Twentieth  Year 
CURRIE  &  FORSYTH,

1023  Michigan  Trust  Bdg.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

B ranch  M anagers for

Douglas,  Lacey &  Co.

Mining,  Oil and Smelter 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  means  can  develop  them. 
All  stocks protected against loss.

C itizen s Phone  1651.

Commercial' 
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upon • receipt  o f . our  direct  de­
mand 
letters.'  Send  all '  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec- 
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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.

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.  McCBONE, 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.
1232 riajestic  Building,  Detroit,  rtich. 

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use” 

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO .,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  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. 

LAM SON  &  CO.,

13 Blackstone St., Boston, Mass.

Tradesman Coupons

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER,  8,  1902. 

Number  994

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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Page- 
2.  Antrim  County.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  Getting  the  People.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Clothing.
12.  Representative  Retailer.
14.  Dry  Goods.
16.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
18.  Like  Curing Like.
20.  Woman’s  World.
22.  The  New  York  Market.
23.  Frog  Culture.
2 u .  U n c le   D a n n y .
2fi.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drags  and  Chemicals.
27.  Drug  Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
32.  Why Re Failed.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.

in  most 

Every  Monday, seems  to  bring  a sharp 
decline  in  the  stock  market,  to  be  fol­
lowed  by  recovery 
leading 
shares.  Last  Monday's flurry  seemed  to 
be  caused  by  disappointment  as  to  the 
effect  of  Secretary  Shaw's  action  on  the 
money  market.  Evidently  there  was 
little  relieving  influence  exerted  and  as 
the  fact  became  apparent  there  was  a 
sharp  decline  involving  most  leading 
stocks.  Under ordinary conditions  such 
a  flurry  would  be  expected  to  reach  a 
panic,  but  as  it  is  there  is  little  uneasi­
ness  and  prompt  recovery  seems  cer­
tain.

Disappointment  as  to the  strike  out­
look  and  the  seriousness  of  the fuel situ­
ation  are  naturally  disturbing  factors  of 
wide  influence,  but  there  is  no  apparent 
diminution  of  business  in  any  leading 
lines.  Merchandise  distribution  con­
tinues  at  the  greatest  for  the  season. 
Railway  traffic  is  only limited  by  facili­
ties  and  increased  earnings  are  univer­
sal.  With  this  condition it  seems  almost 
impossible  that  there  should  be  a  mate­
rial 
in  railway  securities. 
Speculation  may 
temporary 
hindrances,  but  their  operation  must  be 
short.

interpose 

reaction 

Importation  of  raw materials  serves  to 
keep  up  the  supply  and  railway  and 
structural  forms  of  steel  are  eagerly 
sought.  The  fuel  question  is  becoming 
a  serious  one  and  there  is  naturally  hes­
itation 
in  such  lines  as  are  not  under 
stress  of  immediate  demand  as  are  the 
transportation  and  building  branches  of 
the  trade.

Cotton  is  moving  freely,  both  for  do­
mestic  use  and  export,  at  good  prices. 
Wool  sales  are  phenomenal.  More  rea­
sonable  prices  for  bides  operate to  make 
leather  dull,  but  shipments  of  shoes 
from  Boston  are  the  largest  this  year.

According  to  his  own  figures,  Andrew 
Carnegie  has  given  away  very  nearly 
$45,000,000  in  his  effort  to  avoid  the  sin 
of  dying  rich.  The  enterprise  which 
appeals  to  him  most  successfully  is  that 
of  giving  libraries  and  bis  average  has 
been  for  some  time  eight  a  day,  the 
average  donation  being  $15,000  to  each. 
Nor  does  he  give  any  sign  or  symptom 
of  stopping  the  good  work.  Apparently 
he  proposes  to  keep  it  up 
indefinitely, 
for  be  has  millions  yet  at  his  disposal.

Now  and  then  some  one  is found willing 
publicly  to  criticise  Mr.  Carnegie,  but 
the  attempt  is  as  unworthy  as  it 
is  un­
successful.  Rather  should  be  and  ail 
other  millionaires  be  commended  for 
making  such  good  use  of  their  money. 
Better  far  give 
it  to  libraries  or  some 
other  such  enterprise  than  to  hoard  it. 
Different  objects  appeal  differently  to 
different people.  Some  are  interested  in 
libraries,  some 
in  hospitals  and  seme 
in  educational  institutions.  Whatever 
the  channel  and  whatever  the  object, 
they  are  all  commendable  and  such  con­
tributions  are  certainly  a  good example. 
The  money  thus  donated  does  more 
good  than  if  deposited  in  a  bank  or  in­
vested  in  bonds  for  the  owner’s personal 
use  and  benefit.

larger  than 

Every  great  exposition  finds  it  neces­
sary  or at  least  desirable  to  have  a  mid­
way.  These  concessions  have  proved 
very  valuable  to  the  managers  of  these 
enterprises.  That  at  the  Pan-American, 
for  example,  held  the  biggest  crowds 
from  the  opening  until  the closing of the 
it  the  deficit  would 
gates,  and  without 
have  been  even 
it  was. 
Some  of  these  midway  shows,  especial­
ly  at  Chicago,  were  not  such  as  could 
be  easily  commended  or  honestly  ap­
proved.  Those  at  Buffalo  were  not  so 
bad,  although  more  than  one  fakir  lived 
in  that  city  from  the  beginning  to  the 
end  of  the exhibition.  Miss  Helen Gould 
and  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers for  the 
St.  Louis  exposition  have  already  taken 
the  matter  in  band,  and  propose  to have 
no  questionable  shows  on  the  midway 
there  if  they  can  prevent  it.  They 
in­
tend  to  keep a  sharp  eye  out  on the  con­
cessions,  and  are  determined  that  the 
performances  shall  at  least  be  clean  and 
wholesome.  That  is  a  step  in  the  right 
direction  and  does  them  credit. 
It  is 
to  be  hoped  that  their  influence  wi  11  be 
sufficient  to  govern.

The  coal  strike 

is  responsible  for  a 
proposal  that  the  Government  own  and 
operate  the  mines.  In  Australia,  a  sug­
gestion  for  operation  of  the  coal  mines 
is  under  consideration. 
In  this  coun­
try  the  idea  has  been  endorsed  not  only 
by 
labor  bodies,  but  by  many  public- 
spirited  citizens,  including  the Rev.  Dr. 
Edward  Everett  Hale,  and 
it  is  cer­
tain  to  gain  headway  with  the  first  cold 
wave.  The  chief  objection  is  that  the 
whole  business  would  inevitably become 
involved 
in  politics,  as  other  Govern­
ment  departments  are.  There 
is  no 
doubt  that  coal  would  be  sold  at  low 
prices  and  that  the  miners  would  get 
good  pay  and  short  hours. 
If  there 
were  any  deficit,  as  there  probably 
would  be,  Congress  would  make  appro­
priations  out  of  the  Government  treas­
ury  to  cancel  it.

immediate  effect 

Every  American  situation  nowadays 
produces  an 
in  the 
British  Isles.  When  we  send  our  goods 
over  there  the  British 
fear  that  their 
markets  will  be  swamped.  When  we 
send  over  there  for  supplies  of  coal  to 
make  good  the  deficiency  on  account  of 
the  strike,  they  fear  that  we  will  not 
leave  them  enough  for their  own  needs.

T h e   G r a in   M a r k e t.

Wheat  has  been  rather  easy.  Nothing 
seems  to  disturb  the  price  since  the 
September  deal  is  out  of  the  way.  Re­
ceipts  at 
initial  points  have  been  re­
stricted,  owing  to  the  inclemency  of  the 
weather.  Expoits  have  been  large.  The 
visible  was  of  very  medium  size,  as 
there  was  an 
increase  of  only  800,oco 
bushels,  which  would 
in  former  years 
be  construed  what  is  termed  “ bullish,”  
but,  as  wheat  has  not  many 
friends, 
prices  will  remain steady  for b« th spring 
and  winter  wheat.  Contract  grade  is 
scarce,  as  only  about  10  per  cent,  of 
receipts  grades.  This 
is  one  reason 
why  short  interests  are  timid  in  putting 
out  new  lines,  as  they  fear  they  will  not 
be  able  to  get  the  contract  wheat  to  fill 
their  sales  when  delivery  time  comes. 
Our  visible 
is  11,000,000  bushels  less 
than at  the corresponding  time  last year.
Corn  is  very  strong.  December  corn 
is  about  3c  up.  The  damp  weather  is 
very 
In  the 
is  claimed  to  be 
late  corn 
corn  belt 
is  being 
moulding.  Contract 
shipped  East  very  fast  and,unless  there 
is  more  back 
in  farmers’  hands  than 
is  repotted,  prices  will  probably 
what 
go  as  high  as  before.  A  couple  of 
bouses  in  Chicago  seem to be bolding all 
the  merchantable  corn. 
It  is  a  danger­
ous  aiticle  to  handle,  especially  on  the 
short  side.

injurious  to  ripening  it. 

corn 

Oats  are  very  steady.  The  visible 

is 
only  600,000  bushels,  being 
less  than 
three-fifths  of  what  it  was  last  year  and 
only  one-third  of  what  it  was  two  years 
ago.  Should  these  small  receipts  con­
tinue,  prices  will  be  advanced  to  40c 
per  bushel  before  long.

Rye  is  moving  very  slowly  at  former 
prices.  The  reason  has been stated  sev­
eral  times—distillers  are  not  in the mar­
ket  and  exporters  are  holding  off.

Beans  seem  to  be  beans  at  present,  as 
cash  or  spot  beans  have  advanced  60c 
per  bushel  since  one  week  ago.  The 
short  sellers  are  buying  up  to  fill  con­
tracts,  as  all  were  expecting  a 
large 
failed  to  materialize, 
harvest,  wbicb 
owing  to  weather 
conditions.  With 
beans  at  $2.50  per  bushel  the  amount 
usually  consumed  will  be  very  much 
curtailed  and  beans  will  likely  be  im­
ported,  as  they  certainly  can  be  at  a 
good  margin  should  present  high  prices 
prevail.

Flour  is  very  firm,  with  an  upward 
tendency.  Millers  are  well  sold  ahead. 
Mill  feed  is  also  firm  and  present  prices 
will  be  maintained.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  as  fol­
lows:  Wheat,  81  cars;  corn,  6  cars; 
oats,  9  cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour,  1  car; 
malt,  x  car;  hay,  1  car;  potatoes,  5 
cars.

For  the  month  of  September  the  re­
ceipts  were as  follows:  wheat,  328 cars; 
corn,  10 cars;  oats,  43cars;  rye,  3  cars; 
flour,  11  cars;  beans,  1  car;  malt,  5 
cars;  bay,  7  cars;  potatoes,  6  cars.
Millers  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Some  men  vote  as  they  pray—and 
it  is  to  ask  a 

they  never  pray  unless 
personal  favor.

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ANTRIM  COUNTY.

As the Timber Goes  Oat  the  Frait  Comes 

Written for the Tradesman.

In.

F.  A.  Smith,  of  the  Petoskey  Grocery 
Co.,  is  the  greatest  entertainer  in  this 
Northern 
territory.  He  always  has 
something  new  to  relate  and  never 
springs  the  same  story  twice.  He  has 
a  breezy  way  of  telling  things 
that 
catches  the  hearer,  and  when  he  gets 
started  on  one  of  his  episodes,  business 
in  his  vicinity  stops  until  he  gets 
through.  Everybody  has  to  listen,  you 
know.  Fred  has  been  accused  of  per­
verting  facts,  although  he  has  never 
really  been  caught  in  an  untruth.  And 
his  stories  are  of  such  a  harmless  na­
ture  that  I  can  not  see  how  it  would 
make  a  particle  of  difference  whether 
they  are  so  or  not.  Take,  for  instance, 
his 
latest—his  dog  story.  The  narra­
tive  runs  that  some  one  at  the  Beaver 
Islands  stole  an  Indian  dog  and shipped 
it 
to  Fred’s  Charlevoix  address—C. 
O.  D.,  of  course.  Fred  happened  to 
get  next,  swiped  the  dog  from  the  boat 
that  brought 
it  over  and  got  it  to  his 
house without much expense.  He brought 
to  the  Central  Lake  street  fair— 
it 
“ wild  dog 
from  Borneo”   sort  of  a 
freak—and  it  is  certainly  the  homeliest 
in  some  respects  the  most  unfoi- 
and 
looking  canine  that  ever  struck 
tunate 
this  neck  of  the  woods. 
It  is  of  enor­
mous  size,  has  a  superabundance  of 
long  hair  that  stands  on  end  and  hides 
its  eyes  and 
its  color  is  not  far  from 
that  of  a  Michigan  goat.  Fred  nearly 
lost  it  to  the  manager  of  one  of  the  side 
shows  that  were  then  here  in  operation, 
and 
it  must  have  scared  him,  for  he 
now  carries  its  photograph  and 
leaves 
the  real  thing  at  home.  A man  with  any 
name  but  Smith  would  think  long  be­
fore  allowing  such  a  piece  of  property 
to  come  into  his  possession.  But Fred is 
very  proud  of  his  acquisition,  and  we 
are  all  glad  of  it,  for  no  one  else  in  this 
end  of  the  State  could  begin  to  do  the 
animal  justice.

*  *  *

Business  used  to  take  me  to  Beilaire 
very  often  and  there  was  a  time  when  I 
felt  pretty  well  acquainted  with  the  vil­
lage  and  most  of  its  residents.  But  of 
late  I  have  been  there  so 
little  that 
when 
last  week  1  happened  there  I  was 
much  astonished  at  the  changes  for  the 
better  that  have  been  taking  place  on 
its  main  street.  Beilaire  has  one  of  the 
best  systems  of  water  works in the State, 
and  probably  to  that,  more  than  to  any 
other  one  reason,  may  be  attributed  the 
dilatoriness  of  her  business  men  in  put­
ting  up  good  fire  proof  buildings.  Bel- 
laife  is  one  of  the  comparatively  new 
towns  of  Antrim  county  and  when  a 
man  starts  a  store 
in  a  new  town  he 
usually  has  small  means  and  thinks  that 
any  old  thing 
If  the 
lives  and  the  merchant  prospers, 
town 
he  is  apt  to  build something  better  right 
after  the  first  big  fire  that  takes  place. 
Early  in  Bellaire’s  career,  however,  she 
possessed  herself  of  a  water  works  sys­
tem  with  a  strong  pressure  and  an 
abundance  of  the  necessary  fluid,so  that 
owing  to  this  and  the  efficacy  of  her fire 
department,  she  postponed  her  big  fire 
until  less  than  two  years  ago.  When  it 
did  come 
it  was  a  hot  one  and  wiped 
out  a  lot  of  buildings.  Now  the  vacant 
places  are  all  or  nearly  all  tilled  with 
brick  structures  that  would  be  a  credit 
to  any  town, and  her old  plank sidewalks 
are  being  rapidly  replaced  with cement. 
Beilaire  and  Central  Lake  have  grown 
up  side  by  side  and  have  led  each  other 
a  merry  race  for  supremacy.  Just  why

is  good  enough. 

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

there  should  ever  have  been  any  un­
pleasantness  between  the  two  villages  is 
a 
little  difficult  for  a  man  up  a  tree  to 
decide,  for  it  each  has  an  abundance 
of  territory  that  the  other can never hope 
to  encroach  upon,  and  the  interests  of 
each  are  in  a  manner  identical.

*  *  *

It  is  only  a  matter  of  a  few  years  be­
fore  our  timber  supply  will  be  a  dream 
of  the  past.  We  have  all  profited  by  it, 
I  hope,  but  we  must  soon  turn  our  faces 
toward  something  else.  While  we  have 
been  subduing the magnificent hardwood 
forests  of  Antrim  county,  some  of  us 
may  have  lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  we 
have  been  coincidently  developing  an 
industry  that  is  permanent  and  will 
in 
time  bring 
in  greater  returns  and  a 
more 
income  than 
any  sane  man  could  hope  to  derive from 
a  business  that  maintains  its  activity 
only  while  exhausting  the  resources  of 
the  country.  The  lumberman  will  soon 
have  had  his  day  in  Antrim  county,  but 
the  farmer  is  here  and  to  him,  in  the 
near  future,  either  directly  or 
indirect­
ly,  must  we  look  for  the greater measure 
of  the  support  of  our  villages.

lasting  and  steady 

*  *  *

land 

loam.”   This 

The  soil  of  Northern  Michigan 

is 
largely  composed  of  what  is  known  as 
“ sandy 
is  easily 
worked,  is  very  productive,  and  has 
the  advantage  over  heavy  clay  soil  of 
being  “ warm.”   It  can  be  cultivated  as 
soon  as  the  snow  leaves  in  the  spring, 
regardless  of  frequent  rains,  and  it  does 
not  cling  to  the  plowshare  nor to  the 
feet of  the  agriculturist.  It  was  formerly 
urged  against  this  soil  that  it  was  not 
“ strong”   and  would  soon  ‘ ‘ run  out.”  
But  that  criticism  has  been  set  aside. 
There  are  farms  near  Central  Lake  that 
have  been  worked 
for  the  past  forty 
years  and  more  ibat  are  better  now  than 
when  first  tilled,  and  I  know  of  no  farm 
in  this  neighborhood  that  has  been 
properly  cared  for  that 
is  not  now  at 
least  as  productive  as  it  was  at  first.

*  *  *

It  used  to  be  said  that,  as  soon  as  the 
timber  of  Antrim  county  had  been  cut 
off, the  country  would  be  so  frosty  that  a 
farmer  could  raise  no  crops.  But  this 
was  an  error.  We  are  more  free  from 
late  frosts  here  than  you 
folks  are 
around  Grand  Rapids.  And  we  grow 
anything  that 
is  ordinarily  raised  in 
Southern  Michigan.  Corn  is  supposed 
to  be  a  Southern  crop,  and  yet  it  is  and 
has  been  for  years  a  better one than  oats 
farmers.  Nearly 
for  Antrim  county 
surrounded  as  we  are  by 
the  Great 
Lakes  that  act  as  a  regulator  to  our  cli­
mate,  we  do  not  suffer  much  from  sud­
den  changes  of  weather,  and  the  numer­
ous  smaller  bodies  of  water  that  are 
scattered  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
Grand  Traverse  region  serve  as  a  great 
protection  from  extremes  of  heat  and 
cold.

*  *  *

We  have  known  for  a  long  time  that 
our  county  produced  a  superior  grade  of 
apples  and  small  fruits,  but  it 
is  only 
within  the 
last  three  or  four  years  that 
we  realized  what  nice  peaches  can  be 
grown  here.  The  finest  peaches  brought 
to  the  Central  Lake  market  this  season 
were  home  grown  and  we  naturally  feel 
rather  proud  of  the  fact.  Large  orchards 
of  peach  and  other  fruit  trees  are  com­
ing  into  bearing  here  year  by  year,  and 
“ you’uns  up  South”   will  hear  more 
about  Grand  Traverse  fruit  in  the  time 
to  come  than  you  ever  have  in  the  past. 

*  *  *

No  farmer  in  Antrim  county 

is  now 
situated  more  than  a  very  few  miles 
from  a  rail  shipping  point,  and  many

can  easily  market  their  produce  at  the 
lake  ports.  Looking  at  the  matter  from 
what  may  possibly  be  considered  a 
biased  standpoint,  I  see  no  good  reason 
why  the  farmers  of  this  section  should 
not  in  the  future  contribute  to  tbe  great 
markets  a 
just  proportion  of  tbe  staple 
products  of  the  soil.  And  all  of  this 
ought  to  make  business  for Central Lake 
and  for  Beilaire,  each  according  to  its 
deserts. 

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

What  Vigilance  May  Sometimes  Save  the 

Merchant.

Changes 

in  freight  classification  fre­
in  freight 

quently  occur.  So  do  errors 
bills.

There  are  hundreds  of  merchants 

in 
tbe  Northwest  who  do  not  keep  close 
check  on  freight  items  enough  to  know 
whether  they  are  paying  too  much  or 
not.

It  is  not  the  purpose  here  to  say  that 
the  railroads  are  cheats.  They  do  not 
mean  to  make  mistakes.  But  mistakes 
will  occur.

If  tbe  man  who  bills  freight  puts  a 
pail  of  spice  in  a  freight class  too  high, 
tbe  merchant  pays  for  the  mistake.

The  Classification  Committee  of  the 
various  roads  belonging  to  the  Associa­
tion  issue  a  book  giving  the  classifica­
tion  of  every 
item  of  merchandise,  a 
copy  of  which  can  be  secured  by  every 
merchant.

He  should  study  this  religiously. 

It 

may  save  him  money.

There  are  more  merchants  who  can 
not  detect  errors  in  their  freight  bills 
than  there  are  who  can.

As  changes  in  classification  occur  the 
merchant  should  keep  track  of  them. 
This  week  several  have  been  announced 
as  a  result  of  the  efforts  of  the  Western 
Freight  Committee.

The  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
says  that  the  changes  in  classification 
have  been  made  in  large  number  in  the 
past  five  years,  netting  a  big  result  in 
freight  rates.

Opposed  to  that  there  have  been  some 
direct  reductions  in  merchandise  rates 
on  Western  roads.

One  reduction  came  last  fall.
Freight  rates  are  a  vital  element  in 

every  business.

Many  merchants  fail  to  realize  this. 
They  are  careful to follow out every  item 
on  their  invoices  and  note  advances  or 
declines  over  previous  purchases.

Why  don't  they  keep  as  well  posted 
just  as 

on  their  freight  bills  which  are 
important?

Margins  are  being  ground  nearer  tbe 

dead  line  every  year.

What vigilance may save  tbe  merchant 
is  not  appreciated  by  those 

in  freight 
who  do  not  exercise  it.

In  most  of  the  smaller  towns 

the 
drayman  pays  the  freight  bill  and  col­
lects  of  the  merchant.

Many  merchants  take  the  drayman's 
figures  without  investigation.  He,  too, 
is  likely  to  make  mistakes.

frequently 

Discussing  this  subject  one  merchant 
in  a  recent 
letter  to  the  Commercial 
Bulletin  says  he  has  saved  a  neat  sum 
by  closely  watching  his 
freight  bills. 
He 
finds  merchandise 
billed  in  the  wrong  class.  It  takes  some 
time  to  get  the  returns  back  from  the 
road,  but 
is  worth  keeping  after. 
There  is  much  discussion  about  claims 
against  railroads.  Who  should  collect 
them,  the  jobber or  retailer?

it 

The 

jobber  sells  goods  f.  o.  b.  cars 
at  the  distributing  point.  His  liability 
ceases  when  the  railroad  receipts  for 
the  merchandise.
i 

If  breakage  or  loss  occurs  many  re-

tailers  immediately  fall  back  on  the 
jobber.

This  has  become  so  general  that  some 
jobbers  have  been  forced  to  notify  their 
trade  that  they  can  not  pay  further  at­
tention  to  these  complaints  without add­
ing  largely  to  office  force.

Some  retailers  have  made  complaints 
and  insist  that  tbe  jobbers  should  take 
care  of  their  trade  to that  extent.

To  some  extent  this  is  unreasonable.
Tbe  jobber  has  troubles  of  his  own.
Fighting 

it  out  with  a  railroad  must 
be  expected  by  any  man  who  launches 
into  the  merchandise  business.

is  aggravating  to  follow  a  claim 
through  the  numerous  highways  and  by­
ways  of  a  general  freight  office  of  the 
average  railroad.  Some of  the  railroads 
seem  to  make  it  as  unpleasant  as  they 
can.

It 

But  this  must  be  done.
The  average  retailer  realizes  that  he 
is  a  long  ways  from  tbe  general 
freight 
office  and  his  claim  for  damage  or  loss 
is  often  forced  to  wait  the  pleasure  of 
some  young  man  who  takes  his  time.

He  naturally  thinks  that  the  jobber 
with  his  prestige  can  force  the  claim 
through  faster.

There  are  times  when  the  jobber  can 
be  of  assistance  and  will  undoubtedly 
lend  a  hand.

But 

in  most  cases  tbe  retailer  must 
It  is 

look  out  for  himself. 

expect  to 
one  of  the  rules  of  trade.

The  retailer  should  make  it  a  point 
to  get  in  touch  with  tbe  district  freight 
agents  of  the  roads  with  which  he  does 
business.

They  are  often  willing  and  in  a  posi­
tion  to  do  more  and  go  farther  on  put­
ting  a  claim  through  than  the  agent.

At  tbe  best  the  average  railroad  agent 
has  little  authority and  his recommenda­
tions  are  frequently  passed  up  by  prej­
udiced  minds  at  the  general  office.

The  district  freight  agent  has  general 
large  territory  and 

supervision  over  a 
his  recommendations  go  further.

There 

is  much  that  is  unpleasant  in 
all  of  these  negotiations with  a  railroad, 
and  much  that  will  warp  the patience  of 
any  man,  but  it  is  not  tbe  only  thing 
in  the  merchandise  business  that  warps 
patience.—Commercial  Bulletin.

Recent  Business  Changes  in  Indiana.
Areola—Colter  &  Co.  have  removed 
their  sawmill  plant  and  stock  of  lumber 
to  Bucyrus,  Ohio.

Brownstown— H.  H  Buening has pur­
the  grocery  stock  of  O.  S. 

chased 
Brooks.

Lebanon—Morrison  &  Rigsby,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mor­
rison  &  Sanders  succeeding.

Marshfield—Wm.  S.  Nail  has  pur­
chased  tbe  general  merchandise  stock of 
Cadwallader  &  Nail.

Muncie—The  Hickson  Manufacturing 
Co.  succeeds  E.  J.  Hickson  in  the man­
ufacture  of bedsteads.

Topeka—Miller  &  Fortner,  furniture 
dealers  and  undertakers,  are  closing  out 
their  stock.

Union  City—Julius  Lewis  has  taken  a 
partner  in  the  dry  goods  business  under 
the  style  of  Lewis  &  Wolf.

Conundrums  and  Answers.

What  has  only  one  foot?— A  stocking.
How  do  bees  dispose  of  their  honey? 

What  soup  would  cannibals  prefer?— 

—They  cell  it.
A  broth  of  a  boy.

Who  is  the  oldest  lunatic  on  record? 

— Time  out  of  mind.

is  a  muff?—Something  that 
What 
lady's  band  and  does  not 
holds  a 
squeeze  it.  When  is  a  clock  on  tbe stair 
dangerous?—When 
it  runs  down  and 
strikes  one.

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

3

Grocers  should  remember  that  Royal 
Baking  Powder  is  never  peddled.  Con­
sumers  are  supplied  only  through  retail 
dealers.

It  is  the  honest  advertising  which  the 
Royal  Baking  Powder  Company  does 
that  aids  and  protects  grocers  more  than 
they sometimes  remember. 
It  trains  the 
housewife to buy standard goods at reliable 
stores  and  to  not  patronize  peddlers. 
Peddlers  are  the  bane  of  honest  grocers.
Grocers  should  keep  a  full,  live  stock 
of  Royal  Baking  Powder,  remembering 
that  every  sale  of  it  is  a  blow  at  the 
peddler  and  a  strike  for  honest  dealing 
in  high-class  goods.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO.,  NEW  YORK.

Around  the State

M o v e m e n ts   o f   M e r c h a n ts . 

Luther— Homer'Cutler  has  purchased 

the  grist  mill  of  S.  R.  Gee.

Hudson—J.  F.  Brooks  has  purchased 

the  jewelry  stock  of  E.  P.  Clark.

Colcma  Nichols  Bros.,  meat  dealers, 

have  sold  out  to  Elze  Chorpening.

Petoskey— E.  D.  Ellis  has  sold  th 

Star  meat  market  to  Edward  Feilv.

Li nden—Ed.  Wriggleswortb  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Mrs.  M.  E.  Hart 
well.

Marshall—Miss  M.  Gidley  succeed 
Watson  &  Watson  in  the  millinery  bus 
ness.

Butler—Wolcott  Bros,  have  sold  thei 

general  merchandise  stock  to  McCoon 
Stroh.

Holly—S.  E.  Trott,  dealer  in  coa. 
.ile,  has  sold  out  to  C.  C 

wood  and 
Seeley.
East 
sold  their grocery  stock  to  Morrisey 
Turner.

Jordan—Supernau  Bros,  have

Adrian—Smith,  Michaels  &  Son  sue 
in  the  grocery 

ceed  Michaels  &  Son 
business.

Petoskey—Fleming  &  Martin  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  B.  F 
Donovan.

Beebe—Seaman  &  Braden  have  pur 
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock of 
Robert  Gamble.

Addison—J.  M.  Jones  &  Co.  succeed 
in  the  dry 

(Mrs.  J.  M .)  Jones 

C.  M. 
goods  business.

Lapeer— Eugene  A lt’s  clothing  store 
was  closed  Tuesday  on  a  chattel  mort 
gage  for  nearly  §7,000.

East  Jordan— Louis  A.  Goss,  meat 
dealer,  has  taken  a  partner  under  the 
style  of  Bennett  &  Goss.

Saginaw—E.  P.  Austin  has  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business,  having  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  John  Dice.

Elk  Rapids—J.  H.  Bennett  has 
into  bis  own  store  building, 

moved 
which  is  25x70  feet  in  dimensions.

ThompsonviJle—C.  L.  Bennett  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Mrs.  L. 
Beeman  and  will  continue  the  business.
Middleton—C.  L.  Entreken  has  pur­
chased  the grocery stock of  W.  S.  Sleight 
and  has  removed  it  to the O ’Neill build-
ing.

Lapeer— Elmer  E.  Mix  has  taken  a 
partner  in  the  wall  paper,  stationery 
and  novelty  business  under  the  style  of 
Mix  &  Myers.

Falmouth—John Bunning is  erecting  a 
two-story  addition  to  his  store  building 
which 
increases  bis  floor  space  from 
20x60  to  40x60  feet.

Battle  Creek—Chas.  M.  Wiseman  has 
removed  his  stock  of  books,  stationery, 
wall  paper,  paints  and  oils  from  Big 
Rapids  to  this  place.

Detroit—The  F.  A.  Goodrich  Iron  & 
Steel  Co.,  dealer 
in  pig  iron  and  steel, 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The 
capital  stock  is  $50,000,

Hancock—Albert  Lieblein,  brother 
of  Ed.  Lieblein,  the  wholesale  grocer, 
is  soon  to  embark  in  the  wholesale  con­
fectionery  business.  He  will  cater  to 
the  copper country  trade.

Elk  R apids-S.  H.  Beach,  of  the 
Antrim  Hardware  Co., 
together  with 
two  of  his  former  business  associates, 
has  purchased  the  hardware  stock  for­
merly  owned 
the  Elk  Raprds 
Iron  Co.

by 

Detroit—President  Alex.  McPherson, 
of  the  Detroit  National  Bank,  has  re­
turned  from  his  trip  abroad  and  is  now 
engaged 
in  preparing  for  the  reorgan­
ization  of  the  bank  as  soon  as its charter

Stanton—Frank  Holland,  dealer  in 
confectionery  and  cigars,  has  sold  his 
store  furniture  and  fixtures,  including 
soda  fountain,  to  Bert  Stebbins,  of  Sher­
idan,  who will  store  the  stock  until  next 
spring,  when  he  will  engage 
in  the 
business.

Benton  Harbor—Stark  &  Abel  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Edg- 
cumbe  &  Sons  and  will  remove  it  to  the 
corner  of  Pipestone  and  Britain  streets 
as  soon  as  repairs  on  the  Mudge  block 
are  completed.  Mr.  Edgcumbe  has 
sold  his  wall  paper  stock  to Judson  E. 
Rice.

stock  of  hardware 

Crystal—C.  DeYoung  has 

removed 
his 
implements, 
vehicles  and  windmills  to  his  new  store 
building,  which  is  28x80  feet  in  dimen­
sions,  two  stories  high.  The  front  of 
the  store  has  plate  glass  windows  and 
the  interior  of  the  first  floor  is  finished 
n  oak.
Kalamazoo— The stock  and  fixtures  in 
the grocery  store of Romine H.  Buckhout 
were  sold  at  auction  by  O.  K.  Buckhout 
Saturday  to  Robson  Bros.,  of  Lansing, 
for  48  cents  on  the  dollar,  stock  and  fix 
ures  having  been  inventoried  at  cost. 
O.  K.  Buckhout  bought  the  unsettled 
accounts  at  11  cents  on  the  dollar. 
It 
s  not  known  whether  the  purchasers 
will  continue  the  business  or  not.  One 
ol  the  members  of  the  firm,  J.  Robson, 
was  at  one  time  a  dry  goods  merchant 
n  Kaiamazoo.
Sauit  Ste.  Marie— D.  K.  Moses  & 
Co.,  proprietors  of  the  Leader  depart­
ment  store,  have  leased  the  two stores  in 
fhe  LaLonde  block  and  will  occupy 
them  in  the  near  future  with  a  stock  ol 
crockery  and  household  goods,  notions, 
Jry  goods,shoes  and  clothing.  The  new 
store  will  be  known  as  the  Bargain 
Annex  and  will  be  under  the  manage­
ment  of  Wm.  Repp, who  for  the  past  two 
years  has  had  charge  of  the  Leader 
store.  Mr.  Repp’s  place  will  be  tilled 
by  S.  VV.  Smythe,  of  Escanaba,  former 
manager  of  the  Savings  Bank  store 
that  place.
Riverdale—A  Business  Men’s  Asso- 
ation  has  been  organized  here,  with 
the  following officers:  President,  V.  P. 
Cash;  Vice-Presidents,  L.  Houck  and 
Chas.  Going;  Secretary,  Jack  Mablo; 
Treasurer,  John  Adams. 
It  is  the  ob­
ject  of  the  Association  to  boom  the 
town  by  offering  inducements  to  manu­
facturers  who  will  locate  here.  Through 
the  efforts  of  the 
individual  business 
men  this  town  has  grown  considerably 
Juring  the  past  two  years;  with  an  or­
ganization  of  business  men,  however,  it 
expected  that  great  progress  will  be 
made.  At  the  same  meeting a Vigilance 
Committee  was  appointed  and 
funds 
jail,  which  will 

ere  raised  to  build  a 

prove  a  new  feature  for  this  town.
__ Detroit—Gray,  Toynton  &  Fox, 
George  C.  Wetberbee  &  Co.  and  the 
Williams  Bros.  Co.  have  filed  a  petition 
in  the  United  States  District  Court  ask­
ing  that  C.  W.  Inslee  &  Co.  be  adjudi­
cated  bankrupts.  The  petitioners  claim 
that  C.  W.  Inslee  &  Co.  owe  them sums 
amounting  to  $1,248.40  and 
that  on 
Sept.  20  the  said  company  executed  a 
chattel  mortgage 
in  favor  of  Griffith 
trustee,  covering  all  its 
Ogden  Ellis, 
stock 
is  claimed  by  the 
petitioners  that  this  mortgage  consti­
tutes  an  act  of bankruptcy.  They further 
asked  that  a  receiver  be  appointed  to 
take  charge  of  C.  W.  Inslee  &  Co. ’s

in  trade. 

It 

Manufacturing; Matters.

Caro—The  Lacy  Shoe  Co.  will  begin 

operations  in  about  a  week.

Detroit— The  Watson  &  Gordon  Vin­

egar  Co.  has  removed  to  Pontiac.

Utica---- The  Utica  Co-operative
Creamery  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of $4,900.

Benton  Harbor—The  Manteiio  Cigar 
Co.  succeeds  James  Ralston  in  the  cigar 
manufacturing  business.

Detroit— The  G.  Edward  Baist  Co. 
succeeds  G.  Edward  Baist  &  Co.  in  the 
manufacture  of  women's  garments.

Bay  City—The  style  of  Smalley  Bros. 
&  Co.,  founders  and  machinists,  has 
been  changed  to  Smalley  Bros.  &  Co., 
Limited.

Big  Rapids— Darrab  Bros.  &  Co. 
have  merged their flouring  mill  business 
into  a  corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Darrah  Milling  Co.  The  capital  stock 
s  $40,000.
Holland—The  old  Vandyke  mill  site, 
on  Holland  harbor,  has  been  sold  to 
Smith  &  Taylor,  of  Chicago,  who  will 
spend  $75.000  in  developing  a  gelatine 
factory  here.

Chassell—C.  H.  Worcester  &  Co. 
successors  to  the  Sturgeon  River  Lum 
ber  Co.,  will  cut  seven  million  feet  of 
hemlock  during  the  winter. 
Severa. 
million  feat  of  additional  timber  will 
also  be  cut.

Jackson—The  Imperial  Skirt  Co.  has 
been  re-organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of $20,000.  The  directors  are  B.  Still 
son,  John  George,  Jr.,  H.  E.  Edwards, 
H.  S.  Reynolds and  C.  Rutson.  A  new 
building  and  the  employment  of  about 
100  girls  are  contemplated.

Vicksburg—The  Clark  Bros.  Co. 
manufacturer  of  steam  specialties,  ba_ 
decided  to  remove 
its  plant  to  either 
Sturgis,  Three  Rivers  or  Coldwater.  A 
stock  company  will  be  formed  in  the 
town  wherein  the  plant  is 
located  and 
the  business  will  be  made  a  purely  lo 
cal  industry.

Flint—A  movement 

is  on  foot  to  es 
tablisb  a  pantaloon  factory  in  this  city 
to  occupy  the  premises  soon  to  be  va 
cated  by  the  Flint  Pantaloon  Co.,  which 
will  remove  to  Port  Huron.  Local  busi 
ness  men  are  backing  the  project  and 
have  appointed  a  committee  to  study 
the  various  phases  of  the  situation.

Saginaw—E.  A.  Robertson  &  Co., 
who  established  a 
factory  on  South 
Hamilton  street  four  years  ago  for  the 
manufacture  of  silk  waists  and  skirts, 
have  dissolved  partnership,  E.  A.  Rob­
ertson  purchasing  the 
interest  of  his 
partner,  Paul  Bernhard,  who,  in  com­
pany  with  his  brother,  Emil  Bernhard, 
will  establish  a  similar  factory  in  the 
Jerome  building.

Albion—The  Albion  Milling  Co. 
property  is  now  by  foreclosure  of  mort­
gage  the  property  of  the  Albion  State 
Bank,  the  First  National  Bank  of  Al­
bion,  the  Jackson  City  Bank  and  the 
Goodwin  estate  of  Concord,  the  time 
for  redemption  having  expired. 
By 
temporary  arrangement  the  mill  is  at 
present  operated  by  the  management 
heretofore  in  possession.

St.  Johns—'The  St.  Johns  Lumber  Co. 
has  beer,  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $50,000,  of  which  $35,000  is  paid  in. 
The  company  already  owns  about  fifty 
million  feet  of  stumpage  in  the  neigh­
borhood  of  Aberdeen,  Washington,  and 
may  make  further  purchases. 
It  is  not 
intended  immediately  to  lumber off  the 
tract,  but  the  land  will  he  lumbered, 
leased  or  sold  outright,  as  may  seem 
best.

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

expires.  The  capital  will  be  increased 
and  it  will  be the  largest  financial  insti- 
tuti  cn 
in  Detroit,  if  the  present  plans] 
are  carried  out.

stock  and  effects. 
Judge  Swan  ap 
pointed  H.  J.  Pearse  receiver,  fixing his 
bond  at  $25,000.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Hancock—G.  W.  Heuman  has 

re­
signed  as  prescription  clerk  in  the  City 
drug  store.  He  is  succeeded  by  George 
Blodgett,  formerly  clerk  of  the  branch 
prison  at  Marquette.

Elk  Rapids—Wm.  Whitacre,  former­
ly  clerk  in  the  general  store  of  the  Elk 
Rapids  Iron  Co.,  has  taken  a  clerkship 
in  the  grocery  store  of  J.  H.  Bennett.
Ishpeming—T.  F.  Follis,  who  has 
been  with  the  Jochim  Hardware  Co.  for 
the  past  nine  months,  has  resigned  bis 
position  to  accept  a  place  with 
the 
Delta  Hardware  Co.,  of  Escanaba. 

Hancock— E.  G.  Ziegler,  at  present 
the  employ  of  the  Tamarack  Co- 
Operative  Association,  has  resigned  his 
position  to  accept  a  place  with  Ed.  M. 
Lieblein  at  this  place.  He  will  assume 
his  new  duties  the  middle  of  this 
month.

Detroit— Frank  P.  Jennings  has  left 
his  position  as  chief  clerk  of  the  Brad- 
street  agency  to  take  a  position  with 
the  Elysian  Manufacturing  Co.,  a  per­
fumery  establishment  at 25 West Atwater 
street.

Grand  Haven—John  Balgooyen, 

for 
many  years  a  resident  of  Grand  Haven, 
and  one  of  the  valued  employes  of  S. 
Kilbourn  &  Co.,  will  shortly  embark  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Holland.

In  Trade.

A scum— I  notice  Mr.  Kloseman  has 
become  a  regular  attendant  at  church. 
When  did  he  get  religion?

Browne—He  didn't. 

just  busi­
ness  with  him.  He  loaned  Rev.  Mr. 
Gassaway  a  hundred  d« liars  some  time 
ago  and  he  s  had  to  take  it  out  in  pew 
rent.

It's 

The  Clark-Rutka-Weaver  Co.  has  se­
cured  the  agency  of  the  Buckeve  Paint 
&  Varnish  Co.  for  Western  Michigan 
and  has  received  a  carload  of  Buckeye 
mixed  paint.  This  house  will  also 
carry  a  full 
line  of  the  Buckeye  var­
nishes,  colors  in  oil,  etc.

Want  Peaches, 
Grapes,  Potatoes

Your  shipments  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.

The 
Season 
for Heat 
Is  Here

And  we  respectfully  request  your 
patronage  for  Wrought  Iron  Pipe, 
Iron Pipe Fittings, Radiators,  Radia­
tor  Valves.  Also  Brass  and  Iron 
Body Valves.
sizes.

We  carry  above  in  all  styles  and 

Prompt shipment.  Right prices. 

Orand  Rapids Supply Co.,
20 P earl S treet, 
Grand Rapids, Mich

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  WooL

The  hide  market  has  firmed  up  some 
the  past  week.  Country  stock  can  be 
said  to  be  considerably  stronger,  while 
no advance  has  been  obtained.  Sales  of 
packers'  have  been  large  and  all  lines 
strongly  held,  while  sales  have  been 
stopped  by  asking  advances.

Pelts  are  no  higher.  Receipts  have 
been  large.  OSerings  are  ample  for  all 
demand.  Prices  are  weaker.

is  stronger  on  account  of  the 
Tallow 
advance 
in 
lard ;  also  the  advance  in 
tallow  in  London  last  week.  The  lower 
grades  are  in  more  demand,  there  being 
light  or  no  offerings  of  edible.

large 

Wool  sales  the  past  two  weeks  have 
been  extremely 
in  Eastern  mar­
kets.  Large  blocks  running  into  mil­
lions  have  changed  hands,  but  at  old 
prices.  While  this  trading  has  firmed 
up  the  market,  no  higher  prices  have 
been  obtained. 
Prices  West  do  not 
tempt  Eastern  dealers  to  operate.  There 
are  no  margins  for  them  on  prices  at 
which  it  is  held  or  offered.  The  situa­
tion  is  strongly  held  by  dealers.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Bank  Values  of  Grand  Rapids  Bank 

S to c k s .

The  “ bank  values”   of  the  different 
Grand  Rapids  bank  stocks,  as  shown  by 
the  published  statement  of  Sept.  15,  are 
as  follows  for  each  $100  par  value:
Old  National.................................$143.52
National  C ity................................  127.84
Grand  Rapids  National..............   125.53
Fourth  National...........................  144.13
Fifth  National..............................   119.06
Grand  Rapids  Savings................   131.66
Kent  Savings................................   387.81
Peoples  S avin gs.........................
State  Bank  of  Michigan..............   162.88
Michigan  Trust  Co.....................   160.37
One  year  ago  the  bank  values  were  as 

fellows:
Old  National................................. $138.85
National  City................................   125.30
Grand  Rapids  National...............  123.95
Fourth  National...........................  134.50
Fifth  National..............................   123.05
Grand  Rapids  Savings................  128.56
Kent  Savings................................   349.06
Peoples  Savings...........................  140.41
State  Bank  of  Michigan..............   143.00

Tlie  Produce  Market.

Apples—Common,  25@75c  per  bu., 

fancy,  $2^2.25  per  bbl.

Bananas—Good  shipping  stock,  $1.25 
Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

@2  per  bunch.
yellow  stock.

Beets— 50c  per  bu.
Butter—Creamery 

is  firm  at  22c  for 
fancy  and  21c  for  choice.  Pound  prints 
from  fancy  command  23c.  Dairy  grades 
are  stronger  and  higher,commanding  18 
for  fancy,  i 6 @ i 7 c   for choice  and 
@ iq c  
14«^ 15c  for  packing  stock.

Cabbage— Home grown  command  40© 

50c  per  doz.

Carrots—35c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1.50  per  doz.
Crabapples— Late  Transparents  are  in 

limited  supply  at  $1  per  bu.

Cranberries—Cape  Cods  are  in  ample 
supply  at  $2.30  per  box  and  $6.75  per 
bbl.

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— Receipts  are  small  and  many 
lots  show  that  either  farmer  or  buyer 
his  held  stock  too  long 
in  anticipate n 
of  higher  prices.  Local  dealers  pay 
i8@I9C  for  case  count  and  20@2ic  for 
candled. 
It  is  hardly  thought  that 
prices  will  go  much  higher,  because  the 
present  basis  enables  cold  storage  hold­
ers 
to  withdraw  their  supplies  at  a 
slight  profit.

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  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ ii c .
Lemons—Californias,  $3.75 ;  Mes-
sinas,  $3-75@4.
Lettuce— Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 
Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.
Mapie  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons—Gems,  50c  per  basket; 

osage,  75c  per  crate.

it 

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  ..oz.
Peaches—Smocks  and  Solways  com 
mand  65@85c;  Old  Mixons  fetch  65® 
75c.  This  week  practically  closes  the 
season,  which  has  been  the  most  satis­
factory  and  profitable  ever  experienced 
by  Western  Michigan  growers  and  ship­
pers.  The  carlot  shipments  out  of  this 
market  thus  far  aggregate  2,500 carloads 
of  300  bushels  each,  making  a  totai  of
750.000  bushels, 
is  estimated  that 
the  less than  carlot  shipments  amount  to
300.000  bushels,  making  total shipments 
of  1,050,000  bushels,  which  have  prob­
ably  netted  the grower an  average  of  90c 
per  bushel.

Pears—Sugar,  $1  per  bu.;  Flemish 
Beauties,  $1.35  per  bu.  ;  Keefer,  $1 
per  bu.
Potatoes— In  ample  supply  at  40@45c 
per  bu.
Poultry— Prices  are  firm,  owing  to 
in 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
moderate  demand  at  6o@75c  and  squabs 
at  Si.5o@ 1.75.  Spring  broilers,  g@ 
io c   ;  small  hens,  8@gc;  large  hens,  7 
@8c;  turkey  hens, 
io^ @ i 1 J^c;  gob­
blers,  9@ioc;  white  spring  ducks,  8@ 
9c.  Dressed  stock  commands  the  fol­
lowing:  Spring 
I2@i3c; 
small  hens,  i o @ i i c ;  spring  ducks,  12 
@130;  spring  turkeys,  13® 14c.

chickens, 

Quinces—Scarce  as  hen's  teeth,  the 
crop  having  been  almost  a  total  failure. 
Receipts  readily  fetch  $2.80  per  bu.

Radishes— ioc  per  doz.
Spanish  Onions—$1.25  per  crate.
Squash—2C  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  $3.25  per 

bbl.  ;  Virginias,  $2.25.

green.

Tomatoes—50c  for  ripe  and  40c  for 
Turnips— 50c  per  bu.
Watermelons— Home  grown  Sweet­

hearts  are  in  ample  supply  at  16c.

The  Ideal  Clothing  Co.  has  leased  the 
four-story  and  basement  building  on 
Louis  streets,  known  as  the  Harvey  & 
Heystek  building,  which  it  will  occupy 
with  the  machinery  and  equipment  now 
located 
in  the  second,  third  and  fourth 
floors  of  the  Kennedy  building  as  soon 
as  the  present  tenant  of  the  Harvey  & 
Heystek  building  vacates,  which  will 
probably  be  sometime  next  spring. 
The  Ideal  Co.  will  then  connect 
its 
present  factory 
in  the  Sligh  building 
with  its  new  location  by  means  of  door 
ways  through  the  dividing  walls.  The 
Harvey  &  Heystek  building  has  30,000 
feet  floor  space,  which,  with  the  16,000 
feet  it  now  occupies  in  the  Sligh  build­
ing,  will  give  it  a  combined  floor  space 
of  46,000 square  feet.

G o o d s  D e liv e r e d .

Miss  Millyuns— I 

suppose  you’ve 
heard  of  my  engagement  to  Count  Ded- 
broke?

Miss  Wryvell—No.  Oh!  that’s  what 

Jack  Bitterlee  meant,  1  guess.

Miss  Millyuns— Why,  what  did  he 

siy?

Miss  Wryvell— He told  me  your  father 

had  bought  you  a  fashionable  puppy.

J.  &  G.  Wyngarden  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  the  corner  of  South 
Front  and  Pearl  streets.  The  Clark- 
Jewell-Wells  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  con­
tinues  firm,  with  an  advancing  tend­
ency.  Refiners  are  ready  buyers,  but 
holders  are  very  firm  in  their  views  and 
offer  but  very 
little  stock,  looking  for 
higher  prices  soon.  The  demand  for 
refined  has  abated  somewhat,  dealers 
having  good  sized  stocks  on  hand  and 
the  most  active  season  is  now  past.  The 
market  is  somewhat  unsettled and prices 
show  a  decline  of  five  points  on  all 
grades.  This  decline  came  as  somewhat 
of  a  surprise  to  most  of  the  trade,  as  re­
finers  are  so  badly  oversold  that  no  one 
expected  a  decline  just  yet.  Refiners 
are  working  their  plants  to  their  fullest 
capacity,  but  are  still  from  one  to  three 
weeks  behind  in  deliveries.  Owing  to 
the  rainy  weather  of  the  past  week  or 
two,  which  has 
the 
farmers  gathering  and  hauling  in  the 
beets,  the Michigan  sugar factories  have 
been  delayed 
in  starting  and  probably 
will  not  commence  running  until  the 
first  of  next  week.

interfered  with 

in  general 

Canned  Goods—The 

canned  goods 
is  practically  un­
situation 
changed.  There 
is  quite  a  good  de­
mand  for  almost  everything  in  the  line, 
but  orders,  as  a  rule,  are  small.  The 
situation  in  tomatoes  is  somewhat 
im­
proved.  More  tomatoes  were  received 
last  week  by  the  canners  than  any  week 
before  this  season.  With  the  exception 
of  a  few  packers  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  State,  most  of  our  Michigan 
packers  will  be  able  to  fill  at  least  60 
per  cent,  of  their  orders  and  a  few  will 
have  some  to  sell,  if  the  weather  con­
tinues  good  a  few  days  longer.  While 
there 
is  no  material  change  in  prices, 
the  tendency  of  the  market  is  somewhat 
lower  and,  if  the  pack  turns  out  much 
larger  than  expected,will  result  in  a  de­
cline.  Corn  is  firmly  held  under  a  good 
demand. 
in  peas  has  again 
started  up  and  a  very  strong  market 
is 
noted  on  all  offerings.  The  demand 
for  succotash 
is  very  good,  with  some 
demand  also  for  pumpkin.  There  has 
been  an  enormous  demand 
for  pie 
peaches  the  last  week  and  a  number  of 
factories  have  sold  their  entire  holdings 
and  withdrawn  from  the  market.  This 
is  particularly  true  of  white peaches and 
yellows 
considerable  strength, 
with  most  packers  holding  at  an  ad­
vance  of  2j£c.  Trade  in  salmon  is  of 
moderate  volume,  with  no  change 
in 
price.  Sardines  are  steady  and  in  good 
demand.

Interest 

show 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  fairly  active,  with  a  good demand  for 
new  crop  raisins,  both  loose  muscatels 
and  seeded.  Very  firm  views  are  held 
regarding  prices  on  raisins  and  it  is 
claimed  that  the  coast  seeders  have 
booked  orders  for  i.coo carloads.  Many 
look  for  higher  prices  soon.  Trade  on 
prunes  is  very 
limited,  as  can  be  ex­
pected  at  this  time  of  the  year  with  so 
much  fresh  fruit  on  the  market.  There 
is  no  hope  of  the  trade  on  prunes  pick­
ing  up  to  any  extent  until  cc Id  weather 
and until  fresh  fruits  are  out  of  the mar­
ket.  Currants  are  in  fair  demand,  with 
prices  steady.  New  Smyrna  figs  have 
just  arrived 
in  this  country,  but  are 
meeting  with  rather  slow  sale  at  dis­
appointing  prices.  The  fruit 
is  very 
fine,  but  the  warm  weather  is  against  a 
good  demand,  and  then,  also,  the  Cali­
fornia  fig  has  taken  the  place  of  the 
foreign  article  to  a  great  extent.  Trade 
this  fall  on  figs  in  cartons  is  very  heavy 
and  shows  an  increase  over  last  year. 
Dates  are  expected  to  arrive  very  soon 
and  a  good trade is anticipated,as stocks 
of  old  goods  are  very  light.  The  evap­

orated  apple  market  shows  no  changes 
of  note.  The  demand  shows  a  little 
falling  off,  but  is  expected  to 
increase 
very  soon  when  the  weather  grows  a 
little  cooler.  The  goods  are  now  being 
offered  in  1  lb.  cartons  and  the  demand 
for  this  style  package  is  very  good,  and 
is  increasing  every  year.

increased  demand 

Rice—The  rice  market  is  firm,  with 
an 
looked  for  very 
shortly.  Prices  are  firmly  maintained 
and  it  is  expected  that  the  market  will 
continue  firm,  as  the  general  outlook 
now  is  for  a  much  smaller output  of  rice 
than  was  at  first  estimated.  Locally 
prices  are  firmly  held  with  stocks  very 
light.

Molasses  and  Syrups—In  view  of  the 
continued  steady  demand  for  molasses 
and  the  small  supplies  now  in  the  mar­
ket,  dealers  were 
indifferent  sellers. 
Prices  are  firm,  with  the  demand mostly 
for  medium  grades.  Trade  for  molasses 
in  cans  is  good  and  is  largely  reducing 
the  demand  for  the  goods  in  barrels,  as 
the  cans  are  a  much  more  convenient 
package  for  handling.  Trade  in  corn 
syrup 
is  dull,  with  prices  remaining 
unchanged.  Great  improvement  in this 
line  is  looked  for  very  soon,  as  this  is 
just  the  beginning  of  the  syrup  season.
Fish—The  market  is  firm,  with  mod­
erate  demand  for  all  grades.  No  spec­
ulative  business 
is  noted,  but  orders 
aggregate  quite  a  satisfactory  business.
is  strong 
on  ail 
lines  and  an  active  interest  is 
shown.  Filberts  are  more  firmly  held. 
Reports  from  primary  market  have  not 
yet  been  made  and  dealers  fear  heavy 
damage 
Almonds  and 
Brazils  also  show  considerable  strength, 
but  no  change 
in  price.  Peanuts  are 
very  dull,  with  absolutely  no  demand 
for  them  at  present.  Buyers  are  well 
stocked  and  are  not  interested  in  mak­
ing  any  further  purchases,  but  in  mov­
ing  what  stocks  they  have  on  hand.

Nuts—The  maiket  for  nuts 

from  storms. 

Relied  Oats—There 

is  no  change  in 
the  rolled  oats  market.  Prices  are firm­
ly  held,  but  offerings  are  very  light.

largest 

The  fair  held  under the  auspices  of 
the  re-organized  Western  Michigan  So­
ciety 
in  Grand  Rapids  last  week  was  a 
decided  success  in  nearly  every  respect. 
The  attendance  was  enormous,  being 
the 
in  point  of  numbers  of  any 
fair  ever  held  in  this  city.  The  exhibits 
were  complete  in  nearly  every  depart­
ment.  The  races  were  fully  up  to  ex­
pectation  and  the  other  features  of  the 
fair  were  above  par.  A  notable 
inno­
vation  was  the  absence  of  all  games  of 
chance  and  gambling  devices,  which 
usually  accompany  exhibitions  of  this 
kind.  The  officers  of  the  Association 
have  reason  to  feel  greatly  encouraged 
over  the  success  they  have  achieved  and 
the  fact  that  they  have  demonstrated 
that  Grand  Rapids  is  the  most  practical 
location  in  the  State  for  a  large  general 
fair.

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

and  orices,  call  Vinner,  both  phones

Piles Cured

By  New  Painless  Dissolvent 
treatment;  no  chloroform  or 
knife.  Send  for book.

Dr.  Willard  M.  Burleson 

Rectal  Specialist

103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

Getting  the  People

I n c r e a s in g   A p p r e c ia t io n   o f   t h e   V a lu e   o f  

S p a c e .

corporations  would 

Time  was  when  the  average  country 
merchant  considered  that  the assessment 
for  his  space  in  the  weekly  paper  was 
substantially  a  tax  for  its  support.  Es­
pecially  was  this  the  case  with  the  best 
the  wealthiest,  bouses. 
established, 
Large 
frequently 
take  an  entire  double  column  to  an­
nounce  the  work  of  the  village  flouring 
mill,  a  branch  only  of  their  business.  I 
remember  one  such advertisement I used 
to  see,  consisting  of  six  lines  of  display 
type  running  without  change  year  after 
year.  The  payment  by  the  corporation 
was  simply  a  tax ;  the paper  must  needs 
be  supported.  Then  it  was  more  com­
mon  to  find  a  space  with  a  iine  indicat­
its  ownership,  both  the  advertiser 
ing 
and 
the  publisher  too  indifferent  to 
prepare  copy  and  fill  up  the  space.

But  the  days  of  this sort of advertising 
are  happily  past.  Publishers  are  prose­
cuting  their  enterprises  on  a  business 
basis—they  do  not  have  to  be  sup­
ported.  There  may  have  been  some 
excuse  in  primitive  days  for  requiring 
the  assistance  of  those  having 
large 
interests,  but 
it  was  always  a  mistake 
that  the  space  was  not  suitably  filled ; 
there  was  a  lack  of  appreciation  of  its 
value  even  when  circulation  was  neces­
sarily  small  on  account  of  sparce  pop­
ulation.

Both  merchant  and  publisher,  and  the 
community  as  well,  have  come  to  a 
knowledge  of  the  value  of space.  When, 
therefore,  slipshod  methods  of  advertis­
ing  are  employed,spaces  used  carelessly 
and  filled  with  makeshifts,  not  only  are 
the  principals  cognizant  of the  neglect— 
the  community  understands the situation 
and  the  patronage  of  such  a  paper  must 
suffer.  The  publication  which  keeps 
everything  fresh  and 
is  the 
one  whose  subscription  list  is  self  sup­
porting.  The  other  kind  must  be  kept 
up  by  solicitation.

in  order 

Large  spaces  are  employed  in  more 
instances  to-day  than  were  ever  the  case 
before.  Thus  the  New  York  Herald 
gave  eight  pages  to  publicity  of  a  cer­
tain  food  product  recently. 
Involving 
many  thousands  of  dollars  such  an  un­
dertaking  is  not  pushed  haphazard—the 
cost  was  counted  and  there  was  that  put 
into  the  space  which  warranted  its  use. 
More  and  more  in  the  great  monthlies 
we  see  several  pages  taken  for  extended 
description  of  special  enterprises  when 
it 
is  found  that  this  method  is  more 
effective  and  cheaper  than  to  catch  the 
correspondence  by  a  fractional  page 
display  and  then  use  a  costy  follow-up 
system  to  secure  the  patronage.

It  is  not  usual  nowadays  that  spaces 
are  made  too  large  for the  matter  to  fill 
them,  although  it  occasionally  occurs. 
Much  more  frequently  the  effect  is  sac­
rificed  by  crowding. 
is  still  perti­
nent  to  preach  large  spaces,  but  these 
should  be  for a sufficient purpose and the 
contents  should  be  something  fresh  and 
worth  while.  Large  spaces  carelessly 
filled  look  cheap  and  are  a  give-away 
for  both  publisher  and  advertiser.

It 

*  * 

♦

The  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Com­
pany  shows  a  clothing  advertisement  in 
which  the  hand  of  a  practiced  writer 
is  clearly  apparent.  The  argument  is 
complete  and  well  sustained  and 
is 
broken  into  paragraphs  which  tend  to 
help  out  the  rather 
large  quantity  oi 
matter.  The  reierence  to  the  fall  hat  is 
well  written, but  it  is  a  question whether 
the  coat  subject  would  not  have  been

Dressy Comfort in 
men ’s Tall Coats

When  it comes to  comfort,  men  as  a  usual  thing,  don t  care a 
fig what the cost is.  They  want the goods and  il  the  comfort 
is there it is their s.  Our  Fall  Overcoats include  three things 
—comfort,  quality and  exceedingly  low  prices.  Then  men  like 
this stock  because of  the great  assortment— one is always sure 
of getting sizes— ordinary sizes and  unusual sues— 
both  large and small

ztnuovo

Is an  elegant coat—as fine a coat as any tailor ever 
turned  out— in  fact an expert  tailor  did  make this 
A ll the workmen  that  make these goods are expert 
tailors, only difference  they  work for this firm  in­
stead of  for  themselves.  W e  please everyone be­
cause we have the different prices that cannot help 
but please.  You can. spend Sio— (and  get a dandy) 
— or go to $42.00 for the very best.

What about 

that Tall Bat?

You've  seen  our  display window, of  couse, but  did you  take 
time to step  inside—that costs nothing.  It’s a  pleasure to show 
the new $3.00 and  $4.00  Longley  Hat and  you  can get the ex­
treme  of  style  and a good  fit.  A   hat  for every  head  and  a 
price for every pocketbook

u We Sell the Bestyy

THE  HANNAH  &  LAY

MERCANTILE  COMPANY

e r s e : c i t y , m i o h .

BUILT TO  SELL Some furniture is built to  sell. 

It 
looks  substantial  on  the 
salesroom  floor  and  has  style

BUILT  TO  W E A R

The showy,  flimsy kind will hardly  last till  you  get  home  Our furniture  Is 
It 

ail made  from tested  lumber. 
always pays to buy  it.
PUTNAM A CAMES,  OVID,  MICHIGAN.

It  is  put  together  to  stay  P U T   together. 

D on’t  C om e to M y   P la c e

When  in  Muskegon  looking for harnesses,  bug­
gies.  trunks  and  leather  goods  for  you  will 
likely find something you  want.
I can save you money on a Harness,  a  Buggy, 
a Trank.  Fly nets or sheets. 
If  you dont be­
lieve it call and see.
* LINK  RODGERS,

24 WEST  WESTERN  AYE., 

MUSKEGON,  MICH.  |

BUGGIES.

We h ave the m ost com plete line o f buggies h i 
St. Johns.  The highest  q uality and  the low - 
-est  prices.

HARNESS.

I f you  w a n t to  see  the  best  line  o f  harness 
th a t  w as  ever  carried  in  central  M ichigan, 
■ come  in  and  look  us  over.  All  styles  and 
prices th at m ake von think yon w a n t  the best 

Yours for trade.

Granger  &  Post

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You Can’t 
Avoid the 
Unforseen

Because you cannot tell 
the  nature  o f 
it   nor 
oao  you  tell  when  It 
w ill happen.

The best protection is 
a little fund of cold cash.

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account  w  L t b  a   few 
d ollars  and  It  grow«
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patrons  that  the  endeavors  oi  %|f 
the new Arm w ill be to  carry  on 
the busrnes in  the same  satisfac-  \|| 
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sufficient  for  the  space  and  proportion­
ately  more  effective.  The printer shows 
good  judgment  in  the  display  and  treat­
ment  of  the  cut.  The  arrangement  of 
rules  is  exceptionally  good.  The  use  of 
Bradley  inside  the  panel  is  consistent. 
Taken  all 
in  all  the  sample  is  an  un­
usually  good  one.

Another  specimen  of good  writing  and 
printing  is  that  of  Putnam  &  Eames. 
The  writer  gets  right  to  the  point 
in  a 
convincing  manner  and adapts his word­
ing  to the  rather  limited  space.  The 
printer's  work 
is  attractive  except  that 
the  heavy  signature  is  bardiy  in  keep­
ing.  Then  this  is  another case  where 
some  display  of  a  word  indicating  the 
line  would  catch  more  eyes  likely  to  he 
interested.

Link  Rodgers  starts  out  with  a  face­
tious  invitation  which  is  calculated  to 
cause  many  to  glance  again  as  to  its 
meaning.  Giving  the  word  “ harness’ ’ 
prominence  enough  to be seen  would  in­
crease  the  number  of  those  who  would 
glance  at  it  to  some  purpose.  The  pro­
portion  and  display  are  good,  but  a  De- 
Vinne  address  would  have  preserved 
unity.

Granger  &  Post  seem  to  appreciate 
tbe  value  of  display  of  the  subject  un­
der consideration.  The  writing  is  con­
ventional  and  the  subject  is  handled 
in 
an  unpretentious,  businesslike  manner. 
The  printer  bas  given  good  value  for 
tbe  space. 
I  would  omit  tbe  periods 
in  the  display,  as  there  is  none  in  the 
signature.

Tbe  display  of  the  Manistee  County 
Savings  Bank 
is  calculated  to  gain  in­
terested  eyes  and  one  does  not  have  to 
look  closely  to  find  what  it  is  all  about. 
Tbe  wiiting 
is  familiar  and  attractive 
and  thé  handling  of  white  space  in  tbe 
display  is  unusually  good.

in  an  advertisement. 

Foote  &  Furniss  are  somewhat  formai 
in  announcing  that  they  are  new  candi­
dates  for  public  favor. 
I  am  never  in 
favor of  the  stereotyped  complimentary 
address 
The 
writer  bas  shown  care  to  preserve  unity, 
but  I  think  doing  so  at  tbe  expense  of 
the  address,  especially  of  a  new  firm,  is 
a  serious  mistake.  Old  and  well-estab­
lished  firms  find  it  pays  to  put  the  ad­
dress  in  the  advertisement  as,  for exam­
ple,  the  first  shown  on  this  page.

M o n o g ra m   S to v e s   a n d   R a n g e s.

Tbe  Local  Branch  of  the  Quincy 
Stove  Manufacturing  Co.,  Quincy,  Illi­
nois,  makers  of  the  popular  Monogram 
Stoves  and  Ranges,  had  an  exception­
ally  fine  and  complete 
line  of  their 
goods  on  exhibit  at  the  Western  Mich­
igan  State  Fair  last  week. 
It  was  in 
charge  of  their  State  Manager.  C.  J. 
Wormnest,  assisted  by  their  local  man­
ager,  C.  C.  Wormnest.

The  exhibit  included  everything  from 
the  smallest  stove  to  the  largest  Mono­
gram  range,  which  are  meeting  with 
popular  favor everywhere.

The  Messrs.  Wormnest  were  kept  very 
busy  quoting  prices  and  explaining  the 
merits  of  their  goods.

L o ts   o f   E n e r g y .

forty-ton 

locomotives 

The  energy  of  a single  discharge  from 
a  twelve  inch  gun  is  equal  to  that  of 
nine 
running 
sixty  miles  an  hour.  Taking  only  the 
battleships  and  cruisers  of  one  modern 
fleet,  their  guns,  if  fired  for  only  ten 
minutes,would  develop  at  least 100,000,- 
000  foot-tons  of  energy.  If  this  were  ap­
plied  to  the  base  of  the  great  pyramid 
of  Cheops  it  would  in  ten  minutes 
lift 
that  monumental  mass  of  eight  and  a 
half  million  tons twelve  feet  above  the 
Egyptian  sands.

You  can  t  be  mean  and  happy  any 
more  than  an  apple  can  be  sour  and 
sweet.

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We will send (carrying charge«  to destination  prepaid)  seven  desirable, 
useful,  high grade and  well-finished articles,  having  the  most  universal 
demand  in every  well-equipped  office  in  the  land.  Every  busy  office 
man  will  recognize  the  necessity  and  desire  for  these  conveniences.  All 
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upwards-  Write for circulars and  price list.

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All parties  interested  in

Automobiles

are requested to write us.

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W e  can  send  you  samples  of 
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Blanks,  which  we  have  made 
for  parties  in  your  own  line  of 
trade.

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

We are territorial agents for the Oldsmo- 
bile.  Knox,  Winton and  White; also have 
some good bargains in second-hand autos.

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

worry  break  a  man  down,  and  the 
quicker  if there  is  no change of scenery; 
but  in  the  past  few  years  men  are  be­
ginning  to  build  out-of-town  houses. 
The  railroads  are  putting  on  cheap 
suburban  trains  and  interurban  railway 
lines  are  rapidly  multiplying,  ail  of 
which  will,  when  well  patronized,  keep 
men  from  breaking  down  and  save  us 
from  becoming  a  neurotic  race.

is  no 

It  was  to  be  expected  that  in  conse­
quence  of the  scarcity  of  hard  coal  there 
would  be  an  advance  in  the  price  of 
soft  coal,  which  is  being  used  as  a  sub­
stitute,  but  many  maintain  that  the  ad­
vance  is  greater  than  circumstances  jus-j 
tify.  There 
is  no  strike  among  the 
miners  of  soft  coal,  there  was  never  so 
much  of  it  produced  as  to-day,  and 
there 
legitimate  reason  why  the 
price  should  be  doubled  to  consumers. 
It  is  explained  that  the  railroads usually 
handle  the  bulk  of  the  coal  supply  in 
summer and  that they  are  now  busy with 
the  heavy 
fall  trade.  There  are  not 
enough  cars  to  keep  up  with  the  de­
mand  for shipments.  The  only  remedy 
that  has  been  suggested  is  that  the  coal 
carrying  roads  put  their  whole energy  at 
hauling  coal,  letting  other  things  go. 
It 
is  strange  that  the  cars  ordinarily 
used  in  the  anthracite  trade are not filled 
with  the  bituminous  product.

A  MODERN  APPLICATION.

For a  number  of  years  the commercial 
life  of  this  country  has  been  first  the 
wonder  and  then  the  astonishment  of 
Europe.  Beginning  with  nothing  it  was 
at  first 
ignored.  Expecting  that,  be­
cause  the  condition  of  things  warranted 
it,  the  American  tradesman  bided  his 
time  and  patiently  and  industriously 
“ kept  at  it.”   There  was  nothing  else 
to  do  and  for  decades  he  watched  and 
copied.  Then  a  change  came.  The 
Old  World 
life  and  methods  were 
weighed 
in  the  American  balance  and 
found  wanting.  Then  the  balance  and 
what  was  weighed  by 
it  were  thrown 
aside  as  useless  and  a  new  commercial 
It  met  the  common 
existence  began. 
fate  of  the  new. 
It  was  laughed  at  and 
tolerated  as  an  example  of  what  was  to 
be  expected  of  youth  and  inexperience. 
It  was  the  old  story  of  the  hopelessly 
crude.  An  occasional  bit  of  smartness 
was  considered  an  acc.dent  that  tended 
only  to  put  off  the 
inevitable.  When 
this  did  not  come  and  the  country  in 
spite  of  croaking  continued  to  prosper 
we  began  to  receive  the  attention  that 
always  centers  in  the  novel.  After  that 
the  shrewd  American  wit  began  to  show 
itself  and  its  success  when  brought  into 
contact  with 
the  European  article, 
created  surprise.

which  followed  other  similar  ventures. 
There  has  been  a  gradual  upward 
lead­
ing  to the  final  culmination.  The  or­
ganization  of  the  iron  and  steel  indus­
tries  of  the  United  States  under  the 
Morgan  plan  seemed  the limit  of  daring 
conception. 
It  was  simply  followed  by 
another  combination  of  hardly  less  pro­
portions,  the  merger of  the  great  ocean 
carrying  companies,  including  some  of 
the  most  important  British  lines,  and  a 
harmonious  adjustment  with  the  Ger­
man  shipowners.

it 

Now  then,  whiie 

is  seemingly  an 
attempt  of  the  impossible  to  reconcile 
such  vast  interests  on  a  practical  work­
ing  basis,  it  is  after  all  only  the  appli­
cation  in  the  world's  workshop  < f  the 
same  principle  on  which  the  American 
iron  and  steel  industries  have been com­
bined  and  their  management  consoli­
dated.  Controlling  these  industries  in 
all  three  of  these  great  nations,  con­
trolling  their  shipping  and  adjusting  in 
all  markets  the  supply  of  iron and  steel, 
the  aim  is  to  dominate  the  business  of 
It  is  a  grand  conception  and 
the  wcrd. 
fascinating  as 
it  is  colossal,  but  it  is 
only  doing 
in  the  commercial  world 
what  has  been  often  undertaken  in  the 
political  and  is,  indeed,  but  the  modern 
application  of  an 
idea  as  old  as  the 
earth  itself.

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say  th a t y ou  sa w  the ad vertisem en t 

in  the  M ich igan  T radesm an .
E.  A .  STOWE,  E d i t o r .

WEDNESDAY  -  -  OCTOBER 8,  1902.

STATE  OF  MICHIGAN 7 

County  of  Kent 

\  ss‘

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

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

John  DeBoer.

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

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 
Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  county, 
3

Mich. 

I.ET  US  SAVE  OUR  NERVES.

A  philosophic  writer  gives  his  opin­
ion  on  the  men  ‘ ‘ who  break down. ’ ' and 
declares  that  the  men  who  collapse  un­
der  the  strain  of  business  are  not  the 
heads  of  great  establishments,  but  the 
men  who  have  to  deal  with  the  deadly 
routine  and  whose  business  does  not 
permit  them to  have  capable  assistance. 
The  general  impression  is  that  the  men 
who  have  enormous 
interests  are  the 
men  who  fail,  and  yet  there  is  a  plaus­
ibility 
in  the  reasoning  of  this  writer 
which  carries  conviction.

The  heads  of  our great  concerns,  rail­
roads  and  trusts,  have  the  means  to  buy 
brains,  and  brains  are  as  merchantable 
a  quality  as  any  product  of  the  human 
hands.  When  a  man  has  brains  to  sell 
the  fault  lies  solely  with  him  whether 
he  sells  them  cheaply  or  dearly.  The 
employer  secretly  values  brains,  but  is 
always  desirous  of  buying  them  cheap­
ly.  The  brain  to  him,  when  dealing 
with  the  man  offering  the  commodity, 
is  an  unknown  quantity,  and  he  is  as 
likely  as  not  to  deny  any  man  the  pos­
session  of  brains.  But  the  brain  being, 
perhaps,  the  man’s  only  asset,  he 
is 
forced  to  sell  at  a  discount.  And  what 
a  discount!  He  simply  sells  that  cheap­
ly  which 
in  time  wi.ll  bring  to  him 
ruin.  Mental  wrecks,  physical  wrecks 
line  our  pathways 
in  every  direction, 
and  the  story  of  these  wrecks  is  nearly 
always  similar.

Take  Mr.  Schwab,  for  instance.  He, 
however,  sold  his  brains high.  Although 
still  a  young  man,  he  is  reputed  to  be  a 
physical  wreck.  Mr.  Carnegie  can  live 
abroad,  and  the  humbly  born  Scottish 
lad  lives  now  in  feudal  state  and  enter- 
tains  royalty.  He 
is  the  exemplar  of 
the  man  who  will  not  break  down.

The  fear  of  men  breaking  down  is 
gradually  seizing  the  community  and 
that  is  the  real  reason  why  holidays  are 
being  introduced  into  the  country.  Re­
laxation  is  necessary,  and  even  a  break 
of  a  day  or  so  is  sufficient  to give  a 
man renewed  vigor.  Constant  work  and

Business 

in  the  United  States 
is 
booming  as 
it  never  boomed  before. 
There  is  no  such  thing  as  overproduc­
tion  in  any  line.  Manufacturers  of  all 
kinds  of  goods  find  ready  markets  for 
their  products  at  profitable  prices.  A 
few  years  ago  it  was  thought  that manu­
facturing  industries  in  this  country  had 
multiplied  too  rapidly  and  that  unless 
foreign  markets  could  be  found,  there 
would  have  to  be  a  reduction  in  the 
number  of  such  establishments.  Amer­
ican  manufacturers  began  to  invade 
Europe  with  their  wares.  Some  of  them 
still  keep  the  fields  they  won,  but  more 
have  been  obliged  to  confine  their en­
ergies  wholly  to  the  demands  of  the 
home  trade.  It  seems  to  be  the  fact  that 
the  American  people  have  become  rich 
in  the  past  five  years  and  that  they  are 
spending  their  money  with  the  pro­
verbial  American  freedom.

Emperor  William,  who  has  been  lik­
ened  to  everything  under  the  sun,  from 
Meyerbeer  tcf Nero,  is  now  taking  a leaf 
out  of  Napoleon’s  book,  and  declares 
that  the  highest  position  in  the  army  is 
open  to  intelligence.  Good  for  Wil­
liam !  At  the  same  time people  can  not 
help 
thinking  that  Germany,  which 
claims  to  have  more  brains  among  her 
men  than  all  other  nationalities  com­
bined,  had  to  have  her  armies  led  by  a 
Dane.  Moltke  was  a  Dane,  and  planned 
three  campaigns  which  made  Germany 
a  military  power;  but  since  noble  birth 
wili  not  avail,  who  knows  what  Ger­
many  will  not  accomplish  under  native 
leadership—in  case  she  ever  ventures 
upon  a  war!

American  railroad  employes  receive 
much  better  wages  than  their  fellows  in 
Europe.  According  to  figures  obtained 
by  United  States  Consul  Gowdy,  in 
France,  the  driver  of  a 
locomotive  re­
ceives  cn  an  average  $36 per month,  and 
he may  earn  §14  more  in  rewards  for the 
saving  of  fuel.  Stokers  receive  $25  per 
month,  with  a  possibility  of  earning 
§5.50  in  extras.  A  foreman  in  a  work­
shop  receives  as  much  a;  §48.50  per 
an  ordinary  workman  §19.20 
month, 
and  an  apprentice 
§14.  Americans 
would  starve  on  such  pay.

The  rest  is  a  matter of  modern  his­
tory.  The  American millionaire  was  at 
first  an  accident.  Then  he  became  too 
numerous  to  be  looked  upon  as  a  result 
of  chance.  We  became  a  nation  where 
boys  with  nothing  but  bands  and  brains 
in  half  a  lifetime  bought  the  spot  where 
they  were  born,  and  covered  it  with  a 
palace  where  lived,  until  a  ripe old age, 
the  possessor of  untold  millions.

From  that  time  they  have  studied  us 
and  we  and  our  methods  are  altogether 
too  much  for  them.  They  can  not  attain 
unto  us  and  there  the  wonder  begins. 
They  are  constantly  on  the  alert  to  see 
how  we  do  it.  The  American  merchant, 
country-trained,  opens  a  department 
store  and  the  European  copies  him. 
The  Yankee  studies  the  situation  and 
develops 
into  a  truth—the  European 
follows  suit.  By  and  by  the  American 
by  a  stroke  of  genius  gathers  into  his 
hands  a  business  of  the  country  and  the 
European,  astounded,  wonders  what  is 
coming  next,  to  be  told  by  his  morning 
paper  that  business  does  not  recognize 
political 
lines  and  that  the  genius  of 
commercialism  has  combined  under  one 
management  an  enterprise  that  covers 
the  civilized  world!

it 

“ The world is startled,”  says the press 
of  the  country,  “ at  the  undertaking;”  
but  it  was  the  thing  to  expect  and 
in 
it  the  trading  spirit  of  the  age 
doing 
has  only  followed 
in  the  footsteps  of 
what  has  gone  before  in  other fields  of 
effort.  It is  trying  to  do  what  the church 
did  when  the  Roman  Empire  fell—to 
make  itself  mistress  of  the  world;  and 
the  wonder  is  that  the  merchant  has 
put  off  the  attempt  so  long.  The student 
of  history  does  not  need  to  be  told  what 
Charlemagne's dream was;  and Czar and 
Kaiser  are  terms  which  to  the  nations 
adopting  them  are  showing  in  their  na­
tional  spelling  of  Caesar’s  name  what 
hopes  of  national  life they  are  dreaming 
of.  Louis  XIV  and  Napoleon  tried  to 
do  the  same  thing  for France;  and when 
the  American  business  man  with  his 
greater  opportunities 
and  with  his 
greater  genius  saw  his  chance  and  pro­
ceeded  to  make  the  most  of  it  from  the 
commercial  point  of  view,  he  is  only 
looking  at  affairs  commercial  through 
some  well-worn  spectacles  with  every 
hope  of  at  least  as  much  success  as  that

The 

long-continued  drought 

from 
which  Australia 
has  only  recently 
emerged  is  causing  an  exodus  from  the 
new  commonwealth  to  South  Africa, 
which  is  said  to  be  very  disquieting  to 
the  Australian  government  One  of  the 
Australian  states  has  lost  over  a  thou­
sand  adults  in  this  way  recently.  As 
every  one  admitted  to  South  Africa 
must  be  possessed  of  at  least  §500  in 
cash,  the  migration  from  Australia  is 
taking  money  as  well  as  men  out  of  the 
country,  which 
is  the  disturbing  ele­
ment  to  the  government  of  the  new 
commonwealth,  for  it  can 
ill  afford  to 
spare  either  at  present.

Director  Roberts,  of 

the  United 
States  mint,  is  of the  opinion  that  the 
world  is  just  entering  on  another  period 
of  gold  production  which  will  equal,  if 
it  does  not  surpass, 
the  remarkable 
record  made  in  the  decade  which  ended 
in  186c.  He  estimates  the output of  gold 
in  the  Transvaal  mines  this  year  at 
§35,000,000 and  asserts  that  in  his  belief 
this  will  soon  increase  until  it  is  multi- 
plied  threefold.  Not  less than  §300,000.- 
000  worth  of  the  yellow metal,he  asserts, 
will  be  dug  out  of  the  earth  during  the 
current  twelve  months,  and  this  amount 
may  be  expected  to  increase  in  the  near 
future  to  §350,000,000  and  “ probably 
to §400,000,000”   per  year.

The  greatest  pile  of  gold  in  the  world 
is  that  which 
lies  in  the  vaults  of  the 
United  States  Treasury.  The  latest  offi­
cial  report  shows  that  it  is  rapidly  ap­
proaching  §600,000,000.  Not much  of  it 
can  be  called  idle  money.  More  than 
half  of  it,  or over §300,000,000,  is repre­
sented  by  certificates  which  are  in  cir­
culation.  This  is  in effect a  circulation 
of  the  gold,  while  the  certificates  can 
be  easily and cheaply  renewed when they 
become  worn  out.  More  than  a  quarter 
of  the  mass,  or §150,000,000,  is  held  for 
the  redemption  of  Government  notes  or 
greenbacks.

A  French  millionaire  named Michonis 
has  bequeathed  §120,000  as  a  fund  to 
enable  French  students  to  study  philos­
ophy  and  religious  sciences  in  the  Ger­
man  universities,  which  is  another  sign 
that  the  old-time  animosities  of  the  two 
nations  are  disappearing.

STRAINS  OF MODERN  EDUCATION.
A  few  years  ago  Max  Nordau,  a  Ger­
man  pupil  of  Professor  Lombroso,  the 
noted  Italian  criminologist,  published  a 
volume  entitled  “ Degeneration,”   which 
aroused  a  most  furious discussion among 
savants  throughout  the  civilized  world 
and  made  the  author's  name  known  to 
thousands  who  never  saw  and  never 
In  his  dedication  to 
will  see  his  book. 
Professor  Lombroso,  which 
in  the 
nature  of  a  preface,  the  author  remarks 
that  “ degenerates  are  not  always  crim­
inals,  prostitutes,  anarchists  and  pro­
nounced  lunatics;  they are  often  authors 
and  artists,”   and  as  in  the  body  of  the 
work  he  specifies  by  name  a  large  num­
ber  of  the  most  sacred  names  of  modern 
literature  as  “ degenerates” — Ibsen  and 
Wagner,  for  example,  not  to  say  Zola 
and  Whitman—he  brought  upon  his 
head,  as  he  predicted  he  should,  the 
concentrated  wrath  of  mankind.

is 

It 

erotic 

There 

is  no  intention  to  renew  here 
the  discussion  which  raged  over  Max 
Nordau,  but  only  to  suggest  that  no 
book  could  ever  have  aroused  such  a 
storm  of  execration  which  did  not  con­
tain  sayings  which  come  pretty  close 
home. 
is  Nordau’s  belief  that  over- 
stimulation  of  the  senses  is  producing 
degeneration  by  physical  causes,  the 
manifestation  of  the  degeneration  being 
in  abnormal  emotionalism  and  neurotic 
and 
conditions  which,  most 
marked 
in  such  minds  as  Rousseau, 
Ibsen  and  others  to  whom  the  world  at 
tributes  “ genius,”   react,  through  theit 
writings, on  a  nervous  and  feverish  race 
entirely  predisposed  to  receive  such  im­
pressions  and  be  further  demoralized 
by  them.  For  the  sake  of  Nordau’s 
reputation  we  should  remark  right  here 
that  he  is  no  pessimist,  hut  regards  this 
state  of  aSairs  merely  as  an  acute  dis­
ease  superinduced  by  the  rapidity  of 
modern  “ progress”   and  the  unavailing 
effort  to  keep  up  with  it.  He  expects 
this,  within  a  few  generations,  to  pass 
away  by  the  orderly  operations  of  na­
ture,  which,  by  the  systematic  extinc­
tion  of  the  unfit,  will  develop  a  healthy 
race  which  will  either  be  able,  without 
undue  strain,  to  keep  up  with  the  pro­
cession  or  which  will  have  too  much 
common  sense  to  endeavor  to  do  so.  He 
does  not  pretend  to  know  which.

of 

As  the  present  object  is  to  make  an 
educational  application  of  whatever  of 
truth  underlies  Nordau's  conception,  it 
will  be  best  to  state  the  fundamental 
phenomena 
in  his  own  words.  After 
quoting  the  statistics  showing  the  enor­
increase,  since  1840,  in  miles  of 
mous 
railway,  number 
letters  written, 
newspapers  and  books  published,  ma­
chines 
invented  and  articles  manufac­
tured,  he  says:

intercourse, 

Let  us  now  consider  how  these  for­
midable  figures  arise.  The  i8,oco  new 
publications,  the  6,800  newspapers  to 
be  read;  the  2,759,000,000  letters  must 
be  written;  the larger  commercial  trans­
in­
actions,  the  numerous  journeys,  the 
creased  marine 
imply  a 
correspondingly  greater  activity  of  in­
dividuals.  The  humble  stvillage  inhab­
itant  has  to-day  a  wider  geographical 
horizon,  more  numerous  and  complex 
intellectual 
interests,  than  the  Prime 
Minister  of  a  petty, or  even  a  secondary 
state  a  century  ago.  *  *  *  He  takes 
part  by  a  continuous  and  receptive 
curiosity  in  the  thousand  events  which 
in  all  parts  of  the 
daily  take  place 
globe. 
these  activities, 
even  the  simplest,  involve  an  effort  of 
the  nervous  system  and  a  wearing  of 
tissue.  Every 
line  we  read  or  write, 
every  face  we  see,  every  conversation 
we  carry  on,  every  scene  we  perceive 
through  the  window  of  the  flying  ex­
press,sets  in  activity  our  sensory  nerves 
and  our  brain  centers.  *  *  *  In  the

*  *  *  All 

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

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system.  The 

last  fifty  years  the  population  of  Europe 
has  not  doubled,  whereas  the  sum  of  its 
labors  has  increased  ten fold,  in  some 
cases  fifty  fold.  *  *  *  This  enormous 
increase  in  organic  expenditure  has not, 
and  can  not  have  a  corresponding  in­
crease  in  supply.  *  *  *  Our  stomachs 
can  not  keep  pace  with  the  brain  and 
nervous 
latter  demand 
far  more  than  the  former  are  able  to 
perform.  And  so  there  follows,  as  al­
ways,  if  great  expenses  coincide  with 
small 
incomes:  First,  the  savings  are 
consumed  and  then  comes  bankruptcy.
There are those who accuse the schools, 
and  particularly  the  normal  and  high 
schools,  of  deliberately 
accelerating 
degeneration  by  knowingly  pushing 
human  powers  beyond  endurance.  A 
man  or  woman  under  4c  who  feels  tired 
in  the  morning  ought  to  be  the  rarest  of 
phenomena. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  con­
cede  that  Wagner  is  a  degenerate  in  or­
der to  recognize  a  physical  truth  in  the 
description  quoted.  Every parent  knows 
the  description  to  be  unexaggerated. 
We  may  concede  that  use  is  developing 
a  greater  capacity  to  cope  with  modern 
conditions  in  some  without  blinding our 
eyes  to  the 
innumerable  number  who 
fail  in  the  ordeal.  The  mother  of  de­
generacy 
is  weariness  which  a  night’s 
sleep  does  not  remove.  The  preventive 
of  weariness 
is  reasonable  recreation 
according  to  age,  strain 
imposed  and 
physical  condition.  The school  trustee, 
superintendent,  principal  or  teacher 
who  does  not  allow,  and  know  that  he 
allows,  time  for  recreation to  those  from 
whom  be  has  the  power  to  demand 
service  is  a  murderer  in  all  but  intent. 
He  does  not  wish  to  kill,  but  he  kills. 
No  engineer  would  be  intrusted with the 
building  of  a  bridge  who  could  not  and 
did  not  first  calculate  the  strain  which 
the  materials  could  bear.  What  “ mod­
ern  teacher”   ever  calculates  the  strain 
which  his  pupils  can  bear  and  do  bear? 
What  “ up-to-date”   principal  or  super­
intendent  calculates  the  strain  which 
his  teachers  can  bear? 
In  the  old  times 
we  did  not  need  to  bother  about  these 
strains.  The margin was  always  enough. 
It 
is  rarely  enough  now  in  the  ‘ ‘ best”  
schools,  and  the  breakdowns  are  con­
tinuous.

We  hasten  to  say  that  we  have  not 
in  mind  the  schools  of  this 
specially 
city.  Happily,  our 
invigorating  cli­
mate,  so  conducive  to  endurance,  and 
our  traditional  school  methods,  so  con­
ducive  to  moderation  in  demand,  in  a 
great  measure  protect  our  children  and 
their  instructors.  Teachers who  are  ap­
pointed  by  a pull  and  who,  once  in,  can 
not  be  turned  out,  may usually be trusted 
to  protect  themselves,  and,  incidentally, 
their  pupils,  from  unreasonable  strains. 
But  there  are  schools,  and  the  number 
is 
increasing,  where  the  professional 
demands  on  teachers  and  the  teachesr’ 
demands  on  pupils  plainly  indicate  that 
what  those  responsible  have  in  mind  is 
not  the  development  of  a  race  whose 
reasonable  common  sense  makes  them 
willing  to  remain 
ignorant  of  most 
things,  but  a  sturdier  lot,  the  survivors 
of  the  struggle  for  knowledge  of  all 
things  who  shall  proudly  remain  after 
the  extinction  of  the  unfit.

The  Italian  government  is  consider­
ing  an  electric  postal  scheme  which,  it 
is  said,  will  revolutionize  the  postal 
service,  if  adopted.  What  we  want,  es­
pecially  in  this  city,  is  something  that 
will  bring  about  prompt  delivery  of 
mail.  As  it  is  now,  the  new  scheme  of 
immediate  delivery  actually  serves  as  a 
If one  has  a  postoffice 
check  to  speed. 
letters  more  quickly 
box  he  can  get 
without 
than 
with  it.

“ immediate  delivery’ 

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Clothing

Several  Prices  on  the  Same  Line  of Over­
coats.
Written for the Tradesman.

It 

is  the  custom  with  many  stores  to 
insist  that  the  clerks  make  a  sale  to 
every  person  coming  into  the  place. 
If 
a  salesman  faiis  to  sell  anything  he  is 
reprimanded  by  the  manager  or  pro­
prietor,  and  if  three  or  four  such  things 
happen  to  the  young  man  he  is  paid  off 
and  told  to  look  elsewhere  for  employ­
ment.  This  is  the  old-fashioned  way 
of  doing  business,  but.  nevertheless, 
more  stores  are  run  on  this  plan  than 
the  average  person  is  aware  of.

I  have 

in  mind  an  occurrence  that 
will,  perhaps,  illustrate  the  way  busi­
ness  is  done  in  such  stores  and  to  what 
ends  the  salespeople  will  go  in  order 
that  a  sale  may be  effected.  In this  store 
the  goods  are  not  marked  in  plain  fig­
ures  so  that  customers  can  tell  the  sell­
ing  price.  Only  the  cost  mark  is  used 
and  the  salespeople  are instructed  to  use 
their  best  judgment  in selling the goods. 
If they  can  get  a  big  price,  so  much  the 
better,  but  if  the  customer  is  a  hard  one 
they  have  permission  to  offer  ail  kinds 
of  inducements  so  long  as  they  do  not 
go  below  cost.

One  day  an  old  gentlemgan  came 

in 
from  the  rural  districts  and  asked  to  see 
some  young  men's  overcoats.  His  son 
was  going  to  have  a  birthday  pretty 
soon  and  the  old  man  had  made  up  his 
mind  that  he  would  give  him  a  pres­
ent.  The  boy  needed  a  new  coat  and 
so  he  guessed  he  would  buy  him  one 
if 
be  could  find  anything  that  suited  his 
fancy.  The  clerk  hustled  around  and
showed  him  several  garments,  but  none 
of  them  seemed  to  suit  the  old  fellow. 
The  clerk  had  sized  him  up  as  an  easy 
mark,  but  it  looked  as  if  be  would 
lose 
the  sale.  The  eye  of  the  manager  was 
upon  him. 
If he  failed  to  land  his  man 
he  knew  that  he  was  in  for  it.

Of  a  sudden  an  idea  struck  him. 

In 
the  back  room  was  a  new  invoice  of 
coats  that  had  not  been  unpacked.  He 
told  the  old  man  to  wait  a  minute  and 
be  would  show  him  the  latest  thing  on 
the  market.  Rushing 
into  the  back 
room  he  grabbed  the  axe  and  hurriedly 
opened  the  box.  He  came  across a  pile 
of  good  looking  coats  which  he  thought 
might  be  what  the 
farmer  wanted. 
Looking  on  the  bill  he  found  that  every 
coat  in  the  hunch  cost  $7  at  wholesale. 
They  were  all  alike,  but  he  had  planned 
a  master  stroke  in  the  art  of  salesman­
ship  which  he  hoped  would  bring things 
his  way.  So  he  grabbed  ali  he  could 
of  the  required  size  and  rushed  back  to 
where  the  old  man  was  waiting.

“H ere’s just what will  suit your  son,”  
he  said  with  a  triumphant  wave  of» the 
hand. 
"These  coats  are  the  latest  out. 
We  got  ’em  right  from New York.  Same 
kind  the  stylish  fellows  in  the  metrop­
olis  are  wearing.  I  just  unpacked 
'em. 
If  you  buy  one  of  ’em  the  boy  will  be 
the  first  fellow 
in  these  parts  to  wear 
one  of  these  swell  garments.  They  are 
all  wool,  the 
latest  cut,  fast  color,  will 
bold  their  shape  and  look  well until they 
are  worn  out.”

"How  much  be  they?”   queried  the 
old  man. 
" I   kinder  like  the  style  uv 
the  critters,  but  1  can’t  afford  tew  blow 
in  much  money  fer gewgaws.”

"W ell,  uncle,  I’ll  tell  you  what  I'll 
do.  Here’s  one  you  can  have  for $7, 
another  for  $9,  one  for  $11.50 and  an­
other  for  $14.  This  last  one  is  a  bum­
mer  and  don't  you  forget  it.”

The  old  gentleman  looked  them  over 
carefully  and  seemed  to  be  quite  favor­

Manufacturers  of  Pants,  Shirts,  Corduroy  and 

Dealers  in  Underwear,  Sweaters,  Hosiery,  Gloves, 

Mackinaw  Coats.

and  Mitts.

Sample  Room  28 South  Ionia Street,  Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
31  and 33  Larned  Street  East,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

ably  struck  with  the  $9  coat.  He  said 
he  could  see  a  difference  in  the  quality 
of  the  goods,  but  he  didn't  think  he 
could  stand  more  than  $9.  So  the  clerk 
wrapped  up  the  coat  and  the  old  man 
went  on  his  way  rejoicing.  The  mana­
ger of  the  store  was  much  pleased  and 
raised  the  clerk’s  salary  the  next  week.
As  it  happened,  the  old  man  prob­
ably  got  a  coat  worth  what  he  paid  for 
it,  but,  supposing  he  had  bought  the 
same  thing  for  $14,  very 
likely  when 
the  coat  began  to  show  wear  he  would 
have  discovered  that  he  had  been  bun­
coed  a  little. 
In  that  case  he  would 
have  fostered  a  feeling  against that store 
and  that  particular  salesman  and would, 
without  doubt,  have  withdrawn  his 
patronage. 
I  know  that  in  many  cases 
the  people  have  been  given  the  worse 
end  of  the  deal  at  this  store.  The 
clerks,  after  working  under  this  system 
for  a  time,  try  to  outstrip  each  other  in 
volume  of  goods  sold.  They  take  pride 
in  getting  big  prices  for  the  articles 
they  sell  and  only  come  down  on  the 
price  as  a  last  resort. 
In  fact,  after  a 
clerk  works  under  such  a  system  be  ac­
quires  a  feeling  that  honesty  is  not  the 
best  policy  and,  when  the  people  in  a 
mercantile  establishment  feei  that  way,
1  doubt 
if  they  can  have  much  confi­
dence  in  each  other.

I  do  not  believe  it  is  good  policy  to 
conduct a mercantile business along  such 
lines.  Confidence  is  a  necessity  to  suc­
cess  in  all  lines  of  trade.  The  merchant 
who  is  the  most  successful,  so  far  as  I 
have  been  able  to  observe,  is  the  one 
who  has  the  confidence  of  the  force  in 
the  store  and  the  people  who  patronize 
him.  The  people  are  not  all  fools.
They  know  when  they  are  treated  right. 
They  know  that  when  they  enter a  store 
and  find  all  the  goods  marked  in  plain

Ellsworth  &  Thayer  M’nT g  Co.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Let  the  Goods  Do  the  Talking

The  dealer  who  buys  where  he  gets  the  most 
for  his  money  is  not  worried  by  competition 
for  his  customers  buy  in  the  same  manner.
Our lines  speak  for  themselves.  We  pay  our 
customers’  expenses.

William  Connor  Co.

Wholesale Clothing

28  and 30 South  Ionia Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

The  Peerless 
Manufacturing 

Company

Manufacturers of 

Great  Western  Fur and  Far Lined  Cloth Coats 

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Bip Kind.

We want  agent  in  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

B. B. DOWNABD, General Salesman.

figures  tbe  merchant  is  not  afraid  to  put 
faith  in  his  stock;  but  when  they  find 
everything  marked 
in  a  manner  that 
denotes  nothing  to  them  they  feel  that 
tbe  merchant  puts  more  faith 
in  the 
craftiness  of  bis  clerks  than  he  does  in 
the  good  qualities  of  the  articles  be  has 
to  sell.  And  when  the  people  mistrust 
the  motives  of  a  man  he  is  apt  to  en­
counter  hard  sledding.

If  the  merchant  will  look  around  him 
he  will  find  that  the  most  successful 
stores  in  tbe  country  are the ones that  let 
the  public  know  a  little  of  the  inside  of 
the  business.  They  do  not,  of  course, 
tell  their  patrons  all  the  ins  and  outs  of 
tbe  business,  but  they  strive  to  make 
the  people  their  friends  by 
inviting 
them  to  the  store  to  see  tbe  new  things, 
to  rest  when  they  are  tired  and  to  make 
it  their  headquarters  when 
in  town. 
This  kind  of  store  does  not  cause  a  per­
son  to  feel  like  a criminal if  he  does  not 
buy  something,  neither  do  tbe  clerks 
conduct  a  series of bunco games through­
out  tbe  establishment.

It  is  told  of  John  Wanamaker  that  he 
discharged  hundreds  of  clerks  when  he 
went  into  business  in  New York because 
they  did  not  use  good  manners.  Wana­
maker  is  the  king  of  merchants.  He 
treats  the  people  right,  and,  Mr.  Mer­
chant,  if  you  follow  bis  example  of  giv­
ing  full  value  for  the  money  you  will 
succeed,  also.  Tbe merchant  who  thinks 
he 
is  so  much  smarter  than  the  people 
finds  in  the  end  that  he  has  builded  on 
shifting  sand.  Raymond  H.  Merrill.

T a k i n g   T h in g s   E a s y .

‘ ‘ I  had  business  in  a  small  town  out 
W est,”   said  a  Boston  man,  “ and  I  left 
tbe  address at  home,  so  that  some 
im­
portant  letters  could  be forwarded to me. 
I  figured  out  about  when  they  ought  to 
arrive  and  went  down  to  tbe  postoffice 
to  enquire  for  them.
“   ‘ No  letters  here  for  you,’  said  the 
postmaster,  who  was  also  a  Justice  of 
tbe  Peace.
“   ‘ They  ought  to  have  been  here  yes­

terday,'  1  said.

“   ‘ Couldn’t  have  got  here  yesterday, 
as  old  Brown,  who  carries  the  mail, 
was  drunk  and  didn’t  go  over  to  Iosco 
after  it. ’

“   ‘ And  how  about  to-day?’
“   ‘ Well,  he’s  sober  enough  to-day, 

but  his  old  woman  has  cut  her  foot,’

“   ‘ But  there  will  be  a  mail  to-mor­

row?’  I  queried.

mail  on  Thursdays.'

“   ‘ Skassly,  sir.  We  don’t  have  no 
“   ‘ Then  how  about  next  day?’
“   ‘ Fridays  is  sort  of  off days  with 
the  Iosco  postmaster,  and  he  generally 
goes  fishing. 
If  he  don't,  be  sends  the 
boy  over.  I  never  count  on  it,however. ’
”   ‘ You  seem  to  have  a  slipshod  way 
of  running  postal  affairs  out  in  this 
country,*  1  said  as  I  turned  away.
“   ‘ Waal,  I  dunno  but  we  have,'  be 
admitted  as  he 
looked  at  me  over  the 
top  of  his  spectacles;  ‘ but  as  long  as 
nobody  but  Uncle  Bill  Simpson  ever 
gets  any  mail,  and  that’s  only  a  cir­
cular  about  how  to  kill  cockroaches,  we 
kinder  take  things  easy,  and 
let  tbe 
United  States  run  along  without  bustin’ 
her  biler. ’  ”

Belated  Sentiment.

June 

is  the  month  when  roses  bloom 
and  when  we  greet  the  bride and groom, 
the  month 
in  which  tbe  young  corn 
grows  and  barefoot  urchins  snag  their 
toes;  the  month 
in  which  the  fishes 
shoal  and  Johnnie  haunts  the  swim­
ming  hole.  He  may  deny  and  cause  a 
doubt,  but,  his  shirt  is  wrong  side  out! 
Tbe  housefly  comes  and  stays  till  fall 
and  punctuates  the  kitchen  wall,  the 
June  bug  tells  you  he  is  here  and  dabs 
you  in  the  other  ear;  the  moth  nests 
in 
your  winter  clothes  and  insects  gambol 
up  your nose.  The  picnic  season  is  at 
hand  and  Sunday  school's  engaged  the 
band,  the  maiden  dons  a  thin  shirt 
waist  and  shocks  her  mother  with  her 
taste.  The  housewife  makes  gooseberry 
pie  that  is  full  of  juice  and  bacilli.

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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  131  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.

Heavenrich  Bros.

131  Jefferson Ave,  Detroit

Corner  Van  Buren  and  Franklin  Streets,  Chicago

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
Lot 274  Overall  Coat

$5.00  per  doz.

$5.50 per  doz.

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

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

Account,  Files

DIFFERENT  STYLES 

VARIOUS  SIZES

We are the Oldest and  Largest Manufacturers.

The Simple Account File Co.,  500  Whittlesey  Street,  Fremont,  Ohio

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

T*  Prank  Ireland,  the  lid d in g  Hardware 

H e a le r.

T.  Frank  Ireland  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  the  village  of  Sublette,  111.,  Sept. 
18,  1857,  his  father  being  a  West  Vir­
ginian  of  Dutch  ancestry.  His  mother 
was  of  Scotch  origin,  being  descended 
in  a  direct  line  from  John  Knox.  Mr. 
Ireland  spent  his  boyhood  on  a  farm, 
attending  the  district  school, Jhe  high 
school  at  Sublette  and  taking  a  three 
years’  course  at  the  Northwestern  Col­
lege  at  Naperville,  ill.  He  then  taught 
school  two  years  near  his  home,  when 
he  went  to  Glenwood,  la.,  and  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  under  the  style 
of  Hibbs  &  Ireland.  Eighteen  months 
later  he  sold  out  to  bis  partner  and went 
to  Amboy,  III.,  where  he  took  a  clerk­
ship 
in  the  hardware  store  of  Geo.  R. 
Keeling.  Two  years  later  he  purchased 
the  hardware  and 
implement  stock  of I 
F.  A.  Thompson,  at  Sublette,  subse-

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

Tenths,  Awnings,

Horse  Covers,  Wagon 
Covers,  Stack  Covers; 
Cotton,  Jute,  Hemp,
Flax and  Wool Twines; 
Manila and Sisal Ropes.

Chas.  A.  Coye,  11  & 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mr.  Ireland  was  married  March  18, 
1880,  to  Miss  Nellie  M.  Wilder,  of  Sub­
lette.  They  have  three  children,  two 
boys  and  one  girl.  The  oldest  child,  a 
son,  is  now  engaged 
in  acquiring  the 
rudiments  of  the  hardware  business  in 
his  father's  store.  Mr.  Ireland  is  Treas­
urer  of  the  Spencer  Electric  Light  & 
Power  Co.  and  a  director  in  the  Beld- 
ing  Building  &  Loan  Association.  He 
was  a  charter  member of  the  Michigan 
Retail  Hardware  Dealers’  Association 
when 
it  was  organized  in  1895  and  at 
the 
last  annual  meeting,  held  in  De­
troit,  he  was  elected  President  for the 
ensuing  year.  He  is  also  President  of 
the  Washington  Club,  an  organization 
of  pioneers 
in  membership  to 
too.  He  has  been  alderman  of  Belding 
two  years  and  a  member  of  the  school 
board  for six  years.  He  is  an  attendant 
at  the  Baptist  church,  in  which  organi­
zation  his  wife  is  an  active  worker.

limited 

Mr.  Ireland  attributes  bis  success  to

Allen  Gas  Light Company,  Battle Creek, Mich.
Gentlemen—I have used your Little Giant Gas  machine for about two months.  Prior  to this I 
have used two other makes of gas machines with not very  good  results.  I can  say  for  your  ma­
chine that It gives a better light, with less breakage  and  trouble,  than  any  machine  1  have  ever 
seen.  As you know, I light two stores, fifteen lights, and  it takes  about  four  gallons  of  gasoline 
every three nights.  I think that I have the best lighted store in the  State  of  Michigan.  Trusting 
that you may have good success, I remain, 

B.  D.  VAUGHAN.

Truly yours, 

Bellevue,  Mich., Sept.  2,  1902.

M N M M N U  

M t B t B  

BB O B U

A  F E W   P O IN T E R S

Showing the benefits  the  merchant  receives 

by using the

Kirkwood  Short  Credit 
System  of  Accounts

It  prevents  forgotten  charges. 
It  makes 
disputed accounts  Impossible.  It  assists  in 
making collections.  It  saves  labor  In  book­
keeping.  It systematizes credits.  It  estab­
lishes confidence between you and  your  cus­
tomer.  One writing  does  it  all.  For  full 
particulars write or call on

A.  H.  Morrill,  Agent

105  O ttaw a  S t.,  Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

Manufactured by C o s b y   W i k t h   P r i n t i n g  

Co., St.  Paul,  Minn.

“Sure Catch”  Minnow Trap

Length,  19% inches.  Diameter,  9% inches.

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

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

113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MILES  HARDWARE  CO.

j advertising  and  push.  He learned early 
I that  business  does  not  come  of  its  own 
accord ,  that 
it  has  to  be  invited,  and 
much  of  his  success  is  undoubtedly  due 
to  bis  skill  and  boldness  as  an  original 
and  extensive  advertiser.  He  also  at­
tributes  his  success  in  part  to  the  fact 
that  be 
is  located  in  a  good  town,  sur­
rounded  by  a  growing  farming  country.
I Mr.  Ireland  has  every  reason  to  feel 
gratified over the success he  has achieved 
as  a  merchant  and  citizen.

Overreached  Himself.

_“ Yes,  Merchant’s 

scheme  was  to 
display  bis  goods  in  his  window  with  a 
lot  of  mirrors  back  of  them,  so  that  all 
the  women  passing  would  be  sure  to 
stop  and  look  in .”  
‘ ‘ Pretty  foxy  idea, 
eh?”

‘ ‘ Yes,  but 

it  failed.  None  of  the 
women  looked  at  anything  but  the  mir­
rors. * ’

Like  cider,  some  people  remain  sweet 

until  it  is  time  to  work.

quently  forming  a  copartnership  with 
Lauer  Bros,  under  the  style  of  Ireland 
&  Lauer  Bros.  This copartnership  con­
tinued  five  years,  when  he  sold  his  in­
terest 
in  the  business  to  I.  M.  Craw­
ford,  when  he  removed  to  Belding  and 
the  hardware  and  grocery 
purchased 
stock  of  H.  J.  Leonard. 
In  the  spring 
of  1899,  be  closed  out  the  grocery  stock 
to  Spencer  Bros.,  taking 
in  exchange 
their  stock  of  paints.  He  carried  on 
business  one  year  in  the  old  Leonard 
store,  moving 
in 
in  1893  he  built  the  store 
1890,  and 
building  he  now  occupies,  which 
is 
in  dimensions,  three  stories 
40x80  feet 
and 
is 
equipped  with  an  electric  elevator and 
all  other modern  improvements.  During 
the  time  Mr.  Ireland  has  resided  in 
Belding,  he  has  seen  the  town  grow 
from  1,500  to  3,500  people and increased 
his  business  fiom  §8,000  the  first  year 
to  $35,000 last  year.

larger  store 

basement. 

building 

into  a 

The 

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Fire Arms

W e  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.

Foster, Stevens & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

B uck e ye   P a in t   &  V a r n i s h   Co.

Paint,  Color  and  Varnish  Makers

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

Sole  Manufacturers  CRYSTAL-ROCK  FINISH  for Interior and  Exterior Use. 

Sent on  5  Days’  Trial!

A  Modern  Wonder

Included  in the list of approved  lamps of the  Examining  Engineers of the National 
Board of  Fire Underwriters:  can therefore be used in any  insured  building  without 
additional cost of insurance.

The finest ariiticial  light  in the worid.  Jtiang  or st-u U  mcm  anywhere.  Ouc lamp 
lights ordinary store.  Two  ample  for  room  25x100  feet.  No  smoke,  no  odor. 
Very  simple  to  operate.  Burns  ordinary  gasoline.  Absolutely  non-explosive. 
800 candle power  light  at cost of 5  cents for  10 hours.  Ask  for catalogue.

Brass  Manufacturing  and  Supply  Co.

197  East  Randolph  St.,  Chicago

£  fiements S ons

Corner  15th  and  Lucas  Streets.  Toledo,  Ohio.

¡a n s in o   M ic h ig a n .

Ideal  Carriage  Runner

The  runners  attached  to  a  fine  carriage  make  a  turnout 
much  more  comfortable,  elegant  in  appearance  and  con­
venient  than  the  most  expensive  sleigh  and  at  a  cost  very 
much  less.

No  straps  or  other  bungling  devices  are  required  to  pre­
vent  them  from  inverting  or  flopping  over  when  backing 
or  driving  rapidly  over  rough  roads.  Narrow  track,  same 
as  cutters  and  sleighs.  Only  one  bolt  is  required  to fasten 
each  runner. 
It  may  be  observed  from  the  cut  that  there 
are  four  bolt  holes  in  the  collar  which  holds  the  hub,  thus 
giving  four  different  widths  of  track,  permitting  an  ex­
treme  variation  of  six  inches.

The  malleable  clips  which  grasp  the  axle  permit  free 

oscillation  and  hold  the  runner  securely  to  place.

Sleds for  Farming,  Logging,  Mining

Sleds for the  Roads and  Mountains

THE  LARGEST  BOB  SLED  FACTORY  IN  THE  WORLD

compared  with  recent  seasons,  is  duly 
appreciated,  but  leading  producing  fac­
tors  in  the  staple  division  of  the  market 
expect  to  have  little  difficulty 
in  dis­
posing  of  their  production.

Underwear—Western 

jobbers  have 
been  endeavoring  to  secure  fleeced  un­
derwear  for this  season  even  as  late  as 
this  last  week.  Late deliveries  of fleeces | 
and  other  heavyweight  underwear  have 
been  very  annoying,  but  are  due  really 
to  late  ordering,  and  this  will  undoubt­
edly  create  an  early  interest  in  the  next 
heavyweight  season  when  it  opens.  De­
liveries  are  being  made  on 
lightweight 
orders  for  the  spring  of  1903,  but  even 
mills  that  have  not  begun  to  make  de­
liveries  are  receiving  a  fair  amount  of 
duplicate  orders.  Ribbed  goods  are 
particularly  well  situated,  both 
in  the 
primary  and  secondary  markets,  and  a 
number  of  mills  report  their  machines 
as  practically  sold  up  for  the  season.

Knitted  Gloves—Every  retail  haber-1 
dasher,  as  a rule,  now carries knit gloves I 
for  men  and  many  of  them  for  women, 
and  all the  department  stores  carry them 
for  both.  The  demand  promises  to  be 
as  good  this  coming  winter  as  any  past 
season,  and  a  number  of  retail  buyers 
it  will  exceed  that  of  any j 
claim  that 
past  season.

is 

Carpets— The  present  carpet  season 
s  on  its  last  legs.  Pretty  much  all  the 
business  that 
intended  for  this  sea­
son  is  in  the  hands  of  the manufacturer. 
Here  and  there  a  small  duplicate  order 
is  placed,  but  as  a  general  thing  mills 
re  not  in  a  position  to  accept  any more 
business.  What  business  is  on  hand  will 
be  quite  sufficient  to  keep  machinery | 
running  full  up  to  the  time  the  new 
sample  pieces  are  shown,  or  about  the 
middle  of  November.  The  large  East- 
naills  have  been  practically  out  of

Many a Suit 

of

Has gone on  the  back  of 
dead-beat  when  the  amount 
could  have  been  saved  if 
the  merchant  had  been  a 
subscriber  to  the  C o m m e r ­
c i a l   C r e d i t   C o .

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II

We  Have

in  our  lines  this  season 
an assortment  of popular 
priced  boas  and  capes. 
The  demand  for  them  is 
such 
that  nearly  every 
general or dry goods mer­
chant  can  handle  advan- 
tageously.  Prices of boas, 
$9,  12,  18,  24,  86  and 
42  per  doz. 
Prices  of 
capes,  $3.50,  4.00  and 
4.25  each.  T ry  a  sam­
ple  dozen.

f,v h i 

Grand  Rapids  Dry  Goods  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Exclusively  Wholesale

table Linens

We  give  you  the  best  values  money  can  buy  in  table 
linens  in  bleached,  silver  bleached  and  cream,  from 
225^  cents  to  s i.50  a yard.

Also  a  good  assortment  of  cotton  table  damask, 
in  bleached  and  red  checks,  from  18  to  35  cents a yard 

Ask  our  traveling  men  to  show  you  their  line.

P. Steketee $ Sons,

Wholesale Dry floods 

flrand Rapids, ffiitb.

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Dry  Goods

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

fa 

remain 

steady  with  a 

Staple  Cottons— Ducks  are  firm,  but 
the  demand  is  only  moderate.  Bleached 
cottons 
amount  of  business  under  way.  Coarse 
colored  cottons  are  firm  in  practically 
every  line  and  with  a fair demand daily
Dress  Goods—The  market  for  printed 
calicoes  has  this  week  shown  a  little 
more  quiet  condition  than  last,  although 
not  enough  to  be  of  material  conse 
quence;  it  simply  shows that  the  buyers 
are  finding  their  needs  for  the  season 
well  filled.  There  has  been  a  fair  num 
ber  of  orders  coming  forward  for  sup 
plementary  supplies,  but  the  quantities 
on 
individual  orders  have  been'quite 
moderate.  The  market  as  a  whole,  bow 
ever,  is  in  very  good  shape.  There  are 
few,  if  any,  stocks  on band,  and  there 
little  necessity  evidently  for  specia 
efforts 
lots 
Printed  flannelettes  have  found  a  fai 
amount  of  business,  in  fact,  re-orders 
on  these  goods  are  comparatively  bette 
than  for  other  lines  of  printed  cottons 
Percales  are  quiet  and  without  materia, 
change.  There  has  been  no  change  to 
note  in  the  market  for  ginghams  or  for 
other  woven  patterned  fabrics,  either  ii 
staples  or  fancies.

to  clean  up  seasonable 

forward  delivery. 

Silesias  have  shown  a 

Linings—The  market  for  cotton  lin 
ings  has  continued  to  show  improve 
ment  for  several  weeks.  A  good  many 
orders  are  reported  for quick  delivery 
is  also  a  fair  de 
each  day  and  there 
mand  for 
Sellers 
have  maintained  a  rather  stiff  attitude. 
Stocks  are  reported  in  excellent  shape 
in  practically  every  department.  There 
has  been  a  good  demand  for  kid  fin­
ished  cambrics  and  the  recently  estah 
lished  prices  have  been  well  main 
tained. 
fai. 
trade  and  the  chief  demand  has  come 
from  the  far  Western  and  Southern  mar­
kets  for  medium  and  low  grades.  Per- 
calines  are  steady  and  show  a  moderate 
demand  for staple colorings.  Mercerized 
and  other  high  finishes  have  been  sell­
ing  well  and  sellers  find  no  trouble 
in 
securing  their  prices  on  both  plain  col­
ors  and  fancies.  The  clothing  trade's 
demands  for  cotton  Italians,  twills,  A l­
berts  and  similar goods  have  been  mod­
erate  and  prices  steady.  Cotton  warp 
Italians  are  firm,  as  are  also  mohair 
serges,  alpacas  and  similar  goods.

Woolen  Dress  Goods— Buyers  are 
placing  oiders  on  spring  dress  goods  in 
a  healthy  way  and  the  new  season  is 
developing  steadily.  Sellers  have  their 
collections  completed  and  are  taking 
orders  on  both  plain  and  fancy  effects, 
and  on 
low,  medium  and  high-priced 
goods  at  price  levels  previously  noted.
So  far  there  has  been  no  evidence  of  a 
runaway  business,  the  buyer  as  a  ruie 
being  pictured  in  anything  but  a  reck­
less  mood.  This  does  not  mean  that  a 
good  many  substantial  orders  have  not 
been  booked,  but  it  does  mean  that 
in 
the 
light  of  their  past  purchases  and 
probable  future  needs  buyers  have  oper­
ated  along  healthy 
lines.  There  has 
been  more  doing  in  fancy  and  novelty 
effects  during  the  past  week,  the  weight 
of  favor  being  shown  on  goods  that  are 
not  of  the  pronounced  fancy  character, 
that  is.  on  fabrics  that  are  neat  and  the 
opposite  from 
loud.  The  position  of 
the  plain  staple  fabrics  is  such  as  to  as­
sure  them  apparently  a  substantial  por­
tion  of  the  season’s  business.  That  the 
return  to  fancies  to  a  certain  extent 
must  necessitate  some contraction  of  the 
consumption  of  plain  staple  effects,  as

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Manufacturers

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the  market  for  some  time  and  it  is  said 
that  a  good  part  of next season's designs 
have  been  started  on  or  finished.  A 
good  deal  of  business,  it  is  said,  will 
have  to  be  laid  over  for another  season, 
owing  to  the 
inability  of  the  several 
mills  to  turn  out  the  yardage  equal  to 
the  demand.  This  can  be  said  of  a 
great  number  of  Philadelphia  mills, 
both  three-quarters  as  well  as  ingrain 
makers.  Jobbers  are  constantly  com* 
plaining  of  small  deliveries,  but, never­
theless,  manufacturers 
are  pushing 
things  along  to  the  best  of  their  ability. 
A  season  equal  to  the  present  one  in  the 
amount  of  business  done  has hardly ever 
been  experienced 
in  the  annals  of  the 
carpet  trade.  The  present  production 
of  carpets.it  is believed,  has  never  been 
greater.  Large 
increases  in  the  weav­
ing  departments  of  the  different  mills 
have  been  common  occurrences. 
In 
different  sections  of  the  carpetmaking 
communities  more  machinery  would 
have  probably  been  set  up  had  a  suffi­
cient  amount  of  help  been  obtainable. 
As  it  is,  good,  experienced  help  is  in­
deed  very  urgently  needed to-day.  Phil­
largely 
adelphia  mills  have  been  quite 
handicapped 
in  turning  out 
enough 
goods  for  their  orders  for  some  time. 
It  is  not  unusual  to .see  quite  a  number 
of  looms  idle  for this  very  reason.  The 
jobbing  trade  are  in  the  midst  of  their 
busy  season.  While  plenty  of  business 
has  been  done  for  some  time,  yet  it  will 
be  many  weeks  before  they  will  cease 
to  sell  fall  goods.  The  retailers  con­
tinue  to  be  good  purchasers  of  carpets, 
although  not  so  heavily  as  during  the 
first  part  of  the  season.  The  duplicate 
business 
is  very  satisfactory,  neverthe­
less,  and quite  up  to  the  expectations  of 
the  trade.  The  orders 
in  the  bands  of 
the  final  distributors point  pretty  largely 
to  the  good  grades  of  carpets.  Ax- 
minsters,  Brussels,  velvets  and  tapes­
tries  are  the  biggest  sellers,  particularly 
the  Brussels  and  velvets.  Wiltons  are 
receiving  their  usual  share  of  the  busi­
es,  but  nothing  more.  Good  all  wool 
ingrains  are  quite  a  feature  in  the  buy­
ing.  Good  supers  are  also  in  excellent 
demand.  Granites  and  cotton  ingrains 
are  in  only  moderate  request.

in 

Rugs—Manufacturers  are  exceedingly 
busy  on  old  business.  Everything in  the 
rug 
line  is  well  sold  up.  The  big  car­
pet-sized  rugs  in  Brussels  and  Axmins- 
ters  are  receiving  a  larger  call  than  can 
be conveniently provided for.  Small Wil­
ton  rugs  sell  very  readily.  Smyrnas 
in 
the  small  sizes  are  quick  sellers,  but  the 
large-sized  rugs  are 
little  demand. 
Art  squares  makers  are  doing  a  good 
business 
in  all  wool  and  good  super 
grades.

Curtains—Lace  curtains  makers  are 
busy  on  old  orders,  with  plenty  of  new 
ones  coming  in.  Nottingham  curtains 
are  having  a  very  extensive  call.  Bob- 
binets  are  well  thought  of.  Tapestry 
curtains  are  being  sold  in  good  num­
jobbers.  The  cheap  cur­
bers  by  the 
tains  are 
in 
demand. 
Chenille  covers  and  curtains  are  show­
ing  up  better of  late.

largest 

the 

No  Place To  Kiss.

A  man  had  been  absent  for  some 
time,  and  during  his absence  bad  raised 
a  pretty 
luxuriant  crop  of  whiskers, 
mustache,  etc.  On  returning  home  he 
visited  a  relative,  whose  little  girl  he 
was  very  fond  of.

The  little  girl  made  no  demonstration 
toward  saluting  him  with  a  kiss,  as  was 
usual.
the  mother, 
‘ ‘ don’t  you  give  Uncle  Will  a  kiss?”

child,”   said 

“ Why,  ma,”   returned  the  little  girl, 
wtth  the  most  perfect  simplicity,  “ I 
don’t  see  any  place.”

“ Why, 

A  Gentleman’s  Outfit.

From   th e K an sas Gtty W orld.

A  big  placard 

in  the  window  of  a 
clothing  store  in  Minneapolis  reads  as 
follows:

The  Complete  Outfit  of  a  Gentleman 

for $595.

The  display 

includes  every  conceiv­
able  article  of  gentlemen's  wear  from 
top  to toe,  night  gown  and  bouse  slip­
pers  included.

What  do  you  think  of  that,  you  whose 

annual  clothing  bill  runs  under $100?

You  are  no gentleman.
That  is  to  say,  you  are  no  gentleman 
according  to  the  implication  contained 
in  the  above  legend.

lack  $500  worth  of  being  a  com­

You 

plete  gentleman.

Ask  a  child  to  define  the  meaning  of 
the  word  gentleman.  Nine  out  of  ten 
will  say,  “ A  well-dressed  man.”   How 
many  of  them  would  include  a  working 
man,  carrying  home  his  dinner  pail,  in 
the  category  of  a  gentleman?

Is  not  the  clothing  house  legend  cor­
rect?  Does  not  commercialism  edit  the 
modern 
lexicrography?  The  esoteric 
man  is  not  recognized,  the  exoteric  gets 
all  the  credit.
Who  looks  for the  qualities  of  a  gen­
in  a  $7  suit?  Yet  the 
tleman  clothed 
qualities  are  often  there.
The  oid  saying  is  true.
Fine  feathers  do  make  fine  birds.

After  All.
W e take our share o f fretting1,
O f grieving and forgetting;

The  paths are often  rough and steep,  and  heedless 

feet may fa ll;

But yet the days are cherry,
And night brings rest when  weary,

And  somehow  this  old  planet  is  a  good  world, 

after all.

Though sharp may  be  our trouble,
The joys are more than  double,

The brave  surpass  the  cowards  and  the  leal  are 

like a wall

T o guard  their dearest ever,
T o fail the feeblest never;

And  somehow'  this  old  world  remains  a  bright 

world, after all.

There’s alw ays love that’s caring,
And shielding and forbearing,

Dear woman’s love to hold  us  close  and  keep  our 

hearts  in  thrall;

There’s home to share together 
In calm or stormy weather,

And  w'hile  the  hearth-flame  burns  it  is  a  good 

world, after all.

The bugle sounds o f hope  and  faith  through  fogs 

The lisp o f children’s voices,
The chance of happy choices,

and mists that call;

T he heaven that stretches o’er us,
The better days before us,

They all combine to make this earth  a  good  world, 

after all.

M argaret E.  Sangster.

Proof of Favoritism.

Mother— I’m  afraid,  Tommy,  you  are 
not  much  of  a favorite with your teacher.
Tommy— Oh,  yes,  I  am,  mamma;  she 
makes  me  stay  after  school  every  day, 
just  to  keep  her  company.

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Retailer of Fine  Rugs and  Carpets. 
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t We cater to first class  trade  and  If  you  J 
We cater to first class  trade  and  If  you
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Things  We  Sell

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

Weatherly &  Pulte

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sbinola

The  finest  Shoe  Polish made.  Gives a lasting 

shine.  Water does  not  affect  it.

One  gross  large  (10  cent size),  $10.00.

5 per cent.  off.

Free

With each  gross,  a  fine  Oriental  Rug,  36x72.
Just  what you  want  in  your shoe  department.

Write  now. 

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100  CANDLE  POWER 
GRAVITY  GASOLINE 

LIGHT

CLEAR,  POWERFUL,  WHITE, 

SMOKELESS

At  a  cost  of 

Two-tenths of  a  cent 

per  hour.

We  also Manufacture 

a  full  line  of 

Pressure  System Lamps.

From  Lowest Grade  of Gasoline

Send  for Catalogue.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp  Co.

206  Kinzie  St.,  Chicago,  111.

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(Against  the  Trust.)

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J  ABE^THE  STANDAB 

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Buy or your Jo6bieR;<3nsist upon  settins  the  Pelouze  make

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Your  Orders

R u b b e r s . 

in now  for  H o o d   and  O l d  
You 
C o l o n y  
will soon  need  them and  we 
can take  good  care  of  you 
now.
Either mail them  or  drop 
us a card  and  we  will  have 
our  salesman  call  on  you 
soon.

We are the  main  push on 
the above goods for this part 
of  the country.

■ L Dudley Rubber Co. 

tie  Creek, Mich.

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Good  Solid  Shoes 
Make  Good  Solid  Profit

Such  is  the  kind  of  shoes  we  make.  Every 
pair of our own  make  shoes  is  a  profit  bringer, 
a solid  stepping stone  to  financial  success.  Try 
them.  Verify  the  above statement for yourself.

Herold=Bertsch 5hoe  Co.

Makers of  5hoes,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Men’s Work Shoes

Snedicor & 
Hathaway 
Line
N°-  743- 

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

Carried  in sizes 6 to  12.

Geo.  H.  Reeder & Co.

Grand Rapids

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ably  and  thus  add  or  lessen  by  a  few 
cents  per  pair  the  cost  of  ordinary 
grades  of  shoes,  while 
locations  may 
save  some  expense  in  rents,  insurance, 
power  and  small  items.  There  is  but 
small  danger  of  anyone  losing  money 
from  any  large  item  that  is  included  in 
manufacturing,  but  it  is  from  innumer­
able  small 
items  that  trouble  arises 
— those  that  are  either  overlooked  or 
thought  to  be  of  so  little  consequence 
that  they  are  hardly  worthy  entering 
into  the  estimate.

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

G o o d   M a n a g e m e n t  M o re   I m p o r t a n t   T h a n  

L o c a tio n .

Manufacturers  of  shoes  are  like  other 
people,  and  none  can  expect  to  possess 
all  the  business  qualities  that  are  desir­
able.  Some  of  them  are  exceedingly 
efficient  in  one  branch,  such  as  selling, 
or  perhaps  a  man  may  be  an  expert 
shoemaker and  therefore  qualified  to  act 
as  superintendent,  or  he  may  be  a  fine 
financier,  as  well  as  an  expert  office 
head,  or  he  may  be  an  organizer  of  the 
„highest  degree,  but  it  is  rare  that  he  is 
a  combination  of  all  the  requisites  to 
success,  and  therefore  some  parts  of  the 
management  of  the  factory  must  be  at­
tended  to  by  others. 
In  this  respect  an 
extensive  manufacturer  has  an  advan­
tage  over  the  small  one,  because  he  is 
enabled,  and  bis  business  will  warrant 
the  engaging  of  assistants  for  each  de­
partment  at  high  salaries,  while  the 
small  manufacturer  is  often  obliged  to 
overload  himself  with  the  details  that 
attend  the  work  from cutting to packing. 
Where  two  practical  shoe  men  can  join 
in  manufacturing,  or  even  three,  and 
one  is  especially  adapted  to  the  cutting 
and  fitting,  as  well  as  the  buying  of 
stock,  and  another  is  fully  as  qualified 
to  take  entire  charge  of  the  making, 
and  the  other  is  an  expert  accountant 
and  financier,  success  is  almost  assured 
from  the  first.  But  harmony  must  exist 
between  them  or  the  life  of  the  concern 
is  very  short.  A  sharp,  shrewd  manu­
facturer of  the present  day  takes  nothing 
for  granted,  but  facts  and  figures  must 
be  shown  to  prove  everything.  The  j 
profits  of  manufacturing  are  governed 
by  the  methods  and  ability  of  those  in 
the  factory  who have charge of the differ­
ent  departments,but  what  the  profits  are 
is  determined  by  figures,therefore  much 
responsibility  rests  with  the  office.

There 

is  one  detail  we  wish  to  call 
the  attention  of  all  manufacturers  to, 
and  that  is  the  estimate  of  cost  of  pro­
duction.  Very  few  manufacturers  have 
a  full  and  complete  estimate  sheet  by 
which  they  are  guided  in  figuring  the 
cost  of  a  new  shoe.  Estimates  of  cost 
should  show  such  figures  as  will  at  the 
end  of  the  season  correspond  with  the 
proved  cost. 
If  estimates  are  made 
with 
the  care  and  correctness  they 
should  be  they  will.  Failure  will  in  no 
if  estimates  are  correct. 
case  ensue 
Then  why 
is 
it  not  best  to  spend  the 
extra  time  that  carefulness  and  correct­
ness  demand?  One  may  add  a  column 
of  figures  very  rapidly  if  no  regard  is 
given  to  correctness.  But  does  it  pay?
A  man  may  he  wholly  unacquainted 
with  the  business  and  still  make  a  suc-
cess  if  be 
is  a  natural  financier  and 
book-keeper,  whereas  there  are  many 
thorough  shoe  men  who  are  failures  as 
manufacturers  because  they 
leave  too 
much  to  chance.  There  is  no  mystery 
to  sboemaking  and  if  care  is  exercised 
in  selecting  lieutenants  there  should  be 
no  trouble.  But here we  find  a stumbling 
block.  There  are  foremen  and  foremen, 
and  although  one  may  be  very  highly 
recommended  he  must  be  tried  before  it 
is  known  how  he  can  fill  the  bill  under 
new  conditions.

there 

Although 

is  still  some  oppor-
tunity  for a  good  judge  of  upper  stock 
to  secure  bargains  and  save  small 
amounts,  there  are  no  such  chances  as 
existed  a  few  years  ago.  Grades  and 
qualities  are  held  pretty  closely  to  set 
prices  that  do  not  vary  much  as  one 
visits  tanner  after  tanner.  The  methods 
used  in  the  factory  may  vary  consider-

Success  appears  to  be  as  certain  to 
follow  careful  manufacturing  in  one  lo­
cate n  as  another  if  we  may  judge  by 
the  results  as  seen. 
It  depends  wholly 
on  the  man,  as  it  would  do  if  any  other 
kind  of  enterprise  was  undertaken,  and 
while  there  may  be  an  advantage  in 
some  cases  to  locate  where  educated 
help  abounds 
is  just  as 
certain  that  time  and  perseverance  ac­
companied  with good  judgment  will  ed­
ucate  green  help  to  work  according  to 
ideas  of  the  manufacturer.  Sometimes 
the  latter  method  is  fully  as  satisfactory 
as the  former.— Boot  and Shoe Recorder.

in  plenty 

it 

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r o r  y o u r  m o n e j .
No matter where you live 
you can  keep  your  money 
safe in our  bank,  and  you 
can  g e t i t
immediately  an d   easily 
when you want to use it.
Any person living with­
in  the  reach  of  a  Post 
Office  or  Express  Office 
can deposit  money  with 
us without risk or trouble.
_ Our  financial  responsi­
bility  is
91, 960,000
There  is  no  safer  bank 
than ours.  Money intrust-  B 
ed to us is absolutely secure  f i  
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and draws 

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Your dealings with us are 
perfectly  confidential.
“ Banking b y  M ail”
is the name of an  interest- 
ng book we publish which 
tells  how  anyone  can  do 
their  banking  with  us  by 
mail; how to send money or 
make deposits by  mail; 
and  important  things 
persons  should  know 
who want to keep their 
money  safe  and  well 
invested. 
It  will  be 
sen t free upon request.
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B a n k ,

Grant!  fTaplda,  Mich.

Get  our  prices  and  try 
our  work  when you need

Rubber  and
Steel  Stamps

Seals,  etc.

Send  for  Catalogue  and  see  what 

we  offer.

Detroit  Rubber Stamp Co.

99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit,  Mich.

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A  Test  Case

The  Michigan  Tradesman  claims it  reaches more good dealers  in  Michigan  and  Indiana than any other trade journal in the country. 
To test the truth  of this assertion  we will  sell  (if you will  mail the orders direct  to  us  and  mention  the  Michigan  Tradesman), 
tour shoes cheaper than any other factory  in the  West.  Order our numbers:

225  Men’s  Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top,  full  double sole and  tap bals, 
gi.75
225 'A  Men’s  Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top,  full  double  sole and  tap blucher,  1.75
226  Men s  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full double sole ar.d tap bals, 
2.00 
226^  Men’s  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full double sole and  tap blucher,  2.00

These shoes are cut out of Albert  Trestle  &  Son’s  Kangaroo  Calf  and  made  in  our  Northville  factory. 
stamped on  the sole of each shoe and  “Rodgers  Means  Reliable  ”  Order to-day.

“Rodgers”  is 

Rodgers  Shoe  Company

Toledo,  Ohio

Factory  a t  N orthville,  Mich.

A 

in  these 

lines  will 

lady  playing 

machine,  in  some 
instances  through  a 
dozen  or  more  before  it  is  completed. 
Laymen  are 
surprised  when  shown 
through  an  up-to-date  legging  factory  at 
the  rapidity  with  which  the  work  is 
done. 
In  many  cases  work  is  produced 
in  five  minutes  that  formerly  took  an 
hour,  and  at  the  same  time  it  is  exe­
cuted  in  better  fashion  now.  The  over­
gaiter  and  legging,  especially  in  colder 
climates,  is  an  absolute  necessity.  The 
class  of  goods  out  of  which  they  are 
made  has  greatly  changed,  especially 
introduction  of  water-proofed  ma­
the 
terials.  Prices  of 
leggings  have  been 
reduced,so  that  any  one  can  wear  them.
The  prospects  are  that  the  volume  ol 
business 
increase 
year  after  year.  The  tendency  was  for 
a  cheap  article,  but  owing  to  the  good 
times  under  which  we  are  now 
living, 
better  goods  are  selling;  the  customer 
really  wants  the  best  he  can  get.  Over­
gaiters  and 
leggings  are  made  out  of 
every  kind  of  material  and  in  hundreds 
of  styles,  according  to  the  want  they 
are  to  fill. 
golf 
and  wearing one  of  thenew-style leather 
leggings  would 
look  much  better  than 
one  wearing  a  7-button  gaiter.  For chil­
dren  the  Fauntleroys,  made  of  either 
leather,  corduroy  or  canvas,  are  the 
most  popular  things;  for  misses  and 
women  the  Jersey 
for  men 
styles  vary;  still  most  of  the  gentlemen 
prefer  8-button  gaiters  for  street  wear. 
For  riding,  golf  and other outdoor sports 
the  leather  legging  with  the  long  strap 
or  snap  button  is  the  thing.  The  popu­
larity  of  the  automobile  will  greatly  in­
crease 
for  high-priced 
leggings,especially  since  the  long  coun­
try  runs  have  been  introduced  and  be­
come  so  popular.  Leggings  are  being 
made  for  both  men  and  women  “ auto- 
ists”   to  match  the  costume,  be it leather 
or  cloth.  We  know  of  an  instance  where 
a  certain 
leather  magnate  owns  a  pair 
of  leggings  that  cost  him  more  than 
many  people  formerly  paid  for  a  suit  of 
clothes,  being  about  $25.  Of  course, 
every  autoist  can  not  afford  such  an 
outlay.  But,  as  the  prevailing  custom  is 
to  outdo  your  neighbor,  we  do  not know 
what  the  high  price  for  automobile  leg­
gings  will  eventually  be.— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

the  demand 

legging; 

A  new  field  of  employment has opened 
for  women, 
ft  is  said  that  over  a  hun­
dred  are  engaged  as  meat  cutters  in 
shops  in  New  York.  The  effort  to  pro­
scribe  women  to  certain  fields  of  en­
deavor,  seems  to  be  a  failure.  They  are 
bound  to  step  in  everywhere  and  as  im­
provements  tend  to  make  all  sorts  of 
labor 
lighter  and  more  congenial  and 
open  up  new  avenues,the sphere  of  their 
activity  can  not  but  broaden.

Stock  No.  225 

Price $1.75

Introduction  and  Success  of  Overgaiters 

and  Leggings.

Who  was  the  originator of  these  pro­
tectors,  or  who  first  manufactured  them, 
is  hard  to  tell.  They  were  considered 
at  one  time  a  novelty  and  men  who 
wore  them  to  match  their  trousers  were 
considered  dudes.  That  was  a  wrong 
impression,  as  these  men  ought  to  have 
been  classed  as  good  dressers,  for  there 
are  men  even  now  who  do not wear over­
gaiters  and  are  classed  as dudes  just  the 
same.  An  overgaiter  or  legging  is  now 
considered  an  article  of  necessity  as 
much  as  other  things  that  are  worn  for 
warmth  and  they  have  been  so 
looked 
upon  for  many  years.  However,  up 
to  about  1898  the  demand  for 
these 
goods  was  not  as  great  as  it is now.  The 
consumption  was  larger  or  smaller  ac­
cording  to  the  severity  of  the  seasons 
and 
increased  as  the  people  were  edu­
cated  to  the  comfort  of  the  overgaiter 
or 
legging.  Ever  since  our  little  tus 
sle  with  Spain  the  sale,especially  of  the 
laced  legging,  has  increased. 
military 
When  our  boys 
in  blue  returned  they 
were  envied  by  others  that  had  not  been 
to  the  war  and,  of  course,  the  best  the 
“ stay-at-homes”   could  do  was  to  buy  a 
pair  of  leggings  if  they  had  the  price.
in  the  cities  were  they 
worn,  but 
in  the  suburbs  and  the  far­
away,  farms  also.  Of  course,  it created 
such  an  immense  demand  that  the  man­
ufacturer  had  to  devise  ways  and  means 
large 
for  producing 
quantities.  With 
im­
provement  of  the  various  machines  now 
used  in  our  factories,  substituting  band 
labor,  there  has  been  constant  progress 
in  the  perfection  of  the  output  and  also 
in  the 
lessening  of  the  cost  of  produc 
tion.

the  continued 

Not  alone 

goods 

these 

in 

These 

various  machines, 

together 
with  the  keen  competition  in  the  busi­
ness,  make 
it  necessary  to  adopt  as 
soon  as  perfected  all  of  the  latest  de­
vices.  The  most  expensive  machines 
are  in  the  end  the  cheapest,  because  an 
employe  thereby produces  so  much  more 
work;  at  the  same  time  employes  are 
receiving  more  wages  than  ever  before; 
instances  as  much  as  50  per 
in  many 
cent,  more  than  before  the 
introduction 
labor  and  time  saving  ma­
of  these 
chines.  The 
introduction  of  this  ma­
chinery,  and  consequent  cheapening  of 
the  product,  has  so  increased  the  out­
put  that  there  are  now  many more  work­
ers, 
excellent 
wages.

all  of  whom  receive 

In  former  years  a  legging cut  by  band 
was  then  finished  by  one machine.  This 
has  been  radically  changed.  The  cut­
is  done  by  electricity,  and  then 
ting 
the 
legging  passes  from  machine 
to

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Mayer’s Shoes for the

FARM ER,  MINER,  LABORER,  etc.,  are  made  of  strong 
and  tough  leather.  They are leliable in  every  respect and are 
guaranteed to give satisfactory wear.

Dealers who want  to sell  shoes that  give  the  best  satisfac­
tion and bring  new trade  want our line.  Write for  particulars.

F.  MAYER  BOOT  &  SHOE  CO.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.

We  suggest  that  you  take 
a  critical  look  at  this  shoe. 
It’s our Hard Pan.

You get far  more wear  and 
a better  fit  in  our  Hard  Pan 
than  is contained  in the aver­
age working shoe.

None  genuine  unless  our
trade mark is stamped on the
sole.

HARD  PAN

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  «   Co.,  Ltd., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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A  Commercial  Instance  of  Like  .Curiug 

Like.
Written for the Tradesman.

Townville  is  a  little  world  by 

itself. 
It  is  a  good  way  off  from  a  railroad, 
and  only  when  a  strong  wind  is  in  the 
right  direction  can  the  scream  of  the 
locomotive  be  heard  and  then  but 
faintly. 
Its  isolation  accounts  in  part 
for  its  leading  characteristic—the  home 
types.  To  the  number  of  inhabitants 
the  per  cent,  in  this  respect  is  higher 
than  anywhere  else 
in  the  United 
States.  Uncle  Ben Bates when enthroned 
on  or  in  the  only  splint-bottomed  chair 
in  the  store  sits  without  peer  as  a  story 
teller.  Susan  Finch,  “ born  and  brought 
in  Townville,”   went  to 
up  right  here 
the  city  and 
learned  her  trade  as  a 
dressmaker  and  she  rules,  the  queen  of 
her  art,  in  her  native  “ city” —Town­
ville 
is  ambitious—of  three  hundred 
souls.  Eben  Brooks  is  the  leader  of  the 
brass  band—a 
leader,  mind  you—and 
woe  to  the  human  biped  that  questions 
that  in  the  presence  of  a  Townvillain. 
Mehitable  Mowy—she  that  was  a  Spen­
cer—is  unsurpassed  as  a gossip.  Deacon 
Jehial  Wright  stands  the  acknowledged 
first  in  church  matters  and  “ boss  trad­
in’  ”   and  Nance  Hacket  owns  and  con­
stantly  uses  the  tartest  tongue  that  ever 
wagged  at  both  ends.

In  most  pla—cities  like  Townville the 
storekeeper  is  the  leading  citizen.  He 
used  to  be,  there;  but  the  coming  of 
Nance  Hacket  changed  all  that  and  for 
years  Seth  Gregory  became  and  re­
mained  a  nonentity. 
If  he  dared  to  say 
his  soul  was  bis  own,  he  never  did  and 
“ the  things  that  poor  man  put  up  with 
from  that  woman”   was  the  town  talk.
Her  method  was  the  common  one. 
She could and  did outtalk,  above,  around 
and  under,  any  ten  that  could  combine 
against  her.  Seth  was  a  good  ordinary, 
everyday  talker;  she  was  the  expert. 
Seth  knew  a  good  bargain  when  he  saw 
it  and  generally  came  out  ahead,  but 
not  with  Nancy  Hacket;  and  a  circus 
with  two  rings 
in  it,  Ben  Bates  said, 
was  a  pin  show  to  what  Nance  Hacket 
could  set  up  every  time  she  and  Seth 
met  for  purposes  of  barter  over  the 
counter.  For  a  good  many  years  the 
storekeeper  held  his  own,  but  he  was 
human  and  had  to  give  up  at  last.  The 
masculine  tongue  has  its  limits and with 
as  good  a  grace  as  possible  he 
left  the 
in  possession  of  the  enemy  who 
field 
lorded 
it  as  the  woman  will  when  vic­
tory  crowns  her.

It  was  not 

in  Seth  Gregory’s  make­
up,  however,  to  submit  completely  and 
unconditionally.  He  did  take  to  cover 
under  Nance  Hacket’s  fire,  but  he 
in  secret  and  vowed 
ground  his  teeth 
unnumbered  vows  that  the 
long  lane 
must  turn  and  he  would  have  bis  hour 
of  victory  at  last.  It  was  the  wail  of  the 
conquered  and  received  the  usual  atten­
tion.

One  day  when  Seth  bad  thrown  down 
his  arms  and 
left  the  field  sorer  than 
usual,  the  door  opened  and  in  came  a 
drummer,  who  said  be  had  wandered 
away  from  civilization,  had 
lost  bis 
way  and  would  his  friend,  the  trader, 
give  him  his  bearings  and  head  him  to­
wards  home  at  once?  He  promised  on 
his  honor  never  to  offend  Providence 
again  and  he  would  remember  the store­
keeper’s  kindness  to  his  dying  day. 
That  was  the  gist  of  what  the  fellow 
said,  but  it  took  an  even  hour  and  a 
half  to  say  it  and  when  he  got  through 
he  was  surprised  to  see  in  Seth’s  eyes 
an  appreciation  rarely  attending  his 
efforts.  Thus  silently  encouraged  the 
drummer  proceeded  to  recompense  the

trader  for  his  kindness.  He  opened  his 
sample  case  and  at  the  same  time  the 
treasures  of  his  commercial  experience. 
Both  were  densely  packed  and  the  con­
tents  of  both  were  duly  displayed  and 
admired.

Long  before  the  double  display  was 
over  Seth  Gregory  bad  perfected  his 
plans  and  proceeded  to  carry  them  out. 
He  found  the  drummer  weary  of  travel­
ing  and  longing  for  a  period  of  needed 
rest.  He  encouraged  it.  Traveling  was 
exhausting,  especially  to  a  man  best 
described  by  the  word  hustle.  He 
should  get  out  of  the  monotonous  trade 
lines  and  seek  rest  and  refreshment 
in 
pastures  new.  The  bustle  of  the  world 
was  asserting  itself  and  was  proving  too 
much  for  him.  How  would 
it  do  to 
summer  in  Townville?  He  needed  the 
leaves  and
town—its 

its  green 

rest, 

Kent  County 

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

exceed  $ 2 ,3 0 0 ,0 0 0

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

The  banking  business  of 
Merchants,  Salesmen  and 
Individuals solicited.

Cor.  Canal  and  Lyon  Sts.

Grand  Rapids, Michigan

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Plush  Robes 
Fur  Robes 
Fur  Coats

If  you  are  not  supplied  send 
us  your  orders.

W e  want  your  orders  for 
Saddlery  Hardware  and  our 
own  make  of  Harness.

Brown  &  Sehier,

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lanes  and,  wbat  was  more  to  the 
green 
purpose,  the  town  needed  him.  They— 
the  town  folks— were  getting  rusty  from 
lack  of  contact  with  the  world  outside— 
his  world. 
It  was  easy  to  bring  about. 
He  was  here— why  not  stay?  A  month 
should  cost  him  nothing.  His  bouse 
was  small,  but 
it  was  comfortable,  and 
his  wife  was  the  neatest  woman  in  the 
county  and  by  all  odds  the  best  cook. 
Townville  was  cool  and  the  elms  in  his 
yard  made  his  house  the  coolest 
in  the 
If  be  got  tired  of  loafing  he  could 
city. 
into  the  store  and  he  would  pay 
come 
him  well  for  his  services. 
It  would  do 
his  customers  good  to  come  in  contact 
with  an  expert  behind 
the  counter. 
From  the  trade  point  of  view  it  would 
pay. 
“ Think  of  it  until  after  dinner 
and  make  up  your  mind  to  try  it.’ ’
Wait  ’til  after dinner  nothing ! 

I’m j 
ready  to  begin  now. 
I  like  the  looks 
of  the  town.  I  like  the  looks  of  the  store 
and  to  be  candid  about 
it  I  like  the 
looks  o’  you.  Tell  me  where  to  hang 
I’m  yours  for  what  there  is  of 
my  hat. 
this  month  and  next.  Any 
‘queers’ 
among  your customers?”

just 

“ None  that  require  careful  handling. 
Miss  Hacket'll  try  to  talk  you  down. 
Folks  around  here  have  kind  o’  given 
way  to  her  in  talking  matches  and  1 
guess  she  thinks  herself  that  that's 
I’m  not  gifted  that 
where  she  shines. 
way  and 
let  her  run  on.  She’s 
keen  on  a  bargain,  too,  and  she  doesn't 
give  up  worth  a  cent.  If  she  downs  you 
I  don't  care.  She  isn’t  worth  minding 
and  I  want  you  to  have  a  good  restful 
time  while  you’ re  here,  and  you  can't 
if  you  let  that  critter  bother  you.  You'll 
know  her  by  her  chin  and  nose— they're 
both 
long—and  by  her  big  gold  spec­
tacles.”

The  way  the  drummer  went  behind 
the  counter  showed  that  he'd  been  there 
before;  and  the  dinner  hour  was  hardly 
over  before  all  of Townville’s  three hun­
dred  inhabitants  were  telling  or  hearing 
that  a  fellow  by  the  name  of  Rigby  had 
gone  to  clerking  for  Gregory.  By  hall 
past  one  the  trade  began  and  it  con­
tinued  lively  for  the  next  week,  much  to 
the  storekeeper's  satisfaction,  who  be­
gan  to  see  that  he  had  been  sharp 
enough  to  kill  two  birds  with  one  stone.
When  Nance  beard  of  the  change  she 
listened  and 
laughed.  She  was  glad 
Seth  had  at  last  “ sprunted  up  and  bad 
decided  to  be  somebody.”   She  hoped 
the  newcomer  wasn’t  a  chump  and 
little  of  life  in  him. 
hoped  he  bad  a 
“ Let’s  see,  to-day’s  Thursday. 
I’ll  go 
over  to-morrow—that’s  their  quiet day— 
and  sort  o’ 
look  him  over;”   and  ac­
cording  to  the  programme  she  left  the 
house  at  exactly  nine  o’clock. 
“ Con­
science  knows  that  three  hours  are  long 
enough  for  anybody  to  do  her  trading.”  
She  carried  a  basket  of  new-laid  eggs 
and  as  noiselessly  as  a  summer  zephyr 
entered  the  store  and  placed  her  basket 
on  the  counter.

“ Mr.  Rigby,  I  suppose?”   she  re­
marked  with  a  smile  as  thoroughly  and 
as  carefully  preserved  as  the  corkscrew 
curls  that  adorned  her  temples.

“ Korect.  Admiram  Judson  Mont 
morency  Rigby,  recently  drummer  for 
the  firm  of  Jared,  Sparks  &  Company, 
notions.  Two  square  miles  of  flooring 
in  the  establishment,  corner  Dearborn 
and  Atlantic  avenues,  second  only  in 
wealth  and  influence  to  the  house  of  the 
Seth  Gregory  Company 
in  Townville, 
this  State. ”

There  were  ten  minutes  of  this  with­
out  a  break.  Three  distinct  times  did 
the  lips  relax  the  smile  for  commercial 
purposes  and  as  often  the  canned  article

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assumed  its  old  place  on  the  waiting 
lips.  When  the  history  of  the  Chicago 
house  was  minutely  given  and  his  own 
story  had  been  told  the  basket  of  eggs 
requisite  attention,  but 
received  the 
there  was  no  break 
in  the  sentence 
which  began  with  “ Korect.”

“ Oh,  yes,  eggs—nine  cents 

is  what 
we’re  paying  this  morning,  leave  ’em 
or  not— rather  you  wouldn’t—don’t  look 
fresh—rather  buy  your  poultry  after  it’s 
hatched  —  dry  goods  —  this?— this? — 
this?” —he  touched  the  piece  goods  as 
he  spoke  and  each  contact  of  cloth  and 
finger  was  met  with  rigid  lips,  protrud­
ing  chin  and  slowly  winking  eyes—“ no 
trade 
this  morning—all  right,  come 
again” — the  owner  vigorously  clutched 
her  basket—“   ‘ Fare  you  well,  my  own 
Mary  Ann’—‘ Tra-la,  Matildy!'  ”   and 
as  the  woman  disappeared  around  the 
corner  the  drummer  and  Seth  fell  across 
the  counter  and  laughed until their  sides 
were  sore.

Nancy  Hacket  could  not  stand  defeat 
and  exactly  two  weeks  from  the  date  of 
it  the  Townvilleites  numbered  two  hun­
dred  and  ninety-nine.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

H ow  to   M ake  P in  M on ey.

Fashionable  taste  has  decreed 

that 
dainty  chirography  on  pretty  gift  hand­
kerchiefs  and  other  articles  gives  to 
them  an.  additional  value,  and  this  is 
why  some  young  women  are  now  mak­
ing  more  than  needful  pin  money.  An 
additional  advantage  of  the  occupation 
is  that  they  can  do  the  work  to suit their 
own 
convenience,  not  being  at  the 
“ beck  and  call”   of  an  employer.  The 
nicety  of  the  work  of  one  of  these  girls 
in  an  F.astern  city 
is  well  understood, 
and  so  it  comes  about  that  much  of  the 
household  linen,  napkins,  towels,  hand­
kerchiefs  and  bridal  outfits  there  bear 
the  print  of  her  delicate  touch.  For 
weeks  before  the  holidays  she  is  kept 
busy  marking  the  hundreds  of  articles 
to  be  given  away.  For  weeks  after  her 
nimble  fingers  are  no  less  busily  em­
ployed  marking  the  hundreds  that  have 
been  received.

In  the  fall  the  wardrobes  of  the  young 
girls  going  off  to  the  college  and  semi­
nary  must  be  marked,  and  so 
this 
young  woman  with  the  deft fingers reaps 
another  harvest.  She  stiffens  the  cor­
ner  of  each  handkerchief  crosswise—a 
space  just 
large  enough  to  take  in  the 
name—with  cold  starch  and presses with 
a  very  hot  iron,  thus  making  the  fabric 
like  paper  to  write  upon.

At 50 Cents on the  Dollar

The largest  stock of Gas and  Gasoline Mantles ever unloaded  in  Mich­
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offers for sale at  par value,  i,ooo shares  of  $ioo  each  of  its  six  per 
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the rate of  six  percent,  per annum from  August  i,  1902,  (the  com­
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cent,  dividend  February  1  next, and  three  (3I  per  cent,  every  six 
months thereafter.  This stock  has  preference  also  to  the  common 
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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 
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already more than realized.

Why  Such  Success?

Merchants everywhere are awakening to the 
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too expensive, to say  nothing  about  the  quality 
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every hand, business  men  and  others  all  along 
the line are taking advantage of  the  merits  em­
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Woman’s  World

Degradation  of  ttie  Woman  With  the 

Wheelbarrow,

Those  of  us  who  are  interested  in  the 
well-being  of  our  sex  and  who  are  toil­
ing  with  tongue  and  pen,  striving  to 
gain  for  women  the  right  to  make  an 
honest  living  and  to  stand  free  and 
equal  before  the 
law  with  man,  read 
with  an  aching  heart  the  statement  of 
one  of  the  engineers  of  the  St.  Louis, 
Memphis  &  Southeastern  Railroad  that 
he  had  three  women  employed  in wheel­
ing  dirt  on  his  construction  work.

“ It  staggered  me  a  bit  when  I  first 
observed  them,”   said  the  gentleman, 
“ but  when  I  saw  the  relentless  energy 
with  which 
they  hiked  overloaded 
wheelbarrows  up  the  dump,  my  pity 
went  out  to  the  barrows. 
Instead  of 
their  being  objects  of  sympathy,  one  is 
rather  inclined  to  envy  their  vigorous 
health  and  strength.

“ The  party 

is  composed  of  a  man, 
his  wife  and  two  stalwart  sisters.  There 
is  a  difference  in  the  ability  of  husband 
and  wife  to  handle  a  barrow  of  clods 
and  the  comparison  is  all  in  favor of the 
woman.  The  women  say  railroad  work 
pays  them  a  great  deal  better  and  is 
much  easier  than  the  toil  they  are  ac­
customed  to.  They  take  their  turn  right 
alongside  the  men  and  wheel  full 
loads 
in  their  barrows  every  trip.  They would 
laugh  at  you 
if  you  were  to  offer  any 
concessions  to  their  sex  in  the  way  of 
reducing  their  freightage. 
is 
pretty hard  to  get  this  year  and  it  would 
not  surprise  me 
if  the  contractors  did 
not  have 
their  gangs  with 
quite  a  number  of  women  before  the
season  is  over.”

to  fill  out 

Labor 

One  of  the  sights  in  Europe  that 
never  fail  to  shock  and  horrify  Ameri­
cans 
is  the  spectacle  of  women  made 
mere  beasts  of  burden,  sometimes  yoked 
by  the  side  of  a  cow  or  dog,  pulling 
heavy 
loads,  every  particle  of  beauty, 
grace  and  womanliness  crushed  out  of 
face  and  figure  by  inherited  centuries 
of  toil.  That  such  a  condition  of'affairs 
is  coming  to  pass  in  our  own  country  is 
enough  to  st rike  terror  to  our  souls.

the  strength 

Such  a  scene 

is  a  searchlight  turned 
on  the  decadence  of  man.  Where  now 
is 
that  once  protected 
woman?  Where  the  tenderness  that 
kept  her  safe  within  the  shelter  of  her 
that 
home?  Where 
reverence 
shielded  her  from  contact  with 
the 
roughness,  the  vulgarity,  the  profanity 
of  the  common  sweating,  swearing  ditch 
digger?

the 

There  was  a  time  when  the  poorest 
and  most  ignorant  white  man  in  Amer­
ica  would  have  died  before  he  would 
have  seen  his  womankind  degraded  to 
such  labor;  there  was  a  time  when  any 
man  so  employing  women  would  have 
been  ostracized  by  every  decent  man, 
and  the  pity  of  the  thing  is  that  these 
days  are  gone.

For  you  can  not  brutalize  the  women 
of  a  land  without  degarding  the  whole 
people.  The  stream  of  race  rises  no 
higher  than  its  fountain  of  motherhood. 
The  peasant  women  of Europe, degraded 
to  the  level  of  the  beast,  bring  forth  the 
narrow-foreheaded,  evil-passioned  peas­
ant—“ brother  to  the  ox.”   From  the 
cabin  of  the  poor  American mother have 
come 
the  poets,  painters,  soldiers, 
statesmen,  that  have  made  our  country 
great,  but  they  will  come  no 
longer 
when,  as  the  chivalrous  railroad  builder 
prophesies,  women  are  a  familiar  sight 
wheeling  dirt  on  railroad embankments!
This  is  not  to  contend  that  women

should  not  labor.  No  woman  any  more 
than  any  man  has  a  right  to  eat  the 
bread  of  idleness  and  defraud  the  world 
of  the  use  of  her  brain  and  hands.  Tak­
ing  things  on  a  mere  brute  basis,  there 
is,  perhaps,  no  reason  why  the  woman 
with  physical  strength  enough  should 
not  even  wheel  dirt  or  do  any  other  ex­
hausting  physical 
labor,  but  the  sum 
of  human  progress  has  been  the  strug­
gle  away  from  brutal 
its 
crowning  test  the  deference  with  which 
women  are  treated.

ideals  and 

lighter  forms  of  toil 

Civilization  has  made  us  relegate  to 
woman  the 
the 
work  for  which  her  phvsique  fitted  her, 
and  which  could  be  done  safe  from  de­
grading  conditions,and  to  change  this— 
to  send  her to  sweep  the  streets,  to throw 
up  railroad  embankments,  to  stand  be­
hind  the  plow— is  a  distinct  step  back­
ward. 
is  man’s  to  bear  the  heavy 
burdens  of  life,  woman’s  to  add  grace 
and  refinement  to  it;  and  it  speaks  ill 
for  any  community  that  permits  these 
conditions  to  be  altered.

It 

It  will,  of  course,  be  claimed  by  the 
prejudiced  and  the  narrow-minded  that 
the  woman  with  the  wheelbarrow  is  the 
result  of  woman's  rights,  that  woman 
demanded  the  privilege  of  working  and 
that  she  has  gotten  it  with  a  vengeance.
Nothing  could  be  a  greater  mis-state­
ment  of  the  case.  No  woman  bears  such 
burdens  unless  they are  thrust  upon  her; 
no  woman 
leaves  her  home  for  such 
work  unless her  hearthstone  is  cold  and 
her  cupboard  bare.  When  she  must  go 
out  into  the  world  and  work  or  else 
starve,  she  goes  and  pushes  a  wheel­
barrow  or  does  anything  else  she  can 
for  bread.

The  shame  of  such  a  condition  of 
affairs  rests  wholly  with  man.  Behind 
every  working  woman  you  will 
find 
some  man's  failure.  The  spendthrift, 
the  drunken  husband,  the  no-account 
son, 
the  gambling  brother—these  are 
the  causes  that  send  women  to the stage, 
the  paint  brush,  the needle,  the washtub, 
the  boarding-house  and 
the  wheel­
barrow.

They  have  always  existed,  and  all 
that we  have  done  in  modern  times  is  to 
try  to  ameliorate  the  fate  of  the  women 
whose  men  had  failed  in  their  duty  to 
them.  Time  was  when  a  woman  went 
hungry  and  in  rags  if  the  men  on  whom 
she  depended  failed  to  provide  for  her. 
We  have  made  it  so  she  can  provide  for 
herself,  for  it  is  better  for  the  woman’s 
soul  that  she  even  push  a  wheelbarrow 
than  that  she  eat  of  bread  grudgingly 
given.

it 

in  her  existence,  as 

We  hear  a  great  deal  of  the  unquiet 
sex,  and 
is  the  fashion  to  represent 
woman  as  a  unnatural  creature  who  is  a 
monster  of  ambition  and  industry  and 
who  pines  to 
leave  a  luxurious  home 
for  the  pleasure  of  standing  behind  a 
counter  or  pounding  a  typewriter  or 
dragging  around  the  one-night  stands.
Nobody,  personally,  ever  meets  such 
a  woman,  but  we  have  a  childlike  be­
lief 
in  the  bad 
witch  in  the  fairy  tale,  and  we  pity  her 
men  relation  accordingly.  The  truth 
is  that,  except  in  rare  instances,  noth­
ing  but  dire  necessity  drives  a  woman 
away  from  home.  It  is  the voice  of little 
children  crying  to  her  for  bread  and 
not  the  whisper  of  ambition  that  drives 
her  on;  it 
is  the  need  of  those  she 
loves  and  not  selfish  or  vain  glory  that 
nails  her  to  her  task  when  her  heart 
faints  within  her  and  her  courage  turns 
to  water.

The question  of  the  working  woman is 
a  great  problem,  economically,  socially, 
morally,  that  the  wisest  among  us  may

3u liu $   J L   3.  T r ie d r ic b

30 and 32 Banal st., 
Brand Rapids, tllicb.

Pianos*  Organs*

Sheet  music, 
Calking machines*

and  all  h in d s  of 

Sm all  m u sic a l  In stru m e n ts

Right  Roods,  R ight  P ric es  an d   R ight  T reatm en t  is  our  m otto

A  Business  Hint

A   s u g g e s t e d   n e e d   o f t e n   r e p e a t e d   c r e a t e s   t h e  

w a n t   t h a t   s e n d s   t h e   p u r c h a s e r   t o   t h e   s t o r e .

E v e r y   d e a le r  

s h o u l d   h a v e   h i s   s h a r e   o f   t h e  
p r o f i t   t h a t   r e v e r t s   f r o m   t h e   e n o r m o u s   a m o u n t  
o f   m o n e y   e x p e n d e d   b y   t h e   N a t i o n a l   B i s c u i t  
C o m p a n y   i n   k e e p i n g   t h e ir   p r o d u c t s   c o n s t a n t l y  
before the eyes of the public.

T h e s e   g o o d s   b e c o m e   t h e   a c t u a l   n e e d s   t h a t  
s e n d   a   s t e a d y   s t r e a m   o f   t r a d e   t o   t h e   s t o r e s   t h a t  
s e l l   t h e m .

e d u c a t e d  

P e o p l e   h a v e   b e c o m e  

t o   b u y i n g  
b i s c u i t   a n d   c r a c k e r s   i n   t h e   I n - e r - s e a l  P a c k a g e —  
a n d   o n e   s u c c e s s   h a s  
f r o m  
t h e   f a m o u s   U n e e d a   B i s c u i t   t o   t h e   la t e s t   w i d e l y  
a d v e r t i s e d   s p e c i a l t y .

f o l l o w e d   t h e   o t h e r  

E a c h   n e w   p r o d u c t   a s   it   i s   a n n o u n c e d   t o   t h e  
p u b l i c   s e r v e s   a s   a   s t i m u l a n t  
t o   b u s i n e s s   a n d  
a c t s   a s   a   d r a w i n g   c a r d   t h a t   b r i n g s   m o r e   c u s t o ­
m e r s  t o  t h e   s t o r e   t h a n  a n y  p l a n   y o u  c o u l d   d e v is e .
A  w e l l   s t o c k e d   lin e  o f   N a t i o n a l   B i s c u i t  g o o d s  
i s  a  b u s i n e s s   p o l i c y  t h a t  it  i s  n o t  w e l l  t o  o v e r l o o k .

1902  P.  F.  K.

Another good selling  assortment in  German  China,  assorted  decora­
tions and gold traced, selling at  66%  per  cent, profit.  The best arti­
cles ever sold to retail for 5,  10,  15 and 20 cents each.

8 dozen assorted articles  at........................§  40
2 dozen assorted articles  at.......................   1  20
3 dozen assorted articles  at.......................   2  00
35 dozen assorted articles  at........................ 
89

This assortment is  always  ordered  the  second  time.  Write  us 

for printed list.

G eo.  H.  W heelock  <§b  Co.

113  ®>  115  W.  Washing Lon S t. 

South  Bend,  Ind.

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well  try  to  solve  with  all  the  powers  of 
heart  and  brain  God  gave  us.  As 
long 
as  men  are  weak,  selfish  and  dissipated, 
as  long  as  fathers  and  husbands  spend 
on  their  vices  the  money  which  should 
support  their  families—as  long  as  men 
are  even  incompetent—women  must  be 
wage  earners :  hut 
in  the  name  of  hu­
manity 
let  us  make  the  load  light  that 
we  lay  on  shoulders  too  frail  to  bear  the 
burden;  in  the  name  of  the  children 
yet  to  be  born 
lower  the 
mothers  with  brutalizing  labor,  and  for 
the  fair  name  of  the  land  we 
love  let 
us 
take  away  the  reproach  that  the 
South  was  the  first  place  to  degrade 
American womanhood  by  setting women 
to  wheeling  dirt  to  build  railroads!

let  us  not 

Dorothy  Dix,

W o m a n   a   P e s s im is t.

The  average  woman  is  a  dyed-in-the- 
wool  pessimist.  Almost  every  woman 
over  30  years  of  age  looks  distressed. 
Her  brows  are  bent,  her  mouth  drawn 
into  a  tight 
iine,  and  there  are  deep 
furrows  down  her  cheeks.  She 
looks 
exactly  as  if  she  were  considering  how 
to  provide  a  dinner  for  25  cents that will 
satisfy  twenty-five  small  children,  when 
in  reality  she  may  have  nothing  more 
serious  on  her  mind  than  buying  a  pair 
of  socks  for  George.  No  wonder  women 
grow  old  faster  than  men,  for  they  hug 
their  worries  to  them  and  let  them  show 
in  their  faces.

There  was  once  an  elderly  servant 
who  was  superstitious  to  a  degree, 
and  who  always  expected  the  worst  to 
happen.  Did  she  find  a  needle  on  the 
floor,  did  a  picture  fall  in  the  house  or 
a  bird  fly  into  one  of  the  rooms,  she was 
instantly  plunged 
“ We  are 
going  to  have  a  heap  of  bad  luck !'*  she 
would 
say,  and  then  she  would  be

into  woe. 

lachrymose  until  some  one  bad  the 
toothache  or  the  cows  got  into  the  corn, 
when  she  would  consider  the  demon 
luck  exorcised  or  satisfied  for  a  time, 
and  grow  as  cheerful  as  it  was  her  habit 
ever  to  be.  Some  one  once  asked  her 
if  she  did  not  have  any good luck  signs.
“ Why,  certainly,”   she  replied,  “ but 
in 
they  do  not  count— I  do  not  believe 
the  good 
luck  ones,”   which,  by  the 
way,  is  thoroughly  characteristic  of  the 
sex.

insomnia. 

Here  is  a  woman  who  suffers—suffers 
“ lean  
is  the  word—from 
imagine  why  I  do  not  sleep.”   she 
not 
says  to  her  friends. 
“ I  am  sleepy  as 
anything  when  I  go  upstairs,  but  then  I 
begin  to  wonder  if  my  son  Arthur,  who 
travels  for  a  drug  firm,  is  on  a  train 
and  in  a  minute  I  see  him  just  as plain­
ly  bleeding  and  mangled  in  a  wreck. 
When  1  decide  that  be  is  really  dead,  1 
think  of  John,  and  worry  because  he 
has  not  a  better  position.  Then  Molly 
comes 
into  my  mind,  and  I  feel  sure 
that  one  of  her  children  must  be  ill,  I 
feel  so  blue  about  her. 
fret  over 
Lucy's  throat  a  bit  then,  and  by  this 
time  1  am  wide  awake.  It  is  the  strang­
est  thing!  1  do  not  understand  why  I 
should  be  so  wakeful!”

1 

Her  physician  does,  however,  and 
now  he 
is  prescribing  for  her  a  course 
of  cheerfulness  and  of  “ looking  for  the 
best.”  
is  a  medicine  that  most 
women  need—their  faces  show  it— but 
there  are  few  who  are  sensible  enough 
to  take  it. 

Cora  Stowell.

It 

N o t  K e e p in g   U p .

Mr.  Upjohn— I  wish  you  would  tell 
Kathleen  she  cooks  her  steaks too much.
three  girls 
late,  John.  The  name  of  the  present 
one  is  Mollie.

Mrs.  Upjohn—You  are 

Homes  Lacking  Taste.

could  be 

The  art  of  house-furnishing  is  little 
known  in  this  country,  especially among 
the  vulgar  rich,  says  a  woman  whose 
home  is  known  for  its  beauty  and  rest­
last  thing  that  seems  to 
fulness.  The 
be  considered 
in  their  arrangement  is 
the  convenience  of  the  occupants.  To 
jndge  merely  from  appearances,  one 
would  think  that  they  were  designed  to 
serve  as  showrooms  for  furniture  and 
bric-a-brac  and  fancy  work,and  that  the 
inmates  were  there  only  on  sufferance, 
because  they  had  to  have  some  refuge 
from  the  wind  and weather  and  no  other 
domicile 
“ Most 
women,”   our  authority  observes,  “ treat 
their  homes  as  storehouses  or  museums, 
and  the  more  things  they  can crowd into 
them  the  better  they  are  pleased.  They 
prefer  to  have  the  things  where  they 
can  be  seen,  if  possible,  but  when  no 
more  space 
left  and  not  a  corner  is 
available  for  even  a  photograph  or  a 
china  dog,  they  will  pack  them  away  in 
chests  and  closets  and  go  on  accumulat­
ing.  They  may  have  no  time  for  read­
ing  or  recreation  or  even  for  the  proper 
care  of  their  own  persons,  but  that  fact 
never  deters  them  from  adding  to  the 
number  of  their  household  gods  and  to 
the  already 
intolerable  task  of  taking 
care  of  them.

found. 

is 

Mrs.  Oliphant,  in  one  of  her  stories, 
tells  of  a  vulgar  rich  man  who  liked  to 
have  costly  and  useless  things  about 
him.  He  saw  no  beauty  in  the  Turner 
which  adorned  bis  drawing-room,  but 
it  was  sweet  to  him  to  think  that  be 
thousands  of 
was  able  to  hang  up 
pounds,  so  to  speak,  upon  his  walls. 
It 
is  perhaps  something  of  this feeling that 
makes  women 
their  homes  into 
museums. 
In  a  country  where  so  many 
people  have  become  suddenly  rich  or j

turn 

have  been  raised  from  poverty  to  com­
parative  affluence,  possession 
is  such 
an  unfamiliar  thing  that 
it  seems  to 
please  in  itself,  apart  from  any  value  in 
the  articles  possessed,  and  people  who 
can  not  have  the  satisfaction  of  pos­
sessing  costly  and  useless  things  find 
some  consolation 
innumerable 
number  of  cheap  and  useless,  if  not 
cheap  and  nasty,  articles. 
In  older 
countries,  where  rapid  changes  of  in­
come  are  not  so  frequent,  one  sees 
less 
of  this  desire  for  display,  and  in  Eng­
lish  homes,for  instance,there  are  a  com­
fort  and  restfulness,  and  consequently  a 
beauty,even  in  the  midst  of  shabbiness, 
which  is  little  known  in  America.

in  an 

T r ie d   to   H e lp   t h e   P o o r   H o rs e .

William  H.  Paul,  Jr.,  a  Philadelphia 
artist,  summering  in  Bucks  county,  is 
responsible  for  this  story,  which  has  set 
all  the  farmers  up  there  laughing.  Mr. 
Paul  is  unmarried.

“ Three  young  women,”   he  said, 
“ drove  up  to  an  old  mill,  and  went  in­
to  raptures  over 
its  picturesqueness. 
Their  dress  and  speech  announced  that 
they  were  from the  city.  The  horse,  re­
lieved  from  the  constant  sawing  at  his 
bit,  walked  toward  a  watering  trough, 
but  could  not  get  bis  muzzle  down  to 
drink.  The  drivers  noticed  he  wanted 
water,  but  did  not  know  enough  about 
the  harness  to  undo  bis  check  rein.

“ First,  two  of  them  tried  pulling  his 
head  down  by  tugging  at  bis  ears. 
Then  one  tried  lifting  water  in her hand 
for  him  to  lap.  When  her  companions 
walked  to  the  back  of  the  carriage  and 
raised  both  rear  wheels  so  the  horse 
could  be  tipped  head 
into  the 
trough  it  proved  too  much for the miller, 
who  bad  been  looking  from  a  window, 
and  he  came  to  help  them.  He  laughed 
so  much,  though,  that  he  could  hardly 
undo 
rein,  and  afterward 
found  it  too  good  a  joke  to  keep.”
|  He  sits  not  sure  that  sits  too  high.

the  check 

first 

Y o u   O u g h t   to   O w n   O n e   o f  T h e se

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  guar­
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 
long,  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

$27.50

TOLEDO  COFFEE  &  SPICE  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio

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

The New York Market

Special  Feature«  of the Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Oct.  4--Coal 

is  the  vital 
question  and  wherever  one  goes  it  is  all 
he  bears. 
It  affects  every  trade  and, 
while  it  was  made  the  subject  for  many 
is  now  becoming  a  most  seri­
jokes,  it 
ous  matter.  There  is  someway  a  feeling 
that  a  calamity  is 
impending.  People 
are  keenly  anxious  and  everybody  is 
praying  for  an end  to  the  worst strike  in 
our  history.

The  coffee  market 

is  firmer  than  a 
week  ago  and  at  the  close  Rio  No.  7  is 
worth  5?'sC.  Just  what  should  cause  any 
advance 
is  not  clear,  except  specula­
tion.  Receipts  at  primary  points  con­
tinue  fairly  large.  Receipts  at  Rio  and 
Santos  from  July  1  to  Oct.  2  amounted 
to  4.687,000  bags,  against  5,769,000 bags 
during  the  same  time 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  2,874,182 bags, 
against  2,163.853  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Mild  sorts  are  in  light  sup­
ply,  but  the  demand  is  rather  light  and 
the  best  that  can  be  said  as  to  prices  is 
that  they  are  steady.

last  year. 

A  cut  has  been  made  in  sugars,  but 
actual  business  during  the  week  has 
been  rather  light,  especially  new  busi­
ness. 
in 
withdrawals  and,  upon  the  whole,  the 
situation 
is  fairly  satisfactory  for  this 
season  of  the  year.

Something  has  been  done 

The  tea  market  generally  is  firm  and 
values  are  steadily  held.  There  is  some 
reticence  with  importers  in  making  de­
tails  public,  but  the  general  undertone 
is  satisfactory.  Of  course,  there  is  big 
room  for  improvement,  but  no  boom 
in 
tea  is  looked  for.

A  steady  trade  prevails 

in  rice,  but 
not  as  much  business  is  being  done  as 
last  year,  owing,  perhaps,  to  the  greater 
supply  of  potatoes,  the  prices  of'w hich 
are  comparatively  low.  Quotations  are 
without  change.
Spices  are  unchanged.  Prices  are 
firm,  but  no  further  advance  has  been 
recorded.  The  demand  is  steady,  but 
not  especially  active.

Grocery  grades  of  New  Orleans  mo­
lasses  are  meeting  with  better  demand 
as  the  season  advances  and  prices  are 
firm,  although  no  advance 
is  to  be 
noted.

Some  big  California  oranges sold  here 
this  week  for  $10  per  box—the  record 
price.  An  average  trade  prevails 
in 
oranges  and  prices  are  firm.  Lemons 
are  of  a  retiring  disposition  and  prices 
begin  very  low  and  keep  so  all  the  way 
up.  Probably  $3@3-5o@4  are fair  aver­
ages  for  Sicily.

Every  day  accentuates  the  strength  of 
canned  goods  and  the prices on tomatoes 
long  to  be  almost,  if 
are  likely  before 
not  quite,  as  high  as  they were last  sum­
mer  They  are  scarce,  at  least  those  of 
really  desirable  quality,  and the  demand 
is  for  “ more. ”   Corn,  also,  is  in  very 
limited  supply  and 
is  thought  the 
Maine  crop  will  not  be  over  25 or  35  per 
cent,  of  a  normal  pack  when  all  returns 
are 
in.  Peas— in fact,  all  vegetables— 
are  moving  with  a  good  degree  of  free­
dom.  So  with  California  fruits,  orders 
for  which  have  come 
in  from  many 
points.  Prices  on  everything  are  well 
sustained  and  conditions  are  such  as  to 
encourage  the  erection  of many new can­
neries  in  the  future.

it 

is 

Dried  fruits  are  showing  more  and 
more  activity  as  the  season  advances 
and  the  retailer  who  carries  a  fair  stock 
ahead  of  wants  will  probably  make  no 
mistake.  Currants  are  about  unchanged. 
The  demand 
is  fair.  Raisins  and 
prunes  are  steady  at  unchanged  rates.
The  week  shows  little  change  in  but­
ter.  There 
just  an  average  demand 
and  the  supply  is  sufficient  for  require­
ments.  Best  Western  creamery  is  steady 
at  22j4c;  seconds  to  firsts,  igK @ 2ic; 
imitation  creamery,  I7@igc; 
factory, 
l73^@I8c;  renovated,  iy@ig^c.
Cheese  retains  its  increasing strength. 
The  demand  from  home  trade  has  been 
sufficient  to  keep  quotations  well  sus­
tained  and  prices  have  gone  to  a  point 
beyond  the  purses  of  exporters,  who 
seem  to  have  completely  retired  from

business  for  the  present.  Best full cream 
New  York  State,  12c.

The  better  grades  of  eggs  are  very 
quickly  disposed  of  at  full  rates  and  the 
market 
is  well  sustained. 
Western  candled,  22@23C  for best  stock ; 
uncandled,  2i@22c;  ungraded,  ig@2ic.

generally 

Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  Man.
There  have  been  no  startling  develop­
ments  in  the  storage  egg  situation  of 
late,  but  the  movement  of  stock  from 
first  bands  has  increased  considerably. 
There  are  a  good  many  dealers  who  are 
without  their  usual  holdings  of 
fine 
spring  packings  and  the  natural  de­
in  the  supply  of  high  grade  has 
crease 
lately 
induced  them  to  provide  them­
selves  with  a  supply  of  stored  eggs  to 
fall  back  upon.  Many  more  samples 
have  been  taken  and  some  good  sized 
lots  have  changed  hands.  The  prices 
paid  have  ranged  mainly  from 
iq@2oc 
for  fair  to  prime summer  packings,  2o@ 
2oJ¿c  for  May  eggs  and  20>¿@2ic  for 
Aprils  of  prime to fancy quality—several 
good  sized  lines  have  been  placed  at the 
outside  figure  and  we  have  heard  of 
rare  sales  of  extra  fancy  Micbigans, 
very  closely  graded,  at  a  slight  pre­
mium.

*  *  *

Of  the  purchases  made  only  a  small 
part 
is  being  drawn  upon  for  current 
consumption  although  some  of  our  trade 
is  now  being  supplied  from  the  store 
houses  and  a  gradual  reduction  is  in 
progress;  it  is  hard  to  say  just  what  the 
output  amounts  to,  but  it  can  hardly  be 
more  than  about  1,500  cases  per  day 
under the  present scale  of  fresh  receipts.

*  *  *

increase 

shipping  points,  have 

Late  advices  from  the  interior,  while 
reporting  a  very  high  ruling  of  prices 
at 
indicated 
some 
in  the  quantity  of  fresh 
eggs  being  turned  this  way  from  the 
West.  Southern  shippers  have  also  been 
enquiring  as  to  the  prospect  for  an  out­
lay  for  part  of  their  current  collections 
and  it  is  probable  that  mark  prices  of 
2o@2ic  would  draw  rather  more  eggs 
from  Tennessee  and  North  Carolina 
than  we  have  heretofore  been  getting. 
lots  of  Southern  thus  far  re­
The  few 
ceived  have  shown 
irregular  quality. 
Some  very  ordinary  lots  have  had  to  go 
at  19c,  but  for  prime  to  choice  iots, 
more  or  less  graded  and  well-packed  in 
new  cases,  20@2ic  have  been  obtained.

* 

♦  

♦

in  their 

Reports  from  egg  dealers  as  to  the 
effect  of  the  recent  advance  on  con­
sumption  are  conflicting ;  some  of  them 
report  no  decrease 
require­
ments,  while  others  say  that  since  re­
tail  prices  have  been  marked  up  to a 
parity  with  present  wholesale  values  the 
trade  has  fallen  off  considerably.  As 
present 
indications  point  to  no  further 
decrease  in  fresh  arrivals,  but  rather  to 
some 
increase,  the  chances  of  increas­
ing  the  refrigerator  output  in  the  near 
future  are  not  flattering.
♦   *  *

is  a  wide  divergence  in  the 
There 
views  of 
local  holders  of  refrigerator 
eggs  as  to  the  future  of  the  market; 
some  have  been  very  free  sellers  at  late 
prices,  being  disposed  to  accept  pres­
ent  profits  and  let  some' one  else  carry 
the  goods  for  the  possible  later  high 
prices—others  have  not  been  at  all  anx­
ious  to  sell  and  talk  very  bullish  of  the 
outlook. 
the  conditions 
have  been  such  that  holders  who  wanted 
to  get  out  have  been  able  to  do  so  at 
fairly  profitable  prices.— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.

Fortunately, 

Plant  memorial  trees  on  the  birthdays 
and  your  children  will  always  have  a 
monument.

Phil  Hilber

Jobber  of  Oleomargarine

109  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

I  have  State  agency  for  several  manufacturers  and  am  prepared  to

quote  factory  prices.

Walker  Celery  Farm

Fine  Celery  and  Cabbage. 

;

Kelley  Grace,

Citizens Phone 3793 

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

i

!

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

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

^ 5 5   C A D I L L A C   S Q U A R E  

GEO.  N .   HUFF  &   CO. 

« 
D E T R O IT .  M I C H I G A N ^

EGGS  WANTED

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

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

Butter

We can handle all you send us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

C itizens Phone 3 13 a.

Potatoes

Tn   c a r lo ts   o r less

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

buy outright.  Highest market price paid

e. D. Crittenden, $8 $. Dio. St., Grand Rapids

Both Phones 1300

____ 

NEW  CROP  TIMOTHY

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.

S E E D S

Clover  and  Timothy— all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds.

M O S E L E Y  

B R O S . ,   G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H ,

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  ST.

10,000  Barrels  of Apples  Wanted

For storage.  Write to

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

23

in 

in 

for 

frogs. 

fishing 

Frog: C ulture as an O ccu pation  for W om en .
At  Mamaroneck  during  the  last  sum­
mer  a  certain  party  of  jolly  artists  who 
were  taking  their  vacations 
that 
pretty  suburban  town  were  observed 
with  the  women  of  their  families  busily 
engaged 
The 
women  had  on  short  skirts  and  rubber 
boots,  and  their  shouts  of  merriment  as 
they  waded  into  the  pond  and  captured 
the  wily  amphibians  made  the  welkin 
ring.  They  fished  with  a  hook,  baited 
with  a  bit  of  red  flannel,  which  excited 
the  curiosity  of  Master  Rana  Catesbi- 
ana,  commonly  known  as  bullfrog,  and 
he  hooked  his  upper  jaw  into  the  cloth 
long  enough  for  the  hunter  to catch him. 
It  did  not  require  much  skill  to  catch 
him,  but  the  removal  of  bis  damp  and 
soggy  body  from  the  hook  and  its  trans­
ference  to  the  covered  pail  provided 
for  his  reception  was  a  different  matter. 
When  a  girl  was  the  fisherman,  a  man 
was  commonly  pressed  into  service  for 
this  process,  and 
its  progress  was  ac­
companied  by  shrieks  of  mingled  hys­
teria  and  delight.  Many  a  good  mess  of 
frogs’ 
took 
home,  and  the  sport,  if  bumbler  than 
hunting  or  fishing,  accomplished  the 
beneficent  end  of  all  sport  by  keeping 
the  sportsmen  outdoors,  with  minds 
actively  engaged  and  interested.

legs  those  merry  artists 

The  question  occurs  why,  if  women 
can  go  bunting  Rana  Catesbiana,  or 
any  of  his  tender  and  more  succulent 
cousins,  for  sport,  they  can  not  do  it  for 
profit.  Why  can  not  the  women  who 
are  reclaiming  abandoned farms  in  New 
England  by  scientific  means  add  a  neat 
little  sum  annually  to  their  exchequer 
by  cultivating  the  bullfrog  in  the  pool? 
On  almost  every 
farm  a  thriving  frog 
pond  will  be  found,  and  it  needs  only 
a  few  dollars  to  adapt  it  for  commer­
cial  purposes.

The  ground  needed 

is  a  springy, 
marshy  bit,  with  plenty  of  soft  mud  at 
the  bottom,  where  the  frogs  can  hide 
and  go  to  sleep  for  the  winter.  The 
pond  should  be  surrounded  with  a  tight 
board  or  wire  fence,  to  keep  out  ani­
mals,  and  placed  so  close  to  the  water 
that  birds  can  not  stand  on  the  banks 
and  consume  pollywogs,  for  birds  have 
a  taste  as  cultivated  as  Frenchmen  in 
the  matter  of  frogs,  only  they  take  them 
younger.  A  bittern  will  bolt  millions  of 
pollywogs  in  a  season.

little 

leaves 

Just  about  the  time  the  buds  burst 
into 
in  spring  the  frogs 
crawl  out  of  the  mud  and  begin  to  sing. 
After  the  concert  has  continued  for a 
few  weeks,  if  one  goes  about  among  the 
frog  ponds,  he  may  And  gelatinous 
strings  attached  to  sticks  and  water 
plants,  or  a  ball  of  jelly-like  matter  as 
big  as  an  orange,  or  perhaps  several  of 
these  attached  side  by  side.  Scattered 
through 
these  gelatinous  masses  are 
hundreds  of  black  spots,  like  bird  shot. 
These  are  the  frogs’  eggs.  Take  up 
the  glutinous  balls  in  cups,  dump  them 
into  pails,  and  carry  them  off  to  your 
little  frog  pond.  Within  a  fort­
own 
the  operator  watches  those 
night,  if 
eggs  closely,  he  will  see  a 
little,  dark 
lump  bursting  out  of  each.  The  lump 
has  a  pointed  tail,  two  little  shining 
eyes  and  a  mouth  just  large  enough  to 
nibble  at  the  scum  on  the  water  or  the 
edges  of  leaves.  This  is  little  Pollywog, 
and  one  can  have  lots  of  fun  watching 
him  grow.  After a  few  weeks  his  hind 
legs  show,  doubled  up  under the  skin. 
After  a  few  more  weeks  the  bind 
legs 
are  ready  for  use,  and  the  forelegs  have 
begun  to  follow  suit.

Then  the  giils  are  transformed  to 
lungs  and  the  pollywog  grows  out  over

his  tail  and  absorbs  it.  His  eyes  stick 
out  like  goggles,  and  he  has  developed 
a  true  frog  mouth,  stretching  from  ear 
to  ear.  His  little  life  must  be  spared, 
though,  until  next  summer,  for  he  is  not 
good  to  eat  until  he  is  a  year  old.  The 
fat  old  three  and  five  pounders,  who  sit 
with  aldermanic  paunches  and  sing 
Wagnerian  opera,  are  some  of  them 
twenty  years  old.  An  old  hull  frog  be­
comes  as  astute  as  an  old  trout,  which 
is  probably  as  wise  as  anything  that 
lives  in  water can  be.

If 

little  Pollywog  is  to  live  and  grow 
fat  in  his  pond  his  fond  parents  must 
be  excluded  from  bis  paradise.  Old 
frogs  love 
little  pollywogs— in  a  gusta­
tory  way.  Old  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rana 
Catesbiana  will  eat  their  offspring, 
both 
in  and  out  of  the  egg,  with  the 
greatest  gusto.  Therefore,  the  old  frogs 
must  be  induced  to  emigrate  elsewhere, 
either  to  some  other  pond  or  to  the  city 
market.

The  pollywogs  left  behind  live on flies 
and 
insects,  and  anything  that  will  at­
tract  these  to  the  pond  in  even  greater 
numbers  than  usual  will  make  little  Mr. 
Tadpole  wax  fat  and  happy.  Bones, 
scraps  of  meat,  molasses  and  glue,  left 
carelessly  about  on  sticks  and  boards  in 
the  pond  will  fulfill  their  benevolent  in­
tention  of  attracting  flies,  which  will 
soon  find  a  quiet  resting  place  on  the 
end  of  Taddy’s 
long  tongue.  Turtles, 
minks,  foxes,  birds  and  snakes  will  all 
be  after  the  tadpole ;  but  as  frogs  con­
tinue  to  live  in  great  numbers,  in  spite 
of  these  enemies,  under  ordinary  con­
ditions,  it  is  safe  to  suppose  that  in  the 
commercial 
artistically 
stocked  and  fed,  plenty  will  contrive  to 
live.  Every  frog-eating  bird  or animal 
found  about  should  be  killed,  and  the 
latter  bung  on  poles  to  scare  their  rela­
tives.

frog  pond, 

Frogs  are  caught  in  the  manner  de­
scribed, with  a  bit  of  red  rag  on  a  hook, 
or  with  an  angleworm  for  bait  or  they 
are  shot  with  a  small  rifle  or  a  blow 
gun,  a  needle  fastened  by  a  thread  to  a 
wad  of  cotton  wool  serving  as  a  missile 
in  the  latter  case.  The  quickest  way  to 
scoop  them  in,  however,  is  with  a  long- 
handled dip net.  They  may  be shipped 
alive,  in  barrels,  or  only  the  skinned 
hind  legs  sent,according to  the  demands 
of  the  market.

The  frog  eaten  in  America  is  not  the 
Rana  Espulenta  of  France,  beloved  of 
the  Patisian  restaurateur,  but  the  com­
mon  bullfrog,  which 
is  very  near  in 
toothsomeness  to  M.  Esculenta.and  sev­
eral  other  varieties. 
There  are  also 
several  varieties  which  are  not  edible, 
and  the  only  way  to  distinguish  them 
is  to  get  some  one  who  knows  to  point 
out  the  different  families  and  learn  to 
know  them  by  sight.

In  Vienna,  and  probably 

in  other 
European  cities,  the  French frog  is  kept 
in  pens  and  fattened.  The  same  is  true 
of  a  Central  American  frog,  Rana Grun- 
mens,  the  grunting  frog.  Señor  Grun- 
niens  is  domesticated  and  fed  for  mar­
ket.  All  sorts  and  conditions  of  frogs 
are  susceptible  to  domestication,  and 
when 
treated  with  kindness  acquire 
much  true  culture.  One  which  had 
been  domesticated  by  an  English  doctor 
came  regularly  for  its  meals,  struck  up 
a  great friendship with the  cat  and  man­
ifested  a  strong  partiality  for  having  its 
back  scratched.

The  foregoing  may  read  like  a  great 
deal  of  trouble,  but  it  is  not  so  much  as 
is  taken  to  raise  anything  else  that  is 
raised on  a  farm,  for  sale,  and  there  are 
always  a  city  market  and  a  good  price 
for  the  product.— N.  Y.  Tribune.

Sweet  Potatoes,  Spanish  Onions,

Cranberries

Fine  fresh stock  constantly  arriving.  We are in the market  to buy 

ONIONS,  W INTER  APPLES  AND  BEANS

The  Vinkemulder  Company,  Commission  Merchants

14-16  O ttaw a  S treet 

Grand  R a-id s,  M ichigan

P O T A T O E S

Carlots  only  wanted.  Highest  market  price.  State variety and quality.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

L o n g   D is ta n c e   T e le p h o n e d — C itiz e n s   2417
Bell  Main  66

304  &   305  Clark  Building,

Opposite  Union  Depot

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

This  is  the  time  of  year  to  store  your  Apples.  W hy  not  put 
them  where  they  are  sure  to  come  out  as  good  as  when  picked? 
Save  shrinkage  and  sorting  by  storing  with  us.  W e  also  store 
Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry and  Meats.  Liberal advances on  produce 
stored  with  us,  where  desired.  Rates  reasonable.  W rite  for 
information.

Grand Rapids Gold Storage 

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Owosso,  Mich.

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C>TCLE  DANNY.

How  He  Obtained  a Good  Price  for  Cab­

bage.
Written for the Tradesman.

‘ ‘ By  Gum!”   exclaimed  Uncle  Danny 
Briggs,  suddenly  jumping  from  bis  seat 
on  the  counter  and  slamming  the  back 
door  shut  in  furious  haste. 
‘ ‘ There 
comes  the blamedest,  orneriest  outfit  be­
tween  Cadillac  and  the  Soo.  Nevei  see 
that  air  gang  a  coming  hut  what I wisht 
1  bad  a  clerk  and  c ’d  light  out  and 
let 
the  store  go  to  the  dickens  until  they 
was  gone. ’ ’

His  visitor  glanced  through  the  win­
dow  and  saw  a  ragged  and  bewhiskered 
man  tying  a  raw-boned  horse  to  the 
hitching  post.  But  that  was  not  all. 
No  less  than  nine  children,  the  small 
fry  of  the  bewhiskered  and  ragged  man, 
were  swarming  off  the  rickety  wagon 
to  which  the  horse  was  hitched,  and  a 
tall  woman 
in  a  pink  sun  bonnet  was 
preparing  to  follow  them  to  the  ground.
“ Say,”  said  Mr.  Briggs  in  a  strained 
and  anxious  voice,  “ ye  wouldn't  mind 
doing  a  leetle  favor  fer  a 
feller,  would 
ye?”

“ Why,  probably  not.  What 

is 

it, 

Uncle?”

“ Wall,  then,  jest  stay  here  and  wait 
I  hain’t  feeling 
until  I  come  back. 
none  the  best  to-day,  and  I  reckon  that 
a  mouthful  of  fresh  air  and  a  nip  of 
licker  would  do  me  a  heap  of  good,”  
and  with  that  he  charged  through  the 
back  door  and  disappeared  from  -view. 
The  visitor 
listened  to  the  retreating 
footsteps  for  a  moment  and  then,  as 
they  grew  faint  and  fainter  and  finally 
died  away,  he  gave  a  little  whistle  in­
dicative  more  of  amusement  than  sur­
prise  and  turned  his  attention  to  the 
strangers  who  were  noisily  crowding 
through  the front  door,  each  intent  upon 
being  the  first 
inside  the  store.  The 
children  were  bare  headed  and  bare 
legged  and  the  wardrobe  of  all  put  to­
gether,  as  Uncle Danny  explained  after­
ward,  “ wouldn’t  wad  a  musket.” 
There  were  exclamations  of  impatience 
as  first  one  and  then  another  of  the 
small  people  became  wedged 
in  be­
tween  the  door  jambs,  but  nothing  of  a 
serious  nature  occurred  until  one  of  the 
iarger  boys 
shoved  aside  his  dirt- 
begrimed  brother  with  so  much  force 
that  he  knocked  over  a  bushel  of  fall 
apples  that  had  been  put  near  the  front 
of  the  store  for  the  purpose  of  display. 
And  then,as the fruit  rolled  and  tumbled 
over  the  floor,  there  was  a  general stam­
pede  after  the  wreckage.

“ Gimme  that  one,  I  want  that  un,”  
squealed  a 
little  girl,  endeavoring  to 
wrest  a  big  red  apple  from  one  of  the 
other children;  but  a  whack  on  the  nose 
diverted  her  purpose  from  the  fruit and, 
bowling  lustily,she  took  a  second  choice 
from  the  floor  and  drove  her  teeth 
into 
its  rosy  cheek.

Who  knocked  them  apples  over?”  
demanded  the  tall  woman,  as  she  strode 
through  the  doorway.

’ Twas  him,”   blurted  one  of  the 

children,  with  a  mouthful  <jf  pippin.

'Twa'n’t  nuther,  'twas  Ag, ”   as­
serted  a  red  headed  urchin  with  a  snub 
nose.

The  woman  made  a  pass  at  the  red 
headed  child,  with  the  evident  inten­
tion  of  slapping  him,  but  the  blow  was 
successful  y  evaded,  so  the  woman  gave 
up  the  attempt  and  added  in  a  threaten­
ing  tone:

Now,  you  all  git  a  hump  on  yer- 
selves  and  put  them  apples  back  into 
the  basket  and  be  spry  about  it,  er  Ole 
Briggs’ll  pound  yer  livers  out  when  he 
comes  in !”   And  then  she  added  apol­
ogetically  to  the  visitor:  “ Young  uns’ll

be  young  uns.  Allers  wuz  and  allers 
will  be,  ’cordin’ 
tell.”   After 
which  she  sat  down  on  a  convenient 
nail  keg  and  watched  the  children  fill 
up  on  Briggs’  fruit.

tu  my 

Presently  entered  Whiskers,  carrying 
an  armful  of  cabbages  and  a  pail  of  cu­
cumbers.  “ Where’s  Briggs?”   he  asked.
“ Just  stepped  out,”   replied  the  vis­

itor. 

“ He’ ll  be  back  directly.”

feller, 

Funny 

“ Bet  he  knowed  we  wuz  comung  and 
lit  out  fer  the  day, ”   commented  the 
man,  setting  down  his  load.  “ He’s  the 
dummdest  feller  fer  that  ever  wuz.  Got 
any  smoking?  Thanks.  Clean  busted 
fer  smoking,  I  be.  Hain’t  had  nothing 
but  kildad  fer  more’n  a  week.  Mighty 
nigh  dead  fer  a  pipeful  of  store  ter- 
backer. 
that  Briggs. 
He  don’t  like  me  a  little  bit.  He’d  jes’ 
es  soon  shut  up  his  store  fer  a  week  and 
go  fishing  as  fer  ter  have  me  come  here 
to  do  m’  tradun. 
I'll  fool  him  though. 
Come  anyway.  Can’t  scare  me  out,  he 
can't. 
I  trade  whur  I  please  fur  all  of 
him.  Pietty  mighty  good  smokun,  that 
of  yourn, 
Pretty  mighty 
good.  Wisht  1  had  that  air  all  the  time, 
stid  of  thisber  kildad.  Kildad’ll  be 
the  death  of  me  some  of  yer  odd  come 
shorts. ”

stranger. 

“ What's  the  matter  between  you  and 
Briggs?"  enquired  the  visitor.  “ I  sup­
posed  he  was  quite  a  fellow  to  get  after 
trade.  Had  an  idea  that  be  never  had 
customers  enough  to  suit  him.”

“ W’y,  it’s  thisher  way.  Briggs 

is 
all  right 
’slongs  yu  gin  him  the  hull 
cheese,  but  when  a  feller  wants  tu  keep 
a  hunk  of  the  rine  hisself,  sayunnuthun 
of  the  middle  part,  w’y  Briggs  he  won’t 
play.  He  wants  a  feller  tu  trade  with 
him  and  buy  all  his  stuff  at  big  prices 
and  pay  the  spot  cash and he  don’t  want 
tu  buy back  a  dum  thing  a  feller  grows 
on  his  farm. 
I’ve  went  and  riz  cabbage 
and  bagys  and  onjuns  and  cowcumbers 
and  termatterses  and  all  sich  truck  and 
wat’s  more  I  got  um  fer  tu  sell.  Briggs 
thinks  he  hain’t  a  goun  tu  buy  none  of 
it  cus  he  don’t  want  tu  be bothered with 
it,  but  watch  me  fool  him.  He  prob’ly 
went  out  thinking  I’d  go  on,  but  keep 
yer  eye  ontu  my  smoke  when  yer  Uncle 
Dan  gits  back.  Say,  'twouldn’t  be 
in- 
trudun  on  good  manners  tu  ast  fur  an­
other  pipeful,  would 
it?  Thanks. 
That’s  dandy  good  terbacker  of  yourn. 
Knocks  kildad  t-o-o  fur.”

The  apples  vanished  rapidly  under 
the  masterful  treatment  of  the  children, 
their  stomachs  distending  slowly  but 
surely  as  the  fruit  disappeared,  and 
their  mother  sat  patiently  upon  the  nail 
keg  folding  and  refolding  the  front  of 
her  calico  gown.  The  man 
smoked 
powerfully  and  steadily,  and  blew  cloud 
after  cloud  of  tobacco  smoke  toward  the 
ceiling.  Presently  there  was  a  crash 
behind  the  counter  followed  by  a  fright­
ful  howl.  The  snub  nosed  boy 
in  try­
ing  to  climb  high  enough  to  get  at  a 
jar  of  candy  and  pulled  over  a  big  box 
of  tomato  catsup  in  bottles.  Just  then 
the  back  door  opened  and  Uncle  Danny 
stalked  in.

“ What  in  time's  going  on  here?"  he 
demanded  as  he  began  to grasp  the  sit­
Can’t  I  step  out  of  my  store 
uation. 
fer  a  minute  on 
important  business 
without  having  every  Tom,  Dick  and 
Harry  run  over  it  and  steal  and  destroy 
my  stock  of  goods?  By  the  Eternal! 
I’ll  have  ye 
in  the  coop  fer  this, ”   he 
gasped  as he  reached  for  the  snub  nosed 
boy,  his  whole  mind  fixed  upon  the 
idea  of  throwing  him  through  the  win­
dow.  But  the  boy  eluded  the  old man’s 
grasp,  rushed  outside  and  continued  to 
yell  at  the  top  of  bis  voice.

“ O,  nevermind,  Mr. Briggs, ”  said the 
“ Younguns'll  be 
woman,  soothingly. 
younguns. 
the  fine  cab­
bage  we  brung  y e!  And  look  at  them 
cowcumbers!”

look  at 

Jest 

“ Cowcumbers!”   howled 

Briggs. 
“ Cowblazes!  What  do  I  care  fer  cow­
cumbers?  Jest 
look  at  them catchup! 
Four bottles  busted,  by  thunder!  Who’ll 
pay  fer  the  catchup?  That’s  what  I 
wanter  know.  Who’ll  pay  fer  the  catch­
up?”   and  Briggs  stamped on  a  broken 
bottle,  cutting  a  long  gash  in  one  of  his 
cowhide  boots.

“ O,  that  bain't  so  bad  as  it  mought 
be,”   suggested  the  man  with  the whisk­
“  Hain’t  nuthun  killun.  Yu  orter 
ers. 
ben  here 
lookun’  arter  things.  Then 
nothing  wouldn't  of  happened.  Brung 
along  a  peck  of  green 
tematterses. 
They  orter  be  woth  half  a  dollar,  least 
callation.  Yu  kin  have  them. 
I  hain’t 
no  hawg.  Take  the  termatterses  un 
call  it  square.”

“ I  don’t  want  no 

termaters,”   as­
severated  Mr.  Briggs.  “ Termaters  is  a 
drug  on  the  market  here,  green  er  ripe. 
Ye  kin  take  yer  termaters  and  fly  yer 
kites  with  ’em  fer  all  of  me.”

“ Hain’t  yu  selling  no  termatterses?” 

queried  the  man  in  feigned  surprise.

“  Naw. ”
“ Hain’t  ye  got  none  in  stock?”
“ Naw.  Hain’t  got  none  and  don’t 

want  none. ”

“ Wall,  yu’d  be  s’prised  tu  see  what 
good  sellers  they  be.  Folks  know  yu 
bain’t  got  none  so  they  don’t  ast  fer 
’em.  Jest  yu  put  in  some  and  yu’d  see 
they’d  go  off  like  hot  pancakes.  Tell 
yu  bow 
it  is.  Me  and  the  woman  and 
the  younguns  thought  we’d  come  over 
and  visit  yu  a  bit  and  like  as  not  stay 
all  night,  so  we  fetched  yu  some  cow- 
cumbers,  too.  Not  of  course  caliating

as  what  the  cowcumbers’d  pay  fer  our 
keep,  cus  we  knowed  yu  wouldn't  care
nuthun  about 
that.  Yu  got  a  place  in 
the  barn  fer  the  boss,  of  course,  un’  so 
here  we  be. 
I'll  jest  leave  the  termat­
terses  and  the  cowcumbers  here  and  the 
woman  and  the  younguns  kin  go  to  the 
house  and  have  a  good  visit  with  yure 
woman  and  yu  and me  kin stay  and  talk 
over  ole  times  all  by  our  own 
loneiys. 
Mind  the  time  we  wuz  deer buntun  and 
broke  through  the  ice  on  Clam Lake and 
mos'  drownded?”
Briggs nodded  bis  head  absently.  He 
was  thinking  of  something  else.
“ Say,”   said  he  with  a  shudder,  “ my 
old  woman  bain’t  feeling  none  the  best, 
and  while  I  reckon  she'd  be  more'n 
glad  to  see  all  on  ye,  I'm  kinder  feared 
she  might  overdo  with  so much comp’ny 
all  to  oncet.  Wonder  if  ye  hadn't  better 
put  off  the  visit  until  some  other time. ”
looked  over  at  the  visitor 
and  winked  slyly  with  one  eye.  Then 
to  Briggs  he  said:  “ Mv! 
I  be  awful 
sorry  to  bear  that  Miss  Briggs  is  aild- 
ing.  M’randy,  you  better  go  un  see  if 
what  the’  hain’t  sutbun  yu  kin  do  fer 
her. ”

Whiskers 

But  Danny  hastily  interposed: 

‘ O, 
the'  bain't  nothing  kin  be  done.  She 
hain’t  so  bad,  only  she’s  narvous  and 
strangers  around  might  set  her  a  going.
I  reckon  she’ll  be  all  right  agi’n  soon 
enough  if  she’s  kept  quiet.”

“ How  much  kin  yu  pay  me  fer  them 
cabbage?”   queried  Whiskers  with  a 
grin.

♦  ♦  *

Briggs  closed  up  a  deal  for  the  prod­
uce  and,  while  he  was  puttering  around 
with  it,  the  man  with  the  whiskers  said 
in  a  low  tone  to  the  visitor:
“ That  yarn  of  his’n  about  the  woman 
being  sick  was  a 
I  seen  her  out 
hoeing  pitaters  when  we  druv  up.  But 
Briggs  ud  rutber  gin  me  a  dollar  apiece 
fer  them  cabbage  than  to  have  my  folks 
stav  to  his  house  over  night,  and  money 
couldn’t  hire  me  to  take  a  meal  of  vit- 
tles  with  him  nohow;  but  he  don’t 
know  it,  and  1  don't  callate  he  will.

lie. 

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

Stock it  Promptly!

-----You will  have enquiries  for-----

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

Enoch  M o r g a n ’s  Sons  Co.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Koiefats  of the 6ra

President,  J o h n   A.  W e s t o n ,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  B e o w n ,  Safiinaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

Doited  Commercial Trawlers of Michigan 

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

Braid  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  0.  C.  T.

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

G rip s a c k   B rig a d e .

J.  J.  Carroll  ( Rodgers  Shoe  Co.)  is 
spending a  couple  of  months  in  the  Up­
per  Peninsula.

Peter  Fox  (Musselman  Grocer  Co.) 
has  been  confined  to  his  home  by  an  at­
tack  of  tonsilitis  for  several  days.  He 
is  on  the  mend.

St.  Johns  News:  Eddie  Boron  has  re­
signed  his  position  with  John  Hicks 
and  has  entered  the  employment  oi 
Whitman  &  Barnes,  of  Akron,  Ohio,  as 
a  traveling  salesman.

G.  W.  Heuman,  formerly  prescription 
clerk  for  the  City  drug  store,  at  Han­
cock,  has  taken  the  position  of  Upper 
Peninsular  traveling  representative  for 
the  Merrill  Drug  Co.,  of  Cincinnati.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  treated  their 
visiting  customers  to  automobile  rides 
around  the  city  last  week  under  the  di­
rection  of  their  traveling  men,  A.  D. 
Baker,  Thos.  F.  Dryden  and  O.  F. 
Jackson.

A.  J.  Montgomery,  one  of  the  pioneer 
business  men  of  Evart,  and  for  the  past 
two  years 
the  National 
Hotel,  at  Reed  City,  has  purchased  the 
Lewis  House,  at  Boyne  City,  and  has 
already  taken  possession.

landlord  of 

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  The  Mar­
quette  traveling  men  are  beginning  to 
talk  indoor  base  ball.  They  will  be 
in 
the  held  with  a  strung  team  during  the 
coming  winter  months  and  it  is  likely 
that  a  meeting  for  organization  will  be 
called  in  the  course  of  a  few  days.  The 
local  commercial  men  anticipate  a  few 
games  with  their  up-the-road  friends 
with a  great  deal  of  pleasure.  The  Ish- 
peming-Negaunee  drummers 
trimmed 
them  at  the  outdoor  game  and  they  are 
yearning  for  satisfaction.

A.  B.  Clark,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Lawton  and  subse­
quently  on  the  road  for  the  Tappan 
Shoe  Co.,  of  Coldwater,  is  now  located 
at  Riverside,  Cali.,  where  he  is  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Lynn-Lewis 
Co.,  proprietor  of  the  Riverside  Plan­
ing  Mill.  He 
is  greatly  pleased  with 
his  new  location  and  writes  the  Trades­
man  as  follows:  “ I  have  concluded 
that  the  fruit,  agricultural  and  mining 
interests,  combined  with  the  attractive 
climate,  form  as  substantial  a  basis  for 
a  healthy  business  as  can  be  found 
in 
any  of  the  Eastern  States.”

local  newspaper 

Willis  P.  Townsend  spent  his  vaca­
tion  in  Dowagiac,  where  he  was  shaved 
by  a  colored  barber  named  T.  J.  Mar­
tin,  who  opened  a  shop  in  1852  and  has 
worked  every  day  since  that  time.  Re­
ferring  to  his  visit  to  the  home  of  his 
boyhood,  a 
says: 
"W illis  P.  Townsend,  of Grand Rapids, 
a  former  Dowagiac  resident  and  busi­
ness  man  is  calling  on  old  friends  here 
this  week.  Mr.  Townsend  is  traveling 
for  the  Sears  Bakery  division  of  the 
National  Biscuit  Co.,  with  headquarters 
in  Grand  Rapids.  He  arrived 
in  the 
city  Tuesday  afternoon  and  will  be  the 
guest  of  his  sister  during  his  stay  here. 
Mr.  Townsend  was  born 
in  Dowagiac 
in  the  year  1851  where  he  spent  the  first 
twelve  years  of  his  life,  afterward  being 
in  the  grocery  business  here.
engaged 

the  road  for  various 
He  has  been  on 
firms 
twenty-four  years. 
Mr.  Townsend  expects  to  return  to 
Grand  Rapids  Friday.” ’ }

for  the  past 

October Meeting of Grand Rapids Connell.
Grand  Rapids,  Oct.  7—The  regular 
of  Grand  Rapids 
October  meeting 
Council,  No.  131,  United  Commercial 
Travelers,  occurred  Saturday  evening, 
Oct.  4,  with  a  very 
large  attendance. 
In  the  absence  of  Senior  Counselor  W. 
S.  Burns,  Junior  Counselor W.  B.  Hol­
den  presided.  Past  Senior  Counselor 
John  D.  Martin  occupying  the  Junior 
Counselor’s  chair  and  Howard  Rutka 
acting  as  Conductor 
in  the  absence  of 
Conductors.  H.  Simmons.  The  meet 
ing  was  opened,  and closed  in sympathy 
with  our  brother  Conductor,  S.  H.  Sim­
mons,  in  his  great  bereavement  and loss 
of  his  beloved  life.  Six  ap plications 
were  received  and  three  “ good  men and 
true”   were  made  members  of  the  best 
in  the  world  for 
fraternal  organization 
traveling  men.  The 
committee 
in 
whose  bands  is  the  getting  up  of  the 
souvenir  were  on  hand  with  a  flattering 
report  of  the  progress  they  are  making 
and 
it  looks  like  a  very  good  stroke  of 
business.  We  had  with  us  a  visiting 
brother,  C.  G.  Eakin, 
from  Beatrice, 
Neb.,  who  gave  us  an  entertaining  talk 
on  the  order  in  general  and  his  experi­
ence  in  visiting  a  Council  whenever  he 
is  in  a  town  where  a  meeting 
is  being 
B
held. 
As  the  winter  season  is  approaching, 
the  matter of  parties  was  brought  before 
the  meeting;  after  discussion  between 
the  different  members,  it  was  decided 
that 
the  Senior  Counselor  appoint  a 
committee  of  five  to  act  through  the  en­
tire  winter  season,  composed  of  Chas. 
P.  Reynolds,  Howard  Rutka,  Franklin 
Pierce,  John  G.  Kolb  and  J.  H.  Tay­
lor.  Just  what  these  parties  and  enter­
tainments  will  consist  of  will  be  re­
ported  later,  but  we  expect  they  will  be 
part  dancing  and  part  card  parties.

At  the  close  of  the  meeting  our  mem­
bership  was  177,  with  several  applica­
tions  ready  for  initiation  at  the  Novem­
ber  meeting. 

Ja  Dee.

R e s o lu tio n s   O n   th e   D e a th   o f   M rs.  S im ­

m o n s.

in  his 

We,  the  undersigned  committee  on 
resolutions  of  sympathy  and  respect  for 
our  brother,  Samuel  H.  Simmons,  beg 
leave  to  submit  the  following :

Whereas—God, 

infinite  wis­
dom,  has  taken  from  our  brother,  Sam­
uel  H.  Simmons,  his  beloved  wife,  Ger­
trude  Meech  Simmons;  therefore  be 
it 
Resolved—That  we,  his  brothers,  ex­
tend  to  him  our  sincere  and  heartfelt 
sympathy  in  this  his  hour  of  grief,  and 
that  while  his  cup  is  full  to  overflowing 
there  is  consolation  in  the  fact  that  she 
had  led  a  good 
life  and  been  a  true 
wife.  We  know  that  his  love  for  her 
could  be  expressed  in  the  following sen­
timents:  " It 
is  often  that  1  have  said 
it.  In  the  night  thou  art  my  dream,  and 
my  waking  thought  in  the  morning. 
1 
loved  thee  always;  not  for three months, 
not  for  a  year,  but  I  loved  thee  from  the 
first,  and  my  love  shall  not  wither,  un­
til  death  parts  us.  Oh,  my  beloved! 
My  wife!  Dearer  to  me  than  the 
light 
of  day!  Closer  to  me  than  my  hands 
and  feet!  Nothing  but  death  shall  part 
thee  and  me  forever!”   And  now  that 
death  has  stepped  in,  dear  brother,  as 
it  must  sooner  or 
later  to  us  ail,  may 
God  help  you  to  lead  a  good life,so that, 
in, 
when  the  Grim  Reaper  gathers  you 
it  may  he  to  meet  with  the  dear  one 
in 
heaven  for  the life  eternal.  Be  it  further 
Resolved—That  these  resolutions  be 
spread  on  the  minutes  of  this  Council 
and  that  copies  be  sent  to  the  bereaved 
brother,the Sample  Case  and  the  Michi­
gan  Tradesman,  under  the  seal  of  this 
Council. 

Jno.  G.  Kolb,
J.  H.  Miller,
F.  M,  Lee, 

Committee.

Somewhat  Facetious.

“ I  want  a  good  foot  rule,”   said  the 
customer  who  was  looking  for  the  hard­
ware  department.

“ Don’t  wear  tight  shoes,”  replied the 

facetious  new  floorwalker.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

D.  C.  Emmel,  Representing;  the  Rodgers 

Shoe  Co.

David  C.  Emmel  was  born  March  8, 
in  Kardorf,  Duchy  of  Nassau, 
1851, 
Germany.  His  parents  came 
to  this 
country  when  he  was  one  year  old, 
settling  on  a  farm  near  Fremont,  Ohio. 
David  lived  there  until  1866,  attending 
district  school  and  taking  a  preparatory 
course  at  Oberlin  College.  His  parents 
then  removed  to  Henry  county,  Ohio, 
where  he  went  to  work  in  the  general 
store  of  Wolf  Bros,  at  Lindsey,  where 
be  remained  one  year,  continuing  with 
their  successor,  Willis  W.  Morse,  two 
years.  He  then  worked  on  a  farm  in 
Henry  county 
for  two  years;  taught 
school  for  three  years  and  was  for  three 
years  employed  as  clerk 
in  the  office 
of  the  County  Auditor  at  Napoleon. 
He  then  worked  in  J.  L.  Halter’s  mar­
ble  shop  until  1886,  when  he  went  to 
Toledo  and  found  employment  in  the 
leather  and  finding  store  of  Frank  Hub­
bard  &  Co.  After  working  in  the  store

four  years,  he  was  promoted  to  the  po­
sition  of  traveling  salesman,  covering 
Northern  Ohio  and  Northern  Indiana. 
In  February,  1893,  he  was  offered  a  po­
sition  with  the  Rodgers  Shoe Co.,  which 
he  accepted,  taking  as • his  territory  a 
portion  of  Southern  Michigan  and 
Northwestern  Ohio.  He  sees  his  trade 
every  six  weeks  with  the  regularity  of 
clockwork  and  has  become  a  universal 
favorite  wherever  he  goes.

in  1878. 

Mr.  Emmel  was  married  in  Novem­
ber,  1874,  to  Miss  Sarah  Anderson,  of 
Texas,  Ohio,  who  died 
In 
1880  he  married  Miss  Harriet  J.  Suy- 
dara,  of  Napoleon.  He  is  the  father  of 
five  children,  three  boys  and  two  girls. 
The  oldest  son  is  with  the  Dow  &  Snell 
Co.  ;  the  second  son  is  a  machinist  in 
the  employ  of  the  Vulcan  Iron  Works; 
the  third  son  is  a  street  car  conductor; 
one  daughter  is  a  stenographer  and  an­
other  daughter 
is  attending  school  at 
Toledo.  The  family  reside  at  565  Hicks 
street.

Mr.  Emmel 

is  an  attendant  at  the 
Episcopal  church,  where  his  wife  is  a 
member.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Toledo 
Traveling  Men's  Association,  having 
served  that  organization  as  a  director 
for  two  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
A.  O.  IJ.  W.,  having  occupied  the  po­
sition  of  Financial  Secretary  for  a  year 
some  years  ago.  He  is  a  charter  mem­
ber  of  Toledo  Council.  No.  10,  U.  C. 
T.,  and  has  filled  the  position  of  Sec­
retary  for  the  past  eight  years  with 
credit  to  himself  and  with  satisfaction 
to  the  members.

Mr.  Emmel  attributes  his  success  on 
the  road  to  good  health  and  hard  work. 
"Show  me  a  man  who  works  all  the 
time,”   be  remarks,  "and  I  will  show 
you  a  man  who  enjoys  the  esteem  of 
bis  employer,  the confidence of  the  trade 
and  his  own  self-respect.”

There  is one  department store  in  New 
York  that  employs  4,007  people,  men, 
women  and  children.  The  list  does  not 
include  the  men  who  have  charge  of  the 
delivery  wagons,  the  stablemen,  nor  the 
buyers,  whose  duties  are  principally  on 
the  outside,  but  the  entire  4,007  are 
nearly  all  employed  in  the  building  at 
one  time,  distributed  around  on  the 
different  floors.  Several  hundred of them 
are 
in  the  mail  order  department,  and 
several  hundred  more  are  employed  in 
the  wholesale  department  both  of  which 
are  never  invaded  by  retail  customers.

The  Finns  cease  to exist as a nation in 
consequence  of  ordinances  just  promul­
gated 
in  pursuance  of  directions  from 
St.  Petersburg. 
Finland  becomes  a 
province  of  Russia  and  all  its  officers 
become  subject  to Russian authority.  In 
anticipation  of  this  result,  the  Finns 
have  been  emigrating  to  the  United 
States  in  such  numbers  as  almost  to  de­
populate  their  native  land.  Resistance 
to  the  power  of  Russia would,  of  course, 
be  useless  for  such  a  feeble  folk.

1UC  UIUC1C1ILC  UCIWCCU  LUC  IHUUSlUdl
condition 
in  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  at  the  present  time  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  while  American 
colliers  are  out  on  strike  for  higher 
wages  75.000  Scotch  colliers  have  just 
accepted  a  reduction  of  6%  per  cent,  in 
their  pay.

M n g sto n

Cbe
fiotei

Only three minutes’  walk 

from  Union  Station.

Gor.  Division and Tulton Sts. 

Grand Rapids,  mid).

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central  location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

30cts. 
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Drugs—Chem icals

Michigan  State  Board  of Pharmacy

Term expires
Hk s b t  Hkim, Saginaw 
•  Dec. Si, 1902
Deo. 81,1903
Wir t  P.  Dots', Detroit - 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
John D. Mu ib, Grand ttaplds 
Dec. 81,  ibuô 
Arth ur H. Webber, Cadillac 
Dec. 31, 1906 

• 

President,  Hen ry  Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary, J ohn D. Mu ir, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Examination  Sessions.

Lansing, November 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. 

President—Lou G. Moore, Saginaw. 
Secretary—W  H  Burke  Detroit- 
Treasurer—C. F.  Huber. Port Huron.

C a r d in a l  P r in c ip le s   W h ic h   S h o u ld   G u id e  

t h e   P h a r m a c is t.

I  can  not  find  words  to  express  or 
power  to  frame  sentences  sufficiently 
strong  to  convey  my  desire  to  have  you 
feel  the  serious  responsibility  that  rests 
on  you,  the  pharmacists  of  to-day,  when 
selecting  apprentices. 
The  boy  you 
hire  to-day  will  be  the  drug  clerk  of  to­
morrow,  the  pharmacy  student  of  next 
year,  and  a  graduate  before  you  know 
it.  He will  become  your  social  associate 
and  business  confrere.  The  boy  may 
live  to  frame  laws  to  regulate  your busi­
ness  and  write  books  to  educate  the 
profession.

I  regret  the  necessity,  but  do  not  hes­
itate 
in  saying  that  some  of  the  drug 
store  apprentices  now  at  work will never 
be  able  to  pass  a board  or college  exam­
ination,  or  bave  the  ambition  for  law­
making,  or  the  ability  to  write  books. 
They  will  illegally  run  disgraceful  es­
tablishments  under  the  name  of  drug 
stores,  and  their  entire  lives  will  detract 
from  the  good  name  of  pharmacy.  The 
grave  responsibility remains  with  you  to 
select  the  boys  and  girls  for  apprentices 
who  will  do  honor  to  the  calling.  See 
to  it  that  they  are  educated,  competent 
and  honest.  Remember  that  you,  the 
pharmacists  of  to-day,  are  to  be  held  re­
sponsible 
for  the  pharmacists  of  to­
morrow.

It 

is  the  man  with  watchful  mind, 
ever  guided  by  the  unerring  finger  of 
intelligence,  who  is  willing  to  study  for 
the  sake  of  the  knowledge  gained.  He 
fully  realizes  that  knowledge,  as  well  as 
truth  and  virtue,  are  their  own,  but 
by  no  means  their  only,  reward.  While 
pharmacy 
is  a  profession,  the  pharma­
cist 
is  in  business  and  must  look  after 
the  dimes  and  dollars.  Keep  your ac­
counts  as  carefully  as  a  banker  watcbes 
his  books,  study  the  methods  of  suc­
cessful  merchants  and  see  that  your 
store 
is  redolent  with  that  business  air 
which  inspires  the  timid  customer  with 
confidence  and  never  fails  to  engender 
a  feeling  of  stability  and  security.

From  the  physiological  laws  govern­
ing  the  life  of  a  bacterium  to the cosmic 
principle  underlying  the  movements  of 
the  heavenly  bodies  that  inspire  us with 
their  profundity,  we  find  ail  through 
nature  the  universal  rule  of  system. 
Without  such  a  governor,  our  earth 
would  be  annihilated  in  collision  with 
other  heavenly  bodies.  The  same  law 
of  system  maintains  the  continuity  of 
life  and  even  the  formation  of  inani­
mate  bodies.

Be  systematic  in  all  things  connected 
with  the  drug  business  and  your  profes­
sion.  Watch  your  stock  of  goods,  and 
keep  it  both  fresh  and  complete.  See 
that  your  store  bears  the  imprint  of  per­
fect  order  and  conscientious cleanliness. 
“ The  truly  great  are  even  great  in  little 
things,"  and  a  good  pharmacist  is  as 
careful  in  labeling  a  bottle  as  he 
in 
compounding  its  most  potent  contents.
Some  of  you  may  have  bad  clerks 
whose  attention  to  dress  and  aversion

is 

contained  in  the  air.  As  iong  as  the 
air  is  excluded,  no  appreciable  change 
is  noticeable.  Possibly  the  change  is 
more  rapid  where  the  shellac  is  kept  in 
metal  vessels,  but  it  will  darken  in  any 
kind  of  vessel  after the  air  has  been  ad­
mitted  a  few  times. 
I  find that  the  best 
way  to  obviate  this  trouble  is  to  mix 
only  a  small  quantity  at  a  time,  in  or­
der  that 
it  may  be  consumed  before  it 
has  time  to  darken. 
In  the  absence  of 
better  light  on  the  subject,  it  is  reason­
able  to  attribute  the  cause  to  the  action 
of  the  air,  which  supposition 
is  sup­
ported  by the  fact  that  shellac  in  an  air­
tight  glass vessel may be kept  indefinite­
ly  without  darkening.

The  Drag  Market.

Opium—Is  unchanged.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— Has  again  advanced  2c  per 
oz.,  on  account  of  higher  prices for bark 
at  the  Amsterdam  auction  on  Oct.  2.

Castile  Soap— Is  higher abroad and  an 

advance  is  looked  for  here.

Menthol—Stocks  are  very  small  and 

prices  rule  firm  at  the  advance.

Bromide  Potash—Has  declined  2c  per 

pound.

Select  Elm  Bark—Is  in  very  small 

supply  and  has  again  advanced.

Oil  Cubebs— Has  declined,  on  ac­

count  of  higher  prices  for  berries.

Oil  Anise  and  Cassia—Are  both  very 

Oil  Sassafras— Is  scarce  and  has  ad­

firm.

vanced.

Oil  Lavender— Higher  prices  are 
looked  for,  on  account  of  higher  prices 
in  primary  market.

Linseed  Oil— Is  unsettled  but  tending 

lower.

Turpentine— Has  advanced.

K in d   to  the  Poor  M e lic a n   T r a m p .

A  social  observer  of  humorous  sympa­
thies  reports  a  trait  of  a  Chinese  serv­
ant  employed  in  a  Boston  family  which 
reveals  a  certain  capability  lor  ready 
assimilation  with  American  methods  of 
dealing  with  the  tramp  problem.  A 
hungry  tramp  called  one  Monday  after­
noon  at  the  kitchen  door,  and  was 
promptly  challenged  by  John.  To  John 
the  tramp  told  his  tale  of  woe,  ending 
with a  bumble  petition  for  something  to 
eat.

ing  tones.

“ Like  fish?”   asked  John,  in  insinuat­
“  Yes, 1  like fish, ”  the tramp answered.
“ Call  Friday,”   said  John,  as  he  shut 

the  door,  with  a  smile  imperturbable.

A  day  of  sorrow. is  longer  than  a 

month  of  joy.

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

for  work  reminded  you  of  Josh  Billings’ 
saying:

The  man  who  kan  ware  a  shirt  a  hole 
week  and keep it  klean ain’t  fit  for any­
thing  else.

But  you  must  avoid  the  other  ex­
treme,  for  a  soiled,  dilapidated  looking 
druggist  drives  away  trade  as  surely  as 
dirty  show  windows  shut  out  light  and 
desirable  customers.

More  than  three  hundred  years  ago  a 
celebrated  physician  stated  that  the 
successful  treatment  of disease depended 
upon  four  conditions: 
First,  Divine 
Providence;  second,  purity  of  medi­
cines;  third,skill  of  the  physician ;  and 
fourth,  obedience  of  the  patient.  Not 
even  the  physician,  however,  realizes  as 
fully  as  the  pharmacist  must  the  vital 
necessity  of  medicines  being  of  the 
proper quality  as  well  as  right  identity. 
The  educated  public  and  the  medical 
profession 
in 
your  ability  to  judge  both  the  quality 
and  identity  of  medicine.  Carefully  in­
spect  every  article  you  dispense  and  let 
“ Quality  the  first  consideration,”   ever 
be  your  banner  motto.

implicit 

impose 

faith 

The  worthy  pharmacist  of  to-day  has 
many  perplexites  to  mar  the  peace  of 
an  unruffled  life. 
It  is  no  wonder  that 
the  erect  form  of  youth  becomes  bent 
as  time  marks  the  furrows  of  worry  and 
perplexities  on  bis  brow.  Among  those 
I  must  mention  is  the  odium  cast  on the 
profession  by  a  few  unscrupulous  per­
sons  who  have  no  regard  for  justice, 
the  dictates  of  right,  or  the  value  of  hu­
man 
life.  They  know  not  the  voice  of 
conscience.  Pharmacy,  like  every  other 
profession,  must  support  its  scapegoat, 
whose  only  ambition  is  to  make  money 
and  with  whom  the  end  always  justifies 
the  means.  They  are  with  us  even  if 
destitute  of  a  true  place  and  function 
in  the  profession.

The  ministry  has  hypocrites, 

the 
medical  profession  the  only  too  well- 
known  “ quack,’ ’  and  pharmacy,  alas, 
we  must  confess 
it,  the  man  who  dis­
penses  not  t*be  article  ordered  in  the 
prescription  or  by  the  customer,  but 
supplies  a  similar  article,  in appearance 
at 
least,  which  costs  him  less  money.
I  feel  that  the  world  does  not  mete  out 
sufficient  justice  to  this  class  of  mis­
life  for 
creants  who  trifle  with  human 
a  few  paltry  dollars.  Do  not 
let  these 
leeches  discourage  you,  for the  standard 
of  pharmacy  will  continue  to  advance 
inspite  of  them.

If  only  a  few  of  the  physicians  pre­
scribe  U.  S.  P.  preparations  and  spec­
ify  N.  F.  articles,  consider  it  your  own 
fault.  Lose  no  time  in  acquainting  the 
medical  profession  in  your  locality  with 
these  preparations,  which  can  most  fre­
quently  be  products  of  your  own  phar­
maceutical  laboratory.

H.  M.  VVhelpley.

Not  His Job.

is  a  floorwalker  in  a 

department  store,  isn’t  he?’ ’

“ Your  husband 
“ Yes.”
“ Then,  why  don’t  you  have  him  get 
up  and  walk  the  floor  with  the  baby 
when  she  cries?’ ’

“ I  can’t  wake  him  up.  When  I  shake 
him  and  tell  him  what’s  the  matter  he 
something  about  soothing 
mumbles 
syrup 
in 
the  drug  department  three 
aisles  down,  and  then  goes  to  snoring
again. ”  

____

Dust  Proof Floor Oil,

The  following  formula  has  been  rec­
ommended  as  yielding  an  excellent 
preparation  for  oiling  hardwood  floors:
Paraffinoil..................................  8  parts.
Kerosene.....................................   j  part.
Lime  water................................   i  part.

This  makes  an  emulsion  which  is  to 

be  robbed  in^he^floor  with  a  rag.

in 

old-fasbioned 

Old-Time  Remedies  For Snake  Bite.
The  subject  of  snake  bite  may  oc­
casionally  engage  the  individual  prac­
a  moorland  countryside 
titioner 
where,  especially 
in  the  summer  and 
autumn,  cases  are  not  unknown  of 
in­
fants  dying  from  collapse  after  being 
bitten  by  vipers.  We  have  recently 
been  informed  that  the  “ infallible  rem­
edy”   used  by  “ Brusber”   Mills,  the 
well-known  New  Forest  snake  catcher, 
for  the  bite  of  the  adder or  viper  is  the 
fat  of  the  creature  itself  melted,  bottled, 
and  applied,  a  drop  at  a  time,  to  the 
wound.  The  cure,  he  asserts,  is  an 
affair  of  two  minutes.  Mills  has,  of 
immense  experience  with 
course,  had 
snakes,  having 
in  his  day  killed  or 
taken  more  than  4,000  venomous  and
27,000  harmless  specimens.  He  has,  in 
fact,  practically  devastated  bis  own 
field  of  operations  round  Lyndhurst. 
His  belief 
in  his  remedy  is  shared  by 
Wiltshire  and  Hampshire  rustics  and 
is  doubtless  universal 
in  the  country- 
districts  of  England.
The  question  is whether this treatment 
is  merely  a  survival  of  the  old  savage 
homoeopathy  which  ordains  a  hair  of 
the  dog  that  bit  you  as  a  cure  for  the 
is  a  rude  form  of 
bite,  or  whether  it 
serumtherapy.  Vipers  are  exceedingly 
quarrelsome  from 
the  moment  they 
the  egg,  and  unless  immune 
break 
against  venom  would 
long  ago  have 
ceased  to  exist  as  a  distinct  species. 
Hence  their  fat  may  be  a  kind  of  anti­
toxin.  Of  course,  all  fatty  and  oily 
substances  are  useful  against  poisons, 
which  they  doubtless  absorb  and isolate, j 
The 
“ London  viper 
catchers,”   mentioned  by  White  of  Sel- 
borne  and  others  always  employed  hot 
olive  oil  as  a  cure  or treatment for snake 
bite,  and  this  with  ammonia  continues 
to  be  recommended.
We  read  of  the  oil  cure  in  works  on 
natural  history,  but  find  no  mention  of 
the  peasants’  use  of  fat.  How  came 
it 
to  be  used  in  the  first  instance?  Prob­
ably 
the  savage 
theory  that  fat,  blood,  sputum  and  so 
forth,  contain 
life  principle  or 
“ soul”   of  men  and  animals  and  are 
therefore  a  cure  for  anv  lesion.  Fat 
was  anciently  used  to  frighten  away 
serpents  from  gardens  and  houses.  The 
“ suet  of  deer  strewed  up  and  down 
where  they  (adders)  come  will'cause 
them  to  depart,”   says  Agrippa  of  Net- 
tesheim,  whose  ideas,  despite  his  scep­
ticism,  were  often  those  of  the  tribal 
medicine  man.  Bacon  fat,  mixed  with 
the  brains  of  a  weasel,  is  recommended 
by  him  to  scare  away  rats  and  mice.
charms  obtained  from 
Drugs  and 
snakes  are,  of  course,  very  ancient. 
in  “ Macbeth”   make  a 
The  witches 
baneful  viper  broth,  but  the  same  mix­
ture  was  also  a  medicine  and  cure  for 
many  diseases.  The  sloughs  of  snakes 
had  also  singular  uses.  The  sixteenth 
century  Jerome  Cardan  is  quoted  in  an 
old  chapbook  as  saying,  “ If  any  do 
sprinkle  bis  bead  with  the  powder  of  a 
skin  that  a  snake  doth  cast  off,  gotten 
or  gathered  when  the  moon  is  in  the 
full,being  also  in  the  first  part  of  Aries, 
the  Ram,  he  shall  see  terrible  and  fear­
ful  dreams.  And 
if  he  shall  have  it 
under  the  sole  of  bis  foot  he  shall  be 
acceptable 
before  magistrates  and 
princes. ”

in  accordance  with 

the 

Cause  and  Prevention  of  Darkening  of 

Shellac.

The  tendency  of  shellac  to  darken 
while  in  solution  is  somewhat  of  a  puz­
zle  to  many  painters,  as  well  as  a  great 
source  of  annoyance.  The  cause  is  not 
entirely  clear. 
In  a  recent  article  on 
this  subject  the  writer  attributes  the 
cause  to  the  chemical  action  resulting 
from  the  contact  with  the  metal  vessel 
in  which  the  shellac .is  kept.  But  this 
statement  is  contrary  to  his  experience, 
says  a  correspondent  to  the  Painters' 
Magazine:

We  use  only  earthenware  and  glass 
vessels  for  this  purpose,  and  find  that 
after 
they  have  been  opened  a  few 
times  the  shellac  begins  to  darken.  The 
cause  of  this  change,  as  before  stated, 
is  not  entirely  clear. 
It  is  possibly  due 
to  chemical  action  of  some  of  the  gases

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Conlum Mac............
Copaiba..................   i
Cubebae...................  i
Exechthltos............  l
Erlgeron.................  i
Gaultherla..............  2
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppll, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................  i
Junlpera.................  i
Lavendula..............
Limonls...................  i
Mentha Piper.........   2
Mentha Verld......... 2
Morrhuae, |gal.........   2
M yrda......................4
Olive.......................
Plcls Llqulda...........
PI els Llqulda,  gal...
Rlelna.  . ........  ......
Rosmarlnl...............
Rosae, ounce..............6
Succlni....................
Sabina....................
Santal....................... 2
Sassafras.................
Slnapls,  ess., ounce.
Tlglfl.......................  1
Thyme.....................
Thyme, opt..............
Theobromas  ...........
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................
Bichromate............
Bromide.................
C arb.......................
Chlorate., .po. 17@19
Cyanide..................
Iodide.....................   2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nltras.........
Prusslate.................
Sulphate  po............
Radix
Aconltum.................
Althse......................
Anchusa.................
Aram  po.................
Calamus............ .
Gentlana........po. 15
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po.................
Ipecac, po............... 2
Iris  plox.,.po.35@38
Jalapa, pr...............
Maranta,  14s ...........
Podophyllum,  po...
Rhel............... .
Rhel, cut.................
Rhel, pv..................
Splgella..................
Sangulnarla.. .po.  15
Serpentaria............
Senega ....................
Smllax, officinalis H.
Smllax, M...............
Sclllae............po.  36
Symplocarpus,Foetl-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ...............
Zingiber j.................
Semen
Anisum......... po.  18 
®
A plum (graveleons).*  13®
Bird, is.......................  
4®
Caral..............po.  16  10®
Cardamon...............   1  28®
Corlandram.............  
8®
Cannabis Sattva......  
6®
Cydonium...............   76®
Chenopodium.........  
ie@
Dlpterlx Odorate__  1  00®
Foenlculum.............. 
®
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
Lini.........................  4  @
Linl, grd......bbl. 4 
4  ®
Lobelia...................   1  80®
Pharlarls Canarian..  5  @
R apa.......................  5  @
Slnapls  Alba........... 
9®
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
li®
Spiritns
Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 
Frumentl,  D. F. R..  2 00®
Frumentl................   1  26®
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1  66®
Juniperls  Co...........  1  78®
Saacnarum  N. E __  1  90®
Spt. Vlnl Galll.........  1  76®
Vlnl Oporto............   1  26®
Vlnl Alba...............  1  28®

20®
30®
10O
o
200
12®16®
o
o
12®
18®75®
36®
26®
©22®
76®
76®
36®
60®
8?®
O
10®
o
o
16®
14®
26®

2

1
1
1

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2  80®
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  R e ef,  for
slate use...............  
®
Syrups
Acacia....................  
®
Aurant! Cortex........ 
®
Zingiber..................  
®
®
Ipecac...................... 
Ferri Iod.................  @
Rhel Arom.............. 
®
Smllax  Officinalis... 
50®
®
Senega.................... 
8011139....................  
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8
76
17
■29
45
5
10
14
16
63
5
2040
6
8
16
14
26
00
60
00

24
9
60

66
70
66
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
1225
30
30
12
14
16
17
16
26
75
40
15
2
80
7

18
26
36
40
26
30
2010
6646
36
28
66
14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14
16
69
40
00
«6
36
76
60
40
10
45
46
00

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
20
20
20
60
26
66
20
65
85
80
86
76
1040

90 
1  26
1  36 
1  60 
1  10
2  10 76 
60
1  86 
2  00 
2  00
1  25
3 20
2  20 
2  104  60 
3 00
12 36 
98 
1  00 
7 00 
46 
1  00 
7 00 
60 
66 
1  60 
60 
1  60 
20

18
16
56
16
18
38
40
30
10
826
18

26
33
12
26
40
16
18
75
80
16
22
80
40
30 
36 
26 
00 ! 
26 
36

16
27

16 
16 
6 11 
1  76 
10
6
1  00 
16 
1  10 
10 9 
6 
6
1  66 
6 
6 
10 
12

2 60 
2 26 
1  60 
2  00 
3 60 
2  10 
6  60 
2  00 
2 00 !

2 76 
2 76 
1  60
1  26
1  00 
76
1  40

60 j 
»I 
Ml

1

3cUlæ  Co................. 
®  60
©  50
Tolutan...................  
Prunus  vlrg............   @  50
Tinctures
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.....................
Catechu)..................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubabæ....................
Cassia Acuttfol........
Cassia Acutlf ol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chlorldum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
OpU..........................
Opll, comphorated..
OpU, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhel........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium............
Tolutan..................
Valerian.................
Veratram  Verlde...
Zingiber..................

1

Miscellaneous

dither, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  36
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2Ü® 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
30 
Annatto...................  
40®  50
4® 
Antlmonl, po........... 
5
Antimon! et Potass T  40®  60
©  25
Antlpyrln...............  
©  20
Antliebrin.............. 
®  45
Argentl Nltras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45®  60
Bismuth S. N...........  1  66®  1  70
9
Calcium Chlor., is...  @ 
®  10
Calcium Chlor.,  *4s.. 
Calcium Chlor.,  14s.. 
® 
12
®  80
Cantharldes, Bus .do 
Capslcl Fructus, af..  @ 
16
Capsicl  Fructus, po. 
® 
16
Capslcl Fructus B, po 
®  15 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......  
© 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
66®  60
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
©  40
Coccus.................... 
®  36
Cassia Fructus........ 
Centrarla................. 
® 
10
©  45
Cetaeeum................. 
Chloroform............  
55®  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
®  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  36®  1  60
Chondrus................   20®  26
Cinchonldlne.P. & W  38®  48
Clnchonldine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   4  08®  4  25
76
Corks, Ust.dls.pr.ct. 
®  46
Creosotum...............  
Creta............ bbl. 75 
© 
2
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, preclp........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra........... 
® 
8
Crocus....................   30®  36
©  24
Cudbear..................  
Cuprl  Sulph............   6HO 
8
7®  10
Dextrine................. 
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numbers. 
® 
8
Emery, po................ 
8
© 
E rgota......... po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  16
Galla....................... 
©  23
8® 
Gambler................. 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
36®  60
Gelatin, French......  
75  &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
11® 
13
Glue,  white............  
15®  25
Glyoerina.................  17%®  26
Grana Paradis!........ 
®  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
©  1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
®  90
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
©  1  10 
© 1  20 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl 
HydrargUnguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum......... 
©  85
Ichthyobolla, Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................  
76® 1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................3 60®  3 85
Lupulin................... 
©  60
Lycopodium.............  66®  70
Macls......................  66®  76
Liquor Arsen et  Ry-
drarg Iod.............. 
©  26
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
10® 
12
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
3
©  114 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannt». *L  F ,,„ ..... 
75©  80

Menthol..................   @ 6 60
Morphia, S., P. & W. 2  15®  2 40 
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.  2  16® 2  40
Morphia, Mai...........2  15® 2  40
Moschus  Canton__ 
©  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1......  
66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @ 
10
Os Sepia.................. 
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  1  00
Plcls Llq. N.N.K gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Plcls Llq., quarts__ 
® 1  00
©  86
Plcls Llq.,  pints......  
®  60
PllHydrarg...po. 80 
® 
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
18
®  30
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 36 
Pllx Burgun............  
© 
7
Plumbl Acet............ 
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  1  60 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
®  76
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
26®  30
8® 
Quasslse..................  
10
Quinta, S. P. &  W...  28®  38
78®  33
Qulnla, 8.  German.. 
Quinta, N. Y............  28®  38
Rubla Tlnetorum__ 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv  20®  22
Salacln....................4 50® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...  40©  60
12®  14
Sapo, W................... 
SapoM.................... 
io®  12
Sapo  G.................... 
©  16

20®

Seldlltz Mixture......
22
Slnapls....................
® 18
Slnapls,  opt............
® 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
® 41
VO0S..........................
Snuff.Scotch.DeVo’s
® 41
Soda, Boras.............
11
9®
Soda,  Boras, po......
11
9®
Soda et Potass Tart.
25®
27
Soda,  Carb..............
114® 2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
5
3®
Soda,  Ash...............
4
3H ®
Soda, Sulphas.........
@ 2
Spts. Cologne...........
® 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........
50®
56
Spts. Myrcla Dom...
@ 2  00
Spts. Vlnl Rect.  bbl.
@
Spts. Vlnl Beet. Kbbl
@
Spts. Vlnl Rect. lOgal
@
Spts. Vlnl Rect. 5 gal
@
Strychnia, Crystal...
80® 1  06
Sulphur,  Sub!.........
4
2!4®
Sulphur, Roll...........
2M® 3H
Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice...
28®
30
Theobromae.............
48® 60
Vanilla.................... 9  00@16  00
ZIncI Sulph............
8
7®
Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, extra..............
Lard, No. 1..............

BBL.  GAL.
70
90
66

70
85
60

Linseed, pure raw...  47 
Linseed, boiled........  48 
Neatsfoot. winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  57 

60
51
80
33
Paints  B B L .  L B .
Red  Venetian.........  
l \   2  ®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  Hi  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  1%  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  214  2%®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  214  23i®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13® 
16
75
Vermilion, English..  70® 
Green,  Paris...........  1414® 18A
Green, Peninsular...  13® 
16
Lead, red.................  3  @  8ft
Lead,  white............   6  @  6H
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’__ 
®  96
White, Paris, Amer.  @  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng. 
©14«
cliff....................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20 

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10® 1  20
Extra Turp..............  1  60© 1  70
Coach  Body............  2 76® 3  00
No. 1 Turp Furn......  1  00® 1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1 56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  79

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  Druggists’ 

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.

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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.

Fair..., 
Good  . 
Fancy
Fair 
Good... 
Fancy.. 
Gallons.

Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.

95 
1  00 
I  2«
1  10 1  15 
1  75 
3 00

ADVANCED
Clothes  Pins
Cheese
Whole  Codfish
Some Tobaccos

Index to  Markets

By Columns

B

C

G

H

A

I
J

D
F

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
l
Alabastlne............................ 
Ammonia..............................   1
l
Axle Grease..........................  
Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath  Brick............................ 
l
Blulnsr...................................  1
Breakfast  Food....................  1
Brooms..................................  1
Brushes................................   1
Butter Color..........................  1
Candles.................................   14
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...............................  4
Cream Tartar.......................  6
Dried  Fruits.........................  5
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Fishing Tackle......................  6
Flavoring Extracts...............  6
Fly  Paper.............................   6
Fresh Meats..........................  6
Fruits...................................   14
Gelatine................................   6
Grain Bags............................  7
Grains and Flour.................  7
Herbs....................................  7
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo......... ..........................  7
Jelly.....................................   7
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys...................   15
Lanterns...............................   15
Lantern  Globes....................  15
Licorice................................   7
Lye........................................  7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses...............................   7
Mustard................................   7
Nuts......................................   14
Oil Cans................................   15 I
Olives...................................   7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes .....................................   7
Playing Cards.......................  8
Potash...................................  8
Provisions.............................   8
Bice.......................................  8
Salad Dressing.....................   9
Saleratus...............................  9
Sal Soda................................   9
Salt........................................  9
Salt  Fish...............................  9
Seeds.....................................  9
Shoe Blacking.......................  9
Snuff.....................................   10
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  10
Spices..............  
10
8tarch...................................   10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  11
Syrups...................................  10
Table  Sauce..........................  h
Tea........................................  n
Tobacco................................  ii
Twine...................................   12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder...................13
Wicklng................................  13
Wooden war“ ........................   13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast  cake-
13

V
w

N
O

R
8

M

X.

T

P

 

 

DECLINED

Sugars
Fruit  Jars
Oil  Cans
Sweet  Potatoes

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

CATSUP

CHEESE

Eocene..........................   @11
Perfection.....................   @10
Diamond White.........   @ 944
D. S. Gasoline............  @144
Deodorized Naphtha..  @12
Cylinder.......................29  @34
Engine.......................... 16  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @10X
Columbia,  pints.......................2 00
Columbia, H pints.................... 1 25
Acme
»1814 
a «  
Amboy........
Carson City..
@12
@13 
Elsie............
@1214 
Emblem......
9<3 
Gem............ .
«12 
Gold Medal..
@12 
Ideal...........
@«2 
Jersey.........
Riverside__
d l'tf
14® 15 
Brick...........
@90 
Edam..........
@17
Leiden........
Llmburger
____13@14
Pineapple...............  
60@75
Sap  Sago................. 
19@20
CHEWING  GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
55
Blackjack......................  
60
Largest Gum  Made......... 
Sen S en..........................   W
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf....................... 
55
Yucatan...........................  
56
Bulk...................................... 5
Red....................................... ?
Eagle...................................  4
Franck’s .............................  •
Schener’s.............................  6

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

Ju te

Cotton  Victor

Cotton Braided

60f t.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.................
60 ft..................................  
75
72 f t .................................. 
80
90 ft............... ...................  1 05
120 ft..................................  1  50
50 ft...................................  
80
95
6f ft................................... 
70 ft...................................  HO
Cotton W indsor
59 ft...................................  1  20
60 ft...................................  1  40
70 ft...................................   1  65
80ft..................................   1  85
40 ft...................................  
55
59 ft................................... 
70
70 ft................................... 
«0
Galvanized  W ire 
1  90
No. 20. each 100 ft long....
No. 19, each 100 ft loug.... 
2  10
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, Ms  .......................  36
Colonial, 44s........................   33
Epps....................................   42
Huyler................................   45
VanHouten, Ms..................  12
Van Houten, Ms..................  20
Van Houten, 44s..................  40
Van Houten,  is..................  70
Webb................................ 
30
Wilbur. 44s..........................   41
Wilbur. Ms..........................   42
Dunham’s 44s...................  26
Dunham's 44s and Ms......  2644
Dunham's  Ms..................   27
Dunham’s  44s..................   28
Bulk..................................  13
20 lb. bags.......................... 
Less quantity....................  
Pound packages................ 

COCOA SHELLS

COCOANUT

COCOA

COFFEE
Roasted

Teller Coffee Co. brands

............   9
No.  9..................
NO. 10....................... ................10
No. 12................... ..............1244
No.  14.................... ..............14
............ 16
No. 16....................
1 40
No. 18....................... ..............18
No. 20.................
............ 20
No. 22...................
............ 22
No. 24.................. .
No. 26................... ..............26
No. 28.................... ............ 28
Belle Isle..............
.........   20
Red  Cross............ ..............24
Colonial...............
............ 26
Juvo......................
............ 30
Koran.................... ..............14

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

1 10

BAKING  POW DER 

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

AXLE GREASE
* n ro ra .......................56 
Castor  OU....................60 
Diamond..................... 60 
Frazer’s .......................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross
8 00
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

%ßlU

ATÎCÏ,
Q E  GF
2*R0  Olli

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

9 00
6 00

_ 

Egg

ii lb. cans,  4 doz. case....... 3 75
44 lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
1 lb. cans,  1 doz. case....... 3 75
5 lb. cans, 44 doz. case.......8 00
* * * * • ! !  I
44 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
*4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  60

Royal

lOcslze__  90
H lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans,  l  90 
44  lb. cans 2 50 
X lb.  cans 3 75 
1 lbt cans.  4  80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  75
E n glish .......................................   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

GEBII NIT FLIES

Cases, 36 packages...................4 50
Five case lots............................4 40

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet............................. 2 ?o
No. 2 Carpet............................. 2 25
No. 3 Carpet............................. 2 15
No. 4 Carpet..............................1 75
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ 1 10
Warehouse......................... ....3 so

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 in .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85

Shoe

No. 8.....................................  00
No. 7..........................................1 %
No. 4.....................................  70
No. 3.....................................  go

Stove

No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2..................................... 1,0
No. 1......................................... 1 75

BUTTER  COLOR
W„ B. & Co.’s, 15c size__ 
l  25
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size....  200

CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s............... 1214
Paraffine, es........................ 9<4
Paraffine, 12s.......................   0
wioklnv 
.  17

CANNED  GOODS 

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

Blackberries

1  10
3 35

Beans

Standards................ 
80
Baked......................  1  0O@l  30
Bed  Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
70
Wax......................... 
75

Blueberries
Standard....................
Brook  T rout

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

Clam  Bouillon

1 00
1 50

Burnham’s, 44 pint...........  1 92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20

Cherries

85

Corn

Pears

French  Peas

Gooseberries

1  65
96
85®  90

Bed  Standards...........l  3C@.l  so
White.........................  
1 60
Fair.......................... 
80
Good.......................  
85
1 Oo
Fancy...................... 
Sur Extra Fine................. 
22
19
Extra  Fine....................... 
Fine................................... 
15
11
Moyen............................... 
Standard................  
90
Hominy
Standard... 
85
Lobster
Star, 44 lb................  
2  10
Star, 1  lb................. 
3  60
2  40
Picnic Tails.............  
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
l  80
Mustard, 21b........... 
2  80
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
1  SO
Soused, 2 lb............  
2  80
Tomato, 1 lb............  
1  81
Tomato, 21b............  
2 80
Mushrooms
18@20
Hotels  ....................  
Buttons.................... 
22@25
Oysters
Cove, lib ................. 
Cove, 2 lb................. 
Cove, 1 lb Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie..........................  
Yellow..................      1 
Standard................. 
Fancy.................  ... 
Marrowfat.............. 
Early June.............. 
Early June  Sifted.. 
Plum s
Plums...................... 
Pineapple
Grated....................   1 
Sliced.......................   1 
Pum pkin
F air.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
Russian  Cavler
14 lb. cans..............................  3 75
*4 lb, cans..............................  7 00
1 lb. can................................  12 00
Columbia Blver, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska.............  
Pink Alaska............ 
Shrim ps
Standard.......................  
8ardines
Domestic, <4?..........  
Domestic, 14s .........  
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, ms.........  
California Hs..........  
French, Ms.............. 
French, Ms.............. 
Strawberries
Standard.......................  
Fancy  ....................  

b6@l 85
1 00
1  25
1  00
90® 1  60

@1  65
@1  80
®l  30
@ 90

11@14
17®24
7@14
18@28

25@2 75
35®2 55

1 60
85

Salmon

334
5
6

Peas

1  15

140

5

Sweet  Goods—Boxes

Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake, Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......   18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced....................  8
Cream Crisp.....................   1044
Cubans.............................   1144
Currant  Fruit..................   12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
644
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C .... 
Gladiator..........................   1044
Grandma Cakes...............  
9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers...............   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers.................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers....................  12
Lemon Snaps....................  12
Lemon Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
8
Mary Ann......................... 
Mixed Picnic....................  1144
Milk Biscuit...................... 
744
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar....................  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  1244
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............  12
Orange Crisp....................  9
Orange Gem......................  9
Penny Cake......................  8
744
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
844
Pretzels, hand  made.......  
844
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch.................... 
744
Sugar Cake....................... 
8
'blear Cream. XXX.........  
8
Sugar Squares.................. 
8
Sultanas............................  13
Tuttl Fruttl......................   16
16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. J.  Krnce & Co.’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM  TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

Sundried.........................  @6
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7®  8

California Prunes

100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  ® *X
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5 m
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5M
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6M
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @  ¡yt
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @  8M
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
9

M cent less In 50 lb. cases

California F ruits

Apricots....................   @
Blackberries..............
Nectarines................. 
Peaches......................8  @10
Pears..........................944
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries ...............

844

Citron

Leghorn.................................. 12
Corsican....................  1244®. 3

Currants

California, l lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......   7
Imported, bulk...................   6M

Peel

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M  & J.  1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. IB J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
Royal Java..........................
Royal Java and Mocha.......
Java and Mocha Blend.......
Boston Combination..........
Ja-Vo Blend........................
.Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend................
Distributed by Olney & Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott & Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. &  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co..  Jackson,  Meisel  & 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Ftelbach 
Co., Toledo.

Rio

Common..............................  8
F air.....................................  9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy...................................15

Santos

Common..............................  8
F air...................................... 9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy.................................. 13
Peaberry.............................. 11

Maracaibo

F air.....................................13
r’holoe 

 

Mexican

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

Guatemala

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

Java

Mocha

Package 

Arabian............................  

21

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................104%
Dll worth............................ 1044
Jersey................................ 1044
Lion...................................10
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  IB 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City 44  gross............   75
Felix 44 gross..................... 1  15
Hummers foil 44 gross........  85
Hummel’s tin 44 gross........1  43

CONDENSED  MILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown...................................... 5 90
Daisy........................................4 70
Champion................................4 25
Magnolia................................. 4 00
Challenge.................................* 10
Dime........................................3 36
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid..................................6 10
Tip  Top................................... 3 85
Nestles.....................................4 25
Highland Cream..................... 5 on
St. Charles Cream.................... 4 50

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Co.’s brands 

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

Raisins

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...... 9&@10
L. M., Seeded, %  lb__  
8
Sultanas, b ulk.....................11
Sultanas, package ............. .1144
FARINACEOUS GOODS 

244
3
4

Soda

B utter

Seymour...........................  
644
New York.........................  644
Family.............................  644
Salted...............................   844
Wolverine......................... 

7

Soda  XXX....................... 
7
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................  13

Oyster

F au st............................... 
Farina.............................. 
Extra Farina.................... 
Sal tine Oyster................... 

7M
7
744
7

Beans

Dried Lima..........................  544
Medium Hand Picked 
1 90
Brown Holland.....................2 25

241 lb. packages.................. 1 so
Bulk, per 100 lbs................... 2 so

Farina

Hom iny

Flake, 50 lb. sack................  go
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl..................5 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack................ 2 50
Maccaronl  and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box............. 2 50

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

_____________ 8________

P earl  Barley

Peas

Common......................... ...3 00
Chester............................ ...2 75
Empire............................
..3 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu__
Green, Scotch, bu...........
..1  85
Split,  lb......   .................. .. 
4
Rolled Avena, bbl...........
..6 75
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks..
2  95
Monarch, bbl..................
..5 50
Monarch, % bbl..............
..2  87
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ ..2 65
Quaker, cases.................
.3  10

Rolled  Oats

Walsh-DeRoo ( o.'s Brani.

Grits

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages...... 2 00
East India...........................   3*
German, sacks....................  3%
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............   414
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 24 1 lb.  packages......  6%
Cracked, bulk......................  31*
24 2 ft. packages.................2 60
FISHING  TACKLE
% to 1 Inch..........................   6
lJi to 2 Inches...................... 
7
1V2 to 2 inches......................  9
1% 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, <5 feet........................   10
No. 5,15 feet........................   11
No. 6,15 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 fe e t.......................   15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  20
Small...................................   20
Medium...............................   26
L arge..................................  34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.......   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo.  18 f t , per doz.......   80
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE  A JEN K S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Lemon

V amila 

1 oz full m  l  20  1 oz full  m.  80 
2ozfullm .2l0  2 oz full m  l  25 
No.sfan’y a  IB  No.sfan’y  1  7F

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

Flavoring extract

Folding  Boxes 

F a ll  Measure

Taper  Bottles 

D. C. Lemon 
D. 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 
L>. C. Vanilla 
2 o z ........... 
75  2 o z ........... 125
3 OZ...........  1  25  3 o z ............2  10
4 OZ.........  1  50  4 OZ..........2 40
D. C. Vanilla
D. C. Lemon 
85
1  o z ...........  
2 0Z...........1  10  2 o z ............1  60
4 OZ...........  2  00  4 OZ............3  00
2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure. Lemon..  1  60 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80 
Tanglefoot, per box.............   36
Tanglefoot, per  ease...........3 20

Tropical  Extracts 

FLY  PA PER

65  1  o z ...........  

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

i   a ’K
6  © 6
6%@  8
©14 
©12 
©  7 
© 6 
©
© 854

Carcass.................... 
Forequarters.........  
Hindquarters......... 
Loins.......................  9
Ribs
Rounds....................  6
Chucks
Plates.....................  
5
Dressed................... 
Loins.......................  12%@13
Boston  Butts........... 
ll%@i?
@10«
Shoulders................
Leaf  Lard................
©12
M utton
Carcass...................   6
©  7 
Lambs......................  7
© 9
Carcass.................... 

  B%@ 8

Pork

Veal

75 

l  20 

,  G R A U S E  

Kock...............   1 

PICKLES
M  __
Medium

„  
Knox’s Sparkling........... 
Knox’s Sparkling.pr gross  14 00  _ 
Knox’s Acidulated...........  1  20  Barrels. 1,200 count............8 00
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00  Half bbls, 600 count............4 36
. Oxford..............................  
I Barrels, 2,400 count............9 so
I 
“ bbl8- »•»•«»“ * ........8 20
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5. 572, Special................   175
No  98, Golf, satin finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2 25 

cox^qt'^re.::::'.:::::: 
l “ r
Cox’s, l-qt size.................   1  10
GRAIN  BAGS 
Amoskeag, 100 in bale  ....  15%
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15%

GRAINS  AND  FLOOR 

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

W heat

Small

68

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

9%@  10

@17 25 
@19 60 
@20 60 
@19 75 
22  00 @17  50 
21  00 @19  75

121344
DM

©   13 
@  13 
@  13 
©  13 
@  12% 
©©  17 
©  9% 
©  18 
@  13% 
_
@  9%

@ 7% 
@11%

6
6% 
if 8 
@8% 
6
8%

13 60 
5  3  tO

1  75 
3 28 
7  50

81 
1  60 
3 00

POTASH 

W inter  W heat  Flonr 

Local Brands

Smoked  Meats 

n __
U ry 8aW Meat8

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

48 cans In case.

Mess.........................
Back......................
Clear back...............
Short cut.................
PI*...................  ....
Bean........................
Family Mess Loin...

Patents............................   4  15
Second Patent..................   3 65
Straight............................   3  45
Second Straight...............   3  15
Clear................................   3 10
Graham...........................   3 20
Buckwheat.......................  4  86
Rye...................................  8 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s B r a n d ____
Diamond %s......................  3 60 I Clear
Diamond %s.....................  3 60 
Diamond %s.....................   3 60 L  
Bellies.....................
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand 
Quaker%s........................   3 60  §, PBellies...............
! Extra shorts............
Quaker %g........................  3 
Quaker %s........................  3 60
Spring  W heat  Flour 
Hams, 12 lb. average.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brand
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Plllsbury’s  Best %a.........   4  40
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Pilisbury’s  Best %s____   4 30
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Plllsbury'B  Best %g.........   4  20
Ham dried  beef......
Plllsbury’s Best %s paper.  4 20 
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Plllsbury’s Best %s paper.  4  20 
Bacon, clear............   is
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
California hams......
Duluth  Imperial %g........   4  40
Boiled Hams.......
Duluth  Imperial %s.........  4  30
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Duluth  Imperial %s.........  4  20
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Mince Hams......... 
Wlngold  %s....................  4  10
Lard
Wlngold  14s....................  4 20
Wlngold  %■....................  4  10
Compound...............
Pure.........................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
Ceresota %s.....................   4  30
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
Ceresota %s......................  4 20
50 lb. Tins... advance 
Ceresota %s.....................   4  10
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
Laurel  %t.........................  4 30
5 lb. Palls.. advance
Laurel  14s.........................  4 20
• iv.  T>otia  advance
Laurel  %s.........................  4  10
Vegetole..................
Laurel %■ and %s paper..  4  10
Sausages 
Bologna..................
Frankfort. 
P o rk ........
Tongue........
Headcheese..

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Meal

Oats
Corn
Hay

Feed  and  Millstnffb

Bolted..............................   *80|Ìjver
oj.  Li 1 VOI
riMnnlatnil 
Granulated.......................  2 90
St. Car Feed, screened__ 24  25
No. 1 Com and  Oats........ 24  25
Corn Meal,  coarse.......... 25 25
Coru Meal, fine...........
24 00
winter Wheat Bran......... 16 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 18 00
Cow  Feed........................ 17 00
screenings....................... 16 00
Car  lots new....................
34%
Corn, car  lots..................
66
No. 1 Timothy car lots__ o9 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__ 12 00
Sage.................................. ....15
Hops................................ ....15
Laurel Leaves................... ....15
Senna Leave«................... ...26
Madras, 5 lb. boxes......... ....56
S. F„ 2, 3 and 5 lb.  boxes.. ....60
5 lb. palls.per doz...........
1  95
15 lb. palls......................... ..  40
30 lb. palls......................... ..  80

INDIGO

HERBS

Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump, New............

Pigs’ Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
%.bbls.......................
l bbls.,  lbs............
Tripe

% bbls.,  40  lbs.

Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........

Uncolored  B utterlne

JELLY

LICORICE

Solid, dairy. 
Rolls, dairy.
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Pure....................................  30
Roast beef, 2 lb.
aSjftbrta...............................  28  I Potted  ham, %8
...................................   14  I Potted bam, %s
Root..................................... 
io
Deviled ham,  %g..„
Deviled hamj %s 
Potted tongue,  %s.. 
Condensed, 2 doz................ l  20
Potted tongue.  %«.. 
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 25
Domestic

MEAT  EXTRACTS 

RICE

LVE

I 

Canned  Meats 

@13
@13%
16%
16
2 50 
18  00 
2 60 
50 
90

60
90

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4  46  Carolina bead......................7
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 75  Carolina No. 1 ......................6%
Carolina No. 2 ...................... e
Broken..................................3%

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

40
36 j
28
22

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

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  76
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Rayle's Celery, 1 doz...........1  76

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............  1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1.0
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............  1  05
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2 35
Queen, 19  oz.....................  4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7  00 1
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................   1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 80 !
Clay, No. 216.........................I 70
clay, T. D., full count.........   65 !
C’b .N o .i...........  

PIPES

 

8* Sutton’» Table Rice, 40 to the 
bate, 2% pound pocket».„ 7%

Im ported.

Japan,  No. l ................ 5%@
Japan,  No. 2................ 5  ©
Java, fancy head...........  ©
Java, No. l ....................  ©
Table...............................  ®

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

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

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

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

SAL  SODA

Granulated,  bbls.................  as
Granulated, 100 lb. cases___ 1 05
Lump, bbls.........................  90
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   95 |

SALT

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 1 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 I 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Rutter, sacks, 56 lbs...........  67
Shaker.............................   24%

Common  Grades

100 3 lb. sacks............
«0 5 lb. sacks............
2810 lb. sacks..........
56 lb. sacks..............
28 lb. sacks..............
W arsaw

.2 25 
.2  15 
.2 05 
40 
22

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

Ashton

Higgins

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60

Solar  Rock

66 lb. sacks......................
Granulated  Fine............ ...  75
Medium Fine.................. ...  80

Common

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Large whole............... @ 5%
Smal whole................
strips or  orlcks.........   6 @  9
Pollock.......................
© 3%
H alibut.

Strips...... ........................
Chunks............................ .  13
No. 1100 lbs..................... .  6 60
No. 1  40 lbs..................... .  2 50
No. 1  10 lbs.....................
70
No. 1  8 lbs.....................
59

T rout

Mackerel
Mess 100 lbs........ ...
Mess  50 lbs................
Mess  10 lbs................
Mess  8 lbs................
No. 1 100 lbs................
No. 1  67 lbs.
No. 1  10 lbs.
No. 1  8 lbs.
No. 2 ino lbs.
No. 2  5Ubs...................
No. 2  lOlbs......................
Ve. ?  »
Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoops%bbl. 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs.
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Scaled...............................
Bloaters............................

H erring

White fish

100  lbs.... .... 7  50
50 lbs.... .... 4 06
10 lbs.... ....  90
8  lb».... ....  71

No. 1 No. 2  F am
8 86
2  30
58
45

10
SEEDS

Anise.  .................................. 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3%
Caraway.............................   7%
Cardamon, Malabar............ 1  00
Celery...................................10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird..........................   4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy...................................  s
Rape...................................   4
Cuttle Rone.......................... 14
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Blxby’s Royal Polish.......  
86 !
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SHOE  BLACKING

SOAP

M100 cakes, large size.............6 50

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

Lautz Bros, brands—

Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box.............................3 45
5 box lots, delivered............3 -to
10 box lots, delivered............3 35
Johnson soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 65
Calumet Family.............   2  75
Scotch Family................   2  85
Cuba...............................   2  35
Dusky Diamond.............   3 55
Jap  Rose  .......................  3  75
Savon  Imperial..............  3  56
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars................3 55
Satinet, oval....................  2 50
White  Cloud.................... 4  10
Big Acme........................  4  25
Acme 5c..........................  3  65
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master.............................. 3  70
Proctor & Gamble brands—
Lenox.............................  3  10
Ivory, 6 oz......................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Schultz & Co. brand-
Star.................................  3 40
Search-Light Soap Co.  brand. 
‘‘Search-Light’’  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 75
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer....................  1  no
Old Country....................  3  40
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz.........2 40
Sapollo. hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
Boxes...................................  5%
Kegs, English........................4%
Scotch, In bladders................  37
Maccaboy, In jars.................   35
French Rappee, in Jars......   43

Sconring

SNUFF

SODA

SPICE8 

W hole Spices

■ er, shot......................... 

Allspice................................ 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__ 
Cloves, Amboyna................. 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  76-80.................... 
Nutmegs,  105-10................... 
Nutmegs, 115-20...................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
a re  G round in B ulk
Allspice................................ 
Cassia, Batavia....................  
Cassia, Salgou...................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Ginger, African................... 
Ginger, Cochin....................  
Ginger,  Jamaica.................  
Mace....................................  
Mustard..............................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne................. 
Rage  . . .  
 
 

STARCH

29

II

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
401-lb.  packages..............  6%

6

SYRUP8

Corn

Barrels.................................ij
Half bbls.............................29
10 lb. cans, % doz. In case..  1  85 
5 lb. cans, l doz. In case....  2  10 
2% lb. cans, 2 doz. In case. .  2  10
F air..................................... 
ie
Good....................................  20
Choice.................................  25

Pare  Cane

STOVE  POLISH

J . L. Prescott & Co.
M anufacturers 
N e w  Y ork , N . Y .

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

8UGAR

Domino.............................  6 76
Cut Loaf.............................. 5 16
Crushed............................  5 is
Cubes................................  4 90
Powdered.........................  4 75
Coarse  Powdered............   4 75
XXXX Powdered............   4 80
Fine Granulated...............   4 65
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  4 85
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  4 >o
Mould A............................  6 00
Diamond  A.......................  4 65
Confectioner’s A..............  4 45
No.  1, Columbia A...........  4 35
No.  2, Windsor A............  4 30
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 30
No.  4, Phoenix  A ............   4 25
No.  5, Empire A..............  4 20
No.  6..............,................   4  16
v "  7  .................... 
i  15
NO.  8................................  4 05
a  .............................   4 01
NO. 10................................   3 95
No. 11................................   3 95
No. 12................................  3 90
NO. 13...............................   3 85
NO. 14................................  3 75
NO. 15................................  8 80
No. 16................................  3 75

... 

TABLE  SAUCES

LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine
W  orcestershlre.

_ i 
0 7  
Lea & Perrin’s, pints.......   5 00
Lea & Perrin’s,  % pints... 
2 75
Halford, large..................   376
Halford, small..................   2 26

TEA 
Japan

12
28
40
56

18
28

Gunpowder

Sundrled, medium...... ......81
Suudrled, cbolce.......... ---- 33
Sundrled, fancy..................43
12
Regular, medium......... ......31
Regular, choice..................33
Regular, fancy............ ......43
Basket-bred, medium.. ......31
Basket-fired, choice___......38
17
Basket-fired, fancy.............43
14
Nibs.............................. ......30
66
Siftings.......................... 19@21
50
Fannings....................... 20@22
40
35
Moyune, medium........ ......29
Moyune, choice........... ......38
Moyune,  fancy....................53
20
Plngsuey,  medium....... ---- 28
Plugsuey, choice......... ......13
16
Plngsuey,fancy............ ....43
28
48
17
Choice........................... ---- 30
16
Fancy............................---- 36
18
25
65
Formosa, fancy...................42
18
Amoy, medium............. ......26
Amoy, choice................ ---- 32
Medium......................... ....27
Choice.......................... .......84
Fancy............................ ....42
Ceylon, choice............... ....32
Fancy............................ ....42

English B reakfast

Young  Hyson

Oolong

India

17
25
20
  v

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

Kingsford’s Corn

40 l-lb. p ackages............. 
8%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............   «%
6 lb. packages...............  
3%
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages..................   6
6%
3-lb. packages................... 
6-lb. packages...................  6%
40 ana »-lb. boxes............  
4
Barrel!.............................   4

S. C. W..............................  85 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

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

14

15

Fancy—In  Pans 

Mixed Candy

Grocer«....................
Competition............
Special.....................
Conserve.................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf..................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cre"**>
mixed..............
Crystal Cream mix

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
Peanut Squares...... 
Sugared Peanuts__ 
Salted Peanuts.......  
Starlight Kisses...... 
San Bias Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain......  
Lozenges, printed... 
Champion Chocolate 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Quintette Choc........ 
Gum Drops.............. 
Moss  Drops............  
Lemon Sours........... 
Imperials................. 
Ital. Cream Opera 
. 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls........... 
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls................. 
Golden Waffles.......  

STONEWARE

B utters

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

Churns

M ilkpans

2 to 6 gal., per gal...............................
"’burn Dashers, per doz.....................
*4 ga>.  fiat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot„ each................
Fine  Glazed  M ilkpans
*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
l gal. flat or rd. bot.,each.............

Stew pans

Jugs

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

*4 gal. per doz..................................... 
>4 gal. per doz..................................... 
1 to 5 gaL, per gal............................... 
5 lbs. In package, per lb  .................... 

Sealing  Wax

LAMP  BURNERS

No. 0 Sun............................................  
No. 1 Sun............................................. 
I No. 2 Sun............................................  
No. 3 Sun............................................  
Tubular......................................■........ 
Nutmeg.............................................. 
MASON  FRUIT JARS

© 6
© 7
@7M
© 7*4
© 8*4
© 9
© 8
© 8*4
© 9
© 9
@ 8*4
© 9
@10
114*4
13

8*4
15
12
12
9
ll
10
10
©12
© 9
©10
@u
©13*4
©12
© 5*4
© 9
© 9
© 9
©12
©11
@13
©12

48
6*4
48 
60 
72 
1  12
1  50
2  12 
2 55

6
84
48
5*4
60
6

85
1  10

56
42
7
2

35
36
48
85
50
50

30

12

Lubetsky Bros, brands

B.  L................................... 35 00
Bally Mail, 5c edition.........35 00

P ing

Fine  Cnt
Cadillac......................
Sweet  Loma..............
Hiawatha, 5 lb. palls 
Hiawatha, 10 lb. palls
Telegram.................. .
Pay C ar....................
PraliiA Rose..............
Protection.................
Sweet Burley.............
Tiger.........................
Red Cross.................
Palo — ;....................
Kylo..........................
Hiawatha.......... .......
Battle A xe................
American Eagle....... .
Standard Navy.........
Spear Head, 16 oz......
Spear Head,  8oz....,
Nobby Twist.............
Jolly T ar...................
Old Honesty..............
Toddy.,......................
J .T ............................
Piper Heidslck.........
Boot Jack..................
Honey Dip Twist......
Black  Standard........
Cadillac....................
Forge........................
Nickel Twist............
Smoking
Sweet Core...............
Flat Car....................
Great Navy............... .
W arpath..................
Bamboo, 16 oz...........
I XL,  51b.................
I X L, 16 oz. palls.......
Honey Dew..............
Gold  Block................
Flagman...................-
Chips..........................
Klin Dried................
Duke’s Mixture.........
Duke’s Cameo...........
Myrtle Navy.............
Turn Yum, 1J4 oz.......
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls.
Cream........................
Corn Cake, 2*4 oz......
Corn Cake, 1 lb..........
Plow Boy, 1*4 oz.........
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz.........
Peerless, 3*4 oz...........
Peerless, 1*4 oz..........
Air Brake..................
Cant  Hook............... .
Country Club.............
Forex-XXXX............
Good Indian..............
Sell  Binder  ..............
Sliver Foam...............

TW INE

54
.33
*6
51
2231
49
37
42
.38
.82
.31
.34
.41
33
.52
36
.41
43
.48
36
42
.33
36
.61
.78
39
.38
38
.30
.50
....34 
.... 37 
....34 
...26 
...24 
...26 
...30 
...35 
...38 
...38 
...32 
...21 
...38 
...41 
...39 
...39 
...37 
...36 
...24 
...22 
...39 
...39 
...32 
...34 
.  36 
...30 
32-34 
...28 
...23 
.20-22 
...34

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

VINEGAR

Basket»

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Red Star..........11
Pure Cider, Robinson.........ll
Pure Cider, Silver.............. ll
WASHING  POWDER
Diamond  Flake.................2 75
Gold  Brick......................... 3 25
Gold Dust, regular.............4 5o
Gold  Dust, 5c......................4 00
Kirkoline,  24 4 lb...............   3 so
Pearline..............................2 75
Soapine............................... 4  10
Babbitt’s 1776.....................   3 75
Roselne...............................3 60
Armour’s............................ 3 70
Nine O’clock.......................3  :5
Wisdom..............................3 80
Scourine..............................3 50
Rub-No-More...................... 3 76
No. 0, per gross................... 25
No. i, per gross................... 30
No. ?, per gross................... 40
No. 8. per gross................... 55

WICKING

WOODENWARK

Bushels................................
Bushels, wide  band............l  25
Market................................  30
Splint, large........................6 00
Splint, medium.................. 5  00
Splint, small.......................4 oo
Willow Clothes, large.........3 oo
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 go 
Willow Clothes, small.........5 00
Bradley  B utter  Boxes
2 lb. size, 24 In case..........  
72
3 lb. size, 16 in case............   68
5 lb. size, 12 In case............  63
10 lb. size,  6 In case............  60
No. 1 Oval, 250 In crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  45
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 6 Oval, 250 In crate........  60
Barrel, 5 gals., each............ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gals., each...........2 55
Barrel, 15 gals., each...........2 70
Round head, 5 gross box....  50 
Round head, cartons...........  75
Humpty Dumpty............... 2 25
No. 1, complete..................   29
No. 2, complete..................   18

B utter Plates

Clothes Plus

Egg Crates

Churns

13
Faucets

 

Tubs

Pails

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Wash  Boards

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........  85
No 1 common......................   76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 fi>. cotton mop heads.......1  25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
2- hoop Standard........................1 50
3- hoop Standard....................... 1 65
2- wlre,  Cable............................ 1 60
3- wlre,  Cable............................l 80
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka.........................2 25
Fibre........................................ 2 40
Hardwood................................2 50
Softwood..................................2 75
Ideal.........................................l 60
Mouse, wood, 2  boles..........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  boles..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5 boles..............  65
Rat, wood................  
80
Rat, spring...........................  75
20-ineh, Standard, No. 1...........7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2...........6 oo
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3........... 6 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. l............ 7 60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2.................6 53
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3................ 5 50
No. 1 Fibre............................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre...............................7 96
No. 3 Fibre...............................7 20
........2 50
Bronze Globe............
...... 1 75
Dewey......................
........2 75
Double Acme............
...  2  26
Single Acme..............
....  3 25
Double Peerless........
........2 50
Single Peerless.........
........2 SO
Northern Queen......
........3 00
Double Duplex.........
...... 2 75
Good Luck ...............
........2 26
Universal..................
....... 1 65
12 In..........................
........1 85
14 in..........................
........2 30
16 in..........................
ll In. Butter............... ........  75
........1  10
13 In. Butter..............
........1  76
15 In. Butter..............
17 In. Butter............... ........2 75
........4 25
19 In. Butter..............
........1  76
Assorted 13-15-17  . . .
Assorted 15-17-19  — ........3  09
Common Straw.........
...  Ü4
....  3%
Fiber Manila, white.
4
Fiber Manila, colored .... 
No.  l  Manila.............. .... 
4
Cream  Manila............ .... 
3
Butcher’s Manila....... ....  25Í
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count ....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls...... ....  15
........1  00
Magic, 3 doz..............
........1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz...........
Sunlight, 1*4  doz....... .......   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz... ........1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz__ ........1  00
Yeast Foam, 1*4  doz.. ____  60
Per lb.
White fish.................. il@
ft  9
Trout..........................
Black Bass............... 10©  It
Halibut...................... ©  14
Ciscoes or Herring__ ©  5
Bluefish...................... ©  11
Live  Lobster............. ©  20
Boiled  Lobster........... ©  22
Cod............................. ©  10
Haddock.................... ©  8
No. l Pickerel............ ©  8-4
Pise........................... ©  7
Perch......................... ©  5
Smoked  White........... @  11
Red  Snapper............ ©
Col River  Salmon  ..12*4©  13
Mackerel.................... ©  18

W RAPPING  PA PER

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls

HIDES  AND  PELTS

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

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

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

50© 1  50
30©  76
30©  75

© 6
© 5
©20
©23
©16
16©18

bbls. pails
© 7
@ 7
© 8
@ 9
cases
© 7*4
@10*4
@10
© 8

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours......... 
©50
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
Chocolate  Drops.... 
©60
©86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Ll  and
Dk. No. 12............  
©I  00
@35
Gam Drops............. 
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
@56
Lozenges,  plain...... 
©so
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................  
©so
@60
Mottoes..................  
Cream  Bar...... . 
@56
Molasses Bar........... 
@56
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wint.............  
©65
String Rock............  
©65
W Intergreen Berries  @eo

Caramels
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
© 8*4
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis  @12*4
Amazon, Choc Cor’d  @13
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
©55
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
@55
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx  @60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
©60
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett....... 
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.  ......  
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
Medt. Sweets..........  
Jamaica«................  
Rodl...................... 
Lemons
VerdeUl, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300...... 
VerdeUl, ex ehce  300 
VerdelU, fey 360...... 
Call Lemons, 300...... 
Messinas 300s.........   3 50f<p4  50
Messinas  360s.........  3 eo@4 50
Bananas
Medium bunches....  1 50@2 00 
Large  bunches........

©
@
@
©
©
@
@
@1  25
@
©
@
@
©
©

Figs

Foreign D ried Fruits 
@
@1 00
@
@

California«,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
101b. boxes...........
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards In to lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oases.
Hallow!....................
lb.  cases, new......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivloa......
Aimonas, California,
soft snelled...........
Brazils,....................
Filberts 
.................
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
Walnut»., soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Roasted...............
Choice, H.P., Jumbo 
Choice, H. P., Jumbo
Span. Shut Nol 'in ’w

Bom tod t  m

© 6*4 
(®

5  © 5*4i

©
@15
@

16@16
@10©13
@13
©
@13*4
M10
@13
@14

©3 50 
®

6k® 6*4
614© 7*4 
@ 7*4

W ith Porcelain  Lined  Caps

Pints.............................................. 4  25  per gross
Q uarts.......................................... 4  50  per gross
-j Gallon........................................ 6  50  per gross

Fruit Jars packed l dozen In box
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

j  No. 0 Sun............................................  
|  No. 1 Sun............................................ 

Per box of 6 doz.
1 61
1  81

Anchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

La  Bastie

Rochester

Pearl Top

XXX  F lint

F irst  Quality

¡No. 0 Crimp........................................  
i No. 1 Crimp........................................ 
j No. 2 Crimp........................................  
No. 0 Sun. crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
I  No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun. crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
j  No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab.......  
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled.......  
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No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
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No. 1 Lime (esc  doz).......................... 
No. 2 Lime (75c doz).......................... 
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)— .................... 
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz).......................... 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz).......................... 
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz__ 
1 gal. gaiv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans................................ 
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No. 15 Tubular, dash..........................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..................  
No.  3 Street lamp, each.................... 
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No. C Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
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Can be  made  to  represent  any  denomination
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It lists the largest  line  o f  gen ­

eral merchandise in  the world.

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

It has but one price and  that  is 

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Its prices are guaranteed and do 
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is  issued.  N o  discount  sheets  to 
bother you.

It  tells  the  truth,  the  whole 

truth  and nothing but the truth.

It  never  wastes  your  time  or 

urges you to overload your stock.

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

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1 79 — Business  block  Salt  Lake  Citv,  Utah; 
pressed  brick,  tw o  store  rooms,  good  size,  con­
necting  or  separate,  cellar  under  all;  8  rooms 
second floor, finelv  finished  and  convenient;  stock 
general merchandise;  also  residence  on  adjoining 
lot;  whole covers 3%x&  rods;  bargain.  W rite  for 
price.

1 37—General  planing  mill  business,  building 
ground; 
full  equipment  machinery;  adjoining 
Michigan Central Railroad in fine M ichigan  city of 
5,000.  Price for everything,  $4,000.

36— Steam  power  brick  and  tile  factoi_, 

...  _ 
Pennsylvania  town  o f  3,000;  occupies  12  acres; 
capacity 2,500,000  per  day;  liberal  profits.  M ight 
take partner or  organize" stock  company  and  sell 
stock.  W rite for particulars.

5 8 — Restaurant,  St.  Joseph,  M o.;  all  short  or­
ders;  doing business $60  per  day;  profits  $15  net 
per day.  Price $1,500.

7 5 —615.85 acres O yster Creek  land  on  Velasco, 
Brazoo  ana  Northern  Railroad,  4%  miles  south 
Angteton  (county  seat),  T exas;  timber  w ill  pay 
price o f land,  $9 per acre.

1 10— Retail milk business  Dekalb,  Illinois; sale 
20 cans  per month;  liberal profits;  fine  delivery am 
steam  power equipment  Price $1,200.

2 8 —Corner saloon, Toledo,  O hio;  dining  room* 
kitchen  and  sleeping  rooms  attached;  money 
maker;  $1,600.

Cheap  as  Dirt,  Almost

50,000

DUPLICATE  ORDER  S U P S

Only  25  Cents  per Thousand

Half  original,  half  duplicate,  or all  original as desired. 

Larger quantities proportionately  cheaper.

THE  SIMPLE ACCOUNT FILE CO.

500  W hittlesey  S t.,  Fremont,  Ohio

1 04—20  acres;  2  miles  Bourbon,  Indiana;  1 
room  residence;  outbuildings,  poultry  park,  etc. 
all  kinds fruit; $2,300.
Buyer  and  seller  brought  together 
by  my  system.  W herever  mail  is 
delivered  I  do  business.  Cash  for 
your  real  estate  or  business,  any 
line. 
If  you  want  to  buy  or  sell 
write  me.

A.  M.  BARRON,  South  Rend,  Ind.

Holiday 
Goods 

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dfr  We  extend  a  very  cordial 
invitation  to  the  trade  to 
visit our  store, where will  be 
found  one  of  the  prettiest 
lines of  Holiday Goods  ever 
shown in  Western Michigan. 
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jfa  Will make liberal allowance 

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for expense.

Grand  Rapids
Stationery  Co.

W   29  North  Ionia  St., 
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£ ___

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Established  1865

L. 0.  Snedecor & Son

NEW  YORK

Egg  Receivers

HAVE  YOU  EVER? 

considered how 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 EGOS.

Reference:  N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

WE GUARANTEE

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 ICE V I N ­
E G A R .  T o   anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find  an y deleterious 
acids, or  anything  that is not produced from the  apple, w e  will forfeit

We  also  guarantee  It  to  be  of  full  strength  ar  required  b y  law .  "We  will 
prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages  for  cider  or  vinegar  without  ftf** 
removing  all  traces  of  our  brands  therefrom.

J . ROBINSON. M anager.

Benton Harbor.Michigan.

All Kinds

Of
Solid

PAPER  BOXES

All Kinds
Folding

of

Do  you  wish  to put your  goods  up  in  neat,  attractive  packages?  Then write 

us for estimates and samples.

G R A N D   R A P ID S   P A P E R   BOX  CO.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N

Box  Makers

Die Cutters

Printers

Use  Tradesman  Coupons

Business
Chances

Special  Bargain  List

A.  M.  Barron,

Real  E state and  B usin ess B roker,

South Bend,  Ind.

If interested  in  any  of the following 

bargains,  write  me.

9 —One-third interest high grade  grocery,  prom 
inent Michigan C ity;  15 per cent. profit; $i, boo cash
19 —Custom shirt  manufacturing  business;  Illi 

nois city;  $1,250;  pays $150 monthly.

2 3 —  T w o telephone exchanges, progressive Min 

nesota towns;  toll  and  rural  lines;  one  $3,500;  th< 
other $4,500.  Fine chance to consolidate and extend

24—   Man  to  invest  $5,000  or  more  in  lumber, 

sash, doors, moulding,  blinds,  e tc .;  fine  business 
want to enlarge;  write for full  particulars.
_ 2 9 —Bakers’ confectionery  and  school  supplies 
Connecticut c ity ;  33^  percent,  profit;  price $3,000 
a snap.

3 7 — W ell  equipped  printing  office,  Michigan 
city;  high grade machinerv and trade;  pavs  15  per 
cent,  profit;  price  $io,ooo;'booked.  $2,500  in Jul

4 8 —General store,  best  farm ing  region  M ichi­
gan; up-to-date stock;  invoice  $3,500;  sell  for  95 
per cent.  Pays  $100 per month  net.

5 2 —Coal,  flour,  feed  and 

iron  business;  Ne- 
braska town;  big  business;  pays  $150  per  month 
net;  price,  everything  complete,  $3,Soo;  include: 
residence on  lot S^x i-jo.  W rite.

5 9 — Greenhouse  and  residence  property,  W v 
oming, owned bv  widow  lady;  unable  handle  it 
fine  opportunity;  $3.500  takes  everything.  Look 
after this.

6 9 — Drug  store,  M ichigan  town;  farming  and 
factory community, long established  trade.  Price 

pays usual  profits.  W rite for particulars.
6 9  A —30 acre improved farm, Kalamazoo count 

fine  property.  Price  $1,100;  worth 

M ichigan; 
double;  bargain.

7 6 —320  acres  unimproved 

land,  Dickinson, 
Starke county,  North  Dakota;  fine  land;  price  $6 
an acre;  worth  $10;  one-half  cash,  balance 
long 
time.

78—General  merchandise,  Noble  county,  In­
diana; tw o railroads;  farming community;  making 
money. 
Invoice $4,000;  price  92  cents  bn  dollar; 
profit 20 per  cent.;  also  have  residence,  7  rooms, 
u»ual  improvements, 2 lots, fruit;  price $1,000.

8 0 —Interest in a monevmaking  sawmill  located 
on large tract of timber land;  $1,500 wanted.  This 
is a fine opportunity  for practical  man.  W rite  for 
particulars.

8 3 — Photograph  studio; also two  branch  studfos, 
adjoining towns;  M ichigan, Tuscola county;  m ak­
ing $260 per month  net.  Price,  if  taken  at  once, 
$1,000,  W rite for particulars.

* 4 0 —M illinery  and  notions;  fine trade,  agricul­
tural region;  annual  business  over  $2,300;  profits 
55  Per„£e.nt: ! 
living  rooms;  fine  garden.  Price 
$000._This^is a sure enough  b a r g a in .

1 15 —Book publishing house, Toledo, O hio; high 
grade productions at popular  prices;  installments. 
This is a good live business.  Can  be  g r e a t ly   en- 
larged.  N o w   paying  big  money.  Price  about 
* ' 4,5oo, according to  stock  on  hand  when  sale  is 
made.

120  High grade drug  stock  and  fixtures,  fine 
railroad and  farming town,  Ohio;  stock  fresh  and 
salable,  invoice  $2,000;  w ill  sell  for  $1,590;  fine 
living rooms upstairs;  m ight  trade  for  house  and 
lot or small  farm.

1 2 1  Main bakery with full oven and store equip­
ment, and four branches, located  in  large  Indiana 
city; paying over $200  per  month  net;  everything 
goes for $3,200. 
I f you ever saw  a bargain,  this  is 
one.

157  7,000 acres  improved  farm  land  Georgia; 
considerable  hardwood  Umber;  w ill  subdivide- 
price $5  per acre.

1 6.3  - Hardware and  plumbing  stock  and  b u st 
ness  Litchfield county, Connecticut;city  of  15,000; 
ail  fresh  stock, fine  trade; invoice $i,Soo;  write  for 
Pn5e‘ _  building and residence also for sale.

168—General merchandise,  paints;  Montana city 
o f 3,000, railroad division;  sales  $iS,ooo  annually ; 
profits fully 40 per ce n t  A ll new stock,  price from 
$7,000 to $9,000,  according to invoice.

. * 6 6 —Hiffh grade grocery stock located in Indiana 
city o f 5,000; railroad and farming point; sales $100 
per day; 20 per ce n t  net profit;  all  first-class;  cash 
trade.

4 5 —Grocery,  meat  market,  feed  store,  saloon, 
all  under one roof  in  three  Store rooms, brick block 
main  street,  Indiana city o f 70,000 population; sales 
$100per day; profits from  25 to 75p ercen t 
Invoice 
about $5,500; sell at a bargain, w ill divide if desired 
and sell any p art

1 04— Manufacturing  and  retail  confectionery; 
Chattanooga, Tenn;  average receipts $360 monthly; 
profits  100 per c e n t ;  fine trade ana  thoroughly  es­
tablished;  price  $500.  H ave  also  10  room  frame 
residence,  lot  100x200  feet;  all  kinds  fruit;  fine 
suburb,  near Lookout Mountain;  price $2,000.

1 3 5 —Drug stock and store  building,  S t   Elmo, 
suburb o f Chattanooga, Tenn.,  terminal  of  Look­
out Mountain car  line;  fine  chance  for  physician. 
Price  store  and  stock,  $1.000.  H ave  also  resi­
dence, 8  rooms,  all  conveniences,  finely  finished, 
large corner lot  100x240  feet;  abundance  o f  shade 
and fruit trees and shrubbery;  price  $6,000.

Light 15  Cents a  Month

For Stores,  Residences,  Churches,  Halls,  Streets,  Etc., with  our

BRILLIANT

Or 30 cents a month per light with our
HALO  GASOLINE  LAMPS

A  15-foot  room can be lighted by one  Brilliant or a  40-foot  hall  by  one 
Halo  Lamp.  Every  lamp  guaranteed.  Agents  wanted  everywhere.

BRILLIANT  GAS  LAMP  CO.,  42  State  Street,  Chicago

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

WHY  HE  FAILED.

Was  Long On  Theory and  Short  On  Prac­

tice.

It 

is  a  strange  thing  that  the  Lord 
seldom  or  never  gives  to  one  man  the 
double  faculty  of  knowing  how  to  do  a 
thing  and  of  knowing  how  to  tell  other 
people  how  to  do  it.

I  know  a  man  who  in  his  way  is  one 
of  the  cleverest  men  I  ever  met.  He 
can  outline  schemes  for  other  men ;  he 
can  show  other  men  how  to  run  their 
business,  and  they  will  succeed  if  they 
use  his  schemes,  too.

But  at  the  head  of  his  own  business 
is  a  failure.  He  has  failed 

this  man 
three  times,  in  fact.

I  have  heard  this fellow talk.  Schemes 
boil  up  to  the  top  of  his  intellect  one 
after  the  other.  He  can  suggest  adver­
tising 
window  dressing 
schemes,  general  store  schemes,  and  he 
has  one  of  the  best  schemes  for  turning 
a  credit  business  into  cash  that  I  ever 
heard  of.

schemes, 

I  question  very  much  whether  this 
fellow  has  ever  drawn  more  than  $12 
per  week,  and  he 
is  pretty  close  to 
middle  age.  The  point  is  that  he  seems 
to  have  no  idea  whatever  of  how  to  ap­
ply  to  himself  the  suggestions  he  is  so 
fertile  in  for  other  people.

Three  times  this  man  has  had  jobs 
that  promised  a  good  deal  more than $12 
a  week.  The  grocers  who  offered  them 
to  him  had  heard  him  talk  or  got  up 
against  his  ideas  in  some  way,  and  they 
promptly  concluded  that  he  was  one  of 
the  greatest  things  that  ever  happened. 
So  they  offered  him  jobs  with  a  good 
free  foot  to  show what  he  could  do.

He  failed  in  every  one.
I  do  not  know. 
Why? 

I  asked  him 
every  time  why,  but  the  excuses  he 
gave  were  not  satisfactory—manifestly 
not  the  real  reasons  for  his  failure.  He 
did  not  hold  any  of  these  jobs  longer 
than  three  or  four  weeks.

This  same  man  has  been  in  business 
for  himself  three  or  four  times.  He 
has  had  good  locations  and,  as  he  did 
have  a  free  foot  in  his  own  store,  there 
was  every  reason  why  he  should  have 
succeeded,  more 
especially  because 
every  time  he  opened  it  was 
in  neigh­
borhoods  where  he  has lived  all  his  life.
Failed  every  time.  Everything  about 
his  place  seemed  right.  His  store  was 
neat  and  well  arranged,  his  stock  was 
as  good  as  anybody  could  want  and  his 
advertising  was  clever  and  timely.

I 

One  time  he  did  get  so  he  paid  ex­
penses,  but  in  every  other case  his  store 
lost  money  from  the  very  start.

Why  did  this  man,  who  knew  so 
mighty  well  how  to  tell  other  grocers 
how  to  run  their  business,  prove  totally 
unable  to  run  his  own?

That  is  one  of  life’s  mysteries.  I  sup­
pose  the  answer  is  that  the  fellow  is  a 
successful  theorist. 
imagine  that  if 
his  head  could  be  examined  by  some 
competent  phrenologist, 
it  would  be 
found  that  be  was  long  on  theory  and 
short  on  practice.

Still,  this  is  not  altogether  conclusive, 
because  his  theories  work  for other men, 
and  it  would  seem  as  if  they  ought  to 
work  for  him.

This  man  ought  to  take  an  office 
somewhere  and  embark  in the profession 
of  business  adviser—showing  other  men 
bow  to do  what  he  can  not  do  himself. 
He  ought  never  to  weigh  out  a  pound  of 
sugar  himself,  or  do  anything  else  in 
the  storekeeping 
If  he 
confined  himself  to  telling  and  not  do­
ing,  he  could  probably  command  his 
own  fees.

line  himself. 

Just  to  show  how  men  work  to  ex­

just  now.  He 

tremes,  another  man  I  know  comes  into 
my  mind 
is  a  rugged 
sort  of  a  fellow,  but  he  has  a  keen 
business 
instinct  that  has  made  him 
worth,  I  suppose,  850,000  anyhow.

Every  cent  made  out  of  the  grocery 
business  in  the  last  twenty-five  or  thirty 
years!

This  man  could  not  describe  a  single 
one  of  his  methods  intelligently  to  save 
his  life.  He  has  not  the  faculty  of  de­
scription.  Even  if  he  were  to  sit  down 
and  try  to  write  a  description,  he  could 
not  do  it. 
It  is  not  in  him  to  tell  peo­
ple  things.  But  as  for doing them—good 
gad!  but  how  his  schemes  do  work! 
They  turn 
into  money!  He  claims  to 
have  failed  in  schemes  only  once  in  his 
whole  career,  and  that  was  because  the 
quality  of 
some  premiums  he  had 
offered  proved  to  be  poorer  than  he  had 
expected.

I  believe  him,  too.
There  you  have  two distinct and wide­
If 
ly  separated  styles  of  business  men. 
it  were  possible  to  roll  them  into  one, 
you  would  have  a  crack-a-jack,  eh?— 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Torpedo  Gravel  Roofing.

The  big  crowds  were  entertained  in  a 
royal  manner  at  the  H.  M.  Reynolds 
Roofing  Company’s  tent  at  the 
fair 
grounds.  This display consisted  of spec­
imens  of  their  work,  and  every  method 
of  its  application.  To  fully  demonstrate 
how  the  roofs  of  the  buildings 
look 
after  covered  with  the  Torpedo  gravel 
roofing  they  had  a  miniature  house  in 
the  tent  that  gave  a full  idea.  The Tor­
pedo  gravel  roofing  means  a  great  sav­
ing  in  labor. 
It is  the  best roofing  from 
whatever  point  of  view  that  you  may 
look  at  it.  Shingles  are  growing  poorer 
and  higher  every  day.  Metal  roofs  need 
repainting  every  year.  Slate  roofs  are 
too  expensive  for  the  ordinary  man  to 
consider.  This  roofing  costs  no  more 
than  a  fair  shingle  and  much  less  than 
slate  or  metal  and  no  expense  after  first 
cost. 
It  is  put  up  in  rolls  containing 
108  square  feet,  including  all  necessary 
materials,  so  that  any  one  can  lay  it  on 
quickly.  The  H.  M.  Reynolds  Roofing 
Company's  factory  and  offices  are  lo­
cated  at  the  corner  of  Louis  and  Cam- 
pau  streets.  Their  business  during  the 
last  ten  months  has  increased  more  than 
100  per  cent,  over  corresponding  time 
last  year.  Their  annual  capacity  is  now 
over 60,000 squares,  but  they  will  have 
to  increase  it  in  the  near  future.

The Breakfast  Food  Family.
John  S> pratt w ill  eat  no fa t,

N or w ill  he touch  the  lean.
H e  sc*>rns to ea t o f an v  m eat;

H e  1iives upon  F ood in e.

B u t  M[rs.  S p ra tt w ill  none o f th at:

H e r sipeeial  w ish   is  fo r a  dish

F  00dine  she can  not eat.
O f  1Expurgated  W heat-

T o  W illiam   Sp ratt  that  food  is fiat

O n   1w hich  his  m ater dotes.

H is  faLvorite  feed — h is sp ecial  need—

Is  Klata Ile a  pa O ats.

B ut  si ster L i l ca n ’t see h o w   W ill
C a n  touch  such  tasteless food.

A s   b rea kfast fa re  it c a n ’t com pare, 

S h e  sa ys,  w ith  Shredded Wood.

N ow ,  none o f these  L ean d er  p lease;

H e  feed s upon  B ath  M itts,

W h ile  siste r Jane im p roves h e r brain 

W ith  C e ro-O ra p o -G rits.

L y c u rg u s  vo tes fo r  F a th e r’s  O a ts;
P ro g g in e  ap p eals to  M ay;
1* nee da  B ay la  H a y.

T h e  ju n ior  John su b sists  upon 

C orrected   W h e a t fo r little   P ete;

F la k e d   P in e  fo r D o t;  w h ile  “  B u b ,”  

T h e   in fan t S p ra tt,  is w a x in g   fat 

O n  B a ttle C re ek   Near-Grub.

Reasons  For  Removal.

“ Dearie, ”  said  Mrs.  Loveydovey,  “ I 
see  in the  paper  that  a  man out West  has 
had  bis  stomach  removed. 
I  wonder 
why?”

‘ ‘ I  suppose,”   said  Mr.  Loveydovey, 
‘ ‘ that  his  wife  persists  in  trying  to  cook 
all  the  new-fangled  things  she  reads 
about 
in  the  recipe  department  of  the 
Ladies’  Home  Weekly.”

Advertisements  w ill  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
tnbseqnent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments. 

____

R r s i X K S S   r H t V T K «

FNOR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 

patent medicines,  cigars  and  confectionery 
in one  of  the  best  fruit .and  grain  sections  In 
Michigan.  Stock all new. clean  and  salable,  no 
deadstock;  Invole- s about $1,800:  will  discount. 
Sickness  reason  for  selling.  Address  No._774, 
care Michigan Tradesman.
_____ 
AND  FRUIT
•ptXCH ANGE—GOOD  STOCK
farm of  156  acres,  free  and  clear,  located 
p-ar Lowell;  want a general  stock  of  merchan­
dise.  Address  Chas.  K.  Mercer,  Widdicomb 
Building, Grand Rapids. 
741
Mo n e y   m a k in g  se c r e ts,  m a k e
.  your own  cider  and  vinegar  for  less  than 
manufacturers.  Will not  sour.  No  machinery 
required.  Will send receipts for  making  apple, 
peach, orange and cherry cider  and  apple  vine­
gar, all  for  only  two  dollars.  Any  single  re­
ceipt fifty cents.  Checks  accepted.  Address A. 

« 

770

772

769

Jackson, Anderson, S. C._____________773
about  $1.800;  expenses  low;  desirable  loca­
tion.  Address No.  772,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

JjH)R “SALE^DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
tNOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  AND 
1  furnishing goods.  Good  reasons for selling; 
located in small town In < 'entral  Michigan.  Ad­
dress M. & S-, care Michigan Tradesman 
U T A N T E  D-QUICK MAIL  ORDERS. 
Overstocked;  must  keep  the factory  run­
ning;  telescopes, suit  cases,  whips;  low  prices. 
For special discounts and illustrated  descriptive 
list  address  Olhey  Telescope  &  Harness  Co., 
Box 165, Olney, 111. 

E'OR  SALK  OK  TRADE—FOR  LAND  OR 

merchandise, a store or lot In  good  town  in 
Northern  Iowa;  store  22xlu0  feet;  first-class 
shape.  Address C C  W,  136  5th  Ave..  Clinton, 
Iowa. 
A\rANTED—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER­
IT  chandisefor  cash;  must  be  cheap  to  be 
removed.  Address Reval,  221  Fifth  Ave.,  Chi­
cago, 111. 

Lock Box 280, Cedar Springs. Mich. 

>  ty  for  sale  or  exchange  for  merchandise. 

E1 HOICK ,0 ACRE FARM IN EMMET  COUN- 
INOR  SALE—OLD  ESTABLISHED  DRUG 
{NOR  SALE—DRUG  STORE  IN  MICHIGAN 

’  business at 617 South Division  street. Grand 
Rapids.  Reason for selling, must  retire  on  ac­
count  of  sickness.  Enquire  or  address  above 
location. 

town  of  10,000  population;  invoices  about 
$1,600;  cash sales over $400 a month;  will  sell  at 
bargain.  Address  No.  775,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
W A N T E D   FOR  CASH—LUMBER  OF  ALL 
tv  kinds;  also  shingles  and  lath.  Will  con­
tract mill cuts.  Belding-Hall Mfg. Co ,  Balding 
764
Mich. 

775

768

766

771

767

tNOR  SALE—GROCERY  AND  MARKET 
I NOR  SALE—THE  BEST  PAYING  GRU- 

1  doing good business;  one  of  the  best  loca­
tions  in  East  Saginaw;  good  opportunity;  ex­
panses low;  best reasons for selling; Investigate. 
Address No. 76i, care Michigan Tradesman.  761
eery 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 busiuess that 
needs  attention.  Address  Grocer  129,  Colfax 
avenue, Benton Harbor. Mich. 

IN OK  SALE—$5,000  STOCK  OK  GENERAL 

merchandise;  stock,  with  exception  of  a 
few shoes and groceries, all new  within  last  six 
months;  can he  reduced  to  suit  purchaser;  lo­
cated in bustling town of 600 in the best farming 
section in Central  Michigan.  Good  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 759, care Michigan Trades 
man. 
759
1NOK  SALE—BAZAAR  STOCK  AND  FIX 
I 1  tures;  will invoice  $2,003;  splendid  chance 
for a hustling  busiuess  man  in  a  live  town  of 
1,500  people.  Address  758,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.  _____ 

760

758

7

7

to $2,100  will be sold at a bargain for cash  This 

I NOR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF~GROCERIK8 

hardware and other merchandise amounting 
stock formerly belonged to  Palmeter &  Pratt, of 
Ashley, and was assigned to me by them for  the 
benefit of their creditors.  For particular* write 
to Chas. H. Smith, Trustee, Saginaw, Mich., care 
Wm. Barie Dry Goods Co. 
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. 
1NOK  SALK—DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICTNi 
X1  $300;  only  drug  stock  in  town;  sales  last 
year.  $2,900;  good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
754, care Michigan Tradesman. 
\X7\A NTE D^ STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
i t   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
INOR  SALE-BRICK  STOKE  BUILDING. 22 
r   x60 feet, with frame addition on  bac»,  22x40 
feet, two stories, with living  rooms  above.  For 
particulars address J. L.  Farnham,  Mancelona. 
Mich. 
tNOR  SALE-A  GOOD  FIRST-CLASS  10 
horse livery;  only one In town  of  9L0:  good 
trade and  everything  In  good  order.  Address 
6<6
Philip Taylor, Saranac. Mich. 
INOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIX 

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

754

7

485

p O R   S A L E -G O O D   O R U G  S T i)C K , IN V O IC -
lng $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi­
gan towns.  Terms on application.  Address No.
521, care Michigan Tradesman._________   ”-l
INOR  SALE -   FINE  YIELDING  40  ACRE 
.T  farm  in  Kalamazoo  county;  buildings;  all 
under cultivation;  value,  $1.200.  Address  No.
522, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 522
tr»OK  SALE-FIRST-CLASS.  EXCLUSIVE 
J7  millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman,______507
rp H R K E   VACANT  LOTS  IN  GRAND
JL  Rapids, free  of  Incumbrance,  to  exchange 
for drug, grocery or notion  stock.  Address  No. 
485, care Michigan Tradesman. 
C A F E S —NEW  A N D   SECO N D -H AN D   FIRE 
O   and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia 
St.. Grand  Rapids.
TNOR SALE—*1,700 DRUG STOCK  AND  FIX- 
IT  tures;  can be bought  at  great  discount  for 
cash.  Address P. O. box 222, Saginaw, Mich.674
I riOR  S A L E — HOME  IN  FLORIDA;  FOUR- 
teen acres, eight acres bearing orange trees; 
good buildings;  good  neighbors;  near  railroad; 
healthy location;  will sell lor $3,000 cash or  take 
clean stock of merchandise (Northern  Michigan 
or Wisconsin preferred)  In  exchange.  Address
No. 672, care Michigan Tradesman._______672
T7-OKSALE-DRUG »TOCKIAND FIXTURES, 
r   Invoicing about $2.000.  Situated In center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  Inside  building.  Rent,  $12.60 
er month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
io. 334. care Michigan Tradesman. 
T  WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS 
A  and  residence  (not  connected);  what  have 
you to  offer?  Give  lull  description  and  price.
.  M. Barron. Station A, South Bend. Ind. 
745 
NOR  SALE—STOCK  SHOES.  MEN’S  FUR- 
nlshlng goods  and  notions;  Invoices  about 
$1,000;  neat frame story building 24x46;  situated 
in most flourishing town in  Northern  Michigan; 
703  iuha  Rants; 
two  churches, 
twelve graded schools;  employment for laboring 
men all  year;  money  maker  (or  right  person; 
no speculators need  apply.  M.  J.  Bolen,  Wol­
verine, Cheboygan Co . Mich.____________743
HAVE  SOME  REAL  ESTATE IN  GRAND 
Rapids.  Will  trade  for  a  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Address  No. 751,  care  Michigan 
radesman. 
¿450 TAKES NEAT GROCERY; NEWSTOCK; 
<3p  centrally located;  doing good  business.  Ad­
dress J. E  Berg. Saugatuck. Mich._______ 722
NOR  SALE  OK  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  ana 
crockery.  Located  in  good  lake  port  town  of 
5,000.  The true reason for selling given  on  ap­
plication.  Address  No.  731,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
U 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. 

three  mills, 

739

334

731

7*1

M Is C K L L A N  EOUS

BRUG  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. 
738
YX7TLL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  STOCKS 
TV  dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hardware,
Lock  Box  74,  Ypsilanti, 
furniture or groceries. 
Mich.
715
NOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
!.  chandlse 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 and store building for 
rent;  stock located in hustling little town  of  700 
in southern part of  State;  splendid  opening  for 
a genera! store.  Reason  for  selling,  ill  health. 
Address No. 720, care Michigan Tradesman.  720
Ha r d  to  f in d —a  f ir s t  cla ss  d r u g
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 ( ity. 694
He l p   w a n t e d —a n  e x p e r ie n c e d
young man in dry goods and clothing:  must 
be an up-to-date decorator and a good salesman; 
state  age. whether married or sin vie, and wages 
expected  B  Cohen. NorthvilR Mich. 
753
Merchants  are  you  in  need  of  cash? 
Do  you  prefer  cash  to  your old  goods?
W e   w ill  take 
yo u r  sale  on  a 
com m ission  b a ­
sis  and  allo w  
you  to  se t  the 
price  on  good s 
w e   are  to  se ll; 
in order to m ake 
m oney  o ut  o f 
you r 
sa le  w e  
m ust sell  good s 
and  w hen w e  do 
se ll 
them   you 
are  g e ttin g   the 
p rices  you  set 
on  them .  W e  
buy 
sell 
store fixtures  or 
take 
them   on

and 

rill  g e t  rid 
ir odds and
prices,  g e t  you  a  profit  on   yo u r  new  

W i

;  at  fa

g o o d s  and  build up vour business.

B y  our m ethods o f  a d ve rtisin g   w e   a lw a y s   draw  
la rg e  cro w d s o f people to  vo ur store,  and  w e  h ave 
had  years o f e xp erien ce as  special  salesm en.

V\  e w ould  be  g la d  to h a ve  you  ca ll  on  us w 'hile 

in th e city,-or w rite   us  for fu rth er particulars.

C .  C.  O ’ N e ill  &   C o .,  S u ite  40S-9,  356  Dearborn 

Street, Chicago.  T el.  Harrison  1779.

