Twentieth  Year 
Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust  Building, Grand  Rapids 

Collection delinquent accounts;  cheap,  efficient, 
responsible;  direct demand system.  Collections 
made everywhere—for every trader.

C.  E.  McCRONE,  Manager.

Late State Food Commissioner 

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
133a ftajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.

.Currie 

Forsyth

1023 Michigan Trust Building 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Branch  Of f ic e  of

Douglas, Lacey & Co.

The  regular  quarterly  dividends  on  our  Oil, 
Mining  and  Smelter  stocks  will  arrive  on  the 
30th of October.  Over  100  of  our  customers  in 
Grand Rapids hold dividend-paying stock.  Sev­
eral more of our companies  will  be added to the 
dividend  list  this  quarter.  Prospectus  of  our 
various  companies  and  our  business  methods 
furnished on application.  Citizens  phone 1651.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  LW

Widdicbmb Building, Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Òpera House  Block,  Detroit
Good  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
letters.  Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for collec­
tion.

W illiam   Connor Co.

Wholesale  Ready-Made  Clothing 

Men’s,  Boys’,  Children’s

Sole  agents  for  the  State  of  Michigan 

for the

S. F.  &  A. F.  Miller &  Co.’s 

famous  line of summer clothing, made in 
Baltimore,  Md  ,  and  many  other  lines 
Now is the time to buy summer clothing.

28-30 South Ionia Street

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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D o  Y o u 

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Then  put  that  one  where  it  w ill 
make more dollars. 
I  have  made  other people’s dollars 
earn seven per cent, on investments, 
some  four  h un d red  per 
and 
cent,  on  speculations  and  invest- 
ments combined. 
W rite me and I w ill  tell  you  how. 

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Tradesman Coupons

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER,  29,  1902. 

Number 997

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page. 
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2.  G etting the  People.
4.  A round th e  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  Flying  Machines  W ill R uin Business. 
8.  Editorial.
IO.  Successful  Salesmen.
13.  Slovenly  Stores.
14.  Clothing.
16.  Shoes and Rubbers.
18.  Dry Goods.
20.  W oman’s W orld.
22.  Poultry.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  Clerks’  Corner.
25.  Commercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs and Chemicals. 
27.  D rag Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
22.  The Evils of the Tip.

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GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

There  seems  to  be  a general feeling  of 
discouragement  as  to  the  recovery of  the 
speculative  markets  which  keeps  up  the 
sagging  tendency,  to  be  followed  by 
sluggish  recovery.  Trading  by  the  pub­
lic  is  not  popular  and  the  operations  of 
the  professionals  are  not  of  much  sig­
nificance  as  to  the  underlying  condi­
tions.  Little  real  advance  is  expected 
before  the  public  gets  over  its  apathy 
and  lends  a  hand  in  support.  The  cur­
rent  week  opens  with  the  habitual  Mon-

If you could see the Oro Hondo 
property, you  would invest
The  location  of  the  Oro  Hondo  property  ad­
joins  the  biggest  gold  mine  in  the  world—  
The  Homestake—which  promises  to  become 
equally  famous  and  profitable.  The  Home- 
stake has paid  regular  dividends  for  tw enty- 
five years and is crushing over 3,000 tons of ore 
daily, and has enough ore  in  sight  to  run  its 
enormous plant for 35  years.  T his  ore  ledge, 
which  is 456 feet wide, traverses the Oro Hondo 
property.  T he  managers  o f  the  Oro  Hondo 
property  are  practical  business  and  mining 
men, who bought  the  property,  consisting  of 
over  1,000  acres,  at  a  cost  of  over  $600,000. 
W ith their own  money  they  began  the  initial 
development work before a share  o f  stock  was 
offered.  T hey erected a large hoisting  plant at 
a cost of $20,000, and  the  shaft  is  down  over 
100 feet in ore at $7.60 a  ton.  T hey  iare  block­
ing out’ore sufficient to operate a large  cyanide 
plant which  w ill cost  about  $500,000, and  to  do 
this they  are  offering  to  original  investors  a 
portion o f its treasury shares  at  50c  per  share, 
par value $1.  W rite us for fu.l information.
If  aiiy  subscriber,  upon  Investiga'ion, 
is not satisfied th at  existing  conditions 
at the m ine  have  been  understated  by 
us,  we  w ill  refund  the  am ount  sub­
scribed.
Wm. A. Mears & Co..

Fiscal  Agents,  New  York

Address all communications to

Charles E. Temple,

623  Michigan  Trust  Bldg, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Noble, Moss & Co.

Investment  Securities

Bonds netting 3,  4, 5 and  6  per cent.

Government  Municipal 
Railroad 

Traction

Corporation

Members  Detroit  Stock  Exchange  and 
are prepared to handle local stocks of all 
kinds, listed and  unlisted.

808 Union Trust Building, Detroit

day  decline  and  trading  continues  dull 
and  uninteresting.  As  soon  as  election 
interests  and  other  distracting  matters 
are  out  of  the  way  it  seems  probable 
that  trade  matters  in  the  Street  will  re­
sume  the  activity  which  the  general 
strength  of  the  situation  naturally  com­
mands.  Rates  for  call  loans  continue  to 
decline  until  the  normal  is not far  away. 
talk  of  possible  export 
There 
if  there  should  be 
of  gold,  but  even 
it 
small  yielding  to  foreign  demand 
would  have  no  material  disquieting 
in­
fluence.

is  some 

in  the 

There  are  really  no  discouraging  fea­
industrial  outlook  beyond 
tures 
the  backward 
condition  of  matters 
affected  by  the  coal  supply.  This  would 
serve  to  still  further  stimulate  the  pro­
duction  of  transport  facilities  and  so 
contribute  to  the  pressure  of  demand. 
Much  attention  is  now  being  paid to the 
iron  and  steel  conditions  and  there  is 
little  doubt  that  these  properties  will 
assume  importance  in  the  revival  which 
seems 
conservatism 
with  which  the  steel  men  handled  the 
price  problem  during  the  height  of  the 
advance  assures  a  moderation  which 
will  extend  the  period  of  healthy  activ­
ity  in  that  field  indefinitely.

inevitable. 

The 

The  heavy  merchandise  distribution 
continues  without  abatement  and  the 
comparison  in  most  localities  with  pre­
ceding  years  shows 
increasing  trade. 
Mills  and  factories  are hurrying deliver­
ies  as  fast  as  possible.  Even  boots  and 
shoes  from  Boston  exceed  the  phenom­
enally  heavy  shipments  of  last  year.

CHORE  OFF  THE  UNWORTHY.

At  the  last  meeting  of  the Grand  Rap­
ids  Retail  Grocers’  Association,  Ed­
ward  A.  Connelly,  who  does  business  in 
bis  wife’s  name  at  47  Eleventh  street, 
monopolized  the  time  of  those  present 
to  the  extent  of  about  an  hour  in  advo­
cating  co-operative  buying  on  the  part 
of  retail  grocers,claiming  that  by  so  do­
ing  the  grocers  could  save  front  10  to 
40  per cent.  A  sequel  to  this  onslaught 
is  found  in  a  suit  brought  the  next  day 
by  the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co. 
against  Connelly  to  recover  a  judgment 
for  groceries  ordered  and  delivered  sev­
eral  years  ago,  amounting  108378.59. 
This  would  seem  to  indicate  that  Con­
nelly 
is  buying  his  goods—either  for 
himself  or  his  wife—cheaper  than  they 
could  be  purchased  by  buying  co-oper­
atively,  because  he  has  had  nearly  8400 
worth  of  supplies  for  which  he  has  not 
paid  a  cent.

The  Tradesman  has  placed  itself  on 
record  heretofore  on  the  subject  of  local 
associations  of retail dealers countenanc­
ing  the  complaints  and  listening  to  the 
harangues  of  men  who  are  unworthy  of 
credit,  and  until  the  members  turn  a 
deaf  ear  to  the  fallacious  arguments  of 
men  who  are 
in  such  poor  repute  that 
they  must  pay  for  their  goods  before 
they  are  removed  from  the  larries  of 
the  wholesale  grocer,  the  association 
will  be  the  laughing  stock  of  the  busi­
ness  public,  instead  of  being  recognized 
as  the  proper  exponent  and  mouthpiece 
of  the 
legitimate  portion  of  the  retail 
trade.

WHY  NOT  PLAY  FA IR ?

Charles  W.  Jennings 

is  a  reputable 
citizen  of  Grand  Rapids.  He  has  been 
engaged 
in  business  bere  thirty  years. 
He  has  always  conducted  himself  cir­
cumspectly  and  has  won  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  bis  associates  and  neigh­
bors.

The  Chemist  of  the  State  Food  Com­
missioner  thought  he  discovered  some 
irregularity 
in  one  of  Mr.  Jennings’ 
productions.  The  matter  was  referred 
to  Inspector  Bennett,  who  has  known 
Mr.  Jennings— by  reputation  at  least— 
for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Bennett  swore  out 
a  warrant  for  Mr.  Jennings’  arrest  in 
Muskegon  and  an  officer  was  sent  bere 
to  arrest  him.  The  warrant  was  served 
just  as  the  train  was  leaving  for  Mus­
kegon.  Mr.  Jennings  asked  for  time  to 
see  his 
lawyer,  but  was  refused  the 
ptivilege.  A  common  criminal  could 
not  have  been  treated  with  greater  dis­
courtesy.

There  are  ten  places  in  Grand  Rapids 
where  the  goods  complained  of  are  sold 
to  one  in  Muskegon,  yet  Inspector  Ben­
nett  contrived  to  drag  a decent man  and 
citizen  away  from  his  home  and  his 
friends  and  humiliate  him  among 
strangers.

Why?
The  Tradesman 

is 

in  possession  of 
information  which  will  afford  ample 
explanation  of  the  motive  which  in­
spired  this  attack  on  a  man  who  has 
spent  a 
lifetime  in  building  up  a  rep­
utable  business.  This  information  will 
be  disclosed  in  due  time.

After  Mr.  Jennings  returned 

from 
Muskegon,  be  was  informed  that  other 
agents  of  the  department  were  circulat­
ing  unfair  and  uncalled-for 
reports 
about  him  and  bis  goods.  Pending  the 
outcome  of  the  Muskegon  case,  be asked 
for  a  suspension  of  judgment  until  the 
case  could  be  passed  upon  by  a  jury. 
The  President  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Board  of  Trade,  in  his  official  capacity, 
letter  to  the  State  Food 
addressed  a 
Commissioner,  requesting  him  to 
in­
struct  his  deputies  to  withhold  their 
[criticisms  and  warnings until  the  matter 
was  disposed  of  in  the  courts.  The  let­
ter  was  written  Oct.  15.  Up  to  Oct.  29 
no  reply  has  been  received  from  Mr. 
Snow,  who  evidently  cares  as  little  for 
the  good  opinion  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Board  of  Trade  as  be  does  for  the  oath 
be  made  to  faithfuly  serve  the  people  of 
Michigan.

Those Germans  who feel in duty bound 
to  ape  their  Emperor  are  confronted  by 
another  terror. 
It  will  not  be  so  bard 
to  overcome  as  the  upturned  mustaches, 
however.  The  Emperor’s  doctor  told 
him  he  had  astigmatism  in  his  right 
eye  and  the  Emperor  bought  a  mono­
cle.  As  a  result  there  has  been  a  tre­
mendous  run  on  the  shops  of  the  Ger­
man  opticians  for  single  eyeglasses  by 
German  army  officers.  The spread  of the 
habit  to  court  circles  is  looked  for.  It  is 
declared,  however,  that  in  stimulating 
this  fad  Emperor  William  was  innocent 
of  premeditation  only  so  far  as  he  was 
concerned  about  his  astigmatic  eye.

Borrowing  is  the  mother  of  trouble.

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

Petting  the  People

The  Province  of the  Modern  Booklet.
The  term  booklet,  a  little  book,  ib  a 
new  one 
in  advertising,  as  indeed,  for 
any  purpose.  A  dozen  years  or  so  ago 
the  scheme  was  devised  of  getting  out  a 
miniature treatise  embodying  matters  of 
interest  having  a  bearing  on  the  subject 
advertised,but  not  being  a  direct  adver- 
tisement,  simply. 
In  the  later  develop­
ment  and  use  of  the  name  it  is  made  to 
include  any  small  catalogue  or  adver­
tising  pamphlet.  While  this  use  may 
be  strictly  correct,  the  more  specific  ap­
plication  indicates  a  new  method  of  ad­
vertising  which  has  exerted  an  increas­
ing  influence  ever  since  its  beginning.
The  ambition  of  the  booklet  writer  is 
to  say  something  on  a  topic  allied  to 
line  to  be  exploited  that  wiil  gain 
the 
readers  by 
its  general  interest  and,  if 
possible,  be  made  worthy  of  preserva­
tion.  A  typical  example  of  such  a book­
let  would  be  an  essay  on  the 
inherit­
ance  and  management  of  property  as  a 
means  of  interesting  the  patronage  of  a 
trust  company,  or  on  the  proper  selec­
tion  and  management  of  neckwear  to 
interest  the  users  of  furnishings,  or  on 
the  wardrobe  for  clothiers,  the  care  of 
the  eye  for  opticians,  etc.,  etc. 
In  this 
particular  field  the  booklet  is  coming  to 
exert  a  wide  influence.

The  writing  of  a  booklet for  such  pur­
poses  is  one  of  the  most  exacting  in  its 
requirements  of  any  phase  of  publicity. 
From  the  inception  of  the  title  to  the 
closing  sentence  every  care  must  be 
used  to  gain  and hold  the  interest,  and 
at  the  same  time  so  win  the  attention 
to  the  subject  advertised  as  to  leave  the 
most  pleasant  impression.  Naturally 
the  reference  to the  ulterior  object,  the 
gaining  of  trade,  will  be  as  slight  and 
unobtrusive  as  may be  possible  and  still 
kept  this  object 
in  the  way  of  accom­
plishment.

Many  concerns  depend 

largely  on 
their  booklets  for  the  building  up  of 
trade.  Often  the response  to  newspaper 
or  magazine  advertising  brings  names 
of  those  whose  interest  in  the  subject  is 
assured.  Such  can  be  safely  followed 
up  by  suitable  booklets,  giving  such  in­
formation  as  will  bring  results  or  will 
insure  preservation  and  reference  until 
the  time  may  present  for  action. 
If 
the 
interest  has  to  be  engaged  the  per­
sonal  stock  letter  system  will  be  more 
effective,  letting  the  booklet  follow  in 
suitable  time.

The  use  of  the  booklet  requires  care­
ful  study.  The 
introduction  must  be 
such  as  will  serve  oftenest  to  gain  the 
turning  of  the  pages.  This  is  some­
times  undertaken by  some catch scheme, 
some  startling  question,  or  some 
in­
complete  assertion.  Generally these are 
not  successful,  as  the  recipient  is  more 
than 
likely  to  be  struck  by  the  adroit­
ness  of  the  scheme  and  thus  has  his 
attention  diverted  from  the  matter  in 
hand.  A  better way  is to  say something 
on  the  subject,  in  as  short  a  sentence  as 
possible,  that  will  have  an  interest  for 
those 
likely  to  care  for  it.  There  can 
be  no  rules  for  the  treatment  of  the 
topic  except  that  it  must  give 
informa­
tion  that  will 
instruct  and  so  interest. 
Many  make  the  mistake  of  writing  the 
booklet  to  amuse  simply,  but  in  nine 
cases  out  of  ten  when 
it  does  this  it 
goes  no  farther.

The  field  of the  booklet  is  a  large one. 
Many  mattets  pertaining  to  the  conven­
iences  and  necessities of modern life can 
be  treated  so  as  to  gain  the  attention 
which  makes  customers.  Then 
it  re-

You Are M ost Cordially  Invited

to attend the

Initial Opening

of  the

NEW  DRY  GOODS  STORE

■ >y

J.  M.  BRACHER,
Nestor Block, Washington S t,

SATURDAY,  OCT.  25th.

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Everything
Good

We boy only the good.  We sell only the good. 
If yon get it here,  its good—no matter whether 
it is a prescription or drag store article of any 
kind.  If it isn’t,  please  speak  to  ns  abont it 
and yon will get your  money  back, every cent. 
We will not lose by it either.  We jost turn it 
back on the  manufacturer.  Yon  are  on  the 
safe side if yon buy all your drug store goods of 
us.  We wish you would.  We  will  do  all  in 
our power to serve you well.  Give us a chance

Central Drug Store

& w d » n a  

Harwood &  Kephort Prop’rs.

BUSINESS  BOOMING!

There is already & well-Beaten  Path  That  Leads 
directly  to The Store of Thomas JT. Hogan The Grocer. 
Throngs of buyer« traverse it day  after day.  Showing 
that  we are strengthening  the  friendly  business rela­
tion .between  the store and public,  without which there 
can be no success.  „ We want  yon  to  keep  coining. 
We want you  to tell*your friends  and  neighbors about 
the new  store.  .  Confidence  once  established  between 
us, the rest will be easy. 
.Remember  and  order  your 
groceries of

THOMAS  J.  HOGAN.

THE  GROCER.

R I\ ER  8TREEJ 

L*cunr Brru>rve.

A Shoe Man? a Problem

It how tof get the best  possible  values  to  re­
tail  at  certain  prices.  We  have  pot  our 
whole  thought  and  time, into  the  exclusive 
purchase and sale of shoes  and  can  give  yon 
better value than  if  we  were  taken  up  with 
other things. -  We can  now  show  yon one of 
the finest lines ever brought to  the  dty,  and 
prices that are  right.  We  are  strong  in  all 
values from two  dollars  up.  New  Goodyear 
Glove Rubbers.

Dolges warm and high cut  Slippers,  the 

best made, from fl.oo up.

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STYLISH  PATTERNS 

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have your Clothing

FASHIONABLY  AND 
CORRECTLY  MADE

mains  to  find  the  names  most  promis­
ing,which  is  the  province  of  other  fields 
of  advertising.

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f J.  M.  Bracber  writes  an  invitation  to 
his  store  opening,  which  the  printer 
carries  out  in  good  style  by  simply  us­
ing  one  kind  of  type  in  the  display  and 
arranging  as  in  a  card  invitation.  The 
effect  is  good  for  the  purpose  and  in 
carrying  it  out  with  plenty  of  room  and 
bold  type,  borders  and  spaces,  strength 
of  display  is  not  sacrificed.

Central  Drug  Store  presents  a  good 
general  advertisement,  using  a  generous 
space  in  which  to  make  their  argument 
seen. 
I  would  prune  out  the  reading 
matter  a  little  so  as  to  give  greater 
strength  of  expression  and  increase  the 
number  of  readers. 
If  a  paragraph  is 
long  there  must  be  something  in  it  of 
continuous,  sustained  interest.  It  is  not 
well  to  change  to  generalities  at  the 
closing.  The  use  of  Devinne,  if  prac­
ticable,  in  the  firm  name  would  have 
preserved  unity  and  the  name of the city 
would  have  given  added  value,  as  it 
might  stray  out  of  the immediate  neigh­
borhood,  as  it  is  doing  in  our  use  of  it. 
It  is  a  good  advertisement  in  plan  and 
printing,  but  could  be  bettered  in  these 
details.

There  are  a  vim  and  stir  about  the 
grocery  advertisement  of  Thomas  J. 
Hogan  which  can  not  fail  to  produce 
favorable  results.  The  argument 
is 
good,  but  I  would  prune  the  reading  a 
little.  The  printing  is  good  except  that 
the  mixture  of  characters  in  the  border 
produces  an  effect  which  is  apt  to  be 
distracting  to  the  eye,  although,  per­
haps,  not  so  apparent  in  the  reduced 
engraving.  The  name  of  the  city  would 
also  be  of  value  here.

Ware  &  Chase  show  a  shoe  advertise­
ment  which  could  be  improved  in  some 
details  so  as  to  sell  more  goods.  The 
writer  speaks  of  certain  prices— there  is 
nothing  more  interesting  than  to  know 
what  some  of  those  certain  prices  may 
be. 
“ Prices  that  are  right”   is  too  in­
definite.  The  rubber  subject,  if  intro­
duced  in  this  advertisement,  should 
have  a  separate  paragraph,  as  do  the 
slippers. 
I  wonder  where  the  City  Shoe 
Store  may  be  located.

A  well  written  and  planned  advertise­
ment  of  the  staff  of  life  is  that  of  Van's 
Bakery.  The  argument  is  brief,  con­
vincing  and  in  paragraphs  that  will  not 
drive  away  the  lazy  reader.  The  name 
of  the  store  should  be  in  strong,  plain 
type,  and  the  closing  on  Sunday  would 
be  better  small  at  the  bottom.

T.  B.  Widoe  shows  a  somewhat  con 
ventional  tailor announcement,  well  bal­
anced  and  adapted  to  its  space.  The 
printer  has  used  too  much medium sized 
type  to  get  strength  of  display.

In  the  spring  the  groaning  husband 
eats  bis  victuals  in  the  barn,  for  his 
wife  must  clean  the  mansion,  and  she 
does  not  care  a  darn;  and  the  yard  is 
full  of  sheets  and  he  has  to  live  on 
sauerkraut,  cistern  water  and 
sliced 
beets.  O h!  a  woman 
is  in  her  glory 
when  she  tears  things  all  apart,  piling 
beds  and  chairs  and  pillows  in  a  way 
to  break  your  heart.  And  at  night  the 
groaning  husband  has  to  sleep  upon  the 
porch  and  he  feels  so  clean  disgusted 
that  he  can  not  enjoy  bis  torch.  When 
the  blamed  old  cleaning 
is  over then 
the  wife 
is  taken  ill  and  it  keeps  the 
husband  busted  buying  dope  and  drug 
and  pill  and  the  mansion  is  no  cleaner 
than  it  was  when  she  began,  but  she’d 
slay  him 
if  he  said  so—and  he  is  a 
prudent  man.

The 

ill  consequences  of  one  impru­
dent  step  will  be  felt  in  many  an  after 
step.

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3

C o n s o l i d a t e d

The  B a l l - B a r n h a r t - P u t m a n   C o .   and  O l n e y  
& j u d s o n   G r o c e r   C o .  have  merged  their  interests 
the  “J u d s o n  
and  will  hereafter  be  known  as 

G r o c e r   C o m p a n y .”

D IR E C T O R S

E dw ard  F r ic k , 
C.  E.  O l n e y, 
H .  G .  B a r lo w , 
B .  S.  D av en po r t, 

O .  A   B a l l,
W illar d  B ar n h art,
H .  T .   S tan ton,
P eter  L a n k e ste r,

W m.  J UDSON.

The  house  management  will  be  conducted  as in  the  past 
by  Messrs.  Judson,  Ball,  Frick,  Barlow  and  Stanton,  men 
who  have spent their  lives in  this  line.

W ith   increased  capital,  decreased  expenses,  a  railroad 
track  from  eyery  railroad  in  the  city  directly  into  our  store, 
and  practical  men  at the  head  of  each  department,  our  facil­
ities  are  unequaled  in  this  market  and  unexcelled  in  any 
market.

W e  cannot  refrain  at  this  time  from  taking  the  oppor­
tunity of thanking those  who  for so  many years  have  by  both 
word  and  deed  assisted  us  in  building  up  the  magnificent 
business we  now enjoy.

B A L L -B A R N H A R T -P U T M A N   CO.
O L N E Y   &   JUDSON  G R O C E R   CO.

Cor.  Louis and  Ottawa streets,
Olney &  Judson  Grocer  Co.’s old  stand.

4

Around  the State

Movements of Merchants.

Petoskey—A.  H.  Pope,  of  St.  Johns, 
has  opened  a  feed  store  on  Michigan 
street.

Boyne  Falls—C.  E.  Pulner  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  Budd  & 
Hotel!.

Fenwick—The  wife  of  Julian  W.  Bul­
lock,  druggist  at  this  place,  died  last 
Thursday.

South  Boardman— B.  Bernsteine  has 
in  the  dry  goods  business  at 

engaged 
this  place.

Detroit—Lesperance  Bros.,  grocers 
and  meat  dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Par­
adise  Bros.

Chesaning—A.  Cameron  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  drug  and  stationery  stock  to 
Geo.  H.  Trestain.

Kinde—Sarah A. (Mrs.  August)  Kinde 
is  succeeded  in  general  trade  by  F.  W. 
Schlegelmich  &  Co.

Montrose—Mrs.  Thos.  B.  McArthur, 
dealer  in  jewelry  and  bazaar  goods,  has 
discontinued  business.

Petoskey—Wood Martin has purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Jos.  Hancock  and 
has  already taken possession of  the  busi­
ness.

Detroit—The  name  of  the  McLellan 
&  Anderson  Savings  Bank  has  been 
changed  to  the  United  States  Savings 
Bank.

Petoskey—V.  N.  Tuttle,  clothier  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods dealer,has  taken 
a  partner  under  the  style  of  Tuttle  & 
Meyers.

Memphis— F.  A.  Hause  &  Co.,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have dissolved partnership. 
The  business  is  continued  by  Hause  & 
Coddington.

Benton  Harbor—W.  C.  Wilmot  and 
A.  G.  Wilmot  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  Wilmot  Bros, 
and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business.

Tekonsha— Wolf  &  Clark  are  erecting 
an  addition  to  their  building  to  ac­
commodate  the  grocery  stock  they  re­
cently  purchased  of  H.  B.  Williams.

interest 

Marshall—N.  H.  Gleason,  of  the  fuel, 
it 
buggy  and  harness  firm  of  Cater 
in  the 
Gleason,  has  sold  his 
business  to  Edwin  French,of  Tekonsha.
Burlington— R.  Peters  has  purchased 
the  stock  of  glassware  and  china  of 
is  conducting  a 
Minnie  Randall.  He 
general  store 
in  the  A.  G.  Randall 
block.

Ypsilanti—G.  W.  Johnson,  egg  and 
poultry  dealer,  has  about  75,000  dozen 
eggs  in  bis  cold  storage  in  this  city  and 
the  same  number  in  cold  storage  else­
where.

Allegan—A.  H.  Meyer,  music  dealer, 
has  removed  his stock to  Grand  Rapids, 
locating  at  gi  South  Division  street. 
C.  St.  Clair  will  have  charge  of  the  new 
store  a  part  of  the  time.

Cadillac—Morn’s  Buchman  has  re­
signed  his  position  in  Harry  Drebin's 
general  store  as  salesman  and  removed 
to  Rapid  River,  where  he  will  engage 
in  business  with  his  father.

Boyne  Falls—Anthony  McMahon  and 
his  son,  James  J.  McMahon,  have  pur­
chased 
the  hardware  stock  of  John 
Swain.  The  business  will  be  continued 
under  the  style  of  McMahon  &  Son.

South  Boardman— H.  M.  Patrick,  for 
many  years  engaged  in  general  trade  at 
Leroy,  and  more  recently  engaged  in 
the  shingle  mill  business  at  Harrietta, 
died  at  his  home  here  one  day  last 
week.

Burlington— John  Morgan  has  pur­
chased  the  double  store  of  Jonas  Hall, 
also  the  market  buildings  of  J.  Ward. 
After  uniting  market  and  store be  ex­

pects  to  conduct  a  grocery,  dry  goods 
and  meat  market.

Belding—G.  V.  McConnell,  of  Low­
ell,  has  purchased  the  stock  of  furniture 
and  undertaking  goods  of  Wilson  & 
Friedly.  Mr.  McConnell  conducted  a 
furniture  store  in  Cedar  Springs  several 
years  and  later  removed  to  Lowell  and 
engaged  in  business  there.

Ispheming—William  Anderson  has 
withdrawn  from the  firm  of  William  An­
derson  &  Co.,  dealers  in  shoes,  furnish­
ing  goods  and  groceries.  He  retires  on 
account  of  poor  health.  The  business 
will  be  continued  under  the  old  firm 
name  by  Peter  Koski,  John  Kandein, 
John  Murmi  and  Nels  Berltuia,the  other 
partners.  Besides  the  store  here,  the 
firm  owns  a  store  in  Mass  City.

Escanaba—The  clothing  and  general 
stock  of  C.  C.  Haug  went  into the bands 
of  a  receiver  last  week,  and  at  a  meet­
ing  of  the  creditors  it  was  decided  to 
dispose  or  sell  all  of  the  stock  in  this 
city.  There  are  a  number  of  creditors, 
the  largest  being  T.  J.  Thorsen,  of  Es­
canaba,  who  has  a  secured  claim  of 
$1,200.  The  inventory  of the stock shows 
the  total  value  to  be  between  Si,800 and 
$2,000,  hence  after  Mr.  Thorsen  gets  his 
share  there  will  be 
left  for  the 
others.

little 

fifth 

Detroit—The 

report  of  John 
Bailantyne,  receiver  of  W.  J.  Gould  & 
Co.,  filed 
in  the  Wayne  Circuit  Court, 
shows  bis  total  receipts  to  date  were 
$71,972.42,  exclusive  of $6,coo  received 
for  bonds  pledged  to  the  Central  Sav­
ings  Bank,  and  bis  total  disbursements, 
$56,026.29.  The  report  states  that  all 
personal  property  has  been  disposed  of 
and there remains in the  receiver’s hands 
$4,748.21  of  book  accounts,  in  addition 
to  a  number  of  stale  accounts,  old 
judgments,  etc.  The  receiver  asks  leave 
to  settle  these  at  the  best  figure  pos­
sible,  excepting  claims  against  the  es­
tate  of  Walter  J.  Gould,  deceased,  Clar­
ence  H.  Gould  and  Lewis  F.  Thomp­
son.

M anufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  Burrell  Chemical  Co. 
from 

its  capital  stock 

increased 

has 
$250,000  to $500,000.

Saginaw— Mersbon  &  Morley,  manu­
facturers  of  portable  houses,  have  filed 
articles  of  association,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $25,000.

Bellaire—The  Bellaire  Woodenware 
Co.  has  shut  down  until  timber comes in 
with  the  advent  of  snow.  This  factory 
has  continued  operations  steadily  since 
January  10.

Flint—The  Flint  Pantaloon  Co., 
which  has  been  conducting  business  on 
the  second  and  third  floors  of  the  Hen­
derson  building,  has  consolidated 
its 
plant  with  its  Port  Huron  branch  and 
has  removed  to  that  place.

Battle  Creek—The  Reed  Implement 
Co.,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $150,000, 
will  manufacture  plows  and  agricultural 
implements.  The  patents  owned  by  the 
company  are  said  to  have  first-class  im­
provements  in  the  making  of  plows.

Petoskey—The  Petoskey  Fiber  Paper 
Co.  is  adding  two  18x72  high  pressure 
boilers  to  the  power equipment  of  the 
plant,  and  work 
is  already  begun  ex­
cavating  the  embankment  north  of  the 
mill,  where  the  boiler  bouse  will  be 
lo­
cated.

Muskegon—The  Puro  Manufacturing 
Co.,  with  a  capital  of  $20,000,  has  been 
organized  here. 
The  officers  are  all 
local  business  men  and  the  concern  will 
manufacture  grocers’  sundries,  such  as 
mincemeat,  baking  powder, 
flavoring 
extracts,  etc.  About  twenty-five  hands 
will  be  employed.

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

The  Doctor’*  Advice Too  Late.

A  story  of  a  man  who  went  to  see  a 
doctor.  The  doctor examined  him  care­
fully,  and,  with  a  grave  face,  told  him 
that  he  was  very  ill,  and  asked  him  if 
he  bad  consulted  any  one  else.
‘ ‘ Oh,’ ’  said  tbe  man,  ” 1  went  to  see 
a  druggist  and  asked  bis  advice,  and 
he— "

“ Druggist!”   the  doctor  broke 

in, 
angrily. 
“ What  was  the  good  of  that? 
The  best  thing  to  do  when  a  druggist 
gives  you  advice 
is  to  do  exactly  the 
opposite. ”

“ And  be,”   the  patient  continued, 

"advised  me  to  come  to  you.”

Wanted

We want  several  small  manufacturing 
concerns to locate here  and  will  furnish 
a site and  a  small  bonus  if  necessa-y. 
This is an  excellent  location for a basket 
factory, oval  wood dish factory or handle 
factory.  We also want  a  bank  and will 
extend  the  proper  encouragement  to 
any  one who can  supply our needs.

Sec’y Riverdale Improvement Association 

Ja c k   M obio,

Riverdale, Mich

Holland—The  Bay  View  Furniture 
Co.  will  nearly  double  its  capacity  by 
erecting  a  three-story  addition,  60x80 
feet  in  size.  The  work  will  be  started 
early  next  spring.  At  present  the  con­
cern  employs  about  fifty  men,  but  this 
number  will  be  very  much  increased.

Battle  Creek—The  Union  Laundry  & 
Shirt  Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  or­
ganized  with a capital  stock  of  $ico,ooo, 
of  which  $25,000  is  already  paid  in. 
The  company  will  erect  a  two-story 
building,  the  lower  floor  to  contain  the 
laundry  and  the  second  floor  to  contain 
the  shirt  factory,  where  collars,  cuffs, 
etc.,  will  be  made.

Owosso—The 

critical  point 

in  the 
matter  of  a  beet  sugar  factory  here  has 
been  safely  passed.  The  Owosso  Sugar 
Co.  was 
incorporated  Oct.  28  with 
$1,000,000 capital.  A  site  of  thirty-one 
acres  has  been  purchased  and  the  com­
pany  has  opened  a  permanent  office  in 
this  city. 
The  factory  will  have  a 
capacity  of  1,000  tons  a  day,  the  largest 
in  the  State.  The  stock  in  the  company 
is  all  owned  by  the  Pittsburg  Plate 
Glass  Co.  Their  representative  here  is
C.  M.  Smith,  of  Bay  City.

Thompsonville—At  the  iast  meeting 
of  the  Improvement  Association  it  was 
voted  to  send  two  delegates  to  Pique, 
Ohio,  to  confer  with  the  Pique  Handle 
Co.  in  the  matter  of  the  purchase  of  the 
cooperage  plant  at  this  place  by  that 
company.  G.  W.  Sharp  and  Samuel 
Willis  were  the  delegates  chosen  and 
they  will  do  all  in  their  power to  pio- 
mote  the  sale.  The  Pique  Handle  Co. 
has  had  an  option  on  the  plant  here  for 
some  time,  but  another  deal  has  been 
occupying  the  attention  of  the  firm  and 
this  was  neglected.

is 

The  Michigan  Tradesman  feels 

Go  Slow  On  the Crown Mail Order House.
im­
pelled  to  warn 
its  readers  against  the 
Crown  Mail  Order  House,  which  is  so­
liciting  orders  for clothing  in  the  vicin­
ity  of  Big  Rapids  and  Howard  City, 
in  other  portions  of  the 
and  probably 
State.  The  concern 
located  in  one 
tittle  room 
in  the  Cleland  building  at 
Detroit,  and  it  is  claimed  that  the  own­
ers  are  Andrew  T.  Stewart  and  H.  E. 
Atchinson.  They do  not  make  the  cloth­
ing  themselves,  but  turn  the  orders  over 
to  Charles  E.  Porkney,  278  Michigan 
avenue,  Detroit.  Stewart  absolutely  re­
fuses  to give  the  place  of his  former  res­
idence  or  occupation  or any  information 
regarding  his  partner,  which  naturally 
leads  to  the  inference  that  he  has  some­
thing  to  keep  covered  up.  The  Trades­
man  has  received  several  enquiries  re­
lating  to  this  concern  and,  in  all  cases, 
has  warned  its  readers  to  go  slow.
Tbe  Boys  fiebind.  the Counter.

Cadillac—M.  Shapiro  succeeds  Mor­
ris  Buchman  as  salesman  in  Harry 
Drebin's  general  store.

Thompsonville— Fred  Mitchell  has 
removed to  Custer, where  he  has  secured 
a  clerkship  in  the  general store  of  F.  U. 
Jones.

Bay  Shore—Chas.  L.  Moody,  head 
in  the  general  store  of  the  Bay 
clerk 
Shore  Lime  Co.,  has  a  bran  new  son-in- 
law 
in  the  person  of  Franklin  Peter 
Geiken,  of  Charlevoix,  who  wedded 
Mias  Glattice  Laverna  Moody  Oct.  22. 
The  happy couple  will  be  "at  home"  at 
Charlevoix  after  Dec.  1.

Clayton— D.  C.  Gage,  who  has  been 
with  W.  C.  Flake 
in  his  general  store 
for  the  past  five  years  as  clerk  and man­
ager,  has  resigned  and  will  hereafter  be 
with  the  U.  S.  Express  Co.  at  Adrian.
For Gillies’  N. Y. tea,all kinds,grades 

a n d   prices,  call Vianer,  both  phones.

Radiators,  Pipe Fittings  and Heating 
necessities. Pumps and Well Supplies. 
We  solicit your  patronage.  Prompt 
shipments always.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Co.

30 Pearl St. 

Qrand Rapids, Mich.

Hickory  Nuts 

Wanted

Name  us  price  f.  o.  b.  your 

station  or  delivered.

M.  O.  B A K E R  

CO. 

Commission Merchants 

119-121  Superior  St, Toledo,  O h i o i

One  Ton  of 
Scratch  Pads

We  will  sell  25  pounds  assorted  for 
$2,  all  small  sizes,  made  from  finest 
writing  paper.  This  price  is  good  for 
this  lot  only.  We  don’t  want  to  move 
them  to  our  new  location  and  for  this 
reason offer the stock at a bargain.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

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

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Renje  De  Vries  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  803  Wealthy avenue. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Lemon 
&  Wheeler Company.

The  Woodhouse Co., which will shortly 
engage  m  the  wholesale  tobacco  busi­
ness  in  the  Barnhart  building,  has  filed 
articles  with  the  Secretary  of  State. 
The  capital  stock  is  $25,000.

The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  and 
the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  begin 
taking  inventory  Saturday  for  the  pur­
pose  of  carrying  out  the  consolidation 
arrangement  entered 
into  by  both 
houses.  O.  A.  Ball  and  Willard  Barn­
hart  will  be  directors  in  the  Judson Gro­
cer  Company  and  Mr.  Ball  will  take  an 
active  position  in  the  new  bouse.

Amos  S.  Musselman,  Vice-President 
of  the  National  Grocer  Co.,  authorizes 
the  Tradesman  to  state  that  the  Austin- 
Burrington  Co.,  at  Lansing,  has  been 
absorbed  by  the  National  Grocer  Co. 
C.  J.  Austin  retires  from  the  Lansing 
concern,  and 
it  will  be  managed  by 
George  M.  Burrington.  It  is  stated  that 
none  of  the  traveling  men  of  the  firm 
will  be  laid  off.

The  Clapp  Clothing  Co.  is  the  name 
of  a  new  corporation  which  will  embark 
in  the  manufacture  of  workingmen's 
clothing,  including  shirts,  overalls  and 
jumpers,  in  this  city about  December  1. 
The  company  is  capitalized  at  $50,000. 
Of  this  amount  $30,000  is  held  by  C.  I. 
Clapp  and  other Otsego  business  men. 
The  other  $20,000  has  been  subscribed 
by  Grand  Rapids  men.  The  company 
will  occupy  the third  and  fourth floors  of 
the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
building, 
Ionia  and  Louis  streets.

The  disclosure 

in  last  week’s  paper 
that  Orra  Chadwick,  the  Cherry  street 
grocer,  furnished  an  outlet  for  a  large 
portion  of  the  sugar  and  other  goods 
stolen  from  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.  by  Bert  Rice  naturally  recalls  a 
circumstance  which  happened  about  a 
year  ago,  growing  out  of  Chadwick’s 
alleged  effort  to  sell 
lager  beer clan­
destinely  in  connection  with  bis grocery 
business.  As  soon  as  this  was  discov­
ered,  be  was  summoned  to  the  Red 
Brick,  and  the  records  in  the  office  of 
United  States  Revenue  Collector  Lemon 
show  that  on  Sept.  23,  1901,  he  paid  a 
fine  and  $20  for  license  No.  23,  which 
gave  him  the  privilege  of  retailing  malt 
liquors  until  July  1  of  this  year.  There 
is  no  record  of  bis  having  taken  out  a 
State  license,  from  which  it  will  be 
in 
ferred  that  he  did  not  continue  to  sell 
liquor  after  the  revenue  officers  detected 
him  in  violating  the  law.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—The  apple  crop  of the United 
States  this  year  is  estimated  at  43,000,- 
000  barrels,  as  against 27,000,000  barrels 
last  year. 
It  is  believed  there  will  be 
apples  enough  to  supply  every  man, 
woman  and  child 
in  this  country  and 
left  to  supply  favored  friends 
enough 
in  the  old  country.
Bananas—Good  shipping  stock,  $1.25 
@2  per  bunch.

Beans—Foreign  beans  for  November 
delivery  are  being  sold  in  New  York  on 
the  basis  of  $2.05.  This  will  have  a 
tendency  to  hold  down  the  price  of 
Western  grown,  which  the  Detroit  spec­
ulators  are  trying  to  force  up  to  $2.25 
@2.30.

Beeswax—Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 

yellow  stock.

Beets—40c  per bu.
Butter—Creamery 

ic 
higher,  commanding  25c  for  fancy  and

is  firmer  and 

24c  for  choice.  Pound  prints  from  fancy 
command  26c.  Dairy  grades  are  strong 
and  scarce,  commanding 
i8@I9>£c  for 
fancy,  i6@I7c  for  choice  and  14® 15c 
for  packing  stock.  Receipts of  dairy  are 
meager  in  quantity  and  mostly  poor  in 
quality.
per  doz.

Cabbage— Home  grown  command  40c 

Carrots— 35c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25  per doz.
Chestnuts—$5@6  per  bu. 
Michigan  nuts  command  $7.
Cocoanuts—$4  per  sack.
Cranberries—Cape  Cods  are  in  ample 
supply  at  $2.40  per  box  and  $7.25  per 
bbl.

for  Ohio. 

ply  at  17c  per  doz.

@5C;  1  lb.  package,  7c.

Celery— Home  grown  is  in ample sup­
Dates— Hallowi,  5@ 5^c;Sairs,  4A 
Eggs— Local  dealers  pay  I9@20c  for 
case  count  and  2i@22c  for candled.  Re­
ceipts are  so  small that dealers are  draw­
ing  on  their cold  storage  supplies, which 
they  market  at  20@2ic.

Egg  Plant—$1.25  per  doz.
Figs—$1.10  per  10  lb.  box  of  Califor­
nia;  5  crown  Turkey,  17c;  3 crown,  14c.
Grapes— Blue,  15c  per  8  lb.  basket; 
lb.  basket;  Dela­
lb.  basket;  Malagas, 

Niagaras,  16c  per  8 
wares,  15c  per  4 
?5  25@5*75-
Honey— White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  I5@ i 6c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  13® 14c  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ ii c .
83-75-  .  „

Lemons—Californias,  $4;  Messinas,

Mapie  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Nuts—Butternuts,  75c;  walnuts,  75c; 

hickory  nuts, $2.50  per  bu.

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

Oranges—Floridas  command  $4  per 

box.  Jamaicas  fetch  $3.75  per  box.

Pears—Sugar,  $1  perbu.;  Keefer,  90c 

@$1  per  bu.

Potatoes—Michigan  buyers  are  pay- 
ig  35@4oc  and finding an  active  demand 
in  the  Eastern  States,particularly  Penn­
sylvania  and  New  York.

Poultry— Prices  are  firm,  owing  to 
small  receipts.  Live  pigeons  are 
in 
moderate  demand  at  6o@75c  and  squabs 
at  $i.5o@i.75.  Spring  broilers,  9® 
10c;  small  hens,  8@9C;  large  hens,  7 
@8c;  turkey  hens, 
ioj£@ nj£c;  gob­
blers,  9@ioc;  white  spring  ducks,  8® 
9c.  Dressed  stock  commands  the  fol­
lowing:  Spring 
I2@i3c; 
small  bens,  io®i i c ;  spring  ducks,  12 
@i3c;  spring  turkeys,  I3@i4c.

chickens, 

Quinces—Home  grown  are  scarce  at 

$2  50  per  bu.

Radishes—20c  per  doz.  for  hothouse.
Spanish  Onions—$1.25  per  crate.
Squash—2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  $3.25  per 

Tomatoes—50c  for  ripe  and  40c  for 

bbl.  ;  Virginias,  $2.25.
green.

Turnips— 40c  per  bu.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  bide  market 

remains  strong 
against  heavy  receipts  of  cattle,  with 
no  accumulation.  The  supply  is  limited 
in  the country  and  prices  are  held  above 
what  the  market  warrants.  Any  ad­
vance  stops  trading.

Tallow 

Pelts  are  in  demand  and  are  more 
active,influenced  by  large  sales  of  wool.
is  firmer,  with  no  accumula­
tion,  with  a  good  demand  from  abroad. 
Edible 
is  quickly  taken  when  offered, 
while  No.  1  and  lower  grades  bold  firm, 
but  at  no  advance,  with  a  good  future 
outlook.
Wool 

is  strong,  with  a  better  feeling 
and  larger  sales  at  seaboard.  Stocks  in 
the  State  are  not 
large  and  are  held 
above  Eastern  buyers'  views.  But  little 
has  moved  the  past  week,  although 
there  have  been  many  chances  to  trade. 
Prices  are  2  cents  below  holders'  ask­
ing  prices  in  many  instances.  The  fu­
ture outlook is  good.  Wm.  T.  Hess.

To  make  bens 

lay  perpetually—hit 
them  a  well-directed  blow  on  the  head.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  raw  sugar  market  is  firm, 
prices  showing  an  advance  of  i -i 6c. 
Refiners  are  well  stocked  for  present 
needs  and  are  not  disposed  to  purchase 
at  present  prices,  while  holders  are  very 
firm 
in  their  views  and  will  not  shade 
prices  any.  The  refined  sugar  market  is 
firm,  but  the  demand 
is  rather  light, 
buyers  generally  being  disposed  to  pur­
chase  only  sufficient  to  meet  current 
requirements.  Michigan  beet  granu­
lated  is  offered  quite  freely,  but  the  de­
mand  for  the  same  is  light  and  not  as 
heavy  as  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year.
Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  shows  no  particular  change. 
Tomatoes  are  being  offered  somewhat 
more  freely  now  and  prices  have  a 
downward  tendency.  Corn  continues  in 
active  demand  at  present,  and  high 
prices  and  only  limited  quantities are  to 
be  found,  many  orders  having  to  be 
turned  down  on  account  of  lack  of  sup­
plies.  There  has  been  quite  a  good  de­
mand  for  gallon  apples,  both  in  gallon 
and  3  lb.  cans.  Prices  show  no  change 
as  yet  and  we  consider  gallon  apples  a 
good  purchase 
prices. 
Peaches  still  meet  with  a  good  demand 
at  unchanged  prices.  Stocks  of  pie 
peaches  are,  however,  so  closely  cleaned 
up  that  it  is  impossible  to  get  hold  of 
any  good-sized  lots.  Peas  meet  with  a 
fair  demand  for  the  standard  grades  at 
unchanged  prices.  Salmon  is 
in  good 
demand,  with  an  active  consumptive 
movement.  Sardines  are  meeting  with 
a  good  trade  at  full  prices.

at  present 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
shows  no  changes  <H  importance.  Trade 
at  this  time  of  the  year  is  always  some­
what  restricted on  account  of  the  arrival 
of  goods  bought  for  future  delivery. 
Prunes  are  meeting  with  a  moderate 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.  The  large 
sizes  are  very  scarce  indeed  and  com­
mand  some  premium. 
It  is  stated  that 
the  demand  for  40-503  and  50 60s 
is  so 
it  can  not  be  supplied,  as 
great  that 
there 
is  considerable  shortage  of  these 
sizes.  Raisins  continue  in  fair  request 
at  unchanged  prices.  Trade  in  seeded 
continues  good,  but 
loose  are  rather 
apricots  show 
quiet. 
Peaches  and 
considerable 
improvement  and  prices 
have  an  upward  tendency.  Figs  have 
been  advanced 
and  are  meeting
with  a  good  demand  at  the  advanced 
price.  Dates  are  firmly  held,  with  new 
crop  goods  expected  within  the  next 
few  days.  Spot  stocks  are  very  light. 
Currants  meet  with  fair  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.  Evaporated  apples  are 
selling  well,  with  the  market  unchanged 
in  price,  but  with  a  slightly  weaker 
tendency,  due  to 
increased  offerings. 
The  demand for  1  lb.  packages  has  been 
so  large  that  packers  were  way  behind 
on  orders,  but  are  now  getting  caught 
up  and  are  offering  goods  again. 
It 
has  been  impossible  to  accumulate  any 
stock  of  evaporated  apples,  as  orders 
come  in  as  fast  as  the  stock is  manufac­
tured.

Rice—The  rice  market  has  a  very 
firm  tendency  and  demand  is  good.  A 
backward  movement  of  the  new  crop  in 
consequence  of  the  unfavorable  weather 
continues  to  be  reported  from the South. 
A  conservative  estimate  places  the  crop 
at  about  3.000,000  sacks.  It  is  too  early 
yet,  however,  to  estimate  the  damage 
which  has  been  done  by  the  rain  to  the 
whole  crop.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  wants  of 
the  consuming  trade  are  now  constant­
ly  increasing,  but  offerings  are  decided­
ly  limited,  and in  view  of  the  continued 
steady  demand  and  the  small  supplies

in  the  market,  dealers  were 

now 
in­
different sellers.  Prices  were  firmly  held 
and  no  concessions  are  reported. 
is 
said  that  present 
indications  for  the 
Louisiana  crop  are  for  a  short  yield. 
There  is  no  change  in  the  price  of  corn 
syrup  and  demand  is  only  fair.

It 

Fish—Very 

little  change  is  noted  in 
the  fish  market.  Mackerel is  very  firm­
ly  held  on  account  of  the  light  supply. 
Trade  in  this  line  is  moderate  and  also 
in  codfish,  which  is  unchanged.

Nuts—There 

is  an  active  demand  for 
nuts  of  all  descriptions.  Brazils,  wal­
nuts  and  filberts  are  all  showing  slight 
advances,  while  almonds  and  pecans 
have  a  very  firm  tendency.  Peanuts, 
however,  continue  very  easy  with  prac­
tically  no  demand.
Roster of the  B all-B arnhart-P utm an  Co.

hart.

President—Willard  Barnhart.
Vice-President— Mrs.  Helen  R.  Barn­
Treasurer— Orson  A.  Ball.
Secretary— D.  Wallace  Giddings.
Head  Clerk  and  Buyer—Arthur  E. 

Gregory.

Assistants—Ralph  C.  Rockwell  and 

Marion  B.  Northrop.

House  Salesman—Anthony  J.  Quist.
Book-keeper—Miss  Henrietta  Van 

Assistant  Book-keeper— Miss  Alice 

der  Werp.

Luxford.

Billing  Clerk—Miss  Lillian  Christie.
Stenographer—Miss  Maud  E.  Church.
Clerk—Geo.  Winchester.
Traveling  Salesmen— Harry  P.  Win­
chester,  Chas.  P.  Reynolds,  A.  A.  Rog­
ers,  Barney E.  Stratton,  Wm.  O.  Ephlin, 
Wm.  K.  Wison.

City  Salesman— Ed.  W.  D'Ooge.
Receiving  Clerk—Geo.  W.  Hamilton.
Assistant  Receiving  Clerks---- John

Vander  Boegh  and  Christian Schmidt.
Shipping  Clerk—Jas.  B.  Alexander.
Assistant  Shipping  Clerks—Asel  J. 
Packing  Clerk—William  H .  Kirk­

Jaynes  and  Will  Eaton.

wood.

Sargent.

Assistant  Packing  Clerk—William 

Teamsters—Allen  H.  Anderson,  Vern 

Morton  and  Andrew  Mellema.

Mr.  O.  A.  Ball,  in  making the  change 
in  bis  business,  will  be  in  a stronger po­
sition  than  ever  before  to  serve  his  cus­
tomers,  as  he  assumes  a  commanding 
position  from  the  very  start  with  the 
consolidated  grocery 
company.  His 
twenty-five  years  of  experience  in  plac­
ing  food  products  in  the  hands  of  the 
consumer  through  the  retailer  and  his 
life  study  of  the  important  subject  will 
give  him  the  strongest  basis  for  the 
continued  loyalty  of  hoth  the  traveling 
fraternity  and  the  trade.

A  father  fearing  an  earthquake  in  the 
region  of  bis  home  sent  his  two  boys  to 
a  distant  friend  until  the  peril  should 
be  over.  A  few  weeks  after,  the  father 
received  this 
letter  from  his  friends: 
“ Please  take  your  boys  home  and  send 
down  the  earthquake.’ ’

Little  Nina  went  to  church  with  her 
grandmother,  and  for  the  first  time  put 
two  pennies 
in  the  contribution  plate. 
Leaning  over,  she  whispered  very  au­
dibly :  “ That’s  all  right,  grandma,  I 
paid  for  two!’ ’

Piles Cured

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

Dr.  Willard  M.  Burleson 

Rectal  Specialist

103  Monroe St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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

Thinks  Flying  Machines  W ill  Ruin  His 

Business.

taking 

“ Tell  ye  what  it  is,  boys,”   remarked 
Zeb  Peters, 
the  Cranberry  Corners 
philosopher,  straightening  up  from  bis 
work  and 
in  the  half-dozen 
loungers  in  bis  little  cobbler's shop with 
a  sweeping  glance,  “ when  I  see  a  man 
with  two  good  legs  on  him  an’  a  pair  of 
feet  firmly  attached  to  the  end 
No.  ii 
of  said 
legs  settin’  around  an’  wisbin' 
fera  pair  of  wings  ora  flyin’  machine- 
well,  I've  got  my  opinion  of  him,  an’ 
it  hain't  a  very  complimentary  one  at 
that. ”

“ I  know  what’s  troublin'  ye,  Zeb,” 
spoke  up  Job  Hankins,  the  member  of 
the  party  who  had  introduced  the  sub­
ject  of  flying,  “ ye’re  afraid  ye  won’t 
git  quite  so  many  boots  and  shoes  to 
mend  when  folks  have  wings  to  travel 
around  with.”

“ I  s'pose  it  would  make  some  differ­
ence 
in  my  income,”   said  Peters,  re­
flectively,  “ but  I  wasn't  thinkin’  of 
that.  Not  at  all.  What  I  was  revolvin' 
in  my  mind  was  the  fact  that  there  are 
mighty  few  men,  present  company  ex­
cepted,  of  course,  that  I’d  want  to  trust 
with  a  pair  of  wings.”

“ Ruther  rough  on  yer  feller  citizens, 
ain’t  ye,  Zeb?”   enquired  another  of 
the  crowd,  quizzically.

“ Mebbe  1  am,”   acknowledged  Pet­
ers,  cheerfully,  “ mebbe  I  am;  but  1 
look  at 
it  this  way:  No  Philadelphy 
lawyer  that  was  ever  born  could  begin 
to  keep  track  of  all  the  rascality  that’s 
goin’  on  now,  an'  I  don't  know  what 
we’d  do  if  all  the  plaguey  rascals  in 
the country  had  flyin’  machines or wings 
to  travel  around  with  an'  do  business. 
Why,  it  takes  at  least  forty  detectives 
now  to  run  down  one  embezzler  or  mur­
derer,  an'  half  of  the  time  they  don’t 
catch  him  at  that  if  he  gits  over  half  a 
day  the  start.  An'  jes’  s’posin'  he  had 
a  pair  of  wings  to  help  him  along, 
where’d  the  detectives  be  then,  d’ye 
imagine?

“ No,  siree,  boys,  I  don’t  believe 

in 
makin' 
flyin’  machines  or  wings  an’ 
dealin'  ’em  out  to  every  Tom,  Dick  an’ 
Harry  who  steps  up  to  the  flyin'  ap­
paratus  counter  with  money  enough  to 
pay  fer  ’em.  The  minute  ye  begin  that 
every  rogue  an’  sharper 
in  the  coun­
try  will  be  transactin’  business  with  a 
pair  of  wings  bitched  to  their  shoulder 
blades. 
I  don’t  know  but  what  I'd  buy

Big  Bauch  of Hardwood  Logs.

The  Michigan  Maple  Co.,  by 

Buyers  and  consumers  of  maple  lum­
ber  will  take  heart  from  the  accom­
panying 
illustration,  which  shows  a 
stock  of  2,200,000  feet of  hardwood  logs, 
largely  maple,  at  the  plant of  the  R.  G. 
Peters  Salt  &  Lumber Co.,  on  the  line 
of  the  Manistee  &  Luther  Railroad  in 
Michigan. 
It  is  known  as  the  Dolan 
rollway,and the  logs  are  all  piled within 
eighteen  car-lengths  of  the  track.  This 
stock 
is  a  part  of  that  handled  by  the 
Michigan  Maple  Co.,  which  controls 
about  85  per cent,  of  all  the  Michigan 
maple  and  other  hardwoods  tributary  to 
the  lake  ports of the Southern Peninsula.
the 
way,  is  one  of  the  most  successful  asso­
ciations  of 
lumbermen  that  were  ever 
effected  and  reflects  in  an  eminent  de­
gree  the  sagacity  of its President,  Henry 
W.  Cary,  of  Manistee,  and  the  other 
promoters  of  the  enterprise.  At  the 
time  the  Michigan  Maple  Co.  came 
into  existence  the  trade  was  disorgan­
ized,  prices  were 
low  and  the  industry 
was  barely  profitable.  To-day  no or­
ganization  of  lumber  producers  is  more 
firmly  cemented  together  from  an  asso­
ciation  standpoint  than  are  the  com­
ponent  parts  of  this  company. 
Its  op­
erations  have  been  conducted  in  a  safe 
and conservative manner, prices  not  hav­
ing  been  materially  increased,  the  plan 
of  the  organization  being  merely  that  of 
a  selling  company.  The  benefits  of  the 
associated  effort  and  mutual  confidence 
generated  among  manufacturers  are 
strikingly 
in  the  success 
which  has  attended  this  organization. 
The  officers  of the  company  are  as  fol­
lows :  President,  Henry  W.  Carey; 
Vice-Presidents,  W.  H.  White  and  H. 
N.  Loud;  Secretary,  W.  T.  Culver; 
Treasurer,  H.  B.  Lewis.  These  gen­
tlemen,  with  Edward  Buckley,  John  F. 
Ott,  Herman  Besser  and  William  P. 
Porter,  constitute  the  board  of directors.
issue 
of  the  American  Lumberman,  to  whom 
the  Tradesman  is  indebted  for the 
loan 
of  the  log  scene  appearing  at  the bottom 
of  this  page.

The  above  appeared  in  the  last 

illustrated 

a  pair of  ’em  myself.  Have  to  do  it,  I 
s'pose,  if  I  wanted  to  keep  up  with  the 
procession  an'  make  a  decent  livin’.

“ Shouldn’t  wonder  a  bit  if  Hankins 
is  right  about  folks  not  cornin’  to  me  to 
have  their  boots  an’  shoes  mended  after 
wings  git  to  be  fashionable.  They won’t 
have  to. 
In  the  first  place  they  won’t 
wear  our  near  so  much  shoe  leather,  an’ 
in  the  second  place  lots  of  people  won't 
bother,  let  alone  pay,  to  have  their  old 
shoes  patched  up  when  they  can  jump 
aboard  of  their  flyin*  machines  or  hitch 
on  their  wings  an*  make  a  bee-line  to 
the  nearest  town,  drop  down  in  front  of 
a  shoe  store  an’  help  themselves  to 
whatever  they  need  in  the  way  of  foot­
wear,  an’  sail  away  again  over  the 
housetops  before  the owner  has  a  chance 
to  git  down  his  gun,  or  even  say  Jack 
Robinson!

“ No,  I  reckon  I  sha’n’t  do  a  very 
rusbin’  business  mendin’  boots  an’ 
shoes  after  wings  git  into general  circu­
lation.  An’  what  would  be  the  use  of 
me  settin’  here  stitchin*  an’  peggin’ 
away  all  day  an’  mebbe  earnin'  a dollar 
or ten  shillin'  when  there's  lots  of  stove 
wood,  all  sawed  ah'  split  ready  fer  use, 
invitin'ly  piled  up  in  half of  the  back­
yards  of  the  country ;  an' hams  an'  hind 
quarters  of  beef  an’  mutton,  an’  poultry 
an'  game,  hangin’  up  in  front  of  every 
meat  market,  ready  to  be  swooped  down 
on  au’ carried  off;  an' the United  States 
sub-treasury,  an’ the  different  mints, an’ 
banks,  an’  so  on,  with  counters  all 
piled  full  of  gold  an'  greenbacks,  put 
up 
in  handy  packages,  an'  waitin'  fer 
some  enterprisin’  citizen  with  wings  to 
light  on  the  window  sill  an’  reach  in 
an’  help  himself.

“ No  use  talkin’,  boys,  there’s  alto­
gether  too  many  temptations  connected 
with  wings  an’  flyin’  machines,  an’  1 
don’t  believe  the  world  is  quite  ready 
for 
’em  yet.  Be  time  enough  fer  our 
wings,  I  reckon,  when  we  git  to  be  an­
gels  an’  hain't  got  to work quite  so  hard 
fer  a  livn*. ”

And  with  a  sigh  of  resignation  the 
philosopher  of  the  shoe  bench  picked 
up  his  cobbier’s  hammer  and  vigorously 
resumed  pegging  away  at  his  work.— 
New  York  Times.

On  a  child  being  told  that  be  must  be 
broken  of  a  bad  habit,  be  actually  re­
1  better  be 
plied: 
mended?’ ’

“ Papa,  hadn’t 

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being  conducted  before  Justice  Carr,  of  Muskegon.  At  the 
opening  of  the examination,  L.  N.  Keating,  attorney  for  Mr. 
Jennings,  offered  to  consent  to  an  adjournment  long  enough 
to  permit  the  Chemist  of  the  State  Food  Commissioner  to  go 
to 
the  Jennings  Flavoring  Extract 
Co  and  inspect  the  process  employed  and  materials  used 
in  the. manufacture  of  a  complete  batch  of lemon  extract  from 
start  to  finish,  and  when  the  stock  was  completed  take liberal 
samples  with  which  to  make  a  comparative  test with the sam­
ples  of  the  same  goods  now  on  the  open  market

laboratory  of 

the 

The  proposition  was  made  in  the belief  that  if  it  was  ac­
cepted  the  State  Chemist  would  be  convinced  that  the 
Jennings’  extract  of lemon  is  made  in  exact  compliance  with 
the  law,  both  as  to  purity  and  strength.

The  prosecution  declined  to  do  this.

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I 

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bad  them?  How  has  it  dealt  with  our 
forests?  They  have  been  ruthlessly 
wasted.  How 
is  it  dealing  with  our 
stock  ranges?  They  are  arenas  for com­
bat.  What  reason 
is  there  to  suppose 
that  the "Government”   would deal more 
wisely  or  less  wastefully  with  our coal 
measures  than  it  lias  dealt  with  our  for­
ests  and  our  ranges?

it. 

it? 

We  should  be  confronted  with  the 
same  conditions  which  now  exist—with 
more  miners  on  the  ground  than  are 
necessary  to  mine  the  coal  which  the 
people  can  use.  With  an  eight-hour 
day 
in  the  mines  and  on  the  railroads 
the  cost  of  coal  would  be  more  than  it 
now  is,  and  in a  year the  excess  of  labor 
would  be  as  great. 
Its  clamor  for  sup­
port  would  be  as  great,  and  not  only  for 
support,  but  for  the  American  standard 
of  life,  which  we  are  all  of  us  fighting 
to  maintain.  How  would  the  Govern­
ment  deal  with 
If  it  raised  the 
price  of  coal  poor  consumers  would 
suffer.  With  the  higher  price  of  coal 
we  could  certainly  export  none,  even  if 
we  were  willing  to  send  fuel  out  of  the 
country.  The  cost  of  the  coal  would 
have  to  be  borne  by  the  people  who 
burned 
If  the  price  of  coal  were 
not  raised  there  would  be  a  deficit,  for 
no  government  could,  or  at  least  would, 
operate  so  economically  as  private  own­
ers  How  would  that  deficit  be  met? 
By  general  taxation?  Yes,  for  a  short 
time  until  taxable  capital  could  get  out 
of  the  country.  But  not 
long.  Our 
accumulations  of  capital  seem  enormous 
and  are  so,but  we  could  easily  expend 
them  in  ten  years.  The  greater  part  of 
our  accumulations  are  in  fixed  capital 
productively  employed.  To  destroy  it 
is  would  only  be  necessary  to  render  it 
unproductive.  We  could  make  a  good 
start  toward  that  by  trifling  with  the 
coal  problem.  The  country  can  consume 
only  a  certain  quantity  of  coal.  To 
mine  this  only  a  certain  number of  men 
are  required.  There  are  more  miners 
in  the  anthracite  district  than  afe  nec­
essary  to  mine  the  anthracite  coal.  The 
problem 
is  to  provide  for  their  support 
without  bringing  distress  upon  others. 
The  problem  would  remain  the  same 
with  Government  ownership  of mines.

The  problem  is  serious  enough. 

It  is 
not  to  be  discussed 
lightly.  No  solu­
tion  ,will  be  reached  through  passion  or 
It  should  sober  the  most 
class  warfare. 
reckless  politician. 
is  the  problem 
of  humanity  and  the  gravest  problem 
that  man  can  face.

It 

into  an 

The  things  that  are  done  to  newly 
married  couples  are  almost  past  belief. 
In  Pittsburg  the  other  night,  a  bride 
and  groom  about  to  depart  on  their 
honeymoon,  were  thrust 
iron 
cage  mounted  on  an  express  wagon  and 
escorted  by  a  mob  of  several  thousand 
people  to  the  depot,  amidst  a  blaze  of 
red 
fire  and  many  fantastic  features. 
When  the  couple  arrived  in  New  York, 
they  thought  their  troubles  were  over, 
but  they  were  scarcely  settled  in  their 
apartments  in  the  hotel  when  express 
wagons  began  to  deliver  all  kinds  of 
household  utensils,  cook books,  dippers, 
pie  pans  and  so  forth,  all  sent  by 
friends  in  Pittsburg. 
It  is  explained  in 
justification  that the  groom  was a  great 
practical  joker and  that  these  proceed­
ings  were  taken  to  pay  off  old  scores 
against  him.

Over  in  Chicago  a clergyman has been 
forced  to  resign  because  he  persisted  in 
"Ah-mens”   when  his-congregation  pre­
ferred  "A-m ens.’ ’  Pulpit  and  pew  are 
splitting  many  hairs  nowadays.

THE  CAUSES OF  POVERTY.

"T he  destruction  of  the  poor  is  their 
poverty,”   said  an  old  writer;  but  the 
modern  writer  says  the  destruction  of 
the  poor  is  also  various  other  things 
which  cause  the  poverty.  Poverty  was 
once 
looked  upon  as  piety,  because 
poverty  showed  that  a  man  was  in 
earnest  in  caring  more  for  the  next 
world  than  for  this.  The  rich  and  pow­
erful  took  upon  themselves  vows  of  pov­
erty,  and  to  give  to  the  poor  was  not  a 
kindness  but  a  great  religious privilege. 
Poverty  was  not  only  respectable,  but  it 
was  the  highest  form  of  self-sacrifice. 
In  a  word,  through  a  fatal  misunder­
standing  of  the  gospel  of  Christ,  Europe 
was  overrun  with  beggars  and  poverty 
was  thought  worthy  to  be  named  as  a 
virtue  of equal  merit  with  chastity  and 
obedience.

This  state  of  affairs,  especially  after 
the  Crusades,  made  Europe  a  vast 
swarming  ground  tor  beggars,  and  these 
beggars  afforded  an  opportunity  to  the 
rich  to  obtain  forgiveness  of  sins  by 
giving  them  alms,  and  the  poor  were 
thus  a  kind  of  instrument  of  salvation 
for  the  rich.  So  long  as  poverty  was  a 
virtue  and  to  relieve  it  a  religious  duty, 
poverty  flourished.  But  the  evils  of  it 
soon  became  so  great  that  men  grad­
ually  came  to  look  upon  it  more  harsh­
ly;  and  in  England,  even so  far  back  as 
the  fourteenth  century,  statutes  were 
passed  which  decreed  that  if  persons 
were  detected  asking  for  relief  when 
work  was  to  be  had  they  should  be 
whipped  for  the  first  offense,  have  their 
ears  cropped  for  the  second,  and  be 
hanged  for  the  third. 
Poverty  had 
changed  from  piety  and  was  now  a 
crime.

Then  it  became  evident  that  poverty 
was  ofttimes  unavoidable,  not  voluntary 
but  involuntary  on  the  part  of  the  beg­
gar,  and  to-day  we  recognize  poverty 
not  as  crime  aiways,  but  as  misfortune. 
In  great  cities,  especially,  where  people 
are  crowded  close  together  and  are  very 
dependent  on  one  another,  loss of  work 
or  lack  of  it  may  be  due  very  often  to 
causes  over which  the  individual  has  no 
control,  and  his  poverty  is  therefore  a 
genuine  misfortune.  This  is  the  indi­
vidual  whom 
it  is  a  delight  to  help. 
The  honest,  temperate,  industrious  man 
or  woman  who  has  met  with  misfortune 
need  not  lack  for  help,  for  there  are 
hundreds,  thousands  of  people  overflow­
ing  with  willingness  to  help  such  cases 
of  misfortune.

According  to  Professor  Franklin  H. 
Giddings,  of  Columbia  University,  the 
six  causes  of  poverty,  as  defined  in  a 
recent  lecture,  are  refusal  to  work,  lack 
of  employment,  struggle  to  rise,  un­
equal  distribution  of  accident,  wrong 
public  policy  and  sentimental  charity. 
Any  reader  whose  income  is  inadequate 
is  invited  to  consider  this  list  and  de­
termine  which  cause  fits  his own  case. 
Dr.  A.  G.  Warner,  who  has  had  a 
long 
and  intimate  association  with  the famil­
ies  of the  poor  in  large  cities,  in  a  book 
on  "American  Charities"  states  the  re­
sults  of  his  special  study  of  the  causes 
of  poverty. 
It  is,  therefore,  interesting 
to  see  what  he  considers  the  chief 
cause  of  pauperism.  English,  German 
and  American  tables  are  given,  and  as 
the  result  of  a  careful  investigation  Dr. 
Warner  says:  "T he  most  constant  cause 
of  poverty  everywhere,  at  all  times, and 
according  to  all  investigators,  is  sick­
In  studying  occupations  as  a 
ness. 
sickness,  several  disease- 
cause  of 
begetting 
trades  are  mentioned,  and 
stress 
is 
laid  on  the  improper  employ­
ment  of  women  and  children  as  lead­

ing  to  a  breaking  down  of  the  physical 
system  and  so  producing  a  race  of 
weak  infants  who  must  struggle  through 
life  or  die  young.  One  who  has  had 
much  experience 
in  the  homes  of  poor 
people  needs  no  statistics  to  be  con­
vinced  that  sickness  is  at  any  rate  one 
of  the  chief  causes  of  pauperism.  Many 
a  family  drops  into  hopeless  need  be­
cause  the  bread-winner 
lies,  perhaps 
for  years,  prostrate  with  sickness.  Sick­
ness  of  wife  and  children  keeps  many 
an  honest  man  poor,  paying 
for  medi­
cine  and  medical  attendance.

A  great  deal  of  poverty  is  due to quite 
other  causes  than  misfortune.  First  of 
is  due  to  intemperance.  The 
all,  it 
saloon 
is  many  a  poor  man’s  banker, 
and  an  empty  jug  or can  tells  the  story 
of  bis  savings.  Idleness is  another  cause 
of  poverty-^-absoIute  unwillingness  to 
work  steadily,  or  absolute  incapacity. 
There  are  hundreds  of  young  loafers 
about  the  streets  who  have  so  drugged 
their  wills  that  they  can  not  work  and 
they  must  roam  the  streets  as  the  Arabs 
do  the  deserts.  They  would  pine  away 
if  they  had  to  work  as  the  rest  of  us  do 
to  keep  them  in  idleness.  Probably  the 
only  remedy  is  either  to  send  them  into 
the  country,  or  to 
let  them  starve,  for 
to  keep  them  alive  in  our  cities  is  only 
to  breed  more  like  them  and  to  form  a 
larger  class  of  them  for  mutual  protec­
tion  and  amusement.

Another  cause  of  poverty  is  vanity— 
men  and  women  who  believe  that  the 
inside  and  outside  of  their houses  and 
what  they  wear  upon  their  backs  are  the 
real  tests  of  character  and  the  genuine 
consolations  of  this  life,  and  that  men 
and  women  are  measured  by  what  they 
pretend  to  have  and  not  by  what  they 
are.  Such  people  become  poor  through 
vanity,  and  to  help  such  people  nourish 
their  silly  vanity  is  a  crime  against  the 
commonwealth. 
It  is  vanity,  also,  that 
makes  embarrassment  among  those  that 
can  not  be  called  poor.  This  attempt  to 
live  not  as  simply  as  one  can,  but  as 
nearly  like  the  rich  as  one  can,  is  the 
cause  of  much  trouble,  intemperance, 
divorce,  ill  health.

Another  cause  of  poverty 

is  ignor­
ance.  Men,  nowadays,  in  our  schools 
and  colleges,are  too largely  educated  for 
the  cities  instead  of  for  the  country. 
There  are  too  many  men  with  a  smat­
tering  of  knowledge  and  too  few  with  a 
competent  knowledge  of  a  trade.  There 
are  too  many  clerks  and  book-keepers 
in  training,  and  too  few  artisans  and 
farmers.  Therefore,  in  our  cities  many 
men  are poor because they are ignorant— 
ignorant  of  any  trade  or  handiciaft,  un­
trained 
in  any  particular  line  of  duty, 
and  therefore  without  employment.

The  greater  amount  of  poverty 

is 
doubtless  preventable,  but  the  problem 
it  presents  is  not  an  easy  one  and  there 
is  no  easy  solution.  Some  poverty  is 
caused  by  circumstances  over  which  the 
poor  person  has  no control;  but  much 
poverty  is  caused  by  the  weakness  and 
evil 
in  the  heart  of  man,  and  to cure 
that  we  must  make  over  the  man  from 
the  inside.

It  is  not  many  years  ago  that  A.  M. 
Todd,the  Kalamazoo  essential  oil  king, 
was  elected  to  Congress  on  an  anti- 
monopoly  platform.  At  that  time  he 
bad  not  cornered  the  peppermint  oil 
crop  of  the  world  and  made  $250,000  by 
raising  the  price  from  $2.50 to $5  per 
P9und.  Mr.  Todd  is  now  "out  of  pol­
itics"  and  probably  would  not  care  to 
be  reminded  of  the  stand  he  took  on 
trusts  and  monopolies  before  he  con­
ceived  and  carried  into  execution  one 
of  the  most  successful  and  profitable 
corners  ever  undertaken  in  this  country.

GOVERNMENT  OWNERSHIP.

issue 

law.  The  Ministry, 

railroad 
The  colony 

The  public  ownership  of  anthracite 
coal  mines  is  just  now  desired  by  some 
people  who  were  very  much  in  need  of 
coal  and  were  prevented  from  getting 
it  by  a  strike.  They  assumed  that  if 
the  “ Government"  operated  the  mines 
there  would  be  no  strike.  That  does 
not  follow  at  all.  The  railroads  of  the 
colony  of  Victoria  belong  to  the  colony, 
and  the  hours  and  wages  of  employes 
are  fixed  by 
in 
the  face  of  a  serious  deficit,  reduced 
employes 
wages,  and 
the 
promptly  struck. 
is,  or 
was,  discussing  the  question,  which  was 
in  a  general  election. 
made  the 
Strikes  would  not  in  the 
less­
ened  by  public  ownership.  They  would 
probably  be 
increased  because  labor 
would  demand  more  and  more,  regard­
less  of  revenue,  and  universal  bank­
in  the  end.  Re­
ruptcy  would  follow 
the  bankrupting  process 
sistance 
would  produce  strikes.  The 
laborers 
engaged  in  mining  coal  would  have  no 
more  consideration  than  they  have  now 
for  the  distress  of  the  laborers  who  were 
not  mining  coal.  The  British  govern­
ment  prevents,under penalties,the  strik­
ing  of  its  underpaid postoffice employes. 
It  could  not  prevent  the  striking  of  the 
British  coal  miners  or  dockyard  work­
ers  except  by  wholesale  slaughter.  Gov­
ernment ownership is no cure  for  strikes. 
It  must  be  considered  on  its  general 
merits.

least  be 

to 

Anthracite  coal 

than  breadstufls; 

is  no  more  a  neces­
sity  of  life  than  bituminous  coal.  If  the 
Government  should  own  one  it  should 
own  the  other.  Coal  is  no  more  neces­
the 
sary 
therefore 
Government  should  own  the  land. 
In 
other words, the proposal  that the Govern­
ment  should  own  the  anthracite  coal 
mines  raises  the  whole  question  of  so­
cialism,  which  we  do  not  intend  to  dis­
is  one  aspect  of  the 
cuss.  But  there 
matter  which 
it  would  do  no  harm  to 
consider:  How  would  the  "Govern­
if  it
ment”   deal  with  the  coal  mines 

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Name your price  and  we will name a  register to fit it.

We guarantee to furnish better  Cash  Registers  for 
less  money  than  any  other  concern  in  the  world.
Test  this.

When  you visit  Dayton—visit  us. 

to visit  Dayton just to visit  us

It will  pay  you 

A  National Cash  Register saves so much money for 
a storekeeper that hi finds it easy  to pay for  the  reg­
ister with  a  part  of  the  money  the  register  saves.
Our terms are small  monthly payments, or  we  give  a 
liberal discount for cash.

Do without a  National  Cash  Register  and  you  do 
without  the  greatest  aid  to  success  in  storekeeping 
ever invented.

300,000  storekeepers  have  bought  National  Cash 

Registers.  Your turn next.

There was  no Cash  Register  before  the  National 

There has been  no other good one since.

There’s a hundred  times more profit for you in buy­
ing a National Cash  Register than there  is  for  us  in 
selling one.  That’s why you ought  to  be  anxious  to 
have our agent call and tell  you  how a  register  saves 
money.

We make very liberal  allowances  in  the  exchange 
of old Cash  Registers of any make for new Nationals. 
Thousands of  storekeepers  are  taking  advantage  of 
this and are trading in  the  registers  they  have  used 
for years as part payment on our new models. 
If you 
have an old  register,  let  us  know, and  we  will  have 
our agent in your  locality  call.  He will  explain  our 
new machines and quote  you  our  very  liberal  allow­
ances for old  registers.

Rational  Cash Register Co.,

Dayton, Ohio

“The  Star” No. 10

This  mill  has  an  elegant  nickel  plated  hopper, 
holding  three  pounds  of  coffee,  with  a  hinged 
dome  top  cover.  Has  two  twenty-three  inch 
fly wheels.  Mill  stands thirty  inches  high,  and 
finished  in vermilion  with  rich  gilt  decorations. 
Its  capacity is one  and  one-half  to  two  pounds 
per  minute.  The  most  popular  size  of  counter 
mills.  See  supplementary 
for  price  on 
larger size  mill.

list 

Given  as a  Premium with  100  pounds of 
Pure Spices,  assorted,  for 

-

$ 2 7 . 0 0

Spices and  Mill  f.  o.  b.  Toledo.

Spices guaranteed  pure.

Woolson  Spice  Co,

Toledo,  Ohio

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SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

B.  S.  Davenport,  Representing  the  Olney 

&  Judson Grocer  Co.

The  story  of  a  successful  career  is  al­
ways  an  instructive  one  and  usually  in­
teresting. 
It  is  particularly  instructive 
if  the  success  be  not  an  accidental  or 
adventitious  one,  but,  on  the  contrary, 
the  orderly  working  out  of  a  life’s  pro­
gramme  as  well  defined  as  it  is  possible 
for  a  young  man  without  any  particular 
influence  or  financial  support to make it
There  are  some  inheritors  of  wealth 
who  are  predestined  to  their  careers 
As  a  boy  or  youth  one  may  be  destined 
for  the  law  or  the  railroad  business  or 
some  line  of  manufacture,or  perhaps  for 
the  church.  He  is  to  take  his  place  in 
the  family  scheme. 
If  the  wealth  be 
large  it  is  but  right  that  the  young  man 
should  be  trained  in  the  handling  of  the 
properties  which  are  to  come 
into  hi 
possession.  The  Goulds  naturally  and 
of  necessity  become  railroad  and  tele 
graph  people;  the  Yranderbilts  are  rail 
road people;  the  Astors  real  estate;  and 
there  is  a  second  generation  of  lumber 
men  and  merchants  and  bankers  and 
manufacturers  who  are  such  by 
inherit 
ance—inheritance  perhaps  both  of  nat 
ural  bent  and  property.

But  the  average  boy,  with  no  fixed 
place  in  the  world  and  his own  career  to 
make  for  himself,  usually  has his  period 
of  vacillation  when  he  is  determining 
what  be  will  do  and  his  determination 
is 
largely  the  outcome  of  opportunity 
and  association.  After  the  choice 
is 
made  then  comes  the  real  test  of  deter­
mination,  ability  and  ambition.

There  is  a  young  man 

in  Michigan 
not  yet  40  years  old  who  has  apparent­
ly  reached  a  position  of  assured  success 
as  a  salesman  and  whose  career  forcibly 
illustrates 
the  value  of  well-directed 
effort  after  the  choice  of  a  vocation  is 
made.  The  details  of  such  a  life  are 
apt  to  be  many  and  individually  many 
of  them  unimportant,  but  for  the  under­
standing  of  the  outcome  a  statement  of 
them  is  necessary.

Byron  S.  Davenport  was  born  on  a 
farm 
in  Barton  township,  Newaygo 
county,  Jan.  2,  1863,  being  the  youngest 
of  six  children.  When  a  small  child  he 
was  attacked  with  rickets  in  the  right 
knee  and,  between  the  ages  of  5  and  10, 
he  was  a  cripple,  being  unable  to  walk 
a 
larger  portion  of  the  time  except  on 
crutches,  which  prevented  his  going  to 
school.  At  the  age  of  12  he  went  into 
the 
lumber  woods,  driving  team  and 
hauling  logs.  These  duties  were  varied 
with  farm work  in  summer  and  this pro­
gramme  was  continued  for  six  years. 
At  the  age  of  14  he  owned bis own team, 
it  is  a  common  tradition  in  the 
and 
vicinity 
in  which  he  lived  that  most  of 
the  book  learning  he  possesses  was  ob­
tained  by  study  while  hauling  logs  from 
the  camp  to  the  river,  a  distance  of  six 
miles.

At  the  age  of  18,  he  engaged  in  gen­
eral  trade  at  Paris  in  partnership  with 
his  brother  under  the  style  of  E.  F. 
Davenport  &  Co.  The  firm  prospered 
for  a  time,  but  met  its  Waterloo  in  the 
winter  of  1882-3  through  contracting  to 
stock  the  Barstow  mill,drawing  the  logs 
to  the  mill  and  the  lumber  to  the  rail­
road.  It  happened  to be a winter without 
snow,  during  which  time pork  advanced 
from  $16 to  $24  a  barrel,  bay  from  $14 
to  $26  a  ton  and  labor  from  $18  to  $30 
a  month.  When  the  partners  figured  up 
their  loss  in  the  spring,they  were  $8,000 
behind,  and  the  mercantile business  was 
necessarily  wound  up  and  discontinued. 
Mr.  Davenport  went  to  Big  Rapids, 
where  be  cletked  for  six  months  in  the

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

clothing  store  of  Mr.  Levy.  The  next 
six  months  he  spent  behind  the  counter 
in  the  general  store  of  B.  E.  Hutchin­
son  &  Co.,  at  Paris.  On  the  retirement 
of  Hutchinson  &  Co.,  he  went  to  work 
for  E.  M.  Stickney  &  Co.,  first  in  the 
mill  and  later  in  the  store  as  clerk  and 
book-keeper.  He  remained  with  this 
house  four  years,  when  he  engaged  in 
the  grocery  trade  at Paris,determined  to 
win  success  where  be  had  previously 
met  defeat.  The  enterprise  prospered 
for  a  time,  but 
in  about  a  year—Aug. 
to  be  exact— fire  destroyed 
18,  1888, 
every  vestige  of  the  business,  involving 
a 
loss  of  $6,500,  with  an  insurance  of 
only  $2,000.  Such  an  experience  would 
probably  have  crushed  many  a  man,  but 
not  Byron  Davenport. 
Instead  of  sit­
ting  down  and  bemoaning  his  fate,  he 
was  in  Grand  Rapids  within  two  weeks 
knocking  at  the  doors  of  the  jobbing 
houses  here  for-employment,  with  the 
understanding  that  every  cent  he  could

Mr.  Davenport  is  a  member of  Impe­
rial  Lodge, K.  P .;  Grand  Rapids  Coun­
cil,  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.  ;  Daisy  Lodge 
No.  48,  B.  P.  O.  E.  ;  Paris  Lodge, 
Modern  Woodmen, 
Stanwood 
Lodge,  K.  O.  T.  M.

and 

Mr.  Davenport  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
Calumet  Mining  Milling  Co.,  at  Grand 
Encampment,  Wyoming,  and  a  stock­
holder  and  director  in  the  Mansfield 
Mercantile  Co.,  at  Remus.  He  has  been 
a  stockholder  in  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  for  the  past  three  years  and 
is  slated  for  a  directorship  in  the  new 
company  which  will  be  organized  early 
next  month  to  succeed  the  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman  Co.  and  the  Olney  &  Jud 
son  Grocer Co.

Mr.  Davenport  attributes  his  success 
to  hard  work  and  to  fair and  honest 
dealing ;  to  the  fact  that  he  has  a  good 
word  and  a  happy  smile  for  everybody. 
Of course.no  small  degree  of  his  success 
is  due  to  bis  personality,his  energy  and

grocery  business  is  held  in  higher  es­
teem  than  he.  Such  a  place  as  he  holds 
among  the  traveling  men  of  Michigan 
could  not  have  been  attained  by  any 
man  whose  character  was  not  upright 
and  whose  integrity  was  questionable. 
If,as  has been  said  by some philosopher, 
‘A  man’s  true  worth  is  reflected  by  the 
opinions  of  his  fellow  workers,'  then  be 
is at  the  top.  An  evidence of  this  is  the 
success  he  has  made  in  the  grocery 
business. ”

The  Only  Password.

Booker  T.  Washington  recently  told  a 
gathering  of  negroes  that  one  of  the 
great faults  of  his  race  was a  disposition 
to  exhibit  knowledge  under  any  and  all 
circumstances  and  asserted  that,  until 
the  negro  learns  not  to  display  his  van­
ity,  he  was  useless  in  any  confidential 
capacity.  By  way  of  illustration,  he 
told  a  story  which,  he  said,  might  be  or 
might  not  be  apocryphal,  but  which 
was  good  enough  to  be  true.

fondness 

Gen.  Sherman  bad  been  told  that  the 
soldiers  of  a  negro  regiment  in bis  com­
mand  were 
lax  when  on  sentry  duty, 
and  showed  a 
for  passing 
doubtful  persons  through  the  lines  just 
to 
indulge  their  power  to  do  so.  To 
ascertain  if  this  were  so  be muffled him­
self  one  night 
in  a  cloak  and  tried  to 
get  past  a  black  sentry.  After  the 
“ Who  goes  there?”   the  “ A  friend,”  
and  the  “ Advance,  friend,  and  give 
the  countersign,”   had  been  exchanged, 
Sherman  replied :

“ Roxbury. ”
“ No,  sab!”   was  the  polite,  but  firm 

response.

“ Medford!”
“ No,  sah !”
“ Charleston!”   Sherman  next  tried.
“ No,  sab.  No,  sah!”   said  the negro, 
determinedly.  Then  he  added:  “ Now, 
see  aheah—yo’  can  go  fru  th*  whole 
blamed 
joggrafy;  hut  Massa  Sherman 
be  done  say  that  nobody  can  get  pas’ 
me  wifout  sayin’  ‘ Cambridge!’  ”

A  Bachelor’s  Notes  on  Woman.

A  woman  in  the  heart  is  worth  two  in 

idle  woman 

is  the  devil's  work­

the  hand.
An 
shop.

Woman’s  waste  makes  woman's  want.
All  is  not  woman  that  glitters.
Woman  is  the  best  policy.
Woman 

is  a  good  servant,  but  a  bad 

A  woman's  wrath spoils the best broth.
Women  brighten  as  thev  take  their 

master.

flight.

A  rolling  woman  gathers  no  husband.
Kind  women  can  never  die.
Ihe  heart  wiil  sometimes  run  with 

the  woman  that  is  past.
undo.

What  woman  has  done  woman  can 

n  above  and  beyond  his  living  ex­
penses  was  to  go  toward  the  liquidation 
of  his  debts.  His  first  work  was  with 
Reeder,  Palmer  &  Co.,  selling  shoes  on 
commission  along  the  line  of  the  D.  L. 
&  N.  from Grand Rapids to Saginaw and 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  from  Grand  Rapids  to 
Big  Rapids.  Nov.  18,  1888,  he  trans­
ferred  his  services  to  Olney,  Shields  & 
Co.,  with  whom  he  has  since  been  con­
tinuously  employed.  His  territory  com­
prises the G.  R.  &  I.  to  Big  Rapids,the 
Grand  Trunk  to  St.  Johns,  the  Big 
Rapids  and  Greenville  branches  of  the 
P.  M.  and  the  T.,  S.  &  M.  from  Carson 
City  to  Cedar  Springs.  He  sees  bis 
trade  every  two  weeks,  and  wherever  he 
goes  his hearty  greeting and happy smile 
are  like  rays  of  sunshine.

Mr.  Davenport  was  married  Nov.  28, 
1888,  to  Miss  Katherine  Dalziel,  of  Big 
Rapids.  They  have  one  son,  a  boy  9 
years  old.  They  reside 
in  their  own 
home  at  123  Buckeye  street.

his  rugged  health.  He  accepts  a  small 
, order  with  just  as  gcod  grace  as  a  large 
one,  believing  that  by  so  doing  he  is 
paving the way  for  future  business.  He 
I is  a  prince  of  entertainers  and  has  been 
known  to  spend  half  a  day  a  week  chas­
ing  around  town  on  errands  for  bis  cus­
tomers.  Nothing  apparently  gives  him 
greater  delight  than  to  do  his  friends  a 
good  turn,  no  matter  how  great  an  ex­
penditure  of  effort  or  time  it  may  in­
volve.

It  is  difficult  to  express  in  this  place 
what  in 
justice  should  be  said  of  Mr. 
Davenport’s  personality  and  character 
without  appearing  to  be  almost  fulsome 
in  eulogy.  His  is  one  of  the  sympa­
thetic,  kindly,  magnetic  natures  which 
bind  people  to  their  possessors  with 
affection  as  well  as  esteem.  A  gentle­
man  who  has  worked with him for years, 
and  who  knows  him  quite  as  well  as 
anyone,  recently  remarked:

“ I  want  to  tell  you  that  no  man in the

Children’s  Sleeping Time.

In  Sweden  a  committee  was  recently 
appointed  by  the  government  for  the 
purpose  of  ascertaining how  many  hours 
children  of  various  ages  ought  to  sleep 
in  order  that  they  might  be able to study 
properly.  According  to  the  report  for­
warded  to  the  Minister  of  Education 
children  who  are  four  years  old  should 
sleep  twelve  hours;  children  who  are 
seven  years  old,  eleven  hours;  children 
who  are  nine  years  old,  from  nine  to 
ten  hours,  and  those  who  are  from  four­
teen  to  twenty-one  years  old,  from  eight 
to  nine  hours.  It  further  points  out  that 
anaemia  and  weakness  in  children  are 
frequently  due  to  lack  of  sleep.

“ You  see,”   said  the  despondent  man 
who  was  sitting  on  a  barrel,  addressing 
the  grocer,  who  was  spearing  the  top  of 
t  biscuit  case  with  a  cheese  knife,
Some  people  have  good  luck and  some 
people  have  bad  luck.  I  remember  once 
was  walking  along  the  street  with 
Tom,  when  he  went  down  one  side  of  it 
and  I  went  down  the  other.  We  hadn't 
gone  more  than  halfway  down  when  1 
found  a  pocketbook  with  fifty  in  it  and 
I  stepped  on  a  woman's  dress  and  so 
got  acquainted  with  my  present  wife. 
Twas  always  so,”   he  added,  with  a 
sigh,  “ that  Tom  was  the 
luckiest  man 
in  the  world  and  I  never had  any luck. ”

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E X T R A   S T O C K

On  account  of  the  oversold 
condition  of  many producers 
of food products and the con­
gested  condition  of the trans­
portation 
lines,  experience 
has taught  us the necessity of 
carrying  extra  stocks  of  all 
staple goods in order to main­
tain our reputation for filling 
all  orders the  same  day  they 
are received.

W o r d e n  G r o c e r  Ç o m p a n v  

G r a n d   R a p i d s .  M i c h .

Sbinola

The  finest  Shoe  Polish made.  Gives a lasting 

shine.  Water does  not  affect it.

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

5 per  cent.  off.

Free

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

Write  now.

B i r t h »   K r a u s e   $   G o *

Grand Rapids»  Ifticb*

Cold Storage

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 
Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry and  Meats.  Liberal advances on produce 
stored  with  us,  where  desired.  Rates  reasonable.  Write  for 
information.

Grand Rapids Gold Storage 

$ Sanitary Illilk Go«
Grand Rapids, ltiicbigan

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

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

We also guarantee  it  to be  of  full  strength  ar<  required  by  law. 

'We  will 
prosecute  any  person found using  our  packages for cider or  vinegar without  first 
removing all traces of  our brands therefrom.

J . ROBINSON. Manag.. 

Benton Harbor.Michigan.

Sweet  Potatoes,  Spanish  Onions, 

Cranberries

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

ONIONS,  W INTER  APPLES  AND  BEANS

The  Vinkemulder  Company,  Commission  Merchants

14-16 Ottawa Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Fine Cut and Plug

THE  BEST.

Ask for it

H it  BV THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO.

AGAINST THE TRUST.  See  Quotations  in  Price  Current.

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SLOVENLY  STORES.

Some  Things  W hich  M erchants  Should 

Written for the Tradesman.

Not Perm it.

There 

is  nothing  the  people  admire 
so  much  as  a  neat  looking  store.  Clean­
liness  goes  a  long  way  toward  winning 
trade.  The  goods  may  not  be  the  very 
latest  on  the  market,  but  if  the  store  be 
kept  clean  and  neat  at  all  times  it  will 
be  easier  to  move  them  than 
if  the 
whole  establishment  has  a  sort  of  dingy 
appearance. 
larger  towns  the 
In  the 
competition 
is  so  keen  that  the  mer­
chant  must  keep  his  place  of  business 
locking  bright,  but  in  the  smaller  towns 
it 
is  a  noticeable  fact  that  many  of  the 
stores  are  decidedly  lacking  in  this  re­
spect.  Many  country  merchants  have  a 
faculty  of  neglecting  to  properly  over­
haul  their  stocks  that 
is  surprising. 
They  allow  their  business  to  almost  run 
itseif  and  it  is  this  class  of  dealers  that 
are continually whining because business 
is  not  belter.

But  the  merchant  will  say:  “ I  have 
my  store  swept  clean  every  morning. 
The  clerks sweep  the  floor  in  every  part 
of  the  store.  My  store  is  clean  enough. 
The  reason  business  is  not  better  is  be­
cause  of  the  habit  the  people  have  of 
buying  of  the  department  stores  in  the 
big  towns  and  the  many  mail  order 
houses  that  are  continually  advertis­
ing  to  sell  goods  to  the  consumer  at 
wholesale  prices. 
These  fellows  are 
taking  our  trade  from  us  and  we  can 
not  htlp  it. ”

This  sounds  all  well  enough,  but  let 
us  take  a  look  through  this  merchant's 
store.  The  first  thing  that  will  attract 
our  attention  will  be  the  windows, 
wherein  are  supposed  to  be  shown  the 
best  and  most  desirable  things  the  es­

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

tablishment  affords.  Does  this  display 
strike  us  favorably?  Do  we  stop  and 
remark  on  the  skill  shown  by  the  deco­
rator?  No,  we  do  not.  The  fact  is  that 
this  display  has  been 
in  the  window 
some  three  or  four  weeks,  so  at  the 
time  of  our  inspection  it  appears  rather 
otherwise  than  pretty.  The background 
consists  of  a curtain of  calico  that  might 
at  some  time  in  the  past  have  been  tur­
key  red,  but  now  the  brilliant  hue  has 
departed  and  the  rag,  for  such  it  really
is,  has  nothing  of  beauty  to  commend
it. 
In  front  of  this  we  see  a  few  bolts 
of  dress  goods  that  have  never  been  un­
rolled.  The  paper  bands  that  were  put 
on  when  the  cloth  was  made  ready  for 
the  wholesale market  are  still  there,  left 
perhaps  to  show  that  the  goods  are 
new.  These  bolts  of  dress  goods  are 
piled  any  old  way  and  a  few  cheap 
socks  suspended  in  the  air  by  the aid  of 
a  twine  string  (which  has  served  as  a 
roosting  place  for  the  flies  for several 
summers)  add  to  the  awe  inspiring  ap­
pearance.

But  iet  us  not tarry longer here.  There 
are  other  points  of 
interest  to claim 
our  attention  on  the  inside.  So  we  enter 
the  store  and  take  a  look  at  the  show­
case 
in  which  the  ribbons  and  notions 
are  kept.  Business  must  have  been  very 
brisk  of  late  for  the  clerks  have  evi­
dently  not  had  time  to  arrange  the  con­
tents.  The  baby  ribbon  has  been  mixed 
with  the  wider  kinds, while  two  or  three 
boxes  of  hairpins  have  been  spilled, 
the  contents  spread  in  every  direction. 
In  fact,  everything  in  the  case  is 
look­
ing  as  though  a  cyclone  had  been 
through  the  goods.

Next  we  take  a  look  at  the  shelves. 
The  calicoes  and  ginghams  are  piled 
in  crooked  rows.  The  better  grades  of 
goods  appear  a  little  neater,  but  this  is

discounted  by  the  store  cat,  a  great  big 
yellow  fellow,  who  has  climbed  up  and 
gone  to  sleep  on  the  finest  piece  of 
goods  in  the  house. 
It  might  be  well 
to  add  here  that  the  old  cat  is  shedding 
bis  fur  at  this  time.  You  who  have  bad 
experience  with  the  feline  tribe  know 
that  store  cats  have  a  faculty  of  shed- 
ing  the  year  around.

But  something  more  draws  our gaze. 
It  is  the  underwear  boxes.  They,  too, 
have  somehow  taken  on  the  cyclone 
effect.  Two  or  three  are  badly  broken 
at  the  corners  and  from  one  a  shirt 
sleeve  hangs  gracefully  down  about  a 
foot.  The  most  of  them  have  claimed 
the  attention  of  the  flies,  which  has 
failed  to  add  anything  to their  good  ap­
pearance.  A  few  have  been  piled  bot­
tom  side  up.

The  shoe  department,  always  a  source 
of  pride  to  the  country  merchant,  is 
next 
in  our  line  of  march.  Evidently 
the  clerks  have  neglected  this  branch 
of  the  business  for  a  few  days,  at  least 
the  number  of  pairs  of  shoes,  both 
ladies’  and  gents’,  that  have  been 
left 
on  the  counters  in  a  conglomerate  mass 
would 
indicate  as  much.  And  those 
that  have  by  some  odd  circumstance 
been 
left  on  the  shelves  are  piled  in 
“ skewgee”   fashion.

Like  all  country  stores  this  one  has 
a  grocery  department.  Here  the  house­
wives  of  the  country  around  the  village 
trade  their  butter  and  eggs  for  things 
for  the  kitchen,  and  here  it  is  that  we 
find  the  most  interesting  features  of  the 
whole  establishment. 
In  the  middle  of 
the  floor  is  a  stack  of  flour  sacks, 
twenty-five  and  fifty  pounds  in  each. 
It  has  happened  that  these  have  been 
piled  to  a  height  that  has  made  them 
handy  for  Uncle  Sile  Tosslegrass  and 
William  Henry  Harrison  Spivens,  the

statesmen 

local 
and  authorities  on 
affairs  concerning  the  Government,  to 
lean  against  while  orating  on  the  trust 
question  and  the  rights  of  the  masses. 
Evidently  they  have  been  regular  visit­
ors  at  the  store,  for  the  sacks  are  badly 
discolored  with  the  dirt  that  has  rubbed 
off  their  garments. 
It  is  presumed  that 
the  majority  of  the  customers  are  users 
of  the  weed,  also,  at  least  a  large  box 
near the  stove,half  filled  with  ashes  that 
have  been  colored  a  dark  brown  from 
numerous  deposits  of  tobacco  spit,  leads 
us  to  presume  as  much.  A  box  of  cod-

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appendicitis  in. Germany  until  they  be­
gan  to  eat  our  fine  white  flour  and  put 
in  the  new  process  of  milling  after our 
fashion.  Now  they  have  appendicitis 
in  Germany  just  as  we  do.
“ Experienced  millers  will  tell  you 
that  the  fine  flour  is  a  less  desirable 
flour  than  that  made  by  the  old  process 
but  the  trade  demands  it  chiefly  on  ac­
count  of 
its  whiteness.  On  account  of 
indigestibilitv  the  disarrangement 
its 
of  the  digestive  organs  of  the  people 
eating 
it  has  greatly  increased.  The 
prime  cause  of  appendicitis  is  found  in 
this  disarrangement.

“ Quite  small  children  have 

I 
know  one  boy  who  has  had  thirteen 
well-defined  attacks  of  the  disease  and 
came  out  of  all  of  them  without  surgical 
operations.  He  changed  bis  food  to 
corn  bread  and  mush  with  coarse  breads 
in  general,  vegetables,  little  meat  and 
some  fruit,  and  has  taken  on  flesh  and 
has  not  bad  a  symptom  of  the  disease 
for  three  years.

it. 

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“ So  Jack  deliberately  kissed  you  last 
night!”   commented  Miss  Antique  se­
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“ Well,  I’d  just  like  to  see  any 
man  try  to  kiss  me!”
“ Why  not  select  a  nearsighted  man 
and  wear  a  veil,”  naively  suggested 
the  sweet  young  thing.

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fish  stands  open  on  the  counter  and  the 
flies  bum  merrily  over  and  around  it. 
The  cheese  looks  ghastly  through a coat­
ing  of  halibut  oil  that  indicates  that 
the  fish  and  cheese  are  cut  with  the 
same  knife.

At  last  we  reach  the  sidewalk  again. 
Across  the  street  we  see  a  store,  the 
windows  of  which  are  gaily  decorated 
with  the  choicest  of  the  season's  mer­
chandise,  and  we  walk  swiftly  in  that 
direction,  that  we  may  make  our  pur­
chases 
in  a  place  that  wears  an  air of 
cheerfulness  and  cleanliness.  We  are 
sure  that  we  will  get  what  we  want  and 
be  waited  on  promptly  by  salesmen  who 
'understand  their  business.

Without  doubt  the  reader  of  this  ar­
ticle  will  think  the  picture  of  this  store 
is overdrawn.  The city  merchant  would 
consider  a  man  a  fool  who  would  try  to 
run  a  store  on  any  such  plan,  and  yet  I 
have  seen  several  such  stores,  some  of 
which  are  worse  than  the  one described. 
It  goes  to  show  that  there  is  much  to 
be  done  in  a  store  besides  sweeping  the 
floor  and  polishing  the  showcases. 
I 
know  several  stores  where  the  proprie­
tors  and  clerks 
leave  their  bats  and
coats 
in .  the  first  place  that  comes 
handy.  They  place  their  rubbers  where 
customers  will  be  sure  to  see  them, 
sometimes  hanging  them  on  the stove  to 
dry.  This,  I  believe,  has  a  tendency  to 
make  the  store  look  like  a  second-hand 
affair,  which  is  not  to  be  desired.  And 
this 
is  the  class  of  merchants  who  are 
everlastingly  kicking  about  “ the  other 
fellow.’ ’ 
Modern  Milling:  Methods  Responsible  for 

Raymond  H.  Merrill

Appendicitis.

From the Chicago Tribune.

Changes 

in  milling  processes  are  re 
sponsible  for  appendicitis,  according  to 
a  physician  who  has  been  in  the  prac 
tice  of  medicine  for  fifty  years  and  who 
has  observed  the  spread  of  the  disease. 
This  physician,  Dr.  H.  C.  Howard,  of 
Champaign,  111.,  asserts  that  until  the 
trade  demand  for  exceedingly  white 
flour  changed  the  methods  of  grinding 
wheat  there  was  no  appendicitis.
To  prove  this  assertion  the  physician 
points  to  the  fact  that  where  coarse 
breads are  used  the  disease  is unknown 
but  that  as  soon  as  the  fine  breadstuffs 
are  introduced appendicitis  comes  along 
as  a  sequence.  By  this  reasoning  it  is 
shown  that  the  people  of  agricultural 
communities  who  secured  their  floui 
from  small  mills  did  not  have  the  dis­
ease  until  the  small  mills  were  crowded 
out  by  the  large  ones  and  fine  white 
flour  supplanted  the  coarse.  Then  the 
negroes  of  the  South  so  long  as  they  ate 
corn  bread  were  free  from  the  disease, 
but  when  the  new  process  flour  began  to 
be  used  the  disease  came  among  them. 
The  same  results  attended  the  departure 
of  the  German  folks  from  their  coarse 
bread  to  the  refined  flour.

“ 1  can  remember  that  prior  to  about 
1875,"  said  Dr.  Howard,  “ there  was 
little  or  none  of  the  ailment  among  the 
people.  In  twenty-five  years  of  practice 
among  the  people  before  that  time  I  do 
not  think  I  saw  more  than  forty  cases  of 
appendicitis.  Now  they  are  common

“ Large  and  extended  change 

in  the 
diet  of  people  has  contributed  to  this 
For  example,  about  the  date  mentioned 
there  began  to  be  a  general  change from 
the  old  method  of  grinding  grain  to  the 
present  method  of  roller  mills  and  ex 
cessively  fine  belting  cloths.  This  plan 
of  milling  began  first  in  the large cities 
and  appendicitis  began  to  increase  first 
there.  Later  the  new  process  crowded 
out  the  small  mills  in  the  country,  and 
the  people  could  not  get  flour  made  by 
the  old  processes.  They  bought  products 
of  the  large  milling  establishments,  and 
then  the  farmers began  to have  appendi 
citis.

“ Still  the  negroes  of  the  South  did 
not  have 
it,  but  in  time  they  began  to 
get  away  from  their  plain  corn  bread, 
and  they,  too,  began  to  have  appendi­
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clothing  _

Fads  and  Fashions  in  Clothing and F u rn ­

ishing Goods.

It 

Talking  with  a  prominent  retail  hat 
merchant  recently,  he  said:  “ I  have 
sold  this  season  just  about  as  many  soft 
felt  bats  as  stiff  bats  to  men  who  really 
know  how  to  dress  well.  The  soft  hat 
breaks  the  change  from  the  straw  to  the 
typical  stiff  winter  hat. 
If  they  have 
worn  a  stiff  straw  through  the  summer 
the  soft  bat  comes  as  a  real  rest  for  the 
head,  for  every  man  knows  that  there  is 
nothing  very  comfortable  about 
the 
ordinary  straw. 
is  funny  when  you 
think  of  it,  so  many  people  seem  to 
have  the  idea  that  felt  hats  must  neces­
sarily  be  cheaper  than  stiff  hats,  while, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  no  stiff  felt  hats  are 
made  as  costly  as  the  soft  felts.  For  ex­
ample,  just 
look  at  this  one;  it  was
made  by---- &  Co.  and  the  retail  price
is  S>5. ”  The  hat 
in  question  bad  no 
very  striking  features  about  it  at  first 
glance  but  was  a  beautiful  piece  of  felt, 
soft  as  down  and  of  a  very  delicate 
light  tan.  He  continued,  “ This  hat 
now  is  $22. 50 at  retail.  You  might  not 
pick 
it  out  as  any  better  or  even  quite 
as  good  as  the  other,  but  it  is  and  the 
extra  value 
in  the 
handling.  Every  step  of  the  many 
processes  is  carefully  watched and  made 
as  perfect  as  human  ingenuity  and  skill 
can  make  it.  You  might  soak  that  hat 
for  a  week,  put  it  in  the  blazing  sun  for 
another  week,  but you  could  not  hurt  it ; 
it  out  and  brush  it  with  a  soft 
shake 
brush  and  it  is  as  good  as  ever. 
1  tell 
you  the  soft  felt  is  the  ‘ real  thing,'  the 
bone  and  sinew  of  the  hat  family.”

is  almost  entirely 

The  newest  in  shirtings,  and naturally 
in  shirts,  also,  is  to  have  the  fabric, 
woven  or  printed,  as  the  case  may  be, 
with  the  arrangement  of  the  pattern 
changed  at  the  edge. 
In  cutting  the 
cloth  for  a  shirt,  this  edge  is  used  for 
the  cuffs.  For  example,  a  shirt  was  ex­
hibited  in  a  prominent  uptown  haber­
dashery, the pattern  of  which  was  a  very 
small  geometrical  figure  in  black  on  a 
white  ground.  These  figures  were  very 
thickly  scattered  over  the  body  and 
bosom  of  the  shirt  but  the  cuff  showed 
about  four  times  as  much  white  as  the 
rest.

In  another  fashionable  haberdasher’s 
I  was  shown  a  new  fancy  waistcoat. 
It 
was  a  rather  light  tan  linen  duck,  such 
as  is  commonly  seen,  but  the  arrange­
ment  of  the  buttons  showed  its peculiar­
ity. 
It  was  a  double-breasted  affair; 
the  top  buttons  were  about  ten  inches 
apart  and  they  grew  closer  together 
downward,  until  the  lower  button  served 
for  both  rows. 
In  other  words  the  two 
rows  of  buttons  formed  a  perfect  V. 
The  effect  of  this  is,  of  course,  to  in­
crease  the  apparent  width  of  the  chest 
and  to  reduce  that  of  the  abdomen.

Both  of  these  may  find  favor  with  a 
certain  class  of  men, but  for  my  part  1 
prefer to  avoid  styles  that  are  so  con­
1  think  that  the  best 
spicuously  novel. 
dressed  man 
is  the  one  who  does  not 
force 
recognition  by  reason  of  his 
clothes  or  any  part  of  them.

We  see  quite a  number  of  the  new  fall 
suits  that  have  slash  pockets 
in  the 
coats.  Some  have  two  breast  pockets 
of  this  style  and  others  have  all  four 
pockets  of  the  slash  variety.  What  par­
ticular  reason  there  is  for  this  I  have 
failed  to  learn  beyond  the  fact  that  it  is 
decidedly  different  from  the  usual  style 
and  for  the  present  it  must  be  classed 
among  the  fads;  whether  it  will  ever 
reach  the  fashion  period  remains  to  be

seen,  but  as  far  as  I  can  judge  there  is 
not  enough  real  reason  for  it  or  com­
mon  sense  to  assure  it  of  long  life.

The  pockets  on  the  outside  of  a  coat 
no  longer  serve  a  useful  purpose, at least 
their  use  is  of  exceeding  minor  impor­
tance. 
In  the  breast  pockets  a  pair of 
gloves  may  be  carried  or  a handkerchief 
that  is  not  in  use;  in  the  lower  pockets 
nothing  thicker  or  heavier  than  a  card 
or  letter,  for  it  would  spoil  the  set  of 
the  coat 
if  you  did.  You  can  not  put 
your  hands  in  the  pockets  for  the  same 
reason,  and  the  pocket in  the  coat  is be­
coming  a  useless  part  of  the  garment, 
to  be  classed  soon,  perhaps,  with  the 
buttons  on  the  back  of  a  frock  coat  and 
on  the  sleeves  of  any  coat.  Perhaps  fu­
ture  generations  may look back  in  books 
on  costumes  and  find  that  in  the  early 
part  of  the  twentieth  century  pockets 
were  made  on  coats,  and  they  will  won­
der  what  freak  of  fancy  could  have  con­
sidered  them  ornamental,  for  surely 
in 
such  places  they  could  not  be  useful. 
The  future  generations  may  possibly 
have  a  strip  of  braid  or  fla^s  without 
pockets  and  vaguely  wonder  why,  until 
some  magazine  or  trade  paper  writer 
looks  up  sartorial  history  and  discovers 
that  it  is  merely the  result  of the ancient 
custom  of  having  pockets  on  the  coat, 
and  every  reader  will  smile  at  such 
folly.

There 

is  another  freakish  style  that 
is  being  adopted  by  some,  and  that  is 
an  advance  on  the  low-cut,  double- 
breasted  coat.  The  new  coat  is  cut  very 
low  and  has  an  exceptionally long  lapel, 
rather  narrow;  but  the  feature  of  this 
garment  is  that  it  has  from  four  to  six 
very  small  buttons,  set close together,  to 
fasten  it  with.

This  fad  has  not  the  basis  of  either 
use  or  ornamentation  to  recommend  it 
in  general  so  I  do  not  believe 
to  men 
that 
it  has  a  chance  to  get  beyond  its 
present  state.

Union  or  combination  underwear  for 
both  men  and  women 
is  assuming  a 
more  prominent  position  every  season, 
and  every  season  sees  a greater advance­
ment 
in  the  adaptability  of  these  gar­
ments.  For a  long  time  after  the  intro­
duction  of  union  underwear,  compara­
tively  few  people  could  wear  that  which 
was  ready  made,  but  bad  them  made  to 
order.  This  is  still  practiced,  but  to  a 
far  smaller  extent.  The  greater  ranges 
of  sizes  and  shapes  and  other 
improve­
ments  make  it  comparatively  easy  to  be 
fitted  without  waiting,  and  at  a  smaller 
expense.  The  convenience  and  comfort 
of  this  style  garment  are  becoming ap­
preciated  to  a  wide  extent  and  being 
made  of  cotton,  wool,  silk  and  various 
mixtures,  plain  and fleeced,  makes them 
satisfactory  to  a  greater  majority  of 
people.  The  many  inconveniences  that 
attended  the  wearing  of  these  garments 
identified  with  their  first  introduction 
have  been  eliminated  and  now  they  are 
as  practical 
in  every  feature  as  any 
other  and  considered  by  their  wearers 
as  more  practical  in  many.

I  have  beard  very  little  about  the  new 
high  silk  hat  this  season;  the  one  made 
on  the  same  plan  as  the  opera  bat,  but 
without  the  crushable  feature.  Some  of 
the  stores  are  showing  them,  but  they 
do  not  report  much  business  in  them. 
Perhaps  this  style  looks  too  much  like 
a  compromise  for  the  real  swell  dresser. 
Perhaps  he  feels  that  it  implies  that  he 
can  not  take  the  proper  care  of  his  hat 
under  ordinary  circumstances.

Do  we  use  walking  sticks  or  “ canes" 
as  much  as  formerly?  Well,  no,  I  can 
not  say  we  do,  yet  some  men  who  are 
never  out  of  form  always  carry one when

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Pocket Pants Co.

Detroit,  Mich.

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The  Peerless 
Manufacturing 

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Manufacturers  of  Pants,  Shirts,  Corduroy  and 

Dealers  in  Underwear,  Sweaters,  Hosiery,  Gloves, 

Mackinaw  Coats.

and  Mitts.

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

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little 
not  on  business  bent.  Simple 
affairs  they  are,  nothing  gaudy  in  trim, 
in  fact,  none  at  a ll;  an  inconspicuous 
bamboo 
is  the  bandstick  of  one  very 
fashionable  friend,  without even a crook 
in  the  handle.  Nevertheless,  there  are 
many  who  do  not  carry  a  stick  to  day 
under  any  circumstances. 
It  is  now  a 
matter  of  taste.

Talking  with  a  fashionable  tailor  a 
few  days  ago  1  asked  him  what  the  ma­
jority  of  bis  customers  wanted  in  the 
way  of  trousers.  He  said  that  those 
whom  he considered  the  leaders  of  fash­
ion  were  not  ordering 
the  extreme 
“ peg-top”   style  that  has  been  in  vogue 
for  so  long,  but  were  modifying  it  very 
much.  They  will  retain  much  of  the 
old  shape,  but  far  less  exaggerated  and 
of  course  of  a  much  neater  appearance 
on  most  men.  About  one-third  of  the 
number  want  permanent  turn-ups  at  the 
bottoms,  even  for  the  winter,  for  their 
business  suits.  Many  of  them  also  do 
not  care  for  buttons  at  the  waistband, 
only  belt  loops,  and  support  their  trou­
sers  with  belts  alone.

Lots  of Things  Q uicker Than  a  W ink.
One  very  often  hears  persons 

say 
“ quick  as  a  wink’ ’  when  they  wish  to 
express  time  that  is  very  short.  There 
is  no  wonder  that  we  use  the  compari­
son,  for  a  wink  has  been  measured,  and 
it  has  been  carefully ascertained that  the 
time  consumed  in  the  operation  is  four- 
tentbs  of  a  second  in  the  average  indi­
vidual.  That 
is,  two-twenty-fifths  of  a 
second  are  consumed  in  closing the eye, 
four-twenty-fifths 
in  resting  and  four- 
twenty-fifths  in  opening  it  again.

Winks  come  close  to  us,  for  we  make 
them  and  see  them  every  day,  and  there 
is  nothing  with  which  we  are  really 
familiar  that  impresses  us as  consuming 
so  little  time,  yet  supposing  we  should 
talk 
light  and  electricity  about 
“ quick  as  a  wink”   they  would  laugh  at 
us—that  is,  if  they  could  understand  us 
and  knew  how  to  laugh,  for,  when  we 
start  our  wink,  if  light  should  start  to 
dart  around  the  world 
it  would  make 
three  circuits  of  the  globe  and  be  back 
in  time  to  see  the  wink  completed. 
It 
considers  a  wink  too  slow  for  any  use.
looks  with  yet  greater 
scorn  on  the  quickness  of  a  wink,  for, 
while  the  eyelid  is  closing,  it can  girdle 
the  earth  once,  go  around  twice  more 
while  it  is  resting,  and  make  the  fifth 
circuit  by  the  time  it  is  open.

Electricity 

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Your Share  of Money.

Have  you  $28.66? 

If  you  have  not 
you  are  short  your  per  capita  share  of 
the  money  circulation  of  the  United 
States,  and  some  one  has  what  would  be 
coming  to  you 
if  the  money  that  is  in 
circulation  were  equally  divided.  This 
statement  is  made  without  reservation, 
on  the  authority  of  the  latest  report  of 
the  Treasury  Department.
Another  thing :  you  are  entitled  to  7 
cents  more  than  you  were  one  year  ago, 
according  to  this  same  report,  even  al­
though  there  has  been  allowed  for  an 
increase  of  113,000  in  the  population, 
for  in  that  same  time  there  has  been  an 
increase  of  more  than  $65,000,000  in 
the  money 
in  circulation.  So  you  see 
you  are  better  off  than  you  were  a  year 
ago—if  you  get  your  dues.

In  fact,you are getting  better  off  all  of 
the  time.  What  has  happened  since 
187Q?  The  population  has  increased  58 
per  cent,  and  the  money  in  circulation 
has  increased  176  per  cent.  More  than 
one-half  of  that  increase  in  circulation 
has  been  in gold  or  in  gold  certificates.

1  Many  Dogs  Are.

“ That’s  a  nice  looking  dog,”   re­
marked  the  kindly  old  gentleman  who 
takes  an  interest  in  everything.

“ Yes,  sir;  he  looks all right, ”   replied 
leading 

the  seedy  individual  who  was 
him  with  a  piece  of  rope.

“ He  looks  like  a  pointer.”
“ Yes,  sir;  that's  what  he  looks  like. 
But  that  ain't  what he  is.  He’s  a  disap- 
pointer.”

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SOME  PEOPLE 

I  NEVER  PROGRESS

Other people are leaders and they  are  usu­
ally successful,  but the  idea of a successful 
business man  writing  his  business  letters 
with a pen  is a thing of the past, at least is 
coming to be a thing of the  past, as  fast  as 
people discover how easy  it is to use a type­
writer,  and  what a good typewriter  “ T H E  
F O X ”   is.

Our free trial plan enables anyone to thor­

oughly try the machine  before buying.
L e t us take the  matter up  with  you.
Fox Typewriter Co., Ltd.

350 N .  Front St.,  Grant!  Rapids,  Mich.

A  NEW  LINE  OF

Holiday Goods

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

H . W .   BOOZER

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

Citizens  Phone  75

“The  Kady”

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

Gas or  Gasoline  Mantles  at | 

50c on the Dollar

GLOVER'S  WHOLESALE  MDSE. CO. 

Man ufactu rers,  Importers and Jobbers 

Of  GAS  AND  GASOLINE SUNDRIES 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ellsworth  &   Thayer Mfg. Co.

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.,  U.  S.  A.

Sole  Manufacturers  of the

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.  DOWNARD,  General Salesman.

Special  Sale
Kolb &  Son.  of  Rochester

Of  the  entire  stock  of  the  old  reliable  wholesale  clothiers,

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The William  Connor Co.

28-30 South  Ionia Street, Grand  Rapids, ilich.

Wholesale Clothiers

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.

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

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

Qnick  Service  One  of  the  Things  Most 

A ppreciated.

If  there  is  anything  that  makes a mer­
chant  good  and  mad  all  through  it  is  to 
order  something 
in  a  hurry  and  never 
bear  anything  from  it. 
I  met  one  yes­
terday  who  was  just  about  as  mad  as 
they  generally  get.  He  wanted  some­
thing  special  for  a  customer  who  was 
in  a  great hurry  and  willing  to pay extra 
to  have  it  telegraphed  for,  so  the  dealer 
sent  a  telegram  prepaid  but  nothing 
came  of  it.

Not  oniy  did  the  goods  fail  to  show 
up  but  no  letter  came  to  explain  the  de­
lay.  The  telegraph  office  was  inter­
viewed  and  reported  the  message  de­
livered  to  the  firm on time and receipted 
for.  The  merchant  is  a  good  man  who 
discounts  bis  bills  and  has  bought  large 
bills  at  this  house  and  he  certainly  had 
good  reason  to  be  mad.

It  placed  him  in  a  bad  light  with  his 
customer,  lost  him  the  profits  on  the 
sale,  to  say  nothing  of  the  worry  and 
vexation  of  waiting  for  something  that 
never came.  This man  told the telegraph 
agent  that  he  would  pay  double  rate  on 
a  message  to  the  wholesale  house  if 
they  would  oniy  let  him  use  some  good, 
strong  cuss  words. 
1  did  not  blame 
him  for  I  knew  just  bow  he  felt.

I  am  told  that  carelessness 

in  filling 
hurry  orders—if  they  be  small  ones—is 
a  fault  a  great  many  large  bouses  are 
addicted  to.  A  man  does  not  go  to  the 
trouble  and  expense  of telegraphing  an 
order  in  unless  be  is 
in  a  very  great 
hurry  for  it,  and  it  calls  for an  instan­
taneous response,  either  the  goods  or  an 
explanation  why.

Because  a  house  is  doing  a  great  big 
business  is  no  reason  why  they  should 
slight  an  order,  no  matter  how  small. 
It  is  said  of  the  late  P.  D.  Armour that 
a  small  box  of  sausages  gone  astray  or 
delivered to the  wrong  place  caused  him 
as  much  personal  concern  as  the  loss  of 
an  entire  carload  of  beef.

No  house 

is  doing  so  much  business 
or  is  so  prosperous  that  they  can  afford 
the  slightest  discourtesy  to  the  smallest 
customer.  Being  rushed  to  death  will 
not  explain  away  an  error  like  the  fore­
going.

Another  party  told  me  of  his  experi 
ence  in  ordering  by  telegraph.  He  or­
dered  a  pair  of  white  slippers  for  a 
wedding,  explaining 
in  the  telegram 
that  they  must  come  by  return  mail. 
The  house  received  the  telegram  on 
time,  as  the  merchant  followed  it  with 
a  tracer to  be  sure  it reached  its destina­
tion.  The  morning  of  the  wedding 
came,  also  the  mail  train,  but  no  slip­
pers  and  no 
If 
the  bride  was  mad,  the  merchant  was 
more  so,  especially  when  the day follow­
ing  the  slippers  came  in  by  express.  Of 
course  he  refused  to  accept  them  and 
when  the  house  wrote  him  asking 
for 
an  explanation,  he gave  them  one  which 
must  have  been  satisfactory 
for  they 
never  wrote  him  again.

letter  of  explanation. 

Their  traveling  salesman  came around 
and  explained  that  the  house  was  so 
rushed  with  orders  that  it  was  impos­
sible  for  them  to  get  the  order  out  any 
sooner,  which  was  about  the  poorest  ex­
cuse  they  could  have  made,for  the  mer­
chant  said 
if  they  had  “ acknowledged 
the  cause"  and  admitted  that  it  was  a 
rank  piece  of  carelessness  on  their  part 
and  that  they  would  take  care  it  never 
happened  again  he  could  have  forgiven 
them,  but  the  rushed  to  death  excuse 
would  not  do.

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

There 

is  nothing  a  merchant  appre­
ciates  so  much  as  prompt  shipments  of 
small  orders  and  single  pairs.  When 
he  otders  a  single  pair  or  several  pairs 
by  return  express  be  either  wants  them 
or a  letter  of  explanation  at that  time  so 
that  he  will  know  what  to  tell  his  cus­
tomer  and  have  an  opportunity  to  re­
order  somewhere  else.  Prompt  attention 
to  small  orders  has  won  and  held  the 
custom  and  friendship  of  many  a  re­
tailer.

A  merchant  said  to  me  the  other  day: 
“ If  I  were  starting  a  wholesale  house 
to-morrow  the  first  thing  I  would  do 
would  be  to  establish  a  department  to 
take  care  of  ali  hurry-orders. 
I  mean 
sizing  and  single  pair  orders.  Of 
course,  I  realize  that  it  is  impossible  to 
get  large  spring  and  fall  shipments  out 
on  time  and  no  one  really  expects  it, 
but  there  is  no  excuse  for the  houses 
who  claim  to  carry  goods  in  stock  and 
fail to  ship  or  notify  by  return  mail. 
If 
an  order  was  telegraphed 
in  which  I 
could  not  fill,  I  would  wire  the customer 
at  my  expense  so  he  would  have  an  op­
portunity  to  get  bis  order  filled  some­
where  else  before  it  was  too  late.  Nine 
out  of  ten  men  would  appreciate  the 
courtesy,  and  while  the  expenses  of 
my  hurry-order  department  might  not 
compare  favorably  with the  profits,  I  am 
satisfied  that  its  influence on the  general 
business  would  be  something  b ig ." — 
Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

It,
Certainly
W in

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

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COMPANY

1S4 Fifth av., Chicago

Kent  County

Savings  Bank  Deposits 

exceed  $2,300,000

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

The  banking  business  of 
Merchants,  Salesmen  and 
Individuals solicited.

Cor.  Canal and Lyon Sts.

Grand  Rapids, Michigan

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  an d   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   T e s t  C a se

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  double sole and tap bals, 
$1.75 
225^  Men’s  Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top, full  double sole and  tap blucher,  1.75
226  Men's  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full  double sole and  tap bals, 
2.00 
2 2 6 Men’s  Kangaroo Calf, 9 inch top, full double  sole and  tap blucher,  2.00

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 

The  Rodgers  Shoe  Company

Toledo,  Ohio

Factory at  Northville,  Mich.

S to ck   No.  225 

Price $1.75

Ju st  W hat  Good  Shoe  Service  Means.
“ I  always  buy  my  shoes  at  A ’s  be­
cause  his  shoes  seem  to  fit  better than 
any  can I  buy elsewhere.”   This remark, 
recently  overheard  by  the  writer,  con­
tains  so  much  that  insures  success  in 
retail  shoe  selling  that  a  diagnosis  of 
all  that  this  expression  implies  may  be 
of  value  here.

‘ ‘ A ’s  shoes  seem  to  fit  better”   may 
mean, first,  that  A  sells  better  shoes than 
his  neighbors,  or  again,  that  it  is  pos­
sible  that  A  pays  more  attention  to 
fitting  his  customers  properly  than  the 
other  stores  in  town. 
likely 
that  A  watches  the  requirements  of  his 
trade  closely  and  buys  the goods  that his 
instinct  tells  him  will  go  farthest 
in 
satisfying  their  needs,  rather  than  buy­
ing 
lines  that  are  a  little  cheaper  than 
some  others  which  would  have  to  be 
retailed  at  equal  prices.

It  is  even 

There  is  no  retail  business  which  can 
more  easily  win  a  good  list  of  perma­
nent  customers  than  a  shoe  store.  The 
foot  is  the  most  sensitive  part  of  the 
anatomy  in  the  matter  of  proper  cover­
ing  and  protection.  The  comfortable, 
shapely  shoe  that  comes closest  to  what 
the  wearer  expects  of  it  in  style  and  ap­
pearance  is  the  kind  that  makes  ” a> fol­
lowing"  for  the  store.

A  certain  successful  shoe  dealer  ad­
vertised  recently,  "D on ’t  ask  for  your 
size;  ask  to  be  fitted.”   That  is  the 
kernel  of  the  nut.  Do  not  ask  your cus­
tomers,  "What  size?”   Give  them  a 
shoe  that  fits.  Look  at  the  old  shoe 
that  has 
just  been  taken  off.  Note  its 
weak  points.  Was  it  too  narrow  across 
the  ball  of  the  foot?  Did  it  conform  to 
the  shape  of  the  foot  originally  or did 
the  foot  force  the  shoe  out  of  shape  and 
make  a  wreck  of  it?  The  retailer  with 
a  fair  average  stock  should  have  no 
trouble 
in  fitting  the  normal  foot  to  a 
shoe  which  will  be  satisfactory  in  every 
particular.

Where  any  shoe  dealer  has  made  a 
greater  success  than  usual,  look  for  one 
of  these  three  factors—better  goods,  bet­
ter  service  or  closer  attention  to  the 
wants  of  bis  following  than  any  of  his 
competitors  give.  Lowest  prices  are  no 
factor.  No  shoe  dealer  can  permanent­
ly  sell  at  lower  prices  than  a  competi­
tor,  for  no  matter  how  cheap  the  cost  of 
a  pair  of shoes,  if  they  do  not  fit  (which 
also  means  that  they  will  not  wear)  the 
purchaser  condemns  the  store  that  sold 
them,  forgetting  entirely  the  lower  cost. 
This  trying  to  satisfy  customers  in  a 
Saturday-night rush,  when  everything  is 
on  the  jump,  when  neither  the  customer 
nor  the  clerk 
is  in  the  frame  of  mind 
for  a  careful  fitting,  is  the  bane  of  a 
great  part  of  the  retail  shoe  business. 
The  retailer  who  makes a  determined

few  dollars 

effort  to  get  people  to  come  into  his 
store  when  there 
is  an  opportunity  to 
give  that  personal  service  which  means 
so  much 
in  shoe  selling  is  taking  a 
wise  step.  The  salesman  who  flatters 
himself  on  his  ability  to  sell  a  pair  of 
shoes  in  three  minutes  and 
land  the 
customer's 
in  the  cash 
drawer  is  not  nearly  as  smart  a  man  as 
is.  That  pair  of  shoes 
be  thinks  he 
stays  with  the  customer  for  months. 
If 
they  are  wrong,  they  cause  him  all 
kinds  of  grief,  and  he  does  not  hesitate 
to  associate 
it  with  the  dealer  who 
ill-fitting  pair of 
palmed  off  such  an 
shoes  on  him. 
Is  he  going  back  to  that 
store? 
Is  he  going  to  say,  “ I  always 
buy  my  shoes  at  — ’s,  because they seem 
to  fit  better?”   Hardly.  And  yet  if  that 
miscalled  smart  clerk  had  had  a  little 
more  patience,  been  a 
little  more  ob­
serving,  and  just  a  little more  careful in 
picking  out  the  proper  shoe for that  cus­
tomer,  what  a  different 
impression 
might  have  been  created  in that custom­
er's  mind.

Send  people  out  of  your  store  with 
shoes  that  will  get  them  to  repeat  the 
expression 
that  heads  this  article. 
Make  friends  of  as  many  of  your  cus­
tomers  as  you  can.  The  recommenda­
tion  of  one  satisfied  customer  to  a friend 
is  the  best  and  cheapest  advertisement 
in  the  world—better  than  newspapers, 
better  than  fine  store  arrangement.

Make  customers  who  will  come  to  you 
for  every  pair  of  shoes  they  need,  and 
that  their  family  will  need,and  you  will 
make  money  and  make  it  fast.—Shoe 
Retailer.

She  Couldn’t   U nderstand It.

She 

admitted 

She  was  from  the  country,  and  she 
was  homesick. 
this 
frankly.  Many  of  the  city  sights  were 
a  source  of  wonder  to  her,  but  there  was 
something  lacking.  She  had  been  to  the 
theater  and  the  museums  and  the  parks 
and  the  big  department  stores,  but  still 
she 
looked  anxiously  about  for  some­
thing  she  could  not  find.
dollars,”   she  said  at  last.

live  here  for  a  million 

“ I  wouldn’t 

“ You  don’t  like 

city  cousin  enquiringly.

it?”   suggested  her 

“ Oh,  it's  awful,  simply  awful,”   she 
replied;  “ wonderful,  of  course,  but  I 
can’t  help  feeling  blue  and  dissatisfied. 
I'm  going  back  to  the  country.”

“ You  miss  the  green  fields,  I  sup­

“ Oh,  no;  it’s  not  that.”
“ Does  the  noise  bewilder  and  fright­

pose?”

en  you*”

cars  and 

“ A  little,  but I’d  get  used  to  that.”
“ Of  course,  the  air  is  not  as  pure— ”
“ Ob,  I  don't  mind  that,  and  the 
trolley 
the  crowds  don’t 
trouble  me  very  much.  But  1  haven't 
seen  a  front  gate  to  swing  on  when 
you’re  courting  on  moonlight  nights 
since  I've  been  here.  How  in the  world 
do  you  city  girls  ever get  married?”

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the  State  carefully  inspect  and  compare  our

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When  in  need  of  a  shoe  for  boy or  man,

That  will  wear  longest  in  all  kinds of weather,
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come in  colored  designs  and  fancy  figures 
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flannelettes,  suitable 
for  dressing 
sacques,  wrappers,  etc.  Price  7^ 
cents  per  yard.  This 
lot  contains 
several  cases  of  assorted  patterns, 
which  we  can  offer  at  y2  cent  better 
if  you  take  five  pieces  or  more  and 
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W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—There  has  been  a 
quiet  market 
in  the  staple  division 
throughout  the  week.  Buyers  for  the 
home  section  have  not  been  especially 
interested,except for  immediate  require­
ments,  and  for  the  most  part  these  are 
wanted 
in  a  hurry.  Exporters  have 
bought in small quantities,  although  they 
have  made  bids  for 
large  quantities, 
but  at  prices  that  did  not  appear  at­
tractive to  the  sellers.  Up  to  the  present 
writing  prices  on  heavyweight  brown 
sheetings  and  drills  are  firm  at  last  quo­
tations,  and  sellers  who  have  stocks  on 
hand  meet  the  demand  readily  at  pre­
vailing  quotations,  but  when  it  comes  to 
forward  contracts  they  prefer to  be  non­
committal.  There  has  been  a  moderate 
sale  of  ducks  and  brown  osnaburgs  at 
stated  prices.  Bleached  muslins  have 
shown  a  fair  business  with  prices  well 
maintained 
in  all  grades.  The  finer 
grades  of  bleached  cambrics  are  in  very 
small  supply  and  medium  grades  are 
not  always  easy  to  obtain.  Wide  sheet­
ings  have  found  a  fair  demand.  Cotton 
flannels  and  blankets  are  in  moderate 
request.  Coarse  colored  cottons  show  no 
new  features,  although  the  demand  is 
fair  for  such  goods  as  can  be  delivered 
quickly,  and  prices  are  very  firm.

Dress  Goods—Up  to  the  present  writ­
ing  movement  in  the  print  cloth  mar­
ket  has  had 
little  effect  on  the  buyers 
and  business  up  to  date  is  of  a  quiet 
character.  Buyers  are  taking  staple 
prints  in  moderate  quantities,  but  sea­
sonable  fancies  are  in  limited  demand. 
If  sellers  would  be  a  little  more  liberal, 
a  considerable  business  would  be  ac­
complished,  but  buyers  can  not  secure 
the  terms  they  ask.  Percales  are  steady 
and  the  nature  of  the  business 
is  un­
changed.  Printed  flannelettes  are  gen­
erally  well  sold  and  firm  in  price  for 
all  desirable  lines.  Fine  fancy  printed 
fabrics  find  a  firm  market  and  most 
lines  are  well  sold  up  for  the  spring. 
Ginghams  show  no  change  in  the  situa­
tion ;  both  staple  and  dress  styles  are 
well  under  contract  for spring and prices 
naturally  very  firm.

Linings—The  demand  has  been  fair 
generally  but  for  limited  quantities  to 
be  delivered  at  once.  There  are  a  few 
buyers  placing  orders  for  small  lots  for 
future  deliveries  for  both  staples  and 
fancies.  Kid  finished  cambrics  show 
no  change  from  the  last  quotations,  but 
the  market  is  firm  on  that  basis.  The 
demand  has  been  quiet  for  both  staple 
and  bright  colors.  Silesias  have  been 
in  fair  request  for  medium  and  low 
grades,  but  finer  grades  are  quiet  and 
prices  without  change.  There  has  been 
a  small  business  reported  in  percalines 
at  previous  prices.  The  clothing  trade 
has  bought moderately of cotton Italians, 
Alberts, 
similar  goods. 
Prices  are  firm  with  a  hardening  tend­
ency 
in  some  directions.  Highly  fin­
ished  linings  in  mercerized  and  similar 
effects  and  fully  mercerized  goods  are 
in  better  demand  than  imitations.

twills 

and 

Underwear—The  center  of  attraction 
at  the  present  time  is  in  the fleece goods 
division  of  the  underwear  market  and 
of  course  discussion 
is  rife  in  all  the 
agents’  offices  about  the  knit  goods  dis­
trict  as  to  when  the  new  lines  will  be 
formally  opened  and  what  the  prices 
will  be. 
In  all  the  talk  that  occurs, 
many  of  the  statements  must  be  heavily 
discounted  and  even  such  statements  as 
set  a  date  for  the  opening  must  be  con­
sidered  as  almost  entirely  guesswork.

As  a  matter  of  fact  the  mills  are  not 
quite  as  anxious  this  year  to  push  the 
opening  date  ahead  as  they  were  a  year 
ago,  for  two  good reasons: first,  they  are 
still  working 
in  many  cases  on  heavy 
weights  for  the  present  season  and,  sec­
ond,  they  are  receiving  daily  requests 
to  hasten  orders for lightweights for next 
spring.  This 
is  keeping  them  busy 
and,  as  far  as  that  is  concerned,  they 
are  not  likely  to  run  short  of  business 
for  some  little  time.  However,  the  prob­
abilities  are  that  some  agents  will  be  on 
the  road  within  a  week  or  so  and  quite 
a  number  will  be  nut  around  the  first  of 
the  month. 
In  regard  to  spring  lines  it 
seems  to  be  a  comparatively  easy  mat­
ter  for  those  who  have  a  fair  portion  of 
their  product  sold  up  to obtain advances 
for  the  rest,  while  any  mill  that  is  in 
position  to  make  immediate  deliveries 
of  heavyweights  thinks  nothing  of  ob­
taining  a  very  material  rise.  There  are 
a  few  buyers  in  town  looking  for  heavy­
weights,  but  more  requests  are  coming 
through  the  mails;  but  there 
is  little 
hope  of  placing  new  orders  for  the pres­
ent  season  and  most  of  these  enquiries 
and  requests  are  directed  towards  has­
tening  orders  already  placed.  The  de­
lay  is  beginning  to  be  a  serious  matter.
Hosiery—There are  a  good  many  buy­
ers  who  undoubtedly  have  not  made 
their  full  purchases  for  the  next  spring 
season 
in  hosiery  and  the  sellers  look 
for  quite  a  considerable  business  from 
this  source  still. 
is  thought  that 
higher  prices  may  be  obtained  for  the 
balance  of  the  season  than  so  far and 
conditions,  it  would  seem  to  us,  would 
warrant  this.  Among  other  factors  may 
be  noted  the  conditions  in  the  market 
for  the  raw  material.  Whether  the  bal­
ance  of  the 
initial  orders  will  be  at 
higher  prices  or  not,  it  seems  pretty

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visit our  store, where will be 
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to  the 

certain  that  when  duplicates  come  in 
they  will  be  taken  only  at  an  advance.
It  seems  as  if  it  would  be about time for 
duplicate  business  to  begin;  at  least, 
where  talk  in  regard  to  a  new  season  is 
in  order,  it  is  pretty  near  time  for  re* 
turn  orders  on  the 
initial  season  just 
consummated.  There  are  a  good  many 
styles  of  hosiery  that  are  already  quite 
scarce  and  some  of  the  retail  dealers  are 
even  now  selling  them  at  higher prices; 
but  there  are  others,  strange  as  it  may 
seem,  who  were  more  fortunate  and 
bought 
largely  of  these  styles  and  they 
are  still  selling  them  at  the  old  prices.
Carpets— Little,  if  any,  new  business 
is  being  taken  by  carpet  manufacturers, 
owing 
lateness  of  the  season. 
Mills  are  running  full,  nevertheless,  on 
business  contracted  for  some  time  ago, 
and  which 
it  is  hoped  will  be  cleaned 
up  before  the  time  arrives  for  orders  to 
be  taken  on the new line of  goods.  As  a 
rule  pretty  nearly  everything  points  to 
a  clean  start  when  the  “ fall  in"  com­
mand  is  to  be 
issued.  Practically  all 
the  new  designs  have  been  completed 
and  the  sample  pieces  run  off  the  loom. 
All  that  is  needed  to  change  the  situa­
tion  and  the  season  are  the  actions  of 
one  or  two  of  the  big  New  York  manu­
facturers.  As  soon  as  these  notify  the 
trade  of  the  opening  of  spring  goods, 
every  one  concerned  in  the  making  of 
carpets  will 
immediately  follow  suit. 
Just  now  the  indications  are  that  about 
the  first  part  of  the  second  week  of  No­
vember  will 
find  the  manufacturers 
ready  to  show  their  new  lines  to  their 
customers  and  be  in  a  position  to  take 
orders  on  the  same.  The  most  vital 
point  under  discussion  at  the  present 
time 
is  on  what  basis  the  new  lines 
will  be  offered  or  rather  what course will 
certain  factors  in  the  market  take  in 
relation  to  sustaining  values?  On  gen­
eral  principles  it  is  felt  that  advances 
all  around  are  fully  warranted,  but 
whether  the  aforesaid  parties  will  feel 
that  way  when  the  time  comes,  remains 
to  be  seen.  The  yarn  trade  have  prac­
tically  settled  prices  for  the  coming sea­
son  on  a  basis that shows little difference 
from  the  closing  of  the  present  one. 
Compared  with  the  opening  in  May. 
there  is  an  increase  all  around.  Worsted 
yarns  are  exceedingly  high  compared 
with  prices  current  six  months  ago,  and 
on  all  fabrics  where  worsted  yarns  are 
used,  such 
as  all  the  three-quarter 
goods, with  the  exception  of  velvets,  and 
including  high  grade  ingrains,  the  ad­
vance  equivalent  to  the  rise 
in  yarns 
should  be  considerable.  Woolen  yarn 
spinners  state  that  their  prices  for  the 
coming  season  will  show  advances rang­
ing  from  one-half  to  a  cent  per  pound. 
The  indications  are  now,  they  say,  that 
6o-yard  double  reel  yarn  will  not  go 
above  22c  for  some  time  to  come.  Spin­
ners  already  notice  the  higher  cost  of 
wools,  but  it  is  yet  so  insignificant  that 
a  change  in  yarn  values  is  hardly  war­
rantable.  This  refers  to  wools  other 
than  for  combing  purposes.  Combing 
wools  are  much  higher  in  price relative­
ly,  and  there 
is  promise  of  still  higher 
values. 

"

An Illustration.

He—What  is  a  so-called  summer  en­
gagement?
She— It’s  like  this :  Suppose  we  were 
engaged,  and  I  happened  to  meet  some 
I  would  pro­
other  man  I  liked  better. 
ceed  to  shake  you  for  the  new  arrival. 
That  would  be  a  typical  summer  en­
gagement.

He— But  suppose  I  happened  to  meet 
some  girl  I  liked  better  and  proceeded 
to  give  you  the  merry  toss?
She—Oh,  in  that  case.  I’d  sue  you 
for  breach  of  promise.  See?

One  promoter  in  New  York  has  bad  a 
career  like  the  tides  of  the  sea  in  its 
varying  ebbs  and  flows  of  fortune.  He 
has  handled  some  big  deals  in  his time, 
and  on  the  other  band  he  has  received 
some  “ facers”   which  would  thoroughly 
disconcert  the  average  business  man  of 
the  “ common  or  garden  kind.”
One  of  the  most  characteristic  of  the 
experiences  which  he  relates  is  that  of 
the  time  when  he  attempted  to  exploit 
an  antimony  property  out in  California.
He  investigated  the  proposition  thor­
oughly,  found  that  the  supply  of  anti­
mony  was  practically  inexhaustible  and 
then  spent  $200,000  in  erecting  a  plant 
to  refine  his  product.

Then  he  loaded  155  tons  of  the  metal 
on  board  cars,  and,  attaching  a  Pullman 
car  to  the  train  for  the  accommodation 
of  himself  and  friends,  started,  with 
banners  waving  and  bands  playing,  for 
New  York.

trainload 

He  figured  that  with  such  a  showing 
as  he  was  making  investors  would  sim­
ply  tumble  over  each  other  in  their 
efforts  to  get  in  on  the  project  and  that 
his  stock  would  sell  like  the  proverbial 
hot  cakes.
It  happened,  however,  that  in  bis  cal­
culations  he  had  neglected  to  enquire 
into  the  action  of  the  laws  of  supply 
in  reference  to  antimony, 
and  demand 
and  hence  was  profoundly 
ignorant  of 
the  fact  that  he  bad  enough  of  it  in  that 
to  furnish  the  entire 
one 
world  for  years  to  come.
in  New  York,  he  crassly 
hurled  his  trainload at  the  dealers.  Be­
fore  the  terrific  impact  of  that  155  tons 
the  market  collapsed 
like  a  wooden 
shanty  before  a  thirteen-inch  dynamite 
shell.  The  price  of  antimony  fell  in  one 
day  from  18  to  6  cents a  pound,and from 
that  day  to  this  it  has  never  recovered. 
Inasmuch  as  it  was  impossible  for  him 
to  refine  at  less  than  11  cents,  he  then 
and  there  “ threw  up  the  sponge.”   Out 
in  California  is  an 
inexhaustible  mine 
of  antimony  and  a $200.000 refinery :  but 
there  is  “ nothing  doing.”

Arriving 

Serious  Mixing; of  Letters.

A  well-known  citizen  of  Saginaw  had 
been  invited  to  an  evening  party.  He 
wanted  to  go,  but  his  wife  declared  that 
she  had  no  gown  suitable  for  the  oc­
casion,  and  asked  him  to  send  “ re­
grets”   to  their  hostess.  The  man  went 
down  to  bis  office  and  penned  this  face- 
tious  note  of  declination:

“ We  regret  that  your  kind  invitation 
must  be  declined  for  all  the  conven­
tional  reasons,  but  the  real  reason  is 
that  half  the  family  has nothing to wear. 
My  wife’s 
latest  dress  is  over  three 
weeks  old,  and  her  hat  is  twelve  hours 
out  of  date.  You  will  appreciate  the 
hopelessness  of  the  occasion  and  excuse 
us. ”
He  thought  this  pretty  good,  and  he 
determined  to  write  a  note  to  his  wife 
also  explaining  that  he  would  not  be  at 
home  for  an  early  dinner,  as  she  bad 
asked  him.  He  said  in  this  note:
“ I  have  turned  down  your  invitation 
because  1  am  going  out  to  another even­
ing  party  where  the  guests  are  not  ex­
pected  to  wear  anything  of  importance. 
Sorry  1  won’t  be  there  to  kiss  you  good­
night.”
And  then  the  fool  man  carelessly  sent 
his  wife’s  note  to  the  hostess  and  the 
hostess’  note  to  his  wife.

Never  put  off  until  to-mororw  what 
you  can  get  some  one  else  to  do  to-day.

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Retailer of  Fine  Rugs and  Carpets. 

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Woman’s World

W omen’s  Friendships  Not  A ll  Im itation 

and  Counterfeit.

What  would  life  be  without  friends?
Sometimes  we  are  ready  to  declare  it 
would  be  a  bowling  wilderness,  an  arc­
tic  desolation  without  sun  or  warmth,  a 
weary 
journey  with  none  to  cheer  the 
lonely  wayfarer;  and  again  there  are 
times  when  we  are  equally  ready  to  as­
sert  that  life  without  friends  would  be 
a  calm  and  happy  state  in  which  there 
would  be  none  to  molest  and  no  thieves 
to  break  in  and  steal  either our time  or 
money.

The  truth 

is  that  there 

is  no  other 
term 
in  the  English  language  so  much 
misused  as  friendship  and  none  which 
is  made  the  excuse  for  so  many  short­
comings.  Like  charity,  it  is  supposed 
to  cover  a  multitude  of  sins,  and  as  a 
general  thing  it  is  not  our  enemies,  but 
those  who  call  themselves  our  friends, 
of  whom  we  need  to  stand  in  mortal 
fear.  Half  of  the  bankrupts  in  the 
country  lost  their  money  through  their 
friends ; three-fourths of the women'about 
whom  slanderous  stories  are  told  owe 
their  loss  of  character to their  friends' 
gossip;  ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hun­
dred,  when  we  are  cruelly  ill-used  and 
misunderstood  and  put  to inconvenience 
and  trouble,  it  is  our  friends,  who  are 
our  enemies,  who  do  it.

It  is  often  said  that  the  friendship  of 
women  for  each  other  is  like  the  friend­
ship  of  cats,  and  although  they  may 
purr  over  each  other  at  meeting,  they 
are  always  ready  to  put  their  backs  up 
and  scratch  at  each  other  at  a  moment’s 
notice.  This 
is  a  malicious  slander. 
The  world,  unfortunately,  is  not  over­
supplied  in  any  direction  with  disinter­
ested  affection, but  there  is  just  as  much 
genuine  friendship  among  women  as 
there  is  among  men,  and  women  are  no 
more  given  to  making  a  social  ladder of 
friendship  than  men  are  to  trade  upon 
it  in  business.

Personally,  it  has  been  my  good  for­
tune  to  have  two  women  friends,  true  as 
steel,  loyal  and  chivalrous  as  knights, 
whose  sympathy  and  comprehension  I 
have  ever  felt—a  never-failing  fountain 
of  strength.  As  a  working  woman,  it 
has  also  been  my  privilege  to  note  a 
hundred  times  that  it is woman’s friend­
ship  that  oftenest  stands  the  test  of  sor­
row  and  need,  and  woman’s  band  that 
is  most  generously  held  out  to  help 
other  women.

In  the  so-called  platonic  friendship 
between  men  and  women  I  am  likewise 
a  profound  believer.  Not  every  woman 
is  a  coquette;  not  every  man  is  a  liber­
tine,  and it  seems  to  me  an  insult  to  the 
decency  of  humanity  to  even  intimate 
that  there  can  be  no  companionship  be­
tween  men  and  women  without  its  be­
ing  degraded  by  suggestions  of  passion. 
It  is  possible  that  for the  very  young 
there  may  be  danger 
in  a  platonic 
friendship—children  who  play  with  fire 
are  always  liable  to  get  burned—but  for 
mature  men  and  women  there  is  surely 
a  friendship  without 
love  that  is  one 
of  the  most  precious  relationships  of 
life. 
Such  a  friendship,  broad  and
comprehending,  has  become  the  solace 
to  many  a  woman’s  starved 
life.  Such 
a  friendship,  sustaining  and  inspiring, 
has  lighted  the  fires  of  ambition  in 
many  a  man’s  soul  and  sent  him  out  to 
do  the  world’s  great  work.

Such friendships  as  these—the  friend­
ship  of  women  and  women,  and  the 
friendship  of  man  and  woman—are 
among  the  greatest  blessings  that  ever 
fall  to  our  lot,  and  if  that  were  all,poets

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idealists  might  well  celebrate  the 

and 
beauty  and  holiness  of  friendship.

Unfortunately,  however,  there  is  an­
other  side  to  the  story,  and  there  are  so 
many  friends  who  are  pests,  so  many 
outrages  are  committed  in  the  name  of 
friendship  and  so  frequently  is  it  the 
mask  under  which  the  social  highway­
man  goes  forth  to  plunder  and  rob  that 
one 
is  often  tempted  to  wonder  if  it  is 
not  better  and  cheaper  and  safer  and 
more  comfortable  to  be  lonely  than  it  is 
to  be  done.

All  of  us  have  suffered  at  the  bands 
of  these  marauding  friends  and  have 
stood  from  them  insult  and  injuiy  that 
would  have  made  us  call  for  police  pro­
tection  had the aggressor been an enemy. 
Just  why  people  who  profess  to  like  us 
consider  they  have  a  right  to  treat  us  in 
a  way  they  would  not  dare  treat  a  per­
son  they  hated  is  one  of the  mysterious 
facts  of  life  that  nobody  has  ever  been 
able  to  explain;  but  it  is  a  fact,  never­
theless,  and  with  many  people  to  be  a 
friend  is  simply  to  make  yourself  a  tar­
get  for all  manner  of  unpleasantness.

is, 

for 

the 

There 

instance, 

frank 
friend,  who  feels  that  friendship  gives 
him  or  her the  license  to  say  things  to 
you  you  do  not  want  to  hear  and  that 
you  would  knock  an  enemy  down  for 
saying.  This  friend  always  prefaces 
her  remarks—for  she  is oftener a  woman 
than  a  man—by  saying,  " A s   I  am  your 
friend,  I  feel  it  is  my  duty  to  tell  you" 
that  your  husband 
is  flirting  with  an­
other  woman  or  your  son  got drunk  at 
the  Croesus  ball  or  your  daughter  is  in 
love  with  a  hopeless  detrimental  or 
something  unpleasant  that somebody has 
said  about  you.  Or  else  you  show  her 
your  new  bonnet  or  gown  and she  smiles 
sinisterly  and  remarks,  "How  perfectly 
sweet!  But  don’t  you  think  that  color 
very  trying  to  a  person  with  a  sallow 
complexion?  Of  course,  1  should  not 
mention  it  if  we  were not such friends." 
Or  she  feels  it  incumbent  on  her  to  ad­
vise  you  to  refrain  from  reciting  or 
singing  or  acting in  public;  or  tells  you 
that  your  poem  or  book  is  silly  and  that 
all  the  nice  things  people  say  about  it 
are  polite 
lies—“ but  between  friends 
there  should  always  be  the  truth."  Be 
sure  that  when  a  woman  means  to stab 
she  always  puts  on 
the  disguise  of 
friendship.  When  a  woman  who  is  a 
casual 
acquaintance  begins  to  "M y 
dear”   you,  sheer  off  to  one  side.  When, 
on  insufficient  provocation,  she  calls you 
"D arlin g,"  go  home  and  put  on  chain 
armor  under  your  stays,  for  she  has  a 
knife  up  her  sleeve  and  means  to  drive 
it  into  your  heart.

Then  there  is  the  complaining friend, 
whose  understanding  of  friendship  is  a 
place  that  is  a  dumping  ground  for  all 
her  troubles.  She  comes  to  see  you 
merely  to  get  a  fresh  spot  to  weep  in ; 
she  washes  all  her  dirty  family  linen  in 
your  best  parlor  and  tells  you  of  her 
husband’s  shortcomings  and  her  chil­
dren’s  misdemeanors,  and  is  as general­
ly  cheerful  and  agreeable  to  have  about 
you  as  a  wet  blanket.  Heaven  knows  it 
is  the  sacred  privilege  of  friendship  to 
sympathize  and  help,  but  where  no 
help is  possible  it  is a mean and coward­
ly  thing  to  burden  other  people  with 
sorrows  they  can  not  alleviate. 
It  does 
the  chronic  complainer  no good to thresh 
over  her  grievances  and  it  does  the  per­
son 
to  grievous  wrong. 
Everybody  has  troubles  enough  of  their 
own,  and  anyone 
is  justified  in  estab­
lishing  a  shotgun  quarantine  against 
whining  friends  and  shooting  at  sight 
all  who  break  through.

complained 

Almost  aslmuch  of  a  nuisance  are  the

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Total 

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A suggested need often repeated creates the 
want that sends the purchaser to the store.
Every dealer should have his share of the 
profit that reverts from the enormous amount 
of money expended by the National Biscuit 
Company in keeping their products constantly 
before the eyes of the public.
These goods become the actual needs that 
send a steady stream of trade to the stores that 
sell them.
People have become  educated to buying 
biscuit and crackers in the In-er-seal Package— 
and one success has followed the other from 
the famous Uneeda Biscuit to the latest widely 
advertised specialty.
Each new product as it is announced to the 
public serves as a stimulant to business and 
acts as a drawing card that brings more custo­
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that  whatever 

unconventional  friends  who  go  on  the 
theory 
happy 
is  my 
is  mine.  They  never  wait  for 
friend’s 
an 
invitation,  but  descend  upon  you, 
bag and baggage,  at unseasonable  times. 
They  take  your  books  without  asking, 
they  use  your  pet  pen,  they  pop  into 
your  bedroom  and  make  themselves  at 
home  in  your  kitchen.

Conventionality  and  formality  are  the 
life  lines  that  civilization  has  stretched 
to  protect  us  from  each  other,  and  the 
minute  a  person  breaks  over  the  barrier 
they  become  a  nuisance  that  ought  to 
be  hunted  out  of  society.  Real  friend­
ship  has  its  reserves. 
It  does  not  seek 
to  penetrate  into  every  nook  and  corner 
of  another’s  life,  and  respects  another’s 
privacy  as  it  guards  its  own.

incapable  of  real 

The  blatantly  vulgar  who  think  they 
show  friendship  by  being  familiar  are 
utterly 
friendship. 
The  minute  another  peison  knows  your 
every  secret— whether  you  get  your com­
plexion  from  nature  or  art,  how  much 
you  pay  your  cook, whether  you  stint  the 
table  to  have  a  box  at  the  opera,  when 
and  what  you  spat  with  your  husband 
about—she  knows  too  much  and  you 
bate  her  for  her  knowledge.  The  min­
ute  a  woman  shows  a  tendency to  run  in 
your  back  door,  show  her  the 
front 
door,  and  you  will  save  yourself  trouble 
and  gray  hairs.

The  borrowing  friend  who  depends 
upon  her  acquaintances  to  supply  hei 
with  patterns  and  magazines  and  sta­
tionery  and  who  knows  you  will  net 
letting  a  friend  have  a  cheap 
mind 
milliner  copy  your 
imported  French 
hat;  the  managing  friend  who  expects 
to  boss  your  servants,  regulate  your 
household,  dictate  to  your  husband  and 
raise  your  children ;  the  touchy  friend 
who  is  always  on  the 
lookout  for  an 
affront  and  who  is  offended  every  time 
you  dare 
invite  anyone  to  your  house 
without  asking  her—all  these  are  more 
trouble  than  pleasure  and  not  worth  the 
price  you  must  pay  for  them.

A  real  friend  is one who  loves  loyally, 
who  trusts fully,  who  is  helpful  in  times 
of  trouble,  sympathetic 
in  prosperity, 
who  maintains  her  own  individuality 
and  respects  yours.  She 
is  a  person 
who,  if  you  saw  her  every  day,  you 
would  not  weary  of,  and  if  you  did  not 
see  her  for  ten  years  you  would  find  un­
changed.  To  know  such  a  friend  is  a 
liberal education.  To love her  is  a  bene­
diction,and when  one  finds  such  a  one— 
whether  man  or  woman—they  do  well  to 
grapple  to  them  with  hooks  of  steel.

But  beware  of  imitations and  counter­

feits! 

Dorothy  Dix.

W hy  W omen  Should  Sing:.

There  is 

little  or  no  doubt  that  the 
woman  who  is  even  only  tolerably  good 
looking,  but  who  can  sing  well  enough 
to  appear  in  public,  finds  more  ardent 
admirers  among  the  opposite  sex  than 
the  merely  pretty  woman  who  has  no 
simitar  ability.  Even  men  who  are  not 
at  all  musical  feel  attracted  toward  a 
girl  who  has a  good  voice  and is  not  too 
nervous  to  use  it.

it  may  appear  at 

Women  who  sing  are  generally  robust 
and  cheerful.  This  is  absolutely  true, 
sweeping  as 
first 
glance.  A  woman  who  would  sing  well 
must 
learn  the  art  of  filling  her  lungs 
with  air  in  one  deep  breath;  she  is 
bound  to  do  this  or  she  will  not  be  able 
to  sing.  When  she  has  learned  how  to 
do  this  she  has  learned  one  of  the  pro- 
foundest  secrets  of  physical  fitness,  and 
a  cheerful  disposition  follows  perfect 
health  as  night  follows  day.  A  woman 
who  would  sing  well  must  learn  the  art

of  putting  her  mind  wholly  out  of  touch 
with  worrying  details  of  everyday 
life 
for at  least  a  given  time  every  twenty- 
four  hours;  she  can  not  possibly  think 
about  matters  of  a domestic nature while 
engaged 
in  her  daily  practice.  Should 
she  do  so  she  is  but  wasting  her  efforts 
and  will  never  become  a  singer  in  the 
true  sense  of  the  word.

These  two  points  are  all  important; 
they  in  themselves  will  be  enough  to 
secure  attention  from  discerning  young 
wife-seekers,  yet  when 
in  addition  to 
these  points  there 
is  a  good  voice  as 
well,  bow  can  anyone  have  ground  for 
asking  why  women  who  sing  succeed  in 
getting  husbands  quicker  than  the 
women  who  do  not?  Women  who  sing 
go  to  twice  as  many  house  parties  and 
picnics  as  their  sisters  who  do  not  sing. 
This  being  so,  it 
is  but  natural  that 
they  should meet  twice  as  many  eligible 
young  men.  Again,  the  songstress  who 
is  at  a  party  or  picnic  is  singled  out 
and  begged  to  add  an  item  to  the  enter­
tainment  programme.  She  accedes  to 
the  wish,  and  for a  time  she  rivets  the 
attention  of  all  present.

Her  good  qualities  are  bound  to  be 
seen,  for  the  simple  reason  that  she  is 
criticised  as  she  could  not  be  were  it 
not  for  the  fact  that  she  stands  alone  for 
a  space  and  is  the  goal  of  all  eyes.  Her j 
own  nonsinging  sister  may  be  just  as  I 
pretty  and  lovable  a  girl,  but  her  most 
attractive  qualities  are  not  discovered 
half  as  quickly  because  she  is  dumped 
down  among  the  crowd  of  visitors  and 
is  not 
invited  to  stand  up  for  notice— 
on  inspection.  The  girl  who  sings does 
not  know  what  indigestion 
i s ;  she  is 
making  her  blood  purer  and  richer  as 
she  sings,  every  note  being  a  blow  at 
the  torpid  condition  from  which 
indi. 
gestion  is  known  to  spring.  As  she  is 
free  from  this  common  ailment  among 
is,  as  a  result,  free  from  the 
girls,  she 
despondency  and  gloom  that  follow 
in 
its  train.  Her  happy  face  and  laugh­
ing  eyes  do  not  fail  to  arouse  first  the 
interest  and  then  the  admiration  of 
some  nice  young  man  who  is  earning  a 
good  salary  and  who 
is  beginning  to 
think  that  it  is  about  time  he  took  unto 
himself  a  wife.

life's 

The  girl  who  sings,  having  learned 
bow  to  put  away 
little  worries 
during the  practice  hour, learns  also  how 
to  put  them  away  at  other  times.  This 
enables  her  to  keep  an  eye  open  for  the 
pleasanter  side  issues  of  life.  She  sees 
the  beauty  of  the  sunset  and  the  charm 
of  a  noble  action.  These  things  put  a 
light 
into  her  life  that  is  reflected  in 
all  her  words  and  deeds.  She  is  ele­
vated  for no  other  reason  than  that  she 
is  put  in  possession  of  dreams  that  are 
unknown  to.  the  woman  who  does  not 
sing.  Added  to  her  gift  of  voice  is  the 
benefit  that  has  come  to  her  through 
strictly  training 
it— for  no  one  will 
argue  that  only a  voice  is  necessary  to  a 
singer.  Art  is  needed  almost  as  much 
as  voice,  if  singing  worth  the  name  is 
to be  bad.  The  girl  who  sings  is  asked 
to  become  a  member  of  a  choral  society 
or  perhaps  a  choir.  Any  mere  man 
knows  that  directly  a  girl  joins  a  choir 
she  may  become  an  engaged  young 
lady  as  if  by  magic.  Girls  who  become 
members  of  choirs  are  never old  maids 
unless  they  are  determined  to  be  so.

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___ Poultry  __

Possibilities of Fattening:  P oultry  by  Ma­

chinery.

long  in  use 

We are  hearing  much  of  the  possibili­
ties  of  fattening  poultry  by  special  food 
and  machinery.  The  machine  is  a  mod­
ification  of  the  time  honored  fattening 
or  stuffing  machine  so 
in 
Sussex  England.  That  there  is  money 
in  fattening  fowls  for  market  is  admit­
ted  as  an  absolute  fact:  that  thousands 
waste  their  time  and  money  in  sending 
to  market  poorly  fed  stock  is  true;  and 
that  much  of  this  might  be  avoided  by 
dividing  one's  stock  into  separate flocks 
and  feeding  them  is  true.  All  this  we 
admit,  and  we  shall  continue  to  try  to 
have  the  losing  methods  replaced  by 
better,  simpler  and more  profitable  ones, 
which  are  within  the  reach  of  all.  One 
may  go so  far  as  to  shut  up  bis stock  in 
colonies,  and  feed  them  all  the  rich  and 
fattening  food  they  will  eat,  with  no 
green  food  at  all,  and produce much bet­
ter  market  poultry than is now produced, 
and  profit  by  so  doing,  but  the  venture 
into  machine  fattening  is another  thing.
Those  who  fully  understand  machine 
stuffing  make  it  profitable.  A  fattening 
station 
in  each  locality  may  in  time  be 
established,  but  we  can  not  advise  any 
one  to  go  into the  business  on  a  large 
scale  without  »^thorough  understanding 
of  the  manner  and  methods  of  feeding 
and  handling  the  fowls.  There  is  al­
ways  some 
loss  even  when  handled  by 
the  most  experienced.  At  times  a  whole 
dock  will  go  back  on  their  food,  lose 
ground,  and  either  die  or  be  turned  out 
to  recover.  To  avoid  this  requires  ex­
perience  and  training  in  the  work.  We 
know  that  thousands  are  fattened  in  this 
way in England,and it  will  be  so  in  this 
country.  Any  one  can  have  a  machine 
and  try  a  few, but the  chances  of  success 
are  against  the  inexperienced.

As  we  have  stated  above,  this  method 
will  come.  As the incubator  and  brooder 
have  worked  themselves 
into  general 
use,  so  will  this  method  of  fattening  for 
market  come  among  us,and  our  purpose 
is  to  guard  against  losses  for  our  read­
ers,  as  well  as disappointments.  Money 
will  be  made  by  some  in  this  business 
as 
in  every  other  line,  and  the  use  of 
this  machine  will  force  all  to  have  bet­
ter  market  poultry,  or  else  they  must 
sell  at  a  low  price.  But  the  fattening 
process  is  like  the  creamery,  the  sepa­
rator  and  the  threshing  machine  and 
the  shredder;  there  are  those  who  suc­
ceed  with  them  all,  and  by  their  use 
many  thousands  are  benefited.  So  will 
it  be  with  the  fattening  machine  when 
the 
successful  handler  establishes  a 
stuffing  station  in  your  locality.

To  add  from 

pounds to 3^ pounds 
to  any  fowl  in  three  weeks'  time  is  the 
work  of  an  expert  at  the  business.  The 
very  richest  and  most  fattening  foods 
must  be  made  use  of,  all  kinds  of  ail­
ments  and  bowel  troubles  must  be 
guarded  against,  the  proper  cooping 
must  be  provided. 
It  will  readily  be 
seen  that  all  this  calls  for experience 
and  the  ability  to  handle  enough  to 
make  it  profitable.

The  foods  used  by  the  most  success­
ful  are  cornmeal,  barleymeal  and  buck- 
wheatmeal  mixed.  This  mixture  is  for 
yellow  meat.  For  the 
lighter  colored 
meat—which  they  prefer  in  England— 
considerable  ground  oats  and  some  rice 
meal  are  used.  This 
is  mixed  into  a 
mash  in  the  milk  and  some  fat  added— 
not  meat,  but  tallow 
In  warm 
weather  this  food 
is  fed  cold,  but  in 
cold  weather  it  is  better  to  have  it 
warm.

fat. 

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

Scald  the  milk  and  gradually stir in as 
much  of  the  ground  oats  as  you  intend 
to use  and  to  this  add  the  other meals  as 
selected,  also  the  rice  meal  if you  desire 
to  use 
it,  and  the  tallow  fat.  Mix  all 
thoroughly' into  a  mash  which  will  work 
nicely  through  the  machine.  Take  the 
fowl 
in  your  arms,  push  the  tube  into 
its  throat,  press  down  the  lever  with 
your  foot,  hold  one  band  on  the  bird's 
crop,  and  as  soon  as  it  is  comfortably 
full  of  food  put  it  back  into  the  coop. 
The  tallow  fat  is  used  only  during  the 
last  week  and  little  water,  if  any,  is  al­
lowed  them,  ail  they  require  being 
mixed  with  their food.—Country Gentle­
man.

K illing  P oultry  Near  Eggs. 

Correspondence Cold Storage.

We  expect  to  kill  and dress  poultry  in 
a  room  adjoining  our  egg  room.  There 
are  double  doors and a  vestibule between 
the  poultry  room  and  the  egg  room.  We 
are  a  little  afraid  that  the  smell  of  the 
poultry  will  get  into  the  eggs  and  spoil 
them.  We have,  however,  been told  that 
the  smell  would  not  affect  them at  all  by 
using  a 
liberal  amount  of  calcium  in 
the  poultry  room.  What  would  be  your 
idea  as  to  this  matter,  and  how  should 
the  calcium  be  used  to  obtain  the  best 
results?  Madison  Cooper  replies  in  the 
same  publication  as  follows:  “ In  your 
poultry  killing  and  dressing  rooms  it  is 
much  more  important  that  you  provide 
a  free  circulation  of air  from  the outside 
than  it  is  that  you  expose  a  large  quan­
tity  of chloride  of  calcium.  The  place 
to  use  the  calcium  is 
in  the  vestibule 
between  the  poultry  room  and  the  egg 
room,  and  it  would  be  well  if  you  would 
fit  up  a  tray  in  this  vestibule  and  keep 
a  liberal  amount  of  calcium  thereon.  It 
will  probably  not  pay  you  to  bother 
with  the  calcium  in  the  poultry  killing 
room. 
is  not  good  practice  to  enter 
your  egg  storage  room  from your poultry 
killing  room  and 
if  you  could  make 
other  arrangements without too  great  ex­
pense  it  would  be  the  proper  thing  for 
you  to  do.  You  will,  however,  prob­
ably  be  on  the  safe  side  if  you  allow  a 
liberal  circulation  of  air  through  the 
rooms  while  you  are  using  them  for  the 
killing  and  dressing  of poultry.  Another 
important  thing  is  that  you  do not allow 
the  refuse  to  accumulate  or  stay  in  the 
room  for  any  length  of  time.  The  kill­
ing  room  should  also  be  whitewashed 
from time  to  time  and the  floor  scrubbed 
and  scalded  at  least  once  each  week.

It 

Squared  Up.i

“ Mr.  Conrow  looks  tickled this  morn­
ing,’ ’  remarked  the  grocery  clerk  as  »he 
brushed  the  flies  off  the  cheese.
“ He’s  gotter  right  to,’ ’  said  Uncle 
Jim  from  the  cracker  barrel. 
“ He 
poured  a  lot  of oil  in  his  well  to  kill  the 
mosquitoes,  and  a  week  later  that  city 
feller  what  sold  him  a  gold  brick  last 
winter come  to  board  with  him.”

“ Well?"  said  the  clerk.
“ Well,  Conrow's  sold  the  farm to  him 
fer  three  times  what  be  paid.  He's 
goin’  to  bore  for o il!”

Established  1865

L.  O.  Snedecor & Son

NEW  YORK

Egg  Receivers

HAVE  YOU  EVER?

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

Reference:  N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

SEND  YOUR

Poultry  and  Eggs

TO

Est. 1849 

l a m s o n   & co., 

Rocfnn
13 Biackstone  St.  D JolO U

P O U L T R Y   e R Ä T E S

Shippers of poultry will be interested  in  knowing  that  we  are  putting  on  the  market 
crates  madé  especially  for  poultry.  They  are  made  of seasoned elm, are strong, light 
and well ventilated.  We have had nothing but words of praise  from  those  shippers who 
have used them.  Ask us to send you booklet giving full Information and prices.

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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  m arket  com pares  favorably  w ith  all others.

Commission  Merchants  in  Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry 

Rea  &  W itzig

96  West  Harket  Street,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

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

Established  1873

Grand  Rapids  Messenger & Packet Co.

11-13  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Alex.  McLachlin,  Manager

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S 3

The New York Market

Special  Features  of th e Grocery and Prod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

the  whole,  are 

New  York,  Oct.  25— Brazil  has  been 
quite  a  free  seller  of  coSee  this  week 
and,  as  the  offerings  became  more  am­
ple,  the  buying  became  more active and 
prices,  upon 
fairly 
steady,  although  no  change  is  to  be  re­
corded,  No.  7  being  quotable  at  5%c. 
The  receipts  of  coffee  at  Rio and Santos 
are  considerably  behind  those  of  last 
year,  the  aggregate  since  July  1  being 
5,704,000  bags,  against  7,188,000  bags 
during  the  same  time  last  year.  In  store 
and  afloat  there  are  2,776,032  bags, 
against  2,240,303  bags  last  year.  Trans­
actions 
in  mild  grades  have  been  of 
small  value  and  prices  are  generally 
firm.  East  Indias  are  steady  with  about 
the  average  amount  of  trading going  on.
Offerings  of  teas  are  light  and  prices 
are  firm  for  all  sorts.  Purchases  are 
small  in most instances  because  the  sup­
ply  is  limited  to  everyday  wants.  Ad­
vices  received  from  the  East  all  show  a 
firm  market  and  there  is  every  prospect 
that  the  tea  market  will  rule  in  favor  of 
the  seller  for  some  time  to  come.
The  sugar  market remains pretty much 
as  last  noted.  Buyers  do  not  seem  in­
clined  to  do  much  new  business  and 
most  of  the  trading  consists  of  with­
drawals  under old  contracts.  Softs  have 
been  shaded  somewhat,  hut  otherwise 
no  change  has  taken  place.
The  failure  of  the  rice  crop  to  quite 
an  extent  has  shattered  somewhat  the 
favorable  outlook  of  a  little  while  ago 
and the  market  closes  firm,  with a  pretty 
fair  demand at former quotations— prime 
to  choice, ,5X@5#c.
is  little,  if  anything,  new  to 
report  in  spices,  the  demand  being sim­
ply  of  a  hand-to-mouth  character. 
Prices  are  well  held,  but no advance has 
taken  place,  although  there  is,  seeming­
ly,  a  firmer  undertone  for  one  or  two 
articles.  Singapore  pepper,  I3@I3X C-
is  firm,  but  without  change 
as  to  price,  although  the  tendency  is 
seemingly  toward  a 
slightly  higher 
level.  The  offerings,  both  of  open-ket­
tle  and  centrifugal  goods,  are  light  and 
the  situation  wartants  full  rates.

Molasses 

There 

interesting  point 

Offerings  of  canned  goods  are  so  light 
in  some 
lines  that  business  is  of  very 
limited  character.  Corn,  New  York 
and  Maine  pack,  is  very  scarce  and  the 
most 
in  the  canned 
goods  situation  is  the  prospect  of  a  far 
tomatoes  than  was 
larger  pack  of 
few  weeks  ago. 
deemed  possible  a 
’Twas  ever  thus.  The  tomato 
is  an 
elusive  plant  and  at  the  moment  one 
thinks  it  is defeated it comes  up  smiling 
and  shows  a  big  crop.  Good  authority 
now  states  that  the  pack this year will be 
fully  as  large  as  last,  one  man  stating 
that  Maryland  alone  will 
send  out 
5,000,000 cases.  He  seems  to  have  the 
figures  to  prove  his  assertions,  too.  To 
this  add  a  good  outturn  in  New  jersey, 
quite  a  pack  in  Delaware  and  then  plus 
tbe  rest  of  the  country  and  it  will  be 
seen  that  there  is  enough  to  fill  quite  a 
demand.  Yet 
it  is  not  likely  there  is 
an  overabundance,  even  if  this  output  is 
correct.  The  corn  supply  is  short  and 
the  tomato  is  something  that  “ comes  in 
bandy"  when  everything  else  fails  to 
please.  No.  3  tomatoes  of  good  Jersey 
pack  are  worth  $1.15,  either  at  factory 
or  here.  Corn 
is  hardly  to  be  found 
here  at  all  except  in small  lots,  and  it  is 
said  that  $1.50  has  been  paid  for  Maine 
goods,  with  the  general  run  from  $1.35 
@1.40.  Salmon  remains  in  good  de­
mand and  prices  are  well  sustained.

A  scarcity  of  the  large  sizes  of  prunes 
is  occasioning  a' firmer  market  for  this 
fruit.  Aside  from  this  the  dried  fruit 
situation 
is  about  unchanged,  although 
the  tone  of  she  market  seems  to  be 
stonger  than  a  fortnight  ago.  Raisins, 
tigs  and  nuts  are  all  moving  with  free­
dom  and  the  holiday  trade  will  soon  ac­
celerate  the  movement.  Lemons  and 
oranges  are selling pretty well,  although, 
of  course,  tbe  lemon  movement  is  light 
at  this  time  of  year.  They  range  from 
$2. io@4.50,  the  latter  for  fancy  stock. 
Valencia  oranges  average 
something 
like  $5  per  box,  some  selling  as  high  as

$8.  Jamaicas  range  about  $2.25.  Bana­
nas  are  steady  and  without  change.

Little  change  has  taken  place  in  the 
■ butter  market.  Tbe  demand 
is  slow 
and  ccnfined  to  the  better grades.  Best 
Western  is worth  25c,  and  it  must  be  the 
very  highest  quality 
to  bring  this. 
Lower  grades  seem  to  be  in  abundant 
supply  and  at  the  moment  the  market 
tends 
in  favor  of  the  buyer.  Seconds 
creamery,  2i@24^c.  Some 
to  firsts, 
held  stock  is  working  out  well  at  about 
Imitation  creamery,  i 8@20c ;  fac­
24c. 
tory,  June  make,  I7@i8^c;  seconds  to 
firsts,  17@ i 8c.

Only  a  moderate  demand  prevails  in 
cheese  and  quotations  show 
little,  if 
any,  change.  New York State  full  cream 
is  quotable  at  I2js@i2j£c.
The  supply  of  eggs,  which  will  hard­
ly  come  up  to  the  required  standard,  is 
large  and  keeps  accumulating. 
The 
weather  is  too  warm  for  eggs  to 
long 
retain  freshness  if  exposed.  Prices  for 
tbe  best  are  about  unchanged,  ranging 
from  23j£c  for fair  to  good  to  25c  for 
fresh  gathered  Western,  loss  off.  At 
mark,  the  range  is  from  I9@24C,  as  to 
quality,  an  average  being  about  22c.

She  Was  a  Good  Manager.

such 

It  was  admitted  that  tbe  woman  was 
truly  a  remarkable  one.  She  succeeded 
living  far  better  than  would  seem  to 
in 
be  possible  on  her  husband's  income.

“ But  how  does  she  do  it?”   asked  the 
ignorant  one.
“ She’s 
a  good  manager," 
answered  tbe  knowing  one.
“ Knows  bow  to  make  a  little  go  a 
long  way,  I  suppose?”
‘  Well,  not  exactly 
that,  but  she 
knows  how  to  make him provide proper­
ly  for  the  family.  You  see,  she  spends 
the  money  he  gives  her  for  luxuries,  so 
he  just  has  to  provide  the  necessities  in 
addition. 
There’s  always  something 
needed,  and  she’s  broke,  so  that  forces 
him  to  scrape  up  some  more  cash. 
In 
that  way  they  manage to live really well. 
Ob,  she’s  a  wonderful  manager!  Not 
one 
in  a  thousand  could  do  as  well  on 
his  income  as  she  has  done."

“ And  the  result?”
“ Ob,  I  believe  something  has  been 
said  about  his  being  forced  into  bank­
ruptcy  next  week,  but  she  has  managed 
splendidly,  don’t  you  think?"
Sm art Scheme Spoiled.

A  restaurant  keeper  at  Washington 
advertised  to  furnish  his  customers  with 
“ a  new  issue  of  four  dollar  notes."  He 
kept  his  word  by  supplying  those  who 
applied  for  them  and  bad  tbe  equiva­
lent with  four  new one  dollar  bills  uncut 
on  one  sheet.  The  Treasury  Depart­
ment  did  net 
look  with  favor  on  this 
method  of  advertising  and  issued  an 
order  forbidding  tbe  further  issue  of 
bills  in  an  uncut  form  to  any  one.

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C e r e s o t a

is the most  reliable  bread  flour  in 
the  United  States.  It  is  as  near 
absolute uniformity as flour can be 
made.  Our  change  from  old  to 
new wheat  is  so  gradual  and  be­
gins  so  late 
in  the  season  that 
users  of  CERESOTA  never  have 
trouble from this source.

Northwestern Consolidated 
Milling Co.,

Minneapolis, Minn.

Olney &. Judson Grocer Co.,

Distributors for 
Western Michigan

■

Beans

The bean market Is very active.  I can handle all you can  ship  me.  Will  pay  highest  price. 

Write or telephone me for prices and particulars.

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

_______________ 

Both P h o n es 1300

10,000  Barrels  of  Apples  Wanted

For storage.  Write to

R.  Hirt, Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.
S E E D S

Clover  and  Timothy— all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds. 

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

2 6 - 2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   O TTA W A   S T .

SEND  YOUR

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

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

55  CADILLAC  SQUARE

DETROIT.  MICHIGAN

GEO.  N.  HUFF  & CO.

POTATOES

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

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Long  Distance  Telephones—Citizens  2417 
Bell  Main  66 

304  &  305  Clark  Building,

Opposite  Union  Depot

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.

NEW  CROP  TIMOTHY

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

Clover,  Alsyke,  Beans,  Pop  Corn

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

EGGS  WANTED

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

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

Butter

We can handle all you send  us.

WHEELOCK  PRODUCE  CO.

106  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Citizens Phone 3333.

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Clerks’  Corner.

Tightening the  Loosened  Screw. 

Written for the Tradesman.

Pretty,  neat,  thrifty,  charming 

little 
Mrs.  Robert  Adair  was  getting  tired  of 
being  told  that  the  expenses  were  larger 
than  the  income  warranted  and  “ they”  
must  retrench.  Retrench!! 
She  had 
been  at  it  now  for a  good  many  months 
to  be  told  every  time  there  was  a  new 
moon  that  there  had  been  too  great  an 
outlay.  Patience  had  ceased  to  be  a 
virtue  and  she  made  up  her  mind  that 
something  had  got  to  be  done  about  it. 
In  the  first,  place  to  be  absolutely  sure 
that  the  household  expenses  were  not 
the  weak  spot  in  her  management,  she 
in  September  to  economize. 
began 
Breakfast,  dinner,  supper  were 
looked 
after  with  the  eye  of  a  record-breaker, 
and  that  Sunday  dinner  was  reduced  to 
just  a  simple  affair  that  Monday  ought 
to  be  ashamed  of, and  for  that  very  Sep­
tember  with  a  dubious  shake  of  the 
head  there  was  a  good  deal  of  wonder­
ing  why  the  house  expenses  could not be 
brought  down  to  where  they  belonged.
That  made  Kate  Ridgewood  Adair’s 
eyes  snap.  The  expected  “ talk”   bad 
come  and  she  was  fully  prepared  for  it. 
Her  house  was  not  so  extensive  as  to 
prevent  her  from  giving  a  side  glance 
now  and  then  to  the  prop  that  sustaineo 
that  house  and  such  glances  had  fur 
nished  her  with  a  great  deal  of  comfort. 
With  her  front  doorstep  carefully  looked 
after  she  was  in  a  position  to  watch  the 
back  doorstep  of  the  busy  grocery  es­
tablishment  that  belonged  to  her  adored 
“ Robin,”   as  she  liked  to  call  him,  and 
she  did  not  hesitate  to  make  a  note  of 
what  she  saw.

There  was  to  her  watchful  eyes  even 
in that  one  month  of  watchfulness  a  fact 
that  surprised  her—a  perceptible  drop­
ping  off  of  trade  and,  what  provoked 
her,  an  utter  unconsciousness  of  the 
real  condition  of  things  on  the  part  of 
the  manager.  A  little  reflection  taught 
her  why.  Because  Robert 
liked  that 
second  clerk,  Bent  Boltwood,  he  could 
not  see  that  he  was  the  Jonah  that  had 
got  to  be  thrown  overboard,  if  the  Rob­
ert  Adair  house  was  to  live  and  thrive. 
That  conclusion  reached  my  lady  was 
ready  for  the  stereotyped  statement  at 
the  breakfast  table  on  the  first  Sunday 
of  October.

“ 1  guess,  deary,  that  we  shall  have  to 
get  along  after  this  without  lump  sugar 
for  our  coffee.  The  month’s  sales  are  a 
little  less  than  they  were  last  month  and 
we  may  as  well  begin  to  retrench  where 
we  can. 
I  hate  to  say  this,  but  better 
say 
it  now  than  later  on.  The  trade's 
falling  off  and  I’m  free  to  confess  I  do 
not  see  why.”

“ And  because  you  are  behind  you 
want  me  to  use  brown  sugar  with  my 
coffee! 
I  am  not  going to.  Lump  sugar 
it  has  been  and  lump  sugar  it  is  going 
to  be.  How  much  do  you  estimate  it 
cost  for  the  house  for  September?”

“ I  do  not  know. 

I  can  tell  to  a  cent 

by  looking  at  the  books.”

That  made  her  eyes  blaze.
“ I  know  without  looking.  Guess.”
“ Thirty  dollars.”
“ Twenty  dollars  and  fifteen  cents,  in­
cluding  the  meat  bill,  and  that  is  just 
as  low  as  it’s  going  to  be.  You’ll  have 
to  look  somewhere  else  for  the  trouble 
and  as  long  as  you  have  made  up  your 
mind  to  hold  me  responsible,  I  will  tell 
you  right  here,  while  I  am  drinking  my 
coffee  sweetened  with  lump  sugar,  that 
your  trouble  lies  squarely with  that  Bent 
Boltwood.  Now  if  you  are  keeping  store

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

for  that  fellow,  just  say  so  and  take  the 
consequences.  I  am  not  going  to  scrimp 
another  month  for  him. 
1  do  not  like 
him  well  enough.  Now,  I  am  going  to 
tell  you  something.

“ Your  customers  are  dropping  off  be­
cause  he  is  dirty  as  a  pig  and  as  saucy 
and  overbearing  as  he  is  dirty. 
I  do 
not  care  if  his  grandfather did help  your 
father  back  there  in  Methuselah's  time. 
It  is  not  your  affair  anyway  and  what  is 
left  unpaid  has  been  outlawed  a  good 
many  years.  Now,  if  you  feel  as  if  you 
must  keep  the  fellow,  keep  him,  but 
make  him  know  his  place  and  introduce 
him  to  a  bathtub.  That  done—and  you 
had  better  see  to  it  to-day,  ‘ the  better 
the  day  the  better  the  deed’—take  him 
around  to  a  tailor  the  first  thing  in  the 
insist  on  his  ordering  a 
morning  and 
thirty-five  dollar  suit. 
It  will  almost 
break  the  stingy  thing’s  heart,  but  1 
have  got  to  that  pass  where  I  had 
rather  do  that  than  use  brown  sugar  for 
my  coffee.

“ You  need  not  put  on  that look,  Rob, 
I  know  what  I  am  talking  about.  I  have 
been 
looking  after  your affairs  for  the 
past  month  exactly  as  you  have  been 
looking  after  mine, with  the same result: 
you  have  got  to  take  care  of  your Jonah, 
as  1  would  if  I  had  found  him,  as  you 
were  going  to  make  me  when  you 
thought you had found him  in my pantry.
I  saw  him  go  from  the  mackerel  barrel 
with  his  hands  dripping  with  the  brine 
and  measure  out  a  peck  of  apples  for 
the  Hemingways’  desert.  His  bands  to 
-tart  with  were  black  with  handling  po­
tatoes  and  his  finger  nails  were  filthy 
with  the  accumulations  of  the  ages.  He 
had  on  a  shirt  that  had  not  seen  the 
laundry  for  a 
is  what 
he  said,  anyhow—he  wore  no  collar  nor 
necktie  and  bis  overalls  were  not  only 
a  sight  to  behold,  but  they  bad  the 
fragrance  of  a  glue  factory.

fortnight—that 

“ When  I  was 

in  there— it  was  two 
weeks  ago  last  Tuesday  at  exactly  half 
past  ten  in  the  morning,  for  I  looked  at 
my  watch  and  put  it  down— Mrs.  Wil­
lard  Curtis,  whose  custom 
is,  as  you 
say,  worth  a  good  deal  to  you,  came 
in to  leave  her order  and  he  was  so  rude 
to  her  that  she 
left  before  she  had 
reached  the  end  of  it  and  drove  over  to 
Armstrong  &  Bassett's.  Of  course  that 
did  not  exactly  suit  his  imperial  high­
ness,  and  poor  little  Mrs.  Sutton,  who 
ventured  to  asked  the  price  of  some 
peaches,  was  gruffly  told  to  stand  aside 
until  he  had  time  to  wait  on  her.”

“ I  have  not  seen  anything  like  that 

in  Bent.  He— ”

“ Of  course  you  have  not.  You  have 
been  too  busy  with 
looking  after  the 
bouse  expenses,  and  I  am  getting  tired 
of  it.  Now,  Rob,  I  am  perfectly  will­
ing  to  use  brown  sugar and  go  without 
meat  and  a  good  many  other  things 
if 
it  is  a  necessity,  but  I  am  not  going  to 
do  it  for  the  sake  of  letting  Bent  Bolt- 
wood  make  a  sty  of  the  store  and  bank­
rupt  the  business.”

The  decision  having  thus been handed 
down,  the judge—she  never  looked  pret­
tier 
in  her  life—with  dignified  com­
posure  and  slightly elevated chin  leaned 
forward  a 
little,  ready  for  any  reply 
that  might  be  forthcoming.

“ I  hate  to  lose  Bent.  He  is  honest 
and  he 
is  faithful.  He  will  work  all 
night  if  we  want  him  to  and  he  is  not 
asking  to  be  let  off  every  other  day.  He 
is  pretty  careless  about  his  looks  and  I 
suppose  he  does  answer  up  pretty  short 
when  things  do  net  go  right—all  of  us 
do—but  if  be  is  as  bad  as  you  say he  is, 
that 
is  enough.  How  would  it  work  to 
let  him  see  just  how  things  stand  and

then  ship  him 
if  he  does  not  come  to 
time?  I’ll  tell you,Kate,you  talk to him. 
Let’s  have  him  to  dinner to-day  and 
jyou  just  give  it  to  him.  You  can  do  it 
in  your  way,  you  know,  and  he  can  not 
get  mad.  What  do you  say? I  will  phone 
right  over now— shall  I?”

He  did ;  and  after  a  dinner  that  only 
a  genius  can  put  on,  the  whole  matter 
was  gone  over  and  settled  easily  and 
pleasantly.  To  repeat  it  would  be  tire­
some.  A  few 
leading  points  only  can 
be  here  stated:

“ You  see,  Bent,  you  are  wrong 

in 
thinking  that 
it  makes  no  difference 
what  a  clerk  wears  or  bow  he  looks. 
Well  dressed  men  does  not  mean extrav­
agantly  dressed,  but  it  means  well-fit­
ting  garments,  clean 
linen,  polished 
footwear,  well-kept 
finger  nails  and 
clean  bands  and  face.  Customers  do  not 
care  to  be  waited  on  by  a  clerk  whose 
collar  is  doing  overtime  duty  and  who 
has  the  necktie  trying  to  crawl  over  the 
top  of  it.  They  do  not  like to see shabby 
and  dusty  clothes  behind  the  counter 
and  a  face  that  has  not  been  shaved  for 
four  days,  even  in  a  grocery.  Poverty 
is  no  disgrace  and  objections  will  not 
be  made  because  the  salesman  does  not 
wear  a  high-priced  made-to-order  suit 
when  he  can  only  afford  a  twelve-dollar 
ready  made,  provided  the  latter  fits  and 
is  carefully  brushed;  and  then  a  clerk 
so  dressed  must  live  up  to  his  clothes. 
That 
I  think  you 
two  can  manage  the  rest  without  help 
from  m e."

is  all  there  is  to  it. 

A  sentence  takes  care  of  what  fol­
lowed :  Bent  Boltwood  was  not  dis­
charged. 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

A  strong  man  is  weak 

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Dnited Connorcisl Tratelers of Michigan 

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Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d all,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edhlman, Saginaw.

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Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

HOSTILE GROCERS.

F irst and  Last  A ttem pt  to  Organize  an 

Association.

Your  uncle is  done  Hying to  do  things 

for  the  benefit  of  suffering  humanity.

As  a  philanthropist  1  am  a  dismal 

failure  and  I  own  up  to  it.

1 

have  been  spending  some  few  days 

in  a  little  town  not  far  from  Pittsburg, 
Pa.  It  is  not  a  large  place,  but  pretty, 
and  I  stayed  on  there  perhaps  longer 
than  1  needed  to  have  done.

In  this  place  there  are  thirteen  gro­
cers—if  I  had  had  any  brains  I  would 
have  known  that  that  was  an  unlucky 
number.  There  had  never  been  an  asso­
ciation  there  and  never  any  attempt  to 
form  one,  so  far  as  1  know.  The  trade 
is  at  sixes  and  sevens  more  than  1  have 
ever  known 
it  to  be  in  any  other town 
of  the  same  size.  The  grocers  are  hos­
tile  toward  each  other  and  fight  each 
other all  the  time.

One  day  1  was  talking  with  a  grocer 
who  is  one  of  the  best 
in  the  place. 
When  1  got  stalled  for subjects  of  con­
versation—and  you  do  get  stalled  oc­
casionally 
in  a  small  town— I  came 
around,  as  I  usually  do,  to  the  subject 
of  associations.

“ You  fellows  make  a  big  mistake," 
I  said,  “ in  not  having  an  association 
here.  Why,  you  could  get  the  whole 
thirteen 
in  easy  and  have  all  the  trade 
of  the  place  tied  up  at  your  own  prices 
as  tight  as  a  string."

“ It  wouldn't  work,"  he  said.
“ Why  not?"
“ Well,  because  our  boys  here  hate 
each  other  too  much. 
I  don’t  believe 
in carrying feuds that  way,  so  1  am  will­
ing  enough  to  speak  to  them  all,  but  1 
can  count  six  right  now  who  won’t 
speak  to  me  at  a ll."

“ That 

is  just  the  reason  you  want  an 
association,"  I  said,  “ to get you fellows 
together  and  stop  this  childish  squab­
bling."

Why  didn't  I  have  brains  enough  to 
keep  my  mouth  out  of  what  didn’t  con­
cern  me?

“ Well,”   said  the  grocer,  half  in  joke 
and  half  in  earnest,  “ you  go  ahead  and 
get  up  an  association. 
I  will  stand  by 
it  and  do  anything  you  say."

Just  here 

is  where  I  ought  to  have 
lilted  my  bat  politely  and  said,  “ Good 
morning." 
Instead  of  that,  my  old 
tobacco  heart  burned  with  zeal  for  my 
fellow-creature  and  I  went  out  and  be­
gan  to  hustle  to  give  an  association  to 
thirteen  unlucky  grocers  who  did  nut 
want  any.

Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short,  after 
an  enormous  amount  of  persuasion,  I 
in  getting  the  whole  thirteen 
succeeded 
grocers  to  agree  to  attend  a  meeting 
in 
the  G.  A.  R.  rooms  that  night.  By  the 
time  I  got  through  I  was  wringing  wet 
with  good  perspiration  that  I  would 
have  saved  if  I  had  not  been  a  fool.

When  evening  came,  I  was  there early 
with  my  four  hairs  all  combed  and  a 
clean*  collar  on  that  I  had  bought  from 
the  leading  “ gents’  furnisher."

Who  said  rubber?
The  thirteen  grocers  were  true  to their

word and trooped in one by  one  a  shame­
faced 
lot,  each  one  practically  alone, 
so  far  as  hobnobbing  with  his  fellows 
was concerned.

Eight  o'clock  came  and  it  seemed  to 
be  up  to  me,  so  I  arose  and  walked 
gracefully  to  the  front  of  the  hall.

I  wish  I  bad  space  here  to  reproduce 
my  speech  of  welcome.  At  the  begin­
ning  I  thrust  my  hand  into  the  front  of 
my  coat—a  habit  that  I  got  from  Web­
ster. 
I  tried  to  take  it  out  after  a  little 
while  to  make  a  gesture,  but  found  it 
was  stuck,  so  I  had  to  stand like  a  cigar 
store  Indian  during  the  whole oration.

I  settled  several  grave  national  ques­
tions,  got  the  coal  strike  out  of  the  way 
without  the  slightest  difficulty,  and  pre­
dicted  in  glowing  language  a  bright  fu­
local association.
ture  for the  new  little 
Then  I  called  for  nominations  for 
temporary 
chairman  and  not  a  soul 
said  a  thing.  Finally,  I  had  to  call  on 
the  grocer  who  had  put  me  up  to  the 
thing.  He  took  the  chair,  “ thanking 
you,  gentlemen,  for  the  honor"  that  bad 
not  been  conferred.

Well,  to  make  a  long story short,  I saw 
that  I  was  up  against  it.  The  thirteen 
all  had  grudges  neatly  buttoned  under 
their  coats,  and  were  only  waiting  half 
a  chance  to  bring  them  out.  Nobody 
took  any  interest  anything— I  did  it  all, 
and  I  wished  I  was  at  home  with  my 
wife  a  hundred  times.

I  can  browbeat  my  wife.
There  was  no  open  outbreak  until  1 
nominated  a  certain  grocer  for  Presi­
dent.  Then  one  fellow  grunted  derisive­
ly  and  the  nominee  got  red  and  huffy. 
When  the  vote  came,  several  men  re­
fused  to  vote.  The  nominee  got  up  and 
said  rather tartly  that  he  did  net believe 
in  “ carrying  the fighting into a meeting, 
as  he  understood  he  was  coming  here 
to  make  peace. 
If  anybody -objected  to 
him  as  President,  he  would  withdraw, 
but  he  guessed  his  record was as clean 
as  any  of  them,  and,  anyway,  he  had 
never  once  cut  goods  below  cost,  which 
some  of  those  present  were  fools  enough 
to  do.”

At  this  there  was  a  derisive  bowl from 
six  or  eight  and  I  tiptoed  my  way  to 
one  side.satdown  and  waited  for  things 
to  be  doing.  I  knew  that  the  ball  would 
roll  then  without  your  uncle.

And  it  did.
One  young  grocer  arose. 

“ What  that 
man  says  ain't  so,"  he  said. 
“ He  has 
cut  goods  below  cost,  just  to  spoil  my 
business!  My  store  is  just  opposite  bis 
and  I  know  what  I  am  talking  about." 
Then  he  turned  directly  to  the  nominee 
for  President.

“ How  about  So-and-so,  and  So-and- 
so,  and So-and-so?" he went on,referring 
to certain  brands  of  goods,  and  getting 
madder  every  minute.

Well, 

that  was  the  electric  button 
that  opened  the  exposition.  They  were 
all  on  their  feet,  some  throwing  charges 
into the  others'  teeth,  others  doing  their 
best  to  smooth  things  over. 
It  was  a 
regular  political  convention.

I  sat  back,  an 

interested  spectator, 
wondering  how  under  heaven  I  was ever 
fool  enough  to  get  into  a  scrape  like 
that.

Every  minute  I  expected  the  animals 
to  turn  and  rend me, as the cause of their 
getting  together.

And  I  had  mentioned  the  “ brilliant 

future  of  the  local  association!"

The  hubbub  kept  getting  worse,  and 

finally  I  got  mad.

“ Gentlemen,"  I  said,  “ this  is a  most 
disgraceful  scene.  You  have  a  right to 
be  enemies  to  each  other,  if  you  like,  in 
your  business,  but  you  have  no  right  to

carry  the  thing 
into  a  public  meeting 
that  was  called  to  make  peace—to  or­
ganize  an  association  that  would  be  to 
the  benefit  of  all  of  you. 
I  came,  a 
stranger,  to  try  to  do  this  for  you— I 
would  get  nothing  out  of  it—and  you 
show  appreciation  of  my  efforts  by turn­
ing  this  meeting  into  a  dog  fight.  I  see 
at  last  that  I  was  a  fool for ever attempt­
ing 
it  and  I  assure  you  I  will  never 
make  such  a  mistake  again.  My  ad­
vice  to  you  now  is  that  if  you  can  not 
discuss  trade 
calmly  and 
amicably 
like  gentlemen,  go  home  and 
let  me  get  out  of  town!"

problems 

Well, 1  think  that  made  them ashamed 
a 
little. 
I  have  a  severe  judicial  man­
ner  when  aroused.  They  sat  down  and 
I  concluded  that  maybe  the  thing  was 
going  to  go  after  all,  when  some  fellow 
suddenly  said:

“ I  move  we  adjourn."
Before  I  had  time  to  do  anything with 
the  motion,the  whole  caboodle  of  them 
got  up  and  slammed  out,  leaving  your 
old  fool  uncle  there  alone.

Will  I  organize  any  more  local  asso­

ciations  with  “ brilliant  futures?"

Nit  and  nit  again.—Stroller  in  Gro­

cery  World.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Traverse  City  Eagle:  Elisha  Shep­
herd  has  resigned  his  position  with  the 
Mercantile  Co.  to  become  a  traveling 
salesman 
for  the  Kelley  Lumber  & 
Shingle  Co.

Ionia  Standard:  Fred  J.  Whitney has 
joined  the  grand  army  of Knights  of  the 
Grip,  and  is  traveling  for  the  John  An- 
isfield  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  makers  of 
ladies'  cloaks.

is  understood  that  all  the  traveling 
representatives  of  the  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  will  be  employed  by  the 
Judson  Grocer  Company  with the  excep­
tion  of  Will  Ephlin.

It 

Will  Ephlin  has  transferred  himself 
from  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  to 
the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  branch  of the 
National  Grocer  Co.  He  will  cover  the 
Pentwater  branch  and  a  portion  of  the 
Holland  colony.

Marshall  Statesman :  A.  W.  Saxe,  who 
for  several  years  has  been  in  the  em­
ploy  of  the  National  Cash  Register  Co., 
as  agent  at  Saginaw,  has  been  promoted 
to  district  manager  with  headquarters 
at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Frank  A.  Califf,  who  has  covered  the 
Eastern  States  for  the  past  two  years  for 
the  Automatic  Wringer  Co.,  of  Muske­
gon,  has  engaged  to  travel  in  Wisconsin 
for  the  Spencer  Manufacturing  Co.,  of 
St.  Paul.  He  will  see  his  trade  every 
sixty  days.  He  will  make  his  head­
quarters  in  St.  Paul.

Traveling  men  call  the  attention  of 
the  Tradesman  to  the  fact  that  Parr  & 
Dewey,  liverymen  at  Plainwell,  attempt 
to  intimidate  the  merchants  of 
that 
place  by  denying  them  the  privilege  of 
purchasing  goods  of  those  traveling men 
who  do  not  patronize  their  livery.  This 
looks  like  pretty  small  business,  but 
some  liverymen  are  mighty  small  men.
Petoskey  Evening  News:  W.  L. 
Cartwright  is  once  more  in his  old  berth 
of  chief  clerk  at  the  Cushman  House. 
Mr.  Cartwright  has  been  with  the  Hotel 
Eltson,  at  Charlevoix,  for  the  past  two 
years,  and  was  last  summer  engaged 
in  business  at  that  place.  Knowing  his 
ability  from  years  of  experience,  Mr. 
Cushman  lost  no  time  in  engaging  Mr. 
Cartwright's  services,  when  be  found 
him  at  liberty.

Judson  Grocer  Company  has 
honored the traveling  fraternity  by  mak­
ing  two of  its  representatives  directors 
is  not  only  a
id  the  corporation.  This 

The 

recognition  of  the  merit  of  the  men,  but 
is  a  tacit  acknowledgment  of  the  con­
fidence  the  house  reposes  in  traveling 
men  as  a  class  and  the  dependence  it 
places  on  its  own  traveling  force  as  the 
recognized  medium  of  communication 
between  the  jobber  and  retailer.

Of  course,  Cornelius  Crawford  wit­
nessed  the  play  of  David  Harum  at 
Powers’  opera  house  last  Saturday even­
ing  and  was  naturally  most  interested 
in  the  first  act,  where  the  genial  old 
banker  and  horse  trader 
trimmed  up 
Deacon  Perkins.  Crawford  said  the 
incident  reminded  him  of the  time  back 
in  Caledonia  nearly  twenty  years  ago 
when  be  was  trimmed  by  a  deacon,  who 
sold  him  a  colt  which  had  been  par­
alyzed  by  a  stroke  of  lightning.  He 
succeeded  in  unloading  his  purchase  on 
another  deacon,  and  since  that  time 
is  no  record  of  any  swapping  of 
there 
horses 
in  which  the  traveling  pill 
pounder  did  not  come  out  first  best.
W inter E ntertainm ents  of  Grand  Rapids 

Council.

Grand Rapids,  Oct.  28—Arrangements 
have  been  perfected  for  a  series  of  par­
ties  for  the  winter,to  be  given by  Grand 
Rapids  Council,  No.  131,  and  will  con­
sist  of  ten  parties—five  dancing  and five 
card  parties.  Season  tickets  admitting 
to  all  are  now  in  the  hands  of  the  com­
mittee,  or  if  you  see  C.  P.  Reynolds,  J. 
Howard  Rutka,  J.  G.  Kolb,  J.  H.  Tay­
lor  or  Franklin  Pierce  coming  toward 
you,  be  prepared  to  hand  out  $2  for  a 
season  ticket.  That 
is  all  they  are, 
boys.  Just  think  of  all  the  fun  we  will 
have  for  our  money !  The  intention  is 
to  give  the  dancing  parties  in  the  St. 
Cecilia  hall,  commencing  Saturday 
evening,  Nov.  8,  and  one  the  second 
Saturday  in  each  month  thereafter.  On 
the  third  Saturday evening  of  the  month 
will  occur  the  pedro  parties 
in  our 
Council  rooms,  the  first  one  being  on 
Nov.  15.  Music  will  be  furnished  by 
Newell’s  orchestra. 

Ja  Dee.

It  is  sometimes  cheaper  to  buy  an  ar­
ticle  than  to  make  it,  and  it  is  often  an 
advantage  to  buy  from  a  distance  than 
to  purchase  nearer  home.  The  same 
rule  that  applies  to  individuals  also 
applies  to  nations.  It  is  more  profitable 
to  make  something  to  sell  that  will  re­
turn  a  profit,  using  the  proceeds  to  pur­
chase  articles  that  other  countries  can 
provide  at  a  lower  price  than  they  can 
be  obtained  at  home,  than  to  attempt  to 
manufacture 
it  at  a  loss.  Always  buy 
in  the  best  and  cheapest  market.

Youth  within  the  heart  is  better  than 

wealth.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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Kindness to  Children  in  the  D rug  Store.
There  are  but  few  places  of  business 
to  which  children  are  sent  by  their  par­
ents as  purchasers  more  frequently  than 
to the  drug  store.  Even  the  tiny  tot  of 
five  or  six  years  is  a  frequent  visitor  in 
behalf of  its  mamma,  and  lucky  is  the 
druggist  who appreciates the importance 
to  his  trade  of  winning  the  good  will  of 
the  little  messenger.

Children  are  very  early  capable  of 
impression  and  equally  capable  of  con­
veying 
it  to  others.  The  child  may 
think  nothing  of  the  article  you  tender 
it,  but  be  assured,  it  will  think  very 
quickly  of  the  manner  in  which  you 
do  it.  Every druggist  who  has  children 
of  his  own  will  not  have  failed  to  note 
the  remarks  his  children  have  let  drop 
about  certain  of  bis  business  neighbors, 
nor  yet can  he  disavow  a  certain  feeling 
of  sympathy  for  the  honesty  of  the 
child's  criticism.  The  child  may  be 
wrong,  but 
its  unwillingness  to  go  to  a 
designated  place  and  its  decided  pre­
ference  for another of  a  similar  charac­
ter  will 
influence  the  most  matured 
judgment  more  than  might  readily  be 
admitted.

symptoms  of  catarrh,  to  arrest  hay 
fever,  to  heal  nasal  ulcers,  to  arrest 
ringing 
in  the  ears,  and  to  improve 
Btates  of  deafness,  depending  upon 
thickening  of  the  lining  of  the  eustach- 
aian  tubes.  Juniper  pomade softens  the 
scaly  patches  on  the  face  which  are 
often  epitheliomatous.  It  has proved  an 
excellent  dressing  for  tetter of  the  edges 
of  the  eyelids,  which  leads  to  wild  hairs 
and 
induration  of  the  tarsal  borders. 
The  pomade  is  reliable  in  tbe  treatment 
of  sore  nipples  in  nursing  women ;  and 
it  will  cure  chapped  bands.  The  phys­
ical  properties  of  the  agent  are  as  ele- 
•gant  as  are  those  of  cold  cream,  and  its 
curative  properties  superior  to  any  offi­
cial  preparation  of  the  kind.  The  for­
mula  for  juniper  pomade  is  as  follows:
Lard,  dehydrated..........................   6  ozs.
Paraffine.........................................  5  drs.
White  wax.....................................   1  dr.
Oil  juniper  berries.......................  3  drs.
Fowler’s solution  .........................  3  drs.
Melt  the  paraffine  and  the  wax  first, 
gradually  adding  the  lard.  Lastly  add 
the  oil  and  Fowler’s  solution,vigorously 
mixing  with  an  egg  beater.

Silvering  Fluid.

Children  represent  tbe-bome  of  their 
parents  in  your  place  of  business  and 
the  readiness  with  which  this  is  recog­
nized  and  the  kindness  by  which  it  is 
manifested  will  prove  the  tactful  fore­
sight  of  which  you  are  posessed  more 
than  anything  else  could.  The  writer 
has known  more  than  one instance where 
the  success  of  the  druggist  was  deter­
mined  by  bis  geniality  to  young  and 
old  alike  to  such  a  degree  as  to  retain 
the  trade  of  families  through  two  and 
three  generations.  A  druggist  who  will 
chase  a  child  harshly  from  bis  door  be­
cause 
it  asks  him  for  a  calendar or 
almanac  should  not  forget  that  the  pas­
sage  of  a  few  years  may  make  him  for­
get  the  child,  but it  will  not be  so  apt  to 
make  the  child  forget  him  or  his  surly 
rebuff.  Kindness  and  civility  are  never 
lost  on  children  and  to the  business  man 
they  will  enable  him  to  reap  an  interest 
on  bis  mannerly 
investment  that  will 
repay  him  a  thousand  fold.  Never  neg­
lect  a  child  or  its  claims,  for  be  assured 
it  may 
live  to  neglect  you  and  your 
aims.

A  Cooling  Cream.

The  following  may  be  used  for  reno­

vating  plated  ware:
Argent,  nit...................................   %,  oz.
Sodii  chlor...................................   K  oz.
Potass,  cyan id e.........................  
1  oz.
A qua..............................................   q.  s.
Dissolve  the  silver  nitrate in a  pint  of 
water,  and  add  the  salt  dissolved  in  an 
ounce  of  water.  Collect  the  precipitate, 
and  place  with  the  potassium  cyanide 
in  a  mortar,  and  add  enough  water  to 
make  a 
chalk, 
moistened  with  tbe  fluid,  is  rubbed  on 
the  part  which  it  is  desired  to  replate.

Prepared 

solution. 

Grippe  Cough.

This  prescription  has  been  found 
useful  to  mitigate  the cough accompany­
ing  attacks of  grippe:
Heroin........................................   i^ g rs .
Ammonium  chloride................ 
2  drs.
Syrup  ta r .................................  
2  ozs.
2  ozs.
Syrup  tolu.................................. 
Syr.  wild  cuerry,  to  make.......  
5  ozs.
Two  teaspoonfuls  every  three  or  four 

hours.

Codeine sulphate (3  grs.)  may  be used 

instead  of  heroin  if  desired.

The  man  who  was  hemmed  in  by  a 
crowd  has  been  troubled with  a  stitch  in 
his  side  ever  since.

36
Drugs—Chem icals

Michigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy

Term expires
_  
Henry  Heim , Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1902
  Dec. 31,1903 
Wib t  P.  Doty, Detroit.
.
Claren ce B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. 31,1904 
John  d . Mu ir , Grand reap'd« 
Deo. 31, i9Ub 
Arthur h . Webber, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906

- 
.

President,  Henry  Heim , Saginaw.
Secretary, John D.  Mu ir, 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  Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F.  Hu be r, Port Huron.

Mr.  Todd’s  Explanation  of  His  Pepper- 

m int  Oil Corner.

Kalamazoo,  Oct.  27—The  growing  of 
essential  oil  plants  has  not  been  remun­
erative  for  some  years  past.  Speculators 
in  New  York  and  London  have  ruined 
the  market  by  manipulations  and  adul­
terations.  The  result  has been that grow­
ing  has  been  done  at  a  loss  to  the  grow­
ers. 
It  was  to  remedy  this  condition 
and  to  protect  our  customers  that  we 
reached  out  after  the  crops  of  plants 
grown  for  essential  oils.  Although  we 
have  12,000  acres  in  our  own  farms,  we 
have  not  been  able  to  produce  enough 
to  take  care  of  our  customers.  At  the 
present  time  the  supply  is  inadequate 
to  fill  the  demand.  This  is  due  to  the 
increasing demand  for  essential  oils  and 
the  fact  that  the  crop  of  this  year  is  not 
so  large  as 
in  years  past.  The  crop 
will  be only half  of the  usual  crop.  This 
is  due 
largely  to  the  excessive  rains, 
which  have  cut  down  the  production. 
As  to  the  demand  for  essential  oils—an 
idea  of  the  trade  may  be  gained  from 
the  fact  that  these  oils  enter  into  the 
manufacture  of  various  pharmaceutical 
articles,  confectionery,  gum,  toilet  wat­
ers  and  perfumes,  extracts,  etc.

Michigan  produces  about  75  per cent, 
of  the  total  crop  of the world,  and  Mich- 
igan  has  been  bard  hit.  At  Decatur, 
where  130,000  pounds  were  produced  in 
1896  only  19,000  were  produced  this 
year  about  one-seventh  of  the former 
crop. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  over 
90  per  cent,  of  the  genuine  oil  of  pep­
permint  of  the  world  is  grown  within  a 
radius  of  seventy-five  miles  of  Kalama­
zoo,and  Kalamazoo  may fairly  be  called 
the  center  of  the  essential oil industry  of 
the  world. 
Formerly  Wayne  countv, 
New  York  was  the  peppermint  center  of 
the  world,  but  the  product  for  this  year 
was  only  1,000  pounds,  so  that  this  in­
dustry 
in  New  York  has  practically 
passed  into  history.

The  price  of  peppermint  oil is  now  $5 
a  pound.  It  was  $2.50 a  pound  a  month 
ago.  This  advance  is  due  to  the  causes 
I  have  before  indicated.  Not  only  is  the 
crop  largely  decreased  this  year,  but  all 
the  surplus  of  past  seasons  has  been 
used  up.  By  securing  the  crop  as  we 
have  we  shall  not  only  be  able  to  put 
the  business  on  a  basis  that  will  make 
a  profit for  the  grower,  but  we  shall  also 
be  able  the  better  to  protect  our custom­
ers.  There  have  been  a  large  number 
of  adulterations  of  essential  oils  in  the 
past ;  and  the  present  conditions  would 
increase  the  cupidity  of  thé manufactur­
ers  who  adulterate  these  oils.  But  bav- 
ing  practically  secured  the  crop  of  the 
world,  as  we  have,  we  shall  be  able  to 
prevent  this.  Our oils  are  guaranteed 
to  be  absolutely  pure  and  the  result  will 
be  a  direct  benefit  to  the  trade  as  only 
pure  oils  will  be  sold.  How  much  is 
the  value  of  the  crop?  Well,  i  would 
not  exactly  care  to  give  out  those  fig­
ures.  But  the  value  of  the  Michigan 
crop  may  be  obtained  from  the  fact  that 
the  product  for  Michigan  will  be  about 
125,000  pounds,  and  as  this  is  the  bulk 
of  the  crop  of  the  world  some  idea  can 
be  obtained. 

a .  M.  Todd.

The  D rag  M arket.
Opium— Is  dull  and  easy.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  unchanged.
Bromides  Potassium,  Sodium  and 
Ammonium-Have  further declined  and 
tending  lower.

Cocaine— Is  very  firm  on  account  of 

bigber  prices  for  crude.

Rosin— Has  advanced  35c  per  barrel.
Cod  Liver  Oil,  Norwegian—Has ad­
is tending 

vanced  $5  per  barrel  and 
higher.

Ichtbyol— Has  advanced  on  account 

of  increased  tariff.

Menthol—Advanced  nearly  every  day 
last  week  on  account  of  scarcity  and 
higher  prices  abroad.

Santonine— Has  advanced  on  account 

of  higher  prices  for crude  material.

Select  Elm  Bark—There  is  very  little 
to  be  had,  and  prices  are  again  ad­
vanced  and  tending  higher.

Juniper  Berries—Are tending lower  on 

account  of  arrival  of  new  crop.

Oil  Anise— Is  very  firm  and  tending 

higher.

Oil  Peppermint— It 

is  stated  that 90 
per  cent,  of the  new  crop 
is  controlled 
in  Michigan.  Prices  have  advanced  100 
per  cent.

Oil  Cassia— Is 

firm  and  tending 

higher.

Oil  Spearmint—Crop 

is  very  smail 
and,  like  peppermint,  has  more  than 
doubled  in  price.

Oil  Tansy— Is  another oil  that  is  very 

scarce  and  prices  have  doubled.

Oil  Wormwood—The  same  may  be 
said  of  this  oil  as  of  peppermint  and 
spearmint.  Stocks  will  be  small  and 
high  prices  rule.

Oil  Wintergreen— Has  been materially 
advanced  for  the  same  reason,  small 
stocks.

Senega  Root—New  crops  are  coming 
into  the  market  and  prices  are  a  little 
lower.

Blood  Root—Is  scarce  and  advanc­

ing.

Linseed  Oil— Has  declined,  but  as 
in  the  price  of 

improvement 

is 

there 
seed  it  is  very  firm.

Carbolic  Acid  and  Suicides.

The  officers  of  the  Retail  Druggists’ 
Association  of  St.  Louis  recently  held  a 
meeting  and  decided  to  call  the  atten­
tion  of  all  members  to  the  importance 
of  using  extraordinary  precautions  in 
making  sales  of  carbolic  acid,  as  a  reg­
ular  epidemic  of  suicides  by  use  of  this 
poison  has  prevailed  in  this  city  for  the 
past  six  months,  more  than  thirty  cases 
of  attempted  suicide  by  its  use  having 
been  reported  in  a  single  month.

With  a  majority  of  the  members  of 
the  Association  the  officers’  appeal  was 
quite  unnecessary,  for  the  druggists  had 
already  taken  action  and  were  refusing 
to  sell  the  poison  without  a  prescription 
or  written  order  from  a  physician  to  de 
so.  The  city  Board  of  Health  is  of  the 
opinion  that  the  refusal  of  the  druggists 
to  supply  carbolic  acid  other  than  upon 
prescription  has  had  much  to  do in less­
ening  the number of  suicides,as  but  few 
cases  have  been  reported  since the drug­
gists  took  this  action.

Ean  de  C'ananga.

The  Seifenfabrikant  gives  the  follow­
ing  formula  for  this  pleasant  perfume :
Oil  cinnamon...............................  1  nart
Oil  nutmeg........................... 
1  part
Oil  cloves.....................................   2  parts
Oil cananga..................................  2  parts
Tincture  musk.............................  1  part
Tincture  styrax...........................  2  parts
Tincture  vetivert.........................  5  parts
Alcohol..................................   2,000  parts
Mix,  let  stand  for  fifteen  days,  then 
add  1,200  parts  of  water  in  which  20 
parts  of  alum  have  been  dissolved.  Mix 
by  active  agitation,  let  stand  24  hours, 
then  filter through  magnesia.

The  world's  great  work  is  done  by 

honest  hands.

1  0 z.

Quince seed.................................. 
Boric  acid...........................................   16 grs.
Starch............................................ 
1  0z.
Glycerin... ^................................   16  ozs.
Carbolic acid..............................   40  dps.
Alcohol.........................................  12  ozs.
Oil  lavender..............................   40  dps.
Oil  rose.......................................  10  dps.
Extract  white  rose...................... 
1  oz.
Water,  enough  to m ake............   64  ozs.
Dissolve  the  boric  acid  in  a  quart  of 
water  and 
in  this  macerate  the  quince 
seed  for  three  hours,  then  straining. 
Heat  together  the  starch  and  the  gly­
cerin  until  the  starch  granules  are  all 
broken,  and  mix  with  tbis  the  carbolic 
acid.  Dissolve  the  oils  and  the  extract 
of  rose 
in  the  alcohcl,  and  add  to the 
quince-seed  mucilage;  then  mix  all  to­
gether,  strain,  and  add  water  enough  to 
make  the  product  weigh  64  ounces.

Ju n ip e r  Pomade.

The  formula  of  this  preparation  was 
given to  the  profession  by  the  late  Prof. 
Howe.  Among  its  numerous  uses  it 
is 
found  to  be  a  pretty  sure  cure  for all 
forms  of  eczema  or  tetter. 
It  allays  the 
itching  and  destroys  the  vesicles  and 
scales.  The  unguent  may  be  used  on 
all  parts  of  the  body,  although  sparing­
ly  on  mucous  surfaces. 
It  is  employed 
in  the  nasal  cavities,  applied  with  a 
the
camel’s  hair  brush,  to  mitigate 

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•green, Oil Peppermint, OU Spearmint, Mehthol. 
Ide Potassium, Senega Root.

®
®

Menthol...................... y 60®  8 09 Seldlitz Mixture.......
20® 22
Morphia, 8., P. & W.
16® 2 40 Slnapls........................
© 18
© 30
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q. 2  16®  2  40 Slnapls,  opt...............
Morphia, Mai............. 2 16® 2  40 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
® 41
® 40
Moschus  Canton....
V oes ........................
® 41
86® 80 8nufl, Scotch, DeVo’i
Myrlstlca, No. l ........
® 10 Soda, Boras...............
9® 11
Nux Vomica...po. 15
9® 11
Os Sepia.....................
36® 37 Soda,  Boras, po........
26® 27
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D  Co........................
@  1  00 Soda,  Carb.................
i*@ 2
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
Soda,  Bl-Carb...........
3® 5
@ 2 00 Soda, Ash................... 3M® 4
doz............................
®  1  00 Soda, Sulphas...........
Plcls Llq.,quarts....
2
®
Plcls Llq.,  pints.......
© 2 60
® 86 Spts. Cologne.............
® 60 Spts. Ether  Co.........
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80
60® 66
® 2 00
® 18 Spts. Myrcla Dorn...
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
® 30 Spts. Vlnl Rect.  bbl.
Piper  Alba__po. 36
®
7 Spts. Vlnl Rect. *bbl
Pllx Burgun............
®
®
Plumbi Acet............
10® 12 Spts. Vlnl Rect. lOgal
©
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll 1 30® 1  60 Spts. Vlnl Rect. 5 gal
®
80® 1  06
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal...
2M@ 4
® 75 Sulphur,  Subl.........
& P. D. Co., doz...
26® 30 Sulphur, Roll........... 2M© 3*
Pyrethrum,  pv........
8® 10
Quassia-..................
8® 10 Tamarinds..............
28® 38 Terebenth  Venice...
28® 30
Quinta, 8. P. &  w...
‘8® 34 Theobromae.............
45® 60 !
Quinta, S.  German..
28® 38 Vanilla.................... 9 00® 16 00
Quinta, N. Y............
12® 14 Zlncl Sulph...............
7® 8
Rubia Tlnctorum....
20® 22
Saccharum Lactls pv
Saladn.................... 4 60® 4 75
O i l *
40® 60
Sanguis  Draconls...
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, W..................
10® 12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo M....................
® 16 Lard, No. 1..............
Sapo G....................

B B L .  G A L.
70
90
66

70
88
60

45
46
69
58

Linseed, pore raw... 
Linseed,  Dolled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str
Spirits  Turpentine..

46
47
65
63
Paints BBL. LB.
Red Venetian.........
IX  2 ® 8
IX  2 @4
Ochre, yellow  Mars.
Gehre, yellow Ber...
IX  2 ©3
Putty,  commercial.. 
2M  2H®3 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
2tt  2X®3
Vermilion,  P r i m e
13® 15
American............
70® 76
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris........... 14*®  18*
Green, Peninsular...
16
13®
3  @ 8 *
Lead, red................
6  ® 6 *
Lead,  white............
Whiting, white Span
90
©
@ 95
Whiting, gliders’__
White, Paris, Amer.
®   1  26
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
©  1  40
cliff.......................
Universal Prepared. 1  10®  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  l  10®  1  20
Extra Turn..............  1 60®  1  70
Coach Body,...........  2 75® 8 00
No. 1 Turp Fura......1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  79

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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.

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Radix

Miscellaneo us 

som» co...........
Tolu tan.............
Prunus  vlrg......

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

31-Carb....................  16®  18
bichromate............   13® 
is
bromide.................  46®  60
3arb....................... 
12® 
is
Chlorate... po.i7®l9  16®  18
Cyanide...................  34®  38
Iodide..........................  2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potass Nltras, opt... 
io
7® 
Potass  Nltras.........  
6® 
8
Prusslate.................  23®  26
Sulphate po............  
ie®  18

60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
75
6075
75
1 00 50 
60 
60 
60 50 50 
50 
50 50 
85 
50 
6o 
60 
6o 
50 
75
75 
So 
50 
50 
Bo
76 
50
t Bo 
Bo 
BO 
Bo 
®0 
Bo 
Bo 
«0 
»0 
BO 
20
30®  85

ionium Mao............  80®  90
iopalba..................   l in® l 25
iubebse..................   l  30®  l  35
txechthltos............   l  50® l  60
trlgeron.................  l  oo®  l  10
laultherla..............  2 20® 2 3D
ieranlum, ounce.... 
®  75
losslppii, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
ledeoma.................  l 80® l  85
lunlpera.................  l SO® 2 oo
¿avendula..............  90® 2 oo
Jmonls..................   l  is®  i  25
dentha Piper.........   5 60® 6 O'
dentha Verld......... & oo® 6 60
Idorrhuse, £ al......... 2 oo® 2  io
dyrcla....................  4 00® 4  60
Hive.......................  75® 3 00
*lc!a Llqulda........... 
io®  12
®  36
riels Llqulda,  gal... 
rtlclna.....................   92®  98
iosmarlnl...............  
©  l  oo
iosae, ounce............   6 50® 7 oo
lucclnt....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  l  oo
Santal..........................  2 75® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
®  66
nglfl.......................  1  60®  l  60
rhyme.....................   40®  60
rhyme, opt.............. 
® l  60
rheobromas........... 
16®  20
Potassium

Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes .......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
A m ica....................
Assafetida..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantha rides............
Capsicum ••..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co..........
Castor.....................
Catechu!..................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Aoutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chlorldum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaoa ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opll.........................
Opll, comp hora ted..
Opti, deodorized......
Quassia..................
Rhel........................
Aconltum.................  20®  26
Sangulnarla...........
Althae...................... 
ao®  33
Serpentaria............
Anchusa................. 
to® 
12
Stromonlum............   *
Arum  po................. 
®  26
Tolutan..................
Calamus...................  200
Valerian.................
12®  15
Genttana........po. 16 
Veratrum  Verlde...
Glyohrrhlza...pv.  15  16®  18
Zingiber..................
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  16
Aither, Spts. Nit. ? F 
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Ipecac, po............... 2 76® 2 80
Aiumen.............  
  2M®
Iris  plox...po. 36®38  36®  40
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Jalapa. pr...............  
26®  30
Annatto...................   40®
Maranta,  Ms........... 
®  36
Antimoni, po........... 
4®
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
40®
Antimoni et Potass T 
Rhei.........................  76®  1  00
Antipyrin...............
Rhel, cut.................
AillUDUIlH.........
Rhel, pv..................
42
76®  1 36
Argent! Nltras, oz...
Splgella...................
36® 38 Arsenicum..............
10® 12
Sangulnarla... po.  16
46® 60
® 18 Balm Gilead  Buds..
60® 66 Bismuth S. N........... 1  66®  1  70
Senega ....................
9
75® 80 Calcium Chlor., is...
®
® 10
Smllax, officinalis H.
® 40 Calcium Chlor., Ms..
Smllax, M...............
@ 12
® 25 Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
10® 12 Cantharides, Rus.po
® 80
Scillae............ po.  36
® l5
Symplocarpus.Foetl-
Capsid Fructus, af..
dus,  po......... .......
® 15
® 26 Capslcl  Fructus, po.
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
® 15
® 26 Capslci Fructus B, po
12® 14
16® 20 Caryophyllus.. po. 15
Valeriana,  German.
14® 16 Carmine, No. 4Ô......
@ 3 00
25® 27 Cera Alba..............
56® 60
40® 42
Cera  Flava..............
Semen
® 40
Coccus  ....................
Anlsum.........po.  18
@ 36
® 16 Cassia Fructus........
Aplum (graveleons).
13® 16 Contraria.................
® 10
Bird, is....................
4® 6 Cetaceum.................
® 46
55® 60
10® 11 Chloroform............
_
Carni............po.  15 
Cardamon...............   l  26®  1  75
Chloroform, squibbs 
®  l  10 
8®  10
Corlandrum.............  
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  35®  1  60
Cannabis 8atlva...... 
5®  6
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cydonium...............   76®  l  oo
Clnchonldlne.P. & W  38®  48
Clnchonldlne, Germ.  38®  48
Cnenopodlum.........  
15®  16
Dlptenx Odorate__  l  00®  1  io
Cocaine..................   4 06® 4 v5
io
Foenlculum.............. 
® 
75 
Corks, llst.dls.pr.ct.
a
45 
9
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
Creosotum...............
L ini.........................  4  ® 
6
Creta............bbl. 75
6
Lini, grd. .-...bbl.4 
4  ® 
Creta, prep.............. 
®
Lobelia....................  1  60®  1  66
90
Creta, precip........... 
Pharlaris Canarian..  5  @ 
6
Creta, Rubra........... 
®
8 
35
Rapa.......................  5  ® 
6
Crocus....................  30®
24 
Cudbear..................  
Slnapls  Alba........... 
®
9® 
io
Guprl Sulph............   6H®
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
li®  12
8
7®
Dextrine................. 
Spiritus
10 92 
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbers. 
®
8
®
Emery, po................ 
6
90 
E rgota.........po. 90  86®
15 
Flake  White........... 
12®
23 
Galla.......................  
®
9 
8®
Gambler................. 
60 
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
®
60 
Gelatin, French......  
36®
5 
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
70 
Less than box......
13
Glue, brown............  
11®
25
Glue,  white............   15®
26 
Glycerlna.................  17*@
Grana Paradis!........ 
®
25 56
Hum ulus.................  25®
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
1 00 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
®  90
®  1  10 
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.
®  1  20 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl
60®  60 
..’  @  i  oo  HydrargUnguentum
66®  70
IchthyoDolla, Am...
Indigo.....................  
76®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulin....................  @ 5 0
Lycopodium.............  65®  70
Macls......................  66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg I od.............. 
®  26
LlquorPotassAralnlt  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
l*  
O 
80
75® 
M an illa. g ,  F „ _  

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 oo® 2  &0 
Frumenti,  1). F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................   1  26®  l  60
Junlperls Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Junlperi8  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E__l  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  26®  2 oo
Vini Alba............... 
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
c a rria g e ^ .. 
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  Reef,  for
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.....................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhel Arom..............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Solllse...  ............

®
@  1  40
® 50
@ 50
® 50
® 60
© 50
@ 50
50® 60
© 50
a 55

®  86 

7K  Hydrargyrum

®  1  60
®  1  25

t  28® 

2 oo

25 11

2 76
2 75

8
75
17
29
45
5
1014
15
53
5
l  2040
6
8
15
14

! 25
i  0060
I  00

24
8
I  60

55
L  70
65
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
38

30
30
12
14
15
17

15
2 25
75
40
16
2
80
7

18
26
36
40
25
30
20
10

65
45
36
28
66
14
12
30
60
40
66
13
14
16
69
40
«6
36
76
60
40
3  10
46
46

1  00

1  00

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
20
20

7 Ojtifl8 26
2  20
2  6686

»  66

80
862 76
1  Id

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

Tomatoes

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.
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M. ft J. 1 lb. cans 
Excelsior. M. ft J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. ft 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 ft Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  C.  El­
liott ft Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen- 
berg ft Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros, ft  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Melsel  ft 
Goeschel.  Bay  City,  Flelbach 
Co., Toledo.

Rio

Santos

Common..............................  8
F air...................................... 9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy...................................15
Common..............................  8
F air.....................................  9
Choice.................................. 10
Fancy.................................. 13
Peaberry.............................. 11
Fair.....................................13
ninh» 
............ig

Maracaibo 

.  . 

Mexican

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

Guatem ala

Choice..................................13

Jav a

African......... ......................u
Fancy African.................... 17
O  G......................................26
P. G......................................31
Arabian..............................   31

Mocha

Package 

New York Baals.

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

Extract

CONDENSED  MILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle...... .......6 40
Crown...................................5 90
Daisy....................................4 70
Champion............................ 4 25
“ 
lolla..............................4 00
tenge.............................< 10
Dime.................................... 3 30
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid...............................  10
TIP  Top................................3 85
Nestles.................................. 25
Highland  Cream..................5 00
Charles Cream.................4 50

CRACKERS 

B utter

National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour...........................   «u
New York.........................  «*
Family.............................   g*
Salted................................ 
e*
Wolverine.................... .. 
j

5
Soda

Soda  XXX....................... 
7
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette..........................  18

Oyster

F au st.................................   7*
Farina.................................  7
Extra Farina......................   7*
Saltlne Oyster.....................  7

Sweet  Goods —Boxes

Animals..............................  10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
  8
Belle Rose..................... 
Bent’s Water.................... 
is
Cinnamon Bar.....................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake, Java............   10
Coooanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced.................... 
8
Cream Crisp.......................   10*
Cubans...............................  u *
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems, l’reeor smTl  8
Ginger  Snaps, N  B. C__  
6*
Gladiator............................  10*
Grandma Cakes................  9
Graham Crackers............  
g
Graham  Wafers...............   12
Grand Rapids  Tea........... 
ie
Honey Fingers.................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers....................  12
Lemon Snaps....................  12
Lemon Wafers.................  15
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......  
ie
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 
ie
Mary Ann.........................  8
Mixed Picnic......................  11*
Milk Biscuit........................  7*
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............   7*
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8*
Pretzels, hand  made.......   g*
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch..............   7*
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
<hur»r rv*am. XXX.........  
8
Sugar Squares.................. 
g
Sultanas............................  13
Tuttl Frutti......................   16
Vanilla Wafers................   16
Vienna Crlmn................... 
8
E. J.  Kruce ft 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.......so
Bulk In sacks.......................... 29

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

8undrled.........................  @3
Evaporated, 60lb. boxes.7@ 8

California Prunes

100-120 26 lb. boxes........  @4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4V
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5*
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5V
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6*
60 - eo 25 lb. boxes........  @ /2
40 - so 26 lb. boxes........  @ gjg
30 - 40 26 lb. boxes........ 
9
California  F ruits

*  cent less in 50 lb. oases

-   @  8*
8*

Apricots.....................
Blackberries..............
Nectarines................
Peaches..................... g  ©10
Pears...................... 
Pitted Cherries.........
PrunneUes...... . .........
Raspberries...............

9*

Citron

1  75 

Peel

Raisins

C urrants

Leghorn...................................
Corsican....................12*013
California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......  7
Imported, bulk................... e*
Citron American 10 lb. bx... 12*  
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10 lb. bx..13 
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
L. M.. Seeded, K  lb.... 
8
Sultanas, bulk.........  
jj
Sultanas, package........! I" u *
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima................. 
gu
Medium Hand Ploked.........2 60
Brown Holland............ .....2   25
241 lb. packages...................1 go
Bulk, per loolbg..,,,,,,.......2  to

Farina

Beans

7 

ADVANCED
Pork
P earl  B a rle;. 
Brazil  N ats 
Norway  H erring

Index to  Markets

By Columns

B

C

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware......
.......   15
Alab&stlne.................
........  1
Ammonia....................
........  1
Axle Grease...............
........  1
Baking Powder...........
........  1
Bath  Brick.................
.......   1
........  1
Bluing........................
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 Gam.............. ........  3
Chicory......................... ........  3
Chocolate...................... ........  3
Clothes Lines............... ........  3
Cocoa........................... ........  3
Cocoanut...................... ........  8
Cocoa Shells................ ........  3
Coffee.......................... ........  3
Condensed Milk...........
Coupon Books..............
......   15
Crackers 
Cream Tartar.
Dried  Fruits.
Farinaceous  Goods............
Fish and Oysters...................   13
Fishing Tackle....................
Flavoring Extracts..............
Fly  Paper............................
Fresh Meats........................
Fruits...................................   14
Gelatine...............................
Grain Bags.......................... .
Grains and Flour..................   7
Herbs.....................................   7
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo.....................................  7
Jelly.....................................

I
J

H

G

8

P

R

M

N
o

Lamp Burners......................   15
Lamp Chimneys...................   15
Lanterns...............................  15
Lantern  Globes....................  16
Licorice................................   7
Lye........................................
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses...............................   7
Mustard................................  7
Nuts.......................................   14
Oil Cans.................................   is
Olives....................................  7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes.....................................  7
Playing Cards.........................  8
Potash...................................  8
Provisions...............................  8
Bice...................................  8
Salad Dressing.....................   9
SaleratuB...............................  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.....................................  n
Syrups...................................  10
Table  Sauce..........................   u
...................................  U
Twine...................................   12
Vinegar.................................. 12
Washing Powder.................... 13
Wlcklng................................   13
Woodenwam.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Veait  Cake..........................   13

V
w

Y

T

 

 

DECLINED
Canned  Apples 
Saner K rau t 
Lim a  Beans

CARBON OILS 

Barrels

Eocene .......................
Perfection..................
Diamond White.........
D. S. Gasoline............
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder......................29
Engine......................... 16
Black, winter................9
Colombia, pints..................2
Columbia, Vi pints...............1

CATSUP

@11*
@10*
@10

@14*@12

@34
@22
@10*

CHEESE

CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s........, ....12*
Paraffine, es.........................9*
Paraffine, 12s....................... :o
wickln» 
17

CANNED  GOODS 

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

Blackberries

Standards...............
Beans
Baked......................  1 oo@i  so
Bed  Kidney............. 
String......................
Wax.........................

ISA

86
3  25

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

@13* 
@13 
@13 
@13 
@13* 
@'3* 

» 1 2 *  @13 @13 

@13 
14@15 
090 
@17 
13@14 
50@75 
@19

Blueberries 
9 001 standard...................
6 00
Brook  Trout

1  00 

2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb......
Little Neck. 2 lb......

1 50
Burnham’s, Vi pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20

Clam  Bouillon

Cherries

. 

. 

86

Corn

French  Peas

Gooseberries

86
2  10
3  60
2 40
1 80
2 80
1  so
2 80
18'
2 80
18^20
22@25

Bed  Standards...........l sc@i  50
White......................... 
1  50
Fair....................   ... 
80
Good................
Fancy......................  1 0 @1  20
22
Sur Extra Fine....................  
Extra  Fine..........................  
19
Fine......................................  
15
Moyen..................................  
11
Standard........................  
Hominy 
Standard  .. 
Lobster
Star, Vi lb................. 
Star, l  lb................. 
Picnic Tails.............  
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 21b........... 
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, 1 lb............. 
Tomato, 2 lb............  
Mushrooms
Hotels......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
1  55
Cove, 21b................. 
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........ 
95
Peaches
P ie..........................  
8E@  90
Yellow....................   1  36421  85
Pears
Standard.................
1  00 
Fancy.................   ...
1  25
Marrowfat..............
Early June..............
Early June  Sifted..
Plum s 
Plums......................
Pineapple

1  00 
9001  60 
1  65
85
Grated..............   1 25@2 76
Sliced.......................   1 35@2  55
P um pkin
F air......................... 
90
Good........................
1  00 
Fancy ......................
1  25
Raspberries
Standard..................
1  15
Russian  C arter
Vi lb. cans.........................   375
Vi lb, cans..............................   7 00
1 lb. can...............................   12 00
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia Blver, flats 
Red  Alaska.............. 
Pink Alaska 
......  
Shrim ps
Standard................. 
Sardines
Domestic, * s ........... 
Domestic, Vis.......... 
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, * s .........  
California Vis........... 
French, 14s.............. 
French, Vis.............. 
Standard.................  
Fanoy  ....................  

@1  65
@1  80
@1  30
@ 90
i  40
3X
6
6

11014
17@24
7014
18028
110
1  40

Straw berries

Salmon

Peas

CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce__
Beeman’s Pepsin.............
60 56 
Black Jack.......................
60 
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen.............................
66 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..
1  00 56 
Sugar Loaf.......................
Yucatan...........................
56
5
Bulk...................... 
B e d ...................................... 7
Eagle..................................... 4
Franck’s ...............................7
Schener’i .............................  6

CHICORY

 

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

German sweet....................   23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
CLEANER &  POLISHER

90

oz. box, 3 doz.. per doz.. .$1  35 
Qts  box, 2 doz., per doz ...  2 25 
Gal  box, y2 doz., per  doz..  7 50 

Samples and Circulars Free 

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

Ju te

1  20 
1  40 
1  66 
1  85
76
85
96
1 90

60 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  100
72 ft. 3 thread,  extra........  1  40
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra.......   1 70
60 ft, 6 thread,  extra.......   129
72 ft, 6 thread, extra 
60 ft................................... 
75
72 f t .................................. 
90
9C f t...................................   1  TO
120 ft..................................  1  50
Cotton  Victor
80 
50 f t ................................
f t .................................
96 
70 ft..................................
1  10
Cotton W indsor
f t .................................
f t .................................
f t .................................
f t .................................
Cotton Braided
ft...................................
ft...................................
f t ..................................
Galvanized  W ire 
No. 20, each 100 ft long....
No. 19, each 100 ft long....
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, *s  .......................   36
Colonial, * s .........................  33
Epps................. 
42
Huyler.................................  46
Van Houten, Vis..................  12
Van Houten, * s ..................  20
Van Houten, * s ..................  40
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb...............  
30
Wilbur, * s ..........................   41
Wilbur. * s ................... 
42
COCOANUT
Dunham’s * s...................   26
Dunham’s * s and * s ......   26*
Dunham’s  * s ..................   27
Dunham’s  Vis...................  28
Bulk..................................  13
COCOA  SHELLS
201b. bags...................... 
2*
3
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............  
4

2  10

COCOA

 

 

 

 

 

 

COFFEE
Roasted

Teller Coffee Co. brands

No.  9...................................  9
No. 10..................... „ .......... 10
No. 12.................................. 12*
No. 14.................................. 14

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

BAKING  POW DER 

Egg

54 lb. cans,  4doz. case.......8 75
H lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
1 lb. cans, 
1 doz. case.......3 75
5 lb. cans, *  doz. case.........8 00

J A X O N

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
Vi lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  so

Royal

lOcslze__  90
H lb. cans  1 35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
Vi  lb. cans 2 50 
X lb. cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

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

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

BREAKFAST FOOD

GEM III FLUKES

BROOMS

Cases, 36 packages.............. 4 50
Five case lots........................4 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...................  85
Fancy Whisk........................1  10
Warehouse...........................3 so

BRUSHES 

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In...............  
45
Solid Back, 11 In .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  86
go. 8.....................................  00
No. 7.....................................J  3q
NO. 4.....................................170
No. 8.....................................   go

Shoe

Stove

No. 3.....................................  76
No. 2.....................................j  10
« 0.1..................................... j  75
w ., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__   125
W., R. A Co.’s, 25c size...'.  2 00

BUTTER  COLOR

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

8
PICKLES 
Medium

, 

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count.............8 00
Half bbls, 600 count.............4 £6
Barrels, 2,400 count............ 9 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count..........6 20

PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__  1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N6. 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
Mess.......................... 
0 i7 75
Back..........................  
©an 00
Clear back...................  
0*1 59
020 75
Short cut..................... 
24 00
Pig...................  .... 
Bean............   .............  
019 00
2175
Family Mess Loin... 
Clear...........................  @20 76
D ry  Salt Meats
Bellies............................  
12
S P  Bellies................ 
Extra shorts............  

13H
12

Smoked  Meats 

0  i3H
Hams, 121b. average. 
0  13H
Hams, ltlb.average. 
0  18H
Hams, 161b. average. 
0  12%
Hams, 20 lb. average. 
Ham dried  beef......  
©  12*
0
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) 
Bacon, clear............   15  0  17
0   bh
Califomla hams......  
0   18
Boiled Hams.......... 
0  13H
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
9V40 10
Mince Hams.........  
svi®  10
Lord

Compound.................... 
Pure......................... 
601b. Tubs., advance 
801b. Tubs., advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
61b. Palls., advance 
• ”* 
.advance 
Vegetole.........................  
Sausages
Bologna 
Liver...
Frankfort
__________  
P o rk ......
P o rk ....................... 
Blood.......................
I Tongue.................... 
| Headcheese............. 

012

© 7H
H
H
H
%
%
1
1

6H

08
8 Vi 09
9
(H

Beef
I Extra Mess..............
, Boneless........................ 
! Rump, New............   @  2 25

12 28

Pigs’  Feet
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H.bblS............................. 
1 bbls.,  lbs............  

176
7  60

80
1  eo
300

26
6
12
66
012H
013V4
ish
16
a  60
18 00
2 60
60
90
60
90
SO
go

Uncolored  B utterlne

Tripe

Kits, 16  lbs.............. 
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk ....................... 
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
Solid, dairy.............. 
Rolls, dairy.............. 
Rolls,  creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted bam,  Hs......  
Potted bam,  Hs......  
Deviled ham, H*__  
Deviled ham, Ha.... 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
Potted tongue.  Hi.. 
BICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

Carolina head....................... 7
Carolina No. 1 ...................... bh
Carolina No. 2......................6
Broken................................  3J4

6
H om iny

P earl  Barley

Flake, BO lb. sack............... 
90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl..................5 oo
Pearl, too lb. sack................ 2 bo
Maccaronl  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
InDOrtw*  9* IK N>t 
? st
Common..............................3 00
Cnester.................................2 90
Empire................................. 8 66
Green, Wisconsin, bn.........
Green, Scotch, bu.................1 86
Split,  lb...............................  4
Rolled Avena, bbl................ 6 76
Steel Cut, too lb. sacks.. 
3 oi
Monarch, bbl........................6 *o
Monarch, H bbl....................2 87
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........2 >-6
Quaker, cases.......................3 10

Boiled  Oats

Peas

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Sago

W heat

Tapioca

PISHING  T A C K L E

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages.......2 00
East India...........................  3 \
German, sacks....................   3X
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............   4Q
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks............   3V
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......  6*
Cracked, bulk......................  sit
24 2 ft. packages.................2 BO
H to 1 inch...........................  6
U4 to 2 Inches......................  7
IHto 2 Inches...................... 
9
IH to 2  Inches.................... 
u
2 Inches................................   15
3 Inches................................   30
No. 1,10 feet.......................   5
No. 2,15 feet.........................  7
9
No. 3,15 feet......................... 
No. 4, <5 feet........................   10
No. 6,15 feet......................... 
li
No. 6,16 feet.........................  12
No. 7,15 feet.......................   15
No. 8,15 feet.........................  18
No. 9,15 feet.........................  20
Small...................................   20
Medium...............................   26
ta rg e ..................................  34
Bamboo. 14 ft., per  doz.......   50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per doz........  65
Bamboo. 18 f t , per doz.  . . .   80 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Cotton  Lines

Linen  Lines

Poles

FOOTE  A  JEN K S’

J A X O N

Highest  Grade  Extracts
Lemon

V auuia 

iozfulim   i 20  lozfullm.  80 
2 oz full m  2  10  2 oz full m  1  26 
No. sfan’v  a  is  No. 8fan’y  1  7f

Vanilla 

Lemon
2 oz panel  .1  20  2 oz panel 
75
3 oz taper.  ? no  « 07 faner.  1  50

D. C. Vanilla

^L4VORimG EXTRACTS 

Folding  Buxeo

Taper  Bottles 

D.  C  Lemon 
2  0Z..... 
76  2 0Z.........   1  20
40Z.........  1  60  4 oz.........  2 00
6 0Z.......  2 00  6oz.........   3 00
D. C. Lemon 
U. C. Vanilla
2 OZ.........   75  2 OZ......... 1  25
3 0Z.........  1 25  3 OZ..........2  10
4 OZ.........  1 50  4 OZ..........2  40
D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
1 oz.........  65  1 oz.........   85
2 oz.........1  10  2 oz..........1  60
4  OZ.....  2 00  4 OZ..........3  00
Tropical  Extracts 
2 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 
76 
4 oz. full measure. Lemon..  1  60 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80 

P a ll  Measure

FRESH  MEATS

Carcass.........?*.!*.. 
4H©  7
Forequarters.........   6  0  6
Hindquarters.........   6  0   8
Loins.......................   9  014
Ribs.........................  7  012
Rounds....................  6>40  7
Chucks....................  5  0  5*4
Plates......................  4140 5
Dressed................... 
s
Loins.,......................  12 01214
Boston Butts........... 
Q11V4
Shoulders................ 
01014
012
Leaf Lard................ 

Pork

M utton

GELATINE

Carcass.........  ........  6  0  6
I Lambs......................  7  0  9
Veal
T woois.... 
...........  6  0  sis
Knox’s  Sparkling............  1 20
Knox’s Sparkllng.pr gross  14 00
Knox’s Acidulated...........  1  20
Knox’s Acldulat’d.pr gross 14 00
Oxford..............................  
76
Plymouth  Rock......   .  ...  1  20
Nelson’s...........................   1  50
Cox’s, 2-qt size.................  1  61
Cox’s, 1-qt size.................   1  10
Amoskeag, 100 in bale  ....  15Vi 
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15% 

GRAIN  BAGS 

GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

W heat

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

W inter  W heat  Flour 

71

Local Brands

Patents............................   4 35
Second Patent..................   3 r5
Straight............................   3 66
Second Straight...............   3 35
Clear................................   3  vu
Graham............................  3 4)
Buckwheat....................... 
t 00
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Floor in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs.....................   3 60
Diamond Hs.....................  3 60
Diamond Vis.....................   3 go
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker Hs........................   3 60
Quaker Hs........................  3  t>o
Quaker V4s........................  3 60

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Meal

Olney A Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’8  Best Hs.........   4 60
Pillsbury’s  Best H s..  ....  4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4  40
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 40 
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  40 
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Hs....................  4 40
Wlngold  H>....................  4 10
Wlngold  Hs....................  4 20
Ceresota Hs......................  4 60
Ceresota Hs......................  4  f0
Ceresota Hs......................  4 40
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  30
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  20
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  10
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4  10
Bolted..............................  
t  so
Granulated.......................  2 90
Feed  and  MlUstnSk
St. Car Feed, screened__   24 25
No. 1 corn and  Oats........2«  25
Corn Meal,  coarse...........  2* 25
Corn Meal, fine.................  24  00
Winter Wneat Bran.........  <6 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  18 00
Cow  Feed.........................  17 00
screenings.......................  is  uo
Car  lots new....................  34
Corn, car  lots..................   66
No. 1 Timothy car lots....  o9 50
No. 1 Timothy ten  lots__  12 00
Sage........................................ iB
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves....................... .15
4enns Leave*. 
26
Madras, 5 lb.  boxes..............65
3. F., 2, 8 and 5 lb. boxps........ 50
51b. palls.per doz...........  1  f>s
151b. palls.............................   43
301b. palls.............................   80
Pure....................................   so
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily...................................   14
Root.....................................  10

Oats
Corn
Hay

LICORICE

INDIGO

HERBS

JELLY

 

 

LYE

Condensed, 2 doz......................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25
Armour A Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 45
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 75

MEAT  EXTRACTS

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

40
35
26
22

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 so
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz................1 70
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  10
Bulk, 5 mil. kegs...............   1 06
Manzanllla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2  36
Queen, 19 oz.....................   4 so
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz......................... 
Stuffed, 8 oz......................  1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 80
Clay, No. 216............................   I 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   «
C ob,N o,I..» .,,..,,.,..........    flt

PIPES

90

2 9

II

Common Corn

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

6
sh

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels.................................27
Half bbls.............................29
10 lb. cans, % doz. In case..  1  86
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz. In case_  2  10
2H lb. cans. 2 doz. In case.. .2  10
F air.....................................  18
Good....................................  20
Choice................................   26

P o re  Cane

STOVE POLISH

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

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

Domino...................
ft 76
Cut Loaf.........................----5  16
Crushed ............................  5  15
Cubes........................
4  SO
Powdered..................
...  475
Coarse  Powdered......... ..  4  75
XXXX Powdered......... ...  4 80
Fine Granulated............ ..  4 65
2 lb.  bagB Fine  Gran
..  4  85
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran__ ..  4 80
Mould A........................ ..  f 00
Diamond A.................... ..  4 65
Confectioner’s  A........... ..  4 48
No.  1, Columbia A........ ..  4 35
No.  2, Windsor A......... ..  4 30
No.  3, Ridgewood A__ ..  4  30
No.  4, Phoenix  A......... ..  4 25
No.  5, Empire A........... ..  4 20
4  18
No.  8.........................
Mn  ▼
«  4  15
No.  8............................. ..  4 05
Vo.  0.  ..
..  4  00
No. 10.........................
..  3 95
3 Q8
No. 11......................
No. 12.........................
a  on
8 M
No. 13..........................
No. 14............................
a 76
a an
No. 15......................
No. 16............................
..  8 76
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

T A B L E   8AU CES

The Original and 
Genuine
Worcestershire.

——„  
 
&
Lea A Perrin’s, pints........   5  00
Lea A Perrin's,  H pints...  2  78
Halford, large......................   3 75
Halford, small......................   2 26

T E A
Ja p a n

Sundrled, medium................31
Sundrled,  cbolce................... 33
Sundrled, fancy.....................43
Regular, medium...................31
Regular, choice  ................... 33
Regular, fan cy...................... 43
Basket-fired, medium...........31
Basket-fired, choice.............. 38
Basket-fired, fancy............... 43
Nibs......................................... 30
Siftings............................. 19021
Fannings..........................20022

G u n po w d er

18
28

Y o u n g  H yson

Choice..................................
Fancy.................................36

Moyune, medium ..................29
Moyune, choice.....................38
Moyune,  fancy...................... 53
Plngsuey,  medium................28
Plngsuey,  choice................... 33
Plngsuey, fancy.....................43

20
16
28
48
17
is
18
25
6fi
18
17
25
20
v
Medium...................................27
I Choice......................................34
Fancy..................................... ..

Formosa, fancy......................42
Amoy, medium......................25
Amoy, choice......................... 32

E n g lish  B re a k fa st

O olon g

In d ia

Ceylon, choice........................82
Fancy..................................... ..

T O B A C C O

C iga rs

I  H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune  Teller...................  as  00
Our Manager......................  35  00
j  Quintette.....................  
  35  00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

9

Im ported.

Japan,  No.  1................svi@
Japan,  No. 2................6  0
Java, fancy head........... 
0
Java, No. 1....................   0
Table...............................  ©

10
SEEDS

Anise...................................   9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3H
Caraway............................   754
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp, Russian....................  4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy...................................  e
R um ...................................   4
nuitlnRon*..........................14
Handy Box, large............   2 60
Handy Box, small............   1  28
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
86
Mllldr’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Beaver Soap Co. brands

SHOE  BLACKING

SOAP

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

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3 15
Deland’s.............................. 3 00
Dwight’s Cow...........  ........3 15
Emblem...............................    10
L; P. ...................................3 00
Wyandotte. 100 Hs..............3 00

SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls.................  95
Granulated, 1001b. cases.... 1  05
Lump, bbls.........................  90
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   95

SALT

Diamond Crystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
8
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
I Butter, barrels, 20 I4lb.bags.2 86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs...........  27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   «7
Shaker.............................  24H

Common  Grades

100 3 lb. sacks.......................2 25
60 6 lb. sacks.......................     16
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 05
66 lb. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks.......................   22

3 28

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

Warsaw

Ashton

H iggins

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  eo 

Solar  Rock

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
561b. sacks..........................   28
Granulated  Fine.................  75
Medium Fine.......................  so

Common

Cod

SALT  FISH 
Large whole............... 
0   5H
Smail whole...............   ®  5
strips or  bricks......... 7  0  9
Pollock.......................  
0  3 vi
Strips.....................................
Chunks....................... .... 
is

H alibut.

Trout

Mackerel

No. 1100 lbs......................   5 eo
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
70
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
59
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  14  50
Mess  50 lbs......................  7  75
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  60
Mess  8 lbs......................  
i  30
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 to
No. 1  63 lbs......................  7  00
No. 1  to lbs......................   1  45
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  19
No. 2 i«o lbs......................
No.2  5'lbs......................
No-2  10 lbs 
...................
V)  1  a r»
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10 80 
Holland white hoops Hbbl.  5  so 
Holland white hoop, keg..  ©75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................
Round 40 lbs.....................
Scaled.............................  
Bloaters............................

H erring

a

W hite fish

100  lbs........... 7  75 
50 lbs...........4 29 
10 lbl...........  83 
8 Ibl...........  77 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 76
220
03
«2

JÍ0NDEL
K g a a

ky . 
Ro

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

J A X O N

Single box.............................3 *0
5 
box lots, delivered....... 8 15
110 box lots, delivered............3 10
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 65
Calumet Family.............   2 75
Scotch Family................   2 85
Cuba................................  2 36

Jas. S. Kirk A Co. brands-

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor A Gamble brands—

Jap Rose........................   3 75
Savon  Imperial..............  3  55
White  Russian...............   3 60
Dome, oval bars................3 65
Satinet, oval....................  2 50
White  Cloud..................   4  10
Big Acme........................  4  10
Acme 5c..........................  3 55
Marseilles.......................  4  00
Master............................   3  70
Lenox.............................  3  10
Ivory, 6 oz.........................4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Schultz A Co. brand—
Star.................................  8 25
Search-Light Soap Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light’’  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars.......   3 75
A. B. Wrlsley brands—
Good Cheer....................  4 00
Old Country....................  3  40
I Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand. 3 doz.............2 40
Boxes...................................  5 h
Kegs, English........................4k
Scoteh, In bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, In jars.................   35
| French Rappee. In  jars......   43

Scouring

SNUFF

8ODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice................................ 
Cassia, China In mats...... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__ 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna................. 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
! Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  75-80....................  
Nutmegs,  105-10................... 
Nutmegs, 115-20...................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot......................... 
P are Ground in B alk
Allspice................................ 
Cassia, Batavia....................  
Cassia, Saigon...................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Ginger, African................... 
Ginger, Cochin....................  
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 
Mace..................................... 
Mustard................................ 
Pepper, Singapore, blaok. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne................. 
lag«.....................................  

STARCH

12

12
28
40
66

17
14
so
50
40
35

Kings ford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages..........  
8H
K lngsford’s Silver Olosa
40 l-lb. packages...............  
8%
6 
lb. packages........... 
9H
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages..................   6
3-lb. packages...................  6H
6-lb. packages...................  6H
40 and 60-lb. boxeo...........   4
Barrel*................................  

Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the 

bale, 2H pound pooketi.. rx

4  1

B.C.W..............................  K M
Cigar Clipping«, per lb.....  26

3 0

12

Lubetsky Bros, brands

Ping

B.  L...................................36 00
Dally Mall, 5c edition........ 36 00
.64
.33
'6
61
<2

Fine  Cut
Cadillac.....................
Sweet  Loma.............
Hiawatha, 5 lb. palls 
Hiawatha, 10 lb. palls
Telegram....................
Pay C ar.....................
Prairie Rose...............
Protection................. .
Sweet Burley............ .
Tiger.........................

.842
.38
S3
31
34
,41
33
52
38
.41
43
48
.36
42
.33
36
.61
.78.30
38
.38
.30
.60
...34
....34 
...26 
...24 
...26 
...30 
...36 
...38 
...38 
,...32 
...38 
...41 
...39 
...39 
...37 
...36 
...24 
...2 2  
...39 
...39 
...32 
...34 
..  36 
...30 
32-34 
...28 
...23 
.20-22 
...34

Red Cross...................
Palo...........................
Kylo...........................
Hiawatha.................. .
Battle A xe................
American Eagle.........
Standard Navy......... .
Spear Head, 16 oz......
Spear Head,  8oz.....
Nobby Twist.............
JollyTar...................
Old Honesty..............
Toddy.,.......................
J .T ............................
Piper Held sick.........
Boot Jack__.............
Honey Dip Twist......
Black  Standard........
Cadillac....................
Forge........................
Nickel Twist............
Smoking
Sweet Core................
Flat Car....................
Great Navy............... -
W arpath...................
Bamboo, 16 oz...........
I XL,  61b................
I X L, 16 oz. palls...... .
Honey Dew..............
Gold  Block.................
Flagman...................
Chips..........................
Kiln Dried................
Duke’s Mixture.........
Duke’s Cameo............
Myrtle Navy.............
Turn Turn, IK oz.......
Turn Yum, 1 lb. palls.
Cream........................
Com Cake, 2*4 oz......
Cora Cake, l lb..........
Plow Boy, IK oz....... .
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz.........
Peerless, 3*4 oz..........
Peerless, IK oz..........
Air Brake..................
Cant  Hook............... .
Country Club.............
Forex-XXXX............
Good Indian............ .
Self  Binder  ..............
Stiver Foam..............
TWINB
Cotton, 3 ply......................... 16
Cotton, 4 ply.........................16
Jute, 2 ply............................ 12
Hemp, 6 ply......................... 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, l lb. balls..................   7*4
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . 11
Pure cider, Bed Star..........ll
Pure cider, Robinson.........ll
Pure Cider, Sliver...............ll
WASHING  POW DER

...21 

VINEGAR

Diamond  Flake.................2 76
Gold  Brick......................... 3 2P
Gold Dust, regular............. 4 60
Gold Dust, 5e......................4 00
Kirkoline,  24 4 lb............... 3 90
Pearline..............................2 75
Soaplne............................... 4  10
Babbitt’s 1776.....................  3 76
Roselne__■........................ 3 60
Armour’s.............................3 70
Nine O’clock....................... 3 36
Wisdom.............................. 3 80
Scourlne.............................. 3 60
Rub-No-More...................... 3 76

WICKING

No. 0,  per gross.................. 26
No. i,  per gross.................. 30
No. 9,  per gross.................. 40
No. 3.  per gross.................. 56

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bradley  B utter  Boxes

Bushels................................
Bushels, wide  band............ l 25
Market................................  30
Splint, large........................ 6 oo
Splint, medium...................5 oo
Splint, small....................... 4 00
Willow Clothes, large......... 8 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 80
Willow Clothes, small.........6 00
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. l Oval, 280 in crate........  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  46
No. 3 Oval, 280 in crate........  60
No. 6 Oval, 280 in crate........  60
Barrel, 5 gals., each........... 2  40
Barrel, 10 gals., each..........2  65
Barrel, 15 gals., each..........2  70
Round head, 6 gross box__  60
Round head, cartons...........  76
Humpty Dumpty...............2  26
No. 1, complete...................  29
No. 2, complete...................  18

B utter Plates

Clothes  Pins

Egg Crates

Churns

13
Faucets

Tubs

Traps

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Wash  Boards

Cork lined, 8 In....................  66
Cork lined, 9 in....................  75
Cork lined, 10 in...................  85
Cedar. 8 in............................  66
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No 1 common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 *>. cotton mop heads......... 1  26
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Pails
2- hoop Standard..................l  50
3- 
hoop Standard.1  65
2- wlre,  Cable...................... 1  60
3- wire,  Cable...................... 1  80
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 26
Paper,  Eureka................... 2  26
Fibre.................................. 2  40
Hardwood..........................2  60
Softwood............................2  75
Banquet..............................1  60
Ideal................................... 1  60
Mouse, wood, 2  holes..........  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes..........   45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes..........  70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes..............  65
Rat, wood............................  80
Rat, spring...........................  76
20-lnch, Standard, No. 1......... 7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.........6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3......... 6 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1...........7  60
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2...........6  50
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3...........5  60
No. 1 Fibre......................... 9  46
No. 2 Fibre......................... 7  96
No. 3 Fibre......................... 7  20
Bronze Globe...................... 260
Dewey............................... .1 75
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......................... 276
Universal............................2  26
12 in...................................... 1 66
14 in...................................... 1 85
16 in...................................... 2 30
ll in. Butter.........................  76
13 in. Butter.......................... 1 10
16 in. Butter.......................... l 76
17 in. Butter..........................2 75
19 in. Butter..........................4 25
Assorted 13-16-17...................1 76
Assorted 16-17-19  ................3 00
Common Straw.................  1*4
Fiber Manila, white.........   3K
Fiber Manila, colored......  
4
No.  1  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila..................   3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   20 
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz..............................l oo
Sunlight, 3doz..........................l oo
Sunlight, 1*4  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz...................l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz................... 1 oo
Yeast Foam, 1*4  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish............. .
11
Trout.................... .
8
Black Bass............
11
Halibut.....................  @ 14
Ciscoes or Herring. ...  @ 6
Bluefish................ ...  @ 11
Live  Lobster.............  @ 2*
Boiled  Lobster...... ...  @ 25
Cod....................... ....  @ 10
Haddock............... ...  @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel........ ...  @ 8<4
Pike...................... ...  @ 7
Perch.................... ...  @ 5
Smoked  White...... ...  @ 11
Red  Snapper......... ..  @
Col River  Salmon.. 12J4@ 13
Mackerel............... ...  @ 18

W RAPPING  PA PER

W indow  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls

...10a 
...  @ 
...10@

HIDES  AND  PELTS 

Hides
Green  No. 1............
Green  No. 2............
Cured  No. l ............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No, l
Calfskins,green No. 2
Calfskins,cured No. 1
Calfskins,cured No. 2
Pelts
Old Wool.................
Lamb.......................
Shearlings..............
Tallow
No. 1........................
No. 2.........................
W ool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.

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

50@1  60
45@  76
40@  75

@ 6
@ 5
@20
@23
@16
16@18

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

bbls. palls

Standard................. 
@7
Standard H. H ........  -  @ 7
& 8
Standard  Twist......  
Cut Loaf..................  
@9
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb............  
@7*4
@16*4
Extra  H. H ...............  
Boston Cream.........  
i n
Beet Bo«# 
.......... 
@ 8

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

14

Mixed Candy

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

@  6 @7 
@7 H 
@ 7*4 
@ 8*4 @ 9 
@   8 
@ 8*4 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 8*4 
@ 9 
@10
114*4
13

Fancy—In  Pans 

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
8*4
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
12
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
12
Peanut Squares......  
9
Sugared Peanuts__ 
11
10
Salted Peanuts........ 
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
Lozenges, plain......  
@9
Lozenges, printed... 
@10
Champion Chocolate  @11
KcUpse Chocolates...  @13*4
Quintette Choc........ 
@12
Gum Drops.............. 
@ 5*4
Moss  Drops............. 
@  9
Lemon Sours........... 
@  9
Imperials................. 
@  9
@12
Ital. Cream Opera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. pails............  
@11
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................. 
@13
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

@60
@60
@66

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

@66

Lemon  Sours.........  
@60
Peppermint Drops..  @60
Chocolate Drops....  @60
@86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1 00
Gum Drops................... 
@36
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
Lozenges,  plain......  
•  @66
Lozenges, printed... 
@60
Imperials...................... 
Mottoes.......................  
Cream  Bar.................. 
Molasses Bar........... 
@66
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
@66
and  Wlnt.............. 
String Rook.................  
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels 
Clipper, 20 lb. palls.. 
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for 1c 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 Russett.......
Florida  Bright........
Fancy  Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamaicas................
Rodi......................
Lemons
Verdelli, ex foy 300.. 
Verdelli, fey 300......  
Verdelli, ex chce 300 
Verdelli, fey 360......  
Call Lemons, 300......  
Messinas  300s.........   3 60@4  60
Messinas  360s.........   3  60@4  60
Bananas
Medium bunches....  1  50@2 00
Large bunches........

@
@
@
•
@
@
@@4 00 
@
@
@
@
@
@

@ 8*4
@12*4
@13
@56
@55
@60
@60
@60

Figs

13*4@15

@
@
a  6*4
@
6  @5*4
@
@
@16
@

Foreign  D ried F ru its 
@
@1 00
@

Californias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
101b. 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......
Almonas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils.....................
Fi'berts 
.................
Walnuts  Grenobles.
Walnut«., soft shelled
Cal. No. l,  new__
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans.  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Roasted...............
Choice, H. P„ Jumbo
Choloe, H. P.. Jumbo
Roasted...............
Spsn.Shlid No. in*w 8  0   7

16@16
@11
@13 1
@13
614
@13*4
@10
@13
@14
@
@3  50
@

8X@ 6*4
63£@ 7*4
@ 7*4
9*4
@

NOW

Is the appointed time!

Mr.  Merchant,  do you  realize  that  there  are 
but forty-seven  more  working days before Christ­
mas,  and  that  within  thirty  days  the  full  rush 
of  the  holiday  shopping  season  will  be  on?

Do  you  realize  that  traffic  this  fall  is  heav­
ier  than  it  has  ever  been  before  and  that  ship­
ments  are  necessarily  slower  in  reaching you  be­
cause  of  the  enormous  increase  in  freight  ton­
nage?  We  are  straining  every  nerve  to  make 
up  the  time  lost  by  slow  deliveries  by  the  rail­
ways  and  we  have  increased  our  shipping  force 
materially  in  order  that  goods  may  reach  you 
at  the  earliest  possible  moment.

But  the  time  has now come when Christmas 
orders  must  be  sent  in.  Don’t  delay  another 
day.  You  can’t  afford  to  lose  your  share  of  the 
trade  of  this  most  prosperous  holiday season.  If 
you  want  to  avoid  financial  loss,  disappointment 
and  endless  trouble,  send  in your orders a t on ce. 
They  can  be  filled  with  all  dispatch  and  safety 
now,  but later on no such assurance can be given.

If  you  have  not  a  copy  of  our  November 
catalogue,  which  offers,  at  the  market’s  bottom 
prices,  the largest and most attractive assortment 
of holiday  goods  ever  placed  before  the  trade, 
you  should  send  for one. 
It  is yours for the ask­
ing.  Send  for catalogue  J442.  Or  perhaps you 
are  coming  to  market  to  place  your  holiday  or­
ders. 
If  so,  we  extend  to  you  a  most  cordial 
invitation  to  make  our  house  your  headquarters 
while  in  the  city.

But>ler  Brothers

230 to 240 Adams Street«

Chicago

C.  C. Wormer 

Machinery  Co.

Contracting Engineers  and 
Machinery Dealers

Complete  power  plants  designed 
and  erecttd.  Estimates cheerfully 
furnished.  Let us figure with you. 
Bargains in  second-hand  engines, 
boilers,  pumps,  air  compressors 
and  heavy  machinery.  Complete 
stock  new  and  second-hand  iron 
and brass and  wood  working  ma­
chinery.

Large Stock of New Machinery 

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN 

Foot of  Cass  St.

A  Postal  Card

Will  get you  prices  on  the 

best store stools  made.

BRYAN  PLOW  CO.,  Bryan,  Ohio

Manufacturers

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

«

Wholesale
Grocers

Invariably recommend  their 
customers  to  take  a  mem­
bership  in  the  Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  because  it  pro­
tects  the 
retailer  against 
bad  paying  consumers  and, 
incidentally,  protects 
the 
jobber against slow pay  cus­
tomers.

I

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

8 1

For a  roofing  to  replace  shingles  use

H.  M.  R.  Brand 
Asphalt  Torpedo  Gravel

as  applit d  to  both  steep  and  flat  surfaces.

See  local hardware  or lumber  dealers  or  write  us.
H.  M.  Reynolds  Roofing Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

^p asasasasasasasasasasas^
Time  Saved

is

Money  Made

You do both by selling

Pocket Rices

0|  And increase your rice sales 300 per cent,

lbs.

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

WE QUOTE YOU THIS WEEK
- 

Selects, per can, 
23 cents 
Anchors, per can,  20 cents 
Standards, per can,  18 cents 
Favorites, per can,  16 cents 

$160
Selects,  per gallon, 
Perfection  Standards, per gallon,  1.10 
1.05
Standards, per gallon,  - 
Clams, per gallon, 
1.25

- 

- 

- 

DETTENTHALER  MARKET,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

You  will  find  scarcely  an  imperfect  berry  in  a  package.  That’s  one 

reason  why  the  people  like  it.

OLNEY  &  JUDSON  GROCER  CO.,  Grand  Rapids

Price  Is an  Indication of 

Quality

But the low price  on  our  celebrated  quality  Cosmopolitan 
Gas and Gasoline  Mantles is the exception  that  proves  the 
rule.  We sell such large quantities of  these  goods  that we 
can well afford to slice off all superfluous profit.  Hence we 
are enabled to approach the retail dealer with a proposition 
worth  his  approval.  Anything 
in  lighting  supplies,  we 
have them and will attend  to  your 
orders  with  care-taking  prompt­

ness. I  Send  for  price  lists, 

catalogue, etc.

Perfection  Lighting  Co.

Chas.  C.  Wllmot,  Mngr.

■ 7 S. Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids

The  Larimer

Door  Check  and  Screen  Door  Check  and  Spring

-1-,— >1

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

manufacturer. 
upwards.  Write for circulars and price list.

JOSEPH  SCHURSCH,  380  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Use  Tradesman  Coupons

Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,  D etroit,  Mich.
Lee  &  Cady,  D etroit,  Mich.
Taylor, McLeish & Co. D etroit, Mich.
Mussel man Grocer Co.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Mnsselman Grocer Co.,
Traverse  City,  Mich.
Mussel m an Grocer Co.,
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
W orden Grocer Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Phipps-Penoyer & Co. Saginaw Mich.
R. A. Bartley,  Toledo, Ohio.
H untington  Grocery  Co.,
R iddell  Grocery  Co.,
M oellerlng  Bros.  &  M illard,

H untington,  Indiana.
South Bend,  Indiana.
F t.  W ayne, Indiana.

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

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

nj 

Branch Chicago. 

in

3 2

THE  EVILS  OF THE  TIP.

One  of  the  evils  of  prosperous  times 
is  the  practice  of  tipping.  This  is  the 
solemn  complaint  of  men  who  have  not 
the  means  to  give  big  gratuities  for 
service  that  they  have  already  paid  for. 
The  tip  system  is  an  atrocious  one  and 
utterly un-American.  An American work­
ing  man,  no  matter  whether  he  be  a 
waiter,  a  hackdriver or  a  porter,  should 
rise  above  the  dignity  of  a  tip.  When 
a  man  tips  a  man  for  a  service  be  does 
so  because  he  believes  that  the  gratuity 
will  give  him  service  to  which  he  is  en­
titled,  but  which  he  will  not  otherwise 
get.  This,  of  course,  may  be  an  erron­
eous  idea,  but  the  poor  man—and  he 
is 
always  with  us—is  the  man  who  objects 
to  the  practice.  He  will  say: 
“ If  a 
man  has  to give a quarter  here  and  there 
for  what  should  be  done  for  him  for 
nothing,  there  will  be  added  a  great  in­
crease  to  my  expenses  to  get  the  small 
attentions  to  which  I  have  been  ac­
customed. “

In  England,  which  may  be  said  to  be 
the  home  of  the  tip,  a  small  revolution 
has  started  against  the  custom.  Over 
there  a  man-is  practically  held  up  by 
the  servants  of  the  houses  he  visits. 
There  the  tip  is  nothing  but  blackmail, 
and  a  big  man  has  to  give  tips  which 
even  reach  to  the  scullery  maid 
in  the 
dungeons  below.  The  rule  against  tip­
ping  in  London  clubs  is  stringent. 
In 
the  smaller  clubs  a  man  is  expelled  if 
he  tips  a  servant.  The  practice  of  tip­
ping  can  not  have too much said in favor 
of  its  abolishment.  This  is  said as much 
for  the  man  who  receives  the  tip  as  for 
the  man  who  gives  the  tip.  Establish­
ments  which  employ  men  and  expect 
them  to make  their  living out  of  tips  are 
practically  encouraging  dishonesty  and 
levying  blackmail  upon  the  public. 
There  is a corporation,one of  the wealth­
large 
iest  in  the  world,  which  employs 
bodies  of  men  whose  sole  means  of 
liv­
ing  is  by  what  they  get  out  of  the  pub­
lic  in  the  ways  of  tips.  Unfortunately, 
the  practice  of  lipping  is  increasing— 
and  the  practice  is "a sign of degeneracy.

summer  prevails 

About  this  time  every  year  Indian 
summer  comes  under  discussion.  There 
is  always  a  dispute  as  to  the  precise 
period  when 
it  should  occur,  if  it  oc­
curs  at  all.  Tradition  declares  that  In­
dian  summer  does  not  arrive  until  Nov. 
n ,  which  is  the  day  devoted  to  the  fes­
tival  of  St.Martin  in  England.  A peri 
od  of  balmy  weather  corresponding  to 
the  soft  airs  and  haze  of  the  American 
Indian 
in  autumn 
throughout  England  and  the  Mediter­
ranean  countries,  which  feel  the  influ­
ence  of  a  warm  body  of  water tempering 
the  chill  of  the  advancing  winter.  The 
American  name  was  given  to  the  season 
on  the  ground  of  the  custom  which  in 
early  days  prevailed  among  the  Indians 
of  using  this  delightful  time  in  which 
to  harvest  their  corn.  The  tradition 
runs  that  the  Indians  always  counted 
upon  a  second  summer  of nine  days  just 
before  winter  set  in.

impossible. 

The  world  will  not  suffer  for  food dur­
ing  the  present  year  except  in  so  far  as 
social  conditions  make 
just  distribu­
tion 
In  Germany  bad 
weather  during  harvest  and  just  preced­
it  will  make  the  yields  less  than 
ing 
was  anticipated,  and 
in  Great  Britain 
and  other countries  there  has  been  some 
local  injury  from  unfavorable  weather, 
but 
In 
no  country,  however,  are  all  classes  so 
prosperous  as 
in  the  United  States, 
where  labor,  actively  and  profitably  em­
ployed,  makes  a  home  demand  for  food­

in  general  all  crops  are  good. 

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

stuffs  at  prices  higher  than  the  world’s 
markets  seem  to 
is 
particularly  true  of  Michigan.

justify.  And  this 

The  Irish  question  is  one  that  never 
slumbers.  There  have  been times  when 
it  was  thought  to  be  dead  beyond  hope 
of  resurrection,  but  experience  shows 
that  it  will  live  as  long  as Irishmen  live 
in  Ireland. 
is  to-day  before  the 
British  Parliament  in  a  phase  that  com­
pels  attention.  The  Irish  party  is  not 
getting  much  aid  from  its  former  allies, 
the 
liberals,  but  it  is  yet  strong  enough 
to  get  a  hearing. 
In  some  way  at  some 
time  the  British  government  must  yield 
to  the  Irish  demand  for  home  rule.

It 

When  a  man  wants  to  come  to  Amer­
ica  sc  much  that  be  will hide  himself  in 
a  coffin,  it  may  be  assumed  that  he  is 
sufficiently  earnest  to  make  a  good  citi­
zen.  This  refers  to  a  Swede  who  with 
two  companions  reached  New  York  the 
other  day  as  stowaways.  The  intention 
of  the  officials  was  to  deport  them  to 
Sweden,  but  there  is  no  criticism  of  the 
relaxation  of  vigilance  which  enabled 
all  three  to  pass  the  gates and lose them­
selves  among  the  million  of the  metrop­
olis  of  the  New  World.

In  a  divorce  case  tried  in  New  York 
last  week 
it  developed  that  the  erring 
wife  had  written  letters  in  invisible  ink 
which  became  visible  when  submerged 
fora  few  moments  in  water.  The  proc­
ess  was  demonstrated  in  court  and  ex­
cited much  interest.  People who  expessr 
their  sentiments  in  letters,  whether  they 
use  visible  or  invisible  ink,  are  likely 
to  have  regrets.

When  one  more  week  has  passed  the 
politician  will  cease  from  troubling  and 
the  defeated  will  be  at  rest.

BUSINESS  C H A N C ES.

Advertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
snbseqnent  insertion.  No  advertisem ents 
taken  for  less  than  85  cents.  Advance 
paym ents.
Ii'OB BENT-NEW DOUBLE BBICK STORK;
one of the finest locations In Southern Mich­
igan for any dry goods or general store business; 
will be ready for occupancy about Nov.  15.  Ad 
dress No. 800. care Michigan Tradesman.  800 
W /ANTED—A  GOOD  LOCATION  FOB  IM- 
tt  plement  and  machinery  business;  small 
stock of  hardware  not  objectionable.  Address 
Box 3i, Pomona. Mich. 
794
f i'OB  S A L E —ON  ACCOUNT  OF  I L L  
health,  long established  furniture  business 
In finest town of7.000 In Southern Michigan; sold 
at discount If taken at  once.  Address  No.  816, 
816
care Michigan Tradesman. 
ii'OB  SALE—A NEW AND MODERN  FURN- 
iture delivery wagon cheap  if  sold  at  once. 
Address  No. 8*7, care Michigan Tradesman.  817
I ¡'OR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MEB- 
chandlse  In  an  enterprising  Iowa  town. 
Sales $50  per  day;  profits  liberal;  will  invoice, 
with  fixtures,  about  $1.0 0.  Bargain.  A .  M. 
Barron, Station A, South Bend,  Ind. 
PLAN  TO  INCREASE  BUSINESS;  GETS 
new and holds old customers; better and  less 
expensive than trading stamps.  Full particulars 
813
for $1.  B. J. Kingston, Jackson. Mich. 
G'OOD  BRICK  STORE  TO  RENT;  TOWN 
<  1,200;  center  prosperous  agricultural  dis­
trict;  money  here.  A.  L.  Kinney,  Reading, 
Mich. 
814
FOR  EXCH ANGE—$2.500  (2,000 Illinois  city) 
property, clear, never vacant, for clothing or 
merchandise.  Address Langford, Eylar. 111.  824 
d&S.OOO  TO  $8,000  DRY  GOODS  STOCK  FOR 
dP  sale;  town 3.9CO  population;  good  manufac­
turing;  will sell reasonably  to  right  party;  can 
reduce stock if desired.  Good reason for selling. 
Address No. 822, care Michigan Tradesman.  822
Ii'OB SALE—STOCK  DRY  GOODS,  MEN’S 
furnishings,  novelties,  groceries — about 
$2,500;  net profits 1901, $2,250;  twenty  per  cent, 
increase In trade 1902.  Removal from place rea­
son  for  selling.  E. C.  Simon,  St.  Clair,  Mich.
820
\ \ T ANTED—STOCK  OF  GENEBAL  MER- 
ebandise  for  cash:  must  he  cheap  to  be 
removed.  Address  Reval,  221  Fifth  Ave.,  Chl-
cago. 111.____________________________ 819
/CHOICE FORTY ACRE  FARM  IN  EMMET 
G  county to exchange  for  merchandise.  Lock 
Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich.___________86

Ii'OB  SALE — AT  A  BARGAIN.  STEAM 

flour mill In good running order, on  railroad. 
Will exchange for etty property.  B. M. Grlndley. 
171 Grlswola St., Detroit, Mich, 

______________  

815

827

 

Ii'OB SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  A  STOCK  OF 
general merchandise—farm of 100  acres,  val­
ued at $3.000;  mortgaged  for  $1,100;  located  in 
the northeastern  part of Ionia county.  Address 
No- 795, care Michigan Tradesman._______795
STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE FOR 
sale—the stock of Paimeter & Pratt,  of  Ash­
ley, Mich.,  consisting  of  groceries,  boots  and 
shoes, hardware, notions, etc., with  all  fixtures 
and book accounts, will be sold  In  bulk  at  auc­
tion, In front of their store In the village of Ash­
ley, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 1 p. m., to the 
highest  bidder.  Terms,  cash.  Full  and  com­
plete inventory of the  stock  will  be  taken  and 
submitted  on  that  occasion.  Chas.  H.  Smith, 
Trustee.___________ 

807
t ¡'OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH 
the whole or part  interest  in  the  best  wall
K   business  In  Sault  Ste.  Marie.  A.  M. 
3ws Co., Sault Ste. Marie,  Mich._____805
f i'OB SALE—2)4 HORSE POWER GASOLINE 
engine,  with  dynamo  sparkler  complete, 
in good  condition;  cost  $270,  will  sell  for  $90. 
The Evening Journal, Sault Ste. Marie. Mich  806
W f ANTED—STEAM  HEAT  FOR  CHURCH 
vv  30x60,  with  basement.  Box  8,  Benzonta, 
798
Mich. 
L'OR  SALE- GARDEN,  FRUIT  AND POUL 
P   try ranch, Constantine, Mich  Address Con 
stantlne Med. Co., Constantine,  Mich. 
799
Ra r e  c h a n c e- fo b  sa l e,  w el l-es-
taollshed wholesale and retail  grocery  busi­
ness.  On accouut of  the  111  health  of  our  Mr 
P. J. O’Neill, we are compelled to get out  of  the 
mercantile business.  Stock  must  be  sold  with 
good will of business; established over a quarter 
ot a century; doing large and  growing  business 
city  and  throughout  the  Thumb;  only  one 
exclusively  whole-ale  grocery  house  in  Port 
Huron.  Our  three-story  and  basement  brick 
store  for  rent;  best  corner  In  the  city.  Only 
principals  dealt with.  O’Neill  Bros.  &  Co.,  236 
Huron Ave., Port Huron, Mich. 
LX)R  SALE—THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 
-T  wholesale and retail crockery and china, gas 
and electric fixture business In Michigan outside 
of Detroit and Grand Rapids.  Stock is new and 
active.  Thousands  of  dollars  of  Importations 
from  France,  Germiny  and  Japan  received 
within the past  sixty  days.  Business  must  be 
»old on account  of  ill  health  of  our  Mr.  P.  J. 
O’Neill.  Rare opportunity for any  one  wanting 
to engage In this fine of business.  Very  attract­
ive store, 233  Huron  avenue;  rent  reasonable. 
Only principals dealt with.  O’Neill Bros. & Co- 
Port Huron, Mich. 
L'OR SALE—BAKERY, LUNCH ROOM, GON- 
X  fectionery, tobacco and cigars; good location 
-end  sufficient  room  tor  additional  business  U 
desired.  Write  Will  Botsford,  Holland,  Mich. 
IjlOR  SALE —TWO  LAND  CONTRACTS, 
A  $400 each, for land valued at $'.000and draw­
ing 6 per cent.; must be sold at 20 per  cent,  dis­
count from face.  Also four  •forties”  fine  wild 
»nd In Fruitport  township,  Muskegon  county, 
Mich., at a great sacrifice if  taken  at  once.  W. 
W. Barcus. Muskegon, Mich. 
L'OR  SALE—CASH  GROCERY  BUSINESS 
in town of 1.000; splendid opportunity; stock 
A 
will invoice about  $700;  owner  has  other  bus!
ness and must  sell  at  once, 
Address  No.  783.
care Michigan Tradesman.
783

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■c a sh

792

810

791

811

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I ¡'OR  SALE-A  CLOTHING,  HAT  AND 

i i'OB SALE-TWO  BUSINESS  BUILDINGS 

furnishing goods stock In small town;  doing 
$11,000  business;  rent,  $200  a  year;  amount  of 
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.  Bogan.  19 
Kanter Bldg., Detroit- 

cIGAR  AND  GROCERY  SALESMEN  T< 

782
In best location in town; cost  $3,800;  also  1 
lock of men’s furnishing goods and shoes In first 
class condition; will Invoice $3.000; U taken with 
In 30 days  both can  be  bought  for  $4,500  cash 
Real estate will have a big advance  here  befon 
next  spring.  For  further  particulars  addres; 
Box 313, Mupislng, Mich. 
;si
S“  PLEND1D
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experieno 
«
experienced business men  with  capital  c2
nave  Immediate  possession  with  stock  take
Address Box 253, Hastings, Mich.
—1  sell our cigar slot machine, as side line; sell 
on sight to every  cigar  and  grocery  store;  bl 
profits;  write  today.  Michigan  Novelty  Co 
Vicksburg, Mich. 
779
Ii'OB  SALE—DRUG  STOC K  IN  ONE  OJ 
the best business towns  In  Western  Mich! 
gan; good chance  for  a  physician.  Enquire  e 
No. 778, care Michigan Tradesman. 
778
L'OR  SALE—200 10 PER CENT. PKEFERKEl 
X1  stock shares in an  incorporated  mercantll 
company now on  a  solid  paying  basis,  or  wl 
trade for merchandise; good position to buyer I 
he wishes It.  For  furth  r  particulars  addres 
Baker Mercantile Co , Nashville, Mich. 
788 
L'OR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF^DRUGS  AM 
A  patent medicines,  cigars and  confectioner 
in one of  the  best  fruit  and  grain  sections  li 
Michigan.  Stock all new, clean and  salable,  n 
dead stock;  Invoices about $1,800;  will  discount 
Sickness  reason  for  selling.  Address  No  774 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
774
A N T E  D—QUICK  MAIL  ORDERS
Overstocked;  must  keep  the  factory  run 
ntng;  telescopes, suit  cases,  whips;  low  prices 
ror special discounts and illustrated  descriptive 
list  address  Olney  Telescope  &  Harness  Co 
Box 155, Olney, Ilf. 
7ba
■ TANTED—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MEJ 
chandisefor  cash;  must  be  cheap  to  t 
removed.  Address Reval,  221  Fifth  Ave..  Ch 
cago. 111. 
767
ii'OB  SALE—DRUG  STORE  IN  MICHIGAN 

town  of  10,000  population;  invoices  aboi 
a  bargain.  Address  No.  775,  care  Mlchiga 
Tradesman. 
775
L'O R  SALE-DRUG  STOCK  AND  Fll 
A 
tures;  only one In good prosperous  town o 
railroad;  good  business;  stock  about  $1,20< 
cash, no trades.  Address  George,  care  Haze 
tine & Perkins Drug Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mid
871,

$1,600;  cash sales over $400 a month;  will  sell  1 

Ii'OB  SALE -  SMALL  STOCK  GENERAL 
1  merchandise,  about  $1,200;  a  bargain  for 
someone; can lease store If  desired.  Apply  482 
Washington Ave., Muskegon. Mich. 
784
W f ANTED  FOR  CASH—LUMBER  OF  ALL 
TV  kinds;  also  shingles  and  lath.  Will  con­
tract mill cuts.  Beldlng-Hall Mfg. Co.,  Balding, 
Mich. 
L'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  FIRST-CLASS  10 
c   horse Uvery;  only one In town  of  900;  good 
trade and  everything  In  good  order.  Address 
Philip Taylor, Saranac, Mich. 

636

764

7*1

321

507

334

tfiOR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS,  EXCLUSIVE 

millinery business In  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
OAKES—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
O   and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
&  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376 South  Ionia
St., Grand  Rapids. 
L'OR SALE-DRUG STOCKLAND FIXTURES. 
A  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 
\ ’o. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 

I WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS 
and  residence  (not  connected);  what  have 
you to  offer?  Give  lull  description  and  price. 
A.  M. Barron. Station A, South Bend, Ind. 
745 
T HAVE  SOME  REAL  ESTATE  IN  GRAND 
A  Rapids.  Will  trade  for  a  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Address  No. 761,  care  Michigan 
T radesman. 

i 'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOB  FARM 

property  in  or near  Kent  county—A  good 
clean stock of general merchandise and fixtures, 
Invoicing  about  $4,500. 
stock  consists  of  dry 
goods,  groceries,  men’s  furnishing  goods  ana 
crockery.  Located  in  good  lake  port  town  of 
25,000.  The true reason for selling given  on  ap­
plication.  Address  No.  731,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Dr u g   sto ck  f o r   s a l e  in   a   goo 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. 
ILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  STOCKS 
dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hardware, 
furniture or groceries.  Lock Box  74,  Ypsilanti, 
Mich. 
716
Ha r d  to  f in d —a   f ir s t   c la ss  d r u g
store in city of 50,000 people In Michigan for 
sale.  Best of reasons for  selling.  Address Mrs. 
B., Room 801,377-9 Broadway, New York City. 694 
L'OR  SALK—MOSLER,  BAUMANN  &  CO. 
A  fire  proof  safe.  Outside  measurement—36 
inches high, 27 Inches  wide  and  24  Inches deep. 
Inside measurement—16)4 Inches high, 14 Inches 
wide and 10 Inches deep.  Will sell  for  $60  cash. 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 

b'OR  SALE  CHEAP-SECONDHAND  NO.  4 

Bar-Lock  typewriter,  In  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  appllca- 
tlon.  Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids. 466

738

731

368

M i s c e l l a n e o u s

812

/"ANTED — A  FIRST-CLASS  CLOTHING 
and furnishing  goods  salesman  and  win­
dow trimmer;  a young  unmarried  man,  steady 
and reliab.e;  references  required.  Address  H. 
C. Co.. Traverse City. Mich. 
ALKSMKN, IN EVERY STATE, TO CARRY 
as  a  side  line  on  commission  an  article of 
proved  merit  handled  by  druggists,  grocers, 
general  stores  and  feed  dealers.  American 
Glutrose Company. Camden,  N. J. 
825
M JANTED— A  MAN  TO  DELIVER  AND 
work  In  grocery  store.  Must  be of good 
character, a  worker  and  strictly  temperate;  a 
steady job for the right man.  Address  No.  823, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
8  3
W f ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  DRY  GOODS 
vt  man for Northern Wisconsin;  good  salary 
to the right man.  Address No.  821,  care  Mich- 
lgan Tradesman. 

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goods  clerk.  Give  references  and  state 
salary expected.  Address No.  818,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 

■ RUGGISTS  DESIRING  CLERKS,  AND 

drug clerks  who  desire  positions,  should 
write to J.  A.  Hynes,  615  S.  Ingalls  St.,  Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 
LEKK  WANTED—EXPERIENCED  DRESS 
goods  salesman  wanted;  state  wages  and 
give  reference  In  first  letter.  A.  E.  Poulsen. 
Battle Creek, Mich.______  

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are Auctioneers 

and Special Salesmen

and  can  reduce 
o r   c l o s e   o u t  
your stock with­
out  one  cent  of 
loss  to  you  by 
our  N ew   Idea 

Sale.

W e take sales
on  a  commis­
sion  basis,  al­
low ing  you  to 
set the price  on 
the goods.  This 
is the very  best 
time of  the year 
for sales ana w e 
would  like  you 
to call  on  us  or 
write at once.

C o r  respond- 
ence  confiden­
tial.  W e  buy 
and  sell  store

C.  C.  O ’Niiii.1.

, 

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fixtures or take them on consignment.

C.  C*  O’N E IL L   &   CO.,  Chicago« III«

866  D earborn  St.,  Suite 608 Star B uilding

