Twenty-First Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  23,  1903

Number  1057

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and  would  like  to  have  it 
B A R N   M O R E   M O N E Y , 
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that w ill  be  guaranteed  to 
earn  a  certain  dividend.
W ill pay your  money  back 
at  end  o f  year  1  you  de­
sire  it.

M artin  V.  B arker 
Battle Creek, nichigan

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We  Bay ami Sell 

Total  Issues

of

State, County, City,  School District, 

Street Railway and Gas

BONDS

Correspondence  Solicited.

NOBLE,  MOSS  &  COMPANY 

BANKERS

Union  Trust  Building, 

Detroit, M ich.

William  Connor,  Proa. 

Joooßh  8.  Hoffman9  lot Vice-Prea. 

William Aldan Smith,  Sd  Vioe-Prea.
M.  C .  H uggatt,  Sacy-Traaaurar

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE  CLOTHING 

MANUFACTURERS

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

Spring  line  of  samples  now  showing— 
also nice line of Fall and  Winter  Goods 
for immediate delivery.

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  W  w n o m n re  v m u w

Have Invested  Over  Three  Million  Dol­

lars For Our Customers in 

Three Years

Twenty-seven  companies!  W e  have  a 
portion o f each company's stock  pooled  in 
a trust for the  protection  of  stockholders, 
and in case of failure  in  any company you 
are  reimbursed  from  the  trust  fund  of  a 
successful  company.  The  stocks  are  all 
withdrawn from sale with the  exception of 
two and w e have never lost  a  dollar  for  a 
customer.
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1033 Michigan Trust Building,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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8.  Lake Superior Trade.
4 .  A round  th e  State.
5 .  G rand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  A m erica’s Suprem acy.
8.  E d itorial.
1 0.  D ry  Goods.
18.  Trade Schools.
16.  Sherm an’s  Bu m m ers.
80.  Storekeeper’s  Christm as.
86.  8hoes and B o bb ers.
88.  T h e Country Boad.
3 1 .  S in t Nlc’las B a y  In  H olland. 
3 8.  W om an’s  W orld.
3 6 .  T h e H ired G irl.
4 0.  T rav elin g  Salesm en.
4 8 .  D rugs—Chem icals.
4 3.  D rug  P rice Current.
4 4 .  G rocery P rice   Current.
46.  Special P rice C urrent.

ROBBING  CHILDHOOD.

It  seems  too  absurd  to  be  taken 
seriously,  but  about  this  time  of  the 
year  there  are  certain  fanatics  who 
are  sure  to  bob  up  with  their  annual 
protest  against  Santa  Claus  and who 
insist 
that  all  Christmas  myths 
should  be  done  away  with  and  all 
nonsense  about  hanging  up  stockings 
discouraged. 
If  you  want  to  give 
children  presents,  by  all  means  do 
so,  say  these  modern  Gradgrinds, but 
don’t  vitiate  their  moral  sense  by tell­
ing  them  falsehoods.

It  is  hard  to  imagine  a  devotion to 
facts  so  intense  that  it  can  see  any 
harm  in  a  beautiful  story  that  has 
delighted  and  enchanted  the  fancy  of 
countless  generations  of 
children, 
and  that  is  one  of  the  tenderest  and 
most  loving  memories  that  we  ever 
recall  after  we  have  grown  too  old, 
alas,  to  hang  up  our  stockings  any 
more,  and  the  fairies  that  walked 
hand  in  hand  with  us  in  childhood 
have  somehow  dropped  away  from 
us.  Every  child  who  has  never  lain 
awake  at  night  listening  for  the  pat­
ter  of  elfin  hoofs  upon  the  roof  has 
been  robbed  of  a  joy  that  nothing  in 
after  years  can  give  him.  The  man 
or  woman  who  can  not  recall  the 
thrill  of  awakening  in  the  early  dawn 
of  Christmas  morning,  the  moment 
of  blissful  anticipation 
before  the 
rush  to  the  overflowing  stockings, 
and  the  sense  of  utter  contentment 
as  every  wished  for 
treasure  was 
drawn  forth— a  very  embarrassment 
of  riches— has  missed  one  of  the  rare 
moments  of  perfect  rapture  life  has 
to  offer.

Stephenson  used  to  say  that  the

G a s

Electric  Light &Traction
EDWARD M.DEANE &C0. 

B o n d s

B a n k e r s

Second  Floor. Michigan  Tr u st  B uilding 

G r a n d   R a p id s . Michigan

finest  deed  was  the  better  for  a  bit  of 
purple,  and  who  shall  deny  that  any 
pleasure  is  not  enhanced  by  a  bit  of 
mystery.  The  thing  that  comes  to 
us  as  a  surprise  is  thrice  welcome.  It 
is  nonsense  to  pretend  that  a  child 
only  cares  for  the  thing  itself  and 
would  be  just  as  well  pleased  with a 
desired  toy,  frankly  given  by  its  pa­
rent,  as  he  would  be  with  one  that 
came  with  all  the  glamour  of  fairy 
land. 
In  the  one  case  it  comes  as a 
practical,  everyday  sort  of  thing, and 
as  the  other  with  a  subtile  aroma 
of  poetry  and  beauty  to  which  he  is 
tensely  responsive  no  matter  how  lit­
tle  he  can  describe  it.

There  is  always  a  certain  pathos 
in  thinking  how  little  it  takes 
to 
make  a  child  happy  and  how  careless 
we  are  of  it.  A  painted  toy,  a  hand­
ful  of  sweets,  a  gay  picturebook  and 
you  have  given  him  the  material  out 
of  which  to  construct  a  world  of  de­
In  such  a  little  while  we  pass 
light. 
beyond  all  that.  Our  toys  cease 
to 
please  us.  Our  doll  is  stuffed  with 
sawdust.  The  disillusioning 
comes 
soon  enough,  even  to  the  most  fortu­
nate,  and  those  who  would  rob  child­
hood  of  one  sweet  dream,  who  would 
its  sunshine  with  a  single 
darken 
doubt,  are  wicked  iconoclasts. 
In  a 
way  all  beautiful  tales  are  true  and 
no  child  ever  got  any  harm  from 
believing  in  the  gracious  myth  of  the 
jolly  old  saint,  whose  sweet  mission 
in  the  world  is  to  watch  over  little 
children  and  bring  them  happiness.

The  action  of  the  Fifth  National 
Bank  in  placing  Henry  J.  Vinkemul- 
der  on  the  directorate  is  a  deserved 
recognition  of  the  progressive  busi­
ness  element  among  young  men 
which  is  rapidly  forging  its  way  to 
the  front.  Mr.  Vinkemulder  was  not 
hampered  by  a  plethora  of  capital 
when  he  embarked  in  business  on  his 
own  account,  about 
twenty  years 
ago,  and  the  friends  he  has  made 
and  the  success  he  has  achieved  and 
the  position  he  has  won  for  himself 
in  the  commerical 
life  of  the  city 
all  testify  to  the  fact  that  he  has 
been  faithful  to  his  trust,  that  he  has 
lived  up  to  his  opportunities  and 
is 
now  reaping  the  reward  and  the  rec­
ognition  which  ultimately  come  to 
the  man  who  wins.

The  boll  weevil,  to  whose  ravages 
is  attributed  the  shortage  in  the  cot­
ton  crop,  can  jump  twenty  yards,  ac­
cording  to  the  entomologists.  The 
boll  weevil  clearly  outclasses 
the 
grasshopper  and  appears  to  be  as 
elusive  as  the  flea,  else  before  now 
somebody  would  have  claimed  the 
Government’s  offer  of  $50,000  for its 
extermination.

The  Michigan  Tradesman  extends 
to  its  patrons  and  friends  a  Merry 
Christmas.

GENERAL  TRADE  REVIEW .
The  approaching  new  year 

is 
doubtlessly  responsible  for  the  dul- 
ness  which  has  characterized  stock 
market  trading  the  past  few  days. 
There  has  been  no  tendency  to  reac­
tion  in  prices,  but  the  volume  of 
transactions  is  smaller  than  for  some 
time  past.  This  is  not  strange  as 
the  approach  of  annual  settlements 
with  questions  of  dividends  is 
so 
near  that  it  is  natural  that  the  public 
should  wait  the  outcome.  Then  the 
interest  in  holiday  trade  is  too  en­
grossing  to  give  much  chance  for 
speculative  matters.  Money 
rates 
are  easier  as  the  year  approaches  its 
close,  contrary  to  the  usual  condi­
tions  at  this  season.

that 

their 

Taking  the  country  over  holiday 
trade  is  very  large.  Some  dealers 
complain 
expectations 
have  been  disappointed,  but  this  only 
signifies  that  the  ratio  of  increase 
was  too  great  to  be  fully  maintained. 
Preparations  have  been  on  the  most 
extensive  scale  and  new  enterprises 
have  come  into  the  field  right  and 
left,  and  it  is  not  strange  that  some 
here  and  there  should  find  a  limit 
to  demand.  In  spite  of  any  conserva­
tism  on  account  of  the  readjustment 
of  stock  and  • industrial  prices  the 
people  have  money  as  never  before 
and  they  are  buying  both  necessaries 
and  luxuries  with  a  freedom  which 
will  make  the  reason’s  record  a  very 
In  many  cases  lines  have 
high  one. 
required  unexpected 
replenishment. 
The  steady  cold  of  the  winter  has 
put  the  heavy  clothing  trade 
into 
excellent  shape.

A  gratifying  indication  as  to 

the 
industrial  situation  is  the  general ac­
ceptance  of  wage  reductions  without 
strikes  or  disturbances.  This  is  doubt­
less  partly  explained  by  the  fact  that 
many  enterprises  would  welcome  a 
shut  down  and  so  the  operatives  are 
glad  to  keep  busy  even  at  a  reduc­
It  is  to  be  remembered  that 
tion. 
with  the  reduction  from  10  to 
17 
per  cent,  in  many  cases  the  wages 
are  still  higher  than  for  many  years 
past  except  during  the  undue  stimu­
lation  of  the  tremendous  demand  of 
the  past  two  years. 
Iron  and  steel 
trades  are  accepting  the  new  basis 
with  excellent  feeling.  Textiles  are 
still  suffering  from  the  effects  of  er­
ratic  prices  of  raw  material.  Boots 
and  shoes  are  still  making  new  rec­
ords  and  the  utmost  confidence  is 
manifested 
future  of  the 
trade.

the 

for 

King  Edward’s  excellent  health  at 
the  present  time  is  attributed  to  elec­
tric  light  baths  which  he  regularly 
takes.  There  is  said  to  be  an  apart­
in  which 
ment  at  Windsor  Castle 
are 
lamps  which 
radiate  any  color  desired  and  which 
permeate  the  body  with  a  •  sort  of 
Turkish  bath  effect.

fifty-two  electric 

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

L A K E   SUPERIOR  TRADE. 

Why  It  Goes  to  Chicago  and  Minne­

W r itte n   fo r   th e   T ra d esm a n .

apolis.

The  commerical  situation  in  regard 
to  the  relations  existing  between the 
Upper  and  Lower  Peninsulas.  of 
Michigan  is  one  that  has  furnished  a 
subject  for  considerable  discussion | 
among  wholesalers  during  the 
few | 
months 
just  past.  The  discussion 
started  in  Detroit  and  was  taken  up 
by  several 
leading  newspapers  of 
Upper  and  Lower  Michigan.  Several 
Detroit  business  men  stated  in  inter­
views  that  they  believed  the  reason 
the  merchants  of  the  Upper  Peninsula 
do  not  patronize  the  houses  of  the 
lower  part  of  the  State  more  is  on 
account  of  the  existing  state  of  affairs 
in  politics.  One  gentleman  ventur­
ed  the  opinion  that  if  the  Upper  Pen­
insula  were  allowed  to  name  the Gov­
ernor  it  would  result  in  closer  rela­
tions  and  at  once  stimulate  trade  be­
tween  the  two  districts.

in 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the 
wholesale  houses  of  Chicago,  St.  Paul 
and  Minneapolis  are  reaping  a  rich 
harvest  from  the  trade  they  are  get­
ting 
the  Northern  counties  of 
Michigan,  but  it  does  not  seem  to 
be  the  result  of  any  political  feeling 
as  far  as  can  be  learned.  Other  in­
fluences  have  been  brought  to  bear 
in  taking  from  Detroit,  Grand  Rap­
ids  and  other  wholesale  centers  the 
trade  that  one  would  naturally  ex­
pect  to  go  to  them  from  this,  one 
of  the  richest  sections  of  their State. 
What  may  be  the  reasons,  then,  that  | 
have  been 
in  bringing 
about  this  state  of  affairs?  Why  do 
the  merchants  of  the  Upper  Peninsu­
la  do  the  greater  part  of  their  buying 
in  Illinois  and  Minnesota?

influential 

The  man  who  studies  the  question  j 
finds  a  good  deal  that  merits  consid­
eration.  Not  long  ago  I  interviewed 
a  business  man  on  this  very  sub­
ject.  This  gentleman  was  connected 
with  one  of  the  leading  concerns  of 
the  Lake  Superior  country  for  many 
years,  and  is  therefore  in  a  position 
to  discuss  such  a  question  with  a  con­
siderable  degree  of  intelligence. 
I 
asked  him  why  it  was  that  these  ci­
ties  had  come  to  almost  monopolize 
the  business  of  this  part  of  the  State?
“Well,”  he  said,  “there  are  a  good 
many  reasons  why  the  condition 
is 
favorable  to  these  concerns. 
I  came 
to  this  country  from  Detroit  and, 
naturally,  everything  being  equal, 
I 
would  rather  have bought  goods  from 
firms  in  my  own  State. 
In  the  ear­
lier  days  of  the  country,  as  near  as 
I  can  remember,  the  trade  was  divid­
ed  more  evenly  that  at  the  present 
time,  but  the  merchants  of the  Windy 
City  looked  over  this  territory  and 
discovered  that  if  they  could  get  its 
entire  business  they  would 
in  the 
end  possess  something  like  a  small 
gold  mine.  But  they were  confronted 
by  a  serious  problem.  The  shipping 
facilities  were  bad,  so  it  was  difficult 
to  get  goods  into  this  country  on 
time.  The  first  thing  to  do,  then, 
was  to  improve  transportation  condi­
It  was  a  big  job,  but  they 
tions. 
tackled  it  with  a  vim 
that  soon 
brought  results.  Boat  lines  were  es­
tablished  and  an  army  of  traveling 
men 
invaded  our  territory.  Those

fellows  were  hustlers,  and  although 
we  were 
loath  to  take  our  trade 
away  from  the  old  wholesale  houses, 
the  Chicago  men  cut  under 
their 
prices  about  5  per  cent,  and  agreed 
to  get  the  goods  here  several  days 
ahead  of  the  dealers  in  other  cities. 
That  was  quite  a  consideration,  so 
we  gave  in.

"But  I  am  doubtful  regarding  the 
profits  they  made  in  those  days. 
In 
order  to  get  boats  to  run  on  this 
route  regularly  and  stop  at  the  small­
er  towns  along  the  lake  it  was  neces­
sary  to  practically  subsidize  them by 
paying  extra  heavy 
transportation 
charges.  But 
it  brought  business 
and  the  vessel  owners  soon  saw  that 
money  was  to  be  made  in  this  part 
of  the  country  and  more  boats  en­
tered  the  lists.  Soon  freight  rates 
came  down  and  Chicago  had  scored 
a  triumph.

advantage.  The  Chicago  boats  are 
old  timers,  so  old,  in  fact,  that  marine 
men  speak  of  them  as  “old  tubs,” but 
they  do  lots  of  business  and  make 
money.  The  boats 
from 
Buffalo  to •  Duluth  are  much  more 
large 
modern,  but  they  receive  a 
share  of  their 
from  points 
farther  east  than  Detroit.

running 

trade 

appearances 

From  present 

the 
dealers  of  Lower  Michigan  are  let­
ting  their  Northern  business  go  by 
default.  They  make  no  effort  to land 
anything.  As  an  illustration  let  us 
take  the  following:  The  manager of 
the  grocery  department  of  the  larg­
est  department  store  in  the  Upper 
Peninsula  wrote  to  two  Detroit  deal­
ers  last  fall  asking  for  prices  on 
fruits,  etc.  One  of  these  dealers  nev­
er 
communication, 
while  the  other  replied  that  it  was 
too  far  to  ship  the  goods;  that  they

answered 

the 

tion.  They  cater  to  the  Minnesota 
wholesalers  and  thus  secure  a  big 
business.  They  also  catered  to  the 
Minnesota  State  Fair  last  fall,  so that 
the  Michigan  fairs  received  but  a  lim­
ited  patronage  from  this  part  of  the 
State.  But  it  is  probable  that  if  the 
|  roads  of  the  Lower  Peninsula  were 
to  do  something  in  the  way  of  giv­
ing  better  train  service  to  the  North 
things  would  be  different.  All  ex­
press  for  this  country  goes  by  way 
of  Chicago,  so  it  will  be  seen  that 
Lower  Peninsula  business  men would 
do  well  to  get  a  move  on  and  bring 
about  a  few  reforms  in  the  way  of 
transportation  on  land.

In  one  particular  Detroit  stands at 
a  disadvantage  as  far  as  Sault  Ste. 
Marie  is  concerned  from  the  fact that 
several  of  the  newspapers  of 
that 
city  have  made  it  a  point  in  the  past 
few  months  to  belittle  the  future  of 
the  Lock  City.  As  a  result  of  sever­
al  attacks,  which  Soo  business  men 
consider  vicious  and  uncalled  for,  a 
slight  irritation  has  arisen  that  has 
not  tended  to  increase  the  business 
between  the  two  towns.  This,  with­
out  doubt,  will  wear  off  in  time.  At 
any event,  Lower  Michigan  could gain 
a  considerable  trade  were  she  to  in-' 
stitute  a  vigorous  campaign  in 
the 
northern  part  of  the  State. 
It  is  a 
plum  that  is  as  valuable  for  one  sec­
tion  as  another.

Raymond  H.  Merrill.

Theory  vs.  Facts.

“Drinking  and  smoking,”  said  the 
no  longer  young  female  to  the  man 
toward  whom  her  attentions  were di­
rected,  “are  not  only  sinful,  but  fool­
ish. 
I  read  only  the  other  day  in 
one  of  the  papers  about  a  boy  who 
saved  cigarette  labels  to 
secure  a 
shotgun,  and  when  he  got  the  gun  he 
was  too  nervous  to  use  it.  Now,  was­
n’t  that  foolish?  How  much  better 
it  would  have  been  if  that  boy  had 
saved  his  money.”

“If  you  didn’t  smoke  or  drink,”  she 
continued,  “but  saved  the  money,  you 
would  be  able  to  buy  that  automobile 
on  the  corner  with  what  you  have 
squandered.”

“Do  you  smoke?”  asked  the  man 

whose  temperament  was  laconic. 

“What!  Me  smoke!  Me!  Why— 
“Drink?”  continued  the  man. 
“Gracious  goodness!  How  insult­

ing  to— ”

“I  meant  no  insult,  but  where  is 

your  automobile?”

The  missionary  said  he  was  a  hard­
ened  sinner  and  wasn’t  open  to .rea­
son.  But  the  hardened  sinner  smil­
ed  and  walked  over  to  the  automo­
bile,  lighted  a  cigar,  bowed,  and  rode 
away.  He  owned  the  vehicle.
Took  in  the  Situation.

“John,  here  are  your  slippers.” 
“Thank  you.”
“And  your  smoking  jacket.”
“How  good  you  are!”
“And  your  pipe  and  tobacco.” 
“That’s  kind!”
“And  now  sit  down  and  let  me  rub 
your  head— for  I  know  you’re  tired—  
poor  fellow!”

And  then  he  looked  enquiringly at 

her  and  said:

“Mollie,  let’s  be  perfectly  candid 
with  each  other.  What  kind  of  a 
Christmas  present  do  you  want?”

“The  building  of  railroads  through 
this  section  made  it  possible  for  St. 
Paul  and  Minneapolis  dealers  to  put 
goods  in  here  in  a  hurry,  with  the 
result  that  these  three  cities  now  get 
the  big  end  of  the  business. 
It  is 
the  Western  spirit  of  enterprise  that 
is  doing  it.  There  is  no  politics  in 
it  at  all. 
I  can  see  no  reason  why 
Lower  Michigan  dealers  should  not 
get  a  greater  portion  of  this  business, 
providing,  of  course,  that  they  hustle 
for  it.”

Chicago  is  not  so  near  the  Upper 
Peninsula  by  water  as  Detroit,  and 
the  latter  city  has  a  far  better  class 
of  boats  running  through  to  Duluth, 
so  it  is  evident  that  the  Wolverine 
metropolis  should  get  more  business 
here  than  she  does.  Eight  months 
in  the  year  a  majority  of  Upper  Pen­
insula  towns  can  be  reached  by  boat, 
so  that  Chicago  does  not  have  any

would  perish.  This  manager,  who, 
by  the  way,  is  a  very  liberal  and 
shrewd  buyer,  told  me  soon  after 
this  correspondence  had  taken  place 
that  fruit  from  Chicago  comes  in 
good  shape,  and  Chicago  is  just  as 
far,  if  not  farther,  away.  He  also 
said  that  he  had  yet  to  find  a  Chica­
go  dealer  who  was  not  willing  to 
take  the  risk  and  send  goods.  But 
as  a  general  thing  the  Lower  Penin­
sula  gets  more  trade  on  such  stuff 
than  in  other  lines.

Another  thing  that  has  exerted  an 
influence  has  been  the  attitude  of the 
railroads.  The  Soo  line  makes  an 
effort  to  promote  business  between 
the  Twin  Cities  and  the  Upper  Pen­
insula,  and  as  these  people  control 
the  transportation  business  here,  be­
ing  owners  also  of  the  South  Shore 
and  the  Canadian  Pacific,  they  have 
much  to  do  with  the  business  situa­

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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Mocha and Java blend.

It is selected by Coffee  experts; blended and 
roasted in the most scientific manner and placed 
on the market at the  lowest  possible  price.  All 
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Movements  of  Merchants. 

Greenville— D.  L.  Hyde  has  re-en­

gaged  in  the  grocery  business.

Port  Huron— Joseph  Stanzell  will 
open  a  meat  market  on  Huron  ave­
nue.

Edmore— R.  M.  Miller  has  sold his 
dry  goods  and  clothing  stocks  to  Ed. 
A.  Rundell.

Alpena— Wm.  Gavagan  has  opened 
a  grocery  store  and  meat  market  at 
300  Fourth  street.

Ishpeming— After  the  first  of  the 
year  the  title  of  the  Ishpeming  Beef 
Co.  will  be  changed  to  Swift  &  Co.

East  Jordan— E.  E.  Shelters  has 
added  a  line  of  groceries  to  his  bak­
ery, 
confectionery 
business.

restaurant  and 

South  Boardman— Ernest  C.  S tic k ­
ler  has  purchased  of  the  Hainstock 
Co.  the  furniture  business,  which  he 
will  give  his  personal  attention.

Harbor  Springs— E.  Shay  &  Son 
have  put  snow  plows  on  their  engines 
on  the  “ Hemlock  Central”  and  will 
keep  the  line  open  all  winter  without 
difficulty.

Kalkaska— At  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Swaverly  Telephone  Co., held 
Dec.  15,  it  was  decided  to  pay  an  8 
per  cent,  dividend  during  1904—2  per 
cent,  quarterly.

Pellston—Joseph  Winters  has sold 
his  meat  market  to  Gus  Winters,  who 
has  been  for several  years  in  the  meat 
market  of  W.  J.  Clarke  &  Son,  at 
Harbor  Springs.

Hart— C.  A.  Lester  and  George  B. 
Turner  have  sold  the  business  of  the 
Turner  Grocery  Co.  to  A.  T.  Cooper 
&  Co.,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Detroit— Clarence  A.  Barlow,  late 
of  Gladwin,  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Detroit,  being  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Herrmann 
&  Barlow,  372  Brooklyn  avenue.

Lansing—The  Star  grocery  at  m  
Michigan  avenue  will  have  a  branch 
store  at  the  corner  of  Logan  and 
Williams  streets,  having  purchased 
the  Carl  Cady  stock,  located  at  that 
place.

Alma—W.  L.  Scranton  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock 
to  E.  J. 
Smith,  who has  had  twenty-two years 
experience  in  the  grocery  business, 
eight  years  in  Hillsdale  and  fourteen 
in  Jackson.

Portland— W.  H.  Stone  has  sold his 
drug,  book  and  wall  paper  stock  to 
W.  D.  Crane,  who  has  been  a  clerk 
in  the  store  for  twenty-three  years, 
the  transfer  to  take  place  Jan.  10. 
Mr.  Stone  will  remove  to  Allegan.

Muskegon—The  Rodgers 

Bros. 
Cutlery  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $3,000,  of  which 
$1,500  has  been  subscribed  and  paid 
in  by  Lincoln  Rodgers,  John  Rodgers 
and  C.  A.  Goldsborough,  each  of 
whom  contributed  $500.

Traverse  City— Charles  Rosenthal 
of  the  Boston  store  has  decided  to 
discontinue  the  Racket  store.  The 
lease  of  the  building  expires 
in  a 
short  time  and  cannot  be  renewed,

and  it  is  expected  to  have  the  ma­
chinery 
everything 
ready  for  operation  by  January  1.

installed 

and 

Pontiac— Oliver  J.  Beaudett  &  Co., 
manufacturers  of  carriage  woodwork, 
have  merged  their  business  into  a 
stock  company  under  the  style  of  the
O.  J.  Beaudett  Co.  The  capital  stock 
is $90,000,  of which  $60,000 is  common 
and  $30,000  preferred. 
Oliver  J. 
Beaudett  holds  $48,500  of  the  total 
capital  stock.

Lansing— The  Ludlow  &  Robson 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $5,000,  of  which  $3,000  is 
subscribed  and  paid  in  in  cash,  to 
engage  in  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  flavoring  extracts,  druggists’  spec­
ialties  and  notions.  The  shares  are 
equally divided between  D.  D.  Ludlow 
and  H.  L.  Robson  and  their  wives.
Manistee— R.  G.  Peters  is  negotiat­
ing  a  deal  for  the  sale  to  the  Stearns 
Lumber  Co.,  of  Ludington,  of  15,000 
acres  of hardwood  timber  land in Kal­
kaska  county,  the  price  being  $35  an 
acre.  Mr.  Peters  bought  the 
land 
eight  years  ago  for  $4  an  acre,  but 
hardwood  timber  has  appreciated  in 
price  wonderfully  in  the  last  decade. 
The  tract  is  estimated  to  contain  138,- 
000,000  feet.

Sturgis— The  Wallick  Manufactur­
ing  Co.,  manufacturer 
of  door 
screens,  has  merged  its  business  into 
a  corporation  under  the  same  style 
and  will  add  the  manufacture  of  re­
frigerators.  The  capital  stock  is  $20,- 
000,  one-half  of  which  has  been  sub­
scribed  by  four  persons,  as  follows: 
Geo.  W.  Wallick,  $6,500;  A.  S.  Wal­

lick,  $1,800;  R.  Wallick,  $1,200;  E. 
Wallick,  $500.

Channing— The  National Hardwood 
Co.,  which  was  planning  on  erecting 
a  cordwood  mill  at  Sawyer  Lake, 
three  miles  north  of  this  place,  has 
changed  its  plans  owing  to  the  delay 
of  the  railroad  in  providing  facilities 
and  will  build  at  Granite  Bluff  in­
stead.  A  section  of  timber  has  been 
purchased  in  that  vicinity.  A  camp 
with  a  crew'  of  sixty  men  has  been 
established  at  Sawyer  Lake.

Big  Rapids— The  National  Wagon 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $20,000,  of  which  $15,000 
is  subscribed  and  paid  in  in  property 
and  cash,  to  engage  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  wagons,  carts  and 
sleighs. 
There  are  four  stockholders,  as  fol­
lows:  Harry  T.  Morgan,  Cadillac, 
$5,000;  Chas.  F.  Kaishner,  Big  Rap­
ids,  $5,000;  A.  L.  Harlow,  Lansing, 
$2,500;  W.  B.  Roe,  Lansing,  $2,500.

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

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  Lld

W iddicomh  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
D etroit  Opera  House  B lock,  Detroit
Good  but  '  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

letters. 

Vege-Meato Sells

People 
Like  It 
Want  It
Buy  It 

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The selling qualities of a  food  preparation  is 
If a  food  sells  it  pays 

what interests  the dealer. 
to handle it.

You  can  order a  supply  of  Vege-Meato  and 
rest  assured  that it  will  be  sold  promptly at  a good 
profit.  Send for samples  and  introductory  prices.

Am erican  Vegetable  M eat  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

as  Mrs.  Germaine  expects  to  build  a 
brick  block  there  next  spring.

Mason— Fred  Purdy, 

the  well- 
known  hardware  dealer,  is  seriously 
ill  with  a  malignant  fjorm  of  diph­
theria  and  little  hopes  are  entertained 
for  his  recovery.  The  doctors  were 
forced  to  insert  a  silver  tube  in  his 
throat  Monday  in  order 
that  he 
should  not  choke  to  death.

Fremont— The  C.  E.  Pearson  gen­
eral  stock  has  been  purchased  by  W. 
W.  Pearson  for  $17,506.  The  pur­
chaser  will  continue  the  business  in 
Fremont,  but  this  deal  will  in  no  way 
affect  the  status  or  management  of 
his  Newaygo  store,  which  will  be  con­
tinued  the  same  as  heretofore.

Belding— DeCoster  Bros.,  who  re­
cently  sold  their  grocery  stock  to 
Chas.  M.  Eddy  for  $650,  claim  that 
they  owe  about  $2,000  and  are  offer­
ing  to  compromise  with  their  credit­
ors  at  from  10  to  25  cents  on  the  dol­
lar.  Several  of  the  creditors  are  put­
ting  their  claims  into  judgments.

Detroit— Te  Weaver  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  of  Chicago,  which  has  had  an 
office 
in  the  Majestic  building  for 
several  years,  will  close  the  Detroit 
branch  Jan.  1.  W.  H.  Jones,  the  lo­
cal  sales  agent  of  the  company,  will 
go  to  Toledo,  where  the  selling  de­
partment  of  the  company  is  to  be 
located.

Detroit—Petition  has  been  filed  in 
the  United  States  District  Court  by 
Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  A.  Krolik  & 
Co.  and  B.  Howard  Lawson,  trustee, 
to  have  Samuel  Cohen,  dry  goods 
merchant  at  269  Gratiot  avenue  and 
311  Hastings  street,  adjudicated  a 
bankrupt.  Alleged  creditors’  claims 
amount  to  about  $8,000.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Greenville— The  Ranney  Refrigera­
tor  Co.  has  bought  the  John  Tuger 
timber,  eight miles  north  of St.  Louis, 
and  will  lumber  it  off  this  winter.

Zeeland— The  Wolverine  Specialty 
Co.  is  erecting  a 
factory  building, 
60x106  feet  in  dimensions,  which  will 
be  ready  for  occupancy  in  about  two 
months.

East  Jordan— Waterman  &  Price 
are  putting  up  an  addition  to  their 
woodworking  plant  and  will  double 
their  present  output.  They  are  install­
ing  a  new  boiler  and  engine.

Lakewood— The  Lakewood  Lum­
ber  Co.  is  comtemplating  the  removal 
of  its  plant  to  Cheboygan.  The  com­
pany  owns  an  extensive 
tract  of 
hardwood  timber  in  the  vicinity  of 
Lakewood.

Ithaca— Armour  &  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
are  getting  their  plant  in  shape  for 
turning  out  tubs,  and  it  is  expected 
the  Michigan 
factory  will  make 
yearly  150,000  wooden-hooped  tubs 
and  400,000  iron-hooped  tubs.

Detroit— The  McGregor  Automatic 
Boiler  Food  Co.  has  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  an  automatic  boiler 
feeder  and  other  mechanical  devices. 
The  authorized  capital  stock  is  $50,- 
000,  which  is  held  by  N.  F.  Road­
house,  with  the  exception  of 
four 
shares.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  Soo  Shirt 
Co.  has  been  organized  by  local  men 
to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of 
shirts,  collars,  underwear  and  similar 
goods.  A  location  has  been  leased

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Grand  Rapids

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— W.  H.  Edgar  &  Son  sum­
marize  the  situation  as  follows:  The 
week  under  review  has  been  marked 
by  the  settlement  of  the  Cuban  re­
ciprocity  measure,  which  will  become 
operative  on  December  27 and  insures 
a  normal  sugar  market  in  the  near 
future.  The  effect  of  the  reduction 
on  Cuban  sugar  is  said  to  have  been 
“discounted.”  We  consider  the  sales 
made  prior  to  the  passage  of  the  bill 
as  “speculative.”  There  is  nothing  in 
the  bill  itself  to  reduce  the  price  of 
sugar  in  this  country  one  mill. 
If 
Cuba  can  obtain  as  has  been  done  on 
the  sales  referred  to,  two-thirds  of 
the  differential,  they  can  obtain  the 
full  benefit  and  it  is  not  now  possible 
to  make  additional  purchases  of  Cu­
ban  sugar  on  the  basis  of  recent  tran­
sactions.  Centrifugals  are 
salable 
to-day  at  2  5-32C  cost  and 
freight, 
January  shipment  from  Cuba,  or  say 
3^c  new  duty  paid.  Spot  sugars  are 
salable  at  3$ic,  a  difference  of  %c 
per  pound.  A  movement  upward  to 
the  present  duty  paid  basis  rather 
than  a  decline  in  spot  sugar  to  the 
cost  and  freight  Cuba  basis  is  prob­
able  and  this  accomplished,  Cuba  will 
be  obtaining  the  full  benefit  of  the 
20  per  cent,  differential.  There  has 
been  no  change  in  quotations  during 
the  week,  the  refined  market  having 
ruled  with  good  demand  and  we  think 
we  can  see  a  growing  interest  in 
It  is  intimated  that  the  next 
sugar. 
change  when 
it  occurs  will  be  to 
higher  prices  and  we  believe  it.

Coffee—The  past  week has witness­
ed  a  decline  of  2j4c  on  Rio  grades, 
but  the  market  subsequently  rallied 
and  regained  40  points,  making  the 
price  2c  above 
the  August  basis. 
There  was  no  reason  for  the  decline 
except  that  the  advance  had  been 
too  rapid.  The  syndicate  which  had 
pushed  values  up  themselves  desert­
ed  it  and  a  collapse  was  the  result. 
The  American  market  is  still  much 
above  Europe.  Mild  coffees  held  to 
their  advance,  notwithstanding 
the 
decline  in  Brazils,  washed  coffees  be­
ing  an  even  cent  higher.  Javas  are 
firm,  but  unchanged.

Tea— The  primary  markets  are 
quiet  now  and  will  remain  so  until 
after  the  first  of  the  year.  No  large 
lots  will  change  hands  before  prob­
ably  the  fifteenth  of January.  Jobbers’ 
stocks  are  large  enough  to  take  care 
of  all  demands  and  the  trade  moves 
along  very  smoothly.

Canned  Goods— Tomatoes 

and
corn  are  rather  neglected.  The  for­
mer  are  unchanged  in  price.  Balti­
more  is  still  strong  as  regards  them 
and  it  looks  as  if  the  bottom  for  the 
year  had  been 
touched  and  any 
changes  from  now  on  would  be  in 
an  upward  direction.  The  impression 
is  growing  that  the  pack  this  year 
was  not  such  a  large  one  after  all 
and  before  the  new  crop  is  marketed 
there  may  be  a  shortage  of  good 
stock.  The  same  quiet  reports  come 
from  California,  where  everyone  is 
waiting  the  turn  of  the  year  before

loading  upon  anything.  The  jobbers’ 
stocks  of  salmon  are  not  at  all  large 
and  they  will  probably  be  compelled 
to  buy  soon.  They  have  been  hold­
ing  off  in  anticipation  of  lower  prices, 
but  so  far  the  waiting  has  not  done 
them  much  good.

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  are  without 
change.  Peaches  are  in  good  de­
mand,  Muirs  being  scarce  on  spot. 
The  market  is  unchanged,  however. 
Currants  are  in  good  demand,  though 
easier  by  %c  than  in  October,  when 
new  currants  commenced  to  arrive. 
Seeded  raisins  are  very  dull,  as  they 
have  been  during  the  whole  season. 
Prices  are  unchanged.  Loose  raisins 
are  also  dull,  and  prices  are  greatly 
demoralized.

Syrups  and  Molasses—The  glucose 
market  is  unchanged. 
Compound 
syrup  is  in  slightly  improved  demand 
at  unchanged  prices.  Sugar  syrup  is 
quiet  and  unchanged.  New  Orleans 
molasses,  speaking  especially  of  the 
fancy  grades,  is  growing  higher,  and 
the  assortments  are  poor.  Short  crop 
and  scarcity  of  good  grades  are  the 
causes.

Fish— There  is  practically  nothing 
doing  in  the  fish  market  and  will 
not  be  until  after  the  holidays  are 
well  over.  Mackerel  of  all  grades 
are  unchanged  and  quiet.  Cod,  hake 
and  haddock  are  a  fraction  higher, 
both  in  primary  and  secondary  mar­
kets,  but  nobody  is  buying  any.  Sar­
dines  are  extremely  dull  at  unchang­
ed  prices.  Salmon  is  dull,  with  many 
buyers  expecting  a  decline 
red 
Alaska  after  the  first  of 
the  year. 
Lake  fish  is  scarce  and  high.

in 

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.
The  strength  of  the  hide  market 
previously reported  is well  maintained 
and  a  slight  advance  have  been  ob­
tained  on  the  price  of  a  few  articles 
to  supply  immediate  wants.  Tanners 
decline  following  the  prices  asked for 
future  delivery.  Present  holdings  are 
small,  with  light  receipts  and  with 
previous  accepted  orders  to  fill.  Deal­
ers  decline  future  sales  unless  at  an 
advance  to  induce  shipments.

Sheep  pelts  are  in  good  demand 
at  strong  prices.  There  is  no  accum­
ulation  and  small  receipts.

Tallow  is  active,  with  firm  prices. 
There  is  a  small  surplus  of  edible 
with  other  grades 
freely. 
Greases  are  well  sold  up.

selling 

Wools  are  only  quotable 

from 
larger  markets,  principally  Eastern. 
They  are  held  at  firm  prices  and  no 
weak  spots.  Sales  are  of  good  vol­
ume  in  small  lots.  Wm.  T.  Hess.

Everett  E.  Wooley,  formerly  a  resi­
dent  of  Grand  Rapids  but  now  lo­
cated  in  Cleveland,  has  purchased  a 
58  acre 
farm  on  Grand  Traverse 
Peninsula,  fronting  West  Bay,  and 
will  plat  it  into  resort  lots  another 
season.  The  farm  is  located  about 
six  miles  northeast  of  Traverse  City.

J.  H.  Moore,  dealer  in  pine  timber 
lands,  Ellisville,  Miss.:  Enclosed find 
$1  for  renewal  of  my  subscription to 
the  Tradesman.  While  I  am  not  at 
present  engaged  in  business  in 
the 
line  of  the  Tradesman,  I  enjoy  read­
ing  it  each  week,  and  feel  that  I  get 
lots  of  good  pointers  from  it.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Local  dealers  hold  their 

stocks  at  $2(0)2.75  per  bbl.

Bananas— Good 

stock, 
$i.25@2.25  per  bunch.  Extra  Jumbos, 
$2.25  per  bunch.

shipping 

Beets— 50c  per  bu.
Cabbage— Strong  at  75c  per  doz.
Celery— Steady  at  25c  per  bunch.
Cranberries— Cape  Cods  and  Jer­
seys  are  steady  at  $8  per  bbl.  and 
$2.75  per  bu.

Game— Live  pigeons,  so@6oc  per 

doz.  Drawn  rabbits,  $1  per  doz.

Grapes— Malagas  have  declined  to 
Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  9@ 

$4.25  per  keg.
ioc  and  white  clover  at  I2@ i3c.

Lemons— Messinas  and  Californias 

fetch  $3 75-

Lettuce-----Hot  house 

leaf  stock

fetches  12c  per  lb.

Maple  Syrup— $1  per  gal.  for  pure 

and  75c  per  gal.  for  imitation.

Onions—Have  advanced  in  price to 

75c  per  bu.  for  either  red  or  yellow.

Oranges— Floridas  and  California 

Navels,  $3@3-25.

Parsley— 35c  per  doz.  bunches 

for 

Pop  Corn— 90c  for  old  and  so@6oc 

hot  house.

for  new.

Poultry— Receipts  are  quite  liberal, 
but  hardly  up  to  the  yolume  of  previ­
ous  years.  Turkeys  are, running  lar­
ger  in  size,  showing  active  feeding 
during  the  past  month.  Spring  chick­
ens,  11(0)12^20;  fowls,  9@ioc;  No.  1 
turkeys,  I5@i7c;  No.  2  turkeys,  n c; 
ducks,  I 2 @ i 3c ;   geese,  i o @ i i c .

Pumpkin— $1  per  doz.
Squash— i*4 c  Per  tb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes— Jerseys  are  steady 

at  $4.25  per  bu.

Butter— Factory  creamery  is  low 
er,  ranging  from  24c  for  choice  to 
Receipts  of  dairy 
25c  for  fancy. 
grades  continue 
large,  due  to  the 
fact  that  all  the  old  held  and  packed 
butter  is  now  coming  out  of  hiding 
for  the  high  prices  which  now  pre­
vail.  Local  dealers  hold  the  price  at 
13c  for  packing  stock,  16c  for  cho-ce 
and  18c  for  fancy.  Renovated,  igJA@ 
20c.

Eggs— The  market  is  higher  and 
stronger  than  a  week  ago  and  evi­
dently  the  end  is  not  yet.  Local  deal­
ers  hold  candled  at  29@30c,  case 
count  at  27@28c  and  cold  storage  at 
26@27c.

Manufacturing  Matters.

5

Co.,  and  for  a  time  the  delusion  that 
it  was  going  to  locate  here  was  cher­
ished.  However,  the  financial  prob­
lems  incident  to  the  floatation  of  the 
enterprise  could  not  be  solved  to  the 
satisfaction  of  both  the  Adventists 
and  the  Marquette  men  who  consent­
ed  to  become  interested  in  the  enter­
prise,  and  this  difference  resulted  in 
the  withdrawal  of  all  local  subscrip­
tions.  Then  the  Adventists  moved 
on  Menominee.  No  confidence  was 
felt  here  that  they  would  really  estab­
lish  an  industry,  but  this  they  seem 
to  have  accomplished,  sufficient  cap­
ital  having  been  pledged  at  Menomi­
nee  to  warrant  the  removal  of  the 
headquarters  to  that  city.  The  pro­
ex­
moters  of  the  company  have 
panded  their  first  project  for 
the 
manufacture  of  health  foods  to  in­
clude  the  production  of  talcum  pow­
der,  brushes  and  brooms  and  it  is 
said  that  they  have  other  things  up 
their  sleeves.  The  brush  and  broom 
and  talcum  factories  are  now  being 
operated  and  it  is  expected  to  have 
the  health  food  plant  ready  for  a 
start  by  the  first  of  the  year.  The 
company  has  found  it  necessary  to 
change  its  name,  by  dropping 
the 
word  “Health,”  as  a 
rival  concern 
claimed  an  infringement.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Coldwater— Gus.  Pitcher  has 

re­
signed  his  position  as  clerk  with  Mil­
ler  &  Howard  and  is  preparing  to 
move  to  Riverside.  111.,  a  suburb  of 
Chicago.  Mr.  Pitcher  has  been  con­
nected  with 
in 
trade 
Coldwater  for  twenty-two  years.

the  grocery 

Hart— S.  D.  Young  has  taken  the 
position  of  manager  of  the  new  gro­
cery  firm  of  A.  T.  Cooper  &  Co.  Mr. 
Young  has  had  many  years  experi­
ence  in  the  business.

Port  Huron— W.  A.  Knox,  of  De­
troit,  will  take 
charge  of  Foster 
Bros.’  clothing  department  after  Jan­
uary  1.

Sunfield— E.  D.  Bera,  who  has  been 
I  in  the  employ  of  W.  B.  Bera  for  the 
past  seven  years,  has  engaged  with 
C.  E.  Huhn,  of  Saranac,  for  the  com­
ing  year.

The  C.  B.  Hibbard  Manufacturing 
j  Co.  has  transferred  its  interest  in  the 
Yankee  Rapid  nutmeg  grater  to  the 
Grand  Rapids  Grater  Co.,  composed 
of  C.  B.  Hibbard  and  James  E.  Hard­
man.  The  new  company  will  manu­
facture  the  grater  at  87  Campau 
street.  The  Hibbard  Manufacturing 
Co.  will  continue  the  manufacture of 
wagonmakers’  tools  at  270  South 
Front  street.

Kalamazoo— The  Ihling-Cone  Fur­
niture  Co.,  Ltd.,  has  changed  to  a 
corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Ihling-Cone  Furniture  Co.  The  capi­
tal  stock  is  $25,000,  of  which  $22,600 
is  paid  in  by  three  persons— Carl  W.
Ihling,  1,910  shares;  C.  B.  Cone,  250 
shares;  Jacob  Van  Holde,  100  shares.
Marshall— The  Hardy  Food  Co..
Ltd.,  has  been  organized  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of $11,000,  divided  into  1,100 
$10  shares,  which  are  held  as  follows:
F.  A.  Stuart,  610;  Isaac  Bisbee,  60;
Colon  F.  Hardy,  300;  Winthrope 
Phelps,  100;  Fred  I.  Colegrove,  10;
Louis  C.  Miller,  10;  Chas.  O.  Miller,
10.  The  officers  of  the  company  are j 
Louis  C.  Miller,  Chairman;  F.  I.  Cole- 
grove.  Secretary;  W.  T.  Phelps, J  rdndeer  outfit. 
Treasurer.

The  ambition  of  some  people  ap­
pears  to  know  no  bounds.  Not  con­
tent  with  the  fame  Kate  Nobles  has 
won  in  the  manufacture  of  chewing 
gum  and  fruit  juices,  she  now  comes 
out  as  a  concocter  of  mince  meat.  It 
is  now  in  order  for  the  Michigan 
Central  Railway  to  lay  a  special track 
from  Niles  to  Chicago  to  carry  the 
output  of  the  factory.

Santa  Claus  won’t  have  to  walk  on 
his  rounds  this  year.  Conditions will 
be 
just  right  for  him  to  use  his

Marquette-—This  city  is  the  birth- I

Some  rules  work  both  ways  and
place  of  the  Triumph  Health  Food  some  others  won’t  work  either  way.

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AM ERICA’S  SUPREM ACY

Will  Be  Due  to  America's  Superior 

Education.
Written  for  the  Tradesman.

Long  before  the  publishing  of  the 
President’s  Thanksgiving  proclama­
tion  the  people  of  the  United  States 
were  rejoicing  over  the  substantial 
proofs  of  “seedtime  and  harvest,  sun­
shine  and  rain,”  that  were  every­
where  brimming  barrels  and  bins. 
Enough  to  eat  and  to  drink  had  been 
poured  forth  by  the  bountiful  earth 
and  another  year  of  general  prosper­
ity  had  been  added  to  the  long  list 
of  prosperous  years  of  the  Republic. 
Since  the  digestion  of  the  National 
feast the  reflective mind  has  been  con­
templating  the  country’s  rapid  strides 
in  certain  lines  and  has  reached  the 
conclusion  that  the  most  impressive 
of  the  social  features  of  the  present 
season  is  the  growth  of  education 
to  be  everywhere  observed.  From 
college  to  common  school  the  im­
mense application  of pupils  for admis­
sion  shows  the  craving  for  instruc­
tion  and  the  vast  and  increasing  be­
lief  that  the  man  in  the  future  who 
is  to  get  and  keep  the  influential 
places  in  the  domain*  of  American 
citizenship  must  be  the  man  who  can 
carry  with  him  into  those  places  the 
best  preparation  that  the  best  train­
ing  can  furnish.

It  has  been  pleasing  to  note  that 
this  thought  has  not  been  confined 
to  a  narrow  field.  The  various  edu­
cational  functions  of  this  season  have 
received  the  attention  and  the  attend­
ance  of the  Nation’s  most  distinguish­
ed  men.  At  the  installation  of  the 
President  of  the  College  of  the  City 
of  New  York  and  the  laying  of  the 
corner  stone  of  a  new  building  of 
that  college  the  occasion  was  con­
sidered  of  sufficient  importance  for 
a  letter  from 
the  president  of  the 
United  States,  and  addresses  were 
made  by  Governor  Odell,  ex-Presi- 
dent  Cleveland,  a  United  States  sen­
ator  and other  prominent men in  pub­
lic  life,  the  letter  and  the  addresses 
agreeing  in  the  concession  to  educa­
tion  as  the  chief  factor  in  produc­
ing  the  skill  which  has  laid  the foun­
dation  of  America’s  power.

While  this  concession  from  such 
unquestioned  authority  is  most  grati­
fying,  that  gratification  is  intensified 
by  the  important  fact  that  it  is  not 
confined  there.  The  colleges  are  wid­
ening  their  influence. 
Increasing in 
number  they  are  becoming  more  and 
more  a  part  of  the  public  system 
and  as  an  inevitable  consequence the 
graduate  of  the  common  school  by 
easy  gradation  is  passed  onward  and 
upward  until  the  door  of  the  state 
university  is  crowded  by 
students 
craving  for  the  instruction  which  a 
few  years  from  now  will  add  greatly 
to  that  citizenship  which  has  laid the 
foundation  of  American  authority.

No  little  surprise  has  been  from 
time  to  time  expressed  at  this  crowd­
ing  of  young  men,  in  this  practical 
age,  into  the  institutions  of  learning. 
It  is  the  old  New  England  story  re­
told.  At  first  it  was  the  college-bred 
man’s  son  that,  as  a  matter  of  course, 
went  to  college.  Then  the  quick­
witted  farm-boy  with  the  spirit  of 
the  Mayflower  within  him  could  see

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

no  reason  why  he,  too,  should  not  I 
have  a  share  in  the  delights  of  learn­
ing and, with  the  determination,  hand­
ed  down  from  the  battle  of  Naseby, 
he 
laid  down  his  hoe  and  scythe, 
knocked  boldly  upon  the  door  of  the 
college,  worked  and  starved  his  four 
years  there  without 
flinching  and, 
with  his  hard-earned  diploma  as  his 
passport,  went  out  into  the  world  to 
win  or  to  lose  in  proportion  as  he 
could  turn  to  practical  account  what 
his  common  sense  told  him  the  diplo­
ma  stood  for.  He  realized  his  ideal. 
He  made  his  learning practical.  With­
out  boasting  of  it,  with  it  he  added 
efficiency  and  a  certain  undefinable 
grace  to  his  work,  two  very  impor­
tant  qualities  entering  largely  into 
the  foundation  of  American  suprem­
acy  which  makes  this  Nation  to-day 
the  leading  influence  of  the  world.

and  of  American  Christian  citizen­
ship.

The  result  of  this  crowding  into 
the  school  and  the  college  is  grati­
fying  in  the  extreme.  Continued,  as 
it  will  be  continued,  the  future  of 
this  country  as  a  factor  in  civilization 
is  assured.  More  than  ever  will  the 
the 
destinies  of  the  Republic  rest  in 
hands  of  her  educated  men  in 
the 
broadest sense, a sense which includes 
the  Franklins,  the  Clays  and  the  Lin­
colns  amoung  its  greatest  and  best. 
Through  the  influence  of  these  men 
the  Republic  will  take  no  backward 
steps. 
Its  world  will  widen  and  be­
come  better. 
include  all 
classes  and  in  the  future,  as  never 
before,  will  be  found  the  farm-boy, 
and  the  farm  he  has  left  and  gone 
back  to  will  exert  agaip  its  influence 
of  the  olden  time,  an  influence,  be

It  will 

R.  M.  Streeter

immigrant, 

This  fact  of  early  New  England; 
transplanted  to  the  West  by  the  New 
England 
is  reproducing 
there  the  old  result.  The  farm-boy 
has  decided  to  come  into  his  own. 
When  the  mortgage  is  paid  off,  he 
is  going  to  go  up  higher.  The  farm 
has  taken  care  of  him  and  by  and  by 
he  is  going  to  take  care  of  the  farm. 
So  he  and  the  army  of  which  he  is 
one,  like  his  New  England  ancestor, 
knock  upon  the  university  door  with 
no  uncertain  sound,  pass  in  and,  with­
out  the  old-time  starving,  are  secur­
ing  on  a  grander  scale  those  priceless 
treasures  which  will  add  efficiency 
and  grace  to  the 
independence  of 
farm-life,  the  ideal  life  to  live  since 
the  establishing  of  Eden,  and  the  life 
which  is  to  make  this  country  more 
and  more  the  ideal  of  American  man­
hood,  and  so  of  Christian  manhood,

it  remembered,  which  will  continue 
to  be  regarded  as  entering  largely 
into  that  foundation  fact  which,  bas­
ed  upon  education,  will  continue  to 
be  the  leading  element  of  American 
supremacy. 

R.  M.  Streeter.

The  Glut  of  “Bankrupt  Stocks.”
Complaints  from  retail  merchants 
on  the  number  of  bankrupt  stocks 
offered  for  sale  in  Western  towns 
this  fall  are  more  numerous  than 
usual  and  exceedingly  bitter.  Prices 
have been  demoralized  in  many towns 
and  a  good  share  of  the 
trade 
lost  to  many  merchants  through  the 
hunger  of  their  customers  for  shoddy 
goods  at  shoddy  prices.

fall 

It  is  natural  that  with  this  should 
come  a  demand  from  the  regular  and 
legitimate  merchant  for  a  law  limit­
ing  the  opportunities  of  these  bank­
rupt  stock  peddlers.  They  complain

that  they  are  taxed  to  support  the 
community  and  the  State,  and  in  re­
turn  should  be  protected.

It  is  certain  that  the  regular  mer­
chant  is  entitled  to  some  measure of 
protection.  He  furnishes  the  com­
munity  with  credit  during  the  long 
summer  when  it  has  no  money.  He 
furnishes  the  farmer  with  a  market 
for  his  produce.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  heavily  taxed  men 
town. 
Why,  then,  should  he  not  be  protect- 
against  the  transient  merchant  who 
comes  to  the  town  for  sixty  days’ 
stay  and  sells  the  people  deceiving 
merchandise  which  lost  most  of  its 
merit  at  least  six  years  before?

in 

This  is  a  question  which 

every 
community  should  answer  for  itself 
if the  State  neglects  it.  It  is just  that 
the  transient  merchant  should  pay 
a  license,  the  amount  to  be  regulated 
by  ordinance, 
for  every  week  or 
month  he  does  business  in  the  town. 
If  he  enjoys  the  advantages  which 
other  men’s  efforts  have  created  in 
a  community  he  should  pay  some­
thing  for  it.  Such  an  ordinance  cuts 
down  the  number  of  irresponsible 
trancients  materially.

How Fires May  Start.

spontaneously. 

Damp  lampblack  will  ignite  from 
the  sun’s  rays.  The  same  can  be 
said  of  cotton  waste  moist  with  lard 
or  other  animal  oil.  Lampblack  and 
a  little  oil  or  water  will  under  cer­
tain  conditions  ignite  spontaneously. 
Nitric  acid  and  charcoal  create  spon­
taneous  combustion.  New  printer’s 
ink  on  paper  when  in  contact  with 
a  steam  pipe  will  ignite  quickly.  Boil­
ed  linseed  oil  and  turpentine  in  equal 
parts  on  cotton  waste  will  ignite  in 
a  few  hours  under  a  mild  heat  and 
will  in  time  create  enough  heat  to 
ignite 
Bituminous 
coal  should  not  be  stored  where  it 
will  come  in  contact  with  wood  parti­
tions  or  columns  or  against  warm 
boiler  settings  or  steam  pipes.  This 
coal  should  not  be  very  deep  if  it  is 
to  be  kept  on  storage  for  a  long 
period. 
If  piled  in  the  basement  of 
a  building  it  should  be  shallow  and 
free  from  moisture  and  under  good 
to  absorb 
ventilation.  That  liable 
moisture  should  be  burned  first. 
If 
on  fire,  a  small  quantity  of  water 
showered  on  this  kind  of  coal  cokes 
it  and  retards  any  great  supply  of 
water  reaching  the  fire,  thus  neces­
sitating  the  overhauling  of  the  pile. 
trimmings 
Iron  chips, 
should  not  be 
in  wooden 
boxes.  The  oily  waste  which  is  not 
infrequently  thrown 
them 
adds  to  the  danger  of  fire  from  this 
source.  The  sweepings  from  the  ma­
chine  shop,  if  kept  on  hand,  should 
never  be  placed  over  iron  shavings. 
This  mass  of  disintegrated  iron  is 
enough  to  incite  heat  and  combus­
tion. 
Iron  and  steel  filings  and turn­
ings  when  mixed  with  oil  will  ignite 
spontaneously  after  becoming  damp. 
A  steam  pipe  against  wood  will  cause 
the  latter  to  ignite  spontaneously  af­
ter  being  carbonized.— Cassier’s  Mag­
azine.

filings  or 

among 

stored 

Few  men  are  so  superstitious  that 
they  would  refuse  to  borrow  $13  on 
Friday.

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CH RISTIAN  CIVILIZATIO N .
The  event  which 

the  Christmas 
anniversary  is  intended  to  celebrate, 
when  viewed  without  regard  to  its 
religious  significance,  but 
a 
purely  worldly  and  practical  stand­
point,  was  the  most  important  non­
physical  occurrence  in  the  history  of 
man.

from 

the  social 

The  human  population  of our  globe, 
from  its  beginning,  has  always  had 
some  sort  of  religion  which  was  sup­
posed  to  benefit  the  people  morally 
and  to  elevate  them  to  a  higher  plane. 
A  survey  of 
conditions 
throughout  the world shows that those 
nations  which 
celebrate  Christmas 
possess  the  highest  civilization,  the 
most  beneficial  institutions,  the  pur­
est  system  of  morality,  and  the  most 
enlightened  social  and  political condi­
tions.  These  are  facts  which  are too 
manifest  to  be  questioned.

It  is  not  contended  for  a  moment 
that  the  nations  that  compose  the 
Christian  world  are  made  up  of  peo­
ple  who  live  up  to  the  requirements 
of  their  civilization  and  enlighten­
ment,  and  that  there  are  no  good  and 
enlightened  people  in  countries where 
other  religions  prevail.  Far  from an­
nouncing  any  such  proposition, 
it 
must  be  owned  that  there  is  no  out­
rage  upon  morality,  upon  human 
right,  upon  civilization,  and  upon 
honor  and  justice  that  has  not  been 
committed  by  people  and  govern­
ments  of  Christian 
countries;  but, 
nevertheless,  there  have  been  enough 
in  every  age  to  maintain  the  high 
standards  of  living,  and  not  only 
to 
preserve  society 
falling  into 
complete  disregard  of  truth,  justice 
and  righteousness,  but  even  to  make 
progress.

from 

And  therefore  it  is  that  the  na­
tions  which  celebrate  the  anniversary 
of  the  birth  of  Christ,  at  the  vast 
distance  in  time  of nearly  twenty cen­
turies  from  the  sacred  occasion  itself, 
stand  at  the  head  of  the  human  race, 
and  in  the  forefront  of  progress  and 
social honor and  enlightenment.  This 
shows  that  there  is  some  innate  pow­
er  or  energy,  in  the  religion  which 
Jesus  Christ  formulated  and  delivered 
to mankind,  to  raise  them  to  the high­
est  plane  of  living  of  which  humanity 
is  capable.

Probably  there  is  no  evidence  of 
this  elevating and  beneficent  influence 
so  strikingly  significant  as  is  seen  in 
the  magnificent  organized  charities in 
Christian  countries.  The 
asylums 
for  the  free  housing  and  care  of  the 
helpless  dependents;  the  hospitals  for

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

the  free  healing  of  the  indigent  sick 
and  wounded;  the  schools  for  the  free 
instruction  of  the  blind,  the  deaf, the 
dumb  and  the  feeble-minded,  and  for 
the  care  and  cure  of  the  insane,  are 
among  the  most  prominent  and  im­
portant  institutions,  either  public  or 
private,  and  they  are  seen  in  every 
city  and  state.  Such  vast  organized 
charities  are  unknown 
in  Buddhist 
and  Mohammedan  countries,  because 
their  systems  of  civilization  and  mor­
als  have  not  brought 
such 
fruits.

forth 

In  Christian  countries  alone  are 
human  freedom  and  rights understood 
and  recognized,  for  only  among  their 
peoples  is  liberty  regulated  by  law 
to  be  found.

Nevertheless,  the  so-called  Chris­
tian  nations,  so  far  from  boasting of 
their  superior  condition,  should  be 
filled  with  the  deepest  humiliation 
and  overwhelmed  with  shame.  So 
far  from  being  imbued  with  the  spirit 
of  peace  and  good  will  vouchsafed 
them  by  the  heavenly  hosts,  as  they 
sang  their  celestial  hymn  of  greeting 
and  beneficence  over  the  cradle  of 
the  divine  infant,  war  has  become 
the  chief  business  of  the  nations,  and 
envy,  hatred  and  malice,  and  all  un­
too 
charitableness  a  far 
common 
rule  of  individual  conduct.

A  satirical  writer  has  declared that 
if  Christ  were  to  visit,  to-day,  any 
city  in  the  chief  nations  of  Christen­
dom,  he  would  in  all  probability  be 
rejected  and  cast  out. 
It  may  be  set 
down  as  more  than  likely  that  if  he 
should  undertake  to  heal  the  sick, 
make  the  lame  to  walk,  and  the  blind 
to  see,  and  to  raise  the  dead,  in  any 
city  of  the  United  States,  he  would 
be  required  to  desist  until  he  had 
stood  an  examination  on  medicine and 
surgery,  and  paid  a  license  tax,  if 
indeed,  worse  should  not  befall.

But,  notwithstanding  the  corrupt­
ion,  the  covetousness,  the  sordid  sel­
fishness  of human  nature,  even  among 
Christian  peoples,  it  must  be  admit­
ted  that  they  are  not  wholly  bad. 
They  present  from  time  to  time  ex­
amples  of  the  noblest  uprightness 
and  honesty  amid  all  temptations;  of 
the  most  heroic  devotion  to  duty and 
principle  through  the  most  arduous 
trials;  of  the  utmost  purity  of  life, 
despite  conditions  which  require  ex­
treme 
fortitude  and  steadfastness. 
There  are  still  some  of  whom  the 
earth  is  not  worthy,  and  these  are 
they  who  keep  human  nature  up  to 
the  standard  set  by  the  Divine  Mas­
ter,  whose  descent  to  earth  to  dwell 
with  men  is  celebrated  on  Christmas. 
That  even  a  few  are  faithful  to  the 
end  makes  it  the  greatest  anniversary 
that  is  celebrated  by  men.

Boston  book  dealers  are  being fined 
for  having  in  their  possession  and 
selling  alleged  obscene 
literature. 
The  books  in  question  are  not  mod­
ern  productions,  but  ancient  editions 
that  are  considered  classics  and  are 
to  be  found  in  many  libraries  and 
private  collections.  The  book  deal­
ers  claim  that  they  are  being  malic­
iously  persecuted,  and  will  appeal 
from  the  judgment  against  them.

It  takes  more  than  a  bellows  in  the 

pulpit  to  start  a  fire  in  the  church.

CHRISTMAS  REFLECTIONS.
The  Christmas  season  is  one  which 
if  rightly  regarded  would  fill  every 
heart  with  thankfulness  and  good 
will.

But  this  must  necessarily be  impos­
sible,  unless  every  one  who  partici­
pates  in  it  shall  have  done  all  in  his 
power  to  contribute  to  the  vast  sum 
of  general  beneficence.

The  question  to  be  answered 

Christmas  Day  is  practically  the 
end  of  the  year.  All  its  work  is  done 
and  its  record  made.  The  few  days 
which  intervene  to  close  the  calendar 
can  add  very  little  to  or  take  from 
the  grand  aggregate  of  the  account.
is: 
Have  we  all  done  our  duty  to  our 
fellows,  to  our  employes,  to  our  em­
ployers?  There  have  been  many 
heart-burnings  of  every  sort  caused 
by  somebody’s  carelessness  or  mis­
deeds.  Employers  have  upon  them 
the  vast  responsibility  to  treat  those 
who  work  for  them  with  justice.  Jus­
tice  does  not  mean  taking  advantage 
of  a  man’s  necessities  which  force 
him  to  work  for  less  than  his  serv­
ices  are  worth  and  paying  promptly 
all  the  miserable  contract  calls  for. 
The  man  who  congratulates  himself 
to-day  with  having  complied  with 
the  requirements  of  such  a  bargain, 
and  therefore  with  having  done  his 
duty,  has  perpetrated  a  wicked wrong 
upon  a  needy  wretch  who  has  fallen 
into  his  power.

The  employe  who  has  collected his 
weekly  or  monthly  salary  and  con­
gratulates  himself  that  he  has  done 
as  little  as  he  could  for  the  money 
is  robbing  his  employer  and  he  re­
joices  in  the  fact.  To  what  sort  of 
Christmas  are  the  skinflint  employer 
and  the  idle  and  dishonest  employe 
entitled? 
In  all  probability  they  will 
enjoy  the  day  all  the  more  for  know­
ing  that  they  have  cheated  some­
body,  for  the  consciences  of 
such 
creatures  never  trouble  them.

But  the  employer  who  has  done 
his  best  for  the  people  who  serve  him 
is  going  to  be  made  to  suffer  from 
human  ingratitude,  and  the  honest, 
faithful  worker  who  filled  up 
the 
measure  of  his  duty  is  in  not  a  few 
cases  going  to  realize  that  his  fidel­
ity  and  devotion  count  for  no  more 
than  do  the  neglect  and  shortcom­
ings  of  the  shirker.

It  is  absolutely  impossible  for em­
ployers  and  employes  to  come  to­
gether  into  pleasant  relations  where 
the  latter  are  arranged  in  an  oath- 
bound  and  antagonistic  organization, 
because  the  trades  union  insists  on 
arbitrarily  cutting  off  all  communi­
cation  to  walking  delegates,  so  that 
it  comes  to  pass  that  the  employer 
does  not  know  who  are  his  best  men, 
most  deserving  of  considerations.

Without  douht,  nothing  so  mars 
thé  happy  influences  of  Christmas  in 
accentuating  the  regard  between cap­
ital  and  labor  as  the  reflection  that 
the  most  faithful  and  devoted  serv­
ices  are  not  appreciated,  and  that in 
the  scale  of  favor,  the  shirker  and the 
least  capable  weigh  as  much  as  the 
best.  This  is  an  evil  that  can  never 
be  remedied  so  long  as  the  chasm 
between  employer  and  employe,  the 
great  pillars  upon  which 
rest  all 
wealth  and  progress,  is  being  contin-

ually  widened.  This  threatens 
to go 
on until  the  grand  fabric of prosperity 
and  production  shall  fall  to  ruin  by 
the  fatal  separation  of  the  two  nec­
essary  supports.

As  for  the  poor,  many  of  them  will 
have the  Christmas  anniversary cheer­
ed  and  brightened  by  the  bounty  of 
the  benevolent  and 
the  work  of 
charity.  The  truest  charity  is  to  en­
able  those  who  are  capable  to  help 
themselves. 
they  preserve 
their  self-respect  and  honest  inde­
pendence.

In  this 

To  too  many  the  day  will  be  a 
season  of  debauchery,  evil-doing and 
degradation.  But  this  is  inevitable 
in  a  community  made  up  of  all  sorts, 
good  and  bad.  Nevertheless,  the  an­
gels  of  Bethlehem  proclaimed  peace 
and  good  will  toward  men.  There  is 
good  in  it  for  all  if  we  but  take  the 
trouble  to  secure  it.  That  each  and 
every  one  may  get  out  of  the  day 
all  the  benefits  it  can  confer  is  the 
sincerest  wish  of 
the  Michigan 
Tradesman.

The  latest  official  statement  is  to 
the  effect  that  there  are  6,674,237  de­
the 
positors  in  the  savings  banks  of 
United  States.  That  is  a 
goodly 
proportion  of  the  estimated  70,000,000 
population.  These  figures  by  no 
means  denote  the  total  number  of 
people  who  have  money  in  the  bank, 
as  the  saying  goes.  There  surely 
must  be  more  than  as  many  more 
who  keep  accounts 
in  commercial 
banks  and  who  seek  to  make  and 
save  money  every  year.  The  savings 
banks  are  designed  for  the  so-called 
small  depositor,  the  man  or  woman 
who 
lays  aside  some  part  of  the 
week’s  wages  against  the  proverbial 
rainy  day.  The  report  declares  that 
the  average  deposit  in  the  savings 
banks  at  the  present  is  $421.84.  This 
would  indicate  that  the  Americans 
are  not  only  a  provident,  but  a  pros­
perous  people.  The  money  must first 
be  made  before  it  can  be  saved.  Cer­
tainly  that  is  a  very  good  showing 
and  one  that  is  encouraging.

The  modern  American  treatment 
for  typhoid  fever  involves  cold  baths 
for  the  patient,  the  object  being  to 
reduce  the  temperature. 
It  has  in 
many  cases  been  exceedingly  success­
ful. 
It  is  interesting  to  observe  in 
this  connection  that  some  eminent 
London  physicians  are 
advocating 
and  using  hot  water  baths  for  the 
same  purposes. 
In  England  of  late 
a  patient  with  a  temperature  of  104 
or  105,  for  example,  is  placed  in  a 
bath  where  the  water  is  kept  at  a 
temperature  of  101,  and  for  this  sys­
tem  good  results  are  claimed.  Here 
is  another  of  the  innumerable  cases 
where  the  question  that 
inevitably 
suggests  itself  is,  “When  the  doctors 
disagree  who  shall  decide?”

In  response  to  the  appeals  of  mer­
chants  and  others,  it  is  reported  that 
the  Schenectady  police  will  attempt 
to  stop  the  practice  of  begging  con­
tributions  for  fairs  held  under 
the 
auspices  of  churches  and  other  or­
ganizations.  There  is  no  doubt  that 
the  practice  has  developed  into  a  nui­
sance  in  many  cities.  The  result  of 
the  Schenectady  movement  will  be 
observed  with  general  interest.

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Polish M fg.  Co.

(Incorporated)
M anufacturers o f

Combination Rubbing  Polish,  Piano  and 
Furniture  Polishes  and  Cleaners, Hatt's 
“Special”  (a  finish),  Brass  and  Metal 
Polishes,  Machine  and  Bicycle  Oils, 
Odorless Floor Oils,  Stains of  All  Kinds, 
Colors and  Dyestuffs.

VARNISH  REMOVIR

Guaranteed.

If you want  a  First-Class  Varnish  in  all  forms, 

mail ns your order for anything in our line. 

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1 4 ?  Canal  S t.,  Grand  Rapids

A  Roof  Without  a  Leak

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W olverine Ready  Roofing

Put  up  in  rolls  already  to  lay.

Easy  to  handle. 

Sold  through  the  dealer.

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G O B L E   B R O TH ER S
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Leaded,  O rn a m e n ta l  Glass  and  Mirrors.

Paints,  Oils,  Varnishes 

and  Brushes.

Ask  For Patton’s Sun  Proof Mixed  Paints.

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THE  BEST  PUMP  CANS  ON  THE  MARKET

“Home  Rule”

Oil  and  Gasoline  Can

SAFE,  CLEAN,  NEAT  AND  CONVENIENT 

Has a strong, hinged  cover  over  entire top, and is 
absolutely rain, dirt and evaporation tight.  Has a 
large  sized  Steady  Stream  Pump,  which  is  re­
movable from the can in case of  obstruction dr for 
repairs, is in every way strong, durable  and  prac­
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or Gasoline.

NEEDED  BY  EVERY  FAMILY  USING  OIL

“Climax”
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IS  MADE  IN  FIVE  GALLON  SIZE  ONLY

The Hinged Cover  protects  the  entire  top,  pre­
venting Rain or dirt from entering the  can.  Has 
a Steady Stream Pump which  is  removable  from 
the ran in case of obstruction  or  for  repairs, and 
the discharge tube is arranged so it can be  turned 
to the outside for filling  high  lamps, and all waste 
returns to  the  can.

NO  EQUAL  ON  THE  MARKET  AT  THE  PRICE

Manufactured by

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For Sale by

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Professionals  and  Amateurs  the  world  over.
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The Old  Reliable 

Harrison Wagons

They have many points of superiority and excellence.  A catalogue 
will explain these and  a  postal card request will  get  you  the  very 
closest prices.  Write us.

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Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

Staple  Cottons— By  far  the  larger 
number  of  buyers  are  waiting 
for 
some  definite  announcement  of  prices 
on  lines  which  they  are  ready  to  buy. 
There  is  absolutely  no  sign  of  spec­
ulation  in  spite  of  the  talk  a  week 
ago  in  regard  to  it. 
It  is  probable 
that  those  who  consider  this  at  ali 
find  after  looking  into  the  matter  that 
prices  were  a  little  too  stiff  to  war­
rant  it.  Buyers  are  placing  orders 
for  what  they  actually  need  at  the 
time  being or  on  which  they  can  fore­
cast  further  requirements.

in 

Ginghams— The  weekly  business on 
general 
lines  of  ginghams  is  quiet 
at  the  present.  The  advance  trade is 
practically  over  on  first  orders  and 
duplicates  are  not  coming  in  very 
freely  as  yet.  There  are  some  re­
ceived,  to  be  sure,  but  buyers  are 
generally  waiting  before  adding  to 
the  purchases  they  have  made  on 
the  present  basis.  One  factor,  which 
is  favorable  to  the  situation,  is  the 
small  size  of  the  stocks;  no  surplus 
is  to  be  heard  of  in  any  direction 
except  possibly 
lines  of  staple 
ginghams,  which  in  some  cases  have 
not  sold  as  well  as  might  be  wished.
Dress  Goods— The  throw  of  spring 
dress  goods orders  reported  by  agents 
during  the  past  week  has  not  been 
conspicuous  by  its  size,  but  it  has 
carried  encouragement  to  sellers.  It 
suggests  to  them  a  satisfactory  sup­
plementary  demand  in  time  to  come. 
The  mills  in  most  instances  are  well- 
conditioned  as  to  orders,  although, of 
course,  certain  lines  have  not  won 
the  approval  from  buyers  that' had 
been  hoped 
for.  The  season  has 
been  marked  by  the  usual  successes 
and  disappointments,  but  the  latter 
have  not  been  sufficiently  numerous 
to  awaken  widespread  complaint  and 
doubt;  the  fact  that  certain  manufac­
turers  have  met  with  more  or  less 
pronounced  failure 
certain  of 
their  lines  has  not  always  stood  in 
the  way  of  their  getting  a  considera­
b le   volume  of  business  in  hand  on 
certain  sheer  fabrics.  A  quick  change 
from  a  poor  selling  proposition 
to 
something  more  to  the  liking  of  the 
trade  has  saved  the  day  for  more 
than  one  manufacturer.  Diversified 
output  has  been  the  secret  of  suc­
cess  of  many  mills,  the  successes  of 
certain  lines  making  good  the  weak­
ness  of  others.

in 

Underwear— The  underwear  mar­
ket  is  now  rapidly  developing.  Prac­
tically  all  lines  are  being  shown  on 
the  road  by  representatives  of  the 
mills  and  the  season  is  now  under 
full  swing. 
It  is  a  little  early  yet 
to  receive  returns  that  would  indi­
cate  with  any  degree  of  accuracy  the 
actual  business  being  transacted,  yet 
there  is  enough to show good evidence 
of  success.  There  are  plenty  of 
promises  to  give  encouragement 
to 
those  who  stay  at  headquarters  and 
take  care  of  business  as  it  arrives. 
Speaking  of  headquarters,  the  New 
York  market  looks  very much  desert­
ed.  There  is  scarcely  any  one  to

!  be  seen,  except  those  who  are  actual- 
|  ly  obliged  to  stay  at  home  and  hold 
|  down  the  chairs.  In  spite  of  the  an- 
I  xiety  expressed  by  buyers  a  few : 
weeks  ago  to  see  the  lines,  just  b e-! 
fore  the  men  really  started,  the  mills | 
were  told  that  the  buyers  were  in  j 
no  mood  to  entertain  the  subject  of I 
a  new  line  of  underwear,  feeling  that j 
there  was  too  much  uncertainty  in  j 
regard  to  prices.  Nevertheless  this \ 
does  not  seem  to  be  actually  the  case | 
for  good  trading  is  promised  in  all j 
parts  of  the  country  and  from  evi­
dence  that  we  can  gather  it  seems 
that  New  York  and  its  close  vicinity ! 
is  in  a  more  depressed  state  from  a j 
business  point  of view  than  any  other! 
part  of  the  country. 
In  the  West 
they  all  sfem  prosperous;  they  don’t j 
know  what  Wall  Street  is. 
In  the j 
South  the  high  prices  that  the  plant- i 
ers  are  getting  for  cotton  keep  things 
in  good  shape.  The  only  drawback j 
require j 
is  that  the 
fewer  hands  for  gathering.  The  plant- i 
er,  however,  is  doing  very  well.  Of | 
course  the  men  who  went  on  the j 
road  expect  to  find  much  opposition j 
to  the  higher  prices  that  are  neces- j 
sary,  but  it  is  very  likely  that  by  this i 
time  the  buyers  understand  that ad- i 
vances  are  absolutely  necessary  and ; 
are  no  more  but,  on  the  contrary,j 
usually  less  than  the  controlling  con- ! 
ditions  would  seem  to  demand.

smaller  crops 

Hosiery— The  majority  of  new  fall i 
lines  of  the  hosiery  market  are  now ! 
on  the  road,  and  are  securing  a  rea- \ 
sonable  amount  of  business  even  al- j 
though  buyers  are 
somewhat,

still 

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is  a   good  w ay  to draw  good 
trade— and  to hold  it.

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P A P E R  and T W I N E

If  your  bundles  are  untidy, 
cheapiooking and insecure your 
business will suffer,  particularly 
w ith women.

O u r wrapping  paper  is  much 
better than an y other at the same 
price— stronger,  wraps  better.

T h e  colors are  bright  and  at­
tractive— M o ttled   Red,  Pin k , 
Blue  and  Faw n Color.

It’s   thin  enough  to fold easily 
and quickly and makes the neat­
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S o   very  tough  that  it  stands 
a   whole  lot of handling  without 
breaking through.

Suppose  we send you samples 

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conservative  in  regard  to  the  future. 
The  mild  early  fall,  comparatively 
speaking,  has  undoubtedly  been  the 
cause  of  slow  business  in  wool  and 
fleeced  hosiery at  second  hands.  Both 
retailers  and jobbers  have  complained 
that  they  will  be  compelled  to  carry 
over  considerable  quantities,  yet  the 
number  of  duplicate  orders  received 
would  seem  to  show  that  the  situa­
tion  is  not  as  bad  as  they  try  to 
make it  out.

Carpets— Jobbers  report  trade  good 
in  nearly  all  lines  of  carpets.  Ax- 
minsters  are  a  little  slow  with  some. 
The  jobbers  complain  of  the  early 
orders  not  being  delivered  as  prompt­
ly  as  desired.  These  are  more  than 
usually  delayed  this  season.  Some 
jobbers  look  forward  to  a  good  busi­
ness  for  the  next  six  months.  After 
that  the  trade  will  be  more  or  less 
affected,  they  claim,  by  the  political 
conditions  which  always  precede  a 
presidential  canvass.  Some,  who, at 
the  opening  of  the  season,  talked 
very  pessimistically,  are  now  more 
hopeful  of  the  outlook  for  the  carpet 
business  for  the  remainder  of  the 
season-.  Tapestries  and  velvets  are 
reported  as  having  already been  quite 
well  sold  up.  This  grade  of  carpets 
continues  to  lead  in  popular 
favor. 
Each  succeeding  season  finds  an  in­
creasing  business.  The  demand  for 
Brussels  is  fair.  Ingrain  manufactur­
ers  continue  to  complain  of  the  rapid 
advance  in  the  price  of  all  kinds  of 
cotton  and  wool  yarns  used  in 
the 
manufacture  of carpets,  especially cot­
ton.  Some  manufacturers  report  the 
demand  increasing  for  wool  ingrains.
Rugs—The  demand  for  nearly  all 
grades  of  rugs  is  very  active.  Manu­
facturers  have  booked  good  orders—  
larger,  they claim,  than  usual  for 9x12 
foot  sizes.

Imported  Rugs— Are  reported 

a 
little  slow  at  this  time.  This  line 
ranges  in  price  according  to  size  and 
kind  of  rug.  The 
royal  Bokhara 
rug,  made  in  Persia,  3  feet  by  5  feet, 
sells  at  $25.  Antique  Kermanshah 
rugs  made  in  Persia  in  sizes  23  feet, 
11  inches  by  14  feet,  6  inches,  sell 
at  $1,500.  The  reason  why  they  are 
so  expensive  is  that  they  are  all  made 
by  hand  and  in  the  larger  sizes  re­
quire  five  or  more  years  to  make.
Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

Indiana  Merchants.
Albion— W.  E.  Worden 

succeeds 
L.  D.  Worden  in  the  dry  goods,  no­
tion  and  grocery  business.

Ashley— E.  D.  Spangle  has  remov­

ed  his  jewelry  stock  to  Elkhart.

Columbus— L.  A.  Jett  has  discon­

tinued  the  grocery  business.

Dugger— John  W.  Rector  has  tak­
en  a  partner  in  his  hardware  business

under  the  style  of J.  W.  Rector  &  Co
Elnora— Slimp  &  Smith  succeed  W. 

J.  Slimp  in  the  furniture  business.

Evansville— Newman  Bros.,  pork 
packers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  is  continued  by  S.  G. 
Newman.

Gadsden— A.  Stevens  has  sold  his 
general  merchandise  stock  to  C.  F. 
McManus.

Huntington— Adam  Shoemaker  has 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  G.  A. 
Shoemaker.

Indianapolis— The 

the 
American  Trousers  Co.  has  been 
changed  to  the  Indiana  Woolen  Man­
ufacturing  Co.

style  of 

Indianapolis— The  Ammonia  Soap 
Powder  Co.  has  merged  its  business 
into  a  corporation  under  the  same 
style.

Indianapolis  —   The  Hendrickson- 
Lefler  Co.,  dealer  in  hats  and  caps, 
has  dissolved  partnership.  The  busi­
ness  is  continued  under  the  style  of 
A.  P.  Hendrickson.

Indianapolis— The  style  of  the  In­
diana  Screen  &  Manufacturing  Co. 
has  been  changed  to 
Indiana 
Bank  Fixture  Manufacturing  Co.

the 

Indianapolis— The  Morris-Johnson 
Excelsior  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
changed  its  style  to  the  Morris-John- 
son-Brown  Manufacturing  Co.

Indianapolis— Peter  Sindlinger,  of 
the  Sindlinger  Fresh  Meat  &  Provi­
sion  Co.,  is  dead.

Larwill— C.  Clyde  Rindfusz,  of  the 
hardware  and  harness  firm  of  E.  E. 
Rindfusz  &  Bro.,  is  dead.

Servia— M.  S.  Shaffer,  feed  dealer, 

has  removed  to  Huntington.

South  Bend— The  style  of  the  Hil­
debrand  Hardware  Co.  has  been 
changed  to  Studebaker  &  Chard.

Worthington— East  &  Co.,  meat 
dealers,  have  sold  out  to  S.  Shel- 
burn.

Fremont— E.  C.  Shupp,  who  has 
lumber,  coal, 
been  engaged  in  the 
salt  and  lime  business  here  for  the 
past  fifteen  years,  has  admitted  to 
partnership  A.  L.  Kentuer  and  H.  E. 
Ling,  both  of  whom  have  been  con­
nected  with  the  business  for 
some 
time.  The  new  style  is  the  Fremont 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  The  capital 
.stock  will  be  increased  and  addition­
al  lumber  and  coal  sheds  erected.

Experience  often  provides  the  raw 
conversa­

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would  seem  to  give  color  to  my  be­
lief  on  this  point.

Next  to  the  fundamental  objection 
which  I  have  cited,  the  most  clearly 
expressed  opposition  to  unrestricted 
trade  school  training  is  that  it  has  a 
tendency  to  produce  partially  trained 
mechanics,  who  go  out  into  the  com­
munity,  proffer  themselves  and  are re­
ceived  and  employed  as  full  fledged 
workmen;  thus  becoming  not  only 
competitors  of  the  “underpaid  and 
generally  handicapped  mechanic,” as 
the  unions  almost  universally  claim 
them  to  be,  but  undesirable  also  for 
those  who  employ  them,  inasmuch as 
they  cannot  deliver  the  skilled  service 
which  they  profess  to  be  able  to  de­
liver.  Associated  with  this  second ex­
pressed  objection  is  the  clakn  that 
the  attempt  to  teach  trades  in  their 
entirety;  in  a  school,  is  futile;  that,

Then  there  is  always  the  jealousy, 
which  I  think  trades  unions  uncon­
sciously  foster,  which  expresses  it­
self  in  the  belief  that  trade  and  tech­
nical  schools  are  designed  to  help 
the  rich  and  not  the  poor;  to  provide 
opportunity  for  young  men  of  means 
who  intend  to  go  into  manufacturing, 
or  to  conduct  some  business,  to  se­
cure  a  technical  training  in  and  com­
mand  of  the  elemental  movements  of 
a  trade,  rather  than  to  help  young j 
men  who  intend  to become  real  work­
men.  Many  other  specific  “griev­
ances,”  to  use  a  common  trade  union  i 
idiom,  could  be  stated,  but  they  are I 
all  closely  related  to  the  main  causes | 
of  objection  which  I  have  cited.

It  is  to  be  noted  that  all  these  at­
titudes  of  objection  are,  at  the  pres­
ent  moment,  more  pronounced  in  the 
United  States  than  in  older  countries.

TRAD E  SCHOOLS.

Attitude  of  Trades  Unions  Toward 

Them.

Trades  unions,  as  a  rule,  are  op­
posed  to  the  trade  school  idea;  and a 
summing  up  of  their  reasons  for  this 
attitude  may  be  expressed  as  fear  of 
the  creation  of  too  large  a  supply  of 
workmen  through  the  operation  of 
such  schools.  Many  other  reasons, 
more  or  less  superficial,  are  given, but 
the  real  underlying  objection  is  that 
unrestricted  training  in  the  trades will 
flood  the  market,  which,  it  is  claimed, 
is  already  overcrowded.  While  this, 
as  a  general  statement  of 
the  ex­
pressed  attitude  of trades  unions, may 
be  wholly  correct,  it  is  likely  to  be 
misleading,  unless  qualified  by  a 
statement  of  certain  conditions  which 
examination  of  the  field  will  show.

In  the  older  communities,  notably 
Austria,  Belgium,  Germany,  Switzer­
land  and  France,  and  even  in  Great 
Britain,  the  attitude  of  trades  unions 
has  been  materially  modified  within 
recent  years,  and  a  tendency  is  mani­
fested  to  encourage  the  trade  school, 
where  its  operation  is  restricted  to 
training  only  those  who  have  taken 
up  some  trade  as  a  positive  vocation. 
In  these  countries,  as  well  as  in  some 
other  parts  of  Europe,  the  continua­
tion  school,  or  schools,  for  extending 
the  knowledge  of  the  actual  work­
men  and  apprentice  into  the  theory 
and  technic  of  his  trade,  are  not  only 
looked  upon  with  favor  by 
trades 
unions,  but  are  often  established  and 
maintained  by  them,  and,  in  some 
cases,  even  by  workingmen’s  clubs 
and  friendly  societies  of  workingmen, 
whose  membership  is  general  rather 
than  specific.

the 

speaking 

favor  upon 

While,  therefore, 

in  a 
broad  sense,  trades  unions  do  not 
look  with 
trade 
school,  per  se,  one  cannot  fail  to  no­
tice  evidences  of  great  and  increasing 
interest  among  workmen  at  large,  as 
well  as  in  their  organizations,  in  that 
application  of  the  trade  school  idea, 
which  gives  opportunity  for  develop­
ment  in  their  chosen  trade  to  those 
who  have  thrown  in  their  lot  with 
actual  workers,  and  propose  to  earn 
a  living  in  their  company. 
I  am  in­
clined  to  believe  that  a  very  appre­
ciable  portion  of  the  aversion  which 
trade  unionists  have  manifested  to­
ward  the  trade  school  is  traceable to 
the  unexpressed,  but  still  positively 
existing,  feeling  that  people  who  are 
the  working 
not  willing  to  be  of 
classes  seek  to  gain, 
through 
the 
school  opportunity,  enough 
trade 
knowledge  of  the  trades  to  enable 
them  to  practice  them  if  they  choose, 
and  thus  encroach  upon  the  preserves 
of  those  who  must  earn  their  living 
by  the  trades.  This  is  probably  not 
a  well  founded  or  sensible  conclu­
sion;  but  that  the  idea  has  lodgment 
indicates  one  of  the  points  which, 
connected with  others,  creates  ground 
for  opposition  in  the  minds  that,  per­
haps,  are  by  nature,  and  perhaps 
through  the  persistent  iteration  of the 
trade  union  idea  have  become,  essen­
tially jealous.  The  fact  that  the  wide 
open  trade  schools  are  doubted,  while 
continuation  or  improvement  schools 
for  actual  workmen  and  apprentices 
are  received  with  increasing  favor,

William  H.  SaywarS

therefore,  schools  which  endeavor  to 
do  so  are  of  little,  if  any,  real  value 
as  far  as  furnishing  mechanics  fitted 
to  undertake  practical  work  is  con­
cerned.

the 

Another  reason  given  why 

trade 
schools" are  not  a  benefit  is  that  “em­
ployers  no  longer  desire 
thor­
oughly  trained  all  round  man,  but 
want  only  the  specialist;”  therefore, 
a  trade  school,  which  can  at  best 
teach  a  young  man  to  perform  the 
general  operations  or  manipulations 
of  a  trade  only  fairly  well,  is  of  little 
real  value  to  him,  for  he  is  not  fitted 
to  compete  with  the  specialist  in  any 
department  of  that  trade. 
In  some 
of  the  minor  trades,  such  as  cigar 
trade 
making, 
the 
schools  is  most  strenuous,  on 
ground  that  the  training 
in 
such 
schools  has  a  tendency  to  increase 
child  labor.

the  objection 

to 

|  Whether  this  difference 
in  older 
countries  results  from  an  evolution 
within  the  organizations  themselves, 
which  has  directly  produced  a  modi­
fication  of  application  in  trade  school 
instruction,  and  so  diminished  the 
opposition,  or  whether  the  Govern­
ment  in  these  countries,  without  any 
pressure  or  influence 
trades 
-unions,  has  created  a  different  and 
more  restricted  form,  I  am  unable  to 
determine,  but,  for  our  present  pur­
pose,  it  is,  perhaps,  enough  to  know 
that  a  general  difference  in  operation 
prevails  in  the  older  countries  and 
that  there  seems  to  be  less  opposition 
to  this  method  of  trade  instruction 
than  to  the  methods  in  vogue  here.

from 

Consideration  of  trade  school  con­
ditions  as  existing 
the  United 
States,  and  as  existing  in  Great  Brit­
ain,  in  France,  Belgium,  Germany and 
Switzerland,  will  be  helpful  in  dem­

in 

onstrating  where  diminishment  of 
friction  begins. 
In  this  country  we 
have  comparatively  few  trade  schools 
and  the  best  of  those  have  been  es­
tablished  by  private  individuals,  who, 
awakened  to  a  great  need,  preferred 
to  devote  themselves  and  a  portion  of 
their  means  to  meet  this  need,  rather 
than  to  await  the  slow  process  of 
public  recognition,  and  then  the  still 
slower  process  of  public  action.

It  is  necessary  here  to  call  atten­
tion  to  the  fact  that  this  discussion 
does  not  relate  to  the  technical  or 
manual  training  school  in  any  respect 
but  to  the  trade  school  proper,  the 
school  which  purposes  so  to  teach  a 
trade  that  the  student  will  be  fitted 
to  industrially  use  the  trade.  The in­
struction  in  such  schools 
is  made 
available,  to  a  large  extent,  in  the 
evening  so  that  young  men  at  work 
during  the  day  may  take  advantage 
of  this  opportunity.  There  are  many 
schools  of  combined  academic  and 
practical  character  known  as  manual 
training  and  technical  schools  in this 
country,  both  private  and  public, and 
to  these  there  is  no  expressed  ob­
jection  by  trades  unions,  but  there 
are  few  trade  schools  pure  and  sim­
ple,  and  to  these,  unions,  as  a  rule, 
are  at  present  strenuously  opposed. 
The idea and purpose in these  schools 
is  to  turn  out  finished  mechanics,  as 
far  as  knowledge  of  the  science  and 
practice  of  the  trades  is  concerned,  it 
being  usually  frankly  admitted  that 
the  graduates  will  not be  commercial­
ly  equal  to  skilled  workmen  in  point 
of  speed  of  execution  or  adaptability, 
until  they  have  had  a 
sufficient 
amount  of  experience  with  real work 
to  give 
these  qualities. 
In 
practice,  however,  it  turns  out 
that 
the  graduates  of  these  schools  have 
attained  fully  enough 
science  and 
just  enough  practice  to  fix  methods 
and  principles  sufficiently  to  enable 
them  to  pass  current  as  skilled  work­
men,  particularly  when  there  is  great 
demand;  and  they,  therefore,  seek and 
obtain  the  going  rate  of  wages  as 
readily  as  men  who  have  worked for 
years  at  the  trade. 
In  these  schools 
of  ours  there  is  no  attempt,  I  believe, 
to  restrict  the  opportunity 
those 
who  have  chosen  a  special  trade  as 
their  vocation,  nor  to  make  them  dis­
tinctly  continuation 
or 
schools  for  developing  in  theory,  as 
well  as  technique,  those  already  en­
tered  as  apprentices  and  thus  devoted 
to  the  trade.  These  purely  trade 
schools  are  privately  established  and 
managed,  and there is  no  Government 
supervision,  either  municipal  or  gen­
eral.  There  are,  at  present,  practi­
cally  no  trade  schools,  either  wholly 
or  partially,  supported  by  the  public 
in  any  part  of  the  United  States.

schools, 

them 

to 

speaking, 

trade  or 

In  foreign  countries 

a  distinctly 
different  condition  prevails.  General­
ly 
industrial 
schools  are  either  wholly  established 
or  partially  supported  by  the  Gov­
ernment  or  by  municipal  authorities, 
or  are  conducted under the most care­
ful  supervision  by 
the  authorities, 
either  o f State  or  municipality.  This 
condition 
is  particularly  noticeable 
in  Germany,  which,  of  all  the  Euro­
pean  countries,  has  given  the  great­
est  impetus  to  practical  trade  educa­
tion.  While  in  Germany,  as  well  as

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in  many  other  foreign  countries,  the 
founders  of  trade  schools  have  often 
been  the  communes,  guilds  or  indus­
trial  associations,  the  community  at 
large,  either  through  State  or  munici­
pal  action,  now  participates  very  gen­
erally  in  the  support  of  the  schools. 
A  large  proportion  of  such  institu­
tions  are  entirely  at  the  expense  and 
under  control  of  the  State,  while  all 
schools  of  this  character  are  more  or 
less  under  supervision  by  the  authori­
ties.

system 

The  industrial  school 

in 
foreign  countries,  whether  of . semi- 
private  or  of  public  character,  seems 
to  be  founded  on 
the  presumption 
that  the  young  man  has  determined 
pretty  definitely  the  career  into  which 
he  expects  to  enter,  and  will  shape 
his  education  accordingly. 
There­
fore,  the  trade  school  addresses  itself 
to  those  who  have  either  already  be­
gun  as  apprentices  or  are  about  to 
do  so,  or  to  workmen  who  desire  to 
make  themselves  more  proficient  in 
one  grade  or  another.  It  is  this  gen­
erally  prevailing  attitude  in  Europe 
which  has  disarmed  the  trades  unions 
of  their  opposition  and  presents  the 
distinction  to  which  I  wish  to  draw 
attention.

theoretical, 

That  when 

The  demonstration 

is  narrowed 
trade 
down  to  this: 
schools  limit  themselves  to  improv­
ing  the 
technical  and 
practical  knowledge  and  skill  of those 
who  are  already  entered  upon  a 
trade,  the  trades  unions  seem  to  ap­
prove  and,  in  many  cases,  to  partici­
pate  in  conducting  them.  Here,  then, 
seems  to  be  very  clearly  marked  the 
point  at  which  friction  begins  to  di­
minish.  The  next  step  should  be  to 
determine  whether  this  point  is  well 
taken  by  the  unions  and 
therefore 
whether  they  should  be  supported  in 
it. 
It  will  be  readily  admitted  that 
any  schools  for  the  higher  vocations 
or  professions  which  pretend  to  turn 
out  at  graduation  the  qualified  prac­
titioner  assume  too  much,  and  wheth­
er  there  be  any  organized  opposition 
to 
this  assumption  or  any  con­
certed  disclaimer  set  up  or  not,  it 
still  remains  true  that  the  graduate  is 
not  so  received,  and  he  is  practically 
compelled  to  pass  through  quite  an 
extended  season  of  severe  experience 
before  he  is  accepted  at  full  value, 
“going  rate  of  wages,”  by  the  com­
munity  in  which  he  attempts  to  prac­
tice. 
It  apparently  needs  no  union 
to  produce  this  effect.

When,  however,  we  consider  the 
mechanical  planes  of occupation, com­
monly  classed  as  laborious,  we  find 
that  the  public  does  not  set  up, either 
instinctively  or  with  definite  purpose, 
any  such  test,  and,  therefore,  organi­
zations  in  these  vocations  have  ad­
dressed  themselves  to  the  protection 
of  their  class 
indiscriminate 
fr o m  
competition. 
These  organizations 
have  very  good  ground  for  their  as­
sertion  that  trade  schools  tend  to 
demoralize  the  trades  when  managed 
on  the  “wide  open  plan”— that 
is, 
free  to  any  one  who  wishes  to  attend, 
regardless of whether  he is  committed 
to  a  trade  or  not,  and  with  no  con­
trol  or  supervision  set  up,  within  or 
without,  to  prevent  him  from  depart­
ing  from  the  school,  either  at 
the 
close  of  the  course  or  at  any  time,

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

and  with  a  smattering  of  skill  and 
knowledge  pass  himself  off  as  a  full 
fledged  practitioner.  This  possibil­
ity, which, as  I  have  already indicated, 
has  in  practice  developed 
into  a 
probability,  is  certainly  not 
to  be 
looked  upon  with  complacency,  even 
by  the  intelligent,  though  unaffected, 
observer;  therefore,  it  is  not  to  won­
der  at  that 
those  most  affected 
should  demur,  and  somewhat  strenu­
ously  criticize  the  source  from  which 
the  possibility  springs.

from 

They  may  well  claim  that  if  the 
learned  professions,  such  as  the  med­
ical  and  legal,  and  sometimes  others, 
are  safeguarded  with 
the  greatest 
care  in  the  skilled  trades  there  should 
be  some  method  of control  which  will 
at  least  guarantee  that  insufficiently 
trained  workmen  shall  not  be  given 
full  standing  and  full  wages,  simply 
because  they  have  passed  through, 
or  perhaps  only  partially 
through, 
the  courses  of  a  school.  But,  while 
this  attitude  is  natural  and  wholly 
defensible  when  viewed 
the 
standpoint  of  reason  and  experience, 
it  is  not  at  all  reasonable  or  wise  to 
condemn  the  trade  school  itself.  For 
I  think  it  can  be  conclusively  shown 
that  upon  schools  of  this  character 
the  trades,  as  such,  must  depend  for 
their  own  preservation.  Therefore, 
the  effort  should  be  not  to  destroy 
the  trade  school  or  blindly  oppose it, 
but  to  modify  its  methods  and  utilize 
it  as  the  only available means  to regu­
late  and  control  the  output  of  work­
men—which  is  really  the  point  at  is­
sue,  as  far  as  trades  unions  are  con­
cerned— and  to  protect  the  commun­
ity  as  well  against  the  untrained  and 
inexperienced;  for,  under  existing 
conditions,  for  some  of  which  the 
trades  unions  themselves  are  to  a 
considerable  extent  responsible,  the 
public  is  in  some  danger  of  losing 
altogether  the  all  round  artisan— the 
mechanic  skilled  and  interested  in his 
calling.

I  have  said  that  the  preservation of 
the  trades  themselves  depends  upon 
the  proper  development  of  the  trade 
school  idea.  This  is  evident  for  two 
reasons:  One,  the  passing  of  the  old 
method  of  apprenticeship,  and 
the 
other,  specialization  in  the 
trades. 
There  is  no  probability  that  the  old 
method  will  be  re-established.  Strenu­
ous  efforts,  it  is  true,  are  being  made 
in  Germany  to  preserve  the  appren­
ticeship  system  in  those  trades  for 
which  it  is  adapted,  much  legislation 
having  been  enacted  in  this  direction 
in  recent  years.  But,  while  it  is  pos­
sible  under  a  government  as  paternal 
and  positive  as  that  of  Germany  to 
reinstate  even  the  old  guilds  with all 
their  power  and  influence,  it  is  hardly 
conceivable  that,  under  freer  forms 
of  control,  employers  can  be  com­
manded  in  such  matters  to  the  ex­
tent  that  they  apparently  are  in  some 
of  the  European  monarchies,  Ger­
many  in  particular.

Specialization  has  sought  out  al­
most  all  the  trades,  even  those  con­
nected  with  building,  where  it  has 
seemed  least  likely  to  get  a  foothold. 
That  these  two  movements,  which 
may  be  classed  as  commercial  move­
ments,  threaten  the  trades,  as  trades, 
is  beyond  question,  and,  under  the 
commercial  demand  it  seems  to  be

inevitable  that  the  trades  will  be split 
up  endlessly,  so  that no  one workman 
will  eventually  be  capable  of  doing 
more  than  a  fragmentary  portion  of 
a  trade.  The  trade  school  furnishes 
the  one  measure  of  protection  by and 
through  which  these  separate  port- 
tions  may  be  kept  in  one  consistent 
whole,  and  the  relation  of  the  parts 
so«taught  and  the  capacity to combine 
the  parts 
that  all 
round  men,  capable  of  understanding 
and  executing  a  whole  trade,  will  not 
entirely  pass  out  of  existence.

so  developed 

It  behooves  the  trades  unions,  as 
custodians  of  the  interests  of 
the 
workmen  in  the  trades,  to  look  more 
deeply  into  the  function  of  the  trade 
school,  and  to  consider  more  care­
fully  how  much  the  interests  they 
have  in  charge  depend  upon  the  ex­
istence 
these 
schools;  and  it  behooves  employers 
to  concern  themselves  more  effective­
ly,  to  the  end  that  they  may  reap the 
come 
benefit  which  will 
through  wise  administration  of 
the 
trade  schools.

operation  of 

surely 

and 

It  is  evident  that  there  are  some 
weaknesses  in  trade  schools  as  at 
present  developed. 
I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  one  of  these  is  indicated 
in  the  somewhat  crude  objections 
made  by  trdaes  unions. 
I  am  con­
vinced  that  there  should be  a  compre­
hensive  and  effective  system  estab­
lished,  utilizing  the  trade  school  idea, 
which  shall  supplant  completely  the 
present  unsatisfactory  condition  of 
floating  off  on  the  market  an  unfin­
ished  product,  which,  if  it  ever  be­
comes  finished,  becomes  so  in  spite 
of  conditions,  rather  than  by  virtue 
of or purpose in  them.  I do not believe 
our 
trade 
schools  were  ever  intended,  or  ex­
pected,  by  their  founders  to  produce 
too  large  a  supply  of  mechanics  and 
thus  flood  the  market,  or  to  incite 
young  men  to  half  perfect  themselves 
and  then  deceive  the  public;  but  the 
function  and  purpose  of  the  schools 
were  distinctly  expressed  and  intend­
ed  to  be  to  furnish  as  systematic and 
favorable  a  method  of  instruction and 
training  as  possible  to 
fill  a  void 
created  by  the  decay  of  an  old  sys­
tem  which,  while  sufficient  in  its day 
and  generation,  had  vanished.

established 

privately 

This  function  and  purpose,  to  my 
mind,  are  more 
emphatically  evi­
denced  year  by  year,  and  as  this  in­
struction  and  training  can  best  pro­
ceed  in  conjunction  with  practice  in 
real  work,  in  which  employer  and 
workmen  are  engaged,  I  believe that 
the  most  complete  method  of  op­
erating  that  function  and 
realizing 
that  purpose  lies,  as  I  conceive  it does 
in  all  matters  affecting  labor,  in  a 
more  complete  co-operation  between 
organizations  of  employers  and  or­
ganizations  of  workmen.  The  policy 
of  this  co-operation 
should  be  to 
create  good  workmen,  the  best,  the 
most  skillful,  the  most  complete,  and 
then  to  have  the  unions  composed of 
these,  and  these  only.  By  a  policy 
of  this  nature,  which  could  only  be 
carried  out  by  a  joining  of  hands  of 
employers  and  workmen  in  the  man­
agement  and  direction  of 
trade 
schools  with  this  end  in  view,  the 
unions  would  be  relieved  of  the  most 
telling  criticism  now  used  against

them,  and  their  reason 
for  being 
would  be  more  firmly  established.  By 
this  measure  the  unions  would  be 
strengthened  by  “recognition”  in  the 
best  sense,  inasmuch  as  they  would 
become  the  gauge  and  standard  of 
excellence,  and,  instead  of  coercion 
being  necessary  as  now,  to  keep  the 
organizations  up  to  that  efficiency 
which  numbers  are  felt  to  indicate, 
membership  would  be  eagerly  sought 
because  desired  as  a  sign  of  selection 
and  as  a  safeguard  against  being 
herded  together,  as  now,  in  one  mass 
of  good,  bad  and  indifferent.  The 
“non  union”  man  would  then  be  the 
inefficient,  the  unreliable,  the  dishon­
est,  the  quarrelsome,  the  disturber, 
the  dissolute  and  the  generally un­
worthy,  and  non-union  he  would  have 
to  remain  until  he  should  so  reform 
as  to  make  himself  desirable.  Then 
would  there  be  the  true  line  of  de- 
markation  between  union  and  non­
union,  a  natural  and  proper  one— not 
the artificial  and dangerous  one, which 
now  exists.  Unions  would  then  be 
accepted  by  all  as  a  clearing  house 
for  workmen,  as  a  sure  source  of 
supply  of  trustworthy,  efficient  and 
skilled  workmen,  and  not,  as  now, an 
aggregation  of  anything  and  every­
thing  that  will  simply  swell  an  army, 
the leaders  of which assert that “labor 
is  a  force  militant,”  and  that  “as such 
its  victories  are  to  be  achieved.” Until 
this  dispensation  labor  has  been  sup­
posed  to  be  of  the  essence  of  peace 
and  not  war,  and  it  has  not  been  un­
til  the  forces  of  labor,  as  demonstrat­
ed  through  cheaply  conceived,  unre­
strained  or  poorly  administered  or­
ganizations,  have  been  diverted  from 
their  true  channel  that  the  world  has 
witnessed  the  commission  of  acts, 
under  the impulse  of this force,  which 
have  been  unworthy  of  humanity, and 
which  have  roused  the  self-respecting 
in  all  our  communities  to  most  deter­
mined  resistance.

the 

that 

It  is  my  belief 

trade 
school,  properly  utilized  as  suggest­
ed,  supplemented  by  further  intelli­
gent  co-operation  of  real  employers 
and  real  workmen,  in  all  affairs  of 
mutual  concern,  may  be,  in  this  field 
and  in  this  state  of  danger,  one  of 
the  greatest of conservators  of  safety. 
But  these  agencies  for  good  must  not 
be  left  to  dilletante  exploitation  nor 
to  the  equal  danger  of  too  general 
usage.  Let  employers  and  workmen 
engage  in  this  service  with  the  glad 
seriousness  of  conviction,  and  hope 
will  succeed  despair.

In  conclusion,  I  would  state  that 
in  my  opinion  the  trade  school  does 
not  offer  a  privilege  which  any  one 
should  be  permitted  to  enjoy  with­
out  judicious  supervision  and  control. 
It  is  an  opportunity  which  should  be 
chiefly  available  for  those  who  de­
termine  upon  a  trade  as 
life 
work,  and  who  have  a  reasonable  de­
gree  of fitness  for  it.  In  other  words, 
the  trade  school  should  be  considered 
a  training  field  for  actual  workers, 
and  its  operation  should  be  reason­
ably  restricted  and  controlled,  to  the 
end  that  its  graduates  may  have  defi­
nite  standing  and  the  community,  as 
a  whole,  be  protected  against  partly 
perfected  workmen.

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held  at  brigade  headquarters  and  or­
ders  went  out  for  a  brigade  detail 
the  next  day— thirty  men, 
volun­
teers  from  each  of  the  three  regi­
ments  of  the  brigade,  each  under 
command  of  a  lieutenant,  all  under 
command  of  a  captain.  To  this com­
mand  I  was  assigned  and  held  until 
the  surrender  of  Johnston’s  army  in 
1865.

This  brigade  detail  was  made  up 
that  night  and  left  camp  before  day­
light  the  next  morning,  nearly  every 
man  well  mounted. 
It  was  well  that 
they  got  away  so  early,  as  very  few 
of  them  could  show  a  good  title  to 
the  animal  he  rode,  but  as  there  was 
a  great  deal  of  swapping  and  trading 
! horses and mules  that  day about every 
man  came  back 
the  command 
with  a  clear  conscience.  This  was 
the  first  brigade  of  organized  for- 
I  agers,  and  their  success  in  many  lines

to 

!  sparsely  settled  sections  of  the  coun- 
j  try  it  was  two  or  three  days  before 
;  a  load  could  be  gathered  up,  the  de- 
!  tail  often  going  fifty  miles  away  up- 
!  on  the  flanks.  Skirmishing  with  par- 
!  ties  of  cavalry  and 
“Home-guards” 
j  was  of  hourly  occurrence,  and  the 
j  word  went  out  from  Wheeler’s  com- 
|  mand  “Death  to  all  foragers.”  Eleven 
|  of  the  foragers  were  captured  one 
day  and  all  shot,  their  bodies  being 
|  placed 
in  a  row  by  the  roadside,
'  that  all  passing  that  way  might  see 
them  and  take  warning.  This  did 
i  not  stop  the  foraging,  but  had  the 
effect  of  weeding  out  of  the  com- 
j  mands  the  less  courageous  men,  and 
the  filling  of  their  places  with  a  more 
|  determined  lot.

The  space  of this  article will  permit 
I  only  a  few  of  the  many  interesting 
j  adventures  of  the  detail  which  I  com- 
I  manded;  to  write  them  all  would

SHERMAN’S  BUMMERS.

Personal  Recollections  of  One  of 

Them.

from 

When  Sherman’s  army  moved  out 
of  the  city  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Novem­
ber  16,  1864,  the  term  “Bummer”  had 
not  been  coined;  and  a  few  days  lat­
er,  when  it  came  into  existence  as  a 
term  or  name,  was  applied  only  to 
those  details 
regiments  and 
brigades  whose  duty  it  was  to  gath­
er  in  the  “forage”  of  the  country 
passed  through  for  the  subsistence 
of  the  men  and  animals  that  made 
up  the  army.  There  was  a  limited 
supply  of  food  in  the  trains  of  each 
corps  and  in  the  haversacks  of  the 
men,  but  we  were  to  take  no  chances 
on  its  holding  out  until  another  “base 
of  supplies”  could  be  reached.

The  writer  that  fall  was  eighteen 
vears  of  age,  with  more  than  two 
years  of  active  service  to  his  credit, 
from  the  rank  of  private  to  that  of 
captain.  During  the  preceding  years 
there  had  been  some  opportunities j 
to  forage  from 
the  plantations  of j 
Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Alabama  and; 
Georgia.  In  a  sort  of  mild  and  gen-1 
teel  way,  pigs  and  chickens  had  been 
chased  about  the  farms  and  surrepti- j 
tiously  inveigled  into  camp,  to  the! 
great  scandal  of  regimental,  brigade 
and  division  commanders;  but  now 
had  come  the  time  when  the  men 
were  commanded  to  not  only  chase 1 
the  chickens  and  pigs,  but  the  cows j 
and  sheep  as  well.  Everything  on ; 
foot  and  wing,  all  the  things  of  the 
earth  and  air,  were  “contraband  o f : 
war.”

“mountain 

The  first  day  out  details  of  men * 
were  made  out  of  each  regiment  “t o , 
go  out  foraging,”  each  under  com-1 
mand  of  a  lieutenant  or  captain, each 1 
acting  independently  of 
the  other, j 
There  was  but  little  left  to  forage 
in  the  country  about  Atlanta.  Many i 
of  these  men  were  physically  and: 
morally  unfit  for  the  duty.  Two, 
three  and  often  more  of  these  small  i 
independent  parties  came 
together j 
about  the  cabin  of  a  poverty  strick-1 
en  “Cracker”  and  the  combats  that j 
ensued  for  the  possession  of  the  live ' 
stock,  mostly 
shad,” I 
threatened  for  the  time  being  to  de­
stroy  the  brotherly  love  said  to  exist I 
between  the  various  regiments  of the 
army. 
If  a  rich  find  was  made,  the 
men  were  loaded  with  all  they  could 
carry,  and  the  torch  did  away  with 
the  balance  to  the  great  distress  of 
those  who  got  in  a  few  minutes  lat­
er.  Then,  again,  these  small  parties 
were  not  made  up  to  fight,  and  when 
a  half  dozen  of  “Wheeler’s  Critter- 
backs”  got  after  them  all  the  foragers 
of  the  corps  took  to  the  woods  for 
safety;  in  their  wild  flight  chickens 
were  left  orphans  by  the  wayside. 
Hams,  pickles,  preserves  and  honey 
were  cast  aside  with  reckless  prodi­
gality,  and  the  detailed  forager  found 
his  way to  his  command  two  or  three 
days  later  with  harrowing  tales  of 
hairbreadth 
escapes.  He  usually 
brought  in  his  gun  and  cartridges, 
but was  minus  the  good  hardtack  and 
coffee  that  filled  his  haversack  when 
he  went  out  with  the  squad.

The  writer’s  detail  had  just  this 
experience  the  second  day  out  of  At­
lanta.  That  night  a  conference  was

Charles  E.  Belknap

soon  led 
throughout  the  army.

to  other  organizations 

to 

I  do  not  remember  of  hearing  the 
term  “Bummer”  applied 
these 
men  until  just  before  the  capture  of 
Savannah,  and  then  as  a  “Boomer,” 
from  the  constant  booming  of  the 
enemy’s  guns  as  they  were  harrassed 
on  all  sides,  either  by  the  foragers 
or  Kilpatrick’s  Cavalry—but  pardon 
the  digression.

The  ninety  men  and  their  lieuten­
ants  that  made  up  the  command  were 
tried  and  true. 
If  one  was  killed  or 
wounded,  which  was  often  the  case, 
another  volunteer  was  called  from 
the  regiments,  and  in  all  cases  the 
details  were  kept  full.

After  the  first  day  there  was  but 
little  trouble  in  keeping  the  command 
well  mounted,  and  forage  being  plen­
ty a  return was made to  the  command 
each  night;  but 
the  I

in  many  of 

make  a  book  of  comedy  and  trage­
dy— a  book,  alternate  pages,  mirth 
and  sorrow;  to-day  a  feast,  yesterday 
a  famine;  to  dine  on  broiled  chicken 
and  turkey,  to  sup  on  soup  of  nigger 
peas;  to-day  with  victorious  shouts 
driving  the  enemy  away  from  mill  or 
roadway  bridges;  to-night  gathered 
about  a  shallow  grave  in  the  piney 
woods,  where,  with  his  blanket  for 
his  coffin,  we  fill  in  the  place  with 
moss  and  drop  the  parting  tear  to  a 
comrade  brave  and  true.

Out  upon  the  flanks  one  day  a  par­
ty  of  Wheeler’s  men  were 
found; 
they,  too,  were  foraging—had  their 
animals  well  loaded  with  all  sorts  of 
plunder,  useful  and  ornamental.  “We 
rushed  them,”  to  use  a  modern term, 
capturing  the  outfit,  taking  a  rich 
prize  to  camp  that  night.

As  the  rumor  of  the  advance  of the 
army  reached  the  people  frantic  ef­

forward  until  he  came 

forts  were  made  to  conceal  not  only 
their  valuable  personal  effects,  plate, 
jewelry  and  other  rich  goods,  but  al­
so  every  article  of  food,  the  common 
place  of  concealment  being  under the 
floors  of  the  houses,  buried  in  the 
dooryards  and  in  the  swamps,  if  one 
was  near.  With  untiring  zeal  the 
foragers  prodded  the  ground  with 
ramrod  and  bayonet.  It  was  certain­
ly  comical  to  see  a  group  of  these 
military  agriculturists  punching  the 
unoffending  earth  in  an  apparently 
idiotic  way.  The  universal  digging 
was  good  for  the  garden,  but  the  re­
sults  were  very  distressing  to  the 
owners  of  exhumed  property  who 
saw  it  irretrievably  confiscated.  One 
day,  well  out  in  front  of  the  army, 
when  from  around  a  bend  in  the  road 
came  the  sounds  of  a  man’s  voice 
in  prayer,  the  advance  guard  moved 
quietly 
in 
sight  of  a  black  man  kneeling  by  the 
roots  of  a  pine  tree  with  uplifted 
hands  and  face.  He  was  asking  God 
for  freedom  from  his  bondage,  pray­
ing  to  be  guided  to  the  Union  army, 
and  the  voice  of  his  devotion  filled 
our  hearts  with  a  strange  emotion, 
for  his  tones  by  turns  were  sad, then 
sweetly  solemn,  then  wildly  glad,  as 
he  prayed  for  the  white  folks,  his 
master  and  mistress,  to  whom  all 
things  were  bright  and  fair,  to  whom 
all  things  were  pure  and  free;  then 
for  his  race  upon  whom  “the  curse 
of  Cain  had  fallen”  like  a  flail  on  gar­
the 
nered  grain,  and  struck  them  to 
earth.  Then  echoed 
through 
the 
woods  prayers  that  God  might  guide, 
the  Union  Army  safely  through  all 
dangers,  and  on  “dis  berry  road, 
Lord.”  The  advancing  tramp  of  the 
horses’  feet  caused  him  to  open  his 
eyes  when  they  were  almost  upon 
him.  His  surprise  was  so  great  that 
for  a  moment  he  was 
speechless. 
Then  he  fairly  yelled  with  delight, 
his  prayers  were  answered,  the  Lord 
had  sent  us  specially  for  his  deliver­
ance. 
In  reply  to  my  questions,  he 
“I’se  only  a  runaway  nigger, 
said: 
and  days  and  nights 
in  the  dark 
woods  and  dismal  swamps  I’se  skulk­
ed  and  hidden  away,  and  I’se  seen 
the  fires  of  the  midnight  camp,  and 
heard  many  times  the  patrols’  tramp, 
and  the  bloodhounds’  savage  bay; but 
now  I’se  free. 
I  dun  gib  ole  massa 
de  slip,  and  I’se  gwine  wid  you-alls.”
In  the  years  before  the  war  near­
ly  every  plantation  had  its  pack  of 
hounds  for  tracking  runaway  slaves. 
During  the  war  these  dogs  were  of­
ten  used  to  track  Union  soldiers  who 
were  lucky  enough  to  escape  from 
the  rebel  prisons.  Many  a  luckless 
fellow  has  been  treed  and  recaptured 
by  the  use  of  these  dogs.  The  for­
agers  never  spared  any  of  them,  but 
killed  them  at  sight.

One  day  we  passed  a  lot  of  cabins; 
in  the  doorway  of  one  of  them,  some 
distance  from  the  road,  stood  an  aged 
negro,  so  old  his  hair  was  white  as 
snow.  Between  his  legs  there  crowd­
ed  a  large  dog;  probably  neither  dog 
nor  man  had  ever  set  eyes  on  a  blue- 
coated  soldier  before,  and  both  seem­
ed  dumb  with  surprise.  A  soldier 
quick  to  see  the  dog  raised  his  gun 
and  fired.  The  dog  yelped  once,  the 
man  dropped  upon  the  animal  in  the 
doorway  and  yelled  a  dozen  times.

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Hearing  the  noise  I  hurried  to  the 
spot,  and  asked,  “Who 
that 
shot?”  No  one  could  tell.  Going  to 
the  cabin  I  helped  the  colored  broth­
er  up  and  found  the  dead  dog.  “Who 
killed  this  dog?”  I  enquired.  “ Don’t 
know,”  said  one  of  the  soldiers,  “but 
1  guess  the  nigger  fell  on  him.”

fired 

That  same  day  the  “Bummers”  cap­
tured  a  plantation  rich  in  chickens 
and  other  useful  articles.  While  the 
men  were  busy  twisting  the  necks 
oft"  the  chickens  and  gathering  eggs, 
a  troop  of  Wheeler’s  men  came  down 
on  us  like  a  whirlwind,  and  drove  the 
boys  to  the  shelter  of  the  woods  near 
by.  Then  hasty  preparations  were 
made  for  a  fight  that  was  sure  to 
come  for  the  possession  of  the  place. 
“The  lady  of  the  house”  came  out 
and  offered  her  help  to  whip  the 
Yankees.  The  Confederate 
officer 
told  her  that  was  right.  “If  you  want 
to  help  us  get  up  there  on  that  fence 
and  holler  at  them  and  dare  them to 
come  out  for  a  fair  fight.”  She  go: 
up  on  “the  top  rail”  and,  shaking  her 
fist,  shouted,  “Oh,  you  miserable  Yan­
kees,  you  have  taken  every  chicken 
on  the  place.” 
“What’s  that,”  said 
the  Confederate,  “taken  all  the  chick-. 
ens?  Then  there’s  nothing  left  here 
worth  fighting  for.”  And  he  called 
his  men  out  of  the  fence  corners  and : 
rode  away,  leaving  the  woman  on  I 
top  of  the  fence,  so  busy  calling 
names  and  shaking  her  fists  she  did  : 
the j 
not  notice  his  absence  until 
“miserable  Yankees” 
returned 
to I 
gather  up  the  odds  and  ends  so  hur­
riedly  left.

But  a  few  days  out  of  Atlanta,  in | 
a  sandy,  poverty-stricken  region,  a ! 
very  thinly-populated  district,  miles 
away  to  the  left  of  the  route  follow­
ed  by  that  wing  of  the  army,  we j 
found  in  a  small  log  cabin  two  wee" 
bits  of girls, one  about  three, the other | 
five  years  old,  the  only  living  objects j 
about  the  place. 
In  the  cabin  were 
a  few  rude  housekeeping  articles,  a 
bed  in  one  corner  that  would  not 
tempt  a  soldier  out  of  a  horse  stable 
as  a  sleeping  place,  and  a  bake  ket­
tle,  a  few  gourds  and  a  home-made 
“piggin”  were  about  all  to  forage  on. 
The  little  ones  so  nearly  dead  of 
starvation  and  neglect  could  tell  us 
nothing,  only  “mamma  gone,  mamma 
gone.”  Clothed  in  nothing  but  thin 
cotton  dresses,  black  with  dirt  and | 
grease,  no  underclothing,  their  little 
bare  legs  and  arms  so  grimed  with 
dirt  that  at  first  we  thought  them 
“darkies.”

The  little  cotton  dresses  were  but 
bags  with  a  hole  left  for  arms  and 
neck.  They  were  as  shy  as  young 
partridges,  but  food  soon  won  their 
confidence.  A  search  was  made  all | 
about  the  premises  for  other  living 
beings,  but  the  little  ones  were  abso- i 
lutely  alone,  but  for  the  birds  that 
chirped  about  in  the  tree-tops  near 
by.  The  command  halted  to  feed and ! 
rest  their  animals,  a  fire  was  built j 
on  the  hearth  and  the  babies  given  a 
bath  with  warm  water  and  fed  on 
soldiers’  grub;  their  tangled  flaxen 
hair  was  combed,  and  well  washed; 
they  were  as  pretty  a  capture  as  ever 
was  made  by  the  “Bummers  Bold.”
to 
give  them  away  at  the  next  cabin a j 
few  miles  on  our  route,  but 
that I

Resuming  our  march  we  tried 

found 

would  not  work— the  woman  had 
a  houseful  of  her  own.  She  knew 
nothing  about  these  two,  and  so  half 
a  dozen  places  were  visited,  but  with 
war's  desolation  in  the  country  none 
could  be 
to  care  for  our 
motherless  girls.  But  before  night 
the  Bummers  had  a  wardrobe 
for 
them  worthy  of  the  command,  a  piece 
here  and  there  as  the  cabins  were 
parsed  were  borrowed.  Before  the 
night  camp  was  reached,  a  soldier 
who  had  babies  of  his  own  in  Michi­
gan  removed  the  dirty  cotton  gowns, 
and  clothed  them  in  the  plunder  of 
the  afternoon;  “they  were  just  too J 
for  anything.”  They  were 
sweet 
mounted  on  a  pack  mule  that  day; 
at  night  they  slept  cuddled  up  in  a 
soldier’s  arms.  The  rain 
dripped 
down  through  the  pine  trees,  drench­
ing  the  blankets  of  the  tentless  sold­
ier,  but  the  little  ones  were  as  com­
fortable  as  “bugs  in  a  rug.”  These 
two  sisters  were  turned  over  to  the 
regiment  next  day;  by  turns  they 
were  toted  on  the  backs  of  the  sold­
iers  to  Savannah.  The  authorities 
of  the  city  were  notified  but  nobody 
had  time  for  “  the  little  white  trash.” 
A  lieutenant,  wounded  and  sick,  was 
granted  a  furlough;  he 
them 
home  to  the  State  where  they  reside 
to-day  in  happy  homes,  beautiful  in 
their  motherhood.  Although  dili­
gent  search  was  made  after  the  war, 
the  mystery  was  never  solved.  They 
are  simply  two  of  “Sherman’s  Bum­
mers.”

took 

As  the  army  approached  Savannah 
the  field  work  of  the  Bummers  be­
came  restricted;  then  much  of  the 
time  was  spent  in  clearing  the  roads 
of  fallen  timber.  The  Bummers  were 
everywhere  at  the  front  and  flank, 
better  than  any  cavalry  force.  It  has 
always  been  my  conviction 
since 
those  days  that  a  Bummer  would 
put  up  a  stronger  fight  for  a  gener­
al  assortment  of  plantation  provi­
sions  than  a  whole  regiment  would 
from  pure  patriotism  and 
love  of 
In  strategy  they  developed 
country. 
strong 
the 
bridge  or  fords  were  well  guarded, 
they  went  up  or  down  the  stream 
always,  waded  or  swam  the  often  icy 
waters,  then  angled  across  the  coun­
try,  and  were  soon  on  the  enemy’s 
lines  of  communications,  and 
the 
enemy  had  to  take  to  the  woods  to 
save  themselves.

tendencies.  If 

flanking 

In  my  experience* the  Bummers did 
tbeir  greatest  work  in  the  Carolinas, 
but  T  must  confine  my  memories  to 
only  one  or  two  more  incidents.

At  one  place  in  North  Carolina  the 
Bummers  found  the  hiding  places  of 
two  hundred  good  mules  and  a  lot 
of  horses,  but  so  situated  that  a 
reserve  force  to  guard  communica­
tions  was  needed.  The  information 
was  detailed  to  General  Carlin,  who 
sent  a  regiment  of  infantry  to  as­
sist.  There  were  two  streams  to 
cross,  the  Haw  River  by  a  scow 
ferry,  a  deep  and  rapid  stream,  and 
then  some  distance  on  the  New  Riv­
er,  by  a  foot  bridge.  Between  the 
two  streams  was  a  good-sized  town 
full  of 
the 
country  between  the 
streams 
was  Hampton’s  Cavalry,  beyond the 
New  River  a  few  miles  were  the  cov­
eted  mules.  A  supply  depot  guarded

supplies.”  Up 

“liquid 

two 

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by  convalescents  was about twenty- 
five  miles  from  General  Carlin’s camp. 
The  Bummers  crossed  the  Haw  on 
the  scow,  swimming 
their  horses, 
left  a  small  guard  as  a  lookout  in  the 
town,  passed  on  over  the  New  River 
and  surprised  the  supply  camp,  get­
ting  all  of  the  stock  away  safely,  but 
followed  closely  by  the  enemy.

the 

Crossing  the  bridge  it  was  burn­
ed,  and  we  were  comparatively  safe 
from  that  quarter,  but  in  the  town 
we  “met  up  with  a  circus.”  The 
regiment  under  command  of  a major 
having  safely  crossed  the  Haw  on  a 
scow  ferry,  having  nothing  else  just 
then  to  do,  accepted  the hospitalities 
of  the  people,  and  from  major 
to 
ambulance  driver  were  howling  full 
o f . apple-jack.  But 
the  boys  all 
claimed  that  it  was  persimmon  beer 
that  threw  down  the  chaplain.  A  reg­
iment  three  hundred  strong  drunk 
in  a  hostile  town,  a  deep  and  rapid 
stream,  a  scow  ferry,  camp  twenty- 
five  miles  beyond;  Hampton’s  men 
coming  down  the  neck,  guided  by  the 
hospitable  mayor  of  the  town,  who 
was  quick  to  see  a  joke.  But  it  was 
here  the  Bummer  showed  his  loyalty 
to  comrades  in  distress.  The  total­
ly  disabled  were  loaded  into  wagons, 
tied  upon  mules  and' horses,  and  in 
various  ways  taken  to 
ferry, 
which  by  constant  passages 
and 
swimming  animals  succeeded  in  get­
ting  all  across.  Scattering  shot  from 
Hampton’s  troopers  hurried  the rear 
guard  in  the  last  hour  of  their  trying 
duties.  Once  across  the  stream,  the 
regiment  was  left  to  take  care  of  it­
self.  The  captured  animals  were of 
the  greatest  value  to 
the  division 
trains. 
’Tis  said  that  that  regiment 
did  not  all  get  back  to  the  division 
for  three  days.  The  Major’s  saber 
dangled  from  the  tent  pole  of  the 
division  commander  for  a  time;  then 
came  the  end  of  the  war  and  all 
errors  of  judgment  werfe  forgotten. 
A  few  days  before  this  last  occur­
rence,  while  hunting  the  pine  bar­
rens  “for  nubbins  of  corn,”  things 
got  very  interesting  for  the  Bum­
mers.  Forage  was  very  scarce  and 
the  enemy  very  plenty.  One  of  the 
men,  a  daring,  dashing  fellow,  fell 
behind  the  command. 
In  coming  up 
he  missed  the  road  and  followed  the 
road  to  the  left,  that  led  him  sud­
denly  into  a  company  of  Dibbrell’s 
command.  Too  late  to  retreat,  he 
charged 
their 
midst  using  his  Colt’s  revolving  rifle 
with  deadly  effect.  The  enemy  gave 
him  a volley,  four  bullets  hitting  him; 
then  a  trooper  gave  him  a  cut  on 
the  head  with  his  saber,  unhorsing 
him.  They  stopped  long  enough  to 
take  his  outfit  and  left  him  for  dead 
in  the  woods.  That  evening,  while 
the  command  was  grinding  corn  at 
a  small  wet  day  mill,  a  woman  came 
in  telling  us  of  the  occurrence.  With 
a  couple  of  men  and  a  horse  I  fol­
lowed  the  woman  two  or  three  miles 
through  the  woods  to  the  place,  and 
found  the  man  not  dead  but  very 
near it.  We  placed  him  on  the  horse, 
and  giving  the  woman  a 
roll  of 
money  (Confederate)  went  back  to 
the  mill.  That  man  was  carried  in 
an  ambulance  several  days,  and  is 
living  to-day,  although  badly  crip­
pled.

single-handed 

into 

The  day  after  this  occurrence  one 
of  the  lieutenants  of  the  command 
was  ambushed  and  killed;  not  being 
satisfied  with  filling  him  full  of  lead 
they  put  a  trail  rope  about  his  neck 
and  pulled  him  up  over  the  limb  of 
a  roadside  tree,  where  we  found  him. 
We  followed  the  trail  and  squared 
accounts  that  night.

faint 
in.”  Opening 

It  was  a  most  uncomfortable  night, 
the  rain  came  down  in  a  ceaseless 
pour.  We  had  been  out  on  the  flanks 
all  day  in  the  worst  sort  of  luck— not 
enough  food  in  the  country  to  feed 
a  crow.  Men  and  animals  were  tired 
out,  and  lost.  We  followed  a  black 
streak  through  the  pine  forest,  a  trail 
of  mud,  quicksand  and  water.  Where 
the  road 
led  I  neither  knew  nor 
cared,  so  long  as  it  led  to  a  place 
of  shelter  for  the  night,  which  to 
our  tired  animals  it  seemed  we  would 
never  find.  A  faint  light  in  the  far 
distance  finally  led  us  out  of  the  for­
est  and  to  a  group  of  cabins  and  the 
master’s  house.  The  cabins  were  de­
serted  except  by  one  old  bed-ridden 
negro;  they  had  gone  to  “jine  the 
army.”  The  light  was  from  the  “great 
house”— a  faint  glimmer  of  a  fire 
upon  the  hearth.  The  men 
soon 
found  dry  places  for  themselves  and 
animals;  one  man  placed  on  the  road 
“to  watch  for  sounds,”  and  I  went 
to  the  great  house  thinking  I  might 
get  a  chance  to  sleep  and  dry  my 
clothing  before  the  fire.  To  my  tap 
re­
upon  the  door  came  a 
sponse  “Come 
the 
door  I  passed  through  a  hallway  in­
to  a  large  well  furnished  room.  Be­
fore  the  fire  sat  a  woman,  whose  face 
in 
the 
knots  on  the  hearth  was  ghastly,  a 
face  of  mingled  fear  and  pain. 
I 
quickly  doffed  my  water-soaked  hat 
and  great  coat  and  said: 
“Madam, 
by  your  permission  I  will  build  up  a 
fire. 
I  am  very  wet  and  cold.”  The 
fire  of  pine  knots  quickly  flashed  up, 
lighting  the  room  in  seeming  defi­
ance  of  the  rain  and  gloom  outside. 
“Oh,  sir,  I  see  you  are  not one  of  our 
folks.  You  are  a  Federal  soldier.” 
“I  am,  Madam,  a  captain  of  Sher­
man’s  army. 
I  do  not  want  to  in­
trude,  but  with  your  permission  we 
will  sit  here  before  the  fire.  My  men 
are  in  the  negro  quarters  for  the 
night.  Where  are  your  people?” 
“Oh,  sir,  my  husband  is 
in  Lee’s 
army,  but  dead  or  alive  I  don’t  know. 
It  is  weeks  since  I  heard  from  him, 
and  the  servants  and  field-hands have 
all  gone  like  a  lot  of  crazy  children. 
They  gathered  a  few  articles  of  food 
and  clothing  and  have  gone  to  Sher­
man’s  army,  but,  sir,  I  know  you  are 
a  friend.”  Then  she  said  some  things, 
in  such  a  delicate  way,  that  young 
and  green  as  I  was  I  could  not  help 
but  understand.  “Is  there  a  neighbor 
near?” 
“Yes,  two  miles  away,  a 
good  woman,  who  would  come  to 
me  if  she  knew.”

the  dim  glimmer 

of 

Going  out  to  the 

cabins,  where 
great  fires  were  burning  in  the  chim­
neys,  the  men  drying 
themselves 
out,  I  found  one  of  my  men  who  had 
wife  and  babies 
I 
quickly  told  him  all  and  sent  him 
into  the  house.  Then  I  saddled  my 
horse,  found  a  side  saddle  in  the 
barn  and  put  that  on  another  animal, 
then  with  one  of  the  Bummers  for

in  Michigan. 

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front;  that’s  how  it  is.”  In  spite  of I 
their  protests  they  were  taken  to \ 
the  guard  house  and  kept  until  the | 
army  arrived  two  weeks  later.  'They j 
had  started  the  day  Johnson  surren- j 
dered,  six  days  before,  passing  to 
the  west  of  Richmond  to  avoid  com-j 
plications.  Their  outfit  was  returned 
to  them  after  their  release,  with  an 
apology.

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company  started  up  the  plantation  | 
road  to  find  the  neighbor.  That  was  \ 
the  longest  two  miles  I  ever  travel­
ed,  and  finally  was  welcomed  by  a  | 
pack  of  barking,  howling  dogs,  that  j 
snarled  and  snapped  at  us  from  side,  j 
front  and  rear.  With  a  piece  of  j 
fence  rail  I  drove  them  away  and 
held  a  parley  with  the  woman  in­
side,  who  at  first  said  it  was  “a  dirty 
Yankee  trick”  to  entice  a  lone  wom­
an  away  to  destruction.

Several  arguments  were  used,  min- | 
gled  in  with  some  cuss  words  on  the 
part  of  the  soldier  with  me,  which 
persuaded  her  to  come  along.  The 
return  trip  was  made  at  a  good  pace, 
our  fair  prize  scolding  and  crying by 
turns  until  we  pulled  up  to  the  great 
house  again.  Lew  had  a  roaring  fire 
on  the  great  open  hearth.  A  pot  of 
old  Government  Java  “was  steaming 
on  the  coals.”  Lew  and  the  new  ar­
rival  held  a  council  of  war. 
I  put 
out  my  horse  and  lay  down  long  after I 
midnight,  before  a  fire  in  one  of  the i 
cabins  to  sleep,  drenched  to  the skin, | 
aching  in  every 
joint,  wondering 
what would  be  the  Bummers’  lot  next 
day.

Going  to  the  house  next  morning 
Lew,  the  Bummer,  sat  before  the 
fire  with  a  bundle  in  his  arms,  sing­
ing  in  a  lullaby  sort  of  a  voice:
“I’m  a  raw  recruit,  in  a  brand  new 

suit,

heel  town

Nine  hundred  dollars  bounty;
And  I’ve  come  down  from  the  tar 

To  fight  for  North  Caroliny.”
Far  sweeter  than  the  notes  the 
sounds 
song  birds  sing  were 
the 
that  came  from  the  recruit 
in 
re­
sponse  to  the  song of  the  grizzled  old 
soldier,  who,  with  tears  in  his  man­
ly  eyes,  was  thinking  of  the  wife 
and  babies 
in  far  away  Michigan, 
whom  he  had  not seen  in  nearly  three 
long  weary  years  of  war.

Some  one  has  said  that  babies  are 
the  flowers  of  hope  that  grow  upon 
the  trellis  of  our  hearts.

We  christened  that  one  with  a 
canteen  of  applejack  and  named  him 
Billy  Sherman  and  took  for  our  re­
ward  the  family  carriage  loaded  with 
dead  pigs,  some  corn  and  chickens 
and  other  things  necessary  to  the 
conduct  of  the  army.

From  the  Major-General  command­
ing  the  Department  of  Virginia  at 
the  close  of  the  war  I  received  the 
following  account  of  the  first  sold­
iers  of  Sherman’s  army 
reach 
Washington  at  the  close  of  the  war. 
The  country  about  Washington  was 
full  of  stragglers  and  thieves,  men 
of  both  armies.  One  morning  early 
two  men  put  in  their  appearance  on 
the  main  highway  from  Richmond. 
They  were  splendidly  mounted  on 
horses  well  fagged 
dashing 
young  fellows,  armed  to  kill,  bronz­
ed,  tanned,  ragged.

out, 

to 

The  guard  brought  them  to  a  halt. 
“Who  are  you?”  “We  are  the  ad­
vance  of  Sherman’s  army  on  the way 
to  Washington  and  home.”

They  were  taken  to  headquarters, 
where  the  General  said:  “How  is  it 
you  are  here  while  the  army  has 
not  yet  reached  Richmond?”

“Well,  you  see,  General,  we  have 
made  it  our  business  to  keep  in  the

that 

regretted 

It  is  to  be 

the 
names  and  regiments  of  these  two 
men  are  not  known. 
It  was  but  a 
fair  illustration  of  the  enterprise  of 
Sherman’s  Bummetys.

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STO R EK EEPER ’S  CHRISTMAS.
How the  Notakee  Merchant  Celebrat­

ed  the  Holiday.

Written  for  the  Tradesman.

Jepson  was  one  of  the  leading men 
of  Notakee.  He  barely  missed  being 
t-h-e  leading  man,  and  only  for  some 
limitations  of character  he would  have 
been;  but  that  makes  no  difference 
with  this  story.

Notakee  is  situated  in  the  lake  re­
gion  of  Northern  Michigan;  but 
it 
is  a  small  place  and  very  likely  you 
will  not  find  it  on  your  atlas;  for  of 
all  people  in  the  world,  it  seems  to 
me  that  map  makers  show  the  least 
consideration  for  little  towns.  Pros­
perous  and  thriving  villages  have 
time  and  again  been  completely  ig­
nored  in  the  construction  of  school 
geographies,  and  other  prosperous 
and  thriving  communities  have  been 
located  in  such  extremely  impossible 
places  as  in  the  depths  of  inaccessible 
swamps  and  miles  out  on  the  waters 
of  navigable  lakes.

But  these  are  matters  for  the  map 
makers  to  settle  with  their  own  con­
sciences  as  best,  they  can,  and  in  the 
meantime  the  people  of  Notakee  go 
right  on  about  their  everyday  affairs 
and  marry  and  are  given  in  mar­
riage;  they  hold  elections  that  are 
called  town  meetings;  they  die  off 
occasionally,  one  at  a  time;  and  they 
buy and  sell goods  and  eat three  times 
a  day  just  as  if  their  village  was  rep­
resented  upon  the  county  charts  as 
a  blazing  star  and  lettered  in  the 
reddest  imaginable  vermilion.

But  at  the  time  with  which  this 
story  deals  the  outer  world  meant 
very  little  to  the  people  of  Notakee. 
Jepson  kept  a  store  and  he  drew  upon 
the  country  at  large 
through  his 
wholesalers  for  his  supplies.  And 
yet  the  goods  that  he  handled  were 
not  the  goods  that  were  in  vogue 
in  most  other  places. 
Shoes  that 
had  outgrown  their  popularity 
in 
Manistee  and  Pinconning  were  just 
beginning  to  be  recognized  at  Nota­
kee  as  a  very  proper  style  of  foot­
gear,  and  when  Monroe  Center  and 
Wetzell  discarded  hoops  and  skirt ex­
tenders,  the  ladies  of  Notakee  put 
them  on,  calmly  and  self-reliantly, 
and  wore  them  just  as  long  as  they 
chose.

And  so  it  happened  that  Mr.  Jep­
son  found  little  trouble  in  buying 
popular  goods  at  very  satisfactory 
prices,  and  it  was  indeed  a  chilly  sea­
son  when  he  failed  to  make  good 
on  whatever  he  decided  to  put 
in 
stock.

Jepson  had  been  in  Notakee  for  a 
great  many  years. 
In  fact,  he  was  a 
very  young  man  when  he  went  there, 
and  slim  and  giddy  as  boys  went, 
but  at  the  time  of  this  story  he 
weighed  in  the  neighborhood  of  two 
hundred  and  his  hair  was  thin  in­
deed.

In  his  long  sojourn  in  this  location, 
Mr.  Jepson  had  steadfastly  refused 
to  take  public  office  and  he  had  never 
married.  These  were  two  matters 
that  troubled  his  neighbors  not  a 
little,  and  they  were  almost  equally 
hard  to  understand.  True,  there  was 
a  rumor  that  early  in  life  Mr.  Jepson 
had  been  disappointed  in  a  love  af­
fair;  but  of  this  no  one  seemed  to

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have  any  definite  information;  and 
relative  to  the  item  of  township  of­
fices,  there  were  always  so  many 
citizens  ready  to  lay  themselves  upon 
the  altar  of  their  country’s  weal,  that 
it  was  never  difficult  to  find  plenty 
of  timber  for  all  necessary  purposes.
Jepson  was  one  of  the  kindest  men 
in  the  world  and,  although  he  had 
a  peculiar  way  of  showing  it,  and j 
the  fact  was  not  generally  recogniz­
ed,  there  were  still  people 
in  the i 
vicinity  of  Notakee  who  knew  Jep­
son  at  his  true  worth  and  inwardly 
at  least  felt  grateful  to  him  for  his 
benefactions.

As  an  instance  of  his  quaint  meth­
ods,  and  at  the  risk  of  being  tiresome, 
we  will  relate  the  following:  Annie 
Eicher,  the  twelve-year-old  daughter  | 
of  one  of  his  farmer  customers,  en­
tered  the  store  one  day,  handed  Jep-

son’s  direct  interrogation,  she  answer­
ed  with  a  subdued  sob:

“ Yes,  sir.”
The  merchant  looked  up  quickly 
in  shamed  amazement.  The  heat 
of  his  sudden  anger  had  expired and 
the  man,  the  real  man  within  him, 
recoiled  from  the  words  he  had  just 
spoken.

“By  George!”  he  exclaimed,  “what 
was  I  saying?  Say,  I  didn’t  mean 
that. 
I  was  thinking  about  some­
body  else,  by  Jocks,  I  was.  There, 
now,  don’t  think  any  more  about  it, 
but  tell  me  how  your  ma 
is  and 
what  your  pa  is  a  doing.  You  see,  I 
wa’n’t  a  thinkin’  of  any  of  you  folks 
anything,”  he 
needing 
continued 
clumsily. 
“You’ll  have  to  excuse  an 
old  feller  this  time— kind  o’  absent 
minded  like,  I  be,  you  see.  Nothin’

“He  fell  a  tree  onto  hisself  yist’- 
day,  and  the  Doc.  says  he  bruck  his 
arm  in  two  places.”

“Broke  his  arm!”  exclaimed  Jep­
“Broke  it  in  two  places!  Well, 
son. 
by  Jocks!  Say,”  he  continued  after  a 
minute,  “how’s  the  neighbors?  Have 
you  got  all  the  help  you  want?  Do 
they  come  in  and  offer  to  sit  up  with 
him  and  all  that? 
Is  the  Doc.  doing 
|  all  right  by  your  pa?”

the  girl 

“Well,  we  do’  want  much  of 

the 
!  neighbors,”  said 
fiercely, 
j  “They’ve  been  doggin’  our  cattle  all 
•  summer,  an’  pa’s  bad  friends  with  a 
i  lot  of  ’em. 
I  don’t  mostly  reckon 
;  they’d  want  to  come.  The  Doc.  sot 
'  pa’s  arm  all  right,  but  he  says  as 
j  how  he’ll  have  to  have  the  money 
j  or  a  mortgage  on  suthin’  if  he’s  goin’ 
I  to  have  to attend  pa  right  along.  An’ 
we’ve  got  a  new  baby  an’  ma  can’t 
do  anything  now,  an’  the’  hain’t  noth­
in’  much  fer  the  little  fellers  to  eat 
J  reckon  we’s  ’ll  all  have  to  go  on  the 
an’  we  hain’t  no  money  neither. 
I 
town  if  something  don’t  happen.”
Jepson  had  begun  doing  up  parcels 
I  and  was  cursing  himself  fluently  and 
generously  as  he  worked.  Sugar and 
I  tea  and  flour  and  meat  and  canned 
I  goods  were  followed  by  a  fine  assort­
ment  of  such  table  delicacies 
as 
were known  in  the  village  of Notakee.
I  Then  the  merchant  gathered  together 
j  a  bundle  of  underwear,  hosiery  and 
!  blankets,  and  when  that  was  done, 
j  he  went  to  the  barn,  hitched  up  his 
driving  horse,  loaded  up  the  goods,
|  took  the  child  on  the  seat  with  him 
and  drove  out  to  Eicher’s.  When he 
came  back  he  visited  the  physician 
who  wanted  either  the  money  or  a 
mortgage,  and  whether  he  obtained 
from  Jepson  either  of  the  desired 
commodities,  it  was  noted  by 
the 
neighbors  that  his  trips  were  suffi­
ciently  prompt  and  regular  to  secure 
the  best  possible  results  to  the  dis­
tressed  family.

Geo.  L.  Thurston

son  a  note  and  then  stepped  to  the 
stove  to  warm  herself.  The  mer­
chant  began  to  read:

“What!”  he  ejaculated,  “more  cred­
it?  Your  father  wants  me  to  trust 
him  some  more?  Not  by  a  jugful! 
I  want  you  to  go  right  home  and  tell 
him  that  he  hain’t  kept  his  word  with 
me  worth  a  continental  on  what  I  did 
let  him  have  and  I  don’t  propose  to 
send  good  money  after  bad.  Tell 
him,”  fumed  Jepson,  “that  the  best 
thing  he  can  do  is  to  hustle  the 
money  for  what  he  owes  trie  now, 
ruther  than  to  make  a  bigger  bill 
than  he  can  pay.  Tell  him  I  want 
that  old  matter  settled  up 
right 
away.  D’ye  hear?  Right  away!”
|  The  frightened  figure  by  the  stove 
shrank  into  an  infinitesimal  shadow 
and cringed silently into a dark corner 
behind  the  big  heater;  but  upon  Jep-

like  when  I  was  young,  long  enough 
before  y-o-u  was  born.”

His  attempt  at  pleasantry  was  not 
very  successful.  The  girl  continued 
to  sob.

“There,  there,  don’t  take  on  so,” 
protested  Jepson,  stalking  up  and 
down  the  store. 
“I  didn’t  know  it 
was  you,  anyway,”  he  added,  with 
a  barefaced 
falsehood  that  should 
certainly  be  cancelled  by  the  record­
ing  angel. 
“No,  sir,  I  never  oncet 
thought  of  its  being  you.  Thought 
it  was  one  o’  them  air  Stuben  kids 
from  acrosst  the  river.  Say,  w-o-n-’-t 
you  please  let  up? 
I  want  to  ask 
you  about  your  ma  and  your  pa.” 
The  child  stifled  her  sobs,  and 
the 
merchant  began  asking  questions: 
“What’s  your  pa  a  doing  now?” 

“Hain’t  doin’  nuthin’,”  sniff.
“How  does  that  come? 

I  thought 

your  pa  was  a  whirlwind  to  work.”

One  day  Eicher, still  pale and  weak, 

entered  Jepson’s  store.

“I’ve  come  to  see  about  my  bill,” 
said  he.  “It’s  worried  me  a  lot,  and 
I  can’t  pay  it  all;  but  I’ve  made  a 
raise  on  some  timber  I  didn’t  expect 
to  sell  and  I’ll  pay  what  I  can  of  it 
now  and  the  rest  as  soon  as  I  git 
able  to  earn  it.”

long  moment. 

Jepson  looked  out  of  the  window 
for  a 
“Why,”  said 
he,  “I  guess  there  ain’t  any  great 
hurry  about  that  bill.  You  might  as 
well  let  it  run  on  for  a  spell. 
I  ain’t 
a  suffering.”

“Well,  I’m  glad  ye  feel  that  way 
about  it,”  said  Eicher,  “but  I’ve  got 
some  money  now  and  I  want  to 
know  jess  how  much  I’m  behind.  I'd 
ruther  have  the  facts  than  to  be  wor- 
ryin’  about  it  all  along,  an’  not  be 
sure.”

“Fourteen  seventy-eight,”  said  the 
merchant  laconically  after  a  reference 
to  his  ledger.

“That  can’t  be  right,”  said  Eicher. 
“As  nigh  as  I  can  tell  that’s  jess 
what  it  was  afore  I  was  took  down.”
“I  don’t  allow  no  man  to  dispute 
my  books,”  said  Jepson  with  assumed 
pomposity. 

“My  books  are  right.”

“Well,  but  all  them  stuff  that  come 
to  the  house  while  I  was  down.  Ye 
hain’t  got  none  o’  that  in.”

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her  existence  and  keep  body  and 
soul  together  until  that  “sometime” 
was  an  always  present  and  ever  vex­
ing  problem  to  the  poor  widow.

Mr.  Jepson,  for  a  backwoods store­
keeper,  was  considered  an  exception­
ally  enterprising  merchant.  Never  a 
year  went  by  that  he  did  not  “get 
on”  a  lot  of  toys  and  pretty  things 
for  the  Christmas  trade,  and  his  was 
|  the  only  store  in  that  part  of  the 
county  that  paid  the  slightest  atten­
tion  to  the  holiday.  And  at  the  time 
of  which  this  chapter  deals  Jepson 
I  had  invested  in  an  extra  large  lot 
j  of  Christmas  goods, and realizing that 
he  would  have  to  make  a  special  ef­
fort  in  order  to  sell  so  many  “jim- 
cracks,”  he  conceived  and  executed 
a  new  and  novel  advertising  dodge. 
He  had  two  hundred  circulars  print­
ed  in  script  type,  and  mailed  them 
to  every  child  that  he  knew  or  could 
hear  of.  The  circular  purported  to 
be  a  letter  from  Santa  Claus  and  it 
gave  a  nice  little  talk  about  the  com­
ing  of  Christmas  and  said  that  Santa 
Claus  had  decided,  now  that  he  had 
so  much  to  do  and  so  many  children 
to  look  after,  that  it  would  be  a  good 
thing  to  make  a  depot  of  supplies 
at  Jepson’s. 
It  would  make  it  handy 
for  them.  They  could  go  there  and 
make  their  selections  and  write  to 
him  if  they  wished,  and  tell  him  just 
what  they  wanted;  but 
they  must 
be  careful  not  to  ask  for  too  much, 
as  he  had  so  many  places  to  visit 
that  each  child  could  only  expect 
to  receive  his  own  proper  share  of 
the  good  things.  Then  he  finished 
by  telling  them  that  they  must  all 
be  good  boys  and  girls  or  he  would 
have  nothing  whatever  to  do  with 
them.

“I  don’t  know  anything  about that,” 
answered  Jepson.  “If  there  was  any 
stuff  taken  to  your  house  while  you 
was  sick,  it  must  have  been  paid for, 
for I' don’t see  how  any good  business 
man  would  dare  to  trust  a  feller  with 
a  broken  arm,”  and  Jepson  walked 
to  the  other  end  of  the  store.

Eicher  covered  his  face  with  his 
hands.  After  a  time  some  of  the 
customers  who  happened  in  noticed 
that  his  fingers  were  wet,  as  if  with 
tears.

“Jepson  is  dreadful  hard  on  poor 
folks,”  they  said  among  themselves 
as  they  went  out. 
“If  yuh  know 
when  yer  well  off  yuh  won’t  never 
git  ketched  in  h-i-s  clutches.”

“Mr.  Jepson,”  said  Eicher  at  last, 
“won’t  you  please  let  me  pay  ye  fer 
that  stuff?  I  ain’t  much  of  a  feller 
to  know  how  to  say  things  or  I’d 
tell  ye  how  much  obleeged  me  an’ j 
the  woman  an’  all  my  little  young-j 
’uns  is  fer  all  what  ye’ve  done  fer 
us,  which  has  kep’  us  offen  the  town, 
an’  which  I  wouldn’t  of  cared  for  so 
much  fer  myself,  but  I  couldn’t  think 
of  havin’  it  throwed  up  to  my  little 
fellers  that  they  was  paupers  and | 
had  to  have  county  help,  an’  that | 
their  pa  wasn’t  no  good  an’  couldn’t 
take  care  of  ’em.  But  ye’ve  done so 
much  fer  us— ”

“By  the  Jocks  of  Israel,”  exclaimed 
Jepson,  fiercely,  “w-o-n-’-t  you 
let 
up?”  And  then  as  the  startled  Eicher 
gave  the  merchant  a  quick  look  of 
surprise,  Jepson  blew  his  nose  furi­
ously  and,  turning  his  back  on  the 
suppliant, 
furtively  wiped  his 
eyes. 
“Say,”  said  he,  “if  you  want 
to  do  me  a  real  favor,  you  won’t say 
another  word  about  this,”  and  as 
.Eicher  acted  as  if  again  about 
to 
speak,  Jepson  jammed  his  hat  down 
tightly  over  his  eyes,  and  rushed  im­
petuously  from  the  room.

lie 

II.

Mrs.  Willoughby  and  her  ten-year- 
old  boy,  Jimmy,  lived  all  by  them­
selves  in  a  little  cottage  on  the  next 
street  back  of  Jepson’s  store.  The 
elder  Willoughby  had  been  a  car­
penter,  but  once  upon  a  time  he  fell 
from  a  high  scaffold  and  broke  his 
back,  and  as  he  was  one  of  those 
smart  fellows  who  never  expect  any­
thing  to  happen,  he  left  nothing  for 
the  family  but  a  medium  sized  store 
bill  and  the  little  cottage  with  its  ac­
companying  mortgage.

And  naturally  Mrs.  Willoughby had 
a  pretty  hard  time  to  make  a  living.  ! 
She  was  a  good  dressmaker  and,  as I 
some  of  the  ladies  of  the  town  were j 
anxious  to  help  her,  they  decided  to 
employ  her  on their own work and to j 
pay  her  fifty cents  a  day  for  her  serv­
ices.  By  beginning  at  7  o’clock  and j 
sewing  until  9  at  night  and  by  doing j 
considerably  better  work  than  any 
other  dressmaker  in  the  village,  Mrs. i 
Willoughby  finally  established  an  en­
viable  reputation  as  a  seamstress.

But  the  town  was  small  and  jobs 
none  too  plentiful,  so  that  regardless | 
of  the  financial  situation  in  the  coun­
try  at  large,  times  were  always  hard 
with  Mrs.  Willoughby.  Jimmy  was 1 
a  bright  little  fellow,  and  bid  fair  to I 
be  a  great  help  to  his  mother  some- j 
time;  but  how  she  should  manage  to ! 
piece  together  the  broken  strands  of I

It  was  a  very  taking  letter  and  it 
pleased  the  children  immensely,  and 
the  result was  that  Jepson’s  store  was 
I  filled  with  customers,  large  and  small,
I  and  in  the  end  he  cleaned  out  all  of 
|  his  Christmas  goods  and  was  sorry 
I  he  had  not  bought  a  bigger  bill.

But  we  are  getting  ahead  of  our 

story.

Bright  and  early  one  morning  Jim- 
|  my  Willoughby  entered  the  Jepson 
|  store  with  another  boy  of  equal  size 
j  called  Iiuckins.

“Mr.  Jepson,”  said  Jim,  “I  got  a 

!  letter  from  Santa  Claus.”

“Well,  that  was  mighty  clever  of 
Santy,”  said  Mr.  Jepson  with  his 
broadest  smile.

“Well,  Bill  says  the’  hain’t  no  San-  ' 

ta  Claus.”

“Bill  who?”  enquired  Jepson,  with 

apparent  amazement.

“Why,  Bill  Huckins,  here,”  replied 

Jimmy.

“A  bless-ed 

lot  he  knows  about 

it,”  asserted  Mr.  Jepson.

“The’  hain’t  none,  neither,” 

said 

Bill,  stoutly.

“Well,”  enquired  Mr.  Jepson,  “up­
on  what  deep-founded  theory  do  you 
base  such  a  broad  assertion?”

Aw,”  said  the  urchin  as  he  wrig­
gled  uneasily  under  the  keen  scru­
tiny  of  his  inquisitor,  “I  k-n-o-w  the’ 
hain’t  none.”

“And  I  know the’ is,” persisted Jim­

my,  “cus  I’ve  seen  him.”

“Good  for  you,”  said  the  merchant, 

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after  a  while.  And  then,  again,  you 
see,  Jimmy,  if  your  ma  was  going 
to  get  a  present  like— like  what  you 
said,  don’t  you  think  she’d  like  it  bet­
ter  if  it  come  as  a  kind  of  a  surprise, 
like?”

“0 ,  yes,  of  course,  if  it’s  going  to
be  a  surprise,  it  wouldn’t  be  fair  to 
tell  her. 
I’ll  write  the  letter,  and 
then  what  will  I  do  with  it?”

“0 ,  you  might  address  it  to  Mr. 
Santa  Claus,  in  care  of  Mr.  Jepson, 
and  give  it  to  me,  and  I’ll  see  that 
it  gets  there  all  right.”

III.

The  days 

immediately  preceding 
Christmas were very busy ones at Jep 
son’s  store.  He  had  impressed  into 
his  service  two  of  the  prettiest  maid­
ens  in  the  village,  and  it  made  their 
hearts  glad  to  deal  out  toys  and  pret­
ty  dishes  to  the  waiting  multitudes.

“O,  it’s  a  snap  to  clerk,”  said they.
Out  in  Jepson’s  store  room  there 
was  an  immense  iron  bound  packing 
box  with  a  great  hasp  that  fastened 
down  the  lid  with  a  padlock  of  appro­
priate  size.  And  the  girls  were  full 
of curiosity  as  to its  contents.  “O,  it’s 
just  some  trinkets,”  said  Jepson,  and 
as  he  never  left  the  chest  unlocked, 
they  had  to  be  content  with  the  ev- 
planation.  But  after  hours,  Jepson 
used  to  open  it  and  examine  and  re­
arrange  its  contents,  and  sometimes 
he  chuckled  softly as he did this, while 
at  other  times  he  seemed  in  doubt 
and  swore  to himself strange and  bar­
baric  oaths;  but  he  always  finished 
by  slamming  down 
the  cover  and 
leaving  it  tightly  locked.

On  Christmas  eve  there  was  to  be 
a  “doin’s”  and  a  “tree”  at  the  church. 
Of  course,  the  clerks  wanted  to  go 
and  they  nearly  dropped  dead  with 
surprise  at  the  alacrity  with  which 
Jepson  promised  to  let  them  off.  And 
then,  with  a  guilty  blush,  he  explain­
ed  that  there  would  be  little  to  do  af­
ter  the  crowd  began  to  go  to  the 
church,  and  that  he  alone  could  at­
tend  to  all  the  trade.

the  mysterious 

O,  Jepson,  you  old  hypocrite!
Shortly  after  the  departure  of 

the 
clerks,  Jepson  locked  the  store.  He 
hastily  counted  his  cash,  jammed  his 
books  into  the  safe,  and  then  after 
looking  around  the  store  guiltily  and 
uneasily,  he  undid  the  ponderous fas­
tenings  of 
box. 
Throwing back the  cover he  produced 
from  its  depths  a  large  bag,  and  this 
he  began  rapidly  and  dextrously  to 
pack  with  a  strange  and  miscellane­
ous 
assortment  of  merchandise. 
When  the  bag  was  filled,  or  the chest 
emptied,  it  might  have  been  a  trifle 
difficult  to  tell  which,  Jepson  arose 
with  a  smile,  and  carried  his  package 
out  into  the  store. 
It  was  pretty 
heavy  and  it  made  him  red  in  the

“You  didn’t  no  such  a  thing,”  per­
sisted  Bill.  “You  jess  see  somebody 
dressed  up  like  him.”

“Huh,”  replied  Jimmy,  “if  the’  was­
n’t  no  Santy  Claus,  I’d  like  to  know 
how  you’d  go  to  work  to  dress  some­
body  up  like  him.”

This  was  a  sticker  for  the  Huckins 
boy  and  he  felt  his  defeat  keenly  for 
a  minute;  but  Jimmy  finally  took  pity 
on  him  and  continued:  “I  know what 
you  mean.  You  mean  that  the’ hain’t 
no  Santa  Claus  for  bad  boys  and 
girls.  He’s  only  for  the  good  ones.” 
And  as  Bill  seemed  to  have  nothing 
further  to  say  upon  the  subject,  he 
speedily  took  his  departure.

“Mr.  Jepson!”  said  Jimmy,  after  a 
careful  inspection  of a  goodly  number 
of  the  holiday  wares.

“Well,  what  is  it,  Jimmy?”
“Do  you  know  what  I’m  a  going 
to  do? 
I’m  a  going  to  write  Santa 
Claus  a  letter  and  tell  him  just  what 
I  want  for  Christmas.”

“Well,  that’s  a  sensible  thing  to  do. 
Only  don’t  ask  for  too  much,  because 
like  as  not  Santy’ll  be  loaded  pretty 
light  time  comes  he  gets  along 
to 
your  house.  You  see,  he  has  to  go 
to  Puerto  Rico  and  Manilla  now,  and 
make  all  his  other  dates  into  the  bar­
gain,  and  it  takes  a  heap  of  stuff  for 
all  them  new  little  fellers  he  finds 
along  the  road.  You’d  better 
go 
middling  light  on  what  you  ask for,” 
said  Jepson,  thinking  of  the  careworn 
and  overworked  widow  in  the  little 
cottage  on  the  next  street  back  of 
his  store.

“Yes,  I  know,” replied Jimmy,  med­
itatively,  “I  hain’t  a  going  to  ask for 
much. 
I’m  just  a  going  to  ask  for 
a  little  kit  of  tools  like  my  father’s, 
and  for  one  o’  them  games.  That’s 
all  for  me;  but  I  guess  I’ll  ask  fer  a 
lot  of  stuff  for  my  mother,  cus  she’s 
always  good,  and  she  never’s  had 
nothin’  neither,  and  I  think  it’s  about 
time  that  Santa  Claus  commenced to 
make  up  for  lost  time  on  her.” 

“Now  I  begin  to  like  your  ways,” 
in  a 
“What  you  going  to 

growled  the  storekeeper.  Then 
louder  tone: 
ask  Santy  to  bring  yer  ma?”

“O,  lots,”  said  Jimmy.  “I’m  going 
to  ask  for  a  nice  big  fur  cape  with 
silk  linin’  and  a  sewin’  machine,  so’s’t 
she  won’t  have  to  work  so  late  nights 
a  makin’  things  for  all  them  ladies, 
and  a  new  stove  that  don’t  leak  ashes 
and  let  sparks  out  all  the  time  and  set 
the  floor  afire,  and  I  think  I’d  like to 
ask  for  a  new father,  too,  if  I  thought 
Santa  Claus  could  get  one  that’d  suit 
my  mother;  but  he’d  have  to  be  an 
awful  good  one  or  mother  wouldn’t 
have  him  at  all,”  and  Jimmy  stop­
ped,  appalled  by  the  difficulties  that 
were  about  to  confront  his  patron 
saint.

Mr.  Jepson  scratched  his  nose  med­
itatively  and  looked  absently  out  of 
the  window. 
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“Well,” 

“Can’t  I  tell  my mother?”
“Why,  I  guess  I  wouldn’t  tell  her 

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“Why,  well,  you  see,  well— the  fact 
is,  Jimmy,  that  you  are  a  very  little 
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face.  Then  he  looked  at  his  watch, 
seemed  surprised  at  the  lateness  of 
the  hour,  and  letting  himself  out  of 
the  rear  door,  he  started  across  lots 
in  the  direction  of  the  little  cottage 
on  the  next  street  back  of  the  store.
“They’ll  be  at  the  church  and  no­
body’ll  know  anything  about  it  only 
Jimmie,”  said  the  wise  Jepson 
to 
himself  with  a  knowing  grin.  “That’s 
a  smart  boy,”  he  mused,  “wish  I  had 
a  little  feller  of  my  own  just  his 
size,  a  growing  up  to  be  a  big  man 
like— no,  not  like  me,”  he  hastened 
to  correct  himself,  “I  mean  like,  like, 
well,  something  like  my  father  was, 
only  maybe  not  so  quick  spoken  and 
hasty  as  him;  but  just  as  honest  and 
honorable,” and Jepson  stumbled  over 
an  obstacle  in  the  darkness,  that  re­
minded  him  that  he  was  not  walking 
through  the  main  street,  and  that  he 
had  still  his  evening’s  work  to  do.

“Jimmy,”  said  Mrs.  Willoughby, 

softly.

The  boy  was  reading a  well-thumb- j 
ed  copy  of  the  Arabian  Nights  and 
he  did  not  hear.  The  mother  sewed 
on  in  silence  a  little  longer,  and  then  i 
again  she  said  in  her  sweet,  gentle 
voice:  “Jimmy!”  But  the  boy  was 
still  in  fairy  land  and  he  read  on 
and  on.  At  last,  with  a  sigh,  Mrs. 
Willoughby  arose  and  started  for  the 
door.  Jimmy  was  on  his  feet  in  an 
instant.

“Did  you  call  me,  mother?”  he 
“I  don’t  think  I  heard  you 
asked. 
real  good,  if  you  did. 
I  was  reading 
about  where  they  entered  the  cave 
of  the  Forty  Thieves  and  I  didn’t 
notice.”

“It  didn’t  matter,  son,”  said  the 
lady. 
“I  wondered  if  you  put  back 
the  cellar  door  after  you  brought  up 
the  potatoes  for  mother?”

“O,  no.  I  was  just  a  goin’  to,”  as­
serted  Jimmy,  and  he  made  a  dive 
into  the  dark  summer  kitchen,  gave 
the  loose  door  a  kick  that  was  sup­
posed  to  replace  it,  and  then  hurried 
back  to  light,  warmth  and  the  reas­
surance  of  a  loving  mother’s  pres­
ence.

“I  wisht  we  could  of  gone  to  the 
Christmas  tree,”  said  Jimmy  plain­
tively.

“So  do  I,  my  boy;  but  I  think  it 
better  for  us  to  stay  at  home  this 
time.  Perhaps  next  year  it  will  be 
different.  God  is  good,  Jimmy,  and 
he  will  find  us  and  help  us  right  here 
at  home  better  than  anywhere  else.”
“Well, but how about  Santa  Claus?”
“What  do  you  mean,  Jimmy?”
“Do  you  think  he’ll  find  us  here, 

too?”

“Why,  of  course,”  she  answered; 
but  her  eyes  filled  with  tears  as  she 
thought  of  the  poor,  cheap  little  toy 
that  lay  hidden  away  in  the  lower 
drawer  of  her  well-nigh  empty  bu­
reau— the  toy  that  was  to  be  the  sole 
representative  of  the  munificence  of 
the  child’s  Christmas  deity. 
“Yes, 
Santa  will  find  us  here,”  she  contin­
ued;  “but you  mustn’t be  disappointed 
if  he  doesn’t  have  much  to  leave  this 
time.  He  has  so  many  little  boys 
and  girls  to  visit,  you  know.”

“Yes,  I  know,”  replied 

the  boy. 
“That’s  just  what  Mr.  Jepson  said, 
too.”

“Mr.  Jepson?”  asked  the  lady  with

a  start. 
that?”  she  asked.

“How  did  he  come  to  say 

“O,  we  was  talkin’  about  Christ­
mas,”  said Jimmy, and he  again plung­
ed  into  his  story.

*  *  *

“I  didn’t  suppose  that  Mrs.  Wil­
loughby  was  well  enough  off  to  leave 
a  light  burning  in  the  house  while 
It  ain’t 
she  went  out  of  an  evening. 
safe,  either.  Cat  might  knock 
it 
over  and  burn  up  the  house.  Guess 
I’ll  have  to  speak  to  her  about  that— 
said  Jepson, 
no,  I  won’t  neither,” 
hastily  correcting  himself. 
“Good 
thing  I’ve  delivered  stuff  here  to  this 
place  before  now,”  he  remarked  pres­
ently  as  he  fumbled  softly at  the  door 
latch,  “or  I  wouldn’t  know  how  to 
get  around  in  this  blamed  summer 
kitchen.  Guess  I’ll  leave  the  whole 
thing  right  slam  up  against  the  back 
door  of  the  main  part,  so  they  can’t 
help  finding  it  when  they  get  back. 
Sorry  I  couldn’t  put  in  all  the  things 
that  lad  wants  for  his  mother,  but 
there’s  quite  a  bunch  of  ’em.  I’d  like 
best  of  all  to  represent  the— the—  
well,  the  other  present;  but  she  did­
n’t  want  me  when  I  was  young  and 
better  looking  than  I  be  now  and 
I  reckon  an  old  back  number  would­
n’t  be  much  account  any  way  you 
can  fix  it.  I’ll—■”

Jepson,  not  perhaps  as  well  ac­
quainted  with  the  inside  of  Mrs.  Wil­
loughby’s  summer  kitchen  as  he  had 
thought,  after  depositing  his  bundle 
softly  upon  the  inner  door  sill,  en­
deavored  to  grope  his  way  out  again, 
but  in  the  darkness  he  stepped  upon 
a  corner  of  the  trap  door— the  door 
that  Jimmy  had  made  shift  a  few 
minutes  before  to  kick  into  place, and 
with  a  thunderous  crash  he  plunged 
into  the  stygian  darkness  of 
the 
Willoughby  cellar.

If  Jepson  had  once  congratulated 
himself  upon  the  fact  that  he  was 
alone  in  that  house,  he  now  had  just 
cause  to  change  his  mind.  As  he 
lay  for  a  moment  half  stunned  upon 
a  pile  of  potatoes,  he  heard  a  fright­
ened  scream  from  above,  and 
this 
was  immediately  followed  by  excited 
voices.  And  as  Jepson  recognized 
them  as  belonging  to  Jimmy  and  his 
mother,  he  made  a  frantic  effort  to 
ascend  and  escape  without  detection.
I  But  the  frail  and  half  decayed  ladder 
thathad  answered  well  enough  for 
j  these  people  ill  served  the  man  who 
|  had  grown  stout  with  years  of  com- 
|  fortable  living,  and  at  the  first  essay 
j  he  either  broke  or  tore  away  the 
weak  rungs  and  again  found  himself 
|  helpless  among  the  tubers.

A  light  above  his  head  and  some 
hurried  words  told  him  that  his  only 
chance  now  was  to  shrink  into  the 
smallest compass  and  to  keep  perfect­
ly still;  but he acted  upon  the  thought 
a  moment  too  late.  The  quick  eye 
of  the  small  boy  espied  an  involun­
tary  movement  in  the  depths  below, 
and  he  shrieked:

“Here  he  is,  mother. 

It’s  Santy. 
He’s  fell  into  the  cellar.  Le’s  help 
him  out.”

But  Mrs.  Willoughby,  wiser  in  the 
ways  of  the  world  than  her  son, 
although  frightened  almost  beyond 
belief,  still  retained  her  presence  of 
!  mind.  “It’s  a  burglar,”  said  she  and 
with  the  quickness  of  thought  push­

ed  the  cellar  door  back  into  position, 
and  dragging  over  it  a  heavy  chest 
of  tools— the  ones  that  had  been  used 
by  Willoughby  years  before— she 
turned  to  Jimmy  and  said:

“Now  we’ve  got  him.  But  run  just 
as  fast  as  you  can  and  get  Mr.  Brink 
and  tell  him  to  bring  his  handcuffs. 
Now  run!”

“But  it  i-s  Santy,”  insisted  Jimmy. 
“See!  There’s  his  pack  by  the  door.” 
“I  tell  you  it’s  a  burglar  and  that’s 

his  kit  of  tools.  Go  on,  I  say.”

Jimmy  hesitated.
“W-i-1-1  you  go?”  groaned  his 

mother.

“We  might  ast  him  who  he  is,” 

suggested  the  boy.

“Will  you  go  then?”
“Well,  I  will  if  it  hain’t  Santy  or—  

or— the  other  one.”

“What  other one?”
“Well,  that’s  a  secret,”  said  Jim­
my  with  exasperating  pertinacity. 
“If  you  do’wanto,  then  le’me.”

“Well,  then,  do  it  quick,”  said  the 
lady,  who  almost  for  the  first  time 
felt  any  inefficiency  in  the  presence 
of  her  son.

“Say,”  called  Jimmy,  “be  you  Mr. 
Santa  Claus  or be  you  the  other one?” 
Then  a  half  muffled  voice  from  be­
low,  the  first  sound  of  which  made 
Mrs.  Willoughby  start  and 
clutch 
nervously  at  her  throat,  answered, 
“I  ain’t  neithen  one;  but  if  you’ll  go 
away  long  enough  for  me  to  find 
some  way to  get  out  of this,  I’ll  make 
it  worth  your  while.”

“Tell  me  who  you  are,”  said  Mrs. 

Willoughby,  quickly.

“I  ain’t  nobody,  only  just  a  com­
mon tramp,” replied  the voice.  “Please 
go  away.”

sudden 

“I know who you  are,” said  the lady 
“Henry 
with 
Jepson,  what  on  earth  are  you  doing 
down  there  in  my  cellar?”

conviction. 

“Well,  if  you  know  who  I  am, 

I 
suppose  I  might  as  well  make  a  clean 
breast  of  it,”  he  replied.  “ I  came  to 
get  potatoes  for  breakfast.  After  as 
frank  a  confession  as  that,  will  you 
be  good  enough  to let  me out without 
calling  in  the  neighbors?”

“Jimmy,  help  mother  take  away 
said  Mrs.  Wil­

this  tool  chest,” 
loughby.

So  Jimmy  and  his  mother  pulled 
and  pushed  and  tugged,  but  not  an 
inch  could  they  move  the  heavy  box.
“Try  again,  Jimmy,  and  push  just 
as  hard  as  ever  you  can.”  But  still 
they  could  not  move  it.

“we 

“Well,  now  that’s 

strange,”  said 
Mrs.  Willoughby, 
can’t 
budge  this  now,  and  I  pulled  it  over 
here  alone  a  minute  ago  and  I  don’t 
remember  that  it  seemed  heavy  at 
all.”

two 

“Mother,  le’s  take  out  the  tools,” 

suggested  the  boy.

“Goodness,  why  didn’t  I  think  of 
that?”  said  Mrs.  Willoughby.  The 
tools  were  in  trays,  and  it  was  only  a 
short  job.  After  this  had  been  ac­
complished,  and  the  cellar  door  open­
ed,  Jepson  was  able,  by  using  what 
little  agility  he  had  left,  to  make  a 
successful  if  not  a  triumphant  ascent 
from  the  cellar,  and  he  would  have 
straightway  bolted  out  of  doors,  only 
that  Mrs.  Willoughby  stopped  him.

“I  want  you  to  come  into  the  other 
room  where  it’s  warm,  and  tell  me

this-  means,” 

what  all 
she. 
“Please  don’t  think  me  silly  enough 
to  believe  what  you  said  about  get­
ting  potatoes.”

said 

“Well,”  replied  Jepson,  sheepishly, 
“I’m  plenty  warm. 
I  ain’t  got  noth­
ing  to  tell  and  I  guess  I’d  better  be 
going.  The  folks  at  my  boarding 
place’ll  wonder  where  I  am.”

lI  know  how  ye  come  here,”  an­
“Santa  Claus  left 
the  other  one, 

nounced  Jimmy. 
you  here.  You’re 
hain’t  you?”

Jepson  twiddled  his 

thumbs  and 
shook  his  head.  “I  was  just  showing 
him  where  you  live,”  said  he. 
“Can 
I  go,  now?”

“No,”  said  Mrs.  Willoughby,  “you 
can’t.  You  are  my  prisoner,  and  you 
must  do  just  as  I  tell  you. 
I  want 
you  to  come  into  the  other  room.” 
She  led  the  way  and  Jepson  follow­
ed,  Jimmy  bringing  up  the  rear  drag­
ging  the  bag  after  him.

“Prisoners  sometimes  break 

their 
|  bonds  and  escape,”  suggested  Jepson,
!  as  he  glanced  about 
the  poverty 
stricken  apartments.

“Yes,  sometimes,”  assented  Mrs.
|  Willoughby,  “but  not  when  they  are 
held  upon  their  honor.”

“Look  a  here,  mother,”  called  Jim­
my,  “look  whaf all’s  in  this  bag!  It’s 
a  reg’lar  Klondike!”  He  had  drawn 
forth  a  warm  fur  cape  and  a  small 
for 
tool  chest,  and  was 
something  more. 
this  a 
whirlwind?”

reaching 

“Hairi’t 

“Mr.  Jepson,  what  have  you  been 
doing?”  asked  Mrs.  Willoughby  in 
freezing  tones,  as  she  glanced  from 
the  articles  on  the  floor  to  the  abash­
ed  figure  before  her. 
“Answer  me, 
please!  Do  you  consider  me  an  ob­
ject  of  charity? 
I  did  not  think, 
Henry  Jepson,  after  what  you  told 
me  once,  that  you  would  come  back 
to  taunt  me  with  my  misfortunes. 
You  will  have  the  kindness  to  take 
these  things  and  go,”  and  as  the 
man  before  her,  with  white,  fixed 
features,  stood  for  a  moment  irreso­
lute,  she  repeated,  “you  will  be  kind 
enough  to  go,  and  never  come  back.”
Jimmie  looked  up  with  a  fright­
ened  face.  “O,  mother,  don’t.  Please 
don’t. 
It’s  all  my  fault,  for  I  wrote 
to  Santa  Claus  for  these  things  and 
I  gave  Mr.  Jepson  the  letter,  and he 
h-a-d  to  deliver  it,  you  see.  He  just 
h-a-d  to.  And  then  he  had  to  come 
and  show  Santy  where  we  lived,  did­
n’t  he?  And  mother,”  as  Jepson 
started  for  the  door,  “ I  asked  Santy 
for  a  new  father— an  extry  good  one, 
you  know— and  he’s  left  Mr.  Jepson. 
And,  mother,  we  couldn’t  find  a  bet­
ter  one  no  place,  now  could  we?”

Mrs.  Willoughby  buried  her  face 
in  her  hands  and  her  body  shook 
with  convulsive  sobs.

Jimmie  rushed  to  the  door. 

Jepson, 
“Please  do.  Mother  wants  you.”

come  back,”  he 

“Mr. 
called. 

“James,  stop!”
But  it  was  too  late,  for  Jepson  was 
room— at 

in  the  doorway—in 
Mrs.  Willoughby’s  side.

the 

“O,”  said  he,  “I  didn’t  suppose  that 

anybody  could  ever  want  m-e.”

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

The  woman  who  takes  up  the  bur­
den  of  another’s  life  is  happier  than 
she  who  silently  carries  her  own.

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Incorporated  1890. 

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One  of  the  Oldest  and  Largest  Wholesale  Grocers  in  Western  Michigan, 

controlling  the  distribution  of  the  following  well-known  brands: 

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  “Forget  Me  Not”  Japan  Teas,
Tissera’s  Ceylon  Teas,

Bay  State  Milling  Co.’s  Wingold  Flour,

Home  Guard  Tomatoes,

Climax  Ext.  Fancy  Canned  Corn, 

Home  Comfort  Canned  Goods,
Lakeside  Canned  Peas,

Imperial  Fancy  Canned  Corn, 

Seward  Red  Alaska  Salmon,

Simon  Pure  Spices,

Simon  Pure  Extracts,
T.  &  T.  Spices,

Acme  Baking  Powder,

Acme  Cheese,

Acme  Codfish,

Acme  Cider  Vinegar, 

Eagle  Corn  Syrup.

Cargest Importers of Ceas

Being  conveniently  situated  near  the Union depot, we most cordially  invite  all  mer- 
chants  visiting  Grand  Rapids  to  confer upon us the pleasure of calling at our establishment 
when  in  the  city, to the end that closer  relationship may be cultivated to our mutual benefit.

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

course,  buy  patents  for  dress  wear. 
Farmers  are  flush  this  fall  and  are 
spending  their  money  quite  liberally. 
They  are  laying  in  heavy  wear  and 
warm  goods,  such  as  felt  boots,  etc. 
Rubbers  and  rubber  boots  have gone 
well  so  far,  and  we  expect  our  usual 
good  trade  on  thesqp'

Tans?  No,  I  won't  order  many.  I 
will  confine  my  order  to  oxfords and 
will  buy  just  enough  to  take  care 
of  the  best  trde.  If  tans  prove  popu­
lar  in  the  cities  next  year  we  will 
no  doubt  have  a  good  call  for  them 
a  season  later,  or  perhaps  I  will  be 
forced  to  buy 
I 
would  rather  wait  and  put  in  an  order 
from  stock  or  a  rush  order,  than take j 
my  chances  by  buying  largely  this 
fall.”— Shoe  Retailer.

later  on. 

some 

American  Leather.

Less  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
ago  there  was  a  prevalent  belief  in 
this  country  that  Americans  could 
not  make  good  leather.  The  import­
ers  of  foreign  products  assisted  in 
In  spite  of  the  at­
its  promulgation. 
tempt  to  backfire 
the 
it 
grew,  and  now  the  United  States 
manufactures  more  and  better  leather 
than  any  other  country,  and  a  good 
part  of  the  world  outside  of  our  bor­
ders  is  dependent  on  Americans  for 
leather  and  footwear.

industry 

The  B an k in g  

Business

of  Merchants, Salesmen and 

Individuals solicited.

3 V i   Per  Cent.  Interest 

II

Paid  on  Savings Certificates 

of  Deposit.

Kent  County 
Savings Bank

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Deposits  Exceed  2 &   Million  Dollars

We have a large and com­
plete  line  of  Fur  Coats, 
Plush,  Fur and  Imitation 
Buffalo  Robes,  Street 
and  S t a b l e   Blankets, 
String  and  Shaft  Bells

and  everything  kept  in  stock  to 
supply  any  up-to-date  dealers  in 
any of the above  articles, at  right 
prices.  Send  in  your  orders  at 
once  and  get  prompt  shipments.

Also Harness and Saddlery 

Hardware.

No goods sold at  Retail.

Brown  &  Sehler

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Do  Trolley  Cars  Hurt  the  Shoe  Busi­

ness?

A  shoe  dealer  in  a  town  of  1,200 
inhabitants,  a  suburb  of  Rochester, 
calls  attention  to  the  suburban  elec­
tric  car  lines  as  an  important  element 
in  the  retail  shoe  business.  He  de­
clares  that  every  village  touched  by 
these  lines  is  injured  more  or  less  in 
its  local  business,  while  the  cities,  on 
the  other  hand,  derive  the  benefit.

can  go 

“A  person 

advantage  of 

“For  instance,  take  it  in  shoes,”  he : 
declared. 
to 
Rochester  and  return  for  twenty-five 
cents  and  have  a  delightful 
ride.  ; 
They  read  the  Rochester  papers,  and 
the  alluring  bargains  (so-called)  at-  I 
tract  the  eye,  especially  if  the  reader | 
is  a woman.  Shoppers  from  the  small  | 
villages  take 
their j 
presence  in  the  city  to  buy  shoes, 
clothes,  hats  and  other  things,  and  | 
thus  deprive  the  village  merchants j 
of  business 
that  otherwise  would 
come  their  way.  Year  by  year  this I 
State  an'd  others,  also,  are  becoming j 
cobwebbed  by  a  network  of  electric j 
lines  and,  unless  the  country  mer- • 
chants  keep  pretty  wide  awake,  they j 
will  find  that  a  large  percentage  o f : 
their trade is  going into  the  big stores ! 
of  the  cities.  What  benefit  do  we 
gain  in  return?  Perhaps  in  popula-; 
tion. 
I  know  that  some  city  people : 
have  moved  to  our  village  to  live,  j 
but  they  spend  their  time  and' most j 
of  their  money  in  the  city,  and  the 
only  local  merchants  that  derive  ben- | 
efits  are  the  grocers  and  butchers.  Of 
course  of  welcome  the  city  folks,  as 
their  presence  increases  our  popula­
tion,  and  during  the  past  year  has  j 
to  be \ 
caused  considerable  building 
done,  principally  in  the  way  of  hand­
some  dwelling  houses.

“There  is  but  one  way  in  the  shoe j 
business  to  offset  this  loss  of  trade, | 
or  rather  to  prevent  it,  and  that  is j 
for  the  village  shoe  dealer  to  follow 
the  methods  of  the  city  merchants, j 
To  read  their  advertisements,  and 
in  the j 
place  just  as  alluring  ones 
home  paper,  to  use  dodgers,  to  keep : 
a - bulletin  board  at  the  store 
en- i 
trance,  giving  the  store  news  to  pass- 
ersby,  by  keeping  the  windows  bright, 1 
clean  and  attractive.  Above  all  give  j 
good  value,  and  once  you  make  a  cus- j 
I  have  visited : 
tomer  you  hold  him. 
some  of  the  best  stores,  and  I 
find j 
that  the  proprietors  and  managers I 
have  been  very  courteous  in  expla:n- 
ing  their  ways  to  pull  trade.

  will  keep  my  trade. 

“Personally  this  trolley  car  ques­
tion  does  not  bother  me,  as  T  am j 
bound  that  I
j 
I
 
am  constantly  looking  for  points  and | 
pointers,  and  T
  am  getting  on  to  the : 
city  ways  with  a  vim.”  Asked  as to : 
how  the  villagers  and  countrymen  I 
were  buying  this  fall,  the  dealer  said:  j 
  am  selling  lots  of  heavy  welted  j 
“
T
sole  shoes,  in  calf  and  kid.  While j 
in  the  summer  I  sold  a  lot  of  patent | 
leather  shoes  they  are  not  selling 
very  well  (his  fall,  as  they  are  not 
regarded  as  a  good  fall  or  winter 
shoe.  Young  men  and  women  who 
are  members  of  the  smart  set,  of

Are  You 
In  Business 
For a Profit ?

if so

Reeder’s

Whalebone  Rubbers

friends 

lifelong 

trade, 
will  make  you  more  money,  more 
more 
than  anything  you 
ever  sold  mankind  to wear on  the  feet.  They 
are  sold  to  only  one  merchant  in  each  locality, 
giving  him absolute  control  of  the  selling  price, 
which  is  the  only  way  that  assures  a profit  on 
rubber  footwear.  When  our  salesman  calls  on 
you  with  this  line,  give  it consideration,  or  write 
us  regarding it.

We  have  a large  stock of  the

Old  R eliable  Lycom ings

on  hand for  sorting  up,  and  will  give  all  such 
orders our very  best  attention.

As  to the  other goods  which  we  handle  it is 
necessary  to  mention  but  briefly,  as  you  all 
know we  carry  Lumberman’s  Socks,  Felt  Boots, 
Combinations,  Canvas  Leggins, 
and  other 
things  that  go  to  make  a complete line.

As  to our  Leather  Goods,  we  are  feeling 
very  good  over  the  flattering  business  we  have 
had  for  spring on  them,  and  unless  all  signs  fail 
we  will  pass  all  previous  records  on  the  season’s 
leather  business.  This  would  look  as  though 
the  line  was  pretty  good. 
In  fact  we  think  it is 
the  best  we  have  ever  put  out.

W e  are 

just  closing  a  very  satisfactory 
year’s  business,  and 
take  this  opportunity  to 
thank  our  friends  and  patrons  for  their kind con­
sideration,  and  wish them all  a  Merry  Christmas 
and  a  Happy  and  Prosperous  New  Year.

Very  sincerely,

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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27

Wholesome  Advice  to  Clerks  From 

an  Old  Timer.

Are  you  earning  a  salary?  This  is 
a  question  that  so  many  clerks  over­
look.  They  do  not  stop  to  think that 
the  “boss”  is  paying  them  to  help 
the  business  along.  They  have  an 
idea  that  if  they  get  down  in  the 
morning,  go  through 
routine 
work,  get  out  to  dinner  on  time  and 
work  until  closing  time  then  they 
have  done  their  duty,  but  they  come 
far  from  it.

the 

so. 

The  moment  you  enter  the  store 
your  time  belongs  to  the  proprietor, 
and  every  effort  that  you  can  make 
to  improve  business,  or  in  any  way 
help  to  make  a  sale,  it  is  your  sol­
emn  duty  to  do 
Sometimes, 
perhaps,  you  will  feel  a  little  dis­
couraged,  business  may  be  a  trifle 
quiet,  you  have  nothing  to  do,  that 
is,  you  think  so,  but  you  are  sadly 
mistaken.  There  is  always 
some­
thing  to  do  in  a  shoe  store.  Take 
a  look  over  the  odds  and  ends,  get 
a  dust  cloth  and  wipe  them  up  a  bit, 
acquaint  yourself  with  the  sizes  and 
widths,  so  that  when  you  get  a  cus­
tomer  you  will  not  be  obliged  to  go 
ask  Mr.  Jones  or  Mr.  Brown  if  we 
have  anything  on  this  or  that  order; 
know  it  yourself.

You  may  think  you  know  just  what 
is  in  the  odds  and  end  stock,  but you 
don’t.  You  can  not  know  it  too  well, 
for  these  are  the  goods  your  “boss” 
wants  sold,  and  whoever  sells  the 
most  of  them  is  the  fellow  that  gets 
the  raise. 
I  was  working  in  a  store 
at  one  time  where  one  of  us  boys 
would  just  as  oon  tackle  a  rattle­
snake  as  to  go  to  show  new  or  regu­
lar  goods  when  we  got  a  customer. 
Mr.  “Boss”  was  right  there  with  his 
“what’s 
trouble,  boys?”  We 
knew  that  the  odds  and  ends  were 
the  articles  he  wanted  sold,  and  you 
bet  your  boots  we  went  after  them. 
He  used  to  buy  out  whole  stocks  of 
shoes,  so  we  were  always  supplied 
with  almost  anything  a  person  want­
ed. 
If  we  could  not  sell  a  pair  of 
the  odd  ones,  we  were  allowed  the 
extreme  pleasure  of  selling  a  pair  of 
regular  stock,  which  was  just 
like 
getting  money  from  home.

the 

it 

is  a 

Some  day,  when 

little 
gloomy,  you  might  wander  down  the 
cellar  and  look  over  the  rubber  stock. 
Take  a  dust  cloth— don't  make  any 
difference  if  it  is  the  same  one  you 
used  on  the  shoes— any  old  rag  will 
do  for  dusting  shoes.  Get  your  sizes 
together,  separate  the  sandals  from 
the  storms  or  they  are  bound  to  get I 
mixed  up,  for  they  all  look  alike  to I 
a  fellow  when  he  is 
in  a  hurry. 
Should  the  boss  miss  you  and  find  I 
you  at  work  on  these  rubbers  he  is 
not  going 
to  discharge  you.  He 
wants  to  see  you  trying  to  help  him. 
He  is  not  in  business  to  cure  the  hay 
fever.  He  is  there  to  make  money— 
and  when  he  can  see  that  you  are 
doing  your  utmost  to  help  him  along, 
he  is  going  to  give  you  your  share.
I  have  heard  clerks  complain more 
than  once  that  they  very  sincerely 
thought  they  were  getting  the  worst 
of  it,  and  say  they  have  been  work­
ing  for  So-and-So  four  years,  and he 
is  paying  them  ten  dollars  a  week 
and  that 
fellow  Smith  has  been  I 
here  scarcely  a  year,  and  is  getting

|  eighteen.  Well,  I  knew  why  Smith 
was  getting 
eighteen—because  he 
!  earned  it.  He  made  trade  when  we 
were  not  busy.  After  selling  his  cus- 
I  tomer  he  did  not  tell  the  cash  boy 
j  to  hand  it  to  that  man  or  that  lady, 
j  nor  did  he  hand  them  the  package 
|  with  a  stony  stare  and  look  at  them 
as  if  he  expected  a  tip.  No,  not  on 
your  “Wear  Proof  Lining.”  He 
handed  them  the  package  with  the 
air  of  a  Chesterfield;  he  walked  to 
the  door  with  them,  gave  them  to  un­
derstand  that  he  appreciated  their 
trade,  asked  them  to  call  again  and 
gave  them  to  understand  that  he 
would  consider  it  a  personal  favor, 
and  that  he  would  try  his  very  best 
to  please  them  if  they  would  call  for 
I  him  when  in  need  of  anything  in  the 
shoe  line.  Don’t  you  suppose  that 
people  appreciate  this?  They  certain­
ly  do.  Have  you  ever  gone  in  a 
butcher  shop,  bought  a  sirloin,  a  tur­
key,  or  meat  for  your  dog?  Well, if 
you  have,  you  will  remember  that 
just  as  soon  as  the  butcher  weighs 
the  meat  the  first  thing  he  asks  is, 
“what  else  please?”  Just  remember 
this  the  next  time  you  go  or  step  in 
some  shop,  and  keep  your  ears  open. 
The  main  idea  in  business  is  to  get 
all  you  can,  and  you  can  not  do  it 
unless  you  go  after  it.  The  “boss” 
is  going  to  appreciate  this,  and  will 
!  pay  you  accordingly.  You  will  then 
be  worth  more  to  yourself  and  to 
the  “boss”  as  well.  You  will  have 
more  and  you  will  help  more.  That 
is  the  reason  that  Smith  got  more 
money  than  Mr.  Kicker.  Of  course,
|  if  they  belonged  to  the  “pretzel  mak- 
|  ers’  union,”  and  had  a  scale  of  prices 
i  it  would  be  different,  but  when  you 
|  are  selling  goods  you  must  be  “Johri- 
!  ny  on  the  spot”  all  the  time.

Some people  come to be  good  sales- 
I  men  just  naturally— it  seems  to  be 
second  nature— but  all  of  us  are  not 
I  endowed  that  way.  What  are  we  to 
do  then?  Learn,  practice  and  work. 
Take,  for  instance,  H.  B.  Claflin, John 
j  Wanamaker  and  a  host  of  others, 
they  never  sat  around  waiting  for 
the  “boss”  to  tell  them  what  to  do. 
They were  always  up  and  doing. They 
kept  their  eyes  open,  and  when  they 
saw  a  leak  they  covered  it  up.  If  you 
want  more  money  you  certainly  have 
got  to  earn  it.— Shoe  Retailer.

If  a  lad  wants  to  rise,  he  becomes 

his  own  ladder.

New  Idea Sale  Managers—Also Auctioneers
G. B.  S T E V E N S   &   CO.,  Chicago,  2134  Mich.

A ve.  Phone 253a Brown.

Reduce your  stock  at  a  profit.  Sell  entire  stock 
without loss.  W rite  for  terms.  N E W   P L A N S .

This is

The Happy  Yuletide

and we take this  occasion  to  wish 

a ll our past, present  and future  customers

A   Merry  Christinas.

Yours  with greeting,

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

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Announcement

7 7 1 E  TAK E  great pleasure in announcing that  we  have  moved 
into our new  and  commodious business  home, 131-135  N. 
Franklin street, corner Tuscola street, where  we  will  be 
more than pleased to have you call upon  us  when  in  the  city.  We 
now have one of the largest and best equipped  Wholesale  Shoe  and 
Rubber  Houses  in  Michigan, and  have  much  better  facilities  for 
handling our rapidly increasing trade  than  ever  before.  Thanking 
you for past consideration, and  soliciting  a  more  liberal  portion  of 
your future business, which we hope to  merit, we beg to remain

Yours very truly,

Waldron,  Alderton  &  Melze,

Saginaw, Mkk. 

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We  are  still  making  our  famous  Kangaroo  Calf 
shoes,  stock  No.  no,  Ladies’,  $1.20,  Misses',  1.10, 
Childs', $1.00

Our No.  104 is  still  in  the  lead  of  all  other  $1  50 
Ladies’ Fine  Shoes  For  style,  fit  and wear  they  have 
no equal.  Order sample doz.  and you will use no other.

Send us your Rubber  orders.

Walden Shoe  Co.

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Che Cacy Shoe Co.

garo,  Itlieb*

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

Advertised  Shoes

Write  us  at once or ask  our  salesmen  about  our 

method of advertising.

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

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
otherwise  .used  is  about 
the  only 
means  we  have  of  saving  for  the eyes 
of  our  children  a  natural  growth 
which  characterized  our  country  and 
made  it  beautiful  in  the  early  days.

Improvements  of 

character, 
made  under  the  direction  of  a  land­
scape  artist,  are  contagious,  and  the 
property  owners  along  the  line  of  a 
highway  thus  embellished  gradually 
add  beautiful  things  to 
their  own 
premises,  multiplying  the  attractions 
through  individual  efforts  along  the 
borders  of  the  roadway.  As  a  result 
of  this  method,  permanent  values  are 
added,  not  only  from 
the  artistic 
point  of  view,  but  from  the  financial 
standpoint  as  well.  The  value  of  real 
estate  along  a  beautiful  drive  is  en­
hanced  materially  through  every  ef­
fort  expended  in  the  embellishment 
of the  road.

A value  not  even  considered  in  con­
nection  with  making  a  road  attractive 
is  found  in  the  added  interest  which 
the  children  find  in  everything  along 
the  border  as  they  wend  their  way

in 

The 

information  which  can  be 
given  by  an  inexpensive  system  of 
labelling,  such  as  is  used 
some 
parks  in  our  country, 
is  certainly 
worthy  of  thoughtful  consideration 
in  adding  to  the  value  of  our  road­
sides.  What  a  satisfaction  it  is  to 
any  of  us  to  be  able  to  recognize  a 
certain  tree  by  its  name?  Whenever 
we  meet  it  the  sensation  is  like  clasp­
ing  the  hand  of  an  old  friend.  The 
introduction 
this  acquaintance 
comes  through  a  plain  system  of  la­
bels.  This  thought  is  not  visionary. 
There  is  rarely  a  village  or  city 
school  but  has  connected  with  it  a 
teacher  well  skilled  in  botany  who

to 

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T H E   CO U N TRY  ROAD.

How It Enriches the  Mind and  Heart j 

of  Man. 
some 

*

There  are 

suggestions 

in  j 
connection  with  the  recently  organ­
ized  Park  and  Boulevard  Association  I 
of  Grand  Rapids  which  possibly  may | 
interest  readers  of  the  Tradesman j 
under  the  above  caption.

common  old-fashioned, 

The  usual  trend  of  discussion  in 
connection  with 
the  good-roads 
movement  connects  itself  with  sta­
tistics  of  the  amount  of  material  to 
be  drawn  over any given  road;  the ex- 
. pense  of  hauling  a  given  weight  over j 
a 
ill-kept 
road-bed,  and  the  wonderful  reduc­
tion  in  this  expense  under  a  plan  of j 
road  building  which  develops  a  hard, j 
smooth  surface  upon  which  to  roll j 
the  products  to  market.  These  con-  j 
siderations  are  very  important  in  ad­
vocating  a  better  system  of  roads 
throughout  our  country  and  furnish  | 
an  unanswerable  argument  in  favor j 
of  carefully  guarded  investments  in  I 
main  thoroughfares.  My  contention, 

however,  is  for  an  equally  import- J 

of  the  various  homes  along  the  way, 
some  of us  who  have  reached  the  me­
ridian  of  life  find  attractive  mem­
ories  recalled  of  other  homes  which 
have  had  to  do  with  our  own  lives. 
A  secluded  path  suggests  the  path 
to  the  spring  that  we  used  to  take to 
bring  up  the  pail  of  water;  the  lane 
to  the  rear  of  the  farm  suggests  the 
road  to  the  old  woodland  pasture, 
whence  we  went  as  barefooted  boys 
to  bring  the  cows;  the  hickory  tree 
in  the  pasture  suggests  the  nutting 
time  in  our boyhood, when we gather­
ed  the  supply for  the  winter  evenings, 
and  the  pool  in  the  brook  brings  to 
mind  the  old  swimming  hole  and  our 
attempts  at  fishing  with  the  primi­
tive  arrangement  of  the  bent  pin  at 
the  end  of  a  string;  the  old-fashioned 
flowers  that  we  notice  by  the  path­
way  leading  to  the  house  remind  us 
of  the  path  to  another  house  of  long 
ago  that  was  ornamented  by  our 
mother  with  the  same  old-fashioned 
flowers,  suggesting to  us  the  sweetest 
of  memories;  even  the  old  teeter  and 
swing  that  were  accompaniments  of 
our  childish  joy  find  their  duplicate 
in  some  farmyard  along  the  country 
road  over  which  we  travel.  These 
pictures  which  memory  recalls  are as 
real  as  the  ones  that  suggest  them, 
and  it  is  worth  the  while,  in  the  de­
velopment  of  our  country  roads,  to 
recognize  the  enjoyment  of  people 
as  a  real  and 
important  factor  of 
great  value,  even  as  compared  with 
the  severely  utilitarian 
thought  of 
hauling  products  to  market  with  the 
least  possible  expenditure  of  power.

One  thought  occurs  to  me  in  con­
nection  with  country  roads,  which 
in  our  region  have  been  greatly  neg­
lected,  and  that  is  the  finger-boards 
at  the  corners  which  indicate  the  di­
rection  toward  some  prominent  town, 
and  the  distance  to  be  traversed  to 
reach  it.  This,  together  with 
the 
names  of  the  roads,  makes  an  attrac­
tive  and  variable  accompaniment  to 
our  rural  highways.

Allow  me  now,  as  a  resume,  briefly 
to  enumerate  some  of 
the  special 
things  that  can  be  accomplished  in 
the  embellishment  of  the  rural  high­
ways  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  peo­
ple.

1.  The  development  of  a  sunshiny 
spirit  and  dissipation  of  the  tendency 
to  gloom  and  despondency.

2.  The  awakening  of  a  love  and 

i  knowledge  of  landscape  art.

3.  The  development  of  an  appre­
ciation  and  love  for  nature  exhibited 
in  the  plants,  the  birds  and  wild  ani­
mals,  the  delightful  odors  and  the 
wonderful  individuality  expressed  by 
things  along  the  roadside.

4.  The  giving  of  information  as  to 

the  names  of  trees  and  plants.

5.  Storing  of  beautiful  memories 
that  may  be  recalled  afterward  with 
the  keenest  satisfaction.

6.  The  bringing  to  people  sweet 
reminders  of  childhood  scenes  that
j  mellow  the  heart.

7.  To  city  people  who  traverse  at­
tractive  country  roads  there  is  awak­
ened  a  sympathy  with  the  vital  cur­
rents  of  country  life  which  mean  so 
much  to  the  successful  development 
of  the  business  of  cities.

8.  The  awakening  of  delightful

The 

spirit  which 

ant  factor  in  connection  with  coun­
try  roads,  and  that  is  the  recognition  j 
of  their  usefulness  in  affording  enjoy­
ment  to  pedestrians  and  vehicle  trav­
elers. 
invests  I 
country  roads  with  attractive  borders 
and  artistic  landscapes  is  akin  to  that 
which  establishes  art  galleries  and li­
braries  and  builds  parks  and  pleasure 
grounds  for  the  enjoyment  of 
the  j 
public.

for 

We  build  churches  and  form  clubs 
and  organizations 
intellectual,  j 
moral  and  social  improvement.  All  ! 
these  interests  are  subserved  by  the  j 
improvement  of country roads  in  such  ! 
a  manner  as  to  add  materially  to  the 
knowledge  and  recreation  of  the  peo­
ple  and  awaken  in  them  an  apprecia­
tion  of  the  wonderful  things  with  j 
which  God  clothes  this  earth  of  ours.  ;
Parks  and  park  areas  cost  a  great 
deal  of  money.  Art  galleries  and 
museums  are  expensive  luxuries.  The 
art,  science  and  education  offered  in 
the  development  of  beautiful  trees, 
landscapes  and  roadways  throughout 
the  country  are  comparatively  inex­
pensive,  perfectly  democratic  and, 
like  air  and  water,  become  the  prop­
erty  of  all  the  people.  There  is  no 
exclusiveness  in  it:  not  even  a  “keep 
off  the  grass;”  the  only  requirements 
exhibition  of  ordinary 
being  the 
thoughtfulness  in 
connection  with 
the  rights  of  all  the  people.

The  location  of  beautiful  trees,  the 
appropriate  planting  of 
roadsides 
with  trees  and  shrubs  and  the  cover­
ing  of  unsightly  objects  with  nature’s 
drapery,  our  native  vines,  is  an  art 
comparable  to  that  which  paints  a 
beautiful  picture  or  chisels  a  piece 
of  statuary. 
It  is  even  more  than 
this,  because  it  must  have  as  an  in­
trinsic  attribute  a  gift  of  prophecy. 
The  picture  once  developed  does  not 
remain  as  first  delineated,  but  is  con­
stantly  developing  in  the  growth  of 
the  live  things  that  make  the  land­
scape,  and  the  work  of the  artist  must 
recognize  the  evolution  that  is  con­
stantly  going  on,  so  as  to  furnish  to 
the  appreciative  people,  year  by 
year,  a  different  view  and  an  equally 
attractive  one.

to  school  and  return.  The  roads  thus 
developed  become  sauntering  places, 
taking  the  place  of  parks  and  door-  | 
value  that  is  worthy  of  our  earnest J 
yards.  Herein  lies  an  educational  j 
consideration.
My  plea  is  not  only  for  the  plant- I 
ing  of trees  and  shrubs  and  vines  and 
flowers,  but  the  saving of those which  [ 
nature  has  planted  and  that  often in  j 
a  most  artistic  way;  I  would  empha­
size  particularly  the  conservation  of 
the  well-developed  forest  trees  which 
illustrate,  to  be  sure  in  a  meager  way, 
the  wonderful  forest  heritage 
that 
has  been  swept  away  from  our  coun­
try.  The  utilizing  of  our  native 
shrubs  in  attractive  embroidery;  the 
bringing  to  our  aid  the  beautiful  na- 
!  tive  vines,  that  are  so  common  in  our 
woods,  to  cover  the  fences,  and  the 
I  gathering  of  ferns  and  wild  flowers 
to  place  in  nooks  and  corners  not

could  give  this  information  to  the 
maker  of  signs,  and  a  small  amount 
of  money  invested  in 
them  would 
bring  wonderful  returns  in  the  satis­
faction  given  the  people  who  traverse 
the  road.

The  fault  with  most  of  us  is  that 
we  are  not  willing  to  go  out  of  the 
regular  routine  of  life  work  to  see 
a  picture  gallery  or  museum  unless 
we  take  it  as  a  part  of  what  we  call 
our  vacation,  when  usually  we  are  so 
tired  as  to  be  unappreciative  and  thus 
lose  the  value  of  such  visits. 
In  the 
development  of 
landscape  pictures 
along  the  highway,  we  catch  people 
as  they  go  by,  we 
them, 
awaken  in  them  artistic  instincts  and 
the  appreciation  of  natural  beauty, 
which  etch  in  memory  that  which 
is  important  in  the  moulding  of  char­
acter.  As  we  saunter  along a  country 
road  and  notice  the  accompaniments

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perhaps  with  an  advertisement  of  a 
medicine  stamped  upon  them.  Twen­
ty-five  thousand  gross,  or  3,600,000 
small  corkscrews  are 
taken  every 
year  by  a  Western  medicine  manu­
facturer.  Forty  bushels  in  bulk  of 
large  corkscrews  were  being  packed 
for  shipment  to  Germany  the  day  the 
campers  visited  the  factory.

The  ingenious  machines  are  work­
ing  in  interest  of  the  brains  and  as 
the  energetic  ally  of 
Rockwell 
Clough,  who  might  be  called  “The 
Corkscrew  King,”  were  he  not 
too 
patriotic  a  native  of  rock-ribbed  New 
Hampshire  to  care  for  such  empty 
honors.  Rockwell  Clough  is,  how­
ever,  a  Yankee  genius.  He  made 
corkscrews  by  hand  in  New  Jersey, 
as  they  still  do  there  to-day,  and 
eventually  worked  out  his  ideas  for 
the  ingenious  machines  that  do  the 
work  to-day.  When  he  got  his  ma­
chines  perfected,  he  went  back  to 
the  old  Clough  homestead,  high  up 
on  the  hills  of  New  Hampshire  and 
in  the  village  of  Alton,  and  he  set 
up  his  machines  in  the  barn.  For 
years  nobody  was  allowed  inside  the 
factory,  he  securely  guarding  the pat­
ents  on  the  machines,  as  they  were 
of  great  value.  Mr.  Clough  to-day 
claims  to  control  all  patents  of  cork­
screw  making  machines  in  this  coun­
try,  and  in  most  of  the  countries  of 
Europe.  He  is  now  at  the  age  of 
three  score  years,  and  is  contentedly 
enjoying  life,  either  at  the  old  home­
stead  or  in  traveling,  while  his  ma­
chines  spin  out  corkscrews  for  the 
multitudinous  public  and  dollars  for 
himself.
The 

generously 
gave  the  visiting  campers  corkscrews 
of  many  styles  and  sizes  for  souven­
irs,  and  for  use.  The  campers,  hav­
ing  registered  their  names  on  the 
factory  visitors’  book,  drank  from the 
old  oaken  bucket,  petted  the  sheep, 
bade  the  genial  superintendent  good- 
!  by,  and  whirled  down  the  mountain 
i  road  in  the  springy  buckboard,  and 
sped  back  to  camp  with  the  cork­
screw.— H ardware.

superintendent 

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH
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everything we eat. It should be sanitary

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sensations  connected  with  the  knowl- • 
edge  of  the  wondrous  beauty  that  ■ 
has  come  from  God’s  hand  and  the  : 
marvelous  expression  of  His  handi­
work, 
sweetest ; 
thoughts  of  a  religious  nature  that  j 
mean  to  us  more  than  dollars  in  the  ! 
bank  or  elaborate  dinners  or  mag­
nificent  wearing  apparel.  These  are 
the  thoughts  which  enrich  the  mind  j 
and  heart  of  man,  and  the  roadside, 
with  its  pictures  which  awaken  them, j 
is  akin  in  its  usefulness  to  the  plat­
form  and  the  pulpit.

the 

Chas.  W.  Garfield.

Corkscrew  Factory  on  a  New'Hamp-  j 

shire  Farm.

“Can’t  find  the  corkscrew!”
This  remark  startled  a  party  of j 
campers  among  New  Hampshire | 
hills,  for  everybody  knows 
that  a  j 
corkscrew  is  one  of  the  very  neces­
sary  articles  to  a  camping  party.
“Never  mind,”  said  the  guide,  “we J 
will  have  one  made.”  So  he  got  a j 
buckboard,  and  surprised  the  camp- i 
ers  by  starting  for  a  corkscrew  fac- j 
tory  in  New  Hampshire  hills,  and  the j 
only  shop  of  its  kind  in  the  country, j 
too.  A  lively  drive  over  mountain  ; 
roads  brought  the  party  to  an  old  j 
the  out-1 
New  Hampshire  farm  on 
skirts  of  the  village  of  Alton,  and  a j 
little,  weather-beaten  one-story  shop | 
several  miles  from  the  railroad 
it j 
was,  located  in  the  place  of  the  usual j 
barn.  The  old  oaken  bucket  hung 
in  a  well  beneath  an  elm  tree.  A  j 
sheep  bleated  a  greeting,  and  the  fac- j 
tory superintendent stood  in  the  door­
way  of  the 
shop,  and  pleasantly 
welcomed  his  visitors.  In  this  quaint 
little  shop,  situated  and  managed  in 
the  midst  of rustic  beauty  and  artistic | 
expression  that  would  delight  a  Roy-  j 
crofter,  it  is  claimed  all  the  machine- i 
made  corkscrews  of  this  country  are  i 
produced,  a  half-ton  of  wire  being  j 
daily  converted  into  corkscrews 
to 
pull  the  stoppers  of  the  world.

Ten  ingenious  machines,  each  a 
little  bigger  than  a  sewing  machine, 
do  all  the  work,  and  a  half-dozen  men 
and  girls  feed  their  hungry  jaws with 
sufficient  wire  and  pack  for  shipment 
their  finished  product.  The  wire,  on 
spools,  is  fed  into  the  machine much 
as  thread  is  run  into  a  sewing  ma­
chine.  Swiftly,  a  sharp  knife 
cuts 
off,  leaving  a  sharp  beveled  edge,  a 
piece  of  wire  the  desired  length  for 
the  corkscrew,  and  just  as  quickly  a 
revolving core  catches  the  ends  of the 
wire,  twists  it  around  a  fixed  post, 
and  then  twirls  it  into  the  mould  of 
the  core  into  the  crooks  of  the  cork­
screw.  Then  the  machine  ejects  the 
wire,  a  finished  corkscrew.  The  bev­
eled  edge  is  the  sharp  point  of  the 
screw,  and  the  ring,  for  the  pulling 
finger,  was  made  by  the  loop  around 
the  post.

All  day  these  little  machines  are 
busily  working,  and  all  night,  too, 
if  necessary  to  fill  orders.  Fach  one 
of  them  is  capable  of  making  150 
gross  of  corkscrews  a  day.  With 
slight  manipulation  they  will  make 
any  size  corkscrew  desired,  a  change 
of  wire  and  of  the  mould  of  the  core 
being  alone  necessary  to  make  the 
finished  corkscrew  greater  or  small­
er.  Some  of  the  machines  spin  the 
corkscrews  on  wooden  or  tin  handles,

A   Barber

W ho  had  worked  in  a  shop  where  the  F .  P.  System   of  lighting  was 
used  moved  to  a  town  in  M ichigan  and  started  a  little  shop  of  his 
own,  and  at  once  ordered  a  plant  for  himself.  He  told  the  people 
that he was going to  have  a light  that would make  their  lights  look 
like  “ tallow d ip s.”  T h ey laughed  at  him.

H e  installed  his  plant  and  since  that  time  (three  months  ago)  we 

| have sold  six plants  in  that  town,  one  of  which  was  a  63  light  plant  in  a  large  factory.

N ow  he  is  laughing  at  them.
If Y O U   want  a  better or  cheaper  light  let  us  tell  you  more  about  the

,Foo.  P ro o f,  F.p. SYSTEM (Fire Proof)

I Made  at  the  rate  of fifty com plete  plants  a  day  by  T h e  Incandescent  L ig h t  & ¿Stove  C o.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Address  LANG &   DIXON, F t* Wayne, hid., Agents for Michigan and »■>*«»

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BA KERS 9  OVENS

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Sint  Niclas  Day  in  Holland.

Shrill  screams  of 

laughter  min-  ; 
gled  with  the  furious  beating  of  a ; 
drum  and  the  discordant  blare  of  a  j 
steam-organ  playing  “tarara  boom de  I 
aey.”  Crowds  of  girls  in  brilliant  j 
costumes  with  head  coverings  of j 
gleaming  gold,  covered  with  .  lace; I 
bare-armed  girls,  too,  in  spite  of  the 
wintry  air,  which  they  defy.  Swains 
in  astrachan  hats  and  breeches  of j 
tremendous  girth,  all  buttoned  about! 
with  silver.  Swains  who  parade  the 
narrow 
loudly! 
calling  out  to  each  other  and  always 
with  an  eye  on  the  laughing  girl.

street  arm-in-arm, 

“That  is  Netje,  the  one  with  the 
orange  kerchief  who  is  ever  smiling,” | 
said  the  old  lady  with  the  lace  cap, 
pointing  to  one  of  the  group  of  chat 
tering  girls  in  the  dyke  before  the 
window. 
“Both  Klass  and  Piet  are 
crazy  to  marry  her,  and  she  can  not 
give  either  of  them  a  civil  answer. 
They are fine  fellows,  and  to-day  they 
skate  for  the  Queen’s  prize  on  the 
canal.  Yes;  the  Skating  Carnival  of 
Sint  Nic’las.  Does  not  Myneer  know 
of  the  great  kermus  of  Sint  Nic’las? 
Over  all  Holland  the  day  of  the 
good  ‘Sint’  is  kept  by  the  farmers, 
and  there  is  much  pleasure. 
I  wish 
Netje would  favor  Piet.  I  have  prom­
ised  her  a  fine  ‘bruidsniker’  all  tied 
up  in  a  red  bag  with  sarsenet  ribbon 
of  red  and  green— the  colors  of  love 
and  hope,  Myneer  knows.”  This talk 
of  the  becapped  old  dame  was  half- 
drowned  in  the  din  of  the  steam  or­
gan.  There  were  gaudy  booths  pre­
sided  over  by 
fat,  purple-armed 
vrows,  busy  making  and  selling  pro- 
certjes  and  waffles;  long 
rows  of 
hooded  tilburys  were  drawn  up  be­
side  the  canal,  their  shafts  tilted  in 
the  air,  and  the  fat,  hollow-backed 
horses  eating  hay  from  the  baskets. 
’Tis  the  day  of  Sint  Nic’las  which  an­
swers  to  our  Christmas  Day,  and 
which  falls  on  the  5th  of  December 
in  Holland;  and  it  is  also  the  day  of 
the  skating  Carnival  on 
the  canal. 
Sledges  of  every  size  and  shape  are 
here,  some  drawn  by 
sleek 
horses,  others  pushed  by  means  of 
a  couple  of  steel-shod  slicks  worked 
by  the  occupant.

fat, 

Flags  are  flying  everywhere.  Here 
is  a  boat  blunt  of  bow  and  stern, 
high  up  on  the  ice,  sail  up,  gliding 
along,  quite 
laughing 
girls,  whose  cheeks  seem  as  red  as 
the  flags  above  them.

filled  with 

From  the  farther  end  of  the  dyke 
come  the  most  noise  and  glare, 
where  are  the  crowded  steam  merry- 
go-rounds,  at  which  the  older  peas­
ants  stolidly  gape.  The  girls  on  the 
stiff,  varnished  lions,  giraffes  and 
camels  squeal  excitedly  as 
the  en­
gine  moves  faster,  the  silver  and  gold 
headdresses  gleam  prettily  through 
the  lace  of  their  caps,  and  over  all 
is  the  raucous  voice  of  the  persuasive 
showman,  eloquent  over  the  charms 
of  the  fat  woman  and  the  iron-jawed 
man.  There  is  a  sudden  rush  toward 
the  river,  and  the  cause  is  the  coming 
of  the 
stout, 
squat-looking  fellows,  on  phenomen­
ally  long-bladed  skates.

skating  contestants, 

Commander  Peary  explains  his en­
thusiasm  for  “a  dash  to  the  North 
Pole”  on  the  ground  that  “it  is  full

of  the  pleasure  of  anticipation,  un-  ! 
marred  by  the  disappointment  of 
realization.”  But  one  would  expect 
that  the  many  failures  which  he  has 
experienced  in  his  efforts  to  reach 
the  Pole  would  dampen  the  ardor  of 
the  most  enthusiastic  of  polar  explor­
ers. 
In  his  case  it  has  not,  however.

We  ignore  traditions  and 

condi­
tions,  suffer,  then  call  ourselves  wise.

The  world  is  divided  into  strug­

g le s   and  stragglers.

Quality

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to  build  your  paint  busi­
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“ Cheap”  paints 
have had  their  day.  The 
consumer has  learned  that 
true  economy  isn’t  found 
in  the  paint  that  sells  at 
the lowest price per gallon, 
and  the dealer has  learned 
that  “ quality”   paints  sell 
best.

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for  both 
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It’s  made 

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Diamond  Crystal  Salt  is  used  exclu­
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(though  it  does  analyze  that  way),  but 
because  repeated  tests  have  demonstrated 
that it  works  freer,  goes  farther and  pro­
duces  better  butter than  any  other.

The  progressive grocer  who sells to the 
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from  the  note-book  of  the  creameries.

Give  your  trade  a  chance  to try  The 
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

with  a  result  that  usually  on  Christ­
mas  morning  most  of  us  find  our­
selves  the  unhappy  possessors  of  a 
lot  of  trash  that  is  not  worth  house- 
room,  and  wondering  why  anybody 
would  be  misguided  enough  to  think j 
that  we  would  welcome  a  thing  at j 
Christmas  that  we  could  not  be  hired j 
to  take  any  other  day  of  the  year.

All  of  us,  I  take  it,  being  human, | 
love  to  give,  and  most  of  us  are  not 
averse  to  receiving.  Neither,  in  spite ! 
of  all  that  cynics  say,  are  many  peo- j 
pie  prone  to  look  a  gift  horse  in  the  ! 
mouth,  or  to  value  a  present  just  for j 
its  monetary  worth.  Nevertheless, I 
it  is  a  fact,  to  which  every  one  will j 
bear  testimony,  that  it  is  much  easier ; 
to  be  grateful  for  the  thing  one wants i 
than  it  is  for  something  one  does  j 
not  want,  and  perhaps  there  is  no- ! 
body  who  has  not  looked  at  some  !

Personally  I  am  an  advocate  of the 
intensely  practical  Christmas  pres­
ent.  Christmas  is  only  one  day  long, 
and  there  are  364 other  days  in  which 
you  can  enjoy  useful  things.  The 
gift  of a  new  gown,  or  a  dainty waist, 
or  a  cunning  pair  of  slippers,  or  an 
unexpected  supply  of  gloves,  for  in­
stance,  comes  in  mighty  handy  on 
other  occasions  than  the  25th  of  De­
cember,  and  cause  you  to  call  down  | 
blessings  on  the  wise  and  generous 
person  who  bestowed  them  upon  you, 
instead  of  burdening  you  with  a  plat- 
ed-silver  cake  basket  when  you  never 
have  any  cake.

should  be 

It  seems  to  me  that  at  this  time 
of  day  we 
intelligent 
enough  to  break  away  from  the  old 
tradition  that  made  Christmas  gifts 
“pretty”  and 
by  obligation  merely 
make  them  useful  as  well. 
If  we

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j  Woman's  World 

j

Sensible  Suggestions  on  the  Subject 

of  Christmas  Presents.

It  is  a  poor  heart  that  never  re­
joices,  and  Christmas  would  be  bless­
ed  among  all  seasons  of  the  year  if  it 
did  nothing else but  furnish  the  stated 
occasion  upon  which  people  feel  it 
their  duty  tcTbe  glad  and  generous.  It 
is  a  time  wheh  even  the  most  hope­
less  pessimist 
forgets  his  grouch 
against  life  and  the  sallowest  dyspep­
tic  puts  aside  his  health  food  for 
plum  cake;  when  the  stingiest  feel 
their  purse  string  loosen,  and  the 
most  selfish  think  of  others 
than 
themselves. 
It  is  a  time  when  old 
enmities  are  forgiven,  when  friends 
long  estranged  are  drawn  once  more 
together;  when  the  light burns bright­
er  in  the  eyes  of  those  we  love,  and 
when  family  ties  seem  precious  as 
never  before,  for  the  Christmas  spir­
it— the  spirit  of  peace  on  earth,  and 
good  will  towards  men— hovers  like 
a  benediction  over  us.

Dull, 

indeed,  and  sadly  world- 
worn,  must  be  the  soul  that  does  not 
catch  this  contagion  of  universal  joy, 
and  there  probably  is  no  man  or 
woman  who  does  not  have  at  Christ­
mas  time  a  special  yearning  to  be 
happy  and  to  make  someone  else 
happy.  This  is  right  and  natural. 
It 
is  good  to  be  happy,  if  only  for  a 
day.  It  is  good  to  put  aside  the cares 
and  griefs  and  burdens  that  cumber | 
one,  if  only  for  an  hour. 
It  is  good j 
to  give,  although  one  wastes  his j 
money  and  gets  no  gratitude 
for | 
giving.

Out  of  this  desire  to  be  happy,  and | 
to  make  others  happy,  has  sprung j 
the  custom  of making Christmas pres- 
ents,  that,  however  much  abused,  has 
at  its  core  the  sweetest  thought  in 
the  world.  No  one  would  have  it 
abolished,  if  they  could,  and  yet  there j 
is  nothing  else  so  profoundly  depress-  j 
ing as  to  think  of the  amount  of  good  I 
money  that  is  annually  wasted 
at | 
Christmas  time  on  things  that  are 
not  worth  buying,  and  that  nobody 
wants. 
It  is  simply  heartbreaking to 
pass  through  any  of  the  stores  at 
this  season  of  the  year  and  see  the 
piles  of  tawdry,  silly  trash— celluloid 
iniquities  and  hand-painted 
satin 
abominations,  and  gilt  outrages— that 
blundering  and  undiscriminating  peo­
ple  are  actually  buying  to  bestow as 
Christmas  gifts  upon  their  defenseless 
friends.

In  all  good  truth,  there  are  few 
other  things  on  earth  that  need  ref­
ormation,  and  the  introduction  of  a 
little  common  sense 
into  them  so 
much  as  Christmas  giving.  Most 
people,  when  confronted  with 
the 
problem  of  buying  some  token  of  re­
membrance  for  their  friends,  appear 
to  go  all  to  pieces,  and  purchase  at 
random,  and  are  as  likely  to  send  a 
bed-ridden  cripple  a  set  of  golf  sticks, 
or  to  send  a  Prohibition  W.  C.  T. 
U.  aunt  a  liquor  set  as  any  other 
thing.  Others,  with  equal  lack  of 
judgment,  seem  to  think  that  useless­
ness  and  worthlessness  are  the  chief 
requisites  of  a  Christmas  present,

Dorothy  Dix

incongruous  and  inappropriate  pres­
ent,  and  felt  a  surging  wave  of  dis­
appointment  and  regret  as  they  real­
ized  that  the  same  money  would have 
bought  something  that  would  have 
been  a  perpetual  delight  and  joy  to 
them.

The  first  article  of  conduct,  then, 
of  the  Christmas  shopper  should  be 
usefulness.  This  does  not  mean pre­
senting  the  woman  'who  writes  with 
a  new  ribbon  for  her  typewriter,  or 
the  cook  with  a  fresh  set  of  frying 
pans;  but  it  does  mean  that,  before 
you  buy a thing,  you  should  ask  your­
self  if  it  will  fill  some  place  in  the 
life  of  the  person  for  whom  it  is  in­
tended. 
If  it  does— if  it  adds  one 
bit  of  beauty,  or  grace,  or  comfort 
to  their  lives— you  may  be  very  sure 
that  it  will  be  one  of  the  Christmas 
presents  for  which  the  recipient  will 
be  grateful  the  whole  year  around.

know  a  young  girl  who  has  a  hard 
struggle  to  keep  herself  neatly  attir­
ed,  and  who  yearns  for  the  finery 
that  richer  girls  have,  is  it  not  a 
mockery  to  give  her  a  silver  toilet 
have  bought  her  a  pretty  gown  she 
needs  so  badly? 
If  we  have  been 
at  Mary’s  and  noticed  that  her  chairs 
and  tables  are  littered  with  books 
that  she  has  nowhere  to  bestow,  is 
it  not  more  sensible  to  send  her  the 
bookcase  she  needs,  instead  of  the 
cut-glass  claret  pitcher  for  which she 
has  no  earthly  use? 
If  we  have  no­
ticed  that  Thomas  lacks  a  comforta­
ble  chair  in  which  to  rest  himself 
after  his  hard  day’s  work  is  over, 
would  he  not  appreciate  a  good  Mor­
ris  chair  more  than  an  illuminated 
missal  that  you  lay  on  a  shelf  and 
never  look  at  again?  Any  one  of  us 
can  answer this  question in the  affirm- 
|  ative  if  we  bring  the  question  home

to  ourselves.  We  know 
that  chief 
among  the  things  that  we  have  been 
grateful  for  were  the  homely,  practi­
cal  presents  that  made  our  daily  life 
more  comfortable;  yet,  in  spite  of  all 
this,  we  go  on  giving  our  friends 
things  that  they  don’t  want  and  for 
which , they  have  no  use,  when  their 
real  needs  are  staring  us  in  the  face.
few 
poetic  souls  who  prefer  the  beautiful 
to  the  useful,  but,  on  general  princi­
ples,  nobody  need  be  afraid  they  are 
going  to  offend  their  friends  by  pre­
senting  them  with  a  rug,  or  curtains, 
or  carpet,  or  carving-knives,  or  coal 
scuttles,  or  any  other  thing  that 
the 
recipient  happens  to  need.

Of  course,  there  may  be  a 

that 

Another  practical  point 

is 
worth  considering  is  the  pooling  of 
funds  and  buying  with  the  money 
one  article  that  is  really  worth  some­
thing,  and  that  would  be  of  continual 
service  and  delight,  instead  of  sprad- 
ding  it  around  over  half  a  dozen 
dinky  and  useless  trifles  that  are  of 
no  use  to  anybody.  Most  of  us  have 
little  money  and  many  people 
to 
whom  we  wish  to  give,  and  we  have 
to  do  a  sum  in  long  division  to  make 
it  reach  around.  The  Christmas  tra­
dition  by  which  we  are  bound  hand 
and  foot  has  decreed  that  every mem­
ber  of  a  family,  for  instance,  should 
make  every  other  member  a  present 
at  Christmas,  with  the  result  that 
each  one  receives  half  a  dozen  value­
less  and  useless  things.  How  much 
better  it  would  be  if  the  entire  sum 
that  the  family  intends  to  spend  were 
put  in  one  single  gift  that  all  could 
enjoy.

If  you  are  going 

Another  practical  thought 

about 
Christmas  giving  is  that  it  gives  us 
a  chance  to  bring change  into  monot­
onous  lives. 
to 
give  something  to  an  invalid,  do  not 
give  her  a  cut-glass  medicine  drop­
per,  or  a  silver  clinical  thermometer; 
but  give  her  a  picture,  a  bit  of  bric- 
a-brac,  a  queer  vase— something  that 
will  take  her  out  of  herself  and  dis­
tract  her  mind  from  her  narrow  sur­
roundings.  This  makes  a  subscrip­
tion  to  a  magazine  the  preferred  gift 
to  people  living  in  the  country,  to 
whom  it  brings  a  twelve  months  of 
pleasure  and  anticipation.  Many  a 
country  boy  and  girl,  hungry 
for 
knowledge  and  for  a  broader  outlook, 
have  gotten  their  first  upward  start 
from  such  a  present  as  this.  Another 
Christmas  gift,  equally  successful, 
that  I  know  of  was  an  order  on  the 
theater  for  seats  for  half  a  dozen per­
formances  that  was  given  to  a  little 
sewing  woman,  to  whom  the  stage 
opened  an  enchanted  new  world  that 
filled  her  dull  days  of  hard  work with 
golden  memories  and  rosy  anticipa­
tions.

Of  course,  when  all  is  said,  no  gift 
is  worth  anything  unless  it  breathes 
the  personal  interest  and  thought  of 
the  sender,  and  gratifies  some  whim 
or  taste  or  need  of  the  person  to 
whom  it  is  sent.  This  one  indispen­
sable  requisite  of 
the  Christmas 
. present  ought  not  to  be  hard 
to 
achieve  now  when  the  shops  present 
such  a  wide  variety  from  which  to 
choose,  and  most  people— blessed be 
fads— are  making  a 
collection  of 
something,  or  riding  some  particular

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38

“ T h e   Pickles  and 
T a b l e   C o n d i ­
m e n ts   p r e p a r e d  
by  T h e  W illiam s 
B r o s .  C o . ,   D e ­
tro it,  M ic h .,  a re  
t h e   v e r y   b e s t. 
F o r   s a le   b y  th e  
w h o le s a le   tr a d e  
a l l   o v e r  
t h e  
U n ite d   S t a t e s .”

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

for 

fault  has been found with the weather, 
but  business  continues  unimproved, 
especially  in  shirts 
immediate 
use.

say: 

“The 

Wholesalers 

and  manufacturers 
constantly  doing 
are,  of  course, 
little  order 
something,  filling  in  a 
here  and  there  for  odd  sizes,  but 
handling  extremely  few  large  dupli­
cates.  They 
retailers 
can  not  be  doing  the  business,  or 
we  would  certainly  be  benefited  by 
it;  but  we  have  received  no  direct 
benefit  as  yet,  and  think  it  is  proba­
bly  because  the  cold  weather  has not 
lasted  long  enough  yet  for  us  to  get 
the  best  results.”  Retailers  started 
out  with  pretty  fair  stocks  of  stiff- 
bosomed  goods  in  both' whites  and 
fancies,  light  and  dark  grounds,  but 
since  they  haven’t  had  the  weather 
to  impart  any movement  to  their mer­
chandise,  the  few weeks of cold weath­
er  thus  far  are  merely  a  drop  in 
the 
bucket.  A  big  two  weeks’  business 
however,  is  looked  for  in  repeats.

According  to  the  reports  coming 
in  from  representatives  who  are  out 
after  spring  business  and  trying  to 
pick up  additional  orders  for  the  pres­
ent  or  delivery  in  the  near  future,  the 
retail  sales  have  seldom  appeared so 
finical  as  they  have  so  far  this  sea­
son.  For  a  time  colored  grounds 
were  doing  very  nicely. 
Suddenly 
they  dropped  o ff’and  the  lack  of  in­
terest  really  seemed  ominous.  Mean­
while  white  grounds  were  taken  up 
with  apparently 
interest, 
when  suddenly  they  were  dropped 
and  attention  again  turned  to  colored

renewed 

Made to Pit

and

Fit to Wear

Lot 125 Apron O verall

$8.00 per doz.

Lot  275  O verall  Coat

$8.00 per doz.

Made  from  240  woven  stripe,  double 

cable,indigo blue cotton cheviot, 

stitched  in  white  with  ring  buttons.

Lot 124 Apron O verall

$5.25 per dez.

Lot  274  O verall  Coat

$5.75 per doz.

Made from 250 Otis  woven  stripe, indigo 

blue suitings, stitched  in white.

Lot  128 Apron  O verall

$5.00 per doz.

Lot  288  Overall  Coat

$5.00 per doz.

Made from black drill, Hart  pattern.

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recognition  of  which 
hobby,  any 
throws  them  into  spasms  of  delight. 
Time  was  when  everything  came  in 
sets,  and  nobody  but  the  millionaire 
could  think  of  gratifying  a  friend’s 
mania  for  china,  or  silver,  or  glass, | 
but  now  individual  cups,  any  one  of j 
which would make a housewife’s  heart  I 
glad,  single  pieces  of  glass  that  are  { 
a  joy  to  the  eye,  single  plates  that 
will  make  a  collector’s  mouth  water, 
may  be  had  at  prices  so  low  as  to 
be  within  the  reach  of  the  most  mod­
est  giver,  and  yet  be  just  as  welcome 
as  a  costly  gift.

No  specific  directions  can  be  given 
for  buying  Christmas  presents,  but 
here  are  a  few  don’ts  that  will  be  well 
for  the  Christmas  shopper  to  bear 
in  mind:

Don’t  forget  that  children  prefer 
quantity  to  quality  and  will  be  more 
pleased  with  a  dozen  cheap  things 
than  with  one  expensive  one.

Don’t  wear  yourself  out  trying to 
ser­
find  presents  that  will  please 
vants. 
It  can  not  be  done.  Give 
them  the  money  and  let  them  buy 
what  they  choose. 
It  will  always  be 
something  you  would  not  have 
thought  of  in  a  million  years.

Don’t  give  grandma  an  illuminated 
copy  of  religious  devotions  treating 
of  the  latter  end  of  man.  Old  people 
don’t  really  enjoy  being  reminded 
that  they  have  not  long  to  live.  She 
would  lots  rather  have  a  box  of  fine 
candy  or  a  frivolous  bit  of  jewelry.

Don’t,  if  you  are  a  wife,  give  your 
husband  a  present  and  leave  him  to 
pay  the  bill.

Don’t,  if  you  are  a  married  man, 
attempt  to  surprise  your  wife  by 
picking  her  out  a  new  dress.  Give 
her  the  check  and  let  her  buy  it  her­
self.  There  are  some  men  who  are 
judges  of  women’s  clothes  just  as 
there  are  some  women  who  could  be 
trusted  to  pick  out  a  box  of  cigars, 
but  these  are  cases  of  individual  ge­
nius  that  are  too  infrequent  to  form 
a  precedent.

Don’t  give  cut-glass  to  the  impe­
cunious.  Many  a  family  has  been 
started  on  a  disastrous  career  of  ex­
travagance  by  a  cut-glass  olive  dish.
Don’t  give  etchings  of  the  old  mas­
ters  to  people  with  lithograph  taste.
Don’t  give  books  to  the  illiterate, 
and  when  you  do  give  books  don’t, 
for  heaven’s  sake,  waste  your  money 
on  expensive  illustrated  editions  of j 
things  that  nobody  wants  to  read. 
An  illustrated  gift  book  is  good  for 
nothing  on  earth  but  to  collect  dust.
Don’t— and  this  is  the  most  impor­
tant  don’t  of  all— don’t  forget  that j 
the  first  of  January  and  the  bill  col­
lector  follow  hard  on  the  heels  of  the 
Christmas  gift. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Status  of  the  Shirt,  Collar  and  Cuff 

Market.

It  is  a  difficult  matter  indeed  to 
correctly  define  business  when  the 
conditions  are  such  as  both  whole­
salers  and  retailers  have  to  contend 
with  at  present.  Previously  it  was 
the  weather  that  was  culpable.  Busi­
ness  done  was  in  keeping  with  the 
weather,  which  the  tradesmen  said 
was  bad,  and  that  with  bad  weather I 
business  could  not  be  good.  Yet, 
in  very  truth,  the  weather  was  sim­
ply  ideal.  Since  the  cold  snap  no j

We  want  one  dealer  as  an
| agent in  every  town  in  Michi- 
I gan  to  sell  the  Great  Western 
Fur  and  Fur  Lined  Cloth 
Coats. 
Catalogue  and 
full 
particulars  on  application.

Ellsworth  &  Thayer  Mofg.  Co

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

B.  DOWNARD,  General  5a!esnum

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

35

name  much  cheaper  than  with  the 
retailers’  names. 
It  is  perfectly  rea­
sonable  that  the  retailer  should  like 
to  have  his  own  name  supplant  that 
of  the  manufacturer  on  the  shirts 
he  is  going  to  sell,  but  the  manufac­
turers  think  that  it  would  be  money 
in  the  retailer’s  pocket,  through more 
sales,  if  he  would  permit  the  manu­
facturers  to  place  their  brand  name 
on  the  garment  with 
the  words 
“Made  expressly  for  John  Jones.”  It 
is  understood  that  there  are  a  num­
ber  of  the  large  houses  who  stand 
ready  to  spend  considerable  money 
advertising  their  special  brands 
to 
consumers,  but  they  contend  that, so 
long  as  the 
the 
brand  name  with  their  own,  such ad­
vertising  would  be  simply  a  waste 
of  money.

retailers 

eclipse 

It  is  said  that  the  “evil,”  which  is 
the  term  by  which  some  manufactur­
ers  designate  the  use  of  the  retailer’s 
name  instead  of  their  own,  originated 
with  a  salesman  who,  failing  to  get 
orders  by  other  means,  finally  offered 
to  put  his  customer’s  name  upon 
the  shirts  he  would  buy  in  place  of 
their  own.  The  order  was  secured. 
The  same  promise  was  made  to  other 
merchants.  The  other  houses  follow­
ed  suit,  and  thus  it  spread.  Now 
the  manufacturers  would  no  doubt 
gladly  withdraw  that  privilege  if  re­
tailers  would  but  consent.  However, 
it  is  a  question  that  can  be  argued 
convincingly  from  both  sides.

Our  opportunities  come 

through 
other  people;  we  succeed  and  take 
all  the  credit  to  ourselves.

Little  Qem 
Peanut  Roaster

grounds.  This  has  been  the  trend 
of  demand,  and  it  is  so  unreliable 
that  it  affords  absolutely  no  sugges­
tion  for  guidance  as  to  the  styles 
for  fall,  1904.  The  indications  are 
that  the  season  will  be  a  mixed  one, 
as  little  that  is  new  has  been  offered 
for  the  manufacturers  to  work  upon.
Taking  advance  orders  for  spring 
has  been  harder  work  for  salesmen 
than  they  have  been  called  upon  to 
do  in  many  seasons.  They  have  had 
large  carried-over  summer  stocks  to 
contend  against,  as  well  as  the  pessi­
mistic  feelings  of  the  retailers,  pro­
phetic of another  disappointing  spring 
and  summer.  The  merchants  of  the 
country  have  already  had  two  dis­
appointing 
summers  on  negligee 
shirts,  and  it  is  apparent,  by  the  way 
most  of  them  have  been  ordering, 
that  they  are  firmly  determined  not 
to  be  caught  napping  again.  With, 
therefore,  so  many  adverse  influences 
handicapping  his  orders  at  every 
turn,  the  salesman  has  found  busi­
ness  very hard  to  get.  The  new  lines 
put  before  retailers  were  never  more 
diversified  or  attractive. 
In  fancies 
there  is  simply  no  end  to  the  variety, 
as  manufacturers  had  estimated  on 
a  big  fancy  season.  There  have  been 
this 
some  disappointments 
in 
re­
spect.  The  heaviest  run 
in  years 
has  been  made  upon  white  negligees.
Just  an  instance  in  the  business  on 
whites  to  show  how  big  it  has  been: 
One  large  jobber  has  sold  his  white 
lines  for  delivery  up  to  July,  and  it 
is  now  a  question  whether  material 
enough  can  be  had  to  make  any  more 
goods.  All  houses  have  not  been  so 
fortunate  with 
stuff. 
Many  shirt  manufacturers  have  been 
caught  short  on  white  madras  and 
cheviot.  Those  who  had  the  stock 
are  getting  the  business. 
It  is  an­
other  exemplification  of  the  fact  that 
the  house  prepared  for  a  change  in 
style  demand  gets  the  cream  of  the 
trade,  and  the  cream  for  summer  is 
white.

their  white 

Orders  for  fancies  for  spring  are 
showing  a  somewhat  decided  leaning 
toward  the  darker  shades  as  against 
white  grounds.  This  is  accepted  as 
significant  of  another  run  on  madras.
We  learn  from  the  manufacturers 
who  have  this  season  made  a  special­
ty  of  flannel  shirts  in  madras  effects, 
with  madras  cuffs  and  collar  band, 
that  retailers  catering  to  a  fine  class 
of  trade  are  doing  a  gratifying  busi­
ness  on  flannels;  also  on  cheviots.

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Take  a  season  like  the  present  and 
it  is  admitted  by  wholesalers  and  re­
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ing  done  on  the  widely  advertised 
shirt.  They  say  consumers  have 
learning  to  know meritorious merch­
andise  through  the  publicity  given  to 
its  brand.  Bringing  up  this  point 
before  a  number  of  manufacturers, 
we  learn  their  contention  is  that  re­
tailers  who  insist  upon  having  their 
own  individual  names  placed  on every 
shirt  bought  are  virtually  stunting 
the  growth  of  their  shirt  department. 
Retailers  are  not  only  asking  for 
their  own  labels  on  shirts,  but  order­
ing  them  on  the  shirt  boxes,  thus 
obliterating  the  personality  of 
the 
manufacturer  totally.  The  manufac­
turers  contend  that  they  could  sell 
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the 

her  and  she  stayed  on  and  on.  Final­
ly,  eating  fried  potatoes  became,  so j 
to  speak,  second  nature  to  the  entire  j 
family  and  we  grew  to  expect  them  | 
as  regularly  as  the  toper  looks  for j 
his  morning  drink.  We  got  into  the j 
fried potato habit,  and when  she  final­
ly  left  and  another  girl  came  along 
and  took  her  place  it  had  become  so 1 
firmly  fixed  in  our  systems  that  we 1 
had  to  take  medical  treatment  to j 
eradicate  it.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
something  she  was  on 
street 
looking  for  an  opportunity  to  mash 
some  one— traveling  man  preferred. 
She  had  more  and  a  different  va­
riety  of  beaus  than  King  Solomon 
had  of  wives.and  concubines.  They 
would  appear  at  the  kitchen  door at 
all  hours  after  five  p.  m.,  and  always 
met  with  a  cordial  and  voluble  wel­
come.  The  first  to  come  seemed  to 
have  the  preference  for  the  time  be­
ing  and  was  entertained  with  a  flood 
and  overflow  of  verbiage  couched  in 
up-to-date  slang  that  made  the  Cen­
tury  Dictionary  appear  an  even  hun­
dred  years  behind  the  tirfies.

She  was  as  steady  and  uniform  in  j 
her  system  of  cooking  as  the  preces-; 
sion  of  the  equinoxes.  She  was  a  j 
good  girl,  too,  willing  and  kind  in 
her  disposition,  but  obstinate  and  fix­
ed  in  her  ideas  of  what  was  desira­
ble  to  eat,  and  as  implacable  in  car­
rying  out  her  ideas  as  an  Apache  In­
dian  in  rustling  for  scalps  when  on 
the  war  path.

She  would  break  out  in  a  deluge 
of  wrecked  and  broken  parts  of 
speech  that  seemed  almost  supernat­
ural  and  for  forty  days  and  forty 
nights, 
the 
downpour  of  her  eloquence  would

figuratively 

speaking, 

36

TH E   H IRED  GIRL.

One  Way  T o  Settle  the  Domestic 

Problem.

W ritte n   fo r  th e   T ra d esm a n .

To  the  family  that  has  been  under 
the  necessity  of  employing  the  ever- 
restive  American  hired  girl  the  serv­
ant  girl  problem  has  grown  to  ap­
pear  simply  unsolvable.  I  am  speak­
ing  now  of  the  ordinary  family  in 
the  ordinary  country  town,  who  from 
choice  or  necessity  employ  the  gay 
and  festive  hired  girl,  and  not  of  the 
rich  of  the  land,  for  of  their  domes­
tic  arrangements  I  know  nothing. 
Like  the  13-14-15  puzzle  or  the  squar­
ing  of  a  circle,  the  devilish  ingenuity j 
of  the  scheme  baffles  all  human  wis­
dom.

The  hired  girl  is  legion  and  each I 
one  of  her  has  peculiarities  and  char­
acteristics  that  mark  her  as  unlike | 
anything  else  in  the  heavens  above 
or  on  the  earth  beneath.  She  is  an | 
outgrowth  of  our  rapid  and  peculiar j 
American  civilization  and  possesses 
an  independence  and  go-it-iveness, in j 
directions  not  always  domestic,  that j 
belong  especially  to  her  particular 1 
'brand  of  existence.  A  few  of  the j 
girls  we  have  employed  have  prov­
en  first-class  workers  in  every  way. 
com-1 
good  American  housekeepers 
petent  to  look  after  any  household. 
But  the  majority  of  them  have  been 
peculiar,  very  peculiar.  They  have 
come  and  gone  one  after  another, 
winter  and  summer,  year  after  year.
I  can  not  even  remember  the  names 
of  all  of  them  and  these  leave  no 
very  marked  impressions  on  mind or 
memory.  The  recollections  of  others 
stand  out  clear  and  distinct  like  a 
flash  of  light  or  the  taste  of  old- 
fashioned  vinegar  bitters  that  I  used 
to  be  doped  with  when  a  boy.

I  remember  one  who  rejoiced  un­
der  the  name  of  Esmarelda  Arabel­
la.  How  she  came  to  be  thus  gift­
ed  I  never  learned.  We  called  her 
Ez  for  short  and  that  seemed  to 
satisfy  her.  She  came  well  recom­
mended.  She  had  no  written  recom­
mendations,  but  told  us  herself  how 
well  liked  she  had  been  in  the  last 
place  where  she  worked;  so  there can 
be  no  doubt  about  the  authenticity 
of  her  recommendations.  She  said 
she  had  remained  there  until  the  lady 
of  the  house  died.  She  stayed  with 
us  six  months,  and  I  often  wondered 
how  long  she  usually  worked  in  a 
place  before  some  member  of  the 
family  succumbed  and  passed  on  to 
the  country  where  ambrosia  and  nec­
tar, 
instead  of  fried  potatoes  and 
biscuit  of  geological  properties,  are 
considered  staple  articles  of  diet.  She 
had  a  system  of  cooking  that  was 
majestic  in  its  very  simplicity.  She 
boiled  potatoes 
for  breakfast  and 
then  sliced  and  fried  them  in  butter 
for  dinner  and  supper.  Potatoes  pre­
pared  this  way  are  good,  but  one 
goes  up  against  the  limit  after 
a 
time.  With  other  small  accessories 
these  constituted  the  regulation  bill 
of  fare.  Nothing  could  induce  her 
to  change  the  program  and  depart 
from  her  time-honored  custom.

She  considered  the  custom  as  im­
mutable  as  a  law  of  the  Medes  and 
Persians.  Pleadings, promises, threats 
were  alike  unavailing.  We  did  not 
at  the  time  know  where  to  replace

turned  to  the  neighborhood  and  soon 
had  as  brilliant  a  galaxy  of  admirers 
as  ever.

Cora  crept  into  our  lives  as  peace­
fully  as  a  benediction.  She  did  not 
come  with  a  flourish  of  trumpets and 
self-recommendations  but  quietly and 
gently  like  the  coming  of  twilight. 
She  was  like  some  evenings, 
too, 
nothing  about  them  to  attract  atten­
tion  but  just  ordinary  and  in  no  wise 
disagreeable.  She  said  she  was  re­
ligious.  She  was.  She  was  tall  and 
meek  and  worked  in  a  chronic  strip­
ed  gingham  dress.  She  but  seldom 
spoke  and  then  in  low,  awed  tones 
as  if  human  speech  were  too  solemn 
a  thing  for  her  to  trifle  with.

She  went  about  the  house  as  silent 
as  a  ghost.  She  tried  to  do  her 
duty,  but  every  little  while  during 
the  day  she  would  be  overcome  with 
thoughts  of  the  sinfulness  of  human­
ity  or  of  her  own  shortcomings  and 
would  knock  off  work  at  the  most 
unseasonable  hours  and  retire  to  her 
room  for  a  season  of  silent  prayer. 
She  would  appear  again  apparently 
refreshed  and  toned  up  for  a  further 
struggle  with  the  world,  the  flesh  and 
the  devil  and  would  go  on  with  her 
work  as  if  nothing  had  occurred. 
If 
ever  a  person  was  riveted  to  the  rock 
of  ages  and  clinched  on  the  other 
side  it  was  Cora.  She  was  as  set­
tled  and  fixed  in  her  orthodoxy  as 
the  foundations  of  the  mighty  Andes.
She  attended  church  twice  on  Sun­
days,  sandwiched  in 
the  Christian 
Endeavor  between  meetings  and  nev­
er  missed  the  regular  Thursday  even­
ing  prayer  meeting.  Yet,  with  all 
through  her 
this  piety  percolating 
system,  she  did  not 
seem  overly 
happy. 
I  think  she  must  have  spent 
a  good  deal  of  time  in  mourning 
over  the  depravity  of  humanity  at 
large.  As  a  domestic  she  was  not a 
brilliant  success,  but  did  the  best  she 
could  between  times.  She  certainly 
was  conscientious  and  painstaking, 
and  she  certainly  was  devotedly  re­
ligious.

M.  W.  Newkirk

There  was 

another  experiment 
named  Angelina. 
She  could  cook, 
and  did  cook  to  perfection;  but  she 
would  do  nothing  outside  the  kitchen 
and  dining  room.  The  sitting  room 
and  parlor  were  to  her  undiscovered 
and  unexplored  territory.  She  knew 
as  little  of  them  as  of  the  wilds  of 
Africa.  She  absolutely  balked  on 
doing  anything  in  the  way  of  dusting 
or  sweeping.  But  in  her  own  sphere 
she  was  supreme  and  unrivaled.  Her 
kitchen  floor  shone  like  a  mirror  and 
her  cooking  was  a  dream  of  delight. 
She  would  get  up  in  the  morning, 
do  a  family  washing  and  ironing  and 
have  a  dainty  and  tempting  breakfast 
on  the  table  at  seven-thirty. 
She 
never  seemed  to sleep.  She was  pain­
fully  cleanly  and  never  neglected her 
work  and  seemed  to  do  it  while  an­
other  girl  would  be  thinking  about 
it.  When  not  cooking  or  scrubbing

late 

continue  without  a  break.  She  stay­
ed  with  us  all  through  one  glad  old 
summer  time  and 
in  the  fall 
suddenly  flitted  with  a  river  driver 
and  went  to  California.  There  was 
no  earthly  reason  why  she  might  not 
have  married  the  fellow  and  settled 
down  sensibly.  But  this  did  not suit 
her  taste  for  theatrical  display.  An 
elopement  without  a  marriage  was 
more  in  her  line.  They  lived  about 
a  year  in  the West  and  then  she  came 
back  to  Michigan  alone  with 
the 
sad  news  that  he  was  dead— buried 
beneath  an  avalanche. 
It  was  no 
doubt  true  in  part.  He  was  undoubt­
edly  dead  enough,  but  not  buried 
beneath  any  commonplace  landslide 
of  dirt  and  mere  rubbish.  She  had 
talked  him  t®  death,  and  he  now  lies 
thousands  of  feet  beneath  broken 
parts  of  human  speech  and  debris 
i  of  the  English 
She  re­

language. 

I  never knew but  one  hired  girl that 
seemed  to  have  as  much  or  more  of 
a  devotional  nature  than  Cora.  This 
was  a  girl  who  worked  for  a  friend 
over  in  Chicago.  The  wife  and  my­
self  had  been  attending  the  World’s 
Fair  and  one  evening  went  with  our 
friends,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  N.,  to  see  Jo­
seph  Jefferson 
in  Rip  VanWinkle. 
The  great  actor  excelled  himself  and 
laughter  and  tears  swept  over  the 
vait  audience  like  summer  shunshine 
and  rain  as  it  listened  to  the  marvels 
of  his  genius.  No  man  or  woman 
but  went  away  bettered  and  uplifted 
for  having  seen  and  heard  him.  The 
next  morning  this  paragon  of  a  hired 
girl  served  notice  at  breakfast  time 
that  Mrs.  N.  would  have  to  look  for 
another  girl  at  once  as  she  could  not 
remain  in  a  family  of  such  innate 
depravity  as  to  attend  a  theater.  She 
said  she  had  spent  the  preceding 
evening  in  prayer  for  us  while  we 
were  absent  at  the  play  and  that  she 
was  afraid  to  continue  to  live  with 
such  notoriously  wicked  and  degen­
erate  people.  The  good  doctor  and 
his  wife  had  been  pillars  in  the  Pres­
byterian  church  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  but  they  were  informed  that 
they had  committed  the  unpardonable

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PAPER.  BOXES

We manufacture*«! complete fine ot 
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.

The  Shoe  With The  Hub Goring

A   Lively  Seller  Regardless 

of  Locality

comfortable 

The phenomenal  sale  of 
this 
shoe 
proves that we  are  meet­
ing  a  popular  demand.
Like all

THEY  A R E   MADE 
“R I G H T .”  We  have 
put an individuality into them that  is  responsi­
ble  for  their  great  sale.  Only  the  genuine 
bear the Mayer trade  mark.  We  will  send  a 
salesman if you wish.

F.  MAYER  B O O T  &   SHOE  C O .

Milwaukee, Wis.

C H A S .  A .  C O Y E

JOBBER  OF

Cotton,  Jute,  Hemp,  Flax  and  Wool  Twines

Horse  and  W agon  Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

Grand Rapids,  Michigan

it and 9 Pearl St.

White  Seal  Lead

and

Warren  Mixed  Paints

Full  Line  at  Factory  Prices

The  manufacturers  have  placed  us 
in a  position  to  handle  the  goods  to 
the advantage of all M ichigan custom­
ers.  Prompt shipments and a  saving 
of  time  and  expense.  Quality  guar­
anteed.

Agency Columbus Varnish  Co.

113*115  Monroe Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Unknown  Leaks

Suppose  a  clerk  makes  a  25-cent  sale  and  in  changing  a $5  biU  returns  the  customer  $3  too  much. 

Will  you  know  which  clerk  made  the  mistake ?

Can  you  be  certain  that  any  mistake  at  all  has  occurred?
This  $3  which  you  have  lost— lost  without  knowing  it— lost  without any  method  of stopping  similar 

losses  in  the  future— this  $3  may represent  the  profit on  a dozen  one  dollar  sales.

Think of what  will  happen  if such  mistakes  continue  to occur.  Much  of your  future  profit,  maybe 

your chance  of final  success— all  placed  at  the  mercy  of careless  clerks!

This is  only  one  instance. 

Think  of  the  other  leaks  in  that  * ‘money  till”  that  could  happen 
without your  knowledge.  Think  of  how  prices  could  be  cut,  how  credit  sales  could  be  forgotten 
and  money  received on  account  lost.  There  are  a dozen  other  ways  in  which  errors  lessen  your 

profits.

Hadn’t  you  better  investigate  the  only  device  which  can  stop  these  losses— a 
It  will  cost  you  only  a  postage  stamp,  but  may  save  you
Mail  the  attached  coupon TODAY.  Tomorrow  never comes.

National  Cash  Register? 
thousands  of  dollars.

I am
interested 
in  you r new 
Cash and Credit 
System .
Please send  me  a 
copy  o f  yonr  book,
“ No M ore Bookkeeping 
D ru d gery,"  as  per  ad  in 
Michigan  T radesman. 

N am e.

M ail A d d ress,

National  Cash  Register  Company

Dayton, Ohio

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sin,  and  the  girl  did  not  propose  to 
get  caught  in  the  cataclysm  of  im­
pending  judgment.  She  kept  her 
promise  good  and  disappeared  imme­
diately  after  dinner.  If  she  has  lived 
up  to  her  reputation  until  the  present 
time  she  is  probably  a  meek  and 
lowly 
the  belligerent 
Dowie.

follower  of 

Cora  finally  drifted  out  of  our  lives 
as  unostentatiously  as  she  had  enter­
ed.  She  married  a  narrowgauge  in- 
tinerant  preacher and  afterwards went 
to  China  and  is  now  missionarying 
around  among  the  heathen. 
It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  she  will  find  a  con­
genial  outlet  for  her  overflow  of 
piety.

like  Angelina, 

Another  and  more  recent  acquisi­
tion  proved  a  most  delectable  morsel 
to  roll  under  the  domestic  tongue. 
Her  name  was  Margante,  and,  in  the 
vernacular  of  the  street,  she  was  a 
“peach.”  She  was  both  tall  and  fat. 
She  manifested  no  symptoms  of  early 
piety— nor  of  any  late  variety  of  that 
commodity,  either,  for  that  matter. 
Under  stress  of  circumstances— such 
as  a  burned  loaf  of  bread  or  a  brok­
en  lineful  of 
clothes— she  would 
swear  with  more  depth  and  variety 
of  expression  than  any  one  I  ever 
heard  outside  of  a  lumber  camp  or 
at  an  annual  meeting  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Order  of  Retired  Pi­
rates.  She  had  a  temper  like  a  vol­
cano.  Like  Angelina,  she  was  clean­
ly  and, 
took  pride 
in  doing  her  work  well,  but  did  it 
going around  grumbling,  like  a drunk­
en  sailor,  under  her  breath,  with  oc­
casional  suppressed  outbursts  of  pro­
fanity,  when  she 
thought  no  one 
heard  her,  that  would  have  turned 
the  late  lamented  Captain  Kidd  over 
in  his  grave  through  sheer  jealousy.
She  had  a  bump  of  destructiveness, 
also,  that  was  abnormally  developed. 
What  she  did  not  drop  and  break,  or 
get  mad  and  destroy,  she  would  wear 
out  by  continual  polishing  and  scrub­
bing.  She  was  a  human  cyclone  that 
rose  darkly  magnificent  in  the  domes­
tic  heavens  and  left  ruin  and  desola­
tion  following  after,  wherever 
she 
chanced  to  touch.  She  was  an  erup­
tion  of  Mt.  Pelee,  a  dynamite  explo­
sion  and  the  destruction  of  a  powder 
mill  almalgamated  and  rolled  into  one 
and  then  touched  off  with 
fifty 
pounds  of  nitroglycerine.  She  broke 
the  dishes,  the  tin  and  ironware,  the 
floor  in  the  kitchen,  the  boards  in  th» 
sidewalk  ivhile  scrubbing  them,  fixed 
the  stove  damper  with  the  ax  and 
broke  both  of  them.  Nothing  was 
sacred,  nothing  about  the  premises 
safe  from  her  inborn  ability  to break 
and  destroy.

She  had  what  she  termed  “a  steady 
sport,”  of  convivial  habits,  who  came 
regularly  three  times  a  week  all  win­
ter  and  “sat  up”  with  her  in  the 
kitchen.  Sometimes  when  he  had  a 
more  than  usually  entertaining  con­
versational  jag  on  she  would  bring 
him  into  the  parlor  and  exhibit  him 
with  pride.  This  probably  would not 
be  allowed  by  our  friends  the  Goulds 
and  Astors  in  the  working  out  of 
their  domestic  economy,  but 
in  a 
country  town  the  lines  are  not  so 
closely  drawn  between  employer  and 
employe  as  in  the  city  and  we  used 
to  endeavor  to  help  her  entertain  her

company  for  a  short  time.  He  would 
drop  off  to  sleep  after  telling  one  or 
two  stories  in  which  he  played  the 
part  of  hero  and  then  she  would 
shake  him  up  and  lead  him  off  to  the 
kitchen,  where  they  sat  until 
the 
small  hours  of  the  morning.

She  might  have  been  a  valuable  as­
sistant  in  an  iron  foundry  where  deft­
ness  of  touch  is  not  essential,  but  as 
a  care-taker  of  china  and  glassware 
she  proved  a  dismal  failure.  She  left 
us  in  the  spring  about  the  time  rob­
ins  commenced  to  nest  again,  saying 
she  was  thinking  of  getting  married, 
like  her  predecessors.

Another  came  whose  name  I  have1 
forgotten.  She  remained  in  the house 
only  a  week.  I  probably  would  have 
forgotten  her  entirely  but  for  the fact 
that  she  was  utterly  ignorant  of  the

Convex and  Flat 

If  in  need  of  any  of 
these goods write to  us 
for prices  before  plac­
ing your order.

Bob Runners, 
Light Bobs, 
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Planter

Sherwood  Hall  Co.,  Ltd., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Your  Customers

[ call for this  planter.  It  is  widely 
known  and  w ell 
advertised—a 
staple tool.

Acme Potato Planters

|  add 

to  the 

profit  of 

potato 
¿rowing—eliminate  so  much  of 
I  the labor and  expense, make  pota* 
toes  so  much  better  in  quality 
They  are  known  everywhere  to 
produce the standard of productive­
ness in this crop
They Are The Right Tool
i  rightly made and rightly sold.  No 
|  catalogue or mail  order  house ever 
has or  ever  can  sell  them.  Your 
implement  hardware  jobber  does. 
Your customers  have  to  get  them 
|  of you.

P O T A T O   IM P L E M E N T  

C O M P A N Y

Traverse City, 
W e  want you 
to have our cat­
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learn  o f  
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sterling  worth 
o f   o u r   corn- 
planters,  pow­
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sprayers.

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Egg  C ases  and  Egg  Case  Fillers

Constantly  on  hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers.  Sawed  whitewood 
and veneer basswood cases.  Carload lots, mixed  car lots or quantities to suit  pur­
chaser.  We manufacture every kind  * fillers known to the trade, and sell same hi 
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchaser.  Also Excelsior, Nails  and  Flats 
constantly in stock.  Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.  Warehouses and 
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan.  Address

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

* 

W rite  or  telephone  us  if you  can offer

POTATOES 

BEANS 

CLOVER  SEED 

A PPLES 

ONIONS

W e  are  in  the  market  to  buy.

M O S ELEY   BRO S.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street, 

G R A N D   R A P I D S .  M IC H IG A N

W H O L E S A L E

OYSTERS

CAN   OR  B U LK

DET1ENTHALER  MARKET,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Butter

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it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

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elementary  principles  of  housekeep­
ing  and  had  the  unfortunate  habit 
of  throwing  a  fit  at  the  most  unex­
pected  and  inopportune  moment.  Ig­
norance  of  her  trade  and  having  fits 
did  not  seem  compatible  with  con­
ducting  a  model  home,  and  so  an  es­
trangement  arose  between  her  and 
the  wife  and  she  was  politely  but 
firmly 
invited  to  retire  and  make 
room  for  a  successor.

I  do  not  know  how  it  occurred 
that  nearly  all  our  girls  seemed  to 
be  going  through  life  bearing  names 
taken  from  stories  by  such  eminent 
and  classical  authors  as  Mary  J. 
Holmes  and  The  Duchess,  but  such 
seems  to  have  been  the  fact.  Proba­
bly  a  case  of  romantic  mothers  ad­
dicted  to  novel  reading  of  the  most 
virulent  type.

The  Ladies’  Home  Journal  and 
other  periodicals  of  similar  character 
that  assume  to  deal  with  the  “Serv­
ant  Girl  Problem”  contain  many dis­
cussions  of  the  question. 
I  suppose 
these  mean  the  problem  as  applied 
to  households  like  the  ones  mention­
ed.  Of  that  ilk  and  their  troubles,  as 
said,  I  know  nothing.  My  experience 
has  been  limited 
the  ordinary 
everyday  hired  girl  as  she  is  picked 
up  on  the  farm  or  in  the  factory  or 
from  some  other  household  where 
she  has  graduated.

to 

It  is  a  fact  that  none  of  us  know 
much  of  this  latter  phase  of  the  prob­
lem.  Femininity  at  its  best  is  a  right 
smart  sort  of  a  puzzle;  at  its  worst 
it  is  simply  excruciating,  baffling, and 
means  insanity  to  the  rash  investiga­
tor  who  ventures  upon  its  confines 
and  attempts  to  corral  a  solution  of 
its  mysteries.

When  the  scientists  have  succeed­
ed  in  offering  a  lucid  explanation  of 
the  secret  of  the  universe,  and  have 
defined  the  nature  of  electricity  and 
the  mysteries  of radium,  perhaps  they 
will  turn  their  attention  to  this  prob­
lem. 
It  may  not  be  as  deep  and 
profound  as  the  other  investigations 
they  have  conquered,  but  it  is  safe 
to  wager  that  it  will  give  them  a 
chase  for  their  money.

M.  W.  Newkirk.

Postal  Card  History.

Before  the  present  phrase  on  the 
face  of  the  United  States  postal cards 
was  adopted,  to  inform  the  user  that 
only  the  address  is  to  be  written  on 
that  side,  there  was  a  long  series  of 
experiments  on  trial  with  other  sen­
tences  meaning  practically  the  same 
thing.  The  direction  has  appeared 
in  at  least  six  forms.

“One  of  the  earliest  cards,”  says 
Francis  H.  Whitney,  Private  Secre­
tary  to  Postmaster-General  Payne, 
“was  made  to  bear  the  sign,  ‘Nothing 
but  the  address  can  be  writen  on  this 
side,’  which  was  untrue,  as  many  per­
sons  could  write  more  if  they  so  de­
sired.  Shortly  afterward 
it  was 
changed  so  as  to  read,  ‘Nothing  but 
the  address  is  to  be  placed  on  this 
side,’  which  was  more  sensible,  but 
Whs  clumsy  and  was  soon  discarded. 
The  next  issue  of  the  cards  was  in­
scribed,  ‘The  address  only  to  be  writ­
ten  on  this  side,’  which  it  was  soon 
seen  could  easily  be  construed  to 
bar  the  use  of  a  typewriter.  The 
same  objection  could  be  raised 
to

‘Write  only  the  address 
side.’

on 

this 

“Finally  the  authorities  got  hyster­
ical,  and  the  next  issue  of  the  cards 
informed  the  user  that  he 
could 
‘Write  the  address  on  this  side,  the 
message  on  the  other,’  which  was not 
only  clumsy,  but  ambiguous,  and  con­
veyed  a  wrong  meaning,  as  the  offi­
cials  really,  down  in  their  hearts, had 
no  objection  to  a  person  writing the 
address  on  both  sides  of  the  card.  It 
was  finally  decided  that  there  was 
no  use  in  trying  to  be  original,  and 
so  they  fashioned  the  phrase  which 
is  now  in  use  after  the  one  used  on 
the  postal  cards  issued  by  the  Brit­
ish  government.  Our  English  cou­
sins  say,  ‘The  space  below  is  for  the 
address  only,’  and  Uncle  ' Sam  has 
‘This  side  for  the  address  only.’ ”

There  is  plenty  of  work  in  every 
store  to  keep  everyone 
connected 
with  it  busy  every  minute  during the 
hours  the  store  is  open  for  business. 
Keep  at  work  and  watch  the  result.

Moore s Himes

MERCHANDISE  BROKERS 

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JOHN  G.  DOAN  COM PANY

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS

IN   C A N   O R   B U L K  

A ll mail orders given prompt attention.

Main  office  127  Lou's  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Citizens' Phone  1881

Buyers  and  Shippers of

P O T A T O E S

in carlots.  Write or telephone ns.
H .  E L M E R   M 0 8 E L E Y   A   C O .

G R A N D   R A P I D S .  M IO H .

Hand  in  Hand

New Century Flour

Produces a profit and 
wins  the  confidence 
of every  good  house­
keeper,  as  well  as 
the  dealer.  Write 
for prices.

C aled on ia  Milling  Co.

Caledonia, Mich.

WE  CAN  USE  ALI  THE

H O N E Y

you can ship ns, and will  guarantee top market price.  We are  in  the  market  for

S.  ORW ANT  &  SON.  g r a n d   r a p id s ,  m io h .

your TURKEYS.

Wholesale dealers in  Batter, Eggs,  Fruits and Produce.

Reference, Fourth National  Bank of Grand Rapids.

Citizens  Phone 2654.

RYE  STRAW

We  are  in  urgent  need of  good  rye  straw  and  can  take 
all  you  will  ship  us.  Let  us  quote  you  prices  f.  o.  K  
your city.

Smith Young & Co.

1019 Michigan Avene, Lansing, Mich.

References, Dun and  Bradstreet and City National  Bank, Lansing.

W e  have  the  finest  line  of  Patent  Steel  W ire  Bale  T ies  on  the

market.

L.  S T A R K S   CO.

T H E   L A R G E S T   E X C L U S IV E   D E A L E R S 

IN  P O T A T O E S   IN  AM ERICA

M ichigan  Office,  Houseman  B ldg.,  Grand  Rapids,  M ichigan

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that 
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mail  good  sized  sample.

If  any  to  offer 

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position,  and  had  done  things  which, 
if  the  final  prize  were  not  so  great, 
I  should  blush  to  think  upon.

Had  I  not  left  those  who  had  been 
long  in  the  race  far  behind,  bleeding 
and  exhausted,  while  I,  ever  selfish 
in  my  own  desire,  sped  on  with  a 
determination  deep-rooted  and  evil, 
not  caring  what  befell  my  victims?

And  now— now!  Ah,  most  cruel 
Fate, that  at last it is over, and  I  have 
won,  must  I  relinquish  all— all  that  I 
have  fought  for,  all  that  I  have  gain­
ed— and  for  a  woman?

A  weak,  homely  little  woman!
Oh,  that  this  should  be!  Man  will 
do  much  for  the  woman  he  loves; 
yes,  but  I  do  not  love  this  woman, 
do  not  think  that  I  ever  will,  nor  will 
she  ever  love  me,  even  although  this 
sacrifice  be  made  wholly  for  her  sake.
But  the  baby!  Ah,  yes,  poor,  inno­
cent  little  thing,  she  holds  her  to  her 
heart,  even  as  she  stands  before  me.
The  situation  grows  unbearable.  I 
know  that  I  must  act,  at  once  and 
quickly.  So,  rising  to  my  full  height, 
I  raise  my  hat,  and— since  it  must 
be  done— offer  her  my  seat  in  the 
street  car.

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And nevermore repents.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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(In the Rainy River District, Ontario)

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CHICAOO, IU

Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 

P re sid e n t,  B .  D .  P a lm er,  D e tro it;  S e c ­
re ta ry ,  M.  S .  B ro w n ,  S a g in a w ;  T r e a s ­
u rer,  H .  E .  B ra d n e r,  L a n sin g .

United  Com m ercial  Travelers  of  Michigan 
G rand  C ouncelor,  J .   C.  E m e ry ,  G ran d  R a p ­
id s;  G ran d   S e c re ta ry ,  W .  F .  T ra c y , 
F lin t. 

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Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131»  U.  C.  T . 
S en io r  C ouncelor,  W .  B .  H old en :  S e c r e ­

ta ry -T re a su re r,  O sca r  F . 

Ja c k so n .

Three  Good  Rules  for  Business  Men.

Lead  a  natural  life.
Eat  what  you  want.
Always  walk  on  the  sunny  side  of 

the  street.

These  are  the  three  good  rules 
which  Rev.  Robert  Collyer,  hale  and 
hearty  at  the  age  of  80,  lays  down 
for  living.  They  are  short  but  they 
are  sensible,  taken  singly  or  togeth­
er. 
If  every  man  or  woman  would 
observe  them  there  would  be  more 
health  and  happiness  in  the  world 
as  well  as  longer  lives. 
In  these 
busy,  strenuous  times  there  is  undue 
lives  that  have 
temptation  to  lead 
much  that 
is  forced  and  artificial 
in  them.  The  injunction  to  eat  what 
you  want  presupposes  the  possession 
of  common  sense,  which  will  pre­
vent  wanting  what  is  notoriously un­
fit  to  eat. 
It  implies,  too,  declining 
to  eat  more  than  you  want.  If  every­
body  stopped  eating  and  drinking 
when  they  had  enough, 
in  other 
words,  all  they  really  want,  there 
would  be  no  intemperance,  with  its 
incident  suffering.

The 

last  suggestion,  which  bids 
people  “Always  walk  on  the  sunny 
side  of  the  street,”  is  as  applicable 
as  its  predecessors.  There  are 
in 
every  community  a  few  people  at 
least  who  really  seem  never  happy 
except  when  they  are  miserable. 
If 
they  have  no  aches  or  pains  actual­
ly  available,  they  imagine  some,  and 
delusions  are  ofttimes  as  excruciat­
ing  as  genuine  suffering.  About the 
most  tormenting  thing  a  person  can 
have  is  a  mind  that  is  always  im­
agining  ill  and  evil. 
It  pays  to  look 
on  the  bright  side.  Better  a  thous­
and  times be  an  optimist  than  a  pessi­
mist.  There  is  a  sunny  side  to  every 
street,  and  it  is  just  as  easy  and  a 
great  deal  pleasanter  to  take  it.  Un­
questionably  a 
sunny  disposition 
tends  to  longevity.  Worry  kills  more 
people  than  work.  Do  the  best  you 
can  while  you  are  at  it,  and  having 
done  your  best,  you  could  have  done 
no  better,  and  it  is  idle  to  lament  or 
fret.  Pleasure  in  proper  proportion 
is  just  as  profitable  as  toil  and  just 
as  necessary.  Happiness  in  a  great 
measure  is  simply  a  frame  of  mind. 
It  is  only  natural  that  those  who 
prefer  to  walk  in  the  shade  should 
be  gloomy. 
It  is  worth  every  one’s 
while  to  seek  the  sunny  side.  Dr. 
Collyer’s  three  short  rules  are  worth 
learning  by  heart  and  worth  practic­
ing  persistently  every  day.

A   Woman’s  Power.

I  was  weary  unto  death  with  the 
long 
struggle;  I  had  battled  and 
fought  in  my  mad  desire  to  attain 
that  which  I  most  coveted.

I  had  sacrificed  my  dignity  and  my

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Gripsack  Brigade.

Joseph  P.  Visner  (Edwin  J.  Gillies 
&  Co.)  leaves  to-day  for  New  York, 
where  he  will  spend  a  week  as  the 
guest  of  his  house.

Jackson  Patriot:  Omer  Lilly,  clerk 
at  Hotel  Ruhl,  has  tendered  his  resig­
nation  to  take  a  position  as  traveling 
salesman  for  the  Craig  Biscuit  Co., 
of  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.  His  territory 
will  be  Southern  Michigan.

A  Battle  Creek 

correspondent 
writes:  J.  E.  Moon,  who  for  several 
years  was  engaged  in  the  creamery 
and  grocery  business  in  this  city, has 
accepted  a  responsible  position  as 
traveling  salesman  with  the  Sharpies 
Cream  Separator  Co.  of  Chicago.

Saginaw  Courier-Herald:  This  year 
the  Saginaw  Beef  Co.  will  give  its 
annual  banquet  to  its  traveling  repre­
sentatives  at  the  P.  P.  P.  palace  on 
the  evening  of  Dec.  28.  Orders  were 
placed  some  time  ago  for  beeves  and 
birds  to  be  especially  fattened  for 
the  occasion.

John  A.  Sherrick  (Rindge,  Kalm- 
bach,  Logie  &  Co.,  Ltd.)  responded 
to  the  subject,  A  Medley  of  Day 
Dreams,  at  the 
recent  banquet  of 
Monroe  Chapter,  No.  1  (Royal  Arch), 
at  Detroit.  The  effort  was  so  well 
received  that  Mr.  Sherrick  has  been 
placed  on  the  speakers’  list  for  all  fu­
ture  banquets  of  that  organization.

Charlotte  Republican:  A.  Gaffney 
has  resigned  his  position  with  C.  D. 
Roberts  to  accept  a  traveling  position 
with  the  Excelsior  Stove  and  Mfg. 
Co.,  of  Quincy,  111.  He  will  begin  j 
work the  first  of  the year,  and  expects 
to  be  assigned  to  western  territory. 
Mr.  Gaffney  has  been  in  the  same 
store for six  years,  starting in  to learn | 
the  business  with  J.  Collisi.

Saginaw  Evening  News:  W.  H. 
Hurley  of  Flint, 
the  well-known 
traveling  salesman  in  this  district  for 
Lee  &  Cady,  of  Detroit,  is  to  be
united  in  marriage  to  one  of  Detroit’s 
daughters 
in  Detroit  Wednesday 
evening.  Mr.  Hurley  for  years  re­
sided  in  Flint.  He  has  been  a  regu­
lar  visitor  to  this  town  many  years 
and  is  very  well  known  to  the  busi­
ness  population.

in 

The  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.,  has 
delegated  C.  P.  Mitchell,  who  has 
been  covering 
the  Saginaw  Valley 
trade  of  that  house,  to  fill  the  vacan­
cy 
the  Grand  Rapids  district 
caused  by  the  resignation  of  John 
Watson.  Mr.  Mitchell  will  remove 
from  Saginaw  to  Grand  Rapids,  mak­
ing  his  headquarters  at  the  Living­
ston  Hotel  for  the  present.  Mr. 
Mitchell’s  former  territory  will'  be 
occupied  by  J.  A.  Raymo,  who  has 
been  house 
for  several 
years.

salesman 

Nashville  News:  Several  commer­
cial  travelers  were  on  the  late  train 
going  into  Grand  Rapids  over 
this 
division  last  Friday  night,  getting  in 
to  spend  Saturday  and  Sunday  at 
home.  They  were  having  their  usual 
jolly  time  in  the  smoking  car,  four 
of  them  playing  “smear,”  while  the 
others  looked  on.  One  of  the.num­
ber,  usually  a  jolly  fellow,  was  un­
usually  quiet,  and  one  of  the  others 
finally  enquired  what  the  trouble was. 
He  replied  that  his  wife,  whom  he 
had  left  in  excellent  health  when  he

went  away  Monday  morning,  had 
been  taken  suddenly  ill  during  his 
absence  and  that  he  had  just  received 
a  letter  from  her  at  Nashville  that 
morning  that  would  indicate  that she 
had  had  a  surgical  operation  perform­
ed.  He  was  anxious  to  get  home 
and  find  out  how  serious  her  condi­
tion  was.  The  others  expressed  their 
sympathy,  and  one  of  the  boys  final­
the 
ly  enquired  as  to  the  nature  of 
operation. 
John  admitted  that 
it 
was  a  new  one  to  him,  something  he 
had  never  heard  of  before,  but  his 
wife  wrote  that  she  had  been  down 
the  day  before  “to  have  a  kimono 
cut  out.”  The  laugh  that  went  up  in­
dicated  that  the  remainder  of  the 
crowd  was better  posted on  the  names 
of  women’s  wearing  apparel  than the 
sad-faced  one,  who  felt  greatly  re­
lieved  when  the  nature  of  a  “kimo­
no”  was  explained  to  him,  and  he 
bought  for  the  crowd.

Why  He  Could  Not  Keep  His  Em­

ployes.

He  adopted  slave-driving  methods.
He  took  no  interest  in  their  wel­

fare.

He  was  arbitrary,  captious,  and  un­

just.

He  always  appealed  to  the  worst in 

them  instead  of  the  best.

He  considered  that 

their 

entire 

salaries  were  in  their  envelopes.

His  policy  was  to  get  the  most 
least 

the 

for 

work  out  of  them 
wages.

He  regarded  them  merely  as 

a 
part  of  the  machinery  of  his  busi­
ness.

He  rosented  the  idea  that  his  em- 
I  ployes  should  share  in  his  prosperity.
He  used  them  as  safety-valves  to 
vent  the  spleen  of  his  drastic  moods.
He  humiliated  his  employes  by  re­
the  presence  of 

buking  them  in 
others.

He  never  trusted  them,  but  always 
toward 

suspicious 

thoughts 

held 
them.

He  killed 

enthusiasm  by 
finding  fault  and  never  praising  or 
appreciating  them.

their 

He  tried  to  make  them  feel  that 
n e ith e r   he  nor  his  business  owed 
anything  to  them.

He  stifled  ambition  by  treating the 

the  careless  and  the  shifty  alike.

He  never  asked  himself,  “What is 
the  matter  with  me?”  but,  “What  is 
the  matter  with  my  help?”

He  constantly  made  them  work 
overtime  without  remuneration,  but 
if  they  were  a  minute  late  they were 
fined.— Success.

The  illness  of  Emperor  William 
brings  the  crown  prince  Frederick 
William  prominently  before  the  pub­
lic  eye.  From  all  accounts  he  is  a 
pretty  lively  youth  and  has  a  pen­
chant  for  extraordinary 
of 
feats 
horsemanship.  Recently,  it  is 
re­
ported,  in  company  with  a  number 
of  young  army  officers  he  dashed  up 
the  steps  of  the  palace  at  Potsdam. 
The  Emperor  has  found  it  necessary 
to  discipline  the  youngster  by  confin­
ing  him  to  his  room.  While  rejoic­
ing in  the  exuberant  spirits  of his  heir 
the  Emperor  fears  he  will  break  his 
neck.

A N TIQ U ITY  OF  MAN.

Alleged  Pre-Carboniferous  Find 

Kansas.

in 

answer 

When  did  man  first  appear  on  the  j 
earth?  is  a  question  which  scientists j 
have  vainly  endeavored  to  answer. 
Darwin  attempted  to 
the 
question,  W'hence  came  man?  by 
tracing  his  evolution  from  a  lower 
order  of  animal  life,  through  a  proc­
ess  of  natural  selection,  to  the  an­
thropoid  apes.  But  even  the  evolu­
tionary  theory  of  the  origin  of  the 
human  race  is  a  controversial  sub­
ject  over  which  naturalists  as  well 
as  theologians  disagree.

Anthropologists  have  endeavored 
to  trace  the  antiquity  of  the  human 
race  through  the  surviving  remains 1 
of  his  own  frame  and  the  relics  of ] 
his  handiwork.  The  ages  of  these I 
relics  are  determined  by  the  geolog­
ical  formation  in  which 
they  are 
found:  And  although  no  positive 
knowledge  exists  of  the  actual  age 
of  any  geological  formation,  the  pre­
sumption  is  strong  that  in  whichever 
formation  the  remains  of  a  human 
being  or  stray  specimen  of  his  handi­
craft  are  found  man  existed  on  the 
earth  at  that  period 
in  geological 
history,  if  he  did  not  actually  ante­
date  it.

period,  when  the  carboniferous  beds 
were  formed.  Not  a  suggestion  of 
human 
life  has  yet  been  found  in 
either  the  secondary  or  tertiary  for­
mations;  and  yet  if  man  existed  011 
the  earth  before  their  time  nothing 
would  be  more  reasonable  to  expect 
than  the  discovery  of  evidences  of 
him  in  both  of  them.  When  the  al­
leged  Kansas  discovery  is  scientifical­
ly  investigated  it  will  doubtless  re­
solve  itself  into  a  hoax  of  the  same 
order  as  the  Cardiff  giant.  The proof 
that  it  is  a  fraud  is,  in  fact,  contained 
in  the  story  itself,  which  describes the 
finding  of  the  human  relics  enclosed 
in  a  box  made  of  bark  in  a  formation 
overlaid  by  two  carboniferous  veins. 
The  exposure  of  the  fraud  lies  in  the 
answer  to  the  question:  How  could 
a  box  made  of  bark— a  vegetable sub­
stance— survive  the  chemical  action 
of  the  ages  which  carbonized 
the 
vegetable  deposits  of  subsequent ages 
into  veins  of  coal  overlying  the  strat­
um  in  which  it  is  alleged  to  have 
been  found  imbedded?  No  rational 
explanation  can  be  found  for  such 
a  survival;  and  without  it  the  genuine­
ness  of  the  finding  of  the  Kansas  ar­
row-heads  and  the 
acceptance  of 
them  as  evidence  of  the  existence  of 
man  in  the  earliest  geological  periods 
must  be  dismissed  as  unworthy  of 
credence.

The  best  evidences  of  prehistoric 
man  have  been  found  in  England, 
France,  Brazil  and  India.  The  human 
relics  there  exhumed  have  been  usu­
ally  found  in  the  limestone  caves and 
caverns.  They  consist 
chiefly  of 
fragments  of  human  bones  associated 
with 
those  of  prehistoric  animals, 
such  as  the  extinct  hairy  mammoth, 
and  crude  carvings  on  stone 
and 
reindeer  horns,  and  still  cruder  im­
plements  of  the  chase  and  war,  such 
as  flint  arrow-heads.  But  it  has  been 
generally  admitted  by  the  best  au­
thorities  in  such  matters  that  all  of 
these  evidences  of  human  existence 
belong  exclusively 
to  post-glacial 
times.  That  is,  they  belong  to  that 
geological  age  when  the  gravel  beds 
and  soils  of  the  surface  of  the  earth 
were  deposited  as  the  result  of 
the 
grinding action  of the  ice  sheet,  which 
once  covered  a  large  area  of 
the 
globe,  on  the  underlying  rock  forma­
tions.

The  alleged  discovery  of  a  human 
skull  at  a  great  depth  in  the  gravel 
formation  of  Calaveras  county  gave 
riie  to  the  belief  that  man  existed 
on  the  earth  in  pre-glacial  times,  but 
the  genuineness  of  that  discovery 
has  always  been  open  to  doubt,  and 
has  not  been  accepted  as  evidence 
of  human  antiquity.

A  report  now  comes  from  Pitts­
burg,  Kas.,  that  coal  miners,  engag­
ed  in  sinking  a  shaft  for  the  Weir 
Junction  Coal  Company  on  the  Rex 
farm  south  of  Cherokee, 
recently 
found  “imbedded  in  the  fire  clay  be­
low  the  second  vein  of  coal,  at  a 
depth  of  fifty  feet,  a  box  made  of 
bark,  containing  three  arrow-heads 
crudely  made  of  flint  rock.” 
If  this 
were  a  genuine  discovery  it  would 
carry the age of man  from  the  quater­
nary  or  post-tertiary  period,  in  which 
the  other  evidences  of  his  existence 
have  been  found,  through  the  ter­
tiary  and  secondary  geological  pe­
riods,  into  the  primary  or  paleozoic

the 

idols,  worshipped 

like  the  moon  because 

The  people  of  Egypt,  who  had 
many 
cat 
among  others.  They  thought  she 
was 
she 
was  more  active  at  night  and  because 
her  eyes  changed  like 
the  moon, 
which  is  sometimes  full  and  at  other 
times  only  a  light  crescent,  or,  as 
we  say,  a  half  moon.  So  they  made 
an  idol  with  a  cat’s  head  and  named 
it  Pasht.  The  same  name  they  gave 
to  the  moon,  for  the  word  means 
“the  face  of  the  moon.”  The  word 
has  been  changed  to  “Pas” and  “Pus,” 
and  has  come  at  last  to  be  “Puss.”

This  is  to  be  a  hard  winter 

in 
England  from  present  indications.  Tti 
London  the  army  of  unemployed  is 
gaining  new  recruits  daily.  There 
are  about  300  applicants  for  each 
position  advertised  in  the  city  papers. 
General  depression  in  trade  is  assign­
ed  as  the  cause  for  these  conditions. 

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Don’t  despise  your  occupation.  The 
man  who  throws  himself  heart  and 
soul  into  the  humble  duties  of  the 
present  is  in  line  for  greater  things 
in  the  future.

Hotel  Cody,  C.  E.  Bondy,  Prop. 

First  class,  $2  and  $2.50.  Meals,  50c.

The  life  that  does  no  good  is guilty 

of  much  harm.

Furs

Highest  prices  paid  and 

quick  remittances

CROHON  &  CO  , LTD.

Hides,  P a rs, T allow , E tc.

38 and 30 M arket S t „  

Grand Rapids

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

sales  of  the  day  before,  and  put  on 
the  “want”  list  whatever  is  needed,  a 
routine  duty  that  takes  about  one 
hour’s  time  in  a  hundred-dollar-a-day 
business.

By  handling  the  stock  over  in  this 
way  one  grows  familiar  with  every­
thing  in  it,  becomes  an  authority  on 
prices  and  a  good  judge  of  the  sala­
bility  of  a  new  article.  When  a  bill 
of  goods  arrives  it  is  checked  off 
from  the  copy,  each  article  is  entered 
up  in  the  price  book,  the  date,  the 
quantity,  the  house  of  whom  pur­
chased,  and  te  price  all  being  noted, 
and  such  articles  as  have  been  laid 
aside  on  account  of  the  selling  price 
being  unknown  are  marked  and  put 
away.

As  an  auxiliary  to  this  price  book, 
which  should  be  kept  in  the  store  for 
instant  reference,  a  small  price  book 
should  be  kept  on  the  prescription 
counter  containing  particulars 
re­
garding  the  cost  and  selling  prices  of 
such  articles  as  are  used  in  prescrip­
tion  work,  for  the  purpose  of  a  guide 
in  pricing  prescriptions,  and  thus  do 
away  with  the  necessity  of  marking 
each 
effecting 
economy  in  time.— W.  A.  Dawson  in 
American  Druggist.

container,  besides 

cream. 

Serving  Hot  Drinks  at  the  Fountain.
Always  serve  a  small  glass  of  shav­
ed  ice  with  hot  drinks  made  from 
water,  and  cream  with  any  beverages 
made  of  hot  milk.  Never  garnish  a 
hot  milk  or  chocolate  with  anything 
but  whipped 
Plain  hot 
drinks,  such  as  hot  sparkling  Kitro, 
etc.,  always  look  best  when  finished 
with  a  slice  of  lemon.  Have  your 
service  articles  attractive,  as  much of 
the  popularity  of  the  beverage  de­
pends  upon  how  it  is  put  up.  In  dis­
pensing,  first  put  sufficient  cream  in­
to  the  cup,  then  coffee  or  chocolate 
syrup  enough  to  nearly  fill  the  cup; 
add  hot  water  from  the  draught tube, 
and  stir  with  a  spoon.  A  pitcher  of 
cream  should  be  kept  on  the  counter 
to  reduce  the  temperature  if  neces­
sary.  Many  dealers  use  whipped 
cream  as  an  attractive  addition.  Some 
dealers  serve  chocolate  and  coffee as 
finished  drinks,  some  prefer  to  serve 
cold  syrups,  depending  on  boiling 
water  for  the  necessary heat, and some 
serve  hot  syrups.  Don’t  ke£p  on 
hand  too  great  a  supply  of  syrups, 
etc.  Make  them  often  and  keep  them 
fresh.

The  Purification  of  Lard.

Lard  is  usually  purified  by  melting 
it  on  a  water-bath  and  straining  it 
first  through  linen  and  then  through 
paper  in  a  warm  closet.  Lard  may 
be  rendered  quite  inodorous  by  melt­
ing  it,  when  fresh,  by  means  of  a 
salt  water  bath,  adding  a  little  alum 
or  common  salt,  continuing  the  heat 
until  a  scum  rises,  skimming  this  off, 
and,  after  the  lard  has 
concreted, 
separating  the  saline  matter  by  wash­
ing  thoroughly  with  water.  Quick­
lime  is  sometimes  used  to  render  it 
whiter,  but  this  unfits  it  for  medic­
inal  employment.  Lard  which  has  a 
light  olive  brown  color  is  quite  likely 
to  be  adulterated  with  cotton-seed oil. 
Even  1  per  cent,  of  sophistication 
will  cause  a  distinctly  perceptible 
change.

Michigan  State  Board  of  Pharm acy.

T erm   exp ires
D ec.  31,1903
D ec.  31,  1903

W ir t  P .  D oty,  D e tro it, 
C.  B .  Stoddard,  M onroe, 
Jo h n   D .  M uir,  G ran d  R ap ids,  D ec.  31,  1905 
A rth u r  H .  W eb b er,  C ad illac,  D ec.  31,  1906 
H en ry   H eim ,  Sag in aw , 
D ec.  31,  1907

P resid en t— H en ry   H elm ,  S ag in aw . 
S e c re ta ry — J .   D .  M uir,  G ran d  R ap ids. 
T re a su re r— W .  P .  D oty,  D etro it.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

b eck ,  A nn  A rbor.
Tin tfl A  OrAPlf
F reep o rt.

P re sid e n t— A .  L .  W a lk e r,  D etro it.
F ir s t   V ic e -P re sid e n t— J .   O.  S c h lo tte r- 
Second  V ic e -P re sid e n t— J .   E .  W eek s,
T h ird   V ic e -P re sid e n t— H .  C.  P eck h a m , 
S e c re ta ry —W .  H .  B u rk e ,  D e tro it. 
T re a su re r—J .   M a jo r  Len ten ,  Sh ep ard . 
E x e cu tiv e   C om m ittee— D .  A.  H a g a n s, 
M onroe;  J .   D .  M uir,  G rand  R a p id s;  W . 
A.  H all.  D e tro it;  D r.  W a rd ,  S t.  C la ir;  H . 
J .   B ro w n ,  A nn  A rbor.
T ra d e   In te re st— W .  C.  K irch g e ssn e r. 
G rand  R a p id s;  S ta n le y   P a rk ill,  Ow osso.

The  Important  Duty  of  Stock  Keep­

ing.

To  the  first  clerk  should  be  dele­
gated  the  important  duty  of  stock  j 
keeping.  This 
is  too  important  a | 
matter  in  a  drug  store  to  be  left  to ; 
a  minor  clerk  or  allowed  to  take 
care  of  itself.  Some  one  person  con­
nected  with 
should 
know  the  stock  thoroughly— what  ar­
ticles  are  on  hand,  where  they  are 
kept,  their  cost  and  selling  price,  the 
quantity  usually  bought  and  the  usu- j 
al  selling  rate,  so  as  to  judge  of  the  j 
advisability  of  buying  in  greater  or j 
less  quantities.

the  business 

There  is  no  one  so  well  fitted  for j 
this  duty  as  the  head  clerk.  He  sells 
the  greatest  amount  of  goods,  and j 
knows  more  about  the  salability  of j 
the  various  articles  than  any  other ! 
one  person  in  the  establishment.  The I 
proprietor  should  always  consult  him | 
as  to  the  quantities  to  order,'and  get  j 
his  ideas  on  the  salability  of  any j 
new  line  of  goods.

To  acquire  a  complete  knowledge 
of  the  stock,  it  is  necessary  that  the 
head  clerk  check  off  and  put  away  all  | 
new  goods  as  received;  bring  for­
ward  all  stock  from  the  reserves  in 
store;  keep  the  price  book  and  ar­
range  the  displays  of  goods  in 
the 
store  and  windows. 
In  a  large  busi­
ness  he  may  simply  oversee  these 
things,  with  the  exception  of  check­
ing off  the  bills  and  keeping  the  price 
book.

To  do  this  it  will  be  necessary 

to 
adopt  some  such  routine  as  follows: 
In  ordering  goods  a  duplicate  of  the 
order  should  be  made  and  kept  on 
hand  for  reference,  the  copies  being 
kept  together  on  an  “order  file,”  so 
that  a  reference  to  this  file  may  show 
just  what  goods  have  been  ordered. 
One  or  more  want  books  should  be 
kept,  separate  books  being  provided 
for  goods  bought  “direct”  from  man­
ufacturers.  When  the  goods  arrive, 
they  should  be  unpacked  by  the  por­
ter,  while  the  head  clerk  checks  them 
off  from  the  copy  of  the  order  and 
puts  them  away;  such  stock  as  can 
not  be  accommodated  in  the  store  and 
laboratory  being  put  with  the  reserve 
stock. 
the  clerk I 
should  look  over  the  store  and  labor-  j 
atory  and  bring  forward  from  the  re­
serve  whatever  may  be  necessary  to 
fill  up  the  vacancies  caused  by  the

Every  morning 

The Drug Market.

Opium— Is  very firm  in  the  primary 

market,  but  unchanged  here.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— At  the  bark  sale  at  Am- j 
sterdam  the  bark  was  sold  at  a  de­
cline,  but  there  is  no  expectations 
of  a  decline  in  quinine. 
It  is  said 
that  cost  is  over  present  market price.
firm  abroad, 
but  has  not  yet  advanced  in  this  mar­
ket.

Glycerine— Is  very 

Menthol— Is  steady  at  the  decline.
Sassafras  Bark— Stocks  are 
light. 

Higher  prices  are  looked  for.

Oil  Citronella— Is  very  firm  and 

advancing.

Oil  Sassafras— Is  very  scarce  and 

has  again  advanced.

Oil  Tanzy— Is  scarce  and  has  ad­

vanced.

Arnica  Flowers— Are  very  firm  and 

tending  higher.

Refined  Camphor— Is  in  strong  po­
sition.  Higher  prices  are  looked  for.

Penalty  for  Refusal  to  Show  Record.
Some  weeks  ago  Frank  G.  Mill- 
man,  the  Scotts  druggist,  refused  to 
show  his  registration  book  upon 
which  the  sale  of  all  poisons  and  li­
quors  must  be  recorded.  Mr.  Mill- 
man’s  reasons  for  not  showing  the 
books  are  not  known,  although  his 
refusal  to  do  so  was  a  direct  viola­
tion  of  the  law.  He  was  subsequent­
ly  arrested  and  last  week  he  pleaded 
guilty  in 
the  Kalamazoo  Circuit 
Court  and  was  fined  $ioo  and  $io 
costs. 
In  default  of  payment,  he 
must  spend  90  days  in  the  county 
jail.

Dope  Peddler  in  Syracuse.

in  that  city. 

Syracuse  druggists  are  aftdr  a  man 
who  sells  morphine,  cocaine,  etc.,  to 
“dope”  fiends 
is 
thought  the  reason  for  his  existence 
is  that  many  drug  users  who  would 
hesitate  to  acknowledge  themselves 
as  such  to  the  druggist  do  not  scruple 
to  trust  the  peddler,  as  he  himself  is 
liable  to  the  law.

It 

Some  men  take  what  is  in  sight 

and  hustle  for  more.

HIGH  CLA SS  HINING  STOCKS 

FOR  SALE

BannieOold.Hidd  n Fortune. Hidden Treas­
ure,  Spearfish.  Rex,  Reliance,  Wauconda, 
Verde  King, Lincoln  Gold,  Conquest, De­
catur Copper, Plume.

R.  O'SULLIVAN
Investment Securities

■ 1  BROADWAY. 

NEW  YORK

GRAND  RAPIDS 
INSURANCE  AGENCY

F I R E  

W.  FRED  McBAIN,  President

Gnand Rapids. Mich. 
The Leadlmr Agency
A U T O M O B I L E S

W e have the largest line In Western Mich­
igan and if vou are thinking of buying  you 
w ill serve your  best  interests  by  consult­
ing us.

Michigan  Automobile  Co.

Orand  Rapids,  Mich.

■ USE

B a r  l o w ' s

Pat.  m an ifo ld
SHIPPING BLANKS 
B A R L O W   B R O S  
g r a n d  R ap i ds 

N llCH .

They  Save  Time 

Trouble 

Cash

H O LID A Y  G O O D S
_________DELAY  NO  LONGER_________

If you  have  not  visited  our  sample  room 

there is yet time.

If you have been  disappointed  in 
getting  goods  ordered  elsewhere, 
write  us—W E  H A V E   T H E  
GOODS  and  can  supply  your 
wan's until December 24th.

VALENTINES

Our travelers are out with a  beautiful  line 
—“ The Best on  the  Road.**  E very  num­
ber  new.  Kindly  reserve  your  orders. 
Prices right and terms liberal.

FRED  BRUNDAQE

W holesale Drugs  and  Stationery 

32-34 Western ave.,  M U SK E G O N , Mich.

Don’t  Place Your 
Wall  Paper  Order

Until  you  see  our  line.  We 
represent the ten  leading  fac­
tories  in  the  U.  S.  Assort­
ment  positively  not  equalled 
on the road this season.

Prices  Guaranteed 

to be identically same as manu­
facturers’.  A card  will  bring 
salesman or samples.

Heystek  &   Canfield  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TH E  “ OLDSMOBILE”

Delivery Wagon, $850.00

It delivers the goods cheaper, quicker and bet­
ter  than  any  horse-drawn  vehicle  W ill  do 
the work of 3 horses,  3 men, 3  wagons.

If interested, write for special circniar.

ADAITS  &  HART

■a  and  14  W . Bridge S t ,  Orand Rapids

Late State Fend rn«lasl»n»i 

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1233 na)estic  Building, Detroit,  lllch.

P I L E S   C U R E D

DR.  WILLARD  M.  BURLESON

Rectal  Specialist

103 Monroe Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

JA V R IL

The charm of Coffee without thé harm

F ull particulars on application

Get oar Latest  Prices

JAVRIL  CO* LTD.,  Battle Creek, Michigan

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. . . .

M an n ia,  8   F  
M em th ol 
...................6
M orphia.  S  P  *  W .2 
M orphia,  S N T Q . 2  
M orphia,  M ai 
. . . . 2  
M oschus  C an to n  
. 
M y ristica ,  No.  1. 
N u x  V o m ica .p o   15
O s  S ep ia  
.................
P ep sin   S a a c,  H  A
P   D   Co  .................
P ic is   L iq   N  N   14
g al  doz 
. . . . __ _
P ic is   L iq ,  q t s . . . .  
P ic is   L iq ,  p in ts .. 
P il  H y d rarg   .p o 80 
P ip e r  N ig ra   .p o 22 
P ip er  A lba  ..p o 3 5
P lix   B u r g u n ............
P lu m b i  A ce t 
..........
P u lv is  Ip ’c   e t O p ii.l 
P y reth ru m ,  b x s  H  
P y reth ru m ,  pv
Q u assiae 
.........
Q u inia,  S  P  &  W  
Q u inia,  S   G er. 
Q u inia,  N Y . . .  
R u b ia   T in cto ru m . 
S a cch a ru m   L a ’s
S a la c ln  
................
S a n g u is  D ra e ’s . 
Sap o.  W  
............

&   P  D  Co.  doz. 

7 5 0   80 
75@ 7 00 
8 5 0 2  60 
3 6 0 2  60 
3 5 ® 2  60 
@   40 
3 8®   40 
0   10 
25®   28
® 1  00
200 
1 00 
86 
60 
18 30 
7
10 ®   12 
30@ 1 60

256 
84 
274 
274 
276 
124 
204,
50® 4 75 
40®   50

D e  V o es 

Sap o,  M ......................  104
4
Sap o,  G ...................... 
S eid litz  M ix tu r e ..  206
S in a p is 
.....................  
4
.......... 
S in a p is,  op t 
4
Sn uff,  M accaboy,
.............. 
6
4
SnufT,  S ’h  D e V o ’s  
96
Soda,  B o r a s ............ 
96
Soda,  B o ra s,  p o .. 
Soda  e t  P o t's   T a r t  286 
Soda,  C arb  
.............. 1644
Soda,  B i-C a rb
Soda,  A sh  ___
Soda,  Su lp h as 
S p ts,  Cologne 
S p ts.  E th e r   C o ...
S p ts.  M y rcia  Dom  
S p ts.  V in i  R e c t bbl 
S p ts.  V i’i  R e c t  64  b 
S p ts.  V i’i  R ’t   10 gl 
S p ts.  V i’l R 't  5  g al 
S try ch n ia ,  C ry sta l  904 
. . .   2V4@ 
Sulp hu r,  Su b l 
Sulp hu r,  R o ll 
. . . . 2 6 4 0   1
T a m a rin d s 
............ 
8®
T e reb e n th   V en ice   28®
T h eo b ro m ae 
..........  44®
V a n illa  
..................... 9 00®
Z in ci  Sulph 
7®

.......... 

O ils
W h ale,  w in ter

bbl  gal 
70®   70

L a rd ,  e x tr a  
. . .
L ard ,  N o.  1 ..........
Linseed,  pure  raw   36^ 
Linseed,  boiled 
. .  
N eatsfo o t,  w s t r . .
S p ts.  T u rp e n tin e .
Paints

A m erican  

R ed  V e n e t ia n .... 164  8 
O chre,  yel  M ars  1%   2 
O chre,  yel  B e r 
..1 %   2 
P u tty ,  co m m er’1.264  264 
P u tty ,  s tric tly   pr.264  264 
V erm illion ,  P rim e
...........  13
V erm illion .  E n g ..  70 
G reen,  P a ris  
. . . .   14 
G reen,  P e n in su la r  13
L ead,  red 
. .  ............664
Lead,  w h ite 
W h itin g ,  w h ite  S ’n 
W h itin g .  G ild ers.’
W h ite.  P a ris ,  A m ’r 
W h it’g.  P a ris ,  E n g
@ 1  40
.........................  
U n iv ersal  P re p ’d .l  10® 1  20

. . . . . 6 6 4  

clifr 

Varnishes

No.  1  T u rp   C o a ch .l  10®  1  20
E x tr a   T u rp  
............1  60®  1  70
C oach  Body 
..........2  75® 3  00
No.  1  T u rp   F u rn .lO O O llO  
E x tr a   T   D a m a r. .1  5 5 0 1 .6 0  
J a p   D ry er  N o  1  T   70®

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanc'd— 
Declined—

A cldum

4®  
6 ®  

............   42
............1%
.............. 1 1 0 ®  1  20
............  38®   40

B a c c a e
...p o .  25  22
................  
5
. . . .   30 
Balsam um  

G e r ..  70<
.....................
............  22
...................  38
3
............ 
................. 
8
.................  12

8
8
.................  13®   15
..............   12®   14
A n ilin e
......................... 2 0 0 0 2   25
........................  8 0 0 1 0 0
..............................  45®   50
.......................2 50® 3 00

A ceticum  
B enzoicum
B o ra c lc  
C arbollcu m  
C itricu m  
H y d ro ch lo r 
N itrocu m  
O zalicu m  
P h o sp h orium ,  d ll.
S a licy llcu m  
Su lp h u ricum  
T a n n icu m  
T a rta ric u m  
A m m onia
A qua,  18  d e g .......... 
A qua,  20  d e g -----  
C arbon  a s  
C hlorldum  
B la c k  
B ro w n  
Red 
T ellow  
C ubebae 
Ju n lp e ru s 
X an th o x y lu m  
C ubebae  . .. .p o .   20  12®   15
P eru  
..............................   @ 1 6 0
T e ra b ln ,  C a n a d a ..  60®   65
T o lu ta n  
....................   45®   60
C o rtex
1812
A bies,  C a n a d ia n ..
C a ssla e  
.....................
18
C in ch o n a  F l a v a .. 
3020
E u o n y m u s  a t r o ..
M y rica  C e r ife r a ..
12
P rim u s  V ir g in l.. . .
12
Q u lllala.  g r’d ..........
14 
. .po.  18 
S a s s a fra s  
40
U lm us  ..2 5 ,  g r’d ..
E x tra c tu m
f  30 
G ly cy rrh iz a   G la ...  241 
t  30 
G ly cy rrh iza,  p o .. .   28
)  12 
H a em a to x  
..............  
1 1 «
t  14 
H a em a to x , 
I s . . . .   13« 
t  15 
H a em a to x ,  % s .. . .   14 
I  17
H aem ato x ,  1 4 s .. ..   16 
15 
C a rb o n a te   P re cip .
2 25
C itra te   and  Q uinta 
75
C itra te   Soluble 
. .  
40
F erro cy an id u m   S .
15
Solut.  C h lo rid e.. . .
2
S u lp h ate,  com ’l . . .  
s u lp h a te ,  co m ’l,  by
80
bbl,  p er  c w t-----
7
. .

F erru

S u lp h ate,  p ure 
F lo ra
.......................   15
.................  22
..............  30
F o lia

A rn ica 
A n th em is 
M a tric a ria  

18
25
35

T in n e v e lly  

...................  30®   33
B a ro sm a  
A cu tifo l,
C a ssia  
..........  20!b  25
C a ssia ,  A cu tifo l. .   25®   30 
S a lv ia  
U v a  U rs i...................... 

o fficin alis,
14s  an d   14s  - - -  

1 2 ®   20
8 ®  10

G um m i
65
A cacia,  1 st  p k d ..
45
A cacia,  2d  p k d ..
35
A cacia,  3d  p k d .. .
28
A cacia,  sifte d   s ts .
65
A cacia,  p o .................  45
12(
14
A loe,  B a r b ..
25
Aloe,  C a p e .. .
30
Aloe,  S o c o tn  
60
..
A m m on iac 
40
A ssa fo e tid a
65
B enzoinum  
..............  50
13
C atech u ,  I s . .
14 
C atech u ,  14s.
16 
C atech u ,  14s.
69 
C a m p h o r a e ..............  64
40100
E u p h orbium  
..
G albanum  
1 3 5
G a m b o g e ___ po. . .1 2 5
35
. .po.  85
G u alacu m  
76
K in o  
............po.  75c
60
M a stic 
........................
40
..........po.  45
M yrrh  
............................ 3 30® 3  40
Opii 
.....................   6 6 ®   66
S h ella c 
S h ella c,  b leach ed   65®   70
T ra g a c a n th  
..........  7 0 @ 1 00

H erba

A bsin th iu m ,  ez  p k 
E u p a to riu m   oz  p k 
L o b e lia   ___ oz  p k 
M ajo ru m  
..o z   p k  
M en th a  P ip  oz p k  
M en th a  V ir  oz p k 
R u e 
................. oz  p k  
T a n a ce tu m   V .......... 
T h y m u s  V   . -oz p k  
M ag n esia

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

C alcin ed,  P a t ..........  56®   60
C arb o n ate,  P a t.  . .   1 8 ®   20 
C a rb o n a te  K -M . .   18®   20
..............   18®   20
C a rb o n a te 

Oleum

. . . .  .3   00@ 3  25 

A bsin th iu m  
A m ygdalae,  D u lc.  504 
A m ygdalae  A m a . .8  004
A n isi 
..........................1  604
A u ran ti  C o r te x .. .  2 104
B e rg a m li 
.................2 856
...................1104
C a jip u ti 
C ary op hylli 
........... 1 354
..........................  35<
C edar 
C henopadli
C in n am on il 
............1001
.................  35(
C itro n ella 
C onium   M a c ..........  806
C opaiba 
...................1 1 5 6
C ub eb ae 
...................180<

.......... 4  25@ 4 50
E x e ch th ito s  
E rig ero n  
................... 1  00®  1 1 0
G au lth eria 
...............2  40® 2 50
G eran ium  
..........oz. 
75
G ossippii,  Sem   g al  60®   60
H edeom a 
.................1  40@ 1 50
................... 1  6 0 0 2  00
Ju n ip e ra  
L aven d u la 
..............   90® 2 75
Lim o n is 
...................1 15® 1  25
M en th a  P i p e r ___ 3  35@ 3  40
M en th a  V e r id .. .  .6   0 0 0 5  50 
M orrhuae,  g a l .. .  .5   0 0 0 5   25
M y rcia 
..................... 4 00® 4  50
..........................  75@ 3  00
O live 
P ic is   L iq u id a  ___   10®   12
®   85
P ic is   L iq u id a  g a l. 
R ic in a  
.......................   90®   94
R o sm arin l 
..............  
® 1 00
................ 5 00@ 6 00
R o sae,  oz 
S u ccin i 
.....................   40®   45
S a b in a  
.....................   9 0 ® 1 00
....................... 2 7 5 0 7   00
S a n ta l 
S a ss a fra s  
................   70®   75
S in ap is,  e ss,  o z . ..  
®   65
T ig lil 
.......................... 1 5 0 0 1 6 0
T h y m e 
.....................   40®   50
............ 
Th y m e,  op t 
@ 1  60
T h eo b ro m as 
..........  16®   20

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

P o tassiu m
II
..................  
B i-C a rb  
B ich ro m a te  
............  13
Bro m id e 
...................  40«
C arb  
1 2 «
C h lo rate  po 17® 19  16
C y a n id e .....................   34
....................... 2 30«
Iodide 
P o ta ssa ,  B ita r t  p r  28i 
P o ta s s   N itra s   o p t 
7« 
P o ta s s   N itra s 
6 «
. . .  
P ru s sia te  
.................  23
S u lp h ate  p o ............  15«

R ad ix
.................  20«
A conitu m  
A lth a e  
.....................   3«
A n ch u sa 
...................  10
.................
A rum   po 
.................  20«
C alam u s 
. .p o  15  12< 
G e n tia n a  
G ly ch rrh iza  pv  15  16 
H y d ra stis  C a n a ..
H y d ra stis  C an  po 
H ellebore,  A lb a ..  12i
.................  18«
In u la,  po 
Ip ecac,  p o ................ 2  7 5 0 2   80
Ir is   plox 
................   35®   40
Ja la p a ,  p r 
............  25®   30
(
M a ra n ta ,  >4s 
Podophyllum   p o ..  22(
R h ei 
............................  75«
. . . . . . . .  
R h ei.  cu t 
I
.................  76«
R h ei,  pv 
Sp lg ella 
...................  35«
S a n g u ln arl,  po  24 
4
S erp e n ta ria  
............  65«
S en eg a 
.....................   75«
. 
S m ilax ,  offl’s  H  
i
S m ilax ,  M  
............ 
i
S cilla e  ............po  35  10«
<
Sym p locarp us 
. . . .  
V a le ria n a   E n g . ..  
I 
V a le ria n a ,  G er 
. .   15«
Z in g iber a  
..............   14
Z in g iber  ]
................   16
Sem en

. . . .  

.......... 

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

A nisum   ___ po.  20
(g ra v e l’s ) .  13'
Apium  
4'
B ird ,  I s  
C aru i 
............po 
15  10«
..............   70«
C ardam on 
C oriandrum  
8«
.  614
C an n ab is  S a tlv a  
Cydonium  
..............   76«
. . . .   25i 
Chenopodium  
D ip te rix   O d o rate.  80®  1 00
F oen icu lu m  
.........
7«
F o en u g reek ,  po 
. .  
4«
L in i 
............................  
L ln l,  gr«l  . . .  .b b l  4 
4<
L o b elia 
.....................   76«
P h a rla ris   C an a’n   614
5(
R a p a  
.......................... 
S in a p is  A lba 
. . . .  
7«
S in a p is  N ig ra   . . . .  
9<

S p iritu s

F ru m e n ti  W  D .. .  .2 00®  2 50
F ru m e n tl 
................. 1 2 5 0 1   60
Ju n ip e ris   C o O T .1 6 6 ® 2  00 
. . .  .1 754 «3  50 
Ju n ip e rls  Co 
S a cch a ru m  N  E  
. .1   90® 2  10 
S p t  V in i  G alll 
. . . 1 7 5 0 6  50
V in i  O p orto 
.......... 1 25@ 2 00
V in i  A l b a .......................1  25@ 2 00

...............2 50® 2  75
...............2 50@ 2  76
@ 1   50
@ 1   25

Sp onges 
F lo rid a   sh eep s  wl
ca rria g e  
N assau   sh eep s’ w l
ca rria g e  
V elv et  e x tr a   sh p s’ 
w ool,  ca rria g e   . .  
E x tr a   yellow   sh p s’ 
wool,  c a rria g e  
. 
G ra ss  sh eep s’  wl,
ca rria g e  
.............. 
H ard,  s la te   u s e ... 
fo r 
T ellow   R e e f, 
............ 

sla te   u se 

@ 1 0 0
@ 1 0 0
@ 1  40

A ca c ia  
A u ran ti  C o rtex
Z in g ib er 
Ip e ca c 
F e rr i  Iod 
R h ei  A rom  
S m ila x   Offl’s 
S en e g a  
S cilla e  
S cilla e   Co 
T o lu ta n  
P rim u s  v lrg  

Sy ru p s
.....................
..................
..................... .
...............
...........
. . .
....................
.....................
..............
..................
.........

T in c tu re s 
A conitum   N ap ’s  R  
A conitu m   N ap ’s   F
..........................
A loes 
. .
A loes  &  M yrrh 
A rn ica  
.......................
............
A ssafo etid a 
A trop e  B ellad o n n a 
. .
A u ran ti  C o rtex  
B en zo in  
...................
B en zoin   Co 
............
B a ro sm a  
...................
.........
C an th a rid es 
..............
C apsicum  
..............
C ardam on 
C ardam on  Co 
. . . .
C a sto r 
.......................
C atech u  
............
................
C in ch on a 
C in ch on a  Co 
. . . .
C olum ba 
................
C ubebae 
...................
. .
C a ssia   A cu tifo l 
C a ssia   A cu tifo l  Co
D ig ita lis 
..................
..........................
E rg o t 
F e rr i  C h lo rld u m ..
G en tian  
...................
G en tian   Co 
............
G u iaca 
.....................
. .
G u laca  am m on 
H y oscy am u s 
..........
.......................
Iodine 
Iodine,  c o lo rle s s..
............................
K in o  
L o b elia  
.....................
.......................
M yrrh  
N u x  V o m ica  .........
Opil 
............................
Opii,  com phorated 
Opil,  deodorized  ..
Q u assia 
.....................
R h a ta n y  
...................
............................
R h ei 
S a n g u in a ria   ............
............
S erp e n ta ria  
S tro m o n lu m ............
T o lu ta n  
...................
V a leria n  
...................
V era tru m   V e r id e .. 
Z in g iber 
...................

M iscellaneous

............  40

A eth er.  S p ts N it 3  306 
A eth er,  S p ts N it 4  346 
A lum en,  g r’d po 7 
34
A n n a tto  
...................  404
. . . .  
A n tim oni,  po 
46
A n tim on i  e t P o  T   404
A n tip yrln  
................
..............
A n tifeb rln  
A rg en t!  N itra s,  oz
..............   106
A rsen icu m  
B a lm   G ilead  buds  456 
B ism u th   S   N  
. . . . 2  204 
C alcium   C hlor,  I s  
C alcium   C hlor,  % s 
C alcium   C hlor,  % s 
C an th arid es,  R u s. 
C ap sici  F r u c ’s  a f.. 
C ap slci  F r u c ’s  po..
C ap’i  F r u c ’s  B  po.
C aryophyllus  ___
C arm ine.  N o  4 0 ...
C era  A lb a .................
C era  F la v a  
.....................
C occus 
.
C a ssia   F ru c tu s  
C e n tra rla  
..............
C etaceu m  
............
C hloroform  
..............  65
C hloro’m ,  Squ ibbs 
C hloral  H yd  C r s t.l  354
C hondrus 
.................  204
C inchonidine  P - W   384 
C inchonid’e  G erm   386
C ocain e 
.....................4 05@ 4
C orks  lis t  d  p  c t.
C reosotum  
.............. 
C re ta  
............bb l  76
C reta ,  prep 
............ 
C reta,  p recip   _____  
C reta ,  R u b ra  
. . . .  
C rocu s 
C ud bear  .....................
Cupri  S u l p h ............6 >4
D ex trin e 
................. 
7
E th e r  S u l p h ............  78
E m ery ,  a ll  N o s ..
E m e ry ,  po 
............
E rg o ta  
F la k e   W h ite  
G alla 
G am b ler 
G elatin ,  C ooper 
G elatin ,  F re n c h  
G lassw are, 
L e s s   th a n   b o x   . .
Glue,  b r o w n ............  11
G lue,  w h i t e ............   15
..............1764
G ly cerin a 
. .
G ra n a   P a ra d isl 
H um ulus 
.................  25
H y d ra rg   C h  M t. 
H y d rarg   C h  C or  . 
H y d rarg   O x  R u 'm  
H y d rarg   A m m o’l. 
H y d ra rg   U ngue’m   50 
H yd rargyrum  
. . . .  
Ich th y o b o lla,  A m .  65
........................  75
ín d ig o  
Iodine,  R esu b l 
. . . 3   40«
Iodoform  
............... 8  60
...................
L u p ulin 
Lycopodium  
..........  65
M a cis 
........................  65
L iq u o r  A rsen  
e t 
H y d ra rg   Iod 
. . .
L iq   P o ta s s   A rsln it  10 
M ag n esia,  S u lp h .. 
2 
M ag n esia.  Sulh  bbl

<
«
9
j
.........................   45

..........................
................... 
. .  
. .   35 _ 

..........po  90  85
. . . .   12

8

lit  b o x  75  & 

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

DECLINED

Je r s e y   L u n ch  
.................  7)4
L ad y   F in g e rs  
...................12
L a d y   F in g e rs,  h an d  m d 25 
Lem on  B is c u it  S q u a re  8
L em on   W a fe r 
...................16
Lem on  S n ap s 
...................12
Lem on  G em s 
..................... 10
L em   Y en  
............................10
M aple  C ak e 
..................... 10
M arshm allow  
.....................16
M arsh m allow   C re a m ..  16 
M arsh m allow   w tu n u t.  16
M ary   A nn 
........................  8
M alag a 
.................................10
M ich  Coco  F s ’d hon ey 12%
M ilk  B is c u it  .....................   7%
M ich  F ro ste d   H on ey  . .   12
M ixed  P ic n ic  
................... 11%
M o lasses  C akes,  S clo ’d  8
M oss  Je lly   B a r  
............ 12%
M uskegon  B ra n ch ,  Iced   10
N ew ton 
................................ 12
N ew sboy  A ssorted   — .  10
N ic  N a cs 
............................   8
O atm eal  C ra ck e r 
. . . .   8
..................... 16
O ran ge  S lice  
O ran g e  G em  
.................  8
O ran ge  &   L em on  Ic e   . .   10 
P en n y   A sso rted   C ak es  8
P ilo t  B re a d  
.....................   7%
P in g   P o n g  
.......................   9
P re tz e ls,  hand  m ade  . .   8 
P re tz e le tte s,  h an d   m ’d  8 
P re tz e lo tte s,  m ch .  m ’d  7
R u b e  S e a rs  
.....................   8
S co tch   C ookies 
.............. 10
Snow drops 
..........................16
Sp iced   S u g a r  T o p s  ....  8 
S u g a r  C ak es,  scallo p ed  8
...............  8
S u g a r  S q u a res 
S u lta n a s 
.............................. 13
Sp iced  G in g ers 
..............   8
U rc h in s 
.............................. 10
V ien n a   C rim p 
.................  8
...................16
V a n illa   W a fe r 
W a v e rly  
..............................   8
Z a n z ib a r 
............................   9

D R IE D   F R U IT S  

Sundrled 
E v a p o ra te d  

Apples
.....................  

0 5
.............. 6  0 7

C alifo rn ia   P ru n es
100-125 25 lb . b x s.
0
25 Ib .b x s..
0   4%
90-100
0   4%
25  tb. b x s..
80-90
25  tb.  b x s .
0   5%
70-80
0   6 %
25  lb .  b x s..
60-70
25 lb .  b x s.
0   6 %
50-60
25  lb .  b x s.
0   7%
40-50
25  Tb.  b x s.
30-40
0
% c  le ss   in   b»  M .  c a se s  
C itron
................ 14  0 1 4 %
C u rra n ts

C o rsican  
Im p ’d,  lib .  pkg. 
.  7 % ®  
Im p orted   b u lk  
. . .  6% ©   7 
Peel
L em on   A m e r ic a n ............12
O ran g e  A m erica n  
..........12
R a isin s
1  90 
London  L a y e rs   3  c r  
London  L a y e rs   3  c r  
1  95 
C lu ster  4  cro w n . 
.  2  60
L o o se  M u sca’s   2  c r .. .   6 % 
L o o se  M u sca’s   3  c r. 
L o o se  M u sca ’s   4  cr. 
L .  M .  Seeded.  1  n>.  9 0   9%  
L .  M .  Seeded.  % lb .7 % ® 7 %  
10
. . .  
S u lta n a s,  bu lk  
S u lta n a s,  p a ck a g e . 
10%
F A R IN A C E O U S   G OO D S 

..7  
. . 8  

B ea n s

D ried  L im a  
.......................... 4%
M edium   H an d   P ic k e d .2  16 
B ro w n   H olland 
. . . . . .  2  25
F a rin a

24  1  lb .  p k g s 
................... 1  50
B u lk ,  p er  100  lb s ............2  50

H om iny

F la k e .  50  lb .  s a c k   ------1  00
P e a rl,  200  Tb.  s a c k  
. . . 4   00 
. . . 2   00 
P e a rl,  100  lb .  s a c k  
M accaron l  and  V erm icelli 
D o m estic,  10  lb .  b o x  
.  60 
Im p orted ,  25  lb .  b o x   . .2   50 

P e a rl  B a rley

Com m on 
C h e ste r 
E m p ire  

...............................2  75
................................. 2  85
.................................3  50

P e a s

G reen,  W isco n sin ,  b u . . l   40
G reen,  S co tch ,  d u .........1  45
S p lit,  lb ................................... 
4

Rolled  O ats 
R o lled  A v enna.  bbl. 
..5   25 
S te e l  C ut,  100  lb  s a c k s . 2  65
M o n arch ,  b b l...................... 5  00
M o n arch ,  901b.  s a c k s ..2  40
................. 3  10
Q u aker,  c a se s 
S a g e
E a s t  
  o%
.................. 
....................3%
G erm an ,  sa ck s  
G erm an ,  b ro k en   p k g  
.  4 
F la k e ,  1101b.  s a ck s   . . . .   4%  
P e a rl.  130  Tb.  s a ck s  
. .   3%  
. .   6 %  
P e a rl,  24  1  lb .  p k g s 

T a p io ca

In d ia  

W h e a t

C racked ,  b u lk  
24  2  lb .  p a ck a g e s 

....................2%
. . . . 2   60 

F IS H IN G   T A C K L E
%   to   1   in  
..........................  
6
........................ 
1 %  to   2  in  
7
1 %   to   2  in  
9
..........................  
1  2-3  to   2  i n ......................  11
2  in  
.......................................... 
15
3 
in  
........................................  80
C otton   L in e s

No.  1,  10  fe e t 
N o.  2,  15  fe e t 
N o.  3,  15  f e e t 

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

5
7
9

No.  4,  15  feet  .............  10
No.  5,  15  fe e t ...................   11
No.  6,  15  fe e t 
.................  12
No.  7,  15  fe e t  ...................  15
No.  8.  15  fe e t  ...................   18
No.  9,  15  fe e t 
.................  20

 

................ 
Poles

Linen  Lines
......................................  20
S m a ll 
26
M edium  
Large 
........................  34
B am boo,  14  f t .,  p r  d z ..  50 
B am boo,  16  fL ,  p r  d z .  65 
B am boo.  18  ft.,  p r  d z . 
80 
F L A V O R IN G   E X T R A C T S  

 

F o o te   &   J en k s 

C olem an’s 
2oz.  P a n e l ............................ 1  20 75
3oz.  T a p e r ................. 2  00  1  50
No.  4  R ic h .  B la k e .2  00  1  50 

V an . Lem .

T e rp en e le ss  L em o n  

Jennings
. . . .   76 
No.  2  D .  C.  p r  dz 
. . . . 1   60
No.  4  D .  C.  p r  dz 
No.  6  D .  C.  p r  d z ..........2  00
T a p er  D .  C.  p r  dz  . . . . 1   50 
. . . .
No.  2  D . C. p r  dz  ____ 1  20
No.  4  D . C. p r  d z ____2  00
No.  6  D . C. p r  d z ____ 3  00
Tap er  D . C. p r dz 
00

M ex ica n   V a n illa  

. . . . 2  

. .  

FR ESH   M E A TS

Beef
...................5  0   8
C a rc a ss 
F o re q u a rte rs  . . . .   5  0 6  
.5 % ®   9
H in d q u arters 
L o in s 
.........................  8  0 1 4
R ib s 
.........................  7% © 12
R o u n d s ..................... 5 % ®   6 %
0   4
.....................
P la te s  
Pork
D ressed  
................
0   5%
L o in s 
0   8
.....................
B o sto n   B u tts   ___
0   6 %
®   6 %
.............
Sh oulders 
L e a f  L a rd  
............
©   7%
Mutton
C a rc a ss 
................. 4 % ®   6 %
L a m b s 
C a rc a ss 

..................... 7  ®   8
................... 6 % ®   8 %

V ea l

G E L A T IN E

K n o x ’s  S p a rk lin g ,  d z.  1  20 
K n o x 's   S p a rk lin g , gro.14  00 
K n o x ’s  A cid u’d.,  doz.  1  20 
K n o x ’s  A cid u’d,  g ro  
.14  00
75
O xford 
P ly m o u th   R o ck  
..........1  20
N elso n ’s  
............................  1  50
..........1  61
C ox’s,  2  q t.  siz e 
C ox’s,  1   q t.  size 
............1   1 0

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

G R A IN   B A G S  

A m osk eag,  100  in   b ’e.  16% 
A m oskeag,  le ss   th a n b .  16% 

G R A IN S   A N D   F L O U R  

W h e a t

W h e a t 

................................. 
W in te r  W h e a t  F lo u r 

85

L o c a l  B ra n d s

B ra n d

B ra n d

to   u su al 

S p rin g   W h e a t  F lo u r 

P a te n ts  
.................................4  65
Second  P a te n t 
.................4  25
S tra ig h t  .................................4  05
Second  S t r a i g h t ..............3  75
C lea r  ........................................3  45
G rah am  
.................................3  85
B u ck w h ea t 
..................... 5  00
R y e  
....................................... 8  00
S u b je c t 
ca sh  
discoun t.
F lo u r 
in   b b ls.,  25c  p er 
hhl.  add ition al.
W orden  G ro cer  C o.’a B ra n d
Q u ak er  % s 
........................ 4  20
Q u ak er  % s 
........................ 4  2(
Q u ak er  % s 
......................4  20
C la rk -Je w e ll-W e lls   C o.’s 
P illsb u ry ’s  B e s t  % s .  5  35 
P illsb u ry  s  B e s t  % s  . . .   5  25 
P illsb u ry ’s  B e s t  % s . .  6  15 
L em on   &   W h e e le r  C o.’s 
....................6  10
W ingold  % s 
W ingold  % s 
......................6  00
W ingold  % s 
......................4  90
.Tudson  G ro cer  C o.’s  B ra n d
....................5  25
C e re so ta   % s 
C e re so ta   14s 
................... 5  15
....................5  05
C e re so ta   % s 
W ord en   G ro ce r  C o.’s  B ra n d
L a u re l  % s 
....................... 5  20
L a u re l  % s 
.......................5  10
.......................5  00
L a u re l  % s 
L a u rel  % s &   % s p ap er.5 00
M eal
B o lted  
................................   2  60
G ran u lated  
...........................2  70
S t.  C a r  F e e d   screen ed 22  00
N o  1 C orn  an d   O a ts  .. . 2 2   00
C orn  M eal,  c o a rse   . . . . . 2 1   00
...............1 7   00
W h e a t  B r a n  
. . 2 1   00
W h e a t  M iddlings  . . .
Cow  F e e d   ..................... ...1 9   00
................... ..1 8   00
S cre en in g s 
Oats
...3 8 %
C a r  lo ts 
................ ..
Com
..................... ...5 1
C orn,  old 
................... ...4 5 %
Corn,  new  
H ay
N o.  1  tim o th y   c a rlo ts .1 0   50 
N o.  1  tim o th y  to n  lots.12  50 

F eed  and  M m stuffs

H E R B S

S a g e  
H op s 
T ,a u rd   L e a v e s 
S e n n a   L e a v e s  

........................................  15
........................................  16
..............   16
.................  25

INDIGO

M ad ras.  6  lb.  boxes 
. .   55 
S.  F .,  2 ,1 ,6 1 0 , b o xes..  66

Cotton  W indsor

Cotton  B raid ed

50  f t   ........................................1  30
60  f t ............................................1 44
70 
f t ...........................................1 80
80  f t ........................................... 2  00
f t .......................................... 
40 
90
50  f t ............................................1  00
60 
f t ...........................................1  75
No.  20,  ea ch   100  f t  lo n g .l 90 
No.  19,  e a ch   100  f t  lon g.2 10 

G alvanized  W ire  

COCOA
...........................  

B a k e r ’s  
  38
............................  41
C lev elan d  
C olonial,  14 s 
.................  35
.................  33
C olonial.  14s 
........................................  42
E p p s 
...................................   45
H u y ler 
. . . . . .   12
V a n   H o u ten ,  14s 
V a n   H ou ten ,  14s 
............  20
V a n   H ou ten ,  % s 
............  40
.............  72
V an   H ou ten , 
I s  
W eb b  
.....................................   31
W ilb u r,  14s  ..........................  41
W ilb u r,  14s 
.................  42

COCO ANU T

D u n h am 's  14s 
D u n h am ’s   14s &   14s..  2614
D un h am ’s   14s 
D u n h am ’s   14s 
B u lk  

............  26
............  27
...........   28
      ............................  12

COCOA  S H E L L S

Index to Markets

By Columns

Col

A xle  G rea se  ..........................  1

B a th   B r ic k  
B ro o m s 
B ru s h e s  
B u tte r   C olor 

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

1
J
1
1

C o n fectio n s 
C an d les 
C anned  Goods 
C arb on   O ils 
C atsu p  
C h eese 
C hew ing  G um  
C h ico ry  
C h o co late 
C lo th es  L in e s 
C ocoa 
C ocoa  S h e lls 
C offee 
C ra ck e rs 

..........................  11
...................................   1
.................  1
........................  2
......................................  2
...................................... 
2
2
................. 
2
...................................  
...............................  2
.....................  
2
........................................  |
........................  3
.......................................   3
.................................  3

D ried   F r u its  
........................  4
F

. . . .  

F a rin a ce o u s  Goods 
F is h   an d   O y sters 
F is h in g   T a c k le  
F la v o rin g   e x tr a c ts  
F ly   P a p e r ..............................
F re s h   M ea ts 
........................ 
F r u its  

5
........................................  U

4
...............10
.................  4
..........  5

G ela tin e 
G ra in   B a g s  
G ra in s  and  F lo u r 

...................................  5
..........................  5
............  »

H erb s 
H id es  an d   P e lts  

.......................................   J
............10

In d ig o  

.......................................   5

Je lly

L ic o rice  
L y e  

...................................   §

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

M
M e a t  E x tr a c ts  
M o lasses 
M u stard  

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

6

N

N u ts 

.............................................11

P ip es 
..................
..............
P ic k le s  
P la y in g   C ard s
P o ta s h  
..............
P ro v isio n s 
. . .

R ic e   ..........................

S
S a la d   D ressin g
............
S a le ra tu s  
............
S a l  S o d a 
S a lt 
.........................
S a lt  F is h  
..........
S eed s 
...................
S h o e  B la c k in g
S n u ff 
....................
So ap  
.....................
So d a 
.....................
S p ices 
...................
.................
S ta rc h  
S u g a r 
..................
..............
S y ru p s 
T

T e a  
T o b a cco  
T w in e  

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

V in e g a r 

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

W

W a sh in g   Pow d er
yacking 
............
W ood en w are 
.........
W ra p p in g   P a p e r 

.

l e a s t   C a k e 

Y

.........

A X L E   G R E A S E
..........................6 6 
.................56 
..................... 60 
....................... 76 
.............. 75 

A u ro ra 
C a sto r  O il 
D iam ond 
F r a z e r 's  
I X L   G olden 

dz  g re
6 00
7 00
4 26 i
9 00 I
9 00

B A K IN G   P P O W D E R  

Ja x o n   B ran d  

% Ib .  c a n s,  4  doz.  e a se   46 
% lb .  c a n s,  4  doz.  c a se   86 
lb .  c a n s,  2  doz.  e a s e l  <0 

 

B A T H   B R IC K
 

........... 

A m erica n  
E n g lish  
No. 
No. 
N o. 
N o. 
P a r lo r  G em  
Com m on  W h isk  
F a n c y   W h i s k ............................1 20
W areh o u se 

75
...................................  85
BR O O M S
.................. 2  76
1 C a rp et 
2 C arp et  ....................2  35
3 C arp et 
.....................2 15
4 C a rp et 
..................... 1 7 5
........................2 40
............   85
.......................... 3  00

B R U S H E S  

S h o e

S to v e

S cru b
Solid  B a c k ,  8  in  
............   75
..........  95
Solid  B a c k ,  11  in  
P o in ted   E n d s ......................  85
.................................  75
No.
.................................1 1 0
No.
.................................1 7 5
No.
.................................1 0 0
No.
.................................1 30
No.
No.  4 
........................................ 1 7 0
N o.  3 
......................................1 9 0
W .,  R .  &   C o.’s,  15c  s lz e .l 25 
W .,  R .  &   C o.’s.  25c  s iz e .2 00 
C A N D L E S  
. . . .   9%  
E le c tr ic   L ig h t,  8s 
E le c tric   L ig h t,  16s  . . . . 1 0
P a ra ffin e,  6s  
........................ 9%
P a ra ffin e,  12s 
.................10
W ic k in g   .................................19

B U T T E R   C O L O R  

C A N N E D   G O O D S 

C lam s

A pples
_  lb .  S ta n d a rd s 
80
G als,  S ta n d a rd s  . .2  0 0 0 2  25 
S ta n d a rd s 
85

. .  
B la ck b e rries
..............  
B e a n s

C lam   Bouillon

B a k e d   ..........................  8 0 @ 1 S 0
R ed   K id n ey  
............  85@   90
S trin g   .............................7 0 0 1   15
............................  7 5 @ 1 25
W a x  
B lu eb e rries
S ta n d a rd  
@  
...................  
B ro o k   T ro u t
2  lb.  ca n s.  S p iced . 
1 90
L ittle   N eck ,  1  lb .1   00@ 1  25 
L ittle   N eck ,  2  l b . 
B u rn h a m ’s,  %   p t .............1  92
B u rn h a m ’s,  p ts 
.............. 3  60
.............. 7 20
B u rn h a m ’s,  q ts 
C h erries
R ed   S ta n d a rd s .. .1  3 0 0 1  50
W h ite   .......................... 
1  50
F a ir  
.......................................... 1  20
Good 
........................................1  25
..................................... 1 5 0
F a n c y  
F ren ch   P e a s
S u r  E x t r a   F in e .................  22
E x t r a   F in e  
..........................  19
........................................  15
F in e  
M oyen 
...................................  1*
G o oseberries
S ta n d a rd  
..............................   90
H om iny
S ta n d a rd  
..............................   85
L o b ster
l b .............................2 00
S ta r,  %  
S ta r,  1  l b ...............................3  75
P ic n i  T a ils  
.......................... 2 40
M u stard ,  1 
lb 
.................1 8 0
M ustard ,  2 
lb ......................2  80
Soused,  1  l b .......................... 1  80
Soused,  2  l b .......................... 2  80
T o m ato ,  1  l b ........................1 8 0
T o m ato .  2  l b ........................2  80
M ushroom s
H o tels 
.......................   1 8®   20
B u tto n s   .....................   22@   25

M ackerel

Corn

1 50

O y sters

Cove,  1  lb  
..............  85®   90
Cove,  2  lb 
1  65
..............  
. 
1 0 0
Cove,  1  lb .  O val 
P ea ch es
P ie  
............................1  10@ 1  15
Y ellow  
..................... 1  45@ 1  85
1 0 0
S ta n d a rd  
1 2 5
F a n c y  
M a rro w fa t 
............  9 0 @ 1 00
E a r ly   J u n e .......9 0 ® 1   60
E a r ly   Ju n e   S if t e d .. 

P e a rs
................. 
........................ 

P e a s

1 65

Plums

P l u m s .......................... 
85
Pineapple
........................1  25@ 2  75
G ra ted  
S liced  
..........................1 3 5 0 2   55
70 
F a ir
80 
Good 
............................
1 00 
F a n c y   ..........................
2 25
G a llo n ..........................

Pum pkin

Raspberries

R io

lb  ca n  

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

........................  214

1 1 5   | 20  lb .  b a g s 

L e s s   q u a n tity  

................3
............ 4

Russian  C avler

S ta n d a rd  
14  lb .  c a n s ..........................  3 75  Pound  p a ck a g es 
14  lb .  c a n s 
C O F F E E

Com m on 
F a ir  
C h oice 
F a n c y  
Com m on 
F a ir  
C h oice 
F a n c y  
P e a b e rry  
F a ir  
C hoice 
C hoice 
F a n c y  
c h o ic e  
A frica n  

.......................7 29 
..............................1 2   00 
Salmon 
.............................. 10
0 1  65 
C ol’a   R iv er,  ta ils ..
........................................ 11
0 1   85 
C ol’a   R iv er,  fla ts.
....................................12
0 1   65 
R ed   A la sk a  
..........
....................................16
0   90
P in k   A la sk a  
..........
S a n to s
Sardines 
................................   8
3%6
D o m estic,  14s  . . . .  
.........................................   9
D o m estic,  % s  . . . .  
....................................10
6®   9 
D om estic,  M u st’d .. 
....................................13
1 1 0 1 4  
C a lifo rn ia,  14s  
. . .  
.............................11
1 7 0 2 4  
C a lifo rn ia,  % s 
. . .
M aracaib o
..........J
7 0 1 4
F re n c h ,  % s 
........................................ 13
F re n c h ,  1 4 s ............  
1 8 0 2 8
................................... 16
Shrim ps
S ta n d a rd  
................ 1 2 0 0 1  40
................................... 13
Succotash
....................................17
F a i r ..............................
G u atem ala
Good 
............................
.................................. 13
F a n c y   ..........................
.................................12
S ta n d a rd  
.................
.............. 17
F a n c y   ..........................
.................................... 25
Tom atoes
„   P .  G ..........................................31
F a ir  
.......................... 
M ocha
95 
Good 
1 1 5  
............................21
..........................
.......................1  1 5 0 1   40
F a n c y  
P a ck a g e
...................2  7 5 0 3   00
G allons 
Barrels
P e rfe c tio n  
.............
W a te r  W h ite .........
D .  S .  G asolin e 
. .
D eodor’d  N ap ’a ...
C y lin d er 
E n g in e  
B la c k ,  w in ter 

A rb u ck le 
D il w orth  
0 1 3 %
Je r s e y  
0 1 3
L io n  
0 1 5 %
M cL au g h lin ’s  X X X X  
M cL a u g h lin ’s  X X X X  sold 
0 1 3 %
0 3 40 2 2
to   re ta ile rs   only.  M ail  all 
F . 
ord ers  d irec t 
0 1 0 %   I  M cL au g h lin   &   Co.,  C h i­

„  „   | 
J  40 
1 5 0  
Ja v a
1 1 0   F a n c y   A frica n  
1 4 0   o .  G. 

.............................12
..............................12
....................................12
........................................ 12

N ew   Y o rk   B a s is.

CARBO N   O ILS 

Straw berries

I  A ra b ia n  

M exican

to   W . 

1

................ 29
....................16
. .   9 
C A T SU P

cago.

©12 

Javril

O yster

E x tr a c t

.............. 4  80

C R A C K E R S

2  doz.  in   c a se  

CH EW IN G   GUM 

C O F F E E   S U B S T IT U T E

..........1 3 0   H um m el’s  
H um m el’s 

..................1 1 5
fo il,  %   g ro .  85
tin ,  %   g ro . 1  43

...............3 25  H olland,  %   g ro  b o x e s.  95
................. 2  25  F e lix ,  % g ro ss 

" —
B ra n d s 
Butter
Sey m our 
................................  6
N ew   Y o rk  
...........................   6
F a m ily  
..................................  6
S a lted   .....................................   6
W o lv erin e 
..........................   7
Soda
N .  B .  C ...................................6
S e le c t 
...................................   8
S a ra to g a   F l a k e s ............13

C olum bia,  25  p ts .............4 50
C olum bia,  25  % p ts ------- 2 60 
S n id er’s  q u a rts 
S n id er’s   p in ts 
S n id er’s  %   p in ts 
C H E E S E  
A cm e
1 40
................... 
-----
A m boy 
C arso n   C ity
E ls ie  
..............
0 1 2 %   I 
E m b lem  
. . . .
0 1 2 %   ! N a tio n a l  B is c u it  C om p an y's 
G em  
.............
!1 
_
Gold  M edal  ____  
Id ea l 
© 12
........................ 
0 1 2 %
J e r s e y ........................ 
0 1 2
..............  
R iv ersid e 
B r ic k  
....................... 1 2 % 0 1 3
E d a m  
0 1   00
.......................  
L eid en  
..................... 
0 1 7
L im b u rg er  ..............12% © 13
P in eap p le 
..............  5 0 0 7 5
Sap   S a g o  
© 20
............ 
A m erican   F la g   Sp ru ce.  55
Round 
B e e m a n ’s  P e p sin  
..........  60
S q u a re 
........................  65
B la c k   J a c k  
F a u s t 
L a r g e st  G um   M ade 
. .   60
A rgo 
.................................  55
S en   S en  
E x tr a   F a r in a  
S en   S en   B r e a th   P e r’e . l  00
S u g a r  L o a f 
........................  55
.................................10
A n im als 
Y u c a ta n  
55
.................10
A sso rted   C ak e 
5  B a g le y   G em s
B u lk  
B e lle   R o s e ..........................  8
R ed  
7
...................16
B e n t’s  W a te r 
E a g le  
4
B u tte r   T h in  
........................13
F r a n c k ’s  
7
C oco  B a r  
............................10
S c h en e r’s 
6
C o co can u t  T a f f y ............12
C innam on  B a r .................  9
C offee  C ake,  N .  B .  C ..1 0  
C offee  C ake,  Ice d  
. . . .   10 
C ocoan u t  M acaro o n s  . .   18
16
...................10
C u rra n t  F r u it 
C h o co late  D a in ty  
-------16
........................  9
C artw h eels 
D ix ie  S u g a r ........................  8%
F ro ste d   C ream s 
..........  8
G in g er  G e m s ...................  8
G in g er  S n a p s.  N B C . .   6 % 
. .   10 
G ran d m a  S an d w ich  
G rah am   C ra c k e r 
. . . .   8
H a z eln u t 
............................ 10
H on ey  F in g e rs, I c e d ..  12
H on ey  Ju m b le s 
..............12
Iced   H ap p y   F a m ily   ...1 1  
Iced   H on ey  C ru m p et  .  10
Im p e ria ls 
..........................  8
In d ia n a   B e lle  
....................15
J e r ic o  
...................................   8

60  ft,  3  th rea d ,  e x tr a . . 1 0 0
72  ft,  3  th re a d ,  e x tr a   . .1  40
90  ft,  3  th read ,  e x tr a   . . 1   70
60  ft,  6  th rea d ,  e x tr a   . .1 2 9
72  f t,  6  th read ,  e x tr a   .
60  f t .......................................... .  75
f t ......................................... .  90
72 
f t ......................................... .1  05
90 
1 2 0  f t ........................................ .150
__   Cotton  V ictor
1  1 0
50  f t ........................................
60  f t ........................................ 1  25
70  ft .................................. .1   40

..............   23
..............................   81
...................................  41
.................................  35  C rack n els
28

...................................  6
.................................  6
...................................  7%
........................................  6
.................  7%
Sw eet  Goods

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

G erm an   S w e e t 
P rem iu m  
V a n illa  
C a ra c a s 
E a g le

W alter  B aker  &   Co.’s

C L O T H E S  LIN E S

C H O CO LA T E 

CH ICORY

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

Sisal

Jute

 

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

6

7

8

9

1 0

45

II

J E L L Y

Rib.  pails,  per  doz
15tb.  p ails 
...................
301b.  p a ils  ............................ 

U C O R iC E

P u re  

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

36
65

30

S ic ily  
R o o t 
C ondensed,  2  dz 
C ondensed,  4  dz 

 
14
. . . ' .................................  11
............1  60
............3  00

.......................... 
L Y E

M EAT  E X T R A C T S

Canned  Meats

............ .  2  40
C orned  beef,  2 
......... .17  50
C orned  beef,  14 
R o a st  beef.  2  @   ......... .  2  40
45
. .
P o tte d   h am ,  % s 
85
. . .
P o tted   ham ,  % s 
46
. .
D eviled  h am ,  % s 
85
D eviled  ham ,  % s 
. .
45
P o tte d   ton gue,  % s 
.
85
P o tte d   ton gue,  % s

. 
. 
. 
. 

RICE

Domestic

! C aro lin a  head 
| C aro lin a  No.  1 

......... • 6@6%
. . . . . . . 6%

A rm o u r’s  4  oz 
.................8  20  C aro lin a  No.
L ie b ig ’s,  C h icag o,  2  oz.2  75  i B ro k en   ___
L ie b ig ’s,  C h icago,  4 oz.6  50  j Ja p a n ,  No.  1 
2 
L ie b ig ’s,  im p orted ,  2 oz.4  55  I Ja p a n ,  No.
L ieb ig ’s,  im ported .  4 oz.8  50  j Ja v a ,  fa n cy   head 

..........5  @ 5 %
..........4% @ 5

M O LASSES 
New  Orleans
F a n c y   Open  K e ttle  
C h oice 
...................................  35  I  D u rk ee's 

. . .   40

»

Ja v a ,  No.  1 

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

SA LA D   D RESSING

  S iaa 

sm all,  2 doz. .5  25

@ 5 % | ’
@ 5%   ¡

SO AP

TO BA CCO  
Fine  Cut
.................................54

—  S w eet  L o m a  . . . . . . . . . . 3 3

............2  76  j 
...............2  85  !  |*a y   9 a rTJ
P ro te ctio n  
J .   S .  K irk   &   Co.  bran d s  \  P ro te ctio n  

Jaxon  brand
o  uox  lots,  d elivered  . .  3  06 j  C ad illac 
9  w * .  » » » ,  ________  
Jo h n so n  Soap   Co.  brand s  i  H ia w a th a , 51b.  p ails 
..5 5
S ilv e r  K in g   7 ..................3  65  i  H ia w a th a .  101b.  p ails  ..6 3
|  C alu m et  F a m ily  
i  S co tch   F a m ily  
C uba 
A m erican   F a m ily  
D usky  D iam ond,  50  8oz.2  80  |  T l 6 er 
J a p   R o se 
Im p erial 
S avon 
W hite  R u ssia n
| D om e,  oval  b a rs 
S a tin e t,  oval 
W h ite  Cloud 

149
. . .  .  7 7 . . .................... 2 36  i  P r a irie   R o se
............................37
.
.......... 4  06  ’  S w eet  B u r l e y ......................42
...................................... 38

........................................ 32
-  
• 3  f ?   K y l o .........................................34
__
...........................41
..........3  } ?   H ia w a th a  
..................... 2  15  j  B a ttle   A xe 
............
.33 
. . . . . . . . . . 4   00  I  A m erican   E a g le
.32
..................36
S p e a r H ead. 16  oz.....42

L a u tz   B ro s.  &   Co.  bran d s  i  s ta n d a rd  N av y  

.............................3  75
.............3  10

I  R ed  C ro ss  ............................

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

B ig   A cm e 

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

P a lo  

4 00  | 

Plug

__ 

 

 

i? i ^ m f > 5->m.-¿ars:::3  ìò ;k s  

V  £ :

Egg  Crates 

H um p ty  D um p ty 
No.  1,  c o m p le t e .............. 
No.  2,  c o m p le te ................. 

Faucets

C ork  lined,  8  i n .................  65
I  C ork  lined,  9  I n .................  75
C ork  lined.  10  in
C edar,  8  in ............................  55

Mop  S tick s

C ured  No,  1 
. . . . 2   40  Cured  No.  2 

.................   8%
..............• •  7%
32  C alfsk in s,  sre e n   N o.  1. 9
18  C alfsk in s,  s re e n   No.  2. 7%
C a lfsk in s,  cured  N o.  1.10% 
C alfsk in s,  cured  N o.  2.  9
S te e r  H ides  60!bs.  o v e rt 
Cow  hides  60Ibs.  ov er  . . 8%

.  Pelts

Old  W o o l .....................
...........................50@ 1  25
L a m b  
...............25@ 1  00
S h ea rlin g s 
Tallow
............................  @   4%
No.  1 
No.  2 
..........................  @ 3 %
W ash ed ,  f i n e ............  @ 20
W ash ed ,  m edium   . .   @ 23
U nw ashed, 
..1 4 @ 1 6  
U nw ashed,  ipedium   @ 18 

Wool

fine 

CO N FECTIO N S 

S tick  Candy

P a ils

S ta n d a rd  
..............................   7
S tan d ard   H .  H ..............7
S tan d ard   T w is t 
............  8
C ut  L o a f  ..............................   9

ca se s
Ju m b o ,  321b............................7%
E x tr a   H .  H ..........................9
B o sto n   C ream  

................. 10

Mixed  Candy

G ro cers 
C o m p etition  

.................................  6
.................  7

.................  90
T r o ja n   sp rin g  
E clip se   p a te n t  sp rin g   . .  
85
No.  1  com m on 
.................  76
No.  2  p at.  b ru sh   holder.  85 
121b.  co tto n   m op  h e a d s.l  25
Id eal  No.  7 ..........................  90

. . . .

P a ils
. .1  50
2-hoop  S ta n d a rd  
3-hoop  S ta n d a rd   ----- . .1   66
. . 1   60
2-w ire,  C a b l e ................
. . 1   80
3-w ire,  C a b l e ................
. . 1   26
C edar,  all  red,  b ra ss
............ . .2   25
P ap er,  E u re k a  
F ib re   ................................... - .2   70

Toothpicks

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

. . 2   50
H ardw ood 
.......................... . .2   75
Softw ood 
B a n q u e t  ............................ ..1   50
................................... . .1  50
Id eal 

Traps

M ouse,  wood,  2  holes . .  
22
M ouse,  wood,  4  h oles . .   45
M ouse,  wood,  6  holes . .  
70
65
. .  
M ouse,  tin .  5  holes
80
. .  
R a t,  wood 
...................
. .  
75
R a t,  s p r i n g ...................

Tubs

.............   8 %

Fancy— In  Palls 

B ro k en  

..................................  8
R o ck  

.................9

....................9
........................................ 11

20-ln .,  S tan d ard ,  No. 1 .7   00
18-in.,  S tan d ard ,  No. 2 .6   00
16-in.,  S tan d ard ,  No. 3 .5   00
20-in .,  C able,  No.  1 ..7   50
!  18-in .,  C able,  No.  2 . . 6   50
..5   50
i  15-in.,  C able,  No.  3
.1 0   80
No.  1  F i b r e ...................
.  9  45
| No.  2  F ib re  
................
No.  3  F ib re  
................
.  8  55
W ash  Boards
..2   50
!  B ro n ze  G lo b e ..............
..1   75
i  D ew ey 
............................
..2   75
| D ouble  A c m e ..............
j S in g le  A cm e 
..2   25
..............
i  D ouble  P e e rle ss 
..3   25
. . .
1  Sin g le  P e e r l e s s .........
..2   50
N o rth ern   Q u e e n ___ . .2   50
1  D ouble  D up lex 
..........
. .3  00
................... . . . 2   75
1 Good  L u ck  
I U n iv ersal 
............................2  25

B on   T o n   C ream  
F re n c h   C ream  
S ta r  
H and  m ade  C r e a m .... 14% 
P rem io   C ream   m ixed. .12%  
O  F   H orehound  D ro p .. 10
Pon y  H ea rts 
......................15
Coco  B on   B o n s ................. 12
Fu d ge  S q u a r e s ..................12
P e a n u t  S q u a res 
.............   9
Sugared   P e a n u t s ............11
S ta rlig h t  K isse s 
............10
..............   9
Lozenges,  p lain  
. . . .  10  
Lozenges,  p rin ted  
C ham pion  C h o co late 
..1 1  
E clip se   C h o co lates 
....1 3 %
j 2  |n .......................................... 1   65  :  Q u in tette  C h o c o la te s... 12
C ham pion  Gum   D ro p s.  8
14  in .............................................1  85
.........................  9
M oss  D rops 
16  in .............................................2 30
......................9
Lem on  S o u rs 
Im p erials 
..............................  9
Ita l.  C ream   O p era 
. . .  12 
Ita l.  C ream   B o n   B o n s.
20  lb .  p ails  ......................1 2

W indow  Cleaners

Wood  Bowls

11  In.  B u tte r  .....................  
75
13  in.  B u t t e r ...................... 1  10
15  in.  B u t t e r ...................... 1  75
17  In.  B u t t e r ...................... 2  75
19  in.  B u tte r  ..................... 4  25
A sso rted   13-15-17 
.......... 2  00
A ssorted   1 5 -1 7 -1 9 ............. 3  00

j 
90 ; 

J a r - S a lt

_ 

S tea m b o a t 

R iv a l,  a sso rte d l 20  i ja r s .  (3!b . 

No.  90, 
No.  15. 
N o.  20,  R o v e r  en am eled l 60  |__   Com m on  G rad es „„  |  Pep p er? 
............1  7 5  j 100  31b.  sa ck s
N o.  572,  S p e cia l 
No.  98,  G olf,  s a tin  finish2  00  ■  60  51b.  sa ck s
28  lo ib .  sa ck s 
N o.  808,  B ic y c le  
.............2  00
;  56  lb.  sa ck s 
No.  632,  T o u m m ’t   w h ist2  25
|  28  lb.  s a ck s   .....................  

One dz.  B a ll  s q t.  M ason
. .   85

e a ch ) 

. . .  [ l   go  Pep p er, dingp. w h ite 
7 ! 7 l   71 W

“ *  S ^ o t 

.....................  »  L n £ X 2   Gr0U" d 

SA L E R A T U S 

P a ck ed   60  lb s.  in  b ox

H a lf  b a rre ls  2c  e x tra  
• 

M USTARD 
H o rse  R a d ish ,  1  dz 
H o rse  R a d ish ,  2  dz  .
B a y le ’s   C elery,  1  dz 

.1   75  A rm   and  H a m m er 
.3   50  I D eland’s  
D w igh t’s  Cow  
E m b lem  
1 00 i 
L .  P ............................. 
W y an d o tte, 100  % s 
85 
S A L   SODA
85 
80
.................. 2  35
................4  50
................. 
90
......................1  45
................. 2  30

O LIVE S
B u lk ,  1 g a l.  k eg s 
. .
B u lk ,  3  g al.  k e g s 
. .
B u lk ,  5  g al.  k e g s 
. .  
M an zan illa,  7  oz  . . . .
Q ueen,  p in ts 
Q ueen,  19  oz 
Q ueen,  28  o z .....................  7  00  I Lum p.  1451b.  k eg s
Stu ffed ,  5  oz 
Stu ffed ,  8  oz 
Stu ffed ,  10  oz 

SA L T  

G ran u lated ,  bbls 
85
G ran u lated ,  1001b  c a s e s .l  00 
Lum p,  b b ls..........................   75
95

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

. . . 3   15 
...............................3  00
................. 3  15
...............................2  10
3  00
00

. .3  

Diamond  Crystal 

T a b le

P I P E S

................. 1  70
C lay,  No.  216 
C lay,  T .  D .,  fu ll  co u n t  65
Cob,  N o.  3 
85

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

P IC K L E S
Medium 

B a rre ls,  1,200  co u n t 
H a lf  bbls,  600  co u n t 
H a lf b b ls,  1,200  co u n t  . .5  50  i 
B a rre ls,  2,400  co u n t 

S m all 

P L A Y IN G   C A R D S  

; C ases,  24  31b.  b oxes 
. .  
i  B a rre ls,  100 31b.  b ag s  . 
;  B a rre ls,  50  61b.  b a g s 
. 
;  B a rre ls,  40  7tb.  b ag s 
. 
_____ ___________
!  B a rre ls,  320  lb.  bulk
..7  75  I B a rre ls,  20  141b.  b ag s
..4  50  ! S a c k s,  28  lb s 
............
:  S a c k s,  56  tb s................

.1   40 
.3  00  ! 
.3  00 
.2  75
.2  65 
.2   85 
. 
27 
67
. 
................ 1 5 0

..9   50  B o x es,  24  2!b 

S h a k e r

B u tte r

PO T A SH  

48  c a n s   in   ca se

B a b b itt’s 
P e n n a   S a lt  C o.’s

.............................4  00
..............3 00

66  lb .  d airy   in   drill  b a g s  40 
! 28  lb . d a iry   in  drill  b ag s  20 
22

S o la r  R o ck
............

|56  lb.  sa ck s 

P R O V IS IO N S  
B a rreled   P o rk  
......................................13  00

Com m on
.......................... 14  25 I G ran u lated   F in e  

......................13  75 | M edium   F in e  
........................12  75  | 
co d
........................................20  00  | 

....................................12 00  ,  L a rg e   w hole 
..1 7   60 S m all  w hole 

. . .
..........
S A L T   F IS H
..............
..............

M ess 
B a c k ,  f a t  
C le a r  b a c k  
S h o rt  c u t 
P ig  
B e a n  
F a m ily   M ess  L o in  
C lea r  F a m ily  

................. 12  50 ! s trip s   o r  b ric k s 

D ry  S a lt  M eats 

P o llo ck   .......................... 

. .7   @ 9

@6%
@ 3%

 

. .  

. . 9  

@ 13 

T ro u t

„  L ard  

j S ca led  

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

| C h un k s 

c le a r . ..1 0  

...................17 

H a m  p r’s ’d 

Sm oked  M eat» 

.......................10%   L .

..........................
lb s 

..................................  8%  
...................8 % 

N orw eg ian 
. . . .   7%  I  Round,  50 

9%   | jjo .  1,  100  l b s .................5  60
.................2  50

MaiiHnt
H alibu t
.............................. 7   i s
. . . . . . ...................10
H errin g
H olland

B e llie s  
S   P   B e llie s  
E x t r a   sh o rts  
121b. a v e r a g e .12%  I 
H am s, 
141b. a v e ra g e . 12 
H am s, 
16lb. a v e ra g e . 11%  I  W h ite   hoops,  bbl.  ------ 8  50
H am s, 
. . . 4  50
H am s, 
201b. a v e ra g e . 11%   I  W h ite   hoops,  % bbl. 
Sk in n ed   h a m s 
.................10%  j W h ite   hoops  k e g ...6 0 @ 6 5
H am ,  dried  b e ef  s e ts . 12%   ¡W h ite   hoops  m ch s 
75
Sh ou ld ers,  (N .  T .  c u t) 
¡R ou n d ,  100  l b s .................... 3 60
B a co n , 
C a lifo rn ia   h a m s 
.................. 2  10
B o iled   H am s 
....................................  17
P ic n ic   B o iled   H a m s  . .   12%  ’ B lo a te rs   .................................
B e rlin  
M in ce  H a m s 
„  
..........................6%  
Com pound 
................................... i  7,%
P u re  
% 
tu b s , .a d v a n c e. 
60 
lb . 
SO 
tu b s , .a d v a n c e.  % 
lb . 
M ess  100 
lb s ....................14 50
lb . 
50 
% 
tin s , .a d v a n c e. 
M ess  50  lb s .......................... 7 75
20  lb .  p a ils, .a d v a n c e .  % 
M ess  10  lb s ...........................1 75
10 
lb.  p a ils, .a d v a n c e .  % 
M ess  8  lb s ............................1  45
5 
lb .  p a ils , .a d v a n c e . 
1 
No.  1,  100  lb s .....................13 00
3  lb .  p a ils , .a d v a n c e . 
1  
lb s .......................7  00
No.  1,  50 
B o lo g n a  ^ ^ 7 7 . . . . .  
lb s .......................1  60
6 %   I No.  1.  10 
L iv e ?  
...................................  
6 %   I N o.  1,  8 
lb s .......................1   35
F r a n k fo rt 
..........................  7%
8
P o rk
V e a l ........................................  7%
9
T o n g u e 
H ea d ch eese 
6 %
E x t r a   M ess 
B o n e le ss 
R u m p,  N ew  

W h iteflsh  
N o 1  No.  2  F a m  
3  75
lb s  
. . . . 7   75 
2  20
lb s..............3  68 
lb s ..............  92 
53
. . . .  
lb s  
77 
46
SE E D S

No.  1,  40  lb s 
No.  1.  10  lb s
N o.  1.  8  lb s ...................... 

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

..................
..............
.........................
................
P ig’s  Feet

100
50
8

Sausages

Mackerel

Beef

-------

69

lb s. 

Tripe

. 1 1   00
. 1 1   00
1   20
%   b b ls.................................
. . . ..  2  10
%  b b ls.,  40 
%   b b ls.............................. ..  4  00
..  8  00
1   b b ls.................................
70
K its ,  15  lb s  
.................
1  25
%   b b ls.,  40  l b s .......... . 
.......... . 
2  60
% b b ls.,  80  lb s  
Casings
H ogs,  p er  lb ................... . .   26
B e e f  rounds,  s e t 
45
. . .  
B e e f  m iddles,  s e t 
Sh eep ,  p e r  bundle  . .. . . .   70
Uncolored  Butterlne
Solid,  dairy  .........10  @10%
Rolls,  dairy  .........10% @13
14
. . . .  
Rcrils,  purity 
Solid,  purity  . . . .  
18%

. . .
. .

A n ise 
......................................15
C an ary ,  S m y r n a ................. 6
C araw ay  
..............................  8
C ard am on,  M a la b a r 
C elery 
....................................10
M ixed  B ird

. .1   00 

Pop p y 
R a p e  
C u ttle  B o n e  

...................................   4%

.............................. ..  •
.....................25

SH OE  BLA CK IN G

B ix b y ’s  R o y a l  P o lish   . .   85
M iller’s   C row n  P o lish . 
85 
Scotch,  in  bladders  . . .   87 
Maccaboy,  in  Jars 
. . . .   86 
French  Rapple,  in Jars.  43

SN U FF

.................................... 3  10 

Old  H o n esty  
j .   t .

P ro c to r  &   G am ble  bran d s  j  Toddy 

L en o x  
iv o ry ,  6  oz  ..........................4  00  p ip e r  H eid siek
iv o ry ,  10  oz 
o ta r  
Good  C h eer 
Old  C oun try 

..................... 42
.33
......... 36
......... 63
..................... 6  75  i  B o o t 
......... 78
___ 39
—   •
..........38
B la c k   S tan d ard
..........38
.30
Forg e
N ickel  T w i s t ..................... 50

...............
.....................................3   25  j  H oney  D ip  T w ist

.................... 4  00  C ad illac
....................3  40

A.  B .  W risle y   b ran d s 

Scouring

ja c k  

E n o ch   M organ s  Son s.

Smoking

h and 

SODA

. . . . 9   00

SP IC E S 

W hole  Spices
......................  

B o x e s 
i>.egs,  E n g lish  

........................................5%
....................4%

A llsp ice 
12
 
C assia,  C h in a in  m a ts . 
12 
28 
c a s s ia ,  B a ta v ia ,  bund. 
C assia,  Saig o n ,  b ro k en .  40 
C assia,  Saig o n ,  in   ro lls. 
55
c lo v e s,  A m boyn a 
20
.......... 
C loves,  Z a n z ib a r 
............ 
17
........................................  55
M ace 
N u tm eg s,  75-80 
..............   50
N u tm eg s,  105-10 
40
............ 
N u tm eg s,  115-20 
............  35

¿ap o lio ,  g ro ss  lo ts 
dapolio,  h alf  g ro ss  lo ts.4  50  !  S w e e t  C ore 
.......................34
dapolio,  sin g le  b oxes  . .2   25  !  p la t  C a r ................................32
Sapoiio,
................ 2  26  G re a t  N av y  
........................ 34
W a rp a th  
.............................26
B am boo,  16  oz.................. 25
I  X   1..  5  lb .......................... 27
I   X   L ,  16  oz.,  p ails 
. .31
H oney  D ew  
......................37
Gold  B lo c k  
......................37
...............................40
F la g m a n  
C hips 
......................................33
...........................21
K iln   D ried 
D uk e’s   M ix t u r e ................. 39
D u k e's  C am eo 
................. 43
M y rtle  N av y 
......................40
Turn  Turn,  1  2-3  oz. 
..3 9  
Turn  Y um ,  lib .  p ails  . .37
C ream  
.....................................36
...2 4
C orn  C ake,  2%   oz. 
C orn  C ake,  l i b ................... 22
Plow   B o y ,  1  2-3  oz. 
..3 9
Plow   B o y ,  3%   oz............39
.
P e e rle ss,  3%   oz................. 35
- . . . . . . . .
P eerless,  1  2-3  oz............36
A ir  B ra k e   .............................36
ifi
16
15  A l l s p i c e ................... 
.......................... 30
„ „ .C a n t  H ook 
, ,  
C a ssia ,  B a ta v ia   ..............  
28  j  c o u n try   C lub 
.............32-34
Pnesia  Sa icon  ____  AS  n__ ««
48
..............  
C assia,  S a ig o n  
F o r e x - X X X X  
....................28
C loves,  Z a n z ib a r  ............  18
Good  In d ian  
......................23
15
............ 
G in ger,  A frica n  
S e lf  B i n d e r ....................20-22
G in ger.  C o c h i n ...............   18  |  gu ve7 “F o a m  ' 1! 7 111. . .  84
25
G inger,  Ja m a ic a  
............ 
65
.....................................  
M ace 
18
M u stard   ................................. 
Pep p er,  Sin g ap ore,  b lk . 
17 
25 
P ep p er,  Singp .  w h ite 
P ep p er,  C ayen n e
20 
20
S a g e  
........................

Sin g ap ore, b lk .

T W IN E

„  

-• 

. 

STARCH  

Common  Gloss

lib .  p a ck a g es 
3tb.  p a ck a g es 
6lb.  p a ck a g es 
40  an d   50  lb .  b o xes 
B a rre ls 
Common  Com

................. 5
................. 4%
....................5%
.3 @ 3 %
............................ 3 @ 3 %

20  lib .  p a ck a g es 
40  lib .  p a ck a g es 

............5
....4 % @ 7  

SY R U P S 

Corn

B a r r e l s ....................................21
........   ......................................... ....  
H a lf  b a r r e l s ........................ 23
201b.  ca n s,  %dz.  In  e a s e l  5b 
101b.  ca n s,  % dz.  in   e a s e l  55 
5tb.  ca n s,  1  dz.  in  e a s e l  75  So ap in e 
2 % tb.  ca n s,  2 dz.  ca se .. .1  75  B a b b itt’s  1776 

* a l r   .......................................... 
....................................... 
C hoice 
................................... 

20  I N in e  O’c lo ck  
Jo   | 

P u re  C an e 
Pure  ca n e 

T E A
Japan

VIN EG A R

................. 1  00

D ark   No.  12 

Y E A S T   C A K E  

...................4
................ 3

W R A PPIN G   P A P E R

................. 1%
. .   2% 
.  4

....................30
C otton ,  3  ply 
....................30
C otton,  4  ply 
Ju te ,  2  ply 
.......................... 12
H em p,  6  p ly 
......................12
..................20
F la x ,  m edium  
W ool,  lib .  b a lls  ................. 6

M a lt  W h ite   W in e.  40 g r.  8 
M a lt  W h ite   W in e,  80 g r .l l  
P u re   C ider,  B & B  
..1 1  
P u re   C ider,  R ed   S t a r . 11 
P u re   C ider,  R o b in so n . 11 
P u re   C ider,  S ilv e r 
. . . . 1 1
W ASH IN G  PO W D E R

Com m on  S tra w  
F ib re   M an ila,  w h ite 
F ib re   M an ila,  colored 
No.  1  M an ila 
C ream   M an ila 
B u tc h e r’s   M a n ila 
. . . .   2%
W a x   B u tte r,  sh o rt  c ’nt.13 
W a x   B u tte r,  fu ll  count.20 
W a x   B u tte r,  ro lls 
. . . . 1 5  

M olasses  C hew s,  161b.
................................. 1 2
| 
ca se s 
...............12
Golden  W affles 
Fancy— In  5Tb.  Boxes
Lem on  S o u r s ......................60
. . . .  60
P ep p erm in t  D rops 
C h ocolate  D rops 
.............60
H .  M.  C hoc.  D rops 
...8 5  
H .  M.  C hoc.  L t.  and
Gum   D r o p s .......................... 35
O.  F .  L ico rice   D rops  . .  80
I L ozen ges, p l a i n ..................55
L ozenges,  p rin ted  
-------- 60
Im p eria ls 
.............................. 65
M ° U o e ! ; .........................
M agic.  3  doz.........................1  15  £ rre.am   B a £ , .......................... 65
D iam ond  F la k e  
...............2  75
M olasses  B a r  
....................55
S u n lig h t,  3  doz.................1  00 
........................3  25
Gold  B r ic k  
H and  M ade  C r’m s..80@ 90 
S u n lig h t,  1%   doz.............  50
Gold  D u st,  re g u la r  . . . . 4   60
C ream   B u tto n s,  P ep . 
Y e a st  F o a m .  3  doz. 
. . . 1   15 
Gold  D u st,  5c 
.................4  00
...6 5
.1   00 
K irk o lin e,  24  41b...3  90  j Y e a s t C ream ,  3  doz
~  
......................65
S trin g   R o ck  
.  68
...................3  75  I  f e a s t  F o a m , 1%   doz.
P e a rlin e  
..6 0  
W in terg reen   B e rrie s  
.................................4  10
F .  B o sse n b e rg e r’s  brand s.
FRESH   FISH
.................3  75
C aram els 
.............................12
................................... 3  60
...........1 ..1 4
N u t  ca ra m e ls 
W h ite   fish 
................1 0 @ 1 1 .
...............................3  70
....................................12
K isse s 
T r o u t ..............................   @   8
................... 3  35
C h ocolates 
....................11-20
B la c k   B a s s ................11 @ 12
...............................3  8 0 ! S “ i £ , f
Pop  C ora
.10011
,   K„  | H alib u t
.............................. 3  50
M aple  Ja k e ,  p er  c a s e ..3  00
C iscoes  o r  H e rrin g .  @   5
...................3  75
C ra ck e r  J a e k  
...................3  00
....................... 1 1 0 1 2
tlu e fish  
Pop  C orn  B a lls  
..............1  30
L iv e  L o b s t e r ............  @ 25
Boiled  L o b s t e r ..........  @ 27
N U T 8  
Cod 
.................................  @ 12
W h ole
.....................   @   8
H addock 
it»  bia  i A lm onds,  T a rra g o n a .. .  16
No.  1  P ick e rel
X   S’*   A lm onds.  Iv ic a  
P ik e  
....................
7 
P e rch ,  dressed 
@   7 
shelled,  new  
@ 12% 
Sm oked  W h ite  
@
R ed  Sn ap p er

I  No.  0,  p er  g r o s s ............. 25
No.  1,  p er  g ro ss  ............35
No.  2,  p er  g ro ss 
............45
No.  3,  p er  g r o s s ............. 70

|  W isdom  
S co u rin e 
R u b -N o -M o re 

Baskets
......... ...................... 1  00  I c'olT   R iv er''S a lm o n i2 %  §  13
..................... 1 9 0 2 0

and  W in te rg ree n  

W O O D EN W A RE 

R o sein e 
A rm ou r’s  

W ICKIN G

......... 12%

P e r  lb .

"

O Y ST E R S

Cans

P e r  can
.................  35
28 
23
22
20
...........................  18
............................ 
17
_   _  
.   B u lk  

I P e rfe ctio n   S ta n d a rd s ... 
................................ 

Bradley  Butter  Boxes 

B u sh e ls 
B u sh els,  w ide  b an d   . . . . 1   25  M ack erel 
M a rk et  ...................................  35
Sp lin t,  la rg e  
..................... 6  00 
Sp lin t,  m edium  
.............. 5  00
S p lin t,  sm all 
..................... 4  00
W illow   C lo th es,  la rg e . .6   00  ______ _________
F .  H .  C oun ts 
W illow   C lothes,  m ed’m .5  50  1  Extra."  S ele cts 
W illow   C loth es,  sm all  .5   00  S ele cts
21b.  size,  24  in  c a se   . .   72  A n ch o rs 
31b.  size,  16  in   c a se   . .  
51b.  size,  12  in   c a se   . .  
10 1b .  size, 
6  in   c a se   . .
No.  1  O val,  250  in   c ra te . 
No.  2  O val,  250  in   cra te .
I No.  3  O val.  250  in   cra te . 
No.  5  O val.  250  in   c ra te . 
B a rre l.  5  g al.,  each  
B a rre l,  10  g al.,  e a ch  
B a rre l,  15  g a l.,  e a ch  
Clothes  Pins 
Round  head,  6  gross bx. 
Round  head,  cartons  . .

58  S ta n d a rd s 
5?  F a v o rite s 
60
40
45
50
60
.2   40 
.2   65 
.2  70
66
76

G reen   N o.  1 
G reen  N o.  3 

Butter  Plates 

C hum s

. 

. Sp an ish   P e a n u ts . . 6 % @   7
P e c a n   H alv es 
.................38
................... 1  35 w a ln u t  H a l v e s .................. 40
.....................30
...................... 1  »0 F ilb e rt  M ea ts 
...........36
..............50

S tan d ard ,  g al 
S e le cts,  g al 
E x t r a   S e le cts,  g a l 
. . . . 1   60 A lica n te   A lm onds 
F a irh a v en   C ounts,  g a l . l   75 j ordan   Ai m ond s 
S h ell  O y sters,  p er  1 0 0.1  00 
P e a n u ts
S h ell  C lam s,  p er  100.1  ¡>0  F a n c y ,  H .  P „   S u n s5 % @   6 %
C lam s,  s a l 

.........................1  26  F a n c y ,  H .  £ . ,   Su n s,

H ID E S   A N D   P E L T S  

H ides 

R o a ste d  

................6 % 0   7

C h oice,  H .  P .,  J ’bo.7  # 7 %

..................... 6 %   C hoice,  H ."P .,  Ju m -
..................... 5%  

bo.  R o u t e d  

. . . . 8   @   8%

s o ft  shelled.

..............
A lm onds,  C a lifo rn ia  s ft 
..1 4   @ 16
B ra z ils  
................................. 10
F ilb e rts  
................................. 11
W a ln u ts,  F re n c h  
W a ln u ts, 
Cal.  No.  1  .............................16
. .. .1 3
T a b le   N u ts,  fa n ey  
P eca n s,  M ed...........................9
P e ca n s,  E x .  L a rg e  
. . .  10
P e ca n s,  Ju m b o s 
. . . . . . 1 1
H ick o ry   N u ts  p er  bu.
C ocoan uts 
C h estn u ts,  p er  b u ............

............................  4

O hio  new  

..................... 1  75

Shelled

. . . .  24 
Sundried,  m edium  
. . . . . . 3 2
Sundried,  ch o ice 
Sundried, 
.............36
fa n cy  
R eg u lar,  m edium  
.......... 24
R eg u lar,  c h o i c e .................32
R eg u lar,  fa n cy  
................. 36
B a sk e t-fire d ,  m edium  
.31 
B a sk e t-fire d ,  ch o ice 
. .38 
B a sk e t-fire d , 
..4 3
fa n cy  
N ib s 
...............................22@ 24
S iftin g s  
.......................... 9@ 11
F a n n i n g s ......................12@ 14

Gunpowder
M oyune,  m edium  
M oyune,  ch o ice 
M oyune, 
fa n cy  
Pin g su ey ,  m edium  
P in g su ey ,  ch o ice 
P in g su ey ,  fa n cy  

. . . . 3 0
...............32
...............40
. . . . 3 0
...........30
.............40

Young  Hyson

C h o ic e ......................................f0
F a n c y  
.....................................36

Oolong
F o rm o sa,  fa n cy  
A m oy,  m edium  
A m oy,  ch o ice 

...............42
................ 25
....................82

English  B reakfast

M edium  
...............................20
....................................30
C h oice 
Fancy  ......................... 40
India
C eylon,  ch o ice 
................. 83
................................41
Fancy 

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A X L E   G R E A SE

CH EW IN G   GUM

SO A P

B e a v e r  Soap   C o.’s   B ra n d s

Geleru  Nerve

1  box,  20  p a ck a g e s 
. . . .   50 
5  b oxes  in   c a r t o n ............2  50

C O F F E E
Roasted

D w in e ll-W rig h t  C o.’s  B d s.

« S E S S I

ca k e s,  la rg e   s iz e.  .6  50
ca k e s,  la rg e   s i z e ..3 25
ca k es, sm all  s i z e ..3 85
ca k e s, sm all  s i z e . .l  95

100 
50 
100 
50 
T ra d e sm a n   C o.’s  B ra n d

B la c k   H aw k,  one  b o x . .2  50 
B la c k   H aw k,  five  b x s .2   40 
B la c k   H aw k,  ten   b x s .2   25

T A B L E   SA U CES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original - 
Genuine 
Worcestershire

L e a   &   P e r rin ’s,  p t s .. .5   00 
L e a   &   P e r rin ’s,  %  p ts .2   75
H alford ,  la rg e  
................. 3  75
H alfo rd ,  sm a ll 
................. 2  25

Place Your 
Business 

on a

Cash  Basis 

by using 

our

Coupon  Book 

System.

We

manufacture 
four kinds 

Coupon  Books 

of

and

sell them 
all at the 
same price 

irrespective of 

size, shape 

or

denomination. 

We will 

be 
very 

pleased 

to

M ica,  tin   b o x es 
P a ra g o n  

. .75  9  00 
. . . . . . . . . . 5 5   6  00

BA KIN G   POW DER

Royal

10c  s iz e . 
90
141b c a n s  135 
6  o z c a n s  190 
% lb c a n s  250 
% tb c a n s   375 
1  lb ca n s  4 80 
3  lb c a n s 13 00 
5  lb ca n s 2150

BLUING

A rc tic   4 oz ovals,  p gro  4  00 
A rctic  8 oz ovals,  p g ro  6  00 
A rc tic   16 oz ro ’d,  p gro 9  00

B R E A K F A S T   FOOD

áM ké|rihaC iN ttía|iiB

C ases,  24  1  ìb   p a ck ’s . 2  70

O xford  F la k e s

No.  1  A,  p er  c a s e ----- 3  60
No.  2 B ,  p er  c a s e ................3  60
No.  3 
C. ep r  c a s e ..........3  60
No.  1  D, p er  c a s e .........3  60
No.  2  D , p er  c a s e ......... 3  60
N o.  3  D , p er  c a s e ..........3  60
N o.  1 
E , p er  c a s e ..........3  60
E , p er  c a s e ..........3  60
N o.  2 
No.  1 
F , p er  c a s e ..........3  60
No.  3 
F , p er  c a s e ..........3  60

G rits

W a lsh -D e R o o   C o.’s   B ra n d s

W h ite   H ouse,  1 
l b -----
W m te   H ouse,  2  l b ..........
E x c e lsio r,  .M  &  J ,   1  lb 
E x celsio r,  M   &   J ,   2  lb 
'i ip  Top .  M  &   J ,   1  l b ..
R o y al  J a v a  
.......................
R o y al  Ja v a   an d   M ocha 
J a v a   and  M och a  B len d  
B o sto n   C om bin ation  
. .
Ju d so n  
G ro cer  Co..  G rand  R a p id s; 
N atio n al  G ro cer  Co.,  D e ­
tro it  and  Ja c k s o n ;  B .  D es- 
en b erg   &  C o.,  K a la m a z o o ; 
Sym on s  B ro s.  &  C o.,  S a g i­
n aw ;  M eisel  &   G oeschel. 
B a y   C ity ; 
F ie lb a c h   Co., 
Toledo.

D istn o u te d  

by  

CO N D E N SED   M ILK 

4  doz  in  c a se

. . . . 6   40
G ail  B o rd en   E a g le  
....................................5  90
C row n 
C ham pion 
.......................... 4  25
......................................4  70
D aisy  
M ag n o lia  ...............................4  00
C h allen ge 
.............................4  40
D im e 
......................................3  85
P e e rle ss  E v a p ’d  C ream .4  00

C ases,  24  2  lb  p a ck ’s . . 2  00

S A F E S

CIG AR S

u

G.  J .  Jo h n so n  C ig a r C o.’s bd.
L e ss  th a n   500...................33 00
500  o r  m o re ..........................32 00
»,000  o r  m o re ..................... 31 00

COCO ANU T

B a k e r’s  B ra z il  Shredded

70  141b   p kg.  p er  c a s e ..2  60 
3 5  72lb  pkg.  p er  c a s e . . 2  60 
38  % lb   pkg,  p er  c a s e . . 2  60 
16  % lb   pkg,  p er  c a s e . . 2  60

in  

by 

sto ck  

lire  p r«of 

F u ll  lin e  of  th e   celeb rated  
D iebold 
s a fe s  
k ep t 
th e 
C o m p a n y .  
T rad esm an  
T w en ty   d ifferen t  siz es  on 
hand  a t  all 
tim e s— tw ice 
a s  m an y   o f  th em   a s   a re  
ca rried   by  an y   o th e r  house 
I f   you  a re  
in 
un able  to   v isit  G rand  R a p ­
ids  and 
lin e 
p erson ally,  w rite  fo r  quo­
ta tio n s.

th e   S ta te . 

In sp ect 

th e  

S A L T
B u ck ey e

T a b le

B rls,  120  b a g s,  2%   lb s  3  25 
B rls,  100  b ag s,  3 
lb s  3  00 
B rls,  60  b ag s,  5 
lb s  3  00 
lb s  3  00 
B rls,  50  b ag s,  6 
lb s  2  75 
B rls,  30  bags,  10 
B rls,  22  b ag s,  14 
tb s  2  85 
B rls.  320  lb s,  bulk 
. . .   2  25 
C ases,  24  c ts ,  3  lb s —  .  1  25 

B u tte r

B rls,  280  lb s,  b u lk ----- 2  25
lb s  3  00 
L in en   b ag s, 
L in en   bags,  10-28  lb s   3  00 
C otton   b a g s,  10-28  lb s  2  75 

5-56 

C heese

5  b a rrel  lo ts,  5  p er  cen t, 
discount.
10  b a rre l 
lots,  7%   p er 
cen t,  discoun t.
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THC PAIRORICVE patent

{ V  
U a s   1 oaster  25c

Retails

T '  

. 

This may be a new art'cle to  you, and  it 

deserves your attention.
I ,   C j v P f it i m e   by  toasting  evenly  and 
I I   O u r v u q u ic k ly   on  gas,  gasoline  or 
blue flame  oil  stoves, directly  over  flame, 
and is ready for use as  soon  as  placed  on 
the  flame.
-

 confining  the  heat in 
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developed  is  used.  The  only  toaster  for 
use over flames that leaves toast  free  from 
taste  or  odor.  Made  of  best  materials, 
rivetedjoints, no solder, lasts for years.

U J

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ASK  YOUR  JOBBER

Fairgrieve Toaster Mfg. Co.

A; C. Slsman,  Qen’l flgr.

3 8 7 Jefferson Avenue. DETROIT, MICH.

Be Wise

And prepare  for  next  year’s  business 

by N O W  laying in your stock of
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against all competition.

Address

Standard  Cash  Register  Co.

No. 4 Factory St.,  Wabash,  Ind.

we  NEED  YOUR

Fresh  Eggs

Prices  Will  Be  Right

L. 0 .  SNEDECOR  &  SON

Egg Receivers

3 6 Harrison Street, New York 

Reference;  N . Y . National Exchange Bank

Retailers

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DAVID  FORBES

" The Rubber Stamp Man ”

34 Canal Street.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Oleomargarine Stamps a  specialty.  Get 
our prices  when  in  need  of  Rubber  or 
Steel  Stamps,  Stencils,  Seals,  Checks, 
Plates, etc.  Write for Catalogue.
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In  Europe  and  America

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.

The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE, HIGH  GRADE

COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

_ _. 
. 
Trade-mark. 

No  Chemicals  are  used in 
their manufactures.
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is
absolutely  pure,  d elic io u s, 
nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup.
Their  Premium  No.  1  Chocolate,  put  up  in 
■ ppers and  Yellow  Labels, is the best 
Bine  Wrap
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate is good to eat 
and good  to  drink.  It is palatable, nutritious, and 
healthful; a great favorite with children.
Buyers should ask for and make sure that they get 
the genuine goods.  The above trade* marir. is on 
every package.
Walter Baker &  Co. Ltd.

D orchester, M ass.

Established  1780.

M ichigan  Lands 

For Sale

send you samples 

if you ask  us. 

They are 

free.

Tradesman Company 

Grand Rapids

500,ctoo Acres in  one of  the  greatest 
states in the Union in quantities to suit
Lands are located in nearly every county 
in  the  northern  portion  of  the  Lower 
peninsula.  For further  informatioif  ad­
dress

EDWIN  A.  W ILDEY

State Land Commissioner,  Lansing, Michigan

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926 

in  sto ck . 

sa fe s 

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S.

E sta b lish e d   g row in g  h ard w are  b u sin ess 
in  C en tra l  M ich igan .  C an  sell  $50,000 
in  1904  a t  s a tisfa c to ry   p rices,  w ith  $5,000 
ad d ition al  ca p ita l.  R ig h t  m an   ca n   m ak e 
sa fe ,  p rofitable 
in v estm en t  and  handle 
office  w ork.  T h is   is  a n   excep tio n al  open­
in g  
fo r  co n serv a tiv e   exp erien ced   m an 
lookin g 
liv e 
g ro w in g   tow n.  A ddress  B o x   186,  L a n ­
10
sin g ,  M ich. 
F ir s t 
c la ss  m ill  an d   lo catio n .  M ust  h av e  th ree 
th ousan d  dollars.  C.  L .  D olph,  T em p le, 
M ich. 

W an ted — P a r tn e r  fo r  g r ist  m ill. 

fo r  p erm an en t  op ening 

in  

8

W an ted — Good  h u stlin g   p a rtn e r  w ith 
$3,000  o r  $4,000  c a p ita l;  doing  a   $25.000 
b u sin ess  now.  A ddress  L o ck   B o x   No. 
13,  T hom p sonv ille,  111. 

7

A   sp ecial  and  v ery   d esirab le  op p ortu­
in   F lo rid a.  W rite   J .   E . 

n ity   to   in v e st 
B o tsfo rd ,  L ak elan d ,  F lo rid a. 

9

$5,000  Sh o e  S to ck  

to   E x ch a n g e — F o r 
$2.000  ca sh   or  b a n k a b le   p ap er  and  b a l­
a n ce.  Good  unincu m bered  re a l  e s ta te ; 
8,000, 
bu sin ess  esta b lish ed  
S o u th ern   M ich igan .  A ddress  N o. 
11. 
c a re   M ich igan   T ra d esm a n . 
11

in  city  

o f 

F o r  S ale— B a r r   P a c k a g e   an d   C ash   S y s ­
first 
te m ;  18  com p lete  sta tio n s,  a ll 
c la ss  order.  N o  reaso n ab le  o ffer  refused . 
S.  H eym an n   &   Co.,  O shkosh,  W is. 
12

in 

F o r   Sale— C ash  only,  fre sh   s to ck   of  g ro ­
lo ca tio n .  A ddress  H .  G il­

c e rie s;  good 
m an,  F a rm ersv ille,  HI. 

13

F o r  S a le— N u m ber  n in e  “E a g le ”  A uto­
m a tic   A cety len e  G en erato r.  W a rra n ted  
in  e x ce lle n t  sh ap e.  C.  A.  P e c k   H ard w are 
Co.,  B e rlin ,  W is. 

14

F o r  S a le   o r  E x ch a n g e — C om plete  sto ck  
of  sh o es  and  fa n cy   g ro ceries  in  a   th riv ­
in g  m a n u fa ctu rin g   tow n  of  2,00 0;  sto ck  
in v o icin g   ab o u t  $5,000.  A ddress  No.  15, 
c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d esm a n . 

15

D o cto r— $250  w ill  buy  h orse,  buggy  and 
c u tte r  and  good  p ra ctic e   in  liv e  tow n  in 
M ich ig an .  A ddress  No.  16,  c a re   M ich ig an  
T ra d esm a n . 

16

stan d in g ,  w ho  k now s  how  

to   sh areh o ld ers. 
P le n ty   o f  proof. 

O ne  D ollar— E a rn ed   $220,  $1,500  earned 
$330,000  in  18  m o n th s  in   N.  E .  P a id   in 
cash  
T h a t’s  h isto ry —  
fa c t. 
B e a ts   Stan d ard  
Oil.  N o  sch em e,  no  g a m b lin g ;  s tra ig h t 
bu sin ess.  M anaged  by  a   M ain e  m an   of 
h ig h est 
to  
m ak e  m oney.  W e   w a n t  som e  W e ste rn  
sh areh o ld ers  th is  tim e. 
S h a re s  $1  each . 
Show   ou r  o ffer  to   your  frien d s  and  g et 
an   in v estm en t  th a t  w ill  b rin g   you  from  
$100  to   $1,0 0 0  w ith o u t  in v estin g   a   cen t. 
T h is   is  you r  ch a n ce.  O ffer  lim ited .  W ill 
you  m iss  it,  o r  send  sta m p   fo r  p a rtic u ­
la rs ?  
T h is   a d v e rtise ­
m en t  a p p ears  b u t  once. 
T h e   N u trio la 
Co..  D ep t.  W .,  802  W .  M adison  S t.,  C h i­
cago,  111. 

to   you. 

I t ’s   up 

19

F o r  S a le— A   la rg e   and  p ro fitab le  c lo th ­
in g   b u sin ess  in  a   h u stlin g   c ity   o f  20,00 0; 
h andsom e  sto re -ro o m ;  fin est  lo catio n  
in 
th e   c ity ;  w ish  to   re tire ;  no  b e tte r  in v e st­
m en t  in  th e   U n ited   S ta te s   fo r  h u stlin g  
young  m en.  A ddress  H artw ell,  606  S t. 
A nne  S t.,  O w ensboro,  K y .________ ______ 4_
F o r  S a le—-R acket  sto re ,  E ld o ra ,  Iow a, 
co u n ty   s e a t  o f  H ard in  
Io w a; 
fa rm in g   section  
2,£00 
in h a b ita n ts;  b e st 
in  Io w a ;  sto ck   $4,000  to   $5,000;  no  old  or 
a 
o u t-o f-d a te   goods  on  h an d.  T h is   Is 
good  clean   sto ck   and  doing  a   g o o d -p ay ­
in g,  s tric tly   ca sh   b u sin e ss; 
estab lish ed  
s ix   y e a rs ;  ch eap   re n t;  good  liv in g   room s 
u p sta irs  o v er  th e   sto re   (b ric k   b u ild in g ); 
occupied  by   m y  fa m ily ;  $20  p er  m onth 
fo r  th e   e n tire   bu ild in g ;  no  tra d es.  R e a ­
son  fo r  sellin g ,  m y  O k lah om a  sto re  m ust 
h av e  m y  e n tire   a tten tio n .  A ddress  H . 
E .  L „   B o x   325,  E ld o ra,  Iow a.___________ 6

cou n ty, 

F o r   S a le— T h r e e -s to r y   b ric k   h o te l;  50 
sleep in g   ro o m s;  all  th e   m odern  im prove­
m e n ts;  in   c ity   o f  4,000.  W ill  ta k e   good 
f ir m   p a rt  p ay m en t.  A ddress  S.  A.  B o o th  
Sz  Son,  R e a l  E s ta te   A g en ts,  G reenville. 
M ich . 

6

W a n t  to   R e n t— A  sto re   20x50  in   a   h u s­
tlin g   tow n  o f  800  to   1,200  population.  A d­
d ress  N o.  1,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d esm a n .  1
F o r   S a le   o r  E x ch a n g e — T w o  c ity   lo ts 
n e a r  a   dozen  la rg e   fa cto rie s   and  20  a c re s 
o f  tim b e r  and  land,  $2,00 0;  c le a r  o f  debt. 
W h a t  h av e  you  to   o ffer?  H .  M .  H uff, 
G obleville,  M ich._______________________ 999

C ash  fo r  Y o u r  S to ck — O r  w e  w ill  close 
o u t  fo r  you  a t   you r  ow n  p la ce  o f  b u si­
n ess,  o r  m ak e  sa le   to   red u ce  you r  sto ck . 
W rite   fo r  in fo rm atio n .  C.  L .  Y o s t  &  Co., 
577  F o r e s t  A ve..  W e st,  D e tro it,  M ich .  2

F o r  S a le— Good  bu ild in g   fo r  s to ck   of 
g en eral  m erch a n d ise;  a lso   dw elling  and 
fo r 
b la ck sm ith   shop. 
b usin ess.  A.  G reen ,  D ev il’s  L a k e ,  M ich.

Splendid 

lo catio n  

995

to w n ;  double 

in 
sh elv in g  

T o   R e n t—In   tow n  of  1,500  In h a b ita n ts 
on  C.  &   E .  I.  R y ..  in   fine  fa rm in g   co u n ­
try ,  a  b rick   sto re,  44x100,  th e   b e st  build­
ing 
fa cin g   on 
fro n t, 
b rick -p av ed   s tr e e t;  stee l  ce ilin g ;  co u n ters 
and 
b asem en t  divided 
len g th w ise,  e a st  h a lf  w ith  e n tra n ce   on 
s tre e t;  e lec tric   lig h ts ;  ru n n in g   w a ter and 
“ew erage. 
Ira  
Brow n,  M ilford,  Illin o is. 

ow ner.  D r. 

A ddress 

o a k ; 

994

“ L e a th ero id ”  P o c k e t  W a lle ts— 4x7% —  
“ L e a th e r 
1,000,  $10,  In cludin g  yo u r  ad. 
T ra v e le r” 
w ear” 
“ L ittle  
(ca ta lo g u e ) 
a d v e rtisin g   n o v elties 
tw o  2  ce n t  stam p s.  Sollid ay  N o v elty  A d­
v e rtisin g   W o rk s,  K n o x,  Ind. 

sam p le  an d  

1 ,0 0 1 

981

sto re, 
s to re s,  20x60 

T o   R e n t— F o r  u p -to -d a te   d ry  goods, 
tw o 
clo th in g ,  b a z a a r  ,  g ro cery  
m odem   new   b ric k  
fee t, 
flors,  c u rta in s, 
stee l  ceilin g s,  hardw ood 
lig h t  an d   aw n in g 
screen   doors,  e le c tric  
fixtu res,  p la te  g la ss  fro n t,  p rism   lig h ts. 
W ill  fit  o u t  w ith   o a k   sh elv in g   an d   co u n ­
te rs  to   su it  b u sin ess.  B a se m e n ts  w ith 
to ilet  and  w a ter  on  firs t  floor, 
in  city  
o f  2,500,  $300  p er  y ear.  A l.  C.  H uebner, 
307  G en esee  a v e.,  S ag in aw ,  M ich.  976

E x cep tio n a l— T h e   V a w te r  p lan  o f  sa les 
is  n ot  only  excep tio n al,  b u t  unique.  Av 
a   d raw er  o f  crow ds  th a t  buy.  It  c e rta in ­
ly  h a s  no  equal. 
I f   you  d esire  a   qu ick 
redu ction  sa le   th a t  w ill  clea n   out  your 
odds  an d   ends,  still  lea v in g   a   profit,  w rite 
a t  once. 
B e s t  of 
referen ces. 
L .  E .  V a w te r  &  C o.,  M a ­
com b,  111. 

S u ccess  g u aran teed . 

985

F o r  S a le— S to re   building  an d   a   n e a t, 
clean  
little   s to ck   o f  g ro ceries  and  n o ­
tions.  O ne  o f  th e   b e st  lo ca tio n s  in   C en ­
tra l  M ich ig an   fo r  a   g en era l  sto re.  A d­
dress  N.  H ..  c a re   M ich ig an   T rad esm an .

983

F o r  S a le— U n u su ally   clea n   s to ck   o f  dry 
in v o icin g   ab o u t 
lo c a tio n ;  ra re   op p ortunity. 
Ind.  A ddress  N o.  982,

goods,  sh oes,  g ro ceries, 
$2,500;  good 
D eK alb   co u n ty . 
|  ca re   M ich ig an   T ra d esm a n . 
fo r  v a c a n t 
I  H av e 
is   fo r 
1  sto re s  In  good  tow n s. 
ren t,  w rite :  or,  if   you  w ish   lo ca tio n ,  w e 
E x ­
can   s u it  you.  C la rk ’s 
ch an g e,  G rand  R ap id s.  M ich. 

la rg e   n u m b er  c a lls 

I f   you rs 

B u sin e ss 

982

986

T o   E x c h a n g e — C lear  W e ste rn  

lan d  fo r 
sto ck   o f  g en era l  m erch an d ise.  A ddress 
E.  L .  G andy,  H a y es  C en ter.  N eb.  960

F o r  S ale— A  w hole  o r  o n e -h a lf  in te re st 
in  good  im p lem en t  b u sin ess. 
Som e s to ck  
on  hand  and  h a v e   a g en cy   fo r  som e  o f 
th e  b e st  goods.  R ea so n   fo r  sellin g ,  h ave 
too  m uch  o th e r  b u sin ess.  A ddress  B o x  
367,  K a lk a sk a .  M ich. 

958

H av e  c a sh   cu sto m e r 

fo r  sm all  shoe, 
also   fo r  sm a ll  drug  sto ck .  C la rk ’s  B u s i­
n ess  E x c h a n g e .  G rand  R ap id s.  M ich.  978
W a n ted   P a r tn e r— W ith   ca p ita l,  in  b u t­
te r   and  egg  b u sin ess.  H av e  28  y e a rs ’  e x ­
in   th e   b u sin ess.  A ddress  B o x  
p erien ce 
317,  S io u x   C ity ,  Io w a. 

989
new  
sto re,  15x58  fe e t  inside,  p la te   g la s s   fro n t, 
lig h ts,  s tee l  ceilin g s,  h a rd ­
w ith  p rism  
wood  floors,  cu rta in s,  scre en   doors,  e lec­
tr ic   lig h t  an d   a w n in g   fixtu res,  cou n ter, 
b a sem en t  w ith   to ile t  an d   w a ter  In  sto re, 
in  c ity   o f  2.500.  $150  p er  y e a r  A l.  ,C. 
H uebner,  307  G enesee 
Sag in aw , 
M ich. 

T o   R e n t  fo r  M illin ery— M odern 

a v e., 

969

F o r  R e n t— L a rg e  

sto re   bu ild in g   an d  
b asem en t.  Good  tow n,  fine  lo catio n .  A d­
dress  No.  971,  c a re   M ich ig an   T rad esm an .

971

lan d s 

F o r   S a le— T im b e r 

in   O regon, 
W a sh in g to n   an d   C a lifo rn ia,  in   tr a c ts   to 
su it  b uyer.  A lso  m ill  sites.  E s tim a tin g  
tim b e r  lan d s  a   sp ecia lty .  C ru isin g   done 
a c cu ra te ly   an d   w ith   d isp atch .  L ew is  & 
M ead  T im b e r  Co.,  204  M cK a y   B ld g .,  P o r t­
land,  O re. 

963

F o r  S a le— S to ck   o f  h ard w are  in  on e  of 
th e   b e st  tow ns  in   C e n tra l  M ich ig a n ;  b est 
trad e. 
locatio n   in  th e   tow n,  w ith  la rg e  
A ddress  N o.  921,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s­
m an. 
921

F o r  S a le   o r  T ra d e — A   good  firs t-c la s s, 
th re e -s to ry   b ric k   h o tel  w ith   a ll  m odem  
good 
im p rovem ents.  W ill 
tra d e  
land 
lo cated .  A ddress  M. 
910
W.  M oulton,  B ellev u e,  Iow a. 

if   d esirab ly  

fo r 

F o r   S ale— D ru g   sto ck ,  in v o icin g   ab o u t 
$2,000, 
Ju n c tio n .  N o 
old  sto ck .  A ddress  W .  H .  S m ith ,  G rand 
Ju n c tio n ,  M ich . 

lo cated   a t   G ran d 

996

F o r   S a le— R a re  

ch a n ce.  O ne  o f  only 
tw o  g en eral 
in 
G enesee  coun ty.  W rite   fo r  d escrip tion . 
A ddress  No.  881,  ca re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s­
m an. 

in  b e st  v illag e 

sto re s 

881

F o r   S ale— O ld -establish ed   m e a t  m a rk et 
lo cated   on  b e st  b u sin ess  s tre e t  in  G rand 
R ap ids. 
S tea d y   an d   good  p ay in g   p a t­
ro n age.  R e n t  reaso n ab le.  W ill  sell  cheap  
;  fo r  ca sh   o r  w ill  e x ch a n g e  fo r  re a l  e sta te  
I  o r  o th e r  d esirab le  p rop erty.  A ddress  No. 
974.  c a re   M ich igan   T rad esm an . 

974

T o   R e n t  fo r  Sh oes— M odern  new   sto re, 
j 
17x58  fe e t  inside,  p late  g la ss  fro n t,  w ith 
fixtu res.  W ill  build 
!  lig h t  and  a w n in g  
i  la te s t  sty le   o a k   shoe  sh elv in g.  B a se m en t 
;  h a s  to ile t  and  w a ter  in   sto re. 
In   city  
!  of  2,500,  $240  p er  y ear.  Al.  C.  H uebn er, 
|  307  G en esee  av e.,  S ag in aw ,  M ich. 

970

th e   b a n k  

C ash   fo r  goods!  Old  s to ck   sold— m oney 
in 
T ra d e   boom ed— all  w orry 
gone! 
It  is  done  by  B u eh rm a n n 's  R e g ­
u la tin g   S ales.  1103  S ch iller  B u ild in g,  C h i­
cago.  W rite . 

865

F a rm s   and  c ity   p rop erty   to   exch an g e 
fo r  m e rca n tile   sto ck s.  C la rk ’s  B u sin e ss 
E x ch a n g e ,  G ran d  R ap ids,  M ich. 

988

Good  opening  fo r  dry  goods;  firs t-c la s s  
sto re   to   re n t  In  good  lo catio n .  H .  M.  W il­
liam s.  M ason.  M ich. 

858

F o r  S a le  o r  W ould  E x c h a n g e   fo r  Sm all  ; 
!  F arm   and  C ash — S to re,  sto ck   an d   dw ell- 
;  ing,  ab o u t  $5,000.  A ddress  No.  857,  ca re  
i  M ich igan   T ra d esm a n . 
\ 
fu rn a ce   h e a t.  1 
a c e ta lin e   g a s,  p la te  g la s s   fro n t.  W ill  sell 
o r  ren t.  Good  opening  fo r  g en eral  sto re.  ; 
1 1.oca ted  a t  E lm ira ,  M ich.  A ddress  M. 
F o rd h am   &   Co.,  Sp okan e,  W a sh . 

S to re   B u ilding,  28x133, 

870

85?

F o r  Sale— 420  a c re s   of  cu t-o v e r  h ard - 
|  wood  land,  th re e   m iles  n o rth   o f  T h om p - 
i  sonville.  H ouse  and  b arn   on  p rem ises, 
i  P e re   M a rq u ette  railro ad   ru n s  a c ro ss  one 
i  co rn er  o f  land.  V ery   d esirab le  fo r  sto ck  
1  r a k in g   or  p o ta to  
e x ­
ch an g e  fo r  s to ck   o f  m erch an d ise  e f   an y  
S  kind.  C.  C.  T u x bu ry ,  301  Je ffe rso n   S t.,
! G rand  R ap ids. 

grow ing.  W ill 

835

Good  op ening  fo r  firs t-c la s s   je w e le r  if 
<  ta k en   a t  once.  A ddress  No.  794,  ca re  
M ich ig an   T rad esm an . 

794

F o r  S a le— Sh o e  s to ck   doing  a   bu sin ess 
¡  o f  $15:000  p er  y ear,  in  good  m a n u fa ctu r­
ing  and  railro ad   tow n  in  So u th ern   M ich i­
gan  o f  5,000  population.  B e s t  sto ck   and 
!  tra d e  in  city .  R easo n   fo r  sellin g ,  h ealth , 
j  W ill  ta k e   p a rt  ca sh  • an d   p a rt  b an k ab le 
!  paper  in  p ay m en t.  N o  p rop erty  tra d e  en - 
;  te rtain ed .  A ddress  N o.  811,  c a re   M ich i- 
i g an   T rad esm an . 

811

o f 

F o r  

One 

s to ck  

C en tra lly  

S a le— $1,600 

lo cated   and 

tria l  w ill  prove  how   qu ick   and 
;  w ell  w e  fill  orders  and  how   m uch   m oney 
i  we  can   sav e  you.  T ra d e sm a n   C om pany, 
j  P rin ters.  G rand  R ap ids.
jew e lry , 
! 
fixtu res.  N ew   and  clean  
w a tch es  and 
i  and  in  one  o f  th e   b e st  v illag es  in  C en tral 
I  M ich ig an . 
ren t 
cheap .  R easo n  
fo r  sellin g ,  o th e r  b u sl- 
i n ess  in te re sts  to   look  a fte r.  A ddress  No. 
733.  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d esm a n . 
In 
|  W e  w an t  a   d ealer 
in   ev ery  
!  M ich igan   to   h an d le  our  ow n  m ak e  o f  fu r 
j  c o a ts,  gloves  and  m itte n s. 
fo r 
\  catalo g u es  and  full  p a rticu la rs,  E llsw o rth  
I  &  T h a y e r  M fg.  Co.,  M ilw aukee,  W is.  617
I 
F o r  S ale— N ew   com p lete  lin e  o f  fa n cy  
!  g ro ceries,  fixtu res,  h orse,  d eliv ery   w agon,
|  ro om y  sto re   an d   dw elling  com bined,  w ith  
I  m od em   im p rov em en ts,  good  cem en t  ce l- 
|  la r,  b a m   and  la rg e   lo t  sou th   side  K a la - 
I  m azoo,  $4,500  ca sh .  D oin g   ca sh   bu sin ess 
o f  a b o u t  $550  m on th ly.  Good  reaso n   fo r 
sellin g .  A ddress  N o.  941,  c a re   M ichigan 
T ra d esm a n . 

733
tow n 

Send 

941

PO SITIO N S  W A N TE D .

W a n ted — S tea d y   p o sition   b y   reg istered  
com p eten t. 
re fere n ce s.  A ddress  P h a rm a c ist, 

p h a rm a cist. 
T h orou g h ly  
Good 
ca re   M ich ig an   T rad esm an . 

993

P o sitio n   w an ted  a s   sa lesm a n  

in   dry 
goods  sto re   in  outside  tow n.  H av e  good 
p osition  
in  G rand  R ap id s,  b u t  w ish   to  
g e t  in   c lo ser  touch   w ith   th e   d ry  goods 
b u sin ess.  Am   firs t-c la s s   sig n   w rite r  and 
w indow   trim m er.  A ddress  No.  992,  ca re  
M ich ig an   T ra d e sm a n . 

992

W an ted — E x p erien ced   salesm an   to  c a r ­
ry   a   lin e  of  cro ck ery   on  a   com m ission 
b asis.  A ddress  th e   W m .  B ru n t  P o tte ry
Co..  E a s t  Liverp ool.  O h i o . __________17  t

W an ted — T ra v e lin g  

salesm en   w an tin g 
p rofitable  side  lin es,  one  a rtic le :  no  sa m ­
p les;  no  co m p etition ,  la rg e   com m ission s. 
Only  reliab le  and  exp erien ced   salesm en  
w an ted ; 
required. 
W rite   Geo.  A.  B a y le ,  111  S .  2d  S t..  S t.
Lou is.  Mo.__________________  

re fere n ce s 

firs t-c la s s  

977

R id g e ly -W a lk er  C o.,  w holesale  ta ilo rs, 
Louisville,  K y .,  h ave  op enings  fo r  se v e r­
al 
tra v e lin g   salesm en .  A p p lican ts  'm ust 
be  exp erien ced  
in  m easu rin g   fo r  m en ’s 
m ad e-to -o rd er  g a rm en ts.  A ll  a p p licatio n s 
to  be  accom p an ied  by  re fe re n ce s;  also
full  p a rticu la rs  of  p a st  occupation^_978

W an ted — S a l-sm e n  

to  sell  a s  side  line 
o r  on  com m ission   D illey  Q ueen  W ash er. 
A ddress 
Any  te rrito ry   bu t  M ich igan . 
Lyons  W a sh in g   M ach in e 
C om pany, 
T.yotis.  M ich. 
S a le s m e n — Jo b b e r 's   salesm an ,  an y   te r ­
rito ry ,  can   m ak e  a   n e a t  profit  on  a   lin e 
w hich  is  a   p leasu re  to   h andle  and  reco m ­
m end.  O ffer  m ade  only  to  reg u la r  s a le s ­
m en  fo r  good  jo b b in g   houses.  N ot  a   side 
line,  goods  m u st 
reg u lar 
ch an n els.  D .  M.  S te w a rt  M fg.  Co.,  C h a t- 
to nooga,  T e n n ._________________________940

th rou gh  

658

go 

W an ted — C lothing  salesm an  

tak e 
orders  by  sam p le  fo r  th e   fin est  m erch a n t 
to 
tailo rin g   produced;  good  o p p ortun ity 
grow  
in to  a   splendid  b u sin ess  and  be 
your  own  " b o ss .”  W rite   fo r  full 
in fo r­
m ation.  E .  I,.  M oon,  G en’l  M an ager, 
¡S ta tio n   A.  C olum bus.  O. 

__ _____458

to  

A U C T IO N E E R S   AND  T R A D E R S  

  Co., 

&
i  H.  C   F e rr y  
th e  h u stlin g   a u c ­
S to ck s  closed  out  o r  reduced 
tion eers. 
an yw h ere 
in 
th e   U nited  S ta te s .  N ew  
ideas, 
I  m ethods,  orig in al 
long  exp erien ce,
|  hundreds  of  m erch a n ts  to  re fe r  to.  W e 
h ave  n ev er  failed  
to  p lease.  W rite   fo r 
I  term s,  p a rticu la rs  and  d ates.  1414-16  W a - 
i  b ash  av e.,  C hicago. 
(R e fe ren ce ,  D u n 's 
M ercan tile  A gen cy.) 

872

M I S C E L L A N E O U S .

W an fed — M an  h av in g  som e  know ledge 
I  of  re ta il  lum ber  bu sin ess  to  a c t  a s  y arn  
i  m an.  A ddress  Lum ber,  ca re   M ich igan
|  T rad esm an .  _________________  

W anted'— E x p erien ced   ca b in et  m a k e rs; 
j  stea d y   w ork  a ll  th e  y e a r;  m en  w ith  fam i 
:  lies  p referred .  T h e   H am ilto n   M an u fac-
|  tu rin g   C o.,  T w o  R iv ers.  W is._________998

j  lady 

A  position  open  by  Ja n .  1  fo r  a   fo re - 
fa cto ry .  A ddress  F . 
B o ssen b erg er,  251  G ra tio t  av e.,  D etro it.

in  a   can d y  

_________980

E n clo se  

W an ted — C lerk s  o f  all  kin d s  apply  a t 
;  once. 
self-a d d ressed   envelope 
!  and  $1  co v erin g   .n ecessa ry   exp ense.  T h e  
i  G lobe  Em p lo y m en t  &  A gen cy  Co.,  C ad il­
94«
lac.  M ich. 
to 
W an ted — P h a rm a c ist, 
!  do  m a n u fa ctu rin g   and 
sto ck - 
!  keeper.  N eed  n ot  b e  reg istered   it  h as 
i  had  good  exp erien ce.  A ddress  No.  991, 
ca re   M ich igan   T ra d esm a n . 

 
co m p eten t 
a  

good 

991

SALES! 

SALES! 

SALES!

M O N E Y   in  place of your goods by the

O’Neill  New  Idea  Clearing  Sales
W e  give  the 
sale  o u r   per­
sonal  attention 
in  vour  store, 
e ith e r   by  our 
special sale plan 
or by the auction 
plan, whichever 
you  a sk   fo r. 
Sales on a com­
mission  or  sal­
ary.  Write  to­
day for full  par­
ticulars,  terms, 
etc.  W  e are the
in  the
oldest 
business.  Hundreds of  names  of  merchants  fur­
nished.

____________________ 

C. C. O’NEILL  &  c o .

1103-4 Star Bldg., 3 5 6   Dearborn  5 t.a CHIC AGO

18

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J  New  York  Market  J

Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

S p ecia l  C orresp ond ence.

New  York,  Dec.  19— Jobbers  and 
roasters  of  coffee  have  shown  more 
interest  in  the  situation  than  they  did 
last  week,  but  there  is  still  room  for 
improvement.  The  speculative  trade | 
has  been  so  active  and  advances  have 
been  so  rapid  “on  paper”  that  legiti­
mate  traders  are  exercising  a  degree 
of  conservatism.  Reports  from  Bra- | 
zil  and  Europe  are  both  indicative  of  1 
an  upward  trend  to  prices  and  the 
undertone  is  in  favor  of  the  seller. 
At  the  close  No.  7  is  worth  6%c.  In j 
store  and  afloat  there  are  2,952,307 
bags,  against  2,637,458  bags  during | 
the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  grades 
of  coffee,  in  sympathy  with  Brazil | 
sorts,  are  well  sustained  and  with  | 
offerings  not  overabundant  and 
a 
pretty  good  demand  the  situation  is 
sellers.  East 
hopeful 
India  | 
for 
steady  and  without j 
growths  are 
change.

There  is  no  change  in  the  sugar 
market  unless  it  is  that  even 
less 
business  has been  done  this week than 
last.  No  one  seems  to  think  there 

will  be  any  change  in  quotations  for J 

especially 

the  present,  and  there  is  time  enough  1 
to  worry  about  1904  when  it  arrives.
The  tea  trade  is  quiet  and  this 
situation  causes  no  surprise.  With 
the  new  year  it  is  thought  matters 
will  take  a  turn, 
after 
stock-taking  has  been  completed.  No 
change  is  to  be  noted  in  quotations.
There  is  a  very  limited  demand  for 
rice,  and  orders  are  for  small  lots, 
simply  to  keep  enough  on  hand 
to 
last  from  week  to  week.  Holders, 
however,  expect  nothing  else  and  are 
not  disappointed.  Supplies  are  not 
overabundant  and  sales  made  are at 
full  quotations.  Foreign  grades  are 
well  held.

There  is  nothing  whatever  of  in­
terest  to  be  found  in  the  spice  mar­
ket.  Matters  are  simply  dragging 
along  and  they  will  doubtless  re­
main  in  this  state  for  six  weeks  to 
come.  Prices  are  very  firm  on  pep­
per  and  cloves  and,  in  fact,  the  whole 
line  is  well  sustained  at  last  week’s 
rates.

The  molasses  market  is  decidedly 
firm  and  holders  are  insisting  on 
obtaining  full  value.  Offerings  are 
light  and  as  time  passes  it  is  evident 
the  crop  will  be  decidedly  short.

In  canned  goods  there  is  the  u-ual 
seasonal  lull.  Salmon  are  not  want­
ed  and  are  about  the  dullest  thing  on 
the  list,  while  corn  of  good  quality 
is  quickly  snapped  up  at  good  figures 
Some  Wisconsin  corn  has  changed 
hands  at  $1.20  and  some  New  York 
seconds  at  $1.05.  Tomatoes  are  very 
dull  and  yet  holders  seem  to  think 
there  will  be  something  better  farth­
er  on  and  that  present  prices  are  low 
enough.

Dried  fruits  have  been  quiet  save 
for  some  trade  in  fancy  stock  for  ta­
ble  use  and  prices  are  without  no­
ticeable  change.

There  is  a  moderate  supply  of  fan­
cy  creamery  butter  and  with  a  pretty

good  demand  the  quotation  of  24c  is 
about  correct,  although  possibly  a 
trifle  more  has  been  obtained  for 
few 
strictly  gilt-edge  goods  in  a 
cases.  Seconds 
i 8 @ 2 3 c ; 
imitation  creamery,  quiet  and  work­
ing  out  at  about 
factory 
stock,  steady  within  a  range  of  I 5 @
16c,  the  latter  for  held  stock;  reno­
vated,  I5@i9c.

firsts, 

i 8@ I 9 c ; 

to 

are 

There  is  no  change  whatever  in 
the  cheese  market.  Quietude  prevails 
and  dealers  look  for  this  state  of 
several  weeks.  Quota­
affairs  for 
tions 
w|ithout 
change,  small  size,  full  cream  work­
ing  out  at  12c.

practically 

The  egg  market  retains  its  strength 
and  near-by  stock 
is  quoted  from 
42@45c;  extra  fresh-gathered  West- 
ern  stock,  36c;  firsts,  33@34c;  sec­
onds,  30@32c;  candled,  26@27c;  re­
frigerator,  25c  through  every  fraction 
to  31c,  and  limed  stock,  24@26c.

Merry  Christmas  to  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  and  all  connected  with 
it. 
It  grows  in  volume  all  the  time 
and  is  a  paper  that  no  Michigan  re­
tailer  can  afford  to  be  without.  May 
its  shadow  never  be  less.

The  Mission  of  the  Trade  Journal.
Trade  journals  fill  a  place  of  their 
own.  They are published for  the ben­
efit  of  business  men,  retail  merchants 
and  storekeepers  particularly.  This 
State  boasts  of  its  Michigan  Trades­
man,  published  at  Grand  Rapids. 
Its 
articles,  hints  and  suggestions  contain 
matters  of  peculiar  interest  to  every 
branch  of  trade,  and  much  of it  forms 
interesting  reading  for  all  who  peruse 
its  columns.  The  wealth  of  its  ad­
vertising  patronage  shows  how  high­
ly  it  is  regarded  by  manufacturers 
and  wholesalers. 
It  is  to  be  found 
j  on  the  desk  of  every intelligent dealer 
I  in  the  State;  not  one  of  its  subscrib­
ers  would  be  without  it.

The  Tradesman  Company  has  a 
large  and  perfect  printing  establish­
ment  and  does  an  immense  business. 
Its  facilities  for  high  grade  work 
are  ample;  its  successes  are  rcored 
in  specialties— engraving,  the  making 
of cuts,  etc.— and  along wide  commer­
cial  lines.  The  Enterprise  has  had 
I  extensive  dealings  with  the  house and 
esteems  the  Tradesman  Company  as 
|  being  just  all  right.— St.  Ignace  En­
terprise.

Clock  Plant.

The 

clock  plant  is  a  native  of 
|  Borneo,  and  in  that  country  even  it 
is  said  to  be  rare.  The  plant  derives 
|  its  name  from  its  peculiar  habits,
|  which  are  known  to  but  few  who 
|  have  not  studied  the  plant  from  a 
I  scientific  standpoint.  The  plant  has 
;  leaves  of  two  sizes,  one  of  which 
acts  in  the  capacity  of  a  minute hand;
I  keeps  moving  until  4  o’clock  in  the 
j  afternoon,  and  the  other  keeps  going 
j  until  morning.  The  larger 
leaves 
| act  as  the  hour  hands.  Starting  in 
|  a  position  when  all  the 
lie 
I  close  to  the  stem,  with  the  points 
|  hanging  down,  they  rise  gradually 
I  until  they  turn  toward  the  top,  and 
I  then  drop  to  their  former  position.
|  It  takes  the  smaller  leaves  about one 
I minute  to  go  through  the  perform- 
!  ance,  and  the  longer  leaves  just  about 
j an hour.

leaves 

Women  Who  Are  Slow  To  Pay. 
Credit  at  the  retail  stores  is  one  of 
the  prettiest  toys  that  some  women 
have  to  play  with.

Any  single  woman  of  moderate 
means,  or  any  married  woman  whose 
husband  has  the  reputation  of  being 
good  pay,  easily  obtains  such  credit. 
Once  obtained,  the  thing  acts  like 
magic.  Whatever  favors  the  store 
has  to  grant  are  hers  for  the  asking. 
Goods  worth  hundreds  of  dollars  are 
sent  to  her  on  approval,  her  checks 
are  cashed;  she  may,  if  she  will,  call 
a  carriage  and  have  the  fare  charged 
to  her  account  just  as  if  the  store 
were  her  club.

It  is  true  that  the  retailer,  while 
glad  to  grant  credit  to  any  person 
who  seems  worthy  of  it,  is  never 
quite  sure  what  will  happen  when 
the  name  of  a  woman  goes  on  his 
books.  The  trouble  is  not  that  wom­
en  are  less  likely  to  pay  their  debts 
than  men  but  that  they  are  less  busi­
nesslike.

Some  of  them,  indeed,  seem  inca­
pable  of  learning  the  ordinary  ethics 
of  business. 
It  is  said  at  the  stores 
that  the  average  woman  does  not 
easily  grasp  the  significance  of  the 
phrase  “monthly  settlements”  usual­
ly  placed  on  bills. 
She  does  not 
realize 
really 
wishes,  as  far  as  possible,  to  limit 
ordinary  credits  to  thirty  days.

the  merchant 

that 

Women  who  have  had  credit  for 
half  a  lifetime  will  disregard  this  lit­
tle  warning  until  credit  is  withdrawn. 
The  withdrawal  of  credit,  however, 
is  not  ordinarily  resorted  to  unless 
the  delinquent  is  a  small  purchaser 
or  an  object  of  real  suspicion  to  the 
store.

When  the  threat  of  withdrawal 
comes,  even  the  most  persistent  de­
linquent  is  angry  and  surprised.  Her 
reply  is  either  a  grieved  letter  of 
protest  or  a  dignified  note  announc­
ing  that  she  is  forever  done  with 
the  house.

Many  women  with  credit  and per­
fectly  able  to  pay  their  debts  permit 
bills  to  run  for  a  year  or  more. 
If 
such  customers  are  regarded  as  safe, 
and  purchase 
largely,  there  is  no 
threat  to  withdraw  credit.

There  are  the  usual  hints,  an  un­
itemized  account  with  the  words  “to 
bill  rendered,”  or  a  line  indicating 
the  date  of  the  earliest  credit,  or  a 
word  from  the  book-keeper  saying 
that  it  is  desirable  to  get  in  all  ac­
counts  as  soon  as  possible  in  order 
to  facilitate  the  settlement  of 
the 
year.  There  are  women  of  means who 
disregard  all  these  hints.

Then,  perhaps,  a  bill  is  sent  with 
interest  added  to  the  amount.  Some 
women  pay  both  bill  and  interest. 
More  often,  however,  the  check  is 
for  the  amount  of  the  bill  only. 
If 
this  hint  is  disregarded,  the  bill  is 
likely  to  be  sent  to  the  husband.

This  piece  of  strategy  almost  inva­
riably  brings  an  angry  note  from  the 
wife  protesting  that  had  she  suspect­
ed  the  matter  to  be  pressing  she 
would  have  paid  long  before.

In  some  cases,  when  a  bill  of  hun­
dreds  of  thousands  has  been  paid  af­
ter  such  an  incident,  the  lady  begins 
at  once  to  buy  again  on  credit,  and 
within  the  next  twelve-month  forces

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

the  store  to resort to exactly the  same 
measures.  She  is  again  angry  and 
surprised,  again  pays,  and  once  more 
begins  her  career  of  credit.

Such  conduct  on  the  part  of  a 
woman  able  to  pay  and  sure  in  the 
end  to  do  so  produces  no  change  in 
the  habitual  courtesy  of  the  sales­
men.  The  day  after  the  termination 
of  such  an  incident  she  may  have 
hundreds  of  dollars’  worth  of  goods 
sent  home  on  approval,  or  demand 
any  one  of  the  dozen  forms  of  fav­
or  that  the  house  is  accustomed  to 
show  to  its  credit  customers.

Small  losses  come  to  the  house be­
cause  of  such  women,  but  their  pecu­
liarities  are  trying  to  the  ordinarily 
prompt  man  of  business.— New  York 
Sun.

A   Use  for  Long  Lace  Scarfs.
The  old,  long  lace  scarfs  can  be 
utilized  beautifully  for  the  new  ruf­
fle.  This  ruffle,  or  pelerine,  is  cut 
wide  on  the  shoulders,  forming  al­
most  a  cape,  the  foundation  being 
generally  of  taffeta  or  glace.  On  this 
is  placed  an  edging  of  chenille  or 
feather  trimming;  then  comes another 
large,  plaited 
ruffle  of  accordion 
plaited  chiffon  to  tone  with  the  taffe­
ta,  and  over  this  a  scarf  of  real  lace, 
caught  on  both  shoulders  and  at the 
waist  with  a  fantastic  clasp  or  buc­
kle.  The  further  addition  of  a  soft 
colored  ribbon  tie  may  be  added. 
Now  this  makes  a  really  smart  fin­
ish  to  a  dainty  summer  gown. 
It  is 
lightning  touches  of  this  sort  that 
are  such  necessary  additions  to  one’s 
wardrobe.

No  man  moves  this  world  until 

he  is  profoundly  moved  himself.

TOO   L A T E   TO   CLASSIFY.

BU SIN E SS  CH A N C E S.

a  

W an ted — L o ca tio n   fo r 

c la ss 
d ressm ak er.  A ddress  No.  21,  c a re   M ich -
Igan  T rad esm an .________________________ 21

firs t 

th ird  

F o r  R e n t— S p a ce   fo r  c a rp e ts   an d   ru g s 
on 
floor  w ith   fu rn itu re ;  p op u lar- 
p riced   goods;  a lso   p a rt  o f  b a sem en t.  A d­
d ress  K e r r ’s  D ep a rtm e n t  S to re ,  M in n e-
ap olis,  M inn._____________________________ 22

B u sin e ss  O p p ortun ity— Splendid  op p or­
tu n ity   fo r  good  m en  to   g e t  p erm an en t 
p osition  an d  
d e­
p a rtm en t  s to re ;  w a n t  cap ab le  m an  
to 
ta k e   ch a rg e   o f  office  an d   firs t  c la ss   m an  
fo r  clo a k s  an d   s u its;  m u st  h av e  som e 
c a p ita l  an d   good  record .  K e r r ’s  D e- 
p a rtm en t  S to re ,  M inneap olis,  M inn.  23

in   g ro w in g  

in te re st 

SITU A TIO N S  W A N TE D .

P o sitio n   W an ted — A  1  dry  goods  s a le s ­
m an.  a b le  to   do  w indow   trim m in g   and 
card   w ritin g ,  now   open  fo r  p osition .  A d- 
d ress  L .  G.  P a lm er.  R o bin son ,  III.  24 

W a n ted — P o sitio n   in  sh o e  sto re   o r  g e n ­
e ra l 
R e fere n ce s 
fu rn ish ed .  A ddress  N o.  975,  c a re   M ich i­
g an   T rad esm an . 

E x p erien ced . 

sto re . 

975

SA LE SM A N   W A N T E D .

C offee  S a lesm a n   W a n ted ------ W ith   a n
esta b lish ed   tra d e   and  a   good  record ,  to  
an d  
sell  B o sto n   C offees  in 
N o rth w est.  R ep ly   w ith   re fere n ce s,  n a m ­
in g  
P .  O.  B o x , 
_20__
1.919.  B o sto n .  M ass. 

te rrito ry   an d   sa la ry . 

th e   W e st 

FOR  SALE

Department  Store.  First-class  stock 
of new and up to-date  goods.  Clothing, 
shoes, millinery, notions, dry  goods,  ba-‘ 
zaar goods and groceries.  Largest  store 
in county.  A thriving little  city of 3,500 
in  Central  Mich.  Good  railroad  town. 
Stock  and  fixtures  will  invoice  about 
$15,000.  Our  own  building,  will  lease 
for  any  term.  Began  business  eight 
years ago with  everything  new.  Build­
ing  82x140 ft   Equipped  with  lighting 
plant  Did $102,000  business  last year; 
can be increased.  Only cash proposition 
will be considered.  Have other business 
which demands  our  whole  attention  or 
would not sell.  Address  H.  J.  Vermeu­
len, Alma, Mich.

