Twentieth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER,  1,  1902.

Number 993

CURRIE  &  FORSYTH,

1023 Michigan Trust  Bdg. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Branch Manager* for

Douglas,  Lacey &  Co.

Mining,  Oil and Sm elter Stocks 

We  do  not  know  of  a  dissatisfied  cus­
tomer out of eleven thousand.  We have 
2i  companies,  most  of  them  paying 
dividends in three months to a year from 
the time they we  e capitalized,  all  being 
worked and developed as  fast  as  money 
and modern  men ns  can  develop  them. 
All stocks protected against loss.

Citizens Phone 1651.

C o m m e r c ia l 
C r e d it  G o .,  Ltd.

Widdicomb  Building, Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Opera  house  Block,  Detroit  '
G ood  but 

slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
m and 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

letters. 

William  Connor Co.

Wholesale  Ready-Made  Clothing 

Men’s,  Boys’,  Children’s

We can stock  your  store  completely, for 
we  represent  the  largest  manufacturers, 
making  everything  from  children’s  to 
adults’, and can show you the very cheap­
est as well as the very best.

28-30  South  Ionia Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Circle

Indi­
cates

on Rice pkgs 
the
CHOICEST

THE  WORLD  PRODUCES.

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.
13 3 a  najestic  Building,  Detroit,  nich. 

Yon ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use” 

V A L L E Y   C IT Y   M ILLIN G   C O .. 

GRAND  RAPID S.  MICH.

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

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Page. 
2.  G etting  the  People.
3.  Grand  Rapids  Rank*.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapid* Gossip.
6.  Store  Loafers.
7.  The  Street  Fair,
8.  E d i to r ia l.
9 .  E d i to r ia l.
10.  Doomed to  Failure.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Clothing.
16.  Not  So  Slow.
18.  Dry  Goods.
20.  W oman’s W orld.
22.  F ru its  and  Produce.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  Clerks’  Corner.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  D rugs and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug  Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  The  Man  on  the  Road.
32.  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

FINANCIAL  BUBBLES.

A  writer  in  Rand-McNally’s  Bank­
ers’  Magazine,  commenting  on  the  re­
cent  financial  combinations  and  trust 
organizations,  remarks  that  it  is  inter­
little  actual 
esting  to  note  that  very 
cash  has  been  employed 
in  bringing 
about  a  consolidation  of  the  recently- 
organized  concerns. 
In  most  cases  the 
“ deals"  have  been  carried  through  by 
means  of  an  exchange  of  securities. 
That  is,  the  holders  of  the  shares  of  the 
constituent  properties  agreed  to  ex­
change  their  stock  for  that  of  the  con­
solidated  company.

The  fact  is  that  many  of  the  concerns 
that  are  announced  to  have  millions  of 
capital  are  mere  bladders, 
inflated 
with  a  fictitious  capitalization,  which  if 
reduced  to  its 
last  analysis  would  be 
able  to  show  in  real  value  very  little  of 
its  alleged  wealth.

This 

excessive 

According  to  the  writer  mentioned, 
the  total  capitalization  of  tha  new  in­
corporations  during  the  year  igoi  was 
$3,922,752,600,  bringing  the  grand  total 
for 
the  past  nineteen  months  up  to 
$9,338,935,000.  Nowithstanding  the  fact 
that  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation 
was  incorporated  last  year,  thus  helping 
to  swell  the  total,  there  is  every  reason 
to  believe  that  the  aggregate  capital
of  the  new  organizations  during 
the 
current  year  will  exceed  that of  1901.
capitalization 

is 
effected  in  this way :  A  trust  is  made up 
by  bringing  a  large  number  of  mills  or 
factories,  all  engaged  in  the  same  busi­
ness,  into  a  single  combination  under 
one  management.  Some  of  these  mills 
are  fitted  with  good  machinery,  or  by
reason  of  their  location  or  other cause 
are  productive 
institutions.  Others  of 
them  are  of  but  little  productive  value, 
but  it  is  necessary  to  control them  all  in 
order  to  kill  off  competition.  The  best 
concerns  must  be  well  paid  to  go  into 
the  combination,  and  so each  piece  of 
property  is  put  into  the  combination  as 
so  much  capita),  at  exaggerated  valua­
tions,  the  greatest  share  going  to  those 
persons  whose  property  was  really  of 
great  importance. 
In  this  arrangement 
nobody  gets  any  money,  and  probably 
the  only  money  put  up  is  that  which 
is 
required  for a  working  capital,  and  yet

the  combination  is  rated  at  the  amount 
of  its  stock  shares,  which  stand  before 
the  world  for  millions,  a  great  part  of 
which  is  imaginary.

In  operating  such  a  combination,  the 
old  and  comparatively  useless  mills  are 
closed,  and  all  attention  is  concentrated 
upon  the  best  and  most  productive, 
while  each  stockholder  gets  dividend 
according  to  his  stock.

Usually,  the  dividends  so  declared 
are  small  in  proportion  to  the  capitali­
zation,  but  they  may  be  large  when  the 
actual  value  of  the  stork  basis  is  taken 
into  consideration. 
It  is  claimed  that 
it  is  desirable  that  the  public  shall  not 
know  when  trusts  are  making 
large 
profits,  because  this  increases  the  popu­
lar  prejudice  against  them,  and,  there­
fore,  the  overcapitalization,  by  showing 
small  dividends,  does  not  excite  popu­
lar  distrust.  There  is  another  purpose 
which  the  exaggerated  inflation  serves. 
It  enables  the  floating  of  a  great  finan­
cial  bubble 
into  the  bands  of  a  public 
eager  for  speculation  and  carried  away 
its  sbowiness,  and  to  burst  after  it 
by 
has  paid  a  profit  to  its  creators  and 
in­
flates.  When  the  bursting  of  these 
bubbles  shall  commence  there  will  be 
widespread  trouble.

INCORPORATION  OF  UNIONS.

Attention  is  called  to  a  notable  act  in 
the  direction  of  fair  dealing  and  good 
faith  on  the  part  of  a  labor  union,  in 
the  announcement  that  the  Wholesale 
Grocery  Employes’  Union,  of  Chicago, 
will  become 
incorporated  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  This  step 
is  to  be  taken  as  a  preliminary  to  mak­
ing  an  agreement  with  the  firms  which 
employ 
its  members,  so  that  the  em­
ployers  may  have  assurance  that  such 
an  agreement  can  be  enforced upon both 
parties  alike.

Most  of  the  labor  unions are voluntary 
and  arbitrary  bodies  with  no  standing 
in 
law.  Engagements  made  by  them 
have  no  other  force  than  the moral  sanc­
tion,  which 
implies  that  the  men  who 
have  undertaken  contracts  or  have  be­
come  parties  to  agreements  are  honest 
and  acknowledge  the  moral  obligations 
under  which  they  have  come. 
In  oc­
casional  cases  these  obligations  have 
been  held  sacred,  greatly  to  the  credit 
of  the  men  and  the  unions  they  com­
pose,  but  ninety-nine  times  in  a  hun­
dred  pledges  are  violated  and  obliga­
tions  '  are 
spurned,  at  the  behest  of 
venal  and  unscrupulous  leaders.

Incorporation  changes  all  this.  It puts 
the  Grocery  Employes’  Union  in  the 
same  position  of  legal  responsibility  oc­
cupied  by  any  corporation. 
Such  a 
union  could  go 
into  court  to  claim  its 
rights,  and  it  is  not  afraid  to  acknowl­
edge  its  responsibility  for  its  acts. 
In­
corporation  of  trades  unions  is  the  first 
step  necessary  to  the  establishing of any 
system  of  judicial  settlement  of 
labor 
troubles,  something  which  the  states­
manship  of  the  American  people  wiil  at 
no  distant  day be called upon to provide.

The  advertising  that  brings  the  same 
people  day  after  day  is  the  only  kind 
that  brings  permanent  success.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

The 

is  no 

continuance  of  the  monetary 
stringency  has  been  the dominating fac­
tor  in  the  Wall  Street  markets  until,  by 
the  decision  of  Secretary  Sbaw,  the  re­
quirement  of  reserve  against  Govern­
ment  deposits 
longer  enforced, 
thus  releasing  something  like  $30,000,- 
000—enough  to  effectually  arrest  the  de­
moralization  of  the  last  few days.  There 
has  been  no  real  panic  in  stocks,  the 
only  trouble  being  the  lack  of  money  to 
take  care  of  pending  operations.  A 
stock  panic  when  every  condition  is 
absolutely  favorable  would  be  a  curious 
anamaly.  The  trouble 
is  simply  the 
aggregate  of  business  requirements  is 
so  great  that  even  the  unusual  quantity 
of  money  at  hand  proves  inadequate  for 
current  needs.  At the  last  rates  went  to 
an  actual  panic  height  and  there  was 
considerable excitement,  but  easier  con­
ditions  are  giving  the  market  a  more 
sudden  rebound  than  was  the  depres­
sion.

All  general  conditions  except  the 
money  situation  are  favorable.  Trade 
is  going  on  at  a  tremen­
distribution 
dous  rate;  railway  earnings  are 
fully 
maintained  at  the  highest  ever  known; 
the  iron  and  steel  industry  is  under  its 
usual  pressure  of  demand—everything 
is  at  the  maximum. 
In  fact,  the  only 
trouble 
is  that  activity  is  too  great  for 
normal  financial  conditions.  The  boom 
tendency  is  becoming  manifest  in  some 
speculative  trading,  as  in  grains.  Cot­
ton 
continues  unexpectedly  high  al­
though  arrivals  are  large.  Textiles  are 
enjoying  great  confidence.  Boot  and 
shoe  shipments  are  heavy  and  promise 
of  future  business  is  good.

SPECIE  IN  LOCAL  BANKS.

According  to  the  statements  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  banks,  four savings banks 
have  a  total  of  $203,852.50  in  gold  coin 
stored  away 
in  their  vaults  and  the 
amount  of  silver  on  band  is $19,144. 
In 
the  National  bank  statements,  whether 
it  is  gold  or silver  coin  is  not  set  forth, 
but  the  National  banks  have  a  total  of 
$423,352.23  of  specie  on  band,  and  it  is 
safe  to  assume  that  a  very  large  propor­
tion  of  this  is  in  the  yellow  metal.  The 
Michigan  Trust  Company  has $11,242.50 
of  gold  coin.  The  total  gold  in  stock  is 
approximately  $620,000,  making  some 
allowance  for  the  silver  in  the  National 
bank  “ specie."  An  eagle,  or $10 gold 
piece,  weighs  258  grains  troy  and  a  lit­
tle  arithmetic  will  show  that  the  entire 
golden  treasure  will  weigh approximate­
ly  2,777  pounds  troy.  How 
it 
would  take  one  burglar  to  carry  off  this 
load  and  how  much  more  valuable  it 
would  be  than  an  equal  amount  of  coal, 
pound  for  pound,  are  problems  the  chil­
dren  may  be  set  to  figuring  on.

long 

Speaking  of  silver,  the  Kent  Savings 
Bank  had  but  $711.75  on  hand,  while  its 
stock  of  nickels  and  cents  amounted  to 
$671.47.  The  State  Bank  had  the largest 
supply  of  the  white metal—$13,901—and 
the  Michigan  Trust  Company  the small­
est—66. 75.

A  man  who  believes  every  one  dis­

honest  is  a  dangerous  citizen.

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Getting  the  People

Advantage  of  Co-operating  W ith 

Country  Printer.

the 

Nothing  is  more  disgusting to me than 
the  army  of  fresh  young  men  who,  pre­
tending  to  be  advertising  experts,  go 
out  of  their  way  continually  to  insult, 
sneer  and  cry  down  the  country  printer 
in  his  effort  to  improve  the  advertising 
department  of  his  paper.  His  facili­
ties  may  not  be  equai  to  those  of  the 
advertisement  setter  on  the  city  daily. 
His  assortment  of  type  and  rules  may 
be  meager  and  the  size  of  his  fonts  may 
be  a  serious  handicap.  He  may  not 
have  the  co-operation  of  the  advertiser, 
as  the  city  man  does,  because  in  many 
cases  he  not  only  has to urge his custom­
er  to  change  his  announcement  but 
actually  prepares  the  copy,  as  well  as 
puts  it  in  type.  His limited  income  and 
numerous  duties  may  prevent  his  sub­
scribing  for and  reading  any  consider­
able  number of the excellent publications 
now  issued  in  the  interest  of  better  ad­
vertising.  Despite  all  these  drawbacks, 
the  average  country  printer 
is  doing 
his 
level  best  to  increase  bis  equip­
ment,  improve  his  service,  brighten  his 
paper  by  frequent  changes  in  his  adver­
tising  department,  make  bis  display 
columns  more  up-to-date 
study 
the  requirements  of  his  advertising  pa­
trons  until  he 
is  able  safely  to  advise 
them  on what  to  advertise  and  howto  do 
it. 
In  spite  of  this  disposition  on  the 
part  of  the  country  printer,  it  is  a  fa­
vorite  diversion  with  some  of  the  smart 
alecks  who  pose  as  advertising  experts 
and  who  do  not  know  the  difference 
between  a  shooting  stick  and  the  bed  of 
a  press  to  poke  all  manner of  fun  at 
him  and  to  bring  to  bear  all  the  in­
vectives they can command in describing 
bis  work  and  depreciating  bis  efforts  to­
ward  better  conditions.

and 

In  my  conduct  of  this  department,  1 
have  adopted  the  contrary  course.  My 
aim  has  been  to  co-operate  with  the 
country  printer,  and  1  am  happy  to  say 
that  1  have  almost  always  found  him 
willing  and  anxious  to  do  his  part. 
In 
the  dozen  years  I  have  acted  on  this 
theory  I  have  met  but  one  country  pub­
lisher  who  took  serious  exceptions  to 
my  criticisms,  and  I  think  that,  in  the 
more  mature 
judgment  of  later  years, 
he  will  now  concede  that  be  was  hasty 
in  refusing  me  the  right  to  criticise  his 
patrons’  announcements  at their request, 
even 
if  he  did  write  the  copy  himself. 
Hardly  a  week  goes  by  that  1  do  not  re­
ceive  a 
letter  from  some  newspaper 
man,  thanking  me  for the  kindly  man­
ner  in  which  I  have  dealt  with  a  clip­
ping  from  his  paper  and  explaining 
why  he  was  unable  to  do  better,  which 
reason 
is  frequently  found  in  the  stub­
born  mind  of  the  advertiser,  who  insists 
on  the  use  of  certain  faces  and  methods 
of  display,  whether  they  are  adapted  to 
his 
line  of  business  or  not.  Some  of 
the  most  appreciative  letters  I  receive 
are  from  foremen  and  advertisement 
setters,  who  are  kind  enough  to  say  that 
the  suggestions  they  get  from  this  de­
partment  are  very  helpful  to  them  in 
their  work.  My 
instructions  from  the 
Tradesman  are  to  deal  fairly and  honor­
ably  with  all,  to  take  into consideration 
the  difficulties  which  both  advertisers 
and  printers  in  country  towns  encount­
er,  to  encourage  rather  than  condemn, 
and,  above  all,  to  stimulate  to  higher 
ideals  and  better  endeavor  rather  than 
crush  out  all  ambition  by  ridicule,  in­
vective  and  slurs.

*  *  *

A  good  feature  of the  clothing  adver-

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proven  by the remarkably  low  prices we name on the  best clothing  it  is possible  for  skilled 
tailors and designers to produce.

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than $12  to $15.

The Kenmore Sack Suit is  ilesigned  to  meet 
the requirements of  the most  iasndious  dressers, 
and it does it.

F virnishings.

Our stock is most com pie te  New Shirts, ' ’oi­
lers.  Ties,  Hats  and  Caps.  Hosierv. cloves.  Un­
derwear. etc.

Canvas  Weaves are “ i 
We carry  tbe leading coin
B ro B id h e 6 .d   D r e s s   G o o d s.

stylish  dressers.

'he »er$  best made in Am'-noa.  0 - 4   O o o d t   a t 
$1.23  ger  yard.

S h irt  W a Jsts.

The very  latest  designs and  fabrics.  We  can 

please you in cotton and wool  39c  to  $ 5.

15c  W aistirv g s.

They are elegant in design and  color  You can­
not tell  them from  the  rugh  priced  ones.  Como 
and see  idem.

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ADVANCE

Hat Styles

“YOUNG’S”  hats,  n o n e   better  made. 
This  store's  reputation  has  been  built 
upon tbe goodness  and  cheapness of the 
merchandise 
it  sells.  It’s  the  honest 
policy of the establishment  that attract« 
people tore  and  induces  them to  come 
back.

LIVELY  JAKE
UP-TO  NOW  C LO T H IER .  4.4.4.4.x

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will  In-  wtr*  if yon  Iwive 
your  or.l<r  with  ti*.  We 
make mi  et.jn-ci.il  effort  to 
l»|eiisr  t-VHi v «aie,  nnd  <»ir 
lar^e li-t of patrons»  prov**H 
«»nr ability.

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J.  Wadstrom,

M erchant Tailor

“

FIRST  STEP

towards the accum­
ulation  of  money 
consists in the sav­
ing of  it.  Every­
man  who  has  to 
make his own way 
in  the  world  and 
every woman wage 
earner should open 
an account  in  the

Antrim  County Bank

and make it a  rule 
to save  some  por­
tion of  their  earn-

McPhail  &  Richardson

Proprietor».

tisement  of  Matt  J.  Dehn 
is  the  fact 
that  it 
is  broken  up  hy  lines  of  divi­
sion,  so  that tbe  reader  will  catch  some 
attractive  display  of  articles  and  prices. 
My  criticism  is  that  there  is  too  much 
matter  and  no  main  display  indicating 
the  line  of  trade. 
“ Here  are  solid facts 
as  true  as  steel"  would  apply  to  hard­
ware,  groceries, 
insurance  or  banking 
just  as  well  and  so  are  too  general  to 
gain  attention.  The  paragraph  follow­
ing  is  much  too  long—will  not  be  read, 
especially  with  this 
introduction.  Tbe 
printer’s  work  is  in  good  style  consid­
ering  the 
limitations  of  matter  and 
space.

It  strikes  me  that  Merrell’s  Furniture 
Store  misses  a  good  opportunity  to 
quote  some  definite  attractive  prices  of 
his  reduced  wheels  and  refrigerators. 
The  average  buyers  of  these  articles  are 
not  sufficiently  clear  on  the  problem  of 
percentages  to  be  impressed  by  a  cer­
tain  per  cent.  off.  They  will  understand 
a  $25  wheel  at  $20 or a  $20  refrigerator 
at  $16. 
1  think  a  couple  of  representa­
tive  prices  for  each  article  in  strong 
display  would  be  effective. 
I  will  ven­
ture  to  assert  the  present  announcement 
is  not.  The display  is  good  except  that 
the  upper  and 
lower  lines  should  be 
farther away  from  the  border.

Lively  Jake  starts  out  with  an  excel­
lent  introduction  to  bis  subject,  could 
not  be  better,  but  for  some  reason  he 
flies  the  track  after  the  first  sentence. 
The  writer  should  have  confined himself 
to  hats  instead  of  general 
remarks 
on  business  policy,  however  good  this 
is  good,  but  1 
may  be.  The  display 
question  the  value  of  reading  lines  in 
the  border.

J.  Wadstrom  gives  a  display  of  the 
goods  he  is  selling.  His  remarks  keep 
to  the  subject  and  the  printer  handles 
the  matter  in  good  style,  especially  as 
to  the  use  of  white  in  the  display.

A  noticeable  bank  advertisement  is 
that  of the  Antrim  County  Bank.  One 
good  feature 
is  that  the  space  is  suffi­
cient  for  the  use  of  strong  display  and 
matter.  Tbe  point  made  is  one  to  gain 
attention  of  any  who  may  have  either 
the  latent  or  active  ambition  to  get 
ahead.  Tbe  printer  has  bandied  his 
rules  and  space  with  exceptional  skill, 
so  that  while  his  variety  in  styles  of 
display  type  are  more  than  would  seem 
desirable  yet  the  result 
is  strong  and 
attractive.  Another  good  bank  adver­
tisement  is  that  of  the Marquette County 
Savings  Bank.  The  space  is  unusually 
generous  for  the  amount  of  matter  and 
the  printer  has  taken  exceptional  pains 
in  the  rule  display. 
1  would  leave  out 
the  ornaments  in  the  upper  panel  and 
put a  plain,  moderately  heavy  rule 
in 
place  of  tbe  zigzag  line  outside.

Bubbles.

Sweet  and  low—cheap  candy.
Small  change—the  baby’s  clean  shirt.
Some  things  are  a  rare  treat  only 

when  well  done.

really  a  cornfield.

The  chiropodist’s  field  of  labor  is 

The  girl  who can  not  sing  and  won’t 

try  is  a  “ bird.”

A  fast  man  owns  that  he  is  too  fast 
A  printer  who  never  made  a  bit  of  pi 

when  he  gets  behind  prison  bars.
in  his  life  takes  the  cake.

Clothes  do  not  make  the  man,  but 
sometimes his  wife’s  clothes  break  him.
To  some  people  a  bank  book  is  in­
teresting  enough  to  be  a  whole  library 
in  itself.

Matches  may  be  made  in  heaven,  but 

mergers  are  arranged  in  Wall  Street.

Lots  of  blessings  in  disguise  go  away 

without  discovering  themselves.

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

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At 50 Cents on the  Dollar

The largest stock  of Gas and  Gasoline  Mantles ever  unloaded  in  Mich­
igan was  bought  by  Glover’s  Wholesale  Merchandise  Co.,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.

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Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers  of  Gas  and  Gasoline Sundries

Grand  Rapids.  Michigan

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

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

j   r o b in s o n . Manager. 

ö e n t o n   H a r b o r . M i c h i g a n

approximately  the  same  as  last  year and 
$275,000 greater  than  two  years  ago.

The  total  deposits  are  now  $19,588,- 
224.17.  Last  year  at  this  time  they 
were  $16,871,515.38  and  two  years  ago 
$14,049,078.79. 
in  one 
year  has  been  $2,716,708.79 and  in  two 
years  $5,539,145.38.  Never  in  the  his­
tory  of  Grand  Rapids  banking  has  such 
an 
in  so  brief  a 
period.

increase  been  shown 

increase 

The 

is 

While  the  comparison  of  the  bank 
statements  now  with  those  of  one  and 
two  years  ago 
interesting  and  in­
structive, it  fairly  takes  the  breath  away 
to  line  them  up  with  the statements  that 
were  published  showing  the  conditions 
on  October  3,  1893 :

The 

loans  and  discounts  then  were 
$6,344,947.59;  now  they  are  $14,859,- 
049.59,  or  more  than  double.

The  stocks,  bonds  and  mortgages  then 
they  are 

$1,311,595.37;  now 

were 
»3,650,349.04.

The  National  banks  then  carried 
$201,200  Government  bonds and $202,000 
circulation;  the  figures  now  are  $1,429,- 
812.50  bonds and  $924,000  circulation.

The  cash  on  hand  and  in  reserve  or 
on  deposit  then  was  $2,088,706.09;  now 
it  is  $4,392,799.89.

The  surplus  and  undivided  profits 
then  were  $732,908.97;  now,  $1,095,- 
370.71,  and  this 
increase  has  come 
mainly  in  the  last  four  years.

The  commercial  deposits  in  October, 
1893,  were  $2,772,902.35 ;  now  they  are 
$7,316,915.37.

The  savings  and  certificate  deposits 
then  were  $3,060,271.01;  now  they  are 
$10,942,033.21.

The  total  deposits  then  were  $6,287,- 
560.37  and  now  they  are  $19,588,224.17, 
or  three  times  greater.

less. 

$2,500,000 

Comparison  of  the  statements  to-day 
with  those  of  October,  1893,  are  not 
given  to  illustrate  the  city’s  financial 
growth  but  simply  to  recall  the  dark 
days  when  most  of  the  bankers  were 
anxiously  walking  the  floor.  The  bot­
tom  had  fallen  out  of  business  in  every 
direction;  the  panic  was  at 
its  very 
worst  stage.  The  total  deposits,  which 
in  May  aggregated  $8,773,084.55, 
in 
October  were 
The 
shrinkage  in  savings  and  certificates  in 
this  period  exceeded  $ 1 ,100,00c  and 
$1,200,000  commercial  deposits  had 
been  withdrawn.  The 
loans  and  dis­
counts  had  been  reduced  by  $2,600,000. 
The  anxious  business  man  could scarce­
ly  secure  a  loan  on  gold  coinsecurity  so 
intense  were  the  fear  and  distrust.  Oc­
tober  was  the  turning  point 
in  the 
panic. 
statements 
showed  gains  slowly  at  first,  but  more 
rapidly  as  confidence  returned and  busi­
its  sway.  The  total  de­
ness  resumed 
posits  now  more  than  double  the  best 
statement  ever 
the 
panic  and  the  loans  and  discounts  show 
an  increase  of"6o  per  cent.

rendered  before 

subsequent 

The 

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GRAND  RAPIDS  BANKS.

T heir  Rapid  Growth D uring the Past Two 

Year 8.

The  bank  statements  published  last 
week,  shewing  the  condition  of  Grand 
Rapids  banks  at  the  close  of  business 
Sept.  15,  tell  a  wonderful  story  of  this 
city’s  rapid  business  growth  in  the  past 
two  years,  and  when  comparisons  are 
made  with  the  figures of  nine  years  ago, 
when  the  country  was  at  the  very  bot­
tom  of  the  ditch,  the  change  is  simply 
astonishing.  The  following  figures  rep­
resent  the  consolidated  statement  of  the 
five  National  and  four  State  banks, 
omitting  the  Michigan  Trust  company:
The  loans  and  discounts  are  $14,859,- 
049.59,  compared  with  $12,268,073.58  on 
Sept.  30, 
1901,  and  $10,530,606.27  on 
Sept.  5,  1900.  The  increase  is  $2,590,- 
976.01 
in  one  year  and  $4,318,443.32  in 
two  years.  Since  one  year  ago  the  Na­
tional  banks  have  increased  their  loans 
and  discounts  by  $1,859,417.76 and  the 
State  banks  have  increased  $731,558.25. 
This 
loans  and  dis­
counts, 
it  may  be  explained  for  the 
uninitiated,  represents increased  capital 
employed 
in  business;  it  tells  of  trade 
expansion,  of  new  enterprises  being 
launched  and  of  confidence  in  the  fu­
ture.

increase 

in  the 

invested 

The  banks  now  have 

in 
stocks,  bonds,  mortgages  and  similar 
including  Government 
securities  not 
bonds,  $3,650,349.04;  last  year 
it  was 
$2,902,820.65  and  in  1900  it  was $2,652,- 
298.98.  The  National  banks  have  added 
to  their  holdings  the  past  year  about 
$55,000  and  the  State  banks  about 
$700,000.

The  National  banks  carry  $1,429,- 
812.50  in  Government  bonds  and  prem­
iums  and  have  $24,000  circulation  out­
standing.  Last  year  the  figures  were 
$1.113,000  bonds  and  $670,150  circula­
tion ;  two  years  ago,  $586,680  bonds  and 
$372,050 circulation.  The increased  cir­
culation  since  two  years  ago  is $551,950, 
or  nearly  150  per  cent.

The  banks  carry  $536,694.41  on  their 
books  and  the  account  of  furniture,  fix­
tures  and  real  estate,  compared  with 
$466,007.77 
last  year  and  $484,970 two 
years  ago.  Four  banks  now  own  their 
own  establishments  and  this  is  included 
in  the  holdings.

The  quick  assets,  that  is,  money  on 
band  and  on  deposit 
in  reserve  and 
other  banks,  aggregate  $4,392,799.89, 
against  $4,208,924.10 
year  and 
last 
$3,650,286.60  two  years  ago.

The 

surplus  and  undivided  profits 
aggregate 
$1,095,370.71,  or  about  41 
per cent,  of  the  banking  capital.  Last 
year  it  was  $956,971.89  and  two  years 
go  $816,651.84.  The  banks  are  $278,- 
718.87  better  off  than  two  years  go.

It  is  in  the  matter  of  deposits  that  the 
greatest  surprise  will  come  to  those  who 
have  not  closely  followed  business  con­
ditions.  The  commercial  deposits  are 
Î7>3,6,9i5.37,  compared  with  $5,403,- 
792.62 
last  year  and  $4,240,937.06  two 
years  ago.  The  increase  in  commercial 
deposits  since  one  year  ago  has  been 
$1,913,122.75  and  since  Sept.  5,  1900, 
Î 3.075.978.3I-

$9,460,946.24 

The  certificates  of  deposit and savings 
accounts  now  aggregate  $10,942,033.21, 
against 
last  year  and 
$8,218,131.91  two  years  ago.  The  gain 
has  been  $1,481,086.97  in  one  year  and 
$2,723,901.30  in  two  years.  In  two  years 
the  National  bank  certificates  have 
in­
creased  $684,092.20 and  the  State  banks 
savings  and  savings  certificates  $2,039,- 
809.10.

The  Grand  Rapids  banks  are carrying 
$1,561,746.48  in  bank  deposits,  which  is

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

Around  the State

Movements of M erchants.

Leslie—J.  C.  Bailey  has  purchased 
the  harness  stuck  of  Samuel  \V.  Bailey.
Armada—Phillis  &  Bearss  have  pur­
chased  the  meat  market of  Wm.  Ridley.
Monroe—M.  Slayman  is  succeeded  in 
the  fruit  business  by  B.  H.  Kberbaivi.
Juff,  baker  and  con­
fectioner,  has  sold  out  to  Mark  Match 
ett.

Burr  Oak—H. 

Detroit—A.  G.  Jamieson  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Tbos.  J. 
Digby.

Beebe—Jay  Brader,  of  Ithaca,  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  Robert 
Gamble.

Greenville—M.  S.  Dadles  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  Stuart  M. 
Albertson.

Ccopersville—S.  E.  Hosmer  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  grocery  stock  to  F.  F. 
Thompson.

Buchanan—J.  Cohl  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  Dell  J. 
Boardman.

Saline—John  A.  Dunn  succeeds  John 
A.  Alber  in  the  confectionery  and  bak­
ery  business.

Mt.  Pleasant—Chatterton  &  Son,  gro­
cers  and  meat  dealers,  have  sold  out  to 
Wm.  S.  Wise.

Jackson—Geo.  A.  Smith  succeeds  H. 
Smith  &  Son  (Clarence  C.  Smith)  in 
general  trade.

Durand—Chick  &  Holmes  continue 
the  general  merchandise  business  of 
Robt.  J.  Chick.

Swartz  Creek—Newton  &  Cummings 
have  purchased  the  hardware  stock  of 
Wm.  L.  Miller.

Jonesville—Miss  Jennie  M.  Burnett 
has  purchased  the  millinery  stock  of 
Mrs.  L.  Beatty.

Manistee—The  capital  stock  of  the 
in­

Manistee  Novelty  Co.  has  been 
creased  $20,000.

Houghton—Harry  Joffrey  has  discon­
tinued  the  clothing  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  business.

Reese—W.  A.  Donald  &  Co.  are  suc­
in  the 

ceeded  by  Tbos.  U.  Dawson 
mercantile  business.

Swan  Creek—J.  W.  Cross,  general 
merchandise  dealer,  has  sold  his  stock 
to  Geo.  Van  Wormer.

Digbton—Wm.  Haybarker,  of  Milton 
Junction,  has  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  at  this  place.

Hillsdale—Greenley  &  Bullock  suc­
ceed  Wm.  T.  Seidel  in  the  bakery  and 
confectionery  business.

Mesick—Zagelmeyer  &  Harty  have 
sold  their  furniture  and  harness  stock  to 
R.  E.  Turner,  of  Bannister.

Freeport—J.  W.  Foglesong  continues 
the  furniture  and  undertaking  business 
formerly  owned  by  Frank  H.  Nye.

Navarre—Eugene  McQuade  has  pur­
chased  the  notion  and  grocery  stock  of 
the  estate  of  the  late  John  F.  Porath.

Big  Rapids—Fred  W.  Morton  has 
taken  a  partner  in  bis  jewelry  business 
under the  style  of  Gleason  &  Morton.

Detroit—The E.  J.  McSweeney  & Co., 
Limited,  succeed  E.  J.  McSweeney  & 
Co.  in  the  mantel,  grate  and  tile  busi­
ness.

Adrian—Albert  Reisig  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Otto  Kaumeyer,  at 
59  Broad  street,  and  has  leased  the store 
building.

Pontiac—J.  L.  Marcero  &  Co.,  whole­
sale  tobacconists,  have  merged  their 
business 
into  a  corporati on  under  the 
same  style.

Sanilac  Center—Geo.  P.  Honeywell, 
druggist,  has  retired from the  drug  busi­

ness,  having  sold  his  stock  to  H.  H. 
Hoffman  &  Co.

Harbor  Springs—Rogers  Bros.,  seed- 
men  of  New  York  City,  have  purchased 
a  site  and  will  shortly  erect  a  suitable 
building  for  their  business.

Houghton—Jacobson  &  Kaplan,  of 
Calumet,  have  opened  a  dry  goods  and 
department  store 
in  the  new  Careek 
building  on  Sheldon  street.

Big  Rapids—Stewart  E.  and  Herbert 
L.  Canaan  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  Canaan  Bros,  and 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  A.  R. 
Morehouse.

Menominee—Peter  L ’ Hote  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  implement 
stock  at  321  Grand  avenue  owned  by 
W.  D.  Bigger.  The  new  style  is  Big­
ger  &  L ’Hote.

Alma—S.  Stannard  has  purchased  the 
harness  stock  of  C.  E.  Richardson  and 
has  leased  the  building  north  of  the 
Wright  House,  where  he  will  have  more 
commodious  quarters.

South  Boardman—W.  Granholm  & 
Co.  have  embarked  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  at  this  place.  The  stock  was  pur­
chased  of  the  Traverse  City  branch  of 
the  Musselman  Grocer Co.

Saginaw—Morley  Brothers  have  ac­
quired  the  business  of  the  Flint  Har­
ness  Co.  and  the  stock  and fixtures  have 
been  removed  here  and  added  to  the 
firm's  harness  factory  in  this  city.

Croswell—Smyth  &  Straffon  will  oc­
cupy  the  north  half  of  the  new  Smyth  & 
Learmont  block,  now  in  process  of  con­
struction,  with  their 
implement  stock 
as  soon  as  the  building  is  completed.

Pentwater—Harry  Thorp,  of  the  drug 
firm  of  Tuxbury  &  Thorp,  was  recently 
married  to  Miss  Georgia  Tuxbury,  of 
New  Orleans,  who  is  a  sister  of  bis 
partner.  The  Tradesman  extends  con­
gratulations.

Mulliken—A.  C.  Davis  and  Frank 
Brown  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Davis  &  Brown and pur­
chased  the  drug  and  grocery  stock  of 
C.  H.  McCarger.  They  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Kalamazoo—J.  A.  Sprague,  who  re­
cently  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of 
C.  O.  Stewart,  has  also  purchased  the 
stock  of  teas,  coffees  and  spices  of  M. 
F.  Fairchild,  and  will  remove  bis  gro­
cery  stock  to  Mr.  Fairchild's  store.

Tekonsha—Wolf  &  Clark  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  H.  B.  Wil­
liams.  The  business  will  be  continued 
at  the  old  stand  until  the  new  addition 
is  completed  to  the  store  building  now 
occupied  by  the  dry  goods  stock of  Wolf 
&  Clark.

Benton  Harbor—Benj.  Bufzbach  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  Frank  Potts 
in  the  Battlement  drug  store.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  by  the remaining 
partner,  A.  H.  Wiggins,  and  Mr.  Butz- 
bach  under  the  style  of  Butzbach  & 
Wiggins.

Nashville—E .  Liebhauser has  sold  his 
stock  of  drugs,  jewelry  and  wall  paper 
to  Ralph  A.  Foote  and  Von  W.  Fur- 
niss,  who  have  been  connected  with  the 
store  for  a  number  of  years.  The  busi­
ness  will  be continued under the  style  of 
Foote  &  Furniss.

Ithaca—Arrangements have been made 
between  the  Ithaca  Savings  Bank  and 
O.  L.  Altenberg  whereby  the  latter  will 
remove  his  jewelry  stock  to  one  of  two 
excellent 
locations  and  the  bank  will 
occupy  the  part  of  the  Monfort  build­
ing  leased  by  Mr.  Altenberg.

Lansing—C.  W.  Pratt,  who  started  a 
basket  factory  in  Lansing  some  months 
ago,  has  been  interesting  Chicago capi­
talists  and,  as  a  result,  Edwin  B.  Brown

has  moved  to  this  place  from  Chicago 
and  together  with  Mr.  Pratt  will  begin 
the  manufacture  of  baskets on  a  large 
scale.

Elk  Rapids—Chris,  and  Jake  Niffen- 
egger,  of  South  Haven,  have  purchased 
of  John  Boyd  what  is  known  as  the 
Front  street  property  and  have  com­
menced  the  erection  of  a  two-story brick 
building.  The  same  gentlemen  have 
purchased  the  Cooper  property  of  66 
feet  frontage  on  River  street,  and  will 
build  a  new  three-story  building  in  the 
spring.

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Buchanan—The  Chapin  Electric  Co. 
has  received  a  proposition 
from  the 
Spinks  Shoe  Co.  to  start  a  shoe  factory 
here  with  $600,000 capital.  The  owners 
claim  the  present  business  to  be  worth 
$250,000 and  want  $350.000,  which  will 
be  preferred  stock  and  draw 10 per cent, 
of  the  profits  before  their  stock  will 
draw  any.  They  say  they  can  begin 
with  450  to  500  employes.

Marshall  D.  Elgin,  of the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.,  is  spending  the  week  at  the 
Soo,  superintending  the  work  of  inaug­
urating  the  new  branch  house  of  the 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  at  that  market.

A.  W.  Meyer, 

formerly  engaged 

in 
the  meat  business  at  Big  Rapids,  has 
purchased  the  grocery  and confectionery 
stock  of  L.  K.  Thompson  at  766  South 
Division  street.

P.  H.  Hamming,  manufacturer of  bi­
116  Prescott  street,  has 

cycle  grips  at 
sold  out  to  C.  E.  Peterlein.

The  effectiveness  of circulars  is  fre­
quently—and  far  too frequently—marred 
by  undue  length.

Wm. 

J.  Clarke,  the  Harbor  Springs 
merchant  and lumberman,  is  in  town  for 
a  few  davs.

Quite
Likely
You  will  be  in­
terested  to  know 
that we  have  ju«t 
Issued a new cata- 
lo g u e  containing 
200  pages  ot  real 
worth  to  him who 
looks well to  qual­
ity.  m ake  an d  
value.  We  pride
its
neat  and  trim  at­
tire and will gladly 
forward it for your 
inspection,  if  you 
say so.
We carry a large 
supply  of  Pumps, 
Pipe  and  Tubular 
Well Supplies. 
Grand  Rapids  Supply Co.

o   ourselves  on 

^  

20 Pearl St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Want  Peaches, 
Grapes,  Potatoes

Y o u r  shipm ents  solicited.
M. 0. BAKER & CO.
Commission  Merchants

119-121  Superior  St., 

Toledo, Ohio

Bell and Home Phone 1870. 

References;  First  National Bank, Toledo. Ohio 

This paper.

B U SIN E SS  CHANCES

SPECIAL  BARGAIN  LIST 

A-  M.  Barron,  Real Estate and  Business 

Broker, South Bend,  Indiana.

My mission  is to bring buyerand seller 
together. 
I am a specialist  in  this  line. 
Wherever mail is delivered I can do busi­
ness.  If you want to buy or sell, write me.
FOR  SA L E —One-third 
interest  high 
grade grocery,prominent Michigan City ; 
15 per cent-profit; $1,000 cash.  Folio 9
FOR  SA L E —Custom  shirt  manufactur­
ing business ;  Illinois city ;  $1,250;  pays 
$150  monthly. 
FOR  SA L E —Two telephone exchanges, 
progressive  Minnesota  towns;  toll  and 
rural lines;  one  $3,500;  the other$4,500. 
Fine 
chance  to  consolidate  and  ex­
tend. 
WANTED—Man 
to  invest  $5,coo  or 
more  in  lumber,  sash,  doors,  mouldings, 
blinds,  etc.  ;  fine  business ;  want  to  en­
large ;  write  for  full  particulars.

Folio  19

Folio  22

Folio  24

booked 

Folio  48

Folio  59

Folio 69

$10,000; 

Folio 69

$2,500 
Folio  37

FOR  SA L E —Bakery,  confectionery and 
school  supplies ;  Connecticut  city ;  33 ; J 
$3,000;  a 
per  cent,  profit;  price 
snap. 
Folio  29
FOR  SA L E —Well  equipped  printing 
office,  Michigan  city;  high  grade  ma­
chinery  and  trade;  pays  15  percent; 
price 
in 
July. 
FOR  SA LE —General  store,  best  farm­
ing  region  Michigan;  up-to-date  stock; 
invoice  $3.500;  sell 
for  95  per  cent. 
Pays  $ioc  per  month  net. 
FOR  SA L E —Coal,  flour,  feed  and  iron 
business;  Nebraska town ;  big business; 
pays  $150  per  month  net;  price,  every­
thing  complete,  $3,800;  includes  resi­
dence  on  lot  88x140.  Write.  Folio  52
FOR  SA LE —Greenhouse  and  residence 
property,  Wyoming,  owned  by  widow 
lady ;  unable  handle  it ;  fine  opportu­
nity; $4,500 takes everything.  Look after 
this. 
FOR 
SA L E —Drug  store,  Michigan 
town;  farming  and  factory  community, 
long  established  trade.  Price  $2,500; 
pays  usual  profits. 
If  interested  write 
for  particulars. 
FOR  SA LE —40  acre  improved  farm, 
Kalamazoo  county,  Michigan; 
fine 
property.  Price $ 1, 100;  worth  doubie; 
bargain. 
SA L E —320  acres  unimproved 
FOR 
laud,  Dickinson,  Starke  county,  North 
land ;  price  $6  an  acre; 
Dakota;  fine 
worth  $10;  one-balf  cash,  balance 
long 
time. 
FOR  SA L E -----General  merchandise.
Noble  county,  Indiana;  two  railroads; 
farming  community;  making  money. 
Invoice  $4,000;  price  92 cents  on dollar; 
profit  20  per cent. ;  also  have  residence, 
7  rooms,  usual 
lots, 
fruit;  price  $1,000. 
FO R   SA L E —Interest  in  a  moneymak­
large  tract  of 
ing  sawmill 
timber  land ;  $1,500  wanted.  This  is a 
for  practical  man. 
fine  opportunity 
Write  for  particulars. 
FOR  SA L E —Photograph  studio;  also 
two  branch  studios,  adjoining  towns; 
Michigan,  Tuscola 
county;  making 
$200  per  month  net.  Price,  if  taken  at 
once,  $1,000.  Write  for  particulars  at 
once. 
FOR  SA LE —Millinery  and  notions; 
fine_  trade,  agricultural  region;  annual 
business  over  $2,400;  profits  25  per 
cent;  living  rooms;  fine  garden.  Price 
$800.  This  is  a  sure  enough  bargain. 
___________ 
Folio  140
FOR  SA LE —Book  publishing  house, 
Toledo,  Ohio;  high  grade  productions 
at  popular  prices;  installments.  This 
is  a  good  live  business.  Can  be greatly 
enlarged.  Now  paying  big  money. 
Price  about  $14,500,  according  to  stock 
on  hand  when  sale  is made.  Folio  115 
FOR  SA L E —High  grade  drug  stock 
and  fixtures,  fine  railroad  and  farming 
town,  Ohio;  stock  fresh  and  salable; 
invoice  $2,000;  will  sell  for $1,500;  fine 
living  rooms  upstairs;  might  trade  for 
bouse  and  lot  or small farm.  Folio  120
Don’t forget my address

__________________ Folio  83

improvements,  2 

located  on 

Folio  78

Folio  76

Folio  80

A.  M.  BARRON,

309 South  Michigan St., South  Bend, Ind,

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
The Produce  M arket. 

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugars—The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
firm, with  no change  in  price.  Refiners 
were  ready  buyers,  but  offerings  were 
small  and  but  little  business  resulted. 
The  market  for  refined  continues  very 
firm  with  good  demand.  Refiners  are 
still  unable  to  cope  with  the  present 
demand,  although  enquiries  are  not 
quite  so  heavy  as  they  were a  couple  of 
weeks  ago.  They  are,  however,  still 
from  one  to  three  weeks  behind 
in  de­
liveries.  Beet  sugar  is  expected  in  next 
week  and  a  number  of  orders  have  been 
placed  for  delivery  as  soon  as  manufac­
tured.

little 

sunshine  the 

the  outstanding 

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  shows  no  changes  of  note  ex­
cept,  perhaps,  a  somewhat  easier  feel­
ing  on  tomatoes.  The  rainy  weather  of 
the  past  few  days  has  been  good  for  the 
growing  of  the  tomatoes  but  they  do 
not  ripen. 
It  needs  sunshiny  weather 
for  this  and  there  has  been  very  little 
bright 
last  two  weeks. 
Should  the  weather  clear  up  and  the 
frosts  hold  off  a 
longer,  there 
would  be  more  tomatoes  packed, but still 
not  enough  to  make  much  of  a  showing 
against 
contracts. 
There  is  still  some  demand  for  Eastern 
tomatoes,  but 
it  is  not  as  heavy  as  last 
week  and  prices  show  some  easiness, 
and  Baltimore  goods  can  be  bought  at 
5c  per  dozen  less  than 
last  week.  Corn 
is  very  firmly  held,  with  a  good  request 
at  unchanged  prices.  The  outlook  for 
this  season’s  pack  grows  more  favor­
able  and  it  is  believed  will make  a  very 
good  showing  when  completed.  Peas 
are  quiet  with  practically  no  change. 
Peaches  are  very  firmly  held  and  are 
meeting  with  good  demand.  Gallon 
apples  are  quiet  at  unchanged  prices. 
There  continues  -a  good  demand  for 
small  fruits,  with  almost  nothing  being 
offered.  The  pack  was  very  short  and  a 
few  gooseberries  are  almost  the  only 
thing  offered.  Prices  on  salmon  con­
tinue  unchanged,  with  demand  very 
good.  Sardines  are  meeting  with  good 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.

Dried Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market, 
as  usual  at  this  season  of  the  year,  is 
rather  quiet.  With  the  advent  of  cooler 
weather,  however,  considerable  activity 
is  expected.  Some  interest  was  aroused 
this  week  by  the  naming  of  prices  on 
new  crop  raisins  and  quite  a  number  of 
sales  were  made  at  the  prices  quoted, 
and  these  are  expected  to  be  the  fore­
runner  of  a  good  business  a  little  later. 
Stocks  are 
light  and  the  consumptive 
demand  will  assume  much  larger  pro­
portions  within  the  next  few  weeks. 
Prunes  are  very  quiet  just  at  present. 
With  so  much  fresh  fruit  in  the  market 
one  can  not  expect  a  good  trade  on 
prunes,  nor  will  there  be  until  the  fresh 
fruit  is  out  of  the  market.  Prices  show 
considerable  easiness,  but  even  a  cut  in 
price  would  not  tempt  buyers  and  it  is 
practically 
to  move  any 
quantity  now  at  any  price.  Apricots 
are  somewhat  firmer  this  week,  with  an 
improved  demand.  Peaches  are  quiet, 
but  show  no  change  in  price.  The  de­
mand  is  very  light.  Currants  are  in  fair 
demand,  with  a  firmer  tendency.  Figs 
and  dates  are  both  firmly  held,  with 
good  demand  for  this  season  of  the 
year.  It  will  greatly  increase  as  soon  as 
it  grows  a  little  colder  and  the  holiday 
season  draws  near.  The  demand  for 
evaporated  apples  the  past  few  days  has 
showed  some  failing  off,  but the  market 
continues  very  firm,  with  small  stocks

impossible 

on  band.  Winter  fruit  is  beginning  to 
come  in  now,  however,  and  as  this  will 
keep  well,  dryers  have  a  chance  to  ac­
cumulate  stocks,  when 
larger  lots  will 
be  offered  for  sale.  With  the  arrival  of 
winter fruit,  it  is  expected a  steady mar­
ket  will  rule,  with  a  good  demand.

increase,  with 
in  every  instance. 

Rice—The  rice  market  is  firm,  with 
an 
improved  demand  which  will  un­
doubtedly  increase  with  cooler  weather. 
The  demand  at  present 
is  mostly  for 
medium  grades  of  domestic  head  rice, 
with  a  few  enquiries  for  fancy  grades.
Molasses  and  Syrups—The  molasses 
market  continues  very  firm  and  trading 
full 
shows  quite  an 
prices  obtained 
In 
view  of  the  continued  steady  demand 
and  the  probability  of  a  late  crop,  to­
gether  with  small  supplies  now  on  the 
market,  dealers  have  become 
indiffer­
ent  sellers  and  will  allow  no  concessions 
whatever.  The  demand  at  present  is 
largely  for  molasses 
in  cans,  which  is 
reducing  to  a  great  extent  the  sale  of 
the  goods 
in  barrels.  The  corn  syrup 
market  shows  some  weakness  and  prices 
have  declined  ic  per  gallon  and  6c  on 
cans.

Fish—Trade  in  fish  is  good,  with  the 
market  for  all  grades  more  firmly  held. 
Mackerel  continues  to  be  strong,  with 
good  demand.  Codfish 
is  in  good  de­
mand,  but shows  no  change.

Nuts—An  active  market  continues  in 
this  line,  with  most  descriptions  firmly 
held.  California  almonds  are  quiet, 
but  firmly  held.  Walnuts  are  meeting 
good  sales  for  both  shelled  and  un­
shelled.  Brazils  are  in  steady  demand 
at  full  prices  and  an  advance  is  looked 
for.  Tarragona  almonds  are  meeting  a 
good  demand.  The  new  crop 
is  re­
ported  at  about  half  of  last  year's.  Pea­
nuts  are  firmly  held,  but  are  in  light 
demand.

Rolled  Oats—There  is  nothing  of 

in­
terest  to  note  in  the  roiled  oats  market. 
Prices  are  firmly  held,  with  very  few 
goods offered.  Shipments  are  still  de­
layed,  but  not  quite  as  badly  as  a  few 
weeks  ago*.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  bide  market  is  weaker on  light 
lower.  Heav­
stock,  with  buffs 
ier  grades  are 
in  good  demand  and 
prices  are  sustained.  Countries  are
lower,  with  no  accumulation  and  good 
demand 
at  lower  price.  Orders  are 
numerous,  but  the  price  named  will  not 
draw  or tempt  one  to  fill.  The  tendency 
is  for  lower  prices,  while  prices  vary  as 
to  locality.

Pelts  have  been  on  the  market  in 
larger quantities  of  late  on  account  of  a 
strike  among  the  men  at  one  abattoir. 
This  offering  has  supplied  the  wants  of 
other  pullers  for  the  time  being,  and 
stocks  accumulate  at  other  points.

Tallow  has  been  in  good  demand  for 
soapers’  use  and  freely  sold  at  a  de­
clined  price.  Australia  offerings  were 
quickly  sold.  No  edible  is  offering.

Wool  has  revived  from  its  apathy  and 
sales  are 
larger than  for  months  before 
at  full  quotations.  This  gives  life  to 
the  market  and  holders  can  see  it  has  a 
value  and  feel  hopeful.  Offerings  are 
large  and  are  strongly  held.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

The  Kalamazoo  Gas  Co.  paid  a  sec­
ond  1%  per  cent,  dividend  to-day,  the 
previous  dividend  having  been  paid 
in 
November of  last year.  The  company  is 
rapidly  increasing  its  line  of  customers 
and  the  amount  of  its  output,  and  the 
stockholders  have  every  reason  to  feel 
satisfied  with  the  present  condition  of 
the  company  and  its  prospect  for  the fu­
ture.

|

5

Had

Piles  25  Years 

Cured

in  15  Minutes

I have made a  new  discovery  for  the 
cure  of  piles  without  Knife.  Cautery, 
Chloroform,  Pain  or  Detention  from 
Business.  The  treatment  consists  of 
DISSOLVING  and  ABSORBING  piles 
by means of a properly applied  mild cur­
rent  of  electricity;  a  property  of  elec­
tricity  discovered  and  used  exclusively 
by me, administered by an  equipment of 
my  own  invention,  the  construction  of 
which is a secret.  The  pile  is  dissolved 
in a few minutes and  readily  absorbs  In 
a  few  days.  You  sutler  no  inconve­
nience whatever from the treatment, and 
you are not laid up at  all.  I  have cured 
many  bad  cases  in  ONE  PAINLESS 
TREATMENT,  so the  patient  was  able 
to return heme on the  next  train  cured.
If you sutler with piles, write  me a full 
description  of your  case  as  you  under­
stand It and* I will  give  you  my  opinion 
free of charge  and  send  you  a  booklet

telling all about my NEW DISSOLVENT 
METHOD  for  the  CURE  OF  PILES. 
If you have a friend who is  afflicted  and 
you wish to do him a  kindness for which 
he will be everlastingly  grateful  to  you, 
send his name and  address  to  me  and  I 
will send him my booklet.

I have a local  reputation  for  remarka­
ble cures  in  this  line  and  dealing  hon­
estly  and  honorably  with  my  patients, 
who  send  me their afflicted friends  and 
acquaintances for treatment, and  In  this 
way I get a large clientele from all  parts 
of  the  country.  But  wishing  my  new 
DISSOLVENT  METHOD for  the CURE 
OF  PILES  to  become  more  widely 
known, have decided to do a little adver­
tising.  I am not an extensive advertiser, 
and if you are interested I  would  advise 
you to be sure and write  me at  once,  as 
you may not see my advertisement again.
I deal with  my  patients  on  the  same 
basis as  their  family  physician  does.  I 
exact  no  deposit  and no Ironclad agree­
ment.  When  you  have  returned  home 
and are satisfied you are  cured, you mall 
me a check, and that is all there Is  of  It. 
If I don’t cure you,  it  will  not  cost  you 
one cent.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson 

RECTAL  SPECIALIST 

103  Monroe  S t.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Apples—Common,  25@75c  per  bbl.  ; 

fancy,  $1.50^ 1.75  per  bbl.

@2  per  bunch.
yellow  stock.

Bananas—Good  shipping  stock,  $1.25 
Beeswax—Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 
Beets—50c  per  bu.
Butter—Creamery 

is  firm  at  22c  for 
fancv  and  21c  for choice.  Pound prints 
from  fancy  command  23c.  Dairy  grades 
are  firmer  and  higher,  commanding  18 
@ iqc  for  fancy,  I5@ i6c  for  choice  and 
I3@i4c  for  packing  stock.
Cabbage—Home grown  command  40© 
50c  per  doz.

Carrots—40c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1.50  per doz.
Crabapples—Late  Transparents  are  in 
Cranberries—Cape  Cods are in limited 

active  demand  at  $1  per  bu.
supply  and  demand  at  $2.30  per  box.

Celery—Home  grown  is  in ample sup­

ply  at  18c  per  doz.
Cucumbers—75c  per  bu.  for  garden 
grown  and  25c  per  100  for  pickling 
stock.

Egg  Plant—$1.25  per doz.
Eggs—Continue to advance as  receipts 
of  fresh  become  smaller.  Local  deal­
ers  pay  i7@iqc  for  case  count  and  ig@ 
21c  for  candled.

Figs—95c  per  10  lb.  box of California. 
Grapes—Blue,  15c  per  8  lb.  basket; 
Niagaras,  16c  per  8  lb.  basket;  Dela­
wares,  15c  per  4  lb.  basket.
Green  Corn— 10c  per  doz.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@i6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  1 3 ®  14c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ nc.
$3.50;  Mes- 
Lemons—Californias, 

sinas,  S3.75@4.
Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.

Lettuce—Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 

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

osage,  75c  per  crate.
Onions—Home  grown  stock  is  in  am­
ple  supply  at  6o@65C.  Pickling  stock, 
$2@3  per  bu.

Oranges—Jamaicas,  $4  per  box.
Parsley—20c  per  07.
Peaches—Smocks,  Chilas  and  Golden 
Drops,  6o@85c ;  Old  Mixons,  65@750. 
This  week  will  nearly  close  the  season, 
which  has  been  the  most  profitable  one 
ever  experienced  at  this  market.  The 
Michigan  Central  Railway  has  taken 
out  800  carloads,  mainly  to  (Eastern 
points,  and 
is  claimed  that  by  the 
end  of  this  week  the  shipments  will  ag­
gregate  2,000 carloads.
Pears—Sugar,  $1  per  bu.  ;  Flemish 
Beauties,  $1.35  per  bu.  ;  Bartletts,  $1.50 
per  bu.

it 

Peppers—70c  per bu.  for  green. 
Pieplant—2c  per  lb.
Plums—Blue  Damsons,  $2.50  per  bu. 
Potatoes—In  ample  supply  at  45@50C 
per  bu.
Poultry—Prices  are 
firm,  owing  to 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
in 
moderate  demand  at  6o@75c  and  squabs 
at  $1.50^ 1.75.  Spring  broilers,  q@ 
10c;  small  hens,  8@9C;  large  bens,  7 
@8c;  turkey  hens, 
io^ @ i i ^ c ;  gob­
blers,  9@ ioc;  white  spring  ducks,  8@ 
9c.  Dressed  stock  commands  the  fol­
lowing: 
I2@>3c; 
small  hens,  io @ i i c ;  spring  ducks,  12 
@ 130;  spring  turkeys,  13(g) 14c. 

chickens, 

Spring 

Radishes—10c  per  doz.
Spanish  Onions—$1.25  per  crate. 
Squash—2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  $3.75  per 
Tomatoes—65c  per  bu.
Turnips—50c  per  bu.
Watermelons—Home  grown 

bbl.  ;  Virginias,  $2.35.

Sweet­

hearts  are  in  ample  supply  at  16c.

John  Knape,  for  many  years  superin­
tendent  of  the  Clipper  bicycle  factory, 
has  recently  installed  a  line  of  machin­
ery  at  87  Campau  street,  the  enterprise 
to  he  known  under  the  name  of the  John 
Knape  Machine  Co.  The  plant  will 
make  all  kinds  of  light  machinery  to 
order,  including  patent  models,  special 
tools,  extra  parts  to  all  makes  of  bi­
cycles,  and  will  carry  Clipper  parts 
in 
stock.

For Gillies'  N.  Y.  te a ,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

6

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

have  seen  several  experiments  tried, 

STORE  LOAFERS.

S o m e   W a y »   o f   A b o lii-h iu g   T h is   C o m m o n  

Written for the Tradesman.

N u is a n c e .

Most  merchants  in  the  smaller  towns 
is  to  be  bothered  with 
know  what  it 
In  winter  and  summer,  stormy 
loafers. 
and  fair  weather,  they  are  always  on 
band  to  fill  the  store  with  smoke  and 
decorate  the  floor  with  tobacco  spit. 
Every  merchant  would  be  most  happy 
if  he  could  rid  himself  of  their  pres­
ence,  but  the  remedy  to  eradicate  the 
pest  is  hard  to  find.

I 
in  most  cases  the  results  were  not 
but 
satisfactory. 
I  know  of  a  gentleman 
who  conducted  a  drug  business  and  was 
troubled  with  the  presence  of the  village 
statesmen,  who  made  a  practice  of  con­
gregating 
in  his  place  of  business  and 
discussing  the  tariff  question  with  great 
enthusiasm.  The  druggist  removed  all 
the  chairs  from  the  store,  hoping  by 
that  means  to  make  it  so  uncomfortable 
for  his  faithful  guests  that  they  would  I 
leave  him 
in  disgust  when  they  found j 
that  there  was  no  place  in  the  store  on 
which  they  could  rest  their  valuable 
bodies.  But  they  were  not  to  be  driven 
away  so  easily.  When  they  found  that 
no  chairs  were  available  they  appropri­
ated  the  counters  and 
in 
greater  numbers  than  ever.  Then  the 
druggist  grew  angry  and  vowed  he I 
would  bring  the  thing  to  a  head  in short! 
order.  He  cut  a  couple  of  pasteboard 
boxes 
into  small  pieces  and  inserted  a 
number  of  tacks,  which  he  placed  on | 
the  counters  with  the  sharp  ends  up. 
On  the  upper  side  of  the  pasteboards j 
he  printed  in  plain  letters: 
“ Keep  off! 
the  counter.  This  means  you."  Then) 
he  awaited  results.

lined  up 

Soon  the  usual  crowd  began  to  put  in 
an  appearance.  One  by  one  they  came. 
They  remarked  about  the  state  of  the 
weather and  walked  up  to  the  counters. 
None  of  them  wanted  to  buy  anything 
and  when  they  read  the  little  notices 
placed  here  and  there  about  the  store 
they  grew  red  in  the  face  and  strolled 
outside.  Soon  the  whole  gang  had been 
in  and  become  acquainted  with 
the 
merchant's command.  The bovs gathered 
outside  and  held  a  council  of  war  in 
which  they  cussed  the  druggist  liberally 
and  vowed  they  would  get  even by with­
drawing  their  patronage  and 
telling 
other  people  what  a mean fellow  he  was. 
Had  the  tacks  been  removed  from  the 
counters  at  this  stage  of  the  game  all 
would  probably  have  been  well.  But 
people who  had  never  loafed  in  the store 
read  the  notices  and,  queer  as  it  may 
seem,  took  offense.  The  coat  did  not 
fit,  hut  they  put  it  on  nevertheless.  So 
it  came about that,  while the loafers were 
j driven 
away,  many  good  customers 
| withdrew  their  patronage  and  the  store 
suffered. 
It  took  the  merchant  a  long 
time  to  square  himself  with  a  good 
I many  of  the  people.

I  know  of  a  little  grocery  store  that  is 
i a  veritable  bee-hive  of  loafers.  Scarce­
ly  an  hour  in  the  day  passes  but  what 
this  store  is  filled  with  dense  clouds  of 
smoke,  especially  in  the  cold  months  of 
the  year  when  the  loafers  can  not  stand 
on  the  street  with  comfort.  One  of  the 
“ star  boarders"  of  the  establishment 
comes  down  town  in  the  morning  at  six 
o’clock  as  regularly  as  the  sun  rises  and 
sets  and  awaits  the  coming  of  the  man 
who  opens  up  and  sweeps  out. 
It  is  a 
custom  with  the  store  to  have  what 
is 
known  as  the  “ poor  b ox,"  an  old  cigar 
box  filled  with  smoking  tobacco,  always 
in  a  place  where  these  fellows  can  come 
and  fill  their  pipes.  Not a  chair  or other 
kind  of  seat 
is  to  be  found  where  the 
hangers  on  can  sit  during  the  day,  yet 
they  persist  in  congregating.  As  a  gen­
eral  thing these  men  are  not  poor.  They 
are  retired  farmers  who  have  moved  to 
town  to  spend  the  remainder  of  their

It 

considerable 

is  generally  found 

lives  in  what  is  probably  to  them  a  life 
of  pleasure.  They  buy  their  groceries 
of  this  merchant,  but  at  the  same  time 
drive  away 
trade  that 
would  come  to  this  store  if  it  was not 
continually  filled  with  men  and  smoke. 
Ladies  will  not  trade  there  because  they 
say  the  goods  smell  of  tobacco.
Remedies  for  this  evil  are  easily  pre­
scribed,  but  to  rid  a  place  of  business 
of  loafers  is  a  more  difficult  task  and 
one  that  necessitates  the  use  of consid­
erable  tact. 
is  true,  however,  that 
the 
loafer  loves  a  place  where  be  can 
have  full  swing,  where  be  can  talk  as 
loudly  as  he  wants to and smoke as much 
as  he  pleases.  As  a  general  thing  he  is 
not  a  lover  of  fine  things. 
It  is  not  the 
most  up-to-date  store  that  appeals  to 
him.  He  would  rather  bang  around  a 
place  where cobwebs  and  dirt  predom­
inate,  and  he 
in 
places  of  this  class.  Some  merchants 
love  to  talk  politics  and  will  spend  con­
siderable  time  in  doing  so.  Of  course 
such  a  practice  tends  to  increase  the 
number  of  loafers. 
Such  merchants 
soon  grow 
into  the  habit  of  neglecting 
their  business  to  “ gas"  with  these  fel­
lows.  Before  waiting  on  a  customer 
they  will  take  time  to  finish  what  they 
are  saying.  This  delays  the  customer 
perhaps  half  a  minute. 
If  he  happens 
to  be  in  a  hurry  it  irritates  him  and  the 
next  time  he  has  trading  to  do  he  will 
go  to  some  other  store. 
If  the  merchant 
himself 
is  not  accustomed  to  hustling 
when  people  are  waiting  for goods  he 
can  not  expect  his  clerks  to  set a  faster 
pace.  A  stream  will  rise  no  higher 
that  the  source  from  which  it  comes, 
neither  will  the  average  salesman  move 
any  faster  than  the  man  for  whom  he  is 
working. 
If  the  proprietor  likes  to  gos­
sip  better  than  to  wait  on  customers  he 
should  not  complain  if  the  whole  force 
about  the  store  follows  his  example. 
The  average  clerk  is  not  a  Russell  Sage 
kind  of  worker.  He  needs  some  sort  of 
example  to  keep  his  vision  fixed  upon. 
A  shiftless  proprietor  can  ruin  a  whole 
force  of  salesmen, but  a  man  with  lots  of 
ginger  in  his  makeup  will  infuse  some

of  his  enterprise  into  those  about  him 
and  his  business  will  be  benefited 
thereby.

As  has  been  said  before  in  this  arti­
cle,  remedies  for  the  eradication  of  the 
loafer  are  easier  to  name  than  to  put  in 
practice,  but 
it  would  seem  that  the 
merchant  who  is  troubled  with  a  gang 
of  chronic  loafers  might  get  rid  of  them 
if  he  would  apply  himself  a  little  more 
closely  to  his  business  and  less  to  their 
amusement. 
It  will  be  noticed  that  the 
most  successful  stores  are  not  troubled 
in  this  way  because  the  atmosphere  is 
not  congenial  to  these  fellows.  Then 
let  the  merchant  who  is  in  trouble bestir 
himself.  A  good  start 
in  the  right  di­
rection  can  be  made  by thoroughly over­
hauling  the  store,  dusting  all  the  goods, 
washing  the  windows  and  woodwork, 
sweeping  down  the  cobwebs  and  rear­
ranging  the  stock  so  that it will  show  off 
to  the  best  advantage.  The  showcases 
should  be  cleaned,  the  floor  scrubbed. 
Then 
removed. 
This  will  be  a  good  start  in  the  right 
direction.

let  the  cuspidors  be 

After all  this  is  done  see  to  it  that  all 
customers  are  waited  on  promptly.  Let 
the  clerks  know  that  they  are  there  to 
sell  goods  and  not  to  gossip  with  all  the 
old-timers  that  drop  in  for  the  purpose 
of  getting  up  a  conversation.  When 
there  are  no  customers  in  the  store  the 
employes  will  be  able  to  find  plenty  of 
work  to  keep  them  busy.  Let  every­
body  about  the  establishment  be  on  the 
move  and  before  long  the  chronic  loafer 
will  come  to  realize  that 
life  in  that 
quarter  is  too  strenuous  for  him.  When 
he  discovers  that  the  force  about  the 
pjace 
is  there  to  sell  goods  and  not  for 
bis  entertainment  his  visits  will  grow 
less  frequent,  the 
ladies  will  begin  to 
tell  their  neighbors  that  a  wonderful 
change  has  come  about 
in  this  store 
and 
if  business  does  not  pick  up  in  a 
surprisingly  short  time  it  will  be  funny. 
Nothing  succeeds  like  success  is  an  old 
saying,  but  it  is  as  true  to-day  as  ever. 
Let  the  people  know  that  you  are  a 
hustler  and  they  will  reward  you  with 
their patronage.  Raymond  H.  Merrill.

Stock  It  Promptly!
You  will  have enquiries f o r = =
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are  now  determined  to  push  it.  Perhaps your first customer will  ® 
take  a  dollar’s  worth.  You  will  have no trouble in disposing  of  a  1 
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ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  CO. 

THE  STREET  FA IR.

Its  Effect  on  Farm ers  and  the  Village 

Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.

Central  Lake  has  just  finished  its  fifth 
annual 
free  street  fair,  and  while  the 
advisability  of  holding 
it  this  year 
seemed  for  a  time  to  be  somewhat  in 
doubt,  our  business  men  are  almost 
in  the  opinion  that  it  was  a 
unanimous 
better  thing 
for  the  village  than  any­
thing ever  held  here  before.

There  has  always  been  a  feeling 
among  us  that  these  fairs  helped  gen­
eral  trade  throughout  the  year  by  adver­
tising  the  town,  bringing  farmers  and 
others  here  at  that  time  who  might 
otherwise  never  get  acquainted  with  us, 
and  by  giving  our  friends  a  lot of  free 
amusement  and  a  chance  to  carry  home 
valuable  premiums  with  no  other  ex­
loss  of  time  during  attend­
pense  than 
ance.  We  have  tried 
in  this  way  to 
show  our  appreciation  of  the  business 
we  receive  during  the  remainder  of  the 
year;  but  so  far  as  direct returns  during 
the  three  days of  the  fair  are  concerned, 
most  of  us  have  agreed  that  any  other 
three  days  were  apt  to  be  productive  of 
better  results.

Our  street  fairs  have  been  conducted 
on  a  good  financial  basis,  and  we  have 
invariably  paid  all  premiums  and  other 
claims  promptly  and  carried  over a lair- 
sized  balance  to  help  out  the  next  fair, 
and  this,  considering  that  we  received 
not  a  penny  from  gate  receipts  nor  en­
try  fees,  seems  to  us  like  a  pretty  good 
record.

Our  fairs  have  given  as  good  satisfac­
tion  to  farmers,stock  raisers,  fruit  grow­
ers  and  other  exhibitors  as  any  of  the 
county  fairs  of  which  we  have  been  able 
to 
learn,  and  our  exhibits  of  all  man­
ner  of  farm  produce  have  been  much 
better than  those  of  the  ordinary  country 
fairs.  As  long  as  our  farmer friends con­
tinue  to  exhibit  as  much  interest  in  the 
street  fairs  as  they  have  in the past,  and 
this  year  especially,  I  believe  it  will  be 
a  very  grave  matter  to  drop  the  annual 
free  street  fair  from  the  list  of  Central 
Lake’s  yearly  attractions.

The  feature  of  the 

last  day  of  the 
street  fair  this  year  was  the  thirteen  in­
ning  ball  game  between  Central  Lake 
and  Traverse  City,  which  was  won  by 
the  latter,  the  score  being  4  to  5.  Arch 
F .,  of the  firm  of  A.  F.  &  A.  Cameron, 
who  has  a  story  pertinent  to  every  oc­
casion,  sprung  the  following :

“ Several  years  ago,  when  I  was  in 
Traverse  City,  the  Escanaba  ball  team 
came  over and  played  a  game  with  our 
boys  and  got  the  worst  of  it.  An  Es 
canaba  enthusiast  made  the  statement 
that  his  father  had  a  million  dollars  and 
that  he  would  spend  a  good  share  of 
them  if  necessary  to  get  a  club  together 
in  Escanaba  that  would  do  up Traverse. 
After  a  while  there  was  another  game 
arranged.  So  we  chartered  a  boat  and 
all  went  to  Escanaba  to  see  the  fun. 
Some  of  the  businses  men  we  knew 
were  friendly  enough,  but,  aside  from 
that,  people  seemed  pretty  chilly.  Our 
boys  won  the  game.  There  was  a  big 
crowd  out  and  we  beard  more  rooting 
for  our  team  than  I  supposed  the  few 
Traverse  City  people  there  could  make, 
although  I  thought  little  of 
it  at  the 
time.  But  after 
the  game,  as  we 
marched  up  town, the city was ominously 
quiet. 
feels  pretty  sore,”  
was  my  mental  comment.  There  was 
hardly  a  soul  in  sight.  People  seemed 
to  stay 
in  their  back  yards  or  inside 
their  buildings,  and  there  was  no  one 
anywhere  visible  to  extend  the  “ glad 
hand”   or  to  give  us  a  pleasant  look.

“ Escanaba 

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

7

into  the  main 
As  our  party  rounded 
street  of  the  city—a  broad,  splendid 
thoroughfare—away  up  the  pavement, 
coming  rapidly  toward  us,  was  a  surg­
ing  mob  of  howling  humanity. 
It  was 
composed  of big  men—stevedores,  dock- 
wallopers  and 
iron  workers,  and  every 
mother's  son  of  them  brandished  a  bot­
tle.  The  noise  increased,  and  knowing 
that  the  feeling  toward  us  was  not  of 
the  most  friendly  character,  we  became 
a  good  deal  alarmed  and  had  begun  to 
consider  the  advisability  of  beating  a 
hasty  retreat,  when  through  the  fierce 
clamor  of  the  approacing  crowd  we  be­
gan  to  distinguish  such  words  as  these:
“   ‘ What’s  the  matter  with  Traverse 

City?’ 

* It’s  all  right!’

‘ Who  says  so?’ 
‘ What’s  the  matter  with  Escanaba?'

‘ Gladstone!’

‘ It’s  rotten—rotten,  r-o-t-t-e-n !’

“ Well,now 1 want to  say  that  we  felt  a 
whole 
lot  better.  Then  we  found  that 
there  was  a  standing  feud  between  the 
two  Upper  Peninsular towns and that the 
Gladstone  men  bad  chartered  a  steamer 
and  gone  to  Escanaba  on  purpose  to 
root  for  Traverse.  Their  boat  lay  at  the 
dock  near  ours  and  they  cheered  us 
when  we 
left  and  asked  us  to  come  to 
Gladstone  to  play  their  ball 
team. 
‘ You  won’t  get  any  frost  when  you 
come  to  Gladstone.  You  bet  we  know 
how  to  use  our  visitors!”   they  shouted 
as  we  steamed  away.  But  we  never 
found 
it  convenient  to  accept  their  in­
vitation. 
Something  or  other  always 
prevented."

♦   *  *

“ The  feature  of  the  game  was  the 
splendid  battery  w ork,"  commented  a 
fanatic  after  the  thirteen  inning  contest 
at  the  street  fair. 
“ Why,  how  do  you 
make  that  out?”   queried  his  beautiful 
“ I  thought  there  was  very 
companion. 
little  batting  done.”  
“ Well,  so  there 
was,”   he  assented,” but the battery isn’t 
supposed  to  do  the  batting.  The  bat 
tery  is  put  there  to  prevent  the  batting. 
They  don’t 
like  to  have  any  batting 
“ Well,  what  do  they  have  a 
done.”  
if  they  are  not  allowed  to 
battery  for 
bat?”   she  persisted. 
“ Oh,”   he  re­
plied,  “ they  are  allowed  to  bat  when 
their  turn  comes.  You  see  the  battery 
is 
just  the  pitcher  and  the  catcher.”  
“ Yes,  but  you  said  a  minute  ago  that 
they  were  not  allowed  to  bat,  and  now 
you  say  they  are. 
I  do  not  see  bow  1 
shall  ever  be  able  to  understand  the 
game.”   And  the  fanatic  thought  that 
she  was  probably  right.

’em—actually  eats 

However  well  agreed  our  people  may 
be  upon  matters  appertaining  to  the 
welfare  of  the  village,  their  views  upon 
the  propriety  of  having  allowed 
the 
“ snake  show”   to  run  here  during  the 
street  fair  may  never  quite  coincide. 
“ Osro  eats  the  snakes,"  howled  the 
“ spieler”  
in  front  of  a  tent that  was 
decorated  with  the  painting  of  a  shock­
headed  savage  in  short  petticoats  and  a 
“ Osco 
necklace  of  wriggling  serpents. 
eats 
’em 
alive,”  
yelped  the  orator.  “ Step  in  and  see  the 
living  wonder—the  strangest  creature 
on  the  face  of  the  earth,  who  tantalizes 
and  enrages  the  deadly  rattlesnakes  and 
then  eats  ’em  alive.”   “ Osco”   was sure­
ly  a  wonder,  although  at  first  we  con­
sidered  the  whole  thing  a  hoax.  But 
those  who  witnessed  the  revolting  spec­
tacle  declare  that  it  was  only  too  real. 
How  any  human  being  can  stoop  to 
make  a 
living  by  such  means,  passes 
the  understanding  of  most  of  u s;  and 
what  there  is  to  attract  people  to  an  ex­
hibition  at  once  so  unnatural  and  so  re­
pulsive  is,  perhaps,  as  great  a  mystery. 
Yet  we  are  taught  that  nothing  has  been

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created 
lacking 
in  means,  who  find  it  “ incon­
venient”   to  contribute  to  the  support  of 
the  church  or  to  charitable  institutions 
or  to  the  needy  poor  and,  after  such  as 
these  have  exhausted  the  possibilities of 
the  cigarette,  the  grog  shop,  the  opium 
den  and  the  nickel  in  the  slot  machine 
in  its  various  forms,  it  may  be  that  the 
live  snake  eater  comes  in  to  furnish  one 
more  avenue  through  which  to  dispose 
of  their  surplus  cash. 
I  think  that  the 
snake  show  as  we  bad  it  here  should  be 
prohibited.

The  weather  continues  warm  and 
pleasant  and  up  to  this  time—Sept.  29— 
there  has  been  no  frost  to  interfere  with 
agriculture.  Most  crops  are  growing 
nicely,and  the  leaves  on the  forest  trees, 
although  gilded  or crimsoned  here  and 
there,  are  otherwise  as  green  as  they 
were  in  August. 

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Always  wind  up  a  watch  as  nearly  as 
possible  at  the  same  time  every day,and 
do  it  as  smoothly  as  possible,  to  avoid 
jerks.  Most  watches  are  now 
sudden 
made  keyless,  but 
if  a  key  has  to  be 
used,  it  should  be  kept  perfectly  clean 
and  free  from  grit  or  dust. 
If  a  watch 
is  hung  up,  it  must  have  some  support 
at  the  back,and  if  laid  horizontally  it  is 
well  to  place  some  soft  substance  under 
it  for  more  general  support,  otherwise 
the  action  of  the  balance  will  cause  a 
pendulous  motion  of  the  watch  and 
cause  much  variation 
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issue  of 
September  24,  1902, and  saw  the  edition 
mailed in the usual  manner.  And  further 
deponent  saith  not. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1902. 
Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  county, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild,

John  DeBoer.

Mich.

It 
is  need  enough  of 

TWANGING  THE  SAME  OLD  STRING.
For  some  two  or  three  years  the  coun­
tries  at  the  other  end  of  the Morgan  tine 
have  been  humming  the  refrain  of a 
catchy  tune  and  they  never  weary  of  it. 
“ Out  with  the  products  of  the  United 
States”   is  the  sentiment  expressed,  and 
while  there  is  no  end  of  heartiness  as  to 
the  end  to  be  attained  nobody  has  been 
able  to  propose  any  practical  way  of 
is  everywhere  conceded 
doing 
it. 
that  there 
it.  A 
glance  at  a  recent  address  of  the  Bureau 
of  Statistics  proves 
it.  According  to 
that  Europe  took  in  the  latest  year  for 
which  the  detailed  statistics  are  avail­
able  more  than  one-half  the  exportation 
of  manufactures from  the  United  States. 
If  the  matter  could  end  with  that  fact  it 
would  he  bad  enough,  but  it  does  not. 
Everything  seems  to strengthen  the  idea 
that  this 
is  only  a  beginning,  and  un­
less  something  can  be  done  about  it 
Europe not only had better  but  will  have 
to  shut  up  shop,  a  conclusion  which 
culminates 
in  twanging  vigorously  the 
same  old  string,  followed  by  the  equally 
vigorous  statement  of  the  only  remedy.
The  chief  iact  noticeable  in  the midst 
of  the  growing  uneasiness  is  America’s 
unconcern.  With  a  calmness,  seemingly 
wholly unjustifiable, she  hears  the  snatch 
of  commercial  ragtime,  hums 
it  and 
keeps  right  on  with  forge  and  loom.  A 
single  purpose  has  seized  her:  to do  her 
level  best  with  the  work  her  hands  have 
found.  Her  hammer  and  her shuttle  fly 
faster  than  do  her  thoughts  and  every 
bar  of  steel  she  turns  out  and  every 
thread  she  spins  are  an  improvement 
upon  the  last  one  that  left her thoughtful 
hands.  She  knows  no  limit  to  “ best.”  
Like  the  poet’s  realized 
ideal,  once 
materialized 
its  manifest  crudeness  in­
cites  to  higher  things;  and  right  there 
lies  the  secret  of  Europe’s  deep  con­
cern. 
The  speech  of  the  Statistics 
Bureau  chief  confirms  it  when  he  says 
that  American  manufacturers  can  hold 
their  own  in  the  world’s  markets.

Let  us  consider  this:  Commercial  ex­

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

is  only  the  underlying  idea  of
cellence 
supremacy—a  fact  which
commercial 
commercial  history  confirms. 
It  is  only 
a  repetition  of  “ a  survival  of  the  fit­
test.”   China  is  as  good  an  example  as 
modern  Europe.  They  all  led  as  long 
as  they  furnished  the  best  and  they  did 
that  until  they  stopped  thinking  and 
thought.  China 
realizing  their  best 
reached  her 
limit  and  built  a  wall 
around 
it;  henceforth  China  was  su­
preme  and  had  to  be  walled  in.  The 
time  has  gone  by  for that.  Stone  and 
mortar  can  not shut  in  or out  thinking 
or  its  thought.  The  untangible  alone 
can  bar  that  and  law  is  called  upon  to 
bar  out  the  American  product to-day  as 
the  wall  did 
in  China  centuries  ago. 
The  modern  agrarian  at  present  is  try­
ing  to  wall  out of  Europe  the  world’s 
best. 
It  can  not  be  done.  As  surely  as 
the  American  genius  has  produced  the 
best  that  cunning  can  contrive  just  so 
surely  will  that  best  find  its  way  over 
the  agrarian  wall  as  it  has  found  its 
way  over  the  Asiatic  barrier. 
If  the 
American  meat  is  best that  meat  will  go 
If  the American 
where 
shoemaker  alone  can  fit  the  Old  World’s 
foot  his shoe  will find its  way to  that foot 
as  unerringly  as  the  wheat and  the  corn 
find  their  way  into the  European  stom­
ach.  They  are  the  best  and,  what  is 
more  to  the  purpose,  they are  the  cheap­
est,  two  qualities  which  have  and  will 
batter  down  the  thickest  wall  which 
selfishness  and  greed  can  build.

is  wanted. 

it 

The  Bureau  chief  pleasantly  accounts 
for this  country's  calmness  during  the 
twanging  of  the  string.  He  believes 
that  combinations  or  concerted  move­
ments  for  the  exclusion  of  our  products 
will  amount  to  nothing.  The  exclusion 
from  the  great  markets  of  the  world  of 
the  products  of a  country which supplies 
so  large  a  proportion  of  the  consump­
tion  of those  markets  would  have  the 
effect  of  advancing  prices  of  those  arti­
cles  in  other  parts  of  the  world,  so  that 
the  attempt  to  exclude  American  prod­
ucts  would  compel  the  nation  exclud­
ing  them  to  pay  higher  prices  for  those 
products  when  obtained  elsewhere. 
European  economists,  especially 
in 
Germany,  where  the  exclusion  senti­
ment 
is  strongest,  have  urged  that  the 
inevitable  effect  of  shutting  out  the 
products  of  this  country  would  be  to 
raise  the  prices  of  such  products  abroad 
and  under  existing  conditions  this 
would  be  a  very  serious  matter  for a 
large  number  of  European  consumers. 
In  most  of  Europe  the  situation  of  the 
working  classes  at  present  is  bad  and  a 
policy  that  would 
increase  the  cost  of 
living  would  cause  widespread  distress.
It  is  safe  to  assume  that  there  is  little 
danger of  serious  harm  to  the  American 
trade. 
is  easy  to  see  why,  however 
pleasing  the  thought  may  be  to the  pop­
ular  European  heart.  They  are  teaching 
in  song  what  they  have 
in 
suffering  and  although  they  are  finding 
out  that  their  fond  desires  are  never  to 
be  realized  they  are  still  enjoying  a 
great  deal  of  comfort  from  a  constant 
twanging  of  the  same  old  string.  Amer­
ica  has  seen  ail  along  what they  are 
beginning  to  find  out.  Hence  her calm­
ness  and  hence  an  occasional  humming 
of  the  most  catchy  strains  as  she  goes 
on  with  her  labors.

learned 

It 

The  American  Artisan  has  issued  a 
Manual  of  Business  which  bears  evi­
dence  of  painstaking  effort  on  the  part 
of 
is  well 
printed  and  substantially  bound  and 
should  have  a  large  circulation  among 
merchants  and  business  men  generally.*

the  compiler.  The  book 

AMERICANS IN  EUROPE.

the 

A  writer  in  the  October Century  Mag­
azine,  under 
title  of  “ Rolling 
Stones,”   draws  a  most  uninviting  pic­
ture  of  the 
lot  of  Americans  who  live 
abroad.

One  of  the  troubles  is  that  Americans 
in  Europe  are  regarded  as  interlopers 
and  remain  to  the  end  strangers to  all 
foreigners  except  those  who  can  use 
them.  The  home 
life  of  Europe  they 
seldom  see,  except  in  cases  where  they 
are  boarders  in  families  of  the  humbler 
sort. 
In  Europe,  as  a  rule,  money  is 
made  with  difficulty.  Wages  are  not 
large  and  people  have  to  shape  their 
manners  according  to  their 
incomes. 
They  have  no  money to  spend  on strang­
ers,  and  that  free-handed,  wasteful  hos­
in  this  country  is 
pitality  so  common 
unknown  abroad.

Americans  who  travel  abroad,  as  a 
general  rule,  are  plain  people  of  little 
culture,  but  with  money  to  spend.  They 
are,  therefore,  the  objects  of  attention 
by  smooth  swindlers  and  all  who  hope 
to  profit  by  the  association.  The  fact 
that  considerable  numbers  of American 
women  have  married  foreigners  of  rank 
and  title  bas  vastly  stimulated  Ameri­
can  travel  to  Europe.  Ambitious moth­
ers  have  a  hope  that  some  such  fortune 
may  be 
in  store  for their girls,  and  so 
the  fair  Americans  are  exhibited  in  the 
foreign  matrimonial  markets.

Then  there  is  the  subtle  poison  in  the 
social  atmosphere  of  the  great  cities  of 
Europe  that  seems  to  affect  more  or  less 
all  who  have  come  under  its  influence. 
Like  the  church  deacon  from  our own 
rural  districts  who,  however  exemplary 
amid  the  quiet  shades  of  his  own  home 
life,  insists,  when  he  gets  into  a  big 
city,  on  seeing  the  under  side  of  soci­
ety,  the  American  matron  whose  life  at 
home  has  been  as  transparent  to  the 
view  of  her  friends  as  crystal,  as  soon 
as  she  tastes  the  poison  of  Paris  wants 
to  visit  the  Moulin  Rouge  and  see  all 
the  enormities  of  social  license.

It  seems  an  anomaly  too  strange  to  be 
true,  but  the  simple  fact  is  that  some 
people  of 
this  democratic  Republic 
sometimes  imbibe  the  notion  that  sc 
cial  classes  with  titles  and  rights an  . 
privileges  of  precedence  over  other 
make  up  a  situation  that 
is  mo:; 
charming,  and 
highest  ambition  of  the  wealthy  Am  >• 
can  to  enter  in  some  way  the  cha 
jec: 
circle.  But,  according  to  the 
rite*
quoted,  even  those  Americans  that  6ain 
entrance  to  it  are  not  always  of  it.  He 
thus  remarks:

it  appears  to  be 

f 

Although  they  do  not  properly  belong 
to  the  genus  “ rolling  stone,”   a  word 
may  be  said  here  of  those  daughters  of 
Uncle  Sam  who  have  married  abroad 
with  the  idea  of  improving  their  posi­
tion,  and  have  learned  too  late  that the 
chief  difference  between  court  life  and 
ordinary  existence  lies  in  the  obligation 
“ to  stand  up  when  one  wants  to  sit 
down  and  to  sit  up  when  one  wants to 
go  to  bed” —exercises,by  the  way,  suffi­
ciently  difficult  to  those  brought  up  to 
the  task.
I have  the  impression  that,  were  these 
titled  dames  to  confess  the  truth,  they 
would  acknowledge  the  game  they  are 
playing  to  be  much  less  exciting  than 
was  expected,  and,  on  the  whole,  hardly 
worth  the  cost,  for  a  curious  phenom­
enon  attends  this  form  of  exile.  One 
finds  that  the  girls  who  married foreign­
ers  in  order  to  get  away  from  their com­
for  company,  to 
patriots  are  forced, 
condense  into  little  sets  by  themselves, 
forming 
large  cities  a  new 
species,  neither  flesh  nor  fowl. 
It  is 
true  the  ladies  bear  foreign  titles,  live 
in  stately  mansions  and chateaux,  speak 
the 
language  of  the  land  more  or  less 
well,  and  affect  the  manners  and  morals 
of  their  new  relatives;  yet,  in  spite  of

in  all 

The 

Even 

all,  they  remain  to  the  day  of  their 
death  aliens  in  the  land  of  their  adop­
tion,  seeing  little  society  but  that  of  fel­
low-exiles and an  occasional  stray  friend 
from  home.
in  England,  among  our  own 
kin,  the  American  ladies  who  have mar­
ried  Englishmen  mostly  live  together  in 
a  little  Anglo-American  clique,  and  see 
but  little  more  of  inside  British  society 
than  when  they  visited  the  island  as 
girls. 
in 
London  and  in  Paris,  where  the  natives 
are  comparatively  approachable,  my 
readers  may  picture 
for  themselves 
what  the  isolation  must  be  of  the  mar­
ried  waifs  in  such  exclusive  citits  as 
Vienna  and  Madrid.

If  this  state  of  things  exists 

idea  untraveled  people  get  that 
their  fortunate  relatives  across  the  sea 
are  chumming  with  dukes  and  hobnob­
bing  with  royalty,  comes,  to a  great  ex­
tent,  from  certain  newspapers,  which, 
when  a  rare  American  lunches  with  a 
grand  duke  at  the  Cannes  club  bouse  or 
receives  a  princeling  on  bis  yacht  at 
Kiel,  trumpet  the  event  in  a  blare  of 
big  type  and  faked  photographs.
If  it  could  only  be  impressed  on  such 
of our compatriots  as  contemplate  wan­
dering  that  few  foreigners  without  an 
ax  to grind  ever  frequent  the  society  of 
strangers  or  welcome  one  to  their  tire- 
side,  much  heart-burning  and  disap­
pointment  might  be  avoided.  We,  how­
ever,  have  such  a  free  way  of  asking 
stray  foreigners,  with  or  without  ’  char­
acters,”   to  walk 
in  and  sit  down,  that 
we  find  it  a  bit  hard  to  be  kept  waiting 
in  the  street  after  knocking  at European 
doors;  yet,  humiliating  as  the  avowal 
must  be,  such  is  often  tbe  case.

The  number  of  Americans  residing 
abroad  is  very  large.  Some of  them  are 
wealthy,  and  some  are  otherwise.  With 
the  exception  of  those  who  are  engaged 
in  some  sort  of  study,  the  greatest  num­
bers  have  no  other  occupation  than  to 
amuse  themselves  or to  pass  the  time  as 
best  they  may. 
In  addition  to  these, 
great  numbers  of  our  people  are  con­
stantly  touring  the  Old  World.

oat 

they  are 

Thus  a  great  deal  of  American  money 
is  sent  abroad,  to  come  back  sooner  or 
later  for  our  cotton,  grain,  meat  and 
petroleum. 
It  makes  business,  and, 
after  all,  it  must  be  admitted  that  only 
lose-their  heads 
a  few  of  our  people 
in  contact  with  Old 
when  they  come 
, World  ways  and 
institutions.  On  the 
I contrary,  they  learn  to  see  how  petty 
’'d  pitiful 
| 
is  a  social  state  when  the
st  masses  of  the  people  are  taught 
inferior,  that  they  are 
j made  of  a  cheaper,  poorer clay  than  are 
iheir  rulers  and  titled  aristocracy, 
it  presents  to  the 
j  What  a  contrast 
grand  system 
in  which  all  citizens  be­
fore  the  law are  equals,  where  every  in­
dividual 
is  entitled  to  make  tbe  most 
and  get  tbe  best  out  of  such  abilities  as 
he  may  possess,  and  where  out  of 
its 
mighty  body  of  citizens  are  chosen  in 
due  order  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  the 
Republic,  the  governors  of  states  and 
the  chief  dignitaries  of  their  Govern­
ment.  And  it  is  another  feature  of  this 
American  grandeur  that  these  high  offi­
cials  and  dignitaries  are  not  chosen 
from  any  particular  class  or  family,  but 
are  called  whenever  and  from  wherever 
the  people  will  it,  and  they  are  called 
for limited  terms  and  not  for  life.

There  can  never  be  a  permanent  offi­
cial  class 
in  this  country,  and  that  is 
the  greatest  security  to  its  liberties  and 
institutions.  There  can  be  no  perma­
nent  Presidential  family, nor any  official 
aristocracy.

is  good  as 

The  world  needs  more  men  whose 
word 
long  as  time  lasts, 
whether  it  is  nominated  in  the  bond  or 
not;  who  do  not  lie  awake  nights  con­
cocting  schemes  to  deceive  and  defraud 
their  fellows;  who do  not  employ  tricky 
lawyers  to  draw  up  technical  contracts 
which  place  the  other  party  to  the trans­
action  in  jeopardy.

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

9

BRAINS  AND  BOOKS.

intelligence, 

It  is  solace  to  remember that  one  may 
be  civilized  and  rational  while  still 
comparatively  ignorant.  Not  long  ago  a 
dozen  members  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society  agreed,  without  a 
dissenting  opinion, 
that  the  greatest 
English  historian  since  Gibbon  was 
Samuel  Rawson  Gardiner. 
It  would  be 
an  interesting  experiment  for  the  aver­
age  reader  of  these  lines,  as  an  exercise 
in  restraint  of  intellectual  pride,  to  en­
quire  of  himself,  privately,  whether  he 
ever  before  had  beard  of  Dr.  Gardiner 
and  has  any  idea  what  he  wrote.  Then 
let  him  put  the  same  question  to  his 
associates  and  learn  the  sort of company 
he  keeps.  The  number of  superlatively 
important  books  a  busy  man  may  omit 
to  read,and  still  make  a  fair  showing  of 
general 
is  a  comforting 
fact.  But most  of  us  in  these  busy  times 
read  fewer  good  serious  books  than  we 
ought.  The  figures  are  not  at  hand,  but 
it  is  certain  that  in  our  cities  almost  an 
imperceptible  minority use the libraries. 
It  would  be  humiliating  to  learn  how 
few  people  in  Grand  Rapids  read  even 
one  book  a  year  which  is  not  the 
light­
est  kind  of  novel.  Very  many  of  our 
busy  men  never  read  anything  but  mag­
azines  and  newspapers,  and  so  they  get 
into  the  habit  of  satisfying  their  minds 
with  that  easy  reading.  But  the  mind 
fed 
like  the  body  fed 
upon  gruel;  there  must  be  for the  mind 
as  for  the  body,  trial,  hardship,  good 
exercise,  otherwise 
it  will  have  no 
chance  to  strengthen  itself.  The  mind 
gets  dull  and  rusty  with  much  cutting 
of  soft  things,  and  it  finally  becomes  an 
extremely  difficult  task  to  cut  into a 
solid  book.

in  this  way 

is 

Men  say  they  are  too  tired  on  return­
ing  from  the  day's  work  to  use  their

and 

brains,  but  it  is  just  this  use  that  will 
refresh  and  stimulate.  Almost  all  the 
men  who  have  made  themselves  promi­
nent  and  won  success  in  one  depart­
ment  of 
life  exercised  their  minds  in 
some other  department.  Goethe  turned 
from  poetry  to  science;  Rossetti  was 
poet  and  painter;  Gladstone  was  politi­
cian 
theologian;  Dr.  Thomas 
Arnold  made  himself  a master of Roman 
history;  General  Lee,  General  Charles 
Napier,  General  Lew  Wallace,  General 
Howard,  General  “ Chinee”   Gordon,  all 
splendid  soldiers,  were  also  Biblical 
students  and  bookish  men.  President 
Roosevelt 
from  the  absorbing 
cares  of  his  office  to  write  books.  No 
man  or  woman  can  make  a  more  fatal 
mistake  than  to  seek  rest  for  the  mind 
by  ceasing  to  work  it.  Give  it  exercise 
and  plenty  of 
it,  not  on  soft  reading 
alone  but  on  some  solid  substance.

turns 

If  people  would  do  more  serious  read­
ing  they  would  gain  convictions.  The 
truth 
is  the  great  mass  of  people  have 
no  convictions;  they  are  led  by the  nose 
by  any 
leader  who  happens  along.  A 
conviction  implies  study,  thought,  pon­
dering  on  problems,  making  up  the 
mind  which  way  the  world’s  work 
would 
lead  you  and  which  way  you 
ought  to  go.  We  are  not  worth  a  straw 
until  we  are  moved  by  convictions. 
In 
politics,  religion  and  other  matters  peo­
ple 
are  ruled  by  tradition,  custom, 
habit;  the  great  majority  merely  drift, 
inheriting  their  beliefs  as  they  do  the 
color  of  their  hair.

Von  Humboldt  says  whatever  we  wish 
to  see  inttoduced  into the  life  of  the  na­
introduced  into  its 
tion  must  first  be 
schools;  . and  we  may  add, 
into  the 
habitual  reading  of  its  citizens.  There 
is  such  a  world  of  comfort,  happiness, 
help,instruction  for  us  all  in  those  com-

panions,  the  books  on  our  shelves  and 
on  the  shelves  of  the  libraries.  Are  you 
lonely  or  sad,  fancying  yourself  alone, 
go  read  the  biographies  of  the  men  who 
have  fought  and  conquered.  Read  the 
life  of  Scott  and  his  splendid  struggle 
to  pay  his  debts;  read  the 
life  of 
Thomas  Arnold  and  see  how  religion 
may  be  translated 
into  duty ;  read  the 
life  of  Macaulay  by  bis  nephew,  and 
see  how  this  man’ s  facilities  were  con 
quered  by  severe  work ;  read  the  life  of 
Darwin  and  see  how  no  physical  dis­
abilities  can  stand  between  a  student 
and  success;  read  the  life  of  Lafayette 
and  see  how  a  man  may  turn  the  most 
insidious  temptation  of  the  world  into 
strength.  Delve  into  books  and  make 
friends  with  Charlemagne  and  Luther 
and Savonarola and Loyola and Washing­
ton  and  Napoleon,  the  men  of  action ; 
learn  what  kind  of  men  these  were  who 
stopped  the  current  of  the  world  for a 
moment  and  made  it  flow  around  them. 
Read  the  Bible  and  read  Marcus  An­
toninus  and  Fenelon  and  Emerson  and 
Tennyson  and 
learn  the  secrets  of  the 
religious 
life.  Fortunes  go  up  and 
down,kings  are  crowned  and  dethroned, 
empires  change  their  boundaries,  the 
whole  face  of  the  earth  is  wrought  over, 
but  these  men  remain,  kings  of  the 
brain,  kings  of  the  heart  and  soul— 
scientists,  philosophers,  poets.  These 
men  are  not  affected  by  any  panics,  by 
the  stringency  of  the  money  market. 
“ Here  are  worlds  to  which  for  a  little 
while  we  may  retire,  like  the  gods  on 
Olympus  of  old,  unaffected  by  the  ups 
and  downs  of  common  humanity.  Sup­
pose  we  do  not  get  the  society  we 
like, 
the  very  best  society 
in  the  world  is 
open  to  any  intelligent  man  in  the  li­
brary.  There  are  no  finer  minds  on 
earth  than  we  can  freely  associate  with

on  the  condition  of  learning  to  under­
stand  what  they  have  to  say.  They  are 
always  ready  to  speak  at  our  wish,  and 
if  we  are  tired,  always  ready  to  be  si­
lent.”

There 

is  much  said  nowadays  to  the 
effect  that  it  is  better  to  know  life  than 
literature,  better 
to  know  men  than 
books.  But  we  can  only  know  men  well 
through  books;  can  only  know 
life 
through 
literature.  With  our  eyes  and 
ears  we  can  see  and  hear  only  a  few 
men,  but  with  books  we  may  know 
thousands;  with  books  we  may  clasp 
hands  with  the  great  and  the  good  of  all 
feel  ourselves  strengthened, _ 
ages  and 
guided,  lifted  by  the 
invisible  grasp 
reaching  out  to  us  from  the  pages  of  a 
book.  There  is  the  great  panacea 
for 
all  the  ills  of  mind  and  body—the 
love 
of  reading. 
If  we  cultivate  the  intel­
lectual  side  of  our  nature  and  have 
learned  to  live  in  an  intellectual  world 
we  have  taken  a  great  step  upward,  we 
have  climbed  up  just  so  much  above the 
level  of  the  animal,  above  the  range  of 
the  turmoil  and  transitoriness  of  life, 
and  entered  into  the  things  that remain.

The  way  to  get  business  is  to  prove 
that  what  you  have 
is  what  the  other 
needs  in  order  to  make  money  or  to 
satisfy  a  demand.  Bend  every  energy 
toward  convincing  people  that  you  have 
just  what  they  can  use  to  the  best  ad­
vantage  and  personal  satisfaction.  The 
press  advertisements,  the  spoken  words, 
the  distribution  of  samples,  and  all  that 
can  be  done  to  further  a  business should 
be  directed  to  this  one  end..

Give  a  man  brains  and  riches  and  he 
is  king;  give  him  brains  without  riches 
and  he  is  a  slave;  give  him riches with­
out  brains  and  he  is  a  fool.

^ ^-ied   Treasurer  of  the  lodgA_ 
ago,  and  the  shortage  was  dlseo“/sred 
thg  the  regular  semiannual  examination^ 
the  books.

IM PORTANT

Cash  Register  Decision.

National Cash Register Company Wins 

Infringement Suit  in  U.  S.  Court 

Against  Halwood  Cash  Reg­

ister Company.

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S P E C IA L   D IS P A T C H   TO  T H E   B K O n B B B .

Cincinnati,  Ohio,  August  30.  —  Judge 

'Thompson,  of  the  United States  Court  her 
to-day  handed  down  a  decision  in  the  two 
patent  suits  brought  by  the  National  Cash 
Register  Company,  of  Dayton.  Ohio,  on 
March  26.  1897.  one  suit  iga:nst  the  Hal- 
wood  Cash  Register  Company  and  the  oth­
er  against  the  New  Columbus  W atch  Com­
pany  as m anufacturers of the  Halwood  ma­
chine.  The  Court  holds  the  Halwood  ma­
chine  infringes  claims  of  the  Maxwell  pat­
ent  owned  by  the  National  Company,  and 
a  decree  has  been  entered 
accordingly* 
This  decision  makes  the  Halwood  Company 
liable  for  all  gains  and  profits  received  oy 
them  and  all  damages  suffered  by  the  Na­
tional  Company  by 
In­
fringement.  and  the  Court  has  referred  the 
m atter  to  a  m aster  for  an  accounting  to 
ascertain  the  amount  of  such  profits  and 
damages.

reason  of  such 

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Story  of the  Store  W hich  Never  Had  a 

about  $65  to  do  it  with.

ÎO

DOOMED  TO  FAILURE.

Customer.

Last  week  I  heard  one  of  the  toughest 

little  stories  I  have  evet  heard.

1  suppose  there  are  millions  of  others 
just  as  tough—since  for  every  one  of 
these  little  bits  of  pathos  that  get known 
there  are  a  thousand  that  do  not.

This 

is  the  story  of  a  grocery  store 

that  never  had  a  customer.

About  five  months  ago  a  couple  of  old 
maiden  ladies  who  had been  family  and 
personal  friends  for  years  happened  to 
get  thrown  on  their  uppers  at  about  the 
same  time.  As  I  get  the  story,  each 
little  income,  just 
enough  to  keep  her  from  starving  to 
death,  and  each  happened  to  lose 
it,  or 
the  most  of  it,  at  the  same  time.

*  one  had  had  some 

To  make  a  long  story  short  after tear­
fully  canvassing  ways  and  means  for  a 
week  or two,  the  devil  put  it  into  their 
poor  old  heads  to  open  a  grocery  store.
One  of  the  old  maids  told  a  friend  of 
mine  that “ that  seemed about the easiest 
sort  of  a  store  to  run.”

What  do  you  think  of  that?
The  poor  old  girl  had  no  money. 
Neither  of  them  bad  had  as  much  as 
$5°t  probably,  at  any  one  time  in  her 
whole  life.  The  most  they  could  scrape 
together  was  $40 apiece,  and  with  this 
they  set  out  to  open  a  grocery  store, and 
in  a  neighborhood  where  there  were 
already  three  and  another  one  coming.
Well,  the  first  step  they  took  was  for 
one  of  them  to  give  up  her  little  two- 
story  house  and  double  up  with  the 
other.  They  took  all  the  furniture  out 
of  the  parlor  and  stained  the 
floor. 
Then  they  bought  a  little  second-hand 
counter  for Sio  and  bad  a  handy  hard­
ware dealer  in  the  neigborhood  put  up  a 
few  shelves.

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

Then  they  bought  their  stock,  having 

You  fellows  think  you  have  problems 
to  solve—how  would  you  like  to  try  to 
open  a  grocery  store  with  $65  worth  of 
stock ?

I  was  only 

Honestly,  that  was  the  poorest-looking 
little  stock  I  ever  saw. 
in 
the  place  once,  and  then  1  knew  noth­
ing  of the  circumstances,  having gone  in 
to  enquire  for  an  address.  They  bad 
three  narrow  little  shelves,  if  I  remem­
ber  rightly,  and  on  these  were  arranged 
their  tiny,  meager  little  assortment.  All 
the  stock  they  had  was  on  the  three 
shelves,  except  a  few  boxes,  such  as 
soap  and  cakes,  on  the  floor.

It  looked  like  a  child’s  play  store.
The  day  I  was  in  there  the  two  pro­
prietors  sat  rocking  in  respective  cor­
ners  of  the  room,  waiting  for  the  trade 
that  certainly  did  not  come  while  I  was 
there.

As  I  said,  there  were  already  three 
other  well-established  grocery  stores  in 
this  neighborhood,  I  said, 
“ and  an­
other  one  coming” —that  was  one  of 
Hunter’s—his  “ hundred  and  fourth’ ’  if 
I  remember correctly.

The  old  ladies  had  had  their  “ store”  
open  only  a  week  or  two  when the Acme 
store  opened  with  a  great  flourish  of 
trumpets  and  the  assortment  of  special 
offerings 
that  usually  mark  a  chain 
store’s  opening.

The  old  maids  probably  did  not  know 
there  was  such  a  man  as  Hunter;  they 
did  not  know  anything  about  the  com­
petition  of  his  stores;  they  did  not 
know  anything,  in  fact,  about  any  phase 
of  their  business.

So  the  poor  things  sat  and  hopefully 
rocked  while  the  tide  rose  around them.
The  other three  grocers  in  the  neigh­
borhood  knew  about  Hunter,  however.

and  they  started  in  to  meet  his  new 
store 
just  as  vigorously  as  they  could. 
You  know  how  you  feel when  a  new man 
comes  into  your  neighborhood.

Now,  to do  Hunter and  the  other  three 
grocers  justice,  it  is quite  probable  that 
they  bad  never  heard  of  the  two  old 
ladies  and  their  child's  grocery  store, 
and  had  never  even  seen  their  pitiful 
little  pasteboard  sign,  “ Fresh  Grocer­
ies,”   in  the  window.

The  four  grocers  waged  their  mimic 
war  with  never a  thought  that  there  was 
another  enemy  to  be  snuffed  out  by  it.
like  a  man  who,  striding  forth 
to  kill  a  lion,  steps  unbeknown  upon  a 
worm.

is 

It 

Well,  to  condense  a 

long  story,  the 
two  old 
ladies  kept  their  store  open 
three  months.  And  never  in  all  that 
time  did  a  single  customer  come  near 
it.  One  of  them  sadly  told  this  to  a 
friend  of  mine  the  week  after 
they 
closed  up.

The  poor  old  girls  had  to give  up 

theii  little  house  and  take  a  room.

They  had  their  $65  worth  of goods, 
untouched  by  the  clamorous  hand  of 
any  purchaser,  and  on  this  they  are 
probably  living  yet.

it  was  perfectly 

When  you  look  at  the  matter  you  will 
logical  that 
see  that 
these  old  ladies  should  have  failed. 
It 
goes  without  saying  that  they  could 
never  compete,  on  the  merits  of  their 
store  and  stock,  with  even  the  smallest 
established  store.  Nobody,  having  only 
the  object  of  getting  good  goods  at right 
prices,  would patronize  the  old  maids  in 
preference  to  the  other  stores  in  the 
neighborhood. 
I  also 
learned  that  they  had  priced their  goods 
without  the  slightest  regard  to  what 
their  competitors  were  selling  for,  and

Incidentalily, 

the  chances  were  that  their  figures  were 
way  out  of  sight.

So  that  thé  only 

factor  that  could 
have  gotten  them  trade  was  public  sym­
pathy,  and  that  did  not  apply  at  all,  be­
cause  the  old  maids  had  always  kept 
much  to  themselves  and  nobody 
in  the 
neighborhood  knew  or cared  much about 
them.

So  that 

is  why  their  poor  little  store 
must  go  down  to  history  as  the  store 
that  never  had  a  customer.—Grocery 
World.

The 61st  of the  M atter  in  a  Nutshell. 

Written for the Tradesman.

The  establishment  was  a 

large  one, 
the  business  was  profitable  and  rapidly 
increasing  and  every  member  of  the 
firm  was  having  more  than  he  was  will­
ing  to  do.  Two  ways  out  of  the  diffi­
culty  presented  themselves:  Take  a 
new  man  into  partneiship,  who from  the 
nature  of  things  would  for  some  time  be 
a  disturbing  element,  or  promote  from 
the  rank  and  file.  For  a  good  many 
reasons  the  latter way  was  the  better, but 
that  brought  to  the  front  a  tremendous 
“ who?”   Finally  affairs  came  to  a  head 
and  the  bouse  gathered  around  their 
council  table  to  answer the all-important 
question.

“ We  have  an  abundance  of  good  ma 
terial  to  choose  from,”   was  the  first 
remark  when  the  business  of  the  meet­
ing  began. 
“ That  man  Nott  has  noth­
ing  negative  about  him  but  his  name. 
He  is  clean  cut  clear  through.  H e  can 
scent  commercial  game  afar  off  and  he 
hunts  it  down  with  a  certainty  as  re­
markable  as  it  is  unerring.”

“ What’s 

the  matter  with  Rugg?”  
asked  Marston,  with  the  bluntness  of 
the  Middle  West  that  betrayed his birth­
place. 
like  his

like  him  and  I 

“ I 

You  Ought  to  Own One  of  These

T h e   T o l e d o   C o f f e e   &   S p ic e  
Co.--be  sure you  get  the  name 
right—offers this premium prop­
osition  with  the  absolute  euar-
antee  that  every  grocer  who 
takes  advantage  of it will  be de­
lighted  both  with  the  case  and 
the  spices  when  they  arrive: 
This  oval  front sales case, 6 feet 
. 
l°ng>  36  inches  high  and  18
inches  deep,  with  12  compartments;  made  in  finely  finished  oak;  strongly  and  sub­
stantially  constructed  and  absolutely dust  proof:  with  drawers  10  inches  high  and  16 
inches  deep.  Can  be  used  for  fruits,  cakes,  crackers  and  nuts.
Prevents  customers  from  handling goods.  Given  with  100  lbs. 
of  our extra  ground  spices  assorted  to  suit,  for 

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TOLEDO  C O FFEE  &  SPICE  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio

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

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methods.  No  sham  there.  You  always 
know  what  be  means.  He  cuts  corners 
and,  what 
is  much  to  the  purpose,  he 
leaves  no  sharp  angles  for  people  to 
get  hurt  on.  See  Gahan’s  nose  go  up. 
You  all  know  what  that  means. 
It  is  a 
great  pity,  Gahan,  that  you  were  not 
in  the  country  and  made  to  do 
born 
chorea  on  a  big  New  England  farm. 
It 
is  the  one  thing  you  need  to  round  you 
out.  You  would  know  then  a  great  deal 
better  than  you  can  know  now  that  a 
pumpkin  that  ripens  early  is  not  fit  for 
anything. 
is  the  big,  overgrown, 
all-over-creation  affair,green as gra ss  in 
June  and  a  globe  of  gold 
in  October 
that  takes  the  prize  at  the  county  fair.
“  I  see  that  you  understand  Rugg, 

laughed  the  junior  member,  “ and  have 
nothing  more to  say.”

It 

lley  directly  back  of  my  house.  She is 
widow  and  for  a  long  time  she  used 
do  our  washing.  The  woman  had  a 
hard  row  to  hoe.  She  was  sick  half 
the  time  and  the  boy  all  the  time.  My 
ife  is  forever  prowling  around  for  just 
such  people  and  she  found  exactly  what 
she  wanted 
in  the  Robbs.  Of  course 
that  brought  the  widow  into  my  kitchen 
nd  it  was  not  long  before  the  boy came 
too. 
I 
ways  had  a  prejudice  against  a  red­
head,  and  this  boy,  then  nine  years 
old,  was  a  regular  clover-top,  splashed 
ith  freckles,  and  he  had  a  nose  too 
pug  to  wipe  with  ease  and  so  it  was  not 
often  wiped.  He  was  sick  and  so  he 
was  always  bawling  and  he  was  always 
getting  in  his  heaviest  work  when  I  was 
at  home.

I  could  stand  her,  but  not  him. 

£  Bem enis S ods

¡ arising  Michigan.

Bernent
P eerless
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.  D uring this 
time  he will  pay  you  another  fifteen  dollars,  and  you 
will  sell  him  other goods.

R e m e n t  P lo w s
Turn  Tti£ [MIK-

W e  make  it  our  business  to  see that our agents 

have the exclusive sale of  Peerless  Plow  Repairs.

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B E W A F t E r   O F  / M F T A m & N S  !

Our Legal Rights as Original Manufacturers

will be protected by L aw.

but  I  had  my  eyes  on  that  boy. 

rid  of  the  whole  outfit,  but  my  wife 
stubborner than  1  am. 

Well,  I  got  tired  and  I  tried  to  get 
is 
I  naturally  gave 
I 
have  kept  them  there.  When  he was 
ten  years  old  the  bawling  stopped  and  I 
found  out that  he  had  begun  to  earn  his 
own  living.  A  neighbor  wanted  some 
errands  done  and  Emmet  begged  to  do 
them.  Then  that  little  cub,  on  his  own 
account,  canvassed  the  neighborhood  as 
an  errand  boy  and set  up  a  regular busi­
ness.  One  day  somebody  asked  him 
why  he  did  not  sell  papers  and  the  lit­
tle  aristocrat,  whose  mother was  a  wash­
woman,  with  his  nose  in  the  air  and  a 
scorn  equal  to  Gahan's  made  answer 
that that  sort  of thing  was  good  enough 
for  the 
‘ class’  that  had  not  wit  enough 
to  do  any  better !  For  himself  he  was
going  to  be  a  merchant  like Mr.-----and
he  mentioned  my  wife’s  husband.

“ With  that  scheme  going  on  right 

in 
my  own  family  I  became  convinced  I 
had  better  wake  up. 
I  found  that  that 
young  one  bad  never  been  asleep!  Then 
was  the  time  I  got busy.  It  did  not take 
me  long  to  see  that,  like  Nott,  he  was 
clean  cut  clear  through,  and  the  busi 
ness  that  boy  did  would  have  made 
many  an  old  tradesman ashamed of him 
self.  He  had  started  out  with  a  string 
and  came  home  with  a  jack-knife  and 
he  had  exacted  tribute  from  every  one 
he  met.  When 
the  pumpkin  period 
overtook  him  I  was  on  the  lookout  for 
It  did  not  come.  You  see 
a  breakup. 
what  he 
is  now.  He  reached  the  six 
foot  mark  in  six  weeks  when  he  began 
to  grow  and  out-Rugged  Ruggs 
in  the 
pumpkinest  year  and  a  half  that  a  boy 
ever  lived  through. 
I  measured  him 
one  day  after  the  Campbell  standard. 
Wit! 
I  shall  not  try  that  again  when 
there  is  anybody  around.  My  wife  has 
not  got  over  laughing  at  me  yet.  Take 
him  all 
in  all  he  is  ahead  of  anybody 
in  that  store,  at  that  anybody’s  best; 
but  when  you  have  said  that  you  have 
not got through.

“ Now,  gentlemen,  you  see  where  I 
am  going  to  end  and  I  am  going  to give 
you  my  standard  in  sizing  up  this  man 
exactly  as  I  have  sized  up  every  man 
that  has  been  mnetioned.  All  of  us 
want  the  man  in  here  who  was  born  for 
the  place.  That  means  he  must  be 
gifted—a  natural  born  genius  for  the 
work  to  be  done.  Now genius  differs  in 
its  methods  of  development. 
I  have 
nothing  to  say  about  that;  but  I  do 
say—and  I  say  it  with  all  my  might— 
that  he  only  is  gifted  who  finds  in  his 
heart  a  willingness  to  do  hard  work. 
Emmet  Robb  is  the  only  man  we  have 
blessed  with  that  willingness  and  the 
needed  force  that goes  with  it.  That  is 
all  I  have  to  say.  Take the  man  you  can 
decide  upon;  but  if  it  is  Robb  1  am  his 
financial  backer. ’ ’
The  silent  partner went out  and  Robb 
was taken  into the  firm.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

“ Campbell  is  a  boy  that  does  not  ca 

for any  horn-blowing.  He  has  been  with 
us  now  for  something  like  five  years 
steady  as  a  clock  and  has  not  gained  or 
lost  a  minute  in  the  whole  time.  You 
do  not  catch  him  watching  the  clock 
and  you  never  saw  him  leave  the  store 
with  a  job  unfinished. 
I  like  that  little 
bit  of  the  Highlander  that  crops  out 
once  in  a  while.  A  little  ‘ near,’  but  not 
stingy,  with a  quiet  sense  of  the  humor 
ous  that  brightens  things  wonderfully, 
Some  of  the  boys  were  having  a  good 
time  the  other  evening.  Campbell 
‘ Gime  a  match,  some  of 
joined  them. 
you  fellows.’  Nobody  had  one. 
‘ All 
right,  you  beggars. 
I  shall  have  to  us 
one  of  my  own!’  and  Scotchy lighted u 
with  one  from  a  pocketful!  We  do  not 
want  to  forget  Campbell  in  making  the 
new  deal. ’ ’

“  How  about  Burke?  There 

is  you 
countryman  with  any  quantity  of  the 
hayseed  thrown  in.  Whether  you  know 
it  or  not  he  is  the  time-keeper  for  every 
house  between  here  and  his  boarding 
place.  He  does  not  know  how  to  get 
around  a  corner  gracefully,  but  when  he 
gets  around  it  he  is  there  with  both  feet 
and  ready  for  the  liveliest  kind  of  busi 
ness.  Ever  hear  him  say  yes  and  no 
It  comes  from  the 
lowest  layer  of  hi 
soles  every  time  and  settles  things 
After  either  one  of  them  you  know  what 
to  do.  1  think  he  would  make 
just  the 
balance  wheel  we  have  needed  ever 
since  Gahan  has  been  in  here.  I  am  not 
going  to  be  upish  about it,  but unless  we 
can  do  a  great  deal  better  I  am  going  to 
say  Burke with  all  my  might;”   and  the 
speaker having balanced his account with 
Gahan,  settled  back 
fied.

in  his  chair  sati 

“ Any  other  names  to present?”   asked 
the  senior  member  after  a  short  pause

‘ ‘ Why—er,  yes, ”   answered  one  of  the 
“ Co.”   “ 1  suppose  1  am  going  to  get
laughed  at  for  my  pains,  but  I  have 
been  a  member  of  this .company  eve 
since  there  has  been  one  and  from  that 
day  to  this  almost  we  have  had  a  ma 
in  our  employ  whom 
I  have  watched 
I  detest  as  much  as  anybody  the  idea 
of  sneaking  around,  but 
in  this  case 
gentlemen,  I  acknowledge  that  I  have 
done  a  lot  of  it  and  I  have been  at  it  for 
a  good  many  years—ever  since  he  has 
been  with  us,  anyway.  My  man 
is 
Robb.”

The  silent  member  waited  for  the  ex­
pected  laugh  and  it  did  not  come.  With 
a  silence  that  was  remarkable 
each 
member  of the  firm  looked  straight  be­
fore  him,  waiting  for  what  was  sure  to 
follow.  Scant  of  speech  when  Coomes 
said  anything  he  was  worth  listening 
to.  They  had  not  long  to  wait.

“ I 

live  on  Sherman  avenue  and  this 
boy's  mother at the  time  I  am  speak­
lived  on  the  other  side  of  the
ing  of 

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

Some  Revelations  of an  Old  Oxford  Shoe.
is  a  peculiarity  of  ray  kind  that 

It 

was  no  sooner  born  than  wed.

1 confess  that  I  was  good to look upon 
but  for  this  I  take  no  credit.  For  the 
pleasing  softness  of  my  skin  I  had  to 
thank  those  progenitors  of  mine  who 
spent  hardy  and  common  sense  lives  on 
the  Swiss  Alps.  Also  some  thanks  are 
due  to  my  foster  parents—good  working 
people,  poor  but  respectable—who  di 
their  utmost  to  the  end  that  I  should 
make  a  fine  appearance  in  the  world.

My  wife  and  1  lived  our  lives  not  un 

circumstance  which 

pleasantly—a 
think  was  due  to  the  fact  that  I  insisted 
from  the  first  that  I  was  right,  always 
right,  and  could  be  nothing  else.  Thi 
fact  was  settled  when  the  knot  was  tied 
with  the  prettiest  pair  of  shoestring 
imaginable,  and  we  had  nothing  in  the 
world  to  do  but  hug  each  other  closely 
and  gaze  out  of  a  window  ail  day. 
I 
the  days  that  followed,  although  we 
kept  pace  admirably,  1  always  main 
tained  my  position.

I  have  lived  too  long  in  the  world  not 

full  confession. 

to  have  become  a  trifle  cynical,  and 
this,  the  story  of  my  life,  I  intend  to 
make 
I  admired  my 
wife—I  could  do  no  less,  considering 
how  much  she  resembled  me.  But'  th 
greatest 
life  was  given  to 
another.  Lefty  (my  wife's  pet  name 
and 
1  made  no  show  of  our disagree 
ments  when  on  parade,  but  it  was  no­
ticeable,  as  we  grew  older, 
that  we 
drifted 
farther  and  farther apart  in  our 
off  days.

love  of  my 

Of  the  love  in  my  life  it  hurts  me  yet 
to  speak,  and  still  1  must,  for  although 
my  tongue  is  dry  and  hard,  my  sole 
is 
not  yet  dead,  and  there  is  that  within 
me  that  bids  me  speak.

loveliness. 

forget  the 

I  saw  her first one sunny day in June—a 
breezy  vision  of 
It  was  a 
case  of  love  at  first  sight  on  both  sides. 
Never  shall  I 
joyous  thrill 
I  felt  when  first 1 encompassed that love­
ly  foot  and  drew  that  loved  one  to  me ! 
Soft  and  warm 
it  was,  pulsating  with 
health  and  life  and  youth.  We  felt  that 
we  had  been  made  for each  other.  Her 
instep,  arched  and  beautiful,  was  at 
once  a  torture  and  a  delight. 
1  was 
tongue-tied,  too  full  for  utterance;  and 
yet  my  very  sole  cried  out  with  joyous 
pain  when  first  she  pressed  me  to  the 
ground.

How  beautiful  she  was !  How  noble 
was  her  form!  “ Her  dainty  feet  peeped 
in  and  out  like  mice  beneath  her  petti­
coat.”   1  was  one  of  the  mice.  She  had 
the  divinest  ankles! 
I  used  to  laugh  at 
the  open-mouthed  appreciation  of  the 
Johnnies  on  wet  days.  One  felt  that 
time  flew  by  not  fast  enough  if  one  but 
gazed  upon  the  clock  which  graced  her 
stocking.

She  took  us  home  with  her  and placed 
us  side  by  side  upon  her  dressing  table. 
Was  I  indiscreet  in  telling  my  wife  all 
my  thoughts  and  feelings?  I  have  since 
thought  so. 
I  am  now convinced  that  it 
was  nothing  but  feminine  spite  which 
caused  Lefty  to  pinch  my  ear  on  the 
from 
next  day.  This  meant  separation 
all  I  loved  for  two  whole  days. 
It  was 
also  punishment 
for  my  wife,  and  for 
this  I  was  not  at  all  sorry.  When  I  saw 
Lefty again she was decidedly chastened. 
She  declared  that  she  had  been  placed 
on  the  rack,  and  that  the  tortures  she 
had  been  forced  to  suffer  were  some­
thing  awful. 
I  was  tickled  clean  to  my 
toes,  but  I  was  wise  enough  to  bold  my

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tongue.  Lefty 
after  that.

did no  more  pinching

Frequently  we  took  my  loved  one  to 
the  park,  I  willingly,  Lefty  because  she 
it  was  we  met  the 
had  to.  And  there 
the  maid  bad 
man.  The  man  and 
known  each  other  long. 
I  heard  him 
beg  her  to  marry  him.  She  pleaded  that 
her  father  would  object.  The  man  was 
poor;  the  girl’s  father  was  rich.  But 
the  man  was  persistent,  and  the  girl 
pondered ;  and  while  she  pondered  she 
looked  at  me.  Be  sure  that  I  frowned 
my  disapproval! 
I  did  not  like  the  fel­
low. 
felt  that  be  was  looking  at  me 
too  covetously.  All  would  have  been 
well  had not  the  maid  changed her  posi- 
ion. 
it  was  Lefty 
that  she 
looked  at.  The  brazen  young 
madame  openly  gloated 
in  the  admir 
ng  looks  cast  upon  her  by  the  man, 
When  the  girl  began  to  waver  Lefty 
wriggled  her  approval.  •  It  was  not  long 
before  the  man  had  bis  arm  around  the 
waist  of the  maid  and  she  had  promised 
to  be  his.

I  was  retired,  and 

I 

1  do  not 

like  to  remember  the  day 
that  followed. 
I  was  hurt and  disap 
pointed,  and  that  girl  walked me  until 
was  worn  out.  The  culminating  point 
came  when  her  father  interviewed  her 
He  bad  just  been 
interviewed  by  the 
man  and  his  temper  was  not  good  to 
see.  But  the  maid  was  her  father’s  own 
daughter,  and  she  stamped  her  foot  so 
that  she  dislocated  my  heel.  She  was  a 
trenuouser.
On  the  morning  of  the  wedding  my 
loved  one  took  me  in  her  hands  and 
looked  at  me  sadly. 
“ 1  should  have 
iked  to  take  you  with  me, ”   she  said : 
‘ but  now  there  is  no  earthly  use. 
I  can 
not  understand  how  it  could  ever  have 
broken  the  way 
It  must  have 
been  loose  and  1  must  have  caught  it  on 
something.  Why,  the  heel's  half  off."
I,  who  had 
worn  myself  out  in  her  service!  Who 
had 
loved  her  fondly  and  truly !  Who 
had  uplifted  her  in  her  adversity!  But 
how  was  she  to  know  that  the  broken 
heel  signified  a  broken  heart?  I  forgave 
her.

And  she  threw  me  aside ! 

it  did. 

My  loved  one’s  sister  found  me on  the 
bed  where  I  had  been  thrown.  She  hur­
ried  downstairs  and  flung  me  out  of  the 
door  at  a  departing  carriage.  I  landed 
back  of  the  driver.  He 
lifted  me  with 
coarse  hand  and  with  a  laugh,  equally 
coarse,  placed  me  by  his  side. 
I  saw 
Lefty  fired  after  me,  but  she  landed  in 
the  gutter,  and  her  fall  caused  me  no 
concern.

At  the  railroad  station  the  cabman,  a 
coarse  fellow,  but good-hearted,  followed 
the  man  and  bride  to  the  train,  and 
hen  he  saw  them  at  the  window  he 
flung  me  in  to  them. 
“ This  belongs  to 
you,  he  said,  and  retired  guffawing.
The  man  was  red  in  the  face  with  an­
ger,  but  the  bride  hastily  slipped  me 
nto  her  portmanteau. 
I  am  afraid  she 
would  have  thrown  me  out  of  the  win- 
low 
if  she  could  have  done  so  unob­
served.

later  and  thrown 

From  the  portmanteau  I  was  removed 
some  time 
into the 
bottom  of  a  trunk,  and  there  remained 
for  a 
long,  long  time;  how  long  I  do 
not  know  but  it  must  have  been  years.
It  was  the  man  who  took  me  out,  lift­
ing  me  with  reverent  tenderness. 
“ It 
was  her  shoe, ”   he  said  and  the  tears 
were  in  his  eyes.  Then  I  knew  that  my 
loved  one  was  dead.

“ It  was  her  shoe,”   he  said. 

“ Dear 
little  shoe!  She  wore  you  the  day  I 
proposed  to  her.”

Poor  fool!  He  did  not  know  the 
in  my  heart  for  him—a

hatred  I  had 

hatred,  however,  which  now  entirely 
disappeared.

He  sat  and  smoked  and  talked  to  me 
for  one  whole  evening  and  then  placed 
me  back  in  the  trunk. 
I  never  saw  him 
again.

It  was  a  woman  who  took  me  out of 
‘ ‘ Dear 
my  biding  place  a  second  time. 
m e,"  she 
laughed,  ‘ ‘ 1  did  not  know 
that  dear  George  bad  so  much  senti­
ment  about  him. 
I  must  put  this  away 
where  it  won't  bring  up  any  unpleasant 
memories."

She  handled  me  gingerly  and directed 
the  housemaid  to  throw  me  in  the  gar­
bage  can.

And  now  I  have  landed  where  we  all 
come  to  some  time  or  other—on  the 
dump. 
intent  and 
purpose  and  the  next  load  of  refuse  will 
bury  me.—Pittsburg  Despatch.

I  am  dead  to  all 

is  retired  there 

More Troubles Ahead For the W holesaler.
If  the  coming  year  does  not  prove  a 
study  to  wholesalers  the  probability  is 
that  there  never  will  be  one. 
Just  as 
one  serious  disturbing element in  whole­
saling 
loom  up  new 
ones  that  emanate  from  the  minds  of 
strenuous  and  hustling  manufacturers. 
The  extension 
fad  well  under control, 
the  Colonial  buckle  craze  came  up  to 
assist  the  Louis  heel  notion.  Hardly 
can  the  retailer  get  a  few  pairs  of  the 
goods  he  has  on  band  prominently 
placed  in  his  show  windows  before  new 
lines  of  colored  goods  are  shown  by  the 
bustling  salesman  who  comes from  some 
manufacturer.  The  retailer 
listens  to 
the  long  unfolded  tale  of  the  salesman 
and  comes  to  the  conclusion  that  his 
stock  will  not  be  complete  without  the 
addition  of  any  other  new  style  or  kind 
he  is  shown.  We  now  bear  that  many 
of  the  finer goods  in  women’s  lines  that 
will  be  offered  next  season  have no tips. 
Plain  vamps  make  another  break  in  the 
kinds  to  be  offered,  according  to  this 
report.  There 
is  every  evidence  that 
tans  and  colored  goods  will  find  re­
newed favor  the  coming season,  and  that 
means  worry 
for  the  wholesaler  who  is 
anxious  to be  up  with  the  times.  One  of 
the 
largest  retail  houses  in  Cincinnati 
has 
line  of 
just  put 
men’s,  women's and  children’s  knit  un­
derwear  and  hosiery.

in  an  extensive 

is 

Why 

it  that  some  enterprising 
wholesaler  does  not  include  knit  under­
wear  and  hosiery  in  the  lines  carried  by 
them,  so  that  they  will  get  the  lead  be­
fore  shoe  retailers  have  become  accus­
tomed  to  making  such  purchases  from 
wholesale  dry  goods  houses?  When  one 
can  see  that  those  retailers  who  have 
gone  into  this  branch  have  made  a  suc­
cess,  and  are  satisfied,  it  is  a  foregone 
conclusion  that  others  will  follow,  and 
if  the  wholesalers  permit,  or  rather 
force,  retailers  to  visit  dry  goods  dis­
tricts 
in  order  to  get  the  goods  they 
want,  the  first  thing  we  know  the  shoe 
wholesalers  will  begin  to  complain  that 
losing  their  grip  on  the  retail 
they  are 
trade 
If  so  many 
other  unsatisfactory  methods  had  not 
heretofore  been  adopted  by  retailers 
there  would  not  exist  the  fear  that  this 
last  innovation  would  prove  serious  to 
the  wholesaler. 
It  is  within  their  prov­
ince  to  protect  themselves  and  their 
business  in  every  legitimate  way  they 
can,  by  adopting  new  and  appropriate 
means.

in  this  direction. 

Let  us  look  at  the  prominent  depart­
ment  stores.  They  are  even  now  active­
ly  engaged 
in  combining,  and  under 
one  great  head  those  of  many  cities  are 
to  be  as  one.  See  the  advantages  they 
will  then  possess  in  purchasing  power.

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

13

Will  they  stop  at  that  point?  No,  in­
deed.  The  next  we  are  liable  to  hear 
of  them,  as  the  culmination  of  brain 
work,  will  be  that  they  may  dare  to  en­
ter  into  the  ranks  of  the  shoe  wholesal­
ers.  Mark  this  prophecy.  The  shoe 
wholesaler  who  first  carries  a  line  of 
knit  underwear,  in  order  to  supply  the 
retailers,  will  have  solved  the  problem 
of  how  to  obtain  renewed  vigor.  There 
is  a  demand, 
limited  yet,  of  course, 
already  created  for  such  a  bouse,  and  it 
will  not  be  many  moons  before  the  ex­
it  may  so  be  called,  will 
periment,  if 
be  tried. 
It  will  not  be  necessary  to 
carry  a  large  stock  at  first,  and  in  fact, 
samples  only  might  do  to  show,with  the 
assurance  that 
large  orders  would  be 
promptly  filled.
No  one  can 

foretell  what  the  future 
wholesaler  may  do  in  order  to  bold  his 
trade,  but 
is  certain  to  be  on  new 
lines  to  a  great  extent,  and the change is 
very  near.  When  retailers  demand  cer­
tain  new  lines  of  goods  and  are  willing 
to  purchase  them  from  the  wholesalers 
they  have  been  heretofore  dealing  with, 
and  when  those  wholesalers  understand 
that  they  are  securing  customers  who 
can  not  obtain  the  new  lines  from  man­
ufacturers,  it  would  seem  as 
if  there 
would  be  but  very  little  delay  in  testing 
idea.  Manufacturers  are  cutting 
the 
into  the  ranks  of  the  wholesaler  by  sell­
ing  direct  to  retailers,  and 
it  behooves 
the  wholesaler  to  cut  them  off  by  a flank 
movement.  And  where  is  a  better  one 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clothing

W o n d e r f u l  G r o w th   o f  t h e   M a n u f a c t u r e  o f  

M e n ’s  C lo th in g .

in 

industry 

Tbe  manufacture  of  ready-made cloth­
ing  as  an 
industry  worth  noting  is  of 
comparatively  recent  date.  There  are 
no  records  available  of  the  earliest  days 
of  the 
in  this  country;  how­
ever,  the  industry  came  into  being  dur­
ing  tbe  second  decade  of  the  nineteenth 
century,  and  George  Opdyke,  once 
mayor  of  New  York,  was  one  of  the  first 
it.  About  1831  he  com­
to  engage 
menced  to  manufacture  clothing 
in 
Hudson  street,  New  York  City.  About 
1835 
the  wholesale  manufacture  of 
medium-grade  ready-made  clothing  for 
men  began 
in  New  York  on  a  small 
scale.  Prior  to  this  time  it  was  usual 
for  stores  in  the  seaport  cities  to  manu­
facture  and  keep 
in  stock  outfits  of 
clothing  from  which  sailors  could  re­
plenish  their  wardrobes. 
These  gar­
ments  consisted  principally  of  tbe  so-, 
called  ‘  slop-work.”   At  first  almost  all 
the clothing  was  manufactured  to  sup­
ply  the  trade  in  the  South  and the  West. 
Gradually  the  wholesale  bouses  in  New 
York  began 
better 
grades  of  ready-made  clothing.  The 
quantities  manufactured  were  small  and 
everything  was  made  by  hand.  From 
this  obscure  beginning  has  grown  tbe 
enormous  industry  of  to-day.

to  manufacture 

The  invention  of  the  sewing  machine 
impetus  to  the 

in 
1850  gave  a  great 
manufacture  of  clothing.

production  oi 

The  sewing  machine  made  it  possible 
to  manufacture  clothing  on  a 
larger 
scale,  but  a  stronger 
im petus 
the 
to 
wholesale 
ready-made
clothing  was  given  by  the  civil  war, 
when  the  Government  suddenly  faced 
the  necessity  of  providing  cl« thing  for 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  men.  Since 
that  time  the  volume  of  this  industry 
has  steadily  increased.

The  methods  prevailing  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  men’s (including children’s) 
clothing  have  changed  greatly  during 
the  last  half  century.  Before  1850  it  was 
mainly  a  household  industry  and  there 
were  but  few  manufacturers  who  ran 
factories  of  their own.  After  the  sew­
ing  machine  came  into  general  use  the 
making  of  ready-made  clothing  was 
principally  carried  on  by  the 
journey­
men  tailors.  During  the  seasons  th ey 
worked 
for  the  custom  tailors,  and  be­
tween  seasons  they  could  be  found  in 
the  shops  of  the  manufacturers.  At 
that 
time  each  tailor  was  a  skilled 
workman,  who  made  the  entire  gar­
ment.  The  majority  of  these  tailors 
were  English,  Scotch  and  American. 
Soon  after 
1850  the  Irish  came  largely 
into  the  trade.  Next  tbe  Germans  en­
into  the  manufacture  of  ready­
tered 
made  clothing,  and  by  them  was 
intro­
duced  a  division  of  labor  in  the  making 
of  the  garments.  The  garments  were 
made  in  the  home,  the  father  doing  the 
machine  work,  while  the  mother  and 
children  assisted  in  the  basting,  finish­
ing  and  making  tbe  buttonholes.

Prior  to  1876  there  was  little  change 
in  the  methods  of  manufacture,  but  fol­
lowing  the  great  influx  of  Russian Jews, 
which  began  about  that  time,  the  task 
system  was  introduced into the manufac­
ture  of  men's  ready-made  clothing.

The 

It  was  no 

introduction  of  the  task  system 
revolutionized  the  ready-made  clothing 
industry. 
longer  necessary 
for  the  worker  to  be  a  skilled  workman, 
and  the 
journeyman  tailor  was  driven 
out  of  this  branch  of  tailoring  trade. 
This  system  has  only  been  applied  in

tbe 

tbe  making  of  coats.  When  the  task 
system  was  started, 
journeyman 
tailor  received  $2.50  to $3  for  making 
a  ready-made  coat  on  which  be  per­
formed  all  the  work,  principally  by 
hand. 
In  the  task  shop  tbe  same  coat 
would  be  produced  by  five  persons  at  a 
cost  of  $1.50  to  $2,  and  as  much  as  pos­
sible  of  tbe  work  was  done  on  the  sew­
ing  machine.  Through  the  task  system 
the  division  of 
labor  was  carried  into 
the  shops.  The  peculiar  feature  of  this 
system  are  tbe  ‘ ‘ team”   work  and  the 
“ task”   price.  The  work  is  done  in  the 
following  manner:  Each  team  consists 
of  three  men,  an  operator,  a  baster  and 
a  finisher.  Outside  the  team  there  are. 
as  a  rule,  a  presser  and  a  girl  for  sew­
ing  on  buttons  and  making  buttonholes. 
Each  member  of  the  team  has  his  par­
ticular  part  of  the  coat  to  make,  and 
in  a  short  time  gains  such  an  efficiency 
in  his  work  that  the  team  is able  to  turn 
out  an 
increasing  number  of  coats. 
When  the  system  was  first  introduced  a 
task  of  overcoats  would  consist  of  about 
fifty  coats  per  week,  for  the  completion 
of  which  the  operator  would  receive $18, 
the  baster $16,  the  finisher $11  and  the 
presser  $12.  The  girl  was  paid  by  the 
week  and  received  about  $4.50.  The 
contractor  would,  as  a  rule,  be  a  mem­
ber  of  the  team,  until  he  started  to  run 
three  or  more  teams  in  his  shop,  when 
he  became  tbe  busbelman  or overseer. 
The  contractor  would  obtain  the  goods 
from  the  manufacturer  and  be  respon­
sible  for  them.  When  times  were  hard 
and 
the  manufacurer 
would  tell  the  contractor that  he  could 
get  the  work  done  at  a lower figure.  The 
contractor  would  be  compelled 
to  take 
the  work  at  a  reduced  figure  or go  with­
out  it.  He  would  tell  his  employes  of

labor  plentiful, 

ONLY

$2.50  Net!

Money  refunded  If  not 
satisfactory after 10  days’ 
trial.
Permitted  by  Under­
writers.  ,
Permanently  g u a ra n ­
teed.
lamps  $6.00 
Pressure 
and up.
Full 
line  of  gravity 
lamps.
w r i t e   for  catalogue. 
Send for sample  lamp  to­
day.
Tbe trade  will  be  large 
this  season;  supply  your 
customers with  the “ Ann 
Arbor.”
The Superior Mfg. Co.

20 South Main St.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Sole  Manufacturers  of the

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We  have  everything  in  gloves.  Catalogue  on application  We  want  an  agency  in  each  town. 

U N I O N   M A D E

B.  B.  DOWNARD, General Salesman.

In  Chicago?  Sure!

Glad  to  see  you  there;  show  you  our 
up-to-date  plant—how  we’re  able  to 
“ Correct 
turn  out 
Clothes.’ 
interesting  and
we’ll  give  you a  good  time.

such 
It’ll  be 

correct 

In  Detroit,  Too

At  1 3 1  Jefferson  Ave., 
just  a  few 
steps  from  our old  stand,  we  have  a 
salesroom  where  we  are  showing  our 
complete  line  with  all  the  novelties 
just as soon as the Chicago plant turns 
’em  out.  Drop  in  any old  time.

We’ve  some  extra  good  things  right  now  in  Men's 
Winter  Suits  and  Overcoats  which  we’ll  be  glad  to 
tell you about if you say so.

H e a v e n ric h   B ro s .
131  Jefferson Ave,  Detroit 

Corner Van  Buren  and  Franklin  Streets,  Chicago

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this  state  of  things,  and 
in  order not 
to  have  their  wages  reduced,  the  work­
ers  would  agree  to  increase  the  task; 
thus  in  time the  task,  which  at  first  con­
sisted  of  eight  or  nine  coats  per day, 
was  gradually  increased  until  it  reached 
In  order to  finish  a 
as  high  as  twenty. 
in  a  day 
task 
it  became  necessary  to 
work 
longer  hours,  but  it  soon  became 
impossible  to  finish  a  day's  work  even 
by  working  twenty  hours,  and  it  would 
frequently  take  more  than  thirty  hours 
to  finish  a  day’s  task.  As  the  workers 
always  received  the  same  price  for a 
task,  whether  it  consisted  of  eight  or 
twenty  coats,  they  did  not  consider  that 
their  wages  bad  been  reduced.  Thus  it 
will  be  seen  that  a  more  obnoxious  ex­
emplification  of  the  so-called  sweating 
system  can  not  be  conceived.

Public  attention  was  first  called  to the 
sweating  system  in  the  winter  of  1847- 
1848,  whin,  during  a  period  of  acute 
distress  among  the  workingmen  of  Eng­
land,  the Morning  Chronicle  of  London, 
sent  a  commission  to 
investigate  the 
condition  of  the  industrial  classes.

The  origin  of  this  system  was  prob­
ably  the  giving  out  of  work  by  the man­
ufacturer  to  the  journeyman  tailor,  who 
did  the  work  at  his  home.  Although 
the  “ sweating system" has been debated 
is  hard  to  find  a  satisfac­
for  years,  it 
tory  definition  of  the  term. 
It  may  be 
said  to  be  a  system  where  the  wholesale 
firm,  which  is  styled  manufacturers,  lets 
the  work  to  contractors  who  undertake 
to  do 
in  their  own  houses  or  small 
workshops,  or  who,  in  turn,  sublet  it  to 
other  contractors  or  parcel  it out  to  in- 
dividoals.  Each  of 
these  contractors 
employs  workers  to  do  the  work,making 
a  profit  for  himself  by  the  difference be­
tween  the  contract  price  and  the  wages 
he  pays  to  his  employes.—Apparel 
Gazette.

it 

Pointedly  P at.

New 

Advertising  is  the  elevator  which  has 
lilted  many  a  man  from  obscurity  and 
poverty  to  fame  and  fortune.
ideas  and  new  methods  are  in­
dispensable  to  the  continued  success  of 
any  business.  There  are  no  exceptions 
to  this  rule.

Keep  your  outgo  below  your 

Any  chump  can  make  enemies 

in 
business;  but  he  is  a  clever  man  who 
can  make  friends—and  keep  them.
income. 
The  man  who  cultivates  a  terrapin  ap­
is 
petite  on  a  cheese  sandwich  revenue 
sure,  sooner or  later,  to  come  to  grief.
Business  is  a  tall  ladder  in  which  the 
upper  rounds  are  very  far apart.  For 
that  reason  there  will  always  be  plenty 
of  room  at  the  top  and  a  struggling, 
pushing  crowd  near  the  bottom.

Opportunity  never  w aits;  if  you  are 
not  on  hand  some  one  else  gets  the 
chance.

A   C o in c id e n c e   o f  t h e   S h o e   T r a d e . 

From  th e Nashville Banner.

A  coincidence  occurred  here  last  Sat­
urday  so  out  of  the  ordinary  that  it  is 
worthy  of  notice 
Jim  Rankin,  who  is 
a  one-legged  negro,  went  to  the  store  of 
Overall  &  Naylor for the  purpose of buy­
ing  a  pair  of  shoes,  and  although  pos­
sessed  of  only  one  pedal  extremity,  the 
right  foot,  he  was  compelled  to  buy  a 
pair,  as  that  firm  was  not  selling  odd 
shoes.  Fortunately  for  him,  but  unfor­
tunately  for  the  firm,  while  he  was  se­
lecting  the  shoe  another  negro,  Pete 
Sanford,  who  had  suffered  the  misfor­
tune  of 
losing  bis  right  leg,  happened 
to  enter  the  store  for the  same  purpose 
that  had  Jim.

When  he  requested  to  be  shown  a  pair 
of  shoes  he  was  referred  by  the  busy 
proprietor  to  the  clerk  who  was  waiting 
on  the  first  mentioned  customer.  On 
approaching  the  clerk,  it  was  found  that 
both  customers  were  minus  a  foot,  and 
consequently  neither  of  them  really 
needed  a  pair  of  shoes,  and  readily 
seeing  the  advantage  of  the  situation, 
they  pooled  their 
interests  and  pur­
chased  one pair between them,  each  pay­
ing  the  sum  of  65  cents.  Neither of  the 
negroes  knew  the  other  and  they  wore 
the  same  number  shoe.

P rin te rs *   E r r o r s .

lore  recently  set  up 

Printers  are  generally  charged  with 
typographical  errors  by  wrathy  writers 
who  frequently  fail  to  remember  that 
is  essential  to  perfect 
distinct  writing 
reproduction  of  words. 
It  is  a  wonder 
that  the  printer  is  generally  so  good  a 
guesser  of  obscure  words.  A  composi­
tor  who  was  better acquainted  with  the 
geography  of  the  West  than  with  bibli­
cal 
the  phrase 
“ From  Alpha  to  Omega"  as  “ From 
Alton  to  Omaha,"  and  possibly  found 
himself  obliged  to  start  for  those  places 
next  morning.  A  reporter once  wrote: 
"A t  these  words  the  entire  audience 
rose  and  rent  the  air  with  shouts,"  but 
it  appeared  as  “ rent 
the  air  with 
snouts,"  for  the  compositor,  although 
setting 
it  up  correctly,  did  not  notice 
that  the  top  of  the  “ h "  was  broken  off.

An  Apt  AnHwer.

His  Medical  Adviser—You  won’t  last 
long  at  this  rate,  young  man.  You  are 
burning  the  candle  at  both  ends.
Gayboy—Very  well,  doctor.  When 
the'candle 
is  burnt  out  I ’ll  light  the 
gas.

MIRRORS

Of  all kinds.  I  manufacture 
Mirror  Novelties—all  styles 
and  prices,  for  a  variety  of 
uses.  Old  mirrors resilvered.
Get prices on my novelties for 
your Holiday trade.  Call Fair 
time and Inspect my new  line 
of goods.

H.  W.  BOOZER 
70 N. Front St., Grand Rapids

When  you visit the Fair

Sept.  29,  30,  Oct.  I,  2,  3,  4

Please call at our office,  No.  28 and 30 South  Ionia Street,  Wm. Alden 
Smith block, near Union  depot.  Our  Mr.  Weber  will  be  only  too 
pleased  to  entertain  you,  and  if  in  need  of  any  Men’s  Furnishing 
Goods will surely do all he can to please you.

Be s t  G oods  a t  L o w est  P r ic e s.

Citizens  Phone  1957 
Bell  Phone 1282

The  Peerless  Manufacturing  Co.

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Let  the  Goods  Do  the  Talking

T h e  dealer  who  buys  where  he  gets  the  most 
for  h is  m oney  is  not  worried  by  com petition 
for  his  custom ers  buy  in  the  sam e  manner.
Our  lines  speak  lor  them selves.  W e  pay  our 
custom ers’  expenses.

William  Connor  Co.

Wholesale  Clothing

28  and  30 South  Ionia Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

You  cannot  get  good  coffee  at  ten  cents  and  there  would  be  no  m oney 

in  it  if  you  could;  but  B .  B   B .  is  an  elegant  coffee,  good 

enough  for  any  one,  and  retails  at  20  cents.

OLNEY  &  JUDSON  GROCER  CO.,  Grand  Rapids
ALL  THE  R A G E ^ T H E   DUTCH  SKATE

Say!  Mr. Dealer, have you ever heard of  the 
Dutch  Skate?  If  not,  step  Into  our  place 
when you come  to  the  fair  and  we  will  be 
glad to show you what they are 
If too busy 
write for illustrated booklet and price list.

J. VANDEK  ST EL,

3 3   K e n t  St., 

Grand  R a p ld g

and 

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Is a sure thing for all the time

It  has a  record—six seasons of phe­
nomenal success—the greatest  selling 
and  money  making  line  of  clothing 
in the American market.

You don’t have to  worry  about  be­
ing  "caught with the goods” when you 
have  Pan - American  Guaranteed 
Clothing.

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$5-5o 
$7-5°
$8.50 

lines  are 
extra swell

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Salesman  or  samples—which  will 

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

NOT  SO  SLOW.

How  the  Way hack  M erchant  Collected 
His  Bill.
Written for the Tradesman.

“ Hello!  Uncle  Danny,  how  are  you, 
and  bow’s  everything  over  at  Way- 
back?”   sung  out  Billy  Simms  the  last 
time  the  veteran  storekeeper  happened 
in  town.  Billy  wants  to  have  the  old 
man  put  his  nag  in  the  Simms  stable 
and  has  assiduously  cultivated  his  ac­
quaintance  for  a 
long  time  with  that 
end  in  view.  But  Uncle  Danny  is  apt 
to  bring  along  his  own  hay  and oats  and 
tie  bis  steed  in  a  free  shed  while  he  at­
tends  to  such  matters  as  he  happens  to 
have  on  his  memorandum  book.

“ Oh,  things 

is  good  over  our way,”  
replied  Mr.  Briggs,  lifting  a  four-gallon 
crock  of  butter  out  of  his  buckboard  as 
he  spoke. 
“ Things  is  most  allers  good 
to  Way back.  What  d ’ye  wanter  know 
fer?  Goin’  to  put  in  a  livery  stable  over 
there  or suthin'?”

“ Naw,”   said  Billy,  “ was 

jest  won­
derin’  how  you  was  prospering and  how 
times  is  with  ye.  Hain’ t  nothing  be’n 
going  wrong 
in  a  business  way,  has 
the’ ?”

“ No,  the’  hain't  been  nothing  going 
wrong 
in  the  way  of  business—that  is, 
nothing  going  wrong  with me.  Course I 
can’t  answer  fer  the  neighbors.  Now 
there’s  that  skunk  of  a  Si  Green,  what 
p’etends  to  run  a  grocery  store  there; 
he  seems  to  be  down  to  the  heel  quite  a 
bit.  Folks  say  he’s  trying  to  sell  out 
his  stock  the  dumbdest  way,  but  course 
I  don’t  know  nothing  about  that. 
I  jest 
attend  to  my  own  affairs  and  let  other 
folks  alone,  so  1  couldn't say.  But  I  do 
know  one  thing;  and  that 
is  that  if 
Green’s  stock  is  fer  sale,  the’  wouldn't 
no  man 
in  his  right  mind  pay  more 
than  fifty  er  sixty  dollars  fer  it,  and 
he'd  git  beat  at  that.”  

.

“ Guess  you  was  too  much  fer  him,”  
suggested  Billy,  in  the  meantime  help­
ing  Mr.  Briggs 
into  the  store  with  a 
crate  of  eggs.

“ Wall,the’ might be suthing  in  that,”  
agreed  Uncle  Danny  with  a  broad  grin. 
“ The’  might  be,  and  then  ag’in  the’ 
mightn’t. 
look  out  fer  Briggs  and  if 
the  rest  of  ’em  don’t  look  out  fer  their- 
selves,  why  it  hain’t  my  fault.  Si  Green 
may  be  piling  up  money  hand  over  fist 
fer  all  I  know,  but  if  he  be,  what  does 
he  want  to  go  and  slap  a  mortgage  onto 
his  stock  of  goods  fer?  That’s  what  I 
want  to  know!  What  did  he  do  that 
fer?”

I 

Billy  shook  his  head. 

“ Ast  me  suth­

ing  easy,”   said  he.

“ An’  if  he’s  gettin’  rich  so  dummed 
fast,  what  does  he  wanter  let  his  stock 
of  goods  run  down  to  little  or  nothing 
fer?  Hay?”

“ He  done  that,  did  he?”   enquired 
“ Well,  by 

in  a  solicitous  tone. 

Billy 
gum !”

“ That’s  what  he  done,”   continued 
“ Leastwise,  that's  what 
Uncle  Danny. 
every  one  says.  Of  course, 
I  don’t 
p’etend  to  know  personally,  cus  I hain’t 
interested,  but 
if  he’s  the  secont  John 
Jacob  Vanderbilt  he  puts  hisself  up  fer,
I  want  to  see  where  the  dickens  it  all 
comes 
It  don’t  make  no  difference 
to  me  one  way  ner  t'other—not  a  cent; 
but  I'd 
like  to  know,  jess  fer  amuse­
ment  sake. ”

in. 

“ They  don’t  git  much  the  start  of 
you,  I  don’t  reckon,  nohow  they  fix  it,”  
was  B illy’s  next  comment.

“ That’s  what  they  don’t.  Not  with­
out  they  crawl  out  extry  airly  in  the 
morning,and  I  gin’ly  come  up  with  ’em 
afore  night  anyhow.  When  I was  young 
and  green  in  the  business  they  used  to

come  roots  on  to  me  once  in awhile,  but 
1  hain't  ketched  in  the  same  trap  more 
nor  once,  and  don’t  ye  fergit  it.”

“ Some  of  the  fellers  git  the start of ye 
in  the  store  business?”   queried  Billy, 
who  was  always  a  sympathetic  listener 
as 
long  as  he  thought  he  could  see  any 
livery  business  at the  end  of  the story.

“ Wall,in  a  kind  of  way,  yes.  Ye  see, 
I  hadn’t 
it  was  quite  a  few  years  ago. 
jest  started  up  my  store,  and  I 
only 
reckon 
1  was  about  as  green  as  they 
ever  git  up  here  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Hadn’t  cut  my  eye  teeth  ner  shed  my 
in 
pin  feathers  ner  had  no  eddication 
the  ways  of  folks  to  any  amount. 
I 
didn't  average  to  take  in  ten  dollars  a 
week  them  times,  and  the’s  days  now 
when  my  sales  includin'  butter  an’  eggs 
come  to  most  that  much,  so  you  kin  see 
what  1  was  then  and  what  I  be  now,and 
draw  yer  own  references.

“ I  was  setting  in  the  front  door one 
day  wondering  how  was  times  in  Chi­
cago  and  Cadillac  and  Muskegon,  an’ 
bow  soon  my  place  was  going  to  be  put 
on  the  maps  in  red  print,  instid  of  be­
ing  represented  by  a 
little  black  fly 
speck  marked  ‘ P.  O .’ 
It  was  a  most 
dretfle  hot  day  and  so  still  I  could  bear 
the  corn 
leaves  rubbing  together  with 
every  little  breath of  air,  and  the  pitater 
bugs  craunching  the  vines  on  my  field 
of  peachblows. 
I  sot  there,  thinking 
about  things  in  gineral,  and  not  caring 
ner  wishing  to  do  a  blamed  thing.

“ Wall,  sir,  while  I  sot  there  a  cogi­
tating,  along  comes a  feller  on  foot,  and 
the  first  thing  be  says  when  he  got  nigh 
enough  was:

‘ Say,  gimme  a  chaw  terbacker.’

“ Thinks,  says  I,  ‘ that’s  pretty blamed 
suddent  fer  a  short  acquaintance,’  but 
how  somever  I  give  him  a  chaw,  and 
then  he  told  me  be  he’d  be'n having  the 
teethache  fer  quite  a  spell  and  that  ter­
backer  was  about  the  only  thing  would 
stop  it,  and  he  was  clean  out  of  chew­
ing.

“ He  was  a  fine  sociable  sort of a chap 
when  he  got  to  talking  and  I  was  glad 
he  come  along,  fer  he  had  a  big  job  of 
taking  out  sawlogs  a  piece  from  mv 
store,  he  said,  and  he  had  to  git  some 
supplies 
fer  his  camp,  and  having 
heerd  about  me  and  my  business,  he 
reckoned  he’d 
come  over  and  git 
stocked  up.

“ Wall,  he  ordered  a  sack  of  flour and 
some  pork  and  a  pound  of  chewing  and 
the  same  of  smoking,  and  I  want  to  tell 
ye  that  terbacker  was  terbacker  in  them 
days,  too.  Then  he  said  he  'lowed  that 
if  there  was  a  teeth  doctor anywheres 
around  he’d  git  his  molar  yanked,  cus 
it  was  a  bothering of  him night and day, 
and  he  was  afeerd  chawing  so  much 
strong  terbacker was  going  to  be  bad  fer 
his  nerve.

“ So  I  ups  an’  tells  him  of ole  Hi 
Turner  what  lived 
j ’inin’  farms  with 
me,  and  had  one  of  them  air  turnkey 
dinguses  what’ ll  pull  anything  from  a 
sawtooth  to  an  ellum root,  and  he  'lowed 
he’d 
leave  his  stuff  on  the  counter and 
interview  Hi.

“ Some  of  the  neighbors  commenced 
coming 
in  fer ^ things  so’t  I  got  pretty 
busy  and  kep’  so  fer  an  hour  or  more; 
but  after  the  crowd  was  cleaned  out  I 
commenced  to  wonder  where  was  my 
feller  with  the  humping  tooth. 
I  looked 
up  the  road  quite  a 
few  times,  and 
finally  seeing  nothing  of  him,  I  takes  a 
hike  over to  H i’s  to  ast  how  bis  patient 
was  cornin’  along.

‘ Hain't  be’n  no  sech  a  chap  here,’ 

says  Hi,  kinder  su’prised  like.

‘ Honest?’  says  I.
’ Honest  injun,'  says  Hi.

“   ‘ Feller  with  a blue  Mackinaw warn- 
mus  and  a  red  chuke,’  I  ses,  ‘ hain’t  ye 
see  nothing  of  him  at  all?’

“   ‘ Gosh,  yes,’  says  Hi, 

‘ come  to 
think  on’t,  he  hoofed 
it  by  here  good 
and  lively  ’bout  two  hour  ago.  Why?’ 
he  asks,  ‘ didn’t  owe  ye  nothing,  did 
he?’

”   ‘ No,’  says  I,  ‘he  didn’t  owe  noth­
ing, ’ but  jest  then suthing  come into  my 
head,  and  I  flew  back  to  the  store  to  see 
and,  sure  as  shooting,  that  feller  bad 
lit  out  with  them  two  pounds  of  ter­
backer.  T-w-o  pounds,  mind  ye—one 
of  smoking  and  one  of  chawing—and 
terbacker  was  terbacker  them  times, 
too.  Wall,  sir,  I  felt  pretty  blue  about 
keeping  on  with  the  store  after  that. 
It 
was  a  bad  blow  fer  me,  and  I  felt  it  fer 
a  good  spell,  too,  but  things  com­
menced  coming  my  way  ag'in  after  a 
while,  and  1  don’t  know  but  what it  was

I  all  the  better  fer  me  in  the  end,  fer  ex­
perience,  although  a  dear  school,  learns 
I a  feller  better’n  all  the  books  ye  kin 
buy.  So  I  got  my  experience  then,  and 
after  a  while  I got my money back,too. ”  
“ Good  enough!”   exclaimed  Billy. 
“ Streak  of  repentance  or  suthing 
like 
that  hit  the  feller  and  he  come and  paid 
up.  eh?”

“ Wall,  he  settled  all  right—paid  up 

interest  and  all.”

“ That’s  what  I  call  an  honest  man,”  
“ Most  any  of  us 
asserted  Mr.  Simms. 
is 
lierble  to  git  hard  up  and  all  that, 
and  can’t  pay  jest  on  the  spot,  but when 
a  man  settles  as  soon  as  he gits the coin, 
and  comes  up 
like  a  man,  he's  anuff 
sight  better  Christian 
’n  lots  of  folks. 
Don’t  you  think  so,  too?”

“ Wall,  that’s  a 

circumstances,”  
somewhat  deliberately. 

leetle  according  to 
said  Uncle  Danny, 
“ Making some

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We  have the  largest stock of 
Shot  Guns,  Rifles  and  Am­
munition  in  this  State.  This 
time of  year  is  the  retailer’s 
harvest on sportsmen’s goods. 
Send us  your  order  or  drop 
us  a postal  and we will  have 
a traveler call  and  show you.

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Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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have used two other makes of gas machines with not very  good  results. 
ie~n‘  ,v S you, kJlow’i  
that you may have good success, I remain, 

BeUevue’  Mlch"  Sept  2’  1902‘
Gentlemen  I have used your Little Giant Gas  machine for about two months.  Prior  to thi 
lean  say  for  your  n 
1 *at 11 g J es a  Te» eK.1lBht:’ y lth less breakage  and  trouble,  than  any  machine  I  have  e' 
two stores, fifteen lights, and  It takes  about  four  gallons  of  gasoil 
« three nif?hts'  1 think that I have the best lighted store in the  State  of  Michigan.  Trust! 
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Truly yours, 

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

IT

I  Open  Delivery

and

is  suthing 

fellers  pay 
like  learning  a 
calf  to  drink  out  of  a  pail.  Ye  got  to 
run  yer  fingers 
into  their  mouth  and 
mighty  nigh  choke  ’em  to  death  a  doin’ 
of  it.

“ The  way  this  feller  come  to  settle 
with  me  was  like  this: 
1  was  down  to 
Grand  Rapids.  Called  there  to  set  on 
United  States  jury,  and,  going  up  Mon­
roe  street,  who  should 
I  see  but  my 
same  old  gent.  He  was  togged  up  quite 
a  bit.  Had  on  a  new  suit  of  clo'es  that 
must  of  cost  the  price  of  three  crocks  of 
butter,  and  be  bad  on  a  hard  boiled 
shirt  and  a collar blamed  nigh six inches 
high.

“   ‘ Hay  there!’  I  hollers,  but 

if  he 
heerd  me  he  never  let  on,  and  I  took 
arter  him  good  and  lively  till  I  fin  ly 
ketched  up  with  him  dost  enough  to 
make  him  hear  and  look  around.

“   ‘ Say,’  I  says,  ‘ you’ re  pretty  good 
on  foot,  but  I  think  1  kin  keep  in  sight 
of  ye  fer  a  spell,’  says  I. 
‘ Where  ye 
bound  fer,  anyway?  Hain't  lookin’  fer 
a  cbanct  to  git  that  air  tooth  of  yourn 
yanked  out  yit,  be  ye?’

“   ‘ Kinder  guess  ye  got  the  advantage 
innercent 

of  me,  mister,’  says  he,  reel 
like.

“   ‘ Right  fer  once,’  says  I. 

‘ If  I 
hain't  got  the  advantage  of  ye  this  time 
it’s  my  own  fault. 
I’ve  got  a  little  ac­
count  against  ye  fer  chewing  and  smok­
ing  ye  skun  me  out  of  July  the  seven­
teenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy- 
five  at  three  o’clock,  p.  m.  And  that 
fer  post  mortum  in  about 
last'll  stand 
thirty  seconts 
if  ye  don’t  ante  up, ’  I 
says.

“ The 

lock  of 

innocence  and  injury 
that  come  over  that  feller’s  face  was  a 
wonder. 
‘ I'm  sorry  that  any  one  would 
beat  ye outen any money, ’  he  says,  ‘ and 
if  any  one  has  ye  sure  ort  to  get 
it,  but 
I  know  nothing  of  the  matter,  and  never 
seen  ye  before 
I  hate  to 
leave  ye,’  he  says,  ‘ but  I  have  an  en­
gagement  and  will  have  to  go  and  meet 
it.  Good-by,’  says  he,  and  started  to 
go  on.

in  my  life. 

“   ‘ Don’t  be  in  a  sweat,’  says  I.  ‘ I ’ ve 
got  an  engagement,  too,  but  mine 
is  a 
forty-five  caliber  one,  and  the’s  six 
chambers  to  it.  Now,  you  better  settle 
up  this  matter  right  now,  fer  it  may  be 
quite  a  spell  afore  we  git  together  like 
this  ag’in.  Pay  me  like  a  man  for  the 
terbacker  and  the  trouble  I ’ve  be'n  to 
intrust  and  you  kin  go  on  and 
and  the 
keep  all  the  dates  ye  like. 
1  know  ye 
jest  as  well  as  if  ye  still  had  on  that  ole 
blue  Mackinaw  wammus and  the  same 
red  chuke  ye  wore  when  ye  was  going 
to  git  yer  teeth  yanked  up  to  Hi  Turn­
er's  place  nigh  my  store.  Will ye  settle 
peaceable  or  will  I  have  to  take  ye  to  a 
dentist  and  have  the  job  finished?’

“ The  feller  stood  there  looking  down 
at  the  sidewalk,  with  his  face  as  black 
as  a  pole  cat’s  tail,  and  he  kep’  a  dig­
ging  up 
little  chunks  of  clay  with  the 
toe  of  his  shoe.  He  knowed  1  had  him.
“   ‘ Come,’  I  says,  'fer  I'm  in  a  kind 

of  a  hurry,  myself.’

“   *1  hain't  got  a  red  cent,’  says  he. 
‘ I ’ll  have  to  send  it  to  ye  in  a  letter. 
That's  what  I ’ll  do,’  he  says,  brighten­
ing  up. 
‘ I'll  send  it  to  ye  the  very  first 
money  I  git. ’

“   ‘ Ye  might  fergit,’  says  I. 

I 
dassent  wait  fer  no  letter.  Dig  up  or 
el8t  go  with  me  to  the  teeth  doctor.’

‘ No, 

“   ‘ Ye  want  me  to  go  to  a  dentist?’  he 

asks.

“   ‘ Either  that  or  pay  up.’
“   ‘ What  d’ye  want  me  to  the  dentist 

fer?’

“   ‘ Why,  to  git  that  tooth  yanked,’  I 
‘ Ye  know  yer  teeth  is  awful  bad,

says. 

so  while  we’re  there,  I  low  to  have  the 
rest  of 
’em  out,  too.  Them  fellers’ll 
take  out  a  mouthful  cheaper’n  they  will 
jest  one  and  I  know  it. 
I  don't  mind 
furnishing  my  friends  with  a  little  free 
terbacker,  but I  can’t  let  ’em  suffer  with 
the  teethacbe  when  I'm  around,  and  I 
won’t,  nuther. ’

“   'Y e  dassent  use  no  gun  here,’  he 

says,  ‘ the  police’d  run  ye  in .’

‘ Kin  ye  feel  it?’  I  asks. 

“ Jest  then  suthing  hard  under  my 
coat  shoved  up  ag’ in  the  left  side  of his 
vest. 
‘ If  ye 
kin,  I ’d  advise  ye  to  keep still.  There’s 
one  of  them  air  polices  over  ncrost  the 
street now,but  I  don’t  calkltte  you  want 
no  truck  with  him. 
you 
wouldn't  reely  feel  safe  to  have  him  ast 
where  ye  was  last  night,  even,  fer,  un­
less  ye've  improved  on  yer  ways  late 
years,  ye  haint’  no  better’n  ye  ort  to  be. 
Now,  come  on. ’

1  reckon 

“ So  we  walked  along  the  street  a  few 
steps,  and  every  little  bit  I ’ d  dig  him 
in  the  ribs  with  suthing  hard  under  my  - 
coat,  and  all  to  oncet  he  stops  and  says,
' How’ ll  ye  settle?’

“   ‘ O,  I  d’no,’  I  says.  ‘ Guess  we  bet­
ter  go  on  to  the  teeth  doctor.  Ye  hain’t 
got  no  money  anyhow. ’

“   ‘ Mebbe  I  got  a  friend,’  he  says.
“   ‘ Doubtful,’  says  I. 
‘ Come  on.’
“ He  was  coming  to  a  side  street  and 
I  see  him  looking  slantways  toward  it, 
so  1  says:  ‘ Don’t  try  none  o'  yer  tricks. 
I've  lived  in  the  North  woods  so blamed 
long  now  that  I’m 
jest  as  wild  as  a 
I  don’t  know  nothing  about  city 
deer. 
ways,  and  I  hain't 
liable  to  respect 
’em. 
I ’ve  had  to  hunt  quite  a  bit  fer 
my  keep,  and  I  kin  knock  the  eye  out 
of  a  patridge  ten  rod  off  with  this  here 
ole  forty-five,  and  fer  me  to  hit  a 
feller 
about  your  size  with  it  would  be  like 
emptying  pitaters  into  a  cellar  bin. 
I 
couldn't  miss  if  I  was  to  try.’

“   ‘ I ’ll  gin  ye  two  dollars  to  be  red  of 

ye,’  says  he.
“   ‘ O,  I  bet  ye  would,’  I  says.
"   ‘ Wall,  call 

it  five,  then,  I ’m 

in  a 

kind  of  a  hurry.’

“   ‘ I ’ve  be’n  thinkin'  it  over  some,’  I 
says,  ‘ an’  I  set  the  figger  at  ten.  Ten 
is  a  good  round  sum,  it’s  even  money, 
and  I  think  it'll  be  a  bargain  fer  both 
o n u s.’  Wall,  sir,  that  scamp  pulled 
out  a  ten  dollar  bill  so  quick  that  I  was 
clean  su’ prised.  ‘ Here  ye  a ir,’  he  says. 
'Now,  I  s’ pose  I  kin  go.’

“   ‘ Jest  a  minute,’  I  says.  ‘ Le’s  go in 
It  might  be 

here  and  get  this  changed. 
bogus,’  1  says.

“ So  we  broke  the  bill  and  it  was  all 
right,  and  the  feller  starts  off  down  the 
street  without 
so  much  as  saying, 
‘ good-bye.’

“   ‘ Hay  there!’  1  hollers  after  him. 
‘ Don’t  ye  want  to  have  that  air  tooth 
pulled? 

It’ll  be  on  me  if  ye  do.’

didn't  say 
assure  ye.

“   ‘ Go  to  blazes!'  says  he,  only  he 
it  half  as  perlite  as  that,  I 
“ O,  1  used  to  be  suthing  of  a  gazaboo 
when  I  was  younger,  but  nowadays  they 
don’t  git  the start of  me as  much  as  they 
did. ”
“ Lucky  thing  ye  had  yfer gun  along, 
“ Couldn’t  ’a’ 
Uncle  Danny  burst  into a  wild  laugh.
“ I  most  forgot  that  part  of 
it,”   said 
“ I 

Uncle,’ ’ observed  Billy. 
done  nothin’  with  him  without  that.”

he,  when  his  mirth  had  subsided. 
didn’t  have  no  gun  at  all.’ ’

“ Why,  I  thought  you  said  you  held 
him  up  with a  forty-five  revolver,”   said 
Billy  in  a  tone  that  betrayed  his  disap­
pointment.
“ Guess  I  did  kinder  let  on  suthing 
like  that,"  admitted  the  seer,  with  an­
other  chuckle. 
“ Fact  was,  I  had  forgot 
my  ‘ gun.  Left  it  to  home,  ye  see,  so  I 
jest  punched  Mr.  Gent  in  the  ribs  with 
my  knuckles,  and  that  done  every  bit  as 
well.”  

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

Express Wagon

An  Offer  Extraordinary

Description

Wheels,  i y%  inch  tread.  Axle,  iyû  inch. 
Body,  7  feet  long-,  3  feet,  6  inches  wide. 
High  or  low  front wheels.  A  strong  and 
serviceable  wagon  to  carry  1,000  pounds. 
Shafts  only  are  furnished.  Pole  will  be 
furnished  instead  of  shafts  for $6 00  addi­
tional.  W ing  boards  $3.50  extra.  Pur­
chaser’s  name,  business  and  street  lettered 
on  sides  without  extra  cost.  Be  sure  and 
state width  of  track  desired,  also  whether 
high or low  front wheels wanted.

Given  Free  to  Merchants

With  200  pounds of our  Extra  Ground Spices  in 
Bulk,  assorted to suit,  at 35c  per  pound,  for 

• $ 7 0 .0 0

Spices  delivered.  Wagon  F.  O.  B.  factory.

Woolson  Spice  Co.

Toledo,  Ohio 

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Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—Despite  the  fact  that 
the  buying  of  brown  sheetings and drills 
of  all  kinds  has  been  confined  almost 
entirely  to  present  requirements,  prices 
are  firm  on  all  sides.  Cotton  ducks  and 
brown  osnaburgs  are  quiet  but  firm. 
There  is  a  quiet  demand  for  wide sheet­
ings,  the  market  being  uniformly  firm; 
the  same  may  be  said  of  coarse  colored 
cotton,  cotton  flannels  and  blankets.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Very  fair  dup­
licate  orders  for  staple  and  fancy 
lines 
of  printed  calicoes  are  reported,  indi­
cating  a  good  business  at  second  hands; 
prices  are  strongly  maintained.  Per­
cales  have  not  attracted  very  much busi­
ness,  but  show  no  weakness.  A  fair de­
mand  has  been  noted  for  fine  printed 
goods  at  full  prices.  Ginghams  are 
in 
a  strongly  sold  position,  buyers  finding 
no  little  difficulty  in  providing  for their 
early  necessities;  naturally  under  the 
circumstances  prices  are  very  strong. 
This  applies  to  staple  and  dress  ging­
hams  particularly,  although  fine  woven 
pattern  goods  are  also  strong.  Leading 
lines  of  printed  flannelettes are well sold 
and  firm.

Linings—The  week’s  business  record 
in  cotton  linings  has  been  favorable..  A 
good  deal  of  the  business  has  called  for 
quick  delivery,  but  there  has  also  been 
a  fair  demand  for  forward  delivery.  A 
satisfactory  business  has  been  recorded 
in  kid-finished  fabrics  and  staple  per- 
calines  have  also  fared  well.  Medium 
and  low  grade  silesias  have  moved  fair­
ly  well.  An  average  demand 
is  re­
corded  for  mercerized  effects  and  also 
for  silk  and silk  warp  linings. 
Italians, 
Alberts, 
twills,  alpacas  and  mohair 
serges  have  likewise  sold  in  a  very  fair 
way.

Underwear--Some  very  fair  business 
has  come  into  jobbers’  bands during  the 
week  on  fall  goods.  The  demand  has 
been  of  a  fairly  general  character  and 
prices  have  as  a  rule  held  firm.  Lines 
of  a  desirable  character  are  in  an  inde­
pendently  sold  position  and 
in  some 
cases  buyers  have  failed  to  get  down 
duplicate  orders.  The  duplicate  order 
movement  can  hardly  be  said  to  have 
set  in  in  earnest,  and  it  is  not  likely  to 
until  colder  weather  starts  things active- 
y 
in  the  fall  retail  market.  The  fall 
business  has  so  far  been  pleasing  to  the 
leading  wholesale  factors,  inasmuch  as 
orders  were  placed  promptly  and  in  a 
substantial  way.  The  retailer  is  in  a 
good  position,  having  cleaned  out  his 
lightweights 
in  a  satisfactory  way;  his 
heavyweights  have  apparently  been 
well  selected  and  with  a  good,  cool  fall 
there 
is  every  reason  to  expect  a  fall 
business  of  better than  average  propor­
tions.

improvement  during 

Hosiery—The  movement  of  spring 
lines  of  hosiery  has  shown  something  of 
an 
the  week. 
Staple  lines  continue  to  move  well  and 
a  good  movement  of  fancies  and  lace  - 
open  work,  embroidered  effects,  etc. 
has  been  secured.  Indications  appear to 
be  working  strongly  in  favor  of  goods 
Elaborate  clocking 
of  these  classes. 
effects  take 
in 
embroidered  goods. 
Black  and  white  effects  have  a  strong 
hold 
In  women’s 
hose  for  fall  the  weight  of  favor  has 
reached  to  black  and  white  effects  and 
creamy  white  effects,  sometimes  embel­
lished  with  pretty  silk  embroidery.

in  the  fall  market. 

Woolen  Dress  Goods—Considerable 
business 
is  understood  to  have  been 
done  in  certain  quarters  in  spring  dress

goods,  but the  season  can  hardly  be  said 
to  be  actively  under  way  on  all  sides. 
Importers'  selections  approach  a  com­
plete  status  and  domestic  lines  are  in  a 
growing  state  of  preparedness. 
The 
buyer,  with  certain  exceptions,  is  not 
prepared  to  operate 
in  a  decided  way 
as  regards  his  general 
requirements. 
The  Western  jobber  is  the  most  prom­
inent  factor 
in  the  current  buying  of 
spring  goods  and  his  takings run strong­
ly  to  plain  and  staple  effects.  There  is 
no  question  that  the  weight  of  the  busi­
ness so  far  secured  has been  attracted  to 
plain  and  staple  goods.  Leading  factors 
in  that  division  of  the  market  have  al­
ready  accumulated  a  substantial  volume 
of  business,  some 
lines  being  credited 
with  having  reached  a  position  where 
the  future 
is  actually  assured.  There 
are  a  number  of  lines  of  spring  goods 
which  are  hardly  a  factor  in  the  market 
as  yet,  sellers  claiming  that  buyers  are 
not  yet  ready  to  take  hold  of  them. 
It 
will  be  some  little  time  before  the  in­
itial  dress  goods  season  will  reach  its
most  active  and  interesting  point.

Carpets—The  carpet  season  is  too  far 
advanced 
for  manufacturers  to  take  on 
any  large  obligations  in  the way of busi­
ness  and  they  are  looking  more  to  the 
cleaning  up  of  the  orders  on  their  books 
than  anything  else.  The  large  Eastern 
mills,  as  a  general  thing,  are  not  in  a 
position  to  take  another order  until  the 
opening  of  the  new  season  in  Novem­
ber.  Some  of  the  smaller  weavers,  how­
ever,  have  been  benefited  by  quite  a 
large  duplicate  business of  late, but even 
the  taking  of  this  business  has  been 
limited  to  only  a  few.  Weavers  are  not 
in  the  market  just  now  even  at  better 
rates  than  those  of  previous  orders. 
They  are  consulting  with  their  design­
ers  the  practicability  of  this  design  and 
that,  and  together  with  the  finishing  up 
of  the  old  business,  their  time  is  prettty 
much  occupied.  A  summary  of  the 
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black  openwork  and  plain  tan  and  red 
with  clocks—one  could  watch  the neigh­
bors  running  to  her  house  when  the 
question  arose  of  supplying  the  “ sup­
ply”   with  bed  and  board  over  Sunday; 
to  ask  advice  in  case  of  illness;  or  to 
request  that,  at  the  next  meeting  of 
their  club,  she  would  read  a  paper  on 
“ My  Visit  to  the  City.”   She  went  on 
judicial  deliberation,  laying  over 
with 
her  left  arm  the 
little  hose  which  she 
kept  for  further  consideration.  Finally 
her  dozen  was  made  out.  She  paid  for 
them,  took  her  parcel,  laid  her  black 
cloth  jacket  over  her left  arm  and  arose.
The  clerk  threw  a  quick  glance  at  the 
in  her  direc 
floorwalker,  who  strolled 
tion. 
“ Excuse  me,  madam,”   said  the 
clerk,  “ but I think you  have  a  few  pairs 
of  stockings  put  over  your  left  arm  un­
der  your  jacket.”

“ Oh,  no,”   she  replied  calmly. 

“ I 
think  not. 
laid  them  all 
down  on  the  counter.”   She  turned  to 
go.

I’ m  sure  I 

“ Won’t  you  please  look?”   asked  the 
clerk,  while  the  floorwalker  waited  at 
the  purchaser’ s  elbow.

“ Certainly,”   she  agreed  suavely,  and 
laid  down  upon  the  counter  her  plush 
bag,  gloves,  purse,  parasol  and  parcel, 
lift  the  coat.  There  hung 
in  order  to 
“ Why!”   she 
three  pairs  of  stockings. 
exclaimed,  bursting 
into  a  delightful 
laugh,  “ did  you  ever!  Well,  I  am  glad 
you  told  me.  Fancy  my  going  out  on 
the  street  with  these  stockings  hung 
over  my  arm.  Dear  me,  I  guess  I  would 
never  have  heard  the  last  of  it.  Now, 
wasn’t 
it  fortunate  that  you  noticed 
them?’ ’

“ Y es,”   said  the  clerk.
Still  beaming,  she  picked  up  her 
rightful  possessions.  But  as  she  went 
up  the  aisle  she  turned  back  again  to 
repeat  her  thanks  to  the  clerk.  For 
there 
is  a  sturdiness  in  provincial  self- 
respect  which  had  served  not  only  to 
block  the  entrance  to  the  preposterous 
idea  that  she  had  been  suspected  of  be­
ing  a  sneak-thief,  but  had  prevented 
her  from  the  slightest  embarrassment 
over  her  absent-mindedness.  She  knew 
herself  so  thoroughly  for  what  she  was 
that  any  ignorance  on  the  world’s  part 
was  nothing  short  of 
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great  deal  of  business  that  can  not  be 
put  through  in  time  for  this  season  and 
which  must  necessarily  be  held  over un­
til  after  November.  This,  together  with 
the  usual  demand,  almost  insures  a  very 
good  business.  With  the  reports  of  the 
final  distributors  receiving  an  exceed­
ingly  active  demand  thus  iar  this season 
there 
is  reason  for  believing  that  the 
balance  of  the  season  will  be  just  as  ac­
it  comes  time  for 
tive,  and  that  when 
the  retailers  to  come 
into  the  market 
again,  their supplies  will  be  so  limited 
that  heavy  orders  will be necessary.  The 
selling  end  of  the  market  to-day  has 
better  prospects  than  has  the  manufac­
turing  end.  Only  within  the  last  ten 
days  Philadelphia  ingrain  weavers  are 
said  to  have  paid  for  14s  worsted  yarns 
as  high  as  48c.  A  small famine  in  near­
ly  all  the  worsted  yarns  for  carpets  has 
been  felt  for  some  time  and  prices  have 
advanced  so  rapidly  that a  difference  of 
10c 
is  shown  on  some  grades  between 
to-day’s  prices  and  those  in  vogue  at 
the  beginning  of  the  season.  Worsted 
spinners  have  all  they  can  do  for the 
next  month  or  more,  and  much  lower 
prices,  it 
is  believed,  are  not  in  store 
for  the  future.  Good,  desirable  wools 
are  stronger  with  a  tendency  to  advance 
in  price.  The  markets  abroad  are  ad­
vancing  and  foreign  weavers  are  heavy 
buyers. 
are 
pretty  heavy,  but,  nevertheless,  there 
is  not  much  of  the  filling  and  combing 
stock  that 
in  bond  any  length  of 
time.  With  the  yarn  and  wool  market 
in  such  a  position  to-day  it  would  be 
natural  for  carpets  to  bring  higher 
values.  Manufacturers  look  for  consid­
erably  higher  prices,  but  time  only  will 
•tell  whether  their anticipations  will  be 
realized.

Importations,  however, 

lies 

Rugs—As  one 

large  manufacturer 
puts  it.  who,  by  the  way,  makes  car­
pets,  ”  Anything 
in  rugs  sells  well  to­
day.”   Rugs  of  all  kinds  are  in  demand 
and  rug  weavers  are  sold  up  for  the  re­
mainder  of  the  season.  The  large  car­
pet-sized  Wiltons,  Brussels  and  Ax- 
minster  rugs,  9x12  feet,  are  the  features 
of  the  market. 
It  seems  that  they  can 
not  be  turned  out  fast  enough.  They 
retail  at  $35  and  upwards,  and  there  are 
a  great  many  high-priced  ones  that  are 
being  sold.  Smyrnas 
in  the  smaller 
sizes  are  in  big  request  and  the  small 
jute  rugs  sell  very  readily.

Art  Squares—Are  in  good  request  and 
makers  are  very  busy.  Small  Wilton 
rugs  are  good  sellers.  Good  bright  col­
ors  are  what  ca’ch  the  public  s  eye 
nowadays,  and  rugs  having  plenty  of 
greens,  reds  and  old  gold  in  them  are 
easily  sold.

S h e   K u e w   S h e   W a s   H o n e s t,

At  the  hosiery  counter of  a  large  store 
a  fine  looking  elderly woman was seated, 
her  benign yet authoritative countenance 
bent 
intently  over  box  after  box  of 
children’s  stockings.  Anything  more 
obvious  than  the  fact  that  she  was  a 
proud  grandmother,  making  purchases 
which  she  could  take  hack  in  the  good 
old  Saratoga  trunk  to  some  town  re­
moved  from  New  York  by  the  length  of 
the  Empire  State,  it  would  have  been 
hard  to  find.  As  one  looked  at  the  cin­
namon-colored  silk  dress,  ivory-handled 
sunshade,  a  bonnet 
trimmed  with 
pansies,  one  could  fairly  see  the  square 
brick  house,  set  in  the  geometrical  cen­
ter of  a  square  lawn, enclosed  by  a  neat, 
iron  fence ;  one  could  almost  recognize 
her  husband 
in  a  linen  coat,  watering 
the  garden  beds  of  foliage  plants  laid 
out  before the  piazza.  As she  sorted  the 
little  stockings—white  openwork  and

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M a n   a t   t h e   B o tt o m   o f   W o m a n ’s  S o rro w s .
A  woman’s  club  in  the  West,  which 
has  been  trying  to  solve  the  eternal 
problem  of  human  woe,  has  decided 
that, so  far  as  woman  is  concerned,  the 
fountain  head  of  trouble  is  Man. 
In 
proof  of  this  contention,  they  cite  the 
fact  that  widows  are  proverbially  fat 
and  jolly  and  that  old  maids,  as  soon  as 
they  cease  to  struggle  against  fate  and 
abandon  themselves  to  celibacy,  wear 
an  expression  of  peaceful  calm  that  no 
married  woman  ever  exhibits.

This  sounds  very  much  as  if  Eve  had 
borrowed  Adam's  Garden  of Eden  argu­
ment  and  was 
laying  the  blame  of 
trouble  on  somebody  else,  but,  never­
theless,  there  is  a  grain  of  truth 
in  the 
accusation.  Man 
is  at  the  bottom  of 
most  of  woman’s  sorrows,  and  the  foun­
dation  of  all  of  her  joys.  But  for  him 
we  would  seldom  have  cause  to  weep, 
and  yet  we  are  never  so  happy  as  when 
he 
is  kissing  away  the  tears  he  has 
made  us  shed.  Life  without  him  would 
be  a  stormless  voyage  over  a  placid 
sea,  but 
it  would  be  so  dull  we  should 
be  bored  to  death  before  we  reached  the 
end  of  it.

Let  us,  however,  examine 

into  some 
of the  burdens  which  man  lays  upon  the 
shoulders  of  his  sister—woman.

In  the  first  place,  there is the  difficulty 
of  catching  a  husband,  and  ]ust  what  a 
trouble  this  is,and  what  a  chase  it  leads 
one,  only  those  who  have  had  experi­
ence  can  fully  appreciate. 
It is  the  po­
lite  convention  to  speak  of  husbands  as 
if  they  flocked  to  a  woman  on  wings 
and  were  what  our  sporting  friends  call 
“ easy  money.”   We  assume  that  there 
are 
lines  of  gallants  kneeling  at 
every  maiden's  feet,  with  hand  on 
heart,beseeching  her  to  pick  and  choose 
among  them.

long 

Never  was  there  a  more  baseless  fab­
rication.  The  woman  who  gets  married 
in  these  days  has  to  get  out  and  hustle 
for  a  husband.  Like  the  politician  who 
“ yields  to  the  wishes  of  his  friends"  in 
accepting  an  office,  she  veils  her  chase 
under  glittering  subterfuges,  but  it  is  a 
nerve-wearing  and  an exasperating cam­
paign  all  the  same.

Some  women  are  born  with  a  mar­
riage  certificate 
in  their  hands,  so  to 
speak,  and  get  married 
in  their  first 
season.  Other  women  waste  their  entire 
lives 
in  a  vain  pursuit  of  a  husband. 
The  majority  of  the  female  sex,  how­
ever,  devote  from  two  to  ten  years  to 
the  business  of  husband-bunting.  And 
what  they  go  through  in  that  time—the 
weariness,  the  anxiety,  the  boerdom— 
is  enough  to  draw  tears  of  compassion 
from  a  heart  of  stone.

The  fool  custom  that  prevents  woman 
from  taking  an  active  part  in  the  selec­
tion  of  her  mate  makes  her  a  martyr. 
All  that  she  can  do  is  to  keep  herself 
on  exhibition  and  make  herself  agree­
able  to  every  chump  in  the  hopes  that 
the  right  man 
in  the  procession  will 
happen  along  after  awhile.  She  must 
dance  with  callow  kids  and  smile  on 
senile  old  beaux  who  pay  her  the  same 
compliments 
to  pay  her 
mother, and  listen  with  an  expression  of 
rapt  enjoyment  to  the  endless  maunder- 
ings  of  the  man  who  knows  it  all  and 
tells 
it  with  bis  tiresome  mouth.  Oh, 
miserere,  misericordia!  Ob,  my  sisters, 
we  have  all  suffered!  We  have  all  been 
there!

they  used 

And  there  is  no  escape.  For  a  woman 
to  get  the  reputation  of  being  hard  to 
for  her  to  withdraw
please 

is  fatal, 

even  for  a  moment  from  society  is  to 
leave  hope  behind,  to  refuse  to  be  bored 
is  to  shut  the  door  on  opportunity. 
If 
one  wishes  to  win  the  race,  one  must 
keep  in  the  running.

Then  after  one  acquires  a  husband 
comes  the  trouble  of  keeping  him. 
This  is  a  distinctly  feminine  difficulty. 
No  man  ever  worries  his  head  about 
keeping  bis  wife  in  love  with  him,  but 
women  get  crow’s  feet  and  gray  hairs 
agonizing  over  the  question  of  how  to 
keep  their  husbands  fascinated.

This  is  the  reason  that married women 
generally 
look  much  older  than  their 
single  sisters  of  the  same  age.  The 
girl  bachelor  may  have  her  own  anxiety 
and  tribulation  over  the  bread  and  but­
ter  supply,  but  she  does  not  have  to 
wait  until  midnight  to  deliver  a  lecture 
to  a  man  who  has  forgotten  that  he 
promised  to  be  home  early.

losing  a 

Nor  does  she  have  to  agonize  over the 
prospect  of 
love  that  is  not 
strong  enough  to  stand  a  32-inch  waist 
measure. 
It  is  a  pathetic  and  a  signifi­
cant  fact  that  all  the  physical  culture 
and  banting  classes  I  ever  saw  were 
composed 
of  married 
women.  The  old  maids,  having  no  one 
but  themselves  to  please  in  appearance, 
took  fat  or scrawniness  as  heaven  sent 
it,  with  an  even  mind,  and  made  no 
efforts  to  conform  to  anybody's  stand­
ard  of  pulchritude.

exclusively 

Another  of  our  misfortunes  that  we 
may  fairly  lay  at  our  brother’s  door  is 
the  awful  burden  of  dress.  Of  course, 
women  deny  that  they  dress  to  please 
men.  That  is  all  right.  Everyone has a 
right  to  her  trade  secrets,  but  if  women 
do  not  dress  to  please  men,  if  they  do 
not  paint  because men admire roses  on  a 
woman's  cheeks,  if  they  do  not  lace  be­
cause  men  are  hopelessly  and  irretriev­
ably  committed  to  the  hour  glass  figure, 
if  they  do  not  pinch  their  feet  and  wear 
high  heels  because  for  six  thousand 
years  men  have  sung  and  glorified  little 
feet,will  somebody  kindly  arise  and  ex­
plain  the  phenomenon  why  the  minute 
women  are  alone,  and  safe  from  mas­
culine  eyes,  they  get  out  of  their  stays 
with  a  gasp  of  relief  and  into  kimonos 
and  flip-flop  slippers?

1  maintain  that  it  is  because  of  man, 
and  man  alone,  that  woman  is  the  vic­
tim  of  fashions  that  “ crib,  cabin  and 
confine."  Who  invented  the  uncom­
promising  skin-tight  tailor-made?  A 
man—Redfern.  Who  devised  swathing, 
eel-like  draperies  that  demands  a  figure 
as  tall  as  a  telegraph  pole  and  as  slim 
as  a  fishing  rod?  Another  man—Worth. 
In  what  countries  do  the  women 
luxur­
in  loose  Mother  Hubbard  like  gar­
iate 
ments? 
In  those  Oriental  ones  where 
there  are  no  men  milliners  and  mantua- 
makers. 
Furthermore,  beloved,  what 
forces  all  of  us  to  wear  these  uncomfort­
able  abominations  that  bind and squeeze 
and  choke?  Again  1  say  man,  for  no 
matter  bow  men  may  deride  our  idiocy 
and 
inveigh  against  our  want  of  sense 
in  dress,  it  does  not  escape  the  silliest 
of  us  that  it is  the woman  with  the  slim­
mest  waist  and  the  highest  hetled  slip­
pers  and  the  most  modish  frock  who 
gets  the  most  attention  from  the  oppo­
site sex.  Theoretically  man  believes  in 
rational  dress,  but  he  would  rather  be 
dead  than  caught  out  with  a  female  who 
personally 
illustrated  his  opinions  on 
the  subject.

Of  cooking  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to 
speak.  Except  for  man  the  art  of  din­
ing  would  perish  and  the  world  would 
be  run  on  a  tea  and  toast  basis  ard 
life 
would  be  robbed  of  its  chief  thorn—the 
It  is  a  man  that
servant  girl  question. 

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A  Business  Hint

A  suggested  need  often  repeated  creates  the 

want that sends the purchaser to the store.

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

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

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

Each new product  as  it is announced  to the 
public  serves  as  a  stimulant  to  business  and 
acts  as a drawing card  that  brings more custo­
mers to the store than any plan you could devise.
A  well stocked  line of National  Biscuit goods 
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it 

makes  that  a  burning issue wherever two 
or  three  women  are  gathered  together, 
for 
is  for  man  that  woman  pickles 
and  jells  and  preserves  and  makes  her­
self  a  burnt  offering  on  the  kitchen 
stove.  Left  to  herself  the  simple  sand­
wich,  the  festive  olive  and  the  succu­
lent  caramel  would  suffice,  and  Mary 
Jane  might  stay  or  go  without  raising  a 
ripple  on  the  domestic  pond.

But  why delve deeper into the  subject? 
Enough  has  been  said to  show that  when 
woman  was  created  she  found  tribula­
tion,  in  the  guise  of  man,  waiting  for 
her,  but,instead  of  fleeing  from  it,  from 
that  day  to  this  she  has  been  chasing 
after  it.

She  has  welcomed  her affliction,  for, 
while 
life  with  man  may  be  full  of 
stress  and  storm,  without  him  it  is  cin­
ders,  ashes  and  dust.  And,  generally 
speaking,  the  more  trouble  he  has  given 
her  the  better she  has  loved  bim.

Dorothy  Dix.

Why  Jilte d   Girls  Often  Make  the  Best 

Wives.

It  might  very  naturally  be  supposed 
that,  after  having reposed her whole love 
and  trust 
in  a  man,  only  to  have  the 
same  ruthlessly  trampled  upon,  a  girl’s 
faith  in  men  in  general  would  be  utter­
ly  destroyed,  making  her  undesirable  as 
a  wife. 
It  does  not  necessarily  follow, 
however,  that  because  a  girl  has  been 
disappointed 
love  affair  she  is 
going  to  develop  into a  bitter  old  maid 
who  never  misses  an  opportunity  of 
warning  all  girls  against  marriage.

in  one 

it  almost 

There  are  some  girls,  of  course,  who 
find 
impossible  to  recover 
from  the  bitter  experience  of  being 
jilted.  The  shock  and  humiliation  are 
so  great  that  they  regard  all  men  with 
contempt,  and  even  hatred,  and  view 
with  distrust  each  member  of  the  op­
posite  sex  with  whom 
they  come  in 
contact.  Such  girls  have  little  to  recom­
mend  them 
for  the  position  of  w ife; 
for,  although  there  is  some  justification 
for  their  mistrust  of  men,  it  is  only  a 
narrow  minded  girl  who  will  blame  the 
majority  for  the  faults  of  the  few.

The  wise  girl  recognizes  that  it  is 
better  to  be  jilted  before  marriage  than 
neglected  when  there  is  no  escape.  A l­
though  the  experience 
is  a  bitter  one, 
she  will  look  upon  it  as  a  special  act  of 
Providence  that  she  has  been  fortunate 
enough  to  discover  the  fickle  nature  of 
the  man  she  at  one  time  loved,  before 
being  bound  to  bim  by  marriage  ties. 
And  she  will  appreciate  ail  the more the 
love  of  the  one  she  knows  to  be  good 
and  true,  and  even  find  cause  to  be 
thankful  to  the  one  who  has  jilted  her, 
seeing that otherwise  she  would  not have 
discovered  the  man  to  make  her  life 
truly  happy.

It 

Some  men  might  possibly  hesitate  to 
marry  a  girl  who  bad  been  jilted,on  the 
ground  that  it  is  not  possible  for  her  to 
love  twice,  and  that  the  experience  of 
her  first 
lover’s  deceit  would  probably 
cause  her  at  times  to  harbor  suspicion 
against  her  husband.

idea. 

That  is  a  very  mistaken 

is 
quite  possible  for  a  young  woman  to 
love  twice,  more  especially  when  the 
first  love  has  been  destroyed  by 
jilting. 
And  if  the  man  she  marries  shows  him­
self  to  be  a  true  husband  in  every  sense 
of  tbe  word,  with  a  desire  to  make  her 
life  happy,  the  mere  comparison  of  bim 
with  the  one  who  jilted  her  would  make 
nearly  any  woman  thankful  that  she 
had  after  all  discovered  the  man  to 
make  her  life  happy,  and  cause  her  to 
resolve  to  make  herself  worthy  of  her 
husband’s  love, 

Cora  Stowell.

6

fashion  plate, 
attributes.

pound.
things to right,
of delight,

Shoot-the-Chutes,
clubs,
cooks and  scrubs,
china plaque,
in the hack,

Consider lovely  woman,  how  she  keepeth  up
How she striveth  to  be  faithful  to  the  changrinir 
How  she vearneth  for improvement  in  her  mental 
How  she writeth on  the  Ethics  of  the  Whlzzimr 
How  she tulketh at the sessions of her half a dozen 
How she planncth for the helping of the maid who 
How  she  painteth  purple  cupids  on  the  useless 
1 low  she fretteth that her garments are not pleated 
How she purifieth  matters  when  election  cometh
How  she seeketli ever earnestly  for  mental sand to 
How  she goeth  up and down the  land  in  search of 
I low  she vieweth  the show window with a murmur 
How  she  goeth  bargain  hunting  at  the  hour  of
tow  she  garncreth  some  samples  and  returneth 
low  she  blocketh  up  the  sidewalk  after  every 
low  she wecneth when  the  jigglv  music  cometh 
low  she  hatchetizeth  bar-rooms  till  the  fixtures 
low she getteth up  petitions  for  the  privilege  to 
low she waiteth on election  day till closing of  the 
low  she getteth off the trolley car and on the street 
low she seeketli to rebuild the world upon a lovely 
low she  pointeth out the foibles  of  the  meek  and 
low she is the bearded wonder in the  annex at the 
low she getteth in a  barrel  and  adown  the  falls 
low  she golfeth  and  she  rideth  and  she  playeth 
low she writeth to professors who declare they’ve 
low  she walketh  with  a  hopping  like  the  gentle 
low she changeth  in  a  moment  to  another  gait 
low she taketh half the  evening  to  attire  herself 
low   she changeth every season the location of her 
low she findeth it the fashion  to  be  willowy  and 
low  she groweth plump with  suddenness  at fash­
low  she—oh, my  son,  consider—yea,  consider  if 
thou  like, but when  woman,  lovely  woman,
cometh down t ,e n entiil  pik
Th >u  wilt  fi id  it  best  to  vacate, to  hr ng ither
the  dusty vake
on der  \vhat she  phi metti, what she
*  doeth, what  she  tl inks,  hu ’twas wo nan,
lovely woman, was the riddlt of  the  Sp] l tux ;
An 1 we rub mr brow s bewildered while we pon-
xed o’er the luestion, “ What
der, so re  perplt 
elv woman, tackle iext?
■ man, lo
will \v<

home with them,
matinee,
in the play,
have to float,
vote,
poll,
doth roll,
plan,
patient man,
show,
doth go,
some at whist,
not been kissed,
kangaroo,
pursue,
in haste,
waist,
slim,
ion’s dictates grim,

things to mind,
she Ieav _*th all oi

behind

Ye

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Any person living with­
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and  important  things 
persons  should  know 
who want to keep their 
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invested. 
It  will  be 
sent free upon request.
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Made from heavy, galvanized  wire cloth,  with  all  edges  well  protected.  Can  be 
taken  apart at the middle in a moment  and  nested  (or  convenience  in  carrying. 
Packed one-quarter dozen  in a  case.

Retails at $1.25  each.  Liberal discount to tbe trade.
Our line  of  Fishing Tackle  is complete  in every particular.
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If  so  do  not  fail  to  see  ■  
the  new  style

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Bearing
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They  will  be  on  exhi-  2 
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Look  On  the  New

send for catalogue.

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Saginaw,  Mich.

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Fruits  and  Produce.

The  W hite  Peach  Coming  Into  G reater i 

Favor.

intrenched 

The  prejudice  in  favor  of  the  yellow 
is  well  known  to  dealers,  and  is 
peach 
in  the  minds  of 
thoroughly 
It  runs  back  to  the 
most  consumers. 
very  beginning  of  peach  growing 
in 
this  country.  By  some  accident  of  cir­
cumstances  which  we  can  not  now  ex­
plain,  it  happened  that  several  of  the 
first  budded  varieties  to  gain  general 
circulation  were  of  the  yellow  brand. 
Many  uninstructed farming communities 
sti 11  believe  that the ' ‘ native”  or ‘ 4 seed­
ling”   peaches  are  mostly  small,  white 
and  worthless,  whereas  the 
improved, 
named  and  budded  varieties  are  mostly 
yell >w.  This  impression  is  partly  true, 
and  has  been  constantly  cultivated  by 
the  colored  plates  which  the  tree  agent 
exhibits  on  his  semi-annual  round.  A 
yellow  picture  looks  better  than  a  tame 
white  one;  and  a  high  color is one of the 
main  attractions  in  selling  nursery  stuff 
from  a  book.  The yellow  peach  has  the 
first  chance  always  with  the  ignorant 
un-horticultural  population.

Many  persons  of  indisputable  wisdom 
prefer  the  yeilow  peaches,  too,for  fairly 
legitimate  reasons.  They 
look  better 
canned  for  one  thing—or  many  persons 
think  they  do,and  canning  is  one  of  the 
chief  uses  to  which  peaches  are  put. 
One  of  the  other  principal  uses  of 
peaches  is  to  be  sliced  and  served  with 
sugar  and  cream.  Here  again  there
may  he  an  honest  preference  for  the 
yellow-flesh  peach,  because  it  shows  off 
better through  the  cream.  That  is  the 
more  true  the  whiter  the  cream is.  With 
really 
Jersey  cream  the 
white-flesh  peaches make  the  better  con­
trast.

thick 

fine, 

The  fact  that,  for  many  persons,  the 
yellow  peaches  please  the  eye  better 
than  the  white  ones  do  has  led  uncon­
sciously  and  erroneously  to  the  conclu­
sion  that  they  please  the  palate  better, 
too.  Many  persons,  who  ought  to  be 
wiser,  really  believe  that  they 
like  the 
flavor  of  yellow  peaches  better.  Usually 
this  is  because  they  have  never  had  any 
really  good  white  peaches,  or  have 
never  had  their  attention  called  to  the 
matter.

The  strong  demand 

for  yellow-flesh 
varieties  has  always tended to keep them 
in  the  market.  The  few  peach-growers 
and  peach-lovers  who  hold  to the minor­
ity  opinion  have  continued  to  enjoy 
their  white  peaches  at  home,  but  they 
have  found  it  unprofitable  to  send  them 
to  market.

Recently  a  marked  reaction  has  set 
in,  and  the  white-flesh  peaches  are  rap­
idly  becoming  more  popular.  Although 
Elberta  is  now  the  leader,  and  although 
it,  with  other  yellow  sorts,  still  predom­
inates  in  the  market,  yet  there  are  car­
loads  and  carloads  of  white  peaches 
sold  every  year.  What 
is  better,  the 
quantity  and  the  proportion  of  white 
in  the  market  are  steadily  in­
peaches 
creasing. 
In  ail  the  best  markets,  any 
one  who  wants  white  peaches  can  get 
them ;  and  a  growing  clientage  of  cus­
tomers  ask  for them.

This  revival  of  interest  in  the  white- 
flesh  peaches  has  doubtless been brought 
about  chiefly  by  the  introduction  of  sev 
eral  new  white  varieties  of  special 
merit.  Carman,  Champion,  Waddell, 
Hi ley  and  Belle  of  Georgia  are  all  fine 
peaches,  and  all  of  them  have  been  pro­
duced 
in  commercial  quantities.  The 
buyers  have  had  a  fair  taste  of  them, 
and  that  taste  has  gone  a  great  way  to­
ward  wiping  out  the  oid  prejudice.

Most  of  these  best  new white  varieties 
have  come  from  the  Chinese  Cling type, 
a  type  which  we  recently  discussed  at 
length  in  these  columns. 
In  our  former 
article  we  showed  that  the  type  has 
those  qualities  which  characterize  a 
good  commercial  peach.  The  varieties 
are  of  the  kind  that  come  to  stay.

In  conclusion,  we  disclaim  any  inten­
tion  of  speaking  against  the  yellow- 
flesh  peaches.  They  are  good  and  they 
are 
indispensable.  But  we  are  certain 
that  the  white  peaches  have been hither­
to  unduly  neglected,  and  we  are  glad  to 
see  them  coming 
into  greater  favor. 
We  think  that  most  experienced  peach- 
eaters  will  agree  with  us,  too,  that  the 
best  white  peaches  have  a  delicacy  and 
a  sweetness  which  are  seldom  or  never 
present in  the yellow varieties.—Country 
Gentleman.

Milk  as  a  Powder.

The  successful  reduction  of  milk  to 
the form  of a  powder  is  a recent achieve­
ment  of  much  importance to  the bakers, 
particularly  those  engaged  in  the  busi­
ness  in  a  large  way.  They  are  enabled 
to  secure  their  milk  supply  without .any 
possibility  of  interruption  and  at  much 
lower cost.  This  latter 
is  due  to  the 
fact  that  the  dried  milk  can  be  shipped 
so  much  more  economically  than  the 
milk  in  its  original  form.  A  five  pound 
box  can  be  shipped  at  a  small  fraction 
of  that  of  its  equivalent  of  whole  milk, 
and  can  be  mixed as desired.  The losses 
in  the  handling  of  fresh  milk  around  a 
bakery  are  very  great.  Much  is  con­
sumed  by  the  men  handling  it,  a  great 
deal 
is 
spoiled  by  being  improperly  cared  for.

is  wasted,  and,  not  a 

little 

A nother  Visit.

‘ ‘ I’ve  come  to  pay  my  b ill,”   said  the 
patient.  ‘ ‘ One  hundred  and  ten  dollars, 
I  believe.”
ing  a  total  of  $ ii2 .”

‘ ‘ Yes,”   said  Dr.  Price-Price,  ‘ ‘ mak­

1  don't  quite  understand.”

‘ ‘ That  brings  it  up  to  date,  including 
to-day.  My  charge  for office  visits,  you 
know,  is $2.”

Established  1865

L.  O.  Snedecor &  Son
Egg  Receivers

NEW  YORK

HAVE  YOU  EVER?

considered bow necessary It should  be  for  your 
interests to ship eggs to an egg house that makes 
a specialty of the one line throughout  the  year? 
We want to double  our  business  this  year;  we 
have the  outlet,  so  will  rely  on  YOU  to  send 
us the EGGS.

Reference;  N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

SEEDS

For the garden and farm. 
I  am  a  large 
grower and dealer m all  kinds of garden, 
held and  flower  seeds.  Send  me  list  ot 
your wants  for  prices. 
I  can  save  you 
money. 
I  handle  only  the  best  grade. 
Fresh and true to name.

FRANK  A.  SH O W ERM AN,

PAW  PAW,  MICH.

How speculators in  April eggs may come 
out  is still  an  open  question  which  time 
only will answer. 
Just now we are more 
interested  in  the  current  production  and 
want  liberal  consignments  of  the  best 
we can get.
Est.  1849. 

LAMSON  &  CO.,

t3 Blackstone St., Boston, Mass.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp

Is an absolutely safe lamp.  It  burns 
without  odor  or  smoke.  Common 
stove gasoline is  used.  It  Is  an  eco­
nomical light.  Attractive  prices  are 
offered.  Write  at  once  for  Agency

The Im perial Gas Lamp Co. 
206  Kinzie  Street, Chicago

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

10,000 Barrels of Apples Wanted

For storage.  Write to

R.  Hirt, Jr.,  Detroit, Mich.

Walker  Celery  Farm

Fine  Celery  and  Cabbage.

Citizens Phone 3793 

R.  R.  No.  6,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Kelley  Grace,

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

S E N D   YO UR

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

5 5   C A D ILLA C   SQ U A R E

D E T R O IT .  M ICHIGAN

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

EGGS  WANTED

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

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

Butter

We can handle all you send us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

Citizens Phone 373a.

P o ta to e s

In car lots or loss

I  have an outlet for all the potatoes you can ship.  Will  sell on  commission or 

buy outright.  Highest market price paid.

£. D. Crittenden, 98 $. Div. St., Grand Rapids

Both P h o n es 1300

NEW   CROP  TIM OTHY

We  are  direct  receivers  and recleaners of choice 
Western grown Timothy  Seed.  We buy and sell

Clover,  Alsyke,  Beans,  Pop  Corn

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ORDER  GRAPES

D irect  from  the  grow er  and  get  them  fresh  from  the  vine.  W e  use 
Stan dard  F ifth s  and  extra  size  “ P o n y”   baskets.  W hen  ordering 
state  route  preferred  and  w hether  by  freight  or  express.

N o  fruit  shipped  on  com m ission.

W M.  K.  MUNSON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Proprietor of Vinecroft

Rural Route No. 4 

Citizens Phone 3599—Long Distance

POTATOES

C arlots  only  wanted.  H igh est  m arket  price.  State variety and quality.

H.  E L M E R   M O S E L E Y   &  CO.

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

Long  Distance Telephones—Citizens  2417 
Bell  Main  66

304  &  305  Clark  Building,

Opposite  Union  Depot

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Butter

I  alw ays 
w an t  it.
F. Dudley
Owosso,  Mich.

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The New York Market

8peclal  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Sept.  27—The  condition  of 
the  coffee  market  at  the  close of Septem­
ber  is  to  be described  only in  the  stereo­
typed  fashion  that  has  prevailed  for 
many  months,  only  since  the  last  report 
there  has  been  a  still  further  sag  in quo­
tations  and  at  the  close  not  over  53^0  is 
to  be  quoted  for  Rio  No.  7  in  an  in­
voice  way.  Futures,  as  well  as  the  ac­
tual  article,  are  extremely  dull 
and 
there 
is  no  earthly  reason  for  looking 
for  much,  if  any,  improvement,  for  the 
supplies  continue  large  and  the  require­
ments  are  only  so  much  anyway.  The 
receipts  at  Rio  and  Santos  are  not  so 
large  as 
last  year  by  considerable,  but 
is  still  great,  amounting  to
the  supply 
4.306.000  bags  since  July 
1,  against
5.162.000  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
year. 
2,856,614  bags,  against  2,196,568  bags, 
so  that  our  supply 
in  this  country  is 
almost  700,000  bags  greater  than  last 
year.  The  general  tone  of  the  market 
is  not  encouraging  for  anybody  except 
the  consumer,  who  ought  to  have  good 
coffee  at  very  reasonable  rates.  Mild 
coffees  are  in  limited  supply  and  prices 
are  well  sustained,  good  Cucuta  being 
firmly  held  at  9c.  East  Indias  are quiet.
Holders  of  tea  seem  to  be  quite  con­
fident  as  to  the  future  and  prices  are 
firm.  A 
large  part  of  the  business  be­
ing  done  at  present  is  in  placing  orders 
for  new  teas  to  arrive  late  in  the  year. 
Supplies  here  are  limited  and  the  out­
look  generally  favors  the  holder.  No 
boom 
is  expected,  but  a  good 
steady  trade  is  hoped  for.
New  business  in  sugars has contracted 
during  the  week  as  the  great  demand 
from  canners  is  over  and  normal  condi­
tions  prevail.  Quite  a  good  trade  has 
been  done  in  withdrawals  and the stocks 
carried  by  most  dealers  must  be  suffi 
cient  for  the  time  being,  although  con­
siderable  complaint  exists  of  the  slow­
ness  of  deliveries  by  refiners,  some  of 
whom  are  still  far  behind.

in  teas 

is 

little 

There 

A  lairly  good  trade  in  rice  has  been 
done  during  the  week  and  sales  are  re­
ported  as  being  rather  more  numerous 
than  for  some 
little  time.  Prices  are 
well  sustained  and  the  general  outlook 
seems  to  favor  holders.

Supplies  of  pepper  are  light,  the  de­
mand  being  fairly  active,  and  prices 
very  firm.  Other  goods,  too,  are  meet­
ing  with  good  sale  and  the  situation 
is 
satisfactory  all around.  Singapore  black 
pepper,  I3X @ 13.^c.

like  coal 

likely  to  be  a  yield  of  mo­
lasses  about  one-third  less  than  last year 
and  this  factor  causes  a  firm  market. 
Offerings  of  grocery  grades  that  are  de­
sirable  are  comparatively  light  and  the 
situation  generally 
favors  the  seller. 
Quotations  are  unchanged,  but  no  sur­
prise  will  be  shown  should  there  he  an 
advance  a 
later.  Syrups  are 
steady  and  unchanged.
Jersey  tomatoes  of  standard  pack  are 
worth  $ i . io@ i . i 5  and  the  market 
is 
steadily  hardening.  Orders  are  coming 
from  every  section  and  the  question 
is 
likely  to  be  one  of  getting  stock  at  a ll-  
something 
in  this  respect. 
Nothing  in  Baltimore  can  be  found  un­
der 95c  and  the  more  usual  figure  is  St. 
Com  is  likely  to  be  even  scarcer  than 
tomatoes  and  those  who  contracted  to 
make  deliveries  of  certain  amounts  are 
at  their  wits'  ends.  New  York  is  nom­
inally  873£@goc  and  Maine  at  some­
thing 
like  $1.20.  Some  Iowa  corn  is 
reported  to  have  been  sold  here  at  70c 
f.  o.  b. 
is  firm  and 
active.  Fruits  of  all  kinds,  and  es­
pecially  the  Pacific  coast  products,  are 
well  held  and  quotations  are  likely  to 
advance.  The  whole  canned  goods  sit­
uation  is  such  as  to  make  the  holder  re­
joice  and'those  who have  stocks  on  hand 
sufficient  to  last  until  the  beginning  of 
the  year  will  reap  a  good  reward.
Firmness  characterizes  the  dried  fruit 
market  and  there  is  a  good  steady  de­
mand  for  almost  everything  on  the 
list. 
Currants  might  do  better,  but  they  are 
improving  and  at  the  close  fine  Amalis 
are  worth  4 ^ c  in  barrels,  uncleaned.

factory.  Salmon 

Oranges  and  lemons are  meeting  with 
steady  sale  and quotations  are  practical­
lemons 
ly  without  change.  Verdelli 
range  as  to  size  from  $2  to  $4.50  per 
box.  Repacked  Jamaica  oranges  aver­
age  about  S4.50  per  barrel.  Bananas 
are  steady.
Beans are showing increasing strength. 
$2.75@2.8o:  choice 
Choice  marrow, 
$i.go@ i.921/2 \  choice  medium, 
pea, 
practically  the  same;  red  kidney,  §2.85 
@2.90.

Extra  creamery  butter  is  held  at 
22j£c.  Supplies seem  to  be  sufficient  to 
meet the  demand  and  yet  do  not  ap­
pear  overabundant.  Seconds  to  firsts, 
imitation  creamery, 
i9@22c;  Western 
finest, 
fair  to  good, 
i8@ i8j^c; 
I7@ 
I7X C 
17J2C;  Western 
firsts, 
18c  for  June  make  that  will  stand 
and 
the  test ;  renovated,  I7j£@i9c.

factory, 

Some  advance  has  taken  place 

in 
cheese  and  the  market  closes  firmer than 
a  week  ago.  Full  cream  New  York 
State 
is  worth  u ^ c .  Exporters  have 
made  purchases  of  about  all  they  can 
pick  up  at  lie.

Receipts  of  eggs  are  only  moderate 
and  the  demand  is  sufficiently  active  to 
keep  the  market  well  cleaned  up.  West­
ern  fresh  gathered  loss  off  24c  for  firsts 
and  22j4@23J^c  for  fair  to  good.  At 
mark,  Western,  fancy  candled,  22^@  
23c.  Ungraded,  i9@2ic.

Shortage  in  P oultry  Supply.

is  bound  to  be  short. 

“ Another thing  that  will  tend  to  keep 
is  the  shortage  in  the 
beef  prices  up 
supply  of  poultry  in  the  country,”   says 
a  Kansas  man. 
“ Last  fall  the  poultry 
in  the  drouth-stricken  districts  was mar­
keted  as  close  as  the  hogs  and  cattle 
were,  and  for  the  same  reason—scarcity 
in  the  fall 
of  feed.  Ord’narily  along 
and  early  winter  there  is  a  big  supply 
It  takes  the 
of  poultry  and  it  is  cheap. 
place  of  beef  and  pork. 
This  year 
poultry 
is  as  high  as  beef  in  propor­
tion,  and  the  supply  of  Thanksgiving 
turkeys 
It  will 
be  as  cheap  to  eat  beefsteak  as  to  eat 
roast  chicken.  The  only  kind  of  meat 
that 
is  mutton,  and  you  can 
not  educate  people  to  eat  mutton  in  a 
day.  People  who  are  accustomed  to  eat 
beef  will  eat  it  if  they  are  able  to  buy 
it.  And  here  I  come  to  another  very 
strong  reason  why  1  think prices  of  beel 
cattle  will  continue high.  The consump­
tion  is  enormous.  The  country  is  pros­
perous.  Labor  is  well  employed,  and 
has  money  with  which  to  buy  beefsteak, 
is  high.  As  far  as  1 
even  although 
can  see  the  future  for  the  cattle  grower 
is  full  of  promise.”

is  cheap 

it 

Every  business  is  capable  of  expand­
ing,  and  the  only  way  to  insure  expan­
sion  is  to  advertise.

Ceresota

is  tested  before  it  is  branded. 
W e  have for the exclu sive use 
of  our  own  m ills  a  perfectly 
equipped  baker,  and  we  care­
fully  test  the  baking  qualities 
of  every d ay’ s product.  T h is 
enables  us  to  guarantee  the 
quality  every  time.

Northwestern Consolidated 
Milling Co.,

Minneapolis, Minn.

OIney & Judson Grocer Co.,

Distributors for 
Western Michigan

S E E D S

Clover  and  Timothy—all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds. 

M O S E L E Y   B R O S.,  GRAN D  R A PID S,  MICH.

2 6 -2 8-3 0 -3 2   OTTAWA  ST .

Apples,  Peaches,  Pears,  Plums

In carloads or less-  Crop in  this  section  the  finest  in  years.  We  have 
twelve years experience  in  this  market  and  the  best  shipping  facilities. 
Shipments  carefully 
inspected  and  packed  by  competent  men.  Tele­
phone,  write or wire for quotations.

The Vinkemulder Company,

14 and  16 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand  Rapids  Messenger & Packet Co.

11-13  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We  make  a  specialty  of  handling  Merchandise consigned to us  in bulk  to 
be distributed to various firms  and  residences.  Our  business  in  that  line 
increases every  week.  Contracts  made for the delivery  of  handbills,  cata­
logues, pamphlets, addressed or unaddressed circulars.  Charges  very  rea­
sonable.  Give  us a trial.  Write for full  particulars,  etc.,  TO-DAY.

Alex.  McLachlin,  Manager

Cold Storage

T h is  is  the  tim e  of  year  to  store  your  A pples.  W h y  not  put 
them  w here  they  are  sure  to  com e  out  as  good  as  when  picked? 
S a v e   shrinkage  and  sorting  by  storing  w ith  us.  W e  also  store 
B utter,  E g g s,  P ou ltry and  M eats. 
L ib e ral  advances on  produce 
stored  with  us,  w here  desired.  R ates  reasonable.  W rite  for 
inform ation.

Grand Rapids Gold Storage 

dr Sanitary milk Go.
Grand Rapids, ltticbigan

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Clerks’  Corner.

Sale  Spoiled  By a Grouty  Salesman.
A  little  story  told  by  the  proprietor of 
a  big  retail  establishment  contains  a 
sermon  to  salesmen.  This  house  goes 
to  a  large  expense  in  getting up  a  hand­
It  is  mailed  freely  all 
some  catalogue. 
over  the  country,  and  a 
little  later  is 
followed  by  a  circular.  Not  long  ago  an 
enquiry  was  received  from  a  lady  at  a 
distance regarding  two  dinner  sets—one 
at  $150  and  another  at  $75—both  of 
which  she  desired  to  purchase.  The 
letter  was  answered,  but  no  reply  was 
received'.  After  waiting  a  reasonable 
time  another  letter  was  dispatched  ask­
ing  why  the  order  was  not  forthcoming. 
In  reply  the 
lady  said  she  was  a  little 
dubious  about  buying  without  seeing, 
and  so  had  requested  a  friend  living  in 
New  York  to  call  and  inspect  the  ware. 
The  friend  had  written  that  she  went to 
the  store,  but  the  salesman who attended 
her  was  so  grouty  and  discourteous  that 
she  had  walked  out  in  disgust  and  gone 
to  another  place,  where  she  had  found 
what  she  desired  and  gave  the  order.

The  salesman  no  doubt  had  a hundred 
excuses  to  offer—“ thought  she  was  only 
shopping,"  “ was  a  crank,"  “ took up  a 
lot  of  time  looking  at  everything  in  the 
store  with  no  intention  of  buying,"  and 
so  on.

It 

is 

Not  a  valid  excuse  in  the  lot.  He 

is 
paid  to  wait  on  people. 
It  is  his  busi­
ness  to  placate  cranks,  to  smile  and 
look  pleasant  when  he  is  raging  within, 
to  be  courteous  when  be  thinks  be 
is 
insulted  by  supercilious  people—for  he 
can  never  tell,  no  matter  what  he  may 
suppose,  whether  he  is  attending  a  buy­
er or only  a  shopper.  He  is  not  insulted 
by  any  treatment  he  may  receive  at  the 
hands  of  a  visitor—he  is  only  a  part  of 
the  machinery  of  the  establishment  in 
the  eyes  of  the  would-be  buyer—per­
sonality  does  not  enter  into  the  matter 
at  all.  The  moment  he  forgets  this  and 
shows  by  his  actions  that  he  has  taken 
affront  he  has  made  an  enemy  for  the 
store. 
important  for  him  to  re­
member  this.  His  employer’s  interests 
are 
in  his  hands.  The  annoyances  are 
often  great;  there  are  queer  people  in 
this world;  but  he  is  put  in  his  position 
for  the  very  purpose  of  taking  care  of 
just  such  characters  as  most 
trouble 
him.

Perhaps  in  the  case  quoted  above  the 
salesman  was  physically  disturbed.  He 
might  have  been  up  late  the  night  be­
fore,  or  had  a  series  of  unprofitable  cus­
tomers,  or another customer  waiting  for 
him.  Again  not  valid. 
It  is  his  busi­
ness  to  put  away  all  personal  feeling 
and  try  to  sell  the  party,  bearing  in 
mind  that 
it  is  not  bis  affair,  but  that 
of  his  employer.  The  successful  sales­
man 
is  he  who  does  this  and  has  some 
other  thought  than  drawing  his  pay  Sat­
urday  night  The  careless,  grouty  man 
wonders  why 
is  that  he  is  not  ad­
in  position  and  pay—why  some 
vanced 
other  man 
is  more  successful  than  he. 
The  answer  is  perhaps  found  in  the  fact 
that  he  is  thinking  more  of  himself than 
of  his  employer's  interest.

it 

Recent  Business  Changes  in  Indiana.
Alexandria—The  Brannum  Hardware 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration  under  the  same  style.

Bluffton—H.  J.  Kennedy  has  retired 
from  H.  J.  Kennedy  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
notions  and  groceries.

Clinton—Halstead  &  Swinehart  have 
purchased  the grocery  stock  of  Smith  & 
Curtis.

Elkhart—John  Lusher  has  sold  his

general  merchandise  stock  to  Morris  & 
Tripp.

Evansville—Uling  Bros, 

is  the  new 
style  under  which  the  drug  business  of 
Aug.  F.  Illing  is  continued.

Evansville—Temple  &  Co.  succeed 
in  the  manufacture  of 

.Temple  Bros, 
cigar  boxes.

Indianapolis—Wm.  E.  Springer,  pro­
prietor of  the  Champion  Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturer of  mops,  has  sold  bis 
interest  in  the  business.

Indianapolis—The  Darling  Gum  Co. 
is  succeeded  by  the  Indianapolis  Chew­
ing  Gum  Co.

Kimmell—Lambert  P.  Persing,  of 
Persing  &  Son,  flouring  mill  operators, 
is  dead.

New  Castle—The  Indiana  Rolling 
Mill  Co.  succeeds  the  Indiana  Shovel 
Co.

Oakland  City—Adam  Young  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Mrs.  Bertha 
W.  Hixon.

Oakville—C.  D.  Hale  has  sold  his 
general  merchandise  stock  to  \V.  V. 
Jones.

Richmond—The  Richmond  Baking 
Co.  continues  the  business  of  the  Hoer- 
ner-Kopf  Co.

Russellville—Lakin  &  Scott,  hard­
ware  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  The  style  of  the  new  partnership 
is  Lakin  &  Water.

Sanborn—Wm.  Vanmeter  has  pur­
chased  the  merchandise  stock  of Killion 
Bros.  &  Co.

tailoring  and  men’s 

Pierceton—A.  R.  Clover  continues 
the 
furnishing 
goods  business  formerly  conducted  un­
der  the  style  of  J.  E.  Grim  &  Co.

Courtesy 

is  the  grace  of  kings  and
should  be  an  all-pervading  quality  of 
advertisements.

W e  call  your  attention  this 

w eek  to  our  line  of

Horse  Blankets

Plush  Robes
Fur  Robes
Fur  Coats

If  you  are  not  supplied  send 
us  your  orders.

W e  want  your  orders  for 
Sad dlery  H ardw are  and  our 
own  m ake  of  H arness.

Brown  &  Sehler,

West  Bridge  Street,  Grand  Rapids

Things We Sell

Iron pipe,  b rass rod,  steam   fittings, 
electric  fixtures,  lead  pipe,  brass 
w ire,  steam   boilers,  gas  fixtures, 
b rass  pipe,  brass  tubing,  water 
heaters,  m antels,  nickeled  pipe, 
b rass  in  sheet,  hot  air  furnaces, 
fire  place  goods.

Weatherly & Pulte

Grand Rapids, Mich.

£¿353

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

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Commercial T ravelers
President,  J o h n   A .  W e s t o n ,  L a n sin g ;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  B r o w n ,  S afiln aw ;  Treasurer, 
J o h n  W. Sc h r a m , Detroit.

liekiffu Knizhti if the 0rj

DiiM Csamitisl Trmleri if liehigu 

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

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

Senior  Counselor,  W  s.  Burns;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Gripsack  Brigade.

the 

Leslie  Local:  W.  F.  Prescott  has 
taken  a  position  with  the  Olds  Engine 
Works,  of  Lansing  and Detroit,  and  will 
go  on  the  road  Oct.  i.  He  will  look 
after 
interests  of  that  company 
throughout  Michigan.

Hudson  Gazette:  Robert  Campbell, 
who  formerly  occupied  the  position  of 
clerk  in  M.  E.  Power’s  hardware  store 
here,  has  accepted  a  position  as  travel­
ing  salesman  with  the  Malleable  Steel 
Range  Works,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.

Portland  Observer: 

Soo  News:  E.  S.  Royce has  resigned 
his  position  with  Franklin  McVeagh  & 
Co.,  of  Chicago,  to  accept  one  with  the 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.,  which  will 
shortly  succeed  P.  C.  Kelliber  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  here.  Mr. 
Royce  will  have  charge  of  the  city 
trade.  He  is  an  experienced  salesman.
J.  Free  Smith, 
the  traveling  man  who  used  to  “ m ake" 
Portland  and  who  has  many  acquaint­
ances  here,  bad  a  narrow  escape  from 
in  a  runaway  at  Cham­
being  killed 
paign,  III.,  one  day 
last  week.  As  it 
was,  he  bad  his  right  arm  broken  and 
bis  left  hand  and  ankle  badly  smashed.
D.  L.  Porterfield  has  engaged to cover 
Northern  and  Western  Michigan 
for 
Edward  R.  Rice,  Western  selling  agent 
for  the  Banigan  Rubber  Co.  Mr.  Por­
terfield  is  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Porterfield  &  Son,  shoe  dealers  at  La­
grange,  Ind.  E .  D.  Hutchinson,  of  De­
troit,  will  continue  to  cover  Southern 
and  Eastern  Michigan.

Elk  Rapids  Progress:  S.  B.  Owen, 
who  for  the  past  nineteen years has been 
a  resident  of  Antrim  county, and  for the 
last  ten  years  has  been  in  the  employ  of 
the  Elk  Rapids  Iron  Co.,  as  manager  of 
the  shoe  department,  has  accepted  a po­
sition  with  Selz,  Schwab  &  Co.,  shoe 
manufacturers  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Owen's 
position  is  that of  a  traveling  salesman 
and  he  has  been  assigned  the  Western 
half  of  Ohio.  Mr.  Owen  leaves  Mon­
day  next  for  Chicago  and  will  scon 
thereafter  assume  his  duties  in  his  new 
field  of  labor.  Mr.  Owen  is  undecided 
as  to  where  be  will  make  his  home,  but 
present  prospects  indicate  either  Lima 
or Columbus.

It 

Big  Rapids  Herald: 

John  V.  Carr, 
representing 
the  wholesale  clothing 
house  of  Heavenrich  Bros.,  Chicago, 
was  forcibly  ejected  from  L.  Wilensky 
&  Co.'s  clothing  store  on  Michigan 
avenue  this  morning,  according  to  a 
largely  circulated  report. 
is  said 
that  H.  Wilensky,  when  in  Chicago  re­
cently, purchased  from  Heavenrich Bros. 
$95  worth  of  goods.  Mr.  Wilensky  re­
cently  failed 
in  business.  The  goods, 
it  is  said,  he  received  on  credit.  Mr. 
Carr,  being 
in  the  city  on  other  busi­
ness,  went  to  the  Wilensky  store,  so  the 
report  goes,  to  see  if  the  goods  from  his 
firm’s  bouse  were  there,  and  if  so  to try 
to  effect  a  settlement  for  same.  The 
report  says  Mr.  Wilensky  ordered  him 
out of  the  store,  and  upon  Mr.  Carr’s re­
fusal  to  get  out,  struck  the  latter  on  the 
forehead  with  a  board  and  pushed  him 
out  of  the  building. 
It  is  said  that,

during  the  scuffle,  Mr.  Carr  struck  Mr. 
Wilensky  with  bis  fist  and  knocked  him 
to  the  floor.  The  wound  inflicted  by  the 
board  required  the  attention  of  a  physi­
cian.  The  case  did  not  get  into  court.

The  Grain  M arket.

large 

increase 

Wheat  during  the  week  was  easy,  all 
excepting  September,  which  climbed 
up  to  95c,  all  owing  to  the  market  be­
ing  oversold.  The  sellers  will  have  to 
foot  the  bill.  December  was  selling 
around  69c,  while  September  went  to 
95c,  an  advance  of  26c  over  December 
wheat,  which 
is  all  out  of  natural  con­
ditions.  The  visible  made  an  increase 
of  2,316,000  bushels,  where 
1,000,000 
increase  had  been  expected. 
bushels 
This 
looks  somewhat 
strange,  especially  as  receipts  at  initial 
points  were  below  last  year  and  exports 
large.  However,  as 
have  been  fully  as 
this 
is  reported,  it  should  be
taken  as  final.  Should  there  be  an error 
it  will  correct  itself  in  the  near  future. 
Winter  wheat 
is  quiet,  as  heretofore— 
not  much  moving  and  not  much  of  it 
good.  Very 
little  of  good  No.  2  is  be­
ing  received,  owing  to  the  dampness 
and  poor quality.  There  is,  as  stated  in 
previous  reports,  considerable  being  fed 
to  stock.  As  corn  is  high,  the  farmers 
will  prefer  feeding  the  wheat  yet,  es­
pecially  as the  class  of  wheat  is  unfit  for 
flouring  purposes.

increase 

Corn  rules  about  the  same,  but  the 
present  damp  weather 
is  net  good  for 
the  ripening,  so  no  new  corn  can  be 
furnished  that  will  grade  in any market. 
Corn  needs  dry  and  sunshiny  weather 
to  ripen  it.  It  looks  as  though  the qual­
ity  would  be  poor,  unless the  weather 
Now,  the  qusetion  arises, 
changes. 
when  will 
it  take  place?  The  outlook 
is  certainly  not  encouraging.  We  may 
see  higher  prices  in  corn  before  long.

Oats  are  only  steady  and  the  stocks 
are  increasing  as  another  million  bush­
els  are  added  to  the  visible,  which 
leaves 
the  visible  oats  at  7,700.000 
bushels,  against  9,900,000  bushels  last 
large  increase  con­
year.  Should  this 
tinue  much 
longer,  prices  will  sag  off, 
as  they  are  high,  taking  conditions  into 
consideration.  The  quality  is  certain­
ly  not  up  to  wbat  is  termed  standard 
grades,  as  they  are  somewhat  stained.

Rye 

remains  very  steady.  Good 
It  must 
Michigan  is  being  sold  at  45c. 
be  good  or  else  it is  rejected,  as  the  de­
is  not  pressing.  The  price  may 
mand 
be 
lower,  as  the  exporters  are  taking 
only  a  small  quantity  and  the  distillers 
are  holding  off  for  lower  prices.

Beans  are  on  the  boom,  as  both  cash 
and  futures  are  reported  at  about  25c 
per  bushel  higher,  also  owing  to  the 
damp  weather.  The  crop  is  being  re­
duced  considerably  and  the  quality  is 
not  up  to  what  it  has  been  in  the  years 
gone  by. 
looks  as  though  they  may 
possibly  be  higher  yet.

It 

Flour  is  very  steady.  Millers  are 
well  sold  up  and  the  demand,  both  lo­
cal  and  domestic,  is  good.  Prices  have 
not  been  shaded.

In  mill  feed  there  is  no  change.  The 
demand  keeps  pace  with  the  produc­
tion.  As 
long  as  this  state  of  affairs 
continues,  prices  will  remain  where 
they  are.

Receipts  of  grain  are  small,  with  the 
exception  of  wheat,  which  was  very 
large,  there  being  eighty-one  cars  of 
wheat  received,  three  cars  of  corn,  eight 
of  oats,  one  of  rye,  three  of  flour  and 
three  of  hay.

Millers  are  paying  68c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 

C.  G,  A.  Voigt.

H eld  in   R eserve.

is 

The  thriftiness  of  a  London  shop­
keeper 
illustrated  in  a  story  told  of 
a  dry  goods  dealer.  The  merchant 
in 
question  possessed  a  very  excitable 
temperament, and  on  hearing  his  assist­
ant  say  to  a 
lady  customer,  “ No,  we 
have  not  had  any  for  a  long  time,’ ’  un­
able  to  countenance  such  an  admission 
he  turned  to  the  lady,  fixed  his  eyes  on 
bis  assistant,  and  said: 
“ We  have 
plenty 
in  reserve,  madam—plenty  up­
stairs. ”   The  lady  looked  thunderstruck, 
and  then  the assistant informed his  mas­
ter  that  his  reply  was  to  her  remark: 
“ We  have  not  had  any  rain  lately.’ ’

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

that the

F a i r

I  
jj  Visitors
! 5  Will be  interested  in  knowing 
tj 
P S  Grand  Rapids—corner  South 
pï  Division  and  Fulton  streets— 
p X  runs directly to the fair grounds 
p ¥   without changing cars.

Î Ï  
j! s   the  modern  fire-proof  hotel  of 

is  on  the  street  car  line  that 

LIVINGSTO N  H OTEL,

Ê + 

The  Larimer

Door  Check  and  Screen  Door  Check  and  Spring

The best moderate priced check  ever made.  Needed by  every  merchant  and 
It is what you have been looking  for.  All sises  and  prices;  $1.25

manufacturer. 
upwards.  Write for circulars and  price list.

JOSEPH  SCHURSCH,  280  Canal  St.,  Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

Good  6  per  cent.  Investment 

No  Taxes

For the purpose of further enlarging  and  operating  its  new  fac­
tory,  The  Fred  Macey Company,  Limited,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan, 
offers for sale at  par value,  1,000 shares of  $100  each  of  its  six  per 
cent, treasury preferred  stock.  This stock  draws  full  dividends  at 
the rate of six  per cent, per annum  from  August  1,  1902,  (the  com­
pany’s last dividend date), and  is  entitled  to  receive  three  (3)  per 
cent,  dividend  February  1  next, and  three  (3)  per  cent,  every  six 
months thereafter.  This stock  has preference  also  to  the  common 
stock  in  sharing  in both the profits and assets of  the company.  The 
company pays all taxes on  its property so  that  this  stock  yields  its 
holders  T H R E E   (3)  per  cent.  N E T   every  six  months—T A X E S 
PAID.

To those having funds to invest,  the  above  stock  offers  a  good 
safe investment at  home,  and  in  a  company  well  organized—well 
established—well  known, and  already  doing  a  large  and  profitable 
business in all parts of  the United States and  foreign  countries,  and 
already owning and operating  one  of  the  best  located—best  equip­
ped—best arranged  factories in the city of Grand  Rapids.

Subscriptions for the above stock  will be received by  mail  up  to 
and including October  15th,  1902, subject  to  previous  sale,  and  may 
be made at the office of  The  Fred  Macey Company,  Limited,  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan.  Further  information,  if  desired,  furnished  on 
application.

References—Any bank  in  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids,  also  the 

mercantile agencies  of  Bradstreet and  R.  G.  Dun & Co.

2 6

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

Drugs—Chem icals

Michigan  8UW  Board  of Pharmacy

Term expires
Hunky  H e i m ,  Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Dec. 31, ion®
Wtbt  P,  Doty. Detroit - 
Clakencf. B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D. MuiK. errand itapiaa 
Dec. si, i*un 
Akthub H. Wkbbkb, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

- 

President,  Hknby  Hbim, Saginaw.
Secretary, J ohn D. Muir, Grand Kaplds. 
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Suasions.

Lansing, November 5 and 6.

M ic h .  S ta te   P h a r m a c e u ti c a l  A ss o c ia tio n  

President—Lou G. Moore. Saginaw. 
Secretary—w.  H  Bu r k e   Detroit. 
Treasurer—C. F.  Hukkk. Port Huron.

Pharmacy 

One  of Pharm acy’s Serious Shortcomings
suffers  one  shortcoming 
which  was  made  abundantly  manifest 
at  last  month's  meeting  of  the Michigan 
Pharmaceutical  Association:  the quality 
of  certain  medicaments  sold 
in  drug 
stores  is  too  often  very  poor.  Professor 
Schlotterbeck,  chairman  of  the  Com 
mittee  on  Adulterations,  gave  convinc 
ing  proof  of  a  condition  of things  which 
is  reaily  a  disgrace  to the calling.  With 
out  reporting  his  findings  at  length,  let 
it  suffice  to  say  that  not  one  of  the  thir 
teen  samples  of  spirit  of  nitrous  etbe 
yielded  the  required  eleven  volumes  o: 
nitrogen  dioxide, 
the  highest  point 
reached,  indeed,  being  but  four  vol 
umes;  that  two  out  of  seven  samples  of 
diluted  hydrocyanic  acid  contained  no 
HCN  whatever:  that  a  number  of  spec 
imens  of  tincture  of  iodine  ranged  in 
iodine  from  2.2  grammes  to 
content  of 
6.2  grammes 
in  each  100 cubic  centi­
meters,  whereas  the  Pharmacopoeia  re­
quires  7  grammes;  that ammonia  water, 
which  should  contain  to  per  cent,  of 
gas,  was  found  to  contain  all  the  way 
from  3.6  to  12.7  per  cent.  ;  that  solution 
of  hydrogen  dioxide,  which  should 
yield  about 
10  volumes  of  available 
hydrogen,  was  found  upon  investigation 
to  yield  anywhere  from  7  to  12.7  vol­
umes ;  and  that  of  twelve  specimens  of 
saffron  sold  by  druggists  in  response  to 
a  specific  demand 
for  Spanish  saffron 
(the  Crocus  sativus  of  the  U.  S.  P.  ) 
not  one  proved  to  he  such—all  were  the 
American  or  false  saffron  (Carthamus 
Tinctorius).

These  findings  are  admittedly selected 
by  us  from  among  the  worst  reported 
by  Professor  Schlotterbeck,  but  they 
show  conclusively  and  convincingly that 
thete 
is  an  internal  shortcoming  which 
pharmacists  should  determinedly  set 
about  to  correct.  They  should  examine 
more  carefully  into  the  character  of  the 
goods  which  they  buy  from  the  jobber. 
They  should  take  greater  care  in  the 
manufacture  of  goods  which  they  pre­
pare  themselves.  And  more  important 
than  all,  they  should  use  greater  pre­
cautions  in  the  care  and  preservation  of 
the  goods  which  they  both  buy  and 
make,  and  see  to  it  that  the  deteriora­
tion  which  is  so  common  with  many 
substances  is  avoided  so  far  as possible.
Many  pharmacists have been  slumber­
ing  in  this  matter.  They  have  been  in­
different  to 
it.  Often  they  have  been 
unaware  of  the  conditions.  A  sudden 
and  painful  awakening  has  resulted  in 
two  or  three  states  where  the  law  has 
stepped  in ;  but  the  law  ought  not  to  be 
waited  for.  Men  ought  to  do  right  be­
cause 
it  is  right,  not  because  they  are 
made  to  do  it.  Salvation  which  comes 
from  a  fear of  punishment  is  of  a  pretty 
poor  sort!—Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

Method  of Preserving  Rubber Goods. 
The  hardening  of  vulcanized  India 
rubber  is  caused  by  the  gradual  evapo­
ration  of  the  solvent  liquids  it  contains 
introduced  during  the  process  of
and 

vulcanization.  According  to  the  best 
authorities,  keeping 
in  an  atmosphere 
saturated  with  the  vapors  of the solvents 
answers  the  purpose.  India  rubber  stop 
pers,  tubing,  etc.,  which  still  possess 
the  elasticity,  are  to  be  kept  in  vessels 
containing  a  dish  filled  with  common 
petroleum.  Keeping 
in  wooden  boxes 
is  objectionable,  while  keeping  in  air 
tight  glass  vessels  alone  is  sufficient  to 
preserve  India  rubber  for a 
long  time
Exposure  to  light  should  be  avoided 
as  much  as  possible.  Old  hard  India 
rubber  may  be softened  again  by  letting 
vapor  of  carbon  bisulpbate  act  upon  it. 
As  soon  as  it  has  become  soft,  it  mus 
be  removed  from  the  carbon  bisulphide 
atmosphere  and  kept  in  the regular way 
In  order  to  prevent  India  ruhber  mate­
rials  from  hardening  and  cracking  they 
are  steeped  in  a  bath  of  melted  paraffin 
for  a  few  seconds  or  a  few  minutes,  ac 
cording  to  the  size  of  the  articles,  and 
then  dried  in  a  room  heated to about 212 
deg.  Fahrenheit. 

Thos.  Willets

The  Drug  M arket.

Opium—Has  advanced,  on  account  of 

higher  price  in  the  primary  market.

Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is 

in  a  very  firm  position. 

Another  advance  is  looked  for.

Cocaine—Is  unsettled,  on  account  of 
competition among manufacturers.  The 
raw  material 
is  scarce  and  advancing 
and  higher  prices  will  rule.

Cod  Liver  Oil—As  the  season  ap­
proaches  for  consumption,  prices  are 
advancing.

Manna—Is 

in  very  small  supply  and 

higher.

and  very  scarce.

and  firm.

Menthol—Is  very  firm  at  high  price 

Juniper  Berries—Remain  very  scarce 

Oil  Lavender—Has  advanced  and  is 
tending  higher,  on  account  of  small 
crop.

Oil  Cassia—Is  very  firm  and  advanc- 
ng.
Oil  Peppermint—Continues 

to  ad­

vance.

Linseed  Oil—Price 

is  unsettled  and 

steadily  declining.

Extem poraneous  Method  of  E ncapsulat­

ing  Liquid  Drugs.

J.  T.  Johnson,  of  Fergus Falls,  Minn., 
writes  the  American  Druggist  that  he 
has  usually  used  a  thick,  mucilaginous 
solution  of  French  gelatin  for  sealing 
capsules  after  filling.  This  he  keeps  in 
a  half-ounce,  wide-mouthed  vial,  fitted 
with  a  good  cork,  in  the  center  of  which 
he  fastens  a  hardwood  toothpick,  sharp­
ened  very  fine  and  extending  down  into 
the  glue.  Using  the  pick  as  a  brush, 
he 
lightly  smears  the  edge  of  the  cap 
with  a  layer  of  the  liquid  gelatin,  and 
this  cements 
In  his 
imited  experience  he  says  he  has  had 
very  nice  results  from  this  method.  The 
only  objection  to  it  would  be  the  slow­
ness 
large  operations.  His  method 
he  admits  may  not  be  according  to  best 
modern  methods ;  but  he  declares  that 
necessity 
is  tbe  mother  of  invention, 
nd  what  we  want  in  emergencies  is  re­
sults  that  will  pass tbe overseer’s square.

it  very  nicely. 

in 

F orm ula  for a  P oultry  Powder.

Egg  shell,  or  calcium  phos.........   4  ozs.
Sulphate  iron..................................   4  ozs.
Capsicum..........................................  4  ozs‘
Fenugreek........................................  2  ozs.
Black  pepper................................  
1  oz.
Silver  sand......................................  2  ozs.
Dog  biscuit  or  lentils...................  6  ozs.
Reduce  all  to  powder  and  mix  well, 
is  to  be  mixed  with 
tablespoonful 
feed 

sufficient  meal  or  porridge  to 
twenty  hens. 

P.  H.  Quinley.

Some New  Pastes and  Mucilages.

For  labels  on  metallic  surfaces:

1.

2.

3-

1.

Rye  flour......................................  5 parts.
Venice  turpentine.......................   1 part.
Glue,  liquid,  sufficient.

Rub  up  the  flour  with  tbe  turpentine 
and  then  add  sufficient  freshly  prepared 
glue  (glue or gelatin  dissolved  in  water) 
to  make  a  stiff  paste.  This  paste  dries 
slowly,  but  it  will  attach  labels  to  any 
and  all  metallic  surfaces.

Gum  arabic................................  50  parts.
Glycerin.....................................   10  parts.
Water...........................................  30  parts.
Atimony,  chloride, 
liq...........   2  parts.

Mix.

Dextrin..........................................  2 parts.
Acetic  acid.................................  
1 part.
Water..............................................  5 parts.
Alcohol,  q5  per  cent....................  1 part.

Dissolve  the  dextrin  and  acetic  acid 
in  water  by  beating  together 
in  the 
water  bath,  and  to  the  solution  add  the 
alcohol.

Generally  Useful  Pastes:

Dissolve  the  gum 

Gum  arabic...............................  100 parts.
Water..........................................  140 parts.
Glycerin....................................  
10 parts.
Acetic  acid  dilute...................   20 parts.
6 parts.
Aluminum  sulphate................ 
in  the  water  and 
add  the  glycerin.  Afterwards  add  the 
acetic  acid  and  the  aluminum  sulphate, 
and  mix  thoroughly.  Let  stand  awhile, 
then  pour through  a hair  sieve. 
This
mucilage 
is  very  strong,  partaking 
somewhat  of  the  qualities  of  glue  or 
gelatin  solutions.

Best  glue....................................   50 parts.
Water,  sufficient.

In  tbe morning, 

Cover  the  glue,  broken 

into  small
pieces,  with  cold  water,  and  let  macer­
ate  over  night. 
throw
the  glue  on  a  towel  and  strain  off  the 
residual  water.  Dissolve 
100  parts  of 
powdered  rock  candy  (loaf  sugar  will 
answer)  and  25  parts  of  powdered  gum 
arabic  in  200  parts  of  water,  by  the  aid 
of  heat  in  the  water  bath.  When  com­
pletely  dissolved,  add  the  swollen  glue, 
continue  the  beat  until  it  is  dissolved, 
and  when  this  occurs  pour off  into  suit­
able  receptacles.

3-

Sugar,  powdered.........................  1  part.
Sodium  silicate  solution............  4 parts.

Mix  and  warm  until  dissolved.

Cherry  Tooth  Paste.

Try  the  following:

least  twice  before  working 

Precipitated chalk....................   32  parts.
Rose  pink..................................  16  parts.
Orris  root,  powdered...............  4  parts.
Glycerin.....................................   4  parts.
Honey..........................................  8  parts.
Mix  the  powders  and  sift  thoroughly 
at 
in  the 
glycerin  and  honey.  As  a  perfume  you 
can  use  to  every  pound  of  powder  the 
following:
Oil  cassia.........................................   20  m.
Oil  rose  geranium  .........................  20  m.
Oil clove..........................  
10  m.
Mix  and  work  well  into  the  powders 
before  adding  the  liquids.  Set  the  pas  e 
aside  for  at  least  a  month  before  filling 
nto  the  containers. 
If  then  found  too 
stiff,  work  in  a  little  water.

 

 

R heum atic  or  M uscular  Pains.

Cbloroformis  purae.......................  5  drs,
Tr.  o p ii..........................................  4  drs.
Acidi  salicvlici.................................4  drs.
Spts.  vini  rect...................................4  ozs.
Olei  dulcis,  q.  s.  ad .....................  12  ozs.
This  should  be  rubbed  into  the  parts 
thoroughly  or  applied  by  means  of  flan­
nel  cloths.

Difficulties  give  way  to  diligence.

Don’t Place Vowr 
Ulall Paper Order

Until you see our line.  We 
represent  the  ten  leading 
factories in  the  U.  S.  As­
sortment  positively  not 
equalled  on  the  road  this 
season.

Prices  Guaranteed

to  be  identically  same  as 
manufacturers.  A  card will 
bring salesman or samples.
fieysteR $  Canfield  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  lllicb.

Holiday 
Goods

We  extend  a  cordial  invita­
tion  to  visitors  coming  to 
Grand  Rapids  during  Fair 
week, Sept.  29  to  Oct.  4,  to 
visit our  store, where will  be 
found  one  of  the  prettiest 
lines of  Holiday Goods  ever 
shown  in  Western Michigan. 
Complete  in  every  respect. 
Will make liberal  allowance 
for expense.

Grand  Rapids 
Stationery  Co.

29  North  Ionia  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  C.

McClurg  &  Co.

CHICAGO

Holiday
Display

Kortlander  Block 

Grand  Rapids 
Until  October  12

T.  J .   Humble

Headquarters  Livingston  Hotel

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

wholesale

*  Drugs  and  S ta tio n e ry  «
3»  &  34  Western  Ave.,

M USKEGON,  MICH.

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

DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Scillae  Co.................  @ 8 0
Tolutan...................   @  00
Pronus  vlrg............   @  50

@ 40

20® 22
@ 18
30
a
® 41
® 41
9® 11
9® n
25® 27
2
3® 5
3*@ 4
2
®
@ 2 60
50® 66
@ 2 00
®
@
@
®

@ 6 00 Seldlltz Mixture......
Menthol..................
Morphia, 8., P.& W. 2  15® 2 40 Slnapls....................
Morphia, 8., N. Y. Q. 2  16® 2 40 Slnapls,  opt............
Morphia, Mai........... 2  16® 2 40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus  Canton....
Voes....................
Myrlstlca, No. 1......
66® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 Soda, Boras.............
Os Sepia..................
35® 37 Soda,  Boras, po......
Pepsin Saac. H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D  Co....................
® 1 00 Soda,  Carb.............. 1*®
Plcis Liq.N.N.* gal.
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
doz.......................
® 2 00 Soda,  Ash...............
Plcis Liq., quarts__
® 1 00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Plcis Ltq.,  pints......
@ 86 Spts. Cologne...........
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80 @ 60 Spts. Ether  Co........
Piper  Nigra... po. 22
® 18 Spts. Myrda Dom...
Piper  Alba__po. 36
® 30 Spts. Vlnl Beet.  bbl.
Pllx  Burgun.............
7 Spts. Vlnl Beet. *bbl
®
Plumbl Acet............
10® 12 Spts. Vlnl Beet. lOgal
Pulvls Ipecac et Opll 1  30® 1 60 Spts. Vlnl Beet. 5 gal
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal...
80®  1  05
& P. D. Co.,  doz...
® 76 Sulphur,  Sub!.........
2H@ 4
Pyrethrum,  pv........
26® 30 Sulphur, Boll........... 2X@ 3*
Quasslae..................
8® 10 Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Quinta, 8. P. &  W...
16® 36 Terebenth  Venice...
28® 30
Qulnla, S.  German..
6® 36 Theobroma*.............
48® 50
Qulnla, N. Y............
26® 26 Vanilla.................... 9 00® 16 00
Rubia Tinctorom....
12® 14 Zlncl Sulph............
7® 8
___
Saccharum Lactis pv
20® 22
Oils
Salacln.................... 4  50® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...
40® 50
Sapo, W..................
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo M....................
10® 12 Lard, extra..............
@ 16 Lard, No. 1..............
Sapo G....................

BBL.  GAL.
70
90
te

70
86
60

2 T

63
54
80
59

Linseed, pure raw... 
60 
Linseed, boiled.......   61 
Neatsfoot  winter str  65 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
64 
Paints 
Bed  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...
Lead, red................
Lead,  white............
Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gliders’__
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Cliff..............................
Universal Prepared.
V a rn is h e s

B B L .  
L B .
IX  2  @8 
IX  2  @4 
IX  2  @3 
2X  2V4@3 
2*  2X®3
13®  15
70®  75
14*@  18* 
13®  16
5  @  6*
6  @  6*
@  90
@  96

@ 14« 
1  10®  1  20

No. 1 Turp  Coach.
Extra Turp...........
Coach  Body.........
No. 1 Turp Fura...., 
Extra Turk Damar.. 
Jap.Oryer.No.lTurp

.  1  10®  1  20 
.  1  6C@  1  70 
.  2  75®  3  00 
.  1  00®  1  10 
1  66®  1  60 
79

70® 

W e  are Importers and  Jobbers of  Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent  Medicines.

W e  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

W e  have  a full line of  Staple  D ruggists’ 

Sundries.

W e  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  W eath­

erly’s  Michigan Catarrh  Remedy.

W e  always have  in  stock  a  full  line  of 
W hiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  W ines 
and  Rums  for  medical  purposes 
only.

W e  give our personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same 

day received.  Send  a  trial  order.

hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Conlum Mac............   80®
Copaiba..................   i  is®
Cubebae..................   i  30®  :
Exechthltos............  l  so®  1
Erlgeron.................  i  oo®  ]
Gaultherla............... 2 00®  :
Geranium, ounce.... 
®
Gosslppll, Sem. gal.. 
50®
Hedeoma.................  l  80®
Junipers.................  i  go® ;
Lavendula..............  go®;
Llmonls..................   i  16®
Mentha Piper.........  2 80®  ;
Mentha Yerld.........  a  io@  :
Morrhuae, ;gal.........   2 00® i
M yrda....................  4 00® •
Olive.......................  78® ]
Plcis Liquids..........  
to®
Plcis Liquids,  gal... 
®
Blclna............;.......  
g.®
Rosmarinl................  @
Rosa», ounce............   6  60®  :
Succlnl....................  40®
Sabina....................  90®
Santal....................... 2 76®  ;
Sassafras.................  66®
Slnapls, ess., ounce. 
®
Tlglll.......................  1  60®
Thyme.....................   40®
Thyme, opt.............. 
®
Theobromas  ........... 
16®
Potaasinm
Bl-Carb.................... 
is®
13®
Bichromate............  
Bromide................. 
52®
i2@
C arb....................... 
Chlorate.. .po. 17®19  16®
Cyanide................... 
34®
Iodide.....................   2 30® :
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®
7®
Potass Nltras, opt... 
Potass  Nltras.........  
6®
Prusslate................. 
23®
Sulphate  po............  
16®

Radix

20®
Aconltum................. 
30®
Althae...................... 
Anchusa.................  
10®
®
Arum  po................. 
Calamus..................  
20®
12®
Gentlana........po. 16 
Glychrrhlza.. ,pv.  16 
16®
® 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®
Inula,  po................. 
is®
Ipecac, po................. 2 76® :
Iris plox.. .po. 36®38  36®
Jalapa, pr................  26®
Maranta,  14s ........... 
®
Podophyllum,  po...  2a®
Bhel................ ...... 
76®
Bhel, cut................. 
®
Bhel, pv..................   78®
Splgella..................   36®
Sanguinarla.. .po.  16 
®
Serpentaria............  
50®
Senega....................  80®
Smllax, officinalis H. 
®
Smllax, M................ 
®
Sclllae........... po.  38  10®
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po................. 
®
Valerlana.Eng.po.30 
®
Valeriana,  German. 
16®
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
Zingiber j.................  28®

Semen
®
Anlsum........ po.  18 
Aplum (graveleons).  13®
Bird, is.................... 
4®
Carol.............po.  15  10®
Cardamon...............   1  26®
Corlandrum.............  
8®
6®
Cannabis Sativa......  
Cydonium...............   76®
Chenopodium.........  
16®
Dtpterlx Odorate....  1  00®
Foenlculum..............  @
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
L lnl.........................  4  @
Llni, grd....... bbl. 4 
4  @
Lobelia.................     1  60®
Pharlarls Canarian..  6  @
Bapa.......................  5  ®
Slnapls  Alba........... 
9®
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
11®
Splrltns
Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 
Fromentl,  I). F. B ..  2 00®
Frumentl................  1  26®
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1  66®
Juniperts  Co...........  1  78®
Saacharum  N. E __  1  90®
Spt. Vlnl Galll.........  1  76® 1
Vlnl Oporto............   1  28®
Vlnl Alba............... 
1  28®
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2  60®
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2  60®
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @
Extra yellow sheeps'
wool, carriage...... 
®
Grass  sheeps^ wool,
carriage...............  
®
Hard, for slate use.. 
®
Yellow  B e e f,  for
slate use...............  
®
Syrups
Acacia....................   @
®
Au rant I Cortex........ 
®
Zingiber..................  
Ipecac...................... 
®
Ferrl Iod.................  
®
Bhel Arom.............. 
®
so®
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega....................  
®
Malll».,. 
a

8
76
17
29
46
6
1014
16
63
6
20
40

6
8
16
14
26
00
60
00
24
960
66
70
66
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
26

26
30
1214
15
17

16
26
75
40
15

80
7

18
26
35

40
26
30
20
10

6646
36
28
66
14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14
16
69
40
00
86
36
76
60
40
10
46
46
00

28
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
25

60
20
20
20
20
60
26
66
20
66
86
80
86
75
1040

Tinctures
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconltum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh.... 
Arnica.................... 
Assafoetida.............. 
A trope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharides............ 
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu}..................  
Cinchona................. 
Cinchona Co............  
Columba................. 
Cubebae.................... 
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis..................  
Ergot....................... 
Ferrl  Chlorldum.... 
Gentian..................  
Gentian Co.............. 
Guiaca.....................  
Gulaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............ 
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless...... 
K ino....................... 
Lobelia...................  
Myrrh.....................  
Nux Vomica............  
Opll.......................... 
Opll, comphorated.. 
Opll, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Bhatany..................  
Bhel........................  
Sanguinarla........... 
Serpentaria............  
Stramonium............  
Tolutan..................  
Valerian................. 
Veratrom  Verlde... 
Zingiber..................  

60
60
60
60
50
50
60
60
60
so
60
76
60
75
75
1  00
60
so
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
35
80
60
So
60
So
75
75
So
So
So
60
7s
So
1  Sc
So
So
60
So
So
60
80
So
So
2q

H i see 1 lan eo us 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  36
vEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2*4® 
3
4
3® 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto...................   40®  50
Antlmonl, po........... 
4® 
6
Antlmonlet Potass T  40®  50
Antlpyrin...............   @  26
Antlfebrin..............  @  20
Argentl Nltras, oz...  @  46
10® 
Arsenicum.............. 
12
46®  50
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........  1  66®  1  70
9
Calcium Chlor.,  is...  @ 
Calcium Chlor.,  *s..  @  10
Calcium Chlor.,  148..  @ 
12
Cantharides, Bus.po  @  80
Capsid Fructus,at..  @ 
16
Capslcl  Fructus, po. 
® 
16
Capslcl Fructus B, po  @  15
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......  @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
56®  60
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  36
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum................. 
®  46
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
®  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst  ...  1  35®  1  60
Chondros................  
20®  25
Clnchonldlne,P. & W  38®  48
Clnchonidlne, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   4  06®  4 75
76
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
Creosotum............... 
®  46
Creta.............bbl. 75 
2
@ 
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
Creta, preelp........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra........... 
8
® 
Crocus.................... 
10®  35
Cudbear..................   @  24
Cuprl  Sulph............   6*@ 
8
Dextrine................. 
7® 
10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numbers.  @ 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
E rgota...........po. 90 
86®  90
12®  15
Flake  White........... 
Galla.......................   @  23
8® 
Gambler................. 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
Gelatin, French...... 
36®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
li®  13
Glue,  white............  
16®  26
Glycerina.................  17 H@  26
Grana Paradlsl........  @  26
Humulus.................  26®  56
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @  1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg  Ox Bub’m.  @  1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
® 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum.........  @  86
Ichthyobolla,  Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................   76® 1 00
Iodine,  Besubl........  3 40®  3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulin....................  @  60
Lycopodium............   66®  70
M ads...................... 
66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @  26
LlquorPotassArstnlt 
10® 
12
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl  @ 
114 
ittunnia  h  k____„  
751 
so

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

M a c k e r e l
E la n d   P ic k e d   B e a n s  
C a n n e d   T o m a to e s  
C a n n e d   C o rn

DECLINED
C o m m o n   S a lt 
B ro o m s  
S w e e t  P o ta to e s  
S o m e  T o b a c c o s

Index to  Markets

By Columns

 

C

B

G

H

A

I
J

D
F

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabasttne............................ 
l
Ammonia..............................   1
Axle Grease..........................   1
Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath  Brlok............................ 
i
Bluing..  ...............................  1
Breakfast  Food....................  1
Brooms..................................  1
Brushes................................. 
l
Butter Color..........................  1
Candles.................................   M
Candles.................................. 
l
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................  3
Carbon Oils..........................   3
Cheese...................................   3
Chewing Gum.......................  3
Chicory..................................  3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines........................   3
Cocoa....................................   3
Cocoanut...............................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee........................ 
  3
Condensed Milk....................  4
Coupon Books.......................  15
Crackers...............................  *
Cream T artar.......................  5
Dried  Fruits.........................  6
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
Fly  Paper.............................   6
Fresh Meats..........................  6
Fruits....................................  1*
Gelatine................................   6
Grain Bags............................  7
Grains and Flour.................  7
Herbs....................................  7
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo....................................  7
Jelly.....................................   7
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys...................   15
Lanterns...............................   15
Lantern  Globes....................  15
Licorice................................   7
Lye........................................  7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses................................  7
Mustard................................   7
Nuts......................................   14
OH Cans................................   15
Olives....................................  7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes.....................................  7
Playing Cards.......................  8
Potash...................................  8
Provisions.............................   8
Bice.......................................  8
Salad Dressing......................  9
Saleratus...............................  9
Sal Soda................................   2
Salt........................................  9
Salt  Fish...............................  9
Seeds.....................................  9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   >0
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  io
Spices..............  
10
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  11
Syrups...................................  10
Table Sauce..........................  li
Tea........................................  li
Tobacco................................   11
Twine...................................   12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder.................... is
Wtcfclng................................   is
Wooden war«.........................  is
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeasl  Cake............................ 13

T
W

N
o

R
S

M

V

P

T

L

 

 

AXLE GRRASE
doz.  gross
A urora........... 
...56 
Castor  Oil................... 60 
Diamond.....................50 
Frazer’s ...................... 75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

6 00
7 00
4 25
9 00 j
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

BAKING  POW DER 

Egg

<4 lb. cans,  4 doz. case....... 3 75
V4 lb. cans,  2 doz. case....... 3 75
1 lb. cans, 
1 doz. case........3 75
5 lb. cans, V4 doz. case........ 8 00

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

Royal

lOcslze__  90
14 lb. cans  1  36 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
V4  lb. cans 2 50 
14 lb.  cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
[ft[it|LBUj  3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb  cans_ 21  50
i»ii  am  

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  75
English.................................  85

BLUING

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

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

BREAKFAST  FOOD

GEBfl HUT FLBKES

BROOMS

Cases, 36 packages...............4 50
Five case lots........................4 40
No. 1 Carpet..........................2 ’ 0
No. 2 Carpet............ ............2  25
No. 3 Carpet..........................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..........................1 76
Parlor  Gem..........................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk........................ 1 10
Warehouse........................... 3 50

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................  96
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8......................................1 00
No. 7......................................1 30
No. 4......................................1 70
No. 8......................................1 90

Shoe

Stove

No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2..................................... 1 10
No. 1......................................1 re
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__  125
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00

BUTTER  COLOB

...... 12
___ 12V4
...... 914
...... :o
17

CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s.........
Electric Light, 16s........
Paraffine, 6s.................
Paraffine, 12s................
Wloklnr

CANNED  OOOD8

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

Blackberries

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

Beans

1  10
3  35

80

Baked......................  1  00@1  30
Bed  Kidney............  
76®  85
String.....................  
70
Wax......................... 
75
B laeberries
Standard...................  
Brook  T rout

90

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

2 

C la m s.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 

Clam  Bouillon

l  00
1  50

..

85

C h e r r ie s

w
85
2  10
3 60
2 35
1  80
2  80
1  SO
2 80
1  s-»
2  80
18@20
22@25

Burnham’s, V4 pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7  20
Bed  Standards..........1 3C®  50
White.
1  60
Corn
80 
Fair..........................
86 
Good.......................
1 00
Fancy......................
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine..............
Extra  Fine....................
Fine................................
Moyen............................
Gooseberries
stanaara................  
Hominy
Standard... 
Lobster
Star, V4 lb................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 21b...........
Soused, 1 lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Mushrooms
Hotels 
....................
Buttons....................
Oyster«
Cove, 1 lb.................
1  56
Cove, 2 lb.................
96
Cove, 1 lb Oval........
Peaches
8E@  90
P ie..........................
1  60®1  85
Yellow....................
Pears
1  00
Standard.................
1  25
Fancy.....................
1  00
Marrowfat..............
90@1  60
Early June..............
1  60
Early June  Sifted..
P lains
85
Plums......................
Pineapple
1  25@2 75
Grated....................
Sliced....................... 1  35@2  56
P um pkin
F air.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
1  15
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..........................  3 75
lb, cans..........................  7 00
1 ID. Call....................... 
u   uv
Salmon
Columbia River, tails
@1  65
Columbia River, flats
@1  80
Red Alaska.............
@1  30
Pink Alaska............
<@  90
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, >4?.........
Domestic, Vis.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, v<s.........
California V48..........
French, Ms..............
French, Vts..............
Standard.................
Fancy  ....................

Strawberries

11(914
17®24
7@14
18@28
1  10 
1  40

Peas

3*
6
6

1  40

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

CARBON  OIL8 

CATSUP

Eocene.......................   @H
Perfection..................   @10
Diamond White.........   @ 9V4
D. S. Gasoline............  @M4
Deodorized Naphtha..  @12
Cylinder.......................29  @34
Engine......................... ¡6  @22
Black, winter..............   9  @10K
Columbia, pints................. 1 *
Columbia, V4 pints..............1  25
CHEESE
Acme.......................  
@1214
Amboy.  ................. 
@W
@UV4
Carson City.............  
@¡8
Elsie........................  
Emblem..................  
@}7
@'2V4
Gem......................... 
Gold Medal..............
Ideal................... 
  @HV4
Jersey...................... 
Riverside................. 
Brick.......................  
Edam......................  
Leiden.................... 
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago................. 
CHEWING GUM 
66
American Flag Spruce —  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
66
Black Jack......... ............. 
Largest Gum  Made................... 60
.  X
Sen Sen............• ■••••.......  
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar  Loaf.......................  
j®
56
Yucatan............................ 
Bulk...................... 
 
0
Bed....................................... 7
Eagle......................   
J
 
Franck’s .............................   •
Schener’s ................ 
  »

@'7
»1«
14@15
@90
@}7
13@14
50@re
19@20

CHICORY

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................  28
Premium.............................   31

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

 

Cotton  Victor

Cotton Braided

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  1  00
72 ft. 3 thread,  extra.......   1  40
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  1 70
60 ft, 6 thread, extra.......   1  29
72 ft, 6 thread,  extra.................
Jute
60 ft...................................  
75
72 f t ..................... 
90
90 ft...................................   1  05
120 ft.................................   1 50
.  ...................................... 
80
6f f ....................................  
95
70 ft...................................  1  1°
Cotton W indsor
59 ft...................................   I  20
60 ft...................................   1  40
70 ft...................................  1  65
80 ft...................................  1  85
40 ft...................................  
55
59 ft...................................  
70
70 ft................................... 
80
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100ft long.  ..  190
No. 19, each 100 ft long....  2  10 
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, 54®  .......................  ®
Colonial, V4®.........................  33
Epps.............. 
42
Huyler.................................  46
Van Houten, Vis..................  12
Van Houten, Vis..................   20
Van Houten, V4s..................  *0
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb...................... 
30
Wilbur, V4s..........................   41
Wilbur. V4S..........................   42
Dunham's V4s...................  26
Dunham’s V4s and V48......   26V4
Dunham’s  Vis..................   27
Dunham’s  Vis...................  28
Bulk..................................  13
COCOA  SHELL8
20 lb. bags...................... 
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............. 

COCOANUT

COCOA

2V4
3
4

 

 

 

COFFEE
Boasted

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

No.  9...................................  8V4
No. 10..................................... 9V4
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
Belle Isle...................’. —   20
Red  Cross............................ 24
Colonial............................... 26
Juvo......................................28
Koran................................... 14

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.

96
1  00
'  **
1  10
1  16
1  75
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 Tod, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
Royal Java..........................
Royal Java and Mocha.......
Java and Mocha Blend.......
Boston  Combination..........
Ja-Vo Blend..  ....................
Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend.................
Distributed byOlney  & Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott & Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. &  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Meisel  & 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Fielbacb 
Co., Toledo.

Rio

Santos

Common..............................  8
F air...................................... 9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy...................................16
Common..............................   8
F air.......................................9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy.................................. 13
Peaberry.............................. 11
Fair..................................... 13
 
'’hole« 

Maracaibo

 

Mexican

Choice.................................. 13
Fancy...................................17

Guatem ala

Java

Choice.................................. 13
African.................................12
Fancy African.................... 17
O  G......................................25
P. G......................................31

Mocha
Package 

Arabian..............................   21

New York Basis.

Arbnckle............................ 10*
Dll worth............................ 10V4
Jersey.................................10V4
Lion.................................. 10
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City V4  gross............   75
Felix V4 gross.....................1  15
Hummel’s foil Vi gross........  85
Hummel’s tin V4 gross........1  43

CONDENSED  MILK 

4 doz In case.

IS

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
racknells..........................   16
Creams, Iced....................  8
'ream Crisp.....................   10V4
Cubans........................ —.  11V4
'urrant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
linger Gems,l’rgeorsm’ll  8
linger  Snaps, Ni  B. C__ 
6*4
Gladiator..........................   10V4
Grandma Cakes................ 
9
Traham Crackers............  
8
Sraham  Wafers...............   12
Srand 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....................  n  V4
Milk Biscuit......................  7V4
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar.................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12 V4
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp...'................  9
Orange Gem......................  9
Penny Cake......................  8
7V4
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8V4
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8V4
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch....................   7V4
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
8nt»r rnwni. X I I  
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

g

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

DRIED  FRUITS

Apples

Sundried.........................  @5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7@  8

California Prunes

100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @4
90-100 re lb. boxes........  @ 4K
80 - 90 re lb. boxes........  @ 5V4
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  <® 5V4
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @614
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  Q  ! Vi
40 - 50 re lb. boxes........  @8%
30 - 40 re lb. boxes  ......  
9
California  Fruit«

V4 cent less In 50 lb. oases

Apricots.....................  @
Blackberries..............
Nectarines................. 
Peaches......................8  @10
Pears..........................9Vi
Pitted Cherries...........
PrunneUes.................
Raspberries...............

8Vi

Citron

Leghorn.................................. 12
Corsican....................1 

3

Currant«

California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......  7
Imported, bulk...................   6V4

Peel

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown.......................................5 90
Daisy........................................ 4 70
Champion................................ 4 re
Magnolia..................................4 00
Challenge.................................» 10
Dime........................................ 3 35
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid.......................:...6   10
Tip  Top....................................3 85
Nestles..................................... 4 25
Highland  Cream..................... 5 00
St. Charles Cream.................... 4 50

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Co.’s brands 

B utter

Seymour...........................  
6V4
New York.........................  6Vi
Family.............................   6V4
Salted...............................   6V4
Wolverine............... 
7
Soda  XXX.......................  7
Soda, City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........  
13
Zephyrette........................ 
is

Soda

 

 

Oyster

F au st...............................  7V4
Farina»............................ 
7
Extra Farina.................... 
7V4
Saltlne Oyster................... 
7

Citron American 19 lb. bx... 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 13

Raisin«

1  75 
1 90
7

London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 9V@10
L. M., Seeded, X lb.... 
8
Sultanas, b ulk.................... 11
Sultanas, package...............nvi
FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans

Dried Lima..........................  514
Medium Hand Picked 
1  «0
Brown Holland........................2 25

241 lb. packages...................... 1 so
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................... 3 to

Farina

Hominy

Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl......................5 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.................... 2 80
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   so
Imported, 25 lb. box.........2 m

I 

8

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count............ 8 00
Half bbls, 600 count............ 4  £5

Barrels, 2,400 count............9 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 6 20
PLATING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__ 
1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  160
N5. 572, Special................   175
No  98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam't Whist.  2 25 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

@1?  25 
@19  60 
@20  SO 
@19  75 
22  00 
@17  51 
21  00 
@19  76

13*
11H

@  1?* 
@  12% 
@  12% 
@  12% 
@  12H 
@
@  15 
@  9H 
&  18 
@  13* 
@  OH

9%@  10

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

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

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

Dry Salt  Meats

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef......
Shoulders (N. V. cut)
Bacon, clear............
California hams......
Boiled Hams.......
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d
Mince Hams......... 
Lard
Compound...............
Pure.........................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls.. advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
&lb. Pa 11s..advance 
• ih  ^u»..advance
Vegetole..................
Sausages 
Bologna...................
Liver 
Frankfort
P o rk .......
Blood......
Tongue... 
H... .............................
Beef
Extra Mess.............
Boneless..................
Rump, New............

Uncolored  B ntterine

Pigs’  Feet

H bbls., 40 lbs.........
H.bbls......................
1 bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
H bbls., 40 lbs.........
H bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................  
Beef rounds.,.........  
| Beef middles........... 
Sbeep....................... 
Solid, dairy................... 
Rolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef,21b.... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Hs......  
Potted ham.  Vis......  
Deviled ham, Hs.-** 
Deviled ham, Hs__ 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
Potted tongue.  Hs.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

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

6
6H
@8
@8H
6
9
0
6H

13
@'3

1
3
7

1
3

26
5
12
66
@13
@18H
18H
16

6

P earl  Barley

Peas

Common.............................. 3 00
Chester................................. 2 75
Empire..................................3 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu.........
Green, Scotch, bu................. 1 86
SpUt,  lb...............................  4
Rolled Avena, bbl.................5 75
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks.. 
2  95
Monarch, bbl........................5 so
Monarch, H bbl....................2 87
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2 65
Quaker, cases.......................3 10

Boiled  Oats

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Grits

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

FISHING  TACKLE

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages...... 2
East India...........................  3*
German, sacks....................   3%
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............ 4¡4
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  31»
Pearl,241lb-packages......  6)4
Cracked, bulk......................  314
24 2 lb. packages.................2 50
H to 1 inch...........................  6
1H to 2 Inches.....................  7
1H to 2 inches......................  9
Hi to 2 Inches.................... 
11
2 Inches................................   15
3 Inches................................   30
No. 1,10 feet........................   5
No. 2,15 feet......................... 
7
No. 3,15 feet......................... 
9
No. 4,15 feet........................   10
No. 6,15 feet........................   11
No. 6,15 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 feet.........................  15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  20
Small...................................   20
Medium...............................   26
Large  . . . .............................   34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.. . . .   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
80
Bamboo. 18 f t , per doz.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE A JE N E S’

JAXON

H ig h e s t  G r a d e   E x t r a c t s
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m.120  lozfullm .  80 
2ozfullm .2l0  2 oz full m. 1  26 
No.8fan*7 s  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

j j

Flavoring extract

Folding  Boxes 

F ull  Measure

Taper  Bottles 

L>. C. Lemon 
1). C. Vanilla
2 oz......... 
75  2 oz.........   1  20
4 OZ.........  1  50  4 OZ.........   2  00
6 OZ............  2  00  6 OZ.............  3  00
D. C. Lemon 
1>. C. Vanilla 
2oz.........   75  2oz......... 1  25
3 oz..........  1 25  3 OZ..........2  10
4 OZ.............  1 50  4 OZ.............2  40
D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
1 oz......... 
65  1 oz.........   85
2 0Z...............1 10  2 OZ.............1  60
4 OZ.............  2 00  4 OZ.............3  00
2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  75
4  oz. full measure. Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80 
Tanglefoot, per box.............   36
Tanglefoot, per  case...........3 20

Tropical  Extracts 

FLV  PA PER

FRESH  MEATS 

5 @  7*
6 @  6
7 @  8
9 @14
7 @12
6 @  7H
5 @ 6
5 @

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins.......................
Ribs........................
Rounds....................
Chucks....................
Plates .....................
Pork
Dressed..................
@  9
Loins......................
13 @13H
@12
Boston  Butts...........
@11
Shoulders...............
@12
Leaf Lard...............
M utton
Carcass...................
6 @  7
7 @  9
Lambs......................
Veal
Carcass.................... BHO  8

GELATINE

Knox’s  Sparkling............ 
1  20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14 00
1  20
Knox’s Acidulated........... 
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00
Oxford..............................  
75
Plymouth  Rock...............  
t  20
Nelson's...........................  
1  50
Cox’s, 2 qt size.................  161
Cox’s, 1-qt size.................   1  10
GRAIN  BAGS 
Amoskeag, 100 in bale  .... 
15% 
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15%

GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

W heat..............  

W inter  W heat  F lour 

 

68

W heat

Local Brands

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents............................   4  16
Second Patent..................   3 65
Straight............................   3  45
Second Straight...............   3  15
Clear................................  3 iu
Graham...........................  3 20
Buckwheat.......................  4  85
Rye...................................  3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs.....................   3 60
Diamond 14s.....................  3 60
Diamond H*.....................   3 60
Quaker Hs........................   3 70
Quaker 34s........................  3  70
Quaker Hs........................  3 70
Clark-Jewell-Wellg Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 14s.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s  Beat 14s.........   4  30
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 20
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 20 
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 20 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial 148.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 20
Lemon & wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 36
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
Wlngold  148.................... 
4  25
Wlngold  V4s.................... 
4  15
Ceresota Hs.....................   4  50
Ceresota %s......................  4 40
Ceresota Hs......................  4 30
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  30
Laurel  Vis.........................  4 20
Laurel  Hs........................   4  10
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4  10
Bolted..............................   2  80
Granulated.......................  2  90
St. Car Feed, screened__  24 25
vo. 1 Corn and  Oats.......   24  25
Economy Stock Feed la 100
sacks..........................  22  50
Corn Meal,  coirse...........  25 25
Corn Meal, fine.................  24 00
Winter Wneat Bran.........  -6 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  18 00
Cow  Feed........................   17  00
Screenings............................  16 00
Car  lots new....................  33
Corn, car  lots..................   64
No. 1 Timothy car lots__   o9 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__  12 00
Sage........................................ 15
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
*enna Leave*......................... »

Olney 6  Judson’s Brand

Feed and  M1 listuITS

Oats
Corn
Hay

HERBS

Meal

INDIGO

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
S. F., 2,8 and 5 lb.  boxes....... 50
61b. palls.per doz........... 
1  95
15 lb. palls............................   40
30 lb. palls............................  80

JELLS’

LICORICE

 

Pure....................................   30
23
Calabria.................. 
 
Sicily...................................   14
Root..................................... 
10
Condensed, 2 doz......................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25

LVE

MEAT  EXTRACTS

Armour A Co.’s, 2 oz........  4  45
Liebig’s, 2 oz.........................  2 75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

40
35
26
22

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

OLIVES

1.0
80

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs.................... 
1 35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs....................  1 05
MMiamsl*, 7 oz...............  
Queen, pints..........................  2 36
Queen, 19  oz..........................  4 50
Queen. 28  oz..........................  7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.......................... 
l 45
Stuffed, 10 oz.........................  2 30
«-lay, No. 216....... 
1  70
«-lay, X. D., full count.........   60
oh, No. 8............................   86

FIFES

 

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 2H pound pookets...  7H

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

9

Im ported.

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

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3  pound pockets,  33  to  the
Dale...................................6
Cost of packing In  cotton  pock­
ets only He more than bulk.
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, l doz.  .1  90 
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..  95
Durkee’s, large, l doz......... 4  13
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 *■..............3 00

@ 75 
@11

SAL  SODA

Granulated, bbls.................  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__1  05
Lump, bbls.........................  90
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   95

S A L T

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Rutter, sacks, 56 lbs............  67
Shaker.............................  24%

Common  Grades

too 3 lb. sacks...................... 2 25
60 51b. sacks...................... 2  15
2810 lb. sacks.....................2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks.......................  
22

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

561b. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Warsaw

Ashton

Higgins

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock

56 lb. sacks..........................   23
Granulated  Fine.................  75
Medium Fine.......................  80

Common

SALT  FISH 

Cod

2 60
18 00
2  50
50
90
so
90
50
90

H alibut.

Large whole...............  @ 5*
Smal whole................   @ 4*
strips or  Drtcka.........   6  @ 9
Pollock.......................   @ 3*
Strips.....................................
Chunks.............................  
13
No. 1100 lbs. 
No. l  40 lbs. 
No. 1  10 lbs. , 
No. 1  8 lbs.,

Trout

6  50 
2  50 
70 
59

Mackerel
Mess 100 lbs........   ....
Mess  50 lbs................
Mess  10 lbs................
Mess  8 lbs................
No. 1100 lbs......................
No. 1  69 lbs......................
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 lbs......................
No. 2100 lbs......................
No. 2  5) lbs......................
NO. 2  10 lb*......................
v«i.  9 
..........
Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoops Hbbl. 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
Holland white hoop metis.
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Scaled.............................
Bloaters............................

H erring

a  O'» 

W hite fish

No. 1  No. 2

100 lbs...........7  60
50 lbs.......... 4 05
10 lbs...........  90
8 lbf...........  71

10  50
6 65 
1  20 
1  00 
9  00 
4  80 
1  06
87
7  75
4  20 
13
7

10  00
5  25 
@70
85

Fam 
3 85 
2 30 
58 
45

1 0
SEEDS

Anise..................................... 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3%
Caraway.............................   7V4
Cardamon, Malabar.............I 00
Celery................................... 10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy...................................  6
Rape...................................   4
Cuttle Rone.......................... 14
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box. small............  
125
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish-__  
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SOAP

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

J A X O N

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box........................... 3 46
6 box lots, delivered.......... 3  40
10 box lots, delivered...........3 35 I
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Stiver King......................  3 66
Calumet Family.............   2 75
Scotch Family................   2 85
Cuba................................2 36
Dusky Diamond..............  3 55
Jap Rose........................   3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3 56
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars..............3 56
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.........................400
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Schultz & Co. brand—
Star.................................3 40
Search-Light Soap Co.  brand. 
“Search-Llgbt”  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......  3 75
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4 00
Old Country....................  3 40
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...................................  5H
Kegs, English....................... 4*
Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  36
French Rappee. In  jars......   43

Scouring

SNUFF

8ODA

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, UR-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot.....................
P a re  Ground In B alk
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

lb. packages...........  
Common Gloss

Klngsford’s  Cora
40 l-lb. packages............... 
8*
K ln g s f o r d ’s S ilv e r  G lo ss
40 l-lb. packages...............   8*
9H
6 
l-lb. packages..................   6
3-lb. packages...................  5H
6-lb. packages...................  8*
40 and 50-lb. boxes............   4
Barrels.............................   4

39

II

Common Cora

201-R>.  packages..............  6
40 i-lb.  packages.............. 
6*

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels................................ 27
HaIf bbls............................ 29
10lb. cans, % doz. In case..  1  85 
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. In case....  2  10 
2H lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.. .2  10

P a re   Cane

F air.....................................  16
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  ao

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  95
Powdered.........................  4 80
Coarse  Powdered............   4  80
XXXX Powdered............   4 85
Fine Granulated...............  4 70
2 
lb. bags Fine  Gran....  4 90
5 
lb. bags Fine  Gran....  4 85
Mould A............................ 
t 05
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 35
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........  4 30
No.  5, Empire A.............  4 25
No.  6...............................  4 20
No.  7........... . 
4 20
NO.  8...............................  4  10
No.  a...............................  4 05
NO. 10................................   4 00
NO. 11................................   4 00
NO. 12................................   a  95
NO. 13................................  3 «0
NO. 14................................  3 80
NO. 15................................  8 85
NO. 16................................   3 80

TABLE SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

&
Lea 6  Perrin’s, pints...
Lea 6  Perrin's, H pints 
Halford, large...............
Halford, smaU..............

The Original and 
Genuine 
W orcestershlre.
. . 5  0
. . 2  7
. . 3  7
. . 2   2

TEA
Japan

sundrled, medium......
....31
Sundrled, choice...........
....33
Sundrled, fancy...........
--- 43
Regular, medium.........
....31
Regular, choice............ ....33
Regular, fancy.............
....43
Basket-fired, medium..
....31
Basket-fired, choice__ ....38
Basket-fired, fancy__ ....43
Nibs.............................
....30
Siftings........................ 19@21
Fannings..................... 20@22
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium........
....29
Moyune, choice...........
....38
Moyune, fancy..............
....53
Plngsuey,  medium......
....28
Plngsuey,  choice.........
....83
Plngsuey, fancy............ ....43
Young  Hyson
Choice..........................
....30
Fancy............................ ....36
Formosa, fancy............
....42
Amoy, medium............
....25
Amoy, choice...............
....32

Oolong

English Breakfast

Medium.......................
....27
Choice..........................
....84
Fancy............................ ....42
Ceylon, choice............... ....32
Fancy...........................
....42
TOBACCO

India

Cigars

H. & F. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller.................  86 00
Our Manager....................  35  00
Quintette..........................   36 06
G. J. JohnsonjCIgar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W...................................  IB 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......   M

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1 2

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

Lubetsky Bros, brands

B.  I,......................................35 00
Daily Mail, 5c edition.........36 00

Plug

Smoking

Hose..................  

Fine  Cat
Cadillac..................... 
 
  64
Sweet  Loma.........................33
Hiawatha, 5 lb. pails 
..  ..  *6
Hiawatha, 10 lb. palls.......   5i
Telegram............................*2
Pay C ar............................... il
49
Protection............................ 37
Sweet Burley....................... 38
Tiger....................................38
Ro4  '’TOR«....................... .„.P2
Palo.....................................31
Kylo..................................... 34
Hiawatha............................41
Battle A xe........................   33
American Eagle...................52
Standard Navy.................... 38
Spear Head, 16 oz................41
Spear Head.  8 oz................44
Nobiiv Twist....................... 48
Jolly T ar..............................36
Old  Honesty.........................42
Toddy...................................33
J. T ..................................... 36
Piper Hetdslck.................... (1
Boot Jack.............................78
Honey Din Twist................. 37
Black  Standard...................38
Cadillac...............................38
Forge..................................30
Nickel Twist....................... 50
Sweet Core...........................34
Flat Car................................3
Great Navy...........................34
W arpath..............................26
Bam ¡oo, 16 oz.......................24
1 X L,  5 lb..........................-28
1 X  1., 16 oz. palls.................. 30
Honey Dew..........................35
Gold  Block........................... 38
Flagman............................ ...38
Chips.....................................32
Klin Dried............................21
Duke’s Mixture....................38
Duke’s Cameo.......................41
Myrtle Navy.........................39
Turn Yum, IX oz.................. 39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls............37
Cream................................... 35
Com Cake, 244 oz..................22
Corn Cake, 1 lb..................... 20
Plow Boy, IX oz....................37
Plow Boy, 3M oz....................36
Peerless, 344 oz..................... 32
Peerless. IX oz..... ..............34
Air Brake.............................36
Cant  Hook............................:-0
Country Club...................... 32-34
Forex-XXXX....................... 28
Good Indian.........................23
Self  Binder  .................... 20-22
Silver Foam..........................34
Cotton, 3 ply.......................... 16
Cottun, 4 ply..........................16
Jute  2 ply..............................12
Hemp, 6 ply............ ............ 12
Flax, medium.......................20
Wool. 1 lb. balls..................   744
Malt  White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Mali White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure cider, Bed Star.............11
Pure Cider, Robinson........... 11
Pure Cider,  Silver.................11

VINEGAR

TW INE

WASHING  POWDER

Diamond  Flake...................2 76
Gold  Brick.  .......................3 25
Gold  Dust, regular.............. 4 60
Gold  Dust, 5c....................... 4 oo
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb................   3 >>0
Pearllne............................ ,...2 75
Soapine................................ 4  10
Babbitt’s 1776.....................  3 75
Koselne................................ 3 50
Armour’s..............................3 70
Nine O’clock........................ 3 .-6
Wisdom............................... 3 80
Scourlne...............................3 50
Rub-No-More....................... 3 76
No. 0. per gross...... .............25
No.«. per gross......................30
No. 2  per gross............ 
  40
No. 3  per gross 
„66

WICKING

Baskets

WOODEN WAKE 
Bushels................................
Bushels, wide  band................1 25
Market................................  30
Splint, large........................... 6 00
Splint, medium.....................  5 00
splint, small...........................4 00
Willow Clothes, large.......... 8 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 60
Willow clothes,  small..........5 00
Bradley  B utter  Boxes
2 lb. sUe, 24 in ease..........  
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, 280 In  crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate.......   45
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. b Oval, 260 In brate...  ..  6 
Barrel. 5 gals., each................2 40
Barrel.  io gals., each.............. 2 55
Barrel. 15 gals., each............2 70
Round bead, 5 gross box__  60
Round head. eartons.........  
75
Humpty Dumpty................... 2 25]
No. 1, complete..................   29
No. 2, complete................... 
18

B atter  Plates

Clothes  Pins

Egg Crates

Churns

Faucets

 

 

 

 

Tabs

Palls

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Cork lined,  8 In...................  66
Cork lined,  9 In...................  75
Cork lined,  10 In..................  85
Cedar. 8 In............................  66
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No 1 common......................   75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 15. cotton mop heads......1  26
ideal No. 7 ....  
90
2- hoop Standard..................1 60
3- hoop Standard..................1 68
2- wlre,  Cable.......................1  60
3- wire.  Cable...  .................1 80
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  26
Paper,  Eureka.  .................2 26
Fibre.................................. 2 40
Hardwood............. .............2 50
Softwood................ 1..........2 76
Banquet..............................1  60
Ideal...................................1  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........  22
Mouse, wood. 4  holes..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes..............  66
ltat, wood..............• ...........  80
Rat, spring............... 
75
20-inch, Standard, No. 1...... 7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2__6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3...... 5 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1...........7  50
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2........... 6 51
16-inch. Cable,  No. 3...........5 60
No. 1 Fibre......................... 9 46
No. 2 Fibre......................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre......................... 7  20
Bronze Globe...................... 2 50
Dewey...............................1  76
Double Acme...................... 2 76
Single Acme....................  2 26
Double  Peerless...............   3 28
Single  Peerless................... 2 60
Northern Queen................ 2  50
Double Duplex................... 3 30
Good Luck.........................2 76
Universal............................ 2 25
12 In. 
................................ 1 65
14 in.................................... 1  85
16 in.............................   .....2 30
11 In. Butter.... ....................  75
13 In. Butter........................ 1 10
15 In. Butter........................ 1 76
17 In. Butter......  ................2 75
19In. Butter........................4 25
Assorted 13-16-17................1  76
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 3 09
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw................. 
144
Fiber Manila, white 
3X
......  
Fiber Manila, colored......   4
No.  1  Manila...  .............. 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher's Manila..............  2&
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2u
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz........................1  00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, 144  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............1  00
Yeast Foam, m   doz...........  60

W’ludow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

Wash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

FRESH  FISH

 

Per lb.
White fish................... n o
Trout...........................  0   9
Black Bass...................10®  11
Halibut...............  
ia  14
Ciscoes or Herring__   &  6
Bluetish.......................  C   11
Live  Lobster...............   &  20
Boiled  Lobster............  @  22
Cod..............................   ®  10
Haddock.....................   @  8
No. 1  Pickerel..............  @ 
Pike.............................  @  7
Perch..........................   @  5
Smoked  White............  ®  11
Red  Snapper...........   @
Col River  Salmon  .. 1244 <&  13
Mackerel.....................  @  18

HIDES AND  PELTS 

8 4

Pelts

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

Wool

Standard..........
Standard H. H .. 
standard  Twist. 
Cut Loaf............
Jumbo, 32 lb......
Extra H .H ........
Boston Cream... 
Reet Roc*

@ 744
® t>44
® 9
@8
®  914
@  8 |
@1014
@9
60® 1  60
4E@  65
40®  55

@6
@5
@?0
@23
@1-
16® 18

bbls.  palls
@ 7 
@  7 
@ 8 
® 9 
cases 
@  714 @1014 
@10 
Q 9

Mixed Candy

Grocers....................
Competition............
Special..................
Conserve..................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf..................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Crc'""
mixed..............
Crystal Cream mix

@  6 
@ 7 
@ 7H 
@ 714 
@ 814 @ 9 
@   8 
@  814 @ 9 
@ 9 
@  814 @  9 
@10

11414
13

Fancy—In  Pans 

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
814
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
Fairy Cream Squares 
12
Fudge Squares........ 
12
Peanut Squares...... 
9
Sugared Peanuts__ 
11
Salted Peanuts........ 
10
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
Lozenges, plain......  
@ 9
Lozenges, printed 
@10
Champion Chocolate 
@11
Eclipse Chocolates...  @1314
Quintette Choc........ 
@12
@ 614
Gum Drops.............  
Moss  Drops............  
@9
Lemon Sours........... 
@9
Imperials................. 
@9
Ital. Cream Opera.,.  @12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 1b. palls............ 
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails................. 
@13
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Roxes
@so
Lemon  Sours.........  
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate  Drops.... 
@60
@85
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1  00
Gum Drops.............. 
@36
@76
Licorice  Drops........ 
Lozenges,  plain......  
@55
@60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................. 
@60
Mottoes..................  
@60
Cream  Bar............  
@66
Molasses Bar........... 
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............  
@66
String Bock............  
@65
Wlntergreen Berries  @60

Caramels
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
@844
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
@1244
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@13
Korker 2 for lc pr bx  @65
Big 3, 3 for lc pr bx.. 
@65
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx  @60
AA Cream Car’ls 3 lb  @50

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Oranges
Florida Kussett....... 
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........  
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings................. 
Medt. Sweets..........  
Jamalcas................  
Kodi...................... 
Lemons
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
@
Verdelll, fey 300......  
@
Verdelll, ex chce 300  @
Verdelll, fey 360...... 
@
Call Lemons, 300...... 
@
Messlnas  300s........ 
Messlnas  360s........ 
Bananas
Medium bunches__ 
Large  bunches........

3 60@4 50
3  60@4 50
1  50@2 00

Figs

NUTS

Foreign Dried F ruits 
Californlas,  Fancy..  @
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes  @1  00
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes........... 
@
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes.................... 
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...  @
Naturals, In bags.... 
tm
Dates
@ 644 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases 
uo
Hallow!.................... 
5  @ 544
lb.  cases, new......  
(a
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....  @
Almonds, Tarragona  @15
Almonds,  Ivlea...... 
@
Ylmonas, California,
soft snelled........... 
15@16
Brazils,.................... 
@10
Fiiberts  ................. 
@13
Walnuts  Grenobles. 
@13
Walnut«-, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
@
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
@1344
Pecans,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@13
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@14
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new............  
@
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
@3  80
Chestnuts, per bu ...  @
Peanuts
6X@ 6X 
Fancy, H. P - Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Roasted...............  
65£@ 744
Choice, H. P., Jumbo  @  7h
Choice, H. P.  Jumbo 
94
Roasted.........   ... 
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Butters
44 gal., per doz.................................. 
1 to 6 gal., per gal. 
......................... 
8 gal. each.........................................  
10 gal. each.........................................  
12 gal. each.........................................  
16 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..................... 

44 ga«  f.s»t or rd. hot., per doz............ 
1 gal. hat or rd. bot„ each................  
Fine Glazed  Milkpang
44 gal  flat or rd. hot., per doz............  
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each................. 

Stewpans

Ja g s

44 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz...  ......  
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............  

44 gal. per doz..................................... 
44 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............................................... 
MASON  FRUIT JARS 

W ith  Porcelain  Lined  Caps

Pints...............................................4  25 per gross
Q uarts...........................................4  50 per gross
* 2 Gallon......................................... 6 50 per gross

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen In box
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds 
Per box of

. 0 Sun............................................
. 1 Sun............................................
. 2 Sun............................................

Anchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

La  Rastie

Rochester

Pearl  Top

XXX  F lint

F irst Quality

, 0 Crimp........................................
, 1 Crimp........................................
. 2 Crimp........................................
. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
, 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
, 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
, 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........
. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.......
. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled.......
, 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled......
, 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................
1 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz...........
2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz...........
, 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
, 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
, 1 Lime (65c  doz) ..........................
, 2 Lime (75c doz)..........................
, 2 Flint (80c doz)” " ....................
, 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................
, 2 Flint (80c  doz)..........................
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz__ 
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. gaiv. 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.. 
6 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans...............................  
6 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas.................... 
No.  0 Tubular, side lift.....................  
No.  1 B Tubular................................ 
No. 15 Tubular, dash..........................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..................  
No.  3 Street lamp, each.................... 
LANTERN  GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 6 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 

LANTERNS

OIL  CANS

Electric

48
544
48
60
72
1  12
1  60
2 12
2 56

6
84

48
544

60
6

85
1  10

56
42
7
2

36
36
48
86
50
50

6 doz. 
1  6<
1  81 
2  80

1  91
2  18 
3  08

4  60 
6  20 
6  10

1  36 
1  60
3 50
4 00 
4 60

4  00 
4  60
1  30

3 7>

1 51
2 50
3 50
4 50
5 00
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7  26
7  50
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3 60
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COUPON  BOOKS

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No. 1, 
94-Inch wide, per gross or roll.. 
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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  Rooks

from $10 down.

Can be  made  to  represent  any  denomination 
50 hooks...................................................  1  50
100 books...................................................  2 50
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1.000 books.....................................................20 00
500, any one  denomination.......................  2 00
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

31

T h e   M a n   o n   t h e   R o a d .

The  man  on  the  road  is  in  business 
for  himself,  just  as  much  as  any  stock­
holder  in  the  firm  he  represents.  His 
trade 
is  distinctly  his;  his  customers 
wait  for  bis  visit,  buy  on  his  recom­
mendation,  and  mail  their  orders  to 
him. 
If  be  changes  houses,  his  patrons 
follow  him.  His  salary  is  based  on  the 
volume  of  business,  as  is  the  profit  of 
any  manufacturer  or  merchant.

He  is  in  business  for  himself  without 
the  investment  of  cash  capital.  Any 
young  man  who  can  sell  goods  can  get 
into  business  for  himself.

The  newsboy,  the  clerk,  or  the  farm 
boy  must  not  wait  for  some  manufac­
turer  to  send  for  him  tc  fill  a  five-thous- 
and-dollar  position.  Such  dilatory  evi­
dence 
is  not  a  mark  of  salesmanship. 
Neither  should  either  expect  voluntary 
promotion,  but  must  advance himself  by 
a  show  of  persistence  for the  place  he 
wants.

After  a  few  years’  experience  as  a 
drug  clerk,  I  wanted  to  try  the  road. 
I 
applied  to  the  head  of  a  wholesale  drug 
house,  saying  that  1  was  willing  to 
commence  at  any  job  and  work  up.

“ Where  do  you  want  to  work  up  to?”  

asked  the  manager.

“ Well,  sir,  I  want to  go  on  the  road.”
“ Then  be  careful  where  you  begin  to 
work  up  from,  and  get  as  near  as  you 
can  to  the  place  you  want,”   be  said. 
“ Downstairs  we  have  a  man  that  began 
as  a  boy  over  thirty  years  ago,  washing 
bottles.  He  became  such  an 
expert 
bottle-washer  that  we could  not  afford  to 
advance  him,  because  we  did  not  know 
how  we  could  replace  him .'5

“ Suppose,”   said 

I,  “ he  had  de­
manded a  better  place,  on  the  ground  of 
faithfulness  to  duty.”

“ But  he  did  not,  and  there  is  where 
he  probably  failed  to  advance  himself. 
He  is  too old—washing  bottles  is  all  he 
is  good  for  now. ”

The  foregoing  narrative is  true,  which 
may  account  for  its  variation from  some 
of  the  storybook  episodes.

A  young  man,  to  get  on  the  road, 
must  know  where  to  draw  the 
in 
obedience,  and  when  to  quit  washing 
bottles.

line 

Every  issue  of  smoke  from  every  fac­
tory  says: 
“ We  are  making  goods  to 
be  sold.”   Every  boat  and  railroad  en­
gine  says: 
“ We  are  hauling  goods  to 
In  every  publication  thous­
be  sold.”  
ands  are  calling: 
“ We  have  goods  to 
be  sold. ”   New  inventions  daily  pro­
“ Improved  goods  to  be  sold.”  
claim: 
The  masses  are  crying: 
“ We  want  the 
goods  that  are  to  be  sold.”   Then  what? 
Why! 
for  a 
medium  between  those  who  buy  and 
those  who  sell.  The  firm,  however,  that 
employs  a  salesman  must  know  that  he 
is  that  medium,  and  he  must  be  will­
ing  to  prove  that  he  is  by  going  out  for 
a  week’s  trial  without  salary,  at  his  own 
expense,  if  necessary.  There 
is  room 
for  men  that  can  build,  command  and 
bold  trade.

is  always 

there 

room 

H o w   N o t  to   W rit©   A d v e r tis e m e n ts .
“ The  philosophy  of  advertising,”  
says  Jas.  H.  Collins 
in  Printers'  Ink, 
“ is  pretty  well  defined now—that people 
read  advertisements 
for  information, 
just  as  tbev  read  murder  trials  and 
Washington  correspondence.  The  head 
of  a  news  story  is  the  index  to  it  and 
the  bait  set  for  readers.  The  head  over 
an  advertisement  should follow  the  same 
principle.  The  advertisement  that  con­
tains  the  most  information  sticks  out  of 
the  page  for  the  reason  that  its  catch- 
the  introduction  of a  vitally
phrase 

is 

reader’s  eye  with 

interesting  story.  The  old-fashioned ad­
vertisement  writer  was  wont  to  catch 
lines  such  as 
his 
‘ Houses  and  Lots  Free,’  or 
‘ Gold 
Dollars 
Absolutely  Given  Aw ay.’ 
Every  one  knows  the  shifty  style  of 
story  that  followed  such  titles,  and  only 
the  gullible  were  caught  by  them.  The 
day  of  the  dishonest  advertisement  is 
over.  Honesty 
is  the  poiicy  followed 
by  most  of  the  advertisers  who  use  paid 
space  to 
increase  their  business,  and 
facts  are  their  best  arguments.  There­
fore,  let  the  novice  choose  a  strong, 
clean  catch-phrase  and  go  directly  into 
the  heart  of  his  story—just  as  neatly 
and  plumply  as  he  would  make  a  dive 
into  water. 
Let  him  come  to  plain 
shop’  at  once,  without  hemming  or 
hawing.”

There 

A   D a v id   H a r u m   T r a d e .
is  a  citizen  in  New  York  who 
decided  to  treat  himself  to  a  horse  and 
runabout. 
In  every  case  he  insisted 
upon  knowing  the  attitude  of the  pros­
pective  purchase 
in  relation  to  auto­
mobiles.  “ I don't  want  my  neck  broken 
daily,”   he  would  say.

There  was  a  horse  that  suited  him. 
“ I  can  warrant  him  on  the  automobile 
question,”   said  the  Jersey  farmer  who 
owned  him. 
“ I  will  guarantee  that  he 
will  pass  a  dozen  an  hour all  day  long 
and  never  look  at  one  of  them.”

ment  to  that  effect?”

“ Will  you  give  me  a  written  state­
*‘ I  will. ”
The  sale  was  made.  For  once  a  Jer­
sey  man  had  told  the  truth  in  a  horse 
trade.  The  horse  was  blind.

A n im a ls   T h a t   S le e p   L i ttl e .

The  term  sleep,  is,  after  all,  a  rela­
instance,  the 
tive  one.  The  turtle,  for 
best  type of  sluggish life,  lives  to  a  very 
old  age  without  sleeping  in  the  human 
sense  of  the  wotd,  because  its  animal 
functions  are  performed  so  slowly  that 
the  organs  do  not  need  that  restoration 
which  higher  organisms  do.

So,  too,  it  is  said,  although  without 
definite  proof,  that  certain  fish  never 
sleep.  Goldfish,  pike  and  salmon  are 
included 
in  this  category,  but  there  is 
no  absolute  proof  that  the  periods  of 
rest  which  these  fish  are  constantly  ob­
served  to  take  are  not to  them the equiv­
alent  of  sleep.
the 
elephant  can  do  hard  work  on  four  or 
five  hours’  sleep  out  of  twenty-four.

Of  highly  organized  creatures, 

An

Important  Subject, 

Letter Writing

Iti s a surprising thing  that !»isl­
ness men  'who  ;are  aggressive and
up-tc»-date:, USU;ally willing to adopt
new :ideas., when  those  ideas  1have
been prov en  g<ood  ones,  will still
conti nue to  write  their  husiness
letters with a pen;  these  same men 
will involuntarily form  an  opinion 
of  the  standing  of  the  wholesale 
house  which  would  do  such  a 
thing,  and  yet  typewritten  letters 
are easily within their reach.
A   Fox Typewriter is  easy to buy 
and anyone can  soon learn  to oper­
ate it more  rapidly  than  they  can 
write  with  a  pen. 
In  buying  a 
writing  machine,  though,  get  a 
good one and save  yourself  lots  of 
annoyance, hence  the  necessity  of 
getting  “ A  F O X .”
If you  will advise us that you are 
interested  we  will  acquaint  you 
fully with  the  typewriter  and  en­
able you to try it for ten days.  Let 
us at least send you  our  catalogue.

Fox  Typewriter  Co.,  Ltd. 

350  N.  Front St.
Grand Rapids, Mich

Kent  County

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

exceed  $2,300,000

3}4%  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

It  seems  to  be  easier  for  some  of  us 
to  break  our  backs  undoing  than  to  lift 
out  little  finger  doing.

QSULSULSLASLSLSLSIISL2JLSLSL5LJULSUUL

John Knape 
Machine  Co.

<§>

The new machine shop.  Up- 
to-date  machinery.  Location 
central.  Manufacturers of
C L I P P E R   P A R T S  

and extra parts for all makes of

BICYCLES

Full assortment  extra  Clipper 
parts  carried  in  stock.  Also 
manufacturers 
light  machin­
ery to  order,  models  for  pat­
ents,  dies  and  tools  of  every 
description.
Estimates given  on  each  piece 
of work.

Office and  Shop 87  Campau  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Citizens Telephone  1197.

p r r r r n m n n f 'i p !  
; 
£  
£  COFFEES  :

F.  M.  C. 

are  always

)o 

Fresh Roasted

G u u u u u u j u u u Ú

Lot 125 Apron Overall

$7.50  per  doz

Lot  275  Overall  Coat

$7.75  per doz.
Made 
from  240  w o v e n  
stripe,  double cable,  indigo 
blue cotton cheviot, stitched 
in  white with  ring  buttons.

Lot 124 Apron Overall

$5.00  per doz.

Lot  274  Overall  Coat

$5.50 per doz.

Made  from 250 Otis woven 
stripe,  indigo blue suitings, 
stitched  in  white.

We  use  no  extract  goods 
as they are tender  and will 
not wear.

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The  Boys  Behind the  Counter.

Stanton—Ernest  Camburn,  after  an 
absence  of  six  months,  is  again  behind 
the  counter  in  the  department  store  of 
Curtis  Bali.

Calumet—William  J.  Light,  manager 
of  the  Tamarack co-operative store here, 
has  resigned  and  will  remove  to  Sault 
Ste.  Marie  to  take  charge  of  his  large 
lumber  business  in  that  city.  Mr.  Light 
has  been  manager of  the  Tamarack  co­
operative  store  ever  since 
it  was  es­
tablished  in  1890.  The  concern  is  one 
of  the  largest  in  the  Upper  Peninsula, 
and  its  annual  business  is over $400,000 
Tbe  company  is  owned  by  mine officials 
and  workingmen.

Stanton—Jack  Rossman,  for  the  past 
two  years  with  George  C.  Prevette,  fur­
niture  and  undertaking,  has  removed  to 
Sidney  Center,  where  he  will  engage  in 
the  harness  and  shoe repairing  business.
Marquette—Charles  B.  Sande,  who 
has  been  a  popular  employe at Stafford’s 
drug  store  for  the  past  two  and  a  hall 
years,  has  removed  to  Eau  Claire, 
Wis.,  to  take  the  management  of  the 
Playter  Pharmacy  Co.

Stanton—Miss  Mattie  Bucanning,  of 
Cadillac,  has  taken  a  position  as  sales­
lady  in  tbe  dry  goods  department  of  M. 
W.  Stevenson.

Alma —C.  E.  Silsbee,for  the  past  four 
years 
in  charge  of  the  clothing  depart 
ment  at  Vermeulen’s  has  resigned  to 
accept  a  position  with  Mockett,  tbe 
large  retail  clothier  of  Toledo.

Charlotte—E.  L.  Coy has  resigned  his 
position  with  R.  C.  Jones  &  Co.  and 
returned  to  the  grocery  store  of  Geo.  H. 
Tubbs,  where  he  will  take  charge  of  the 
crockery  department.

Stevenson, 

Stanton—Ed. 

salesman,  will 

formerly 
with  the  E.  D.  Hawley  Co.,  has  taken 
a  position  in  a  drug  store  at St.  Charles.
Ypsilanti—Frank Ellis,the well-known 
shoe 
for 
Springfield,  111.,  where  he  has  taken  a 
position 
in  tbe  shoe  department  of  the 
E.  &  W.  clothing  house.  Mr.  Ellis 
clerked  a  number  of  years  for  Joseph 
King,  of  the  Chicago  shoe  store,  and 
has  spent  the  past  two  and  a  half  years 
in  Owosso.

leave  soon 

Homer—Joseph  Worden  has  moved 
with  his  family  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he 
has  taken  a  position  with  the  Neutro 
Crisp  Food  factory.  Linn  Mead,  who 
graduated  from  the  high  school 
last 
June,  will  fill  tbe  vacancy 
in  Hunter's 
store  made  by  Mr.  Worden's  departure.
Stanton—Ray  King,  for  several  years 
head  clerk 
for  M.  W.  Stevenson,  has 
resigned  his  position  to  accept  another 
in  the  South.

H an u fa c t u r i n e   M a tte r s .

Caro—The  Lacy  Shoe  Co.  has  filed 
articles  of  incorporation  with  a  capital 
stock  of 560,000.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Folding  Cart 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
55,000 to 5 ro.ooo.

Port  Huron—The  capital  stock  of  tbe 
Aikamn  Bakery  Co.  has  been  increased 
from  $15,000 to 530,000.

Escanaba—The  Iron  Port  Lumber  Co. 
has  recently  increased  its  capital  stock 
from  550.000 to 5100,000.

Stronach—McKillop  &  Hopper  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a  capital  stock  of  525,000.

Detroit—The  Burr  Tool  &  Manufac­
turing  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  associa­
tion  with  a  capital  stock  of  55,000.

Marshall—The  style  of  the  Lambert 
Good  Food  Co.,  Limited,  has  been 
changed  to  the  Malt-Wheat  Biscuit  Co. 
Limited.

Detroit—The  Sterling 

&  Skinner

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

Manufacturing  Co.,  manufacturer  of 
brass  goods,  has  increased 
its  capital 
stock  from  525,000  to 535,000.

Detroit—The  Buick  &  Sherwood 
Manufacturing  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the 
Standard  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  New 
lersey,  in  the  manufacture  of  sanitary 
specialties.

Battle  Creek—Tarta  Fruit  Co.,  Ltd., 
is  the  latest  addition  to  the  long  list  of 
aspirants 
favor  recently 
launched  here.  The  company  is  capi­
talized  at  5300,000.

for  public 

Jackson—Edmund  S.  Bowman  has 
merged  his  shirt  waist  manufacturing 
into  a  corporation  with  a  cap­
business 
ital  stock  of 530,000.  The  new  style 
is 
the  E.  S.  Bowman  Co.

Tekonsha—Stock  to  the  amount  of 
52,900  has  been  subscribed  by  the  farm­
ers  of  this  vicinity  for  the  erection  of  a 
cheese  factory  at  this  place.  Work  on 
tbe  building  will  be  begun  at  once.

Baltic—The  South  Range  Lumber 
Co.  expects  to  open  a 
large  general 
store  at  this  place  about  the  first  of  the 
year.  The  contract  for  the  erection  of 
the  building  will  shortly  be  awarded.

Hillsdale—The 

Fleming  Window 
Screen  Co.  has  begun  operations  in  its 
new  building  for  the  fall  and  winter 
work.  The  factory  has  a  capacity  for 
turning  out  about  seventy-five  dozen 
completed  window  screens  a  day.

Mt.  Pleasant—The Mt.  Pleasant Sugar 
Co.  has  purchased  the  tract  of  land of 
about  100  acres  included  between  the 
Ann  Arbor  and  Pere  Marquette  R ail­
roads,  fronting  on  Pickard  avenue  and 
north  of  the  Bradley  bridge,  and  will 
shortly  erect  a  large  factory  building.

Detroit—The  paint  factories  in  De­
troit  that  use  pig 
lead  look  upon  the 
new  56.000,000  combine  as  possibly  a 
it  does  not  become  too  arbi­
benefit 
if 
trary,  for 
it 
is  said  that  a  combine  of 
that  kind  usually  steadies  tbe  market 
for  tbe  raw  material  and  the  paint  men 
can  tell  where  they  are  at  with  greater 
certainty.

Concord—The  Crystal  Creamery  As­
sociation  has  been  organized  at  this 
place  with  the  following  officers:  Presi­
dent,  Geo.  Pretty ;  Secretary,  Henry 
Dart;  Treasurer,  Henry  Findley.  The 
new  concern  has  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000  and  will  begin  operations  with  a 
capacity  for  handling  the  milk  of  600 
cows.  A  building  will  be  erected  26x58 
feet 
in  dimensions,  which  will  be 
equipped  with  the  latest  improved  ma­
chinery  for  buttermaking.  The  business 
will  be  conducted  on  the  co-operative 
plan.

Lawton—Six  hundred  tons  of  Concord 
grapes  will  be  converted 
into  grape 
juice  at  one  mill  that  has 
just  been 
started  here.  The  product  will  be 90,000 
gallons  from  grapes  now  being  picked. 
The  new  concern  has  a  capital  of $400,- 
000,  and is  being  managed  by  Frank  E. 
Morrill,  one  of 
the  practical  grape 
growers  of  this  section.  Another  press, 
with  a  capital  of 550,000,  on  the  asso­
ciation  plan,  will  be  established  this 
year at  Lake  Cora,  which  has  become 
the  center  of  some  of  the  finest  grape 
country  in  Michigan.

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  *S  cento.  Advance 
payments._____

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

■\I7ANTED  FOE  CASH-LUMBER  OF  ALL 
TV  kinds;  also  shingles  and  lath.  Will  con­
tract mill cuts.  Belding-Hall Mfg. Co.,  Belding, 
Mich. 

764

759

I7»OB  SALE—GROCERY  AND  MARKET 
’  doing good business;  one  of  the  best  loca­
tions  in  East  Saginaw;  good  opportunity;  ex­
penses low;  best reasons for selling; investigate. 
Address No. 761, care Michigan Tradesman.  761
II'OR  SALE—THE  BEST  PAYING  GRO- 
cery business In the best town  In  Michigan, 
doing  strictly  cash  business;  no  credit;  stock 
will invoice  about  *1,600  and  in  elegant  condi­
tion;  reason for selling, have other business that 
needs  attention.  Address  Grocer  179,  Colfax 
avenue, Benton Harbor. Mich.__________ 760
IP OR  SALE—$6,000  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise;  stock,  with  exception  of  a 
few shoes and groceries, all new  within  last  six 
months;  can be  reduced  to  suit  purchaser;  lo­
cated in hustling town of 600 In the best  farming 
section in Central  Michigan.  Good  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 759, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
i pOR  SALE—BAZAAR  STOCK  AND  FIX- 
tures;  will invoice  $2,000;  splendid  chance 
for a hustling  business  man  In  a  live  town  of 
1,500  people.  Address  758,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.________________ 
758
YT'OR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES, 
a  hardware and other merchandise amounting 
to $2,000  will be sold at a bargain for cash.  This 
stock formerly belonged to  Palmeter &1  Pratt, of 
Ashley, and was assigned to me by them for  the 
benefit of tffhlr creditors.  For particulars write 
to Chas. H. Smith, Trustee, Saginaw, Mich., care 
Wm. Barie Dry Goods Co. 
757
HOW  TO  WIN-ON  THE NICKEL-IN-THE- 
slot game of chance machines.  Send stamp 
for sample of slugs or  checks.  H.  Morris,  1133 
Bellevue Ave., Detroit. Mich,___________ 756
Dr u g  sto ck  w a n t e d   in   e x c h a n g e
for a good stock farm of 180 acres, ten  miles 
from Ann Arbor, Mich., with 40 acres of timber; 
wish drug stock in city of 5,000 or  10,0 4)  well  lo­
cated;  will  give  a  good  bargain.  Address  L. 
Anderson. 116 Cedar St.. Lansing, Mich. 
755
tpOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
$800;  only  drug  stock  in  town;  sales  last 
year,  $2,900;  good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
754, care Michigan Tradesman.__________754
I EXCHANGE FOR  GOOD  STOCK  A  FRUIT 
lA  farm of  156  acres,  free  and  clear,  located 
near Lowed;  want a general stock  of  merchan­
dise.  Address  Chas.  E.  Mercer,  Widdlcomb 
Bldg, Grand Rapids. 
________________ 741
PRINTING,  PUBLISHING  PLANT  AND 
X 
two newspapers for sale:  Dally and weekly 
paper, with  or  without  publishing  plant;  also 
completely  equipped  printing,  publishing  and 
bookbinding plant in city near  Detroit  of  14,000 
and county of 47,671  Inhabitants  in  1900:  imme­
diate  sale;  terms  cash.  Address  or  telegraph 
for particulars to  Detroit  Trust  Company,  De­
troit_____________________ __________765
X\T ANTED—STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
vv  for  improved  Iowa  farm.  Want  to  get 
into business and will  exchange  on  right  basis 
and give good bargain.  No traders need answer. 
Address No. 763. care Michigan Tradesman.  763
i i'OR SALE—BRICK  STORE  BUILDING. 22 
x60 feet, with frame addition on  back,  22x40 
feet, two stories, with living  rooms  above.  For 
particulars address J. L.  Farnham,  Mancelona, 
Mich.______  
707
Ii'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  FIRST-CLASS  10 
horse livery;  only one In town  of  9C0;  good 
trade and  everything  in  good  order.  Address 
Philip Taylor, Saranac. Mich. 
636
\ \ T ANTED—STOCKS  OF  GENERAL  MEB- 
v V  chandise, for which I  will  pay  spot  cash. 
Must be cheap  enough  to  enable  me  to  move 
them.  F. L. Orcutt. Beulah, Mich. 
657
II'OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  F ix ­
tures;  only one in good prosperous  town on 
railroad;  good  business;  stock  about  $1,200; 
cash, no trades.  Address  George,  care  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
................. ..... 
671
i i'OR SALE—«1,700 DRUG STOCK  AND  F ix ­
tures;  can be bought  at  great  discount  for 
cash.  Address P. O. box 222, Saginaw, Mich.
____________________ __ ___________ 674
II'OR  SALE—HOME  IN  FLORIDA;  FOUB- 
I  
teen acres, eight acres bearing orange trees; 
good buildings;  good  neighbors;  near  railroad; 
healthy location;  will sell for $3,000 cash or take 
clean stock of merchandise (Northern  Michigan 
or Wisconsin preferred)  In exchange.  Address 
No. 672, care Michigan Tradesman. 
672
Hel 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. 
63i
E'OR  SALE—GOOD  DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- 
JT  lng $2,800, In one of the best Southern Michi­
gan townsv  Terms on application.  Address No. 
521, care Michigan Tradesman. 
fj'OR  SALE — FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
I   farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1.200.  Address  No. 
522, care Michigan Tradesman. 
i i'OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS.  EXCLUSIVE 
millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 
H R E E   V A C A N T   LOTS  IN  GRANn 
Rapids,  free  of  Incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
485, care Michigan Tradesman. 
AKES—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia 
St.. Grand  Rapids. 
i i'OR  sa l e- m o sle r;  BAHMANN  &  CO.
fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
inches high, 27 inches  wide  and  24  Inches deep. 
Inside measurement—1654 inches high, 14 inches 
wide and 10 Inches deep.  Will sell  for $60  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 
Ii'OR  SALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
-I-  Bar-Lock  typewriter,  In  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  applica­
tion.  Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465

368

485

507

522

521

321

7*1

731

739

750

three  mills, 

Fo b s a l e- d r u g sto ck ia n d f ix t u r e s .
Invoicing about $2,000.  Situated in center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  Inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50
Ser month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
iO. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 
334
Ii'OR  RENT—CORNER  STORE  18x70  FEET, 
F   with back room  18x20 feet;  best  location  in 
this city for grocery or shoe stock; rent  only $25 
per  month.  A.  L.  Bradford,  Eaton  Rapids, 
Mich. 
746
I  WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS 
and  residence  (not  connected);  what  have 
you to  offer?  Give  full  description  and  price. 
A.  M. Barron, Station A, South Bend, Ind. 
745
II'OR SALE—8HOW CASES AND COUNTERS 

now In use  at  668  Wealthy  Avenue,  Grand 
Rapids. 
Ii'OR  SALE-STOCK  SHOES.  MEN’S  FUR- 
X1  nishlng goods  and  notions;  invoices  about 
$1,000;  neat frame story building 24x46;  situated 
in most flourishing town in  Northern  Michigan; 
700  tnhaiitants; 
two  churches, 
twelve graded schools;  employment for laboring 
men all  year;  money  maker  for  right  person; 
no speculators need  apply.  M.  J.  Bolen,  Wol­
verine, Cheboygan Co , Mich. 
743
I HAVE  SOME  REAL  ESTATE  IN  GRAND 
Rapids.  Will  trade  for  a  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Address  No. 751,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Jk450TA K ES NEAT GROCERY; NEW STOCK; 
qp  centrally located;  doing good  business.  Ad­
dress J. E  Berg. Saugatuck. Mich. 
722
II'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  FARM 
property  in  or near  Kent  county—A  good 
clean stock of general merchandise  and fixtures, 
invoicing  about  $4,500.  Stock  consists  of  dry 
goods,  groceries,  men’s  furnishing  goods  and 
crockery.  Located  in  good  lake  port  town  of 
25,000.  The true reason for selling given  on  ap­
plication.  Address  No.  731,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
i i'OR  SALE—20  ACRE  FRUIT  FARM,  IK 
miles  north  of  South  Haven;  2,000  trees; 
good buildings;  will  exchange  for  stock  hard­
ware in good country town.  Box  73, So. Haven, 
Mich. 
RUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE  IN  A  GOOD 
live town of 1.500; will  invoice about fifteen 
hundred dollars.  Reason for selling, other busi­
ness.  Address  No.  738,  care  Michigan Trades­
man. 
IPOR  SALE —GOOD  THRIVING  FURNI- 
•F  ture business for  sale  In  a  city  of  6,000  in­
habitants  in  Michigan;  old  established  trade; 
good  reason 
for selling.  Address  A.  C.,  care
Michigan Tradesman. 
li'KRKY  &  WILSON,  EXPERT  AUCTION- 
-F  eers and salesmen, make a business  of  clos­
ing out or reducing stocks of merchandise in any 
part  of  the  country;  with  our  new  ideas  and 
methods  we  are  constantly  making  successful 
sales and with a profit;  all sales  personally  con­
ducted;  for  particulars,  terms  and  dates,  ad­
dress 269 Dearborn S t, Chicago, IlL 
727
i i'OR  SALE-WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL 
bakery, confectionery and ice cream factory 
business.  Will  stand  the  closest  inspection. 
Price about $1,800 without stock.  Present owner 
must retire  permanently.  Jos.  Holi,  607  State 
St., Milwaukee, Wis. 

yers using stenographers can save from $600 
per year and upwards  If  they  correspond  with 
W. B. Ferguson. Suffolk, Va., and send $1.50 and 
a stamped envelope. 

Me r c h a n t s,  m a n u f a c t u r e r s,  l a w -
W ILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  STOCKS 
dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hardware, 
furniture or groceries.  Lock Box  74,  Ypsilanti, 
Mich. 
II'OR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MKR- 
cbandlse Invoicing from $1,000 to $1,200,  con­
sisting of millinery  ($125  to  $150),  crockery  and 
glassware (less than $100), dry goods, dress trim­
mings,  notions;  stock  in  splendid  condition; 
also store fixtures for sale ana store building for 
rent;  stock located in hustling little town  of  700 
in southern part of  State;  splendid  opening  for 
a general store.  Reason  for  selling.  Ill  health. 
Address No. 720, care Michigan Tradesman.  720
cated  in prosperous  farming  and  manufac­
turing  center;  tin  shop  In  connection;  stock 
clean and  well assorted:  will  Inventory  $3,000; 
must sell on account of sickness;  a  rare  oppor­
tunity.  Address Hardware, 55  Stephenson  St., 
Freeport, 111. 
ARD TO  FIND—A  FIRST  CLAS8  DRUG 
store In city of 50,000 people In Michigan for 
sale.  Best of reasons for selling.  Address Mrs. 
B-, Room 801, 377-9 Broadway. New York City. 694
f 'OR SALE—A CLOTHING AND  FURNISH- 
ing goods store in one of the  best  towns  of 
Southern  Michigan:  established  in  1893;  yearly 
sales, $12,000, all cash;  not a dollar ever  sold  on 
credit;  goods all brand  new;  stock  cleaned  out 
every  season,  rent,  $425;  will  be  sold  on  easy 
payments to a responsible  party:  a  reasonable 
down  payment  required;  stock  about  $8,000; 
reason  for  selling,  dissolution  of  partnership. 
Address No. 676. care Michigan Tradesman.  676

II'OR  SALE—HARDWARE  BUSINESS  LO- 

740

718

702

738

725

716

M IS C E L L A N E O U S

762

WANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER 
or  office  assistant  by  competent  young 
man;  experienced,  highly  recommended,  good 
references.  Address  Book-keeper,  Zeeland, 
Mich. 
E LP  W ANTED—AN  EXPERIENCED 
young man in dry goods and clothing:  must 
De an up-to-date decorator and a good salesman • 
state  age, whether married or single, and wages 
expected  B. Cohen. Northyille, Mich. 
753 
’ANTED —  POSITION  AS  CLOTHING 
salesman.  Have  had  four  years’  experi­
ence-some experience in shoes; speak German: 
22 years of age; can furnish references.  Address 
No. 748, care Michigan Tradesman. 
748
W^?r£EI>7T?PECIALTY SALESMAN  WHO 
visits mill supply houses, to carry  a  line of 
Packing.  For  particulars  address 
Box 847, Charleston, 8. C, 
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