fully half cash and increasing.  Rent reasonable. 
Reason for selling, owners have arranged  to  en­
gage  in  another  business.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  Address No. 651, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
651
IT'OR SALE—DRUG STORE  IN  NORTHERN 
town  of  10,000;  invoices  about 
$2,000;  good location;  cash sales $5,000 per  year. 
Address No. 653, care Michigan 1 radesman.  653
I ¡'o r  sa l e—b a k e r y ,  c o n f e c t io n e r y
'  and  ice  cream  business  with  new  brick 
building;  good chance  for  right  man;  satisfac­
tory  reason  for  selling.  Address  Box  560, 
Howell, Mich. 

I ¡'OR  SALE—BRICK  STORE  BUILDING,  22 

x60 feet, with frame addition on  back,  22x4u 
feet, two stories, with living  rooms  above.  For 
particulars address J. L.  Farnham,  Mancelona, 
Mich. 

Michigan 

640

652

647

I ¡'OR  SALE—COMPUTING  SCALE,  LARGE 
'  size,  marble  platform.  W.  F.  Harris,  So. 
Bend, Ind. 
______________________ 638
IT'OR SALK OR EXCHANGE FOR A FARM— 
'  a  clean  stock  of  hardware,  tinsbop  and 
plumbing;  the right  place  for  a  hustler;  good 
reason tor selling.  Address No. 637, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman.______________________ 637
L'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  FIRST-CLASS  10 
F   horse livery;  only one in town  of  940;  good 
trade and  everything  In  good  order.  Address 
Philip Taylor, Saranac. Mich.___________ 6*6
Fo r  sa l e—$2,000  sto ck  o f  g e n e r a l 
merchandise  with  store  building,  dwelling 
and barn, situated in small town near railroad in 
the best  tanning  community  in  Central  Michi­
gan;  staple goods;  established  trade;  sales  last 
year, $9,«98.66.  Address No. 647,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
D O R   SALE-GENERAL  STOKE  AND 
F   stock;  one of  the  best  locations  in  city  of 
Grand Rapids;  near five large  factoiles  and  on 
main street to the country;  no competition; only 
for cash for  both  stock  and  building.  Address 
No  616, care Michigan Tradesman._______ 646
I  CAN  SELL  YOUR  PROPERTY  OR  Busi­
ness, no matter what it  is  or  where  located. 
No  deal  too  large  or too small.  If you want  to 
buy 1 have what you want.  Money sent  to your 
own bank.  Address  with  stamp, A. M. Barron 
Desk •• y „” South Bend, lnd.____________616
IT'OR  SALE—CLEAN  GROCERY  AND 
F   crockery stock and  bakery plant in best  lo­
cation in  rapidly  growing  city  of  5,COO  popula­
tion;  rent reasonable: trade mostly cash: reason 
for  selling,  ill  health  of  manager;  purchaser 
must have at least $1.500 to pay  half  down.  Ad­
dress No  644. care Michigan Tradesman.  644
IT'OR  SALE—A  ONE-HALF  INTEREST  IN 
F   a well-established business in a city of 20,000 
inhabitants, being one of the best manufacturing 
cities in Michigan.  It  is  a  money-making  busi­
ness and a fine chance for some young  man who 
has push and energy  to  make  some  mouey.  It 
will only require a small amount of capital.  The 
only reason for  soiling  the  half  interest  is  be­
cause there is  more  business  than  the  present 
owner can attend to alone.  The owner will  fur­
nish  the  best  of references and will expect  the 
purchaser to do the same.  Address  all  commu­
nications to Derby, Choate & Woolfitt Co., Flint, 
Mich. 
643
Fo r  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  119 
Front St.. Dowaglac, Mich.____________  633

■   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. 
IT'OR  SALE—8TOCK  OF  GROCERIES AND 
F   meat  business;  new stock, having been  run 
only  three  years;  invoices  about  $4,000;  last 
year’s sales,  $60,000;  would  sell  grocery  alone. 
Reason for selling, other business.  Address  C. 
& Son, Box 822, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 

621

632

624

623

IT'OR  SALE  CHEAP-HEARSE,  GOOD  AS 
new;  description  on  application.  Address 
609
No. 609, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IT'OR  SALE—THREE  OR  FOUR  HUNDRED 
1  dollar grocery stock, with fixtures, in college 
town; write-or call on F. H. Gage, Olivet,  Eaton 
_____________________ 626
Co., Mich. 
t'OR  SALE-HARDWARE  STOCK, ABOUT 
$2,009, in  good  live  town;  splendid  oppor­
tunity for right party.  Address Hardware, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
IT'OR  SALE-STORE,  STOCK  AND  FIX- 
F   tures;  stock  will  Invoice  about  $600.  Will 
take $1,000 if sold soon.  Address 623, care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
■   SNAP—WANTED,  TO  SELL  A  HALF 

interest in quarter section  of  heavy  timber 
and copper land;  will guarantee  copper.  Draw 
26. Brighton, Mich.____________________ 642
IT'OR  SALE-SEVEN  THOUSAND  DOLLAR 
F   general stock in good town of 1,000 in Central 
Michigan.  Best  trade  in  town.  Large  trick 
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
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
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.  635

602

IT'OR  SALE—FINE  CLOTHING  BUSINESS 

1  in one of the best  towns  in  Michigan.  The 
best of terms and reason given for sale.  Address 
915, Lake Boulevard, St. Joseph. Mich. 
T  HAVE  FOUR  VACANT  L«»TS  IN  GRAND 
X  Rapids, free and clear;  will trade  for general 
stock;  will pay balance cash.  Address  No.  583, 
care Michigan Tradesm an._____________583
goods business at Freeport.  W.  H. Pardee.
578

BEST  LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR DRY 
IT'OR  SALE—1  DESIRE  TO  SELL  MY  EN- 

tire  general  stock,  Including  fine  line  of 
shoes and  store  fixtures.  No  cleaner  stock  or 
better trade in the state.  Business  been  estab­
lished 25 years.  Reason for  selling,  other  busi­
ness.  P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 
473
IT'OR  SALE—DRUG FIXTURES—ELEGANT 
’  wall cases,  counters,  show  cases,  prescrip­
tion case; all  light  oak; will  sell  at  half price. 
O: A. Fanckboner, Grand Rapids. 
534
IT'OR  SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- 
F  lng $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No. 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
521
IT'OR  SALE  —  FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
F   farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1,200.  Address  No. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
522
IT'OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS.  EXCLUSIVE 
1  millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
507
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
'T 'H R K E   VACANT  LOTS  IN  GRAND 
X  Rapids,  free  of  incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
485, care Michigan Tradesman. 
486
Sa f e s—n e w   a n d   seco n d-h a n d   f ir e  
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376  South  Ionia 
321
St., Grand  Rapids. 
IT'OR  SALE-COUNTRY  STORE  AND 

'  dwelling  combined;  general  merchandise 
stock, barn, custom saw mill and  feed  mill, with 
good patronage:  Citizens local and long distance 
telephones in  store:  bargain  for  cash.  Reason 
for selling, must retire.  For particulars  call  on 
or address Ell Runnels, Corning. Mich. 
474
FTor' s a l e —m o sler,  b a h m a n n   &  co.
1  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. 

368

334

b'OR  SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 

Bar-Lock  typewriter,  in  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  applica- 
tlon.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465
IT'OR SALE-DRUG 81OCK AND FIXTURES, 
F   Invoicing about $2.000.  Situated in center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  inside  building.  Bent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. • 
M IS C E L L  A N BOUS
WANTED—DRUG  CLERK;  REGISTERED 
assistant  preferred.  Reburn,  Druggist, 
Main and Rose, Kalamazoo,  Mich. 
664
W T ANTED—EXPERIENCED  DRY  GOODS 
TV  saleslady;  references  required;  state  sal­
ary  wanted.  Address  Kohlensteln  Bros,  Ot­
sego, Mich. 

■ ANTED—SALESMEN TO  CARRY GOOD 
side line to grocery trade on  liberal  basis. 
Address Bohart &  Company,  River  Park,  Clin­
ton,  Iowa 
WANTED-REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.
Address  No.  648,  care  Michigan  Trades­
648
man. 
BLERK  WANTED—ENERGETIC HUSTLER 
to work in general store;  must be up  in  dry 
goods especially.  J. A.  Collins &  B ro,  Howard 
City, Mich. 
YX7ANTED,  DEPARTMENT  SALESMEN— 
VV  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- 
McKInney Dry Goods Co., St.  Louis. Mo 
X \T  ANTED —  PURCHASER  FOR  MEAT 
VV  market;  only stand  In  town  of  450.  Ad­
dress No. 515, care Michigan Tradesman.  515

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