Twentieth  Year 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER,  15,  1902. 

Number 995

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

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Page. 
2.  Two  in  One,
3.  Dream  of W ealth.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  G etting  the  People.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
1 0 .  S yn d ica te  A d v e rtisin g .
11.  M erchants’  Day.
12.  H ardware.
14.  Clothing.
10.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
18.  Dry  Goods.
20.  W oman’s  W orld.
22.  R utter and  Eggs.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  Window'  Dressing.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug  Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  The  Unsuccessful  Experim ent.
32.  The  G rain  M arket.

It 

THE  GARNISHMENT  LAW.
is  very  evident  that  a  determined 
effort  will  be  made  at  the  coming  ses­
sion  of  the  Legislature  to  repeal  the 
present  garnishment  law  and  restore  the 
former  wage  exemption  of $25.  The  la­
bor  unions  are  already  very  active  in 
the  matter,having  secured  pledges  from 
many  candidates  for  the  Legislature  to 
work  and  vote  for  the  amendment.

From  present  indications,  it  looks  as 
though  the  effort  to  restore  the  old 
schedule  would  be  successful.  The  la­
bor  unions  are  not  strong,  but  they  have 
a  way  of  going  after  what  they  want  in 
band  wagon 
fashion  which  gives  them 
an  appearance  of  strength  which  they 
do  not  possess  and  impresses  the  aver­
legislator  with  the  desirability  of 
age 
working 
in  harmony  with  them,  how­
ever  much  be  may  detest  their 
leaders, 
condemn 
their  methods  and  despise 
their  cause.

As  the  Tradesman  pointed  out  at  the 
time  of  its  enactment,  the  present 
law 
is  an  unfortunate  one,  because  it  does 
net  afford  the  mercantile  classes  ade­
quate  relief  and  its  enactment  was  at­
tended by  exceptionally  unfortunate  cir­
cumstances,  due  to  the  inexperience  of 
the  youthful  swellhead  who  assumed  to 
himself  the  management  of  the  crusade 
conducted  in  the  Legislature  two  years 
ago  and  the  reckless  and  reprehensible 
manner  in  which  be  unnecessarily  an­
tagonized  the  trades  unions  and  all  sin­
cere  friends  of  legislative  reform  who 
questioned  his  motives  and deplored  h.s 
methods.

in 

dealing  with 

The  Tradesman  has  had  considerable 
experience 
trades 
unions  and  has  usually  been  able  to  ar­
rive  at  a  middle  ground  where  both 
sides  to  a  controversy  could  come  to  a 
satisfactory  understanding. 
If  the  gar­
nishment 
legislation  of  two  years  ago 
had  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  an  ex­
perienced  iegislator.instead  of  entrusted 
to  a  man  whose  sole  ambition  was  per 
sonal  aggrandizement,  the  business  in­
terests  of  the  State  would  now  be  in  the 
enjoyment  of  a  law  which  would  be  in 
every  way  much  more  satisfactory  than 
the  present  statute  and,  besides,  an  ex­
perienced  man  would  not  have  antag­
onized  the  trades  unions  to  the  extent

of  jeopardizing  the  permanence  of  any 
efficient  law  on  the  subject.

ill-omened  statute 

One  of  the  most  obnoxious  features  of 
the  present 
is  that 
the  unmarried  man—the  non-house- 
bolder,  to  be  more  exact—is  given  an 
exemption,  which  was  not  the  case  un­
der  the  old  law.  This  is  a  decided  loss 
to  the  mercantile 
interests  which  will 
probably  never  be  recovered,  because 
the  feeling  against  garnishment  legisla­
is  now  so  bitter  that  it  will  prob­
tion 
impossible  to  secure  even  as 
ably  be 
favorable  a 
law  as  was  on  the  statute 
books  for  so  many  years.

It  is  reported  that  efforts  are  already 
being  made  to  raise  a  fund  to defeat the 
attempt  to  amend  the  present  law.  The 
Trademan  trusts  that  the  effort  will  not 
survive  the  formative  stage,  because  it 
is  our experience  that  money  raised  for 
alleged  legislation  purposes seldom finds 
its  way  to  Lansing,  but  is  almost 
inva­
riably  sidetracked 
into  the  pockets  of 
the  men  who  act  a  promoters  and  ex­
ploiters  of  proposed  legislation.  This 
may  not  always  be  the  case,but,whether 
it is or  not,  the  fact  that  a  fund  is  being 
created  gives  the  opponents  of  a  meas­
ure  an  opportunity  to  raise  the  cry  of 
boodle,  which 
is  generally  sufficient  to 
accomplish its  defeat.

for 

One  of  the  results  of  the  long  contin­
uance  of  the  coal  strike,  even  if  it  is 
soon  settled,  will  be  the  establishment 
of  substitutes  for  anthracite  as 
fuel, 
which  will  have  an  appreciable  effect 
upon  the  market.  Companies  are  being 
organized 
the  manufacture  of 
briquettes,  which  are  nothing  more  nor 
than  blocks  of  compressed  coal 
less 
dust. 
In  the  neighborhood  of  every 
mine,  bituminous  or  anthracite,  there 
are  heaps  of  this  dust  which  hitherto 
have  practically been regarded  as  waste. 
In  Europe  briquettes  are 
largely  made 
and  freely  used  for  domestic  purposes. 
They  are  represented  as  clean  as  an­
thracite,  able  to  produce  as  much  heat, 
and 
it  will  be  possible  to  make  them 
in  this  country,  selling  at  a  profit  for  a 
figure 
less  than  anthracite  before  the 
strike.  If  it  couid  have  been  confidently 
predicted  three  months  ago  that  the 
strike  would  continue  until now it  would 
have  been  possible  to  put  a  large supply 
of  these  briquettes  on  the  market  and 
they  would  have  bad  ready  sale. 
If 
people’s  foresight  were  only  as  reliable 
as  their  hindsight  what  a  lot  of  money 
they  could  make.

In  England  where  winter  is  not  so  se­
in  this  country  comparatively 
vere  as 
little  hard  coal 
is  used  for  domestic 
purposes  and  now  the  American  de­
mand  has 
increased  prices  to  such  an 
extent  that  English  people  will  be  more 
than  ever  prejudiced against  it. 
In con­
trast  with  this  state  of  affairs  it  is  pre­
dicted  that  the  strike  will  popularize 
the  use  of  soft  coal  in  this  country  and 
that  its  use  will  be  continued  to  a  large 
degree  after  the  strike  has  ended.

Find  fault  with  other  people  if  you 
want  to.  Why,  you  have  a  perfect  right 
to  do  so,  but  then  remember—they,  too, 
have  certain  rights.

GENERAL  TRADE  REVIEW .

activity 

Too  great 

for  the  ready 
the  rapid 
money  at  band  continues 
fluctuations 
in  Wall  Street,  and  there 
seems  little  likelihood  of  a  settled  con­
dition  in  that  market  as  long  as  the  un­
usual  demands  for  money  for  the  West­
ern  and  Southern  crop  moving  con­
tinues.  The  increasing  probabilities  of 
a  settlement  in  the  coal  section  operate 
to  steady  and  strengthen  the  market 
long  series  of  wild  fluctuations 
after  a 
in  other  times  would  inevitably 
which 
precipitate  panic.  As 
it  is  the  public 
seems  to  understand  that  there 
is  sim­
ply too much demand for normal supplies 
of  money  and  so  violent  declines  are 
quickly  checked  to  be  followed  by  ral­
lies  until  the  deficiency  in  cash  again 
becomes  manifest.  Call  rates  continue 
to  fluctuate  violently,  averaging  10  per 
cent.,hut  sometimes tailing to 6 per cent.
Merchandise  distribution  continues 
active  for  the  season.  Demands  of  rail­
way  transportation  are  to  rushing  ail 
supplies 
line.  Earnings  are 
reported  as  breaking  all 
constantly 
records.  Retail  distribution 
is  meet­
ing  all  expectations,  and the  outlook  for 
winter  and  spring  jobbing  trade  is most 
promising.  The  continued  coal  panic 
exerts  a  disturbing 
influence  in  some 
localities,  but 
influence  in  the  gen­
eral  situation  is  not  material.

in  that 

its 

The  assurance  of  great  agricultural 
harvests  serves  to  settle  the  question  of 
continued  supplies  of  money  for  keep­
ing  up  the  tremendous  domestic  de­
mand.  Small  supplies 
in  hand  bold 
prices  at  a  position  which  assures  am­
ple  profits.  Latest  reports 
indicate  a 
record  breaking  yield  of  corn  and  oats 
and  a  yield  of  wheat  only  twice  sur­
passed.

Iron  and  steel  continue  the  greatest 
activity  with  orders  for structural  and 
transportation  supplies  well 
into  next 
year.  Structural  steel 
is  needed  much 
more  rapidly  than  it  can  be  delivered. 
For  many  months  shops have  been  oper­
ated  to  their  utmost  capacity,  but  the 
meeting  of  demand  is  hopeless.

A  Scranton  man  has  ju-t  confessed  to 
a  murder committed  by  himself  and  a 
companion  twenty  years  ago  for  which 
innocent  men  were  convicted  and 
two 
imprisoned 
for  a  term  of  nine  years. 
The  man  who  has  now  confessed  savs 
that  his  sufferings  have  been  far  worse 
than  any  punishment  that  could  have 
been  inflicted  upon  him  and  that  he 
often  contemplated  suicide.  When  he 
had  told  his  story  and  begged  the  for­
giveness  of  the  men  he  had  wronged, 
he  exclaimed:  "T hank  God,  my  mind 
is  now  free.”  
Instances  of  this  kind 
are  not  common,  but  they  are  frequent 
enough  to  cause  conjecture  if  there  are 
not  many  innocent  in  prison  and  many 
guilty  ones  at  liberty.

As  drowning  men  grasp  at  straws  so 
do  those  who  fear  the  coal  famine  seize 
upon  signs  of  a  mild  winter.  The  re­
port  that  the  squirrels  are  laying  in only 
scanty  stores  of  nuts  is,  however,  hardly 
sufficient  to  assure  people  that  they  will 
not  need  to  have  their  coal  bins  filled. 
Perhaps  nuts  are  as  scarce  as  coal.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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made everywhere—for every trader.

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ELLIO T  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Food Commissioner 

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jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

TWO  IN  ONE.

B all-B arnhart-Putm an  Co.  and  Olney  & 

J a d s o n   Grocer  Co.

The  wholesale  grocery  establishments 
of  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  and 
the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  will  be 
consolidated  on  Nov.  I,  at  which  time 
the  capital  stock  of  the  new  corporation 
will  be increased  from  $100,000 to $200,- 
000.  Mr.  Ball,  who  has  been  for  so 
many  years  the  principal  factor  in  the 
old  house,  will  take  an  active  position 
in  the  new  house  and  become  a  stock­
holder  in  the  new  company  which  will 
be  formed  to  succeed  both  of  the  old 
companies.  This  act  closes  the  career 
of  the  oldest  wholesale  grocery  house 
at  this  market  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  wholesale  establishments  in 
the  State.

The founding  of  this  house  dates  back 
to  the  fall  of  1865,when  the  late  Charles 
H.  Taylor  and  Frank  McReynolds 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 1 
of  Taylor  &  McReynolds  and  engaged

changes  in  name  to  Cody,  Ball,  Barn­
hart  &  Co.,  Ball,  Barnhart  &  Putman 
and  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  Dur­
ing  the  quarter  of  a  century  he  has been 
identified  with  the  grocery  business,  he 
has  made  many  lasting  friendships,  and 
it  will  be  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  the 
trade  to  learn  that  he  is  to  continue  to 
be  actively  identified  with  a  new  house 
larger  and  stronger  and  more aggressive 
even  than  the  old  one.

During  all  these  years,  Mr.  Ball  has 
given  to  the  business  bis  best  thought 
and  best  effort.  He  has  worked  early 
and  late  for  the  success  of  the  business, 
and  the  fact  that  he  has  succeeded  in 
retaining  the  respect  and  friendship  of 
his  associates  to  that  extent  that  they 
refuse  to  make  any  change  which  he 
does  not  recommend  speaks  volumes  for 
his  faithfulness  to  the  business,  his  loy­
alty  to  his  friends  and  bis  recognized 
ability  as  a  safe  and  successful  business 
man.

Ball  house,  leaving  its  employ  to  locate 
in  Duluth,  where  he  has  made  his  mark 
as  a  jobber  in  groceries  and  dry  goods.
George  Williams,  house  salesman  for 
the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co.,  is  an­
other  man  who  owes  his  introduction  to 
the  wholesale  grocery  business  to  the 
Ball  house.

D.  C.  Underwood,  who  at  one  time 
enjoyed  the  reputation  of being  the  best 
traveling  salesman  out  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  was  for  several  years  in  the  employ 
of  this  house.

The 

late  Arthur  J.  Holt,  who  was 
book-keeper 
for  the  house  for  many 
years,  will  be remembered for his  genial 
disposition  and  his  ability  to  write  up 
his  books  quickly  after  they  got  behind 
through  his  fascination  for  electricity. 
He  went  from  this  house  to  the  Michi­
gan  Iron  Works  and  from  there  to  the 
Brush  Electric  Works,  of  Cleveland, 
where  he  was  enjoying  a  salary of $5,000 
a  year  at  the  time  of  his  death.

Thoughts.

A  thought w ith in  a busy brain 
Once grew and grew apace,
Until it could no more remain 
In such a narrow space.
So springing from the loosened tongue 
It winged its airy flig h t 
In loving, helpful words that sung 
And made a sad heart light.

Another little thought, as sweet,
By silence was held fast 
Till the great Reaper stayed his feet 
And set it free at last.  ”
It found its life in flowers rare 
And tears and tender speech,
But they that Death’s pale colors wear 
No loving w ords can reach.

Ah,  little thoughts, fly forth  to-day,
A  flock of white-winged birds.
Go, full of love, to cheer the way 
A s kindly, precious w ords.
Rest not,  inactive, useless,  vain,
For Death your torch to light,
But shine right now, through sun and rain, 
And make each dark place bright.
Pauline Frances Camp.

The  Selfish  Man  Who  Succeeds.

is 

liked.  He 

“ If  you  are  perfectly  selfish,  and  per­
fectly  good-natured,  you  can  get  all  you 
in  this  world,”   some  one  re­
want 
marked,  and  the  assertion 
is,  on  the 
whole,  true.  That  is  to  say,  good  na- 
tured 
insistence  goes  a  long  way,  and 
when  selfishness  is  added  they  undoubt­
edly  make  a  strong  team. 
“ 1  know  a 
m an,"  the  speaker  continued,,  “ who  is 
universally 
immensely 
popular,  and has more  invitations  to  de­
sirable  houses  than  be  can  accept,  and 
when  there  be  always  gets  the  best. 
The  best  horse  is  always  given  him  to 
ride;  he  manages  to  have  the  most  de­
sirable  seat  at  dinner. 
If  he  keeps peo­
ple  waiting  he  is  never  blamed,  and  so 
it  gees  on  about  everything.  But  what' 
people  do  not  seem  to  realize  is  that  he 
is  intensely  selfish,  and  is  always  look­
ing  out  for  number one;  but  he  does  it 
in  such  a  charming  way,  and  has  such 
a  delightful  smile,  that  he  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  natured  people  in  the 
world  (which  he  possibly  is),  and  his 
self-seeking  is never  detected.”
Questions  of the  Pay.

mine  not  mine?

See  the  coal.
Where  has  the  coal  been?
Has  the  coal  been  in  the  coal  bin?
Is  the  coal  mine  mine,  or  is  the  coal 
If  not  mine,  where  is  mine?
Has  the  coal  been  in  the  mine,  and  if 
the  coal  bin 
is  mine,  why  can  I  not 
mine  in  the  coal  mine  for  my  coal  bin?
If  the  coal  in  the  coal  bin  was  mine, 
why  has  not  the  coal  been  in  the  coal 
bin,  instead  of  in  the  coal  mine  that  is 
not  mine?

She  Knew  Him.

have  at  last  found  the  key to  success.

Inefficient  Man—My  dear,  I  think  I 
like  as  not 
His  Wife—Well,  just  as 

you’ll  not  be  able  to  find  the  keyhole.

17, 

No  history  of  the  Ball  house  is  com­
plete  that  does  not  include  a  reference 
to  Heman  G.  Barlow,  who  is  now  the 
oldest  groceryman 
in  Grand  Rapids, 
having  entered  the  employ  of  Cody  & 
1872.  He  remained 
Olney  April 
with  this  house  until  April  7, 
1879, 
when  he  spent  a  year  with  Charles  W. 
Jennings  and  another  year  with  John 
Caulfield,  returning  to  the  bouse 
in 
1881,  where  he  remained  until  the  fall 
of  1889,  when  he  retired  from  the  busi­
ness. 
The  Michigan  Tradesman  of 
Nov.  21,  1889,  contained  the  following 
reference  to  this  change :

Heman  G.  Barlow  resigned  his  posi­
tion  with  Ball,  Barnhart  &  Putman,  and 
sold  his  interest  in  the  firm,  last  Thurs­
day,  and  before  night  engaged  with  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  becoming 
a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  cor­
poration.  Mr.  Barlow’s  experience 
in 
the  wholesale  grocery  business  covers  a 
period  of  seventeen  years,  Chas.  E.  01- 
ney  and  Lewis  E.  Hawkins  being  the 
only  active  men 
in  the  trade  who  dis­
tance  him  in  years  of  service.  Entering 
the  employ  of  Cody  &  Olney  in  the

spring  of  1872,  he  remained  with  that 
house  for  seven  years,  when  he  worked 
a  year  for John  Caulfield  and  a  similar 
period  for  C.  W.  Jennings.  Returning 
to  the  employ  of  Cody,  Ball  &  Co.  in 
1881,  he  has  followed  the  fortunes  of 
that  house  with  fidelity  up  to the present 
time.  As  an  instance  of  the  esteem  in 
which  he  is  held  by  the  jobbing  trade, 
it  may  be  stated  that,  as  soon  as  it  was 
known  that  he  had  severed  bis  relations 
with  the  old  bouse,  three  offers  of  part­
nership 
in  other  establishments  were 
made  in  as  many  hours.

Another  man  whose  name  should,  by 
in  this  con­
all  means,  be  mentioned 
nection 
is  Jas.  E.  Granger,  who  re­
ceived  his  preliminary instruction in the

in  the  wholesale  and  retail  grocery busi­
ness  at  the  corner  of  Canal  and  Erie 
streets 
in  the  building  now  owned  by 
John  Caulfield  and  occupied  by  Wegner 
Bros.  The  building  was  then  owned 
by  the late  Lowell  Hall.  Business  pros­
pered  with  the  new  house,  its  daily  re­
ceipts  sometimes  reaching  $1,000 
in 
cash.  About  three  years  afterward  the 
business  was  purchased  by  Charles  D. 
Lyon  and  D.  D.  Cody,  who  removed 
the  stock  to  Monroe  street,  opposite  the 
old  Rathbun  House,  where  they  con­
tinued  the  business  - under  the  style  of 
Lyon  &  Cody. 
In  1870  the  interest  of 
Chas.  D.  Lyon  was  purchased  by  his 
partner,  who  continued  the  business  for 
a  time  under the  style  of  D.  D.  Cody  & 
Co.  Mr.  Cody  subsequently  sold  a  half 
interest 
in  the  business  to  Charles  E. 
Olney,who up to that time had been on the 
road  for  J.  W.  Doane  &  Co.,  wholesale 
grocers  at  Chicago.  The  firm  name  was 
then  changed  to  Cody  &  Olney.  Mr. 
Olney  remained  inside,  while  Mr.  Cody 
traveled  about  a  third  of  the  time.  Two 
or  three  years  later  Cody  &  Olney  be­
came 
in  the  lumber  firm  of 
Putman,  Barnhart  &  Co.,  while  Enos 
Putman  and  Willard  Barnhart  became 
interested  in  the  grocery  house  of  Cody 
&  Olney,  at  which  time  the  firm  name 
was  changed  to  Cody,  Olney  &  Co.  A 
little  later  Orson  A.  Ball  became 
iden­
tified  with  the  house  in  the  capacity  of 
city  salesman. 
1881  he  purchased 
the 
interest  of  Charles  E.  Olney,  when 
the  firm  name  was  changed  to  Cody, 
Bail  &  Co.  Mr.  Ball  came 
into  full 
charge  of  the  business  in  1882  and  has 
continued 
in  this  capacity  during  the

interested 

In 

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

3

micbigan
Rotary
(Hashing
machines

Are  the  finest,  easiest  running  and  most  simple  ma­
chines  made.  They  are  all  fitted  with  the  new  im­
proved  roller  bearings.  The  bottoms  are  also  re­
enforced  by  tongue  and  groove  strips  which  make 
them  stronger  than  any  others.  They  are  simple, 
strong,  easy  running  and  noiseless.  Do  not  jar  or 
pound  when  reversing  at  high  speed.

The  Michigan  machines are  the 

best  and  most  popular  on  tjhe mar- m 
ket.  Up-to-date  merchants  al-  I 
ways  keep  a  stock  on  hand.

Write  for  pamphlets  and  prices 

to-day.
Muskegon
mashing  machine  € 0«

muskeaoti,  mich.

DREAM  OF  WEALTH.

Came  O at  Like  Most  Dream s  of  That 

K ind.

Pomeroy  bad  often  dreamed  such  a 
thing  in  his  day  dreams. 
It would  be  a 
day  dream  of  night—of  night  in  some 
lonely  thoroughfare,  which  by  some  odd 
chance  he  would  be  walking.  He  would 
—in  this  day  dream,  of  course—be 
striding  briskly  along,  when  his  foot 
would  strike  against  something soft.  He 
would  stoop  to  investigate  and  would 
pick  up a  bulky  pocketbook—very  worn 
and  shabby  and  tied  about  with  a  piece 
of  ordinary  wrapping  twine,  but  fat  to 
bursting.  He  would  untie  the  string 
with  trembling  fingers,  open  the  pocket- 
book  and  find  it  stuffed  with  bills  to  a 
fabulous 
they 
would  be  hundred  dollar  bills,  with  a 
few  loose  tens  and  twenties;  sometimes 
they  would  be  twenties,  with  scattering 
fives  and  twos.  But  there  were  times 
when  Pomeroy’s 
imagination 
would  fill  that  pocketbook  with  nothing 
less  than  thousand  dollar  bills.

Sometimes 

amount. 

fervid 

it 

At 

last 

stooped  and  picked 

it  actually  occurred. 

The 
place  was not  as  desolate  as  the  place  of 
his  dreams,  but  there  was  no  one  near 
when  his  foot  struck  the  pocketbook. 
He 
it  up  and 
glanced  anxiously  around.  There  was 
a  man  about  a  block  away,  but  he  was 
walking  toward  Pomeroy,  and  therefore 
he  could  not  be  the  owner.  Still,  Pom­
eroy  did  not  stop  to  examine  his  find 
then.  He  slipped 
into  his  pocket 
and  walked  briskly  home,  feeling  sur­
like  a  criminal.  Even  when 
prisingly 
he  reached  his  house  he  did  not  take 
it 
out  at  once,  but  sat  down  to  his  dinner 
gloating  over  the  consciousness  of  the 
mysterious  bulk  that  pressed  against  bis 
hip.  Mrs.  Pomeroy  glanced  at  him 
suspiciously  two  or three  times,  and  he 
knew  that  she  was  looking  at  him  and 
that  she  suspected  him.  He  only  smiled 
at  the  teapot  in  an  absent  minded  man­
ner.  But  preseotly,  when  he  shook  salt 
upon  his  raspberry  preserves and poured 
liberally  on  his  beefsteak,  Mrs. 
cream 
Pomeroy  thought 
it  was  time  that  he 
confided  in  her,  and  she  told  him  so.

“ I  was 

just  wondering  whether  it 
would  give  you  any  pleasure  to  go down 
to-morrow  afternoon  and  pick  out  the 
swellest  and  altogether  out  and  outest 
hat that  money can  buy, "s a id  Pomeroy.

"O h,  that  was  it?”
"Y e s,  or  perhaps  to-morrow  morning 
would  be  better, and then  you  could  call 
at the  office  for  me  and  we  could  go  out 
to  lunch  together,  and  you  could  recruit 
your  flagging  energies  with  a  nice  hot 
bird  and  a  cold,  cold  bottle,  so  as  to  be 
fresh  for  a  session  with  your  modiste  in 
the  afternoon.  Come  to  think  of  it, 
though,  that  would  be  too  stereotyped.
I  think  we  could  do  better than  that. 
Clams  and  consomme  souveraine,  with 
a  filet  of  sole  a  la  Dieppoise,  or  some­
thing  like  that,  and  then  a 
larded  ten­
derloin  and  some  sweetbread  patties, 
with  mushrooms  and  a  squab  au  cresson 
and—”

" I t   would  be  nice,  but  I  don’ t  think 
1 have  any  business  with  my modiste  to­
morrow.  By  the  way,  the  man  called 
with  the  gas  bill  this  morning. 
If  you 
don’t  attend  to  that  we  shall  have  the 
gas  cut  off  again. ”

"Rem ind  me  to  send  him  a  check," 
" I   was  going  to  pro­
said  Pomeroy. 
pose  that  if  you  have  no  other  engage­
ment  for  the  evening  we  might  go to the 
I ’ll  telephone  for  seats  right 
theater. 
away. 
forgot,  though.  Well,  it  will 
hardly  be  worth  while  [to  have  a  tele­
phone  put 
in  now,  since  our  stay  here 
is  to  be  so  short.  We’ ll  see  that  we

I 

in  the  new  house. 

have  one 
I  had  ! 
thought  of  taking  a  little  trip  abroad  j 
while  the  house  was  being  built  if  I 
found  an  architect  that  1  thought 1 could  | 
depend  upon. ’ ’

"Where  have  you  been  to-day?”   de­
manded  Mrs.  Pomeroy,  sternly.  "Look 
at  me  straight.  Let  me  see  your  eyes.’ ’
It 
has  always  been  one  of  my  trials  that 
you  will  never  take  me  seriously.”

"T h e y ’re  all  right,  and  so  am  I. 

" I t   was  a  more  serious  matter  than  I 
I'll  ad­

realized  when  I  did  take  you. 
mit  that,”   retorted  Mrs.  Pomeroy.

" I ’m  afraid  it  was,”   said  Pomeroy, 
pensively;  "but  it  was  a  happy  day  for 
me.  You  have  been  a  good  wife  to  me 
—a  faithful  and  uncomplaining  help­
meet,  and  at  times  a  rather entertaining 
companion.”

"T h at  sounds 

something 

like  an 

epitaph. ”

"W e  have  had  our  little  trials,”   re­
sumed  Pomeroy,  with  an  eloquent  ges­
ture. 
" I   have  hitherto  been  unable  to 
surround  you  with  the  pomp  and  luxury 
your  eminent  merit  so  richly  deserves. 
We  have,  in  fact,  had  our  little  vicissi­
tudes,  and  you,  my  wife,  have  borne 
them  nobly.  But  to  the  darkest  night 
succeeds  a  radiant  dawn,  and  there  is, 
as  the  poet  has  observed,  a  silver  lining 
to  every  cloud,  and  now  the  time  has 
come  when—”
"R ichard  Pcmeroy!”   exclaimed  his 
wife,  with  a  kindling  face,  "you  don’t 
really  mean  to  tell  me  that  they  have 
increased  your  salary  at  last!”

"N o,  my  dear,”   replied  Pomeroy, 
taking  out  the  pocketbook, 

gravely, 
"not  that,  but  I  have  here—”

He  undid  the  worn  clasp  and  opened 
the  pocketbook  and  pulled  out  and  laid 
on 
the  table  a  bundle  of  bills  neatly 
docketed  for  collection  and  a small pack 
of  business  cards—nothing  else.  He 
drew  a  long  breath.

"Ju st  about  what  I thought,’ ’  be  said.

H ungarian  Linen  W ork.

Hungarian  work  is  attracting  the  at­
tention  of  the  linen  loving  women  these 
days. 
It  is  done  by  the  Hungarian 
peasant  women,  the  material  used  be­
ing  linen  of  various  texture  in  white  or 
brown  Holland  tin.  Red  is  the  prin­
cipal  color  used  for  embroidering  it, 
although  blue  is  often  mingled  with  it, 
sometimes  other  tints  as  well,  and  the 
white  embroidery  is  lovely,  so  is  a  bril­
liant  gold  silk  on  white  crepe  cloth. 
There  are  curtains,  portieres,  table­
cloths,  bags,  bedspreads,  etc.,  as  well 
as  peasant  women's  gala  frocks,  beauti­
fully  worked.

Count  the  pages  in  this  paper and you 
scan  the  pages 
will  find  thirty-six; 
and  see 
if  you  can  find  a  quack  or 
humbug  advertisement  anywhere  in  it; 
note  the  quality  of  the  paper  used  and 
the  few  typographic  errors;  read  critic­
ally  and  carefully  everything  in 
it,  ad­
vertisements  and  all.

T H E

S a f e t y  
G a s   Lig h t

- 

M A C H I N E

DAYLIGHT 

and  our  SAFETY  GAS  LIGHT

are  more  nearly  equal  in  every  respect  than  any 
other two lights known to chemistry.
Note  the  quality  of  your  light  to-night.  Note 
the price of it  in  the  past  and  when  your  bill  for 
light comes in next month, note that.
It will then  be very  interesting  and  profitable  to 
you  if vou will turn vour light of observation  upon 
this subject, and  permit us to  aid  you  in  doing  so 
by allowing us to install the Safety  Gas  System  in 
your  own  store,  so  that  by  personal  contact  you 
may become thoroughly convinced why  other mer­
chants are so elated with the  merited  fighting  vir­
tues of the Safety Gas Light machine.
Generates and  burns  gasoline  vapor  gas;  abso­
lutely  non-explosive,  smokeless,  odorless;  gives 
soft," snow-white,  mellow  light  at  a  positive  cut 
down of 75  per  cent,  of  your  former  lighting  ex­
pense, whetner you  burned  gas,  electricity  or  oil.

17 S.  D ivisici St. 

Perfection  Lighting  Co.
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C O M P L E T E

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STORES. 
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NO UNDER  SHADOW.
ACTUALLY SAVES 7 5 N 
OF ANY OTHER  LIGHT.
LONG  Dis t a n c e - BOTH ph o nes 2090.

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

4

Around  the State

Movements  of M erchants.

Saline—F.  J.  Tocze  has  sold  his  drug 
and  stationery  stock  to  O.  G.  Wheeler.
Lake  City—J.  E.  Gleason,  grocer  and 
meat  dealer,  has  removed  to  Bruce, 
Wis.

Manistee—Louis  Larsen,  of  Eastlake, 
will  soon  open  a  general  store  at  Park- 
dale.

Belding—The  W.  S.  Canfield  Co.  has 
sold  its  grocery  stock  to  the  Bradley  & 
Unger  Co.

Ann  Aroor—Dawson  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Walter  N. 
Salisbury.

Redman—Wm.  Woodard  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Kinch  & 
McIntyre.

Mancelona—Eastman  &  Charles  have 
added  a  line  of  fresh  meats  to their  gro­
cery  stock.

Whitehall—Geo.  H.  Nelson  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock of Young 
&  Edlund.

Flint—The  Flint  Grocery  &  Drug  Co. 
succeeds  the  Flint  Grocery  Co.  in  the 
retail  business.

Traverse  City--H.  W.  Smith  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stocks  of  Curtis  ft 
Rollston  and  Goble  Bros.

Lapeer—Thompson  &  Cary,  whole­
sale  grocers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship,  the  former  succeeding.

Colon—Wolfinger  ft  Smitley  have  en­
gaged  in  the  hardware  business,  having 
purchased  the  stock  of  Chas.  L.  Leland.
Detroit—The  estate  of  Leopold  Kirch- 
ner  is  succeeded  by  the  Leo  Kirchner 
Co.,  Limited,  in  the  dry  goods  and  no­
tion  business.

South  Haven—Chas.  H.  Rogers  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to  J.  L.  Congdon, 
formerly  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
at  Pentwater.

Lapeer—Frank  Thompson  succeeds 
the Lapeer Mercantile  Co.  in  the  whole­
sale  and  retail  grocery,  produce  and 
elevator  business.

Plainwell—Goss  &  Goss,  undertakers 
and  dealers  in  furniture,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business  is continued 
by  Goss  ft  Murray.

Manistee—F.  Firzlaff  ft  Son,  who 
succeeded  F.  C.  Larson  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  business  one  year  ago,  have  re­
moved  to  larger  and  more  convenient 
quarters.

Onaway—L.  Abbott  will  occupy  his 
new  store  building  Oct.  20  with  his 
stock  of  furniture  and  crockery.  The 
new  structure 
is  30x76  feet  in  dimen­
sions,  two  stories  and  basement,  with 
plate  glass  front.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—W.  H.  Plummer 
has  purchased  the  Parent  Bros,  grocery 
stock  at  53^  cents  on  the  dollar.  The 
stock  was  sold under a mortgage  held  by 
Henry  Vivian  and  the  proceeds  will 
barely  cover  his  claim.

Traverse  City—The  Hamilton  Cloth­
ing  Co.  has 
leased  the  store  building 
formerly  occupied  by  Parker Bros.  This 
will  enable  the  company  to  display  its 
goods  all  on  one  floor  and  afford  better 
accommodations  for  its  rapidly  increas­
ing  business.

Elk  Rapids—G.  A.  Johnson,  of  Man­
istee,  has  purchased  the  boot  and  shoe 
stock  of  the  Elk  Rapids  Iron  Co.,  and 
has  placed  his  brother,  A.  F.  Johnson, 
in  charge  of  the  business.  Mr.  Johnson 
is  now  the  owner  of  five  shoe  stores  in 
different  parts  of  the  State.

Detroit-The  Leo  Kirchner  Co., 
Limited,  has  filed  amended  articles  of 
association  with  the  Register of  Deeds. 
The company is capitalized at $17,300,  of 
which  Caroline 
J.  Kirchner  holds

$17,000,  and  Arthur  C.,  Fred  L.  and 
George  H.  Kirchner  $100  each.  The 
concern  will  conduct  a  dry  goods  and 
clothing  business. 

f

Manufacturing: Matters. 

Millbrook—N.  P.  Larke  has  his  new 

roller  mill  in  running  order.

Newaygo—Arthur  Dysinger will short­
ly  establish a cigar  factory  at  this  place.
Albion—The  National  Spring  &  Wire 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $10,000.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Chemical  Works 
from 

its  capital  stock 

increased 

has 
$100,000  to  $150,000.

Port  Huron—The  Marcotte-Forbes 
Cement  Brick  ft  Tile  Co.  has  filed  arti­
cles  of  association.  The  capital  stock  is 
$5.000.

Detroit—The  Pyramid  Portland  Ce­
ment  Co.,  organized  some  months  ago 
with  an  authorized  capital  of  $520,000, 
has  bled  notice  of  dissolution  with  the 
Secretary  of  State.

Detroit—A.  G.  Douglas,  H.  A.  Lom- 
ason  and  A.  Cloutier  have  organized  the 
Douglas  &  Lomason  Co.  for  the  manu­
facture  of  carriage  hardware  with  a 
capital  of  $25,000,  of  which  $9,000  is 
paid  in.

Ionia—1  he  Clark  Marble  Works  will 
hereafter  conduct  its  business  under  the 
style  of  Clark  &  Weeks,  the  latter  gen­
tleman  having  purchased  an  interest  in 
the  business,  which  began  operations 
under the  new  style  Oct.  1.

Jackson—The  Central  Food Companv, 
Limited,  will  build  its  new  factory on a 
portion  of  the  old  Heyser  planing  mi 11 j 
property  near  the  Michigan  Central  and 
Lake  Shore  tracks,  thus  affording  the 
concern  excellent  shipping  facilities.
I.  Stephenson  Co. 

is 
erecting  a  large  flooring  manufacturing 
plant  at  this  place.  The  frame  work  of 
the  building 
is  completed,  but  it  will 
require  several  months'  time  before  the 
machinery 
installed  and  the  plant 
ready  for  operation.

Wells—The 

is 

Stephenson—W.  P.  Kezar,  general 
dealer  at  this  place,  is  exhibiting  some 
samples  of  marl  found  on  lands  owned 
by  him  near  this  village.  Mr.  Kezar 
thinks  that  he  has  a  fortune  in  the  marl 
beds,  and  it  is  not  unlikely  that  a  com­
pany  will  be  organized  to  manufacture 
the  marl  into  cement.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Whistle  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The 
company 
is  capitalized  at  $5,000  and 
will  manufacture  brass  whistles  and 
their  appurtenances.  The  stock  is  di­
vided  as follows : 
Isaac  Anderson,  175; 
Conrad  Riis,  25;  Conrad  Riis,  trustee, 
200,  and  Martin  Micholke,  too  shares.
Kalamazoo—The  Gibson  Mandolin- 
Guitar  Manufacturing  Co.,  Ltd.,  bas 
been  organized  to  enlarge  the  output  of 
the  mandolins  and  guitars  made  by  O.
H.  Gibson. 
fixed  at 
$12,000,  in  shares  of $10 each.  Officers 
of  the  company  are  John  W.  Adams, 
Chairman;  Sylvo  Reams,  Secretary; 
Samuel  Van  Horn,  Treasurer.

The  stock 

is 

Detroit—The  Douglas  &  Tomason 
Co.,  for  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
carriage  hardware,  has  filed  articles  of 
association  with  the  county  clerk.  The 
capital  stock 
is  $25,000,  with  $9,000 
paid  in,and  the  following  are  the  stock­
holders:  Alex  G.  Douglas,  300;  Harry 
A.  Tomason,  300;  Albert  J.  Cloutier,  ' 
300,  and  Harry  T.  Tomason,  trustee,
I,  6oo.

Detroit—A  $500,000  company  com­
posed  of  Russell  A.  Alger,  Jr.,  John  S. 
and  Truman  Newberry,  H.  B.  and  R.
Joy,  Charles  A.  Ducbarme,  D.  M. 
P. 
Ferry, 
Jr.,  Philip  H.  McMillan  and

Joseph  Boyer,  has  been  formed  to  ac­
quire  the  Ohio  Automobile  Co.’s  plant 
at  Warren,  Ohio.  This  will  be  operated 
until  a  suitable  site  can  be  obtained 
in 
Detroit,  when  the  business  of  the  con­
cern  will  be  greatly  enlarged.

Detroit—A  new  pure  food  company 
bas  been  organized  and  will  do business 
in  Detroit,  starting  in  with  a  plant  that 
will  have  a  capacity  of  10,coo  pounds 
of  product  a  day. 
It  is  the  Manna  Ce­
real  Co.,  capitalized  at  $500,000.  For 
the present  the  company  will  occupy  45, 
47  and  49  East  Congress  street.  The 
machinery  has  all  been  ordered.  The 
food,  which 
from  wheat, 
was  discovered  by  Dr.  J.  M.  Francis, 
head  chemist  of  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.

is  prepared 

Saginaw—The  Christie  Buggy  Co. 
has  been  organized  to  engage  in  the 
manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  carriages. 
The  members  of  the  new  concern  are 
Alexander  Christie,  who  has  been  en­
gaged 
in  the  carriage  manufacturing 
business  for  several  years  at  309  Ger­
mania  avenue,  and  S.  C.  Crump,  of 
West  Bay  City.  The  factory  is  located 
at  820  South  Tilden  street  and  will  be­
gin  operations  about  Nov.  15,  employ­
ing  twenty  men  and  having  a  capacity 
of  300  buggies  per  year.

Three  Rivers—The  Three  Rivers 
Foundry  &  Machine  Co.  has  been  or­
ganized  in  this  city,the  capital  stock  of 
which  as  a  starter  will  be  $10,000,  with 
immediate  increase  within  a  very  short 
time.  The  officers  elected  are  W.  W. 
French,  President;  L.  B.  Place,  Vice- 
President  and  General  Manager  and 
Frank  B.  Watson,  Secretary. 
This 
company  is  the  outgrowth  of  the  Eames 
Pulley  Co.,  secured  to  the  city  through 
the  efforts  of  the  City  Improvement  As­
sociation.

Price  of Pork  T hirty-four  T ears  Ago.
Among  the  relics  carefully  preserved 
by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  is  an 
invoice  for  a  barrel  of  pork  rendered 
John  Killean  Nov.  3,  1868,  by  Lyon  & 
Cody,  predecessors  of  the  present  bouse 
of  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  Most 
people  are  impressed  with  the  fact  that 
they  are  paying  high  prices  for  goods

era  of  high  prices  is  not  to  be compared 
with  that  which  prevailed  prior  to  the 
close  of  the  war  and  for  a  few  years 
thereafter.
E astern   Grape  Crop  Short—New  Variety.
“ The outlook  for grapes this  reason  is 
not  encouraging,”   writes  D.  O.  Wiley, 
of  Detroit. 
from  New 
York  State  have  begun.  Reports  from 
the  East  indicate  that  there  will  not  be 
more  than  50  per  cent,  of the usual  crop. 
This 
is  due  to  the  wet  season,  many 
grapes  rotting  on  the  vines  The  same, 
I  understand,  is  true  of  the  Put-In-Bay 
district.  1  do  not  anticipate  half  the  re­
ceipts  from  the  district  that usually sup­
plies  this  market.”

“ Shipments 

Wm.  K.  Munson  has  succeeded 

in 
producing  a  new  variety  of  Hue  grape, 
which  be  has  named  the  King. 
It  is 
large  in  size  and,  under  favorable  con­
ditions,  fine  in  flavor.

Met  the  R equirem ents.a

“ I  understand,”   said  a  handsome 
young  woman,  entering  the  printing 
office,  “ that  you  employ  only  girls  and 
that  you  are  in  need  of  a  forewoman.”
“ Yes,”   replied  the  printer,  “ can  you 

make  up  a  form?”

“ Just 

look  at  me  and  see,”   she 

answered,  turning  herself  around.

She  was  engaged.

FOR  SA L E

A  good  retail  grocery  business;  up-to- 
date, well assorted stock.  Good  location 
and the oldest  In  the  city.  Keason  for 
selling Is that  we  are  going  to  manufac­
ture a patent planter.  Address quick

Bachm ann  Bros. 

489=491  W.  W estern  Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

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.

We  carry  above  In  all  styles  and 

sizes.

Prompt shipment.  Right prices. 

Grand  Rapids Supply Co.,
30 Pearl Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich

We want

Potatoes,  Onions, 

Apples,

Poultry  and  E g g s

To  handle on consignment.

M.  0.  BAKER &  CO. 
Commission  M erchants 

119-121  Superior St„ 

Toledo,  Ohio

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Prodace  M arket.

Apples—Common,  25@750  per  bu., 

fancy,  $2^2.25  per  bbi.

Bananas—Good  shipping  stock,  $1.25 

@2  per  bunch.

Beans—Large  handlers  of  this  staple 
estimate  that  about  half  a  crop  was  har­
vested  before  the  four-day  rain  which 
occurred  the  last  week  in September.  Of 
the  remaining  crop,  it  is  estimated  that 
about  25  per  cent,  will  be  culls,  25  per 
cent,  tit  only  for  canning  purposes  and 
the  remainder  fairly  good  merchantable 
stock.  The  prediction  of  a  local  daily 
that  beans  will  go  to  S3  is  ridiculed  by 
large  handlers  of  the  staple,  because  the 
importation  of  foreign  beans already  ar­
ranged  for  will  prevent  the  price  going 
much  above  $2  a  bushel.  Those  dealers 
who  sold  beans  for  October  delivery  at 
about S i.75  a  bushel  are  squirming,  but 
they  must  either  produce  the  beans  or 
walk  up  to  the  captain's  office  and  set­
tle.

Beeswax—Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—50c  per  bu.
Butter—Creamery 

is 

i8@igc 

firmer  and 

ic 
higher,  commanding  23c  for  fancy  and 
22c  for  choice.  Pound  prints  from  fancy 
command  22c.  Dairy  grades  are  strong 
and  scarce,  commanding 
for 
fancy,  i6@I7c  for  choice  and  I4@i5c 
for  packing  stock.
Cabbage—Home grown  command  40@ 
50c  per  doz.

Carrots—35c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—S i.25  per  doz.
Chestnuts—S5  per  bu.
Cocoanut—S3-25  per  sack.
Crabapples—Late  Transparents  are  in 
limited  supply  at  Si  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  17c  per  doz.

Cucumbers—75c  per  bu.  for  garden 
grown  and  25c  per  100  for  pickling 
stock.
Dressed  Calves—Fancy,  8j£@gc  per 
lb.  ;  fair,  7@ 7^c  per  lb.
Egg  Plant—Si-25  per  doz.
Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  ig@2cc  for 
case  count  and  2i@22c  for  candied. 
Receipts  are  too  small  to  meet  local  re­
quirements,  necessitating  frequent  with­
drawals  of  cold  storage  goods.

Figs—Si  per  10  lb.  box of California. 
Grapes—Blue,  15c  per  8  lb.  basket; 
lb.  basket;  Dela­
lb.  basket;  Malaga, 

Niagaras,  16c  per  8 
wares,  15c  per  4 
S5.75  per  keg.

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 @ i i c .
Lemons—Californias,  S4 ;  Messinas, 
S3-75-
Leaf  fetches  50c  per  bu.

Lettuce—Head  commands  70c  per  bu. 

osage,  75c  per  crate.

Maple  Sugar—ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—Si  per gal.  for  fancy. 
Musk  Melons—Gems,  50c  per  basket; 
Onions—Home  grown  stock  is  in  am­
ple  supply  at  6o@65c.  Pickling  stock, 
$2@3  per  bu.  The  Michigan  crop  is 
large,  but  reports  from  other  states  are 
to  the  effect  that  the  crop  is  not  up  to 
the  usual  standard,  either  in  quality  or 
quantity.

Oranges—Jamaicas,  S4  per  box. 
Parsley—20c  per  doz.
Peaches—White  stock 

in  limited 
supply  at  75@goc  and  Salaways  at  Si 
@1.25.  All  the  predictions  made  by 
the  Tradesman  regarding  the  crop  have 
been 
inside  the  mark,  as  will  be  noted 
by  the  official  summary  of  carlot  ship­
ments  from  this  market,  published  else­
where  in  this  week's  paper.

is 

Pears—Sugar,  Si  per  bu.  ;  Flemish 
Beauties,  S i.35  per  bu.  ;  Keefer,  Si 
per  bu.

Potatoes—M ichigan  w ill 

evidently 
have  ahout  60  per  cent,  of  an  average 
crop.  Chicago  and  other  Western  mar­
kets  are  now  being  supplied  by  Min­
nesota  and  Wisconsin  tubers  on  the 
basis  of  25c  per  bu.  Michigan  buyers 
can  not  pay  over  20c  on  the  basis  of  the 
present  market  and  get  out  whole,  but

in  many  localities  as  high  as  25c  is  be­
in  the  expectation  that the 
ing  paid 
Eastern  markets  will  start 
in  buying 
freely  before 
long.  The  State  of  New 
York  will  need  a  great  many  before  the 
winter  is  over,  as  that  State  is  worse  off 
than  Michigan  regarding  the  crop.  For 
the  first  time  in  many  years Grand Rap­
ids  dealers  are  compelled  to  draw  on 
carlot  shipments  from  Northern  points 
to  supply  local  requirements.
Poultry—Prices  are  firm,  owing  to 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
in 
moderate  demand  at  6o@75c  and  squabs 
at  Si.5o@i-75.  Spring  broilers,  g@ 
io c;  small  hens,  8@gc;  large  hens,  7 
@8c;  turkey  hens, 
io j£ @ u j£ c ;  gob­
blers,  g@ ioc;  white  spring  ducks,  8@ 
gc.  Dressed  stock  commands  the  fol­
lowing : 
I2@ i3c; 
small  bens,  io£ | i i c ;  spring  ducks,  12 
@ 130;  spring  turkeys,  1 3 ®  14c.

chickens, 

Spring 

Quinces—Local  dealers  are  compelled 
to  draw  on  Chicago  for  supplies.  The 
price  ranges  from  $2.50^2.75  per  bu. 

Radishes—ioc  per  doz.
Spanish  Onions—$1.25  per  crate. 
Squash—2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  S3.25  per 
Tomatoes—50c  for  ripe  and  40c  for 
Turnips—50c  per  bu.
Watermelons—Home  grown 

bbl.  ;  Virginias,  $2.25.
green.

Sweet­

hearts  are  in  ample  supply  at  16c.

Tw enty-Eight  H undred  Carloads.

The  records  of  local  railroad  officials 
disclose  the  fact  that  the  carlot  ship­
ments  of  peaches  from  Grand  Rapids 
during  August,  September  and  October 
amount  to  2,804  carloads,  which  is  by 
far  the  most  wonderful  record ever  made 
at  this  market.  This  does  not  include 
the  peaches  which  were  shipped  out  in 
less  than  carlots.

Secretary  Van  Asmus,  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  has  given  considerable  time 
and  labor  to  gathering  information  rela­
tive  to  the  shipment  of  this  staple  crop. 
According  to  his  figures  a total of 1,284,- 
880  bushels  was  marketed 
in  Grand 
Rapids.  Of  this  amount  1,028,660  bush­
els  were  shipped  to  outside  markets  by 
rail,  g,32o  bushels  were  packed  at  the 
canning 
factory  and  246,goo  bushels 
were  handled  by  the  grocers  and  huck­
sters.

Figuring  that  the  growers  received 
an  average  of  75  cents  a  bushel,  the 
value  of  the  big  peach  crop  was  $g36,- 
660.
It 

is  estimated  that  enough  more 
peaches  were  marketed  at  Casnovia, 
Sparta,  Lowell,  Rockford,  Kent  City 
[ and  Ada  to  swell  the  total  product  of 
Kent  county  to  2,000,000 bushels.

Too  Late.

A  West  Side  boy,  5  years  of  age,  who 
had  recently  become  the  brother  of  an­
other  little  boy,  was  sent  to  George 
Lehman’s  grocery  the  other  day  to  get 
some  loaf  sugar.  By mistake  the  grocer 
gave  him  granulated  and  the  boy  was 
sent  back  to  have  it  changed.

“ How  do  you  like  your new brother?'' 
asked  the  grocer,  as  he  was  weighing 
out  the  right  kind  of  sugar.

“ Ob,  1  don’t  like  him  very  much,”  
“ He  cries 

little  fellow  answered. 

the 
all  the  time. ”

“ Why  don’t  you  change  him,  then, 

as  you  do  the  sugar?”

“ We  can’t  change  him  now  ’cause 

we’ ve  used  him  three  days.”

Edward  E .  Steffey,  formerly  engaged 
in  general  trade  at  Ciystal,  but  who  has 
for  the  past 
few  months  conducted  a 
grocery  business  at  St.  Louis,  has  re­
turned  to  Crystal  and  opened  a  grocery 
store.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Prices  are 

in  the  market. 

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  re­
mains  unchanged. 
very 
firmly  held,  holders  having  great  confi­
dence 
Refiners  are, 
however,  very 
indifferent  buyers,  as 
they  claim  to  have sufficient supplies for 
their  present  needs  and  very  few  sales 
were  made.  The  refined  market  is  un­
changed  in  price,  although  the  demand 
shows some falling  off.  Now  that  the  ac­
tive  season 
is  over,  buyers  are  rather 
indifferent  and  only  purchase  in  suffi­
cient  quantities  to  fill  immediate  wants. 
There  is  nothing  new  to  report  regard­
ing  the  beet  sugar  situation.  On  ac­
count  of the  recent  unfavorable  weather, 
the  factories  were  unable  to  start  when 
they  expected  to.  None  is  in  yet,  but 
it  is  expected  there  will  be  some  offered 
within  a  few  days  now.

for  Michigan  peaches 

Canned  Goods—There  is  nothing  par­
ticularly  interesting  in  the canned goods 
The 
market. 
enormous  demand  for 
peaches  noted 
last  week  continued  un­
til  almost  everything  desirable  in  the 
State  has  been  cleaned  up  and  some  or­
ders  have  been  turned  down  on  account 
of  lack  of  supplies.  This  unusual  de­
mand 
is  ac­
counted  for  by  the  fact  that  the  Mary­
land  crop 
is  very  short;  also  by  the 
fact  that  the  Michigan  peaches  are  a 
better  flavor  and  better  filled  cans  than 
the  Maryland  goods,  and  those  of  the 
trade  who  have  handled  the  Michigan 
peach once  greatly prefer  it  to  the  Balti­
more  goods.  There  is still  considerable 
interest  centered  in  tomatoes.  Probably 
most  of  the  packers  in  Michigan  will 
be  able  to  fill  the  guaranteed  quantity 
of  their  contracts  and  a  few  who  have 
not  sold  any  for  future  delivery  will 
have  some  to  sell,  but  there  is  by  no 
means  any  surplus. 
Prices  show  no 
change,  but  the  tendency  of  the  market 
is  a  trifle  easier.  Corn  excited  quite  a 
little 
interest  during  the  past  week  and 
the  demand  was  quite  brisk.  Prices 
show  no  change,  but  all  stocks  are  firm­
ly  held.  The  demand  for  peas  contin­
ues  good,  with  the  better  grades  very 
closely  cleaned  up.  The  pack  of  ber­
ries  was  so  short  and  so  few  are left that 
the  holders  are  very  firm  and  will  make 
no  concessions  whatever.  Gallon  apples 
have  been  very  dull  the  past  few  weeks, 
with  practically  no  market  for  them  at 
all.  Within  the  last  day  or  two,  how­
ever,  the  demand has  picked  up  consid­
erably  and  some  good  sized  sales  were 
made  at  full  prices.  Salmon  and  sar­
dines  both  continue  in  good  demand  at 
previous  prices.

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
shows  no  material  change.  Orders  are 
for  lots  of  moderate  size  for  immediate 
use  and  no  speculative  business 
is 
noted.  Trade  in  prunes  is  very  dull.  A 
in  price  seems  to  make  no 
concession 
difference  whatever 
in  the  demand. 
There 
is  practically  no  consumptive 
demand  for  the  goods  at  this  time  of 
the year.  Trade  in  raisins  now  is  quiet, 
most  buyers  having  made  their  pur­
chases  for  present  requirements.  The 
impression 
is  that  prices  will  be  held 
at  the  opening  figures.  Sales  have  not 
been  as  large  as  expected,  but  the  As­
sociation  could  not  afford  to  lower  fig- 
| ures  now,  as  it  would  certainly  affect 
sales  already  made.  Spot  stocks  are 
light  and  are  firmly  held.  Peaches  and 
apricots 
firmly  held,  with 
quite  a  good  demand.  Currants  are un­
changed  and 
in  moderate  demand. 
Dates  are  moving  out  well,  but  figs  are 
meeting  with  a  slow  sale  just  at  pres­
ent.  Most  buyers,  however,  have  made 
their  purchases  of  California  figs  and

are  both 

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

5

are  now  waiting  to  get  the  goods  in  so 
as  to  distribute  them  among  their  trade. 
Evaporated  apples 
in  bulk  are  rather 
quiet,  but  the  goods  in  1  lb.  cartons  are 
selling  very  fast—faster, 
indeed,  than 
they  can  be  packed—dryers  being  now 
about three  weeks  oversold.  The  market 
is  very  firm  and  prices  have  been  ad­
vanced  %c  on  the  package  goods,  with 
some  orders  having  to  be  turned  down 
on  account  of  lack  of  supplies.

Rice—The  rice  market  is firm  but  un­
is  moderate,  but  is 
changed.  Demand 
expected  to  show  considerable 
increase 
with  the  advent  of  cold  weather.  Ad­
vices  from  the  South  are  to  the  effect 
that  the  crop  has  been  somewhat  dam­
aged  by  the  recent  heavy  rains in L( uis- 
iana  and  Texas  and  that  of  the  amount 
produced  in  those  States only about  one- 
quarter  will  be  Japan  rice.

for  molasses 

Molasses  and  Syrups—With  the  ad­
vancement  of  the  fall  season,  the  con­
sumptive  demand 
is  in­
creasing 
largely  and  grocers  generally 
are  adding  to  their  stocks.  Present 
stocks  are  small  and,  with  any  mate­
rial 
in  the  consumptive  de­
mand,  dealers  would  have  tc  enter  the 
market  for  more  supplies.  Prices  are 
firmly  held  with  no  indications  of  any 
decline  in  the  near  future.  Corn  syrup 
is  meeting  with  a  better  demand  and 
prices  are  held  very  firm.

increase 

Fish—The  fish  market  is  very  firm  on 
lines  and  codfish  and  mackerel  are 

all 
both  in  good  demand  at  full  prices.

Nuts—Trade in  nuts  is  fair  and  shows 
some  increase  every  week  and  will  con­
tinue  to  do  so  until  the  hi lidays.  Braz­
ils  show  some  advance,  owing  to  re­
duced  supplies and  good  demand.  F il­
berts,  almonds  and  walnuts  also  show 
a  good  demand  at  full  prices.  Peanuts 
still  remain  dull  with  no  change 
in 
price.

Rolled  Oats—There  is  nothing  new  in 
the  rolled  oats  situation.  Prices  are 
very  firmly  held  and  very  few  goods  are 
offered  for  sale.

O.  A.  Marfileus,  whose  drug  stock  at 
Standish  was  destroyed by  fire  about  six 
months  ago,  has  arranged  to  re-engage 
in  trade  at  that place about Oct.  20.  The 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the 
order  for  the  drug  and  stationery  stock.

Kendall  &  Slade  have  engaged  in  the 
hardware  and  grocery  business  at  Mill- 
brook.  The  hardware  stock  was  fur­
nished  by  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  and 
the  grocery  stock  was  purchased  of  the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company.

Geo.  F.  Owen  has  removed  his  head­
quarters  from  the  Eagle  Hotel  block  to 
75  Lyon  street.

Piles Cured

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

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates t>2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing  men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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

Getting the  People^

Quality  of  Printing:  an  a  Factor  in  Ad­

vertising.

What  doth  it  profit  a  man  to  prepare 
his  arguments  and announcements in  the 
most  careful  and  painstaking  manner 
and  then  have  the  effect  destroyed  in 
the  printing?

The 

standard  of  quality 

in  the 
mechanical  and artistic production of  all 
kinds  of  periodicals 
is  being  rapidly- 
raised.  The  time  is  passing  when  lack 
of  facilities  can  he  urged  as  an  excuse 
for  not  giving  the  merchant  a  vehicle 
for his  publicity  commensurate  in  every 
regard  to  the  requirements  of  any  enter­
prise.  1  mean  by  this  that  the  town  that 
supports  a  mercantile  institution  of  any 
magnitude,  excepting,  of  course,  those 
run  by  great  corporations  with  their 
company  stores,  will  support  and should 
require  periodicals  to  correspond.  As  1 
say, 
is  being  rapidly- 
raised,  but  there  are  yet  some  publish­
ers  who  seem  to  think  that  a  poor  legi­
is  all  that  need  be  given.  Every 
bility 
merchant 
in  a  town  where  the 
publisher  fails  to  provide  a  reasonably 
workmanlike  vehicle  should  make  the 
subject  a  matter  of consideration.

standard 

located 

the 

Type  styles 

There  are  many  details  to  a  printing 
business 
liable  to  neglect  which  work 
serious  injury  as  to  results.  A  common 
one  is  the  continued  use  of  unsuitable 
and  wornout  type. 
in 
many  kinds  of  faces  are  very  change­
able  and  when  such  get  out  of  date  they 
become  very  disfiguring.  Then  the  use 
of  faces  which  have  been  unduly  worn 
or  btuised  often  gives  a  ragged,  un­
kempt  appearance.  When  such  appear 
in  the  advertising  the  merchant  should 
file  his  protest  in  terms  which  will  se­
cure  their  banishment  to  the  watte  box. 
Then  the  use  of  unsuitable  and  obsolete 
borders,  ornaments,  etc.,  should  meet 
with  equally  prompt  condemnation.

Perhaps  the  most  insidious  deteriora­
tion 
in  quality  of  print  comes  from  the 
use  of  poor  inking  rollers.  Usually  this 
is  gradual  and  unless  the  product  of  the 
press 
is  closely  watched  the  effect  of 
poor  rollers  becomes  decidedly  pro­
nounced  before 
it  attracts  attention. 
Many  publishers  are  careful  to  provide 
new  rollers  at  certain  seasons  and  such 
usually  keep  the  quality  of  their  print 
reasonably  uniform,  but  others  depend 
upon  some  manifest  evidence  of  poor 
inking  before  taking  up  the  subject, 
and  usually  it  becomes  decidedly  man­
ifest.  Quality  of 
inking  rollers  is  of 
much  more 
importance  than  is  gener­
ally  considered,  and  unless  these  are 
in  proper  condition  no  exercise  of  skill 
elsewhere  will  produce  a  good  result. 
Good  ink  is  now  so  cheap  that  there 
is 
in  using  any  other,  but  the 
no  excuse 
quality  of 
ink  can  in  no  wise  compen­
sate  for  poor  rollers.

in  poor  condition 

Printing  with  the  press  nut  of  adjust­
ment  and 
is  more 
likely  to  occur  when  rollers  are  neg­
lected,  for  then  it  is  impossible  to  tell 
whether  the  press 
is  in  adjustment  or 
not.  But  neglect  in  the  care  of  presses 
is  not  so  common  as  failure  to  keep  the 
inking  apparatus  at  its  best.

I  do  not  need  to  take  space  to  say- 
much  about  careless  and  slovenly  com­
position.  The  merchant 
is  becoming 
educated  to  appreciate  this  element  in 
his  advertising  and  be  should  make  it 
his  business  to  require  an  artistic  result 
from  the  copy  he  may  entrust  for  trans­
lation  into  type.

*  *  #

There  is  one  good  display  line  in  the 
advertisement  of  A.  L.  Gleason,  viz.,

I liT I JUST RECEIVED

the finest Hue of Ranges, Cook Stoves and Heating Stoves  in  the  market.  You  will  know 
wbat they are for they have the name "Garland, the World’s Beat.  In Groceries 1 can do you 
lu  Farming Implements 1 have them  all 
good, also in  Hardware, Lime. Hair and Cement, 
beaten.  Come and look them over.  Also Harrison A  Weber Wagons at prices that  will  as­
tonish  you.  A few more Baggies left, at a bai gain as I  do  not  wish  to  carry  them  over.

Come and see me; I sill save you money, as 1 have a great many bargains to offer right now.

A .  L .  G L E A S O N ,  Copem ish,  M ich.

Our line  of  wood  and  »oft  coal 
beaters is  the  most  complete  in  tbe 
count;.  We have  the  exclusive  sale 
in this city of healers  that  have  been 
tried and not found «anting.  We ask 
that you  give  us  an  opportunity  to 
show them to you.

CLAXKL  HARDWARE  CO.

The  Touch  of  Fall

Makes  every  wise  man 
think of a nice warm sty­
lish overcoat  such  as we 
make.  See our  samples 
We  have  some  perfect 
fabrics  and  ibe  cost  is 
slight  compared  to  the 
•suffer tion.

Cota  &  Co.

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W on’t  Yon 
W rite  U s A   L etter?

Perhaps  you are so situated that it is not con­
venient for you to come to our store  in  person  as 
often as you would  like to do.

We are taking  it for  gr anted that you  are  a- 
ware of the  many  advantages enjoyed  by 
those 
who favor us in  their buying, and  that  you  would 
come to the  store more frequently if you  could do 
so.

Of course, we  want you to come as often as 
you can;  but the  fact that you may  not be able to 
come just at the time  you want something we sell 
need not hinder  you from buying it  here, just the 
same.

How?  By mail.
We have an  experienced  salesman in each 
department whose especial duty it is to act as your 
buyer;  not as our  salesman, but as your agent

If you will  write  us a full  description of the 
article you  want—sending  a sample to match, if it 
is possible—your  letter will be taken  in charge by 
the proper  department, and an  earnest, conscien­
tious effort will  be made to select for  you just ex­
actly the thing that wiil suit you best

We haven’t any  catalogue; catalogues cost 
a lot of money, and  the cost'must  be added to the 
sellrng price  of the goods.  Tell us  just what you 
want—don’t confine yourself  to things shown in a 
catalogue.

Tell  us how  much  you want  to pay. and 
you'll  get  the  greatest  possible  value for  your 
money.

Large  articles can be sent you by  express 
with privilege of  examination.  Small articles wiil 
go by mail, prepaid.

There isn't any risk to you in doing business 
by man.  We take fthe risk of your money reaching 
us saieiy, and we take  the risk of our goods satis­
fying you perfectly.

Another  point  every  mail  order  is filled 
and shipped the  same day it  is received—often by 
return maiL

So you  have  our big, busy,  complete store 
right handy—as near  to you as your m ail box. 
if 
you haven’t tried shopping  by mail before now, let 
us persuade you to make  at least  one experiment.
And be sure  that your letter is addressed to 

BOSTON  STORE,

Winchester.  Ind.

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sot choose your druggist M well 
as your phjadctaa !  Yout re- 
coverta* depends ss much ss 
the proper compounding or your 
prescriptions  as  the  proper 
diagnosta of your esse by  youi 
narutetas  Bring your gpaserlp-

F.  E.  Brackett,

§  Mdvtfk Stock.  No. 11 State  Streak 
SsESSSHSÏSHSHSHS

B.B.B.B.B.B.B.B.B.

All these  Bees  are buxz- 
tn* round the Beehive
KNOW   WHY?

Because the  Beehive has 
tbe  very  best  of  good 
thing«  to  th e   line  of 
clothing and  all kinds of 
finery for  men. ...............

Geo.  H.  Davis

China Sale

Our annual sale on China 
is now on.  Every piece  is 
;  marked in plain  figures  at 
just about
|  HALF  PRICE.
I   There  are  a  number  of 
|   very handsome pieces  that 
t   are  astonishingly 
low  in 
{   price.  The  sale  will  last
0   about  10 days.

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Come in early  and
take  your  choice.

BIGELOW  &  CO.,

Jew elry aod Cfctaawarc 
Marquette, Michigan.

the  last.  Had  there  been  another  indi­
cating  tbe  line  of  trade  tbe  effective­
ness  would  have  been  greatly  increased. 
The  type  used  in  tbe  line  at  the  top  is 
much  too  heavy  and  black  for  such  a 
position.  My principal  criticism  of  the 
writing  is  that  there  is  too  much  of  it— 
too  badiy  scattered.  There  are  subjects 
here  for  at  least  four  good  advertise­
ments—stoves,  groceries,,  hardware  and 
farming 
implements;  might  be  made 
six.  Scattering  tbe  attention  to  such  a 
degree  as  this  makes  tbe advertising in­
effective. 
take 
up  each  subject separately for successive 
weeks,  display  the  main  topic  and  con­
fine  his  wording  to  the  least  possible  be 
will  be  surprised  to  hear  from  some  of 
them.

If  Mr.  Gleason  will 

At  the  expense  of  injuring  tbe  beauti­
ful  simplicity  and  symmetry  of  the 
hardware  advertisement  I would take the 
word  “ heaters”  
in  the  center  of  tbe 
paragraph  and  give  it  a  strong,  not  too 
large,  display. 
If  less  people  should 
read 
it  on  this  account  more  of  those 
who  do  will  be  attracted  on  account  of 
their 
in  the  subject  and  so  re­
sults  will  be  greater.

interest 

Boston  Store  presents  a  curious  argu­
ment  which  will,  no  doubt,  gain  at’en- 
tion,  but  as  to  positive  results  in  mail 
orders  I  am  not  so  sanguine.  Tbe  mail 
order  business  is,  no  doubt,  educating a 
large  contingent  to  the  use  of  catalogue 
lists,  but  it  hardly  seems  possible  that 
the  average  community  is  ready  to  se­
lect  and  order  at  random  to  any  great 
extent.
There 

is  a  suggestion,  although  ob­
scure,  of  the  need  of  perfection 
in  tbe 
first  display  line  of the  advertisement  of 
1  am  still  old-fashioned 
Cota  &  Co. 
enough  to believe  that  a  display of  some 
word  ¡elating  more  directly  to  the  sub­
ject  will  gain  more  interested  attention.
A  well  designed  and  printed  speci­
men  comes  from  F.  E.  Brackett.  1 
would  have  used  plain  dashes,  however. 
The  argument 
is  pertinent  and  well 
written,  but  fewer  words  would  have  in­
creased  the  force.

If  Geo.  H.  Davis  is  sufficiently  well 
advertised  that  his  name  suggests  the 
lines  of  goods  he  handles  then  there 
need  be  little  said  as  to  the  display. 
I 
apprehend,  however, 
that  tbe  word 
“ clothing”   might  yet  be  well  given 
prominence 
in  connection  with  his 
name.  Perhaps  I  am  wrong.

Bigelow  &  Co.  bring  out  the  salient 
points  of  their advertisement by the  dis­
play.  The  argument is  complete  and  to 
the  point  and  the  primer  has  used  good 
judgment  in  proportioning  his  space.

Big  Enough  to  Look Out For TheinselYOB«
Patrick  Carroll  tells  the  story  of  an 
Irishman  who,  after  reaching  America, 
was  full  of  homesick  brag,  in  which 
nothing 
in  America  even  approached 
things  of  a  similar  variety  in  Ireland. 
In  speaking  of  the  bees  of  the  ould  sod 
he  grew  especially  roseate and said :
Why,  the  bare  in  that  counthry 

is 
Indade,  they're 
twice  as  big  as  in  this. 
bigger  than  that.  The're  as  big  as  th* 
shape  ye  have  in  this  counthry!'

Bees  as  big  as  sheep!’  said  his 
incredulous  listener. 
’ Why,  what  kind 
of  hives  do  they  have  to  keep  them  in?* 
'No  bigger  than  the  ones  in  this 

counthry,'  was  the  reply.

Then  how  do the  bees  get  into  the 

hives?'  be  was  asked.

Well,’  replied  the Irishman,  'that’s 

their  own  dom  lookout.'  "

Many  a  man’s  crookedness  is  due  to 

his  attempt  to  make  both  ends  meet.

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

This Cut Shows Style of Strapping 

No.  2

as applied to the Dutch Skate.  Manufactured by 

J . VAN DER STEL,

33  K ent St.,  Grand  R a p id s, Mich. 

Next week we will  begin  a  series  of  reasons 
showing why the  Dutch  Skate  is  preferred  to 
all others.  In the meantime write tor price list.

S E

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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 IC H .

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  ST.

10,000 Barrels of Apples Wanted

For storage.  Write to

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

W H O L E S A L E

O YSTERS

C A N   O R  B U L K  

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All parties  interested in

Autom obiles

are requested to write us-

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

Adam s  &  Hart,

12  W .  Bridge S t 

Grand  Rapids;

Retailer of Fine Rugs and  Carpets. 

Absolute cleanliness Is our hobby as well
closer woven, more durable  than  others. 
We cater to first class  trade  and  if  you
write for our 16  page  Illustrated  booklet
It will make  you' better  acquainted with  a
no agents.  We pay the freight.  Largest  d 
looms In United States. 
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s( our methods and new process.  We  have 
i as  our  endeavor  to  make  rugs  better, 
|   Petoskey  Rug Mfg.  &  Carpet  Co., aS

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I   455-457  Mitchell  St., 

Petoskey, Mich

Lim ited

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We  have  the  Largest 
Stock in Western Mich­
igan of

Sleigh  Runners 
Convex  and  Flat 
Sleigh  Shoe  Steel 
Bar  and  Band 
Iron

Send  us  your orders.

Sherwood  Hall  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

A  NEW  LIN E   OF

Holiday  Goods
Mirror  novelties,  new  designs 
for many uses, hand and  toilet 
mirrors,  mirrors  of  all  kinds 
and  resilvering.

70  N.  Front  St.,  Grand Rapids, Mich. 

H  W.  BOOZER

Citizens  Phone  75

D ET T EN T H A LER   M AR K ET,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

O u r V in e g a r to be  an  A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU I C E  V I N ­
E G A R .  T o  an yon e  w h o   w ill  an aly ze   it  an d  find a n y  deleterious 
adds, or an y th in g  th at is not produced from  the apple, w e w ill forfeit

O LN EY  &  JUDSON  GROCER  CO.,  Grand  Rapids

If the  people ask  for  it you  will  buy  it. 

If  you  buy  it  the  people  will 

ask  for it.  We create  the demand—leave  that to  us.

Asphalt  Torpedo  Gravel  ! 

Ready  Roofing 
For all sorts of buildings. 
Send  for samples and  prices. 

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

J   ROBINSON. M anager. 

Benton  Harbor.Michigan

H.  M.  REYN O LD S  ROOFING  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  Favorite 

Chips 

The  Favorite 

Chips

There are lots of Chocolate Chips  on  the  mar­
ket,  but  the  Favorite  Chocolate  Chips  lead 
them all.  We put them up  in  5  lb.  boxes,  20 
lb. and 30 lb.  pails  and  in  our  new  10c  pack­
ages.  S.  B.  &  A.  on every piece.  Made only by

Straub  Bros.  <§h  Amiotte,  Traverse  City,  Mich.

fo u r  Kinds  ot  coupon  b o o k s
are manufactured  by us and all  sold on the same basis, 
irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  denomination. 
Free 
samples on application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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E.  A.  STOWE,  E ditor.

WEDNESDAY 

•  ■  OCTOBER  IS,  1902.

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN  1 

County  ol  Kent 

j  s  ‘

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 
I  printed  and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
October  8, 
1902,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed in the usual  manner.  And  further 
deponent  saith  not. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  eleventh  day  of  October,  1902.

John  DeBoer.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  county, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich,

THE  WORLD’S  FUEL.

The  world’s  supply  of  fuel  has  been 
the  subject  of  much  discussion  of  iate 
years.  Much  of  this  discussion  has  been 
on  purely  academical lines,and  thus  rel­
atively  of  little value,  but  there  has  also 
been  much  of  a  really  practical  na­
ture.  On  the  whole,  the  discussion  has 
taken  a  rather  pessimistic  turn,and  dire 
predictions  have  been  made  as  to  the 
giving  out  of  the  supply  at  a  compara­
tively  early  date.  The  September  Bul­
letin  of  the  International  Bureau  of  the 
American  Republics  gives  considerable 
prominence  to  the  views of  Dr.  Ferdi­
Fischer,  of  Goettingen.  Dr. 
nand 
Fischer 
is  said  to  have  given  much 
study  to  the  subject,  and  while  his  de 
ductions  are  open  to  criticism,  they  are 
of 
interest  as  bearing  on  a  question 
which  has  been  brought  rather  promi­
nently  before 
the  American  public 
through  the  recent  discoveries  of  oil 
fields 
in  Texas  and  Louisiana,  and  in­
cidentally  through  the  strike  in  the  an-1 
tbracite  regions  of  Pennsylvania.  The 
is  that  no  particulars  are  given  as 
pity 
to 
the  methods  by  which  Dr. 
Fischer  arrived  at  his  estimate,  and, 
therefore,  the  results  are  given  for  what 
they  are worth.  This  estimate gives  the 
attainable  coal  supply  of  Germany  at 
160.000,000,000 tons;  that  of  Great  Brit­
ain,  81,500,000,000  tons;  and  that  of 
Austria-Hungary,  Belgium  and  France 
together  as  17,000,000,000  tons.  Dr. 
Fischer  makes  no  attempt  to  estimate 
the  attainable  output  for  Russia,  the 
present  knowledge  of  the  coal  measures 
of  that  country  being  but  very  slight, 
although  it  is conceded that the resources 
are  undoubtedly  enormous,  particularly 
in  the  southern  regions,  from  the  gov 
ernment  of  Poltava  eastward  into  the 
land  of  the  Don  Cossacks. 
For  the 
whole  of  America  the resources  are  said 
to  be at  least  684,000 00c,000 tons,  while 
is  put  down  as  capable  of  sup­
China 
plying  630,000,000,000  tons. 
Japan, 
Borneo  and  New  South  Wales are known 
to  have  rich  deposits  of  coal,  while

just 

in  the 

Africa  and  South  America  are  said to be 
but  comparatively  poor  in  this  respect. 
From  the  above  estimate  it  would  seem 
that  there  is  plenty  of  coal  to  go  around 
for  many  years  to  come,  but  according 
to  the  Goettingen  professor  the  outlook 
for  Great  Britain 
is  very  pessimistic, 
and  while  he  gives  Germany 
1,000 
years  to  exhaust  her  deposits,the  former 
country’s  supply  will  probably  be  ex­
hausted  within  the  next  fifty  years,  and 
certainly  within  the  next  one  hundred 
years,  if  the  present  rate  of  output  be 
maintained.  Here  is  where  Dr.  Fischer 
trips  up  on  his  estimate.  On  bis  own 
showing  the  available  supply  is  81,500,- 
ooo.oco  tons,  which,  at  the  present  rate 
of  about  220,000,000  tons  per  annum 
(219,046,945  gross  tons  in  1901),  would 
give  the  life  of  the  British  coal  fields  as 
something 
like  375  years,  a  period  too 
remote  to  trouble  the  present  genera­
tion,  or  even  the  next  to  follow.  No 
account  seems  to  have  been  taken  of  the 
recent  discoveries  of  additional  sources 
of  supply 
latter  country.  On 
this 
line  a  paper  recently  presented  to 
the  North  of  England  Institute  of  Min­
ing  and  Mechanical Engineers  on  “ The 
Under-Sea  Coal  of  the  Northumberland 
Coast”   is  of  practical 
interest.  This 
supp ly  has  already  been  tapped,  and 
seams  are  being worked  some  one  and  a 
half  miles  from  shore.  Formerly  it  was 
supposed  that  no  coal  could  be  safely 
worked  with  a  depth  of  cover  between 
the  ocean  bed  and  the  mine  of  less  than 
600  feet.  This  has  been  proved  to  be  a 
mistake,  and 
is  now  believed  by 
practical  mining  engineers  that  work­
ings  may  be  carried  on  to  within  270 
feet  of  the  sea  bed.  This  fact  material­
ly 
life  of  the  Newcastle 
deposits,  as  the  seams  are  believed  to 
reach  right  across  the  German  Ocean. 
On  the  Western  coast  coal 
is  being 
mined  some  six  miles  from  shore,  with 
no  sign  of  the  seams  giving  out. 
It 
will  thus  be  seen  that  much of the recent 
talk  of  the  early  giving  out  of  the  Brit­
ish  coal  fields 
is  pure  twaddle.  With 
684,000,000,000  tons  to  draw  on,  any 
speculation  as  to  the  giving  out  of  the 
American  supplies  is  purely  visionary 
and  outside 
the  pale  of  practical 
economics.

increases  the 

it 

to 

opposed 

Kansans  care  for  nothing  superfluous 
in  the  way  of  crops.  They  are 
except 
superfluous 
especially 
clothes. 
It  is  only  recently  that  some  of 
their  most  prominent  men  have  been 
converted  to  the  idea  of  wearing  socks. 
Chancellor  Strong,  who  recently  went 
from  Yale  to  take  charge  of  the  K ansas 
University,tried  to induce  the  professors 
and  students  to  adopt  cap and gown,  but 
the  proposition  encountered  nothing  but 
ridicule.

Si-r  Thomas  Liptun  has  forwarded  his 
third  challenge  for  the  American  cup. 
It  will,  without  doubt,  he  accepted  and 
thus  New  York  harbor  will  next  year 
be  the  scene  of  another  international 
yachting  contest.  Lipton  began  with 
Shamrock  I.  and  followed  with  Sham­
rock  II.  and  will  make  his  forthcoming 
effort  with  Shamrock  III.  If he  dees  not 
win  after  three  trials  he  may be justified 
in  concluding  there 
is  no  luck  in  a 
name.

Some  amusing  reasons  are  offered  by 
people  who  seek  divorce.  A  Watertown 
woman  thinks  she  is  entitled  to  divorce 
because  her  husband  compels  her  to 
shave  him  and  beats  her  when  she  does 
not  do  a  satisfactory  job.  A  Chicago 
woman  asks  for  a  decree  because  her 
husband 
is  more  fond  of  automobiles 
than  he  is  of  her.

A  BIT  OF  COMMERCIAL  BLUFF.
If  any  dependence can  be placed  upon 
the  tone  of  the  European  press  the 
United  States  has committed  the  unpar­
donable  sin  of  scooping  the  trade  of  the 
world.  Pushed  to  the  very  verge  of 
despair  the  countries  across  the  sea  are 
combining  against  American  aggression 
and  are  determined  to get  back  the  su­
premacy  they  have  lost.  These  columns 
have  kept  track  of  what  each  nation  has 
done  and  have  commented  upon  it.  The 
contempt  of  the  German  agrarians,  the 
anger of the Austrian shoemaker, the  un­
disguised 
jealousy  of  France  and  the 
righteous  wrath  of  our  English  cousins 
are  so  many  unmistakable  signs  of  that 
commercial  disintegration  which  pre­
cedes  the  downfall  of  what  has  been 
the  leading  powers.

England,  especially,  has  been  over­
shadowed  by 
soon-coming  collapse. 
Her  spindles  are  rusting  because  the 
American  cottons  and woolens are every­
where  forcing  them  out  of  the markets. 
Her  forges  are  idle  because  American 
iron  and  steel  alone  are  called for.  Our 
engines  are the  only  ones  worth  buying; 
our  bridges  the  only  ones  that  are  built 
to  stay.  The  cunning  brain  of  the  Yan­
kee  alone  can  forestall  a  universal  want 
and  provide  for  it  and  this,  taken 
in 
connection  with  the  push  and  pull  of 
what  we  are  delighted  to  call  the  genius 
of  the  Western  hemisphere,  settles  the 
business  and  poor old  England  without 
any 
in  sackcloth  growls  and 
grumbles  and  vows  vengeance  against 
this  country  for  the  ruin she has wrought 
to  English  industry.

future 

That  part  of  this  condition  of  things 
laid 
which  pleases  us  best  is  the  stress 
upon  the 
invasion  of  foreign  countries 
by  American  goods.  Here  the  Euro­
pean  press  has  for  years  been  laying 
it 
on  with  a  trowel.  How  has  this  alarm­
ing  fact  been  accomplished?  Has  the 
New  World  brought  forth  a  new  race  of 
men  with  keener 
intellect  and  more 
sterling  qualities?  Is  it  our school  sys­
tem? 
it  the  climate?  Does  the  sun 
shine  brighter  here  and  do  the  rain 
and  the  dew  bring  from  the  stars  to 
American  valleys  and  uplands  an  in­
tangible  something  which  England  does 
not receive?  To  find  out  she  sends  over 
her  experts—humiliation 
follows  re­
search ;  and  all  this  time  the  British 
failure  has  been  putting  up  the  biggest 
game  of  bluff  on  record.

Is 

about 

Poor old commercially-dying England, 
in  spite  of  her  despair  and  in  spite  of 
her  disgraceful  war  with  Africa,  man­
in  some  way,  in  1901,  to  export 
aged 
into  the  Dark  Continent 
five 
times  as  much  as  the  United  States did. 
The  growth  of  exports  from  the  United 
Kingdom  to  Africa  has  not  been  so 
rapid  as 
in  the  case  of  the  United 
States,  but  it  has  been  steady  and  per­
sistent. 
In  1897  the  total  exports  from 
the  United  Kingdom to Africa amounted 
to  $120,000,000,  and  in  1901,  $157,000,- 
000.  Of  this  exportation  of  more  than 
$150,000,000  worth  of  merchandise  to 
Africa,  nearly  two-thirds  goes  to  the 
southern  part  of  the  continent,  the  fig­
ures  being:  to  Cape  Colony,  $62,700,- 
000;  to  Natal,  $29,500,000,  and  to  Por­
tuguese  Africa,  chiefly  that  section 
lo­
cated  on  the  southeastern  front  of  the 
continent  and 
forming  the  most  direct 
entrance  to  the  territory  of  the  late  Boer 
republics,  $6,020,000.  The  next  section 
in 
is  Egypt,  to  which  the 
exports  from  the  United  Kingdom  are 
$31,238,000;  next,  British  West  Africa, 
$13,222,000.  Poor old  England,  indeed!
An  analysis  of  this  market  for  over 
$150,000,000 worth  of  British  products—

importance 

British,  mind—shows  that  the  chief  ex­
ports  to  Cape  Colony  consist  of  cotton 
piece  goods, 
iron—wrought  and  un­
wrought—coal, provisions of  all sorts  and 
manufactured  articles,  especially  ap­
parel  and  haberdashery.  To  Natal .the 
exports  are  similar  to  those  of  Cape 
Colony  with  the  exception  of  coal,  of 
which  a  considerable  quantity  is  pro­
duced 
in  Natal  itself.  To  Portuguese 
Africa  the  shipments  included  cottons, 
machinery  and  rther  supplies,  chiefly 
for  the  Transvaal  and  Orange  River 
Colonies.  To  British  West  Africa  cot­
ton  goods,  coal  and 
iron  are  the  most 
important  exported.  To  Egypt the  ex­
portations  included  cotton  goods  to  the 
value  of  $1,086,000;  coal,  $8,320,000; 
iron—wrought  and  unwrought—$1,630, - 
ooo,  and  machinery, 
including  steam 
engines,  $1,935,000 —in  all  of  which  the 
United  States  can  and  does  beat  Great 
Britain  and  every  other  manufacturing 
country !

Now,  then,  with  these  facts  before  us 
it  is  pertinent  to  ask  if  the  time  has  not 
come  to  ‘ ‘ call”   our  British  brother  and 
change  the  game.  If  we  are  as  “ smart”  
as  we  claim  to  be  the  importance  of 
Africa  as  a  field  for  the  producers  and 
manufacturers  of  the  United  States  has 
long  been  known  and  we  should  go after 
that  trade. 
If  Yankee  wit  and  cunning 
and  vim  are  what  we  have cracked them 
up  to  be  we  bad  better  stop  making  fun 
of  poor  old  played-out  England  and  al­
lowing  her to beat us at our own  game  to 
the  tune  of  five  to  one. 
In  spite  of  her 
crippled f?)  condition  she  has  got  more 
than  her  share  of  trade  in  South  Africa 
and  contiguous  territory—ours, 
if  we 
must  say  so—and  if  this  must  go  on  let 
it  be  done  in  some  other  way  than 
in 
playing  a  game  of  commercial  bluff.

“ Alcohol 

conducted 

A  novel  advertising  campaign  is  be­
ing 
in  Paris.  A  French 
physician  impressed  with the evil effects 
of  alcohol  upon  the  nation,  has  started 
out  to  combat  intemperance  by  adver­
tising.  Upon  billboards  in  omnibuses, 
in  the  newspapers  and  magazines,  on 
the  armor  of  sandwich  men,  in  railway 
stations  and  even  on  the  backs  of  the 
fans  used  by  hospital  patients  he  dis­
plays  in  the  largest  of  types  the  pithiest 
of  warnings. 
is  always  a 
poison,”   “ Beware  of  bitters!"  “ Drink 
makes  consumptives,”   and  so  on,  are 
some  of  the  repetitions  of  this  clever 
temperance  advocate.  He  gathers  sta­
tistics as  to  absinthe  and  insanity,  wine 
drinking  and  various  diseases,  alcohol 
and  crime-and  prepares  advertisements 
as  deceitfully  readable  as  those  in  our 
own  papers  which  we  take  for  genuine 
news  and  peruse  eagerly  until  we  come 
to  somebody's  soap  at  the  end.  The 
unequaled  spectacle  is  thus  presented  of 
all  Paris  reading  a  temperance  adver­
tisement.

Schenectady  is  to  have  a  poor  mans’ 
hotel  and  the  motive  behind  the  enter­
prise,  as  well  as  the  generosity  of  the 
promoters,  is  to  be  commended.  Their 
design 
is  to  help  the  needy  but  honest 
by  giving  them  shelter and 
food  for  a 
nominal  sura  and  an opportunity to work 
in  payment  thereof.  There  can  be  but 
one  criticism  of  this  worthy  project—its 
name. 
It  savors  of  class  distinction 
and  may  keep  away  and  repel  the  de­
serving  whom  it  is  sought  to  aid.  Pov­
erty  is  no  disgrace,  but  it  is  only  those 
who  have  become 
to 
what  befalls  them,  that  will  give  the 
fact  publicity  by  stopping  at  a  poor 
man’s  hotel.  But  then  that  class  of 
it­
self  may  be  large  enough  to sustain such 
an  establishment  upon a  paying  basis.

indifferent  as 

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

9

THE  SOVEREIGN  AND  HIS  DUTY.
When  the  men  who  made  our  Consti­
tution  were  at  work  upon  it,  they  had 
little  or  no 
idea  of  what  this  country 
was to  become.  To  them,  love  of  coun­
try  and  interest  in  its  undertakings  and 
government  were  matters  of course. 
It 
occurred  to  them  that  there  would  be 
differences  of  opinion  and  wide  differ­
ences  of  policy  and  even  fierce  disputa­
tions;  but  they  did  not  look  forward  to 
a  time  when  there  would  be  indiffer­
ence,  when  thousands  upon  thousands 
of  men  would  not  even  vote  and  when 
hundreds  of  thousands  who  did  vote 
would  be  taking  no  more  active  part  in 
the  government  than  casting  their  bal­
lots.  They  believed  that  “ eternal  vig­
ilance’ ’  was  assured  and  that,  whatever 
else  might  happen,  at  least  all  Ameri­
cans  would  keep  an  uninterrupted  in­
terest  in  the  Government  of  their  coun­
try.  The  great  trouble  with us to-day  is 
that,  in spite of  the  political excitements 
and 
interest 
in  discussions,  private  and 
evinced 
public,  there 
is,  after  all,  but  a  very 
small  number  of  men  who  take  an  ac­
tive  part  in  politics.  We  are  all  of  us 
very  ready  to  complain  and  to  criticise, 
but  we  are  not  as  evidently  willing  to 
undertake  the  tasks  that  would  perhaps 
alleviate  the  difficulties  of  which  we 
complain.  Many  men  do  not  even 
know  what  the  preliminary  processes 
are  which  produce  certain  names  on 
election  day,  for  which  they  must  vote 
or  not  vote  at  all,  and  they  thus  allow 
them selves  to  be  driven  in  one  or  an­
other  direction  without  knowing  why. 
The  root  of  all  political  evil  is  to  be 
found  in  the  primaries,  in  the  prelimi 
nary  caucus;  and  there  is  where  every 
citizen  ought  to  be,  and  that  is  where 
very  few  of  us  are.

seemingly 

intense 

the 

it 

Whenever  in  history  the  democratic 
idea  of  government  has  taken  posses­
sion  of  a  people 
is  because  their 
rights  have  been  infringed ;  and,  there­
fore,  in  founding  a  new  style  of  gov­
ernment,  where  each  man  should  have 
his  rights  and  bis  part 
in  the  govern­
ment,  it  does  not  occur  to  them  that  in 
a  few  years  these  rights  will  not  seem 
so  dear,  and  that  the  greatest  difficulty 
would  soon  arise  from  the  fact  that  men 
would  not  trouble  themselves  to  exer­
cise  the  very  freedom  for  which  they 
fought.  Right  here 
is  the  puzzle  of 
every  democracy,  and  what  has  proved 
the  ruin  of  some. 
It  is  not  altogether 
a  matter  of  swaggering  bluster  when  the 
American  citizen  calls  himself  a  “ sov­
ereign.”   A  member  of  a 
free  democ­
racy 
is,  in  a  sense,  a  sovereign.  He 
has  no  superior.  He  has  reached  his 
sovereignty,  however,  by  a  process  of 
reduction  and  division  of  power  which 
leaves  him  no 
is  very 
grand  to  call  one’s  self  a  sovereign,  but 
it 
is  greatly  to  the  purpose  to  notice 
that  the  political  responsibilities  of 
the  free  man  have  been  intensified 
just 
in  proportion  as  political  rights  have 
been  divided.  Already  with  us  negli­
gence  of  the  duties  of citizenship  on  the 
part  of  many  men  is  our  greatest  dan­
ger.  One  of  the  indications  of  the  pos­
sible  danger  in  store  for  us  may  be  had 
from  the  following 
the 
campaign  of  1884  Mr.  Cleveland's  plu­
rality  in  Connecticut  was 1284,  while the 
illiterate  vote 
in  that  State  was  9,501 ; 
in  a  word,  in  the  State  of  Connecticut 
the 
illiterate,  vote  was 
about  eight  times  larger  than  the  plu­
rality  of  the  successful  candidate.  Even 
in  educated  Massachusetts  Mr.  Blaine's 
plurality  was  24,372,  while  the  illiter­
ate  vote  was  30,951,  or  more 
than

ignorant, 

inferior. 

figures: 

the 

It 

In 

enough  to  have  changed 
the  result. 
Eighteen  of  the  states  which  cast  243 
out  of  369  Electoral votes  had  an  illiter­
ate  vote  larger than  the  plurality  of  the 
successful  candidate. 
It  is  easy  to  see 
what  this  means—it  means  that  a  Presi­
dential  election,  with  all 
it  involves, 
might  be  changed  by  the  illiterate  vote 
alone.  Here  is  an  overwhelming  argu­
ment  why  the  educated,  the  thoughtful, 
the  self-restrained  men  of  this  Nation, 
ought  to  interest  themselves  in  politics. 
We  have  about  21,300,000  voters,  and 
over  2,300,000  of  them  are  unable  to 
write.  Now,  a  democracy  depends  al­
together  upon  the  people  for  its  safety 
and  for  its  permanence.  Other  coun­
tries  may  be  interested  in  their  kings, 
queens  and  emperors,  but we are anxious 
about  the  people.  They  are  king,  and 
their  health  and  education  and  manners 
and  morals  are  to  decide  many  of  our 
most  important  questions  and  to  make 
this  democracy  either  a  success  or a 
failure.  Shall  we,  then,  let  the  people 
be  only  a  part  of  the  people?  Shall  only 
those  who  go 
into  politics  for  plunder 
and  those  whom  they  can  drive  be  the 
people?  That 
is  the  question;  and  it 
must  be  answered  in  the  negative  or  no 
lasting  republic  is  possible.

It  is  a  great  pity  that  we  are  coming 
more  and  more  to  look  upon  politics  as 
a  profession  or  a  saloon-keepers'  asso­
ciation.  While  some  of  us  go  in  for 
athletics  or  collecting  pictures  or  books 
or  for  society,  the  saloon-keeper  goes  in 
for  politics.  We  get  muscular  develop­
ment  or  fine  pictures  or  rare  books  or 
social  popularity,  while  very  often  he 
gets  the offices or controls  them  and  dic­
tates  the  way  the  rest  of  us  shall be gov­
erned.  That  is  the  way  it  is  in  most  of 
our cities.  Somebody  must do  the  work 
of  governing,  somebody  must  attend  to

the  preliminary  arrangements  for  elec­
tions,  and  so 
long  as  the  majority  will 
not  interest  themselves  a  small  minority 
make  a  profession  of  it,  make  a  living 
out  of 
it,  produce,  educate  and  exalt 
our  Tweeds  and  Crokers  and  attain  a 
tyrannical  importance  thereby.

The 

fundamental,  eternal  duty  of 
every  citizen  in  a  democracy  is  that  he 
shall  interest  himself  in  the  business  of 
the  government  and  do  his  share  of  the 
work  of  governing;  and  only  by  the  in­
terest  and  wisdom  of  all  the  sovereigns, 
not  by  a  part  only,  is  our  style  of  gov­
ernment  to  flourish.

According  to  the  census  figures  com­
piled  by  the  Insurance  Press,  more  than 
n,ooc,ooo  persons  are 
injured  every 
year  in  the  United  States. 
It  appears 
that  nearly  6  per cent,  of  all  the  deaths 
in  the  United  States  are  due  to  acci­
dental  injuries,  but  it  is  even  more  as­
tonishing  to  learn  that  the  probability 
that  a  person  will  meet  with  some  dis­
abling 
injury  within  a  year  is  about 
eleven  times  greater than  the  chance  of 
his  death  from  any  and  all  causes  dur­
ing  the  same  period.  The  death  rate 
due  to  accidents  and  injuries  is  highest 
among  persons  45  years  of  age and over. 
The  average  age  at  death from accidents 
is  about  33.5.  A  person  is  more  likely 
to  meet  death  by  accidental  injuries 
than  by  any  other  single  cause  except 
consumption,  pneumonia  or  heart  dis­
ease.  A  person  is  twice  as  liable  to  die 
from  accident  as  from  r Id  age.

Lift  up  the  poor  fellows that  are  down 
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ÎO

SYNDICATE  ADVERTISING.

W hy  I t  Is  Seldom  A dapted  to  Country 

Written for the Tradesman.

M erchants.

The  question  of  whether' it  pays  the 
small  merchant 
in  the  country  town  to 
use  syndicate  advertisements  has  puz­
zled  many  a  man  who  wanted  to  adver­
tise  but  did  not  know  how  to  go  at  it. 
The  merchant  knows,  or  at  least  ought 
to  know,  that 
it  pays  to  advertise,  be­
cause  all  of  the  most  successful  bouses 
in  the  country  expend  hundreds  and 
thousands  of  dollars  every  year  in  tell­
ing  the  people  the  story  of  their  busi­
ness  through  the  medium  of  printers’ 
If  advertising  was  not  a  profit­
ink. 
able 
investment  these  great  concerns 
would  not  pay high  salaries to advertise­
ment  constructors  to  handle  that  branch 
of  their  business  for  them.  They would 
not  pay  the  price  of  newspaper  public­
ity  if  the  results  were  not  satisfactory. 
The  country  merchant  realizes  all  this 
and  he  wants  to  share  in  the  great  pros­
perity  around  him.

It  is  argued  by  the  advertising  expert 
that 
if  it  will  pay  the  city  merchant  to 
employ  an  expert  advertisement  writer 
to  construct  advertising  matter  it  will 
also  be  a  profiatble  investment  for  the 
business man in the  small  town  to  do  so. 
The  expert  sends  out  circulars  to  the 
country  merchant,setting  forth  the  great 
advantage  of  having  advertisements 
constructed  by  him.  He  claims  to  know 
all  about  the  merchant’s  needs.  For 
the  small  sum  of  50c,  75c  or  $1  a  week 
he  will  supply  the  necessary  copy.  His 
arguments  seem  plausible  and  the  mer­
chant  turns  his  advertising  over  to 
him.

Probably  the  merchant  never  stops  to 
think  that  the  city  stores  do  not  employ 
men  who  are  hundreds  of  miles  distant 
from  the  scene  of  action.  The  city  ad­
vertisement  writer  is  on  the  spot.  He 
has  an  opportunity  to  watch  the  busi­
ness  from  day  to  day.  He  notes  the 
movements  of  competitors  and  studies 
the  people  of  that  particular  locality. 
He 
learns  what  kinds  of  merchandise 
move  fast  and  what  kinds  stay  on  the 
shelves.  Then,  if  he  is  a  good  advertis­
ing  man,  he  governs  his  moves  accord­
ingly.

The  syndicate  writer,  on  the  other 
hand,grinds  out  the  same  service  to  all. 
The  advertisement  generally  starts  with 
a 
little  single  column  cut,  which  nine 
times  out  of  ten  has  no  connection  with 
the  reading-matter.  Then  follows  a  lit­
tle  talk  about  the  superior quality  of 
the  goods  handled,  a 
little  sermon  on 
how  polite  the  salesmen  are  and,  per­
haps,  a  paragraph  on  bow 
low  the 
prices  are.  The  advertisement 
is  a 
smooth  article,  so  far  as  the  use  of  the 
English 
is  concerned,  but 
when 
it  comes  to  selling  goods,  the 
fellow  who  describes  the  articles  and 
tells  the  prices  gets  the  trade.

language 

leather  shoes 

Supposing,  for  instance,  you  are  run­
ning  a  store 
in  a  town  near  a  large 
city.  The  big  department  stores  send 
out  advertising  matter  by  the wholesale. 
They  quote  prices  galore.  They  will 
tell  the  people  why  they  are  selling  pat­
ent 
in  the  bargain  base­
ment  for 98  cents  per  pair,  why  they  are 
able  to  give  22  pounds  of  granulated 
sugar  for  a  dollar  and  so  on  through  a 
long 
list  of  articles.  Of  course,  every 
price  quoted  will  not  be  a  cut  price,  but 
enough  of  such  will  be  included  to  in­
sure  drawing  a  crowd.  When  the  peo­
ple  read  those  prices  they  will  forget 
all  about  the 
little  picture  and  the 
bunch  of  rhetoric  in  the  syndicate  ad­
vertisement.  There  won't  be  a  woman

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

it 

in  town  who  will  run  into  a  neighbor's 
house  and  remark  to  the  lady  of  that 
house  that  you  are  advertising  to  sell 
none  but  the  best  goods  at  the  lowest 
living  prices.  Not much.  But  she  will 
ask  the  other  lady  if  she  has  read  the 
advertisement  of  the  big  city  store  that 
is  selling  goods  so  cheap.  She  will  plan 
to  go  to  town  and  grab  some  of  those 
tremendous  bargains  before 
is  too 
late,  and  while 
in  the  city  she  will 
make  all  her  fall  purchases.  That  is 
where  you  will  get  it  in  the  neck.  Then 
probably  you  will  go  out on the sidewalk 
and  kick  because  your  town  is  no  good.
The  merchant  in  the  small  town  who 
wants  to  land  his  share of trade must get 
a  move  on.  Advertising  that  his  goods 
are  the  best  and  his  prices  the  lowest 
will  cut  mighty  little  ice  with  a  woman 
after  she  has  waded  through  a  page  of 
city  advertising.  Women want bargains. 
If  they  don’t  buy  them  they  like to  read 
about  them  and look  at  them.  They  like 
to  trade  where  the  crowd  goes.  There 
seems  to  be  some  sort  of  fascination 
about  a  bargain  sale  that  draws  women 
as  syrup  dues  flies  and,  once  they  be­
come  accustomed  to  this  sort  of  thing, 
they  will  have  nothing  else.  They  do 
not  care  a  rap  about  advertising  gen­
eralities.  And  so  the  little  syndicate 
advertisement  proves  about  as  valuable 
as  a  canoe  in  a  big  naval  fight.

I  would  not  say  that  the  syndicate  ad­
vertisement  is  without  value  to  the mer­
chant.  It  is  a  source  of  much  joy  to  the 
printer  who  dislikes  to  have  to  keep 
prodding  the  storekeeper about  change 
of  copy,  and 
it  makes  the  merchant 
happy  because  he  does  not  have  to 
bother  his  head  about 
inventing  some­
thing  new  with  which  to  fill  his  space. 
And 
little  of  the  mer­
chant’s  hard  earned  coin  into  circula­
tion,  thereby  helping  out  the  whole 
country.

it  also  puts  a 

seem  that  the 
However,  it  would 
money  paid  for  the 
iittle  cut  and  the 
copy might  be  better spent with the local 
paper.  The  average  rate  of  display 
advertising 
in  country  papers  is  from 
five  or  ten  cents  an  inch.  The  price  of 
the  syndicate  matter  would  purchase 
from  a  half  to  a  full  column  of  space 
each  week.  Add  this  to  the  regular 
space  and  the  result  will  be  surprising.
I  believe  that  as  a  general  thing  mer­
chants  try  to  get  too  much  matter  into a 
limited  space.  Big  space  pays. 
is 
foolish  to  try  to advertise  special  reduc­
tion  sales 
in  a  space  five  inches  long 
and  one  column  wide,  and  yet  I  know 
merchants  who  do  this  and  wonder  why 
their  sales  do  not  draw  as  big  crowds  as 
the  sales  of  their  competitors  who  use  a 
whole  page  and  quote  prices  galore. 
judge  a  store  by  the  way  it 
People 
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If  you  are  afraid  to  toot 
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is  always  well  to  do  it  with 
all  your  might.  That  is  the  way  to  do 
when  advertising. 
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that  leads  to  success.

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MERCHANTS’  DAT.

How  I t Is  Regarded  by  a  le a d in g   Mus­

kegon  Divine.

J.  A.  DeGraff,  pastor  of  the  Lake- 
wood  Heights  M.  E.  church,  recently 
sent  the  Muskegon  Chronicle  the  fol­
lowing 
letter,  commendatory  of  the 
mercantile  picnic  recently  held  in  that 
city :

The  parsonage  family  attended  the 
merchants'  picnic  and  we  wish  to  ex­
press  our  appreciation  of  this  gala  day 
given  by  the  business  men  of  Muske­
gon.  We  rejoiced 
in  the  fact  that  our 
merchants  were  going  to  have  a  holiday 
from  the  daily  routine  of  their  business 
If  any  class  of  men  deserve  such 
life. 
a  day 
it  is  they.  The  public  requires 
so  much  waiting  on  and  receives  so 
many  favors  from  these  men  that 1 think 
we  fail  to  appreciate  the  cares  under 
which  they  labor.
Then  the  arrangements  for  the  day. 
We  feared  something  of  the  nature  of 
the  street  “ carnival,"  but  we  under­
estimated  the  character  of  our  business 
men,  for  it  was  as  pleasing,  instructive 
and  clean  an  entertainment  as  we  ever 
saw  given  under  like  circumstances. 
The  bawl  of  the 
lemonade  and  shads 
fellow  was  not  beard.  Gambling  de­
vices  and  games  of  chance  were  not 
in 
evidence.  The  saloons  were  not  near 
enough  for  convenient  patronage  and 
although  the  crowd  was 
immense  no 
more  drunkenness  was  seen  than  might 
have  been  seen any  day  upon  our  streets 
or the  streets  of  any  other  city  and  we 
but  express  our  feelings  when  we  heart­
ily  say  that  we  appreciate  such  a  holi­
day  for  young  and  old  as  that  planned 
and  carried  out  by  our  business  men 
last  Thursday.

We  were  disappointed  in  not  meeting 
any  of  our  ministerial  brethren  there. 
And,  by  the  way,  brethren,  suffer  a 
word  of  exhortation 
least 
among  you.  We  receive  many  personal 
favors  from  our  business  men  through­
out  the  year,  and  most  of  them  are  al­
ways  ready  to  contribute  to  our  church

from  the 

and  Sunday  school  festivities,  as  well 
as  responding  uncomplainingly  to  our 
many calls upon their stores  for  sociables 
and  entertainments.  A 
large  majority 
of  them  are  either  members  of  our 
churches  or  regular attendants  and  con­
tributors.  We  expect  them  to  be  inter­
ested  in  our doings.  Should  not  we  be 
interested  in  theirs?  We  are  here  to  ob­
ject  to  and  decry  the  entertainments  of 
low  moral  character,  with  their  de­
bauchery 
Sabbath  desecration. 
Should  we  not  by  our  presence  and 
hearty  co-operation  encourage  an  hon­
est  attempt  on  the  part  of  our  business 
men  to  give  our city  a  good clean happy 
holiday?

and 

This  letter  seems  to  bear  out  to  a 
large  degree  the  recent  contention  in 
the  Tradesman  that  the  merchants'  pic­
nic  serves  to  increase  public  respect  for 
the  merchants  in  a  community  in which 
It  also  serves  to  emphasize 
it  occurs. 
the 
those  who  have 
charge  of  these  events,  of  keeping  them 
on  a  good  moral  plane  and  free  from 
those  things  that  savor  of  unlawful 
carousal.

importance, 

to 

Merchants'  picnic  day  ought  to  be 
made  a  day  for  the  women  as  well  as 
for  the  men,  for  the  children  as  well  as 
for  the  parents.  There  should  be  all  the 
free  public  amusement  possible,  but  let 
it  be  clean  and  wholesome,  the  kind 
that  the  pastor  can 
freely  commend 
from  his  pulpit,  and  in  which  not  only 
the  merchant  but  also  his  wife  and 
babies  can  mingle. 
The  Muskegon 
merchants  are  certainly  entitled  to  some 
congratulation  that  their  efforts  to  pro­
vide  such  a  day  have  achieved  suffi­
cient  success  to  bring  out  this  voluntary 
word  of  commendation  from  a  profes­
sional  man  outside  their  own  calling. 
It  has  already  been  said  that  the  mer­
cantile  picnic  should  not  merely  be  a 
holiday  for  the  merchants,  but  that  they

should  endeavor  to  interest  the  manu­
facturers and others in the  day  and try  to 
make  it  a  community  affair.  This  end 
can  be  much  more  quickly  and  easily 
achieved 
is  such  a  one  as 
will  appeal  to  the  lawful  and  good  citi­
zen.

if  the  day 

There  is  no  doubt  that the  merchants' 
picnic  works  good  to  the  community. 
The  people  feel  that  this  is  distinctive­
ly  their  holiday,  one  not  enjoyed  by  the 
population  of  less  favored  towns.  The 
result 
is  an  increase  in  civic  pride  and 
patriotism.  As  the  people  of  the  Swiss 
towns  meet  together  and  settle affairs  of 
self-government,  so  the  people  of  the 
together  and  exchange 
city  mingle 
views, 
and  kindnesses. 
Naturally  enough,  their  thoughts  and 
their  conversation  turn  largely  to  their 
own  city  and  their  holiday  leads  to  an 
increase  in  the  community  spirit,  which 
forms  the  basis  of  all  town  improve­
ment.

preferences 

We  have  been  taught  that  pride  is  a 
wicked  thing;  but 
it  also  has  its  uses. 
It  is  the  foundation  of  ambition ;  and  it 
is  ambition  that  moves  the  world  and 
makes  history.  One  must  arouse  civic 
pride  before  he  can  accomplish  much 
in  the  way  of  civic  change.  The  mer­
chants'  picnic  calls  public  attention  to 
local  advantages  and  arouses 
the 
public  breast  a  neighborly  good  fellow­
ship.

in 

is 

There 

likewise  no  doubt  that  the 
mercantile  picnic  works  much  good  to 
the  merchant  himself.  The  fierce  strife 
of  competition,  although 
it  should  net 
where  all  act  fairly,  may  have  aroused 
some  rancor  among  ourselves  that  the 
merchants' 
picnic  will  wipe  away. 
There  is  a  vast  difference  between  com­
petition  and  war.  Business  life  should

be  like  a  race,  where  all  strain  for  the 
goal  without  attempting  to  restrain  the 
others  and  the  best  horse  wins.  We  can 
have  competition  without  jealousy.

If  there  have  any  differences  arisen 
the  merchants’  picnic  day 
is  apt  to 
lessen  the  sharpness. 
If  this  holiday 
serves  to  broaden  and  better  us,  to make 
us  more  charitable  and  more  public- 
spirited,  then  it  is  certainly  not  without 
its  uses  more  important  than  supplying 
the  people  with  a  fleeting  interval  of 
pleasure. 

Charles  Frederick.
Recent  Business  Changes  in  Indiana.
Decatur—Yager  &  Hite,  grocers,  have 
dissolved  partnership.  The  business  is 
continued  by  S.  E.  Hite.

Denver—The  Hooier  Basket  Co.  has 

gone  into  liquidation.

Dugger—J.  H.  Moore  has  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  S.  M. 
Rector.

Evansville—Mary  R.  Zeidler  has  sold 

her  grocery  stock  to  J.  H.  Wade.

Georgetown-----Lawrence  Tresenriter
has  purchased  the  interest  of  bis  part­
ner  in  the 
implement,  feed  and  seed 
business  of  Tucker  &  Tresenriter.

Indianapolis—The  Indianapolis  Chair 
Manufacturing  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the 
Indianapolis  Chair  &  Furniture  Co.

LaPorte—Levin  &  Levin,  clothiers, 
have  dissolved  partnership  and  retired 
from  trade.

Marion—The  Fowler  Confection  Co. 

has  discontinued  business.

Richmond—Shohen  Bros.,  fruit  deal­

ers,  have  retired  from  trade.

Roanoke—Kress  &  Settlemyre,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Henry  Kress  succeeding.

Swanington— Jas.  Hanawalt  has closed 

out  his  grocery  stock.

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

Hardware

How  Im proved  Im plem ents  Have  Less­

ened  Tedious  Labor.

Those  who  remember  the  day  when 
the  spade,  the  rake  and  the  hoe  com­
prised  the  entire  outfit  of  tools  required 
for  the  garden  will  appreciate  the  great 
saving  of  labor  accomplished  by  the  use 
of  the  improved  implements of  the  pres­
ent  day,  and  the  wonderful  changes  that 
have  been  made  within  a  quarter  of  a 
century.  The  tiresome,  back-breaking 
details  of  planting  and  cultivating  gar­
den  crops  deterred  farmers  from  grow­
ing  the  luxuries  they  now  enjoy,  while 
small  fruits  were  almost  unknown  in 
some  sections. 
The  spading  of  the 
ground,  raking,  marking  of  the  rows, 
dropping  the  seed,  covering  with  the 
hand  and  stooping  over  to  remove  the 
weeds or  surplus  plants  were  slow  work, 
and  consequently  gardens were but small 
plots  upon  which  the  weeds  flourished 
before  the  farmer  could  reap  what  he 
planted. 
It  was  a  conflict  of  labor  with 
nature,  and  labor  would  be  vanquished.
At  the  present  day  the  farmer  can 
devote  ten  acres  to  special  garden  crops 
where  before  he  could  not  cultivate  one 
acre. 
Improved  implements  enable  him 
to  mark  the  rows,  open  the  furrows  and 
cover  the  seed,  at  one  operation,  and, 
with  the  ability  to  use  larger  areas,  the 
plow  olten  does  the  work  of  the  spade. 
Cultivation 
is  easily  done  with  the 
wheel  hoe,  to  destroy  the  weeds,  or 
with  the  horse  hoe,  to  loosen  the  soil. 
Many  crops  are  harvested  by  appropri­
ate 
implements,  and  the  details  are  in 
many  ways  rendered  easy.  Fruits  which 
grew  wild  have  been  transferred  to  the 
farm,and  it  is  safe  to  assert  that  but  for 
the 
implements  used  in  the  garden,  or

for  hand  work  on  the  farm,  many  of  our 
choicest  varieties  of  fruits  and  vege­
tables  would  be  unknown.

“ unknown 

quantities.”  

The  wheelbarrow  is  an  old  acquaint­
ance,  and  still  bolds  a  high  place  in  the 
affections  of  farmers. 
It  has  been  used 
for  a  great  many  purposes,  and  many  of 
the  farmers  who  began  business  on  the 
farm  with 
limited  means  owe  much  of 
their  success  to  the  wheelbarrow,  which 
served  as  wagon  and  cart,  and  could  be 
made  to  do  service  where  “ good  roads”  
were 
The 
wheelbarrow  of  old  had  plenty  of  oak 
and  hickory 
its  make-up,  and  was j 
constructed  to  last  through  several  gen­
erations,  but  it  demanded  live  power  in 
its  propulsion.  The  light  wheelbarrow,  j 
with 
its  metal  wheels  and  steel  spokes,  j 
weighing  so  little  that  it  can  be  pushed 
by  a  child,  has  superseded  the  old 
affair,  and  with  the  improvements  that  I 
have  been  made 
its  favor  it  is  a  | 
greater  favorite  to-day  than  ever,  as  a 
farm  without  one  or  more  wheelbarrows ' 
would  be  a  curiosity.

in 

in 

It  is  now  difficult  to  draw  the  line  be­
tween  garden  and  field  implements. 
In 
fact,  gardens  are  becoming  fields,  the 
rows  being  made  as  long  as  possible, 
so  as  to  use  the  horse  in  cultivation  and 
to  avoid  frequent  turning  at  the  ends. 
Nearly  all  the  implements  intended  for 
hand  use  have  also  been  elarged  for 
horse-power,  if  necessary,  but  there  will 
always  be  hand  work  on  garden  plots, 
less  exhausting j 
because  such  labor  is 
than  before.  Onions  are  now  weeded 
quickly,  and  at  a  cost  of  but  a  trifle 
compared  with  the  old  way,  while  root 
crops,  which  the  farmer  could  not  pos­
sibly  grow  except  in  patches,  are now  in 
the  regular  farm  rotation  and  are  grown  ! 
in  fields.  What  the  aid  of  hand 
imple-j 
ments  has  accomplished  can  not  be esti-

i  mated  by  the  actual  work  exhibited  on 
increase  of  crops,  by 
the  farm,  as  the 
opening 
larger  areas,  will  amount  to 
millions  of  dollars  in  value.

We  may  also  refer  to  the  spraying 
appliances,  and  even  the  pump  with  its 
handle,  may  also  be  classed  among  the 
hand  implements,yet  the  sprayer  is  also 
[ used  on  wheels,  and  carries  destruction 
to  the  enemies  of  the  farmer. 
The 
growing  of  fruit  would  now  be  almost 
an  impossibility  if  the  insects  were  not 
fought  and  kept  down.  The  spraying 
appliances  have  been  brought  to  the 
highest  degree  of perfection,and are  im­
portant  adjuncts  to  all  well-regulated 
farms. 
formerly 
worked  by  hand  entirely  have  taken  a 
wide  range.  We  now  have  force  pumps 
that  serve  as  safeguards  against  fire, 
and  which  have  so  improved  as  to  not 
only  perform  all  the  requirements,  but 
are  durable  and  proof against  frost. 
It 
is  but  a  step  from  the  hand-power  to 
I the  windmill  and  the  hydraulic  ram. 
Just  where  to  draw  the  line  between  the 
hand 
implements  and  those  that  work 
by  application  of  horse,  wind,  steam  or 
electrical  power  is  difficult.

that  were 

Pumps 

Even  the  primitive  tools,  which  ap­
parently  hold  their  own  and  remain,  are 
of  different  design.  No  one  would  rec­
ognize  the  old-fashioned  hoes  or  rakes.
| They  are  now  light  and  sharp,  and  con­
structed  to  allow  of a  selection  accord­
ing  to  the  service  to  be  performed. 
Seeders  are  of  all  kinds,  from  the  or­
dinary  dropper  to  the  long  transverse 
appliance  on  the  wheelbarrow,  which 
broadcasts  seeds  evenly  and  in  propor­
tion  to  quantity  desired  on  a given area. 
Even  the  hand  drills  combine  all  con­
trivances  of  the  larger  designs,  regulat­
ing  the  distance  and  literally  counting 
the  seeds.  The  diminutive  little  culti­

vators  are  weed  killers  to a  certainty, 
and  some  of  them  can,  by  tbe  change 
of  a  few  nuts  and  bolts, be  converted 
into  small  spring-tooth  harrows  or  band 
plows.

The  human  band  still  pet forms  a 
in  all  operations,  and 
prominent  part 
the  implement  has  not  yet  been  con­
structed  that  has  brains.  Wherever 
hand  work  must  be  done  the  easiest 
method  for  so  doing  will  be  given  the 
preference.  The  hand  itself  is  useless 
without  tools  fitted  for  the  service  to  be 
performed,  and  until  machinery  sup­
in  every  department  there 
plants  man 
must  be  hand 
implements  made  and 
they  will  be  employed.  The  difficulty 
is  not  that  they  are  prominently  used, 
but  are  overlooked.  Hundreds  of 
farmers  would  lessen  their  work  if  they 
would  employ  some  of  the  smaller  im­
plements,  and  especially 
in  tbe  early 
portion  of  tbe  season,  when  tbe  weeds 
are 
just  coming  out  of  the  ground,  as 
they  can  do  service  where  the  horse  can 
not  be  allowed,  and  at  a  season  when 
the  work  must  be  done  thoroughly. 
Hand 
implements  do  not  conflict  with 
those  worked  by  the  aid  of  horses,  but 
rather  assist  in  the  routine  details,  and 
thus  make  field  labor  more  thorough and 
effective.  The  coming  spring  will,  no 
doubt,  witness  a  large 
in  the 
manufacture  of  these useful implements, 
as  many  of  the  dealers  who  have  dis­
posed  of  them  find  that  the  farmers  are 
well  pleased  with  them,  especially  as  a 
large  number  of  farmers  are  now  grow­
ing  all  kinds  of  vegetables  and  small 
fruits,  while the residents  of  the  suburbs 
of  cities  and  towns  consider  them  in­
dispensable  for  all  kinds  of  garden  cul­
tivation.

increase 

In  the  hand 

implements,  especially 
forks,  hoes,  spades,  etc..

in  rakes, 

t .   R em en fs   Sons

lansino  Michigan.

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  Farm ing,  Logging,  Mining

Sleds for the  Roads and  Mountains

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leading  posi­
America  has  long  held  a 
tion,  and  American  tools  are  to-day  ex­
ported  to  all  countries  where  the  soil 
is 
tilled.

Tool  That  Is  Alm ost  H um an.

lathe,  the 

The  most  highly  developed  of  ma­
chine  tools  is  the  automatic  screw  ma­
chine,  and, 
like  many  other  contriv­
ances  for  saving  labor,  its  home  is  New 
England.  It  is  a  development  of  the  or­
dinary  steel-working 
inter­
mediate  step  being  the  monitor  lathe, 
in  which  the  various  cutting  tools  pro­
trude  from  the side  of  a  steel  turret  like 
13-inch  guns  from  a  battleship  turret. 
In  the  non-automatic  screw  machine  the 
turret  is  revolved  by  the  operator  so  as 
to  bring  each  tool  into  play,  just  as  the 
turret  on  the  old  monitor  was  revolved 
to  bring  one  gun  after  another  into  ac­
tion.  But  in  the  automatic  machine  the 
work  is  done  without human  guidance.
In  making  screws,  nuts,  bolts,  studs 
and  other  small  pieces  that  must  be 
turned,  drilled  or  threaded  for  watches, 
clocks,  typewriters,  electrical 
instru­
ments  and  other  mechanisms,  all  the 
operator  has  to  do  is  to  feed  the  stock— 
a  thin  rod  of  steel  or  brass—to  the  ma­
chine.  The  feeding  mechanism  carries 
the  rod  slowly  forward  into  the  field  of 
action.  The  turret  advances  and  puts 
its  first  tool  at  work  on  the  end  of  the 
rod.  When  this  tool  has  done  its  task, 
the  turret  withdraws  it,  turns  and  ad­
vances  a  second  tool  into  action.  Each 
cutting  tool  around  the  turret  has  its 
distinct  work  .to  perform—one  cutting 
a  thread,  another  shaping  a  head,  an­
other  putting  on  a  point,  another  drill­
ing  a  bole,  still  another  putting  on 
knurling. 
turret  automatically 
brings  each  of  perhaps  six tools  into  ac­
tion,  and  when  the  work  is  finished  the 
completed  screw  drops  into  a  pan,while 
the  stock  is  automatically  fed  forward 
to  begin  the  complex  operation  again. 
A  stream  of  machine  oil  pours  continu­
ously  on  the  work  to  carry  away  the 
heat, and  the little metal  cuttings  collect 
in  a  heap  under  the  machine.

The 

Hour  after  hour  this  wonderful autom­
its  cycle  of  opera­
aton  goes  through 
tions,  the  turret  clicking  every  moment 
as  it  brings  a  new  tool  forward.  Small 
brass  pieces,on  which  but  one  tool  cuts, 
are dropped  at  the  rate  of  four  a  second. 
Large  screws  of  complicated  design, 
upon  which  a  whole  turretful  of  tools 
mu3t  work,  are  cut  from  a  steel  rod  at 
the  rate  of  one  ^or  two  a  minute.  So 
perfectly  are  these  screw  machines  con­
structed  that  an  unskilled  workman  can 
operate  a  row  of  them.  All  be  is  re­
quired  to  do  is  to  keep  them  fed  with 
stock. 
In  some  shops  girls  tend  the 
machines.

The  Best  A gricultural  Im plem ents.
Do  not  make  the  mistake,  as some do, 
of  becoming  wedded  to  a  tool  to  such 
an  extent  that  you  can  not  see  the  good 
in  any  either,  no  matter  how 
points 
meritorious 
it  may  be,  or  can  not  ap­
preciate  a  better  thing  when  you  see  it. 
This 
is  an  age  of  constant  improve­
ment,  so try  some  of  the  new  things  you 
see  and  hold  onto  that  which  is  best. 
Do  not  start 
in  to  work  with  a  poor­
working  plow.  The  best  plows  for gen­
eral  use  are  those  with  rather  short 
mold  board  that  will  break  the  soil  up 
and  pulverize 
it  to  a  considerable  ex­
tent  as  the  ground  is  turned,  and  that 
leave  the  soil  turned 
in  not  too  flat  a 
condition.  The  harrow  can  then  do  its 
work  of  pulverizing  much  better  than  if 
the  ground  is  turned  completely  upside 
down.  We  need,  then,  a  good,  sharp 
smoothing  harrow  and  drag  to  put  most

soils  in  first-class  condition  for  spring 
planting.  Oats  should  be  sowed  early 
and  it  does  not  ordinarily  pay  to  wait 
to  break  up  the  land.  Here  we  need  a 
good  disk  harrow.  Two  diskings,  one 
at  right  angles  to  the  other,  will  put  the 
oats  sown  broadcast  in  the  ground  in 
good  shape.  Many  farmers  think  that 
when  oat ground  is  broken with the turn­
ing  plow,  it 
is  easier  to  turn  the  oat 
stubble  for  wheat,  but  this  is  doubtful, 
if  the  land  is  thoroughly  disked.  After 
the  early  spring  rains  the  soil  usually 
gets  packed  down hard,consequently  the 
first  cultivation  of  the  corn  crop  should 
be  deep  to pulverize the  soil  again.  For 
this  purpose  we need  a  good  bull-tongue 
cultivator  of  some  sort.  Afterward  a 
one-horse  cultivator  that  can  be  spread 
out  to  cover  the  whole  space  between 
two  rows  at  one  time  can  be  used.  On 
clay  lands  weeders  do  not  pulverize  the 
ground  deep  enough  to  suit  some.  They 
will  do 
in  dry  weather  or  after  the 
ground  has  been  stirred  with  a  deeper 
running  tool.

Potato  M achinery.

longer  grown 

The  potato  is  no 

in 
America  without  the aid  of  labor-saving 
appliances.  Potatoes  for  seed  are  cut, 
dropped  in  the  rows, covered,  cultivated 
and  harvested  with  machines  adapted 
for  each  purpose.  The  American  farm­
er  can  grow  potatoes  cheaper  than  it 
can  be  done  elsewhere,  because  he  re­
duces  the  cost  of  growing  the  crop. 
These 
light,  handy  and  durable  ma­
chines  are  now  finding  favor  in  other 
countries,  and  American  manufacturers 
are  exporting  them  in  large  numbers.

The  editor's  wife  sets  things  to  rights 
and  he  writes  things  to  set.  She  reads 
what  others  write  and  he  writes  what 
others  read.  She  knows  more  than  he 
writes  and  he  writes  more  than  she 
knows.

Oyster  Cabinets

styles  a n d  
sizes  always 
c a r r i e d   in 
stock.  Send 
for our  illus­
trated  cata­
logue 
an d  
price list.  It 
will  interest 
you and  be a 
profitable in­
vestment.
CHOCOLATE  COOLER  COMPANY 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Before you set up that  stove 
in  the  house  of  the  pur­
chaser, obtain  a  special  re­
port on the paying  capacity 
of  your  customer  from  the

C O M M E R C IA L

C R E D IT

CO.

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It  is  possible  that  detailed
information of this character
will satisfy  you  that  a  new
stove in your store is  prefer- 
able to a second-hand  stove
in the  possession  of  a  man 
who does not pay.

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Buckeye  P aint  &  V arnish  Co.

Paint,  Color  and  Varnish  Makers

Mixed  Paint,  White  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers 

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

Corner  15th  and  Lucas Streets. Toledo.  Ohio. 

CLARK-RUTKA-WEAVER CO.,  Wholesale Agents for Western  Michigan

Tents,  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

“Sure Catch”  Minnow Trap

Length,  19% inches.  Diam eter,  9% inches.

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

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

113-115  MONROE  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MILES  H ARD W ARE  CO.

Fire Arms

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

Foster,  Stevens  &   Co.

Grand Ikapids, Mich.

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14

Clothing

News  and  Gossip  From   the  H ub  of  the 

Universe.

It 

Readers  of  this  publication  who  live 
in 
lands  where  it  is  not  raining  all  the 
time  may  not  believe  it,  but  the  most 
interesting  thing  in  the  way  of  modish 
news  at  the  present  writing  is the water­
proof  garment.  We  have  had 
in  and 
about  Gotham  of 
late  such  a  super­
abundance  of  vigorous  drizzle  that  the 
chap  who  invented  the  modern  raincoat 
receives  our  blessings. 
is  the  one 
distinctive  and  all-round  beneficial  in­
novation  that  has  been  made  in  the 
realms  of  dress  for  men  in  very  many 
moons.  Quite  as  useful  as  the  ulster, 
in  its  place,  the  waterproof  has  made  a 
place  for  itself  that  can  scarcely  be 
measured.  As  I  said  above,  it 
is  to­
day  the  most frequently encountered and 
most  often  discussed  article 
in  the 
world  of  masculine  attire.  The  old- 
fashioned  rubber  coat  was  an  abomina­
tion,  and  its  successor,  the  mackintosh, 
not  much  better.  These  have  been  ut­
terly  routed  and  displaced  by  the  up- 
to-date  rain  cloth;  made 
in  various 
weights  for  all  seasons  of  the  year,  it 
is,  indeed,  a most  excellent  protector.

I  wish  I  could  feel  so  enthusiastic 
about  the  buttoned  jacket,  with  the silk­
faced shawl  collar,  which  I  note  in  some 
quarters 
is  called  the  logical  successor 
to  the  dinner  coat  (a  misnomer,  by  the 
way)  or  Tuxedo.  When  the  experts  of 
the  sartorial 
industry  know  not  what 
else  to  do  they  plunge  into  the  waters  of 
novelty  and  bring  forth  from  the  myste­
rious depths a change  in  our evening and 
semi-evening  clothes. 
is 
that  men  whose  business  is  the  buying 
and  selling  of  garments  are  constantly 
in  doubt  as  to 
just  where  they  are  at 
and  what  to  say  to  their  particular  cus­
tomers on  the  subject  of  style.

The  effect 

it 

For  instance,  what  place  in  the  sum 
of  formal  or  semi-formal dressing should 
a  buttoned  jacket  or sack  coat  (no  mat­
ter  whether 
is  faced  with  silk  or 
satin)  occupy?  The  very  truest  answer 
which  can  be  made  is  to  the  effect  that 
the  garment 
is  a  novelty  waiting  for 
the  right  “ party”   to  exploit  it.  Some­
body  asks  me  what  tie  and  what  collar 
should  be  worn  with  this  closed-front 
proposition.  I  should  say  the  same  that 
are  worn  with  the  regulation  dinner 
jacket.  And  somebody  else  wants  to 
know  whether  it  will  be  good form to at­
tend  the  opera  in  this  new  conceit?  To 
which  I  should  say  it  all depends  on  the 
doorkeeper  and  the  occasion. 
It  cer­
tainly  is  not  in  any  sense  formal  dress, 
and  where  evening  clothes  are  the  code 
the  style  in  question  will  not  go.  Still 
there 
is  a  place  for  everything  in  this 
world,  even  for  the  Tuxedo  a  (name 
like),  al­
which  everybody  does  not 
though  I  see  a 
in  the  world  of 
‘ ‘ literature”   says  that  it  has  no 
style 
place 
in  the  gentleman’s  wardrobe. 
Well,  it  certainly  has  If  he  consults  his 
own  convenience  and  wears  the garment 
on  the  proper  occasions.

light 

season  with 

There  are  not  lacking  signs  that  the 
almost  universal  roundabout  sack, 
in 
the  single-breasted  form,  is  to  share  the 
fall  business-wear 
its 
double-breasted  brother. 
I  should  say 
that  the  percentage  of  men  one  sees  go­
ing  about  with  black  coats  having  two 
rows  of  buttons  and  closing  with  three 
was  quite  enough  to  vary  the  monotony 
of  the  everlasting  hobby,  single-breast- 
ers.  Black 
favorite  color  (thank 
you,  I  know  that  black  is  not  a  color!) 
and,  taken 
the 
in  combination  with 
in  a  modest  scheme  of  hue
fancy  vest 

is  a 

and  configuration,  with  a  black  or gray­
ish  cast  of  trousers  and  one  of  the  new, 
big,  round-brim  hats,  either  light  or 
dark,  the  effect  is  not  half  bad.

Lining  clothes  throughout  in  black 
silk  or  satin  is  getting  more  and  more 
to  be  the  thing.  Why  should  one’s 
trousers  be lined  about  the  waist  and  its 
vicinity  with  white  anything? 
It  is  net 
half  so  rich looking  as black material, let 
it  be  silk  or  something  else  within  the 
measure  of  one’s  purse.

Probably  the  most  decided  change 

in 
this  season's  dress  accessories  over  last 
fall’s  is  in  the  neckwear one  sees  when­
ever  the  weather  is  clear enough  to  per­
mit  us  to  see  anything.  There  is an evi­
dent  reaction  against  the  high  stand-up 
turn-down  collars  in  favor  of  those  with 
turned  points—all  sorts  of  points,  at 
that.  Still  the  rather  decided  kind  that 
start  pretty 
far  back  and  allow  a  man 
to  move  his  bead  from  side  to side with­
out  jaw-jabs  are  the  most  frequently  en­
countered.  They  are  not  uncomfortable 
and,  to  all  but  thin-necked  men,  quite 
becoming. 
they  have 
ushered 
in  richer  patterns  and  broader 
widths 
in  scarfs.  Broad  Ascots  tied 
into  puffs  are  all  right  this  fall,  and  so 
we  have  a  chance  to  properly  wear out 
impressive  scarfpins  once 
our  most 
more.  There 
is  a  lot of  red  and  green 
in  the  season’s  colors,  with scores  of 
novelties  in  fancy-patterned  silk.  Still 
the  majority  of  the  men  I  meet  are  go­
ing  in  for deep, rich  colors,  and  I  do  not 
see  any  signs  of  black  and  white getting 
on  the  wrong  side  of  fashionable  favor 
at  this  time.  This  is  one  of  those ever­
lastingly  good  things  that popularity can 
not  kill  even  for  the  swells.

At  any  rate, 

What  next?  Well,  there  is  some  talk 
of cross  stripes  in  fancy  business  shirts 
getting  a  good  run.  What  some  custom 
shirtmakers  have  been  quietly  giving 
their  most  exclusive  patrons,other  shirt- 
makers  are  now  doing openly,  as though 
it  was  no  offense  to  openly  tempt  men 
to  take  up  a  caprice  that  has  but  one 
thing  to  recommend  it,  i.  e.,  it  is  not  a 
ready-made  style.  Fancy  shirts  were 
getting  to  he  downright  sightly  and 
serviceable,  I  thought,  and  here  comes 
a  chance  to  swing  back  to  the  sort  of 
cross  bars  (of  course  it  will  begin  with 
narrow  stripes)  that  made  the  negro 
minstrels  envious,  until  the  common- 
sense  of  the  “ better  dressed”   made  up- 
and-down  effects  the  go.  We  shall  know |

Is  something more
than a  label  and  a
name—it’s a  brand
of  popular  priced
clothing with  capi-
tal, a d v e r t is in g ,
brains, push,  repu-
tation  and  success
behind  it—a  brand
with unlimited pos-
sibilities and profits
in front of  it.
The  profits  can  be
jyours.

The wise wear 

V IN E B E R G ’S  PA TEN T 

PO CKET  PANTS, 

the only pants in  the  world  fitted 
with a safety  pocket;  nothing  can 
drop  out  and  are  proof  against 
pickpockets.  Manufactured by
Vineberg’s  Patent 
Pocket Pants Co.

Detroit,  Mich.

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Money

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The  Peerless 
Manufacturing 

Company

Manufacturers  of  Pants,  Shirts,  Corduroy  and 

Dealers in  Underwear,  Sweaters,  Hosiery,  Gloves, 

Mackinaw  Coats.

and  Mitts.

Sam ple  Room  28  South  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
31  and 3 3   Larned  Street  East,  Detroit,  Mich.

All Kinds 

of
Solid

PAPER  BOXES

All Kinds 

of

Folding

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

us for estimates and samples.

Then write

G R A N D   R A P ID S   P A P E R
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

BOX  CO.

Box  Makers 

Die Cutters

Printers

Our $5.50, $7.00 and $8.50 lines have  been  “class 
leaders” for years.  Progressive methods and success 
have enabled  us to add  Q UALITY to our whole line.
$375  t°  $15 00—Men’s  Suits  and  Overcoats—a 
range  which  includes  everything  in  popular  priced 
clothing.

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

values as the men’s.

Looks well—wears well—pleases  the  customer- 

pays the dealer—and you want  it.

“A  new suit for every unsatisfactory one. ”

Detroit  Office 

Room 19, 
Kanter 
Building.
M. J. Kogan 
in charge.

more  about  the  real  thing  for  the  fall  in 
men’s  dress  in  another fortnight;  mean­
while  the  rain  coat  receives  a  lot  of  our 
attention.—Vincent  Varley 
in  Apparel 
Gazette.

Vast  Variety  in  Um brella  Handles.
Possibly  no  line  of  trade  here  in  the 
United  States  demands  a greater  variety 
of  styles  or  more  frequent  changes  in 
materials  and  designs  than  those  in  the 
bandies  of  umbrellas.  Of  all  the  um­
brella  handles  used 
in  this  country  in 
the  manufacture  of  umbrellas  taken  to­
gether,  by  far  the  greater  number  is 
made here  in  New York,  and the  propor­
tion  of  American  handles  used  is  in­
creasing.  On 
the 
handles  imported  preponderate in value, 
although  the  relative  value  of  the Amer­
ican  bandies  produced 
like  their 
proportionate  number,  all  the  time  in­
creasing.

the  other  hand, 

is, 

in 

“ Umbrella  handles  are  made  of  a 
great  variety  of  materials,”   said  a 
manufacturer  to  a  reporter  not long  ago. 
“ Many  of  them  are  made  of  woods  in 
many  sorts,  both  cheap  and  costly;  of 
gold,  silver,  ivory,  rubber,  paper,  cellu­
loid,  bone,  horn,  porcelain,  and  of 
many  fíne  and  beautiful  mineral  sub­
stances,  such  as  agates.  Handies  are 
made  also  in  these  days  of  variously 
imitation  of 
named  compositions, 
precious 
stones. 
There  have  been  made  umbrella handles 
of  papier  mache  in  imitation  of  wood, 
and  remarkably  good imitations of buck- 
horn  handles  are  made  of  paper  pulp, 
pressed 
in  moulds,  such  handles  cost­
ing  much  less,  of  course,  than  those  of 
genuine  buckhorn.

semi-precious 

and 

“ Any  two  or  more  of  these  various 
materials  may  be  used  in  combination, 
such  a  handle  in  its  most  simple  form, 
for instance,  being  of  wood  with a silver 
mounting.  You  might  have  a handle  of 
onyx  and  gold;  and  so  on 
indefinitely. 
The  stock  of  bandies  to  be  seen  in  any 
large  manufacturing 
establishment 
would  be  found  almost  bewildering  in 
its  extent  and  variety,  and  it  would  be 
found  also  to  contain  a  great  many  ob­
jects  of  beauty.  The  fact  is  that  the 
sample  stock  of  handles  of  a  big  um­
brella  manufacturer makes  a  really  mar­
velous  display.

“ Who 

invents  all  the  new  styles  of 
handles  annually  produced?  Well,  there 
are  some  that,  as  you  might  say,  invent 
themselves,  that  are  suggested  by  some 
fad  or  fashion  of  the  hour  as  in  the  case 
of  the  bandies  in  the  form  of golf sticks. 
And  then,  of  course,  umbrella  manufac­
turers  are  constantly  designing  new 
handles  in  the  endeavor  to  produce good 
sellers,  as  one  handle  or  another  may 
distinctly  be.

“ Horn  umbrella  bandies  come  chiefly 
from  Austria;  fine,  fancy,  ornamented 
handles  come  from  France  or  Germany, 
the  finest  of  them  from  P aris;  although 
most  artistic  and elegantly designed um­
brella  handles  of  silver  are  now  pro­
duced  in  this  country.”

The  Meanest Man  on  E arth.

Bill  Nye  once  said  in  a  lecture:  “ A 
man  may  use  a  wart  on  the  back  of  his 
neck  for  a  collar  button,  ride  on  the 
back  coach  of  a  railroad  train  to  save 
interest  on  his  money  until  the  con­
ductor  comes  around,  stop  his  watch 
nights  to  save  the  wear  and  tear,  leave 
his  “ i ”   or “ t”   withouta  dot or cross  to 
save 
ink,  pasture  his  mother’s  grave  to 
save  corn,  but  a  man  of this  kind  is  a 
gentleman  and  a  scholar  compared  to  a 
fellow  who  will  take  a  newspaper  two 
or  thtee  years  and,  when  asked  to  pay 
for 
it 
marked  ’ refused.’”

it,  put  it  the  office  and  have 

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

15

HELLOA!

M.  J.  R O G A N

representing  Wile  Bros.  &   Weill, 
Buffalo, will  pay out of  town  custom­
ers’  expenses  who  meet  him  at  the

M O RTO N  H O U SE  

Grand  Rapids 

Wednesday and Thursday, 

October 22 and 23.

He will  have  on  hand  a  good  selec­
tion  of  Men’s  and  Boys’  Suits  and 
Overcoats for winter trade which  can 
be  delivered  in  a  few  days.  Come 
and see them.

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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

Ellsworth  &   Thayer Mfg. Co.

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.,  U.  S.  A.

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the

Lot 125 Apron Overall

$7.50  per doz

Lot  275  Overall  Coat

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

Lot 124 Apron Overall

$5.00 per doz.

Lot  274  Overall  Coat

$5.50 per doz.

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

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

Great Western Patent Double Thumbed Gloves and Mittens

U N I O N   M A D E

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

B. B.  DOWNABD,  General Salesman.

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cause  they  have  made  a  success  of  one 
line  of  shoes,  or  one  make  of  shoe,  in  a 
certain 
locality  that  they  are  able  to 
make  a  success  of  that  same  manufac­
turer’s  goods  or  shoe  in  another  local­
ity.

Stores  are  graded  according  to  the 
character  of  their  trade.  Shoes  should 
be  graded  according  to  the  character  of 
the  patrons  of  the  department. 
It  is  a 
laudable  ambition  for  a  shoeman  to  feel 
that  he  would  like  to  build  up  the  çbar- 
acter  of  the  shoes  handled  in  his  store 
or department,  but  it  is  very  foolish  for 
a  man  to  immediately  attempt  to  revo­
lutionize  everything 
in  his  new  berth 
and  break  down  all  the  standards  which 
have  attained  success  in  the  same  store 
in  the  past.

Let  the  new  man  be  guided.  Let 
him  be  directed  and  assisted.  Let  him 
take  for  granted  some  of  the  truths 
which  are  given  him  by  others—given 
him  by  those  disinterested  people  who 
are  simply  willing  to  advance  informa­
tion  when  he  asks  it.  Let  him  place  a 
little  confidence  in  his  help  on  the floor, 
and 
let  him  call  on  a  manufacturer  or 
two  before  he  buys  his  goods  for the 
next  season. 
If  this  were  done  many 
of  the  failures  which  are  chronicled 
would  be  marked 
successes.— 
Shoe  Retailer.

as 

Waste 

leads  to  want,  and  want  leads 
to  woe ;  before  you  start  consider  which 
way  to  go.

It,
Certainly
Will

Be  to  your  advantage  to 
for  samples  of  our 
send 
Over-gaiters, 
Jersey  and 
Canvas  Leggins.  Quali­
ties  are  A  
i  and  prices 
right.  Send for  Catalogue 
and  deal  at  headquarters.

CHICAGOShoe 

tore 
upply
CO M PAN Y

154 Fifth av., Chicago

Shoes and  Rubbers

Why  So  Many  Fail  in  the  Shoe  Business.
Why  do  the  boys  who  have  been given 
an  opportunity  in  the  shoe  business  not 
prove  their  worth,  in  nine  cases  out  of 
ten  fall  down,  and  eventually  drop  back 
into  the  original  rut  of  selling  shoes  on 
the 
floor?  Very  often  you  will  hear 
some  one  ask  about  a  certain  clerk,  en­
quiring  what  has  happened  to  him,  and 
why  he  has  not  been  able  to  hold  down 
the  position  which  was  secured  for  him 
by  disinterested  parties.  Usually  the 
rejoinder  is  that  he  was  found,  in  the 
language  of  the  trade,  to  be  a  “ light­
is,  a  man  who  was  all 
weight” —that 
surface,  with 
little  or  no  ability  to 
study  conditions  or  advance  new  and 
original 
ideas  which  would  eventually 
make  him  as  one  capable  of  leading  in­
stead  of  following.

These  experiences  have  been  felt  day- 
after day  by  men  who  have  worked hard 
and  conscientiously 
in  their  endeavors 
to  reach  the  top  of  the  ladder and secure 
that  which 
is  most  cherished  by  all 
shoemen—a  position  as  buyer  in  some 
good,  prominent  house.  Failures  such 
as  these  are  not  confined  only  to  shoe 
buyers,  but  very often  you  will And them 
among  men  who  have  branched  out  in 
business  for  themselves.

The  real  cause  of  half  the  failures 

in
the  world  to-day  is  the  belief  of  a  man 
in  bis  own  ability.  Fully  imbued  with 
ideas  of  his  own 
importance,  he  im­
agines  that  he  “ knows  it  a ll,"  and  that 
no  one  can  tell  him  anything  about  the 
trade  which  he  has  so  long  followed. 
Shoemen  do  not  seem  to  realize  the  fact 
that  hardly  two  stores  can  be  found  in 
which  the  same  conditions  exist.  A 
m an  buying  or  selling  a  shoe  in  one 
town 
if  he  leaves  that 
place  and  secures  a  job  as  buyer  in  an 
other  city,  perhaps 
1,000  miles  away, 
the  same  conditions  which  were  appar­
ent  to  the  trade 
in  his  former  home 
must  exist  in  the  new  locality.  This  is 
an  erroneous 
just  where 
most  men  fall  down.

imagines  that 

idea,  and 

is 

It 

A  man  may  be  commended  for  be­
lieving  that  he  knows  his  business  be­
cause  it  gives  him  courage.  Self  con­
sciousness  of  his  ability 
is  another 
thing. 
is  perhaps  a  polite  term  for 
a  “ big  head,"  and  when  a  man  is  self- 
conscious  he  is  sure  to  be  a  failure. 
The  really  clever  shoeman  who  makes  a 
success  in  his  new  position  is  the  one 
who,  after  starting 
in  his  new  berth, 
goes  very  slowly,  studies  the  town  and 
conditions  of  every  store  and  depart­
ment,  talks  with  the  clerks  who  have 
been  handling  the  trade  for  years,  and 
also 
interviews  good,  responsible  shoe 
manufacturers  and  traveling  men  who 
have  been  calling  on  the  trade  in  that 
territory  and  know  exactly their require­
ments.

These  are  two  channels  which  no  man 
Information  ob­
should  deny  himself. 
tained  from  these  sources  is  almost 
in 
fallible,  and  a  man  can  deduce  from 
what  he 
learns  from  the  expressions  of 
opinions  of  travelers  and  salesmen  ex­
actly  what  is  necessary  for  the  trade  in 
which  he  is  located.  That  is  the  funda­
mental  groundwork  of  success;  that  is 
the  first  barrier  between  the  new  buyer 
and  failure.

The  second  barrier 

is  when  a  man 
places  between  himself  and  his  friends 
that  friendship  reserve  which  prompts 
him  to  buy  only  that  which  is  right, 
and  which  he  feels  positive  will  assist 
in  building  up  the  trade  in  his  depart­
ment  or store.  Many  men  believe  be-

Hard Pan Shoes

When in need of a shoe for boy or man,

That  will  wear longest in all kinds of weather,
Ask  for  “ Herold-Bertsch’s  Famous  Hard Pan,"

The  greatest Shoe made out of leather.

W ear  Like  Iron

M en’s W ork Shoes

Snedicor  &  
H ath aw ay 
Line

No.  743. 

Kangaroo  Calf. 
Bal.  Bellow’s Tongue.  %,  D, 
S.  Standard Screw.  $175 . 

Carried in sizes 6 to  12.

Geo.  h .  Reeder & Co.

Grand Rapids

We  would be pleased  to have  every  shoe  merchant  in

the State carefully inspect and  compare our

( ( Custom Made Shoes*'

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

F IR ST  CLASS  WORKING  SHOE

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

W a ld ro n ,  A ld erto n   &   M elze,
Saginaw,  Michigan

Rush

Your  Orders

in  now  for  H ood  and  O l d  
Colony  R u b b e r s.  You 
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.
The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co. 

Battle  Creek, 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), 
four shoes cheaper than any other factory in the West.  Order our numbers:

225  Men s  Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top, full 
225^  Men s  Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top, full 
226  Men s  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full 
226.5^  Men s  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full 

double sole and tap bals, 
double sole and tap blucher, 1.75
double sole and tap bals, 2.00
double sole and tap  blucher, 2.00

$i*75

These shoes are cut out of Albert Trostle  &  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 

Stock  No.  225 

Price $1.7 5

W hat  Properly Constitutes the Salesman’s 

Portion.

We  are  all  agreed  that  the  sum  total 
of  the  salary  and  traveling  expenses  of 
salesmen 
is  the  largest  item  in  our an­
nual  expense  account,  and  we  are  also 
sadly  aware  of  the  fact  that  this  time 
has  grown  larger  year  by  year,  while the 
margin  of  profit  has  as  steadily  de­
creased.  The  whole  question  of  whether 
our  business  shall  show  a  profit  or  loss
hinges  upon  the  proper  adjustment  of 
this  expense 
it  concerns  us 
all  so  vitally  that 
is  well  that  we 
should  throw  upon  it  all  the  light  which 
can  be  contributed  by  the  combined 
wisdom 
and  experience  of  business 
men.

item,  and 

it 

At  the  beginning  of  each  year  we  fig­
ure  that  under  no  circumstances  can  we 
permit  the  salary  and 
traveling  ex­
penses  of  a  salesman  to  exceed  a  fixed 
per  cent,  of  the  net amount  of  his  sales. 
We  then  proceed  to  renew  contracts 
with  old salesmen  and  add  to  the  lottery 
risk  by  taking  on  some  new  and  un­
tried  men.  The  old  men  are  told  the 
volume  of  their  sales  was  too  small,  the 
proportion  of staple  goods sold too large, 
with  their  traveling  expenses  too  high, 
and 
that  all  these  things  must  be 
remedied  next  year  or  a  cut  in  salaries 
will  be  made.  Frequently  the  response 
is,  “ Well,  Cutthroat,  Price  &  Co.,  the 
largest 
in  Shoeville,  have 
offered  me  their  line  and  a  better  salary 
than  I  am  now  getting,  so  I guess  1  will 
quit. ”

jobbers 

it 

The  usual  result  is  we  compromise  by 
contracting  with  the  old  men  for  a  raise 
of  $300  per  year  rather  than  risk  the  ex­
periment  of  putting  a  new  man  in  the 
territory,  and  we  trust  to  luck  that  bet­
ter  crop  conditions  will  enable  us  to 
make  up  the  extra  expense  somehow  or 
other.  Naturally,  the year  is  but  a  rep­
etition  of  former  years’  experiences, 
with  the  extra  expense  of  going  over  a 
territory three  or  four  times  a  season  for 
business  that  should  be  got  in  one  trip, 
and  the  question,  Where  will  this  ever- 
increasing  drain  on  our  profits  end?

That 

is  costing  too  much  to  sell 
goods  all  are  agreed,  but  as  to  the  rem­
edy  there  will  be  as  many  different 
views  as  there  are  different  minds.  We 
should  instill  into  our  salesmen  the idea 
that  loyalty  to  the  best  interests  of  their 
employers  demands  that  they 
increase 
the  volume  of  their  sales,  and  that  the 
increase  shall  be  on  lines  which  bear  a 
better  profit  than  the  staple  goods  now 
so  largely  sold.  They  must  be  made  to 
realize  as  we  do  that a  large  volume  of 
business  is  the only  thing  that  will  en­
able  us  to  get  away  from  the  unprofit­
able  basis  on  which  we  are  now  work­
ing.

The  Rodgers  Shoe  Company

Toledo,  Ohio

Factory  at  Northville,  Mich.

Most  salesmen  are  lacking  in  an  am­
bition  which  would  lead  them  to  make 
strenuous  efforts  to  reach  a  larger vol­
ume  of  sales,  and,  as  a  consequence,  a 
better salary  for  themselves.  To  do  this 
the  salesman  must  have  distinct  person­
ality  and  enthusiasm  for  his  whole  line 
which  will  enable  him  to  sell  bills  in 
which  the  staples  and  profitable  goods 
are  more  evenly  balanced.

When  In  Doubt

Remember  that  Boston  Rubber 
Shoe  Co.’s  Rubbers  are  always 
durable.

We  keep 

in  stock  large  as­
sortments  of  the  various  kinds 
and  sizes.

We  make  prompt  shipments.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,  Ltd., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

My 

some 

custom 

judgment  is  that  we  will  have  to 
adopt  a  fixed  percentage  basis  for  our 
salesmen  and  adhere  to  it  rigidly.  The 
unbusinesslike 
jobbers 
have  adopted  of  selling  certain  promi­
nent  staples  at  cost,  or  less,  and  deduct­
ing  the  amount  of  such  sales  from  sales­
men’s  orders,  adds  to  the  difficulty  of 
fixing  an  equitable  basis  for  salesmen. 
In  general  terms  1  would  say  that  a 
salesman’s  salary  and  expenses  should 
not  exceed  5  per  cent,  of  his  net  sales, 
and  if  they  do  he  is  not  a profitable man 
to  travel.

The  custom  of  the  manufacturers  of 
paying  a  commission  on  actual  ship­
ments and  forcing  salesmen  to  pay  their 
own  expenses  without  advanc4s being 
made  them 
is  the  only  absolutely  safe 
basis,  but  the  jobbers  can  not  yet  adopt 
this  basis  on  account  of  the  demand  for 
capable  men  being  greater than  the  sup­
ply.  The  next  best  thing,  then,  seems 
to  be  the  adoption  of  a  combination  of 
the  guaranteed  salary  and  commission 
basis,  which  will  divide  the  risk  more 
equally  between  the  parties.  On  this 
basis  the  salesman is  spurred  to  his  best 
efforts  to 
increase  his  sales  and  at  the 
same  time  he  has  a  very  direct  interest 
in  keeping  his  expenses  down  to  the 
lowest  possible  point.

Girls  of Today—

Give  their  mothers  to  understand  that 
time  has  made  changes  in  conditions.
Regard  elaborate  dressing  as  one  of 
the  requirements  of  existence.
Are  disposed  to  wonder  if  there  was 
such  a  thing  as  sentiment  when  ma 
was  young.

Call  men  boys  and  boys  men  with  an 

utter  disregard  of  facts.
don  long  skirts.

Take  on  swagger  airs  as  soon  as  they 
Make  remarks  in  public  which  cause 
their  elders  to  wonder  what  they  mean.
Look  upon  it as  a duty  to  read  highly- 

spiced  romances.
edge  of  historic  events.
interest 

Do  not  pretend  to  possess  any  knowl­
Take  more 
in  the  sporting 
page  of  a  newspaper  than  in  any  other.
Insist  that  marriage  is  a  question  to 

be  considered  only  in  after  years.

The  Fullness  of It.

Rev.  Goodman—They 
little  outing  on 

took  a 
suppose  you  enjoyed  it  to the  full.

tell  me  you 
labor  day. 
I 

Walking  Delegate—What  if  I  did? 

I 
paid  my  fine,  so  it’s  nobody’s  business.

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D ry  Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple Cottons—Neither the  amount  of 
business  nor the  character  of  the  trans­
actions  has  shown  material  change  in 
this  part  of  the  market  for the  week  un­
der  review.  The  home  demand 
for 
heavyweight  brown  sheetings  and  drills 
has  been  fully  up  to  the  average,  and 
in  this  section  it  seems  comparatively 
easy  to  secure  full  prices.  For the  ex­
port  trade,  there  is  comparatively  little 
business  being  transacted,  for  the  ex­
porters  continue  to  make  bids  and  en­
deavor to  purchase  goods  at lower prices 
than  are  quoted  but  without  success. 
Some  small  lots  have  been  purchased  at 
the  sellers*  prices,  but  not enough  to  be 
of  any  consequence.  In  fine  yarn  sheet­
ings,  the  market  is  pretty  well  sold  up 
and  prices  are  naturally  firm  on  this  ac­
count.  There 
is  a  steady  demand  for 
bleached  muslins  which  amounts  to  a 
good  total  and  prices  are  steady  for  all 
grades.  Bleached  cottons  are  firm  in 
price  and  scarce.  There  has  been  no 
change  in  the  market  for  wide sheetings 
and  practically  none  for  cotton  flannels 
and blankets,  the  well-sold-up  condition 
preventing  any  heavy  transaction  or 
change  of  price.  Coarse  colored  cot­
tons  show  a  small  supply  on  hand  and 
prices  are  firm.

Cotton  Dress  Goods—About  the  same 
conditions  exist 
in  regard  to  printed 
calicoes  as  did  a  week  ago,  the  chief 
request  being  for  staple 
lines  although 
fancies  have  received  some  attention. 
In  the  staples,  indigo  blues  and  mourn­
ings  have  received  a  good  request  and 
there  is  a more moderate business in evi­
dence  in  reds  and  other  shades.  Shirt­
ings  and  prints  have  sold  very  well. 
In 
ordinary  fancy  calicoes  there  has  been 
a  fair  business,  but  in  special  silk  fin­
ishes  and  some  other  lines  trading  has 
shown  an 
improvement.  The  general 
tone  of  the  print  market  is  very  firm 
and  there  are  no  indications  of  accumu­
lation  of  stocks  in  the  hands  of  sellers, 
and  as  a  result  no  special  efforts  to 
force  goods  on  the  market  are  made. 
This  is  well  sustained by  the strength  of 
the  market  for gray  cloths.  Percales  are 
steady;  printed  and  woven  patterned 
napped  goods  are  hard  to  be  found  in 
desirable 
lines.  Both  staple  and  dress 
styles  of  ginghams  are  hard  to  buy  for 
nearby  deliveries  and  are  exceedingly 
difficult  for  buyers  to  operate  in  any 
way.

Woolen  Dress  Goods—There  has  been 
a  continued  good  request  for  wool  and 
worsted  dress  goods  for  both  forward 
and  immediate  delivery  and  the  market 
continues  firm  in  almost  all  directions. 
It  is  believed  that a  good  many  buyers 
have  already  placed  the  bulk  of  their 
initial  spring  goods  orders,  but  from 
other  directions  considerable  business 
has  yet  to  come forward.  The facts alone 
that  the 
leading  corporations  making 
plain  staples  have  already  sold  their 
lines 
into  a  strong  position  and  that  a 
considerable  number  of  smaller  factors 
have  also  made  a  good  showing  are evi­
dence  conclusive  that  operations  for 
spring  have  been  carried  on  to  a  sub­
stantial  extent.  There  are  a  good  many 
buyers  who  make 
it  a  point  to  delay 
their  orders,  however,  who  have  not 
yet ordered  anything  like their  full  com­
plement  of  spring  fabrics.and  in the list 
are 
included  cutters-up  and  jobbers. 
The  Western  buyer  has  carried  his  in­
itial. purchases  closer  to  a  finish  than 
the  Eastern  trade  and  has  shown  a

greater  degree  of  confidence and  liberal­
ity.

Underwear—The  price  of fleeced  un­
derwear  for  1903  is  of  considerable  in­
terest  to  the  trade  now. 
It  has  not  been 
decided  yet  and  probably  will  not be 
until  the  price  of  cotton  becomes  more 
settled  and  even  then  it  is  likely  to  be 
influenced  to  a  considerable  extent  by 
the  market  conditions  this  season, which 
naturally  exert  an  influence  for  higher 
prices.  With  conditions  as  they  stand 
to-day,  as  far  as  the  price  of  cotton  is 
concerned,  an  advance  of  40@5oc  a 
dozen  would  seem  only  necessary,  and 
where  this  season’s  conditions  operate, 
an  even  greater  advance  may  be  ex­
pected ;  yet  very  few  agents 
look  for 
this.  For  next  spring  the  lightweight 
lines  of  knit  goods  are  in  excellent  con­
dition  and  mills  report  themselves  as 
well  sold  up and  many  of  them  can  take 
no  more  orders 
for  several  months. 
Prices  are  considered fairly  satisfactory, 
although  there 
is,  of  course,  a  certain 
amount  of  “ kicking.”   The  agents  have 
assumed  a  stiffer  attitude  this  season 
and  the  results  have  borne out  our  oft- 
repeated  statement  that  it  was  only  nec­
essary  to  do  this  in  order  to  get  better 
prices  and  that  it  would  not  injure busi­
ness  in  any  way  in  the  long  run.  This 
stand  may  not  have  been  taken  alto­
gether  from  choice,  but  it  certainly  has 
resulted  satisfactorily. 
It  is  a  practical 
lesson  that  manufacturers  and  agents 
alike  should  not  ignore.

Hosiery—The  jobbing  end  of  the hos­
iery  business  has  for  the  past  week seen 
a  somewhat  lighter  trading.  Part  of  this 
is  due  to  the  fact  that  early  last  week 
prices  were  advanced  slightly  for  the 
more  desirable  patterns  of  fancies and  a 
number  of  buyers  have  withheld  their 
orders  as  a  consequence.  For  men's 
hosiery  there  has  been  a  lessening  de­
mand  for  fancies,  especially  for  open­
work  effects,  although  the  retailers  re­
port  that  they  continue  to sell  fair quan­
tities.  They  expect  a  lighter  business, 
however,  as  cold  weather  approaches.  It

“ The  K ad y”

Moves  in more ways  than  one. 
When  worn  it  adjusts  itself  to 
every^  movement  of  the  body. 
When  marketed  it  sells  faster 
than  any  other  suspender  you 
ever handled.
Try “ The  Kady”—to wear or 
to sell—you’ll like it either way.
Leading jobbers handle “ The 

Kady.”
The  Ohio  Suspender  Co.

Mansfield, Ohio

P.  Steketee &  Sons

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Have in stock at all times a full range of

Staple and  Fancy  Linings

and are now offering

3 Attractions

Their “Special” Silesia at 7 cents

• 

Their fine Moire  Percaline at 9 ^   cents

The “ K K ” Silesia at 9 ^   cents 

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is  considered  safe  to  expect  a  good 
business  in  openwork 
for  spring  and 
preparations  have  been made according­
ly  all  alone  the  line.  There  has  been  an 
excellent  retail  demand  for  many  spec­
ialties,  including  knit  golf  jackets,  and 
some  of  the 
large  stores  say  that  they 
can  not  get  them  fast  enough.  Sweaters 
for  both  men  and  women  have  also  seen 
a  most  satisfactory  amount  of trading.

concerned,  the  market 

Carpet's—The  carpet  season  has  ex­
perienced  no  particular  change  over 
conditions  prevailing  a  week  ago.  A 
general  closing  of the  season's  business 
is  going  on,  so,  as  far as  new  business 
is 
is  quiet. 
Weavers  as  a  general  thing  have  more 
business  than  they  can  attend  to,  and  it 
is  no  uncommon  prediction  that  the  or­
ders  remaining unfilled will  amount  to  a 
good  many hundred  pieces.  Every  loom 
that  can  be  put  in  operation  is  done  so 
and  all  bands  are  worked  to  their  ut­
most  capacity  to  supply  as  much  stock 
as  the  machinery  will  permit.  This 
will  continue  up  to  the  week  the  new 
sample  pieces  are  shown,  when  the  new 
patterns  now  being  designed  will  be 
woven.  Many  of  the  next  season's  de­
signs  are  ready  for  the  loom  and  it  will 
not  be 
long  before  all  of  the  new  ideas 
will  be  put  down  on  the  designing 
paper.  The  color  effects,  from  what  is 
gossiped  around  the  mills  will  show  but 
few  changes  from  what  they  are  at  the 
present  time.  Good,  bright  colors  will 
be 
in  evidence.  The  figures  will  be  in 
as  big  a  variety  as  in  the  past  few  sea­
sons.  Large  designs  as  well  as  the  neat 
small  patterns  will  be  made.  The  red 
and  green  effects  will  be  made  in  quan­
tities  as  large  as  ever.  Old  gold,  it  is 
said,  will  be  quite  a  prevailing  color. 
In  the  very  choice  Wilton  carpets  the 
red  and  green  backgrounds,  with  a  fig­
little  darker  than  the  prevailing 
ure  a 
color,  of  the  puritanic  order,  are 
likely 
to  be  made  as  extensively  next  season 
as  this  season.  The  carpet  jobbers  are 
very  busy  attending  to  the  deliveries  of 
goods  taken  some  weeks  ago.  Some 
difficulty 
is  experienced  in  moving  the 
goods 
in  sufficient  quantities  from  the 
mills,  but  not  so  much  as  was  some 
weeks  ago.  Retailers  are  hungry  for 
supplies  and  some  stocks,  larger  than 
has  been  the  case  in  some  years,  have 
been  put  in.  The  retail  business,  from 
all  reports received has been exceedingly 
good  thus  far.  The  public  have  taken 
hold  with  a  vim  that  has  met  with  full 
expectations.  The  coal famine  from  all 
appearances  has hurt  business  but  little. 
The 
ingrain  carpet  trade  report  a  very 
active  market.  Little  new  business  has 
been  taken,  but  weavers  have  all  they 
can  do  on  old  orders.  More  business 
could  be  taken  if  mills  were  in  a  posi­
tion  to  do  so,  but  more  than  sufficient 
business 
in  hand  than  can  possibly 
be  turned  out  before  the  new  season  be­
gins.  Sufficient  orders  to  keep  machin­
ery  running  in  the  immeditae  future  is 
what  is  worryig  the  weavers  the  least  at 
the  present  time.  Future  values  are  un­
der  consideration  by  all.  The  higher 
cost  of  everything  put  into  the  fabric 
has  caused  this  feeling,  and  from  the 
present  outlook  prices  on  all  lines  will 
show  a  good  advance.  Worsted  yarns 
have  had  a  toe  advance  over  prices  cur­
rent  a  year  ago.  Woolen  yarns  have  not 
shown  such  an  advance,  but  they  are 
higher.

is 

Both Too  Far.

“ I  don’t  see  any  difference  between 
the  society  woman's  decollette gown and 
the  costume  of  a  ballet  girl.”
‘ ‘ The  only  difference  is  that one is too 
far  from  the ceiling  and  the  other  too 
far  from  the  floor. ”

Discount Too  Smalt  to  Ju*tifya Borrowing 

Money.

in 

I  have  been  considerably  amused  by 
the  articles  published  at  different  times 
in  regard  to  the  amount  saved  by  dis­
counting  bills,and  especially  at  the  rate 
of  interest.  Take  the  hat  and  cap  line, 
instance,  with  terms  io  days  less  6 
for 
per  cent.,  30-5,  60-4,  4  months  net. 
If 
he  discounts 
10 days  at  6  per  cent, 
he  gets  $6  for  the  use  of  $100  for  no 
days,  or at  the  rate  of  19  9  10  per  cent, 
per  annum. 
If  he  takes  the  30-day  dis­
count  he  gets  5  per cent,  for  90 days, 
or 20  per  cent,  per  annum. 
If  he  takes 
the  60-day  discount  then  he  gets  24  per 
cent,  for  his  money,  which  is  the  best 
rate  of 
interest  he  can  get,  and,  of 
course, would  pay  him  better  than  the  10 
days' discount  at  a  trifle  less than  20  per 
cent,  per  annum.

But  let  us  see  how  it  works  in  actual 
business.  Theory  is  all right sometimes, 
but  actual  workings  are  different.  As  a 
general  proposition,  the average  country 
merchant  buys  of  bis  hat  house two  bills 
a  year—one 
in  the  spring  and  one  in 
the  fall,  so  that  he  can  get  his  discount 
only  twice  a  year—not  three  times  at  6 
per cent.,  nor  four times  at  5  per  cent., 
nor  six  times  at  4  per cent.,  but  only 
twice,  no  matter  which  discount  be 
takes,  so  that,  while  4 60  is  figuring  at 
24  per  cent,  per  annum,  he  only  gets  8 
per  cent.  ;  and  while  the  6  10  figures 
scant  20  per  cent,  per  annum,  he  really 
get  12  per  cent.

While  figures  do  not 

lie,  they  are 
sometimes  very  misleading,  and the man 
who  figures  on  20 or  24  per  cent,  inter­
est  by  discounting  his  hat  bills  will 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  some  one 
was  mistaken.

Now,  as  to  the  actual  amount  saved : 
any  up-country  merchant  c a n ‘ ‘ work”  
his  jobber  for  60  days'  extra  time  with­
out 
interest  by  simply  taking  it  when 
the  bill  is  due,  so  that  in  borrowing  of 
his  banker  he  must  take  that  into  con­
sideration. 
In  this  part  of  the  world 
the  bankers  are  in  it  for  what  they  can 
make  out  of  it,  and  12  per  cent,  is  not 
at  all  bad  for  one  who  wants  to  borrow; 
10  per  cent,  is  a  very  reasonable  rate, 
and  is  just  a  fair  average.  So  he  bor­
rows  at  10  per  cent  and  gets  at  the 
most  12  per  cent.,  making  a  profit  of 
only  2  percent,  per  annum  in  the  trans­
action,  an  amount  too  small  to  look  at 
considering  the  trouble  to  get  the  loan.

Minor  C.  Badger.

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Time,  it 

W om an ’s  W orld
The  Homely  W oman  G radually  Getting: 

H er Inning:».
is  said,  brings  strange  re­
venges.  A  curious  illustration  of  this  is 
afforded  by  a  dispatch  from  Budapest, 
in  which  it  is  stated  that  a  law has been 
passed  making 
it  a  crime  for  any  but 
middle-aged  and  ugly  women  to  be  em­
ployed 
in  restaurants  or  other  public 
places.

Thus,  at  last, does  the  homely woman, 
so  long  passed  over  in  favor  of  her 
beautiful  sister,  get  her  innings  and 
justice  make  good 
its  claim  to  being 
blind 
instead  of  having  one  eye  on  a 
peachy  cheek  and  a  taper  waist.
Heretofore,  among  women, 

it  has 
been  the  young  and  comely  who  have 
gotten  all  the  plums.  A  blonde-haired 
cashier  who  made  mistakes 
in  the 
change  has  bad  the  call  over  a  stingy 
female  who  was  as  accurate  as  a  cash 
register,  while  willowy typewriters  with 
melting  blue eyes and and uncertain grip 
on  spelling  could  walk  away  with  all 
the  good  places  from  the  hard-visaged 
spinsters  who  were  animated  diction­
aries.

To  the  majority  of  women  it  will  be 
good  news  to  learn  that  on  one  spot  on 
the  earth,  at  least,  this  invidious  class 
distinction  has  been  suppressed  by  the 
stern  hand  of  the  law,  for  of  all  the 
in ­
justice  under  which  the  female  sex  la­
bors,  none  is  so  grievous  as  the  unwrit 
ten  fiat  that  demands  that  every  woman 
should  be  beautiful  whether  Nature 
made  her  that  way  or  not.  Compared 
to 
it  the  tyranny  of  taxation  without 
representation 
is  a  mere  bagatelle,  and 
even  the  right  to  earn  a  comfortable 
living  for  herself,  instead  of  sponging 
on  somebody  else,  passes  into  innocuous 
desuetude,  for  the  favoritism  shown  the 
pretty  woman  is  a  burning  wrong  under 
which  the  homely  woman  smarts  every 
hour of  the  day.

instinct. 

Of  course,  men  will  deny  that  this  is 
true,  and  it  is  possible  that  they  do  not 
realize  the  distinction  they  make  them­
selves  between  beauty  and  ugliness. 
It 
is  not a  premeditated  insult—it  is  intu­
ition,  unconscious 
Enter  a 
crowded  car.  A  pretty  woman,  dressed 
in  rustling,  silk-lined  garments,  comes 
in  and  a  dozen  men  spring  to  their  feet 
to  offer  her  a  seat.  She  might  occupy 
half  the  car  if  she  wanted  it,  and  they 
would  hang  on  to  straps  and  beam  on 
her  with  bliss;  but  if  she 
is  old  and 
ugly  and  shabby,  the  one  man  whose 
conscience  drives  him  into  reliquishing 
his  seat  to  her  does  it  with  the  expres­
sion  of  an  early  Christian  martyr.

Let  a  pretty  woman  cry  and  every 
man 
in  sight  wants  to  comfort  her  and 
have  her  weep  out  her  grief  upon  his 
shoulder;  but  when  a  homely  woman 
weeps  even  her  husband  tells  her  to 
shut  up  and  not  make  a  fool  of  herself.
The  fact  that  we  make  a  fetich  of 
beauty,  and  place 
it  above  all  other 
qualities in  a  woman,  is  a  tribute  to  our 
artistic  taste  but  a  sad  commentary  on 
our  intelligence and  morals.  Yet  we  do 
it.  When  we  bear  of  a  woman,  our  first 
question  about  her  is  not,  Is  she  good? 
Is  she  clever?  Is  she  entertaining?  But, 
is  she  pretty?  That,  in  popular estima­
tion,  outranks  all  other  charms,  and 
if 
she  is  sufficiently  good-looking  she  may 
smash  the  ten  commandments 
into 
atoms,  and  be  as  dull  as a doornail,  and 
yet  admirers  will  flock  around  her.

The  crowning  absurdity,  however,  of 
our  beauty  worship  is  to be  found  in  the 
popular  demand  that  even  the  woman

who  does  things  must  add  pulchritude 
to  her  achievements.  Nobody  cares 
whether  Edison 
is  an  Adonis  or not, 
nobody  expects  Marconi  to  look  like  a 
matinee  hero,  or  resents  the  fact  that 
Kipling  is  an  ugly little fellow in  dowdy 
clothes,  or  Mr.  W.  D.  Howells  a  fat 
gentleman  with a  double  chin. 
It  is  the 
man’s  work,  not  bis  personal  appear­
ance,  that  concerns  u s;  but  we  do  not 
adopt this liberal attitude toward women.
Certain  professions—notably  the  stage 
and  stenography—are  practically  barred 
to  her  unless  she  is  good-looking.  An 
ugly  girl  or  a  middle-aged  woman  finds 
it  almost 
impossible  to get  a  job  as  a 
typewriter,  while  on  the  stage  nothing 
but  the  most  transcendent  genius  can 
ever  get  her a  bearing,  unless  she  adds 
pulchritude to  her  attainments. 
There 
has  been  one  Charlotte  Cushman  and 
one  Clara  Morris,  who  have  succeeded 
in  spite  of  their  looks;  but  there  have 
been  hundreds  of  Maxine  Elliotts  and 
Lillian  Russells  who  have  succeeded 
merely  because  of  them.

The  stage,  being  in  a  measure  spec­
tacular,  there  is  some  show  of  reason  in 
demanding  beauty  in  actresses;  but 
what  idiocy  to  expect  the  woman  who 
does  things 
in  other  lines  to  add  good 
looks  to  her  brains.  Yet  we  do.  The 
authoress  of  a  popular  novel  is  invari­
ably  described  by  her  press  agent  as 
“ young  and beautiful,”   the  woman  who 
runs  a  sawmill  or  pilots  a  boat  or  takes 
a  contract  for  street-sweeping  has  her­
self  photographed 
low-necked 
evening  gown  and  a  sweet-sixteen  ex­
pression,  as 
if  her  looks  and  not  her 
financial  knowledge  and  executive  abil­
ity  counted.

in  a 

It  is  all  very  sad  and  very  s illy ;  but 
no  one  need  wonder  why  women  spend 
their  time  and  their  energy  and  their 
talents  trying  to  make themselves  pretty 
when  such  a  premium  is  put  upon  good 
looks.

The  one  right  that  men  have  that 
women  have  a  right  to  envy  and  to 
shriek  for  until  they  get  it  is  to  be  as 
ugly  as  Nature  made  them,  without 
having  any  distinction  made  against 
them.  When  an  ugly  girl  has  as  many 
partners  at  a  ball  as  a  pretty  one;  when 
a  homely  woman  can  marry  as  well  as  a 
beauty;  when  ability,  and  not  looks  is 
considered  when  a  woman  applies  for  a 
job—then,  and  not  until  then,  will 
woman  have  her  rights.

In  the  meantime,  the  experiment  at 
Budapest  will  be  watched  with  bated 
breath  by  those  of  us  whom  fate  has 
not  endowed  with  what  old  fashioned 
novelists  call  the  “ fatal  gift of beauty.”  

Dorothy  Dix.

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Girl-Baby  a  Drug  on  the  M arket.

It 

it  announced  that  the  Governor  of 
one  of  the  rural  districts  of  Russia  has 
ordered that when  a  girl-baby  is  born  in 
a  family  the  father  shall  be  taken  out 
and  knouted.
Inasmuch 

::s  no  one  ever  desires  a 
girl-baby  or  has  one  on  purpose,  this 
seems  a  bit  like  rubbing  misfortune  in, 
and  it  calls  attention  once  more  to  the 
curious  fact  that,  the  world  over,  the 
girl-baby  is  what  diplomatists  call  per­
sona  non  grata.

In  time  parents  get  reconciled  to  her, 
and  even  think  she  is  the  most  wonder­
ful  baby  on  earth;  but  she  makes  her 
welcome;  she  does  not  find 
it  ready­
made.

if  it  is  a  girl. 

As  for  strangers,  their  attitude  is  ap­
parent  from  the  start.  The  congratula­
tions  showered  upon  young  fathers  and 
mothers  upon  the  arrival  of  the  first 
baby  are  polite  but  cold  and  perfunc­
tory 
If  the  second  baby 
is  another,  the  good  wishes  are  tinged 
with  compassion.  A  third  calls  for  ac­
tive  sympathy;  a 
fifth  and  a  sixth 
daughter are  a  cause  for  actua 1 reproach 
of  her  unhappy  parents;  whereas  the 
birth  of  a  boy-baby  anywhere  from  the 
first  to  the  seventh  is  a 
joyful  occasion 
that 
is  popularly  considered  to  justify 
the  father  in  getting  drunk.

it 

Yet  why  should  the  girl-baby  be  de­
spised?  Primarily, 
is  supposed  a 
son  is  a help  and a daughter  an expense, 
but,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  generally 
takes  ten  times  as  much  money  to  pay 
a  boy’s  college  debts  as  it  does  to  dress 
a  girl,  and  a  daughter  generally  finds  a 
husband  to  support.her  before  a  boy  is 
able  to  support  himself.

Nor  is  this  all. 

It  is  the  daughters  of 
a  family  far  oftener  than  the  sons  who 
cheer  their  parents'  lonely  old  age and 
give  them  sympathy  and 
love.  The 
boy,  who  gets  away  from  home,  gets 
absorbed 
in  business,  in  his  wife  and 
children;  sometimes  he  even  forgets  to 
write  to  bis  mother,  and  lets  long  years 
go  by  without  visiting  his  parents;  but 
a  woman  never  goes  so  far  that  she  for­
gets  the  old  folks  at  home.

“ My  son’s  my  son until  he  gets  him  a 
wife—my  daughter's  my  daughter  all  of 
her  life,’ ’  says  the  old  rhyme,  and  yet, 
for ail  that,  nobody  wants  the girl  baby!

Cora  Stowell.

$28,000  in  Tobacco  Burned  by  a  Judge.
A  fortune  gone  up  in  tobacco  smoke. 
Not  by  accident  nor  in  wholesale  specu­
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impossible 
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Valparaiso,  Indiana,  one  of  the  pioneer 
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Judge  Hogan  presides  over  the  des­
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He  has  been  on  the  bench  since  the 
Legislature  allowed  the  organization  of 
municipal  courts,  has  never  been  de­
feated,  although  the  Republican  fma- 
jority  of  Valparaiso  is  several  hundred 
against  him,  and  has  just  been  unani­
mously  renominated  by  his  party  for 
another  term.  He  is  76  years  old,  hale 
and  vigorous,  and  enjoys  the  personal 
friendship  of  almost  every  man,  woman 
and  child  in  Valparaiso.  A  resident  of 
the  city  since  its  earliest  days,  he  has 
been  closely  identified  with  its  develop­
ment  and  growth  at  every  stage.  He 
has  a  long  and  honorable  career  in  the 
common  council  to  his  credit  and  a 
business record of more  than the ordinary 
number of  ups  and  downs.

In  the  pioneer  days  of  the  village 
is  universally 
“ Uncle  T ill,”   as  be 
called,  held  a  commanding  position 
in 
its  little  business  world.  He  operated 
a  factory,  amassed  a  comfortable  for­
tune,  as  fortunes  went 
in  those  days, 
in  everything.  As 
and  was  a 
the  years  went  on,  however, 
fortune

leader 

It 

in 

is, 

life 

ringlets  during  bis 

played  an  unkind  trick  or  two  upon  her 
erstwhile  favorite,  and  bis  financial  fall 
was  heard.  For  a  number of  vears  his 
lot  was  an  exceedingly  precarious  one, 
but  hjs  old-time  friends  never  wavered 
in  their  loyalty,  and  after  a  while  better 
days  came  again.
The  one  personal  habit  which  has  al­
ways  held  Uncle  Till  a  faithful  devotee 
is  that  of  smoking.  My  Lady  Nicotine 
has  few  more  devoted  subjects.  Ever 
since  bis  boyhood,  it  might  be  said,  he 
has  averaged  from  eight  to  twenty-five 
cigars  a  day. 
In  his  days  of prosperous 
middle  age  these  were  the  most  expen­
sive  of  imported  weeds,  costing  from  a 
shilling  to  a  half  dollar  each.  His  pres­
ent  average 
is  twenty  five-cent  cigars 
daily.
A  close  estimate  of  the  money  Judge 
Hogan  has  seen  ascend 
in  gracefully 
culling 
lifetim e 
places  the  amount  at $28,000—a comfort­
able fortune  even  in  this  day  of  capital­
istic  combinations. 
fact,  a 
competency  which  would  support  a  man 
in  modest  comfort  for  the  term  of  his 
natural 
It 
will  average  something  more  than a  dol­
lar  a  day  for  every  single  day  of  the 
judge’s  seventy-six  years  of  life,  with 
no  discount  off  for Sundays  or  legal  hol­
idays. 
It  is  many  times  more  than  his 
bread  has  cost  him,  probably  more  than 
his  meat  has  cost,  for  be  is  a  moderate 
liver  upon  plain  and substantial fare.
Perhaps  the  most surprising feature of 
the  strange  story  is  that  Judge  Hogan's 
intimacy  with  My  Lady  Nicotine  suc­
cessfully  gives  the 
lie  to  the  baleful 
prophecies  and  warnings  of  the  tract 
writers  and  physiclogists,  for,  notwith­
standing  his  unswerving  fidelity  to  the 
weed,  he  enjoys  as  good  health  at  76  as 
the  average  man  does  at  less  than  half 
bis  age.  He  is  hearty  and  vigorous,  a 
lover  of  the  theater  and  good  literature, 
fond  of  the  outer air and  most  method­
ical 
life.  Nor  is  he  in­
clined  to  at  all  begrudge  the  money that 
bis  smoking  has  cost  him.  He  believes 
that  he  has  received  the  equitable  value 
for  all  the  money  he  has  spent thus,  and 
only  remarked,  when  an  hour’s  careful 
figuring  brought  forth  the  rather  as­
tounding  total of  his  aggregate  expend­
itures  for  blue  smoke:

in  his  daily 

if  propeily 

invested. 

“ If  1  bad  it  to  do  again  I  would  put 
more  of  the  money  in  straight  five-cent 
cigars  and 
l<as  in  the  higher  priced 
brands,  and 
just  as  good 
1  would  get 
smokes.”

His  Personal  Opinion.

“ But  don’t  you  think  it  would  be bet­
ter  if  the  sale  of  liquor  was  stopped?”  
asked  the  old  lady  with  the  tract.
sponded  Rummy  Robinson.

“ Yes,  mum,  on  one  condition,”   re­
“ What  is  that?”
“ Why,  dat dey  give  it  away instead.”

If It Is  Ceresota 
It  Is  Guaranteed
The  high  quality  of  our  flour 
has been  maintained for twen­
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much  at  stake  to  lower  the 
standard now.  You  may  of­
fer Ceresota  to  your  custom­
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money  back  if  not  satisfac­
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The finest artificial  light in the world.  Hang or stand  them  anywhere.  One lamp 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Butter  and  Eggs
Observations  by  a Gotham   Egg  M a il.
Several  weeks  ago  1  made  mention  in 
this  column  of  the  practice  being  en 
gaged 
in  by  a  number of  local  small 
dealers  of  packing  very  poor  eggs  in tin 
and  freezing them. 
It now  appears  that 
the  business  has  been  taken  up  by  a 
good  many and  that the  demand  for spot 
egg8  to  be  broken  out  in  this  way  has 
been  so  great  as  to give  them  a relative­
ly  high  value—somewhere  about  7  or  8 
cents  per dozen,  as  1  am  informed

It  seems  almost 

incredible  that  any 
one  can  be  found  to  buy  this  rotten  stuff 
for  food  unless  the  freezers  of  it  have 
found  some  method  of  deodorizing  it; 
but 
in  any  case  the  sale  of  spots  and 
bad  eggs  as  food 
is  outrageous  and 
ought  to  be  stopped  by  the  Board  of 
Health.

I  understand  that  the  Board  of  Health 
is  already  taking  steps 
in  the  matter 
and  that  conferences  between  the  health 
officers  and  the  Egg  Committee  of  New 
York  Mercantile  Exchange  have  been 
arranged  to  consider  what  steps  will  be 
most  practical  to  stop  the  sale  of  this 
deleterious  stuff. 
I  feel  that  1  am  safe 
in  saying  that  the  health  officers wi__ 
ceive  every  possible  assistance  from  the 
exchange  officials  in  preventing  the  sale 
of  rots  and  spot  eggs  for  food  purposes 
—whether  they  be  frozen  or otherwise.

If  the  freezing  of  these  bad  eggs  for 
sale  to  bakers’  trade  is permitted to con­
tinue 
it  will  be  damaging  to  the  frozen 
eggs  trade  as  a  whole  and  tend  to  ruin 
the  reputation  of  the  goods.

It 

sampling  or  tasting  habit  among  cus­
tomers  is. 
is  even  worse  in  Eng­
land. 
6
Up  at  the  Calumet  Club  last  night 
was  the  manager of  a  huge  supply  es 
tahlishment  in  London,  Phineas  Brum­
by.  His  place  is  one  of  the  sort spoken 
of  in  England  as  on  the  “ storesorder,”  
as  distinguished  from  a  shop.  “ Unless 
you  are  in the  business,”   he  said,  as  he 
slowly  sipped  his  Scotch  high-ball  with 
a  party  of  New  York  wholesalers,  “ let 
me  say  that you  will  find  it hard  to  real­
ize  the  aggregate  amount  customers  of 
the 
tasting’  kind—I  do  not  now  so 
much  refer  to  legitimate  tasters,  who 
sample^  butter  and  cheese—cost  a  con­
cern 
like  mine;  and  much  of  this  tast­
ing  is  nothing  but  bare-faced  pilfering.
‘ Not  to  speak  of  the  articles  these 
people  take—the  offenders  are  generally 
women,  I  am  sorry  to  say—the  articles 
such  as  raisins,  nuts,  biscuits,  a  grape 
or  two  here,  and  a  strawberry  there, 
hundreds  and  hundreds  of  them  will 
half-coyertly  help  themselves to a peach, 
an  apricot  or a  blood  orange,  and  when 
they  have  several  children  with  them, 
ail  scattered  about  a  shop  and  doing  the 
same  thing,  the  matter  becomes serious. 
It  happens 
in  scores  of  cases  that  the 
in  this  way  excede  the 
articles  taken 
value  of  those  bought  by  fourfold. 
If 
a  word  is  spoken  to  these  people,  their 
indignation,  mock  or  real,  is  a  sight; 
nothing  can  exceed  their  effrontery.

for 

“ It  has  become  a  serious  question- 
is  going  to  be  debated  with 
one  that 
others  before  long  by  West  End  trades- 
men 
it  is  calculated  that  we  lose  a 
total  of  many,  many  thousands  of 
pounds  a  year  by  these  tasters.  We  re- 
8ar_d  women  who  deliberately  allow 
their children  to  take  expensive  fruits 
in  this  way,  and  then  refuse  to  pay,  as 
almost  creating  a  tendency  to  shoplift­
ing.”  

_

I  am  requested  again  to  call  attention 
to  the  folly  of  mixing  refrigerator  eggs 
with  fresh  gathered  stock  at  country 
points.  Many  lots  of  eggs  are  showing 
mixture with  refrigerators,  and  it is evi­
dently  done  with  the  mistaken  idea  that 
the  held  eggs  can  thus  be  worked 
through  with  the  fresh  at  the  value  of 
the  latter.  But  this  is  not  the  case 
the  first  place  the  eggs  are  ail  candled 
before  being  put  out  to  retail  trade  and 
the  old  eggs  are certainly detected ;  then 
the  old  eggs  are  worth  less  to  a  man 
who  wants  fresh  than they  are  to  a  deal 
er  who  wants  old  eggs;  everything  is 
worth  most  to  those  who  want  it.  When 
a  dealer  buys  fresh  eggs  and  finds  a  lot 
of  refrigerator  eggs  mixed  in  he  may 
keep  them  but  only  at  a  low  price 
lower  than  they  could  be  sold  for  to 
some  one  enquiring 
refrigerator 
stock.  As  a  rule  the  value  of  mixed 
qualities 
is  affected  most  by  the  value 
of  the  poorer  portion  and  the  most 
money  can  be  realized  when  goods  are 
packed  straight  and  as  nearly  uniform 
as  possible. 
Refrigerator  eggs  wiil 
bring  more  money  as  such, packed  sepa 
rately,  than  they  will  when  mixed  with 
fresh  eggs;  and 
bring  more  when  packed  alone.

fresh  eggs  will 

for 

Of  course  the  current  collections  of 
eggs  at  this  season  (and  later)  contain 
many  shrunken  eggs  that  have  never 
seen  a  refrigerator.  With  many  egg 
packers 
it  would  doubtless  be  impos 
sible  to  confine  a  No.  1  grade  to  abso­
lutely  full  eggs  at  this  season.  But  I 
feel  sure  that  reasonably  close  grading 
would  pay and  it  should  be  close enough 
to  keep  out  of  the  first  grade  (both  of 
the  clean  eggs  and  the  dirties)  all  bad­
ly  shrunken,  weak  bodied  eggs,  which 
should  be  packed  and  shipped  sepa 
rately.—N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Tasters as  Bad  as Shop-Lifters.

From the New York Commercial.

All  A m erican  shop-keepers—more  es­
pecially  grocers 
in  provincial  towns— 
know  what  a  draw  on  th eir  profits  the

Jo k e  On  the  Man.

A  Pontiac  undertaker relates  that  on  a 
certain  occasion  a  farmer  near  the  town 
in  and,  ordered  a  casket  for  his 
came 
wife.  She  was  not  yet  dead,  but  the 
prospect  was  so  bright  that  her  husband 
said  there  was  no  chance  of  her  living 
the  day  out.  The  casket  was  tastily 
trimmed,  but  a  week  elapsed  and  still 
it  stood  in  the  shop,  solemnly  awaiting 
the  customer.  Then  the man  reappeared 
and  said  that,  contrary  to  his  plans,  his 
wife  was  “ up  around”   doing  her  house 
It  was  a  year  before  that  casket 
work. 
was  needed,  and  then 
it  was  for  the 
farmer  instead  of  his  wife.

A ll  Is Vanity.

Mrs.  Dorcas—Why  is  Mrs.  Gadsby  so 
Dorcas—It  gives  her  more  time  to  at­

glad  she  hasn’t  any  children?
tend  those  mothers’  meetings.

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

LAMSON  &  CO.,

13 Blackstone St., Boston, Mass.

Established  1865

L.  O.  Snedecor &  Son

NEW  YORK

Egg  Receivers

HAVE  YOU  EVER? 

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

Reference:  N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

Cheaper  Than  a  Candle
and  many  100 times  more  light from

Brilliant and  Halo

Gasoline  Gas  Lamps 

Guaranteed good for any place.  One 
agent in a town wanted.  Big  profits.
48  State  Street, 
Chicago  111.

B rillian t Gas  Lamp  Co.

E. S.  Alpaugh  &  Co.

Commission  Merchants

16 to 24  Bloomfield  St. 

17  to  23  Loew Avenue

West Washington  Market

New  York

Specialties:  Poultry,  Eggs,  Dressed  Meats and  Provisions.

If you anticipate shipping any produce to the  New York  market we  advise 

your correspondence with  us before doing so;  it will  pay you.

References:  Gansevoort Bank. R. G. Dun & Co.  Bradstreet’s  Mercantile  Agency,  and 

upon request many shippers In your State who have shipped us 

for the last quarter of a century.

Cold  Storage and  Freezing  Rooms' 

Established  1864

Beans

The bean market is ver>' act,ve.  I can handle all you can  ship  me.  Will  pay  highest  price. 

"  ri^e or telephone me for prices and particulars

0. D. entfernten, 9$ $. Die. St., Brand Rapids

Both Phones 1300

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

W alker  Celery  Farm

Fine  Celery  and  Cabbage.

Citizens Phone 3793 

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

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We can handle all you  send  us.

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W estern grown  Tim othy  Seed.  W e  buy and  sell

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uce Trades.

The New York Market
Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­
Special Correspondence.
New  York,  Oct. 

crowds
gather  before  the  bulletin  boards  of  the 
printing  offices,  and  still  bigger  throngs 
line  the  streets  where  are  located  the 
offices  of  the  “ powers  that  be”   in  the 
great  strike.  It  has gone  past  the  joking 
lime  and  the  crowds  are  serious.  Mut- 
terings,  not 
loud  but  deep,  are  heard, 
and  on  every  hand  is  anxiety.

1 1 —Big 

Coffee 

is  steady  and  slightly  higher, 
although  from  no  apparent  cause.  The 
demand  from  jobbers  and  roasters  has 
been  only  of  an  average  character,  nor 
can  anything  more  be  looked  for.  Gro­
cers  are  not  inclined  to  buy  ahead  of 
current  wants  so 
long  as  the  supply 
seems  so  enormous  and  to  do  so  would 
be  injudicious.  In  store  and  afloat  there 
are  2,772,669  bags,  against  2,260,041 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild 
coffees  have  been  in  good  request all the 
week  and  as  offerings  are 
light  there 
is  a  firm  undertone  to  the  market.  Good 
Cucuta  is wottb  9c  and  is  strong  at  this. 
East  India  coffees  are  rather  quiet,  but 
some  trading  is  being  done  all the time. 
Prices  are  unchanged.

Quietude  has  prevailed  in  sugar  dur­
ing  the  week  as  compared  with  the busy 
season  of  a  fortnight  ago.  What  little 
trade 
is  in  the  way  of 
withdrawals  on  old  account  and  new 
business  is  almost  nil.  No changes  have 
been  made  in  quotations.

is  being  done 

Supplies  of  teas  are  moderate,  and 
this  has  been  one  great  cause  of  a  very 
moderate  volume  of  business  during  the 
week.  Quotations  are  well  held  and 
importers  seem to  think  there  will  be no 
reaction. 
Lower  grades  seem  to  be 
sought  after  with  more  eagerness  than 
the  better sorts.

The  rice  market 

is  firm.  A  fairly 
satisfactory  jobbing  trade  is  being  done 
and  prices  are  firm  and  unchanged. 
Choice  to  head,  5)4@6%c.

it 

In  spices  there 

In  canned  goods 

is  a  little  jobbing 
business,  but,  as  a  rule,  the  market  is 
Prices  are  without  change 
inactive. 
and  the  best  that  can  be  said  is  that 
they  are  well  sustained.
The  situation in molasses shows steady 
improvement  and  during  the  week  or­
ders  have  come  in  in  a  very  satisfactory 
manner.  Quotations  are unchanged.
is  evident  that 
there  will  be  far  less  corn  and  tomatoes 
than  will  be  necessary  to  meet  the  re­
quirements,  and  prices  are  gaining 
strength  every  day.  Already  large  im­
ports  from  Canada  are  talked  of,  but 
there 
is  not  enough  there  to  “ go 
around.”   Frosts  have  stopped  opera­
tions  everywhere,  and 
in  New  Jersey 
packers  say  they  will  not  be  able  to 
deliver  over  50  per  cent.,  and  in  some 
cases  not  over  25  per  cent,  of  their  con­
tracts.  Some  tall  tins  sold  at  about 
$¡.22)4  and,  in  fact,  every  block  placed 
on  the  market 
is  soon  sought  after  by 
buyers. 
It  is  evident  that  packers  are 
not  keeping  back  supplies  for they  have 
obtained  good  rates  and  have  sold  them 
as  fast  as  they  were  packed.  Salmon 
are  in  light  offering  and  quotations  are 
firmly  maintained.

The  dried  fruit  and  nut  market  for 
all  goods  in  this  line  is  in  a  fairly  sat­
little,  if 
isfactory  condition,  although 
any,  change  has  taken  place 
in  quota­
tions.  Currants,  old  crop,  are 
in  very 
limited  supply  and  prices  are  firm.

The  butter  market 

Lemons  and  oranges  are  selling  in 
about  the  usual autumnal  manner.  The 
record-breaking  price  of  $14  per  box 
was  paid 
for  some  California  oranges 
this  week,  but  this 
is  not  to  be  taken 
as  any  guide  to  the  market.  Sicily 
lemons  are  worth  from  $ 2 .10@S4.75.
is  pretty  well 
cleaned  up  and  prices  show  a  little  ad­
vance,  best  Western  creamery  fetching 
23c  without  any  trouble.  Seconds  to 
firsts,  2 o @ 2 2 # c ;  im itation  cream ery,  17 
@ I9C ;  Western 
factory, 
i6 ^ @ i 8c,  lat­
ter  for  fancy  June  make.
There  is  a fairly  active trade in cheese 
and  quotations  are  showing  some  ad­
vance.  Best  New  York  State  creamery 
is  quotable  at  I2}i@ i2% c.  Nothing  has

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

23

been  done  in  an  export  way  as  our  do­
mestic  rates  are  too  high.
Western  fresh-gathered  eggs,  loss  off, 
24c;  fair  to  good,  23@23Xc.  At  mark 
Western  goods  range  from  22}4@2$c  for 
fancy  candled  goods  down  to 
i9@2ic 
for  ungraded  stock.

Turkeys  as  Star  Witnesses.

A  modern  Solomon’s  judgment,  ap­
proved  by  a  flock  of  turkeys,  after  the 
decision  had  been  referred  for  final  ad­
judication  to  the  latter,  has  just  come 
from  Lower  Providence  township.  The 
flock  of  birds  in  question  bad  strayed 
from  their  own  farm  home,  as  turkeys 
will,  and  had  been  cooped  up  by  the 
distant  neighbor  on  whose  fence  rails 
they  roosted.
A  warrant,  a  trial  before  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  and  a  proposition  from  the 
real  owner  to  let  the  birds  settle  the 
question  for themselves,  prevailed.
home,”   proposed  the  owner.
“ And  so  you  shall,”   responded  the 
Justice. 
“ Turn  them  loose.”
liberated  turkeys,  as  if  they  ap­
The 
preciated  the  weight  of  their  new 
legal 
responsibility,  went  in  a  bee-line  to 
their  home  roosts;  and 
judgment  was 
entered  for  the  plaintiff.

“ I ’ll  forfeit  the  lot  if  they  do  not  go 

How  One  Housewife  Makes  Fuel.

She  took  four  common  bricks  and 
placed  them  in  a  pail.  Over  the  bricks 
she  poured  a  gallon  of  kerosene  oil  and 
let  them  stand  until  the  bricks  had  ab­
sorbed  all  of  the  oil  they would  take  up. 
Then  she  took  out  two  of  the  bricks  and 
placed them in the  kitchen  range  and  set 
tire  to  them.  They  burned  fully  two 
hours,  and  the  fire  that  they  made  was 
one  by  which  it  was  possible  to  do  any 
kind  of  cooking  or  other  work  requiring 
considerable  heat.  The 
in 
this  way  it  will  be  possible  in  her  home 
to  get  along  with  the  cooking,  washing 
and  ironing  without  resort to gas.  There 
was  no  unpleasant  odor  or any  trouble 
whatever,  for  the  oil  just  blazed  away 
like  a  stove  full  of  good  wood.

lady  says 

The  Most  American  City  in  Canada. 

From the London Daily Express.

Winnipeg 

is  the  Mecca  of  the  immi­
grant  to  Manitoba  and  the  Northwest. 
A  city  of  60,000  inhabitants,  with  banks 
and  warehouses  that  would  do  credit  to 
the  old  country,  with  miles  of  avenues 
and  dried-brick  villas,  dqwn  which  run 
rapid  electric  cars,  carrying  their  lines, 
with  an  eye  for the  future,  far  into  the 
market  garden  and  corn  fields.  Win­
nipeg,  with 
its  forest  of  telegraph  and 
tbelepone  poles  and  network  of  over­
head  wires,  is  more  American  and  go- 
ahead  than  any  city  in  the  west  of  Can­
ada.

The  lucky  man  is  the  plucky  one  who 

sees  and  grasps  an  opportunity.

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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
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This is the  time  of  year  to  store  your Apples.  Why  not  put 
them  where they are sure  to  come out  as good  as when  picked? 
Save shrinkage  and  sorting  by storing with  us.  We  also  store 
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up-to-date, usually willing to adopt 
new ideas, when  those  ideas  have 
been  proven  good  ones,  will  still 
continue  to  write  their  business 
letters with a pen;  these  same men 
will involuntarily form  an  opinion 
of  the  standing  of  the  wholesale 
house  which  would  do  such  a 
thing,  and  yet  typewritten  letters 
are easily within their reach.
A   Fox Typewriter is  easy to buy 
and anyone can soon learn  to oper­
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In  buying  a 
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annoyance, hence  the  necessity  of 
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him  into  conversations  with  superin 
tendents  of  stores.  He  learns  from  them 
that  it 
is  difficult  to  get  girls  with  any 
training,  that 
is,  girls  who  know  how 
to  figure  or write  when  necessary,  or  to 
handle  customers.

The  principal  says  that  the  course 
which  his  pupils  will  receive  will  not 
be  theoretical,  but thoroughly  technical. 
Girls  will  be  taught  the  manners  and 
deportment  that  go  to  make  up  a  sue 
cessful  saleswoman.  They will be  taught 
about  goods  and  merchandise  of  all 
sorts,  qualities,  prices,  etc.  Much  at­
tention  will  be  given  to  penmanship,  so 
that  they  will  write  down  addresses  and 
directions  expeditiously  and  correctly. 
The  sponsor  for  this  school  says  one 
would  hardly  believe 
it,  but  there  are 
many  girls  who  will,  through  careless­
ness,  make  unnecessary  mistakes.  They 
will  sell  one  article  and  write  down  the 
name  of  another  on  their  checks.  They 
are  utterly  unable  to  spell  proper  names 
and  to  write  addresses.

What  a  blessing 

it  would  be  to  the 
furnishing  goods  dealers 
if  someone 
would  only  start  a  practical  school  for 
the  education  of  young  men  who  pose 
as  retail  clerks.  He  certainly  would 
long-felt  want.  The  demand  for 
fill  a 
efficient  male  clerks 
indeed  very 
great. 
It  is  greater  than  anyone  outside 
the 
of 
realizes.—Apparel 
Gazette.

business 

is 

No  More  Questions  Asked.

The ©Id 
Reliable’ 
Howe Scale 
No. 594

Agate  Bearings 
Finely  Finished

A  badgering  counsel  found  a  tartar  in 
the  person  of  a  witness  in  a  case  where 
a  clothier  sued  a  customer  for  a  suit  of 
clothes.
The  counsel's  point  was  that  the  ac­
irrelevant,  as  his  client  was 
tion  was 
entitled  to  at 
in 
which  to  pay  the  bill,  and  it  was  barely 
that  time  since  the  clothes  were  ob­
tained.
“ Now,  s ir ,"  said  the  counsel  to  the 
witness,  had  1  got  the  clothes 
instead 
of  my  client,  would  you have summoned 
me  to  court  at  this  stage?”

least  three  months 

“ No,  s ir ."
“ Ah!  And  why,  pray?"
“ Simply  because 

in  your  case  tie 
transaction  would  have  been  a  cash 
one!”

and 

reporters 

W indow   Dressing
Utilizing:  Girls  as  W indow  Trim m ers.
Women,  especially  young  women, 
have  invaded  very  nearly  every  depart­
ment  of  business  formerly  occupied  by 
men.  We  have  female  book-keepers  and 
stenographers  galore,  female  drummers 
who  travel  with  samples  which  entail 
excess  baggage  expense,  and  so  on 
through  all  the fields  of  salesmanship, 
canvassing  and  clerical  work,  while  fe­
male 
advertisement 
solicitors  are  growing  numerous.  Now 
come  female  window  dressers.  These, 
it  seems,  are 
likely  to  become  con­
spicuous  in  Boston  department  stores.
There  is  no  reason  why  women  should 
not  dress  windows.  Usually  they  have 
good  eyes  for  color combinations,  drap­
ing and beauty in general.  The laborious 
physical  part  of  the  work  can  be  at­
tended  to  by  male  assistants,  under  the 
tasteful  direction  of  the  fair  trimmers. 
For  the  benefit  of  the  worried  men  in 
the  window  dressing  “ profession,"   it 
may  be  remarked  that  the  feminine 
in­
vasion 
is  not  especially  strong  as  yet. 
The  superintendent  of  a  large  depart­
ment  store  says  that  he  had  noticed  the 
marked  aptitude  which  two  very  clever 
young  ladies  had  shown  in  arranging 
the  counters  in  the  stocks  in  which  they 
were  employed.  They  gave  him  an 
idea,  which  he  expressed  to  the  head 
window  dresser,  and  the  result  of  that 
conversation  was  the  creation  of  a  new 
occupation 
The 
girls 
in  question  were  given  a  trial  in 
the  window  during  the  off  summer  sea 
son  and  proved  themselves  so  capable 
that  they  have  been  put  to  work  on  the 
fall  displays.  They  assist  the  head  win­
dow  dresser  with  their  ideas  as  to  color, 
etc.

for  young  women. 

We  can  see  how  this  feminine  depart­
ment  would  operate  in  men’ s  furnish­
ing  windows,  if  the  trimmer  was  at­
tractive  as  well  as  skilful.  The  chances 
are  that  she  would  draw  large  crowds 
especially 
if  the  work  was  done  during 
the  evening  with  the  shades  up.

Recently  all  sort  of  things  have  been 
done  to  attract  attention  to  windows, 
and  in these attempts  young  women have 
been  employed  to  pose  and  show  off 
various  wares.  Recently  we  saw  a 
demonstration  of  belts  by  a  young  man.
If  the  demonstration  had  been  made  by 
a  young  woman  the  crowd  would  have 
been 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  times 
larger.

Ah,  these  are  queer  times.  The  dis­
position  to  play  the  limit  in  the  game 
of  attracting  attention  is  very  evident, 
so  it  is  not  unlikely  that  outfitters  with 
big  windows  will  make  use,  sooner  01 
later,  of  the  new  scheme  of  employing 
girls  to  trim  windows,  unless  the  meth­
ods  now  employed  attract  more  profit­
able  attention  than  they  do  at  present 
on  the  average.

Speaking  about  girls,  their  connec­
tion  with  merchandising 
is  becoming 
mare  and  more  important.  One  of  the 
latest  metropolitan  propositions 
is  a 
girls’  technical  school  in which they will 
be  taught  the  art  of  selling  goods  and 
the  science  of  store  practice.  This 
school  opens  this  fall,  and  will  be  in 
full  operation  by  midwinter.

The  principal  says  that  he  has 

found 
large  percentage  of  girls  make 
that  a 
their  way into  department stores.  Owing 
to  inrrriage  and  other  causes,  the  per­
sonnel  of  the  female  sales  forces,  he 
constantly 
further  discovered,  was 
for 
changing,  with  consequent  room 
fresh  recruits.  His 
investigation 
led

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Michigan  Knisrhit  of the Grip

President,  J ohn  A.  Weston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  S.  Brown,  Safilnaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schram, Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers of Michigss 

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

Grssd  Rapid!  Council  No.  131,  D.  C.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  W.  S.  Burns;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Monkeys imitate—don't be  a  monkey.
‘ ‘ Good  news  from  home” —a 
letter 

with  a  draft.

‘ ‘ The  noblest  work  of  God”  

truthful  man.

is  a 

Buy  a  home  and  prepare  for  your  de­

clining  years.

‘ ‘ I ’ m  saddest  when  I  sing” —so  are 

is  on  the 

rye” —it’s 

your  neighbors.
‘ ‘ The  bloom 

often  on  the  nose.

practical  farmers.

Farm er 

traveling  men  Often  amuse 

Putty-minded  men  are  poor  friends. 

Place  no  confidence  in  such  men.

A  man  who  can  see  only  the  short­

comings  of  others  is  narrow-minded.

“ God  hates  a  liar” —every  one  does.
The  best  plan  to  keep  stock—never 

advertise.

Theoretical  salesmen  and  practical 
salesmen  are  different  men.  One  fails 
while  the  ether  succeeds.

If  you  find  fault people will pronounce 
you  a  kicker.  If  you  never  make  objec­
tions  you  are  styled  a  stick.

The  first  of  a  series  of  dancing  and 
card  parties  by  Grand  Rapids  Council, 
No.  131,  will  be  given  at  the  lodge 
rooms  on  Pearl  street  Saturday  even­
ing,  October 
in 
charge  have  made  all  arrangements  for 
a  good  time,  and  it  is  hoped  that  every 
member  will  be  there.

18  The  committee 

A.  P.  McPherson,  President  of  the 
Frank  B.  Taylor  Co.,  sailed  from  New 
York  yesterday  for  Germany,  where  he 
will  spend  a  month  or  six  weeks  in  se­
lecting  china,  dolls  and  novelties  for 
next  season's  trade. 
‘ Mack,”   as  he 
is  familiarly  called,  ought  to know  what 
to  buy  by  this  time,  because  be  has 
sold  these  goods  to  the  trade  for  about  a 
dozen  years  and  has  carefully  noted  the 
preferences  and  peculiarities  of  his  cus­
tomers.

A  traveling  salesman  who  conducts 
himself  in  a  proper  manner—and,  of 
course,  most  of  them  do—is  entitled  to 
all  the  courtesy  that  would  be  extended 
to  the  head  of  the  firm,  which  he  repre­
sents.  Nothing 
is  gained  by  giving  a 
traveler  the  cold  shoulder.  You  may 
not  want  to  buy,  or  perhaps  may  not  be 
in  a  talking  mood,  but  if  you  mistreat 
him  you  are  mistreating  a  friend.  A 
man  who  is  forced  by  his  calling  to  be 
away  from  home  and  family  nine-tenths 
of  the  year  is  deserving  of  the  kindliest 
treatment.  Every  dealer  can  and  should 
help  to  make  things  pleasant  for  him.

Sometimes  men  engaged  in  business 
go  out  among  their  customers  in a social 
way,  often  soliciting  business  also,  as 
opportunity  offers.  This 
is  certainly 
legitimate  and  some  of  our  best  and 
most  gentlemanly  business  men  do  not 
deem 
it  beneath  them.  When  the  pro­
prietors  are  in  their  places  of  business 
it  is  always  clear  sailing  as  one  gentle­
man  knows  how  to  treat  another  in  a 
call  of this  kind,  but  it  takes  some  little 
whiffet,  clothed  with  a 
little  brief  au­
thority,  to  freeze  with  a  chilling  dignity 
and  render  speechless, by  curt and  frigid 
answers,  the  unfortunate,  no  matter how

is,  who 
modest  and  unassuming  he 
dares  to  approach  the  confines  of  his 
presence. 
Is  it  any  wonder  that  travel­
ing  men  and  solicitors  often  being  re­
pelled  by  men  with  more  money  and 
self-importance 
than  brains,  should 
quote  Shakespeare  as  a  safety  valve: 
“ Great  God,  on  what  meat  doth  this, 
our  Caesar,  feed  that  he  hath  grown  so 
great?”

shop 

A  few  traveling  men  never  tire of tell­
ing  of  their  sales  and  proving  their wild 
assertions  by  producing  their  order 
books.  In  the  hotels,  on  the  cars,  in  the 
stores,  and 
in  fact  every  place  and  on 
Sunday,  too,  their  only  conversation  is 
about  their  great  sales.  They  annoy 
everybody  and  create  a  doubt  in  the 
minds  of  every  listener.  The  truly  suc­
cessful  salesman 
is  quiet,  and  seldom 
or  ever  mentions  his  sales,  and  never 
thinks  of  giving  the  name  of  his  heavy 
buyers.  There 
is  policy  in  this  plan. 
Why  should  he  advertise  his  good  trade 
and  give  competitors  pointers  that  they 
may  go  and  secure  the  same?  The  suc­
cessful  salesman 
is  conservative  and 
never  speaks  of  his  wonderful  sales,  but 
the 
talker  constantly  reminds 
everybody  of his  g-eat  success,  and'foe 1- 
ishly  imagines  that  be  is  making  a  last­
ing 
impression  upon  the  minds  of  his 
hearers when he relates his  great  exploits 
in  the  world  of  commerce.  Wise  sales­
men  say  nothing,  but  quietly  observe 
every 
remark  and  prepare  to  capture 
some  of  this  very  desirable  trade. 
In 
nearly  ever  case  where  a  salesman  talks 
shop,  he  feels  that  he  is  not  a  success, 
and 
imagines  every  one  knows  it,  but 
hopes  to  remove  the  idea  by  loud  talk 
of  his  sales.  The  veteran  remains mute, 
grasps  every  idea  and  quietly  does  his 
work.  The  successful  old-timer  never 
has  a  good  trade,  at  least  be  always 
answers  when  asked  the  condition  of 
trade,  ‘ ‘ very  dull,”   but  he  continues  on 
his  route  when  the  great  salesman  is 
forgotten.  A  shop  talker 
is  a  certain 
failure,  and  feeling  conscious  of  his 
weakness  vainly  endeavors  to  create  the 
impression  that  he  is a  glorious  success, 
but  the  successful  salesman 
is  not  so 
easily  deceived,  and  takes  advantage  of 
the  weakness  of  his  unwise  competitor; 
quietly  securing  his  customers  without 
any  noise.  The  shop  talker 
is  tire­
some.  What  do  you  care  about  his  im­
mense  sales?  You  rejoice,  as  every  true 
man  does,  to  learn  of  the  success  of  an­
other,  but  you  expect  to  hear  it  from 
disinterested  parties.  Do  not  talk  shop.

G rowth  of Am erican  W ealth.

The  United  States  Census  Bureau 

is 
now  making  arrangements  for  an  elab­
orate  study  of  the  growth  of  wealth  in 
the  United  States.  Ever  since  the  work 
of  the  census 
itself  was  actually  over 
and  the  Bureau  had  really  been  placed 
upon  a  permanent  basis,  i t  has  been 
steadily  employed  in  investigating  con­
ditions as to state  and  municipal  indebt­
edness  in  the various commonwealths.  It 
is  the  first  step  in  the  elaborate 
inves­
tigation  into the  growth of public wealth 
which  is  to  be  undertaken.  The  statis­
tician 
laying  plans  for  an  enquiry 
which  shall  be  more  scientific  and  more 
inclusive  than  anything  of  the  kind 
heretofore  published.  He  wishes,  first, 
to attack  the  question  of  classification  of 
public  wealth,  and,  if  possible,  to  hit 
upon  some  better  basis  of  what  ought  to 
be  included  in  this  category.  To  this 
end  be  is  thinking  of  sending  out  a  cir­
cular  letter  addressed  to  the  economists 
throughout 
country,  particularly 
those  who  occupy  college  chairs,  asking 
for their opinions  on  the  best  system  for 
classifying  public  wealth.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Cassius  L.  Glasgow,  the  Nashville  H ard­

ware  Dealer.

C.  L.  Glasgow  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  Jonesville,  Hillsdale  county,  Feb­
ruary  16,  1858.  He  is  of  Scotch  parent­
age.  His  father  came  to  Michigan  be­
fore  the  railroads  had  entered  the  State. 
His  education  was  received  in  the  dis­
trict  schools  and  the  Jonesville  union 
school,  finishing  at  Hillsdale  College.

He  remained  on  the  farm  until  he  de­
cided  to  start  life  for  himself,  when  he 
engaged  to  clerk  in  a  hardware  store  in 
Jonesville.  Later,  getting  the  Western 
fever,  he 
left  his  native  State,  bring­
ing  up,  after  several  weeks  of  investi­
gation,  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  where  he 
obtained  employment 
in  a  wholesale 
hardware  store  as  assistant  book-keeper 
and  billing  clerk.  This  position  he  re­
tained  until  called  home  a  year  later  by 
the  sickness  of  his  mother.  Being  the

He  was  born  and  raised  a  Republican 
and  has  always  been  a  willing  and  en­
ergetic  worker  for  the  success  of  bis 
party.  He  enjoys  the  confidehce  of
all  political  workers,  being  known  as 
a  man  who  works  for  the  party’s  good 
without  thought  of  personal  reward.

He  has  never  been  an  office  seeker  in 
any  sense  of  the  term  and  has  never 
held  any  office  at  the  hands  of  the  peo­
ple  aside  from  President  of  the  village 
in  which  he  lives,  once  by  appointment 
and  once  by  election  without  an  oppos­
ing  candidate.  At  the  Senatorial  con­
vention  recently  held  at  Hastings,  he 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  dele­
gates  as  their candidate for Senator from 
the  Fifteenth  district,  comprising  the 
counties  of  Barry  and  Eaton.  As  the 
district 
is  overwhelmingly  Republican, 
the  nomination  is  practically  equivalent 
to  an  election.  As  be  is  a  man  of  excel 
lent  judgment  and  unusual  tact,  as  well 
as  a 
forceful  and  convincing  speaker, 
his friends confidently  expect  to  see  him 
make  a  good  record  on  the  floor  and  in 
the  committee  rooms  of  the  Senate.

Mr.  Glasgow  was  married  to  Miss 
Matie  C.  Miller,  of  Jonesville,  in  1881, 
after  establishing himself  in  business  at 
his  present  location.
Mr.  Glasgow  possesses  a  charming 
personality  which  naturally  attracts  and 
holds  men.  One  can  not  come  in  con­
tact  with  him  without  feeling  that  he  is 
in  the  presence  of  a  true  gentleman. 
His  aim  is  to  do  right,  to  stand  for  the 
right  and  to  be  kind  to  all.  He  does 
not  preach  to  others,  but  he  sets  them 
an  example. 
In  an  unostentatious  yet 
magnetic  manner  he  shows  them  the 
way. 
“ One  of  the  best  and  finest  of 
men,”   say  all,  and a  man  with that  rep­
utation  must  have  earned  it.

A  broken  window  pane  may  bring  the 

doctor  gain.

Che
Livingston
fiotel

Only three minutes’  walk 

from Union Station.

Gor.  Division and Tulton Sts. 

Grand Rapids,  IDich.

youngest  and  only unmarried  member  of 
his  father’s  family,  he  was  persuaded  to 
remain  in  Michigan.  In  1881  he  went  to 
Nashville  and  purchased  the  hardware 
business  of  C.  C.  Wolcott,  which  he  has 
conducted  with  marked  success  to  the 
present  time.

In  1896  he  added  a  furniture  depart­
ment  to  his  business,  which  has  also 
proved  a  success,  bis 
lines  now  com­
prising  hardware,  farm  implements  and 
furniture.

His  unquestioned  honesty  and 

frank, 
open  manner 
in  the  treatment  of  cus­
tomers  have won for him a host of friends 
and  built  up  a  large  business  and  he  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  brightest  and 
best  business  men  in  Barry  county.

is  an  active  working  member  in 
the  Masonic  and  Knights  of 

He 
both 
Pythias  fraternities.

BUTTER 

EGGS 

POULTRY

We expect  to double  our sales  of  poultry  this  winter.  Why? 
Because  all  our old shippers  will  stick  to  us  and  this  advertise­
ment  will do the rest.  We can handle your poultry  as  well  as 
any one and  better than  many.  We  are  headquarters  for  Eggs 
and  Butter.  Give  us  a  trial.  Prompt  and  honest  returns. 
Reliable  quotations.

Buffalo  market compares favorably with  all others.

Rea  &  W itzig

C o m m is sio n   M e r c h a n ts   in   B u t t e r ,  E g g s   a n d   P o u lt r y  

96  W est  riarket  Street,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

References:  Buffalo Commercial Bank, ail Express Companies and Commercial Agencies. 

Established  1873

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

D rugs—Chem icals
Mich igan  State  Hoard of Pharm acy 
Term expires
_  
Hknry  Heim , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Dec. 31, lswa
Wir t  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids 
Dec. Si, I9un
Arthur H. Wrbbrr, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

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

- 

Exam ination  Sessions.

Lansing, November 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association 

President—Lou G. Moore, Saginaw. 
Secretary— W.  H  Bu r k e   I»étroit.
Treasurer—C. F.  Huber. Port Huron.

Best  Method  of M aking A rom atic Waters,
It  is  not  intended  in  this  paper  to  in 
form  pharmacists  of  a  new  method  for 
making  aromatic  waters,  but  to  offer 
them  an  opinion  on  the  best  method  in 
general  use.  Of  three  methods  in  mind 
involving  the  employment  of  pre 
that 
cipitated  calcium  phosphate 
is  most 
widely  used,  probably  because  recom 
mended  by  the  Pharmacopoeia;  it 
i 
readily applied and yields  a clear,  strong 
solution  of  the  respective  oils.  But,  in 
the  writer’s  experience,  waters  made  by 
this  process  become  somewhat  musty 
and  opalescent  on  stand ing.

Another  method  used  to  some  extent 
is  one  in  which  purified  talcum  is  used. 
Commercial  talcum,  freed  from  impuri­
ties  according  to  the  directions  under 
“ Talcum  Purificatum"  of  the  National 
Formulary,  is  the  chemical  to  which 
reference  is  made.

is 

the 

filter-paper  method; 

The  modus  operand! 

The  iast  of  the  three  methods  may  be 
called 
the 
water  being  made by the  exposure  of  the 
oil  to  distilled  water  by  the  aid  of  filter 
paper. 
to 
drop 
the  oil  on  a  mass  of  picked  or 
shredded  filter  paper,  then  to  drop  this 
oily  paper 
into  the  required  amount  of 
warm  distilled  water  contained  in  a bot­
tle  or  jug, quickly  stoppering.  Set  aside 
with  frequent  agitation,  preferably  dur­
ing  several  days.  When  desired  for  use 
filter  through  a  filter  paper,  properly 
folded,  with  the  point  resting 
in  a 
pledget  of absorbent cotton, placed in  the 
neck  of  the  funnel.  The  result  will  be 
a  perfectly  clear  water  of  a clean,  strong 
odor.

The  object  of  this  paper  is  to  advise 
last  men­

all  pharmacists  to  use  the 
tioned  method.

Let  us,  however,  consider  the  advan­
tages  and  disadvantages  of these  several 
methods. 
The  precipitated  calcium- 
phosphate  method  has  no  advantage 
over  the  other  methods  in  preparation, 
and 
leaves  a  water  contaminated  with 
traces,  and  often  more  than  traces,  of 
chloride  and  sulphate,  as  is  proved  by 
is  due  to  the  calcium 
analysis.  This 
phosphate,  as  the  com m ercial  article 
is 
usually  contaminated  with  these  impur. 
ities.  To  readily  obtain  a  clear  filtrate 
more  of  the  calcium  phosphate  is  re­
quired  and 
is  used  by  many  pharma­
cists  than  is  directed  by  the  Pharmaco­
poeia.  Of  course,  the  more  impure  the 
calcium  phosphate  used,  the  greater  the 
contamination  of  the  water.  Purified 
talcum  answers  the  purpose  much  bet­
ter  than  the  unpurified  calcium  phos­
phate,  as  all  of  the  impurities,  soiuble 
and  insoluble,  have  been  removed ;  yet 
it  involves  a  great  amount  of  trouble  to 
purify  talcum,  and 
ihe  commercial  ar­
ticle,  like  calcium  phosphate,  contains 
impurities,  although  not  of  the  kind  to 
cause  as  much  trouble 
in  the  general 
use  of  aromatic  waters.

But  why  should  the  pharmacist  be 
bothered  with  even  an  occasional  un­
sightly  mixture  due  to  the  use of impure

calcium  phosphate,  or  why  should  he 
be  obliged  to  take  the  time  to  purify 
talcum  to  aid  in  the  filtration  of  aro 
matic  waters  when  there  is  no  necessity 
for  using  these  chemicals?

The  filter-paper  method  will  give  a 
water  with  a  cleaner and  stronger  fla­
vor.  Moreover,  the  flavor  will  last,  and 
the  product  will  not  become  musty  as 
do  the  waters  made  by  the other  two 
methods.

While  the  writer  was  using  the  pre­
cipitated 
calcium-phosphate  method 
there  were  many  cases  of annoyances 
resulting  from  the  presence  of  the  above 
mentioned  impurities  of  the  phosphate. 
Two  or  three  of  these  are  here  speci­
fied :

On  several  occasions  a  physician  or­
dered  and  waited  for  a  mixture  of  equal 
parts  of  peppermint  and  lime  waters. 
Upon  mixing  the  two  waters  a flocculent 
precipitate  formed;  this  was  removed 
by  filtration,  but  the  precipitate  con­
tinued  to  form.  Meanwhile,  the  physi­
cian  was  out  of  patience.

Another  case  was  of  a  prescription 

composed  o f:

Diuretin  ................... 
ounce.
Peppermint  water..  4  ounces.

A  very  heavy  precipitate  was  caused; 
the  mixture  bad  to  be  thrown  away. 
Diuretin  costs $ i  per  ounce!

Fowler’s  solution  also  causes  a  pre­
cipitate  with  the  waters  made  with  cal­
cium  phosphate.

Many  other  instances  might  be  men­
tioned.  Still,  if  there  were  only  three, 
they  should  be  sufficient  to  cause  us  to 
use  the  water  which  produces  no  in­
compatibilities.

H.  A.  Brown  Dunning,  Ph.  G.

Sued  For Counter Prescribing. 

Another  druggist  has  been  sued  for 
It  seems  that  a 
counter-prescribing. 
in  New  York  City  had 
piano  polisher 
his  finger 
lacerated,  and  on  the  way 
home  stopped  at  a  drug  store  for  some­
thing  with  which  to  dress  it.  Two  boys 
were  bebind  the  counter,  and  one  of 
them  gave  him  sqme  carbolic acid.  The 
next  day  the  finger  was  perfectly  white. 
Some  days  later the  member  had  to  be 
mputated  at  the  second  knuckle,  and 
three  days  later  still  it  was  cut  off  en­
tirely.  Finally,  gangrene  set 
in,  and 
the  palm  of  the hand  bad  to  be  operated 
pon.  Sixteen  weeks  were spent put in a 
hospital,  and  the  patient  now  says  that 
he  is  unable  to  work  and  is  forced  to go 
about  on  crutches.  He  thinks  $10,000 
ttle  enough  to  remunerate  him  fur  the 
damages  suffered. 
In  this  connection, 
however,  it  may  be  stated  that  a  suit 
somewhat  similar  was  dismissed  a  year 
ago  in  New  York.  Still,  the  present 
case  is  enough  different  to  prevent  the 
assumption that it  will  be  disposed  of  in 
a  similar  manner.

The  G overnm ent  License.

One  of  our  New  York  contemporaries 
makes  the  statement  in  a  recent  issue 
that  a  United  States  liquor  license  must 
be  taken  out  by  every druggist.  This is 
an error.  We  have  before  us  a  fetter  re­
ceived  from  the  Collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  at  Chicago,  and  he  confirms 
our  impression  that  a  durggist  need  not 
take  out  a  Government  license unless  he 
sells  distilled  spirits,  wines,  or  malt 
liquors.  The  druggist  has  a  perfect 
right,  without  a  license,  not  only  to  use 
alcohol 
in  making  his  tinctures  and 
other  medicines,  but  to  reclaim  alcohol 
in  the  preparation  of  medicines 
used 
without 
the  payment  of  special  tax 
either as  retail  liquor  dealer  or  rectifier.
The  more  haste  the  longer  you  have 

to  wait  for  the  other  fellow.

Took  Back  A ll  His  Goods.

The  druggists  of  three or  four  towns 
in  Iowa  have  recently  been having  some 
sport  with  a  member of  the  fakirs’  fra 
ternity. 
It  all  happened  this  way :  On 
Frank,  a  purveyor  of  corn  cure,  called 
on  the  druggists  and  presented  a  “ sure 
thing”   proposition.  The  goods  were  to 
be  sold  for  cash;  a  half-dozen  men  were 
to  be  put 
into  the  territory  to  take  or 
ders  direct  from  the  public  and  turn 
them  over  to  the  druggists;  a  vigorou 
campaign  of  newspaper  advertising  wa 
to  be  conducted;  and  all  the  druggists 
would  have  to  do  would  be  to  lie  quie 
and  rake  in  the  shekels.  What  a  glori 
ous  prospect!  After  Frank  had  left  th< 
town  of  Decorah,  however,  it  was  acci 
dentally  discovered  that be had  not  been 
near  the  newspaper  offices  at  ail.  The 
druggists  got  a 
little  suspicious  an 
telephoned  their  brethren  in  the  near-by 
towns.  It  was  found  that  the  same  game 
had  been  worked  through  the  whole  dis 
trict.  Frank  had  sold  the  goods,  got 
the  cash  for  them,  and  skipped  out 
The  Decorah druggists decided that  they 
would  have  to  do  a  little  clever  maneu 
vering  if  they  caught  the  fellow,  and  so 
they  telephoned  to  another  town  which 
had  not  yet  been  reached,  notified  the 
druggists  of  the  situation,  and  asked 
that  Frank  be  held  when  he  made  hi 
appearance. 
ingenious 
diplomacy  Frank,  when  he  did  appea 
n  the  town,  was  kept  on  the  ground  un 
til  the  arrival  of  one  of  the  Decorah 
druggists  accompanied  by  the sheriff.  It 
turned  out  very  nicely.  Frank  wa 
the  most  docile  man  imaginable.  He 
thought  the  druggists  were  not  treating 
him  quite  squarely,  hut  he  patiently 
took  back  all  bis  goods,  returned  the 
money  he  bad  secured  for  them,  paid 
the  hotel  bill  which  had  previously 
remunerated  the 
caped  his  memory, 
sheriff 
for  all  his  trouble  and  expense, 
and  finally "stood  treat”   for a good  sup­
per !

By  a 

little 

The  D rag  Market.

Opium—Is  firm  at  unchanged  price.
Morphine—Is  steady.
Quinine—Is  very  firm  at  the  last  ad­

vance.

Cocoa  Butter—The 

last  Amsterdam 
auction  sales  were  lower and prices have 
been  reduced  in  this  market.

Epsom  Salts—Are  very  firm  and  an 

advance  is  looked  for.

Menthol—Is higher in  foreign  markets 

and  another  advance  is  looked  for.

Balsam  Copaiba—Has  advanced  and 

is  very  firm.

impose  such  a  duty. 

out  offering  any  excuse  whatever,  the 
physician 
refused  to  respond  to  the 
call.  Death  resulted.  The  administrator 
of  Miss  Burk  brought  suit  to  recover 
$10,000  for  causing  her  death;  but  the 
court  refused  to  decide  against  the  de­
fendant.  The  defendant,  said  the  court, 
was  under  no  common-law  duty  to  re­
spond  to  every  call,  and  neither  did  the 
statute 
" I n   ob­
taining  the  State’s  license  (permission) 
to  practice  medicine,  the  State  does  not 
require,  and  the 
license  does  not  en­
gage,  that  he  will  practice  at  all,  or on 
other  terms  than  be  may  choose  to  ac­
cept.  Analogies  drawn  from  obligations 
to  the  public  on  the  part  of  innkeepers, 
common  carriers,  and  the  like,  are  be­
side  the  mark.”   The  court  was  doubt­
less  right  both  in  regard  to the common- 
law  duty  and  the  effect  of  the statute, 
is  also  probably  true  that  the 
but  it 
statute  might 
impose  such  a  duty,  and 
perhaps  should  do  so.

No  Ginseng  Boom  Coming.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

those  engaged 

There  is  no  get-rich-quick  possibility 
in  the  culture  of  ginseng  root,  accord­
ing  to  the  division  of  botany  of  the 
Agricultural  Department  at  Washing­
ton.  Recently  Chinamen  who  have 
visited  St.  Louis  have  told  in  glowing 
terms  of  the  rare  financial  remuneration 
in  this  industry  and 
shipping  their  goods  to  China.  A  letter 
was  received  from  F.  V.  Coville,  chief 
botanist  at  Washington,  yesterday  by 
the  St.  Louis  Commission  Company,  in 
which  Mr.  Coville  says  the  division  of 
botany  wishes  to  warn  the  public  that, 
legitimate  traffic 
live  roots  of  ginseng,  a 
boom 
is  under  way 
based  upon  extravagant  representations. 
One  dealer,  says  the  chief  botanist,  has 
been 
to  be  selling  as  ginseng 
seed  at  $3  per  pound  the  seed  of  com­
mon  turnip  worth  not  over  20 cents  per 
pound.  It  should  not  be  forgotten,  adds 
Mr.  Coville  in  his  letter,  that  the  value 
of  our  exports  of  ginseng  have  in  no 
year  reached  $1,000 000,  having  been 
$840,686  in  1807,  $638,446 in  i8g8, $782,- 
545 in  1899  and  $833,710 in  1900.  Enor­
mous  increase  in  the  amount  of  ginseng 
root  produced  will  inevitably  result  in 

addition  to  the 
seeds  and 

in  these  products 

found 

decrease  in  selling  price.
Various  Routes.

Some men take the  poison route.
While some jump in the lake;
And others get a gun and shoot,
And some gas treatment bike.
Some on the thin ice slide,
And take an auto ride.

By cigarettes some get them hence,
W hile others go to more  expense 

Juniper Berries-Lower price is looked 
for,  on  account  of  new  crop  soon  com­
ing  into  market.

Oil  Peppermint—Is  very  firm  and  ad­

vancing.

Oil  Spearmint—Is  very  scarce  and 

higher.

O il  Wormwood—Is 

and  lower.

in  better  supply 

Oil  Tanzy—Is  scarce  and  advancing.
Linseed  Oil —Is unsettled  and  tending 

lower.

An  Interesting  Decision.

An  interesting  case  has  recently  been 
passed  upon  by  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Indiana. 
It  refers  entirely  to  physi­
cians,  but  will  nevertheless  prove  read­
able  to  pharmacists.  A  regularly  li­
censed  and  practicing physician had  be­
come  the  family  doctor of  one  Charlotte 
M.  Burk.  She  became  dangerously  ill 
and sent  for her physician.  The  messen­
informed  the  physician  of  the 
ger 
woman’s  dangerous 
tendered 
him his  fee in  advance,and declared that 
no  other  doctor  was  procurable.  With­

illness, 

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Conlum Mac............   80©  90
Copaiba..................   i  le© l  25
Cubebae..................  i ao© i  36
Exechthltos............   l 50© l  60
Erlgeron.................  i oo© l  10
Gaultherla..............  2 00© 2  10
Geranium, ounce.... 
©  75
Gos8lpp1l, gem. gal..  60©  60
Hedeoma.................  1  80© 1  85
Jtinipera.................  1  60© 2  00
Lavendula..............  90®  2 00
Llmonls.........
1  15©  1 25
Mentha Piper.
2 90©  3 20
Mentha Verid 
2  25© 2 30
Morrhuae, |gal
2 00® 2 10
Myrcta..........
4 00© 4 50
Olive............ ].............. |
75© 3 00
Ptdl Liquid a __.. .. 
io©
10© 12
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Plels Ltqulda,  gal... 
© 36
Bidna.....................   9.'@
9.'© 98
Rosmarlnl......
© 1  00
Rosae, ounce... 
_
6 50© 7 00
  40©
Sucdnl.................. 
40© 46
Sabina....................  go©
90©  1  00
Santal....................... 2  76©
2 76©  7 00
55©
Sassafras................. 
56© 60
Slnapls,  ess., ounce.
© 66
TTiffl.....................
1  50©  1  60
Thyme.....................
40© 60
_
Thyme, opt.............. 
©  1 60
Theobromas........... 
15©
15© 20
B
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
Bichromate............  
Bromide.................  
C arb.......................  
Chlorate... po. 17©19 
Cyanide..................  
Iodide.....................
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nltras.........
Prusslate................. 
Sulphate po............  

16©
16© 18
13©
13© 16
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60© 66
12©
12© 15
16©
16© 18
34©
34© 38
2 30© 2  40
28© 30
7© 10
6® 8
23©
23© 26
16©
16© 18

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Aconltum.................  20©
20© 26
30©
Althae...................... 
30© 33
Anchusa................. 
10©
10© 12
Arum  po................. 
©
© 26
20©
Calamus..................  
20© 40
Gentlana........po. 16
12© 16
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
16© 18
Hydrastis  Canaden.
© 75
© 80
Hydrastis Can., po..
__
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12© 15
Inula,  po................. 
is©
18© 22
Ipecac, po...............
2 75© 2 80
35© 40
Iris  plox...po.36@38  ___
26©
Jalapa, pr...............  
25© 30
Maranta,  44*......
36
9
Podophyllum,  po
22© 26
Rhei............... .„
76© 1 00
Rhel, cut............
©  1 26
__
Rhel.pv..............  
76©  1 36
38©
Splgella................... 
36© 38
©
Sangulnarla.. .po.  15 
© 18
Serpentarla............   60©
60© 66
Senega ....................
80® 85
Smllax. officinalis H.
© 40
Smllax, M...............
© 26
Sclllae.............po.  36
10© 12
Symplocarpus, Pcetl-
dus,  po.................
© 26
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
© 26
___
Valeriana,  German. 
16© 20
Zingiber a ...............  
14©
14© 16
Zingiber j.................  28©
26© 27
Semen
Anlsum..........po.  18
© 16
Aplum (graveleons).
19© 16
Bird, is..................
4© 6
Carul.............. po.  15
10© 11
Cardamon...............
1 26©  1 76
Corlandrum.............
8© 10
Cannabis Satlva......
6©  6
Cydonlum......................__
76©  1  00
ie©
Chenopodlum.........  
16© 16
------
Dlpterix Odorate.. 
1  00©  1 10
Foenlculum...........__
© 10
Fcenugreek, po.......  
7©
7® 9
L lnl............ ........ . 
-
4  ©
6
Llnl, grd......bbl. 4
4  ©
6
Lobelia................ .
1  60©  1 66
Pharlarls Canarian
6  ©
6
Rapa.....................
6
6  ©
Slnapls  Alba.........
9© 10
11©
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
11® 12
Splritus

Frumentl,  W. D. Co.  2 00©  2 60 
Frumentl,  U. F. R..  2 00© 2  26
Frumentl................   1  26©  1  60
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1  66© 2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1  75© 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E  ...  1  90© 2  10
Spt. Vlnl Galll.........  1  76© 6 60
Vlnl Oporto............   1  26© 2  00
Vlnl Alba............... 
1  26® 2  00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60© 2  75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2  60© 2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
© 1  so
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheepsr wool,
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
Aurantl Cortex........ 
Zingiber..................  
Ipecac...................... 
Ferrl Iod................. 
Rhel Arom.............. 
Smllax  Officinalis... 
Senega.................... 
Sclllrn......................  

©  1 00
@  76
©  1  40
©  50
©  50
©  50
©  60
©  50
© 
so
60©  60
©  50
©  6*

©
_
©

Miscellaneous 

Sclllae  Co................. 
eo50 
Tolutan 
Prunu8  vlrg............  
50
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls R 
60 
Aconltum Napellls F
50 
I Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 50 
Arnica....................
I Assafoetlda..............
50 
Atrope Belladonna..
60 
Aurantl Cortex.......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 50 
Benzoin Co..............
50
Barosma............
Cantharldes............
75 
Capsicum................
50
Cardamon...............
76
Cardamon Co..........
75 
Castor.....................
1 0050
Catechu!...................
Cinchona................
50 
Cinchona Co............
60 50 
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
60 50
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
50 
Digitalis..................
50 
Ergot.......................
50 
Ferrl  Chlorldum....
85 
Gentian..................
50 
Gentian Co..............
60 
Gulaca.....................
50 
Gulaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus............
50
Iodine  ....................
76 
Iodine, colorless......
75 
K ino.......................
50 
Lobelia...................
50 
Myrrh.....................
50 
Nux Vomica............
So 
Opii..........................
75 Bo
Opli, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
»  Bo So 
Quassia...................
Rhatany..................
60 
Rhel........................
Bo 
Sangulnarla...........
BO 
Serpentarla............
Bo 
S tromontum............
80 
Tolutan..................
80 
Valerian.................
»0 Bo 
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................
20
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30© 
36 
38
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©
Alumen  ...................  2>4®
3
4 
3©
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
50
Annatto...................   40©
4©
Antlmonl, po........... 
5 
50 
Antlmonl et Potass T  40©
25 
©
Antlpyrln................ 
Antifebrln.............. 
©
20 
45 
Argent! Nltras, oz... 
©
Arsenicum.............. 
10©
12
Balm Gilead  Buds..
46©  50
Bismuth S. N...........
1  66©  1  70 
Calcium Chlor., is...
©
Calcium Chlor., 44s..
© 
10 
© 
Calcium Chlor.,  ids.. 
12
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
®  15
Capsid Fructus, af..
Capsid  Fructus, po.
©  15
©  15
Capsid Fructus B, po 
12©  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 16
© 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40......
66©  60 
Cera Alba..............
42 
Cera  Flava..............  40©
©
Coccus.................... 
40 
Cassia Fructus........  @
35 
Centrarla................. 
©
10 
Cetaceum................. 
©
46 
60 
Chloroform............   56©
Chloroform, squlbbs 
1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....
1  36® 1  60 
20©  26 
Chondrus................
38©  48
Clnchonldlne.P. & W 
Clnchonldlne, Germ.  38©
48 
75 
Cocaine..................   4  06©  4
75 
Corks, list.dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............
45 
©
Creta............bbl. 75
2 5 
©
Creta, prep..............
©9©
Creta, preclp...........
11
Creta, Rubra...........
©
Crocus....................   30©
©
Cudbear..................  
CuprI Sulph............   6H©
7©
Dextrine................. 
78©
Ether Sulph............  
Emery, all numb6.s. 
©
Emery, po.
©86©
Ergota...........po. 90
Flake  White........... 
12©
Galla.......................  
©
8©
Gambler................. 
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
©
Gelatin, French......  
36©
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
Glue, brown............  
n@
Glue,  white............   16©
Glycerlna.................  1744®
Grana Paradlsi........ 
©
Hum ulus................. 
25©
®  1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
©  90
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
©  1  10 
© 1  20 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum  60©  60
Hydrargyrum......... 
©  86
IchthyoDolla,  Am...  66©  70
Indigo.....................  
75© 1 00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40© 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60® 3 85
Lupulln.................... 
©  60
Lycopodium.............  66©  70
M ads......................  66©  76
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
ararglod.............. 
©  26
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
10© 
12
2© 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
l*  
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
© 
Mannla. 8 
76©  80

29
46
6
10
14
16
63
5
40

1  20

6
8
16
14
i 26
i  00
60
)  00

24
9
I  60
66l  70
66
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
1225
30
30
1214
16
17
16
! 26
75
40
15
2
80
7

18
26
36
40
26
30
20
10

66
46
35

2866

14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14
16
69
40
00
86
36
75
60
40
10
46
46
00

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
25
60
20
20
20

01
60
26
66
20
66
86
80
86

7510401

47
48
65
£8

20® 22 Linseed, pure raw...
18 Linseed, boiled.......
©
© 30 Neatsfoot, winter str
Spirits  Turpentine..
© 41
41
©
9©  11
9©  11
25©  27
2
144© 
3© 
5
4
344© 
2 
© 
© 2 60 
50©  66
© 2 00 

60
51
80
33
Paints BBL. LB.
Red  Venetian.........  
lk   2  ©8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  I3i  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
lli  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2%. 214©3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  214  2K® 3  
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............ 
13©  15
70©  76
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris...........  1414© 1814
Green, Peninsular... 
13©  16
Lead, red.................  3  ©  814
Lead,  white............   6  ©  614
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’__ 
©  96
© 1  25
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff....................... 
© 1  40
Universal Prepared.  1 10© 1  20

©■

©©
80©  1  06 
4
244© 
214©  314 
8©  
10 
28©  30
45©  60
9 00@16  00 
7© 
8

Varnishes

2  00 

8 CO 
2 40 
2 40 
2  40 
40 
80 
10 37

Menthol..................  
©
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2  ie© 
Morphia, 8., N. Y. Q. 2  16©
Morphia, Mai...........2  16©
Moschus  Canton.... 
©
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   66©
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @
Os Sepia..................  
36©
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co.................... 
©
Fids Llq. N.N.V4 gal.
doz....................... 
©
Plels Llq., quarts__  
©
1  00 
Plels Llq.,  pints......  
®
86
Pll Hydrarg... po.  80 
©  60 i
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22  @
18 
©
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 36 
30
Pllx Burgun............  
©
7 
Plumbl Acet............ 
10©
12 1  50 I
Pulvls Ipecac et Opii  1  30© 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
©
& P. D. Co., doz... 
75 
28©
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30 
Quasslse..................  
8©
10 38 
Quinla, S. P. &  W... 
28©
; 8©
Quinla, S.  German.. 
3- 
Quinla, N. Y............   28©
38 
Rubla Tlnctorum__ 
12©
14 1 
Saccharum Lactls pv  20©
22 
Saladn....................  4 50©
4 75 
Sanguis  Draconls...  40©
60 
Sapo, W................... 
12©
14 
Sapo M....................  
io@
12
Sapo G.................

SeldUtz Mixture......
Slnapls....................
Slnapls,  opt............
Snuff, Macea boy, De
Voes....................
Snuff .Scotch.De Vo’s
Soda, Boras
Soda,  Boras, po......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
Soda,  Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne...........
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spts. Myrcla l)om... 
Spts. Vlnl Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. Hbbl 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. logal 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia. Crystal... 
Sulphur,  Subl... 
Sulphur, Roll...,
Tamarinds.......
Terebenth  Venice 
Theobromae.
Vanilla.................
Zlncl Sulph...........
Oils

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 55© 1  60
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70© 
79

BBL.  OAL.
70
90
65

Whale, winter.........   7o 
Lard, extra..............  86 
©  16  I Lard, No. 1 ..............  60 

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Chemicals and  Patent  Medicines.

We  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

We  have  a full line of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’s  Michigan Catarrh  Remedy.

We always have  in  stock  a  full  line  of 
Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  Wines 
and  Rums  for  medical  purposes 
only.

We  give our personal  attention  to  mail 

orders and  guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same 

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

G R O C ER Y  P R IC E   C U R R E N T

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

ADVANCED

Cheese
Handpicked  Beans
M ackerel
H erring
No.  1  W hitefish

Index to  Markets

DECLINED

Fam ily  W hitefish 
Some  Brands  Soap 
Buckw heat Grits 
Peanuts 
P epper  Spuce

Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................ 
10
Assorted  Cake................. 
10
Belle Bose........................  
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar..................   9
Coffee Cake, Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............  
10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......   18
Cocoanut Taffy................. 
10
Crae knells........................  
16
Creams, Iced....................   8
Cream Crisp.......................  
1054
Cubans............................... 
1154
Currant  Fruit..................  
12
Frosted Honey................. 
12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems,l’rgeorsm’ll  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C__ 
654
Gladiator............................ 
1054
Grandma Cakes................  9
Graham Crackers............   8
Graham  Waters...............  
12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers................. 
12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey............... 
12
Lady Fingers.................... 
12
Lemon Snaps.................... 
12
Lemon Wafers................. 
16
Marshmallow...................  
16
Marshmallow Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
Mary Ann........................   g
Mixed Picnic.................... 
1154
Milk Biscuit.....................  
7J4
Molasses  Cake.................  8
Molasses Bar...................   9
Moss Jelly Bar................. 
12 *
Newton.............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............   8
Oatmeal Wafers...............  
12
Orange Crisp....................  9
Orange Gem.....................   9
Penny Cake.....................   8
Pilot Bread, XXX...........  
754
Pretzelettes, hand made..  854
Pretzels, hand  made........  854
Scotch Cookies.................  9
Sears’ Lunch....................  754
Sugar Cake....................... 
»
Snvar Cream. XXX  ........ 
g
Sugar Squares............... . 
g
Sultanas............................  13
Tuttl Fruttl......................  
le
Vanilla Wafers................. 
ie
Vienna Crimp..................   8
E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts.
CREAM  TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes......30
Bulkin sacks..........................29

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples

S undried.................... 
4*5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes,7@  8

California Prunes

100-120 25 lb. boxes........  a   4
90-100 25 ib. boxes........  @  4M
80 - 90 25 ib. boxes........  @ 5M
70 - 80 25 ib. boxes........  @  5m
60 - 70 25 ib. boxes........  3  6M
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes......  
40 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  a   84
30 - 40 25 ib. boxes  ...... 
9

M cent less In 50 lb. eases

a

California F ruits

a

Apricots..................... 
Blackberries..............
Nectarines...........
Peaches....................g  310
Pears.....................  
954
Pitted Cherries.........|
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............

Citron

Leghorn.......................  
Corsican.................... 1254@‘3

12

Currants 

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

Pool

citron American 19 lb. bx. 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx! ’l3 
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...... 9K@10
*  g
L. M„ Seeded! X  lb... 
Sultanas, b ulk....................u
Sultanas, package........""1154
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima................. 
554
Medium Hand Picked........2  25
Brown Holland....................    25

Beans

Farina

Hominy

24lib. packages...................... 1 60
Bulk, per 100 lbs...................    60

Flake, 50 lb. sack  .... 
90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl........6 00
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.................... 2 so
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli 
Domestic, 10 lb. box. 
gn
Imported, 26 lb. box....'.‘ '."2  60

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

Rio

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

Santos

Common.............................  8
F air.....................................  9
Choice.................................. to
Fancy.................................. 13
Peaberry.................................

Maracaibo

F air.................................... .
Choice 
is

Mexican
Choice..................... 
13
Fancy.................................. .
G uatem ala

Choice................................. ..

 

Jav a

African..................................
Fancy African..................   17
O  G................................ .
p- G................................ ..
Arabian............. ...........  
gj

Mocha

Package 

New York Basis.
Arbuokle.......................  
iou
Dllworth...........................'1054
Jersey.................................10*
Lion....................................
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City 54  gross............  75
Felix 54 gross.................  ...1  is
Hummel’s foil 54 gross.......   85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross........1  43

CONDENSED  MILK 

4 doz In case.

.................................4 70

Gall Borden Eagle.................. 6 40
Crown....................................[.'5 90
Ualsy 
Champion.......................... 
4 25
Magnolia................................‘4 00
Challenge............................ 
« in
-   ......................... :::3 36
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid..............................   « m
Tip  Top....................................3 85
Nestles.................................. 25
Highland  Cream.......... .’. ” 5 00
St. Charles Cream.................... 4 so

CRACKERS

B atter

National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour...........................  
354
New York
654
Family..........................  
«2
Salted................................  6'
654
Wolverine......................... 
7
Soda  XXX....................... 
Soda, City......................... 
Long Island Wafers......... 
Zephyrette.......................... 
Faust
Farina.............................. 
Extra Farina
Saltine Oyster..................  

7
g
13
13

Oyster

77>4
7754

Soda

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

Tomatoes

1  10 
1  15 
1  ?6 
8  00

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

CATSUP

CHEESE

Eocene..........................   @11
Perfection.....................   @10
Diamond White.........   @ 9£
D. 8. Gasoline............  @14 54
Deodorized Naphtha..  @12
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine.......................... 16 @22
Black, winter...............   9  @1CX
Colombia,  pints....................... 2 00
Columbia, 54 pints.................... l 25
Acme...
Amboy........
Carson City..
Elsie............
Emblem......
Gem.............
Gold Medal-
Ideal ...........
Jersey.........
Riverside__
Brick...........
Edam..........
Leiden........
Llmburger... 
Pineapple... 
Sap  Sago__
CHEWING  GUM
American Flag Spruce__
Beeman’s Pepsin ............
Black Jack.......................
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen.............................
Sen Sen Breath Perfume-
Sugar Loaf.......................
Yucatan............................
Balk.......................................5
Bed........................................7
Eagle..................................... 4
Franck’s .............................   7
Scbener’s .............................  6

312*
313
@13
@13
@1331854
@1254
@12*
@'254
313
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50@75
@19

56 
60 
56 
60 
56 
1  00
55
56

CHICORY

By Columns

C

H

G

I
J

D
r

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastine....................
Ammonia................................ 
Axle Grease............................ 
Baking Powder......................  1
Bath  Brick............................ 
1
Bluing.. 
t
............................. 
Breakfast Food.................... 
1
Brooms..................................  1
Brushes................................ 
1
Butter Color........................... 
1
Candles...................................  14
Candles...................................  
1
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.......................  5
Dried  Fruits.........................  s
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
Olives....................................  7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes.....................................  7
Playing Cards.......................  8
Potash...................................  gl
Provisions.............................   g
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
Starch...................................   10
Stove Polish.........................   10 |
Sugar.....................................  11
Syrups...................................  10
Table  Sauce..........................  u
Tea........................................  a
Tobacco................................  u
Twine...................................   12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder.................... 13
Wtcklng................................   13
Woodenwar«.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Veut  Cake.
13

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AXLE  GREASE 
doz.
Aurora....................... 55
Castor  OU...................60
Diamond.................... bo
J I Frazer’s ......................75
-  >IXL Golden, tin boxes 76
1
1

CANDLES

gross  ®ectrlc Light, 8s................ 12
12#
6 00 I Electric Light, 16s......... 
7 00 i Paraffine, 6s.........................  9 x.
4 05  Paraffine, 12s.......................’o
9 00 '  » ’own* 
i7

CANNED  GOODS 

1  10
3 35

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

Blackberries

Beans

Standards................ 
go
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
Bed  Kidney............  
76@  86
String...................... 
70
Wax......................... 
75
Blueberries
Standard....................
Brook  T rout

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

190

Clams.
. .v.
lb...... 

Neck* 1 It)
Clam  Bouillon

1 00
1  so
Burnham’s, 54 pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20

Cherries

Mica, tin boxes.........7B
Paragon.....................55

BAKING  POW DER 

Egg
2 do7  casa 
z qoz. case......3 75  LUOe Neck| 2

M, lb. cans,  4 doz. case......3 751  T 
It)  cans 
q *7* I 
»  w. cans, 
1 lb. cans,  1 doz. case....... 3 75
5 lb. cans, 54 doz. case....... g oo
J A X O N
M lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  60

I
I

Royal

BLUING

BATH  BRICK

American...........................   75
English................................   gs

2  10 
3 60 
2  40
1  80 
2 80
1  SO
2 80
1 S’*
2 80
18@20
22@25

10c size__  90
M lb. cans  1  35 
6oz. cans.  1  90 
54  lb. cans  2 60 
X lb. cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

Bed  Standards...........1 sc@i  50
White.
1  50
Corn
Fair....................... .
80 
Good.......................
85 
Fancy......................
1 00
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine..............
22
Extra  Fine....................
19
Fine..................... ..........
15
Moyen............................
11
Gooseberries
Standard ................
Hominy
Standard...
Lobster
Star, 54 lb................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails............
Mackerel 
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00
Mustard, 1 lb...........
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 1  u  ..._. ■ „
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9  00  Mustard, 2 lb
230U66u, 1 ID
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Mushrooms
....................
Hotels 
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb 
Cove, 2 lb 
Cove, 1 lb Oval 
Pea
Pie  ...............
Yellow...........
Standard ..
Fancy........
Marrowfat
Early June.
Early June Sifted..
Plum s
Plums.................   ..
Pineapple
Grated.................... 
1  25@2 75
Sliced.......................   1  36@2 56
P um pkin
F a ir............... .
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Raspberries
Standard..................
1  15
Russian  Cavier
54 lb. cans..........................  3 75
54 lb, cans..........................  7 00
1 lb. can...........................  12 00
Salmon 
Columbia River, tails 
@1 86 
Columbia River, flats
@1  80
@1  30 
Pink Alaska............
@  90
Shrim ps 
Standard.................
1  40
Sardines
Domestic, >40...........
3X
Domestic, 54s.........
Domestic,  Mustard. 
llfad 4 
7 ,   |  uaiuinuiA
California, Ms.........
17@24 
^
French, 54s.
7@14 
French, 54 s.
18@28
Straw berries
Standard.................
1  10 
Fancy  ....................
1  40

Cases, 36 packages............4 50
Five case lots.........................    40
No. 1 Carpet....................... ... ’ 0
No. 2 Carpet..........................'2 25
No. 3 Carpet...........................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..........................'1 75
Parlor  Gem..................  
2  40
Common Whisk........ 
<¡5
Fancy Whisk............... ! " ‘  i  10
Warehouse..........................'3 gg

No. 8. 
1 00 
No, 7. 
1  30 
No. 4.
1  70
Wo- 8....................................... 1  90
_ 
Stove
NO. 3.........................  
No. 2......... 
No. 1....... —iirm ii limit 75 
BUTTER  COLOR
W., B. & Co.’g, i5c size__ 
125
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size....  200

HI IIIIT FLUKES

§ss».?a....... «

1  56 
95
8E@  90 
1  66451  85
1  00
1  25
1  00
90@1  60
1  60

9011u Bacs, 11 In ............ 
95  PnJ  A laaIra
Pointed Ends.......................  » | Bed Alaska

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

...........,  Jn  California 548.

BREAKFAST  FOOD

BRUSHES 

BROOMS

Scrub

Shoe

Peas

56

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 W indsor

Cotton Braided
................................  
................................  
Galvanized  W ire

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  100
72 ft, 3 thread,  extra.......   1  40
90 ft, 34hread,  extra........  170
60 ft, 6 thread, extra.......  
1  29
72 ft, 6 thread,  extra.................
60ft............................. 
75
 
72 f t .................................. 
90
90 ft...................................   105
120 ft.................................   1  50
80 
50 ft. 
6f ft. 
»5 
70 ft.
1  10
59 ft..
1 20 
60 ft. 
1  40 
70 ft- 
1  65 
80 ft
1  85
40 ft- 
55
59 ft.. 
70
70 ft..
80
  1  90
No. 20, each 100 ft long 
No. 19, each 100 ft long 
  2  10
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, 54s  .......................   36
Colonial, 54s
42 
Epps.
uyler.........................
Huy
45 
Van Houten, 54s..........
12
Van Houten, Ms.........
Van Houten, 54s..................  40
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, 54s.  .......................   41
Wilbur, ms..........................   42
Dunham’s 54s...................   26
Dunham’s 54s and Ms......  2654
Dunham's  54s..................   27
Dunham's  5is..................   28
Bulk..................................  13
COCOA  SHELLS
201b. bags...................... 
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............  

COCOANUT

COCOA

254
3
4

COFFEE
Roasted

Teller Coffee Co.  brands
No.  9...................................  9
No. 10................................ 10
No. 12.................................. 1254
No. 14....................................14
No. 16.................................... 16
No. 18............................ ......18
No. 20....................................20
No. 22................................... 22
No. 24....................................24
No. 26....................................26
No. 28....................................28
Belle Isle..........................   20
Red  Cross...........................24
Colonial.............................. 26
Juvo.................................... 30
Koran.................................. 14

Delivered In 100 lb. lots.

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

8

Im ported.

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

6

P earl  Barley

Peas

Common..............................3 00
Chester................................. 2 73
Empire.................................8 66
Green, Wisconsin, bu.........
Green, Scotch, bu................. l 86
Spilt,  lb......   ......................  4
Boiled A vena, bbl.................6 75
Steel Cut, loo lb. sacks.. 
2  4P
Monarch, bbl........................5 so
Monarch, Vi bbl....................2 87
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2 65
Quaker, cases.......................3 10

Rolled  Oats

G rits

Walsh-DeKoo Co.’s Brand.

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

FISHING  TACKLE

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages......2 00
East India...........................  3 Vi
German, sacks....................  33i
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3Vi
Pearl, 24 1 lb.  packages......  6 V»
Cracked, bulk......................  3Vt
24 2 ft. packages.................2 GO
Vi to 1 inch..........................   6
1V4 to i  Inches......................  7
1 *4 to 2  inches...................... 
9
1% to 2 Inches.................... 
11
2 Inches................................  15
3 Inches................................   30
  5
No. 1,10 feet..................... 
No. 2,15 feet.........................  7
No. 3,15 feet........................  
9
No. 4, ¡5 feet........................   10
No. 5,15 feet......................... 
11
No. 6,15 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 fe e t.......................   15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  2o
Linen  Lines
Small............................. 
20
Medium...............................   26
Large..................................  34
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.......   50
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz.......   65
Bamboo.  18 f t , per doz.......  80
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Poles

 

FOOTE  &  JEN K S’

J A X O N

Highest  Grade  E itracts
Lemon

V aiiiiift 

1 oz full m. 1  20  1 oz full m.  80
2 oz full m  2  10  2 oz full m  1  25 
No. 8fan’v  8  is  No. sfan’y  1  7F

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

Folding  Boxes 

Fnll  Measure

Taper  Bottles 

D. C. Lemon 
I). 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
1). C. Lemon 
L>. C. Vanilla
2 OZ.........  75  2 OZ......... 1  25
3 oz.........  1 25  3 0Z...........2  10
4 OZ.........   1 50  4 OZ.......... 2 40
D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
1 OZ.........  65  1 OZ.........   85
2 OZ......... 1  10  2 OZ...........1  60
4 OZ.........   2 00  4 OZ...........3 00
2 oz. full measure, Lemou..  76
4 oz. full measure. Lemon..  1  60 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80 
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

Tropical  Extracts 

FLY  PA PER

FRESH  NEATS 

Carcass....................  
5  it  7V4
Forequarters.........  
6  @6
Hindquarters.........  6V4@  8
Loins..........................  9 
Bibs...........................  
7 
Bounds......................   6 
Chucas......................  
5 
5 
Plates........................ 
Dressed................... 
@ 8V4
I2V4@13
Loins....................... 
Boston Butts...........  nvi@i2
Shoulders................ 
@in*
Leaf  Lard................ 
@12
M utton
Carcass...................... 
5 
7 
Lambs........................  
Carcass...................... 
evi@ 8

Pork

Veal

Beef

W heat

GELATINE

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

GRAIN  BAGS

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

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

W inter W heat  F lour 

69

Local Brands

Spring  W heat Flonr 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents.............................  4  15
Second Patent..................   3 65
Straight.............................  3  <15
Second Straight...............   3  15
Clear................................  3 to
Graham............................  3  20
Buckwheat.......................  4 85
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Vis.....................   3 60
Diamond Vis.....................  3 60
Diamond Vis.....................   3 60
Quaker Vis........................   3 60
Quaker Vis........................  3  so
Quaker Vis........................  3 60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4  60
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis____   4  50
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4  40
PlUsbury’8 Best Vis paper.  4 40
Plllsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4  40
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Vis........   4  40
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4  30
Duluth  Imberlal vis.........  4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Vis....................  4  ¿0
Wingold  Vis....................  4  20
Wlngold  Vis....................  4  10
Ceresota Vis.....................   4  fo
Ceresota v»s......................  4  40
Ceresota Vis.....................   4  30
Laurel  Vis.........................  4  30
Laurel  Vis..'......................  420
Laurel  Vis.........................  4  10
Laurel Vis and V%s paper  .  4  10
Bolted..............................   2  80
Granulated.......................  2  90
St. Car Feed, screened__  .4  25
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........2«  25
Corn Meal,  coarse..........   25 25
Corn Meal, flue.................  24  00
Winter Wneat Bran.........  6  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings  18 no
Cow  Feed........................   17  CO
Screenings.......................  16  uo
Car  lots new....................  34
Corn, car  lots..................   66
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__  o9  50
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__12  00
Sage.........................................16
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves..........................is
Senna Leaves...... ...................2«

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Jud son’s Brand

Feed  and  Millstuffs

Oats
Corn
Hay

HERB8

Meal

INDIGO

JELLY

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

6 lb. palls.per doz........... 
1  85
151b. palls............................  40
30 lb. palls............................  so

LICORICE

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

LYE

MEAT  EXTRACTS

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4  46
Liebig’s, 2 oz....................  2  76

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

@14
@12
• 
@  7
@ 5 Vi
@

Horse Badlsh, 1 doz............. 1 76
Horse Badlsh, 2 doz.............3 50
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz.............1 7f

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs..............     1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs............... 
1,0
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............  
1  05
Manzanllla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2  35
Queen, 19 oz.....................  4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Staffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.....................  
1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2  80
Clay, No. 216..........................1 70
clay, X. D., full count.........   66
C»b, No. s ,,,.......... 
ss

PIPES

@ 7
@  9

 

 

PICKLES
Medians

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count.............8  00
Half bbls, 600 count.............4  ¿5
Barrels, 2,400 count............9 60
Half bbls. 1,200 count......... 5 20
PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5. 572, Special................   1  75
No  98, Golf, satin  finish..  2 00
No. 808, Bicycle...............   2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2 25 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

 

12

Mess........................   @D  25
Back...................... 
@19  60
@20  60
Clear back............... 
Shortcut.................  @19  75
Pig...................  
 
2200
Bean............  
  @17  50
Family Mess Loin... 
21  00
Clear....................... 
@19  75

D ry  Salt  Meats
Bellies............................ 
8 P Bellies...................... 
Extra shorts............ 
Smoked  Meats 
Hams, 12 lb. average.  @  13 Q
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @13!«
Hams, 16 lb. average.  @  13;«
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @ 13
Ham dried  beef......   @  i2Vi
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @
Bacon, clear............   15  @  17
California hams......   @  9%
@  18
Boiled Hams....... 
@  i3Vi
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
@  «Vi
Mince Hams......... 
9Vi@  10
Lard
Compound...............  
Pure......................... 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls..advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
5 lb. Palls.. advance 
0 ,v  T’-Us  arfvxrme 
Vegetole..................  
Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver....................... 
Frankfort................ 
P ork.......................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue....................  
Headcheese............  

1
j
8
6
6 Vi
08
8 % @9
8
»
8 Vi

@
@11 Vi
Vi
Vi
V4
ü
%

28
5
12
65

Tripe

Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless.................. 
12  75
Rump, New............  @2  75
Pigs’  Feet
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
1  75
Vi,bbls......................  
3 28
1 bbls.,  lbs.............. 
7  50
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
87
Vi bbls., 40 lbs.........  
1  50
Vi bbls., 80 lbs.........  
3 00
Casings
P ork.......................  
Beef rounds............. 
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
Solid, dairy.............. 
Rolls, dairy......... 
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 21b.... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Vis......  
Potted ham,  Vis......  
Deviled ham, Vis.... 
Deviled ham, Vis.... 
Potted tongue,  Vis.. 
Potted tongue,  vis,. 
RICE 
Domestic

@13
@l3Vi
tevi
16
2 60
18 0f>
2  50
50
90
50
90
50
90

Uncolored  B utterine

Canned  Meats 

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

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 2Vi pound pockets...  TH

29

II

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
401-lb.  packages.............. 

6
6M

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels.................................27
Half bbls.............................29
10 lb. cans, Vi doz. In case..  1  86
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. In case__  2  10
2Vi lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.. .2  10
F air..................................... 
18
Good...................................   20
Choice................................  
j»

P are  Cane

8TOVE  POLISH

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

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

SUGAR

Domino.............................  6 76
Cut Loaf....................................5 16
Crushed............................  5  15
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  F0
Mould A............................  5 00
Diamond  A.......................  4  65
Confectioner’s  A..............  4  45
No.  l, 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  15
N'  v 
...  «15
No.  8................................  4 03
Nn  0.  .............................   4 00
No. 10................................   3 95
No. 11................................   3  95
No. 12................................  3  90
No. 13................................   a as
No. 14................................  3  75
No. 15................................  3 80
No. 16................................   3 J5

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

TABLE  SAUCES

I L E A   & 

P E R R IN S’ 
SA U C E

«

The Original and 
Genuine
Worcestershire.

a »  
Lea & Perrin’s, pints.......   5 00
Lea & Perrin’s,  Vi pints...  2 75
Halford, large..................   3  75
Halford, small..................   2  25

TEA
Japan

12
28
40
56

18
28

17
25

12

Gun powder

Sundrled, medium.............. 31
Sundrled, choice..................33
Sundrled, fancy................ ..43
Regular, medium.................31
Regular, choice................... 33
Regular, fancy.................... 43
Basket-fired, medium.........31
17
Basket-fired, choice.............38
Basket-fired, fancy..............43
14
66
Nibs......................................30
60
Siftings...........................19@21
40
Fannings........................20@22
36
Moyune, medium................29
Moyune, choice................... 38
20
Moyune, fancy.................... 53
Plngsuey,  medium.............. 28
16
Plngsuey,  choice................. 33
28
Plngsuey, fancy...................43
48
17
15
Choice.................................. 30
18
Fancy..................................30
25
66
18

English Breakfast
gr

Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium....................25
Amoy, choice....................... 32
Medium................. 
27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy...................................42
Ceylon, choice......................82
Fancy...................................42

Young  Hyson

Oolong

India

20
 

 

TOBACCO

Cigars

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

V?B .C .W ..............................  |6 00

Cigar cuppings, per lb..... 

26

SEEDS

Anise.  ................................ 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3Vi
Caraway.............................   7V<
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 1#
Hemp, Russian....................4
Mixed Bird..........................  4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy..................................   6
Rape...................................   4
Cuttle Rone......................... 14
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box,  large............  2 50
1  25
Handy Box, small............  
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SOAP

100 cakes, large size..............6 50
50 cakes, large size..............3 26
100 cakes, small size............. 3 85
50 cakes, small size..............1 95

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—

Single box.............................3 45
5 box lots, delivered............3 «0
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  66
White Russian...............   3  60
Dome, oval bars..............  3  56
Satinet, oval....................  2 50
White  Cloud..................   4  10
Big Acme........................  4  25
Acme 5c..........................  3 65
Marseilles.......................  4  00
Master............................   3  70
Lenox.............................  3  10
Ivory, 6oz.......................  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. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer......................4 CO
Old Country....................  3  40
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz.........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz..............2 40
Boxes...................................  5 Vi
Kegs, English....................... 4%
Scotch, In bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, In jars.................   35
French Rappee. In  lars......   43

8conrlng

SNUFF

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

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

....... 

 

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn 

.  . 

8!«
8%
9!«

40 t-lb. packav«s. 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages............... 
6 lb. packages...............  
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages..................   6
3-lb. packages................... 
5 Vi
8-lb. packages...................  6V4
40 and GO-lb. boxes............   4
I Barrels.............................  
4

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3  pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale...................................6
Cost of packing In  cotton  pock­
12
ets only Vic more than bulk.
14
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz..  1  90 
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..  95
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz...........4 15
Durkee’s, small. 2 doz..........4 85

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15 j
Deland’s................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.......................3 15
Emblem................................2 10
L.  P ...................................... 3 00
Wyandotte, too i s ...............3 op

SAL  SODA

Granulated,  bbls.................  96
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.... 1  05
Lump, bbls.........................  90
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   95

SALT

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cttses, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels,20 I4lb.baga.2  86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Rutter, sacks, 56 lbs............  87
Shaker.............................   24ji

Common  Grades

100 3 lb. sacks............
60 5 lb. sacks............
2810 lb. sacks..........
56 lb. sacks..............
28 lb. sacks..............
Warsaw

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

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks 

Ashton

Higgins

.2 25 
.2  16 
.2 06 
40 
22

00

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock

56 lb. sacks............................  28
Granulated  Fine...................  75
Medium Fine.........................  80

Common

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Large whole...............  @  su
Sinai whole................   @  4-Si
strips or  bricks.........   6  @  9
Pollock.......................   @  3£

H alibut.

T rout

Mackerel 

Strips......................................
Chunks.............................  
13
No. 1 100 lbs......................   6 50 |
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2  50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
70
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
59 !
Mess 100 lbs..
Mess  50 lbs..
Mess  10 lbs.
Mess  8 lbs.
No. 1100 lbs.
No. 1  57 lbs.
No. 1  10 lbs.
No. 1  8 lbs.
No. 2100 lbs.
No.2  5ilbs.
No. 2  to lb s.....................
to  ■>  «r-»
Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoopsVibbl. 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs.
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Scaled.............................
Bloaters............................

H erring

W hite fish

100 lbs.... .... 1  75
60 lbs.... .... 4  27
10 lbs__ ....  93
8  lbs.... ....  77

No. 1  No. 2 Fam
3 76
2  20
63
'2

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co's brand.

30

1 2

Lubetsky Bros, brands

 

F lu«

Fine Cut

B.  L.........................................35 00
Daily Mail, 5c edition..........35 00
Cadillac................................ 54
Sweet  Loma.........................33
Hiawatha, 5 lb. pails 
........ '6
Hiawatha, 10 lb. palls........  51
Telegram..............................* 2
Pay C ar............................... cl
PwWo Roan.................. 
49
Protection............................ 37
Sweet Burley........................42
Tiger....................................38
R<w1 Cross.............................82
Palo.......................  
31
Kylo..................................... 84
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................33
American Eagle...................32
Standard Navy.................... 38
Spear Head, 16 oz................41
Spear Head,  8 oz................44
Nobby Twist........................48
Jolly Tar..............................36
Old Honesty.........................42
Toddy.,.................................33
J. T ...................................... 36
Piper Heldsick.................... 61
Boot Jack.............................78
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Black  Standard...................38
Cadillac...............................38
Forge.................................. 30
Nickel Twist....................... 50
Sweet Core.......................... 34
Flat Car...............................3'
Great Navy...................... ...34
W arpath............................. 25
Bamboo, 16 oz......................24
I XL,  61b...........................26
1 X L,l6oz. palls................. 30
Honey Dew......................... 35
Gold  Block.......................... 35
Flagman..............................38
Chips....................................32
Klin Dried...........................21
Duke's Mixture..................38
Duke’s Cameo......................41
Myrtle Navy........................39
Turn Yum, lJi oz................. 39
Yum Yum, l lb. palls...........37
Cream.................................. 36
Corn Cake, 2*4 oz.................24
Corn Cake, lib .....................22
Plow Boy, 15< oz...................39
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz...................39
Peerless, 3*6 oz.................... 32
Peerless, IH  oz....................34
Air Brake............................36
Cant  Hook...........................cO
Country Club................... 32-34
Forex-XXXX...................... 28
Good Indian........................23
Self  Binder  .................... 20-22
Silver Foam........................ 34
Cotton, 3 ply......................... 16
Cotton, 4 ply.........................16
Jute. 2 ply............................ 12
Hemp, 6 ply......................... 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, l lb. balls..................   7H

Smoking

TWINE

VINEGAR

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

Diamond  Flake................ 2 76
Gold  Brick.  .......................3 25
Gold Dust, regular............4 so
Gold  Dust, 5c.....................4 00
Klrkoline,  24 4 lb...............3 90
Pearline.............................2 75
Soapine.............................. 4  io
BabOitt's 1776.....................   3 75
Boselne.............................. 3 so
Armour’s............................3 70
Nine O’clock...................... 3 35
Wisdom............................. 3 80
Scourtne............................. 3 50
Bub-No-More......................3 75
No. 0, per gross....................25
No. 1, per gross....................30
No. ?, per gross...................40
No. 3. per gross..  ................66

WICKING

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels................................
Bushels, wide  band............1  26
Market................................  30
Splint, large........................6 00
Splint, medium.................  5 no
Splint, small.......................4 00
Willow Clothes, large.........s 00
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, 260 In crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  46
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........  80
No. 5 Oval, 280 In crate........  6n
Barrel, 5 gals., each............2 40
Barrel. 10 gals., each.......... 2 55
Barrel, 15 gals., each.......... 2 70
Bound head, 5 gross box__  60
Bound bead, cartons...........  75
Humpty Dumpty............... 2 26
No. 1, complete...................  29
No. 2, complete..................  
tg i

B utter Plates

Clothes  Pins

Egg Crates

Churns

13
Faucets

Tube

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

W ash  Boards

Cork lined, 8 In....................   65
Cork lined, 9 in....................  75
Cork lined, 10 In...................  85
Cedar. 8 In............................  65
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No 1 common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 lb. cotton mop heads......1  28
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Palls
2- 
hoop Standard......1 50
3- 
hoop Standard......1 65
2- wlre,  Cable............................ 1 60
3- wlre,  Cable............................1 go
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka..................2 25
Fibre....................................    40
Hardwood..........................2 50
Softwood............................2 75
Banquet.............................. 1 to
Ideal...................................1  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes..............  65
Bat, wood............................  so
Bat, spring...........................  75
20-lnch, Standard, No. l ......7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2___6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3......5 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1..........7 60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2..........6 59
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3..........5 60
No. 1 Fibre........................ 9 45
No. 2 Fibre........................ 7 95
No. 3 Fibre.........................7 20
Bronze Globe...................... 2 60
Dewey...............................175
Double Acme......................2 76
Single Acme....................  2 26
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Single  Peerless...................2 60
Northern Queen................2  60
Double Duplex...................3 00
Good Luck.........................2 75
Universal............................2  26
12 In. 
................................ 1  65
14 In.....................................1  85
16 In.....................................2 30
11 In. B utter.......................  75
13 In. Butter........................1  10
16 In. Butter........................ 1  75
17 In. Butter........................2 75
19 In. Butter........................4 25
Assorted 13-15-17................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 3 00
W RAPPING  PA PER
1 %
Common Straw................. 
3%
Fiber Manila, white 
......  
Fiber Manila, colored.....  4
No.  1  Manila...................   4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher's Manila.............. 
2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__   2u
Wax Butter,  rolls............  
15
Magic, 3 doz.........................1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz..................... 1 00
Sunlight, 1>4  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 114  doz...........  80
Per lb.
White fish....................ioa
Trout..........................   @  814
Black  Bass.................. io@  11
Halibut........................  43 u
Ciscoes or Herring__   a   5
Bluefish.......................  © 11
Live  Lobster...............  a  20
Boiled  Lobster............  a  22
cod..............................   a
Haddock.....................   a
8
No. 1 Pickerel..............   @
8 4
Pike.............................   a
75
  a
Perch......................... 
Smoked  White.............  Q,
11
Bed  Snapper............... 
a
Col River  Salmon  .. 12*4@  <3
Mackerel......................  a   18

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls

HIDES  AND  PELTS 

Pelts

Hides
Green  No. 1............
Green  No. 2............
Cured  No. 1 ............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins.green No. 1 
Calf sklns.green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins.cured No. 2 
Old Wool
...... 
Lamb.......................  
Shearlings.............. 
Tallow
S °-1......................... 
No. 2........................  
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy
. 

— 
Standard................. 
Standard H. H .... 
Standard  Twist...
Cut Loaf...............
Jumbo. 32 lb,
E x tra ä T k ;!!!;;;;; 
Boston Cream 
Beet Bo*»»

Wool

. 

@ 7*4 
@ b*4 
@  9 
@   8 
@ 9*4 @ 1» 
@10*4 
@ 9
50@1 to
45@  76
4u@  75
@  6
Q 5
@20
@23
@b
I6@i8

bbls. palls
@ 7
~
@ 7 @  8 
@ 9 
cases 
@  7*4
§ ¿ 2
@10 
@ 8

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

Fancy—In  P ans 

14

Mixed Candy

Grocers....................
Competition...........
Special.....................
Conserve.................
Royal..................*
Ribbon..................."
Broken........J  ........
Cut Loaf...................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton Cream......
French Cream.......
Dandy Pan........
Hand  Made  Crc~-"
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........

@ 6 

@  1 
@@  7*4 
@  8*4 @ 9 
@ 8 
@  8*4 @ 9 
@ 9
@ 8*4 @  9 
@10
114*4
13
8*415
12
129
1110
10
@12 
@ 9 
@ 10 
@11 @13*4 
@12 
@ 5*4 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@12
@11
@13 
@12

15

STONEWARE

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

C h u r n s
2 to 6 gal., per gal..................
'’burn Dashers, per doz.........
M ilkpans

*4 gai  feat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each................
Fine  Glazed  M ilkpans
*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

Stewpans

*4 gal. fireproof, ball, p» r doz............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............

Ja g s

*4 gal. per doz.....................................
*4 gal. per doz.....................................  
1 to 5 gal., per gal......  
...................J 
6 lbs. In package, per lb  ....................  

Sealing  Wax

LAMP  BURNERS
No. 0 Son......................................  
No. 1 Sun......................................  
* 
No. 2 Sun.......................................  * 
No. 3 Sun............................................!! 
Tubular........................................ 
Nutmeg............................................  
MASON  FRUIT JA RS 

W ith Porcelain  Lined  Caps
P in ts................................................ 25 per gross
........................................... ..  50 per gross
*2 Gallon....................................... 6 50 per gross
Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen In box
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds 

„   „ _ 
No. 0 Sun............................................  
No. 1 Sun............................................  
No. 2 Sun.........................................!! 
Anchor Carton Chimneys 

Each cblmney In corrugated carton.

Per box of 6 doz.

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
@50
Am
@60
@85
@1  00 @36 
@76 
@56 
@60 
@60 
@60 
@55 
@56 
@90
aes
©66
@60

Lemon  Sours........
Peppermint Drops.'!
Chocolate  Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice  Drops....!!
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed.,.
Imperials.................
Mottoes.................'
Cream  Bar............
Molasses Bar.........!
Hand Made Creams'.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
apd  Wlnt.............. 
String Rock............. 
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels 
Clipper, 201b. pails.. 
Perfection, 201b.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3, 3 for lc pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy  Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamalcas..............
Bodl......................

@ 8*4
@12*4@13
@66@65
@60
@60
@60

@
@
@o
@
@
@@100 
@
@
@
@
@
@

Lemons
Verdelll, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300......  
Verdelll, ex ebee  300 
Verdelll, fey 360......  
Call Lemons, 300......  
Messlnas  300s.........   3 5o@4  50
Messlnas  360s.........   3  60@4  60
Bananas
Medium bunches__  
1  50@2  00
Large  bunches........’

5

@

Figs

@ 6

@ 6*4
«9 
@ 5*4Ü

Foreign  D ried F ruits 
@
@1  00

Callfornias,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........
Fancy, Tkrk„  12  lb.
boxes....................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases
Hallow!.................... 
lb.  cases, new......
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivloa......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
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............
Cocoannts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
6*@ 6*4
Fancy,  H.  P„  Suns
Boasted...............  
6?i@  7*4
A 79 
Choice, H.P., Jumbo 
Choice, H. P,  Jumbo 
94
<a  n
Boasted................ 
Span. Shlld No. 1 o*w  6  O 7

15@I6
@10@13
@13
@
@13*4
@10
@13
@14
@@3 50 
@

»

La  Ba8tie

Rochester

P earl  Top

XXX  Flint

F irst  Quality

No. 0 Crimp........................................
No. 1 crimp................................. ;;;;
No. 2 Crimp.....................................!
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.......
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled.......
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No, 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (66c  dozi......................... 
No. 2 Lime (7fe  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. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz:. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans............... ............... 
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas.................... 
No.  0 Tubular, side lift.................... 
No.  1 B Tubular............................... 
No. 15 Tubular, dash.......................... 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
For  Sale

The  Unsuccessful  Experiment of Jimmy's 

Brothers.

One  of  the  passengers  on  a  tramp 
steamer  that  left  New  York  last  week 
for  Southampton,  England,  was  a  dis­
consolate,  disgruntled  young  Irishman 
named  Jimmy.  He bad  come  over  about 
nine  months  ago  to conquer  America, 
and  bad  not  succeeded.

If  I  remember  rightly,  I  have  pub­
lished  something  about  this  young  fel­
low  before.  His  older  brothers  came 
over  here  several  years  ago  and  started 
a  grocery  store.  They  were  successful, 
and  Jimmy  got  such  a  longing  to  come 
after  them  and  get 
in  the  swim,  too, 
that  be  pestered  them  to  death  with  let­
ters,  and  finally  they  sent  him  his  pass­
age  money.

The  brothers  needed  a  new  man  in 
the  store  anyway,  and  they  thought  they 
could  tit  Jimmy 
into  the  vacant  space 
as  well  as  anybody.

gave 

So  Jimmy  came  over,  raw  but  confi­
dent,  and  went  straightway  to  work  as 
in  his  brothers’  grocery. 
roustabout 
large 
The  store,  incidentally,  was  in  a 
Eastern  city,  and  of  fair 
importance 
for  a  local  stand.
The  brothers 

Jimmy  nine 
months'  trial,  and  bad  to  send  him 
home  again,  because  he  was  a  nuisance. 
He  got  them 
into  all  sorts  of  snarls.
One  of  these  men  told  me  a few things 
about 
last  week. 
Even  as  a  boy,  he  said,  be  was  always 
a  self-opinionated  cub—thought he knew 
more  than  anybody  else  and  full  of wild 
schemes  for  doing  things  different  from 
anybody  else.

Jimmy's 

vagaries 

He  was  the  same  Jimmy  when  he  en­
tered  his  brothers’  grocery  store.  As 
soon  as  he  bad  got  the  raw  soil  of  old 
Ireland  brushed  off  him,  and  bad  begun 
to  feel  at  home,  the  same  old  character­
istics  began  to  bubble  up.

Jimmy  was  the  most  independent  in­
dividual  with  bis  brothers'  customers 
you  ever  saw.  One  day  a  fussy  old 
spinster,  who  bought  a  lot  herself  and 
had  influence  with  a  good  deal  more—a 
good  thing,  she  was—sent  back  a  roast 
she  said  was  tainted. 
of  veal  that 
Jimmy  was  alone 
in  the  store  at  the 
time,  and  as  he  had  noticed  that  bis 
brothers  were  a  good  deal  too  truckling 
in  their  treatment  of  customers,  he  re­
solved  to  put  the  stote  on  record  in  the 
right  way.

So  be  sent  the  roast  back  with  a  curt 
message,  and  the  brothers  bad  a  deuce 
of  a  time  smoothing  the  old 
lady  over.
Jimmy  got  one  peach  of  a  roast  for 
that,  but  one  roast  can  not  change  a 
leopard's  spots.

Another  time  he  was  in  the  store  one 
Sunday  morning  when  another  good 
customer  who  had  forgotten  to  order  the 
day  before,  sent  up  to  know  whether  he 
would  not  please  let  her  have  a  can  of 
tomato  soup  as  a  special  favor.

Jimmy  sent  back  word  that  no,  be 
wouldn’t;  they  didn’t  sell  goods  on 
Sunday.

That  made  an  awful  time,  too.  The 
lady  in  question  bad  company  for  Sun­
day  dinner,  and  soup  was  the  one  thing 
needful.  She  got  white-hot  when  she 
was  refused  it,  and  raised  an  awful stew 
with the older brothets the  next  morning.
This  woman  refused  to  be  pacified 
and 
in  the  neck 
again,  but  by  this  time  he  was  feeling 
perfectly  at  home  in  the  store  and  did 
nit  mind  it.

Jimmy  got 

left. 

He  felt  that  the  store  needed  reform­

it 

ing,  and  that  he  was  the  man  to  do  it.

Jimmy  had  bis  brothers  up 
Well, 
it  all  the  time.  He  had  never 
against 
learned—and  never could  have  learned,

in  fact—that  it  is  necessary  for  a  grocer 
to  take  sass  from  customers  sometimes. 
When  a  woman  got  lippy  in  the  store 
over  some  goods  she  had  not  liked, 
Jimmy  would  get  lippy,  too.  He  would 
fling  his  Hibernian  repartee  back  at  her 
until  she  got  green  in  the  face.

And  his  brothers  could  not  educate 
him  out of  that—Jimmy  enjoyed  a  ver­
bal  scrap  better than  his  meals,  and  it 
only  needed  a  touch  to  set  him  going.

Once  I  heard  an  irate  boarding-bouse 
keeper  kicking  about  something  in  the 
store.  Jim my’s  conciliatory remark w as: 
“ Why  don’t  ye  buy  good  stuff,  mum? 
Ye  buy  the  cheapest  there 
is—what 
d'ye  expect?  Sure  ye  can’t  get  silk  fur 
the  price  of  cotton. ’ ’

Imagine  bow  soothing  that  was  to  a 
customer  who  had,  or thought  she  had, 
a  good  kick.

Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short,  the 
brothers  soon  got  their  little  stomachs 
full,  and  Jimmy  was  notified  that  be 
had  to  go  home.  He  did  his  best  to 
show  his  brothers  that  the  store  had 
really  not  been  a  store  at  all  until  be 
came,  but  they  seemed  obtusely  unable 
to  see 
it,  and  the  disconsolate  Jimmy 
bad  his  ticket  bought  for  him  and  was 
packed  off  to  New  York  in post  haste.

And  now  the  brothers  are  canvassing 
is, 

hotly  for  business,  and  their  slogan 
not  good  goods  or good  service;  but: 

“ Jimmy’s  gone,  mum.” —Stroller  in 

Grocery  World.

The  Am erican  Tin  Industry.

In  1893  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey  gave  the  information  that  there 
bad  been  produced  in  this  country  up 
to  date  162,000  pounds  of  tin,  valued  at 
$32,400.  This  was,  of  course,  a  very 
puny  amount  of  tin  compared  with what 
this  country  requires,  but  it  was  bailed 
by  the  American  tin  enthusiasts  as  a 
great  beginning  that  was  very  soon  to 
into  a  sufficient  supply  for all 
increase 
the  United  States. 
This  hope  was 
doomed  to  swift  and  complete  disap­
pointment.  There 
is  tin  in  the  Black 
Hills,  probably  a  great  deal  of  it,  but 
so  badly  scattered  that  it  costs  more  to 
mine 
In  the  year 
1893  the  total  tin  product  of  the  United 
States  was  only  8,938.  That  year  saw 
the  collapse  of  this  industry  and  ever 
since  1893  there  has  been  in each annual 
report  of  our  mineral  production  the 
“ tin,  none.”   About 
dismal  record, 
in  efforts  to 
$20,000,000  was  invested 
make  the  tin 
in  this 
country. 
If  there  bad  been  anything  in 
it  this  amount  of  money  would  have  es­
industry  here.  But 
tablished  the  tin 
the  tin  fields 
in  the  Black  Hills  have 
been  deserted.  The  machinery  set  up 
there  at  the  cost  of  millions  is  rusting 
out  and 
is  now  almost  worthless,  even 
as  junk.

industry  “ go " 

it  is  worth. 

it  than 

Supply  and  Demand.

A  rich  man  sat  him  down  one  night 

Rare  was  bis  food,  superb  his  price­

A  poor  man,  hungry,  lurked  without 

And  craved  a  crumb  from  off  the  rich 

to  dine;

less  wine.

the  gate,

man's  plate.

night;

Yet  neither  rich  nor  poor  man ate that 

One  had  no food ;  one had no appetite.

Sam  S.  Stinson.

It 

is  the  polished  villain  who  beats 

the  bootblack  out'of  his  fee.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp

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

The Imperial Gas Lamp Co. 
206  Kinzie  Street, Chicago

One of the largest and finest photograph studios 
in  Chicago.  Located  In  prominent  theatrical 
building on West Side.  Best operators, printers 
and finishers that money can hire;  largest  oper­
ating rooms, finest  reception,  printing  and  fin­
ishing  rooms  fitted  with  all  modern  improve­
ments.  Latest  and  most  successful  methods. 
Steam heat, electric and gas  light.  Long  lease. 
193 per month.  Receipts,  $125  per  week.  Busy 
season  more  than  double.  Price,  $1,800  cash. 
This will bear closest Investigation-  Address

A.  M.  Barron,

Station  A,  South  Bend,  Ind.
T h in gs  W e  Sell

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

W eatherly &  Pulte

Grand Rapids. Mich.

Holiday 
Goods

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. 
Complete  in  every  respect. 
Will  make liberal allowance 
for expense.

Grand  Rapids 
Stationery  Co.

29  North  Ionia  St..

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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manufacturers  light  macbin- 
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ents,  dies  and  tools  of  every 
description. 
Estimates given on  each piece 
of work. 

Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
Citizens Telephone 1197. 

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Trade supplied by

Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,  D etroit,  Mich, 
Lee  &  Cady,  D etroit,  Mich.

Lil  Taylor, McLeinh & Co. D etroit, Mich. 
Musselman Grocer Co.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Masselman Grocer Co.,
Traverse  City,  Mich. 
Masselman Grocer Co.,
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 
W orden Grocer Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Ph i pps-Penoyer & Co. .Saginaw Mich. 
R. A.  Bartley,  Toledo, Ohio. 
H untington  Grocery  Co.,
Riddell  Grocery  Co.,
M oellering  Bros.  &  M illard,

H untington,  Indiana. 
Sooth Bend,  Indiana. 
Ft.  Wayne, Indiana.

Rice Cook  Book  containing  200 
recipes will be sent free to  anyone 
sending us trade mark cut from any 
“O  &  S”  1 ice pocket.

Orme & Sutton Rice Co.,
209  N.  Peters St.,  New  Orleans, 

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The  Grain  M arket.

i^ c . 

Wheat,  owing  to  several  causes,  cut 
loose  from  both  corn  and  oats  and  went 
up  the  ladder  alone.  Cash  winter  wheat 
last  week,  while  De­
gained  2c  since 
cember  options  advanced 
The 
visible  increase  was  small—less  than 
half  a  million  bushels.  Exports  are 
fair.  Receipts  at  initial  points  are  way 
below 
last  year.  The  estimate  of  the 
present  crop  is  about 100,000,000 bushels 
less,  besides  the  damage  by  wet  weather 
the  crop.  Good 
will  further  reduce 
looked  after,  as  all  the 
wheat  will  be 
millers  are 
looking  only  for the  better 
quality.  There 
is  plenty  of  low  grade 
wheat,  but  that  is  not  fit  for  any  miller 
to  use  if  he  wants  to  hold  up  his  grade 
of  flour.  There 
is  less  wheat  in  sight 
than  there  has  been  for  several  years, 
besides  farmers  are  in  such  condition 
that  they  do  not  have  to sell  their wheat, 
as  other  products  are  bringing  them  a 
good  price  and  they  are  holding  their 
good  wheat  for  an  advance.  They  have 
disposed  of  the  poor  wheat  before  this. 
Our  visible  to-day  is  12,000,000  bushels 
less  than 
last  year,  being  only  26,000,- 
000  bushels,  against  38.000,000  bushtls 
last  year. 
In  England,  as  well  as  on 
the  continent,the  complaint  is  too  much 
damp  and  wet  weather,  and  the  wheat 
is  being  spoiled  in  the  fields,  so  we  do 
not  look  for  any  lower  markets  at  pres­
ent.

Corn,  owing  to  the  fine  sunshine  dur­
ing  the  last  week,  has  settled  back 
in 
price  fully  2c.  The  Government  crop 
report  also  helped  to  reduce  the  price, 
as  the  estimate  was  2,10c,000,000  bush­
els  merchantable  corn.  Should  this  be 
true,  corn  is  too  high.  All  depends  on 
the  weather  conditions.  We  certainly 
shall  have  corn  enough,  providing  we 
have  favorable  weather  from  now  on. 
The  visible  in  corn  declined  534,000 
leaves  only  2,541,000 
bushels,  which 
13,414,000 
bushels 
bushels 
is  consider­
able  being  shipped  East  to  the  New 
England  States  from  Chicago,  which 
leaves  Chicago  with  only 
1,000,000 
bushels  on  hand. 
It  will  not  take  very 
long  to  ship  that  out  and  then  the  ques­
tion  arises,  Where 
is  the  com  to  come 
from?

in 
last  year.  There 

sight,  against 

Oats  only 

increased  8,000  bushels, 
which 
is  something  very  unusual,  tak­
ing  the  large  crop  that  has  been  har­
vested  into consideration.  The  demand 
has  been  quite  brisk  and  all  offerings 
of  oats  were  taken  promptly.  The  vis­
ible  increase  for the  last  four  weeks  was 
from  1,000,000 to  1,500,000  bushels  per 
week,  and  why  this  all  stopped  at  once 
seems  to  be  a  conundrum.  The  farmers 
may  be 
in  more  of  a  selling  mood  in 
the  near  future.  However,  as  the  vis­
ible 
1,000,000  bushels  more 
than  a  year  ago,  there  will  be  plenty  if  
oats  and  no  advance  in  price.

is  nearly 

Rye  made  a 

bushel,  notwithstanding  the  market 
slow,  with  no  snap,  so  there 
much  show  of  very  much  advance.

feeble  spurt  of  ic  per 
is 
is  not 

Beans  have  been  very  steady,owing to 
the  partial 
failure  of  the  crop.  Beans 
will  be  high  unless  importers  ship  them 
in,  the  same  as  they  did  eight  years 
ago  when  the  late  Wm.  T.  Lamoreaux 
was  dubbed  the  Bean  King. 
I  consider 
S2.4o@2.45  for  cash  lots  rather  high.

Flour  remains  steady,  with  a  strong 
upward  tendency  and  the  enquiry  is 
good.  Prices  are  firm,  both 
local  as 
well  as  domestic.

feed 

Mill 

is  still  held  firm  in  price 
and  it looks as though present prices  will 
remain  as  the  demand  is  fully  up  to  the 
supply.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  as  fol 
lows:  wheat,  63  cars;  corn,  2  cars 
: 
oats,  6  cars:  flour,  2  cars;  beans, 
cars;  potatoes,  1  car.

Mills  are  paying  69c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Cam ?

Can  a  saw-buck?
Can  a  chimney  smoke?
Can  a  monkey-wrench?
Can  a  horse-fly  or  a  horse-fiddle?
Can  a  cow-slip  or a  bed-spring?
Can  a  chocolate-drop  or  a  buck-saw?
Can  corn-stalk?
Can  butter-fly?
Can  wood-box?
Can  clothes-line  up?
Can  a  horse-shoe  tobacco?
Can  a  cake-walk  or  a  sheep-tick?
Can  butter-milk  or  cats-paw?
Can  fire-shovel,  stove-pipe jack-snipe, 
carpet-stretcher  or a  fish-hook?
Can  a  bed-rock,  a  spring  “ creak,”   a 
codfish-bawl,  a  cat  fish,  a  ginger-snap, 
a  rail-fence,  a  railroad  tie  or  a  banana 
“ peal?”

Can  a  crosus?
Can  a  dragon-fly?
Can  a  brick-walk?
Can  a  newspaper-press?
Catydid !  Well,  anyhow  a  catkin!
How  would  a  crash-suit?
But  isn't  the  weather-vane?
Well,  well,  w ell!  Fare-well!

Stingy  and  Narrow-M inded.

1 

Her  husband's  brother  had  through 
his  own  efforts  become  very  rich.
“ Now,”   be  said,  “ 1  will  do  some­
thing  for  her  and  the  children. 
1  am 
under  no  obligation  to  them,  but  they 
are  poor  and 
fed  that  it  will  be  no 
more  than  right  for  me  to  help  them."
Therefore  he  bought  a  comfortable 
home  for  them  and  gave  her  the  deed. 
Then  he  took  her  to  the  furniture  stores 
and  they  secured  carpets,  beds,  chairs, 
and  ether  things  that  were  nectssary  to 
make  them  comfortable  and  he  paid  for 
them,  after  which  he  went  about  his 
own  affairs  rejoicing.
She  sat 
in  her  new  home,  with  her j 
hands  clasped  in  her  lap  and  a  sad  lock j 
on  her  face.
“ What 
is  the  trouble?”   her  neighbor 
asked.
“ I  was  thinking  of  the selfishness  and 
meanness  of  some  people,”   she  sorrow­
fully  replied. 
“ Think  of  all the  money 
he  has.  Yet  he  is  too  stingy,  too  nar­
row-minded  even  to give  us a  piano.”

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paym ents.

BU SIN ESS  CH ANCES.

Y 17E  S E L L   FARMS,  RESIDENCES  OB
* *  business property for cash.  Your property 
can be sold, no matter  where  located,  send  us 
good description and  price  asked  and  get  our 
successful plan.  If  you  have  a  photograph  of 
your property send it along with  th«  ties' ription 
and price asked.  If you want to  dispose of your 
property  quickly let  us  try  to  sell  It  for  you. 
Notice a few bargains below:
No. 60—A  Big  Bargain.  A  stock  of  genera' 
merchandise, invoicing about  Ss.000,  located  01 
Blue River in Kansas;  also store  building 48x48; 
double store,  with  part  two  stories.  Price  for 
building $2,fiC0.  Write us for full description  and 
price.  Best of reasons for selling.
No. 1101—Worth the money.  A nice, neat gro­
cery, flour and feed store, good  fixtures  and  de­
livery wagons;  will Invoice $4,000 to 14,500;  busi­
ness good;  sales per year. $25,000.  Room where 
stock Is kept,  25x90.  Rents  for  $15  per  mouth. 
Also an S  room  residence  with  good  barn, coal 
house  and  other 
improvements;  up-to-date; 
water and  electric  light  in  house;  blue  grass 
lawn; 4 lots 200 by '50.  Price on residence prop­
erty, $2,000  Write us for more complete  descrip­
tion. as this is a bargain.
No. 1102—A good borne at a bargain.  A  house 
and 8 lots In Smith countv, Kansas,  on  the  Sal­
mon River; price $1.600, $800  down  and  balance 
plenty of  time  if  good  security;  s room  house, 
good barn,chicken  house  and  yard;  plenty  of 
all kinds of fruit trees,  bearing  pears,  peaches, 
apricots, also grapes, strawberries and  raspber­
ries; plenty good water, with  wind  mill;  wat  r 
piped to  barn;  a  good  cave  and  all  other  im­
provements first class.  Write us for  more  com­
plete  description.
If you want to buy any kind of  property  write 
us.  We have anything  you want and  anywhere 
most that you want it.  You will  find  our  ad  In 
most all the le .ding papers in the United States. 
Great American Real Estate Go.,  P. O. Box  104, 
Mankato, Kansas. 

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783

in town of l.oco; splendid opportunity; stock 
will Invoice  about  $700;  owner  has  other  busi­
ness and must  sell  at  once.  Address  No.  783. 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

F o r  s a l e —c a s h   g r o c e r y   b u s i n e s s  
IfOR  SALE—A  CLOTHING.  HAT  AND 

$11,000  business;  rent,  $200  a  year;  amount  of 

782
in best location in town; cost  $3,800;  also 

furnishing goods stock in small  town;  doing 
stock and  fixtures,  about  $5,000.  which  will  be 
sold for 55 cents on the  dollar;  good  reasons for 
selling;  no traders need write.  M. J.  Itogan,  19 
Kanter Bldg., Detroit. 
y o R   SALE—TWO  BUSINESS  BUILDINGS 
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stock of men's furnishing goods and shoes in fin., 
class condition; will invoice $3.000; if taken with 
in 30 days  both can  be  bought  for  $4.500  cash. 
Real estate will have a big advance  here  before 
next  spring.  For  further  particulars  address 
Box 343. Munising. Mich.
S PLENDID  MANUFACTURING  PLANT, 
experienced business men  with  capital  can 
have  immediate  possession  with  stock  taken 
Address Box 253, Hastings, Mich 
780
pIG A R   AND  GROCERY  SALESMEN  TO 
V J  sell our cigar slot machine, as side line; sells 
on sight to every  cigar  and  grocery  si ore;  big 
profits;  write  today.  Michigan  Novelty  Co. 
Vicksburg,  Mich. 

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t M>R  SALE—DRUG  S lot K  IV  ONE  OB 
the best business towns  in  Western  Michi 
gan; good chance  for  a  physician.  Enquire  ot 
No. 778. care Mi. higan Tradesman. 
7—
I ¡■'OK  SALE — BEST  DRUG  SD-CK  I 
Northern Indiana;  Invoices about $800.  Ad 
dress No  777. care  Michigan Tradesman. 
7
I'OK  SALÉ FOR CASH, NO TRADES.  GEN 
eral store; all  new  goods  less  than  1  year 
old; stock and fixtures invoice about $5,000; sales 
$50 per day; must  sell  at  once;  other  business 
reason for selling.  Address P. O.  Box  15,  Bea 
man, Iowa.___________  
TjMHt  SALK — SMALL  STOCK  GENERAL 
X  merchandise,  about  $1,200;  a  bargain  for
someone; can lease *-tore if  desired. 
Washington A ve.. Muskegon. Mich. Apply  48: 
784
IAOK  SALE-200 10 PER CENT. PREFERRED 
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stock shares In an  incorporated  mercantile 
company now  ou  a  solid  paying  basis,  or  will 
trade for merchandise; good position to buyer 
he wishes it.  For  (urth  r  particulars  address 
Baker Mercantile Co , Nashville,  Mich. 
788
\ \ ’’ANTED- SECONDHAND GROCERY DE 
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livery wagon.  H. B. Outwater,  Cass City 
Mich___________ 
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LH)K  SALE—STOCK  OF  MEN’S  FURNISH 
r   ings and shoes; new geods;  suburban  towi 
.800;  good  business;  best  reasons  for  selling 
excellent chance, young man.  Address  Box R33 
Plymouth, Mich. 
790
L'OH  SALE-A  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AN II 
F   patent medicines,  cigars  and  coufectionery 
in one of  the  best  fruit  and  grain  sections  in 
Michigan.  Stock all new, clean  and  salable,  no 
deadstock;  invoices about $1,800;  will  discount 
Sickness  reason  for  selling.  Address  No.  774 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

-2  farm of  150  acres,  free  and  clear,  located 
-ar Lowell;  want a general  stock  of  merchan 
dise.  Address  Chas.  K.  Mercer,  Widdicomb 
Building, Grand Rapids. 

17 XCHANGE—GOOD  STOCK  AND  FRUI1 
■70K  SALE- SI OCR  OF  GROCERIES  AND 
located in small town in Central  Michigan.  Ad 
dress M. & S-, care Michigan Tradesman 
770
MJ  A N T E  D—QUICK  MAIL  ORDERS.
Overstocked;  must  keep  the  factory  run­
ning;  telescopes, suit  cases,  whips;  low  prices, 
•■'or special discounts and illustrated  descriptive 
st  address  OIney  Telescope  &  Harness  Co. 
Box 155. OIney, 111. 

furnishing goods.  Good  reasons for selling; 

774

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Northern  Iowa;  store  22xlu0  feet;  first-class 

775

771

766

FvTr  SALE  OR  TRADE—FOR  LAND  OR 

merchandise, a store or lot in  good  town  in 
shape.  Address C C  W,  136  5th  Ave.,  Clinton 
Iowa___________  
768
W J  ANTE D—STOCK 
V»  chaud is« for  cash;OF  GENERAL  MER 
;  must  be  cheap  to  be 
removed.  Address Reval,  22I  Fifth  Ave.,  Chi
cago, lit.____________________________ 767
pH O ICE ,0 ACRE FARM IN EMMET COUN 
\ J   ty  for  sale  or  exchange  for  merchandise 
iQck Box 2*0. Cedar springs, Mich. 
70K  SALE—OLD  ESTABLISHED  DRUG 
business at 617 South Division  street. Grand 
Rapids.  Reason for selling, must  retire  on  ac­
count  of  sickness.  Enquire  or  address  above 
location. 
JTOR  SALE—DRUG  STORE  IN  MIOHIGAN 
F   town  of  10,000  population;  invoices  about 
600;  cash sales over $400 a mouth;  will  sell  at 
bargain.  Address  No.  775,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
\\7"ANTED  FOR CASH—LUMBER  OF  ALL
tv  kinds;  also shingles  and 
tract mill cuts.  Beidiug-Uall Mfg. Co ,  Bolding, 
Mich. 
70R  SALE-GROCERY  AND  MARKET 
dolhg good business;  one  of  the  best  loca­
tions  in  East  Saginaw;  good  opportunity;  ex- 
n*es low;  best reasons for selling; investigate. 
Address No. 76  , c -re Michigan Tradesman.  761 
TOR  SALE—THE  BEisT  PAYING  «.Ro- 
cery business In the best town  in  Michigan, 
doing  strictly  cash  business;  no  credit;  stock 
will Invoice  about  $1,600  and  in  elegant  condi­
tion;  reason for selling, have other business that 
needs  attention.  Address  Grocer  129,  Colfax 
enue, Benton Harbor. Mich. 
UR  SALE—$5,000  STOCK  OK  GENERAL 
merebandise;  stock,  with  exception  of  a 
few shoes and groceries, all new  within  last  six 
months;  can be  reduced  to  suit  purchaser;  lo­
cated in bustling town of 600 in the best  farming 
■ction in Central  Michigan.  Good  reasons  for 
tiling.  Address No. 759, care Michigan Trades- 
an. 
70R   SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  F ix ­
tures;  only one In good prosperous  town on 
railroad;  good  business;  stock  about  $1,200; 
cash, no trades.  Address  George,  care  Hazel- 
tine & Ferkins Drug Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
671

lath.  Will 

759

760

764

757

i^OR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES, 

hardware and other merchandise amounting 
to $2,100  will be sold at a bargain for cash.  Tbis 
stock formerly belonged to Palmeter &  Pratt, of 
Ashley, and was assigned to me by them for  the 
benefit of their creditors.  For particulars write 
to Chas. H. Smith, Trustee. Saginaw, Mich., care 
Wm. Barie Dry (foods Co 
170K  SALE—DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
F   $800;  only  drug  stock  in  town;  sales  last 
year,  $2,900;  good  reason  for  selling.
Address 
754, care Michigan Tradesman.
\X 7 ANTED— STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
vv  for  Improved  Iowa  farm.  Want  to  get 
into business and will  exchange  on  right  basis 
and give good bargain.  Notraders need answer. 
Address No. 763. care Michigan Tradesman.  763 
170R  SALE—BRICK  STORE  BUILDING, 22 
r   x60 feet, with frame addition on  back,  22x40 
feet, two stories, with living  rooms  above  For 
particulars address J. L.  Farnham,  Mancelona,
Mich._____  
707
L'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  FIKST-CLA8S  10 
r   horse livery;  only one in town  of  9C0;  good 
trade and  everything  in  good  order.  Address 
Philip Taylor. Saranac. Mich. 

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for sample of slugs or  chec • s 
H.  Morris,  <133 
Bellevue Ave., Detroit. Mich
L 'O K   SA LE — FIRST-CLASS.  E X C LU SIV E  
F   millinery business in  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
O   and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia 
St.. Grand  Rapids. 
yO K  SALE—$1,700 DRUG STOCK  AND  FIX- 
F   tures;  can be bought  at  great  discount  for
cash.  Address P. O. box 222, Saginaw, Mich.
674
y O K   SALE—HOME  IN  FLORIDA;  FOUR- 
F   teen acres, eight acres hearing orange trees; 
good buildings;  good  neighbors;  near  railroad; 
healthy location;  will sell for $3,00u cash or  take 
clean stock of merchandise (Northern  Michigan 
or Wisconsin preferred)  In  exchange.  Address 
No. 672. care  Michigan Tradesman. 
yO K  SALE—DRUG STOPk.a n d  f ix t u r e s, 
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invoicing about $2,000.  Situated in center of 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50 
per month.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address 
No. 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. 
A. M. Barron. Station A. South Bend. Ind. 
745 
F HAVE  SOME  REAL  ESTATE  IN  GRAND 
X  Rapids.  Will  trade  for  a  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Address  No. 751 
care  Michigan
1 radesman.
y O K   SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  FARM 
X  property  in  or near  Kent  county—A  good 
clean stock of general merchandise  and fixtures, 
Invoicing  about  $4,500.  Stock  consists  of  dry 
goods,  groceries,  men’s  furnishing  goods  and 
crockery.  Located  in  good  lake  port  town  of 
25,000.  The true reason for selling given  on  ap­
plication.  Address  No.  731,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
D r u g   s t o c k   f o r   s a l e   i n   a~ g o o d
live town of 1,500; will  invoice about fifteen 
hundred dollars.  Reason for selling, other busi­
ness.  Address  No.  738,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man_________  
\TXTILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  STOCKS 
w   dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hardware, 
furniture or groceries.  Lock  Box  74,  Ypsilanti. 
Mich, 
r  716
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 80». 377-9 Broadway. New York City. 694

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751

M lN C K L L A  N K i l l 's

W A N T E D —REGiSTERED  PHARMACIST; 
T *  give references.  Address Drugs, care Car- 
rier No  18, Grand Rapids. 

W A N T h D—REGISTERED  ASSISTANT 

pharmacist  or  person  with  at  least  two 
years 
I  experience;  good  references  required. 
Address (
E. Van Every, Kalamazoo. Mich.  786 
TXKLP  WANTKD-
AN  EXPERIENCED 
young man in dry goods and clothing;  must 
be an up-to-date decorator and a good salesman; 
state  age, whether married or sinrle, and wages 
expected  B  Cohen. Northvllle. Mich 

737

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Will you close out 
or 
reduce  your 
stocks  of  merch­
andise? 
If so,our 
New 
Idea  Sale 
does 
it  without 
loss.  We  have  a 
style  of  advertis­
ing  which  is  dis­
tinctly  our  own 
and  which  draws 
an im mense crowd 
to your store, peo­
ple who have nev­
er  been  there  be­
fore.  W e 
take 
sales on a commis­
sion busis,  you  to 
set your own price 
on  the  goods  we 
are to  sell  and we
, 
dispose  of  odds
and ends at the beginning  of  the  sale.  Write  us 
.1  particulars or call on  us  while  you  are  in 
c‘tv;  Remember  that  we  also  buv  and  sell 

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store fixtures or take them on consignment.

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