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8.  E ditorial.
9.  G row th  o f G ruft.
15.  M uking  B ottles.
13.  A rt  of Singing.
14.  D ry  Goods.
16.  C lothing.
17.  H igh  A rt.
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88.  W om en's W orld.
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33.  L ack o f Business.
34.  D raw ing T rade.
36.  A boriginal H andicrafts.
37.  H ardw are P rice C urrent.
38.  B a tte r an d  Eggs.
39.  New Y ork M arket.
40.  C om m ercial Travelers.
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44.  G rocery P rice C urrent.
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regard 
the 

L E A P  Y E A R   POSSIBILITIES^
Presidential  election  years  are, or­
dinarily,  considered  with  caution and 
reserve  by  business  men,  but  with 
Leap  Year  as  a  coincident  antidote, 
the  record  for  1904  may  prove  an ex­
ception  to  the  rule.  When  the  la­
dies  have  an  opportunity  they  are 
much  given  to  doing  things  and  this 
fact,  coupled  with  Mr.  Roosevelt’s 
to 
well  known  attitude  in 
marriage,  may  wipe  out 
semi 
stagnation  that  comes  with  election­
eering  and  the  strenuosity  of  parti­
sanship.  Fancy  the  stirring  up,  the 
revivifying  effect  upon  all  kinds  of 
business,  should  the  ladies  who  have 
“intentions”  go  upon  the  stump  for 
the  candidates  who  meet  their  ideas 
of  manhood.  T ry  to  picture  how  ex­
travagant 
spell-binders 
might  become  and  may  cause  others 
to  become,  in  pleading  the  causes  of 
their  respective  candidates.  Think 
of  the  reckless  but  perfectly  legiti­
mate  use  of  money  that  might  be 
indulged  in  by  women  of  material 
wealth  who  have  received  encourag­
ing  replies  based  upon  a  candidate's 
success  at  the  polls.

opposing 

Then,  too,  President  Roosevelt  is 
a  resourceful  man  and  has  hordes of 
strong,  steadfast  and  desirable  men 
as  his  friends  and  admirers,  ready  to
do  his  bidding  to  the  last  ditch. 
In­
deed,  they may not wait  for  the  word

G A S

E l e c t r ic   Lig h t  &Tr a c t io n

B o n d s

EDWARD M.DEANE Sc CO.

B a n k e r s

Second Floor. Michigan Trust  Building 

G r a n d   Ra p i d s .M ic h ig a n

GRAND  RAPIDS.  WEDNESDAY.  FEBRUARY  3.  1904

at  his  hands,  but,  appreciating  the J 

situation,  may  throw  themselves  in­
to  the  market  en  masse,  each  with  a 
price  that  will  be  insignificant  in the 
eyes  of  many  of  the  Leap  Year  la­
dies,  all  of  whom  are  devoted 
in 
their  admiration  for  our  President.

And  what  would  that  do  for  busi­

ness?

to 

GENERAL  TRAD E  REVIEW . 
There  is  probably  less  of  the  pro­
verbial  repetition  o f  history  in 
the 
field  of  speculation  than  in  any  other 
line  of  activity.  Naturally,  the  fact 
that  it  is  the  unexpected  that  happens 
is  necessary  to  afford  the. uncertainty 
which  actuates  and  provokes the  spec­
ulative  spirit.  As  market  conditions 
seem  to  settle  down,  it  is  natural  for 
operators  to  begin  to  cry  another 
boom,  expecting  the  public 
re­
spond  as  under  similar  apparent  con­
ditions  in  the  past;  but  this  cry  fails 
to  bring  the  same  response.  The 
consequence  is  another  turn  down­
ward,  in  which  much  of  the  gain  of 
preceding  days  is  lost.  This,  how­
ever,  only  affects  a  few  leaders  in 
speculation;  but  it  causes  a  delay 
along  all  lines.  The  greatest  feeling 
of  uncertainty  is  caused  by  the  posi­
tion  of  cotton  and  wheat,  the  former 
having  passed  the  16  cent  mark  and 
the  latter  being  far  above  apparent 
parity.  Both  staples  at  present  prices 1 
are  adding  millions  to  the  wealth  of 
the  country  and  this  is  going  into the 
hands  of  the  growers  in  the  South 
and  West  to  an  extent  which  prom­
ises  well  for  future  buying  of  staples 
and  luxuries.

the 

Stamp  and  coin  collectors  are  on 
the  alert  for  the  forthcoming  issue 
of  stamps  from  the  new  Republic  of 
Panama. 
It  is  understood  that  the 
Panama  Government  is  now  taking 
steps  in  that  direction,  so  that  those 
who  deal  in  such  merchandise  may 
soon  be  in  a  position  to  procure  both 
stamps  and  coins  of 
Isthmian 
Government.  The  Isthmians,  it  will 
be  remembered,  rebelled  once  before 
— that  is to  say, nearly a century ago— 
and  remained  independent  for  about 
eight  months;  but  so  far  as  can  be 
ascertained,  they  did  not  at  the  time 
issue  either  stamps  or  coins.  What 
the  new  issue  will  be 
is  not 
known,  but  in  all  probability  some  of 
the  stamps  will  bear  miniature  pic­
tures  of  canal  scenes,  while  the  rest 
will  of  course  bear  the  old  familiar 
Goddess  of  Liberty,  a  deity  who  is  a 
great  favorite  with  all  the  American 
Republics,  and  whose 
is 
found  on  the  stamps  and  coins  of 
every  republic  from  our  own  to  that 
of  Buenos  Ayres.

likeness 

like 

A  woman  who  creates  and  sustains 
a  home,  and  under  whose  hands  chil­
dren  grow  up  to  be  strong  and  pure 
men  and  women,  is  a  creator  second 
only  to  God.

Number  1063

PLEA  FOR  FAIRNESS.

The  appeal  signed  by  3,333  reputa­
ble  citizens  of  Grand  Rapids,  pre­
sented  at  the  Common  Council  Mon­
day  evening,  asking  that  the  unfair 
and  illegal  discrimination  against in­
dependent  workingmen  be  rescinded, 
met  with  exactly  the  reception  it  was 
expected  it  would.  Nineteen  of  the 
twenty-three  aldermen  present  voted 
to  postpone  action  on  the  matter, 
knowing  that  in  so  doing  they  were 
violating  their  oaths  and  setting  at 
variance  the  fundamental  law  of  the 
land  which  guarantees  to  every  citi­
zen  the  right  to  work  without  let 
or  hindrance.  The  matter  will  not 
he  permitted  to  rest,  because  the  un­
the  sel­
dercurrent  of  opposition  to 
fishness  and  hoggishness  of 
the 
unions  is  becoming  so  strong  in  this 
community  that  it  will  ultimately 
sweep  away  every  vestige  of  the  ty­
ranny  of  slave  (union)  labor.

In  order  that  those  who  are  enlist­
ed  in  the  war  for  fairness  may  know 
which  aldermen  will  undertake 
to 
block  the  wheels  of  progress, 
the  v 
Tradesman  reproduces  herewith  the 
names  of  those  who  cowardly  voted 
to  postpone  action  on  the  request  to 
eliminate  the  unfair  resolutions:

Averill,  Baldwin,  Beck,  Bommelje, 
Connelly,  Dodge,  Doran,  Droste, 
Gallmeyer,  Hensler,  Herrmann, 
Johnson,  Mol,  Renihan,  Roberts, 
Struik,  Swarthout,  Tilma,  White.

A  Hamburg  fishing  company  has 
sent  one  of  its  cold-storage  steamers 
to  Eastern  Siberia  to  take  in  a  cargo 
of  salmon.  Another  Hamburg  com­
pany  has  opened  a  depot  and  packing 
house  at  Matarieh-Menzaleh,  Egypt, 
for  the  curing  and  shipping  of  eels 
caught  in  the  Nile and affluents, which 
are  brought  to  Hamburg  by  way  of 
Trieste.

Can  a  man  be  a  good  Christian  if 
he  preserves  eggs  during  the  sum­
mer  to  sell  in  winter  in  a  “strictly- 
fresh  egg”  market?  We  are  sorry 
to  know  that  this  is  being  done  by 
some  people  who  otherwise  are  good.
Often  the  greatest  kindness  one 
can  show  another  is  to  let  him  feel 
that  he  has  been  of  real  service  to 
us,  or  given  something  that  he  high­
ly  prized.  To  a  timid,  self-distrust­
ing  soul  this  is  a  real  benefit.

Even  the  wintry  days  have  their 
value.  Now  the  earth  is  resting  and 
getting  ready  for  the  work  of  to­
morrow.  Even  the  world  needs 
to 
drop  off  the  harness  and  stop  work 
sometimes.

A  woman  is  never  really  prostrated 
to 

with  grief  unless  she  is  unable 
consult  her  dressmaker.

Acting  is  supposed  to  be  a  pro­
fession,  but  sometimes  it  is  merely 
a  walk  in  life.

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MICHIGAN  TR A DESM AN

It  was 

Easier  To  Find  a  Leak  Than  Stop It.  i 
W ritten  for  th e  Tradesm an.
There  wasn’t  any  fault  to  find  with j 
extensive 
the  business. 
enough  and  it  was  profitable  enough 
and  there  were  no  signs  near  or  re-  j 
mote  of  its  being  anything  else,  and i 
yet  as  he  closed  the  books  after  a 
long  and  thorough  examination 
it 
was  evident  that  Bedwell,  the, senior 
member,  was  dissatisfied.

“Well,  according  to  the  books,  we 
are  flourishing;  but  it  look  to  me 
like  the  yearly  returns  on  the  old 
farm— a  mighty  big  lot  of  work  and 
a  mighty  little  money  to  show  for 
it. 
I  can’t  understand  it.  There  is 
not  a  single  department  that  has 
signs  of  weakness.  That  man  War­
ner  has  doubled  up,  as  he  said  he 
would.  There  is  an  increase  of  sales 
all  along  the  line.  The  business 
is 
fat  and  flourishing  and—well,  there 
ought  to  be  twice  the  returns  and 
I  don’t  find  ’em— I  just  don’t  find 
’em. 

I  guess  I’ll  watch  and  wait.” 

When  Simon  Bedwell  came  to  that 
conclusion  there  never  was  any  fuss 
or  trouble;  but  somehow  there  was 
a  spirit  of  unrest  in  the  atmosphere. 
It  was  so  now.  The  whole  establish­
ment  became  uneasy  without  appar­
ent  cause. 
It  was  observed  that  the 
“old  man”  was  getting  down  earlier 
in  the  morning  and  that  he  wasn’t 
in  the  front  office  all  the  time.  As 
the  wit  of  the  force  said  one  day: 
“If  you  go  down  into  the  basement 
he  is  there;  if  you  climb  up  into  the 
attic he is  there;  if you  take  the wings 
of  the  morning  and  fly  into  the  utter­
most  parts  of  the  shebang  even  there

will  you  find  him  prying  and  peering 
and  asking  more  home  questions  to 
the  square  inch  than  a  fellow  can 
answer  in  a  week.” 
It  was  even  so. 
With  that  little  diary  of  his  he  went 
around  from  morning  until  night  and 
it  looked  much  as  if  he  was  taking 
an  account  of  stock  for  himself  and 
for  his  own  particular  benefit.  Noth­
ing  escaped  him  and  when  he  got 
through  with  a  division  or  a  subdi­
vision  he  sat  down  and  seemed 
to 
study  it  as  if  right  there  was  what 
he  had  hunted  for  and  right  there 
must  the  momentous  matter  be  set­
tled  at  once  and  for  all  time.

The  thing  went  on  in  that  slow, 
methodical  way  for  a  month  and  then 
he  had a  “spread out” with  the  others. 
This  was  what  he  said: 
“I’ve  been 
looking  things  over,  as  both  of  you 
know,  to  see  if  I  can 
find  places 
where  in  my judgment  we  can  lessen 
a  leak  if  we  can’t  wholly  stop  it.  I 
have  made  comments  as  I  saw  this 
or  that  which  didn’t  exactly  suit  me 
and  now  I  want  to  talk  things  over.
“Without  knowing  it,  from  attic to 
basement,  there  is  a  tendency  to  put 
things  off  until  a  better  time,  which 
never  comes. 
crockery 
corner  down  in  the  northwest  corner 
of  the  basement  is  a  point  in  hand. 
It  isn’t  brilliantly  lighted  and 
so 
there  is  no  special  inducement  for 
Beynon  to  make  it  attractive  down 
there,  and  he  hasn’t. 
It’s  dark  and 
dirty,  and  while  the  goods  are  not 
the  costliest  they  are  by  no  means 
the  worst.  The  amount  of 
sales 
compares  favorably with more  preten- 
I  fious  departments, but the place  needs

Beynon’s 

looking  after.  While  I  was  down 
there  a  well-to-do  woman  was  ask­
ing  for  some  kitchen  table  ware  and 
Beynon’s  efforts  to  hide  and  cover 
up  the  demoralized 
condition  of 
things  would  have  been  amusing  had 
it  not  been  a  pretty  important  ques­
tion  of  profit  and  loss— loss  in  this 
instance,  for  she  was  one  of  the  out­
spoken  sort  and  candidly  said  she 
wouldn’t  buy  such  dirty  goods!  That 
happened  a  week  ago  and  Beynon 
hasn’t  had  time  to  clean  out  down 
there  yet  and  he  won’t  until  he  is 
forced  to  do  it.

“I’ve  been  watching  with  consider­
able  interest  that  little  Miss  Fay  at 
the  lace  counter.  She’s  pretty  as  a 
bird  and  she  resembles  one,  a  re­
semblance  which,  I  thoroughly  be­
lieve,  adds  largely  to  her  daily  sales, 
but unless  somebody takes  that young 
woman  in  hand  she  is  going  to  make 
a  wreck  of  the  lace  counter. 
I  gave 
the  better  part  of  a  day  to  her  habits 
and  methods  and  am  forced  to  say 
they  must  be  changed  or  she  must. 
Lace  is  an  article  that  must  be  nice­
ly  kept  and  carefully  handled— a  fact 
that  Miss  Fay  ought  to  be  familiar 
with,  but  which  she  certainly  does 
not  put  into  practice.  From  nine 
o’clock  until  five  one  Wednesday  the 
costliest  goods  we  have  in  the  store 
were  piled  upon  her  counter  until 
it  looked  for  all  the  world  like  a 
bargain  counter  at  the  close  of  a 
bargain  day. 
It  was  a  few  days  be­
fore  the  Van  Valkinburgh  wedding 
and  Mrs.  De  Gray  was  after  a  costly 
knick-knack  which  Miss  Fay  knew 
we  had,  but  which  she  couldn’t  find;

and  when  the  bird  began  to  fear  she 
was  going  to  lose  her  customer  she 
became  frantic  and  the  way she  plow­
ed  through  that  delicate  lace  was  a 
caution. 
It  was  a  wonder  the  whole 
was  not  ruined  in  a  lump.

“Now, 

then,  one  would  have 
thought  that  of  all  women  in 
the 
world  Miss  Fay  would  be  the  one 
to  appreciate  the  value  of  the  goods 
and  delight  in  caring  for  them  after­
wards.  Not  she.  Trade  with  her 
let  up  about  five  and  when  six  o’clock 
came  around  there  on  the  counter 
still  lay  the  goods.  Then  no  time 
was  to  be  lost  and  opening  the  big 
drawers  immediately  under  the  coun­
ter  she  just  scooped  the  lace  into 
them.  They  may  be  lying  there  now 
for  anything  to  the  contrary  that  I 
know.  One  of  these  days  some  of 
that  rumpled  lace  will  reach  the  bar­
gain  counter  and  some  woman  who 
knows  a  good  thing  when  she  sees 
it  will  be  gragging  over  paying  for 
some  genuine 
lace  something 
less 
than  a  third  of  what  it’s  worth.

“That  man  Hoxie  who  is  trying  to 
run  the  calico  counter  is  running  it 
into  the  ground.  Dirt  is  his  trouble. 
There’s  no  need  of  asking  him  in 
the  morning  if  he’s  used  any  partic­
ular  kind  of  soap,  for  he  hasn’t.  He 
may  use  a  sample  for  perfume— you 
can  smell  him  from  afar!— but  in 
no  other  way  does  he  suggest  an  ac­
quaintance  with  that  toilet  essential. 
The  goods  he  sells,  or  tries  to  sell,
1  are  not  costly,  but  the  profit  gained 
at  the  calico  counter  is  not  to  be 
laughed  at  when  taken  at  its  best. 
That  man’s  goods  are  never  at  their

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best.  They  are  mussed  the  first  day 
he  gets 
them  and  deterioration 
promptly  sets  in.  After  the  mussing 
comes  the 
contact  of  unwashed 
hands,  and  that with  the  careless han­
dling  of  the  goods  soon  does 
the 
I  honored  Hoxie  with  my 
business. 
presence  one  evening  on 
the  ap­
proach  of  six  o’clock,  and  the  way 
that  fellow  crowded  and 
jammed 
piece  after  piece  into  drawers  and 
boxes  too  small  for  them  convinced 
me  that  the  bargain  counter  would 
receive  abundant  contributions  from 
Hoxie,  a  prediction  that  was  verified 
on  the  next  bargain  day.

and 

“Now,  gentlemen,  I  need  not  go 
on  with  this.  These  instances  are 
samples  of  what  is  going  on  all  over 
this  house.  We  are  the  victims  of 
mismanagement 
everlasting 
waste.  There isn’t a man  in  the  force 
who  is  not  affected  by  it  and  who  is 
not  giving  way  to  an  influence  that 
will  take  us  off  our  feet  if  it  isn’t 
counteracted  at  once.  Now  is  the 
time  to  act  and  the  screws  have  got 
to  be  turned  in  the  morning.  The 
charge  that  can  be  made  all  along 
the  line  is  simply  a  neglect  of  duty. 
There  is  to  be  no  more  putting  off 
until  to-morrow  what  ought  to  be 
done  to-day  and  the  man  who  does 
that  after  being  warned  goes.  Hoxie 
goes  anyway.  Beynon  must  have  a 
chance. 
If  he  makes  the  most  of  it, 
well;  if  not,  goodbye,  Beynon!  Miss 
Fay,  I’m  sure,  only  needs  a  word  of 
caution;  but  if  she  doesn’t  learn  how 
to  handle  lace,  then  that  is  her  weak­
ness  and  that’s  all  there  is  to  it.  We 
must  to  a  man  come  down  to  the 
old-fashioned  fact  that  ‘a  penny saved 
is  a  penny  earned,’  and  that  ‘a  penny 
saved  in  handling  and 
for 
goods  is  of  even  greater  value  than 
the  cash  penny  that  is  saved  in  the 
ledger  expense  account” ’— a  state­
ment  that  that  same  house  verified 
when  with  the  same  expense  it  real­
ized  more  than  double  that  last year’s 
returns.  Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

caring 

Best  Bread  is  Not die  Graham.
Another  tradition 

long  prevalent 
throughout  the  world  and  fostered 
by  physicians  for  a  century  past  has 
been  upset.  The  United  States  de­
partment  of  agriculture  has  been con­
ducting  experiments  which  prove that 
the  gluten  and  other  nutriments  in 
graham  bread  are  less  completely di­
gested  than  the  same  nutrients 
in 
white bread, the  bran  and  other wheat 
offals  in  the  graham  flour  lessening 
its  digestibility.  This  conclusion has 
been  reached  from  a  series  of  com­
parative  digestion  trials  covering  a 
period  of  six  years.  A   number  of 
men  in  sound  health  some  of  whom 
were  workingmen,  others  were  stu-

dents,  men  of  both  sedentary  and  ac­
tive  habits  being 
the 
trials.

included 

in 

the 

A  teamster,  a  college  athlete,  a 
naturally  lazy  fellow  and  both  corpu­
lent  and  lean  men  were  subjects  of 
experiment. 
In  one  set  of  tests  the 
men  were  fed  for  several  days  upon 
graham  bread  and  milk.  Then  white 
bread  was  substituted  for  the  graham 
and  the  same  number  of  days  the  ra­
tions  consisted  of  white  breadand 
tions  were  of  white  bread  and  milk. 
All  of 
food  consumed  was 
weighed  and  samples  were  analyzed, 
as  were  all  the  waste  products  from 
the  body.  The  graham  and  the  white 
flours  were  milled  from  the  same  lot 
of  wheat.  The  conclusion  reached  is 
briefly  stated  as  follows:  “According 
to  the  chemical  analysis  of  graham, 
entire  wheat  and 
standard  patent 
flours  milled  from  the  same  lot  of 
hard  Scotch  Fife  wheat,  the  graham 
flour  contained  the  highest  and  the 
patent  the  lowest  percentage  of  to­
tal  protein  (glutinous  matter).

the  patent 

“But,  according  to  the  results  of 
digestion  experiments  with 
these 
flours,  the  proportions  of  digestible 
or  available  protein  and  available 
energy  in 
flour  were 
larger  than  in  either  the  entire  wheat 
or  the  graham  flour.  The  lower  di­
gestibility  of  the  protein  in  the  gra­
ham  flours  is  due  to  the  fact  that  in 
both  of  these  a  considerable  portion 
of  the  protein  is  contained  in  the 
coarser  particles  (bran),  and  so  re­
sists  the  action  of  the  digestive  juices 
and  escapes  digestion.  Thus,  while 
there  actually  may  be  more  protein, 
in  a  given  amount  of  graham  or  en­
tire  wheat  flour  than  in 
same 
weight  of  patent  flour  from  the  same 
wheat,  the  body  obtains  less  of  the 
protein  and  energy  from  the  coarse 
flour  than  it  does  from  the  fine,  be­
cause,  although  the  including  of the 
bran  and  germ  increases  the  percent­
age  of  protein,  it  decreases  the  di­
gestibility.”

the 

Those  who  really  enjoy  graham 
bread  and  find  that  it  agrees  with 
them  should  continue  its  use.  The 
beneficial  results  arise  not  from  the 
increased  nutriments  secured  from 
the  food,  but  from  the  mechanical 
action  of  the  food.

Not  on  the  Grand  Jury.

Here  is  the  way  a  Benton  county, 
Mo.,  man  confessed  at  a  revival:  He 
had  been  pressed  to  repent,  and  fin­
ally  got  up  and  said:  “Dear  friends, 
I  feel  the  spirit  in  me  to  talk  and 
tell  what  a  bad  man  I  have  been,  but 
I  can’t  do  it  while  the  grand  jury  is 
in  session.”  “The  Lord  will  forgive,” 
shouted  the  preacher.  “I  guess  that’s

right,”  said  the  penitent,  “hut  he  ain’t 
on  the  grand  jury.”

Look  well  to  the  well  and  be  sure 

your  drinking  water  is  pure.

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cheap-looking and insecure your 
business will suffer, particularly 
with women.

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better than any other at the same 
price—stronger,  wraps better.
T he colors are  bright  and at­
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We  are closing out a small  lot  of these  four-foot  Cigar 
Cases  at  $11.00  each,  boxed,  f.  o.  b.  cars  Grand  Rap­
ids,  Mich.  They  are 4   feet  long,  41  inches  high  and 
25  inches  wide,  glazed  throughout  with  double  strength 
sheet  glass  and  fitted  with  moisteners.  Built  of  oak 
finished light  antique.  This  price  for  February  only.

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Good as Gold

to interest you.  W rite“ us for prices.

It makes 
stands  for purity  and  perfection among flours. 
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It’s  a 
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M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

A r o u n d  
Th e  S t a t e

South  Haven— C.  H.  Thompson has 
opened a  grocery store  at 416 Phoenix 
street.

Alma— J.  Friedman,  of  Maple  Rap­
ids,  has  put  in  a  stock  of  dry  goods 
at  this  place.

Adrian— The  Adrian  Telephone Co. 
has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$40,000  to  $50,000.

Saginaw— The  E.  R.  Gould  Shoe 
Co.  has  opened  a  shoe  store  at  124 
North  Hamilton  street.

Caro— The  Davidson  &  Landsberg 
in 

Co.  succeeds  Myer  Himelhoch 
the  department  store  business.

Potterville—Wm.  H.  VanAuken,  a 
long-time  merchant  at  this  place,  has 
sold  his  stock  to  E.  A.  Stoddard.

Belding—Jensen  &  Wheeler  have 
purchased  the  dry  goods,  boot  and 
shoe  stock  of  Henry  J.  Leonard.

Caro— Luckhard  &  Sutherland, gro­
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership.  The 
business  is  continued  by  Fred  Luck- 
hard.

Jackson  —   Service  &  VanMarter 
succeed  Stant  &  Vandeusen  in  the 
agricultural 
implement  and  vehicle 
business.

Ludington— Vic.  Roussin,  proprie­
tor  of  the  Roussin  Bargain  store,  has 
sold  his  stock  to  Willard  Fowler  and 
Benj.  Boureau.

Coldwater— Emmet  Brink  has  pur­
chased  the  Wirley  grocery  stock  and 
will  continue  the  business  at 
the 
same  location.

Port  Huron— Louis  A.  Weil,  Frank 
Hanson  and  Thos.  Beckton  have 
formed  the  Huron  Clothing  Co.  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $5,000.

Millington— George  C.  Robinson 
interest  of  his 
has  purchased  the 
partner  in  the  agricultural 
imple­
ment  business  of  Robinson  &  Wing.
Reading— L.  O.  Noyes  &  Co., 
grocers,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Lyman  O.  Noyes  having  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  Frank 
Salsbury.

Niles— Morris  &  Allen,  dealers  in 
men’s  furnishing  goods,  have  gone 
into  voluntary  bankruptcy.  The  lia­
bilities  are  about  $2,000.  The  assets 
are  about  $500.

Fremont— J.  J.  Klooster  has  sold 
his  hardware  stock  to  John  Zagers 
and  Gerrit  Schiuteman,  who  will  con­
duct  the  business  at  the  same  place 
under  the  style  of  Zagers  &  Co.

Grand  Ledge— W.  B.  Smith,  form­
erly  engaged  in  the  milk  business  at 
Lake  Odessa,  has  purchased  a  store 
building  at  this  place  and  will  engage 
in  the  department  store  business.

Belding—J.  H.  Henderson  has  re­
engaged  in  business  with  Mr.  Pierce, 
of  Pierce  Bros.,  grocers,  and 
the 
business  will  be  continued  under  the 
old  style  of  Pierce  &  Henderson.

Newberry— A.  M.  Rogers,  who  re­
cently purchased  the  clothing  and dry 
goods  stock  of  E.  D.  McDonald,  has 
moved  the  stock  to  New  London, 
Wis.,  where  he  will  engage  in  trade.
for­
merly  engaged  in  the  shoe  business 
at  Grand  Rapids,  has  purchased  the

Holland— Benjamin  Sterken, 

shoe  stock  of  Ritzema  &  Oltman  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Lansing— Charles  W.  and  William 
Gilkey  have  formed  a  co-partnership 
to engage  in  the  tent and awning busi- | 
ness  and  have  purchased  the  stock of 
Whitely  Bros.  The  new  style  is  Gil­
key  Bros.  Tent  &  Awning  Co.

Durand— Goods  are  arriving 
for 
the  National  Grocer  Co.  and 
the 
house  will  be  in  operation  here  within 
a  few  days.  The  company  erected  a 
$16,000  building.  This  takes  in  the 
branch  house  at  Owosso,  which  will
be  removed  here.

Ashland— Herman  McKinley  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  George 
Pollard  in  the  general  merchandise 
business  of  Pollard  &  McKinley.  The 
new  member  of  the  firm  is  the  son 
of  Alex.  McKinley,  who  is  one  of 
the  original  partners.  The  new  style 
is  A.  McKinley  &  Son.

McBain— The  McBain  Mercantile 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a 
stock  company.  The  authorized  cap­
ital  stock  is  $10,000,  owned  by  Orrin 
O.  Dunham,  344  shares;  Wm.  O. 
Cromwell,  344  shares;  H.  L.  Prey, 
66  shares,  and  J.  J.  Cawley,  46  shares.
Holland— The  William  Brusse  Co. 
has  merged  its  clothing,  furnishing 
goods  and  tailoring  business  into  a 
corporation  under  the 
style. 
The  capital  stock  is  $10,000,  owned 
as  follows:  Wm.  Brusse,  400 shares; 
Cornelia  Brusse,  399 
shares,  and 
Chris.  W.  Nibbelink,  1  share.

same 

Detroit— K.  T.  Papazian  &  Co., 
dealers  in  oriental  rugs  and  carpets, 
have  merged  their  business  into  a 
corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
K.  T.  Papazian  Co.  The  capital  stock 
is  $6,000,  owned  by  Jas.  Swan,  300 
shares;  Wm.  T.  McGraw,  299  shares, 
and  K.  T.  Papazian,  1  share.

Battle  Creek— The  Grocers’  and 
Butchers’  Association  has  decided  to 
disband,  as  most  of  its  members  are 
already  members  of 
the  Business 
Men’s  Association.  Those  who  are 
not  now  members  of  the  larger  or­
ganization  will  join  it  at  once  and 
will  increase  its  strength  by  about 
thirty  new  members.

Albion— L.  J.  Stewart, who for some 
time  has  conducted  the  Sample  Shoe 
store  in  the  New  Hurley  block,  has 
sold  out  to Joseph  King,  of  Ypsilanti, 
who will move the  stock to that place. 
Mr.  Stewart,  in  company  with  Frank 
Minnis,  a  clerk  in  the  business  here, 
will  embark  in  the  shoe  business  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey.

Detroit—John  Freeman  has  retired 
as  head  of the  firm  of  Freeman,  Dela- 
mater  &  Co.,  wholesale  hardware 
dealers,  and  will  be 
succeeded  as 
President  by  DeWitt  C.  Delamater. 
David  C.  Kay,  formerly  buyer, 
is 
made  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and 
William  A.  Ducharme 
remains  as 
Vice-President. 
It  is  said  that  Mr. 
Freeman  will  engage  in  some  other 
business.  The  name  of  the  firm  will 
not  be  changed.

Detroit— Charles  B.  Hirschfield, 
proprietor  of  the  Model  Clothing Co., 
declared  bankrupt, 
a  peti- 
declared  bankrupt,  have  filed  a  peti­
tion  in  the  United  States  Court  stat­
ing  that  his  assets  would  be  $8,000 
above  liabilities,  and  asking  that  the 
action  appointing  a  receiver  be  re­

filed 

scinded.  Judge  Swan  denied  the  re­
quest  and  added 
to  Hirschfield’s 
troubles  by  issuing  an  injunction  re­
straining  him  from  collecting  insur­
ance  for  the  fire  a  couple  of  weeks 
ago.

Detroit— The  stockholders  of  the 
Henry A.  Newland Co. at their annual 
meeting  elected  an  entirely  new 
board  of  directors.  The 
stock  of 
Charles  Montague,  the  President  of 
the  company,  went  into  the  hands  of 
several  Detroit  banks  when  he  went 
through  bankruptcy.  A.  M.  Seymour,

o  nutriKpr  nf  vAare

and  General  Manager  of the company, 
resigned.  Henry  B.  Joy  retired  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  brother,  R.  P. 
Joy.  Chas.  C. Jenks, who is  President 
of  the  Jenks  &  Muir  Manufacturing 
Co.  and  Vice-President  of  the  Michi­
gan  Savings  Bank,  was  elected  Vice­
dent and  will  act as  General  Manager. 
George  Peck,  President  of  the  Michi­
gan  Savings  Bank  was  elected  Vice- 
President,  and  F.  L.  Hyde  was  ap­
pointed  Secretary  and  Treasurer.

Hancock— The  ill-advised  strike  of 
the  miners  in  the  Quincy  mine  is 
beginning  to  show  its  effects  on  the 
business  of  the  Hancock  business 
houses  of  all  classes.  The  strike has 
been  in  effect  for  more  than  a  week 
now  and  that  means  that  some  six 
or  seven  days  of  a  payroll  averaging 
$4,000  a  day  have  not  been  pouring 
into  the  coffers  of  Hancock  mer­
chants.  The merchants who  are locat­
ed  nearest  the  mine  who  cater  almost 
exclusively  to  the  miners’  trade  find 
that  the  strike  is  telling  on 
them. 
Many  of  the  families  have  bought

their  supplies  for  the  month  on  the 
prospect  of  the  next  payday  and  as 
this  looks  pretty  far  away  just  now, 
the  merchants  begin  to  fear  that  they 
will  have  to  carry  these  hundreds  of 
accounts  over  into  another  month at 
In  the  city  the  stores  are  be­
least. 
ginning  to  feel  the  effects  of 
the 
strike  also.  While  the  loss  of  the  few 
days’  pay  has  not  worked  any  par­
ticular  hardship  on 
individual 
miner  or  trammer,  still  they  are  look­
ing  forward  to  a  continued  siege  and 
are  not  very  lavish  in  their  expendi­
tures.

the 

Kalamazoo— North  &  Cook  have 
merged  their  business 
into  a  cor­
poration  for  the  purpose  of  engag­
ing  in  the  manufacture  of  building 
materials  of  all  kinds  and  conducting 
a  mercantile  business.  The  author­
ized  capital  stock  is  $50,000,  owned 
as  follows:  W.  B.  North,  2,200 
shares;  H.  C.  Coon,  2,200  shares;  A. 
C.  Jickling,  400  shares,  and  W.  H. 
Jones,  200  shares.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  ud

Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Detroit  Opera  House  Block,  Detroit

Good  hut 

s l o w   debtors  pay 
u p o n   receipt  of  our  direct  d e ­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  col l ec­
tion.

letters. 

Vege-Meato Sells

People 

Like  It 

W ant  It

—  

Buy  It 

—

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.

American  Vegetable  Meat  Co.,  Ltd.

O ra n d   R ap id s,  M ich.

stormy  day  sends  it  up  again.  Re­
ceipts  of  fresh  are  liberal,  considering 
the  blockade  which  exists  in  all  di­
rections.  Dealers  hold  fresh  at  28@ 
29c  for  case  count  and  29@30c  for 
candled.  Cold  storage  stock  is  com­
pletely  cleaned  out.

Game— Live  pigeons,  6o@75c  per 
doz.  Drawn  rabbits,  $ i @ i .io   per doz.
steady  at 

Grapes— Malagas  are 

$6.50  per  keg.

Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  9@ 

ioc  and  white  clover  at  I2@ i3c.

Lemons— Messinas  and  Californias 

are  steady  at  $3-25@3-5°  per  box.

Lettuce— Hot  house 

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stock 

fetches  12c  per  lb.

Maple  Syrup— $1.05  for  fancy,  90c 

for  pure  and  80c  for  imitation.

Onions— The  market  is  gradually 
advancing,  with  every  prospect  of its 
touching  the  $1  mark  in  the  near  fu­
ture.  Local  dealers  keep  the  local 
market  supplied  on  the  basis  of  8o@ 
85c.

Oranges— California  Navels,  $2.50 
for  extra  choice  and  $2.75  for  extra 
fancy;  California  Seedlings,  $2@2.25; 
Floridas,  $2.75.

Parsley— 35c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

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

hot  house.

for  new.

Potatoes— The  market  continues to 
strengthen,  with  every  indication  of 
the  price  going  to  $1  before  spring. 
Local  dealers  hold  their  supplies  at 
85c.  Country  buyers  have  advanced 
their  paying  prices  to  65@70c  per  bu.
in 
consequence  of  which  prices  are 
firm.  Spring  chickens,  I3@i4c; fowls, 
n@ i2c;  No.  1  turkeys,  I7@i8c; No. 
2  turkeys,  I4@i5c;  ducks,  I3@i4c; 
i i @ I2 c ;  nester  squabs,  $2@ 
geese, 
,2.50  per  doz.

Poultry— Receipts  are 

small, 

Radishes— 30c  per  doz.  for  hot 

house.

Squash— ij4c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard. 
Sweet  Potatoes— Jerseys  are  steady 

at  $4.25  per  bu.
Echoes  of  the  Flaked  Food  Furor.
Marshall— At  the  receiver’s  sale  of 
the  Sanitary-My  Food  Co.’s  effects 
the  engine  and  pumps  were  sold  to 
W.  J.  Franklin,  of  Kalamazoo,  for 
$175.  The  loose  junk  was  sold  to 
Robert  Schley  for  $100.  There  were 
no  bidders  for  the  boilers,  brick  or 
stone.  The  sale  was  adjourned  for 
60  days.

Augusta— The  Hibbard  Food  Co. 
is  removing  the  machinery  for  the 
manufacture  of  the  food  from 
its 
mill  and  will  replace  it  with  milling 
machinery. 
It  will  go  into  a  general 
milling  business.

Owosso—Watson  &  Chapman,  at­
torneys  for  complainant,  have  filed 
the  papers  in  the  mortgage  foreclos­
ure  proceedings  of  C.  W.  Gale,  H.  C. 
Frieske,  Tod  Kincaid  and  E.  P.  Wal­
dron  vs.  the Vigoro Health Food Co., 
Ltd.  The  mortgage  is  for  $15,000, 
the  amount  of  money  advanced  to 
the  Vigoro  Co.  at  the  time  the  busi­
ness  was  started.  The  complainants 
are  the  heaviest  stockholders  of  the 
company.

A  tablespoonful  of  vinegar  put  in­
to  the  water  in  which  tough  meat 
or  fowl  is  to  be  boiled  will  make 
it  tender  and  will  not  injure  the 
flavor.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  (W.  H.  Edagr  &  Son)—  
Raw  sugars  regained  1-32C  at 
the 
close  of last  week,  but  have  again  set­
tled  to  3 5-i 6c  basis  for  96  deg.,  both 
spot  and  for  shipment  from  Cuba. 
Europe  remains  around  a  parity  of 
5-i6c  above  our  market.  Prices  have 
worked  up  and  down  each  day,  the 
week  closing  firm  at  7@ ioyic.  Re­
fined  has  declined  5  points  and 
is 
firm,  with  rather  better  demand,  at 
the  new  basis.  With  the  entire  coun­
try  practically  snowbound  business 
is  naturally restricted.  Refined  prices 
are  so  low,  however,  that  buying  may 
at 
assume 
any 
time.  The  existing  low  basis 
for 
raws  is  inconsistent  and  the  rebound 
is  likely  to  be  very  sharp  when  we 
turn  the  corner.  Freight  is  serious­
ly  delayed  and  an  embargo  in  the 
East  on  all  save  “perishable”  may 
supplies. 
bring  about  a  scarcity  of 
We  therefore  suggect 
that 
orders 
be  placed  well  in  advance  of  require­
ments.

large  proportions 

Tea— Both  jobbers  and 

retailers 
are  making  good  purchases,  although 
the  former  pretty  well  covered  their 
wants  at  the  opening  of  the  season. 
Retailers  seem  to  be  awakening  to 
the  fact  that  they  will  not  likely  have 
a  chance  to  buy  good  teas  at  any 
lower  prices  before  the  new 
crop 
comes  in,  at  least,  and  are  loading  up 
accordingly.  The  market  continues 
firm.

Coffee— Rio  No.  7  has  touched  9c 
in  New  York.  This  makes  the  total 
advance  in  Rio  and  Santos  from  the 
summer  months  very  nearly  4c.  The 
market  has  ruled  firm  during  the  past 
week,  with  slight  advances  from  day 
to  day.  Everything  points  to  even 
a  higher  range  of  values,  in  spite  of 
the  general  judgment  among  actual 
coffee  interests  that  higher  prices 
are  not  warranted  by  the  conditions 
of  supply  and  demand.  As  the  sur­
plus  stock has been  practically bought 
up  and  kept  from  the  market,  it  is 
very  hard  to  forecast  what  the  limit 
of  price  will  be  during  the  next  four 
months.  Other  grades  and  varieties 
of  coffee  have  been  pretty  generally 
advanced  since  the  rise  in  the  pack­
age  goods  began,  although  few  if  any 
jobbers  and  importers  have  advanced 
their  figures  so  much  as  have 
the 
package  men.  Jobbers  generally  re­
gard  the  advance 
the  package 
goods  with favor, as it gradually elim­
inates  the  cheaper  coffees  from  the 
market  and  gives 
them  a  better 
chance  to  work  in  their  better  grades 
in  bulk.

in 

Canned  Goods— Corn 

continues
very  firm  and  high.  The  seed  corn 
proposition  is  becoming  very  import­
ant  again  and  there  is  slight  possi­
bility  of  any  decline  in  the  price  of 
the  canned  before  the  new  pack  is  on 
the  market.  Futures  are  consider­
ably  above  a  year  ago.  Tomatoes  are 
perhaps  a  trifle  firmer.  The  market 
may  move  either  way  on  this  com­
modity  before  the  new  pack  is  on 
the  market.  Salmon  is  moving  fairly 
well  and  is  firm.  Some  California 
packers  have  made  prices  on  1904  as­
paragus.  The  rust  damage  has 
re­
sulted  in  advances  of  about  50  cents 
over  the  figures  of  a  year  ago.  Can­
ned  fruits  are  moving 
fairly  well.

The  Consumers  Ice  Co.  has 

in­
creased  its  capital  stock  from  $100,- 
ooo  to  $150,000.

increased 

Workman  &  Co.,  plumbers  at  93 
Pearl  street,  have 
their 
capital  stock  from  $15,000  to  $30,000.
the 
stock  of  dry  goods,  boots  and shoes 
of  E.  J.  Huyge  &  Co.,  at  399  Ter­
race  avenue.

E.  J.  Smitter  has  purchased 

Raymond  Mancha,  who  recently 
sold  his  quarter  interest  in  the  Grand 
Rapids  Show  Case  Co.  for  about 
$20,000,  announces  his  intention  of 
re-engaging  in  the  same  business  as 
soon  as  a  location  can  be  secured 
and  desirable  connections 
can  be 
made.

in 

Gran'd  Rapids  has  sustained  a  great 
loss  during  the  past  week 
the 
death  of  G.  Stuart  Johnson  and  Fred. 
Macey.  Both  were  at  the  head  of 
large 
institutions  whose  develop­
ment  was  due  in  large  degree  to  the 
sterling  qualities  of  leadership which 
mark  the  successful  man.

At  the  annual  banquet  of the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
which  will  be  held  at  the  Hotel  Pant- 
lind  Monday  evening,  Feb.  29,  Fred 
J.  Ferguson  will  officiate  as  toast­
master.  Tickets  will  be  sold  at  $1 
and  no  assessment  will  be  levied  on 
the  jobbers  and  manufacturers  of 
this  or  any  other  market  to  assist  in 
defraying  the  expense  of  the  affair.

The  National  Packing  Co.  has 
leased  the  store building  at 28  Ottawa 
street  for  a  term  of  years  and  begun 
the  construction  of  a 
refrigerator 
meat  box  therein.  It  is  expected that 
the  work  will  be  completed  by  March 
15,  on  which  date  the  company  will 
enter  the  fresh  meat  field  in  competi­
tion  with  Swift,  Morris  and  the  U.  S. 
Packing  Co.  under  the  management 
of  a  local  representative  who  will  be 
sent  here  from  Chicago.  The  Na­
tional  Packing  Co.  is  a  combination 
of  a  half  dozen  packers  who  own  and 
operate  fourteen  different  packing  es­
tablishments.

The  Produce  Market.
Apples— Local  dealers  hold 

stocks  at  $2(0)2.75  per  bbl.

their 

Bananas— $1.25  for  small  bunches 

and  $2  for  extra  jumbos.

Butter— Factory  creamery  is strong 
at  22c  for  choice  and  23c  for  fancy. 
An  advance  of  ic  per  lb.  is  expected 
before  the  end  of 
the  week.  Re­
ceipts  of  dairy  grades  continue  heavy. 
Local  dealers  hold  the  price  at  lie  
for  packing  stock,  14c  for  choice  and 
16c  for  fancy.  Renovated  is  steady 
at  i8@i8j^c.

Cabbage— Scarce  and  high,  com­

manding  2j^c  per  lb.
Beets— 50c  per  bu.
Celery— Steady  at  25c  per  bunch.
Cranberries— Cape  Cods  and  Jer­
seys  are  steady  at  $7  per  bbl.  and 
$2.50  per  bu.

Eggs— The  market  is  as  fickle  as 
the  wind  that  blows.  A  bright  day 
sends  the  price  down  i@2c  and  a

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

5

It  seems  that  while  California  is  pret­
ty  well  cleaned  up  the  stocks  in  the 
hands  of  the  jobbers  will  be  ample 
to  meet  the  demands  of  the  rest  of 
the  season.
.  Dried  Fruits— An  effort 
is  being 
made  by  the  Santa  Clara  growers  to 
effect  a  combination  which  would 
hold  the  price  of  prunes  firm.  Over 
60  per  cent,  of  the  growers  are  said 
to  have  signed  this.  Peaches  are 
selling  in  a  small  way  at  unchanged 
prices.  The  market  is  rather  weak. 
Seeded  raisins  are  slow  and  un­
changed.  Loose  are  in  better  de­
mand,  and  there  is  still  much  specu­
lation  as  to  whether  a  decline  will 
come  on  February  1st.  Apricots  are 
doing  well.  The  demand  is  small, 
but  active,  and  the  price  high.  Nec­
tarines  are  slow  and  unchanged.

Syrups  and  Molasses— Although 
compound  syrup  has  advanced  ic,  it 
is  still  below  the  parity  of  glucose 
and  ought  to  advance  another  cent 
before  the  proper  relations  exist.  The 
demand  for  compound  syrup  is  good. 
Sugar  syrup  is  dull,  so  far  as  the  con­
sumptive  demand  is  concerned.  The 
lower  grades  are  firm  and  are  getting 
well  cleaned  up.  Molasses  is  in  fair 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.  This 
season  has  witnessed  a  better  demand 
for  good  molasses  than  many  years 
past.

Fish— Mackerel  is  nominally  un­
changed,  although  the  prices  of  Irish 
fish  have  been  hammered  somewhat 
and  good  round  lots  have  gotten  con­
cessions  during  the  week.  Most  of 
the  large  business  of  the  week  has 
been  for  Western  account.  Cod  and 
haddock  are  so  nearly  out  of 
the 
market  that  they  are  hardly  offered. 
Hake  is  more  abundant,  but  the  stock 
is  only  sufficient  for  a  few  weeks,  un­
less  the  price  advances.  Sardines  are 
unchanged  and  the  demand  is  light. 
Salmon  is  quiet  and  unchanged.  Lake 
fish  are  scarce.  A  few  are  offering 
in  Chicago,  but  at  very  high  prices, 
and  the  Eastern  market  is  almost 
bare.
Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow,  Furs  and  Wool.
It  is  the  same  old  routine  in  the 
hide  market.  Dealers  are  trying  to 
deliver  on  previous  sales  and  are  not 
looking  for  new  trade  at  the  prices 
offered.  The  blockade  of  the  rail­
roads 
interferes  with  delivery  and 
forces  a  stagnation  of  business  for 
the  present.  Lower  prices  are  likely 
to  rule.

Sheep  pelts  are  well  sold  up  at  ad­
vanced  prices  and  are  in  good  de­
mand.

Tallow  and  greases  are  dull.  The 
sharply. 
demand  has  dropped  off 
Stocks  are  accumulating. 
Soapers 
are  in  the  market  only  at  bargain 
prices,  while  sales  of  soap  are  large.

Furs  are  on  the  sick  list,  as  com­
pared  with  prices  paid  for the  London 
sales.  The  slump  on  most  kinds was 
ruinous  to  exporters.  They  are  now 
at  sea  as  to  prices  they  will  be  war­
ranted  in  paying.  The  home  demand 
is  good.

Wools  are  active  at  the  East  and 
there  are  no  weak  spots.  Dealers 
are  getting  good  margins  on  previous 
purchases. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Many  a .well-informed  woman  has 

her  servant  girl  to  thank  for  it.

«

SLAMMED TH E DOOR.

Typical  Experience  of  the  Average 

Storekeeper.
W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

The  lady  opened  the  door  less  than 
halfway  and  peeped 
suspiciously 
through  the  crack;  then  she  almost 
closed  it  again,  held  her  thumb  upon 
the  latch  for  nearly  a  minute  and 
seemed  to  debate  with  herself  as  to 
whether  she  should  enter  the  store. 
At  last  overcome  by  curiosity  or 
some  equally  powerful  motive,  she 
came  inside.

She  was  rather  small,  she  had  a 
long  nose  tipped  with  a  prominent 
bulb,  and  her  mouth  as  of  the  sort 
that  upon  the  slightest  displeasure 
puckered  up  until  it  looked  like  the 
tied  end  of  a  bologna  sausage.

She  was  nervous  and  uneasy,  and 
she  pranced  from  one  extremity  of 
the  store  to  another  with  quick,  jerky 
movements;  and  being 
somewhat 
nearsighted,  she  thrust  her  face  en­
quiringly  into  the  poorly 
lighted 
parts  of  the  store,  and  into  boxes 
and  other  receptacles  that  contained 
merchandise  of  various  kinds.
Was  there  something  we 

could 
show  her?  She  didn’t  know.  She 
was  just  a  looking.  She  didn’t  do 
her  trading  here  very  much.  She 
had  heard  from  So-and-So  that  this 
was  a  good  town  in  which  to  buy 
groceries;  but  she  didn’t  see  how  that 
could  be.  One  merchant  was  just 
as  bad  as  another,  that  she  knew, 
and  they’d  all  bear  a  deal  of  watch­
ing.

And  as  she  talked  she  cantered 
from  one  part  of  the  building  to  an­
other,  groped  into  by-places,  peered 
behind  barrels,  tumbled  over 
the 
prints  and  ginghams  upon  the  coun­
ters  or  yanked  the  men’s  heavy  rub­
bers  out  of  the  cases  upon  the  floor.
“Were  you  looking  for  something 
in 
lumbermen’s  goods?”  asked  the 
clerk,  at  length.  “W e’ve  got  the best 
brands  on  the  market,’’  he  continued, 
as  he  smoothed  out  the  legs  of  a 
pair  of  high  leather  tops  and  held 
them  up  so  that  she  could  see  to  the 
best  advantage  their  unusual  length. 
“They  don’t  get  out  anything  any 
better  than  these.”  But  by  the  time 
the  young  man  had  finished  speaking 
she  had  visited  three  other  depart­
ments  and  was  then  examining  some 
china  doll  heads  on  a  neighboring  ta­
ble.

“Those  heads  are  pretty  good.” 
suggested  the  salesman.  “You see. you 
can  make  a  new  doll  out  of  an  old 
one  with  them.  We  sell  a  great 
many  to  people  who  have  little  chil­
dren.”

“Yes,  but  they  don’t  last  no  time,” 
“Just  a 
little  tunk 
she  answered. 
and  they’re  all 
to  pieces— O.  you 
needn’t  say  they  don’t  break.”  she 
added  threateningly,  “for  I  know-  all  j 
about  it.  Hain’t  you  got  no  rem- 
lets?”

For  a  moment,  and  for  a  moment 
only,  the  clerk  was  at  a  loss  for  an  j 
answer,  but  his  usual  assurance  came ' 
to  his  rescue  and  he  replied:

“O.  yes,  we  have  them.  They’re  ■ 
in  the  hardware  department.  Did  | 
you  want  a  large  or  a  small  one?”

“Well,  if that  hain’t  a  funny  place!” 
she  exclaimed. 
“I  thought  this  was 
the  queerest  store  I  ever  got  into.

“No,  I  don’t  want  no  pickles,”  she 
snapped. 
“I  s’pose  it  makes  you 
mad  to  see  me  eatin’  on  ’em;  but  I 
guess  a  customer’s  got  a  right  to  a 
pickle.  I  don’t  never  buy  nothin’ like 
that,  cus  I  put  down  a  barrel 
in 
brine  every  fall  an’  fix  ’em  just  as 
we  want  ’em  to  use.  Brine  pickles 
are  a  lot  better  for  a  person  than 
these  pizen  things  they  keep  to  the 
|  stores. 
I  don’t  see  how  anybody 
kin  have  the  face  to  sell  ’em.  Have 
|  you  got  any  number  one  cheese?” 

The  clerk  assured  her  that  he  had. 
“Let  me  try  a  small  hunk  of  it, 

'  then,  if  it’s  as  good  as  all  that.”

The  small  hunk  was  produced,  and

M ICH IGAN  TRADESM AN

Why,  I  might  look  at  some  short 
ones  and  some  long  ones,  too;  but  I 
won’t  agree  to  buy  none.  What  you 
want  to  do  is  to  get  around  and show 
me  the  goods— I  won’t  steal  ’em.” 

“O,  why,  of course,”  said  the  young 
man  hastily,  and  he  returned  in  a 
minute  with  three  or  four  boxes  of 
assorted  sizes— a  display  calculated 
to  meet  the  requirements  of  the most 
exacting.

“These  small  ones  are  three  cents, 

the  next  size  is  a  nickel  and— ” 

“What  do  you  s’pose  I  want  with 
them  things?”  demanded  the  custom­
er  savagely.  “D’yuh  reckon  I’m  go- 
in’  to start a  carpenter shop?”

“I  beg  your  pardon,  but  didn’t  you 
ask  for  gimlets?”  enquired  the  clerk 
nervously.

“What 

“No,  I  didn’t  ask  for  no  bimulets,” 
she  snapped. 
said  was 
r-e-m-l-e-t-s— remlets  of  caliker,  fer 
instance,  and  I  don’t  want  no  augers 
and  no  spoke  shaves  and  no  razors, 
neither.”

I 

the 

Begging  the  lady’s  pardon, 

the 
remnant 
salesman  repaired  to 
box,  and  the  customer  quickly  scat­
tered  its  contents  upon  counter  and 
floor.  Then  as  rapidly  deserting  it 
she  pounced  upon  a  neatly  piled  dis­
play  of  boys’  pants  and  promptly  fill­
ed  the  air  with  them.

“Hain’t  you  got  no  blue  ones? 
Goodness!  What  kind  of  a  store  do 
you  pitend  to  keep  anyhow?  How 
much  do  you  pay  a  bushel  for  hand 
picked  beans? 
Is  them  fascinators 
over  there  on  that  line?  A  person’d 
think  you’d  keep  yer  stuff  where  a 
body  could  get  at  it  to  see  what  it 
Is  the’  any  place  in  town 
was  like. 
where  they  sell  bedroom  suits? 
I 
want  to  get  one  for  my  old  man. 
He’s  slep’  in  his  shirt  goin’  on  thir­
ty-three  year,  an’  I  made  up  m’  mind 
if  I  could  git  him  a  good  bed­
room  suit  fer  a  reasonable  price— a 
long,  warm  one— that  I’d  make  him 
wear  it.  I  think  it’d  be  good  fer  his 
rumatiz,  too.  Do  you  pay  cash  for 
eggs?  They  do  to  the  meat  markets. 
The  butchers  allers  pay  cash 
for 
them  in  East  Jerdan.  Guess  I’ll  try 
one  of  these  pickles.  Be  they  sweet 
or  sour? 
I  like  the  sour  ones,  but 
the  old  man  won’t  eat  none  only  the 
sweet  ones,  an’  they  make  me  sick. 
How  much  d’you  ask  for  thread  a 
spool?  Five  cents?  Land!  but  you 
don’t  fergit  to  charge  for  it.  I  s’pose 
if  it  was  any  more  you  wouldn’t  be 
afraid  to  ask  it!”

“Would  you 

like  some  of  those 
pickles?”  ventured 
at 
length,  as  the  customer  helped  her­
self  to  the  third  cucumber.

clerk, 

the 

the  lady  took  it  and  then  allowed  her 
gaze  to  wander  about  the  store.

“Something  else  you  wanted?”  he 

enquired  politely.

“I  was  lookin’  fer  the  cracker  bar­
rel,”  said  she.  “In  East  Jerdan  they 
keep  the  crackers  where  a  body  kin 
help  theirselves  whenever  they  want 
If  ther’s  one  thing  I  hate  worse 
to. 
than  another  it’s  a 
store­
keeper.”

stingy 

The  clerk  produced  a  scoopful  of 
Kruce’s  best  and  the  lady  instantly 
began  her  repast

“That  i-s  good  cheese,”  she 

re­
marked  after  a  time.  “I  didn’t  sup­
pose  they  made  any  as  good  as  that 
these  times.  I  used  to  make  it  myself 
when  I  was  a  girl.  Pa  had  lots  of 
cows  and  we  put  it  up  for  the  mar­
ket.  Guess  I’ll  have  to  take  home 
some  of  this. 
the  old 
man’d  like  it.  How  much  is  it  a 
pound?”

I  believe 

“Sixteen  cents.”
“Sixteen  cents!  O,  you  don’t mean 

sixteen  cents,  do  you?”

“Yes,  ma’am,  that’s  the  price,  and 
the  way  the  market is now it’s awfully 
cheap  for  it.”

too 

fast.  Why, 

“We  used  to  think  we  were  lucky 
if  we  got  six.  The  trouble  with  all 
you  merchants  is  that  you  want  to 
make  money 
I 
wouldn't  pay  sixteen  cents  for 
the 
best  cream  cheese  that  ever  came  out 
of  a  press,  and  this  ain’t  so  awful 
good  either.  When  I  come  to  get 
the  taste  in  my  mouth  right,  I  kin 
see  that  it  hain’t  full  cream,  and  then 
the  curds  was  soured.”

And  as  the  lady  put  the  last  of  the 
disputed  article  in  her  mouth 
she 
took  a  handful  of  crackers  and  start­
ed  for  the  door.

“Don’t you want to take some hoiqe 
to  the  old  man?”  asked  the  clerk,  a 
malicious  light  shining  in  his  usual­
ly  mild  blue  eyes. 
“You  know  he’d 
like  it  awfully  well.”

“I’ll  give  you 

cents  for  a 
pound  of  it,”  said  the  lady,  hesitating 
in  her  onward  course.

ten 

“O,  we  couldn’t  sell  it  for  less  than 
sixteen,”  said  the  clerk,  “but  then 
you  know  there’s  nothing  too  good 
for  the  old  man,  and  you  can’t  get 
hold  of  cheese  like  this  very  often 
nowadays.”

But  even  before  he  had  finished 
slammed 

speaking,  the  front  door 
and  the  customer  was  gone.

George  Crandall  Lee.

Ignorant  People  Who  Take  Up  Em­

ployes’  Time.
W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

There  are  certainly  ignorant  people 
in  this  world.  They  do  not  seem  to 
realize  the  value  of  goods  and  do 
not  appreciate  bargains  when  bar- 
j  gains  are  offered  them.  When  they 
1  enter  a  store  and  call  for  an  article 
they  seem  to  know  more  about  the 
article  and  the  value  of  it  than  the 
experienced  merchant  that  has  han­
dled  the  goods  for  years,  and  they 
try  to  tell  the  troubled  merchant  all 
j  about  it.

This  puts  me  in  mind  of  an  inci­
dent  that  happened  in  a  large  de­
partment  store:

They  were  having  a  great  sacrifice 
j  sale.  The  store  was  crowded  with 
j bargain-seekers,  all  trying 
to  get

The 

underwear. 

waited  on  at  the  same  time.  A   cer­
tain  lady  told  one  of  the  clerks  that 
she  would  like  to  look at  some  men’s 
woolen 
clerk 
promptly  attended  to  her  wants.  He 
showed  her  some  men’s  heavy  wool­
en  underwear.  The  former  price  of 
the  garment  was  $i.  He  told  her 
the  former  price  was  $i,  but  that 
during  their  sale  the  price  was  re­
duced  to  75  cents.  Now  this  same 
garment  cost  $9  per  dozen,  and  they 
were  selling  it  at  just  what  it  cost 
them  at  wholesale.

After  this  lady  customer  had  look­
ed  at  the  garment  some  dozen  times, 
searching  through  it  as  if  she  were 
searching  for  bedbugs,  she  asked,  af­
ter  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes’  search, 
“Can’t  you  sell  it  any  cheaper? 
I 
think  you  are  too  high  on  this  under­
wear.”

You  could  see  the  poor  clerk’s  face 
turn  all  colors  at such  a  remark  when 
the  store  was  crowded  with  bargain- 
seekers,  who  much  needed  his  at­
tendance,  but  this  ignorant  human 
being  kept  him  waiting  on  her  for  a 
full  quarter  of  an  hour,  and  she  final­
ly  saw  that  the  store  was  crowded 
and  that  the  clerks  were  jumping 
over  one  another  to  wait  on 
the 
customers.  She  was  so  selfish  she 
thought  the  clerk  that  waited  on  her 
had  lots  of  time  to  fool  around  with 
her.

To  make  a  long  story  short,  she 
said,  “Well,  I  will  go  out  and  see  if 
I  can  not  get  the  same  underwear 
cheaper.”

This  she  could  not  do  under  any 
circumstances,  but  she  was  one  of 
the  kind  who  knows  it  all.

About  an  hour  later  she  walked  in 
and  the  clerk  who  waited  on  her  be­
fore  thought,  “Now  I  am  in  for  some 
fun;”  so  he  goes  up  to  her  as  if  he 
had  never  seen  her  before  and  says, 
“Is  there  something  you  wanted?”
“I  want  to  get  a  suit  of  that  under­
wear  that  I  looked  at  awhile  ago. 
Can’t  you  sell  them  to  me  cheaper 
than  75  cents  apiece?”  she  said.

The  clerk  answered,  “No,  lady, that 

is  the  lowest  price.”

“Well,  wrap  them  up,”  she  ordered 

and  paid  the  clerk  and  walked  out.

Now,  doesn't  this  go  to  show  the 
ignorance  of  some  people— after  go­
ing  through  the  unnecessary  trouble 
of  looking  elsewhere  to  see  if  she 
could  not  buy  cheaper,  after  having 
kept  the  poor  clerk  waiting  on  her 
for  so  long,  he  meantime  biting  his 
lips  nearly off wishing she would  hur­
ry  up  and  let  him  go  and  attend  the 
wants  of  other  people  who  were 
waiting  for  him? 
If  she  had  not 
been  ignorant  she  would  have bought 
those  garments  in  a  few  minutes.

It  is  a  good  thing  for  storekeepers 
that  all  the  people  are  not  like  this 
lady,  or  it  certainly  would  be  very 
unsatisfactory  in  the  trading  world.

Meyer  M.  Cohen.

Charlevoix,  Mich.

Bogus  Sympathy.

“Why  does  Simpkins  persist 

telling  his  wife  she  doesn’t 
well?”

in 
look 

“He’s  afraid  that  if  she  decides 
not  to  go  to  Florida  he  will  miss  his 
annual  good  time  at  home.”

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WEDNESDAY  -  •  FEBRUARY  3,1904

HOW   TO   L IV E   LONG.

The  question  of  human  health  is 
one  of  the  most  important  that  can 
occupy  either  public  or  private  at­
tention.  Whether  we  are  engaged 
in  the  effort  to  prevent  or  to  stop 
general  epidemics  of  bodily  disease 
or  we  are  concerned  for  our  own  in­
dividual  health  and  that  of 
those 
nearest  to  us,  the  importance  of  the 
subject  is  generally  recognized.

into 

individual 

While  it  is  demanded  of  the  pub­
lic  sanitarian  that  he  shall  take  such 
precautions  as  will  fence  out  and 
provide  aginst  invasions 
the 
community  of  contagious  and  infec­
tious  diseases,  we  commonly  give but 
little  attention  to 
safe­
guards,  and  usually  omit  all  thought 
upon  the  subject  until  we  are  actual­
ly  stricken  with  some  bodily  disor­
der.  Then  we  make  hurried  and  anx­
ious  appeals  to  the  medical  man, and 
the  more  of  nauseous  or  otherwise 
unpalatable  medicines  he  makes  us 
swallow,  the  more  confidence  we 
have  in  his  skill  and  his  interest  in 
our  case.

to 

We  are  zealously  ready  to  follow 
the  doctor’s  prescriptions  as  to  de­
vouring  disagreeable  doses,  but  when 
he  talks  of  dieting,  of  reducing  our 
common  allowance  of  food  and  drink, 
and  of  actually  cutting  off  the  arti­
cles  that  we  regard  as  most  desira­
ble,  then  we  lose  confidence  in 
the 
ability  and  skill  of  the  medical  man. 
What  we  want  with  him  is  to  re­
lieve  us  of  pain, 
restore  our 
weakened  faculties  and  to  enable  us 
to  enjoy  as 
formerly  without  re­
straint.  The  medical  man  who  talks 
of  assisting  nature  by  rest,  temper­
ance,  abstinence  and  the  like  gains 
very  little  consideration  from  his pa­
tient. 
If  by  any  cause  our  body  and 
its  faculties  get out  of repair, we want 
a  skilled  physician  who  can  at  once 
set  them  going.  We  are  here  to  en­
joy  life  and  to  do  our  work,  and  it 
is  the  business  of  the  medical  man, 
when  our  strength  and  ability  are 
impaired,  to  restore  them  to  vigor 
without  delay.

Now  the  wise  physician  knows  that 
this  demand  is  wholly  unreasonable, 
and  that  a  bodily  disorder  which  has 
been  growing  into  seriousness,  as  the 
result  of  causes  which  have  perhaps 
been  long  in  operation,  can  not  be 
cured  in  a  moment.  He  can  relieve 
the  momentary  pain,  but  he  can not 
restore  to  their  proper  condition  dis­
ordered  nerves, 
inflamed  muscular

tissue,  organs  that  are  weary  with 
being  overtaxed,  functions  that  rebel 
against  the  abuses  that  have  been 
put  upon  them.  The  doctor  knows 
all  this,  but  he  knows  the  patient 
will  not  be  satisfied,  and  even  will 
not  be  cured,  unless  he  is  required  to 
submit  to  a  course  of  medication.

Thus  it  is  that  medical  men  are 
turned  out  of  school  to  practice  by 
the  thousand  every  year,  and  the  ma­
teria  medica  or  assortment  of  reme­
dies  is  increased  in  number  almost 
every  day.  There  are  diseases  which 
are  caused  by  the  introduction  into 
the  human  system  of  some  poison 
which  is  immediately  communicable 
to  great  numbers  of  persons  and 
even  to  most  of  the  people  of  an  en­
tire  community,  and  these  are  known 
as  contagious  and  infectious.  But  if 
the  community  be  protected  from  the 
introduction  of  the  specific  cause,  the 
disease  does  not  appear.

the  diseases 

It  is  to  guard  against  these  that 
public  health  boards  and  officials are 
employed.  But 
to 
which  we*are  most  liable  are  those 
from  which  no  public  sanitation  can 
guard  us.  They  are  those  which 
arise  from  the  violation  of  the  ordin­
ary 
life.  We  overburden 
the  system  with  excessive  eating  and 
drinking,  or  with  other  intemperate 
indulgences.  For  these  each 
indi­
vidual  is  personally  responsible,  and 
no  Board  of  Sanitarians  can  give  him 
any  protection.

laws  of 

Dr.  Roger  S.  Tracy,  writing  in  the 
Century  Magazine  for  February,  thus 
characterizes  this  overtaxing and mal­
treatment  by  human  beings  of  their 
physical  powers  and  health:

automatism. 

“To  begin  with,  the  majority  of 
men  start  out  in  life  with  a  pretty 
good  equipment.  The  human  body 
is  a  self-regulating  apparatus  of  ex­
traordinary  efficiency.  It  takes  in  its 
own  supplies  automatically  at  first 
and  partly  so  to  the  end,  distributes 
them  where  they  are  most  needed, 
makes  its  own  repairs,  gets  rid  of 
its  own  waste,  regulates  its  own  tem­
perature,  makes  provision  for  acci­
dents,  stores  up  in  fat  times  provi­
sion  for  lean  ones,  builds  its  own 
housing  and  makes  extensions  as re­
quired,  and  is  altogether  a  marvel  of 
what  might  almost  be  called  intelli­
gent 
Unfortunately, 
this  wonderful  mechanism  has  a  ten­
interfering 
ant  who  is 
with  it  in  the  performance  of 
its 
functions— an 
ignorant  tenant  who 
thinks  himself  the  master  when  he 
is  really  the  slave,  who  insists  on 
subjecting  it  to  his  own  caprice,  on 
making  it  work  when  it  should  rest, 
and  rest  when  it  should  work,  on 
feeding  it  when  it  is  groaning  with 
surfeit  and  starving  it  when 
is 
ravenous,  on  oiling  it  when  it  needs 
sand,  and  sanding  it  when  it  needs 
oil— and  who  behaves  throughout  in 
such  a  maladroit  and  bungling  man­
ner  that  this  admirable  outfit  is  fin­
ally  completely  wrecked,  its  last  act, 
at  the  end  of  a  tedious,  unavailing 
struggle,  being  the  eviction  of  the 
unruly  tenant  and  its  own  collapse. 
This  we  call  death.”

constantly 

The  medical  man  could  save  us 
much  suffering  if  we  would 
listen 
to  him,  but  we  will  not  until  pain 
and  anguish  long  endured  teach  ns

it 

to 

some  sense  and  reason.  We  at  last 
learn  to  avoid  those  excesses  which 
insure  us  trouble,  and  to  practice  the 
self-control  we  should  have  adopted 
long ago,  but  which  is  no  longer  diffi­
cult 
impaired  powers  and  vitali­
ty.  There  is  probably  no  particular 
regimen  of  food  and  drink  that  can 
be  considered  best,  but  whatever  is 
used  should  be  wholesome  and  nour­
ishing,  and  the  quantity  should  be 
moderate.

As  for  restoring  lost  faculties,  if 
rest  and  proper  living  will  not  ac­
complish  it,  no  drug  can.  Some  theor­
ists  have  sought  to  repair  the  rav­
ages  of  excesses  or  old  age  by  the 
injection  into  the  blood  of  a  serum 
from  the  tissues  of  animals  of  great 
virility,  while  others  have  used  infu­
sions  of  the  bodies  of  the  ant  or  em­
met,  which,  being,  despite  his  small 
size,  a  creature  of  extraordinary  ac­
tivity  and  energy,  was  supposed  to 
furnish  in  the  juices  of  his  body  re­
newed  muscular  power  to  the  aged 
and  debilitated.

But  the  simple  fact  is  that  a  man’s 
constitution  has  stored  up  in  it  a 
given  amount  of  health  and  strength 
and  activity. 
If  it  be  protected  and 
its  forces  used  with  care,  it  is  ca­
pable  of  furnishing  a  fair  proportion 
of  pleasure  as  well  as  useful  exertion. 
If  it  be  drawn  upon  by  constant  ex­
cesses,  it  will  be  all  the  sooner  ex­
hausted,  and  no  medication  will  make 
it  yield  more  than  its  capacity.

Inasmuch  as  it  is  the  London (Eng­
land)  Lady’s  Pictorial  that  publishes 
the  pronouncement,  it  must  be  true 
that  while  the  English  peerage  has 
for  many  years  been  recruited  from 
America,  the  sisters  and  daughters 
of  English  peers  have  shown  little 
disposition  to  enter  the  families from 
which  their  sisters-in-law  and  moth­
ers  and  step-mothers  have 
come. 
And  while  these  English  girls  are 
always  hearing  that  Americans make 
ideal  husbands,  they  do  not  see  value 
in  the  statement.  Contrary,  they  as­
sert  that  the  reason  why  American 
men  do  not  appeal  to  English  wom­
en  is  that  they  lack  manners,  while 
their  courtesy  and  admiration  de­
generate  into 
that 
breeds  contempt.  Furthermore  they 
are  business  machines,  and,  finally, 
they 
to 
dress.  This  presentation  reads  well, 
but  somehow  or  other  the impression 
is  quite  general  over  on  this  side 
that  the  sole  reason  why  American 
men  do  not  appeal  to  the  ladies  of 
England  is  that  they  do  not  desire 
them  as  wives  and  helpmates.

seldom  understand  how 

familiarity 

the 

The  temperance  movement,  which 
began  in  Japan  in  1873  with  a  society 
of  foreign  residents  of  Yokohama, 
has  grown  until  now  there  are  forty- 
six  of  these  societies  united 
in  a 
national 
The 
league. 
league  represents  3,617  members.  As 
a  result  of  their  agitation  a  bill  has 
been  passed  prohibiting  the  use  of 
tobacco  by  children  under 
twenty 
years  of  age.

temperance 

you 

Laugh  all 

can.  Laughing 
shakes  up  the  system,  makes 
the 
blood  circulate,  wakes  up  the  lungs, 
starts  digestion,  warms  the  feet.

A   N ATU RAL  CONSEQUENCE.
Away  back  in  “the  thirties” 

the 
Indians  and  half  breed  packers  made 
their  ways  from  the  head  waters  of 
the  Grand,  Flat  River  and 
the 
Thornapple  to  “The  Rapids,”  coming 
into  what  is  now  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids  over  the  well-beaten  trails 
now  known  as  Kalamazoo  avenue, 
the  Cascade  road  and  Robinson  road, 
thence  down  State  street,  Jefferson 
avenue,  Fulton  street  and  Monroe 
street  to  the  Campau  trading  post 
by  the  river.

Thus  it  was  that  Monroe  street 
and  its  sidelong  angle  were  devel­
oped.

For  nearly  seventy  years  this  fea­
ture  of  our  city  has  advanced  coin- 
cidently  with  the  general  evolution 
of  the  city,  just  as  the  pioneer  set­
tler’s  log  cabin  and  its  stump-decked 
dooryard,  developed  after  the  rest of 
the  quarter-section,  is  perfected.

Beginning  with  nothing  but  an 
axe,  a  crosscut  saw  and  abundant 
self  reliance,  the  homesteader 
im­
proves  everything  else  about  his 
domain  but  the  log  cabin.  He  saves 
that  change  for  the  last  and  he  en­
joys  the  old  home  in  the  thought 
that,  when  he  builds  his  new  resi­
dence,  it  will  possess  all  the  mod­
ern  improvements  except  a  mort­
gage.

So  it  is  with  Monroe  street.  Sug­
gested  by  the  Indians,  it  has  been 
the  im­
carried  thus  far  by  force  of 
provements  that  surround  it. 
It  is 
a  Natural  Consequence  and,  while it 
is  rather  “spotty”  in  its  present  ex­
cellences  and  its  weaknesses,  it  is 
permanent. 
It  has  moved  steadily 
ahead  in  exact  accordance  with  the 
dictates  of  the  conditions  creating  it 
and  no  thing  that  is  successful  has 
made  its  record  on  any  other  basis.
Presently,  and  the  time  is  not  far 
off,  the  Public  Library  building,  the 
great  mercantile  and  manufacturing 
establishments,  north  and  south, and 
the  homes  and  schools  and  churches 
east  and  west,  will  hold  a  convention, 
a  spontaneous,  instantaneous  demon­
stration,  and  issue  an  ultimatum; and, 
like  magic,  the  old  Indian  trail  will 
blossom  into  an  ornate  and  glorious 
example  of  architectural  excellence.
Meanwhile,  in  all  probability,  the 
general  environment  will  continue to 
keep  busy  to  the  end  that  Monroe 
street,  as  the  foreordained  speaker 
of  the  last  word  in  our  city’s  metro­
politan  development,  may 
speak 
abundantly,  accurately  and  beyond 
the  reach  of  any  future  impeachment.
So,  then,  we  will  permit  the  own­
ers  of  property  on  Monroe  street  to 
seem  timid;  we  will,  with  them,  rest 
content  with  the  present  returns  up­
on  present  investments,  and  with 
them  we  will  rejoice  over  every  new 
development  east,  west,  north  or 
south,  serene  in  our  confidence  in 
the  old  trail  of  the  Indians.

Any  man  who  signs  a  union  scale 
ceases  to  be  a  man  and  becomes  a 
puppet  in  the  hands  of  the  walking 
delegate,  who  plays  with  him  as  a 
giant  plays  with  a  pigmy.

Disorder  in  a  political  meeting  sel­
dom  begins  until  after  it  is  called  to 
order.

GROW TH  O F  GRAFT

Confined  To  No  Class,  Clique  or 

Clan.

Emerson  said  some  years  ago:
“The  young  man,  on  entering  life, 
finds  the  way  to  lucrative  employ­
ment  blocked  with  abuses.  The 
ways  of  trade  are  grown  selfish  to 
the  borders  of  theft,  and  supple 
to 
the  borders  (if  not  beyond  the  bor­
ders)  of  fraud.” 
If  a  keen  observer 
like  Emerson  saw  abuses  many years 
ago  that  led  him  to  say that the ways 
of  trade  “had  grown  selfish  to  the 
borders  of  theft  and  supple  beyond 
the  borders  of  fraud,”  what  would  be 
his  observation  to-day?  The  wide­
spread  ethical  tragedy  of  this  age  is 
designated  by the  name  of  “grafting.” 
What  is  this  modern  sin  of  grafting? 
It  is  a  combination  of  the  two  an­
cient  sins  of  stealing  and  deceiving. 
It  is  thievery  and  fraud  practiced  by 
those  in  positions  of  trust  and  by 
virtue  of  their  positions.  Says  Jo- 
siah  Flynt,  who,  in  his  article  enti­
tled  “The  World  of  Graft,”  has 
brought  the  word  graft  prominently 
before  public  attention,  “The  word 
graft  is  a  generic  slang  term  for  all 
kinds  of  theft  and  illegal  practices 
generally.  In  some  cases  it  also  cov­
ers  transactions  which  are  within  the 
letter  of  written  law,  but  wholly  out­
side  the  law  covering  equitable  treat­
ment  of  one’s  neighbor.”

*  *  *

Another  writer  defines  graft 

A  grafter  is  one  who  makes  his 
living— and  sometimes  his  fortune—  
by  grafting.  He  may  be  a  political 
“boss,”  a  mayor,  a  chief  of  police,  a 
warden  of  a  penitentiary,  a  munici­
pal  contractor,  a  member  of the  town 
council,  a  representative  in  the  legis­
lature,  or  a  judge  in  the  courts.  *  * 
The  ‘World  of  Graft’ 
is  wherever 
known  or  unknown  thieves,  bribe­
givers  and  bribe-takers  congregate.”
as 
follows:  “Graft  is  an  extorted  profit 
from  an  official  representative  posi­
tion. 
It  is  the  purchase  price  of  an 
unfair  favor;  an  accepted  bribe  in 
consideration  of  which  the  tender  is 
permitted  to  violate  or  evade  a  law. 
Graft  is  money  stolen  in  perfidy  to 
a  confidence  reposed  in  a  representa­
It  is  the  price  of  official  dis­
tive. 
honor. 
It  is  a  dishonest  perquisite.” 
This  is  sufficient  to  define  the  thing.
So  far  as  our  municipality  is  con­
cerned  we  have  been  brought  face to 
face  with  the  fact  on  the  confession 
of  certain  guilty  officials  to  whom 
we  had  entrusted  our  public  busi­
ness;  and  very  generally  throughout 
the  United  States  the  people  have 
grown  familiar  with  grafting  on  the 
part  of  public  officials.

But  what  shall  we  say  of 

the 
words  of  the  President  of  a  great 
corporation,  in  writing  of  “Grafting 
in  Public  and  Private  Business,”  in 
a  recent  magazine  article,  when  he 
writes:  “Ask  the  average  man  wheth­
er  public  or  private  business  is  more 
corrupt  and  he  will  at  once  decide 
that  public  business 
is  the  worse, 
whereas  the  reverse 
truth 
is 
when  the  business  is  of  equal  volume. 
Here  we  have  the  spectacle  of  wide­
spread  corruption  on  the  part  of 
Government  officials  in  the  postoffice 
and  among  municipal  officials  at

the 

M ICHIGAN  TB A D E SM A N

home  and  in  other  cities— what  are 
we  to  this  judgment  of  a  hard-head­
ed  business  man  that  it  is  even  worse 
in  private  business?  Can  we  afford 
to  be  complacent  in  the  presence  of 
evil  of  such  magnitude?  Are  hon­
esty  and  integrity  becoming  lost  vir­
tues  among  the  people  of  America? 
Pulpits may wax eloquent in rebuking 
the  sins  of  Rehoboam  and  hurl  shafts 
of  wrath  at  those  in  the  New  Testa­
ment  who  robbed  widows’  houses, but 
here  are  evils  confessed  to,  and  ad­
mitted  to  exist,  right  in  our  midst, 
which  would  make  ancient  Israelitish 
swindlers  feel  like 
amateurs,  and 
New  Testament  hypocrites  blush with | 
shame  for  their  inability.

Without  any  question  this  evil  is 
the  greatest  one  confronting  our  civ­
ilization. 
It  threatens  the  very  pil­
lars  of  society,  drives  business  to  an 
unscrupulous  scramble  and  dooms |

spend,  if  necessary,  he  asked  a  deco­
rator,  pointing  to  a  statue  of  Mer­
cury,  “What  is  that?”  He 
replied, 
“Mercury,  the  god  of  merchants  and 
thieves.”  “Bully!”  cried  Tweed, “put  j 
him  over  the  front  door.”  And  the 
cult  which  worships  this  idol  has  in­
creased  since  his  day,  while  in  mu­
nicipal  corruption  certainly 
things 
have  grown  no  better.

In  1894  the  Lexow  Investigating 
Committee  in  New  York  gathered 
evidence  of  grafting  that  was  appall­
ing. 
It  showed  that  the  police  de­
partment  was  a  whited  sepulcher, full 
of  all  uncleanness.  Blackmailing, ex­
tortion,  corruption  in  almost  every 
form  were  running  unchecked.  For 
instance,  there  was  a  civil  service ex­
amination  to  be  passed  before  a  can­
didate  could  be  admitted  to  the  po­
lice  force.  But,  by  employing  a  pro­
fessional  personator,  candidates were

George  Elliott  Cooley

even  religion  to  pretense. 
It  steals 
into  the  factory  through  some  re­
sponsible  foreman;  it  sneaks  into  the 
trusted  em­
office  through 
ploye;  it 
the  home 
through  servants,  grocers  and  milk­
men;  it  ramifies  our  whole  social  fab­
ric.

creeps 

some 

into 

The  King  of  Grafters,  one  of 

the 
first  in  this  country  to  adopt  grafting 
as  a  profession,  was  Boss  Tweed.  He 
is  said  to  have  taken  $167,000,000 
from  New  York  City  during  his  ca­
reer.  This  is  only  one-fourth  the 
war  tax  levied  by  the  German  gov­
ernment  on  the  city  of  Paris  after 
the  Franco-Prussian  war.  Grafting 
is  more  expensive  than  war.  The 
great  Chicago  fire  of  1871  cost  only 
$30,000,000  more.  Fraud  costs near­
ly  as  much  as fire.  When  Tweed was 
building  a  house  at  Greenwich  and 
boasting  that  he  had  $20,000,000 
to

passed  who  never  entered  the  exam­
ination  hall,  and  were  afterward 
blackmailed  by  the  police  officials. 
Police  captains  had  a  regular  graft­
ing  schedule,  the  committee  discover­
ed.  Policy  shops,  open  contrary 
to 
law,  paid  $20  per  month;  liquor  deal­
ers  $80;  pool  rooms  $200,  and  disor­
derly  houses  from  $10  to  $500  ac­
cording  to  their  size.  One  police 
captain  confessed  to  have  grafted 
over  $11,000  in  less  than  four  years! 
The  patrolmen  held  up  poor  foreign­
ers,  compelled  bootblacks,  push-cart 
venders,  fruit-stand  keepers  and cor­
ner  grocers  to  pay  tribute  to  them. 
Even  some  police-court  justices were 
in  the  game  and  received  a  rake-off 
for  convicting  a  prisoner  who  dared 
refuse  to  pay  a  policeman.  The  re­
port  shows  that  the  proprietors  of 
disorderly  houses  not  only  paid  for 
their  illegal  privilege  but  the  outcast

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women  were,  for  pay,  permitted  to 
solicit  on  certain  beats.  These  public 
grafters  were  simply  toll-collectors 
on  the  road  to  social  hell.

Since  this  exposure  of  corruption 
in  New  York  City  we  have  had 
brought  to  public  notice  the  condi­
tions  in  Minneapolis  and  St.  Louis, 
and  now  our  own  city  has  a  blot 
that  makes  us  want  to  hide 
our 
heads  in  shame.  We  have  also  had 
the  postoffice  scandal.

their 

states 

Yet  the  business  man  tells  us  that, 
great  as  is  the  evil  of  grafting 
in 
public  business,  it  is  worse  in  pri­
vate. 
In  a  recent  magazine  article 
he  points  how  a  purchasing  agent for 
a  railroad  on  a  salary  of  $2,000  was 
able  in  a  single  year  to  build  a  home 
worth  $25,000!  He 
cases 
where  even  presidents  and  vice- 
presidents  of  certain  companies  ac­
cepted  bribes  to  disregard  the  inter­
ests  entrusted  to 
care.  He 
speaks  of  the  heads  of  departments 
in  large  stores  receiving  5  per  cent, 
commission  to 
recommend  certain 
supplies.  He  even  points  out  how 
janitors  in  flats  must  be  bribed  by 
milk  dealers  not  to  cause  accidents 
that  will  lose  customers.  He  shows 
us  the  grafting  methods  of  Schwab 
and  Morgan,  and  the  ability  of  the 
great  steel  magnate  now  giving  away 
libraries,  how  his 
successful 
venture  was  the  formation 
a 
bridge  company,  the  stock  of  which 
was  distributed 
purchasing 
agents,  directors  and  other  officials 
of  railroads  to  which  subsequently 
nine-tenths  of  the  bridge  company’s 
sales  were  made. 
If  any  one  will 
take  the  trouble  to  read  the  history 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Co.  in  “Wealth 
vs.  Commonwealth”  he  will  get  an 
account,  with  affidavits,  of  the  great­
est  grafter  that  ever  went  unpun­
ished.

first 

of 

to 

come  nearer 
Let  us,  however, 
home  and  see  how 
the 
spirit  of 
grafting,  the  desire  to  get  something 
beyond  wages,  unbeknown  to 
the 
employer,  is  permeating  all  ranks of 
society.  Not  long  ago  a  messenger 
boy  came  to  the  house  with  a  pack­
age  for  the  delivery  of  which  he 
had  been  paid  and  attempted  to  col­
lect  again.  Last  fall  a  gentleman in 
another  state,  whose  word  would 
pass  for  his  bond  in  his  community, 
told  me  of  the  conductors  on  a  cer­
tain  piece  of  railroad,  and  said  that 
he  never  bought  a  ticket  except  for 
one  conductor.  He  added:  “I  know 
him  and  said  to  him,  ‘Why  don’t  you 
get  in  on  this  and  get  your  rake-off 
with  the  rest  of  the  boys?  You  will 
never  succeed  in  this  world.'”

We  read,  too,  of  the  union  labor 
leader  who  sells  his  ability  to  cause 
or  break  a  strike, 
thus  accepting 
graft  both  from  the  contractor  and 
the  party  building.  A  business  man 
of  my  acquaintance  tells  me  that  in 
most  printing  offices  the  pressman 
buys  the  ink  and  it  is  the  usual  thing 
for  one  firm  to  pay  him  25  per  cent, 
commission  to  hold  the  trade.  One 
Sunday  the  proprietor  of  a  certain 
printing  establishment  discovered his 
pressman  burning  the  ink  in  a  fur­
nace  so  that  he  could  buy  another 
lot  and  get  his  25  per  cent. 
I  have 
learned  that  there  are  great  frauds 
in  lubricating  oils,  and 
the

that 

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

“Have  to  do 

I  am  told  that  the  foremen 

agents  for  certain  houses  offer  com­
missions  to  purchasing  agents  to get 
their  patronage. 
it,” 
says  the  bribe-giver,  “the  others  do.” 
“They  all  do  it,”  says  the  bribe-tak­
er. 
in 
the  finishing  rooms  of  certain  furni­
to 
ture  factories  have  been  known 
put  something  into  the  varnish 
to 
“queer  it”— to  keep  it  from  drying— 
unless  given  a  consideration  by 
the 
agent  selling  the  varnish.  A  certain 
coal  dealer  admits  that  about  once 
in  so  often  he  is  obliged  to  give  pres­
ents  to  the  union  firemen  of  large 
factories  or  else  his  coal  is 
too  poor 
to  do  the  work.  A  bakery  purchased 
flour  of  a  certain  firm.  The  boss 
baker  asked  the  agent  what  there  was 
“in 
it”  for  him.  He  was  refused 
anything.  Soon  after  the  flour  mil­
ler  received  notice  that  the  flour was 
poor.  Suspecting  where  the  trouble 
lay,  the  agent  asked  permission 
to 
secret  a  detective  to  watch  the  boss 
baker,  and  the  detective  saw  the  bak­
er  mix  part  of  a  box  of  “Gold  Dust” 
with  the  flour. 
I  am  informed  that 
a  certain 
that 
makes  church  furniture  is  often  ob­
liged  to  “throw  in”  a  desk  to  the 
minister  in  order  to  make  the  sale—  
and  frequently  the  clergyman  hints 
that  he  would  like  a  chair,  also.  An 
undertaker  informs  me  that  some  of 
the  unscrupulous  in  his  business  pay 
a  commission  to  certain  nurses  for 
every  “case”  turned  over  to  them.

furniture  company 

Here  is  an  evil,  friends,  in  all  its 
ugliness.  Of  the  two,  grafting  in 
private  business  seems  the  more  se­
rious.  Public  grafting  is  always  sub­
ject  to  exposure  and  loss  of  reputa­
tion  follows  the  offense. 
In  private 
business,  where  it  exists,  it  is  like 
a  hidden  cancer  eating  at  the  vitals 
of  life.  No  business  firm  is  going 
to  expose  itself  to  loss  of  reputation 
even  when  it  finds  an  employe  graft­
ing;  the  guilty  one  is  simply  dis­
charged. 
In  some  firms  it  is  going 
on  in  full  knowledge  and  by  the  en­
couragement  of 
If 
dishonest  undertakers  bribe  nurses 
to  turn  over  “cases”  to  them  it  is 
only  a  step  for  a  dishonest  nurse  to 
hurry  up  the  “case”  a  little.  A  lady 
tells  me  that  she  tried  to  procure  a 
position  for  a  girl  from  the  country 
in  a  certain  department  store.  Be­
ing  told  that  the  pay  was  only  $3 
per  'week,  she  said  it  was  not  enough 
for  the  girl  to  live  on.  “Let  her  get 
some  man  to  support  her!”  said  the 
proprietor.

superiors. 

the 

Brothers,  we  are  going  forward in 
pretense  if  we  claim  ignorance  of 
this  greatest  sin  of  modern  times. 
We  are  like  ostriches  hiding  our 
heads  so  as  to  prevent  our  seeing. 
Men  giving  gifts  to  colleges,  posing 
as  philanthropists  and  distributing li­
braries,  admit  that  they  gave  bribes 
to  secure  their  fortunes.  Graft 
is 
It  runs  all the 
confined  to  no  class. 
way  from 
that 
are 
over-capitalized,  monopolies 
charging  all  the  traffic  will  bear,  rail­
roads  making  rebates,  and  unjustly 
discriminating 
in  supplying  means 
and  rates  of  transportation,  to  the 
errand  boy  trying  to  collect  double 
charges  and  to  keep  one  himself,  or 
the  street  car  conductor  ringing  up 
fewer  fares  than  he  is  collecting.

large  corporations 

selfishness. 

state.  And 

Surely  one  can  not  but  feel  that 
as  a  people  we  have  reached  a  de­
plorable  moral 
that 
which  has  driven  us  there  is  down­
right,  unalloyed 
The 
grafter  in  business  or  politics  is  on 
the  pay  roll  of  Evil.  Some  selfish  in­
terest  is  back  of  him,  like  the  appro­
priation  back of a professional  lobby­
ist.  Says  a  vigorous  writer: 
“The 
gsafter  is  an  effect,  not  a  cause.  He 
is  retained  by  dishonest  business  in­
terests,  the  henchmen  of  greedy  men 
who  do  not  hesitate  to  plunder  their 
fellows  by  corrupting  those  who  are 
paid  to  protect  them.”

A  sense  of  offended  conscience  is 
slowly  creeping  upon  us  all.  When 
it  gains  full  headway  it  will  first cry, 
“Woe  unto you,  hypocrites  and liars!” 
The  next  stage  will  be  when  we  get 
away  from  the  self-righteousness  that 
fails  to  see  that  we  are  all  concerned 
is 
in  it,  for  the  tragedy  of  all  this 
that  each  of  us  is  involved  in  it  
It | 
seems  to  me  that  we  must  all  feel 
some  guilt  for  a  sin  that  is  so  univer­
sal.  The  political  debauchery  of  the 
time— grafting  in  public  life— is  ours, 
not  the  professional  politicians’  alone. 
It  is  ours.  We  need  to  feel  that 
throb  of  conscience  that  will  bring 
the  sense  of  shame  to  us  all  and 
teach  us  that  our  individual  life  is 
but  a  function  of  the  race  life.  Even 
if  we  are  not  in  this  grafting  we  are 
of  it.  We  can  not  draw  around  our­
selves  a  circle  of  self-righteousness 
and  say,  “My  skirts  are  clean.”  We 
are  all  members  of  the  same  great 
social body.

I  know  from  talking  with  men and j 
women  that  the  facts  and  forces  at j 
work  in  the  political  and  industrial i 
world  to-day  under 
the  name  o f > 
grafting  violate  the  best  instincts—  j 
I  even  in  those  who  yield  to  the  temp- : 
tation.  You  never  gave— nor  did  a ; 
j  porter  on  a  train  ever  receive— a  tip ■ 
that  both  did  not  feel  a  little  sneaky 
I  about  it.  And  we  all  give 
“tips.” !
I  The  blood  of  our  brothers  killed  b y ;
|  adulterated  foods  put  upon  the  mar- j 
I  ket  by  grafters  is  upon  our  heads— !
I  we,  too,  look  for  what 
is  “cheap.” j 
| The  sweat  shop  conditions  are  ours—  i 
we  buy  the  clothes.  We  are  obliged j 
:  to  ride  on  over-capitalized  railroads j 
if  we  go  at  all.  We  must  put  sugar j 
>  in  our  coffee  even  if  we  know  it  is I 
;  true,  as  Senator  Sherman  said,  that 
!  “sugar  is  controlled  by  a  trust  that 
j  upon  a  basis  of  nine  millions  issued 
|  seventy-five  millions  of  stock,  and ten 
millions  of bonds,  and paid  on  its  wa- 
I  tered  stock  and  all  from  6  to  12  per 
cent  dividend.”  We  are  obliged  to 
warm  ourselves  by  coal  which  we 
know  is  tainted  by  graft  We  are 
;  so  involved  in  this  intricate  system 
of  things  that  we  can  not  keep  our 
hands  out  of our  brothers’  blood.  We 
might  I  suppose, in  self-righteousness 
j  say,  “I  will  die  before  I  will  touch 
anything  tainted,”  and,  like  Thoreau, 
take  to  the  woods  and  refuse  to  pay 
j our  taxes.  But  that  is  not  the  way 
of  life  or  virtue.  That  is  guilt  and 
death.  Society  is  so  involved  in  this 
that  the  only  courageous  thing  to  do 
is  to stay upon  the  firing line  and help 
i meet  the  conditions. 
to 
me  that this  prevalent  sin,  when  trac­
ed  to  its  cause,  presents  the  greatest 
j ethical  tragedy  of  the  age,  and  all  ;

It  seems 

who  have  hearts  to  feel  and  con­
sciences  any  way  sensitive  must  be 
enduring  a  moral  suffering  that 
is 
intense.

While  I  know  this  is  the  product 
of  selfishness,  I  am  far  from  saying 
that  the  majority  of  people  are  bad. 
Quite  the  contrary  is  true.  Love  is 
still  the  highest  impulse  of  life,  and 
even  grafters  are  thinking  of 
loved 
ones  when  they  steal.

Some  one  says,  “The  highest  right 
of  every  man  is  the  right  to  do 
right.”  And  that  is  true.  Our  fath­
ers  crossed  an  unknown  sea  that they 
might  have  the  “right  to  do  right”  in 
matters  of  worship,  and  we  glorify 
them.  Later  some  of  them  made  an­
other  moral  venture  in  politics— cut 
loose  from  the  old  and  formed  a 
Government  in  which 
they  might 
have  “the  right  to  do  right,”  and  we 
glorify  them,  even  although  grafting 
has  kept  their  experiment  from  suc­
cess.

But  we,  although  some  may  fail  to 
see  it,  are  on  the  verge  of  another 
moral  venture,  the  greatest  the  world 
has  yet  taken— to  so  organize  indus­
trial  and social  conditions,  so  regulate 
and  control  public  and  private  busi- 
I  ness  that man  involved  in  it  will  have 
j  “the  right  to  do  right.” 
It  is  the 
|  greatest  task  the  conscience  of 
the 
1  race  has  yet  been  summoned  to. 
It 
j  will  take  the  first  step  in  making  that 
1 business  which  is  now  semi-public,
!  public  business. 
It  will  not  permit 
;  that  which  is  already  public  business 
j  to  become  “private”  business  in 
the 
hands  of one  grafter or a set of graft- 
j  ers.  And  in  time  it  will  lead  all  to 
see  that  there  is,  strictly  speaking, no 
“private”  business  but  that  each  pro­
prietor  is  the  trusted  agent  of society, 
bound  to  give  some  account  of  his 
stewardship.  Even  now  public  busi­
ness  is  less  corrupt  than  private  busi­
ness.  Therefore,  I  agree  with  those 
students  of  these  problems  who  hold 
that  the  public  must  take  over  more 
and  more  the  industries  of  society. 
Some  day  we  shall  see  business  or­
ganized  on  the  basis  of  co-operation, 
administered  according  to  the  law  of 
love.  And  because  I  believe  so  firm­
ly  in  that  law  of Jesus  I  dare  to  face 
and  speak  of the  evils  of grafting,  for 
it  has  the  power  to  ultimately  over­
come  selfishness  and  corruption.

Geo.  Elliott  Cooley.

Some  Wise  Old  Sayings.

A  blithe  heart  makes  a  blooming 

visage.

not felt.

lant  foe.

Avarice 

generally  miscalculates, 

and  as  generally  deceives.

A  burden  which  one  chooses 

is 

A  man  had  better  be  poisoned  in 

his  blood  than  in  his  principles.

A  careless  watch  invites  a  vigi­

A  virtuous  mind  in  a  fair  body  is 

like  a  fine  picture  in  a  good  light.

Acquire  honesty; 

seek  humility; 

practice  economy;  love  fidelity.

A   clean  glove  often  hides  a  dirty 

A  contented  mind  is  a  continual 

feast.

Adversity  willingly  undergone  is 

the  greatest  virtue.

A  cracked  bell  is  never  sound.
Adversity  successfully  overcome  is 

the  highest  glory.

A  drowning  man  will  catch  at  a 

Affairs  must  suffer  when  recreation 

is  preferred  to  business.

A  faithful  friend  is  a  strong  de­

straw.

fense.

A  man  that  outlives  his  reputation 

soon  becomes  miserable.

Affectation  in  dress  implies  a  flaw 

in  the  undertaking.

A  faithful  friend  is  the  medicine 

A  flatterer  is  a  most  dangerous en­

Affectation  of  wisdom  often  pre­

vents  our  becoming  wise.

A  fool’s  heart  is  ever  dancing  on 

A  false-grounded  hope  is  but  a 

waking  man’s  dream.

A  fop  is  the  tailor’s  friend  and  his 

own  foe.

A   good  word  for  a  bad  one 

is 

worth  much  and  costs  little.

A  friend  is  never  known  until 

of  life.

emy.

his  lips.

needed.

given.

season.

ter.

A  passionate  man  rides  a  horse 

that  runs  away  with  him.

A   gift  long  waited  for  is  sold, not 

A  bad  man,  whatever  his  rank,  has 

a  blot  on  his  escutcheon.

A  good  maxim  is  never  out  of 

A  good  servant  makes  a  good  mas­

A  precipitate  choice  makes  way for 

a  long  repentance.

A  good  tale,  ill  told,  is  a  bad  one.
Anger  is  like  a  ruin,  which  breaks 

itself  upon  what  it  falls.

A  good  life  keeps  off  wrinkles.

The 

His  Happiest  Moment.
late  William  L.  Elkins,  the 
street  railway  magnate  of  Philadel­
phia,  was  gifted  with  a  grim  humor. 
This  humor  a  certain  Philadelphia 
reporter  has  good  cause  to  remem­
ber.

He  visited  Mr.  Elkins  some  years 
ago,  to  procure  one  of  those  bizarre 
interviews  that  sometimes  appear  in 
Sunday  papers.  The  getting  of  such 
interviews  requires  the  asking  of  a 
number  of  peculiar  questions,  and 
the  reporter  opened  fire  in  this  way:
“Mr.  Elkins,  how  did  you  earn 

your  first  thousand  dollars?”

The  millionaire 

frowned, 

then 

smiled.

“By  hard  work,”   he  answered.
Daunted  a  little,  the  reporter, 

in 
silence,  tried  to  think  up  the  next 
question.  Presently  he  found  it. 
It 
was:

“Mr.  Elkins,  you  have  lived  a  good 
many  years;  now  tell  me— what  has 
been  the  happiest  moment  of  your 
life.”

“It  hasn’t  come  yet,”  said  Mr.  El­

“Not  yet?  When,  then,  will 

it 
come?”  The  reporter’s  eyes  shone. 
Now  he  expected  something good.

“It  will  come,”  said  Mr.  Elkins, 
foolish 

“when  people  cease  asking 
questions.

hand.

sation.

A  chaste  eye  exiles  licentious  looks.
Against  fortune  oppose  courage; 

kins.

against  passion,  reason.

A  clear  conscience  fears  no  accu­

A  man  that  breaks  his  word  bids 

others  be  false  to  him

M ICH IGAN  TR A D ESM A N

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M AKING  BO TTLES. 

Automatic  Devices  Installed  in Glass 

Manufactories.

The  revolutionizing  effect  of 

the 
introduction  of  no  piece  of  machin­
ery  has  been  more  quickly  or  more 
thoroughly  brought  about  than  that 
which  is  taking  place  now  as 
the 
result  of 
the  general  adoption  of 
the  automatic  mechanical  devices 
which  are  being  installed  in  many 
for  working 
parts  of  the  country 
glass.  Until  a  few  years  ago 
the 
glassblower  was  the  autocrat  of  the 
labor  world.  He  received  enormous­
ly  high  wages  for  the  work  done  by 
him  and  dictated  absolutely  in  the 
matter  of  shop  regulations  so  that 
his  reign  might  be  made  indefinite. 
It  was  little  thought  that  the  field 
would  be  invaded  by  the  machine, 
as  has  been  almost  every  other  char­
acter  of  labor,  but 
the  machines 
which  have  been  perfected 
and 
adopted  by  the  largest  companies are 
far-reaching,  and  almost  in  a  mo- j 
ment  the  glassblower  finds  himself 
shorn  of  the  autocratic  powers  he 
so  recently  exercised.  The  machines 
dispense  with  the  skilled  artisans  al­
most  entirely,  and  do  a  great  deal 
more  work  quite  as  well.

The  center  of  the  glassblowing in­
dustry  has  been  shifted  from  one 
state  to  another  as  a  result  of 
the 
machine’s  adoption.  Not  only  have 
shops  and  warerooms  been  carried 
over  the  state  line,  but  a  great  deal 
of  money  has  been  withdrawn  from 
the  banking  institutions  of  one  com­
munity  and  carried  to  another.

The  progress  which  has  been  made

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

an 

I  in  the  invention  of  machinery  for 
the  manufacture  of  glassware  is  re- 
!  markably  shown  in 
apparatus 
which  is  now  in  operation  in  the  city 
of  Toledo,  Ohio. 
It  is  termed  an 
automatic  bottle  machine,  and  really 
merits  the  title,  for  the  reason  that 
it  does  away  with  human  aid  in  all 
the  processes  from  blowing  to  finish­
ing.  The  Owens  machine,  as  it  is 
called,  after  its  inventor,  is  the  re­
sult  of  a  series  of  experiments  ex­
tending  over  a  period  of  four  years, 
and  it  is  stated  that  in  all  nearly 
$150,000  was  expended  in  perfecting 
it.  As  a  result  it  has  reached  such 
a  degree  that  one  man  can  attend  to 
a  series  of  three  machines,  which  will 
actually  do  as  much  work  as 
150 
skilled  employes.

The  machine  is  mounted  upon  a 
traveling  platform,  which  allows  it 
to  be  moved  at  the  will  of  the  opera­
tor  by  means  of  an  electric  motor 
with  which  it  is  connected.  Adja­
cent  to  it  is  a  tank  furnace,  as  well 
as  annealing  oven.  Although 
the 
apparatus  appears  soniewhat  compli­
cated,  its  operation  is  comparatively 
simple.  Taking  the  molten  glass 
from  the 
tank  which 
serves  it,  it  gathers  its  glass,  forms 
the  blank,  transfers  the  blank  from 
the  gathering  to  the  blow  mold,  then 
blows  the  bottle.  Each  machine  has 
a  capacity  for  gathering  and  blowing 
nine  pint  or  quart  bottles  every  min­
ute.  As  fast  as  blown  the  bottles  are 
delivered  to  the  annealing  oven  by 
means  of  an  automatic  conveyor  ad­
justed  so  that it  takes  away the  prod­
uct  as  fast  as  manufactured.  As  is

continuous 

to 

well  known,  the  majority  of  bottles 
now  manufactured  by  hand  require 
extra  processes  in  order 
finish 
them  at  the  lip  and  neck,  for  which 
small  furnaces  heated  by  oil  or  gas 
are  used.  This  mechanical  bottle- 
maker,  however,  finishes  the  ware so 
completely  that  none  of  the  extra 
labor  referred  to  is  required,  as  the 
blank  bottle  comes  from  the  gather­
ing  to  the  blow  mold  with  lip  and 
ring  already  finished.  As  it  can  be 
worked  continuously,  a  single  ma­
chine  has  a  capacity  of  nearly  13,000 
bottles  every  twenty-four  hours.

French  Politeness.

Does  it  pay  to  be  polite?  is  a  ques­
tion  often  asked  and  generally  an­
swered  in  the  affirmative.  An  Amer­
ican  woman,  residing  in  the  French 
Capital,  however,  is  of  the  opinion 
that  it  is  a  waste  of valuable  time fre­
quently  to  observe  the  conventions. 
She  lives  at a  hotel,  and bitterly com­
plains  that  she 
loses  “twenty-four 
hours  out  of  each  week  saying  good 
morning  and  good  evening  to  the 
men,  women,  little  children  and  dogs 
about  her,”  after  the  elaborate  fash­
ion  of  the  French  people. 
“If  you 
encounter  the  same  person  twenty- 
five  times  in  the  same  day,”  she  says, 
“you  must  each  time  smile  rapturous­
ly,  pause,  at  least  shake  hands  if  you 
do  not  kiss,  ceremoniously  enquire 
how  he  or  she  is  ‘going’  and  cere­
moniously  bid  him  or  her  au  revoir 
at  parting.

“Not  only  every  man  and  woman 
expects  this,  but  all  the  little  chil­
dren  toddle  up  to  you,  shake  hands 
and  exact  the  same  amount  of  cere­

mony.  Then  every  well-regulated 
French  family  has  a  dog  who  more 
than  likely  occupies  a  chair  and  eats 
off  a  plate  beside  you  at  the  table, 
so  that  it  is  considered  churlish  if 
you  do  not  also  stop  and  tell  the  dog 
bon  jour  and  au  revoir  a  dozen times 
a  day,  pausing  to  take  the  paw  which 
he  is  prettily  taught to extend  to you.
“When  the  washerwoman  brings 
home  your  linen  there  are  at  least 
five  minutes  spent  in  ceremoniously 
greeting  and  parting  from  her. 
In 
the  operation  of receiving  and  paying 
for  linen,  you  exchange  mercies  and 
pardons  not  fewer  than 
times. 
Any  other  serving  person  or  trades­
man  who  comes  to  do  business  with 
you  throughout  the  day,  you  similar­
ly  receive  with  bon.  jour,  monsieur, 
and  au  revoir,  monsieur,  and 
then 
you  thank  him  and  beg  his  par­
don  as  often  as  you  can  possibly  get 
the  words  into  the  length  of  time  he 
has  to  stay.  Then  the  servants  reg­
ularly  employed  about  the  house  are 
eternally  appearing  and  demanding 
bon  jours  and  pardons  and  mercies. 
This  last  word  is  so  constantly  in 
use  among  the  French  that  it  keeps 
up  a  sort  of  hissing  sound  which  dis­
turbs  American  nerves  a  little  until 
one  grows  accustomed  to  it.”

ten 

A  looking  glass  is  something  like 
this  world,  if  you  smile  and  look 
sunny,  it  smiles  in  response;  if  you 
laugh,  it  laughs  back;  if  you  shake 
your  fist  in  it,  a  fist  is  shaken  back 
at  you.

Great  men  are  made  from  good, 

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M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

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A R T   O P  SINGING.

Fears  That  It  May  Ultimately  Be 

Lost.

Just  as  we  were  beginning  to  pride 
ourselves  that  we  were  a  musical na­
tion,  when  American  prima  donnas 
are  writing  their  names  high  on  the 
lists  of  fame,  when  seasons  of  opera 
are  held  annually  in  all  large  Amer­
ican  cities  and  “discoveries”  of  won­
derful  voices,  male  and  female,  are 
reported  from  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  comes  a  high  musical  authority 
proclaiming  that  singing  itself  is  a 
lost  art,  and  that  what  we  are  ac­
cepting  in  its  stead,  and,  incidentally, 
lauding  to  the  skies,  is  but  a  travesty 
upon  the  human  voice  as  the  perfect­
ed  expression  of  the  most  wonderful 
of  instruments,  whose  strings  are  the 
vocal  chords.

that 

It  is  not  possible  for  a  layman  to 
pass  upon  the  merits  of  this  contro­
versy,  which  is  destined  to  provoke 
wide  discussion  and  much  bitterness 
of  feeling,  but  the  most  casual  read­
er  can  not  fail  to  feel  the  justice  of 
certain  clauses  in  the  indictment  pre­
sented  against  the  singers  of 
the 
day.  Briefly  summarized,  they  are 
condemned  upon 
two  grounds— the 
one  that  they  sing  with  improperly 
developed  voices,  which  they  do  not 
properly  use;  the  other 
the 
most  of  them  make  no,  pretense  of 
being  vocal  artists,  but  are  mere  vo­
cal  artisans,  vocal 
“Jacks  of  all 
trades,”  pandering  to  a  decadent  pub­
lic  taste,  which  does  not  desire  art 
but  sentiment,  and  claptrap  sentiment 
at  that.  Therefore,  it  is  charged  that 
our  singers  roar,  scream,  warble, talk 
and  declaim,  but  do  not  sing.  Audi­
ences  concern  themselves  more  with 
what  is  sung  than  with  how  it 
is 
sung.  Patti  is  the  only  one  of  the 
moderns  who  is  conceded  to  know 
what  a  voice  could  and  should  do, 
and  what  it  could  not  and  should  not 
do.  The  modern  idea  that  a  “fine 
voice”  should  do  anything  and  every­
thing  is  derided,  for  the  point 
is 
made  clear  that  to  be  tenore  robusto 
and  tenore leggiero,  or  soprano dram- 
the 
matico  and  soprano  leggiero,  in 
same  evening  and  perhaps 
in 
the 
same  piece,  is  precisely  what  the  fine 
voice,  the  trained,  tempered  organ, 
can  never  do,  and  what  only  the  in­
ferior  and  ignorant  singer  will  at­
tempt. 
"It  is  the  absolute  imperfec­
tion  of  voices  torn  to  shreds  by  im­
proper  use,  or  which  have  never 
reached  the  condition  of being instru­
ments  at  all,  which  makes  such  a 
pretense  on  the  part  of  the  public 
or  such  a  condescension  on  the  part 
of  the  artist  possible,”  remarks  M. 
A.  R.  Tuker  in  the  Nineteenth  Cen­
tury  and  After.

technique 

The  acquisition  of 

is 
not  held  to  be  the  singer’s  first  busi­
ness,  but  the  formation  of  the  instru­
ment,  the  making  of  the  voice  to 
sing  with,  and  a  return  is  urged 
to 
the  strenuous  application  of  other 
times,  when  no  great 
singer  ever 
ventured  to  make  a  debut  before  at 
least  six  years’ 
such 
study!  This  six  years  of  continuous 
training  meant  a  lesson  every  day, 
the  beginner  never  being  permitted 
to  practice  by  himself,  for  it  was  es­
sential  that  the  voice 
should  be

study.  And 

“placed”  by the  master,  and this  plac­
ing  alone  consumed  two  or 
three 
years.  The  management  of  the  breath 
is  the  foundation  of  the  singer’s  art, 
and  the  art  of  breathing  compre­
hends  how  to  take  the  breath  and 
how  not  to  let  it  go.  The  foundation 
well  built,  it  is  then  time  to  erect  the 
superstructure.  The  true  theory  of 
voice  development  demands 
legato 
singing  rather  than  staccato  notes, 
save  where  the  exigency  of  the  pass­
age  demands  these;  the  production 
of  a  true  mezza  voice,  with  the  same 
carrying  qualities  of  the  full  voice; 
full,  round,  high  notes,  sustained  and 
firm,  not  the  result  of  convulsive  ef­
fort.  To  sing  with  effort  is  to  sing 
badly.  To  sing  with  effort  is 
to 
insure  the  rapid  destruction  of  that 
instrument  “whose  beauty,  perfec­
tion,  intimacy  and  moving  power  ex­
ceed  that  of  every  instrument  made 
with  hands.”  Rubini,  the  great  Ital­
ian  tenor,  who  began  life  with  no 
promise  of  a  voice,  but  who  sang 
with  brilliant  success  to  the  day  of 
his  death,  at  the  age  of  55»  told  his 
friend  Duprez,  the  French  tenor,  who 
even  in  his  youth  was  regarded  as  a 
musical  prodigy  but  whose  voice  fail­
ed  at  40,  “You  have  lost  your  voice 
because  you  sang  with  all  your  capi­
tal,  whereas  I  have  always  sung with 
the  interest  upon  mine.”

The  criticism  from  which  the  above 
digest  has  been  made  places  all  the 
blame  upon  modern  masters,  avow­
ing  that  as  many  good  voices  are 
born  into  the  world  as  ever,  but  that 
the  great  teacher  is  lacking,  that  au­
thoritative  teaching  has  ceased 
to 
exist  and  that  there  is  not  a  school 
in  Europe  where  a  man  or  woman 
can  learn  the  mysteries  of  the  art  of 
bel  canto.

While  this  indictment  comes  from 
European  sources  and 
is  directed 
chiefly  against  English  and  German 
schools  of  singing  and  their  gradu­
ates,  America,  which  always  sends 
her  singers  abroad  for  the  final  pol­
ish,  can  not  clear  her  skirts  of  guilt. 
Beautiful  voices  there  are  here 
in 
abundance,  voices  upon  which  nature 
has  bestowed  rich  gifts  of  power  and 
range  and  sweetness,  and  every  year 
witnesses  the  presentation  of  new 
singers.  But  how  many  of  these  use 
their  gifts according to the best meth­
ods? 
In  church  or  theater,  public 
hall  or  private  parlor,  how  many 
young  men  and  women  can  be  found 
who  “sing  without  effort”— that  cru­
cial  test  of  genuine  artistic  training? 
How  often  do  we  see  sopranos  and 
tenors  taking  their  high  notes  with  a 
sudden  convulsive  throwing  back of 
the  head?  Yet  the  most  superficial 
knowledge  of  the  anatomy  of 
the 
throat  shows  us  that  by  that  action 
it  is  closed,  and  those  who  are  cor­
rectly  taught  invariably  lean  slightly 
forward 
singing.  How  many 
churches  and  entertainments  and  mu­
sical  recitals  must  we  visit  to  find  a 
single  singer  whose  notes  unite  with 
a  legato  flow?  How  many  of  these 
promising  young  voices  that  delight 
our  ears  like 
tremulous 
notes  of  a  young  bird  are  “singing 
on  their  capital?”  How  few  have  any 
prospect  of  lasting  to  middle  life, 
much  less  of  being  preserved,  unim­
paired,  so long as life  and  health shall

first 

the 

in 

last?  How  many,  as  a  matter  of 
actual  local  record,  disappear  within 
a  year  or  two,  hopelessly  strained 
or  broken?

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  great 
question  of  the  true  and  the  false | 
methods of training may be  thorough­
ly  threshed  out  before 
the  critics 
drop  it.  The  singer’s  gift  is  a  rare 
treasure,  and  a  blessing  to  mankind, 
a  vein  of  poetry  intersecting  our 
prosaic  age.  The  world  can  ill  af­
ford  to  lose  it  through  misuse  or 
neglect.

A   Wife’s  Power.

The  power  of  a  wife  for  good  or 
evil  is  irresistible.  Home  must  be 
the  seat  of  happiness,  or  happiness 
must  be  forever  unknown.  A  good 
wife  is  to  a  man  wisdom  and  courage 
and  strength  and  endurance;  a  bad 
wife  is  confusion,  weakness,  discom­
fiture  and  despair.  No  condition  is 
hopeless  where  the  wife  possesses 
firmness,  decision  and 
economy. 
There  is  no  outward  prosperity which 
can  counteract 
indolence,  extrava­
gance,  and  folly  at  home.  No  spirit 
can  long  endure  bad  domestic  influ­
ence.

Man 

is  strong,  but  his  heart  is 
not  adamant;  he  delights  in  enter­
prise  and  action,  but  to  sustain  him 
he  needs  a  quiet  mind  and  a  whole 
heart;  he  needs  his  moral  force  in 
the  conflicts  of  the  world.  To  re­
cover  his  evenness  of  mind  and  com­
posure,  home  must  be  to  him 
a 
place  of  repose,  of  peace,  of  cheer­
fulness,  of  comfort,  and  his  soul  re­
news 
its  strength  again,  and  goes 
forth  with  fresh  vigor  to  encounter 
the  labor  and  troubles  of  life.  But 
if  at  home  he  finds  no  rest,  and  is 
there  met  with  bad  temper,  sullen­
ness,  or  gloom,  or  is  assailed  by 
discontent  or  complaint,  hope  van­
ishes,  and  he  sinks  into  despair.

Andrew  Carnegie  is  only  a  few 
inches  above  5  feet  in  height.  Henry 
W.  Phipps,  his  old  partner,  is  not 
an  inch  taller,  and  John  Walker, the 
other  member  of  the  trio  who  revo­
lutionize^  the  manufacture  of  steel, 
has  perhaps  a  little  the  better  of 
both  Carnegie  and  Phipps.  As  for 
Henry  C.  Frick,  his  head  would  just 
about  reach  to  the  shoulder  of  a 
man  of  ordinary  height. 
It  is  said 
that  one  day  when  these  four  steel 
masters  were  walking  together  on 
the  streets  of  Pittsburg,  a  bootblack 
called  out  to  his  business  rival  farth­
er  down  the  block  as  the  millionaires 
passed: 
“Eh,  Jimmy,  git  on  to  der 
runts!”

The  doctor  who  vaccinates  has  his 
own  way  of scraping an  acquaintance.

Confidence

Good  paint  begets  confi­
dence,  both  in  the  dealer 
and  consumer,  w i t h o u t  
which profitable  results  or 
permanent  success  is  out 
of the  question.

Forest C ity 

Paint

is  good  paint  because  it’s 
made  right  from  the  best 
adapted  materials. 
It’s 
finely  ground  and  thor­
oughly mixed.  Every gal­
lon  is  guaranteed absolute­
ly  uniform  in  color,  con­
sistency and quality.  Every 
package  is  warranted  full 
measure.

It’s  paint  you  can  rely 
upon  and  offer  your  trade 
with  the fullest  confidence 
of its  being  everything we 
claim.

Assisted  by  the  strong 
local  advertising  and  nu­
merous  personal  helps, 
which  we  furnish  free  to 
our  agents,  it’s  a  proposi­
tion  that’s  sure  to  stir  up 
any  paint  department  and 
increase  a merchant’s  gen­
eral  business as well.

Write 

to-day 

for  our 
Paint Proposition. 
It tells 
all.  A postal  will bring it.

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Cleveland,  Ohio

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anything on the market, as  we  use  all 
malleable fixtures and a  sprocket chain 
that w ill not  slip.

W e make all  styles  o f  A w nings  for 

stores and residences.

measuring.

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Dr y Go o d s

are  going  to  repeat,  and  Skely  im- 
prove  on  their  «accesses  of the spring 
season.  A   good  deal  of  confidence 
is  expressed  is  the  broadcloth,  es­
pecially  is  the  medium  and  better 
grade 
Fine  broadcloths  are

lines. 

Weekiy  Market  Review  of  the  Prm-  cshi& i  to  make 

....-........  ............ 1  - 

opal  Staples. 

....■  popular  abroad,  and  this  fact  is  esl-
customers 
them  favorably  here  for  fall

is 

three 
three 

the  possibility,  referr

tigs  of  wool  and  worsted  of 

Staple  Cottons—The  actual  buying  Sheer  fabrics-  including 

silk  warp 
is  the  staple  end  of  the  market  is  materials,  are  expected  to  win  good 
not  very  lively.  yet  barer*  are  keep-  recognition,  ^particularly  for  formal 
A  to  COG- 
isg  Terr  close  touch  with  market  wear.  MohatFS  are  expecte 
bat  are
conditions,  and  are  watching  the  ad-  tmoe  -s  faTor  and  zibelmes 
Tances  which  result  from  the  present  tairiy  closely  sheared  are  also  ex- 
course  of  the  staple  article  with  snach  peered  to  be  pretty  well  taken  care 
interest,  and  so  little  anxierv.  Sack  of,  is  medium  grades  at  any  rate, 
basin ess  as  is  transacted  on  the  pres-  Novelties  wiTL  of  coarse,  find  a  lodg- 
ent  price  level,  and  there  is  none  **»«**.  bat  it  is  not  generally  believed 
transacted  otherwise,  is  placed  with  that they will be  a  particularly strong 
little  question.  There  are  a  good  factor in  the  season.  Neat  fancy  suit- 
man v  deliveries  to  be  made  now  on 
the 
contracts  taken  at  considerably  lower  smooth-faced  variety  are  expected to 
the  hands  of  the
one  section in meet  with  f;
figures.  There  is  jest 
me  accana a la- cutter-op.  bt
which  there  may  be  some 
in elusion  of  p
that 
tkm  before  long,  and  that
zb  this  is  not
heavy  sheetings,  although  this  is  not  Underwear—The  end
Underwea:
t 
in-
in-  tion  to-day  has  assumed  a  more  set- 
likely  except  in  two  or 
tion  to-day  :
the  fact  that
stances,  and  is  dae  to  the  fact  that  tied  appearance,  and  we  are  bette 
tied  appears
small  demand able  to  jadg
there  has  been  sack  a  small  demand  able  to  iadge  of  the  exact  conditions 
evidently  too in  each  line
for  export.  Prices
high  to  be  attractive  to  foreign  trade,  at  any  time  since  the  opening.  Of 
and  unless  more  looms  are  tamed  coarse  cotton  anderwear  is  to  some 
from  the  heavy  to  the  lighter  fab-  extent  affected  by  the  conditions  of 
r  at  least  future 
ncs  titer 
the  cotton  market 
to  above,  of  an  accamalatioc.
bat  wool  ander­
transactions  will  b
wear  has  less  to  affect  it  in  the  mar­
ket  for  wooL  Wool  lines  have  se- 
ca red  a  very  satisfactory  business, 
and  roach  of  it  is  said  to  be  pretty 
well  sold  ap,  although  there  is  some 
selling  right  along,  and  probably  will 
be  for  some  time  to  come.  Cotton 
anderwear,  however,  has  consider­
a b l y   more  to  accomplish  before  it 
will  reach  the  same  condition:  never­
theless,  a  number  of  lines  have  been 
withdrawn  from  the  market,  not  to 
reappear  again  on  a  higher  price 
basis,  bat  becaase  they  are  sold  op. 
Perhaps  some of them are  not already 
in  this  position,  and  will  reappear  for 
higher  prices,  bat  the  rale 
is,  ap­
parently,  that  they  are  actually  sold 
op.  A  comparison  between  the  bosi-; 
ness  accomplished  this  year  and  a 
year  ago  at  the  same  time  seems  to 
show  conclusively  that  in  the  o a - ■ 
jority  or  cases  it  has  at  least  equaled 
last  year's  basiness,  while  in  many 
instances  it  has  exceeded 
prices,  as  related  t<

Woo!  Dress  Goods— The  dress 
goods  market  lacks  considerable  of 
showing  an  active  basiness  develop­
ment  either  in  connection  with  spring 
reorders  or  advance 
fall  basiness. 
There  is  basiness  tinder  way.  both 
on  spring  goods  and  for  the  1904 
fall  season,  bat  it  is  not  widespread 
nor  voluminous.  Considerable 
in­
terest  naturally  centers  in  the  1904 
fall  season,  preparations  for  which 
are  of  coarse  well  advanced 
In  cer­
tain  directions  a  very  fair  amoartt 
of fait  business  has  been  done  on  cer­
tain  well-known  lines  of  staple  fab­
rics,  including  broadcloths,  Venetians, 
plain  zibelines.  sackings,  tricots,  etc. 
prices  it  is  understood,  being  about 
on  a  par  with  a  year  ago.  Even  in 
die case of staple fabrics  the  fall mar­
ket  is  not  thoronghfy  open,  and  the 
bayers  in  general  do  not  appear  in 
any  marked  harry  to  get  their  orders 
down  Daring  the  first  two  weeks 
in  February  it  is  expected  that  the 
fa!! 
lines  of  domestic  and  foreign 
goods  wi

it 

somewhat 

Scf- generally 

1
till y
!  fall sea- ; although  showing  small
The fall  season  which
ricreate  a
The fact: way  and  drawing  towar*

remarkably  heavy  demand 
that  this  is  the  presidential  election 
year  and  that  merchants  instinctively 
show  conservative 
inclinations  at 
such  periods  is  not  lost  sight  of 
Nevertheless,  leading  interests  look 
for  a  good  fall  basiness  They  say 
that  they  do  not  look  for  a  specula­
tive  demand  on  the  part of the jobber 
or  cutter,  bat  they  expect 
to  see 
them  bay  in  accordance  with  their 
needs.  The  condition  of  stocks  in 
retailers’,  jobbers’  and  cutters’  hands, 
and  the  good  trade  conditions  in  the 
Sooth  and  West  lead  selling  agents 
to  forecast  a  successful,  healthy  fall 
trade.  The  fall  season,  according  to 
expectations,  is  to  be  strongly 
a 
plain  goods  season.  On  nearly  all 
sides  it  is  reported  that  monotones

far  as  the  im tiil  part  of  it  Is  con­
cerned,  might  be  called  esseatizfSy  “a 
wool  year.”  and  the  reason  for  this 
is  not  hard  to  find.  The  cost  of  cot­
ton  anderwear  as  regulated  by  the 
cost of raw material  has bees so much 
higher,  as  compa-ed  with:  the  same 
qualities  in  past  year*, 
that  woo? 
goods  look  cheap-  The  statement by 
many  agents  that  the  larger  propor-; 
tion ate  demand  foe  woo?  goods  »  
but  an  indication  off a  return  of  com­
mon  sense  to  the  consumers  may  or 
may not be true-  As  a  matter of feet,, 
however,  we  believe  that  the  question 
of prices  and apparent value has  more 
to  do  with  the  matter.  Tt  must  be 
remembered  that,  although  the  cost 
of  the  raw  material  looks  high,  when

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you  compare  present  prices  with 
those  of  a  year  or  two  or  three  ago, 
yet  the  actual  difference  between  cot­
ton  and  wool  is  too  great  to  allow  a 
substitute  of  one  for  the  other.  What 
is  true,  however,  is  that  low-grade 
wool  goods,  those  with  mixtures  of 
cotton  and  cheap  wools,  are  not  so 
very  far  above  the  finest  grades  of 
cotton  goods,  and  that  is  where  the 
similarity  appears  greatest  and  where 
undoubtedly  a  good  many  people 
who  would  ordinarily  buy  cotton 
underwear  would  be  tempted  by  the 
low  cost  of  cheap  wool  goods.

Hosiery—The  lines  of  fall  hosiery 
have  been  moving  slowly  during  the 
past  week,  and  although  there  are 
a  good  many  buyers  in  the  market 
they  have  placed  exceedingly  small 
orders  and  scattered  them  widely. 
The  trade  has  been  somewhat  sur­
prised  at  the  small  prices  asked  for 
certain  lines  of  cheap  goods,  yet  a 
careful  examination  of  such  goods 
would  show  the  reason;  they  are  not 
actually  cheap  when  the  quality  and 
weight  are  considered.

far 

is  starting  in  business 

Carpets— The  carpet  trade  in  gen­
eral  on  three-quarter  goods  has  con­
tinued  very  good,  especially  on  the 
tapestry  and  velvet,  which  sell  well. 
Wilton  velvets  in  the  medium  grades 
sell  wholesale  at  85  cents.  The  prin­
cipal  call  on  the  tapestry  carpets  is 
for  8  and  10  wire  grades.  Popular 
tapestries  in  regular  goods  wholesale 
at  70c,  while  some  grades  of  printed 
tapestry  carpets  sell,  wholesale,  at 
45c.  Orders  thus 
this  season 
have  been  far  ahead  of  those  of  pre­
vious  seasons,  and  as  a  result  many 
patterns  of  the  9  and  10  wire  tapes­
try  carpets  have  been  withdrawn 
from  the  market  by  several  mills,  as 
they  have  been  sold  up.  The  ad­
vance  which  went  into  effect  January 
11,  was  principally  on  three-quarter 
tapestry  and  velvet  carpets.  Body 
Brussels  have  been  in  fair  demand. 
Some  sellers  consider  the  Axminster 
carpet  as  the  coming  carpet.  A  new 
concern 
in 
Philadelphia  to  make  three  shot  vel­
vet  regular  carpets,  also  stair  car­
pets,  and  it  is  claimed  that  the  new 
concern  will  have  a  new way of print­
ing  the  yarn,  and  will  discard  the 
drum,  which  will  reduce  the  cost  of 
printing.  The  new  concern  succeeds 
another  organized 
in  Philadelphia 
within  a  few  months.  The  latest  one 
organized  and  obtained  possession 
January  1,  1904.  The  trade  gener­
ally  anticipate  a  good  season  on  all 
lines  of  three-quarter  goods  up  to 
May  I. 
The  fall  season  will  open 
May  10  or  12.  W e  also  hear  of  an­
other  tapestry  carpet  mill  in  Phila­
delphia  which  contemplates  making 
in  9x12 
tapestry  and  velvet 
sizes.  The  new  rug  will  be  woven 
full  length  with  border,  in  regular 
width,  and  not  made  with  mitred 
corners  as  some  of 
the  made-up 
rugs.  There  will  be  three  seams  in 
the  new  make  of  rug,  while  others 
formerly  on  the  market  are  woven 
in  half  of  the  9x12  feet  sizes  and 
sewed  with  one  seam  in  the  center, 
The  standard  extra  super  carpets 
have  recently  been  sold  to  what  are 
termed  syndicates  of  buyers  who 
would  take  100  rolls  at  SiJ^c,  while 
small  lots  of  25  rolls  sell,  wholesale,

rugs 

at  55c.  Retailers  are  buying  for  ac­
tual  requirements  and  are  not  stock­
ing  up.  The  West  and  South  are  the 
principal  markets  for 
ingrain. 
Owing  to  the  high  price  of  cotton 
yarn,  the  cotton  chain  ingrains  are 
now  selling  at  9c  below  the  regular 
price  of  standard  extra  supers.  For­
merly  the  difference  between  the  two 
grades  was  ioc.

the 

A   Romance  of  the  Law.

the 

Lord  Langdale  often  referred to a 
curious  case  before  himself  illustra­
tive  of  the  dangers  of  judicial  pre­
cipitation. 
It  turned  on  presump­
tive  evidence  of  death.  A  sum  of 
money  in  court  was  subject  to  a 
trust  for  a  particular  individual’s life, 
and  after  his  death  was  to  be  divid­
ed  between  certain  parties.  These 
parties  petitioned  for  payment  of the 
fund  to  them  on  the  ground  that  the 
individual  in  question,  the  tenant  for 
life,  was  dead.  No  positive  evidence 
could  be  adduced  of  his  death,  but it 
was  said  that  his  death  must  be  pre­
sumed  inasmuch  as 
evidence 
showed  that  he  had  gone  abroad 
some  thirty  years  ago  under  circum­
stances  of  difficulty,  and  that  no  hu­
man  being  had  since  heard  any  tid­
ings  of  him.  This  did  not  satisfy 
Lord  Langdale  and  he  desired  the 
case  to  stand  over,  intimating  that 
if  further  evidence  could  be  produced 
to  corroborate  the  already 
strong 
presumption  he  would  attend  to  it. 
Additional  affidavits  were  according­
ly  filed,  after  a  lapse  of  some  time, 
and  the  case  then  appeared  so  strong 
that  he  made  the  order  for  division 
of  the  fund  as  prayed.  The  order, 
when  drawn  up  according 
to  his 
lordship’s  directions,  was  carried  to 
the  proper  office  to  be  entered,  and 
the  clerk  whose  duty  it  was  to  enter 
it  turned  out  to  be  the  very  individ­
ual  on  whose  presumed  death  the 
order  for  payment  was  made. 
It 
appeared  that  he  had  reason  to  leave 
the  country  for  many  years,  and 
when  he  returned  he  lived  under  a 
false  name  and  revealed  himself  to 
no  one.  He  did  not  know  of  his 
right  until  he  saw  the  order.

Lincoln's  Prescription.

There  is  a  story,  still  current  in 
Illinois,  which  says  that  an  old  farm­
er  friend  of  President  Lincoln’s, 
who  used  to  correspond  with  him, 
complained  on  one  occasion  of  his 
poor  health.  He  received  the  follow­
ing  reply,  which  is  quoted  in  Illinois 
as  “Lincoln’s  prescription:”  “Do not 
worry.  Eat  three  square  meals  a 
day.  Think  of  your  wife.  Be  coute- 
ous  to  your  creditors.  Keep  your 
digestion  good.  Steer  clear  of  bil­
iousness.  Exercise.  Go  slow,  and 
go  easy.  Maybe  there  are  other 
things  that  your  especial  case  re­
quires  to  make  you  happy;  but,  my 
dear  friend,  these,  I  reckon,  will  give 
you  a  good  lift.”

Not  a  Specialist.

Sceptic— Why  can’t  you  cure  my 
foot  if  you  are  a  Scientist?  It  hurts 
me  awfully.

Scientist— Healing  shoes  is  not in 
I  advise  you  to  go  to  a 

my  line. 
scientific  shoemaker.

The  things  that  interest  us  most 

are  generally  none  of  our  business.

W e can  save  any  merchant  from  12  to 

15  per cent,  on

Suspenders

for  Spring  delivery.  All  goods  guar­

anteed  first-class.

Write for Particulars

Michigan  Suspender  Company

Plainwell,  Mich.

WANTED

Buyers 
to  look  at 
our lines  of

Working Shirts, Negligee  Shirts

OVERSHIRTS
OVERALLS
JACKETS
PANTS

Denim and Striped Overalls

Denim and Otis Checked Jackets

Boys* and Men’s Wool,  Corduroy  and 
Cottonade Pants

Our goods are made right, look right, fit right, and our prices are right. 

Ask our agents to show you their line

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SO N S

Wholesale Dry Goods

The  Best is 
none too good

A good  merchant buys  the 
best  The  "Lowell”  wrap­
pers  and  night  robes  are 
the  best  in  style,  pattern 
and fit  Write  for samples 
or call and see  us  when  in 
town.

Lowell Manufacturing Co.

87 ,  89 ,  91  Campau S t  
Grand Rapids, Mich.

PREPARED  MUSTARD  WITH  HORSERADISH

Just What the  People Want.

Good  Profit; Quick Sales.

T H 0 1   S.  BEAUDOIN,  Manufacturer

W rite lor prices

51824  18th  St„  Detroit. Mich.

PA PER   BOXES

W e manufacture a complete One 01 
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.

G R AN D  RAPIDS PAPER BOX C O ., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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fifteen  hundred  persons.  The  immor­
telles  are  gathered  about  the  begin­
ning  of  October,  and  come  chiefly 
I  from  the  arid  hills  in  the  middle  and 
south  of  France.  They  are  brought 
I  to  the  markets  in  their  natural  con- 
i  dition,  and  the  yellow  blossoms  are 
dyed  green,  red  and  white,  and 
woven  into  wreaths  by  special  work­
men  in  readiness  for  All  Saints’  and 
All  Souls’  days,  when  all  good  Paris­
ians  visit  their  relatives’  graves.  On 
these  “fetes  des  morts”  the  gates of 
the  cemeteries  are  beset  with  crowds 
of  dealers  in 
immortelle  wreaths, 
wire  crosses  and  bead  crowns.  At 
Pere  la  Chaise  alone  more  than  two 
hundred  thousands  persons  are  cal­
culated  to  visit  the  cemetery,  and 
the  sale  of  immortelle  wreaths  va­
ries  from  20,000  to  25,000.

The  Retort  in  Kind.

W.  D.  Howells,  the  novelist,  sel­
dom  fails,  when  any  one  has  animad­
verted  on  his  corpulence,  to  come 
out  with  a  neat  retort.

When  Mr.  Howells  was  Consul  at 
Venice  a  very  lean  and  long  Ameri­
can  said  to  him  one  day jocosely:

“If  I  were  as  fat  as  you  I’d  go  and 

hang  myself.”

“Well,”  said  Mr.  Howells,  “if  I  ever 
take  your  advice  I’ll  use  you  for  a 
rope.”

this  pipe 

In  one  of  the  large  New  York 
stores  there  is  an  exceptionally  fine 
exhibit  of  mechanical  toys  of  all  de­
scriptions.  The  various  models  of 
engines  are 
splendidly  displayed, 
practically  every  type  being  found in 
the  collection.  Compressed  air  is 
used  as  a  motive  power,  being  taken 
from  a  pipe  which  runs  around  the 
top  of  the  shelving  back  of 
the 
counter.  From 
rubber 
tubes  branch  out  at  short  intervals, 
each  branch  tube  being  fitted  with a 
valve  to  turn  the  air  on  or  off.  By 
placing  the  tube  over  the  exhaust 
valve  or  whistle  of  an  engine,  it  is 
set  going  at  a  tremendous  rate,  giv­
ing  a  complete  demonstration  of  just 
how  it  works  and  what  it  will  do. 
The  customer  can  select  any  engine 
that  seems  suitable,  and  the  attend­
ant  will  show  it  running  in  a  mo­
ment.  This  counter  always  has  a 
big  crowd  around  it.

Holland  has  been  posing  before 
the  world  for  some  time  past  as the 
patron  of  international  peace  and has 
given  an  asylum  at  The  Hague  to 
the  International  Peace  Arbitration 
Commission.  Still,  the  two  chambers 
of  the  Netherlands  Parliament have 
voted  $1,750,000  for  the  purchase  of 
quick-firing  Krupp  guns,  which 
in­
even  non-belligerent 
dicates  that 
Holland  believes  preparedness 
for 
war  is  after  all  the  best  assurance 
of  peace.

The  fad  for  a  rare  breed  of  dogs 
may be  said  to  run  to  extremes  when 
a  man  travels  15,000  miles  in  search 
of  a  special  kind.  That  is,  however, 
what  John  B.  Thomas,  a  wealthy 
Yale  student,  is  said  to  have  done  in 
a  recent  quest  for  pure  specimens  of 
the  Russian  wolf  hound,  with  three 
of  which  he  has  just  returned  to  this 
country,  after  traveling  all  over  Rus­
sia  and  Siberia  to  secure  them.

Lot 125 Apron Overall

$8.00 per  doz.

Lot  275  Overall  Coat

$8.00 per doz.

Made  from  240  woven  stripe,  double 

cable,indigo blue cotton cheviot, 

stitched  in  white  with  ring  buttons.

J ^ e e iiU / G a ij
S u s p e n d e / y , 

/ ¡o s ie r * / , 
S w e a t e r s , 

O / n t s & s -  
G / o V e f S *  
M it fe / t f.

Lot 124 Apron Overall

$5.25  per dez.

Lot  274  Overall  Coat

$5.75 per doz.

Made from 250 Otis  woven  stripe, indigo 

blue suitings, stitched  in white.

Lot 128 Apron Overall

$5.00 per doz.

Lot  288  Overall  Coat

$5.00 per doz.

Made from black drill, Hart  pattern

Gr a n d  Ra p /d s . M /o l

Got  His  Money  Back.

“I’ve  got  a  kick  coming,”  said  the 
angry  looking  man  to  the  proprietor 
of  the  clothing  store.

The  proprietor  lifted  his  eyebrows 
and  his  shoulders  with  an  air  of  sur­
prise.  “A  keek?”  he  said.

“Yes,  sir,  a  kick. 

“This  suit  that 
you  sold  me  two  weeks  ago  is  no 
good  under  the  sun.  Look  at  it!”

“De  suit  you  haf  on?”
“Yes,  the  suit  I’ve  got  on. 

I’ve 
had  it  just  two  weeks  now,  and  look 
at  it.  Yes,  sir,  look  at  it ”

The  clothier  took  his 

spectacles 
from  his  nose,  polished  them  with 
his  handkerchief,  readjusted 
them, 
took  the  man  gingerly  by  the  sleeve 
of  his  coat,  turned  him  gently  to  the 
light  and  examined  him.  Then  he 
said,  “Veil?”

“Well,”  said  the  man,  “look  at the 
bag  in  them  knees  and  all  down 
the 
front  the  threads  are  showing,  and 
here— see?  The  bottoms  ain’t  sewed; 
they’re  just  pasted  and  now  you  see 
they’ve  come  unpasted  at  the  back.” 

“Pants  vill  bag—alvays.”
“Sure,  but  not  in  two  weeks.  And 
the  seams  started  under  the  arms.” 

strain  anything 

“You  must  haf  strained  dem.”
“I  expect  to 

I 
wear.  I’ve  got  to  move  and  I’ve  got 
to  breathe,  but  every  time  I  breathe 
in  these  clothes  I  bust  off  a  button. 
That  cloth  ain’t  going  to  wear.  You 
needn’t  tell  me  that.”

“I  don’d  see  no  holes  in  it.”
“No,  but  it’s  showing  the  cotton 

all  along  where  it’s  been  rubbed.” 

the 
“Loog  here,  my  vrient,”  said 
clothier,  “you  must  not  expecd 
too 
much.  Dem  clothes  ain’d  de  best  in 
der  vorld,  but  you  don’d  ged  de  best 
for  $6.75.  I  remember  ven  you  buy 
dem. 
I  vanted  you  to  dake  somding 
better,  but  you  said  dey  was  goot 
enough  for  you.  Now  you  see. 
I 
am  in  de  cloding  business  for  dwen- 
ty-five  years  und  I  dell  you  nefer  you 
should  buy  dem  sheap  suits.”

“What  do  you  sell  ’em  for?”  asked 

the  dissatisfied  customer.

“Vat  do  I  sell  dem  for?  To  mage 
money.  Some  people  vill  alvays 
vant  sheap  suits  und  I  sell  dem. 
I 
shust  dell  you  de  trut.  Now, 
see 
here.  I  vill  mage  it  all  right  mit  you. 
I  gif  you  goot  advice  und  I  vill  sell 
you  dis  $25  suit  for  $18.25.  aDt  gifs 
you  your  money  back  for  dat  sheap 
I  don’t  mage  a  cent  on  dat 
suit. 
suit  for  $25.  No,  sir.  Examine 
it. 
Loog  at  de  vinishings.  Dry  it  on.” 
The  customer  half  reluctantly  slip­
ped  into  the  coat  of  the  $25  suit.  Ten 
minutes  later  he  left  the  store  with  a 
bundle  under  his  arm  and  the  pro­
prietor  turned  to  his  grinning  sales­
man:

“Dere,  Mr.  Selig,”  he  said,  “dat  is 
de  vay  to  sell  goots.  Dat  vas  de  last 
of  dem  $15  suits.”— Chicago  Evening 
News.

Immortelles.
The  manufacture  of 

immortelle 
wreaths  in  Paris  occupies  at  least

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

17

arrest  the  reaching  out  after 
J  
beautiful,  for  only  last  week  she  pur- |  j w l   # 1  / " l 

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Moral:  There  is  no  place 

chased  a  has-been  clock  for $115. 
ofit  — ——  

home  and  some  husbands  are  glad

like  ; 

How  Men  May  Live  Long.

the 

Goldwin  Smith,  the  famous  histor-  | 
ian,  educator,  journalist  and  essayist, j 
who  is  the  literary  life  of  Canada, | 
has  brought  out  a  good  deal  of  com-  j 
ment  on  the  problem  of  old  age,  with  j 
mental  and  physical  soundness,  by j 
his  own  opinion  of 
influences 
which  have  helped  him  celebrate  his 
eightieth  birthday  in  good  health  and ! 
able  to  do  brilliant  and  valuable  work ; 
in  his  chosen  field  of  labor.
Professor  Smith  thinks 

that  he | 
owes  much  to  his  freedom  from  hard j 
tasks,  in  school  or  otherwise,  when  a  j 
boy.  He  was  a  sickly  child  and  his 
chance  of  even  average  length  of 
days  seemed  poor.  But  he  was  al-  1 
lowed  much  freedom  in  boyhood,  to | 
roam  the  fields  and  play  instead  of | 
sticking  closely  to  books  or  taxing j 
his  mind  severely.  It  is  hardly neces- ! 
sary  to  say  that  Goldwin  Smith  was I 
still  a  young  lad,  however,  when  he  j 
began  to  work  zealously  in  school,  | 
and  at  Eton  and  in  the  university  he j 
was  a  brilliant 
student.  Another j 
point  he  makes  much  of  is  his  life­
long  habit  of  Working  in  the  early j 
morning  rather  than  late  at  night,  \ 
and  getting  sleep  in  the  hours  of | 
darkness,  nature’s  time  for  rest.  He 
!  also  testifies  to  his  constant  care 
!  as  to  outdoor  exercise  and  his  moder­
ation  in  eating  and  drinking.

HIGH  ART.

Too  High for  the  Man Who  Paid  the 

Bills.

Once  there  was  a  husband  who was 
stuck  on  plain  living  and  home  com­
forts.  He  would  walk, around  an  an­
gel  cake  any  old  time  to  get  action 
on  some  farm  sausage.  He  was  not 
very  strong  for  Romaine  salad  or 
any  speckled  cheese  left  over  from 
year  before  last,  but  he  did  a  very 
neat  vanishing  act  with  a 
sirloin 
steak  and  he  had  the  coffee  come 
right  along  in  a  large  cup.  He  re­
fused  to  dally  with  the  demi-tasse. 
For  this  true  American  the  course 
dinner  was  a  weak  invention  of 
the 
benighted 
he 
foreigner.  When 
squared  up  to  his  food  he  cut  out  all 
the  trimmings.  This  is  the  kind  of 
husband  who  peels  his  coat  in 
the 
evening  and  gets  himself  all  spread 
out  in  a  rocking  chair  with  a  fat 
cushion  under  him.  He  lives  to  wear 
old  velvet  slippers  with  pink  roses 
worked  on  the  toes  and  the  heels  run 
over.  Give  him  about  two  cigars 
which  pull  freely  and  a  daily  paper 
and  he  is  fixed  for  the  session.  Along 
about  10:30,  if  he  can  connect  with 
a  triangle  of  desiccated  apple  pie 
and  a  goblet  of  milk,  he  is  ready 
to 
sink  back on  the  husks, feeling simply' 
immense.

Now  this  husband  had  a  fireside 
that  suited  him  nearly  to  death  until 
the  better-half  began  to  read  these 
magazines  that  tell  how  to  beautify 
the  house.  Her  first  play  was  to 
take  out  all  the  carpets  and  have  the 
floors  massaged  until  they  were  as 
slick  as  glass,  so  that  when  the  bread­
winner  stepped  on  one  of  the  Okra 
or  Bokhara  rugs  he  usually  gave  an 
imitation  of  a  player  trying  to  reach 
second.  He  told  her  that  he  did  not 
care  to  live  in  a  rink,  but  what  he 
said  cut  very  few  lemons  with  the 
side  partner.  She  was  looking  at  the 
halftone  pictures  of  up-to-date  homes 
and  beginning  to realize  that  the  wall 
paper,  steel  engravings  and  the  large 
photographs  of  Yap  relation  would 
have  to  go.  One  day  when  the  pro­
vider  struck  the  premises  he  found 
the  workmen  putting  red  burlap  on 
the  walls  of  the  sitting  room.  “Why 
the  gunny  sack?”  he  asked,  “can’t  we 
afford  wall  paper?”  “Love  of  art  is 
the  true  essence  of  the  higher  life,” 
said  the  aesthete,  and  she  began 
to 
read  a  booklet  bound  in  the  same  pa­
per  that  the  butcher  uses  when  he 
wraps  up  a  soup  bone.  “Come  again,” 
said  the  wage  earner,  who  was  slow 
' catching  on  to  these  Ruskin  twisters. 
“This  is  art  burlap  and  not  the  kind 
that  they  use  for  sacking  peanuts,” 
explained 
the  disciple  of  beauty. 
“Above  the  burlap  will  be  a  shelf  of 
weathered  oak,  and  then  above  that 
a  fringe  of  blue 
flowers. 
Then  when  we  draw  all  of  the  cur­
tains  and  light  our  candle  in  here, 
it  will  make  a  swell  effect.” 
“I  feel 
that  we  are  going  to  be  very  happy,’1 
he  said,  and  then  he  went  out  and 
sat  behind  the  barn,  where  he  could 
smoke  his  pipe  and  meditate  on  the 
uncertainties  of  life.  Next  day  he 
discovered  that  she  had  condemned 
his  rocking  chair  and  the  old-styled 
center  table,  on  which  he  used 
to 
stack  his  reading  matter  and  keep

jimson 

All 

the 

family.  On 

“At  last  we  have 

a  plate  of  apples  handy.  When  he 
entered  the  improved  and  moderniz­
ed  living  room  he  found  himself  up 
against  a  job  lot  of  beauty  and  no 
furniture  was 1 
mistake. 
It  seemed  to 
straight  up  and  down. 
have  been  chopped  out  with  an  axe 
and  was  meant  to  hold  up  members 
of  the  rhinoceros 
the 
high  shelf  was  a  row  of  double-han­
dled  shaving  mugs,  crippled  beer 
steins,  undersized  coal  scuttles  and 
various  copper  kettles  that  had  seen 
better  days. 
a 
room  that  satisfies  every  craving  of 
my  soul,”  said  the  wife.  “I  am  more 
than  satisfied,”  observed  the  treas­
urer,  “I  am  delirious  with  joy.  My 
only  regret  is  that  an  all-wise  Provi­
dence  did  not  mould  me  into  a  diff­
erent  shape,  so  that  I  might  sit  down 
in  some  of  these  chairs.  What  are 
those  iron  dinkuses  sticking  out  from 
the  wall?”  “Those  are  Florentine 
lanterns.” 
“Even  if  they  don’t  give 
any  light,  they  are  very  Roycroftie,” 
she  repeated.  Next  she  started  in  on 
the  dining  room.  Rule  No.  1  for 
making  home  more  cheerful  is 
to 
put  in  a  shelf  wherever  there  is  room | 
for  one,  after  which  the  shelf  is  load­
ed  down  with  Etruscan  growlers  and! 
antique  jugs.  The  low-browed  hus- 1 
band  could  not  tell  the  difference  be­
tween  high  art  and  junk.  The  fe­
male  Bradleyite  covered  the  walls 
with  about  400  plates,  each  with  a ! 
blue  curleycue  on  it.  They  looked | 
very  cheap  to  him  until  he  received 
the  bill  and  then  he  learned  that  they 
were  old  Delft  and  came  at  $11  a 
piece. 
In  fact,  after  his  wife  had 
been  haunting  the  second-hand  places 
for  awhile  he  learned  that  any  article 
which  happened  to  be  old  and  shop­
worn  and  cracked  was  the  one  that 
commanded  the  top  price.  She  never 
let  up  until  she  had  made  the  whole 
house  thoroughly  artistic.  Her  wom­
an  acqaintances  would  come  in  and 
she  would  show  them  the  dark  oak 
effects  and  the  sea  green  frescoes  and 
the  monastery  settee  with  the  sole 
leather  bottom  in  it  and  the  corroded 
tea  pot  that  she  bought  for  $95,  and 
the  table  spread  made  from  overall 
material,  with  just  one  yellow  poppy 
in  the  middle,  and  they  would  have 
thirty-seven  different  kinds  of  duck 
fits  and  say  that  it  was  grand  'and 
that  her  taste  was  simply 
faultless. 
After  that,  she  wouldn’t  care  what 
husband  said.  He  was  a  fairly  pa­
tient  man  and  all  he  complained  of 
was  that  when  he  sat  down  he  dis­
located  his  spine,  while 
the  brass 
knobs  wore  black  and  blue  spots  on 
him  and  the  dining  room  table  should 
have  had  a  couple  of  holes  for  him 
to  put  his  legs  through,  and  he  could 
not  find  a  place  in  which  to  stretch 
out,  and  he  needed  a  derrick  to  move 
one  of  the  chairs,  and  at  night  when 
the  moonlight  came  into  his  room 
and  he  saw  all  the  bummy  bean  pots 
lined  up  on  the  footboard  and  the  in­
struments  of  torture  staring  him  in 
the  face  from  every  corner  of  the 
room,  he  would  crawl  down  under 
the  covers  and  dream  of  his  child­
hood  home,  with  the  old-fashioned 
sofas  and  the  deep  rocking  chairs, 
and  the  big  bureaus  that  were  meant 
to  hold  things,  and  not  to  look  at.

However,  he  had  been  unable  to

and

Fit to Wear

We  want  one  dealer  as  an 
agent  in  every  town  in  Michi­
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Fur  and  Fur  Lined  Cloth 
Catalogue  and 
Coats. 
full 
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MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

B.  B.  DOWNARD,  General  Selee ie n

1904 *** Spring  S ea so n — 1904

O ur Garments Are Made 

T o  Sell

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express,  or  any  other 
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the  duplication  of your order  to  supply.

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Buffalo,  n.  V.

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Views  on  “Special”  and  “Price-Re­

duction”  Sales.

“ Free  the  clothing  business  of  the 
baneful  price-reduction  sales  and  you 
will  have  rid  it  of  one  of  its  most 
cancerous  evils,”  said  a  merchant  of 
considerable  prominence.

“Mabley,  the  man  who  first  intro­
duced  the 
‘special’  or  reduced-price 
sale,  made  a  fortune  out  of  it.  Many 
of  his  followers  have  since  lost  for­
tunes,”  said  a  clothier  who  was  full 
of  the  reminiscence  of  better  days.

“We  can  not  all  be  Philadelphia 
Perrys,  yet  he  has  proven  it  is  possi­
ble  to  conduct  a  clothing  business 
without  special  sales,”  said  a  mer­
chant  of  considerable  retail  experi­
ence.

“When  you  find  clothiers  united 
in  an  endeavor  to  abstain  from  ‘spe­
cial’  and  ‘clearance’  sales  you  will 
have  reached  the  dawn  of  the  mer­
cantile  millennium,”  was  the  remark 
of  a  clever  clothing  manager.

We  could  continue  in 

this  way, 
quoting  almost  indefinitely  the 
re­
marks  of  men  of  experience  and 
shrewdness,  all  of  whom  are  agreed 
that  reduced-price  sales  work  more 
harm  than  good  to  the  trade. 
It 
comes  hardest  to  take  the  first  loss, 
and  afterwards  the  merchant  feels 
that  he  does  not  want  to  incur  an­
other. 
It  is  also  admitted  that  the 
store  continuously  putting  out  “spe­
cial”  and  reduced-price  sales  gradual­
ly  loses  the  confidence  of  the  peo­
ple.

It  is,  nevertheless,  well-proven  fact I 
that  to  live  every  store  must  have  its | 
steady,  dependable  trade;  a  sufficient 
number  of  regular  customers  to  at 
least  meet  all  expenses,  counting  up­
on  the  transients  for  profit,  just  as 
the  barber  aims  to 
secure  enough 
cups  to  pay  the  running  expenses  of 
his  shop.

to 

time 

To  steadily  increase  his  business it 
is  advised that the  clothier must  nec­
essarily  add  to  his  regular  customers 
steadily,  as  some  of  the  old  ones  are 
leaving  him  from 
time 
through  one  cause  or  another,  and 
that  all  kinds  of  schemes  have  to  be 
carried  out  legitimately 
to  attract 
new  purchasers  to  the  store,  some of 
whom  become  regulars,  while  others 
remain  transient.  And  to  get 
the 
transients  into  the  store  the  “special” 
sale  is  freely  resorted  to.

sale 

“special” 

We  have  no  occasion  to  refer 

to 
the 
disparagingly. 
When  conducted  at  a  profit  to  the 
merchant  and  legitimate  values  are 
given  it  is  a  source  of  revenue,  trade 
and  publicity,  and  likewise  produc­
tive  in  other  ways.

To  enable  the  merchant  to  keep 
his  lines  full,  to  clean  out  accumulat­
ed  stock;  to  bring  in  ready  money  to 
meet  the  expenses  of  the  next  sea­
son;  to  advertise  the  store  through 
the  regular  channels  of  publicity  and 
through  many  more  well-satisfied 
customers—these  are 
the  principal 
uses  of  special  sales.

Even  in  the  best  regulated  store, 
stock  will  accumulate.  The  versa­
tility  of  the  cutter  of  men’s  garments 
is  shown  by  the  number  of  different 
sized  and  shaped  men  he  can  fit  with 
his 
The 
average  sizes  and  normal  shapes  pre­
dominate,  of  course,  and  are  sold  out

ready-to-wear 

clothing. 

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

satisfaction 

first,  necessarily.  This  applies 
to 
shirts  and  underwear  also.  The  odd 
sizes  are  of  the  same  quality  as  the 
rest  of  the  stock,  yet  they  stay  on 
the  shelves by reason of the  fact  that 
they  are  odd  sizes.  There  are  other 
reasons  besides 
inferiority  which 
may  cause  a  certain  portion  of  the 
stock  to  linger  over  long  on 
the 
shelves.  Without  in  anywise  affect­
ing  the  wear  or 
the 
goods  will  give,  some  will  become 
shopworn  or  soiled.  There  is  a  large 
class  of  customers  who  will  not  buy 
unless  the  goods  are 
immaculately 
clean  and  free  from  dust  or  the  least 
imperfection.  Many  laymen  assume 
that  when  a  merchant  makes  a  spe­
cial  sale  price  he  is  trying  to  work 
off  old  goods  of  inferior  value.  Many 
others,  however,  have  experimented 
in  the  right  places  and  .have  found 
the  special  sales  to  their  advantage. 
It  would  seem  that  there  is  still  con­
siderable  room  for  enlightenment of 
the  public  on  the  subject  of  special 
sales.  They  are  trade  bringers,  of 
advantage  to  customer  and  merchant 
alike  when  conducted  on  a  proper 
basis  and  with  certain  moderation. 
The  special  sale  habit,  however,  may 
become  chronic,  recurring  with  in­
creasing  frequency  and  causing 
the 
brain  of  its  victim  to  be  racked  for 
new  things  to  say  about  an  old  stock, 
new  points  of  attractiveness,  new  ar­
guments,  until  he  loses  his  sense  of 
proportion  and  makes  the  mistake, 
not  of  saying  too  much,  but  of  say­
ing  too  much  that  isn’t  so.

A  clothing  business  can  be  carried 
on  so  as  to  obviate  the  semi-annual 
clearance  sale  as  a  loss,  conducted so 
that  it  can  be  handled  with  profit 
to  the  retailer.  Here  and  there  we 
find  the  successful  man  who  is  ac­
complishing  it,  and  his  business  is  a 
substantial  monument  of success  har­
vested  through 
judicious  manage­
ment,  intelligent  buying  and  clever 
selling.

The  possibilities  in  this  direction 
were  put  in  the  form  of  a  question 
and  presented  to  leading  merchants, 
managers  and  buyers.  What 
they 
said  will  be  found  interesting,  since 
their  views  cover  many  phases  of the 
subject

the  retail 

“The  best  answer  I  can  make  to 
your  question  is  to  ask  you  one 
in 
turn,  as  a  leader,”  said  the  manager 
for  a  manufacturing  retailer. 
“Who 
is  the  accredited  merchant  prince  of 
New  York  in 
trade,  yes, 
in  dry  goods?  Well,  since  you  have 
named  him.  Again,  what  has  elevat­
ed  him  to  that  exalted  position 
in 
mercantile  life?  He  early  adopted  a 
theory.  After  many  years  he  is  still 
working  on  that  theory  and  has  no 
use  for  untried  methods.  So  much 
for  continuity  of  purpose.  He  him­
self  says,  ‘There  are  merchants  all 
around  me  who  have  methods;  many 
of  thenr  have  gone  under  .because 
of  those  methods.  My  business  en­
dures  and  I  am  still  adhering  to  my 
theory.  At  the  outset  I  estimated 
that  my  business  should  earn  me  a 
certain  profit  each  year.  I  have  nev­
er  failed  to  make  it  do  so.  Have  their 
methods  done  as  much  for  others? 
In  answering  in  the  negative 
you 
have  said all  there  is  to be  said.’  Now 
this  much  we  know  about  that  man’s

theory,  no  one  has  yet  been  able  to 
overstock  him.  He  has  it  absolutely 
under  his  control  in  every  detail,  in 
every  department.  Did  he  ever  adver­
tise  a  special  sale,  a  semi-annual  or 
annual  clearance?  No.  The  stock is 
constantly  pushed  out,  never  given 
a  chance  to  become  stale,  no  matter 
what  its  intrinsic  value  may  be.  The 
advertising  is  the  same  to-day  that 
it  was  years  ago,  unchanged.  There 
are  sales  at  prices  advantageous 
to 
the  consumer,  of course,  but  someone 
else  has  taken  the  loss,  not  this  mer­
chant.”

A  man  prominent  in  the  Chicago 
clothing  trade  said  that  the  uses  of 
the  semi-annual  pre-inventory  sales 
are  threefold.  In  the  first  place,  they 
enable  the  merchant  to  keep  his  stock 
up.  How  many  times  have  we  gone 
into  a  store  and  asked  for  a  garment 
for  an  average-sized  man,  only 
to 
find  that  the  store  was  out  of  the 
right  size;  that  everything  was 
a 
little  too  large  or  a  size  too  small! 
There  was  any  quantity  of  stock  on 
the  shelves,  and  apparently  no  spe­
cial  effort  to  sell  out  the  odd  sizes 
nor  any  perceptible  worry  over  not 
having  the  suitable  size.

Without  a  cleaning  up  of  stock  a 
couple  of  times  a  year  it  would  be 
necessary  to  carry  over  a  good  deal 
of  stuff  from  one  season  to  another. 
This  would  take  up  the  room  that 
should  be  occupied  by  fresh  goods, 
would  tie  up money that could be used 
to  better  advantage  in  new  stock,  and 
would  take  the  time  of 
salesmen 
when  that  time  could  be  better  em­
ployed  in  selling  seasonable  goods.

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MANUFACTURERS

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For Spring and  Summer  1904 our line  is  complete, 
including one of the finest  lines  “ Union  Made”  in 
Men’s, Youths’,  Boys’  and  Children’s.  Our  Men’s 
“ Union  Made”  all  wool  $6.00  Suit  recommends 
itself.  Our Pants line is immense.  We  still  have 
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and  Suits.  Remember  we  manufacture  from  very 
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M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

19

It  reads: 

vertising  methods  referred  to  a  re-j 
cent  advertisement  of  his  own  for 
an  answer. 
“Do  clothing 
advertisers  understand  their  public? 
Do  they  think  that  the  intelligent 
purchasers  of  this  Empire  City  and 
vicinity  do  not  do  a  little  figuring? 
For  instance,  when  they  offer  a  Jan­
uary  mark-down  to  one-half  former 
prices,  and  it  is  but  a  few  weeks 
since  they  were  selling  at  less  than 
these
folks  seem  to  prosper  so  well  on 
losses?  A  puzzle?  Rather.”

troduce  that  season.  People  want 
clothing  more  at  the  beginning  of  a 
season  than  at  the  end  of 
it,  and 
tempting  reductions  at  the  inception 
of  a  season  bring  better  results.  The 
best  houses  used  to  do  this,  but  dur­
ing  the  past  two  seasons  some  seem 
to  have  lost  their  heads  and launched 
reduced-price  sales  at  most  inoppor­
tune  times— midseason  and  at  the  tail 
end  of  the  season.  A  clearance  sale
is  all  right  if  it  is  not  made  at  the |  manufacturers’  cost,  how 
expense  of  your  regular  customers, 
that  is,  by  charging  them  such  ex­
orbitant  prices  that  what  they  pay 
The  buyer  for  one  of  the  most 
will  compensate  for  later  reductions.
successful  and  largest  clothing  out­
It  is  hard  to  make  the  first  reduction.
lets  in  the  metropolis  has  regularly 
Afterwards  it  becomes  easier.  But 
followed  a  system  which  he  says  is 
each  time  the  merchant  concludes,
responsible  for  his  much  talked  about
‘Well,  I  don’t want  to  have  to  do  that I  success.  He  has  before  him  the  rec-
again.’  He  is  looking  at 
loss. 
The  logical  conclusion,  then,  is  that 
cut-price  sales  should  be  avoided.” 

the 

do 

known  to  buy  nothing  except  when 
reduced-price  sales  are  on.  They 
regularly  wait  for  these  bargain  op­
portunities  and  then  lay  in  a  suffi­
cient  quantity  of  clothing  to  last  un­
til  the  next  one.

It  is  not  one  firm  that  is  thus  af­
fected,  but  all.  Retailers  even  adver­
tise  that  their  annual  clearance  sale 
is  “that  event  looked  forward  to  by 
hundreds  of  our  customers,  anxiously 
waited  for  by  them,”  and  the  cus- 
i  tomers  are  invited  to  partake  of  the 
sacrifices.  Thus  it  is  that  consumers 
have  been  educated  to  wait  for  the 
inserting  of  the  knife.  Place  the 
blame  where 
should  properly 
fall.— Apparel  Gazette.

it 

Mercy  to  the  guilty  is  malice  to the 

I  innocent. 

_____________ _

l„  X .   I__" T h e m   A l l
Th ir ty  Y e a r s  e x p e r ie n c e

i 

e 

ords  of  the  year  previous,  season  for  i 
season,  month  for  month,  and  he 
takes  the  records  as  a  guide  for  fu­
ture  operations.  At  the  outset  of the j 
season  he  estimates  what  he  can  do, j 
according  to  the  record  for  the  cor­
responding  season  of  the  year  be­
fore.  He  sets  out  determined  to do 
a  certain  amount  of  business  for  that ■
season,  for  each  month.  He  buys  steel Towers 
accordingly,  meeting 
. 
according  to  his  estimate. 
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week  of  the  month  should  not  come I wood Towers
,,  Wood Tanks
up  to  his  reckoning  he  pounds  the  - 
----
advertising  more  heavily  and  gets 
the  results  aimed  at.

Said  an  old-time  clothier:  “I  can 
see  no  safer  way  out  for  the  retailer 
than  for  him  to  do  what  the  manu­
facturing  wholesalers 
are  doing. 
Years  ago  they  carried  stocks,  and 
the  retail  buyer  could  come  into  mar­
ket  and  get  any  and  all  sizes  right 
out  of  stock,  frequently  at  his  own 
price.  Now  the  manufacturers  take 
orders  on  swatches,  and  will  not 
make  anything 
except  on  order. 
When  the  season’s  end  arrives  they 
have  no  cumbersome  stocks 
to  un­
load. 
If  the  retailers  would  regulate 
That  clearance  sales  have  worked 
their  purchases  on  a  similar  basis 
sad  disaster 
is 
they  would  come  out  as  clean  as  the 
shown  by  the  records  of  one  of  the 
manufacturer.  But  they  persistently 
largest  firms.  This  house  has  a 
overload  themselves.  They  buy  light
large  charge  trade,  and  a  large  num-
at  first,  get  a  little  rush  business  and |  ber  Qf  tbese  charge  customers  are 
then  crowd  on  more  stock  than  they j 
~
can  conveniently  handle.  To  avoid 
losses  don’t  overbuy;  watch  your 
stock.”

clothiers 

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Steel Tanks

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Tubular WfeU Supplies 
WRITE  FO R  PR IC E S

YOUR.  BOYS

Wear  Knee  Pants

With  the  old  stock  cleaned  up,  how­
ever,  the  lines  are  open  for  the  va­
riety  of  goods  the 
customers  de­
mand,  and  the  store  during- the  sea­
son  and  up  to  the  time  of  holding  its 
special  sale  can  carry  a  stock  that 
will  enable  it  to  meet  all  reasonable 
demands  and  satisfy all  customers.

The  second  and  third  uses  are  em­
bodied  in  the  first:  Money  is  kept 
active  and  the  stock  is  kept  clean 
and  up  to  date. 
In  this  condition  it 
can  be  easily  handled  and  sold  to 
better  advantage.  Once  the  stock  is 
in  proper  shape  it  is  a  far  easier  mat­
ter  to  keep  it  that  way  than  it  is  to 
get  it  back  into  the  right  condition 
when  too  much  is  permitted  to  accu­
mulate.

Not  the  least  important  use  of  a 
special  sale  is  the  advertising  it  gives 
and  that  for  which  it  gives  opportu­
nity.  “I  would  rather,”  said  the  gen­
tleman  referred  to,  “sell  ten  over­
coats  at  a  profit  of  a  dollar  each, 
than  sell  five  at  a  profit  of  two  dol­
lars  each.  We  are  particular 
to 
have  all  of  our  goods  of  satisfactory 
quality,  so  that  customers  are  sure to 
be  pleased  with  them.  Ten  men  with 
ten  of  our  overcoats  will  do 
ten 
times  as  much  talking  as  one  man 
and  twice  as  much  as 
five  men. 
Every  man,  if  he  is  pleased  with  a 
garment,  tells  other  men  about 
it 
and  where  he  got  it;  he  may  even 
send  in  his  friends  to  get 
similar 
goods.  He  is,  in  fact,  a  walking  ad­
vertisement,  a  salesman  who  works 
for  us  out  of  good  will,  an  advertise 
ment  that  works  in  a  sort  of  progres­
sion,  making  each  customer  sent  in 
a  missionary  to  send  in  others. 
In 
this  way,  as  special  sales  bring  in 
more  men,  we  are  able  to  satisfy 
more  and  more  people  and  make 
more  and  still  more  friends  for 
the 
store.  Then,  too,  a  special  sale  ena­
bles  us  to  advertise  in  a  little  differ­
ent  vein  directly  through  the  news­
papers. 
I  want  to  say* now  that  no 
advertisement 
that  character 
should  be  used  that  does  not  give  a 
good  reason  for  the  sale.  Give  solid, 
sensible  reasons  in  your  advertising.”
the 
special  sale  another  prominent  cloth 
ing  man  said: 
sale 
brings'me  in  ten  or  twelve  thousand 
dollars  that  I  need  to  put  into  new 
stock.  What  if  it  does  make  some 
people  wait  to  get  the  bargains  I  of­
fer? 
I’m  glad  to  see  them  at  any 
time. 
I  aim  to  sell  the  sort  of  stuff 
that  is  a  credit  to  the  store.  Special 
sales  advertise  this  establishment.  I 
don’t  hold  too  many  and  don’t  let 
them  degenerate.  We’ve  got  to  keep 
the  stock  cleaned  up. 
is 
anything  I  can’t  sell,  I  move  it  out 
and  sell  it  in  a  job  lot  to  somebody.” 
A  member  of  one  of  the  largest 
firms 
manufacturing  retail  clothing 
“A  man  can 
in  the  country  said: 
not  continually  advertise  broken  lot, 
special,  clearance,  a  third  off,  half 
off  sales  or  reduced-price  sales,  under 
any  other  name,  without  eventually 
hurting  his  business.  We  find  it bet­
ter  to  have  a  semi-annual  clearance 
sale  at  the  end  of  each  season  and 
get  clear  of  what  we  can  for  a  few 
days  at  those  periods,  carrying  over 
the  remainder  of  our  stock  until  the 
next  season  and  then  using  it  to  in­

With  -regard  to  the  uses  of 

special 

there 

“The 

of 

If 

PHELPS  &   BICELOW  WIND  M ILL  CO.
KALAMAZOO.  MICHIGAN_______

for 

“When  a  man  gorges  himself  by 
overeating,  he  has  to  be  purged,” 
said  the  manager  of  a  large  . retail 
“The  semi-annual  cut  price 
store. 
sale  is  likewise  a  physic 
the 
over-stocked  store. 
If  there  was no 
overbuying  or  overproducing  there 
would  be  no  cat  price  sales  not  ad­
vantageous  to  the  retailer.  The  trou­
ble  is  that  we  are  not  cautious 
enough  in  our  estimates  of  our  out­
put.  We  all  try  to  do  too  much  and 
overestimate  the  wants  of  our. trade.”
A  merchant  who  has  made  a  big 
success  of  his  several  stores 
said:
“How  do  I  manage  it?  By  keeping 
a  close  watch  on  the  movement  of 
my  stock,  regulating  my  purchases 
according  to  my  sales  and  keeping 
my  stock  within  controllable  propor­
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I  do  this  through  a  set 
of  books  each  recording  some  move­
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such  offers  as  come  to  me,  making 
the  other  fellow  assume 
loss.
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(Continued  from   last  week)

At  the  battle  of  Stone  River  the I  ed  that  day 

Another  very  funny  thing  happen- 
The  Captain  of  Com-
men  lost nearly all  their  cooking uten-  pany  C  was  a  rough  old  seadog,  one 
sils,  and  had  no  chance  to  go  out  up-  of  the  best  men  in  this  world  of 
on  the  battlefield  and  pick  up  loose  good  men.  He  caught  one  of  Com- 
or  abandoned  articles,  so  the  Captain  pany  E’s  men  infringing on  the  rights 
got  a  pass  to  go  to  Nashville  for  of  his  company  and  sent  the  fellow 
supplies  of  coffee  pots  and 
frying |  home  with  a  black  eye  and  a  bloody 
pans.  Among  other  things  he  bought  I  nose.  Lieutenant  Falstall,  of  E,  re- 
a  coffee  mill.  Up  to  this  time  we  sented  the  insult  to  his  company  and 
either  pounded  our  coffee  in  a  piece  turned  out  a  guard  to  arrest  the  Cap- 
of  cloth  with  the  head  of  an  axe  or  tain  of  C.  It  happened  that  the  Cap- 
steeped  it  whole,  and  traded  the  ber-  tain  was  the  brigade  officer  of 
the 
ries  after  drying  them  again  to  the  day  and  the  Lieutenant  officer  of  the 
natives  in  exchange  for  buttermilk  guard.  The  loud  vociferating  of  the 
and  other  intoxicating  fluids.  For  a  Lieutenant  attracted  the  attention  of 
time  we  had  been  toasting  our  bacon |  all  the  regiment,  who  turned  out  to 
and  pork  on  the  end  of  our  ramrods  a  man  to  see  the  fun.  The  Lieuten- 
and  eating  our  hardtack  dry,  but  the  ant,  with  sash  and  saber,  and  six 
Captain  brought  us  a  monster  frying  stalwart  soldiers  with  bayonets  fixed, 
pan,  three  feet  in  diameter,  which  he |  proceeded  to  find  the  Captain  and in 
form  him  that  he  was  under  arrest 
had  had  made  to  order.  He  said  he
and  must  go  to  the  guard  tent.  The 
would  fry  pancakes  for  the  entire 
Captain  laughed,  then  grew  mad  and 
Company.
talked  back;  then  at  the  presumption 
of  the  Lieutenant  laughed  again,  tell­
ing  him,  in  the  language  of  a  salt  sea 
sailor,  that  he  was  a  blanked  blank 
fool— and  much  more  to 
the  same 
end.  The  Lieutenant,  supported  by 
his  six  men,  fussed  and  fumed  until 
a  party  of  Company  C  boys  came  in 
the 
to  support  their  Captain,  and 
engagement  became  general. 
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the  bugle’s  call,  the  lines  were  head­
ed  south.  On  each  man’s  back  were 
his  blanket,  rubber  poncho  and  sec­
tion  of  tent. 
In  his  haversack  were 
five  days’  rations  of  bacon,  hardtack, 
coffee  and  sugar.  With  forty  rounds 
of  ammunition  and  his  musket  he  had 
started  out  to  fight  as  brave  a  foe  as 
ever  formed  in  battle  lines.  Mingled 
with  the  crack  of  the 
skirmishers’ 
muskets  came  the  occasional  roar  of 
the  field  artillery.  Then  a  cold,  piti­
less  rain  came  down  to  drench  the 
men  to  the  skin.

Off  across  the  fields,  through  the 
woods  and  tangled  brush,  paying  lit­
tle  heed  to  highways  or  byways,  until 
nightfall  forced  a  halt,  the  men  rest­
ed  in  battle  lines  on  the  water-soak­
ed  ground,  without  fires.  This  was 
followed  the  next  four  days  and 
nights,  until  the  early  morning  light 
of  December  31  found  the  most  of 
Sheridan’s  division  lying  in  the  mud 
of  an  open  field  with  empty  haver­
sacks.

All  had  gone  well  up  to  this  point, 
but  here  could  be  seen,  stretching 
forth  beyond  our  lines,  to  the  right, 
the  lines  of  gray  in  the  edge  of 
the 
woods.  There  were  Sheridan’s  thin 
lines  in  the  open  cotton  fields.  Still 
farther  to  the  right  was  Johnson’s  di­
vision,  a  thin  line  of  blue,  with  not  a 
shovelful  of  earth  or  a  rail  thrown up 
for  protection.  Later in the  war these 
two  divisions  would,  under  the  same 
circumstances,  have  put  themselves 
behind 
intrenchments,  rails,  stones, 
logs  and  Mother  Earth,  and any other 
thing  that  would  have  stopped  a  bul­
let  would  have  been  placed  as  if

At  night  he  put  a  peck  of  hardtack 
to  soak  in  a  camp  kettle  of  water.  In 
the  morning  he  brought  it  down  to 
the  company.  Adding  a  handful  of 
salt,  he  then  proceeded  to  stir  up  a 
batter.  The  water  had  not  penetrat­
ed  into  the  crackers  more  than  a 
sixteenth  of  an  inch.  He  made  a 
pounder  out  of  a  green  stick  and 
pounded  the  batter  until  a  hole  was 
punched  in  the"  bottom  of  the  kettle 
and  some  of  the  water  ran  out.  After 
a  long  struggle  in  the  presence  of the 
full  company,  who  were  all  hungry 
for  battercakes,  he  put  the  big  frying 
pan  on  the  fire,  greasing  it  with  ba­
con  rind.  When  it  began  to  smoke 
he  turned  in  the  batter. 
It  steamed 
and  sizzled  and  smoked.  It  sputtered 
and  bubbled  and  puffed.  The  wind 
whistling  about  the  trees  caught  up 
and  deposited  in  the  pan  ashes,  coals 
and  dust,  pieces  of  bark  and  dried 
leaves  and  chestnut  burrs  from 
the 
trees.  The  smoke  chased  the  Cap­
tain,  who  was  pilot  of  the  craft,  from 
side  to  side  of  the  fire  of  burning 
logs.  The  cake  began  to  give  out 
blue  smoke  and  was  ready 
to  be 
turned  over.  It  was  three  feet across 
and  two  inches  deep.  All  sorts  of 
devices  were  suggested  to  turn 
it 
over.  The  Captain  had  not  thought 
of  buying  a  shovel  to  turn  it.  Then 
it  stuck  down  to  the  iron  like  glue 
to  a  darkey’s  wool.  The  cake  got 
cold  and  stopped  smoking  and 
the 
Captain  got  hot  and  steamed.  Fin­
ally,  in  a  fit  of  desperation,  he swung 
the  giant  frying  pan  about  him, 
knocking  down  all  who  could  not  get 
out  of  his  way.  Then  he  banged 
it 
against  a  tree  until  the  bark  fell  off, 
the  handle  broke  and  pieces  of  half- 
cooked  hardtack  batter  were  scatter­
ed  all  over  the  company  quarters. 
The  good  intentions  of  the  Captain 
were  fully  appreciated  by  the  boys, 
who  sought  the  privacy  of  their  tents 
rather  than  embarrass  him  in  his  ef­
forts  to  do 
justice. 
There  are  times  when  a  man  can  not 
find  pious  words  enough  to  express 
his  feelings  and  is  compelled  to  use 
profanity  in  large  doses.

the  occasion 

That  forever  ended  all  efforts  to do 
company  coking.  To  the  end  of  the 
war  we  lived  in  squads  of  two  or

I  refer  to  these  incidents  of  camp 
life  of  the  citizen-soldier,  and 
the 
gradual  transformation  of  the  coun­
try  and  city  boy  to  the  trained  and 
tried  soldier  of  the  ranks,  for  it  took 
time,  and  it  was  a  terrible  experience 
that  taught  the  soldier  of  the  Union 
army  how  to  take  care  of  himself.

*  *  *

The  regiment  to  which  I  belonged 
had  been  in  the  service  less  than 
four  months  when  its  full  ranks  of 
more  than  one  thousand  men  were 
reduced  to  less  than  four  hundred. 
Some  had  been  killed  in  action,  some 
had  died  of  wounds  and  exposure, 
while  many  more  were  in  hospitals 
ill  with  diseases  contracted  largely by 
their  lack  of  knowledge  in  not  know­
ing  how  to  care  for  themselves.

living 

Sheridan’s  division  of  the  army was 
camped  at  Mill  Creek,  south  of  Nash­
ville,  in  December,  1862, 
in 
Sibley  tents.  On  the  23d  day  of  the 
month  the  issue  of  shelter  tents  was 
made, each  enlisted  man  receiving one 
section  or  one  full  tent  to  each  three 
men,  that  is,  two  sides  and  one  end 
section,  and  instructions  were  given 
how  to  erect  them.  The  next  day  at 
daylight  the  Sibleys  were  abandoned 
and the  division  filed  out  of the camps 
to  the  great  highway  and  moved 
south.

It  was  a  beautiful  winter  day  and 
within  a  mile  of  the  picket  lines  the 
advance  guard  came  upon  the  ene­
my’s  outposts.  We  advanced 
into 
the  country  about  ten  miles,  then  re­
traced  our  steps  to  the  old  camps, 
tired  and  hungry,  where  we  enjoyed 
next*  day  our  Christmas  dinner  of 
hardtack  and  bacon.

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by  magic  in  the  dark  hours  of 
night,  but  not  so  at  this  time.

the 

With  the  first  light  of  dawn  came 
our  foe  out  of  the  woods,  at  first 
far  to  our  right,  with  flags  waving 
defiance.  With  the  shriek  of  shell 
and  whiz  of  bullets  came  the  shouts 
of  thousands  of  men  in  front  and 
flank.  Those  in  front  were  sent  reel­
ing  back  into  the  woods,  where  they 
were  under  cover,  but  to  the  right 
Johnson’s  men  were  flanked  and were 
fighting  in  squads  or  seeking  shelter 
in  the  rear.

the 

Here  was  where 

intelligent 
American  soldiers  showed  their  su­
periority  to  the  soldiers  of  any  other 
country.  Any  body  of  European  sold­
iers  under  the  same  conditions  would 
have  been 
into  utter  and 
hopeless  rout,  but  not  so  with  the 
soldiers  of  this  army.

thrown 

to 

changed 

Tn  the  din  of  battle  orders  could 
not  be  heard,  but,  as  if  under  one  im­
pulse,  lines  were 
the 
rear  or  at  right-angles  with  the  first 
lines  and  the  advancing  enemy  charg­
ed  upon  with  the  bayonet.  Here  in 
the  rush,  leading  his  brigade,  the  gal­
lant  young  General  Sill  was  killed. 
The  cotton  fields  were  full  of  men, 
the  blue  and  the  gray,  and  the  stars 
and  stripes  and  the  stars  and  bars 
were  mixed  like  chessmen  in  a  hot­
ly-contested  game. 
Colonels  and 
other  mounted  officers  went  charging 
about  the  field,  trying  to  get  order 
out  of  pandemonium,  until  gradually 
another  line  was  formed  facing  again 
at  right-angles  to  the  former  line. 
The  enemy  had  completely  encircled 
the  right  of  the  army.

Joe  Wheeler,  who  so  gallantly  de­
fended  the  country’s  honor  in  Cuba, 
was  then  commanding  the  Confeder­
ate  cavalry.  He  got  on  our  line  of 
supplies  and  ate  our  hard  bread  and 
bacon,  and  said  it  was  very  good.  A 
few  wagons  escaped  and  came  to  us 
on  January  2  with  the  first  food  we 
had  had  in  nearly  three  days.  To  our 
remnant  of  a  regiment  came  a  bar­
rel  of  salt  pork  and  one  of  brown 
sugar— nothing  else.  As  we  could 
not  build  fires  along  our  lines,  we 
could  not  cook  the  pork;  but,  in  my 
own  case,  it was  cut  into  small  cubes, 
thickly  coated  with  the  sugar  and 
swallowed  whole. 
I  do  not  think 
there  was  even  a  kick  when,  the  next 
day,  some  of  the  boys  cut  steaks from 
the  dead  horses  about  the  fi.elds  and 
broiled  them  on  the  coals.  And  it 
was  on  this  day  that  the  men  of  the 
corps  to  our  left  charged  down  the 
slopes  of  Stone  River  into  its 
icy 
waters,  armpit  deep,  across  and  up 
its  rocky  banks,  full  into  the  enemy’s 
forts,  driving  them  in  disorder  back 
through  the  town,  and  the  battle  was 
won. 
It  was  a  campaign  of  but  ten 
days— days  of  rain,  sleet  and  snow—  
half  of  the  time  with  empty  haver­
sacks,  all  of  the  time  tentless  and 
fireless;  and  yet  from  the  ranks  came 
not  a  murmur.

Thousands  had  given  their  lives; 
other  thousands  were  wounded  and 
were  sent  jolting  over  the  roads  in 
the  hospitals  at 
army  wagons  to 
Nashville,  while  other 
thousands 
fell  into  the  enemy’s  hands,  to  die 
of  starvation  in  the  prison  pens  of 
the  Confederacy.

Charles  E.  Belknap.

(Continued  next  week)

Hundreds  on  both  sides  were  dead 
or  wounded  on  the  field.  This  was 
the  kind  of  a  fight  that  tries  a  man’s 
courage. 
It  is  easy  enough  to  fight 
with  a  full  haversack  and  the  enemy 
on  the  run  but  another  thing  when 
the  haversacks  and  stomachs  are 
empty  and  the  enemy  have  you  on 
the  run. 
I  know  some  men  in  this 
particular case  who  ran  clear  to Nash­
ville,  about  thirty  miles  away.  Only 
a  few  of  them,  however,  did 
this. 
The  remainder  began  one  of  the most 
desperate  conflicts  in  the  annals  of 
the  war.  The  division  had  lost  half 
its  strength. 
regimental 
and  Company  commanders  were  ly­
ing  with  their  men  upon  the  fields; 
but  there were  left  some  to command. 
Bayonets  were  fixed  on  muskets  and 
a  charge  was  made  into  the  midst 
of  the  foe  that  so  checked  them  that 
a  few  minutes’  time  was  gained  until 
lines  could  be  adjusted.  Who  can 
tell  of  the  struggle 
the  cedars, 
where  the  conflict  raged  in  an  almost 
hand-to-hand  struggle,  which  finally 
resulted  in  the  defeat  of  the  foe?

Brigade, 

in 

That  night  my  Company  was  com­
manded  by  its  Fourth  Sergeant.  The 
night  before  it  had  a  Captain,  an 
Orderly  Sergeant  and 
thirty  men. 
Now,  all  told,  there  were  but  eight. 
Three  months  before  there  was  a 
full  hundred.  And  what  of  the  eight 
men  left  that  New  Year’s  morning? 
There  were  less  than  one  hundred 
men  in 
regiment— not 
enough  to  make  a  full  Company;  but 
they were  all  ready  for  the  day’s  con­
flict,  as  well  as  the  next  two  days, 
for  Stone  River  was  a  battle  of  five 
days.

entire 

the 

How  To  Love  a  Girl.

All  girls  like  to  be  loved,  but  they 
are  not  all  alike,  and  care  should  be 
taken  to  discriminate  among 
the 
many  varieties.

In  making  love  to  an  old  maid, the 
preliminaries  only  are  necessary. 
Give  her  a  fair  start,  and  she  will  do 
the  rest.  Remember  that  she  is  mak­
ing  up  for  lost  time,  and  hold  on 
tight,  and  shut  your  eyes.  As  long 
as  she  has  taken  the  cue,  don’t  fear 
the  result.  You  needn’t  do  a  thing.
When  she  is  young  and  innocent, 
with  a  frank,  open-work  countenance 
and  with  no  experience,  get  up  early 
every  morning  and  watch  her  door­
step.  There  are  others  on  the  same 
trail,  and  if  you  wish  to  be  an  active 
member  of  the  club,  you  must  do 
your  share  of  the  work. 
If  she  ac­
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get  too  gay.  This  is  only  your  priv­
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can  not  stand  it  any  longer,  tell  her 
so,  and  leave  the  rest  to  her.  She 
will  be  your  teacher.  You  needn’t  do 
a  thing.

With  a  widow,  be  calm  and  unmov­
ed  in  the  face  of  danger.  You  are 
in  for  it,  and  don’t  get  rattled.  Sit 
around  where  you  can  be  reached and 
submit  to  everything.  But  remember 
that,  so  far  as  you  are  concerned, 
there  is  nothing  doing. 
It  won’t  be 
necessary.

If  she  is  a tall,  straight blonde, with 
lustrous  eye  and  a  large,  open  smile, 
don’t  allow  your  feelings  to  overcome 
you.  Do  the  right  thing,  and  wait.

She  will  see  that  you  are  well  taken  | 
care  of.

Or  if  she  is  any  other  kind  of  girl, 
it  doesn’t  matter.  Don’t  do  a  thing 
yourself.  She  will  do  the  rest.  No 
matter  how  slow  you  may  be,  have 
no  fear  of  the  ultimate  result.

But  be  sure  of  one  thing.  Before 

beginning,  get  a  million  or  so.

Tom  Masson.

Total  Depravity.

Once  there  was  a  shiftless  man who j 
found  it  such  hard  work  to  make  a I 
living  that  he  decided  to  shift  the j 
burden  of  his  support  upon  the  State.  !

So  he  stole  a  watch  and  was  sen­

tenced  to  the  penitentiary  for  one  | 
year.

But  friends  interested  themselves | 
in  his  behalf,  and  at  the  expiration of 
six  months  of  his  term  the  Governor  j 
pardoned  him  out.

“I  wish  they  had  attended  to  their j 
own  business,”  he  said,  as  he  went ] 
through  the  prison  gates.  “Now  I’ve 
got  to  hustle  for  a  living  again.  Be- | 
sides,”  he  added,  with  bitterness,  “it’s  I 
awfully  rude  to  interrupt  a  man  in  j 
the  middle  of  a  sentence.”

Ah,  yes!  When  a  man  takes  his 
first  step  in  crime  there  is  no  telling  j 
where  he  will  stop.

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IN  PL A CE  O F  PINE.

The  Coming  Reign  of  King  Corn  in 

the  Upper  Peninsula.

W ritten  for  th e  Tradesm an.

A  well-known  authority  on  things 
agricultural  made  a  trip  through the 
northern  part  of  Michigan  not  long 
ago,  for  the  purpose  of  investigating 
the 
the  condition  and  prospects  of 
farmers  generally 
throughout 
the 
Upper  Peninsula  and  the  most  north­
ern  sections  of  the  Lower  Peninsula.
It  seems  that  he  was  well  satisfied 
with  what  he  found,  for  soon  after 
his  trip  was  completed  he  wrote  a 
lengthy  article  for  a  livestock  journal 
in  which  he  made  the  claim  that 
Northern  Michigan  offers  as  great 
opportunities  to  the  settler  as  do  the 
boom  countries  of  the  Great  West, 
and  in  the  discussion  of  the  situation 
went  on  to  say  that  the  farmers  of 
the  southern  counties  who  are  dis­
satisfied  with  their  lot  would  do  well 
to  look  into  the  advantages  of 
the 
northern  part  of  their  own  State. 
This  article  has  been  printed  by  a 
majority  of  Upper  Peninsula  news­
papers  and  the  people  have  come  to 
believe  that  they  are  on  the  eve  of 
a  great  boom 
in  agriculture  and 
stock-raising.

One  of  the  most  important  state­
ments  in  the  article was  that  the writ­
er  found  corn  growing  in  many  lo­
calities.  He  further  stated  that  he 
believed  that  within  a  few  years  the 
northern  part  of  the  State  would  be 
growing  a  fast-maturing  kind  of corn 
that  would  fill  a  long-felt  want.  This 
state  of  affairs,  in  his  judgment,  will 
be  brought  about  by  the  gradual  ac­
climatizing  of  the  seed,  as  has  been 
done  in  other  sections  of  country.  In 
regard  to  the  raising  of  livestock,  he 
claimed  that  the  feeding  season  is 
not  much  longer  than  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  State,  so  the  future  of 
grazing  seems  bright 

indeed.

centers  will  remain  at  home;  and  it 
will  naturally  follow  that  the  rural 
classes  will  have  more  money 
to 
spend  than  now— the  natural  result 
in  such  a  case  is  apparent.

One  of  the  greatest  hindrances  to 
the  agricultural  district  has  been 
the  “Lumber  Jack,”  that  gentleman 
of  the  mill  and  forest  who  has  been 
described  in  song  and  story  to  a  con­
siderable  extent  in  these  later  years. 
He  won’t  farm.  He  works  until  he 
has  on  hand  enough  filthy  lucre  to 
make  possible  a  “roaring  good  time,” 
then  comes  to  town  to  make  things 
hum  until  his  money  is  gone  Were 
it  not  for  the  gentleman  from  the 
tall  and  uncut,  a  goodly  number  of 
the  ninety-six  saloonkeepers  of  the 
Soo  would  have  to  go  out  of  busi­
ness  in  short  order.  The  “Lumber 
Jack”  is  at  home  nowhere  outside the 
precincts  of  the  pineries.  His  num­
ber  is  decreasing,  however,  and  with 
the  coming  of  corn  it  is  probable that 
one  of  the  old-time  types  of  Wolver­
ine  life  will  gradually  withdraw  from 
the  stage.

The  end  is  already  in  sight.  Lum­
bermen  have  considerable  trouble  in 
finding  men  to  go  into  the  woods, 
with  the  result  that  the  immigrant 
is  doing  much  of  the  work.  Employ­
ment  agencies  are  kept  busy  scour­
ing  the  country  for  woodsmen.  The 
old-time  red-shirted  and  mackinawed 
swinger  of  the  axe  seems  to  be  dis­
appearing,  nobody  seems  to  be  able 
to  tell  where,  with  the  result  that  the 
lumber  camp  of  to-day  is  not  what 
it  was  in  the  time  when  the  “D.  & 
M.”  was  the  only  railroad  crossing 
the  State.  The  romance  of  life  in 
the  woods  is  gone.  The  song  of  the 
axe  and  saw  is  giving  way  to  the 
lowing  of  cattle  and  the  bleating  of 
sheep.  The  coming  of  King  Corn  is 
announced  in  the  same  breath  with 
which  is  proclaimed  the  passing  of 
King  Pine.

The  raising  of  corn  in  the  extreme 
northern  part  of  the  State  would 
mean  more  in  a  business  way  than 
most  people  realize. 
It  would  stim­
ulate  hog  and  poultry-raising  and 
make  it  possible  to  increase  the  crop 
of  fodder  for  cattle.  Any  person  at 
all  conversant  with  agricultural  con­
ditions  in  this  country  knows  that 
the  “corn  line”  is  gradually  moving 
northward.  There  seems  to  be  no 
good  reason  why  it  should  not,  with­
in  a  short  time,  reach  Lake  Superior. 
It  is  now  claimed  by  Canadian  ex­
perts  that  wheat  can  be  raised  suc­
cessfully  as  far  north  as  James  Bay. 
If  this  be  true  it  ought  not  to  be 
long  before  agricultural  scientists will 
be  able  to  develop  a  species  of  corn 
that  can  be  grown  with  profit  as  far 
north  as  the  Big  Lake.  Corn-grow­
ing  in  combination  with  stock-raising 
would  be  more  profitable  than  farther 
south  from  the  fact  that  a better  mar­
ket  is  afforded.  At  the  present  time 
the  bulk  of  the  meat  used  by  the  ci­
ties  in  this  territory  comes  from  the 
West.  The  big  meat  concerns  have 
warehouses  in  the  northern 
cities 
from  which 
they  deliver  Western- 
grown  beef,  pork  and  mutton.  When 
the  farmers  come  to  raise  more stock 
thousands  of  dollars  that  now  flow 
in  the  direction  of  Chicago,  Kansas 
City,  Omaha  and  other  packing house  j

The  lumber  industry  in  Michigan 
is  not  dead,  by  any  means,  but  it  is 
beating  a  retreat  before 
the  on­
slaught  of  the  plow,  the  reaper  and 
the  churn.  The  advent  of  the  cprn 
crop  in  the  Upper  Peninsula  will 
j  serve  to  stimulate  cultivation  of  the 
|  soil  in  all  sections.  The  lack  of  it 
!  has  been  about  the  only  drawback 
I  connected  with  farming  in  the  north- 
1  ern  counties.

are 

And  just  as  soon  as  the  corn  crop 
|  in  the  Upper  Peninsula  makes  itself 
i  manifest,  just  so  soon  will  the  face 
I  of  the  map  begin  to  undergo  changes. 
;  At  the  present  time  there  are  few 
|  of  what  are  commonly  called  “coun- 
!  try  towns”  in  the  Upper  Peninsula. 
|  There 
settlements  built  up 
|  around  saw  mills,  but  they  die  as 
I  soon  as  the  timber  in  the  vicinity  is 
!  cut  and  marketed.  There  are  also 
!  small  towns  where  railroads  cross. 
I  But  when  the  country  fills  up  with 
|  farmers  small  towns  will  naturally 
!  spring  up  in  numerous  localities,  for 
the  farmer  must  have  a  trading  cen­
ter— notwithstanding  the  fatherly  in- 
j  terest  exhibited  by  the  mail  order 
houses  that  save  him  “40  per  cent.” 
I  on  everything  he  buys!  Stores  will 
the 
j be  started  in  these  towns  and 
j mercantile  business  will  receive 
a 
j  stimulus  as  a  result.

But  all  this  will  not  be  accomplish-

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

23

DETECTIN G   COUNTERFEITS.
Queer  Slips  Made  by  Forgers  of 

Bank  Notes.

“Don’t  take  any  bad  money  while 
you’re  out,”  is  advice  harder  for  the 
New  Yorker  to  follow  than  for  any 
one  else  in  this  country.

According  to  tables  published  in 
the  current  “Dickerman’s  U.  S.  Treas­
ury  Counterfeit  Detector”  there  are 
thirteen  different  kinds  of  counterfeit 
national  bank notes of this State, rang­
ing  in  denomination  from  $2  to  $100, 
to  say  nothing  of the pony gold coins 
and  small  change.  The  bank  officials 
of  Massachusetts,  which  comes  sec­
ond  on  the  list,  only  have  to  keep 
their  eyes  peeled  for  ten  different 
kinds  of  native  counterfeit  bills.

Unless  a  man’s  an  expert,  he  would 
have  to  carry  a  small chemical labora­
tory,  a  pocket  tool  chest,  and a com­
plete  collection  of  United  States  cur­
rency,  indexed  for  immediate  refer­
ence,  if  he  would  be  absolutely  safe 
against  bad  money.

some 

It  would  embarrass 

folks, 
however,  to  hold  up  the  box  office 
line  while  they  dropped 
acid  on 
their  change  and  counted  the  hairs 
on  the  buffalo  in  the  five-dollar  bills. 
The  only  protection  afforded  such 
people  is  that  derived  from  a  hasty 
glance  at  the  color  of  the  note  and 
the  workmanship  on  the  portrait.

in 

Judging  from 

the  description  of 
counterfeit  United  States  and  treas­
ury  notes  given 
“Dickerman’s 
Detector”  the  most  general  defects 
are  in  the  portraits.  Watch  out  for 
the  evil  eye,  bad  complexions,  tousled 
hair  and  the  shape  of  the  nose;  if 
you  do  it  may  save  you  money.

For  example,  if  a  two-dollar  bill 
on  which  Jefferson  has  only  one  eye 
is  offered  to  a  man,  he  shouldn’t  take 
it.  Neither  should  he  accept  a  bill 
upon  which  a  white 
runs 
across  the  iris  of  each  of  McPher­
son’s  eyes.

streak 

If  McPherson’s hair  and  beard  have 
not  been  carefully  brushed,  or  if  he 
has  a  “staring  look,  and  the  head  ap­
pears  flat,”  have  nothing  to  do  with 
him.  And  above  all  things  shun  him 
if  he  has  “many  white  spots 
on 
face.”

Now  for  the  ten-dollar  notes.  Be 
on  your  guard  against  General  Sher­
idan  under  these  conditions:  When 
his  “face  has  a  moth-eaten  appear­
ance;”  when  his  "right  eye  and  mus­
tache  are  hardly  visible;”  when  his 
mustache  and  chin  whiskers  “appear 
smoothly  brushed”  (they  should  be 
straggling  and  bushy);  and  last  but 
not  least,  when  the  “right  end  of  his 
forehead  and  right  cheek  is  a  mass 
of white  patches.”

Daniel  Webster  should  be  avoided 
on  ten-dollar  bills  when  his  nose  is 
flat.

In  twenty-dollar  bills  keep  an  eye 
on  Alexander  Hamilton. 
If  his 
“nose,  instead  of  being  round  on  the 
end,  is  brought  to  a  sharp  point,”  and 
if  “his  chin,  instead  of  being  double, 
is  square,”  he  is  an  imposter.

The  man  who  takes  a  bill  with  the 
line  of  Benjamin  Franklin’s  mouth 
and  the  opening  of  his  ear  too  pro­
nounced,  may be  out fifty  dollars.  He 
may  find  consolation,  however,  in the 
fact  that  indistinct  tail  feathers  on

an  American  eagle  might  have  cost 
him  a  hundred. 
If  Admiral  Farragut 
has  too  long  a  nose  and  his  upper  lip 
protrudes,  that’s  also  a  sign  that  a 
hundred-dollar  bill  is  bad.

As  might  be  expected  in  a  counter­
feit,  the  figure  of  Justice  in  the  $500 
kind  is  somewhat  out  of  plumb.  The 
scale  she  holds  aloft  is,  very  appro­
priately,  slightly  crooked.

In  addition  to  this  she  is  club  foot­
If 
ed,  and  her  toes  are  too  short. 
further  proof  were  needed,  it  may  be 
found  in  the  indistinctness  of 
the 
lobe  of  J.  Q.  Adams’  ear.

In  the  silver  certificates  even  Mar­
tha  Washington’s  complexion  does­
n’t  escape  the  hands  of  the  despoiler. 
She  receives  mention  among  the  one- 
dollar  counterfeits  as  having  “white 
patches  on  forehead  and  face.”

On  two-dollar  silver  certificates  it 
is  well  to  make  sure  that  General 
Hancock’s  hair  and  mustache 
are 
smoothly  brushed,  for  one  counter­
feiter  has  mussed  them  badly.  Also 
be  wary  of  William  Windom,  espe­
cially  if  his  “eyes  appear  to  have 
staring  looks,”  or  if  his  “cheeks  ap­
pear  sunken  and  his  chin  out  of  pro­
portion.”

General  Grant  is  chief  sufferer  in 
counterfeit  five-dollar  silver  certifi­
cates.  In  one  case  “two  white  patches 
appear  on  his  lower 
lip,  near  left 
corner  of  mouth.”  In  other  instances 
“he  looks  pockmarked”  and  “has  a 
moth-eaten  appearance.”  One  coun­
terfeiter  seems  to  have  had  all  the 
instincts  of  a  common  thief,  for  in 
his  production  the  “stud  on  General 
Grant’s  shirt  front  is  missing.”
Ten-dollar  silver  certificates 

are 
dangerous  when  Hendricks  lacks  a 
right  eye.

On  the  twenties  look  out  for  Man­
ning.  Don’t  let  the  left  side  of  his 
face  press  against  the  background too 
closely,  and  above  all  things  see  that 
his  mustache  is  nicely  curled.  One 
bungler  has  sadly  bedraggled  it.

one-hundred-dollar 

In  the  only  described  counterfeit 
of 
certificates 
Monroe  is  the  victim.  His  left  cheek 
bone  is  missing,  and  this,  as  might 
be  supposed,  gives  his  face  “a  differ­
ent  expression.”

Of  course,  the  portraits  on  some 
counterfeit  bills  are  not  defective. 
With  these,  and  in  the  case  of  coins, 
other  methods  are  necessary  for  de­
tection.  But  any  one  who  thorough­
ly  masters  all  the  portraits  on  our 
currency  will  undoubtedly 
it 
something  of  a  help.— New  York 
Sun.

find 

Dangerous  to  Both  Mental  and  Phy­

sical  Health.

It  has  long been  known  that  a  man 
is  not  at  his  best  for  hard  mental 
work  directly  after  a  hearty  meal, but 
the  real  dangers  of  work  under  such 
conditions  are  perhaps  hardly  appre­
ciated.  The  tension  is  increased  not 
only  in  the  arteries  of  the  body,  but 
also,  in  all  probability,  in  those  of 
the  brain,  and  this  makes  it  easy  for 
a  weakened  point  to  give  way.

We  recently  have  had  a  striking 
instance  of  death  from  apoplexy  oc­
curring  in  a  prominent  physician 
while  making  an  after-dinner  speech, 
and  the  notable  death  of  William 
Windom  a  few  years  ago,  under  sim­

ilar  circumstances,  will  be  remember­
ed.  The  dangers  from  this  cause; 
have  not  been  recognized,  but  when j 
we  remember  that  these  public  ban- j 
quets  involve  a  pretty  hard  digestion 
of  food  and  a  consequent  rise  of 
blood  presence,  it  need  not  be  won­
dered  at  that  sudden  deaths 
from 
“apoplexy” 
after-dinner 
speeches  are  often  recorded.

during 

Apoplexy  - is  a  well-known  possi­
bility of mental  strain;  the weak point 
may  be  unknown  to  the  subject  him­
self  and  not  revealed  by  any  objec­
tive  symptoms.  The  individual  may 
have  passed  a  life  insurance  examina­
tion  successfully  only  a  short 
time 
before,  as  is  reported  to  have  been 
the  case  with  the  physician  referred 
to,  but  the  special  stress  becomes too 
strong  for  some  point  of  weakness 
and  the  result  is  fatal. 
It  is  not 
work,  whether  mental  or  physical, 
that  kills. 
Intellectual  workers,  as a 
rule,  are  among  the  longer  lived, but 
special  stress  under  certain  circum­
stances,  such  as  post-convivial  occa­
sions,  when  the  normal  tendency 
to 
rise  of  blood  pressure  in  the  periph­
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solvent  Method  over  all  others

Wilcox,  Mich.,  Oct.  10,  1903.

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  D octor:—
I  was  afflicted  w ith  piles  for  over  tw en­
ty   years  and  for  the  past  six  years  had 
not  been  able  to  do  any  heavy  work.  1 
had  tried  m any  different  remedies  and 
several  different  doctors  w ithout 
any 
help.  A  friend  called  m y  attention  to  your 
treatm ent  and  advised  me  to  take  it. 
I 
did  so  and  was  cured  in  th irty   minutes.
I  can  not  speak  too  highly  of  your  tre a t­
m ent  and  would  recommend  anyone  a f­
flicted  w ith  this  terrible  disease  to  take 
I t  is  prac­
th e  treatm en t  w ithout  delay. 
tically  painless  and  I  was  able  to   work 
th e  next  day  after 
I 
would  not  be  placed  in  th e  condition  I 
was  before  taking  the  treatm ent  for  any 
am ount  of  money. 
In 
Grand  Rapids  next  week  and  will  bring 
a  friend  w ith  me  to  take  th e  treatm ent.
Hoping  th a t  this  will  lead  some  suffer­
ing  fellowman  to  find  relief,  I  rem ain, 

I  expect  to   be 

treatm ent. 

th e 

Gratefully  yours.

M.  M.  Deake,

P ostm aster  and  D ealer  in  General  M er­

chandise.

.

A  Pleasure  to  Answer  Enquiries.

Grandville,  Mich.,  Oct.  5,  1903. 

. . .  

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:— 
I  feel  so  grateful  for  w hat  you  have 
done  for  m e  I   hardly  know  how  to  ex­
press  myself  other  th an   say:  W ithout 
any  exaggeration  w hatever,  th a t  I  have 
been  saved  from  a  fate  worse  th an   death 
I  feel  th a t  I   have  a  new  lease  of  life. 
It  has  given  me  new  energy  to  cheerfully 
bear  all  other  calam ities  th a t  m ay  fall 
to  m y  lot  in  life  to  come.
I  will  cheerfully  give  in  detail  to  any­
one  asking  for  it  w hat  I  have  suffered 
for  years  w ith  one  of  th e  w orst  cases of 
piles  it  is  possible  for  any  person  to have 
and  how  perfect  and  painless  the  cure 
Please  call  on  me  a t  any  time.  Doctor 
for  reference. 

I   am   as  ever,

T our  grateful  friend,

Mrs.  Milton  Velzey.

in 

30 

Suffered  Tw enty  Years—Cured 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Millbrook,  Mich.,  Oct.  8,  1903. 

Minutes.
Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:— 
to   m ake  acknowledgm ent 
I  wish 
of 
your  successful  treatm ent  of  m y  case.  I 
tw enty  years  w ith  protruding 
suffered 
piles;  you  cured  m e  in 
th irty   m inutes 
and  I   am   now  as  sound  as  any  m an  of 
m y  age 
to   you 
I  w ent 
in  M ichigan. 
against  the  advice  of  m y  physician  and 
am   thankful  th a t  I  did.
I  recommend  your  treatm en t  to  any 
person  afflicted  as  I  was.

.  _

Respectfully  yours,

W m.  Bragg.

No  Faith  in  Salves  and  Ointm ents.

Speaks  From  Experience.

PALM ITER,  T H E   CLOTHIER, 
Good  Clothing  Ready  to   W ear 

Phone  40—2  rings.

Custom  Made.
Furnishings  Too.
H art,  Mich.,  April  13,  1903.

Dr.  Burleson  cures  piles. 

I  suffered  for 
ten  years  w ith  a  m ost  painful  case,  tried 
all  sorts  of  salves  and  ointm ents  w ith 
out  relief, 
do  not  believe  these  patent  m ixtures  ever 
cured  a   genuine  case  of  piles.  Dr.  B ur 
leson  has  cured  m e  completely  a n d , _ 
have  every  reason  to   believe  in  him   and
his  m ethod  of  treatm ent. 

to  say  nothing  of  cure, 

______
H .  J.  PALMITER.

to  go 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  July  1,  1903.

I  suffered  for  years  w ith  a   bad  case 
of  protruding  piles  and  prolapsus,  which 
disabled  me  so  I  w as  unable  to  work  a 
good  deal  of  the  tim e. 
I  could  get  no  re ­
lief  a t  home  (St.  Louis,  Mich.)  so  de­
cided 
to  Grand  Rapids  and  be 
treated  by  a   specialist.  On 
inquiry  I 
found  a  rectal  specialist,  who  claimed  to 
cure  piles  by  w hat  he  called  the  injec­
tion  method. 
I  consulted  him   and  he 
assured  me  th a t  he  could  effect  a  cure. 
So  I  commenced  treatin g   w ith  him,  con­
tinuing  sam e  tw ice  weekly  for  about  six 
months.  He  used  th e  injection  method, 
until  it  could  be  seen  to  be  an  absolute 
failure.  He  then  claimed  th a t  he  knew 
about  the  use  of  electricity  and  so  he 
tried  th a t  for  a   few  weeks,  w ith  no  bene­
fit  w hatever,  until  I  got  disgusted  and 
began  to  give  up  all  hope  of  being  cured. 
W ith  all  these  treatm ents  I  had  not  re ­
ceived  a   particle  of  benefit.  A t 
this 
point  I  thought  I  would  go  and  have  a  
talk  w ith  Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  the 
Rectal  Specialist,  and  he  told  me  th a t 
he  could  easily  cure  me  and  th a t  it  would 
cost  me  nothing  until  I  was  satisfied  th a t 
I  was  cured.  He  treated  me  once  by 
his  New  Painless  Dissolvent  M ethod  and 
to  m y  great  surprise  and  joy  he  cured 
me  and  I  have  not  had  a  sign  of  pro­
lapsus  or  protrusion  since.
I  do  not  know  w hether  the  fault  was 
in  the  m an  or  the  old-fashioned  injec­
tion  method,  but  in  m y  case  I  know  th a t 
both  were  dismal  failures. 
I  took  about 
50 
this  old-fashioned 
m ethod  w ith  no  benefit  w hatever,  and 
Dr.  Burleson  by  his  New  Method  com- 
pletely  cured  me  of  all  protrusion  and 
prolapsus  in  one  treatm ent  lasting  about 
30  m inutes. 
If  I  had  gone  to  Dr.  B ur­
leson  in  the  first  place  ana  received  hon­
est,  intelligent  and  up-to-date  treatm ent 
I  would  have  been  saved  six  m onths  of 
suff'ereing  and  the  annoyances  of  about 
50  useless  treatm ents.
I  had  an  extrem ely  bad  case  and  Dr. 
Burleson’s  pronounced  success 
in  my 
case  leads  me  to  believe  th a t  he  will  have 
but  few  failures.
Dr.  Burleson  accomplished  much  more 
than  he  promised  in  m y  case,  while  the 
injection  method 
doctor  who  used 
promised  everything  and  accomplished 
nothing. 
W.  A.  GREEN,
197  M t.  Vernon  S t.,
no 
g  
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

treatm ents 

th e 

by 

Frem ont,  Mich.,  June  20,  1903 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  Grand  Rapids 

Mich:
D ear  Doctor:
You  are  welcome  to  use  m y  nam e  in 
any  capacity  in  which  it  will  do  good.  I 
suffered  for  years  w ith  protruding  piles 
and  you  cured  me  in  one  short  treatm ent 
by  your  New  Painless  Dissolvent  Method 
I  was  in  a   very  precarious  physical  con­
dition  when  I  w ent  to  you  to  be  treated, 
but  m y  health  and  appearance  have  so 
m uch  improved  th a t  my  old  friends  are 
surprised. 
numerous 
friends  to  call  on  you  and  will  do  so 
from   tim e  to  tim e  as  opportunity  p re­
sents  itself. 
, 
,
I  feel  confident  th a t  you  have  th e  only 
treatm ent  for  this  class  of 
I 
had  been  advised  by  surgeons,  in  whom 
I  had  confidence  and  supposed  were  up- 
to-date, 
th a t  th e  only  w ay  I   could  be 
cured  w as  to  have  them   cut  out.  How 
ever,  I  know  b etter  th an   this  now.
Thanking  you  for  th e  g reat  service  you 
have  rendered  me,  I  am,  yours  truly,

I  have 

trouble. 

advised 

.. 

GEO.  E.  HILTON.
Postm aster.

p .  S.—I   expect  to  be  a t  your  office 
Thursday,  w ith  a   friend  for  treatm en t 

G.  B.  H

- 

. 

T

the 

tortures 

Petoskey,  Mich.,  Oct.  12,  1903. 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
Dear  Doctor:— 
I  have  no  reason  to  believe  th a t  I  am  
not  perfectly  and  perm anently  cured  of 
m y  piles  by  your  treatm ent. 
I  suffered 
all 
th a t  accompany  these 
conditions  for  eight  or  ten  years,  ana 
tried  a  num ber  of  different  remedies,  but 
still  suffered.  L ast  June  I  heard  of  your 
wonderful  success  in  curing  Rectal  Dis­
eases  and  w ent  to  Grand  Rapids  and  was 
treated  on  July  6th  last.  The  treatm ent 
yas  painless  and  caused  me  no  incon­
venience  and  I   have  had  no  trouble  with 
piles  since 
is 
needless  to  state,  am   well  satisfied  w ith 
the  results.
I t  gives  me  g reat  pleasure  to  recom ­
mend  your 
treatm ent  to  my  afflicted 
friends. 

treatm ent,  aim, 

I   am,Yours  truly,
Real  E state  and  Insurance.

Thom as  Quinlan, 

th a t 

it 

Felt  T h at  He  W as  Condemned  to  Death.

Frem ont,  Mich.,  Oct.  5,  1903.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:—
I  hardly  know  how  to  express  the  g ra t­
itude  I  feel  tow ards  you  for  th e  great 
service  you  have  rendered  me. 
I  never 
realized  th a t  piles  could  cause  so  much 
disturbance,  and  m ake  such  a   complete 
wreck  of  a   m an.  W hen  I   w ent  to  you 
for  treatm ent  I   was  in  a   pitiable  condi­
tion:  I  could  not  sleep  nor  could  I  think, 
my  back  ached  so  bad  th a t  I  .was  in 
m isery  all  the  tim e;  I  w as  unable  to 
attend  to  business  and  felt  th a t  I  was  a 
doomed  man. 
I  felt  like  a   m an  condemn­
ed  to  death. 
I  had  very  little  hope,  and 
the  horror  of  subm itting  to  a   barbarous 
surgical  operation  aggravated  my  nerv­
ous  condition  not  a  little.  Every  doctor 
whom  I  consulted  before  coming  to  you 
could  advise  nothing  but  the  knife  and 
if  they  had  recommended  the  gallows  ’ 
would  have  accepted  it  as  cheerfully.
I  had  heard  of  your  wonderful  cures 
of  Rectal  Diseases  and  resolved  to  con­
sult  you.  Your  diagnosis  w as  ulceration 
and  hemorrhoids,  and  I  began  to  improve 
both 
in  general  health  as 
soon  as  you  commenced  treatin g   me  and 
soon  my  hope  began  to  return,  and  in 
about 
th e  rectal 
trouble  cured  and  I  could  see  th a t  I  was 
on  the  road  to  rapid  recovery.  My  im 
provem ent  has  been  phenomenal  and  .  
am   to-day  as  well  as  I  ever  w as 
I   have 
recommended  m any  others  to  go  to  you 
to  have  rectal  troubles  cured  and  you 
have  been  equally  successful  w ith  them  
all.  Your  treatm ent  caused  me  no  pain 
or  inconvenience  w hatever  and  m y  case 
was  an  extrem ely  severe  one.
I  believe  your  fam e  is  assured;  and  in 
a  few  years  your  reputation  will  be  n a­
tional. 

two  weeks  you  had 

locally  and 

I   am,

G ratefully  yours,

Wm.  Hilton,

Wm.  H ilton  &  Co.,  Lum ber,  Lime  and 

Cement.

Orlando,  Fla.,  Oct.  6,  1903.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

I   have 

D ear  Doctor—It  gives  me  pleasure  to 
thank  you  for  th e  m any  courtesies,  kind 
attention  and  careful  treatm ent  received 
while  under  your  care  in  G rand  Rapids  a 
month  ago.  And  for  the  benefit  of  others 
afflicted  as  I  was,  I  would  add  m y  tes­
tim onial  to  th e  m any  others,  th e  reading 
of  which  led  m e  to  go  tw o  thousand  miles 
to  get  your  treatm ent. 
been 
troubled  w ith  piles  for  about 
tw enty 
years.  A fter  m uch  suffering  I  w as  tre a t­
ed  five  years  ago  by  the  “Injection  M eth­
od,”  which  nearly  resulted  in  m y  death 
and  left  me  worse  th an   before. 
I   grew 
steadily  worse  until  la st  spring,  w hen  I 
found  mvself  about  exhausted  both  phy­
financially  and  having  no 
sically  and 
alternative  b u t  the  knife. 
I  again  sub­
m itted  to   the 
“Injection  Treatm ent, 
w ith  th e  result  as  a t  first.  F o r  three 
weeks  afte r  th is  treatm en t  there  were 
tim es  when,  for  hours,  I  w as  in  an  agony 
of  pain,  and  thought  I  should  die,  but the 
Lord  graciously  raised  m e  up  and  soon 
after,  as  I  believe,  p u t  it  into  th e  m ind 
of  a   friend-  to   send  m e  D r  B urleson’s 
pam phlet  telling  of  his  treatm ent. 
I t  is 
now  a  little  over  one  m onth  since  I   took 
his  treatm ent  by  electricity. 
I   reached 
home  one  week  afte r  th e  treatm en t  and. 
have  been  hard  a t  work  for  nearly  three 
weeks.  W ere  I  ten  thousand  m iles  aw ay 
and  had  a   case  of  piles,  I  would  try   and 
get  to   Dr.  Burleson,  and  I   advise  you 
who  are  suffering  to   do  the  same. 
I   will 
gladly  answ er  any  enquiries.
Yours  respectfully,

J.  B.  Finley.

Suffered  Sixteen  Years.
Fruitport,  Mich.,  Oct.  17.  1903. 
G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,

D ear  Doctor—A fter  three  treatm en ts by 
you  I   feel  like  a   new  m an—b etter  th an  
I   suffered  w ith  th e 
I  have  for  years. 
bleeding  and  protruding  piles  for  th e last 
fifteen  or  sixteen  years.  I   suffered  som e­
thing  aw ful  and  could  not  w ork  m ost  of 
the 
tim e.  Now  for  m onths  since  you 
cured  m e  I   can  do  as  good  a   day’s  work 
as  I   ever  could.  A t  th e  tim e  I  w ent  to 
you  for  treatm en t  I   w as  so  bad  th a t  I 
could  not  do  anything  a t  all. 

I   am,

E ver  your  tru e   friend,

W alter  Carrick.

Cured  In  One  T rea tm e n t

I  suffered  for  eight  years  w ith  pro­
truding  piles,  which  a t  tim es  bled  pro­
fusely;  was  so  bad  th a t  I  w as  in  m isery 
all  th e  tim e.  Could  not  do  any  w ork 
w ithout  having  them   come  out. 
I   had 
to  put  them   back  about  every  ten   m in­
utes  when  I  was  trying  to  work.
I   was  cured  in  one  treatm ent  by  Dr. 
W illard  M.  Burleson,  by  his  painless dis­
solvent  method.  I   have  not  been  troubled 
a t  all  since  th a t  one  treatm ent  and  have 
every  reason  to  believe  th a t  I   am   p er­
fectly  cured.

311  Junction  St.,  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

C ontractor  and  Builder, 

C.  N.  Tubbs, 

A  Bad  Case  Easily  Cured.

Grand  Rapids.  Mich.,  April  25,  1903.
Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson  easily  cured 
me  of  a  very  bad  case  of  piles. 
I  was  so 
bad  th a t  I  could  not  w ork  for  a   week 
a t  a  time. 
I  suffered  all  th e  tortures  of 
the  damned. 
I  had  piles  ju st  about  as 
bad  as  any  person  could  have  them   and 
my  experience  dem onstrates  to  me  th a t 
Dr.  Burleson  and  his  New  Painless  D is­
solvent  Method  are  a   decided  success. 
The  treatm en t  causes  no  pain  or  suffer­
ing,  but  it  does  the  business.

JOHN  SEDARD,
84  Center  S t

In  Bed  Eight  W eeks  Following  Knife 

Operation—W as  Soon  W orse  Than 

Ever.

I  was  terribly  afflicted  w ith  protruding 
piles.  H ad  knife  operation  six  years  ago, 
suffered  terribly  and  was  in  bed  eight 
weeks.  W as  soon  worse  th a n   ever. 
I 
am   now  well,  however,  having  been  cured 
by  Dr.  Burleson’s  New  Painless  Dissolv­
ent  Method.  Did  not  suffer  any  and  w as 
co t  in  bed  one  day.  Foolish  to   suffer 
when  you  can  be  cured  so  easily.

Belm ont,  Mich.

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25

Don’t   ask  some  one  who  knows  no 
more  about  it  than  you  do.  D on't  ask 
some  doctor  who  is  trying  to  get  you 
to  subm it  to  th e  knife.  He  is  all  one­
sided  and  can  see  nothing  b u t  the  knife 
and  a   sm all  prospective  fee.  The  ex­
perience  of  A.  J.  W hite,  as  told  in  his 
testim onial.  Is  a  good 
illustration  of 
this.  He  investigated  for  himself,  how­
ever,  and  then  did  th e  only  thing  any 
sensible  person  could  do—come 
to  me 
and  was  cured  w ithout  subm itting  to  a 
barbarlous  surgical  operation.
Any  person  who  investigates  honestly 
and  carefully  would  not  think  of  subm it­
ting  to  any  other  method  of  treatm ent.

Guarantee

I  guarantee  to  cure  piles  and  all  other 
diseases  of  th e  rectum   o r  accept  no  pay 
for  my  services.  Any  person  who  doubts 
my  ability  to   cure  need  not  pay  one  cent 
until  satisfied  th a t  I  have  done  all 
I 
claimed. 
IF  I  FAIL  TH E R E   W ILL  BE 
I  REQUIRE  NO  DE­
NO  CHARGE. 
POSIT  OR  W RITTEN  CONTRACT.
W rite  and  ask  any  of  the  people  whose 
testim onials  appear  here  If  my  guarantee 
Is  not  good. 
If  your  trouble  ever  returns 
after  I  cure  you,  I  guarantee  to   cure  you 
again  free  of  charge.

Bad  Case  of  Piles  For  20  Years—Cured 

in  Less  Than  One  Hour.

Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  April  11,  1903.
A fter  I  was  troubled  with  piles  for  over 
tw enty  years  and  on  December  10,  1902, 
they  became  so  bad  I  had  to  give  up 
work  and  w as  confined  to  my  bed  for 
three  weeks,  a 
friend  who  had  been 
cured  of  piles  by  Dr.  W illard  M.  B ur­
leson  called  to  see  me  and  advised  me  to 
go  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
consult  with 
the  doctor  w ith  a   view  to  being  treated. 
On  Jan u ary   3,  1903,  Dr.  Burleson  gave 
me  a 
th a t  completely  cured 
me.  And  only  think, 
in  less  than  one 
short  hour’s 
treatm ent  I  was  relieved 
of  years  of  suffering.  And  w ithout  loss 
of  time,  as  I  was  able  in  a  very  few 
days  to  attend  to   m y  business  as  usual.
I  cheerfully  recommend  Dr.  Burleson’s 
method  of  curing  piles  and  other  rectal 
diseases  and  am   satisfied  th a t  anyone 
troubled  w ith  either  will  never  regret 
being  treated  by  him.
0 

CHARLES  E.  STEARNS.
R.  F.  D.  No.  1.

treatm ent 

g 

W illard M. Burleson, IW. D

Rectal  Specialist.

O riginator  of  the  New  Painless  Dissolv­
ent  Method  of  T reatm ent  for  th e  Cure 
of  Piles  and  all  other  Diseases  of  the 
Return.

103  Monroe  St.

Charges and Terms

My  charges  are  always  reasonable  and 
are  for  a  complete,  perm anent  and  guar­
anteed  cure.  The  exact  am ount  can 
only  be  determ ined  upon  a  complete  ex­
am ination.  Any  person  who  is  not  pre­
pared  to  t>ay  the  entire  fee  a t  once  will 
be  allowed  to  m ake  paym ent  as  his  con­
venience  perm its.
Any  person  who  is  too  poor  to  pay  will 
be  cured  absolutely  free  of  charge  and 
will  receive  as  careful  attention  as  though 
he  paid  the  largest fee.  . I  w ant  no  person 
to  be  kept  from  the  benefits  of  my  won­
.
derful  discovery  for  financial  reasons. 
W rite  any  of  the  people  whose  te sti­
monials  appear  here  and  ask 
them  
if 
they  were  satisfied  with  my  charges  and 
term s.

Told  T h at  Dp.  Burleson  W as  a  “ Fake.” 

A.  J.  W H ITE,

General  Merchandise.
Bass  River,  Mich.,  April—1903.

coming 

two  or 

three  hours  a   night. 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  Grand  Rapids,
Mich.
D ear  Doctor:
I  suffered  for  fifteen  years  w ith  a   very 
aggravated  case  of  piles  and  kept  getting 
alm ost  a  complete 
worse  until  I  was 
phvslcal  and  m ental  wreck. 
I  lost  thirty 
pounds  in  w eight and  was  so nervous  th ta  
I  was  unable  to  sit  still  for  more  than 
a   few  m inutes  a t  a  tim e  or  sleep  more 
than 
I 
would  go 
to  bed  about  m idnight  and 
would  sleep  a   troubled  sleep  for  about 
two  hours,  when  I  would  wake  and  would 
have  to  get  up  and  walk. 
In  two  weeks 
I  knew  every  street  sign  and  every  night 
policeman  in  Grand  Rapids,  where  I  was 
a t  a   sanitarium   being  treated  for  my 
nervous  condition.  Before 
to 
you  I  got  no  benefit  w hatever  from   the 
treatm ent,  but  from   th a t  tim e  on  I  com­
menced 
to   improve  and  in  about  four 
weeks  from   th e  tim e  you  first  treated  me 
I  w as  a   well  m an  physically  and  m en­
tally,  and  to-day  weigh  m ore  th an   I   ever 
did  before  in  m y  life.
I  had  been  advised  th a t  I   could  not  be 
cured  w ithout  a   surgical  operation  and 
taking  chloroform,  and one  of  Grand Rap 
ids’  oldest  physicians  and  surgeons  went 
so  fa r  as  to   tell  me  th a t  you  were  a
^As^every  physician  whom  I  talked  to 
about  my  case  w anted  to  use  the  knife,  I 
am   satisfied  th a t  you  are  far  in  advance 
of  any  of  them   in  the  treatm ent  of  these 
troubles,  as  you  cured  me  easily  and 
auickly  w ithout  any  pain  and  w ithout  the 
use  of  chloroform  or  knife,  and  caused 
me  no  inconvenience  whatever.
I  feel  very  thankful  for  w hat  you  have 
done  for  me. 
I  think  I  was  in  a  fair  way 
for  som ething  worse  than  death.

I  am   gratefully AybursWH iT E

The  above  shows  how  little  dependence 
can  be  placed  in  the  word  of  some  Physi­
cians  when  asked  for  an  opinion  of  a 
brother  practitioner.  All  physicians  are 
not  so  unprincipled,  however,  as  there 
are  m any  honorable  m en  in  the  medical 
profession.  Think 
your 
life  in  the  hands  of  such  an  unscrupulous 
person.

trusting 

of 

A  W ell-Known  Druggist  Easily  Cured, 
A fter  Failure  of  Every  Known  Remedy.

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.,  April  25.  1903.

A fter  suffering  the  m ost  intense  agony 
for  years  w ith  a   very  severe  case  of 
piles  and  trying  every  remedy  known  to 
medical  science  w ith  no  relief  and  get­
ting worse  all  the tim e,  I  was  easily cured 
bv  Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson  by  his  New 
Painless  Dissolvent  Method,  w ithout  any 
pain  or  inconvenience  or  losing  one  day
^ I^ a s ^ in 'a 'te r r ib le   condition  and  on  the 
verge  of  physical  breakdown 
From   my 
own  experience  I  know  *£at  D r .  Burie 
son’s  treatm en t  is  everything  he  claims 
for  it.  and  language  cannot  be  made 
strong  enough  to  praise  it.as_it 
No  person  can  speak  honestly  of 
this 
wonderful  treatm ent  w ithout  recommend­
ing  i t l t   is   a   Godsend  to  those  who 
have  this  terrible  a fflictio n ^   BgcO TT
W ith  Geo.  L.  W arren,  Druggist,  75  Canal 
Street.
Gives  Testim onial  for  H um anity’s  Sake.
I  w as  afflicted  w ith  the  piles  for  over 
th irty   years  and  have  suffered  terribly 
from   this  horrible  complaint. 
last  three  years  my  suffering  had  been 
severe  and  I  have  used  a   bushel  of  Sure 
Cures,”  w ithout  any  relief  whatever.  L ast 
spring  I  happened  to  see  Dr.  R nrlesons 
advertisem ent 
the  paper  and  cancel 
upon  him   a   short  tim e  after,  took  tre a t­
m ent  and  m ust  say  the  benefit  receded 
from   one  treatm ent  was  alm ost  beyond 
I t  hardly  seems  possible  to  me, 
belief. 
even  now, 
th a t  piles  can  be  c u rrf  so 
easily. 
I   heartily  endorse  his  method 
and  will  alweys  have  a   good  word  for  it 
either  a t  home  or  abroad. 
.
I  dislike  to  have  my  nam e  appear  m 
public  print,  but  I  fe d   8-s 
it 
would  look  a   little  cowardly  and  unjust 
to  withhold  it;  if  it  will  only  do  you  and 
suffering  hum anity  some  good, 
I  will 
stand  the  publicity  part.  W ith  best 
wishes,  I  am,Respectfully  yours,

___  
though 

in 

D  L.  H arden, 
Newaygo.  Mich.

Had  Piles  Forty  Years—Cured  In  T hirty 

Minutes—No  Money  Until  Cured.

The  Crosby  &   Beckley  Co., 

W holesale 

E astern  Office,  New  Haven,  Conn.

Hardwood  Lumber,
Michigan  Hardwoods.
Delta.  Mich.,  April  11,  1903.

.
accomplished 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.
Dear  Doctor: 
I  can  cheerfully  add  my  testim onial  to 
your  list.  You 
all  you 
claimed  to  do  in  my  case.  Really  I  felt 
th a t  I  m ust  take  tim e  and  see  for  myself 
w hether  your  work  was  a   success,  but  I 
m ust  confess  th a t  I  cannot  see  any  signs 
I  have  had  piles 
of  returning  trouble. 
since  1864,  while  in  the  arm y,  and  I have 
tried  any  am ount  of  remedies. 
I  finally 
made  the  assertion  th a t  people  m ight 
claim  w hat  they  would,  I  claimed  there 
wvs  no  perm anent  cure  for  piles,  when 
once  fairly  hold  of  a  person. 
I  was  ad­
vised  to  see  you  by  one  who  had  been 
cured,  and  I  perm itted  you  to  treat  me 
more  as  an  experim ent 
than  anything 
else.  You 
left  it  all  to  me  to  decide 
w hether  I  was  cured  or  not.  You  told 
me  I  need  not  expect  a   miracle;  I  had 
been  40  years  getting  into  the  condition 
I  was  in,  and  I  ought  to  be  satisfied  to 
get  out  in  one  year. 
It  has  been  only 
about  two  m onths  now  and  I  am   nearly 
through  w ith  all  looseness  or  protruding 
when  having  a   passage. 
I  expected  to 
need  two  or  three  treatm ents,  but  the 
longer  I  w ait  the  more  I  am   convinced 
I  am   cured  now  with  only  one  treatm ent.
sufferers 
with  any  kind  of  piles  to  visit  you  and 
get  cured.  You  are  a   success;  there  is 
no  question  about  it.

I  cheerfully  recommend  all 

Yours  very  respectfully,

A.  C.  CROSBY.

Had  a  Sad  Experience.

Ludington,  Mich.,  Oct.  12,  1903.

treatm ent 

TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN—
One  year  ago  to-day  I  was  operated on 
a t  a  private  hospital,  not  a   hundred miles 
from  this  place,  for  piles.  They  used the 
ligature  method. 
I  suffered  all  the  to r­
tures  of  the  damned  for  nearly  two weeks 
after  the  operation  and  did  not  receive 
any  attention  or 
to  aid  In 
healing  the  sores  in  the  rectum   caused 
by  the  operation.  The  only  relief  I  got 
from  pain  for  three  weeks  was  lying on 
a   hot  w ater  bottle.  At  the  end  of  three 
weeks  I  decided  to  take  the  case  in  my 
own  hands,  and  in  the  m eantime,  having 
heard  of  Dr.  Burleson  and  corresponded 
with  him   I  had  a  brother  Odd  Fellow  go 
with  me  to  Grand  Rapids.
An  exam ination  by  Dr.  Burleson,  and 
witnessed  by  the  brother  who  attended 
mo,  and  who  is  in  a  branch  of  the  m edi­
cal  profession,  showed  th a t  ulcers  had 
formed  where  the  tum ors  had  been  tied 
and  sloughed  off. 
I  received  seven  or 
eight  treatm ents  from   the  doctor  and  he 
fitted  me  out  with  appliances  and  ways 
of  treatm ent  th a t  I  could  follow  a t  home. 
The  tim e  taken  in  healing  the  ulcers  was 
longer  than 
if  I  had  stayed  a t  Grand 
Rapids  and  let  the  doctor  tre a t  me  each 
day,  which  I  think  is  the  b etter  way  if 
one  has  the  tim e  to  do  it.
H ad  I  known  of  Dr.  Burleson’s  method 
of  treatin g   such  diseases  ten  days  soon­
er 
it  would  have  saved  me  nearly  two 
m onths  of tim e lost,  over  $100.00  in  money 
and  such  suffering  as  is  only  known  by 
those  who  have  passed  through  It. 
Ia m  
satisfied  th a t  if  I  had  gone  to  Dr.  B urle­
son  a t  the  tim e  I  w ent  to  the  hospital.  I 
would  have  been  a t  work  In  two  weeks 
saved  a t  least  $50.00  and  the  cure  would 
have  been  practically  painless.
In  1891  I  spent  about  $160.00  w ith  a 
doctor  who  tried  to  cure  me  w ith  the 
as 
"Injection  Method.” 
bad  as  before.
I  can  honestly  recommend  Dr.  Burleson 
to  any  sufferer  from  rectal  troubles.  He 
will  cure  you  speedily  and  painlessly  and 
will  not  w ant  all  you  are  w orth  to  do  It.
Dear  Sufferer:  DON’T  let  anyone  to r­
tu re  you  to  effect  a  cure  when  It  can  be 
done  in  a  painless  way.

I  was  shortly 

Yours  in  sym pathy, 

•
Elvi  D.  Cribbs,

206  W.  Loomis  St.
Suffered  Nine  Years—Easily  Cured. 

WIGTON  HOUSE.

Rounds  &  Foote,  Proprietors.

A  Fine  Brick  Building  Lighted  by 

Electricity.

All  Modern  Improvem ents.

H art,  Mich.,  April  14.  1903. 

A fter  suffering  with  piles  for  the  last 
nine  years,  I  have  been  cured  by  Dr. 
Burleson’s  Painless  Dissolvent  T reatm ent 

W.  A.  ROUNDS.

The Method

I  cure  Piles  by  a   N EW   PAINLESS 
DISSOLVENT  METHOD,  w hich  is  my 
own  discovery,  no  other  person  using  it 
or  knowing  w hat  it  is.  No  hazardous 
operation  of  any  kind  is  employed  and 
no  knife  or  chloroform  used.  Many  bad 
cases  are  cured  in  one  painless 
tre a t­
m ent  and  few  cases  require  more  than 
two  weeks  for  a   complete  cure.  The 
PATIENT  CAN  ATTEND  TO  BUSINESS 
DURING  TH E  COURSE  OF  TREAT­
MENT.
I  have  a   booklet  explaining  my  method 
more  fully  than  I  can  explain  it  here, 
and  I  am   pleased  to  send  this  booklet  to 
anyone  who  will  ask  for  it.
Any  sufferer  solicitous  for  his  own  wel 
fare  would  not  think  of  subm itting  to 
any  other  method  of  treatm ent, 
after 
investigating  my  Painless  Dissolvent 
Method  for 
the  cure  of  Piles  and  all 
other  Diseases  of  the  Rectum.
SEND  FOR  BOOKLET.  IT   CONTAINS 
MUCH  VALUABLE 

INFORMATION.

How to Find Out

Ask  some  one  who  knows,  some  one 
who  has  been  cured,  some  one  who  has 
tried  everything  else  w ithout  relief.  W rite 
to  any  of  the  people  whose  testim onials 
appear  here.  They  will  tell  you  tru th ­
fully  of  their  experience 
and  w ithout 
prejudice.

Cure  Effected  So  Easily  and  Quickly 

T h at  She  Can  Hardly  Believe 

She  Is  the  Same  Person.

first 

than  a   few  m inutes  a t  a  
the 

I  was  affleted  for  nine  years  with  pro­
truding  bleeding  piles,  which  were  so 
bad  th a t  I  was  unable  to  be  on  m y  feet 
more 
time.
1  w ent  to  Dr.  Burleson  and  two  days
after 
treatm ent  by  his  New 
Dissolvent  Method  I  started  to  work  and 
have  been  on  my  feet  continually  ever 
since,  and  have  suffered  no  inconvenience 
w hatever.  One  week  after  the  first  treat- 
m ent  I  took  the  second  and  last  tre a t­
ment,  which  resulted  in  a  complete  cure. 
The  cure  was  affected  so 
and 
in  my  condi­
quickly  and 
tion  so  g reat 
can 
hardly  believe  I  am   the  sam e  person. 
I 
did  not  bleed  any  after  the  flrat  tre a t­
m ent. 
MRS.  M.  L.  SUMNER,
190  Clay  Ave.,  Muskegon.

th a t  sometimes 

easily 
I 

the  change 

Mich.

Piles  30  Years,  Six  Surgical  Operations 

W ithout  Relief—Cured  In  30  Minutes.
H art,  Mich.,  April  10,  1903. 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  G rand  Rapids 
D ear  Doctor:
L ast  June  I  went  to  you  for  treatm ent 
for  piles,  from  which  I  had  suffered  for 
30  years.  You  operated  only  once  ana 
cured  me,  w hereas  I  had  been  operated 
upon  six 
tim es  before  and  not  cured, 
but  kept  getting  gradually  worse  so  th a t 
it  seems  th a t  your  m ethod  is  a t  least 
the  others. 
six 
It  is  all  right,  as  I  know  from  actual 
experience. 
thankful  and 
shall  do  all  I  can  to  have  my  afflicted 
friends  go  to  you  for  treatm ent,  as  the 
m ethod  is  so  nearly  painless  and  a t  the 
sam e  tim e  is  a  sure  cure. 

tim es  as  effectual  as 

I  am   very 

Yours  thankfully, 

I  remain.
B.  S.  REED.

__

Dr.  Willard  M.  Burleson

Rectal  Specialist

103  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TB A D E SM A N

deck  of  a  ship,  and  lie  there  with i 
their  legs  sprawling  under 
them, | 
if j 
making  no  attempt  to  rise,  as 
their  bewilderment  had  quite  numbed 
their  weak  intellect.

The  booby  does  not  feed  its  young I 
as  other  birds  do,  by  carrying  food 
to  them  in  its  bill. 
Instead  of  this | 
the  booby  swallows  the  food,  and 
then  the  young  bird  thrusts  its  head 
into  the  throat  of  the  parent  and 
fishes  the  food  out.

When  two 

young  boobies 

are 
hatched  in  the  same  nest  the  one 
that  is  out  of  the  egg  first  will  often  j 
attempt  to  eat  its  younger  brother) 
or  sister.

When  a  shot  is  fired  at  a  booby 
bird  it  generally  falls  down  flat  on 
the  ground  and 
screams  pitiably, 
even  if  it  has  not  been  hit  at  all, 
so  that  it  happens  frequently  that  a 
gunner  gathers  in,  entirely  unhurt, 
booby  birds  that  have  simply  been 
frightened  into  helplessness.

No  Need  of  Camphor  Tree.

Artificial  camphor  is  the  newest 
chemical  ingredient,  and  while  it  will 
not  be  of  much  service  in  keeping 
moths  out  of  woolens  it  may  reduce 
the  death  rate  among  employes  who 
insist  on  thawing out  frozen  nitrogly­
cerin  and  dynamite.
The  new  compound  is  the  discov- 
I  ery  of  E.  Calemberg,  of  Lank-on- 
I  Rhine,  Germany,  and,  according 
to 
the  report  of  Consul  General  Hughes, 
at  Coburg,  Germany,  is  pure  chloro-1 
hydrate  of  terebinth  and  will  be  use­
ful  in  the  manufacture  of  safety  ex­
plosives.

It  is  soluble  in  nitroglycerin,  di­
minishing  greatly  the  maximum  tem­
perature  reached  during  explosions, 
and 
it  further  lowers  the  freezing 
point  of  this  powerful  explosive  to a 
marked  degree.

seem,  and 

cause  no  small  amount  of  publicity, 
trifling  as  it  may 
the 
youngsters  will  not  forget  you  when 
the  next  pair  of  new  shoes  are  due.”
Schemes  of  this  character  are  al­
most  certain  to  bring  in  some  trade. 
In  fact  business  can  be  stimulated  at 
any  season  by  advertising  in  various 
ways  and  offering  attractive  induce­
ments.  Every  merchant  should  try 
to  develop an individuality in his meth­
ods  which  will  not  only  attract  atten­
tion,  but  at  the  same  time  familiarize 
the  public  with  his  name  and  goods.
The  greatest  danger  is  that  of  get­
ting  into  a  rut.  The  easier  way 
is 
seldom,  if  ever,  the  better  one.  The 
most  successful  merchants  are  those 
who  devote  the  most  time  to  the 
study  of  plans  for  making  new  cus­
tomers.  The  exclusive  shoe  dealer 
is  compelled  to  meet  so  much  compe­
tition  that  he  can  not  afford  to  let 
pass  any  opportunity  for  the  better­
ment  of  his  establishment.  Unfortu­
nately,  a  great  many  merchants  have 
an  exalted  opinion  of  their  ability, 
and  are  disposed  to  look  upon  sug­
gestions  made  by  others,  unless  the 
same  conform  with  the  views  held  by 
themselves,  as  worthless.  Business 
men  who  succeed  have 
long  since 
I  discovered  that  valuable  helps  can be 
obtained  from  an  exchange  of  ideas 
with  others.— Shoe  Trade  Journal.

The  Funny  Booby  Bird.

The  booby  bird,  an  oceanic  fowl, 
is  probably  the  funniest  and  most 
stupid  bird 
It  ap­
little  intelligence 
pears  to  have  as 
as  the  old  extinct  dodo  had, 
ac­
cording  to  the  ancient  accounts.

in  the  world. 

The  booby  nests  on  islands  far out  I 
in  the  Pacific  ocean,  and  will  not 
stir  out  of  the  way  when  men  land 
there,  but  remains  squatted  on  the 
ground,  staring  at  intruders  stolidly.
It  can  fly  very  well  indeed,  and 
goes  long  distances,  but  when  it  is 
sitting  on  the  water  it  will  remain 
directly  in  the  course  of  a  ship,  so 
that  it  happens  often  that  a  steamer 
will  go  clear  over  a  booby  that  could 
easily  have  swum  or  flown  out  of 
the  way.

Sometimes  booby  birds  fly  on  the |

26
Preparations  For  Spring  Trade  in 

Shoes.

The  week  preceding  Easter  Sunday 
is  a  most  important  one  in  the  calen­
dar  of  the  shoe  merchant 
It  marks 
the  opening  of  the  spring  selling  sea­
son;  the  awakening  of  trade  from 
dreary  dulness  to  accelerating  activi­
ty.  New  hope  and  greater  ambition 
are  aroused.  However, 
to  obtain 
the  best  results  and  the  greatest  en­
joyments  on  this  occasion  much  labor 
must  be  performed  in  the  meantime. 
The  new  stock,  or  most  of  it,  has 
probably  already  been  bought,  and 
all  that  remains  to  be  done  is 
to 
mark  the  cartons  and  place  them  on 
the  shelves.  The  stock  carried  over 
from  a  year  ago  should  be  taken 
down,  each  pair  of  shoes  rubbed  with 
a  polishing  cloth,  and  fresh 
labels 
placed  on  the  cartons.  The  store 
should  be  cleaned  from  ceiling  to 
cellar,  and  from  the  outside  front  to 
rear. 
If  new  paint  or  paper  is  need­
ed  it  should  be  applied  before  the 
busy  season  begins.

This  is  also  a  good  time  to  obtain 
new  furniture  or  fixtures,  or  both,  if 
such  a  policy  is  deemed  advisable. 
The  advertising  can  also  be  prepared 
in  advance.

No  doubt  the  above  suggestions 
regarding  preparations  for  the  spring 
trade  have  already  been  considered 
by  the  majority  of  merchants;  never­
theless  they  are  worth 
second 
thought.  Perhaps  a  more  vital  ques­
tion  with  most  of  us  just  now 
is 
ways  and  means  of  stimulating  trade 
during  the  intervening  weeks.  Va­
rious  plans  have  been  outlined 
in 
these  columns  from  time  to  time, and 
the  experiences  of  numerous  mer­
chants  have  been 
recounted.  A 
scheme  for  St.  Valentine’s  day  has 
been  brought  forward  by  one  writer, 
and  it  is  reproduced  here  in  hope 
that  someone  may find  it  beneficial:

a 

“Now  that  Valentine’s  day  is  draw­
ing  near,  and  more  or  less  attention 
is  given  to  this  event  by  the  young 
people,  why  would  it  not  be  well  to 
use  it  to  advantage  in  drawing  atten­
tion  to  your  shoe  department?  There 
is  no  doubt  about  the  influence  of 
the  younger  members  of  the  family 
when  it  comes  to  shoe  buying.  Se­
cure  a  list  of  the  names  of  the  lit­
tle  folks  in  this  manner:  Place  an 
attractive  valentine  in  your  window 
with  the  announcement  that  it  will | 
be  given  away  to  the  person  who 
guesses  nearest  to  the  number  of 
nails  in  a  shoe,  which  is  also  placed 
in  the  window.  As  each  child  comes 
in  to  register  the  guess,  take  the 
name  and  address.  Of  course 
the 
contest must  close the  day before Val­
entine’s  day,  so  that  the  winner  can 
send  the  prize  to  his  or  her  ‘Valen­
tine.’  As  soon  as  you  can  make  an 
estimate  of  the  number  of  names  you 
can  secure  by  the  guessing  contest 
you  can  order  the  amount  of  valen­
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2 7

Old  Superstition  Exploded  by  Medi­

cal  Authorities.

Can  a  cat  really  suck  the  breath of 

a  child?

We  have  always  heard 

it 
that 
could.  Away  back  in  early  childhood 
frequent j 
we  distinctly  remember  of 
warnings  to  look  out  for  the  cat.  Do j 
not  allow  the  cat  to  get  into  bed j 
with  you.  Especially  to  get  into  bed j 
with  the  baby,  as  it  is  liable  to  suck i 
the  baby’s  breath,  which  would  cause 
the  baby  to  die.

Is  there  any  foundation  for  such 
a  notion  as  this?  We  never »could 
discover  any  real  meaning  to  the  be­
lief  that  a  cat  can  suck  the  breath  of 
a  child. 
Indeed,  the  sentence  is  to­
tally  unintelligible.

sucking 

What  is  meant  by 

the 
breath?  It  may  be  true  that  the  cat, 
attracted  by  the  breath  of  a  child who 
had  recently  been  nursing,  might at­
tempt  to  interfere  in  some  manner 
with  the  child’s  mouth. 
In  young 
cats  the  impulse  to  nurse  might  be 
excited  by  the  smell  of  the  child’s 
breath. 
It  is  barely  possible  that the 
cat  might  be  seized  with  a  desire  to 
lips  or 
bite  or  devour  the  child’s 
tongue,  lured  on  by  the 
smell  of 
milk.  We  are  not  in  a  position  to 
deny  these  possibilities.  Maybe  they 
are  true.

But  not  any  of  these  suppositions 
furnish  a  basis  for  the  statement that 
the  cat  is  liable  to  suck  the  child’s 
breath.  We  have  always  heard  this 
statement  with  a  shudder  of  horror. 
It  seems  to  convey  some  weird,  hor-

agined.  But  it  is  a  mere  fancy,  the  | 
origin  of  which  is  hard  to  explain.
Yet  we  would  advise  mothers  to 
be  careful  about  leaving  the  infant j 
with  a  cat.  We  do  not  favor 
the 
idea  of  cats  sleeping  with  children. 
Nor  do  we  favor  the  practice  of  chil­
cats,  handling 
dren  playing  with 
them,  mopping 
the 
floor,  fondling  them,  dressing  them 
up  as  dolls. 
It  is  not  good  for  the  I 
cat.  It  is  not  good  for  the  child, j 
Neither  cats  nor  dogs  ought  to  be 
treated  in  this  manner.  They  -are | 
all  right  in  their  place,  but  they  are 
not  fit  for  playthings.

them  around 

If  the  superstition  that  a  cat  can 
suck  a  child’s  breath  has  operated  as 
a  preventive 
to  mothers  allowing 
their  children  to  play  with  cats  it  has 
served  a  very  good  purpose,  but  such 
childish  notions  are  hardly  compati­
ble  with  mature 
is 
one  of  the  old  wives’  fables  which 
may  have  served  a  good  purpose,  but 
it  is  too  ridiculous 
repetition. 
There  are  other  and  better  reasons 
why  the  cat  and  baby  should  not  be 
left  together  than  the  vague,  unin­
telligible  fear  that  the  cat  will  suck 
the  child’s  breath.

reflection. 

for 

It 

Pausing  at  the  (Sate.

“Come  in,”  said  St.  Peter.
“Wait,”  said  the  walking  delegate.
|  pausing  to  listen  to  the  music  of  the 
golden  harps,  “first  I  want  to  know 
if  them  musicians  has  union  cards?” 
“That  settles  your  fate,”  said  St. 
Peter,  “the  place  for  devils 
and 
walking  delegates  is  down,  below.” 
And  he  slammed  the  gates  of  Heaven 
__________

bang. 

Inventions  the  World  Has  Lost.
Some  of  the  most  notable  triumphs | 
thought  have j 
of  human  effort  and 
either  never  seen  the  light  or  have j 
failed  to  reach  the  practical  stage  in 
which  they  would  have  become  an 
important  factor  in  progress,  says  a 
writer  in  T.  A.  T.  Many  inventors 
have  been  too  poor  to  perfect  their 
ideas;  others  have  given  up  in  sheer 
despair  at  the  want  of  practical  en­
couragement  from 
incredulous 
world;  others  have  died,  taking  their 
secrets  with  them.

an 

Thus  Dawson,  the  famous  Ameri­
can  inventor,  was  thrown  into  pris­
on  for  killing  his  son-in-law,  and  re­
fused  to  divulge  his  secret  process of 
hardening  copper  and  making 
it 
equal  to  Damascus  steel,  and  his  se­
cret  will  probably  be  lost  to 
world  forever.

the I 

The  late  Colonel  Ford,  who  died  a | 

few  years  ago  in  Denver,  Colo.,  furn­
ishes  a  still  more  striking  example i 
of  the  tenacity  with  which  inventors 
cling  to  their  ideas,  and  also  of  the  j 
strange  fatality  which  appears  to  dog j 
their  footsteps.  The  head  chemist of j 
the  great  Carnegie  steel  plant  remain- | 
ed  night  and  day  at  Ford’s  bedside 
stood j 
during  his  last  illness,  and 
ready  to  give  him  millions  of  dol­
lars  for  his  secrets,  but  the  offer 
came  too  late.  Ford  died  without 
speaking.  He  had  worked 
twelve 
years  on  a  process  for  testing  ore  of 
a  smelting  grade  without  smelting it, 
and  had  achieved  his  object  with 
brilliant  success,  being  able,  by 
the 
use  of  a  few  inexpensive  chemicals, 
to  extract  gold  from  ore  of  any

richness  without  the  employment  of 
the  present 
expensive  process  of 
smelting  it.

He  guarded  his  secret  with  the  ut­
most  care,  conducting  all  his  exper­
iments  in  his  own  room,  and  making 
a  confident  of  nobody.  When  cer­
tain  that  he  had  perfected  his  proc­
ess,  Ford  wrote  to  some  of  the  great 
metal  manufacturers,  and,  as  a  result, 
the  head  chemist  of  the  Carnegie  firm 
hurried  Westward,  armed  with  full 
authority  to  pay  a  fabulous  sum  for 
the  secret.  Ford  would  not  reveal 
the  method  of  his  process,  but  per­
mitted  the  results 
to  be  watched. 
Hundreds  of  pounds  of  ore  were  tak­
en  to  his  room,  and  he  quickly  ex­
tracted  the  gold  from  it  at  a  com­
paratively  trifling  cost.  The  chemist 
gauged  at  once  the  marvelous  value 
of  the  secret,  and  drew  up  a  contract 
on  the  spot  which  would  have  given 
Ford  an  annual  income  of  $20,000.

But  fate  intervened.  The  day  on 
I  which  he  was  to  divulge  his  secret 
Ford’s  brain  gave  way  under 
the 
|  twelve  years’  strain,  and  a  stroke  of 
apoplexy,  from  which  he  never 
re­
covered,  rendered  the  execution  of 
the  contract  impossible,  and  his  se­
cret  was  buried  with  him 
the 
I  grave.

in 

A  Proof.

Crawford— I  suppose  you’re  a  big 

man  in  your  wife’s  estimation.

Crabshaw— I  must  be.  The  slip­
for  Christmas 

pers  she  made  me 
would  fit  a  man  twice  my  size.

Failure  is  a  spur  while  success  may 
____

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who  opines  nobody  but  herself 
has 
sense  enough  to  understand  the  plot 
of  the  play,  and  who  explains  the 
situations  in  a  loud  and  audible  voice 
to  everyone  within  a  radius  of  six 
seats,  think  of  herself  as  an  educated 
pig.  Neither  does  the  woman  who | 
meets  a  friend  in  the  aisle  after  the 
play  is  over  and  the  audience  rushing 
for  cars,  and  who  blocks  the  proces­
sion  while  she  explains  why  her  cook 
left  and  gives  a  circumstantial  ac­
count  of the  baby’s  teething.  In  real­
ity  all  of  these  people  are  good,  kind, 
conscientious  individuals  who  desire 
to  do  right  by  their  neighbors,  and j 
they  would  be  shocked  to  know  how | 
uncomfortable  they  make  life  for  the I 
remainder  of  us  and  how  gladly  we 
would  poison  them  like  any  other 
pests  of  the  household  if  we  only 
dared.  For  my  part,  a  man  never 
climbs  over  me  at  the  theater  when 
I  have  on  my  best  frock,  that  I  do 
not  hope  that  the  bartender  will  put 
a  cute  little  pinch  of  prussic  acid  in 
his  cocktail  by  mistake.

Honestly  and'seriously,  do  any  of 
us  ever  sit  down  dispassionately  and 
think  how  disagreeable  we  make 
things  for  the  people  with  whom  we 
live  and  who  have  no  way  of  escap­
ing  us?  Do  we  ever  take  stock  of 
the  little  ways  and  peculiarities 
in 
which  we  indulge  and  that  are  sim-  i 
ply  so  many  crosses  on  which  we  | 
crucify  those  we  love?  For  the  mis­
ery  of  life  is  not  made  up  of  big 
things;  it  is  made  up  of  trifles.  Most 
of  us  are  given  courage  to  bear  a 
great  sorrow.  The  things  that  re­
duce  us  to  skin  and  bones  are  the 
little  fretting  grievances,  and  there 
can  surely  be  nothing  else  so  sad 
as  the  fact  that  the  people  we  would 
die  to  save  we  make  willing  to  die 
themselves  by  our 
little  wearing, 
wearying  idiosyncrasies.

For  example,  there  is  family  curi­
osity.  Of  course,  we  excuse  this  to 
ourselves  by  saying  that  it  is  be­
cause  we  love  John  or  Mary  that  we 
want  to  know  everything  they  do, 
and  we  never  take  into  consideration 
the  suggestion  that  John  or  Mary 
may  take  an  opposite  view  of 
the 
situation.  There  are  plenty  of  fami­
lies  in  which  one  can  not  turn  around 
without  a  perfect  fusillade  of  ques­
tions.  Where  did  you  go?  Why  did 
you  go?  Whom  did  you  see?  What 
did  they  say?  Why  did  you  think? 
What  do  you  think  you  think? 
in 
endless  iteration.  The  third  degree 
of  the  police  system  is  not  a  marker 
the 
to  the  sweating  process  that 
family  inquisitor  puts 
victim 
through,  and  all— dear  soul—without 
the  slightest  thought  that  most  peo­
ple  would  just  about  as  soon  have 
the  thumbscrews  applied  as  the  cork­
screw.

the 

If  there  is  anything  more  aggra­
vating  than  a  catechism  it  is  yet  to 
be  invented.  And  everybody  feels 
alike  about  it.  Even  the  worm  will 
turn  when  questioned  about  why  it 
crawled  down  that  particular  path 
and  why  it wriggles.  Nor  is  this  be­
cause  many  of  us  have  anything 
to 
conceal.  It  is  simply  because  we  feel 
that  we  have  a  right  to  some  privacy 
of  the  mind,  as  well  as  of  the  body, 
some  right  to  come  and  go  as  we 
please  without  giving  an  account  of

Respect  the  Rights  and  Privileges  of 

Other  People.

There  are  times,  I  suppose,  when 
all  of  us  are  filled  with  envy  of  Adam 
before  Eve  was  created,  because  he 
had  the  world  to  himself.  There was 
nobody  to  interfere  with  him.  No­
body  to  contradict  him.  No  one  with 
whose ways he  had  to  put up,  and  life 
with  him  must  have  been  one  glad, 
sweet  song  of  untrammeled  freedom, 
such  as  we  may  never  know.

Of  course,  this  mood  does  not  last. 
We  are  bound  to  have  companions, 
if  for  nothing  else  but  to  have  some 
one  to  complain  to,  but  there  is  no 
denying  that  most  of  the  burdens  of 
existence  are  laid  upon  us  unneces­
sarily,  unwittingly  and  unconsciously 
by  the  people  with  whom  we  live.  It 
is  true  that  we  get  good  and  even 
with  them  by  the  discomforts  that 
we  make  them  suffer  by  our  pecu­
liarities,  but  there  are  few  more  pa­
thetic  things  in  the  world  than  to 
think  that  most  of  us  exist  as  kind 
of social  mustard  plasters  whose  chief 
mission  in  life  seems  to  be  to  irri­
tate  and  raise  a  blister  on  our  fellow- 
creatures.

Personally,  I  am  a  believer 

in 
Henry  George’s  single  tax  theory, 
only  I  would  amplify  it  so  as 
to 
give  everybody  a  ten-acre  lot  and 
fence  ’em  in  it.  This  would  give  us 
all  elbow  room  and  protect  us  from 
the  people  who  make  themselves  gra­
tuitously  offensive.  Unfortunately  in 
the  present  state  of  semicivilization 
this  is  impossible.  We  are  all  herded 
together  like  sheep  in  a  pen,  and 
there  is  no  way  to  keep  people  from 
dancing  on  our  corns  and  treading 
rough-shod  over  our  sensibilities.

This  being  the  case— life  being  a 
jam  instead  of  a  desert  island,  and 
each  of  us  being  one  of  the  multitude 
instead  of a  Robinson  Crusoe— it  does 
look  as  if  we  might  enter  into  some 
sort  of  a  mutual  protective  organiza­
tion  in  which  we  would  agree  to  keep 
off  of  other  people’s  grass  if 
they 
would  keep  off  of  ours.  This  is  far 
enough  from  being  the  case.  Each of 
us  lives  his  life  as  if  he,  or  she.  were 
the  only  person  in  the  universe,  and 
the  absolute  disregard  we  show  for 
other  people’s  comfort  and  pleasure 
is  simply  appalling.

Not many  of us  are  consciously  hu­
man  hogs.  We  are  simply  swine 
without  knowing  it.  bent  on  getting 
the  best  of  everything  for  ourselves 
and  doing  as  we  please  without  ref­
erence  to  anybody  else’s  pleasure  or 
comfort.  The  man  at  the  theater, for 
instance,  who  makes  a  whole  line  of 
women  get  up  twice  between  every 
act  to  let  him  go  out  and  get  a  drink, 
who  musses  up  their  pretty  frocks 
by  crowding  by  them  and  tramples 
consider 
on  their 
himself  a  brute.  Neither  does 
the 
musical  gentleman  who  hums 
the 
score  of the  opera  in  your  ear  so  that 
you  can  not  hear  the  singers  on  the 
stage.

feet,  does  not 

No  more  does  the  intelligent  lady

our  actions  to  anybody.  It  is  my pri­
vate  opinion  that  the  reason  that  so 
many married men  do not come home 
until  3  o’clock  in  the  morning  is  be­
cause  they  hope  their  wives  will  be 
too  sleepy  to  salute  them  with  the 
eternal  query: 
you 
BEEN?  Where  H AVE  you  been? 
Where  have  YO U  been?”

“Where  have 

Then  there  is  interference. 

If  I 
were  making  the  laws  I  would  head 
the  list  of  criminal  offenses,  punish­
able  with  solitary  confinement  for 
life,  with  interference,  and  I  should 
make  an  awful  example  of  the  indi­
vidual  who  can  never  see  anybody 
doing  anything  without  butting 
in 
with  a  few  suggestions,  and  a  bunch 
of  advice.  Not  many  of  us  would 
escape  on  this  count,  but  it  would 
leave  things  mighty  calm  and  pleas­
ant  for  the  few  survivors.

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In  all  good  truth,  is  it  not  strange 
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ple  attend  to  their  own  business  and 
raise  their  own  children  and  run  their 
own  houses  in  their  own  way?  Oc­
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precious  privilege  to  strangers,  but 
the  people  with  whom  we  have  to 
live— our  fathers  and  mothers  and 
husbands  and  sisters  and  brothers—  
the  people  who  can  not  escape  us, 
we  harry  ceaselessly with  our  sugges­
tions.  There  are  households  in  which 
it  is  impossible  for  a  member 
to 
even  so much  as  brush  her  teeth with­
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some 
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Their  Herman  Sw eet  Chocolate Is food to eat 
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r ——■  f?«L

SALT

SENSE

You’re wise,  Mr.  Grocer,  if  yours  is  a 
‘ ‘ quality ’ ’  store— but don’t  stop there—  
make  it a satisfactory store.

Take salt,  for instance.
Table  salt  is  the  best  kind  of  salt—  
for the table,  but  not  for butter  making.
In the dairy a  coarse,  dry,  readily sol­
uble salt is necessary.  When a salt man 
begins  talking  quality  to  you,  ask  him 
how about results.

Diamond Crystal  Salt— the Salt that's 
A L L   Salt,  is second  to none  in  quality 
— it is absolutely  clean  and  pure;  but it 
is  more  important  that  no salt,  quantity 
for quantity,  makes such good butter.  It 
is  used  in  a  majority  of  our 
largest 
creameries,  and— they know.

I f you  are  anxious  to  get  ‘ * the  cent 
above ”   the  market  on  the  butter  you 
sell,  try the expedient of  selling the Salt 
that's A L L  S a lt to your trade.

Write for information  about our  popu­
lar  lA  bushel  (14  lb.)  sack  of  Butter 
Salt which  retails at  25c.
DIAMOND  CRYSTAL  SALT  COMPANY, 

St.  Clair*  M ich.

brush  or  a  prophylactic  brush  or  a 
paste  wash  or  a  powder  or  dental 
soap?  or  whatever  it  is  you  don’t  do. 
All  of  us  know  how  irritating  it  is 
to  have  people  stand  over  us  with 
their  “Why don’t  you  do it  this way?” 
but we  all  do it to others,  and  the  real 
reason  that  families  break  up  and 
scatter  from  Maine  to  Mexico  is  be­
cause  we  all  want  to  get  among  peo­
ple  who  won’t  know  us'  well  enough 
to  interfere  in  our  affairs.

As  for  conversation,  would  some 
power  the  gift  to  give  us  to  hear  our­
selves  as 
through  a  phonograph. 
What  a  reform  would  be  there,  my 
countrymen!  Surely, 
these  nerve- 
raspers  who  begin  every 
sentence 
with  “I  say,”  or  “You  say,”  or  “Says 
I,”  and  “Says  he,”  or  “You  know,” 
or  “Don’t  you  know,”  would  lop  off 
their  catch  words  if  they  knew  how 
they  made  the  listener  squirm.  Per­
haps,  too,  if  he  could  only  realize 
how  very,  very  tired  he  made  us, 
the  man  who  reads  the  funny  papers 
wouldn’t  feel  it  necessary  to  repeat 
over  all  the  old  jokes  that  all  the 
balance  of  the  world  read  the  same 
It  might  also  dawn  on 
time  he  did. 
the  fathers  and  mothers  of 
infant 
prodigies  that  nothing  on  earth  but 
Christian  fortitude  sustains  a  person 
who  has  to  listen  to  a  batch  of  ster­
ilized  milk  baby  stories.

Just  as  Good  as  Ever.

years 

A  great  many  pessimistic  people i 
are  continually  prating  of  what  they 
call  the  degeneracy  of  the  modern | 
woman.  The  fact  is  there  has  been | 
no  deterioration  of  late 
in 
women,  either  physically,  mentally or i 
morally,  but  rather  a  steady  improve­
ment.  Of  course,  there  are  many 
silly  women;  possibly  our  present 
mode  of  life  encourages  an  inordinate 
love  of  excitement,  but  no  one  who 
is  keenly  observant  and  calm  enough 
to  watch  the  progress  of  events  with­
out  being  influenced  by  this  scare j 
and  that  crusade  and  the  other  hys­
terical  outcry  can  be  long  in  doubt 
as  to  the  exaggerated  view  taken 
of  feminine  delinquencies  and  degen­
eracy.  Nowadays  the  civilized  world 
is  in  a 
large  measure  swayed  by 
women,  and  no  matter  in  what  direc-1 
tioti  one  looks  we  generally  find  that j 
feminine  influence  is  in  some  way at j 
work.  Despite  the 
lurid  pictures | 
painted  by  excited  people,  who  seem 
to  imagine  they  were  born  to  set j 
the  world  aright,  the  majority  of | 
women,  whether  they  be  in  society | 
or  are  numbered  among  the  great 
body  of  middle-class  workers,  not 
only  take  a  practical  interest  in  the | 
affairs  of  life,  but  are  more  at  pains j 
to  grapple  with  the  questions  which  | 
would  have  been  absolute  Greek  and 
gibberish  to  their  foremothers.

sion  that  women  are  not  quite  so 
black  as  they  are  painted  and  that, 
society  is  not  going  to  the  dogs  so 
fast  as  some  would  have  us  believe.  |
In  all  generations  there  have  been  ; 
discreditable  members  of 
society. | 
Gambling  is  no  new  vice,  nor 
is  dis- I 
regard  for  marriage  vows  peculiar j 
to  the  present  age.  Other  times have | 
had  other  morals—and  the  lack  of j 
them— and  each  new  age  finds  new ; 
ways  of  defying  propriety  and  con­
ventionality,  but,  taking  women  as  a  i 
whole,  it  surely  must  be  conceded by j 
those  who  are  not  blinded  by  perju- 
dice  or  eager  for  sectionalism  that 
the  average  woman  of  to-day  takes 
herself  rather  seriously  and  that cer­
tainly  her  influence  is  more  for  good 
than  for  evil.

rather 

Naturally,  misdeeds, 

than 
sterling  virtues,  force  themselves  in­
to  prominence.  While  we  hear  of 
the  women  who  drink  and  gamble, 
and 
flirt  and  dishonor  themselves,
I  little  or  nothing  is  said  of  those  who 
j  pursue  the  even  tenor  of  their  way 
and  really  hold  sway.

Egotism.

It  is  this  coolness,  this  calmness 
and  self-study  that  really  produce

It  may be  that  foolish  women  drink 
more  than  is  good  for  them;  that 
they  are  careless  in  their  friendships 
and  conversations;  that  they  are  fev­
erishly  unrestful  must  also  be  ad­
mitted,  but  when  we  come  to  think 
of  the  amount  of  philanthropic  work 
done  by  women  who  are  really  to 
be  numbered  among  the  leaders  of 
society  and  of  the  very  valuable  aid | 
they  lend  their  husbands  in  official, 
social  and  political  work  we  are forc­
ed  to  arrive  at  the  logical  conclu

Faugh!  Use  your  nasty,  decaying,  out-of- 
date, hot water kalsomine,  thus  making  my wall 
a culture ground  for  fever and  smallpox  germs?
}  Loathsome and  deadly disease  germs  multiply  by 
! the millions in  glue  solutions, which  are  used  in 
I  physicians’  laboratories  in  feeding  and  breeding 
these germs  for  experimental  purposes.  I  want 
only cleanly,  durable  Alabastlne, recommended 
| by sanitarians, aod made from  a  pure  cement*
i  ing rock base. 

THE  WOMAN  WHO  KNOWS

_

JAR  SALT

The  Sanitary  Sait

Sln-e Salt  Is  necessary  In  the  seasoning  of  almost 

everything we eat,  It should be sanitary

(AR  SALT  is  pure,  unadulterated,  proven  by 

f AR  SALT  is sanitary, encased  in  glass; a  quart 
f AR  SALT  is  perfectly  dry; does  not  harden  in 
(AR  SALT  is the  strongest, because  it  is  pure; 
JAR  SALT  being pure, is  the best  salt  for  med­

chemical analysis.
of it in a  Mason  Fruit Jar.
the jar nor lump in the shakers.
the finest table salt on earth.
icinal  purposes.

All Grocers Have It— Price  io Cents.

Manufactured only by the

Detroit Salt Company,  Detroit, Michigan

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

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results.  Don’t  be  a  slave  to  over­
weening  egotism. 
It  is  a  mountain­
ous  handicap  and  no  man  has  ever 
reached  true  success  who  has  not 
cast  it  aside  early  in  life.  You  can 
learn  more  from  your  enemies  than 
from  your  friends.  They  may  hurt 
your  feelings,  but  they  often  uncover 
real  faults. 

Bernarr  MacFadden.

As  a  matter  of  fact,  we  are  abso­
lutely  merciless  about  boring  people, 
yet  being  talked  to  death  is  one  of 
the  most  exquisite  forms  of  torture 
in  the  world.  That  doesn’t  concern 
us,  or  raise  one  throb  of  pity  in  our 
breasts. 
If  we  want  to  talk  about 
ourselves,  we  simply  converse  about 
ourselves,  and  it  is  up  to  the  other 
party  to  defend  himself  if  he  can.  If 
we  want  to  tell  the  same  old  story 
over  again,  we  tell  it,  although  our 
families  and  friends  may  have  heard 
it  a  million  times. 
If  everything  we 
hear  and  see  reminds  us  of  some 
pointless  thing  that  happened  years 
ago,  the  spectacle  of  the  agonized 
countenances  of  our  audiences  does 
not  make  us  cut  it  short. 
It  is  pos­
sible  that  nobody  realizes  that  they 
are  bores,  but  a  general,  vague  sus­
picion  of  ourselves  ought  to  teach  us 
that  no  story  bears  telling  more  than 
099  times;  that  everybody  reads 
the 
papers  and  knows  just  as  well  what 
is  in  them  as  we  do;  that  nobody  is 
hankering  to  hear  the  story  of  our 
lives  or  to  listen  to  anecdotes  about 
the  cute  things  our  baby  or  cat  or 
dog  does.

These  are  merely  elemental  sug­
gestions  for  easing  the  situation  for 
those  with  whom  we  live.  Nobody 
will  adopt  them,  but  the  people  with 
whom  we  have  to  live  deserve  our 
heartfelt  sympathy  just  as  we  have  a 
right  to theirs.  It  is  hard  on  us  both, 
and  yet  as  a  multitude  of  people  may 
pass  freely  to  and  fro  in  a  narrow 
street  if  every  one 
only  keeps 
to  the  right,  so  might  we  live  our 
lives  with  freedom  and  safety  and 
comfort  if  every  one  would  only  re­
spect  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the 
people  with  whom  they  live.

Dorothy  Dix.

Where  there  is  whispering  there is 

lying.

IT  W ILL  BE  YOUR^ BEST  CUSTOMERS,

or  some  slow  dealer’s 
best  ones,  that  call  for

HIND  SAPtLIO

Always  supply  it  and  you 
will  keep  their  good  will.

HAND  SAPOLIO  Is  a   sp ecial  to ile t  soap— s u p e rio r  to   a n y   o th e r  In  c o u n tle ss  ways— d e lic a te  

e n o u g h   to r  t h e   b a b y ’s   s k in ,  a n d   c a p a b le   of  re m o v in g   a n y   s ta in .

C o sts  th e   d e a le r  th e   sa m e   a s   re g u la r  SAPOLIO,  b u t  sh o u ld   be  sold  a t   1 0   c e n ts   p e r  c ak e .

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30

How 

TH E  SHOE  CLUB.

It  Happened  To  Get 

Start.

Its 

Dear  Brother  Sole  Dispensers— 1 
hope  you’re  all  doing  nicely 
this 
bright  new  year,  and  not  letting  any­
body  convince you that there won’t be 
any  tan  shoes  sold  this  present  year 
of  grace.

For  there  must  be.
I  said  last  year  they  would  come 

back  certainly.

But  they  didn’t.
And  if  they  don’t  come  back  this 
year  I’m  going  to  quit  writing  prop­
hecy.

Looks 

like  conversation,  does 

it 

not?

But  it  isn’t.
It’s  just  a  few  words  I’ve  written 
down  on  this  “do-up”  paper,  while 
I’m  trying  to  think  how  to  begin  tell­
ing  you  about  the  new  club.  That’s 
Mr.  Laster’s  definition  of  a  good 
extemporaneous 
“A  man 
who  can  stand  on  his  feet  and  talk 
along  interestingly  while  he  is  think­
ing  of  something  to  say.”

speaker. 

But  I  flatter  myself.  What  I  want 
to  tell  you  about  is  a  little  more 
about  the  fate  of  the  “early  closing” 
scheme  in  Lasterville.

You  know  I  told  you  how  it  failed 
because  two  or  three  dealers  were  in­
clined  to  break  over  a  little,  and  of 
how,  finally,  Mr.  Laster  and  Mr.  Fit- 
em  got  good  and  mad,  and  the  order 
went  out  that  our  store  must  stay 
open  until  every  other  shoe  store  in 
Lasterville  had  closed  each  night.

As  I  told  you,  three  of  the  fellows 
went  home  about  8  o’clock  on  each 
ordinary  night,  while  the  one  whose 
turn  it  happened  to  be 
stayed  on 
watch  until  all  hours.

the 
the 

One  night  it  would  be  me,  one 
night  Hi  Ball,  the  next  night  Mr. 
Fitem  and  the  next  night  Mr.  Laster. 
We  all  told the  old  man  that  he  need­
n’t  stay,  but  he  insisted  on  standing 
his  watch  with  the  rest,  like  a  good 
fourth 
soldier,  and  so,  when 
night  after  we  started 
scheme 
came,  he  came  down  to  the  store  just 
about  regular  closing  time  with  the 
evening  paper  and  a  new  box  of  ci­
gars  under  his  arm  and  told  us 
to 
clear  out.  I  knew  it  would  be  a  good 
long watch,  eleven,  anyway,  and may­
be  later,  so  I  said  nothing  to  any­
body,  but  made  up  my  mind  that  I’d 
run  up  the  street  and  look  around 
and  bye  and  bye  come  back,  and  say 
there  was  nothing  going  on,  and 
I 
thought  I’d  just  drop  into  the  store 
for  a  minute  on  my  way  home,  and 
maybe  I  could  help  the  old  man  out. 
or  anyway  keep  him  company  and 
help  close  up,  so  I  did  so.

Well,  you’d  laugh, but,  without  say­
ing  a  word  to  each  other,  all  three 
of  us  had  thought  of  the  same  thing 
and  when  I  got  back  Hi  Ball  was 
sitting  back  by  the  stove  with  Old 
Laster,  and  a  minute  after  I  got  in, 
in  comes  Mr.  Fitem.  That  shows 
how  much  we  all  think  of  Laster.

We  looked  at  each  other  for  a 
second,  in  a  puzzled  sort  of  way, 
and  then  we  all  snickered.  Laster 
was  sort  of  up  a  stump  for  a  min­
ute,  but  in  a  minute  he  tumbled  and 
the  tears  sort  of  came  into  his  eyes, 
he  was  so  tickled.

in 

We  all  got  our  little  speeches  off 
about  having  just  dropped 
for 
something  or  another.  Fitem  thought 
he  had  on  somebody  else’s  rubbers, 
Ball  thought  he  had  forgotten 
to 
charge  a  pair  of  wool  boots  he  sold 
to  Old  Job  Medderland,  and  I  had 
to  think  quick  and  said  I  wasn’t  sure 
if  Mr.  Laster  had  a  key.

The  old  man  laughed  and  told  us 
to  clear  out,  but  we  didn’t.  We  just 
squatted  around  the  stove  and  sat 
and  talked,  and  talked,  and  talked.
I  never  knew  a  shoe  clerk,  anyway, 
who  knew  when  it  was  time  to  go 
home.

“My  gracious,” said Mr. Laster, “this 
makes  me  think  of  the  old  days  in 
the  general  store  I  worked  at  in  the 
country  when  I  was  a  boy,  and  the 
other  clerks  around  town  would  come 
in  after  we’d  closed  up  and  we’d 
scramble  eggs  on  a  greased  paper on 
top  of  the  old  flat-bottomed  stove. 
Great  old  times,  those.  Did  I  ever 
tell  you  about  the  time  the  store  was 
robbed?”

He  never  had. 

I  guess  he’d  told 
Mr.  Fitem,  because  Mr.  F.  has  been 
with  him  so 
long,  but  Mr.  Fitem 
wouldn’t  have  let  on  for  a  dollar  that 
he’d  ever  heard  the  story  before.  , 
’Cause  we  were  there  to  help  enter­
tain  the  old  man,  and  nothing  enter­
tains  a  man,  especially  an  old  man, 
like  being  allowed  to  tell  his  favorite 
stories  as  many  times  as  he  wants to.
“Well,”  said  Mr.  Laster,  “it  was 
when  I  was  working  in  this  store 
I’ve  been  telling  you  about,  where we 
used  to  scramble  eggs  and  all  that. 
Another  clerk  and  I  used  to  sleep  in 
a  little  room  at  the  back  of 
the 
store. 
It  was  a  sort  of  a  storeroom, 
where  we  kept  extra  barrels  of  mo­
lasses  and  sugar,  and  firkins  of  but­
ter,  and  cases  of  eggs 
that  we’d 
bought,  and  boxes  of  double-breasted 
codfish,  and  unopened  cases,  of  kip 
boots,  and  all  sorts  of  extra  stock.
A  front  corner  had  been  partitioned 
I  can  see  that  old  room 
off  for  us. 
now. 
It  was  a  pretty  rough  sort  of 
sleeping  room,  but  land,  we  young 
fellows  didn’t  mind.  Plain,  unpainted 
board  partition  on  two 
sides  and 
rough  walls  of  the  side  of  the  build­
ing,  and  the  partition  between  the 
storeroom  and  the  store  for  the  other 
two  sides.

“The  storeroom  was  so  high  that 
for  warmth  our  little  den  was  roofed 
over  about  ten  feet  up,  but  that  fact 
has nothing to  do with  this  story.  We 
could  not  get  into  ouir  room  directly 
from  the  store,  but  had  to  go through 
a  door  into  the  storeroom  first,  and 
then  through  another  door  into  the 
den.

“Just  above  the  head  of  our  bed—  
old-fashioned  cord  bedstead,  with  a 
straw  tick— a 
little  peep  hole  had 
been  cut  in  the  store  partition,  about 
as  big  as  an  old-fashioned  copper 
penny,  so  that  by  putting  an  eye  to 
the  hole  a  complete  survey  of 
the 
store  could  be  obtained  without  the 
watcher  being  detected  at  all.

‘grained,’  and 

“The  store  side  of  the  partition 
was 
the  hole  was 
made  to  come  right  in  the  center  of 
a  grained  knot  hole  so  that  its  pres­
ence  could  never  be  suspected  by  a 
casual  observer.  The  clerks  always 
guarded  the  secret  of  the  peep  hole

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children  were  permitted  to  go  over 
this  farm,  and  when  their  inspection 
was  done  to  each  of  them  was  given 
a  glass  of  milk.

The  milk  was  excellent. 
in  fact,  from  a  $2,000  cow.

It  came, 

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“Well,  boys,  how  do  you  like  it?” 
the  farmer  asked  when  they  had  all 
drained  their  glasses.

“Gee!  Fine,”  said  one  little  fel­
low.  Then,  after  a  pause,  he  added: 
“I  wisht  our  milkman  kep’  a  cow.”

very  jealously.  The  hole  was  of  the 
greatest  service.  Sometimes,  when 
one  of  us  would  happen  to  be  alone, 
and  wanted  to  go  into  his  room  for  a 
minute  or  two,  to  wash  up  for  din­
ner,  or  something,  he  could  keep 
track  of  things  in  the  store  by  a 
I 
peep  occasionally.  Many  a  time 
have  thought  I  heard  a  noise  in 
the 
store,  jumped  out  of  bed  and  taken 
a  cautious 
look  through  the  peep 
hole,  only  to  find  all  quiet,  and  the 
noise  probably  made  by  a  rat.  Once 
I  saw  a  man  about  3  o’clock  at  night, 
by  the  faint  light  of  the  moon,  work­
ing  away  at  the  front  door.  Frank, 
my  partner,  and  I  worked  our  way 
up  along  through  the  store,  quietly, 
but  when  we  got  to  the  front  door 
we  didn’t  know  what  to  do. 
I  had 
an  old-fashioned  double-barreled shot 
gun,  and  Frank  had  an  old  navy  re­
volver,  so  we  were  ready  for  him 
if  he  should  get  in,  but  we  weren’t 
over  anxious  to  have  him  get 
in. 
There  were  two  men,  we  could  see, 
now,  one  working  at  the  door  and 
one  out  by  one  of  the  awning  posts, 
evidently  keeping  watch.  We  didn’t 
know  what  to  do  until  I  happened  to 
think  of  a  big  slot  in  the  door,  cut 
there  for  the  convenience  of  people 
who  wished  to  mail 
letters  after 
hours.

“The  man  was  standing  almost  di­
rectly  in  front  of  it. 
I  crawled  cau­
tiously  along  the  floor  until  I  could 
reach  the  door  with  my  gun,  placed 
the  muzzle  as  near  as  I  could  get  it 
into  the  slot  and  let  go,  first  of  one 
barrel  and  then  of  the  other.

“There  was  an  awful  yell,  in  fact, 
a  pair  of  them,  outside  the  door, 
which  I  heard  as  I  was  keeling  over 
and  over  backward  on  the  floor  from 
the  ‘kick’  of  the  old  gun.  When  we 
looked  out  cautiously  there  was  no­
body  in  sight,  but  there  was  a  hole 
in  the  panel  of  the  front  door  big 
enough  to  stick  a  quart  pail  into,  and 
in  fact  that  is  what  we  did  stick  into 
it  until  morning.

“I  think  I  must  have  hit  both  of 
the  burglars  in  the  legs,  for  there 
were  two  distinct  little  trails  of blood 
in  the  dust leading off down  the  road. 
I  think  we  could  have  traced  them 
for  a  long  distance,  but  in  the  morn­
ing  when  we  got  people  roused  up 
it  was  too 
late,  for  the  constable 
hadn’t  gone  ten  rods  on  the  trail  be­
fore  a  big  storm  came  up  and  wash­
ed  everything  into  mud.

“Another  night,”  continued  the  old 
man,  after  puffing  his  cigar  quietly 
for  awhile,  as  he  recalled  the  days 
of  long  ago,  “Frank  heard  a  noise 
in  the  store.  He  woke  me,  and  be­
ing  on  the  front  side  of  the  bed  I 
jumped  up  and  put  my  eye  to 
the 
hole.  All  was  dark  in  the  store,  and 
strain  my  eyes  as  I  could,  nothing 
seemed  to  be  stirring.  We  listened 
intently,  and  occasionally  could  hear 
a  bit  of  noise  in  the  store,  but  we 
couldn’t  see  a  thing,  not  a  movement 
or  a  glimmer  of  light,  and  we  finally 
made  up  our  minds  that  the  rats 
were  out  in  full  force  and  went  back 
to  bed  and  to  sleep.

"In  the  morning  we  found  that  the 
store  had  been  entered,  all  of 
the 
loose  money  and  stamps  taken  out 
of  the  postoffice  part,  together  with 
a  lot  of  miscellaneous  stock.  From

for 

the  appearance  of  things  the  robbers I 
must  have  been  at  work 
two 
hours  or  more.  We  could  not  under­
stand  how  we  could  have  failed  to | 
see  them  until  we  found  that  a  slate | 
on  which  we  wrote  a  list  of  goods 
needed,  and  which  hung  on  the  par-  , 
tition,  had  been  moved  to  another! 
nail  which  chanced  to  be  located  just ] 
above  our  peep  hole,  so  that  we  had I 
been  straining  our  eyes  in  the  dark i 
recesses  of  a  framed  bit  of  black 
slate,  and  it  was  no  wonder  that  the ! 
store  looked  dark  and  quiet.

“We  were  never  certain  whether 
the  burglars  had  known  of  the  peep j 
hole  and  carefully  covered 
or I 
whether  some  of  us  had  carelessly j 
hung  the  slate  back  on  the  wrong j 
nail. 
I  rather  think  that  it  was  plac­
ed  carefully  against  the  door  leading | 
into  the  storeroom,  the  men  evidently I 
knowing  where  we  slept.

it, 

“We  never  got  any  trace  of  these 
burglars,  either  But,  goodness  me, 
here  it  is  11  o’clock,  and  it’s  time  the | 
other  fellows  were  closed,  anyway.”
I  went  to  the  front,  and  even  old 
Isinsole’s  lights  were  out,  and  so  we 
locked  up  and  all  went  home  togeth­
er.  And  that’s  how  the  Lasterville 
Shoe  Retailers’  Club  happened 
to 
get  its  start,  but  I  haven’t  space  now 
to  tell  about  the  second  meeting.—  
Small  Sizer  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Re­
corder.

Some  Things  Desirable  To  Drop.
Drop  a  hot  iron;  it  burns.
Anything 

lots  of 
things  that  farmers  are  trying 
to 
handle,  but  which  do  more  harm  | 
than  good— some  of  them.

else? 

Yes, 

Drop  trying  to  get  over  more 

ground  than  you  can  till  well.

Drop  the  old 

sheep  and 
hens.  They  will  make  the  richest  1 
man  poor.

cows, 

Drop  the  cows  that  have  been  fav­
orites  and  yet  never  have  paid  their 
board  a  single  year  since  you  got 
them.

Drop  the  crops  that  you  have  been 
raising  to  a  disadvantage.  Profit 
comes  from  growing  things  that can 
be  produced  in  your  locality  at  low 
cost  for  labor  and  marketing.

Drop  loose  methods  of  culture. 
They  will  bring  nothing  but  trouble.
you 

Drop  promising  more  than 

can  perform.

Drop  unkindness  to  members  of 
your  family,  in  the  house  and  in the 
barn.

Drop  loitering  about  town  when 

you  have  no  business  there.

Drop  saying,  “It is nobody’ s  busi­
ness  what I do.” It is somebody’s busi­
ness.  No  one  can  draw  a  line  about 
his  feet  and  say,  “I 
live  in  here. 
Everybody  else  must  keep  out.”

Drop  oaths,  love  of  gossip  and 

telling  foul  stories.

In  short,  drop  everything 

that 
helps  to  make  a  man  less  worthy  to 
be  trusted,  and  more  to  be  dreaded, 
by  all  good  citizens.

Hot  iron  burns,  but  there  are  many 

things  that  hurt  worse.

Reflection  On  the  Milkman.

Wayne  MacVeagh,  the  lawyer  and 
diplomat,  has  on  the  outskirts  of 
Philadelphia  an  admirable  stock farm. 
One  day  last  summer 
some  poor

r r o T r r n r r r r r r r n r T n f T T T T Q

A  RECORD

Since  moving into our  new  and  commodious  quar­
ters  on  August  1,  1903,  all  previous  records  as  to 
IVe  sold  more  goods 
our  sales  have  been  broken. 
during the last five months of the  past year  than  in 
a whole year less  than  five  years  ago.

W ALDRON,  A L D E R T O N   &  M E LZE

Wholesale  Boots,  Shoes and Rubbers 

No  131-133 N. Franklin  St.

, 
JUUUULO.JUUtJLOJUUL8.JUULJLlUt.

SAGINAW,  MICH.

The  Sale  on  Rubbers 
For Tins Season 
Is  By  No  Means  Past

Just  as  soon  as it begins  to  thaw you 
are going to sell a good many more pairs.
It’s  a good  time  now  to  send  to  us 
for an  assortment of  the  sizes  you  are 
going  to have calls for in  the  BOSTON 
and  BAY  STATE  brands.

They are  superior  goods in durability, 

style  and  wear.

We have  sold  them  over  a  quarter of 

a century  and we  know.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie  &  C o., Ltd. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Last  season  was  exceptionally  wet  and  there­
fore  hard on shoes in  general  and  boys’ and youths’ 
shoes  in  particular.  But  our
Boys’ and Youths’  Hard  Pans
stood  the  test,  giving  absolute  satisfaction.  They 
are  made  for  just  such  seasons  and  for  just  such 
hard  wear.  Try  them; 
they’ll  make  you  new 
friends.

Herold*Bertsch  Shoe Co.

Makers of  Shoes 

Graad  Rapids,  Mich.

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Number  of  Millionaires in  the  United 

States.

If  there  are  100,000  millionaires  in 
the  United  States,  as  Senator  Depew 
said  at  the  dinner  given  by  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  Jr.,  to  his  bible  class,  an 
official  of  a  great  commercial  agency 
and  the  President  of  one  of  New 
York’s  richest  banks  are  decidedly in 
error.  Both  placed  the  number  of 
millionaires  in the  entire  world  at  10,- 
000.  There  are  7>°°°  in  the  United 
States  and  1,000  of  these  live  in  New 
York  City,  whether paying taxes there 
or  not.  The  financial  Red  Book,  a 
carefully  compiled  publication,  gives 
the  names  of  practically  all  the  per­
sons  in  the  United  States  who  are 
supposed  to  be  worth  more 
than 
$300,000.  And  there  are  only  15,000 
names  on  the  list.  No  claim  is  made 
that  the  name  of  every  person  worth 
that  amount  or  more  is  given,  but 
the  proportion  of  those  left  out 
is 
extremely  small,  for  a  most  exhaus­
tive  investigation  has  been  made. 

in 

“There  may  be  a  few  more  than
the  United 
7.000  millionaires 
States,”  said  the  official  of  the  mer­
cantile  agency.  “I  doubt  it,  however.
I  also  doubt  if  there  are  more  than
1.000  millionaires  in  New  York. 
It 
is  absolutely  impossible  to  tell  accu­
rately.  It  may  seem  strange  that  we 
should  not  be  able  to  tell,  especially 
when  we  are  engaged  in  finding  out 
how  much  a  man  is  worth  and  giving 
such  information  to  our  subscribers. 
But  in  the  last  few  years  there  has 
been  a  marked  tendency  among  men 
of  wealth  to  conceal  the  amount  of 
their  worldly  possessions.  The  first 
incentive  in  this  respect  is  the  very 
vulgar  prominence  given  to  the  man 
that  has  lots  of  money.

“There  are  other  reasons  men  have 
for  suppressing  knowledge  of 
the 
amount  of  their  wealth.  Some  wish 
to  avoid heavy  taxation  and  give  false 
returns.  Another  man  may  have 
made  his  money  in  a  business  not 
commonly  supposed  to  be  especially 
lucrative  and  he  does  not  care  to 
have  his  affluence  blazoned  forth 
to 
arouse  competition.  There  are  also 
some  rich  politicians,  but  it  might 
arouse  suspicion  if  they  stated  the 
exact  amount  of  their  wealth.  And 
there  is  another  class— the  men  that 
have  their  piles  in  callings  that might 
be  frowned  upon  in  the  circles  they 
wish  to  enter— proprietors  of  gam­
bling-houses,  saloon-keepers,  owners 
of  dives  and  other  resorts.  They 
don’t  care  to  have  others  know  how 
much  they  have  accumulated.

“So  while  it  is  impossible  for  us 
to  tell  exactly  how  many  millionaires 
there  are, we would not take  the  num­
ber  of  those  who  are  known  to  pos­
sess  a  thousand  thousand  at 
least, 
and  then  multiply  the  number  by  ten. 
For  that  is  what  Senator  Depew 
seems  to  have  done  in  his  anxiety to 
urge  Mr.  Rockefeller’s  young  men  to 
get  rich.”— New  York  Press.

Public  Schools  Close  When  Walnut 

Time  Arrives.

The  culture  of  the  English  walnut 
has  become  an  important 
industry 
in  California  of  late  years.  The  first 
walnut  orchard  in  the  State  was 
planted  with  seed  from  the  Los  An­
geles  mission  gardens,  where 
the

increased— slowly 

padres  had  started  a  few  trees  with 
nuts  brought  with  them  from  Spain. 
The  undertaking  was  a  success  from 
the  first,  and  the  acreage  of  walnuts 
has  steadily 
at 
first,  but  now  with  rapid  strides.  The 
walnut  tree’s  early  age  of  bearing, its 
long  life  and  the  steady  demand  for 
its  product  tend  to  make  the  enter­
prise  deservedly  popular.  Already  it 
is  superseding  the  orange  in  favor 
among  fruit  growers.

old,  bearing 

The  walnut  tree  begins  to  bear 
when  six  or  seven  years  old,  and 
nothing  is  known  definitely  of  its age 
limit  of  bearing.  Fabulous 
stories 
are  told  of  trees  in  Spain  one  or  two 
centuries 
enormous 
crops.  The  oldest  trees  in  California 
are  still  bearing,  but  deductions  from 
the  short  history  already  made  show 
the  tree  is  in  its  prime  from  its  twen­
ty-fifth  to  its  thirtieth  year.  Fifteen 
hundred  pounds  of  nuts  to  the  acre 
is  a  good  average  yield,  making  sev­
enty-five  pounds  the  average  weight 
from  one  tree.

The  harvest  time  begins  about  the 
middle  of  September  and  lasts  near­
ly  six  weeks.  The  nuts  begin  to 
fall  with  the  leaves,  and  the  perfect 
cultivation  under  the  trees  leaves  no 
chance  for  them  to  lose  themselves 
among  clods  or  weeds.  The  brown, 
dead  leaves  alone  hide  the  nuts.  Un­
der  normal  conditions  they  drop  free 
from  the  outer  husk  or  hull,  through 
its  irregular  bursting,  and  getting  the 
nuts  picked  up  is  a  simple  matter. 
Sometimes  the  trees  are  well  irrigat­
ed  just  before  harvest  time  to  insure 
the  clean  dropping  of  the  nuts.

Boys  and  girls,  men  and  women, 
Japanese  and  Chinese,  are  all  pressed 
into  service,  and  on  hands  and  knees 
the  great  orchards  are  gone  over, not 
once,  but  several  times,  on  account 
of  the  irregular  ripening  of  the  nuts. 
The  trees  are  occasionally 
shaken 
during  the  season  to  loosen  the  nuts, 
and  before  the  last  gleaning  they  are 
“poled”  to  start  the  very  tardy  ones. 
This  is  done  by  long,  coarse,  bamboo 
poles, whose light weight  makes  them 
easily  handled.

In  certain  rural  districts  the  publicj 
schools  close  regularly  for  a  “walnut 
vacation.”  The  help  of  the  children 
is  needed,  and  the  children  are  noth­
ing  loath  to  replenish  their  diminish­
ing  purses.  Pails,  cans  and  gunny- 
sacks  are  scattered  among  the  pick­
ers,  and  when  the  bags  are  full  they 
are  carried  to  the  drying  grounds, 
where  they  are  spread  on  slat  trays 
to  dry.

School  Essay  on . Ducks.

A  school  boy  in  Jewel  City,  Kan., 
was  assigned  to  prepare  an  essay  on 
the  subject  of  “Ducks,”  and  this  is 
what  he  wrote:  “The  duck  is  a  low, 
heavy-set  girl,  composed  mostly  of 
meat  and  feathers.  He  is  a  mighty 
poor  singer,  having  a  hoarse  voice 
caused  by  getting  too  many  frogs  in 
his  neck.  He  likes  the  water  and 
carries  a  toy  balloon  in  his  stomach 
to  keep  from  sinking.  The  duck has 
only  two  legs  and  they  are  set  so  far 
back  on  his  running  gears  by  nature 
that  she  came  purty  near  missing 
his  body.  Some  ducks  when  they  get 
big  have  curls  on  their  tails  and  are 
called  drakes.  Drakes  don’t  have  to

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

set  or  hatch,  but  just  loaf,  go  swim­
ming  and  eat. 
If  I  was  a  duck  I’d 
rather  be  a  drake  every  time.”

A  “ Success”  Plan.

Little  Qem 
Peanut  Roaster

“Be  open  in  all  your  dealings  and 
try  to  inspire  confidence  in  all  with 
whom  you  come  in  contact,  for  with­
out  perfect  confidence  disaster  will 
surely  come  to  every  one,  whether 
man,  firm  or  government.

“Never  borrow  money  unless  it  is 
absolutely  necessary,  and  then  only 
such  amounts  as  you  are  perfectly 
sure  that  you  can  retufn.

“Make  few  engagements  and  al­

ways  keep 

them.

“Be  cheerful  under  all 

circum­
stances,  do  not  complain  at  every 
little  trifle;  it  is  invariably  the  cheer­
ful  man  who  succeeds  in  life.”

By  following  these  rules  you  may 

be  reasonably  sure  of  success.

The  Man  She  Prays  For.

A  fancy-free  young  woman  of  Kal 
amazoo  says  with  an  air  of  charming 
ingenuousness  that  she  prays  every 
night  for  a  husband,  “because,  you 
know,  if  I  am  to  be  married  my 
husband  is  living  somewhere  in  this 
world,  and  I  pray  always  that  he 
may  be  delivered  from  all 
tempta­
tions,  be  kept  in  good  health  and  be 
successful  in  whatever  path  of  busi­
ness  he  has  chosen.”

“And  is  this  all  you  pray  for  in 

reference  to  him?”  she  was  asked.

“Oh,  no!”  and  she  blushed  a  little 
as  she  made  this  admission: 
“I pray 
that  we  soon  may  be  brought  to­
gether.”

A  late invention, and the most  durable,  con­
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made.  Price within reach of au.  Made of iron, 
steel, German  silver,  glass,  copper  and  brass. 
Ingenious  method  of  dumping  and  keeping 
roasted  Nuts  hot.  Pull  description  sent  on 

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atalogue  mailed 

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spring  and  hand  power  Peanut  and  Coffee 
Roasters, power  and  hand  rotary  Corn  Pop* 
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ket.  A lso  Crystal  Flake  (the  celebrated  Ice 
Cream  Improver, 
lb.  sample  and  recipe 
free), Flavoring  Extracts, power and hand Ice 
Cream  Freezers;  Ice  Cream  Cabinets,  Ice 
Breakers,  Porcelain, 
IrSn  and  Steel  Cans, 
Tubs, Ice  Cream  Dishers,  Ice  Shavers,  Milk 
Shakers, etc., etc.

K in gery  M an u factu rin g  Co., 

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Cincinnati,  Ohio

Econom y  Is  Clear  Gain
ST O P   W A S T IN G

B Y   U S I N G   O L D   O U T  
O F   D A T E   M ETH ODS. 
T U R N   Y O U R   P R E S ­
E N T   LOSS  IN T O   G A IN  
B Y   IN S T A L L IN G   T H E

= in P R O V E D

BOWSER

SELF-MEASURINQ 
AND  COMPUTING

OIL  OUTFIT

It  S a v e s  Oil

There  is  no  evaporation;  no  leakage; 
no  spilling  or  waste 
from  dirty, 
“ sloppy**  measures;  no  over-measure, 
etc. 
.............................................................

I t S a v e s T im e 
A nd  L ab o r

There is no running up and down stairs 
or to the back room for oil; no oily cans 
to wipe or oily hands to wash.  Pumps 
five gallons in less time  than  to  pump 
one gallon in any other  way. 

.

.

.

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Bowser  Outfits

A re B u ilt  to   L a st.

THEY  HAVE

All Metal Pumps
Dial Discharge Registers
Money Computers
Anti-Drip Nozzles
Float Indicators
Double Brass Valves
Double Plungers
Oalvanlzed Steel Tanks
Handsomely Finished Cabinets
They Pnmp Accurate
Qallons, Half Oalloas and  Quarts

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W e  Make  F I F T Y   D IF F E R E N T   S T Y L E S  

Saves  a»  Money
S.  F.  B O W S E R   &  CO.

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L A C K   O F  BUSINESS

May  Come  From  Lack  of  Knowl­

edge.

The  word  “success”  is  so  compre­
hensive  and  far-reaching  that  many 
attributes  are  involved  in  its  com­
plete  definition.  Judgment  in  choos­
ing  what  one  shall  try  to  attain,  sa­
gacity  in  finding  the  right  way 
to 
attain  it,  resolution  in  putting  oneself 
on  that way and  resolution  in  holding 
thereto— all  are  so  essential  to  a  full 
realization  of  the  idea,  that  we  may 
say  success  arises  from  the  harmoni­
ous  and  fullest  use  of  all  the  facul­
ties.  No  man  simply  happens  to  suc­
ceed.  Those  who  win  success  are 
those,  as  a  rule,  who  thoroughly  un­
derstand  the  subject  before  it  is  un­
dertaken,  who  are  eminent  in  con­
stancy  of  purpose,  energy  and  abili­
ty,  in  heroism,  culture,  enthusiasm, 
faith, 
intelligence,  endurance,  pru­
dence,  perseverance  and  patience, 
supplemented  by  an  unconquerable 
will  to  succeed,  and  a  wise  husband­
ing  of  resources;  in  other  words, 
economy.  Economy,  by  the  way,  is 
one  of  the  greatest  virtues. 
It  con­
sists  in  using  the  talent  given  us  to 
the  best  advantage,  not  burying  it.  It 
is  not  only  essential  in  the  pursuit  of 
wealth,  but  a  requisite  to  a  full  and 
well-rounded  life.  We  must  econo­
mize  our  strength,  our  health,  and, 
especially,  our  time,  making  use  of 
odd  moments.  One  is  fearfully  han- 
icapped  in  life’s  journey  if  weighed 
down  by  care  and  suffering  under 
the  despotism  of  physical  want.  One 
might  as  well  try  to  run  a  mill  from 
a  small  stream  without  a  dam  as 
conduct  the  business  of  life  without 
reserve  capital.  Capital  is  acquired 
by  saving,  just  as  is  power  from  the 
water  accumulated  in  the  dam.

much  to  claim  for  such  capacity,  per­
haps,  yet  it  is  altogether  true 
that 
genius  is  not  a  power  of  attainment 
all  at  once,  but  of  holding  to  what 
is  attained  and  making 
it  a  step 
to  further  progress.  Do  not  let  your 
blunders  discourage  you;  treat  them 
as  stepping-stones.  Success  does not 
come  of  freedom  from  blunders,  but 
the 
of  not  making 
same  blunder 
twice.  It  often 
follows  disappoint­
ment;  when  we  sink,  let  it  be  in  order 
to  rise  higher.

Lack of success,  after  all, may come 
more  from  lack  of  knowledge  than 
lack  of  ability.  A  man  is  apt  to  get 
what  he  most  wants  at  the  time  of 
getting  it.  The  prevailing  discontent 
bears  witness,  however,  that  what 
he  has  obtained  is  too  often  very  far 
from  what  he  wishes  he1  had. 
If 
a  young  man  finds  himself  with 
money  in  his  pocket  and  gives  it  for 
a  play  or  a  drink  instead  of  saving 
it  for  future  use,  that  young  man 
may  be  said  in  a  sense 
to  have 
achieved  a  success;  he  had  what  he 
wanted.  Then  if  the  result  of  it  all 
is  to  have  him  without  capital,  de­
pendent  for  each  month’s  living  on 
that  month’s  work,  others  will speak 
of  him  and  he  will  look  upon  him­
self  as  a  proof  of  how  difficult  suc­
cess  is  to  attain,  and  how  untrue  the 
saying  that  man  may  get  what  he 
wants.  Yet  this  is  a  confusion  of 
thought.  The  trouble  with  our  young 
friend  was  not  that  he  failed  to  get 
the  things  he  wanted,  but  that  he 
failed  to  want  the  things  that  would 
be  of  most  worth  to  him,  and 
to 
want  them  enough  to  pay  the  cost 
of  getting  them. 
If,  while  wanting 
to  save  capital  and  lay  by  for  himself 
a  competency,  he  had  always  wanted 
it  enough,  the  money  would  have 
stayed  by  him  instead  of  scattering 
in  all  directions.  He  would  not  have 
been  more  successful  in  getting  what 
he  wanted,  but  his 
success  would 
have  been  of  a  different  kind  because 
his  want  would  have  been  different.
The  important  thing  is  to  have the 
right  desire  and  have 
strong 
enough.  When  William  Cobbett,  a 
common  soldier  on  the  march,  desir­
ed  a  knowledge  of  grammar;  when 
Hugh  Miller,  a  stone  mason,  de­
pendent  upon  daily  toil,  would  be­
come  a geologist; when Michael Fara­
day,  an  unschooled  peasant  boy, 
would  make  himself  a  philosopher; 
when  Benjamin  Franklin,  a 
tallow 
chandler’s  son,  a  truant  printer’s  ap­
prentice,  would  become  master  of 
English  composition;  when  Abraham 
Lincoln,  an  uncouth  backwoodsman, 
who  had  never  read  but  two  books 
in  his  life  and  had  to  walk  miles  af­
ter  a  day’s  work  to  borrow  the  vol­
umes  needed  for  his  studies,  would 
gain  a knowledge of law— all triumph­
ed  over  every  impediment.— Success.

it 

The F irst Step

T his  man  is  writing  for  our  1903 catalogue; 

something  has  happened  'in   his  store  that  has 
made him  think,  and  when  a  man  gets  to  thinking 

once,  somethin^  generally  moves.

This  time  it  is  that  pound  and  ounce  scale 

that’ s  going  to  move;  he’ s  tired  of  having  his 

clerks  give  overweight.

Tried  it  himself  and  found  it  was  the  scale, 

not  the  clerks’  fault.

Now  he  is  trying  to find  out  what  this  Near­

w eight  Detector  is  we  have  been  talking  about 

so  much.

Suppose  you  do  the  same  thing.  Our  cata­

logue  tells  it  all— shows  you how  to

too.  Do  it  today,  only  takes  a  postal  card. 

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To  succeed  you  must  have  a  con­
genial  occupation;  love  the  work  you 
are  engaged  in.  Washington  Irving 
tried  business;  he  failed  because  it 
was  not  congenial.  He  loved  liter­
ature,  and  in  that  field  became 
a 
master.  Bryant  also  failed  in  law, 
and  won  distinction  in  letters.  Haw­
thorne  as  a  Federal  office-holder 
was  nobody;  when  he  turned  to  his 
true  vocation  he  grew  to  be  one  of 
the  immortal. 
It  is  an  old  saying 
that  many  failures  come  of  getting 
round  men  in  square  holes.  Con­
stancy  is  a  great  virtue,  an  essential 
to  success,  but  if  you  find  yourself 
in  an  unsuitable  position,  it  is  wise 
to  change  as  soon  as  possible.  When 
one  is  traveling  in  the  wrong  direc­
tion  the  more  energetically  he  pro­
ceeds  the  farther  he  will  go  from  his 
goal. 
It  is  far  better  to  be  a  good 
farmer  than  a  bad  preacher,  or  a 
good  mechanic  than  a  bad  lawyer  or 
doctor.  Stagnant  pools  or  danger­
ous  washouts  come  of  bending  a 
stream  from  its  natural  course.

In  choosing  a  vocation  it  is  well  to 
remember  that  the  professions  are 
crowded.  There  is  only  room  to  be 
found  at  the  top,  to  which  access  is 
so  difficult  that  only  those  of  ex­
traordinary 
ability  and 
energy  can  ever  reach  it.  Many  a 
man  may  succeed  in  business  who 
would  fail  in  the  professions.  Genius 
is  not  essential.  That  majestic  quali­
ty  has  been  defined  as  a  definite  ca­
pacity  for  taking  pains.  That  is too

strength, 

standing 

Not  more  than  400  of  the  “cedars 
of  Lebanon”  are 
to-day. 
They  do  not,  although  their  age  is 
measured  in  years  by  thousands,  riv­
al  in  dimensions  the  cedars  of  the 
Western  world,  being  but 
twelve 
feet  in  diameter.  No  tree  gives  so 
great  an  expanse  of  shade  as 
the 
cedar,  and  it  never  dies,  except  from 
lightning  stroke  or  the  woodman’s

Monevweight

M ICH IGAN  TR A D ESM A N

34

DRAW ING TRADE.

friends 

Merchant.

^  ^ ^   ^ 

W ritten  for  th e  Tradesm an.

Unique  Idea  Adopted  by  a  Country 

up  in  this  wise: 
I  merely  made  a 
miniature  kitchen  of  it.  It  had  to  be 
a  tiny  one,  necessarily,  in  so  small  a 
space,  but  I  made  it  as  realistic  as 
possible— in  fact,  I  must  say  I  called 
in  my  wife’s  ingenuity  here  and  she 
rigged  up  a  regular  little  parlor-car 
It  was  as  neat  as  a 
of  a  kitchen. 
_  __   _____
pin  and  for  days  it  was 
‘the  talk
I ^the'ttnyn/  you  might"say.  I  know
tQ  b(J  true>  for  j im>  the  delivery
took  a  heap  of  orders  for  Jemi-

Last  week  I  had  occasion  to  visit 
the  store  of  a  country  merchant  in 
a  place  near  Grand  Rapids  about the
size  of  Lowell. 
If  this  dealer  did 
business  in  a  larger  city  he 
not  set  the  world  on  fire  with  his 
bright  ideas,  but  in  his  home  town 
he  certainly  keeps  his  competitors  ma  flom.  ^   the  <rea,  kitchen’  doors 
on  the  qui  vive  watching  his  smoke.  that  weekj  and  for  many  weeks  after.
.
1  My  window  display  was  to  adver­
tise  Aunt  Jemima’s  pancake 
flour, 
and  I  had  one  of  the  big  pasteboard
figures  of  the  old  darky  that  these 
flour  people  send  broadcast  over the 
land.  I  stood  her  up  straight  against 
the  background,  and  on 
real 
kitchen  stove  at  her  elbow  I  had  a 
big  pancake  griddle— one  of  these 
that  go  way  across  the  stove,  just 
such  as  Mother  used  to  bake  on  at 
home  for  her  brood  of  six  hungry 
youngsters!  How  well  I  remember 
how  good  the  old  flapjacks  used  to 
taste  and  how  ‘scairt’  we  all  would 
be  for fear the pancakes wouldn’t ‘flap’ 
just  in  the  nick  of  time.  On  Aunt 
Jemima’s  griddle  I  put  half  a  dozen 
enormous  flapjacks  that  I  had  my 
wife  make,  and  at  a  little  stand  near­
by  I  hired  a  convenient  small  boy  to 
sit  perfectly  still  by  the  hour,  in  the 
act  of  transferring to his open mouth 
a  big  mouthful  of  pancake  from  the 
plate  in  front  of  him,  on  which  was 
a  huge  cut-up  pancake  swimming  in 
maple  syrup.  It  was  hard  work,  you 
may  imagine,  for  the  kid  to  sit  still, 
but  50c  a  day  didn’t  grow  on  many 
of  the  bushes  in  his  widowed  moth­
er’s  yard  and  the  piece  of  silver  look­
ed  big  to  his  unaccustomed  eyes.

He  is  a  man  about  40  years  of  age 
and  always  was  an  odd  sort  of  ge­
nius,  and  so  homely  that  he  is  ac­
tually  distinguished 
in  appearance. 
His 
characterize  him  as 
“eccentric,”  “original,”  while  his  foes 
(of  course,  being  “different”  from his 
fellows,  which  some  seem  to  regard 
as  a  crime,  he  isn’t  free  from  envy) 
denominate 
a 
“crank.”  Be  that  as  it  may,  the man 
accomplishes  wonders  in  his  line,  and 
is  one  who  is  “looked  up  to”  in  the 
community  in  which  he  resides.  His 
friends  and  acquaintances 
criticise 
him,  but  his  virtues  are  of 
the 
sterling  sort  and  he  is  liked  in  spite 
of  his  “oddities”  and  “peculiarities.”
small 
town,  he  of  course  is  restricted  some­
what  by  his  environment,  but,  if  this 
is  so,  it  is  also  true  that  he  makes  up 
for  the  disadvantages  under  which 
he  labors  by  a  fertility  of  resource 
and  a  happy  faculty  of  making 
the 
most  of  the  materials  with  which  he 
has  to  work.

Asked  how  he  accomplished  such 
trade-bringing  results  with  the  mea­
ger  (seemingly)  things  at  his  com­
mand  as  to  window  displays,  he  re­
plied:

Living  in  a  comparatively 

“peculiar,” 

him 

the 

creating  comment.  I  don’t  remember 
ever  to  have  seen  such  a  scheme  car­
ried  out.  Yet  how  simple— all  he  had 
to  do  was  to  hunt  up  in  the  back 
part  of  the  dictionary 
“furin” 
phrase  and  arrange  a  window  to  il­
lustrate  the  idea  conveyed  by 
the 
words.  Any  one  could  do  it.

a 

The  last  sentence  makes  me  think 
of  a  fellow  who,  for  days  before  one 
particular  Christmas,  sold  a  small  tin I 
toy  that  wound  up  with  clockwork  | 
inside.  It  was  a  funny-looking clown 
drawn  by  a  donkey.  The  donkey 
would  balk  every  once  in  so  often 
and  the  antics  of  the  clown  in  con­
sequence  of  the  donkey’s 
actions 
were  laughable  in  the  extreme.  The 
peddler  would  wind  up  the  animal 
every  time  he  gave 
indications  of 
“running ’ down,”  and  his  talk  about 
the  toy  and  what  it  would  do  and 
what  any  one  could  do  with  it  was 
worth  pausing  to  listen  to.  He  al­
ways  said  the  same  lingo  and  the 
people 
in  the  store  at  the  corner 
where  the  donkey  and  the  clown  and 
the  peddler  held  forth  were  inform­
ed  500  times  a  day,  by  the  bawling! 
voice  of  the  last  mentioned  member 
of  the  triumvirate,  that  “Any  small 
child  can  operate  it!”  They  have 
that  for  a  byword  in  that  establish- 1 
ment  yet— “Any  small 
can  ] 
operate  it!”

child 

And  so  this  uncommon  idea  of  my 
country  merchant  is  almost  a  par­
allel  case— “Any  small 
can 
operate  it!” 

Jennie  Alcott.

child 

A liar’s legs  can  never keep  up  with 

his  news.

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“Of course,  my window  fixtures  are 
not  ‘in  it’  with  those  employed 
in 
the  city  stores,  so  I  am  obliged  to 
rely  on  what  you  might  call  some­
thing  startling  in  the  way  of 
the 
displays  I  arrange  behind  the  front 
glass.

“You  might  not  believe  it  but  I 
kept  our  people  agog  with  curiosity 
all  last  summer  in  regard  to 
the 
meaning  of  the  cards  I  exhibited  with 
the  most  ordinary,  everyday  sort  of 
articles— things  with  whose 
sight 
they  are  perfectly  familiar  by  con­
stant  association,  but  which  present­
ed  a  new  aspect  by  being  accompan­
ied  with  a  card  whose  meaning  was 
Greek— or  rather  mostly  Latin  and 
French— to  them.

“Right  down  in  front  of  the  win­
dow  I  placed  a  good-sized  white  card 
on  which  neatly  painted 
read­
able  black  letters  were  these  words: 
‘Tout  comme  chez  nous!’  Translated, 
you  know  this  means,  ‘Just  as  it  is 
at  our  house.’

in 

“I’m  no  great  scholar  in  the  ‘furin’ 
languages  myself,”  this  with  a  twin­
kle  of the  eye,  “so  you  might  wonder 
where  I  got  my 
‘furin’  card  from. 
Come  close  and  I’ll  tell  it  in  ‘yer  lis­
tenin’  ear,’ ”  and  the  versatile  store­
keeper  pantomimed  his  command.

“Dictionary!”  he  said,  in  a 

loud 

stage  whisper.

“And 

“Fact!”  he  asserted. 

you 
would  have  laughed  to  hear  the  com­
ments  of  the  window-gazers,  espe­
“I  happen  to  possess  a  faculty  of 
cially  of  the  country  customers.  The
handling  a  brush  or  pen  with  equal
readiness  and  I  relied  on  this  gift 
little  French  I’ve  picked  up  here  and 
for  assistance  in  the  scheme  I  had  there  I  utilized  to  the  utmost  in  my 
in  view. 
‘Aunt  Je-
“I  would  fill  the  window  space  at  mima  week,’  and  I  never  enjoyed 
my  disposal  with,  generally,  a  quan-  anything  more  than  their  conjectures 
tity  of  objects  of  one  sort,  or  maybe  and  comments  on  the  meaning  of  the 
two  or  three,  but  never  more  kinds  words  on  the  card  in  the  window, 
“Of  course,  they  never  got  within 
than  the  people  could  easily  keep  in 
mind,  in  describing  the  scene  pre-  hailing  distance  of  the  pronunciation 
sented,  when  they  returned  to  their  of  the  four  little  words,  and  every 
homes.  And  you  would  be  surprised  time  my  wife  makes  flapjacks  now 
I  she  says  we’ll  eat  some  ‘toot  commy 
at  amount  of  free 
got  by  simply  the  exercise  of  a  lit-  cheese  noose!” ’  and 
country 
tie  ingenuity. 

dealer  laughed  a  merry  Ha!  Ha!

dealings  with  them  that 

advertising 

the 

“For  instance,  you  see,  being  a  Well,  now,  as 

say, 
‘general  dealer’  I  handle  a  little  of  “Wouldn’t  this  come  and  get  you!” 
‘most  anything  under  the  sun,’  so  I  !  Here  was  a  storekeeper  who  had  hit 
am  able  to  make  many  an  amusing  on  a  perfectly  original— and  at  the 
combination.  One  window  I  fixed  same  time  perfectly  feasible— plan  of

the  boys 

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

35

George  Francis  Train  as  a  Hustler. 
W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

“Come  and  See  the  Legal  Lunatic 

at  Music  Hall,  etc.”

“Brains  and  Psychology— George 
Francis  Train  and  his  Story  at  Music 
Hall,  etc.”

And  so  on,  through  the  ten  sets 
of  a  thousand  swipes  each,  were  the 
announcements  put  up  during 
the 
night— telegraph  poles, 
curb-stones, 
dry  goods  boxes,  barrels,  dead  walls, 
bill  boards  and  the  like  being  plaster­
ed  with  them  before  daylight  on  Sat­
urday.  The  town  was  astounded. 
Merchants  protested  because 
their 
goods  had  been  covered,  the  police 
authorities  threatened,  the  religious 
element  was  in  arms  and  everybody 
was  aroused  so  that  Music  Hall  was 
packed  to  the  doors  Sunday  evening 
at  50  cents  a  head.  And  Mr.  Train’s 
lecture  was  an  interesting  one.  He 
reviewed  the  building  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railway,  told  about  the  birth 
and  development  of  Omaha,  explain­
ed in  general  terms how he was  going 
to  build  a  ship  canal  across  the  Isth­
mus  of  Panama  and,  among  other 
things  that  I 
remember,  predicted 
that  a  dozen  railways  would  soon 
span  the  American  continent  and  that 
he  expected  to  live  to  see  the  United 
State’s  armies  invade  China  and  Rus­
sia  in  defense  of  civilization.

I  do  not know how much  Mr. Train 
profited  from  his  receipts  that  even­
ing,  but  I  do  know  that  each  one  of 
the  men  who  worked  for  Treyser  & 
Hatch  that  night  received  a  five  dol 
lar  bill  as  a  gift  from 
the  distin 
guished  lecturer.

Anyone  Can  Defy  an  Army  With 

Rifles.

is  not  only  an  arrest  of  the  ball,  but 
deformation  as  well,  and  in  this  de­
formation  the force  of  the  ball  is  con­
verted.  While  there  should  be  a 
high  degree  of  temperature  at  the 
point  touched  by  the  ball,  it  seems 
that  the  ball  alone  feels  the  effects, 
for  the  protector  does  not  seem  to  be 
burnt  in  the  slightest.

These  results  are  not  limited  to 
ballistic  effects,  for  in  the  recent  ex­
periments  it  was  sought  to  pierce the 
armor  with  a  dagger  driven  with  all 
possible  force.  The  point  of 
the 
arm,  however,  could  not  penetrate 
the  felt  and  was  bent  into  a  shapeless 
mass.

It  is  natural  to  suppose  that  the 
force  of  the  ball  would  be  communi­
cated  to  the  armor  and  that  this 
would  be  driven  violently  backward, 
resulting  in  a  disagreeable  shock  and 
one  which  at  times  would  be  danger­
ous  to  the  wearer.  To  demonstrate 
the  incorrectness  of  this  view  the  in­
ventor  attached  his  protector  to  a 
horse  and  fired  upon  the  animal  only 
six  feet  away  with  an  ordnance  re­
volver,  the  ball  falling  at  the  feet  of 
the  horse,  while  he,  freed  from  his 
halter,  walked  away  as  if nothing  had 
happened. 
that 
with  the  same  revolver  a  piece  of 
steel  had  been  previously  pierced. 
The  same  experiment  was  made  with 
a  chicken  covered  with  a  breast  piece 
of  the  felt,  the  cock,  after  being  rid 
of  his  new  shell,  quietly  pursuing  the 
even  tenor  of  his  way.

It  is  to  be  noted 

Bitter  remedies  often  have  blessed 

results.

Of  In te re s t  to   H a rd w a re   a n d  
A g ric u ltu ra l Im p le m e n t D ealers

A n y  potato  planter  w ill  plant 
potatoes.  Bat  some  plant  better 
than  others,  and 
The  PINGREE  thus sell better and
*lve  **“ "   “ tu
Potato 
faction. 
Planter
T o  be 
g r o w

igorous, 
uniformly 
and  yield 
abundant­
ly , 
t h e  
seed must 
be  depos­
it e d  
in  
moist  soil 
at the pro­
per depth.
It is evi­
dent  that 
to deposit 
the potato 
>in  m o is t 
s o i l   t h e  
closed until sunk  the

jaw s must remain tightly close 
desired distance in the ground.

A- ■ i.tin j  ,  as-i-  . . . »  

j 

 

r -------» was  sue

. . . .

climate and the method to be  pursued  in  dig 
ging, and  therefore  varies,  the  depth  gauge 
must be adjustable. 
Prom the foregoing it w ill be  seen  that  the 
ideal potato planter has self  locking  jaws  and 
an adjustable, positive depth gauge.

W e also manufacture the  old fashioned----

Our  Eureka  and  Pingree  planter«  are  the 
only potato  planters  made  having  these  fea­
tures, the Eureka being a tube  planter  and the 
Pingree a «tick planter. 
locking stick handle planter.  Thla we make in 
two styles—the Dewey, which  has  an  adjust­
able depth gauge, and  the  S wan, which has a 
ksis 1
Both of  these  plant
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stationary depth gauge.
era  are  jnovldeS  with  very  heavy  pivotal
ers  arc  p n i v iw i  ”  
/--------
rivets, which are guaranteed  to  last as long as
the reat of the planter. 
Do not forget that  we  also  manufacture  the 
celebrated  Segment  Com   and  Bean  Planter, 
the lightest  and  most  accurate com  and  bean 
planter  made.

j  » 

. . . .

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Ask your Jobber for the 

foregoing

Greenville  Planter C o .

Greenville,  Mich.

One  cold  and  blustering  day  in 
late  February,  1869,  the  local  mana­
ger  of  the  popular  music  hall  in  Mil­
waukee  sat  in  his  office  chatting  with 
Elton  Hatch,  the  bill  poster,  and 
other  friends,  when  the  door  opened 
and,  as  though  he  was  a  portion  of 
the  tumult  from  outside,  a  man  dash­
ed  into  the  room  saying: 
“I  want 
Music  hall  for  next  Sunday  evening. 
What  is  your  fee?”

The  manager,  somewhat  depressed 
over  a  week  of  bad  business  for  the 
hall,  replied  that  the  usual  charge 
was  $100,  and 
the  unceremonious 
visitor  threw  aside  a  great  cloak  that 
enveloped  his  person,  and  producing 
a  wallet,  began  counting  out 
the 
money.

“But  hold  on,”  ventured  the  man­
ager.  “For  what  purpose  do  you  want 
the  hall?”

“I  want  to  preach  in  it,”  was  the 
reply  without  interrupting  the  money 
to 
proceedings. 
the 
people  a  few 
they  already 
know,  but  things  they  do  not  dare 
to  voice.  'They  are  waiting 
for  a 
leader  and  I  am  here.”

“I  want 
things 

tell 

them,  began 

By  this  time  the  manager  and  the 
bill  poster,  thinking  they  had  an  in­
sane  man  before 
to 
smile  dubiously  and  one  of 
them 
asked:  “What  is  your name,  please?” 
"I  am  George  Francis  Train,”  the 
visitor  responded  proudly;  as  he laid 
the  money  on  the  desk,  he  continued: 
“Able  to  buy  and  own  and  operate 
your  hall— the  entire  city  of  Milwau­
kee  for  that  matter,  only  I  haven’t 
the  time  to  give  to  it.”  The  manager 
began  running  over  the  bills  when 
Mr.  Train,  addressing  Hatch,  said 
“Can  you  get  a  boy  to  show  me  to 
a  job  printing  office  where  they  do 
good  work  and  on  time?”

And  this  was  where  I  came  in. 
I  was  working  in  the  printing  office 
where  George Treyser was the  super­
intendent  and  Treyser  was  the  part­
ner  of  Hatch  in  the  bill  posting  busi­
ness.  These  facts  were  explained  to 
Mr.  Train  who  said: 
“Never  mind 
the  details— I  must  have  5,000  ‘snipes’ 
printed  and  posted  by  daylight  to­
morrow  morning.  Can  you  do  this?” 
Hatch  replied  that  he  could.  Mr. 
Train  asked  the  manager  for  a  re­
ceipt  and  turning  to  me  said:  “Come 
on  my  boy.”

leaving 

the  manager 

And  so  Mr.  Train,  Mr.  Hatch  and 
myself, 
in 
something  of  a  daze,  left  the  office on 
our  way  to  Mr.  Treyser’s  office. 
It 
was  then  about  two  o’clock  in  the 
afternoon  and  at  eight  o’clock  that 
evening—Mr.  T^ain  having  taken  the 
cars  in  the  meanwhile,  for  Jonesville, 
where  he  was  to  lecture  that  night— 
Hatch  and  Treyser  sent  out  four  sets 
of  two  men  each,  to  cover  Milwaukee 
with  the  gutter-snipes.

Of  course  Mr.  Train  provided  the 
texts  for  these  advertisements  and 
among  those  that  I  remember  are: 
“George  Francis  Train  First  and 
Nature  Afterward,  at  Music  Hall next 
Sunday  Evening.”

“Dollars  and  cents  are  not  so  good 
the 

as  George  Francis  Train  and 
Golden  Rule  at  Music  Hall,  etc.

“The  Man  Who  Built  Omaha  and 

Lost  It,  at  Music  Hall,  etc.”

felt, 

Since  the 

invention  of 

firearms 
much  labor  has  been  expended  in  the 
effort  to  devise  an  armor  that  would 
protect  the  wearer  from  harm  by 
flying  missiles  of  lead,  but  each  suc­
cessive  experimenter  has  been  com­
pelled  to  confess  defeat. 
It  is  now 
announced  that  such  a  vesture  has 
been  perfected,  and  the  Italian  gov­
ernment  is  negotiating  for  its  use. 
It  is  of  importance  that  we  see  just 
what  the  results  are,  although  it  is 
necessary  to  state  that  the  invention 
remains  a  secret,  and  this  notwith­
standing  attempts  to  discover  its de­
tails.  Thus  we  shall  have  to  deal 
with  a  general  description  and  with 
the  results  of  experiments.
The  armor  is  a  sort  of 

the 
stuff  being  capable  of  adaptation  to 
any  form  whatever;  for  example,  a 
breastplate  with  a  collar  or  a  sort  of 
coat  which  completely  envelops  the 
wearer  and  absolutely  guanantees 
him  from  gunshot  wounds. 
The 
thickness  of the  protector varies  from 
one-sixteenth  to  seven-sixteenths  of 
an  inch,  according  to  the  arm  the 
effects  of  which  it  is  designed  to  de­
stroy.  Against  the  armor  of  seven- 
sixteenths  of  an  inch  the  regular  or­
dinance  revolver  with  steel  covered 
ball  is  powerless,  and  also  the  gun  of 
the  1891  model  charged  with  smoke­
less  powder. 
In  numerous  experi­
ments  which  have  been  made— in  fir­
ing  at  a  distance  of  several  yards—  
the  ball,  whether  it  be  of 
lead  or 
steel,  when  it  strikes  the  protector  is 
arrested  and  deformed,  in  some cases 
rebounding  and  in  others  being  al­
most  reduced  to  a  pulp.  Thus  there

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ABORIG IN AL  HANDICRAFTS.

Lessons  To  Be  Learned  From  West­

ern  Indians.

little 

No  more  interesting  element  has 
ever  entered  into  the  industrial  de­
velopment  of  this  nation  than 
the 
present  activity  in  the  revival  of  the 
art  handicrafts  of 
the  aboriginal 
dwellers.  In  a  sense  this  is  an  awak­
ening,  for  hitherto  the  curious  atten­
tion  paid  by  collectors  to  the  prod­
ucts  of  the  untutored  and  for  the 
most  part  nomadic  tribes  of  North 
American  Indians  has  been  lacking 
in  perception  of  their  inherent  ar­
tistic  values.  Little  by 
the 
realization  has  gained  ground  that, 
crude  although  these  products  be, 
born  in  the  midst  of  poverty  and 
want  and  a  barrenness  of  prepared 
materials,  they  nevertheless  possess 
beauties  of  original  design  and  form 
and  coloring  which  entitle  them 
to 
first  rank  among  the  work  of  aborigi­
nal  dwellers  of  all  lands  in  all  times. 
And  so  it  comes  about 
that  most 
cultured  American  women  to-day  are 
literally  going  to  school  to  savages, 
and  going  to  school  to  good  purpose.
To  the  careless  eye  there  is  re­
markable  variety  in  the  fabrication 
of  Indian  baskets,  but  even  collectors 
will  be  surprised  to  find  no  less  an 
authority 
than  George  Wharton 
James  declaring  that  “there  is  not 
a  single  stitch  or  weave  known 
to 
modern  art,  made  with  loom  however 
complicated,  that  the  Indian  woman 
did  not  invent  and  has  not  had 
in 
actual  use  for  centuries.”  And  he  as­
serts  that  the  man  of  to-day  “is  in­
debted  to  the  Indian  woman,  as  to 
other  inventors  of  primitive  times, 
for  that  which  gives  him  his  cloth­
ing,  napery,  bedding  and  upholstery.” 
Be  this  as  it  may,  it  is  true  that  en­
terprising  American  women  the  coun­
try  over  are  now  patiently  learning 
Indian  basketry  weaves,  and, 
em­
ploying  materials  easily  procurable, 
such  as  the  cheap  and  pliable  raffia 
and  the  convenient  modern  dyes, are 
fast  turning  out  baskets  as  closely as 
possible  following  the  designs  of  the 
primitive  tribes.  Some  of  these  work­
ers  are  establishing  a  lucrative  indus­
try  and  flooding  the  market  with 
modern  examples  of  an  art  so  nearly 
extinct.

in 

excelled 

The  Indians  of  the  Southwest— the 
Navajo  and  his  neighbor,  the  Hopi—  
have  admittedly 
the 
weaving  of  blankets  of  a  fine,  close 
texture,  distinguished  by  beauty  of 
design  and  brilliancy of  coloring.  The 
Navajo  in  particular  stands  pre-emi­
nent  among primitive  men in his skill 
and  taste  in  this  direction,  and  for 
twenty  years  or  more  the  products 
of  his  rude  loom  have  been  eagerly 
sought  by  wealthy  buyers, command­
ing  a  large  premium  over  the  most 
finished  products  of  the  great  fac­
tories,  with  their  corps  of  trained  de­
signers,  their  chemists  and  their  cost­
ly  machinery.  So  diligently  have 
these  blankets  been  gathered  in  by 
collectors  that  of  late  it  has  been 
next  to  impossible  to  secure  really 
good  examples  of  the  weave, 
the 
products  of  the  looms  being  engaged 
long  in  advance.  Here,  again,  Yan­
kee  appreciation  and  Yankee  enter­
prise  have  seen  their  opportunity, and

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

includes 

the  renaissance  of  art  industries  in 
this  country 
the  Navajo 
blanket,  which  is  being  closely  imi­
tated  in  the  workshops  of  modern 
craftsmen.

The  latest  craze  in  the  fashionable 
world  is  for  artistic  beadwork.  An­
cient  beaded  tapestries  are  being  res­
urrected  and  mended,  and  new  de­
signs  wrought  out  in  flashing  crystal, 
pearl  and  turquoise,  gold  and  silver 
disks.  Stoles  and  collarettes,  brace­
lets,  belts  and  hatbands  are  made  of 
In  the  multiplicity 
solid  beadwork. 
of  design,  the  most  effective, 
the 
most  popular,  the  most  distinctive, 
are  copied  from  the  work  of  squaws. 
The  Indian  squaw,  child  of  nature 
that  she  is,  has  a  gift  for  convention­
alizing  the  suggestions  of  nature,  in 
which  she  outshines all of our  modern 
craftsmen.  They,  too,  are  going  to 
school  to  her.

the 

The  end  is  not  yet.  Not  yet  have 
the  deft-handed  toilers  of  modern art 
industries  undertaken 
feather 
work  in  which  the  aborigine  has 
wrought  such  wondrous  effects,  both 
decorative  and  in  solid  weaves.  Not 
yet  have  the  craftsmen  begun  to  col­
lect  fine  quills,  and,  dyeing  them with 
ochres,  with  red,  green,  blue  and  pur­
ple,  embroidered  leather  hangings  in 
rich  and  unfading  arabesques  which 
shall  outwear  any  woven 
fabrics, 
borrowing  their  suggestions  from the 
moccasins  the  Indian  mother  works 
for  her  papoose  and  her  ornamenta­
tion  of  her  liege  lord’s  paraphernalia. 
We  have  yet  to  add  to  our  pottery 
the  forms  of  grace  fashioned  by  the 
primitive  dwellers  of  the  great South­
west  hundreds  of  years  ago,  with 
their  daring  symbolical  ornamenta­
tion.  There  are  lessons  still 
to  be 
learned  from  those  mysterious  inhab­
itants  of  the  islands  off  the  southern, 
coast  of  California,  who  vanished 
centuries  ago  and  left  no  sign  be­
hind  them  to  tell  the  story  of  their 
coming  or  their  going,  but  who  fash­
ioned  exquisite  articles,  toys  and im­
plements  from 
so 
plentiful  throughout  that  State,  cer­
tain  grades  of  which,  fine  grained 
and  easily  polished,  are  the  veritable 
verd  antique,  and  who  made  a  begin­
ning  in  a  new  scheme  of  ornamenta­
tion,  inlaying  this  with  flakes  of  the 
beautiful  abalone  shells,  which  still 
go  to  waste  annually  by  the  ton.

serpentine 

the 

treated, 

The  American 

Indian,  affronted, 
threatened,  unjustly 
is  a 
fiend  who  stops  short  at  no  crime 
that  savagery  can  conceive  in  aveng­
ing his  real  or  fancied  wrongs.  None 
the  less,  he  is  at  once 
the  proudest, 
bravest  and  most  capable  aborigine 
that  the  world  has 
ever  known, 
with  an  intellectual  capacity  that puts 
to  shame  many  of  his  contemners. 
As  the  pipe  of  peace  is  tardily  smok­
ed,  as  he  vanishes  from  the  earth, 
it  is  fitting  that  the  race  which  is 
dispossessing  him  should  perpetuate 
the  art  handicrafts  which  had  their 
birth  in  his  wigwam  and  pueblo.

A  Good  Claim.

“So  he  brought  back  a 

fortune 
from  the  gold  fields!  He  must  have 
staked  out  a  good  claim.”

“You  bet  he  did.  Why,  he  staked 
out  the  best  saloon  location  in  the 
district  the  very  first  thing.”

LIFE   ON  TH E  FARM.

What the  Country  Offers to the  Poor 

Man.

to 

A  correspondent  writes 

the 
Tradesman,  offering  to  be  one  of 
twenty  persons  who  agree  “to  con­
tribute  $10  or  $20  per  month  each  to 
some  reliable  and  disinterested  land 
expert  who  will  buy  at  most  advan­
tageous  rates,  in  one  or  more  blocks, 
the  land  required  for  all,  and  under­
take  to  plant  the  kind  of  fruit  best 
adapted  to  the  locality  and  attend  to 
the  same  for,  say,  five  years,  when 
possession  could  be  taken  by 
the 
installment  purchasers,  who  would 
probably  by  that  time  be  able  to 
actively  take  charge  of  the  acreage 
for  which  they  had  paid.”  The  prop­
osition  involves 
rendering  of 
monthly  statements  by  the  manager, 
including  not  only  the  financial  items 
but  such  detailed  information 
re­
garding  the  land  and  crops  as  should, 
with  their  own  studies  and  experi­
ments  carried  on  meanwhile,  fit  the 
purchasers  to  take  charge  of  their 
farms.  Simultaneously  with  this, the 
colonists  would  be  laying  aside  by 
monthly 
installments  another  fund 
for  building  the  house  and  paying  for 
the  other  equipment  of  a  small  farm 
Apparently,  our  correspondent  con­
templates  a  total  investment  of  $15 
or  $20  a  month.

the 

We  know  a  better  way  than  that. 
Let  each  of  the  twenty  deposit  his 
$20  a  month  in  some  savings  bank 
to  draw  interest  at  3  per  cent.,  com­
pounded  every  six  months,  for  five 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  the  term  go 
and  hire  out  for  a  year  in  the  district 
he  desires  to  move  into,  and  then 
buy  farm,  house,  stock  and  all  with 
the  money  saved  and  move  on  to  it. 
By  adopting  this  plan  one  will  get 
about  twice  as  much  farm  for  his 
money  as  by  the  plan  proposed  by 
our  correspondent,  and  his  experi­
ence  in  a  year  of  hiring  out  will  be 
worth  forty  times  as  much  as  that 
which  he  will  get  from  a  study  of  a 
manager’s  report,  no  matter  how 
clear  and  detailed.  And,  what  is  of 
more  importance,  he  will  run  no  risk 
of  loss  if  sickness  or  death  prevent 
keeping  up  his  payments,  nor  will  he 
be  tangled  up  with  nineteen  other 
persons,  some  of  whom  are  quite 
sure to fall  out by the  wayside.

The  man  with  health,  strength  and 
in 
resolution,  but  without  a  dollar 
money  or  any  knowledge  of  farming, 
and  whose  family  is  like  him,  can  be­
come  the  owner  of  a  small  farm  in  a 
few  years  if  he  will.  To  get  it  he 
must  he  at  work  at  5  o’clock  in  the 
morning  for  six  days  in  the  week, 
and  keep  at  it  as  long  as  he  can  see. 
He  must  take  his  rest  in  the  winter. 
He  must  dress  plainly,  live  simply 
and  stay  in  one  place— it  makes  little 
difference  where.  The  man  who 
shirks  no  hard  jobs,  regards  his  em­
ployer’s  interests  as  his  own,  exer­
cises  reasonable intelligence and saves 
bis  money  will  never  lack  for  work 
in  the  country  and  will  soon  be  able 
to  work  for  himself.  There  was 
never  a  better  time  than  now  for 
such  men,  for  they  were  never 
so 
scarce. 
If  one  has  a  little  money  to 
begin  with,  or  if  he  can  save  a  little 
before  he  starts  out,  it  will  be  so

much  easier.  Farming  by  the  sweat 
of  other  folks’  brows  is  profitable 
only when  the  farmer is an experienc­
ed  and  skilled  man,  with  the  capital 
adequate  to  his  business.  For  one 
who  knows  nothing  of  farming 
to 
attempt  to  develop  land  which  he 
perhaps  never  saw  by  hired  men 
whom  he  never  will  see  is  to  invite 
disaster. 
It  does  not  always  come, 
but  it  is  always  impending.

the 

It  is  unfortunate  that  in  Western 
Michigan  the  man  who  has  little  or 
no  money and  no  knowledge  of farm­
ing  should  almost  invariably  think 
of  beginning  country  life  with  a  fruit 
farm.  For  a  man  who  understands 
the  fruit  business  or  who  has 
the 
money  to  spare  in  learning  it  at  his 
own  expense,  there  is  doubtless  noth­
ing  better  than  a  fruit  farm,  but fruit 
is  one  of  the  most  speculative  agri­
cultural  industries,  for 
reason 
that  it  is  impossible  for  any  one  to 
foresee  when  a  tree  is  planted  what 
the  market  for  fruit  will  be  when  it 
comes  into  bearing,  or  what  compe­
tition  there  will  be  in  it. 
It  requires 
more  capital  than  almost  any  other 
agricultural  industry  for  a  given  area 
of  land,  and  there  is  none  commonly 
followed  that  can  compare  with  it in 
requirements  of  experience  and  skill. 
It  can  not  be  learned  from  books, 
nor  can  it  be  learned  without  books. 
It  is  a  constant  and  costly  fight  with 
pests,  in  which  the  fittest  survives—  
and  the  “fittest”  almost  invariably 
turns  out  to  be  the  pest  when  the 
orchardist  is  unskilled  and  without 
capital.  The  man  with  little  money 
needs  to  begin  his  training  in  some 
other  man’s  orchard. 
In  fact,  it  is 
unwise  for  any  city-bred  man  to  un­
dertake  farming  of  any  kind  without 
first  serving  an  apprenticeship  as  an 
employe.  The first  object  of a  novice 
in  farming  should  be 
to  produce 
what  his  family  consumes,  with  a 
firm  resolution,  if  poor,  to  consume 
as  little  as  possible  that  he  does  not 
produce. 
is, 
crops  which  are  harvested  the  year 
in  which  they  are  sown— are  the  saf­
est.  They  never  yield  such  returns 
as  sometimes  come  to  the  orchardist, 
and,  on  the  other  hand,  they  never 
involve  such  losses  as  are  possible 
for  the  producer  of  fruit  or  hops. 
The  poor  man  should  seek  to  get 
no  more  land  than  he  and  his  fami­
ly  can  cultivate.

crops— that 

Annual 

It 

There is  no life  of ease for the poor 
man  on  a  small  farm. 
is  hard 
work,  long  hours,  rude  environment 
—at  first— and  small  money  reward, 
but  it  is  the  most  independent  life 
in  the  world.  With  thrift  it  leads  to 
assured  provision  for  old  age. 
It  is 
worth  some  hardships  to  call  no  man 
master  and  to  know  that  no  land­
lord  can  turn  you  out  doors  for  non­
payment  of  rent. 
It  is  comfortable 
not  to have to  dig up  the rent money, 
even  if  you  can.  There  is  satisfac­
tion  in  the  increasing  comfort  year 
by  year  as  the  result  of  your  own 
labor.  There  is  happiness  in  seeing 
your  children  grow  up 
into  strong 
youths  learning  to  work  at  a  trade 
which  they  can  enter  without  asking 
anybody’s  consent.  There  is  pleas­
ure  in  the  comradeship  of  a  rural 
neighborhood,  whose  people  know

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Door,  mineral,  jap.  trim m ings  ..........   75
Door,  porcelain,  jap.  trim m ings 
. . . .   85

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.'s  ....d ie  

Levels

Metals—Zinc

600  pound  ca sk s 
P er  pound  ...................................................  8

......................................... 714

Miscellaneous
.................................................  40
Bird  Cages 
Pumps,  Cistern  .........................................  76
..................................  85
Screws,  New  L ist 
C asters,  Bed  and  P late  ...............60&10&10
Dampers,  Am erican 
..............................  60

Molasses  G ates

Stebbin's  P attern  
Enterprise,  self-m e a su rin g ..............  30

..................................60&10

Pans

Common,  polished 

............................... 70&10

P aten t  Planished  Iron

Wood’s  paL  plan'd.  No. 24-27..10  80 
‘B”  Wood’s  paL  plan'd.  No.  25-27..  0  80 
Broken  packages  V4c  per  lb.  e x tra .. 

Planes
..........................  40
Ohio  Tool  Co.’s  fancy 
Sciota  Bench 
.............................................  50
Sandusky  Tool  Co.’s   fancy  ..................  40
Bench,  first  quality  ..................................  45

Nalls

Advance  over  base,  on  both  Steel  44  W ire
Steel  nails,  base  .....................................   2  76
W ire  nails,  b a s e .......................................  2  80
20  to  60  advance  ......................................Base
10  to  16  advance  .....................................  
6
.................................................  10
8  advance 
.................................................  20
6  advance 
4  advance 
.................................................  20
3  advance 
.................................................  45
2  advance  ...................................................  70
.......................................   50
Fine  3  advance 
Casing  10 a d v a n c e .....................................   16
Casing  8  advance  .....................................   25
Casing  6  advance  .....................................   35
Finish  10  advance  ...................................   25
Finish  8  a d v a n c e .......................................   35
Finish  6  advance 
...................................   45
B arrel  %  advance 
.................................   85

Rivets
Iron  and  Tinned 
.....................................   50
Copper  Rivets  and  B u r s ..........................  45

Roofing  Plates

14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  D e a n ........................ 7  50
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  D e a n ......................  9  00
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  Dean  ......................15  00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade  ..  7  50 
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade  ..  9  00 
13 50
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade  ..15  00 
20x28  IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade  . .18  00 

Sisal,  to  inch  and  larger  .................... 

L ist  acct.  19,  ’86  ............................... dis 

Solid  Eyes,  per  ton  ............................. 30  00

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iron

10

60

Nos.  10  to  14  .............................................83  60
Nos.  15  to  17  ...........................................  3  70
Nos.  18  to  21  .............................................3  90
Nos.  22  to  24  ..............................4  10 
3 00
Nos.  25  to   26 
4 00
..........................4  20 
No.  27  ...........................................4  30 
4 10
All  sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30
inches  wide,  not  less  th an   2-10  extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

F irst  Grade,  Doz  .....................................   6  00
Second  Grade,  Do*..........................................5 50

Solder

Squares

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

%<g>to 
21
The  prices  of  the  m any  other  qualities 
of  solder  in  the  m arket  indicated  by  priv­
ate  brands  vary  according to   composition. 

and Iron  .................................... 60-10-6

Tin— Melyn  Grade

10x14  IC,  Charcoal 
..............................810  50
14x20  IC.  Charcoal  ...............................   10  60
10x14 
IX, Charcoal  ...............................12  00
Each  additional  X   on  this  grade,  81.25. 

Tin—Allaway  Grade

T raps

Boiler  Size  Tin  P late 

10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ............................... 3  9  00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal 
.............................   9  00
10x14 
..............................  10 50
IX, Charcoal 
14x20 
IX, Charcoal 
.............................   10 60
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  81.60. 
13 
14x56 IX, for No.  8 4b 9 boilers,  per lb. 
75
Steel.  Game  ............................................... 
..40A10 
Oneida  Community,  Newhouse’s 
Oneida  Com’y,  Hawley 4b N orton’s . . 
65
15
Mouse,  choker,  per  do*.......................... 
Mouse,  delusion,  per d o z .......................  1  25
B right  M arket  ............ ............................  
60
Annealed  M arket  ................................. . 
60
..................................604bl0
Coppered  M arket 
Tinned  M arket  ........................................50*10
Coppered  Spring  Steel  .......................... 
40
Barbed  Fence,  Galvanised  ..................3  00
Barbed  Fence,  P a in te d ..........................  2  70
W ire  Goods
B right 
80-10
..................................  
Screw  Eyes 
..............................................80-10
Hooks 
.........................................................80-10
G ate  Hooks  and  Eyas  ..........................80-10

W ire

Wronoheo
B axter’s  Adjustable,  Nickeled  ..........  
80
40
Coe’s   Genuine 
.........................................  
Coe’s  P a te n t A gricultural,  W rought.70*10

37
Crockery and Glassware

STONEW ARE

B utters

48
14  gal.  per  do*........................................... 
•
1  to  6  gal.  per  do*.................................  
8  gal. each 
.............................................. 
«
5*
10  gal. each 
.............................................. 
............................................._  j ;
12  gal.  each 
15  gal.  m eat  tubs,  each  ......................1  20
20  gsil.  m eat  tubs,  e a c h .........................  J  80
25  gal.  m eat  tubs,  each  ......................2  25
30  gal.  m eat  tubs,  e a c h ..........................  2  70
2  to  6  gal.,  per  g a l .................................   614
Churn  Dashers,  per  do*  ...................... 
84
14  gal.  flat  or round  bottom, 
1  gal.  flat  or round  bottom, 
14  gal.  flat  or round  bottom , 
1  gal.  flat  or round  bottom, 

Fine  Glazed  Mllkpans 

per  do*. 48
each  . . .  6
per  do*. 60
each  . . .  6

Mllkpans

Churns

Stewpans

Jugs

Sealing  W ax

60
14  gal.  per  do*.
iJ  gal.  per  doz........................................... 
45
1  to  5  gal.,  per gal  .............................   Tto
2
tbs.  In  package, per  lb........................  
J*
No.  0  Sun  .................................................. 
No.  1  Sun  .................................................. 
26
No.  2  Sun 
 
48
No.  3  Sun  .................................................. 
85
60
T ubular  ....................................................... 
Nutmeg  ....................................................... 
60

LAMP  BURNERS

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

 

MASON  FRUIT  JARS 

W ith  Porcelain  Lined  Caps
P er  Gross.
..............................................................4  25
.........................................................  4  50
  6  60

P ints 
Q uarts 
to  Gallon  ................................................ 
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

F ru it  Ja rs  packed  1  dozen  in  box. 

P er box of  6  doz.
No.  0  Sun 
...................................................1  J®
No.  1  Sun 
1  J!
..................................  
No.  2  S u n .....................................................2  54

 

Anchor  Carton  Chimney*

Each  chimney  in  corrugated  carton

La  Bastle

Pearl  Top

XXX  Flint

No.  0  Crimp  .............................................  1  80
No.  1  Crimp  .............................................  1  78
No.  2  Crimp 
............................................. 2  78
F irst  Quality
No.  0  Sun,  crim p  top.  wrapped  & lab.  1  81 
No.  1  Sun,  crim p  top,  wrapped  &  lab.  2  00 
No.  2  Sun,  crim p  top,  wrapped  & lab.  8  00 
No.  1  Sun,  crim p  top,  wrapped  A  lab.  3  25 
No.  2  Sun,  crim p  top,  w rapped  *   lab.  4  10 
No.  2  Sun,  hinge,  wrapped  &  labeled.  4  25 
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and  labeled  . . . .   4  60 
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and  labeled  . . . .   5  30 
No.  2  hinge,  wrapped  and  labeled  ..  5  10 
No.  2  Sun,  "sm all  bulb,’’ globe lamps. 
80 
No.  1  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per  d o * ..........1  00
No.  2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per  dos..........1  85
No.  1  Crimp,  per do*.................................1  85
No.  2  Crimp,  per  doz............................. 180
No.  1  Lime  (65c  do*.)  ............................8  60
No.  2  Lime  (75c  do*.)  ..........................  4  00
No.  2  F lint  (80c  do*.)  ..........................  4  60
No.  2.  Lime  (70c  do*.)  .........................   4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c d o * .).............................   4  60
1  gal.  tin   cans  w ith  spout,  per  d o s..  1  85
1  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  per  do*.  1  40
2  gal.  galv.  Iron  w ith  spout,  per  do*.  2  30
3  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  p sr  dos.  3  25 
5  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  per  dos.  4  20 
3  gal.  galv.  Iron  w ith  faucet,  per  dos.  3  70 
5  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  faucet,  per  do*.  4  60
5  gal.  T ilting  cans  ................................... 7  00
5  gal.  galv.  Iron  Naoefaz  ......................  0  00

OIL  CANS

Rochester

Electric

LANTERNS

No.  0  Tubular,  side l i f t ...........................  4 65
No.  1  B  T ubular  .....................................  7  25
No.  15  Tubular,  dash  ................... 
  6  60
No.  2  Cold  B last  L a n te rn .......................  7 75
No.  12  Tubular,  side  l a m p ................... 12 50
No.  3  Street  lamp,  each  ........................3  60
No.  0  Tub., cases 1 dos. each.bx, 10c. 
60
No.  0  Tub.,  cases 2 dos. each, bx,  15c. 
50
No.  0  Tub., bbls.  6 dos. each, per bbl.  2  26 
No.  0  Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e’ch  1  25

LANTERN  GLOBES 

 

BEST  W H IT *  COTTON  WICKS 
Roll  contains  33  yards  in  one  piece. 
No.  0,  %  In.  wide,  per gross  or roll. 
No.  1,  to  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll. 
No.  2,  1  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  ro ll.. 
No.  3.  1V4  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.

C O U P O N   B O O K S

50  books,  any  denom ination  .......... 1  60
100  books,  any  denom ination  .......... 2  60
500  books,  any  d en o m in atio n ............11  50
1000  books,  any  denom ination  ..........20  00
Above  quotations  are  for  either  T rades­
man,  Superior,  Economic  o r  U niversal 
grades.  W here  1,000  books  are  ordered 
a t  a   tim e  custom ers 
specially 
printed  cover  w ithout  ex tra  charge. 

receive 
Coupon  P ass  Books

Can  be  m ade  to   represent  any  denom i­
nation  from   $10  down. 
_
50  books  ................................................... 152
100  books  .................................................  2  50
500  books  ................................................. U   60
1000  books 
• •
500,  a n y   one  denom ination  ................ 8  88
1000,  a n y  one  d e n o m in a tio n ...................8 88
2000,  a n y   one  denom ination  ................ 6  88
B U el  punch  ................... 
I f

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

C redit  Ch eoks

 

 

 

One  disturbing  element  which 

Less  Contention  About  Shoe  Prices.
in 
no  small  degree  impeded  a  year  ago 
the  efforts  of  those  who  sell  shoes 
at  wholesale  is  to-day  almost  wholly 
absent,  or  at  least  very  much  dimin­
ished.  We  refer  to  the  contentions 
in  regard  to  prices.  Salesmen  writ­
ing  home  at  this  time  in  1903  com­
plained  in  almost  every  communica­
tion  of  the  persistent  demands  of  re­
tailers  for  regular  lines  of  goods  at 
reduced  prices.  This  demand  was 
based  on  the  drop,  slight  although 
it  was,  on  sole  leather— a  drop  which 
made  scarcely  a  fractional  change  in 
the  cost  of  shoe  construction.

The  change  to-day  is  due,  there 
is  little  doubt,  to 
the  widespread 
prosperity,  and  the  fact  that  the  pub- 
, lie  is  demanding  and  purchasing  bet­
ter  shoes.  The  traveling  salesman 
is,  therefore,  less  hampered  in 
his 
efforts  to  sell  goods,  and  business 
runs  along  on  pleasanter  and  more 
amicable  lines.

Following  the  Christmas  sales  of 
shoes  and  the  gradual  lifting  of  the 
post  holiday  dulness,  the  average  re­
tailer  is  in  good  mood  to  make  ar­
rangements  for  meeting  the  prospec­
tive  requirements  of  his  customers. 
The  character  of  the  trade  is  being 
elevated.  Credit  is 
improved,  and 
both  jobbers  and  manufacturers  re­
port  collections  less  difficult.  This 
is  an  excellent  condition  of  affairs 
as  we  cross  the  threshold  of  a  new 
season  from  which  much  is  justly 
expected.

Bottom  stock  of  all  descriptions, 
as  well  as  every  other  material  that 
enters  into  the  manufacture  of  shoes, 
is  firm;  hides  are  high,  and  likely  to 
advance  when  short  haired 
stock 
comes  into  the  market,  and  the  retail­
er  who,  without  change  of  figures; 
contracts  for  supplies  of footwear  to 
meet  his  wants  during  the  next  six 
months  makes,  in  our  judgment,  no 
commercial  mistake.  Many  retailers 
are  putting  in  higher  priced  goods, 
knowing,  with  true  business  sagacity, 
that  good  shoes  give  satisfaction,  and 
prove  an  excellent  advertisement  for 
his  house.

The  absence,  then,  of  contention 
regarding  the  prices  of  shoes  may 
be  taken,  we  think,  as  a  good  augury 
of  the  times;  indicative  of  better  in­
formation  on  the  cost  of  shoe  mate­
rial  on  the  part  of  the  retail  mer­
chant,  the  experience,  gleaned  from 
recent  sales—-that  people  are  prepar­
ed  to  pay  a  fair  price  for  a  good 
shoe,  and that this  condition  promises 
to  be  enduring.— Shoe  Trade  Journal.

No.
120
129
128
126
135
154
200
208
236
265
264

Drs. of  os. of 
Shot
Powder 
114
1*
114
Ito
1%
1%1
1
114
114
114

Sise
Shot
10
9
8
6
5
4 
10
8
6
5 
4
Discount  40  per  cenL

New  Rival—For  Shotguns 
Gauge
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

4 
4 
4 
4
414 
414 3 
3
314 
314 
314
P aper  Shells—N ot  Loaded 

P er 
100 
$2  90 
2  90 
2  90 
2  90
2  95
3  00 
2 BO 
2  50 
2  66 
2  70 
2  70

No.  10,  pasteboard boxes 100,  per  100..  72 
No.  12,  pasteboard boxes 100,  per 100..  64 

Gunpowder

Kegs,  25  lbs.,  per  k eg............................. 4  90
14  Kegs,  1214  lbs.,  per  14  k e g ..........2  90
14  Kegs,  614  lbs.,  per  14  keg..............1  60

Sh ot

In  sa ck s  con taining   25  lbs.

Drop,  all  sizes  sm aller  th an   B ..........1  75

A u gu rs  and  B its

Snell’s ..........................................................  
Jen n in gs’  g e n u in e ...................................  
Jen n in gs’  im itation  

 

. 

 

60
25
60

A x e s

F ir s t  Q u ality,  S.  B .  B ronze  .............6  50
F ir s t  Q u ality,  D.  B . B ron ze  . . . . . . . .   9  00
F ir s t  Q u ality.  S.  B . S. S t e e l ................... 7  00
F ir s t  Q u ality,  D .  B . S t e e l ......................10 50

B arrow s

R ailroad 
G arden  ........................................................ 32  00

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

 

B olts

S tove  ............................................................ 
C arriage,  n ew   lis t  .................................  
P lo w  

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

 

 

70
70
60

W ell,  plain 

...............................................  4  60

B uckets

ButtSi  C a s t
C a s t  Loose  P in ,  figured 
W rou gh t  N arrow  

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

70
60

..................
C hain

to  in. 
14 In. 
.6   c . . .414c. 
.BMC. . . 6

14  in.  5-16 In 
7  C. . . 6   o.
8 14 C ...7M c.
8% C .. .7 % C .. .  6% C .. .614 c.
C row bars

Com m on 
B B . 
B B B  

C a st  Steel,  per  lb ....................................... 

5

C h isels
Socket  Firm er 
..........................................  65
Socket  F ra m in g   .......................................   65
Socket  Corner 
..........................................   65
S ocket  S l i c k s .............................................  65

E lbo w s

Com .  4  piece,  6  in.,  per  doz........... n et 
75
C orrugated,  per  doz..................................1   25
A d ju sta b le 
..................................... dls.  40&10

Steel 

E x p an sive  B its

C la rk ’s  sm all,  $18;  large,  826  ..............   40
Ives'  1,  818;  2,  824; 3.  830  ....................   26

F iles— N ew   L ist

N ew   A m erican   .............  
N icholson’s 
................................................. 
H eller’s   H orse  R asp s  .............................. 

70&10
70
70

 

G alvanized  Iron

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  an d  26;  27,
L is t  12 
16.

14 

15 

IS 
D iscount,  70.

S tan ley  R u le  an d  L e v e l  C o.’a  . . . .   60*10 

G au ges

G lass

Sin gle  S tren gth ,  b y   b o x .................. dls.
Double  S tren gth ,  b y   b ox   .............. dls.
..............................dls.

B y   th e  L ig h t 

H am m ers

M aydole  &   C o.’s,  n ew   l i s t .......... dia.  3*Mi
T e rk es  &   P lum b ’s   ......................die.  404410
M ason’s   Solid  C a s t  S t e e l ......... 80c  lis t  70

G ate,  C la rk ’s   L   2,  8 .....................dls. 

H inges

604U0

H ollow  W are

........................................................  504410
P o ts 
K e ttle s 
.......................................................504410
Spiders  ....................................................... 504410

H orseN alls

A n   S a b l e ........................................dls. 
H ouse  F u rn ish in g  G oods 

H tsm psd  T in w are,  n ow   l i s t ..............  

404410

TO

38

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

At  that  time  the  stock  was  selling 
for 91,  when  it  sold  at  all,  so  natural­
ly  Tucker,  who  was  a  newcomer  on 
the  curb,  started  off  post  haste  for 
Mr.  Sage’s  office,  and  half  an  hour 
later  offered  his  shares  in  person  at 
95-

“Don’t  want  it,  young  man,”  was 
“I  can  go  out 

the  financier’s  reply. 
and  buy  all  I  want  at 91.”

R.  H IR T ,  JR .

W H O L E S A L E   A N D   C O M M IS S IO N

Butter, Eggs, Fruits and  Produce

3 4   AND  3 6   MARKET  ST R E E T ,  D E T R O IT ,  M ICH .

If you ship goods to Detroit keep us in mind, as we  are  reliable  and  pay  the 
highest market price.____________________

7 

Then,  as  he  realized  that  he  had 
been  “taken  in,”  an  idea  struck  Tuck­
er. 
“Mr.  Sage,”  he  said,  “since  you 
don’t  want  to  buy  my  stock,  maybe 
you’d  like  to  sell  me  any  of 
the 
same  stock  you  may  own  at  93.” 

“Eh,  what?”  queried  Mr.  Sage. 
“Ninety-three?”  He  pondered  for  a 
moment.  Then,  “I’ll  take  your  ten 
shares  at  95,”  he  said.  And  the  sale 
was  made.

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

Michigan  Office,  Houseman  Bldg.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

[UTTERANO Egg!

Why  Egg  Prices Are  High.

One  of  the  oldest  produce  dealers 
in  Whiteside  county,  111.,  attributes 
the  high  price  of  eggs  and  scarcity 
to  the  patent  shipping  cases,  refriger­
ator  cars,  good 
tele­
phones.

roads  and 

“It  is  a  peculiar 

condition  of 
things  that  confronts  the  dealer  and 
the  consumer  of  eggs  these  days,” 
says  he,  “and  the  man  who  has  stop­
ped  to  consider  the  causes  of 
the 
stringency  of  the  egg  market  and  the 
high  prices  that  are  demanded  by  re­
tailers  will  find  that  a  combination of 
circumstances  has  entered  into  it.

“Illinois  eggs  are  going  to  the  big 
Eastern  cities  and  Chicago,  largely, 
though,  to  the  latter  place.  There 
was  a  time  when  this  could  not  be 
done  so  advantageously  to  the  egg 
producer  as  now.  The  patent  egg 
cases  which  come 
‘knocked  down,’ 
and  which  can  be  filled  rapidly  and 
with  safety  to  the  product  by  small 
hucksters  or  the  farmer,  allow  them 
to  make  some  shipments  East  in  re­
frigerator  cars.  They  are  not  com­
pelled  to  drive  to  the  small  cities  to 
dispose  of 
their  product,  but  can 
make  shipments  with  ease  at  their 
closest  railroad  station.  Good  roads 
give  the  small  huckster  a 
chance 
that  he  did  not  have  when  illy  kept 
and  bad  roads  were  the  rule.

“The  telephone  is  another  factor. 
When  a  huckster  draws  up  his  wagon 
at  the  home  of  a  farmer  and  offers  a 
price  for  eggs,  the  farmer  need  not 
take  the  huckster’s  word  as  to  the 
market  price.  He  goes  to  the  tele­
phone,  calls  up 
town  grocer, 
learns  the  price,  and  sells  his  product 
without  fear  of  being  beaten.  Some 
years  ago  this  was  impossible  ,and 
the  farmer  brought  his  eggs  to  town 
himself.  There  is  no  necessity  of 
doing  so  now.  He  can  sit  at  home 
and  get  the  market  price.

the 

“There  is  every  tendency  ior  eggs 
to  get  into  the  hands  of  shippers  and 
packers.  The  small  retail  dealer  in 
the  medium-sized  cities  is  outclassed, 
and  he  suffers  from  the  famine  and 
the  consumer  must  pay  fancy  prices, 
wherever  he  may  be.”

facilities 

Similar  conditions,  the  gentleman 
asserted,  exist  in  the  poultry  busi­
ness.  The 
for  making 
quick  shipments  East  cause  the  bulk 
of  poultry  on  the  average  farmer’s 
place  to  reach  the  huckster  instead 
of  the  city  dealer  direct

Got  Ahead  of  Russell.

One  of  the  few  men  who  have 
ever  managed  to  get  ahead  of  Uncle 
Russell  Sage in  a  business  transaction 
is  a  young  curb  broker  named  Tuck­
er,  and  he  did  so  more  by  accident 
than  design. 
It  happened  this  way: 
Tucker  had  ten  shares  of  gas stock 
which  he  was  trying  hard  to  dispose 
of,  with  no  result.  Finally,  one  of 
his  acquaintances,  in  a  spirit  of  fun, 
said  to  him: 
“Say,  old  man,  I  un­
derstand  that  Sage  wants  that  stock 
bad  and  is  willing  to  pay  95  for  it.”

A  little  later  on,  when  Mr.  Sage 
found  that  he  really 
could  have 
bought  all  the  stock  he  wanted  at 
91,  his  feelings  were  anything  but 
friendly  toward  Mr.  Tucker.  The 
next  day,  however,  he  was  in  a  dif­
ferent  frame  of  mind. 
“Any  man,” 
he  said,  “who  can  take  care  of  him­
self  like  that  is  useful,  and  I  want 
Mr.  Tucker  to  watch  out  for  any 
business  I  may  have  on  the  curb.” 

And  that  is  what  Mr.  Tucker  is  do­

ing  to-day.

Sayings  of  the  Sage.

Two  heads  are  better  than  one, 
excepting  when  you  have  a  headache.
You  shouldn’t  take  the  will  for 
the  deed,  because  while  the  will  gives 
you  property,  the  deed  makes  it  a 
sure  thing.

The  last  drop  doesn’t  always  make 
the  cup  run  over.  You  may  be 
drinking  out  of  the  cup.

No  one  should  refuse  an  introduc­
tion  to  a  girl  who  isn’t  pretty—be­
cause  she  may  introduce  them  to  one 
who  is  pretty.

Most  folks  study  to  be  worthy  of 
their  parents— and  then  turn  around 
and  wonder  if 
their  parents  are 
worthy  of  them.

While  life  is  sweet,  it  doesn’t  imA 

prove  cheese.

A  man  is  never  too  old  to  learn, 
but  sometimes  he  is  too  young  to 
realize  it.

Before  applying  a  poultice  cover 
the  skin  lightly  with  glycerine 
to 
keep  any particles of the poultice from 
adhering.

Buyers  and  Shippers of

P O T A T O E S
in carlots.  Write or telephone os.
H.  ELMER  MOSELEY  A  CO.

«R A N D   RA PID S.  MIOH.

WE  NEED  YOUR

Fresh  Eggs

Prices Will Be  Right

L.O. SNEDECOR  &  SON

Egg Receivers

36 Harrison Street, New York 

R eference:  N . Y . National Exchange Bank

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

Will pay highest cash price  F.  0 .  B.  your  station.  Wire, write  or  telephone

C.  D.  C R ITTEN D EN ,  3 N .  Io n ia  S t., O ra n d  R ap id s,  M ich.

Wholesale Dealer In Butter, B u s , Pratts aad Produce 

Both Phones 1300

Write or telephone us if you can offer

PO TATO ES 

B E A N S  

A P P L E S  

C LO V E R   SE E D  

ONIONS

We are in  the  market to buy.
MOSELEY  BROS.

Office and Warehouse and Avenue and Hilton Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  Ml OHIO AN

Egg  Cases 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 in 
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchassr.  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.,  Baton  Rapids,  Mich.

We will be  in the market for

100  Carloads  of 

April  and  May  Eggs

Send us your name if you have  eggs  to  sell  either  in  small  or 
large lots.  We pay cash  F.  O.  B.  your track.

Lansing  C old  Storage  C o.,  Lansing,  Mich.

Smith Young, President 

S. S. Olds. Vice-President 

B. F . D svis, Treasurer

B.  F. Hall, Secretary  H . L . W illiam s, General Manager

FOOTE  A  JENKS
M A K E R S   O F   P U R E   V A N IL L A   E X T R A C T S  
AND  OF  THE  GENUINE.  ORIGINAL,  SOLUBLE, 
T E R R E N E L E S S   E X T R A C T   O F   L E M O N  
f  

roorp ¡nP N rr""1^   S®1«* only in bottles bearing our address

JAXON

Highest Orade Extracts.

Foote  &   Jenks

JACKSON,  MICH.

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

39

tVEWÏORK V

j *

  M a r k e t ,

Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Jan.  30— The  month 
goes  out  with  a  big  snow  storm  over 
the  city  and  as  a  consequence 
the 
streets  in  many  sections  are  almost 
impassable,  rendering  the  trucking of 
goods  very  difficult,  and  this  leads 
to  delay  in  the  delivery  of  goods.  It 
is  a  winter  that  will  be  remembered, 
and  if  ice  is  not  cheap  next  summer 
it  will  not  be  because  the  supply  is 
not  of  sufficient  volume  to  meet  re­
quirements.

Coffee  is  excited  and  higher.  The 
speculative  market  has  been  almost 
as  full  of  “thrills”  as  has  that  of 
cotton,  and  the  leaders  in  the  action 
are  men  who  have  the  wherewithal 
to  back  their  opinions.  Sully,  a  new 
member  of  the  Exchange,  bought 
150,000  bags  on  his  first  day’s  appear­
ance.  The  real  article  is  firm,  as 
might  be  expected.  Package  coffees 
have  gone  to  13c  and  Rio  No.  7  is 
worth  9@9i4c.  This  breaks  the  rec­
ord  for  years  and  there  is  every  in­
dication  of 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  3,244,317 
bags,  against  2,673,762  bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  The  receipts at 
Rio  and  Santos  from  July  1,  1903,  to 
Jan.  27, 
1904,  aggregate  8,494,000
bags,  against  8,908,000  bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild 
sorts 
seem  to  sympathize  with  Brazilian 
and  higher, 
grades  and  are  firm 
Good  Cucuta  being  held  at 
ioJ4@ 
io^c.  East  India  sorts  are  quite 
active  and  firmly  held  at  full  rates.

further  advance. 

Refined  sugar  is  quiet  and  the  lit­
tle  business  that  is  going  forward  is 
simply  of  withdrawals  under  old 
contracts,  and  new  trade  is  almost 
nil.  Quotations  are  practically  with­
out  change.  Some  transactions  have 
taken  place  in  raw  sugars,  but 
the 
amount  of  business  is  by  no  means 
large.

A  moderate  trade  has  been  done 
this  week  in  teas  and  quotations  are, 
as  a  rule,  adhered  to. 
Importers are 
not  anxious  to  part  with  holdings 
save  at  full  rates  and  buyers  are  not 
disposed  to  “kick.”  Line  trade 
is 
fair.

There  is  a  slight  but 

seemingly 
steady  increase  in  activity  in 
the 
rice  market  and  dealers  look  forward 
hopefully  to  a  real  “spurt”  of  trade 
later  on.  Stocks  here  are  not  over­
abundant  and  quotations  are  gener­
ally  well  sustained.  Little  is  to  be 
reported  as  to  foreign  grades,  but 
the  situation  generally  seems  to  fav­
or  the  holders.

The  whole  market  for  spices  con­
tinues  very  active  and  quotations for 
cloves  and  pepper  show  a  steady  ad­
vance.  Zanzibar  cloves  are  worth 
ig@i954c,  and  the  same  for  Amboy- 
na.  These  rates  are  about  125  per 
cent,  above  those  prevailing  a  few 
months  ago,  and  there  seems  to  be 
ground  for  the  assertion  that 
the 
mark  of  25c  may  yet  be  reached  for 
cloves.  Luckily  the  burden  will  not 
“lay  heavy  on  the  the  consumer.”

There  is  a  steady  call  for  shipments 
of  molasses  on  old  contracts,  and 
new  business  is  also  of  quite  a  sat­
isfactory  nature.  Quotations  are 
firmly  sustained  and  stocks  are 
so 
light  that  an  advance  seems  quite 
likely.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal, 
i8@27c.  There  is  a  light  offering of 
syrups  and with  a fairly good  demand 
the  market  closes  rather 
favorable 
to  the  seller.  Good  to  prime,  ig@ 
25c.

the 

simply 

is  only 

Little  can  be  said  of  the  canned 
goods  situation.  Sales  of  futures  are 
not  numerous  enough  to  cause  much 
comment,  and  there  is 
the 
usual  mid-winter  trade.  Corn,  New 
York  State  pack,  can  be  bought  at 
82^2@8sc.  There  is  a  little 
firmer 
feeling  for  salmon,  but  the  volume 
of  business  leaves  a  good  deal  to  be 
desired.  Sales  are  of  small  lots  and 
the  best  that  can  be  reported  is  this 
feeling  of  confidence.  A  good  deal 
of  anxiety  is  felt  over  the  asparagus 
crops  of  the  Pacific  coast.  Good  au­
thorities  assert  that  it 
a 
question  of  a  short  time  when  the 
whole  industry  will  be  destroyed  if 
no  remedy  can  be  found  for  the  rust. 
Gallon  apples  are  gathering  strength 
and  it  is  thought  that 
severe 
weather  of  last  November  material­
ly  reduced  the  material  for  the  pack.
The  top  grades  of  butter  continue 
in  good  request  at  lately  prevailing 
rates.  Medium  sorts  are in  good  sup­
ply;  in  fact,  there  is  more  than  can 
be  readily  taken  care  of,  and  quota­
tions  are  hardly  as  firm  as  previous­
ly.  Best  Western 
creamery,  22@ 
I7@2ic: 
22j4c;  seconds 
firsts, 
to 
Western 
I5@ 
18c;  Western  factory,  I4@i4j^c,  lat­
ter  for  held  stock;  renovated, 
14® 
i6yic,  and  packing  stock,  I2@i4j4c.
Eggs  are  booming  and  near-by 
stock  is  worth  40@42c;  fresh-gather­
ed  Western,  38c,  and  seconds,  36@ 
37c;  inferior  stock,  30@3ic,  but  there 
is  hardly  anything  worthy  of  being 
called  an  egg  that  will  not  bring  30c.
little  better  trading  is  to  be 
noted  in  the  market  for  cheese  and 
with  the  advancing  season  dealers 
feel  more  confidence.  No  change  is 
to  be  noted  as  to  quotations.

imitation  creamery, 

A 

Sympathetic.

Fuddy— Anything  new  this  morn- 

in?

Duddy— I  suppose  you  have  heard 
of  the  big  strike  on  the  street  cars?

the 

Fuddy— You  don’t  mean—
Duddy— Yes;  all 

conductors 
and  motormen  have  gone  out 
in 
sympathy  with  the  barbers,  who  ob­
ject  to  so  many  men  shaving  them­
selves.  The  men  who  have  gone 
out  will  stay  out  until  there  isn’t  a 
self-shaver  in  the  city.

H A Y   A N D   S T R A W  

W A N T E D
H ighest each prices paid 

MICHIGAN  AND  OHIO  HAY  OO. 

Headquarters, Allegan, Mich. 

B R A N C H   O F F IC E  
33d st., N ew  Y o rk (M.Y.C.Hf.) 

H ay Exchange, 

R E F E R E N C E S
R . G.  Dun St Co.
Bradstreet's.

JOHN  a   DOAN  COMPANY

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS

IN   C A N   O R   B U L K  

A ll null orders given prompt attention.

Mala office  127  Louis  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Citizens’ Phone 1881

FLOUR. That  is  made  by  the  most 

improved  methods,  by  ex­
p e r i e n c e d   millers, 
that 
brings  you  a good  profit  and  satisfies  your  customers  is 
the  kind  you  should sell.  Such is the  S E L E C T   FLO U R 
manufactured  by  the

ST. LOUIS MILLING CO., St. Louis, Mich.

If  any  to  offer 

We  want  beans  and  will  buy  all  grades. 
mail  good  sized  sample.

B E A N S
BROWN  SEED  CO.
HONEY

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

WE  CAN  USE  ALL  THE

you c^n ship us. and will  guarantee top market price.  We are  in  the  market  for 
1 
§.  ORWANT  &  SON.  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i o h .

your TURKEYS.

Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs,  Fruits and  Produce.

Reference, Fourth  National Bank of Grand Rapids.

Citizens Phone 2654.

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY

Car  Lot  Receivers  and  Distributors 

Sweet  Potatoes,  Spanish  Onions,  Cranberries,  Figs, 

Nuts  and  Dates.

14.16  Ottawa  Street,  a  rand  Rapid.,  Michigan

Write or 'phone us what you have to offer In Apples, Onions and  Potatoes  In  car 

lota or less.

S P E C I A L   O F F E R
Total  Adder  Cash  Register

“ What They Say”

Owensboro,  K y., 4-4,  '03 

CAPAC1TY($1,M0,000

Century Cash Register Co., Ltd.,

Detroit, Mich.

Gentlemen:—The Century Cash Register 
we bought of you on  Feh. 7th has given us 
such  universal  satisfaction  and  we  were 
so well  pleased  that  we  ordered  another 
Century Register  on  the  aoth  of  March, 
and now have both in  use.  They  are  cer­
tainly ornaments  in  our  store,  and  as  to 
their accuracy  must  say, that it  would  he 
impossible  for you  to make  any  improve­
ments.  W e  nave  carefully  examined 
other  registers  that  were  bought  from 
other  factories  at  six  times  the  cost  of 
yours and  could  not  even  find  one  point 
that was an  advantage  over  yours, which 
only cost one-sixth  the  price. 
In  fact, if 
prices  wete  equal,  w e  would  prefer  the 
Century over all others  that  we  have  ex­
amined.  N o doubt you w ill feel  conceited 
over the  compliment  that  w e  are  paying 
you, but we  feel  that  you  are  justly  en­
titled to it, and at any time  that w e can  be 
of any service to you  for  reference  in  re­
gard  to  the  Century  Register,  we  shall 
certainly be delighted in  recommending  it 
with Hie merit it deserves.

Yours very truly,

Meyers A  Moise,

Queens ware, Glassware, Cutlery, Notions, 

Fancy Goods and Bar Goods.

The writer of the above is a leading  Kentucky  merchant  and  a  very 
large dealer, rated in Dunn and Bradstreet at $20,000, amply  able  to  have 
purchased high-priced machines had  he considered them better than  ours; 
ordered the second Century after giving  the first a hard test of a  couple  of 
months’ use.  We  are  daily  in  receipt  of  similar 
letters  from  many 
other responsible merchants too numerous to print, which we will be pleased 
to  send  on  application.  Endorsements  from reliable merchants like the 
above are the best argument  that any manufacturer can advance  to  prove 
the merit of his goods.  Every machine sent on seven  days  trial  and  guaranteed
**f flSPECLAL  OFFER—We have a plan for  advertising  and  introducing 
our machine to new trade, which we are extending to responsible merchants 
for a short time, which will put you in possession of this high- grade, up-to- 
date Twentieth Century Cash  Register  for  very  little  money  and  on  very 
easy terms.  Please write for full particulars.

Address  Dept.  F.

C e n tu ry   C a s h   R e g is te r  Co.

6 56 -6 58 - 660- 6 6 3- 6 6 4 -666-968- 6 7 0 -6 7 3  and 6 7 4  Humboldt Avenue

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M ICH IGAN  TB A D ESM A N

C o m m e r c i a l  

T r a v e l e r s

Michigan  Knights  of  th e  Grip 

President.  Michael  H ow am ,  D etroit; 
Secretary,  Chas.  J.  Lewis,  F lint;  T reas­
urer,  H.  E.  Bradner,  Lansing.

United  Commercial  Travelers  of  Michigan
Grand Councelor,  J.  C.  Em enr, Grand R ap­
ids;  G rand  Secretary,  w .  F,  Tracy, 
Flint. 

_______

Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  181»  U.  C.  T.
Senior  Councelor,  W.  B.  Holden;  Secre­

tary-T reasurer,  O scar  F.  Jackson.

Snide  Traveling  Men  Who  Flimflam 

Grocers.

I’ve  been  knocking  up  against  gro­

cers  for  I  suppose  fifteen  years.

I’ve  gotten  pretty  close  to  a  good 

many  of  them  in  that  time.

Now  that  I’ve  sugar-coated 

They’re  a  generous  lot  of  fellows. 
The  unobtrusive  alms  of  the  retail 
grocer  go  on  every  day  in  the  year.
the 
pill  somewhat,  I  want  to  say  what 
I  started  out  to  say,  and  that  is  that 
the  grocer  is  just  about  the  easiest 
mark  alive.

He’s  a  rare  good  thing  and 

the 
woods  are  full  of  wily  schemers  who 
push  him  along  to  beat  the  band.

I  have  in  my  mind  grocers  who 
are  shrewd  and  careful  to  the  last 
degree  where  it  comes  to  such  busi­
ness  as  buying  goods.  Yet  a  honey- 
tongued  salesman  for  some  scheme 
to 
or  other  will  get  their  signature 
some  little-ended  contract 
five 
minutes.

in 

for 

I  don’t  understand  ia.
Not 

long  ago  I  passed  through 
Scranton,  Pa.  One  of  the  best  gro­
cers  in  the  city— I  take  him  to  be—  
gave  me  a  tale  of  woe  that  was 
really  incredible,  when  you  consider 
the  personality  of  the  grocer  who 
was  victimized.
A  salesman 

some  Western 
scheme  house  had  come 
into  his 
store  and  represented  that  he  was 
introducing  some  new  brands  of toil­
et  soap.  All  he  wanted  the  grocer 
to  do  was  to  make 
store  for  a  handsome  standing  show­
case  in  which  the  soap  was  to  be 
displayed.  The  firm  would  then  put 
a  corps  of  canvassers  in  the  town 
and  work  up 
pie  would  be  told  that  they  could  get 
the  soap  at  this  grocer’s  and 
they 
would  go  there  and  buy.  Others 
would  see  the  goods  displayed 
in 
the  show-case  and  would  buy  it.

It  was  a  great  scheme.  On  all 
the  grocer  sold,  if  he  sold  any,  he 
was  to  remit  to  the  firm,  after  de­
ducting  a  golden  profit  for  himself. 
If  he  didn’t  sell  any  he  was  to  pay 
nothing,  and  after  awhile  the  con­
cern  would  come  and  take  the  case
away.

“Well,”  said  the  grocer  to  me,  “I 
didn’t  see  where  I  was  taking  any 
risk. 
I  thought  I  had  everything  to 
make  and  nothing  to  lose,  so  I  said 
yes.  Then  he  asked  me  to  sign  a 
paper  agreeing  to  have  the  case  put 
in,  which  he  said  he  had  to  send  on 
to  his  house.  I  signed  it  in  duplicate 
and  he  left  me  a  copy.

“In  about  a  week  the  goods  came, 
and  by  jiminy,  there  was  a  bill  with 
’em  for  $148!  Then  I  got  out  my 
$opy  of  the  paper  I  had  signed  and

In  a  month,  when  he  got  a  bill  for 
$6,  his  jaw  dropped  so  hard  it  near­
ly  dislocated.  He,  too,  got  out  his
copy  of  the  paper  he  signed,  and 
place  In  his I  learned,  not  to  his  delight,  that  he 
had  signed  a  contract  for  a  weekly 
advertisement  to  run  one  year 
in  a 
trumpery  little  sheet  published  spas­
modically  in  Philadelphia  called  the

d e m a n d   for  it.  Peo- I  American  Fireside.

I’ll  be  blamed  if  I  hadn’t  signed  a 
contract  to  buy  the  stuff  outright 
And  it  wasn’t  only  toilet  soap.  There 
was  stuff  to  remove  superfluous  hair 
and  stuff  to  enlarge  busts  in  it,  too. 
What  d’ye  think  of  that?”

I  told  him,  “in  a  few  well-chosen 
words,”  what  I  thought  of  it.  I  read 
the  contract. 
It  was  perfectly  open 
and  fair.  If  he  had  read  it,  he  could­
n’t  have  failed  to  know  that  he  was 
agreeing  to  buy  the  stuff.  But  he 
didn’t  read  it,  and  that’s  where  he 
got  up  against  it.

“I  took  it  to  my  lawyer,”  he  said, 
“and  he  says  I’ll  have  to  pay  it  be­
cause  I  could  have  read  the  contract 
and  didn’t.”

Did  you  ever  hear  anything  like 
that  in  your  life?  Here  was  a  busi­
ness  man,  just  as  sharp  as  they  make 
’em,  signing  a  paper  that  a  perfect 
stranger 
lays  before  him,  without 
reading  it.  By  George,  you’d  hardly 
believe  it!

Plenty  of  ’em  are  doing  it  every 
day.  If  I  had  a  dollar  for  every  sad 
awakening  that  comes  when  a  gro­
cer  gets  out  “his  copy  of  the  paper 
he  signed”  and  reads  it,  I  wouldn’t 
have  to  hit  the  road  for  a  living. 
I 
can  tell  you  that.

Another  case  comes  into  my  mind. 
A  grocer  in  a  town  in  Burlington 
county,  N.  J.,  a  few  months  ago  was 
waited  on  by  a  slick  individual  who 
was  getting  up  a  souvenir  book  of 
the  county.  A  part  of  it  was  to  be 
little  biographies  of  the  leading  citi­
zens  and  business  men. 
It  wás  only 
to  cost  the  small  sum  of  $1.50»  and 
the  hypnotized  grocer,  tickled 
to 
death  at  being  considered  one  of  the 
leading  citizens,  signed  a  contract  to 
have  the  story  of  his  life  appear.

This  fellow  left  a  copy  of  the  con­
tract,  too,  but  the  grocer  was  busy 
just  then  and  threw  it  into  a  drawer 
of  his  desk  without  reading  it.

I  looked  at  this  contract,  too. 

It 
was  just  as  plain  as  a  contract  could 
be.  Not  even  a  child  could  be  left 
in  the  dark  as  to  what  it  meant— if 
he  read  it.

But  the  grocer  signed  it  without 
reading  it. 
I  have  never  heard  the 
sequel— what  he  did  about  it—but 
I’ll  bet  he  had  to  pay  it.

Think  of  the  juicy  returns  that a 
small  grocer  in  a  country  town  will 
get  from  an  advertisement  in 
the 
American  Fireside,  published  in  Phil­
adelphia!

funny 

And  another 

thing  about 
it  is  that  this  particular  grocer  does­
n’t  believe  in  advertising— he  does­
n’t  think  it  pays,  and  he  has  always 
refused  to  take  space  in  his  own  local 
paper.

Well,  maybe  the  American  Fireside 
will  bring  him  so  much  business  that 
he  won’t  have  to  advertise  anywhere 
else.

Not  long  ago  a  solicitor  for  a  col­
lection  agency  went  in  to  another

grocer  whom  I  know  pretty  well— a  j 
Baltimore  man.  The  agency  pur­
ported  to  be  located  in  New  York 
City.

The  solicitor  promised  to  collect 
all  the  bad  debts  the  grocer  had  ever 
made  or  ever  would  make.  He  rep­
resented  that  after  the  grocer  had 
seen  their  magnificent 
system  of 
bringing  dead-beats  to  time  he  would 
go  out  of  his  way  to  trust  out  goods 
to  doubtful  people  simply  for  the 
pleasure  of  watching  the  agency  col­
lect  for  ’em.

This  service  wasn’t  to  cost  a  cent 
unless  something  was  collected.  The 
fee  then  was  to  be  something  like 
15  per  cent.

“I  thought  I’d  give  him  a  trial,” 
said  the  grocer,  in  telling  me,  “since 
it  wasn’t  going  to  cost  me  anything; 
so  I  signed  an  agreement  which  he 
said  I  had  to,  so  as  to  show  that  I 
agreed  to  pay  them  the  IS  per  cent.
I  gave  the  solicitor  a  list  of 
the 
bills  I  wanted  collected  and  he  left.

“In  about  a  week  I  got  a  request 
from  the  agency  to  please  mail  check 
for  $15  that  I  had  agreed  to  pay  un­
I  didn’t 
der  such  and  such  a  date. 
know  what  to  make  of  it. 
I  got  out 
my  copy  of  the  paper  I  had  signed 
and  read  it  over.  There  it  was  in 
black  and  white.  I  had  signed  a  con­
tract  to  pay  15  per  cent,  commission 
on  all  the  bills  collected  and  $15  in 
advance  for  membership  fee.”

“What  did  you  do  about  it?”  I 

asked.

“I  refused  to  pay  it  and 

they 
threatened  to  sue  me,  so  I  paid  it 
rather  than  have  any  trouble.” 

“Why  didn’t  you  read  the  contract 

before  you  signed  it?”  I  asked.

“Why,”  he  said  in  an  injured  tone, 
“he  said  it  was  only  to  show  that  I 
agreed  to  pay  the  15  per  cent. 
I 
thought  he  was  honest.”

“Well,”  I  said  in  that  tone  of  wise 
finality  which  ought  to  have  made 
me  a  judge  on  the  bench  long  ago, 
“the  best  thing  for  you,  old  man, 
is  to  consider  every  man  who  gives 
you  a  contract  to  sign  dishonest  until 
you’ve  read  the  paper  and  proven 
that  he  isn’t.”

“You  bet  your  old  bald  head 

I 
will!”  he  said,  rather  insultingly,  I 
thought,  after  I  had  given  him  such 
good  advice.

I  have  described  these  cases  at 
random,  just  as  they  have  occurred 
I  suppose  I  could  describe a
to  me. 

hundred,  if  I  sat  down  to  think  ’em 
up.  The  grocer 
seems  peculiarly 
easy  about  such  things.  Out  comes 
his  little  pencil  and  down  goes  his 
name  on  the  slightest  provocation, 
but  the  awakening  always  comes. 
When  he  “gets  out  his  copy  of  the 
paper  he  signed”  and  reads  it  he 
makes  an 
iron-clad  vow  never  to 
sign  another  paper  until  he  has 
read  it.

But  he  usually  does.— Stroller  in 

Grocery  World.

An  unfortunate  mistake  was  made 
by  a  bridegroom 
lately.  After  get­
ting  on  the  train  on  his  bridal  jour­
ney  he  saw  a  shoe  on  the  floor  of the 
car.  Thinking  one  of  the  bridal  com­
pany  had  thrown  it  there  during  the 
send  off,  he  chucked  it  out  of 
the 
window.  A  little  later  he  saw  a 
passenger,  just  awakened  from 
a 
nap,  peering  under  the  seats  and  en­
quiring  if  any  one  had  seen  a  shoe. 
Then  it  happened  that 
the  bride­
groom’s  first  purchase  of  his  mar­
ried  life  was  a  new  pair  of  shoes  for 
an  absolute  stranger.

Be  the  best  kind  of  a  clerk  possible 
for  the  sake  of  being  a  bang-up  good 
merchant  by  and  by.  Save  your  du­
cats,  but  remember  that  ambition  can 
make  up  for  many  lacking  dollars, 
although  many  dollars  will  not  fill 
the  place  of  lacking  ambition.

The steady improvement of the  Livingston  with 
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Mich.,  its  large  and  beautiful  lobby, its  elegant

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in popularity and patronage.
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send for

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GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

The “ IDEAL”  has it

(In the Rainy River District, Ontario)

It is  up to you  to investigate  this  mining  proposition. 
I  have 
personally inspected this  property,  in company  with  the  presi­
dent  of  the  company and  Captain  Williams,  mining  engineer. 
I  can furnish you  his  report;  that  tells  the  story.  This  is  as 
safe a mining proposition  as has ever  been  offered  the  public. 
For price  of  stock,  prospectus  and  Mining  Engineer’s  report, 
address

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1318  M A JESTIC   BUILDING 

DETROIT,  MIOH.

T H E   GENERAL  FERMENT«. 
Revolutions  are  most 

important 
when  they  involve  a  transformation, 
or  a  fundamental  breaking-up,  of  a 
social  structure,  without  the  direct 
and  conscious  operation  of  purely 
political  forces.  Revolutions  looking 
only  to  a  change  in  the  form  of  gov­
ernmental 
institutions  have  usually 
proven  merely transcient attacks upon 
the  existing  order. 
It  is  a  common 
saying  that 
the  world  is  always 
changing,  but  to  the  student  of  gen­
eral  history  no  fact  appears  better 
established .than  the  decisive  force of 
tradition  and  habit  over  the  great 
majority  of  the  human  race.  Before 
the  dawn  of  the  Christian  era,  the 
cause  of  progress  appealed  only  to  a 
few  favored  nations.  Where  it  made 
its  greatest  advances  it  was 
com­
monly  checked  and  defeated  by  exter­
nal  causes.  The  political and economic 
policy  of  the  Roman  Empire  summed 
up  and  controlled  all  that  was  left 
of  the  civilizations  that  antedated  its 
establishment.  A  vast  deal  was  ob­
literated  by  its  triumph,  a  vast  deal 
was  confirmed;  but  all  progress  had 
been  transferred  from  Asia  to  Eu­
rope,  and  for  a  thousand  years  the 
greater  part  of  Europe  remained  in 
the  depths  of  an  immemorial  dark­
ness.  To-day  it  is  easy  to  see  that 
the  seed-field  of  time  did  not  lie  en­
tirely  fallow  throughout 
long 
lapse  of  the  Middle  Ages;  but  it  is 
wonderful  what  little  advance  was 
made  in  science  and  in  the  practical 
arts  of  life  for  so  many  centuries. 
The  Renaissance,  dating  from  the  fall 
of  Constantinople  in  1453,  primarily 
was  but  a  revival  -of  ancient  learn­
ing,  philosophy  and  art.  That  was, 
therefore,  a  period  of  recovery, rather 
than  of  progress.  And,  at  the  best, 
only  a  few  European  countries,  and 
only  the  privileged  classes  in  these 
countries,  were  directly  affected. 
Something  essentially  inspiring  and 
infectious  was  latent  in  the  old  ideas 
and  ideals brought once more  to light, 
but  centuries  were  yet  to  pass  before 
the  whole  loaf  of  civilization  could 
be  leavened  with  the  vivid  principle 
of  a  logically  necessary,  constant and 
universal  advance.  The  birth  of  that 
idea  marks  the  beginning  of  the  mod­
ern  world.

the 

The  Europe  of  to-day  suggests  in 
its  social  and  political  aspects  a geo­
logical  analogue. 
It  does  not,  as  a 
whole,  belong  to  one  period  of  time. 
Older  formations  are  still  here  and 
there  emergent  above  the  crust.  Older 
forms  of  life  are  still  struggling  for 
existence.  Indeed,  it  is  only  by  faith 
in  the  inevitableness  of  the  triumph 
of  humanity  over  privilege  and  caste 
that  one  can  still  expect  the  grand 
democratic  opportunity,  an  open  ca­
reer  for  all  talents,  on  that  continent, 
for  that  matter,  anywhere  on  this 
earth.  But,  so  far,  a  great  part  of 
Europe has  only vaguely apprehended 
the  true  democratic  idea.

The  procreative  power  of  the  prin­
ciple  of advance  has  been  enormously 
enhanced  by  increased 
facilities  of 
communication  which  have  made  in­
telligence  to  spread  like  fire  through 
the  remotest  quarters  of  the  earth. 
Here  and  there  it  encounters  green­
wood  which  kindls  slowly,  but  the 
pervasive  power  of  its  heat  is  telling

and  the  eventual  blaze  is  certain.  The 
case  of  Japan  is  in  point.  There  im­
memorial  precedence  and 
customs 
have  yielded  with  comparative  readi­
ness  to  the  touch  of  modern  energy. 
The  marvelous  aptitude  of  the  Japa­
nese  people  has  taken  in  the  whole 
significance  of  the  movement  which 
has  transformed  the  life  of  so  much 
of  Europe  and  America.  As  with  the 
turning  of  the  wrist,  the  kaleidoscope 
presents  a  new  and  perfect  picture, 
Japan  has  emerged  from  the  past, 
conformed  to  modern  conditions  and 
determined  upon  their  development. 
The  sleep  is  ended. 
Its  dreams  are 
gone.  The  significance  of  this  fact is 
that  it  demonstrates  the  progressive 
capacity  of  oriental  nations.  China 
will  follow  in  the  wake  of  Japan. 
What  Europe  and  America  could  not 
teach,  China  will  learn  from  her  long- 
patient  pupil,  and  take  a  place 
in 
the  general  onward  march.  Reaction 
has  already  begun  in  that  sluggish 
mass.  China  feels  the  thrill  of  a  new 
life,  stirring  at  the  roots  of  arrested 
civilization,  and  presently  will  begin 
to  sprout  and  burgeon.

Evidently  a  new  precipitate  is  to 
be  expected  from  the  general  ferment 
which  is  tingling  even  here  in  the 
United  States.  We  have  our  own  spe­
cial  problems  to  deal  with  and  pre­
cisely  the  same  problems  which  in­
terest  us  must,  in  the  course  of  time, 
demand  solution  everywhere.  Noth­
ing  is  certain  but  radical  crystalliza­
tion.  Every  indication  points  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  white  race,  the 
Caucasian  peoples,  must  stand  at 
last  crystal  pure.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit— The  Commercial  Adding 
Machine  Co.  has  increased  its  capital 
stock  from  $100,000  to  $150,000.

Petoskey— J.  B.  Hoffer  has  pur­
chased  from W. A. Blakely the planing 
mill  recently  owned  by  the  latter.

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of  the 
Northern  Engineering  Works  has 
been  increased  from  $125,000  to  $150,- 
000.

Petoskey— The  Clark  Shoe  Co.  has 
decided  to  re-concentrate  its  business 
and  the  Evart  stock  will  therefore be 
shipped  to  this  place.

Hillsdale— The  Worthing  &  Alger 
Co.,  manufacturer  of  fur  robes  and 
overcoats,  will  move  its  plant  down 
town.  New  buildings  will  be  erected 
this  spring.

Lake  Odessa— Ernest  McTaggert, 
of  this  place,  and  S.  N.  Wright,  of 
Greenville,  have  purchased  the  roller 
mills  at  Woodland  and  will  repair 
same  and  begin  operations  as  soon  as 
possible.

factory  at 

Lakeview— Eli  Lyons  has  pur­
chased  the  cheese 
this 
place  and  will  begin  operations  in 
about 
two  months.  Buttermaking 
machinery  will  also  be  added  to  the 
equipment.

Ithaca— E.  R.  Engledue  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in 
the  dry  goods,  furnishing  and  boot 
and  shoe  business  of  Frost  &  Ingle- 
due  and  will  continue  the  business in 
his  own  name.

Vanderbilt— Morehouse,  Parks  & 
Kelly,  saw  and  shingle  mill  opera­
tors,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Morehouse  retiring  from  the  busi­
ness.  The  business  will  be  contin­
ued  under  the  style  of  Parks  & 
Kelly.

Annual  Meeting  of the  Grand  Rapids 

Butchers.

Grand  Rapids,  Feb.  2— Thursday, 
Feb.  4,  is  the  time  for  holding  the 
next  regular  meeting  of  our  Associa­
tion,  at  the  Board  of  Trade  rooms, 
on  Pearl  street.  At  that  time  there 
will  be  many  matters  of  importance 
introduced  for  discussion.  Some  of 
them  are  the  advisability  of  affilia­
tion  with  the  Master  Butchers  of 
America,  and  the  report  of  the  com­
mittee  on  the  feasibility  of 
estab­
lishing  a  credit  system  for  the  butch­
ers  of  Grand  Rapids.  After  the  busi­
ness  session  chop  suey  and  other  re­
freshments  will  be  served.

There  should  be  election  of  officers. 
The  present  officials,  to  a  man,  are 
desirous  of  having  the  honor  passed 
around  to  the  membership.  We  have 
plenty  of  good  material 
to  select 
from.  Tf  it  is  a  good  thing,  why  not 
pass  it  around?  The  question  may 
also  come  up  as  to  the  advisability 
of  the  abandonment  of  our  Associa­
tion.  There  must  be  more  interest 
shown  by  the  members  to  create  bet­
ter  results.  A  few  can  not  do  all, 
all  the  time.  Our  Association  is  on 
a  sound  basis  financially.

We  hope  you  will  consider  yourself 
as  a committee  of one  to  act in  behalf 
of  the  Association  to  assist  in  creat­
ing  enthusiasm  and  to  see 
the 
meetings  are  better  attended.

that 

L. J. Katz,  Sec’y.

The  Death  Rate.

Dyer— What  is  the  death  rate  in 

your  town?

Du ell— About  two  per  automobile.

Vriesland— The  Michigan  Brick Co. 
has  incorporated  its  business  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $12,000,  held  as  fol­
lows:  John  Velderman,  Zeeland, 985 
shares;  H.  H.  D.  Langereis,  Grand 
Rapids,  200  shares,  and  Geo.  E.  Kol- 
len,  Holland,  15  shares.

Assyria— A.  G.  Shepard,  A.  T. 
Shepard  and  H.  L.  Mayo  have  engag­
ed  in  the  butter  and  cheese  business 
under  the  style 
the  Assyria 
Creamery  Co.  The  capital  stock  is 
$5,000,  held  in  equal  amounts  by  the 
members  of  the  company.

of 

Pontiac—The  Peninsula  Macaroni 
Co.  has  incorporated  its  business  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $30,000.  The  Stock­
holders  and  the  amount  of  stock held 
by  each  are:  Vincent  Elias,  910 
shares;  M.  N.  Tremman,  600  shares, 
and  Paul  P.  Davis,  1  share.

Bay  View— Frank  Taylor,  of  Bald­
win,  will  shortly  engage  in  the  manu­
facture  of  canvas  gloves  and  aprons 
at  this  place.  Employment  will  be 
given  to from fifteen  to twenty people 
at  the  beginning.  The  factory  will be 
located  for  the  present  at  814  Sagi­
naw  street.

Detroit— The  Marsh  Valve  Co.  has 
been  organized  to  manufacture  press­
ure,  regulating  and  supply valves  and 
other  plumbing  specialties.  The  au­
thorized  capital  stock  is  $30,000,  held 
as  follows:  H. P.  Nagel,  1,990shares; 
E.  A.  Marsh,  1,000  shares,  and  M.  H. 
Bishop,  10  shares.

Mt.  Clemens— The  Indiana  &  Iowa 
Erick  Machine  Co.  has  engaged  in 
the  sand,  cemept  apd  brick  business.

MICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

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The  authorized  capital  stock  is  $38,- 
000,  held  as  follows:  E.  C.  Kelley, 
3,300  shares;  J.  G.  White,  20  shares;
A.  W.  Kent,  10  shares,  and  G.  A. 
Skinner,  10  shares.

Milan— The  stockholders  of 

Detroit— The  Simonetta  File  Co. 
has  been  organized  to  manufacture 
files,  rasps  and  other  metallic  arti­
cles.  The  authorized  capital  stock 
is  $25,000,  held  as  follows:  Rudolph 
Simonetta,  1,450  shares;  E.  C.  Whit­
ney,  100  shares;  C.  F.  Berry,  25 
shares,  and  H.  J.  Boerth,  25  shares.
the 
Stimpson  Standard  Scale  Co.  have 
decided  that,  as  the  business  is  not 
running  satisfactorily,  they  will  turn 
it  over  to  Booth  &  Edwards,  of  De­
troit.  The  latter  company  will  run 
it  and  will  issue  5  per  cent,  bonds in 
lieu  of  stock.  Wm.  N.  Stimpson  re­
tains  one-half  interest  in 
the  con­
cern.

Flint—The  Buick  Motor  Co.  has 
been  incorporated  to  manufacture gas 
and  gasoline  engines,  automobiles 
and  to  engage  in  a  general  foundry 
and  machine  shop  business.  The au­
thorized  capital  stock  is  $75,000,  held 
by  David  D.  Buick,  1,500  shares;  J.
B.  Whiting,  1,588 
shares;  G.  L. 
Walker,  590  shares,  and  W.  S.  Ballin­
ger,  72  shares.

Woodbury— Ira  Hay,  of  the  lum­
ber, saw  and  planing mill  firm  of Hay, 
Schelter  &  Co.,  has  sold  his  interest 
in  the  lumber  yard  to  John  Schelter 
and  Smith  Bros.,  who  sold  their  in­
terest  in  the  mill  to  Mr.  Hay  and 
Harlen  Horn.  The  lumber  yard  busi­
ness  will  be  conducted  under 
the 
style  of  John  Schelter  &  Co.,  while 
the  mill  business  will  be  continued 
as  Hay  &  Co.

Jackson— A  new  company  has been 
organized  at this place to manufacture 
medicated  pads, 
connecting  appli­
ances  and  medical  compounds.  The 
is  the  John 
style  of  the  concern 
Poeston  Panacea  Co. 
The  capital 
stock  is  $3,000,  held  by  the  following 
persons:  L.  B.  Cowley,  30  shares; 
F.  H.  Helmer,  25  shares;  N.  E. 
Gridley,  25  shares,  and  F.  Winches­
ter,  10  shares.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Ann  Arbor— Ed.  Jenkins,  recently 
with  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
has  entered  the  employ  of  Mack  & 
Co.  and  is  working  in  the  capacity 
of  assistant  trimmer.  Chas.  Hutzel 
has  assumed  charge  of  the  bazaar  de­
partment.

Hart— Frank  Gillespie  has  resigned 
his  position  with  John  D.  Muir  &  Co., 
Grand  Rapids, to take  his  old position 
in  the  Nicholson  drug  store  here.

Benton  Harbor— Bert  Burger,  who 
recently  sold  his  interest  in  the  Star 
Drug  Co.,  has  accepted  a  position 
with  G.  M.  Bell  &  Son.  Mr.  Burger 
was  a  pharmacist  some  years  ago  for 
the  Bell  drug  store  and  did  efficient 
work  in  that  capacity.

That  Settled  It.

The  Tramp— I  once  lived  on  water, 

lady,  for  six  months.

The  Lady— You  don’t  look  it.  How 

did  you  manage  it?

The  Tramp— I  was  a  sailor.

Every  minister  is  hopeful  that  the 
strife  in  the  choir  will  cease  when 
the  millennium  rolls  around.

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M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

manufacturers  on  account  of  scarcity 
of  raw  material.

Vanillin— On  account  of 

further 
advance  in  oil  cloves,  which  enters 
largely  into  the  manufacture  of  this 
article,  has  again  advanced.

Oil  Cloves— Has  again  advanced 
on  account  of  higher  price  for  spice.
Oil  Sassafras— Is  very  scarce  and 

high  and  is  steadily advancing.

Oil  Wintergreen— Is  in  small  sup­

ply  and  has  advanced.

Arnica  Flowers— Have  advanced 
in  the  primary  market  and  are  firm 
here.

American  Saffron— Is  in  small  sup­

ply  and  has  advanced.

Gum  Camphor— Has 

advanced
twice  since  our  last  report,  once  3c 
and  again  2c  on  the  1st  inst.  There 
is  very  little  to  be  had  outside  of 
contracts,  and  there  is  very 
little 
coming  forward  from  Japan.

Sunflower  Seed— Stocks  are  small 

and  the  price  has  advanced.

Cloves— Supplies  are  steadily  de­
clining  in  all  markets  and  the  price 
has  advanced.

Linseed  Oil— Has  again  advanced 
the 

on  account  of  higher  price  for 
seed.

Origin  of  the  Name  Glauber's  Salt.
The  popular  name  for  hydrous  so­
dium  sulphate  has  in  it  a  suggestion 
of  the  medieval  alchemist’s  dream  of 
the  philosopher’s  stone,  and  his  fu­
tile  search  for  a  method  of  transmut­
ing  the  baser  metals  into  gold.  Jo­
hann  Rudolf  Glauber  was  born  at 
Karlstadt,  Bavaria,  in  1604.  He  was 
one  of  the  class  of  alchemists  that 
began  to  see  the  greater  possibilities 
in  the  practical  use  of  the  knowledge I 
that  had  been  gathered  in  the  futile | 
search  for  the  philosopher’s  stone, 
and  may  be  considered  one  of  the 
first  of  the  modern  school  of  chemis­
try.  He  was  quite  a  voluminous 
writer  on  chemical  subjects.  The  hy­
drous  sodium  sulphate,  discovered in 
1658,  was  called  by  Glauber 
“sal 
mirabile,”  and  was  at  first  thought to 
be  identical  with  the  “sal  enixum” 
j  (potassium  sulphate)  of  Paracelsus. 
Glauber  died  at  Amsterdam  in  1668.

Robbie  Identified  Nero.

The  other  day  a  teacher  asked  her 
pupils  if  any of  them  knew  who  Nero 
was.  The  only  response  came  from 
a  little  fellow,  who  held  up  his  hand. 
“Well,  Robbie,”  said  the  teacher,  “do 
you  know  who  Nero  was?” 
“Yes, 
Ma’am,”  he  answered,  proudly;  “he’s 
the  one  we  sing  about 
in  Sunday 
school.”  The  teacher  could  not  recall 
any  particular  religious  music  de­
voted  to  Nero. 
“What  is  the  song, 
Robbie?”  she  asked.  “Nero,  My  God 
to  Thee,”  came  the  confident  answer.

Where  Elephants  Go  to  Die.
A  cemetery  containing  only 

the 
bones  of  elephants  is  at  the  foot  of 
a  chain  of  mountains  in  Uganda.  The 
beasts  have  evidently  come  there  for 
a  long  time  as  soon  as  they  felt  that 
death  was  approaching  them. 
In  no 
other  way  can  anyone  account  for the 
fact  that  hundreds  of  skeletons  of 
elephants  are  to  be  found  there.  The 
natives  know  well  that 
lordly 
animals  are  in  the  habit  of  selecting 
this  quiet  spot  as  their  last  resting 
place.

the 

Michigan  Board  of  Pharm acy. 
President—H enry  Heim,  Saginaw. 
Secretary—John  D.  Muir,  Grand  R ap­
ids.T reasurer—A rthur H.  W ebber,  Cadillac. 
C.  B.  Stoddard,  Monroe.
Sid  A.  Erw in,  B attle  Creek.
Sessions  for  1904.
Ann  Arbor—M arch  1  and  2.
S tar  Island—June  20  and  21.
Houghton—Aug.  23  and  24.
Lansing—Nov.  1  and  2.

beck.  Ann  Arbor.
B attle  Creek. 
Freeport.

Mich.  S tate  Pharm aceutical  Association. 
President—A.  L.  W alker,  Detroit.
F irst  V ice-President—J.  O.  Schlotter- 
Second  V ice-President—J.  E.  W eeks. 
Third  V ice-President—H.  C.  Peckham , 
Secretary—W.  H.  Burke,  Detroit. 
T reasurer—J.  M ajor  Lemen,  Shepard. 
Executive  Committee—D.  A.  Hagans. 
Monroe;  J.  D.  Muir,  Grand  Rapids;  W. 
A.  Hall.  D etroit;  Dr.  W ard,  St.  Clair;  H. 
J.  Brown.  Ann  Arbor.
Interest—W.  C.  K irchgessner, 
Grand  Rapids;  Stanley  Parkill.  Owosso.

Trade 

■ _   „

• 

A  Perfect  Vacuum.

the 

Prof.  Elmer  Gates,  director  of  the 
Laboratory  of  Experimental  Psy­
chology  at  Washington,  claims 
to 
have  produced 
first  absolute 
chemical  vacuum  known  to  science, 
and  from  which  he  has  created  rays 
which  exhibit 
strange  phenomena 
never mentioned as being accomplish­
ed  by  the  Roentgen  rays.  The  meth­
od  of  making  the  absolute  vacuum 
was  so  simple  and  apparently  effec­
tive  that  it  is  worthy  of  notice.  He 
took  a  large,  thick  test  tube  made 
of  the  hardest  potash  glass,  whose 
melting  point  was  at  an  extraordin­
Into  this  he 
ary  high  temperature. 
poured,  while  in  a  liquid  form, 
a 
much  softer  glass,  whose  melting 
point  was  at  a  comparatively  low I 
temperature.

Allowing  the  liquid  glass  to  cool 
gradually, 
it  formed  a  solid  mass 
with  the  tube.  After  attaching  a 
suction  piston  to  the  mouth  of  the 
test  tube,  the  whole  mass  was  slow­
ly  heated  for  about  thirty  hours.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  the  softer  glass 
became  liquid  again,  while  the  tube 
still  remained  solid.  By  forcing  the 
piston  outward  the  greater  part  of 
the  molten 
expelled. 
Enough  was  allowed  to  remain  at 
the  mouth  of  the  tube  to  seal  it  by 
cooling  in  that  position.  Back  of 
this  stoppage  there  was  left  a  space 
where  there  had  never  been  the  least 
quantity  of  gas,  hence,  a  complete 
and  perfect  vacuum.

glass  was 

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  firm  in 
market  but  weak  here.

the  primary 

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine  —   Manufacturers  reduced 
their  price  2c  per  ounce  on  last  Fri­
day. 
It  is  said  that  it  is  now  being 
sold  for  less  than  cost,  and  the  ac­
tion  of  manufacturers 
in  reducing 
the  price  is  not  understood.

Balm  Gilead  Buds— Are  scarce and 

the  price  has  advanced.

Lycopodium— Is  in 

small  supply 
and  as  none  is  coming  forward  high­
er  prices  will  rule.

Menthol— Is  steadily  declining  on 
account  of  large  stocks  and  anxiety 
to  sell.

Santonine— Has  been  advanced  by

Horses  Smell  the  Land

The  ability  of  horses  to  smell  land 
when  far  at  sea 
is  not  generally 
known,  but  an  announcement  made 
to-day  shows  that  the  equine  must 
be  credited  with  this  acute 
sense. 
When  Thomas  McGuiness,  a  well- 
known  horseman  of  Philadelphia, 
went  to  Europe  some  time  ago  he 
took  a  blooded  horse  with  him.  The 
animal  was  in  a  specially  prepared 
stall  on  deck,  and  enjoyed  the  trip, 
despite  the  rough  weather.  When 
Mr.  McGuiness  thought  land  should 
soon  be  sighted  he  asked  the  captain 
how  far  the  ship  was  from  the  Irish 
coast. 
the 
steamer,  in  his  usual  gruff  manner, 
replied: 
“Your  horse  will  tell  you; 
watch  him.”

commander  of 

The 

The  owner  of  the  animal  could  not 
understand  what  the  captain  meant, 
and  he  was  not  particularly  pleased 
with  the  answer.  Finally,  however, 
and  in  a  couple  of  hours  before  land 
was  observed,  the  horse,  which  was 
a  magnificent  bay,  poked  his  head 
through  the  grating  and,  stretching 
his  neck,  whinnied  loudly.  “There you 
are,”  said  the  captain  to  Mr.  Mc­
Guiness. 
the 
land.”  The  horse  was  like  a  differ­
ent  animal  thereafter  until  the  coast 
loomed  up.  The  captain,  in  explain­
ing  the  odd  occurrence,  said  that the 
thoroughbred  detected  the  odor from 
pasture 
lands  that  was  wafted  far 
seaward,  and  that  horses  on  board 
ocean  steamers  always  give  the  first 
signal  when  land  is  near.

“Your  horse 

smells 

The 

received  a  note 

Collecting  an  Outlawed  Note.
A  lawyer  in  a  Southern  Kansas 
town 
for  collec­
tion  against  a  wealthy  business  man. 
The  note  was  outlawed  because  the 
business  man  had  not  always  been  in 
a  position  where  the  debt  could  be 
collected  from  him. 
lawyer 
wrote  him  that  as  he  was  now  able 
to  pay  he  ought  to  do  so.  The  busi­
ness  man  replied  that  he  refused  to 
pay  the  note,  but  if  the  holder  was 
in  need  he  would  contribute,  and  in­
closed  a  bread  check.  The  lawyer 
credited  the  note  with  the  value  of 
the  check,  which  renews 
the  note 
under  the  laws  of  that  state  and  he 
will  now  proceed  to  collect  the  note 
with  interest.

Willing  to  Take  a  Chance.

A  pious  citizen  has  a  fifteen  year 
old  son  who  does  not  promise  to 
be  exactly  “a  chip  off  the  old  block.” 
Not  long  ago  the  father  discovered 
to  his  sorrow  that  his  boy  and  sev­
eral  others  of  the  neighborhood  had 
a  habit  of  matching  nickels. 
The 
wrathful  parent  led  the  erring  lad  to 
the  time-honored  attic,  where  hangs 
a  certain  strap.  The  boy  didn’t have 
any  agreeable 
impression  of  what 
was  to  come,  and,  on  the  ground  that 
it  is  only  the  first  plunge  that  counts, 
he  called  out;  “Say,  dad!  I’ll  go  you 
heads  or  tails  for  two  lickings  or 
none!”

Not  Scrupulous.

The  Mother— Bobbie,  didn’t  your 
conscience  tell  you  that  you  had  done 
wrong?

Bobbie— Yes’m;  bflt  I  don’t  believe 

everything  I  hear.

Don’t   Place Your 
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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- 
factu-ers’.  A card  will  bring 
salesman or samples.

Heystek  &   Canfield Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Valentines

Our travelers are  out  with 
a b e a u t i f u l   line—“The 
Best on the Road.”  Every 
number new.  Kindly  re­
serve your orders.  Prices 
right  and  terms  liberal.

FRED  BRUNDAOE

W holesale Drugs  and  Stationery 

32-54 Western ave.,  M U SK E G O N , Mich.

Do Y ou  

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Incorporating
Y O U R   BUSINESS?

Then call  to  your  assistance 
the  services  of  our  Auditing 
and Accounting  Department to 
formulate a plain and  complete 
statement of your  business  and 
assist  you  in  the  preliminary 
steps of the undertaking.

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Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Established in 1889

PILES  CURED

DR.  WILLARD  M.  BURLESON

Rectal  Specialist

i s o  State Pood Cimwlartanar 

103 Monroe Street 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
ia g a  flajeetlc  Building,  D etroit,  filch.

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—  
Declinad—

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

43

Sapo,  M ..................  Mi
Sapo,  G .................. 
i
Seidlits  M ixture..  20<
Sinapis 
.................. 
<
Sinapis,  opt  ........  
'
Snuff,  Maccaboy,
De  Voes  ............
Snuff,  S’h De Vo’s
Soda,  B o r a s ..........  
9
9
Soda,  Boras,  p o .. 
Soda  et  P ot’s T a rt  28,
Soda,  Carb  ............1*4
Soda,  Bi-Carb  . . .  
84
Soda.  Ash 
..............8*4
Soda,  Sulphas  . ..
Spts,  Cologne 
. . .
Spts.  E th er  C o ...
Spts.  M yrcla Dom 
Spts.  Vinl Rect bbl 
Spts.  Vl’l Rect *  b 
Spts.  Vl’l R ’t  10 gl 
Spts.  Vl’i R ’t  6 gal 
Strychnia,  C rystal  90< 
. . .   2 V " 
Sulphur,  Subl 
Sulphur.  Roll  . . . .   21
T am arinds 
..........  
. .
Terebenth  Venice  384
Theobromae 
........   441
Vanilla 
..................9 001
Zinci  Sulph 
74
........  

O ils
W hale,  w inter 

..

P aints 

Lard,  ex tra 
. . . .   70©
Lard,  No.  1..........   60©
Linseed,  pure  raw   430 
Linseed,  boiled  ..  44© 
Neatsfoot.  w a t r . .  65© 
Spts.  T urpentine.  720 
bbl 
Red  V e n e tia n .... 1 *   2 
' 
Ochre,  ye!  M ars  1 *   2  < 
Ochre,  ye!  B er  ..1%   2 
- 
Putty,  commer’1.2*  2 *  
Putty,  strictly  p r.2 *   2 *  
Vermillion,  Prim e
.........   IS'
Vermillion.  Bing..  70' 
Green,  P aris 
. . . .   14 
Green,  Peninsular  13
T,ead,  r e d ..............6%
Lead,  w hite  ........6 *
W hiting,  w hite S'n 
W hiting.  Gilders.'
W hite,  Paris, Am’r  
W hit'g.  Paris, Eng
©1 40
Universal  P rep’d .l 10©1 20

American 

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

cliff 

V arn ish es

No.  1  Turp  Coach.l 10© 1 20
E x tra  Turp  ..........1 6001 70
Coach  Body 
........2 7508 00
No.  1  T uro  F u m .l 000110 
E x tra  T   D am ar. .1 5501 60 
Jap   D ryer  No  1 T   70©

0 1 0 0

Sepia 

Mannla.  8  F   . . . .   76©  20
Memthol 
..............6 0006 25
M orphia,  S P A  W.2 S5< 
Morphia,  8 N T Q .2 S 6 I 
M orphia,  Mai  . . .  .2 S5i 
Moschus  Canton  . 
i 
M yristica,  No.  1.  S8<
N ux  Vom ica.po  16
..............  25
Pepsin  Saac, H  A 
P   D   Co  . . . . . . . .  
Plcis  Liq  N N *
gal  dox  ..............
Plcis  Liq,  q ta ....
Plcis  Liq,  p in ts..
Pll  H ydrarg  .po 80 
P iper  N igra  .po 22 
Piper  Alba  . .po 86
PI lx B u rg u n ..........
Plum bl  Acet  ........   104
Pulvls  Ip’e et Opil.l 804 
Pyrethrum ,  bxs  H  
4 
& P  D Co.  dox.. 
Pyrethrum .  pv 
..  264
Qua8slae 
.............. 
84
Qulnia,  S P f t W .   244
Quinta,  S  G er___  244
Qulnia,  N T  
. . . .   244 
Rubia  Tlnctorum .  124 
Saccharum   La’s ..   204
Salacln 
..................4 504
Sanguis  D rae’s . . .   404 
Sapo,  W  
..............   124

60
69
60
60
60
60
60
50
60
60
60
75
50
75
76 
100
60
60
60
60
60
50
60
50
60
85
50
60
60
60
50
76
76
50
50
60
50
75
50
160
60
50
50
60
60
60
60
60
60
20

T in ctu res 
Aconitum  N ap’s   R 
Aconitum  N ap’s  F
......................
Aloes 
Aloes  &  M yrrh  ..
Arnica 
...................
Assafoetlda  ..........
Atrope  Belladonna 
A uranti  Cortex  ..
Bensoin 
................
Benxoin  Co  ..........
Barosm a  ................
........
C antharides 
Capsicum 
............
............
Cardam on 
Cardam on  Co  . . . .
Castor 
...................
................
Catechu 
Cinchona 
..............
Cinchona  Co 
. . . .
Columba 
..............
Cubebae 
................
Cassia  Acutlfol  .. 
Cassia  Acutlfol  Co
Digitalis 
................
......................
E rgot 
F erri  Chlorldum ..
G entian 
................
G entian  Co  ..........
Guiaca 
..................
Guiaca  ammon 
..
Hyoscyamus  ........
....................
Iodine 
Iodine,  colorless..
Kino 
.......................
Lobelia 
..................
....................
M yrrh 
Nux  V o m ic a ........
Opil 
.......................
Opil,  comphorated 
Opil,  deodorised  ..
Quassia  ..................
R hatany 
................
.......................
Rhel 
S a n g u in a ria ..........
..........
Serpentaria 
S tram o n iu m ..........
Tolutan 
................
Valerian 
................
V eratrum   V erlde.. 
................
Zingiber 

Ferru

A ddum  
.
A oeticum  
Gw..
Bensolcum,
. . . ---------  M
Boracie 
Carbolicum 
..........   «
................  81
Cltrlcum  
Bhrdrochlor 
..........  
¡1
N itrocum  
.............. 
f
Oxallcum 
..............  1»
Phosphorium ,  dfl. 
1
..........  
t t
Sallcylicum 
Sulphurlcum  
..........1 * 0 .
Tannicum  
............1 W J l 10
88©  40
T artarloum  
..........
A m m onia
6
Aqua,  I t   d ec........  
4 0
Aqua,  10  da*........  
JO
..............  M O
Carbonaa 
1 8
Chlorldum 
............   U O
A n llln *
12 86 
B la c k  
..................... 100»
»100 
B row n  
....................  W
»  60 
Red 
.........................   4J
»8 00
Tallow 
....................* SO
B aceaa
Cubebae 
.. .po. 15  820
\  *5
Junlperus  .............. 
6 0
X anthoxylum   . . . .   too 
86
Balaam um  
Cubebae  . . .  .po.  10  U O .
P eru  ..........................  ©160
Terabin,  C anada..  600  05
T olutan 
.................   460  60
Cortex
18
Able*.  C anadian..
U
Caealae  ..................
18
Cinchona  H a v a ..
80
Euonym us  atro.'.
20
M yrlca  C erifera..
12
Prim us  V irgin!.. . .
12
Quillala.  * r 'd .. .. .
14 
Sassafras 
. .po. 18 
45
Ulmus  ..26,  g r’d.
E x t  rectum
I  80 
Glycyrrhlxa  Ola—   144 
I  80 
Glycyrrhlxa.  p o ...  Ml
H aem atox 
............   114
I  12 
i  14 
Haem atox, 
l a . . . .   114 
»  15 
H aem atox,  * s —   14 
»  17
H aem atox,  * s . . . .   164 
16
Carbonate  P re d p .
226
C itrate  and  Qulnia 
75
C itrate  Soluble  .. 
40
Perrocyanidum   8.
15
Solut.  C hloride....
8ulphate,  com’l . . .  
sulphate,  com’l,  by 
bU,  per  c w t....
Sulphate,  pure 
..
Flora
A rnica  ....................  15
A nthem is  ..............  *2
M atricaria 
............  30
**
B a ro a m a ........ .. 
Cassia 
. . . . .   20ro  25 
Cassia,  A cutlfol..  26©  10 
Salvia 
officinalis,
20
* a   and  * s . . . .
10
Uva  U rsl................
Q um m l
66
Acacia,  1st  p k d ..
46
Acacia,  2d  p k d ..
85 
Acacia,  Id   pkd...
28 
Acacia,  sifted  ats.
65
Acacia,  po..............
14 
Aloe.  B arb ............
25 
Aloe.  Cape..............
80 
. . . .  
Aloe,  Socotrt 
<
60 
Ammoniac 
............  »61
40 
........   85<
Assafoetlda 
65
Benzolnum  ............  50
15 
Catechu,  l a ............ 
1
14
1
Catechu,  * s .......... 
16 
Catechu,  * s ..........
90 
Cam phorae 
........   801
40
Euphorblum  
........ 
1
100
Galbanum  .............
186
G am b o g e-----po.. .125
86
G ualacum  
. .po. 85
Kino 
.......... po. 76o
M astic  ................. •
M yrrh 
........ po. 45
O iu  
............ . .3 2503 80
Shellac 
..............v   66®
Shellac,  bleached  65
T ragacanth 
........
H erbs
Absinthium ,  oa  pk 
Eupatorlum   ox  pk 
Lobelia  — oa  pk 
M ajorum 
. .ox  pk 
M entha  Pip ox pk 
M entha  V ir  os pk
Rue  ..............ox  pk
Tanacetum   V . . . v  
Thym us  V  . .oa pk 
M agnesia
Calcined,  F a t........   66©
Carbonate,  P at.  ..  18© 
C arbonate  K -M ..  18®
C arbonate 
............   18©
Oleum   ____
A bsinthium  
........8 0008
Amygdalae,  Dulc.  60 
Amygdalae  A m a. .8 00
A nisf 
......................1 « '
A uranti  C o rtex .. .2 10
Bergam li 
..............*
................1 101
C ajiputi 
CaryophyUi 
........ 160'
.....................   86'
Cedar 
........
Chenopadli 
Clnnamonli 
..........100
Citronella 
............   40
Conlum  MAc........   80
. . . . . . . . . I l f
C m i l a  
CuM bae 
................1

Tinnevelly 

Acutlfol.

i i

70 
700100

. . .  

Exechthltos 
........4 2504 50
Brlgeron  ................1000110
G aultheria 
..........2  5002 60
........ox.
Geranium 
Gosslppti,  Sem  gal  601
Hedeoma 
.............. 1 40 (
Junlpera  ................1601
Lavendula  ............   90(
imonls 
................1151
M entha  Piper  . . .  .3 50<
M entha  V e rld ....5  00i 
Morrhuae,  g a l .. .. 5 00'
Myrcla 
.................. 4 00'
Olive 
......................  75
Plcis  Liquida  . . . .   10 
Plcls  Liquida  gal.
R id n a 
....................  90
Rosmarini
Rosae,  os  ..............5 00® 6 00
Sucdnl 
..................  40©  45
Sabina 
..................  930100
....................2 76©? 00
Santal 
Sassafras  ..............  85®  90
Sinapis,  ess,  o s ... 
©  65
......................1600160
Tigiil 
..................  40©  60
Thym e 
Thyme,  opt  .......... 
©1 60
Theobrom as 
........   15©  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb 
...............   15©  18
Bichrom ate 
..........  18©  15
Bromide 
................  40©  45
......................  12©  16
Carb 
Chlorate  po 17019  16©  18
C y an id e ..................  84©  88
Iodide 
...................2 80©2 40
Potassa,  B itart  p r  30©  32 
Potass  U ltras  opt  7» 
Potass  N ltras 
64
..............  284
Prusslate 
Sulphate  p o ..........  154
Radix
Aconitum  ..............  204
Althae 
..................  804
Anchusa  ................  104
Arum  po  .............. 
4
..............  204
Calamus 
G entiana 
. .po  16  124 
Glychrrhlza  pv  15  164 
H ydrastis  C kna.. 
4 
H ydrastis  Can  po 
4 
Hellebore,  A lba..  124
Inula,  .po  ..............   184
Ipecac,  p o ............2 75l
Iris  piox 
..............  85i
Jalapa,  p r 
..........   25i
M aranta,  %s  . . . .  
<
Podophyllum  p o ..  22i
........................  76.
Rhei 
Rhel,  cut  .............. 
i
Rhel,  pv 
..............  76'
Spigella 
................  86'
Sangulnarl,  po  24 
4
Serpentaria  ..........  661
.................   764
Senega 
Smilax,  offl's  H   . 
4
4
Smilax,  M 
.......... 
Scillae  .........po  85  104
c 
Symplocarpus 
.... 
V aleriana  E n g ... 
4
V aleriana,  Ger 
..  154
Zingiber a  
............  144
Zingiber  ] ..............  164
Semen
Anisum  . ..  .po.  20 
Aplum  (gravel’s ) .  13
Bird,  Is  
4
................ 
Carui 
..........po  15  10
Cardamon 
............   70'
Coriandrum 
8
Cannabis  Satlva  .  6 *
Cydonlum 
............   76
. . . .   25 
Chenopodium 
D lpteiix  Odorate.  80'
Foeniculum 
........
Foenugreek,  po  ..
Linl 
.......................
Llnl,  grd  . ..  .bbl  4
..................  76 _
Lobelia 
P harlarls  Cana’n  6 * ©
5© 
R apa 
a
...................... 
9
Sinapis  Alba 
. . . .   7© 
Sinapis  N ig r a ----  
9®  10
Spiritus
Frum enti  W  D ....2  0002 60
Frum enti 
..............1 2501 60
Junlperls  Co O T . l  6602 00 
Junlperls  Co  —  .1 7608 60 
Saccharum  N G   . .1 90©2 10 
Spt  Vinl  Galll  ...1 7 6 0 6  60
Vlni  Oporto 
........12509  00
Vlnl  A lb a .............1 2602  00

........  

Sponges 
Florida  sheeps wl
carriage 
N assau  sheeps’ wl
carriage 
Velvet  extra  slips’ 
wool,  carriage  ..
E x tra  yellow  slips’ 
wool,  carriage  .
G rass  sheeps’  wl,
carriage 
............
H ard,  slate  u s e ...
Yellow  Reef,  for 
slate  use  ..........  

............2 6002  75
............2 5002  75
©160
0 1 2 6
©100
©100
0 1  40

Syrups
..................
Acacia 
A uranti  Cortex
Zingiber 
...............
Ipecac 
...................
Ferrl  Iod  .............
Rhei  Arom 
..........
Smilax  Offl’s 
. .. .
.................
Senega 
...................
Scillae 
SciUae  Co 
............
Tolutan 
................
Prim u s  v ir g   ........

M iscellaneous

1

Aether,  Spts N it 8  SO©  86 
Aether,  Spts N it 4  84©  88 
Alumen,  g r’d po 7  8
60
A nnatto 
................  40'
Antlmonl,  po  . . . .  
4'
50 
Antlmoni  e t Po T  40'
26 
A ntipyrln 
..............
Antifebrin 
............
20 
48 
Argent!  N ltras,  ox 
12 
Arsenicum  ............   10
60 
Balm  Gilead  buds  46
2 86
Bism uth  S  N -----2 20
Calcium  Chlor, Is 
Calcium  Chlor,  * s  
©   10 
0   12 
Calcium  Chlor,  * s  
0   95 
Cantharides,  Rus.
©  20 ©  22 
C apsid  FYuc’s af..
C apsid  FYuc’s po..
0   15 
Cap’l  Frue’s B po. 
250  28 
Caryophyllus 
. . . .
8 00 
Carmine.  No  4 0 ...
55 
Cera  A lba..............  60<
42 
Cera  Flava  ..........   401
40 
Coccus  .................... 
<
>  86 
<
Cassia  F ructus 
.. 
i  10 
C entrarla 
.............. 
I
•  45 
Cetaceum 
I
............ 
i  60 
Chloroform 
..........   65(
1110 
Chioro'm.  Squlbbs 
i 
ll 60
Chloral  H yd  C rst.l 35'
Chondrus 
..............  20'
Cinchonldlne  P -W   38 
Clnchonld’e  Germ  38®
Cocaine 
...............3 8004
Corks  list  d  p  ct.
Creosotum  ............  
©
©
Creta  .........bbl  76 
Creta,  prep  ..........  
©
Creta,  precip 
. . . .  
9®
Creta,  R ubra  . . . .  
©
Crocus 
..................  580
Cudbear  ........
Cupri  S u lp h ..........6 *
D extrine 
7'
.............. 
E ther  S u lp h ..........  78i
Em ery,  all  N o s..
Em ery,  po 
..........
Ergota  ........po  90  86
. . . .   12i
Flake  W hite 
i
...................... 
Galla 
Gambler 
................ 
8<
Gelatin,  Cooper  .. 
'
Gelatin,  French  ..  35'. 
Glassware,  fit  box  75  A 
Less  th an   box  ..
Glue,  b ro w n ..........   11
Glue,  w hite  ..........  15'
............17*
Glycerlna 
G rana  Paradlsl  ..
H um ulus 
..............  26'
H ydrarg  Ch  Mt.
H ydrarg  Ch  Cor  .
H ydrarg  Ox  Ru’m  
4
4
H ydrarg  A m m o l. 
H ydrarg  Ungue’m   604
H ydrargyrum   . . . .  
4.
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  9001!
Indigo 
....................  7501
Iodine.  Resubi  ...8  4008
Iodoform 
............ 8 6008
Lupulin 
0
................ 
Lycopodium 
........   700
M ads 
....................  65©
Liquor  Arsen  et 
O 
H ydrarg  Iod  . ..  
Liq  P otass  A rslnit  10® 
M agnesia,  Sulph.. 
2 0  
Magneslq,  Sulk bfej  © 1 *

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M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

G R O CER Y  PR IC E   CU R R EN T

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

ADVANCED

DECLINED

3

Cotton  Braided

Galvanized  W ire 

40  ft......................................  95
50  f t...................................1  35
60  ft...................................1  65
No.  20,  each  100  f t long.l 90 
No.  19,  each  100  ft long.210 
COCOA
............................  38
B aker’s 
Cleveland 
.......................   41
..................  85
Colonial,  %s 
Colonial,  %s 
..................   33
Epps 
..................................  42
H uyler 
..............................  45
V an  Houten,  %s  ..........   12
Van  Houten,  %s  ..........   20
V an  H outen,  %s 
........   40
Van  Houten,  Is  ............   72
................................  31
W ebb 
W ilbur,  % s ......................  41
W ilbur,  Ms 
....................  42

COCOANUT

.........  26
D unham ’s  %s 
D unham ’s  %s & % s..  26%
D unham ’s  %s 
.........  27
.........  28
D unham ’s  %s 
Bulk  ..............................  12

COCOA  SH ELLS

20  lb.  bags  ...................... 2%
Less  quantity 
Pound  packages 
COFFEE

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

Rio

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

................. ....1 1 %  

___13
..................... ....1 5
..................... ___18
Santos
................. ___12

Common 
Choice 
Fancy 
Common 
.......................... ....1 2 %
F air 
C h o ic e ..........................13 1-3
..............................16%
Fancy 
P eaberry 
Maracaibo
F a ir 
..................................13%
............................16%
Choice 
Mexican
Choice 
............................. 16%
Fancy  ...............................19
Guatem ala
Choice 
............................15
Jav a
A frican 
............................12
Fancy  A frican 
.............17
O.  G....................................25
P.  G.................................... 31
Mocha
A rabian 
..........................21
Package
Arbuckle 
.......................14  50
Dilworth 
.......................14  50
........................... 14  50
Jersey 
Lion 
............................... 14  50
McLaughlin’s  XXXX 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX sold 
to  retailers  only.  Mail  all 
to  W.  F. 
orders  direct 
M cLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.

New  York  Basis.

E xtract

Holland.  %  gro  boxes.  95
Felix,  %  gross  ..............115
Hum m el’s  foil,  % gro.  85 
Hum m el’s  tin,  %  g ro .l 43

CRACKERS

N ational  B iscuit  Company’s 

Brands 
B utter

O yster
...............................6%
............................. 6%
.............................   7%
.................................. 6%
..............  7%
Sweet  Goods

Seymour  ............................$ %
......................6%
New  York 
..............................6%
Fam ily 
Salted 
..............................6%
W olverine 
.......................   7
Soda
N.  B.  C.............................6%
Select  •••••••# ••••••••  8
Saratoga  F la k e s ............13
Round 
Square 
F aust 
Argo 
E x tra  F arina 
........................... 10
Animals 
Assorted  Cake 
..............10
Bagley  Gems 
................  8
Belle  Rose  ........................  8
..............16
Bent’s  W ater 
B utter  Thin  ..................13
Coco  B ar 
....................... 10
Cococanut  T a f f y ..........12
Cinnamon  B a r ..............  9
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C..10 
Coffee  Cake,  Iced  . . . .   10 
Cocoanut M acaroons  ..  18
Cracknels 
....................... 1§
C urrant  F ru it  ................10
Chocolate  D ainty  ------16
Cartw heels 
....................  9
Dixie  S u g a r ...................... 8%
Frosted  Cream s 
......   8 '
Ginger Gems  . . . . . . . . .   8 
.
Ginger  Snaps,  N B C ..  6% 
..  10
G randm a  Sandwich 
G raham   C racker 
-----  8
H azelnut 
  10
................. 
Honey  Fingers, Ic e d ..  12
Honey  Jum bles 
---------12
Iced  H appy  Fam ily  ...1 1  
Iced  Honey  Crum pet  . 10
Im perials 
..............• •••  8
Indiana  Belle  .................15
.........  
J
Jerico 
Jersey  LunCh  ..............   7%
Lady  Fingers 
. . . . . . . .   M
Lady Fingers,  hand m d 35 
Lemon  B iscuit  Square  8 
Lemon  W afer  ................”

 

 

 

 

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

..............13
Lemon  Snaps 
Lemon  Gems  ................10
Lem  Yen 
......................10
Maple  Cake 
................10
M arshmallow  ................16
M arshmallow  C ream .. 16 
M arshmallow  w«unut.  16 
M ary  Ann 
8
M ich^C oco" F s’d honey 13%
Milk  B is c u it..................  7%
Mich  Frosted  Honey  ..  12
Mixed  Picnic  ..................11%
Molasses  Cakes,  S do’d   8
Moss  Jelly  B ar 
............12%
Muskegon  Branch, Iced 10
Newton 
......................... 12
Newsboy  Assorted  . . . .   10
Nic  N acs  ........................  8
. . . .   8
O atm eal  C racker 
................16
Orange  Slice 
Orange  Gem 
..............  8
Orange  & Lemon Ice  ..  10 
Penny  Assorted  Cakes  8
Pilot  B read 
..................  7%
Ping  Pong 
....................  9
Pretzels,  hand  m ade  ..  8 
Pretzelettes,  hand  m ’d  8 
Pretzelettes,  mch.  m ’d  7
Rube  Sears 
..................  8
Scotch  Cookies 
............10
Snowdrops 
....................16
Spiced  Sugar  Tops  . . .   8 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  8
Sugar  Squares  ............   8
Sultanas 
......................... 13
Spiced  Gingers  ............  8
U rchins 
..........................10
Vienna  Crimp  ..............  8
Vanilla  W afer  ................16
W averly 
..........................  8
Zanzibar 
........................  9

DRIED  FRUITS 

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

California  Prunes 

0 6
. . . . . . . 6   @7

Citron
C urrants 

Sundried 
Evaporated 
100-125  251b.  boxes.  @  3% 
Q  4%
90-100  25 Ib.bxs.. 
80-90  25 !b. bxs.. 
9  4%
70-80  251b. bxs. 
9  6%
60-70  25Tb.  boxes.  @ 6
4 I 6%
50-60  25 lb. bxs. 
40-50  25 lb. bxs. 
4 I 7%
30-40  25 Tb. bxs. 
9
%c  less  in  b»  w   cases 
Corsican  ................  @16
Im p’d,  lib .  pkg.  .  7%®  _ 
Im ported  bulk  . ..6%@   7 
Lemon  A m e ric a n ..........12
Orange  A m erican  .........12
1  90 
London  Layers  3  cr 
Ixmdon  Layers  3  cr 
1  *5 
C luster  4  crown. 
.  3  60 
Loose  Mu sea’s  2  c r...  6% 
Loose  M usca’s  3  cr. 
Loose  M usca’s  4  cr. 
L.  M.  Seeded,  1  lb.  9®  9% 
L.  M.  Seeded.  %Ib.7%@7% 
Sultanas,  bulk  . . .  
9
Sultanas,  package.  @  9%
f a r i n a c e o u s   g o o d s

Raisins

..7  
..8  

Peel

Beans

Hominy

Pearl  Barley
 

Dried  Lim a  ......................4%
Med.  Hd.  P k ’d.  .2  00@2  10
Brown  Holland 
...........2  25
Farina
24  1  lb.  pkgs  ................ 1  60
Bulk,  per  100  lb s ..........2  60
Flake,  50  lb.  sack  -----1  00
Pearl,  200  lb.  sack  .. .4  00 
Pearl,  100  lb.  sack  ...2   00 
Maccaronl  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic,  10  lb.  box  .  60
Imported,  25  lb.  box  ..2   50 
Common 
........................2  50
............. 
C hester 
2  65
Em pire 
............................8  60
Peas
Green,  W isconsin,  b u .l  35
Green,  Scotch,  b u ..........1  40
4
Split,  lb.............................  
Rolled  Oats
Rolled  Avenna,  bbl. 
..5   50 
Steel  Cut,  1001b.  sacks.2  70 
. . . . . . . 5   25
M onarch,  bbl. 
M onarch,  901b.  sa c k s..2  50
Quaker,  cases 
.............. 8  10
Sago
E ast  India 
....................*%
German,  sacks  ..............8%
German,  broken  pkg  .  4 
Flake,  1101b.  sacks  .
J*
Pearl,  1301b.  sacks 
8%
Pearl,  24  1  lb.  pkgs 
>%
Cracked,  bulk 
........
24  2  lb.  packages  . .. .2   50 
FISHING  TACKLE
%  to   1  in  ...................... 
•
1%  to   2  in 
.................... 
J
1%  to  2  in  ...................... 
»
1  2-3  to  2  i n ..................  11

Tapioca

W heat

Cotton  Lines

No.  1,  10  feet  .............. 
6
7
No.  2,  15  feet  .............. 
No.  3.  15  feet
No.  4. 
15 feet  ...............  10
15 f e e t ...............  11
No.  5, 
No.  6,  15  feet  . . . . . . . .   13
No.  7, 
15 feet  ...............  16
15 f e e t ...............   18
No.  8, 
No,  9,  15  *0ot  • f t f t i t *

* 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
Bamboo,  14 
Bamboo,  16 
Bamboo,  18 

Linen  Lines
................................  30
..........................  30
..............................  84
Poles
ft.,  p r  d s ..  50
ft., p r  d s.  65
ft., p r  d s.  80

FRESH  MEAT8 

Beef

Pork

................. 6  @ 8
6
9
13
12
7
S*
@5%
@8%
@7%
@7%
@8%

Carcass 
Forequarters  . . . .   5 
. . .  .7%<
H indquarters 
...................... 9%<
Loins 
........................9
Ribs 
Rounds 
.................. 6%<
C h u c k s .................... 4%<
Plates 
....
D re s s e d ................
...................
Loins 
Boston  B utts  . ..
Shoulders 
...........
Leaf  Lard 
........
Mutton
............... ..6   @8
C arcass 
................. ..11  @12
Lam bs 
Veal
.............. 6  @  8%
Carcass 
K nox's  Sparkling, d s.  1  20 
K nox's  Sparkling, gro. 14  00 
Knox’s  A d d u ’d.,  do*.  1  20 
Knox’s  A d d u ’d,  gro  .14  00
75
Oxford 
Plym outh  Rock 
........ 1  30
Nelson’s 
....................... 1  60
Cox’s,  2  qt.  size  ........ 1  81
Cox’s,  1  qt.  slse  ..........1  10
Amoskeag,  100  in  b’e.  16% 
Amoskeag,  less  thanb.  16% 

GRAIN  BAGS 

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

GELATINE

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 
W heat  ..........................  88
W inter  W heat  Flour 

W heat

Local  B rands

P aten ts  ............................5  00
Second  P aten ts 
..........4  65
.........................4  45
S traight 
Second  S traight  ..........4  15
Clear 
............................... 3  65
G raham   ............................4  25
B uckw heat 
....................4  50
Rye  ...................................4  75
Subject 
cash 
discount.
Flour  in  bbls.,  25c  per 
bbl.  additional.
W orden  Grocer  Co.’s  Brand
. i ................4  20
Q uaker  %s 
Q uaker  %s  ....................4  20
Q uaker  %s 
..................4  20

to   usual 

Spring  W heat  Flour 

B rand

B rand

Clark-Jew ell-W ells  Co.’s 
Pillsbury’s  B est  % s.  6  86 
Pillsbury s B est  %s  . . .   5  25 
Pillsbury’s  B est  % s..  5  15 
Lemon  &  W heeler  Co.’s 
Wingold  %s 
..............i   10
W ingold  %s 
................5  00
W ingold  %s 
................4  90
Judson  Grocer  Co.’s B rand
Ceresota  %s 
................ 6  40
Ceresota  %s 
................ 5  30
Ceresota  %s 
................ 5  20
W orden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel  %s 
................... 5  20
Laurel  %s 
................... 6  10
Laurel  %s 
................... 6  00
Laurel  %s & %s paper.5 00
Bolted 
............................. 2  60
G ranulated  ......................2  60
St.  C ar  Feed  screened22  20 
No.  1  Com   ad  O ats  ..22  50 
Com  Meal,  coarse  ...1 9   50
W heat  B ran  ................ 19  50
W heat  M iddlings  ....2 0   00
Cow  Feed 
....................19  50
Screenings  .................... 19  00
Oats
C ar  Lots 
........................43
Com
Com,  old  ........................61
Com,  new  ......................47
No.  1  tim othy  car lots. 10  50 
No.  1  tim othy ton lota. 12  50 

Feed  and  Mmstuffs 

Meal

Hay

HERBS

JELL Y

INDIGO

LICORICE

Sage 
.................................
f f
Hops  .................................. 
............   15
Laurel  Leaves 
Senna  Leaves 
..............  35
M adras.  5  lb.  boxes  . .   66 
S.  F.,  2. 3. 6 lb, boxes..  86 
Rib.  pails,  per  dos 
..1   70
151b.  pails 
....................  38
301b.  p a i l s ........................  85
Pure 
..............................  
  80
..........................  33
C alabria 
Sicily 
................................  1*
Root 
..................................  11
Condensed,  3  ds  ...........1  80
Condensed,  4  d s  .......... 8  00
Armour’s,  2  o s ...............4 45
Arm our’s  4  os  .............. 3  20
Liebig’s,  Chicago.  2 oz.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  4 os.5  60 
Liebig’s,  im ported.  2 os.4  65 
Liebig’s,  Imported.  4 os.8  60

MEAT  EXTRACTS

LYE

In d e x  t o   M a r k e t s

B y  Columns

Col

Axle  Grease  ......................  1

B ath  B rick  ......................  }
J
Brooms 
B rushes  .............................   }
..................  1
B u tter  Color 

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

 

........... 

Confections 
........................1J
..............................  J
Candles 
Canned  Goods 
..............  1
2
Carbon  Oils 
Catsup  ................................  2
................................  2
Cheese 
Chewing  Gum 
..............  2
Chicory 
..............................  2
Chocolate 
..........................  2
Clothes  Lines  ..................  2
J
Cocoa  .................................. 
Cocoa  Shells  .................... 
;
Coffee 
.................................  3
............................  3
Crackers 

Dried  F ru its  ....................  4

. . . .   4
Farinaceous  Goods 
Fish  and  Oysters  ............ 10
Fishing  Tackle 
..............  4
Flavoring  extracts  ........   5
Fly  P aper  .........................
Fresh  M eats  ....................  5
F ru its  .................................   u

G
G elatine  .............................   J
G rain  Bags 
......................  »
G rains  and  F l o u r ..........   »

H erbs 
Hides  and  Pelts 

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

..........10

Indigo  .................................  0

Jelly

Licorice  ........................••• 
Lye 

|
.....................................   5

M
M eat  E x tracts 
..............  6
............................  0
Molasses 
M ustard  .............................   0

N uts 

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

•
Pipes  ................................... 
•
Pickles  ...............................  
H aying  C a r d s ..................  6
P otash 
...............................   ®
Provisions 
•

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

klce

Salad  D ressing 
..............  7
Saleratus 
..........................  7
J
.................... 
Sal  Soda 
S alt  .....................................  
I
.................................  
Seeds 
J.
Shoe  Blacking  ................  7
................................... 
Snuff 
I
Soap 
J
................................... 
Soda 
...................................   *
Spices  .................................  
|
................................ 
Starch 
f
Sugar 
................................  *
Syrups 
..............................  8

Tea 
Tobacco 
Twine 

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

|
•
................................  0

Vinegar

W
........  

W ashing  Powder 
..........  9
W icklng 
 
9
....................  9
Wooden w are 
W rapping  Paper  .............. 10

 

I

N

8

T

ns

AXLE  GREASE 
dz
......................65
A urora 
T 00 
Castor  Oil 
.............. 55
426 
Diamond 
.................. 50
*00 
....................75
F razer's 
*00
IXL  Golden  .............75
BATH  BRICK
American 
75
................. 
English  .............................   85
1 C arpet 
No. 
............... 8  76
2 C a r p e t................. 2  35
No. 
3 C a r p e t..................2 16
No. 
4 C arpet  .................. 175
No. 
P arlor  Gem 
....................8 40
Common  W hisk 
..........   85
Fancy  W h is k ....................... 1 20
W arehouse  ......................8  00

BROOMS 

_

 

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid  Back,  8  in  .........  75
Solid  Back,  11  In  .......  *5
Pointed  E n d s ..................  85
Stove
..........................  75
No.  3 
.......................... 110
No.  2 
.........................1 75
No.  1
Shoe
.......................... 100
No.  8 
..........................130
No.  7
No.  4  ..................................170
No.  3 
................................1*0
W.,  R.  & Co.'s,  15c size .l 25 
W .,  R.  &  Co.’s.  25c size.2 00 
CANDLES
Electric  Light,  8s 
. . . .   9% 
Electric  Light,  16s  ....1 0
Paraffine,  6s  . . . .  ........... 9%
Paraffine,  12s 
..............10
W ic k ln g ...........................1*

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANNED  GOODS 

Apples

 

Clams

Corn
 

............
Beans

Clam  Bouillon

Blueberries
Brook  T rout 

3  lb.  Standards  .. 
80
Gals,  Standards  . .2 00@2 25 
Blackberries
85
Standards 
B a k e d ......................  80
Red  Kidney 
........   85
String  ........................ 70<'
W ax 
........................  75
1  40 
S tandard  ............
190
2  lb.  cans, Spiced.
L ittle  Neck,  1  lb .l0 0 @ l  25 
L ittle  Neck,  2  lb. 
150
B urnham ’s,  %  p t...........1 92
B urnham ’s,  p ts 
............3 60
B urnham ’s,  qts 
............7 20
Cherries 
Red  S tan d ard s.. .1 30@1 50
W hite  ...................... 
150
F a ir  ......... 
120
.................................1 25
Good 
Fancy 
............................... 150
French  Peas
Sur  E x tra  F ine..............  22
E x tra  Fine  ......................  19
Fine 
......................- .........  15
Moyen 
..............................  11
Gooseberries
..........................  *0
Standard 
Hominy
S tandard 
..........................  85
Lobster
Star,  %  lb ......................2  15
Star,  1  lb .........................3 75
Picni  Tails  ......................2 40
M ustard,  1  lb 
..............180
M ustard,  2  lb .................2 80
Soused,  1  lb .....................1 80
Soused,  2  It».....................2 80
Tom ato.  1  lb ...................1 80
Tom ato.  2  lb ...................2 80
Mushrooms
H otels 
....................  18®
B uttons  ..................  22®
Cove,  lib ...............   @  90
Cove,  2  lb  ............ 
1 65
Cove,  1  lb.  Oval  . 
1 00
Peaches
Pie 
........................1  10@1  15
Tellow 
..................1 45@1 85
100
Standard 
125
Fancy 
90®1 00
I®:
M arrow fat
@1  60 
E arly  June  ..............90
1  65
E arly  June  S ifte d ..
85
P lu m s ......................
Pineapple
3 75 
G rated  ....................136®:
138®
355

Pears
..........
................
Peas

Mackerel

O ysters

Plum s

|

........ ..

Straw berries

Russian  Cavler

............. 1 20® 1 49

CARBON  OILS 

Pum pkin
70
........................
F air 
80
Good  ........................
100
Fancy  ......................
325
G a llo n ......................
Raspberries
115
Standard  ...............
%  lb.  c a n s ......................  3 75
%  lb.  cans  ....................7 00
1  lb  ca n  .........................12 00
Salmon
166 
Col'a  River,  tails..
1  85 
Col’a   River,  flats.
1  65 
Red  Alaska  ........
90
Pink  A laska  ........
Sardines 
3%
Domestic,  %s  . .. .
6
Domestic,  % 
6®  9 
u st’d..
Domestic,  Mi
11@14
California,  %s  . . .
17
California,  %s  . . .  
French,  %s  ............  
7
French,  % s ..........  
18i
Shrim ps
S tandard 
Succotash
F a i r .........................
140
Good  ........................
150
Fancy  ......................
110.
Standard 
140
Fancy  ......................
Tom atoes
F a ir 
......................  85®  95
Good 
...................... 
115
Fancy 
................... 1  15@1  40
Gallons 
................2  75@3  00
Barrels
»13
Perfection 
...........  @13 
W ater  W hite  . ..
»11%115%
D.  S.  Gasoline  ..
»13%
Deodor’d  N ap’a...
»34
..............29
Cylinder 
Engine 
.................16
»22»10%
..  9 
Black,  w inter 
CATSUP
.4 60
Columbia,  25  p ts .. 
Columbia,  25  % p ts ....2  60
Snider’s  quarts 
.......... 3 25
Snider’s  pints 
.............2 25
Snider’s  %  pints 
.......130
CHEESE
@12 
Acme 
..........
@12 
. . . .
Amboy 
Carson  City
@12 
@13 
Elsie  ............
@ 12%  
Emblem  . . . .
...........
Gem 
@ 12% 
11 
Gold  Medal
@12 
Ideal 
..........
12% 
Jersey  ....................
12 
............
Riverside 
13
................... 12%
B rick 
1  00 
...................
Eldam 
17 
Leiden 
.................
13 
L im b u rg e r............12%
75 
Pineapple 
............  50
20
Sap  Sago
A m erican  Flag  Spruce.  55
Beem an’s  Pepsin 
........   60
Black  Jack 
....................  55
L argest  Gum  Made 
..  60
Sen  Sen  ...........................   55
Sen  Sen  B reath  P er’e .l  00
  65
Sugar  Loaf 
..........................  65
Y ucatan 
Bulk 
5
7
Red 
4
Eagle 
F ranck’s 
7
Schener’s 
6

.................................  
...................................  
................................ 
.......................... 
........................ 
W alter  B aker  A  Co.’s

CHEW ING  GUM 

CHOCOLATE 

CHICORY

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

Germ an  Sweet 
Prem ium  
Vanilla 
C aracas 
Eagle 

............  23
.........................   31
.............................   41
............................  35
................................  28

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

Ju te

60  ft,  3  thread,  ex tra. .1 00 
72  ft,  3  thread,  ex tra  . .1 40 
90  ft,  3  thread,  extra  . .1 70 
60  ft,  6  thread,  ex tra  . .1 29 
72  ft,  6  thread,  ex tra  .. 
60  f t   ..................................  75
72  f t  
................................„90
120  f t   ............................... 160
. . . .   Cotton  Victor
60  f t  
......................... .   .1  I?
60  f t  
............................... 1  25
70  ft...................................1  40
50  f t .................................1  30
60  f t  
................................1  44
70  f t  
..............................1  80
90 f t . ................................ 3  00

Cotton  W indsor

T a u t  

....................10  Sliced

M ICHIGAN  TR A DESM AN

6

8

9

1 0

Fancy  Open  K ettle  . . .   40 
Choice 
§6
F a lr'T .. ’.'.* ."." .!..........  26 | Snider’s^  small,  2 doz..l  35  110  box lots!  delivered.. .3  00 1 
-   - -  
22 
Good 

Jaxon  brand
Durkee's,  large,  1  doz.4  50 
Durkee’s  small, 2 doz. .5  25  Single  box  ......................2  10
Cadillac  ........................... 54
5  t>ox  lots,  delivered  ..3   05
Snider's,  large,  1  doz..2  35 
33
'* 'gg
Johnson  Soap  Co.  brands  H law atna.  bid.  pans  ..w
H iaw atha,  101b. pails  . .53
........................ 22
Pay  C a r ............................31
P rairie  Rose  .................. 49
Protection 
......................37
Sweet  B u rle y .................. 42
Tiger 
................................38

H alf  barrels  2c  extra 

2  76 1 Telegram  

SOAP

TOBACCO 
Fine  Cut

II
Cured  No.  1 
. . . .  2  40  Cured  No.  2 

Egg  C rates 
..................814
. . . . . . .  • • .714
H um pty  Dum pty 
I  No.  1,  c o m p le te ............  32  I Calfskins,  green  No. 1.  9
Calfskins,  green  No. 2.  7%
I No.  2,  co m p lete..............  18  "  
“
----1.1.10%
Calfskins,  cured  No. 
Calfskins,  cured  No. 2.  9 
Steer  Hides  601bs.  over9 
Cow  hides  601bs.  o v e r..8%
Old  Wool

Cork lined,  8 i n ..............  65
Cork lined,  9  i n ..............  75
Cork lined,  10  i n ............  85
j Cedar,  8  in........................  55

F a u cets

Pelts

Mop  Sticks

Trojan  spring 
..............  90
Eclipse  patent  spring  ..  85
No.  1  common  ..............  75
No.  2  pat.  brush  holder.  86 
12It>.  cotton  mop  heads.l  25
Ideal  No.  7 ......................  90

Traps

Toothpicks

Palls
hoop  S ta n d a rd .1  60
2- 
hoop  S ta n d a rd .1  75
3- 
wire,  Cable  .1 70
2- 
3- 
wlre,  Cable  .1 90
Cedar,  all  red.  brass  ..1   25
Paper,  E ureka  .............. 2  25
Fibre  ..................................2  70
Hardwood 
....................... 2  60
Softwood  ..........................2  75
B a n q u e t..................................1 60
Ideal 
..................................1  60
Mouse,  wood,  2  holes  ..  22
Mouse,  wood,  4  holes  ..  45 
Mouse,  wood,  6  holes  ..  70 
Mouse,  tin,  5  holes  . . .   66
......................  80
Rat,  wood 
Rat,  s p r in g ......................  75
Tubs
20-in.,  Standard,  No.  1.7  00 
18-in.,  Standard,  No.  2.6  00 
16-in.,  Standard,  No.  3.5  00 
20-in.,  Cable,  No.  1 
..7   50 
18-in.,  Cable,  No.  2 
..6   50 
16-in.,  Cable,  No.  3 
. .5  60
No.  1  F ib r e ....................10  80
No.  2  Fibre  ..................  9  45
No.  3  Fibre  .................... 8  55

W ash  Boards
Bronze  Globe  .................. 2  50
Dewey 
..............................1  75
Double  Acme  ..................2  75
Single  Acme  ..................2  25
Double  Peerless 
.......... 3  25
Single  P e e rle ss .............. 2  50
N orthern  Q u e e n ............ 2  50
Double  Duplex  .............. 3  00
Good  Luck  ......................2  75
U niversal 
. : .................... 2  25

Window  Cleaners

12  in....................................1  65
14  in.....................................1  85
16  in.....................................2  30

Wood  Bowls

11  in.  B u tte r ..................  75
13  in.  B utter  . . . . . . . . . 1   15
1 a 
in.  B utter 
...............2  00
17  in.  B utter 
.............. 3  25
19  in.  B utter  ................ 4  75
Assorted  13-15-17  .........2  25
A ssorted  15-17-19.........3  25

W RAPPING  PAPER

. . . .   2% 

Common  Straw   ............1%
Fibre  Manila,  w hite  ..  2% 
Fibre  Manila,  colored  .  4
No.  1  M anila  ................4
Cream  M anila  ..............3
B utcher’s  M anila 
W ax  B utter,  short  c’nt.13 
W ax  B utter,  full  count.20 
W ax  B utter,  rolls  ....1 6  
Magic,  3  doz....................1  15
Sunlight,  3  doz............. 1  00
Sunlight,  1%  doz...........  50
Y east  Foam,  3  doz.  ...1   15 
Yeast  Cream,  3  doz  ..1   00 
Yeast  Foam,  1%  doz.  ..  58

YEA8T  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

P er  lb.

W hite  fish  ...............10011
T rout 
.......................  @ 9
Black  B a s s .............11 @12
H a lib u t......................16011
Ciscoes  or  H erring.  @  5
Blueflsh  ....................11 @12
Live  L o b s te r..........  @25
Boiled  L o b s te r........   @27
Cod 
@12
Haddock 
..................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel  . . . .   @ 8%
Pike  ...........................  @ 7
Perch,  dressed  . . . .   @  7
Smoked  W hite  . .. .   @12%
Red  S n a p p e r..........  @__
Col.  River  Salmonl2%@13 
Mackerel  ..................19® 20

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

OYSTERS

Cans
P er  can
F.  H.  Counts 
..............  36
E x tra  Selects  ................  28
Selects 
.............................   23
Perfection  Standards...  22
...........................  20
Anchors 
Standards 
.......................  18
Favorites 
........................  17
Bulk
Standard,  gal  ................ 1  40
Selects,  gal 
..............*. .1  60
E x tra  Selects,  gal  -----1  60
Fairhaven  Counts,  g a l.l  75 
Shell  Oysters,  per  100.1  90 
Shell  Clams,  per  100.1  00
Clams,  zal 
l  *6

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

I 

HIDES  AND  PELTS
Green  No.  1  ....................7
Green  No.  2  ....................6

Hides

.50@1  40 
.50@1  25
.  <S>  4%
1 %

3 

............
Tallow

No.
...................  
No.
f i n e ........ .  @20
W ashed.
W ashed,  medium  ..  @23 
. .14016 
Unwashed,  fine 
Unwashed,  medium  @18 

Wool 

CONFECTIONS 

Stick  Candy

Pails

Mixed  Candy

Fancy—In  Palls 

Standard  .........................   7
Standard  H.  H .............. 7
Standard  Tw ist 
..........8
Cut  Loaf  ..........................  9
cases
Jumbo,  321b. 
.................. 7%
E x tra  H.  H.  ..................9
...............10
Boston  Cream 
Grocers 
............... 
6
Competition 
..................... 7
Special 
...........................  7%
Conserve 
.......  ................7%
...............................  8%
Royal 
Ribbon  .............................   9
.............................  8
Broken 
Cut  Loaf............................8
English  Rock 
..............  9
K in d e rg a rte n ..................8%
Bon  Ton  Cream  ...........  8%
French  Cream  ..............9
S tar 
..................................11
H and  made  C re a m ....14% 
Prem ie  Cream  mixed. .12% 
O  F   Horehound  D rop..10
Gypsy  H earts 
..............14
Coco  Bon  B o n s ...............12
Fudge  S q u a re s ...............12
Peanut  Squares  ...........  9
Sugared  P e a n u ts ..........10
Salted  Peanuts 
.............10
Starlight  Kisses  ..........10
San  Bias  G o o d ies........ 12
Lozenges,  plain  ............9
. . . .  10 
Lozenges,  printed 
Champion  Chocolate  ..11 
Eclipse  Chocolates 
...13 
Q uintette  Chocolates... 12 
Champion  Gum  Drops.  8
Moss  Drops  ....................  9
Lemon  Sours 
................9
Im perials 
.......................   9
...12 
Ital.  Cream  Opera 
Ital.  Cream  Bon  Bons.
20  lb.  pails 
..............12
Molasses  Chews,  151b.
cases 
12
Golden  Waffles 
............ 12
Fancy—In  5tb.  Boxes
Lemon  S o u r s .................. 50
Pepperm int  Drops  . .. .  60
Chocolate  Drops  ...........60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops  ...85 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
D ark  No.  12  ..............1  00
Gum  D ro p s ......................36
O.  F.  Licorice  Drops  ..80
Lozenges,  p la in .............. 56
....6 0
Lozenges,  printed 
Im perials 
........................65
M ottoes 
 
60
Cream  B ar  ...................... 55
Molasses  B ar  ................55
H and  Made  Cr’ms..80@90 
Cream  B uttons,  Pep. 
...66
String  Rock 
................ 60
W lntergreen  B erries  . .55 
F.  Bossenberger’s  brands.
Caram els 
........................13
N ut  caram els 
..............14
.......................... . . I f
Kisses 
Chocolates  ................ 11-20
Pop  Corn
Maple  Jake,  per  case..3  00
Cracker  Jack  ................3  00
Pop  Com  Balls  ............1  30

and  W lntergreen 

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

........... 

 

NUTS
Whole
Almonds,  T arragona... 16
Almonds,  Ivica 
............
Almonds.  California  eft 
shelled,  new  ..14  @16
Brazils 
............................10
............................U
Filberts 
W alnuts,  French 
........12
W alnuts,  soft  shelled.
Cal.  No.  1 .......................}•
Table  Nuts,  fancy  ....1 8
Pecans,  Med.  ................9
Pecans,  Ex.  Large  ...10
Pecans,  Jum bos  ..........11
Hickory  N uts  per  bu.
Cocoanuts  ........................  4
Chestnuts,  per  bu..........
Spanish  Peanuts.  7  @ 7%
Pecan  H alves 
...............88
W alnut H a lv e s .............. 32
Filbert  M eats  .................25
Alicante  Almonds  ....... 36
Jordan  Almonds  ...........60
Fancy,  H   P,  Suns.  @  6% 
Fancy.  H .  P..  Suns,
P.oasted 
<®  8
................ 
Choice,  H   P,  J ’be.  @  8%
Choice.  H.  P.  Jum ­
bo,  R oasted  . ...9   @  9%

..................1  75

Ohio  new 

Peanuts

Shelled

SALAD  DRESSING 

SALERATUS 

.  __  I  Arm  and H am m er 

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans 
........ .............. 
- -
Packed  60  lbs.  in  box 
MUSTARD 
.. .3 15
Horse  Radish,  1  dz 
•1  25 |  Deland’s 
.....................3 00
Horse  Radish,  2  dz  .
. .3  60  Dwight’s Cow 
..............«3 15
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  dz 
.....................2  10
Emblem 
*• 
L.  P .................................... 3 00
OLIVES
1  00  W yandotte,  100 %s 
.3 00
..
Bulk,  1 gal.  kegs 
..
Bulk,  3  gal.  kegs 
85 
SAL  SODA
. . . .  85
Bulk,  6  gal.  kegs 
Granulated,  bbls  ..........  85
Manzanilla,  7  o z .......... 
80
Granulated,  1001b cases.l  00
Queen,  pints 
............... 2  35
Lump,  bbls......................  75
Queen,  19  oz 
............. 4  50
Queen,  1»  0» 
..............?  ¡ft I Lump,  1451b.  kegs  . . . .   95
Queen,  28 o z ..................  7  00 |
Stuffed,  6  oz 
..............  90  I 
Stuffed.  8  oz  . ................1  45  I 
Stuffed,  10  oz 
..............2  30 
Cases,  24 31b. boxes  ...1   40
Clay,  No.  216 
..............1  70  Barrels,  100 31b. bags  . .3  00
..3   00 
Clay,  T.  D.,  full  count  65  Barrels,  50 61b. bags 
Colt,  No.  3  ......................  85  ¡B arrels,  40 71b. bags 
..2   75

Diamond  Crystal

SALT
Table

P IP E S  

. 

PICKLES
Medium

B utter

Lard

..17

Cod

Small

B utter

Cheese

W arsaw

.POTASH 

..............1  50

SALT  FISH 

Boxes,  24  21b 

Smoked  Meats 

48  cans  in  case

Common  Grades

........................4  00

PLAYING  CARDS 

Dry  S alt  Meats
....................... . 

Solar  Rock
..........
Common

B abbitt’s 
Penna  Salt  Co.’s  .......... 3  00 S

Barrels.  320  lb.  bulk  ..2   65 
Barrels,  20  141b. bags  . .2  85
..............  27
Sacks,  28  lbs 
Sacks,  56  lbs..................   67

Large  whole  ..........  @6
Small  whole  ..........  @5%
Strips  or  bricks 
..7   @9
Pollock  ......................  @3%
Halibut
Strips  ...............................J4
...........................1°
Chunks 
Herring
Holland

Barrels,  1,200  count  ..7   75 
Half  bbls,  600  count  ..4   50 
H alf bbls,  1,200  count  ..5   50 
Barrels,  2,400  count  ..9   50 
Shaker
No.  90,  Steam boat  . . .   85
Buckeye 
No.  15.  Rival,  assortedl  20
Table
No.  20,  Rover  enam eledl  60  Bris,  120  bags,  2%  Ibs  3  25
No.  572,  Spécial  ..........1  75  Bris,  100  bags,  3 
Ibs  3  00
lbs  3  00 
No.  98,  Golf,  satin  finish2  00  Bris,  60  bags,  6
tbs  3  00 
Brls,  50  bags,  6 
No.  808,  Bicycle  ...........2  00
Ibs  2  75 
Brls,  30  bags.  10 
No.  632,  Toum m ’t  w histz  25
Ibs  2  85
Brls,  22  bags,  14 
Brls,  320  lbs,  bulk  . ..   2  25 
Cases,  24  cts,  3  l b s ....  1  25 
Brls,  280  lbs,  bulk---- 2  25
Linen  bags,  5-56  lbs  3  00 
Linen  bags,  10-28  lbs  3  00 
Cotton  bags,  10-28  lbs  2  75 
5  barrel  lots,  5  per  cent, 
discount.
lots,  7%  per 
10  barrel 
cent,  discount.
Above  prices  are  F.  O.  B. 
100  31b.  sacks 
.............. 1  90
60  51b.  sacks  .............. 1  80
28  101b.  sacks  .............. 1  70
56  lb.  sacks  ..................  30
28  lb.  sacks  ..................  15
56  lb.  dairy  in  drill bags  40 
28  lb. dairy  in drill bags  20 
22
56  !b.  sacks 
G ranulated  Fine  ..........   80
Medium  Fine  ................  85

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork
Mess 
...............................J4  50
....................16  00
Back,  fa t 
Clear  back 
.................. 16  50
Short  cut  ...................... 15  00
P ie  ...................................20  00 1
Bean 
...............................13  00 1
Fam ily  Mess  Loin 
Clear  Fam ily  .............. 13  00 1
Bellies 
9%  !
S  P   Bellies  .....................10%
E x tra  shorts 
................9%
Ham s,  121b.  average. 12 
H am s,  141b.  average. 11% 
H am s,  161b.  a v erag e .il 
H am s,  201b.  a v erag e .il
Skinned  H a m s ............11
Ham ,  dried  beef  s e ts.12% 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut) 
...1 0   @13 
Bacon,  clear 
7%
California  ham s . . . .  
Boiled  H am s  ................17
Picnic  Boiled H am s  . .   12%
Berlin  H am   p r’s’d ..  9
Mince  H am s 
...........  9%
Compound  *...................... 7
P ure  ....................................8%
60  lb. 
tubs, .advance.  % 
80  lb.  tubs, .advance.  % 
60 
lb. 
tin s..ad v an ce.  % 
20  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
10  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
6  lb.  pails, .advance.  1 
W hite  hoops,  bbl............ 8 60
8  lb.  pails, .advance.  1 
W hite  hoops,  %bbl.  ...4   60
W hite  hoops  keg...60@ 65 
Bologna  ..........................  »%
W hite  hoops  mchs  .. 
75
Liver 
..............................  6%
Norwegian 
......................
F rankfort  ......................  7%
Round.  100  l b s ................3 60
Pork 
..............................  8
Round,  50  lbs  .............. 2  10
V e a l...........................  7%
.............................   17
Scaled 
..........................  9
Tongue 
Bloaters 
..........................*  “0
Headcheese 
No.  1,  100  l b s .................6 60
E x tra  Mess
Boneless  ........................12  00  {Jg,  i,  40  Ibs  ...............2  50
Rump,  New 
................ 11  00
No.  1,10  lbs
No.  1,  8  lbs..........
%  bbls.  ............................ 1  20
Mackerel
%  bbls.,  40  Ibs.............. 2 00
Mess  100  lbs.................14 60
Mess  50 Ibs...................... J 76
1  bbls. 
..............................8  60
Mess  10 Ibs...................... 1 76
Mess  8  Ibs....................... 1 J®
K its,  15  lbs  ....................     70
No.  1,  100  lbs............... 18 00
%  bbls.,  40  I b s ..........   1  26
No.  1,  60  lbs....................7 00
%bbls.,  80  Ibs  ..........   2  60
No.  1.  10  Ibs....................1 60
No.  1,  8  lbs.....................1 »5
Hogs,  per  lb....................  «
Bern  rounds,  s e t ..........  
if
No 1  No. 2  Fam  
Beef  middles,  s e t ........   45
3  75 
Sheep,  per b u n d le ........   70
2  20 
53 
Solid,  dairy  ........ 10  @10%
46
Rolls,  dairy  ........ 10% @13
14
Rolls,  pu rity   . . . .  
Solid,  purity  —  
12%
Corned  beef,  2  . . . . . . .   2  40
Corned  beef.  Î4  ..........17  50  Cardam on,”  M alabar 
R oast  beef,  2  @ .......... 2  40
45
P otted  ham ,  %s  ----- 
§5
Potted  ham ,  %s  ........ 
45
Deviled  ham ,  %s  . . . .  
85
Deviled  ham .  %s  . . . .  
P otted  tongue,  %s  . . .  
45
P otted  tongue,  %s  . .  
85
RICE
„ „ „
Carolina  head 
...........6@6%
............j n
Carolina  No.  1 
Carolina  No.  2 
. . . . . .   ®
Broken 
................8  @ 8%
Japan,  No.  1 
Japan,  No.  2  . . . ..4%@6 
Java,  fancy  head  .  @6%
Java,  No.  1  .......

..............................If
Celery 
Hemp,  R ussian  .............4
Mixed  Bird 
...................f
M ustard,  w hite 
. . . . . .   8
Poppy 
............................. 5 «
Rape  .................................
Cuttle  Bone 
.................25
SHOE  BLACKING 
H andy  Box.  large, 3 dz.2  50 
H andy  Box,  sm all  . .. .1   »5 
Bixby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  86 
Miller’s  Crown  Polish.  85 
Scotch,  in  bladders  . . .   87
• Y i a :   8

W hlteflsh 
..7   75 
..3   68 
..  92 
..  77
SEEDS

.16
Canary.  S m y rn a ............«

Uncolored  B utterlne

Canned  Meats 

............  6%

Domestic 

lbs
Ibs.
Ibs.
lbs

Casings

P ig 's   F eet

SNUFF

S au sa g es

Tripe

..1   00

Beef

T ro u t

Plug

........................3  75  Red  Cross

Silver  King 
..................3  66
Calumet  Fam ily  .......... 2  75
Scotch  Fam ily 
.............2  85
Cuba  ..................................2  35
J.  S.  K irk  &  Co.  brands
Am erican  Fam ily  .........4  05
Dusky  Diamond, 50 8oz.2  80 
Dusky  D’nd.,  100 6oz. .3  80 j
Jap  Rose 
...........3  10  palo  ...................................32
Savon  Im perial 
W hite  Russian 
.......... 3  10  K y io ....................................34
......................41
Dome,  oval  bars 
........ 3  10  H iaw atha 
Satinet,  oval  .................. 2  15  B attle  Axe  .....................33
W hite  Cloud  .................. 4  00  American  Eagle 
.........32
stan d ard   N avy  ........... 36
.............. .. .. 4   00  Spear  Head, 16 oz............42
Big  Acme 
Acme,  100-% lb. b a ts .. .3  10  Spear  Head,  8 oz............44
ia
.................... 4  00 
Big  M aster 
Nobby  Tw ist 
................ 48
Snow  Boy  P d’r. 100 pk.4  00
Jolly  T a r ..........................36
M arselles 
........................4  00
Old  H onesty  .................. 42
Proctor  &  Gamble  brands
..............................33
Toddy 
Lenox 
...............................3  10
J.  T ......................................36
Piper  Heidsick 
Ivory,  6  oz  ......................4  00
.............68
ivory,  10  oz  .................. 6  75
Boot  Jack  
...................... 78
S tar 
..................................3  25
Honey  Dip  T w ist 
....3 9  
_________________________
Black  S ta n d a rd .............. 38
Good  Cheer 
.................. 4  00  Cadillac  ........................... 38
Old  Country  .................. 3  40  Forge 
............................... 30
Nickel  T w is t..................60

Lautz  Bros.  &   Co.  brands 

A.  B.  W risley  brands 

Scouring 

* ' 

-

SODA 

Smoking

J2  chips 

Whole  Spices

Boxes 
Kegs,  English 

Enoch  Morgan s  Sons. 

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

SPICES 
.......................... 

Sapolio,  gross  lots  ... .9   00 
Sapolio,  half  gross  lots.4  50  Sweet  Core 
Sapolio,  single  boxes  ..2   25 
Sapolio,  hand 
.............. 2  25  G reat  N avy 

.
...................34
j F lat C a r ..........................32
...................84
W arpath 
........................ 26
1 -  
Bamboo.  16  oz............... 25
1  x   1.,  b  m ......................27
I  X  L,  16  oz.,  pails  ..31
Honey  Dew 
.................. 37
Gold  Block 
.................. 37
Flagm an 
......................... 40
Allspice 
...............................33
Cassia,  China in m ats.  1*  Kiln  Dried  ..................... 21
Cassia,  Batavia, bund.  28 
Duke’s  M ix tu re .............. 39
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.  40 
Duke’s  Cameo  .............. 43
Cassia,  Saigon,  in rolls.  55
M yrtle  Navy  .................. 40
Cloves,  Amboyna  ........  23
I Turn  Turn,  1  2-3  oz.  ..39 
Cloves,  Zanzibar 
........   20
Yum  Yum,  lib.  pails  . .37 
Mace  .................................   5 5 ..................................................
! Cream  ......... 
36
............  60 j  Corn  cake,  2%  oz. ...24
Nutm egs,  75-80 
corn  Cake,  lib ...............22
Nutmegs,  106-10  ..........  40 
3d p iow  Boy,  1  2-3  oz.  ..39
Nutmegs,  115-20  . . . . . .  
15 p i0w  Boy,  3%  oz......... 39
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk. 
28 Peerless,  3%  oz.............35
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite  . 
Pepper,  shot 
. . . . . . . .  
17 Peerless,  1  2-3  o z .___36
Pure  Ground  in  Bulk 
Air  B rake  .......................36
Allspice 
 
.........  
c a n t  Hook  .....................30
Cassia,  B atavia  ............  28  Country  Club  .........32-34
Cassia,  Saigon 
............  4* | Forex-XXXX 
.................28
Cloves,  Zanzibar 
........   23
.................. 23
Good  Indian 
Ginger,  African 
..........   15
Self  B in d e r.................20-22
Ginger,  C o c h in ..............  18
Silver  Foam  
.................. 34
Ginger,  Jam aica  ..........   25
Mace 
...............................   65 
M u sta rd ............... 
 
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk. 
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite 
Pepper,  Cayenne  .
.......................
Sage 
STARCH 

18  Cotton,  3  ply  ................26
..............26
Jute,  2  ply  ....................14
25 
20  Hemp,  6  ply  ................13
..............20
20  Flax,  medium 
Wool,  lib.  b a l l s ............6

17 Cotton,  4  ply 

TW INE

I® 

 

 

Common  Gloss

lib.  packages  .............. 5
31b.  packages  ............    4%
61b.  packages  .................5%
40  and  50  lb.  boxes  .3@3%
Barrels 
........................3@3%
20  lib .  packages  ..........5
40  lib.  packages  ....4% @ 7 

Common  Corn

SYRUPS 

Corn

B a r re ls .............................. 21
H alf  b a rre ls .................... 23
201b.  cans,  %dz.  in  easel  55 
101b.  cans,  %dz. in easel  55 
51b.  cans,  1  dz. in easel  75 
2%Ib.  cans,  2 dz. case...l  75 
F air  .................................... 
If
.................................  20
Good 
Choice 
..............................  25

Pure  Cane

VINEGAR

M alt  W hite  W ine. 40 gr. 8 
M alt W hite W ine, 80 g r.ll 
Pure  Cider,  B & B  
..11 
Pure  Cider,  Red  S tar. 11 
Pure  Cider,  R obinson.il 
Pure  Cider,  Silver  ....1 1
WASHING  POW DER

Diamond  Flake  .............2  75
Gold  B rick 
....................8  25
Gold  Dust,  regular  . .. .4   60
Gold  Dust.  5c 
.............. 4  00
Kirkoline,  24  41b...........3  90
..........................3  75
Pearline 
Soapine 
........................... 4  10
.............. 3  75
B abbitt’s  1776 
Roseine 
........................... 3  50
........................3  70
Arm our’s 
Nine  O’clock 
................3  85
W isdom 
..........................3  80
Scourlne 
..........................3  50
Rub-No-M ore  ................ 8  75

TEA
Japan

....2 4  
Sundried,  medium 
Sundried,  choice  ......3 2
Sundried,  fancy 
...........36
Regular,  medium 
........ 24
Regular,  c h o ic e .............32
Regular,  fancy  ..............36
Basket-fired,  medium  .31 
Basket-fired,  choice 
..38 
Basket-fired,  fancy 
..43
Nibs 
..........................22 @24
Siftings 
...................... J u l l
F a n n in g s .................. 12@14
Gunpowder
. .  • .80
Moyune,  medium 
Moyune,  choice  .............32
Moyune,  fancy 
.............40
Pingsuey,  medium  . . .  .30
Pingsuey,  choice 
........SO
Pingsuey,  fancy 
...........40

Oolong

Young  Hyson
C h o ice................................f®
Fancy 
...............................8®
Form osa,  fancy  .............42
Amoy,  medium  ..............25
Amoy,  choice  ................ *3
Medium 
..........................SJ
Choice 
..............................80
Fancy  ................................"
C eylon,  choice  .............. • *
Fancy 
.......................«■

English  B reakfast

India

WICKING
No.  0  per  g r o s s ............ 30
No.  1  per gross 
..........40
No.  2  per gross  ..........50
No.  3  per gross  .......... 75

WOODENWARE

Bradley  B utter  Boxes 

Baskets
Bushels 
............................1  00
Bushels,  wide band  . ...1   25
M arket  .............................   85
Splint,  large  .................. 6  00
Splint,  medium  ............ 6  00
Splint,  small  .................. 4  00
Willow,  Clothes,  larg e.7  25 
Willow  Clothes, m ed’m . 6  00 
Willow  Clothes,  sm all.5  60 
2tb.  size,  24  in  case  . .   72 
31b.  size,  16  in  case  ..  68 
51b.  size,  12  in  case  ..  63 
101b.  size,  6  in  case  ..  60 
No.  1  Oval,  250  in  crate.  40 
No.  2  Oval,  250  in crate.  45 
No.  3  Oval,  250  in crate.  50 
No.  5  Oval,  250 in crate.  60 
Barrel,  6  gal.,  each 
..2   40 
Barrel,  10  gal.,  each  . .2  55 
B arrel,  16  gal.,  each  ..2   70 
Round head.  6 gross bx.  56 
Round  hand,  cartons   . .   75

B utter  Plates

Clothes  Pins

Churns 

4«
S P E C IA L  P R IC E  C U R R E N T

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

We sell more 5  and  10 
Cent Goods Than Any 
Other Twenty  Whole­
sale  Houses  in 
the 
Country.

W H Y ?

Because our houses are the  recog­
nized  headquarters  for  these 
goods.

Because our prices are the  lowest. 
Because our service is the best. 
Because  our  goods  are  always 
exactly as we tell you they are. 
Because  we  carry  the  largest 
assortment  in this  line  in  the, 
world.

Because our assortment  is  always 
kept up-to-date and  free  from 
stickers.

Because we aim to make  this  one 
of our chief lines  and  give  to 
it our best  thought  and  atten­
tion.

Our current catalogue  lists  the  most  com­
plete  offerings  in  this  line  in  the  world. 
W e shall be glad to send it to any merchant 
who w ill ask for i t   Send for Catalogue J.

BUTLER  BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Iwrjthiig—Bj Catalogue Only 
St. Louis

Chicago 

New York 

A sk

c.
p.
B.

L arg e

F o r

c.
p.
B.

Size

CONDENSED

PEARL
BLUING
will not freeze

“ Special  Packed”

Three dozen 

large  (io  cent)  size. 
One set nickel plated  Sad  Irons  with 
advertising, price per case, $2.50.

It’s a good  seller.  Order  of  your 

jobber or direct.

Jennings

Flavoring Extract Co.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

F or  $4.00

We will send you printed and complete

5.000 B ills
5.000 D up licates

100 S h e e ts of C arb o n  P a p e r 

a   P a te n t  L e a th e r C overs

We do this to have you give them a trial.  We know if once 
you use oar Duplicate  system  you  will  always  use  it,  as  it 
pays  for  itself  in  forgotten  charges  alone. 
For  descriptive  circular  and  special  prices 
on large quantities address
A.  H. Morrill & Co.,

105 Ottawa Street, 
Orand Rapids, Michigan

Now is the  timeYe Olde fashion

Borebound Drops

are  in  great demand.

Manufactured only by

Putnam Factory* «rand Rapids, mici).

AXLE  GREA8E

COFFEE
Roasted

DwineU-W right  Co.’s  Bds.

Mica,  tin   boxes  ..75  9  00 
Paragon 
..................55  6  00

BAKING  POWDER 

Jaxon  Brand

J A X O N
KIb.  cans,  4  des.  ease  45 
ftlb .  cans,  4  dos.  case  85 
1 
lb.  cans,  2  dos.  easel  40

Royal

10c  size.  90 
K Ibcans  135 
6  ox cans  190 
Vilbcans  250 
% lb cans  375 
1  lb cans  480 
I  3  lb cans 1300 
5  lb cans 2150

BLUING

A rctic  4 oz ovals, p gro 4 00 
A rctic  8 oz ovals, p gro 6 00 
A rctic  16 oz ro’d, p gro 9 00

BREAKFAST  FOOD

Oxford  Flakes

No.  1  A,  per  c a s e ....3  60
No.  2  B,  per  case.......... 3 60
No.  3  C,  epr  case..........3 60
No.  1  D,  per  case.........3 60
No.  2  D,  per  case.........3 60
No.  3  D,  per  case..........3 60
No.  1  E.  per  case.......... 3 60
No.  2  E,  per  c a s e .. .. .. 3 60
No.  1  F.  per  case..........3 60
No.  3  F.  per  case..........8 60

G rits

W alsh-DeRoo  Co.’s  Brands

Cases,  24  2  lb  pack’s. .2  00 

CIGARS

G.  J. Johnson C igar Co.'s bd.
Less  th an   500.............. 33  00
500  or  m ore....................32  00
x,000  or  m ore................31  00

CHEW ING  GUM

6elem Nerve

1  box,  20  packages  . . . .   50 
5  boxes in c a r to n ..........2  50

COCOANUT

B aker’s  B razil  Shredded

70  %lb  pkg,  p er  case. .2  60 
35  „Tb  pkg.  per  case. .2  60 
38  MIb  pkg,  per  case. .2  60 
If  g ib   pkg,  per  c ass..2   60

W hite  House,  1  lb . .. .
W hite  House,  2  lb ........
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  1  lb 
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  2  lb 
Tip  Top,  M  &  J,  1  lb ..
Royal  Jav a   ....................
Royal  Jav a  and  Mocha 
Jav a  and  Mocha  Blend 
Boston  Combination  ..
Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids; 
N ational  Grocer  Co.,  De­
tro it  and  Jackson;  B.  Des- 
enberg  &  Co.,  Kalam azoo; 
Symons  Bros.  &  Co.,  Sagi­
naw ;  Meisel  &  Goeschel, 
Bay  City;  Fielbach  Co., 
Toledo.
CO FFEE  SUBSTITUTE 

D istnouted  by 

Javril

2  doz.  in  case  ............4  80

CONDENSED  MILK 

4  doz  in  case

Gail  Borden  Eagle  . .. .6   40
Crown 
..............................5  90
Champion 
......................4  25
Daisy  ................................4  70
M ag n o lia..........................4  00
Challenge  ........................4  40
Dime 
................................3  85
Peerless  Evap’d Cream .4  00
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Coleman's 
Van.  Lem.
2oz.  P a n e l.............. 1  20 
75
3oz.  T aper  ..1 .........2  00  1  50
No.  4  Rich.  B lake.2  00  1  50 

Foote  A   Jenks 

Jennings

Terpeneless  Lemon 

No.  2  D.  C.  p r  ds  . . . .   75 
No.  4  D.  C.  p r  dz  . .. .1   50
No.  6  D.  C.  p r  d z ........ 2  00
Taper  D.  C.  p r  d s  . .. .1   50 
. . . .  
No.  2  D.  C.  p r  dz  . .. .1   20
No.  4  D.  C.  p r  d s ___2  00
No.  6  D.  C   p r  dz  . .. .8   00 
Taper  D.  C.  p r  dz  . .. .2   00

M exican  V anilla 

SAFES

in 

stock  by 

fire  proof 

Full  line  of  th e  celebrated 
Diebold 
safes 
kept 
th e 
Tradesm an  C o m p a n y .  
Tw enty  different  sizes  on 
hand  a t  all 
tim es—twice 
as  m any  of  them   as  are 
carried  by  any  other house 
If  you  are 
in  th e  State. 
unable  to   visit  G rand  R ap­
ids  and 
th e  line 
personally,  w rite  for  quo­
tations.

inspect 

SALT

Jar-S a lt 
O n e   dozen 
Ball’s  q u art 
Mason 
ja rs 
(3  p o u n ds 
e a c h ) ............85

SOAP

Beaver  Soap  Co.’s  Brands

Aownt^
E n E S S i

100  cakes,  large  s iz e ..6  50 
50  cakes,  large  size. .3  26 
100  cakes,  sm all  size. .3  85 
50  cakes,  sm all  size. .1  95
Tradesm an  Co.’s  Brand

Black  H awk,  one  b o x ..2  50 
Black  H awk,  five  bxs.2  40 
Black  H awk,  ten  bxs.2  25

TABLE  SAUCES

Halford,  large  ........... 3  75
Halford,  small  ........... 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

send you samples 

if you ask  us. 

They are 

free.

Tradesman Company 

Grand Rapids

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47

BUSINESS-WANTS  DEPARTMENT

-\J\ urtivcmcnts  inserted  under  this  head  for  two  eents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  tor  fact, 

subsequent  continuous  insertion.  No  elvarqe  less  than  2?  cents.  Cash  must  accompany  all  orders.

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

$22 

____

th a t 

Will  sell  half  interest,  w ith  full  m an­
agem ent,  in  a   fully  equipped  light  m anu­
facturing  business,  located  in  a   flourish­
ing  city  in  Southern  Michigan.  Small 
capital  required.  Address  No.  138,  care
M ichigan  Tradesm an.  ________ __ii8 _
For  Sale  for  Cash  Only—The  only  rack­
et  store  in  one  of  the  best  tow ns  of 
1,500  in  M ichigan.  Cleared  19  per  cent, 
on  investm ent  In  the  last 
“ ?Ptb ^ ,„  
1903.  New  stock  of  about  $2,000.  Do- 
ing  a  cash  business,  w hich  has  doubled 
in  the  last  year.  B est  location  cheap 
rent.  Address  No.  137,  care  M ichigan
T radesm an.  /
_________________ _
W anted—A  location  in  tow n  of  3,000 
to  10,000  for  a   racket  store.  Address 
No.  136.  care  M ichigan  T radesm an.  136 
For  Sale—Two  show-cases  in  good  re­
pair.  One  8  feet  and  one  12  feet.  Ad­
dress  W.  B.,  Box  235,  H astings,  Mich.  135 
To  Exchange—360  acres  g o o d p ra irie  
land  in  G rant  county,  .S o u th   Dakota, 
2%  miles  to  town,  %  mile  to  school,  for 
general  m erchandise.  Value, 
per 
acre;  mortgage,  $3,000.  Address  C hris- 
m an  &  Wells,  OrtonviUe,  Minn. 
133 
For  Sale—T hirteen  acres  patented m in­
ing  ground.  M ineral  in  sight.  Address 
p .  of Box  1064,  Cripple  Creek,  Colo.  132 
We  are  oflerihg  for  sale  a   w ell-estab­
lished  notion  store 
is  a   bargain. 
Good  reasons  for  w anting  to  sell.  City 
is  prosperous  and  growing.  Population 
12,000.  Address  M.  V.  K esler  &  Co.,
H untington,  Ind. 
______ " ± _
For  Sale—$1,500  stock  drugs.  Business 
paying.  Large  territory.  No  opposition. 
Booming  town.  Poor  health  reason  for 
selling.  For  particulars 
address  b m
18,  Lum,  Mich. 
For  Sale—Stock  of  general  m erchan- 
dise  nine  m onths  old,  mostly  staple  dry 
goods,  groceries,  shoes,  etc.;  good  town, 
cash  only,  no  trades.  Address  No.  140,
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an._________
Go  To  Cuba—A  residence  lot  free  to 
you.  The  H erradura  Land  Co.  offers for 
sale  200  40-acre  farm s  near  H avana  and 
adjoining  railroad; 
located  in  the  best 
agricultural  section  of  Cuba;  special  low 
prices  until  M arch  15.  To  purchasers, 
family  and  household  goods  carried  free 
from   H avana.  For  particulars  address 
F ran k  H.  H endrick,  H ollister  Block,  Lan-
sing,  Mich.______________________  
__
$12,000  Stock  General  M erchandise For 
Sale—H ave  had  a   30  days’  sale  and  sold 
all  my  old  stock.  Make  me  an  offer.  W. 
W.  Townsend,  H ubbardston,  Mich.  141 
A  Business  Opportunity.  A  general 
store  (located  in  a   thriving  m anufactur­
ing  town,  w ith  a   future  before  it)  to  be 
departm entized.  The  entire  business  has 
an  annual  output  of  $100,000  to  $115,0 0 0 - 
shoes, 
groceries, 
clothing,  dry  goods  and  notions,  five  de­
partm ents ; 
in  brick 
store;  well-located;  stocks  clean  and  up- 
to-date;  each  stock  will be sold  separately 
or  together;  splendid  opportunity  to  se­
cure  a   w ell-established  business  on  favor­
able  term s.  Address  a t  once,  H .  M.  J., 
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
F or  Sale—One  Buffalo  chopper  No.  0, 
hand  or  power,  in  first-class  condition; 
price  reasonable.  Address  No.  119,  care 
M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
F or  Sale—Three  tra c ts  mixed  tim ber; 
convenient  to  railroad;  heavily  tim bered, 
tra c ts  6,600,  2,300  and  640  acres.  Price, 
$10;  estim ates  furnished.  Chocolay Land
Co.,  Ltd.,  M arquette,  Mich._________ H 8
F or  Sale—H arness  shop;  g reat  oppor­
tunity  to  buy  a n   old-established  business 
of  tw enty-nine  years’  a t  a   bargain;  fine 
location  and  good  trade;  will  sell 
th e 
whole  or  p a rt  of  stock  to  suit  custom er. 
Address  No.  116,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m a n __________ 
___________ ±±H—
tw o-story  brick 
store  on  a   good  business  corner,  in 
a 
good  business 
an a 
electric  lights.  Address  P.  O.  Box  No.
298,  D ecatur,  Mich._______________ *la
For  Sale—H ardw are  business,  $3,500: 
located  in  prosperous  m anufacturing ana 
farm ing  center;  wish  to  m ake  a  change; 
m ight  exchange  for  S00d ^ arl“ \  j“ 87?" 
ware,  55  Stephenson  St.,  Freeport,  PI.  114
F or  Sale—Stock  general  m erchandise 
invoicing  about  $1,200.  Store  building, 
dwelling  and  tw o  acre  lot.  Cash  busi­
ness.  Good  farm ing  country.  P o st  office 
and  telephone  pay  station  in  store.  Will 
engage  in  other  business.  EnQuire  C.
E.  Smith.  Sharon,  Mich.___________ 97

hardw are, 
two  rooms  40x120 

' 
F o r  R ent—A  good 

tow n;  city  w ater 

crockery 

1Z7

H9

F or  Sale—F irst-class  book  and  station­
ery  store,  w ith  wall  paper  and  window 
shade  stock,  located  in  grow ing  m anu­
facturing  city  in  W estern  Michigan.  Ad­
dress  No.  96,  care  M ichigan  Trades- 
man.

84

I l l

107

108

large  woods; 

its  crushing  plant  and 

Coal  Lands  For  Sale—I  have  for  sale, 
cheap,  8,000  acres  of  the  flnest  coal  lands 
in  Tennessee.  Address  J.  M.  Gray,  Jr„  
Nashville,  Tenn- 
For  Sale—Acme  H and  Push  Carriers, 
cheap.  Suitable  for  any  kind  of  store. 
Acme  Cash  Kailway,  New  H aven,  Conn.
For  Cash—Tw o-story restaurant, board, 
tow n  of  1.200, 
transient,  best  location, 
can  show  money  m aker;  if  you  w ant  a 
snap,  investigate. 
J.  C.  M urphey,  Mo-
rocco,  Ind.____ ___________________  Ha
W anted—General  or  exclusive  stock of 
merchandise.  Price  m ust  be  an  object. 
Give  full  particulars  and  price  first  let­
ter  if  you  mean  business.  Address  x . 
Y  Z.,  care  Michigan  Tradesm an. 
For  Sale  or  Exchange—A  good  drug 
stock  and  fixtures,  located  on  good  busi­
ness  street  in  Grand  Rapids.  Good  lo­
cation.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  Ad­
dress  No.  109,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.
For  Sale—Morrison  Lake  H otel;  only 
one  on  lake;  large  ball  room,  pool  room, 
35  ft.  steam er,  row  boats,  furniture,  barn 
and  sheds 
to  accommodate  70  horses; 
ice  house;  opposite 
fine 
fishing;  reason  for  selling.  I  have  ju st 
been  allowed  m y  patent  and  wish  to  push 
same.  Would  consider  a   loan  on  my 
property  for  $2,500  a t  5  Per  cent.,  or  sell 
one  of  my  patents.  A.  McMillan,  S ara­
nac,  Mich 
A  D ividend-Paying  gold  mining  com­
pany,  w ith  m oderate capital  stock,  wishes 
to  double 
in­
crease  dividends; 
it  offers  a   block  of 
treasury  stock  for  this  purpose;  highest 
Address  President,  Lock 
references. 
Box  254.  N ortham pton,  Mass. 
For  Sale—Best  dry  goods  business  Tn 
Alexandria,  Ind.;  liberal  discount;  $14,- 
000  stock;  $40,000  sales;  m anufacturing 
city  of  12,000.  H ord  Bros. 
For  Sale—$2,000  stock  of  general  m er- 
chandise;  rent  cheap;  or  will  sell  build­
ing  Address  Lock  Box  2,177,  Nashville, 
Mich 
For  Sale—Good  clean  stock  of  general 
m erchandise;  will  invoice  about  $6.000, 
located  in  small  town  of  about  500  popu­
lation,  about  25  miles  from  Saginaw, 
Mich.; 
the  best  farm ing  country  sur- 
rounding’  tow n;  splendid  business;  stocK 
consists  of  groceries,  dry  goods,  shoes, 
men’s  furnishings.  No  trades  accepted. 
M ust  be  cash  buyer.  Stock  can  be  re­
duced  to  suit  purchaser.  Address  No. 
122.  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
For  Sale  a t  a   B argain—One  6x8  Stev- 
ens’  Cooler;  used  one  season.  Enquire 
E.  R.  H enseler,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.  120 
F or  Sale—One  of  the  best  located  drug 
stores  in  Grand  Rapids;  good  stock  and 
good 
invoices  $3,500;  a   bargain 
for  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a   drug  stock. 
Address  No.  78,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m an 
For  Sale-—A  Russell  portable  sawmill, 
w ith  saw   and  belt, 
in  perfect  orders 
Address  E.  M.  Rogers,  R.  R.  No.  1, Grand 
Rapids.  Mich. 
For  Sale  or  Rent,  or  Will  Trade  for 
Land—Three  story  brick  hotel;  26  rooms; 
well  located:  only  hotel  in  tow n  of  1,200, 
partly  furnished;  furnace  h eat  through­
out;  price  $7,000;  term s.  Address  J.  C. 
Murphey,  Morocco,  Ind. 
For  Sale—A  N ational  Cash  Register, 
No  3. 
I t  is  in  No.  1  condition;  cost 
$125.  This  register  is  as  good  as  new. 
My  price,  $60.  E.  C.  Cla.wc,  Tekonsna, 
Mich 
W anted— To  buy  stock  of  general  m er- 
chandlse  from  $5,000  to  *35,«00  fo re a s h . 
Address  No.  89,  care  M ichigan  T rades- 
m an 
For  S ale-S m all  stock  of  general  m er- 
chandise  in  a   live  tow n  of  2,000  inhabi­
tants.  Will  sell  a t  a   bargain  and  rent 
building;  good  brick,  tw o  sto,Y 
on  m ain  street:  good  reason  for  selling. 
Address  Box  387,  Portland,  Mich. 

trade; 

105

122

99

78

90

88

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91

85

* 

Good  Location  for  undertaker,  urn! 
ture.  hardw are  or  general  store:  wen 
arranged  building  for  sam e;  living  apart­
m ents  above.  M arietta  Bishop,  Horton. 
Mich. 
88
F or  R ent—Fine  location  for  a  depart­
m ent  or general  or dry goods  store.  Large 
stone  building,  three  entrances  on  tw o 
m ain  business  streets.  ®en*«r??soi?'b‘S; 
Occupation  given  February,  1904.  Doti t 
fail  to  w rite  to  Chas.  E.  Nelson,  W auke­
sha.  W ls. 
im plem ent  buslnMW, 
established  fifteen  y e a« .  F i r s t - ^ s s   lo­
cation  a t  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  Will  sell 
or  lease  four-story  and  basem ent  brick 
about 
building.  Stock  will 
$10.000.  Good  reason  for  selling.  No 
care 
trades  desired.  Address  No.  67, 
M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
67

F or  Sale—F arm  

inventory 

103

45

for 

residence 

120  acre  farm  

*26
in  best  village 

New  store  building,  general  stock  of 
merchandise,  fine 
sale 
cheap.  Lock  Box  280,  Cedar  Springs,
Mich.________   ____________ _________7 8  
two  and  a  half  miles 
from  railroad.  W ish  to  trade  for  stocK 
of  hardw are.  Lock  Box  491,  Shelby, 
Mich. 
For  Rent—Large  store  building  and 
basement.  Good  town,  fine  location.  Ad­
dress  No.  971,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.
Cash  for  Your  Stock—Or  we  will  close 
out  for  you  a t  your  own  place  of  busi­
ness,  or  make  sale  to  reduce  your  stock. 
W rite  for  Information.  C.  L.  Yost  &  Co., 
577  Forest Ave-  W est.  D etroit,  Mich,  a 
.  Geo.  M.  Sm ith  Safe  Co.,  agents  for  one 
of  the  strongest,  heaviest  and  best  flre- 
safes  made.  All  kinds  of  second- 
safes  in  stock.  Safes  opened  and 
repaired.  376  South  Ionia  street.  Both 
phones.  G rand  Rapids. 
For  Sale—R are  chance.  One  of  only 
two  general  stores 
in 
Genesee  county.  W rite  for  description. 
Address  No.  881,  care  M ichigan  Trades­
m an ___________________________  
881__
store  to  ren t  in  good  location.  H.  M.  W il­
liams.  Mason.  M ic h .______________888
For  Sale—420  acres  of  cut-over  hard- 
wood  land,  three  miles  north  of  Thom p­
son ville.  House  and  barn  on  premises. 
Pere  M arquette  railroad  runs  across  one 
corner  of  land.  Very  desirable  for  stock 
raising  or  potato  growing.  Will 
ex­
change  for  stock  of  merchandise  of  any 
kind.  C.  C.  Tuxbury,  301  Jefferson  St.,
Grand  Rapids.______ _______________886
trial  will  prove  how  quick  and 
well  we  fill  orders  and  how  much  money 
we  can  save  you.  Tradesm an  Company.
Printers.  Grand  R apids._________________
We  w ant  a  dealer  in  every  town  in 
Michigan  to  handle  our  own  make  of  fur 
coats,  gloves  and  m ittens. 
for 
catalogues  and  full  particulars,  Ellsworth 
&  Thayer Mfg.  Co.,  M ilwaukee,  Wls.  617 
For  Sale  Cheap—General  stock  and  fix­
tures.  Will  sell  store  building  or 
sell 
stock  to  be  removed.  Address  No.  51, 
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.__________ 51

Good  opening  for  dry  goods;  flrat" 

Send 

One 

POSITIONS  WANTED.

Salesm an  desires  a  position  on  road 
or  in  city  w ith  wholesale  house.  E x ­
perienced.  Best  of  references.  Address 
No.  125,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.  125
W anted—Position  w ith  retail  or  whole 
sale  grocery  house;  road  preferred,  or 
m anager  of  store;  can  furnish  A1  ref­
erences,  country  or  city.  Address  _Box 
566,  Bay  City,  Mich._______________ 117

SALESMEN  WANTED.

102

Saleswomen—To  sell  our  desirable line 
of  goods  to  dry  goods  stores;  liberal  com­
mission.  W right  &  Co.,  156  F ifth  ave.. 
New  York  City. 
W anted—Salesmen  to   sell  as  side  Une 
or  on  commission  Dilley  Queen  W asher. 
Any  territory  but  Michigan.  Address 
Lyons  W ashing  M achine  Company, 
f ,von*.  M ich
Agents—Our  portraits  alm ost  talk.  Try 
us.  Descriptive  circular free.  The  ‘‘Chea 
P icture  Co.,  1053  W.  Monroe,  Chicago, 
111 
64
take 
orders  by  sample  for  th e  flnest  naerchant 
tailoring  produced;  good  opportunity  to 
grow 
into  a   splendid  business  „and  be 
your  own  “boss.” 
’W rite  for  fuU  infor­
mation.  E.  L.  Moon,  Gen'l  M anager, 
Station  A,  Columbus.  O,__________   468

W anted—Clothing  salesm an 

to 

AUCTIONEERS  AND  TRADERS

If  you  desire 

The  Hoosier  H ustler—The  noted  m er- 
chandise  auctioneer,  now  selling  a   stock 
Iowa. 
of  clothing  and  shoes  a t  Afton, 
For  book  of  references  and  term s  ad­
dress  Box  17 
108
Exceptional—The  V aw ter  plan  of  sales 
is  not  only  exceptional,  b u t  uniaue.  As 
a   draw er  of  crowds  th a t  buy^ 
tainly  has  no  equal. 
a 
quick  reduction  sale  th a t  will  close  out 
your  odds  and  ends,  still  leaving  a   Profit, 
w rite  a t  once.  No  b etter 
than 
right  now. 
Success  guaranteed.  B est 
references.  L.  E.  V aw ter  &  Co., 
of 
Macomb.  111. 
H   C  F erry  &  Co.,  the  bustling  auc^ 
tioneers.  Stocks  closed  out  or  reduced 
th e  U nited  States.  New 
anyw here 
methods,  original  ideas,  long  experience, 
hundreds  of  m erchants  to   refer  to.  W e 
have  never  faUed  to   p l^ se -  W rite  for 
term s,  particulars  and  dates.  1414-16_W a- 
bash  ave.,  Chicago. 
(Reference.  D im s 
M ercantile  Agency.) 

tim e 

873

in 

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in 

pharm acist 

experienced, 

W anted—An 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

W anted—Registered 

________
up-to-date 
shoe  clerk  for  modern  shoe  store.  M ust 
be  active  and  good  stock-keeper.  S tate 
salary  expected  and  experience.  Address
Lock  Box  28,  Alma,  Mich.  _______138
a t 
once.  S tate  age,  experience  and  salary
expected.  Address  D raw er  B,  Alma.
Mich._____________________ 
W anted—A  young  m an  who  has  had 
experience  in  selling  hardwood 
this 
m arket  and  has  an  established  trade  and 
from  $1,000  to  $5,000  to  invest  in  the  busi­
ness. 
to  join  forces  w ith  a   com petent 
book-keeper  and  credit  man,  who  has 
the  sam e  am ount  to  put  into  the  busi­
ness.  Address  Hardwood,  care  M ichi­
gan  Tradesm an L____ _______________ 138
of 
W anted—-Young  men  and  women 
good  character  and 
fair  education 
to 
learn  shorthand. 
instructions 
given  by  mail  by  experienced  court  re ­
porters  You  can  continue  your  present 
occupation  and 
your 
spare  hours  a t  a  minimum  of  expense. 
For  full  particulars  address  Reporters,
care  Michigan  Tradesm an.___________93_
"^W anted—Experienced  cabinet  m akers; 
steady  work  all  the  year;  men  w ith  rami 
fies  preferred.  The  H am ilton  M anufac­
turing  f!o—  Two  Rivers,  W ls._______ 993_
" W a n t e d —-Clerks  of  all  kinds  apply  a t 
once. 
Enclose  self-addressed  envelope 
and  $1  covering  necessary  e*Pens«L The 
Globe  Em ploym ent  &  Agency  Co.,  Cadll 
l»e  M ich 
............................
They  Save  Time 

Personal 

during 

learn 

it 

Trouble 
Cash

G et  our  L a te s t  P rices

Moore & wuKes

MERCHANDISE  BROKERS 

O ffice  end  W arehouse,  3  N.  Ionia  8t. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MiOH.

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 o n ia  Milling  Co

Caledonia,  Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

48

Dangerous  Decision  by  the  Wiscon­

sin  Supreme  Court.

The  Supreme  Court  of  Washing­
ton,  sitting  in  Olympia,  recently  de­
livered  an  opinion 
in  a  case  that 
came  up  on  an  appeal  from  a  lower 
court,  that  seems  to  have  stirred  up 
the  bottling  and  wine  trade  of 
the 
Pacific  coast,  And  that  may  have 
considerable  weight  in  drug  circles 
as  well.  The  facts  are  as  follows:

The 

complainant, 

a  barkeeper, 
bought  from  a  wine  and  liquor  house, 
among  other  things,  a  bottle  of 
champagne  cider. 
In  handling  this, 
it  burst,  and  the  explosion  destroyed 
an  eye  for  the  barkeeper.  He brought 
suit  against  the  vendors  for  damages 
in  the  amount  of  $10,000.  When  the 
case  came  up  for  hearing  in 
the 
lower  court,  it  was  dismissed  on  a 
demurrer  by  the  defendant’s  counsel, 
alleging  that  the  bill  of  complaint 
did  not  state  sufficient  facts  to  con­
stitute  a  cause  of  action.  On  this 
decision 
took  an 
appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court,  and 
on  coming  to  a  hearing  the  dismissal 
was  reversed  on  the  principle  that:

the  complainant 

One  who  sells  and  delivers 

to 
another  an  article  intrinsically  dan­
gerous  to  human  life  or  health,  such 
as  a  poison,  an  explosive  or 
the 
like,  knowing  it  to  be  such,  without 
notice  to  the  purchaser  that  the  said 
article  is  intrinsically  dengerous,  is 
responsible  to  any  person,  who  with­
out  fault  of  his,  is  injured  thereby. 
This  rule  does  not  rest  on  any  prin­
ciple  of  contract  or  contractual 
re­
lation  existing  between  the  person 
delivering  the  article  and  the  person 
injured,  for  there  is  no  contract  or 
contractual  relation  between  them.  It 
rests  on  the  principle  that  the  orig­
inal  act  of  delivering  the  article  is 
re­
wrongful  and  that  every  one  is 
sponsible  for 
conse­
quences  of  his  wrongful  acts.

the  natural 

On  this  reversal  the  case  was  sent 
back  to  the  lower  court  for  rehear­
ing  before  a  jury.

Considering  that  the  complainant 
was  a  barkeeper,  supposedly  familiar 
with  the  nature  of  carbonated  or 
aerated  waters,  wines  and 
liquors, 
and  aware  of  the  fact  that  these  are 
prepared  under  pressure  and  hence 
liable  to  explode;  considering,  too, 
that  he  should*  from  his  calling  or 
occupation,  be 
the 
properties  of 
cider,” 
which  was  on  the  label  of  the  ex­
ploded  bottle,  this  decision  is  incom­
prehensible  to  us,  unless  the  selling 
of  champagne  cider,  per  se,  is  an 
act  in  violation  of  the  laws  of 
the 
State  of  Washington.  This  is,  how­
ever,  not  shown,  nor  is  it  shown that 
there  was  any  misrepresentation  or 
concealment  of  fact  made  in 
the 
sale  of  the  article.

familiar  with 
“champagne 

Champagne  cider 

is  an  article 
known  to  every  one  who  handles 
wines,  liquors,  etc.,  to  contain  a  cer­
tain  proportion  of  gas,  either  nat­
urally  produced  or  put  into  it  arti­
ficially,  and  this  gas  is  therefore  an 
essential  property  of  the  liquid. 
If 
on  opening  the  bottle  there  was  no 
evidence  of  its  presence  (no  popping 
of  the  cork  or  foaming  of  the  li­
quid),  the  buyer  would  have 
just 
grounds  for  complaint,  and  it  is  an 
Universal  practice  (in  the  older  por­

tions  of  the  country,  at  least)  among 
barkeepers  and  owners  of  bars,  to 
return  to  the  wholesaler  all  bottles 
of  foaming  liquids  found  in  this  con­
dition,  and  to  demand  and  receive  a 
rebate  therefor,  or,  if  reparation 
is 
refused,  enforce  the  demand  by  law. 
Can  it  be  possible  that  a  man  has 
a  recourse  upon  a  dealer  for 
the 
presence  of  a  principle  or  an  ingre­
dient,  for  the  absence  of  which,  in 
the  same  article,  he  would  also  have 
a  recourse?  This  is  a  sort  of  legal 
juggling,  as  now  you  see  it  and now 
you  don’t  see  it,  that  it  seems  to  us 
should  have  no  place  in  a  court  of 
last  resort.

The  decision  is  directly  at  vari­
ance  with  that  of  the  Supreme Court 
of  Iowa  in  the  case  of  Gibson against 
Torbert. 
In  this  case,  Gibson,  an ig­
norant  man,  ordered  by  mail  a  pound 
of phosphorus  from  Torbert, a whole­
sale  druggist  of  Dubuque.  The  phos­
phorus  was  expressed  to  Gibson,  and 
he,  knowing  nothing  of  its  properties, 
handled  it  so carelessly  and  recklessly 
that  the  chemical  ignited  and  severe­
ly  burned  him.  He  brought  suit 
against  Torbert,  claiming  that  that 
dealer  should  have  recognized  by  his 
chirography,  the  construction  of  his 
letter,  etc.,  that  he  was  an  ignorant 
man,  and  should  have  refused  to  sell 
him  a  dangerous  chemical,  or  sent  it 
on  protest  with  due  notice  of  its  dan­
gerous  qualities.  Torbert’s  plea  was 
that  he  (Torbert)  had  a  right  to  sup­
pose  that  a  man  who  ordered  phos­
phorus  understood 
its  nature  and 
character.  The  Supreme  Court  in  its 
opinion  in  favor  of  Torbert,  among 
other  things,  said:  To  admit 
the 
validity  of  Gibson’s  contention  would 
make  every dealer in  drugs  and chem­
icals  the  guardian  of  the  ignorant, 
careless  and  reckless  of  the  commun­
ity,  and  without  compensation  of  any 
sort  hold  him  responsible  for  their 
follies  and  iniquities  (we  quote  from 
memory  but  the  words  convey  the 
sense  of  the  opinion.)

In  this  case  the  position  taken  by 
the  complainants  was  far  more  ten­
able  than  that  of 
the  Washington 
man.  The  one  was  grossly  ignorant, 
as  shown  by  his  letter  ordering  the 
chemical,  which  is  a  substance  no­
toriously  dangerous  to  handle,  while 
the  Washington  man  is  a  professional 
it 
barkeeper  whose  business 
to 
is 
know  all  the  dangers  of  his 
trade, 
while  the  substance  sold  is  a  com­
paratively  harmless  one,  millions  of 
bottles  of which  are  annually  handled 
(frequently  recklessly)  without  pro­
ducing  an  accident.— National  Drug­
gist.

Put  Him  Out.

“Buffalo  Bill,”  during  one  of  his 
visits  to  Chicago,  was  the  guest  of 
honor  at a  dinner  given  by  Mrs.  Pot­
ter  Palmer.

“Colonel,  what  would  you  do  in  a 
crowded  theater  if  a  man  yelled 
‘Fire?’ ”  asked  the  hostess.

“Take  him  at  his  word  had  I  my 
side  arms  with  me,”  replied  the  fam­
ous  plainsman  grimly;  “but  if  not,  I 
should  do  the  next  best  thing  in  case 
of  fire.”

“What  is  that?”
“Put  him  out”

the  last  one.  When  it  was  handed to 
her  she  said  gratefully  to  the  sex­
ton,  “The  people  at  this  chufch  are 
much  more  honest  than  those  at the 
others.”

Sober  second  thoughts  usually  oc­

cur  the  next  morning.

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Merged  Into  a  Corporation.

Brown  &  Sehler  have  merged  their 
business  into  a  stock  company  under 
the  style  of  the  Brown  &  Sehler  Co. 
The  capital  stock  is  $300,000,  divided 
into  $50,000  preferred 
stock  and 
$250,000  common  stock.  None  of the 
preferred  stock  is  to  be 
issued  at 
present,  being  held  in  the  treasury  to 
provide  working  capital.  Of 
the 
is  already
common  stock,  $197,000 
subscribed,  as  follows:
Frank  E.  Brown...................... $90,000
John  Sehler 
...........................   80,000
H.  W.  Sehler...........................   10,000
T.  B.  Snyder.............................   5,000
David  Drummond  ..................   Si000
Samuel  Schultz  ........................  Si000
Jesse  Gingrich 
........................  2,000
The  officers  of  the  new  corporation 

are  as  follows:

President— Frank  E.  Brown.
Vice-President— T.  B.  Snyder.
Secretary— H.  W.  Sehler.
Treasurer— John  Sehler.
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