Twentieth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  20.  1903.

Number  1026

If your trade demands  good  rubbers, 

sell them  Beacon Falls.

They  are a  sterling, dependable  article,  not  made  to  “sell  at  a 
price,”  and  can  be  relied  on  to  give  satisfaction.  They fit,  look 
and wear well,  and  cost  no  more  than  many  other  lines  much 
inferior  in  point  of quality.  Drop  us a  card  and we will be glad 

to send  samples  prepaid.

the Beacon Tails Rubber $boe 0o,

Factory and General Offices,  Beacon fa lls , £onn,

£bicago»»207 Itionrot Street.

Branch  Stores 

llew ¥erk»*106 Duane Street* 

Bo$ton*»177*!Sl Congress Stf eet.

Out  of  the  Crust.

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The  Balke  Manufacturing  Company,

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the

B A L K E   Combined  Davenport,  Pool 

and  Billiard  Tables.

FOR  THE  HOME.

There  is  Nothing  ¡tore  Enjoyable for indoor amusement than a game of  billiards  or  pool. 
The great majority of homes are debarred from the king of games on account of lack of room, 
and in many cases on account of the great expense of the old style table.
We have overcome all obstacles.  We offer yon a  perfect  and  complete  Pool  or  Billiard 
Table, with full equipment, at an extremely moderate cost, while at the same time  giving you 
a magnificent full length couch, suitable for the best room in  any  house,  and  adapted  to  be 
used In a moderate sized room, either parlor, sitting room, library or dining room.

We have a large line of children’s tables for $10 to $25, and regular tables at  J50  to  $200. 

Catalogue on application.
The  Balke  Manufacturing  Company,  1  W.  Bridge Street.

P la c e   Y o u r   M o n e y

In  the  hands  of  those  you  can  depend  on—  
those  who  know  how  to  best  invest  it  for  you 
— that  is,  for  your  best  interest— those  who 
are  perfectly  reliable— those  who  take  the 
worry  from  your  mind.
W e  do  just  that  for  some  of  the  most  con­
servative,  careful  investors  in  this  city.
L ook  us  up.

£ .  M.  Deane  Co.,  Ltd.

Stocks,  Bonds and Investment Securities

2 1 1 -2 1 3 -2 1 5   Michigan  Trust  Bldg.,  Grand Rapids

References:  Old  National  Bank, Commercial Savings  Bank.

Sunlight

A   shining  success.  No  other  Flour  so 
good  for  both  bread  and  pastry.

OJalsfcDeRoo milling Co.
Holland,  Iflicbigan

Does This Attract Your Attention?

It sells  better than  it looks. 
If you  want  a  Fruit 
Jar  Rubber  that  will  sell  at  sight,  send  me  a 
sample order. 
If not satisfactory you  may return 
them.

W.  H.  SCHAEFER

77<  Spitzer Building, TOLEDO,  OH O

Mr.  Grocer

Peach  Flakes

fc :  The food  with that delicate fruit flavor, that  so  pleases  your  custom- 
ers and friends  Once used,  always  used.  We  allow  you  a  very 
liberal  margin of profit,  so it is to your interest to  push  the  sales  of 
Peach  Flakes  ana  reap  the  golden  harvest.  Order  through  your 
jobber, or send for free samples and  prices.

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Globe  Food  Co.,  Limited

318  Houseman  Bldg.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

DISTRIBUTORS:  Judson  Grocer  Co., Worden  Grocer  Co., 

y -   Musselman  Grocer Co., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

William  Connor  Co.

Wholesale  Ready-Made  Clothing 

Men’s,  Boys’,  Children’s

Sole  agents  for  the  State  of  Michigan 

for the

S. F. ft A. F. Miller ft  Co.’s 

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

28-30 South  Ionia Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids 

Collection delinquent accounts;  cheap, efficient, 
responsible;  direct demand system.  Collections 
made everywhere—for every trader.
O.  V  Mri'RnNK.

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Why Not Buy Copper?

24  COMPANIES 

The price is going op.  We are  offering  a 
few thousand shares of  the  C'asa  Grande, 
of Arizona, the copper  averaging  10  to  12 
per cent.  No speculation—a fully developed 
mine. 
Full  information  upon  applies* 
tion to

CURRIE  &  FORSYTH.

1033  Mich. Trust Bldg.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

IF  YOU  HAVE  MONEY 
and  would  like  to  have  It 
EA RN   MORE  M O NEY, 
write me for  an  investment 
that will  be  guaranteed  to 
earn  a  certain  dividend. 
Will pay your  money  back 
at  end  of  year  if  you  de­
sire  it.

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Martin  V .  Barker 
Battle Creek, nichigan
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We  Buy and  Sell 

Total  Issues

of

State, County, City,  School  District, 

Street  Railway and  Gas

BONDS

Correspondence  Solicited.

NOBLE,  MOSS  &  COMPANY 

BANKERS

Union  Trust  Building, 

Detroit,  Mich.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  *-w.

Widdicomb Building, Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Opera House  Block,  Detroit
G ood  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  a l l '  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

letters. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  20,  1903. 

Number  1026

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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Page. 
2.  Gone  Beyond.
4.  Aronnd  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Vital  Decision.
7.  Narrow  Minded.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Thirst o f Politics.
11.  Taking  His  Own  M edicine.
12.  Western  Ways.
14.  Internal  Revenue.
15.  Successful  Salesmen.
18.  Clothing.
19.  Advancem ent  Depend  on  the Clerk. 
SO.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
S3.  New  Features  in  H at Trade.
24.  Woman’s  W orld.
26.  What  1  W ould  Do  if  I   W ere a Clerk.
27.  How  to  Handle  Business.
28.  New  Catalogues.
30.  How  He  H elped Her.
32.  The  Traveling  Salesman  o f  1903.
33.  W hat  Per  Cent.  Succeed.
34.  Dry  Goods.
36.  Frnits  and  Produce.
37.  Do  Tour  Work  W ell.
38.  The  New  York  Market.
39.  Old  Rubber.
40.  Commercial  Travelers.
42.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
44.  Grocery  Price Current.
46.  Special  Price  List.
47.  Where  Job  Lot  B ayers  Fail.

DISGRACE  T O   T H E   STATE.
Governor  Bliss,  who  appears  to 
possess  the  unhappy  faculty  of  get­
ting  on  the  wrong 
side  of  every 
measure  of  public  interest,  has  gone 
out  of  his  way  to  injure  the  commer­
cial  interests  of  the  State  by  vetoing 
the  sale-in-bulk  bill  which  was cham­
pioned  by  the  various  associations 
of  credit  men  and  the  wholesale  and 
retail  trade  of  the  State.  The  rea­
son  he  gives  for  vetoing  the  measure 
is  that  no  one  requested  him  to  ap­
prove  it  and  that  no  one  talked  with 
him  regarding  it.  Opposed  to  this 
charge  are  the  statements  of  Senator 
Brown,  the  Governor’s  partner  and 
a  representative  of  Morley  Bros.,  all 
three  of  whom  assert 
they 
talked  with  the  Governor  regarding 
the  measure,  after 
it  passed  both 
branches  of  the  Legislature,  and  that 
he  promised  to  approve  it

that 

It  is  bad  enough  to  have  a  jelly  fish 
Governor,  but  to  have  a  man  in  the 
gubernatorial  chair  whose  word 
is 
not  good  is  a  standing  disgrace  to 
the  State.

to 

came  over 

It  certainly  seems  a  bit  ungracious 
for  physicians  and  surgeons  in  the 
United  States  publicly 
criticise 
and  find  fault  with  Dr.  Lorenz  and 
his  methods.  He 
to 
this  country  at  the  request  of  Mr. 
Armour,  who  was  entirely  willing 
and  able  to  pay  a  handsome  fee  for 
the  service  which  he  believed  could 
be  rendered  his  daughter,  and  sub­
sequent  events  have  proved  that  his 
faith  was  well  founded.  So  far  as 
Dr.  Lorenz  himself  is  concerned  he 
did  not  voluntarily  do  another  oper­
ation  save  that  for  which  he  was 
specially  employed.  A t  the  urgent 
request  of  physicians,  surgeons  and 
afflicted  people  he  gave  public  clin­

recover 

ics  in  various  places  and  performed 
scores  of  operations  on  unfortunate 
for  which  he  received  no 
children 
pay.  He  worked  hard, 
faithfully 
and 
cheerfully,  demonstrating  his 
methods  in  the  presence  of  numer­
ous  physicians,  who  were  thus  af­
forded  the  opportunity  to  see  and 
study  his  work  and  pattern  after  it 
if  they  saw  fit.  That  everybody  op­
erated  on  by  the  Lorenz  method  will 
not 
is  as  much  to  be  ex­
pected  as  that  everybody  operated 
on  for  appendicitis  will  not  get  well 
in  a  few  weeks.  He  did  not  pretend 
to  be  infallible,  and  if  anybody  can 
suggest  a  better  method  probably 
no  one  would  be  quicker  in  giving  a 
credit  therefor  than  Dr.  Lorenz  him­
self.  His  coming  aroused  renewed 
interest  in  orthopedic  surgery,  and 
little  one  will  be  walking 
many  a 
this  summer 
that  could  not  have 
done  it  but  for  that  visit.  Profes­
sional  courtesy  would  suggest  that 
Dr.  Lorenz  is  not  a  proper  object 
for  adverse  or  unkind  criticism 
in 
this  country.

The  attempt  to  destroy  the steam­
ship  Umbria,  which  from  the  charac­
ter  of  the  device  employed  must be 
regarded  as  serious,  excites  special 
interest  from  the  threat  made  in the 
letter  to  the  police  that  the  plotters 
would  not  cease 
their  work  until 
every  British  ship  was  sent  to  the 
bottom.  The  British  government  is 
concerned  about  the  matter. 
It can 
individuals 
not 
should  have  any  special  desire  to  de­
stroy  British  property.  The  Mafia 
would  hardly  undertake  such  an  en­
Italians  are  not  antagonis­
terprise. 
tic  to  the  British. 
It  is  difficult  to 
understand.  Perhaps  after  all  only 
a  scare  was  intended. 
If  there  was 
a  deliberate  design  in  the  case  of 
the  Umbria  why  did  the  conspirators 
notify  the  police?

understand  why 

A  story  has  reached  the  State  De­
partment  at  Washington  of  a  novel 
use  to  which  a  life  insurance  policy 
was  recently  put  by  an  American 
traveling  in  Russia.  The  citizen  had 
no  passport,  and  when  he  arrives  at 
the  borders  of  the  Czar’s  domains 
he  was  held  up  by  an  official  with  a 
for  his  passport.  For  an 
demand 
stumped, 
instant  the  American  was 
but  he  quickly  rose 
to  the  emergen­
cy.  Diving  into  his  inside  pocket  he 
pulled  out  his  life  insurance  policy 
and  handed  it  to  the  Russian.  The 
latter  gravely 
the  papers 
over,  carefully  scrutinizing  the  im­
posing  looking  seal  and  the  array  of 
signatures.  With  a  satisfied  air  he 
handed  back  the  paper  and  the Amer- 
can  passed  on.

looked 

The  gift  of  gab  is  all  right  at  times, 
but  the  gift  of  holding  the  tongue  is 
all  right  at  all  times.

The  Boys' Behind  the  Counter.
Alpena— John  Strelke  has  resigned 
his  position  with  Hawley  &  Fitzger­
ald  to  take  a  similar  position  in  the 
dry  goods  department  of  I.  Cohen’s 
store.

Grand  Rapids— Walter  E.  Miller, 
formerly  of  Lamont,  has  taken  a po­
sition  as  salesman  with  the  Bodbyl 
Furniture  Co.

Central  Lake— L.  E.  Bockes  has 
resumed  his  former  position  as  clerk 
in  the  store  of  Geo.  J.  Noteware.

Jackson— Charles  M.  Frost,  who 
has  for  the  past  six  years  been  in  the 
employ  of  the  Coronet  Corset  Co., 
will  June  1  take  the  management  of 
the  Pandora  Corset  Co. 
Frank 
Rocket,  at  present  with  the  Pandora 
Corset  Co.  as  superintendent, 
in­
tends  going  with 
the  Wheeler  & 
Wilson  Sewing  Machine  Co.  Henry 
H.  Neesley  has  been  the  temporary 
manager  of  the  Pandora  Corset  Co.
Butler  &  W ray  have  merged  their 
business  into  a  stock  company  to be 
the  Perfection  Light  & 
known  as 
Heating  Co.,  with  headquarters 
at 
Chicago.  The  new  corporation  has 
a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.  The  prin­
cipal  stockholders  are  S.  M.  Hast­
ings,  Treasurer  of  the  Moneyweight 
Scale  Co.;  O.  O.  Oz  as,  General 
Manager  of  the  Computing  Scale Co., 
Dayton; 
Poppenhausen, 
Treasurer  of  the  Acorn  Brass  Mfg. 
Co.,  Chicago;  D.  C.  Everett,  Assist­
ant  Credit  Man  for  Hibbard,  Spen­
cer,  Bartlett  &  Co.,  Chicago;  Mr. 
Baird,  of 
the  Baird  Manufacturing 
Co.;  C.  F.  Pennewell,  of  Cleveland; I. 
E.  Butler,  of  Grand  Rapids;  G.  M. 
Ludlow,  President  of 
the  Money- 
weight  Scale  Co.,  and  Ed.  W.  Wray, 
District  Manager  of  the  same  com­
pany.  The  office  and  manufacturing 
department  have  been  removed  to 
Chicago,  where  they  will  be  located 
at  35  Michigan  street

Conrad 

Milan— The  Detroit  Register  Co. of 
Detroit,  will  remove  its  plant  to  this 
place. 
It  agrees  to  remain  here  sev­
eral  years  and  to  employ  from  100 
to  125  men  the  year  around  in  con­
sideration  of  the  raising  of  $10,000, 
to  be  secured  by  6  per  cent,  preferred 
stock  of  the  company.  The  factory 
building  will  be  100x275  feet  in  di­
mensions.

is 

the 

Caro— It  is  said  that  the  vinegar 
manufactured  here  from  sugar  beet 
syrup,  which 
invention  of 
Robt.  McKinney,  retains  a  sufficient 
percentage  of  alcohol 
to  not  only 
make  the  best  article  of  vinegar  on 
the  market,  but  to  pickle  and  keep 
for months  cucumbers, tomotoes, etc., 
keeping 
fresh  as  when 
picked  from  the  vines.

them  as 

Wm. A. Wigmans  has purchased the 
grocery  and  confectionery  stock  of 
A.  Rosenthal  &  Co.  at  189  West Ful­
ton  street.

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GONE  BEYOND.

William  Sears  Dies  in  the  Fullness 

of  Years.

Death  is  the  liberator  of  him whom 
freedom  can  not  release,  the  physi­
cian  of  him  whom  medicine  can  not 
cure,  and  the  comforter  of  him  whom 
time  can  not  console. 
It  is  impossi­
ble  that  anything  so  natural,  so  nec­
essary  and  universal  as  death  should 
ever  have  been  designed  by  Provi­
dence  as  an  evil  to  mankind. 
Is  it 
strange  to  see  that  cut  off  which  by 
nature  is  made  to  be  cut  off  or  that 
melted  which  is  fit  to  be  melted  or 
that  burned  which 
to  be 
burned  or  that  pass  away  which  is 
born  to  perish?

is  apt 

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

his  education  in  the  vicinity  where 
he  was  born  and  after  leaving  school 
he  at  once  started  in  on  a  business 
career,  being 
first  employed  in  a 
dry  goods  house  at  West  Troy,  N. Y. 
where  he  remained  for  five  years  and 
acquired  the  first  lessons  in  his  busi­
ness  career.  He  then  removed  to 
Lynchburg,  Va.,  where  he  formed  a 
co-partnership  with  his  father-in-law 
and  engaged  in  the  construction  of 
dams  across  the  James  River.

In  the  fall  of  1857  Mr.  Sears  re­
moved  to  Grand  Rapids  and  in  the 
spring  of  1858  he  engaged  in  the  bak­
ing  business  under  the  style  of  Wm. 
Sears  &  Co.  The  bakery  was  then 
located  in  the  building  adjoining  the 
Rathbun  House  now  the  Widdicomb 
building.  Later  on  the  location  was 
changed  to  the  Botsford  block,  where

connections  being  director  of 
the 
Fourth  National  bank  and  also  of the 
Alabastine  Co.

Politically  Mr.  Sears  was  a  sup­
porter  of 
the  Democratic  party. 
Though  not a member, he  was  a con­
stant  attendant  at  the 
services  of 
Park  Congregational  church.

Mr.  Sears  was  married  in  1845  to 
Miss  Judith  Adams,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
They  had  three  children,  previous  to 
his  wife’s  death  in  1875.  Of the  child­
ren  one  son  died  in  1852;  another  son, 
Stephen  A.,  is  the  present  manager 
of  the  National  Biscuit  Co.’s 
local 
plant;  and  the  third,  a  daughter,  is 
Mrs.  Charles  D.  Lyon  of  this  city.

Samuel  M.  Lemon,  president  of  the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company,  pays 
the 
following  high  tribute  to  Mr. 
Sears:

institutions—   and 
in  that  time  his 
words,  which  were  words  of  wisdom 
his  advice  and  his  presence  all  car­
ried  encouragement  and  absolute  se­
curity.  All  men,  high  and  low,  rich 
and  poor,  who  knew  Mr.  Sears  re­
spected  him. 
In  all  my  experience  I 
never  knew  a  man  of  such  rare  ability 
so  exceedingly  modest,  and  he  was  a 
gentleman  in  all  the  word  implies. 
His  judgment  was  good,  his  success 
unquestioned,  his 
generosity  un­
bounded  and  his  name  stood  as  a 
synonym  for  integrity,  and  his  life the 
highest  type  of  American  citizenship. 
He  was  an  exceptionally  good  man 
for  Grand  Rapids  and  his  place  in  the 
community  will  indeed  be  very  diffi­
cult  to  fill.”

Wm.  H.  Anderson,  President  of  the 
Fourth  National  Bank,  of  which  Mr. 
Sears  had  been  a  director  for  twenty- 
five  years  speaks  of  him  very  highly. 
He  says:

fall 

The  days  of  our  years  are  three­
score  years  and  ten;  and  if  by  reason 
of  strength  they  be  four-score  years, 
yet  is  their  strength  labor  and  sor­
row,  for  it  is  soon  cut  off  and  we  fly 
away.  Of  ten  thousand  human  be­
ings  that  set  foot  together  on  their 
journey,  after  ten  years  one-third at 
least  have  disappeared.  At  the  mid­
dle  point  of  the  common  measure  of 
life  but  half  are  still  upon  the  road. 
Fast  and  faster,  as  the  ranks  grow 
thinner,  they  that  remained  until now 
become  weary  and  lie  down,  to  rise 
no  more.  At  three  score  and  ten  a 
band  of  some  four  hundred  yet  strug­
gles  on. 
At  ninety  these  have been 
reduced  to  a  handful  of  thirty  trem­
bling  patriarchs.  Year  after  year 
they 
in  diminishing  numbers. 
One  lingers,  perhaps,  a  lonely  mar­
vel  until  the  century  is  over.  We 
look  again  and  the  work  of  Death  is 
finished.
Man 

is  born  with  his  hands 
clenched;  he  dies  with  his  hands wide 
open.  Entering 
life,  he  desires  to 
grasp  everything;  leaving  the  world, 
all 
that  he  possessed  has  slipped 
away.  Riches  can  purchase  no  allies 
skillful  to  avert  the  blow.  Obscur­
ity  affords  us  no  refuge.  The  slave 
falls  by  the  side  of  the  master  and 
the  beggar  is  slain  by  the  wayside. 
Death  spares  neither  the  pillar  of the 
household  nor  the  brightness  of  the 
hearth;  not  the  youth  in  his  vigor 
nor  the  maiden  in  her  beauty.  He 
into  our  garden,  tramples 
comes 
lilies,  scatters  our  roses 
down  our 
the  modest 
on 
flowers  planted 
in  the  corner,  and 
hiding 
their  beauty  beneath  the 
leaves,  that  they  may  blush  unseen. 
Death  spies  out  even  these  and  cares 
nothing  for  their  fragrance,  but  with­
ers  them  with  his  burning  breath.

the  ground,  even 

William  Sears,  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Wm.  Sears  &  Co.  cracker  fac­
tory— now  known  as 
the  National 
Biscuit  Co.— died  at  his  home  in  this 
city  May  15.  The  funeral  and  inter­
ment  occurred  the  following  after­
noon— the  funeral  from 
family 
residence,  33  South  Lafayette  street, 
and  the  interment  in  Oak  Hill.  Death 
resulted  from  an  attack  of  the  grip 
and  complications  which  ensued.

the 

Wm.  Sears  was  born  in  Ashfield, 
Franklin  county,  Mass.,  June  20,  1818, 
being  the  third  child  in  a  family  of 
four  brothers  and  one  sister.  His 
antecedents  were  Puritan  on  both 
sides,  being  descended  on  his  father’s 
side  from  a  Sears  who 
in 
Plymouth  in  1637.  Mr.  Sears  received

landed 

“No  one  in  our  city  stood  higher in 
the  estimation  of  our  citizens  than 
did  William  Sears.  He  was  a  most 
successful  business  man  and  his  word 
was  always  as  good  as  his  bond.  He 
was  really  the  dean  of  our  directors. 
His  judgment  was  always  good  and 
his  advice  in  the  council  was  time 
and  again  sought  by  us  all.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  punctual  men  I ever 
knew  and  unless  prevented  by  ill­
ness,  was  always  in  his  place  at  every 
directors’  meeting.  We  all  wish  that 
he  could  have  been  spared  to  be  with 
us  for  another  twenty-five  years.  Mr. 
Sears  was  also  my  neighbor  for  sev­
eral  years  and  as  both  neighbor  and 
friend  I  esteemed  him  highly.  I  re­
garded  him  almost  as  a  father  and 
felt  for  him  the  same  affection  and 
respect.  His  life  was  a  long  and use­
ful  one  and  everyone  who  knew  him 
feels  that  he  has 
lost  a  personal 
friend.”

The  Man  Who  Succeeds.

In  common  witlj  every  other  under­
taking,  advertising  possesses  rich pos­
sibilities  of  failure.  The  man  who, 
nine  times  out  of  ten,  makes  a  suc­
cess  of  his  advertising,  is  the  one  who 
puts  into  it  a  large  share  of  his  per­
sonal  interest  and  enthusiasm.  He 
may  relegate  the  preparation  of  his 
matter  to  others,  but  his  interest  in 
the  success  of  their  efforts never fails. 
He  is  a  pleasant  man  to  deal  with— 
he  bubbles  over  with  pride  and  de­
light  when  he  gets  hold  of  a  better 
idea  than  the  other  fellows  have— or 
one  that  he  thinks 
is  better.  He 
pays  his  bills  cheerfully  and,  knowing 
the  value  of  bright 
ideas,  doesn’t 
quarrel  about  prices.

Causes  for  Small  Wages.

Every  employe  pays  for  superin­
tendence  and  inspection.  Some  pay 
more  and  some  pay  less.  That  is to 
say,  a  dollar  a  day  man  would  re­
ceive  two  dollars  a  day  were  it  not 
for  the  fact  that  someone  has 
to 
think for him, look  after  him, and sup­
ply  the  will  that  holds  him  to  his 
task.  The  result  is  that  he  contri­
butes  toward  the  support  of 
those 
who  superintend  him.  Make  no  mis­
incompetence  and 
take  about  this; 
disinclination 
supervision; 
and  they  pay  for  it,  and  no  one else 
does.— Philistine.

require 

for 

It  was  my  good  fortune  to  have 
had  an  intimate  and  most  friendly and 
unbroken  acquaintence  with  William 
Sears  covering  a  period  of  more  than 
twenty  years,  being  associated  with 
him  in  various  local  business  enter­
prises  and  having 
the  past 
eleven  or  twelve  years  served  to­
gether  as  directors  of 
the  Fourth 
National  Bank,  and  as  memory 
now  recalls  the  hundreds  of  meetings 
in  which  he  and  his  associates  met 
never  was  there  an  unfavorable  criti­
cism  of  either  word  or  act  toward 
this  man.  Many  trying  ordeals  we 
passed  through  together,  and  among 
these  comes  most  vividly 
to  my 
mind  what  is  commonly  remembered 
as  the  “panic  of  ’93”— a  time 
that 
sorely  tried  men’s  souls  who  hap­
pened  to  be  connected  with  financial

business  was  continued  sixteen  years, 
when  it  was  removed  to  Lyon  street 
and  a  couple  of  years  later  to  the 
present  location  on  Kent  street.  Sam­
uel  Sears  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  in  1867  and  continued  in  that  ca­
pacity  until  the  spring  of  1890,  when 
the  business  was  purchased  by  the 
New  York  Biscuit  Co. 
In  the  mean­
time  Stephen  A.  Sears  had  acquired 
a  knowledge  of  the  business  and  been 
admitted  to partnership,  so  that  under 
the  new  regime  the  mantle  of  man­
ager  naturally  fell  on  his  shoulders. 
Both  of  the  brothers  retained  an  in­
terest  in  the  business  and  gave  the 
active  manager  the  benefit  of  their 
advice  and  experience.

A  number  of  other  Grand  Rapids 
business 
interests  also  claimed  Mr. 
Sears  attention,  his  most  prominent

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THE  OLD  RELIABLE

POWDER
Absolutely Pure.

No Orooer can afford to be without a 
full stock of ROYAL BAKING POWDER

THERE IS MO SUBSTITUTE

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Around  the State
Flint  Philip  Linderback  continues 
the  meat  market  of  Wm.  Linder 
back.

Dundee— F.  E.  Davis  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  Jos.  S. 
Porter.

Pontiac— E.  R.  Stiles  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Hicks 
&  Higby.

South  Boardman— S.  E.  Neihardt 
is  succeeded  by  J.  J.  Neihardt  in the 
drug  business.

Elkton— Daniel  G.  Neuber,  grocer 
and  confectioner,  has  sold  his  stock 
to  S.  G.  Seglin.

Shepherd— Roy  Cole  has purchased 
the  drug  and  wall  paper  stock  of 
John  D.  McKenna.

Prairie  Ronde— David  Goodspeed

P.  McMannon,  Jr.,  325  shares;  Mi­
chael  J.  Hart,  325  shares,  and  John 
M.  Harris,  25  shares.

Sunfield— E.  L.  Cole  has  entered 
into  partership  with  J.  A.  Childs, 
dealer 
in  hardware.  The  business 
will  be  continued  under  the  style  of 
Childs  &  Cole 

Bad  Axe— The  Comfort  Produce 
Co.  has  purchased  the  cold  storage 
plant  of  Pitcher  &  Johnson,  at  Cass 
City,  and  will  conduct  same  in  con­
nection  with  their  plant  at  this  place 
Perrinsville— Geo.  Butler  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Charles  Rose and 
will  engage  in  the  grocery  business 
at Marshall  in  the  Dibble  block,  under 
the  style  of  the  East  Park  Grocery 
Charlotte— Clark  M.  Graves,  of 
Detroit,  formerly  with  the  Detroit 
Stove  Co.,  has  purchased  a  half  in-
Ì.he  shoe  stock  of  F,°y d  D-
I Griffin.  The  new  style  is  Griffin  &
Graves.

has  sold  his  stock  of  general  m e r - l? " «  
-»■ — j .-~ 
chandise  to  W.  P.  Glover.

nr  t,  —  

Cass  City— Fairweather  Bros,  have 
the  general  merchandise 

purchased 
stock  of  A.  H.  Ale  &  Co.

Traverse  City—John  T.  Beadle, 
who  has  conducted  the  harness  and 
Silverwood— M.  E.  Hanson,  dealer I f adaIe7   business  here  f°r  the  past
m   dose  out  his
I  retail  stock  and  engage  in  the  whole-
sale  business  exclusively.

in  drugs  and  wall  paper,  has  sold 
i i .  j   ,  
his  stock  to  I.  E.  Markle.
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Bay  City—John  S.  Jones  has  pur 
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Harriet 
E.  (Mrs.  Neil)  Ferguson.

Elk  Rapids—The  Dexter  &  Noble

Land  Co.  has  decreased  its  capital I 
stock  from  $24,000  to  $10,000 

win,  has  purchased 
hardware, 

Omer— Thomas  Naylor,  of  Glad­
stock  of 
fixtures  and  building  of
,J he  St° re  buiIdin&  and 
I stock  of  Mr.  Naylor,  at  Gladwin, were

Y '  F i f  

the 

Gladwin— F.  W.  Stratton  &  Co. recently  destroyed  by  fire.

have  opened  a  general  stock  of  mer  L   G^awn— Dr;  B°yl*n  has  purchased 
chandise  in  their  new  building. 
drug  stock  of  Frank  Gannett, who

I. 

Saranac— Otis  &  Vaughn,  grocers, 

purchased  the  general  merchandise I u-F1.nsh,ng  9 ’  H‘  Adams  bas  sold! 
stock  of  R.  H.  (Mrs.  B.  A.)  Rauch.  *'!  Inte^est  ,n  tbe  clothing  firm  of
r  YYS J *  Co' to  |he  other  members 
, 
.  t  and  ! f ken  a  Position with
L|w,sbur&  Fan*  Co.,  of  Lewis- 
I burS’  Penn.  He  will  travel  in  Mich-

have  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  1  
J.  C.  Osburn  and  will  move  it  to  their  u 
store. 

Harrisville  David  W.  Mitchell has!  ^-rr 

.  — 

purchased  the  interest  of  his  partner  u  H  ward  City— J.  B.  King  &  Sons 
in  the  drug  business  of  Colwell  & 
aJC  purcbased  tbe  store  building 
and general  merchandise  stock  of  W.
Mitchell. 
Y .eStly’ ° !  Slx  Lakes,  and  will 
former  stock  there
the  new  Purchase.  Bert  King 
IWl11  manage  the  business  as  hereto

Saginaw— Chas.  A.  F.  Dali  has en-1 
gaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business, 
having  purchased  the  stock  of  John  W-„ 
G.  Streeb. 

theiF 

Gobleville— Saul  Frank,  the  veter-1  °w ' 

. 

M t  Pleasant-The  Clark  Hard-  a ° th!ng  &  ^   Gooda  Co- 

an  general  dealer,  has  gone  to  Eu- L   Mu.ske^on— A  new  mercantile  en- 
rope  for  a  two  months’  respite  from 
launched  at  this
I place  under  the  style  of  the  Boston
bu siness  cares. 
It  has 
St° C!C  ° f  $5,00a  The stock-
TIsaac  ShetzeG  Detroit,
I  3  shares*  Jacob  Fredberg,  Detroit,
” ' '   C° h“ ’  M“ Sk'

ware  Co,  Limited,  has  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business 
is  con- 
tinued  by  Frank  B  Clark. 

Colon— Friedman  4   Co.,  who  own f e n . S h a r e s “

.has  ,been 

, 

Rivers  and  Mendon,  have  sold  their 
stock  here  to  Carl  Damon 

f   P 
Flint-Crawford  &  Wright,  deal-  floor 

L” ?   Smith  “   erecting  a
*  of  h,s  Presen*  brick  store
^   him  a  total

X
byFeC„rton-Ld 
in  men’s  furnishing  goods  business J wil^nchide^^^ree  cF  opeidn^  which 
in  the  building  lately  vacated  by the  dav  and  a 
dunng  the
compb“ entary  dance  at
cigar  factory  of  G.  I   Mitchell 

m ght 

v 

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Bentley— Cassmore  &  Horn  con-l  Hillsdale_Pen  vr 

tinue  the  general  merchandise  busi-  ware  dealer  has  nt  *  u 
ness  formerly  conducted  under  the  ware  stock  of  the 
style  of  Cassmore,  Martin  &  Co 

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C   K   Lawrence Co.
Hard'

Saginaw— The  kannar 

iercan tii J ware 

Co.  has  been  formed  with  an  author-  Mr  Howard  Aulsbro 
■ red  capita]  stock  of  $,0,000.  held  as L cted  Z " i   V,” 
I .’ 
follows:  John  T   Hart,  tae  share,• \u 

1  Mr‘  Lawrence  m  the
" art>  325  shares, J business,  has  removed  to  Detroit to

h 
°  

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• 

Charlotte— Floyd  H  Griffin  boot I h*S  removed  to  Traverse  City  andl.  ^ault  Ste-  Marie— Thomas  Everett 
.d  shoe  dealer,  has  taken  a  oartner | wdl  be  ei"Pl°yed  in  the  drug  store 
'S. 1^ ° rP0rati.^   a  company  to  oper-
of  Bugbee  &  Roxburg  until  he  has |ate  the  So°   Flour  Mills.  Mr.  Everett

and  shoe  dealer,  has  taken  a  partner
under  the  style  of  Griffin  &  Graves  j 

“ uf[Dee  &  Koxburg  until  h< 
Wellsville— W.  L.  Kemmerling  has *dec,ded  as  to  his  futur«  course.

formerly  had  charge  of  the  mill.

_________ creased  from  $15,000  to  $50,000.

take  a  position  with  the  Fletcher 
Hardware  Co.  Mr.  Lawrence  will 
continue  to  reside  at  this  place.

Lake  Linden— The  new  department 
store  at  this  place  has  been  forced to 
close  its  doors.  T.  P.  Levine  &  Co., 
creditors  of  the  firm,  demanded 
settlement,  and  as  this  could  not be 
made,  the  firm  was  obliged  to  close 
Debts  amounting  to  about  $8,000,  are 
outstanding,  and  fifty  creditors  are 
wondering  as  to  the  outcome.  The 
largest  creditor  is  Leo  Gartner,  of 
Calumet,  who  has  been  appointed 
trustee.  The  estimated  value  of  the 
stock  and  fixtures  is  placed  at  $3,000.
Petoskey—Walter  Kephart,  of the 
drug  firm  of  Harwood  &  Kephart, 
has  developed  an  industry  which  has 
lain  dormant  in  this  vicinity  previ­
ously,  the  embalming  of  minnows for 
bait  uses.  Mr.  Kephart  inaugurated 
his  process  some  few  weeks  since 
with  a  few  small  bottles.  The  suc­
cess,  however,  has  developed  and  the 
demand  grown 
to  such  an  extent 
that  on  Saturday  last  Mr.  Kephart 
embalmed  two  barrels  of  the  little 
fish,  in  number  ranging  into  the  mil-j 
lions.  The  process  hardens  the  bait 
and  leaves  the  fish  almost  perfect, 
while  for  keeping,  there  is  no  end 
to  it.

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of  the 
in- 

Detroit  Register  Co,  has  been 

Cadmus— Mathew  Kerr  has  built 
an  elevator  with  a  capacity  of  16,- 
000  bushels,  and  a  hay  warehouse at­
tached  with  a  capacity  of  10,000  tons. 
Sidetracks  are  being 
laid  and  will 
soon  be  completed.

Aral— The  Mann  Cedar  Co.  has 
completed  the  building  of  a  sawmill 
plant  and  will  soon  begin  operations. 
It  will  have  a  capacity  of  20,000  feet 
per  day.  The  company  has  already a 
shingle  and  lath  mill  located  at  the 
same  place.

Bancroft— The  Bancroft  Peat  & 
Cement  Co.,  Limited,  has  been  organ­
ized  with  a  capital  stock  of  $500,000. 
Marl  beds  exist  in  great  quantities in 
this  vicinity  and  all  available  land has 
been  leased.  The  new  factory  is  ex­
pected  to  begin  operations  by  Dec. 1. 
The  officers  of  the  company  are  R. 
H.  Person,  Lansing,  President;  M. 
P.  Cook,  Flint,  Vice-President;  F. I. 
Wilson,  Bancroft,  Secretary,and  W. 
E.  Watson,  Bancroft,  Treasurer.

For  Gillies’  N.  Y.  tea,  all  kinds, 
grades and prices,  Visner, both phones

ureoiTAOVicœ 
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W ID D IC O M B  BLDG.GRAND RAPIDS,

DETROIT  OPERA MOUSE  BLOCK.DETROIT.
fURN'SH 

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PR0TfcL ’  WORTHLESS ACCOUNTS 

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|  Easy Selling: 

Pure  Foods

The  full  line  of  foods— Vega-Frankfort,  V ega  W iena 
(Vegetable  Sausage),  Vege-M eato,  V egeola  Cheese,  Vega- 
ince  and  Vegeota  B u tte r-m a d e   by  us  w ill  appeal  to  the 
enterprising  dealer  as  a  line  of  goods  that  he  w ill  find 
profitable  to  carry.

They  are  new  and  different  from  all  other  pure  foods. 
They  are  clean,  pure,  of  delicious  flavor,  and  made 

«holy  from  vegetables,  nuts  and  herbs.

They are  to  be  sold  at  popular  prices.
In  short,  they  have  all  the  talking  points  of  good
sellers,  and  aU  the other  points  that  m ake  them  sure  to
bring  “ repeat”   orders.

W e  have  an  attractive  proposition  to  m ake  to  every 

dealer  who  wants  to  represent us  in  his  town.

W rite today for this proposition,  together  with  sam ­

bard‘

ples  of our  goods  and  our  liberal  -first  order”   offer.

The M.  B. Martin  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Raw  Sugars— The  raw  sugar  mar­
ket  continues  firm,  with  very  good 
demand. 
In  fact,  the  trade  during 
the  past  week  has  been  so  good  that 
it  has  practically 
cleaned  up  all 
available  supplies  and  there  is  but 
very  little  stock  offered  now  for  sale. 
The  refined  market  showed  a  steady 
undertone,  with  the  American  and 
Arbuckle  making  an  advance  of  5 
points  in  their  list  prices.  A  feeling 
of  steadiness  is  generally  prevalent 
in  the  market  and  with  the  approach 
of  warm  weather  and  the  firmness 
apparent  in  the  raw  sugar  market, 
it  is  expected  that  an  improved  de­
mand  will  set  in.  The  difference  be­
tween  the  price  of  raw  and  refined 
sugar  now  leaves  a  good  profit  to 
refiners.

awaiting 

firmly  held. 

Canned  Goods— A 

continued  ac­
tive  interest  is  noted  in  almost  all 
lines  that  come  under  the  head  of 
canned  goods  and  prices  on  every­
thing  are 
In  other 
words,  the  beginning  of  what  might 
be  termed  the  “spring  demand”  has 
put  a  stop  to  all  lowering  of  prices 
and  but  a  slight  increase  in  demand 
would  make  a  vast  difference  in  the 
market  and  many  packers  profess  to 
see  that  increase  just  ahead.  Almost 
all  lines  of  cheap  goods  that  have 
been  put  on  the  market  recently have 
been  absorbed  and  the  goods  now 
offered  are  most  all  fully  up  to  grade. 
The  dry  weather  of  the  past 
few 
weeks  is  beginning  to  have  its  effect 
on  the  prospective  vegetable  pack 
and  packers  are  inclined  to  be  very 
conservative, 
further  de­
velopments.  There  are  still  60  days 
of  active 
consumption  ahead  and 
many of  the  larger  dealers  are  known 
to  be  carrying  only  small  stocks  and 
the  prospects  for  better  prices  and  a 
very  active  market  are  certainly  im­
their 
proving.  Tomatoes  maintain 
previous  firmness  but  there 
is  no 
quotable  change.  Any  material  in­
crease  in  demand  would  send  prices 
up,  especially  as  stocks  on  hand are 
so  small.  This  is  particularly  true 
of  Michigan  pack,  as  there  is  known 
to  be  only  one  car  of  goods  in  pack­
er’s  hands  in  the  State  and  that  is 
being  held  very  firm.  Corn  is  very 
firm,  but  prices  show  no  change. 
Packers  of  corn  will  begin  work  this 
year  under  more  favorable  circum­
stances  than  ever  before.  According 
to  the  statements  of  experienced  men 
there has  never been  a  time  since  corn 
was  canned  when  supplies  were  as 
low  as  they  are  now.  Last  year’s 
pack  has  been  almost  entirely  ab­
sorbed.  Almost  no  futures  are  sell­
ing  now.  Packers 
are  uncertain 
about  acreage  and  do  not  care  to 
oversell,  as 
sometimes 
done.  Peas  are  very  scarce  and  are 
firmly held,  with  practically nothing in 
the  cheap  grades  being  offered  for 
sale.  Gallon  apples  and  pie  peaches 
are  still  meeting  with  considerable 
enquiry,  but  stocks  are  getting  con­
siderably  reduced  and  any  large  lots 
are  difficult  to  obtain.  Prices  on 
standard  grades  of  both  these  articles 
are  fully  maintained,  but  here  and 
there  a  few  off  grade  goods  are  of­

they  have 

fered  at  slight  concessions  in  price. 
Salmon  is  meeting  with  good  trade 
and  stocks  are  moving  out  very  sat­
isfactorily.  This  good  demand  will 
probably  continue  now  right  up  to 
the  arrival  of  the  new  pack,  as  the 
early  summer  is  generally  considered 
a  good  consumptive  season  for  this 
article.  Sardines  are  firmly  held  and 
are  meeting  with  moderate  sale.

reports 

Dried  Fruits— Trade  in  the  dried 
fruit 
line  continues  good,  with  the 
general  tendency  of  the  market  to­
ward  higher  prices.  Stocks  of  prunes 
are  now  getting  down  to  very  small 
proportions  and  there  is  still  a  very 
good  demand.  Coast 
are 
very  firm,  wiht  a  continued  good  ex­
port  demand  and  with  the  present 
outlook  towards  a  thorough  cleaning 
up  of  stock  this  year,  with  nothing 
to  carry  over.  There  is  a  fair  de­
mand  for  raisins,  but  with  no  change 
in  price.  Orders  reported  are  not 
large,  but  are  of  sufficient  size  to 
keep  the  market  in  good  shape.  Re­
ports  from  the  Coast  state  that  the 
prospects  of  the  new  crop  are  very 
good,  although  it  is  too  early  yet  to 
make  sure  that  the  crop  will  be  any 
more  than  average.  The  vines  are 
backward  this  spring,  being  almost 
three  weeks  later  than  usual.  Apri­
cots  are  unchanged,  but  with  small 
stocks  in  first  hands  everywhere.  An 
advance  may  be  looked  for  at  any 
time.  Crop  reports  are  very  dis­
couraging,  as  the  recent  frost  is  be­
lieved  to  have  done  a  great  deal  of 
damage.  Peaches  are  in  good  sup­
ply,  but  sales  of  these  goods  are  small 
and  stocks  are  moving  out  very slow­
ly.  There  is  a  continued  good  de­
mand  for  currents  at  previous  prices. 
Figs  are  in  quite  good  request  at un­
changed  prices.  Dates  are  in  small 
supply,  but  trade  on  these  goods  at 
this  season  of  the  year  is  usually 
small  and  what  few  goods  are  on 
hand  have  been  put  into  cold  stor­
age.  Somewhat  to  the  surprise  of all, 
the  evaporated  apple  market  at  this 
late  day  shows  considerable  improve­
ment  and  quite  a  considerable  ac­
tivity  for  this  season.  Most  of  the 
goods  have  been  put  in  cold  storage, 
but  there  has  been  such  a  good  de­
mand  during  the  past  week  that  it 
is  now  believed  that  very  few,  if any, 
will  be  carried  over  into  next  season. 1 
It  is  thought  this  unusual  demand 
just now  is  caused  by  the  short  crops 
and  consequent  high  prices  of  some 
of  the  small  fruits.

Rice— The  rice  market  continues 
very  firm  and  sales  reported  are  very 
small  as  holders’  views  are  consider­
ably  above  those  of  buyers,  and  con­
sequently  little  trading  is  done.  All 
dealers  are  now  beginning  to  realize 
the  strong  statistical  position  of  this 
article  and  have  become  very 
in­
different  sellers.  Reports  from  the 
South  state  that  the  growing  crop 
is  progressing  very  favorably.

Molasses— The  approach  of  warm 
weather  has  resulted  in  the  demand 
from  the  consuming  trade  showing 
a  falling  off,  but  as  dealers  are  carry­
ing  only  small  stocks,  prices  are firm­
ly  maintained  and  buyers  are  com­
pelled  to  pay  full  values  to  obtain 
supplies.  A   dull  trade  is  expected 
from  now  until  the  opening  of  the 
fall  season.

Fish— Trade  in  fish  is  still  rather 
quiet.  There  is  some  movement  in 
both  codfish  and  mackerel  at  pre­
vious  prices  and  trade 
in  medium 
scaled  herring  is  also  fair.  A  moder­
ate  number  of  sales  in  all  lines  are 
reported.

Nuts— All  varieties  of  nuts  are held 
with  confidence,  but 
sales  are  of 
small  lots  only.  Brazils  remain  very 
firm,  with  a  good  demand.  Walnuts 
move  out  in  a  small  way  at 
firm 
prices.  Filberts  are  steady  and  are 
moving  out  quite  well.  Almonds show 
no  change  but  are  rather  quiet.  Pea­
nuts  are  in  good  demand  and  a  still 
better  trade  is  looked  for  soon.

Rolled  Oats— The  rolled  oats  mar­
ket  is  very  firm,  with  prices  show­
ing  an  advance  of  10c  on  barrels  Sc 
on  competitive  cases,  and 
15c  on 
Banner  oats.

The  Produce  Market.
are 

Apples— Transactions 

small, 

but  the  price  is  steady  at  $2@2.so.

Asparagus— 50c  per  doz.  bunches.
Bananas— Good 
stock, 

shipping 

$i.25@2.25  per  bunch.

Beeswax— Dealers  pay  25c 

for 

prime  yellow  stock.

Beets— 40c  per  doz.  Old  stock  is 

completely  exhausted.

I2@i3c 

Cabbage— Old 

Bermuda  Onions— $2.25  per  crate.
receipts  of  dairy 
Butter— Liberal 
grades  have  served  to  glut  the  mar­
ket,  with  no  present  indications  of 
an  improved  condition.  Local  han­
dlers  quote 
for  packing 
stock,  I4@i5c  for  choice  and  i6@I7c 
for  fancy.  Factory  creamery  is firm 
at  21c  for  choice  and  22c  for  fancy.
commands  $2  per 
fetches  $3.75  per  crate 

bbl.  New 
holding  about  ij^  bbl.
Carrots— 30c  per  bu.
Cocoanuts— $3.75  per  sack.
Cucumbers— 75c  per  doz.
Dates— Hallowi,  S}4 c;  Sairs,  5%c.
Eggs— Receipts 
continue  heavy, 
but  the  quality  is  going  off  so  rapid­
ly  that  local  dealers  will  begin  cand­
ling  next  Monday. 
In  the  meantime 
the  case  count  market  is  steady  at
I3 @ i4 c.

Figs— 90c  per  10  lb.  box  of  Califor­

nia.

Green  Onions— 8@ioc  per  doz. for 
Evergreens;  15c  per  doz.  for  Silver 
Skins.

Green  Peas— $1.90  per  bu.  box.
Honey— White  stock  is  in  moder­
ate  supply  at  I5@i6c.  Amber  is  ac­
tive  at  I3@i4c  and  dark  is  moving 
freely  on  the  basis  of  I2@i3c.

Lemons— California  command  $3 
for  300s  and  $2.75  for  360s  per  box. 
Messinas  300-360S  fetch  $3.50.

Lettuce— Head 

commands  $1  per 

bu.  box.  Leaf  fetches  10c  per  lb.

Maple  Sugar— ioj^c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup— $1  per  gal.  for fancy.
Nuts— Butternuts, 
50c;  walnuts, 

50c;  hickory  nuts,  $2.35  per  bu.

Onions— In  good  demand  at  60c 

per  bu.

Oranges  —   California 

Seedlings, 
$2-5o@2.75-  Navels,  $3.50  for  fancy. 
Mediterranean  Sweets,  $3@3-25.

Parsnips—$1.25  per  bbl.
Pieplant— $1  per  50  lb.  box.
Pineapples— Cubans  command  $3 

per  crate  of  30s  or  36s.

Plants— Cabbage,  75c  per  box  of

200;  tomato,  75c  per  box  of  200; 
sweet  potato,  90c  per  box  of  200.

Potatoes— New  fetch  $2  per  bu. on 
account  of  the  lateness  of  the  crop 
and  the  damage  it  has  sustained from 
frost  and  wet  weather;  the  price  of 
old  stock  is  firm  at  60c.

commands 

Poultry— Nester  squabs,  either live 
or  dressed,  $2  per  doz.  Dressed 
stock 
following: 
Chickens,  I3@ i4c;  small  hens,  I2@  
13c;  ducks,  i s @ i 6c ;  turkeys,  i6@i8c; 
small  squab  broilers,  20@23c.
Radishes— Long,  25c  per 

doz.; 

the 

round,  20c  per  doz.

Spinach— 75c  per  bu. 

for  spring 

stock.

Strawberries— Illinois  fruit  is  now 
commanding  $2.25(^2.50 

in  market, 
per  case  of  24  qts.

Tomatoes— $4  per  6  basket  crate.
Turnips— $1  per  bbl.
W ax  Beans— $3.35  for  two-thirds 

bu.  box.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.
There  is  little  trading  or  doing  in 
the  hide  market.  The  country  take­
off  is  scarce.  The  market  is  firm, but 
there  is  no  advance. 
It  is  a  ques­
tion  of  how  to  fill  the  vats  in  some 
lines  of  tanning.  The  situation  is not 
good  or  favorable  for  trade.

There  are  no  wool  pelts  on 

the 
market.  Even  sheerlings  are  scarce 
and  bring  high  prices.

Tallow  is  weak  and  neglected  on 
all  grades  and  there  is  a  wide  range 
of  prices.  Packers  hold  for 
while  the  sale  at  second-hand  was 
made  at  6l/i  and  sYa  asked  by  others, 
and  other  brands  still  less.  Greases 
and  oils  are  weaker.  Trading  is  at  a 
loss.
k  Wools  are  weak  on  the  Eastern 
market,  as  compared  to  prices  being 
paid  in  the  States.  Buyers  are  plenty 
but  the  East  does  not  respond  to 
prices  forced  up  by 
competition 
among  buyers.  Holders  are  firm, and 
are  asking  above  what  is  warranted. 
Little  is  moving,  except  an  occasional 
car  changes  hands,  which  indicates  a 
wise  move  on  the  part  of  the  seller. 
There  are  no  stocks  in  the  Eastern 
market  and  there  is  also  an  apparent 
short  clip  in  Michigan.  Manufactur­
ers  demonstrated  a  few  years  ago 
that  other  substitutes  besides  wool 
made  cloth,  and  may  do  so  again.
Wm.  T.  Hess.

Plainwell— A   firm  known  as 

the 
Post  Superior  Stock  Food  Co.,  Lim­
ited,  has  been  organized  with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $50,000.  The  company 
will  manufacture  two  articles— one a 
regular  stock  food  and  the  other  a 
calf  meal.  John  W.  Post,  of  Clarks­
ville,  is  the  originator  of  the  foods.

Nashville— R.  Townsend  has  sold 
his  elevator  to  his  two  sons,  E.  B. 
and  R.  C.,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Townsend 
Bros.  Mr.  Townsend  has  been  en­
gaged  in  the  elevator  business  here 
for  the  past  fifteen  years  and  retires 
to  take  a  much  needed  rest.

P I L E S   C U R E D
DR.  WILLARD  M.  BURLESON

Rectal  Specialist

|03 Monroe Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

6

V IT A L   DECISION. 

Change  in  Practice 

in  Regard 

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

| payments  made.  The  account  was  a 
runing  account  and  the  effect  of pay­
ments  was  to  keep  it  alive  by  the  ex­
tension  of  new  credits  with  the  net 
I result  of  a  gain  to  the 
estate  of 
I $546-89  and  a  loss  to  the  seller  of 
that  amount  less  such  dividends  as 
the  estate  might  pay. 
In  these  cir- 
[ cumstances  the  payments  were  no 
more  preferences  than  if 
the  pur- 
j chases  had  been  made  for  cash.  *  *  *
! All  the  material  was  sold  and  de­
livered  after  August  15th,  and  neither 
1 of  the  items  can  properly  be  singled 
out  as  constituting  an  outstanding in- 
| debtedness,  payment  of  which  oper- 
j ated  as  a  preference.  The  facts  as 
found  in  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Co. 
vs.  Trust  Company  were  so  entirely 
| different  from 
those  existing  here 
that this  case  is  not  controlled  by 
I that.”
j  Justices  White  and  McKenna  dis- 
| sented  from  this  opinion,  “not  being 
reasons  by 
able  to  concur  in 
| which  the  court  distinguishes 
this 
■ case  from  that  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott 
\&  Co.  and  deeming  the  latter  case 
controlling  in  this.”

the 

cases 

It  is  said  that  there  are  still  pend­
ing  thousands  of 
instituted 
prior  to  the  passage  of  the  Ray  bill, 
barred  from  proving  their  claims  by 
the  literal  interpretation  of  the  su­
preme  court  in  the  Carson,  Pirie, 
Scott  case.  The  present  case  does 
not  dissent  from  the  opinion  in  the 
Scott  case,  but  the  decision  distin­
guishes  between  the  two  and  holds 
that  whenever  a  bankrupt’s  estate  has 
been  benefited  by  additional  credit 
no  preference  is  created,  if  there  is

an  excess  of  credit  over  the  payments 
on  account

It  would  seem,  by  the  same  theory, 
that  if  a  creditor  has  extended  any 
credit  though  not 
the 
amount  of  payments  on  account  re­
ceived  by  him,  he  should,  neverthe­
less,  only  be  required  to  surrender 
the  difference  between 
credits 
and  the  payments.

equal 

the 

to 

In  all  cases,  therefore, 

in  which 
creditors  who  come  within  this  new 
decision  have  failed  to  prove  their 
claims  because  of  the  decision  in  the 
Carson  case,  they  should  at  once do 
so.  The  right  to  prove  exists  for one 
year  after  the  date  of  adjudication.

The  Busy  Season.

In  the  spring  a 

thinner  shadow 
haunts  the  young  man’s  pocketbook, 
and  he  casts  upon  each  nickel  a  lean 
and  hungry  look. 
In  the  spring  a 
brighter  yellow  blush  is  on  the  but- 
terine,  and  boarders  are  suspicious 
of  the  azure  tinted  cream. 
In  the 
spring  the  festive  angler  from  the 
ground  extracts  a  worm,  and  with 
fiendish  glee  impales  it  on  a  hook 
that  makes  it  squirm. 
In  the  spring 
a  woman’s  fancy  turns  to  thoughts 
of  stylish  hats,  while  her  weary, care­
worn  husband  thinks  a  lot  and  mur­
murs  “ Rats!”  In  the  spring  the  jolly 
farmer,  with  a  chuckle,  doth  begin 
painting  letters  on  a  shingle,  “Sum­
mer  Boarders  Taken  In.”  The  bun­
co  man  gets  busy— the  kite  is  on the 
string— thus  we 
there’s  al­
ways  somethin’  doin’  in  the  spring.

realize 

He  has  the  best  education who best 

knows  when  to  apear  ignorant

¡surrendered.  in  order  to  entitle  the
to |creditor  to  Prore  the  remainder  of 

Goods  Received. 

tdabn'

the 

The  decision  is  in 

A  decision  has  been  handed  down ! 

case  Df  filmg  oi  the  petition  the 

In  ***  ca5e  “   Question  the  bank- 
bv  the  U.  S.  snpreme  court  which j rupt  became  m?o3vent  on  August 
modifies  the  practice  of  bankruptcy 115th‘  bnt 
creditor,  Alden,  being in 
tribunals  and  makes  some  sweeping I *8llorance 
this  fact,  sold  to  him 
changes.  It  is  likelv  that  the  decision j  materiaI  several  times  thereafter  and 
will  affect  a  large  number  of  cases  pnor  to  November  26th,  when  the 
in  a  measure  retroactive  on 1pctltion  W£S  il5ed-  Payments  were 
being 
? ade  iTOm  timc  to  tilEe>  bnt  on  the 
cases  decided  within  the  past  vear. 
sum  of 
Jaquith,  trustee,  vs.  Alden.  on  appeal |5546 89  had  not  been  P " 4-  The  ma* 
irom  the  United  State«  Circuit  Court' tena3  received  by  the  bankrupt  was 
of  Appeals  for  the  first  circuit 
It I mana^actarcd  by  him  and  became  a I 
holds  that  the  decision  in  the  case  of  ParE  oi  b*s  estatc-  The  question  be- 1 
Carson.  Pirie.  Scott  &  Co..  Section!iore  thc  coan  wms  whether  any  of 
--g 
receiving jtbe  payments  made  to  Alden  were 
payments  on  account  within 
fo u r' Preierence5  which  must  be  snrren-! 
months  of  the  filing  of  a  bankrupt'« *dered  cnder  Section  57g  before  his 
petition  to  surrender  such  pavments I c3aam  coa^   he  allowed, 
before  being  allowed  to  prove  up j  The  court  describes  briefly  the  case j 
the  balance  of  their  claims,  does  not |°*  C*rson-  Tirie,  Scott  &  Co.,  the! 
apply  in  any  case  where  the  creditors i decision  in  which  is  reaffirmed  on the 
t o ! P™ ~d  that  "the  estate  of  the  insol- 
sold  goods  or  extended 
the  bankrupt  after  becoming  insol- jvesi  as 
existed  at  the  date  of  the
vent,  provided  that  such 
sales  or j insolvency  was  diminished  by  the 
in  amount  the  pay-! Payment,  and  the  creditor  who  re­
credits  exceed 
in ents  received  on  account 
'x  was  enabled  to  obtain  a j
The  court  says  that  when  the  net  ?Tester  percentage  of  his  debt  than i 
result  of  the  transactions  taking place | ar--v  other  of  the  creditors  of  the  !

repuiring 

creditors 

j ceiTea 

credit 

is  to  increase  his  estate,  the  payments 
The  court  then  proceeds  to  dis- 
made  cannot  properly  be  regarded j tingmsh  the  present  case  from  th at! 
as  preferences  within  the  meaning  o f • of  Carson.  Pmie,  Scott  &  Co.,  as  fol-

The  decision  completely  overturns | 

the | 
the  practice  of  bankruptcy  courts  of  goods  were  sold  and  delivered  after ! 
original  jurisdiction,  which  have  prac- ; the  bankrupt's  property  had  actually! 
ticai.j  a.;  heid  that  a.l  payments  re-. become  insufficient  to  pay  his  debts.] 
ceivei.  within  tour  months  of  the  ill- | and  his  estate  was  increased  in  value ! 
•r.g  o:  a  bar tempt s  petition  must  be  thereby  to  an  amount  in  excess  of the j

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

7

NARROW   MINDED.

Governor  Bliss  Vetoes  the  Sale-in- 

Bulk  Bill.

Governor  Bliss,  who  has  proven 
himself  to  be  about  the  smallest spec­
imen  of  a  two-cent  statesman  who 
ever  sat  in  the  gubernatorial  chair at 
Lansing,  has  distinguished  himself 
again  by  vetoing  the  sale-in-bulk  bill 
which  was  championed  by  the whole­
sale  trade  of  the  State  and  by  every 
honest  retailer  who  believes  in  fair 
play  and  in  paying  ioo  cents  on  the 
dollar.  So  far  as  the  Tradesman  can 
learn,  no  one  opposed  the  measure, 
with  the  possible  exception  of  Rep­
resentative  Gallup,  of  Escanaba,  who 
distinguished  himself  in  the  Legis­
lature  by  stating  that  he  could  buy 
all  of  the  newspapers  in  his  district 
for  $25.  The  bill  was  introduced  by 
Senator  Brown,  of  Lapeer,  who  hap­
pened  to  have  a  tilt  with  the  Gov­
ernor  later  on,  whereupon  His  Ex­
cellency  displayed  his  narrow-mind^ 
edness  and  his  bigotry  by  stating 
that  he  would  prevent  any  measure 
fathered  by  Senator  Brown  becom­
ing  a  law.  After  running  the  gaunt­
let  of  the  Senate,  the  bill  went  to 
the  Judiciary  Committee  of 
the 
House,  composed  of  nine  lawyers, all 
of  whom  gave 
its  constitutionality 
careful  consideration  and  reported it 
out  unanimously. 
the 
House,  went  back  to  the  Senate  for 
concurrence  with  the  House  amend­
ments  and  then  went  to  the  Gov­
ernor,  where  it  was  vetoed.  The rea­
sons  the  Governor  gives  for  this ac­
tion  are  as  follows:

It  passed 

“While  I  am  inclined  to  think that 
an  enactment,  properly  designed  to 
protect  the  wholesaler  of  merchan­
dise  against  fraudulent  and  unlawful 
sales  of  goods  unpaid  for  or  subject 
to  liens  for  the  purchase  price,  could 
with  propriety  be  enacted,  I  believe 
that  this  bill  exceeds  the  necessities 
of 
the 
rights  of  the  honest  and  financially 
responsible  retailer  of  merchandise.
“The  measure  is  open  to  the  fol­

the  situation  and 

invades 

lowing  objections:

creditors, 

“That  it  is  not, in terms, limited  to 
those  retailers 
in  merchandise  who 
are  debtors  for  the  stock  of  goods 
or  merchandise,  the  sale  of  which  is 
intended  to  be  restricted;  but  is  ex­
tended  to  all  retailers  having  credit­
ors,  regardless  of  the  nature  of  the 
credits,  and  regardless  of  the  finan­
cial  responsibility  of  the  retailer. The 
act  brands  as  fraudulent  all  sales  of 
merchandise  otherwise  than 
in  the 
regular  course  of  trade  by  a  retailer 
possessing 
regardless  of 
the  nature  of  the  credits,  or  the  sit­
uation  and  financial  responsibility  of 
the  retailer.  This  objection  is  made 
more  apparent,  considered 
the 
light  of  illustrative  cases.  The  re­
tailer  who  has  his  stock  of  merchan­
dise  entirely  paid  for,  but  who  is  a 
debtor  in  reference  to  some  matter 
entirely  outside  of  his  business  as  a 
retailer  of  merchandise,  is  subjected 
to  the  same  restrictions  as  is  the  re­
tailer  who  is  indebted  for  the  pur­
chase  price  of  a  stock  of  goods  to  its 
full  value.  The  retailer  who is  pos­
sessed of full financial 
responsibility, 
but  owes  a  small  amount of debts, 
in the regular course of his
contracted 

in 

business,  and  bills  for  which  will  be 
met  upon  presentation,  is  placed  in 
the  same  category  as  a  person  of  no 
responsibility,  but  who  has  purchased 
his entire  stock of goods  upon credit. 
The  bill in question, while  covering a 
condition  which  undoubtedly  merits 
legislation,  overlaps 
territory 
where  no  regulation  is  required,  and 
where  such  regulation  is  a  positive 
detriment  to  the  business 
interests 
of  the  State.  This  objection  might 
be  extended  at  some  length,  but  it 
is  so  plainly  apparent  that  I  will  not 
pursue  it  farther.

into 

“The  design  of  the  bill  seems  to  be 
the  prevention  of  all  sales  of  mer­
chandise  in  fraud  of  creditors;  but  it 
extends  beyond  this  and  unduly  ham­
pers  sales  not  made  or  intended  to 
be  made  in  fraud  of  creditors.  No 
owner  of  a  stock  of  merchandise  can 
dispose  of  the  same,  except  after  the 
termination  of  a  period  of  five  days, 
without  subjecting  his  sales  to  the 
brand  of  fraud,  and  it  is  a  matter  of 
common  knowledge 
that  this  will 
place  such  a  limitation  upon  the  right 
to  sell,  in  many  cases  where  no  reg­
ulation  is  necessary  or  required,  as 
to  absolutely  prevent  the  sale.

conditions 

“ It  may  be  urged,  in  conclusion, 
that  wholesalers  have  the  power  un­
der  present 
to  protect 
themselves  by  full  investigation  into 
the business  character, reputation and 
habit  of  the  persons  to  whom  they 
sell,  and  this  power  is  being  contin­
ually  utilized  by  all  business  men  as 
a  matter  of  simple  precaution.”

A  careful  perusal  of 

the  above 
will  convince  even  the  most  casual 
observer  that  the  Governor  was hard 
pressed  to  find  some  excuse  for  pun­
ishing  a  Senator  who  had  crossed  his 
path.  The  reasons  are  so  flimsy  that 
they  would  be  ridiculous  in  the  essay 
of  a  country  school  boy,  and  the  ar­
gument  is  as  lame  as  the  logic  is 
poor.  There  is  talk  of  passing  the 
bill  over  the  Governor’s  veto,  and in 
case  this  is  done,  there  is  every  like­
lihood  that  the  House  will  concur  in 
the  action  of  the  Senate. 
It  is  very 
generally  conceded  by  all  that  the 
veto  is  due  solely  to  the  vindictive­
ness  and  malice  and  narrow-mind­
edness  of  a  Governor  whose  admin­
istration  “has  served  to  make  Gov­
ernor  Begole’s  administration 
re­
spectable,”  as  a  leading  citizen  and 
business  man  and  prominent  Repub­
lican  of  Grand  Rapids  expresses  it.

Lifting  With  Magnets.

One  of  the  practical  uses  of  a  mag­
net,  but  to  those  immediately  con­
cerned  a  highly  important  use,  is that 
in  which  it  is  sometimes  employed 
to  withdraw  small  pieces  of  iron from 
such  out  of  the  way  places  as  the 
human  eye.  Another  use  of 
the 
tractive  force  of  the  magnetism  on 
a  much  larger  scale  was 
to 
which  it  was  put  by  Edison  in  his 
magnetic  ore  separator,  in  which  the 
ore,  previously  crushed 
fine 
powder, 
is  dropped  down  a  chute 
past  the  poles  of  powerful  electro­
magnets  is  passing  which  the  iron 
particles  of  the  ore  are  deflected  to 
the  non-magnetic 
one 
undeflected 
stone  dust 
down  the  chute. 
Still  another  in­
stance  of  the  employment  of  mag­

side,  while 

continues 

to  a 

that 

in  a 

netism 
small  way  is  that  in 
which  a  magnetized  tack  hammer  is 
used  in  the  manufacture  of  straw­
berry  baskets  on  a  large  scale  in con­
junction  with  a  mechanical  device 
which  presents  the  tacks,  one  at  a 
time  and  head  up,  to  the  operative, 
thereby  greatly  facilitating  his work.
It  is  a  far  cry  from  lifting  a  tack 
by  means  of  magnetism  to  the  lift­
ing  of  massive  iron  and  steel  plates 
weighing  four,  six  and  twelve  tons 
by  this  same  force,  which  is  now  be­
ing  done  every  work  day  in  a  num­
ber  of  large  steel  works.  Electro­
magnetism,  of  course,  is  utilized,  the 
form  of  the  magnet  being  usually 
rectangular  for  this  work  and  pre­
senting  a  flat  surface  to  the  plates 
lifted.  The  magnets  are  suspended 
by  chains  from  cranes,  and  pick  up! 
the  plates  by 
simple  contact  and 
without  the  loss  of  time  consequent 
to  the  adjustment  of  chain  and hooks 
in  the  older  method. 
It  is  also  found 
that  the  metal  plates  can  be  lifted  by 
the  magnets  while  still  so  hot  that it 
would  be  impossible  for  the  men  to 
handle  them.

A lab astin e

The  Only  D u r a b l e   Wall  Coating

A  quarter of  a  century  of  extensive 
and  judicious  advertising-  has  made 
A LA B A STIN E   a household  word  in 
every town and hamlet throughout  the 
civilized  world.

The Alabastine Company is positively 
the only manufacturer of  wall  coating 
in the world that does all  the  introduc­
ing, advertising  and  pushing—creates, 
maintains and adds to the demand, alike 
for jobbers and retailers.  The  demand 
for  A LA B A STIN E   exists,  the  sales 
will be satisfactory.  The trade is yours 
if  you  go  after  it.  Complete  line  of 
advertising with each order.

Alabastine  Co.

Grand  Rapids, Michigan.

National  Fire  Insurance  Co.

The  trade  in  hand-made  laces  in 
France  has  been  greatly  affected  by 
the  closing  of  the  convent  schools. 
There  has  been  a  considerable  ad­
vance  in  the  price  of  laces  in  Paris. Grand Rapids, Mich.

of  Hartford.

W.  Fred  McBaia,

The Leading Agency,

Missaukee  Park

Located on  Lake Missaukee, three miles from  Lake  City,  Mich  (popu­
lation  iooo), on G.  R.  &  I.  Ry.,  twelve  miles  northeast  of  Cadillac; 
away from crowded resorts;  economical  living;  heathful  and  cool;  fine 
cottages can be built from $150  up, lumber  at  maker’s  cost;  dry,  sandy 
beach;  safe and good bathing;  just the place  for  children;  pure  water; 
excellent  fishing;  fine  launch  and  train  service; 
low  railroad  fare: 
plenty of row boats;  no hay  fever.

A  Lot  for  $5

As first payment, balance on  reasonable  terms.  We  will  sell  any  un­
sold lot in  Missaukee  Park  on these terms.  Prices  for  lots  (40x120  to 
160 feet) until July  1,  1903, only, are $20  to  $75,  according  to  location. 
These lots will double  in  value in  less  than  a  year.  Perfect  title;  very 
low taxes,  money refunded  in  case  everything  is  not  as  represented. 
Write at once for plat and get early choice of lots.  The m st delightful 
and  cheapest  place  in  Michigan.  We  refer you to  Missaukee County 
Bank,  Lake  City,  Mich.; Cadillac State  Bank,  Cadillac,  Mich.;  Hoffman 
Bros., Fort Wayne,  Ind.;  Postmaster Blair F. Scott,  Lake City, Mich.
paper.

Write for beautiful  descriptive  booklet  with  maps.  Mention  this 

Missaukee  Park  Co.,  Limited

Lake  City,  Michigan

Orville Dennis, Chairman,  Lake City, 
Member State Legislature 
O.  O. Dunham, Treas.,  McBain

W. O. Cromwell, Secy,  McBain 
C.  W. Cromwell, Mgr., McBain 
Cromwell  Lumber Co.

A fte r  A ll

It  is  largely  a  question 
of  demonstrating  to  the 
better class  of grocers that  a jobber  can  fill  an 
order  promptly  and  completely  and  that prices 
are with the market.  A look at  our  stock  con­
vinces you  that  all  orders  can  be  filled  AT 
ONCE.

W o r d e n  P , r o c e r  C o m p a n y

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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STA TE   O F  MICHIGAN  /

County  of  Kent 

f ss'

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn, de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine in 
that  establishment. 
I  printed  and 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the  issue  of 
May  13,  1903,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith  not.

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me, a 
notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  sixteenth  day  of  May,  1003.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  coun­

Henry  B.  Fairchild. 

ty,  Mich.

GEN ERAL  TRADE  REVIEW .
The  parting  of  the  ways  between 
the  uninterrupted  course  of 
indus­
trial  activity  throughout  the  country 
and  the  declining  tendency  and  dull­
ness  of  Wall  Street  is  becoming more 
manifest  day  by  day.  The  slow,  re­
luctant  yielding  in  values,  apparently 
on  account  of  disappointed  buyers 
and  wearied  holders  seems  to  be  in­
dependent  of  any  ordinary  specula­
tive  influence  outside  of  professional 
trading,  either  as  affecting  advance 
or  decline,  except  that  the  continued 
outgo  of  gold  has  a  depressing  influ­
ence  for  the  moment,  but  the  amount 
of  decline  is  slight.  Better  weather 
conditions  have  assured  the  expect­
ed  volume  of  the  season’s  trade  and 
the  reports  of  railway  earnings  con­
tinue  the  high  record. 
is  ano­
malous  that  railway  securities  should 
be  decreasing  in  quotation  while  the 
roads  are  earning  at  rates  never  be­
fore  known.

It 

Bank  exchanges  and  mercantile 
payments  are  well  maintained  for  the 
season.  The  only  serious  question 
to  be  considered  seems  to  be  the la­
bor  situation.  With  the  long  contin­
ued  opportunity  of  demand  there has 
developed  a  mania  for  increasing  the 
wage  scales  to  the  utmost,  and  as 
these  requirements  are  complied with 
there  is  always  added  to  them the sti- I 
pulations  of  union  recognition  and j 
as  many  of 
the  most  obnoxious I 
claims  as  it  is  thought  will  be  toler­
ated. 
It  is  astonishing  to  what  an 
extent  the  demand  for  increased  pay j 
and  reduced  work  is  complied  with, 
but  the  questions  of  interference  in | 
the  management  of  business  are ] 
meeting  a  decided  opposition. 
In- j

deed  there  is  developing  such  a  ten­
dency 
to  counter  organization  for j 
the  purpose  of  limiting  the  labor  mo- | 
nopoly  to  the  recognition  of  person- I 
al  and  proprietary 
rights  as  has j 
never  been  known  in  this  or  any j 
j other  country.  On  every  hand  we 
are  hearing  of  citizens’  leagues  and j 
manufacturers’ 
all I 
based  on  the  simple  declaration  that 
a  man  has  the  right  to  conduct  his 
j own  business.  This  movement which 
seems  to  be  spreading  almost  like 
wildfire  has  not  the  slightest  effect 
in  a  modification  of  the  position  of 
labor  and 
looks  as  though  this 
: question  of  human  rights  wil  have to 
be  fought  out  to  the  utmost.

associations, 

it 

Adjustments  of  some  iron  and steel j 
prices  have  put  that  industry  into  a J 
more  assured  position  than  under  the 
old  conditions.  With  cheaper  fuel 
and  materials  and  no  diminution  in 
demand  the  outlook 
for  profitable j 
business  is  without  parallel  if  the la­
bor  supply  keeps  within  bounds.  The 
textile  field  still  continues  the  unfav­
orable  feature  of  undue  cost  of  ma­
terials,  but  there  is  encouraging  de­
mand  for  products,  especially  in  the 
leather  and 
woolen  division.  With 
hides 
strength 
forwardings  from  custom  shoe  fac­
tories  are  breaking  all  records.

increased 

showing 

A  PILL A R   O F  STRENGTH.
In 

the  death  of  William  Sears 
Grand  Rapids  loses  a  man  who  has 
done  much  to  make  the  city  famous 
by  producing  goods  of  superior  qual­
ity  and  uniform  excellence.

His  fame,  however,  rests  on  some­
thing  more  enduring  than  his  repu­
tation  as  a  business  man.  O f  an  even 
and  pleasant  disposition  by  nature, 
the  trials  of  life’s  battle  left  no  with­
ering  mark  on  his  genial  face.  He 
has  lived  among  ns,  and  departed 
from  us,  leaving  behind  the  record 
of  kind  acts  well  performed,  warm 
friendships  faithfully  kept,  honorable 
principles  justly  held  to,  genial  man­
hood  heartily  lived.  The  sculptured 
tablets  erected  in  commemoration of 
the  Prince  or  Potentate  bear  no  no­
bler  epitaph,  no  Pharaoh  ever  built 
more  enduring  monument.

The 

vermiform 

appendix  has 
ceased  to  absorb  the  attention  of the 
medical  fraternity.  At  the  session  of 
the  American  Congress  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons 
in  Washington  the 
greatest  interest  centered  in  the  dis­
cussion  of  the  pancreas.  According 
to  the  statements  made, 
little  or 
nothing  was  known  about  this  gland 
until  a  few  years  ago,  and  people 
who  had  trouble  with 
it  generally 
died. 
It  was  subject  to  inflamma­
tions  and  other  troubles  that  were 
not  only  difficult 
for  doctors  and 
surgeons  to  diagnose,  but  generally 
so  bad  when  they  did  find  them  out 
that  it  was  a  case  of  making  a  will 
for  the  patient.  Now  pancreatic  dis­
turbances  are  becoming  well  under­
stood,  and  it  is  claimed  that  Ameri­
can  investigators  have  led  the  way 
in  discovering  methods  of  successful 
treatment.

Think  twice  before  speaking  when 
angry  and  you  may  be  able  to  say 
something  more  aggravating  than  if 
you  had  spoken  at  first

“

f  * 

. 

in 

leisure  and 

England.  Now, 

If  all  the  people Iform  in  its  army  organization
_: i i ____ L.
. 

j straits  of  humiliation.  This  sort  of 
TH E   PE O P LE   W H O  RISE. 
A  writer  in  Gunton’s  Magazine for | writing's  often  used  to  warn  a  na­
tion  and  stir  it  up  to  some  decisive
increase  in  its  military  power  or  a re-

May  holds  that  poverty  is  the  main­
spring  of  all  progress  and  the  spur, 
to  all  ambition. 
! 
were  m  affluent  circumstances  they 
would  have  no  need  to  make  any  ex­
ertion  to  better  themselves.
L l l C I I I b C i  VC5>. 

acc'dent.  The  present  Crown

per  printed  in  one  of 
periodicals  soon  after 
------------ 

Some  persons  will  remember  a pa­
the  British 
the  Franco-
L I U I I   L U   U C L L C L  
-------- 
The  writer  mentioned  claims  that  German  war’  in  which  was  related 
the  whole  trend  of  civilization,  from  c'rcumstantially  the  invasion  by  the 
the  earliest  times  in  every  clime  and I Germans  of  England  and  the  con- 
country,  has  been  to  get  away  from | cfues*  °f 
Island  Kingdom  that 
poverty,  and  every  step  away  from  | ba{^  maintained  itself  against  all  corn- 
poverty  toward  greater  wealth,  com- j ers  s*n<^e  **  was  conquered  in  1066 
fort, 
convenience  has j ^ .W illiam   the  Norman  from France, 
The  paper  in  question  told  how the 
been  and  is  a  step  toward  higher  civ­
German  naval  commanders  had been 
ilization.
able  to 
lead  away  and  outwit  the 
British  fleet,  leaving  the  way  open
-----*  -------°   —   — j  ~i—•*
er  poverty  or  wealth  is  much  of  an 1 
inspiration  to  higher  efforts.  Many  ^or  a  f>rea*  convoy  of  transports  to 
men  have  risen  to  wealth  from  the 1 ^ant^  an  invading  army  on  the  coast 
direst  poverty  and  many  others  have! 
the  London 
ascended  to  distinction  from  the low- Í Fortnightly  for  May  a  writer  recites 
best  beginnings.  But  it  was  neither I *be  details  of  a  combined  attack  by 
poverty  nor 
lowly  estate  that  was j Germany,  France  and  Russia  on 
either  an  inspiration  or  a  spur  to  ex- I Great  Britain.
ertion. 

It  is  much  to  be  doubted  that  eith­

In  the  present  case  England  was
Many  men  in  poverty  and  humility!no*  conquered  but  barely  escaped, 
will  never  make  any  exertion  to I 
order  to  make  out  a  very  absurd 
rise,  while  there  are  others  already  casé>  the  writer  in  question  first  ar- 
rich  or  distinguished  who  strive  to  ran&es  his  &ame  by  setting  up  an 
attain  greater  possessions  or  higher  emPeror>  Napoleon  IV.,  in  France, 
station.  There  is  something  in  the  He  disposes  of  the  present  Kaiser 
nature  of  these  men  that  urges  them 
Germany  by  sending  him  off  in  a 
to  exertion.  They  are  not  willing  to ¡ 
which  meets  with  a  fright-
remain  at  the  bottom  or  to  be  con- 
sidered  as  mere  human  creatures  Erince  of  Germany  becomes  Kaiser, 
without  any  claim  for  consideration. 
*s  carried  away  by  his  ministers 
These  are  the  people  who  accept  *n  a  war  policy, 
without  a  question  all  sorts  of  doc- I  France,  Russia  and  Germany,  be- 
trines  of  human  equality  and 
in  an  alliance,  secretly 
right  to  an  equal  division  of  the ¡ PrePare  for  war.  The  outbreak  oc- 
wealth  and  the  honors  which  others  purred  on  the  appearance  of  a  Rus- 
have  won  by  the  most  strenuous  ex-  s'an  army  marching  on  Herat, which 
ertions.  They  are  willing  to  coun-  was  Peaceably  occupied,  and  Afghan
tenance  any  proposition  or  accept 
any  prospect  that  offers  a  possibility 
of  taking  from  others  for  their  bene­
fit  There  is  a  great  deal  of  this  sort 
of  doctrine  being  preached  and 
it 
is  always  addressed  to  the  class  that
wants  something 
for  nothing  and 
does  nothing  to  deserve  benefits.

istan  was  found  to  be  wholly  in  the 
interest  of  the  Russians,  who  at  once 
attacked  India.  France  soon  after­
wards  invaded  England  with 
thou­
sands  of  apparently  unarmed  men 
with  bicycles,  coming  ostensibly  for 
pleasure.  These  fellows  spread over 
the  country  and  cut  all  the  telegraph 
wires,  while  all  trains  stopped  for
not  an  instance  recorded  in  history  lack  °*  signals  by  which  to  operate 
where  either  the  religious,  social  or  *n  tbe  meantime  French  and  German 
political  freedom  of  a  country  was  torPedo-boats  ran  into  the  rivers  and 
promoted  by  the  depth  of  the  pover-  destroyed  the  forts,  and  while  all 
ty  or  the  smallness  of  the  huts  of  was  ’n  confusion,  all  the  ocean  ca- 
the  common  people.  Small  huts  and  ^ es  be‘nS  cut,  the  German  naval 
deep  poverty  mean  social  squalor, in-  commanders  outwitted 
the  British 
slavery,  deets  and  again  landed  an  army  in 
creased 
They  are  the  enemies  of  the  human  En«,and.  The  English  Army  had 
race. 
It  is  to  abolish  the  ‘small  hut’  been  reduced  after  the  Boer  War  to 
and  the  ‘deep  poverty’  that  every  in-  w^at  it  was  before.  The  armament, 
vention,  every  new  idea  of  freedom  which  had  become  obsolete  or worn- 
and  the  development  of  sanitary  and  out>  was  not  replaced,  and  the  main 
mechanical 
Any  nation  whose  huts  should  grow 
smaller  and  the  poverty  of  whose 
people  should  grow  deeper  would  he 
known  to  all  mankind  as  a  nation  re­
ceding  toward  darker  barbarism.”

Of  course,  there  was  a  catastrophe 
for  the  English,  and  all  happened  in 
'905,  just  two  years  away.  The  en­
tire  scheme 
is  entirely  ridiculous; 
but  the  object  is  given  out  to  be 
the  arousing  of  the  British  people 
to  the  importance  of  being  pre­
pared  for  anything.

sciences  are  desired. I dependence  was  on  the  Militia.

Editor  Gun ton  says  that  there  “is 1 

— -------— *-•-—   —

superstition  and 

the  *ng  united 

This  is  entirely  true  with  the  qual­
ification  that  there  is  something  in 
the  people  themselves  that 
incites 
them  to  action.  It  is  some  spur  from 
the  outside,  or  some  spiritual  qual­
ity  within  that  is  the  inspiration.

AN  IM AGIN ARY  W AR  SCARE.

The  postal  receipts  of  the  Govern­
ment  during  April  were  over  n  per 
cent,  higher  than  for  the  same month 
last  year.  Nearly  all  the  cities  show 
increases.  .  Prosperity 
is  still  pro-
ounce  •  ______________
The  prude  is  generally  on 

the 

A  favorite  diversion  of  imaginative I 
i persons  is  to  foretell  destructive  wars 
in  which 
is 
j either  conquered  or  reduced  to  great [watch  for  shocking  things.

some  special  nation 

, S

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

9

TH E  K N O W N   AN D  UN KNOW N.
It  is  a  matter  of  common  observa­
tion  that  the  really  wise  men  are  the 
ones  most  willing  to  confess  limita­
tions.  They  frequently  say, “I  don’t 
know,”  while  the  men  who  know only 
a  little  never  say  “I  don’t  know.” 
It 
is  noticeable,  also,  that  the  man  with 
the  little  mind  is  the  man  who  always 
has  his  mind  made  up.  W e  are  learn­
ing  new  things  pretty  rapidly  in  these 
days,  but  none  of  us  are  rapid  enough 
to  keep  up  with  the  advance  of  in­
vention  and  discovery.  Still  we  know 
enough  of  what  is  going on  to  be very 
greatly  impressed  by  it;  indeed,  so 
wonderful  seems  to  us  the  sum  of 
knowledge  amassed  by  the  men  of 
science  that we  are  apt  to  forget  what 
a  very  little  way  out  into  the  great 
unknown  we  have  penetrated with  our 
little  lights  of  physical  science.  The 
work  of  the  scientific  men  has  been 
very  great  and  glorious,  but  to  the 
masters  in  this  kind  it  is  but  a  very 
small  part  of  that  which  remains  un­
known.  And  this  last  has  a  most  pro­
voking  way  of  increasing  instead  of 
decreasing  with  each  new  discovery. 
The  more  we  learn  the  more  we  learn 
there  is  to  learn.  We  think  we  solve 
one  mystery  only  to  find  ourselves 
confronted  with  others  more  baffling. 
We  continually  move  the  mystery  one 
point  back,  but  it  is  really  just  as 
mysterious  as  before.

Now,  some  people  who  realize  this 
get  discouraged,  especially  in  think­
ing  and  puzzling  over 
those  very 
greatest  of  all  questions,  concerning 
life  and  death  and  the  future.  They 
feel  that  as  the  human  mind  is  always 
in  the  last  analysis  baffled,  we  may 
as  well  give  up  the  whole  subject, stop 
thinking about these  matters  and  leave 
them  as  hopelessly  belonging  to  the 
unknown.  The  human  mind can  never 
really  know  anything,  it  is  said,  and 
so  many  people  are  scared  away  from 
earnest  thought  and  study  as  some­
thing  useless.  Because  these  things 
are  mysteries  there  can  be  no  clear 
thinking  about  them.

The  great  human  problems  are 
mysteries,  but  that  is  no  reason  why 
we  should  not 
think  clearly  about 
Indeed,  all  the  things  that  are 
them. 
most  worth  inquiring 
this 
world  are  uncertainties,  problems  and 
mysteries.  A  thing  that  is  already 
certain  is  not  worth  thinking  about. It 
is  the  doubtful  things  we  need  to 
probe  and  reflect  on.

into 

in 

“ Is  there  any  difficulty  in  thinking 
clearly  round  about  the  mysterious?” 
asks  President  Eliot  of  Harvard  in  a 
recent  address. 
“If  there  is  any  in­
superable  difficulty,”  he  says,  “then 
we  simply cannot get on in  this world, 
because  we  are  absolutely  immersed 
in  mystery,  and  the  things  we  call 
practical and  real, in  the plainest sense 
of  those  words,  are  almost  all  myster­
ies.”  And  he  goes  on  to  show  that 
electricity is  an  absolute  mystery, root 
and  branch.  Never  has  any  mortal 
man  had  a  clear  idea  of  the  nature  of 
electricity. 
“We  have  not  the  least 
conception,”  he  adds,  “how  a  single 
blade  of  wheat 
the 
ground;  nor  the  least  idea  how  the 
colors  on  the  robin’s  breast  have  been 
transmitted  from  generation  to  gener­
ation  for  thousands  of  years. 
For­
ever  are  the  colors  perpetuated,  and

springs 

from 

we  cannot  conceive  how  it  is  done.” 
“We  are  absolutely  immersed  in  mys­
tery  in  our  daily  lives,  amid  all  our 
most  practical  affairs,  amid  all  things 
we  call  real.  Yet  we  utilize 
these 
mysteries  by  clear,  bold  thinking.” 
Therefore,  let  us  not  excuse  ourselves 
for  lack  of  clear  thinking  about  all 
great  problems  on  the  ground  that 
so  much  is  mysterious.

While  one  man  is  impressed  and 
oppressed  by the  sense  of mystery  an­
other  is  impressed  by  the  tremendous 
inroads  we  are  making  into  the  field 
of  the  unknown.  He  is  chiefly  struck 
with  the  vast  increase  of  modern 
knowledge.  Year  by  year,  the  micro­
scope  in  one  direction  and  the  tele­
scope  in  the  other,  are  opening  the 
universe  to  our  gaze  in  even  more 
wonderful  gloriousness  and  extent. 
Not  an  object,  not  a  force,  not  the 
claims  it  for  her  own,  and  never leaves 
tiniest  spot  of 
science 
claims it for her  own, and  never leaves 
it  until  she  has  classed  it  upon  the 
shelves  of  system  and 
Our 
bodies  have  been  looked  through  and 
through.  The  brain  has  been  weighed 
and  analyzed;  science  has  got  behind 
the delicate mechanism of the  eye, and 
the  very  blood  has  been  analyzed  and 
watched  to  find  out  what  its  red  or 
white  corpuscles  have  to  do  in  the 
harming or  helping of  life.”

space  but 

law. 

the 

But,  as  we  said  above,  we  have  now 
what  seems  a  curious  paradox,  for the 
more we  know the greater appears  the 
unknown.  What  a  revelation  of  the 
unknown,  as  well  as  of  the  known,  is 
there  in  the  magnificent  discoveries of 
the  astronomer!  As 
telescope 
reaches  out,  with  ever  more  power­
ful  eye,  straining  to  reach  the  boun­
daries  of  the  universe,  so  does  that 
universe  expand,  and  with  every  fur­
thest  reach  the  possibilities  of  the 
unknown  are  almost  infinitely  magni­
fied.  Celestial  photographs  of  the 
Harvard  Observatory  reveal  150,000,- 
000  stars.  But  what  planets  swing 
around  those  central  fires?  And  on 
those  planets  what  trees  and  animal 
forms,  what  men  and  women  are 
there?

And  .so, 

in  the  unknown  micro­
scopic  world  it  is  an  infinite  vast,  in 
comparison  with  which 
the  micro­
scopic  known  is but  a very  little  space. 
No  one  knows  so  well  as  the  micro­
scopic  anatomist  that  he  has  not  read 
the  ultimate  facts.  We  hear  much  of 
the  atomic  theory,  but  what  is  it more 
than  a  convenient  hypothesis,  which 
does  not  pretend  to  any  ultimate  so­
lution  of  the  mystery  of  matter?  No 
one  has  ever seen  an  atom.  The physi­
cal  scierces  are  continually  dealing 
with  things  and  forces  that  cannot  be 
seen. 
If  we  cannot  know  what  we 
cannot  touch  and  see,  then,  indeed,  is 
our  knowing  limited  to  very 
little. 
Tyndall  justly  speaks  of  “that  region 
inaccessible  to  sense,  which  embraces 
so  much  of  the  intellectual  life  of  the 
investigator.  When  thta  which  the 
microscope  fails  to  see is  regarded as 
non-existent,  “then  I  think,”  he  says, 
“the  microscope  begins  to  play  a  mis­
chievous  part,”  and  he  proceeds  to 
point  out  many  cases  where  structure 
and  structural  changes  must  be  be­
lieved  to  exist  though  the  microscope 
can  make  nothing  of  them.

So  the  whole  of  mineralogy  and 
biology  and  chemistry  and  optics— all 
these  are  built  on  the  assumption  of 
the  existence  of  the  molecule,  the 
atom  and  the  ether.  Yet  of  these  units 
of  matter  how  many  have  been  iso­
lated,  measured  or  touched?  Of their 
ceaseless  motions  how  many  have 
been  felt  or  seen?  Of  this  omnipres­
ent  ether,  some  eleven  trillion  times 
as  extensive  as  ordinary  matter,  what 
smallest  puantity  has  ever  been  ob­
served?  Not any.  “The  largest  mole­
cule,  it  is  calculated,  is  a  thousand 
times  smaller  than  any  particle  the 
microscope  can  separately  discern  and 
the  ether  is  immensely  subtler  than 
this.”

The  truth  is,  even  natural  science 
knows  many  things  we  cannot  touch 
or  see.  No  man  has  ever  seen  the 
North  Pole,  or  the  other  side  of  the 
moon;  yet  we  are  as  certain  of 
heir  existence as  if we had been  there. 
We  have  discovered  gases 
that  no 
sense  has  directly  observed,  rays  of 
the  spectrum 
invisible  to  the  eye, 
suns  that  no  telescope  has  seen,  yet 
whose  motions  the  astronomer  has 
calculated  and  verified. 
in 
the  smallest  germ  science  finds  force, 
law,  growth.  Above  in  the  grandest 
solar  systems  force,  law,  growth again 
are  manifested.  And  in  whatever  still 
undiscovered  galaxies  may  lie  beyond, 
the  same  principles,  we  feel  certain, 
will  still  rule  there  as  here.  As  to 
that  which 
impossible  for  us

“ Below 

is 

it 

ever  to  know  we  can,  of  course,  say 
nothing.  But  that  which,  though  it  is 
as  yet  unknown,  is  conceivably  know- 
able,  must  be  recognized  by  reason  of 
that  knowability,  as  owning  the  do­
minion  of  those  principles  by  which 
alone  things  are  knowable.”

future 

We  live  in  a  universe;  which  is  to 
say  the  cosmos  is  a  unity  from  be- 
gining  to  end.  Only  a  little  of  the 
mystery 
do  we  understand— the 
greater  part  is  unknown.  Unknown, 
but  perhaps  not  altogether  unknow­
able;  for  as  ten  thousand  things  which 
were  formerly  unknown  and  seemed 
unknowable  are  now  perfectly  well 
known,  so  it  must  be  that  millions  of 
things  which  are  now  unknown  will 
yet  yield  up  their  meaning  and  their 
mystery  to  the  patience  and  persist­
ence  of  the  men  of 
times. 
Wherever  we  pursue  our  investiga­
tions  we  find  an 
intelligible  order. 
That  which  matches  our  intelligence 
we  can  only  interpret  as  the  manifes­
tation  of  intelligence.  We  can  trace 
an  intelligent  advance  up  the  ages  un­
til  today;  we  can  see  that  “the  uni­
verse  is  on  the  march” ;  great  mean­
ings  have  been  coming  out  through 
all 
slow  progress  of  history; 
things  grow  here  and  there  a  little 
clearer,  and  there  is  a  growing  con­
fidence  that  “the  vast  power  that  is 
at  the  heart  of  the  universe,  though 
still  greatly  unknown,  is  not  only  a 
power  of  order,  but  more,  a  power  of 
goodness.”

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TH IR ST  O F  PO LITICS.

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ness  Keenness.

There  has  been  a  lot  of  talk about 
whether  a  grocer,  or  any  retail  mer­
chant  for  that  matter,  ought  to  take 
a  hand  in  politics.  Hardly  any  two 
people  have  the  same  opinion.  Some 
think  he  ought  to.  particularly  if  he 
lives  in  a  small  town,  because  the 
prominence  thus  engendered  keep 
his  store  in  the  band  wagon.
the 

Other  people 

think 

groce

county  clerkship. 

held  the  auditorship  four  years, and 
then  came  another  election.  This 
time  Billings  had  a  great  thirst  for 
the 
That  was 
really  worth  having,  for  it  paid  about 
$5,000.  Billings  lusted  after  the  of­
fice  mightily.  He  went  from  one end 
° f  I*ie  county  to  the  other,  working 
hard  night  and  day.

This  time  the  poor  store  was  ab­
solutely  neglected.  His  wife  had an­
other  baby  to  take  care  of.  She told 
me  herself  that  she  protested  time

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ought  to  stay  out  o politics,  because and  time  again.
"Oh.  that's  all  right,  Mary,”  he
politicians  make  hi ter  enemies  and
enemies  pass  your store  by  on  the would  say  every  time;  "I'll  get  this
other  side.
office  and  then  I'm  going  to  sell out
Examples  show  the  truth  of  this W e  can  live  like  kings  off  the  salary

question  better  than theory.

About  ten  years  ago  I  knew  a gro-

and  save  money.”
Other  people 

remonstrated  with

in 

the

sad 

in  a  thriving eountrv  town— a him.  with  the  same  result.

cer 
county  seat.  He
I  m  sure  to  get  in,”  he  said,  “and
business  as  a  clerk and  as  he  had then  I m  going  to  quit  business  for
I  like
It s  too  slow  for  me. 
been  born 
everybody  and  even-body  knew  him tne  game  of  politics  myself."

town  he  knew stood. 

learned  the

He  had  some  monev  of  his  own.

But  the  unfortunate  Billings  did
and  when  the  time came  he  started not  get  in.  His  opponent  was  a
a  store  of  his  own.
It  did  well  and splendid  man  and  he  and  his  party
the  fellow  prospere d.  He  would be raised  the  cry  that  Billings  was  be-
prospering  yet  if  the  political  bee had 
professional  feeder  at  the 
ept  out  of  his  bonnet.
public  breast,  and  the  poor  devil lost 
—the  only  one  of  his  party  ticket  to
This  fellow  was  popular  among his 
:*wn«people,  and  some  of  the  little 
»cal  leaders  hit  on  him  for  township 
omznitteeman.  To  tell  the  truth, 
te  reason  they  did  it  was  because 
»me  little  money  had  to  be  put  up. 
"d  BiJings  was  the  only  party  man

For  several  weeks  he  was  so  sore 
nd  sick  that  he  could  not  arouse 
imself  to  anything.  Then  he tried 
to  pick  up  the  ragged  ends  of  his 
again,  but  it  was  too  late
who  was  good  enough  for He  could  not  force  his  mind  back
and  at  the  same  time  was into  the  old  groove.  Business  was.
go  down  in  his  jeans  and as  he  said,  too  slow.  He  had  lost
•oney.
e'cr\  scintilla  of  the  old  keen  inter­
was  proud  and  flattered est.

P

aonor  you  have  conferred

The  glitter  and  glamour  of  poli­
fellow  Republicans,”  and tics.  even  county  politics,  made  the
He  was  elected  without selling  of  sugar  and  mackerel  a pain-
ullv  prosaic  thing.  He  tried  to  do 
* 
I  know  he  tried— but  it  did  not 
ro.  As  a  business  man  be  had stunt­
ed  his  own  growth.

This  was  the 

initial  germ.  Bil­
lings  held  the  office  all  right,  and  it

Billings  began 

much.  But  the  first  taste  of  politics 
was  good.  The  little  office  tasted 
monsh. 
to  hang 
around  the  county 
leaders.  When 
the  next  county  election  came  up he 
announced  himself  as  candidate  for 
county  auditor.

There  was  a  little  money  in  this 
committee  was 

job;  the  township 
purely  honorary.

\\ ell,  he  got  the  nomination,  and 
as  the  county  was  politically  close, 
he  electioneered  the  whole  district. 
He  was  not  in  his  store  more  than 
a  few  hours  a  day  and  on  his  wife 
lell  the  burden  of  taking  care  of  it. 
She  did  the  best  she  could,  but  her

not  know  much  about  the  business 
and  had  two  children  to  take  care  of

the 

Fortunately 

campaign  was 
short.  Billings  was  elected.  The job 
paid  about  $500  a  year,  and  did  not 
take  much  time,  so  the  man  went 
back  to  his  store  again.  But  the 
virus  was  there.  He  was  uneasy.  He 
had  formed  the  habit  of  going  out 
frequently 
"to  see  a  man."  You 
could  find  him  almost  any  time  in 
front  of  the  local  hotel  in  a  bar-room 
chair,  talking  politics  with  any  of 
the  county  politicians  who  happened 
along.

If 

I 

remember  rightly,  Billings

Since  that  time  Billings  has  never 
held  an  office.  As  a  run-down busi- 
iess  man  he  seems  to  be  rather  de- 
Pi-ed  by  the  leaders.  His  wife  is  a 
apable  woman,  with  an  enormous 
.mount  of  nerve  stored  away  in  a 
weak  body.  She  realized  that  it was 
ip  to  somebody,  so  she  hired  a wom- 
n  to  care  for  her  children  and  start 
d  in  to  run  the  business.  She  has 
done  very  well  for  a  woman,  but  the 
isiness  is  only  a  shred  of  what  it 
irnierly  was,  and  I  do  not  imagine 
they  have  an  easy  time  to  get  along 
Billings  is  now  a  confirmed  loafer 
He  is  on  the  ragged  edge  of  politics 
Nobody  pays  any  attention  to  him—  
obody  cares  what  he  thinks  or  says 
but  he  still  has  in  him  the  same 
deep  thirst  for  office  and  incidentally 
for  beer.  Ever  hopeful  that  the  po- 
utica,  lightning  may  strike  him some­
time  again,  he  toadies  the 
leaders 
until  he  makes  them  sick.

If  he  lives  to  be  a  thousand,  Bil­
lings  will  never  be  elected  to  office 
again.  He  is  totally  dead.  But  if 
he  lives  to  be  two  thousand  he  will 
never  get  through  hoping  to  be and 
if  he  lives  to  be  three  thousand  he 
will  never  again  be  a  business  man.
The  world  holds  no  more  perfect 
antidote  for  business  keenness  than 
the  unassuageable  thirst  of  politics. 
— Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Taking  His  Own  Medicine.

The  walking  delegate  never  tired 
of  talking  about  the  strike.  He  held 
that  it  was  justifiable  if  ever  a  strike 
was,  and  he  was  prepared  to  demon­
strate  that  it  was  perfectly  proper to 
strike  to  secure  a  desired  result.  He 
told  his  wife  so  and  she  appeared  to 
agree  with  him.  She  said  it  seemed 
the  easiest  way.  That  night  when 
he  came  home  he  found  that  the  ta­
ble  was  not  set.

“I  want  a  new  dress,”  the  wife 
said,  when  he  asked  what  the  trouble 
was.

“I  know.  You’ve  been  bothering 
me  for  that  dress  for  a  month,”  he 
said,  “but  how  about  supper?” 

“There 

isn’t  any,” 

she 

replied. 

“This  is  a  strike.”

“A  strike?”
“ Yes. 

I’ve  been  trying  to  secure 
a  peaceable  settlement  of  this trouble 
for  some  time;  now  I’ve  struck.”

“Do  you  dare— ”
“Oh  don’t  talk  to  me  that  way! 
If  I  can’t  get  you  to  arbitrate,  why, 
I’ve  got  to  strike.”

“But,  Mary,  you  don’t 

under­

stand.”

“Oh,  yes,  I  do. 

I’ve  made  my  de­
they’ve  been  refused. 
mands,  and 
I’ve  asked  for  arbitration  with  a 
view  to  a  compromise,  and  that  has 
also  been  refused.  A  strike  is  all 
there  is  left,  and  I’ve  struck.”

“But  your  demands  are  unreason­

able.”

“I  don’t  think  they  are.”
“You’re  no  judge.”

“You’re  the  judge  of  your  own 
demands  when  you  strike,  and  I’m 
as  good  a  judge  as  you  are  when  I 
want  something. 
It’s  no  use  talk­
ing.  The  strike  is  on.”

She  folded  her  arms  in  a  deter­
mined  way,  and  he  subsided. 
It was 
perhaps  half  an  hour  later  when  he 
looked  up  and  said::

“Well,  what  are  you  going  to  do 

about  it?’

“Nothing,” 

she 

replied. 

“The 

strike  is  still  on.”

“Aren’t  you  hungry?”

No. 

I  saw  that  there  was some­
treasury  before  the 

thing 
strike  was  ordered.’

the 

in 

“Meaning  the  pantry?”  he 

re­

“Meaning 

the  pantry,” 

she 

re­

marked.

peated.

It  was  io  o’clock  that  night  when 
he  finally  gave  in  and  somehow  he 
felt  he  had  experienced  a  new  phase 
It  looked  dif­
of  the  strike  business. 

“I  believe  I’ll  get  a  bite,“  he  said. 
“It’s  locked,”  she  replied.  “The  re­
serve  is  to  be  used  to  keep  the  strike 
going.  You  can’t  touch  the  striker’s 
resources.”

“ Be  careful,  Mary!”  he  said, warn- 
ingly.  “If  I  shut  off  the  cash— ”  She 
nodded  toward  the  locked  pantry.

“I  can  stick  it  out  a  week,”  she  re­

turned.

Five  or  ten  minutes  later  he  pro­
posed  they  compromise  on  the  basis 
of  ten  dollars.

“Twenty,”  she  replied  firmly.
“ But  I  can’t  afford 

it,”  he  pro­

“That’s  your  business,” 

“I 

offered 

she 

an­
to arbitrate 

tested.

swered. 
once.”

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

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ferent  from  the  other  side  of  the 
fence. 

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April  Crop  Report.

Lansing,  May  u — In  the  official 
monthly  crop  report  Secretary  of 
State  Warner  says  the  weather  dur­
ing  April  was  favorable  for  wheat 
and  grass.  The  average  temperature 
was  a  little  below  normal,  while  the 
precipitation  was  largely  in  excess, 
being  4.66  inches.  The  condition  of 
wheat  is  about  the  same  as  one  month 
ago.  Some  correspondents  report fly 
but  as  yet  no  great  amount  of  dam­
age  has  been  done.  The  average  con­
dition  in  the  state  and  southern  coun­
ties  is  39,  central  counties,  87,  and 
northern  counties,  93. 
The  total 
number  of  bushels  of  wheat  reported 
marketed  by  the  farmers  in  April -at 
mills  is  145,346,  and  at  elevators,  63,- 
923,  a  total  of  209,269.

The  average  monthly  wages  with 
board  in  the  southern  counties  is $21.- 
93,  central  counties,  $20.86,  northern 
counties,  $21.79,  and 
state, 
$21.63.  The  average  wages  by  the 
day,  without  board  in  the  state,  is 
$i-33-  The  average  wage  with  board 
last  year  was  $20.20  and  by  the  day 
$1.22.  Many  correspondents  report 
farm  laborers  very  scarce.

the 

in 

The 

The  condition  of  fruit  was  very 
uncertain. 
freezing  weather 
which  occurred  during  the  last  days 
of  April  injured  some  kinds  of  fruit 
seriously.  Early  strawberries,  some 
varieties  of  peaches,  plums,  and  cher­
ries  were  affected,  but  the  extent  of 
the  damage  can  not  be  determined un­
til  next  month.

The  First  Thimbles.
invented 

by 

Thimbles  were 

a 
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of  gold, 
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Some  Obstacles  Met  by  the  Tireless 

Traveler.

the 

that 

A  preacher  in  the  town  of  Empo­
ria  is  just  now  in  several  pecks,  say 
about  four  bushels,  of  trouble.  Some 
weeks  ago  in  a  sermon  he  cast  some 
reflections  on  the  traveling  men  of 
the  country.  According  to  the  Em-1 
poria  preacher  they  are  a  tolerably 
hard  lot  on  the  average;  indeed  he 
intimated 
toughness  was 
quite  general. 
If  a  hearer  who  knew 
nothing  about  the  traveling  fraternity 
had  taken  the  word  of  that preacher 
he  must  have  concluded  that  about 
nine  traveling  men  out  of  ten  main­
tained  a  sort  of  Mormon-like  exist­
ence  and  that  family  ties  sat  very 
lightly  on  them 
indeed.  He  also 
made  several  other  charges  of  more 
or  less  grave  character. 
It  was  not 
long  after  that  until  the  expounder of 
the  gospel  was  made  to  feel  that  it 
would  have  been  some  $2.50  in  his 
pocket  if  he  had  perished  with  the 
croup  when  he  was  a  tender  and  ir­
responsible  infant. 
In  other  words, 
the  traveling  men  proceeded  to round 
him  up  and  demand  his  authority  for 
his  charges.  The  preacher  had hardly 
expected  this.  He  had 
loaded  his 
mouth  and  shot  it  off  without  very 
much  consideration  as 
it 
might  hit.  The  truth  was  that  he 
really  did  not  know  much  about  the 
subject  of  his  remarks.  Like  some 
other  zealous  preachers  he  probably 
thought  that  it  was  his  duty  to  hit 
somebody  and  thus  show  that  he was 
a  fearless  man.  He  had  been  told no 
doubt  that  traveling  men  were  almost 
without  exception 
sports  and  had 
taken  it  for  granted  that  the  state­
ment  was  correct  without  verifying 
it  by  personal 
investigation.  That 
was  where  he  made  a  fatal  mistake. 
When  a  minister  or  anybody  else 
makes  charges  against  other  people 
of  immorality  he  ought  to  know right 
well  what  he  is  talking  about.  The 
spoken  word  can  never  be  recalled 
and  for  that  reason  it  ought  not  to 
be  lightly  spoken.

to  what 

Traveling  men  are  a  good  deal like 
the  average  intelligent  and  enterpris­
ing  American  citizen  in  other  lines 
of  business.  The  traveling man  is not 
always  a  saint.  Sometimes  you  can 
find  a  traveling  man  all  of  whose pri­
vate  conduct  would  hardly  do  to 
publish  in  the  columns  of  a  religious 
journal.  But  just  the  same  we  be­
lieve  after  a  pretty  careful  observa­
tion  of  several  years  that  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  traveling  men  will  aver­
age  with  any  other  class  in  this  coun­
try.  To  begin  with  we  have  not  seen 
a  traveling  man  drunk 
for  nearly 
twenty  years.  There  used  to  be one 
traveling  man  who 
traveled  over 
Southwest  Kansas  about  twenty years 
ago,  who  was  a  lusher.  He  was  full 
much  oftener  than  the  moon.  With 
the  exception  of  this  one  fault  he was 
a  bully  good  fellow.  He  knew  how 
to  sell  goods,  too,  and  was  honest, 
but  he  would  take  on  a  jag  of  tre­
mendous  proportions  at  nearly  every 
town  he  struck.  His  house  knew his 
value  and  stood  his  foolishness  a long 
time,  but  finally  they  gave  him  his 
choice  of  giving  up  his  whiskey  or 
his  job.  He  is  dead  now,  poor  fel­

as 

I  could  estimate 

of  them  and  counted  three  seconds 
before  I  could  hear  it  strike  bottom. 
If  a  man  had  fallen  down  in  one  of 
those  weather  cracks  he  would have 
been  a  goner.  At  last  we  struck  a 
well  and  asked  if  we  could  have  a 
drink.  The  woman  of  the  house said 
that  we  might  provided  we  would 
draw  the  water  ourselves.  That well, 
as  near 
it 
from  the  time  it  took  to  draw  up  a 
bucketful,  was  seven  hundred  and 
forty  feet  deep  with  about  two  feet 
of  water  at  the  bottom.  By  the  time 
we  got  to  Mobeete  the  tires  had melt­
ed;  the  feloes  were  singed  off  about 
halfway  to  the  hub.  That  night  a 
raging  rain  storm  came  down  and  it 
wascurious  to  see  the  change.  The 
earth  got  soaked  up  so  that  all  the 
cracks  suddenly  closed  up  and when 
the  sides  came  together  you  could 
hear 
the  water  splash,  sometimes 
throwing  the  water  into  the  air  ten 
or  fifteen  feet. 
It  was  reasonably 
pleasant  after  the  rain  commenced, 
but  before  that,  well  don’t  talk  to me 
about  the  trials  the  traveling  men had 
to  endure  from  winter  storms.  The 
winter  storms  were  not  a  circum­
stance  compared  with  a  right  down 
hot  day  in  the  Panhandle  of  Texas 
when  a  hot  wind  was  blowing  at  the 
rate  of  seventy-five  miles  an  hour.”—  
Merchants  Journal.

Now  and  then  a  minister  gets rich, 
but  when  he  does,  it  is  through  some 
operation  on  the  side  which  makes 
the  money.  Rev.  James  Stafford, pas­
tor  of  a  Presbyterian  church  in  In­
diana,  has  invented  a  stopper  which 
makes  bottles  non-  refillable. 
It  is 
said  a  patent  medicine  company  of­
fered  him  $100,000  for  it  and  was  re­
fused.  Now  the  report  comes  that 
the  leading  whisky  distiller  of  Lex­
ington,  Ky.,  has  offered  $1,000,000  for 
the  device,  and  the  proposition  is so 
I tempting  that  it  is  being  carefully 
considered.  By  means  of  it, 
it  is 
said,  that  the  bottles  can  never  be 
used  again. 
It  is  a  common  practice 
to  put  second  or  third  rate  liquids in­
to  bottles  which  originally  contained 
first  class  goods. 
If  Elder  Stafford’s 
stopper  will  do  what  he  claims,  it 
will  prevent  a  great  deal  of  deception 
and  humbug  from  being  successfully 
practiced,  even  if  incidentally 
is 
adopted  by  the  manufacturers  of  in­
toxicating  beverages.

it 

The  cost  of  living,  based  on  quota­
tions  of  leading  products,  was  con­
siderably  less  May  1  this  year  than 
at  the  same  date  last  year.  The  fig­
ures  a  year  ago  were,  however, high­
er  than  they  had  been  before  during 
a  long  period.  Production  continues 
at  an  unprecedented  rate,  but Amer­
icans  are  good  livers  when  they  can 
afford  to  be,  and  hence  prices  are 
likely  to  be  maintained  as  long  as 
there  is  plenty  of  work  at  good 
wages.

in  business. 

Regular  customers  are  the  desid­
eratum 
“Occasionals,” 
or  “transients”  are  not  fixed  quan­
tities.  A  customer  that  is  made  a 
fixture  is  worth  half  a  score  of  the 
former.  For  this  reason  the  adver­
tisement  as  well  as  the  goods  should 
work  together  to  this  end.

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

jobs 

unless 

low,  but  for  the  last  five  years  of  his 
life  he  was  a  strictly  sober  man  and 
attentive  to  his  business.  Traveling 
men  have  to  be  sober.  They  can not 
hold  their 
they  are. 
Traveling  men  as  a  rule  do  not gam­
ble  for  the  same  reason,  if  for  no 
o th e r.  T r a v e lin g   men  can  not  be no­
to rio u s  debauches.  The  mercantile 
houses  can  not  afford  to  have  that 
kind  of  representatives  on  the  road. 
The  successful  traveling  man 
is  a 
hard  worker.  He  has  to  keep  a 
humping  in  order  to  gather  in  and 
hold  his  trade.  Now  the  man  who 
is  right  busy  at  a  legitimate  business 
lias  not  time  to  be  much  of  a  sport 
It  is  the  man  who  is  idle  as  a  rule 
who  raises  thunder.  The  traveling 
man  has  to  be  industrious,  honest, 
clear  headed,  and  if  he  is  all  that  he 
can  not  be  a  very  bad  man.  The 
preacher  simply  wagged  his  jaw with­
o u t  provocation  and  w ith o u t  justifi­
cation.

towns 

“Speaking  of  traveling  men,”  said 
the  old  timer  who  had  made  all  the 
principal  cities  and 
in  the 
course  of  a  career  as  a  drummer  from 
the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  “I  know 
that  most  of  the  fellows  are  good 
straight  men;  every  once  in  a  while 
you  will  find  a  really  religious  man 
among  the  lot,  although  I  can  not 
say  as  the  profession  is  overburdened 
with  really  genuine  piety,  but wheth­
er  they  are  religious  or  not  they  are 
straight  as  a  rule  and  looking  after 
the  interests  of  their  houses.  Some 
will  go  a  good  ways  to  gather  in 
trade.  There  was  Jim  S.,  for  in­
stance.  Jim  could  adapt  himself  to 
about  any  sort  of  company  that  he 
met  up  with  and  do  it  to  a  turn. 
I 
have  known  him  to  strike  a  town 
where  there  was  a  great  revival  go­
ing  on  and  the  whole  town  worked 
up  about  the  question  of  sin  and  sal­
vation.  On  such  an  occasion 
you 
would  find  Jim  if  he  had  to  stay over 
night  well  to  the  front  in  one  of  the 
churches,  and  when  it  came  to  sing­
ing— well  you  could  hear  Jim’s  voice 
It  simply  did not 
over  the  whole  lot. 
take  him  any 
the 
brethren  and  sisters  believe  that  he 
was  with  ’em  heart  and  soul.  On one 
occasion  the  revivalist  was  attracted 
to  Jim  and  impressed  with  the  way in 
which  he  lifted  up  his  voice  in song 
and  when  the  hymn  was  finished  the 
preacher  dropped  on  his  knees  and 
asked  that  the  brother  who  was  a 
stranger  within  the  gates 
in 
prayer. 
I  knew  that  Jim  was  not 
loaded  with  prayer  meeting  piety, and 
that  when  things  went  wrong  he 
could  do  about  as  complete  and  artis­
tic  a  job  of  swearing  as  I  ever  lis­
tened  to.  For  a  moment  or  two  his 
face  had  the  look  of  a  man  who  had 
drawn  to  a  bob  tailed  flush  and  failed 
to  get  the  right  card,  but  the  next 
minute  he  righted  up  again  and  went 
down  on  his  knees  and,  bless  me,  if 
he  did  not  put  up  about  the  rip snort- 
ingest  prayer  I  ever  listened  to  in my 
life.  The  next  day  he  sold  the  big­
gest  line  of  orders  that  had  ever  been 
taken  in  that  town.”

time  to  make 

lead 

“Some  of  the  rides  that  traveling 
men  used  to  have  to  take  in  Western 
Kansas  in  the  early  days,”  said  an­
other  old  timer,  “would  have  done up 
the  ordinary  man.  Just  think,  for  in­

find 

stance,  of  having  to  ride  a  hundred 
miles  across  the  prairies  in  a  blizzard. 
Of  course  there  would  be  a  stopping 
place  once  in  a  long  time,  but  for the 
most  part  it  was  grin  and  bear  it. 
Sometimes  the  horses  would  get  off 
the  trail  in  a  storm  and  then  it would 
be  necessary  to  get  out  and  hunt the 
track  again  by  the  light  of  a  lantern. 
I  knew  a  case  where  a  ride  of  that 
kind  was  taken.  The  traveling  man 
wanted  to  make  a  town  which  neces­
sitated  a  drive  of  forty  miles  or more. 
He  could  not  finish  up  his  business 
and  get  ready  for  the  ride  until about 
3  o’clock  in  the  afternoon. 
It  was 
one  of  those  warm  afternoons  that 
you 
in  Southwestern  Kansas 
along  in  December.  Felt  more  like 
May  than  December.  The  thermom­
eter 
indicated  seventy  in  the  shade 
when  the  drive  commenced.  Along 
about  6  o’clock  it  got  very  dark,  and 
a  rain  commented  to  fall. 
In  half an 
hour  that  rain  was  turned  to  sleet 
that  cut  into  the  face. 
In  an  hour 
more  it  was  snowing  and  blowing to 
beat  the  band  and  the  temperature 
was  down  to  twenty  above  zero.  Talk 
about  sudden  changes.  When 
the 
mercury  takes  a  tumble  of  fifty  de­
grees  inside  of  four  hours  it  makes 
you  feel  as  if  you  had  tumbled  into 
a  tub  of  ice  water. 
In  another  hour 
the  mercury  was  down  to  zero  and 
the  horses  could  not  be  kept  in  the 
road.  The  driver  got  bewildered and 
it  looked  as  if  the  whole  outfit  would 
freeze  to  death.  For  three  hours  the 
driver  and  the  traveling  man  tramped 
around  on  the  prairie  and  about  10 
they  were  lucky  enough  to  strike  a 
claim  shanty  where  they  stayed  all 
night.  The  drummer  found  when  he 
took  an  invoice  of  himself  after  he 
got  warmed  up  a  little  that  both  ears 
and  his  nose  were  considerably frost­
ed  as  well  as  his  feet.  The  driver was 
worse  off  even  than  he  was. 
If they 
had  not  happened  to  hit  that  claim 
shanty  both  of  them  would  have been 
past  help  inside  of  two  hours.  That 
was  a  specimen  of  the  hardships  the 
traveling  men  had  to  endure  out  in 
Western  and  Southwestern  Kansas 
twenty  years  ago.”

“And  summer,”  said  the  Chicago 
rdummer, 
is  next  thing  to  being  as 
bad  and  worse  than  the  winter  for 
drives. 
I  started  one  day  to  take  a 
drive  to  Mobeetie,  in  the  Panhandle 
of  Texas. 
It  was  ninety  at  sun  up 
and  when  we  started  at  half  past  6 
the  temperature  was  a  hundred  and 
ten  in  the  shade  and  somewhere near 
two  hundred  in  the  sun.  By  noon 
the  sun  was  scorching  the  woodwork 
of  the  buggy  so  that  you  could  smell 
it,  and  by  2  o’clock  the  buggy  tires 
commenced  to  get  soft  and  mushy. I 
threw  away  all  the  matches  I  had  in 
my  pockets  for  fear  they  would take 
fire  from  the  heat  and  then  lighted 
my  cigar  from  the  iron  end  of  the 
whip. 
iron  end  was  getting 
nearly  red  hot.  The  buggy  leathers 
were  scorching  and  the  wood  work
was  smoking  in  half  a  dozen  places_
never  saw  anything  like  it  for  heat 
in  all  my  days.  And  dry.  You  may 
not  believe  me  when 
that 
ground  was  cracked  open  in  places 
for  a  hundred  feet.  There  was simply 
no  way  of  telling  how  deep  those 
I  threw  a  stone  in one
cracks  were. 

The 

say 

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IN TER N AL  REVENUE.

Hank  Spreet  Feared  That  He  Might 

Be  Liable.

The  crowd  around  Hank  Spreet’s 
stove,  to  which  it  still  clung  in spite 
of the  advent  of  summer  weather, was 
discussing  the  pure  food  department, 
there  has  been 
concerning  which 
more  or  less  discussion  of  late. 
In 
spite  of  the  fact  that  the  trees  had 
taken  on  the  greenest  verdure  and 
the  jonquils  were  blooming  in  Mrs. j 
Grasslot’s  front  yard,  the  Kelly  Cen­
tre  Debating  Society  still  met night­
ly  about  the  stove  as  if  that  heap  of 
senseless  iron  inspired  their  tongues 
and  improved  their  wits.

Thus  disposed,  this  department of 
the  Michigan  State  Government  came 
in  for  a  discussion  which  is  best  de­
scribed  as  pro  and  con.  There  were 
those  who  thought  the  department 
was  a  good  thing,  and  then  there  were 
others  who  thought  the  people  were 
for  putting  up  cash  to  maintain  it. 
Although  Hank  was  in  the  grocery 
business  and  knew  that  some  of  his 
fellow  merchants  in  other  cities  had 
been  made  to  stand  up  in  the  crim­
inal  court  for  activity  in  this  regard, 
he  was  not  inclined  to  either  uphold 
or  oppose  it;  for  Hank  is  a  fair  mind­
ed  man  and  he  never  criticises  that 
of  which  he  has  no  knowledge.  Hank, 
however,  did  say  this:

“It 

is  a  wonder  to  me  how  our 
fathers  ever  lived  to  die  at  the  ripe 
old  ages  many  of  ’em  did  when  we 
consider  all  the  adulterated  stuff  they 
got  away  with  without  having  any 
pure  food  department  to  tell  ’em  of 
it  and  warn  ’em  of  the  awful  danger 
to  their  health. 
I  s’pose  when  but- 
terine  was  first  invented  there  was 
lots  of  people  who  eat  it  s’posing 
that  it  was  butter  and  who  consid­
ered  it  a  darn  sight  better’n  some  of 
the  stuff  that  is  passed  out  at  a board­
ing  house  table  that 
is  butter  all 
right  through,  but  not  the  kind  of 
butter  that  mother  used  to  make.”

the 

idea  all 

“ You’ve  got 

right, 
Hank,”  said  Bill  Blivens,  for  once 
falling  into  the  same  side  of  an  ar­
gument  of  the  grocer,  much  to 
the 
surprise  of  the  other  members  of  the 
Debating  Club.  “As  the  feller  says, 
‘Where  ignorance  is  bliss, 
’tis  folly 
to  be  wise.’  Now  there’s  bread, for 
instance;  you  know  that  bread  in or­
der  to  be  good  has  got  to  ferment  to 
a  certain  degree,  or  the  yeast  has, or 
something. 
I  don’t  believe  there’s a 
woman  in  the  United  States  who  is 
a  crank  on  temperance  and  belongs 
to  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  all  that  kind 
of  thing,  who  is  crank  enough  to keep 
from  eating  bread  even  although she 
knows  that  there  is  some  alcohol  in 
it.  I  see  where  some college professor 
or  somebody  has  figured  out  that  an 
ordinary  bread-eater  eats  enough  al­
cohol  in  the  course  of  a  year  in  that 
same  bread  to  make  seven  gallons 
of  whiskey.”

“My,”  said  the  grocer,  looking fix­
edly  at  Bill  Blivens’  nose,  “what  an 
awful  bread  eater  you  must  be. 
Speaking  of  whisky,  though,  reminds 
me  of  some  bitters  that  I’ve  got  up 
here  on  the  shelf  that  I’m  kind  of 
suspicious  of. 
I  went  to  take  some 
of  the  stuff  to-day  and  I’ll  be  darned 
if  I  didn’t  get  a  smell  of  whisky  or

alcohol  or  something  in  it   Now I’ve 
heard  of  people  calling  their  whisky 
their  bitters,  but  I  never  knew  be­
fore  of  anybody  having  nerve enough 
to  paste  that  name  on  it  and  sell  it 
as  the  real  thing.  I  s’pose  the  pure 
food  department  man  will  be  coming 
’round  here  sometime  and  smelling 
of  that  bitters  and  then  I’ll  be yanked 
tip  for  selling  something  that  ain’t 
what 
it  sets  out  to  be.  Guess  I’ll 
have  to  send  a  bottle  of  that  stuff 
down  to  this  expert  chemist  at Lan­
sing  and  find  out  if  it  really  is  whis­
ky;  and,  if  it  is,  out  the  whole  she­
bang  goes  into  the  back  yard. 
It’s 
bad  enough  to  have  the  pure  food 
man  floating  down  on  this  here  vil­
lage  without  having  three  or  four  in­
ternal  revenue  collectors  camping in 
town  and  the  sheriff  on  my  trail.”

“ Let’s  see 

those  bitters,  Hank,” 
said  Bill,  becoming  more  interested, 
“I  guess  I  can  tell  you  whether  it’s 
whisky  in  it  or  not.  S’pose  perhaps 
there  is  a  little  alcohol  in  it  and  that’s 
what  you  smell. 
I  guess  I  can  tell 
you.”

‘A  es,”  said  Hank,  “I  guess  you 
can,”  and  he  got  one  of  the  bottles 
and  handed  it  to  the  blacksmith.  That 
worthy  opened  it  gingerly,  looked  at 
the  label  and  then  took  a  careful whiff 
as  if  he  feared  to  encounter  some  am­
monia  or  something,  so  small  was his 
opinion  of  Hank’s  ability  to  detect 
anything.

Meantime  the Debating Club sat  in 
breathless  silence  awaiting  Bill’s  ver­
dict.  He  finally  broke  the  silence:

“There  ain’t  no  whisky  in  that,” he 
said,  “you  must  have  been  dreaming.”
The  conversation  then  passed  to 
other  things,  the  weather,  the  straw­
berry  outlook,  and  wfiat  the  peach 
prospect  was.  The  pure  food  depart­
ment  was  forgotten  and  apparently 
the  bitters  were  also.  It  was  not  un­
til  Bill  arose  and  brushed  the  cracker 
crumbs  from  his  clothes  that  any­
thing  more  was  said  about  the  sus­
picious 
looking  bottles  on  Hank’s 
shelves.  Then  Bill  said,  with  a  fine 
attempt  at  unconcern:

“I’m  feeling  kind  of 

run  down, 
Hank,  I  guess  I’ll  take  along  a  bottle 
of  them  bitters  and  see  if  they  will 
do  me  any  good,  if  the  price  ain’t too 
steep.”

“Well  the  stuff  is  made  to  sell  at  a 
dollar,  Bill,  but,  seeing  it’s  you,  I’ll 
let  you  have  it  for  seventy-five  cents.”
This  was  a  bargain  that  Bill  could 
not  resist  and  he  went  away  with  a 
bottle  of  the  liquid.

The  bitters  must  have  done  Bill  a 
great  deal  of  good,  for  he  soon  ex­
hausted  the  first  bottle  and  immedi­
ately  invested  in  another;  and,  before 
many  w eeks  had  passed,  Bill  had con­
sumed  enough  bitters  to  break  up  the 
worst  case  of  spring  fever  known  to 
medical  science.

The  stock  of  this  particular  medi­
cine  finally  dwindled  to  one  small bot­
tle  and  this  too  disappeared  one  day, 
but  not  into  the  pocket  of  the  black­
smith,  however.  A  few  evenings later 
when  the  Club  was  fairly  gathered 
about  the  ancient  stove,  Hank brought 
up  the  subject  of  the  bitters.

“I  took  that  last  bottle  of  them 
bitters  down  town  the  other  day,” 
the  grocer  said,  “and  had  Charlie 
Koon,  the  chemist, 
I

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think  he  called  it.  Anyhow,  he  done 
something  to 
it  and  he  says  that 
ain’t  alcohol  in  there,  but  something 
a  greenhorn  like  me  might  mistake 
for  it;  that  there  ain’t  no  more  whis­
ky  in  them  bitters  than  there  is  in 
fresh  milk.”

Bill  Blivens  cast  one  disgusted and 
suspicious  look  at  the  grocer  before 
he  left  the  store. 
If  he  could  have 
heard  the  grocer’s  next  remark,  his 
gravest  suspicions  would  have  been 
confirmed,  for  Hank  turned  to  the 
remaining  members  of  the  Society 
and  said  with  an  ill-concealed  smile:
“I’m  glad  I  didn’t  lay  myself  liable 
to  any  internal  revenue  taxes  or  li­
quor  law  in  selling  them  bitters,  for 
there  was  no  alcohol  in  them. 
I’m 
kind  of  glad,  though,  that  I  men­
tioned  it  to  Bill  that  there  might  be 
because  I’ve  been  worrying  for  a 
long  time  wondering  how  I  was  go­
ing  to  get  rid  of  my  stock  of  that 
stuff.” 

Douglas  Malloch.

It 

Great  Shortage  in  Cod  Liver  OiL
New  York, May  16— Cod  liver  oil 
continues  to  advance. 
is  now 
quoted  at  from  $150  to  $160  per  bar­
rel,  and  there  appears  to  be  no  limit 
to  which  it  may  not  go  before  the 
advance  ceases.  Latest  advices from 
Norway  regarding  the  fishing  are of 
the  same  tone  of  those  previously re­
ceived,  that  the  fish  have  such  lean 
livers  that  they  produce  a  very  small 
quantity  of  oil.

The  fishing  season  will  be  over 
this  month,  and  the  yield  of  oil  thus 
far  is  only  614  hectoliters.  This  is 
the  smallest  yield  on  record,  and,  in 
addition,  there  are  said  to  be  com­
paratively small stocks  of  oil on hand. 
The  consequence  is  that  there  will 
ultimately  be  a  great  shortage  in  the 
world’s  supply  of  cod  liver  oil.  Dur­
ing  the  last  six  years  the  exports  of 
cod 
from  Norway  have 
ranged  from  23,000  to  41,000  hecto­
liters  per  year. 
It  is  evident  now 
that  cod  liver  oil  will  eventually  be 
unobtainable  almost  at  any  price.

liver  oil 

Mourning  Rings.

Widows  have  revived  the  fashion 
of  wearing  mourning  rings,  and  a 
design  that  is  finding  great  favor  in 
the  eyes  of  the  wealthy  consists  of 
a  large  single  black  pearl  sunk  in a 
rim  of  what  is  known  as  tarnished 
silver.  Then,  too,  there  are  cameo 
rings  bearing  the  likeness  of  the  wo­
man’s  late  husband  and  set  in  a  cir­
cle  of  gold  covered  with  black  en­
amel.

All  mourning  rings  are  large  and 
heavy  and  must  be  worn  above  the 
wedding  circlet.

According  to  jewelers,  the  fash­
ion  of  wearing  rings  is  on  the  in­
crease. 
Indeed  the  thumb  is  the only 
digit  that  you  may  not  adorn  in these 
days,  marquise  rings  being  first  favor­
ites  for  wearing  on  the  index  finger. 
We  owe  to  this  fashion  the  new  finger 
tip  squeeze,  for  one  really  cannot  de­
scribe  such  a  proceeding  as  anything 
else,  and  a  handshake  would  indeed 
be  expuisitely  painful  to  those  who 
have  rings  on  every  finger,  the  gems 
in  which  would  cut  into  the  flesh  if 
pressed  in  a  hearty  grip.

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

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SU CCESSFU L  SALESM EN.

F.  G.  Friend,  Representing  Great 

Northern  Oil  Co.

in  Gaines 

Frederick  G.  Friend  was  born  on a 
township,  Kent 
farm 
county,  Feb.  10,  1862,  his  antecedents 
being  German  on  his  father’s  side 
and  English  on  his  mother’s 
side. 
When  he  was  a  small  child  his  par­
ents  moved  to  Paris  township,  where 
he  received  his  early  education,  which 
was  supplemented  by  a  teacher’s nor­
mal  course  at  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  and 
a  commercial  course  in  Swensburg’s 
Business  College,  Grand  Rapids.  After 
completing  his  education,  he  taught 
school  in  Cascade  and  Paris  town­
ships  and  Ada  village  and, 
in  the 
spring  of  1888,  formed  a  co-partner­
ship  with  O.  J.  Wright  and  engaged

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“JUNIOR”

GASOLINE  STOVES

W e  can  furnish  them  with  either  two  or  three 
burners  in  the  low  or  high  style.  T he  frames 
constructed  of  steel,  highly  Japanned  and  with 
nickel  name  plate on  front.

Don’t  Buy  Until  You  Get Our  Prices.

“INSURANCE” 

GASOLINE  STOVES

EVERY  ELEMENT  OF  DANGER  ELIMINATED

in  the  grocery  business  at  Lake 
Odessa.  Lines  of  dry  goods,  crock­
ery  and  shoes  were  subsequently  ad­
ded. 
In  the  summer  of  1897,  the  firm 
moved  the  stock  to  Hudson,  where 
they  remained  three  years,  Mr.  Friend 
selling  out  to  his  partner  and  re­
moving  to  Albion,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  shoe  business.  Two  years  later 
he  sold  his  stock  to  Hill  &  Allen  and 
engaged  to  represent 
Interna­
tional  Correspondence  School,  tak­
ing charge  of  the  Coldwater  and  Ionia 
districts.  Twelve  months 
later  he 
engaged  to  cover  Michigan  for  the 
Southard  Novelty  Co.,  of  Columbus, 
Ohio  which  position 
lie  filled  with 
satisfaction  to  all  concerned  during 
1902.  His  engagement  this  year  is 
with  the  Great  Northern  Oil  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  with  whom  he  is  making  an 
excellent  record  as  a  salesman.

the 

Mr.  Friend  was  married  Sept.  22, 
1887,  to  Miss  Alice  E.  Nellist,  and  is 
the  father  of  four  children,  one  of 
whom  died  at  the  age  of  three  years. 
The  family  reside  in  their  own home, 
which  they  have  just  purchased,  at 
181  South  East  street.

Mr.  Friend  is  a  member  of 

the 
Trinity  Methodist 
church,  having 
identified  himself  with  that  denomi­
nation  while  he  was  engaged  in trade 
at  Lake  Odessa.  He  attributes  his 
success  to  hard  work, 
intelligently 
directed,  but  those  who  know  him 
best  and  have  watched  his  career  as­
sert  that  back  of  it  all  there  is  a 
strata  of  honesty  and  faithfulness and 
reliability  which  have  played  no small 
part  in  the  success  he  has  achieved, 
both  as  a  merchant  and 
traveling 
salesman.

T he  most  perfect,  absolutely  safe  gasoline  stove  on  the  market. 
Accidents  such  as  frequently  occur  with  other  gasoline  stoves  are 
a b s o l u t e l y   i m p o s s i b l e   with  the  “ Insurance.”

It  autom atically  shuts  off  its  own  supply  of  oil  when  not  in  use; 
is  fitted  with  an  air  tight  double 

has  no  drip  cups  to  overflow,  and 
safety  tank.

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T h is  peerless  line  of  refrigerators 
is  our  own  make  and has gained  us 
a  w orld w id e 
T he 
“ Leonard  Cleanable”   is  the  only 
refrigerator 
to 
satisfy.

that  never 

reputation. 

fails 

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plaids  will  be  made  up  in  long belted- 
back  overcoats  and  great  coats.  Nov­
elty  mixtures  will  be  shown  in  the 
( hesterfield  garments.

For  full  dress  and  semi-dress  there 
'3  little  or  no  change,  either  in  the 
sh; pe  of  the  garments  or  in  the  ma­
terials  being  used.  Prince  Albert 
coats  and  cutawayss  are  practically 
the  same  as  last  season.  The  Eng­
lish  walking  coat,  made  with 
long 
flowing  skirts,  is  being  worn  to  great 
extent  in  the  Metropolis  a n d   many 
samples  appear  in  the  wholesale iine 
for  fall.  This  garment  is  exceeding­
ly  graceful  and  it  is  rapidly  winning 
a  place  of  favor  with  well  dressed 
men.

The  rainproof  overcoat  has  won its 
position  as  a  staple  garment  and no 
stock  of  clothing  is  complete  with­
out  a  liberal  assortment  of  them.  The 
modern  rainproof  coat  is  made  in  the 
regular  overcoat  styles,  and  can  be 
worn  on  all  occasions,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  seviceable  garments  that 
can  be  added  to  a  man’s  wardrobe.

Clothing  specialists  are  showing 
large  lines  of  white  and  fancy  waist 
coats,  and  the  range  of  materials  and 
styles  which  confronts  a  buyer  when 
making  a  selection  in  this  line  is  ex 
traordinary  to  say  the  least.  Almost 
every  conceivable  material  suitable 
to  the  purpose  has  been  used,  and 
novel  ideas  in  shapes  are  constantly 
being  brought  out.  The  demand  for 
these  garments  is  enormous  and  is 
likely  to  increase  as  the  season  pro­
gresses.

Beat  the  Record.

Smith— Do  you  believe  that  a  man 
seven 

changes 

every 

completely 
years?

Jones— Possibly. 

who  made  a  complete 
three  years.

I  know  a  man 
in 

change 

Smith— How  did  he  do  it?
Jones— Changed  his  better  half 

twice  in  that  time.

The  successful  doctor  knows  just 
how  much  medicine  to  give— the  suc­
cessful  advertiser  knows  just  when  to 
advertise  big  and  when  to  use  a 
small  space.

Clothing

Few  Changes  in  Fall  and  Winter 

Styles.

impossible. 

The  condition  of  the  clothing  busi 
ness  at  present  is  such  that  manufac 
turers  have  been  obliged  to  devote 
more  time  and  study  to  the  produc 
tion  of  their  fall  samples  than  ever 
before.  The  results  show  a  higher 
class  of  merchandise  and  the  range 
of  samples,  while  not  as  great 
in 
number  as  in  some  seasons, demon 
strates  that  the  art  of  making  ready 
to-  wear  clothing  has  reached  a point 
that  ten  years  ago  would  have been 
considered 
finish, 
style  and  quality  the  ready-made  suit 
or  overcoat  compares  most  favorably 
to  the  most  exclusive  production  of 
the  merchant  tailor.  The  constant 
strife  to  produce  high  grade garments 
has  been  the  result  of  the  require 
ments  of  the  consumer.  Prosperous 
times  in  America  have  created  this 
demand,  for  when  the  average  Amer 
ican  has  the  money  to  spend  his first 
desire  is  to  be  well  clothed,  and  the 
cheaper  grades  have,  therefore,  been 
almost  entirely  eliminated  from  the 
market.  The  better  class  of  garments 
now  prevail.

In 

There  are  not  many  changes  of 
importance  in  the  styles  to  be shown 
for  fall  and  winter. 
In  coats  there 
is  less  appearance  of  extreme  in  the 
construction  of  the  garments.  Ex­
tremely  broad,  square  shoulders  are 
not  as  prominent  as  they  were  last 
season  and  the  coat  is  made  to  follow 
the  lines  of  the  figure  more  closely. 
Collars  and  lapels  are  narrower,  and 
in  the  garments  are  made  of  average 
lengths.  Trousers  are  of  generous 
width  and  are  gracefully  propor­
tioned. 
In  overcoats  the  long,  com­
fortable  garments  with  well-fitting 
shoulders  and  loose  bodies  will  retain 
the  popularity  of 
last  season,  al­
though  there  is  some  indication  of 
carrying  the  prominent  features  of 
these  garments  to  extreme.  Some of 
the  samples  which  will  be  shown  to 
the 
inches  in 
length,  others  fifty.  These  coats are 
made  plain  and  with  belted  backs 
and  they  will  no  doubt  be  very  pop­
ular.  Top  coats  will  be  about thirty- 
three  inches  in  length,  a  little  longer 
than  the  samples  shown  for  spring. 
Paddocks,  surtouts  and  great  coats 
are  being  shown  as  typical  garments 
of  the  season  and  there  will  doubt­
less  be  an 
increasing  demand  for 
them.

trade  are 

fifty-two 

DONKER BROS.

Manufacturers of

Ellsworth  &  Thayer  Mofg.  Co.

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

DUCK  HATS

For Men and  Boys

Also Duck Yacht and Flannel Golf  Caps in  all 
colors. 
'White  Pique  Tams  for  resort  trade; 
also  novelties  in  Children’s  Tams  for  the 
millinery  trade, in  prices  to  suit.  Price  List 
sent on application.

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íS'uiun,on^ros.'Síit'lnpt’rt.  /900.!

It  will  be  to  the  advantage  of  any  clothing  m erchant  to  see  our 

immense  line  of  O vercoats  and  Suits  for  fall  and  winter  of  1903.

Detroit  Sample  Room,  No.  17  Kanter  Building 

M .  J .  Rogan,  Representative

P A N -A M E R IC A N  

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In  fabrics  the  lines  demonstrate the 
belief  of  manufacturers  that  modest 
colorings  will  still  prevail.  The  more 
prominent  materials  are  unfinished 
worsteds,  cassimeres, 
finished  wor­
steds,  Scotch  mixtures  and  cheviots. 
Many  of  the  prominent  wholesalers 
of  clothing  are  showing  a  large  line 
of  stripes,  in  cassimeres.  The  stripes 
are  not  pronounced  and  they  look 
well  when  made  up.  Bannockburn 
patterns  occupy  positions  of  impor­
tance  in  most  of  the  lines.  The  prin­
cipal  shades  being  shown  are  grays, 
blues,  olives  and  browns. 
In  over­
coatings  the  kersey  and  melton  ap­
pear  to  great  extent,  and  they  will be 
more  popular  than  they  have  been 
for  several  seasons.  Heavy  Scotch

is the whole argument in itself. 
A new suit for every unsatisfactory 01 
has the Union  Isabel  too—we’ve  adi 
se  it  ensures  better workmanship foi

mortem

IS5UED  BY AUTHORITY  OF
PIT E D ^ ^^A R H ^T

WILEBR05 ft WEILL

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Summer  and  Fall  Styles in  Neckwear.
Some  attention  is  being  given  to 
strictly  summer  goods,  such  as  gren­
adines,  rumchundas,  crepe  de  chines, 
openwork  fancies  and  stocks.  With 
the  advent  of  favorable  weather  re­
tailers  will  be  in  position  to  create 
new  interest  in  neckwear  by  the  dis­
playing  of 
lines  which  are 
more  attractive  this  year  than  they 
have  ever  been  before.

these 

in 

Grenadines  are  shown in  printed 
warp  grounds  with  jacquard  figures 
in  self  and  contrasting  effects. The 
new  patterns  and  new  colors 
in 
which  they  are  shown  will  undoubt­
edly  help  their  sale.  New  weave 
colors  and  in 
grenadines 
grays  also  are 
Some  of 
these  new  open  mesh  weaves  are  as 
fine  as  gauze  and  make  exceedingly 
rich  and  smart  neckwear  for  good 
dresers,  and  houses  showing  them 
in  their  summer 
lines  report  that 
they  have  done  a  satisfactory  busi­
ness  on  them.

shown. 

solid 

The  price  cutting  war  on  rumchun­
das  which  started  with  the  opening of 
new  lines  continues  to  grow  in  in­
terest.  Besides  embracing  New York 
and  Chicago  it  has  spread  to  Phila­
delphia  and  St.  Louis,  according  to 
what  buyers  say.  They  report  that 
the  best  grades  of  English  twills  were 
never  so  cheap  as  at  present.  They 
report  that  the  best  imported  $4.50 
lines  have  been  cut  to  $3.50,  and  that 
some  houses  are  selling  their  $4.50 
goods  as  low  as  $3.  Sellers  are  again 
trying  to  force  sales,  the  depressing 
weather  following  Easter  week  be­
ing  the  incentive  which  has  urged 
them  on  to  greater  sacrifices,  as  rum­
chundas  are  distinctly  summer  goods 
and  should  be  gotten  out  now  if. at 
all. 
It  is  not  easy  to  ascertain  just 
how  or  who  started  the  cut.  Sellers 
in  New  York  say  that  they  are  aware 
that  it  has  gone  to  rediculous  and  un­
necessary  extremes,  and  that  there 
was  no  cause  for  it  at  the  start.  Some 
say  that  the  knife  was  inserted  first 
in  Chicago  and  was  taken  up  later  in 
New  York,  where  it  was  given  an 
extra  jab,  cutting  some  lines  to  $3  in 
retaliation  against  Chicago.  All are 
agreed  that  the  best  houses  are  rep­
resented  in  the  contest  for  business. 
If  price  is  any  incentive  to  business 
the  outlook  for  a  good  retail  run  on 
rumchundas  is  promising  for  the  sum­
that 
mer. 
stocks  of rumchundas 
not 
moved  with  the  celerity  wished  for 
by  those  possessing  them,  and  the 
heavy  reductions  that  have  been  made 
in  prices  has  at  least  been  effective in 
attracting  an  unusual  amount  of  at­
tention  towards  English  squares.

It  is  certain,  however, 
have 

Encouraged  by  the  exceptionally 
good  Easter  business  done  by  retail­
ers,  and  working  under  the  impres­
sion  that  stocks  have  been  quite  ef­
fectually  cleaned  up,  jobbers  are  plan­
ning  for  an  early  fall  campaign.  They 
are  calling  upon  manufacturers  and 
importers  for  early  reference  samples 
with  the  view  of  starting  their  men 
on  the  road  forthwith.  This  augurs 
well  for  the  fall  season.

Foreign  lines  of  neckwear  are  en­
joying  a  period  of  unequaled  pros­
perity. 
Importers  report  that  there 
are  more  foreign  goods  coming  in 
for  the  fall  season  than  in  many  years

past.  These  lines  include  the  medium 
and  high  priced  ranges,  running  in 
price  from  70  cents  a  yard  up  to  $5. 
There  is  considerable  merit  about im­
ported  neckwear  not  possessed  by 
domestic  goods.  They  are  somewhat 
superior  in  finish  and  texture,  and 
many  of  the  domestic  neckwear  man­
ufacturers  who  never  tire  of  extol- 
ing  the  merit  of  their  own  products 
are  candid  in  acknowledging  that  for­
eign  neckwear  silks  are  more  honest 
in  their  composition  than  are  the  do­
mestic  lines.  They  also  have  a  su­
perior  finish,  which  our  domestic 
mills  have  not  been  able  to  obtain. 
This  is  said  to  be  due  to  the  better 
water  that  they  have  in  Europe,  a 
soft  water  which  is  chemically  better 
adapted  to  imparting  a  good  dye  and 
finish  to  silks  than  water  procurable 
here.  Domestic  manufacturers  have 
time  and  again  striven 
to  obtain 
equally  good  results  in  dye  and  finish 
by  the  use  of  machinery  especially 
constructed  to  impart  to  our  water 
the  chemical  properties  possessed  by 
foreign  waters,  but  as  yet  they  have 
not  attained  the  results  desired. 
In 
the  opinion  of  the  importer  of  for­
eign  neckwear 
the  domestic 
manufacturers  have  reached  the  limit 
possible  for  them  to  obtain  in  man­
ufacturing  silks.  But  on  this  point 
the  American  manufacturers  do  not 
agree.  They  say  that 
could 
easily  produce  silks  equal  in  every 
respect  to  the  foreign  make  if  there 
was  a  sufficiently  large  market  here 
for  them,  but  that  the  demand  for 
high-grade  silks  is  so  limited  that  it 
would  not  pay  any  manufacturer  to 
cater  to  that  demand.  More  money 
is  to  be  made  for  American  mills  in 
the  low  and  medium  grades  of  silk, as 
they  admit  of  greater  manipulation.

they 

silks 

Fall  samples  of  imported  and  do­
mestic  silks  are  now  in  the  hands  of 
neckwear  manufacturers,  who 
are 
preparing  their  sample  lines.

include 

The  fine  qualities  of  foreign  silks 
show  a  pleasing  variety  of 
color 
treatment  somewhat  more  attractive 
than  the  somber  things  which  have 
been  the  vogue  of  the  past  few  sea­
sons.  They 
golden 
rich 
browns,  new  grays,  greens 
in  rich 
shades  of  a  dark  hue,  bright  or  flam­
boyant  greens  being  eschewed;  new 
blues,  with  the 
electric,  Mexique, 
Paris,  royal,  navy  and  indigo  blues 
predominating.  The  best  patterns 
are  in  medium  and  small  jacquards, 
such  as  all-over  tracings,  scrolls  and 
units.  The  patterns  are  a  trifle  larger 
than  have  been  in  vogue  for  some 
time  past.  Swivels  are  in  order  on 
dark  grounds  of  mixed  colors.

There  is  a  new  feature  about  neck­
wear  silks  for  fall  which  indicates  a 
change  in  taste  on  the  part  of  mak­
ers  of  neckwear.  The  Western  trade, 
in  particular,  has  shown  a  greater  in­
fluence  for  light  grounds  than  here­
tofore,  and  their  orders  show  that 
fully  50  per  cent,  of  their  selections 
consists  of  whites  and  tints.  Chi­
cago 
It 
may  be  that  buyers  believe  that  more 
cravats  will  go  into  consumption  if 
whites  and  delicate  colors  are  put out 
in  the  smoky  city,  as  light  colors  soil 
readily,  and,  owing  to  their  perishable 
nature,  create  an  extra  demand  for 
cravats.  It  is  not  a  bad  selling  point.

in  this  particular. 

leads 

This cut  represents our

Dickey  Kersey  Coat

of which  we are large  manufacturers

THE

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R A N D

F A C I 2
M A  N U F A  C  T U R E R S .

R a p i d s ,  M i c h .

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Among  the  weaves  coming 

into 
strong  favor  for  fall  are  matelasses, 
reps,  armures  and  other  rib  weaves, 
such  as  poplin,  mogadore,  crystal  and 
ottoman.

The  new  weaves  are  shown  in  jac­
quard  tracings  and  scrolls  of  self  and 
contrasting  colors  on  black,  gray, 
green  about  a 
shade  lighter  than 
myrtle,  hunter  and  serpent,  golden 
brown,  Mexique,  navy,  indigo,  royal 
and  Paris  blues,  cardinal,  electric, ca­
det,  pearl  white,  ivory  white,  astor 
blue,  sky  blue,  nile,  heliotrope,  lav­
ender  in  a  shade  darker  than  helio, 
and  purple.  These  are  shown  in com­
bination  with  white  with  self and  con­
trasting  color  figures,  the  self  fig­
ures  being  in  all-over  jacquards  with 
units  in  swivel  and  mock  swivel  ef­
fects  of  small  design.

There  will  be  some  warp  or  length 
stripes  shown  in  fine  silks,  but  the 
stripe  patterns  are 
largely  confined 
to  $4.50  and  $2.25  grades,  in  brighter 
color  mixtures  than  have  been  shown 
in  the  last  year.

Among  the  new  patterns  for  fall 
are  many  of  sporting  character,  such 
as  stocks,  horseshoes, 
sticks, 
bit,  bridle  and  whip,  rackets,  etc., with 
a  part  of  the  design  in  self  and  part 
in  contrasting  colar.

golf 

Pacific;  and  still,  few  are  the  days 
when  I  am  not  in  some  physical  dis­
tress.  And  the  battle  goes  on— ill 
or  well  is  a  trifle;  so  it  goes. 
I  was 
made  for  a  contest,  and  the  powers 
have  so  willed  that  my  battle  field 
should  be  this  dingy,  inglorious  one 
of  the  bed  and  the  physic  bottle. 
At  least,  I  have  not 
failed,  but 
1  would  have  preferred  a  place  of 
trumpeting«,  and  the  open  air  over 
my  head.”

in  spite  of  his  hard 

Grit  marked  the  whole  romantic 
career  of  Alexander  Wilson,  the fam­
ous  naturalist,  another  Scotsman.  It 
took  grit  to  plod  through  an  appren­
ticeship  as  a  weaver  when  all  his 
learning, 
longings  were 
letters 
for 
It  took  grit  to 
and  nature  study. 
the  education  he 
study  and  win 
wanted 
labor. 
The  same  quality  carried him through 
the  trials  of  a  peddler’s  life;  through 
the  discouragement  of 
inability  to 
publish  his  verses;  through  poverty, 
disease, 
liberal 
writings;  and  then  through  repetition 
of  all 
these  hardships  in  America 
before  his  great  life  work,  his  collec­
tion  of  all  the  birds  of  North  Ameri­
ca, 
could  be  undertaken.  Here, 
again,  his  grit  was  continually  re­
quired,  for  he  says:

imprisonment 

for 

To  The  Trade:

When our  representative  calls  on  you look  at  his 
line  of  Fall  and  Winter  Overcoats  and  Suits—  
medium  and  fine  goods  equal  to  custom  work.

M.  I.  SCHLOSS

Manufacturer of Men’s and  Boys’ Suits  and Overcoats 

143  Jefferson  A ve.,  Detroit,  flich .

®®®®@®®®®®®c*

W illiam   Connor,  President. 

Wm.  A lden  Sm ith,

M .  C.  H uggett,  Secretary and  Treasurer.

Vice-President.

Wholesale Clothing

Che William Connor £0.

2« a n d  30  S.  Io n ia  S t.,  B ra n d  R a p id s,  m ic b .

We show everything that  is  made  in  Ready-to- Wear  Clothing  from  the  smallest 
child to the largest and heaviest man; also union made  suits.  Men’s  suits,  beginning  at 
and run up to $25.00.  Pants of every kind, $2.00 per dozen  pair and up.  Serge suits' 

alpaca and linen goods.  White and fancy vests in abundance.

Mail orders receive prompt attention.  Open daily from 7:30 a.  m.  to  6  p.  m.  except 

Saturdays, then close at 1  p. m. 

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W E   C A N   M A K E   Y O U   A  S P E C I A L   P R IC E   O N

GASOLINE  M A N T L E S

W e  bought  them  cheap  from  the  Perfection  L ight- 
ing  Co.,  of 
this  city.  W e  now  offer  Perfection 
Lighting  C o .’ s  regular  $2.00  gasoline mantles at $1  56 
per dozen  to  make  your  early  acquaintance.  Better 
get  your  order  in  early.  Jobbers  in  gas  and  gasoline 
mantles,  chim neys,  burners,  glassware,  anil  lighting 
supplies.

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varan o  n a p ia s ,  M ie n

We handle a  complete  line  of  the  Famous  Holophan  Glass, for 
for Circular.0 °F e eCtriC 1,ght’ 
Increases light  40  per  cent.  Ask

A  F E W   P O I N T E R S

Showing the benefits  the  merchant  receives 

by using the

Kirkwood  Short Credit 
System  of Accounts

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

A.  H. Morrill, Agent

105  Ottawa  St.. Orand  Rapids.  Mich.

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Manufactured by Co s b y  Wik t h   Pr in t in g  

Co., St.  Paul,  Minn.

— a a o w M a a q , —

Black  and  white  is  considered  the 
fall, 

best  selling  combination 
for 
white  figures  on  black  grounds.

Whites  and  tints  with  white  in  all- 
over  tracings  and  small  figures 
in 
bright  colors  have  been  ordered  quite 
heavily  for  the  holiday  trade  and will 
undoubtedly  make  up  the  bulk  of 
holiday  neckwear.  Tints  are  used  in 
the  filling  with  white  warps  in  rep, 
barathea  and  matelasse  weaves,  with 
very  good  results.

The  new  season’s  baratheas  show 
a  wide  range  of  treatment  in  pattern 
and  weave  combinations  heretofore 
undreamed  of  in  this  very  serviceable 
weave.  Some  of  the  patterns  ob­
tained  were  considered 
impossible 
heretofore  on  a  barathea  loom.  The 
promoters  of  barathea  weaves 
in 
neckwear  are undoubtedly determined 
that  baratheas  shall  rival  all  previous 
records.

Among  the  new  forms  in  neckwear 
talked  about  for  fall  is  the  revival  of 
the  Windsor  in  connection  with  wide, 
d ressy  ties.  Four-in-hands,  it  is said, 
will  be  broad,  as  during  last  fall,  and 
the  folded-infours  will  be  unusually 
prominent.— Apparel  Gazette.

Effect  of  Grit  on  Noted  Careers. 
Could  anything  be  more  heroic 
than  the  grit  with  which  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson stuck to his  task, and 
kept  up  his  courage  to  work  in spite 
of  timid  nature  and  frail  physique?
In  a  private  letter  the  year  before 
his  death  he  said:

I  have  written 

“ fo r  fourteen  years  I  have  not 
had  a  day’s  real  health;  I  have  wak­
ened  sick  and  gone  to  bed  weary; 
and  I  have  done  my  work  unflinch­
ingly. 
in  bed  and 
written  out  of  it,  written  in  hem or- 
rhages,  written 
in  sickness,  written 
torn  by  coughing,  written  when  my 
head  swam  for  weakness;  and  for so 
long,  it  seems  to  me  I  have  won  my 
wager  and  recovered  my  glove. 
I 
am  better  now,  have  been,  rightly 
speaking,  since  first  I  came  to  the

“I  have  slept  for  several  weeks in 
the  wilderness  alone,  in  an  Indian 
country,  with  my  gun  and  my  pistols 
in  my  bosom,  and  have  found  myself 
so  reduced  by  sickness  as  scarcely to 
be  able  to  stand,  when  not  within 
300  miles  of  a  white  settlement, and 
under  the  burning  latitude  of  twen­
ty-five  degrees. 
I  have  by  resolu­
tion  surmounted  all  these  and  other 
obstacles  in  my  way  to  my  object, 
and  now  begin  to  see  the  blue  sky 
of  independence  open  around  me.” 

Without  money,  patrons  or  encour­
agement  of  any  kind,  he  carried  al­
most  to  completion  a 
tremendous 
scientific  work,  and  at  last  gave  his 
life  in  trying  to  finish  the  ninth  vol­
ume  of  his  “Ornithology.”

“epia,” 

“epia,” 

All  the  world  profits  from  Edison’s 
grit. 
For  weeks  he  practiced  to 
make  the  phonograph  repeat  certain
sounds,  and  mockingly 
the  echo 
came, 
instead  of 
“sepia,  sepia.”  Persevering  grit con­
quered  the  difficulty  and  perfected 
the  talking  machine.  When  he was 
working  on  the  electric  lamp,  an un­
expected  difficulty  arose,  and  for  five 
left  his 
days  and  nights  he  never 
laboratory,  working  almost 
inces­
santly  to  force  metal,  glass  and  elec­
tricity  to  do  his  will— and  they  did 
it  in  the  end.

Can  Cupid’s  wounds  be  healed  by 

“court  plaster?

m a d e   on ly  b y

ANCHOR SUPPLY jGO. 
AWNINGS. TENTS. COVENS  ETC.
EVANSVILLE  IND

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ployer  his  own.  There  is  only  one 
objection  to  the  clerk  who  identifies 
his  interest  with  that  of  his  employ­
er.  He  is  not  likely  to  remain  a clerk 
for  any  great  length  of  time,  unless 
he  has  some  very  serious  short-con­
ing.
Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

Indiana  Merchants.

Evansville— A.  P.  Proctor  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Mrs. 
Ella  Young.

The  Popular

Ocean  Wave  Washers

Once Sold, they NEVER Come  Back, 
T H E Y   W A S H   C L E A N .

Because

Frankfort— Osborne,  Dillen  &  Sel­
lers  continue  the  grain  business  for­
merly  conducted  under  the  style  of 
Osborne  &  Dillen.

Ingalls— J.  W.  Blackford  has  dis­

continued  the  grocery  business.

Lafayette— John  Diehl  has  taken 
his  son  into  partnership  in  the  gro­
cery  business  under  the 
of 
John  Diehl  &  Son.

style 

Leesburg— Chas.  Thomas  contin­
ues  the  grocery,  boot  and  shoe  and 
furnishing  goods  business  of  Kem­
per  &  Thomas  in  his  own  name.

Linton— Otis  N.  Baker  has  taken 
a  partner  in  the  grocery  business 
under  the  style  of  Baker  &  Price.

Huntertown— Erna  Lee, 

general 
merchandise  dealer,  has  filed  a  peti­
tion  in  bankruptcy.

Indianapolis— The  Maltena  Food 
j  Co.,  manufacturers  of  cereal  foods, 
has  made  an  assignment.
Want  a  Standard 

for  Evaporated 

Apples.

Advancement  Depends  on  the  Clerk 

Himself.

The  clerk’s  best  interest  is  first, 
last  and  always  identical  with  that 
of  his  employer. 
There  are  mo­
ments  in  the  lives  of  the  best  and 
most  intelligent  clerks  when  this  un­
doubted  fact  seems  a  fallacy  and  a 
mockery.  Yet  the  clerk  who  thinks 
soon  reverts  to  the  faith  that  the fact 
is  in  no wise  changed  by  his  moments 
of  doubt.

recoginze 

In  the  first  place  the  only  possible 
advance  open  to  the  clerk  is through 
his  employer  or  some  other  employ­
er,  and  they  easily 
the 
worth  of  one  who  honestly  and  con­
stantly  loks  after  their  interest.  Sel­
fishness  may— in  fact,  does— prevent 
an  employer  from  rewarding  merit, 
the  existence  of  which  he 
is  well 
aware;  but  selfishness  will  eventually 
make  him  advance 
the  man  who 
looks  after  his  interest.

It  is  often 

like  the  woman  who 
said  that  she  had  such  a  splendid 
hired  girl  but  was  worried  to  death 
about  her.  When  asked  why,  she 
“If  I  praise  her  she  will  want 
said: 
more  wages. 
If  I  don’t  she’ll  quit.” 
It’s  dollars  to  doughnuts  she  praised 
the  girl  who  stood  the  raise.  We  all 
like  money,  but  the  merchant  who 
has  employed  many  clerks  knows  to 
a  certainty  that  the  clerk  who 
is 
right  saves  two  dollars  for  every  ex­
tra  one  he  costs.  Then  the  relation­
ship  between  the  clerk  who 
looks 
after  his  business  and  the  employer 
soon  becomes  more  or  less  confiden­
tial.  The  proprietor  sees  the  mani­
fest  interest  displayed,  he  notes  the 
over  hours  that  have  been  put  in, the 
customers  who  have  been  accommo­
dated,  the  knowledge  of  the  business 
that  has  been  acquired,  the  few  re­
quests 
the 
promptness  of  arrival  at  the  post  of 
duty,  the  carefully  completed  task 
before  leaving  it,  the  cheerful  will­
ingness  to  work extra hours  when  the 
business  requires  it,  and  the  thousand 
and  one  indications  of  a  determina­
tion  to  make  the  business  a  success 
in  so  far  as  his  efforts  are  concerned.
Soon,  the  clerk  who  gets  so  little 
and  is  willing  to  give  so  much  is con­
sulted  about  some  trifling  matter.  He 
knows  the  subject,  has  thought about 
it  and  has  seen  places  in  the  system 
of  the  store  that  might  be  improved. 
The  result,  his  answer  is  a  wise one, 
and  it  shows  the  result  of  reflection. 
He  will  be  consulted  again  and  again 
if  his  wisdom  grows  with  his  experi­
ence  and  the  distance  between  the 
clerk  whose  advice 
frequently 
sought  and  is  good  enough  to  act 
upon,  and  the  manager  or  even  part­
ner  is  not  so  very  great.

leave  of  absence, 

for 

is 

And  all  this  time  the  fame  of this 
clerk  has  not  been  confined  to  the 
store  in  which  he  works.  Customers 
have  commented  on  him 
to  other 
merchants  and  better  positions,  man­
agerial  or  even  partnership  offers, 
from  outside  sources,  are  not  at  all 
unlikely.

Now  add  to  this  the  fact  that  not 
one  clerk  in  one  thousand  has  sense 
and  application  sufficient  to  conduct 
himself  after  the  manner  suggested 
above  and  you  see  how  large  and fre­
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Get  Your  Shoe  Education  in  a Coun­

try  Store.

Many  a  young  man  begins  clerk­
ing  in  a  country  shoe  store  without 
knowing  how  lucky  he  is.  He  usu­
ally  does  not  aprecíate  the  fact  that 
he  is  beginning  just  where  he  must 
begin 
if  he  would  stand  the  best 
chance  of  making  a  big  succes  in  the 
shoe  business.

By  big  success  I  mean  the  owning 
or  managing  of  a  large,  money-mak­
ing  shoe  store,  or  shoe  department. 
A  young  man  can  start  in  the  shoe 
line  with  nothing  but  brains  and 
health  and  attain  that  success  if  he 
but  will. 

•

By  a  country  store  I  mean  one  in 
a  town  of  ten  thousand  or  less.  Such 
a  store  offers  advantages  to  a  be 
ginner  which  the  large  city  stores do 
not.  The  advantages  I  refer  to  are 
the  thousand  and  one 
little  things 
which  teach  a  clerk  the  details  of  a 
business.

That  is  the  secret  of  it  all.  That 
is  the  reason  which  accounts  for  the 
fact  that  the  active  managers  of near­
ly  all  of  the  great  mercantile  con­
cerns  came  from  the  country,  and 
first  worked  in  country  stores.  The 
exceptions  to  this  rule  are  those who 
had  those  same  advantages  in  a  large 
city  which  generally  are  to  be  had 
only  in  the  country.

The  young  man  just  starting  in  a 
shoe  store  should  aim  to  work  not 
only  for  his  employer,  but  for  him­
self  also.  He  should  be  learning  the 
business  from  the  ground  up.  He 
should  study  all  that  goes  to  make 
cost  or  value  in  a  shoe.  He  should 
study  the  trend  of  styles  especially, 
as  style  adds  or  detracts  value  with­
out  changing  cost.  But  he  must  al­
so  be  well  informed  about  the  van 
ous  leathers,  their  kinds  and  charac­
teristics; 
the  various  processes  of 
shoemaking  and  the  advantages  of 
each;  and  a  hundred  other  details.

The  man  who  takes  the  trouble  to 
learn  these  things  is  doing  more  for 
himself  than  he  is  doing  for  his  em­
ployer  and  at  the  same  time  he  is do­
ing  more  for  his  employer  than  the 
man  who  does  not  try  to  learn  them. 
He  may  be  earning  more  than  he  is 
being  paid,  but  that  fact  should  not 
discourage,  but  rather,  it  should  en­
courage  him.

Many  a  young  clerk  in  a  country 
store  never  thinks  to  put  a  value  on 
the  education  he  is  receiving.  I  know 
I  did  not  when  I  was  one.  And  yet, 
in  the  first  few  years,  that  education 
ought  to  be  greater  in  value  than his 
wages,  and  will  be  unless  he  is  over­
paid,  or  does  not  improve  his  oppor­
tunities  to  learn.

The  manager  of  one  of  the  largest I 
and  best  paying  shoe  departments in 
the  world  says: 
“Hardly  a  day 
passes  but  some  young  fellow  comes 
in  here  and  wants  to  go  to  work, says 
he  wants  to  learn  the  business. 
I 
Ra3'  to  him: 
‘Do  you  really  want  to 
learn  the  business?  Do  you  want  to 
make  it  your  life  work?’  and  of course 
he  says  yes.’  Then  I  tell  them some­
thing  like  this: 
‘Now,  young  man,
I  m  going  to  give  you  advice  on  this 
subject  which  will  make  you  a great

the  best  possible 

shoeman  some  day  if  you’ll  follow it 
You  go  home,  pack  your  grip,  and 
buy  a  ticket  for  some  small  town of 
from  one  to  ten  or  twenty  thousand 
inhabitants.  When  you  get 
there 
make 
impression 
you  can,  that  will  favor  your  chance 
of  getting  into  the  best  store  in town 
But  if  there  is  no  chance  at  the  best 
store  take  the  next  best.  Get  a  job, 
even  if  you  have  to  work  for  your 
board  at  first,  for  the  proposition 
which 
looks most undesirable at  first 
often  has  the  greatest  future  ahead. 
When  you  start  working  make  up 
your  mind  to  do  things  the  way your 
employer  tells  you,  whether  you  like 
his  way  or  not.

“Never  overlook  a  detail  or  shirk 
a  duty..  Don’t  work  by  the  clock. 
\ ou  will]  see  more  and  hence  learn 
more  if  your  eyes  are  otherwise  en­
gaged.”

To  the  above  I  would  add:  Make 
the  store  you  work  in  your  “ Busi­
ness  college.”  Without  being  obtru- j 
sive  about  it,  butt  into  every  part  of 
the  game.  When  samples  are  spread 
improve  the  opportunity,  study  them, 
and  ask  all  the  intelligent  questions 
about  them  you  can.  Cultivate your 
sense  of  “feel”  so  you  can  tell  the 
quality  of  upper  leather  or  bottom 
stock  by  touching  it  once,  and light 
iy,  and  don’t  have  to  pinch  and  rub 
t  as  if  it  were  a  Chinese  puzzle  to 
you.  Learn  costs  on  everything  in 
the  store.

You  will  be  surprised  at  how  fast 
you  can 
learn  these  things  in  the 
first  year.  But  don’t  think  you  know 
it  all  then.  Keep  right  on  studying 
Make  a  visit  to  some  shoe  factory 
and  study 
the  making  of  shoes 
Never  miss  a  chance  to  learn  some 
thing  about  shoes,  even  although you 
don’t  see  just  how  it  will  help  you.

After  a  few  years  of  such  effort 
you  will  have  a  right  to  call  yourself

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a  shoeman.  Then  you  can  go  to some 
great  city,  such  as  St.  Louis,  Chica­
go  or  New  York,  and  in  six  months 
or  a  year  spent  in  a  good  shqe  store 
you  can  learn  the  fine  points  of sales­
manship,  and 
the  cost  of  moving 
goods«

And  when  you  get  to  working  in 
such  a  store  you  will  realize  that  you 
never  could  have  gained  your knowl­
edge  of  the  shoe  business  there, and 
be  glad  you  started  where  you  did, 
and  you  will  probably  be  surprised 
to  learn  how  little  some  of  your  fel­
low  salesmen  know  about  shoes.

When  you  apply  for  your  position 
in  the  city  store  state  our  knowledge 
of  shoes  and  say  that  you  want  to  be 
assistant  stock-keeper  or  assistant 
buyer  as  soon  as  possible.  Your 
chance  will  come  sooner  or  later,  and 
it  is  up  to  you  to  keep  improving un­
til  then,  and  then  to  make  the  most 
of  it. 
If  you  have  brains,  courage, 
self-confidence,  health  and  energy 
you  can  not  fail.  Good  shoe  buyers, 
good  shoe  department  managers are 
scarce,  and  have  been  scarce 
for 
years.  Many  first  class  positions are 
filled  by  second  class  men,  simply be­
cause  there  are  not  enough  first class 
men  to  go  around.

Again,  your  city  training  on  top of 
your  country  training,  will  fit  you to 
manage  a  store  of  your  own  in  an 
up-to-date, 
successful 
manner,  in  any  place  you  see  a good 
chance  to  start.

aggressive, 

In  any  event  if  you  want  to  be  a 
shoeman,  get  your  shoe  education in 
a  country  store,  and  then  go  to  the 
city  for  the  finishing  touches.  That 
will  give  you  a  foundation  strong 
enough  to  sustain  a  gigantic  success. 
— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

Are  Tans  Coming in  Again?

If  one  should  go  to  the  average 
shoe  dealer  in  a  small  town  and  ask 
him  if  he  were  selling  tan  shoes  or 
Oxfords  to  any  extent,  he  would say 
“No”  with  the  greatest  promptness 
and  truthfulness.  But  despite  this 
fact  there  are  to-day  being  sold  a 
considerable  number  of  tan  shoes  of 
two  kinds.

It 

The  first  kind  which  is  being  sold 
is  a  tan  shoe  which  never  goes  out 
of  style. 
is  a  tan,  seal  grain 
Creedmore,  made  with  a  heavy  tap 
sole  and  usually  retailed  at  in  the 
neighborhood  of  $1.50. 
Several  of 
the  jobbing  houses 
in  this  section 
have  ben  handling  this  style  of shoe 
in  a  tan  color  for  several  years,  and 
the  sale  on  it  is  quite  large.  The 
shoe  is  used  principally  for  a  farm­
ing  shoe,  although  to  some  extent it 
is  used  for  mining  and  similar  work 
and  seems  to  be  a  perfectly  staple 
article.

It 

The  second  form  of  russet  leather 
shoe  that  is  being  sold  is  of  an  en­
tirely  different  character. 
is  a 
men’s  shoe,  or  Oxford,  to  a  greater 
extent  the  low  cut,  which  is  built  to 
retail  at  from  $6  to  $8  a  pair.  Prom­
inent  retail  dealers  in  the  large  cities 
who  carry  the  finest  lines  of  footwear 
say  that  they  have  sold  quite  a  con­
siderable  number  of 
these  goods. 
The  bulk  of  the  sales  have  been  on 
$7  and  $8  shoes,  although  these  firms 
carry  lines  of  cheaper  goods.

These  shoes  are  made  of  a  fine

in 

at 

are 

except 

greatly 

concerned 

imported  calfskin  and  the  color  is a 
medium  russet.  But  as  far  as  tan 
shoes 
cheaper 
grades,  they  are  simply  not  being 
sold, 
reduced 
prices,  and  even  then  there  are  large 
unmbers  of  dealers 
in  the  smaller 
places  who  can  not  handle  them  at 
all. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  there 
are  some  tan  gods  being  sold  in the 
higher  grades,  there  does  not  seem 
to  be  any  feeling  yet  that  the  trade 
w'ill  extend  any  farther,  at  least  not 
for  some  time. 
It  is  possible  that 
next  season  may  see  some  sort  of  a 
revival  in  tan  goods.  But  next  sea­
son  is  a  good  ways  off  and  it  is  hard 
to  say  what  will  then  be  the  popular 
thing.— Shoe  Trade  Journal.

has 

New  Machine  For  the  Farmer.
Not  many  years  ago  the  farmer  was 
compelled  to  plant  all  -his  seed  by 
hand,  walking  many  miles  and  carry­
ing  heavy  burdens  to  sow  the  grains 
or  plant  the  potatoes  which  were  to 
yield  the  harvest  in  the  fall,  and  even 
the  grass  had  to  be  cut  with  scythes. 
Now  all  this  labor  is  performed  by 
machinery, while  the  farmer  rides over 
the  ground,  guiding  his  team,  and 
accomplishing  more  in  a  single  day 
than  he  could  in  a  week  before  the  in­
ventor  set  out  to  aid  him  in  his  toil. 
Still  another  machine 
been 
brought  forward,  this  time  a  weed 
puller,  invented  by  a  man  in  Minne­
sota. 
In  regard  to  the  mechanism  by 
which  it  is  operated,  two  fluted  roll­
ers  are  mounted  on  an  adjustable  sup­
port  at  the  rear  of  a  sulky,  with  chain 
gearing  to  rotate  them  rapidly  as  the 
machine  is  drawn  over  the  ground.  As 
the  fluting  on  the  face  of  the  rollers 
mesh  closely  together,  it  is  easy  to 
understand  how  any  weed  or  grass 
which  once  gets  between  them  will 
be  drawn  up,  until  it  is  finally  lifted 
out  of  the  ground,  roots  and  all.  To 
insure  the  killing  of  higher  growths, 
the  machine  has  been  fitted  with  a  set 
of  rotary  blades,  which  feed  the  tops 
of  the  weeds  down  beneath  the  face 
of  the  first  roller,  instead  of  allowing 
this  roller to strike  the  stems  and  push 
the  weeds  over,  without  uprooting 
them.

People  whose  skins  are  sensitive 
and  who  are  obliged  to  walk  a  great 
deal  will  find  a  daily  foot  bath  of  salt 
and  water  of  great  benefit  in  making 
the  skin  on  the  sole  of  the  feet 
firmer  and  less  sensitive.

G et  our  prices  and  try 
our  work  when you need

Rubber  and 
Steel  Stamps 

Seals,  Etc.

Send  for  Catalogue  and  see  what 

we  offer.

Detroit  Rubber Stamp Co.

99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit,  Mich.

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W H A LE B O N E

WE  GUARANTEE THATTHESE  BOOTS 

ARE  THE  BEST  MADE  AND 

WILL  OUTWEAR  ANY  OTHER  BRAND

A  NEW  LINE

Made of

Tlie  Purest of Gum

If you tie to  this  you  surely 

will not miss it.

Exclusive Sale Given.

Our  Men  have  it  on  the 

road.

GEO.  H.  REEDER 

&  CO.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Our  justly  celebrated  No.  104

Cadies’ $i.$o Shoes

are  still  having  the  greatest 
run  of  any  $1  50  shoe  in  the 
market  No  215  is  much  like 
it  with  patent  leather  foxing. 
If you haven’t  these  two  beau­
ties send for them at once.

ttlaldett  Shoe  g o .,

Grand Rapids,  lt!kh.

Western  Agents lor Hood  Rubber  Cc

Competition

W on’t trouble you much  if you  are  selling  our 

own  factory  made shoes.

You can  back  them  against  any  shoes  made. 

Try them.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe C o.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

MAKERS  OF  SHOES

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Makers  of  Ladies’,  Misses’,  Childs’  and  Little  Gents’

H dvertised  S hoes

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method of advertising.

Jobbers  of Men’s and Boys’ Shoes and Hood Rubbers.

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Tips  For  Shoe  Dealers.

How  about  your  stock  of  oxfords 
If  you  have  not  put  in  a  nice  stock of 
these  for  both  women  and  men  you 
make  a  mistake.

leathers  and  turned  shoes  it  has 
yet  not  come  into  such  great  favor 
But  that  the  sale  of  this  style  of  heel 
is  on  the  increase  cannot  be  doubted 
— Shoe  Trade  Journal.

indications, 

This  from  present 

is 
going  to  be  the  biggest  season  as  re 
gards  the  sale  of  oxfords  that  w 
have  ever  experienced.  People  are 
begining  to  buy  them  already.  As 
the  tan  shoe  will  not  be  sold  to  an. 
extent  for  another  year,  people  will 
naturally  take  to  the  oxford  as  th 
next  best  thing.  As  to  the  shape  and 
style,  do  not  buy  very  narrow  toes.

You  can  get  along very  nicely with 
out  any  of  the  real  narrow  toes. 
In 
the 
larger  cities  a  number  of  the 
dealers  are 
introducing  and  even 
pushing  what  is  termed  the  “Po-tay’
toe  for  men.  It  is  extremely  pointed, 
will  no  doubt  be  a  dead  letter  before 
the  season  is  over,  and  then  what  is 
left  over  will  lie  on  the  shelves  or 
be  sacrificed  for  much  less  than  cost 
price  to  get  rid  of  them.

For  men  the  proper  styles  to  buy 
are  the  bull  dog  toe,  also  a  modified 
pug  toe.  A  neat  medium  last  is good. 
As  to  leathers,  the  best  sellers  are 
bound  to  be  the  patent  kid  or  patent 
colt.  For  a  neat  shoe,  when  a  man 
does  not  care  for  a  shiny  leather  the 
vici  kid  will  be  in  line.  Box  calf  is 
always  staple.

For  women  the  patent  kid  and vici 
will  have  a  big  sale.  Most  of  the  ox­
fords  for  women  are  being  shown  on 
a  rather  narrow  toe.  Most  of  the ox­
fords  have  patent  tips.

large  establishments 

As  to  heels,  the  Cuban  will  be more 
popular  than  ever.  The  call  for  them 
in  the 
is  big 
Some  prefer  the  military,  which  is  a 
trifle  lower,  but  the  Cuban  heel  will 
have  the  largest  sale.  A  few  button 
oxfords  will  be  sold,  but  not  enough 
to  justify  buying  very  many.  They 
will  be  more  of  a  novelty  than  a  big 
seller.

Oxfords  with  a  light  welt  sole  will 
have  a  good  sale.— Shoe  Trade  Jour­
nal.

Low  Heels  the  Thing.

The  last  three  years  have  seen  a 
very  marked  change  in  the  style  of 
heels  used  on  misses’,  children’s  and 
little  gents’  shoes.  Three  years  ago 
there  was  practically  nothing  used 
on  any  of  these  goods  except  a  regu­
lar  spring  heel.  But  today  it  might 
be  said  that  almost  no  little  gents’ 
shoes  are  made  spring  heels,  and 
there  is  a  strong  tendency  toward the 
use  of  low  or  half heels  in  misses’ and 
children’s  goods.  Half  heels  have 
several  points  which  commend  them 
to  the  wearer.  They  are  easier  to  re­
pair,  and  on  the  whole  give  rather 
better  service  than  the  spring  heel. 
From  the  manufacturing  end  of  it 
they  cost  slightly  more  to  make,  but 
the  difference  in  expense  is  not  great. 
Pretty  nearly  all  of  the  misses’  box 
calf  and  heavy  shoes  of  every  de­
scription  are  being  made  now  with 
the  low  heel,  and  there  are  an  in­
creasing  number  of  dongolas 
on 
which  it  is  also  used.  As  a  rule  it 
may  be  said  that  the  lighter  and  finer 
the  shoe,  the  less  apt  it  is  to  have  a 
half  heel,  for  the  reason  that  the ef­
fect  is  somewhat  heavy.  This  may 
be  seen  from  the  fact  that  on  patent

Cater  to  Women.

While  men  labor  every  day  women 

spend  their  earnings.  This  is  not 
mere  statement,  but  can  be  demon 
strated  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of 
any  one.  Walk  down  the  main  shop 
ping  street  of  any  large  city  where 
are  located  the  great  dry  goods  em 
to  one  man.  One  who  will  spend  ten 
minutes  on  State  street,  Chicago,  or 
similar  streets  in  other  cities  will  not 
ask  who  does  the  purchasing  or  from 
what  source  comes  most  of  the  trade 
He  will  know,  and  with  this  object
esson  before  him  be  impressed  with 
the  necessity  of  writing  his  adver 
tisement  directly  to  women,  with  the 
exceptions  of  what  articles  a  busi 
ness  man  needs  in  the  conduct  of 
is  business,  for  if  women  can  be  in 
terested  at  all  they  will  have  no 
trouble  in  securing  the  wherewithal 
with  which  to  buy  the  advertised 
roods.

Watch  the  Door.

One  of  the  things  of the  very  great 
st  importance  in  a  retail  shoe  store 
or  any  other  store  is  to  have  some 
one  Johnny-on-the-spot  when  anyone 
enters  the  door.  People  like  to  be 
elcomed.  There  is  always  one  of 
he  boys  who  can  be  spared  to  keep 
an  eye  on  the  door  and  welcome  cus- 
omers. 
1 here  is  a  very  prominent 
hoe  man  in  Chicago  who  told  me 
last  week  that  if  he  only  had  one 
clerk 
in  the  house  he  would  have 
him  on  guard  at  the  front  door.  He 
said,  “when  people  get  a  nice  wel­
come 
it  makes  them  feel  more  at 
home  and  materially  helps  the  sale.” 
There  are  so  many  merchants  who 
do  not  realize  this  very  important 
little  detail. 
If  they  would  only  try 
it  for  a  few  days  they  would  soon see 
that  it  pays.

A time for work 
And a time for play;
The first of May 
Is fishing day.

Therefore  prepare ye for the fray.
Buy  sp o rtin g  boots  w ith o u t  delay 
Of G lov e B r a n d, as you o u g h t  to  know  
To th e an g ler com fort they do  bestow .

Price  Reduced  to  $3.46 Net.

Distributors of Qlove Brand Rubbers-

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in

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It  is  quite  possible  for  a  young  man 
to  be  handicapped  by  too  many  an-

Use  Tradesman  Coupons

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So  early 

Some  New Features  in the  Hat Trade.
is  work  begun  on  the 
different  seasons  of  the  year that  they 
really  overlap. 
Spring  selling  of 
hats  with  the  retailer  is  not  yet  over, 
and  a  straw  hat  season  is  still  to  be 
gone  through,  and  while  engaged 
with  present  affairs  he  is  called  upon 
to  think  of  fall  and  to  anticipate  his 
sales  of  next  season’s  styles  of  hats. 
This  is  as  it  should  be,  for  time  is 
necessary  to  make  hats  and  make 
them  well,  and  on  theis  point  th_ 
manufacturer  has  strong  claims  on 
the  retailer’s 
Ad­
vance  orders  placed  early  afford much 
advantage  to  the  maker  in  that  each 
of  the  many  processes  through  which 
the  hat  passes  in  the  making,  can  be 
prolonged  somewhat  and  well  made, 
well  seasoned  hats  are  turned  out 
which  permit  of 
complaints 
and  greater  satisfaction  to  all.

consideration. 

fewer 

The  travelers  in  the  hat  trade  are 
now  on  the  road,  and  retailers  would 
do  well  to  bear  in  mind  the  before 
mentioned  facts  when  called  on  by a 
hat  salesman  to  inspect  his  line  for 
next  season.

The  orders  for  hats  for  next  sea 
son  are  coming  in  rapidly,  proving 
the  fact  that  many  retailers  realize 
the  advantages  gained  by  early  buy­
ing.  Many  reorders  for  stiff  hats  for 
spring  are  being  received,  and  an 
unusually  large  number  of  soft  hats 
in 
light  weights  for  early  summer 
wear  are  being  ordered  for  immed­
iate  shipment.

It  is  still  too  early  to  offer  a  defi­
nite  prediction  as  to  what  the  fall 
style  of  stiff  hats  will  be.  The  wide 
brim  effect,  which  has  been  so  popu­
lar  this  spring,  seems  to  be  a  style 
that  has  enduring  wearing  qualities, 
and  there  seems  to  be  a  disposition 
con­
among  the  manufacturers 
tinue  the  shape 
season. 
Slight  changes  in  the  set  of  the brim 
may  be  made  in  order  to  distinguish 
the  style  from  that  of  the  spring 
block.  As  the  season  advances  more 
definite  information  can  be  obtained 
and  will  be  furnished.

for  next 

to 

Soft  hats  for  outing  wear  are  about 
the  only  productions  in 
the  varied 
styles  of  soft  hats  that  are  engaging 
the  attention  of  the  manufacturers at 
present.  The  best  selling  styles  are 
of  the  low,  round-crown  order,  which 
may  be  creased  or  dented  in  a  num­
ber  of  ways,  and  have  a  neatly  rolled 
brim  of  good  width.  Little  or  no 
stiffening  is  used  in  the  brims,  which 
are  raw-edged,  and  the  hats  can  be 
worn  with  a  jaunty,  or  neglige,  or 
rakish  air,  as  may  suit  the  wearer’s 
fancy.

For  the  golf  links  this  style  of  hat 
is  made  in  royal  blue  and  dark  red 
colors,  while  for  riding,  driving  and 
other  recreative  pursuits,  the  quiter 
and  darker  effects  in  pearl  and  black 
are  made.

because 

It  is  to  be  hoped  there  will  be  no 
retailers  disappointed 
of 
their  inability  to  secure  all  the  straw 
hats  they  will  need  for  the  coming 
season.  Yet,  it  would  seem  at pres­
ent  as  though  it  will  be  impossible 
for  the  factories  to  turn  out  in  the 
next  six  weeks  all  the  hats  that  re­
main  to  be  made.

All  the  straw  hat 

are 
working  to  their  fullest  capacity;  no

factories 

orders  are  being  solicited,  and  none 
are  being  accepted  which  call  for  de­
livery  before  June  15.  Should  warm 
weather— real  straw  hat  weather—  
appear  early  and  continue  for  a  few 
weeks,  the  reorder  business  will  be 
enormous,  and  retailers  will  clean out 
their  stocks  completely.

Many  retailers  and  a  few  manufac­
turers  as  well,  have,  since  last  season, 
expressed  the  opinion  that  the  sale 
of  Panama  hats  next  summer  will  be 
very  limited  in  the  East. 
It  now  ap 
pears  these  same  people  are  chang 
ing  their  views,  and  the  belief 
i; 
gaining  ground  each  day  that  th< 
Eastern  section  of  the  country  will 
prove  to  be  a  very  good  market  for
Panamas  this  season.  The  retailers 
in  the  Southern  and  Western  states 
bought  Panamas  early  and  liberally 
The  retailers  of  the  East  are,  as  a 
rule,  late  buyers,  and  for  that  reason 
few  Panama  hats  were  ordered  unt 
recently,  which  condition  gives  rise 
to  the  idea  that  the  hats  would  not 
Information 
be  extensively  worn. 
now  at  hand 
that  more 
Panama  hats  will  be  worn 
in  this 
country  this  year  than  ever  before. 
In  view  of  this  prospective  business 
wide-awake  retailers  will  not  delay 
the  purchase  of  Panamas,  bnt  will 
urge  the  firms  from  whom  they  buy 
to  ship  their  goods  at  once.

indicates 

in 

Split  braid  and  sennit  yacht  hats 
will  doubtless  be  the  most  popular 
straw  hats  worn  this  summer,  though 
among  the  many  millions  of  hat 
wearers 
this  country,  there  is 
room 
for  other  styles  than  those 
mentioned.  Of  the  others  which  will 
make  a  bid  for  favor,  one  style  stands 
out  pre-eminently,  and 
is  every­
where  conceded  to  be  the  most  sen­
sible  hat  that  can  be  made  of  straw.
or  the  sake  of  easy  description  it is 
called  a  flexible  straw  hat. 
is 
made  in  Jap  and  milan  braids,  the 
Jap  braid  being  the  better,  has  a 
yacht  shaped  crown  and  wide  brim 
curled  at  the  edge.  Some  are  made 
with  a  fiat  set,  while  others  have  a 
rolled  brim  pitched  in  front  and  rear. 
The  hat  is  as  easy  to  wear  as  is  a 
soft  felt  hat,  it  conforms  instantly  to 
the  head,  and  will  not  easily  blow 
— Clothier  and  Furnisher.

It 

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

Woman’s  World
Plain  Talk  on  the  Mother-in-Law 

Question.

Among  the  curious  and  pathetic 
human  complications  that  no  wis­
dom  has  ever  been  able  to  solve  is 
the  problem  of  harmonious 
living 
relations  we  acquire  by 
with  the 
marriage.  No  other  thing 
in  the 
world  causes 
so  many  heartaches 
and  so  much  misery  and  tears,  for 
it  lurks  a  dark  and  sinister  ghost  in 
the 
every  wedding, 
threatening  its  happiness.

shadow  of 

It  is,  moreover,  essentially  a  fem­
inine  ghost,  for  after  a  father  has 
given  his  consent  to  a  marriage,  he 
generally  washes  his  hands  of  the 
affair  and  lets  the  parties  of  the  first 
part  run  things  to  suit  themselves, 
and  in  spite  of  all  that  the  humor­
ists  have  said  of  the  man  and  his 
mother-in-law,  most  women  are  dis­
posed  to  be  fond  of  their  daughter’s 
husbands. 
It  is  when  the  mother- 
in-law  and  the  daughter-in-law  meet 
that  the  crisis  becomes  acute,  rela­
tions  are  strained  to  the  breaking 
point  and  the  question  presents  dif­
ficulties  so  vast  and  so  far-  reaching 
that  the  two  women  most  concerned 
simply  sit  down helplessly  before it.
In  novels,  which  are  a  great  im­
life  in  the  way 
provement  on  real 
things 
the  man’s 
mother  opens  her  arms  to  the  new­
comer  and  piously 
thanks  heaven 
for  having  bestowed  upon  her  an­
the  bride, 
other  daughter,  while 
ejaculating, 
falls

“ My  mother,” 

are  managed, 

weeping  into  her  arms. 
I  think  I 
have  read  stories  that  ended  that 
way,  but  in  my  actual  experience  I 
don’t  know  half  a  dozen  women  be­
tween  whom  and  their  mothers-in- 
law  there  does  not  exist  a  kind  of 
armed  neutrality  that  is  like  a cocked 
gun,  ready  to  go  off  and  do  damage 
any  moment.

Whose  fault  is  it?  Both.
To  begin  with,  there  is  the  inevita­
ble  jealousy  of  two  women  who love 
the  same  man  and  who  feel  that  they 
have  a  right  to  monopolize  him. 
It 
ought  to  be  a  bond  of  affection,  but 
it  is  not. 
It  is  a  bone  of  contention, 
and  the  man,  in  his  stupid,  blunder­
ing  way,  invariably  does  everything 
he  knows  to  egg  them  on. 
If  he  had 
a  grain  of  tact  he  would  try  to  strike 
some  sort  of  a  neutral  ground  by 
which  he  could  satisfy  the  unreason­
ing  devotion  of  his  mother  and  the 
exigent  affection  of  his  wife  without 
arousing  the  animosity  of  the  other, 
but  perhaps  realizing  that  this  would 
take  more  of  a  Talleyrand  than  he 
is,  he  simply  throws  up  his  hands and 
leaves  the  situation  to  chance.  No 
policy  for  him.  On  the  contrary, 
with  the  amiable  and  mistaken  idea 
of  endearing  them  to  each  other,  he 
holds  up  each  as  a  model  of  perfec­
tion  to  the  other  and  thus  makes  a 
breach  that  nothing  can  bridge.

Back  of  all  that,  however,  is  the 
fact  that  while  a  woman  is  anxious 
for  her  daughters  to  marry,  she  does 
not  want  her  son  to  marry  and  can 
never  help  feeling  that  the  woman 
who  caught  him  was  a  designing  lit­
tle  minx.  Other  men  may  fall  in  love

and  get  married  of  their  own  free 
will  and  accord,  but  she  is  dead  sure 
that  her  poor,  dear  Tom  would  never 
have  thought  of  such  a  thing  if  he 
had  not  been  “led  on.”  She  knows 
the  artful  ways  of  her 
sex,  and 
nothing  can  convince  her  that  he has 
not  been  taken  in  by  the  deep,  dark 
cunning  of  a  regular  Machiavelli  in 
petticoats.

He  may  have  been  so  frantically in 
love  with  a  girl  that  she  had  to  mar­
ry  him  to  get  rid  of  him.  He  may  be 
a  blase  clubman  who, 
like  Lady 
Kew’s  daughter,  is  forty  years  old 
and  knows  all  there  is  to  tell,  but  in 
his  mother’s  eyes  he  is  an  unsophis­
ticated  infant  who  has  been  basely 
inveigled  to  the  altar. 
If  he  had not, 
she  is  certain  that,  in  the  first  place, 
he  would  not  have  married  anybody, 
and  in  the  second,  if  he  had  married, 
he  would  have  wed  that  nice,  de­
mure  little  girl  around  the  corner  in­
stead  of  the  girl  he  did.  Nobody 
need  ever  tell  her  that  he  was  not 
taken  in.  Never.  And  in  her  heart 
she  regards  him  with  the  contemptu­
ous  pity  we  bestow'  on  the  man  who 
buys  a  gold  brick.

A  woman  seldom  understands why 
a  man  falls  in  love  with  another  wo­
man,  anyway.  His  mother  never 
does.  As  a  general  thing,  she  can 
take  her  daughter’s  point  of  view  in 
regard  to  a  man,  but  her  son’s choice 
of  a  wife  remains  a  baffling  mystery 
to  her.  Above  all,  she  is  lost  in won­
der  at  why  he  picked  out  somebody 
so  totally  unlike  his  own 
family. I 
When  she  thinks  before  the  catas­
trophe  actually  occurs,  about 
the

kind  of  a  daughter-in-law  that  Tom 
is  liable  to  give  her,  she  has  the com­
fortable  conviction  that  she  will  be 
a  domestic  girl  like  his  sister  Helen 
or  a  serious-minded  girl 
like  sister 
Sarah;  or,  at  worst,  a  literary  one like 
sister  Charlotte,  who 
Ibsen 
and  belongs  to  Browning  societies. 
These  are  the  ideals  of  female  per­
fection  that  have  been  reared  before 
him,  and  she  is  certain  that  when he 
goes  a-courting  they  will  be  a  lamp 
to  guide  his  feet

reads 

Fallacious  hope!  Nothing  but  the 
contrariness  of  human  nature  can 
explain  the  fatal  surety  with  which 
a  man  always  picks  out  a  wife  as 
little  like  his  family  as  possible.  If 
they  are  staid,  serious,  sober,  relig­
ious,  he  marries  a  gay  little  butterfly 
whose  whole  idea  of  life  is  wrapped 
up  in  chiffon  and  bounded  by  the co­
tillion  on  one  side  and  the  theater on 
the  other. 
If  his  people  are  giddy 
worldlings,  he  hunts  up  a  prim  little 
Puritan  who  goes  into  a  permanent 
state  of  horror  at  their  gaiety.  His 
wife  and  his  family  generally  could 
not  have  less  in  common  if  they  be­
longed 
to  different  planets.  Only 
too  often  they  think  differently  and 
have  different  tastes  on  every  sub­
ject,  from  politics  to  pie,  yet  the man 
drops  this  alien  into  his  household 
and  with  a  masculine  disregard  of 
consequences 
stands  beaming  on 
them,  saying,  “ I  love  you  both.  Get 
along  together— if  you  can.”

Say  what  you  will,  the  situation  is 
tragical  for  both  parties,  and  it  is no 
wonder  that  they  so  often  extract 
the  greatest  possible  amount  of  ag-

A  merchant  to  whom  we  sold  a  register  admitted  that  losses 
occurred  in  his  store,  but  he  said  that  such  losses  did  not  worry 
him  for  the  simple  reason  that  he  knew  nothing  of them.

W e  said  to  him:  “ Mr.  Merchant,  on  this  same  principle,  would  you  buy  a  National  Cash 

Register  provided  you  could  pay  for  it  without  knowing  it? ”

He  said  that  he  would.

“ All  right,”  we  answered. 

“ Now  you  have  admitted  that  you  would  not  notice  a  mistaKe 

of  $1  each  da\.  Suppose you  put this  register  in,  and  let  your 
clerk  take  the  dollar  from  the  drawer  each  day  while  you 
in  the  locked  coin-compartment.
You  will  not  miss  it,  and  the  register will  pay  for  itself.”

are  away  and  drop  it 

He  signed  the  order.

Every retail  merchant  needs a  National. ”  Let 
Fill  out  and 

us  send  you  the  reasons  why. 

return  to  us  the  attached  coupon.

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gravation 
for  everybody  concerned 
out  of  it,  for  nothing  can  exceed  the 
trouble  that  two  good,  conscientious 
women,  trying  to  do  their  duty,  can 
make  for  each  other.

The  older  woman  generally  dis­
dains  to  use  any  tact.  Perhaps  she 
is  one  of  those  who  pride  themselves 
upon  being  plain-spoken,  and 
she 
forgets  that  only  exceeding  love can 
enable  us  to  hear  the  unvarnished 
truth  spoken  about  ourselves.  Above 
all,  she  is  bent  on  seeing  that  her 
son  is  not  henpecked  or  trodden up­
on.  Thereupon  she  conceives  it  to 
be  her  duty  to  lecture  her  daughter- 
in-law  about  her  shortcomings.  She 
groans  at  Mrs.  Tom’s  extravagance 
in  using  her  best  china  every  day and 
sighs  like  a  martyr  as  she  remarks 
that  in  her  day  young  women  occu­
pied  themselves  with  their  homes  in­
stead  of  gadding  about  to  progres­
sive  euchres  and  hen  clubs.  Of 
course  she  does  this  with  a  this-is- 
all-for-your-good  air,  and  if  there  is 
anything  more 
exasperating 
than 
that,  I  have  yet  to  encounter  it.

Worse  still,  some  times  she  goes 
to  Tom  with  a  litany  of  his  wife’s 
faults,  and  then,  indeed,  is  there  war 
to  the  hilt,  and  no  quarter  given.

it. 

But  the  fault  is  not  altogether  with 
the  older  woman,  exasperating  as  an 
angelic  mother-in-law  can  be.  The 
younger  woman 
seldom  possesses 
the  grace  of  forbearance.  There  are 
a  thousand  places  where  the  young­
er  woman  could  be  propitiated  by  de­
ference  and  where  her  advice  would 
be  of  help  and  comfort  if  only  the 
younger  one  had  the  tact  and  gen­
erosity  to  seek 
She  might  at 
least  have  the  justice  to  remember, 
as  the  goody-goody  books  say,  that 
her  mother-in-law  is  her  husband’s 
mother,  but  she  seldom  does 
it. 
is  so  afraid  of  being 
Rather,  she 
bossed 
antagonized 
through  jealousy  and  prejudice,  that 
she  would  rather  blow  up  the  house 
with  a  gasoline  stove  or  poison  her 
husband  on  saleratus  biscuit  than ask 
the  counsel  of  the  woman  who  ought 
to  be  next  to  her  own  mother  in her 
affections.

by  her, 

so 

The  trouble  with  most  girls  is that 
they  are  spoiled,  and  the  new  wife 
comes  from  a  home  where  she  was 
the  petted  darling,  and  where  every­
thing  revolved  around  her.  She  is 
not  used  to  criticism  or  to  being  held 
for  things  going  right, 
responsible 
and  she 
too  easly. 
Above  all,  she  is  not  yet  used  to 
thinking  of  Tom  as  anything  but an 
adoring  slave.  The  very  first  shock 
learning  that  matrimony  means 
of 
something  sterner  than 
lovemaking 
comes  from  Tom’s  mother,  and  she 
seldom  takes  any  trouble  to  lighten 
the  blow.

takes  offense 

Of  course  it  is  natural  for  every 
to  want  to  run  her  own 
woman 
house  to  suit  herself. 
It  is  also  per­
fectly  natural  for  a  man’s  mother  to 
feel  that  she  has  a  right  to  boss  his 
affairs.  Very  often  she  sees  things 
being  wasted,  things  illy  done  and 
badly  managed,  things  she  could  do 
so  much  better,  and  she 
looks  on 
with  the  anguish  with  which  the pro­
fessional  watches  the  blundering  ef­
forts  of  the  amateur.  But  it  is  a  fa­
tal  error  to  interfere.  Each  of  us

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

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Housecleaning

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iCleans Everything.

The  spring  house,  store  and  office 
building  cleaning  season  is  now  with 
us, and all retailers will find a good de­
mand for  B ra n s w ic k ’s Easy b righ t. 
This is a combination  cleaner  that will 
clean all  varnished  and  painted wood­
work and metals,  as well  as  cloth  fab­
rics,  carpets,  rugs,  lace  curtains,  etc. 
It is a cleaner  and  polisher  superior  to 
any and all others  now  on  the  market. 
It is cheaper and will do more work than any and  all  other  cleaners.  A  quart  can  that 
retails for 25 cents will clean  forty yards of carpet.  A ll  retail  merchants will  find  it  to 
their interest to put a case of each size of  these  goods  in  stock,  The  free  samples  and 
circulars packed in each 
case, if passed out to ac­
quaintances,  will  make 
customers  and  friends.
For sale by  all  jobbers.

E MAN

have  to  work  out  our  own  salvation 
in  matrimony  and  cooking  alone  and 
unaided.

is 

But  after  all,  knotty  as 

the 
and  daughter-in-law 
mother-in-law 
problem,  when  two  women  love  the 
same  man  and  desire  his  happiness, 
there  should  be  some  way  in  which 
they  could  get  together  and  establish 
a  platform  of  mutual  toleration.  Cer­
tainly, 
if  mothers  would  renounce 
the  error  of  their  belief  that  their 
sons  were  inveigled  into  matrimony 
instead  of  going  in  with  their  eyes 
open,  if  they  would  quit  speaking  of 
their  boys  as  “poor  Toms,”  and look­
ing  upon  them  as  martyrs,  and 
if I 
they  would  grant  to  their  daughters-! 
in-law  the 
inalienable  right  to  run 
their  own  houses  in  their  own  way; 
if  daughters-in-law  would  show  a lit­
tle  more  forbearance  with  the  wom­
an  who  has  gone  through  the  pain 
of  death  and  the  trials  of  the  inquisi­
tion  to  give  them  a  husband;  if  they 
would  remember  that  not  even  a 
bride  knows 
it  all,  although  she 
thinks  she  does;  if  they  would  use 
their  utmost  powers  of  fascination to 
storm  the  barricades  of  their  moth- 
ers’-in-law  hearts,  it  would  make  for 
peace  and  hapiness  and  do  much  to 
settle  the  vexed  problem  of 
their 
mother-in-laws.

But  the  only  absolutely  certain 
way  to  get  along  with  a  mother-in- 
law  is  to  marry  an  orphan.

Dorothy  Dix.

Letters  give  information  only  after 
It  is  different  with 

they  are  posted. 
some  men.

Everybody 

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One quart gasoline will go farther than 9 quarts of ker­
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Better than gas or electric light at X the cost.  Anyone 
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It is the one gasoline lamp that 
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man  who  presents  new  ideas  is  cer 
tain  of  advancement  if  there  is  any 
opportunity  for  same.

7-  As  a  salesman  I  would  be  par 
ticular  and  honest  in  every  dealing 
with  my  customers.  Misrepresenta 
tion  is  one  of  the  worst  things  for 
clerk. 
I  w’ould  a  great  deal  rather 
tell  customers  I  did  not  have  what 
they  wanted,  or  if  I  did  have  what 
seemed  to  please  them,  and  I  knew 
it  was  not  up  to  the  standard,  ex 
plain  this  to  them,  than  to  make  a 
sale  and  have  them  go  away,  and 
find  afterwards  they  had  not  been 
fairly  dealt  with.  This  is  sure  to 
drive  away  your  customers 
the 
course  of  time.

in 

p§ Facts  in  a

Nutshell m1

What  I  Would  Do  If  I  Were  a Clerk.

During  the  past  fifteen 

years 
have  been  in  business  for  myself, 
have  had  much 
experience  with 
clerks.  Some  have  been  good— men 
whom  I  have  depended  upon,  bnt, 
on  the  other  hand,  I  have  had  many 
a  bitter  experience  with  poor  clerks 
men  who  seemed  to  care  for  nothing 
but  to  draw  their  pay  on  Saturday 
night.  They  were  not  interested  in 
the  welfare  of  my  business.  Thi 
class  may  well  be  termed  indolent 
and  fail  to  pay  attention  to  what  is 
going  on  during  business  hours.  They 
do  not  know’  how  to  handle  custom­
ers  right;  they  are  impolite  and,  con­
sequently,  instead  of  bringing  trade 
to  the  store,  drive  it  away.  Such  very 
seldom  make 
successful  business 
men.  Among  the  things  I  would  do 
if  I  were  a  clerk  are  the  following 
it  a  point  to 
learn  my  stock. 
I  would  know’  every 
pair  of  shoes  in  the  store;  it  is  neces­
sary  for  a  successful  shoe  clerk  to 
know  just  w’here  to  lay  his  hands  on 
what  his  customer  wants.  Sometimes 
a  customer  will  enter  a  store,  and 
know 
just  what  he  wants,  but  at 
other  times,  where  he  does  not  know, 
it  is  the  duty  of  a  smart  salesman  to 
briefly  study  his  customer  and  pre­
sent  to  him  something  that  will  meet 
with  his  approval.

I  would  make 

I- 

2. 

3- 

their 

I  would  pay  particular  atten­
tion  to  the  arrangement  of  my  stock, 
so  it  could  be  easily  handled. 
In 
other  words,  I  believe  it  would  be  to 
the  advantage  of  a  good,  smart  sales­
man  to  urge  upon  the  proprietor  of 
the  store  to  have  some  system  where­
by  men’s,  women’s,  children’s,  boys’, 
youths’  and  little  gents’  shoes  would 
be  kept  in 
separate  depart­
ments;  to  see  that  the  goods  were 
looked  over  carefully,  and  that  widths 
and  sizes  were  kept  up,  so  it  would 
be  almost  impossible  to  lose  a  sale.
I  w’ould  know  my  trade;  that 
is,  I  would  know  my  customers. 
I 
W’ould  make  it  a  point  to  study  the 
wants  of  those  who  traded  with  me 
regularly,  so  when  they  came  in  to 
make  a  purchase  I  would  know  al­
most  at  once  what  they  wanted,  and 
be  able  to  serve  them  in  a  short  time. 
This,  I  think,  will  be  found  to  be 
of  great  advantage  to  any  salesman.
I  would  see  that  the  store  was 
kept  neat  and  clean,  and  I  would 
make  every  effort  in  that  direction, 
if  I  had  to  do  it  myself.  There  is 
nothing  that  will  queer  a  store  more 
than  to  have  a  customer  go  in  and 
find  it  untidy  and  upset,  things  lying 
around  in  sort  of  a  helter-skelter 
style,  but  where  neatness  and  order 
prevail,  there  you  will  generally  find 
the  best  trade.

4- 

5- 

I  would  pay  particular  atten­
tion  to  the  window  display. 
I  would 
see  that  new  and  attractive  methods 
were  used;  and  the  windows  were 
changed  at 
and  do 
everything  possible  to  make  them  at­
tractive  to  outsiders.

least  weekly, 

6- 

I  would  advance  every  new 
idea.  I  would  keep  my  eyes  open  and 
observe  everything  possible;  what  I 
could  put  into  force  myself  I  would 
do  so;  what  I  would  not  feel  like  tak­
ing  upon  myself  to  do,  I  would  sug­
gest  to  the  proprietor  and  have  him 
do  it,  if  a  possible  thing.  A  sales­

8. 

I  would  make  every  suggestion 
the 
possible  to  the  proprietor  of 
store. 
I  wish  my  clerks  would  do 
this  to  me,  but  few  have  any  sug- 
tions  to  make.  You  take  the  pro 
prietor  of  a  store,  he  is  usually  a 
busy  man;  he  has  the  cares  of  the 
business  upon  his  shoulders.  Clerks 
usually  have  some  time  they  could 
ook  around  and  find  where  some­
thing  could  be  done  which  would  im­
prove  the  appearance  of  the  store 
or  stock,  and  thus  improve  the  busi­
ness.
9- 
I  would  make  it  a  point  to cul- 
ivate  the  acquaintance  of  every  per­
son  possible,  and  as  far  as  in  my 
power,  try  to  induce  them  to  trade 
at  the  store  where  I  was  employed 
I  fear  the  importance  of  this  is  hardly 
realized  by  the  average  clerk.  Take 
a  young  man,  especially  one  who  is 
unmarried,  and  if  he  is  anyway popu- 
ar  he  has  a  large  circle  of  friends 
among  the  younger  element,  and  also 
makes  friends  with  the  older  classes; 
with  an  acquaintance  of  this  kind, and 
the  fact  that  he  can  bring  them  to 
his  store  to  trade,  provided  he  has  the 
goods  to  suit  them,  would,  no  doubt, 
be  the  first  foundation  stone  of  the 
capital  of  the  shoe  clerk  of  the  pres­
ent,  who  is  to  be  the  shoe  dealer  of 
I  know  of  one  store  in 
he  future. 
l  large  city  where  a  specialty  was 
made  of  the  finer  grades  of  shoes, and 
where  popular  clerks  who  have  been 
mployed  there  have  left  and  gone 
into  business;  no  less  than  five  stores 
the  result  of  men  who  have  been 
formerly  employed  in  this  establish­
ment,  and  every  one  of  them  is  do­
ng  a  successful  business.  This  was 
brought  about  by  the  popularity  of 
the  salesmen 
the 
fact  that  they  made  a  large  acquain- 
ance,  made  many  friends,  who  in 
risking  the  store  called 
these 
¡alesmen  in  person,  and  refused  to be 
waited  upon  by  any  other;  their  value 
was  realized  by  the  proprietors  of 
the  store  and  consequently  they  re­
ceived  increased  pay,  until  the  time 
came  when 
they  had 
enough  capital,  together  with  the as­
sistance  of  friends,  to  commence bus­
iness  on  their  own  account.— Edgar 
Allen  Hill  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Re­
corder.

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appear  to  have  what  the  small  boys 
call  a  “swelled  head,”  or  be  contin­
ually  lauding  his  own  abilities  before 
his  subordinates  who  oftentimes  un­
derstand  them  better  than  he  him­
self,  and  all  of  which  tends  to  make 
discord  where  perfect 
harmony 
should  exist.

How 

to  Handle  Business  Success­

fully.

a 

Good  management  of 

store 
means  executive  ability  and  a  knowl­
edge  of  human  nature  on  the  part  of 
the  manager. 
It  is  not  absolutely 
necessary  that  the  manager  have  a 
technical  knowledge  of  the  various 
lines  of  goods  carried  in  stock,  pro­
vided  the  store  is  a  large  one,  and 
his  departments  presided  over  by 
able  subordinates,  but  it  is  much  bet­
ter  if  he  has  this  knowledge,  and  has 
reached  his  position  by  beginning at 
the  bottom  and  working  his  way  up 
through  the  various  departments, un­
til  he  has  mastered  every  detail  of 
the  business.

Store  management  means 

some­
thing  more  than  merely  having  a 
store  and  having  that  store  filled with 
merchandise. 
It  means  purchasing 
goods  which  meet  the  requirements 
of  the  people. 
It  means  purchasing 
these  goods  in  the  right  quantity,  in 
order  to  be  able  to  buy  them  at  the 
right  price,  and  yet 
that 
amount 
there  will  be  no 
dead  stock  in  the  store.

limiting 

that 

so 

The  mistake  of  most  retailers  is 
made  in  purchasing  too  large  quan­
tities  of  a  few  lines  of  goods,  instead 
of  buying  a  few  only,  of  a  large  va­
riety  of  goods,  thus  giving  the  cus­
tomer  a  better  assortment  to  select 
from  and  resulting  in  a  sale,  when 
otherwise  he  may  have  as  an  excuse 
for  not  buying  that  you  have not  just 
the  quality  he  desires,  or  an  article at 
the  price  he  desires  to  pay.

The  larger  variety  means  more 
sales.  The  more  sales  that  are  made, 
the  more  often  can  the  money  be  re­
invested.

the 

average 

from  six  to  seven 

Some  of  the  larger  stores  are  com­
pelled  to  turn  over  their  stock  of 
goods 
times  a 
year,  before  a  fair  profit  is  shown. 
Goods  that  are  bought 
right, are 
half  sold.  The  executive  ability  of 
a  manager  of  a  store,  is  shown  in es­
tablishing  credits,  in  attending  to col­
lections,  and  in  paying  out  money. 
retail 
Unfortunately, 
merchant  shows  poor  judgment 
in 
extending  credits.  They  could  and 
would  more  often  pay  their  own  bills 
more  promptly, 
if  they  could  only 
collect  their  outstanding  accounts, 
w’hich  often  times,  are  never  collect­
ed. 
If  the  retail  merchants  would 
take  advantage  of  the  discounts  al­
lowed  by  most  manufacturers  and 
jobbers 
remittance,  it 
would  in  many  instances  equal  the 
amount  of  profit  eventually  obtained 
by  the  retailer  on  those  goods.

for  a  cash 

is 

tested 

The  knowledge  of  human  nature 
which  a  store  manager  should  pos­
sess, 
in  employing  and 
handling  his  subordinates  who  are 
ambitious  and  often  dissatisfied  with 
their  slow  promotion,  or  their  pres­
ent  salaries. 

An  able  and  ambitious  clerk  who 
is  not  promoted  or  whose  salary  is 
not  increased  when  it  should  be  oft­
en  becomes  discouraged, 
he 
interest  in  the  welfare 
either  loses 
of  the  company  or  severs  his  connec­
tion  therewith,  and  carries  to  some 
other  firm  a  large  amount  of  busi- 
ment  which  under  better  manage­
ment  might  have  been  retained.

and 

Above  all,  a  manager  should  never

A  manager  should  be  ever  watch­
ful,  and  make  his  business  one  con­
stant  study,  as  the  surrounding  con­
ditions  can  be  made  to  have  as much 
influence 
the  profits 
needed  from  the  goods,  as  the  pos­
session  of  capital  sufficient  to  keep 
those  goods  in  stock.

in  obtaining 

Modern  business  is  a  kind  of  mech­
anism.  Each  man  is  as  a  cog  in  a 
wheel,  each  wheel  a  department,  and 
the  sum  total  of  departments  makes 
the  machine  which,  if  properly  con­
structed,  can  be  easily  operated  by 
the  manager.— Ad-Writer.

California  Fruit  Must  Now  Be 

Stamped.

or 

An 

corporation, 

important  new  fruit  package 
law  just  about  to  go  into  effect  in 
California  is  as  follows:  All  fruit, 
green  or  dried,  contained  in  boxes, 
barrels  or  packages,  which  shall here­
after  be  shipped  or  offered  for  ship­
ment  in  this  State  by  any  person, 
firm 
shall  have 
stamped,  branded,  stenciled  or 
la­
beled  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the 
outside  of  every  box,  barrel  or pack­
age,  in  clearly  legible  letters  at  least 
one-quarter  of  an  inch  in  height,  a 
statement  truly  designating  the  coun­
ty  and  immediate  locality  in  which 
such  fruit  was  grown.  Any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  violating  any of 
the  provisions  or  requirements  of 
Section  i  of  this  act  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  convic­
tion,  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not 
less  than  $200  nor  more  than  $500.

What  to  Do  With  a  New  Idea.
If  an  original  idea  comes  to  you,  do 
not  measure  it  by  your  estimate  of 
the  efforts  of your  competitors,  to test 
its  worth.  Don’t  be  afraid  of  it be­
cause  it  is  unlike  all  the  other  ideas 
being  carried  out 
line  of 
business.  Its  very  newness  is  a  big 
argument  in  its  favor  because  new 
things  attract  attention. 
If  it  has real 
merit,  launch  it.  You  will  soon  be 
convinced of  its  effectiveness,  prob­
ably,  by  its  being  copied  by  all  the 
others.— Business  Problems.

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Some  Features  To  Commend  and 

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trade 

satisfactory 

the  pages  assigned 

For  some  time  we  have  thought 
that  Butler  Bros,  got  up  about  the 
most 
literature 
that  came  to  hand,  but  their  Apri 
catalogue  was  something  of  a  disap 
pointment  in  one  detail. 
Its  index 
was  so  badly  mixed  as  to  be  utterly 
useless.  We  had  occasion  to  look for 
tumblers.  The  index  indicates  that 
they  are  listed  on  pages  429,  434 and 
437.  On  these  pages  are  desks,  ta 
bles,  couches,  bedsteads  and  dress 
ers.  On 
to 
“sporting  goods”  are  to  be  found 
stoves,  cutlery  and  some  matters  in 
light  hardware.  For  stationery  they 
refer  the  reader  to  pages  137,  to 144 
and  149  to  154,  and  on  these  leave 
may  only  be  discovered  combs, pipes 
cigars,  candy,  chewing  gum,  drugs 
grocers’  sundries  and  soap,  with  per 
haps  a  sprinkling  of  other  matters 
and 
stationery  department  i 
tucked  away  in  another  part  of th 
book.  This  is  so  entirely  foreign to 
their  usual  methods  that 
it  caused 
the  writer  to  wonder  if  he  were  go 
ing  into  his  dotage  and  to  fear  that 
the  gates  of  the  insane  asylum  would 
soon  swing  open  for  his  accommoda 
tion.  But  the  receipt  of  the  May  is 
sue  relieved  his  mind. 
In  this  there 
is  a  happy  return  to  the  usual  correct 
classification,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  man  who  is  responsible  for 
the  error  has  been  guillotined  and 
that  his  head  is  being  prominently 
displayed  upon  the  parapets  of  Ran 
dolph  bridge.

the 

is 

It 

The  Geo.  E.  Keith  Company,  of 
Campello,  Mass.,  sends  out  a  hand 
some  catalogue  descriptive  of  Walk 
over  shoes.  This  little  book  is  got 
ten  up  in  the  highest  style  of  the 
art  preservative. 
illustrated 
throughout  with  half  tone  engravings 
that  seem  to  do  entire  justice  to  the 
goods  depicted.  The  Keith  Com 
pany  says 
just  about  enough,  al­
though  not  too  much,  and  the  whole 
work 
feeling  that  the  shoes  advertised  are 
as  good  as  money  and  experience 
can  make.

impresses  the  reader  with 

The  Bradley  Shoe  Co.,  of  Chica­
go,  hands  us  a  booklet  descriptive 
of  oxfords,  slippers  and  ladies’  boot 
and  upon  its  opening  page  may  be 
found  the  following  rather  peculiar 
motto:  “ Everybody  knows  their own 
business  best.”  With  the  exception 
of  an  unusually  lage  variety  of  low 
cut  goods  which  are  tolerably  well 
illustrated,  there  is  nothing  out  of 
the  ordinary  about  this  book  and we 
doubt 
if  it  will  attract  much  new 
trade.  Another  time  we  should like 
to  have  the  Bradley  Company  try 
the  effect  of  somewhat  more  elabor­
ate  descriptions  and  a  little  stronger 
talk  on  quality,  if  the  goods  will stand 
it,  and  then  we  would  be  interested 
to  know  what  effect  the  change  will 
have  in  the  winning  of  new  custom­
ers,  for  it  is  a  pet  theory  of  the  writ­
er  that  people  like  to  know  a  whole 
lot  about  the  goods  they  are  asked 
to  buy.

The  Sahlin  Corset  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
tells  us  so  much  about  its  corsets  in 
its  spring  and  sumer  catalogue,  and

illustrates  so  great  a  variety  of goods 
that  it  loks  like  a  cinch  that  it  will 
dispose  of  a  big  bunch  of  its  wares 
One  may  have  the  very  best  thing 
in  the  world,  but  if  it  be  kept  in  the 
back  room  in  the  dark,  people  will 
buy  the  poorer  article  that  the fellow 
has  who  hangs  it  over  the  sidewalk, 
and  bellows  himself  hoarse 
in  ex­
plaining  its  merits.

It  reads  much 

In  some  respects  the  most  remark­
able  catalogue  that  ever  found 
its 
way  to  our  desk  is  that  of  the  Baker 
&  Lockwood  Co.,  of  Kansas  City, de­
scriptive  of  tents,  awnings  and  kin­
dred  matters. 
like 
many  another  of  its  class  up  to  page 
eight,  whereon 
is  depicted  an  “A ” 
tent.  Underneath  it  are  prices  and 
just  below  the  following  quotations: 
‘All  we,  like  sheep,  have  gone  astray; 
we  have  turned  every  one  to  his  own 
way;  and  the  Lord  hath  laid  on Him 
the  iniquity  of  us  all.”— Isaiah  53:6. 
“And  by  Him,  all  that  believe  are 
justified 
things.”— Acts 
i3 ;39-  After  this  we  skip  several 
pages  wherein  nothing  appears  but 
business  literature;  but  on  page  14, | 
immediately  following  the  statement 
that  there  is  a  large  discount  from 
these  prices,  we  find  that  “While  we 
for 
were  yet  sinners,  Christ  died 
illus­
trates  a  square  hip  roof  tent  made 
for  missionaries  in  Africa  as  well  as 
a  lambing  tent  for  sheep  and  goat 
raisers.  We  are  asked  to  write  for 
prices,  and  informed: 
“And  if  any

”— Romans  5:8. 

Page  17 

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Bement
Peerless

Plow

verbs,  an  armful  of  tracts  and  a  copy 
of  Bradstreet's  which  are  to  be  used 
promiscuously 
the  winning  of 
business  for  the  house.

in 

George  Crandall  Lee.

Stamping  Small  Articles  From  Sheet 

Steel.

During  the  last  decade  a  great  deal 
of  progress  has  been  made  in  the  use 
of  stamped  steel  for  the  manufacture 
of  various 
small  articles  such  as 
scales,  coal  hods,  and  various  metal 
articles  for  household  and  industrial 
use.  The  chief  advance  has  been  in 
the 
improvement  of  stamping  ma­
chinery,  but  the  steel  makers  have 
also  accomplished  a  great  deal  by 
producing  rolled  steel  that  can  stand 
as  severe  bending  and  stamping  tests 
as  the  best  brass.  This  has  made pos 
sible  a  great  deal  of  delicate  and  dif 
ficult  stamping  work  that  could  not 
before  be  attempted.  A 
few  years 
ago  cast  iron  was  largely  used  fo 
many  small  articles 
that  are  now 
made  almost  exclusively  from  pressed 
or  stamped  steel.  New  pressed  steel 
hods  are  made  that  are  far  lighter an 
more  durable  than 
formerl. 
placed  on  the  market,  and  more  ser 
iceable.  They  are  pressed  out  of 
single  piece  of  metal,  which  also  en 
hances  their  durability.  Of  course 
the  machinery  for 
sheet 
steel  is  much  more  expensive  than 
the  equipment  necessary  to  mold  and 
finish  castings,  but  the  work  is  done 
so  much  more  rapidly  and  the  parts 
when  finished,  are  so  much  stronge 
and  lighter  and  more  durable  and  ac 
curate,  that  there  is  a  net  gain  not 
only 
great  gain  in  the  character  of  the fin 
ished  product.  The  saving  in  freigh 
and  expressage  is  also  very  consider 
able.

in  manufacturing  cost,  but 

stamping 

those 

A  Small  Usurer.

Mother— Now,  before  you  go  to 
sleep,  have  you  been  guilty  of  any  lit 
tie  sins  that  you  should  be  sorry  for
Tommy— Yes’m.  I  think  I’ve  beei 

guilty  of  usury.

Mother— Of  usury?
Tommy  Yesm . 

and  I  used  it.

I  found  a  penny 

Cream  Separators.

man  hear  my  words  and  believe  not, 
I  judge  him  not:  for  I  came  not  to 
judge  the  world,  but  to  save  the 
world.  He 
that  rejecteth  Me  and 
receiveth  not  my  words,  hath  one 
that  judgeth  him:  the  word  that 
have  spoken,  the  same  shall  judge 
him  in  the  last  day.”— John  12:47-48 
Page  19  is  given  to  religious  matters 
There 
little  sermon  to  begin 
with,  and  halfway  down 
the  page 
the  following  form:

is  a 

CER TIFICATE.

I, the undersigned, desiring that  in the event 
of my death, the  truth  should  be  told  at  mv 
funeral, do  hereby  testify  that  I  never  have 
been  born  again, by  faith  in  the  Lord  Jesus 
Cnnst, consequently,

If I die tonight I will go to He

f* 

are  a  Christian,  erase 

Signed............Address............ Date............. 180
th e  w ord
never*  m  the above and fill out  the  follow ins? 
questions, viz: 
8
When I was saved.........................
Where I was  saved....................!!*.."!!!............
How I was  saved..............................
"But sanctify the Lord God  in  your  hearts' 
and be ready always to give an answer to every 
man that asketh you a reason of  the  hope  that 
is in you with meekness and fear.”   I Peter 3,  15.

from 

covers 

Sandwiched  between  business talks, 
to  be 
descriptions  and  prices  are 
found  a  great  variety  of  biblical quo­
tations,  such  as:  “ If  the  righteous 
scarcely  be  saved,  where  shall  the 
ungodly  and  the  sinner  appear?”  “The 
wicked  shall  be  turned  into  hell  and 
all  the  nations  that  forget  God.”  “He 
that  hath  ears  to  hear,  let  him  hear.” 
“And  whosoever  was  not  found  writ­
ten  in  the  book  of  life  was  cast  into 
the  lake  of  fire.”  “They  that  trust  in 
«their  wealth  and  boast  themselves 
the  multitude  of  their  riches;  none 
of  them  can  by  any  means  redeem  h 
brother,  nor  give  to  God  a  ransom 
for  him.”  The  wages  of  sin  is  death 
On  page  56  we  are  told  that  second 
hand  bed  blankets  but  slightly  used 
can  be  had  very  cheap,  and  immed 
ately  following  we  read:  “ Unto  him 
that  loved  us, and  washed  us  from  our 
sins  in  His  own  blood.”  Then 
are  told  that  certain  other  tent  mak 
ers  are  very  unscrupulous 
in  their 
business  methods,  and  underneath 
Moral— Stop  being 
swindled.  Buy 
your  tents  and 
Doubtless  this  firm  has  a  perfect  right 
to  use  the  above  quotations  in  its 
advertising  matter,  and  especially  as 
proper  credit  is  given  to  the  work 
from  which  they  are  derived,  and 
yet  the  question  of  taste  arises  so 
persistently  that  it  will  not  be  put 
down.  We  learn  from  another  source 
that  Baker  &  Lockwood  Co.  is  a  very 
responsible  firm,  but  it  would  be  dif­
ficult  for  us  to  draw  that  inference 
from  the  text  of  the  catalogue  itself 
There  is  a  proper  time  and  place  for 
all  respectable  things. 
sermon, 
however  good,  would  be  illy  appreci­
ated  by  a  busy  man  if  delived  in  his 
store  on  a  Saturday  afternoon;  and 
its  preacher  would  receive  scant  con­
sideration  for  his  pains.  The  custo­
mer  applying  to  his  grocer  for  credit 
will  do  his  cause  but  small  assistance 
if  he  wedges  in  religious  talk  with 
his  application  for  assistance.  It  may 
be  all  right  enough,  perhaps,  but  it 
is  so  at  variance  with  the  usages 
and  customs  of  the  times  that 
it 
smacks  of  insincerity.  And  it  would 
be  interesting  to  know  whether  the 
Baker  &  Lockwood  Co.,  before  send­
ing  representatives  out  on  the  road 
to  solicit  business,  arms  them  each 
with  a  supply  of  trite  Scriptural  pro­

A 

When  you  sell  a  Peerless  Plow  it  seems  to  be  a 
sale amounting to  about  fifteen  dollars;  but  consider 
that purchaser must  come  back  to  your  store  several 
times a year for several  years to get  new  shares,  land- 
sides,  mouldboards,  clevises,  jointer  points  and  other 
?arts that must sooner or later wear  out.  During  this 
time he will  pay you  another  fifteen  dollars,  and  you 
will sell  him other goods.

Bement Plows
iu m m  iarm

W e make  it  our business  to  see  that  our  agents 

have the exclusive sale of  Peerless  Plow  Repairs.

fusing Michigan.

I/V% E Rement's Sons

TH IS

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WM.  BRUMMELER  &   SONS,

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H O W   HE  H ELPED   HER.

Usual  Experience  o i  An  Obliging 

Husband.

from  work 
junior  member  of 

Mr.  Beam,  of  the  firm  of  Beam 
Brothers  &  Girder,  contractors and 
house  builders  in  a  modest  way, had 
tired.  Jim 
come  home 
the 
Beam, 
the 
brothers  combination,  had 
Beam 
been  drunk 
three  days  now, 
which  was  one  day  more  than  the 
average,  and  as  yet  showed  no  signs 
of  tapering  off.

for 

Tom  Girder  had  a  felon  on  his 
right  hand,  making  him 
almost 
crazy  and  entirely  unfitting  him  for 
his  work  as  a  stair  builder,  and with 
the  contract  for  the  building  of  the 
new  house  for  old  Rusher,  the  real 
estate  man,  due  to  be  completed  in 
one  week’s  time  and  help  particularly 
unattainable  at  any  wage,  it  was  no 
wonder  that  Mr.  S.  Beam  was  cross 
and  distraught.

His  name  was  S.  Beam  and  usu­
ally  when  the  work  was  going  nice­
ly  and  he  was  up  on  top  of  a  new 
building,  among  the  sweet  smelling 
lumber,  with  the  pure  air  and  every­
thing  light  and  bright,  his  men  used 
to  say  that  the  “S”  stood  for  “Sun” 
Beam,  but  when  things  were  not go­
ing  that  way  they  thought  it  meant 
“Satan”  Beam  or 
“Sin”  Beam  or 
something 
like 
that,  although,  of 
course,  his  real  name  was  Saul  and 
he  wanted  it  spelled  that  way,  too, 
and  when  a  smart  party  addressed 
him  once  as  Saw  L.  Beam  just  be­
cause  he  was  a  carpenter  he  resented 
it,  although  it  was  openly  hinted  at 
the  time  that  he  was  first  attracted 
to  his  wife  because  her  name  was 
Sill.

It  was  a  funny  name  enough  any- 
way,  Sylvia  Sill,  and  ought  to  have 
attracted  anybody,  even 
if  only  to 
attract  their  attention.  With  Saul 
Beam  it  atracted  his  heart  and  so, on 
this  night  I  am  telling  you  about, ten 
and  seven-tenths  years  after  mar- 
riage,  Mrs.  Sylvia  Sill-Beam  was 
waiting  for  Saul  Beam,  her  husband, 
when  he  came  home  from  work  tired 
and  cross  as  aforesaid.

Mrs.  Beam  had  been  married  all 
of  these  years  and  yet  she  had  not 
learned  one  thing  which  it  is  impor­
tant  that  all  wives  who  have  hus­
bands  who  go  out  to  earn  the  living 
should  learn  and  that  is  to  lie  low 
when  they  first  come  home 
from 
the  day’s  struggle  with  the  world  to 
see  how  the  bread  winner  has  been 
affected  by  the  struggle.

She  had  not  learned  this,  and  so, 
before  Saul  had  even  got  his  dirty 
overalls  and  blouse  off  or  been  to 
the  sink  to  wash  his  face  and  hands, 
she  opened  up  as  follows:

“Saul  Beam,  I  just  want  you  to un­
derstand  distinctly,  that  I  won’t wear 
these  shoes  another  day.”

“Oh,  you  won’t?”  in  an  even, quiet 
tone  which  would  have  been  cue 
enough  to  an  ordinary  wood  butch­
er  that  he  would  best  go  easy,  “Oh, 
you  won’t?”  Just  like  that.

But  Mrs.  Beam  was  an  able  house­
wife  and  not  an  ordinary  wood 
butcher  and  she  had  never  taken  the 
trouble  to  learn  the  signs  and  she 
had  noticed  those  shoes  all  of  the 
time  she  stooped
afternoon,  every 

over  to  put  a  pie  in  the  oven  or take 
one  out,  or  put  the  kettle  away  in 
the  cupboard  under  the  sink  or  to 
pick  up  the  paper  from  where  Saul 
had  left  it  on  the 
the 
thought  had  kept  working 
in  her 
mind  until  she  could  not  think  of 
anything  else  and  so  she  went  right 
at  the  heart  of  the  thing  at  once.

floor  and 

“No,  I  won’t,  and  I  want  you  to 
slick  up  right  off  before  supper  ajid 
go  right  down  town  with  me  as soon 
as  you  get  through  eating  and  help 
me  get  a  new  pair  of  shoes.”

“Oh,  you  do?”

“Yes,  I  do.  And  it  don’t  make any 
difference  what  a  hard  day  you’ve 
had,  nor  how  tired  you  are,  nor  how 
this  is  the  only  chance  you  get  to 
figure  up  on  jobs  nor  anything  about 
it.  You’ve  got  to  devote  a  few  min­
utes  to  me  once  in  awhile  and  this is 
one  of  the  whiles.”

“Go  on  and  get  your  shoes  alone.” 
“Well,  I  will  not,  and  have  you 
finding  fault  with  what  I  pick  out, 
and  the  price  and  the  fit  and  every­
thing  else  for  the  next  six  months. 
You’ve  got  to  come  along  and  pick 
’em  out  yourself  and  pay  for  ’em  and 
then  you’ll  be  satisfied,  whether  I am 
or  not.”

“Well,  I’m  not  going  to  toil  ’way 
down  town  again  to-night,  I’ll  give 
you  that,  if  you  have  to  go  bare-foot­
ed.  I  tell  you  I’m  all  tired  out.”

“Oh,  all  right. 

I  never-ask-you-to- 
do-any  (snif)-thing-for-  (gulp)  me, 
but  (snip,  gulp),  what  you-o-o-o-o.” 
“Oh,  hush  up,  Syl.  Don’t  be  a 
I  s’pose  I’ll  have  to  go.  Aw, 

baby. 
don’t  cry.  There,  there.”

(Mrs.  Beam  blows  her  nose  and it 

is  all  settled.)

And  so  at  a  quarter  of  seven  p. m., 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beam,  considerably

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slicked  up  enter  the  footwear  mart, 
Mrs.  Beam  radiantly  lovely  up  to  her 
limit,  and  Mr.  Beam  impatient  and re 
signed.

The  curtain  goes  up.  Short  one 

act  sketch.  Three  people.

The  Clerk— Good 
Beam.  Some  shoes?

evening,  Mrs 

Mrs.  Beam— If  you  please.
The  Clerk— For  yourself, 

I  sup 

pose?

Mr.  Beam  (with  a  little  rancor  yet) 
— Well,  you  bet,  if  they  were  for  me 
I  wouldn’t  have  to  lug  anybody  down 
to  help  me  buy  them.

Mrs.  Beam  (her  face  darkening _ 
bit  but  still  smiling)— Yes,  they  are 
for  me.  Some  laced  ones,  please.

The  Clerk— We  have  a  hansome 
thing  at  $3-5°»  how  does  this  suit
you?

Mr.  Beam—-Isn’t  that  pretty  expen 
sive?  A  cheaper  pair  would  do you 
just  as  well.

Mrs.  Beam  (to  clerk)— You  may 

try  them  on.

The  Clerk— That’s  a  neat  fit.
Mr.  Beam— What  size?
The  Clerk— Eh-well,  I  gave  her an 
extra  long  one,  you  know.  She does 
not  need  it  so  long,  but  it’s  all  th. 
rage.  She  could  wear  a  4  1-2  if she 
wanted  to  pinch  her  feet  just  a  little, 
but  the 
long  slim  ones  are  much 
more  fashionable,  you  know.

Mr.  Beam— But  what  size  are they 
The  Clerk— Let  me  see; 
they’re 

No.  6.

Mr.  Beam— What  width?
The  Clerk— “D.”
Mr.  Beam— What  does  “ D”  mean 
The  Clerk— Why,  it’s  the  way they 
number  the  widths. 
“A ”  is  the nar 
rowest  on  this  style,  that’s  the  first 
width,  “B”  the  second,  “C”  three  and 
“D”  four  and  so  on.

Mr.  Beam  (with  a  sudden  inspir­
ation)— That  makes  you  a  6x4,  Sylvy. 
You’re  a  6x4  Beam  which  is  mighty 
small  for  a  beam  but  will  do  for 
sill.  Them  toes  are  too  narrow.

Mrs.  Beam— No, 

they’re  not, but 
I’ve  never  worn  a  six  yet,  and  I 
never  will.

Mr.  Beam— Oh,  get 

enough.

them 

large 

Mrs.  Beam— I  don’t  want  them to 

shuck  all  around.

The  Clerk— These  shoes  run  very 

small  for  the  size,  anyway,  we—
Mrs.  Beam— Let  me  see  a  five.
The  patient  clerk  who  had  been 
going  to  the  revival  meetings  and 
was  trying  to  lead  a  better  life  and 
tell  the  exact  truth  gets  a  No.  5.  The 
shoe  slips  on  after  a  struggle.

Mr.  Beam— They  are  to  small  for 

you.

Mrs.  Beam— They  are  not.
Mr.  Beam— They  bulge  out  all over 

the  sides.

Mrs.  Beam— They’re  just  as  com­
I  could kick 

fortable  as  they  can  be. 
them  off.

Mr.  Beam— Hadn’t  you  better  get 

a  little  wider  toes?

Mrs.  Beam— No.  Do  them  up.
And  the  clerk  does  them  up.,  Mrs. 
Beam  gets  a  V.  dollar  bill  from  her 
husband,  pays  for 
the  shoes  and 
leads  him  back  home,  having  led him 
away  down  there  to  get  the  benefit 
of  his  advice  and  not  having  followed 
a  single  sugestion  he  has  made,  and 
from  now  she
when, 

four  months 

complains  of  her  shoes,  she  will claim 
that  he 
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How  To  Keep  Young.

Never  neglect  your  daily  exercise. 
A  brisk  walk  for  a  couple  of  miles 
in  the  fresh  morning  air  or  a  four or 
five  mile  bicycle  ride  is  one  of  the 
first  essentials. 
Plain,  nourishing 
food,  and  abundance  of  good,  ripe 
fruit  are  another.  Fruit  is  best eaten 
in  the  morning.  Bananas  are  easy 
of  digestion  to  some  and  very  nutri­
tious;  grapes  are  nourishing  and  fat­
tening;  apples  are  especially  good 
for  brain  workers,  and  oranges  are 
of  great  benefit  to  people  afflicted 
with  rheumatism.

sleeping 

Have  plenty  of  fresh  air  in  your 
living  and 
rooms.  Leave 
your  bedroom  window  open  from  the 
top  several 
inches  every  night,  no 
matter  how  cold  the  weather.  Have 
your  bed  covering  warm  and  light 
On  getting  up  in  the  morning  ar 
range  your  bedding  and  bed  so  that 
they  may  be  thoroughly  aired.  Leave 
your  window  open  in  your  bedroom 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  day.  I 
your  living  room  ventilation  is  also 
necessary,  and  sunshine,  too.

Poor  ventilation  is  accountable for 
much  ugliness,  and,  in  children,  de 
formity.  Fresh  air  and  sunshine are 
as  essential  to  a  human  being  as they 
are  to  a  plant.

Avoid  tight  clothing— corsets, gar 
ters,  sleeves,  armholes,  collars  and 
waist-bands.  Tight  clothing  disturbs 
the  circulation  of  the  blood  and  is 
the  cause  of 
red  noses,  enlarged 
veins,  flushing,  etc.

Eight  hours’  sleep  is  absolutely re 

quired  to  rest  the  brain.

Musk  Deer  Make  Perfume.

Musk  is  not  an  agreeable  perfume 
to  many  people,  although  it  is highly 
esteemed  by  others,  who  run 
the 
risk  of  being  called  vulgar  in  order 
that  they  may  enjoy 
its  pungent 
odor.

Musk  in  its  raw  state  looks  a  good 
deal  like  axle  grease  and 
smells 
/orse.  The  popular  axiom  that  the 
musk  of  commerce  is  obtained  from 
the  muskrat  is  a  mistake.  There  is 
obtained  a  somewhat  similar  perfume 
from  the  muskrat,  but  most  of  the 
supply  comes  from  the  musk  deer, a 
creature  that  is  carefully  reared  in 
ndia  for  the  sake  of  the  secretion. 
The  secretion  is  shipped 

the 
crude  state  and  is  used  not  only  in 
the  manufacture  of  the 
liquid  per­
fume  sold  as  musk,  but  also  in  very 
small  quantities  to  give  strength  and 
staying  power 
to  many  perfumes 
made  from  the  essential  oils  of  flow­
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

The  Traveling  Salesman  of  1903. 
No  profession  or  occupation  has 
shown  more  remarkable  changes  in 
the  character  of  its  members  than has 
that  of  the  commercial  traveler  in the 
past  twenty  years.  From  the  “jolly 
time”  apostle  of  the  early  eighties  to 
the  thorough-going  business  agent of 
the  present  day  is  not  a  long  era,  but 
the  difference  in  the  type  of  men  is 
great.  The  commercial  traveler  of 
today  talks  business  from  a  strict  bus­
iness  standpoint,  his  visit  is  on  busi­
ness  and  for  business,  and  when  the 
deal  is  completed  he  is  gone.  The old 
“high  roller”  did  not  exactly  consider 
business  a  side  issue  to  the  main  re­
sult  of  his  trip,  but  he  frequently  sub­
ordinated  it  to  a  two  weeks’  lay  off 
for  refreshments  or  a  general  round 
up  with  kindred  souls.

This  is  not  saying  that  the  travel­
ing  salesman  of  those  days  was  en­
tirely  to  blame  for  his  “high  roller” 
business  methods.  A  two  days’  “time” 
with  a  customer  was  as  often  the  re­
sult  of  the  customer’s  ideas  of  doing 
business  as  any  falling  from  grace  on 
the  part  of  the  traveling  man.  The 
character  of  the  commercial  traveler 
has  changed  partly  because  of  like 
changes  in  the  trade.  The  merchant 
of  today  is  more  of  a  business  man 
than  the  merchant  of  twenty  years 
ago.  He  does  not  expect  a  case  of 
champagne  to  accompany  every  order 
for  ten  cases  of  merchandise.  While 
the  old  idea  continues  to  rule  in  some 
parts  of  the  Northwest,  most  merch­
ants  realize  that  it  takes  a  clear  head 
and  all  the  hours  they  can  crowd  into 
a  day  to  properly  care  for  their  af­

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fairs.  They  are  attending  to  business 
in  business  hours,  and  they  prefer  to 
buy  goods  of  a  traveling  salesman  of 
like  habits.

Yet  there  is  a  grain  of  regret  in j 
viewing  the  passing  of  the  old-time 
traveling  salesman.  He  was a pioneer.! 
He  drove  country  roads  where  the j 
latter-day  business  agent  rides 
in 
Pullmans.  He  has  his  trials,  tribula­
tions,  good  qualities  as  well  as  his 
faults.  He  did  his  part  towards  mak­
ing 
the  “Great  American  Desert” 
blossom.  He  was  the  cheer  of  many 
a  hamlet  and  his  stories  are  repeated 
in  many  of  them  to  this  day.  He 
faced  hardship.  He  spent  his  money 
as  if  it  were  common,  vulgar,  old j 
iron,  and  here  in  the  Northwest  he 
will  not  soon  be  forgotten.

the 

little 

But  a  new  era  has  replaced  him 
with  an  army  of  energetic  men  who 
talk  very 
indeed  but  brands, J 
figures  and  profits;  a  clean  cnt  type 
which  expects  to  become  merchants, 
landowners,  promoters,  brokers,  or I 
anything  else  within  the  range  of  a 
reasonable  ambition.  They  are  jeal-1 
guarding 
ously 
occupation 
through 
their organizations which are 
doing  much  good.  True  there  are 
some  who  fall  below  the  standard, 
but  they  reach  their  proper  level  ulti­
mately  and  drop  out.  With  the  in­
crease  in  big  industrial  combinations, 
there  may  be  fewer  traveling  sales­
men,  but  the  quality  is  steadily  im­
proving,  and  today  the  commercial 
travelers  of  the  country  rank  high 
among  the  various  occupations  and 
professions  which  make  up  the  in­
dustrial  life  of  the  country.  That  is

why  interest  in  the  annual  conven­
tions  of  commercial  travelers  steadily 
increases.

The  Newspaper  a  Machine  Product.
It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  the 
modern  newspaper  is  a  product  that 
from  start  to  finish  has  scarcely  been 
touched  by  human  hands  until 
it 
reached  the  carrier  or  newsboy  who 
delivers  it  to  the  reader.  From  the 
beginning  it  is  a  product  of  perfected 
machinery  and  just  how  far  machin­
ery  has  encroached  in  its  production 
is  a  fact  making  the  modern  news­
papers  one  of  the  wonders  of  the 
country.  Beginning  with  the  paper 
stock,  the  forest  tree  which  goes  to 
the  making  of  paper  pulp  is  felled  and 
sawed  and  crushed  by  machinery. 
This  crushed  fibre  is  put  into  great 
vats,  from  which  the  substance 
is 
fed  to  the  paper  mills.  From  these 
mills,  through  automatic  machinery, 
and 
the  finished  paper  comes 
is 
wound  into  rolls  without 
a  hand 
touching  it.  Coming  to  the  rolls  of 
the  perfecting  press,  this  paper  is  fed 
automatically into  the  great  machine, 
is  printed  upon  both  sides,  cut,  fol­
ded,  and  perhaps  pasted,  counted  and 
delivered  to  an  electric  carrier  which 
rises  with 
the 
counted  papers  upon  the  tables  from 
which  they  are  first  touched  by  the 
hands  of  men  as  they  go  to  the  de­
livery  wagons  for  distribution.  Not 
only  in  the  material  paper  is  the  cun­
ning  of  the  human  hand  dispensed 
with,  but  the  types  from  which  it  is 
printed  are  molded  new  by  special 
machinery  for  this  purpose.  The half­

finally  dumping 

it, 

tone  illustrations  and  the  pen  draw­
ings  which  ornament  it  have  been  cut 
with  acids  instead  of  traced  with etch­
ing  tools,  and  even  the  newspaper 
“copy”  from  which  the  news  matter 
is  set  by  linotype  machines  is  written 
on  typewriters.

Origin  of  “Watering  Stock.”

There  is  no  financial  term  that  is 
more  familiar  to  the  general  public 
than  “watering  of 
stock”— meaning 
the  increase  in  the  capital  stock  of  a 
company  without  any  corresponding 
increase  of  value.  Yet  it  is  doubtful 
ii  there  are  many  people  outside  of 
Wall  street  who  know  how  this  term 
originated.  Daniel  Drew  was  one  of 
the  most  conspicuous  figures  in  the 
Street  from  1852  to  1870.  For  years 
he  was  pointed  out  as  the  man  who 
commanded  more  ready  money  than 
any  other  one  person  in  Wall  street. 
His  fortune  was  estimated  at  $13,000,- 
coo— an  enormous  sum  at  that  time.
Before  Daniel  Drew  entered  Wall 
street  he  was  a  cattle  drover. 
It  was 
he  who  established  the  cattle  market 
at  Fourth  avenue  and  Twenty-third 
street  in  1829,  and  it  was  in  the  cattle 
business  that  he  laid  the  foundation 
of  his  fortune.  It  \vas  said  that  when 
he  was  a  drover  Drew  used  to  give 
his  cattle  salt  and  then  let  them  drink 
water  until  they  appeared  fat  for  the 
market.  When  Daniel  Drew  entered 
Wall  street  and  after  securing  the 
control  of  the  Erie  Railroad  swelled 
the  volume  of  its  stock  for  the  pur­
pose  of  unloading  it  on  the  public, 
Wall  street  used  to  say  that  “Uncle 
Daniel  had  been  watering  his  stock.”

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the  failures,  if  at  any  time  before  re­
tirement  he  meets  with  reverses  in 
business.  By  the  very  closest  method 
of  reckoning  at 
least  50  per  cent, 
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are  perfectly  legitimate  and honora­
ble. 
It  would  seem  as  if  they  should 
be  conned  successful.

The  Kitchen  As  a  Laboratory.
The  mistress  of  the  home  of  1925 
will  be  a  chemist.  She  will  be  a 
trained  scientist.  She  will  regard  her 
kitchen  as  a  laboratory  in  which  a 
thousand  wonderful  experiments  will 
be  tried.  The  idea  that  the  kitchen 
is  a  place  of  drudgery,  where  only 
those  enter  who  are  forced  by  cir­
cumstances,  will  have  disappeared 
and  there  will  remain  only  wonder 
that  any  one  could  ever  have  been 
ignorant  enough  of  the  marvelous 
processes  of  science  to  have  taken 
so  little  interest  in  the  subject.

from 

The  kitchen 

time,  will  be 

the  basement  and 

itself  will  disappear 
from 
the 
home  forever.  In  its  place,  adjoining 
the  dining-room,  so  that  the  transit 
from  the  fire  to  the  table  may  occupy 
but  a  second’s 
the 
“household 
laboratory.”  The  mis­
tress  of  the  house  and  her  daughters 
will  find  no  more  interesting  period 
of  the  day  than  that  which  is  spent 
in 
the  well-lighted,  well-ventilated, 
cleanly  and  comfortably  arranged 
rpom  given  up  to  the  constant  sur­
prises  which  science  offers  to  those 
who  will  study  with  interest  her won 
ders  in  the  realm  of  combinations  of 
food  materials  and  the  transforma­
tions  brought  about  by  varying  de­
grees  of  heat.— Cosmopolitan.
Making  Sure  Enough.

“I’ll  take  the  bigirest  piece  you’ve 
got,  please,”  said  Willie  to  the  host­
ess,  who  had  asked  him  to  have  some 
cake.

“Why,  Willie!” 
mother,  in  dismay.

exclaimed 

his 

“Well,  ma,  you  told  me  not  to  ask 

for  a  second  piece.”

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the only kind on  the  market  and  our  prices  are  very 
low.  Order from your  jobber or  write  for  Catalogue 
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G R A N D   R A P ID S

T O

N E W   Y O R K

What  Per  Cent,  of  Men  in  Business 

Succeed?

For  a  long  time  we  have  heard  the 
statement  repeated  again  and  again 
that  less  than  io  per  cent,  of  the  men 
who  engage  in  business  make  a  suc­
cess.

repeat 

It  is  time  that  some  of  the  wise­
acres  who 
this  proposition 
should  give  a  definition  of  what  they 
consider  success. 
Certainly,  more 
than 
io  per  cent,  of  the  merchants 
who  rae  in  business  to-day  will  re­
main  in  the  trade  and  make  at  least 
a  living  out  of  it  to  the  end  of their 
days.

The  fact  that  a  man  may,  at  some 
time  during  his  career,  be  compelled 
to  make  an  assignment  or  go  into 
bankruptcy  does  not  show  conclusive­
ly  that  he  has  failed.  They  have,  at 
least,  made  a  living  for  themselves 
up  to  the  time  of  failure  and  many 
of  them,  a  very  large  percentage,  go 
into  busines  again  and  do  well.

is 

The  bankruptcy  law 

itself  de­
signed  to  relieve  a  merchant  from  the 
disastrous  effect  of  unforeseen  con­
tingencies  such  as  cyclones,  crop  fail­
ures,  fires  and  the  like.

Otherwise  the  inability  to  pay their 
debts  would  have  the  effect  of  making 
them  slaves  for  life  in  order  to  pay 
creditors,  a  condition  which  would 
be  unfair  to  the  debtor  and  very  in­
jurious  to  the  entire  trading  commu­
nity.

The  principle  of  the  law  is  that  un­
til  goods  are  paid  for  the  original 
owner  retains  an  interest  of  a  certain 
kind  and  upon  him  should  fall  the 
burden  of 
loss  beyond  that  part
which  the  debtor  can  pay  from  the 
assets  he  may  have  in  hand  after such 
a  loss.

This  principle  applies  even  al­
though  the  failure  may  arise  from 
mismanagement  so  long  only  as the 
conduct  of  the  business  has  been 
honorable  and  the  debtor  incurs  no 
additional  liability  after  he  knows 
himself  to  be  insolvent.

Quite  a  large  number  of  merchants 
who  fail  in  business  on  account  of 
mismanagement  go  into  some  other 
line  and  do  well. 
In  the  career  of 
such  a  business  man  the  incident  of 
assignment  or  bankruptcy  does  not 
determine  his  ultimate  success,  nor 
does  it  in  the  case  of  those  merchants 
who  are  obliged  to  assign  because of 
some  unusual  disaster,  as  fire  and  the 
like.

The  United  States  reports  show 
that  of  the  men  engaged  in  business 
an  average  of  I  per  cent,  go 
into 
bankruptcy  each  year.

If  there  are  as  many  who  make as­
signments,  then  the  total  would  be 2 
per  cent,  per  annum.  Then  if  you 
suppose  that  the  average  life  of  the 
business  man  is  twenty-five  years you 
have  but  50  per  cent.,  not  90  per  cent, 
of  failures  in  business  and  this  per­
centage  as  indicated  above  should be 
considerably  diminished  on  account 
of  those  who  at  some  time  may  fail 
but  who  still  recover  and  do  a  pros­
perous  business  again.

Nor  is  it  a  true  method  of  reckon-  j 

ing  up  the  failures  or  successes  of 
men  to  say  that  although  one  may 
have  done  a  successful  busines  for 
fifteen  or  twenty  years  or  even  fifty 
years,  he  is  still  to  be  counted among

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

Dry  Goods

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

a 

close,  particularly 

Staple  Cottons —  Brown 

cottons 
have  been  one  of  the  lines  most  inter­
esting  to  buyers,  but  they  have  dis- 
covererd  no  new  reason  for 
lower 
prices.  A  good  many  contracts  are 
nearing 
in 
Southern  goods,  and  as  there  appears 
to  be  no  immediate  prospect  of lower 
price  conditions  in  cottons,  the sell­
ers  see  no  reason  for  lowering  their 
prices.  The  exporters  have  been  in­
active  and  this  has  allowed 
some 
slight  accumulation  of  such  goods but 
not  enough  to  give  the  slightest  un­
easiness  at  the  present  time.  Ticks 
and  denims  are  growing  in  shorter 
supply  weekly  and  sellers  can  grant 
no  contracts  for  nearby  deliveries, al­
though  on  orders  previously  booked 
there 
improvement  in  the 
shipping.  The  bleached  cottons  are 
generally  firm  and  although  the  de­
mand  is  not  large,  there  is  no  effort 
to  force  business  except  in  one  or 
two  instances  where  the  gray  cloth 
market  is  showing  its  influence.  Buy­
ers 
range  of 
bleached  goods.as  at  quite  low  prices 
compared  with  a  year  ago,  and  this 
applies  particularly 
lower 
grade  and  there  is  little  difficulty  in 
securing  full  prices.

the  general 

is  some 

regard 

the 

to 

Wool  Dress  Goods— It  is  naturally 
a  quiet  period  in  the  initial  dress 
goods  market. 
It  is  just  the  time 
“betwixt  and  between”  as  regards fall 
business  and  the  spring  season  has 
progressed  to  such  an  extent  that 
such  demand  as  does  develop  requires 
immediate  delivery.  Considering  the 
time  of  the  season,  the  volume  of 
business  charged  up  from  day  to  day 
by  the  commission  and  direct  trade 
is  quite  satisfactory.  The  weight of 
the  demand  for  current  spring  con­
sumption  relates  to  the  sheer  fabrics, 
to  mohairs,  broadcloths,  Scotch  mix­
tures,  etc.  Reports  coming  to  hand 
of  the  progress  of  the  retailers’ trade 
are  of  an  encouraging  character. 
In 
some  sections  of  the  country  it  is 
said  that  cold  and  wet  weather  has 
had  a  delaying  effect  on  the  move­
ment  of  spring  goods,  but  such  re­
ports  appear  to  be  more  than  out­
balanced  by  the  reports  of  a  very 
satisfactory  movement 
spring 
goods  received  from  retailers  in wide­
ly  scattered  sections  of  the  country. 
Not  alone  has  good  progress  been 
made  by  retailers  in  the  reduction  of 
stocks 
over-the-counter 
sales,  but  they  have  also  done  a  good 
business  in  ready-made  garments, in­
cluding  separate 
suits 
and  cloaks. 
If  the  balance  of  the  re­
tailers’  season  pans  out  as  well  as  it 
has  up  to  the  present  time,  the  light­
weight  season  will  go  out  with  but 
small  stocks 
first,  second  and 
third  hands.  The  demand  for  fall 
dress  goods  at  first  hands  continues 
a  modest  one,  owing  to  the  extent  to 
■ which  the  season  has  progressed, and 
the  fact  that  it  is  too  early  to  look for 
return  business  of  moment 
from 
either  jobbers  or  cutters-up.  The 
outlook  for  fall  duplicate  business  is 
generally  regarded  as  very  fair  even 
although  the  early  efforts  on  the job­

through 

skirts, 

full 

of 

in 

bers’  part  to  interest  the  retailer in 
fall  goods  have  proved  a  failure.

Underwear— The  question  of  prices 
for  the  spring  season  of  1904  is  the 
most  interesting  topic  of  conversa­
tion.  No  one  has  the  slightest  idea 
of  making  prices  yet,  but  each  is try­
ing  to  get  the  other  fellow’s  ideas. 
This  makes  a  merry  war  of  words 
and  badinage  in  the  various  offices 
where  the  agents  love  to  congregate 
and  talk  during  the  off  seasons.  The 
fact  that  reports  of  an  easier  yarn 
market  are  circulated  does  not  seem 
to  impress  them  particularly  and no 
one  would  feel  justified  in  setting  a 
price  on 
the  basis  of  a  temporary 
fluctuation, or at  any  rate unless there 
appeared  t6  be  a  genuine  and  sub­
for  the  change,  and 
stantial  basis 
they  will  look 
into  any 
change,  find  the  reason  and  then con­
sider  it  carefully.  As  a  matter  of  fact 
it  will  be  some  time  before  there  is 
any  real  attempt  to  fix  prices  even 
although  many  may  have  in  their own 
minds  a  pretty  good  idea  of  what per­
centage  of  profit  their  products  must 
show  for  the  season.  Prices  will not 
be  named  until 
last  possible 
moment.

carefully 

the 

Hosiery— A  fair  amount  of  dupli­
cate  business  for  spring  is  coming  to 
hand  although  the  agents  could  wish 
that 
it  were  more  for  some  lines. 
Aside  from  this  there  is  very  little 
of  interest  in  the  market.  The  ques­
tion  of  prices  for  the  new  season  is 
discussed,  but  there  seems  little  like­
lihood  of  any  definite  couclusion be­
ing  reached  for  some  time. Should 
prices  be  made  on  the  present  cost 
of  raw  material,  it  would  seem  un­
reasonable  to  many,  and  keep  some 
buyers  out  of  the  market  altogether, 
while,  if  prices  were  made  in  accord­
ance  with  buyers’  ideas, 
it  would 
mean  a  big  loss.

Carpets— In  New  York 

the  new 
lines  have  been  on exhibition  some 
days  now  and  the  buyers,  both West­
ern  and  Eastern,  seem  to  have  tak­
en  a  very  large  interest  in  the  new 
samples. 
The  color  effects  have 
shown  little  change  over  those  exhib­
ited  in  November,  other  than  the fact 
that  there  are  more  tan  color  effects 
shown  than  ever  before.  Red  and 
green  effects  are  very  prominent, 
while  blues  and  the  pastel  shades are 
becoming  extinct.  Designs  have not 
changed  much  in  principle  other than 
that  they  are  becoming  more  simpli­
fied.  Oriental  figures  are  very  prom­
inent  in  the  Brussels  and  Wiltons, 
especially  so  in  these  fabrics  made 
up  into  carpet  size  rugs.  Conditions 
at  present  are  very  different  from 
those  current  six  or  eight  months 
ago, and 
the small as well as the large 
manufacturer  is  on  an  equal  footing 
as  far  as  prices  paid  for  supplies  of 
wools  that  are  now  on  hand  are  con­
cerned.  This  was  not  so  in  Novem­
ber,  when  the  anticipated  advances 
did  not  materialize.  The  “big” mills, 
it  was  found,  had  a  big  stock  of 
cheap  wools  on  hand  and  could  afford 
to  make  cheaper 
their 
smaller  competitors  who  had  to come 
into  the  market  and  pay  prices  cur­
rent  at  that  time.  This  is  a  very 
strong  point  in  favor  of  the  smaller 
mills,  and  on  which  they  lay  special 
surely
emphasis  that  prices  must 

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Memorial  Day  Decorations

Just  arrived—a  big  line  of  Memorial 

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Wool  Bunting  flags 
Cotton  Bunting flags 
Cotton flags on  Sticks 
Silk Flags

Ranging in size from 2 inches to 36 feet 
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show  a  strong  advance  this  season. 
Yearn  spinners  are  going  ahead  of 
the  weavers’  anticipations  by  asking 
better 
the  productions, 
but  business  as  yet  along  these  lines 
has  been  rather  small.

rates 

for 

of 

Curtains— Manufacturers 

lace 
curtains  are  beginning  to  work  on 
their  fall  business,  which  is  showing 
up  very  well.  Retailers  are  very ac­
tive  in  their  spring  lines,  especially 
so  in  the  cheap  curtains  in  Arabian 
designs.  Tapestry  curtains  from  the 
makers’  standpoint  are 
in  fair  de­
mand. 
Initial  orders  are  coming in 
slowly.

The  Pearl  Button  Situation.

The  problem  of 

securing  shells 
for  the  large  number  of  button  fac­
tories  in  this  city  is  becoming  very 
serious,  not  because  there  are  no 
shells,  but  because  the  high  water has 
prevented  digging  them  and  because 
those  that  can  be  had  can  not  be  ship­
ped  owing  to  high  freight  rats  in  one 
section  and  crippled 
transportation 
facilities  in  another,  according  to  a 
Muscatine  button  maker,  who  is  in 
touch  with  the  situation.

According  to  the  Journal’s  inform­
ant  the  button  situation  in  Muscatine 
promises  to  become  very  serious  for 
a  time.  He  says  that  button  factories 
in  this  city  have  shells  enough  to 
supply  them  for  but  a  short  time  and 
the  source  of  supply  is  practically  in­
accessible  for  the  present.  The  high 
water  in  the  South  prevents  the  dig­
ging  of  shells  and  in  Arkansas  where 
shells  could  be  secured  the  railroad 
lines  are  under  water.

On  other  phases  of  the  shell  situa­
tion  the  Journal’s  informant  says the 
Myer’s  bill,  with  which  readers  of 
this  newspaper  are  familiar,  which 
has  been  signed  by  the  governor  of 
Arkansas  and  has  become  a  law,  cuts 
but  little  figure,  although  it  prevented 
the  use  of  the  crow  foot,  an  instru­
ment  Northern  shell  men  regard  as 
necessary  in  fishing  for  the  product 
out  of  which  buttons  are  made.  A 
vigorous  protest,  it  is  said,  has  been 
made  in  those  sections  of  Arkansas 
most  benefited  by  ttie  law  and  the 
prospects  at  the  present 
time  *are 
that  another  law  eliminating  the feat­
ures  to  which  Northern  men  object 
will  be  introduced  in  the  Arkansas 
legislature.

shells 

their  efforts  abortive 

Button  makers  in  Muscatine,  it  is 
said,  are  making  strong  efforts  to 
secure 
in  Mississippi  and 
Louisiana  where  abundant  beds  are 
known  to  exist.  A  feature  that  ren­
ders 
in  a 
measure  is  the  high  freight  rates.  It 
is  said  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
holds  the  key  to  the  situation  and  re­
fuses  to  make  a  reasonable  rate  to 
this  and  other  northern  points  and 
has  not  shown  the  proper  spirit  in 
meeting  the  Muscatine  shell  dealers 
in  their  efforts  to  secure  a  special 
rate.  It  is  hoped,  however,  to  induce 
the  road  to  ship  the  shells  over  its 
lines  at  a  low  price.  When  this  is 
accomplished  and  the  high  waters  re­
cede  the  pearl  button  makers  in  Mus­
catine  will  be  on  “Easy  street.”  Sev­
eral  Muscatine  men  are  now  in  the 
South  looking  over  the  ground,  es­
pecially  in  the  Pearl  River  district in 
Mississippi.

Muscatine  people  devoutly  hope 
that  the  difficulty  will  be  overcome 
and  that  the  outlook  for  the  pearl 
button  industry  in  this  city  will  not 
be  clouded  even  temporarily.— Musca­
tine  Journal.

Imitation  Leather.

According  to  a  daily  paper,  the 
newest  imitation  of  leather,  which  has 
just  been  patented,  is  made  by  coat­
ing  cotton  drilling  with  a  rubber  so­
lution,  vulcanizing-  the  rubber-coated 
fabric,  and  finally  applying  to  the 
surface  a  liquid  mixture  composed  of 
linseed  oil,  sulphur,  turpentine,  ben­
zine  and  burnt  umber— the  last  in­
gredient  being  for  coloring.  This 
outer  varnish  once  vulcanized 
on, 
the  product  is  said  to  be  waterproof, 
and  it  is  claimed,  may  be  folded  into 
any  shape  without  breaking  the  coat­
ing.

Many  processes for making artificial 
leathers  involve  the  employment  of 
leather  waste  ground  to  powder.  In 
one  case,  for  example,  cloth  is  water­
proofed  by  passing  it  through  a  bath 
of  chloride  of  zinc,  and  then  leather 
dust  mixed  with  glue  is  applied,  for­
maline  being  afterward  used  to  ren­
der 
in 
water.

the  preparation 

insoluble 

An  English 

inventor  mixes  pow­
dered  leather  with  a  rubber  solution, 
and  applies  the  stuff  to  any  suitable 
fabrics,  such  as  canvas.  The  product 
thus  obtained  is  said  to  be  waterproof 
and  may  be  utilized  in  making  valises 
and  for  quite  a  variety  of  other  pur­
poses.  But  undoubtedly  the  success­
ful  leather  counterfeit  of  the  future 
will  be  synthetic— a  fact  which 
is 
realized  by  a  number  of  ingenious 
persons  who  have  already  taken  out 
patents  in  this  country.  One  such 
invention  employs  sulphuretted  oils, 
which  are  applied  to  fabrics  to  pro­
duce  a  leather-like  surface.

Hooks  and  Eyes.

Although  the  manufacture  of  hooks 
and  eyes  is  of  more  importance  than 
that  of  pins,  both  in  the  amount  of 
capital  invested  and  in  the  value  of 
products,  the  industry  has  been  very 
largely  developed  since  the  census 
of  1890  was  taken,  says  the  Phila­
delphia  “Public  Ledger,”  and  per­
haps  for  that  reason  its  importance 
as  a  special  industry  has  been  over­
looked.

The  trade  has  grown  to  such  an  ex­
tent  not  only  in  this  country  but  in 
Europe  and  other  parts  of  the  world, 
that  a  great  factory in  this  city though 
run  night  and  day  is  unable  to  keep 
up  with  demand  for  that  style.

All  the  finer  grades  of  hooks  and 
eyes  are  made  of  brass  wire,  but  iron 
wire  is  used  for  the  coarse  kinds. 
There  are  ten  regular  sizes,  ranging 
from  00,  a  very  dainty  little  hook,  to 
No.  15,  an  inch  in  length,  which  is 
used  for  cloaks.  The  so-called  in­
visible  eyes  are  almost  straight  pieces 
of  wire  to  take  the  place  of  the  silk 
loops  formerly  used.

Knew  What  He  Wanted.

This  is  a  tale  for  the  benefit  of  the 
overzealous  salesmen  and  saleswom­
en  who  think  they  know  better  than 
their  customers  what  their  customers 
want  to  buy.  A   man  walked  into  a

haberdasher s  shop  and  bowed  po­
litely  to  the  clerk.

like  to 

“I  should 

look  at  some 
black  gloves  stitched  with  white,” 
said  he.

“ Black  gloves  stitched  with  white 
are  not  fashionable  now,”  replied  the 
clerk.

“I  beg  your  pardon,”  said  the  po­
lite  customer. 
“You  evidently  mis­
understood  me. 
I  said  I  should like 
to  look  at  some  black  gloves  stitched 
with  white.”

“They  are  no  longer  fashionable,” 
reiterated  the  clerk,  with  impatient 
superiority.

“I  find  I  must  apologize  again,” 
said  the  other.  “ I  came  in  here think- 
ng  it  was  a  haberdashery;  I  find  it is 
a  bureau  of  information. 
I’m  sorry 
to  have  troubled  you  with  so  unim­
portant  a  matter,  for  I  really  didn’t 
care  to  know  whether  the  gloves  I 
wanted  were  stylish  or  not.  Perhaps 
I  can  buy  a  pair  of  some  sort  at  the 
place  across  the  street,”  and  he  went 
out.

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made.  Price within reach of all.  Made of iron, 
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Ingenious  method  of  dumping  and  keeping 
roasted  Nuts  hot.  Pull  description  sent  on 
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spring  and  hand  power  Peanut  and  Coffee 
Roasters, power  and  hand  rotary  Corn  Pop­
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lb.  sample  and  recipe 
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Your Catalogue  Maker

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an  enlarged  scale.  O ur  printing  facilities  have  been 
increased  on  the  same  generous  plan  as  the  other 
departm ents  since  our  rem oval  into  the  present  five- 
story  and  basement  building  which  is  now  our  home, 
and  w ill  be  for  seventeen  years  to  come.

W e   are  prepared  to  make  your  catalogue  from 
its  inception  to  its  com pletion— we  will  write,  com ­
pile,  design,  engrave,  print,  bind,  and  mail  it,  if 
you  so  desire.

W e  have  com plete  equipm ent  for  the  highest 
grades  of  catalogue  and  booklet  work,  in  w ay  of 
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In  these  days  of  telephone,  telegraph, 
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and  rapid  transit,  location  cuts  but  small  figure,  so 
long  as  you  are  located  where  expenses  and  costs  of 
production  are  at  a  minimum,  as  is  the  case  with 
Tradesm an  Com pany.

W e  offer  you  our  service.  W rite  or  phone  us, 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

sections  have 

Fruits  and  Produce.
Widespread  Damage  to  Fruit.
Orchard 

passed 
through some  exceedingly trying con­
ditions,  and  the  full extent of the frost 
damage  at  the  opening  of  May  can 
not  be  known  for  some  time.  First 
reports  of  injury  are  always  likely  to 
prove  exaggerated,  and  it  would  be 
far  from  safe  at  this  date  to  predict a 
serious  shortage  in  tree  fruits.  Yet 
the  testimony  reaching  Orange  Judd 
Farmer  from  all  sources,  including 
replies  to  special  inquiries,  shows  un­
questioned  damage  nearly  all  along 
the  line.  In  the  northern  portions  of 
the  commercial  apple  belt,  growth 
was  not  far  enough  advanced  to  show 
the  central 
serious 
states,  and  in  the 
in­
cluding  important  areas  of  Missouri, 
Kansas,  and  Arkansas,  prospects  are 
certainly  less  bright  than  at  the close 
of  April.  Reports  indicate  consider- j 
cherries,  peaches,! 
able  damage  to 
and  other  tree  fruits,  heavy 
losses 
must  be  endured, 
in 
strawberries,  these  in  many  instances 
coming  just  before  the  season  for 
ripening  and  marketing.

injury,  but  in 

particularly 

southwest, 

With  the  temperatures  so  low  on 
the  morning  of  May  day  as  to  pro­
duce  ice  of  varying  thicknesses, dam­
age  to  orchards  was  inevitable.  Our 
correspondents  as  far  south  as  Mis­
souri  emphasize  this  fact,  yet  orch- 
ardists  as  a  rule  are  hopeful  that  a 
reasonably  good  set  of  apples  may 
still  be  realized.  In  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  ice 
to 
three-fourths 
and 
fruits  and  early  vegetables  were  killed 
or  badly  damaged; 
reports 
initial 
to  apples.  A 
show  serious  harm 
in  Pike 
well  posted  correspondent 
county,  Missouri  writes 
that  tree 
fruits  are  not  badly  damaged,  except 
cherries.

formed  one-half 
of 

inch 

an 

In  central  and  northern  Illinois,  or­
chards  came  through  the  winter  in 
healthy  condition,  and  promise to 
bloom  full,  with  the  possible  excep­
tion  of peaches  and  pears,  yet weather 
is  not  favorable  for  fertilization,  and 
the  effect  of  the  heavy  frost  of  May 
In  the or­
r  is  somewhat  uncertain. 
chard  sections  of 
Iowa, 
apple  and  peach  trees  blossomed  well, 
and  apparently  are  not  much  hurt  by 
the  cold,  but  plums  and  early  cher­
ries  are  killed.  Small  fruits  are great­
ly  injured  by  unfavorable  climatic 
conditions. 
In  Indiana,  apples,  cher­
ries,  and  pears  are  problematical, 
blooming  fairly  full.

southwest 

Michigan  orchards  came  through 
the  winter  in  good  health,  blooming 
full,  according  to  our  special  corres­
pondents,  with  the  outlook  for 
a 
good  crop  up  to  May  i,  when  the 
drop  in  the  mercury  wrought  serious 
damage  to  buds  of  all  kinds.  Tem­
peratures  were  registered  as  low  as 
20  to  24  degrees,  in  many  townships 
wrecking  plums,  sweet  cherries,  and 
such  small  fruits  as  strawberries.  A 
few  varieties  of  peach  were  not  far 
enough  advanced  to 
serious 
injury.  Michigan  will  no  doubt  have 
liberal  quantities  of  fruit,  yet  the bulk 
has  been  reduced.  Near  the  shore of 
the  lake,  peaches  promise  better  than

show 

at  interior  points,  as  the  buds  were 
not  so  far  advanced.

In  the  older  apple  sections,  ex­
tending  from  Ohio  to  New  England, 
inclusive,  frost  damage  was  relatively 
less  severe  than  west  and  southwest. 
Buds  were  not  so  far  advanced,  and 
while  our  reports  indicate  consider­
able  injury  here  and  there,  orchard- 
ists  as  a  whole  are  hopeful  of  a good 
set  of  fruit.  Trees  bloomed  well, not 
only  apples,  but  pears,  peaches,  etc. 
The  sharp  drop  in  temperature  at the 
opening  of  this  month  caused  some 
apprehension.

Process  Butter  Men  Organize.
The  Eastern  Association  of  Pro­
cess  Butter  Manufacturers  was  or­
ganized  at  Toledo  on  Wednesday by 
representatives  of  the  concerns  east 
of  the  Mississippi  River.  A.  G. West- 
ling,  Kenton,  Ohio,  was  elected  Pres­
ident.  The  company  will  incorpor­
ate  under  the  laws  of  Ohio,  and  will 
seek  to  reduce  the  price  of  raw  stock 
to  maintain 
The 
strongest  efforts  will  be  directed  to­
ward  the  removal  of  the  two-cent 
Internal  Revenue  tax.

steady  prices. 

Too  Much  Tonic.

Mrs.  Smith— I’m  afraid  I  shall have 
to  stop  giving  Robby  that  tonic  the 
doctor  left  him.

Mr.  Smith— Why,  isn’t  he  any  bet­

ter?

Mrs.  Smith— Oh,  yes.  But  he slid 
down 
the  banisters  six  times  this 
morning,  broke  the  hall  lamp,  two 
vases,  a  jug  and  a  looking  glass,  and 
I  don’t  feel  as  if  I  could  stand  much 
more.

The  Transvaal  loan  of  $175,000,000 
has  been  subscribed  for  twenty times 
over  in  London. 
It  looks  as  though 
the  British  people  had  plenty  of 
money  and  plenty  of  confidence  in 
their  government.  These  millions are 
to  be  used 
in  the  development  of 
South  Africa,  which  was  delayed  by 
the  recent  war.  The  resources  of 
the  country  are  so  great  that  there 
is  no  doubt  that  the  investment  will 
prove  to  be  advantageous.

Buyers  and  Shippers of

P O T A T O E S
in carlots.  Write or telephone us.
H.  ELMER  M OSELEY  &  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Fresh  Eggs

S h ip  T o

LAMSON &  CO.,  BOSTON

Ask the Tradesman about us.

The  JOHN  G.  DOAN  CO.

W H OLESALE

Fruit Packages,  Fruit and Produce

In car lots or less.  A ll  mail  orders  given  prompt 
Warehouse. 45 Ferry St.  Office, lay Louis St. 

attention.  Citizens phone 1SS1. 

Orand  Rapids.  Michigan

Late  3tate  Pood  Commissioner

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
123a ilajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.

Buying eggs 

I
Every day.  Market price paid.  Wholesale dealers in Eggs, Butter, Honey.  J
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ttlittentbal  Bros.,  Brand  Rapids,  Iflicb. 

Branch houses—Chicago,  111., Kalamazoo,  Mich., Battle Creek,  Mich. 

10*   S.  Division  Street  £it.  Phone  2 2 24 

Established  1884. 

— 

GARDEN  SEED S

All  orders  filled  prom ptly  the  day  received.  Prices  as 

low  as  any reputable  house  in  the  trade.

A LFR E D   J.  BROWN  S E E D   CO.

G R AN D   R A P ID S.  MICH.

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 treatment.  Ware­
houses and factory on Grand River, Eaton  Rapids, Michigan.  Address

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

WE  HAVE  MOVED

Our office to our new  brick  warehouse on Second avenue,  Hilton  street, Third ave­
nue and Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana and  Pere  Marquette  Railroads,  between  South 
Division  St.  and Grandville avenue  Reached by either  South  Division  street  or 
Grandville avenue cars.  Get off Second avenue in either case.
M O S E LE Y   BROS.

S E E D S.  B E A N S .  P O T A T O E S .  FRUIT 

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  MICHIGAN

€99$  Planted

In any quantity,  meekly quotations and  stencils  furnished 

on  application.

B. D. Crittenden, 98 $. Dio. St., Brand Rapids 
Wholesale Dealer in Butter, €qqs, Traits and Produce

Bath Phenes 1200

E G G S

We are the largest egg dealers  in  Western  Michigan  We  have a 
reputation for square dealing.  We can  handle  all  the  eggs  you 
can ship us at highest market price.  We refer you to the  Fourth 
National  Bank of Grand  Rapids. 
Citizens  Phone 2654.
S*  OR W A N T  Sl  SON,  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

Telephone,  1356 Franklin. 

Established  1865.

L.  O .  Snedecor & Son
Egg  Receivers

Commission Merchants

36  Harrison  St.,  New  York

Corner Washington  St.

We have special trade for small shipments of Fancy Fresh Eggs. 

Reference:  New York  National  Exchange Bank.

L.  O.  Snedecor 

l .  O.  Snedecor.  Tr.

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DO  YO U R   W O R K   W E LL.

Learn  the  Business  and  Methods  of 

Others.

A  week  ago  in  the  Tradesman  the 
writer  had  something  to  say  about 
the  merchant  in  relation  to  his busi­
ness,  and  discussed  the  question  oft 
recurring  to  nearly  every  storekeeper 
whether  he  was  doing  himself  justice 
as  to  location  and  mode  of  business, 
whether  he  was  making  the  most  of 
himself  or  whether  he  should  en­
large  his  field  and  his  enterprise  in 
the  hope  of  larger  profits  and  more 
quick  returns.

Almost  identically  the  same  ques­
tion  presents  itself  quite  as  often  to 
the  man  behind  the  counter  as  to 
the  man  behind  the  counting  desk, 
and  quite  as  vividly  to  the  clerk  as 
to  the  storekeeper.  There  is  never a 
clerk,  possessed  of  ordinary  ambi­
tion,  who  does  not  occasionally  ask 
himself: 
“Is  this  position  that  lam  
holding  the  best  for  me?  Should  I 
quit  it  for  larger  fields  or  for  a  differ­
ent  line  of  vpork?”

environment. 

The  modern  young  man  has  some­
thing  of  a  disposition  to  be  dissatis­
fied  with  his 
The 
American  life  is  one  of  constant  un­
rest  and  this  it  is  that  has  stamped 
upon  us  the  characteristic  of  contin­
ual  hurry. 
It  must  be  confessed  that 
our  activity  is  not  entirely  pressing 
toward  some  goal,  but  rather  sort  of 
a  nervous  affliction  which  agitates 
us.

is  not 

In  other  words  the  ripple  which 
many  a  man  produces  in  the  commer­
cial  ocean 
the  wake  of  a 
steamer  pressing  onward  to  some 
port  of  prosperity  or  accomplish­
ment,  but  rather  the  widening  circle 
the  disturbance  of  hte 
caused  by 
ocean  at  some  particular  spot. 
I  like 
this  simile  because  those  who  have 
long  observed  American  commercial 
life  have  noted  before  this  how  the 
sudden  sinking  of  some  commercial 
craft  creates  a  whirlpool  in  its  vicin­
ity  and  sets  many  little  boats  for  a 
long  distance  rocking  on  the  billows.
I  have  had  this  question  present 
itself  to  me. 
I  have  known  what  it 
is  to  wait  the  highly  prized  salary 
envelope. 
I  do  not  mean  that  in  set­
tling  this  question  for  myself,  I  have 
always  done  the  right  thing. 
I  might 
have  chosen  some  other  path  that 
would  have  led  to  the  achievement 
of  distinction  and  the  acquisition of 
a  pretentious  bank  account;  but  if  I 
were  to  go  back  along  the  road  of 
life  and  come  to  these  crossroads 
again,  I  think  I  would  choose  the 
same  way  I  have  chosen.  There  is 
some  satisfaction  in  self-satisfaction. 
What  I  may  say  then  is  as  the  stu­
dent  of  human  nature  rather  than 
as  a  shining  example,  for  I  am  neither 
wealthy  nor  wise.

This  question  of  what  is  best  for 
the  young  man— the  clerk  if  you  will 
— but  it  applies  quite  as  well  to  the 
man  in  almost  any  occupation,  is  a 
question  of  opportunity  and  environ­
ment. 
It  is  different  with  the  young 
man  than  with  the  old  man,  or  with 
the  man  in  the  prime  of  life.  The 
young  man  is,  or  should  be,  building 
for  the  future,  while  the  old  man  is 
simply  holding  on  to  that  which  he 
has.  Each  is  a  commendable  desire. 
The  old  man  must  of  necessity be

more  conservative  than  the  youth, 
and  the  youth xan  afford  to  be  more 
venturesome  than  the  man  of years. 
Men,  however,  are  made  old  or  young 
more  by  circumstances  than  by  the 
almanac.  There  are  young  men  who 
are  made  old  by  those  dependent 
upon  them,  and  there  are  old  men 
who  are  young  by  their  independ­
ence. 
It  has  been  said  by  some  wit 
that  a  woman  is  as  old  as  she  looks 
and  a  man  as  old  as  he  feels.  There 
is  some  truth  in  that.

Opportunity  we  are  often  inclined 
to  mistake  for  some  fabled  goddess 
who  controls  our  present  existence; 
but  oportunity  is  rather  something 
within  ourselves,  and  the  clerk  who 
talks  about  his  opportunities  should 
rather  inquire  what  opportunity  he 
is  making  for  himself.  He  should  ask 
himself  not  only  whether  he  is  ad­
vancing,  but  whether  he  is  trying  to 
advance.

Opportunity 

is  not  advancing 

in 
life  without  labor,  but  rather  of  ad­
vancing  when  one  has  labored. 
If 
you  have  learned  all  you  can  learn 
in  your  present  position,  if  you  have 
risen  as  high  as  you  can  in  the  place 
where  you  are  employed,  then  there 
is  reason  to  consider  the  advisability 
of  getting  out;  not  until  then,  unless 
you  see  some  place  Where,  by  the 
labor,  you  can  rise  more  rapidly.

Mercantile  life  is  one  of  unusual 
opportunity,  that  is,  opportunity  in 
the  sense  in  which  it  is  here  given. 
There  is  no  reason  why  the  clerk,  if 
he  builds  for  the  future,  should  not 
rise  to  the  plane  of  the  man  by  whom 
he  is  employed. 
If  your  progress  is 
slow,  do  not  blame  your  environment 
until  you  have  made  sure  that  the 
fault  is  not  within  yourself.  Are  you 
doing  all  you  can  with  the  work  you 
have  in  hand? 
If  you  are  doing  the 
best  you  can  in  your  particular  work, 
it  is  commendable;  but 
is 
more  than  that  which  you  can  do  to 
build  new  stepping  stones  to  success. 
Do  not  be  satisfied  with  merely  do­
ing  your  own  work  well,  but  try  to 
learn  the  business  and  methods  of 
others.  Thus  you  enlarge  your  own 
capabilities  and  increase  your  chance 
of  success.

there 

If  you  are  not  going  ahead  as 
rapidly  as  you  would 
like,  do  not 
blame  your  present  position;  do  not 
leave  it  for  some  other  one  until  you 
are  certain  that  you  have  made  the 
very  most  of  the  one  you  have.  Do 
not  always  be  attracted  either  by  the 
fact  that  some  other  position  may 
be  more 
opportunity 
more  attractive.  You  are  building 
for  the  future.  When  you  are  travel­
ing  across  the  country,  you  do  not 
desert  the  road  to  your  objective 
point  because  it  is  stony  and  take 
the  road  to  some  other  place  because 
it  is  easy.  Sticking  to  the  road  is 
quite  as  good  a  principle  in  clerking 
as  it  is  in  pedestrianism.

lucrative,  or 

Charles  Frederick.

Firms  that  buy  poultry  the  year 
around  report  that  it  is  difficult  to 
get  stock  at  a  reasonable  price,  as 
farmers  are  unwilling  to  sell  their 
dividend-paying  hens.

Nelson  Morris  &  Co.  proposes  to 
open  poultry  stores  in  New  York  for 
the  disposition  of  their  own  poultry.

Butter

I  always 
want  it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich. 

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Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,
Dried  Fruits,  etc.

Now  is  the  time  to  engage  space.

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•   W h at  are  you  going  to  do  with  that  M aple  Sugar  and  Syrup?
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Sw itch  connections  with  all  roads  entering  Toledo.
The  Toledo  Gold  Storage  Co.,

Better  ask  us  about  it.

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T o le d o ,  O h io

D O N 'T  ORDER  AN  AW NING

Until yon get our  prices  on  the  Cooper 
Roller  Awning,  the  best  awning  on  the 
market.  No ropes to cut the cloth.

We make all styles of awnings for stores 
and residences.  Send for prices and  direc­
tions for measuring.

CHAS.  A.  COYE

II and 9 Pearl 8treet

Grand Rapids,  Michigan

E. S. Alpaugh  &  Co.

Commission  Merchants

16 to 24  Bloomfield St. 

17 to 23 Loew Avenue

Weat  Washington Market

New  York

Specialties:  Poultry,  Eggs,  Dressed Meats and  Provisions.

The receipts of poultry are now running  very  high.  Fancy  goods  of  all 
kinds are wanted and bringing good prices.  You can  make  no  mistake  in 
shipping us all the fancy poultry and also fresh  laid eggs  that yon are  able 
to gather.  We can assure you of good prices.
Reference«:  Gansevoort Bank, R.  G.  Dun & Co.,  Brad street’s  Mercantile  Agency,  and 

upon request many shippers In your State who have shipped us 

for the last  quarter  of  a century.

Cold Storage and  Freezing Rooms 

Established  1864

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

The New York Market
Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trades.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  May  16— There  is the 
same  old  story  of  the  coffee  market 
— dull.  Every 
indication  points  to 
a 
large  crop  and  a  supply  some 
3,000,000  or  more  bags  larger  than 
the  consumptive  requirements  of  the 
world. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
2,535,538  bags,  against  2,334,800  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  At  the 
close  No.  7  Rio  is  worth  in  an  in­
voice  way  5%@5}^c. 
In  mild  grades 
there  is  an  utter  indifference  on  the 
part  of  buyers  who  seem  to  be  wait­
ing 
arrival  of  larger  supplies 
which  are  now  on  the  way  here.

the 

the 

It  has  been  quite 

a  memorable 
week  in  the  sugar  trade.  From  the 
dullest  sort  of  a  market 
tide 
turned  to  one  of  great  activity  and 
on  Wednesday  and  Thursday  it  was 
said  that  over  700,000  barrels  changed 
hands.  Most  of  this  is  in  contract­
ing  for  future  requirements.  At  the 
close,  while  trade  is  not  so  active, 
it  is  still  far  ahead  of  previous  weeks. 
Some  refiners  made  an  advance  of 
5  points,  but  it  is  not  thought  this 
will  be  long  maintained.

While  the  volume  of  actual  trade 
in  tea  has  not  been  very  large,  we 
still  have  a  better  week  than  the 
previous  one.  Prices  are  well  main­
tained  and  the  outlook  is  rather  in 
favor  of  the  seller.  This  is  owing, 
perhaps,  as  much 
to  the  stronger 
tone  at  primary  points  as  to  any 
scarcity  of  supplies  here.  There  is 
seemingly  plentyi  of  tea  of  certain 
grades,  and  the  thing  is  to  increase 
the  demand.

The  rice  market  shows  increasing 
strength  almost  daily  and,  with  lim­
ited  supplies,  the  outlook  is  good  for 
advancing  rates  right  along.  Buyers 
are  unwilling  to  take 
large  stocks, 
they 
but  it  certainly  seems  as 
would  be 
taking 
rather  more  than  current  needs  re­
quire.  Choice  to  head  Southern,  5^ 
@ 7c.

justified  in 

fully 

if 

It 

shipment. 

Continued  strength  is  displayed in 
the 
spice  market  and  Singapore 
black  pepper  is  firm  at  12^(3)12^50 
for  June-August 
is 
thought  the  crops  of  black  pepper 
will  be 
from  6,000  to  10,000  tons 
short  of  last  year.  If  the  latter  figure 
wTe  shall  see  a  most  substantial  ad­
vance.  Ten  thousand  tons  of  wheat 
would  not  cut  much  of  a  figure,  but 
when 
comes  to  black  pepper—  
that’s  another  story.  Mace  is firm, 
but  with 
in 
other  lines.

sales  reported 

small 

it 

to  be 

looked 

The  demand  for  grocery  grades of 
is 
molasses  has  been  quiet.  This 
for, how­
a  condition 
ever,  and  dealers  will  not 
expect 
much  now  until  the  fall  trade  opens. 
There  is  some  call  for  common and 
medium  sorts  which  are  held  firmly 
at  unchanged 
Syrups  are 
steady  and  without  change  in  any re­
spect.

rates. 

So  far  as  canned  goods  go,  the 
market  remains  practically  without 
change.  Weather  conditions  are of 
a  good  deal  of  importance  just  now 
and  it  is  evident  that  rain  is  sorely

The  demand 

needed  if  corn  and  peas  and  even 
tomatoes  are 
to  make  full  crops. 
Until  the  last  two  days  the  weather 
has  been  cold  and  the  ground  un­
warmed. 
for  cheap 
goods  sometime  ago  seemed  to last 
almost  long  enough  to  enable  job­
bers  to  clear  out  a  lot  of  “low  down” 
stuff,  and  new  goods  will  enter  a 
market 
in  pretty  good  condition. 
Salmon  is  in  a  little  better  request, 
although  there  is  still  room  for  im­
provement.  Tomatoes  are  without 
change  and  the  range  is  from  80c for 
Maryland  to  90c  for  New Jersey; gal­
lons,  $2.35;  New  York  corn,  90c@$i; 
Maine,  $1.10(0)1.25.  Early  June  peas, 
75c  all  the  way  up  to  90c;  in  fact, 
the  extremes  are  said  to  be  55c@ 
$1-75-

Stocks  of  butter  are  well  sold  up 
and,  with  a  very  good  demand,  the 
quotations  are  likely  to  show  some 
advanse,  although  none  has 
taken 
place  during  the  week.  Best  West­
ern  creamery  moves  quickly  at  22(3) 
22j^c;  seconds  to  firsts,  I9i4@2ij/£c; 
imitation  creamery,  17(3)190;  factory, 
I4@i554c,  latter  for  fancy  stock; ren­
ovated,  from  15c  for  ordinary  to  18c 
for  extra  grades.

There 

is  absolutely  jiothing  new 
in  the  cheese  market  and  new  stock 
is  moving  in  a  quiet  manner  at  12c 
and  possibly  a  fraction  more  for  the 
very  finest.  Exporters 
are  doing 
quite  a  trade  in  stock  costing  about 
11 Me-

With  a 

lighter  demand  and  free 
receipts  it  is  said  that  holders  are 
showing  some  little  anxiety  to  clear 
up  stocks,  although  prices  seem  to 
range  about  as  last  week.  Western 
fancy  storage  pack, 
i6J4@I7c;  sec­
onds  to  firsts,  i5@i6Mc  and from this 
down  to  I4@i4l/ic  for  dirty  stock.

Photographs  On  Fruit.

Apples  upon  the  surface  of  which 
are  perfectly  reproduced  the  photo­
graphs  of  the  emperor  and  empress 
of  Russia  and  of  the  president  of  the 
French  republic  have  been  recently 
shown  in  France.

stuck  on 

latter  was 

Before  photography  was  employed, 
images  were  produced  by  means  of 
figures  cut  out  from  paper  and  then 
the 
the  sur­
face  of  the  fruit.  When  the  paper  was 
removed  the  image  appeared  more or 
less  in  color  while  the  remainder  of 
the  fruit  was  green,  or  vice  versa,  ac­
cording  to  the  manner  in  which  the 
paper  was  cut  and  applied.

At  present,  however,  photographs 
are  reproduced  with  all  their  details. 
Strong  negative  electrotypes  are  em­
ployed,  having  great  resistence  and 
reproduced  on  thin  films.  The  films 
are  obtained  by  photographing  the 
subject  many  times.  The  film  is  held 
in  place  by  two  rubber  rings  or  is 
stuck  by  some  matter  that  will  not 
obstruct  the  rays  of  light,  such  as 
albumen  or  the  white  of  an  egg.

If  you  make  it  a  principle  of  your 
your  business  to  exact  from  your 
customers  that  treatment  of  their ob­
ligation  to  you  which  it  deserves,  you 
will  have 
educated 
yourself  to  better  understand  and  to 
more 
intelligently  transact  business 
with  those  from  whom  you  receive 
credit  favors,  the 
in  your 
line.

unconsciously 

jobbers 

CROHON  &   CO.

DEALERS  IN

HIDES.  W OOL.  FURS.  TALLO W  

AND  PELTS

2 6 - 2 8   N.  MARKET  S T .,  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  MICH. 
H ighest  market  prices  paid.  G ive  us  a  trial.  Alw ays  in  the  market.

BOTH  P H O N E S

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B U T T E R   A N D   E G O S

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R.  HIRT,  JR..  DETROIT,  MICH.
and be  sure  of getting  the  Highest  Market  Price.

We  are  also  in  the  market  for  some  Red  Kidney  Beans

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY

Car  Lot  Receivers  and  Distributors 

Strawberries,  Pineapples,  Oranges,  Lem ons,  Cabbage, 

Berm uda  Onions,  Appricots

Our Weekly Price List is FREE 

14-16  Ottawa  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

We buy Potatoes in Car Lots.  What have you to offer for prompt shipment?

HERE’S  THE 

D-AH

And Coin will come to you.  Car Lots Potatoes, Onions, Apples. Beans, etc.

Ship  COYNE  BROS.,  161  So.  W a ter S t.,  Chicago,  III.

PAPER  BOXES

We manufacture a complete line of 
MADE UP and FOLDING BOXES for

Cereal Food, Candy, Shoe, Corset and Other Trades

When in the market  write  us for estimates and samples.

Prices reasonable. 

Prompt service.

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hay  or  S tra w

W e are in  the  market  for  both  and  are 
prepared to pay the  highest  market price. 
Write and  let  us  know  what  you  have.

W e job extensvely  in  PATENT  STEEw  WIRE  BALE  TIES.  Guaran­

tee  Pri.es.

SMITH  YOUNG  <8b   CO.,

1 0 1 9   Michigan  Avenue  East,  Lansing,  Michigan 

References:  Dun's or Bradstreet’s and City  National  Bank,  Lansing.

1 four Kinds 0 1 coupon  books

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are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, 
irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  denomination.  Free 
samples on application. 

 
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felt  seriously  throughout  the  world 
were  it  suddenly  interrupted.

The  Right  of  a  Man  To  Work.
Arbitration  appeals  to  every rea­
sonable  man  as  a  felicitous  way  of 
settling  disputes,  but  there  are  ques­
tions  which  are  matters  of  absolute 
right  and  not  for  debate,  compromise 
or  arbitration.  Of  such  a  nature are:
1.  The  right  of  every  man  to work 
irrespective  of  politics,  creed  or  asso­
ciations;  and,

2i  The  right  of  employer  and  em­
ployes  to  adjust  their  business  re­
lations  without  the 
interference  of 
irresponsible  strangers.

In  the  case  of  the  coal  strike,  ac­
cepting  arbitration  on  the  demand  of 
the  United  Mine  Workers  involved 
the  concession  of  these  most  essen­
tial  rights. 
If  all  the  employes  in 
any  individual  concern  belonged  to 
the  Episcopal  church,  it  would  be no 
reason  for  accepting  arbitration  on 
the  demands  of  a  bishop.  What  a 
clamor  of  indignant  protests  would 
be  raised  if  a  majority  of  Episcopa­
lian  employes 
in  a  factory  should 
demand  the  discharge  of  a  few  Meth­
odists  and  refuse  to  work  if  the  em­
ployers  did  not  comply  with  their 
demands!  Yet  this  is  the  treatment 
that  the  non-union 
laborer  receives 
at  the  hands  of  the  union  laborer and 
the  almost  inevitable  result  of treat­
ing  with  union  officers  as 
if  they 
were  the  representatives  of  all  em­
ployes.

religious, 

No  national  organization,  whether 
its  purposes  are  industrious,  political 
or 
should  be  allowed  a 
voice  in  the  business  of  any  employ­
er  of  labor.  For  any  employer  to 
recognize  an  organization  which  ex­
tends  far  beyond  his  own  employes, 
and  especially  such  an  organization 
as  the  United  Mine  Workers,  would 
be  an  act  of  grievous  injury  to  the 
would-be  free  and  independent  work­
ingman,  of  alarming  consequence to 
the  public  welfare  and  of  business 
suicide  for  himself.

SHERWOOD  HALL CO.,  LTD.

----------------Jobbers  of----------------

Saddlery  H a rd w a re

Manufactu'ers  of  Fine  Hand  Made 

Harness.

Full line of Nets and Dusters.

Corner  Ionia and Louis Streets

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

F .  M .   C.

C O FFE E S

are  always

F r e sh   R o a sted

C a j l o j l o j u u u l ^

Assignees.

Our experience  in  acting 
as  assignees  is  large  and 
enables us to  do this work 
in a  way  that  will  prove 
entirely satisfactory.  Our 
records show  that  we  do 
the work economically and 
in a business-like manner, 
with good results.

The  Michigan 
Trust  Co.
GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

G O O D   B A R G A I N S  
S E C O N D   H A N D
A U T O M O B I L E S

I N  

No.  1.  1900  model  Locomobile  5  h.  p. 
steam,  cost  S50, 
in  A -i  condition 
throughout, all  thoroughly  overhauled 
and repainted with red and  black  trim- 
mings, looks  good  as  new, with  new 
burner  and  chain  which  cost  $30, 
also 
four  new  tires  which  cost  $50. 
Has  detachable  Dos-a-Dos  rear  seat, 
new carpet and high  new dash.  It is a 
quiet  and  easy  running  steamer  and 
worth  fully  $500, which  will  sell  for 
'
will get it.

cash, first $2? deoosit receiv 

No. 2.  Mobile 1901 pattern 5 h. p. steamer 
bought new in  1902  for  $750,  used  in 
City  only,  new  boiler,  has  just  been 
thoroughly  overhauled  and  refinished 
by us at a cost of $55 
It  is  finished  in 
red with  black trimming, has new chain 
and  is  in  A -i  condition.  Has  extra 
t)os-a-Dos rear seat  and is  worth $450. 
Owner  will  sell  for  $350  as  he  has 
ordered a new machine.

No.  19.  Another 1  seat  Mobile  in  good 
condition except needs painting, at $275.

Get our complete list

MICHIGAN  AUTOMOBILE CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

f y T Y T T T T T T r Q

All  Dealers  Should  Handle

£   C E R E   K O F A

E Tbe best substitute for 

Coffee.

A  TRADE  W I N N E R
Package;  Most 
Largest 
Profit;  Liberal  Discount  to 
the Trade 
Ask  your  job­
ber for it.

G rand  R apids  C ereal  Co.

Qrand  Rapids.  Mich.

JUUUUUL

t i l
Gas or  Gasoline  Mantles  at 

50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S  WHOLESALE  MDSE.  CO. 

M a n u f a c t u r e r « ,   I m p o r t e r s   a n d  J o b b k r s  

of  GAS  AND  GASOLINE  SUNDRIES 

Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

O LD   RUBBER.

Made  Over  Into  Other  Manufactured 

Articles.

Worn-out  rubber,  like  worn-out sil­
ver,  is  something  that  does  not  exist 
in  these  days.  Ever  since  the  advent 
of  bicycles  and  automobiles,  both  of 
which  drew  heavily  on  the  world’s 
rubber  supply,  and  ever  since  the 
hundred  and  one  uses  to  which  rub­
ber  is  put  in  connection  with  electri­
city,  the  material  has  become  more 
and  more  scarce  and  valuable,  so 
that  even  the  old  rubber  shoe  and 
the  worn-out  rubber  boot  may  throw 
in  pride  at  being 
out  their  chests 
worth 
really  something.  Nothing 
containing  rubber  is  discarded  now­
adays.  The  old  rubber 
coat  over 
which  the  springy  tires  of  an  auto­
mobile  may  run  on  a  country  road 
to-day  may  some  day  find  a  nestling 
place  in  the  soft  tresses  of  a  woman’s 
hair,  after  having  been  transformed 
into  a  handsome  comb.

Even  vulcanized  rubber  which, ow­
ing  to  the  sulphuric  process  to  which 
it  was  subjected,  was  formerly  value­
less,  is  now  subjected  to  the  process 
which  rejuvenates  and  makes  it  fit  to 
be  worked  over  for  the  purposes  of 
the  manufacturer. 
Immense  quanti­
ties  of  this  product  which  formerly 
was  assigned  to  a  rubbish  heap  are 
now  treated  and  admixed  with  a  cer­
tain  percentage  of  new  gum,  enough 
to  cheapen  the  price  of  most  rubber 
goods  turned  out  by  the  manufactur­
ers  to-day.  Old  rubber,  however, can 
be  used  by  itself  without  any  addition 
of  fresh  gum,  the  process  of  treat­
ment  being  a 
Tanks 
filled  with  old  boots  and  old  shoes are 
filled  with  steam,  after  which  their j 
contents  are  passed  through 
rolls 
when  the  product  is  sufficiently  good 
to  use  for  application  to  fabrics  in 
the  form  of  rain  coats ~ and  rubber 
blankets  and 
for  the  stiffening  of 
boot  heels.

simple  one. 

Only  three  years  ago  the  patent 
for  restoring  rubber  waste  for  the 
purpose  of  recovering  therefrom  the 
rubber  as  a  marketable  product  was 
granted.  By  this  process  the  old 
stock,  after  being  ground  betweeu 
rollers  and  freed  from  metal  and sand 
and  fiber,  is  subjected  to  the  action 
of  steam  heat,  which  is  to  desulphur­
ize  the  rubbish.  The  steam,  however, 
has  little  effect  on  removing  the sul ­
phur,  although  it  softens  the  old junk, 
making  it  ready  for  further  treat­
ment. 
In  order  to  get  rid  of  the 
harmful  sulphur,  the  dubber  is mixed 
with  a  chemical  known  as  sulphide of 
calcium.  A  very  high  degree  of heat 
is  required  to  complete  the  process, 
with  the 
rubber 
would  become  dried  out  if  this  evil 
were  not  counteracted.  Therefore a 
substance  to  keep  the  rubber  moist 
is  needed,  and  for  this  purpose  heavy 
petroleum  is  used  in  proportion  of 
seven  pints  of 
to  200 
pounds  of  rubber  scrap  and  a  quarter 
of a  pound  of  the  chemical.  Chemists 
are  now  experimenting  to  discover a 
process  that  will  restore  old  rubber 
to  the  same  high  plane  of  efficiency 
as  the  fresh  material;  but  the  making 
over  of  old  rubber  already  has  devel­
oped  into  an  industry  which  would be

that  the 

result 

the 

liquid 

The  injury  resulting  to  the  inde­
pendent  or  non-union  workingman 
involves  an 
infringement  of  one of 
the  most  sacred  rights  of  American 
citizens,  the  right  of  a  man  to  work 
when  he  will,  where  he  will, 
for 
whom  he  will  and  for  what  he  will. 
On  this  right  is  founded  individual 
subsistence  and  happiness  and  the 
strength  and  the  wealth  of  the  na­
tion.  To  recognize  the  union  as the 
representative  of  all  the  employes  is 
to  ignore  the  independent  working­
man. 
addition  to  making  the 
non-union  man  submit  to  terms  to 
which  he  is  not  a  party,  the  history 
and 
the  United  Mine 
Workers,  prove in spite of the emphat­
ic  denial  of  John  Mitchell, that  it is 
the  policy  of  the  union  to  oppose 
employment  of  all  who  do  not  be­
long  to  their  organization.

records  of 

In 

Such  a  policy  is  unjust  and wicked. 
Fair  play  demands  that  the  indepen­
dent  element  should  be  represented 
in  every  arbitration  as  well  as  the 
union  element.  The  free  and  inde­
pendent  man  is  as  ready  to  improve 
his  condition  as  his  so-called  union 
“brother.”

Walter  Gordon  Merritt.

P e l o u z e   S c a l e ' s
A R E  THE  S T A N D A R D   F O R  ~ 

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No

£  But we have a  proposition that will pay you a good big  interest on  your 
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investment.  Our business is growing faster than we  can take caie  of  it 
E>  with our present facilities-  We  are  OVERSOLD  and  have  been  for 
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Commercial Travelers

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Grand  Counselor,  F.  C.  Scmtt,  Bay  City; 
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Senior  Counselor,  W.  B.  Holden;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

What  Constitutes  the  Ideal  Travel­

ing  Man.

In  my  experience  on  the  road,  I 
have  met  many  traveling  men  in  the 
different  states,  selling  many  differ­
ent  lines  of  goods,  and  while  many 
resemble  each  other  in  habits  and 
manner  sufficiently  to  be  classed  to­
gether,  yet  I  have  still  to  meet  two 
salesmen  who  have  the  same  ideas 
about  selling  goods  or  how  to  make a 
success  in  the  world.  Indeed  you  can 
scarcely  find  two  men  out  of  our  vast 
army  of  salesmen  who  are  as  much 
alike  in  their  business  life  as  almost 
any  two  brothers  are  in  looks  and 
habits.  The  point  I  want  to  make  is, 
that  salesmen  as  a  rule  have  the  most 
widely  different  opinions  upon  almost 
any  subject.  If  you  take  twenty-five of 
these  men,  and  bring  up  any  topic, 
you  will  find, when  all  have expressed 
themselves, 
different 
ideas.  Therefore  in  describing  one 
traveler  you  would  not  at  all  describe 
the  craft,  hence  it  follows  that  the 
ideal  traveling  man  is  scarce,  seldom 
if  ever  met  with,  certainly  neither 
found  on  railroad  trains  nor  in  hotel 
lobbies.  But  still,  boys,  he  is  a  man 
you  may  well  take  for  an  example, 
and  whose  qualities  you  would  do 
well  to  emulate.

twenty-five 

The  ideal  traveling  man,  to  begin 
with,  is a aman who does not urge  his 
goods  unduly.  He  represents  a  good 
house,  in  whom  he  has  confidence, 
and  while  he  presents  his  line  in  a 
confident  and  gentlemanly  manner, he 
does  not  tire  the  merchant  by  brazen 
persistence.  He  rather  strives  to  win 
his  confidence  and  treats  him  in  such 
a  manner  that  he  is  greeted  with  a 
welcome  when  he  next  comes.  To 
these  persistent,  tedious,  “wear-you- 
out”  salesmen  is  due  that  obnocti- 
ous  name  “Drummer”  which 
is  so 
generally  applied  to  us.  The  very 
name  implies  a  bore— one  who  ham­
mers  away  with  that  hang-dog  dis­
position  that  makes  such  an  unenvi­
able  reputation  for  the  class.  The 
name  is  undeserved,  for 
there  are 
thousands  of  salesmen  who  are  con­
cise  and  business  like  and  who  only 
ask  a  fair  hearing  and  know  when  to 
approach  a  man  and  when  not.  The 
ideal  traveling  man  then,  is  not  a 
“Drummer”  in  the  sense  in  which  the 
term  is  generally  understood.

He  starts  out  with  the  determina­
tion  of  winning  the  confidence  of  the 
trade,  and  to  this  end  all  his  efforts 
are  directed.  He  never  misrepresents 
goods  nor  does  he  seek,  by  flattery 
and  persuasion,  to  overload  the  mer­
chant.  He  is  fair  towards  his  com­
petitors,  and  never  is  heard  to  speak 
in  disparaging  terms  of  rival  sales­
men  or  houses.  Thus he  grows  infavor 
with  his  trade  and  sells  more  goods 
each  year.-  The  successful  man  has 
the  confidence  of  his 
customers!

He  is  full  of  energy  and  vim,  does 
not 
let  obstacles  deter  him,  takes 
things  as  he  finds  them,  is  always 
pleasant  and  courteous,  keeps  his 
temper  when  everything  seems  to  go 
the  wrong  way,  and  never  discour­
ages  the  buyer,  by  crying  dull  trade 
and  calamity.  He  is  accomodating 
and  polite. 
It  is  a  pleasure  to  him 
to  be  agreeable  to  every  one.  He 
doesn’t  belong  to  the  class  known  as 
kickers,  never  grumbles  at  the  wait­
ers,  is  courteous  in  his  conduct  at j 
hotels,  always  ready  to  meet 
ac­
quaintances  more  than  half  way,  is 
ever  ready  to  assist  a  lady  or  fellow 
traveler  who 
is  overburdened  with 
luggage,  willing  at  all  times  to  share 
his  seat,  never  is  found  selfishly  oc­
cupying  two  seats  while  others  stand, 
and  in  all  things  tries  to  make  the 
world  brighter  instead  of  gloomier. 
He  is  neat  in  his  personal  appearance 
— not  showy  and  flashy  in  his  dress—  
he  rather  studies  to  combine  neatness 
and  cleanliness,  with  modesty  and 
economy;  and  herein  lies  the  index 
to  many  a  man’s  character.  He  is 
temperate  in  his  habits.  Not  only is 
he  temperate  as  to  the  use  of  intoxi­
cants,  but  temperate  in  his  eating,  in 
the  expenditure  of  money, 
in  his 
hours  of retiring,  when  possible, and, 
above  all,  temperate  in  his  language. 
He  abstains  from  profane  and  abusive 
expressions  and  does  not  intrude  his 
opinions  when  uncalled  for.  The  day 
is  past  when  a  traveling  man  must 
be  a  drunkard  and  a  gambler.  Our 
manufacturers  and  wholesale  merch­
ants  demand  temperate  gentlemen  to 
represent  them.

He  is  progressive.  Progressive  in 
his  business  and  in  his  ideas,  a  man 
who  reads  extensively,  keeps  posted 
on  both  sides  of  a  question,  and  is 
liberal  and  expansive  in  his  conclu­
sions.

He  is  always  the  same— to-day,  to-

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morrow  and  every  day. 
If  you  meet 
him  on  the  road  he  is  a  gentleman,  if 
you  go  with  him  into  society  you  will 
again  meet  the  courteous  refined  gen­
tleman,  and  if  you  follow  him  home, 
you  once  more  encounter  the  same 
gentlemanly  forbearing  father,  bro­
ther,  husband  or  son.

entertain 

I  think  not,  and  yet 

Finally  the  ideal  traveling  man  is 
a  man  who  loves  his  family. 
If  he 
is  a  son  and  lives  at  home,  you  will 
notice  that  he  is  gentle  and  gallant 
to  his  sister  as  to  his  sweetheart,  you 
will  see  that  he  respects  and  rever­
ences  his  father  and  mother,  and 
thinks  more  of  their  welfare  than  of 
his  own. 
If  he  is  a  husband,  he 
thinks  more  of  his  wife  than  of  any 
person  in  the  world,  is  always  proud 
of  her,  affectionately  attentive,  and 
solicitous  as  to  her  happiness  and 
well  being.  If  he  is  a  father  he  never 
forgets  that  he  was  once  a  child  him­
self  and  while  he  maintains  the  re­
spect  of  his  children  by  governing 
them  with  a  firm  hand,  he  tries  to 
promote  their  pleasure  and  happiness 
and  his  greatest  delight  is  to  amuse 
and 
them.  Show  me  a 
man  who  loves  his  family  and  I  will 
show  you  a  good  man!  Here  then 
are  the  features  of  the  ideal  traveling 
man.  Have  I  overdrawn 
the  pic­
ture? 
I  am 
aware  he  is  seldom  if  ever  met,  be­
cause  he  is  almost  a  perfect  man.
travelers,  do  you  not 
think  we  would  do  well  to  imitate 
him?  Are 
in 
his  make-up  that  we  could  take  to 
If  so,  let  us  make  an  ef­
ourselves? 
The 
fort  to  reach  a  higher 
magnitude  of  influence  exerted 
for 
good  or  evil  by  the  traveling  men 
is  scarcely  realized  by  themselves. 
It  is  wonderful;  yet  some  of  us 
plod  along  with  no  thought  of  any­
thing  but  ourselves.  Many  of  us 
have  some  higher  aim— to  accumu­
late  money  until  we  have  our  own 
little  home  and  a  business  that  will 
allow  us  to  be  with  wife  and  child­
ren.  A  few  there  are  who  become 
large  and  successful  merchants.  He 
is  a  poor  man  indeed  who  is  con­
tent  with  to-day,  and  possesses  no 
ambition  for  to-morrow.  Ours  is  a 
noble  calling  and  we 
im­
prove  it.  We  can,  at  least,  be  bet­
ter  every  day,  better  salesmen,  bet­
ter  men. 
If  we  examine  ourselves 
we  can  remedy  many  errors  and 
shortcomings. 
If  we  try  daily  to im­
prove  the  past,  looking  with  hope­
ful  eyes  into  the  future.

there  not  qualities 

Brother 

should 

level. 

Members  of  the  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip— how  do  you 
like  the 
way  Governor  Bliss  slapped  you  in 
the  face  by  vetoing  the  sale-in-bulk 
bill  which  you  discussed  so  intelli­
gently  at  your  last  convention  and 
worked  so  energetically  and  effec­
tively  to  get  through  the  Legisla­
ture?  Looks  as  though  His  Excel­
lency  went  out  of  his  way  to  incur 
the  disgust  and  dislike  of  every  trav­
eling  man.

J.  H.  Ford,  dealer  in  drugs  and 
groceries,  Eaton  Rapids:  Can  not 
keep  house  without  the  Tradesman.

All’s  well  that  ends  well,  but  it  is 

well  to  begin  right

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

41

Enjoyable  Visit  to  the  City  of  the 

Straits.

in 

the 

time 

Grand  Rapids,  May 

18— About 
fifty  U.  C.  T ’s.  and  their  wives  and 
sweethearts  left  Grand  Rapids  on  the 
Grand  Trunk 
special  promptly  on 
time,  9  o’clock,  last  Friday. 
Passen­
ger  Agent  Justin  was  on  the  train 
and  ordered  the  engineer  to  run.  He 
did  run  like  a  rabbit  that  had  been 
shot  at  by  Brother  Byron  Davenport. 
We  arrived  in  Detroit  at  12:35,  mak­
ing 
three  hours  and 
thirty-five  minutes.  All  faces  looked 
alike  to  us,  that  is,  along  the  line  of 
travel,  as  a  part  of  the  distance  we 
made  as  high  as  seventy  miles  an 
hour.  We  were  met  at  Detroit  by  a 
committee  and  were  escorted  to  the 
headquarters  of  the  Grand  Council 
of  the  U.  C.  T.  The  ladies  of  De­
troit  had  provided  a  trolly  ride  to 
Grosse  Point  and  a  luncheon  for  their 
lady  guests.  The  closed  cars  pro­
vided  by  the  railroad  company  were 
a  little  warm,  but  at  the  same  time 
they  prevented  the  wind  from  being 
disagreeable  in  the  way  of  disheveled 
tresses,  etc.,  and  avoided  a  re-making 
of  the  toilet  when  the  ladies  returned 
in  the  evening  to  attend  the  grand 
ball  held  at  the  Masonic  Temple.
At  the  business  session  of 

the 
Grand  Council,  the  following  officers 
were  elected:

Grand  Counselor— J.  C.  Emery
Grand  Past  Counselor— L.  Will­

iams.

Grand  Past  Counselor— F.  A.  Scott.
Grand  Secretary— W.  F.  Tracy.
Treasurer— E.  M.  Edelman.
Grand  Conductor— W.  S.  Watkins.
Grand  Page— M.  Howarn.
Grand  Sentinel— Frank  Gainerd.
Executive 

two 
years— Geo.  Randall,  F.  W.  Thomp­
son,  F.  D.  Paige.

Committee 

for 

The  grand  ball  and  banquet  held 
in  the  Masonic  Temple  was  the  so­
ciety  event  of  the  season,  about  600 
persons  being  in  attendance.  Brother 
Frank  Pierce  lost  his  voice  buzzing 
the 
Saturday  morning  was 
given  to  sight-seeing.  The  ball  game 
between  Saginaw  and  Detroit  was 
a  tie  game;  score,  three  each  in  the

ladies. 

seventh 
inning,  at  which  time  the 
boys  lost  their  wind  and  the  game 
was  called.  A  theater  party  was  also 
organized,  composed  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Snitseler,  E.  Kortenhoff,  Miss 
Bouier,  Hull  Freeman  and  wife,  E. 
P.  Andrew  and  wife,  Senior  Counsel­
or  and  wife,  Harry  Gregory  and wife, 
F.  A.  Simonds  and  wife,  A.  T.  Driggs, 
John  Watson  and  wife,  Frank  Pierce 
and  wife,  A.  C.  Rockwell  and  wife, 
W.  H.  Caulfield  and  wife.  W.  R. 
Compton  and  wife,  Past  Counselor 
Kolb,  George  Alexander  and  wife, 
Arthur  Zibb  and  wife,  G.  W. Chappel 
and  wife  and  W.  S.  Burns  and  wife. 
Besides  the  above  mentioned  who 
following 
attended  the  theater 
the 
Grand  Rapids  members 
enjoyed 
themselves  at  the  Grand  Council 
meeting:  J.  D.  Martin  and  wife,  G. 
H.  Snyder,  John  Dorndorph  and  A. 
H.  Davidson.  On  Sunday,  some  of 
the  party  went  to  Belle  Isle.  The 
home  coming  was  one  of  the  most 
enjoyable  of  times,  as  the  party  had 
the  exclusive  use  of  the  parlor  car 
on  the  fast  train  and  each  person was 
obliged  to  either  sing  a  song  or  tell 
a  story.  The  talent  that  was  ex­
hibited  was  something amazing.  Miss 
Jennings  favored  us  with  a  few  solos 
and  all  decided  that  they  had  never 
had  a  better  time.  The  next  Grand 
Council  meeting  will  be  held  at 
Jackson. 

W.  S.  Burns.

traveling 

Petoskey 

Independent-Democrat: 
salesmen 
The  Petoskey 
met  Saturday  night  at  the  Cushman 
House  to  mature  the  plans  of  coun­
cil  organization,  instituted  the  previ­
ous  week.  Ten  of  the  brotherhood 
were  present  and  appointed  George 
B.  Craw  President  of  the  meeting. 
John  M.  Shields  was  Secretary.  The 
members  to  sign  the  application  for 
charter  were:  R.  L.  Baker,  of  the R. 
L.  Baker  paper  house;  A.  E.  Cop­
ping,  of  the  Deering  division  Inter­
national  Harvesting  Machinery  Co.; 
Flint  B.  Aniba,  of  the  G.  J.  Johnson 
Cigar  Co.;  Al.  L.  Lovelace,  of 
the 
Petoskey  Cigar  Co.;  L.  F.  Bertram, 
of  the  McCormick  division  Interna­
tional  Harvesting  Machinery  Co.;

Guy  R.  Hankey,  of  the  Hankey  Mill­
ing  Co.;  A.  D.  Cox,  D.  A.  Walsh  and 
F.  A.  Smith,  of  the  Petoskey  Gro­
cery  Co.;  B.  L.  King  and  M.  E. 
Brackett,  of  the  Brackett  Hardware 
Co.;  H.  S.  Purvis,  of  the  E.  Bement’s 
Sons  Co.;  B.  H.  Cook,  of  the  Nation­
al  Maple  Flooring  Association;  Gust 
Jaurenick,  of  the  Cornwell  Beef  Co. 
In  addition  to  the  ten applicants, who 
as  yet  were  members  of  no  U.  C. T. 
council,  there  are  three  local  sales­
men  already  members  of  the  order 
who  will  enter  the  local  council  as 
charter  members:  Geo.  B.  Craw, 
with  the  Vinkemulder  Co.,  who  is  a 
member  of  No.  131;  J.  M.  Shields, 
with  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Co.,  of 
No.  131;  and  Asmus  Petersen,  of No. 
228,  with  the  Petoskey  Grocery  Co. 
The  inaugural  meeting  of  the  local 
council  is  planned  for  Saturday, May 
30,  should  the  charter  be  received by 
that  time.

B.  Frank  Parmenter  (Durand  & 
Kasper  Co.)  has  been 
laid  up  for 
three  weeks  by  a  sprained  wrist  and 
dislocated  knee  cap  which  he  sus­
tained  in  getting  off  a  street  car.  He 
is  out  on  the  warpath  again  this 
week.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates %2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER.  Manager

the

For a nice, quiet, home-like  place 

Livingston  Hotel

will meet with  your hearty approval.

None better at popular prices. 

First-class  service  in  every  respect.  Central 

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

M ichigan  State  Board  of Pharmacy

Drugs—Chemicals
C l a r r n c k  B. St o d d a r d ,  Monroe  Dee. >1,1904 
Dec. 81,1906 
Dec. 81, 19C7 

_ 
Wi r t   P.  D o rr, Detroit - 
- 
J o h n   d .  Mu i r , Grand  Rapid* 
A r t h u r  H.  W r b b r b , Cadillac 
Hr n k t   Hr i h , Saginaw 
• 

Term expire«
-  Dec. «T1903
Deo. si,  louo 

_  _ 

Prealdent,  H r n r t   H r im , Saginaw.
Secretary, J oh n D.  Mu ib , Grand Rapid*. 
Treasurer, W .  P.  Do t y ,  Detroit.

Exam ination Sessions.
8tar Island, June 16 and 16.
Houghton, Aug. 26 and 26.

M ieh .  State  P h arm a ceu tica l  A ssociation. 

President—Lou G.  Moor*, Saginaw, 
Secretory—W. H.  Bu r k e ,  Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F. Hubkb, Port Huron.

Next Meeting—Battle Creek, Aug.  18,  19  and  20.

it 

Abuse  of  the  Dispensary  System.
“No wonder  the  drug business is go­
ing  to  the  dogs  nowadays,”  remarked 
the  apothecary  of  one  of  Philadel­
phia’s  big  hospitals  recently. 
“The 
number  of  people  who  come  to  the 
dispensaries  to  get  free  medicine  un­
der  one  pretense  or  another  must cer­
tainly  be  making  big  inroads  in  the 
prescription  business.  Why,  when  I 
was  clerking  in  a  drug  store  near  by 
we  used  to  get  from  forty  to  sixty 
prescriptions  a  day;  now  the  propri­
etor  tells  me  that  twenty  is  a  big 
day’s  average.  And  the  kind  of  peo­
ple  who  ‘sponge’  on  the  dispensaries, 
folks  well  able  to  pay  for  any  pre­
scriptions  they  may  need, 
is  a 
shame  that  nothing  is  being  done! 
One  day  not  so  long  ago  a  man  came 
in  to  get  a  prescription  filled  that  had 
at  least  $6oo  worth  of  diamonds  on 
him;  another  man  who  handed  in  his 
order  for  a  bottle  of  cod-liver  oil  in 
a  sort  of  shame-faced  way  I  found 
out  later  was  a  police  lieutenant  in 
a  down-town  district;  another  man 
gave  me  a  pressing  invitation  to  visit 
his  summer  home  in  the  suburbs after 
I  had  been  putting  up  medicine  for 
him  for  a  week  or  so;  and  so 
it 
goes. 
I  know  of  one  woman  who 
drives  up  in  her  carriage  to  the  corner 
and  then  gets  out  and  walks  around 
to  the  ‘Outdoor  Department’  and  sits 
in  line  to  wait  for  free  treatment  and 
medicine,  and  her  husband  is  rich. 
People  who  do  this  do  not  seem  to 
think  that  they  are  swindling the  poor 
people  for  whom  the  free  dispensa­
ries  are  conducted,  the  doctors  who 
should  be  called  in  to  attend  them, 
and  the  druggists  who  ought  to  sup­
ply  their  medicines,  and  I  am  glad  to 
see  that  the  State  associations  are 
going  to  take  up  this  abuse  seriously. 
If  they  do,  I  can  tell  them  some  very 
interesting  stories,  and  I  guess  it  is 
the  same  in  all  big  cities.  So  long,
I  have  got  to  put  up  a  bottle  of  cough 
syrup  for  the  child  of  the  man  who
owns  the  house  my  family  lives  in_
he  is  too  poor  to  pay  the  druggist  at 
the  corner 
too  mean, 
which?”— Pharmaceutical  Era.

it,  or 

for 

How  To  Increase  the  Soda  Water 

Sales.

One  of  the  best  ways  of  getting 
your  soda  water  trade  started  is  to 
give  away  free  tickets. 
I  do  not 
mean  that  you  should  go  out  and 
scatter  tickets  around  broadcast,  but 
if  you  had  a  number  of  neatly  printed 
cards  saying  that  the  bearer  was  enti­
tled  to  a  complimentary  drink  of any­
thing  served  at  your  soda  fountain, 
and  then  you  got  out  a  neat  little  in­

vitation,  telling  people  about  your 
soda  fountain  and  inviting  them  to 
come 
and  sample  your  soda,  you 
could  keep  a  package  both  of  the  in 
vitations  and  the  tickets  on  your desk 
and  as  you  thought  of  different  peo 
pie  in  the  town  you  had  not  seen 
drinking  at  your  fountain,  you  could 
put  the  invitations  and  tickets  out 
You  might  not  mail  more  than  ten 
or  fifteen  of  these  invitations  per  day. 
but  if  you  kept  at  it  both  among your 
men  acquaintances  and  lady  custom 
ers,  you  would  get  your  soda  water 
trade  started  in  god  shape.  Of course 
there  would  be  a  great  many  peopl 
who  would  not  take  advantage  of this 
offer,  but  you  could  afford  to  giv 
every  person  in  your  locality  a  free 
drink  at  your  fountain,  providing you 
serve  good  drinks,  for  then,  during all 
the  spring  and  summer,  that  person 
would  feel  inclined  to  come  back  to 
your  store  whenever  he  wanted  soda 
water  and  was  convenient  to  your 
place.  The  free  sample  business  has 
made  a  fortune  for  many  a  man  in 
many  different  lines  of  business,  and 
there  is  no  reason  why  the  druggist 
can  not  make  a  success  of  it  also  in 
connection  with  his  soda  fountain.
M.  E.  Gould.

Making  Simple  Syrup.

immediately  solution 

In  a  recent  paper  on  syrups,  A. E 
Hiss  impresses  upon  his  readers  the 
fact  that  strong  heat  must  be  avoided 
in  the  manufacture  of  simple  syrup 
The  water  should  first  be  heated  to 
boiling  and  then  the  sugar  stirred  in 
Almost 
takes 
I place,  the  vessel  should  at  once  be 
withdrawn  from  the  source  of  heat 
If  the  sugar  and  water  be  mixed  be­
fore  heat  is  applied  the  sugar  is prac­
tically  subjected  to  the  direct  action 
of  heat,  and  by  the  time  the  sugar  is 
all  dissolved  the  syrup  is  probably 
boiling.  Some  chemical  change  cer­
tainly  does  take  place,  as  is  evidenced 
by  the  brownish  tint  of  the  solution 
and  a  certain  marked  taste.  Simple 
syrup  properly  made  should  have  a 
pure  sweet  taste  and  be 
entirely 
colorless,  unless  bluing  be  present 
in  the  sugar,  when  upon  standing  for 
a  few  days  the  blue  will  subside  and 
leave  practically  colorless  syrup.  To 
avoid  this,  use  either  pure  granulated 
sugar  free  from  the  ultra marine con- 
tamination,  or  rock  candy.

How  Malt  Extract  Is  Made.

There  are  two  kinds  on  the  mar­
ket,  one  is  a  thick,  heavy  liquid pre­
pared  by  the  careful  evaporation  of 
a  concentrated  solution  of  malt. This 
is  the  real  thing.  The  other  is  a 
product  of 
the  breweries,  a  dark 
heavy  beer  with  a  little  more  than 
the  usual  proportion  of  alcohol,  so 
that  it  will  keep  better. 
If  you  wish 
to  put  a  special  brand  of  either  on 
the  market,  we  can  give  you 
the 
name  of  a  house  that  makes  the  ex­
tract,  and  any  good  brewery  could 
get  up  the  other  kind  for  you.  Malt 
extract 
is  often  combined  with cod 
iver  oil  and  other  remedies.  The 
dark  beer  kind  might  contain  small 
some  drugs,  which 
quantities  of 
could  be  added 
in  the  process  of 
manufacturing,  but  as  a  matter  of 
fact  they  are  rarely,  if  ever,  medi­
cated  in  any  way. 

p.  F.  Miller.

Build  Up  Confidence.

are 

there 

An  analysis  of 

is  enough  reason 

the  case  of  a  reputable 

A  druggist  should  labor,  in  season 
and  out  of  season,  to  build  up  confi 
dence— in  himself,  in  his  drugs,  in  his 
service— upon  the  part  of  the  patron 
izing  physicians  and  general  public 
If  he  has  this  confidence,  it  is  his 
most  valuable  asset;  if  he  has  it  not. 
he  is  a  bankrupt  in  all  that  makes 
the  profession  a  self-respecting  and 
Secretary  Daggett 
honorable  one. 
of  the  Rhode 
Island  Association 
cites 
(so 
ailed)  pharmacist,  who  does  a  large 
business  and  yet  never  had  an  ounce 
of  phenacetin  in  his  store,  being  in 
the  habit  of  dispensing  acetanilid  in 
its  place.  This  is  a  surprising  state 
for 
ment,  there 
believing  that 
isolated 
cases  of  this  sort  in  the  retail trade 
contents  of 
boxes  purchased  in  the  open  market 
at  different  times  shows  that  acetani 
d  is  sold  by  druggists  as  phenacetin, 
and  also  as  trional  and  sulfonal; that 
acetanilid  is  mixed  with  either  phe 
nacetin,  trional,  or  sulfonal  in  pro 
portions  up  to  50  per  cent.,  and  sold 
as  the  genuine  article.  A  mixture 
containing  caustic  soda,  a  large  per 
centage  of  organic  bodies  insoluble 
in  ether,  etc.,  is  sold  as  aristol.  As 
is  well  known,  caustic  soda  is  in  it­
self  a  pronounced  irritant,  and  when 
in  combination  with  an  iodine  con­
taining  compound,  it  acts  even  more 
injuriously  by  liberating  the  iodine 
much  more  rapidly  and 
larger 
quantities  than  occur  when  pure aris­
tol  comes  in  contact  with  the  secre­
tions  of  a  wound.  The  large  amount 
of  iodine  thus  given  off  acts  not only 
as  a  local  irritant,  but  also  as  a  sys­
temic  poison.

the 

in 

Bark— Are  nearly  out  of  market  and 
very  high  in  price.

Oil  Wintergreen,  Natural— Is rath­
er  weak,  but  not  quotably  changed.
Oil  Peppermint— Is  firm  and  ad­
vices  from  growing  crop  would  indi­
cate  higher  prices.

Oil  Cassia— Is  very  firm,  both  here 
It  is  tend­

and  in  primary  markets. 
ing  higher.

Senega  Root— Has  advanced  and 

extreme  prices  are  reached.

Celery  Seed— Is  very  firm  and  ad­

vancing.

Linseed  Oil— Is  firm  at 

vance  noted  last  week.

the  ad­

Cucumber  Cream  Collapses.

A  fraud  order  has  been  issued  by 
the  government  against  the  Crystal 
Novelty  Co.,  of  Chicago,  manufactur­
ers  of  a  facial  preparation  which  they 
call  Cucumber  Cream,  retailing  at 50 
cents.  They  advertised 
they 
would  pay  all  purchasers  $12  a  thous­
and  for 
letters  of  recommendation 
and  furnish  the  stationery,  etc.,  but 
must  have  failed  to  keep  up  with 
their  promises.

that 

fireworks!
Torpedo  | 
f  
Canes, 
I
F la g s , 
J
and  all 
C elebration! 

Goods
• The largest 
line in 
Michigan

Walt for salesman.
He will call soon « 
with  a  complete 
line of  samples.

Truly, 

the  druggist’s 

reputation 
and  the  welfare  of  the  community 
are  at  stake  in  this  matter  of  substi­
tution.  We  have  been  writing  of ex­
ceedingly  dangerous 
substitutions, 
but  all  substitutions  are  of  one  na­
ture.  Dishonesty  in  little  things  in­
evitably  lead  to  dishonesty  in  great­
er  things.  The  issues  may  at  first 
appear  to  be  harmless,  but  the  prac­
tice,  if  continued,  is  bound  to  result 
in  injury  to  the  public,  to  say nothing 
of  the  moral  deterioration  of  the 
^unfgist  which  sets  in  at  once.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Report  of  damage  to  crop 
confirmed. 
by  drought  has  been 
Prices  are  steadily  advancing. 
It  is 
now  conceded  that  the  spring  sow­
ing  will  be  a  failure,  although  it  is 
too  early  to  predict  what  the  extent 
of 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  this  will  be  a  strong  year 
for  opium.

shortage  will  be. 

the 

Morphine  —   Is  unchanged. 
doubt  it  will  be  advanced  soon.

No 

Quinine— Is  weak  but  unchanged 
price.
Cocaine— Is  very  firm  on  account 

of  higher  price  for  crude.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Has 

reached  ex­
treme  price  of  $150  per  barrel  or  $5 
per  gallon.  There  is  no  prospect  of 
any  lower  price.

Cut  Soap  Bark— Continues  scarce 

and  high.

Sassafras  Bark— Is  in  light  supply 

and  advancing.

Bayberry  Bark  and  Prickly  Ash

We make a 
specialty  of
Public 
Exhibitions
and can supply on short notice  displays for 

any amount.

L E T   US  FIGURE  WITH  YOU
FRED  BRUNDAQE 

Wholesale  Druggist 

|
:

I   32-34 Western Ave.  Muskegon, Mich.  %

Little  Qiant 
$20.00

Soda  Fountain
Requires  no  tanks  or  plumbing.  Over 
10,000  in  use.  Great  for  country  mer­
chants.  W rite tor

Soda Water Sense Free 

Tells all about it.

Grant Manufacturing Co.,  Inc., 

Pittsburg,  Pa.

Flags

Torpedo Canes  l 
Base  Ball  Supplies 

Hammocks

Complete line  of  Stationery »"<i 

Wrapping Papers

Qrand Rapids Stationery Co. 
•9  N. Ionia St., Grand  Rapids, Michigan

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

A dvan ced —Opium,  Senega Boot. 
D eclin ed —

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

A cid u m

A oetlcnm .................$
Benzokram, German.
Boraole......................
Carbollcum..............
Cltrt cum....................
Hydrochlor...............
Dxallcum..................
Phosphor! urn,  d ll...
Sallcyllcum ..............
Sulphurlcum............  1)
Tanntcum.................I  U
Tartartcum .............  
A m m o n ia

Aqua, 16 deg.............
Aqua, 20 deg.............
Carbonaa..................
Chlorldum.................
A n ilin e
Blaok.........................2
Brown........................
R ed........................   .
Yellow....................... 2

Baocse
Cubeb®........... po,28
Junlperus..................
Xanthoxylum ..........
Baliam nm

Copaiba....................
Peru  .........................
Terabln,  Canada....
rolutan.....................
C ortex
Able*, Canadian.......
Cassiae.......................
Cinchona  Klava.......
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica  Cerlfera, po.
Prunua Vlrglnl........
Qulllala,  gr”d ............
Sassafras........ po. 18
Ulmua.. .po.  20, gr’d 

E xtractn m  

GlycyrThlza  Glabra.
Glyoyrrhlza,  p o ......
Haematox.  16 lb. box
Haematox,  la ............
Haematox,  * i .......... 
Haematox,  ‘aa..........  

F errn

380
4«

ss
Si

24«
28«
111
13f
14«
160

Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx. ss
12s i

Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocvanldum Sol..
Solut.  Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cw t..........
Sulphate,  pure.........
Flora
A rnica.......................
Anthemls..................
Matricaria................ 3
F o lia
36«
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
nevelly..................
Salvia officinalis.  Hi
and  * s ..................
UvaUrsl....................
Gnmml 
Acacia,  lat picked... 
Acacia,  2d  picked... 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
Acacia, sifted  aorta.
Acacia, po.................
Aloe, Barb. po.i8@20 
Aloe, Cape....po.  28.
Aloe,  Socotrl..po.40
Ammoniac.................
Aaaafoetlda__po. 40
Benzolnum...............
Catechu, la ...............
Catechu,  * s .............
.............
Catechu,  *■
C amphorae...............
.po. 36
Buphorbtum.
Gaibanum....
Gamboge............. po
Gualacum....... po. 36
Kino............po.  60.76
M aatlc......................
Myrrh............. po.  46
OpU....po.  C40«4.30  3  40®
38©
Shellac.................... 
Shellac, bleached__
T ragacanth...............
Herb»
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........ oz. P)«
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V  oz. pkg 
thymus, V ...o z.p kg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M..
'arbonate, Jennings 
Oleum

28#

Absinthium............. E
Amygdalae,  Dulo__
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8
Antal.........................  1
Aurantl Cortex.........2
B ergam ll.................... 2
Cajlputl..................... 
80«
Caryophylll.............. 
80«  85
C ed ar.......................   80«  80
Chenopadll............... 
«  2  00
Cinnamon!)................1  00«  1  10
Citrons!!*_____     MO  M

j
i
10©

10«

Conlum Mac............
Copaiba....................  i
Cubeb®.................... x j
Bxechthltos.............  11
Erlgeron..................   11
Gaultberia...............2 ;
Geranium,  ounce.,.. 
Goaslppll, 8em. gal., 
i
Hedeoma..................   11
Junipers.................. i
,
Lavendula............... 
!
Ltmonla....................   i
Mentha  Piper..........  3  1
Mentha Verld..........  51
Morrhuae,  gal..........e  1
M vrd a......................41
O live.........................  >
Plcla Liquids...........
Plcta Liquids,  g a l...
Rlclna....................... 
1
Roamarlnl.................
Rosae, ounce............... s i
Succtnl...................... 
1
Sabin a...................... 
1
Santal.........................21
Sassafras..................  
1
Slnapls,  ess., ounce.
T p l ........................   1 1
Thyme....................... 
.
Thyme, opt...............
Theobromaa  ............ 
]
Potasslnm
Bl-Carb...................... 
Bichromate.............  
Brom ide..................  
C a rb ......................... 
Chlorate., .po. 17019
Cyanide.................... 
Iodide.......................2  1
Potaaaa, Bitart, pure 
Potass  Miras, opt...
Potass  Nltraa..........
Prusslate..................  
Sulphate  po.............  

]
1
1
]
j
‘ 

s
t

66 
1 «0 
66 
60

16
2  26 78 
40 
16

23
26
39
22
26

R a d ix

Aeon Hum.................. 
Althae.......................  
Anchuaa..................
Arum  po..................
Calamus....................
Gentlana........ po. u
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., p o.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po'.
Inula,  po..................
Ipecac, po................ ;
Iris  plox.. .po. 35038
Jalapa, pr................
Maranta,  14s ............
Podophyllum,  p o ...
Rhel..................
Rhel,  cut..................
Rhel, dv....................
SplgeOa....................
Sangulnarla...po.  16 
Serpentarla.............
Smllax, officinalis H.
Smllax,  M ................
Sc 111%............. po.  36
Symplocarpus.Fcetl-
dus,  po..................
Valeriana. Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ................
Zingiber J..................
Sem en
Anisum.......... po.  18
Aplum  (graveieons).
Bud, is .....................
Carol............... po.  16
Cardamon.................
Corlandrum..............
Cannabis Satlva.......
Cvdonlum................
Chenopodlum..........
Dlpterix Odorate__
Foenlculum...............
Foenugreek, po........
l .l n l ...............................
Llnl, grd.......bbl. 4
Lobelia.....................
Pharlaris Canarian..
R apa.........................
Slnapls  Alba............
Slnapls  Nigra..........
Splrltn s 
Prumentl,  W. D.  Co. 
Frumeotl,  D. F. B ..
Prumentl.................
Junlperls Co. O. T ...
Jonlperis  Co............
Saacnaram  N.  E  ...
Spt. Vlnl Galll..........
Vlnl  Oporto.............
Vlnl Alba..................
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................
Nassau  sheeps’ wool
carriage.................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage.................
Hard, for slate use.. 
for
Yellow  R e e f , 
slate use.................
Syrups
A ca c ia ......................
Aurantl Cortex.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac...................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhel  Arom...............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega  ......................
S o m a .,.. . . . . . . . . . . .

2  00«  2  to 
2 00© 2 28 
1  26«  1  60 
1 66« 2 00 
1  76«  3  60 
1  90«  2  10 
1  76« 6  60 
1  26« 2  00 
1  26«  2  00

2  60«  2  76
2  60«  2  76
«   1  60
«   1  28
«  1 00 
«  
76
«   1  40

«   60 
«   60 
«   60 
«   60 
«   50
«   50
60«  60 
«   60 
a   m

Belliae  Co..................
Tolutan.....................
Prunus  vlrg.............
Tin ctures
Aconitine N ape Ills R 
Aoonltum Nape ills F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and M yrrh....
A rn ica.....................
Assafoetlda...............
A  trope  Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma...................
Cantbarides.............
Capsicum..................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Cateohul....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co............
Columba..................
Cubeb».....................
Cassia Aeutiiol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chlorldum__
Gentian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guinea.....................
Guinea ammon........
Hyosoy&mus...........
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K in o .....................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nnz Vomica. 
.......
Opll...........................
Opll,  camphorated.
Opll, deodorized.  .
Q uassia....................
■lM‘**l7 ................
Rhel..........................
Sangulnaria............
Serpentarla............
Stramonium.............
Tolutan....................
V alerian ..................
Veratrom  Veride..
Zingiber...................

M iscellaneous 

ss

jSther, Spts. Nit. t  F 
-Ether, Spts. NIL 4 F
A lum en....................  2*<
3i_
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto..................... 
400
Antlmonl, po............ 
4«
Antlmonl et Potass T  40©
Antipyrin................. 
«
«
A ntliebrin............... 
Argentl  Nltras, oz... 
«
Arsenicum...............  
10«
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
46«
Bismuth S. N...........   2  20«
Calolum Chlor.,  is ... 
«
Calcium Chlor.,  * s ..
Calcium Chlor.,  * s .. 
Cantharides,  Rus.po 
Capsid  Froctus, a t..
Capsid  Froctus, po.
Capsid Froctus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .po.  15
Carmine,  No. 40.......
Cera  Alba...............
Cera  Klava...............
Coccus  .....................
Cassia  Froctus........
Centrarla..................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform,  squibbi 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1
Chondros.................
Clnchonldlue.P. & W 
Clnchonidlne, Germ.
Cocaine....................4  66«  4
Corks, llst,dls.pr.ct.
«
Creosotum................. 
C reta............. bbl. 76 
«
Creta, prep...............  
«
9«
Creta,  preclp............ 
Creta,  Rubra............ 
«
Crocus...................... 
38«
«
Cudbear.................... 
Cupri  Sulph..............  6HO
Dextrine..................  
7«
78«
Ether Sulph.............  
«
Emery, all numbers. 
Emery, po................. 
0
E rgota.......... po. 90  85«
18«
Flake  W hite............ 
G alla.........................  
«
8«
Gam bler..................  
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
«  
Gelatin, French....... 
36«
75  <t
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box.......
Glue, brown.............. 
11«
Glue,  w h ite.....
Glycerina.............  ..  17*8
Grana  Paradlsl__*.
Hum ulus..................
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor,.
Hydrarg  Ox Bub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
Hy drargU nguen turn
Hydrargyrum..........
Ichthyobolla,  A m ...
Indigo.......................
Iodine,  Resnbl........ ;
Iodoform.................. 8  1
Lupulln......................
Lycopodium..............
M a d s .......................
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............
Liquor PotassArslntt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
M annta. s,

Menthol.......... 
7  1
Morphia, 8., P. 81W.  2 
Morphia, 8..N .Y . Q.  2  :
Morphia, Mai........... 2
Moschns  Canton__
Myrtstica, No.  1.......
Nux Vomica...po. 16
Os Sepia...................
Pepsin Saac, H. 8t P.
D  Co.....................
Plds Llq. N .N .* gal.
d o z.........................
Plds Llq., quarts__
Plds Llq.,  pints.......
PllH ydrarg...po.  80 
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 88
Pllx Burgun.............
Plumbl Acet.............
Pulvls Ipecao et Opll  1 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co.,  d o z... 

la, S.  P.  &  W... 
la, 8.  German..

Pyrethrum,  pv........gslse................

iajN. Y .............
a Tlnctorum__
Saccharam Lactli pv
Salacln.....................
Sanguis  Draeonls.
Sapo,  W ....................
Sapo M .....................
Sapo  G .....................

50«  8  CO Seidlltz Mixture...... 1 22

26«  2  60 
Slnapls.....................
18
3 «   2  69
Slnapls,  opt.............
30
26«  2  60
Snun, Maooaboy,  De
0   40
V06S .......... ...........
41
38«  40 Snuff .Scotch, De Vo’s
41
«  
10 Soda, Boras..............
11
g@ 11
36«  37 Soda,  Boras, po.......
?9Xfo
Soda et Potass Tart.
30
«   1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
2
1 * 0
Soda,  Bl-Carb..........
6
«   2  00 Soda,  A sh.................
4
3 * 0
«   1  00 Soda,  Sulphas..........
2
«   86 Spts. Cologne...........
2  60
«   60 Spts. Ether  Co........
66
«  
18 Spts.  Myrcla Dom...
0 2  00
«   30 Spts. Vlnl Rect.  bbl.
«
«  
7 Spts. Vlnl Rect. *bbl
0
12 Spts. Vlnl Rect. togal
10« 
0
30«  1  60 Spts. Vlnl Rect. 6 gal
0
Strychnia, Crystal...
90« 1  16
76
«  
Sulphur,  SubI..........
4
2 * 0
26«  30 Sulphur, Roll...........
2 * 0 8*
8« 
10 Tamarinds...............
10
80
?80 
38 Terebenth  Venice...
280
30
28«  38 Theobrom®..............
420
60
28«  38 Vanilla..................... 9  00016  00
12« 
14 Zlnci Sulph.............
70
8
O ils
60«  4  76
400  80
14 
120 
10« 
12 
O  
16

Wnaie,  winter..........
Lard, No, 1 ...............

BBL.  QAL.
70
66

70
60

600

4 3

Linseed, pure  taw... 
46 
Linseed,  Dolled........   48 
Neatsfoot, winter str  59 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
53 

48
49
65
68

P a i n t s  

b b l . 

L

Red  Venetian..........  Hi  2  «8
Ochre, yellow  Mars  Hi  2  «4 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
lit  2  « 3  
Putty,  commercial..  2*   2 * 0 3  
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*  2It©3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
Am erican.............  
15
78
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris............  14  «   18
is
Green,  Peninsular... 
Lead,  red..................  6Y©  7
Lead,  white.............   611«  7
«   96
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gliders’ __ 
«   96
«   1  26 
White,  P u is, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
«   1  48
d lS ......................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  10«   1  20

13«  
70© 
13« 

V arn ishes

No.  1  Turp  Coach...  1  10«   1  26
Extra Turp...............  1  80«   1  78
Coach  Body.............   2  76«  8  88
No.  1 Turp Fum .......1  00«   1  10
Extra Turk  l)amar..  1  66«  1  68 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp 
79

70© 

Seasonable

PARIS  G R EEN  

LONDON  P U R P LE  

INSECT  POW DER 

N A P H TH A LIN E   B A L L S  

N A P H TH A LIN E   F L A K E S  

PO.  W H ITE   H E LLE B O R E

CARBO LIC  ACID  A L L   O R A D E S  

SLU G   SH OT 

e j£ sj(

s m
BE

WB  OPFER  AT  BEST  MARKET  PRICE

1

m  

■

m
Hazeltine  &  Perkins Ü

Drug  Co.

Wholesale Druggists

44

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CU RREN T

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

A D V A N C E D

Sugars 
B askets 
Tom atoes 
No.  1  W hi te fish

D E C L IN E D

D om estic  C h eese. 
Lard
C lea r  B a ck   P o rk.

Index to Markets

B y   C o lu m n s

A

COL

Axle Grease............................  

i

i
iath  Brick.............................. 
Brooms....................................   1
Brushes................................... 
i
Batter Color............................  
i

Candles....................................  n
Candles....................................  I
Canned Goods........................  
l
Catsup.....................................  
i
Carbon O ils............................   2
Cheese.....................................   2
Chewing Gum.........................  2
Chicory....................................   2
Chocolate.................................  *
Clothes Lines...........................  2
Cocoa.......................................  s
Coeoenut.................................  s
Cocoa Shells...........................   a
Coffee......................................  3
Crackers.................................   s

D

Dried  Fruits...........................  «

Farinaceous  Goods...............  4
Fish and Oysters...................   10
Fishing Tackle.......................   4
Fly  Paper...............................
Fresh Meats...........................   4
F ruits......................................  11

Gelatine...................................  5
Grain Bags..............................  5
Grains and F lour..................   e

H erbs......................................  5
Hides and  Pelts.....................   ic

No. a.. 
No. 2.. 
No. 1..

i  No. 8..........
No. 7..........
NO. 4..........
No. 8..........

B U T T E R   C O LO R
W., R   A Co.’s,  18c size__
W., B.  & Co.’s, 25c size.... 

.  75 
1  10 
.1  75

.1  oo 
.1  30
.1  71 
1  90

1  252 00

C A N D L E S

Electric Light, 8s ...................13
Electric Light, 16s ................. 12M
Paraffine,  8s.............................9m
Paraffine, 12a........................:o
W! eking........  
...................17

C A N N E D   GOODS 

A p p les
iTui'cm 
Inilg0......................................  B  !  Gallons, standards

.  3 lb. Standards

86
2  0C@2  25 

J e lly .

Llcorlee...................................  5
L ye...........................................  s

M

Meat Extracts........................   5
Metal Polish...........................  e
Molasses..................................  5
Mustard...................................  s

B lack b erries

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

Beans

B aked.......................  
Bed  Kidney.............  
String........................ 
W ax........................... 

B la eb erries
Standard..................... 
B ro o k   T ro u t

9

so@i  so
soa  90
70
75®  80

1  a

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

Clam s. 
Little Neck,  1 lb  .... 
........   H  Little Neck. 2 lb.......

1  00@i  20 
1  50

Clam   B o u illo n

a i  Burnham’s.  X Dint...........  

1  99
.......  3  60
.......  7  20

ttunmanrs, pints....
1 Burnham's, quarts...
C h erries
Bed  Standards........   1  arai  so
W hite...........................

Nuts.

N

O

P

Pickles.....................................   6
P ip es........................................  6
Playing Cards.........................  e
Potash..... ...............................   e
Provision«...............................   1

B ice .

Corn

Fair......................... .
Good.........................
F ancy.......................

F ren ch   Peas 
Sur Extra Fine.............
Fine.
Moyen............................
G ooseberries

Standard..................
H om in y
Standard...............
Lobster
Star, M lb..................
Star, 1  lb ..................
Picnic Tails..............
Mackerel
Mustard,  l i b ............
Mustard, 2 lb ............
Sous ad, 1 lb...............
Soused, 2 lb .............
Tom .to , 1 lb .............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Hotels.........................
Buttons......................
O ysters
Cove, 1 lb ...................
Cove, 21b...................
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........
Pench es
P ie .......................
Y ellow ....................
Pears
Standard.............
Fancy......................

M ushroom s

1  SO  j

i  oo 
1  10
1  40 I
22
19
1511
90  j

85 j
2  00 
8   73 
2  40 j
1  80 
2  80 !
1  90
2  80 
1  80 
2  80
18020
22026
8f®  90 
1  <*6 
i   or
8EO  90 
1  z&Ol  85

Salad  Dressing.......................  7 I {L*tr*   lr,ne
Saleratua
Bal Soda........
Salt.................
Salt  Fish.......
Seeds.............
Shoe Blacking
Snuff.............
Soap............... .
Soda............... .
Spice«.............
Starch.............
Sugar..............
Syrups............

..... ............................   8
Tobacco..................................   g
T w in e......................................  9

Vinegar

Washing Powder....................  9
wioûng.....................;;;;;  ;
Wooden ware........................."  9
Wrapping Paper....................  19

le a st  Cake.

Ht
i
•:-a *
l Wu
:~&j4
T0M
14QA>
m ,

Buisson 
Columbia E lver tails 
Coins Ms Elver, tats
Bed  Alaska  ..  ........
Pink Alaska. 
......
Sardines
Domasse, x* ._
Dnmastili.  & s .
Domestic.  Msstard 
Canfor&Sa.  x*
Ca& ord a > 1 ..........
French,  i i .
Frsosfe.  **.
8Od4ai4
Fair__
Good  .......................
Fancy 
......... 
Standard..................  
Fancy 
Turn lim e
Eatr..........................  
G oo*........................  
Fancy 
G allons................. 

Sferlmmm

.. 

Straw berries

C A R B O N   O ILS 

B arrels

Eocene.........................  
§ u
Perfection.................... 
£ &
Diamond  White.......... 
• ilM
D. 8. Gasoline............  
@13
Deodorized Naphtha..  @14-4
Cylinder.........................39  @34
Engine........................... 13  @23
Black, winter...............   9  @ it*
CA TSU P
Columbia,  25  pints................4  30
Columbia, 25  M pints 
.......2  4*
Snider's quarts......................3 25
Snider's  pints....................... 2  25
Snider's M p in ts...................1  30

Cere  Kofa.  24 packages  .... 2  30 

C E R E A L   C O F F E E  
For sale by all Jobbers 

C H E E SE

Acme.......... . 
A m boy........................... 
Carson  City..................  
Elsie...............................  
Emblem.................... 
Gem................................ 
Gold Med&L.. . . . . . . .  
Id eal......................... 
Jersey.......................  
Riverside.......................  
Brick.........................  
Edam ............................. 
Leiden .......................... 
Llm burger................. 
Pineapple................. 
8ap  Sago.......................  

@13

5 n
@13
@14
S i t

@
a  13
a
@12*4
*13
@9o
@17

I3© n

13014
50075

020

C H E W IN G   GUM 
American Flag Spruce.... 
55
Bee man'»  Pepsin..............  
an
Black Jack......................... 
gg
Largest Gum  Made.......... 
so
gg
Sen S en .............................. 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Loaf......................... 
gg
gg
Yucatan.............................. 
g
Bulk.................................  
?
Eagle........................................ 7
Franck’s ...............................   g
8cbener’s ...............................

C H IC O R Y  

C H O C O L A T E  

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

German  Sweet............ 
93
Premium....................
Vanilla.......................... 
  S
«
Caracas...................  
Eagle..........................................gg

 
 

C L O T H E S  LIN K S 

Sisal

00 ft, 3  thread,  extra.........  1  00
72 ft, 3  thread,  extra........   1  40
•  mn  152 S ’ 8 JJiread, 
extra.  17 0
1  001 go ft, 6 thread,  extra.........  1  29
1  25
*  ■ “  j 72 ft, 6 thread, 
extra............ 

M ertraa

G uatem ala

Cholea....................................
Fancy.....................................
1  m  I
1  m  1 C h ela e..................................
......
t  a
1  <s
sr®  oo
1  is
1 3
1  jg

Java
African....................
Fancy A frican.......
O  G . .......................
P-  f t . ........................
Arabian.
Annaffile.......... ....................10M
Dtiwurtk............................. u m
Jersey-------------------------11
Dm ...... ........ ............ 19
Me Langhlin’« XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Maß  aü  arderà 
direct  to  W.  F.  Mgranghlln  4  
Co., Chicago.

efcage 
araBasì».

New York

P a c

Holland,  M gross boxes.......  9J
Felix  m gross..............................i 15
Hummers foil M gross.........  86
Hummel's tin M gross........ 1  43

C R A C K E R S

B a tte r

National Biscuit Co.’« brands 
g
g
g
g
j

Seymour................................ 
New  York.............................  
Fam ily..................................  
Salted....................................  
Wolverine.............................  

Soda

u

O yster

N.  B.  C .................................. 
7
g
Soda,  City.............................  
Long Island Wafera........  
is
Zephyrette............................ 
g
Bound................................... 
Square.................................. 
g
F e a s t.................................  
y„
Extra Farina.....................  
714
Sal tine Oyster......................  
7
Sw eet  Goods—Boxes
Animals...............................   jo
Assorted  Cake....................  
10
Belle Rose.............................  
g
Bent’s Water
18
Cinnamon Bar.................... 
9
Coffee Cake,  I c e d ....* " "   10
Coffee Cake. Java.............  
11
Coooanut Macaroons........  
ig
Cocoa Bar.........................  
19
Coooanut Taffy..................   12
Cracknells........................  
k
Creams, Iced.....................
Cream Crisp.....................
Cubans...............................
Currant  Fruit  ..................
Frosted Honey..................
Frosted Cream..................
Ginger Gems, I’m  or sm’ll

Grandma Cakes................ 
9
g
Graham Cracker».............. 
Graham  Wafers.................  12
Grand Rapid«  Tea............ 
ig
Honey Fingers..................   12
Ioed  Honey Crum pets.....  19
Imperials............................ 
g
Jumbles, Honey.................  u
Lady Fingert.....................   u
Lemon Snaps.....................   13
Lemon  W afers..................  
ig
....
ig
Marshmallow,................... 

80 f t . . 

 

COCO A

Cotton  V icto r

Cotton B raid ed

75 
72 f t .  
90 
90 f t .  
1  06 
120 f t
1  50
SOft.
80
.................................  
er f t . .
98
................................. 
70 f t ..
.................................  1  10
Cotton W indsor
69 ft......................................  1  20
8 0 ft............................. 
140
7 0 ft....................................   165
SO ft....................................  1  85
75
40 ft...................................... 
SO ft....................................  
85
80 f t ....................................
G alvan ized   W ire 
No. 20. each 100ft long....  190 
N a  19, each 100 ft long—   2  10 
Baker's..................................   38
Cleveland..............................   41
Colonial, u s 
Colonial, Ms
Epps.................. 
42
H uyler...................................  46
Van Houten, Ms...................   12
Van Houten, Ms....................  20
Van Houten, Ms...................   40
Van  Houten,  i s ...................   72
Webb.................................... 
81
Wilbur,  M*
wnbur,  14s ............................  42
Dunham’s M*....................   26
Dunham's M* and  Ms.......  26M
Dunham's  Ms....................  27
Dunham’s  Ms....................  28
Bulk....................................  
13
COCO A  8 H SLL 8
JS lb. bag«........................ 
Less quantity..................  
Pound packages.............  

COCOANUT

  2M

8
4

 

 

C O F F E E  

R io

Santos

Common................................   8
F a ir......................................... 9
Chotee.....................................10
Fancy..................................... 15
Common................................   8
F a ir......................................... 9
Choice..................................... 10
F an cy.....................................13
Feaserry-...............................u
F air.

A X L E   G R E A SE  
| 0L
Aurora......................... se
Castor  OU.................... as
Diamond......................so
Frazer’«....................... 75
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75
B A T H   B R IC K

gross6 oo
7  oo 
4  25 
9 00 
9  00

| American...............................  75
:  English...................................  ss

B R O O K S

j  No. 1  Carpet..........................2  SO
No. 2 Carpet......................... j  as
I  No. 3 Carpet..........................2 i s ;
No. 4 Carpet..........................i  75
Parlor  Gem.......................... a to
Common Whisk....................  86
Fancy Whisk........................i  201
Warehouse............................ a  90

BRU SH ES

Scrub

Solid Back, 
Solid  Back.  11 in 
Pointed Ends.

g in.................  

js

Marrowfat.............
Early June.............
Early June  Sifted

*0 * 1  ’ 0 
90@1  80 
1  65

P in e a p p le

P u m p k in

Plums.

Grated 
Sliced  .

F a ir.... 
Good... 
F an cy.. 
Gallon.

R aspberries

Standard...................

i  asea  75
1  3B©2  56

75 
90 
1  10 
.2  GO

I  15

R ussian  C a rier

14 lb. can s..........................   3  75
X lb, cans..........................  7  00
I lb. can............................. ia  00
• 1   as @1 m 
a t   *  
8   M

Marshmallow Creams. —   16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
8
Mary  Ann..........................  
Mixed Picnic......................  11M
Milk  Biscuit.......................  
7M
Molasses  Cake..................   8
Molasses Bar..................... 
9
Moss Jelly B ar..................   12X
Newton...............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers................   13
Orange Crisp.....................  
9
Orange Gem.......................  8
Penny  Gake.......................   8
Pilot Bread, X X X ............. 
7X
Pretzelettes, hand  made..  8
Pretzels, hand  made........  8
Scotch Cookies..................   10
8ears’ Lunch..................... 
7M
Sugar Cake......................... 
8
Sugar Biscuit Square....  .  8
Sugar Squares....................  8
Sultanas.............................. 
is
Tuttl Fruttl........................   18
Vanilla W afera.................  16
Vienna Crime.................... 
8
D R IE D   F R U IT S 

A p p les

8 undried............................ @ 3
Evaporated, so lb. boxe«BX@7 

C a lifo rn ia  Prone«
100-120 25 lb. boxes........   a
90-10025lb .bo xes........   S t
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........   A   4M
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   a   5M
80 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   0 8
50 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   a   SH
40 - SO 25 lb. boxes........   a  7K
so - 40 26 lb. boxea........

M cent lets In 50 lb. cases 

C itron
C urran ts

P eel

R aisins

Corsican..................... is  ai3M
Imported, lib  package  7  a
Imported bulk............   6X<&
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.  18 
Orange American 10lb. b x ..is 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1 95
London Layers 8 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
2  go
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
7
7U
Loose Muscatels 8 Crown 
8
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.......  9®  9X
L. M., Seeded, X  lb __ 
7M
Sultanas, b u lk ................ .7.10
Sultanas, p ackage................10*4
F A R IN A C E O U S  GOODS 

Beans

go

F a rin a

H om iny

Dried Lima............................g
Medina: Hand Picked 
2 20
Brown Holland.....................     25
2411b. packages........................1 go
Bulk, per 100 Tbs.........................2 SO
Flake, 80 lb. sack...............  
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl....................... 5 00
Pearl,  100 lb. sack...................... 2 00
M eccaroni  and V erm ic elli
Domestic,  10 lb. box.............   go
Imported. 23 lb. box..............2  10
Common.....................................2 50
Chester........................................* jo
Empire........................................ g to
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........1  86
Green, Scotch, bu. . . . . . . . . . . 1   90
spat,  n>.................................  
4

P e a rl  B a rle y

Peas

R o lled   Oats

Rolled Avena, bbl...................... 5 uo
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks.........2  65
Monarch, bbl............................. 4 ;g
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.........I2  25
Quaker, cases.............................3 10

Sago

East India.............................   3a
German, sacks........................394
German, broken package..  4

T apio ca

Flake,  110 lb. sacks............... 4w
Pearl, iso lb.  sacks...............   3*
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages.......e x

W h eat

Cracked, bulk..........................s x
24 2 lb. packages........................2 bo

6 
7 
9 11 
15 
30

F ISH IN G   T A C K L E
X to 1 inch............................
to 2  inches.......................
IX to 2  Inches.......................
IX to 2  Inches.....................
Inches..................................
Inches...................................

Cotton  L in es
No. 1,10 feet..........................
No. 2,15 feet....................
N a 3,15 feet..........................
N a 4,1 5  feet..........................
N a 5,15 fe e t.........................
No. 6,15 feet.....................
N a 7,15 fe e t.........................
N a 8,15 feet.......................
N a 9, is feet..........................

Lin en   Lines

Small......................................
Medium ........
L arge................................. .

5 
7 
9 
10 
11 
12 
15 
18 
20
............  20
............  28
...............  34

Po les

Bamboo,  14 ft., per  doz....  .  50
Bamboo, 16 f t . per d o t ......   66
Bamboo.  18 f t , per d o t ......   80

F R E S H   M E A TS 

Beef 
............  BXO  8
Forequarters....... 
5  5  8
Hindquarters..........  
7X 0  9
.........................  
t o i l »
J P "  ...........................  8  012
chucks..............
H a te ........ ...............  « * 5 #

P o rk

....................  
Boston  Butts............ 
Leaf Lard................. 
M utton
Carcass................ 
Lambs........................ 

8XO  8X
o io x
O10X

s  a   9
8  O n

V ea l

Carcass.....................   OXO  7X

G E L A T IN E

Knox’s  Sparkling.............   1  20
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross  14  00
Knox’s Acidulated...........  
1  20
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14  00
Oxford................................. 
7b
Plymouth  B ock.................  1  20
Nelson's..............................  1  50
Cox’s,  2-qt  size..................   1  gi
Cox’s, l-qt size................... 
1  10

G R A IN   B A G S 

Amoakeag,  100 in bale  ....  u x  
Amoskeag, less than bale.  15X 

G R A IN S   A N D   FLO U R  

W h eat

W h e a t............................... 

74

W in te r  W h eat  F lo u r 

Local Brands

Patents...............................   435
Second  Patent....................  3 9
Straight...............................  3  65
8econd Straight.................  3  35
C lear...................................  3  ,o
Graham ..............................  3  40
Buckwheat......................... 
too
B y e ....................................   8  00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 260 per  bbl. ad­
ditional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker H i..........................  3 90
Quaker Xa..........................   3  90
Quaker Xs..........................  3  go

8p rin g   W h eat  F lo u r 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best X s..........   4  so
Pills bury’«  Best X s..........   4  so
Plllsbury’s  Best  X s..........   4  40
Plllsbury’s Best  Xs paper.  4  40 
Plllsbury’s Best Xs paper.  4  «0 
Lemon k  Wheeler Co. s Brand
Wlngold  X s.....................  
4  40
Wlngold  x * ......................  4  so
Wlngold  Xa...................... 
4  20

Judson Grocer C a ’s Brand.

Worden Grooer  C a ’s Brand

Ceresota Mo.......................   4  70
Ceresota X s.......................   4  60
Ceresota X s.......................   4  to
Laurel  X s...........................  4  70
Laurel  X>...........................  4  60
Laurel  Xo...........................  4  so
Laurel  Hi and  X> paper. 
450

M eal

Bolted.................................  2  go
Granulated.........................  2  60

F eed   an d  Millatnllfc

St. Car Feed screened__20  80
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........ *o  50
Corn Meal,  coarse............19  so
Winter Wheat Bran..........  1/  50
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  19  oc
Cow  Feed...........................  18  50
Screenings...........................18  00

SB

to

12  00
14  00

Car  l o b ............................

Corn, oar  lo ts ,................

Oats

Corn

H ay

N a 1 Timothy car  lots...
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots...

H E R B 8

Sage...................................
.10
H ops................................... ....15
Laure!  Leaves  .................
....16
Senna Leaves.................... ....M

IN D IG O

Madras, 5 lb. boxes.......... ....55
8.  F., 2,8 and 5 lb.  boxea.
....50

J E L L Y

51b. palls.per doz...........
1  85
15 lb. palls.........................
..  37
30 lb. palls........................... ..  68

L IC O R IC E

Pure.................................... ..  SO
Calabria.............................. ..  23
Sicily................................... ..  14
Root.................................... ..  11

L Y E

Hlgb test powdered  ly a  

E a g le  B ran d  
Single case lots.
Quantity deal.

10c size, 4 doz cans per case  3  50 
33.«0 per case,  with  1  case  free 
with every 5 cases or X case free 
with 3 cases.
Condensed, 2 doz................... 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz...................2 25

M E A T   E X T R A C T S

Armour's, 2 o z ..................   4 45
Armour’s. 4 o z ...................  8  20
Liebig’s, Chicago, 2  oz__   2  76
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4  o z ....  5  GO 
Liebig’s, Imported, 2 o z...  4  55 
Liebig’s. Imported. 4 o s ...  8  60

M O L A 8SK8 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle...........  
Chotee.................................  
F a ir..................................... 
Good....................................- 

HaU-barrels 20 extra
M U ST A R D

H one Kadiak, 1 dot............. 1 75
H one Radish, 1 doz.............a  51
Bayta'i Ce’ery. * d o s....

40
36
26
22

6

O L IV E S  

Search Brand.

M E T A L   P O L ISH  
Paste, 3 oz.  box, per doz.... 
75
Paste, 6 oz. box, per doz....  1  25 
Liquid, 4 oz.  bottle, per doz  l  00 
Liquid, *   pt. can, per doz.  l  <so 
Liquid,  1  pt. can, per doz..  2  to  
Liquid, *   ga l can, per doz.  ts  50 
Liquid,  1 gal. can, per doz.14  00 
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...
1  00 
Bulk, 8 g a l kegs...
80 
Bulk, 0 gal. kegs...
as 
Manzanilla, 7 o z ...
80
Queen, pints..........
2  36 
Queen, 1»  oz..........
4  50 
Queen, 28  oz..........
7  00
Stuffed, 6 oz..........
90 
Stuffed, 8  oz..........
1  463 88
Stuffed,  11S  oz.........
P IP E S
Clay, No. 218...........................1  70
Clay, T. D., full count..........   no
O o u ,N t,L ,M„ M............ 
gs

P IC K L E S
M edium

Barrels,  1,200 coun t..............7  75
Half bbls, 600 count............. 4  as
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t.............0  00
Half bbls, 1,200 count.......... 5  00

Sm all

P L A T IN G   C A R D S
No. 90, Steamboat.............. 
90
No. 15, Rival, assorted__  1  20
No. 20, Hover, enameled..  1  60
N6. 572, special.................. 
1  75
No. 98, Golf, satin  finish..  2  00
No. 808, B icycle.................  2  00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.  2  25 

PO T A SH  

48 cans In case

Babbitt’s ......................... __4  00
Penna Salt Co.’s............. ....3   00

PR O V ISIO N S
B a rre le d   P o rk

@17  95
@19  to
@19  00
@18  00
20  OO
@10  60
19 60
@18  60

U *
•U>&

Mess..........................
s a c k , fa t..................
Clear back................
Snort out..................
F ig .............................
Bean..........................
ramuy Mess Loin...
Clear.........................

D ry   S a lt  M eats

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

Sm oked  Meato 

@  13 
Hams, u  in. average. 
43  la 
Hama,  lew . average. 
43  13 
Hams, 16 lb. average. 
Hams, 20 id. average. 
43  10
Ham unea  beef....... 
43  13
Shoulders (N. V. cut) 
43
Bacon, ciear..............  12  43  13
California fiams....... 
Boiled Hams........... 
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
Mince H am s..........  

9¡443

10  43  1014
43  18«
43  14)4 
43  944
@ 8 
aio
*
*
*
»

1
8

@614
0*
@7*
8  ®i0
1%

6 *

11  25
@11  60
I  80
3  so
8  00
70
1  30
2  00

26
6
12
86

L a rd

Compound.................
P ure..-......................
60 lb. Tuba..advance 
8010. Tuna..advance 
50 lb. U na... ad vanee 
20 lb. Palis, .advance 
0 lb. Pans, .advance
1010. Pans..auvanee 
» io. Paus..aavauue
Vegetóle....................
Sausages
Bologna....................
L iver....................
Frankfort.................
P o rk .........................
V eal....................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese-............
_ 
B e e f 
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
Hump, N e w .............
*  bbls., 40  lbs..........
HlbDls........................
1 bus.,  lbs.............
T rip e
Hits, 16  lbs...............
*  Dois., 40  iba..........
*   bois., 80  IDS..........
_ 
Casings 
P o r k ........ .177.
Beef  rounds.
Beef  middles__
Sheep..................

.  

P ig s’  F eet

U ncolored  B u tte  lin e

Solid, dairy...............  
@n
Hous, dairy...............   U*«»i2*
Bolls,  purity............  
10
Bono,  purity............ 
14*

Can ned  M eats  rex 

Corned  beet, 2 in .... 
cornea  Deet, 14 lb ...
Boast bees, 2 id........
Potted nam,  * s . . . „
Potted nam,  a i .......
Deviled nam,  * s ... .
Deviled bam,  *■
....
Potted  tongue,  ms..
Posted tow n*  2 - 
RICE 
D om estic

A  40 
17  Ml 2 40 
46 86 
46 
Ss

Carolina  head...........................
.........7
Carolina  No. 1 ......... ’.l" .Y ." '.'o v t
Carolina  No. 2 ........................0
bro ken .....................................3*

Im p orted.

Japan,  No.  1 ..................5*@
Japan,  No.  2.................. 6  43
Java, fancy head............ 
43
Java, No.  1 ...................... 
43
Table.....................  
@

 

S A L A D   D R ESSIN G

Durkee’s, large, 1 doz.......... 4  50
Durkee’s, sm all 2 doz..........5  25
Snider’s, large, l  doz............2  36
Snider s, small, 2 doz.......... .1  35

S A L K  R A TE S

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 
Church’s Arm and Hammer  3  15
Deland’s...............................  
'a 00
Dwight’s  Cow...................... “ " j  is
Emblem...................................... 9 ¡q
L.  P ........................................ ” ‘.3 00
Wyandotte. 100  Ms.................... s 00

S A L   SO D A

Granulated,  bbls.............  
80
*  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases 
Lump, bbls..........................' 
75
Lump, 146 lb. kegs..............  so

S A L T

D iam ond C rystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes. .1  40 
Table, barrels,  too 8 lb. bags.3  00 
Table, barrels, 50 6 lb. bags.3  00 
Table,  barrels, 40 7  lb.  bags.2  76 
Butter, barrels, 320 lb. burn.2  66 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2  86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  27
Butter, saoks, 56 lbs.............   &7
Shaker, 24 2 lb. boxes...........1  50

Com m on  Grades

100 8 lb. sacks..........................
60 61b. sacks.........................     so
28ioib. sacks.................  
  1  70
661b. sacks.......................  
30
281b. sacks.........................  
15

W arsaw

56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  «
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  20

Solar  R o ck 

56 lb.  sacks............................   os

Com m on

Granulated  Fine..................   75
Medium Fine.........................  so

Cod

S A L T   FISH  
Large whole................ 
a   gu
43  5
Small whole................. 
strips or  bricks..........7  43  9
Pollock........................ 
43  8)4

H alib u t.

Strips..................................  
is
Chunks...............................   14

Herring;

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10  50 
Holland white hoops*bDl.  5  SO 
Holland white hoop,  Keg..  @78 
Holland white hoop mens. 
86
Norwegian........................
Hound 100lbs.....................   360
Hound 80 lbs.......................  2  to
* * * .................................  14*
lastwi... 
......-   1  4)

Trout

M ackerel

No. 1100 lbS........................  6 60
No. 1  40 lbS.......................  2  60
No. 1  10 lbS.  .....................  
70
NO. I  8 lb*........................ 
50
Mess 100 lbs........................  16  so
Mess  SO lbs........................  8  76
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  80
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  17
No. 1100 lb«........................  16  00
NO. I  50 tbs........................  8  00
NO. 1  10 lbS........................  1  66
No. 1  8 lbs........................  1  86
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
8 85
2  26
68
48

100  lbs........... 7  76 
60  lba........... 3  88 
10  lbS............  92 
8  IbS..........   77 

W h ite flah

SEED S

Anise........................................ibj
Canary,  Smyrna..................... 6*
Caraw ay............................... 8 .
Cardamon,  Malabar............. 1  60
Celery......................................10
Hemp, Busilan......................4*
Mixed Bird............................  4
Mustard, white....................... 8
Poppy.......................................e
B a p e......................................  4*
Cuttle Bone............................ 26

SH O E  B L A C K IN G
Handy Box,  large.............   2  60
1  26
Handy Box, small.............  
Blxby’s Royal Polish........  
86
Miller’s Crown  Polish..... 
86 
Johnson Soap Co. brands—

S O A P  

Jas. 8.  Kirk ft Co. brands—

Lautz Bros, ft Co.’« brands—

Sliver King.......................  3 66
Calumet Fam ily.............. 2  76
Scotch Fam ily..................2  86
Cuba..........................  ....  2  36
American Family............4 06
Dusky  Diamond 6(18oz..  >  go 
Dusky Diamond 1U0-6 oz. .3  80
Jap  Hose..........................   3  75
Savon  Imperial...............  8  is
White  Husslan.................  8  10
Dome, oval bars............... 3  10
Satinet, o v a l....................  2  16
White  Cloud.................... 4  Oo
Big A cm e.........................4  00
Big Master.......................  4  00
Snow Boy P’wdr, 100-pkgs  4  00
Marseilles........................   4 00
Acme,  100-3llb  bars  .......3  70
Acme, 100-Klb bars single
Proctor a  Gamble brands—

(6 box lots. 1 free with 5) 
box lots..........................  320
Lenox...............................   8  10
Ivory, 6 oz.........................  4  00
Ivory, 10 oz......................   6 76
Schultz ft Co. bran d - 
sta r................................... 8 26
A  B. Wrlsley brands—
Good ch eer..................... 4  00
Old Country............... 
8 40

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

8

9

Scouring

Enoch Morgan’s Sons.

Sapolio, gross lota.................9
Sapollo, half gross lots.........4
Sapollo, single boxes............2
Sapollo, hand........................2
_ 
Boxes.............................  
Kegs,  English...................*

SO D A

si*

SN U FF

Scotch, In bladders.............
Maocaboy, in Jars............
French Bap pee. in  Jan..I! 

SPICE S 

W h o le 8piees

Allspice........ .....................
Cassia, China In i i iii 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund.’.'. 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rail«
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
Cloves, Zanzibar.
M ace....................... »
Nutmegs,  75-80..................  
Nutmegs,  106-10................. 
Nutmegs,  116-20................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot...............
AUanleo-...........................
Cassia, Batavia............. 
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
Ginger,  African................. 
Ginger, Cochin..................  
Ginger,  Jamaica............... 
Mace...........................  
Mustard.........................."  
Pepper, Singapore, black.' 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne............... 

P u r*  G round in  B a lk

„

*0
40
85

„
48
17
u
ig
26
Rg
lg

_  
2»

ST A R C H  

Com m on Glooa

l-Ib. paokagea.................... 
5
3-lb. packagea.................... 
4«
8-lb. paokagea.................... 
5*
-» S M - lb .b o x e ...........8 *@ 4

Com m on Corn

201-lb.  packages............... 
g
40i-lb.  pookacea........... 4*@ ')f

STRU P8 

Corn

Barrels..................................20
Half b b ls..........................  22
10 lb. cans, *  doz. In case'.  1  60 
5 lb. oans,  1 doz. In case....  1  80 
2 *  lb. cans. 2 doz. In case... 1  89 
ie
P a ir........................................ 
Good..........................................94
C hoice................................ 
  2t

P u r*   Can*

SU G A R

Domino....................................  7 it
Cut Loaf......................................5 go
Crushed...................................  5 95
Cubes..................................  B 80
Powdered................................  b 16
Coarse  Powdered.............  
t   ic
XXXX Powdered..............  6  20
Flue Granulated.....................  6 08
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran.........  5  20
6 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   6  20
Mould A ..............................  5 »
Diamond  A .......................   505
Confectioner’s  A ....................  4 99
No.  l, Columbia A ..........   4  85
No.  2, Windsor A ............  4  85
No.  8, Bldgewood A .........  4  85
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............   4  80
No.  6, Empire A ....................  4 75
No.  6. . . . . . . . . . . .................   470
l ...................................  4  86
No.  8..................................   4  60
No.  9..................................  4  55
N o .» ..................................  4  CO
No. 11..................................   4  40
No. 12..................................  4  30
No. 13..................................   4  35
No. 14..................................  4  80
No. 16..................................  4  30
No. 16........  
4  98

 

 

 
 
T E A
Japan

Sundrled, medium............... 24
Sundrled, choice...................30
Sundrled, fancy.................... go
Regular, medium.................. 2<
Regular, oholee.................... go
Regular, fan cy......................33
Basket-fired, medium...........31
Basket-fired, choice..............38
Basket-fired, fancy...............48
Nibs................................. 22024
Siftings............................  9@ii
Fannings......................... 18@14

G un pow der

Moyune, medium................. ao
Moyune, choice.....................32
Moyune,  fancy...................... 40
Plngouey,  medium............... ao
Plngraey,  oholee...................m
Plngsuey, fancy.................... 40

Y oung  Hyson

Choice......................................
Fancy..................................... 86

O olong

E n glish  B rook fast

Formosa, fancy..................... 49
Amoy, medium..................... 95
Amoy, choice.........................39
Medium................................. ..
Choice.....................................go
Fancy..................................... 40
Ceylon, choice....................... 39
Fancy........ - ......................... ..

In d ia

TO B A C C O

C igars

H. ft P. Drag Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller..................  86 60
Our  Manager....................... g g

F in e  C u t

ad lilac...................................64
weet  Loma.......................... 83
Hiawatha, 6 lb.  palls............ 66
Hiawatha,  10 lb. palls.......... 64
Telegram................................39
Pay C a r..................................31
Prairie Rose........................   49
Protection  ............................ 87
Sweet Burley......................... 42
Tiger...................................... as

P in g

Bed Cross...............................
P»lo........................................ 82
Krlo........................................ 84
Hiawatha............................... 41
Battle A x e .............................33
American B a gla...................32
Standard Navy...................... 36
Spear Head, 16 oz................. 41
Spear Head,  8 oz................. 43
Nobby T w is t........................ 48
Jolly T a r................................36
Old Honesty...........................42
Toddy.,................................... 33
J -T ......................................... 36
Piper Heldslck...................... 61
B ootjack............................... 78
Honey Dip Twist...................38
Black  Standard.....................38
Cadillac..................................38
F o rge .....................................30
Nickel  Tw ist......................... 60

Sm okin g

Sweet Core.............................34
Flat Car..................................39
Great Navy.............................84
W arpath................................ 26
Bamboo, 16 oz........................24
I X L ,  61b.............................26
I X L, 16 oz. palls...................30
Honey D ew ........................... 36
Gold  Block.............................86
Flagm an................................ 38
Chips.......................................32
Kiln D ried.............................21
Duke’s Mixture....................38
Duke’s Cameo....................... 4t
Myrtle N avy.........................40
Turn Turn, 
oz...................39
Turn Turn,  1 lb. palls............87
Cream..................................... 38
Com cake, 2 *  oz.................. 24
Com Cake, l i b ......................22
Plow Boy, 1 *  oz....................39
Plow Boy, 3 *  oz....................39
Peerless, 3 *  oz...................... 34
Peerless, 1 *  oz......................36
Air  Brake..............................36
Cant  Hook.............................30
Country Club.....................32-34
Forex-XXXX........................28
Good Indian......................... 23
Self  Binder........................20-22
Silver Foam........................... 34

T W IN E

Cotton, 3 ply...........................18
Cotton, 4 ply...........................18
Jute, 2 ply...............................12
Hemp, 6 p ly........................... 12
Flax, medium........................20
Wool, 1 lb. balls.............  
6  6 *

V IN E G A R  

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand... 11
Pure Older, Bed Star............ 11
Pure Cider, Robinson........... 11
Pure Cider,  Silver................. 11

W A SH IN G   P O W D E R

Diamond  Flake..........................2 76
Gold  Brick..................................3 26
Gold  Dust, regular.................... 4 60
Gold  Dust, 5c.............................. 4 00
Klrkollne,  24 4 lb....................... 3 90
Pearllne...................................... 2 75
Soaplne........................................ 4 10
Babbitt’s 1776............................  3 75
Boaelne......   ......................... 3  60
Armour’s.....................................3 70
Nine O’clock............................... 3 86
Wisdom..................................... .3 80
Scourlne...................... . . . . . . . 3   60
Bub-No-More..............................8 75

W IO K IN G

No. 0, per gross.......................26
No. 1, per gross.......................ao
No. 9, per gross...................... 40
No. 8. per gross.......................66

W O O D E H W A R I 

B askets

Bushels ...................................1  10
Bushels, wide  baud..............1  26
M arket..................................   36
Splint, large............................... 6 00
Splint, medium......................... 5 00
Splint, sm all.............................. 4 00
willow Clothes,  large...........8 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6  60 
Willow clothes,  small.......... 6 00

B ra d le y   B a tte r   B oxes

2 lb. size, i t  In case........
72
3 lh. size,  16 In case........ ...  68
5 lb. size, 12 In case........ ...  63
10 lb. size,  6 In case......... ...  60

B a tte r   P lates

No. 1 Oval, 280 in  crate... ...  40
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate... ...  46
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate..
...  50
No. 5 O val 280 In crate... ...  80

C h a ra s

Barrel, 5 gals., each......... ...2  40
Barrel,  10 gals., each....... ...2   65
Barrel,  15 gals., each....... ...2 70

C lothes  P in s

E g g  C r a te s

Bound  bead, 5 gross bo x....  so 
Bound head, cartons............  75
Humpty D am p ly.................2  25
V«. 1, complete....................   29
No. 2 complete 
18
Cork lined, 8 in......................  86
Cork lined, 0 hi......................  76
Cork lined,  10 la ....................   86
Ostar. ■  in... ~.....  
«

F aaeeto

 

 

 

M op  Sticks

Trojan spring.......................   90
Eclipse patent spring.........  86
No 1 common........................   75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12  *>. cotton mop heads.......1  26
Ideal No. 7 ............................   90

P a lls

2-hoop Standard............... ...1   60
3-hoop Standard............... ...1   65
2-wlrë,  Cable.................... ...1   60
3-wlre,  Cable.................... ...1   80
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka................. ...2   26
F ibre.......................

T o o th p icks

Hardwood........................ ...2  60
Softwood.......................... -.2  76
Banquet............................ ...1   60
Ideal.................................. ...1   60

T rap s

Mouse, wood, 2  holes...... ...  22
Mouse, wood, 4  holes......
..  45
Mouse, wood, 6  holes......
..  70
Mouse, tin, 5  holes..........
..  6b
Rat, wood...............   .......
..  80
Bat, spring........................
..  75

T a b s

20-Inch, Standard, No. 1.. ...7  OO
18-lneh, Standard, No. 2..
..6  00
16-lnoh, Standard, No. 8.. ...5  00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1........
..7  60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2........
..6  50
16-lncb, Cable,  No. 3........
..5  50
No. 1 Fibre.......................
..9  46
No. 2 Fibre.......................
.7  96
No. 8 Fibre.......................
.7  20
W ash   B oards

Bronze Globe..........................2 60
D ew ey..................................1  75
Double Acme.......................... 2 75
Single Acme......................  2  26
Double  Peerless................   3  26
Single  Peerless....................2  60
Northern Q ueen.................2  50
Double Duplex....................3  00
Good L u ck...........................2 76
Universal............................. 2  26

W in d o w   C leaners 

12  In...................................... 1  65
14  In...................................... 1  86
16 In...................................... 2  30

W ood  B o w ls

11 In. Butter..........................   76
18 In. Butter.......................... 1  10
15 In. Butter.......................... 1  76
17 In. Butter.......................... 2 78
19 In. Butter.......................... 4 25
Assorted  13-16-17..................1  76
Assorted  15-17-19  .................3 00

W R A P P IN G   P A P E R
Common Straw..................  
1*
3K
Fiber Manila, white..........  
Fiber Manila, colored....... 
4
No.  1  Manila..................... 
4
Cream  Manila...................  
3
Butcher’s Manila............... 
2 %
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20 
Wax Butter,  rolls.............   16

Y E A S T   C A K E

Magic, 3  doz..........................1  no
Sunlight, 3 doz......................1  00
Sunlight, 1*   doz........ .........   60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............1  00
Yeast Foam, 8  doz.............. 1  00
to
Yeast Foam, l *   doz............ 

F R E S H   F ISH

Per lh.

White fish...............
..10@  11
Trout.......................
..1C@  11
Black  Bass............. ...U @   12
Halibut...................
..  @  14
Ciscoes or  Herring.
Blueflsh...................
..11@  12
Live  Lobster  ........
..  @  28
yj
Boiled  Lobster.......
Cod...........................
..  @  10
Haddock.................
No. 1 Pickerel.........
..  @  8*
P ik e.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked  W hite.......
..  @  12*
Bed  Snapper..........
.  @  10
Col Blver  Salmon.. 15  @  16
Mackerel.................
..19@  20

A  

7

O YSTER S

Cans

F. H.  Counts...............
Extra  Selects.............
Selects.........................
Perfection  Standards.
Anchors.......................
Standards.....................

per  can 
36 
27 
23

H ID E S   A N D   P E L T S  

H ides

Green  No.  1...........  
Green  No.  2...........  
Cured  No.  1...........  
Cured  No. 3.............  
Calfskins .green No. 1 
Calf skins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calf skins.cured No. 2 
Steer hides 60 lbs. or over 
Cow hides 60 lbs. or over

@
@
A
@
@1
@
@1
@

Pelts

Old W ool..
Lamb........
Shearlings

No. l cake.. 
No. 2............

IO

II

45

is ned,  fine............ 
uhed,  medium... 
washed,  fine....... 

@20
@23 
it  @17
wMHhh.  19  A ' 9

C A N D IE S 
S tick   Candy

bbls.

f

Standard..................
Standard H. H .........
Standard  Twist.......
Cut Loaf....................
Jumbo. 32 lb.............
Extra H .H ...............
Boston Cream..........
Wool r — 1

M ixed Candy

Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Special..-.................
Conserve— ...............
R o ya l.......................
Ribbon....................
Broken......................
Cut Loaf....................
English Bock...........
Kindergarten..........
Bon Ton  Cream.......
French Cream.......... 
Dandy Pan...............  
Hand  Made  Cre*“«»
Premlo;cream mix

m ixed...............

i
1

F an cy—In  P a ils 

O F Horehound  Drop
Pony  Hearts............
Coco Bon Bons........
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares.......
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses.......
San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed... 
Champion Chocolate 
Eclipse Chocolates...
Quintette Choc........
Champion. Gum Dps
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours............
Imperials. 
Ital. Crean
Cream O pera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. pails.............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. cases.................
Golden Waffles........

@11
@12 
@12

F an cy—In  5 lh . B oxes

Lemon  Sours..........  
@co
Peppermint Drops.. 
@00
Chocolate  D rops.... 
@60
@86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............  
@1  01
Gum Drops............... 
@36
@ao
O. F . Licorice  Drops 
Lozenges,  plain....... 
@66
Lozenges, printed... 
@60
Imperials.................. 
@55
Mottoes.................... 
@60
Cream  Bar...............  
@55
Molasses Bar............ 
@65
Hand Slade Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt............... 
@86
String  Book................... 
Wlntergreen Berries 
F R U ITS 

@60

@¡6

F o reign   D ried  

F ig s

California«,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg, 16 lh. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes............
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes.....................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags....
D ates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Yards in oo lb. oases.
HallowL....................
lb.  cases, new.......
8aln , 801b. oases....
NUTS
W hole
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivtaa.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils,.....................
Filberts....................
Walnuts.  Grenoble«. 
Walnuts, soft shelled
Cal No. 1,  new__
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Pecans,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nats per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Coooannts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per bu — 
Shelled
Spanish  Peanuts 
..
Pecan  Halves..........
Walnut Halves........
Filbert  Meats..........
Alicante Almonds... 
Jordan  Almonds
P ean u ts
Fancy, H. P -S uns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P„  Suns
Boasted................
Choice, H. P., Jumbo 
Choice, H. P.. Jumbo

@
O  90

m
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r
18 *
5  { 1  6*
4*

¡18

9

156 116
ill
112
115
116
'll 13*
10
111
12

Q11

6*@  6*
@40
@37
S3

4 * »  5*
8  @  8*
7  @ 7*
•  • * *

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WLI  r a i  OB m   s r s s   a   l'a il  HDC  a t
obt jasLv iaaoas STANDARD  D 
CRACKERS  xnd  sweet  races 
if toto  w E   ks  as  knew  that  worn

We are  an  r de-pen ¿cc.:  taemrw 
a n d   m ü i i f a r f t H» th e   Sig n e s  f a d e  
ot  b a k e d   c a a d s  tm   t s e  m ark et.

£ .  3«  Bruce  $   € 0.

D etroit,  m id ).

Fans For
alarm UJeatber

_________________________  

___________________________ _ 
; 
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Nothing  is  more  appre­
ciated  an  a  hot day than 
a substantial  fan.  Espe­
cially s  this true of coun­
try  castomcrs  who  come 
to  town  without  provid­
ing-  themselves  wnh  this 
necessary adjona to com­
fort.  We  have  a  large 
line  of  these  goods  m 
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed and handled 
as follows:
100..... ................ $  3  00
300..................... --  4  50
300........................   5 
400........................   7 00
500________  
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15 OO

75

We can nil orders on two hours' notice,  if necessary, but don't ask ns
to fill am order on such short notice if you can avoid it.

Cradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids.

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Wkfte B ets*, i ft. «rots. 
« t e t l M T O t Ä s m  
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Bay l'îîy ; FMCNrofi Oa..  Tr i t t  

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FOOTE A  JENKS'

JAXON

H g t t ii  Orate Extracts.

Vanias 

LeteTO

l o s f a t l a t M   x as fall « .   gg 
« f iilm i M  iM fiS «  1 fi 
S '  
’ t   S a i f i t T . l   ft

Beat  grate  Xwpertri Japar 
tp o ü a f pactete.  3 S  to  the

Oast of paeting ta  m o t o   pock­
ets only fic « ore t k u  NbIa .

S O A P

Brower Soap OX  is s a te

SOC saies, targe atae 
v  oases, »arge siae. 
tft cares. s«ali sue. 
f t  eakex amali ftae.

J A X O N

S a ^ t e x __ _________ s   W
5 l e i  TO . i e f t r r i ........... 9 f t
is Sox lota. teU w etri...........9 f t

t a b u s   s a r c t s
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE

I to  ft   gross lots, 
f t  to  V   gross lots 
f t  lo tri  gra »  lots.

ftftc  I 
V ia li*  
ftftc f i  os paaei  .l 
«SSc ‘ î  os taper..! i

Lesson
S o t passi 
f t  
4 «  taper  i  ft

Lea A  PerrtB'x pints 
baa A  U n f i f i   fi p f ia  
B atteri, large.
S a lteri, assail.

1  M 
9 f t  
9 f t  
9  f t

The Otfrtaal a r i 
Gaarioe

st’s im .

P i c k   a n t  t h e   s o o c e s s ih l  -rr>^-

aaw s  at  e e t  stee  m  tee S a r te - 
A re   l i e j   s a   v i »   are  ~~rr- 
fa r ja b   5e&   or  strik­
e s   ~-ar  boats  xx  e rr  2  iow er  price, or 
are  t e t y   z ie   m e r  w ho  b r y   aa  t l x  
te e y   «rasàder  2  fair  prize  s-n-~  ttwx 
bring  rbeir  best  ahfü rie»  :—
3Erwe  rie   goods?

M I C H I G A N   T B A D E S M A X

T

A

B
Ma
»

s s .   -sul  i e   firing  a.  gisste
WÌSie 
n   i^T

rl‘r^  rr  -T»p. 

nnm r. esaH  3 n ü a t .

'S3-  KOTS :

S e v  

l a u  

—a

Cura  % ra n .

The  xx_  s u i   oc  mie  se w   a a   regi:— j 
.g r’Tig   tee  sale  a i  caex  syrus.  nùmeri 3 
w as  s g a e f   s y   te e   G overnar  à s s r n -  
| day  and  w e st  ùrm  t e n e i t e »  
—  - 
is  zs  aoShnasr
j 

-e-crinrc  i_  X s   perso®  ufeaT  rir—  : 
•or  3 3 - s   sor  sa,le.,  h a i*   a®  ite   pos-f 
sessi®®  w n   u s e  e*  us  sedL  -ut  *«2L 1 
agy  rane  syrian,  b e n   syrnp.  or  gas-! 
cose,  mtless  tee  harreL  ravik 
I
ca®.  p sà  o r  package  .cnactzmmg  te * 1 
sasipe  be  c s t s s d ;   iaranded  o r  jatbeù- 1 
n a n e:  s o r   s h a l  a ry   perso®  oScr  ,or| 
expose  fa r  sale,  bave  in  ite   posses-l 
sarai  vrixb  im eaa  io   se®  or 
zry 9
cane  s y n p   or  bees  51 rag»  se x e d   wich ] 
giocose  'sxjcss  te e   barrei.  cask  keg. 1 
cau_  paZ  or  package  coratateimg  tee 
sanse  be  risriscriy  branóec  o r  labeied 
p O a o n se   m ixm rg”  or  * C o n   sym p” 
iar  xrite  Gerite;  type  mot  iess  teax 
rÌ2r« -e3gh tes  r i   an  ir t e   sonare,  »-¡te 
tee  taame  and  p e r r o ta g e   hyweagl®

ea A   package  a   piate  Gerirne:  fct- 
ter»  noe  Ics*  teau  oase^ftiaiter  r i   a® 
ach  scnare.  Karh  and  e ver*  pack­
age  ri  syrap  eiteer  tempie  or  nteaed 
shall  bear  tee  era-—e  and  address  ri 
tee  manatfacmrer.  Soci  mtetnres or 
syraps  tesali  Isave  so  oriser  iesrixx- 
cteE  or  IS2C2  thaa  xserete  xeqrséred 
risai  represexts  or  is  tee  stame  ri  asy 
| arrióe  whach  coetaiss  a  saccharhae 
«testav«
» 4   all  hssstes  or  label*

generai  or  dEsttegsnsking  la- 
| beL  and  that  te e   generai  or  S stte- 
| grisb teg  label  ste li  be  that  principal 
and  coasp xaous  tega  c e l e   whach  ri 
is  soM.

Sec.  x   W hoevex  sitali  do  any  r i  
thè  acts  or  thiags  profeiiteed.  or  seg- 
lect  or  recnse  co  do  any  r i   tee  acts 
or  thm gs  re srireé  b y  tris  act,  o r  te 
any  w ay  violate  any  r i   tee  prorkkra* 
sha3   be  deemed  gtelty  r i   a  srtede- 
meanor  and  shall  be  punished  b y  a 
tme  so t  les  te se   tw enty-nve  doSars 
aor  m ore  tesa  o se   husdxed  doUar?. 
or  b y  im prisosm est  te  tee  county ja;I 
for  a period r i  u r i less tea» thirty nor 
m ore  th as  n isety  days.  or  b y  b ete 
saefc  fine  and 
imprisoEmest  te  tee 
di-sere®io«  r i   te e   court.

Some  lin e n   Goods  Up. 

M anntactarers  have  closed  a  rec­
ord  breaking  season  in  dress  W » t  
T he  retail  trade  is  lively  and  appears 
to   be  good  for  some  tim e  to  come. 
Some  jobbers  report  that  te  placing 
supplementary  orders  for 
they 
had  to  pay  higher  prices.  Union and 
cotton  goods  are  up  about  5  per 
cent,  for  torward  delivery.  Crashes 
and  turkey  red  cotton  damasks  have 
not  shown  any  advance.  T he  aH- 
Iteen  Barnsley 
te  heavy 
w eights  are  Snn.

crashes 

fait 

Reducing  tee  Drink  Habit. 

"T h at’s  a  great  temperance m ore 

up  te  Sandusky.”

“"Not  is  Sandusky?*
“ Y es. 

T he  brewers'  mrioo  de­
mands  20  quarts  o f  beer  a  day  for 
each  employe,  and  tee  brew ers  want 
to   cat  them  down  to  10  quarts.”

k j   are  sawn, 
with  it-  T h ey  t e g   to  it 
the  whoie 
csenpesiaaES  have  diHes 
comm unity  rp   r s   rr  at  a  b rib er  price 
than  they  «raid  sell  for  and  stiB real­
ize  a  profit.

Tfce  editor  r i   this  department  rc- 
ceired  a  letter  xrxxx  an  old  friend  in 
North  D akota  a  few  days  ago  askfirp 
where  he  ccrald  get  a fob  lot  ia  a  cer­
tain  kind  o f  goods.  Said  he  had  beets 
b arrin g  tor  it  for  some  tim e

T h e  chances  are  he  has  been  hunt­
in g  to o  long.  H e  has  been  giving 
the  bunt  so  much  attention  that  he 
has  lost  sales  which  would  have  been 
made  had  he  bough*  the  goods  in  the 
regular  way.

There  is  a  certain  te rse  fo r  trade 
lines.  W hile  tee  people 
in  certain 
are  always  w illing  to  accept  bargains 
m ost  o f the  time,  they  will  pay  a  fair 
price  when 
really  want  the 
goods  without  regard  to. jo b   lots.

they 

It  is  always  easy  to  pick  out  the 
It  is  usually 

jo b   lo t  store  in  a  town. 
the  least  prosperous  in  the  place.

T he  proprietor  w ill  take  you  into 
the  back  room  and  show  yon  a  lay 
out  which  he  bought  at  a  low  price. 
W hile  he  is  doing  that  his  competi­
tors  are  selling  gooes.

Frequently  the  "close  buyer”  

is 
nothing  m ore  than  a  putterer  H e 
eddies  aw ay  for  a  low er  price  while 
golden  selling  opportunities  .are pass­
ing  by.

Bnt  it  is  his  naure  and  he  will  go 
on  in  that  direction  to  the  end  of Ms 
career.

Nine  times  out  o f  ten  a  well  kept 
stock,  bright  clerks,  good  advertis­
ing.  good  profit,  and  a  few   good  lead-

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America amt  h z at  n s x y   mlhiuxs  te  n —   r i  usac 
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c«e ready i r t e e  araäeg

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riumrid  2 b g i  pr« e fer r.— beraaae dhe  peöpje sn a t 
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tmtang «xidaed asid caabouaaed.
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We waza tee xaxaes, ri penoc* wbo  have 
saasey mveated wx3  ressrx  coo per eene, te  dswideste* 
a  absoteseäy a s räk  te n: g  a s«re aste  sade-
We kxow we caa prore all  we ctei», if  yo*  wi S
T ie r e  is t* 3y  a to a ll  iskek ri  stock  o5 ered  for
säte, aste whess täsas a  lote, h  wr3  all  be  w:tedrawx 

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tra«  a   ax  addgkaal  protect#* ior  awestscs-  T ie r e

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have fsT y dessccatiased ocr fwopossoera.

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beiore 5  years

per»osaSy,

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We ghre as refereaces tee OM  Matkraal  bank  aste
tbe  Graste  Raptes  S a v sg s  bank.  Graste  kxp'ds,
Mich.

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Located  17 miles sstdit  Grand Rasios.  x  antes  msstass»  af  H m e t  
in die center of L egates Towcstap.  A lleg an   Gnenty.  m   dfee  best  M im ing 
country.  chords and seised near in.

General  ■«—» harsdna» stock about }i.joa  s o d n s a n a e rs   need  w »  
day.  D a d l a f  and store 20x52.  « o |   :6x3c. ail 20  feet  ingfe.  o r ih r  a i V  
3 a d r  
both, with  stone  waiL  washroom  and  mandated  10*57.  o a r   story. 
bam  18x48, wrth annex  13x17.  aS  on  stone  wail.  Feed  anil  a i   o p *  
room  18x61.  Saw mill  30x64.  Engine  zc horse  raxTSi  <m a   3Mek  bed.  s 
injector,  1  pomp,  *2  s d i   n s b a b r  bon er,  -yj does 5. in c h   a   feet  m  
arch half front.  Good wefl: jg  bbL  cfew crii tank.  iv  bbL  o r i H  
feed mill,  KeUx duplex onb miiL com  seeder.  d e w m a   s * n * i  
gm xkr, emery wheels finr saw  gmnmiin .  alow   ponat  spekamff;  a 
grind feed two days each week •: Wednesdays and  Snudlnp»«  5  »   5  :«■  
bh^  day.  One1 Ji-Incii  inserted moth saw,  ste> saw  picket a tm  *«gr info* 
i fricnon  drtw esaeatkac amt slab earners.

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Advertisements  inserted  under  this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  fo^  each 

subsequent  continuous  insertion.  No  charge  less  than  25  cents.  Cash  must  accompany  all  orders.

FOR  S A L E

in 
Thorne 
good 
or  w ithout 
Crocker  dc  W h eeler  motor.  Sell
of w heelbarrow s and tru ck s  cheap  for  cash  or  on  satisfactory 
-

typesetting  m achine 

order.  with 

r  
erms.

pharm acist. 

>A L E —A  BUSINESS  AND  BESI-

'O R
dence property combined :  also  a  sm all gen- w

ANTED  AT  ONCE—DRUG  CLERK, 
registered or registered  assistant-  J .  J.
eral stock of goods  In a  country  village;  a   good  I  V anH aaften. care  Y ore  Block  Pharm acy.  B“n
A ddress 349, 
point for business ;  no  opposition, 
349
care Michigan  Tradesm an.
«OR  SA L E-STO C K   OF  GROCERIES  AND
F  m eat  m arket  In  connection;  established
trade of 850 per day;  first .class  location;  ch*ap 
ren t;  brick store building:  stock Invoices  about 
*i.iuO:  good reasons for  selling.  A ddress  Lock
Box. 566.  Bay City.  Mich.________________375

ton  Harbor. Mich.
W ” ANTED—REG ISTERED   OR  ASSISTANT 
M  
A ddress  No.  336.  care 
Michigan Tradesm an._____________________336
SALESM EN
T P  A N TED —E X PE R IE N C E D
Iso salesm en  to  work  fa c to ry , 
on com m ission;  also salesm en  to work  factory 
! tra d e on tra c k s .  A ddress  M ichigan W heeibar- 
I  
W A N T E D —A  YOUNG  MAN  W HO  THOR- 
V>  oughly u nderstands stenography and type­
w riting  and  who  has a  fair knowledge  of  office 
work.  M ust be well recom mended, strictly tern- 
j  perate and  not afraid of  w ork.  A ddress Stenog- 

cheap.  Made of Tennessee m arble. 10 syrup 
and three  draft  tubes, all  necessary  pipes  and 
connections.  Including  ten-gallon  copper  foun­
tain:  In  good  order.  A ddress  Lock  Box  3, 
W illiams. Iowa. 

F*OK_________

A LE i row  ¿.T ru c k   C o..  Saginaw . Mich.________ J&t

rent  building  very  reason 
A ddress  F.  Redeker.  A rlington  H eights, 

FX>R  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  AND  ! rapher. care M ichigan Tradesm an 
IU.
F'O R   SALE—NEW  DRUG  STOCK  IN   BEE 

A U C T IO N E E R S   A N D   T R A D E R S

¡ALE-SO D A   FOUNTAIN  FOR

........................ * - ■ « -  

groceries;  wll

to  handle ■

-------1 

346

341

62 

:

TRADESMAN  COMPANY 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T r a d e s m a n  

I t e m i z e d   1  e d g e r s

SIZE—8  i-a x 14. 
THREE  COLUMNS.

2 Quires,  160 pa^es...
... $2  00
3  Quires, 240 pag-es___ __ j   50
4 Quires, 3J0 p a i^ s.  . ---- 3  00
5 Quires, 400 pages__ . . . .   3  50
6 Quires, 4S0 pages__ __ 4 OO

INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

care | Omaha. Neb._____________________________ 379 

-I-H E   HOOS1EK  HUSTLER.  NOTED  X K k  
1  
chandlse  A uctioneer, carries the best book  ; 
of reference of any living  m an  In  th e  business, 
j  F o r reference book and term s, address Box  478, j 
j
E. JE T E R   A  CO..  F09,  175  DEARBORN 
E
Chicago..  IU..  conduct  special  and 
! closing out sales by th eir new m ethods and guar- 
i  antee the m erchant a  profit  above  all  expenses 
j connected w ith the sale.  W rite them  for term s.

357

Ex p e r t s — H a m i l t o n , 

j o h n s t o n   a
Co-,  A uctioneers,  do  not  call  them selves 
' E xperts.”  but  they  have  th e  testim onials  to 
show th a t  they  have  closed  o u t  entirely  more 
stocks tn more states than any other  auctioneer 
firm.  They do  not  ask  you  to  sign  contract 
Now  selling  stocks  a t  H arrim an. T e n n ,  and 
H art,  Mich.  H am U trn,  Johnston  A  C o .  306 
M ain S t- G alesburg. IU-__________________348

F'E R B Y   S   WILSON  M AKE  EXCLUSIVE 

bustness of dosing out or  reducing stocks of 
m erchandise In  any  p a rt of  th e  country.  W ith 
' our new ideas and  methods  we  are m axing suc- 
| cessful sales  and  a t  a   profit.  Every  sale  per­
sonal y  conducted.  F or  term s  and  dates,  ad­
dress 1414 W abash Ave.. Chicago. 

317

B U SIN ESS  C H A N C ES.

ELD  FOB  IM M EDIA TE  5 ALE. A  LIMIT- 
ed num ber  of  shares  of  stock  tn  a  well- 
established  com pany  doing  large  and  rapidly 
increasing  business;  value  prem ises  to  double 
w ithin  six  m onths;  great  opportunity  for  in­
vestor-  A ddress a t once 510-U   M ajestic  Bldg., 
D etroit, Mich.___________________________3-3

i f   t a k e n   n o w .  b a z a a r
goods, ladles' and gents' furnishings;  small 
stock,  good  location;  m ust  s e ll,or.  account  of 
sickness.  A. E- W eaver. G rand  Ledee.  Mica  3>4

Ba r g a i n , 
t 'O R  S A L E -N E W  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY 

goods,  furnishings  and  groceries;  Invoices 
about £.000;  best little town in Lenawee county; 
m ust sell at once.  A ddress No. 3$5,  care  Miehi- 
gan Tradesm an.__________________________3S5
W A N T E D —A SECOND-HAND  CASH  CAR- 
rler in good condition w ith  four  stations. 
T t 
H eight of celling.  13 feet:  w ant the station pos
filing. w.
about 6 feet two inches down  from 
W. K re»m er. Sunfield.  Michigan.

a  
groceries  cheap;  1 
best town in  M ichigan. 
Chesanlng.  Mich.

roula  rent  brick  store; 
A ddress  Loik Box  227.

ANT ED—TO  RENT 

TORE  IN   SOME 
of 1.000 or  1.500  for  a  shoe 
bustling tow
A ddress  No. 35!. care  Michigan  Trades-

stock
m an.
1  HAVE  SOME  CITY  REALTY.  W ILL 
A 
trade  for  stock  of  general  m erchandise. 
A ddress  No  751. care Michigan  Tradesm an.  751
¿L30t>  TA K ES  B tS T   PAY IN G   GROCERY 
n?  and m eat m arket  In  D etroit;  select  trade: 
¡rood prices;  taking in 53CW cash w eekly;  cleared 
Isoo last year:  ow ner going  into  m anufacturing 
business-’  A ddress  B..  135  M ichigan  Ave.. 
Detroit.__________________________________352

located in one  of  the  best  towns  In  N orthern 

FsQR  SALE  FOR  C A S H -C IE A N   H 4RD - 

w are stock enjoying a   lucrative  patronage 
Michigan.  Town  is  tritu ta ry   to  farm ing  and 
hardwood lum ber  industries.  W ill sell  or  rent 
building  Reason  for  selling, ill  health.  Must 
ch tnge  climate.  A ddress  372.  care  Michigan 
T radesman._____________________________ 372
pOK
SALE—FIRST-CLASS  M ILLINERY 
establishm ent tn good  city  in Southw estern 
M ichigan.  O tner Industries  compel  quick  dis­
If  sold  a t  once  grand  bargain  awaits 
posal. 
purchaser.  A ddress  No.  371.  care  M ichigan 
T rad esm an ._________ 
’ W E N T Y -T H R E E  

H UN D RED   DOLLARS 
stock,  fixtures,  horse  and 
wagon  and  good  wtiL  Cash  trade.  £4A   per 
week.  Nt >ne need reply except those who  h«ve 
money  and  mean  business.  A dd-ess  No.  370. 
care  Michigan  Tradesm an. 

buys a grocery

370

371

369

this 

triOE  SALE-

mill,  engine  12x16.

FIKST-CLASS  SHINGLE 
center  crank,  am ple 
boiler room.  Perkins machine knot  saws, to lle r 
and out-off saws, cum m er, drag saw  endless  log 
chain, elevator. aU good belts  four good  shingle 
saw s,  everything 
first-el-ss.  A ddress  A .  E. 
M orehouse. Big  Rapids.  Mich. 
----- I L L S E L t   A T  A   REDUCED  PRICE  A
\ v
#7.  00  stock  of  clothing  and  m en's  fu r­
nishings.  going out of business,  cue  of  the  best 
locations  Tn  Y pstiantl: 
is  a  bargain. 
A ddress L. care Mtch‘gan T radesm an.  ___ 3S5

lors.  confectionery,  cigars  and 

F'O K   SA L E—SODA  AND IC E  CREAM   PAR- 
tobacco. 
This is  w orth  loosing  at  Reason, 
ill  health 
Address B is ¿18. St. Charles.  Mi' h._____ 367
L"OR  SA LE —NEAT.  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
x  
dry goods  and  groceries,  town  booming, 
good location, good reasons for  selling:  Invoices 
about *2.200  Lock Box 733.  Durand.  Mich.  365 
“GRAND  O PPO RTU NITY   TO  GO 
IN 
A
business  in  th e  best  city  tn  the  state, 
w here everybody m akes money.  A well paying, 
spot cash business, mainly  shoes,  m en's furn'sh- 
iugs. some dry goods,  location one  of  the  best. 
I own building  so  can  suit  you  on  lease.  Am 
to  m anufacturing 
devoting  my  entire  tim e 
Interests-  From S5..W to 56.  -.0 cash  w ith  good
s*V-irity for
fu rth -r 
e.  A.  E. 
Inf orm ation address or come and  see  n 
Poulsen. B attle Creek. Mich.
CLEAN 
BAKGXIN—A  NICE.  NEW. 
A
drug stock for sale tn  MC h 'can  F 
rull  Belt 
i. w  r..
for $1.500. In railroad  tow s.  A ddress 
care  Michigan Tradesm an 
___
1 WLLL  D1SFOSK  U 
r \x K
MY  D hU G
¿  this  mocth. D«Ydi
0 .il  tuiì'S  moti i <2..  5Dii.
t  IllOCat Í1-  LOCaI
in
.Cu-.ars
O-  375.  care  Mlv
L  KENT  AN ELK-
■ J.SE vNîel; 
. : .  feet

other  business. 
sell a t public auction  next 
b e s t: a rt of hustling city 
cash or time.  A ddress  1 
Trad-*smai_.
^ X V  P E R   Y EAR  » I I  
^   gaul new  store room 
long, plate glass front,  h 
by  electricity:  splendid  opentrg  for  dot 
shoes,  m en's  furnishings, tn  town  of  s# 
thousand inhabitants.  Rich  surrounding 
try—w ater and rail oom m unleaiioa.  not  cl-; 
c ty. hence good  local  trad e  Come  and si 
voursclf.  W ilbur  W.  H ubbard  C hester 
Md.______________________

at auction price  If 
If  at 

t \» R  SALK — A  SM ALL  STi.V K O F DR 
also fixtures.  Must he sold sow*.  A t 

juice.

tRU  it.

363

rS

J  G  . care Miebig&n Tfiaueoatau

rien  county:  good  trade:  expense«  light: 
good place for one who can talk  G erm an: reason 
for  selling,  sickness  A ddress  No.  355,  care 
M ichigan Tradesm an._____________________355

I’KIR  R E N T -L A R G E   DOUBLE  STORE  IN 

first class location in city  of  Lansing. Mich. 
Store can be  divided  if  necessary.  References j 
required.  Dver. Jenison A  B arry  Co.. Lansing, 
M ich. 
T7 0 R  SALE—51.000 G EN ERA L  STOCK  AND 
A  
*2,1X0 store and  residence,  all  for  S2.000  if 1 
taken a t once.  A ddress No  3,7. care  M ichigan  j 
Tradesm an.______________________________ 327

 

30,

’OR  R EN T—B EST  LOCATION  IN   STATE 
fo r bazar o r departm ent sto ck : sto re b ric k : 
m odern  conveniences:  tw o  floors;  very  large 
show  w indow  Box 492. HowelL M ich. 

th e  street, 

F"OR  SALE—M EAT  M ARKET  LOCATED 

lit best town In  M ichigan: population 2.000:  j 
cash  receipts  last  year £5.300;  location  best  in 
tow n;  have three years" lease;  will  sell  fixtures  j 
and  good win cheap for cash.  < ‘bject.U l health. 
Particulars  on  application.  A ddress  No.  335.1 
care M ichigan Tradesm an.________________335
T  W ILL  SELL  MV  LOT.  34 IO N IA  STREET.  j- 
•L  opposite Union  Depot,  d irt  cheap  If  ta k en ! 
st once. 
If you w ant a block  in  the  m ost  can- I 
sr-ieuous  place  on 
look  this  up. 
Edwin  Fallas.  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.  Citizens 
Phone 614.________________________________291
T 7 0 R   SALE  -   W ELL-SELECTED  DRUG
JC  stock, about  S2.0OO;  good  prescription  and  j 
farm ers' trade:established a t Bay City  iiSo;two- 
story  fram e  building,  stone  foundation,  cellar  j 
fioor cem ented.  occupied  as  a   drug  store  and 
dwelling: stock  and  building  sold  together or ! 
separate, la tte r  ch-*ap.  easy  term s,  reason, re-  j 
tiring from business-  W erner Von W althau«en,! 
¡545 Johnson St.. Bay City,  Mich. 
311 j
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has  Decease known on account of its  good  qualities.  Merchants  handle 
Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can  get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction, and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes 
It is becoming a  common  saying  that  •’Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease," so  that 
Mica  is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco­
nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
and blue tin packages.

IL LU M IN A TIN G   AND
LU B R IC A TIN G   O ILS

P E R FE C TIO N   OIL  IS  TH E  S TA N D A R D  

TH E  W O RLD   O VER

STA N D A R D   OIL  CO

The  Famous  “ Belding”   and  “ National”   1  
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Roll  Top  Refrigerators 

The above cut  represents our three apartment  roll  top quarter sawed 
white oak  swell front curved doors grocers’  refrigerator.  Handsome 
timsh. neat design, superior construction and felt-lined doors are some 
of the  features which  make them desirable.  We make  the  two  and 
four door compartment in this style and all have marble slab.  Other 
styles and  sizes.

Belding-hall  Manufacturing Co.

Factories  Belding,  Michigan

Offices  New  York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston

Our  Motto:

The  Best  in  the  Market  at  Lowest  Prices

Royal  Gas  Light  Co.

M anufacturers  of

Gas  Lighting  Systems  and  Lamps

of  every  description.

Systems  from  $ 2 0   up

W e  can  save  you  money  on  anything  in  the  L ightin g  line.

Royal Gas Light Co.. 210 E.  Kinzie St,  Chicago

