Twentieth Year

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER 3,1902.

Number  1002

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Page. 
2.  C lothing.
4.  A ro u n d   th e   State.
5.  G rand  R ap id s  G ossip.
6.  W ill  Go  H igher.
8.  E d ito rial.
10.  D ry  Goods.
12.  C ollecting  A ccounts.
16.  Shoes  and  R ubbers.
18.  H ard w are.
20.  W om an’s  W orld.
22.  B u tte r  an d   Eggs.
23.  O u tstrip p ed   H er  B ro th er.
24.  T he  New  Y ork  M arket.
2ff.  C om m ercial  T ravelers.
26.  D rag s  and  C hem icals.
27.  D ra g   P rice   C arre n t.
28.  G rocery  P rice   C arre n t.
29.  G rocery  P rice   C arre n t.
30.  T he  Food  W e  E at.

T E R PIN E L E S S  LEMON  EXTRACT.
In  the  prosecution 

instituted  by  the 
Pure  Food  Inspector  against  Charles  W. 
Jennings,  the  Muskegon  Circuit  Court 
bas  decided  that  the  extract  of  lemon 
as  prepared  and  labeled  by  the Jennings 
Flavoring  Extract  Co.  violates  the  pure 
food  law  of  the  State.

issue 

The  real 

Lemon  oil 

in  the  case  is  a  very 
simple  one :  The  United  States  Phar­
macopoeia,  which 
is  a  collection  of 
formulae  prepared 
lor  the  use  of  drug­
gists,  contains  a  recipe  for  making 
spirits  of  lemon  by  dissolving  lemon  oii 
in  alcohol.  The  statutes  of  this  State 
do  not  define  lemon  extract,  nor do  they 
direct  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  formula 
shall  apply  to  food  preparations.  The 
Food  Commissioner  contends  that  a 
lemon  extract  is  necessarily  a  spirits 
of  lemon  and  that  the  Pharmacopoeia 
formula  for  making  spirits  of 
lemon 
must  be  followed  in  making  lemon  ex­
tract. 
large 
amount  of  terpines,  so-called,  which, 
after  standing,  give  the  lemon  extract  a 
bitter,  disagreeable  and  “ turpentiny”  
taste.  To  remove  this  trouble  many 
leading  manufacturers  have  for  several 
years  made  lemon  extracts  by  eliminat­
ing  the  terpines,  retaining  nothing  but 
the  flavoring  substance  of  the  oil.  Ter- 
pineless  extracts  ate  in  demand  as  be­
ing  better  and  as  preserving  more  dis­
tinctly  the  lemon  flavor than  when  made 
according to the Pharmacopoeia formula. 
The  purity  of  these  extracts  and  their 
superiority  over 
the  Pharmacopoeia 
process  are  substantiated  by  the  testi­
mony  of  the  most  prominent  experts 
upon  the  subject.

contains  a 

educated  both 

Dr.  Kremers,  Professor  oi  Pharmaceu­
tical  Chemistry  in  the  Wisconsin  State 
University,  highly 
in 
this  country  and  in  Germany,  the  man­
aging  editor  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Re­
view,  published  in  Milwaukee,  a  writer 
of  authority  upon  essential  oils  and  the 
author  of  the  Pharmacopoeial articles on 
that  subject,  testified  that  the  Phar­
macopoeia  formula  for  spirits  of  lemon 
bad  no  necessary  relation  to  extract  of 
lemon  lor  food  purposes;  that  the  Phar­
macopoeia  formula  for  spirits  of  lemon 
was  retained  not  on  account  of  its  su­
periority  over  other  processes,  but  be­
cause  it  was  so  simple  that  any  drug­
gist  could  use 
it;  that  terpineless  ex­
tracts  were 
in  demand  and  were  con­
sidered  superior  as  being  free  from  the

bitter  and  disagreeable  taste  of  the  ter­
pines.

Dr.  Vaughan,  Professor  of  Pharma­
ceutical  Chemistry  in  the  University  of 
Michigan  and  probably  the  foremost  ex­
pert  upon  food  products  in  the  United 
States,  testified  to  his  analysis  of  Mr. 
Jennings’  extract;  that 
it  contains  the 
complete 
flavoring  principle  of  the 
lemon  oil,  and  that  it  is  in  every  way 
superior,  both  for  medicinal  and  phar­
maceutical  purposes,  as  well  as  for  food 
flavors,  to  the  Pharmacopoeial  spirits  of 
lemon.  He  declared  that  so  great  is  the 
superiority  of  the  terpineless  lemon  ex­
tract  for  all  these  purposes  that  there 
is  no  room  for  comparison  between  the 
two  products.

These  propositions  were  absolutely 
undisputed.  The  Circuit  Judge  held, 
in  effect,that lemon  extract  for  food  pur­
poses  must  contain  all  the  elements  of 
the  Pharmacopoeial  product,  thus  in­
cluding  the  terpines,  without  regard  to 
their  actual  desirability  or  usefulness, 
unless  the  manufacturer  should  choose 
to  label  the  extract  as  a  compound.

No  claim  was  made  by  the  Food  De­
partment  that  terpineless  extract,  either 
in  tbe  coloring  employed,  or  otherwise, 
contains  anything  harmful.  On  tbe 
contrary,  it  was  expressly  admitted  by 
the  Chemist  of  the  Food  Department 
that  terpineless  extract  contains  no  in­
jurious  ingredient.  The  real  questions 
are  thus  those  of  science  and  of  law. 
Tbe  public  is  not  only  not  injured,  but 
is  actually  benefited  by  the  method  of 
manufacture employed  by  Mr.  Jennings.
An  appeal  will  be  taken  to  the  Su­
preme  Court  from  tbe  decision  of  the 
Muskegon  court.  Should  the  decision 
of  the  latter  court  be  sustained, 
the 
manufacture  of  tbe  extract  according  to 
the 
improved  and  scientific  method 
would not  be  prevented.  Tbe  public  de­
mands  a  terpineless  extract  and,  under 
appropriate 
labels,  such  extract  can,  in 
any  event,  be  sold.

It  is  entirely  natural  that  there  should 
be  a  comparison  between  the  careers  of 
Alfred  Krupp,  the  gunmaker  of  Essen, 
and  Andrew  Carnegie.  Both  were  iron­
masters  employing  an  immense  number 
of  men.  Both  were  possessed  of  excel­
lent  executive  ability  and  both  philan­
thropists.  Krupp  had  43,000  men  on 
his  pay  roll  and  he  went  in  elaborately 
for  labor  colonies,  hospitals,  asylums, 
etc. 
ft  is  said  that  41,000  pieces  of  ar­
tillery  stand  to  tbe  credit  of  the  Essen 
establishment,  which  have  contributed 
to  the  efficiency  of  defense  and  in  many 
cases  actually  been  preservers  of  peace. 
A  point  of  difference worth emphasizing 
is  that  Krupp 
inherited  his  establish­
ment  from  his  father  and  his  grand­
father.  Carnegie  built  up  and  man­
aged  his  own  establishment,started  with 
nothing  and  in  comparatively  few  years 
became  a  multi-millionaire.  That  sort 
of  thing  is  easier  of  accomplishment  in 
the  United  States  than 
in  Germany. 
Krupp’8  business  was  turned  over  to 
him  ready  made;  Carnegie  was  in  at 
the  beginning  and  saw  it  grow  under 
bis  band.  One  prospered  by European, 
the  other  by  American  methods.

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

Several  years ago twelve  or  thirteen  of 
the  leadiog  retail  clothing  firms  of  New 
York  met  at  the  Astor  House  and  at­
tempted  to  form  an  association,  whose 
ostensible 
purpose  was  protection 
against  dishonest  clerks.  Among  the 
houses  who  politely,  but firmly,  declined 
to  participate  in  the  proposed  co-opera­
tion  was  Rogers,  Peet  &  Co.  They  gave 
as  a  reason,  in  their  courteous  letter, 
why  they  were  not  interested  in  the con­
templated  organization  that  they  had  a 
system,  peculiar  to  themselves,  which 
protected  them  amply  against  the  ele­
ment  under  consideration.  There  was 
no  small  degree  of  curiosity  as  to  what 
this  system  was.  One  of  the  merchants 
present  at  the  meeting  intimated  to  the 
writer  that  he  wished  he  had  some  such 
system,  but  that  every  effort  he  had  ever 
made,  looking  to  a  scheme  that  would 
save  him  from  thieves  and  vicious help, 
bad  failed  to  be  anywhere  near  perfect. 
The  general  opinion  of  those  at  the 
meeting  was  that while  the average[clerk 
was  honest  and  gentlemanly,  and  a  per­
son  of  good  habits,  there  were  enough 
of  the  other  kind  to  make  store-keeping 
more  or  less  an  uncertainty,  so  far  as 
help  is  concerned.

is 

The  system  pursued  by  the  firm  men­
tioned  is  a  very  simple  one,and  there  is 
nothing  mysterious  about  it.  For  in­
stance,  anyone  applying  for  a  position 
is  handed  an  application  blank  contain­
ing  a  great  many  questions,  and  each 
one  must  be  answered  fully  and  ac­
curately.  The  applicant  must  sign  bis 
name  in  full,  and  state  the  character  of 
position  he 
in  search  of.  He  must 
give  his  age,place  of  residence,  and  say 
whether  he 
is  married  or  single.  He 
must  also  tell  how  long  he  has  resided 
at  bis  present  address,  where  be  pre­
long  he  resided 
viously  resided,  how 
there,  how  many  people  are  dependent 
on  him  for support,  and  who  of  such 
people  reside  with  him.  Alsu  whether 
bis  health  is  good  and  the  condition  of 
likewise 
his  sight,  hearing,  speech; 
whether  he  uses 
intoxicants 
in  any 
form.  Where  his  education  was  chiefly 
obtained,  and  whether  he  is  a  graduate 
of  a  grammar  school  are  questions  that 
he  must  also  answer.  He  must  state 
what  knowledge  he  has  of  the  clothing, 
shoe  and  furnishing  goods  business.  He 
must  tell  whether  be  bad  ever  been  dis­
charged  or  suspended  from  another  sit­
uation  or  engagement,  giving  exact 
particulars.  He  must  admit  what  salary 
be  has  been  receiving  and  what  salary 
he  expects.

The  applicant  is  obliged  to  give  ac­
curate  particulars  of  occupations  or  em­
ployments  during  ten  years  preceding 
his  application  and  for  a  longer  period 
of  time,  according  to  his  age.  The  ap­
plication contains  a schedule which must 
be  filled  in  by  the  applicant. 
If  he  was 
at  school  or  college  during  the  ten  years 
be  must  give  full  particulars,  with  the 
names 
and  addresses  of  principals, 
teachers  or  tutors.

In  other  words,  his  entire  life,  school 
and  business, for a  period  of  ten  years  at 
least,  must  be  comprehensively  stated  to 
Rogers, Peet  &  Co.  He must  state length 
of  time  employed  in  each  place,  names 
of  employers,  business  of  employment, 
address  of  employment,  and  the  reason 
why  he  left.

The  searching  character  cf  these  en­
quiries  may  be  better  understood  when 
it  is  remembered  how  easy  it  is  for  an 
applicant  to  state  where  be  was  em-

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llsworth  & Thayer  M’n’fg   Co.

Milwaukee, Wls.

ployed  and  left for some  cause,  when,  as 
a  matter  of  fact,  he  worked  for  a  second 
house  in  the  interval.  The  house  which 
he  gives,  as  a  rule,  can  speak  well  of 
him,  not  knowing  that  leaving  them  he 
went  to  work  for  some  other bouse,  from 
which  he  was  discharged.  We  have  al­
ready  written  about  this  subject,  but the 
matter  will  stand  a  brief  recapitulation 
here.

Let  us  suppose,  for  instance,  that John 
Henry  worked  for  Messrs.  So-and-So. 
He  was  compelled,  let  us  say,  to  resign 
his  position  because  of  poor  health,  and 
they 
let  him  go  reluctantly.  Recover­
ing  his  health,  and  going  to  New  York, 
he  found  employment  with  John  Jones. 
Getting 
into  bad  company,  he  becomes 
dishonest  and  is  discharged  for  stealing 
neckties,  the  firm  not  prosecuting  him 
because  of  his  very  earnest  pleading. 
The  young  man  proceeds to  Boston  and 
applies  for  a  position,  let  us  say,  to 
Blank  &  Blank.  Asked  as  to  where  he 
was  employed,  he  gives  Messrs.  So-and 
So  for  reference,  in  fact,  shows  a  letter 
from  them  recommending  him  to  whom 
it  may  concern.  Asked  as  to  his  con 
nection  since  he  left  Messrs.  So-and-So, 
he  says  that  he  has  not  been  employed 
but  has  been  in  the  hospital  most  of  the 
time,  or  living  at  home.

Most  firms,  if  they wanted  help,  would 
accept  this  young  man,  and  his  state­
ment  would  be  believed  without  further 
investigation.  But  with  the  Rogers, 
Peet  &  Co.  system  this  could  not  be  the 
case,  because 
in  addition  to  answering 
all  these  questions,  the  applicant  must 
give  the  names  and  addresses  of  at  least 
five  persons,  other  than  former  employ­
ers,  who  are  well  acquainted  with  him 
in  the  place 
in  which  he  has  resided 
during  the  ten  years  or  more,  and  they 
must  not  be  relatives.  They  must  also 
be  persons  of  respectability  and  good 
standing. 
In  a  case  like  the  one  above 
cited,  the  applicant  would  find  it  very 
difficult  to  explain  the  interval,  because 
of  the  enquiry  which  would  follow  the 
statement  that  he  hitd  been  living  at 
home  or  in  a  hospital.

It  must  be  admitted  that  anyone  ap­
plying  for a  position  to  Rogers,  Peet  & 
Co.  is  put  through  a  very  severe  course 
of  sprouts,  but  if  a  man  is  thoroughly 
honest  and  has  always  led  a  good,  clean 
life,  the  questions  will  not  seem  at  all 
difficult  to  answer,  and  if  the  reverse  is 
the  case,  he  will,  by  reading  this  state­
ment over,see  that  it  will  be  impossible 
for  him  to  get  a  place  with  this  firm.

It  will  be  noted  that  there  are  three 
classes  of  people  whom  he  must  give  as 
references;  his  previous 
employers, 
people  who  know  him,  not  related  to 
him,  his  school  teachers,  and besides  all

this  be  must  give  the  names  and  ad­
dresses  of  his  parents,  if  living,  or  his 
nearest  relatives.  Thus,  the  past  and 
present  of  the  applicant’s  history 
is 
minutely  enquired  into,  so  that  his  fu­
ture  connection  with  the  firm  will  be 
satisfactory  to  all  concerned.

If  the  applicant  succeeds  in  getting 
employment  there  and  he  should,  for 
some  reason,  leave  Rogers,  Peet  &  Co., 
it  will  be  a  comparatively easy thing  for 
him  to  place  himself  elsewhere,  because 
of  the  rigid  examination  which  he  had 
to  pass  to  get  there,  and  for  the  very 
excellent  systems  that  are  maintained 
throughout  the  departments.

T erm in atio n   o f th e   Straw   H at  Season.
Harry  Rindge,  who  recently  spent 
some  time 
in  the  South  in  the  interest 
of  Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co., 
Ltd.,  sends  the  Tradesman  a  newspaper 
clipping,  describing 
the  manner  in 
which  the  straw  hat  season  at  New 
Orleans  is  abritrarily  ended :

An 

interesting  meeting  of  Captain 
Anthony  Sambola's  Anti-Straw-Hat 
Brigade,  Department  of  the  Gulf,  was 
held  last  night.  Captain  Sambola  pre­
sided ;  Adjutant  W.  G.  E.  Seelhorst  was 
at  the  desk,  and  many  members  of  the 
brigade  were  present.  Captain  Joseph 
Andrews,  of  Houston,  Tex.,  who  for 
fifteen  years  past  has  annually  taken 
part  in  the  salutes  in that  city, was  pres­
ent,  and  was  given  a  seat  of  honor.

It  was  decided  that  the  salute  shall  be 
fired  in  this  city  at  certain  points  to  be 
hereafter  designated  at  noon,  on  Sunday 
Oct.  12,  and at  Elks’ Place  the  100 guns 
shall  thunder  a  1  o’clock  p.  m.
A  procession  of  300 men wearing straw 
hats  will  go  through  the principal streets 
on  the  eve  of  the  celebration.  As  usual, 
donations  of  hats  and  clothing  will  be 
made  to  the  various  asylums.  Captain 
Sambolia  requests  that  all  donations  be 
sent  to  George Muller,  No.  610  Bienville 
street.  Ten  thousand  copies  of  the  pro­
clamation  will  be  printed  and  distrib­
uted  broadcast  next  week.
On  and  after  Oct.  12  any  one  found 
wearing  a  straw  hat  will  be  summarily 
deprived  of  his  headgear.

A ll  in   th e   W ay  o f  B usiness. 

Teacher—1  was  compelled  to  punish 
your son.  He  persisted  in  swinging  on 
the  gates  in  the  vicinity  of  the  school 
house,  after  I  had  repeatedly  told  him 
not  to. 
Parent— Really,  1  can  t  see  anything 
terrible  in  that.
Teacher— It  is  very  annoying  to  the 

,

neighbors.

Parent—Very  likely;  but  I’m  a dealer 

in  hinges.____ _ 

____

The  mystery  in advertising  lies  in  the 
peculiarities  of  human  nature—the  man 
who  makes  a  success  of  advertising 
must  make  a  success  of  human  nature.

He  that  will  have  no  trouble  in  this 

world  must  not  be  born  in  it.

T he  F irst  Ice  C ream .

The  first 

ice  ever  sold  as  a  regular 
article  of  commerce  was  shipped  by  a 
Boston  merchant  named  Tudor  in  1805. 
He  sent  a  load  to  Martinique.
Mrs.  Alexander Hamilton  had  the  first 
ice  cream 
in  the  city  of  Washington. 
She  used  to tell  with  amusement  of  the 
delight  with  which  President  Andrew 
Jackson  first  tasted  it.
Guests  at  the  next  White  House  re­
ception  were  treated  to  the  frozen  mys­
tery,  and  great  was  the  fun  of  the  initi­
ated  when  they  saw  the  reluctance  of 
others  to  taste  the  cold  stuff.  Those 
from  the  rural  districts  especially  first 
eyed 
it  suspiciously,  then  melted  each 
spoonful  with  the  breath  before  swal­
lowing  it.  The  next  time  they  had  a 
chance  they  ate  it  with  delight.

The 

it  was  passed  around 

late  Senator  John  M.  Palmer 
like  to  tell  about  the  first  time 
used  to 
ice  cream  was  served 
in  Springfield, 
the  capital  of  Illinois.  At  an  evening 
party 
in  small 
saucers. 
In  the  process  of  freezing  the 
hostess  had  gotten  a  little  salt  into  the 
cream,  and  as  no  one  had  tasted  it  be 
fore,  it  was  thought  to  be  the  prope 
flavor.  An  old  statesman,  when  asked 
how  he  liked  the  new  dish,  said:  “ I’d 
like  it  better  if  it  were  either  sweet  or 
salty,  but  1  don’t  think  the  mixture  h 
very  appetizing.’ ’  Imagine  the  feelings 
of  the  poor  hostess  when  she  discovered 
that  her  much-vaunted  new  dessert  had 
been  full  of  salt,  and  no  one  knew 
enough  to  tell  her  about  it.

M ay  M ake  a  Sale  a t  M idnight.

The  practice  in  large  cities,  now  very 
general,  of 
lighting  up  windows  aite- 
closing  hours  is  unquestionably  good, 
and  might  with  advantage  be  adopted 
by  dealers  located in small communities, 
Large  numbers  of  prospective  purchas 
ers  have  absolutely  no  time  until  afte 
working  hours  to  “ look  in  windows,’ 
and  the  advertising  value  of  a  well 
dressed  and 
is  worth 
considerably  more  than cost'of illumina 
tion.

lighted  window 

Manufacturers of

Great Western  Fur aud Fur Lined Cloth Coats 

The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rlp Kind.

We want  agent  In  every  town.  Catalogue  and 

full particulars on application.

B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman.

Special  Sale

Of  the  entire  stock  of  the  old  reliable  wholesale  clothiers,

Kolb &  Son,  of  Rochester

(now retiring from business)

The  stock  has  been  purchased  in  bulk  by  The  William  Connor 
Co.  and  will  be  disposed  of  at  a great sacrifice to the retail trade.

The William  Connor Co.

Wholesale Clothiers

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

m

♦

♦

Men's Suits 

and

Overcoats 
>3-75 to 
E  $15.00

HMiWilf

lines  are 
extra swell

Is a  sure thing for all  the time

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

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

Salesman  or  samples—which  will 

we send?

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

Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

Alma—YV.  J.  Ouians  has  engaged 

in 

the  meat  business.

Bateman—A.  L.  Gillhouse  has sold his 

general  stock  to John  Wittman.

Palo— A.  B.  Eaves  is  closing  out  his 

stock  of  agricultural  implements.

Lenox—Cbas.  J.  Zilk  has  purchased 

the  hardware  stock  of  Walter  Bates.

Adrian— Lane  &  Davenport  continue 
the  tinning  business  of  Oscar  A.  Lane.
Pontiac— Prentice  &  Brace,  furniture 
dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Archie  Adams.
have 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  VVm. 
Streat.

Flint— Beardslee  &  Marshall 

Scotts—The  Richarsdon  Mercantile 
Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  Big  4  Mercan­
tile  Co.

Hubbardston—H.  W.  Grill,  dealer  in 
agricultural  implements  and  hardware, 
is  dead.

Caseville—John  McKinley  has  sold 
his  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  Arthur  F. 
Schultz.

Rives  Junction—Evan  Wood  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Edgar  E. 
Ranney.

Clayton—E.  J.  Hadden  has  purchased 
the  hardware  and  grocery  stock  of  W. 
C.  Fluke.

Jackson—The  Bender  Restaurant  Co. 
continues  the  restaurant business of Ben­
der  &  Schemm.

Quincy—Trott  &  Clark,  meat  dealers, 
have  dissolved  partnership,  Geo.  F. 
Trott  succeeding.

Saginaw—Norman  T.  Fenner  has  re­
implement 

moved  his  hardware  and 
stock  to  Pinconning.

Reed  City—W.  P.  Switzer,  furniture 
dealer  and  undertaker,  has  sold  out  to 
McConnell  &  Pierce.

Reed  City— Louis  Renkenup  has  pur­
chased  the  agricultural  implement  stock 
of  Wm.  Goehrend  &  Co.

Cedar  Springs—Caywood  &  Joslin 
succeed  W.  C.  Congdon  in  the  furniture 
and  undertaking  business.

Alma— N.  M.  Larkin & Co.,of Howell, 
have  leased  a  store  building  and  en­
gaged  in  the  bazaar  business.

Flint— F.  T.  Hall  &  Co.  continue  the 
agricultural  implement,  buggy  and  har­
ness  business  of  S.  J.  Hall  &  Co.

Vicksburg—Chas.  A.  Morse  has  en­
gaged  in  the  hardware  business,  having 
purchased  the  stock  of  Jasper  Cady.

Ann  Arbor— W.  J.  K napp  has  pur­
chased  the  carriage,  harness,  trunk  and 
musical  instrument  stock  of Chas.  Stein- 
bach.

Mulberry—Geo.  A.  Pifer  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  bis  partner  in  the 
general merchandise business of Fatchett 
&  Pifer.

Prattville—O.  &  C.  Sawyer,dealers in 
wall  paper,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business 
is  continued  by  Orville 
Sawyer.

Reed  City—McConnell  &  Pierce,  fur­
niture  dealers  and  undertakers,  have 
purchased  the  furniture  stock  of  W.  D. 
Switzer.

Capac—John  F.  McCormick,  former­
in  the  harness  business  at 
ly  engaged 
Port  Huron,  has  opened  a  harness  shop 
at  this  place.

Saugatuck— Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Bird  has 
purchased  the  O.  B.  Jerrels  drug  stock 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Eaton  Rapids—W.  B.  Garrison is clos­
ing  out  his  bazaar  stock  and  will  retire 
from  trade.  Mr.  Garrison  has  been  en­
gaged 
in  business  at  this  place  for  sev­
eral  years  and  discontinues  business  on 
account of  poor  health.

Battle  Creek—C.  C.  Rice  and  E.  J. 
Hooper  have  engaged  in  the  furniture 
manufacturing  and  retail  business  un­
der  the  style  of  the  West  End  Furniture 
&  Upholstering  Co.

Eureka—Guy Eaegle has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  to  Lewis  Carpenter,  who has 
purchased  the  building  occupied  by  the 
stock  and  will  continue  the  business  in 
connection  with  his  meat  market.

Charlotte— M.  A.  Randall,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  the  hardware  business 
at  Cheboygan  for  the  past  seven  years, 
has  leased  a  store  in  the  Lockard  block 
and  will  open  a  stock  of  bazaar  goods.
Harbor  Springs— W.  C.  Cramer,  who 
has  been  engaged 
in  the  mercantile 
business  at  this place  for the past sixteen 
years,  has  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  Foster  &  Wilson  and  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Port  Huron—The  pioneer  wholesale 
grocery  establishment  of  F.  Saunders  & 
Co.,  which  has  been  in  existence  for 
nearly  half  a  century,  has  been  acquired 
by  the  National  Grocer  Company.  Al­
bert  Dixon,  who  has  been  the  head  of 
the  concern,  will  retire  from  the  busi­
ness  and  it  will  be  managed  for  the 
trust  by  W.  J.  Hoer,  of  Saginaw.

Detroit—Walter  F.  Stimpson  has  re­
cently  organized  the  Stimpson  Standard 
Scale  Co.,  with general  offices  and  sales­
room  at  Detroit.  The  factory  will  be  at 
Milan.  The  company  will  shortly  break 
ground  for  a  new  factory,  which  will  be 
220  feet  long  by  60  feet  wide,  with  iron 
and  brass  foundry.  The  new  company 
has  absorbed  the  M.  N.  Rowley  Scale 
&  Butchers’  Supply  Co.,  of  this  city, 
and  after  Jan.  1  will  be  located  in  new 
quarters  at  the  corner  of  Randolph  and 
Congress  streets,  where  a  double  store 
will  be  occupied,  one  for  the  office  and 
the  other  the  salesroom. 
It  is  expected 
to  have  the  factory  completed  and  run­
ning  by  Feb.  1  if there  is  not  too  much 
bad  weather.  The  company  will  man­
ufacture  a  complete  line  of heavy scales, 
such  as  wagon,  railroad  track,  stock, 
portable  truck  and  other  types  of  heavy 
scales.  The officers  are  as  follows :  Pres­
ident,  W.  F.  Stimpson;  Vice-President, 
O.  A.  Kelley ;  Secretary,  J.  J.  Lannen ; 
Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Minto.

M an u factu rin g   M atters.

Delray— The  style  of  thé  Fischer Glue 
Co.  has  been  changed  to  the  Fischer- 
Hughes  G elatine  Co.

Monroe— The 

John  Wahl  Paint  & 
Color  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $10,000.

Detroit—The  capital  stock  of  the Zen- 
ner  Disinfectant  Co.  has  been  increased 
from  $20,000 to  $50,000.

Nashville—The  Nashville  Cooperage 
Co.  is  the  style  of  a  new  industry  at 
this  place.  The  capital  stock  is  $12,000.
Munising—The  Novelty  Manufactur­
ing  &  Plating  Co.  has  been  organized 
at  this  place,  capitalized  at  $25,000..
Detroit—The  style  of  the  Michigan 
Pure  Food  Co.,  Limited,  has  been 
changed  to  the  Oxford  Pure  Food  Co., 
Limited.

Manistee—The  Manistee  Novelty Co., 
manufacturer  of  furniture  and  novelties, 
has  increased 
from 
$40,000 to $50,000.

its  capital  stock 

Albion—The  capital  stock  of  the  Al­
bion  Creamery  Co.  has  been  increased 
$1,500  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a 
skimming  station  near  Rice  Creek.

Hillsdale— The  Kelley  Shingle Co.,  of 
Traverse  City,  has  purchased  the  plan­
ing  mill  and 
lumber  yard  of  E.  C. 
Campbell  and  merged  the  business  into 
a  stock  company  under  the  style  of  the 
Campbell  Lumber  Co.

Homestead—The  Homestead Charcoal 
&  Chemical  Co.  has  been organized with 
a  capital  stock  of $25,000.  The  mem­
bers  of  the  new  enterprise  are  J.  L. 
Ford,  ofFruitport;  M.  Crane,  of Frank­
fort,  and  Nelson  Bye,  cf  Wallin.

Bear  Lake—Work  has  begun  on  the 
Bear  Lake  canning  factory,  which  will 
utilize  the  sawmill  building  of  Bunion 
&  Hopkins.  The  capacity  of  the  new 
enterprise  will  be  20,000 cans  per  day, 
and 
it  will  probably  employ  about  100 
people  during  the  busy  season.

Hillsdale—H.  H.  Hart,  of  this  place, 
and  Clarence  P.  Kite,  of  Bankers,  who 
are  connected  with  Burnap  &  Burnap, 
of  Toledo,  contractors  and  builders of 
butter  and  cheese  factories,  are  organ­
izing  a  creamery  at  this  place  and  have 
already  secured  subscriptions  for  half  of 
the  stock.

Ithaca—The  Ithaca  cheese 

factory, 
under  the  management  of  J.  A.  Gard- 
bam,  has  discontinued  operations  and 
will  reopen  about  the  middle  of  Feb­
ruary.  This  is  the  first  season  in  the 
history  of  the  factory,  and  it  has  turned 
out  twenty-six  cheese  per  day  and  has 
paid  to  the  farmers  and  haulers  about 
$1,000  per  month. 
It  is  expected  to  in­
crease  this  output  about  100  per  cent, 
next  year.
j S tatistical  P osition  o f  th e   G rand  R apids 

B anks.

The  bank  statements  just  published, 
showing  the  condition  of  the  banks  at 
the  close  of  business  Nov.  25,  do  not 
disclose  any  startling  changes  from  the 
preceding  report,  dated  Sept.  15.  The 
time  difference  between  the  two  reports 
is  but  ten  weeks  and,  in  the  meantime, 
whatever  may  have  been  conditions  in 
Wall  Street,  this  secticn  has  had  neither 
sudden  boom  nor any  serious  collapse.

The 

loans  and  discounts  as  disclosed 
by  the  statements  just  published  aggre­
gate  $15,117,576.77.  This  is  $258,527.18 
more  than  on  Sept.  15,  and  it  may  be 
noted  that  of  this  increase  $192,000  may 
be  credited  to  the  savings  banks.

The  stocks,  bonds  and  mortgages  ag­
gregate  $3,843,383.39,  and  this  is  an  in­
crease  of  $193.034.35  as  compared  with 
the  preceding  report.  The  national 
banks  increased  their  holdings  by  about 
$6,000  and  the  savings  banks  about 
$187,000.

The  due  from  banks  is  $2,526,526.11, 
a  decrease  of  $604,926.04,  and  the  cash 
and  cash  items  are  $1,315,884.92,  an  in­
crease  of  $54,537.18.  The  total  cash  and 
immediate  resources  are  $3,842,411.03, 
and  this  is  $550,388.86  less  than  ten 
weeks  ago.

$1.195,605.20, 

The  surplus  and  undivided  profits  are 
a  gain  of  $100,234.59.
The  commercial  deposits  are  $6,754,- 
300.34,  a  decrease  of  $562,615.03.  The 
certificates  and  savings  are  $11,322.- 
609.93,  an  increase  of  $380,576.72.  The 
amount  due  banks  is  $1,529,759.72,  a 
decrease  of  $32,000.  The  total  deposits 
are  $20,122,821.78  as  compared  with 
$20,280,651.55  ten  weeks  ago.

The  notable  features  in  the  consoli­
dated  statement  are  the  increase  in  the 
loans  and  discounts,  the  decrease  in  the 
commercial  accounts  and  the  large  in­
crease  in  the  savings  and  certificate  de­
posits.  The  decrease  in  the  commercial 
deposits  may  easily  be  explained  by  the 
withdrawal  of  money  to  put  into  busi­
ness.  The  increase  in  the  savings 
in­
dicates  that  the  habits  of  thrift  are  still 
with  the  people.  The  substantial  in­
crease  in  the  securities  other  than  loans 
and  discounts  held  by  the  savings banks 
indicates  that  money  is  being  loaned  on 
real  estate  mortgages  given  either  for 
building  or buying  purposes.

In  ten  weeks,  as  the'statements  show, 
the  surplus  and  undivided  profits  have 
increased  $100,234.49,and  in  the  mean­
time  four  of  the  banks  have  disbursed 
$14,000  in  dividends.  The  total  net 
earnings  of  the  banks  for  the  ten  weeks 
may  be  estimated  at  $114,234  49,  or  at 
the  rate  of  about  $570,000  a  year.  This 
is  at  the  rate  of  a  fraction  more  than  21 
per cent,  on  the  capital  stock,  nr  neatly 
15  per cent,  on  the  capital,and  accumu­
lated  earnings.  The  national  banks  now 
have  accumulated  earnings  representing 
38.1  per  cent,  of  their  capital  while  the 
State  banks  have  approximately  79  per 
cent,  of  their  capital 
in  surplus  and 
undivided  profits.  The  Kent  Savings 
Bank  leads  all  the  banks  in  its  surplus, 
with  more  than  three  times  its capital to 
draw  on.  The  State  Bank  comes  sec­
ond,  with  a  surplus  of  more  than  two- 
thirds  the  capital.

The 

immense  accumulation  of  pine 
and  birch  scraps  around  the  big  lumber 
mills  of  Maine,  which  were  long  an  in­
convenience  and  a  source of danger from 
fire,  are  now  being  utilized  by  small 
machines,  which  make  them  into  nov­
elties.  The  manufacture  of  toys,  too,  is 
gaining  considerable  importance,  and  a 
method  of  painting  them  by  dipping 
may  cheapen  their  cost  so  that  "Made 
in  Germany"  will  not  longer  be  read 
from 
the  baby's  stocking.  Among 
novelties  500.000,000  torthpicks.25  000,- 
000  butchers'  skewers  and  250,000.000 
birch  spools  are  turned  out  in  one  year. 
Checkers,  dice  boxes,  bicycle  rims, 
tables,  desks  and  swings  add  to  the  an­
nual  total.

♦

  •  ♦

A   S u b s t i t u t e .

"Father,  I  should 

like  to  try  one  of 
these  systems  cf  physical  exercise  that 
are  advertised  in  the  papers.  They  are 
cheap,  and  you  don't  need  any  ap­
paratus."

" I   will  furnish  you  with  one,  my  son, 
that  1  tried  with  great  success  when  I 
was  a  young  man,  and  I’ ll  warrant  it  to 
be  as  good  as  any  in  the  market."
“ Could  1  take  it  here  at  home?"
"Y e s;  that  is  one  of its chief merits. ”
"Any  apparatus  necessary?’ ’
"Yes,  but  it’s quite  simple. 

I'll  fur­

nish  it."

"Can  I  take  it  in  my  room?”
"N o ;  you  can  take 

it  out  at  the 
woodpile.  You  will  find  the  apparatus 
there  all  ready  for  you,  my  son."

VISES

Combination pipe and 

machinist’s vises

Steam  Fitters’  Tools.

All  kinds of 

Fittings  and  Valves.

GRAND  RAPIDS  SUPPLY  CO.

20  PEARL ST.

Hickory  Nuts 

Wanted

Name  us  price  f.  o.  b.  your 

station or  delivered.

M.  O.  BAKER.  (8h  CO.

Commission Merchants 

119-121  Superior  St, Toledo,  O h io ^

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

s

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Vyn  &  Son  have  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  Martin  Schram  at  1161 
South  Division  street.

Miles  Chubb  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  792  North  Coit  avenue  to  C.  A. 
Taylor  and  will  re-engage  in  the  lum­
ber  business.

C.  E.  Walker  will  shortly  engage  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Grand  Junction. 
The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  has  the  or­
der  for  the  stock.

E.  M.  Reed,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Coopersville,  has  re­
in  the  grocery  business  at  that 
engaged 
place. 
The  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

The  Walden  Shoe  Co.  has  leased  the 
vacant  store 
in  the  Willard  Barnhart 
building,  known  as  31  North  Ionia 
street,  and  will  occupy  it  as  a  sampl 
and  salesroom,  making  shipments  from 
this  point,  instead of  from  the  factory  at 
Grand  Haven,  as  heretofore.  The  new 
store  will  be  opened  for  business  i 
about  two  weeks.

Clarence  J.  Van  Etten,  who  has  been 
identified  with  D.  A.  Blodgett  for the 
past  twelve  years,  leaves  Thursday  for 
Hattiesburg,  Miss.,  where  he  will  spend 
the  winter,  looking  after  the  enormous 
timber  holdings  of  the  Blodgett  family 
in  that  vicinity.  He  will  make  a  tour 
of  the  Florida  resorts  before  returning 
home  in  May.  He  will  be  accompanied 
by  his  wife.

Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  2O022C  for 
case  count  and  22@24C  for  candled 
Receipts  are  small  and  quality  is  poor, 
Cold  storage  range  from  i9@2ic.
Figs—$1.10  per  xo  lb.  box  of  Califor 
n ia;  5  crown  Turkey,  17c;  3 crown,  14c, 
Grapes— Malagas. $5.2505.75 ’. Cataw- 
bas,  20c  per  4  lb.  basket.
Honey—White  stock  ,is  scarce  and 
higher,  readily  commanding  I7© i8c. 
Amber  is  active  at  14015c  and  dark 
is 
moving  freely  on the  basis  of  12013c. 

f !

Lemons—Californiasi £4.75 <new  Mes- 
nas,  $5. 
Lettuce— I2#c  per-l|).  for  hothouse. 
Maple  Sugar— io# c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy. 
Nuts—Butternuts,  75c;  walnuts,  75c; 
hickory  nuts, $2.75  per  bu.
Onions— Home  grown  stock  is  in  am­
ple  supply  at  60065c.  Pickling  stock, 
$203  per  bu.

Oranges—Floridas  command  $4  per 
Jamaicas  fetch  $4.50  Per  box- 

box. 
California  Navels,  $4.50.
Parsley—30c  per doz.
Potatoes—The  market 

is  weak  and 
sluggish,  but  buying  at  country  points 
continues  on  the  basis  of  4O045 C  Per 
bu.
Poultry-----Turkeys  are  not  being
offered  at  all,  as  is  usually  the  case  the 
week  after  Thanksgiving.  Ducks  are 
very  scarce  and  geese  are  by  no  means 
plentiful.  Chickens  and  fowls  are  in 
plentiful  supply.  Live pigeons  are  inac­
tive  demand  at 6o0 7 oc.  Nester squabs, 
either 
live  or  dressed,  $2  per  doz. 
Dressed  stock  commands  the  following : 
Spring  chickens,io0iic;  small  hens,  9 
0 ic c ;  spring  ducks,  H 0 i2 c;  spring 
turkeys,  11013c;  small  squab  broilers 
2}£©i5c;  Belgian  hares,I2K 0 I5C* 
Radishes— 30c  per  doz.  for  hothouse 
Spanish  Onions—$1.25  per  crate.

'  Spinach—60c  per  bu.
Squash—2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard. 
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  $3-5°  Per 
bbl.  ;  Virginias,  $2.50.
Turnips—40c  per  bu.

C.  S.  Comstock, 

in  behalf  of  Com 
stock  &  Jones,  of  Boyne  City,  closed 
deal  here  yesterday  with  M.  E.  Bou 
mann,  of  Newberry,  for  182  forties  lying 
north  of  Newberry  and  between  that 
town  and  Lake  Superior.  Comstock 
Jones  already  own  eight  forties  in  the 
same  locality, so that their  total  holdings 
now 
aggregate  nearly  twelve  square 
miles.  They  expect  to complete  thei 
cut in  the  vicinity  of  Boyne  City  with 
a  year,  when  they  will  remove  thei 
mill  to  the 
location  of  the  Too  Heart 
Life  Saving  Station,  on  Lake  Superior 
which  will  probably  be  their  beadquar 
ters  for  a  dozen  years  thereafter.  The 
timber they  have purchased  is  so  located 
that  it  can  all  be  floated  to  this  port 
down  the  east  branch  of  the  Too  Heart 
River. 
It  comprises  pine,  hemlock 
cedar  and  hardwood,  which  w ill  neces 
sitate  shingle  as  well  as  sawmills.

A  Kansas  newspaper  offered  a  prize 
for  the  most  truthful  prediction  of  the 
character  of  the  coming  winter.  Hun­
dreds  of  people  sent  in  their  prophecies 
based  upon  all  kinds  of  theories  and 
signs,  which  strangely  enough  seem 
capable  of  opposite  interpretations. 
In 
the  list  is  one  scoffer  who  says:  “ There 
are  three  signs  that  have  never  been 
known  to  fail,  and  they  have  all  been 
observed  this  fall. 
(1)  When  the  ducks 
swim  up  river backward  when  the  sun 
crosses  the 
line;  (2)  when  the  frogs 
stand  on  their  heads  on  the  last  day  of 
September  and  whistle  * Yankee  Doo­
d l e (3)  when  the  bluejays  light  on 
the  clothesline  in  the  back  yard  on  the 
in  October  and 
first  Sunday  morning 
sing  Old  H undred’ -tb e n   look  out 
for 
mud.”  

____

_ 

T he  P ro d u ce  M ark et.

Apples—The  market  is  in  a  very  un 
satisfactory  condition,  due  to  the  unfa 
vorable  weather  and  the  large amount  of 
poor  stock,  which  tend 
to  depress 
values-  Good  stock  fetches  $202.25 
per  bbl.
Bananas—Good  shipping  stock,  $1.25 
@2  per  bunch.
Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c  for  prime 
yellow  stock.
Beets—40c  per  bu.
Butter—Creamery  is  firm  and  higher, 
commanding  28c  for  fancy  and  27c  for 
choice.  Pound  prints  from  fancy  com­
mand  29c.  Dairy  grades  are strong  and 
in  active  demand,  commanding  2O022C 
for  fancy,  i802oc  for  choice  and  i6@ 
18c 
for  packing  stock.  Receipts  of 
dairy  are  meager  in  quantity  and  only 
fair  in  quality.

ply  at  17c  per doz.

Cabbage—40c  per doz.
Carrots—35c  per  bu.
Celery— Home  grown  is  in ample sup­
Chestnuts—$506  per  bu. 
Cocoanuts—$3.75  per  sack.
Cranberries— Howes  from  Cape  Cod 
are  strong  and  scarce  at  $3.40  per  bu. 
box  and  89  75  per  bbl.

for  Ohio. 

Dates  — Hallowi,  5J£c;  Sairs,  5c;  1 

lb.  package,  7c.

There  is  a  sure-enough  new woman  in 
Brooklyn.  She  is  a  washerwoman  who 
makes  as  much  as  $16  per  week.  But 
she  does  not  break  her  back  over  the 
tubs.  She  has  a  husband  she  utilizes  as 
a  washing  machine.  On  every  dollar 
she  takes  in  she  allows  him  10 cents. 
This  arrangement  has  been  in  existence 
for  a  couple  of  years,  and  is  entirely 
satisfactory  except  that  the  man  when 
he  has  amassed  a  couple  of  dollars  de­
liberately  goes  out  and  gets  superlative­
ly  drunk,  causing  a  suspension  of  wash­
ing  operations.  His  wife  bad  him  ar­
rested  the  last  time,  but  the  judge  who 
heard  the  story  held  that  it  could  not  be 
expected  but  that  the  worm  would  oc 
casionally  turn.

A  Pontiac  landlord  received  the  fol­
lowing  note  the  other  day  from  a  former 
merchant:  “ Two  years  ago  I  rented  a 
cottage  of  you.  My  wife  died  there  and 
the  doctors  all  said  the  situation  of  the 
house  on  the  low,  marshy  grounds  was 
the  cause  of  her  death.  1  married  again 
a  year  ago. 
If  you  can procure  me  that 
same  cottage  I  will  pay  you  a  good 
price,  and  myself  and  wife  will  move 
into  it at  once.”

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  raw  sugar  market  con­
tinues  very  firm  and  prices  show  an  ad­
vance  of 
i - i6c.  Holders  are  very  firm 
in  their  views  and  are  offering  but  lit­
tle  stock.  Refiners'  supplies  are  only 
moderate,  and  they  are  willing  to  make 
liberal  purchases  at  quoted  prices.  The 
refined  sugar  market  is  very  firm  but 
quiet,  demand  at  present  being  light.
Not  much  activity 
looked  for  now 
until  after  the  first  of the  year as Decem­
ber  is  usually  a  dull  month  in  the  sugar 
business.

is 

Canned  Goods—The  movement  in  the 
canned  goods  line  is  rather  slow,  there 
little  doing  in  anything  on 
being  but 
the 
list.  Prices  on  almost  everything, 
however,  are  firmly  held  and  one  reason 
for  the  dulness  is  that  most  houses  are 
getting  ready  for  inventory  and  do  not 
want  to  accumulate  any  stocks  until 
after  that  is  over.  After  the  first  of  the 
new  year,  however,  we  expect  a  good 
demand  on  almost  all  lines.  The  tomato 
market  shows 
little  change  and  while 
reports  continue  to  claim  light  stocks  in 
packers’  hands,  there  seems  to  be  very 
little  disposition  to  buy.  Taking  the 
large  purchases  into consideration which 
were  made  early  in  the  season  and  the 
slack 
it 
looks  very  much 
like  a  well-supplied 
trade.  While  no  lower  prices  are  looked 
for,  it  hardly  seems  possible  for a  much 
higher  market  to  come  very  soon.  Corn 
continues  in  moderate 
request,  with 
prices  very  firmly  held.  Peas  are  in 
fair  demand  with  no  change  in  price 
There  is  some  demand  for  small  fruits 
and  some  movement  is  noted  in  syrup 
strawberries.  Salmon 
is  in  quite  good 
demand  and  moving  out  well  at  un 
changed  prices.  Sardines  are  quiet  but 
prices  show  no  change.

interest  at  the  present  time, 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  fairly  active  and  in  most  cases  prices 
are  firmly  held.  While  the  mild  weathe 
we  are  still  having  is  not  good  for  the 
sale  of  dried  fruits,  a  certain  amount  of 
business  has  to  be  done  and  tbisissuffi 
cient  to  keep  the  market  in  good  shape 
The  near  approach  of  the  holiday  sea 
son  also  will  aid  considerably  in  tbi 
direction,  particularly  on  the  better 
grades  of  goods.  Prunes  are  still  firm 
held  with  a  very  active  enquiry  for  the 
large  sizes,  but  which  are  exceedingly 
scarce.  Stocks  of  the  small  sizes 
moderate  and  in  some  cases  have  to  be 
substituted  for  the 
large  prunes  when 
large  sizes  can  not  be  obtained 
the 
Raisins  are  firm  and 
in  fairly  active 
demand,  particularly  for  the  seeded  and 
fancy  grades  of  loose  muscatels.  Apri 
cots  and  peaches  are  selling  well  at  un 
changed  prices.  Currants  remain  firm 
but  demand  at  present  is 
light.  Dates 
continue  very  firm  with the  tendency  to 
ward  higher  prices,  owing  to  depleted 
stocks  and  the  expected  larger  demand 
for  the  holiday  trade.  Figs  are  in  good 
demand  at  previous  prices.  Evaporated 
apples 
practically  unchanged. 
Prices  are  firm,  but  the  demand  is  very 
light  and  the  present  mild  weather  is 
against  the  sale  of  these  goods.  With 
the  advent  of  colder  weather  some activ­
ity  is  looked  for.

are 

is 

R ice_The  rice  market 

in  good 
shape,  but  with  no  changes  of  note.  De­
mand 
is  good  for  the  medium  and  bet­
ter  grades  at  full  quoted  prices.  Stocks 
are  moderate  of  the  low  grades,  but  the 
better  grades  are  not  very  plentiful.

Molasses—The  mclasses  market 

is 
strong  and  prices  are  firmly maintained. 
The  volume  of  business  during  the  past 
week  was  fairly  large,  but  rather  below 
the  average  at  this  season  of  the  year,

due  to  the  continued  mild  weather. 
There 
is  a  continued  good  demand  for 
corn  syrup  at  previous  prices.

Fish—The  fish  market  presents  very 
little  feature  of  any  description.  Only 
a  moderate  business  is  done,  but  this  is 
at  full  quoted  prices.  Mackerel  and 
codfish  are  both  unchanged  in  price,  but 
show  the  usual  steady  demand.

Nuts—In  this 

line  most  all  descrip­
tions  continue  firm  and  quite  active. 
Brazil  nuts  are  particularly  strong  and 
show  an  advance  of  %c.  California  wal­
nuts  and  almonds  are  both  very  firmly 
held,  the  former  being 
in  very  short 
pply.  Pecans  continue  quite  active 
_  full  prices,but  filberts  show  a  slightly 
easier  feeling.  Peanuts  are  not  strong 
The  offerings  of  new  crop  are  liberal 
and  are  affecting  the  old  crop.
An  Inexcusable  Pnn.

Dr.  Percival,  the  present  Bishop  of 
..ereford,  is  a  staunch  teetotaler,  and  in 
connection  with  his  well-known  views 
on  the  subject  many  good  stories  ate 
related.  Passing  through  a  town  noted 
for  its  breweries,  the  doctor  noticed  that 
many  signs  of  mourning  were  apparent. 
Stopping  a pedestrian,the Bishop asked : 

“ Why  is  the  flag  half-mast  high?”  
“ Because,”   was 

reply, 

the 

“ the 

brewer’s  wife  is  dead.”

“ Ah,  bow  sad!”   answered  Dr.  Per­
cival,  adding,  as  he  gazed  around  him, 
and  I  see  that  the  harrels,  too,  are  in 

tiers.”  

_____

The  business  of  the  Postoffice  Depart­
ment  is  very  properly  regarded as some­
thing  of  a  barometer  of  the general busi­
ness  of  the  country.  The report  of  the 
Postmaster  General  shows  that  within 
the  fiscal  year  the  increase  of  receipts 
has  been  about  $10,000,000.  That  there 
s  a  deficit  as  between  receipts  and  ex­
penses  no  one  complains,  because  it 
is 
felt  that  the  money  thus  expended  is  a 
very  excellent 
investment.  The  rural 
free  delivery  service  of  comparatively 
recent  inauguration  has  been  proving 
The  conven- 
exceptionally  popular. 
.ences  and  advantages 
it  affords  are 
thoroughly  appreciated  and  there  is  a 
great  demand  for  its  extension.  There 
are  now 
in  this  country  11,650  turai 
free  delivery  routes  and  their  number  is 
constantly 
increasing.  The  wonder  is 
that  any  rural  sections  will  be  content 
without  it.  The  system  is  proving  very 
satisfactory  and 
is  a  most  acceptable 
addition  to  postal  facilities.  The  Post­
master General  also  recommends  the ex­
tension  of  the  free  delivery  service  to 
places  of  5,000  population or places hav­
ing  $5,00c  of  gross  postal  receipts.  This 
too  will  be  very  much  appreciated  if 
brought  to  pass.  The  convenience  of 
having  one’s  mail  delivered  at  the  door 
once  or  twice  a  day  is  not  to  be  under­
estimated.  No  other  department  of  the 
Government  affords  so  much  general 
service  and  no  other  does  so  much  for 
the  people  as  that  presided  over  by  the 
Postmaster  General.

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

and  nrirp«.  ra il  V inner,  both  obone»

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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W ILL  GO  H IG H E R .

O utcom e  o u tlie   J e n n in g s  P ersecu tio n   a t 

Written for the Tradesman.

M uskegon.

The  recent  developments  in  the  cam­
paign  inaugurated  by  the  State  Dairy 
and  Food  Commissioner  and  the  pro­
ceedings  in  the  Muskegon  suits  against 
the  Grand  Rapids  manufacturers  fully 
justify  the  comments  and  strictures con­
tained  in  an  article  in  the  Tradesman 
of  Nov.  19.

The  October  Bulletin 

including  substantially  all 

issued  by  the 
department contained numerous analyses 
lemon  extract  manufac­
of  samples  of 
tured  and  sold 
in  this  State  showing 
varying  quantities  of  alcohol  and,  in 
most  cases,  no  lemon  oil.  These  prod­
ucts, 
the 
lemon  extract  business  of  the  State, 
were  declared  to  be  in  open  violation  of 
the  law  because  they  were  not  made  in 
accordance with  the  recipe  in the United 
States Pharmacopoeia of  1890,and manu­
facturers  and  dealers  were  warned  to  re­
move  all  such  goods  from  their  shelves 
by  Jan.  1  next.  Otherwise  they  will  be 
classed  as  willful  violators. 
the 
meantime  one  of  the  Muskegon  cases, 
that  against  the  Jennings  Flavoring  Ex­
tract  Co.,was  tried  before  Judge  Russell 
and  a  jury.

In 

The  food  law  does  not  provide  any 
standard  for  lemon  extract; 
in  fact, 
makes  no  specific  reference  to  it,  as  in 
case  of  most  foods. 
It comes  within  the 
general  provision,  “ That no person shall 
within  this  State  manufacture  for  sale, 
have 
in  his  possession  with  intent  to 
sdi,  *  *  *  any  article  of  food which 
is  adulterated  within  the meaning  of  the 
act."  An  article  is  deemed  adulterated 
when  any  substance  has  been  mixed 
with 
it  that  depreciates  or  injuriously 
affects  its  quality,  strength  or  purity;  if 
inferior  substances  have  been  substi­
tuted  for  it;  if  any  valuable  or  neces­
sary 
ingredient  has  been  abstracted 
from  it;  if  it  is  an  imitation  of  another 
article;  if  it  is  colored  so  as  to conceal 
inferiority,  or-  if,  by  any  means,  it  is 
made  to  appear  better  or  of  greater 
value  than  it  was  before.

The  Supreme  Court  has  held  that  the 
use  in  food  of  coloring  matter  that  is 
not  deleterious  is  not  a  violation  of  the 
law.

Substantially  all  the 

lemon  extracts 
manufactured  in  Michigan  have  the  fla­
vor  and  odor  of  the  lemon  essential  for 
the  purposes  for  which  they  are  de­
signed  and  many  of  them  have an estab­
lished 
in  the  trade  and 
among  consumers.  No  fault  has  been 
found  on  the  part  of  the  trade  or  the 
consumer,  their  test  being  the  flavoring 
qualities  of  the  products.

reputation 

As  stated before,the  standard  followed 
by  the  State  Chemist  and  arbitrarily 
adopted  by  the  Food  Department  was 
the  formula  in  the  United  States  Phar­
macopoeia  for  the  spirits  of  lemon,  a 
simple  mixture  for  the  use  of  the  phar­
macist  in  the  ordinary  drug  store.

In  the  Jennings  case  the  prosecution 
relied  entirely  upon  the  testimony of  the 
State  Chemist,  who  testified  that  he  had 
analyzed  the  extract 
in  question  and 
found  the  alcohol  diluted  and  no  lemon 
o il;  also  that  the  coloring  matter  used 
was  lemon  yellow  or  a  preparation  of 
coal  tar  dye,  which  he  said  was  harm­
less  and  used  only  to  give  it  the  requi­
site color.  The standard adopted was  the 
United States Pharmacopoeia of 1890 and 
lemon  extract  must  be  made  in  accord­
ance  therewith,containing  all  the  lemon 
oil 
in  undiluted  alcohol  and  colored 
with  lemon  rind.  Lemon  extract  made 
in  any  other  way  was  regarded  by  the

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

It  should  be  said,  in 

Department  as  a  violation  of  law  and 
condemned. 
jus­
tice  to  this  young  man  of  the  State Lab­
oratory,  that  when  he  made  bis  tests  he 
honestly  believed  that  no  lemon  oil  was 
used  in  the  process of manufacturing  the 
lemon  extract  examined  by  him.  It  was 
apparent  that  he  had  never  had  any 
practical  experience  or  observation  in 
the  processes  in  vogue  for  manufactur­
ing  this  article  in  the  regular  establish­
ments  of  the  State  and,  unfortunately, 
did  not  have  the  judgment  and  discre­
tion  to  inform  himself  in  that  regard 
before  determining  the  views  of  the  De­
partment  on  lemon  extract.  The  other 
members  of  the  Food  Department  are 
political  appointees  and  devoid  of  prac­
tical  knowledge  and  experience  in  food 
products.

The  revelations  cf  the  defense  in  the 
Jennings  case  were  undoubtedly  a  sur­
prise  to  the  young  State  Chemist  and 
the  arbitrary 
inspectors,  but  their  self­
esteem  had  to  be  gratified.

Under  the  direction  of  able  counsel,  a 
thorough  defense  was  made.  Several 
manufacturers  and  practical  chemists 
testified  that  formerly  a  flavoring  mix­
ture  was  made  by  mixing  a  small  per­
centage  of 
lemon  oil  in  strong  alcohol 
and  coloring  it  with  lemon  rind,  but  the 
product,  while  it  possessed  good  flavor­
ing  qualities  when  fresh, was  unsatisfac­
tory  and 
impractical  as  an  article  of 
commerce  for  flavoring  foods,  for  the 
reason  that  a  large  portion  of  the  lemon 
oil  consisted  of  hydro-carbons,  com­
monly  classed  as  terpines,  which  con­
tained  no flavoring  properties  and  soon 
produced  a  turpentine  taste,  making  the 
product  rancid,  while  the  lemon  rind 
coloring  faded  by  exposure  to  heat  or 
light  and  was  precipitated  in  the  form 
of  sediment  in  the  bottle.

It  was  shown  that  the  ingredient  in 
the 
lemon  oil  which  produced  the  fla­
voring,  ail  that  is  desired  in  an  extract, 
is  known  as  citral,  constituting  about
10  per  cent,  of  the  oil,  the  other 90  per 
cent,  being  the  so-called  terpines,  not 
only  useless  but  deleterious;  also  that 
the  sole  purpose  of  lemon  rind  was  to 
color  it  to  please  the  eye  and  cater  to 
the  popular  impression  that  a  lemon  ex­
tract  should  be  lemon  color.  Without 
the  coloring  the  flavoring  extract  was 
water  white. 
It  was  discovered  that  an 
infinitesimal  amount  of  harmless  color 
preparation  would  produce  a  rich  and 
permanent  lemon  color.

the 

Through 

terpines  eliminated. 

laborious  investigation  and 
experiment  a  process  was  evolved  by 
which  the  citral  or  flavoring  quality 
of  the  oil  of  lemon  could  be  extracted 
by  washing  or  agitating in dilute alcohol 
and 
This 
preparation,  containing  all  the  flavor­
ing  of  the  oil  and  clarified  by  filtration, 
produces  a  rich  flavoring  extract  which 
does  not  become  rancid.  The  color,  as 
in  the  case  of  clear  oil  and  alcohol,  was 
white  and  the  lemon  yellow  gave  it  the 
lemon  coloring.  This  extract  they  uni­
versally  regarded  as  a  much  better  fla­
voring  article  than  could  be  produced 
by  the  old  pharmacy  mixture.  They 
declared  the  primary  purpose  of  this 
new  and  scientific  method  was  to  pro­
duce  a  superior  flavoring  extract,  al­
though  perhaps  made  at  a  somewhat 
reduced  cost. 
The  diluted  alcohol, 
which  brought  out  the  citral,  was cheap­
er  than  the  clear alcohol  by  which  the
011  was  cut,  but  the  increased  labor  and 
plant  investment  under  the  new  process 
would  largely  absorb  this  saving.

In  addition  to  this  testimony  was  that 
of  experts  in  extracts  and*food  prod­
ucts.

Exclusive 

Agent  for 

Riverside 
Cheese

Adrian,  Mich», Dec»  1,  1902»

To whom it may concern:

This is to certify that the Judson 

Grocer Company has exclusive sale of 
our Riverside Full Cream Cheese,  both 
in regular sizes,  and of the Gem Full 
Cream,  and any cheese of said brand 
sold by other parties,  bearing such 
brands,  are not of our Riverside make, 
and are counterfeits»

BAKER & JURDEN,
Per E»  L» BAKER,  Salesman»

STATE OF MICHIGAN )
COUNTY OF LENAWEE )

V ss»

Before me a Notary Public,  in and 
for Lenawee County,  Mich»,  on this 1st 
day of December, A» D»  1892,  came E. L. 
Baker,  Salesman of the Riverside Fac­
tory,  Full Cream Cheese,  and by me 
known to be the same person subscribing 
hereto,  who on being sworn,  deposes 
and says that the above statement is 
true in all respects»

GEORGE W. AYER,

Notary Public in and for Lenawee 

County, Mich»

A L L   C L A IM S   A T   V A R IA N C E   W IT H   T H IS  

A F F I D A V IT   A R E   S P U R IO U S

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7

Dr.  Kremers.of the University of  Wis­
consin,  who  has  devoted  many  years  in 
this  and  foreign  countries  to  the  study 
of  essential  oils  and 
is  probably  the 
highest  authority 
in  this  country  upon 
that  subject,  testified.  He  was  a  mem­
ber  of  the  convention  of  iqoo  which  met 
to  revise  and  prepare  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia,and the  Chairman  of  the 
sub-committee  having 
in  chaige  the 
preparation  of  these  formulas,  designed 
for  the  easy  use of the  ordinary  pharma­
cist.  This  body  is  a  voluntary  assem­
blage  of  representatives  of  various med­
institutions  and  bodies  meeting 
ical 
once 
for  the  purpose 
named.  He  explained  the  distinction 
between  the  spirits  of  lemon of the Phar­
macopoeia  and  the  extract  of commerce, 
the  one  being  a  simple  mixture  for 
medicinal  flavoring  and  the  other  an 
aiticle  for  food  flavorings.

in  ten  years 

flavorings 

in  making 

The  modern  tendency 

is  toward  the 
increasing  use  of  lemon  oil  from  which 
the hydro-carbons  or terpines  have  been 
eliminated 
for 
both  pharmaceutical  and  food  purposes. 
He  explained  the  modern  method  of  ex­
tracting  or  washing  out  the  citral  or  fla­
voring  quality  of  the  oil  by  the  use  of 
dilute  alcohol  and  declared  the  product 
to  be  unquestionably  superior  to  that 
produced  by  the  old  formula  of  mixing 
oil  and  alcohol,  because 
it  contained 
less  alcohol  ar„d  the  flavoring  without 
the  terpines.

He  said  the  Pharmacopoeia  formula 
would  be  changed 
in  the  1900  edition 
and  that  it  bad  no  necessary  rtlation  to 
the  making  of  extract  for  food purposes
He  stated  that  the  only  purpose  of  us 
ing 
lemon  rind  was  to  color  the  fluid 
and  that  the  lemon  yellow  accomplished 
precisely  the  same  purpose  and  was 
fadeless  and  harmless.

Dr.  Victor  C.  Vaughan,  of  the  Uni 
versify  of  Michigan,  one  of  the  most 
eminent  authorities 
in  the  world  on 
hygiene  and  food  products,  also  testified 
corroborating 
in  every  particular  the 
statements  and opinions of Dr.  Kremers 
He  had  examined  and  analyzed  a  sam 
pie  of  the  Jennings  lemon  extract  and 
stated  that  it  was  made  by  the  modern 
process  and was unquestionably  superior 
to  the  mixture  of  the  Pharmacopoeia for 
the  flavoring  of  foods;  that  the  citral  or 
flavoring  of  the  lemon  oil  was  found 
in 
the  Jennings  extract,  the  terpines  bav 
ing  been  eliminated,  thereby  improving 
the  product,and  that  the  coloring  mat 
ter  in  very  minute  quantity 
served 
the  same  purpose  as  lemon  rind,  pro 
ducing  a  more  permanent  color.

Prof.  Doolittle,  the State  Chemist,  die 
not  undertake  to  rebut  the  testimony  o 
the  defense  or  to  explain  his  decision 
that 
it  was  absolutely  necessary  to  use 
the  whole  of  the  oil,  of  the  lemon.

The  issue  in  the  case  was  whether the 
use  of  the  flavoring  properties  of  lemon 
oil  by  the  modern  process  produced  an 
extract  of 
lemon.  The  manufacturer, 
the  scientist,the  dealer  and  the  consum 
er  think 
it  does.  The  State  Chemist 
aud  the  pditicians  of  the  Food  Depart 
ment  undertake  to  read  into  the  law  the 
antiquated  Pharmacopoeia  recipe.

Under  the  charge  of  Judge  Russe 

that  the  Pharmacopoeia  formula must be 
regarded  as  the  standard  for  lemon  ex 
tract  in  Michigan  and  that  if  an  artifi 
cial  coloring  was  used  to  make  th 
product  appear  different  than  it  really 
was,  it  would  be  a  violation  of  the  law 
the  jury,  as  a  matter  of  course,  brought 
in  a  verdict  of  guilty.  The  case  will  be 
immediately  appealed  to  the  Supreme 
Court.

It  is  a  test  case  and  important,  as

involves  the 

lemon  extract | 
practically 
manufacturing  business  of  the  State. 
If ] 
the  standard  adopted  by  the  Food  De- 
artment  should  be  sustained— which  ¡8 
not  at  all  probable— it  would  result  in 
changing 
the  extract  manufacturing 
business  of the State,as now established, 
nd  the  substitution,  for  the  superior 
flavoring  extract  in  general  use,  of  an 
nferior  article  composed  of  alcohol  and 
crude  oil  of  lemon  which  could  with 
ifficulty  be  supplied  for  general  use  in 
fresh,  pure  and  satisfactory  condition. 
To  the  average  practical  citizen  and 
consumer  this  raid  of  the  Food  Depart­
ment  upon  the  lemon  extract business  is 
simply  ludicrous.

The  purpose  of  the  food  laws  is  high­
ly  commendable  and,  employed  and  en­
forced  by  competent  men, would be  most 
efficient,  but  the  present  methods  of  ig­
norant,  inexperienced  men  can  only  re­
sult  in  subjecting  the  law  and  Depart­
ment  to  reproach. 

Onlooker.

T h e ir  F o rtu n a te   Escape.

They  had  walked  halfway  through  the 
park  at  a  smart  pace,  and  she  now  sank 
on  a  shaded  bench;  he  seated  himself 
beside  her.  They  were  entirely  alone, 
save  for  an  did  man  at  one  end  of  their 
seat,  immersed 
in  a  book.  Their  agi­
tated  conversation  continued.

“ Ob,  it  is  too  dreadful!”   she  shud­
dered,  covering her  face  with  her  hands, 
as  if  to  shut  out  some  unbearable  sight.
“  Fearful!”   he agreed,  deeply  moved 
and  mopping  the  profuse  perspiration 
from  his  brow.

“ Horrible!”   she  added. 

“ I  can  not 
bear  to  think  of  it.  The  loss  of  hope, 
happiness,  perhaps  even  life  itself— ”  

“ Hush!”  he  interrupted,gently.  “ Let 
us  strive  to  think  of  it  no  more,  or  it 
may  grow  to  prev  upon  our  minds.”  

“ Pardon  me,”   said  the  old  man  on 
the  end  of  the  bench,  bis  watery  eyes 
distended  in  lively  apprehension,  “ has 
there  been  some  awful  disaster?  Have 
you been  forced  to  look  upon some awful 
ragedy ?”
The  young  couple  regarded  each other 
n  some  confusion.  Hesitatingly,  the 
youth  answered:

‘ No,  sir.  You  see,  we  have  just  be­
come  engaged,,  and  we  were  talking  of 
what  a  calamity  it  would  have  been  had 
we  never  met. ”

and 

freight 
idea 

A  novel  project  has  been  put  forth  in 
Wisconsin  for  the  sale  in  the  form  of 
ce  of  mineral  water,and a  company  has 
been  formed  to  exploit  it. 
It  is  pro­
posed  to  dispose  of  the  water  in  this 
form  so  as  to  save  the  consumer the  cost 
of  the  ice  ordinarily  bought  to  cool  the 
various  mineral  waters  as  sold  now  in 
bottles  and  cans.  Ordinarily  the  ice to 
cool  mineral  waters,  as  kept 
in  tanks, 
business  offices,  clubs,  hotels and  homes 
costs more  than the  water  itself,and  it  is 
proposed  to  cut  in  half  the  cost  of  water 
and  distributing 
ice 
charges.  The 
is  not  a  new  one, 
having  been  proposed  several  years  ago 
when  a  company  was  almost  on  the 
point  of  formation to  carry  it  out.  In the 
first  place,  ice  will  be  made  of  the 
spring  water,  retaining  all  the  original 
mineral  properties,  the  water melting  in 
the  consumer's  tank  and  returning to  its 
natural  form  as  pure  as  when  taken 
from  the  spring.  The  ice  can  be  fur 
nished,  it 
is  declared,  at  less  cost  than 
the  water,  as  the  cost  of  shipping  ice 
from  the  Wisconsin  lakes  to  Milwaukee 
and  Chicago  is  3^  cents  a  hundred 
pounds, while  the  cost  of  shipping  water 
is  7  cents  for  the  same  weight.  The 
ice,  it  is  claimed,  will  be  as valuable  as 
a  refrigerant  as  any  ice,  and in the home 
it  will  do  service  in  the  ordinary  fam 
ily  refrigerator,  the  melting  ice  furnish 
ing  pure  water  for  drinking  purposes 
if  the  ice  chamber  is  kept  clean,and  for 
the  same  price  as  ice  manufactured 
from  distilled  water.

“ He  knows  much  who  knows  how  to 
bold  his  tongue;”   he  would  know  much 
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Connty  of  Kent

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­
poses  and  says  as  follows:
I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 
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LESSON  IN   CO-OPERATION.

Some  persons  who  have  not  given  the 
subject  thought  have  confounded  co­
operation 
in  business  with  socialism 
and  communism.

lifetime  of 

Co-operation  is  in  every  way  different 
is  a  state  of 
from  both.  Communism 
society  in  which  everything  is  in  com­
mon  for  every  member of  the  commun­
ity.  There  have  been  several  attempts 
to  establish  communism 
in  this  coun­
try,  but  only  one  was  successful,  and 
that  only  during  the 
its 
founder.  This  was  the  Oneida  Com­
munity,  set  up  in  Madison  county,  New 
York,  in  1848,  by  Dr.  John  H.  Noyes,  a 
man  of  high  education  and  force  of 
character.  He assembled  more  than  200 
persons  of  both  sexes,who  were  entirely 
under  his  control,  and  be  organized  va­
rious  industries  in  which  the  members 
were  employed.  They  all  lived  together 
in  what  was  called  the  “ Unity  House,’ * 
in  a  state  of  what  they  called  “ complex 
marriage,’ ’  everything  being 
in  com­
mon,  and  no  individual  having  any  ex­
clusive  rights 
in  person  or  property. 
The  community  was  under  the  absolute 
control  of  Noyes  and  after  his  death 
in 
1886,  it  went  to  pieces.  This  is  com­
munism  and 
it  is  the  only  instance  of 
successful  communism  ever  known  in 
this  country. 
It  was  confined  to  a  very 
small  number  of  persons  and  only  sub­
sisted  for  a  limited  period  because  its 
doctrines  and  practices  were  contrary  to 
human  nature  as  it  appears  in  the  great 
body  of  human  beings. 
It  does  not 
even  exist  among  the  most  savage  na­
tions.

Socialism 

is  a  state  or  condition  in 
which  all 
industries  and  all  property 
are  held  and  operated  and  administered 
by  a  governing  power  for  the  benefit  of 
the  whole,  but  there  is  no  interference 
with  family  or  family  life.  There  has 
never  been  any  considerable  successful 
socialistic  establishment,  either  among 
civilized or savage nations,and  socialism 
has  scarcely  passed  the  theoretical state.

Co-operation  is  wholly  different  from 
both. 
It  allows  separate  families  and 
private  property,  but  it  requires  all  the 
population,  to  have  a 
joint  interest  in 
ail  important  business  affairs  and  inter­
ests.  Co-operation  has  been  frequently 
attempted,  but 
it  has  never  been  suc­
cessful 
in  any  extensive  form  in  any 
country  but  this,  and  only  in  one  single 
instance.  That  is the  Mormon  system. 
In  the  “ World’s  Work”   for  December 
is  an  interesting  account  of Mormon  co­
operation.

It 

In  the  first  place,  in  order to  maintain 
any  sort  of  co  operation  there  must  be 
power  and  authority to  control  it.  These 
are  possessed  by  the  Mormon  system. 
Mormonism 
is  a  religion  which  fur­
nishes,  so  far  as  its  believers  are  con­
cerned,  authority  to  act. 
is  also  a 
church  which  gives  organization  and 
machinery  through  which  its  power  and 
authority  can  be  enforced.  Absolute 
obedience  to  all  the  laws  of  the  church 
are  required,  and  failure  to  obey  results 
in  immediate  expulsion  with  loss  of  all 
co-operative  rights  and  interests.

Every  member  must  pay  a  tithe  or 
tenth  of  all  he  makes  yearly  to  the 
church.  Whether of  wages,  of  crops,  of 
the  proceeds  of  mining  or  of  any  and 
every  business  engaged 
in  by  a  Mor­
mon,  he  must  give  one-tentb  to  the 
church.  Tithing  offices  are  established 
in  every  part  of  Utah  where  the  money 
or  the  produce  or  merchandise  that  is 
paid 
is  taken,  disposed  of  and  ac­
counted  for  to  the  bead  of  the  church.

in 

Utah  had  very 

little  of  money  or 
precious  metals  until  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  Montana  and  Idaho,  about  1865, 
and  the  people  there 
lived  and  traded 
by  barter.  But  after  the  opening  of  the 
mines  the  Mormons  shipped  their  pro­
duce  of  every  sort  northward  and  sold 
it  to  the  m iners 
for  gold  dust.  T h is 
source  of  profit  enabled Brigham Young, 
who  was  then  President  of  the  Mormon 
church,  to  establish  “ Zion’s  Co-opera­
tive  Mercantile 
Company,”   with 
branches  in  every  part  of  Utah  and 
offices 
in  New  York  and  London,  and 
with  a  capital  of  one  million  dollars.

Brigham  Young  has  long  been  dead, 
but  the  business  goes  on  and  the  stock 
of  the  Co-operative Company,  which  has 
large  dividends,  is  quoted  at  60 
paid 
per  cent,  above  par.  Then  there 
is 
Zion's  Co-operative  Savings  Bank  and 
Trust  Company,  and  the  Utah  Sugar 
Company,  with  a  capital  of  $2,000,000, 
which  makes  sugar  from  the  beet. 
These  and  many  other  companies  are 
under  the  direction  of  the  church,  with 
Joseph  F.  Smith,  the  President  of  the 
Mormon  church,  at  the  head  of  each.

Everything 

in  this  country  and 

is  co-operativ£,  all  the 
Mormons  being  interested  in  its  success 
and  every  department  of  the  system  has 
careful  and  able  supervision and  the  en­
tire  Mormon  population  is  under partic­
ular  supervision.  AH  are  looked  after, 
and 
it  is  said  that  there  are  neither 
paupers  nor  beggars  among  them. 
Mormon  missionaries  are  constantly  at 
work 
in  Europe 
proselyting,  and  the  result  is  a  steady 
stream  of  immigration  into  Utah.  The 
problem  of  providing  homes  and  em­
ployment  for  the  new  converts,  and  of 
relieving  the  overcrowded  condition  of 
other  settlements,  has  been  constantly 
before  the  Mormon  authorities.  The 
leaders  are  always  on  the  lookout  for 
promising  new  fields  for colonization. 
Lands  capable  of  irrigation  are  always 
in  demand.  Canada,  Mexico,  Colorado, 
Wyoming,  Arizona, 
Idaho  and  New 
Mexico have  all  been  the  scene  of  Mor­

mon  colonization  at  one  time  or  an­
other.

In  the  article  mentioned  it  is  noted 
that  the  habit  of  co-operation  and  of 
taking  counsel  enters  into  social, educa­
tional  and  political  life  quite  as  much 
as  into  business  affairs.  From  the  days 
of  the  Mormon  pioneers the  association 
of  members  into  home  stock  companies 
for dramatic, operatic,  concert  and  choir 
entertainment  has  been  of  much  the 
same  character as  the  co-operative  busi­
ness  organizations.

Brigham  Young  was  himself  one  of 
the  most  ardent  patrons  of  amusements. 
In  nearly 
every  Mormon  settlement 
there  is  some  sort  of  dramatic company. 
Maude  Adams,  the  well-known  actress, 
had  her  first  schooling  in  the  old  Sait 
Lake  Stock  Company,  of  which  her 
mother,  a  Mormon,  was  a  member.  The 
present  Governor  of  Utah  was  at  one 
time  leading man  of the Home Dramatic 
Company,  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Thus  the 
paternalism  of  the  church  has  attended 
amusements  of  all  kinds.  Presumably 
the  Salt  Lake  Theater  is  the only theater 
in  the  world  where  a  private  box  is 
reserved  every  night  of  the  year  for  the 
head  of  the  church,  and  it  is  usually  oc­
cupied.

There  are  perhaps  200,000 Mormons 
in  the  United  States,  all  bolding  alle­
giance  to  the  church  government 
in 
Utah,  which 
is  a  political,  social,  in­
dustrial  and  commercial  as  well as  a  re­
ligious  hierarchy,  and  the  success  with 
which 
its  political  and  financial  opera­
tions  have  been  conducted  shows  that 
all  is  due  to  the  submission  of  its  mem­
bers  to  the  authority  of  the  church  or­
ganization.  Without  such  power  and 
authority  no co-operative  system  can  be 
carried  on  because  it  is  difficult  to get 
people  to  submit  their  private  and  per­
sonal  affairs  to  such  dictation  and  con­
trol.  The  same  difficulty 
in  a  much 
greater  degree  stands  in  the  way  of  any 
extensive  system  of  socialism  or com­
munism.

British  employers  are  complaining  of 
a  new  phase  of  the  American 
invasion. 
An  American  company  having  an  es­
tablishment  in  Manchester,  England,  is 
offering  American  wages 
to  British 
workmen  and 
is,  naturally,  getting  its 
pick  among  them.  Under  American 
direction  and  with  the 
incentive  of 
it  is  said  that  British 
American  pay 
workmen  do  double  the  work  they  have 
been  accustomed  to  perform  for  their 
British  employers.  The  protests  of  the 
latter  are  not 
likely  to  excite  serious 
consideration.  They  have  no  alternative 
but  to  adopt  American  methods.

A  Southern  Colonel  saw  a  young  lady 
walking  alone  and,  in  an  excess  of  gal­
lantry,  offered  bis  arm.  The  lady,  who 
was  an  actress,  first  burst  into tears  then 
promptly  knocked  the  Colonel  down 
with  a 
jolt  upon  the  jaw.  One  never 
can  depend  upon  what  a  woman  will 
do.  They  generally  do  what  you  least 
expect  them  to  do—at  least  that  is  what 
the  Colonel  thought  as  he  gathered  him­
self  from  off  the  sidewalk.

It  looks  as  though  they  may  get  arbi­
tration 
in  Ireland.  There  is  talk  of  a 
conference  between  representatives  of 
the 
landlords,  the  tenants  and  other 
classes  that  have  been  at  war  in  Ireland 
for  generations  past.  All  sides  are  ap­
parently  weary  of  the  controversy  and 
would  welcome  a  settlement  To  solve 
the 
Irish  question  without  violence 
would  be  an  achievement  encouraging 
hope  for the  millennium.

is 

PR O SPE R ITY   AND  IT 8  PROBLEM S.
No  single  business probably  shows  the 
prosperity  which  the  country  is  enjoy­
ing  more  clearly  than  that  of  railway 
transportation.  This  has  increased  im­
mensely  in  the  past  two  years  and  rail­
way  managers  are  now  confronted  with 
what  is  termed  a  car and  power  fam­
ine. 
It  is  said  that  the  demand for  cars 
to  move  the  traffic  of  the  country  is  50,- 
000  in  excess  of  the  supply  and  the 
shortage 
increasing 
rather  than  decreasing.  Conservative 
and  expert  traffic  men  fear  a  congestion 
and  that  the  point  will  be  reached  when 
every  freight  yard  and  every  freight 
house  in  the  country  will  be  blockaded 
with  traffic.  The  railroad  companies 
are  reported  as  making  strenuous  efforts 
to  provide  engines  and  cars,  but  are  un­
able  to  do  so  because  all  the  car  manu­
factories  and  locomotive  works  have  or­
ders  enough  ahead  to  keep  them  busy 
for  a  year,  working  at  their  full  ca­
pacity.

continually 

furthermore, 

The  prosperity  which  this  state  of 
affairs  indicates  is  certainly  gratifying 
and, 
it  shows  the  great 
strides  that  have  been  made  in  the  de­
velopment  of  the  country.  The  enter­
prise  and  energy  of  the people are large­
ly  resp o n sib le  for the  favorable  condi­
tions  prevailing,  but  it  should  be  re­
membered  that  nature  has  been  most 
generous  in  the  past  few  years.  How­
ever,  without  the  close  organization  and 
the  mechanical 
ingenuity  of  men, 
coupled  with  increased  demands  arising 
from  increased wants  and  higher  living, 
nature’s  abundance  would  have  profited 
naught.  But,  while  rejoicing  over  the 
prosperity  which  exists.it  should  not  be 
forgotten  that  that  prosperity  is  usher­
ing 
in  problems  which,  if  not  settled, 
may  result  in  serious  complications.  No 
matter  how  generous  nature's  yield,  the 
economic  m achinery 
of  the  country 
must  be  kept  in  a  state  of  highest  effi­
ciency.  In  a  territory  so  rich  in  natural 
wealth  as  is  the  United  States,  that  is 
the  greatest  problem  of  all.  Legislators 
can  do  much  in  this  direction,  some­
times  by  not  meddling  with  well  known 
economic  laws  and  sometimes  by inaug­
urating  wise  legislation,as  the  situation 
may  demand.  Much  also  depends  on 
the  action  of  capitalists  and  men  at  the 
bead  of  large  enterprises.  The  country 
has  reached  that  point  of  economic  or­
ganization  and  interdependency  of  in­
dustry  upon 
industry  that  it  behooves 
all  the  factors  to  exercise  the  greatest 
foresight  and  wisdom 
in  the  manage­
ment  of  affairs.  An  example  of  this 
was  the  recent  strike  in  the  coal  region.

A  most  amusing  paradox  is  contained 
in  the  statement  that  nobody  lives at  the 
center  of  population 
in  the  United 
States.  The  center  is  at  a  point  near 
Richmond,  Ind.,  and  a  monument  has 
been  erected  so  that  it  can  be  found 
whenever  it  is  wanted.  A  Hoosier  tells 
the  story  in  this  way: 
“ The  last  cen­
sus  disclosed  the  present  center of  pop­
ulation  at  a  point  near  Richmond. 
Public  spirited  citizens,  realizing  how 
changeable  centers  of  population  are, 
concluded  to  erect  a  monument  to  mark 
the  spot. 
It  was  immediately  set  up 
with  proper  ceremonies,  on  the  spot 
where  the  exact  center  is  located.  This 
was  ascertained  by  proper  surveys.  The 
monument  stands  out 
lonely 
country,where  not  a  soul  lives  for  miles 
around,  and 
if  it  were  not  for  that  no 
one  would  know  where  the  center  of 
population  is.”

in  the 

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Staple  Cottons—There  has  been  no 
marked  change  in  the  general  condition 
of  the  staple  and-  of  the  market  end 
business  is  moving  along 
in  a  quiet, 
steady  way  from  day  to day.  The  only 
new  element 
is  that  of  a 
strengthening  in  the  market  of  raw  cot­
ton ;  but  it  may  be said  this  has  had  no 
actual  eSect  so  far  in  this  part of  the 
market,  although 
it  undoubtedly  will  if 
it  c  ontinues  firm.  The  demand  has 
been  confined  almost  entirely  to  small 
and  medium-sized  purchases  for  nearby 
delivery  with  very  little  in  the  way  of 
contracts  for  forward  delivery. 
The 
market  for  heavy-weight  sheetings  has 
shown  no  change  and  prices  are  without 
alteration.  Ducks  and  brown osnaburgs 
are  quiet  and  steady  without  price 
change.  Bleached  cottons  show  a  firm, 
steady  tone  with  a  moderate  business 
in  progress.  Wide  sheetings,  cotton 
flannels  and  blankets  are  firm  for  all 
leading  makes  with  but  little  stock  un­
sold  t^vfraw  from.  Coarse  colored  cot­
tons  are  for  the  most  part  well  sold  up.
Prints  and  Ginghams—Tne  demand 
for  staple  spring  prints  has  been  well 
maintained  and  an  especially good busi­
ness  has  been  repotted  again  in  indigo 
blues,  shirtings,  mournings,  etc.,  with 
prices  very  firm.  Staple  reds  are  this 
week  more  quiet,  the  large  amount  of 
business  transacted  recently  having  un­
doubtedly  filled  the  requirements  for the 
present.  New 
light-work  fancy  prints 
have  been  selling  on  a  good  scale  for 
both  full  standard  grades  and 
lower 
qualities  and  prices  are  steady.  The 
demand  for immediate deli very is  some­
what  more  quiet.  Napped  fabrics  of 
both  printed  and  woven  designs  are 
against  buyers 
in  all  desirable  styles, 
supplies  being  limited  and  prices  firm. 
Ginghams  show  no  important  change, 
buyers  finding  the  market  against  them 
and  difficulty  in  placing  orders  for  de­
liveries  except  at  distant  dates.

Linings—The finer  grade  of  goods and 
special  finishes  have  bad  a  good  week 
and  are  an  important  feature  of the mar­
ket.  The 
large  number  of  orders  for 
immediate  delivery  and  on  forward con­
tracts  have  been  noted  in  both plain and 
fancy 
lines  of  mercerized  goods  and 
other  silk  and  satin  finishes  ranging 
from  15c  upward  a  yard.  A  number  of 
converters  have  booked  engagements 
for  spring  deliveries  and  fabrics  con­
sidered  reliable  are  in  a  very  satisfac­
tory  condition.  The  shirt  waist  trade 
has  been  an  important  factor  and  many 
dry  goods  houses  have  purchased  well. 
Percalines 
in  high  finishes  have  been 
selling  we!i,  but  regular  grades  have 
been  quiet. 
Silesias  have  also  ruled 
quiet,  while  medium and  low  grades  are 
being  bought  by  the  Southern  and West­
ern  trade.

Underwear— It  will  probably  be  an­
other  week  or  two  before  the most  of  the 
lines  are  on  the  market;  still  there  is  a 
pretty  fair  proportion  already shown and 
many  of  those  that  are  not,  as  one  may 
say,  publicly  opened,  are  being  shown 
and  sold  “ on  the  quiet.”  
In  regard  to 
this  matter  of  prices,  the  manufacturer 
seems  somewhat  uncertain ;  the  condi­
tion  of  the  market  for  raw  material  is 
upsetting  his  calculations  and  the  buy­
ers  are  not  helping  him  any  in  this 
matter.  Another  matter  that  is  holding 
them  back  is  the  fact  that  they  are  still 
busy  with  present  season’s  goods  and 
have  not  gone  very  far  in  the  matter of 
spring  lines,  consequently  it  is  a  matter

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of  indifference  with  them  whether  they 
open  quite 
late  or  not.  They  feel  also 
that  many  of the early orders taken in the 
season  are  more  than 
liable  to  be  re­
vised  or  canceled  altogether,  and it  sim­
ply  means  fooling  around  and  perhaps 
selling  the  same  goods  over  once  or 
twice  more.  Of  course,  on  certain  lines 
that  have  a  well  established  reputation, 
this  is  different  and  such  manufacturers 
as  make  these  have  attained  a  position 
where  they  do  not  care  what  the  other 
fellows  do,  but  will  pursue  the  even 
tenor  of  their  ways  and  when  they  make 
a  sale,  are  pretty  sure  that  it  is  going  to 
stick.  They  are  not  afraid  that  the 
early  birds  will  catch  their  customers 
and  wait  until  they  are  prepared  to 
do  business  on  a  legitimate  and  solid 
basis.

Hosiery—More  attention  is  now  being 
paid  to  lines  for  next  season,  and  efforts 
will  be  directed  in  these  lines  from  now 
on.  There  seems  to  be  every  prospect 
that  fleeced  hosiery  will  be  particularly 
prominent  in  the  next  fall  market  and 
the  time  for  predicting  the  passing  of 
the  fleeces  seems  to  have  passed. 
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regard  to  wool  hosiery,  however,  the 
market  is  so  far  very  unsteady.

Carpets—The  carpet  trade  in  general 
continues  to  show  a  very  healthy  condi­
tion.  While  most  of  the  initial  business 
has  been  placed  with  the manufacturers, 
there 
is  still  a  goody  amount  of  small 
in  every  day.  The 
business  coming 
Philadelphia  weavers,  both 
large  and 
small,report  a  very  satisfactory  showing 
thus  far  in  three-quarter  goods  as  well 
as 
ingrains  at  prices  fully  up  to  those 
given  out  at  the  opening,  and  in  many 
cases  better.  The  orders  for  ingrains 
have  been  unusually  heavy  for  this 
period  of  the  year  and  jobbers  show  a 
willing  disposition  to  grant  full  market 
values.  All  wocl  ingrains  selling  from 
47@5°c  are 
in  great  request,  much  of 
the  business  is  taken  in  these  grades. 
Supers  ranging  from  30@40C  are  well 
sold  up  for  some  weeks  to  come.  Cot­
ton 
ingrains  retailing  at  25c  have  re­
ceived  some  fairly  good  business,  al­
though  relatively  speaking,  orders  have 
not  been  so  large  as  in  other  lines.  The 
stiff  prices  quoted  on  yarns  for  the  bet 
ter  grades  of  ingrains  are  strictly  uni 
form  with  the  values  of  the  finished 
fabric.  Common  and  double  reel  yarns 
used  in  the cheaper grades have  not  flue 
tuated  to  any  great  exteijt  for  months 
and  weavers’ prices  are  not  so  stiff  rela 
tively  as  in  the  better  grades.  Makers 
of  three-quarter  goods  are well advanced 
in  the  new  season.  The  large  orders 
that  have  been  received  during  the 
last 
two  or  three  weeks  are  being  filled  as 
rapidly  as  possible,  giving  employment 
to  all  hands  the  full  quota  of  time 
Wiltons  and  Brussels  are  well contracted 
for  and  tapestries  have  received  a  good 
share  of  the  buyers'  attentions.  From 
the  looks  of  things  at  the  present  time 
the  better  grades  will  receive the  better 
part  of  the  business.
Rugs—Everything 

is  sold 
away  beyond  the  present  productive  ca 
pacity  of  the  weavers.  Cheap  as  we 
as  the  better  grades  are  in large request 
Smyrna«  and  moquettes  are  having 
large  run  in  the  small-sized  rugs,  while 
Brussels  and  Wiltons  are  receiving  the 
demand  in  the  carpet  sized  rugs.  Rugs 
9x12  feet  are  quoted  at  an  advance  of 
$1,  while  sizes  over 9x12  feet  are  worth 
$2  more  than  last  season.
T he V eracious  W ritin g s o f th e   Food  Com 

in  rugs 

panies.

If  papa  is  taciturn;  if  mamma  has 

long  since 

head  and  does  not  care  to  talk,  little 
William,  who  has 
learned 
bow to read, sits at  the repast  and  quietly 
imbibes  useful 
information  of  many 
kinds  from  the  packages  about  him 
All  silently,  the  knowledge  is  borne 
on  him  that  “ Energyscose  is  the  fuel 
food  of  life.  Better  a  pewter  plate  and 
Energyscose  than  a  golden  platter  and 
nought  but  a  stalled  ox  thereon.”

If  he  tire  of  reading  about  the  virtues 

of  Energyscose  he  may  turn  his  eyes 
the  corn-tassel-colored  box  on  the  right 
and  read  that  ‘ ‘ Gripe-knots  are  uni 
any  other  food  preparation.  Being  en 
tirely  digested  they  naturally  wean  a 
strong  man  from  coffee and  can  be eaten 
without  practice  by  teething  babies. 
They  contain  nothing  that  will  give  the 
stomach  the  slightest  trouble,  and  per­
sons  who  have  used  our  foods  for  years 
do  not  need  their  stomachs  at  all.  They 
are  made  of  devitalized  chestnut  saw­
dust  and  it  is  possible  to  eat  them with­
out  the  use  of  sugar  or  cream—or  anes­
thetics.  Properly  compressed  they  can 
be  used  by  the  children  as  building 
blocks,  and  can  then  be  reduced  to  a 
powder  and  taken  one  every  two  hours, 
when  they  give  one  all  the  effect  of hav-

ng  eaten  without  its foolish  pleasures.”  
When  William  has  read,  and  one  side 
thoroughly  digested,  like  the  contents 
the  box— mamma  will  turn  it  around, 
nd  he  may  read  inspiriting letters from 
invalids  who 
lost  their  sense  of  taste 
years  ago  and  who  have  enjoyed  Gripe- 
knots  ever  since;  or  else  on  the  third 
de  how  to  make  simple,  innocuous 

desserts  of  bran.

Really 

literary  families  seldom  con­
tent  themselves  with  one  lettered  box  of 
patent  food,  and  some  cultivated  Bos­
tonians  have  as  many  as  five  or  six 
brands  of  various  shades  of  yellow  and 
brown,  merely  that  Alcibiades  Beacon, 
tired  of  reading  about  Cornena  and 
its 
stimulative  properties,  may  turn  to  the 
box  of  Wheat-toast  or  Puttyjim’s  Oat- 
husx  or  the  box  of  Noegud,  with  its  en­
tertaining  anecdote  to  the  effect  that  a 
lady  in  Seattle,  who  had  not  been  able 
to  take  a  step  for  fourteen  years,  ate  a 
ingle  box  of  Noegud  and 
immediately 
took  steps  to  keep  it  constantly  in  the 
larder—and  away  from  the  breakfast 
table.  Or  his 
little  mind,  unable  to 
cope  with  his  father’s  arguments  to 
prove  Aguinaldo  a  bigger  man  than 
Washington, 
turns  with  relief  to  the 
statement  that  “ Mrs.  Bentley  of  Shog- 
ticocoa,  Minnesota,  was  unable  to  take 
nything  solid  without  facial  paralysis. 
She  ate  one  box  of  Noegud  and  now 
says  that  she  would  rather  eat solid  rock 
than  be  without  it.”   Mark  the  double 
sarcasm  of  her  remarks.  It  is  dollars  to 
doughnuts  that  Alcibiades,  Bostonian 
although  be  be  does  not  see  that  if  she 
ould  not  be  without  it  she  would  not 

have  it  within  her.

Some  may  carp  at  the  color  of  the 
packages;  some  may  even  wish  that  the 
food  could  be  put  in  china  receptacles 
and  the  literature  set  beside  each  plate 
individual”   pamphlets,  but  no  one 
can  say  that  there  are  not  many  aids  to 
conversation  among  the  elders and much 
of  an 
improving  nature  to  children  in 
the  unobtrusive  and  absolutely veracious 
writings  of  the  food  companies  —Cos­
mopolitan.

P referre d   D arkness  to   L ig h t

Jim—What  did  you  tell  the  old  man 
when  he  said  he  couldn’t  allow  you  to 
see  his  daughter?

Fred— I  told  him  I  didn’t  care  to  see 
her—that  it  hadn’t  been  my  fault,  at 
any  time,  when  the  gas  was  turned  on.

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Jones,  the  grocer,  turned 

from  the 
pile  of  unpaid  bills  be  had  been 
look­
ing  through  and  opened  his  ledger.  He 
leafed  the  pages  over  rapidly,  stopping 
occasionally  to  foot  up  the  account  of 
some  delinquent  with  a  particularly 
large  or an  especially  long-standing  ac­
count,  and 
if  his  discoveries  were  of  a 
soothing  nature,  certainly  his  face  did 
not  reveal  the  fact.

Finally  he  closed 

the  book  with  a 
bang,  and  carrying  in his  hand  a  slip  of 
paper  on  which  were  written  a  list  of 
people  coupled  with  the  sum  of  money 
due  from  each,  he  sat  down  to  think 
things  over.

‘ ‘ Some  of  these  fellow  have  got  to 
dig  up,"  said  he  to  himself  after  a 
time. 
"There’s  enough  coming  to  me 
from  this  bunch  to  discount  every  bill 
1  owe;  and  there  isn't  a  man  in  the  lot 
but 
is  able  to  pay;  yet  1  suppose  if  1 
were  to  start  out  to-morrow  to  collect  a 
quarter  of  it,  I’d  find  it  a  hopeless  un­
dertaking.  Hcwever,  the  only  way  to 
get  any  of  it  at  once  is  to  go  right  after 
it.  Now  I’ll  ]ust  make  believe  that  my 
creditors  are  going  to  close  me  up  if  I 
don’t  settle 
inside  the  next  ten  days 
and  see  what  can  be  done  in  that  length 
of  time 
if  I  really  put  my  mind  to  it. 
Of  course  I  won’t  do  anything  to  injure 
my  business,  but  I'll  see  what  sort  of 
financial  ground  I'm  standing  on,never­
theless. ”

late 

So  Jones,  having  come  to  a  conclusion 
and  made  a bold  although perhaps some­
what  rash  resolve,  folded  his  list  of  de­
linquents  and  put  it  in  bis  pocket,  and 
then,  it  being 
in  the  evening,  he 
locked  up  for  the  night  and  went  home.
But  although  it  is  a  simple  matter  to 
go  home  and  to  bed,  it  is  often  quite 
another  to  get  to  sleep,  so  it  fell  out 
that  Jones 
lay  and  tossed  about  on  bis 
downy  couch  and  heard  the clock strike, 
one  after  another,  the  hours  of  darkness 
until,  when 
it  was  getting  well  toward 
daybreak,  he  sank  into  a  troubled  sleep, 
and  for  a  time  forgot bis  business  cares.
"What  would  you  like  for breakfast?" 
were  the  first  words  that  assailed  his  ear 
in  the  early  morning,  and  Mrs.  Jones 
was  startled  to  hear  his  reply:

"W ell,if  you’re  as  hard  up  as  you  say 
you  are,  I  might  take  your  note  for 
thirty  days,  but  I  want  you  to  hustle 
around  and  get  hold  of  something  sub­
stantial  by  that  time,  for  I  can't  wait 
forever. ”

And  Mrs.  Jones,  who  had  become 
somewhat  accustomed  to  the  eccentric­
ities  of  her  lord,  set  down  the  strange­
ness  of  his  answer  to  an  evening  at 
lodge,  and  thought  no  more  about  it.

A  good  breakfast  and  the  fresh  morn­
ing  air  made  Jones  feel  like  a  new  man 
and  filled  him  with  enthusiasm  for  the 
work 
in  hand.  He  had  been  planning 
what  to  do  with  the  fellows  who  he 
feared  might  be  slow  about  paying,  or 
who  would  try  to  put  him  off  again  as 
they  bad  done  many  and  many  a  time 
before.  He  had  something  ready  for 
them  all.  He  would  tell  this  to  Smith 
and  that  to  Robinson;  but  be  would 
bang  on,  and  in  the  end  he  would  get  a 
settlement  of  some  kind  from  each  and 
every  one.  To  that  he  had made  up  bis 
minda  nd, in  lieu  of  the  cold  coin  of  the 
realm  or  something  else  of  a  substantial 
nature,  no  excuse,  however  plausible, 
would  be  accepted. 
In  Jones'  barn 
stood  a 
lively  little  black  mare,  which 
he  hitched  to  a  substantial  buckboard, 
lap  robe  snugly  about  bis
tucking  the 

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

in  his  granaries  are  stored 

knees,  and  drove  away  at  a  brisk  pace.
He  was  beaded  for  that  portion  of  the 
community  lying  to  the  eastward. 
It  is 
well  sprinkled  with  productive  farms, 
and  many  and  many  are  the  dollars 
that  flow  yearly  from 
its  coffers  into 
those  of  the  merchant  Jones.  Three 
miles  out 
lives  a  man  with  a  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  tillable  soil.  He  has 
two  big  red  barns  and  the  flocks  upon 
his  hills  are  the  envy  of  his  neighbors 
and  the  admiration  of  stock buyers  from 
near  and  far.  He  has  horses  and  hogs 
farming  machinery, 
and  hominy  and 
and 
the 
wheat,  the  oats  and  the  corn  of  the  past 
three  years.  He  lives  in  a  little  tumbled 
down  shack  with  cracks  around  the 
doors  and  windows  that  let  in  the  cold 
blasts  of  winter,  and  his  wife  cooks  on 
an  old-fashioned  elevated  oven  stove 
that  should  have  gone  to  the  scrap  heap 
in  the  auld 
lang  syne.  They  have  no 
sewing  machine,  no  tablecloth,  no  car­
pets,  no  pictures  upon  the  walls,  no 
reading  matter  and  no  cellar  that  is  en­
titled  to  the  name,  and  consequently 
their  butter  is  so  rank  with  the  smell  of 
decayed  vegetation  that  it 
is  the  bug­
bear  of  every  grocer  who  comes  in  con­
tact  with 
it.  But  Twistieson's  farm, 
from  a  stock  raising  and  an  agricultural 
standpoint, 
is  a  pronounced  success. 
He  "raises  the  stuff."

Twistleson  went  on  the  place  when 
the  country  was  new,  and  he  cleared  off 
the  land  with  his  own  hands,  raised  a 
big  family  and  either  married  them  off 
or  killed  them  with  hard  work,  until 
now  there  is  no  one  left  but  himself  and 
wife,  and  there  they  live  all  alone,  save 
for  a  hired  man  or  two  when  the  season 
and  the  work  require  it,and old Twistle­
son  congratulates  himself  that  he  can 
buy  and  sell  any  neighbor  he  has.  If 
that 
is  his  only  object  in  life,  he  has 
certainly  fulfilled  bis  mission.

Strange  as  it  may  seem  Twistleson  is 
always  hard  up.  He  manages  to  get 
the  top  notch  price  for  everything  he 
has  because  he  is  never  anxious  to  sell. 
No  matter  how  many  store  bills  he  owes 
or  how 
long  past  due  they  are  he  will 
not  turn  out  a penny's worth  of  property 
to  satisfy  them  unless  the  markets  are 
just  to  his 
liking  and  he  rests  secure 
in  the  presumption  that  no  merchant 
dares  sue  him  through  fear  of  losing  his 
future  business.

When  Jones  made  his  appearance 
Twistleson  was  engaged 
in  hauling 
away  from  his  stables  the  refuse  with 
which  to  fertilize  his  broad  acres.  He 
was  working  as  though  there  was  not  a 
minute  to  lose  and  his  clothes  were  wet 
with  perspiration.

"  Hello,  Twistleson !  How  are  you?" 
in  his  most  cheery  tone  of 

cried  Jones 
voice.

"Morn'n, ’  "   said  Twistleton  without 

looking  up  from  his  work.

The  farmer  continued  to  wield  his 
fork  as  though  his  life  depended  upon 
it,  and  vouchsafed  no  answer.

"Crops 

pretty  good 

this  year?" 

queried  the  merchant  after  a  time.

"M iddlin’. ”   Twistleson  had  decided 
that  he  would  not  be  dragged  into  an 
unwelcome  conversation  and  studiously 
kept  his  back  turned  upon  the  visitor. 
But  Jones  saw  that  in  a  very  few  min­
utes  the  wagon  would  be  loaded,  and  so 
he  awaited  with  becoming  patience  the 
moment  when  his  delinquent  should 
throw  the  last  forkful  in  the  wagon  and 
reach  for  the 
lines.  But  Twistleson 
was  equal  to  the  emergency,  and  just  at 
the  moment  when  Jones  was about  to

"Pretty  nice  weather,  this,”   observed 

Jones  after a  pause.

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open  the  subject  nearest  his  heart,  the 
farmer  turned  suddenly  and  said :

“ Wall,  I  s’ pose  you’ re  out  lookin’  fer 

money,  hay?”

“ Why,  l  happened  to  be  driving  by, 
and  thought  I'd  stop  and  see  what  the 
prospects  were,”   said  Jones  half apolo­
getically.

“ Wall,  I  bain't  got  none  fer  ye  to­
day,”   and  Twistleson  shouted 
“ Get 
up”   to  the  horses  and  began  to  climb 
on  his  load.

“ Just  a  minute!”   interposed  Jones, 
who  saw  his  debtor  about  to slip through 
his 
further  parley. 
“ How  long  will  it  be  before  you’ll  have 
some?”

fingers  without 

Twistelson  reined  up  his  horses  with 

a  jerk.

“ What’s  the  matter  with  ye,  any­
how?”   he  demanded. 
“ Gittin’  purty 
fast  fer  yet  pay,  hain’t  ye?  Thought 
ye  wuz 
jest  out  drivin’  around  fer  yer 
health.  Hain’t goin’  tew  bust,  be  ye?”  
“ Oh,  no,”   said  Jones,  hastily,  “ only 
I  thought  if  you  could  spare  a  little 
money  it  would  come  mighty handy just 
now.  You  see— ”

“ Wall,  l  hain’t  got  none  to  spare. 
Jest  had  m’  hired  men  to  pay  off  an’ 
that  tuck  all  the  money  I  bad,  an'  1 
hain’t  got  nothin’ 
to  turn  out  yit. 
Needn't  be  scairt.  Ye’ll  git  yer  money 
soon’s  1  git  around  to  it.”

“ Nothing  to  turn  out,”   murmured 
“ Nothing  to  turn  out!”  
the  merchant. 
Across  the  field  to  the  right he  could  see 
a  herd  of  cattle  hungrily  nipping  the 
grass  in  the  autumn  field.  On  the  bill- 
top  beyond  grazed  and  gamboled  a  flock 
of  sheep,  and  the  nearby  air  was  filled 
with  the  bleating  of  calves  and  the 
grunts  and  squeals  of  hogs.  The  mows 
in  the  big  barns  were  stuffed  with  hay 
and  the  granary  fairly  creaked  with  its 
load  «f  cereals.

“ How  many  potatoes  have  you?”  

asked  the  merchant.

“   'Twixt 

four  an’ 

five  thousand 

bushel,”   was  the  calm  reply.

“ Why  don't  you  haul 

in  some  of 

them?”

“ Can’t  git  no  price  fer em.”
“ They’re  worth  thirty  cents  to  day.’ ’
“  Thirty  cents!”   snorted  the  farmer 
“ S’ pose  I'm  goin’  to 

contemptuously. 
g-i-v-e  ’em away?”

“ Why,  no,  not  exactly.  Still  if  I  owed 
a  bill  and  could  get  thirty  cents  for 
potatoes  and  bad  the  stock  on  hand  you 
bet  I’d  sell  enough  to  square  up. 
It 
don’t  seem  exactly  fair to  use  a  fellow 
the  way  you  do  me.”

“ How  much 

is  m'  bill?”   demanded 

Twistelson  in  a  harsh  voice.

Jones  referred  to  his  memorandum. 
“ A  hundred  and  eight  dollars  and 

forty-three  cents,”   said  he.

farmer  wrathfully. 

“   ’Tain’t  no  sech  a  thing!”   roared 
the 
’Tain’t  half 
that  much.  Now  you  look  a  here.  I’ve 
heered  about  your cheatin’ an’ swindlin’ 
folks  afore  now,  an’  I  want  to  tell  ye 
I’m  too  old  a  bird 
y ’  can’t  gouge  me. 
fer  you. 
1  kin  buy  ye  an’  sell  ye,  an’ 
buy  ye  an’  sell  ye,  an’  buy  ye  an’  sell 
ye,  an’  I'll  law  ye  from  here  to  Jericho 
an’  back.  Ye  needn’t  think  cus  I’ve 
got  prope’ty  that  I’m  donatin’  of  it  to 
every  lunkhead  that  comes  along  astin' 
fer  it.”

To  say  that  there  were  two angry  men 
on  Twistelson's  farm  at  that  time  would 
be  making  a  mild statement.  Still  Jones 
had  schookd  himself  in  the  art  of  hold­
ing  his  temper,  and  after  a  short  pause, 
during  which  the  men  glared  fiercely  at 
each  other,  the  merchant  said  in  rather 
a  strained  voice:

“ Next  time  you’ re in  town I  want  you

into  the  store  and  we’ll  look 
to  come 
If  there  is 
over  the  account  together. 
anything  about  it  that 
isn't  right  I’ll 
make  it  so,  and,  more  than  that, I'll pay 
you  a  five  dollar  bill  for  every  mistake 
there  is  in  it,  if  you'll  add  a  five  to  the 
account  if  you  find  it  correct.  Will  you 
do  that?”

Twistelson  meditated  a  minute. 
“ Wall,”   said  he  at  length,  “ tell  ye 
I  was  kind  o'  mad  when 
what  I'll  do. 
I  talked  about 
lawin’  of  ye.  Fact  is 
tn’  best  horse  got  kicked  in  the  stall 
last  night  an’  1  had  to  kill  him  this 
morn’n’,  an’  I've  be’n  kinder  put  out 
every  sencc. 
I  know  ye’re  middlin’ 
square,  fer  a  store  keeper,  an’  I'll  git 
ye  fixed  up  some  way  durin'  the  nex’ 
two  or  three  weeks.  How’ll that  do ye?”  
“ O,  that’ll  be  all  right,”   Jones  has­

tened  to  reply.

“ I’ll  do  suthin’ 

added  the  farmer,  fearful 
said  more  than  he  intended. 
fast  I  git  along  with  m'  work.”

fer  ye,  anyhow,”  
lest  be  had 
“ See  how 

“ Wtll,  do  the  best  you  can  for  me, 
anyway,”   said  Jones,half suspecting his 
customer  might  still 
further  recant. 
“ I’ m  going  to  need  every  penny  I  can 
get  held  of  by  the  first  of  the  month, 
and  I  know  you’d  be  the  last  man  to 
see  me  stuck.”   And  with  a  pleasant 
good  morning  he  turned  the mare’s head 
eastward  once  more.

Half  a  mile  farther  on 

lived  Jake 
Everingham.  Jake  was  noted  far  and 
wide  as  the  loudest  talker and  the  great­
est  liar  in  the  county,  so  that  early 
in 
his  career he had acquired the soubriquet 
of  “  Honest  Jake. ”   Honest  Jake  had  a 
small  farm  with  a  big  mortgage  on  it. 
He  tilled  the  soil  in  a  haphazard  way, 
lived  from  hand  to  mouth,  and  owed 
every  merchant  who  had  ever  been  so 
foolhardy  as  to trust  him  to  any amount, 
however  small.

Jones  decided  to  call  on  him,  more  as 
a  matter  of  duty  than  in  the  hope  of  ob­
taining  a  settlement,  and  he  was  mildly 
wondering  what  sort  of  an  excuse  Jake 
would  make  when  he  began  to talk  busi­
ness. 
The  delinquent  espied  Jones 
long  before  he  reached  the  premises, 
and  rushing  out  of  the  house  bailed  the 
merchant  with  loud  acclaim.

“ By  mighty!”   he  shouted. 

“ Say, 
but  I  be  glad  t’  see  yuh.  Powerful glad, 
by  mighty!  Say,  come  into  the  house 
an’  take  a  set  down.  Can't  stop?  Waal, 
now,  that’s  too  bad!  But  say,  I’m  most 
mighty  glad  yuh  come.  Was  jest  goin’ 
down  to  have  a  good  long  talk with yuh. 
Was.  by  mighty!  Now  I  expect  yuh 
think  I  orter  pay  up  that  air  bill  o’ 
mine,an'  me  an’  the  womern  was  sayin’ 
we  guessed  we  got  it  fixed  so’s  we  c ’d 
do  it  all  right.  Pay  up  the  hull  thing 
afore  spring,intrust *n  all,  an’  gin  yuh  a 
big  trade  into  the  bargain.  Mind  that 
stubble  eighty  I 
lumbered  off  winter 
afore  last?”

The  merchant  nodded.  He  had  good 
cause  to  remember  it.  He bad furnished 
a 
lot  of  supplies  for  the  men  who  bad 
worked  there,and up  to  the  present  time 
there  was a  balance  on the  wrong  side  of 
this  account  amounting  to  a  nice  little 
sum.

“ Yes,  I thought  yuh’s  mind  it.  Waal,
I be’n  tryin’  m'  dumdest  to  git  a  holt  of 
that  air  piece  from  the  comp’ny  ever 
sence,  an’  now  I  kin  buy  it  fer  eight 
bunderd.  By  mighty! 
It’s  cheaper’n 
dirt  at  that.  D'yub  know  what  the’  is 
left  on  that  eighty?  Waal,  I  reckon 
not,  but  I  do.  The’s  ten  thousand  cord 
o’  wood  if  the’s  a  stick,  an’  at  the  pres­
ent  prices  we  orter  make  half  a  dollar 
clear  onto  every  cord.  That’s  five thous­
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months,  an’  there's  a  purty  good  'profit 
fer  a  mossback,  ses  I."

"Yes,  elegant;  but  seems  to  me that’s 
a  good  deal  of  wood  to  get  off  eighty 
acres  of  stubble. 
I’m  afraid  you  might 
fall  a  little  short  of  your  expectations 

"Say,  Jones,  did  yuh  ever  estimate 

any cordwood  timber?”

No,  I  never  did. ”

"E ver  cut  any?”
"Never. ”
"Waal,  I  hev. 

I’ve  cut  m’  five  cord 
a  day  with  m'  ax  alone,  an'  kep’  it  u, 
fer  a  month  to  a  time,  an’  yuh  bet  they 
can't  fool  Jake  on  cordwood  timber 
Why,  the  maple  an’  beech  is  piled  u. 
there  ten  foot  high,  an’  the’s  enough 
hemlock  an’  ellum  left  standin’  there  to 
pay  fer  the  place  without  cuttin’  a  foot 
of  wood.  The  place’ll  sell  fer twelve 
hunderd  after  the  timber’s  off,  an 
there's  money  in  jest  buyin’  of  it  fer 
speckilation. ”

"H ave  you  bought  the  property?" 
"M e  bought 
it?  Uh  uh.  No, 

hain't  no  money  to  buy  land  with.  I’ve 
swore  a  solemn  swear  that  the  fust  cash 
I  git  is  goin’  to  go  fer  to  pay  yuh  off 
with,  an’  the  next  goes  into  reel  estate 
That’s  what  keeps  me  so  poor— payin 
up  m’  debts.  Ef  1  wuz  like  some  fellers 
I  could  be  a  millionaire. 
I  kin  see  the 
places  to  make,  but  I’m  alters  so  hard 
up  paying  m’  honest  debts  that  I  can’ 
take  advantage  of  the  good  things that' 
rubbin’  ag’in’  m’  nose  all  the  time 
No,  what  I  was  a  thinkin’  was,  fer  yuh 
to  buy  the  eighty,  an’  I’d  go  in  an’ take 
off  the  wood  an’  yuh  furnish  the  gro 
ceries,  like,  an’  when  we  got  through 
we  could  kinder  settle  up  an’  yuh  could 
give  me  what  yuh  thought  was  right 
Wouldn’t  want  no  big  thing.  Jest  a  liv­
in'  fer  me  an’  the  womern  an’  a  chanct 
to  pay  m'  honest  debts.  What  d'  yuh 
think  of  it,  anyhow?”

"O ,  I’ll  think 

it  over.  You  don* 
happen  to  have  a  dollar  or  two  you 
could  spare  this  morning  on  the  old 
deal,  do  you?”

"M e?  O,  by  mighty!  No,  I  hain’ 
I’m  callatin’  on  takin 
got  two  cents. 
a 
job  of  lumberin'  this  winter  ef  we 
don’t  go  into  the  cordwood  deal,  an’  I 
kin  fix  yuh  up  all  right  afore  spring, 
anyhow.  If  I had  a  dollar  or  two  I’d  ’a ’ 
be’n  down  to  pay  it  to  yuh  long  afore 
this. 
I  hain’t  none  o’  them  chaps  what 
run  away  from  a  feller  jest  cus  I  hap­
pen  to  owe  him  a  little  bill. 
I'm  hon­
est,  if  I  be  poor.  They  say  it’s  no  dis 
grace  to  be  poor,  but  sometimes  it’s 
mighty  occunvenient.  New  yuh  think 
over  that 
land  deal  an’  let  me  know. 
I’m  so  drove  with  work  I  don't  har’ly 
know  which  way  to  turn,  an’  I  goiter 
have  a  definite  answer  right  away."

is 

to  meet 

Not  so  very 

tumble-down  buildings 

far  from  Honest  Jake’s 
place 
lives  Phil  McGowan.  Phil  is  a 
man  with  a  sneaking,  hang  dog  face 
that  leads  one to  believe  that  he  has just 
been,  or 
in  constant  expectation  of 
being  kicked.  He  has  a  furtive,  half- 
scared  expression  and  has  never  been 
known 
the  eye  of  his  inter­
locutor.  McGowan  was  working  near  a 
lot  of 
that 
answered  for  cowstables,  sheepsheds, 
pigpens,  and  storage  for  fodder  and 
hay.  He  saw  Jones  coming  and  think­
ing  discretion  the  better  part  of  the 
debtor  made  a  hasty  sneak  around  the 
corner  of  one  of  these  buildings.  Jones 
saw  him  go  and  suspecting  the  cause, 
b e   w h i p p e d   u p   h i s   h o r s e   a n d   d r o v e   r a p ­
i d l y   through  the  open  gate  with  the  in­
tention  of  catching  up  with  the  delin­
quent  before  he  got  out  of  sight.  But 
the  ground  was  so  strewn  with  fence

'umbering  sleighs,  rickety 
rails,  old 
chicken  coops,  broken  farming  machin 
ery  and  log  sheeppens  that  he  had  to 
abandon  the  idea  and  continue  his  pur 
suit  on  foot.  Around  the  buildings  he 
hastened  at  a  brisk  pace,  but  the  place 
was  quiet  and  apparently  deserted. 
Through  one  after  another of  the  sheds 
be  went,  but  no  human  being  could  be 
discover.  Still  he  was  satisfied  that  Mc­
Gowan  had  not  been  able  to  get  away 
from  the  neighborhood, 
for  he  had 
watched  every  avenue  of  retreat  with  a 
jealous  eye,  and  he  made  up  his  mind 
that  the  recreant  debtor  was  concealed 
in  one  of  the  buildings  and  that  be 
should  be dragged  to  the  light  of  day.no 
matter  how  well  or  securely  he  had  con­
cealed  himself.

One  after  another  Jones  entered  the 
buildings,  poked  into  the  haymows  and 
probed  the  fodder  piles  with  a  fishing 
pole  he  bad  picked  up  on  the  premises, 
threw  the  straw  out  of  the  cattle’s  man­
gers,  and  called  aloud  to  McGowan  to 
come  out  like  a  man  and face the music. 
Still  all  was  as  quiet  as  the  grave.  Yet 
Jones  did  not  give  up.  Once  more  he 
made  the  circuit  of  the  buildings,  and 
once  more  he  found  no  trace  of  the  cul­
prit.  Going  out  again  into  the  open  be 
stood  still  for  a  time,  trying  to  decide 
upon  his  next  step,  and  while  waiting 
there,  along  came  a  funny  little  curly 
black  dog  that  was  very  much  pleased 
to  find  a  visitor.  He hopped  and  frisked 
about  and 
licked  Jones’  hand  and  ex­
hibited  great  admiration  for  his  newly- 
found  acquaintance.  The  merchant  is 
fond  of  dogs and in making  friends  with 
this  one  he  forgot  for  a  moment  the  ob­
ject  of  his  visit,  but  when  his  thoughts 
began  to  return  to  the  matter  in  hand  it 
suddenly  occurred  to  him  to  make  use 
of  the  animai  for  bis  own  purposes.

Hay  boy!”   he  exclaimed,  snapping 
’em  up.  ! 
his  fingers,  "come  and  hunt 
’em  up.”   The  dog  was j 
Heal)!  Hunt 
mraediately  ail  attention  and started  on 
i  run  alter  a  small  calf  that  was  peace- 
fully  grazing  on  the  opposite  side  of  a 
neighboring  field.  But  Jones  managed 
to  coax  him  back,and  finally  to  get  him 
to  hunting  about 
in  the  buildings  for 
something,  he  knew  not  what.  But  the 
dog  was  anxious  to  earn  the  encomiums 
of  the  new-found  friend,  and  soon  be­
gan  a  search  of  the  sheds,one  at  a  time, 
as  fast  as  Jones  took  him  to  the  door­
ways.  Suddenly  the  dog  gave  a  joyful 
elp  and  began  pawing  away  the  loose 
straw  under  one  of  the  mangers.  Jones 
'atebed 
in  silence  for  a  moment,  but 
when  first  one  cowhide  boot  and  then 
nothet  was  uncovered,  he  gave  a  glad 
shout  and,  seizing  the  protruding  foot­
wear,  tugged 
lustily  to  bring  it  to  the 
"ght  of  day.

“ Leggo, ”   feebly  requested  a  smoth­
ered  voice.

’ Not  by  a  jugful!”   announced  Jones, 
with  another  yank.  "When  I  get  a  good 
hold  on  aslippery  duck— ”   yank—" I  
ang  right  on.”
" I 'l l   com e,”   said  the  voice.

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"You  bet  you’ll  come."  Another 

yank.

Phil  arose  from  the  floor,  his  hair  and 
eyes  filled  with  chaff  and  little  wisps 
of  hay  sticking  out  all  over  him.  He 
was  a  pitiable  sight.  The  dog 
jumped 
at  him  affectionately  and  tried  to  lick 
bis  band.

" D —ye”   snarled  McGowan,  aiming 
an  unsuccessful  kick  at  the  beast  with 
his  heavy  boots,  "come  a  near  me  an’ 
I’ll  kill  y e!"

‘ ‘ Let  him  alone,”   commanded  Jones. 
"K ick   that  dog  and  I'll  break  your 
back.  You’re  such  a  sneaking  cur  your­
self  that  1  suppose  it  makes  you  mad  to 
see  a  dog  that’s  better  than  you  are. 
Now,  what  are  you  going  to  do  about 
that  account?  I'm  here  for  business  and 
don’t  you  forget  it."

McGowan  glanced  about  the  stable 
look­
with  his  uneasy,  shifty  eyes  as  if 
ing 
for  some  new  avenue  of  escape. 
Jones  stood  between  him  and  the  door.
it?"  he  gasped,  at 

"How  much 

is 

‘ ‘ Seven  dollars  and  a  half,"  said  the 

length.

merchant.

"H ain't  got  so  much.  Hain't  got  no 
money  at  all.  Hain’t  got  nothin'  ’t  be 
I’m  awful  hard 
no 
up,  1  be,”   said  McGowan, 
low, 
whining  tones.

’count  to  youse. 

in 

in  the  world. 

"Yes,  you  have  something  that  I  can 
‘ ‘ You’ve lots 
use,"  contradicted  Jones. 
of  things  1  can  use. 
I’m  here  now,  and 
I  want  you  to  settle  up  some  way. 
I’ve 
all  kinds  of  sympathy  for  a  man  who 
does  the  best  be  can,  and  I’ll  give  him 
every  chance 
You’ve 
owed  that  account  for  more  than  a  year 
and  you  haven't  been  in  the  store  since 
1  let  you  have  the  goods. 
lest  all 
your  cash  trade  by  accommodating  you, 
and  you've  got  so  that  when  you  come 
to  town you go around by  the back streets 
so  as  not  to  pass  my  door. 
I'm  getting 
sick  of  this  sort  of  thing  and  you're  go­
ing  to  settle  up  before  1  leave  or there'll 
be  trouble.  Now,  how  much  money  are 
you  going  to  pay  me  to  day?”

I’ve 

‘ ‘ Ye  wouldn’t  put  it  over  a  poor  man, 

would  ye?"

"A ll  1  want  is  what's  mine  by  right. 

Now  what  have  you  got?”

" I ’ve  got  ten  shillin’  in  money— ”
" A ll  right,  that's  good.  Now  what 

else?”

"G ot  a  few  tatics.”
"T h ey ’ re  all  right. 

Potatoes  and 
money.  Produce  your  money  and  then 
get  your  team  around  and  I'll  stay  here 
and  see  you  load  up."

So  McGowan  fearfully  yet  grudgingly 
did  as  requested,  and  Jones  fillowed  the 
wagon  all  the  way  to  town  and  then  saw 
that  the  tubers  were  safely  stowed  away 
in  his  cellar.

A  week 

to  show 

later  the  merchant  again 
made  a  careful  survey  of  bis  accounts 
and  found  that  the actual collections  had 
been  rather 
light.  He  bad  plenty  of 
good  enough  promises,  some  country 
and  a  comparatively  small 
produce 
amount  of  cash 
for  the  six 
days'  work,  yet  he  felt  that  all  in  all 
it  bad  been  a  profitable  week  for  bis 
business.  Some  customers  whom  he  had 
heretofore  considered  pure  gold,  turned 
out  to  be  very  base  metal  indeed,  while 
others  of  whom  he  had  always felt a  cer­
tain degree of distrust responded prompt­
ly  and  cheerfully  to  his  request  for 
funds.

"1  have  played  my  little  game  of  a 
bankrupt."  mused  Jones  to  himself, 
"and  1  find  that  it  would  be  out  of  the 
question  to  effect  a  quick  settlement 
with  any  great  part of my delinquents  in 
case  of  need,  but  I  have  nevertheless

liberally 

satisfied  myself  that  I  can  depend  upon 
realizing 
from  a  considerable 
number  of  them  in  a  reasonable  length 
of  time,  and  as  I  firmly  believe  that  I 
can  not  do  a  large  nor  a  really  profit­
able  business  without  extending  credit 
in  some  form  to  those  I  consider  worthy 
to  receive  it ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved—That  I  will  closely  scrutin­
ize  all  accounts,  keep  them  down  to 
the 
lowest  amount  consistent  with  the 
probable  paying  ability  of the  customer, 
see  that  they  are  closed  up  fully  as often 
as  possible,  and  that  I  will  no  longer 
worry  myself  bald  beaded  over  a  matter 
that,  after  all,  is a  reasonably  good  busi­
ness  proposition.

George  Crandall  Lee.

H is  R em em b ran cer.

Jay  Cooke,  the  financier,  was  from  bis 
boyhood  an  enthusiastic  angler.  The 
waters  of  Put  in-Bay,  not  far  from  San­
dusky,  Ohio,  have  often  been  the  scene 
of  his  exploits  from  his  earliest  to  his 
latest  years.  Concerning  this  harbor 
and  its  associations  with  a notable event 
in  our  naval  history,  this  little  tale  is  a 
favorite  of  Mr.  Cooke’s:  An  old  coun­
tryman  entered  a  drug  store 
in  San­
dusky,  holding  up  a  handkerchief  with 
a  knot  in  it.  "Well,  uncle,what  is  it?”  
asked  the  clerk. 
" I 'll  get  around  to  it 
pretty  quick.  Now,  wuat  place 
is  it 
lake?”   "D o   you 
down  here  on  the 
mean  Put-in-Bay?"  "Yes, 
it. 
Now,  who  was 
it  that  put  in  there?”  
"Perhaps 
you  mean  Commodore 
Perry?”  
"T he  very  man.  And  I  want 
a  bottle  of  Perrygoric. ”

that’s 

H is  Sedative.

Anxious  Wife—What  do  you  think  ol 

my  husband's  case? 
Physician—Oh,  he’ll  pull  through  all 
right.  What  he  needs  is  rest,  so  1  have 
prescribed  an  opiate.

Is  it  serious?

Anxious  Wife— How  often  shall  I give 

it  to  him?

take  it  yourself.

Physician—Don’t  give it to him  at a ll; 

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with  guarantee  and  sight  draft,  which 
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sale  of  the  goods,  but  we  furnish  the 
kind of advertising that  does sell  them.
Don’t hesitate to talk  it,  nor  be  afraid 
to sell  it, and  if necessary  don’t be afraid 
to use it.  Liberal discount to agents.
Price  $1  per  Bottle

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1  took  m y first ch ew   o f tobacco  in  1S65  and  h ave 
used  it co n tin u ally  e v e r sin ce that tim e.  D ecem ber 
26,  1S93,1   received a   p a cka ge o f “ B ritto n ’s T o b acco  
T h ie f”  and  com m enced  to  take  it, and  continued 
c h e w in g  but tw o  or th ree  d ays  w h en  I w an ted   it  no  s 
m ore, and am   now  com p letely  cured and rea lize th at  ! 
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feet they dress.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logic  &  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Shoes  and  Rubbers

M odern  M ethods  o f  P o p u la rizin g   a   Shoe 

D ep artm en t.

After  you  have  decided  to  put  in  a 
shoe  department,  you  are  confronted  by 
the  question,  among  others,  of  how  "you 
shall  bring  this  new  department  to  the 
attention  of  the  public  in  such  a  way 
that 
it  will  prove  a  success  from  the 
start,  receiving  the  patronage  of  your 
present  patrons  and  drawing  into  your 
store  people  who  have  not  been  there 
before,  ft  is  not  enough  that  you  have  a 
shoe  department  or  that  you  carry  good 
stock  or  that  you  offer  extraordinary  in­
ducements 
in  prices.  You  must  let 
everybody  know  that  you  have  a  shoe 
department  and 
it  upon  the 
public  in  such  a  way  that  everyone  not 
only  knows  you  have  a  shoe department, 
but  also  is  curious  to  see  the 
inside  of 
it.

impress 

Success  depends  largely  upon  getting 
a  good  start  and  the  right  start.  Once 
get  anything  to  moving  with  an 
im­
petus  and  moving  in  the  right  direction 
and  a 
large  part  of  the  difficulty  of 
getting  things  into  satisfactory  working 
order  is  overcome.  So  when  you  are 
planning  the  opening  of  your  shoe  de­
partment,  keep  this  fact  in  mind.  Do 
not  think  that  a  lack  of  energy  or  enter­
prise  in  starting  the  department  can  be 
atoned  for  later.  The  first  impression 
is  the  one  that  counts.  The  nature  of 
the  start  determines  the  attitude  of  the 
public  and  your  clerks  to  your  new 
venture.

Advertising 

is  making  people  know 
desirable  things  of  which  they  were  ig­
norant  or  reminding  them  of  desirable 
things  that  they  have  forgotten.  Your 
problem  is,  “ How  shall I  set about mak­
ing  everybody  know  that  I  am to  open  a 
shoe  department? 
in  what  way  shall  I 
do  this  so  that  people  will  remember 
the  fact  and  be  desirous  of  seeing  the 
department  and  purchasing  in  it?"

The  first  thing  that  you  have  to  do  is 
to  thoroughly 
inform  people  that  you 
are  going  to  open  a  department  before 
the  department  is  opened.  Do  not  be­
gin  to  advertise  your  department  after 
it  is  opened.  After  business  has  com­
menced  you  will  have  special  features 
to  put  before  your  patrons  which  will 
require  all  the  advertising  space  at  your 
command.  People  should  be  prepared 
for  the  reception  of  special  shoe  news 
from  you  before  they  begin  to  receive 
particulars.

After  you  have  decided  to  put  in  a 
shoe  department  and  have  fixed  upon 
the  date  or  the  approximate  date  for  its 
opening  announce  it  in  the  newspapers 
in  which  you  advertise.  Make  up  one 
large  advertisement  as  an announcement 
of  the  fact  that  you  have  decided  to 
open  a  shoe  department  in  connection 
with  your  other  lines  on  or  about  such  a 
date.  State  your  reasons  for opening 
such  a  department,  that  your  patrons 
have  expressed  a  desire  for  a  shoe  de­
partment,  that  they  prefer  to  buy  their 
shoes  where  they  buy  their  clothing  and 
furnishings,  that  you  are  in  a  position 
to  supply  them  with  shoes  that  will  be 
distinguished  by  exceptional  quality 
and  value,  and  that  for  all  these  reasons 
(and  such  others  as  you  will  wish  to add 
to  such  an  announcement)  you  have  de­
cided  to  open  on  or  about  such  a  date  a 
shoe  department  of  which  you  will  have 
more  to  say  at  a  later  date. 
It  would 
be  a  good  idea  to  devote  your entire  ad­
vertising  space  for  one  day  in  all  the 
newspapers  to  a  notice  of  the  proposed 
opening  of  the  department.  Such  a 
notice  might  be  inserted  in  the  papers

regular  announcement. 

three  weeks  before  the  date  of  the  open­
ing.  Some  advertisers  prefer,  in  open­
ing  a  new  department,  to  take  special 
space  in  a  paper on  another  page  from 
their 
There 
are  advantages  in  this,  as  such  an  an­
nouncement  does  not  interfere  with  the 
regular  announcements  of  merchandise 
to  be  made,  but  it  is  better  to  use  your 
regular  space,  that  there  may  be  no 
confusion  over  the  fact  that  you  are  the 
proprietor  of  the  new  enterprise.

Do  not  tuck  this  first  announcement 
of  your  new  department  into  an  obscure 
corner  of  your  regular  advertisement. 
Do  not  give  out  this  preliminary  notice 
in  connection  with  notices  of  regular 
offerings,  which  will  attract  the  atten­
tion  of  readers.  Make  a  generous  use  of 
space.  Advertise  as  if  this  special  fea­
ture  of  your  business  were  a  matter  of 
importance. 
form  their 
opinion  of  the 
importance  of  the  new 
department  very  largely  by  the  way  you 
announce 
If  this  is  crowded  into  a 
corner,  they  will  think  you  intend  to 
crowd  the  department  into  a corner,  and 
things  crowded  into  a  corner are  never 
impressive.

People  will 

it. 

Having  made  your  first  large  notice 
of  your  department,make some reference 
to  the  new  department  in  every  one  of 
your  subsequent  newspaper  advertise­
ments. 
It  is  a  good  idea  to  have  two 
or  three  lines  of  a  simple  announcement 
of  the  opening  set  up  and  run  in  a  reg­
ular  position  at  the  top  or  bottom  of 
every  one  of  your  advertisements,  where 
it  will  be  read  by  every  one  who  reads 
your  firm  name.  Get  people  used  to 
seeing  something  about  your  shoe  de­
partment,  avoiding  specific  details  un­
til  you  begin  your direct  preliminary 
advertising.  By  giving  them  time  to 
digest  the  fact  that  you  will  add  shoes, 
they  have  time  to  grow  curious  and  also 
accustomed  to  the 
idea  that  you  will 
have  special  advantages  to  offer.  Be­
fore  your  opening,  you  want  everyone 
prepared  to  accept  as  a  natural  fact  the 
in  connection  with 
shoe  department 
your  business. 
It  is  well  to  play  upon 
the  statement  that  it  will  be  worth while 
for  your  patrons  to  delay  making  pur­
chases  in  shoes  until  they  see  what  you 
have  to  offer.  By  giving  people  time 
to  realize  that  you  are  to  sell  shoes,  they 
are  led  to  defer  purchases  until  they  see 
what  you  have  to  offer.

It  may  be  well  to  make  special  an­
nouncement  of  your  proposed  depart­
ment  once  a  week  for  at  least  a  month 
before  the  opening.  This  will  depend 
upon  the  size  and 
importance  of  the 
department,  the  amount  of  advertising 
done,  and  the  amount  of  competition  to 
be  met.  But  whether  announcement 
is 
made  a  month  or  a  week  before  the 
opening,  do  not  fail  to  make  some  ref­
erence  to  your  department  in  all  your 
advertising  matter.  Keep  the  depart­
ment  before  people  constantly  before 
your  direct  preliminary  campaign  be- 
gins.

In  communities  where,  for  one  reason 
or  another,  an 
important  part  of  the 
population  can  have  their  attention  at­
tracted  more  quickly  or  satisfactorily 
by  posters,  you  should  have  a  poster 
prepared  and  put  up,  simultaneously 
with  your  first  announcement,  iu  every 
place  on  the  main  roads  where  it  will 
attract  attention.  Posters  are  good  ad­
vertising  mediums 
if  they  attract  at­
tention.  To  attract  attention  they  must, 
in  these  days,  be  original  in  wording  or 
arrangement,or  both.  Your  poster  needs 
to  contain  but  very  little  matter—a  sim­
ple  statement  of  fact—but  it  should  be 
arranged  with  plenty  of  white  space,  so

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YOU  WILL  FIND

This cut  on  all  our  cartons.  We  stand  behind  our  assertions;  if 
goods  are  not  as  represented,  remember  that  the  railroad  runs  both 
ways.  We  will  send  the  following  shoes  on  approval  because  we 
“ Honesty  is  the  best  policy,”  so 
know  you  can  not  better  them. 
we  are  honest  in  what  we  advertise.  Three  of  our  good  things  made 
by  us  at our  Northville  factory  are:

No. 236.  Men's Boarded Calf, Heavy yt D  S., Brass  Stand, Screw, French, Bals...............  $ l  50
No. 230.  Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip,  Brass Stand, Screw, French, B als....  1  60 
No. 231.  Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass  Stand, Screw, Tipped, Bals__   1  60

Each  pair  with  a guarantee  tag  attached

The  Rodgers  Shoe  Company,  Toledo,  Ohio

FACTORY,  NORTHVILLE,  MICH.

Mr.  Retailer

Our  line  is  complete.  Salesmen  will  call  soon. 
Wait  for our  Ladies’  specialties;  they  retail  at

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II  $2  &  $2.50

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The Lacy
Shoe Company

Caro,  Mich.

O.  Y E S!

We  make  other  shoes  beside  the  Hard  Pan,  and  good  ones, 
too.  But  our  Hard  Pans  receive  the  most  painstaking  at­
tention  from  the  moment  the  order  reaches  the  factory.  The 
upperstock,  the  insole,  the  outsole,  the  counter,  the  gusset, 
even  the  thread,  and  every  smallest  part  are  most  carefully 
selected,  scrutinized  and  examined.  And  the  greatest watch­
fulness  is  exercised  in  putting  these  parts  together;  every 
process  is  closely  followed,  every  mishap  guarded  against. 
Everything  is  done  and  nothing  left  undone  to  produce  the 
greatest  wearing  shoe  that  can  be  made  out  of  leather.  To 
make  our  “ Hard  Pan  Shoes— Wear  Like  Iron”   is  our  great­
est  ambition.  Try  them.

H E R O L D - B E R T S C H   S H O E   C O ., 

M A K E R S   O F   S H O E S  

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

Anticipate Your Needs for

Hood and  Old Colony

RUBBERS  at  once

You  will  surely  require  a  big  lot  before  the  winter  is  over 
and  we  can  take  care  of  you  in  good  shape.  We  are head­
quarters  for  these  goods  in  this  part  of  the  country.

The L.  A .  Dudley  Rubber  Co.

Battle  Creek,  Michigan

“ We  make  women’s  shoes  here,  and 
we  do  not  put  such  a  heavy  sole  on 
them  as  Brockton  manufacturers  do  on 
men’s,  although  soles  of  women’s  shoes 
are  heavier  than  a  decade  ago.  But 
women  are  indoors  more  than  men,  and 
get  used  to  the  warmly  carpeted  floors, 
hence  the  cold  of  sidewalks  and  snow 
gives  them  a  harsher  shock,  and  woman 
is  of  weaker  constitution  than  man  and 
less  able  to  stand  the  cold.  I  thoroughly 
believe,  and  1  think  all  medical  men 
will  agree  with  me,  that  a  thinly  clad 
foot 
is  a  more  common  cause  of  shiv­
ering,  chills,  colds  and  more  serious 
sickness  than  is  a thinly clad chest.  The 
vital  organs  will  keep  the  chest  warm, 
but  the  supply  of  blood  to  the  feet  is 
not  as  great  nor  as  warm  as to  the chest. 
So  if  one  wishes  a  good  insurance  pol­
icy  against  sickness  for the coming  win­
ter,  let  him  or  her  buy  a  strongly  made, 
well  soled  pair  of  shoes.

“ A  new  shoe,  made  by  a  manufactur­
er  of  reputation,  ought  to  be  waterproof 
enough  for  all  ordinary  purposes.  The 
most  common  place  for  leaks  in  shoes 
is  under  the  instep, where  the  sole  joins 
the  upper,  but  if  a  little  vaseline  or  oil 
is  rubbed  along  the  seam,  and,  indeed, 
all  the  way  around  the  edge,  it  makes 
the  solid  shoe  surely  waterproof.  A 
cobbled  shoe,  no  matter  how  well  soled, 
is  apt  to  leak.

“ Special  waterproof  shoes  are  made 
by  some  manufacturers  upon  orders 
from  retailers.  They  are  made  of  water­
proof  leather  upper  and  oak  soles  over 
soles  of  rawhide  and  pigskin.  Some 
people  say  that  leather  can  not  be  made 
waterproof,  but  one  manufacturer  hung 
a  finished  skin,with  its  ends  caught  up, 
it  held  water  like  a  basin,  in  a 
so  that 
shoe  store  window 
The 
water  remained  in  the  skin  six  weeks 
and  not  a  drop  soaked  through,  and 
leather  like  that ought  to  be  waterproof 
enough  for  ordinary  purposes. 
In  fact, 
the  leather in  good  shoes to-day is water­
proof.

in  Lowell. 

“ The  average  buyer  to-day  wants  a 
shoe  that  will  do  for  all  occasions,  for 
street  and  house  and  office  wear,  a  visit 
to  the  club  or theater  or  any  occasion 
where  patent  leather  shoes  are  not  re­
quired.  The  half  knee  laced  shoe,  that 
appeared  a  few  years  ago,  has  proved 
an  excellent  shoe  for  tramping  about 
the  streets  on  wet  days,  but  it  is  too 
beating  to  be  worn long in a warm  room. 
The  low  cut  shoe  does  not  protect  the 
ankle  in  wet  weather.  So  it  falls  to  the 
lot  of  the  ankle  high shoe, which protects 
in  wet  and  cold  weather  ^and  is  not  too 
heating 
in  a  warm  room,  to  fill  the  de­
mand  for  a  winter  footwear,’ ’ — Lynn 
Item.

that  it  will  catch  the  eye.  A  poster  in 
colors  costs  more  than  one  in  black  and 
white,  but  has  enough  added  attractive­
ness  to  make  it  much  more  valuable.

If  you  are  in  the  habit  of  sending  out 
regular  catalogues  or  handbills  to  your 
customers,  a  special  announcement  of 
your  new  department  should  be  printed 
on  them.  But 
in  all  this  preliminary 
advertising  matter  confine  yourself  to 
the  announcement  of  the  opening  and 
your  reasons  for  adding  a  shoe  depart­
ment.  Specific  statement  of  shoe  news 
should  be  deferred  until  your  direct 
preliminary  advertising  begins.

Your  object 

in  your  preliminary  ad­
vertising 
is  to  give  everybody  knowl­
edge  of  the  new  department,  to  inform 
everybody  of  its  proposed 
installation, 
and  to  give  out  that  notice  early  enough 
to  acquaint  everybody  with 
it  before 
the  opening  takes  place.  Whether  you 
begin  this  preliminary  advertising  a 
week  or  a  month  before  the  opening, 
see  that  the  fact  soaks  in,  either  by  fre­
quent  repetition  or  by  a  heavy  outpour 
of  announcements.

The  more curiosity  you  can  stimulate, 
the  more  eagerness  will  the  public  show 
in  reading  about  the  department.

The  addition  of  a  new  department 
ought  to  give  your  local  papers  an  op­
portunity  for  an  interview  with  you  on 
the  growth  of  your  business,its  develop­
ment,  its  various  features,  and  its  popu­
larity.  A  new  department  can  thus  be 
made  to  bring  an  established  enterprise 
into  new  prominence.

Remember  that  you  either  raise  or 
lower  your  standard  by  advertising.— 
Apparel  Gazette.

W ell  Soled  Shoes  D efeat  D isease.

“ The  cold  weather  is  coming,”   said 
the  retired  shoe  manufacturer,  “ and  1 
would  like  to  say  a  word  to  people  who 
are  racking  their  brains  for  means  of 
keeping  warm,  now  that  coal  is  so  high. 
The  old  saying,  ‘ There's  nothing  like 
leather,’  fits  the  case.

“ To  keep  warm,  dress  warmly,  espe­
cially  the  feet.  Soles  wear thinner  and 
thinner,  and  the  wearer  never  notices 
the  cold  and  damp  treacherously  steal­
ing  through,  until  a  hole  makes  the 
weakness  of  the  sole  evident.  A  thin 
sole  on  a  shoe  in  winter  is  one  of  the 
worst  enemies  of  health,  1  think.  The 
cold  and  dampness  penetrate 
it,  caus­
ing  cold  feet,  a  sluggish  circulation, 
cold  on  the  lungs,  and  if  the  fault  is  not 
corrected,  pneumonia  or  consumption. 
These  extension  edge  soles  are  deceitful 
for  they  look  as  if  the  sole  of  the  shoe 
it  is  really  worn  as 
was  thick,  when 
thin  as  paper.  Women  are  more 
liable 
to  suffer  from  the  thin  soled  shoe  than
men.

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

Hardware

R a n g e   o f  F ire   H azards  in  H eatin g   Sys­

tem s.

The  great  diversity  of  devices  and 
tn  tbods  in  use  for  house  warming,  due 
to  the  varying  conditions  of  fuel  supply 
and  climatic  requirements,  presents  to 
the  underwriter  a  range  of  fire  hazards 
which  compels  the  careful  study  of  all 
the  conditions  to  enable  him  to  suggest 
to  the  user  the  proper  safeguards  to 
prevent  disaster.

The  surveyor  or  inspector finds  his  at- 
tertion  called  11  problems  ranging  from 
the  old-fashioned  open  fireplaces,  with 
wood  for  fuel,  such  as  grace  and  make 
cheerful  our  country  homes,  to  the  wood 
or  coal-burning  st >ve,  and  up  to  the 
more  modern  and  complicated  steam, 
b  t  water  and  hot  air  furnaces,  now  so 
common 
in  tie  equipment  of  city  and 
town  houses,  with  a  sprinkling  of  nat­
ural  gas  grates  or  stoves,  and  an  occas­
ional  encounter  with  the  kerosene  oil 
device,  each  demanding  special  expert 
knowledge  as  to  construction  and  use, 
and  the  exercise  of  good  judgment  in 
the  suggestions  necessary  to  make  safe 
such  defects  as  may  be  discovered  upon 
investigation.

Statistics  of  fire  losses  from  heating 
appliances  seem  to  place  stoves  and 
stovepipes  at  the  head  of  the  list,  fol­
lowed  closely  by  hot-air  and  indirect 
steam-heating  devices;  then  in  regular 
order,  open  fires,  wood  and  coal,  hot 
water  and  direct  steam  heat,  oil  stoves, 
and  last,  natural  gas.  Considering  the 
record  of  fires  from  beating apparatus  as 
a  whole,  the  only  conclusion  to  be 
reached 
is  that  carelessness  is  at  the 
base  of  each  of  these  accidents,  either 
as  a  def-ct  in  the  original  installation

of  the  apparatus  or  as  the  result of  reck­
lessness  and  the  neglect  in  its  after  use 
and  care.  With  a  desire  to  consider 
briefly  some  of  the  salient  points  of 
hazard  incident  to  the  methods  of  bouse 
warming,  we  take  up  the  different  de­
vices 
in  the  sequence  of  the  statistical 
record  as  above  noted.

Where  such  devices  are  to  be  used  for 
heating  or cooking  they  should  be  free 
from 
cracks  or  other  imperfections 
which  would  admit  of  the  escape  of 
coals  or  sparks ;  should  be set upon solid 
platforms  of  brick,or  in  metal pans  with 
raised  sides  and 
legs  three  inches  in 
height, in either  case  being  large  enough 
to  extend  well  in  front  of  the ashpit  and 
thus  protect  the  floor.  Stoves  should 
not  be  set  within  eighteen  inches,  nor 
their  pipes  within  ten 
inches,  of  any 
woodwork,  lath  or  plaster  partition  or 
other  combustible  material, 
except 
when  conditions  will  not  permit  other­
wise,  and  then  all  combustible  material 
should  be  protected  with  bright  tin 
sheeting,  with  a  space  of  not  less  than 
0.5  inch  Detween  it  and the combustible.
Stove  pipes  should  be  well  and  fre­
joint 
quently  supported  by  wire;  each 
the 
should  overlap  the  other  toward 
stove  and  be  carefully  riveted  to  pre­
vent  the  escape  of  sparks.  Fires should 
not  be  dumped  into  the  ashpit,  except 
upon  a  bed  of  dead  asbes  of  not  less 
than  2 
inches  in  thickness.  Ail  pipes 
should  enter  the  chimney  or  flue  hori­
zontally  and  in  plain  sight  Pipes  en­
tering  flues  vertically,or passing through 
blind  or  unused  attics,  where  they  may 
not  be  frequently  inspected,  are  prolific 
causes  of  fires,  particularly 
in  country 
houses.

The  furnace  should  be  set  upon  a very 
solid  fo u n d atio n   in  o rd e r  .0  p re v e n t  the

sagging  or  cracking  of  its  walls.  The 
lop  or  dome  of  the  enveloping  walls 
should  not  be  less  than  eighteen 
inches 
from  the  unprotected  woodwork  or  lath 
and  plaster ceilings,  and  its smoke  pipe 
or  flue  should  be  a  like  distance  from  1 
combustibl;s.  The  ash  pit  should  be j 
sunken,  or  the  floor  in  front  of  it  be  o f' 
brick,  stone  or  concrete,  n< t 
less  than j 
thirty  six  inches  wide.  The  enclosing i 
walls  of  the  furnace  should  not  be  less  | 
than  twelve  inches  from  all  combustible 
material  and  the  inlet  or  cold-air  duct 
should  be  entirely  of  iron  or  other 
metal.

Hot-air  flues  or  conduits  should  be 
made  of  heavy,  bright  tin  plates  with I 
well  soldered 
lock  seams,  and  be  kept 
at  least  ten  inches  from  all  woodwork  or 
other  combustibles.  Where  it  is  neces­
sary  to  carry  them  through  or 
into 
wooden  or  lath  and  plaster  partitions, 
the  flues  should  be  double;  i.  e.,  one in­
side  the  other,  with  an  air  space  of  not 
less  than  o. 5  inch  between  the  two,  and 
be  properly  braced  to  insure  rigid  sepa­
ration  throughout.  Where  register  boxes 
are  set  in  floors  or  partitions,  the  wood 
work  should  be  framed  around  them  to 
leave  an  air  space  of  not  less  than  2.5 
inches  and  be  protected  by  flashings  of 
bright 
tin  extending  from  the  outer 
edge  of  the  register  opening  to  and 
through  the  floor  beams  or  partitions. 
Each  register  should  be  set  in  a 
frame 
of  soapstone  not 
less  than  2.5  inches 
wide  and  one  inch thick,firmly  and  well 
set  in  cement  or  plaster of  paris.

The  same  general  care  in  setting  and 
arrangement  should  be  followed 
in  the 
use  of  hot  water  as  suggested  under  the 
above on hut  air and indirect steam-heat­
ing  devices,  and 
in  addition  all  pipes 
used  for  the  conveyance  of  hot  water

We  have  the  Largest 
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Convex  and  Flat 
Sleigh Shoe  Steel 
Bar  and  Band 
Iron

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Contracting  Engineers  and 
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Complete  power  plants  designed 
and erected.  Estimates cheerfully 
furnished.  Let  us figure  with you. 
Bargains  in  second-hand  engines, 
boilers,  pumps,  air  compressors 
and  heavy  machinery.  Complete 
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Patented  March  5,  1895.  Other  Patents  Pending.

Do not buy a pair of bobs to go under your express wagon body, platform or depot wagon, surrey, piano body or for any  other  purpose  until  you  have  seen 
the  Peerless Steel  Sled.  Please bear in  mind they are not a coarse, cheap, cast iron affair, neither is it a hub runner attachment, but  a  pair  of  bobs,  fitted 
with the  Peerless Steel  Shifting  Bar, to which can  be attached buggy shafts and easily adjusted  to side or center draft.  The  Peerless  Steel  Sleds  are  light, 
strong and durable;  the workmanship  is first-class, and  the material  is the best to be found, the several parts being  placed edgewise so as to resist the  great­
est strain  The  runners are of two pieces placed edgewise with space between through  which pass the bolts that secure the shoe in  place.  They  are  there­
fore easily  reshod.  They are low priced only on account of their  peculiar construction. 
It is practically impossible to  break  them  Remember  they  are 
not put together with  cast  iron  pipe fittings which are sure to break, but every part is such as to obtain the greatest amount of strength for the material used. 
These S'eds are designed to go under a box  taken from a wheeled vehicle, by attaching by means of a bolster on the rear bob,  and  by  attaching  the  circle 
c n  the front bob to the front bolster from the wagon.  Shipped without shafts or tongue and without reach or couplings.

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“ Nein,”   said  the  man  with  the  hoe.
‘ Den  when  she  die  you  come  und  say: 
1  not  gif  you  one  thousand  dollar;  1 
get  you  a  bigger  und  a  better  vife  for 
six  hundred.’  No,  tank  you,  sir;  no, 
tank  you,  sir.”

And  the 

insurance  man  rode  away 

without  writing  a  policy.

“Took  I t ”  L iterally .

Once  upon  a  time  a  very  nervy  man 
called  on  his  physician  and  asked  him 
for  medical  advice.

"Take  a  tonic  and  dismiss  from  your 
mind  all  that  tends  to  worry  you,"   said 
the  doctor.

Several  months  afterward  the  patient 
received  a  bill  from  the  physician  ask­
ing  him  to  remit  $18,  and  answered  it 
thus:
"Dear  Doctor,  1  have  taken  a  tonic 
and  your  advice.  Your  bill  tends  to 
worry  me,  and  so  I  dismiss  it  from  my 
mind. ”

Moral:  Advice  sometimes  defeats  its 

giver.

A t  th e   B reak fast  Table.

" I ’ve  got  an 

idea,"  he  said,  "that 
the  Governor's  going  to  make  me  a  full 
colonel. ”

replied  the  wife,  “ if  he 
makes  you  any  fuller  than  you  are,  he’ll 
have  to  ship  you  a  whole  distillery."

"W eil,”  

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safe in our  bank,  and  you 
can  g e t  it 
immediately  an d   easily 
when you want to use it.
Any person living with­
in  the  reach  of  a  Post 
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can deposit  money  with 
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Our  financial  responsi­
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Your dealings with us are 
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“Banking by Mail”
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tells  how  anyone  can  do 
their  banking  with  us  by 
mail; how to send money or 
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and  important  things 
persons  should  know 
who want to keep their 
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or  steam  should  be  kept  free  from  con­
tact  with  woodwork  or  other  combus­
tibles  by  the  use  of  metal  thimbles  or 
sleeves,  provided  with 
interior  lugs  or 
radial  points,  to  provide  an  air  space 
where  the  pipes  pass  through  floors  or 
partitions.  Fires  from  hot-water systems 
occur from  the  high  temperature reached 
by  the  water  on  account  of  obstructions 
or  retardation  of  circulation  in  the  pipe 
system  whereby  the  heat  generated  is 
sufficient  to  cause  the 
ignition  of  the 
wood  or  other  combustible  material 
already  partially  carbonized  by 
long- 
continued  high  temperatures.  Similar 
dangers  attend  the  use  of  direct  steam 
heat,  and  are  augmented  by  the  pos­
sibility of  the  superheating  of  the  steam 
in  the  boiler,  owing  to  low  water.

fire 

The 

record  of  oil  devices 

is 
largely  out  of  proportion  to  the  number 
in  use  for  heating  purposes,and  the only 
practical  method  of  eliminating the  haz­
ard  of  their  presence  appears  to  be  that 
of  entire  prohibition,  as  even  under  the 
most  favorable  conditions  of  use  they 
have  proved  exttemely  dangerous.

Heating  by  natural gas  is  restricted  to 
limited  areas  of  the  country,  and  when 
the  supply 
is  sufficient  to  insure  a  full 
supply  at  constant  pressure,  the  hazards 
of  its  use  are  quite  mild,  provided  the 
piping  has  been  properly  installed  and 
has  passed  a rigid  test  for  leaks,  and  the 
flues 
for  carrying  oS  the  products  of 
combustion  have  been  constructed  for 
the  purpose.  When,  however,  the  sup­
ply  is  weak  and  restricted,  and  the  con­
sequent  pressure  variable,  the  hazard  of 
its  use  is  vastly  augmented, for  with  low 
pressure  and  small  supply  the  user  is 
inclined  to  open  the  valve  in  the  supply 
pipe  to  its  fullest  extent  in  order  to  se­
cure  a  good  blaze;  and  when,  later,  the 
from  any  cause, 
pressure 
the  small  blaze  is  turned 
into one  of 
great  intensity  and  power,  and  is  liable 
to  ignite  combustibles  at  a  distance.

is  increased 

The  only  practical  means  of  reducing 
this  hazard 
lies  in  the  use  of  an  auto­
matic  high  and  low-pressure  regulating 
valve  in  the  main  supply  pipe,  whereby 
the  flow  of  gas  will  be  automatically  cut 
off  when  the  pressure  either  rises  above 
or  falls  materially  below  normal,  at 
which  it  is  set  to  act.  Such  controlling 
devices  are  open  to  purchase  in  the  dis­
tricts  where  natural  gas  is  a  factor,  and 
the  use  of  the  same  should  be  made  ob­
ligatory.— Insurance  Engineering.

W as  S uspicious  o f In su ra n c e   H en.

A  Grand  Rapids  insurance  adjuster 
was  recently  called  into  the  country  to 
adjust  the  loss  on  a  barn  which  had  re­
cently  burned.
The  farmer  did  not  propose  to  settle 
on  the  basis  proposed,  whereupon  the 
adjuster  suggested  that  the  company 
the  privilege  of  replacing  the 
had 
burned  barn  with  a  new  one,  adding:
"W e’ll  put  you  up  a  barn  a  whole  lot 
better  than  the  one  you  had  for $900.’ ’
"N ein .’ ’  said  the  farmer,  emphatic­
ally,  " 1   vill  baf my one thousand dollars 
or  nothing.  Dot  barn  could  not be built 
again  for  even  a  thousand."

" I t  was  an  old  barn. 

"O ,  yes,  it  could,"  said  the 

insur­
ance  man. 
It 
doesn't  cost  so  much  to  build  a  barn 
nowadays.  A  $6oo  new  barn  would  be 
a 
lot  bigger  and  better  than  the  old 
one.”
Out  for  a  day's  shooting  this  autumn 
the  insurance  man  rode  up  again  to  the 
farmer's  place.
- "Just  thought  I’d  stop  while  I  was  up 
here,”   he  said,  "to   see  if  you  wanted 
to  take  out  a  little  insurance.”
" I   got  notings  to  insure,”   said  the 
farmer,  ungraciously,  remembering  the 
difficulties  of  the  past  in  connection 
with 
"Notings 
but  mine  vife."
man,  humorously,  "insure  her,"

"W ell,  then,”   said  the 

insurance  companies. 

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Woman’s  World

W h erein  W om an Should Be  H er B ro th e r’» 

K eeper.

One  of  the  things  upon  which  women 
consider  that  they  hold  a  practical  mo­
nopoly 
is  reforming  the  world.  Here 
and  there,  it  is  true,  you  find a  lonesome 
male  reformer.but  he  is  generally  doing 
things 
It 
is  women  who  have  undertaken  all  the 
big 
liquor 
traffic  and  the  immoral  wax  dummy  in 
stores  and  abolishing  polygamy  among 
the  Sulus  and  the  wearing  of  corsets  by 
the  young  and  frivolous.

in  a  small  way  of  business. 

jobs,  like  suppressing  the 

is  hardly  a  woman 

Plucking  the  mote  out  of  your  neigh­
bor's  eye  is  always  an agreeable pastime 
and  there 
in  the 
whole 
length  and  breadth  of  the  land 
who  does  not  belong  to  an  anti-some­
thing  or  other  society  for  the  suppres­
sion  of  doing  something  she  does  not 
want  to  do  herself.

This  is  as  it  should  be.  Most  things 
need  bettering,  heaven  knows,  but  the 
discouraging  part  of  it  all  is  that  the 
results  are  so  meager.  So  much  effort 
is  put  forth  and  so  little  good  is  accom­
plished.  There  is  such  an  appalling 
amount  of  lost  motion  somewhere  about 
the  reformation  machinery.

Now,  nobody  has  a  right  to  question 
the  absolute  sincerity  of  purpose  of  the 
women  who  are  engaged  in  the  gigantic 
task  of  trying  to  better  social  condi­
tions,  suppress  vice  and  make  life  hap­
pier  for  the  great  mass  of  human  be­
ings,  and  no  fact  can  be  more  pathetic 
than  that  their  sacrifices,  their labor and 
their  prayers,  are  so  generally  unavail­
ing.  It  is  not  hard,  however,  to  see  why 
they  fail.  They  are  firing  heavy  artil­
lery  at  the  clouds,  instead  of  popping

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away  with  a  squirrel  rifle  at  an  individ­
ual.  They  are  trying  to  rout  the  enemy 
with  one  fell  swoop,  and  they  do  noth­
ing,  whereas  if  they  concentrated* their 
attention  on  one  person  they  would 
in­
fallibly  bring  him  down  sooner  or  later.
Women  seem  never  to have considered 
this  phase  of  the  subject,  but  if  they 
would  devote  the  same  amount  of  en­
ergy,  effort  and  intelligence  to  concrete 
reform  that  they  do  to  general  reforma 
tion,  the  world  would  be  changed  in  the 
space  of  a  single  generation.

in  contact. 

For  the  woman,  above  the  man,  is  her 
brother's  keeper. 
In  her  hands  lie  his 
happiness,  his  prosperity,  his  misery 
and  bis  poverty.  She  molds  the  charac­
ter  of  the  child  and  sends  him  out  to 
bring  weal  or  woe  to  every  one  with 
whom  he  comes 
If  every 
mother  taught  her  son  self-control  and 
to  curb  his  appetite,  there  would  be  no 
need  for  a  W.  C.  T.  U.  If  every  mother 
taught  her  children  habits  of  thrift  and 
industry,  we  might  shut  up  the  doors  of 
the  almshouses  and  abolish  the  Charity 
Organization  Society. 
If  every  mother 
taught  her  children  to control  their  tem­
pers,  our  jails  would  not  be  filled  with 
murderers. 
If  every  mother  taught  her 
children  honesty  by  precept  and  exam­
ple,  we  should  have  no  pitiful  stories  of 
absconding  cashiers. 
If  every  mother 
taught  her  daughters  the  highest  ideal 
of  virtue  and  modesty  there  would be  no 
social  evil  to  reform.

They  are 

For  poverty,  vice  and  crime  are  not 
accidents. 
the  relentless 
working  out  of  cause  and  effect,  and 
God  never  made  a  human  being  that 
might  not  have  been  saved  if  he  had 
had  the  right  environment  and influence 
in  his  youth.  The  wise  mother  and 
the  good  mother  and 
fotlish 
mother and the criminal  mother teprcsent

the 

the  two  great  forces  in  the  world  for 
good  and  evil.  They are  kismet— fate— 
destiny—the  thing  that  settles  life  for 
every  one  of  us  before  we are old enough 
to  grapple  with  its  problems  ourselves.
Sometimes  there  comes  to  each  of  us 
the  great  temptation  of  sense  or  appe­
tite  or  inclination.  We  want  to  indulge 
ourselves  or  our  courage  faints  before 
the  battle  or  we  have  wearied  of  the  un­
congenial  task.  Then  it  is  we  are  what 
our  mothers  made  us.  If  our  moral  fiber 
has  been  toughened  and  strengthened, 
we  turn  our  faces  to the  fray  and  fight 
on  to  victory, but  if  we  have  been  weak­
ly  self-indulged  we  supinely  give  up 
bofore  the  first  difficulty  and  cowardly 
surrender.

Not  long  ago  a  leading  suffragist  said 
to  me  that  in  another  generation,  at  the 
farthest,  women  would  be  given  a  right 
to  vote.

“ On  what  do  you  base  the  hope?”  

I 

asked.

“ On  our  sons,”   was  the  reply ; “ the 
boy  who  has  drawn  in  a  belief  in wom­
an’s  liberty  with  bis  mother's  milk,who 
has  been  taught  in  his  cradle  that 
women  have  equal  rights  with  men  and 
who  has  learned  in his  infancy  that  tax­
ation  without  representation  is  tyranny, 
no  matter  whether  a  man  or  woman  is 
consider  that  he  has  a 
taxed,  will 
sacred  mission 
justice  to 
his  mother's  sex.  Any  suffragist  mother 
who  does  not  raise  a  rampant  equal- 
right  son 
is  a  traitor to  her  faith  and 
her  creed. ”

in  righting 

She  was  right. 

In  one  generation 
women  could  change  the  face  of  the 
world,  if  they  would.

In  one  of  the  great  daily  papers  a 
symposium  has  recently  been  held  on 
the  question  of  the  divorce  evil  that 
threatens  the  very  foundation  of  Ameri-

If you  could  each  night  unlock  the  mind  of  a 
salesman  and  note  the  forgotten  impressions 
made  upon  it,  many  a  dollar  might  be  saved.

No  man  is master of his memory.
A  salesman  can  forget  every  money transaction  he  makes,  yet they 

will  be indelibly recorded  on  a National Cash  Register.

Probably  your  clerks  have  excellent  memories,  but  they  are  not 
Are you  absolutely  sure  of  the  number  of  C.  O.  D.  orders  that  were 

this  morning,  or  the  exact  amount  of  money  paid  out  for  express  charges?

One or two  forgotten  transactions each day  will soon cost you  enough 

to  pay  fora  Register. 

Let  us  tell  you other  reasons why you  need 

fillci

a  Cash  Register  and  show you  how  it  pays  for itself.  Let us 
send  you  our  book,  “ About  National  Cash  Registers.**
Detach  the  coupon,  fill  it  out  and  mail  to  us  today.

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and like it very much. 

It  stimulates  accuracy  in  both  clerks  and 
proprietors,  and  detects  little  oversights  which  often  occur in 

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the  tenderness  of  the  lover  and  the  fair­
ness  of a  business  partner, we  should  see 
the  divorce  shop  shutting  up  for  lack  of 
trade.

These  reforms  can  never  be  achieved 
by  law,  or  "whereases”   and  "be  it  re- 
solveds,"  but  they  lie  in  the  province 
of  every  woman’s  sphere  of  influence. 
In  the  broadest—the  most  vital—sense 
every  mother  has 
in  her  keeping  the 
happiness  of  some  other  woman’s  sons 
and  daughters,  as  well  as  her  own. 
it 
is  a  sacred  trust.  Beware  how  you  ful­
fill  if! 

Dorothy  D ix,

A  C hild's  C om m ent.

A  very  little  girl  was  aroused from her 
sleep  a  few  nights  ago  to  go  on  a  jour­
ney.  While 
she  was  dressing  she 
slipped  behind  a  heavy  window  curtain 
to  look  out  at  the  stars.
"Is   it  the  middle  of  the  night?”   she 
asked.

On  being  told  that  it  was,  she  said:
"Then,  that’s  it.  When  I  first  looked 
the  stars  were  twinkling  so 
1 
out 
just 
couldn't  tell  whether  they  were 
coming  out  or  just  going  away,  but  now 
I  know.  They  are  just  changing  from 
yesterday  to  to-morrow!”

The  Favorite 

Chips 

The  Favorite 

Chips

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

Straub  Bros.  <8b  Amiotte,  Traverse  City,  Mich.

can  society.  Clergymen, 
lawyers,  po­
litical  economists  and  scholars  have 
contributed  their  views  to  this  study  of 
a  great  problem,  but  all  have  frankly 
confessed  that  neither  the  law  nor the 
church  had  any  remedy  to  suggest  that 
would  solve  it  or change  existing  condi­
tions.

What  neither  bishop  nor  jurist  can 
do,the  unlettered  woman  can  do.  When 
two  people,  tied  together  in  wedlock, 
reach  the  point  of  finding  life  unendur­
able  together,  the  disease  is  so  malig­
nant  that  perhaps  nothing  but  divorce— 
the  surgeon's  knife—will  bring  relief. 
The  only  remedy  for  the  divorce  prob­
lem 
lies  in  the  cradle.  The  only  law 
that  will  ever  prevent  divorce  is  the  un­
written 
law  of  honor.  The  only  hand 
that  can  ever  stay  the  evil  is  the  hand 
of  a  mother. 
In  this  country  we  have 
two  significant  facts  that  are  strangely 
contradictory :  Almost  invariably  every 
marriage  is  a 
love  match  and  we  lead 
the  world  in  the  number of  divorces.

A  cynic  might  argue  from  this  that 
love  is  a  poor  thing  on  which  to  marry, 
but  such  we  know  is  not  the  case. 
It  is 
the  best  thing—the  only  thing—and  that 
it  fails  so  often 
it  is  not 
backed  up  by  other qualities.

is  because 

Love,  be it  ever  so  true  to  begin  with, 
will  not  stand  nagging,  incompetence, 
fault-finding,  ill  kept  hcuses  and 
ill- 
cooked  meals,  still  less  sullenness,  bad 
temper  and  neglect.  No  matter  what 
other  grounds  are  assigned  in  the  di­
vorce 
it  was  the  petty  faults  that  first 
made  the  ri ft  between  a  couple.

To  a  man  and  woman  no  other  busi­
ness  in  life  is  so  important  as  marriage 
and  yet  it  is  the  one  thing  for  which  no 
mother  ever  prepares  her  children.  She 
prepares  the  girl  for  catching  a  bus- 
band,  but  she  does  not  give  her  a  single 
direction  about  keeping  him  and  mak 
ing  him  happy. 
1  have  never  heard  a 
mother  talk  seriously  to  her  daughter 
about  her  duty  to  make  a  comfuitable 
home  for  a  man  or the  necessity  of  her 
being  industrious,  economical,  cheerful 
and  patient.

On  the  contrary,  the  average  mother's 
is  for  Maud  to get  all  of  the  fine 
idea 
clothes  and 
indulgences  she  can  out  of 
her  husband  and  do as  little  as  she  can 
in  return.

Who  ever  knew,  either,  of  a  woman 
preparing  her  son  for  matrimony?  Yet 
a  womanwho  has  had  her  own  heart 
hurt  by  the  unintentional  cruelty  and 
lack  of  thr tight  of  a  blundering  man 
should  in  pity  to  all  other  women  teach 
her  sons  what  a  woman  needs  to  make 
her  happy.  Every  woman  knows  the 
sum  of  a  wife's  bliss  lies  in  little things 
— in  the  tender  word,  the  little  caress, 
the  unfailing  attentions  of  the  lover— 
and  that  the  lack  of  these  things  spells 
mi sery  to  her.

Why  should  not  a  woman  teach  her 
sons  that  they  have  no  right  to  marry  if 
they  mean  to  neglect  their  wives,  that 
for  a  woman  to come  to  them  for  money 
is  an  insult  to  her  pride  for  which  there 
can  be  no  justification  and  that  it  is 
just  as  much  a  man's  place  to  help 
make  a  happy  home as  it  is  a  woman's?
If  every  woman  who  marries  was  per­
fectly  capable  of  conducting  a  house 
properly, 
if  she  was  industrious  and 
efficient  and  economical— in  a  word,  if 
she  knew  her  business—it  might  not 
stop  divorce,  but  it  would  check  it. 
If 
every  woman  was  taught  that  when  she 
embarked  on  the  matrimonial  sea  she 
signed  as  the  first  mate  and  was  bound 
to  stick  by  the  ship  no  matter  what  seas 
rolled  or  what  winds  blew, 
if  every 
man  was  taught  to  treat  bis  wife  with

The  best  way  to  bring  others  to  our 

ideals  is  to  get  there  ourselves.

A Business  Hint

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9  The  Kalamazoo  Copper  Mining
■   Co.  directs  your  attention  to  the
■   following  excellent points  in  rela- 
2   tion  to their company: 
i.  Its land
•   lies  between  two  companies  who
•   are  now producing  pay  ore  from 
J   the  same  vein.  2.  It  has  a  vein
1   more than  tooo feet long  that  con-
■   tains ore to the value of  over  fifty
2   per  cent,  in  copper.  3.  It  owns 
2   its  land.  4.  There  are  no debts.
•   The stock is  non-assessible.  6.  Low 
2  capitalization. 
finds  ore 
2  on  the  surface  that  assays  over
■   f4  per  ton.  8.  The  management 
B  is  honest,  thereby  protecting  the
•   small  stockholders.  Now  comes
•   your  opportunity  to  get  stock  in 
B  this company at  the  low  price  of 
2  twenty cents per share  for  a  short
■   time. 
The  first  allotment  was 
2  over subscribed at  ten  cents,  and 
2   this block  is  being  rapidly  taken.
•   Write  today  for  descriptive  pro- 
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Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. 

Rugs from Old Carpets js s s s

Absolute cleanitness Is our hobby as well 
as  our  endeavor  to  make  rugs  better, 
closer woven, more durable  than  others. 
We cater to first class  trade  and  If  you 
write for our is  page  Illustrated  booklet 
It will make  you  better  acquainted with 
our methods and new process.  We  have 
no agents.  We pay tbe freight.  Largest 
looms In United States.

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A  suggested  need  often  repeated  creates  the 

want that sends the purchaser to die store.

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

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

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

Each new product  as  it is announced  to the 
public serves  as  a  stimulant  to  business  and 
acts as a drawing card  that  brings more custo­
mers to the store than any plan you could devise.
A  well stocked line of National Biscuit goods 
is a business policy that it is not well to overlook.

Free!!

If you will send  us  an  order  for three dozen bottles 
of  Instant Crockery  Mender  (25c  size)  at  the  whole­
sale price of $1.75 dozen, we  will  send  you  f r e e   o f  
c h a r g e   one of these  splendid  Swiss Clocks,  guaran­
teed first class time-keeper. 
Instant Crockery Mender 
is a standard  staple article and will  mend anything in 
china or glass.  Gives satisfaction  everywhere.  Cost 
you:

$1.75  per doz.

R e t a il  fo r  25  C ents  P er  Bo t t l e .
Geo.  H.  Wheelock  & Co.

113 &  115  W.  Washington St.

South  Bend,  Ind.

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BUTTER  AND  ECCS

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R.  HIRT,  JR.,  D ETR O IT,  M IC H .
and  be  sure  of getting  the  Highest  Market  Price.

Hyde,  Wheeler  Company

41 North Market Street and 41  Clinton Street

B O S T O N

Strictly  Commission  Merchants

C onsequently  w e  are able to g iv e  consignm ents our 
undivided attention.  W e  w an t shipm ents o f

POULTRY  AND  EGGS

Y o u  can  not m ake a  verv  b ig  m istake  if you g iv e   us a fe w   trial  shipm ents.  W e   w ill g iv e  
you the m arket price and rem it prom ptly.  W rite  fo r stencils,  inform ation  relative  to  a d ­
van ces  or  an y th in g  you  w ish   to  know   about  our  line.  W e   do o ur h an kin g w ith   the 
F ourth  N ation al,  Board o f T rad e  B ld g ., Boston.  W hen you  w rite mention the Tradesm an-

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Wholesale  Poultry, 
Butter and  Eggs 
Port  Huron,  Mich. 

F I F T Y - T W O   W E E K S

in  the year  we are  in  the market for Poultry,  Butter and Eggs. 

We are paying this week:

FOR SWEET DAIRY PACKING STOCK BUTTER,  16c,  f. o. b. shipper’s 
station,  Port  Huron  weights  and  2  per  cent,  added  account 
shrinkage.  Pack  your  butter in  parchment  paper lined  sugar 
barrels  and  head  with  wooden  head.
FOR  FRESH GATHERED EGGS  (cases included) 21c,  f.  0.  b.  ship­

per s  station,  Port  Huron  count  and  inspection.

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Kowlg, No. I

For Poultry Delivered  Port Huron:

- 8HC lb.
91 -c lb.

Old Tom Turkeys 
Old Hen Turkeys

10  clb. 
U'Ac lb.

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£   turns  upon  receipt  of  shipments.  Prices  are  quoted  for  3  

Michigan  shipments only. 

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E   Garrison  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  St.  Clair  County  Saving^  3  
►

  Bank,  Port  Huron. 

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£5 
fc: 

y°u  are  a  carload  shipper let  us  hear  from  you.  We  buy  ^  

in carlots. 

per cent.,  but  such  action was  not  taken 
because  of  the  prospect  that quality  will 
soon  begin  to  improve.— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.
Color  of Skin and Feed Im p o rta n t Factors 

in   P o u ltry ,

In  America  the  consumer  prefers  a 
yellow-skinned 
fowl  while  in  every 
country  in Europe white-skinned poultry 
is  the favorite.  An examination to deter­
mine  the  reason  for  this  would  develop 
the  fact  that  most  people  do  not  know 
why  they  choose  as  they  do.  The  matter 
is  that  the  delicacy of flesh  that  is  found 
in  the  best  poultry—that  peculiar  palat­
able  flavor  and  that  juicy  sweetness 
which  makes  poultry  the  most  delicious 
meat  we  have,  when  we  get  poultry  as 
good  as  it  can  be—is  due  altogether to 
the  system  of  feeding  and  the  kind  of 
feed.
It 

is  perfectly  safe  to  say  that  nine- 
tenths  T)f  the  poultry  sent  to  market  is 
not  of  good  flavor  nor  is  the  flesh  of 
good  texture.  The  flavor  comes  from 
improper  feed  and  the  texture  from  im­
proper  feeding.

This  may  be  new  to  some  people,  but 
the  facts  are  as  we  state  them.  Recently 
we  had  an  opportunity  to-learn  some­
thing  about  these  matters  from  one  who 
had  no  sentimental  prejudice  to  sway 
him  one  way  or  the  other.  He  fits  fowls 
for  market  without  regard to bis feelings 
on  the  subject.  He  is  looking  for  the 
the  best  prices  and  feeds  and  cares  for 
his  fowls  in  such  a  way  as  to  secure  the 
top  of  the  market.

Living  in  the  very  midst  of  the  great 
corn  belt  this  man  feeds  the fowls in  his 
charge  but  little  corn  when be gets ready 
to  finish  them  for  the  market.  He  told 
us  that  fowls  can  be  fattened  on  corn 
easier  and  quicker than  with  any  other 
feed,  but  they  do  not  bring  highest 
prices  when  so  fattened.  They  have 
plenty  of  fat  on  them  when  finished  on 
corn, but  the  fat lies  inside  the  Dody  and 
just  under  the  skin,  and  when  such  a 
fowl 
is  roasted  the  fat  melts  and  runs 
out,  leaving  the  flesh  stringy  and  coarse 
in  appearance.  .

He  gets  the  fowls  from  farms,  having 
them  picked  up  by  buyers  and  buying 
from  hucksters  who  go  from  farm  to 
farm.  When  brought  to  the  place  where 
they  are  to  be  finished,  they  are  put  in 
small  coops  containing  four or  five fowls 
each.  These  are  then  fed  a  thin  batter­
like  mixture  of  ground  oats  and  barley, 
with  very  little  corn  in  it  The  feed  is 
placed  in  troughs  outside  the  coops,  and 
as  soon  as  the  fowls  have  eaten  all  they 
will  the  troughs  are  taken  away  and 
thoroughly  cleaned.  The  feed  is  so  thin 
that  no  water  is  needed,  and  nothing  is 
given  the  fowls  but  the  tbin  mixture. 
They  get  very  fat  within  ten  days  and 
the  flesh  is  sweet  and  juicy  because  the 
fat  is  mixed 
in  through  the  flesh  and 
between  the  fibers.
A  fowl  finished 

in  this  way  sells  in 
the  city  markets  for  prices  that  would 
astonish  the  man  on  the  farm  who  is  in 
the  habit  of  fattening  his  fowls  on  corn 
and  selling  them  to  the  huckster  or 
country  merchant  for  5  or  6  cents  a 
pound.

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Butter  and  Eggs

O bservations  by  a  G otham   E gg  M an.
The  weather  conditions  in  all  the 
principal  egg  producing  sections  have 
continued  unusually  mild  for  the  sea­
son  of  year,and yet there are  few  indica­
tions  of  any  important  increase  in  the 
lay. 
In  many  sections  the  pressure  to 
get  poultry  forward  for  the  Thanksgiv­
ing  markets  has  doubtless  restricted  egg 
collections  and 
it  is  probable  that  now 
is  over  there  will  be  some 
this  rush 
increase 
in  the  arrivals  of  eggs  to  in­
terior  points,  but  we  can  not  expect 
spring  pullets  to  lay  many  eggs  before 
December  even  with  the  most  favorable 
weather.  At  the  same  time  the  pre­
vailing  mildness  gives  rather an  uneasy 
feeling  among  some  of  the  holders  of 
refrigerator  eggs.  The  season 
is  ad­
vancing,  and  although  pretty  good  in­
roads  are  now  being  made  upon  the  re­
serve  holdings  there  are  fairly  liberal 
stocks  still  to  be  moved,  and  it  is  be­
lieved  that  two or three  weeks  more  of 
fairly  favorable  weather  would  have  a 
very  important  effect  upon  the supply  of 
fresh.

The  remaining  stocks  of  refrigerator 
eggs  seem  to  contain  a  smaller  propor­
tion  of  strictly  fancy  quality  than  usual 
at  this  season;  it  looks  as  though  the 
scramble  for  stock  last  spring  induced 
many  operators  to  put  goods  away  with­
out  as  close  a  discrimination  in  quality 
as  usual  and  much  of  the  stock  now 
offered  shows  an  undesirable  lack  of 
grading.  Naturally the fanciest  qualities 
are  held  with  the  most  confidence  and 
stock  that  shows  such  close  selection 
and  uniformtiy  fine  quality  as  to  be 
serviceable 
in  a  good  class  of  trade  in 
place  of  fresh  is  sparingly  offered  even 
at  the  outside  market  quotation.

As  the  season  advances  collectors  in 
the  South  will  probably  be  the  first  to 
feel  the  natural 
increase  in  supply  of 
fresh  production,  provided  the 
lay  is 
not  retarded  by  bad  weather  and  there 
is  no reason  why  shippers  in that section 
should  not  be  able  to  establish  a  better 
name  for  their  goods  among  buyers. 
Some  few  of  the  Southern  shippers  have 
appreciated  the  opportunity of establish­
ing  a  good  reputation  for  their  brands 
and  have  obtained  correspondingly 
good  prices  for  them.  This  can  only 
be  done  by  careful  candling  and  grad­
ing.  Just  now, when  fresh  laid  eggs  are 
so  scarce, freshness  is  the most important 
feature  and  the  grading  as  to  size  is  not 
so  important  but  later,  when  fresh  eggs 
become  relatively  more  plenty  the  grad­
ing  should  be  closer as  to  size.

The  present  arrivals  of  Southern  fresh 
gathered  eggs  are  of  extremely  irregu­
lar quality.  As  a  rule,they  are  so  badly 
mixed  with  old  eggs  that  the  better 
class  of  trade  will  not  use  them  at  all 
and  they  must  be  sold  in  competition 
with  refrigerators  at  comparatively 
low 
prices—generally  about  2o@23c  per 
dozen.  Some  marks  that  show  very 
good  quality  in  instances,and  for  which 
better  prices  are  obtainable,  seem  to  be 
unreliable  and  subsequent  arrivals  fall 
to  poor quality.  But  it  would  seem  that 
the  country  holdings  of  stale  eggs  must 
soon  be  exhausted  and  a  larger  propor­
tion  of  new  eggs  ought  to  show  up  in 
the  Southern  receipts  before  long.

Just  now 

it  is  not  easy  to  find  stock 
from  any  point  that  will  come  up  to  the 
Exchange  requirements  for  firsts,  which 
call  for  65  per  cent,  of  full  fresh.  A 
meeting  of  the  Egg  Committee was  held 
the  other  day  to consider  the  advisabil­
ity  of  reducing  the  requirement  to  50

When  farmers 

learn  to  produce  the 
best  quality  of  poultry,  there  will  be 
buyers  ready  to  pay  the  price 
it  is 
worth.

Holiday  Poultry

Ship  T o

LAMSON &  CO.,  BOSTON

Ask the  Tradesm an about  us.

Egg Cases and  Egg Case  Fillers

Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and  Fillers.  Sawed white- 
wood and veneer basswood cases.  Carload  lots, mixed car lots or quantities to  suit 
purchaser.  We manufacture every kind  of  fillers  known  to  the  trade  and  sell 
same in mixed cars  or lesser  quantities  to  suit  purchaser.  Also  Excelsior  Nails 
and  Flats constantly in stock.  Prompt shipment and courteous treatm eT   Ware­
houses and factory on Grand River, Eaton  Rapids,  Michigan.  Address

L. J. SMITH & CO., Eaton Rapids, Mich.

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O U TSTR IPPED   H E R   B RO TH ER

By  S im ply  L iving  Up  to  H er  O pportu- 
itles.
Written for the Tradesman.

They  were  twins  and  the  never  end­
ing  discussion  between  them from child­
hood  up  was  the  equality  of  the  sexes, 
she  vigorously  insisting  not  that  either 
amounted  to  a  row  of  pins,, but  that  she 
amounted  to  as  much  as  he  did,  a  state­
ment  that  he  utterly  denied.  During 
the  Tomboy  season  that  blesses  every 
wholesome  girlhood  she  bad  conclusive­
ly  proven  her  right  to  all  she  claimed. 
She  never  questioned  Tom’s  undoubted 
ability  and  woe  to  the  human  being 
who  in  her  presence  d id ;  she  simply 
went”   him  one  or  more  better,  as  the 
case  might  be,  as  a  matter  of  course 
without  ever  deigning  to  refer  to  it tri 
umphantly.  He  was  the  swiftest runner 
on  the  playground,  a  pre-eminence  due 
entirely  to  his  races  with  bis sister  who, 
with  ease,  beat  him  at  his  best.  He 
climbed  trees  but  she  was  the  better 
climber.  She  could  outskate  him,  and 
to  bis  great  mortification 
she  could 
throw  a  ball  like a boy and she tantalized 
him  with  a  curve  that  he  could  not  get 
on  to.  She  insisted  on  carrying  water 
to  the  men.  As  long  as  her  mother 
would 
let  her  she  could  and  did  carry 
in  as  much  wood  as  be  did  and  nothing 
pleased  her  more  nr  made  him  madder 
than  to  have  her  rake  his  heels  as  she 
invariably  did  in  the  baylitld.

If  she  went  ahead  of  him  in  the  phys­
ical,  in  the  school  room  her  superiority 
was  painfully  apparent. 
She  always 
led  her  side  to  victory  in  the  spelling 
contest,  it  was  nip  and  tuck  between 
them 
learning  “ by 
heart”   she  calmly  told  him  be  wasn't 
anywhere,  and  nothing  so  thoroughly 
aroused  Tom's  resentment  as  L il’s  pa­
tronizing statement that his compositions 
were  "pretty  fair  for a  boy.”

in  arithmetic,  in 

It  is  easy  to  infer  that  Lill's  determi­
nation  to  enter  the  commercial 
field 
worked  up  Tom  to  the  highest  pitch. 
She  would  study  book-keeping  because 
he  did  and,  after  an  idle  year at  home 
where 
in  spite  of  a  round  of  pleasing 
duty  she  rebelled  against  the  implied 
dependence,  contrary  to  the  wishes  of 
all  concerned,  she  went  to  town  and  was 
lucky  enough  to  secure  a  place  as  as­
sistant  book-keeper  in  a  rival  wholesale 
house.  Tom  was  at  home  over  Sunday 
when  Lill  made  the  announcement  and 
he  proceeded  at  once  to  express  his 
opinion.
" I t ’s 

just  like  you,  Lill,  and  you’ll 
succeed  where  many  a  girl  can’t,  but 
I’ll  tell  you  right  here  and  now,  your 
kind  of  teeth  weren't  made  for that kind 
of  cud  and  you  can't  chew  it.  You, 
like  the  rest  oi  your  kind,  are  not  built 
that  way. 
In  the  first  place  you  can’t 
and  you  won’t  realize  your  responsibil­
ity.  As 
long  as  the  new  lasts  you're 
there  body  and  mind  and  soul,  and 
you’ll  be 
it  to  a  dot.  After  that  you 
wrnt  to  look  out.  Your  likes  and  dis­
likes  are  not  to  he  consulted 
in  the 
office  and  you'll  find  to  your  astonish­
ment  that  you  can't  put  down  your  pen 
an1  have  an  hour  or  a  day  off  simply 
‘ because.’  The  phone  will  he  a novelty, 
but  you'll  have  to  get  over  the  notion 
early  that  it  was  put  up for your conven­
ience.  The  firm  want  to  use  it  once  in  a 
while.

" Yes,  you  were.  You have  said  it  all 
vour  days  and  you’re  going  to  say  it  to 
the  end  of  time  and  you'll  do  it  in spite 
of  the  fact  that  if  there  is  a  man  under 
the  sun,  this  blessed  minute,  who  needs 
the  advice  that  you’re  trying  to cram 
down  my  throat  it’s  you,  Tom  Scar­
borough.

"N ot  one  girl  in  ten  can  be  made  to 
understand  without  a  row  that  during 
business  hours  her  time  belongs  to  her 
employer.  She can’t  see  why  Susie  and 
Tillie  and  the  cherished  rest  of  ’em
“ Now,  then,  Tom,  listen  to  me.  You 
can’t  come 
in  any  time  they  want  to
have  the  start  of  me  a  good  year  and  as
I-—  
=««■ »  me  a  guuu  year  ana  as
and  talk  over  parties  and  dresses  and  I  am  a  woman  I  have  neither  business

> 

r 

why  the  air  is  full  of  scowls  as  long  as 
they  stay.”

Is  that  so;  and  to  think  that  only 
the  women  side  of  the  house  waste  their 
employer’s 
time!  Don’t  talk  silly, 
Tom,  because  you  were  horn  so.”

"There 

isn’t  one  girl  in  twenty  that 
enters  business  life  who  doesn't  believe 
that  she  has  put  the  establishment under 
lasting  obligation  to  her  by  working  for 
them  and  that  if  some  day  she  should 
get  mad  and  go  home  the  whole  con­
cern  would  go  to  the  eternal  smash-up. 
She  forgets  the  ranks  of  the  wage  earn­
ers  are  crowded, 
that  the  supply  is 
greater  than  the  demand  and  that  in­
competent,  inefficient,  negligent workers 
are  not  wanted: ”

"On  the contrary  that  is  the  one thing 
she  has  constantly  to  listen  to  and  the 
principal  reason  why  women  are  taking 
these  places  is  because  they  are  needed 
to  do  away  with  that  kind  of  worker. 
Is  there  anything  else  on  your  mind,my 
brother?  After  your  year’s  experience 
you  ought  to  have  no  end  of  advice  to 
give  me. 
If  so,  now’s  your  time.  Don’t 
be  at  all  backward  in  coming  forward. 
Stop  your  fault  finding  and  just  tell  me 
a  few  of  the  many things  I ought to do. ”
"Well,  you  want  to  be  interested  in 
your  work,  in  the  first  place,”   and  bis 
imperial  highness  cleared  bis  throat  as 
people  do  when  they  start  in  on  an  ex­
tended  talking  job.

" Mother,  you  made  a  great  mistake 
at  Tom  s  christening.  He  ought  to have 
been  named  Solomon  or  at  the very least 
he  should  have  had  that  for  a  middle 
name.  You  needn’t  go  on,  Tom. 
I’ve 
beard  the  whole  thing  a  good  many 
times  and  a  great  deal  better  than  you 
can  say  it.  You'd  better  stop  your  ears, 
mother,  if  you  don’t  want  to  bear  me 
talk  young  man  to  Tom.

about 

I'll  bet  you  five  dollars  I  can  tell 
you  exactly  what  you were  going  to  say. 
Now,  honest  Injun,  weren’t  you  going 
to  tell  me  to  avoid  complaining  to  my­
self  or  anybody  about  my  work  or  talk- 
it  as  if  it  were  a  grievance? 
Then  you  were  going  to  clear  your 
throat  and  urge  me  to  take  pride  in  do­
ng  my  work  well  whether  I  like  it  or 
not.  Mother,  I’m  now  where  Eve  out- 
Adams Adam.  Every girl—he’s talking 
now  to  the  whole  sex  and  knows  that  he 
is  wise  as  he  wants  to  be  impressive— 
who  enters  business  may  as  well  under­
stand  that  the  ranks  are  crowded—you 
needn  t  look  that  way;  I’m  going  to  re­
peat 
it  if  I’ve  a  mind  to—and  that  the 
odds  are  all  against  them  because  they 
have  to  struggle  now  with  men—as  if 
we  don't  always  have  to!—and  they  are 
unequal  to  the  struggle,  physically  and 
mentally.  Remember  that  advancement 
comes  to 
the  painsttking,  cheerful 
young  woman—  Ye  gods,’  must  I  en­
dure  all  this!— who  takes  an  interest  in 
the  business.  You  should,  therefore, 
my  dear  sister,  cultivate  a  cheerful— 
there 
is  again—alacrity  instead  of  a 
bored,  languid,  or  possibly  an  antago­
nistic  manner.  ’ This.above  ali,  to  thine 
own  self  be  true,'  and  once,  twice  and 
all  the  time  remember  that  a  neat  per­
sonal  appearance  and  an  appropriate 
style  of  dress  are  likewise 
important!”

it 

faculty  nor  business  methods  to  help 
m e;  but  in 
less  than  five  years,  if  you 
don’t  look  out  sharply  for  yourself.  I’ll 
beat  you  ten  to  one  in  the  very  things 
you’ve  bad  the  audacity  to  try  to  in­
struct  me  in.  I’ll  do more than that— I’ll 
be  in  a  better  position  than  you  are  and 
will  be  having  a  bigger  salary  and  if 
I’m  not  I  will  give  you a  crisp ten dollar 
bill. 
‘ A  neat  personal  appearance  and 
an  appropriate  style  of  dress  are  like­
wise  important!'  Look  at  your  necktie 
and 
look  at  your  cuffs  and,  pitiful 
heaven,  look 
leniently  down  on  those 
benzine-begging  spots  and  upon  my 
brctber^Tom  behind  them!”

The  word-contest  ended  in  a  laugh  as

it  always  did  between  these  two;  but, 
what  is  more  to  the  point,  the  “ airy, 
fairy  Lillian”   made  her  vaunting  true 
with  a  vengeance;  for  when  the  five 
years  were  half  over  she  did  excel  him 
in  every  thing  in  which  she bad said she 
would  and  when  the  time  came  for the 
transfer  of  the  ten  dollar  bill  she  held 
Tom’s  place,which  his  want  of  business 
habits  forced  him to give  up,  at  a  much 
higher  salary  than  his  had  been.

" I   see,  Lill,  that  you’ve  kept  your 
word.  Don’t  you  want  to  lecture  me?”
"No,  Tom.  I’ll  take  the  time  in  con­
templating  this  crisp  bill  that  I’m  go­
ing  to  keep,  sacred  to  the  memory  of!”  

Richard  Malcilm  Strong.

BUTTER 

EGGS 

POULTRY

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

Buffalo  market compares  favorably  with  all  others.

Rea  &  Witzig

Commission  Merchants  in  Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry 

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

96  West  /larket  Street,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

Established  1873

Butter

I  a lw a y s 
w a n t  it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

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crates  made  especially  for  poultry.  They  are  made  of seasoned elm, are strong, tight 
and well ventlla'ed.  We have had nothing but words of praise  from  those  shippers who

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The New York Market

Special  F eatures  o f th e  G rocery and Prod* 

nee Trades.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Nov.  28—The  coffee  mar­
ket  is  decidedly  weak.  A  good  deal  of 
liquidation  has  been  going  on  by  spec­
ulators  who  bad  loaded  up,  and  as  a  re­
sult  the  article  is  in  the  dumps.  At  the 
close  Rio  No.  7  is  quotable  at  5#c. 
Buyers  are  taking  only  small  lots  even 
at  this  price  and  the  outlook  is certainly 
not  very  encouraging  for  holders. 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  2,710,519 bags, 
against  2,352,217  bags  at  the  same  time, 
last  year.  Mild  coffees  have  shown  lit­
tle,  if any,  improvement  and  quotations 
are  without  change.  East  India  sorts 
are  quiet  and  the  sales  are  simply  of 
little  lots  to  serve  the  present  needs.
The  sugar  market  closes  strong  and 
the  outlook  for the  rest  of  the year seems 
to  be  decidedly  in  favor of  the  seller. 
Reports  of  considerabe  reduction  in  the 
figures  of  the  European  beet  root  serve 
to  make  the  situation  stronger  and  there 
is  not  a  cloud  to  be  seen  at  the  moment 
indicating  any  “ war.*'  The  American 
Refinery 
is  guaranteeing  prices  to  day 
of  arrival.

Sellers  of  tea  do  not  seem  at  all  anx­
ious  to  part  with  holdings  on  the  pres­
ent  basis.  At  any  rate  they  will  make 
no concessions,  and  the  buyer  who  cares 
anything  at  all  for quality  need  not  ex­
pect  to  pick  up  bargains  by  “ shopping 
around.”   The  tea  market,  as  a  whole, 
is  in  better condition  than  for  a 
long 
time,  and  the  future  seems  to  be  one  of 
good  business.  Of  course,  while  the 
consumption  of tea tends to  grow less the 
quantity  needed  will  be  smaller,and  the 
supply  may  grow  much  too  large;  but 
there  is  nothing  of  the  kind 
just  at 
present  and  offerings  of  desirable  goods 
are quickly  taken.
Business  in  rice  is  slow  and  the  mar­
ket  is  in  an  unsettled  condition.  Crop 
reports  are  anything  but  favorable  and 
general 
indications  seem  to  favor  the

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

seller,although  quotations  have  not  per­
ceptibly advanced.  Choice  to  head,  5% 
@6#c.

The  only  item  in  spices  to  be noted  is 
a  scarcity  of  nutmegs  and  mace,  the 
prices  on  which  are  very  firm.  Other 
spices  are  selling  in  an  average  manner 
and  without  change  in  any  material  re­
spect.

Quietude  has  prevailed 

in  canned 
goods  district  this  week,  quiet,  that  is, 
as  compared  with  some  previous  weeks 
although  there  is  all  the  time  a  pretty 
fair trade.  Standard  tomatoes  are  some­
what  dull  and  prices  show  considerable 
variation.  While  Maryland  standard 
threes  are  “ in  the  papers”   at  from  87 
@95c,  there  is  no  doubt  but  these  quo­
tations  have  been  shaded,  and  that  85c, 
or  even  less, has  been  a  rate  made.  New 
Jersey  about $1.10.  Corn  is quotable  at 
from  85c  to  $1.05  and  offerings  are 
limited.  Salmon is meeting  with fair en­
quiry  and  holders  are  very  firm  in  their 
views.
In  dried  fruits  the  market  is  in  good 
shape  and  prices  are  well  sustained. 
There  is  quite  an  active  demand  for 
the  large  sizes  of  prunes  and  the  better 
grades  of  raisins  for  Christmas.  Nuts 
are  steady  and  active  at  full  quotations.
Lemons  and  oranges  have  met  with  a 
fairly  active  trade,  and  especially  the 
latter.  Jamaicas  ate  strong  and  show 
some  advance,  beginning  at  $2.75  and 
running  through  every  fraction  up  to 
S7  50  for  the  fanciest  stock.  Florida 
oranges  are  arriving  rather  more  freely, 
but  show  considerable  waste  owing  to 
rainy  weather  in  that  State.  Quoted, 
from  $2@2.65<

The  very  best  stock  of  butter is quick­
ly  taken  at  28@28^c  and  the  supply 
is 
not  equal  to  the  demand;  but  the  qual­
ity  must  be  very  nice  to  fetch  that 
price,and  some  good  butter can  be  pur­
chased  for  2  or 3c  less,  with  about  27c  a 
fair  average ;  possibly 
Imitation
creamery,  I7^@ 2ic;  factory, i7^ @ igc; 
latter  for  fancy  June;  Renovated,  i8@ 
21c.

Hardly  a  speck  of  change  in  cheese  is 
apparent.  Full  cream  large  size  is  still

held  at  13c  and  the  demand  is  simply of 
an  average  character.  Small  sizes,i2^c.
Fresh-gathered  Western  eggs,  28j£c, 
loss  off.  At  mark  the  range  is  from  20 
@270,  the 
latter  for  desirable  stock,  of 
course.

T he  Voice  of E xperience.

The  bride's  mother  was  visiting  her, 
and  together  they  sat  in  the  sewing- 
rcom.  The  bride  was  fixing  the  sleeve 
lining  of  her  husband's  overcoat.
“ Well,  1  think  that’s  a  neat  job,”   re­
marked  the  bride,  as  she  finished  her 
task.
it  and  shook 
her  head  solemnly.
like  it?”   suggested  the 
bride.

The  mother  examined 
“ You  don’t 

“ It's  too  well  done,”   was  the  reply. 

“ Too  well  done!”

“ Yes;  it's  a  tailor’s  job.”
“ But  if  I  can  do as well  as a tailor— "
“ Why,  then,  of  course,  you'll  have  to 
keep  on  doing  things  of  that  sort.  Ob, 
1  know  all  about  it. 
I  tried  it  myself 
when  I  was  first  married and  later  1  had 
to  ruin  two  coats  before  I  could  break 
your  father  of  the  habit  of  bringing 
everything  tome,  just listen to the  voice 
of  experience,  daughter,  and  make  a 
bungling 
job  of  that,  even  if  you  have 
to  tear  it  all  out  and  do  it  over  again. 
It  is  no  trouble  at  all  to  discourage  him 
now,  but  it  will  be  a  year or  so  later. 
It  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  a 
woman 
life 
right.”

begin  married 

should 

An  Ite m   in  D em and.

He  was  cutting  an  item  from  a  news- 
aper. 
“ It  tells  how  a  house  was 
robbed,  and  I  want  to  show  it  to  my 
wife,”   he  explained.
enquired.

"What  good  will  that  do?”   a  friend 

“ A  whole  lot”   was  the  reply;  you 
see,  this  house  was  robbed  while  the 
man  was  at  church  with  his  wife.”

“ Say!”   exclaimed  the 

friend,  ex­
citedly,  “ you  haven't  got  a  duplicate 
copy  of  that  paper,  have  you?”

F o r   S a le

Sleigh  Bells

Team  Bells

Swede, all  sizes 

Shaft Bells,  12 styles 

String  Bells, 20 styles

W e have 
something 

N E W

in  bell  making

Mail  Orders given  Special 

Attention

Brown  &  Schlcr

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

\ For  That  Boy  of  Yours!

There’s Nothing Too Good  For Him

Of ali;the joys, of all the toys,
The'Patrol is the best for the boys.
Don’t be tight—the price is right,
And  more abundant love for papa in sight.

N0/2  Police or Fire Patrol  Wagon

Body  21x40 inches;  with  a  front  seat  and two seats 
running  lengthwise  of  wagon,  with  brass  rails; 
seats  are  upholstered  in  red  plush.  Has  a  foot 
pressure  gong.  Has  a footboard  in  front and step 
on  rear,  both  of  which  are  ironed  and  strongly 
braced. 
The  gears  are  very  strong  and  well 
braced. 
11-16 inch  axles  are  used,  having  a  ^*3 
spindle.  Tinned  wire  wheels,  14  and  20  inches, 
with  extra  heavy  hubs,  spokes  and  rims.  The 
construction  throughout  is extra  strong,  making  it
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The gear is painted yellow,  body blue in the  Police  Patrol  and  3

rough usage. 
stenciled. 
which  are weU known  to  be  stronger  and  more lasting  than  wood  wheels.  Weight  90 pounds 

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It  is  superior  to  all  other large  Patrol  Wagons  on  the market,  in  that  it  has  extra  heaw avl 

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WOOLSON  SPICE  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio

Wi‘h 72 P°“ndS GrOUnd Sp'“ S 

Spices  and  Patrol  Wagon  F.  O.  B.  Toledo.

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Commercial T ravelers

Ikkina Writ* if the 8rn

President,  J ohn  A.  W eston,  Lansing;  Sec­
retary,  M.  8.  Bbow n,  Safiinaw;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. S c h k a m ,  Detroit.

OsiM CsuHrtial Trawlm if lickigu 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba rtlett,  Flint: 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale: 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edklman, Saginaw.

Grud Rapids Council Re. 131, D. C. T.

Senior  Counselor,  W.  8.  Bu r n s;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Lay  Serm ons  B y  a   Lay  R eader.

I  am  a  devoted  reader  of  the  beauty 
and  hygiene  departments  of  magazines 
and  columns  of  papers. 
I  pore  with 
eager  interest  over  the  rules  for  the  use 
of  orange  wood  sticks  and 
lanolin 
creams,  and  of  the  subject  of  the  abuse 
of  the  hot  bath  I  never tire.  I  am  a  dil­
igent  and  devout  pupil  in  the  school  of 
the  beauty  cult,  and  yet  it  has  recently 
occurred  to  me  that  the  professors  at 
whose  feet  I  sit  are  transcending  the 
duties  of  their  calling.

This  one  says  to  me:  “ Whateveryou 
do,  do  not  worry.  Nothing  so  dims  the 
luster  of  the  eyes  as  worry.  That  one 
forbids  me  never  to  weep,  on  pain  of 
the  most  dire  hollows.  The  other  warns 
me  against  rages  as  most  disfiguring. 
Still  a  fourth 
intimates  that  I  would 
better  not  greatly  enjoy  the  society  of 
my  friends,  the  works  of  my  favorite 
author,  the  compositions  of  my  favorite 
musician,  the  acting  of  my  favorite 
player,  because 
in  all  great  pleasure 
there  is  a  tendency  to  excessive  excite­
ment—and  that  marks  the  face.  Pleas­
ure  may  lead  me  to  forget  that  the  first 
duty  of  the  beauty  seeker  is  to  obtain, 
by  hook  or crook,eight hours  of  uninter­
rupted  sleep  each  night. 
In  short,  the 
beauty  specialists,  having  successfully 
pre-empted  the  chair  of  medicine  and 
hygiene  in  the  great  school  of  the  press, 
are  now  making  serious  inroads  upon 
those  of  ethics  and  theology.

My  duty,  your  duty,  every  woman’s 
duty,  according  to  them,  is  to  be  beauti­
ful.  Sometimes  they  make  it  a  second 
or  third  duty,  the  first  place  being  gra­
ciously  allotted  to  the  cultivation  of 
some  old-fashioned  quality,  like  good 
motherhood,  filial  piety  or  being  a  good 
temperance  advocate.  But  these  duties 
are  hastily  glossed  over,  and  we  who 
pursue  beauty  are  slowly  led  to  the  con­
clusion  that  the  pursuit  of  the  virtues 
must  be  given  up,  or at  least  made  sub­
servient.

Of  course,the  beauty  teachers  say  that 
it  is  impossible to  be  truly  lovely  unless 
one  has  a  gcod  temper  and  a  kind 
heart,  but  after  that  glib  concession  to 
popular  prejudice  what  do  they  say?

“ Don’t  |worry,’ ’  is  their  first  rule. 
Let  generous  impulses  go  bang  so 
long 
as  you  preserve  an  unwrinkled  brow. 
Let  the  neighbors  be  evicted  for  non­
payment  of  rent  and  your  friends  fall  ill 
of  typhoid  fever,  but  don’t  pucker  up 
your  forehead  thinking  how  you  may 
help  them.  Probably they deserve  these 
visitations  of  calamity,  anyway.  Why 
are  not  all  poor  people  thrifty,  and  why 
are  not  all  the  others  careful  about  their 
water supply  and  their  plumbing?

“ Do  not  weep.”  

It  is  ruinous  to  the 
eyes.  See  your  dearest  in  the  grip  of 
mortal  pain;  see  your  second  cousin’s 
son  making  a  swift  way  to  the  dogs; 
read  that  in  the  South  babies  are  dying 
at  the  mill  wheels.  But  do  not  weep. 
Do  not  frown. 
If  you  must  feel  sad, 
although  that  is  a  mistake,at  least  exert 
enough  self-control  to  keep  the  eyes  un­
tarnished  in  brilliancy.

“ Let nothing interfere  with  your  eight 
hours'  sleep.”   Let the  baby  cry  of  colic

— if  any  modern  baby  has  so old-fash­
ioned  a  complaint;  let  your  sister's 
shirt  waist  which  she wishes  to don early 
to-morrow  morning  go  unmended;  let 
the  callers go home with their best stories 
untold,  their  best  songs  unsung.  Do 
not  go to  the  opera  two  nights  a  week. 
Sleep,  sleep,  and  save  your complexion.
So  say  the  beauty  doctors,  grown  ar­
rogant  and  assuming  a  place 
in  the 
pulpit.  And,  doubtless,  enough  of  their 
disciples  humbly  strive  to  obey  their 
every  word  to  make  it  worth  while  to 
ask  them  to  call  a  halt upon their ethical 
eloquence.  A 
if  ad­
hered  to,  would  make  either  the  face  a 
shell,  a  mask,  or  the  heart  an  empty 
chamber  stripped  of  emotions,  seems  a 
little  bard.

system  which, 

One  can  give  up  potatoes  and  sugar 
and  coffee  at  command,  and  doubtless 
benefit  thereby,  but  pity  and  sorrow  and 
compassion  may  not  be  so  readily  or  so 
wholesomely  banished  from  the  spirit­
ual  dietary.  One  may  school  herself  to 
whirl  her  arms  like  windmills  and  her 
legs  like  teetotums  in the  strenuous  pur­
suit  of  grace,  but  when  she  schools  her­
self  to  control  the  action  of  the  involun­
tary  organs  of  noble  and  kindly  senti­
ment  she  is  advancing  into  a  dangerous 
realm.  And  all  the  good,  the  indubit­
able  good  which  the  beauty  specialists 
have  done  for this  generation  of women, 
in  the  matter  of  carriage,  cleanliness, 
grace, 
freshness  and  physical  whole­
someness, would be speedily  offset  should 
they  persuade  even  a  few  women  that  a 
complexion  was  to  be  preferred  to  good 
companionship,  or  bright  eyes  to  be 
maintained  at  the  expense  of  a  tender 
heart,  or  smooth  brows  by  a  bar  upon 
righteous  indignation,  warm  pity  and 
quick  sympathy. 

Cora  Stowell.

H is  F irst  L etter.

A  youth  was  engaged  as  junior  clerk 
by  a  firm  of  lawyers,and  by  way  of  fill­
ing 
in  his  time  and  testing  his  worth 
on  his  first  day  be  was  told  to  write  a 
letter  demanding  payment of a debt from 
a  client  wbp  was  long  in  arrears.  To 
the  great  surprise  of  his  employers  a 
check  for  the  amount  arrived  the  next 
day.  They  sent  for the  young  clerk  and 
asked  him  to  produce  a  copy  of  the  let­
ter  which  had  had  such  an  astonishing 
result.  The  letter  ran  as  follows:  “ Dear 
Sir—If  you  do  not  at  once  remit  pay­
ment  we  will  take  steps  that  will  amaze 
you.”

A  Detroit  correspondent  writes  as  fol­
lows  under date  of  Nov.  30:  To  create 
some  enthusiasm  in  the  ranks  of  Post 
C,  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip in De­
troit,  the  members  met  last  night  at  the 
Griswold  House  and  devised  a  contest. 
This  will  be  carried out  by  dividing  the 
Post  and  each  side  will work against the 
other  in  getting  new  members.  At  the 
end  of a  given  time  the  side  getting  the 
fewer  members  will  buy  a  supper  for 
the  winning  side.  The  members  are 
enthusiastic over  the  plan.  It  was  voted 
to  invite  the  State  body  to  Detroit  for 
the  1903  convention.

E.  Gillis,  who  covered  Western  and 
Southwestern  Michigan  for  the  Na­
tional  Tablet  and  Supply  Co.,  of  Elk­
hart,  and  who  resigned  last  April  to ac­
cept  the  position  of  Secretary  and  Gen­
eral  Manager of  the  Kalamazoo  Copper 
Mining  Co.,  is  greatly  elated  over the 
prospect  of  achieving  a  notable  success 
in  his  new  venture.  Mr.  Gillis  vis­
ited  the  property  owned  by  his  com­
pany  twice  during  the  past  summer  sea­
son  and 
is  fully  convinced  that  it  has 
one  of  the  best  mining  propositions  in 
the  Grand  Encampment  district.

P rosecuted F o r Selling Sausage on Sunday.
Saginaw,  Dec.  1— F.  C.  Nast,  who runs 
a  grocery  and  market  at  1122  Mackinaw 
street,  has  been  arrested  for  non-observ­
ance  of  the  Sunday  closing  law.  When 
arraigned 
in  court  be  pleaded  “ not 
guilty"  and  his  case  was  continued  un­
til  December  4.  Mr.  Nast  asserted  that 
the  prosecution  was  spite  work.  He 
stated  that  he  was  not  in  the  habit  of 
keeping  his  grocery  open  on  Sunday  for 
the  good  reason  that  be  spent  every 
Sunday 
in  the  country  buying  butter 
and  eggs.  He  said,  however,  that 
last 
Sunday  he  bad  failed  to  deliver a bushel 
of  potatoes  which  had  been  ordered  for 
delivery  the  day  before,  and  chancing 
to  remember  it  bad  opened  the  store  to 
get  the  potatoes  for  the  party,  who  re­
sided  in  the 
immediate  neighborhood. 
While  getting  the  potatoes,  he  said,  two 
men  entered  the  store  and asked whether 
they  could  be  accommodated  to  some 
sausage.  He  replied: 
“ Certainly;”  
whereupon,  after  making  the  purchase, 
the  two  individuals  told  him  that  they 
were  spies  sent  out  by  a  union  and  that 
they  intended  to  prosecute  him  for  non- 
Sunday  observance.  Mr.  Nast  told  them 
it  did  not  matter  to  him  whether  they 
did,  or  did  not,  and  proposes  to fight 
the  case.
F a ilu re  o f A n o th er C o-O perative In d u stry .
Saginaw,  Dec.  1—Trustee  Johnson, 
acting  for  Detroit  trades  council,  which 
held  a  mortgage  of $1,2/5  on  the  Sagi­
naw  Co-operative  Laundry  has  sold  the 
institution  root  and  branch.  Floyd  W. 
Horning 
is  the  purchaser  and  bought 
the  plant  for  $1,645.  ft  is  generally  con­
sidered  that Mr.  Horning got a great bar­
gain.  The  plant  was  valued  at  about 
$5,coo  and  represented  a  considerable 
cash  investment,  mostly  the  contribu­
tions  of  labor unions.  The  plant  is  al­
most  entirely  new,  having  been  in  use 
but  about  six  months.  There 
is  con­
siderable  disappointment  and  much  re­
sentment  in 
labor circles  over  the  out­
come  of  the  scheme  which  started  ap­
parently  under  most  favorable  auspices. 
It  is  pointed  out  that  the  plant  was 
there,  the  help  was  the  most  expert  in 
the  city,  and  the  business  good,  but 
there  was  gross  mismanagement,  as  is 
always  the  case  in  union  ventures.  Per­
sonal  animosities  were aroused and there 
was  continual  trouble  and  much  bicker­
ing.  Under  such  conditions  it  was  im­
possible  to  carry  on  the  business,  wages 
fell  behind  and  trade  dropped  off  until 
the  ghost  was  given  up.  The  surplus 
over  the  mortgage  will  probably  be used 
to  pay  off  some  of  the  claims  of  em­
ployes  for  wages.

A nti-O leo  A ctivity  In  M assachusetts.
The  biggest  kind  of  a  haul  of  board­
ing-house  keepers  and  grocers alleged to 
be  engaged  in  the  business  of  handling 
and  dealing 
in  oleomargarine  in  Wor­
cester, Mass.,  was  made  last  week  when 
the  police  notified  thirty-five  persons  to 
be  present  at  the  session  of  the  Central 
District  Court  to  answer  to  the  com­
plaints  issued  to  George  F.  Whitaker,of 
Boston,agent  of  the  State  Dairy Bureau.
The  evidence  in  all  the  cases  was  ob­
tained  by  detectives,  who  have  been 
in  Worcester  for the  past  two 
working 
In  addition  to obtaining  sam­
weeks. 
ples  of  alleged  spurious  butter  from sev­
eral 
they  obtained  evidence 
against  the  boarding-house  keepers  by 
purchasing  meals  at  the  places  and  tak­
ing  away  the  butter served  at  the  meals. 
The  fine  in  each  case,  according  to  the 
statute,  is  not 
less  than  $100,  but  the 
court  can 
impose  a  maximum  ol  $500 
and  imprisonment  for  one  year on  each 
complaint.  The  maximum  fine  is  rare­
ly  imposed,  however,  and  the  cases  are 
frequently  settled  without  a  hearing  in 
the  upper  court.  For «several  months 
Worcester  has  been  known  as  the  head­
quarters  for the  sale  of  oleomargarine in 
Massachusetts.  The  agents  of  the  Dairy

stores, 

D U T C H   S K A T E S

Order now so as to have  them  In  time  for 
Christmas.  Send  me  $2.50  and  I  will  send 
you prepaid 1 pair all  complete  with  straps, 
ready to use.  Send size of  shoe  with  order. 
Liberal discount to dealers.

R eason No. 5.—Because they can be worn 

with rubbers as well as without.

Bureau  have  determined  to  put  a stop'to 
the  sale  of  the  "butter,”   and  it  is  ex­
pected  that  the  list  of  those  notified  to 
be 
in  court  will  be  greatly  increased 
before  the  day  of  hearing.

G ift  Schem e  F o r th e   C hildren.

A  Wisconsin  merchant  last 

season 
fitted  up  a  Christmas  tree  in  the  front 
part  of  his  store  oh  which  he  tied  too 
small  packages  containing  many  inex­
pensive  Christmas  gifts  for  children. 
In  one  of the  packages  he  placed  a  $5 
gold  piece.  On  December  10  he  dis­
played  a  card  on  the  tree  announcing 
that  the  first  100 children  who  made  a 
purchase  of  50 cents  or  more in  his store 
on  December  15  would  have  the  priv­
ilege  of  selecting  one  package  from  the 
tree,  and  that one  of  the  packages  con­
tained  a  $5  gold  peice,  which  the  child 
could  have  for  his  own  if  he  succeeded 
in  picking  the  right  package. 
It  per­
haps  would  be  wise  in  this  instance  not 
to  put  the  package  containing  the  gold 
piece  on  the  tree  until  nearly all the oth­
ers  are  withdrawn.

O f Sm all  Im p o rtan ce. 

in  that  house—wedding?

Pedestrian—What’s  all  that  fuss  about 
Resident—No;  a  new  baby  arrived 
last  night,  and  all  the  women  in  the 
neighborhood  are  going  into  ecstasies 
over  it.

are  crowding  around?”

“ Who  is  that  tall  man  all  the  women 
is  the  minister,  come  to  fix  a 
“ He 

date  for  the  christening."

tracts  so  much  attention?”

“ And  who  is  that  short  man  who at­
“ He  is  the  doctor.”
“ Ah!  I  see.  That  no-account  fellow, 
who  is  being  pushed  out  of  the  way  or 
run  over,  is  the  butler,  I  presume?" 

“ No,  he’s  the  father."
“ He  who  sings  drives  away  sorrow,”  
but  often  causes  sorrow  to  his  neigh­
bors.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

J .  V ander Stel, G rand R apids, M ich.

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

Drugs—Chemicals

Michigan  State  Board  ot Pharmacy

„  

Term expires
_  
Hbnby  Hkim, Saginaw 
■  Dec. 81,1902
Dec.81  r»8 
Wtkt  P  D o rr  Detroit- 
- 
Clarence B. Stoddard, Monroe  Dec. SI, 1904 
Jo n *   it.  MUIR, Grand  Rapid« 
liec. 81  lBUb 
Arth u r H.  Wrbbrr, Cadillac 
Dec. 31,1906 

- 

Presiaent,  Hi n b t   Hu h , Saginaw, 
hocretary, J ohn D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer,  W.  r .  Doty,  DetroU.

Examination  Sesaiona.

Detroit. Jan. 6 and 7.
Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4.
Star Island, June 16 and 17.
Houghton. Aug. 25 and 26.
Lansing, Nov. 3 and 4.

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

President—Lou G. Moors, Saginaw. 
Secretary— w. H  Bu rk e  Detroit. 
Treasurer—C. F. Hu ber, Port Huron.

D isplay  Tables  in  th e   Store.

The  druggist  who  properly  gauges the 
scope  of  publicity  in  display  advertis 
is  constantly  on  the  alert  for  sug 
ing 
gestions,  novel  and  new, 
that  wil 
effectually  exhibit  and  dispose of goods
For  interior  display  the  show-case  i 
time-honored.  For  the  protection  of
goods  and  their  display it  is  indisput 
ably  peerless.  But  we  purpose  sug
gesling  a  catchy  and  effective  method 
for  the  transient  display  of  seasonable 
specialties  that,  for certain  goods  and  j 
limited  time,  outshines the show-case  a 
a  silent  salesman.

Table  No.  1 

The  key-note  of  the  scheme  is  a  num 
her  of  small  center  tables,  to  be  ar 
ranged 
in  the  exhibit  section  of  the 
store  to  the  best  advantage that facilities 
will  offer.  We  will  describe  in  detai. 
the  decoration  and  display  arrangement 
of  two  tables  such  as  we  have  in  mind
is  stood  near  the  scales 
just  out  of  the  way  of the  people  buy 
is  covered  with  green 
ing.  The  top 
crepe  paper  with  a  tinted  edge. 
In  the 
center,  somewhat  to  the  fore,  rests  a 
slender  glass 
ffower-receiver  holding 
three  artificial  red  roses  scented  with 
triple  extract  of  roses.  Two  dozen  or 
more  opaque  white  glass  jars  of  cold 
cream  are  assembled  about  the  center 
piece.  On  a  small  square  box,  en 
veloped 
in  green  crepe  paper,  just  to 
the  rear of  the  rose  receiver,  the  follow­
ing  display  is  elevated:  A  small  white 
china  plate  holds  a  palatable  looking 
cone  of  snow-white  cold  cream,  covered 
by  a  cylindrical  globe  of  glass.  Just  to 
the  rear of  this  dainty  offering,  elevated 
to  advantage  above  the  globe,  a  neatly- 
printed  card 
in  plain  black  letters  is 
seen  which  reads  as  follows:  “ Cold 
cream  of  roses.  Formula :  Pressed  oil 
of  sweet  almonds,  pure  paraffin  white 
wax,  borax  and  the  odor  from  the  real 
red  roses. 

10 and  25  cents  per  jar.11

Table  No.  2  is  arranged  in  this  wise : 
A  sheet  of  black  or  blue  crepe  paper 
covers  the  tap;  on  this  is  laid  a  white 
straw  hat  with  as  broad  and  extrava­
gant  a  brim  as  procurable.  All  around 
this  ridiculous  brim  packets  of  head­
ache  tablets  or  powders  are  arranged  in 
a  double  circle.  The  top  of  the  crown 
is  covered  with  the  little  packages.  On 
the  table,  behind  the  hat,  a  cardboard 
placard  reads  in  this  vein:  “ The  head 
that  wore  this  hat  was  all  bound  around 
with  a  woolen  cloth until  Blank’s Head­
ache  Tablets  stopped  the  aches."

Joseph  Hostelley.

H an d lin g   th e   C igar  D ep artm en t  ProBt- 

ably.

The  profitable  management  of  a  drug­
gist’s  business  demands  that  consider­
able  attention  be  given  to  the  care  of 
be  cigar  case,  for  the  goddess  Nicotine 
as  many  votaries  who  prefer to  wor­

ship  at  her  shrine  when  set  up  in  the 
front  of  a  well-regulated  drug  store. 
The  selection  of  brands  that  suit  popu­
lar  taste  and  the  effective  display  of  the 
cigars  in  stock  are  two  important  essen­
tials  that  ought  never  to  be  overlooked. 
In  the  first  place,  the  display  of  cigars 
should  be  as  attractive  as  possible, 
with  care  taken  to  have  the  contents  of 
the  case  always  in  plain view.  A class­
ification 
is  essential.  The  five-cent 
cigars  should  be  kept  in  one  place,  the 
ten-cent  cigars  in  another,  and  higher 
priced  goods  in  a  third.  Then,  too, the 
domestic  and  the  clear  Havana  cigars 
should  be  arranged  so  that  the  desired 
brand  may  be  selected  at  ease. 
In  any 
event  do  not  crowd  more  brands  into 
your  case  than 
it  will  conveniently 
bold.  To  pile  boxes  on  top  of  one  an 
other  or  upon  the  top  of  the  case,  a  cus 
tom  so often  followed  by  druggists,  up 
sets  the  classification  and  detracts  from 
the  appearance  of  the  display.

It 

is  gratifying  to  have  prices  dis 
played.  The  ordinary  customer  knows 
the  price  he  wishes  to  pay,  but 
i 
obliged  to  select  at  random  or  call  for  ; 
cigar  he  will  probably  pick  a  bigbe 
priced  cigar  when  the  cheaper quality 
was  desired.  Vice  versa,  he  may  select 
a  five-cent  cigar  when  he  intended  to 
buy  a  better article.  Such  little  thing 
as  these  often  cause  people  to  go  else 
where. 
is  a  small  matter,  but  the 
consequences  are  net  so  trivial  as  the 
cause.

It 

A  word  about  the  proper care of cigars 
may  not  be  out  of  place  here. 
In  the 
summer  the  cigar  case  is  not  a  source of 
much  trouble.  The  cigars  easily  keep 
moist  and  fragrant,  but  when  the  cold 
snappy  weather  arrives,  unless  precau 
tions  are  taken,  a  deterioration  in  qual 
'ty  will  be  evident.  In  the  large  whole 
sale  houses  the  maintenance  of  cigars 
through  the  cold  period  is  a  source  of 
great  expense. 
It  is  well  for  the  re 
tailer,  perhaps,  to  carry  as  small  a  stock 
as  possible  during  the  winter,  thus  com­
pelling  the  wholesaler  to  bear  the  bur­
den  of  responsibility. 

*

Many  devices  have  been  invented  for 
keeping  cigars  moist.  One  of  the  most 
uccessful  yet  devised  is  a  series  of rolls 
of  blotting  paper  set  upright  in  a  glass 
of  water.  Capillary  attraction  causes 
the  water to  rise  to  the  top  of  the  rolls, 
which  should  he  tall  enough  to  come  to 
the  top  of  the  case. 
In  this  way  the 
moisture  is  very  evenly  distributed,  and 
further  advantage  which  this  method 
ffers  is  that  large  quantities  of nicotine 
re  absorbed  by  the  paper.

arious  W ays  of G etting  the  Men’s  Trade.
Furnishing  goods  sections  in  the  big 
department  stores  throughout  the  coun­
try  are  improving  in  their  methods  for 
securing  the  patronage  of  men.  A  step 
forward  was  taken  when  wearables  and 
"xings  for  men  were  placed  collectively 
on  the  ground  floor  and  near  the  en­
trance.  Men  dislike  to  walk  through 
the  aisles,  passing  a 
lot  of  women’s 
stuff,  to  reach  scarfs  and  shirts.  The 
bashful  did  not  relish  the  scrutiny < f the 
girls,nor  did  they  relish  the possible  in- 
into  a  dry 
look  over  the  women 

nuation  that  they  went 

goods  store  to 
folks.

Many  a  fellow,  attracted  by  advertis- 
ng  or  window  display,has ventured into 
1 department  store and  before he reached 
the  furnishing  division  heartily  wished 
Limself  on  the  street again.  If.however, 
is  courage  continued  and  he  reached 
the  counter  sought,  he  found  the  service 
so  poor,  the  assortments  so  broken, and 
the  experience  of  waiting  for bis change

so  vexatious  that  he  was  apt  to  vow 
never  to  desert  the  clothier  or  furnisher.
Until  within  a  comparatively  short 
time  the  patrons  of 
the  department 
stores,  even  in  the  men's  wear  sections 
have  been  almost  exclusively  women 
Managers  appreciate  the  importance  of 
getting  the  men  themselves 
into  the 
stores,  and various  improvements  to  this 
end  have  been  made.  More  attention 
is  given  to  outfittings  in  the  window 
displays.  They  are  very  freely  adver 
tised 
in  the  daily  papers,  and  the  de 
partment  allotted  to them  is,  as  abov< 
noted,  placed 
in  a  location  that  a  man 
may  run 
in,  even  on  sales  days,  from 
the  sidewalk  without  being  tangled  up 
in  a  mass  of  aisles  filled  with  skitts.

The  employment  of  male  instead  of 
female  clerks  is  noteworthy  in  connec 
tion  with  this  subject. 
In  the  leading 
depaitment  stores  the  various  stocks, 
collars,  shirts,  neckwear,  and  so  on,  are 
under  specific  subordinate management, 
and  each  stock-keeper  is,  so  to  speak,  a 
specialist,  the  whole  forming  an  excel 
lent  system  which  promotes  the  service, 
removes  the  annoyances  which  once 
operated  against  the  department  store 
and  in  favor  of  the  exclusive  furnisher.
The  department  managers  in  many  of 
the  big  dry  goods  stores,  making  a  spe 
cial  feature  of  men's  furnishing  goods, 
have  grown  so  earnest  in  their  desire [to 
cultivate 
the  men’s  trade  that  they 
make,  in  their  advertising,  special  bids 
for  patronage  from  the  sterner sex,  and 
employes  are  under  special  instructions 
to  use  their  very  best  endeavors  to 
please  the  men,  no  matter  how  trivia 
their  purchases  may  be.

It  is  not  the  intention  of  the  present 
writer  to  glorify  the  furnishing  goods 
end  of  the  department  stores,  but  the 
mprovements  which  have  been  made 
must  be  admitted,  and 
it  is  up  to  the 
exclusive  furnisher  and  clothier  carry­
ing  furnishing  goods  to  meet  these  new 
elements  of  competition  as  they  arise.— 
Apparel  Gazette.

P ractical  F orm ula  F o r  Cough  Drops.
A  practical  formula  yielding  a  drop 
or  lozenge  which  is  very  popular  is  the 
following:
Boneset  (herb)...................   1 
Horebound  (herb)..............  1 
rish  moss............................   1 
W dered  extract  licorice.. 
Powdered  charcoal,  q.  s.  to  color.
Oil  anise.......................... 
fluidounce.
Oil  wintergreen..............  #  fluidounce.
Sugar...............................   20  pounds.

ounce.
ounce.
ounces.
ounces. 

Macerate  the  boneset,  horebound  and 
rish  moss  in  about  four  pints  of  water 
nd  strain,  and  to  the  strained  liquid 
add  the  charcoal.

This  goes  to  the  local  candymaker 
with  the  following  instructions:  To  the 
decoction  of  herbs  add  sufficient  water 
to  make  the  necessary  amount  required 
to cook  20  pounds  of  sugar.  Most  con­
fectioners  use  7  or 8  pints  of  water.  Put 
teaspoonful 
n  the  sugar  and  a  heaping 
of  cream  of  taitar.  Cook  it  up  to  330
deg.  When  the  candy  has  been  poured 
But  on  the  slab,  let  him  work  in  the  ex­
tract  of  licorice,  and  lastly  the  oils. 
It 
s  then  ready  to  be  cut  up.  Some  pre­
fer  those  of  Brummel’s  shape;  others, 
small  and  round,  of  the  appearance  of 
lemon  drops.  They  are  then  ready  to 
he  rolled  in  icing  sugar,  and.  if  proper­
ly  made,  will  preserve  their  shape  well 
~nd  never  get  sticky.

R eal  S um m er G irl.

is  a  summer 

.  Say,  old  man,  what 
trl?”
” A  summer  girl  is  a  rack  to  stretch 
ihirt  waists  on;  inside  is  a  receptacle 
for  lobster  salad  and  ice  cream,  while 
outside 
is  an  attachment  for  diamond 
-•ngs.”

The  Drug Market.

Opium— Is  very  firm  in  primary  mar­
ket  but  unchanged  here.  Low  prices 
are  said  to  be  due  to competition.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine—Is  weak  but  not  quotably 

Citric  Acid—The  manufacturers  have 

changed.

reduced  price.

Bay berry  Bark—Is  very  scarce  and 

has  advanced  over  100  per cent.

Bromides—Are  rather  firm  at  the 

last 
decline.  Lower  prices  are  not  looked 
for.

Cocaine—Another  advance  of  25c  per 
ounce  is  announced  by  the  manufactur­
ers.  Some  have  withdrawn  from  the 
maiket  and  others  will  only  sell  small 
quantities  at  present  price.  Another 
advance  is  looked  for daily.

Norwegian  Cod  Liver  O il—Is  very 

firm  and  tending  higher.

Menthol—Has  declined  and  is  being 
less  than 

sold  at  over  $1  per  pound 
would  cost  to  import  from  Japan.

Prickly  Ash  Bark—Is  very  scarce  and 

has  advanced.

Saw  Palmetto  Berries—While  not  an 
article  scld  generally  except  in  phar­
maceutical  preparations,  has  tripled  in 
price.  There is  no  doubt  that  manufac­
turers  will  advance  the  price  of the fluid 
extract,  elixirs,  etc.

Oil  Wintergreen—Is  very  scarce  and 

firm.

Senega  Root—There  is  a  large  export 
demand  and  prices  have  advanced  and 
are  tending  higher.

Canary  Seed— Is  very  firm  at  late  ad­

vance.

“ Good  management  is  better  than  a 
income,”   but  both  together  are 

good 
better than  separate.

Valentines

Write for catalogue and  discount 
before placing your  order.

Grand  Rapids  Stationery  Co.

29 No. Ionia St.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

wholesale

*  Drugs  and  Stationery «
33  &  34  Western  Ave.,

MUSKEGON.  MICH.

5   Send Us Y o u r Orders

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Window Shades.

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  q ua lity  o f  goods.  M akin g  w in d ow  
shades is  a  lead ing  specialty  w ith  us.
  O rders fitted  w ithin  14  hours  a fte r  re- 
Send  for  sam ples 

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

LE  D R U G   P R IC E   C U R R E N T

Menthol....................  7  25®  7  69
Morphia, S., P.fc W.  2  16®  2  40 
Morphia, S.,N.Y. Q.  2  15® 2 40
Morphia, Mai............2  15®  2  40
Moschus  Canton__  
®  40
65®  80
Myrlstlca, No. 1....... 
Nux Vomica...po. 15 
®  
10
Os Sepia...................  
38®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
®  1  00
D  Co...................... 
Plcls Llq. N.N.H gal.
doz......................... 
@ 2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts__  
®  1  00
Plcls Llq.,  pints....... 
®  86
®  60
PH Hydrarg...po.  80 
® 
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
18
Piper  A lba....po.36 
®  30
Plix Burgun.............  
® 
7
Plumbl Acet.............  
10®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  1  so 
Pyrethrum, boxes H . 
®  76
ft P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........  
26®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8® 
ip
28®  38
Quinta, S. P. &  W ... 
28®  3*
Quinta, 8.  German.. 
Quinta, N. V.............  
28®  38
Rubia Tlnctorum__  
12® 
14
Saccharam Lactls pv  20®  22
S aladn........................4  60®  4  78
40®  60
Sanguis  Draconls... 
Sapo, W .................... 
12®  14
10® 
SapoM ...................... 
12
Sapo  G ................ 
is
  ® 

SeldUtz Mixture.......  20®  22
Staapls...................... 
18
® 
® 
Staapls,  opt.............. 
ao
Snoff, Maccaboy, De
®  41
V oes...................... 
®  41
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
9®  11
Soda, Boras.. ............... 
Soda,  Boras, po....... 
9® 
11
Soda et Potass Tart. 
26®  27
2
Soda,  Carb...............  
ih ®  
5
3® 
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........  
4
Soda,  Ash.................  3H® 
Soda, Sulphas.......... 
® 
2
®  2  60
Spts. Cologne............ 
Spts. Ether  Co......... 
50®  66
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
® 2 oo
Spts. Vtal Rect.  bbl. 
® 
Spts. Vtal Rect. HbbI  @ 
Spts. Vtal Rect. lOgal 
® 
Spts. Vtal Rect. 5 gal 
® 
Strychnia, Crystal... 80®  1  05
Sulphur,  Subl..........  2H@ 
4
Sulphur, Roll............  2H®  3H
8®  10
Tam arinds..................  
Terebenth  Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse..............  
60
46® 
Vanilla......................9 oo®i6 00
Ztacl Sulph................... 
7®  8

Oils

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

BBL.  OAL.
70
90
66

7o 
86 
so 

2 7

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

47
48
69
59

American 

P a in ts BBL. 

:
Bed  Venetian..........
1M  2  (
Ochre, yellow  Mars.
IH  2  <
Ochre, yellow B er...
IK  2  (
Putty,  commercial.. 2H  2H4
Putty, strictly  pure. 
2H  2K<
Vermilion,  P r im e
70®  75
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris............  14H®  18H
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red..................  3  @  8H
Lead,  white.............   6  ®  6H
Whiting, white Span 
®  90
Whiting, gilders’.... 
®   95
W hite,rails, Amer. ®  1  28
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff......................... 
®  1  4«
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  I  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60® 1  70
Coach  Body,............2 76®  8  00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00®  i  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  66®  1  60 
Jap.D ryerJio.lTurp  70® 
79

76O300

3g

Contain Mao.............
Copaiba....................
Cubebae....................
Ezechthitoa.............
Erlgeron..................
G aultherla...............
Geranium, ounce....
Go88ipp!l, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma..................
Junlpera..................
Lavendula...............
Limonls....................
Mentha Piper..........
Mentha Verld..........
Morrhuae, *gal..........
M yrcla......................
Olhre......................... 
Plcls Llqulda............
Plola Llqulda,  gal...
Rlclna.......................
Rosmarlnl.................
Roam, ounce.............
Sucelnl......................
Sabina......................
Santal.......................
Sassafras..................
Staapls,  ess., ounce.
Tlgffl.........................  l
Thyme.......................
Thyme, opt...............
Theobromaa............
P otassium
Bl-Carb......................  ■
Bichromate.............  
13
Brom ide..................
C arb .........................
Chlorate.. .po. 17019  16
C yanide...:.............
Iodide.......................2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potass NItras, opt...
Potass  NItras..........
Prusslate..................
Sulphate  po..............
Radix
Aconltum..................
Althm.......................
Anchusa..................
Arum  po..................
Calamus....................
Gentlana........ po. 16
Glychrrhlza...pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po..................
Ipecac, po.................2 '
Iris  plox.. .po. 36038
Jalapa, p r.................
Maranta,  H s............
Podophyllum,  p o ...
Rhel................................■
Rhel,  cut..................
Rhel, p r ....................
Sptgella....................
Sangutaarla.. .po.  is
Serpen ta rla .............  
Senega...................... 
Smllax, officinalis H.
Smllax, M.................
SdllsB............po.  36
8ymplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po..................
Valeriana,Rng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ................
Zingiber j..................
Semen
Anlsum.........po.  18
Apium (graveleons).
Bird, is......................
Carol..............po.  16
Cardamon.................  :
Corlandrum..............
Cannabis Satlva.......
Cydonlum.................
Chenopodlum..........
Dlptenx Odorate__
Foenlculum...............
Foenugreek, po........
L ln l..........................
Llnl, grd.......bbl. 4
Lobelia.....................   :
Pharlaris Canarian..
R ap a.........................
Staapls  Alba............
Staapls  Nigra..........
S p irit us 
Frumentl, W. D. Co.
Frumentl,  D. F. R ..
Frum entl..................
Junlperls Co. O. T...
Junlperis  Co..........
Saacharum  N. E ....
Sot. Vtal Galll..........
Vml  Oporto.............
Vtal Alba..................
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................
Velvet extra sheeps'
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage.................
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate use.................
Syrups
A cacia......................
Aurantl Cortex.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac.......................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhel Arom...............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ......................
Belli».,.  ............... ..

i
(

8
75
17
27
42
5
10
U
15
53
5
1  20
40

6
8
15
14

!  25
L  00
50
I 00

24
7
I  60

55
l  70
65
50

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
38

30
30
12
14
16
17

16
!  25
76
40
15
2
80
7

18
25
35

40
26
30
20
10

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

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
20
20

01
60
25
66
20
65
86
80
86
75
10
m

10®

13Ì

2 00®  2  50 
2 00®  2  26 
1  28®  1  60 
1 68® 2 00 
1 78® 3 80 
1  90® 2  10 
1  76® 6  60 
1  25® 2 00 
1  26® 2 00

2  60®  2 76
2  60®  2 75
®  1  60
®  1  25
®  1  00 
®  76
®  1  40

......................................... &n

Scili SB  Co..................  
Tolutan..................... 
Prunus  vlrg.............  
T inctures
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F 
Aloes......................... 
Aloes and M yrrh__  
A rnica...................... 
A ssafetida...............  
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex........ 
Benzoin....................  
Benzoin Co...............  
Barosma...................  
Cantharldes.............  
Capsicum.................. 
Cardamon................. 
Cardamon Co...........  
Castor.......................  
Catechol.................... 
Cinchona.................. 
Cinchona Co.............  
Columba..................  
Cubebe...................... 
Cassia Aoutlfol........  
Cassia Aoutlfol Co... 
Digitalis.................... 
Ergot.........................  
Ferrl  Chlorldum.... 
G entian....................  
Gentian Co...............  
Gul&ca....................... 
Gulaca ammon........  
Hyoscyamus............. 
Iodine  ...................... 
Iodine, colorless....... 
K in o .........................  
Lobelia..................... 
M yrrh.......................  
Nux Vomica.............. 
OpU............................ 
Opti,  comphorated.. 
Opll, deodorized....... 
Q uassia....................  
Rhel........................... 
Sanguinarla.............  
Serpentari».............. 
Stromonium.............  
T olutan....................  
V alerian..................  
Veratrum  V ertde... 
Zingiber.................... 

®  60
®  60
so
® 

60
50
60
60
so
60
60
60
60
5o
60
75
6o
76
75
1  00
00
60
60
60
60
60
60
&o
so
36
50
60
60
60
60
75
75
Bo
60
5o
60
76
60
1  60
60
60
60
6q
6n
60
60
6n
¿0

__

12®

M iscellaneous 
Ä ther, Spts. Nit. 7 F   30 
Ä ther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  341
A lum en....................  2141
0
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto.....................   40
4i
Antimoni, po............ 
Antimoni et Potass T  40
A ntlpyrln................ 
1
{
A ntlfebrin...............  
Argenti NItras, oz... 
1
Arsenicum...............  
10
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
46
Bismuth S. N............  1  65)
Calcium Chlor.,  ls... 
1
Calcium Chlor., Hs.. 
1
<
Calcium Chlor.,  Hs •> 
Cantharldes, R uspo 
1
Capslcl Fructus, a f.. 
1
Capslcl  Fructus, po.
Capslcl Fructus B, po
Cary ophy 1 lus.. po. 16
Carmine, No. 40.......
Cera Alba...............
Cera Flava...............
Coccus  ......................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla...................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform,  squlbbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....
Chondrus..................
Clnchonldlne.R. & W
Ctacbonidlne, Germ. 
Cocaine....................  4  66®  4  75
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
■
Creosotum.................
C reta............ bbl. 75
Greta, prep...............
Creta, preelp............
Creta, Rubra............
Crocus  ......................
Cudbear....................
Cuprl  Sulph.............   6H€
D extrine..................
Ether Sulph.............
Emery, all numbers.
Emery, po.................
E rg o ta......... po. 90
Flake  W hite..!??...
G alla.........................
G am bler..................
Gelatin,  Cooper.......
Gelatin, French.......
Glassware,  flint, box
Less than box.......
Glue, brown.............  
n f
Glue,  white.
Glyoertaa..................   17H€
Grana Paradlsl........
Hum ulus..................
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl 
Hy drargU n guen turn
Hydrargyrum..........
IchthyoDoUa,  A m ...
Indigo.......................
Iodine,  Resubl........   8 ■
Iodoform.................. 8 1
Lupulln......................
Lycopodium.............. 
M acls.......................  
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............
LtquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
M agne.^Sulph,bbl

1
i

Drugs

We  are Importers and  Jobbers of  Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent  Medicines.

We  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

We  have  a full  line of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

We  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same 

day received.  Send  a  trial  order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Sugars
N utm egs
G unpow der

DECLINED

R olled  Oats
M uscatel  R aisins
M ince  M eat

Succotash
Fair...........................
Good  .............   .......
Fancy
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
Good...........................
Fancy.......................
Gallons......................
B arrels

CARBON  OILS 

Eocene.........................
Perfection....................
Diamond White..........
D. S. Gasoline.............
Deodorized Naphtha-
Cylinder........................29
Engine...........................16
Black, winter...............  9

CATSUP

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

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Index to  Markets

B y  Columns

 

 

 

B

C

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware..................  15
Alab&stlne ..............................   1
Ammonia................................   1
Axle Urease............................  
l
Baking Powder.......................   1
Bath  Brick..............................  1
Bluing. 
1
Breakfast  Food.....................   1
Brooms...................... 
1
Brushes................................... 
l
Butter Color............................  1
Candles....................................  14
Candles....................................  1
Canned Goods........................   2
Catsup.....................................   3
Cart-on O ils............................   8
Cheese.....................................   8
Chewing Gum.........................  3
Chicory....................................  3
Chocolate.................................  3
Clothes Lines..........................   3
Cocoa.......................................  3
Cocoanut.................................  3
Cocoa Shells...........................   3
Coffee......................................  3
Condensed  Milk......................  4
Coupon Books........................   15
Crackers.................................  4
Cream T artar.........................  5
Dried  Fruits..........................   5
Farinaceous  Goods...............  5
Fish and Oysters....................  13
Fishing Tackle.......................  6
Flavoring Extracts................   6
Fly  Paper...............................
Fresh Meats...........................   8
Fruits......................................  14
Gelatine...................................  6
Grain Bags..............................  7
Grains and F lour..................   7
H erbs......................................  7
Hides and Pelts.....................   13
Indigo......................................  7
Jelly ........................................   7

D
F

I
J

G

H

P

M

R
S

N
O

Lamp Burners.........................   11-
Lamp Chimneys......................  15
Lanterns...................................  15
Lantern  Globes......................   15
Licorice....................................   7
Lye.............................................  7
Meat Extracts..........................  7
Molasses..................................  7
Mustard...................................  7
Nuts..........................................   14
Oil Cans...................................   15
OUves........................................  7
Pickles.......................................   7
P ipes.........................................  7
Playing Cards.............
........   8
Potash..........................
........   8
Provisions....................
........  8
R ice.............................
........   8
Salad Dressing............
........   9
Saleratus....................... ........  9
Sal Soda........................ ........   9
Salt................................. ........   9
Salt  Fish....................... ........   9
Seeds............................. ........   9
Shoe Blacking............... ........   9
Snuff .............................. ........10
8oap............................... ........   9
Soda............................... ........ 10
Spices............................ ........10
Starch............................ ........   IO
Stove Polish...... ........... ........   10
Sugar............................. ........   li
Syrups........................... ........  10
Table  Sauce.................. ........   11
Tea................................. ........   11
Tobacco........................ ........   11
Tw ine............................ ........   12
V inegar.........................
Washing Pow der........ ..........13
Wlcklng......................... ........   18
Woodenwar«................ ........  13
Wrapping  Paper.......... ........  13
Tesa!  Coks..................

V
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T

T

AXLE  GREASE 
doz.
Aurora......................... 55
Castor  Oil.................... 60
Diamond......................so
Frazer’s ....................... 75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

• oo >
7  00 i 
4 25 I

Electric Light, 8s........
.......u
Electric Light, 16s .......
....12 4
Paraffine, 6b............ .......94
Paraffine, 12s ...............
.......10
WtQkln*
17

CANNED  GOOD8 

Colombia,  pints................... 2 00
Columbia, hi pints................1  25

CHEESE
... 
Acme.........................
Amboy.....................
Elsie..........................
Emblem....................
Gem..........................
... 
Gold Medal...............
Id eal.......................
... 
Jersey.......................
Riverside..................
... 
Brick.........................
Edam ........................
L eiden.....................
Llmburger
Pineapple. 
Sap  Sago..

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090 
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50®75 
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CHEW ING  GUM 
56
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............. 
60
56
Black Jack......................... 
Largest Gum  Made.......... 
60
56
Sen Sen............................... 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Loaf......................... 
56
56
Yucatan.............................. 
Bulk.......................  
5
B ed.......................................... 7
Eagle......................................  4
Franck’s ...............................   7
Schener’s ...............................  6

CHICORY

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

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

B8 UNSWICK3  
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r-  .JaSMWi—At
vti^CLEANER 
CleansCvcnythinc.

10oz. box. 3 doz., per  doz.  $1  35 
Qts  box. 2 doz., per doz ...  2  25 
Gal  box, 4 doz., per  doz..  7 50 

Samples and Circulars Free. 

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

J u te

C otton  V ictor

60ft. 3 thread,  extra..  ...  100
72 ft. 3 thread,  extra........  140
90 ft, 3 thread,  extra........  170
60 ft, 6 thread,  extra........  1  29
^  ft, 6 thread,  extra..................
60 ft...................................... 
75
72 f t .................................... 
90
90 ft........................................  1 05
120 ft......................................  1 50
50 f t ....................................  
80
6f f t...................................... 
95
70 f t ......................................  1 10
59 ft........................................  1 20
60 ft........................................  1 40
O f t......................................   1 65
80 f t ......................................  1 85
75
40 ft...................................... 
50 ft...................................... 
85
80 f t .................................... 
95
G alvanized  W ire
No. 20, each 100 ft long__   1  90
No. 19, each 100 ft long....  2  10

C otton W indsor

Cotton B raided

COCOA

Cleveland...............................  41
Colonial, *8  .........................  36
Colonial, 4 s ..........................   33
Epps................. 
..................  42
H uyler...................................  45
Van Houten,  4 s .................   12
Van Houten,  Ms.................   20
Van Houten,  4 s .................   40
Van Houten, 
is .................   70
Webb..................................  
30
Wilbur, 4 s ............................  41
Wilbur, Ms............................   42
Dunham’s 4 s.....................  26
Dunham’s 4 s and Mo.......  264
Dunham’s  Ms....................  27
Dunham’s  4 s ....................  28
Bulk......................................   13

COCOANUT

24
3
4

COCOA  SHELLS
... 

20 lb. bags....................
Less quantity.............
Pound packages........
COFFEE
Roasted

Telfer Coffee Co. brands

No.  9. .....................................  g
No. 10.......................................10
No. 12........................ i ...........124
No. 14.......................................14

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

Blackberries

standards.................

Beans

B aked..................... .  1  oo@i  30
Bed  Kidney.............  
75®  85
String.......................  
70
Wax........................... 
75

Blaeberries
Standard.....................
Brook  Trout

2 lb. cans, Spiced...............  1 90

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

1  00
1  50

Clam  Bouillon

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

Cherries 

85

........

Corn

M ushroom s

91@1 20

2  10 
3 60 
2  40
1  80 
2  80
1  90
2  80 1 8« 
2 80
18@20
22@25

Bed  Standards............:  ac@i  so
1 50
White.
86
Fair............................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................
F ren ch   Peas
Sur Extra Fine...............
Extra  Fine......................
Fine..................................
Moyen..............................
G ooseberries
Standard..................
H om iny
Standard.» 
Lobster
Star, 4  lb..................
Star, 1  lb ..................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 21b............
Sous 3d, 1 lb...............
Sous ad, 2 lb.............
Ton. ..to, 1 lb..............
Tomato, 2 lb..............
Hotels........................
Buttons.....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove, 21b.................
96
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........  
Peaches
P ie ............................  
85®  90
Yellow......................  1  36®1  86
Pears
Standard..................  
1  00
Fancy...................... 
1  25
Peas
M arrowfat..........
I  00 
Early June............
90® 1  80 
Early June  Sifted
1  65
P lu m s
Plums.
85
Grated
1  25@2  75
Sliced..
1  38@2  55
F a ir...
90
Good..
1  00
Fancy.
1  25
R aspberries
Standard...................  
1  15
R ussian  Cavler
14 lb. cans..........  ...............   3  75
41b,cans......... .................  7  00
1 lb. can............................... 12  00
@1  66
Columbia Elver, tails 
@1  80
Columbia River, flats 
Bed Alaska..............  
@1 30
@  90
Pink Alaska............. 
Sh«-lmps
Standard.................. 
1  40
Sardines
Domestic, 14s...........  
3*
Domestic, 4 s ..........  
5
Domestic,  Mustard. 
6
California, * s .......... 
California 4 s ...........  
French, * s ...............  
French, 4 s............... 
Standard..................  
Fancy  ...................... 

11@14
17@24
7@14
18@28
t u
1  40

Strawberries

P ineapple

P u m p k in

Salmon

Bee

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

9 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER 

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

JAXON

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

Royal

lOcslze__   90
hi lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
hi  lb. cans  2 so 
X lb.  cans  3 76 
1 lb.  cans.  4  80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

American...............................  75
English...................................  8s
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

BLUING

B REA K FA ST  FOOD

Small size, per doz...............  40
Large size, per doz...............  76

TRYABITA

WHIT FLUKES

Case«, 36 packages............... 4 50
Five case lots....................  440

BROOMS

Peptoniz“d  Celery  Food,  3
doz. In case.....................4  05
Hulled Corn, per doz............  %
No. 1 Carpet........................... 2 "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 30

BRUSHES

Scrub

Shoe

Solid Back,  8 In...................    43
Solid Back, 11 I n ..................  85
Pointed Ends........................  86
No. 8........................................   00
No. 7........................................J  3q
No. 4........................................    70
Nn. 8.......... 
.............. 1  on
No. 8.......................................   75
No. 2........................................    ,0
NO. 1........................................  75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__   125
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size__   200

BUTTER  COLOR

Stove

5
Soda

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

O yster

F a u s t.................................  
Farina................................  
Extra Farina.....................  
Saltlne Oyster.................... 
Sweet  Goods—Boxes

74
7
74
7

Animals................................  10
Assorted  Cake....................   10
BeUeRose..........................  
8
Bent’s W ater.......................  
ie
Cinnamon Bar............. . 
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........   18
Cocoanut Taffy..................   10
Cracknells...........................       16
Creams, Iced...................... 
8
Cream Crisp.......................  104
Cubans...............................   114
Currant  Fruit....................  12
Frosted Honey..................   12
Frosted Cream..................   9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm ’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, if! B. C .... 
64
Gladiator............................  104
Grandma Cakes.................  9
Graham Crackers................  
8
Graham  Wafers..................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea............  16
Honey Fingers....................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets.......  10
Imperials..............................  
8
Jumbles, Honey..................   12
Lady Fingers.......................   12
Lemon Snaps........................  12
Lemon W afers.................... 
ie
Marshmallow.......................  16
Marshmallow Creams.......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann.............................  
8
Mixed Picnic......................  114
Milk  Biscuit.......................  
74
Molasses  Cake..................... 
8
Molasses Bar........................   9
Moss JeUy B ar..................  124
Newton.................................   12
Oatmeal Crackers........... 
8
Oatmeal Wafers..................   12
Orange Crisp........................   9
Orange Gem..........................  9
Penny Cake.......................... 
8
Pflot Bread, XXX.............  
74
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
84
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
84
Scotch Cookies.....................  9
Sears’ Lunch...................... 
74
Sugar Cake............................ 
g
Uusrar frnam. XXX..........  
8
8
Sugar Squares....................... 
Sultanas................................  13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................... 
ie
Vanilla Wafers....................  
ig
Vienna Crimp....................... 
8
E. J.  Kruce A Co.’s baked good 

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

with Interesting discounts. 
CREAM  TA RTA R

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

D R IE D   FRU ITS 

A pples

Sundrled............  
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7®  8

44@5

 

C alifornia P ru n es

100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   @ 4
80 - 90 25 ib. boxes........   @  4W
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   @ 54
50 - 60 26 lb. boxes........   @ 6
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........   0  6*
30-40 25lb. boxes ......

M cent less In 50 Ib. cases

C alifornia  F ru its

Aprtc
rlcots......................   @ 84
Black
wskberrles...............
Nectarines..................  
84
Peaches......................7  @10
Pitted Cherries..!!.'"."!
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................

C itron

Corsican..................... 13  @134

C urran ts 

Imported, 1 lb package  64@7 
Imported bulk.............  8*@64

P eel

Lemon American 10 lb. bx.,13 
Orange American 10lb. b x .. 13

R aisins 

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  85
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
250
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
74 
8
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
M., Seeded, 1  lb.......  ®  84
_   M ..Seeded.*  lb .... 
7
Sultanas, b u lk ......................10
Sultanas, package.............. !io4
FARINACEOUS GOODS 

Beans

Dried Lima..................  
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.....................

54
.......2  40

F a rin a

M lib . packages..................1  50
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................     go

White House, 1 lb. cans......
White House, 2 lb. cans......
Excelsior, M. & J.  1 lb. cans 
Excelsior, M. A J. 2 lb. cans 
Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
Royal Java............................
Royal Java and Mocha........
Java and Mocha Blend.......
Boston  Combination...........
Ja-VoBlend..  .....................
Ja-Mo-Ka  Blend..................
Distributed by Olney  A Judson 
Gro. Co.,  Grand  Baplds,  C.  El 
llott A  Co.,  Detroit,  B.  Desen 
berg A Co., Kalamazoo, Symons 
Bros. A  Co.,  Saginaw,  Jackson 
Grocer Co.,  Jackson,  Metsel  A 
Goescbel.  Bay  City,  Flelbach 
Co., Toledo.

Rio

Common................................   8
F a ir......................................... 9
Choice.....................................10
Fancy..................................... 15

Santos

Common...*...........................  8
F a ir......................................... 9
Choice.....................................10
Fancy.....................................13
Peaberry.................................n

M aracaibo

F air........................................13
...........................ig
niotw  
M exican

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

G uatem ala

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

Ja v a

African..................................12
Fancy A frican.....................17
O  G....................................... 26
P- » ....................................... 31

Arabian................................  31

M ocha

P ackage 

New York Basis.

Arbnckle.............................. 10
DU worth.............................. 10
Jersey...................................10
Lion.....................................   94
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  MaU  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

E x tract

Valley City 4   gross.............   75
Felix 4  gross........................ 1  15
Hummers foil 4  gross........   86
Hummel’s tin 4  gross........ 1  43

CONDENSED  M ILK  

4 doz In case.

Gail Borden Eagle................6 40
C row n.................................. 5 go
Daisy......................................     70
Champion..............................4 25
Magnolia...............................     00
ChaUenge...............................« jo
Dime.......................................3 as
Peerless Evaporated Cream.4 00
Milkmaid................................ e 10
TIP  Top.................................. 3 85
Nestles...................................     25
Highland  Cream...............!.!s 00
St. Charles Cream......... 
„4  50
CRACKERS

B a tte r

National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour................................  
etc
New York........................... 
64
Fam ily..................................   64
Salted..................................... 
64
, ?r 
W o l v e r l n q .

j

6

H om iny

Pearl  Barley

Flake, 60 lb. sack................ 
so
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl..................5 oo
Pearl, ioo lb. sack................ 2  bo
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............   60
Import»*  * lh . hoi 
.........a  bo
Common...............................soo
Chester.................................. 2  90
Empire...................................8 65
Green, Wisconsin, bn..........
Green, 8ootch, bu................ 1  86
Split,  lb....................................   4
Boiled Avena, bbl.................&  10
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks. . .   2 76
Monarch, bbl........................ 4  80
Monarch, >4 bbl....................2  55
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 so
Quaker, cases....................... 3  10

Rolled  Oats

Peas

Grits

Walsh-DeBoo Co.’s Brand.

8ago

W h eat

T apioca

Cases, 24 2 lb. packages.......2 00
East India.............................   3*
German, sacks......................  314
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............. 454
Pearl, iso lb. sacks...............  3*
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages.......  6k
Cracked, bulk.......................   3k
24 2  B>. packages.................. 2 so
FISH IN G   TA CK LE
k  to 1 Inch............................. 
6
Hi to 2 Inches........................ 
7
lk  to 2 Inches........................  9
lk   to 2  Inches...................... 
11
2 Inches...................................  15
3 Inches...................................  30
No. 1,10 fe e t.........................  
5
No. 2,16 feet........................... 
7
No. 3,15 feet...........................  9
No. 4,15 feet...........................  10
No. 5,15 feet...........................  11
No. 6,16 feet...........................  12
No. 7,15 f e e t.........................   16
No. 8,15 feet...........................  18
No. 9,15 feet...........................  20
Small......................................   20
Medium..................................  26
L arg 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  L ines

L inen  L ines

Poles

FOOTS  A  JKNKS’

J A X O N

Vanilla 

iJHlghes^G™deEitract8
1 oz full m  1  20  1 oz full  m .  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m . 1  25 
N o.sfan’y  s  is  Vo.sfan’y  t  76

Lemou

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel..1  20  2 oz panel.  76
3 oz taper..2^00  4 oz taper..1  60

^U^«mig:fxTRACTS

F old in g   Boxes 

T ap er  B ottles 

D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz.......... 
75  2 oz..........  1  20
4 OZ.........   1  60  4 oz...........  2  00
6 OZ.........   2  00  6 OZ...........  3 00
D. C.  Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz..........  75  2 oz..........1  26
3 OZ..........  1  26  3 OZ...........2  10
4 OZ..........  1  50  4 OZ...........2  40
D. C.  Vanilla
I). C. Lemon 
1 oz..........  65  1 oz..........  85
2 0Z..........1  10 
2 oz...........1  60
4 OZ..........  2  00  4 OZ...........3 00
T ropical  E x tracts 
2 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 
75
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  60 
2 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure. Vanilla..  1  80 

F a ll  M easure

FR ESH   MEATS 

B eef
Carcass.....................
4k® Ik
6
Forequarters..........  
6 @ 6
6
H indquarters.......... 
6 @ 7k
Loins.........................  
8
8 @14
Ribs________________
7 @12
54®  7
Bounds...................... 
5k® 7
Chucks...................... 
5
5
5k
4k® 5
P lates.......................  
4k®   5
8*@ 7
Dressed....................  
6k®   7
Loins......................... 
9kO
#k®
Boston  B utts....
@ 9
Shoulders..........
@ 8k©12
Leaf Lard..........

P o rk

M utton

Carcass.......................  
sv ®  6k
Lambs..........................  ok®  7k
C»roM*. 
*  ft  bu

Veal
............ 

G ELA TIN E

Knox’s Sparkling.............  1  20
Knox’s Sparkllng.pr gross  14  00
Knox 8 Acidulated............  1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14  00
Oxford.....................  
76
Plymouth  Rock................!  1  20
Nelson's..............................  1  50
Cox’s,  2-qt size..................  1  61
Cox’s, l-qt size...................  1  10
Amoskeag, 100 in bale  ....  15k 
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15*  

G RAIN   BAGS 

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

W heat

74

Local Brands

W in ter  W h eat  F lo o r 

W heat................................  
_  
Patents...............................  4  25
Second Patent....................  3  75
Straight...............................  3 66
Second Straight.................  3  26
C lear...................................  3  iB
Graham ..............................  3 30
Buckwheat.........................  5  *5
Bye 
. .................................   s go
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 26c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker k s..........................   3  80
Quaker k s ..........................  3  81
Quaker k s..........................  3  80

S pring  W heat  F lo u r 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’8  Best k s ..........   4  60
Plllsbury’s  Best k s . ........   4  50
PUlsbury’s  Best k s ..........  4  40
Plllsbury’s Best ks paper.  4  40 
Plllsbury’s Best k s paper.  4  40 
Lemon ft Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  k s .....................   4  40
Wlngold  k s .....................   4 50
Wlngold  k s .....................   4  20
Ceresota k s .......................   4 60
Cereaota k s .......................   4  60
Ceresota k s .......................   4  40
Laurel  k s ...........................  4 60
Laurel  k s ...........................  4 40
Laurel  k s ...........................  4 50
Laurel ks and k s paper..  4  30

Worden Grocer  Co.’a Brand

Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand.

M eal

PIPES

Clay, No. 216................
Clay, T. D.. toll count 
Cha. V«  »

....  6T

....1   70 

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count.............8 00
Half bbls, 600 count............. 4  56
Barrels, 2,400 oount.............9 60
Half bbls, 1,200 count..........5 20
PLAYING  CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat.............  
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__   1  20
No. 20, Rover, enameled..  1  60
N5. 672, Special..................  1  75
No  98, Golf, satin  finish..  2  00
No. 808, Bicycle................   2  00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2  25 

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

12
13k

Smoked  Meats 

Dry Salt Meats

®i? to 
821 76 
®20 51 
®20  00 
24  00 
®18  7* 
21  00 
@20 as

Mess
B ack.................. ..
Clear back.................
Short out..................
PI«................. .
Bean..........................
Family Mess Loin...
Clear.........................
Bellies.......................
8 P Bellies.................
Extra shorts.............
Hams, 12 lb. average. 
®  17k
Hams, 141b, average. 
O   12*
Hama, 16 lb. average. 
®  12k
Q IVs
uu»>iMui.n<iig|g, 
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef....... 
©  12
®
Shoulders (N.Y.cut) 
Bacon, clear.............   14  ©  n k
@  944
California hams....... 
Boiled Hams........... 
©  17^
@ n *
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
9k®  10
|  Mince H am s.......... 
9k@  10
Lard
j Compound................. 
Pure........................... 
60 lb. Tubs., advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
6 lb. Palls., advance 
"’•ni  .dnnM 
Vegetole.................... 
Sausages
Bologna....................
Liver.........................
Frankfort
P o rk ......................... 
Blood
Toni

@
©1154
k
k
k
*
*
1
i
g*

6
6kas
8H@»

Pigs’  Feet

48

H ay

cheese..

H ERBS

Oats
Corn

Bolted................................. 
t   70
Granulated.........................  2  80
Feed  and  M illstu ih  
St. Car Feed,screened....  23 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........   53  00
Corn Meal,  coarse...........   23 ou
Corn Meal, fine..................  22  60
Winter Wheat Bran..........  16  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  19 00
Cow  Feed..........................   is 00
Beef
Screenings.........................  17 00
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
Car  lots new.....................   -34k
Bump, N ew .............
Corn, car  lots, new.........
k  bbls., 40  lbs..........
Corn, car  lots, old..........
kbbls...................
1 bbls.,  lbs.............
No. 1 Timothy car  lots...
c9 50 
Tripe
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots... 
Kits, 15  lbs...............
12  00
k  bbls., 40  lbs..........
k  bbls., 80 lbs..........
Sage..........................................16
Casings
Hops........................................ iB
P o rk ........ ...........7..
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Beef rounds..............
^enm* Lea»»* 
............  28
Beef  middles............
Sheen......................
Madras, 6 lb. boxes................66
S. F., 2,8 and & lb.  boxes........60
Solid, dairy_______
Rolls, dalrv...............
5 lb. palls.per doz............  1  86
Bolls,  purity............
161b. palls..............................  43
Solid,  purity............
301b. palls..............................  go
Corned beef, 2 lb.... 
P u re.......................................  30
Corned beef, 14lb ...
Calabria.................................   23
Boast beef, 2 lb........
Sicily......................................   14
Potted ham,  k s .......
Boot........................................  10
Potted ham,  k s .......
Deviled ham,  k s ....
. . _____
Condensed, 2 doz.................1  20  Deviled ham,  k s ....
Condensed, 4 doz................. 2  25 I Potted tongue,  k s
Potted tongue,  k s
RICE
M ALT-0LA
Cases, 12 packages.............   1  35
Cases, 36 packages.............  4 05
Armour ft Co.’s, 2 oz........   4  46
Liebig’s, 2  oz......................  2 75

M EAT  EXTRACTS

MALTED  FOOD

LICO RICE

INDIGO

JE L L Y

Domestic

LYE 

Uncolored  Bntterlne

Canned  Meats 

Carolina head........................ 7
Carolina No. 1 .......................bh
Carolina  No. 2 .......................e
Broken...................................z%

11  75 
@11  75

1  86 
3 28 
7  60
80 
1  60 
3 00
28 
6 
12 
66
@12k
@13
16k
16
2  60 
17  60 
2  60 
60 
90 
50 
90 
50 
90

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Fancy Open Kettle...........  
Choice................................. 
F a ir..................................... 
Good.................................... 

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz.............1  75
Horae Radish, 2 doz.............3  60
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz............1  76

40
36
26
22

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs................   1 35
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs................   1 10
Bulk, 6 gal. kegs................   1 06
Manzanilla  7 nr................. 
go
Queen, pints.......................  2 36
Queen, 19  oz.......................  4 60
Queen, 28  oz.......................  7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz.......................  
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.......................   1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz.....................   3 N

Sutton’s Table Rloe, 40 to the 
bale, ik  pound p o etiti.__r*

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

1 0

2 9

II

W h ite Hah

100  lbs............ 7  75 
50  lbs............ 4  20 
10 lb l............  93 
0  **»«... 
T  

No. 1  No. 2  F»m
8  75
2  20
57
49

SEEDS

Anise...................................... g
Canary, Smyrna......................3k
Caraw ay..................................754
Cardamon, Malabar.............1  00
Celery....................................10
Hemp, Russian........................4k
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white......................7
Poppy......................................  g
R ap e...................................... 4
Cuttle Bonn.....................   .  .14

8H O E  BLACKING

Handy Box,  large.............   2  50
Handy Box, small.......  ...  1  25
Blxby’s Royal Polish........  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish......  
«

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

8TRUP8

Corn

Barrels....................................
Half bbls.............................. 29
10 lb. cans, k  doz. In case..  1  85 
51b. cans, 1 doz. In case....  2  10 
2k  lb. cans. 2 doz. In case..  2  10

Pare  Cane

F a ir........................................ 
ig
Good......................................   20
Choice  ...................................  ©

STOVE  POLISH

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

No. 4,3 doz.In case, gross..  4.60 
No. 6,8 doz In oase, gross..  7  20

8UGAR

Domino...............................  7 os
Cut Loaf................................5 45
Crushed.............................  5 45
Cubes..................................   6  10
1  Powdered..........................;  4 vg
Coarse  Powdered.............   4  96
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 so
I  Fine Granulated.................  4  7$
2 lb.  bags Fine  G ran.. . . .   4  94
5 lb.  bags Fine  G ran........   4  90
Mould A ..............................  5 20
Diamond  A .......................   485
Confectioner's  A ...............   4  10
No.  l, Columbia A............  4 75
No.  2, Windsor A.............   4  70
No.  8, Ridgewood A ........   4  80
No.
........   4  65
4, Phoenix  A 
No.
6, Empire A ...............  4  69
No.V«
«...................................  4 61
7 
«  45
.............................. 
NO.  8..................................  4  40
q............................... 
4 36
No. 11...................................  4  29
NO. 12...................................  4  15
No. 13...................................  4  10
No. 14.................................  4  10
No. 15......................... 
4  10
No. 16...................................  4  CS

TA B L E   SAUCE8
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE

 

The Original and 
Genuine
Worcestershlre.

_ 
6
Lea ft Perrin’s, pints........   6 00
Lea ft Perrin’s,  k  pints...  2 76
Halford, large....................  3 75
Halford, small....................  2  26

TEA
Ja p a n

Sundrled, medium..............31
Sundrled, choice..................33
Sundrled, fancy................... 43
Regular, medium.................31
Regular, eholee................... 33
Regular, fancy.....................43
Basket-fired, medium...........31
Basket-fired, choice..............38
Basket-fired, fancy...............43
Nibs......................"................go
Sittings.............................i9©2i
Fannings......................... 20@22

G unpow der

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

V onng  H yson

Choice......................................
Fancy.......................................

O olong

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

E nglish  B reakfast

Medium....................................
Choice.......................................
Fancy..................................... ..

In d ia

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

TOBACCO

C igars

H. ft P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller..................   35 00
Our Manager.....................   35 00
Q u in te tte ..................  s o n
G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

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

JAXON

Jas. S.  Kirk ft Co. brands—

Single box................................... 3 ¿0
5 box lots, delivered............3  15
10 box lots, delivered............3  10
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Sliver King.......................   3  65
Calumet Family.................2  78
Scotch Family..................  2  86
Cuba.................................... 2  36
Dusky Diamond...............  3  56
Jap  Rose..........................   3 76
Savon  Imperial...............  3  66
White  Russian.................  3  60
Dome, oval bars.................3  66
Satinet, oval.....................   2  50
White  Cloud......................4  10
Big Acme..........................  4  10
Acme 5c............................  3  55
Marseilles.........................  4  00
M aster.................................3  75
Lenox...............................   8  10
Ivory, 6oz........................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.......................  e  76
Schultz ft Co. brand—
Star....................................  8  26
8earch-Llght Soap  Co.  brand. 
“Search-Light"  Soap,  100
big, pure, solid bars........  3 75
A. B. Wrtsley brands—
Good C heer......................  4  00
Old Country.....................   3  40

Proctor ft Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros,  brands—

Scouring

Sapollo, kitchen, 8 doz.........2  40
Sapollo, band, 3 doz..............2 40

SODA

Boxes......................................  6k
Kegs, English..........................4*

SNUFF

Scotch, In bladders.................  37
Maceaboy, In jars...................  35
French Rappee, In jars.......  43

SPICES 

Whole 8plces

Allspice...............................
Cassia, China In m ats.......
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna...............
Cloves, Zanzibar.................
M ace...................................
Nutmegs,  76-80..................
Nutmegs,  106-10.................
Nutmegs,  116-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot.......................

Pare Ground In Bulk

Allspice...............................
Cassia, Batavia..................
Cassia, Saigon....................
Cloves, Zanzibar.................
Ginger,  African.................
Ginger, Cochin..................
Ginger,  Jam aica...............
Mace....................................
Mustard..............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne...............
sage.....................................

STARCH 

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages....................  6
3-lb. packages....................   5)4
6-lb. packages....................  6*
40 and so-lb. boxes.............  4
Barrels... 
»

Common Corn

201-lb.  packages............... 
401-lb.  packages...............  

6
6*

8. C. W..........................
Cigar cupping*, per lb.

»  M
M

Imported.

Japan,  No.  1..................5k@
Japan,  No.  2..................5  ©
Java, fancy head............ 
a
Java, No. l ......................  ©
Table.................................   ©

Best  grade  Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets,  33  to  the
bale......................................8
Cost of packing In  cotton  pock­
ets only He more than bul£ 
SALAD  DRESSING 
Alpha Cream, large, 2 do/.  .1  85 
Alpha Cream, large, t doz..  1  90 
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..  95
Durkee’s, large. I doz..........4 15
Durkee’s, small. 2 doz......... 4 85

8A LERA TU 8 

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 ....................................... s 00
Wyandotte. 100  *■ ...............3 or

SAL  8ODA

Granulated,  bbls.............. 
95
Granulated, 100 lb. cases....1  06
Lump, bbls...........................  90
Lump, 146 lb. kegs........ .....   95

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. h a n .3 no 
Table, barrels, 50 6 lb. bags. 3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. uaga.z  76 
Butter, barrels, 320 lb. bulk.2  75 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2  86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks. 66 lbs............  m
Shaker, 24 2 lb. boxes__ ’. 1  50

Com m on  G rades

100 3 lb. sacks...........................  26
60 6 lb. sacks...........................  15
2810 lb. sacks..................... [2 06
66 lb. sacks......................... "  40
281b. sacks....................  
22

W arsaw

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

A shton

66 lb. dairy In Unen sacks...  60 

H iggins

66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock

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

Com m on

Granulated  Flue..................   75
Medium Fine.........................  go

SALT  FISH  

Cod

Large whole................  @ 5*
Small whole.................  @ 5
strips or  bricks.......... 7  © 9
POllOCk.........................   © 3£

H alibnt.

Strips.................................  
12
Chunks.............................. *  13

T ro u t

No. 1100 lbs........................  5 60
No. 1  40 lbs......... ..............  2  60
No. 1  10 lbs....................... 
70
No. 1  8 lbs........................ 
69

M ackerel

Mess 100 lbs........................  14  50
Mess  60 lbs................... . 
7  75
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  go
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  30
No. 1100 lbs........................  J3 to
No. 1  60 lbs........................  7  00
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  45
No. 1  8 lb*........................  1  19
No. 2100 lb s................... ...
No. 2  5)lba........................
No. 3  10 lbs.......................
Vo. 1  8 |hs

H e rrin g

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10  60 
Holland white hoopskbbl.  5  50 
Holland white hoop, keg..  ©75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian.........................
Bound 100 lbs......................  3 go
Bound 60 lbs.......................   2  10
Scaled................................ 
13)4
Bloaters.............. ................  1  ©

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

EGGS  WANTED

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

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.

30

THE  FOOD  WE  EAT.

Ignorance  and  Indifference of the Ameri 

cad  People#

America  is  fast  becoming  a  nation  of 
dyspeptics. 
The  people  are  being 
poisoned  by  impure  and  improper  food 
Half  of  the  straggle  of  life  is  a  struggle 
for  food—proper  food.  A  well-fed  man 
that  is,  a  man  whose  nutrition 
is  com 
plete,  can  do  a  big  day’s  work  easily 
a  poorly  fed  man  does  a  small  day’ 
work  with  difficulty.  The  people  should 
be  educated  so  as  to  be  able  to  select 
food  according  to  its  nutritive  value 
Our  supplies  for  the  table  should  be 
purchased  with  a  view  to  the  actual 
wants of  the  particular  body  that  is  to 
be  nourished,  and  we  must  know  what 
we  are  purchasing.

It  is  to  be  greatly  regretted  that  Con 
gress  failed  to  pass  a  pure  food  law  a 
the  last  session.  We  must  have  a  com 
prebensive,  practical  and  effective 
law 
to  prevent  the  sale  or  manufacture  of 
impure  or  adulterated  food  products, 
and  food  inspection  should  be  removed 
entirely  from  politics.  There  are  imita 
tions,  frauds  and  adulterations  every 
where.  Food  articles  are  mixed  up 
with  substances  that  affect  purity  and 
lower  their quality and strength ;  inferior 
substances  are  substituted  for  the  gen 
uine  article;  valuable  ingredients  are 
extracted  from  the  real  products;  true 
articles  are  imitated  and  sold  under 
another  name,and ingredients  are  added 
which  are  poisonous  or 
to 
health.

injurious 

The  press  is  to-day  preaching  the 
gospel  of  pure  food  and  federal  surveil 
lance  of  food  products. 
It  requires 
only  a  passing  familiarity  with  the  sit­
uation  to  realize  the  inadequacy  of  state 
laws  to  protect  the  people,  for they  not 
only  lack  harmony  and  co-ordination, 
but  seldom  are  enforced,  being made the 
footballs  of  political  machines.  Some 
of the  men  who  are  appointed  as  food 
i n s p e c t o r s   could  n o t   detect  an  adultera­
tion  if  they  were  permitted  to  look  at  it 
through  the  most  powerful  microscope, 
and  even  if  they  did  detect  it  the  pos­
sible  political  effect  of  the  discovery 
would  overshadow  all  consideration  of 
public  health.

Impure  food  with  a  “ pull”   is  never 
Frauds  and  adulterations 
molested. 
can  never  be  reached  except  through  a 
rigid  and  well  organized  system  of  fed­
eral  inspection  with  the  power  of  con­
fiscating  and  punishment  in  the  bands 
of  a  National  commissioner  who owes 
his  appointment  to  the  President  and  is 
not  mixed  up  in  state  politics.

The  extent  to  which  human  rascality 
will  go  was  revealed  in  the  investiga­
tion  of  the  milk  supply  in  New  York 
City  conducted  by  the  Rockefeller  In­
stitute.  The  bacteriologists  found  that 
the  milk  was  not  only  adulterated  and 
polluted,  but  actually  traced  300  out­
breaks  of  epidemic  diseases  to  impure 
milk.

Some  months  ago  an  analysis  of  the 
milk  furnished  the  patients  of a  Chi­
cago  hospital  showed  formalin  in  suffi­
least 
cient  quantities  to  cause  or  at 
hasten  the  death  of  sick  persons. 
It 
seems  that  the  nurses  and  patients  bad 
complained  of  the  milk,  and  had  de­
clared  upon  numerous  occasions  that  it 
“ tasted  funny.”   Formalin is a chemical 
used  in  hospitals  for  fumigating  pur­
poses  because  of  its  deadly  character. 
Recause  it  will  keep  milk  from  turning 
sour,  however,  milk  dealers  have  been 
known  to  use  it  extensively,  especially 
in  milk  supplied  to  public  institutions.
is  a  statement 
made  by  the  Assistant  Food  Commis­

Just  as  astounding 

in  Chicago. 

sioner  of  Illinois,  that  he  had  located 
four slaughter bouses  for  horses,  mules 
“ Real  beef 
and  donkeys 
is  never  handled 
in  these  places, ”   he 
said,  “ but  their  delivery  wagons  run  to 
free  lunch 
markets,  restaurants  and 
saloons  with  great 
regularity.  As 
healthy  horses,  mules  and  donkeys  are 
too  valuable  to  be  worked  up  into Ham­
burger  steaks  and  sausages,  only  the 
diseased  or  disabled  ones  are  killed; 
even  horses  that  have  glanders.  Filthy 
butter,  absolutely  unfit  for  use,  is  col­
lected 
in  this  city  and  shipped  to  the 
woods,  where  it  is  remanufactured  and 
sent  back  to  Chicago  and  sold  as  pure 
butter.  Fermented  and  rotten  tomatoes 
are  manufactured  into  catsup  and  sold 
by  leading  houses  as  pure.”

The 

little  child  calls  for  the  larges 
piece  of  candy  that  her  penny  will  buy. 
and  her  mother  wants  the  largest  loaf 
of  bread  she  can  get  for the  money 
Consequently  the  manufacturers  study 
how  to  produce  the 
largest  piece  of 
candy  and  the 
largest  loaf  of  bread  at 
the smallest expense.  The investigations 
of  the  Illinois  Pure  Food  Commission 
show  that  chemicals  injurious  to  health 
are  freely  used  in  Chicago  soda water.

A  prominent  grocer  informs  me  that 
t  is  impossible  to  sell  genuine  mapl 
syrup  in  many  parts  of  the  country,  for 
the  reason  that  it  is  so  different  from 
that  which  the  public  has been  educated 
to  believe  to  be  the  pure  article.  More 
Vermont  maple  sugar 
is  manufactured 
n  Iowa  in  a  season  than  the maple trees 
of  Vermont  could  produce 
in  years 
But  that  is  not  all.  There  seems  to  bi 
no  end  to  the  list  of  adulterated  foods 
American  tables  are  now  supplied  with 
butter 
sweetened  or  kept  sweet  by 
boracic  acid  and  chemically  colored 
am,  jelly  and  preserves  not  even  dis 
tantly  acquainted  with  the  fruit  are 
made wholly  of  gelatin  and glucose, with 
chemical  coloring  and  flavor;  tea 
made  by  mixing  oxide  of  iron  with  tea 
dust  and  rolled  by  means  of  starch 
into 
pellets  resembling 
the  genuine  tea 
chemical  vinegar,  catsup  and  table 
sauce 
contains  no  vegetable  matter 
whatever;  pickles  are  made  green  by  a 
preparation  of  copper;  wines  sweetened 
by  glucose;  beers  rank  with  salicylic 
acid;  whiskies  diluted  with  proof 
spirits  and  artificially  beaded  with 
sulphuric  acid  and 
smoothed  with 
olive  oil.

The  Illinois  State  Inspectors had thei 
attention 
called  to  a  preparation  of 
glucose  which  was  masquerading  un 
der  the  label,  ‘  Pure Clover Honey. ”   In 
forbidding  its  sale  the  Inspectors  acted 
clearly  within  their  statutory  powers, 
and  set  an  example  that  should  be  fol 
lowed  in  every  state  that  is  fortunate 
enough  to  have  a  system  of  inspection 
The  glucose  that  was  being  sold  a_ 
Pure  Clover  Honey”   is  probably  not 
harmful,  or child  mortality  would  have 
ncreased  at  an  alarming  rate  Lb  this 
country  during  the  last  decade, 
for  it 
now  enters  largely  into  the  manufacture 
of  candy  and  many 
forms  of  sweet 
meats,  jellies  and  preserved  fruits.  But 
the  food inspectors  were  justified  in  for­
bidding  the  sale  of  glucose  honey  for 
the  reason  that  it  is  an  adulteration  and 
hence  a  fraud  upon  the puhlic.

impressed  with 

All  who  saw  the  Impure  Food Exhibit 
at  the  Buffalo  Exposition  must  have 
been  profoundly 
the 
urgent  need  of National  legislation upon 
this  question. 
It  was  shown  that  grape 
and  currant  jellies  sold  at  the  groceries 
as  pure  were  often  colored  compounds 
of  glucose  and  sugar.  In  most instances, 
of  course,  the  price  at  which  such  jel-

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

€. D. Crittenden, 98 $. Dio. St., Grand Rapids

Write or telephone me for prices and particulars.

Beans
SEEDS

Both Phone* 1300

_______ 

Clover  and  Timothy—all  kinds  of  Grass  Seeds.

M O S E L E Y   B R O S .,  G R A N D   R A P I D S ,
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A TRUE POULTRY STORY

26-28-30-32  O T TA W A   S T .

MICH.

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l  ive T u rk s  M @ i6 ;  D ucks  15(8 16; C h ix  I 2 @ i3;  H ens  IK «,I2-  G eese  1 3 © !'

,  
Buffalo beats ,11 markets at Thanksgiving.  Our prediction was mote than  verb
hed and m uch exceeded.  F ancy dressed turkeys actually sold at  16 and  iS  and on 2 days were raised to 
19 and 20.  C h ix  14&1«, extras  ifi;  H ens  12^14;  G eese  13 * 15 ;  D ucks  io@ iS.  A ll  these  w ere actu al sales 
e a s ,J>'  verified, 
T h e   prospects  w ere n ever better to sustain  these  prices fo r C hristm as, and w e   b elie ve it   is  one  o f 
the best opportunities in  years to m ake an  excellen t m argin in  Buffalo C hristm as.  W e  believe  it  policy 
no  m T rk e t^ ilT e x c e n L  ° nS,gn0rS *° prepare liberally for Christm as  m arket at  Buffalo,  fe e lin g  very sure
« • S S E »  3?.*hf  £ rcateiV-°f  a11  h?,1,ida';s antl  poultry should  bring as m uch as a t an v  tim e  in  entire 
¿ —Hr  D uclts>  C h icken s and  G eese w ill sell  very  h igh , as  m ust larg ely Lake  place o f turkeys.  W ire   the 
banks or express  com panies a t our expense if  desired as to our responsibility

C, l SKUre  >OU  unsurP*ssed service,  prom ptness,  in tegrity,  responsibility,  co n servative  quotations, 
and  w e belie ve an  unsurpassed  poultry  m arket;  lig h t  freigh t,  quick  tim e,  etc. 
R e fe re n ce s’  N e w  
shippers to old ones and  w estern  shippers  to  B erlin  H e ig h ts  B a n k,  B erlin  H e ig h ts,  O h io  o r  T h ird  
*  an y "an d  o b h ge Uffa ° '  or »".' w h ere on  demand.  P lease ad vise  at  once  your  prospective shipm ents,

159  MICHIGAN  S T .,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.,  O N   B U F F A L O 'S   W H O L E S A L E   M A R K E T .

B A T T E R S O N   &   C O .

Prompt, reliable and responsible  poultry commission  merchants for 34 years.

POTATOES
H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.

GR A ND   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

Carlo!s only wanted.  Highest  market  price.  State variety and quality.

Long  Distance Telephones—Citizens  *4 17  
Bell  Main  66

304  &   306  Clark  Building, 

Opposite  Union  Depot

Phil  Hilber

Jobber  of  Oleomargarine

109  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

have  State  agency  for  several  manufacturers  and  am  prepared  to 

quote factory prices.

We  are  in  the  market  for

CLO VER,  ALSYKE

BEANS, PEAS, POP CORN. ETC.

If any  to offer write  us.

A LF R E D   J.  BROWN  S E E D   C O ..  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H

2 4   AND  26  N.  DIVISION  S T ..  20   AND  22  OTTAW A  S T .

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lies  are  offered  should  convince 
the 
customer  that  he  is  buying  an  adulter­
ated  product.  Pure  fruit  and  pure  sugar 
could  not  be  sold  so  low. 
It  was  also 
graphically  shown  at  this  exhibit  that 
imported  spices  were mixed with ground 
cereals,  cocoanut  shells,  clove  stems, 
clive  stones,  sandalwood,  mustard hulls, 
and  other  slightly  aromatic  stuffs  in 
such  proportions  as  to  produce  almost 
any  grade  for  which  there  is  a  demand. 
Coffee  beans  were  also  exhibited  that 
were  made  out  of  various  materials, 
some  of  them  harmless,  others  delete­
rious.

law. 

food 

In  his  annual  reports  Secretary  Wil­
son,  of  the  D-partment  of  Agriculture, 
has  strongly  urged  Congress  to  pass  a 
comprehensive  pure 
The 
chemistry  forces  of  his  department have 
worked 
in  co-operation  with  the  Pure 
Food  Congress  and  other  organizations, 
and  their  analyses  show  that  hundreds 
of  articles  of  daily  use  are  adulterated, 
many  of  them 
in  such  a  manner  as  to 
make  them  highly  injurious.  The  pure 
food  commissions  of  states  are  doing 
splendid  work 
in  educating  the  people 
up  to  the  fact  that  adulterating  injures 
legitimate  industries  and  fosters  decep­
tion  and  fraud.  But  this  work  is  in  its 
infancy,  and  the  people  must  awaken  to 
importance  of  the  question 
the  great 
and  demand 
larger appropriations  and 
more  efficient  laws  and  publicity  to  suc­
cessfully  prosecute  a  work  of  such  vast 
consequences.

The  Ccffee  Congress,  which  has  been 
in  session 
in  New  York  City,  tried  to 
discover  some  way  to  stop  the  adultera­
tion  of  that  aniel?,  but  it  bad  no  power. 
It  only  recommended.  Many  of  the 
prepared  coffees  srlJ  at  the  groceries 
contain  a  mixture  of  other  articles,some 
of  them  healthful  and  others  not.  Con­
gress  will  be  guilty  of  grave  dereliction 
of  duty  if  it  fail*  this  winter  to  enact 
stringent  legislation  and  place  all  forms 
of  manufactured  foods  under  the  care  of 
the  Commissioner of  Internal  Revenue, 
as  oleomargarine  and  other  imitations 
of  butter  are  now.

It 

is,  of  course, 

impossible  and 

it 
would  be  impracticable  to  prohibit  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  all  imitation 
foods  and  to  prohibit  all  adulteration, 
but  every  package  of  food  should  at 
least  bear  a  label  accurately  stating  the 
materials 
it  contains,  so  that  people 
may  know  exactly  what  they  are  buy­
ing,  and  the  sale  of  impure  and 
injuri­
ous  articles  can  be  prevented.  Every 
one  of  the  prepared  foods  should  show 
on  the 
libel  the  exact  formula  of  its 
composition  and  the  quantity  of  each 
and  every  element  that  it  contains.  But 
men  who  manufacture  adulterations  do 
not  want  this,  and  the  grocer  who  seeks 
to  make  a  few  dollars  more  by  palming 
off  upon  his  customers  adulterated  arti­
cles  disguised  as  pure  and  imitations 
marked  as genuine,  and  thus  endangers 
their  health  and  sometimes  their  lives, 
does  net  want  it.  There would be a much 
smaller  number  of  articles  upon  the 
grocery  shelves  and  a  much  less  variety 
ii  every  package  were  honestly  labeled 
to  show  exactly  what  it  contains.

Many  things  are  used  knowingly  as 
well  as  unknowingly  that  are  injurious 
to  the  health.  Hence  it  would  be  only 
fair  to  the  consumer  to  stamp  the names 
of  the  ingredients  upon  every  package 
so  that  he  might  use  his  own  judgment 
as  to  its  use.

Impure  and  adulterated  foods  leave  a 
trail  of  human  woe.  We  do  not  realize 
the  amount  of  disease  that 
is  due  to 
indigestible  substances 
poisonous  and 
in  with  the  things  we
that  are  mixed 

eat.  Along  this  trail  are  sufferers  from 
dyspepsia,  rheumatism,appendicitis,  all 
sorts  of  liver  and  kidney  diseases,  im­
pure  blood,  impure  complexions  and  all 
forms  of  stomach  and  bowel  complaints. 
It  is  easy  for  the  trained  eye  of  a  doctor 
to  pick  out  the  sufferers.  It  is  also  easy 
for  him  to  pick  out  starved  and  poi-
soned  “ well fed”  bodies.  Men who work 
with  their  minds  often  eat  improper 
food  which  does  not  feed  the  brain,  but 
makes  only  fat  and  muscle,  and  then 
they  wonder  why  their  mental  faculties 
are  sluggish.  Others  may  have  some 
constitutional  disease  or  weakness  and 
ignorantly  devour  from  day  to  day  the 
food  that  aggravates  it  instead of  adopt­
ing  a  diet  that  will  assist  nature  in  re­
storing  impaired  functions  and in build­
ing  up  wasted  tissues.  Others  may  eat 
improperly  cooked  food  which  by  par­
tial  cooking  has  been  placed  in  a  chem­
ical  state  that 
is  injurious,  and  then 
wonder  why  the  kidneys groan under  the 
burden  of  sifting  the  impurities  from 
the  blood.

food 

impure 

Poor  cooking  and  fraud  in  food  affect 
the  mind  as  much  as  the  body.  More 
suicides, 
crimes,  vice,  unhappiness, 
divorces,  business 
incompetency  and 
ugly  tempers  are  due  to  bad  cooking 
and 
than  to  any  other 
cause.  Professor  Smedley,  the  head  of 
the  Child  Study  Department  in  the  Chi­
cago  public  schools,  finds  direct  con­
nection  between  bad  conduct  and  bad 
food  and  bolds  that  bad  nutrition  is  one 
of  the  chief  causes  of  boys  being  sent  to 
the  bridewell.  Professor  Atwater,  the 
famous  food  expert,  recently  announced 
his  belief  that  many  men  are  driven  to 
alcoholic  stimulants  by  the  lack  of  nu­
tritious  food.

teaching 

children  a 

It  is  time  that  the  common  schools 
were 
thorough 
knowledge  of  the  chemistry  of foods  and 
their  adaptation  to  the  wants  of  the 
human  body.  Every  person  who  has 
anything  to  do  with  the  preparation  of 
foods  should  be  educated  to  knew  its 
propetties  and  qualities  and  tbe  results 
of  chemical  action  thereon.  They should 
not  be  content  merely  with  knowing 
how  food  should  be  prepared,  but  they 
should  know  also  the  reasons  why  it 
should  be  prepared  in  a  particular  way.

Paul  Pierce.

stores, 

A ntl-O leo  A ctivity  in   M atutichow tts.
Tbe  biggest  kind  of  a  haul  of  board­
ing-house  keepers  and  grocers alleged to 
be  engaged  in  the  business  of  handling 
and  dealing 
in  oleomargarine  in  W or­
cester, M ass.,  was  made  last  week  when 
the  police  notified  thirty-five  persons  to 
be  present  at  the  session  of  the  Central 
District  Couit  to  answer  to  the  com­
plaints  issued  to  George  F.  Whitaker,of 
Boston,agent  of  tbe  State  Dairy Bureau.
The  evidence  in  all  the  cases  was  ob­
tained  by  detectives,  who  have  been 
in  Worcester  for the  past  two 
working 
weeks. 
In  addition  to  obtaining  sam­
ples  of  alleged  spurious  butter  from sev­
eral 
they  obtained  evidence 
against  tbe  boarding-house  keepers  by 
purchasing  meals  at  the  places  and  tak­
ing  away  the  butter served  at  the  meals. 
The  fine  in  each  case,  according  to  the 
statute,  is  not  less  than  $ico,  but  tbe 
court  can 
impose  a  maximum  of  $500 
and  imprisonment  for  one  year  on  each 
complaint.  The  maximum  fine  is  rare­
ly  imposed,  however,  and  the  cases  are 
frequently  settled  without  a  hearing  in 
tbe  upper  court.  For  several  months 
Worcester  has  been  known  as  the  bead- 
quarters  for  the  sale  of  oleomargarine in 
Massachusetts.  The  agerts t f  the  Dairy 
Bureau  have  determined  to  put  a stop  to 
tbe  sale  of  the  ' ‘ butter,”   and  it  is  ex­
pected  that  tbe  list  of  those  notified  to 
be 
in  court  will  be  greatly  increased 
before  the  day  of  hearing.

‘ ‘ True 

it  is 
usually  killed  by  its  mother  in  infancy.

love  never  grows  old 

i f  you  don’t w an t to con sign   1 

: us co llect,  lo w e st price  fa n cy  pou ltry  dressed o r a liv e ,  C . O . D .,

B uffalo.  A ll  kinds.

N O T I C E !
B A T T E R S O N   &  C O .

P rom pt,  responsible  poultry h ouse fo r 34 years

92  M ic h ig a n  s t .,  B U F F A L O ,  n .  y .

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  P  ovisions

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:  Gansevoorfc Hank. R. ft.  Dun & Co .  H rail street’8  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

B a n a B n H H n n n B B B H n M H B B i a a B i

Cold  Storage Eggs

Why  pay  25 per  cent,  more for fresh  when  you  can  get  just  as 
good  by  using  our  April  stock?  Give  us  an  order  and  be  con­
vinced.  We  store  Fruit,  Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry  and  Meats. 
Liberal  advances  on  produce  stored  with  us,  where  desired. 
Rates  reasonable.  Write  for  information.

Grand Rapids Gold Storage 

$ Sanitary m ilk Go.
Grand Rapids, IHicbigati

W H O L E S A L E

O Y S T E R S

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,  1.15 
Standards, per gallon,  - 
1.10
Clams, per gallon, 
1.25

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- 

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DETTENTHALER  MARKET,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sweet  Potatoes,  Cranberries,  Oranges,

New  Nuts,  Figs  and  Dates

We are headquarters for these goods.

We want  Potatoes, Onions, Apples and  Beans.

The  Vinkemulder  Company,  Commission  Merchants

14-16  Ottawa  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

OLD

RELlfm M CIGAR

A  lvVA vA

B E S T .

ÍUBETSK Y BROS. 

Détr Makers

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wise  woman,  “ and  thank  heaven  for 
that  husband  with  but  one  fault,  and 
drag  all  your  curtains  down  with  you 
Bid  him  come  into  the  best  room  wi 
his  pipe;  and  then,  while  blue  wreath 
rise  to  the  ceiling  and  choke  and  blind 
you,  shake  out  your  hair  that  its  meshes 
may  catch  and  hold  them  even  as it held 
the  fragrance  of  your  wedding  garland

“ Had  I  four  walls  roofed  in  with  love 
and  called  by  that  most  meaning  name 
of  ‘ home,’  I  would  build  an  altar  in  the 
choicest  room  to  Lady  Nicotine,  and 
it  heaped  with  armfuls  of  be 
keep 
fragrant  weed  fetched  by  myself. 
1  do 
not  know  what  magic  lurks  within  the 
plant,  but  I  am  convinced 
it  is  more 
potent  than  treaties  to  preserve  domes 
tic  peace,  and  some  day  some  one  wi 
recbristen  it  the  “ Happiness  Flower.’

Worth  Remembering.

Stick  to  your  chosen  pursuit,  but  not 

to chosen  methods.

Be  content  with  small  beginnings 

and  be  sure  to  develop  them.

Don’t  tell  what  you  are  going  to  do 

until  you  have  done  it.

Enter  your  charges  when  the  goods 

are  sold.  Don't  wait.

Have  a  proper division  of  work,  and 
neither  interfere  nor  permit interference 
with  your  employes.

Be  cautious;  but  when  you  make 

bargain,  make  it quietly  and  boldly.

Keep  down  your  expenses,  but  do  not 

be  penurious.

Don't  take  fresh  risks  to  retrieve  your 

losses.  Cut  them  off  short.

F IT  ANTED—SECOND  HAND  COMPUTING 
tv  scale;  about 25 pounds.  Address Chas 
Fish, Butler, 111. 

896
merly conducted  by  Robert  McCormick 

fftOR  SALE—HARNESS  BUSINESS  FOR- 

Cadillac, Mich.  Only one small  shop  in  city 
over  6.010  people;  an  exceptional  opportunity 
for harness man.  Address A.  W.  Newark,  Ad 
851
mlnlstrator, Cadillac, Mich. 
XX/ANTED—GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  FIV 
vv  and ten cent store.  Address  No. 882, care 
882
Michigan Tradesman. 

Mu s t s e l l  40 a c r e s a l l e g a n   c o u n t y

$400;  20  acres  Allegan  county,  $125; 
would  exchange  for  stock  of  goods.  Address 
Chance, care Michigan Tradesman. 
895
ITOR SALE-CHANCE  OF  A  LIFETIME  TO 
F   purchase  an  old-established  grocery  busi­
ness in an A No. 1  location.  Annual  sates,  $so,- 
000.  Capital required,  about  $3,000.  Reason for 
selling, owner has other business.  The editor of 
the  Tradesman  knows  this  business  and  will 
recommend it.  Address No. 894,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
\XTANTED—GOOD STOCK  GROCERIES  OR 
tt  general merchandise for  Iowa farm.  Par 
tlcuiars first letter.  Address No. 893, care Mich 
igan Tradesman. 
893
ITOR  SALE—STOCK  IN  UNITED  STATES 
r   Robe Factory.  Inquire  of  F. M.  Kllbourn 
Secretary,  Corunna, Mich. 

854

894

845

Address No. 846. care Michigan Tradesman.  8

I M P L E  
ment stock In the  best  agricultural  district 
of Northern Michigan.  Good  reason for selling 

t|H)R  S A L E — HARDWARE  AND 
tW R  SALE  OR EXCHANGE—$12,000 STOCK 

of dry goods, shoes  and  clothing  at  Mason 
.’ity,  la.,  one of  the  best  towns  in  the  State. 
Will accept part  In  good  real  estate.  Address 
No. 845, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ITOR  SALE—A  TWELVE  HORSE  POWER 
r   boiler  nearly  new  for  $100,  if  sold  before 
Jan.  1,  1903.  Address  F.  W.  Brown,  Ithaca 
Mich. 
853
ij'OR  SALE —  MEAT  MARKET  AND
slaughter house in connection; a  good  first- 
class trade and cash business; town  of  fourteen 
hundred  Inhabitants  and  the  only  market  In 
town.  Reason for selling,  have  other  business 
in larger place.  M. A. Mahoney, Box 246, Belle­
vue, Mich. 
ITOR  SALE—$3,000  GENERAL  STOCK  AND 
F   $2,500  store building, located in  village  near 
Grand Rapids.  Fairbanks scales.  Good  paying 
business, mostly cash.  Reason for selling, owner 
has other business.  Address No. 838, care Mich 
igan Tradesman. 
TXTANTED—HAY OF DIFFERENT GRADES 
Tv  also  rye  straw.  What have  you to offer? 
Address Smith, Young & Co., Lansing, Mich.  890
E'O   KENT—BRICK  STORK 20X60 CENTRAL- 
ly  located;  good  town  for  business:  $180a 
&r.  Address M. A. Vanlnwegan,  523 Genesee 
e , Saginaw. E. S„  Mich. 
■ RUG STOCK AND  FIXTURES FOR SALE 
ij'OR  SALE—WE  HAVE  THREE  LAUN- 

at  Sand  Hill,  six  miles  from  Detroit,  on 
electric car line;  no  opposition;  a  good  chance 
fo ra   registered  pharmacist.  I  offer  this  at a 
bargain  for  cash.  S. N. Gurney, Room A, Buhl 
Block, Detroit,  Mich. 

some of  the best cities in  Central  Michigan.  If 

889

838

843

888

s s

The Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  very  active  during 

large 

its  wheat.  The  visible 

the  past  week.  There  seemed  to  be 
sharp  fight  on  between  che  bulls  and 
bears  for  supremacy. 
I might  state  that 
the  bulls  have  met  with  quite  a  defeat, 
as  both  futures  and  cash  suffered  a  loss 
of  2c  per  bushel,  which  was  only  oc 
casioned  by  one  bouse  selling  6,ooo, 
ooo bushels  of  future  wheat,  besides .the 
millions  that  were  sold  by  other  parties 
The  situation,  however,  seems  not  much 
changed.  Reports come  from Kansas  to 
the  effect  that  they  have  not  enough 
hard  wheat  to  run  them  thirty  days 
Southern  Minnesota  has  marketed  about 
all 
showed 
another 
increase  of  3,350,000 
bushels,but  still  there  is  only  45,000,000 
bushels  in  sight,  which  is  very  conser 
vative  for this  time  of the  year.  I  might 
also  remark  that  the  price  of  wheat  is 
lower  at  this  time  than  it  was  a  yea 
ago  when  the  visible  was  7,000,000 
bushels  more.  As  regards  the  large 
visible  increase,  I  might  say 
it  was 
chiefly  in  Minneapolis  and  Duluth,  and 
this  was  on  account  of  the  Minnesota 
millers  making  unusual  efforts  to get the 
wheat  in  their elevators  out  of  the  coun 
try  elevators.  This  large  increase  ma; 
possibly  continue  one  or  two  week: 
longer,  when  there  will  be  an  end  to  it 
Corn  has  also  dropped  in  price  fully 
4c  per  bushel,  as  there  was  more  con 
tract  corn  offered  than  was  expected 
Besides,  the  visible  made  a  fairly  good 
increase  for  the  time  of the  year.  Still 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  long  corn  out 
yet,  to  be  provided  for during  Decern 
ber.  Should  any  unforeseen  bad  weathe 
conditions  take  place  we  might  see  an 
advance.  However,  as  corn 
is  very 
high  at  present,  we  look  for  an  even 
market.

Oats  have  been  steady,  as  usual,  with 
not  much  change  in  price  either  one 
way  or  the  other.  The  demand  seems 
to  absorb  the  offerings  and,  so  long  as 
this  state  of  affairs  exists,  there  certain­
ly  will  be  no  change.

Rye  has  shown  a  weakening  disposi­
tion,  as  prices  are  not  strong  and  there 
seem  to  be  more  sellers  than  buyers  at 
present.  We  look  for  lower  prices  in 
that  cereal.

Beans  have  held  their  own  which  is 
about  all  that  can  be  said  on  that  sub­
ject.  Not  much  doing  in  that  article.

Flour  has  moved  quite  freely.  The 
mills  are  running  steadily,  filling  some 
old  orders  and  new  ones  are  coming 
along  fairly  well  both  local  and  domes­
tic.

Mill  feed  seems  to  be  very  strong, 
while  no  advance  can  be  noted.  Pres­
ent  prices  are  holding  firm  at  §17  for 
bran  and  $ iq  for  middlings.

Receipts  during  the  week  have  been 
as  follows:  wheat,  65 cars;  com,  7 cars; 
oats,  2  cars;  flour,  2  cars;  potatoes,  23 
cars.

The  receipts  during  the  month  were 
as  follows:  wheat,  263  cars;  corn,  17 
cars;  oats,  29 cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour,  9 
cars;  beans,  1  car;  malt,  3  cars;  hay,  1 
car;  straw,  2  cars;  potatoes,  92  cars.

Mills  are  paying  72c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 
Why  Smokers  Really  Make  the Best Has- 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

bands.

One  woman  remarked  to  another  who 
was  very  wise  that  ber  husband  was  the 
best  of  men,  that  he  was  true  and  up­
right  and  generous  and  tolerant;  but 
she  wanted  her  friend  to  tell  her  some­
thing  that  would  make  him  abandon 
what  she  described  as  the  “ soul  filthy 
habit  of  using  tobacco."

“ Go  dow n  on  your k n e e s ,”   sa id   the

ITOR  SALE — AT  A  BARGAIN.  STEAM 

flour mill In good running order, on  railroad. 

Will exchange for city property.  R. M. Grind ley, 

171 Griswold St.. Detroit. Mich. 
XX7ANTED—STEAM  HEAT  FOR  CHURCH 
tv  30x60,  with  basement.  Box  8,  Benzonla, 
Mich. 

827

798

stock of men’s furnishing goods and shoes in first- 

railroad;  good  business;  stock  about  $1,200; 

«71

ITOR  SALE—TWO  BUSINESS  BUILDINGS 

in best location in town; cost  $3,800;  also  a 
class condition; will Invoice $3.000; if taken with­
in 30 days  both can  be  bought  for  $4,500  cash. 
Real estate will have a big advance  here  before 
next  spring.  For  further  particulars  address 
Box 343. Munising, Mich. 
781
Ij'OR  SALE-DRUG  STOCK  IN  ONE  OF 
the best business towns  In  Western  Michi­
gan; good chance  for  a  physician.  Enquire  of 
778
No. 778. care Michigan Tradesman. 
f'O R  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIX- 

tures;  only one In good prosperous  town on 
cash, no trades.  Address  George,  care  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
TXTANTED  FOR  CASH—LUMBER  OF  ALL 
vv  kinds;  also  shingles  and  lath.  Will  con­
tract mill cuts.  Belding-HaU Mfg. Co.,  Beldlng, 
Mich. 
764
ITOR  SALE— FIRST-CLASS,  EXCLUSIVE 
millinery business In  Grand  Rapids;  object 
for  selling,  parties  leaving  the  city.  Address 
Milliner, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
SAFES—NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND  FIRE 
•T  and burglar proof safes.  Geo. M. Smith Wood 
fit  Brick  Building  Moving  Co.,  376  South  Ionia 
St.. Grand  Rapids. 
ITOR SALE—DRUG STOCKLAND FIXTURES, 
Invoicing about $2,000.  Situated in center or 
Michigan  Fruit  Belt,  one-half  mile  from  Lake 
Michigan.  Good  resort  trade.  Living  rooms 
over store;  water  Inside  building.  Rent,  $12.50 
¡>er month.  Good  reason  for  selling-  Address 
No. 334. care Michigan Tradesman. 
T  WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS 
A  snd  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. 751,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
TXT ILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  STOCKS 
vv  dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hardware, 
furniture or groceries.  Lock  Box  74,  Ypsilantl. 
Mich. 
)R  8ALE  CHEAP—SECONDHAND  NO.  4 
Bar-Lock  typewriter.  In  good  condition. 
Specimen of work done on  machine  on  applica- 
tlon.  Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids. 465

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MISCELLANEOUS

TXT ANTED BY PRACTICAL  8TORE  MAN— 
* v  Position as manager or clerk In  grocery or 
general store.  Address Box 13, Custer. Mich. 
901

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TX TA NTBD- SALESMAN  IN  AN  ESTAB- 
vv 
lished retail  general  store  who  can  take 
an Interest in the business; salary and  share  In 
the  profits.  Address  A.  J.  Prindle,  Howell. 
Mich._______________  
TXT ANTED—A GOOD TAILOR AND CLOTH- 
v,;  J u g   salesman,  a  young  man  steady  and 
reliable;  references  required;  good  wages  to 
right  man.  Address  No.  910,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman,_________ 
W X N T E D -A   NO.  1  DRY  GOODS,  FUR- 
” v  nlshlng  goods  and  shoe  salesman.  Must 
be  steady  and  reliable.  State wages expected. 
Address P. O. Box 141, South Boardman, Mich. 
875

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900

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TXTANTED — A   MAN  TO  D ELIVER  AND 
v V  work  In  grocery  store.  Must  be  of  good 
character, a  worker  and  strictly  temperate;  a 
steady job for the right man.  Address  No.  «23. 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
823  ’

are Auctioneers 

and Special Salesmen

and  can  reduce 
o r   c l o s e o u t  
y o u r stock w ith ­
out  one  ce n t  o f 
loss  to  you   b y 
o u r  N e w   Idea 

Sale.

W e  take sales 
on  a   com m is­
sion  basis,  a l­
lowing*  you   to 
set the  price  on 
the g ood s.  T h is 
Is the  very  best 
tim e o f  the year 
fo r sales an a w e  
w o uld   lik e   you 
to ca ll  on  us  or 
w rite a t once.

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C.  C.  O'N KILL 

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C. C.  O’NEILL A  CO.,  Chicago, I1L 

356  Dearborn  SL, Suite 408 Star Building

Cheney  &  Tuxbury

Real Estate  Dealers

Timbered and  Farm  Lands  a  Specialty 

24 Canal St„  Grand  Rapids, Midi.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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J. J. VanHaaften,  Benton 

ITOR  SALE—ONE  OF  THE  BEST  DRUG 
F   stocks In Northern  Indiana, invoicing about 
$800;  only stock of drugs in  the  town.  Address 
No. 909, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TI7TLL  SELL  FOR  CASH—CLEAN  DRUG 
T f   Stock with wall  paper  department;  Inven­
tories about $6.000;  sales *41 per day;  city 15,000; 
owner  has  other  business. Address  90S,  care
Michigan Tradesman. 
gos
ITOR  SALE—A  SMALL  STOCK  OF  GEN 
F   eral  merchandise;  only  store  In  place;  lo­
cated at railroad crossing in  good  farming  com­
munity; 
for  selling,  other  business; 
"rice  right.  Address  No.  907,  care  Michigan 
rades man. 

IJ'OR  SALE —  DRUG  STORE,  FIXTURES, 

shelfware, show  cases,  counters,  etc.  will 

sell cheap  at  once. 

reason 

Harbor, Mich. 
TX7ILL  PAY CASH FOR AN ESTABLISHED 
” »  dry goods or  general  business  carrying  a 
stock of  eight  or  twelve  thousand  dollars  in  a 
city of not less than  four  thousand;  must  be  a 
money earner and bear  Investigation.  Address 
No. 905, care Michigan Tradesman. 

eral store  In  best  little  town  in  Genesee 

I ¡'OR SALE—GOOD  BUSINESS;  BESTGEN- 
county, Mich.  Address  No. 904,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ij'OR  SALE-THE  BEST  DRUG  STORE 
with  best  trade  In  Indiana,  invoicing  be 
tween  $7,000  and  $8,000; located  in  gas  belt  in 
city of 30,000;  terms reasonable.  Address  Nat- 
ural Gas, care Michigan Tradesman. 
/TIGAR  STORE  AND  BARBER  SHOP  FOR 
KJ  sale;  doing  a  good  business.  Address  No. 
902, care Michigan Tradesman. 
902
TOR SALK—TWO  BLACK  BEARS,  8 
months  old;  male  and  female;  price,  $50.899
Rickets, Cadillac, Mich.
TOR RENT—NEW DOUBLE BRICK  STORE, 
F   44x80  feet;  one  of  the  finest  locations  in 
Southern  Michigan.  Address  Baughman  & 
unker. Goblevllle. Mich. 

closed out more stocks than any other  one  man 

1'HK  HOOSIER  HUSTLER.  THE  NOTED 

salesman and  Merchandise Auctioneer, has 
living.  For term«  and  reference  book  address 
D  O. Box 478, Ornoka, Neb. 
' TOR SALK-STOCK CONSISTING  OF  DRY 
goods, ladies’ and  men’s  furnishing  goods, 
youths  and boys’ clothing, hats, caps, boots and 
shoes. Inventorying from $3,000 to **.000;  located 
in hustling town of about 2.000 population;  blast 
furnace  and  chemical  works  just  estatlished. 
Address D.  F.. Newberry. Mich. 
pH IC A G O   PURCHASHING  CO..  221  5TH 
V  
largest cash buyers of stores and stocks 
W A N T E D - T O   PURCHASE  A  DRUG 
Tv  stock;  must be  well  located.  Address  J. 
» care Michigan Tradesman. 

all descriptions. 

drles  ranging In  price  from $400 to $6.000 in 
anyone  Interested  will  write  us  stating about 
what they want, we will be pleased to correspond 
with them.  Address  Derby, Choate  & Woolfitt 
Co., Ltd., Flint. Mich. 
|4'OK  SALE—MEAT  MARKET STOCK  AND 
A   fixtures,  slaughter  bouse,  horses,  wagons, 
sleighs, etc.. In  town  of  1.600 .inhabitants;  good 
business.  Address No. 881. care Michigan Trades­
man. 
ITOR  S A L E —SMALL  STOCK  CLOTHING, 
F   shoes and furnishing  goods;  invoices  about 
L500;  stock new  and  clean;  in  town  of  about 
.200.  Address No.  867,  care  Michigan  Trades
“ “ :_________________________________867
\ \ , TKCAN  SELL  YOUR  REAL  ESTATE  OR 
v v  business wherever located;  we Incorporate 
and float  stock  companies;  write  us.  Horatio 
Gilbert & Company, 325 Elllcott Square,  Buffalo
866
T O R   S A L E - S T O C K   O F   M I L L I N E R Y   AND 
ladles’  furnishings;  invoices  between  $1.000 
and  $1,200;  fine  location:  town  of  1,500  popula 
tion.  Good reason for selling.  Address No. 865 
865
care Michigan Tradesman. 
3ARTIES 
FOR  BUSINESS 
LOOKING 
_L  openings will do well to correspond  with  Y 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
877
TOR  SALE-A  GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS 
-   *n a thriving Michigan city;  center of State 
amount of business, $70  per  day;  stock  will  In 
voice from $1,600  to $2,000;  good reason for  sell 
ing.  Address  No.  874,  care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 
iT O R   S A L E — F I N E   STOCK  O F   G E N E R A L  
merchandise in  country  town;  postoffice in 
connection;  splendid  farming  country; 
trade 
about  *10,000  per  year;  cheap rent;  or  will  sell 
controlling  interest  in  large  brick  store;  also 
two acres of splendid land, with residence,ware­
house.  barn,  coal  shed,  carriage  house,  etc.- 
plenty of fruit;  store and residence both  lighted 
with acetylene gas;  stock  and  fixtures  will  in­
voice about $2,000;  price for residence and  land, 
$1.000;  will  sell  separate  or  together.  Reason 
for selling, poor health.  Address, or  come  and 
see, A .  L . Spafford, P.  M.. Chester, Mich.  873
TXTANTED— MAN  WITH  *10,000  TO  PUSH 
* ”  an  article  now  before  the  public;  It’s  a 
winner;  Investigation  solicited.  E. J.  Post, oM. 
. Ber amont. Mich. 
TOR  SALE  —  GROCERY  BUSINESS 
IN 
¡P  -  Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., doing $30,000 yearly; 
will invoice about  *3,000  Owner has other busi­
ness.  Terms cash or good security.  Address F. 
u   Holmes. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. 
885
W   A N T E  D—QUICK  MAIL  ORDERS,
vv  Overstocked;  must  keep  the  factory  run­
ning;  telescopes, suit  cases,  whips;  low  prices. 
For special discounts and Illustrated  descriptive 
list  address  Olney  Telescope  &  Harness  Co.. 
Box 155, Olney, HL 

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